In the early stages of the game, simply hunting monsters to earn 5 gold coins a month was nearly impossible since most ordinary monsters only dropped a few bronze coins per kill and there was still the costs of potions to consider! Hence the best way to earn money was to sell the equipment drops from monsters.
The studio’s contract clearly stated that Wang Yu had to contribute a fixed amount of gold coins per month and anything else he earned would belong to him.
With his current embarrassing living situation how could Wang Yu give up any opportunity to earn money?
Hearing that he was willing to sell his equipment, the surrounding players immediately leapt into action.
With the high defense the equipment provided, if a knight were to wear it he would be able to tank hits from any monster in the beginner village aside from bosses!
"I have 10 silver coins here! I’ll give it to you for that armour! How bout it?" The same warrior shouted hopefully.
"10 silver coins?" Wang Yu was slightly stunned. It was not that he thought it was too low, just that found it too shocking.
In the official exchange rate that the company released, 1 silver coin was 1 dollar in the real world. However since the game had just been released the actual price of coins in the game was more than 10 times the actual exchange rate!
What this meant was that the Grey Wolf’s Leather Armour he had was worth 100 dollars!!!
At this time yesterday, Wang Yu was being scorned due to a 1 dollar bottle of water yet now in this virtual world, a random item could already earn him so much money!
"Brother how about it? This is all I have on me now… If you think it’s too little I can still top up some real money…" Seeing that Wang Yu wasn’t replying him, the warrior began to panic.
While Wang Yu was still deep in thought, a thief next to the warrior suddenly burst into laughter. "You don't have any money and yet you still dare to strut around like that? Can't you see that he can't even be bothered to acknowledge you?"
Following that the thief boldly said : "Brother I'll pay 50 silver coins for your leather armour and shoes! How about it?"
"Fif...fifty silver coins??" The entire crowd was stunned. This thief really was a rich kid after all. The game had only been out for 3 days and he already had so many silver coins.
Wang Yu maintained his emotionless expression. He didn't know what the market price for these pieces of equipment was. If he just blindly sold them off he would definitely suffer a big loss. It was safer to wait for Mu Zi Xian to come back so he could consult her or maybe even ask Li Xue first…
At this point, Wang Yu opened the world chat and set up a stall to sell his equipment and immediately logged out. Aside from the shoes, all 7 of the grey wolf equipment he picked was being sold for 1 gold coin a piece.
Seeing Wang Yu suddenly turn into a scarecrow the crowd instantly knew that he had logged out and began approaching his shop. The moment these players saw the price of his goods they began to curse him in their hearts.
1 gold per equipment?! Was this motherf**ker insane? Did he lose his mind from being too poor?
Taking off the headset, Wang Yu headed to find Li Xue to ask her about the prices of equipment in the current market. However, their door was still locked and they were probably still fighting monsters.
Wang Yu was raised in an ancient a traditional martial arts clan and was raised on the notion that women were inferior to men. Though he had long since discarded this view he still believed they shouldn't frivolously come into contact.
Having no other option he helplessly went out to the balcony and began hitting the pillar.
Since he could remember, Wang Yu would always do three full routines for his martial arts a day. This was a habit that had long since become a part of him and he had never taken a break even for a day!
As he continued to hit the pillar, Wang Yu began to recall all the battles from the morning. This game was really quite good! Wang Yu could faintly feel that the effectiveness of fighting monsters in the game was better than hitting the lifeless pillar in real life!
After hitting the pillar for some time, Wang Yu heard some movement in the living room. Thinking that Mu Zi Xian had come home Wang Yu immediately rushed to greet her. However instead of seeing Mu Zi Xian, Wang Yu saw Mary gingerly walking out of the toilet.
The moment he saw Mary, Wang Yu’s entire face turned red in embarrassment.
Being alone with a group of girls wasn't much of a problem for Wang Yu. The problem was that Mary was wearing nothing but her underwear! It was only a tiny pair of purple underwear that wrapped tightly around her important parts to protect them…
It was very natural to want to be relaxed while gaming since it was very tiring to wear a heavy helmet while in game. Most people opted to lie down while playing as though they were sleeping and Mary was no exception. She must have needed to relieve herself really badly since she had ran out of the room without even bothering to put some clothes on.
