Here Comes Free Equipment

Other than [Notoriety], Mohai's biggest win was that many concepts in his mind were verified.

As someone who had joined the monsters' side for a day, he had yet to grasp the rules, so the verified thoughts were important.

Of course, he also lost something in the conflict. Four out of 15 of his goons had died.

Not all the Level 5 bandit goons died. One of them was on Level 7, and all of them were the slower ones who could not carry out his orders on time. Therefore, their death did not hurt or concern Mohai at all.

After comparing the responses and data from the bandit goons, Mohai knew the differences were caused by various personalities.

The bandit goons who died had negative personalities like Cowardly, Suspicious, Slow, and so on.

As for the best performing goon, Mohai gave the title to No. 13, whose personality was Quiet.

As a rugged bandit, your personality is Quiet? What the hell?

Mohai could not help but ridicule No. 13's personality. Nevertheless, he really hoped that all his goons had the Quiet personality.

Other than not being brave enough, the Quiet No. 13 responded to Mohai's orders the quickest and could carry out them without delay.

If he had a bunch of goons with the Quiet personality, Mohai was confident enough to command them to go up against the elite members of a big guild although he knew it was not that easy.

After having battled with different monsters, Mohai was certain that the level of hatred among monsters was different from that among the players.

The level of hatred among monsters was low, so the battle could stop all of a sudden. However, the level of hatred between monsters and players was abysmal. One party would have to die for the battle to end.

How well could his goons carry out his orders against a fight with players? He would have to test it out in a real fight to find out.

"No. 13, come with me," Mohai called No. 13 into the stone house.

He wanted to use the Template Enhancement of the Template Manager on No. 13.

With only F-rank access level, the Template Enhancement could only be used on a single subordinate. It could change the subordinate's normal template to an enhanced one.

Mohai had not simply used it earlier because he was not sure which subordinate to enhance.

According to the description of the Template Enhancement, the ability could only be used once a day. If it was used on subordinate above Level 20, it would cost Faith credits.

Faith credits were difficult to get, and since enhancing low-level goons was practically free, of course, Mohai wanted to take the chance to understand how powerful the Template Enhancement was.

"Hmm? Has the Ruler ability gained some XP?"

When Mohai opened the Template Manager, he noticed that the XP bar on the Ruler ability had increased. He clearly remembered the bar had been empty before the bandit leaders came knocking at his door.

"Great. It seems like commanding my goons to fight is one of the ways to increase XP for the Ruler ability. 

The new discovery excited Mohai a little.

The Ruler ability was powerful. He could level it up to Rank E first even if the Access Level of the Template Manager had yet to meet the requirements, then he could still get stronger.

"Template Enhancement!"

After he went through all the details and found nothing else, he used the Template Enhancement on No. 13.

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"Brother Shadow Wolf is really something! It's his first time opening treasure boxes and he's got all the good stuff! After a few boxes, all of us have got several pieces of decent equipment!"

"By today, we all open all the treasure boxes in the Monolith Stronghold and hand it to the guild! Every one of us will get a big bonus!"

"This is all thanks to Brother Shadow Wolf!"

A group of Thief players appeared in the Monolith Stronghold.

It was the second day of the game and players were already marching into the Monolith Stronghold.

These players were mostly the path-opener of various guilds.

On the morning of the second day, they were already on Level 5 to 6, the same level as the black jackals around the Monolith Stronghold. If they were not limited by the amount of potions and quality of equipment, they might have already been prepared to take over the Monolith Stronghold.

Low-level equipment came and went quickly since most of the guilds focused on rushing their levels first. Players who carelessly wandered too deep into the Monolith Stronghold would be surrounded by monsters and the leveling process would be affected, so it was not worth their time.

Therefore, the leveling army mostly camped by the side of the Monolith Stronghold.

It was not that they did not have any plans to upgrade their equipment. Instead, after the players realized that there were bronze treasure boxes spawning around the bandit leader's territory, The Richest already formed an emergency party that consisted of 15 Thief players.

