Jungle Treant:
Level: ??? Health Points: ??? Mana Points: ??? Skills: ???
The string of question marks left Nan Feng stunned.
Damn it, running into a ferocious beast covered in question marks the moment I step outside—how am I supposed to play this?
Fortunately, Nan Feng had reacted quickly enough to flee ahead of time. Otherwise, he would already have become a pile of fertilizer.
Even so, one of the vines had smacked him squarely across the face, costing him 185 Health Points.
It hurt like hell!
Nan Feng covered his bloody, mangled face with one hand as he ran for his life.
The Jungle Treant's vines were only around fifty or sixty meters long, and Nan Feng had quickly escaped its attack range.
Behind Nan Feng, the vines whipped about wildly, slicing through the air with sharp whooshes.
The duck that had practically flown into its mouth had gotten away. The Jungle Treant was furious.
"Fuck your monkey."
Nan Feng turned around, swore at the Jungle Treant, and raised his middle finger at it.
As if it had sensed Nan Feng cursing it, the Jungle Treant's branches and leaves shook continuously. Its trunk, two or three meters thick, actually slowly crawled out of the soil!
"Fuck, it can move on its own too!"
Nan Feng did not dare linger any longer and hurriedly fled.
After running all the way back to the Wooden Cabin, Nan Feng hid behind the window and watched for a long while. Only after confirming that the Jungle Treant had not followed him did he finally let out a breath of relief.
"That Jungle Treant is less than two kilometers from my Wooden Cabin. That's way too close..."
Nan Feng felt that danger lurked everywhere around his cabin.
He wondered whether the other Chosen Ones were in the same situation.
"The eastern route is blocked. Once I'm fully recovered, I'll go check out the south."
To the south was where he had previously found the Poison Marsh Toad. Nan Feng decided to explore in that direction and see whether he could find anything.
While resting, Nan Feng opened the Chat Channel again.
At this hour, the Chosen Ones were either hunting ferocious beasts, chopping down trees, or gathering stones. There were not many people in the Chat Channel.
Ling Qi: "Is there any kind big brother who can come save me? I'm so hungry~ Boohoohoo~"
This girl named Ling Qi had been crying out in the Chat Channel for three days already. Nan Feng could not help admiring her persistence.
She can really keep this up.
After resting for another ten-odd minutes, the wound on Nan Feng's face had completely healed, leaving behind not even a scar.
"About time to head out."
On the level rankings, Nan Feng had already been squeezed out of the top ten and dropped to twelfth place. This gave him a strong sense of urgency.
He had to hurry up and level!
This time, Nan Feng changed directions and headed south. Before long, he arrived at the small pond where the Poison Marsh Toad lived.
After clearing out the ferocious beasts around the pond, Nan Feng's experience had reached 455/800.
"Most of the ferocious beasts around here are only level one or two. They give too little experience. I need to go farther out."
After continuing forward for some distance, Nan Feng heard the system prompt beside his ear.
Announcement: Xiao Luo, a Chosen One in this region, was the first to reach level 4 and gained +1 Reputation! Ding! A Chosen One in this region has reached level 4. The map function is now unlocked for all Chosen Ones in this region!
"Map function?"
Nan Feng opened his panel and indeed found an additional map panel.
When he opened the map, most of it was pitch-black. Only the areas Nan Feng had explored were illuminated.
In the Chat Channel:
Qiu Feihong: "Damn, Xiao Luo is already level 4? Isn't that leveling speed way too fast?"
Bao Jian: "Aaaah! I refuse to accept this! I want to level up too!"
Wu Yuansheng: "What's Reputation for? Can one of the big shots come explain?"
The sudden announcement made the Chat Channel lively.
Yet after waiting a long time, Xiao Luo never appeared to say anything. The others did not keep pressing either, and they went back to whatever they had been doing.
"The first one to reach level 4 actually gets a reward..." Nan Feng muttered. "Then I need to hurry even more and strive to be the first to reach level 5."
Nan Feng continued forward, hunting as he went, and finally encountered a ferocious beast he had never seen before.
Armored Beetle
Level: 3 Health Points: 430/430 Mana Points: 150/150 Attack Power: 110 Defense Power: 120 Skills: Bite, Super Defense
A level 3 Armored Beetle!
This Armored Beetle was about the size of two fists. The heavy shell on its back was etched with mysterious patterns, and its pair of huge pincers were incomparably sharp. If it bit him, it could snap off his fingers.
"This little thing has pretty high defense."
This was the first level 3 ferocious beast Nan Feng had encountered. Compared with the level 2 elite Poison Marsh Toad, the Armored Beetle only had slightly higher Defense Power. Its Attack Power and Health Points were both lower than the Poison Marsh Toad's.
This ferocious beast was not much of a threat to Nan Feng.
With that thought, Nan Feng decisively fired.
Whoosh!
Super Defense: -40!
Nan Feng's shot struck the Armored Beetle's shell. The Mana Bullet actually threw sparks off the shell before glancing away.
That shot had dealt only 40 damage.
"So low?"
Nan Feng was secretly startled. At this rate, he would need eleven shots to kill one Armored Beetle. That was far too inefficient.
Swish!
After being shot, the Armored Beetle immediately spread its wings and lunged at Nan Feng.
Most beetles could fly. Nan Feng was not alarmed by this and decisively fired twice more.
Miss!
Miss!
Both shots missed.
But this was within Nan Feng's expectations. He knew his own marksmanship. He was fine shooting stationary targets, but against moving targets, he was terrible and could only rely on luck.
The Armored Beetle pounced onto Nan Feng's arm, and its two huge pincers bit down viciously!
Bite!
-29!
The Armored Beetle's attack dealt only 29 damage to Nan Feng, so it was not a big problem.
"My defense is a whopping 81 points now. I'm tough too, okay?"
Stamina and energy affected the Defense Power attribute. Yesterday, Nan Feng had eaten Vigor Herb and drunk honey. Combined with gaining a level and the 4 Stamina points awarded for killing the Dart Bee Queen, all of that had greatly boosted Nan Feng's Defense Power.
Putting away the Desert Eagle, Nan Feng pinned the Armored Beetle against a nearby tree trunk. Then he pulled out the Wooden Dagger and stabbed it through a gap in the beetle's shell.
Weak Point Attack: -150!
When Nan Feng saw the pale red -150 float up, he was immediately delighted.
"Just as I thought."
The Armored Beetle's rear shell had extremely high Defense Power and came with the effect of Super Defense, which could halve damage.
But correspondingly, the body not protected by its rear shell was the Armored Beetle's weakness.
Nan Feng stabbed it twice more in quick succession. Every strike triggered Weak Point Attack, and he easily killed the Armored Beetle.
Ding! You killed a level 3 normal ferocious beast, Armored Beetle, and gained 30 experience points.
In this battle, Nan Feng had lost 29 Health Points and 12 Mana Points.
"The cost is a little high, but this experience is still damn good."
Nan Feng needed to kill three level 2 ferocious beasts to gain 30 experience points. (Experience gained from killing lower-level ferocious beasts = (ferocious beast level * 10) / (1 + level difference))
Looking at his Health Points, he still had 208 left. Nan Feng gritted his teeth and decided to level up to 4 right here first.
"The farther I get from the Wooden Cabin, the more dangerous it'll definitely be. Leveling up first can't be wrong!"
He got to work immediately.
Nan Feng used his left arm as bait, drawing the Armored Beetles in to bite him once before taking the chance to stab them to death with the Wooden Dagger.
"My dear left hand, you'll have to work hard today."
Nan Feng looked at his left arm, which was covered in wounds, and thought so.
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