"S...so...sorry!" Wang Yu stammered.
However contrary to his expectations Mary just burst into laughter and said: "Mr Landlord what’re you so embarrassed about? From what Sister Xue said your pecs are insane! Can I have a feel…"
"....."
"Boom!" Without saying a single word Wang Yu ran back to his room and slammed the door shut.
"Cheh! So stingy!" Mary mumbled to herself as she continued to tip-toe back to her room.
Not long after that Mu Zi Xian returned home from work. Entering the bedroom she saw Wang Yu browsing the official site for <<REBIRTH>>. Mu ZI Xian lightly chuckled and said: "Ooooh so you’ve learnt how to read the forums huh."
"Hehe I’m just casually browsing. It’s nothing much." Wang Yu laughed.
"So how was it? How’s the feeling of independant mode? What’s your level now?" She asked.
"It feels great! An well after killing wolves for the whole morning I’m level 6 now…" Wang Yu replied.
"Level 6? Wild Wolves? You joined a hunting party?" Mu Zi Xian asked curiously.
"Nope! I hunted solo!" Wang Yu replied.
"S..solo?" Hearing his reply the corner of Mu Zi Xian’s mouth lightly twitched.
Wolves were the highest level in the beginner village and even formed their own packs. Players would need at least a three man party to barely be able to hunt in the Dawn Plains and yet Wang Yu was there fighting solo and had even reached level 6 in one morning!
Mu Zi Xian was thoroughly shocked. If she knew her husband was such a demon she should have let him play even sooner! Luckily it was still only the third day since launch and he wasn’t at that much of a disadvantage.
"You can break the defenses of a level 10 monster?" Mu Zi Xian asked.
In <<REBIRTH>> monsters had their own form of level suppression as well. If a level 6 player fought a level 10 wolf, the wolf’s defense would double! Even though she knew that Wang Yu was a martial artist, Mu Zi Xian found it hard to believe that he could slay a wolf solo.
After thinking for a bit Wang Yu said: " Break its defense? But my attacks already do true damage though?"
Hearing this Mu Zi Xian was so shocked her jaw almost hit the ground. "You mean in Independent mode all your attacks have more than 100% perfection?"
"I think so?" Wang Yu nodded.
"Mon...monster!!!" After a second Mu Zi Xian only had this to say.
Although Mu Zi Xian was only a customer service officer she was still a part of the company and had a thorough understanding of the attack perfection rating system.
If ordinary players tried to use Independent mode the best they would be able to reach was around 70%-80% perfection which was far from what they would achieve in assisted mode. During the beta testing phase one of the programmers had personally tested Independent mode and was only able to achieve 98% perfection at best.
That programmer had supposedly been someone who practised martial arts as well. Even the pugilist class had been designed by him!
However Wang Yu had not only been able to surpass 100% perfection, according to what he said he was able to do so with every attack he unleashed! This was completely unheard of! If Mu Zi Xian didn’t know everything about her husband she would have assumed he was lying!
"Hey… How can you say something like that to your husband?" Wang Yu was slightly upset.
"I was too excited…" Mu Zi Xian smiled apologetically. The way she looked at Wang Yu now was as though she was looking at some heavenly being and she couldn’t help but remember the first time they met...
"Thank you so much for saving me!"
"Don’t mention it! Something like this is part of a martial artist’s duty anyway!"
So this was what a true martial artist was like… There really was a difference between them and ordinary people!
Closing the webpage, Wang Yu turned around to face Mu Zi Xian. "Oh right honey, I picked up a few pieces of equipment today and people want to buy them. Can you help me with their price?
"Equipment? How many pieces?" The moment Mu Zi Xian heard the word equipment she instantly became excited and woke up from her flashback.
"Eight pieces! And they’re all Grey Wolf equipment!" Wang Yu replied.
"Impressive! Very Impressive!" With all the surprises Wang Yu had given her Mu Zi Xian was already numb to whatever feats came next.
The drop rates of monsters were also dependent on the number of players hunting them. If a three man party wanted to find eight pieces of equipment they would need to slay at least a thousand wolves!
