"Oh my god, you're first on the Level Board! How did you do it?" Liu Cheng exclaimed in admiration.
"What? First on the Level Board?" Lin Chen quickly opened his player handbook and navigated to the World Forum's rankings.
Level Board
No.1. Lin Chen (Druid Level 1 54%)
No.2. Huo Shaobai (Warrior Level 1 50%)
No.3. Miao Guowei (Warrior Level 1 50%)
No.4. Zhan Qing (Rogue Level 1 50%)
No.5. Tang Zheng (Warrior Level 1 50%)
...At first glance, it was similar to yesterday's, the only difference being that he had shot from outside the top hundred to first place.
Then he checked the Achievement Board, and it was still the same familiar sight. The Achievement Board was based on achievements, and he had killed 18 zombies so far, so it was normal for him to be unranked.
Liu Cheng's exclamation attracted the attention of most people. Many, like him, opened their player handbooks, and after seeing it, they all stared at Lin Chen in silence.
"..."
"Do not look at me like that. Think about what I said today. Professional experience is also very important. If you learn how to earn professional experience, you can also easily get on the board. Those who are stuck at 50% and have good rankings on the Achievement Board must have only focused on killing zombies, and their killing experience has reached its limit," Lin Chen said honestly.
"Big shot, I was wrong. I should not have tried to take advantage of you yesterday. Please, be kind and give me some advice," Liu Luoluo pleaded, grabbing Lin Chen's arm.
"I am a Priest, a divine Spellcaster like a Druid. Druids fawn over Nature, so Priests should fawn over their gods, right? After you spoke today, I knelt in my house praising God for a long time, but it was useless. What is the problem?"
"Uh... I am just giving my opinion, I can not guarantee it is correct," Lin Chen continued after seeing Liu Luoluo nod. "I personally think that even normal people do not let go of a hawk until they see a rabbit, let alone... uh, you know what I mean. Like us Druids, we do not cultivate by praising Nature; we gain something after making contributions to Nature or getting closer to Nature."
Liu Luoluo clapped her hands. "I know! The Priest class description says that God will give power to His believers! Believers, believers, it is faith! Lin Chen, thank you!"
She happily pounced on and hugged Lin Chen.
Lin Chen found the girl's sudden intimacy a bit much, but he was also happy for her progress. He hoped Liu Luoluo would cultivate well, become increasingly powerful, and contribute lots of money to his territory.
Leeks always need to be nurtured before they can be harvested.
With Liu Luoluo's success story, the bonfire party turned into a special session for discussing professional cultivation. Most of the time, Lin Chen was offering advice, and others also participated in the discussion.
During this process, he also gained a deeper understanding of other professions and discovered some new patterns.
That is, the difficulty of professional cultivation is also affected by attributes.
For example, for Druids and Priests, the higher the Perception attribute, the easier it is to get close to their source of power.
His Perception attribute was 4 points higher than Liu Luoluo's, making it much easier to communicate with Nature and gain Nature's favor.
At the same time, he also realized the rarity of Spellcasting professions. Among the more than twenty people present, including himself, there were only 4 Spellcasters.
Other people's Spellcasting attributes had not reached 10 points, so when they chose their profession, this option was not even available.
However, Spellcasters were also the weakest now. Divine Spellcasting professions were a bit better, at least they had things to learn, while other Spellcasting professions had to collect Spells themselves.
Cheng Wei, the unfortunate Mage representative present, said that although the grocery store sold low level Spells, the cheapest 0 level Spell cost half a Silver Coin, which was about 50 Copper Coins, requiring killing one or two dozen zombies to earn.
Lin Chen genuinely sympathized, it was too tragic. But when he heard about the 0 level Spell "Ray of Frost" that Cheng Wei had her eye on, which had both damage and slowing effects, Lin Chen secretly felt a pang of envy.
Just look at the Druid's Spell list. What 0 level Spells were there? Not a single offensive one. Sure enough, Mages were the proper pure Spellcasting profession.
However, Lin Chen still loved his profession more. The learning difficulty of the Mage profession was too great. In this environment, they could only rely on teammates in the early stages. Having a reliable team was one thing, otherwise, they would just be a pile of dust on the ground.
And how lovely Nature was, with its vibrant green life, much more interesting than a pile of complex books.
The bonfire party successfully brought everyone closer. Although the apocalypse was cruel and human hearts were unpredictable, at least at this moment, they had not lost hope and still retained the moral bottom line brought by civilized society.
Many people made plans to team up and go out to kill zombies and earn money tomorrow.
Lin Chen was invited again by Cheng Wei and the others, but he still did not agree, only saying that if they met and had the same goal, they would act together.
Because his focus was on cultivation and he had to spend a lot of time learning Spells, it did not fit with others' arrangements, and he did not want to disrupt his own rhythm.
He did not delay his Spell learning during the evening chat either. He had initially learned Entangle, and others had helped him test it. It could trap several adult males at once, and it should be even easier to deal with slow moving zombies.
That day, he slept late. After returning to his Treehouse, he was still energetic and counted his Copper Coins.
Today, 20 new people arrived. Although the Treehouse was not rented out, the entrance fee alone was 100 Copper Coins. Adding the 35 Copper Coins from the five people from the Mountaineering Club, Lin Chen counted, and also found 3 shiny Silver Coins in the pile of Copper Coins.
He checked his adventure log.
Oak Grocery submitted June's shop rent of 3 Silver Coins.
As expected of someone with a demiplane, they were indeed wealthy.
Lin Chen counted his savings: a total of 203 Copper Coins and 3 Silver Coins.
1 Silver Coin could be split into 100 Copper Coins, and 100 Copper Coins could also be combined into 1 Silver Coin.
Lin Chen combined them all, totaling 5 Silver Coins and 3 Copper Coins. He converted 4 of the Silver Coins into territory energy. With the remaining 50 points from before, he now had a total of 450 energy points.
Today, he posted the location of Qingshan Camp in a popular thread about camps in the World Forum's public chat area. More people should come tomorrow, and the territory was still a bit small.
He spent 300 energy to expand the territory's barrier. The territory area became one thousand square meters, and he also built 3 Treehouse residences for rent.
After the territory expanded, the energy consumption for maintaining the territory's barrier also doubled, costing 20 energy per day. The remaining 60 energy points, all injected into the territory barrier, would only last for 3 days.
[Territory Name: Qingshan Camp]
[Lord: Lin Chen]
[Territory Level: Camp]
[Energy: 0]
[Area: 1000 square meters]
[Facilities: Territory Barrier (3/3),
Treehouse Residences x 6, Oak Grocery]
[Residents: 26]
[Blueprints: Territory Barrier, Treehouse Residences, Shop]
[Rules: Please expand][Materials: 0]
The territory finally looked decent.
Many people camped out in the camp today. The sudden appearance of Treehouses and the changes in the territory's boundaries caused a stir, but it quickly settled down.
Although Qingshan Camp was not as large as other camps reported on the Forum, and only had one grocery store, they were very glad they encountered Qingshan Camp.
After all, the entrance fee was half price.
What was the use of having so many shops if they could not afford anything without money?
Now that Qingshan Camp had expanded, their first action was to check the entrance fee. They were relieved after confirming that the price had not increased.