The Old Man's Words

In addition, since the Origin Coin needed for the first few levels was not much, and with more archers being sent out to sell jerky on the other side, the group quickly reached LV5.

That evening, on the desolate plains.

The entire land was shrouded in darkness.

Suddenly, a small campfire started to burn.

Several people gathered around the campfire and started roasting meat.

"If it weren't for the system notification, I wouldn't have known that this monster could be bitten."

Looking at the disgusting creature that had died in front of him, and then at the meat skewer in his hand, Lei Hu was speechless.

It is indeed edible, and tastes quite good.

But you'll be fine if you drink Water of Purification beforehand.

If it were a local native, they would be directly Pollution.

"It's a bit chilly. I didn't expect to level up so fast during the day, reaching level 5 in no time. But the later levels are getting harder and harder. I estimate that reaching level 10 will require six or seven times the experience we have now."

Ms. Ye Jing's words made everyone present pause in surprise.

"Wow, that's a huge difference?" Lan Bowen opened his mouth.

"Doesn't that mean it will take another six or seven days?" Wang Quanxiang frowned, worried that the mission wouldn't give them that much time before sending them back.

"Everyone, do you know how difficult it is to level up in the normal quests of Dusk?" Miss Ye Jing deliberately raised her voice slightly when she saw the expressions on their faces. "It takes many hard battles and countless quests and dungeons to slowly reach the strength of LV10. I went through so much to get to where I am today. And you, you are clearly just newbies, and you've only reached this level after two quests. Your performance can be described as very poor, yet you still managed to come to this world. You are really... very lucky."

Wang Quanxiang immediately felt somewhat embarrassed. "I'm sorry."

"It's nothing. I just wanted to say that you are already very lucky. Every bit of strength that ordinary Dusk members have gained is the result of hard work and struggle."

With everyone here, we returned to the main topic and began to think about the next tactics.

In any case, we must find ways to improve efficiency.

"Next time we get enough resources to upgrade, we'll go back and upgrade immediately. Although we'll have to travel, the efficiency of killing monsters will increase after we upgrade, so we can go a little further and face stronger monsters. However..." Lei Hu glanced at Miss Ye Jing, "Just like Ye Jing said, we should only go a little bit deeper. If we go too far, we may encounter threats that are beyond our ability to cope."

"OK."

"We'll take turns keeping watch tonight, at least one person needs to keep an eye on the surroundings. It's very dangerous for us to be out in the wild like this, if we're suddenly attacked, especially if the Abyss monsters sneak up and attack..."

"I'll go first."

In short, after discussing it, we started to spend the night.

Since the system has also updated the minimap Dusk, providing a more accurate scan of the surrounding area, it is still possible to notice monsters approaching immediately.

Then the Night Watch immediately roused everyone to fight.

And without a doubt, fighting at night is actually extremely difficult for everyone.

The main problem is that I can't see anything.

There is no moon above this world, and the starlight is so faint that it is almost invisible.

It wasn't until late at night that Lan Bowen, that unlucky fellow, would probably have been bitten to death if it weren't for Miss Ye Jing's intervention.

Puff--

As the sharp blade sliced through the monster's head from behind, the boy turned around and caught a glimpse of the girl's alluring figure.

Faint breathing came from ahead.

"Thank you." He took a deep breath, unable to help but harbor a slight fantasy about Miss Ye Jing.

But he didn't dare to say it and sat down silently.

It was early morning of the second day.

Everyone looked at the monsters scattered all over the ground with complicated expressions.

"We killed more than we expected." Lei Hu laughed excitedly. "Very efficient, everyone."

"I think I can reach level 10 in two or three days at most. I'll take these two days to learn the level 1 skills one by one. The professional skills in this world seem pretty good." Wang Quanxiang said expectantly.

"I'll learn a defensive ability," Han Yu said, already having an idea as he opened the interface.

Chapter 156 The Old Man's Words

Several people then clicked on the skills and began learning them.

Miss Ye Jing took a close look at the LV0 abilities and discovered that the effects of these skills were actually better than she had expected.

These are skills that almost don't exist in the Main World.

For example: drawing upon life.

It directly creates an invisible energy line to slowly extract the life force from the other person's body in order to replenish its own mental energy.

For example: Dark Arrow.

It fires a black energy arrow that is almost non-reflective, making it extremely difficult to detect if used in the dark.

"From this perspective, all skills in this world have some special function, more or less."

Miss Ye Jing learned the Dark Arrow skill.

There were some more later, all of them combat magic, which she didn't really need.

However, the inclusion of this system is clearly a good thing for Dusk now, as some members can come to this world specifically to learn skills, thus expanding the diversity of their subordinates' abilities in a sense.

For the next two or three days, everyone was active in the wasteland, spending the rest of their time hunting monsters, except when they went back to level up.

