After collecting 200 iron ores, if one had 10 or more pieces of Fine Iron in one's backpack, one could trigger a hidden mission!
Fine Iron was a rare mineral that came with iron ores. When mining iron ores, there was a small chance of collecting Fine Iron at the same time. How small was this chance? If one was unlucky, one might not even find one piece of Fine Iron even if they dug 1,000 iron ores!
Of course, it was not that there were no Fine Iron veins, but they were rare, and they were guarded by powerful monsters!
Due to such a low probability, the hidden mission for the Warrior class had never been triggered. It was not until the third year of the game's operation that a mining maniac appeared. Every time he logged in, he would not do anything else other than mining. He stayed in the beginner's village for half a year!
Coincidentally, the profession that the person chose was a Warrior!
Thus, this player with over 100 pieces of Fine Iron in his backpack successfully triggered this hidden mission. After struggling to complete the mission, he received an "Average" rating and received a reward: 1 Skill Point and a Skill Book "Sweep".
Just one Skill Point was enough to make people jealous. When he posted the description of the skill Sweep on the forum, all the Warriors were in tears!
[Sweep]: Attacks all nearby enemies, dealing 100% melee damage to each target. Consumption: 20 Rage Cooldown Time: 10 seconds Required: Melee Weapon
Such a powerful AoE damage skill actually fell on a player who mined all day. What a tragedy!
But the players quickly thought: Even an "Average" rating could get such a generous reward. What if it was a "Very Good" or even a "Perfect" rating? How tempting would the reward be? Unfortunately, hidden missions were unique. In other words, once someone completed it, no one else could complete it!
There were four types of mission ratings: Extremely Poor, Average, Very Good, and Perfect. However, only S-rank missions had mission ratings.
Zhang Yang first went to the Alchemy Shop and sold all the miscellaneous items in his backpack. His money had also increased to 23 silver coins. He opened the Alchemy Shop's catalog and found the beginner's Healing Potion, commonly known as the Red Potion, and the beginner's village's exclusive, one bottle of Trial Poison per person.
[Beginner's Healing Potion] (White, Consumable)
Use: Immediately recovers 100 health points.
[Trial Poison] (White, Consumable)
Use: Smear on weapon for 60 minutes. After hitting the target, there is a 30% chance of poisoning the target, causing the target to lose 3 HP every second for 15 seconds. Stacks up to 5 times.
A Red Potion cost one silver coin, and the trial poison was even more expensive, selling for as much as 10 silver coins! Zhang Yang spent money like water. In one go, he bought 10 bottles of Basic Health Potions and 1 bottle of Trial Poison. Then, he left the Novice Village and headed for the mountains north of the village.
He remembered that in a certain corner of the mountain, there was a Fine Iron Mine that refreshed once an hour. Every time, two to three pieces of Fine Iron could be mined! It was the only Fine Iron Ore spawn point in the Beginner Village, and it just so happened to be in the Black Panther King's lair!
High profits were always linked to high danger!
The road was very long, and Zhang Yang spent more than half an hour before he arrived at a valley. The surroundings were filled with strange rocks.
In the deepest part of the valley, a sparkling silver ore vein strongly attracted Zhang Yang's gaze. It was the only fine iron ore that would respawn in the Novice Village. But beside this ore vein, there was a giant black panther that was as tall as two people and as long as six people!
This was the strongest boss in the Novice Village, the Black Panther King!
[Black Panther King] (Black Iron Leader)
Level: 15
Health Points: 45000
It was a daunting amount of Health Points!
Zhang Yang took out the Trial Poison and smeared it on the Novice Sword. The originally rusty iron sword suddenly flashed with a green luster.
Poison was originally unique to the Bandit profession! However, in order to let other players experience the charm of poison, the game producers limited the supply of Trial Poison in the Novice Village. As each person was permanently limited to one bottle, they were not afraid that it would affect the balance of the game.
However, this became the key for Zhang Yang to kill a boss that was higher than him!
Zhang Yang adjusted his state of mind, then directly charged at the Black Panther King.
Charge Stun!
Zhang Yang raised his hand and slashed the Black Panther King's body.
"-6!"
Due to the huge difference in level, in addition to the super high defense of a Leader tier monster, even though Zhang Yang had 36-38 base damage, when he slashed the boss' body, he only took off a pitiful 6 Health Points! And because the damage dealt was too low, the aggro gained was only 3 points. Including the additional 10 points of aggro from Charge, it was far from enough to launch a powerful attack!
