The first kill
"Hello, I want to learn the skills of a priest!"
In the room of the priest mentor, Su Mu looked at the old priest in front of him with some embarrassment. He had suddenly teleported into the house, which startled the old priest.
"Child, next time, please don't appear so suddenly."
The old priest didn't mean to scold him. As soon as he finished speaking, a skill appeared before Su Mu's eyes.
[Greater Healing: Restores 200% of the target's spell attack as health, consumes 100 mana, casting time of 1 second, cooldown of 10 seconds (0/5)]
"An instant healing skill?" Su Mu raised an eyebrow at this skill. Having a magical shield, he felt that pure healing skills were somewhat redundant for himself. Instead, skills that could both heal and deal damage seemed more practical.
"I'll learn it!"
After some thought, Su Mu decided to learn this skill.
[Spending 10 gold coins, successfully learned Greater Healing!]
[Greater Healing successfully upgraded to Greater Healing (E-rank)]
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[Greater Healing (A-rank) successfully upgraded to Greater Healing (S-rank)]
[Greater Healing (S-rank): Restores 600% of the target's spell attack as health, consumes 200 mana, casting time of 1 second, cooldown of 10 seconds]
After bidding farewell to the old priest, Su Mu hurried to the location of the assassin mentor.
He hadn't learned any of the assassin's skills before, but with the improvement in melee attacks, it was necessary for him to learn the assassin's skills as well.
"Hello, adventurer. How can I assist you?" The seductive assassin mentor greeted him with a smile.
"I want to learn skills!" As Su Mu spoke, three skills appeared simultaneously.
[Backstab: Attack the enemy from behind, dealing 150% of physical attack damage, cooldown of 10 seconds (0/5)]
[Kidney Strike: Strike the enemy's abdomen, stunning them for 1 second and dealing 100% of physical attack damage, cooldown of 20 seconds (0/5)]
[Piercing Strike: Ignore 30% of the enemy's defense, dealing 100% of physical attack damage, cooldown of 30 seconds (0/5)]
After learning the three skills together, it cost Su Mu a total of 20 gold coins. Without hesitation, he upgraded these three skills to S-rank.
[Backstab (S-rank): Attack the enemy from behind, dealing 600% of physical attack damage, cooldown of 10 seconds]
[Kidney Strike (S-rank): Strike the enemy's abdomen, stunning them for 3 seconds and dealing 500% of physical attack damage, cooldown of 20 seconds]
[Piercing Strike: Ignore 80% of the enemy's defense, dealing 500% of physical attack damage, cooldown of 30 seconds]
"The damage bonus of the assassin's skills is indeed higher!" Su Mu nodded in approval after seeing the effects of these three S-rank skills. His mage skills only had a 400% damage bonus, while the assassin skills had an additional 100%. Upon reflection, it wasn't difficult to understand. In most online games, assassins were synonymous with high burst damage. If their skill bonuses were not higher than those of other classes, it would be quite embarrassing, wouldn't it?
"I won't bother looking at the archer's skills. They aren't of much use to me." Su Mu decided not to visit the archer mentor and instead headed towards the village entrance.
The captain of the guards could teach him an 8th-level warrior skill, but Su Mu had no intention of learning it. After acquiring the Blink skill, he was confident enough to face the boarman boss.
"Hey buddy, looks like you're a mage, right? Want to team up and kill level 3 monsters? We have a team of powerful mages. No one can leave the team until everyone levels up."
"Bro, we need a mage for regular monster killing. Are you interested?"
"We need a mage for monster hunting. Any mage will do, as long as you can cast Fireball!"
Arriving at the monster area near the village entrance, it was still overcrowded with people. Many noticed Su Mu carrying a staff and eagerly sent him invitations to join their teams. During the leveling phase, mages were always in demand, especially one with equipment.
"No thanks!" Su Mu ignored these people's team invitations and walked towards the depths of the forest with his head down.
"Damn, don't steal our monsters!"
"What do you mean by stealing monsters? Whoever kills the monster owns it. Don't you understand the rules?"
"Damn, I had it down to low health, and you stole the monster. Unbelievable!"
"What are you gonna do about it?"
"Damn, if it weren't for the no-PK rule, I'd kill you ten times over."
"Oh, really? Who's to say you won't be the one getting killed instead?"
Arriving at the level 2-3 monster area, the scene was lively, with occasional arguments breaking out due to monster stealing.
"Now most of the troops should be at level 2-3, and the first group should be reaching level 4, almost 5!" Su Mu analyzed while walking, observing the number of players in each monster area.
"Of course, I'm in a league of my own!"
Shaking his head continuously, Su Mu looked at the groups of people surrounding a monster to level up.
Soon, he arrived at the level 5 monster area.
"Is that guy here?" Su Mu spotted a familiar face.
Xu Shijie was effortlessly killing level 5 monsters with a group of people around him.
"I'll ignore him!"
Su Mu avoided Xu Shijie and others, heading towards the boarman boss's camp.
The monsters in the camp hadn't respawned, and there was only the boarman boss and a group of ranged monsters outside the cave.
"I should start with Fire Rain to instantly take out all the ranged monsters."
"The boss should be susceptible to Frost Arrow control, right?"
Looking at the boss boarman with its massive 20,000 HP, Su Mu began strategizing.
"With my shield value of 4,400 and the Blink skill, kiting it won't be a problem!"
"Activate the Magic Shield!"
Taking a deep breath, Su Mu activated his Magic Shield.
He walked to the maximum range of thirty meters and raised his staff.
"Fire Rain!"
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In the Sakura Kingdom server...
"Mr. Ichiro, we found a boss in a certain location. What should we do?" A person dressed as a samurai approached Ichiro Jin, who was currently leveling up, and lowered his head.
"A boss?" Ichiro's eyes instantly lit up at the words. "Are you sure?"
"I can't be certain, but it's in a camp filled with level 6 boarmen. There's also a treasure chest behind it, so I believe it should be a boss!" The person's tone was half certain, half speculative.
"If no one has claimed the boss's first kill, it means nobody has been able to defeat it. This is our chance. Gather everyone, no matter the cost, we must push through and defeat that boss!"
Hearing this, Ichiro's expression turned decisive.
"This time, we won't let Su Mu or anyone from the Hua Kingdom steal the first kill again!"
"This glory belongs to us, the samurai!"
"Hi!" After Ichiro finished speaking, everyone present lowered their heads in unison.