Elf

Elf

"Half-Elf Template activated."

"Black Leaf Elven Royal Family Bloodline Potential activated."

"Legendary Human Hero Bloodline Potential activated."

"Experience Pool available for issuing quests temporarily set to 1,000 experience."

"Status Panel activated."

William Blackleaf twitched at the corner of his mouth and stopped thinking about the players. Still, he had not expected his vanished, deadbeat father to possess a Legendary Bloodline.

But if his father had not had some real ability, he definitely could not have fooled his mother, who was already an elven princess.

He just did not know whether that old man was dead or had merely disappeared.

By all rights, NPCs with Legendary Bloodlines generally had high Luck and would not die so easily.

If they also possessed Legendary Rank strength, people like that often gained noble titles and power, because Legendary Rank stood at the pinnacle of combat strength across the continents.

"Hmm, is he dead or missing?" William raised an eyebrow and muttered, "Status Panel."

Name: William Blackleaf (Countdown until Version 1.0 open beta: 364 days, 23 hours, 57 minutes)

Race: Half-Elf.

Level: 8

Bloodline Potential: Legendary (Base attributes +8%)

Rank: None

Talent: Handsome (Passive)

Everyone (gods), animals, and plants outside the Dark Faction will feel favor toward you equal to your Charisma. You will also receive certain discounts when trading with other intelligent creatures. (The higher the target's level and bloodline rank, the less noticeable the effect.)

Level: 8 (32 unassigned free attribute points, 8 skill points. Each level gained grants +4 free attribute points and +1 to all four primary attributes.)

Experience: (0/4200)

Age: 16 (Juvenile)

Health: 270

Stamina: 340

Primary Attributes:

Strength: 34

Constitution: 27

Agility: 38

Intelligence: 25

Special Attributes:

Charisma: 43

Luck: 3

Evaluation: Among level 8 juvenile Half-Elves, a freak like you could kick your way through a human kindergarten.

Health needed no explanation. Once it hit zero, it was game over.

Stamina, on the other hand, differed somewhat from other online games.

Every action, behavior, and skill in this world consumed a certain amount of Stamina. Even when you were having sex, Stamina was consumed.

Of course, if players wanted to have children, they first had to raise their friendship level to 1,000 points.

Basically...

That took half a year...

So Stamina had to be watched at all times. Do not casually waste unnecessary actions, or when fighting, if you ran out of Stamina at a critical moment and could not swing your weapon, you were basically done for.

Strength = Stamina = 50% of base attack power

Constitution = Health = 50% of base defense

Agility = movement speed. (Unrelated to dodge rate or critical hit rate.)

Intelligence = 50% of base magic defense.

However, Intelligence also had a hidden attribute: mental power!

The longer one maintained concentration, the more mental power one consumed. During battle, one needed to stay focused at all times in order to hit enemies with arrows or strike their vital spots.

If a battle dragged on too long, hidden mental power would also be depleted. During combat, one would gradually become unable to concentrate, causing accuracy to decline and the mind to slacken.

At the same time, Intelligence also boosted a mage's skill damage!

As for the talent, Handsome?

Naturally, it meant being extraordinarily handsome. Good looks were truth; combat power was temporary, but being handsome lasted a lifetime...

Elves were creatures who cared about appearances, and now he had gained a talent like this. What could William even say???

"Fucking hell, couldn't it give me something useful?"

Still, there was no need to worry. With a Legendary Bloodline, talents would appear as his rank broke through. He could also complete certain hidden quests to gain more talents.

After all, that was all he could hope for now...

Because his Legendary Bloodline seemed fake. His Luck was ridiculously low, though that probably had something to do with his dying early in his previous life.

Or rather...

With so many Legendary bosses around, there were always plenty of unlucky fools who traveled thousands of miles just to deliver their heads.

When William saw this player-like Status Panel, he was honestly a little stunned. Fortunately, he was calm, composed, and exceptionally clever. After carefully examining some of the attributes, he even began to feel rather fortunate.

A Legendary Bloodline Potential truly lived up to its name. His level 8 attributes before adding any points were absurdly strong. If he went to a Novice Village to slaughter level 0 newbies, he could take them down one child at a time with a single slash...

Bloodline Potential was extremely important in this game. It practically represented an NPC's ultimate limit. Unlike players, who could steadily grow stronger as long as they were willing to grind and spend money, although later advancement was equally difficult, they were still far luckier than NPCs.

"Furthermore, Legendary Bloodline Potential actually has none of the Half-Elf weaknesses. It has even perfectly fused the advantages of both humans and Elves. Its four primary attributes are overwhelmingly powerful, but... I definitely can't allocate my level-up points carelessly. I still need to specialize, or I'll get myself killed sooner or later!"

There were races in the World of Gods that were like the gods' own beloved children.

For example, Elves, Dragonkind, Demons, and so on.

Of course, today's main topic was the Elves.

Their innate attributes were much stronger than those of other races.

Long-range shooting was their bread and butter. It was as though they had an aimbot locked onto their targets. Everyone's surname was Lu... Anyway, every arrow landed as a headshot, and even they could not explain it after hitting the target...

They were no weaker in close combat either. Whether Elven warriors, Elven knights, Elven rangers, or even Elven mages, all of them were exceptionally tough and deadly.

As for defense and vitality, how could beings born with lifespans of several thousand years possibly have low defense? Believe it or not, they were tankier than Orcs.

Anyone unfamiliar with the game Gods who dared claim that Elves had lower defense than Orcs was talking nonsense. Though that was relative; the key still lay in class and attribute allocation...

Agility... Heh. William merely smiled without speaking. Elven rangers kiting enemies was no joke.

But then look at the humans, Orcs, Goblins, Undead, and the rest of Gods Continent. They were all made from the leftover scraps after nature created Elves.

Of course...

Despite claiming so many advantages, Elves were not without weaknesses.

Their reproductive ability was terribly low.

This was the pain of every Elf. It was difficult for Pure-Blood Elves to produce offspring together. Every war and every fallen Elf dealt a tremendous blow to the Elves.

A hit rate of one in 3,650—what kind of probability was that???

If they were Orcs, they could build up a sizable tribe in ten years...

In his previous life, countless players chose the handsome, long-legged Elves early on. Yet within a few months, they were all kneeling as they deleted their accounts and started over. Experience points had utterly screwed them over, because Elves required twice as much experience as humans.

So there had been a saying back then.

Elves and magic were not for anyone but lucky emperors and wealthy players. Others could only admire them from afar, never defile them.

At this point, someone might ask: then how about choosing a Half-Elf?

William really wanted to say that Half-Elves had experience bars 1.5 times larger, yet lacked attributes as awesome as his. They might as well choose the Winged Folk and later pretend to be Angels or something...

But one thing had to be mentioned: changing class into an Angel depended on looks, and players generally did not meet the appearance standard...