Chapter 13: A Professional Player Is Trained Through Solo Killing Boss Creatures
Editor: Atlas Studios
The time in the game passed very quickly, the night was about to be over soon.
The entire ground inside the skull was covered with green slime. Highly concentrating on his task, Da Fei couldn't remember how many tentacles he had lured and killed anymore. When he carefully moved his head near the eye socket again, the familiar swooshing of the wind didn't come! Had he finished killing the tentacles?
Secretly looking out, he saw that the ground outside was covered in green slime too. Tens of tentacles that were completely mashed were still wriggling about on the ground. He had succeeded! He had destroyed all of the tentacles! Now, without its tentacles, the BOSS was just a toothless tiger. If he couldn't defeat it even in this situation, he would never be able to defeat it!
Da Fei walked out of the skull. Sensing him coming near, the tentacles started to struggle to get near him.
Hehe, no need to struggle, let me end your pain! Da Fei stood from afar and stabbed all of the tentacles to death. What was remaining should be just the main body in the ground, right? Nothing much needed to be said now. Da Fei stabbed into the ground, -2! Also, when he retreated his pike, a patch of green slime was brought out too!
No response? Da Fei excitedly stabbed again, -2!
It can't retaliate? Haha! Brouhaha! This is the effect I want! Da Fei laughed madly!
I said that I'm a professional! How could the beginner village have a creature that a new player couldn't defeat? This is solo killing a BOSS! Since past and present times, this is how professionals started out! This is a building stone of one success to another! This is a good opening, it's half of what's needed to succeed in life!
Da Fei ferociously stabbed at the ground continuously, enjoying this hard-won victory!
The sky started turning bright, and the sounds of the water were loud as thunder. The tide was coming in!
At the same time, Da Fei stabbed for the last time! Then, a golden light descended on him from the sky!
—System Message: You have killed the Demonized Venom Sea Anemone King! You obtained 6,000 EXP points! You obtained the heart of the Demonized Venom Sea Anemone King! You obtained Demonized Venom Sea Anemone King seed!
—System Message: Congratulations! You have leveled up to Level 5! Health Points +2, Strategy Attribute +1, Skill Point +1, Command Power +1, Base Damage +1.
—System Message: You gathered a part of the information on the Demonized Venom Sea Anemone King, you have further improved the information card.
—System Message: You have solo-killed a Boss monster that is of a higher level than yourself, you obtained the achievement "Lone Warrior", Health Points +10, Base Damage +1. The next achievement "Lone Warrior 10 Victories in a Row", will require you to kill 10 Boss monsters of a higher level than you without bringing any units.
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Looking at the large chunk of system messages which was within his expectations, Da Fei laughed loudly again! This was the required reward for solo-killing a BOSS! What he lacked most now was damage and the achievement rewarded him with one point, while he got another one point for hitting Level 5. It was really a double blessing!
Currently, Da Fei's attributes were:
Level 5—Attack: 4, Defense: 3 (Personal Defense 3), Health Points: 28, Damage: 3-5, Attack Speed: 10, Movement Speed: 10, Command Power: 4, Reputation: 0, Tactical Position: 1, Stamina: 100.
Skill: Elementary Nautical Skill, Intermediate Reconnaissance Skill (Sub-skill Intelligence Gathering), 1 unassigned Skill Point.
Brouhaha! Compared to yesterday, eh, which was a few hours ago, it's really different from that fragile pikeman with 1-3 damage and 10 Health Points! But speaking of which, pikemen aren't weak, actually. At least compared to the Level 1 units with normally only five, six, or seven Health Points, that 10 Health Points were enough to dominate over them!
But this isn't over yet! There's still the BOSS rewards!
—Heart of the Demonized Venom Sea Anemone King: Weapon enchantment. Increase one point of paralytic toxin damage to the weapon.
—The seed of the Demonized Venom Sea Anemone King: Unit resource base. In a specific environment, able to groom the new type of unit, Demonized Venom Sea Anemone. Small chance to groom the Demonized Venom Sea Anemone King. Construction condition: Unknown.
Da Fei was shocked! A unit resource base that could grow a new type of unit! Which was also known as the Unit Building!
Normally, the unit resource base would come in the form of a blueprint. For example, a player would obtain the blueprint for a pikemen base and then apply it to construct it in a city or town. After spending 10 units of wood and 10 units of stone plus 1,000 gold coins and finish constructing the base, the player could then hire pikemen from his base for a low price and wouldn't need to hire pikemen from NPC barracks for a high price anymore.
Of course, if a player still wanted to lower the cost, the player could hire a pikeman instructor, and so on. As for a unit resource base resulting from a seed, this was still quite unique.
Of course, unit resource bases were what Overlord players liked the most, so the best option was to sell it away! During open beta testing, a strange Slingshot Gnome Instructor was valued at 100,000 US dollars! That was a few hundred thousand Yuan! Not to mention that plant-type monsters were eerie and sinister, selling it for one million shouldn't be a problem. However, the construction condition was unknown, so this would affect the price by quite a bit.
