Confused

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After adding the Pink Reply Crystal to his inventory, Wang Yang continued to examine the other items. After a thorough check, aside from Healing Potions and the Reply Crystal, there were only two pieces of very good equipment. The rest were miscellaneous items and copper newbie equipment sold by the shop, enough to form a complete set.

Shield: Boar's Repentance (Unique Limited)

Defense +256 Block Chance +10 Strength +10 Bone Strength +10 Physique +10 Shield Bash: Has attack detection.

One-handed Sword: Wind Flower Sword

Attack +150 Strength +10 Agility +10 Lacerate: 10% chance to inflict a tendon-severing effect on the target, slowing movement speed by 30%.

The two good equipment pieces, like the newbie equipment, had no equipment requirements. Therefore, Wang Yang directly equipped them to his character. He also picked out a full set of copper equipment and replaced the gear on his body, which was almost at zero durability, with the items in his inventory. He didn't delete them immediately, as he was considering selling them to an NPC to recover some Kael.

It had to be said that the Wild Boar Leader dropped a lot of items and also contributed over 30,000 Kael. This indicated that elite monsters in SAO were veritable armories and one of the shortcuts for players to obtain exquisite equipment.

After organizing the items dropped by the Wild Boar Leader, Wang Yang finally discovered an item named Beast Trap at the bottom of his inventory.

He suddenly realized that this might be what Argo had thrown to him. He clicked to view the effect description of the Beast Trap, and the displayed effects left him stunned.

Beast Trap

Effect: Deals fatal damage to beast-type monsters and immobilizes the target in place for 30 seconds.

The specific damage was not stated, but the effect of immobilizing the target for 30 seconds was extremely astonishing.

If he encountered another beast-type elite monster, he might be able to kill it without taking damage using this Beast Trap.

No wonder Argo dared to hunt the Wild Boar Leader alone as night approached back then. It was all thanks to the Beast Trap item; it was highly likely that this Beast Trap was also provided by a quest.

Indeed, as Wang Yang guessed, the Beast Trap was provided by the quest to assist in killing the Wild Boar Leader. Originally, the Beast Trap had the suffix "Quest Item" marked, indicating it could only be used on the Wild Boar Leader. However, since the Wild Boar Leader was killed without using the Beast Trap, the suffix disappeared.

Argo suddenly realized the suffix of the Beast Trap had disappeared. She then gifted it to Wang Yang. The disappearance of the suffix meant it was no longer a quest item, and its usage was no longer limited to quest targets.

As for why Argo was so generous, besides obtaining the quest item, she didn't believe the Wild Boar Leader would drop anything else. This time, she had miscalculated.

During the beta test, after she killed the Wild Boar Leader with the Beast Trap, she didn't even get experience points. It only dropped the quest item, Printing. Moreover, when she was rushing over, she didn't see any joy on Wang Yang's face. He hadn't even looked at the item drop notification window.

For multiple reasons, Argo had a preconceived notion that Wang Yang hadn't gained much profit from killing the Wild Boar Leader. Feeling quite guilty, she decided to give the Beast Trap to Wang Yang.

One must know that the Beast Trap could be considered a rare item, not only because of the conditions to obtain it but also because this quest could only be accepted once a month.

Using the Beast Trap, one could easily hunt an elite beast. As players' levels generally increased, selling it would definitely fetch a good price.

And Wang Yang wouldn't suddenly send Argo a message saying he had killed the Wild Boar Leader and obtained a lot of good stuff. Thus, Argo was destined to suffer a loss.

Wang Yang solemnly put away the Beast Trap. For him, it wasn't for hunting elite monsters but a life-saving item at critical moments. This was the difference in mindset.

If a Guild possessed a Beast Trap, they would immediately use it to hunt elite monsters and obtain exquisite equipment. If it were a solo player, they would also use it to level up and acquire equipment.

Wang Yang's first thought was to use it to save his life. Like yesterday's battle, encountering a monster like the Wild Boar Leader with very fast movement, it was impossible to disengage. Therefore, if he had a Beast Trap, he could disengage at any time.

After tallying his profits, Wang Yang, clad in a brand-new set of equipment, walked out of the inn and headed straight for the equipment shop. He recycled the acquired equipment to the NPC. However, each piece of equipment with durability close to zero was only worth 1 Kael.

He chose to sell them speechlessly and then rushed to the item shop without stopping, selling all his miscellaneous items to the NPC. His Kael broke through 40,000, making him the wealthiest player at the moment.

With money in hand, Wang Yang wanted to see what the item shop had for sale. He found only a large map priced at 1000 Kael.

After thinking about it, with his abundant Kael, Wang Yang bought a map. After using it, the map data, which originally only had a simple route drawn on it, became detailed. The terrain also revealed miniature patterns and names.

After leaving the item shop, Wang Yang went to the store and bought 30 White Breads. However, before buying, Wang Yang, having learned his lesson, bought one to try first. After finding the taste acceptable, he bought 30 White Breads, which had the same stamina recovery as Black Bread.

The entire trip took a full hour. Afterward, Wang Yang found himself a bit lost.

He had money, and his livelihood was secured. So, what should he do next? Level up? Become stronger? Join the front lines?

A choice presented itself to Wang Yang: one was to live a stable life in the Town of Beginnings on the first floor, and the other was to continue leveling up in the leveling zones, become stronger, and fight on the front lines.

Wang Yang never considered himself hero material. Even though he now possessed two high-strength equipment pieces, making his stats stronger than most players, he still couldn't bring himself to rush to the front lines.

Ultimately, besides cowardice, there was a psychological resistance to reality.

In SAO, he had no relatives and didn't have to deal with relatives who might suddenly appear. But if he returned to reality, he would have to face everything unfamiliar.

Another reason was that he dared not interfere with the plot's development casually, especially in the first month of the game. Nothing could be interfered with. At least until Kirito obtained the limited coat dropped by the first floor's boss, he could only remain silent.

Suddenly, Wang Yang felt truly useless, retreating and shrinking back because death was a real possibility.

Was he going to hide cowardly in a corner and wait for SAO to be cleared?

He suddenly thought, what were the players fighting on the front lines fighting for? And why did the players who set their goals from the beginning have such goals? What kind of goals did He Gu, who had died, have before his death? What were his thoughts when he died? Why was I behind him when He Gu died?

Why couldn't I see the expression He Gu showed before he died? If I had seen it, maybe I could have known what He Gu's goal was.

Why, such a powerful person, died just like that...

With his mind full of meaningless questions, Wang Yang unknowingly arrived at the Central Plaza, found a relatively secluded set of stairs, and sat down, then stared blankly at the Players in the plaza.

Even during the day, the crowd of Players in the Central Plaza was still considerable. They conducted item trades and exchanged Information here. This was a beautiful phenomenon, and also one that only appeared in the early stages of the game. Because in the future, deception and distrust would fill Aincrad, and at that time, this phenomenon would not appear at all. The bridge for maintaining trust between people would only be a Guild, or a not-so-large group.

Strangers must be treated with vigilance; this would be an ironclad rule in the future.

If Wang Yang, lost in thought, had opened his map, he would have discovered a green dot moving towards him.

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