Arsonist Staff

Lu Yang's eyes went green right then and there. If it weren't for the wild bulls respawning around him, he would have jumped down immediately.

In Second World, equipment is categorized as Common, Bronze, Black Iron, Silver, Gold, Dark Gold, Epic, and Legendary.

Generally speaking, ordinary monsters only drop Common and Bronze equipment. Regular elite monsters drop Bronze and Black Iron, while boss-level wild monsters drop Black Iron and Silver. The Golden Wyrm, however, is a special boss in the novice village, so Lu Yang had high expectations for the Arsonist Staff it dropped.

After spending an hour clearing out the surrounding wild monsters, Lu Yang slid down the rope, quickly picked up the Arsonist Staff and other equipment, and returned to the mountain.

Arsonist Staff (Gold)

Attack 4-8

Stamina +2

Intelligence +10

Spell Damage +24

Spell Crit Chance +12%

Spell Hit Chance +12%

Attached Spell: Fire Wall

Looking at the Arsonist Staff's amazing stats, Lu Yang couldn't help but laugh out loud. "I knew it. Being reborn, my luck is off the charts!"

Among all the equipment in the novice village, the equipment for other classes is all Bronze or Black Iron, with Silver being the highest. Only mages have a Gold-level staff, but the drop rate is less than one in 100,000. Lu Yang never expected to be so lucky as to get this staff.

The staff's stats are simply heaven-defying at this level. 10 Intelligence is equal to a mage adding two levels worth of Intelligence, and it also comes with 24 Spell Damage. Normally, a Bronze-level staff of the same level only adds 4 Spell Damage, which is already considered powerful. His staff increases it by six times that amount.

More importantly, the Arsonist Staff's attached skill is Fire Wall, the only area-of-effect spell in the novice village.

Fire Wall

Type: Fire Spell

Cost: 30 Mana

Duration: 30 seconds

Range: 30 yards

Description: Releases a 2x2 area Fire Wall at the target location, dealing 36 Fire Spell Damage per tick.

With this skill, Lu Yang was confident that his leveling speed would definitely increase by a large margin. Excited, Lu Yang quickly equipped the staff, and his Spell Damage immediately increased to 77.

Walking to the outside of the valley's concave area, he found a place full of wild bulls. Lu Yang raised his staff, cast Fireball to gather the wild bulls below him, and then began casting Fire Wall. Before long, Fire Wall ignited beneath the feet of dozens of wild bulls, and a series of "-71" appeared above their heads.

When casting area-of-effect spells, too many monsters can cause the spell damage to be dispersed. In fact, the spell calculation formula in Second World is not just base skill damage + spell damage, but actually (base skill damage * skill level + spell damage) * spell coefficient.

This spell coefficient is a floating value, depending on the number of monsters. If there is only one monster, the spell coefficient is 1. When there are many monsters, the spell coefficient is at least 0.6.

While casting spells, Lu Yang opened his equipment panel to look at the other things the Golden Wyrm dropped.

Hexagonal Ring (Black Iron)

Spell Damage 2-5

Intelligence +2

Equipment Level 3

He didn't expect another small, high-quality item for mages to appear. Luckily, Lu Yang's level was high enough. After casting Rain of Fire once, Lu Yang equipped the Hexagonal Ring, adding another 3 points to his Spell Damage.

He continued to look at the other equipment, but as soon as he looked down, Lu Yang's eyes widened again. Lu Yang couldn't believe that he was so lucky as to get the Wyrm Battle Shield, and it was even a Silver-level one.

Wyrm Battle Shield (Silver)

Defense 7-22

Strength +2

Stamina +3

Block Value +8

The selling price of shields in Second World has always been high, especially in the early stages. The major guilds' purchase price for this shield even exceeds the Arsonist Staff in his hand, because to pass high-end dungeons, the main defense warrior must have a good shield. In the novice village, the Wyrm Battle Shield is the best shield, bar none.

Black Iron Helmet (Black Iron)

Defense 3-6

Strength +1

Stamina +1

Although the stats are average, it is definitely one of the best pieces of equipment at this stage. He could also sell it for a good price back in the novice village.

Among the remaining items, a fire mage skill book, Sear, dropped, which Lu Yang immediately learned and used.

Sear

Type: Fire Spell

Cost: 12 Mana

Cast Time: 1.5 seconds

Range: 30 yards

Description: Releases a wave of fire at the target, making the target's entire body wrapped in flames and more susceptible to fire damage. Stackable up to 5 layers, each layer increases fire spell damage by 15 points and deals 10 points of fire spell damage, lasting for 30 seconds.

This skill is currently useless, only effective when killing bosses. The other items were 6 small instant mana potions and 7 small instant health potions.

Small Health Recovery Potion: Instantly restores 60 points of health to the player.

Small Mana Recovery Potion: Instantly restores 80 points of mana to the player.

Compared to the other items, Lu Yang cared more about these 13 instant red and blue potions. His Blood Essence was only 100 points in total, and a small health recovery potion could restore most of his Blood Essence. This was something that could turn the tide of battle in the early stages of the game. He carefully placed them in the potion slot, and Lu Yang continued to kill monsters...

Lu Yang was leveling up like crazy, but what Lu Yang didn't know was that the outside world had gone crazy again.

When Lu Yang spent two hours killing the Golden Wyrm, Lu Yang was overtaken by other players and once dropped out of the Level Rankings beyond 100th place. And when the Golden Wyrm was killed, it only gave Lu Yang 1100 experience points, which still didn't allow Lu Yang to overtake other players. But when Lu Yang used Fire Wall to level up, he attacked 20 to 30 wild bulls at once, which was equivalent to 20 to 30 people helping him kill monsters. The speed of leveling up immediately increased rapidly.

1 hour later, Lu Yang returned to the Level Rankings at 100th place.

3 hours later, Lu Yang became 10th place on the Level Rankings.

5 hours later, Lu Yang returned to 1st place on the Level Rankings. At the same time, Lu Yang reached level 4, leaving the second place Xiong Ba a full level behind.

If at first everyone thought that Lu Yang's becoming the first place on the Level Rankings was a fluke and didn't need to pay too much attention to it, now everyone could be sure that Lu Yang must have found a pretty good bug that allowed him to level up quickly.

At this time, the leveling speed of Xiong Ba and other major guild leaders slowed down, because level 3 monsters were very difficult to kill, and the experience required for leveling up was 5 times that of level 1. More importantly, his level had gone up, but the levels of his subordinates had not.

Faced with this situation, Xiong Ba said to the people around him: "Immediately find a way to find this Lu Yang for me. The first place on the Level Rankings on the first day is the face of our guild recruiting high-level players. We must not let other guilds take it away before us."

Old Twilight, the leader of the Purple-Gold Dynasty guild, also issued the same order.

The same was true for other guilds.