After leaving the guild, Arthur glanced at his status panel.
[Name: Arthur Miller
Class: Necromancer (Common)
Level: 0
Strength: 4
Agility: 2
Defence: 3
Vitality: 5
Mana: 9
Talent: Infinite Multiplication
Class Skills: Undead Summoning, Undead Revival.]
Arthur then opened the interface displaying his class skills.
[Undead Summoning: Consume 5 Mana to summon a Common Grade Skeleton Warrior.
Consume 15 Mana to summon an Elite Grade Skeleton Warrior equipped with a sword and shield.
Restriction: You can summon one skeleton per level.
Benefit: Summoned skeletons can level up.]
[Undead Revival: You can revive your summoned undead once it is dead by consuming mana.]
The two skills were really basic skills, no attack skill so far.
Then he thought about the leveling system of the Genesis Realm. The leveling system of the Genesis Realm was extremely interesting.
Players did not receive experience points by killing monsters. Instead, monsters dropped currency, and players could use that currency to increase their levels.
Common monsters dropped Bronze Coins.
Elite monsters dropped Silver Coins.
Royal monsters dropped Gold Coins.
Legendary monsters dropped Platinum Coins.
Epic monsters dropped Royal Gold, while Mythical monsters dropped Divine Gold.
The amount dropped depended on the monster’s level and grade. A Level 1 Common monster, for example, dropped 1 Bronze Coin, while a Level 1 Common Boss could drop 5 Bronze Coins.
But the real peculiarity of the system was that players needed to spend currency to level up.
Level 1 to Level 2 required 10 units of currency.
Players could use Bronze Coins, Silver Coins, Gold Coins, or even Divine Gold. The choice depended entirely on their wealth and ambition.
However, different currencies provided different foundations.
With Bronze= 1x
With Silver= 2x
With Gold= 5x
With Platinum= 10x
With Royal Gold= 20x
With Divine Gold= 50x
In other words, if a player used the standard Bronze currency to level up, they would receive 5 attribute points per new level until reaching level 10.
But if they used Divine Gold, they would receive 250 attribute points instead.
Arthur’s eyes began to shine with madness.
He had already obtained 5,000 Divine Gold.
Why would he settle for a normal foundation?
He wanted to build the strongest possible foundation from the very beginning.
Although using Divine Gold to level up would make his leveling requirements incredibly expensive, the benefits were undoubtedly worth the cost.
Arthur immediately left Azure Town and ran toward a deserted region where there were no monsters nearby.
He needed somewhere isolated.
After all, what he was about to do would undoubtedly cause a massive commotion.
"Use Divine Gold for leveling."
The moment his command fell, the system responded.
[Ding! You have used 10 Divine Gold to reach Level 1.]
[Ding! You have gained 250 attribute points.]
Arthur’s eyes flashed.
"Continue."
[Ding! You have used 100 Divine Gold to reach Level 2.]
[Ding! You have gained 250 attribute points.]
"Continue."
[Ding! You have used 500 Divine Gold to reach Level 3.]
[Ding! You have gained 250 attribute points.]
"Continue."
[Ding! You have used 1,000 Divine Gold to reach Level 4.]
[Ding! You have gained 250 attribute points.]
"Continue."
[Ding! You have used 2,000 Divine Gold to reach Level 5.]
[Ding! You have gained 250 attribute points.]
[Ding! You have become the first Level 5 player on Server 1.]
[Ding! A server-wide announcement will be issued. Would you like to use your own name or another name for the announcement?]
Arthur paused for a moment.
"Use the name Darklord."
[Ding! Confirmed.]
Arthur had directly reached Level 5 by spending 3,610 Divine Golds.
It was somewhat ironic.
He had purchased the most powerful talent in the entire Genesis Realm for only 5 Divine Gold, yet he had spent more than 3,600 Divine Gold simply to reach Level 5.
For a brief moment, Arthur wondered whether Infinite Multiplication would also multiply the attributes he gained from leveling.
Unfortunately, it did not.
Still, that was only natural.
If the talent multiplied his attributes by 10,000 times as well, the entire game would become meaningless.
Even without that, Arthur had already obtained 1,250 attribute points.
That was an amount far beyond what most Level 20 players with ordinary foundations could possess.
He immediately allocated the points.
All 1,250 attribute points were divided equally among his five basic attributes.
At that moment, the announcement echoed throughout Server 1.
[Server-wide Announcement: Congratulations to Player "Darklord" for becoming the first player on Server 1 to reach Level 5! The player has received 1 Prestige Point.]
