4: Chapter 4 The Road to Sudden Wealth

With his first combat experience under his belt, Lin Feng was much more cautious.

He would rather spend a little more time than put himself in danger again.

After all, the Fire Chick had a ranged Spark skill, and its attack power crushed his own.

If he was careless and got grazed twice, his meager health would be done for right here.

[ Ding! Ten-Step Kill cooldown complete! ]

The moment the system prompt faded, Lin Feng was already moving.

While the Fire Chick was still throwing a tantrum, he quietly crept to a spot not far from it.

Seizing the moment when the Fire Chick turned around, he found his chance.

"Finish it off directly."

With a thought, [ Ten-Step Kill ] was activated again.

Before the afterimage of his teleportation had even faded, his wooden sword had already fiercely stabbed into the Fire Chick's old wound once more!

[ Ding! Ten-Step Kill triggered! Paralysis effect active, lasting 3 seconds! ]

"-33"

"-26"

[ Ding! Shadow Strike passive activated, every backstab is a critical hit! ]

-26 (Damage Cap)

-26 (Damage Cap)

...

With his current attack power, the basic attack damage dealt to the same weak point had reached its maximum value.

Lin Feng was in no rush.

1.2 seconds before the paralysis effect wore off, he decisively stopped attacking and retreated several meters away.

Sure enough, when the Fire Chick regained its senses and prepared to counterattack, Lin Feng had already exited its aggro range, completely unscathed.

"Still need to do this five more times..."

After this successful attack, Lin Feng retreated far away.

While observing the Fire Chick's situation, he relied on his passive to reduce the cooldown.

Honestly, this fighting style could be called a "shameless" type, abbreviated as "guerrilla warfare."

It was also thanks to the fact that this kind of low-level monster couldn't regenerate health; otherwise, the effect would be halved.

...

It was just a level 3 novice monster, yet he had fought it for nearly three minutes.

In the end, as the Fire Chick was ravaged again and again, its last bit of health was whittled away.

After letting out a mournful cry, the flames on its body vanished, and it collapsed to the ground.

...

[ Ding! Congratulations, you have killed a level 3 normal monster, Fire Chick. You gained 30 EXP, and an additional 10 EXP for killing a higher-level monster. ]

...

Lin Feng couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Killing a Wild Chicken only gave 5 EXP, but he hadn't expected killing a Fire Chick above his level to yield 40 EXP.

Besides that, next to the Fire Chick's corpse, an item emitting a golden glow and a piece of equipment had dropped...

"Did this drop equipment?"

He bent down to pick up the items; it was one gold coin and a necklace.

He glanced at the equipment, and it was actually something that added attributes—

[ Moonlight Necklace ] (Black Iron Grade)

Quality: Normal

Strength: +3

Required Level: 1

...

"Holy crap, it's actually equipment with +3 Strength. This is definitely going to take off!"

According to official information from God's Domain, equipment grades are divided into Black Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Violet Gold, Dark Gold...

Each stage also has 5 qualities: Normal, Fine, Rare, Perfect, and Legendary.

After his Strength attribute increased, he could clearly feel the difference.

With a thought, he pulled up his personal panel, and the new stats made his eyes light up instantly—

[ Player: God Slayer ]

[ Class: None ]

[ Level: 1 ]

[ EXP: 40/100 ]

[ Attack: 1-21 ]

[ Health: 105 ]

[ Mana: 50 ]

[ Defense: 3 ]

[ Strength: 4 Constitution: 1 Agility: 1 Stamina: 1 Charisma: 0 ]

...

An attack power of 1-21 was too vicious.

Now his leveling speed would definitely be several times faster.

Carrying his wooden sword, he continued to look for solitary monsters.

He was currently at 40% EXP at level 1; killing 3 more monsters would allow him to reach level 2.

He hadn't walked far when he saw a Fire Chick waiting expectantly.

Lin Feng smiled slightly. "Let's use you to test my sword..."

"Swish!"

He launched a silent surprise attack from behind!

Ten-Step Kill, hit accurately,

"-56"

While dealing damage, he instantly arrived behind the Fire Chick.

The wooden sword simply and cleanly stabbed into the familiar spot.

"-44 (Critical Hit)"

So satisfying!

This feeling was exactly what he wanted!

While the Fire Chick was under the paralysis effect, he followed up by stabbing it several more times, the damage numbers soaring again and again...

"-48 (Critical Hit)"

"-52 (Critical Hit)"

...

Just one set of skills wiped out nearly a third of the Fire Chick's health.

The killing efficiency was clearly several times faster.

This time, it took less than two minutes.

The Fire Chick wailed and fell to the ground, generously dropping 1 gold coin upon death.

"Not bad, not bad. Getting rich will depend on you, Brother Chicken."

Picking up the dropped coins, Lin Feng felt delighted and put his hands in his pockets.

In reality, his monthly salary was only about 3000 Cosmic Coins.

The drops from this one monster were enough to equal a day's hard work.

This was because the game hadn't yet opened the function for real-world currency exchange.

All currency could only be obtained within the game, such as by killing monsters, completing quests, system rewards, and so on.

To quickly improve his strength, currency was essential.

The currency exchange rate on the auction house had already reached a staggering 1 Gold Coin to 100 Cosmic Coins (the universal currency of the real universe), meaning 1 Gold Coin in the game could be exchanged for 100 real-world coins.

...

Damn it, for him, this was basically picking up free money.

He only needed to make a slight move, and it was already his previous limit.

Clutching the feeling of impending wealth, he continued to look for the next victim.

A few minutes later, in a small grove, as another Fire Chick fell, the system prompt followed.

[ Ding! Killed level 3 normal monster, Fire Chick. Gained 30 EXP, and an additional 10 EXP for killing a higher-level monster! ]

[ Ding! Your level has increased to 2. You have gained 2 free attribute points. ]

...

Looking at the attribute points rewarded for leveling up, Lin Feng decisively added them to Agility.

Many people chose to add to Strength or Stamina in the early stages.

At first, he had thought the same; after all, increasing output and defense could improve early-game strength significantly, allowing one to both tank and deal damage.

But after seeing the monsters' stats, he decisively gave up on that idea.

Any random small monster in God's Domain could easily crush normal players in terms of stats.

It was basically impossible for a normal player to kill a monster solo.

The only possibility was to rely on operation, awareness, and kiting.

And the prerequisite for these three points was sufficient Agility.

Without equipment and skills, a player's attack speed and movement speed in the early stages were fixed.

The most disgusting thing was that even a level 1 normal monster had a much faster movement speed and attack speed than a novice player.

That is to say, if you encountered a monster, you couldn't beat it and you couldn't run away...

So... the importance of Agility was thus demonstrated.

"If you are fast enough, you can advance to attack and retreat to defend."

For him, this was even more true.

He relied on the teleportation control of Ten-Step Kill and the backstab critical hit of Shadow Strike to deal damage.

Only with fast attack speed could he output damage to his heart's content during the 3-second paralysis period.

Only with fast movement speed could he dodge the monster's counterattack and rely on the charging passive to reduce cooldowns.

So... in the early stages, he didn't lack damage at all.

"Survival is the true path!"