Chapter 8: Undead Energy (1/2)
Like a tiger leaping for food, or a dog leaping for shit, I fell to the grass and tightly hugged this longsword. Tears streamed down my face. ”Baby, I’ve finally found you!”
I held the longsword in my hand. The hilt was covered in green vines and the blade was sharp and flashed with intimidating green light. A cold aura passed into my palm. I looked at its stats. As expected, a good treasure—
Forest Green Blade (Iron-grade)
Attack: 10~18
Strength: +4
Level Requirement: 8
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Wonderful, 18 Attack. It far surpassed the starting sword. This green blade was too strong. With the present situation of the starting village, I could dominate the area.
At this time, a bell sounded in the air—
Ding~!
System Announcement (Player Roaming Dragon Shout): Friends, I am the leader of the Mad Dragon guild. I found a Night Creature in the south of Sunshine Forest, a terrifying skeleton warrior. Supposedly a new boss of the starting village. Friends who are strong enough can team up and kill him.
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I stilled slightly. Roaming Dragon was very rich. A system shout would require 5000 RMB from his account. The guy would bear to spend that?
Also, he was extremely devious. He described me as a boss. He clearly wanted someone to do his dirty work.
I was a player of the Dark faction. Even my name was red for them. Never mind, I won’t stay around long. There is some bad blood between Mad Dragon and me, but there is no need to make more enemies. That wouldn’t be wise.
I looked at my experience bar. Level 9, 57%. I'll wait until I reach Level 10 for class promotion and learn a few combat techniques. If Roaming Dragon wants me wanted, I’ll let him do whatever he wants, but I won’t be keeping him company.
With my new green blade, my strength would increase greatly. I would kill my way out of Sunshine Forest, accumulate experience along the way. When I returned to the Corpse Heap Graveyard, I would basically be Level 10.
A Level 10 Green Praying Mantis leapt at my face.
I swung the green blade without even thinking. With a crack, damage points rose above the mantis's head.
124!
So strong. My attack power of 38~64 didn’t disappoint me!
Level 10 monsters usually had around 500 HP, so I could defeat them in roughly four strokes. The refreshing feeling of upgrading my equipment was great!
I fought my way out of Sunshine Forest and headed straight toward the starting village.
At this time, a system bell rang—
Ding~!
System Announcement: Player ”Wind Fantasy” is the first player qualified for class promotion. Rewards obtained: Level +1, Reputation +50 and 1 gold!
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I was slightly shocked. What kind of fierce person would reach Level 10 faster than me? As expected, this was an era of experts!
I came to the merchant and took out the Big Magic Stone. The skeleton beauty immediately gaped and sighed emotionally. ”Young skeleton, you must be really strong to harvest a magic stone so abundant in magic power. Come, I am willing to buy it for 1980 copper!”
I nodded, and sold the four Small Magic Stones as well. As a result, 24 silver was added to my balance. Learning skills should not be a problem now.
I once again came to the undead mage. This one was the village chief. Before I left the village, I had to give notice.
”Young skeleton, you have grown so quickly. This really fills me with joy!”
The village chief tapped my head with his staff and laughed. ”Go, there is a wider world waiting for you outside. Your next stop is Floating Ice City. There is a Frost Mound ten miles outside Floating Ice City. Hm, that place will become your shelter. At Frost Mound, you can find the Undead Swordsman Suren. If you take my introduction letter, Suren will accept you as an apprentice!”
Pop.
The introduction letter fell into my bag. As expected, this was proof of my class promotion. Starting today, I was an undead swordsman aiming for glory and courage as well as riches and bitches!
With my breast full of spirit, I stepped onto the path to Floating Ice City, the place where dreams were realized.
Floating Ice City, one of the nine tier 2 cities in the China server. Above them were the three major cities. But the names of the three major cities had not been announced yet and on the map, the three major cities were blank.
Basically, the players from the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions had been allocated to Floating Ice City. This was a geographic distribution method.
Opening the world map, the coordinates of Floating Ice City had already appeared. It was about an hour of travel from Corpse Heap Graveyard. There were many starting villages around Floating Ice City, at least ten or so. Also, the elite players of these ten starting villages would all gather inside Floating Ice City. At that time, it would be a prosperous place, overflowing with heroes.
I smiled slightly, and stepped onto the road, me and my green blade. Floating Ice City would be the stage where ”Falling Dust” would rise again!
I traveled along the small gray path, and did not encounter any dangers. If I had seen any human sentinels, I would have hidden far away. These soldiers would not allow anything to escape them, let alone a powerful skeleton soldier like me.
Beep!
The system gave me a notice: Hello, player Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand. Because you belong to an abandoned race, you can freely enter the safezones of the Light and Dark factions and not be attacked. However, in combat areas, your affiliation will be that of a devil!
Oh, so it was like this. I could still enter cities!
But when I thought about it, it didn’t matter. The NPCs in cities wouldn’t give missions to an undead swordsman. It would be better if I just stayed at Frost Mound. There, I could obtain some missions and learn powerful skills!