"Brother! Brother expert! Wait a minute!" As Liam walked out, a loud voice sounded behind him.
Rey hurriedly ran after Liam, seeing that the latter had no intentions of stopping for him. Finally, he had to pick up the pace and run at his full speed just to catch up with the guy.
"Huff. Huff. Man, you are fast! Listen, brother. Do you want to party together?" Rey panted, patting his chest to catch his breath.
"Not interested." Liam stepped aside and walked around him, leaving the training hall building area. Considering the unexpected events that had happened, he was busily recalculating everything in his mind.
"Ah. Wait. Wait. Wait. See, I am not alone. My two cousin sisters are with me also." Rey awkwardly chuckled, hoping that it would catch his attention.
But unfortunately, Liam still continued walking as if he hadn't heard anything at all. "Stop pimping out your sisters, dude."
Cough. Cough. Rey almost stumbled from his merciless straightforward stab. "You do know that people are going to be following you right? Not everyone would be as friendly as I am."
Liam finally stopped, turning around to look at Rey. "That is for sure. Not everyone would be as friendly as you."
"In fact, I am counting on it." He flashed a gentle and polite smile, which for some reason looked cold and sinister to Rey, raising the small strands of hair on his back.
"Hai. Hai. Alright." Rey raised his hands and took a step back subconsciously. "Could you at least tell me what you were doing and what quest you received? I am willing to pay for that information." He paused and then added. "Generously."
"500 gold coins." Liam named his price with the same deceptive smile and walked away, knowing full well that he was not going to go for it.
With the current exchange rate, not many people trading the in-game currency, a sum like 500 gold coins was astronomically high and expensive.
Even with several people worldwide playing the game, it would probably cost at least a few thousand dollars. So unless the other party was insane, they wouldn't agree to something like this.
Liam just needed him to stop following him and pestering him. So he tossed out this insane number. He did not have time to spare for dealing with these things.
However, unexpectedly, Rey immediately shouted back with a thumbs up! "Yess! Add me as a friend, I can send you the gold over ASAP!"
"Are you serious?" Liam couldn't help but let out a laugh. It looked like he had inadvertently run into one of the pay to play heavy duty money bags.
He paused, deciding to deal with the matter quickly, and finished the transaction first.
[Ding. You have received 500 gold coins from your friend]
"Alright. Follow me and observe carefully. I will demonstrate for you three times. That's it." At this point in the game, there was no recording option, so he wasn't too worried about revealing his face.
Rey nodded, immediately turning around and waving at the two women. The three of them half-jogged and half-ran, keeping up with Liam as they walked to the outskirts of the town.
Though there were several prying eyes still lingering on the group, Liam was not bothered by it as they were well within the town's protection limits.
And also…
He was almost 5 times stronger than a normal Level 1 player!
"Alright. This is the first stance." Liam balanced himself on his right leg and folded the left leg behind his back, bringing it all the way up to reach his head. "This strengthens your spine." He explained.
The three nodded silently, observing him and taking mental notes as they did. Liam was swift in his transitions and his movements flowed smoothly. He repeated all the stances as if he had done those a hundred times before.
Sweat trickled down his body, his muscles straining against the thin ragged shirt. It was almost a blasphemy for such trash clothing covering his perfect chiseled figure.
Both Mia and Alex gulped simultaneously, Liam's movements only half-registering in their minds. They were more busy looking at the tensing up and relaxing movements of his defined muscles.
Rey had brought them over because he knew they were more talented than him, but weirdly enough, he was the person paying most attention right now.
It took Liam all of 2 minutes to finish the entire set of movements and then he repeated it two more times, finishing the whole thing in around 5 minutes.
"Alright then. I am done with the demonstration. As for the explanation… You should have figured out by now how extremely realistic the game is."
"So this set of exercises are just something I practice every day in real life and they coincidentally worked in-game as well."
He didn't care if they were convinced or not with his explanation and didn't bother elaborating more. "I wish you luck." Liam clapped his hands, removing the dirt on them as the three still continued to watch him in a daze.
He then turned around to start walking away back to the town, when all three snapped out of their trance and called after him at the same time. "Hey. Wait."
"Hmmm?" Liam stopped, already regretting his decision for entertaining the three heavy duty money bags.
"This… I am Alex. Add me also to your friends list."
"And I am Mia." The two girls introduced themselves.
"Brother, come on. Now that we have all been introduced, how about we party together? We are all good players. We won't bog you down."
Liam sighed. "Not interested."
