Chapter 6: Fire Frog Lord

'-18'

Stabbing out with the sword, a red number floated on top of the jumping fire frog's head. When it was attacked, its eyes showed a trace of anger. It turned its body, leaped high into mid-air, and its half-meter-long tongue stretched, lashing towards Jiang Ming.

Anticipating the fire frog's actions, Jiang Ming moved sideways to avoid the fire frog's attack. He lifted the mahogany sword in his hand and slashed at the fire frog's tongue, causing nearly twenty points of damage again.

"Haha, I didn't expect that my hands could exert strength again in this game. Using the sidestep technique from competitive games, the dodge rate is greatly improved."

After fighting the fire frog, Jiang Ming laughed excitedly.

Ever since his hands were maimed, he would feel immense pain in his wrist after holding the mouse for a while. Now in "Divine Land", not only did he move freely, but the strength of his hands had also returned. How could he not be excited!

When he first entered the game, he was still a little nervous. He was afraid that his hands would not even be able to lift up weapons in this game. Now his initial worries and anxieties had been wiped out, and tears of excitement flashed in his eyes.

It had been three years. In the past three years, because his hands were rendered useless, he had to give up on his passion for games and turn to pick up trash. Now he could finally play games again. The mood was like reuniting with his child who had been separated for many years; he was moved and happy.

His hands had regained their strength, and coupled with his overjoyed mood at the moment, he performed exceptionally when fighting the fire frog. A few moments later, while showing off his sidestepping and manoeuvre and without even losing a bit of his HP, he killed the fire frog. It was also the first monster he had killed in "Divine Land".

Ding~ System notification: Congratulations on killing a level 4 ordinary fire frog and gaining 50 experience points.

The experience reward for killing fire frogs was originally 100 points, and the experience was halved due to the influence of the Possession by Jinx skill.

After the fire frog was killed, Jiang Ming went up and used a skinning technique and a segmentation technique.

Ding~ System notification: The collection is successful. Congratulations on getting a piece of 'Fire Frog Skin' and a piece of 'Fire Frog Meat'. Skinning and segmentation proficiency +1.

[Fire Frog Skin]: Grade 1 fire element material

"Damn, the drop rate in Divine Land is too low! There isn't even a single bronze coin."

After segmenting the corpse of the fire frog, Jiang Ming found that there was nothing on the ground. He was a little disappointed and could not help but curse.

His luck was 10, but 10 points of luck was not even worth a single bronze coin. You could tell how low the drop rate of Divine Land was.

Shaking his head helplessly, his gaze fell on another fire frog, and he rushed over again, holding the mahogany wood sword.

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1 day in the real world = 3 days in the game world!

Jiang Ming spent the entire day of the game in the fire frog area, slaughtering the fire frogs. After a whole day of killing fire frogs, his experience bar only increased to 95%, and he had not yet leveled up. This made him once again curse in his heart about how disgusting the skill "Possession by Jinx" was.

Not only that, he had now lost all confidence in the drop rate of Divine Land.

An entire game day, other than dozens of bronze coins that dropped and the skin and flesh he obtained, he didn't get a single piece of equipment.

"Sigh, the drop rate is way too disgusting." Jiang Ming cursed after slashing down a fire frog in front of him, then took the furnace out and placed it in front of him. "Since the system does not drop equipment, it seems that I can only fuse it myself."

Thinking of the Divine Furnace, the corner of his mouth curved into a slight smile. He took out 5 fire frog skins and threw them into the Divine Furnace, thinking the word 'fusion' skill in his heart.

As soon as the thought arose, the furnace in front of him began to tremble, and bursts of smoke appeared.

Ding~ System notification: Fusion failed!

"F*ck, I don't believe that a 50% success rate cannot succeed even once."

Saying this, he once again threw 5 fire frog skins into the furnace.

Ding~ System notification: The fusion was successful, congratulations on getting a pair of "Fire Frog Leather Boots".

[Fire Frog Leather Boots]: Iron Equipment

Attributes: movement speed +2, attack speed +2

Equipment level: 0

"Haha, the equipment is finally out. Agility shoes, not bad!"

Jiang Ming looked at a pair of red boots appearing in the backpack, and laughed excitedly, directly putting them on.

Seeing that his stamina still had 120 points, he continued to fuse items.

After fusing 6 more times, he was a little luckier, succeeding 4 times out of 6 tries, and he obtained three pieces of equipment and one material.

Two pieces of equipment were still the 'Fire Frog Leather Boots', and the other was a pair of bracers.

[Burning Bracers]: Iron Equipment

Attribute: Attack +5

It was an attack equipment that was also useful to Jiang Ming, so he equipped it.

As for the other two Fire Frog Leather Boots, he was going to bring them back and sell them. His 10-point luck didn't drop any equipment, so he believed that other players would be even more miserable. These two pieces of equipment would surely sell for a lot of money.

[Fire Dissolving Powder]: Level 1 auxiliary material for crafting.

This material was useless to him, so he took a look and put it away.

'-35'

 "Ahhh!"

As soon as he put the fire dissolving powder away, he felt a burning sensation on his back, and at the same time, a severe pain hit all the major nerves in his body. He screamed, and quickly jumped to the side.

"F*ck, I didn't expect 50% of the pain to be this painful! What on earth attacked me!"

Jiang Ming looked at the numbers indicating the HP loss appearing continuously above his head. He rubbed his sore back and looked at where he had been standing just now.

He saw a fire frog, which was twice the size of a normal fire frog. Its eyes were filled with anger, and it was leaping towards him. Its thick, fiery red tongue was whipping towards his neck.

Jiang Ming, seeing this, naturally did not dare to directly face the blow of the huge fire frog in front of him. He bent his body and twisted his waist. Turning around, he appeared to the side of the giant frog, and threw an investigation technique toward the giant frog.

Fire Frog Lord: Level 7 BOSS

HP: 450

Attack: 55-60, Defense: 18, Skill: Fireball, causing 20% ​​extra damage to the enemy.

"So it's the BOSS, no wonder its attack is so high and its body is so burly."

Jiang Ming realised the reason, but he was not afraid. Taking advantage of the time before the fire frog lord turned around, he used the mahogany wood sword to slash on its side two or three times in a row, and used the skill of "Possession by Jinx" on the fire frog lord to lower half of his attributes. Then he immediately retreated, avoiding another blow from the fire frog lord which had turned around.

Based on the experiences he had summed up from years of gaming, as long as the enemy's defense could be broken, it was only a matter of time before he killed the enemy.

From this, one could tell how confident he was in his positioning and manoeuvre.

Although he was very confident, that was only for mouse-controlled games. When he really performed it on his own, it was a little different. He didn't manage to dodge several times and was attacked by the fire frog lord again. He had no choice but to drink small healing potions while dodging.

A boss was equivalent to a mobile treasure chest. Killing it would definitely be extremely profitable. When he thought of this, Jiang Ming became full of enthusiasm. He slowly restored himself to his best conditions, and started a guerrilla war with the fire frog lord.

After all, the fire frog lord had no intelligence. Although it was a BOSS, it was also the lowest-level BOSS. It did not have much HP and its attributes were weakened by half due to the effects of "Possession by Jinx". After tens of minutes, he finally defeated the fire frog lord.

Ding~ System notification: Congratulations on reaching level 4 and gaining 5 free attribute points.

"Ding Ding..."

The moment the fire frog lord fell to the ground, two pleasant sounds rang in Jiang Ming's ears. His eyes lit up and he looked at the two objects lying beside the fire frog lord.