[Killer: wild wolf lv4]
Newbie Village square
A light appeared out of nowhere. The next moment, a white-haired little girl in ragged clothes appeared in the square.
Lin Yu glanced at the tattered clothes and silently grumbled.
Good thing this game brings your clothes back when you respawn. Otherwise...
Suddenly, a possibility occurred to Lin Yu. Imagining respawning stark naked in the Newbie Village square, Lin Yu shuddered. At least the game had some decency and brought clothes back on respawn.
Lin Yu examined the damage. Several holes had been torn in the abdomen by the wild wolf's bites, and the fabric over the shoulder had been slashed open.
So clothes don't automatically repair themselves in this game when they get damaged? Do I have to sew them up myself? Uh, looks like I really do.
At that thought, Lin Yu suddenly remembered the Weaving skill.
To be honest, Lin Yu hadn't taken a close look at any of the support skills yet.
Just then, Lin Yu overheard the players nearby talking.
"Another one. Probably someone else who didn't believe it and went out alone."
"I win. Ten bucks."
"Fuck, here! Come on, let's keep betting. This time I bet someone dies and comes back within ten minutes!"
"Fine, then I bet nobody dies and comes back within ten minutes!"
"Fifty this time!"
"Bring it on. You think I'm scared?"
Just as Lin Yu was about to leave, a woman approached.
Seeing that Lin Yu seemed ready to leave, the woman hurried over at a jog and caught up, speaking eagerly. "Don't rush off, little sister. Do you need your clothes mended? I can fix them for just ten copper coins."
As the woman caught up, Lin Yu didn't look back and simply said, "No need. I can mend them myself."
With that, Lin Yu took off from the spot and flew away.
Seeing Lin Yu leave, the woman felt a little disappointed. "Ah, what a shame."
Ignoring everything that had just happened, Lin Yu began thinking about how to mend the clothes.
Lin Yu had just checked whether the Weaving skill could mend them.
The answer was yes, but it required a needle and thread.
As for where to get them, Lin Yu figured the general store probably sold them.
After looking carefully around, Lin Yu quickly located the general store.
The moment Lin Yu floated into the general store, a panel automatically appeared, listing everything available for purchase.
[Iron axe -- 50 copper coins Purchase Iron pickaxe -- 50 copper coins Purchase Shirt -- 50 copper coins Purchase Shorts -- 50 copper coins Purchase Robe -- 1 silver coin Purchase Sewing kit -- 5 copper coins Purchase ...]
After a quick look, Lin Yu clicked purchase beside the sewing kit.
After selecting the quantity, one silver coin vanished from Lin Yu's inventory.
At the same time, a small pouch appeared out of nowhere on the table to the right, with a pile of copper coins beside it.
After putting away the pouch and copper coins, Lin Yu left the general store.
Now it's time to go to the inn.
Right after buying the sewing kit, Lin Yu had tried opening the panel and activating Weaving to mend the clothes.
But the skill had failed to activate, and a notification had popped up at the Weaving skill, saying that the damaged clothing had to be held in hand before the skill could be activated to repair it.
Looking at the players nearby, Lin Yu certainly couldn't take the clothes off and mend them here.
Lin Yu decided to head to the inn and rent a room before repairing the clothes.
Lin Yu found the inn, flew inside, and spoke to the inn's NPC. After Lin Yu handed the front-desk NPC fifty copper coins, the NPC handed over a key.
[Inn Key An item unique to the inn. Use the Inn Key to open any door inside the inn and enter a private room belonging to the guest. Once the stay ends, anyone still inside the inn room will be forcibly teleported to the inn lobby. Time remaining: 23:59:57]
After reading the Inn Key's description, Lin Yu understood how to use it.
Looking around, Lin Yu went to the nearest door. The handle was higher than Lin Yu's head. After a few seconds of silence, Lin Yu quietly flew up. To be honest, Lin Yu still hadn't gotten used to that height.
Once again reflecting on how short fairy hybrids really were, and how it was a good thing to be a full 1.8 meters tall outside, Lin Yu inserted the key into the lock and gave it a gentle twist, then pushed lightly. The door swung open with a creak.
Lin Yu entered the room, pulled out the key, and closed the door behind. Then Lin Yu began looking around the inn room.
The room was small and its layout extremely simple: a wooden table, several wooden chairs, and a wooden bed in the corner. A nightstand stood beside the bed, with an item resembling a bedside lamp on top, casting a yellow light over the entire room. A window stood open in the wall beside the bed.
The washroom was to the right of the entrance, with a bath towel hanging on the wall by its door. Inside were a toilet, a sink, a faucet, and a large wooden tub for bathing.
Lin Yu walked up to the window and looked up at the sill, which was at least a head taller. Rising into the air, Lin Yu finally saw the view outside.
The first thing Lin Yu saw was the street in Newbie Village. Looking down, Lin Yu made a quick calculation and reckoned this was probably the inn's third floor.
Finding nothing much to see, Lin Yu reached out and shut the window.
Next, the clothes need mending.
Lin Yu took off the tattered shirt, pulled the sewing kit from the inventory, and activated Weaving to begin mending it.
As the skill activated, the needle and thread flew up as if they had come to life and began mending the shirt in Lin Yu's hands on their own.
Before long, the shirt was fully mended.
Lin Yu put the unused needle and thread back in the inventory and put on the mended shirt.
Sitting on the bed, Lin Yu began reviewing the death.
Noob.
That was Lin Yu's assessment.
The death could be chalked up to carelessness and failing to react to the sneak attack.
But to Lin Yu, those were all excuses that couldn't fool the self. The death had been entirely the result of Lin Yu's own decisions.
Back then, Lin Yu could clearly have used Windwalk to dodge the sneak attack. Once clear of it, Lin Yu could have counterattacked with Magic Missile.
But for some reason, Lin Yu had instead activated Mana Protection to block it while staying in place. That fatal mistake had led directly to a single wild wolf easily scoring a solo kill. This time, Lin Yu had essentially been solo-killed by one wild wolf; the two that appeared later had merely sped up the shield's destruction. Even without those two, Lin Yu felt the solo kill would still have happened.
Moreover, Lin Yu believed the mistakes hadn't stopped there. There had already been a mistake when choosing spells.
After all, Life Sense was one of the spells Lin Yu knew. Equipping and using it once would have marked every living creature nearby in Lin Yu's field of vision.
Lin Yu had simply been too confident to equip it. If only Lin Yu had swapped Flame Strike for Life Sense and used it once before leaving Newbie Village, there was no way the sneak attack could have happened.