Never mind! A unit resource base is very valuable, after all. Even if I can't sell it for a million, selling it for 100,000 still shouldn't be a problem. If that can't do, then I will just sell it for 50,000! Brouhaha, I'm going to become rich! Rich! I knew it, becoming a professional gamer is the right path to take! I knew that after all these years of not winning the lottery, my luck has all been gathered up to this point and coming into effect in one shot! Once the market for unit resource base starts, I shall immediately sell it!
Suddenly, Da Fei noticed the wooden barrels half-buried in the sand. What were those? Da Fei opened one of the barrels.
—System Message: You obtained three units of Fine Crystal Sulfur!
Da Fei was shocked again! This was a super rare strategic resource! It could only be discovered in the New World, those in the Old World were all normal sulfur. One unit of Fine Crystal Sulfur equaled to 10 units of normal sulfur. He had become even richer!
What was one unit? One unit equaled 100 portions. What was one portion?
Military units would all need to eat and drink and deplete resources. A normal soldier would deplete one portion of food and water in one day. For high-level units like Angels, they would require one portion of crystal and gem per day. A portion was the basic daily consumption standard.
And one unit equaled 100 portions. Because this game involved territory management and trading, when doing trading with NPCs, it would definitely be in large quantities and not retail. They wouldn't sell for less than 100 portions. It was the same as how when trading in stocks, one lot equaled 100 shares. In the game, the trades were all done in "units". For players, they could at most carry 10 units of resources on them. The excess would have to be transported using vehicles. Once they lost a battle, their vehicles and the resources would land into the enemy's hand.
Da Fei continued to open the barrels.
—System Message: You obtained two units of Mithril!
Mithril! The Mithril mentioned in the diary! This barrel did indeed drop off from the ship.
—System Message: You obtained two units of Concentrated Mercury!
Another resource from the New World! Looks like all of these barrels were from the ship. They must be samples the expedition team brought back from the New World, right? But why did the Demonized Venom Sea Anemone King grow near these barrels? Acting as a wild creep that's guarding these resources? Never mind, once I sell these, I will obtain my first sum of start-up capital! Brouhaha.
The thundering sound in the distance reminded Da Fei that it was time to return.
Da Fei swam back to the lone reef again and took out the last reward from the battle. The heart of the Demonized Venom Sea Anemone King.
What effect does the paralytic toxin have? This didn't seem to be stated in the official information given.
Weapon enchantment with toxin is common, but toxins are often accompanied by effects such as Weakening Attack, Weakening Defense, Weakening Damage, and so on. However, due to the limited survival capability of plant monsters, if it's just an ordinary toxin effect, then there would be no value of it surviving at all, and it would have already been eliminated by nature! This paralytic toxin must definitely be the crucial point that enabled this monster to survive, so it's definitely very awesome! Oh right, the information on the Sea Anemone King was improved, let's see it.
Da Fei opened the information card:
—Demonized Venom Sea Anemone King:
Biotype: Large-sized Plant-type Boss
Attack:?
Defense: 4
Damage:?
Health Points: 600
Attack Speed: 1, very very slow.
Movement Speed: 0
Special Skill: Concealment, Catapult Attack, ?.
Item Drops: Heart of the Demonized Venom Sea Anemone King (100% drop rate). The seed of the Demonized Venom Sea Anemone King (3% drop rate, 100% drop rate for the first kill)
EXP: 6,000
The information was indeed improved by quite a bit! 600 Health Points! It was indeed a BOSS, its Health is as much as three small Angels! This information will definitely be able to sell for a good price! There's still one more special skill not known, but from the item drops, it must definitely be related to the paralytic toxin. After all, I didn't get hit at all, so I will never be able to discover what its Attack attribute is.
Nothing much needed to be said, one point of Damage enchantment won't be able to sell for too much no matter how eerie it is. I shall use it myself!
—System Message: Do you want to use the "Heart of the Demonized Venom Sea Anemone King" on your weapon, wooden pike?
Sigh, wooden pike, I keep feeling that I'm doing injustice to this enchantment. But I don't have any other usable weapon. I'm sure that even if I can find other types of weapons on the ship, I won't be able to find another pike. I have never heard of anybody using a pike to fight on the sea.
—Yes!
A cold green light flashed, then became green water and seeped into the wooden pike.
—System Message: You have successfully enchanted your weapon with the "Heart of the Demonized Venom Sea Anemone King". You weapon increased by one point of paralytic toxin, your weapon's name is changed to "Paralytic Toxin Wooden Pike".
Yo! Even the name changed! It's fine too. I shall bring it to the blacksmith shop in the city when I'm rich to refine it, then keep it as a memorial and family heirloom, haha!
Speaking of ship, I wonder what that fellow is doing now? Da Fei took out his binoculars and looked into it, then couldn't help but laugh in joy. So that fellow is still Level 5? I have even killed a BOSS, but he's still killing skeletons? What a waste of his awesome account!
Fine, slowly kill your skeletons. After killing the BOSS, I'm already halfway to Level 6. After I level up tonight, I shall learn Hidden Movement and come and chat with you slowly, humph.
As for now, it's time to eat. Three days in the game means it's afternoon in the real world now. After eating lunch and coming back, it should be night here.
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