Kobold Lord

Yang Jian had forgotten.

Huang Bin had already said that various NPCs would give hints to those they favored!

After all, these promising newcomers might very well do much better than those who could only linger in the Newbie Village… For them, revealing a little more inside information now was just a matter of moving their lips.

If it helped someone survive in the future, that bit of goodwill would be stronger than anything else for them!

It was truly the smallest investment!

And with the talent of the Xia family sisters… Xia Yuan Weiguang: Boss, game helmets are no longer available outside!

Tianmu Zhenjun: Alright, go find Zhou Yue to arrange it! Make sure to sign a contract!

Xia Mingwei: Thank you, Boss!

Yang Jian didn't care for their thanks.

Combining this with the panels he had seen before, Yang Jian estimated that the stronger a person's individual luck, the better their talent would be in the game!

For example, Zhou Yue, and the two sisters of the Xia family!

He could conduct another experiment on Miss Xia San to see if there was a correlation between the two.

This would give Yang Jian a general direction when recruiting people later!

It was almost noon, close to twelve o'clock, when he arrived at the seaside!

Just then, his WeChat chimed.

He opened it to see, it was the energetic young man selling bullets!

"Mr. Yang, the delivery has arrived!"

He set both pets to alert status; if anyone showed hostile intent towards Yang Jian, they would retaliate!

Yang Jian found a safe corner and logged off.

Outside, it was exactly midnight. Going from the blazing sun of the game to the silent depths of night was quite disorienting for a moment!

For their second transaction, everyone was much more relaxed!

"Do you have any better guns?"

"Mr. Yang, you're a big boss doing big business; we're just small-time. Where would we find such good stuff! We only have these common goods!"

One hundred thousand rounds of AK47 bullets, twenty magazines!

He estimated that after using them all, he wouldn't care for the damage provided by this attack speed anymore!

After all, this gun was a bug exploit and couldn't be used with a Hunter's skills!

As Yang Jian's skills could form a damage rotation, this gun was bound to be phased out!

He paid promptly and sent the man away!

When he logged back in, Yang Jian reappeared at the same spot where he had logged off.

Both pets were already gone!

Yang Jian summoned his pets twice in a row, bringing out both the Little Boar and the Little Wolf.

Leveling journey, here we go!

He spotted a sea turtle not far away, drew his bow, nocked an arrow, and cast Arcane Shot!

After two damage numbers floated up, the sea turtle was left with just a sliver of health!

He watched as the two pets surrounded the sea turtle, biting, with MISS constantly floating above the sea turtle's head.

After all, it was a Level 1 against a Level 9!

Missing was normal!

Yang Jian wasn't in a hurry and waited until the Little Boar, who could Taunt, was almost dead!

Only then did he step in to help, and the two Level 1 pets finally bit the behemoth to death!

He picked up the drops and then activated the Skinning skill, peeling off a Turtle Shell.

Good, quest item +1.

This time, Yang Jian walked north along the river. Not far away was a mine occupied by Kobolds!

He could mine Copper Ore there… It was perfect for leveling and completing quests at the same time!

Before each monster was attacked, Yang Jian's Heavenly Eye would scan it!

If their bloodline was strong enough, they actually had a chance to avoid a deadly situation!

What a pity, Yang Jian didn't fancy them.

After all, he had already experienced how time-consuming it was to capture the Little Boar and the Little Wolf!

By the time he approached the mine, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon in game time.

He had not only gathered one hundred Turtle Shells but also had quite a few extra.

At the same time, Yang Jian had also leveled up to 6 with 25% experience!

He had also climbed back to fourth place on the leaderboard!

The top three were still the same three!

Yang Jian checked his friends list; Zhou Yue had already logged off!

With two Level 6 beast pets, Yang Jian could now charge through fearlessly!

He currently had 28 extra storage slots, making a total of 72 slots, so he could carry a lot!

He went directly into the mine, preparing to mine!

After all, he didn't have riding skills yet, and a trip back and forth was too far!

The entire mine was Kobold territory.

As humanoid creatures, their drops were diverse.

Candles, Copper Ore, Gold Dust, Linen Cloth, coins—all sorts of items, everything imaginable!

Upon entering the mine, the light immediately dimmed.

Yang Jian took out his pickaxe and started working, digging whenever he saw Copper Ore.

No players had reached this place yet, so it was relatively easy to mine!

"Sigh, this job doesn't suit my temperament either! Such a professional skill, it's better to do without it!"

