"Sigh, these newbies, why can't they listen to reason!" Gu Hao sighed, shaking his head as he hacked at the skeleton monster.
"That's how it is for newbies. Just keep getting beaten up by monsters a few more times and you'll get used to it," Chen Chao laughed.
The two worked together more and more seamlessly, and in less than twenty minutes, about fifteen minutes, the skeleton monster's health bar was emptied. It let out a miserable howl and collapsed to the ground, turning into a pile of bone fragments.
Two white orbs of light flew out from the bone fragments and entered the bodies of the two people respectively.
This immediately leveled them both up.
At the same time, a treasure chest appeared on the ground.
Feeling their power double, the two couldn't help but burst into laughter.
"Monster treasure chests? This feels so similar to the concept of a certain game!"
This treasure chest looks completely out of place with the surrounding art style.
Everything around looked so real, but this treasure chest had a cartoonish feel to it.
Gu Hao was the first to rush over and instantly pulled out three items.
Skill Book Fragment (1/50): It contains a mysterious cultivation Dharma School. Collect 50 fragments to automatically synthesize a complete cultivation technique.
A mysterious letter: it has a dark aura about it, perhaps the village chief knows something about it.
Skeleton Soldier Essence: Refining Material!
"I hate collecting things the most," Gu Hao said with extreme disgust, looking at the fragments of the skill book.
"Should I keep grinding monsters? Or go back to accept the quest?" Chen Chao wasn't very interested. Of the three items, the letter was definitely used to trigger the quest, but Chen Chao didn't want to go back now. In his opinion, nothing beats grinding monsters to level up.
Gu Hao had a similar idea.
"Then let's keep grinding monsters. We can do the beginner quests later. Let's grind to level 10 first!"
There are many monsters in this withered forest of tombstones, but they mostly appear in groups.
Gu Hao and his group had gaming experience. After testing the skeleton monsters' aggro range a few times, they began to lure and kill the monsters one by one.
But Zhao Zhe and his friends had never played online games before, so they naturally didn't know this.
Although they outnumbered each other, they unfortunately encountered more than a dozen monsters, and dozens of them were hammered back to the safe zone by the monsters.
Inside the safe zone, Zhao Zhe and his companions were extremely frustrated. They saw Gu Hao and the others grinding monsters so easily, so why couldn't they do it themselves?
" Little Liuzi, go see how Gu Hao and the others are farming monsters!" Zhao Zhe pointed at one of the Heavenly Guard and said.
"I know how to learn by observing!" Little Liuzi laughed.
"You don't know anything! How can this be called stealing? This is called learning from others!"
"The director is truly cultured; I'll go and learn from him right away!"
After Little Liuzi finished speaking, he quickly ran out of the beginner village.
At this moment, the two Heavenly Guard who had been exploring the beginner village also arrived.
"Chief, what's going on? Why are they all back?" one of them asked.
"Ahem!" Zhao Zhe coughed twice and asked in return, "How's your investigation going?"
"Uh..." The two scratched their heads, looked at each other, and had no idea what to say.
"What kind of riddles are you two playing?" Zhao Zhe asked, annoyed.
"These people in the newbie village are all very strange, and the things they say are quite inexplicable," one of them said.
"But the sentence we hear most often is that we shouldn't talk to strangers. I don't understand what that means at all. Aren't all the people here strangers to us?" another person added.
"Besides that, there are the shop owners. They're not much different from normal people, except they're just too unscrupulous."
"Also, we met a guy named Thor Yang Zai. The first thing he said to us was, 'Handsome, do you want to gain even greater power?' Then, we were forced to accept a mission."
What mission?
The two shared their respective task panels.
Hidden Quest: Become World Envoy and kill any three villagers from the Demon-Sealing Village. Quest reward: One Basic Demon Codex ( Demon Realm Cultivation Technique) and one Breath-Concealing Pill (0/3)!
Zhao Zhe and his companions were bewildered. For the Heavenly Guard, who were unfamiliar with the game, they were completely clueless.
"Damn it, doesn't any of you guys play games normally? And how did you even create this taskbar? Never mind, we'll talk about that later," Zhao Zhe said, annoyed.
The Heavenly Guard were speechless. They spent their time training and studying, so how could they have time to play games? Besides, playing games wasn't allowed inside; that was against the rules.
After thinking for a moment, Zhao Zhe said, "Let's go check out that NPC!"
He had a feeling that there was something wrong with the NPC who gave out the quest. No matter what, the quest looked evil. What was this "Demon Realm apostle" thing? It didn't sound like anything good.
Anyway, there's no penalty for not completing this task.
The group hurried towards the east end of the village, and guided by two Heavenly Guard, they quickly found the NPC in an ordinary house.
Upon seeing the NPC's appearance, Zhao Zhe was taken aback. He felt that the person looked somewhat familiar, but he couldn't quite place him.
This NPC is a man in his twenties, bald, with small eyes. How should I put it... he's quite unique. He's not ugly, but he's not handsome either. Although he's a man, he looks somewhat effeminate.
The NPC has the name " Thor Yang Zai " above his head.
Upon seeing Zhao Zhe and the others appear, he asked with a smile, "Gentlemen, do you wish to obtain great power?"
"There's no such thing as a free lunch," Zhao Zhe said dismissively, curling his lip.
Thor Yang Zai chuckled, a flash of killing intent crossing his eyes, and the name Yan Se above his head switched between red and green.
These newbies just don't understand what that means.
"Chief, check the Chat Channel!" a Heavenly Guard whispered.
