Li Yao took out his disassembly knife and used collection on a Velociraptor Elite. Any player with a high-quality disassembly knife could collect materials from a monster's corpse three times.
In "The Ancient God World," only humanoid monsters dropped money and equipment, while animal-type monsters only produced materials, each of which could be harvested thrice.
However, Li Yao estimated that he was probably the only one able to collect so far, as in his previous life, it wasn't until level 10 that some people spent their spare money on a superior disassembly knife and discovered they could harvest material from animals three times. Because of this, many players protested against the official rules.
Break point collection could be gained once if you successfully exploited a weakness in the monster; you could still gather even without a disassembly knife. Learning the skinning skill could provide an additional harvest opportunity.
"System: Obtained Velociraptor Elite's Crown (Green Material)"
"System: Obtained Velociraptor Claw (White)"
"System: Obtained Velociraptor Skin (White)"
"System: Obtained Velociraptor Elite's Tendon (Green)"
"System: Obtained Arrow Shaft (43)"
A crown is a break point reward; only by continuously damaging the crown can you create a break point effect. A sufficient amount of damage to the crown is necessary to collect it during harvesting.
Arrow shafts were compensation obtained after killing monsters. Otherwise, even if Hunters filled all their bags with slow arrow shafts, it wouldn't be enough. He had fired nearly a hundred arrows to kill the Elite, but managed to recover forty-three shafts - roughly half.
After killing three Elites, Li Yao leveled up to level 1.
The game had been running for two days now. Ordinary players could only form teams to kill normal monsters, while the elites in the major guilds presumably had a very hard time killing Elites in groups. There were absolutely none like Li Yao who could solo-kill. Case in point, this was only possible with his rebirth technique; otherwise, such leveling speed was impossible.
Li Yao distributed the five attribute points he obtained from leveling up to three strength and two agility.
Levelling up in "The Ancient God World" is challenging. Even though Li Yao was challenging monsters above his level, and they were Elites at that, it took him three Elites just to reach level one. If he wanted to go from level one to level two, Li Yao would need to kill dozens more Elites.
This was also why, even though the server had been open for more than two days, the highest level was still only level three with no level fours yet.
At the same time, the three Elites had granted Li Yao a Spirit weapon and two Spirit defenses, which could be used to strengthen weapons and armor respectively.
These items were only dropped by non-humanoid monsters, with Elites and above almost always dropping one. Combined with the materials harvested, these monsters were certainly not neglected.
"Finally found one."
After Li Yao killed his fifty-sixth Elite and reached level two, he finally spotted a hint of yellow glow in a bush.
"It's a Bronze Treasure Chest. Should be able to get some good stuff."
Without even collecting the materials, Li Yao started to unlock the chest. The chests in the Beginner's Village didn't have locks, so anyone could open them.
System: Obtained Skill Book, Shadow Roll.
System: Obtained 50 copper coins
System: Obtained Bronze Great Sword
Shadow Roll is a Hunter's evasion skill, an upgraded version of sidestepping. It's very useful and applicable in all directions. Li Yao learned it immediately without any hesitation. With this skill, killing Elites would be much more relaxed, significantly reducing the previous danger.
Bronze Great Sword
Quality: Superior (Green)
Attack: 4-8
Strength: 3
Agility: 2
Equipment Requirement: Level 1
Hunters can equip any melee weapon except hammers, and while their attack can't be added to bow and arrow damage, the strength of three and agility of two is the equivalent of gaining a level.
While killing Elite Monsters, Li Yao also scoured certain nooks and crannies. According to statistics, three chests would spawn in this area, meaning there were still two chests he hadn't found.
Elsewhere in the same zone, a small group of players managed to kill an Elite Velociraptor after a great struggle.
The Brilliant Club, the one they belonged to, was one of the top ten clubs in China, with its Brilliant Guild being well-known too. You could say it was at the top of the gaming world in China.
The leader of this team was the President of the Brilliant Guild and a famous commander in China, Haikuotiankong. The team members were also elites from the pro team or the guild.
"I'm so sick of eating this bread." Said youngrongnaida, the priestess in the team, as she ate her piece of bread with a look of disgust.
Woshixiaoqingxin, a mage with a figure accentuated by her form-fitting clothes, gave a charming smile and said, "It seems like our Guildmaster has successfully created a character. What's this about being sick, though?"
