"...You got lucky and Wild Monsters spawned inside your home? Two of them?"
Walking up the stairwell toward the sixth floor, Bai Zhi listened to Temperance Gentleheart's account, and the corner of his mouth twitched slightly.
He had only casually asked out of curiosity about how she had reached such a high Level, yet Temperance Gentleheart gave him an exceptionally frank answer.
After all, they had both been newbie players from the same batch, participating in the same Novice Quest. To raise his Level, he had worked himself half to death searching everywhere for Urban Legends, scouring the streets for Wild Monsters, taking a cab to the mall early in the morning to clear the Game, and had even taken a trip to Hell before... Yet even after all that, he had only barely reached Level Five.
And if he had not been forced to order takeout yesterday, accidentally encountering and resolving an Urban Legend with extremely low danger along the way, he would not even have reached Level Five by now.
Leveling up was already so difficult for him, yet Temperance Gentleheart, who had performed quite poorly in the Novice Quest, had somehow surpassed him in Level?
...Bai Zhi found that utterly ridiculous.
Since he had assumed it might be one of her Secrets, Bai Zhi had not intended to pry.
But he had not expected Temperance Gentleheart to trust him so much. Not only had she told him why her Level had risen so quickly, she had even disclosed all of her Skill data exactly as it was...
For Official Players, the importance of Skills went without saying. More often than not, the first Rare Level Skill a Player acquired was the core of what allowed them to survive later quests and Anomalies.
That was why the Skills