"I thought games like Honor of Kings would die out once Era came out, but judging by how things are now, there are still so many people playing it."
"I thought Era would become a national phenomenon like Honor of Kings, but why does it feel like hardly anyone online is talking about it?"
"True, playing Era doesn't feel like playing a game, and you can't adjust the pain level. Only a minority of people can keep playing it. Most people probably don't know Era isn't an ordinary game. They tried it, couldn't handle how hardcore it was, and chose to quit."
"But it feels like more people have been playing Era over the last few days. Is it because you can make money in Era?"
With nothing to do, Lin Yu lay on the bed, his mind wandering as all sorts of thoughts popped into his head. He even began analyzing why it felt like relatively few people played Era.
"Forget it. Time for a shower and bed." He stretched and glanced at the time. It was already nine at night.
Lin Yu took a change of clothes from the wardrobe and went into the bathroom to wash up.
After washing up, Lin Yu went straight to bed.
At seven in the morning, Lin Yu woke from a deep sleep. After stretching his body a little, he prepared to enter the game.
Lin Yu sat up in the inn's bed. After eating and drinking his fill, he headed to the edge of Newbie Village.
Taking a deep breath, Lin Yu was ready to leave the village.
The instant Lin Yu flew out of Newbie Village, he activated Life Sense.
As Lin Yu activated Life Sense, the locations of all nearby life-forms appeared in his perception.
In Lin Yu's perception, the life strength of the creatures within two hundred meters was fairly ordinary. They were probably all ordinary animals.
Lin Yu chose to ignore these animals and flew into the forest.
Lin Yu planned to find a monster and test his damage first.
Ignition Spell
Looking at a wild wolf crouched in a patch of grass below, Lin Yu cast Ignition Spell the instant he spotted it. The moment the flames erupted, the wild wolf was burned to death. In just a few seconds, Lin Yu had reduced the entire wolf to charcoal.
[Wild wolf lv3 killed. Gained 0 experience points (level higher than target, unable to gain experience)]
"That felt good." Looking at the wolf burned to charcoal, Lin Yu nodded in satisfaction, thoroughly pleased with the power of his magic.
As for why he had chosen a wild wolf to test his magic on, Lin Yu maintained that it had been the closest to him. As for taking revenge for being solo-killed by a wild wolf before, Lin Yu said that was impossible, absolutely impossible. He wasn't that petty. The only reason he had chosen the wild wolf was that it was the closest.
"Solve."
After raising a hand and casting Wind Blade Spell to cut a wild wolf passing below in two, Lin Yu listened to the pleasant system notification in his ear and flew away in a good mood.
Lin Yu didn't know where to find a boss. All he had to do was fly around in the sky, check out anything that looked like it might be a boss, and see if he could kill it. If he could beat a boss, he would fight; if not, he would run.
As Lin Yu continued on his journey, he casually cast a spell to instantly kill every wild wolf he saw. As he got farther from Newbie Village, he gradually began encountering the occasional magical beast.
Looking at the giant black wolf below, Lin Yu prepared to test the magical beast's strength.
Faced with the magical beast baring its teeth at him from below, Lin Yu was fully alert and didn't dare let his guard down.
Lin Yu raised his hand and cast Vine Bind, followed by a Fireball Spell strengthened with Double Magic Enhancement and several Wind Blade Spells.
Magic Enhancement was a spell that enhanced magic. It could strengthen the caster's spells, and a single spell could be enhanced multiple times. The number of enhancements possible varied depending on the caster's strength. At Lin Yu's current strength, he could manage at most Double Magic Enhancement.
Each additional layer of Magic Enhancement doubled the effect of the spell being cast. Likewise, the cost also doubled.
[Shadow Wolf lv7 killed. Gained 0 experience points (level higher than target, unable to gain experience)]
Hearing the notification in his ear, Lin Yu was a little surprised. Was this magical beast really that weak? He had thought he would have to fight it for three hundred rounds, but one fireball had blown it to death. The wind blades that followed had only served to flog the corpse.
Clearly, Lin Yu had little awareness of his own strength. Given his spell power, a single skill could deal up to 64 points of damage even with a magic bonus of 0.1. On top of that, Double Magic Enhancement had boosted Fireball Spell's damage by 400%.
That kind of damage was obviously more than enough to deal with a level-seven magical beast.
Looking at the Shadow Wolf's corpse below, Lin Yu descended from the sky. Looking at the Shadow Wolf in front of him, Lin Yu cast Disassembly.
The glow of mana enveloped the Shadow Wolf's mangled corpse.
The Shadow Wolf's flesh within the mana's glow slowly melted like ice cream in the sun. Under the effect of Disassembly, the magical beast's flesh turned into mana and dispersed. Lin Yu simply couldn't carry the magical beast's corpse back, so he might as well disassemble it into elements and keep only the Magic Core, which was easy to carry.
Soon, a Magic Core appeared where the Shadow Wolf's corpse had been.
Lin Yu picked up the Magic Core and examined it carefully before putting it into the cloth bag he carried with him.
Why not gather some Magic Cores as spare casting materials while looking for a boss? With that thought, Lin Yu decided to kill any magical beasts he encountered from then on and take their Magic Cores.
Over the following stretch of time, Lin Yu encountered quite a few magical beasts. After trying to kill them instantly, he gained a rough understanding of his own strength.
Against these magical beasts, Lin Yu could deal with them by casting one control spell followed by a few attack spells.
The weaker magical beasts couldn't even withstand a single spell Lin Yu casually cast. The stronger ones were gravely wounded by his first spell and killed outright by the second.
Before he knew it, Lin Yu's objective had changed. He began actively searching for magical beasts, hunting them for their Magic Cores.
After disassembling the magical beast's corpse in front of him, Lin Yu obtained another Magic Core.
Lin Yu picked up the Magic Core and put it in his cloth bag, then stopped hunting and fell into thought.
"I came out here to look for a boss, didn't I? How did I end up farming magical beasts?" When Lin Yu had first started killing magical beasts, he had only wanted to test their strength. But after killing more than a dozen of them, his objective had changed from finding a boss to gathering their Magic Cores for use as casting materials. He had nearly forgotten that he had come out to find a boss.
Lin Yu patted his head and reminded himself that his objective was to find a boss, then continued on his journey to find one.