Since Wang Yu was hunting solo and skipping levels as well, picking up so many equipment drops was actually within reason.
"Although you can’t really level up that fast in <<REBIRTH>> these equipment are still only a transitionary set. Furthermore, they’re only Iron tier! For you to be able to sell them for 50 silver coins so early in the game is already considered not bad!" Mu ZI Xian analysed.
"Really? Well then I have a price in my head then! Oh right do you have any idea where i can find the SIlver Wolf King? I’ve been looking for it for half the day and I’ve still yet to see it at all!" Wang Yu nodded as he asked.
"Silver Wolf King? What’re you looking for him for?"
"A quest! This bastard ate the son of Blacksmith Li and I’m going to kill him to carry out Old Li’s revenge!" Wang Yu replied.
"Don’t tell me it’s ‘Brave Heart’?"
"Oh so you know? GM sis give me some hints… I can pay you with my body!" Wang Yu jokingly winked.
"So shameless!" Mu Zi Xian jokingly scolded and then seriously said: "‘Brave Heart’ is one of the hardest hidden quests in the entire game and it is completely unique! Even most programmers wouldn’t know the exact questline let alone me!"
"So you don’t know where the boss is then huh…" Wang Yu dejectedly said.
"The boss’s spawn point isn’t something related to the questline. It spawns in the Dawn Plains at the coordinates 475-635. There is a large tree there, surrounded by a pack of wolves. After you kill all these wolves the Silver Wolf King will spawn to avenge its brethren. Mu Zi Xian replied.
"Ohhhh! So it’s like this! No wonder I spent the whole morning searching without finding anything! So there was a spawn condition!" Wang Yu suddenly realised.
" Yep! From what I’ve heard this boss has a spawn condition because it’s supposed to be special. Supposedly it’s even more powerful that the average Gold grade boss! Even the programmers were afraid that it would annihilate the entire beginner village if they let it roam free!" Mu Zi Xian nodded.
"Hah! Don't’ worry about it! I’m a martial artist!" Wang Yu laughed. When he talked about martial artists Wang Yu naturally exuded an air of extreme confidence and seemingly swept away the dispirited expression he normally had.
This sudden change in Wang Yu stunned Mu Zi Xian as she thought to herself: "Now this is the man I remember marrying!"
After finishing his food, Wang Yu hurriedly entered the game once again.
Upon entering the game, Wang Yu realised that his Notification Tab was flashing non-stop.
Since he did not have any friends, Wang Yu assumed that it was just some system notification and decided to ignore it, Wang Yu opened his store to take the equipment off the shelves.
Mu Zi Xian had previously explained that in the early stages of the game, everyone's levelling speed would be relatively fast, hence the value of the equipment would rapidly depreciate as time went by.
After opening the store, Wang Yu realised that all the equipment had been sold, much to his surprise.
"1 gold for a piece of equipment and there are still buyers?" Wang Yu looked at the 7 gold in his inventory and sighed. There really were too many rich people who didn't know where to spend their money.
7 gold for these few pieces of equipment that were almost outdated really wasn't that bad at all.
After packing up his store, Wang Yu opened the flashing Notification Tab and a few messages instantly popped up.
Frost Blade: "Bro, can these equipment be any cheaper?"
Frost Blade: "Are you there?"
Frost Blade: "Fine, 1 gold a piece it is then, if you have any good items in the future, please tell me first…"
<System notification: Frost Blade has requested to add you as a friend.>
"..." Wang Yu selected the accept option and closed the Notification Tab, thinking to himself that it was a good thing that his brothers weren't around, otherwise they'd never let go of the fact that someone had tried to haggle with him.
Originally, based on the speed of earning in game cash, Wang Yu was very unsure of whether or not he could meet his quota of earning 5 gold. But not it seemed like he had met his quota with a single day's worth of work.
All that was left to do was to complete all the quests in the game!
After leaving beginner village, the number of players were still the same as before. But Wang Yu noticed that there were gradually more players as he moved into hunting grounds with higher levelled monsters.
Even though Dawn Plains could not be considered a very mainstream training area, but there were still quite a few players, grouped in parties of two or three, that could be seen in the vicinity.