Moreover, even if he could launch a powerful attack, it would not do much damage. To kill this high-level, high-armor boss, he could only rely on the power of poison!
Two seconds later, the Black Panther King woke up from its coma. It waved its claws angrily and slashed at Zhang Yang.
Zhang Yang did not panic. He lowered his body and dodged the monster's attack. After that, he swung his sword and slashed the Black Panther King's body again.
"-8!"
"Ding! Your attack has caused the Black Panther King to be affected by Trial Poison (1 layer), losing 3 Health Points per second! "
Poison was considered magic damage and could only be reduced by Magic Resistance!
A hint of joy appeared on Zhang Yang's face. Although the effect rate of this poison was not very high, as long as he was infected with one layer, he only needed to be infected with one more layer within 15 seconds to continuously stack, reaching the full effect of five layers!
Not only did it not hit its target, but it was also repeatedly damaged by the enemy in front of it. The Black Panther King was even more furious. It extended its front claws again and slashed at Zhang Yang viciously.
Dodge!
Zhang Yang displayed the demeanor of an expert. Through positioning and movement, he continuously dodged the boss' attacks. He did not waste even a single moment of his own attack opportunities, slashing the boss' body with the Novice Sword one after another.
"Ding! Your attack has caused the Black Panther King to be affected by Trial Poison (2 layer), losing 6 Health Points per second! "
"Ding! Your attack … "
Very quickly, the effects of Trial Poison stacked up to five layers. The Black Panther King's Health Points per second had also reached 15. Although it was ridiculously slow compared to its long Health Points, as long as this state was maintained, the boss would eventually die from the poison in 50 minutes!
Zhang Yang did not dare to be careless in the slightest. His meager Health Points could not withstand a light hit from the boss. As long as he took a hit from the boss, he would definitely be finished!
One minute, two minutes, three minutes … 45 minutes!
The Black Panther King's Health Points had dropped to around 10%. This powerful monster's body suddenly flashed with a blood-red glow. Its originally incomparably tall body forcefully expanded by a size. Its attack speed was faster and its frequency was higher!
This was commonly known by players as the berserk state. It was the berserk state of a monster when it was on the verge of death. Only a few powerful monsters would have the berserk state.
Zhang Yang's nerves were highly focused, and his sharp motor nerves were displayed to the extreme. Again and again, he perfectly dodged the Black Panther King's attacks! At this time, the character's movement speed clearly could not keep up with his nerves' reaction speed. Only by investing more attribute points into Agility could he maximize his advantage.
From this point of view, Zhang Yang was more suited to play as a Thief!
Of course, in the middle and late stages of the game, as the quality of equipment increased, the proportion of Free Attribute Points in a character's attributes would become smaller and smaller. In the end, it could be ignored. A good piece of equipment was the way to increase a character's attributes!
"-15!"
"-15!"
"-6!"
Dodge!
"-15!"
"-15!"
"-7!"
Damage numbers continuously jumped up on top of the Black Panther King's head, and finally, its Health Points hit rock bottom. As Trial Poison's "-15" jumped up for the last time, the Black Panther King suddenly let out a cry, turned into a ball of white light, and fell to the ground dead.
It's finally over. Zhang Yang breathed a sigh of relief. Close to an hour of high-intensity combat had also made him feel quite tired.
"Ding! You have killed the Black Panther King. Obtained 90,000 Experience points (Double reward for cross-level kills)! "
"Ding! Congratulations, you have become the first player to kill the head of a Dark Iron Level in the wild. Your Hall of Fame will be recorded in the history books! Do you want to announce your name so that the world can praise your great achievements? "
Zhang Yang was stunned. As he had entered the game too late in his previous life, he had no luck with the first kill of any Boss Level, so he had never encountered such a thing before!
His first reaction was naturally to choose "Yes." To be famous in the server and become the object of envy and worship for the majority of players, wasn't that the original goal of every online game player? Moreover, becoming famous would be more beneficial for him to establish a guild, and he could attract more players.
However, he immediately remembered that he could be said to be poor at the moment. Other than Fatty Han whom he had not yet contacted, there was not a single person by his side! If at this time, a large guild "took a liking" to him and wanted to recruit him, could he say no?
Once he rejected the recruitment of a large guild, what awaited him would definitely be endless harassment, and even encirclement!