The entire Azure Town instantly erupted.
"What the hell?! How did someone reach Level 5 already?"
"It’s only been thirty minutes! We haven’t even properly explored the starting area!"
"Could it be a rich second generation using money in an unknown game without understanding properly?"
Some players already began gathering information about the leveling system.
Most of them were experienced gamers. They quickly understood that reaching Level 5 so quickly would require an enormous amount of money. And there was no way he could have killed this many monsters in just 30 minutes.
The most reasonable option, he probably used real money to buy game currency.
"Haha, it’s obvious. He probably used real money to purchase game currency and directly leveled up."
"Seriously? So he’s just a rich noob?"
"What’s the point of spending that much money if he doesn’t even know how to play?"
The players quickly came to their own conclusions.
Arthur, however, couldn’t care less about their opinions.
He was far too busy with his own plans.
He opened his status panel.
[Name: Arthur Miller
Class: Necromancer (Common)
Level: 5
Strength: 255
Agility: 255
Defence: 255
Vitality: 255
Mana: 255
Talent: Infinite Multiplication
Class Skills: Undead Summoning, Undead Revival.]
Attribute Points: 0
Summoned Units: 0]
The moment the attributes were distributed, Arthur felt an immense force surge through his body.
His muscles tightened instinctively.
He clenched his fist.
Crack!
The surrounding air seemed to distort under the pressure.
Arthur stared at his hand with excitement.
His current physical strength was already more terrifying than that of some Level 10 warriors who had built their foundations with Gold.
"Haha. Now this looks much better."
Arthur’s gaze shifted toward the ground.
"Let’s summon my first soldiers."
He immediately activated his class skill.
"Summon Elite Soldiers!"
Five summoning slots were used at once.
Seventy-five Mana instantly disappeared from his status panel.
Arthur’s brows twitched slightly.
Necromancers naturally possessed Mana regeneration, but his current regeneration rate was only 1 Mana per minute.
At that rate, recovering seventy-five Mana would take more than an hour.
However, Arthur had no intention of waiting.
Boom!
The ground suddenly trembled.
Five small figures slowly crawled out from beneath the earth.
Each skeleton stood roughly four feet tall.
They wore simple armor and held an iron sword in one hand and a wooden shield in the other.
Arthur immediately inspected one of them.
[Name: Skeleton Soldier
Grade: Elite
Level: 0
Strength: 10
Defence: 10
Agility: 5
Vitality: 10]
Arthur’s smile slowly widened. They were far more powerful than his inital attributes.
"Interesting."
His gaze became increasingly excited.
"Let’s level them up with Royal Gold."
The summoned skeletons could level up alongside their master.
However, their levels could never exceed Arthur’s current level.
Since Arthur was Level 5, the five skeleton soldiers could currently reach Level 5.
Even better, the amount of currency required for their advancement was only half of what players needed.
Level 0 → Level 1: 5 units
Level 1 → Level 2: 50 units
Level 2 → Level 3: 250 units
Level 3 → Level 4: 500 units
Level 4 → Level 5: 1,000 units
Arthur calculated the total.
Each skeleton required only 1,805 Royal Gold to reach Level 5.
With five skeletons, that was 9,025 Royal Gold.
It was an outrageous amount of wealth for a group of Level 5 skeletons.
If the players in Azure Town knew what Arthur was spending his money on, they would probably vomit blood from sheer frustration and jelousy.
But Arthur didn’t care.
Thirty minutes later, the five skeleton soldiers stood silently before him.
Their bodies had undergone a tremendous transformation.
[Name: Skeleton Soldier
Grade: Elite
Level: 5
Strength: 135
Defence: 100
Agility: 100
Vitality: 100]
A powerful aura radiated from their skeletal bodies.
Despite being only Level 5, their combat power had already surpassed some of the Boss monsters wandering around the beginner region.
Arthur looked at his five soldiers and nodded in satisfaction.
"Let’s go."
His eyes narrowed.
"It’s time for the hunt."
The five skeleton soldiers instantly sank into the earth, disappearing without a trace.
Arthur slowly began walking toward the monster-infested wilderness.
At his current strength, the monsters around Azure Town posed virtually no threat to him.
But strength wasn’t his only goal.
He needed money.
A lot of money.
And the fastest way to obtain it was to hunt.
After all, reaching Level 10 was only the beginning.
Once he reached Level 10 and evolved his class, his strength could finally be brought back into the real world.