"You bamboozler!" Haikuotiankong laughed. He turned to the shield warrior and said, "Dàshān, are you tired of it too?"
The shield warrior, Dàshān laughed and replied, "How can I be tired? Being able to follow the guild master and kill elites is much better than anything else."
"True, everyone in the guild must be so envious of us. Without our Guildmaster's excellent command, we'd still be fighting common monsters," Woshixiaoqingxin gave Dàshān a glance and asked, "Guildmaster, do you think we can be the first to reach level ten?"
"Without a doubt, we'll be among the first to reach level ten. But being the first to reach level ten is uncertain. There are many other strong players in other guilds and clubs. This game is extraordinary; the freedom mode is not conducive to us. As far as I know, there are many martial art experts leveling up alone," Haikuotiankong replied.
"Can these martial art experts solo-kill Elites?" Woshixiaoqingxin continued to ask.
"In theory, they can. But at this stage, it's just a theory. According to information from the guild, many individual experts have tried and failed, losing levels in the process. I suspect that it'll at least be a year or so before such people start to appear. As for soloing field bosses, that's probably several years away," Haikuotiankong responded.
The others inhaled sharply at this. They trusted Haikuotiankong's judgement implicitly. The cost of attempting to take on wild monsters and failing was much too steep given how difficult leveling up was.
Just then, their scout rogue, Dànzhi Bàojú's voice sounded over the team channel, "Guildmaster, I've found a lot of Velociraptor Elite corpses."
Their expressions changed. They had thought that only they could kill elite monsters in this beginner's village.
"No way, this can't be happening." Before the others could process this piece of news, they heard an exclamation on the voice channel from Finger-Blocker.
Soaring Sky asked, "What's going on?"
"Boss, there was only one person killing the elites, and it's Watts, the hunter we all thought was rubbish. I must be seeing things. He killed an elite monster without even touching its clothes," said Finger-Blocker.
Refined Youth breathed a sigh of relief, laughed and scolded, "Stop messing around, I almost thought it was true. Didn't you hear the boss's analysis? There can't possibly be such players at this stage. Hurry back, we've recovered, let's start the next round."
Finger-Blocker anxiously said, "I'm not joking. If the system allowed private filming, I would've sent you the video already. A single person killing elites must be a well-known player. I'm going to take a closer look to see who it is."
"Be careful not to clash with them, leveling up is the focus," cautioned Soaring Sky.
"Okay, I just want to confirm which club or guild this expert belongs to," confirmed Finger-Blocker.
Anxious, Soaring Sky scrunched his eyebrows, trying to make sense of the situation after gathering information from various guilds and clubs.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the hill, Li Yao ended the life of a Velociraptor Elite with his final arrow and then reloaded his bow. Suddenly, he pivoted sharply and shot an arrow into the brush.
"Have you seen enough?"
Thud...
-6
A thief figure emerged and before he could respond, Li Yao had already retreated and shot a second arrow right at the thief's knee.
-15
The thief, who was just standing up, fell over.
Even as the thief screamed out in pain, Li Yao had already drawn his bow for the third time.
Thud...
-35
The arrow accurately hit the thief in the head. As the thief struggled to stand up, two more arrows struck and he collapsed, dead.
Shaking his head without a care, Li Yao picked up the shoulder guards dropped by the thief, saw that they were common equipment and threw them back on the ground before continuing to grind those monsters.
Li Yao noticed the thief who had been watching him for at least five minutes. It was risky to attract a thief's attention, especially if he teamed up with elite monsters.
"Boss, I got killed, dammit. Who is this guy? I didn't even attack," Finger-Blocker moaned.
"If he's that aggressive, just kill him and teach him a lesson," Soaring Sky casually suggested.
"Yes, it was my negligence just now. I won't let it happen again," Finger-Blocker snapped angrily.
...
Just as Li Yao killed a Velociraptor Elite in front of him, he heard faint footsteps behind him. Without making a scene, he shot a glance at the thief approaching him while he continued to shoot his arrows.
The thief crept towards him, not realizing that his movements were bending the grass beneath his feet.
When the thief was within 8 yards of Li Yao, Li Yao abruptly released an Arcane Torrent. An explosion of arcane energy unveiled the thief's silhouette.
At the same time, Li Yao spun around and released an arrow.
Thud...
With the power of the Eye of the Creator, Li Yao could bring down the thief with a single arrow.
