The wild monster area outside Novice Village.
Su Yu had entered the game half an hour later than everyone else, and the monster area was already packed with people.
Players in "Evolution" leveled up very slowly.
Killing a level 1 Slime only granted 1 Experience Point, while advancing from level 1 to level 2 required 1,000 Experience Points.
They had to kill a full 1,000 Slimes just to gain one level!
That was why the level 1 monster area was filled with players.
Everyone spread out and guarded their spots. The moment a Slime spawned, five or six attack spells would immediately rain down on it. The competition was incredibly fierce.
Su Yu had no intention of competing with everyone for monsters and headed straight toward the higher-level monster area.
There were far fewer players in the level 2 Goblin area.
A level 1 new character could not defeat a level 2 monster alone, so everyone present was in groups of three or four, working together to deal with a single Goblin.
At the entrance to the monster area stood a middle-aged Warrior with a full beard and a young, attractive female assassin, discussing something.
When she saw Su Yu enter the monster area, the young woman's eyes lit up, and she walked toward him.
"Friend, want to form a party and hunt monsters together? There are two people in our party now. With you, we can get started!"
Su Yu looked at the name above her head.
"Snowflake." It was quite a poetic name.
Still, he smiled kindly. "I think I'll pass."
At the same time, he pointed toward the level 3 monster area. "I'm going over there to take a look."
"Young man, don't waste your time over there." The middle-aged man walked toward Su Yu and advised, "My daughter and I just came back from the level 3 monster area. You need a five-person party to level there, and you have to have a priest. The efficiency isn't even that good."
The middle-aged man's name was "Snowflake Cream," similar in style to his daughter's name.
Yet something about it felt off.
"It's fine. I'm just going to have a look."
Su Yu declined their kindness and headed toward the level 3 monster area.
Watching Su Yu's retreating back, the middle-aged man shrugged and looked at his daughter. "Luoluo, looks like we can only find someone else."
"Yeah! He's pretty handsome, but he doesn't look very smart." Snowflake made a face at Su Yu's back.
Su Yu, who was walking away, heard their conversation and could not help wiping away a bead of sweat.
He had already lowered his appearance by 40%, yet they still called him "pretty handsome"?
Looks like being an ordinary person really is difficult!
Upon reaching the level 3 monster area, he found very few players there.
Looking into the distance, Su Yu could only see three five-person parties leveling here.
The level 3 monsters were called Black Boars and had 50 health points.
The five-person parties' attacks landed on the boars, dealing only "-2" and "-3" damage.
After leveling for a while, either the priests ran out of Mana or the Warriors tanking the monsters ran out of health. Leveling was extremely difficult.
Su Yu avoided those people, found a spot where no one could see him, and began his great leveling endeavor.
He waved his staff and cast a spell with practiced ease.
Half a second later, an apple-sized Magic Missile flew from the tip of his staff and struck an unprepared Black Boar.
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60!
A huge number appeared.
The Black Boar fell to the ground on the spot!
With just one hit, Su Yu had actually one-shot a level 3 boar!
He wondered what the nearby five-person parties would think if they saw it.
At the same time, the system log popped up:
"Ding! You have killed a level 3 Black Boar and gained 3 Experience Points."
Unfortunately, the Black Boar did not drop any items.
Legendary Bloodline is so powerful! Su Yu marveled inwardly.
If I hadn't drawn Star Bloodline, I might still be miserably fighting over Slimes. Leveling is countless times faster now!
Of course, aside from Legendary Bloodline, money was also one of the essential factors.
After all, upgrading Magic Missile had cost him 1,100 Psionic Coins.
A level 1 new character could earn at most 8 to 15 Psionic Coins from farming monsters for an entire day.
Without money, even with Legendary Bloodline, the early-game advantage would not be very obvious.
At this rate, I should reach level 2 in just a few minutes!
Su Yu was fired up and threw himself into the endeavor of at(t)(slaughtering) boars.
He wielded his staff in his right hand to cast Magic Missile while repeatedly activating Fireball and Ice Arrow scrolls with his left.
One Magic Missile could instantly kill a boar, and one magic scroll could kill one as well.
Not a single Black Boar could withstand Su Yu's attacks. They fell in droves.
Su Yu gradually pushed forward, sweeping through nearly half the monster area.
Ten minutes later, in the level 2 monster area.
Snowflake and her father still had not found suitable teammates.
After rejecting party invitations from several lecherous male players, she stood on tiptoe and looked toward the level 3 monster area.
"Dad, why hasn't that Kexing come back yet? He wasn't killed by the boars, was he?"
"You're asking me? Who am I supposed to ask?" Snowflake Cream carried his shield and suddenly said, "Luoluo, don't tell me you've taken a fancy to that young man!"
"Of course not! How could I?" Snowflake rolled her eyes. "Who falls in love after just one look? Do you think this is some TV drama?"
"Haha, you can't fool me. Your mother had the same look in her eyes when she first saw me." Snowflake Cream burst out laughing.
Snowflake's face flushed red. She stomped her foot, looking ready to lose her temper.
Snowflake Cream hurriedly changed the subject.
"Ahem, since we have time, how about we go to the level 3 monster area and look for that young man? Maybe he's on his way back."
"Mm... all right." Snowflake nodded as if possessed.
Meanwhile, after ten minutes of his "great boar slaughter," Su Yu had accumulated 1,000 Experience Points and successfully advanced to level 2.
Although he had entered the game half an hour later than the other players, after ten minutes of farming monsters, he had caught up to the leading group!
Unfortunately, equipment drop rates from wild monsters in "Evolution" were extremely low.
During those ten minutes, Su Yu had slaughtered more than 300 boars. Aside from materials such as Wild Boar Meat, Boar Hide, and Boar Bone, only three pieces of equipment had dropped, and two of them were for other classes.
There was only one piece suitable for Su Yu: Cloth Boots (Common), which he strengthened to Rare quality.
Cloth Boots (Rare) Defense +10 Movement Speed +0.4 Intelligence +3
"Movement Speed +0.4" meant he could walk 0.4 meters farther per second.
Su Yu's initial movement speed was "1.2," meaning his initial walking speed was 1.2 meters per second and his running speed was 6 meters per second.
After equipping the Cloth Boots, his walking speed reached 1.6 meters per second, and his running speed reached 8 meters per second, making him much faster than the others.
After leveling up, his attributes became:
Character: Kexing Level: lv2 Class: Mage Bloodline: Star Bloodline (Legendary) Attributes: Strength: 6, Agility: 6, Intelligence: 16, Constitution: 5, Luck: 10 Spell Power: 26 Health: 90 Mana: 120 Defense: 25 Spell Critical Strike Rate: 0 Movement Speed: 1.6 Experience Points: 2/2000 Wealth: 7378881360 Equipment: Novice Staff lv1 (Rare), Novice Mage Robe lv1 (Rare), Cloth Boots lv1 (Rare) Skills: Magic Missile (Rare), Star Point Hand (Legendary)
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