“Let’s go, it’s time to complete the quest!” Zhang Yang dragged Fatty Han in search of Army Captain Soren and completed ‘The Raid’ quest, obtaining a Black-Steel ring.
[Soren’s Appreciation Ring] (Black-Steel, Ring)
Vitality: +2
Strength: +3
Equipped Effect: Each attack triggers a fixed rate in healing your HP. Recovery rate will be 1% of the damage.
Level Requirement: 10
This would be the first equipment in the game that possessed the <Life Steal> effect. It’s too bad that the recovery rate was too low, and so was the trigger rate! It could not be helped since this was a General Quest’s reward; a ring as a reward was considered satisfactory and it’s always better than receiving nothing at all!
Hong!
A flash of golden radiance illuminated the area and Zhang Yang had risen to Level 11 with the 10,000 EXP reward from his quest.
He had thought that he would enter the Player Level Ranking but after he checked the board, he found out that those who were still Level 10 that morning had all reached Level 11. He was not in the ranking but thankfully the player who had ranked first was still Level 11.
“Fatty, I’m going to make the shield. Go level up yourself!” said Zhang Yang.
Fatty Han yawned and said, “I’ve only slept for 3 to 4 hours. I’m feeling sleepy again so I guess I’m going to get some sleep first!”
Zhang Yang peeked at the system clock and said, “F*ck! It’s going to be 6 pm! What sleep? Go have your dinner and come back online to play for a while more. Rest well at night and don’t burn the midnight oil anymore! You’re playing for such a long time everyday anyway, why would you stay up late?”
“Hmm, makes sense. Well then, I shall go kill some mobs now that I’ve just gotten these new weapons! Eh? Hold up! Someone just private messaged me!” He paused for a brief second and his face had immediately morphed into a perverted one. “Little Yang, a pretty babe wants to chat with me, so I’m not gonna bullshit with you anymore!”
Zhang Yang smiled and left for the Auction House.
To make an [Earthen Round Shield], he would need 100 [Iron Bar]s and 1 [Plain Copper Bar]. Zhang Yang did not have any [Iron Bar] in his inventory so he had to buy them from the Auction House.
The Auction House was where players trade, buy or sell items in the game. Every city would have them but different cities would not share the goods. Simply said, items put on auction in White Jade Castle’s Auction House could only be bought from the house itself, and players from other cities would have to travel all the way here if they wanted that particular item.
Once Zhang Yang entered Auction House, he loaded the search window and keyed in the keywords “Iron Ore, Iron Bar”. Tapping the search button, a whole page of results appeared.
Since the game was still in its early stage, all sorts of prices were set. Zhang Yang did a simple price comparison and auctioned for 15 stacks of [Iron Bar]s that had costed 50 silver coins for each stack, buying a total of 300 bars.
He then went to the mailbox and collected the [Iron Bar]s that were sent by the Auction House. After that, he went to the Smithery and placed 100 [Iron Bar]s and 1 [Plain Copper Bar] onto the cast. He then opened the crafting window and selected the [Earthen Round Shield] and tapped ‘Craft’. His character then moved on its own and picked up a hammer, a progress bar appearing below his avatar.
After 30 seconds.
‘Ding! You have crafted [Earthen Round Shield]. Your Crafting Skill has increased by 1 point!’
In ‘God’s Miracle’, crafting level could be categorized into Beginner, Amateur, Advanced, Professional, Specialist, Master and Grandmaster. Each level up required 1000 crafting points. NPCs would not teach players to craft any items and all of the items could only be learnt through recipes found by players.
The lower ranked recipes were easier to obtain but once a player had reached the Professional level and beyond, it would be extremely hard to obtain even one recipe that corresponded to the level. Furthermore, going from Professional to Specialist would require a player to craft items from Professional-ranked recipes. Nothing could be done if there was no recipe of that rank.
That was why even after 5 years in the game in his previous life, far too few players had managed to become a Grandmaster of Crafting.