But the thief was remarkably quick, turning into a shadow as the arrow hit the ground. He instantly appeared behind Li Yao.
Shadow Step!
Li Yao was slightly taken aback. He was confident there were no more than ten thieves who had learned Shadow Step at this stage. The thief's reaction was as fast as a professional player. Unbeknownst to Li Yao, the thief was indeed a top professional player.
As a quasi-God-level master with over ten years of gaming experience, cosplaying in his prime, Li Yao was set to outperform his past life.
The moment he saw Shadow Step, Li Yao used Shadow Roll. He cast two continuous Shadow Rolls.
Finger-Blocker jabbed his glowing dagger at Li Yao's shadow, hoping to stun him for at least a second. He had hoped to catch Li Yao off guard, with the Velociraptor Elite charging in to finish him off.
However, Li Yao swiftly rolled behind the thief with his Shadow Roll. The thief, having just caught thin air, now found himself staring into the jaws of a Velociraptor Elite and felt a sharp pain in his back.
Li Yao's quick kick sent the thief sprawling to the ground, and the Velociraptor, caring not in the least about whom it was attacking, made short work of the prone thief.
After kicking the thief aside, Li Yao quickly retreated and shot two arrows at the elite's crest, causing the already bleeding monster to fall by his feet.
Close and dangerous as the encounter before was, Li Yao handled himself brilliantly.
"He dropped a blue dagger. Poor kid," said Li Yao after picking up the dagger the thief had dropped. He then dodged the Velociraptor and jumped back into the heat of battle. Time was too precious for him to waste on idiots like the thief.
Meanwhile, the thief who had just met his fate was about to cry. His level dropped to one and he had even dropped his precious blue weapon.
Finger-Blocker, upon resurrecting, couldn't find Li Yao, "Boss, I can't find that guy," he said sullenly.
The team was speechless, resigned to only killing the elites on the outskirts because going any deeper meant certain death. Their hopes of revenge now seemed even further away...
Two hours passed in an instant. With continuous monster grinding, Li Yao had reached level three. Most players took nearly three days to reach level three, but Li Yao achieved it in less than a day.
Li Yao had taken a few hours offline for sleep, understanding the reborn life's emphasis on physical health.
Upon logging back in at the game's dusk, Li Yao discovered the second random treasure chest behind a large tree.
"System: Opening treasure chest..."
"System: Received Bronze Shield."
"System: Received Sixty-Five Copper Coins."
"System: Received Apprentice Boots."
Bronze Shield
Quality: Excellent (Green)
Block: 15%
Armor: 15
Strength: 3
Stamina: 2
Equipped Requirement: Level 3, Warrior, Knight
Delighted, Li Yao took a few glances at the top-tier small shield for a shield warrior before placing it in his backpack.
Apprentice Boots (Leather Armor)
Quality: Excellent (Green)
Armor: 5
Stamina: 2
Increases movement speed by 5%
Equipped Requirement: Level 2
"The stats are quite trash, but better than nothing," Li Yao said, replacing his beginner's boots with 1 armor. Hunters can initially only wear leather armor. Only after reaching level 40 and completing their professional mission can they wear heavy leather armor, also known as chain mail or mail armor.
The experience needed to level up from three to four was quite substantial. Even as Li Yao was able to kill elites beyond his level, he had only just passed half the needed experience to reach level four by twilight, after having killed hundreds of elites.
If it weren't for the fact that the same materials could stack to two hundred, and he was only killing one type of monster, his initial ten or so backpack spaces would've run out of space already.
"It seems I can't find the last chest."
He had made numerous loops in the valley, monsters had respawned multiple times, but he still hadn't seen the third chest.
Roar...
Just as Li Yao was contemplating whether to turn back, a loud roar echoed through the valley. An eager look crossed Li Yao's face as the velociraptor king finally respawned.
Li Yao ran over there, shooting an arrow at the velociraptor king's crown, revealing its information.
Velociraptor King (Low-Level Boss)
Level: 3
Life: 2000
Attack: 55-65
Armor: 38
Ferocious Bite, Leap Claw Attack, King's Roar.
Wearing the Eye of the Creator, Li Yao found the Velociraptor King's weak points were virtually the same as the elites, with slightly more skills, higher attack, and armor stats. Without critical hits, he could hardly deal any damage. Players who do not choose free mode couldn't possibly defeat such a boss.
Thwack...