Fortunately, this quest only required fifty Copper Ores, and Yang Jian didn't mind digging them all before returning.

After all, no one understood the situation of the NPCs here better than him!

He also didn't want to inexplicably lose favor.

As their levels increased, the rapport between Yang Jian and his two pets also continuously improved.

Before long, the two of them led seven or eight Kobolds charging over.

Kobolds were all Level 9 and above, mostly Level 10 or 11 monsters.

For most players currently, they required careful and cautious handling!

But for Yang Jian, their strength was simply not enough!

Multi-Shot, Arcane Shot, Viper Sting, Shot… Shot!

The three Kobolds at the very front instantly fell.

The Kobolds behind them tripped over their three corpses, and two more fell!

With great difficulty, two managed to charge near Yang Jian, but the two pets, with a Growl + Taunt, immediately drew their aggro!

Yang Jian calmly dealt with the two of them!

Although the game had only been open for two days, a generation gap had already formed with other players!

However, Yang Jian's main goal was to compare himself to the Abyss and stand shoulder to shoulder with the gods; other players didn't count, otherwise, he wouldn't be worthy of his cheater status!

He fed the two pets some meat.

Then he sent them directly to pull more monsters!

Yang Jian, meanwhile, began to clean up the battlefield!

Candle * 7, Gold Dust * 2, 2 silver 27 copper!

Recruit's Round Shield (White)

Off-hand: Shield

Defense + 217

Durability: 15 / 35

Hey, not bad!

This would significantly increase his defense!

This was his own drop!

He checked the cooldown; there were still more than ten minutes left.

He picked up the other junk items!

When a new batch of monsters arrived on the battlefield, Yang Jian repeated his tactics.

He eliminated the Kobolds in the cave batch by batch.

The time the two pets spent pulling monsters grew longer, and the number of Kobolds decreased.

Over a hundred Copper Ores had already dropped!

Even several Iron Ores had dropped… Yang Jian decided to go deeper into the cave! Anyway, the two pets knew the way, so he wasn't worried about getting lost in the mine.

After many twists and turns, he followed the Little Wolf all the way to a cave.

This cave was very large, clearly a resting place for the Kobolds.

The smell was quite unpleasant.

But Yang Jian's first glance caught sight of a Bronze-level treasure chest not far away!

These types of outdoor treasure chests mostly spawned in areas with humanoid monster activity or in remote, rarely visited places.

He walked over and opened the chest.

After thinking for a moment, he tried using the necklace skill 'Designated Acquisition'.

Immediately, all the items that could drop from this Bronze-level treasure chest were displayed before Yang Jian.

Awesome!

Yang Jian was dumbfounded.

This thing had to be upgraded as soon as possible!

This was simply… He carefully examined the drops from the Bronze-level treasure chest!

Blue equipment with random attributes, random quantities of professional materials, world drops of random items… skill books for random professions!

Yang Jian looked for a long time; the list was quite long.

But most of the items were random!

That is to say, if he chose equipment, it would definitely drop blue equipment!

But whether it was suitable for him to use, that was uncertain!

Yang Jian immediately lost a lot of interest!

But this was a treasure chest after all! If he could choose drops when fighting a BOSS… He closed the viewing panel.

Yang Jian refused to use this opportunity!

This was different from the talent cooldown!

Yang Jian would rather not choose than be unable to use it at a critical moment.

Yang Jian decided, he wouldn't check drop rates unless it was a BOSS… Just as he was thinking about a BOSS, he heard an angry roar from deep within the mine!

"Who? Who is hunting my kin!"

Yang Jian was startled. Talk about a BOSS, and a BOSS arrives?

Wouldn't the necklace skill be useful then?

Yang Jian told the two dogs to stay quiet, then stealthily peeked out to investigate!

What he saw absolutely stunned him!

Kobold Lord, LV8

Bronze-level

Health: 500,000

Skills: Lesser Fireball, Greater Fireball, Fireball, Summon Kobold…

500,000 health, and his defense was probably quite high!

To be honest, with two beasts and his own attack power, he still had a chance to fight!

He hid in a slightly safer spot and checked his friends list.

Good, they had all logged off, probably waiting for the Blood Moon to appear to take advantage of the 50% experience bonus!

For these strong players, the slight increase in monster strength wasn't an issue!

But Yang Jian dared not wait until this thing became even stronger at night… If this thing got any stronger, wouldn't that be seeking death?

While waiting for his talent cooldown, which was only two or three minutes away, he also loaded bullets into his AK magazines.