Chương 10: The forests of Angur

The deep forests of Angur were a sanctuary created by the Universal Queen on the morning star planet where wild monsters thrived.

Unlike a VR game where mobs would have infinite spawn and would just randomly appear in the forest where players could go and hunt them, the deep forests of Angur were much more treacherous.

There was no infinite respawn and there was no randomness to how the mobs moved around, as one needed to learn how to trace footprints, understand the areas patrolled by the different races and place traps to capture and kill the beasts to gain exp.

For leveling the fastest way was always killing monsters and gaining experience, however, it was not the best way to go about reaching tier 1.

The tiers in Sigma worked like this.

Level 0-30 was tier 0

Then there was a tier promotion test after each level cap which could be taken by an individual to further their journey.

Level 30-100 was tier 1.

Level 100-200 was tier 2

Level 200-400 was tier 3

Level 400-600 was tier 4

Level 600-1000 was tier 5

And there was an unknown tier 6 promotion test after that to reach tier 6.

Although there were tiers beyond tier 6, Max had no idea about how they worked as all information about those higher levels was redacted for those beneath the tier 6 threshold.

Where-as most people tried to level up as fast as possible and reach the pinnacle of the mortal realms, Max with his reincarnation knew that it was a shitty approach to take.

One's levels did not indicate one's true strength and skill, however, the stats did.

At the lower levels, the best thing to focus on was to robustly improve one's basic stats such that they far exceeded what one's peers had at the same level.

This could be done through various means such as slashing and hacking at a dummy to improve strength and dexterity whereas running in controlled environments to increase stamina.

While 99.9% of humans from earth would play Sigma like a normal VR game and rush into a leveling-style gameplay, Max would join the university and take advantage of the facilities they provide to improve his basic stats and abilities while choosing to level up more steadily.

This was one of the many reasons why Max wanted to join the university as only at the university will he be taught how to create a strong foundation for his coming future and provide him with invaluable training tools and knowledge experiences that can not be experienced otherwise.

The university was Max's chance to enter the upper 10% of society and he was ready to do anything and everything needed to get there.

As he carefully entered the deep forests, a system notification entered his ears.

[ System notification ] : You have entered a wild zone, you can now be killed by wild mobs, other players and your own teammates without the galactic police coming to your rescue. Please enter the safe zone once more if you stepped into unknown territory by accident.

[ Detected that player ] ' Unnamed ' is entering the forest alone and does not have a guild or a party.

[ Detected that the player ] ' Unnamed ' is level 0 tier 0.

Chances of death - 65%

[ System remark ] - You will drop loot if you die.

Max sighed, this was just perfect, the system showed his odds of survival at a mere 35% , meaning he died nearly ⅔ times facing any scenario in the forest.

While this was a true analysis by the system and if Max was just another human from earth he would most likely have died a horrific death in the forest. However with his reincarnation cheat Max was much more confident.

In his past life Max had spent nearly 200 earthen days traversing these forests as he tried to get to tier 1 as quickly as possible.

He had been mercilessly killed by alien chickens and rabbits and even rabid mice who gave him the mumonic plague.

It took him 200 days to slowly gain enough EXP to level up to level 30 and undertake the tier 1 promotion test after which his downfall began.

' Not this time , not this time ' Max muttered under his breath resolutely as he swiftly traversed the wild jungle as if it was his own backyard.

The first monster that Max came across was an infected rat and Max avoided the rat completely as even though killing the rat would give him exp, the rotting corpse could give him infection which he did not wish for.

Five minutes in, Max stopped jogging when he saw two distinct red eyes staring towards him from the bushes as a sinister noise entered his ears.

" Pak , Pak , Pak , Pak , Paka! "

" Oh it's you, my old foe, the accursed RonoSlavic chicken" Max said with a sinister smile on his face.

[ RonoSlavic Chicken ] ( Level 1 ) - A chicken race whose meat is inedible to all sentient creatures except goblins who consider them a delicacy.

Known for their aggressive nature and existing in all colors possible.