Zhang Yang stroked the shield lovingly and swapped the old shield to equip it, raising his attributes by heaps.
[Player: Zhan Yu]
Level: 11
HP: 790
Defense: 64
Strength: 86
Dexterity: 32
Luck: 2
Melee Damage: 102 – 110
Attack Interval: 2 seconds
64 Defense! Zhang Yang laughed. With such a high Defense value, not many players would be able to penetrate his defense at the moment! His 790 HP could allow him to stand still and it would still take half a day for someone to kill him!
He then proceeded to utilize all his materials and crafted two more shields. After that, he went to the mailbox and mailed one of the shields to Crimson Fire via cash-on-delivery. He then put the other shield up with a minimum bid of 400 gold coins and without a buyout price for a day on the Auction House anonymously.
It was about 6.30 pm when he had wanted to log off and have his dinner but he was interrupted by a private message notification sound.
“Buddy, I have a lot more [Iron Ore]s here. If you would like to buy more of them, you can contact me directly and I can give you a lower price!”
Zhang Yang checked and saw that the message was sent by someone named ‘Professional Miner’. He immediately recalled that it was the person whom he had bought the [Iron Plate]s from in the Auction House. Auction Houses would usually charge a 10% service fee, so most players would want to establish direct transactions with regular customers to cut their cost.
Realizing that he would need a large amount of [Iron Plate]s to craft shields, he would indeed need a stable supplier. Zhang Yang then replied the message saying, “Eh, I would require 10 to 20 stacks of [Iron Plate]s daily. Can you guarantee the constant supply?”
“Haha, My name is Professional Miner. 10 to 20? If you want several times more than that amount, I could also dig them up for you!” Professional Miner replied smugly.
“Very well. What’s the price?”
“It depends on how many you want.”
“Um, let’s make it 100 stacks for now!” Zhang Yang simply gave a number. That amount would allow him to produce only 20 shields anyway so it was not that much.
“Sheesh! What’s with that amount!” Professional Miner drew in a shaky breath.
“Haha, you said you could do it!” Zhang Yang laughed as he replied.
“Hehe, 100 stacks are too much. I only have 30 stacks for now!”
“Okay, 30 stacks it is! Name your price!”
“Um, how about 48 silver coins per stack?”
Professional Miner had auctioned a stack for 50 silver coins in the Auction House and the 10% service fee would have cost him 5 silver coins. Therefore, the price offered now was cheaper by 2 silver coins which Zhang Yang thought was acceptable.
Zhang Yang replied instantly, “Very well, mail them to me via COD. I’ll be logging off to have dinner now!”
“OK, let’s be friends. It’s easier to keep in touch!”
Zhang Yang easily accepted the friend request and logged off.
Taking off his gaming helmet, Zhang Yang let out a long breath. After laying down for such a long period of time, his body felt rather stiff. He stretched in his room for a bit before heading to the kitchen to prepare his dinner. He logged back in after having a simple meal.
The email notification indicated that he had new mails so Zhang Yang went to the mailbox and retrieved them. The first one was about the [Iron Ore]s from Professional Miner. 14 gold coins were deducted after Zhang Yang selected ‘Accept’ as the transaction was via COD. 30 stacks of [Iron Ore]s were then added into his inventory. The second mail contained 500 gold coins that the system had sent over after Crimson Fire retrieved the shield.
Zhang Yang sent a message to Fatty Han, asking him to complete a quest together but Fatty Han rejected him saying that he wanted to chat with the pretty girl and did not have time for him.
“Hoes before bros, what a douche!” Zhang Yang shook his head, he had wanted to bring Fatty Han along for a special quest but since that fatty could not be counted upon, Zhang Yang would just ignore him.
Going out of the city and heading eastward, he was blocked by 4 players who prevented him from walking further.
Floral Shorts, Prideful Precepts, Prideful Babysitter and Kindling Chest Hair – the Pride Quad.
“F*ck you, noob Warrior! I’ve said it before. If you didn’t add us back into the party, I’ll kill you back to Level 0!” Prideful Precepts glared at Zhang Yang, gritting his teeth.
