13: Combat power greatly increased, a golden legend!

Crusader - Redi: gold legend.

Equip Requirement: Level 10, Mage class only.

Effect 1: Spell Damage +1000

Effect 2: Spell Critical Hit +50%

Effect 3: Casting Speed +1

Effect 4: Spell Lifesteal +20%

Effect 5: spell penetration +20%

Effect 6: Casting a Spell attack has a 25% chance to trigger a Lightning Spell, dealing lightning damage equal to 120% of base magic power.

Six effects, Spell damage as high as a thousand, plus special effects like Critical Hits, lifesteal, and penetration.

This weapon is awesome!

The long-awaited Casting Speed has appeared; with a Casting Speed of 3.0 now, Lin Yue felt it couldn't be any better.

At the same time, the rewards for the First Clear of the purgatory level Instance were also very generous: one hundred free attribute points, a special Skill Book, a purple rare class set, Materials, and gold coins.

It was a complete upgrade.

Lin Yue felt he wasn't far from becoming a human turret.

The purple rare shadow set provided a health bonus of twelve thousand, five hundred points of armor and magic resist, and a trait that increased movement speed by 5.

These set attributes completely crushed the blue Advanced shadow set.

In his past life, Lin Yue had never heard of a newcomer obtaining a rare set in the Novice Village; it seemed this was a unique set for clearing a purgatory level Instance.

"There's also a special Skill Book. Open it."

In the next second, a flash of light passed, and the Skill Book's attributes appeared before his eyes.

Vibrant Life (Special Passive Skill): 1-Star.

Effect 1: You gain a recovery aura, restoring +100 health per second.

Effect 2: When health drops to 20%, it will recover by 5% per second until health reaches 50%. (Cooldown: 1 hour)

Experience: 0/10,000 (Special Skill experience can only be obtained through Skill scrolls.)

Seeing the Skill description, Lin Yue was truly surprised; he had actually obtained the special Skill that suited him best.

Percentage-based health recovery—this Skill was simply a blessing for tanks; it was terrifyingly powerful!

Lin Yue's health would definitely keep increasing; later on, with hundreds of millions or billions of health, a 5% recovery per second would easily restore tens of millions of health points.

A definite Divine-Grade passive Skill.

One word: awesome!

Having obtained Vibrant Life, the Instance clear also rewarded him with 50 Elementary Skill scrolls. Each scroll added 100 experience points, totaling five thousand. After thinking it over, he decided to save them for now as it wasn't enough to upgrade the star level.

Skill scrolls are tradable; if he didn't have enough, he could buy them from the auction house.

But at the current level, except for Lin Yue, ordinary players didn't have them at all, so there was nowhere to buy them.

Even at 1-Star, Vibrant Life provided a massive boost to Lin Yue, so the fact that he couldn't level it up for now was no big deal.

What do mages fear most? Isn't it being one-shot?

Now with this Skill, as long as a single auto-attack didn't instantly kill him, he could recover his health.

He only had fifty thousand health now, and even with the rare set, it was only over sixty thousand. Hmm, still a bit low.

Bringing his thoughts back, he tallied the other loot. In total, he had two hundred gold coins and quite a few pieces of equipment had dropped; he would set aside the useful ones for Fatty and Old Bai.

Anything useless would be given to Feng Yun, Young Master Leng; his guild could handle it all.

Besides the equipment, most importantly, Lin Yue had now accumulated one hundred and fifty free attribute points.

Casting Speed had reached its limit, and his movement speed was sufficient with the set bonus.

So Lin Yue wasn't in a hurry to assign them, choosing to save them for when they were needed.

He opened the level leaderboard and checked the progress of other players.

1st: White Emperor, Level 10 (2%)

2nd: Feng Yun, Young Master Leng, Level 10 (0%)

3rd: Ordinary Greatsword, Level 9 (17%)

4th: Lonely Cigarette, Level 8 (95%)

5th: Seven In Seven Out, Level 8 (93%)

...The gap between players on the level leaderboard wasn't significant; in a few more hours, many players would reach level ten.

To Lin Yue's surprise, Fatty Qin Haotian had actually reached fifth place; it seemed that with the guide he provided, the gains were substantial.

Although Lin Yue was now at the level cap for the Novice Village, he wasn't in a hurry to leave yet.

In his past life, he didn't know better and rushed to leave as soon as he hit level ten to catch up with the main force, only to realize later that he had missed many rewards.

This life was different; he knew about some special Novice Villages, like 6666 and 8888. These special numbered Novice Villages hid the treasure of the gods.

Once one went to the main city, they couldn't come back to get them; they had to be obtained before leaving the Novice Village.

Of the treasures of the gods, the worst were attribute points, while the good ones were said to grant special Skills and permanent buffs.

There were nine special Novice Villages in total, meaning there were nine treasures of the gods hidden away.

Lin Yue decided that while players were still in the leveling phase, he would grab these hidden rewards in advance; even if he couldn't use them himself, Fatty and Old Bai could.

To establish the world's number one guild, it wasn't enough for Lin Yue to be strong alone; he had to cultivate a group of subordinates with extraordinary combat power to face the Invasion of Ten Thousand Races five years later.

Returning to the Novice Village and stepping into the Teleportation Array, Lin Yue turned into a flash of white light and vanished into thin air.

"System: Welcome to Novice Village No. 6666."

Lin Yue first arrived at Novice Village No. 6666. Besides the treasure of the gods, he also needed to find a woman with a King-level Talent and find a way to recruit her into his club.

Shimmering with purple light and holding a gold staff, Lin Yue appeared in the Novice Village, immediately drawing the attention of many players.

"Holy crap, why is this guy glowing all over? He looks so cool."

"Idiot, look at the ID! That's White Emperor!"

"White Emperor is here! This is the big shot I admire. Hurry, take a screenshot for a souvenir."

Ignoring the shock of the surrounding crowd, Lin Yue headed straight for the Village Chief's house.

The Village Chief's house in the Novice Village was where the first quest for the treasure of the gods began.

"Village Chief, I want the key to open the cellar."

As soon as he saw the Village Chief, Lin Yue spoke directly.

"Young Adventurer, the cellar is not a place just anyone can go. It requires Shadow..."

Before the Village Chief could finish, Lin Yue interrupted him.

"The Shadow Cat Demon King's teeth, right? Here."

Time was tight, and Lin Yue didn't want to waste words with the Village Chief, so he handed the Materials directly from his backpack.

"Uh... Adventurer, your martial prowess fills me with admiration. It seems this Mysterious Cellar quest belongs to no one but you."

"Accept!"

Lin Yue accepted the quest without hesitation.

"System: You have accepted the Mysterious Cellar quest and obtained Rusty Cellar Key x1."

quest Requirements: There is a Mysterious Cellar in a dilapidated shack in the Novice Village. Inside the cellar are unknown creatures and a special gift. Form a team with a member of the opposite sex and defeat it, and you will receive the gift.

quest Penalty: None

quest Reward: Unknown.

Seeing this quest, Lin Yue's expression changed, clearly caught off guard.

This quest... why is it a two-person quest?