Lin Mo had just returned home.
Ding!
Su Yingxia suddenly sent a WeChat message.
[Lin Mo, are you not at home? I just went to your place to look for you, but I didn't see you.]
[Oh, I moved,] Lin Mo replied casually.
[You… where did you move to?], Su Yingxia asked, [Why did you suddenly move?]
[Does it have anything to do with you?], Lin Mo sounded a bit impatient.
Su Yingxia's face flushed red. She felt awkward, yet still said firmly, [But I'm your girlfriend!]
[Heh,] Lin Mo said coldly, [Didn't you get back together with me just so you could sell me out and squeeze money out of Wang Junjie? Now that you've already gotten the money, there's no need for you to keep trying to please me, right?]
[That's it then. Don't come looking for me again. Don't let me see you ever again.]
[Su Yingxia, you're not worthy.]
On the outskirts of Ning'an City, at the old run-down apartment where Lin Mo used to live, Su Yingxia squatted at the doorway, crying uncontrollably.
At the same time, Lin Mo appeared extremely relaxed on the surface..Yet for some reason, his heart ached faintly.
Perhaps it was because he truly had loved Su Yingxia once.
But only this kind of outcome could erase the pain Su Yingxia had caused him a year ago.
Still the same saying.
"With no woman in heart, swords draws the sharpest from its sheath."
"What's more, in this life, as long as I have money, power, and influence, what kind of woman wouldn't be within easy reach?" [T/N: Now, he's just being pathetic.]
"Who needs you, Su Yingxia?"
Lin Mo steadied his mind.
Then he returned to his room, sat at his computer desk, put on the Divine Oracle helmet, and logged into the game.
———
Whoosh!
White light scattered.
The moment Lin Mo appeared in Yunbian Town, a loud system notification descended from the sky, echoing throughout the entire Yunbian Town area—
[Announcement] (Yunbian Town): "Ding~ The number one player on Yunbian Town's leaderboard, Rulebound, has come online. All players, please worship."]
The surrounding players immediately burst into exclamations:
[Ah! So tight!: "Holy crap! There's even an online broadcast? That's so damn flashy!"]
[Your Daddy: "So cool! I want that too! If I were that awesome, my girlfriend definitely wouldn't have left me!"]
[Goddess Yui Hatano: "Listen to me, buddy. I don't know whether your girlfriend would leave you or not, but I do know that if it were you, you'd get beaten to death in minutes!"]
Showing off was indeed showing off, but Lin Mo had the capital to do so.
Six hours had already passed since Lin Mo logged out.
And at this moment, the Yunbian Town level rankings still had him at level 13, 81%, firmly sitting at the top of the leaderboard.
Of course, it couldn't be ruled out that some players, after reaching level 10 and completing their class change, had directly left the novice village for a tier-three main city.
But even according to official big data statistics, among the 500 million registered players in the entire Dragon Nation region, the proportion of players currently above level 10 had not exceeded 0.1%.
One could imagine just how valuable Lin Mo's level 13, nearly level 14, was at this moment.
And the reason Lin Mo was not in a hurry was precisely because he was waiting for an opportunity.
That opportunity was: the moment when everyone reached level 10.
Seeing many players on the level leaderboard stuck at level 10, 0.00%, all of them classless, it could be said that they were all carrying out class change quests. Without surprises, they would soon complete them and be able to buy two E-tier basic class skill books from their instructors.
So Lin Mo opened Yunbian Town's regional chat.
Edited a message and sent it.
[Rulebound (Lv13 Apprentice Archer, Leaderboard No.1): "Buying basic skill books for all classes, 2,000 each. Instant mail, instant payment."]
A message from the number one on the leaderboard did not need pinning. It came with its own glow.
As soon as the message was sent, many players in Yunbian Town responded.
["Wow! Buying for 2,000 each? Big shot really has money!"]
["I heard basic class skill books cost 5 silver coins each. Rulebound buying for 2,000 means… selling one earns a net profit of 1,500?"]
["Boss, can you wait a bit? I'm about to hit level 10! Once I finish my class change quest and buy the book, I'll sell it to you!"]
