The novice villages in "Pinnacle" are quite similar, surrounded by wild areas on all sides.
The Eastern District is a plain, inhabited by creatures like wild rabbits, wild foxes, and wild wolves.
The Southern District is a swamp, home to venomous snakes, poison spiders, and anacondas.
The Western District is a mountain forest, populated by goats, boars, and tigers.
The Northern District is a mining area, with maze-like mine tunnels filled with dark creatures like rats, bats, and skeletons.
Jiang Yan's target was the Western Forest, where the terrain's ups and downs made it easier to use Lightning Bolt without drawing attention.
But when he arrived at the Western Forest, he saw players everywhere hunting goats.
Warriors wielded wooden sticks, using basic skills: Slash.
Mages cast basic skills: Fireball, with wooden sticks in hand.
Priests healed warriors with wooden sticks, shouting for party members.
Archers shot wildly, snatching monsters at will.
Assassins struck here and there, opportunistically landing the final blow on goats.
Amidst the shouting and cursing, chaos was already brewing.
At this moment, a large group of over a hundred people approached, led by a man with a defiant look, his name displayed above his head: Prosperous Young Master Wang. (Player names are hidden by default but can be manually displayed.)
Prosperous Young Master Wang looked around arrogantly and declared, "From now on, the Western District belongs to the Prosperous Dynasty. All lone players, go to other districts! You have one minute, or don't blame us for changing modes!"
The default attack mode in the novice village is Peaceful, but outside the safe zone, it can be manually changed.
There's a Good-and-Evil Mode that only attacks Red Names, a Party Attack Mode, and an All Attack Mode.
If a guild is established, there's also a Guild Attack Mode.
"Prosperous Dynasty? What a joke! Brothers, let's form a party!" a priest shouted, seizing the opportunity.
"Form a party to resist the Prosperous Dynasty, or none of us will be able to level up!"
The hill erupted in commotion. Some watched coldly, believing the Prosperous Dynasty wouldn't dare provoke public anger, and continued leveling up indifferently.
Some quickly formed parties, occupying small leveling spots.
Some, preferring to avoid trouble, simply left.
"Young Master Wang, what should we do?" a strong warrior from the Prosperous Dynasty asked quietly.
Prosperous Young Master Wang sneered, "Start leveling from the foot of the mountain, recruit people as we go, and expand. Those unwilling to join the Prosperous Dynasty, kill them and send them back to the village. Those willing, form a party and spread out. Within an hour, I want this mountain full of our people!"
"Yes!!" The crowd responded in unison and immediately began to act.
Jiang Yan had no interest in getting involved in such disputes and decisively chose to delve deeper into the forest!
He believed that with his class attributes and SSS Rank talent, he could handle the deeper monsters. Even if he couldn't, at worst he'd get a free trip back to the village by dying. At level 0, he wouldn't lose experience or drop equipment (Novice Clothes and Novice Wooden Stick are bound equipment, non-droppable, but can be destroyed).
As the Prosperous Dynasty expanded from the foot of the mountain, chaos gradually erupted.
Jiang Yan took the opportunity to cross over the hill.
On the other side of the hill lay an expanse of undulating forest, dense and lush, with the roar of tigers echoing through.
Some daring players had already ventured there, but were quickly chased by boars, with flashes of light representing death occasionally seen.
As Jiang Yan surveyed the area, he suddenly noticed a large white exclamation mark above the forest in the lower left corner!
Is there hidden information?
Jiang Yan hurried towards the lower left corner.
On the way, he skillfully avoided other players. Once close, he looked up at the white exclamation mark.
Soon, a line of text appeared above the white exclamation mark: Hunters from Novice Village 142857 often enter the forest to hunt boars, creating a relatively safe path.
Jiang Yan's eyes lit up. He quickly scanned the surroundings, confirmed no one was paying attention, and rushed towards the exclamation mark.
Soon, a path trodden by feet appeared before Jiang Yan in the dense forest.
Following this path, there were indeed no boars in sight.
Jiang Yan walked for five minutes before encountering a lone boar.
In "Pinnacle," players can freely view information on monsters within five levels. Jiang Yan immediately checked the boar's information.
