Monster collectors on the cross-platform

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The Great World? Huo was still a little confused. After asking the merchant Qi Qi, he learned the difference between the Great World and ordinary dungeons.

Normal dungeons are like the dungeons you used to play in games. Every time you enter, it's the same monsters, and the dungeon is almost unchanging.

The Big World is different; the Big World is a real world.

Each time a dungeon is run, one hour passes in the main world. However, time in the main world continues to pass after entering the open world, but at a different ratio. For example, the ratio of time in the world of the Hidden Ocean to that in the main world is 100:1.

The difficulty and rewards in the open world are not fixed and depend on the tasks you complete. Naturally, the more difficult the task, the richer the reward.

Overall, the open world offers more freedom than regular instances; if you have the ability, you can seize the wealth of the entire world for your own use.

"The Great World, huh?" Huo stroked his stubble and glanced at his panel.

I only need a little over 1000 more experience points to reach level 5. It's past 12 o'clock. After finishing the other two dungeons, I'll reach level 5, and then I'll go check out this so-called big world.

Looking at the team chat, Huo noticed that some teammates were still resting. He then ran the Silent Town dungeon twice. After completing those two runs, he had used up all the attempts for the Holy Light Soul Annihilation Array.

Looking at the already blurred array diagram, Huo casually put it into his spatial backpack and then exited the dungeon.

Force yourself to calm down and rest for a while. Although the amount of sleep you need each day has decreased after your physical condition has improved, you still need a certain amount of rest.

Teammates logged on one after another, and once everyone was there, the twice-daily dungeon run quickly began.

Having teamed up several times, the team members were already extremely familiar with the dungeon, and each person was fulfilling their role in the team in an orderly manner.

The tacit understanding and high efficiency are as easy and natural as eating and drinking.

After completing two dungeons, Huo, whose experience points were full, naturally leveled up to level 5.

"I've unlocked the Great World!" Huo suddenly said during the distribution of the spoils.

"Really? Congratulations!" Orange was the first to react and immediately offered her congratulations.

The others were not novices either, so they naturally understood what Huo Huan meant. The open world offered more opportunities and challenges, and most players would naturally prefer it. This meant that Huo Huan was about to leave the team.

In fact, the priest Junzi and the assassin Chengzi in the team had already reached level 6 the day before yesterday, while the highest level in the Kobolds dungeon is only level 5.

In other words, these two are simply taking care of their teammates. After all, if you try to run a level 5 dungeon at level 6, you won't get any experience, and the drop rate and in-game currency will be greatly reduced. The fact that the Kobold dungeon has abundant mineral resources can make up for some of the in-game currency.

A small farewell party was held inside the mine, and the team that had worked together for a few days was finally disbanded.

Shaking his slightly drunken mind, Huo opened the network to check his attribute panel. He hadn't paid much attention to it before, but this upgrade seemed to have added quite a few things.

Name: Huo Huan

Occupation: Monster Collector Lv5 (740/14000)

Total Coins: 4396

Health: 100%

Collection value: 77/77

Strength: 13+3

Agility: 12

Physical condition: 13

Intelligence: 10

Charisma: 10

Perception: 10

Professional skills: containment, loading, polishing, leasing

Leasing: Leasing your collection to others, giving them unique characteristics. Note that each person can only carry one type of collection, and certain painting skills are required.

Professional Item: Book of Collectors

Traits: Innate Great Strength +1, Darksight +1, Pseudo-Dragon Scales +1, Dragon Breath +1, Regeneration, Revival

General Skills:

Basic Energy Control: Lv3 (max)

Basic Melee: Lv3 (max)

Basic Meditation: Lv3 (max)

Unarmed Mastery: Lv2 (55/200)

The job skills now include a rental feature, which seems to be a logistics skill and appears to earn Zongwang coins.

The biggest change wasn't in the professional skills, but in the number of inventory slots.

Your job level has been increased to 5.

Based on your profession, your maximum collection value increases by 10, your loading slots increase by 1, and the number of loading slots is doubled.

You have activated the profession skill: Leasing.

The number of loading slots has doubled, meaning that Huo now has a total of 10 loading slots. Subtracting the 4 slots that were previously loaded, there are still 6 empty slots.

Next, we need to carefully plan which traits to add to these six loading slots.

But before that, Huo still needs to test his own biases.

This is something Huo Huan overheard from other players in the training area yesterday. Because every player who joins the network has their own profession, and most professions have inherent biases, professions like Huo Huan's without obvious biases are relatively rare.

So this news is relatively obscure and most players don't know it: the training ground can test your inclinations. Everyone is born with certain sensitivities and talents, but it's hard for ordinary people to notice. The training ground feature allows players to test which aspect they are best suited for.

The testing is free, but it takes some time. I've already finished all the dungeons for today, so there's no need for me to rush.

Chapter 21 Preparations Before Departure

Upon arriving at the training ground, Huo Huan chose to activate the aptitude test. In the next instant, dozens of career tests appeared in front of Huo Huan.

Following his heart's desire, Huo Huan first chose the mage class. The next moment, the armor on Huo Huan's body turned into a robe, and the axe and shield in his hand turned into a staff. Dozens of tricks and first-level spells appeared in Huo Huan's mind.

A wild boar, as tall as a person, appeared in front of Huo Huan, howling as it charged towards him like a heavy truck.

Barely dodging the boar's charge, Huo still haphazardly unleashed spells from his mind: Rainbow Spray, Colorful Ball, Magic Missile... several offensive level 1 spells slammed down on the boar's head.