At midnight, the monsters would come to you on their own, and sometimes you would hunt them down much more often than during the day.

Everyone learned the more expensive and more powerful LV5 skills.

Miss Ye Jing chose a continuous magical ability: Electric Circle.

The ability is to create a high-voltage current circle around the body, which will shock enemies who get close.

Put this on and charge at the enemy; it's incredibly powerful.

"If we only look at skill performance, ordinary people below the Black Iron Rank in this world would probably have the advantage when fighting against real-world Hidden One."

The only downside is that the warriors in this world are free from any Pollution.

But in a sense, that's also an advantage.

You'll know how annoying Pollution is once you get promoted.

They fought their way to the morning of the third day, and all of them had broken through to LV10.

Of course, Miss Ye Jing herself leveled up to level 16.

Their speed left the man from the adventurers' association looking on with suspicion every time he saw them.

That's too fast! How many wild animals would it have to kill?

Is this group's strength enough?

And they're way too rich; they're not like ordinary adventurers.

The group, of course, paid no attention to the opinions of the indigenous people and set out again.

"This time, the target is the BOSS, right? Hmm, the leader monster."

After observing for the past two days, everyone has pinpointed the location of a certain Abyss monster. Judging from the distribution of monsters, the closer you go to a specific direction, the stronger the enemy becomes.

The last one I killed this morning was already LV13.

Level 13 might not seem like much to Miss Ye Jing, but to the local natives, it was a terrifying existence capable of fighting against top-tier warriors.

This "monster" invasion was caused by a large influx of such creatures, which made it impossible for humanity to resist.

In particular, native warriors, after fighting Abyss creatures for a long time, will become Pollution, which will seriously affect their combat effectiveness.

The team began marching towards their target location.

After walking for several hours and clearing out a group of monsters that were sent by the enemy, they spotted a creature covered in red fur lying in the distance.

It looks like a red-haired lion.

A low-level beast from the Abyss; despite its imposing appearance, it is usually just food for lesser demons.

Suddenly sensing approaching footsteps, the red-haired monster raised its head, its deep black eyes fixed on it.

"Damn, this looks tough." Lan Bowen gripped his weapon tightly, slowing his pace.

"No matter how difficult they are to deal with, they're not cannon fodder in the Abyss." Miss Ye Jing drew her sword from her waist without any fear and took a few steps forward.

"Me too."

Lan Bowen quickly ran to the girl's left side.

As they drew closer, the monster in the distance realized that the newcomer meant trouble and slowly straightened up.

"Roar--"

After letting out a roar, more than a dozen creatures of level 10 or higher from the surrounding area actually ran towards this place.

"Damn, how do you play a group challenge?"

Lan Bowen was stunned.

"It's alright, I'll handle these small monsters. Focus on dealing with the red one."

Miss Ye Jing also knew that it was impossible to win against this group. She might have a chance against two or three of them, but being surrounded like this meant certain death.

The monsters quickly launched an attack. With her Master swordsmanship, combined with various skills, as well as her exaggerated Danger Perception and ability to observe Mystic Thread, Miss Ye Jing was like a war goddess, killing one monster after another. Every strike of her sword was swift and decisive, leaving everyone completely dumbfounded.

Lan Bowen swallowed hard, realizing what it felt like to like someone.

Yes, he was already infatuated with the girl in front of him.

People naturally yearn for beauty, and at his age, it's hard not to be moved by this goddess-like figure.

"Roar--"

The red beast felt challenged and charged towards them.

In just a few seconds, it had already rushed up to us.

Bang!

With a single blow, the guy shattered Miss Ye Jing's small water Elemental Shield and slammed his body against the blade. With a thud, he spat out blood, but managed to send the girl flying.

Barely landing, Ye Jing felt her internal organs were injured and coughed up blood.

"Be careful, this monster has the ability to create shockwaves; touching it will cause internal injuries."

He quickly took out the Water of Purification and drank a sip.

The others immediately tensed up and took out their Water of Purification.

Damage to internal organs can be fatal.

"Dark Arrow!"

He unleashed the first skill.

The target dodged nimbly and managed to escape.

Fireball!

A fireball exploded on the ground.

Whether the creature disliked the firelight or not, it let out a scream.

Then came the Wind Blade combined with a corrosive spell.

In short, the skills these people possess are already numerous, after all, there are two from this world, plus the ones they exchanged from the Dusk System.

Even so, every time this red monster grazed me even slightly, it caused severe damage, forcing me to drink a large mouthful of Water of Purification.

The battle between the two sides turned into a war of attrition.

The monster was incredibly powerful, but to its dismay, it discovered that it couldn't kill any of the people in front of it.

Its intelligence is insufficient to comprehend the therapeutic effects of the Water of Purification.

The two continued their battle, and as time passed, the red-haired monster's condition worsened, its injuries became more severe, and it looked like it was about to die.