[Ancient Realm] was about to start the server.
Kai was so excited that he didn’t sleep all night, and his stomach was already growling with hunger But he couldn’t spare any money.
Drinking tap water didn’t work, so out of desperation, he heated up the half bowl of instant noodles left over from last night to give him some energy.
At this time, there was only one minute left.
He sighed to himself.
“Now I am in poverty and have no food to eat.
Whether I can counterattack in life depends on this game.” The second the clock hit eight, Kai instantly activated the Heaven-tier Link token through sheer thought and dove into the game.
“Welcome to the Ancient Realms” “The newcomer protection server has officially launched.
Enter the game now?” He’d been waiting for this moment forever.
Kai hit yes without a second’s hesitation.
Ding!
“You have been assigned to a Mortal Village.
This village has a total of 8062 new players)” “Tip!
The first player to reach level 10 and leave the village will receive additional rewards” As soon as the voice ended.
Kai appeared in a newcomer village full of singing birds and fragrant flowers.
He didn’t even get the time to experience the beautiful and realistic environment in the game.
When a sharp pain shot through his left foot, a fat man weighing more than three hundred kilograms had stepped on Kai ‘s foot and shoving forward like a bulldozer.
Kai gritted his teeth in pain.
“Move the hell outta my way, all of you!
I need to get to the village chief for my starter pack!” This fat man was like a small mountain of meat.
He was so powerful that he broke a path through the tightly packed crowd of newcomers, causing countless people to fall over.
“Christ, quit shoving, quit shoving!
Everyone gets a starter pack, what’s the rush?!” “Hey — who the hell just grabbed my chest?!” “Ah, pervert, why are you touching my butt?!” “Damn it, watch where you are steeping.
I’m a person, not a doormat!” There was an unspeakable chaos in the village.
At once, thousands of people were crowded into the village at the same time.
Kai found himself pinned in place, barely able to move.
The server had just launched.
The top three players who have reached level 10 and left the village will receive additional rewards.
Everyone wants to compete for these three rankings.
So the entire crowd was racing to reach the village chief for their starter packs, which only made the chaos worse.
At this rate, just grabbing the starter pack was going to eat up a ton of time.
Kai’s eyes darted around, and he quickly shouted, “Wow!
There’s a naked woman running around there?
But the result was that not a single person turned around.
When it comes to playing games, leveling up and racing against time.
It was the top priority; even women aren’t as appealing anymore.
Seeing that this tactic was ineffective, he shouted again, “Look everyone!
A golden boss has appeared at the village entrance.
Killing it will definitely drop a divine artifact!” “Where is it?
Where is the boss?” “Get the hell out of my way, I want this boss.” Saying there are naked women was useless, but shouting that there’s a boss really stirred up the huge crowd.
That earlier fat guy who’d stepped on Kai’s foot barreled forward like a cow, shoving his way through the crowd and forcing a path toward the village gate.
Kai took the chance, slipping through the gap the big guy had opened, and made his way straight to the village chief to grab his starter pack.
He wasn’t the only sharp one — a few other quick-thinking players managed to slip through too and got their packs from the chief.
They followed right behind the fat guy and made it out of the crowded village without much trouble.
“Who the hell was yelling bullshit about a boss?
There’s nothing here!” Once the fat guy broke through and saw no boss waiting, he cursed loudly on the spot.
But leveling up mattered more, so after one angry outburst he got straight to hunting monsters.
Once outside, Kai opened his starter pack right away and got a pair of straw sandals, a linen shirt, a wooden bow, and 1,000 wooden arrows.
After equipping everything, he checked his stats.
….
Character: Spectral Blaze Level: 0 (Exp: 0/100) Realm: Mortal HP: 100 Hunger: 40 Physical Attack: 10 Magic Attack: 2 Physical Defense: 7 Magic Defense: 0 Movement speed: 10 Strength: 5 (1 point of Strength adds 2 Physical Attack) Agility: 5 Spirit: 1 (1 point of Spirit adds 2 Magic Attack) Constitution: 5 (1 point of Constitution adds 10 HP and 1 Defense) Luck: 0 (boosts fortune) …..
