Chapter 26

Being tricked by Corpse Fire, Alpha received a 40-level epic set glove that only a priest could equip. Alpha was at a loss, unable to curse, he could only give Corpse Fire the middle finger to express his indignation. Corpse Fire, however, was completely unconcerned, his face full of smug satisfaction:

"In fact, everything I did was in line with your description of the equipment: cloth armor, willpower, and constitution, right? You need to learn how to deal with the devil."

As Corpse Fire leisurely puffed on his cigar, he spoke with great confidence...

Alpha truly experienced the devil's tricks he had seen in various films and novels. They firmly upheld all contracts but could find endless loopholes within them. This time was no different. Alpha deeply regretted not adding "usable by mages" to his request...

However, it was still a 45-level epic set, and even if it wasn't the best, it could still be exchanged for some decent equipment, right?

Self-comfort was Alpha's strongest skill, no doubt about it. But he still had some doubts about the 40-level epic set:

"Alright, you win, you rotten devil... But why can a 10-level elite boss drop a 40-level epic set? Isn't it supposed to be 5 levels higher?"

Alpha wasn't surprised that Corpse Fire gave him good equipment; what surprised him was how good it was.

Alpha knew that the equipment Corpse Fire could "give" him was all within the normal range of possible drops from a kill. However, a 40-level epic set seemed a bit too much.

According to the rules, a 45-level elite boss could drop a 40-level epic set, but Corpse Fire was just a 10-level elite boss. Although he did indeed level up as he claimed, it was still hard to believe that he could produce such an excellent item.

"40-level... This kind of overly quantified statement feels a bit strange—didn't you forget that our projections have all leveled up?

"My projection is now... using your adventurer's terms, I am a 45-level leader-level devil zombie boss."

"Then how did I manage to deal 284 points of damage to you?"

In "Dungeons and Dragons," it's specified that if you are more than 10 levels below the target, you can't see the target's detailed stats like health. Alpha indeed couldn't see Corpse Fire's level or health, which meant Corpse Fire was at least level 20.

But if Corpse Fire had become level 45, Alpha still found it hard to believe.

—If there was a 35-level difference, the level resistance alone would reduce Alpha's damage to an almost negligible amount.

But now, with two hits dealing 284 points of damage, it was almost on par with what some 30-40 level players could do to Corpse Fire.

"I'm also puzzled, but it seems that the golden energy completely ignored my resistance, even the level resistance... It was intense, intense."

Corpse Fire was now completely intoxicated by the dragon breath smoke. With more cigarettes in hand, he started to be wasteful. The devil zombie who used to be reluctant to throw away even the cigarette butts now discarded a cigarette after just two puffs, and a group of lesser devils immediately scrambled to grab them.

"Come here,"

Alpha pointed at a lesser devil who had just grabbed a cigarette butt.

Although Corpse Fire had leveled up, these minions were still at their previous levels. The lesser devil in front of him, with a broken horn, was only level 8.

The lesser devil timidly glanced at Alpha, and the cigarette butt slipped from his hand, and a few other lesser devils, delighted by the misfortune, scrambled to grab it again.

Alpha handed the remaining half-box of dragon breath smoke from his backpack to the lesser devil with the broken horn.

"Let's do an experiment."

Without waiting for a response, Alpha raised his hand and fired a [Sleeve Arrow].

Just like before, the short crossbow arrow, powered by 60 points of inner strength, penetrated the lesser devil's chest, dealing 81 points of damage.

This almost killed the 8-level lesser devil. Although death for them meant only returning to hell to end their projection task in the material plane, it was still enough to make the lesser devil uncomfortable.

The damage reduction ratio was indeed different from the norm. The low-level lesser devil didn't take much more damage than Corpse Fire, indicating that armor and defense only reduced physical damage, and the 60 points of inner strength damage were not reduced.

"Indeed, it ignores defense and level resistance..."

Alpha muttered to himself, and raised his hand again to fire another [Sleeve Arrow].

The short crossbow arrow, enveloped in a seemingly elegant golden light, unleashed powerful destructive force, directly reducing the lesser devil to a shadow, sending it back to hell. Corpse Fire leisurely smoked his cigar:

"Perhaps from now on, you won't be a useless mage anymore."

"I haven't been one for a long time,"

Alpha shrugged, twirling a short crossbow arrow in his hand:

"I'm a martial artist!!!"

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With mixed feelings, Alpha left the evil cave with [Touch of Glory], wisely choosing not to continue fighting Corpse Fire.

