Qin Chuan chose Wild Boar Plains as his leveling spot, where the monsters started at level five.
At this time, there were basically no players here.
With a sweep of his gaze, Qin Chuan quickly locked onto his target.
[Wild boar] Level: 5 Health: 500 Attack: 50 Defense: 30 Skill: Charge ...
"With my current stats, using Shadow Flying Dagger from thirty meters away can only deal 185 points of True Damage. It takes three daggers to kill a wild boar. That's too low."
Qin Chuan thought to himself.
If other players heard what he was thinking, they would spit in his face.
What did he mean, it could only deal 185 damage?
Listen to that. Was that even something a human would say?
We used little knives to stab rabbits, and getting five or six points of damage in one hit was already pretty good. You dealt nearly two hundred damage and still had something to complain about!
And that was against a level-five wild boar with thirty Defense!
At this stage, Normal Tier players could not even break a wild boar's defense.
But Qin Chuan possessed an SSS-Tier talent and a hidden class, so naturally, he pursued greater limits.
So he turned his attention to the Exotic Beast Skull.
This thing came with one Evolution Point. It could not be wasted.
Aside from the Sniper God's bonuses, a large part of his damage came from Cloakbreaking Strike.
Unfortunately, talents were not within the Exotic Beast Skull's range of effect. Otherwise, Qin Chuan would definitely have evolved Sniper God.
This first evolution opportunity could only go to Shadow Stealth.
Holding the Exotic Beast Skull in his hand, Qin Chuan used it directly.
"The first evolution will consume 1 Evolution Point. Evolve Shadow Stealth?"
"Yes!"
"Ding! Shadow Stealth has evolved! Quality increased, Normal Tier → Black Iron Tier!"
In Apocalypse, both equipment and skills followed the same tier system.
From lowest to highest, they were Normal Tier, Black Iron Tier, Bronze Tier, Silver Tier, Gold Tier, Dark Gold Tier, Epic Tier, and Legendary Tier—a total of eight tiers.
Of course, Qin Chuan knew that even higher tiers existed above Legendary Tier, but players at this stage could not come into contact with them at all.
If possible, Qin Chuan had actually wanted to evolve the Exotic Beast Skull.
But this thing was not equipment. It was an item, so it was outside the range of effect.
"As expected of Apocalypse, which values balance. It completely eliminates the possibility of players exploiting bugs."
Qin Chuan felt somewhat regretful.
He then checked Shadow Stealth's new attributes.
Shadow Stealth LV1 (Black Iron Tier: Enter Stealth. Cloakbreaking Strike deals an additional Attack Power * 120% + 50 damage. Costs 5 Mana. Cooldown: 18 seconds.)
What was a qualitative transformation?
This was it!
Merely going from Normal Tier to Black Iron Tier had caused every aspect of Shadow Stealth to rise sharply.
The attack multiplier had increased by twenty percent. It might not seem like much in the early game, but later on, when players' Attack Power reached tens of thousands or even higher, that twenty percent would be incredibly considerable.
Of course, that was the mid to late game. In the early game, fixed damage mattered more.
And this evolution had more than doubled the fixed damage as well.
It sent Qin Chuan's damage capability soaring.
It had even reduced the cooldown by two seconds.
Perfect. Simply perfect.
Qin Chuan looked at the slightly dimmer Exotic Beast Skull in his hand, his joy beyond words.
No wonder that player from his previous life had managed to rise later yet surpass the others, eventually becoming one of the top ten experts despite entering the game a month late.
The Exotic Beast Skull deserved enormous credit for that!
To be honest, if that player's talent had not been a little lacking and his class had not merely been an ordinary one, perhaps his achievements would have been even greater!
"I have an SSS-Tier talent, a unique hidden class, and the Exotic Beast Skull's assistance. Surpassing my former self is already a given. I will reach an even higher Apex!"
Qin Chuan grew increasingly excited.
He looked at the distant wild boar again and, without the slightest hesitation, flung out a Shadow Flying Dagger.
Pitch-black energy gathered in Qin Chuan's hand, forming a sharp blade that shot forward at high speed.
Qin Chuan could clearly feel that at the instant he threw it, an invisible force corrected his posture, making his throw faster and more accurate.
"It's Sniper God's hidden effect. In that case, perhaps thirty meters isn't my limit."
Qin Chuan thought to himself.
He had initially set thirty meters based on experience from his previous life.
After all, a level-one player's attributes were not high, and there was a limit to what they could do.
But from the looks of it, Sniper God's effects were not limited to its literal description. It had other uses as well.
While Qin Chuan was thinking, the Shadow Flying Dagger had already crossed thirty meters and struck the wild boar precisely in the abdomen.
-329!
A huge damage number floated up, instantly removing a large chunk of the wild boar's Health Bar.
Qin Chuan found it somewhat regrettable that it had not critted. Otherwise, it would have been killed instantly.
"Perhaps next time, I can aim for vital areas like the eyes. With Sniper God's correction, there's a high chance I'll hit."
Qin Chuan quietly calculated.
The distant wild boar, suddenly attacked, was instantly enraged. It quickly locked onto Qin Chuan, lowered its head, and prepared to charge.
But the next second, the wild boar lost its target and could not help but become confused.
What happened?
Wasn't there a person just now? Where did he go?
Had it seen wrong?
So was there someone or not?
If there was.
The wild boar could not figure it out, then could not be bothered to think any further. It lowered its head and prepared to continue grazing.
For some reason, it felt extremely hungry, as though its body had been hollowed out.
In the distant shadows, Qin Chuan pondered for a moment, then stood still and waited for his skill cooldown.
Ten seconds later, Shadow Flying Dagger finished cooling down, and Qin Chuan immediately threw another dagger.
This time, however, he deliberately aimed at the wild boar's eye.
-494! (Weakness Attack)
A huge damage number rose from above the wild boar's head. The wild boar, which had been grazing to recover health, collapsed without a sound and died on the spot.
"Ding! Killed a level 5 wild boar. Obtained 50 EXP. Killed a monster 4 levels above you. Obtained an additional 20 EXP."
A total of 70 EXP was in hand.
Even Qin Chuan felt a little embarrassed.
Back in his previous life, even with an A-Tier talent and the defensive Heavy Armored Warrior class, he could at most kill monsters one or two levels above himself, and it was still very slow.
That was already considered pretty good.
Normal Tier players had to form parties just to kill monsters. Experience was scarce to begin with and had to be split among several people, so leveling was unbearably slow.
But compared to the high amount of experience, Qin Chuan cared more about the idea he had just confirmed.
Qin Chuan emerged from the shadows and fell into thought.
"As expected, the Sniper God Talent corrects movements, reaching the point where I can hit wherever I aim. I might not be a top-tier flying dagger expert yet, but I'm at least first-rate."
With this discovery, Qin Chuan immediately revised his leveling plan.
At a distance of thirty meters, Weakness Attack could not instantly kill a level-five wild boar. It was still just a little short on damage.
But that was not a problem.
The two Shadow Flying Daggers just now had given Qin Chuan another discovery.
Thirty meters was not his current limit at all.
Qin Chuan could not raise his Attack Power, but he could take a few steps back and increase the distance to thirty-five meters, or even fifty meters.
Without exaggeration, Qin Chuan felt that he could accurately hit a wild boar from over a hundred meters away.
That was the confidence the Sniper God Talent gave him.
At a distance of one hundred meters, with a tenfold damage boost paired with Cloakbreaking Strike's high base damage, Qin Chuan did not even dare imagine how much damage he could deal.
An assassin plus a Sniper God—even immortals would struggle to guard against that!
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