It could be seen that in the eyes of the masses, there was no doubt, only desire for money.
Originally, Lin Mo planned to buy the skill books at double price: 1,000 each.
But seeing that even now, the proportion of players across the entire server who had reached level 10 was still under 0.1%, Lin Mo felt deeply disappointed.
This meant that collecting books would be quite difficult.
And in order to use the [Soul Flame] talent to incinerate and evolve skills as soon as possible, forge SSS-tier skills, and then advance into the tier-three main city.
Lin Mo could not be bothered to fuss over such small gains and losses.
Sure enough, once Lin Mo offered a high price, even though there were not many players in Yunbian Town who had reached level 10 at this moment, and even though they themselves needed skills, there were still quite a few people willing to sell their skill books to Lin Mo.
Opening his flashing mailbox, Lin Mo discovered that the skill books, magic scrolls, and other items obtained earlier by Ling Xiao and the others from lotteries and boss kills, which he had listed in the auction house before logging out, had all been sold.
After deducting the 3% platform fee.
Lin Mo netted 436,500 yuan.
Looking at the 13,500 yuan fee taken by the system, Lin Mo felt heartache, "This is such a damn rip-off."
Whether it was auction house sales or mail transactions, the Divine Oracle system took a 3% cut.
Of course, if players did not want to bear the service fee, they could choose to avoid the official platform and trade privately.
Fees or risk, you had to bear one of them, right?
With this money, Lin Mo's assets exceeded seven figures for the first time in his life, reaching 1.08 million.
With this amount of money, Lin Mo felt completely confident.
He quickly retrieved the constantly flashing mails and collected the skill books.
Then he opened his backpack and, facing a bag full of E-tier basic skill books from various classes, activated the server-unique SSS-tier talent, Soul Flame.
Buzz!
As golden flames burned in his hand.
One book after another was incinerated.
[Ding~ You incinerated the E-tier wizard skill book · Halo Technique. Skill evolution points +1!]
[Ding~ You incinerated the E-tier warrior skill book · Charging Slash. Skill evolution points +1!]
[Ding~ You incinerated the E-tier assassin skill book · Shadow Strike. Skill evolution points +1!]
[Ding~...]
After all the skill books in his backpack were incinerated, Lin Mo continued to retrieve mails.
At the same time, the balance in his bank card plummeted.
What replaced it was a surge in skill evolution points.
In no time, Lin Mo had collected a total of 148 E-tier skill books from various classes.
After incinerating them all, he obtained 148 skill evolution points.
"Finally, I can evolve an SSS-tier skill."
In Lin Mo's bag, there were the E-tier basic skills Fire Arrow and Ice Arrow that he bought during his class change, as well as a D-tier Double Shot skill rewarded from the hidden quest of slaying the Wolf King.
Among these three skills, Lin Mo prioritized Double Shot.
Because in his previous life, he had personally witnessed a top-100 national server archer use this multi-shot skill to instantly fire four arrows and instantly kill a powerful elite boss.
Both the damage and visual effects were maxed out, leaving Lin Mo with an unforgettable impression.
He had even chosen the archer class in this life partly because of that national server archer.
And Lin Mo remembered, "At that time, that multi-shot skill was at most A-tier, definitely not exceeding S-tier quality."
"If just an A-tier multi-shot could be that powerful…"
"Then let me see just how outrageous an SSS-tier version can be."
With that, Lin Mo began evolving [Double Shot].
[Ding~ Consumed 2 skill evolution points. Congratulations, you have evolved D-tier Double Shot into C-tier Double Shot!]
[Ding~ Consumed 4 skill evolution points. Congratulations, you have evolved C-tier Double Shot into B-tier Triple Shot!]
[Ding…]
[Ding~ Consumed 64 skill evolution points. Congratulations, you have evolved SS-tier Sixfold Shot into SSS-tier Heaven-Slaying · Seven Star Volley!]
[Ding~ Congratulations! As the first player on the Dragon Nation server of Divine Oracle to obtain an SSS-tier skill, the system will soon issue a server-wide announcement. Please choose to make your ID public or hidden?]
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