TSA Chapter 8

Leveling up, he had to find a way to keep up with the equipment. He couldn’t just wear a white-grade novice suit.

Ran Qi currently has Wolf King’s Teeth and Wolf King’s Skin on hand, the primary materials used to make weapons and equipment; however, auxiliary materials such as ores and flax must be collected in the wild.

Yuena and Ba e were both killed once. They definitely didn’t dare to leave the main city at this moment. After all, Ran Qi’s bounty was valid for a long time. If they dared to step out of the main city, they would probably have to die again. But Ran Qi, who also had a bounty, was not worried about this. He had hundreds of medium and high-grade magic scrolls in his backpack. What was he afraid of?

However, he still had to make some ‘Return to the City’ scrolls. Those magic scrolls in his backpack were all expensive high-grade scrolls, so he should try not to use them if he could.

‘Return to the City’ scroll belonged to the most basic alchemy products. It was also the test content for players to learn alchemy. When Ran Qi came to the Alchemy Skill Area, he saw that many players were studying the method of drawing the magic pattern with a worried expression.

The test for the Alchemy skill was even stricter than the cooking skill. The magic pattern drawn had to be exactly the same as the one taught by the NPCs, or else the magic scrolls produced would be equivalent to waste paper.

Fortunately, Ran Qi didn’t have this trouble. His Alchemy had long been at maximum level. He could just use the simple crafting method instead of having to draw it himself.

He came to the merchant who sold alchemy auxiliary materials and purchased 500 copies of beginner’s blank scrolls and magical beast blood. He then opened the skill panel and chose the recipe for the ‘Return to the City’ scroll, which auto-generated 50 scrolls.

[Return to the City Scroll]

Grade: D

Description: After using, teleport the player to the nearest main city.

Ran Qi kept 10 for himself and listed the rest on the Trading Market at 30 silver a piece. The price was actually quite high. The blank scroll and the magical beast’s blood were both 5 silver, and the cost was only 10 silver, and he gained a lot of profit.

There were still very few people who had learned alchemy, and even fewer who could make a ‘Return to the City’ scroll for sale. Ran Qi was planning to take advantage of the fact that there were not many people who had learned how to make this scroll, so he needed to hurry to make a fortune.

As he said before, the map of the <Magic Realm> was very large. Players did not have a mount at the beginning. There were no acceleration skills, and they needed to rely on their two legs to walk. It was a waste of time. With the help of the scroll, it could save a lot of time.

In addition to the Return to the City scroll, there was also a Directional Teleportation scroll. It could record information about a specified location so that the next time they used it, they could return directly to the specified location.

Players who were practicing in the field were the ones who liked this kind of scroll the most. After returning to the city to replenish supplies, they directly used the Directional Teleportation scroll and could instantly return to the place where they hunted the monsters and continued to practice leveling happily, which was very timesaving and labor-saving.

However, Ran Qi’s current level was still too low to create such scrolls.

After purchasing a variety of tools from the NPC, he headed out of town to gather them.

Because there was still a bounty on the line, he purposely avoided the East City Gate where players were concentrated, and chose to exit the city through the West City Gate.

The Deadwood Wetlands were outside the West City Gate. The monsters on this map were all level 15+ active monsters. So, there would be fewer players coming here to level up. He could focus on gathering without always worrying about being sneak attacked.

Although the monsters here would attack actively, he, as a priest who could heal his HP, would still be able to deal with the monsters easily, as long as they weren’t much.

The Deadwood Wetland was eerie and gave people a shuddering feeling. However, there were a lot of materials that could be collected here. Ran Qi put a recovery status on himself and began to concentrate on collecting.

Whenever he went, he fully followed the principle of seizing all opportunities. Whether it was herbs that could be used to formulate protons, ores that could be used to forge weapons, plants that could be synthesized into textile materials, gemstones that could be used to make jewelry, or even the fruits of the trees, all of them were included in the bag.

Fortunately, Ran Qi’s backpack had many slots. If an ordinary player’s backpack replaced it, it would be full in just a moment, and he needed to go back to the city to organize his backpack.

