Once Shadow Stealth came off cooldown, Qin Chuan immediately entered stealth and began searching for his next target.
It was still a level 5 wild boar, but this time, Qin Chuan stood forty meters away.
Although Qin Chuan was confident he could hit a wild boar from a hundred meters away, there was no need.
If it dropped equipment, he would have to run over to pick it up. Too troublesome.
At forty meters, Weakness Attack was enough to instantly kill a level 5 wild boar anyway. Why make things harder on himself?
As he thought, Qin Chuan finished aiming. With a flick of his wrist, the black Shadow Flying Dagger flew out without a sound.
The wild boar, head lowered as it grazed, had no idea that the shadow of death had already fallen over it.
-657! (Weakness Attack)
The wild boar's Health Bar was instantly emptied, yielding a generous seventy experience points.
Qin Chuan swept his gaze around.
As expected, it had not dropped so much as a single boar hair.
Qin Chuan remained calm about it.
He had grinded in Apocalypse for ten years in his previous life. He already knew what kind of game it was.
The difficulty was absurdly high, and the drop rates were absurdly low.
Still, Qin Chuan had not expected these minor monsters to drop anything good. If he wanted equipment, he had to farm bosses. His main goal was leveling up.
One wild boar gave seventy experience points. Killing a dozen or so would be enough to level up.
He was killing one boar every eighteen seconds now. It would only take a few minutes.
After doing the math, even Qin Chuan clicked his tongue inwardly.
Too fast.
This leveling speed was too fast.
The first player to reach level 10 receives an extra reward. I missed it in my previous life, but this time, I can make a run for it.
With a clear goal in mind, all he had to do next was grind.
Qin Chuan became a wild boar butcher, appearing and vanishing amid the tall grass. Every strike was an instant kill. There was never a second attack.
Before long, Qin Chuan, immersed in the pleasure of instant kills, received the notification he had been waiting for.
"You have reached level 2!"
"You have obtained 5 Free Attribute Points!"
"The Power of Shadow is gathering. You have additionally obtained 5 Free Attribute Points!"
"Beast Blessing has activated. You have additionally obtained 5 Free Attribute Points!"
The string of notifications made Qin Chuan stop.
Even among hidden classes, there are differences in strength.
Qin Chuan thought to himself.
In his previous life, his Heavy Armored Warrior had gained an additional 3 Free Attribute Points with every level-up, on top of the standard points.
But the Shadow Assassin gave him 5 extra points outright!
As expected of a unique hidden class. It was incredible.
Including the attribute points granted by the Exotic Beast Skull, Qin Chuan gained a total of 20 attribute points every level—twice as many as Normal Tier players!
This is cheating. It has to be cheating.
Oh, I'm the one cheating? Then it's fine.
Qin Chuan remained perfectly calm.
Everyone hated cheaters, but when you were the cheater yourself, you only felt that the cheats were not powerful enough.
For the 15 Free Attribute Points in hand, Qin Chuan planned to distribute them between Agility and Strength at a ratio of 2:1.
Agility was an assassin's main attribute. It increased attack speed, movement speed, and critical hit rate, making it exceptionally cost-effective.
But speed alone was not enough. He also had to account for Attack Power.
To level up even faster, Qin Chuan intended to hunt higher-level Wild Boars. Without better equipment, he needed to increase his Strength to gain Attack Power.
As he considered it, Qin Chuan finished distributing his points, and his stats took on a completely new look.
[Nickname]: Night Roaming God [Class]: Shadow Assassin [Level]: 2 (50/2000) [Attributes]: Strength 11, Constitution 6, Agility 20, Spirit 5 [Attack Power]: 16 [Defense]: 8 [Health]: 160 [Mana]: 60 ...
His Health was pitifully low, but Qin Chuan did not care.
As an assassin, his natural limitations were there. Even maxing out Constitution would not make much difference.
Besides, Qin Chuan was an unprecedented ranged assassin. He would strike and run, not stupidly trade Health with enemies.
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After allocating his points, Qin Chuan moved forward once more.
This time, he set his sights on a wild boar farther away.
[Wild boar] Level: 7 Health: 1050 Attack Power: 105 Defense: 70 Skill: Charge ...
Its attributes were far higher than those of a level 5 wild boar.
This was also one of Apocalypse's hidden settings. Monster levels were divided into intervals of five, and the higher the level, the larger the gap in attributes.
Players, however, had their own means of improving themselves: equipment and skills.
There were also class advancements, commonly known as first and second class changes.
A level 7 wild boar has over a thousand Health, but it's worth a try.
A Shadow Flying Dagger condensed in Qin Chuan's hand, and he flicked it out.
-782! (Weakness Attack)
The damage had increased considerably, but against the wild boar's vastly increased Health, it still could not achieve an instant kill.
The attacked wild boar let out an enraged howl, lowered its head, and charged.
Qin Chuan frowned slightly and activated Shadow Stealth, vanishing from where he stood.
The wild boar, however, charged straight ahead without a care.
But Qin Chuan had begun moving the moment he entered stealth. By the time the wild boar reached his original position, Qin Chuan was already more than ten meters away.
Once Shadow Flying Dagger came off cooldown, the heavily wounded wild boar dropped dead.
"Ding, you have killed a level 7 wild boar and gained 70 experience points. Killing an enemy 5 levels higher grants an additional 35 experience points."
A total of 105 experience points. The experience bar visibly jumped forward by a small amount.
But Qin Chuan was not satisfied with that result.
Compared to taking two hits to kill a level 7 wild boar, Qin Chuan would rather instantly kill level 5 wild boars with one strike.
With their base experience and bonus rewards combined, the latter was more efficient overall.
Qin Chuan could not help but ponder it.
Do I still need to go back to the village and buy a bow?
After calculating carefully, Qin Chuan felt that the method was not very worthwhile.
Qin Chuan had the Sniper God Talent. Even if his damage was reduced when using a bow, he could still deal considerable damage.
But if he could not achieve an instant kill, he would have to rely on positioning and kiting.
It was not that Qin Chuan could not do it. His level was simply too low, making it easy for nearby Wild Boars to target him.
Without enough Agility, ordinary players could not outrun Wild Boars with the Charge skill.
Once caught, Qin Chuan's fragile body would mean instant death.
Rather than run wildly across the map, he might as well stand farther away.
If forty meters was not enough to instantly kill a level 7 wild boar, then he would stand even farther away.
Qin Chuan refused to believe that, from eighty meters away, even with his damage doubled, he still would not be able to instantly kill a wild boar.
Uh... can Shadow Flying Dagger even fly that far?
A question surfaced in his mind.
To test his guess, Qin Chuan decisively aimed at a wild boar eighty meters away.
At that distance, the wild boar was little more than a tiny dot.
Yet Qin Chuan could see it clearly.
At the same time, he felt that as long as he attacked, he would definitely hit.
Swoosh.
The black flying dagger shot straight out. Under Qin Chuan's gaze, the blade gradually dissipated, finally turning into Shadow Energy at the fifty-meter mark and returning to the world.
Qin Chuan frowned, then relaxed.
He had found the root of the problem.
It was his own attributes.
His current stats were not enough to support his skill flying dozens or even hundreds of meters.
At fifty meters, without a critical hit, my Shadow Flying Dagger can deal 976 True Damage with Weakness Attack included. It still can't instantly kill a level 7 wild boar.
Unless I can guarantee a critical hit, but that's impossible with my current attributes.
Qin Chuan turned his gaze toward a level 6 wild boar nearby.
[Health]: 900
Good. You'll do.
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