by <unknown>
Sniping was for assassination, kiting, and stealth; Viper was for head-on combat, and he actually already had a few modification ideas for it.
His largest earnings were the experience and money from the four novice villages. [Energy Training Technique] sold very well just as he expected, and it had brought him an outrageous and unbelievable amount of rewards.
120,000,000 EXP!
Those who could afford [Energy Training Technique] were the players who were rather ahead—not everyone could afford it.
The class-change knowledge and basic skills were selling at a low profit margin, but the number of people who bought it was the highest.
He already had 20,000,000 EXP saved up. Thus, the accumulated experience on the interface totaled to 140,000,000!
Han Xiao felt content as he looked at the long string of zeros. Even for the players at his level, this amount of experience was beyond their imagination. Some players could not even get as much experience during the whole version 1.0.
Nice. Han Xiao was overjoyed. He would not have to worry about experience points for a long time.
As long as he settled the two biggest obstacles—changing class and upgrading tier—his level would increase tremendously, and he could even splurge on upgrading his skills. It would be easy for him to max the levels of all his abilities except for blueprints, and most importantly, he could infuse blueprints in bulk and build up his inventory.
Experience points were not the only thing. He had also earned 3,600,000 Aquarium dollars by selling [Energy Training Technique], and he had sold five referral letters, which totaled to 4,850,000 dollars. His wallet was packed.
Worth it!
Han Xiao rubbed his palms. He could not wait to open the interface.
Excluding blueprints, the abilities he had yet to reach max level were: [Accurate Shooting Lv.3], [Special Combat Lv.1], [Stealth Lv.1], [Steady Aim Lv.1], [Night Attack Lv.1], [Medium Enhancement Lv.4], [Energy—Magnetic Enhancement Lv.1], [Meticulous Repairs Lv.1], and the amazing [Pickpocketing Lv.1]
Without even looking at the experience points they needed, he maxed the level of each of those abilities!
That’s the feeling of being rich!
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Your Accurate Shooting and Sniping are both at Lv.5.
You learned [Field Controlling Vision].
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Your Grappling and Special Combat are both at Lv.5.
You learned [Lethal Critical Hits].
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You have received talent [Proficient Combat].
You have received talent [Proficient Shooting].
You have received talent [Bat Habit].
Chapter 201. Northern Continent |
Han Xiao had unlocked two new abilities and three new talents. [Bat Habit] had been gained from reaching the max level of all abilities in [Night Stalker].
Without hesitation, Han Xiao levelled up all the new abilities to the max as well.
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Field Controlling Vision Lv.10: Upon activation, +15% Fire Rate, +20% Range, +22% Field Vision. Lasts 13 seconds.
Cooldown: 12 minutes
Stamina Usage: 300
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Lethal Critical Hits: Vital spot critical damage increases from 200% to 250%. Dealing four vital spot critical hits in two seconds has a 0.1% – 1.5% chance of trigger a lethal attack.
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Proficient Combat: +5 STR, +3 END, +6% Melee Attack, +4% Parry Chance.
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Proficient Shooting: +6 DEX, +8% Firearm Attack, +4% Fire Rate.
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Bat Habit: Vision will not be affected by the night, able to detect surroundings with sound. When fighting during the night, +5% DEX.
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He used about 12,000,000 points of experience to max the levels of these abilities, in which he spent the most points in [Medium Enhancement] and [Meticulous Repairs]. After all, they were the main class abilities of the second-tier class.
There were still a ton of experience points in the interface.
With all these abilities reaching the max level, Han Xiao’s strength had increased by at least 20%.
The enhance and repair abilities were the main abilities of Mechanic class. One such ability was [Energy—Magnetic Enhancement], which increased machinery affinity by 33% when it reached max level. Han Xiao clearly felt that he suddenly understood machines more deeply, and the speed and quality of him building machines increased tremendously.
It was just right for him, as his class-up requirement was to build five purple-quality pieces of equipment with a rating of more than 60. Increasing his ability to build machines would help him meet the requirements.
Five high-quality gear in purple grade and the ratings had to be more than 60—it was quite difficult. The rating of equipment in Galaxy followed a very easily understood system. Legendary quality low-level gear would not give as many attributes as purple-quality high-level gear. A high level and high-quality gear would be much more valuable.
Han Xiao still had a large number of experience points left after maxing all his abilities. By choosing a suitable mechanical blueprint and maxing its level, it would greatly increase the quality of the final product and multiply the success rate by more than seven times.
Han Xiao contemplated for some time and decided to fuse blueprints first to have more choices.
With more than 100,000,000 EXP, he could splurge on fusing basic knowledge.
Of course, he was not randomly fusing them; he only fused the machinery that he felt would be reliable. After all, there were way too many combinations between the basic knowledge, and with every fusion, the experience points required would double. If he did not use them wisely, even 100,000,000 experience points would not be able to fill this infinite pit.
After continuously infusing tens of times and spending millions of experience points, Han Xiao received tens of new blueprints that spread across various types with different uses. He carefully picked three pieces of machinery for the class change mission.
