Chapter 7 - Bypassing the Level Gap and Killing the Bison
Chapter 7 â Bypassing the Level Gap and Killing the Bison
Passing through a vast expanse of prairie land, Nie Yan, at last, arrived at a region of barrens and stone. As far as the eye could see, lofty and oddly shaped boulders were irregularly strewn throughout the area. Within this mess of boulders were narrow cracks and passageways.
It should be right here. Nie Yan surveyed the expanse for a moment. After confirming without a doubt that these were the correct coordinates, he became especially vigilant and began slowly sneaking around. This region was where Bisons actively roamed about. The whole area permeated with a sense of dread and danger. Cautiously, he squeezed himself into one of the narrow passageways within the boulders.
Coordinates (567.528.192)
The topography of this region was strange and eccentric. The narrow passageways within these boulders only allowed enough space for a single person to pass through. As he looked out after going through the narrow passageway, a dark-coloured Bison in an area at a distance of about twenty-six meters away entered his vision. Large and robust, its entire body was densely packed with muscle. Above its head, two sharp horns resembling the tips of daggers protruded out.
Bison Chief (Leader): Level 8
Health: 300/300
Nie Yan took out his crossbow and held it with his left hand. He began calibrating it, making sure the angle was just right.
By lucky coincidence, the Bison Chief was within his attack range. Due to its body size being so massive, even if it were to discover his presence, it was still unable to traverse the narrow passageways within the mess of boulders. As a result, it was completely incapable of attacking him.
This was a typical terrain exploit!
This was an exploit his Arcane Mage friend had discovered within the game. However, at present, the only one who was aware of this terrain exploit was him!
By employing this exploit, Nie Yan could bypass the level disparity and effortlessly kill this Bison Chief!
Nie Yan began loading the crossbow with bolts. After three seconds, three crossbow bolts were completely loaded and the crossbow was cocked and ready to fire.ăWsh! Wsh! Wsh!ăThree bolts were fired in rapid succession, flying in a straight line right towards the Bison Chief.
ăPut! Put! Put!ăThe three crossbow bolts hit the Bison Chief nearly simultaneously.
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Three damage values floated above the Bison Chiefâs head. Due to the level disparity between both sides being too large, Nie Yanâs attacks against the Bison Chief were weak. Most of the time it would be a miss and even if it did hit the target, it would only cause a little bit of damage.
After it had been attacked, the Bison Chief huffed out a large amount of musty air and began its mad charge towards Nie Yanâs location.
ăBoom!ăA large crashing sound burst out. The Bison Chief had charged into the boulders and was repelled back. Its attack was unable to reach Nie Yan. It could only turn around and circle the boulders, without having any other course of action.
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Nie Yan skillfully finished reloading the crossbow and like before, shot out three bolts in rapid succession towards the Bison Chief.
Although the damage was extremely low, under Nie Yanâs continuous and unrelenting attacks the Bison Chiefâs health bar began showing signs of declining ever so slightly. However, it was awfully slow, merely falling by the smallest amount. Every now and then, it even recovered by a slight fraction.
Nie Yanâs rate of fire was quite stable. After suffering his attacks, the Bison Chief bellowed out furiously, precisely because it was incapable of even nearing Nie Yan.
Everything went as smoothly as expected. Nie Yan was attacking the Bison Chief while figuring out the next step in his leveling strategy. After being reborn, if he were like others trying to find a place to level, it would truly be an asinine waste of his time.
One must know, Nie Yanâs mind possessed a vast amount of game knowledge. He followed his own reasoning and designed a perfect leveling plan.
The seconds and minutes continued to pass by. After half an hour, Nie Yan had completely used up all of the crossbow bolts within one quiverâa thousand crossbow bolts! At present, the Bison Chief still had approximately two-thirds of its health remaining.
The uninterrupted process of reloading and shooting made Nie Yan feel himself about to fall asleep. However, he still spent great effort in maintaining his high frequency of firing, so as to avoid having the Bison Chiefâs health recover again after he ceased his attacks.
The Bison Chief began getting somewhat weary. It continually strained for breath as it anxiously rammed against the rocks and collapsed a portion of the boulders.
Nie Yan quickly retreated inward a bit and at that moment, his menu sounded out with a voice call notification.
