Although Li Huailin had given Bard a good beating, he didn't receive any tangible benefits. Looking at his experience bar, which had already become -500/500, Li Huailin felt a lot of pressure. Among the hundreds of millions of players in the Hua Xia server, he was at the bottom of the bottom.
I need to level up. Otherwise, I won't be able to leave the Beginner Village for the rest of my life. Li Huailin thought to himself.
After making up his mind, Li Huailin headed south of the Beginner Village. Fortunately, the location of the mine wasn't difficult to find. Just as he left the Beginner Village, Li Huailin found a group of novice players carrying manuscripts. After following these players for a while, Li Huailin found the mine. He estimated that the Beginner Village was about a five-minute walk from the mine.
As soon as he entered the entrance of the mine, he was greeted by a bustling scene. A row of Players lined the wall at the entrance of the mine. All of the Players were doing the same thing. They were holding a script and hammering it against the wall. The clanging sounds were annoying to listen to.
Li Huailin thought for a moment. He did not immediately run into the depths of the mine to look for high-level monsters. Instead, he picked up the ancestral pickaxe that Bard had just given him and found a wall that no one was working on.
"Dang!" Li Huailin's pickaxe hit the wall. However, the wall didn't react. Li Huailin also didn't receive any ore.
"Come to think of it, it's not that easy to get ores. Otherwise, if I could get one at a time, the number of ores would be off the charts." Li Huailin thought as he continued to dig.
After digging for nearly 30 times, there was finally a reaction.
System Notification: Obtained an Iron Ore.
Li Huailin checked his bag and found an additional quality 4 Iron Ore. It was estimated to sell for 5 coppers. Then, he immediately looked at his character attributes.
Sub Class:
Apprentice Miner (-2/1000): Able to mine in the mine. Has a small chance of finding rare ores.
"Hehe." Li Huailin could only chuckle when he saw that he had negative EXP again. "Fortunately, I was mentally prepared. Sure enough, I can't play with a sub-class."
Without hesitation, Li Huailin immediately raised the pickaxe in his hand and shouted to the players who were working nearby, "Everyone, come and take a look at that! This is the village's blacksmith family's heirloom! It's a Bronze-ranked Mining Pickaxe! It can increase mining speed by 20%! It's practically a lethal weapon! Right now, it's only for 10 Silver Coins, and there's only one in stock. First come, first served! You won't lose out if you buy it for 10 Silver Coins, and you won't get cheated if you buy it for 10 Silver Coins …"
"Damn, a pickaxe that can increase the mining speed by 20%. It's too goddamn godly!" The people around him were all people who had been mining for a few hours. The repetitive work had already caused them to break down. Now that they heard someone selling an artifact that could increase the speed of mining, all of them looked at Li Huailin with bloodshot eyes.
"Come, it's only for 10 Silver Coins. The first person to trade with me can take it away," Li Huailin continued shouting.
As soon as Li Huailin finished speaking, a large pile of trade requests arrived. Li Huailin had not expected these miners to actually have some money. Although 10 Silver Coins was not a lot, it should be quite a lot at the Novice Village stage. Looking at the trade request records, Li Huailin discovered that the first person to make the trade request was Wolf Tribe, Miner Twenty.
"Wolf Tribe's Guild?" Li Huailin sent Miner Twenty a private message.
"That's right, friend. I'm from the Wolf Tribe's Guild's Logistics Department." Seeing Li Huailin send him a private message, Miner Twenty grew a little excited. When he thought about it, he was only an employee of a large Guild's Logistics Department. If he could obtain a Bronze-ranked Mining Pickaxe, wouldn't he have a chance of getting promoted?
"Do you have 10 Silver Coins on you?" Li Huailin asked.
"Yes, yes," Miner Twenty immediately said.
"Alright, let's trade." Li Huailin placed the Mining Pickaxe on the table. Miner Twenty also inspected the Attributes of his equipment. Sure enough, it was just as Li Huailin had said, increasing his mining speed by 20%. Hence, Miner Twenty happily placed 10 Silver Coins on the table.
"Alright, I've sold the Mining Pickaxe. Those who didn't buy it can wait for the next time," Li Huailin shouted at the large group of miners who were still waiting to trade with him after the trade was completed.
"What? It's already sold? Didn't I already send a trade request? Why didn't you accept it?! "a player beside Li Huailin shouted.
"You sent it a little late. I said that it's first come, first served. I've already traded it to the first person who sent it," Li Huailin explained.
"Which guy bought a pickaxe? I'm willing to pay 15 Silver Coins for it!" another Wan Family member immediately shouted.
As soon as these words were shouted, everyone noticed a player standing in front of Li Huailin. The player was currently holding a mining pickaxe glowing with a green light. It was Miner Twenty.
"That's him!" A group of people immediately abandoned Li Huailin and surrounded Miner Twenty.
"Hurry up and sell the pickaxe to me!" a player shouted nervously.
"I didn't say I was going to sell it." Miner Twenty gulped as he looked at the surrounding players.
Regardless of Miner Twenty's situation, Li Huailin had just left after seeing the surrounding players shift their targets. Now that he had sold the pickaxe, he could finally start leveling up.
After walking a little deeper into the mine, the scene inside immediately changed. At first, the entrance to the mine was a large hall. Many people could be seen mining there. However, after walking a little deeper, the hall became a real tunnel. Each tunnel was only four to five meters wide. Moreover, there were over a dozen of them. It was impossible to tell where they led.
The lighting in the tunnel was very poor. There were only a few oil lamps to illuminate the area. Normally, in a dark place like this, it was necessary to bring candles or equipment with lighting attributes. Otherwise, it would be easy to be ambushed by monsters. However, Li Huailin was purely here to die. It didn't matter if he was ambushed or not.
After randomly choosing a path, Li Huailin walked in. After walking for a while, Li Huailin encountered a monster.
Cave Bat: 300 Health, 45 Physical Attack, 30 Physical Defense.
"Great!" Li Huailin didn't say anything else as he greeted the monster.
The Cave Bat was a Level 6 monster. It was five levels higher than Li Huailin. Moreover, Li Huailin was still wearing beginner equipment. He only had 2 points of Defense, so he lost 35 Health Points in one hit.
"Amazing. It really is an amazing monster." Li Huailin was exceptionally excited. Sure enough, the player was right. The monsters in the mine were amazing.
-37, -40
Before he could even sigh, the Cave Bat attacked twice. Li Huailin's head immediately tilted and he died.
The screen turned gray. In the next second, Li Huailin appeared at the Beginner Village's Rebirth Point.
"This is the effect I wanted." The excited Li Huailin immediately ran back to the mine.
When he ran to the hall, the group of people who had bought the pickaxes had already dispersed. In the end, Li Huailin didn't care who the pickaxes belonged to. Right now, he only cared about leveling up.
After choosing another tunnel with no people, Li Huailin once again rushed in. In less than two minutes, Li Huailin was once again killed.
"Yup, the time it takes to run is about five minutes, and the time it takes to kill a monster is about two minutes." Li Huailin calculated the time. "Right now, I still need to die 18 times to level up to Level 2. That's about 126 minutes, or about two hours."
After all, he had negative experience right now. Leveling up to Level 2 was slightly slower. When he reached Level 2, he would level up once every ten deaths. In that case, he would need a total of 126 + 70 x 9 = 756 minutes to reach Level 10, or about 12 and a half hours. Compared to other players, who needed three days to reach Level 10 and leave the village, his speed was really fast.
"This is what you call leveling up." Li Huailin said happily.
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