The sandals and shirt added a combined 2 Defense, and the bow added 1 Physical Attack.
It was a pretty pathetic number overall.
But it didn’t matter.
He had Soul Reaper and the Universe Quiver with him.
It was time to start leveling for real.
Just past the village gate, he spotted a handful of Level 1 roosters, wandering through the fields.
Kai raised his bow and knocked an ordinary wooden arrow, and with a “whoosh,” the arrow shot out.
The 5% chance to trigger Soul Reaper had hit on the very first shot.
DING!
“Congratulations, you’ve killed a Level 1 rooster You gained 5 Exp.” Just 5 exp!
There weren’t many Level 1 roosters around, and more and more players were pouring out of the village.
Soon there’d be way more people than monsters.
Kai wasn’t interested in such a small exp anyway.
He’d only been testing the arrow.
He turned to look for tougher monsters.
“Wow!
You just killed the rooster in one-shot?” “Bro, add me.
Let’s team up.” The fat guy from earlier had lost half his HP just barely managing to hack a Rooster to death.
Seeing Kai, killing in one-shot with a single arrow left him stunned.
His expression shifted, and he walked over with a smile, oddly polite and mild now.
But Kai rejected him on the spot.
“No need.
I prefer Solo leveling.” Kai, fresh into the server with Soul Reaper and the Universe Quiver already in hand, would’ve had to be brain-damaged to bring someone along for the ride.
“Fine, if you’re gonna look down on me, I won’t force it.” “Can I at least add you as a friend?
If you loot any gear you want to sell, I’ll pay top price, guaranteed.” The fat guy kept the smile plastered on.
“No thanks.
I’m not really the friend-making type.” With that, Kai turned and walked off without another word.
Thank god he wasn’t wearing a superhero cape behind him, or else how he reacted was like he was some kind of main character ( a lone wolf) turning down a friend request like that.
The moment Kai’s back was turned, the fat guy’s fake smile dropped instantly, his eyes flashing with pure malice.
“Damn it, spectral blaze humph do you think you are Spectral soul, huh?
Won’t even give this Brother Kun some face.
I’ll find a chance to end you, just wait.” The fat guy had clocked Kai as someone worth latching onto, hoping to use him to level up fast.
Instead, Kai hadn’t given him the time of day.
If he hadn’t seen Kai’s skill and gotten nervous about the odds, he would’ve already tried to kill him on the spot.
Holding the grudge, the fat guy memorized Kai’s ID and turned back to keep grinding roosters.
However, right then.
Whoosh, whoosh!
Three wooden arrows shot through the air in quick succession, all landing square on the fat man.
“Hah!?” Already sitting at half HP, the fat man dropped to his knees on the spot.
A bunch of players who’d just poured out of the newbie village froze.
Nobody had expected PvP to break out this early into the game.
Kai had noticed the resentment in the fat guy’s eyes.
In real life, he had an antisocial, timid but careful personality, and in a game, he wanted to be carefree and let loose!
But how could he let others create problems for him?
The guy had stepped on his foot earlier, and now held a grudge just because Kai wouldn’t carry him.
That kind of person needed killing once, as a lesson.
And if their paths crossed again he will kill him again.
An enemy was an enemy.
Once marked, stomp it down for your own good.
This was the important lesson he learned in his life.
With a faint red name now hanging over his head, Kai strolled off under the stunned, unsettled stares of the surrounding players.
Back in the newbie village.
The fat guy who was killed and returned back to life.
He was so angry that his face turned green.
Even the shoes that were given to him were destroyed.
Now he’d have to fight through the crowd all over again just to get back out and level up.
“Spectral Blaze!
I’m never forgetting your name.”