14: Chapter 14 Beast Tide
After reaching level 10, a Professional can learn new skills.
There are three ways to learn new skills.
Finding a high-level Professional of the same class to teach you, purchasing a skill book for your class directly from the shop, or finally, using a Skill Secret Tome to learn.
Tang Mo has a unique hidden class, so there are absolutely no high-level Professionals of his class, and as for skill books, he doesn't even need to think about them.
The only viable option remaining is to learn new skills through Skill Secret Tomes.
Skill Secret Tomes are sold at the Professional Management Association for 200,000 gold coins each.
After using a Skill Secret Tome, you are guaranteed to obtain a skill for your class, but the quality of the skill varies, and that depends entirely on luck.
Fortunately, the system provided Tang Mo with two new God-level Skills, so Tang Mo is in no rush to buy Skill Secret Tomes for the time being.
Besides, he doesn't have the money to buy Skill Secret Tomes anyway.
"I wonder how much the items in my storage space can sell for."
Having been out for such a short while, Tang Mo's storage space was already stuffed with various materials.
This forced him to spend quite a bit of effort discarding the worthless materials to keep the relatively valuable ones.
After all, if he were to go back now, it would be a complete waste of his time.
Tang Mo's top priority right now is leveling up; as for selling materials to make money, that is all secondary.
Whether he has equipment or not seems to make no difference to Tang Mo, and it doesn't seem to matter whether he learns skills or not either.
Anyway, the system gives him two God-level Skills every 10 levels.
After clearing his backpack, Tang Mo started heading deeper into the jungle again.
Unknowingly, he had already moved further and further away from Jiangkou City.
Some level 30 fierce beasts also began to appear.
Among them, the most difficult to deal with was a kind of fierce beast called the Feathered Snake.
The Feathered Snake is also a type of snake-like fierce beast.
It possesses high poison resistance and is covered in hard scales, making it difficult for Tang Mo's Venomous Arrow to cause damage to it.
In the end, he had to rely on his elementalized body to stubbornly wear it down to death within his Poison Barrier.
Therefore, every time he encountered this kind of Feathered Snake, it would consume a significant amount of Tang Mo's time.
Consequently, Tang Mo's leveling speed was forced to slow down.
At this moment, that same Professional squad from before was heading in Tang Mo's direction.
After scouting the edge of the jungle and seeing no danger, they grew bold enough to walk into the jungle.
Soon, they discovered the fierce beasts killed by Tang Mo, as well as the materials Tang Mo had discarded.
"There's even more, a Human-Faced Spider's poison gland!"
"Is this the corpse of a Shadow-Taming Wolf?!"
"Judging from the way these fierce beasts died, it seems they were all poisoned to death."
"Could it be that some powerful poison-attribute fierce beast has appeared and triggered infighting among the beasts?!"
A female Professional asked, looking somewhat worried.
"No! It should be a very powerful Professional clearing out the fierce beasts around here. He probably looked down on these low-level materials and threw them away."
Hiss~!
Everyone present couldn't help but gasp.
"This is simply a one-sided slaughter. What kind of person could possess such strength?!"
"That's not important anymore. What's important is that such large-scale hunting of fierce beasts will likely provoke retaliation from a Beast Tide, and when that time comes..."
"A Beast Tide?! Then what should we do?"
Hearing that it would attract a Beast Tide, the other Professionals immediately panicked.
"Let's go back first and report the situation here to the city guard troops, and ask them to make preparations."
The others nodded upon hearing this. In the face of a Beast Tide, this was all they could do; after all, they were just a squad of level 20-something Professionals.
"Whew~ It finally dropped. It almost made me think the information was fake."
Deep in the jungle, after not knowing how many fierce beasts he had killed, Tang Mo finally obtained his first piece of equipment.
【Bronze-grade Paralysis Ring, Spirit +30, attacks have a 5% chance to paralyze the enemy for 3 seconds, wearing requirement: level 30.】
"Level is not high enough, cannot equip."
Tang Mo placed the Paralysis Ring into his storage space and began hunting fierce beasts again.
Time had already reached the afternoon, and Tang Mo's experience points had reached 99.0% of level 11, just one step away from level 12.
Not only that, but Tang Mo's Stamina stat had also successfully broken through the 200-point mark.
The kill notifications kept ringing in his ears incessantly, and Tang Mo didn't notice the unusual occurrences happening in the jungle at all.
The roars of the fierce beasts rose and fell, as if they were conveying messages.
It continued for hundreds of kilometers.
Subsequently, the jungle suddenly began to return to calm, as if nothing had happened.
After killing a level 30 Steel-Backed Pig King, Tang Mo's level finally reached level 12.
After clearing the corpse of the Steel-Backed Pig, Tang Mo suddenly realized that the notification sounds that had been ringing non-stop had actually stopped.
After looking around, he realized that the previously numerous fierce beasts were now completely gone.
"Did I kill them all? That's impossible, how could fierce beasts be killed off completely?"
Suddenly, Tang Mo realized with a start, "Beast Tide!! The Beast Tide is here!"
"Oh no, how could I have forgotten about this! This isn't a dungeon!"
"Once fierce beasts die in large batches, it will trigger the retaliation of a Beast Tide; this was taught in textbooks!"
"I was so focused on leveling up that I actually forgot about this."
A hundred miles away from Jiangkou City, thousands upon thousands of fierce beasts were gathering into a Beast Tide, charging toward Jiangkou City.
Wherever the Beast Tide passed, it kicked up clouds of dust, blocking the sky and the sun as it surged mightily toward Jiangkou City.
The massive commotion caused the earth to tremble, and even Tang Mo, who was a hundred miles away, could clearly feel the vibrations.
Without a second thought, Tang Mo turned and ran toward the city.
A Beast Tide of thousands upon thousands of fierce beasts is not something Tang Mo can handle.
Being able to kill tens of thousands of monsters in a newbie dungeon does not mean he can contend with a Beast Tide.
The reason a Beast Tide is terrifying is not just the number of fierce beasts, but more importantly, the unstoppable momentum of their charge once the Beast Tide has formed.
Fearless of death, pressing forward without hesitation.
The spirit of dealing a heavy blow to the enemy even in death.
This is what is most terrifying.
Although Tang Mo has the passive Body of Poison which can immunize against physical damage and ordinary magic attacks,
but there is no shortage of high-level fierce beasts within a Beast Tide, and it's hard to guarantee that an extraordinary magic attack won't come from somewhere, in which case he would be done for.
Tang Mo is unwilling to take that risk.
He, who possesses God-level Skills, does not want to capsize in the gutter.
Besides, he still has to see his sister and find the truth about his parents' disappearance.
By the time Tang Mo rushed back to the city gate, he saw that many high-level Professionals had already gathered there.
Among them, Principal Lin Hanwen was also notably present.
Tang Mo remembered hearing people say before that the principal of No. 1 High School, Lin Hanwen, was a level 90 Archer, and also had a rare class, something like Twilight Hunter.
On the city wall, Lin Hanwen spotted Tang Mo at a glance, and he quickly stepped forward to ask if Tang Mo was alright.
"Thank you for your concern, Principal, I am fine. Fortunately, I made it back before the Beast Tide arrived."