[Compounded Magnetic Chain Split Blades], [Iron Fist—Mounted Heavy Mechanical Arm (Can Be Disassembled)], [Mini Maneuvering Equipment].
Not only did these three suit the requirements, but Han Xiao also felt they would be useful to him.
Compounded Magnetic Chain Split Blades was a weapon that was similar to the Magnetically-Controlled Retractable Armor. It had a magnetic round metal plate as the body, and a few detachable magnetic blades filling the core with magnetic energy would activate the magnetic chain. The blades would then be dispersed and hover around the core with spaces in between. If one blade was within a certain distance of another, they would repel each other, and if they are more than a certain distance apart, they would attract each other, which provided a medium range combat solution.
The controls of Compounded Magnetic Chain Split Blades were cumbersome and unique. By using energy to adjust the structure of the magnetic chain, the blades could be turned into different shapes. With the combination of certain gestures, the blades could be used for both attacking and defending in many forms. It needed practice, just like the Magnetically-Controlled Retractable Armor.
The blades could be put in different pockets and combined together during use, which was convenient for stealth purposes and suited the Viper. This was also superhuman equipment for a Mechanical Pugilist.
Iron Fist—Mounted Heavy Mechanical Arm (Can Be Disassembled) was a type of mechanical arm. Different from the lightweight mechanical arm, the size of it was very huge. It was many times bigger than his arms. Its power source was the built-in motor and engine. As its size was very huge, it had a high requirement of the user’s Strength. Han Xiao had to wear Viper to meet its requirements.
Han Xiao chose this because it could be disassembled. This meant that it could be used as part of Viper for enhancement if needed.
Mini Maneuvering Equipment looked like a be
lt. It could shoot out bursts of air that allowed the user to jump midair, and its fuel was very expensive. There was a fitting device built-in so that it would not fly off without the user. It would tire the user to a certain extent, but Han Xiao was practically immune to it with his amount of END.
The most important thing this device gave Han Xiao was agility. He would be about to make turns in midair and perform all kinds of tricky movements, drastically increasing his mobility.
He had chosen those three pieces of machinery to attempt making purple-quality equipment. He wanted to give his mechanical suit melee weapons so that it would cover the close-range weakness of the sniping style.
The other blueprints such as cannons, land mines, and bombs were not suitable for making a piece of purple quality equipment as there was not much room to improve.
He immediately maxed the level of the three blueprints, which cost around one million EXP, but it was nothing to him with all the experience points he had.
There’s not enough materials on the plane. Han Xiao looked at his inventory. He had not restocked in the Western Continent. He pondered for a while and decided to make use of the max level [Medium Enhancement] and enhanced all of his current gear.
As he was keeping himself busy in the plane, it flew at a constant speed toward their destination, the Northern Continent.
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One day later, the plane landed at the coastline of the Northern Continent.
Han Xiao walked down the plane. He got goosebumps from the surrounding cold air; it was freezing in the Northern Continent.
Han Xiao rubbed his palms against each other and breathed out a fog of hot air, opened the map, and said, “There are four novice villages in the Northern Continent, too. The highest level players should also advance to LV 20 soon.”
The clock was ticking. Han Xiao hurriedly asked the pilot to take off again as soon as the plane was refueled. He arrived at the first novice village in the Northern Continent very soon and was greeted with warm welcomes.
The players in the Northern Continent had been waiting for him for a long time. They had been reading about the players in the Western Continent showing off every day with envy and anticipation; it was finally their turn to show off.
Of course, the players in the Southern Continent were even more upset.
Han Xiao stood in place, and the players queued to give him money and experience points with smiles on their faces. The numbers on the interface kept growing.
Suddenly, a commotion broke out among the crowd. Hao Tian walked out of the crowd as the players around him stepped aside.
“I want to buy the Referral Letter,” Hao Tian said.
Han Xiao looked up. he recognized Hao Tian—a pro player who had around the same level of skill as Li Ge.
Hao Tian gave the money and took the referral letter, keeping an emotionless expression throughout. He took the mission and left without wasting any time.
At this time, Han Xiao heard the conversation between the surrounding players.
“Didn’t Hao Tian finish all the missions in novice village? I thought he left two days ago.”
“No, I saw him come back with my own eyes. He stayed till today.”
“Probably waiting for the mission from Black Phantom.”
“It’s not worth wasting two days for a pro player.”
“I would wait ten days if I could get the mission from Black Phantom.”
Han Xiao’s eye twinkled. Hao Tian seems like quite a good choice.
Chapter 202. Alumera (1) |
Including Hao Tian, Han Xiao had already come in contact with many pro players and given them the missions.
The way to complete the mission was through a communication device. He gave the pro players his number and email, and the mission would only be completed once they sent over the details so that he could complete his own mission. If there were any mission items that needed to be handed to Hannes, he would have to take the plane and retrieve it himself.
As compared to doing them himself, ordering highly skilled players to help him complete these missions would save him a lot of time, and he could just sit back and enjoy the profit.