Wang Yu did not bother with the meagre bits of experience points from the Wild Wolves and ran straight towards the heart of Dawn Plains. Suddenly, Wang Yu heard a gust of wind behind him, a wooden arrow was headed towards his back.
Wang Yu creased his brows and stretched out his right hand, catching the arrow mid-flight.
<System notification: You have been attacked by "Sage of Three Worlds, Death Ball" and his team, you may now retaliate for 90 seconds to defend yourself.>
Wang Yu turned around, only to see four players staring at him with a look of complete and utter disbelief.
The party composition was the most common one that players used when hunting at Dawn Plains: Warrior, Magician, Archer, Priest. These four jobs were also the most commonly played jobs in <<REBIRTH>>.
After having attacked Wang Yu, the ID of the four players were revealed above their heads.
The Warrior in the front was called: Professional Blocker, the Archer: One-Shot-One-Kill and the Magician: Exterminator.
The Priest, however, had the most striking name which was in grey. Sage of Three Worlds, Death Ball, from the looks of things, it seemed that though he was only 17 years old, he was the leader of this party.
Though the rest of the party did not seem that much older either.
"There's nothing wrong with my eyes right, did he actually grab the arrow that I shot? In mid flight?" One-Shot-One-Kill was utterly flabbergasted.
Professional Blocker opened his mouth and sheepishly said: "Seems like it…"
"Looks like he really is an expert, no wonder he was able to acquire so many equipments, I'm not sure if we can defeat him!" Exterminator indifferently said.
Death Ball, who was standing at the back, savagely said: "What're you scared of? With me around, no matter how strong the expert, he will also have to die and leave the equipments behind!!!" A weak and powerless Priest, had said even more arrogant and unbridled words than the others who had jobs with actual battle power.
In <<REBIRTH>>, players were free to engage in Player Killing (PK), the only restriction was that the system would protect the player if there was a level difference of 10 or more levels. Experience points would not be lost if the player died, only the equipment in their inventory would be lost.
"What are you planning to do?" Wang Yu furiously asked.
Despite the fact that Wang Yu was a martial artist, he had an extremely gentle temperament, at the very least he did not go around provoking others. He could not understand the reason why these people would attack him on their own volition.
"Is this guy r*tarded?" The Priest laughed as he looked towards his companions, asking Wang Yu: "I heard you have quite a few pieces of equipment on hand?"
Wang Yu unhappily replied: "They've all been sold, if you want to buy some you have to come earlier next time."
"That's alright, if you don't have any equipment money is fine too!" The Priest snickered.
"Are you guys trying robbing me?" Wang Yu coldly asked the Priest.
Even though Wang Yu was very innocent he was no fool, this was obviously a robbery. Wang Yu began to feel rather depressed, never in his wildest imagination would he have thought that his first time being robbed would be in a video game, by a bunch of kids!
The Priest laughed: "No bad! You're quite smart! I think it'll be wiser for you to just surrender your money, don't force our hand, even though dying won't cause you to lose any experience, but the taste of death isn't very pleasant!"
"With just the five of you?"
Wang Yu creased his brows and let out a deep sigh, taking a quick step to the side, stretching his hand out and grabbing the Thief. After grabbing the Thief's head, Wang Yu violently slammed him onto the ground.
Originally this party had a total of five people, but one Thief had been hiding behind Wang Yu using [Stealth], waiting for an opportunity to attack him.
Who would have known that Wang Yu had been a martial artist for years? With a radius of several tens of metres, he could even sense the movement of every blade of grass, let alone the killing intent exuded by someone staring at him from behind.
"!!!!!!??????"
"How's that even possible?"
After seeing that the Thief had been struck and even knocked out of his stealth, the other four people in the party were utterly stupefied.
The one who had been slammed on the ground by Wang Yu was a Thief called Butt Stabber, he was in an even greater shock than the rest.
[Stealth] was completely useless, even the Archer's [Concentrated Shot] had been caught by Wang Yu. Since when did the Pugilist become so overpowered?
Silence, a deathly silence...
"Oh My! Death Ball, it really is you, who would have thought that we would be in the same beginner village, it must be fate!"
Just at this moment, a sound from not far away broke the silence.