Boar: lv3
HP: 500
Skill: Savage Charge (charges at the target after gathering strength, with a chance to cause stun)
Only 500 HP?
Jiang Yan's eyes brightened. His critical damage could deal 350, theoretically taking down a boar with two Lightning Bolts!
"Let's do this!"
Jiang Yan hid behind a tree and began chanting Lightning Bolt, but the system indicated he couldn't lock onto the boar!
Alright, it was indeed a bit too far.
Jiang Yan quietly moved closer, and when he was about twenty meters from the boar, he could finally chant successfully.
Boom!!
In an instant, a purple lightning bolt roared down from above the forest, striking the boar's head with a crackling explosion.
-350!!
A crimson critical damage floated above the boar's head!
This damage could only be seen by Jiang Yan himself or his party members. Even if others were present, they could only see the boar's health bar drop significantly!
Simultaneously, -1-1-1 lightning burn damage continuously floated above the boar's head!
"Roar!!"
The boar, attacked, was stunned for a second, then roared in fury, its eyes turning blood-red as it frantically pawed the ground in Jiang Yan's direction.
It was preparing to unleash its Savage Charge skill.
One second later, the boar charged at Jiang Yan with a roar!
Jiang Yan didn't dodge, as the 1.5-second cooldown had ended.
Chanting Lightning Bolt!
Jiang Yan swung his Novice Wooden Stick: "Die!"
Boom!
Thunder crashed down, and the crimson critical damage soared out, killing the boar instantly!
[Ding~ Congratulations to the player for killing a boar above your level, experience +30]
[Ding~ Congratulations to the player for reaching level 1, reward: 4 free attribute points]
A flash of light enveloped him, and Jiang Yan smoothly reached level 1!
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It only took 20 experience points to go from level 0 to 1, but from level 1 to 2, it required 100 experience points!
In other words, after killing three more boars, he could reach level 2!
Jiang Yan stepped forward to check and found the boar only dropped five copper coins!
And this was a kill above his level!
The drop rate was indeed frustratingly low.
Jiang Yan picked up the copper coins and began allocating his free attribute points.
Without hesitation, he added all 4 points to Spirit!
He opened his status panel.
ID: Jiang Taigong
Level: Lv1 (10/100)
Class: Thunder Tyrant (Hidden Class: Skill Damage +100%, Critical Chance +30%, Critical Damage +100%)
Constitution: 8
Endurance: 7
Spirit: 16
Agility: 7
Free Attribute Points: 0 (Four free attribute points per level)
HP: 160 (Constitution*20)
MP: 320 (Spirit*20)
Physical Defense: 15 (Constitution + Endurance) +1 (Novice Clothes)
Magic Defense: 23 (Spirit + Agility)
Physical Attack: 16 (Constitution*2) +1 (Novice Wooden Stick)
Magic Attack: 32 (Spirit*2) +1 (Novice Wooden Stick)
Special Attributes:
Charisma: Hidden
Luck: Hidden
Talent:
[Wrath of the Thunder God]: SSS Rank
1. When HP drops to 1 point, HP and MP are shared
2. Lightning magic chant time forcibly reduced to 1 second
3. Lightning magic mana cost and cooldown halved
4. Lightning magic skill damage +100%
5. Lightning magic critical chance +50%
6. Lightning magic critical damage +100%!
7. Adds lightning burn damage, 1 point per second, lasts 60 seconds, no cooldown (during burn, HP recovery halved, speed -30%, non-stackable)
Skills:
[Lightning Bolt] lv1 (2/100): After a 3-second chant, casts a lightning bolt on the target, skill damage is 150% of magic base damage! Mana cost: 20! Cooldown: 3 seconds!
At this point, his magic attack had reached 33, and with the hidden class and [Wrath of the Thunder God] bonuses, the damage of Lightning Bolt had reached 115.5 (33*350% skill damage bonus)!
Critical damage was four times the skill damage, which was 462!! (115.5*400% critical damage bonus)
The boar's HP was only 500!
"One more level, and I can one-shot a boar?" Jiang Yan felt himself swelling with confidence.
At this moment, images of Li Shiyin and Liu Bo dancing flashed through his mind involuntarily.
"Fate will bring us together again, just you wait!!" Jiang Yan clenched his fists and strode deeper into the forest.