Among the pro players that came to accept the missions, many had been very strong players in his previous life, and Han Tian was at the top of that list. Han Xiao was rather interested in Hao Tian, but since he had said that he would only be amazed when the mission was completed, he was patient.
Han Xiao spent most of his time on the road as he was rushing between the novice villages in the Northern Continent. During this time, he used the max level [Medium Enhancement] and upgraded his gear and improved their attributes. He also tried to build the three pieces of equipment that he had chosen, and he was rather satisfied with the results.
He was able to achieve blue quality on the first try, which meant there was a chance to reach purple quality after some practice and familiarization.
There were already players that had reached LV 19 on the level leaderboards. With Han Xiao’s pace right now, he would be able to finish all the novice villages in the Northern Continent before the first player reached LV 20.
As for Andrea, Han Xiao did not think that he would be able to make it, but he did not want to go to Andrea anyway as it was the headquarters of the Germinal Organization, which meant it was very dangerous for him. Also, the players had all been forced to leave the novice villages and were scattered around everywhere. All in all, the risk far outweighed the profit for Han Xiao.
In the Planet Aquamarine panel on the forum, players in the Northern Continent were the happiest. The second most excited were the players from Andrea—in their minds, after Black Phantom finished running through the novice villages in the Northern Continent, he would go to Andrea next.
Well, that is awkward. Han Xiao sighed.
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The weather in the Northern Continent was cold. Its terrain mainly consisted of snowy fields and icebergs. Thin snow danced in the air, fog surrounded the mountain top, and a clear line separated the black green mountain body and the snow-covered white peak.
The third novice village was called Frost Pine Village. It was in an ice-sealed forest valley, where fierce beasts roamed.
The plane landed outside the forest, and Han Xiao crossed the forest with his Electromagnetic Hover-boots, following the radar. The beast roars from afar reminded Han Xiao that the Northern Continent was filled with beasts, and many of them were of a rather high level.
As I remembered, the Sharp Claw Ice Bears on one ice field are all high leveled, between LV 53 to 56, not including the elites or BOSS. I can meet the requirements to unlock [Lethal Shot] talent there, Han Xiao thought.
That ice field was quite far, so Han Xiao decided to head there after he finished with the novice village.
He noticed another thing as he looked at the map—the Alumera family’s territory was not far from Frost Pine Village.
Not long after, Frost Pine Village appeared in his sights. He calmed his mind, slowed down, and walked over.
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In the woods one hundred meters away from the Frost Pine Village, a dozen or so people who were all wearing combat suit, firearms, and daggers sat in a circle arranging their equipment.
They were a combat team from Alumera, following their order to capture some Inhumans in the Frost Pine Village and bring them back for research.
The captain, Keaton, was smoking a hand-rolled cigar with a vicious face. He pulled out a blaster and said, “Everyone knows the combat plan. Don’t mess up!”
“Relax, it’s just a bunch of Inhumans, piece of cake.”
“If they dare to resist…” Keaton patted the grenade on his waist. “You don’t have to be stingy with these little toys—blow them to smithereens.”
The team started laughing.
“Also, these Inhumans look the same as normal people from the outside, so don’t capture the wrong ones.” Keaton looked at his watch and commanded the rest to stand up. “Arran
ge your gear. We move on my signal.”
At this time, a human-shaped shadow passed the alley outside the woods. A member pointed over and said, “Captain, there’s a passer-by over there. Is it an Inhuman?”
“Probably, there are many beasts in this forest—only Inhumans would be alone.”
“Capture this one, and we will complete the mission.”
They were eager to do it.
However, they waited for a few seconds then realized that the captain was not giving any response. They looked back and were hit with a shock.
The lips of the usual fierce and vicious Keaton were trembling in fear. His face was pale, and even the cigar dropped onto the floor.
“What’s wrong?” A member was confused.
Keaton’s gulped before saying, “The plan is canceled, leave now!”
“Why?” The team was surprised.
“That’s not an Inhuman!” Keaton said in anger. “H—he’s Black Phantom! He had a conflict with the family not long ago!”
Black Phantom!
Everyone in the team was stunned. They wanted to look over and confirm it but realized the figure was gone; the shadow had disappeared.”
However, they heard the voice of a stranger appear behind them.
“I heard you were calling me.”
Everyone was stunned. They turned around rigidly and saw a black shadow standing behind Keaton, looking at them curiously.
They felt a chill run down their spines.
Keaton was horrified. He did not notice Han Xiao move behind him. The voice from Han Xiao was almost like a clap of thunder that made his heart jump and sweat even in such cold weather.
Han Xiao raised his eyebrows. He had sensed them from afar. The reason that these armed men were this nervous in front of him was most likely that they knew his identity and had hostile motives.
“Are you going to tell me yourself, or do you want me to help you? You can try lying too.” Han Xiao bent his fingers. Seven blades flew out from the pockets on his waist and legs, floating in midair as they locked onto Keaton’s vital points.
