Chapter 8
Along with the golden scrolling words above his head, Xia Mo saw a series of rewards and upgrade reminders appearing before his eyes.
Experience +2904
[Silver Coins +100]
【Congratulations, you have reached level 7! 】
[First time clearing a dungeon, gain additional experience +1032, silver +40]
[You are the team's highest DPS, gain an additional +642 experience and +20 silver coins]
【Congratulations, you have reached level 8! 】
He actually leveled up 2 levels in a row. Xia Mo's eyes flickered slightly, and he felt a little uncomfortable.
After reaching a certain level, it usually takes two or three months to go up to the next level. Many times, she was busy completing tasks and completing dungeons, but forgot about upgrading, let alone the experience of upgrading twice in a row.
Maybe this is the fun of low-level things, Xia Mo curled the corners of his lips.
Although my combat power is very low, it is indeed quite fulfilling to see my level rising rapidly.
She wasn't the only one who felt a sense of accomplishment. Tomato was the first to jump up after discovering that she had been upgraded.
"Wow, I've leveled up 1.5 levels in a row! What quests am I supposed to do now? I'll just be grinding dungeons every day!"
Brush him 10 or 20 times a day and see if he doesn't reach the top of the level leaderboard!
Salad with Meat Sauce rolled his eyes at him. "Hey, we're only allowed to clear the dungeon five times a day. Otherwise, if everyone clears it from morning till night, will anyone still be doing the quests?"
A basin of cold water was poured on the tomatoes.
Tomato's mouth drooped. "Alright, five times is five! Anyway, I think the experience gained from dungeon runs is more worthwhile than completing quests!"
Xia Mo listened from the side without interrupting.
What she didn't say was that actually, the most cost-effective way to play the dungeon is in the first few days after you clear the level. Because as more and more players clear the level, the experience points allocated by the dungeon will become lower and lower. After a week, there will basically only be a few hundred experience points left, which is far less than the 2,900 they currently have.
However, she couldn't tell them these invisible rules. They would only know them after Fanqie, Shimizu and the others explored them further.
Recovering her thoughts, Xia Mo found the brown cowhide book she had been longing for among the spoils that had exploded!
In the past, she did not have the strength to compete for the first kill and lost the opportunity to obtain the Cowhide Book, but this time, she seized every link and finally got it before other teams.
Yes, her real intention was not to get the title of first kill, her goal from beginning to end was only one - to get the oxhide book.
In front of everyone, she picked up the book.
"I don't want anything else, I just want this book."
It was not a question or a discussion, but a statement telling them that the book belonged to her.
Xia Mo dared to say such words because he had the confidence.
It was she who gave the Beach Lizard a strategy to pass the level, and it was she who came up with a plan to avoid the Blackthorn Shark underwater. Finally, when they went to the island to deal with the Ghost Guard, her DPS was the highest in the game, and she had a huge gap with the second-place Sarah.
Everything was enough to show how much she contributed to this first kill. If anyone had any objections, she would have to be rude.
Xia Mo narrowed his eyes and found that no one raised any objection.
So I took the things, clicked the exit button, and left with a whoosh.
"Uh, she doesn't want the other stuff?" Tomato scratched his head in confusion as he watched the person quickly disappear. "There's still so much equipment. Why not pick some and take it? It would be a waste to keep it!"
The salad with meat sauce was also stunned for a moment, and then came to his senses: "... Maybe she doesn't need it? Didn't you say before that she has equipment that increases attack power? Maybe she doesn't like these."
"Riya~~ The boss is awesome. I still treasure the things she disdains!"
Tomato shook his head, thinking to himself that this was probably the gap between him and the boss.
After sighing, he deliberately waited for a while, but still no one asked, so he couldn't help but ask, "By the way, what is that book? Why did the boss pick it?"
Qing Shui, who was sorting the spoils, said without looking up: "Maybe it's a treasure book or something, she just needs it. Now, don't think about her things, she deserves them. Without her leading the team, we can't even pass the first level."