Oh, how infuriated they were after Zhang Yang had kicked them out of the party! They then discussed and decided that they would not let this matter rest and must make Zhang Yang pay for his arrogance! Therefore, they had waited at the dungeon entrance to gang up and beat Zhang Yang up once he came out.
However, what had greeted them after waiting for so long was the red-text laden server announcement!
They had felt angrier after seeing that! If Zhang Yang had not kicked them out from the party, they would have been part of the glorious feat! These 4 players had not even reflected on the reason of their expulsion but had piled all their fury and blamed it on Zhang Yang. This had further steeled their will to ‘punish’ Zhang Yang.
After Snowy Death and the rest of the party had exited the dungeon, they had waited for another period of time yet Zhang Yang was nowhere to be found. Prideful Precepts then realized that Zhang Yang must have used a Teleportation Reagent! They then rushed hurriedly back to the city and with such coincidence, stumbled upon Zhang Yang in their journey!
Zhang Yang smirked, “With just you bunch of useless douches?”
“Useless your ass! Why are we still talking shit with him?! Wreck the guy!” Kindling Chest Hair held his hammer tightly with his eyes locked on Zhang Yang.
“Yes, roll him over! If he’s not killed back to Level 0 today, I can’t stomach this insult!” Floral Shorts said as he used <Stealth>, disappearing from their sight.
Prideful Precepts had started to cast a <Fireball> while Kindling Chest Hair had wielded his hammer and rushed towards Zhang Yang.
Zhang Yang waited patiently with his arms crossed, sneering.
“Noob Warrior! Just die!” said Kindling Chest Hair as he dashed over, swinging his shield and tossing it towards Zhang Yang.
“<Shield Toss>!”
‘Pah!’ A damage text floated above Zhang Yang’s head, ‘-1!’.
‘Ding! You are under attack by Floral Shorts and his party. You have 10 minutes to counterattack!’
After the system notification rang in his ears, Zhang Yang’s gaze turned cold, revealing his lethal aura.
According to the game’s rules, whenever a fight occurred between players, the first to attack would be identified as the challenger by the system and marked with a red name tag. The other party would then be given 10 minutes to counterattack unrestrictedly. A red-tagged player would drop 2 levels if they were killed regardless of whether the deed was done by players, monsters, or even NPCs!
Zhang Yang had not initiated the attack solely because he had wanted the system to identify them as red-tagged challengers!
At the same time, Floral Shorts had emerged from his stealth mode and appeared behind Zhang Yang, slashing him with two swords.
‘-1!’
‘-1!’
Unable to penetrate Zhang Yang’s 64 points of Defense, Floral Shorts could only cause a pitiful 1 damage.
“Shit! How is this noob Warrior’s skin so thick!” Floral Shorts asked surprised.
‘Dang!’ Kindling Chest Hair’s hammer landed on Zhang Yang yet he too could only deal a pathetic ‘-1’ damage.
‘-36!’
Prideful Precepts’ fireball had also landed on Zhang Yang and had finally dealt damage that was not too shabby.
Defense could only reduce physical damage, it would be ineffective against magical damage.
Zhang Yang scoffed and used <Charge> towards Prideful Precepts, stunning and slashing him with his sword, causing a devastating ‘-103’ damage that was one-fourth of his HP in an instance.
“F*ck me! How is his damage so high?!” screamed Prideful Precepts. “Babysitter, heal me!”
At this time, both Floral Shorts and Kindling Chest Hair had come back, raising their weapons to attack Zhang Yang.
“<Block>!”
‘-70!’
‘-82!’
<Block> reflected damage text floated across Kindling Chest Hair and Floral Shorts’ heads simultaneously.
‘-204!’
‘-210!’
‘-209!’
‘-190!’
‘-20!’
The <Horizontal Sweep> had caused high damage on the Pride Quad and triggered the necklace’s <Shadow Rage>, reflecting on Zhang Yang’s current target, Prideful Precepts.
