The Merciful Game World

Chen Yi crouched in the grass once again and opened the Damage Log on his panel. This was a function he had obtained after merging with the game panel.

Fireball dealt 15 points of Explosion Damage to Rabbit Head, causing Stunned. (10 points of Impact Damage, 5 points of Burn Damage)

Dealt 3 points of Strike Damage.

Dealt 4 points of Strike Damage.

Dealt 5 points of Strike Damage.

The total damage came to 34. Although the final blow might have had some overkill damage, individual differences between rabbits could also mean different amounts of health.

To be safe, Chen Yi calculated each rabbit as having around 35 health.

The damage from Fireball and some of the staff attacks exceeded his panel's Attack Power. That was because he had struck a weak point.

With his current combat strength, his odds of killing rabbits were not high. He could not guarantee that he would get lucky enough to stun them Every Time. As for ways to improve his combat strength...

Quest: Auntie Wang's Ingredients

Auntie Wang seemed to be craving rabbit meat and needed 5 Rabbit Legs. (1/5)

Quest Reward: Obtain a small amount of Experience Points and a small amount of Copper Coins.

There was no hope in relying on quests. Chen Yi turned his attention to Fireball. This skill did not seem to have any description of a CD. Did that mean he could cast it continuously as long as he released it quickly enough?

Looking at the rabbit that had Appeared Once Again, Chen Yi thought for a moment but did not attack.

The gray rabbit circled around as if confirming its territory, then hopped back into the grass and vanished. Chen Yi waited for about ten minutes before getting up and leaving.

He retrieved the Rabbit Leg he had hidden and returned to the village. The Novice Village was far less lively than before. Instead, it was steeped in sorrow. Quite a few Players who had imagined the game too beautifully had been brutally beaten by rabbits.

"My Resurrection Coins are all used up. If I die again, will I really die? Can someone who knows tell me?"

"Waaah... I'm not playing anymore. Why do rabbits dare hit girls?"

"Is there even any balance in this game? A Player with 0 Realism can tank damage and fight back, but I have 50% Realism and feel like I'm about to die after taking one hit!"

"..."

"Can anyone lend me 2 Copper Coins? I want to buy black bread. Why is there even Hunger?"

"Why did I choose Mage?! Smart Casting takes 1.5 seconds to fire. Casting is slow enough already, and it still misses!"

"That's still better than being an archer. Even with system assistance, I haven't hit a single arrow so far."

Amid the noise, many people logged out of the game and Turned Into white light as they disappeared, choosing to become Normal People.

Chen Yi was not surprised by this.

In the real world, the Game World had been advertised as something wonderful. As long as one became a Player, one could rise above others. It was a very good... job.

So most of those who entered came with the mindset of attending an interview, rather than becoming Warriors.

If old class teacher had not mentioned Realism at the end, Chen Yi's mindset might not have been as it was now.

However, Chen Yi had no mind to worry about others. Entering in his True Body truly came with many differences. For example, he had not found where Resurrection Coins were.

The Game World seemed filled with malice toward those who entered in their True Bodies. Many functions that should have existed were absent.

Even so, Chen Yi still thought the Game World was very merciful.

It used the Novice Village to screen Players rather than forcibly sending them out.

Under this system, whether one wanted to become extraordinary was entirely one's own choice.

As long as one did not recklessly enter in their True Body like Chen Yi, it was not difficult to retreat unscathed.

After pausing for a moment, Chen Yi got up and left, arriving beneath a tree at the edge of the village.

This was still within the Novice Village's safe zone, so he did not need to worry about rabbits running out to attack him. Being near the edge also meant few Players would come over to disturb him.

He Once Again constructed Fireball in his mind. This time, Chen Yi pursued accuracy rather than speed. He slowly traced out the structure bit by bit, taking 15 seconds to form the fireball.

MP -10

The fireball's form was very stable. It did not flicker as though it were about to explode like before.

"Remember the structure... then gradually speed up."

After throwing out the fireball, Chen Yi continued constructing.

By the seventh attempt, Chen Yi's Mana had dropped below 30, and his Spirit State had become very poor.

After failing twice in a row, he had no choice but to stop.

"Remember, Spirit State affects Spellcasting."

Chen Yi's only current method of recovering Mana was Basic Meditation.

According to the description of Basic Meditation, there were two choices for meditation.

The first was through Elemental Particles.

Chen Yi sat cross-legged on the ground, emptied his mind, and relied on his powerful innate spiritual advantage. He soon sensed the Elemental Particles.

Though there seemed to be nothing around him to the naked eye, all kinds of light specks actually filled the surroundings. These should be the so-called Elemental Particles.

According to the information in the Meditation Technique, he could draw a certain kind of Elemental Particles into his body to accelerate Mana recovery. At the same time, it would imbue the Mana within him with the properties of those particles, granting a certain degree of damage bonus when using corresponding spells.

If Chen Yi continuously drew Fire Elementals into his body for a long time, the damage of Fireball would increase to some extent.

The drawback was that in an environment lacking Fire Elementals, Chen Yi would not even be able to recover Mana.

Feeling the active Fire Elementals, Chen Yi considered it but ultimately gave up on drawing them in. His ambitions were great, and he did not want to leave himself with such an obvious weakness.

The second choice was to reject external things, calm the mind, and soothe the spirit from within. This method recovered Mana by consuming physical stamina.

Its advantage was that it was unaffected by the environment. Its drawback was slow recovery and no spell damage bonus.

Only after Half an Hour did Chen Yi stand up and continue practicing.

His Mana recovery did not come close to the system's claimed 5 points per minute.

After repeating this for a while, his stomach soon growled. Chen Yi stopped practicing and searched around, wanting to gather some dry branches, but it had rained in this area recently, and all the branches were damp.

He piled the branches together and smashed them with a Fireball. The pile exploded apart. The instant heat dried many spots, but not a single branch caught fire.

"It's not realistic to keep using Fireball to dry them. Leaving aside whether my Mana and body can endure it, the branches will Turn Into Fragments before they ignite."

Chen Yi experienced firsthand why the panel divided Fireball's damage into Impact Damage and Burn Damage.

At a complete loss, Chen Yi turned his gaze toward Auntie Wang's house, where food was sold...

"Pah~"

The Rabbit Leg turned on the iron rack, and fat occasionally dripped from it onto the wood, producing soft crackles.

Chen Yi casually brushed chili oil over the Rabbit Leg. He preferred it spicy.

Although the Novice Village was a place the Game World had perfunctorily created, it still had everything it should have.

After arriving at Auntie Wang's house, Chen Yi did not speak with the stiff-faced Auntie Wang. Instead, he walked directly inside and borrowed some tools and ingredients.

He took a bite of grilled vegetables, then a bite of Rabbit Leg. Even Chen Yi had to admit that he had wrongly blamed Auntie Wang before.

Right, he might need to borrow a room at Auntie Wang's house for the night. Auntie Wang probably would not mind, would she?

"The more I use it, the more I discover how rigorous this structure is."

When he had first encountered the structure of Fireball, Chen Yi had thought it was terribly complicated and troublesome. Even a low-tier spell was like this, so would higher-tier spells not be even more complicated?

But as Chen Yi made more construction errors, he instead began to sense a different kind of beauty.

This structure had likely been refined by someone countless times. Altering any part of it would create consequences. The worst time, the fireball exploded the moment it formed. Fortunately, Chen Yi was very weak, and the explosion did not directly hit him, so it caused him no real damage.