3: God Destroyer Club

"Five hundred million?"

"That's right, five hundred million. Not a penny less."

Lin Xiaozhong saw that look in his son's eyes for the first time. His expression changed slightly, but he quickly became serious.

"Son, isn't five hundred million a bit much?"

Cheng Jie quietly tugged at Lin Yue's sleeve. Although the Lin family was wealthy, coming up with five hundred million in cash at a moment's notice wasn't necessarily easy.

Lin Yue remained unmoved, but he smiled bitterly in his heart. He knew the condition he set was a bit difficult for his parents, but he needed this five hundred million to build the world's strongest club and create the number one guild in the game.

Only in this way, even if his parents didn't enter the game and remained ordinary people, his power would be enough to protect them.

In the future, the members of this guild would also be his capital for fighting back against the Invasion of Ten Thousand Races!

It would be hard to achieve great things without investing some capital in the early stages.

Lin Xiaozhong seemed to think of something. He looked straight into Lin Yue's eyes for a long time and finally smiled.

"Alright, I'll sell my shares in the company and give you a billion."

Lin Yue was stunned. He hadn't expected his father to support him so fully.

His mother, Cheng Jie, said nothing. She looked at Lin Xiaozhong, then at her son, and nodded silently.

After dinner, Lin Yue returned to his bedroom and made a phone call.

"Pangzi, I'm starting a club. Come and help me, and call Lao Bai, Li Jun, and the others."

Then he composed a message: "I'll give you a million to help me poach a few people. Their game nicknames are Ink Feather, Cute Little Peach, Dragon City Overlord..."

After sending the list, the other party quickly replied: "Three days, and I'll have them all settled for you!"

Lin Yue immediately transferred a million into the other party's bank account.

The other party was a veteran headhunter who could find anyone for money. These people were the seeds of other clubs and influential figures in the game. With every person poached, his power would grow.

Lin Yue knew that the more of these high-level players he had to build his power, the better.

Re-entering the game.

Lin Yue continued hunting Staring Chickens at the entrance of the Novice Village.

Five hours passed in the blink of an eye.

Finally, after killing a total of twelve thousand Staring Chickens, a skill book dropped.

"A drop rate of less than one in ten thousand... it finally dropped."

Lin Yue picked up the skill book and received a system notification.

"Ding! You have obtained the skill book: Beginner Spell Combo. Would you like to learn this skill?"

"Learn."

Lin Yue learned the skill without hesitation.

Beginner Spell Combo (Passive Skill): 1-Star.

Effect: Your spells have a 5% chance to trigger a combo.

Proficiency: 0/1,000.

Great!

With Spell Combo, he could stack his health points even faster.

"I'll head back to the village first to sell the materials."

Lin Yue found the Hunter and sold him the materials in a bundle.

Although the drop rate in the Land of the Final End was low, after killing over ten thousand monsters, quite a bit of game currency and materials had dropped.

Fifty stacks of Staring Chicken Combs, sold for ten copper coins per stack, earned him five hundred copper coins. Combined with the few hundred copper coins that had dropped, he had nearly a thousand copper coins.

Lin Yue wasn't in a hurry to spend these thousand copper coins. He didn't need to buy mana potions for now, so it was better to save the money.

After dealing with everything, Lin Yue didn't plan on taking any more quests. Quests in the Novice Village weren't worth much; many chain quests took a lot of time, and the experience and rewards were mediocre, making them unsuitable for him now.

After some thought, Lin Yue made a decision. He would skip the Level 2-9 monster zones and go directly to the Level 10 monster zone to grind and push for the level rankings.

The Gloomy Forest was a gathering place for Level 10 monsters, which was more suitable for his current grinding.

He arrived at the entrance of the Gloomy Forest. It was silent, with not a single player in sight. At this stage, the highest-level players in the entire server were only Level 7 and were completely incapable of grinding here.

Lin Yue stepped into the dense forest. After only a few steps, his path was blocked by a group of cat demons.

Gloomy Cat Demon (Normal): Level 10.

HP: 2,000/2,000

Attack: 50.

Skills: Poison Claws, Recovery.

*Bang!*

The staff quivered, and a Magic Missile shot out.

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After hunting Staring Chickens for five hours, Lin Yue's health points had reached as high as 30,000.

His current Spell Power was as high as 600 points.

Even after accounting for the cat demon's magic defense, he could still deal over five hundred damage. For a Level 2 Mage, this damage was nothing short of terrifying.

With two thousand HP, it was just a matter of four Magic Missiles.

*Boom! Boom! Boom!*

After a few missiles, the Gloomy Cat Demon didn't even have time to use its skills before it shrieked and fell to the ground.

"Ding! You have killed a Gloomy Cat Demon. Experience +100."

Lin Yue was very satisfied. He hadn't expected the experience reward for killing monsters above his level to be so generous.

Normally, killing a Gloomy Cat Demon only gave ten experience points. But now, at Level 2, killing a Level 10 monster actually multiplied the experience reward by ten.

Going from Level 2 to Level 3 only required killing twenty Gloomy Cat Demons.

"Ding! You have killed a Gloomy Cat Demon. Experience +100."

"Ding! You have killed a Gloomy Cat Demon. Experience +100."

...A few minutes later.

"Ding! Congratulations, you have reached Level 3. Reward: Attribute Points +5."

Before changing classes, every level up gave a fixed five free attribute points. Lin Yue didn't think much of it and once again put all his attribute points into Casting Speed.

Casting Speed increased from 0.6 to 0.7.

Although the increase wasn't much, it was better than nothing.

If a piece of equipment that increased Casting Speed dropped, the improvement would be completely different.

As for mana, he didn't need it for now, so there was no need to add points there.

He would consider increasing mana once multi-cast spell skills dropped later on.

He continued his ruthless hunting of Gloomy Cat Demons. Cat demons were social animals, but Lin Yue could easily harvest them by using the terrain and the woods for positioning.

As the Gloomy Cat Demons were killed mid-air by missiles, after hunting about thirty of them, a green light finally glowed on the ground.

Equipment dropped!

Lin Yue ran over and picked it up.

Bloodsucking Necklace: Normal.

Requirement: Level 10.

Effect: Each attack restores health equal to 1% of the attack value.

Durability: 100 points.

It's actually an accessory!!

Lin Yue was slightly surprised. In the Land of the Final End, the drop rate for accessories was half that of weapons and armor.

He had been killing monsters for a long time without a weapon or armor dropping, yet a necklace had dropped first.

However, this effect was truly a bit useless.

A single attack only restored a few health points; it was completely useless.

However, while Lin Yue had no use for it, other players might.

Opening the Auction House, he listed the necklace directly, letting players who needed it buy it themselves.

With a starting price of one silver coin, he let the others bid for it.

The Auction House, which had been filled with nothing but Level 4 and 5 equipment, suddenly featured a Level 10 necklace, immediately attracting the attention of many players.

In less than two minutes, Lin Yue received a message.

"Ding! Player 'Feng Yun, Young Master Leng' has purchased your equipment. You received Silver Coins +5."

"Ding! Player 'Feng Yun, Young Master Leng' has requested to add you as a friend!"

"Hmm? Someone from the Feng Yun Guild?"

Seeing this name, Lin Yue was somewhat surprised.