Quickly, he dealt with the remaining two Wild Boars.
He opened his backpack to check.
[Poison Coating] (Common White-Tier)
Class: Thief
Effect: Coats the dagger with poison, lasting for 10 minutes. The poisoned dagger has a 20% chance to poison the enemy on attack, dealing damage equal to 20% of Attack per second for 30 seconds.
...
Still a Common White-Tier.
But Chen Ming was overjoyed.
Having it is better than not.
Skill Books in this world are rare treasures.
Learn!
The Skill Book in the backpack dissipated, transforming into a skill imprint.
Branded into Chen Ming's skill bar.
Suddenly!
[Ding—Shadow Walker's Poison Mastery effect triggered!]
[Poison Coating] upgraded to [Envenom]!
Chen Ming was stunned, then ecstatic.
His skill actually upgraded?!
Is this the effect of his Hidden Class [Shadow Walker]'s innate [Poison Mastery]?
At first, he thought it was a useless skill.
But it turned out to be so powerful!
He quickly looked at the skill bar.
[Envenom] (Rare Blue-Tier)
Class: Thief
Effect: Coats the dagger with poison, lasting for 60 minutes. The poisoned dagger has a 100% chance to poison the enemy on attack, dealing damage equal to 50% of Attack per second for 600 seconds!
"Damn!"
Chen Ming couldn't help but exclaim!
The upgrade was simply outrageous!
First, the poison buff duration increased from 10 minutes to 60 minutes.
Using the skill once, his dagger would be poisoned for the next hour!
The poison chance increased fivefold, from a random 20% chance to a guaranteed 100%!
Finally, the poison damage increased from 20% per second to 50% per second.
The poison duration extended from 30 seconds to 600 seconds!
As long as Chen Ming hit them, they would be poisoned, continuously losing health for ten minutes!
"This is insane!"
"No wonder it's a Blue-Tier skill!"
When Chen Ming looked at the Wild Boars again, a hint of ruthlessness flashed in his eyes.
...
"Envenom!"
The skill was activated.
Chen Ming's two daggers instantly glowed with a ghostly green light.
The eerie green danced on the daggers, like an unextinguishable ghost fire.
It completely masked the shabby appearance of the novice daggers.
At this moment, just by appearance, he already had the demeanor of a legendary thief.
Chen Ming charged into the herd of Wild Boars.
One slash per pig!
The 100% hit rate poison effect ensured that every slash carried a lethal toxin!
Any Wild Boar he touched instantly glowed green, their health plummeting!
With 50% Attack damage per second, it was as if Chen Ming slashed them every two seconds.
The effect was explosive!
Soon, a group of green-glowing poisoned Wild Boars chased after Chen Ming.
All he needed to do was run ahead, and the Wild Boars behind him would lose health like crazy!
After a dozen or so seconds, the first batch of poisoned Wild Boars collapsed with wails.
Before long, the wheat field behind Chen Ming was piled with countless Wild Boar corpses.
Chen Ming's experience points skyrocketed!
"This is so damn fun!"
Chen Ming continued to stab the newly spawned Wild Boars while running!
One person, farming a whole group of monsters!
Looking around the world, probably no one else had a gaming experience like Chen Ming!
...
While Chen Ming was happily farming monsters, suddenly, he heard a notification...
[Ding—Your SSS-Rank talent Sleight of Hand successfully triggered!]
[Stole a piece of Wild Boar Hide from the "Wild Boar"!]
Chen Ming was taken aback.
Although what he stole was ordinary, this notification was crucial.
Sleight of Hand could trigger.
The poison damage from Envenom...
Could trigger Sleight of Hand!
Chen Ming glanced back.
A dense pack of Wild Boars.
Each one glowing green.
Every second, dozens of Wild Boars suffered poison damage.
This meant...
Chen Ming's Sleight of Hand had a high chance of triggering every second.
While Chen Ming was in a daze, the system notification sounded again.
[Ding—Your SSS-Rank talent Sleight of Hand successfully triggered!]
[Stole 6 Copper Coins from the "Wild Boar"!]
Before he could react.
[Ding—Your SSS-Rank talent Sleight of Hand successfully triggered!]
[Stole 5 Copper Coins from the "Wild Boar"!]
The 1% chance Sleight of Hand triggered twice in a row!
Chen Ming's mouth curled into a smile.
He couldn't suppress his grin.
He could crazily gain experience and continuously trigger Sleight of Hand to get equipment.
He definitely chose the right class!
The combination of Thief and Sleight of Hand was simply perfect.
...
Five minutes later.
Chen Ming looked at the ground full of Wild Boar corpses, satisfied.
In just five minutes, he had dealt with over a hundred Wild Boars.
He leveled up twice, reaching level 4, with an additional 32% experience.
Meanwhile, Sleight of Hand triggered a total of 67 times.
He gained 152 Copper Coins and 22 pieces of Wild Boar Hide.
A piece of White-Tier equipment [Wild Boar Greaves].
Unfortunately, it was heavy armor for Warriors, which Chen Ming, a Thief who could only use light armor, couldn't equip.
But this was just the extra loot from Sleight of Hand.
In front of him, there were still over a hundred corpses waiting for Chen Ming to loot...
"I'm rich!"
Chen Ming couldn't help but grin!
It took ten minutes.
Chen Ming finally looted all the corpses.
He collected a total of 842 Copper Coins and 108 pieces of Wild Boar Hide.
Unfortunately, he didn't get any equipment.
"The drop rate is really low."
"Still the same old Glory."
Chen Ming was used to this drop rate.
"But the drop rate for my Sleight of Hand seems much higher than killing monsters."
"It triggered over sixty times."
"And I got one piece of equipment."
"If it were from killing monsters... even killing six hundred wouldn't guarantee one piece of equipment!"
"Sleight of Hand probably has an additional drop rate bonus."
"No wonder it's an SSS-Rank talent, it's truly amazing!"
Chen Ming happily packed away his loot.
Selling these back in the Novice Village would net him one or two Silver Coins.
That's equivalent to earning one or two hundred bucks.
And Chen Ming had only been playing for less than half an hour.
"If I keep this up, paying off my sister's 30,000 in a week won't be a problem!" Chen Ming was full of confidence as he headed to the next monster farming spot.
...
Leaving the rural area full of wheat fields, he continued deeper.
He reached an endless expanse of grasslands.
Here, he found the last type of monster needed for his novice quest.
Wild Wolves.
Looking around, the grasslands were filled with countless Wild Wolves.
Some were lying down, pretending to sleep.
Others were leisurely wandering around.
Only a few turned their heads to glance at Chen Ming, the uninvited guest.
But they quickly looked away.
They seemed to disdain Chen Ming, this low-level Thief dressed in rags...