He also didn't send any friend requests to the two women and continued walking back to the moneylender. Now that, he had more money, it saved him a lot of time and effort and he intended to upgrade his gear before heading out.
"Brother expert," Rey called after him, but Mia stopped him.
"Leave him be. I don't think someone like him will join any group. Let's just work on things our own way." She muttered, tucking away a few strands of her blond hair behind her ear.
"What? You are already returning the gold?" The fat pawnshop owner shook his head at Liam in disapproval, his chubby chin and neck fat jiggling as he did.
He was not able to get a single silver from the young man and it pained him terribly.
As a loan shark, his survival depended on people returning back the money borrowed at the last minute, if at all, but now this young man had returned it back to him within a single day!
"Alright. Don't hesitate to ask for my help again if you need it." The shopkeeper muttered, replacing the frown once again with a big smile. Liam nodded at him and then walked out towards his next destination.
He had neither expected this influx of cash nor his unique body constitution. This made his path ahead a lot easier and at the same time also uncertain.
After exiting the pawnshop, Liam made a quick trip to the weapons store and upgraded his rusted long sword to a bright and shiny silver sword.
It gave him a simple boost of 10 attack power as opposed to the 1 attack power of the rusted sword while costing 10 silver.
Unlike the pieces of equipment dropped by beasts and monsters, swords sold by the merchant stores were flashy, extremely good-looking, expensive but had very bad stats. No one in their right mind would buy these.
It was far more efficient to obtain pieces of equipment by clearing quests and grinding for monsters or even personally forging them.
However, right now time was more valuable than gold for Liam. So he quickly purchased a full set of gear without hesitation, including light leather armor, leather pants, silver boots, and silver gauntlets, spending a little over 1 gold.
There was also a thick silver breastplate which Liam did not buy as he preferred keeping his body light and free, rather than being weighed down by clunky pieces of equipment.
Combined with his tempered well-toned body, clear skin, sharp look, and fine, polished, and crisp leather clothing, he looked like an heir to one of the rich families. The gear also gave him a decent boost of course, albeit for an extravagant price.
[Defense]: 50 -> 70
[Agility]: 50 -> 60
[Physical Attack power]: +10
For a player who has just started the game with not a single ounce of experience points, Liam's stats were extremely terrifying, to say the least.
"Alright. Time to head out." He had already spent enough time in the town, so Liam started walking out in long strides. This time he didn't bother taking the busy commoner's road and directly headed into the wilderness.
"This guy! What the hell? Just how much money does he have? And not to mention the good items and the unique quest!! What a lucky bastard!" Robert grimaced.
He was one of the players who had noticed Liam back in the training hall and had been following him ever since.
Robert was not someone new to VRMMORPGs and had a dedicated group of friends playing along with him who were all together as a guild in the last game before they got forcibly pulled into 'Evolution Online'.
They had only coincidentally noticed Liam, but after they saw him receiving the special quest from the instructor, they decided to follow him along.
His actions were a bit too suspicious and they couldn't help but doubt that he had prior knowledge about the game. Otherwise, how could he get this lucky this soon?
Not to mention, Liam also looked unusually calm and steady among the sea of players who were fumbling around.
"No doubt. This guy is a beta-tester!" Robert exclaimed. He was a tall young man seemingly in his twenties and he had a wild unkempt scraggly beard on his chin.
"Should we loot him, bro?" Ben asked, walking along with Robert. Their group currently had five people following Liam.
Robert paused and replied after a while, shaking his head. "That would only be counterproductive. Let's follow him and see what he does next. Maybe he can lead us to a good grinding spot which can give us an advantage."
All the others agreed with him and nodded in response. Though it might seem like they were wasting time, in an exploration game with very little information available, any amount of extra advantage would give them an edge.
However, they were not the only group following Liam and not everyone had the same intentions.
Jin Wei slapped the guy standing near him on his back and loudly harrumphed. "Ahhh! I can't wait to slaughter that bitch! He is spending my money without any limit."
"Heh. How stupid! Why would a level 1 loser even invest so much in equipments? Wasting money because he has lots!" Another one chimed in. This group of players had oriental features and were also following Liam.
"Must be some rich sucker who has a death wish. Bish money can't save you in the game!"
"Leader, we should teach him a good lesson while we are at it. Camp at the grave and wait for him to get more in-game gold and kill him again and again!"
"Ke Ke Ke! How many times do you think he will end up recharging before finally giving up and uninstalling the game? Ke Ke Ke!"
…..
Note: Physical Attack power is directly proportional to the Strength attribute and the boost from weapon is in addition to this. (in this case: +10)
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