After showering, Mack quietly crept into bed and drifted off to sleep.
Early the next morning, Mack woke up.
Even though he had only slept for a little over four hours, he felt brimful of energy.
This was undoubtedly a change brought about by his increased stats!
It was currently late June, right in the middle of summer break, after which Mack would be heading off to college.
As a reincarnator, his academic performance was quite impressive, consistently ranking in the top three of his school.
As for the top two, second place belonged to Daisy Johnson, a computer genius.
That’s right—the girl was none other than Skye from *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.*
Daisy and Mack were extremely close for a simple reason: the Chow family was Skye’s adoptive family.
Consequently, the Daisy of this world had never suffered a tragic childhood.
And the reason for that was, naturally, Mack.
As for the school’s top student, he was also a celebrity: Reed Richards.
The genius scientist destined to become Mister Fantastic of the Fantastic Four.
As for the timeline, it was still far too early for the major events of Marvel.
Mack, like Daisy Johnson, was born in 1987.
Now eighteen years old, their high school graduation year was 2005.
Why Reed Richards was still a high school student in 2005 was something Mack didn’t know either.
Perhaps the Fantastic Four wouldn’t even appear in this world’s future?
After all, strictly speaking, the Fantastic Four didn’t belong to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Mack guessed this was likely a merged universe.
Fortunately, he hadn’t found Batman in this world; after all, where there was Batman, there was Superman—and that guy was a total bug, completely game-breaking!
“Mack, Daisy!
Breakfast is ready!
Don’t sleep in just because it’s the weekend!”
A shout came from downstairs.
Mack called back in a hurry, opened his door, and stepped into the living room.
Their house was a three-bedroom apartment with one living room.
His parents had one bedroom, while he and Daisy each had their own.
“Morning, Mom, Dad!
Morning, Daisy!”
Greeting his family, he sat down to eat.
“Morning, Macky!”
Daisy sat beside him and greeted him as well—though as for that nickname…
“Call me ‘Big Brother’!”
Mack casually reached over and ruffled Daisy’s hair into a messy mop.
“We share the exact same birthday!” Daisy grabbed Mack’s troublemaking hand and protested.
Mack went along with Daisy’s resistance and pulled his hand back.
Looking at his parents smiling warmly at them, he shook his head helplessly and ate his food in peace.
As for Mack’s personal policy: no taking the initiative, no refusing, and no taking responsibility…
In any case, he had no intention of getting married in this life.
In his previous life, he had been an honest, dutiful guy who followed the standard script: school, work, marriage.
And what was the outcome?
Forget it, that was all in his past life anyway.
No point bringing it up!
After breakfast, Daisy still wanted to slip into his room, up to who knew what sneaky scheme.
Mack could read her mind from the look in her eyes, but he had only just acquired his power and couldn’t control it well yet.
During breakfast, he had been terrified of accidentally causing some irreversible disaster.
Thus, he had eaten the entire meal with extreme care.
And now Daisy wanted to enter his room?
He wouldn’t dare let her in right now!
If he accidentally hurt her, that would be massive trouble!
He’d better wait until he adapted to his current strength!
Besides, having just awakened a new ability, he needed to log into the game to grind levels!
He had a feeling that, just like playing games on a PC, *World of Warcraft* only truly began after reaching max level!
Once he hit max level, he would surely gain even stronger abilities!
Locking the door behind him, Mack quickly lay on his bed and recited the command in his heart.
Sure enough, he swiftly entered the game.
Upon logging in, he was standing right in front of the Mage class trainer.
Yesterday, he had logged off after learning his final initial Mage skill.
Now that the starter skills were out of the way, it was time to level up!
He was thoroughly familiar with the Blood Elf starting quests.
Quickly taking the quests at the spawn point, he embarked on his routine of killing monsters, leveling up, and turning in quests.
Mana Wyrms, Lynx, Treants, and so on…
There were only those few types of mobs in the spawn zone.
With the 100 base stat buff, these starter mob quests were a complete breeze!
For grinding, he mainly relied on the Hunter class—after all, shooting arrows was all it took!
Furthermore, stacking the base stats of four classes meant these low-level monsters fell in a single arrow.
However, he also noticed that his experience bar moved at a crawl.
He even went out of his way to check with another player who was curious about his high damage, confirming that his required leveling experience was eight times that of a regular player.
That’s right—not four times, but eight times.
Still, the advantages of four classes far outweighed the penalty.
No matter how much experience was required, he would hit max level eventually!
Mack also learned from other players that the game had plenty of online features, such as forums and an online auction house.
Additionally, playing the game required buying game time.
Luckily, he didn’t have to worry about game time cards; his Golden Finger had taken care of it, sparing him the headache of paying.
Of course, there was a drawback.
He could only get one hour of online game time per day.
Fortunately, even though he hadn’t accessed the game before turning eighteen, his Golden Finger had accumulated game time for him starting from age sixteen.
Right now, he had a grand total of 730 hours of banked game time.
If he wanted to, he could stay logged in for a whole month without coming offline!
A whole month!
In a month, even with eight times experience…
Well, with eight times experience, a single month really wouldn’t get him to level 70!
That’s right—the current expansion of *World of Warcraft* in this virtual reality game was *The Burning Crusade*, capped at level 70.
The map had expanded all the way to Outland!
With so much experience needed, Mack wasted no time grinding.
Fortunately, despite the crowds in the starter zone, there were only a handful of quests.
In just over ten minutes, Mack had cleared them all out.
Glancing at his level, he was still a bit short of level 4.
Checking his coin purse, he had a measly 4 silver and 76 copper.
Instead of learning new skills, he quickly headed toward Silverwing Square, leaving the starting area behind.
Higher-level monsters meant faster experience gain.
As for skills, there was no rush to learn them just yet.
Even with ten times the learning efficiency, it would still take time.
For now, his four initial 20-slot bags plus a Hunter’s quiver were more than enough to get by.
He planned to level up as fast as possible, prioritizing mob grinding while treating quests as secondary.
Players were still everywhere around Silverwing Square, but quests were sparse here too.
Mack cleared them in short order.
Checking his level, he had barely hit level 5…
Well, that was indeed depressing.
Checking the built-in game clock, it was fortunately only 9:30 AM.
After some thought, Mack decided not to rush back to grinding.
Instead, he made his way toward the Blood Elf capital next to Silverwing Square: Starmoon City.
He was going to learn trade skills.
If he could still only learn two, that would be frustrating.
Fortunately, the VR technology allowed character stat changes to reflect directly, including running speed, stamina, and more.
The distance to Starmoon City was around two to three kilometers, and Mack covered it in under ten minutes.