Tick!
As I was killing the water snakes, I get a message. It’s from Wan Er, “Xiao Yao, have you looked on the forums?”
“I haven’t. What happened?”
Wan Er opens up a voice call, and laughs light, “You’re getting famous… The 4 Generals went to some remote place to kill you, but unexpectedly you killed quite a few of them. This video on the forums is getting near a million views! You should pay more attention…”
“Sigh…”
Wan Er continues, “You be careful. I hear that in Fan Shu City a few groups want to go to Ba Huang City, and even in Jiu Li people want to go too. For a bounty of 1000 gold coins, these people are even more vicious than the Generals!”
“I got it, I’ll be careful.”
“Mm, then I’ll continue level grinding.”
“Okay.”
Just as Wan Er’s call ends, I get another message. This time it’s from Qing Qian, “Xiao Yao!”
“Mm, Qing Qian. What’s the matter?”
“A lot of people from Ba Huang City are going to the forests in the north. I suspect that their goal is you, what are you going to do?” She seems very worried.
I smile, “Don’t worry Qing Qian. If I can beat them, I’ll kill them. If I can’t, then I’ll just disconnect and go offline. It’s not like I’m going to keep on dying for no reason. If I go offline, those people will leave. I doubt they would play a waiting game with me.”
Qing Qian replies, “Mm, if you do that, I’ll feel relieved. That’s right, I’m coming towards you, throw me your coordinates. I have something to give to you…”
“Oh? What thing?”
“When you get it you’ll know!”
“Okay.”
After giving her my coordinates, I continue level grinding and I also check the weapon ranking of Ba Huang City. In the rankings, Jade City Sword is ranked first, the second is a gold-ranked pike, the third is a gold-ranked dagger. All of their owners hid their IDs. That’s expected, no point of getting into trouble from people being jealous. As for the armor rankings, my Silver-Locked boots and Elite Steel Wrist Guard are ranked as 278 and 311 respectively. The rest of my items don’t even reach the top 1000. Ranked first in the defensive items is a gold-ranked level 32 helmet, and who knows who has that item. This game is full of violent developments because there are so many skilled players!
Whoosh!
Light bounces off my sword, and I continue using the continuous strikes of [Stab+Slash+Hack+Ram+Wind Blade], and every time it takes shorter and shorter to use it. It gets along very well with my power, and it feels like it has already become one of my skills. Also, as my strength gets bigger and bigger, the power of the strikes also slowly increase.