"Indeed, we were completely led by her." Salad with Meat Sauce nodded seriously.
Qingshui hummed, raised his head and urged everyone: "Don't just stand there, come and choose the spoils. Pick out the useful ones first. I'll take the rest to the merchant shop to sell for money, and then give them to you according to your team contribution points."
"Okay! I'll choose now!"
Rather than trying to figure out what the boss had in his hand for, Tomato was obviously more attracted by the colorful spoils in front of him. He rubbed his hands and picked up a piece of armor on the ground with anticipation.
Then, stunned.
"Holy crap! A Paladin's armor set! And it's tier three black iron! I'm fucking lucky! Hahahaha!"
Salad with Meat Sauce also picked up a shiny bow nearby, and his eyes suddenly changed. "Oh my god, this bow of mine is also made of black iron, a second-level one!"
Although it is not as good as Tomato's third level, isn't it better than the third level bronze in his hand?
He immediately threw away his bronze equipment and quickly replaced it with second-level black iron.
Yun Yao silently rummaged through the spoils and found equipment suitable for elementalists. She bit her lower lip, took off her bronze clothes, and changed into these good things that she had never dared to think about before.
When leaving the dungeon, everyone had a satisfied expression on their face.
But more importantly, they have firmly remembered the ID "Mo Se" from then on.
*
I didn't take any equipment, only a book. If other players knew about this, I would inevitably be ridiculed.
But only Xia Mo herself understands how important this book is to her if she wants to stay in the game for a long time.
Xia Mo chose a place with few people, stood still and unfolded his backpack.
The book she had been thinking about was lying in the grid. She took a deep breath and opened it.
Physical Enhancement Guide
[An illustrated manual dropped at the Sulu Outpost. Go to the indicated locations and light them up in order. You will reap unexpected results!]
This is the book!
Xia Mo's eyes were moved and he couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
In her previous life, when she got this book, she was already level 50.
After buying it, since the front illustrations had been lit up by the previous owner, she only had the back ones to click on, so she missed a lot of opportunities.
Even so, she felt very lucky.
After all, there was only one such illustrated book in the entire server, and it was a huge surprise for her to see it in the store and spend a huge amount of money to buy it.
Later experience proved that spending money to buy this illustrated book was definitely a wise move.
As mentioned before, [Constitution] is a hurdle that players cannot avoid on the way to improving their strength. It is linked to the player's physical strength, physical fitness, and mental strength in reality.
In order to improve their [Physique], some players train themselves frantically after returning to reality, so that when they enter the game again, the [Physique] in the character panel can be improved a little bit.
And now, she, who is only level 8, has successfully obtained this valuable atlas that will accompany her throughout the future.
Xia Mo took a deep breath excitedly and opened the cover of the book.
The first thing that comes into view is a regional map - [Northern Forest]
As a top player, Xia Mo naturally knew where the Nordland Forest was, what level it was, and what monsters it contained, but these were not the key points that the map in front of him wanted to tell him.
The core value of this map lies in the red dots marked on it.
My finger touched the red dot, and three numbers suddenly popped up on it - [82, 261, 79]
This is what coordinates mean.
In the coordinate logic of "Protoss", the first number represents the direction on the x-axis. The smaller the number, the further west it is. Conversely, the larger the number, the further east it is.
The second number represents the y-axis, the smaller the number, the closer to the south, and the larger the number, the closer to the north.
The third number is the z-axis, which represents the altitude.
According to Xia Mo's experience, as long as it is not a high-altitude area such as mountains or plateaus, the z-axis coordinate is generally within 100.
Taking the three numbers given in the current atlas as an example, Xia Mo only needed to take a glance to know the approximate location of the place she wanted to go.
——Northwest of the Nordland Forest, a location at medium altitude.
As long as she goes there, she can obtain the method to improve her [Physical Fitness].
