In the game "Tian Dao," monsters, in addition to their level, are classified by six colors: red, gold, purple, blue, green, and white.
These seven tiers correspond to the levels of Emperor, King, Lord, General, Soldier, and Civilian.
Soldier-level creatures can be considered elite, indicated by green, and possess double the combat power of ordinary monsters! They have low intelligence and will actively attack nearby players.
General-level creatures can be referred to as minor bosses, indicated by blue, and possess double the combat power of green monsters! They have low intelligence and will actively attack nearby players.
In his previous life, a single blue-general level minor boss was enough to make everyone flock to it. Yet, before him stood a thousand of them! What was even more exasperating was that their levels were all uniformly five. Four levels higher than his own!
"Level 5 blue general, huh? Looks like physical attackers. Truly a legendary quest, this opening is enough to get the blood pumping!"
Ye Yun exclaimed.
The stats of a level 5 blue general minor boss were already comparable to a level 15 ordinary wild monster.
Let's try it first!
Ye Yun controlled his Black Ant and ran directly towards the nearest Pig Demon.
The Black Ant's approach instantly attracted the attention of three Pig Demons, which immediately grunted and charged towards the Black Ant, dragging their meteor hammers.
Boom...
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After three hammer strikes, the Black Ant had only dealt 22 damage to the Pig Demon before being directly killed by it. The Pig Demon even stuffed the corpse into its mouth and crunched on it audibly.
"System: Your Life Beast has died, CD reduced by -300s."
Monster: Pig Demon General (Blue General)
Level: 5
Health: 348/370
Attack (Physical): 140-165
Physical Defense: 56
Magic Defense: 45
Agility: 5 (Clumsy)
Alert Range: 80 yards
Skill: 1. Meteor Strike—Inflicts 110% damage on the enemy using the weapon, CD-10s. Dafeng Novel Network.
Remarks: Originally domestic pigs raised by Fengle Village residents, they mutated due to the influence of a curse.
Their stats in all aspects were enough to crush Ye Yun. If Ye Yun had gone up himself, he would likely have been instantly killed.
"Heh, interesting. A dance of death? Too bad I don't need to fight head-on," Ye Yun narrowed his eyes, looking at the surrounding Pig Demons, feeling both disappointed and fortunate.
He opened his character panel and directly put his remaining 100 free attribute points into attack!
Character: Jieming
Level: 1
Profession: Priest
Life Beast: Black Ant (Physical)
Health: 200
Essence: 30
Magic Attack: 106
Physical Defense: 2
Magic Defense: 2
Talent: SSS-Class
Free Attribute Points: 0
Talent Skill: Gold Touch (Unique in the server) - With a flip of the hand, you can create clouds and rain, but it pales in comparison to a touch of gold. It can enhance anything you wish to enhance, with remaining CD-15.9h! (Remark: CD doubles after each use, CD can be reduced by killing wild monsters 10 levels higher than yourself.)
Skill: 1. Heal (Novice): Restores 3 health/s to an ally for 5s, Essence cost: 3, CD-10s.
The 100 free attribute points increased his magic attack by 80.
"106 attack power. Although I can only do normal attacks, with my talent's attack bonus, I can even tank these guys to some extent."
Although Ye Yun was a mage in his past life, his talent skill increased physical defense, so he was used to being engaged by warriors. He was forced to practice a lot of fancy maneuvers. However, this guy would definitely not move his legs if he could tank.
After allocating the attack points, Luo Fan didn't wait for the Black Ant's CD and directly unleashed a normal attack towards a small cluster of enemies.
Bang...
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"System Notification: Killing 'Pig Demon General' above your level grants 50 experience points."
The unlucky Pig Demon was instantly killed by Ye Yun's normal attack, leaving Ye Yun stunned. The massive experience points caused Ye Yun's experience to surge by 50%. Killing an ordinary level 5 monster only gave 15 experience points, but this blue one gave a direct 50.
"Damn, I miscalculated. I should have saved some points for other attributes. The damage is already overflowing. Overflowing by 20 points."
