Zhang Yang trotted all the way back to the Novice Village and breathlessly found the warrior professional trainer Farian. He couldn't help but miss the teleportation talisman that could only be bought in the main city after reaching level 10.
"Rookie, I have to admit that you impressed me a little bit!" Farian took the iron ore handed over by Zhang Yang, still with a cocky look on his face, "But you are still a rookie! Here, take your shield and get out of here!"
Farian threw over a shield that was shining with a black luster.
"Ding! You have completed the professional mission: Warrior's Test, and gained 5,000 experience points!"
[Thick Iron Shield](Black Iron, Shield)
Armor: +10
Stamina: +5
Required level: 5
"Wait!" Farian's face suddenly changed, and he looked surprised, and asked, "You actually have refined iron?"
"Yes, respected master!" Zhang Yang took out 10 pieces of fine iron from his backpack and handed them to Farian, knowing that the hidden task had been successfully triggered.
"What a beautiful luster, it reminds me of the diamonds on Mount Dover!" Farian's face was full of intoxication, and he looked at the fine iron in his hand with the look of a lover.
After a while, Farian said, "Before I became a great warrior, I used to be a blacksmith! Rookie, these fine irons make me feel itchy. If you agree, I want to use these fine irons to forge an indestructible battle blade!"
"As you wish, respected master!" Zhang Yang immediately nodded in agreement.
"Very good!" Farian was delighted, but he continued, "However, refined iron alone is not enough. You must collect three more materials!"
"Ding! Farian has issued you a task: Materials for Forging War Blades (I). Do you accept it?"
"Accept!" After Zhang Yang accepted the task, he immediately checked the task log.
[Materials for Casting War Blades (I)] (Mission Difficulty: C Level)
Mission description: Farian needs the teeth of a stone-tusked boar as material for forging a war blade. It is said that this monster can be found in the watermelon field south of the village.
Completion: Collect the teeth of the stone-tusked boar 010
Stonetusk Boar, should it be a level 10 monster? Zhang Yang did not leave immediately, but talked to Farian again and learned the level 5 warrior skills: block and shield slam.
[Block] (Level 1): Hold up your shield and block an enemy's frontal attack for 1 second. After successfully blocking damage, you will deal damage equal to 100% of your strength to the target and cause a large amount of hatred. You gain a point of rage. Cooldown time: 10 seconds. Requires: Shield.
[Shield Slam]: Slam the target with a shield, causing damage equal to 200% of Strength and generating a large amount of hatred. Can only be used after a successful block. Cost: 10 Rage. Requires: Shield.
Block, the magic skill of the shield warrior! After reaching level 10, the cooldown time is reduced to 1 second. Whether it is damage avoidance or the high burst of shield slam after blocking, it is extremely terrifying!
Zhang Yang immediately equipped himself with a thick iron shield, then went to find the village elder, Old Juan, and handed over the head of the Black Panther King.
“Ah! This is, this is the head of the Black Panther King? This beast who should have gone to hell long ago has killed so many of our villagers!” Old Juan looked at Zhang Yang in surprise and joy, his face full of excitement. “God, you are such a brave and kind young man. All the villagers will be grateful to you!”
"Ding! You completed the mission: Eliminate harm for the people, and gained 10,000 experience points!"
"Ding! Your reputation among humans has increased by 200 points!"
200 reputation points! Zhang Yang pouted. Reputation is a tricky setting in the game. Each race has a corresponding reputation, which is divided into seven levels from low to high: hostile, indifferent, neutral, friendly, respectful, reverent, and worshipful. If the player's reputation with a certain race is below neutral, then he will be attacked if he enters the territory of that race. If the reputation reaches friendly or above, he can buy corresponding items there. The higher the reputation, the better the items he can buy!
Zhang Yang came to the south of the village and saw three watermelon fields filled with wild boars constantly eating the watermelons in the fields. There was a farmhouse nearby where an old man with a white beard was running around in a panic.
"Old man, is there anything I can do for you?" Seeing the yellow exclamation mark above the NPC's head, Zhang Yang immediately ran up to talk to him.
"Look, those damn wild boars have destroyed my watermelon field! Kill them all for me and I will pay you!" the old man roared angrily.
[Kill them] (Task difficulty: C level).
Mission Description: Kill those damn stone-skin boars!
Completion: Killed Stone Boar 010
[Stonetusk Boar] (Normal)
Level: 10
Health: 500
In the watermelon field, there were four or five other teams of players. Because the Stonetusk Boar was at a higher level, most players who were only around level 5 could not kill it alone, so they had to team up to fight together. Even so, due to the huge level gap, it was difficult for a team of five to kill a boar!
Although the killing was slow, these people had no intention of leaving, because at least there were still monsters to fight, which was much better than those places where as soon as a monster spawned, there would be more than a dozen weapons to attack it at the same time!
Seeing that Zhang Yang was alone, many people laughed.
"Xiaobai, you want to come here alone, you must have been kicked in the head by a donkey!"