Looking towards the direction of the sound, a Priest and a Warrior were walking towards them. Even though the words spoken by the Priest sounded very friendly and amiable, he wore an expression of disdain and disgust on his face.
Wang Yu grew rather depressed, even though the Priest job had no combat potential whatsoever, why did it seem as though all Priests were natural born leaders? Why was the party leader of every party a Priest?
When Death Ball looked at the person walking over, he revealed a very frightened expression: "Fearless you scoundrel!! This isn't the business of your Quan Zhen Sect! Just f*ck off!"
The Priest walked right in front of Death Ball and rubbed his head: "Who would have thought that you really are just a kid, it's almost time for your finals, yet here you're still playing games?"
"F*ck your mom!!" After being embarrassed like that, Death Ball flew into a rage, raising his staff to strike at Fearless, but he was swiftly struck to the ground by the Warrior standing behind Fearless, who then pierced Death Ball's throat with his blade.
A Priest was merely a support job, with very low health. Furthermore Death Ball was a Priest who focused on increasing his Spirit, he was instantly struck to death and turned into a ray of white light.
Wang Yu's pupils contracted, this Warrior was also someone who used the Independent mode!
If one used the Assisted mode, they would how to use attacks that had been designed and allowed by the system. A warrior who was able to use the hilt of his sword to cast [Heavy Strike] was definitely someone who was using the Independent mode, anyone who had used the Independent mode before would be able to see the difference!
After witnessing their boss get killed without a chance to resist, the remaining members of the party were scared witless, they all stood rooted to the ground, afraid to make even the slightest bit of movement.
Fearless smiled sweetly as he asked them: "Are you guys also from the Apocalypse guild?"
The group hurriedly shook their heads: "We are only Death Ball's classmates…"
"Oh." Fearless immediately understood and laughed: "Little kids, don't be led astray at such a tender age, please pay more attention to your studies, uncle doesn't wish to bully you guys today, please leave!"
This group of kids vigorously nodded their heads and sobbed: "We...we understand, thank you uncle." The group of kids immediately ran away, not a single one dared to look back.
Once that was over, Fearless turned around and walked towards Wang Yu: "Hello, I'm called Fearless! This is my friend, Boson!" As he spoke, he pointed towards the Warrior standing behind him.
"Nice to meet you guys, I'm called Iron Bull, thank you for your help just now!" Wang Yu thanked the duo.
Even though Wang Yu could have easily taught those kids a lesson by himself, it was only right to be polite to those that had helped him.
Fearless laughed as he asked: "Brother Iron Bull, how did you offend those people from the Apocalypse guild?"
Wang Yu shook his head and said: "I'm not too sure myself, I think they were trying to steal my equipment..."
Fearless laughed: "That does seem like something they would do! Brother Iron Bull, you have to be more careful in the future, those b*stards are extremely vengeful!!"
"Just a bunch of kids!" Wang Yu said dismissively. Truth be told, Wang Yu simply did not mind what had happened at all, to squabble with those kids was simply too much!
Fearless laughed: "The Apocalypse guild is quite strong, Death Ball is but a minor character there! Brother Iron Bull, it's best to be more careful!"
"Mm, I got it, thank you for the reminder!" Wang Yu nodded in agreement.
"Let's add each other as friends, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. In the future if the Apocalypse guild cause any trouble for you, just send me a message!"
"Alright!" Wang Yu agreed, sending the duo a friend request.
After having added each other as friends, Fearless very politely said: "Then we won't hold you back from levelling up then Brother Iron Bull!"
"Mm, goodbye!"
After leaving the two, Wang Yu continued walking towards the heart of Dawn Plains.
As he watched Wang Yu leave, Boson suddenly said: "That Pugilist is not simple!'
"Really?" Fearless was caught by surprise, Boson was a rather proud person and rarely had anything good to say about others.
Boson nodded his head: "After seeing his attack just now, I realised that he uses the Independent mode just like me! Furthermore, he's a solo player, he is probably slightly stronger than me!"
"Stronger than you?" Fearless stared at Boson: "You've got to be kidding me!"
Boson laughed: "If you don't believe me, why don't we just follow him?"
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