“What the hell, this guy isn’t human at all!”
“Babysitter, heal me!”
“F*ck off, me first!”
‘-166!’
Zhang Yang flicked his wrist and bashed his shield on Prideful Precepts. <Shield Bash> dealing incredible damage, sent Prideful Precepts whose HP was not even 100 points, straight to resurrection spawn point. He did not even give Prideful Babysitter any opportunity to heal him.
‘Ding! You have killed Prideful Precepts!’
‘-99!’
Zhang Yang swung his sword and slashed Prideful Babysitter, simultaneously activating <Force Strike> and dealing ‘-101’ damage.
‘Ding! You have killed Prideful Babysitter!’
In an instant, only Floral Shorts and Kindling Chest Hair with their 146 HP and 428 HP were left!
‘-1!’
‘-1!’
‘-1!’
Floral Shorts and Kindling Chest Hair had used all their brute strength in attacking Zhang Yang but were unable to penetrate his defense, their faces paling in shock.
‘God’s Miracle’ was designed really well. Even a player’s inner feelings could be expressed so realistically! Zhang Yang applauded internally and then dealt a horizontal blow towards Kindling Chest Hair.
“-92!”
“Damn, this guy must be using hacks! How can a f*cking Guardian deal such high damage?!” cried Floral Shorts. He had thought that they could take Zhang Yang easily by outnumbering him 4 to 1 but unexpectedly the situation was reversed. How could they not feel embarrassed?
“Fucking GM1 and shitty game. Why didn’t they do anything about the hacks? What the f*ck, f*ck you and your ancestors!” Kindling Chest Hair cussed immediately.
Zhang Yang raised the shield immediately after <Block>’s cooldown completed.
‘-70!’
‘-80!’
2 <Block> reflected damage texts popped up while Zhang Yang conveniently activated <Shield Bash>.
‘-156!’
Kindling Chest Hair huffed in pain and exclaimed, “Floral, let’s withdraw quickly!”
“Trying to run?” sneered Zhang Yang as he drew his sword again and launched another <Horizontal Sweep>.
‘-202!’
‘-20!’
‘-208!’
‘+2!’ <Life Steal> from the ring was triggered.
Floral Shorts and Kindling Chest Hair did not even manage to turn around before they both fell and died. Kindling Chest Hair had actually dropped an equipment. It was the [Heavy Chest Plate] he had obtained from their Normal Mode Bangar Crypt run together.
‘Ding, you have killed Floral Shorts!’
‘Ding, you have killed Kindling Chest Hair!’
Zhang Yang picked up the equipment and stored it in his inventory without a second thought. Although he did not need it, it could be sold for a few gold coins if he auctioned it at the Auction House. He was in need of money so every penny counts!
Some 10 minutes later, Floral Shorts and his friends had revived themselves by returning their ‘spirits’ to their bodies.
‘Sha!’
Suddenly, a shadow sprang out from the bushes by the road and charged towards Prideful Precepts, causing rotating stars which symbolized the ‘Stun’ status effect to immediately appear on his head.
“Crap! That noob Guardian is spawn camping!” Floral Shorts yelled in surprise.
‘-106!’
Zhang Yang waved his sword and a huge damage text floated across Prideful Precepts’ head. How could Prideful Percepts who had just revived with only 20% HP withstand such a blow? Thus, a white light flashed and he was sent to sign his attendance at the graveyard once again!
When his Rage rose to 25 points, Zhang Yang wielded his sword and used <Horizontal Sweep>!
‘-198!’
‘-205!’
‘-208!’
‘-20!’
Kindling Chest Hair and the 2 others who stood close to each other were then sent off to meet the Resurrection Goddess in a stream of white light.
“F*ck! F*ck!” cried Prideful Precepts in his spirit form as he appeared at the graveyard. Not long after, he received notice of Floral Shorts and the others’ deaths. All of them were dropped to Level 6 from dying twice under red-tagged names.
