Author's Corner: A thanksgiving special typed out on my tablet so that means I wasn't wasting as much time on tables as they suck out my lifeforce. I will have them more in the next chapter for sure.

Legend

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Chapter 4: Best Exp Farming is Boars?

‘Okay Faefae I’m here in the city and… I must say… it isn’t what I expected. What should I do first?’ –Me

If what one normally says is an understatement, then what I just said was something else because understatement is too tame of a term. I mean this place is a total dump! Half the city looks like a ghost town, no it is a ghost town. I mean I literally see ghosts floating around… And the other half looks like I fell into the abyss and am in hell. I mean fire and everything!

‘Well at some point you need to go to the City Lord’s Palace and register for the city so you can gain the 3% attack bonus! I can’t tell you where that is however so you are on your own. Also at some point you need to choose a profession before we leave and start killing people. Fortunately, the game has only been out a week before you started playing so the highest level player is only 21. If you start pk’ing soon enough you can catch up!’ –Faefae

‘Okay sounds like a plan! But wait, what type of professions can I get and how many?’ –Me

‘In most cases you can only have one major profession and then a supporting profession but since they are all quests there are loopholes to get multiple supporting professions and other secret stuff that you didn’t hear from me. Tailors can make leather armor and cloaks so that is useful for rogues… but you are going to be hunting humans so probably not the best for you. Alchemy might be good but besides health potions you won’t be using many energy potions since your qi regen is fast. You decide!’ –Faefae

‘Okay before I decide I must ask. I noticed you can teach me class skills and take my money away from me. Can you act as a vendor and repair my gear as well?’ –Me

‘Sorry, acting as your trainer is only possible because you chose a basic class, if you had a secret or hidden class I couldn’t help you. So all I can do is take money out of the system, which happens when someone spends money at a trainer so I’m not hurting the balance. Repairing is different because the vendor or player gets money when you pay for repairs. So I can’t help you, also only Blacksmiths can repair whether player or otherwise.’ –Faefae

‘Well that makes my choice obvious, I won’t be able to go to the city soon as Blacksmith it is! I should probably head there first.’ –Me

‘Okay…’ –Faefae

Thinking nothing of her pouting, I soon decided which side of the city I wanted to go to. Faefae wasn’t lying when she said this is a Demon/Undead city. Clearly the ghost town is the Undead portion and since the fire looks intimidating I’m going in that direction.

Of course I have no clue where the Blacksmith is, let alone the City Lord’s Palace, so I’ll ask this kindly (lol) looking Undead Guard in front of me.

“Sir, can you tell me where the Blacksmith is?” –Me

“Since you are asking me I will tell you where the Undead Blacksmith is as there is only one that is any good.” –Undead Guard

Eventually he went on to tell me where to go and I headed that direction. I used to always laugh at those Meme’s that had a picture of a forest with a fork in the road and there were two signs, one towards Racoon City and the other towards Silent Hill. I laughed because no way would I ever have to make a decision like this! Well if I only knew, I may have sat down and talked about my decision before making it over something so silly as a little fire and brimstone.

I mean GHOSTS ARE FREAKING SCARY! I pop up out of nowhere and then scream BOO for no reason whatsoever! Now normally this wouldn’t be a big deal since ghosts in the real world don’t do this! Even if they are real, they keep to their haunted locations and generally don’t bother anyone! But no, in this game they are evil! Always popping up out of nowhere and asking me to do quests. Like I want to do your stupid quests! Leave me alone and stop yelling boo! Boo is not a proper greeting!

Okay I’m done ranting, eventually I found the Blacksmith and was surprised to see he was an Undead Knight, one of the 3 main evolution types that are currently known. This means two things, one he is above level 50, and two he is a total badass and I must do what he says.

Inside the Smithery or whatever one might call it, I noted various weapons made out of iron and steel or whatever the game calls these metals, that is just what they look like to me! I also saw various types of heavy weapon which I’ll never wear in my life in this game so I ignored it and hail’d the guy in front of me.

“Excuse me sir, is it possible to learn Blacksmithing from you?” –Me

“Hah my first player has come here since players started showing up and he even wants me one and only quest! Of course I can teach you, but you have to do my quest! Also the quest will give the Mining subclass too since one cannot be a Blacksmith without the ability to Mine! This will take up all your slots so are you sure you want to do my quest and forsake all other Classes?” Undead Knight Blacksmith

“Yes?” –Me

*DING*

Quest Accepted!

Well that was easy. I could look up the quest and see what to do, but I never trust those things, best to ask the source so I don’t miss anything.

