[Venomous Ring] (Lv5): Quality: Tier 1 · Blue Attack: +18 Additional attributes: ? Class restriction: None Unidentified...
"A level 5 blue piece of equipment?"
Lin Mo grew excited.
This was top-tier loot!
Especially since it was a ring that granted bonus attack!
Lin Mo murmured, "I should have no problem selling it for five thousand at the auction house."
Five thousand yuan for a single piece of equipment was no exaggeration!
In fact, Lin Mo thought that might even be a little low!
After all, the vast majority of players in the beginner village were still wearing the three-piece white equipment set provided by the system.
And the leading players were gradually approaching level 5.
A ring that granted eighteen attack before it had even been identified would undoubtedly be a dream early-game item for those big spenders!
There was also an E-rank skill book.
That was worth even more!
[E-rank Skill Book · Poisoning] (Assassin): Description: Use to learn the E-rank skill Poisoning (coat your dagger with venom, causing your next attack to deal 110% physical damage and poison the enemy for 3 seconds, draining HP equal to 3% of this attack's damage each second). Skill cost: 8 MP Cooldown: 9 seconds Level requirement: 10
"In Oracle World, players can learn two basic skills from their instructors after choosing a class at level 10."
Lin Mo mused aloud:
"If I remember correctly, the basic assassin skills should be Shadow Strike and Backstab. Poisoning isn't one of them, which makes it incredibly valuable!"
Having [Poisoning] meant having one more skill than other assassins in the early game, putting its owner far ahead!
Even though Lin Mo had no intention of playing an assassin.
This book would fetch at least five figures on the market!
A quick twenty thousand yuan from killing a boss monster.
It couldn't get much better than this!
Just then, looking at the Venomous Ring in his hand, Lin Mo had an idea.
He used his SSS-rank talent, Soulfire, to appraise the equipment.
[Ding! Incinerating the Venomous Ring will yield 20 evolution points based on its level and quality. Proceed with incineration?]
"A level 5 blue piece of equipment is worth twenty evolution points when incinerated? That's equivalent to twenty level 1 white pieces!"
Of course, Lin Mo was merely curious. He had no intention of incinerating the Venomous Ring.
After all, even at a hundred yuan per piece for beginner equipment, Lin Mo would only need two thousand yuan to buy twenty pieces and easily obtain twenty evolution points by incinerating them.
Incinerating this blue piece worth at least five thousand for twenty evolution points would mean a net loss of three thousand!
"For incineration, I'll stick to low-level equipment. Burning high-level equipment like this is too much of a waste!"
With that thought, Lin Mo put both pieces of loot into his inventory.
Just as he was about to head back.
A large group of young male and female players suddenly came rushing up from behind!
At a glance, there were a little over a dozen of them.
They all looked young and radiated the unmistakable innocence of college students!
The young man leading them was over six feet tall, with handsome, well-defined features.
At school, he would have been heartthrob material!
The ID above his head read-Lv3 · Wind Soughs Sadly!
The two other men beside him, one fat and one thin, made a striking contrast.
The fat one was named Pang Dahai, and the thin one was Skinny Monkey. Both were level 2.
Aside from those three.
Everyone else was a girl!
Pointing at the corpse of the Man-Eating Flower boss lying behind Lin Mo.
Wind Soughs Sadly demanded, "Did you do this?"
"What about it?" Lin Mo replied flatly.
Before Wind Soughs Sadly could respond.
Skinny Monkey beside him snapped furiously, "Who said you could steal Brother Xiao's boss monster?"
"Hand over everything it dropped!"
"Or you won't leave here alive!"
Lin Mo gave a disdainful smile.
The scene reminded him of his previous life, when his lack of strength had left him bullied and tormented by those stronger than him.
It was exactly the same.
But Lin Mo was no longer the man who could only let others walk all over him whenever trouble arose!
"I have the loot. Want it?"
Lin Mo stared impassively at the three of them, his eyes cold. "Come take it, if you've got what it takes."
At those words.
The college girls behind the three men couldn't hold back any longer.
They all unleashed a barrage of verbal attacks on Lin Mo!
"Who the hell do you think you are? How dare you talk to our senior Ling Xiao like that?!"
"Exactly! Senior Ling Xiao just can't be bothered to deal with you, so he's giving you a chance to hand it over yourself! With his strength, taking you down would be as easy as crushing an ant! Got it?"
"Hurry up and hand it over! Did you hear us? Once Senior Ling Xiao makes his move, you won't even have a chance to regret it!"
Looking at these college girls who had grown up sheltered by school, clearly never experienced the harsh realities of society, and had such pure, unadulterated stupidity shining in their eyes.
Lin Mo wasn't angry.
Instead, he gave a casual smile and said, "Interesting."
"Keep talking!"
The girls were clearly infuriated by Lin Mo's dismissive attitude.
A short but rather pretty girl, [Sweet Sweet Sweetie], stared at Lin Mo contemptuously and sneered, "Hmph. Look at you, you pathetic creep. I bet you're a loser in real life too, huh?"
Another girl wearing glasses, [Calm and Unruffled], chimed in mockingly, "You don't have an ounce of masculinity! You talk like such a sissy. I bet you're a cross-dresser!"
All the other girls present joined in the laughter.
Only the onlookers standing farther out, who had just witnessed Lin Mo solo the level 5 Man-Eating Flower boss, couldn't help admiring these college students' courage!
"Tsk, newborn calves really don't fear tigers! These kids have no clue what's going on, yet they'll mouth off at anyone!"
"Let's not warn them. Just sit back and enjoy the show!"
"This should be interesting! Hehehe..."
Lin Mo ignored the college girls entirely.
He looked straight at Wind Soughs Sadly, whom they surrounded as though he were a national treasure.
"What about you?" he asked casually.
"What's this supposed to mean? Is hiding behind women all you're capable of?"
"Do you dare step forward like a man?"
Those words only further enraged the girls.
"You bastard!"
"Who do you think you are? How dare you insult Senior Ling Xiao!"
"Girls! Get him! Let's teach this loser a lesson!"
"Kill him! Let's get the stuff in his inventory to drop for Senior Ling Xiao!"
As they spoke, the girls grabbed their Novice Swords and charged at Lin Mo without hesitation!
Lin Mo stood calmly in place.
They soon closed in.
Glasses Girl, Calm and Unruffled, led the charge, slashing her sword down onto Lin Mo's shoulder.
At the same time, the other girls' attacks landed one after another.
Swish, swish, swish, swish!
More than a dozen blood-red damage numbers popped up above Lin Mo's head-
-1 (minimum damage)! -1 (minimum damage)! -1 (minimum damage)!
"Wh... what?"
The girls' expressions went from utter arrogance one second to utter shock the next.
"We... can't even break through his defense?"
"H-how is his defense so high?"
While the girls stood stunned.
A series of combat notifications sounded in Lin Mo's ears:
[Ding! Player Calm and Unruffled has launched a malicious attack against you. You have ten minutes to retaliate. Killing her within this period will not incur any Crime Points!] [Ding! Player Sweet Sweet Sweetie has launched a malicious attack against you. You have ten minutes to retaliate. Killing her within this period will not incur any Crime Points!] [Ding...]
Watching the IDs of all the girls before him turn from white to gray.
Lin Mo, who had been waiting for this very moment, let a fierce glint of killing intent slip into his eyes.
"You're asking to die."
Slash!
The instant he raised his head, the gold-quality World-Shattering · Flowing Light Sword in his hand swept across the pale neck of Glasses Girl, Calm and Unruffled.
Blood sprayed everywhere...
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