This was not strange at all! Zhang Yang clearly remembered that in his previous life, there was a Knight Tank called "Unlimited Starlight." His standards were quite good. Although he was in a small guild, the dungeon results he obtained were enough to challenge the various super large guilds! In the beginning, the various super large guilds sent invitations to Unlimited Starlight, asking him to jump ship. However, Unlimited Starlight was quite attached to his own guild, and chose to reject all the invitations.
In the end, Unlimited Starlight and his guild were jointly besieged by three large guilds. In less than ten days, many members did not want to go offline anymore and chose to leave the guild. That small guild then fell apart. Unlimited Starlight was extremely depressed, and chose to delete his account to protest on the official forum.
The official reply was that private fights were not encouraged in Miracle, so there was a penalty of dropping levels and a red name. If you wanted to PK, please go to the arena. If you wanted to kill, please go to the battlefield. There was absolutely no loss of levels or equipment. If you wanted to settle personal grudges, you had to pay the price.
No matter what the official reason was, in short, private grudges between players were not tolerated!
Zhang Yang did not "play" the game. He also wanted to use the game to earn money and accumulate wealth to the extent that he could compete with the Liu family and the Lin family. He knew the trend of the game, and he knew when and what materials were valuable. However, this required him to be ahead of the general player population in order to manipulate it. For example, the most popular Level 20 Basic Dark Resistance Potion's recipe was obtained from a Silver-grade chest!
To obtain this recipe, he had to have the ability to obtain a Silver-grade chest! Moreover, he had to obtain it as soon as possible. Otherwise, when the time was up and he obtained the recipe to make the potion, not many players would need it!
Now, he needed an environment that was as undisturbed as possible until he established a guild and had the ability to say "no!"
Zhang Yang finally chose "no!"
Immediately, the World Channel began to continuously flash with the server's unique red words.
"Server Announcement: Player (Name Hidden) has successfully killed the Level 15 Black Iron Leader, Black Panther King (China server). This achievement will be recorded on the Hall of Fame Achievement Leaderboard! Please cheer for him! "
"Server Announcement: Player (Name Hidden) has successfully killed the Level 15 Black Iron Leader, Black Panther King (China server). Obtained system reward of 10 gold coins!"
"Server Announcement: Player (Name Hidden) has successfully killed the Level 15 Black Iron Leader, Black Panther King (China server). Obtained Reputation in all races in the Alliance by 500 points!"
A series of red words flooded the screen. The effect was absolutely shocking!
"Ding! You have obtained additional reward: Luck + 1! "
He was actually rewarded with Luck! Zhang Yang was a little surprised. Luck was an attribute that could not be increased through equipment, but it was still a very important attribute! One of them was that Luck would affect the drop rate of monsters. In addition, it would also affect the success rate of strengthening equipment and rune weapons. Of course, there was also the probability of a Lucky Strike appearing.
Zhang Yang looked at the server announcement that repeatedly refreshed the screen five times. Even he felt a little smug. Then, he looked at the loot that the Black Panther King had dropped.
…
On the other side, the sudden server announcement sent all the players in the China server into an uproar.
"What the f * ck? I've been killing monsters for so long and just reached Level 5. Someone actually killed a Level 15 boss?"
"Is this for real? He's actually fighting alone?"
"Damn the server, I forgot to attack the monsters when I was reading the news. I was killed by the monsters!"
"F * ck, he must have used a cheat. How could a Black Iron boss be killed by a single person?"
"F * ck you, GM! Come out and look at God!"
"Little newbie, there is no GM in Miracle. There is only super computer monitoring to ensure fairness and justice!"
"Fairness, my ass!"
"Fairness, my ass!"
"Don't even think about it. Leveling up quickly is the way to go!"
"There are more people than monsters. How can I level up? I'm a Magician, but I haven't cast a single spell yet. I've always been hitting with a staff!"
"Hey, shake hands. Brother, you're a Cleric, and you don't even dare to use spells. It takes two seconds to cast. How can you steal the monster?"
Not long after, someone posted on the forums, saying that he had specifically found the Black Panther King and discovered that its HP had reached an astonishing 45,000 points. When it hit a Level 5 player like him, it would deal around 230 damage. How could any player possibly solo it? Then, the game company fired a shot at them, asking if there were any cheats or bugs.
Soon, the officials replied, "Cheating is not allowed in Miracle, and bugs can't be completely eliminated. However, according to the replay of the game data, the player who got the first kill of the Black Panther King did not exploit the bug."
For a moment, the forum was extremely lively. Everyone was discussing and curious about what method the player had used to kill the Black Panther King!
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