Chapter 15 (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

After the reunion party, everyone gathered outside the hotel and waved each other goodbye. Fengyi walked to Li Yao’s side. “This is the money that you have won.” She scanned Li Yao’s communicator and transferred 100,000 CPs to his account.

Li Yao smiled. “It was difficult for everyone to gather at Mingzhu town, still everyone had fun. As for the bet money that I had won, I can’t take it all by myself. I will give the money to Xiaolei. This money may not be much of a help, but it is enough to pay for everyone’s stay in Mingzhu. All of the arrangements will be handled by the class president.”

Li Yao refused the money and used the same method to transfer the money to Xiaolei via her communicator. He waved goodbye to everyone. “Now that everyone has added each other through the new communicator device, we can contact each other if something’s up. My ride is here, I will excuse myself for now.”

A glimmer of light flashed in Fengyi’s eyes. She realized that Li Yao was really different from before. She felt that they had grown more distant than ever. She tried to supress her affection for him and was prepared to move on, but fate had its way of fooling around with people. When she thought of the match, Qin Fengyi realized something.

Putting aside the fact that they had the same weapon, the Arrow Towers and Explosive Sheep reaffirmed the fact that they were both the exact same person. She was pretty sure of that.

“Yao, see you in game.” Zhao Lei waved at him.

Li Yao nodded and boarded the hoverbus. Li Yao stood by the bus’s window and peeped outside. He saw Fengyi who was also staring into the bus, he then averted his gaze.

Back at home, Li Yao felt light-headed. Although he had drunk quite a lot, he was not drunk. Instead, it was because he had seen Fengyi, he did not know how to face her. Maybe he should move on and forget about her like how he did in his previous life. There was nothing wrong for him to move on.

It was already afternoon. Li Yao’s landlord was shocked when he paid him 7,500 CPs for one season’s rent. After he had resolved his eviction issue, he returned back to his room.

In the name of boredom, Li Yao entered the game once again.

The class reunion made Li Yao feel imminent. Money, money, it was always about lack of money.

“In these few days, most players may be opening up dungeons. I should rely on dungeons to earn some money.” In seconds, Li Yao had made his decision.

Li Yao received private messages moments after he had logged in. There were dozens of messages, and they were all from AdorkableTong. He was lazy to listen to them all so he messaged back instead. “Little girl, shouldn’t you be in school now, why are you still in game?”

In mere seconds, AdorkableTong replied his message. “Hmm, I’m too smart for school. I’m so clever that I’ve finished every high school subject all by myself. Oh right, don’t try to change the topic. Explain to me what took you so long to reply my messages.”

“Little kiddo, I have got things to do. The first thing I did when I came back online was reply your messages.” Li Yao was at a loss, he did not know whether to cry or laugh.

“Fine, you pass, I will forgive you this time. Oh yeah, come to Strange Bird Forest now, it’s at Huaxia 565 subline channel. Let’s go and get that Hunter’s Medal.”

Li Yao was picking up unwanted items from stalls while chatting with AdorkableTong.

Till now, Li Yao had already learned a number of skills that were deemed useless by other players such as Roll, Forward Pounce, Climb, Side Shift and some basic close-combat skills.

Hunters were able to use most of the melee weapons. Naturally, they knew some close-combat skills, such as Power Slash and Fade Slash. These would be sold at high prices at later stages in the game, but Li Yao already had a collection of it.

Likewise, other classes that were able to use bow and arrows such as Warrior and Bandits would be able to learn the bow’s basic skills. Nobody was learning it now since they were tight on money.

“Hunter’s medal, that will be nice. A one-star medal will give us quite a lot of attributional upgrades.”

As the first dungeon challenge, there were different difficulty modes. One was Trial Mode, the other was Challenge Mode.

There was no requirement for entering a Trial Mode stage. A small amount of Exp would be obtained upon completion.

In Challenge Mode, there were limited attempts given to each player. Each player can complete the stage five times per day.

The first stage was called Strange Bird Forest. After entering the stage, they would have to face the Big Strange Bird boss.

There were two types of stages for players before Level 10. One was a Dungeon challenge for players between Level 3 to 5, and the other was a Level 10 ten-person Adventure stage, The Den of Evil.

Other than the main stages there were also side stages. These stages had the same level of difficulty, but they did not provide the same world-class prestige, such as game speedrun records and higher difficulty stage first kill.

Side stages were similar to hidden quests. From the game forum that Li Yao had seen, the Humans at the Light faction had discovered a five-person stage, The Deadmines.

Another thing was, the rewards from side stages were worse than the ones from main stages. Even so, other races envied the humans for their ability to discover new stages, seeing that the Green equipment from these stages were still really good.

The challenges from main stages focused on the individual’s skills, this was done so solo players would not feel like they were left too far behind compared to players in teams. The adventure stages were group stages, they required a group of five, ten, twenty five, forty, hundred or more depending on the rules. With the increase in the number of people, the stage difficulty would also increase.

Some people said that group stages were used to measure the awareness and teamwork of the group. A guild’s position and prestige would depend on the number of first stage kills and successful stage clearances. In that way, higher difficulty stages were used to measure the skills of more professional players. Many good players became famous through these dungeon challenges, making them a well-known star.

One of the most notable players was the Bandit God. He had never joined any guild and became famous through completing stage challenges. Then, he participated in various competitions and took part in the Olympic Games on behalf of China. He became the best bandit player in the world and succeeded in becoming an apotheosis in the Battle of the Apotheosis. He rose up from being a nobody in a poor area to a billionaire.

In front of Li Yao was a portal to the first stage challenge. The portal was created due to the different occupations available for each race and the division of people by different administrative districts in real life. In addition to people being scattered all around various continents, there were also the descendants of pioneers that had landed on other planets such as Mars.