Gathering along the way, without realizing it, Ran Qi had already gone to the depths of the Deadwood Wetland. He heard of a scuffle after finishing collecting a flax plant.

He curiously probed and looked around and saw a mage fighting a group of ferocious wild boars.

The mage was notorious for his low HP and defense, so he always kept a distance from the boars, releasing magic bullets crisply and cleanly. Each one hit the boars squarely in the vitals, hitting one boar after another. He was a player with excellent technique.

Ran Qi glanced at his ID. It was Night Owl who was number one on the rank list. He was actually level 19 at this moment.

Ran Qi looked at the other party’s good positioning and movements and only thought, no wonder the other party upgrades so fast. With such a good technique, he can kill the monsters alone, not only with high efficiency but also with more experience.

He just wondered if Night Owl had learned life skills or not. If he hadn’t learned, these boar carcasses might have been a bargain.

After a while, Night Owl cleared the group of boars. He immediately sat down to recover. However, he saw a flash of white light and another boar suddenly appeared before him.

This boar was more than three times larger than the ones before. Its mane was fiery red, and written on the top of its head were the large five words——Level 20 Explosive Boar King.

This was an elite-level mini-boss. He didn’t know how long Night Owl had been killing wild boars, but he had actually summoned the wild boar king boss.

As soon as the Wild Boar King appeared, he didn’t hesitate to charge towards Night Owl who was closest to it. Although Night Owl reacted extremely quickly to get up, the wild boar king still hit him. His HP fell instantly. However, Night Owl didn’t panic, pulling out the Red Potion and drinking it, dragging the Wild Boar King around in circles while constantly looking for an opportunity to attack.

The Wild Boar King’s size was huge, yet its speed was fast and its attacks were high. Although Night Owl was skilled, he was only level 19. So, it was still hard for him to single-handedly take on a level 20 boss.

Seeing that Night Owl was being hit by the Wild Boar King again, Ran Qi cast a healing skill over to him and replenished him with another Recovery skill, quickly healing his precarious HP.

Let’s consider it good karma.

Night Owl immediately looked over towards Ran Qi’s side and said, “Priest over there, team up? We’ll split the drop in half.”

“Okay.” Great deal. The boss had a rich experience and maybe he would go straight to level 14.

He didn’t pay attention just now, but looking at Night Owl at this time. He’s really good-looking ah.

He was tall and had extremely handsome facial features. His ink-like long hair casually draped over his shoulders. He just wore a simple mage robe, but it was as if he was wearing some kind of flashy clothes. His movements of dodging the boss’s attacks looked so elegant and calm.

Only when he raised his hand to send out an attack without mercy that a seriousness flow out of his good-looking eyes. It was something that one would not dare to underestimate in the slightest.

“Start.”

As soon as Night Owl’s words fell, he threw out a magic bullet that accurately hit the Wild Boar King’s vitals, dealing 180 crit damage.

Ran Qi didn’t team up with him and couldn’t see his specific damage data just now. He only knew that his attack was very high. After seeing the attack data at this moment, he couldn’t help but be stunned. This person’s base stats must be ridiculously high.

After all, it was a level 20 boss. It was still quite laborious to fight alone. Ran Qi was a priest and had no attacking skills, and the Wild Boar King was too aggressive for melee combat. So, it was only possible to rely on Night Owl’s skill for kiting and long-distance attacks.

Fortunately, Night Owl’s positioning was quite sharp, and his attack damage was high enough. Along with Ran Qi’s assistance from the sidelines, after they fought with this Wild Boar King for almost 20 minutes, they finally killed it successfully.

[System Announcement] Congratulations to the player [Night Owl] for being the first to reach level 20 and obtaining the title [First Exposure], and [Physical Exchange Coupon*1].

Ran Qi looked enviously at Night Owl. This person’s upgrade speed was like riding a rocket.

“Add a friend?” Night Owl took the initiative to speak.

He felt that Ran Qi’s technique was really good. To avoid the Wild Boar King’s attacks, he was moving at high speeds the entire time, so it had to target him. However, his HP didn’t drop below 50% the entire time, allowing him to not worry about his safety at all. He could attack at full power.