âExpert, I went to the coordinates you gave us for farming monsters. It is indeed very fast! Iâve already picked up two Stealth skill books from today alone!â Flying Stone said. At the location where Nie Yan told him to train, leveling was fifty percent more efficient compared to the common training areas. This had made Flying Stone really excited. Gifting Nie Yan a single Stealth Skill book had given him such a treasure trove of a training areaâit was definitely a worthwhile trade!
âThatâs natural of course. Fallen Shamans also drop the Owl Sight skill book. If you find any extra, donât forget to send me one.â Nie Yan wasnât the least bit surprised. He had gone through numerous expert strategy guides in his previous life. Small tidbits like theseâthe amount he remembered was definitely not few in number. In his life, Nie Yan was the type of person who was thick-skinned and furthermore very forgetful. There was an awful amount of things he would go through life forgetting or completely neglecting. However, the only things he remembered the most distinctly were definitely these game strategy guides.
Every person had an exceptional memory when dealing with the things they were particularly interested in.
âIf the skill book drops, Iâll send it to you through the mail. Thereâs something Iâve been wondering about, how did you find out about this training spot?â Stone asked through the chat. When he had met Nie Yan, the latter had been nothing more than a Level 0.
âI used to play on a Warrior account, however, I deleted it to create a Thief.â Nie Yan casually gave out an excuse without thinking. Naturally, he didnât want anyone to know the secret was that he had been reincarnated.
âSo it was like that... Your Warrior account must have been really high leveled, huh. Whyâd you end up deleting it? In a few days, one of my friends wants to form a group to enter the Fallen Shaman Camp. Expert, what are your thoughts on this?â Stone asked expectantly in his message. Nie Yan certainly did appear to be a person who was very knowledgeable. Furthermore, his several friends were indeed only able to fight to the Fallen Shaman Campâs outer area and couldnât advance any farther.
The Fallen Shaman Camp is a high difficulty instance. Instances are divided into special instances and basic instances. When a special instance is cleared by players, it disappears and becomes an ordinary area. As for basic instances, if they were cleared by players, they can still be repeatedly entered afterward. However, the equipment drop rate is much lower and the profits earned werenât that high either.
The Fallen Shaman Camp is classified as a basic instance. Itâs divided into five difficulties: Easy, Normal, Hard, Expert, Specialist. The higher the difficulty, the better the equipment that would drop. If a party were to clear this instance, they would have to wait five days until they could enter and clear it again.
âA full walkthrough on how to clear the Fallen Shaman Camp will cost you two silvers, no bargaining,â Nie Yan replied. Two silvers were the equivalent of two hundred coppers. Towards new players, this was definitely an extravagant sum of money. However, since Stoneâs friends were able to form a team to clear the Fallen Shaman Camp, two silvers shouldnât be regarded as much.
âIâll go back and discuss it with my friend.â Stone was a little skeptical. He couldnât possibly have a complete Fallen Shaman Camp walkthrough, right? Such a thing doesnât even exist online.
On an average run, profits from clearing the easy difficulty of the Fallen Shaman Camp should be about three silvers. If their luck were good, they might be able to obtain one or two high-quality drops with decent stats. Though the drop everyone wanted the most from the Fallen Shaman Camp was still the Heal skill book. Nie Yan demanding a two-silver information fee could be regarded as beyond excessive. If no equipment dropped, then they wouldâve paid Nie Yan for nothing.
The difficulty of the Fallen Shaman Camp was a little high. After their party gets wiped out a few times, theyâll naturally realize the fee Nie Yan had commissioned wasnât the least bit expensive at all.
âReply to me after your friend agrees. If he doesnât agree, donât bother me unless you have business.â Nie Yan continued shooting at his target. Under his constant rain of fire, the Bison Chief gradually began showing indications of falling.
âAlright, Iâll go and talk with our party leader.â There was basically an equal sign connecting Nie Yan to the title of an expert. He wasnât slightest bit offended in regards to Nie Yanâs cold attitude. Experts who have this kind of personality were also pretty common. Stone was wondering, What level did Nirvana Flameâs previous warrior account reach? It ought to have been really powerful, but why did he end up deleting it? Could it have possibly been related to a matter that was difficult to discuss?
Flying Stone finished speaking.ăDoot! Doot! Doot! ...ăA busy signal came from the voice chat.
Nie Yan hung up and accelerated the firing rate of the crossbow in his hand. One after another, bolts rapidly left the crossbow.
