Chapter 14: Leveling While Lying Down
"Uncle, do you have any more tasks for me? Don't be shy, just give them all to me."
After completing the previous task and gaining a large amount of experience points, Zhou Han had tasted the sweetness of it.
He continued talking to Lynn, hoping to squeeze out a few more quests.
"Well, you are indeed quite good, but the next tasks are too difficult. Your strength is still not enough!"
However, Lynn clearly refused, leaving Zhou Han somewhat disappointed.
What does that mean?
My strength isn't enough?
Then just how strong do I need to be?
Or maybe Lynn thinks my level is too low,
so he assumes my power is average.
Should I show him?
Thinking of this, Zhou Han immediately made a decision.
"Uncle, don't rush to refuse. Take a look at my strength first."
Zhou Han raised his refined iron sword and slashed at a large tree in front of him,
activating the skill [Air-Splitting Slash] directly.
"Boom…"
Three violent streams of sword energy burst out,
the large tree exploded instantly, and leaves scattered wildly through the air.
The sword energy did not lose momentum as it swept across the ground,
extending over ten meters and carving a trench more than one meter deep.
Hm?
Three streams of sword energy?
Damn!
That power is no joke!
Seeing the scene before him, Lynn frowned slightly and looked at Zhou Han thoughtfully.
After a moment, the power of the sword energy dissipated.
Zhou Han sheathed his sword and asked cautiously,
"So? Can I complete your tasks?"
"Good kid, you really are a genius. I almost misjudged you!"
"And the task?"
Zhou Han ignored the praise; he only cared about whether he could get a quest.
"Of course I have tasks for you. With your strength, even in Azure Thunder City, you would be among the top of the younger generation."
Lynn stroked his beard, his gaze burning as he looked at Zhou Han, with a somewhat strange sense of enthusiasm.
Zhou Han immediately became alert. I'm a perfectly straight man, okay?
Fortunately, the system prompt arrived in time, letting Zhou Han breathe a sigh of relief.
[Detected a new quest: Material Collection 2. Do you accept?]
After choosing to accept, the detailed information was displayed.
[Material Collection 2]
Description: Collect 100 Ice Wolf Pelts, 50 Tiger Fangs, and 10 Fire Crystals, and deliver them to Lynn.
Progress: Ice Wolf Pelts 0/100; Tiger Fangs 0/50; Fire Crystals 0/10
Location: Misty Forest, Frozen Plain Cave (coordinates XXX…)
Ice Wolf Pelts: Dropped with a high probability by killing Ice Wolves.
Tiger Fangs: Dropped with a decent probability by killing Sabertooth Tigers.
Fire Crystals: Crystals containing fire elements. Can be gathered in the wild, or dropped with a very low probability by killing Fire Lizards.
After reading, Zhou Han checked the map and compared the locations of the three types of monsters.
He found that the Ice Wolves were the closest, so he decided to start with them.
While walking, Zhou Han suddenly remembered that he still had a Silver Chest he hadn't opened.
"Open the Silver Chest."
He felt a bit expectant, wondering if he could get lucky again and obtain gold-tier equipment.
[You have opened the Silver Chest.]
[You obtained: Beginner Experience Card x1.]
Hm? An experience card?
Sounds like something good.
Zhou Han quickly checked it.
[Beginner Experience Card]
Grade: Bronze
Effect: After use, gain a 1.2x experience bonus for 2 hours. (Applies to killing monsters, completing quests, etc.)
Description: One-time consumable. Disappears after use. Single-user only.
At first, Zhou Han was a bit disappointed seeing it was only bronze-tier.
But after seeing the effect, it didn't seem bad.
Bronze items could be enhanced three times, but Zhou Han only had a little over a hundred enhancement points right now, which might not be enough.
After putting the card into his inventory, the group soon arrived at the Frozen Plain Cave.
The climate here was quite cold, and a large number of Ice Wolves gathered in the area.
Before making a move, Zhou Han habitually checked their stats.
[Ice Wolf]
Grade: Bronze
Level: 9
HP: 660
Attack: 210
Defense: 76
Skill: [Ice Spike: Condenses ice elements into spikes, dealing 2.1x attack damage to a single target, with a 5% chance to freeze the target. Frozen targets lose the ability to act for 3 seconds. Cooldown: 35 seconds.]
Description: A ferocious beast that lives in packs and excels at using ice-element attacks.
Zhou Han didn't expect them all to be bronze-tier beasts.
No wonder Lynn thought Zhou Han wasn't strong enough before assigning the quest.
For an ordinary level 5 player, even a single Ice Wolf would be hard to deal with,
let alone a group of over 200 in front of him.
The difficulty of the quest was indeed high!
Of course, that was only for other players. For Zhou Han, it was nothing.
The only thing he needed to worry about was the freezing effect.
Zhou Han drew his refined iron sword and immediately stepped forward, unleashing [Air-Splitting Slash].
-2710
-2699
-2674
…
The sharp sword energy rushed forward at high speed.
Within a ten-meter range ahead, twenty to thirty Ice Wolves had no time to react before being instantly killed.
Damn!
Was that a critical hit?
Although Zhou Han knew the enhanced [Air-Splitting Slash] dealt high damage,
it shouldn't consistently hit over 2600.
The only explanation was that the 6% critical rate had triggered.
After killing them, he now had enough enhancement points.
"Enhance the Beginner Experience Card three times."
[You activated Talent: Infinite Enhancement. Enhancement successful. Please check.]
[Beginner Experience Card +3]
Grade: Bronze
Effect: After use, gain a 4x experience bonus for 4 hours. (Applies to killing monsters, completing quests, etc.)
Description: One-time consumable. Disappears after use. In a team, all members share the experience buff.
After enhancement, the effect improved dramatically.
First, the buff duration increased to 4 hours, and the multiplier reached 4x.
More importantly, teammates could share the experience buff.
Now the two sisters were in heaven—no need to do anything, just lie down and enjoy the gains.
"Awooo…"
Seeing intruders in their territory and so many of their companions killed, the Ice Wolves bared their fangs and lunged at Zhou Han.
Zhou Han showed no fear and charged forward head-on, killing intent surging.
Bang bang bang…
Numerous ice spikes condensed in the air and shot toward him with the cold wind.
Clearly, the Ice Wolves had used their Ice Spike skill.
Zhou Han felt delighted at the sight—he had been waiting for this.
Using his speed advantage, he easily dodged them.
He was quite satisfied, successfully baiting out their skills.
Although the freeze chance was only 5%, there were simply too many Ice Wolves.
Some of them would inevitably trigger it, so Zhou Han remained cautious.
Thus, he devised a tactic.
First bait out their skills, then, while those skills were on cooldown, move in for the harvest.
"Use the Beginner Experience Card."
[Use successful. Current experience buff duration: 03:59:59.]
A description and timer for the experience buff appeared on the virtual panel.
Soon after, [Air-Splitting Slash] came off cooldown again, and three more streams of sword energy flew out,
instantly killing dozens of Ice Wolves.
After repeating this back-and-forth several times, all the Ice Wolves in the area were wiped out.
Zhou Han smoothly leveled up to level 6, with his progress reaching 76%, not far from level 7.
With 4x experience, leveling up was indeed ridiculously fast.
Combined with the bonus from killing higher-level monsters, the gains were astonishing.
"Hm? I reached level 5?"
"Me too! What's going on?"
The two sisters stared at each other wide-eyed, their eyes full of joy and surprise.
If it came to leveling while lying down, they were professionals.
In team battles, low contribution usually meant little experience gain,
and they had experienced that before.
But this time was different.
They suddenly gained a huge amount of experience.
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