There was no shortage of priests in the game, but there weren’t many priests with good skills and a strong sense of combat. Such priests were obviously very worth befriending. They could work together in the future, no matter if they were playing dungeons or in team battles.

“Ohh, alright!” They shook hands and added each other as game friends.

If Night Owl’s teammates were here, they would definitely be stunned by this scene. After all, he never added people he was not familiar with, let alone taking the initiative to add others.

At this time, two silver treasure chests floated on the corpse of the Wild Boar King, just one for each person.

Night Owl was the first to open the treasure chest and then got the [Cloak of Invisibility] and [Ruby].

[Cloak of Invisibility]

Grade: A

Description: Special equipment that hides player information and reduces the user’s presence when worn.

[Ruby]

Grade: B

Description: A life gemstone, which can be set on defense equipment to add extra life attributes.

Night Owl didn’t see much value in these two items. Being the top-ranked player, he didn’t feel the need to hide his information. However, when it came to the ruby, he faced a couple of challenges. Firstly, he had to find a player who knew gem crafting and ask for their help in setting it. This wasn’t an easy task as such skilled players were hard to come by. Secondly, there was the issue of handing over his equipment and gems to the other player. There was no guarantee that they wouldn’t try to hack into his belongings directly.

So, the best thing for Night Owl to do was to sell the ruby. However, in the current situation, it wouldn’t fetch a high price.

However, Ran Qi was interested in both. After wearing the Cloak of Invisibility, other players wouldn’t be able to see his ID and personal information, perfect for him who had a bounty. By mid to late game, cloaks, veils, and masks with this kind of invisibility were essentially for people.

He wondered if Night Owl would be willing to transfer it.

Thinking about it, Ran Qi opened the treasure chest absentmindedly. He got [Fireball – Skill Book] and a [Explosive Inferno Necklace].

[Fireball – Skill Book]

Can Learn Level: 10

Limited Profession: Mage

Description: Open it to learn the skill [Fireball]. Chant for 3 seconds, cool down for 5 seconds. Sends out fireballs to attack the enemy with a burst effect, attack power increases by 11%, and attack damage increases as the skill level increases.

[Explosive Inferno Necklace]

Restricted Level: 10 or above

Limited Profession: Priest, Mage

Grade: B

Durability: 100/100

Attributes: Base Attack Power+20, Intelligence+15, Fire Critical Strike+30 (comes with a burning effect when attacking with fire skills]

Night Owl: “…”

That’s a bit of a harsh comparison…

With difficulty, Night Owl opened his mouth to ask, “The skill book and the necklace. Do you plan to sell them?”

“Sell!” Ran Qi decisively said that. He had no use for keeping the mage skill book anyway, and the attributes of this necklace were not suitable for him.

“Make an offer.”

“I want the cloak of invisibility and the ruby you just got.”

“Is that all you need?” Night Owl looked at Ran Qi in surprise.

Although the Cloak of Invisibility was a rare purple piece of equipment. It didn’t have any special attributes attached to it. It wasn’t even comparable to the value of the Mage’s skill book. The ruby couldn’t even be compared to that necklace with its excellent attributes.

“Let’s add another B-grade equipment then.”

“Two.” Night Owl wasn’t the kind of person who was brazen enough to take advantage of the situation and directly raise the price himself. “Can you wait a bit? I don’t bring it. I need to go back to the city first.”

“Okay.” Ran Qi took out the Return to the City scroll and gave it to him. “It will be faster if you use this scroll.”

“Okay. Thank you.” Night Owl was not polite. He took the scroll and just ripped it to go back to the city.

Ran Qi didn’t wait in place. He took out his gathering knife and squatted down to decompose the Wild Boar King’s corpse. This was a level 20 mini-boss. There were quite a few materials that could be used on its body. Unfortunately, it took too long to fight the boss. The corpses of the group of boars that were killed by Night Owl earlier had all disappeared on their own.

Boar skin could be used for defense. Tusks could be used for weapons. Pork could be used as a cooking ingredient. It was just full of treasures.