After finally managing to defeat the wild boar, the next moment, a test paper filled with all sorts of incomprehensible questions appeared in front of Huo Huan, along with dozens of thick books.

"No, I've already become a web-based mage, why do I still need to study?" Huo looked at the thick books in front of him with a face full of resistance. Looking at the test paper with questions he couldn't even understand made his head spin even more.

Quickly skipping the mage test, Huo also chose the ranger class test, followed by thief, warrior, monk, summoner, and so on. After completing the combat-type class tests, there were various life-related class aptitude tests such as chef, scribe, painter, alchemist, and blacksmith.

Several hours later, Huo, having completed the test, was still waiting for the results.

Unsurprisingly, the mage class received the lowest preference rating, while the highest preference was for head-on confrontation classes. The weapon preference was the greatsword, and the combat style was hand-to-hand close-quarters combat.

Unarmed? Huo raised an eyebrow. He hadn’t expected that close-quarters unarmed combat would be the most suitable for him. He had learned unarmed combat skills before only to have a way to fight back if his weapon fell. He hadn’t expected that it would be such a good accident.

As for life skills, the scores for each skill are not too low, but not high either; they are at a mediocre, average level and not worth investing too much effort in.

However, now that I have the professional skill of renting, I also have a way to earn Zongwang coins.

Now that you've determined your battle strategy, you can choose to embed traits into your inventory.

Life Drain and Dark Touch are both traits that can only be triggered by unarmed attacks. Now that it's clear that unarmed attacks are more suitable for me, these two traits are naturally essential.

The remaining Flaming Skull has decent magic resistance, and after upgrading, it can give itself 2 points of energy resistance. Combined with the 2 points from the Pseudo-Dragon Scale, the total of 4 points of energy resistance allows Huo to basically ignore the damage from low-level spells.

Huo pondered for a long time before deciding to drag the three remaining empty slots into the inventory: Ghoul Flesh Devouring, Crawler Claw Hand Enhancement, and Skeleton Bone Enhancement.

The reason for choosing to devour flesh and blood is that Huo Huan's energy is greatly consumed when he mobilizes energy to enhance regeneration. This trait can quickly digest food and convert it into energy. Combined with meditation and regeneration, Huo Huan's recovery ability will be improved by several levels.

As for the other two, they were purely because they might increase one's attack capabilities.

Based on this calculation, it seems that my unarmed attack damage isn't too low.

The remaining 6 slots have been roughly decided, and the next step is to use in-game currency to upgrade these traits.

Fortunately, the materials for improving these six traits are not too expensive, costing only a little over 800 in total.

However, so far no silver race-named individual has been found among the resurrected corpses, so their regeneration and resurrection traits remain in their initial state and have not been enhanced.

Next, join the chat channel of the game "Treasures of the Sea" to see what information is available.

[Network notification: Player '尽栗了' has joined the current channel]

[Chat text translation module is now loaded]

[Current number of online users: 3358]

The number of players in the world channel was dozens of times more than all the previous dungeons combined, and the information in the chat channel was refreshing very quickly. Perhaps because the time flow was different on both sides, Huo felt that he could hardly keep up with the speed of the chat in the channel.

There were too many players in the channel, and Huo's message about joining the channel disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Seeing that his joining had not attracted attention, Huo was not bothered. Checking the information about the Great World was the most important thing now.

Upon finding the data file, Huo opened it, and a huge world map popped up first.

In the vast world of "Treasures of the Sea," 90% of the land is covered by seawater, while the remaining 10% is ruled by two major empires and one federation. The federation consists of dozens of principalities of varying sizes, while each of the two major empires has several vassal states under its jurisdiction.

The current situation on land is a three-way struggle for supremacy, while the situation at sea is much more complex.

Compared to the land, which accounts for only 1%, the ocean, which accounts for 9%, has nurtured a vast number of creatures, including some extraordinary beings born with exceptional abilities.

Among them, the Naga, Mermaids, and Sirens are the most famous, each occupying a considerable territory in the ocean.

Originally, the three races lived in peace, with only minor frictions. However, since the massive explosion of the ocean's treasure hundreds of years ago, the three races have been constantly fighting.

Several races began to rise with the help of the treasures of the sea, which threatened the status of the three races. The human race on land was not to be outdone and joined the carnival of seizing the treasures.

The world is in complete chaos, and countless beings dream of finding a treasure in the ocean to achieve extraordinary things.

In the vast world of "Treasures of the Sea," the most valuable thing is naturally the treasures of the sea. The appearance of the treasures of the sea is not fixed, and even their effects are not fixed. Some can make you immortal, some can enable you to start a career and step into the extraordinary, and some can give you extraordinary abilities.

Of course, for players of the Zongwang (a Chinese online gaming platform), unlocking professions is completely useless. However, even so, the value of the treasures is still quite high, with at least several thousand Zongwang coins, and some even selling for over a million on the Zongwang platform.

After reviewing the information about the ocean-themed world, Huo now needed to plan how to use his remaining network coins.

First, you need to buy a Swimming Proficiency and a Painting Proficiency skill card. That's right, Huo, who had hardly ever been to a swimming pool in his previous life, is a complete landlubber and can't swim at all. He's the kind of person who would sink after a few splashes. As for Painting Proficiency, it's for matching with the new professional skill rental.

The two skill cards cost Huo 100 Zongwang coins, which wasn't too expensive, leaving him with a little over 3000 Zongwang coins.