Awoo...
The Pig Demons next to the fallen one instantly reacted and charged towards Ye Yun.
"System Notification: Killing 'Pig Demon General' above your level grants 50 experience points."
"System Notification: Congratulations Player, your level has increased. Current level is 2, you have obtained 384 free attribute points."
"System Notification: Killing 'Pig Demon General' above your level grants 45 experience points."
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Although his level increased, killing monsters above his level, especially blue-general level ones, still yielded 45 experience points per Pig Demon.
Level 2 to level 3 required a full 1000 experience points, but Ye Yun's experience was rapidly increasing at a visible rate! If anyone saw this, it would definitely be another major headline.
For this quest, a melee player would need to spend over a hundred million gold to buy attribute points to even survive. Even mages and archers, who are ranged attackers, would need tens of millions.
Ye Yun was able to achieve instant kills solely due to his high talent and an additional hidden attack bonus of 320%.
Instant killing minor bosses with normal attacks above your level, aren't you scared?
A thousand minor bosses, aren't you envious and jealous?
"System Notification: Congratulations Player, your level has increased. Current level is 3, you have obtained 384 free attribute points."
"System Notification: Killing 'Pig Demon General' above your level grants 40 experience points."
In less than two minutes, without even the Black Ant's CD resetting, Ye Yun's level directly increased from 1 to 3. His speed was like riding a train. However, Ye Yun was quite dissatisfied and kept pondering whether a priest could obtain area-of-effect skills.
At this point, the Life Beast seemed somewhat redundant. With sufficient ranged output, if the Life Beast had no defense, it would just be sending itself to its death.
Ten minutes later...
Ye Yun's level increased again, reaching level 4. The experience gained per kill also dropped to 35 points.
Awesome. Just missing a chair. Grinding monsters while sitting is the true enjoyment of life.
Twenty minutes later, Ye Yun finally cleared the remaining monsters.
"System Notification: Congratulations Player on successfully defeating the first wave of monsters. The second wave will arrive in five minutes. Players can clear the dropped items within these five minutes."
"This game's drop rate?" Ye Yun expressed his disdain.
He looked around the spacious cave. Apart from some scattered copper coins and five or six pieces of equipment, there were no other items.
A thousand blue-general level minor bosses, and that's it?
Alas, Mr. Ma, Grandpa Wang, Ancestor Li, hurry up and come in, I'm starving.
Although the drops were not satisfactory, what was Ye Yun playing games for? To survive. Coupled with his stingy habits from his previous life, he wouldn't let go of even a single copper coin.
"Oh ho, I didn't expect there to be something decent."
Pig Demon Scepter (Green)
-Magic Attack 6-8
Required Level: None
Class Restriction: Mage, Priest.
It's a small gem. It should sell for tens of thousands right now, shouldn't it?
When Ye Yun saw the equipment, the first thing he thought of wasn't equipping it himself, but selling it for money. No choice, he was a walking prescription bottle right now, and various medicines were a considerable expense.
He'd put it up for auction on the forums later. Although the fees were more expensive than the in-game auction house, the auction house required a main city, and no one had reached level 10 yet.
Time passed quickly.
Ye Yun followed his usual routine, directly summoning the Black Ant. Then he started allocating his own points. He had leveled up three times, which meant 1152 free attribute points!
Health +200 points
Essence? What a waste, I'm a physical attacker, a mass-produced one at that.
Attack, +200. Rich and willful.
Physical and Magic Defense, these are like health points, crucial for survival. Each gets +300.
This used up exactly 1000 points, leaving the remaining 152 for later.
In an instant, Ye Yun felt like he was ascending to immortality. Yes, he was upgrading, and it felt exhilarating.
It's just that the psychological feeling wasn't quite right. This damn coefficient system, adding the same attribute points yields completely different results.
"System Notification: The Divine City quest has officially begun. The second wave of monsters has appeared. Remaining time -4:24'19"."
"What the heck, a phoenix?" Ye Yun stared at the spectral illusions slowly appearing in the air around him, stunned.