After reaching Level 5, a Thief could learn the [Stealth] skill although it was only the discounted version. The [Stealth] duration was limited and its effect was nothing stellar. However, it was enough to avoid the monsters in the Monolith Stronghold.

Other than The Richest, Thief players from other guilds or individuals also did the same.

However, sneaking past the Level 10 bandit leader to steal the treasure box was not an easy task as the party must have enough players to act as bait.

In the early stages of the game, the Thief occupation was not as effective in leveling compared to other occupations. On top of that, the Huaxia Empire and the Fortune Alliance's home bases were not in Guggenheim, thus only The Richest was able to form a party of 15 Thieves at that moment.

Shadow Wolf was a serious young man with black hair. His outfit was unlike that of other Thief players and his equipment was rather decent. He was the leader of this Thief party.

"You guys flatter me. Those are just some little tricks that I've learned. If every one of you can last four games without restarting your memories, you might be able to do it better than me." Shadow Wolf smiled.

"Haha, I can't even handle three games without restarting my memory, let alone four."

"That's right. The experience varies greatly if you decide to restart your memory. Moreover, restarting your memory refreshes your mental state tremendously. You can recover even without sleeping and live forever in both the game and the virtual community."

The group of Thieves was joking together.

The biggest difference between virtual and reality would be innovation!

The virtual world had almost all the entertainment activities on Earth, and the AI mainframe that ran the system was very smart. There were more benefits of staying inside the virtual world compared to living in reality.

However, in terms of innovation, the virtual world fell behind reality by a vast gap.

Everything inside the virtual world was predetermined. No matter how it changed, it would not stray far from its roots. Without frequent updates, as time went by, those who lived in the virtual community for too long would start to feel tired and hate their lives. More problems would surface if the situation continued.

Therefore, a predetermined function called the Memory Restart appeared in a timely manner to save everyone.

Memory Restart, as its name suggested, could recover one's memory back to Day One in the virtual community. In short, everything could be re-experienced again and the world would look different once more.

Although many rejected Memory Restart when it was first introduced, more and more people were caught up in the extreme ecstasy and excitement it provided.

Up to this point in time, a lot of people could no longer free themselves from Memory Restart. People like Shadow Wolf, who insisted on keeping his memories for four games, were considered rare.

"Okay, guys, we should head to the next treasure box. The Thieves from other guilds are rushing levels, so it will only be a matter of time before they reach Level 5. We must hurry. Otherwise, this place will be swarming with people!"

Shadow Wolf did not want to delve into the Memory Restart topic with the other party members as it was a rhetorical question. Arguing who was right and who was wrong was the stupidest thing one could do.

"Yeah!"

The party agreed loudly and continued venturing deep into the Monolith Stronghold.

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"Brother Shadow Wolf, look! There's a stack of treasure boxes there!"

More than an hour later, a Thief who had taken the lead was slightly stunned by what he saw. He turned around and reported excitedly.

"Holy sh*t! It's really a stack of treasure boxes! Let me see…There are seven of them!"

"If we open up all of them, we can call it a day!"

They had opened almost ten treasure boxes along the way but had never seen seven treasure boxes stacked together like this.

Even Shadow Wolf got excited when he saw the stack of treasure boxes.

"Be careful. The more treasure boxes there are, the more monsters will be guarding it." Shadow Wolf forced himself to calm down.

"I'll go have a look." One of the party members volunteered to check the situation.

Shadow Wolf pondered about it for a moment before nodding in agreement. "Okay. The rest of you, don't move without my command."

As they made their way down there, they already got a clear understanding of the bandit goons' levels and stats.

If they were correct, the Thief volunteer should be able to reach the treasure boxes and open them before being detected.

"Sh*t! I got detected!"

However, the situation turned out differently. The player barely got close to the treasure boxes before the patrolling bandit goons already spotted him.

"These fools are finally here to deliver our free equipment."

Inside the stone house, Mohai received news about the Thief players from one of his goons and he could not help but chuckle sinisterly. He had just completed the Template Enhancement's test, so it was just about time that the Thief players came knocking on his door.