“That guy… could he still be camping our bodies?” said Prideful Babysitter with a tone of fear in his voice.
“Let’s run back to our bodies but not resurrect ourselves yet. We’ll wait!” said Floral Shorts.
The 4 of them returned to their bodies and waited patiently.
One hour later.
“He should be gone by now right?” said Floral Shorts with uncertainty in his voice.
“Yeah. It’s been so long now. He shouldn’t have such patience!” said Prideful Precepts, “I’ll count to 3 and let’s resurrect together!”
“1!”
“2!”
“3!”
A gust of wind blew by and all 4 souls were still there standing.
“F*ck, why didn’t you guys resurrect?” scolded Prideful Precepts.
“Damn, why didn’t you resurrect?” Floral Shorts argued back as well.
“Stop, stop, stop! Stop quarrelling, we’re all a family! Let’s do this again, whoever doesn’t resurrect this time is a noob bastard. His son will be born without an asshole and his daughter cursed to forever remain flat-chested!” said Prideful Babysitter.
“1!”
“2!”
“3!”
4 of them resurrected together.
‘Sha!’ A flash of sword went by and four bodies laid dead on the floor.
“I… Crap…” Prideful Precepts was filled with tears.
The other 3 looked at each other speechlessly. They had wanted to kill Zhang Yang back to Level 0 initially but looking at their own pathetic states now, they have already dropped to Level 4! If they were killed another two more times then all of them would really end up hitting Level 0!
“… Let’s resurrect here!” Floral Shorts finally said after a long time.
Resurrecting directly at the graveyard would incur additional penalties: dropping 1 level and decreasing all attributes for 80% for an hour!
…
Zhang Yang leisurely laid by the bush and played with a stalk of grass, glancing at the 4 bodies by the road occasionally. Suddenly, all 4 bodies turned transparent and eventually disappeared.
“Hehe, they’ve resurrected directly at the graveyard huh?!” Zhang Yang patted his butt and stood up. The nearest graveyard was in the Capital and it was prohibited for players to fight there, so there was no chance for him to kill the Pride Quad back to Level 0!
Zhang Yang had been an absolute dictator since he was young! The title ‘Li’l Overlord of Octagonal Alley’ was not bullshit, it was in fact a title he had earned through sweat and blood! The despicable Pride Quad had dared ambush him and even threatened to kill him back to Level 0. Naturally, he had needed to remind them to engrave this lesson into their hearts!
Checking the time, he realized he had actually wasted 2 hours on the Pride Quad! Zhang Yang thought about it and chose to log off immediately. The place he had intended to travel to was not nearby and he would have to go to bed by the time he arrived and killed only a few mobs. In addition, he had a dungeon raid at 9am tomorrow. Running back and forth would be such a pain!
Theoretically, a player could only get a mount at Level 40 and a flying mount at Level 100. How Zhang Yang missed the days in his previous life where he could roam the world on his Stormhawk!
Just as Zhang Yang had logged off, he recalled that he had forgotten to inform Fatty Han about the next morning’s dungeon raid. Inevitably, he had to log back on to send the fatty a private message, telling him to wait at the dungeon entrance at 9 am the next morning.
Fatty Han seemed like he was still chatting with a certain pretty girl and had only acknowledged the message after some time before completely ignoring Zhang Yang once again.
Logging off and laying on his bed, Zhang Yang took out his diary and scribbled what he could remember from the game’s trend in his previous life.
According to his memory, the final boss Marzerway in the Level 20 dungeon, Marzerway’s Lair, was a magic-type monster. Its <Shadow Ball> had been extraordinary! Currently, nobody possessed much magic-resistant equipment and could only achieve high magic resistance with the aid of potions!
There was an <Alchemy> recipe that could produce a potion called [Beginner Anti-Shadow Potion]. Upon consumption, it would increase a player’s Shadow resistance by 100 for 1 minute. This would be an absolutely necessity to clear Marzerway’s Lair!
Zhang Yang’s next stage of his get-rich-quick scheme would be to sell this potion, it would definitely rake in massive profit!
