Originally, Lin Liyu had thought it would be more than enough if Qin Feng gave her even one Silver Grade piece of mage equipment or skill book.
But she had never expected...
Two Gold Tier items?
"This skill, this necklace..."
"They've multiplied my damage several times over, and more than doubled my mana regeneration!"
Originally, Lin Liyu regenerated 2 mana per second.
With that necklace equipped, she now regenerated 5 per second.
Her staying power had skyrocketed!
Now, she could farm monsters faster by herself than her entire team had before!
"Boss, thank you so, so much!"
Lin Liyu's eyes shone with delighted surprise. She was so touched she almost cried.
Qin Feng shook his head. "No need to thank me. I'm just keeping our agreement. Give me the Spatial Ring."
Besides, Iron Man and his men had hunted the girl down once because she had tried to help Qin Feng...
Even though Qin Feng hadn't actually needed her help.
Still, he could tell she had a good character and was worth befriending.
At Qin Feng's words, Lin Liyu snapped out of her daze and quickly handed over the twelve-slot Spatial Ring.
"Oh, right, boss."
Lin Liyu thought for a moment, then added, "When I was running through the woods earlier, I found a hole in the ground. It looked like an entrance to some ruins. Are you interested?"
An entrance to some ruins?
Qin Feng was a little surprised.
The official channels used to call Lin Liyu a good-luck charm. Now it looks like they might have been right.
First the Golden Ghost Ship, now an entrance to some ruins...
Qin Feng looked at the pretty girl before him. Befriending her really had paid off.
Of course.
After a moment's thought, Qin Feng realized that if he hadn't given her any equipment just now, she might not have told him about the entrance.
Sincerity went both ways.
Looks like those two Gold Tier items were all it took to win her over?
Qin Feng felt like laughing.
He slipped the Spatial Ring onto his left little finger.
Finally, twenty-seven storage slots.
Qin Feng breathed a sigh of relief.
Inventory slots were extremely scarce in the Godforsaken Game, and the starting towns had nowhere to store supplies.
With twenty-seven slots, everything would be much easier.
Qin Feng said to Lin Liyu, "Your captain still isn't online. I'll sell you the items once he gets here. I'm going to check out those ruins first."
The girl nodded. "Okay."
Lin Liyu was brimming with excitement now.
She took the rolled-up Parchment Map from her inventory and marked a location for Qin Feng.
"This is the entrance to the ruins. There's a stone slab on the ground. I was going to move it aside and hide inside, but I'd barely taken a few steps when I heard ghosts wailing in there. I got scared and ran out... Otherwise, Iron Man and his men wouldn't have caught up with me."
As she spoke, Lin Liyu described the entrance to Qin Feng.
"All right, got it."
Qin Feng memorized the location.
In fact, every starting town and its surrounding terrain were identical...
The terrain of these Newbie Towns was simply copied.
However, things like these ruins and the Golden Ghost Ship boss appeared randomly. Some towns had them, and some didn't.
At any rate, the town Qin Feng had started in during his previous life hadn't had either.
He hadn't expected Shell Town to have both ruins and a Golden Ghost Ship spawn.
Qin Feng said goodbye to Lin Liyu.
He entered stealth and left Shell Town once again!
I was going to find somewhere to grind to level 10.
Since there are ruins here, there's no need to grind anywhere else. Clearing them will definitely get me to level 10...
There were three main types of ruins that could appear near starting towns.
One was the [Tomb].
Another was the [Cursed Ruins].
The last was the [Temple of Faith].
There wasn't much to say about Tombs. They housed hordes of Demons, were very difficult to clear, and usually had a Gold Tier boss at the end.
The Demons within Cursed Ruins had all been cursed by Eldritch Gods or evil gods. They might once have been human; some had gone mad, while others had died and transformed into ghosts and monsters.
The Demons in Temples of Faith were all followers of Eldritch Gods or evil gods. Players could choose whether to kill them, but the layouts inside the Temple of Faith were extremely complex.
Successfully clearing either of the latter two could yield special items or skill books.
For example...
Qin Feng's Ancient God Eyeball, also known as the Eye of Judgment, had actually come from a Temple of Faith.
Whichever kind of ruins Lin Liyu had found, Qin Feng wouldn't pass them up.
Because...
Even the ordinary monsters inside these ruins were at least Bronze Grade, and some were even Silver Grade!
To Qin Feng, that meant an enormous haul of Evolution Points!
With my current Epic Grade Greedy Hand, killing a single Bronze Grade miniboss will net me 8 Evolution Points.
If it's a Silver Tier boss, I'll get 16 Evolution Points!
Compared to killing high-grade bosses, killing large numbers of minibosses clearly yielded more Evolution Points!
Before long, Qin Feng arrived at the location Lin Liyu had marked on the map, still in stealth.
Sure enough, he spotted a stone slab amid the gray-black weeds.
Qin Feng moved it aside, revealing a stairway leading underground.
Just as expected, the moment he moved the slab, ghostly cries drifted up from deep within the passage, mournful and plaintive...
Naturally, Qin Feng wasn't afraid.
He entered the passage and replaced the slab.
His surroundings instantly plunged into darkness. Only faint, dim yellow firelight came from ahead, illuminating the stone walls on either side.
By that dim firelight, Qin Feng's expression soon shifted slightly.
These murals on the walls... Why are they exactly like the ones in that Temple of Faith from my previous life?
This is a Temple of Faith!
And it's probably the Judgment Ancient God's Temple of Faith!
Qin Feng possessed the Eye of Judgment and wielded the authority of judgment.
The appearance of this temple here struck Qin Feng as... highly unusual!
Let's take a look inside.
Qin Feng took a deep breath and continued down the passage, remaining in stealth!
While Qin Feng explored this mysterious Temple of Faith, something else was happening.
Players in the various starting towns were frantically leveling up.
Of course, their rate of experience gain couldn't compare to Qin Feng's as he killed bosses inside the ruins.
However, the others were lower-level and needed less experience to level up.
Before long, some players reached level 5!
They activated their towns' Teleportation Arrays!
Every player had one free teleport per day, allowing them to travel to another starting town.
And so...
Players from many other towns soon began teleporting into Shell Town!
Because Dark Shadow, the legendary player who had claimed the world's first Gold Tier boss kill, was in Shell Town!
The town grew more and more crowded!
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