-5
The Charged Arrow accurately hit the Velociraptor King's leg balance point, but the Velociraptor King only swayed slightly without falling, still running at Li Yao rapidly.
Thwack...
-6
The second arrow also hit, but the Velociraptor King still didn't fall.
The Velociraptor King lept turmoil at Li Yao, its sharp claws flashing a red glow, indicating the start of the monster skill Leap Claw Attack. The boss's attack was not something an elite could match. Fortunately, Li Yao had already reached level three, thus significantly improving his stats.
Li Yao backstepped, and at the same time, his Charged Arrow accurately hit the Velociraptor King's blood-red eyes.
-45
The heavy blow caused the Velociraptor King's movement to falter slightly, and it was this millisecond delay that allowed Li Yao's Shadow Roll to narrowly avoid the glinting, lethal claw.
If he hadn't learned this skill, even with swift reflexes, his low-level attributes would've been unable to evade in time, leading to instant death.
The claws brushed past Li Yao's face. He could feel the slight chill and fierce whistling sound.
Li Yao used Shadow Roll three times in a row to increase the distance from the Velociraptor King. He then kept aiming and shooting at the King's leg joints one arrow at a time.
-5-7-5-6
The Velociraptor King finally fell to the ground with a tragic scream, while Li Yao kept moving to adjust the best shot angle and rapidly executed Charged Shots.
Once the Velociraptor King fell down, Li Yao shifted his target to the Velociraptor King's crown, the most vulnerable point.
-8-10-9-8...
The damage numbers were flashing at the corner of Li Yao's eyes.
Despite being the Velociraptor King, it couldn't even touch a shred of Li Yao's clothing. After the thirteenth time the Velociraptor King fell, its crown cracked with a snap.
Li Yao's arrow hit the crown, the damage increased subsequently.
-14-16-18...
Roar...
The Velociraptor King, with only four hundred lives left, finally let out its third skill, the King's Roar.
As it roared, two Velociraptor elites refreshed and roared towards the sky in unison. They dashed towards Li Yao along with the Velociraptor King.
Li Yao could not allow any error now. If he was hit by any monster, he might become immobilized. This immobilized state would prevent him from avoiding attacks from the other two Velociraptors, and it would mean death. Dying at this stage would cause a loss of a level. He is now at level three and a half, dying would revert him to level two, equivalent to losing one and a half levels of experience.
Li Yao took a deep breath. Obviously, the strategy he used before is not applicable this time. Against one boss and two elites, even with the Shadow Roll, he couldn't dodge all the damage.
From the corner of his eye, Li Yao noticed the dense woods at the edge of the valley, giving him an idea. Using the geographic environment to one's advantage in "The Ancient God World" is a measure between an ordinary master and a great master.
Li Yao chain-cast four Shadow Rolls and dashed into the woods. His mana was also almost drained.
As Li Yao ran, he charged up. After successfully charging, he suddenly took a leap and fired a shot back. After landing, his body continued to move forward, continuing to run and charge, then leaping and firing back again.
Even with this intense shooting, every arrow from Li Yao hit the mark. In his previous life, hunters who mastered this leap back shooting technique were rare.
-5-15-16-8-14
Li Yao moved swiftly through the woods. If it were on a plain, Li Yao would have been surrounded long ago. But in the dense woods, Li Yao was always able to escape danger.
Eventually, Li Yao's mana ran out and he had to resort to normal shooting, but this made him even more nimble.
In the woods, the Velociraptor King roared incessantly, incessantly besieging Li Yao with his two subordinates, but its health bar kept decreasing.
Several minutes later, the Velociraptor King's life was reduced to zero, and the two elites also disappeared. Seeing the corpse of the Velociraptor King, Li Yao just gave a faint smile.
Li Yao took out the carving knife and began to extract resources from the Velociraptor King.
"System: Extraction successful, obtained Velociraptor King's Crown (Blue Quality)"
"System: Obtained Velociraptor King's Leg Muscle (Blue Quality)"
"System: Obtained Velociraptor King's Claw (Blue Quality)"
"System: Obtained Velociraptor King's Bone (Blue Quality)"
"System: Obtained Leader Level Soul Gem (Dropped upon breaking, not from resource collection)"
"System: Obtained 105 Arrow Shafts"
Seeing these materials, Li Yao finally showed a smile. With these materials, he could build a small Arrow Tower after learning Engineering.