"Haha, how many times did he have to be kicked by a donkey to become so stupid?"
"Wait till he gets anally raped by a wild boar!"
Of course, there are also players with good intentions.
"My friend, these monsters are all level 10, and one person can't defeat them all!"
"The mage on our team just happened to have to leave for something, so there's an extra spot. Would you like to join us?"
These people ignored the shield on Zhang Yang's back, which was a reward only given after completing a Level 5 professional mission! At this stage, there are already a lot of players who have reached Level 5, but only a handful have completed their professional missions!
Zhang Yang smiled slightly, declined the invitation to join a team, held up his novice sword, walked towards the nearest wild boar, and when he was within the distance to launch a charge, he immediately activated his skill.
Charge into coma!
"-30!"
Zhang Yang swung his weapon and chopped at the wild boar, which immediately caused a pool of blood.
"Hu! Hu! Hu!" After the Stone-Tooth Wild Boar woke up, it immediately let out an angry roar and stabbed at Zhang Yang with its two sharp fangs.
Zhang Yang activates the "Block" skill.
"-27!" Blocking caused counter-injury!
"-64!" Shield smash!
"-31!" Another normal attack!
"-29!" The anger rises to 30 points, a powerful attack!
Dodge!
The "Block" skill went into cooldown, and Zhang Yang nimbly moved and easily avoided the wild boar's attack - even the level 15 Black Panther King couldn't touch Zhang Yang, let alone this level 10 ordinary monster!
In just four or five seconds, Zhang Yang had dealt 181 points of damage, knocking off more than a third of the wild boar's health. The players nearby were so shocked that their eyes widened as if they had seen a ghost! This damage was too terrifying! Was this guy really a shield warrior
Shield Warriors actually have good explosive power, and the key lies in the skill of "blocking"! The timing of using "blocking" is the best basis for distinguishing an excellent shield warrior from an ordinary shield warrior in the early stage!
After using the "Block" skill, the character will have an additional buff effect, and within the next second, they can block an attack! But because it only lasts for a second, if you use it too early, the effect will disappear before the attack arrives! And if you use it too late...
If blocking is invalid, then the subsequent explosive "Shield Slam" cannot be used!
Of course, if you max out the "block" function to level 10, you won't have to worry about this and can just keep pressing it.
Zhang Yang moved easily, and when the "block" skill was cool, he used another set of combos. The stone-tusk boar howled, and fell to the ground with a flash of white light, giving Zhang Yang 500 experience points. He reached out and touched it, and he was lucky, he got a stone-tusk boar's tooth!
"Damn, this guy is awesome!"
"Yeah, it kills so quickly, and it doesn't even lose blood!"
"I just realized that I can use my movement to dodge monster attacks!"
"Hey, don't characters rely on dodge, parry, and block attributes to avoid damage?"
"Dude, this is a simulation game, not a traditional online game, learn more!"
"… "
The players around him were talking to each other. Fortunately, Zhang Yang chose to hide his name, otherwise he would have become famous by now! Even so, some curious players still turned on the game's built-in photography function, recorded the scene of Zhang Yang beating the monster, and posted a message on the forum saying "A god appeared, killing monsters without damage", which immediately caused quite a stir.
At this stage, everyone is a novice. Seeing Zhang Yang's skills surpassing the current level of the game by five years, how can they not be amazed! For a while, I don't know how many players regarded Zhang Yang as an idol!
Zhang Yang killed the wild boars one by one. Although his killing speed was similar to that of the five-man team, he killed them without any damage and did not need to rest at all, which made him more efficient! In just seven or eight minutes, he had killed 10 wild boars. However, since he had only collected 7 wild boar tusks, he had no choice but to continue killing.
Another five minutes later, Zhang Yang finally collected 10 wild boar tusks. He first handed in the task of "killing them" and then hurried back to find Farian. Behind him, the players had already dropped their eyes in shock, and they didn't fight the monsters anymore, but just watched Zhang Yang fight the monsters.
"Very good, now you can go find the second material!" After Farian gave Zhang Yang 5,000 experience points, he continued to give instructions.
"Ding! Farian has issued you a task: Materials for Forging War Blades (Part 2). Do you accept it?"
After Zhang Yang chose to accept, one more item was added to the task log.
[Materials for Casting War Blades (Part 2)] (Mission Difficulty: C-Level)
Mission Description: There is a group of flame elements wandering in the Coke Valley. The flame essence condensed after their death has great power! It is said that if you go west out of the village, the Coke Valley is at the end of the road!
Completion: Collect Flame Essence 03
Running around!
Zhang Yang sighed and followed the mission instructions, walking out of the Novice Village and heading west. It took him half an hour to finally reach a valley filled with billowing smoke. The ground was charred, and elemental monsters with fiery red bodies were roaming everywhere.
[Flame Element] (Normal)
Level: 10
Health: 500
Since this place is too far away from the Novice Village and there are no quests leading here, there are no other players here except Zhang Yang for the time being.
Start killing!
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