[Dragon Nation Powerhouse(male, level 5): "Big bro, I fought all night and only just reached level 5! How are you already level 10? Are we even playing the same game?"]
[Milk Tea Girl(female, level 5): "One hundred thousand yuan prize! If I count it based on what I earn working at the milk tea shop, it would take three years to save that much money… so jealous! I really want it!"]
[Big And Fierce(male, level 6): "Little sister upstairs, looking for big brother me! Big brother is crazy fierce!"]
[Wallhack Die Whole Family(male, level 6): "Your mom! Wallhack die your whole family!"]
Some admired him, some were jealous.
The players' comments were all over the place.
At the same time, southern outskirts of Yunbian Town, Lv8 Bat Cave.
Swoosh!
As Wang Junjie raised his sword and brought it down, he killed the sliver-health vampire bat that his teammate had beaten half to death and dragged over.
Splurt!
He stomped the bat's corpse in one go until it burst.
With a twisted expression he said, "Damn you Rulebound, you dare steal my first place!"
"You better not let me find out where you are right now, or I'll make you kneel in front of me and lick my shoes in minutes."
Just as Wang Junjie finished speaking, beside him, a minion named [Chaotic World Zeizi]reminded him, "Boss, I just asked around and a brother in the guild said he saw Rulebound in the Job Change Hall. Are we going over to do him now?"
Wang Junjie's face turned green.
He talked tough, but the moment he thought of Lin Mo, his heart went cold.
Especially that force that shot straight up to his skull, the lingering fear still haunted him.
Right when Wang Junjie was facing his group of underlings waiting for him to give orders, and he couldn't find a way to save face for the moment.
A four-eyed minion named [Chaotic World Zhuge]smoothly laid a step for Wang Junjie to walk down, "Boss, in my opinion, before all the brothers reach level 10 and finish their job change, we'd better not go head-to-head with Rulebound."
"Because before level 10, PK is all about stats. Rulebound's attributes clearly crush us by too much. Even if we outnumber him, we can't beat him."
"But! As soon as the brothers all finish their job change and learn skills, we'll only need a few wizard classes to keep him locked down the whole fight so he can't move at all. At that time, no matter how strong Rulebound's stats are, to us he'll just be cattle and sheep waiting to be slaughtered on the chopping block."
Chaotic World Zhuge pushed up his glasses and said in a deep voice, "I've secretly investigated Rulebound already. His identity and background in real life aren't even on the same level as you, Boss. You have money, power, and influence, and he's just a loser whose girlfriend dumped him because he was poor, someone who worries about his next meal."
Hearing this, the sense of superiority in Wang Junjie's bones rose instantly.
He looked at Chaotic World Zhuge with approval and said, "Not bad! Keep talking."
Chaotic World Zhuge pushed up his glasses again, like Conan possessed, "From what I know, Rulebound is a local of Ning'an City, real name Lin Mo. He dated a girlfriend during university named Su Yingxia. They were together for four years, but later Su Yingxia dumped him after graduation because he was poor and couldn't give her the life she wanted."
"I don't know if you noticed, Boss, but the reason Rulebound is strong is because he seems to know all the hidden opportunities in Yunbian Town. He uses these chances that normal people don't know to grow fast."
"If we can use this Su Yingxia a bit to get some opportunities out of Rulebound…"
Wang Junjie clapped in agreement, "Done!"
"I love materialistic women the most. Since this Su Yingxia dumped Rulebound because he was poor, then this becomes easy."
"Hahaha! We'll start with her!"
As he spoke, Wang Junjie patted Chaotic World Zhuge's shoulder and praised, "From now on, I'm promoting you to Vice Leader of the Chaotic World Guild, and send me your account details, I'll give you a hundred thousand bonus. After the job is done, I'll buy you a car. Anything under a million, pick whatever you like."
When he said this, Chaotic World Zhuge was beyond excited, "Thank you Boss!"
And the surrounding minions all looked at him with envy.
Wang Junjie then said to them too, "Brothers, if you follow me, as long as you can bring me benefits, I, Wang Junjie, will never shortchange you."
Everyone said together, "We will follow Boss to the death!"
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[Yunbian Town, Job Change Hall]
Lin Mo checked the title [Leveling Maniac]from the system reward.
"As expected, another white title."
"+1 percent experience gain? That's not bad."
He was very satisfied with the new title's attribute.
After all, it meant that even under equal conditions, he leveled 1 percent faster than any other player.
Not to mention with Lin Mo's leveling speed.
That 1 percent was basically the same as 100 percent for him.
After finishing the job change, Lin Mo continued talking with the mentor Selina and entered the stage of learning skills.
In Divine Oracle, every player's first job change allowed them to spend silver coins to buy two E-rank basic skill books of their class from the mentor.
And the basic skills for the Archer class were:
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[Arrow of Fire(E-rank): Fires a flame-burning arrow, dealing 110 percent physical damage to a single enemy, and burning the enemy for 3 seconds, dealing damage equal to 3 percent of this damage each second.]
[Cooldown: 7 seconds]
[Cost: 5 mana points]
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[Arrow of Ice](E-rank): Fires an icy arrow, dealing 110 percent physical damage to a single enemy, and reducing their movement speed by 10 percent for 2 seconds.
Cooldown: 9 seconds
Cost: 6 mana points
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Both skill books cost 5 silver coins.
Converted, that was five hundred yuan per book.
For normal players, after finishing their job change, they might not even be willing to buy skill books.
But Lin Mo didn't hesitate one bit and immediately spent 10 silver coins to buy [Arrow of Fire]and [Arrow of Ice].
"Too bad, the limit is two per person, or I'd buy more skill books to burn and could evolve the SSS skill right away," Lin Mo couldn't help feeling regret.
Having skill books but no skill evolution points was the biggest problem.
But Lin Mo wasn't worried, because he already had a plan.
"When the other players hit level 10 and finish their job change, and buy the basic skill books, I'll buy them at high prices from them and get a huge amount of skill books easily."
"One skill book costs five hundred at the mentor, and I'll offer a thousand. There's no way no one will sell, right?"
Not making money would be stupid.
Lin Mo wasn't in a rush to learn skills either.
Because with leveling + job change rewards, he currently had 7 skill slots. To equip an SSS-rank skill, he still lacked 1 slot and needed to reach level 12 to get another reward slot.
So he had to save space for the SSS skill.
Lin Mo's attention shifted to the boss, the Spider Queen.
"With my current strength, I can already fight the boss, but the biggest problem is the Exploding Spiders."
Remembering the scene when he went to the Spider Queen's lair, Shadow Nest, Lin Mo couldn't help frowning.
"To enter Shadow Nest and fight the boss, I first have to deal with the exploding spiders outside."
"But each explosion from an exploding spider does 9800 damage. Even with my current stats, I can't survive that. I can only trade one life for one exploding spider."
"But judging from how densely packed they were, there must be at least eight hundred, if not a thousand. I'd have to explode eight hundred times to blow them all."
Thinking of this, Lin Mo's scalp tingled.
"How am I supposed to deal with that disgusting pack of exploding spiders?"
Just as Lin Mo was racking his brains, his stomach growled.
"Food comes first."
"Forget it, I'll log off and eat a late night snack first, then think of something."
Saying that, Lin Mo logged off on the spot.
He had just exited the game and taken off his helmet.
Dong! Dong!
Lin Mo received a WeChat message.
Picking up his phone to look, what came into view was an avatar both familiar and distant, someone he had once loved and hated.
[Su Yingxia: "Lin Mo, you… have you been doing well lately?"]
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