After collecting the Wild Boar King, he continued to collect other materials. Anyway, he and Night Owl were in a group. Night Owl only needed to open the map to see his location, so he didn’t need to worry that Night Owl wouldn’t be able to find him.

Ran Qi was happily putting a piece of Red Copper Ore into his backpack when he was suddenly attacked by a sneak attack in the next second.

A red-named assassin appeared behind him at an unknown time and stabbed his back directly.

Thanks to the fact that it was a game, there was no such thing as a one-shot death setting. However, it was a critical strike attack and his HP lost a lot.

Ran Qi rolled on the ground, dodging the red-named assassin’s second slash. He then healed himself immediately, only to be hit in the waist and abdomen by the arrow.

Ran Qi gritted his teeth and poured down a bottle of a red potion. “Shit. I’m being ambushed.”

The best option for him was to rip the Return to the City scroll, but he felt uncomfortable going back just like that.

Of course, he could also use magic scrolls to attack. Killing the assassin was simple, but the archer hiding in the back was a problem. After all, the enemy was hiding and the other party had a long-range attack profession. He must first find the other party’s position, and then use a magic scroll to kill him. The danger was high, and the cost was also high…

Once again, the opponent’s attacks fell continuously. Ran Qi could only dodge woefully through them.

Just when Ran Qi couldn’t support himself and intended to choose to go back to the city, a magic bullet sped up and hit the red-named assassin in the head, dealing a 270 critical strike that actually killed that person in seconds. The assassin fell to the ground, leaving behind a green glove.

The person who came was none other than Night Owl, who had returned. He was now level 20. His attack power had increased dramatically again. These two red-named were not his opponents at all.

“Fuck. It’s Night Owl!” The big shot at the top of the rank list was universally known. The archer hid behind the tree only having time to let out a cry of surprise before Night Owl killed him with two magic bullets, similarly dropping a piece of equipment.

“Are you alright?” Without looking at the equipment, Night Owl walked straight to Ran Qi and helped him up from the ground.

Ran Qi shook his head after standing up straight. “I’m fine. I really have to thank you this time. You came back just in time.”

“Why would those people want to kill you?” Night Owl asked with a frown.

Both of them were already level 15. Purposely coming to the wilderness to kill a priest was a bit strange.

Ran Qi sighed and told the story briefly.

“I should have traded you the cloak first.”

“I got a little careless too…” Ran Qi touched his nose in embarrassment. It was really dangerous just now. He almost fell.

The two traded. In addition to the Cloak of Invisibility and Ruby, Night Owl also gave Ran Qi two pieces of B-grade equipment—— [Ring of Restoration] and [Cotton Boots].

[Ring of Restoration]

Restriction Level: 10 or above

Limited Profession: Priest

Grade: B

Durability: 100/100

Attributes: Healing Effect+35, Constitution+10, Intelligence+10

[Cotton Boots]

Restriction Level: 10 or above

Limited Profession: Priest, Mage

Grade: B

Durability: 100/100

Attributes: Basic Defense+30, Agility+10, Wisdom+10

The attributes of these two pieces of equipment were ideal for priests. The blue equipment was difficult to obtain. Night Owl should have purchased the ring after returning to the city. He even took off the pair of shoes directly from his equipped armor.

Night Owl was an honest person. He didn’t want to take advantage of himself. He also saved his life just now. Ran Qi felt a little bit overwhelmed, so he opened his mouth to ask, “Are you short of expansion packages?”

“Do you have it?” Night Owl’s eyes lit up. He had always felt that the backpack given by the system was too small. He wanted to exchange it for a larger one but hadn’t even seen any expansion backpack for sale in the Trading Market.

“I’ll do a level 2 expansion.” The larger the expansion space of the expansion backpack, the higher the grade of the materials used. At present, he could only make a level 2 expansion of 20 grids.

“Okay. You can name your price,” Night Owl simply replied.

“No need. Consider it a thanks for helping me earlier.” Ran Qi replied with a smile, “But I have to make it after I get back to the city. I’ll mail it to you later.”

“Okay.”

They divided the equipment dropped by the two red-named and went to do their own business.