But Xia Mo thought about it and decided not to rush to go for the time being. She still had a lot of things to do, such as the most important thing at the moment - expanding her backpack.
Originally, she only had 2 slots left, and now after putting the "Enhancement Encyclopedia" into her backpack, there was only one left. She had to go back and expand the capacity.
This first kill earned her 160 silver coins. She no longer had to worry about the teleportation fee and generously paid 1 silver coin to the NPC. In a blink of an eye, she was teleported from the Sulu Sea back to the town of Bulu.
There were huge crowds of people in front of the tailor shop, and Xia Mo had to take a lot of effort to squeeze to the front.
Just as I was about to ask, I suddenly heard a familiar voice.
"Xia Mo is really too much. She said she would add us as a friend when we entered the game and take us on quests, but she hasn't taken the initiative to contact us yet! Doesn't she consider us her friends at all?"
"Hey Xiaobei, you know Xia Mo's personality. She's always so cold and aloof. If she doesn't look for us, why don't we take the initiative to look for her?"
"Haha, look for her? Where can we find her? We don't even know her ID!"
"It doesn't matter if she doesn't know. We can just put a small loudspeaker on the world channel and play it all day long, saying that the three of us are looking for her. If she sees it, she will definitely add us."
"I don't agree!"
"Why?"
"Why should we look for her? Shouldn't she come to us? Who does she think she is, putting on airs in front of her friends? Anyway, Xiaoyu, I don't agree with what you said."
"this……"
The rejected girl was in a dilemma for a moment. Xia Mo took advantage of the cover of the male player next to her and found that Xiaoyu was constantly making eye contact with another boy next to her.
The boy coughed awkwardly twice: "Ahem, Xiaobei... Can we buy the clothes first? Look, we had a hard time squeezing in here with you. If someone gets snatched away first, we won't be able to buy the clothes."
The boy's words calmed Xiaobei down a little.
"Yes, let's buy the things first. Aunt Nina, I want to buy this ready-made dress. How much is it?"
In order to avoid running into the three of them, Xia Mo quickly moved to the side, using the height of the people around her to block her.
After confirming that they had finished their shopping and left, she stood in front of the shop again and said, "Aunt Nina, can you please help me expand the capacity of my backpack?"
The expansion process is very simple. You just need to pay the corresponding coins to the other party and wait for 3 minutes.
This time, Xia Mo expanded the space from 20 grids to 60 grids, which cost her a total of 16 silver coins.
This was the discounted price. Originally, expanding one grid required 0.5 silver coins, or 500 copper coins. But because she expanded 40 grids at once, Aunt Nina was very happy and saved her 4 silver coins.
4 silver coins are also money.
Although she has a little money on her now, she will have to spend a lot of money in the future. Xia Mo thinks it is natural to save as much as possible.
Because of this transaction, Xia Mo suddenly received a reminder before leaving.
[Gain Aunt Nina's Favorability +5]
5 o'clock?
Xia Mo raised his eyebrows, a little surprised.
I didn't expect that expanding my capacity would earn me 5 points of favorability from Aunt Nina.
You know, I could only get 1 point every time I bought something from her before, so why...
After thinking about it for a while, Xia Mo immediately understood the reason.
Perhaps it was because players were generally poor nowadays and could rarely afford to spend more than 10 silver coins at a time, but she spent 20, which naturally made Aunt Nina happy.
That’s fine, Xia Mo’s mouth corners slightly raised.
If she can gain the favor of NPCs, especially important NPCs, it will be much easier for her to do anything in the future.
After coming back to his senses from the unexpected surprise, Xia Mo stood in an inconspicuous place on the street, his face suddenly turning cold.
She clicked on the friend search box and skillfully entered three names.
Three character panels popped up one after another. Xia Mo glanced at their data and suddenly, a sneer appeared on his face.
It seems that without her in this life, they haven’t even reached level 5 for three consecutive times.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