Firing for one and a half hours, he had consumed around thirty-six hundred crossbow bolts.ăMooo!ăAt long last, the Bison Chief let out a final agonizing cry before staggering to the ground. The massive body smashed heavily towards the earth, and Nie Yan could even feel the vibrations under his feet.
Nie Yan estimated a bit: if he had used the short bow, killing the Bison Chief would have taken at least five hours in addition to consuming over ten thousand arrows. Fortunately, this single-handed crossbow with its additional skill saved him quite a bit of time.
Two white lights shone upon Nie Yanâs body as two clear and melodious tunes sounded outâeach one represented a single level up.
ă System: Youâve successfully slain a Bison Chief. +1800% experience for killing a monster above your level. You have received 8290 experience points. ă
Nie Yan glanced at his experience bar, he had reached Level 2 with 21% of his experience bar already filled. The experience gained from killing the Bison Chief was definitely enormous.
After finally completing his task, Nie Yan put away the crossbow in his hand and walked over towards the Bison Chiefâs corpse. Searching under the Bison Chiefâs dead body, he found that it dropped five coppers. In addition, he also managed to pick up a dagger.
Nie Yan glanced at the daggerâs stats.
Horn Dagger: Bronze
Properties: Unidentified
Nie Yanâs eyelids jumped up in excitement. It was a Bronze-grade dagger! Equipment was divided in these grades: White, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Dark Gold, and Legendary. Occasionally there would also be green-coloured sets. Only equipment at Bronze Grade or above had additional properties.
The monsters within Conviction were classified into these classes: Leaders, Sub Elites, Elites, and Lords. These monsters were uncommon and very few in number as well as spawning infrequently. Equipment with additional properties only had a one in one thousand chance of dropping. The majority of players could only make do by wearing white-grade equipment. Due to this, equipment with additional properties were all fairly precious, and their prices would skyrocket to the extent that they were unbearable for ordinary players.
Bronze grade weapons normally had an additional 20% attack above that of ordinary weapons. Furthermore, they also came with additional properties.
The equipment that a Level 8 Bison Chief drops should be Level 5. At present, the price of a Level 5 bronze grade dagger is at least three silvers or higher. Furthermore, an average Level 3 playerâs total assets, for the most part, was only about twenty coppers. If one had assets valued at the level of silvers, they were definitely a very well-off person.
According to his plans, he gathered the Bison Chiefâs drops and stored away the bronze grade dagger into his bag space. Nie Yan retreated from the narrow passageways within the boulders and headed back towards Tellak town.
Tellak townâs only appraiser was a short-statured white-bearded old man with narrow triangular eyes. He was very shrewd, making everyone who saw him feel very unnerved. However, he was the only appraiser in all of Tellak town.
Nie Yan opened the trading window.
âYoungster, do you need me to appraise any items?â the short old man asked.
âA dagger.â Nie Yan put up the Horn Dagger into the appraisal window.
âThe appraisal fee is ten coppers. Do you still wish for an appraisal?â
Nie Yanâs heart skipped a beat. This Horn Daggerâs appraisal fee was ten coppers. Typically, the appraisal fee for an item was five percent of the itemâs price, and this was only the NPCâs price for the item. The market price was frequently more than six times higher than that. In other words, this Horn dagger had a value of at least twelve silvers!
He thought for a moment. In the next few days, I wonât be needing to go anywhere that requires a lot of money. Spending ten coppers also wonât be that troublesome. He pressed confirm.
The Horn Dagger blossomed with a cyan radiance; its brilliance was definitely not understated. This radiance was a distinctive characteristic of bronze grade equipment.
The Horn Daggerâs handle was cambered with the texture of wood, with an awfully sharp blade in the front. It was much thicker compared to ordinary daggers and possessed the unique characteristic of being shaped like a bullâs horn.
Horn Dagger (Bronze)
Requirement: Level 5
Properties: Attack 16â19, Strength +5
Attack Speed: 2.3
Weight: 1 lb
User Restriction: Thief, can be equipped by any faction.
This Horn Dagger gave a bonus to his Strength stat. These five points in Strength were equivalent to five points of attack. Then add onto the fact that the daggerâs base attack was already higher than an ordinary Level 5 daggerâs by three or four points, it meant this Horn Dagger was better than an ordinary dagger by nearly ten points. The influence of these ten points of attack, speaking from a new playerâs perspective, was indeed very large.
Looks like Iâve picked up a reliable Level 5 dagger, Nie Yan thought.