Not to mention that Corpse Fire had already given him all the possible drops, even if he hadn't, Alpha wouldn't have gone mad. Alpha knew that even with his newly learned martial arts, dealing with a 45-level leader-level devil zombie was still beyond his capabilities.

As a 45-level leader boss, Corpse Fire's health alone might have exceeded 20,000. Even if Alpha exhausted his 568 points of inner strength, he wouldn't deal much damage to Corpse Fire.

It seemed that the newbie village's trial tasks would have to change. A 45-level leader boss, can newbies handle it?

Of course, there were some things Alpha didn't know, such as how the appearance of [Touch of Glory] had changed the equipment list. In fact, Alpha had never looked at the level list, let alone the equipment list or wealth list...

"Silver Moon Alliance Equipment List, 7th place, [Touch of Glory], glove, epic level!!!"

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"[Touch of Glory], Old Ming, are you interested in buying it?"

A red-armored man sat on a sofa with his legs crossed, looking at the back of a white-robed figure standing by the window.

This was a private residence on Misleir Street in Silver Moon City.

Being able to buy such a private residence in the寸土寸金 (highly valuable) Silver Moon City, and on the best-located Misleir Street named after the goddess of magic, clearly wasn't something a simple RMB player could achieve.

Only those with significant city contribution could qualify to buy a residence in the city, and to buy a luxurious residence with a garden, one would need the support of a large guild.

In fact, this luxurious residence belonged to one of the largest guilds in the Silver Moon Alliance, the Chinese guild Maple Snow Capital.

The red-armored man had a carved fire phoenix on his chest, and his entire set of armor was a fiery red. This heavy armor was quite famous in "Dungeons and Dragons"—

—the 4th place on the equipment list, the epic heavy armor [Flame Guardian]!

Thus, the identity of the red-armored man was clear: the second-ranked warrior on the level list, Feng Wubu, who had advanced to a weapon master, just like the top-ranked Chujiang Wang. Due to a small accident in the class change quest, Feng Wubu was one day behind Chujiang Wang in the class change, but everyone knew that the battle for the top player in the Silver Moon Alliance was still between Chujiang Wang and Feng Wubu.

Of course, some people said that the third-ranked dragon knight Huang Angliu also had the strength to compete, but no one had ever seen him.

Clearly, Feng Wubu was discussing the newly appeared [Touch of Glory] with the white-robed figure by the window.

From the title "Old Ming," it wasn't hard to deduce that this white-robed player was the vice president of Maple Snow Capital, the true leader of all Maple Snow Capital's affairs, the healer—Priest 60-level / Hand of Life 1-level!

Hand of Life is one of the advanced classes for priests, the most supportive class possible.

Of course, Ming was also the owner of the top-ranked necklace on the equipment list, [Heart of Glory].

[Heart of Glory] and [Touch of Glory] are both parts of the [Glory] set. The value of an epic set goes without saying, and how could Ming not want this new epic wristguard that had immediately climbed to 7th place on the equipment list?

Ming turned around and nodded:

"I've already asked Trist to look into it. If we can buy it..."

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Of course, our Alpha didn't know that someone was eyeing [Touch of Glory]. As a player who had never left Elwin Forest for two months except to enter the [Martial Space], Alpha was now making his way north to the Darnassus Outpost in Northshire Valley.

There, Alpha would find a scout leader named Jennifer Lawrence, as Sheriff George had said,

"There are a bunch of incredible adventures waiting for you, but remember not to get handsy with Jennifer."

It was unknown what kind of charm Jennifer Lawrence had to make Sheriff George Weah give such a warning to a new player, but Lancelot had already told Alpha that the NPCs in "Dungeons and Dragons" had intelligence and charisma on par with real people. Who knows, maybe some otaku might have the idea of a human-computer romance.

The distance between Northshire Valley and Darnassus Outpost was not short, and there were no carriages or other means of transportation. New players had to walk the entire way.

The realistic game environment made this journey seem even longer without a warhorse or other mount. New players from Northshire Valley all complained about this grueling long journey.

This "long" 2-hour journey would be incredibly boring if it were just walking, so many players chose to fight monsters along the way.

—On this journey, Alpha saw many players, in groups of three or five, wielding swords or casting fireballs, fighting various monsters.

Leaving Northshire Valley was indeed different. Inside Northshire Valley, there were almost no wandering monsters, just a few brown bears or wolves. But once outside Northshire Valley, all kinds of dangers followed one after another...

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