The Leader Level Soul Gem was even better. Combined with a weapon at the blacksmith, it had a chance to enhance a weapon's quality. For instance, this Soul Gem could 100% enhance a green rated weapon to a blue quality, and it even had a tiny chance to enhance a blue rated weapon to a purple epic quality.
Having packed up everything, it was already completely dark. Monsters at night would go berserk, with their attack and defense almost doubling, and their drop rate decreasing.
Although Li Yao could continue to hunt without getting injured, he did not have many arrows left in his arrow bag. Secondly, there were things to do in the city. Of course, the most important thing was to get rid of the things in his backpack. These items could be sold at a high price now, but they would depreciate greatly after a few days.
As for the third treasure chest, Li Yao was no longer obsessed with it. He had already reaped a lot today, there was no need to continue wasting time for a low-quality treasure chest whose content was uncertain.
Li Yao walked to a safe area and began to use the hearthstone to return to the city...
The Sun Tower exuded a red glow, along with the magic lamps on the square's buildings, the entire Beginner's Village was brightly illuminated.
The returning players were bustling around in the Beginner's Village.
During the early stage, there was no binding inn, so the return point of the hearthstone was on the square. Upon returning to the square, Li Yao immediately began shouting in the city trade channel.
"Elite Velociraptor's crown in exchange for any one set of the following materials: Mana-Drift Dragon Dust, Mature Mountain Cat's Collar, Enchanted Sapling Branch, or Skeleton Powder. Each only for one set, whisper me if interested."
After shouting three times, Li Yao waited for replies. The game had been launched for almost three days, he believed there were players who knew the use of an Elite Velociraptor's crown.
"The guy upstairs is clearly insane."
"Exactly, this guy just entered the game, right? Does he know how much is in a set?"
"I feel sorry for people like me who team up with others, taking turns to pick up loot. We collected less than three sets of materials in two days. Each set can be sold for two silver coins."
"Sigh, he must be desperate for money. You can gain a lot of experience by handing in a set of mission items. Young man, you should be practical."
"The people upstairs are noobs, no wonder they are struggling."
"It's a waste of time talking to them, I've already reserved an Elite Dragon's crown, I've made a profit."
"I've also reserved one. After killing elites all afternoon, everyone in the team has died at least once, yet none of us managed to break it successfully. I didn't expect that a pro would exchange it, I've made a big profit."
"Newbies want advice from veteran drivers, what can the Elite Velociraptor Crown do, and how do you get it?"
"Haha, the last one is reserved by me, I'm so happy. As a professional player of the team, let me enlighten you. The Elite crown can be handed over to a professional trainer to complete a task and receive at least one piece of green equipment. Also, let me tell you, even top guilds don't have many of these."
"Wow, even professional teams find it hard to get, is that true?"
"Of course, it's true, not blowing it up. In this beginner village, only our glorious leader Hai can kill elites, others don't even think about it."
"I knew it, but I threw the extra stuff at the store."
The newly enlightened players regretted immediately...
Li Yao used the Eye of the Creator to change his name to Spark of Star, also adjusted his appearance a bit before starting to shout for the exchange of those materials.
After ten minutes.
Looking at the materials in his backpack, he was immediately satisfied, and quickly left the square.
Every set of materials he exchanged was for mission items. Twenty mission items can be handed in for a quest, and each person can complete the quest ten times.
It took others two hard days to complete forty rounds of quests, while it took less than ten minutes for Li Yao including the time spent on collecting materials. When he handed in the last set of quests, a golden light enveloped Li Yao, he had leveled up to level four.
Others took three days just to reach level three, while he only took a little more than half a day to reach level four.
"At least I am leading in level, not bad."
After completing the quests, Li Yao immediately ran to the Class Hall. The Class Hall is one of the largest buildings in the Beginner's Village, where the class trainers are located in their respective places.
The Hunter Trainer is a beautiful High Elf woman. Compared to the busy scene in other trainers' areas, not a single player was near the Hunter Trainer.
Li Yao approached and bowed, saying, "Trainer, I wish to deliver the honor item."
Trainer Eileen nodded, took the Velociraptor skull and her pupils slightly shrank. She then looked at Li Yao seriously and said lightly, "Spark of Star, you are very good and you have brought honor to the hunters."
Under the envious gaze of other trainers, Eileen placed the skull on the small altar in the Class Hall.
Meanwhile, a colourful light shield flashed in front of all players.
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