In his past life he had taken these accursed creatures lightly and faced two humiliating deaths as he did not know the proper way of combating against them, however, this time around Max was an expert.

The chicken charged at Max with its tiny feet and Wings extended and Max charged with equal seriousness towards the chicken.

Both leaped and there was a showdown mid-air but the chicken had overestimated its size as compared to Max it was half a feet tall and weighed 10 kilograms at best.

CRASH!

Max crashed belly first onto the chicken breaking many bones in its body as he snapped the neck of the chicken in one clean motion killing it successfully!

+ You have killed a orange RonoSlavic Chicken !

Satisfied Max looked at the dead body and said in a solemn voice " Orange, tch , the worst color out there ".

Making sure to spit on the corpse twice Max began his journey once more.

Along the way Max made sure to kill every damned chicken that came in his way by strangling their throats and choking them out as he got back on them for all the humiliating deaths they had caused him , pecking on his head as he ran like a coward.

+ You have killed a RonoSlavic Chicken , obtained +1 Breastmeat ( inedible )

+ You have killed one black RonoSlavic chicken

+ You have killed one brown RonoSlavic chicken

+ You have killed one blue RonoSlavic chicken

+ You have killed one violet RonoSlavic chicken

After killing 11 chickens Max felt a familiar warm feeling rising in his body as a system notification entered his ears.

[ System notification ] - LEVEL UP!

[ System remark ] - What are you trying to become by killing all those chickens ? A chicken slayer? Or a goblin supplier?

Max frowned at the system remark, it was snarky for no reason at all! It was unfair!

Max wanted to rant about it to the queen but before he could do so he heard human footsteps and voices coming from a short distance away as Max instantly took cover and hid behind a large tree.

As he peeked, he saw the familiar white and red painted masks over the three players which made inspecting their identities impossible at Max's level and signified that they belonged to the den of thieves organization.

' Gotcha ' Max thought as he started to follow them silently. His objective being to locate their hideout and gain a mask by killing a member sneakily.

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Chương 11: First Kill

Max followed the thieves sneakily. It was kind of ironic because usually, it was thieves who would follow their targets sneakily before using some sleight of hand to pick their pockets.

The den of thieves was a vast organization in the Sigma universe, the strongest members of the organization were rumored to be at the legendary tier 6 power level, and it was said that the greatest heist performed by the organization was worth a whopping 1.4 billion universal gold.

The recruitment into the organization started early as they only trusted thieves that had been a part of the organization from tier 0 and had been trained and nurtured by the organization on their journey up.

While there were no confirmed reports about their hideouts, it was rumored that they had a secret hideout in the forests of Angur because of how often the members were seen roaming the forest.

It was because of this reason that Max planned on roaming the forest until he spotted a member of the group, and then tail him back toward the hideout.

Now that he had found a group of 3 men wearing the den of thieves' masks he tailed them while walking extremely carefully so as to not break a single twig or make the slightest of sounds.

Thankfully for Max, the thieves in front of him did not seem to be that experienced, despite him making many rookie mistakes such as running from tree to tree without proper cover or accidentally swatting a bug that landed on him a little too loudly, the thieves did not notice his presence.

Everything seemed to be progressing smoothly for Max and after 40 minutes of tailing the thieves, Max reached a clearing in the forest where a mini village was set up.

Everyone in the village seemed to wear the den of thieves' masks, however, despite the mask hiding their faces, their body features were on full display from which Max could discern that the organization was definitely not an all-human organization at all.

Although humans were the majority, one could make out the disgusting hairy outline of werewolves from a mile away amongst orcs, dwarves, and elves.

What perplexed Max was how was a bulky and dexterity-less species like the orcs a part of the den of thieves organization? Unless thieving was only one of their many lines of work.

Max waited for answers as he observed from a distance by laying low in the grass.

Max wanted to wait for a solo member to wander off into the forest by himself after which Max would silently take him out and steal his mask to gain entry into the Den Of Thieves village, however, his plans were foiled when a kunai knife landed an inch in front of his right ear.

BZZP!

