Chapter 19: Looks Like a Bug

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

Agile Light Armor (Green)

Level For Use: 6

Physical Defense +10

Agility +5

Health +50

After going online, Lao Yao submitted the quest that he had received from the novice village. After collecting the wolf skins, he finally obtained the first piece of defensive equipment on his entire body. He did not expect his luck to be so good. This quest rewarded him with a random piece of green equipment. This time, he was actually randomly rewarded with a light armor that was specially used by Assassins. Furthermore, its attributes were not bad.

In the game, Warriors could only wear heavy armor, while Assassins and Hunters could only wear light armor and leather armor. As for Mages and Priests, they could only wear cloth armor. In terms of physical defense, Mages and Priests were the weakest. However, in order to make up for it, the magic defense of cloth armor was usually relatively high.

After wearing this Agile Light Armor, Lao Yao’s anemic state improved. As for the EXP gained from completing the mission, it was only 600 points. It was pitifully little. The EXP required for Lao Yao to rise from level 6 to 7 was 12,100 points. Killing a monster of the same level only gave him 50 to 60 EXP. He had to kill almost 200 monsters to level up. The difficulty of leveling up was obvious.

Lao Yao was slightly better off. After all, he had activated Free Mode and was able to rely on his past combat experience to calmly dodge the attacks of the monsters. He was also able to train alone. Coupled with his extremely high critical hit rate, he was able to quickly obtain the experience of every monster. Compared to other players who formed teams to level up equally, it was indeed much faster.

The Novice Village was very lively now. The bustling players were moving through the Novice Village. Some of them were looking for quests, some were replenishing potions, some were recruiting people to team up and kill monsters, and some were setting up stalls.

Lao Yao was also a poor person now. He only had 2 silver coins in his bag from this mission. Killing normal monsters in this game would not drop money. Therefore, not only Lao Yao, almost all the players were very poor.

Out of curiosity, Lao Yao took a look at the items sold by the players who set up stalls. Most of them were White Equipment, but even such White Equipment was sold for a high price of about 5 Silver Coins. Occasionally, there would be one or two Green Equipment, and they were sold for a sky-high price of more than 20 Silver Coins.

Equipment was hard to drop, and money was hard to drop. In the early stages of a game like this, the price of goods was naturally much higher. In the regional channel of the novice village, there were also many people shouting to buy game coins, but they often could not get them at all.

The random player distribution that Lao Yao had experienced when he entered the game had completely disrupted the original plans of some gold farming studios. There was no way to gather the advantage of the number of people to accumulate gold coins. Naturally, no one would sell game coins on the market. Therefore, in the purchasing information that Lao Yao saw, the ratio of gold coins to RMB had already reached an extremely high ratio of 1:20.

“Yang Yongle’s foresight is very accurate!” Lao Yao pondered and said, “This game is indeed profitable. Let’s see if we can seize the opportunity to earn money.”

After thinking about it, Lao Yao decided to continue leveling up. This time, he planned to go to the place with the highest level of monsters in the novice village to level up. With the 50 HP bonus brought by the Agile Light Armor, as long as he was not instantly killed by the monsters, Lao Yao’s leveling plan could be guaranteed.

However, just as Lao Yao was about to take a look at his attributes, he suddenly discovered a problem.

Character: Lao Yao

Profession: Assassin

Level: 6

Strength: 25 (One point after leveling up)

Agility: 95 (Bonus from level-up, free attribute points, equipment bonus)

Intelligence: 25 (One point after leveling up)

Attack: 77~144 (Weapon Attack: 1~2)

Attack Power: 1.2

Defense: 19

Health: 250

Energy: 100/100

Critical Hit Rate: 5%

The problem was about attack power. He remembered that when Lao Yao killed the Wolf King at Level 5, his damage was 70 to 114! Now, he had only leveled up by one level. Even if he wore equipment, he would only have 17 more Agility than when he was at Level 5. How could his damage be so much higher? Most importantly, when he was at Level 5, his attack power calculation was already wrong! It was just that he was thinking about killing the Wolf King at that time and did not realize it.

What was going on? Lao Yao scratched his head. He simply looked for Yang Yongle and asked her, “How do you calculate the growth of Assassins’ attacks?”

Very quickly, Yang Yongle replied: “1 Agility adds 1 Attack Upper Limit and 0.5 Attack Lower Limit! Aren’t you an Assassin? Why are you asking me?”

“But… my attack power increase doesn’t seem right!” Lao Yao replied hesitantly.

“Doesn’t seem right? What’s wrong? Could it be that the attack power bonus has decreased? Then quickly ask the customer service!” Yang Yongle said.

It would have been better if it had decreased! Lao Yao rolled his eyes. If his attack had really decreased, he could justifiably find trouble with Galaxy International. However, it seemed that its attack power had increased instead!

Could this be the legendary bug!?

Even if he hadn’t eaten pork before, he had at least seen pigs run, right? Lao Yao knew these three English letters quite well. What he wasn’t sure about now was whether he should ask the customer service. If there was really a bug in his character attributes, wouldn’t he be walking into a trap by asking?

With such a high attack, if it was really corrected as a bug, Lao Yao would probably be depressed to death. Furthermore, some of the situations that appeared on his body, such as the Free Mode, as well as extremely high dodging and critical hit rates, all of these situations made Lao Yao break out in cold sweat the moment he thought of them!

What the f*ck! If he were to report it and ask, would his account be blocked by the gaming company?!

No! I can’t ask the customer service even if I’m beaten to death! Lao Yao, who had already fallen in love with this game, instantly made up his mind. Furthermore, he also decided on his code of conduct in the game in the future. He had to keep a low profile! At the very least, he couldn’t let too many people discover his uniqueness!

With such a perturbed mood, Lao Yao arrived at the respawn point of the Level 10 monsters in the novice village and began to farm monsters…

What Lao Yao did not know was that there was no bug in the artificial intelligence chip that Galaxy International used in the server. Even if there was, it would be detected and corrected by the system immediately after it appeared. Moreover, according to the system’s definition, the moves, skills, and so on created by players by exploiting their potential were not within the scope of the bug. This game encouraged players’ personal abilities. Otherwise, it would not have done the attribute test when the player established the character.

However, before he went offline yesterday, Lao Yao seemed to have overlooked something. At that time, he was immersed in comprehending the realm of Critical Hit at will. He seemed to have heard a system notification. However, he was crazily killing Wild Wolves and leveling up relatively quickly. Hence, he selectively ignored that notification as a leveling up notification.

If Lao Yao had checked the system’s information record when he went offline yesterday, he probably wouldn’t be so worried today.

“Player Lao Yao’s control over his own body has reached a peak. The system has now modified the reward for the player: The upper limit of attack power has been changed to 1.5, and the lower limit of attack power has been changed to 0.8. We hope that the player can continue to explore his own potential…”

Unfortunately, Lao Yao did not have the habit of checking the system’s notifications when he went offline. Such a system message naturally disappeared after Lao Yao went offline. This caused Lao Yao to have a lot of doubts about his attack power for a long time. Only when he understood later did he beat his chest and scold himself. Wasn’t he worried for nothing for many days?…