Golden Wyrm

Lu Yang ended his call with Lan Yu and continued leveling up like crazy, preparing to hit the top spot on the Level Rankings before the game shut down tomorrow morning.

This wasn't just any old number one spot, but the number one spot among tens of millions of players starting at the same time, and one that would be officially recorded in the future.

In his previous life, Lu Yang had been unknown in the early stages of the game. Even later, when he had the ability to create a guild, the master players in the game were basically snatched up by the big guilds.

Since he was reborn in this life, Lu Yang decided to make a name for himself from the start. Even if he didn't create a guild in the early stages, he could still form an elite team of twenty people, which would be convenient for dungeons or leveling up in the wild.

Lu Yang wasn't worried about being a target. The game was close to reality. Each player's head had neither a health bar nor a name. If they didn't add each other as friends, they wouldn't know who the person in front of them was. Even if someone was unhappy that he had become the number one on the Level Rankings, facing more than ten million players, they wouldn't be able to find him in the vast sea of people.

Thinking about how he would surpass the leaders of the major guilds and all kinds of leveling maniacs to become the number one on the Level Rankings on the first day of the game, Lu Yang felt great just thinking about it. After watching his mana recover, he continued to grind.

He grinded until all the wild bulls in the valley were killed by Lu Yang. Looking at the ground in the valley, which had nothing but wild bull corpses, Lu Yang felt a little depressed.

After killing hundreds of wild bulls in a row, he didn't even get a single piece of equipment. Lu Yang couldn't help but sigh that the drop rate in Second World was really too low.

Fortunately, everything in Second World was close to the real world. Players could process wild bulls with life skills such as skinning, and then take them to the novice village to sell to NPCs. Otherwise, ordinary players simply couldn't afford to play this game.

After eating a piece of Crispy Electric Eel Meat to restore his mana, Lu Yang used a rope to reach the U-shaped valley and began to skin the wild bull corpses in the valley.

One piece of bullhide was worth 3 copper coins. Although it wasn't much money, every little bit helps.

Just as Lu Yang was skinning and looking around to see if any monsters had respawned, a golden figure suddenly walked past the entrance of the U-shaped valley. In an instant, Lu Yang's whole body shivered, and his eyes turned red with excitement.

"Golden Wyrm."

If you were to ask which boss was the most powerful in the game Second World, or which boss was the most difficult to fight, ten thousand people would have ten thousand different opinions. However, when it came to the boss who had killed the most people in the game Second World, no one would have any other opinion.

As a level 5 boss in the wilderness of the novice village, the Golden Wyrm was small, about the size of a dog, golden all over, with immature wings, and its dragon head didn't look fierce at all, but rather a little cute. However, this little thing made all players love and hate it.

They loved it because it really dropped good things. It dropped the best level 5 equipment in the novice village. They hated it because this little thing had high attack, high speed, high defense, and high health. Many people thought that seeing this boss was their luck, but in reality, it was just the beginning of misfortune.

Players who had just left the novice village only had a novice sword and a set of novice clothes. The equipment drop rate in Second World was very low. Even if they reached level 5, the equipment wouldn't change much. When encountering the Golden Wyrm, even knight-type professions with high health only needed three hits, other professions needed two hits, and squishy Mages only needed one hit.

Even having a lot of people was useless. Historically, there had been an incident where a Golden Wyrm slaughtered more than 100 players and then left gracefully. Without skilled cooperation, a sufficient number of players, and good equipment, it was impossible to defeat it.

However, the Golden Wyrm also had weaknesses—it could only attack at close range. If it was on flat ground, Lu Yang would hide as far away as possible when he saw the Golden Wyrm. However, Lu Yang was now staying at a bug spot. As long as he lured the Golden Wyrm into the U-shaped valley, wouldn't he be able to use the terrain bug to kill it? Thinking of the top-level equipment it had dropped in the past, Lu Yang felt that he was going to make a fortune this time.

Dropping the bullhide he was half done skinning, Lu Yang turned around and climbed up the mountain along the rope, running towards the top of the left side of the U-shaped valley.

When Lu Yang ran to the spot, the Golden Wyrm had just passed by the bottom of the cliff. Seeing that the Golden Wyrm was about to leave his attack range, Lu Yang immediately cast Fireball.

Three seconds later, just as the Golden Wyrm was about to leave Lu Yang's attack range, with a "bang," Fireball accurately hit the Golden Wyrm's body.

"-35"

"Roar~"

The Golden Wyrm was attacked, turned its head and rushed towards Lu Yang. Just as it was about to rush to the bottom of the cliff, the Golden Wyrm suddenly spread its wings and jumped high. When it was only two meters away from Lu Yang, the Golden Wyrm fell down.

The Golden Wyrm's legs vigorously kicked at the rocks on the cliff, but unfortunately, the steep cliff couldn't provide a foothold for the Golden Wyrm. The Golden Wyrm's claws scratched at the cliff a few times before falling back to the ground.

If the Golden Wyrm could hit Lu Yang once, it could kill Lu Yang instantly. Unfortunately, because of this two-meter distance, the Golden Wyrm couldn't reach Lu Yang at all.

Looking at the Golden Wyrm jumping constantly under the cliff but unable to fly up, Lu Yang's face showed a relieved expression. The Golden Wyrm's pounce just now had scared him.

Attracting the Golden Wyrm to run towards the valley, there were too many monsters outside. Lu Yang was worried that even if he killed the Golden Wyrm, he wouldn't be able to get the equipment for a while.

In his previous life, Lu Yang had never killed a Golden Wyrm, because such bosses had always been treasures that the major guilds competed to kill. From the beginning to the later stages, every time the Golden Wyrm respawned, it was when the major guilds started fighting.

Lu Yang didn't expect that he would actually take advantage of it in this life. After luring the Golden Wyrm into the valley, Lu Yang used Fireball on the Golden Wyrm again.

In the setting of Second World, the system would give 5 free points each time a character leveled up. In the previous levels, Lu Yang had added all the points to intelligence. In this way, including the one point of attribute automatically added per level, Lu Yang's own intelligence reached 16 points, plus the 10 points of intelligence given by the Demon God's Heart and the 5 points of intelligence increased by the Crispy Electric Eel Meat, which was 31 points.

The benefit of so much intelligence was that Lu Yang had more mana, reaching 310 points, and his spell damage also reached 31 points.

Facing the Golden Wyrm with 10000/10000 health, if he didn't have so much mana and spell damage, Lu Yang wouldn't dare to provoke it.

After hitting it for more than 2 minutes in one breath, just as Lu Yang was about to reduce the Golden Wyrm's health to 7000 points, suddenly, Lu Yang embarrassedly discovered that he was out of mana.

In the game, the system NPCs did not sell instant recovery potions. Only players could refine them through alchemy. Now that the game had just started, no one could make them at all. Looking at his empty mana bar, ordinary players would be depressed to death if they encountered such a situation. However, others had no way, but Lu Yang had a way. Relying on the 8 points/5 seconds mana recovery effect of the Crispy Electric Eel Meat buff, Lu Yang actually spent 2 hours to grind the Golden Wyrm to death.

As the Golden Wyrm roared unwillingly, it had a 4x4 big explosion. Among the 16 items, Lu Yang saw a golden staff in the middle at a glance.

"Arsonist Staff."