Max was jolted upright as he looked around for the attacker, however, he could spot no one.

BZZZP!

A second kunai knife came flying toward Max and grazed his right knee.

10 HP

Max was hurt and he lost a bit of his HP however he now knew the rough direction of the attacker as he started running away from him.

A nimble figure dressed in black robes followed Max through the jungle on his escape as kunai knives kept flying around Max's body.

Max had to run in a zig-zag and haphazard manner to not be hit by the kunai knife.

The figure following him definitely had a powerful throw, but at tier 1 it was not accurate enough to always guarantee a hit, as Max was lucky to have evaded as many hits as he did.

The opportunity for Max to counter came when he swerved past a thick tree and knew that he had momentarily exited the vision of his attacker.

Using his wits Max stopped dead in his tracks and instead of running away he started to climb the tree at a frantic pace.

Perched on a branch 10 feet above the ground, Max waited as right on cue about 20 seconds later the pursuer came right below him looking around trying to figure out where Max had run away to.

Max jumped from the branch and landed straight on the attacker's back with a heavy thud as he could hear the sound of the enemy's spine cracking.

CRACK!

A shrill cry of pain escaped the opponent's mouth, however, Max did not care for it.

Quickly taking a kunai knife hanging by the human's side, Max violently stabbed him repeatedly in the neck killing him off.

-100

-400 CRITICAL HIT!

[ System notification ] - You have killed ' Jadewazi Maka ', a named player at the tier 1 rank in the wild zone, no penalties given.

•You have achieved a feat that is nearly impossible for a level 1 player, the EXP reward doubled.

+Level UP!

•You have reached level 5, the stat panel is unlocked.

[ System Remark ] - You are lucky that the opponent you were facing had a weak constitution, the backs of tier 1 opponents don't snap so easily.

Don't get too cocky because of your small lucky encounter, facing a tier 1 opponent at your measly strength is akin to suicide.

Max frowned at the system remark, there was something definitely off about the system, it was definitely snarky about Max's assessment.

However, he was more shocked that the opponent he had just killed was a freaking tier 1 player! The system was spot on with its assessment that Max would not be this lucky twice and it was only through circumstantial luck that he was able to kill such a strong opponent.

Max facepalmed himself and laughed thinking about how it took him 14 days in his past life to reach level 5, this time around however it only took him 1.

Level 5 was an important milestone because you unlocked the stat panel at level 5, and could finally start distributing the 2 Attribute points one got for leveling up from level 1-5.

" Display stat panel" Max commanded and a system screen opened in front of him.

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[ BASIC INFORMATION ]

{ Name } - Unnamed ( Not Yet Assigned )

{ Race } - Purebred Human ( Planet #H2047 )

{ Alignment } - Neutral

{ Languages } - Bipedal English

{ Titles } - None

{ Level } - 5 ( 43% )

{ Tier } - 0

{ System Remark } - ( Who the hell do you think you are? TRASH! )

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[ STATS ]

{ Mana } - 0

{ Health } - 30

{ Stamina } - 30

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[ ATTRIBUTES ]

STRENGTH - 10 DEXTERITY - 10

AGILITY - 10 CONSTITUTION - 10

INTELLIGENCE - 10 ENDURANCE - 10

Unassigned AP - 10

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[ HIDDEN ATTRIBUTES ]

LUCK - ??? / 100

CHARISMA - 15 /100

WISDOM - ???

KARMIC VALUE - ?????

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[ SKILLS ]

•Ball Crushing

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[ EQUIPMENT ]

- None

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[ RESISTANCES ]

- None

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[ PET / MOUNT ]

- None

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Max was both happy and sad after looking at his stat panel, he was happy that he had 10 points across all attributes which meant that he was considered an above-average human with the average human only having 7 points across all attributes.

However, he was sad that his mana stat displayed a solid 0, meaning he was still a manaless trash.

/// A/ N - The stat panel will often be either attached as an image in the comments section or as text inside the author's notes.

I will not waste chapter space with the stat panel after every level-up and will only print it within the chapter if there is a significant change. ///

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