4: The terrifying wooden house

Ding! You have obtained 13 copper coins.

Ding! You have obtained a Willow Leaf Blade.

After reaching Level 3, Xiao Xing picked up over ten copper coins from the ground and an Level 8 Bronze equipment, putting them into his backpack.

Killing normal monsters usually only drops common equipment, with an extremely low chance of dropping Bronze equipment. For it to drop now could be said to be very lucky, perhaps due to him challenging higher-level enemies.

He wasn't very interested in equipment of this level, but resources were scarce in the early stages, so he could bring it back to exchange for some copper coins.

After putting away the items, Xiao Xing quickly ran up the mountain. In his current state, he didn't panic at all when encountering Wraiths, unless a BOSS appeared.

Soon, he killed over a dozen Wraiths without any pressure, and his level rose to Level 6.

As his level increased, the experience gained from killing Wraiths had already decreased significantly, and more experience was required.

In his past life, he had randomly rolled the Gale Swordsman class. Since it was his first time playing this class and he didn't have much time online, he had stayed in the Novice Village for seven days before reaching Level 10 and leaving.

"But this time!"

A sharp light flashed in Xiao Xing's eyes. He casually twirled his sword and then walked with the sword behind his back, speeding toward the mountain peak.

As he went deeper, the world had completely darkened, and gusts of yin wind blew continuously, making his body tremble slightly.

It wasn't that Xiao Xing was afraid, but rather the sensory effect caused by the yin wind. Unless his attributes reached a certain level, he wouldn't be able to avoid this effect.

Although he didn't lose health, in such a setting, various sensory functions of the body would decline, preventing players from exerting their full strength.

Soon he arrived at the former stronghold of the bandits. Several wooden houses appeared ahead, with an eerie aura constantly rising from within.

A large amount of green light drifted in front of the doors, accompanied by the faint sounds of crying and laughter echoing around, making this dim place appear extremely terrifying and bizarre.

If it weren't for someone as bold as Xiao Xing, anyone else coming here alone would probably be truly frightened.

This game's realism could be said to have reached the extreme, except that one wouldn't truly die... Bang!

The mountain rocks beneath his feet let out a loud bang, instantly breaking the atmosphere here.

His figure burst forward, quickly arriving in front of a Wraith, and he struck the green light with his sword.

-48 (Weak Point Attack)

-50 (Weak Point Attack)

After two consecutive strikes, the Wraith raised its sharp claws to attack, but his figure had already appeared in front of another Wraith.

-44 (Weak Point Attack)

-50 (Weak Point Attack)

After he finished attacking the second one, his expression tightened slightly, and he barely managed to retreat from the group of monsters back to his previous position.

Perhaps because he had obtained a powerful class, he began to plan on relying on his positioning and speed to slaughter his way through the monster group as if no one were there.

But after the Wraiths were alerted, even the monsters outside the aggro range drifted over, and the original dozens increased to over a hundred.

Now that he was only Level 6, if he were surrounded by such a number, even he could only die with regret.

Just as he retreated, all the Wraiths drifted toward him. Clearly, the aggro here was linked.

But that was understandable; this was a special mission, and it wouldn't be normal if there weren't some difficulty.

"But it's not like there's no way!"

Xiao Xing slightly raised his sword, holding it horizontally in front of him, his eyes fixed on the front as he began to predict the range of his skill.

When the swarms of Wraiths gathered in front of him, the sword qi condensing in his hand was instantly swung out.

[LV1 Aurora Slash (0/1000)] (Effect: Swings out a blade of sword qi, dealing 500% damage to a 10-meter range in front.)

Mana Cost: 200

Cooldown: 60 seconds

Note: For every level the skill increases, Mana Cost +200, the attack range of the sword qi increases by 10 meters, and the damage dealt increases by 5 times.

This was currently his only attack skill. After the sword qi was swung out, his figure had already dodged away.

Meanwhile, the dozen or so Wraiths in the front row activated Ghost Pierce and lunged at him just as he swung his sword.

But Xiao Xing had already retreated in advance, and all their skills hit nothing but air.

-188

-202

-192

...The arc-shaped sword qi swept across, and over a hundred damage values floated up from the monster group.

These low-level monsters had no intelligence and wouldn't dodge at all; this single strike dealt full damage.

However, this bit of damage wasn't enough to kill them yet; this attack only allowed his mana to be of some use.

At the same time he dodged, he activated another skill.

Skill 1: [LV1 Aurora Step] (Effect: Increases movement speed by 100% upon use, consumes 10 Mana per second.)

Cooldown: None

Note: For every level increased, movement speed doubles, and Mana consumption +10.

His speed directly doubled.

In the time that followed, his figure was like a flash of light in the dark night, constantly weaving through the monster group, while the opponents couldn't deal any damage to him at all.

Dense damage values continuously floated above the heads of the over one hundred Wraiths; although they were only double digits, there were many of them.

Dozens of seconds later, his mana was about to be depleted, so he had to deactivate Aurora Step and quickly retreated from the group.

If it weren't for his low level and lack of mana, he could have toyed with this group of monsters until they died at Level 6; it was simply terrifying.

Without hesitation, after flashing out, Xiao Xing took out one red potion and one blue potion from the beginner gift pack, downed them, and began to unhurriedly lead the monster group in circles.

His speed was much faster than the Wraiths, making it easy to kite them; he didn't panic at all.

After an unknown amount of time, his mana had just recovered to 200. Without even looking, Xiao Xing swung an Aurora Slash behind him.

In an instant, dense damage values appeared again, and dozens of low-health Wraiths were instantly killed.

Level up!

Xiao Xing opened the interface and instantly reached Level 7.

His mana also returned to full. After adding five points to Agility, he activated Aurora Step once again.

A few minutes later, all the Wraiths turned into yin energy and dissipated.

He had already reached Level 8. With all points added to Agility, plus the 10-fold bonus from his passive talent, his speed was now nearly 900.

Such speed would be hard for other classes to achieve without being Level 30 and having high-level equipment.

Because other classes couldn't possibly add five points to Agility; otherwise, they would definitely be ruined.

After clearing the battlefield, Xiao Xing found a rock to sit on and began to take stock of the spoils.

Besides some copper coins, another Bronze item and three common items dropped, all with a level requirement of Level 8.

The three common items were for various parts of the body, which he had already equipped.

The attributes they added were all in the single digits, but they were better than nothing.

Wu Yue Sword (Bronze Grade)

Level Requirement: Level 8

Agility +2

Attack +25

Special Effect: None

Durability: 500 (A trace of Profound Iron was incorporated when this weapon was forged, making the blade quite resilient.)

After equipping the weapon, his attack power was already 73, a significant increase. This sword was passable for now.

What made him a bit puzzled was the equipment drop rate.

He knew the drop rates of this game best. The drop rate for common equipment from normal monsters was about one percent, and for Bronze equipment, it was about one in a thousand, or even less.

But now, after killing over 100 normal monsters, he had obtained not only several common items but also two Bronze items, which was a bit excessive.

Even as the first person to explore the map plus killing higher-level enemies, the drop rate would increase by at most two points.

Based on his experience from his past life, there was only one possibility for this kind of drop rate: it was the first time clearing a Dungeon...!