After he receive Crimson Fire’s gold coins tomorrow, Zhang Yang plans on hoarding [Brassica Weed] and [Ginkgo Flower], the two main ingredients in crafting [Beginner Anti-Shadow Potion].
Zhang Yang strategized for a while and went to bed.
The next day, Zhang Yang woke up at around 6 in the morning and spent an hour exercising. After having his breakfast as well as a short break, it was already around 8.30 am.
He put on his game helmet and logged on!
‘Ding! Player Crimson Fire invites you to join his party. Will you accept his invitation?’
The moment Zhang Yang went online, he received a party invitation. He accepted it since they had made an agreement the previous day.
‘Ding! You have joined a party! Party leader: Crimson Fire, Group Looting Parameters: Master Loot!’
He checked the party list and well, there were already 10 players. It was just lacking him.
He already knew half of the party members: Crimson Fire, Phantom Day, Silky Snow, and Fatty Han; the other 5 were unfamiliar faces but he guessed that they would probably be the elites of Lost Paradise!
Royal Pardon, Dwarf, Beastmaster, Level 10.
Love Lonely, Human, Pyromancer, Level 10.
Absolute Defense, Human, Defender, Level 11.
Favorite Orange, Elf, Cryomancer, Level 10.
Little Demon, Human, Sacred Knight, Level 10.
Immediately, Phantom Day and the others had greeted Zhang Yang enthusiastically.
“So early?” Zhang Yang asked in the party channel as he laughed.
“Yeah, you’re the last one. Hurry over! We can begin once everyone’s here!” replied Crimson Fire.
“OK, I’m coming!” Zhang Yang had logged off midway yesterday so it would only take him roughly 10 minutes to walk over to Bangar Crypt.
“Hmph, how stuck-up! 9 of us have waited for such a long time for you!” Absolute Defense suddenly said.
Zhang Yang was surprised and thought to himself, “It’s already said that the dungeon raid starts at 9 am. I looked at the time before coming and it wouldn’t have passed 9 am when I reach the dungeon anyway. What a temper this bro has!”
“F*ck, don’t play if you don’t want to wait! F*cker, who do you think you are!” Fatty Han had a far shorter temper than Zhang Yang, turning angry immediately when he heard people complaining about his brother.
Crimson Fire hurriedly pacified them and said, “Absolute, stop your nonsense!”
10 minutes later, Zhang Yang arrived at the dungeon entrance.
Differing from yesterday’s deserted state, the valley was filled with people as most players had reached Level 10 and wanted to try raiding the dungeon. Lone players were searching for pub parties while parties were finding players they lacked. All sorts of messages flooded the open channel as though it was a market.
Among the crowd, tanks and healers were undoubtedly scarce. Although Zhang Yang had hidden his profile information, people could still recognize him as a tank because of the shield he was carrying on his back. He had received no less than 30 private messages asking him to join their parties.
“Let’s enter the dungeon!” commanded Crimson Fire.
‘Ding! You have entered Bangar Crypt (Hardcore Mode)!’
All 10 players appeared at the entrance one by one. Zhang Yang glanced at Fatty Han and was surprised. “Why are you in a guild?”
As coy as Fatty Han was, he would never hide his profile information. “Slim and Handsome, Crypt Slaughterer, Level 10.” “Blazing City” were the two rows of text above his head.
“Hehe. Yesterday I met this pretty chick who really fancies Fatty! So I’ve decided to temporarily join her guild and give her an opportunity to further understand her idol!” Fatty Han said shamelessly. “Oh yeah, why don’t you join in as well? I’ll be bolder if you’re with me!”
Zhang Yang frowned and said, “We’ll talk about it later!”
Translator Note:
1 GM stands for gamemaster, game moderator or game manager. This is sort of the admin/go-to person hired by an MMO developer to cater to the masses of people playing an online game. GMs generally help ensure the stability of the server and usually have various kinds of jobs as long as they are related to the game server.
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