" Chat Channel? What's that?" Zhao Zhe still didn't understand the game interface, so naturally he didn't know what Chat Channel.
"Chief, silently recite the game interface!" the Heavenly Guard reminded him again.
After much trial and error, everyone finally figured out how to access their personal attributes.
Equipment slots, skill slots, attribute slots, quest slots, Chat Channel, and inventory slots.
Heavenly Guard 7: Director, has that hidden mission automatically appeared in your taskbar?
Director:...
Heavenly Guard 8: Director, just say it in your mind and the text will appear in the Chat Channel!
Director: I see? Hehehe, this is interesting! Cough cough, I think I know how to do it.
Director: There is indeed a hidden mission, exactly the same as the one you showed me before.
Heavenly Guard Android 12: Director, mine is the same.
Heavenly Guard: Me too!
Zhao Zhe looked up at Thor Yang Zai, who was sneering, and asked, "Why did you kill those ordinary villagers?"
"Those aren't ordinary villagers, hehehe. As for what they are, I'll tell you after you complete the task. Of course, you can also choose not to complete it, but I'll get angry, and you probably won't be able to handle the consequences!"
"We would never lay a hand on an ordinary person; you're no good."
"Heh!" Thor Yang Zai sneered, ignoring Zhao Zhe and the others. But at this moment, his name above his head had turned red, and a health bar appeared. His level was 45.
"Damn it, my health bar!"
Zhao Zhe recalled Gu Hao's words, "Any monster whose health bar you can see can be killed!"
"Damn it, I'll kill him!" Zhao Zhe didn't care about anything else and raised his iron sword to slash at Thor Yang Zai.
-1
A notification appeared above Thor Yang Zai's head indicating that his health was being forcibly reduced.
Although Zhao Zhe's sword struck Thor Yang Zai's shoulder, it didn't even break the skin!
"What are you all looking at? Make your move!" Zhao Zhe roared.
The other Heavenly Guard were somewhat confused, but since their leader had given way, they had no choice but to follow suit.
In an instant, more than a dozen weapons struck Thor Yang Zai's body simultaneously, making Dingdang sounds.
A series of "-1" forced health deduction notifications floated above Thor Yang Zai's head.
Thor Yang Zai's face was grim, and he said in a cold voice, "You're courting death!"
A chisel and a hammer appeared out of thin air in Thor Yang Zai's hands. The next moment, he swung the hammer and struck the chisel.
In an instant, a massive bolt of Thunder appeared out of thin air, instantly killing Zhao Zhe and his companions and sending Zhao Zhe straight to the Resurrection stage.
"You ant-like thing!" Thor Yang Zai scoffed.
He is the big boss in this "weather forecast" storyline. Like the Star of Longevity, he has offerings in the mortal realm, so he can occasionally descend to the mortal world.
His original plan was to absorb the immortal Immortal Qi of those who could descend to the mortal realm like him— the Star of Longevity, the God of Cookery, the Wind God, the Rain God, and others—and kill them all.
Thus, he became utterly invincible in the mortal realm, becoming the sole mortal god and completely ruling the Mortal World Realm.
Like, the really villainous kind!
Unfortunately, plans don't always go Changes. Ling Yi Ling Yi him and, in the game, still made him a villain.
Let's get back to the main topic!
After Zhao Zhe and the others were killed, Thor Yang Zai's name changed from red to green, and his health bar disappeared.
Therefore, Thor Yang Zai is a special boss that automatically regains full health once it leaves the aggro range!
If Gu Hao were here, he definitely wouldn't provoke a boss like this. Unless you have the strength to crush a boss of this level in the later stages, there's no point in fighting such a boss.
But Zhao Zhe and his fellow game newbies didn't know this, so after Resurrection, they charged forward again, yelling, thinking they could wear down the villainous boss by Resurrection indefinitely!
The result is self-evident.
After being Resurrection more than ten times in a row, Zhao Zhe and the others were on the verge of collapse.
"Chief, should we continue fighting?" Heavenly Guard 6 asked. "I think we should go grind monsters and level up. Gu Hao and the others have already leveled up several times and can now solo skeleton monsters—they're incredibly skilled!"
Zhao Zhe scratched his face in frustration, feeling that he had spent most of the day doing nothing at all.
"Let's go, let's level up first!" Zhao Zhe suppressed his urge to fight the NPCs to the death and led everyone straight to the South Gate, intending to level up first.
After grinding monsters for a whole day, Gu Hao and Chen Chao have reached level 10.
Although they still lack cultivation techniques and skills, their attributes have already seen a significant improvement.
"Dude, want to keep grinding? I'm about to throw up from all this grinding!" Super Saiyan kicked a skeleton monster to pieces, not even glancing at the treasure chest it dropped, and said impatiently.
"Strange, why is there only this one type of monster in this newbie village? And we've wandered around for a while, but we can't find a way out of this Ancient Tomb Withered Forest. Something's not right," Gu Hao said, stroking his chin.
"I think we should go back to the village and find out what's going on. Maybe we can find a way to leave the starting village," Chen Chao suggested.
"You're right. How many skill fragments are you still missing?"
"That's enough already!"
"Enough already! Why didn't you say so earlier? What kind of cultivation technique did you synthesize?"
Didn't you say you wanted to reach level 10 first?
As he spoke, Chen Chao opened his game inventory.
23 skill fragments, a letter, 71 skeleton spirits, a Basic Qi Refining Technique, and a Entry- level cultivation technique.
"Let's go back to the village. I guess I'll have to complete the main storyline quests in the starting village before I can leave. Ugh, I hate doing quests, they're such a hassle!"