“Okay so what do I have to do to fulfill the quest and what are the rewards?” –Me

“You just have to go to the mine that is within the Undead territory and go inside and see why we cannot mine it… because the usual of course. Apparently some new group has taken residence and started killing our miners or at least blocking them from getting far enough in to mine. Your job is to go in and find out why, also you must kill 20 of whatever it is that is residing inside. Your rewards will be a Smithing Hammer and a Mining Pickaxe. And since you are the first to do the quest, both will have unlimited durability! Oh and watch out for the boars.” –Undead Knight Blacksmith

“Huh, what did you say about boars?” –Me

“Well they are the reason this place is a ghost town, if an Undead NPC dies they turn into a ghost and go back home. I’m sure you saw all of them asking for help right?” –Undead Knight Blacksmith

“Well yes, but since Ghosts unnerve me I just ignored them all.” –Me

“Hahahaha I like you kid, you got spunk I say! Well you are the first Demon to come here let alone player and as such you are the only one qualified to do this quest. If you were Undead I wouldn’t have even mentioned it let alone offered it as the Boars have taken over the entire Undead territory surrounding our fine city!” –Undead Knight Blacksmith

Now this is interesting, why would Boars take over a city, better question is how?

“I don’t think I follow, even if there are Boars out there, they cannot possibly be that high level right?” –Me

“Well no, they are between 1-16 I’d wager and besides their leader which keeps respawning with them, they aren’t that hard. But the number is astronomical! Also boars give the least amount of experience of any creature in the game for some reason, some type of joke from those who created us I’m told when I ask, but we don’t care as we are just A.I. anyways! And yes all the NPCs know they are NPCs and that they are A.I. but we don’t care as we have access to the internet and Anime is awesome! Anyways about a week ago some upstart Human Paladin ventured to our city and saw the Undead section. Then he declared war on just the Undead section and turned the entire area into a Boar respawning location. Then he imported an untold number of them as well as a boss and they all respawn within 6-20 minutes no matter what you do! Eventually all the citizens that went to fight them off died and became Ghosts and now players just go there and farm them for experience as it’s easy and they never stop coming even though the amount they give per kill is low. I even saw a group of four really fat kids that couldn’t be over 8 fighting them non stop!” –Undead Knight Blacksmith

“But what does that have to do with me being able to do this quest. Isn’t it hard to bypass the boars?” –Me

“In general yes, but boars have no ranged attack so you can just fly over them and go to the mine which should be marked on your minimap now that you have the quest. Just go there and killing two whatever and report back what you saw.” –Undead Knight Blacksmith

“Ahh okay I’ll do just that, when I get back I’ll ask any further questions…” –Me

Well I guess that explains why only I can do the quest and also why no one has come here. I mean who wants to play an Undead anyways? And all the Demons are going to be in the Demon section, I’m probably the first idiot to come here and all because of a little fire! Once this quest is done I’ll stick with my own kind thank you very much!

Soon I found myself flying over a river of boars! If only I had ranged aoe attacks I could farm some experience! Just to test I shot a few qi blades at them and realized they gave next to no experience at all! Why would anyone farm them to level up? And who are those fat kids over there doing just that? They are practically 1 shotting everything! This cannot be fun at all!

Ignoring them I came to a… mine? Yes I guess an Undead would call It that. It’s more of a crypt than a Mine and outside of the entrance is, yup you guessed it, a cemetery! Oh well, no more ghosts here and It’s not like zombies are that scary anyways so I quickly went into the crypt entrance and started going down the long spiral hallway.

Wow I have nightvision, I guess there are other things races get than just looks or wings, glad I didn’t choose human, that is boring. And Elf… well something deep inside me tells me I don’t like that even though I’ve never seen one before, I’ll have to revisit that idea later. (Author hates Elves thus all characters must hate them too! It’s a law!)

Once inside I finally see the problem.

Wild Dwarf Level 10

H: 1400, A: 14-15, D: 8

If my studying in the arts of video games and light novels has taught me anything, then Wild Dwarves are monsters that evolved into Dwarves. This explains why both they are in the Undead region and inside this crypt! Dwarves naturally like ore and mining and blacksmithing so it is probably an instinct. Well they are weak so let’s quickly kill 20 of them and report back.

After quickly killing 20 Wild Dwarves which only dropped the crap in their hands and nothing else, I left and flew back to town. I had no interest to see what else lay inside the crypt. Soon I arrived back at the Blacksmith.

“Okay I’m done!” –Me

*DING*

Quest Complete!

“Okay here are your rewards.” –Undead Knight Blacksmith

*DING*

Secondary Classes Obtained: Blacksmith, Mining

I then checked my inventory and saw both the hammer and the pickaxe, both with infinite durability. Success! I also noticed I gained the skill repair, mine, and Smith with a couple copper recipes. It appears there are 10 tiers of ore in this game just like there are 10 tiers of everything else. It seems at level 1 I can make regular copper gear with no rank and also some copper gear with Black Iron rank, but the materials are too vast to make it worth it.

It seems the ore tiers are Copper, Tin, Bronze, Iron, Steel, Mithril, Adamantium, Orichalcum, Cold Iron, and Star metal or Meteoric Iron depending on who you ask is the final rank. There is also silver, gold and platinum but that isn’t used for blacksmithing but instead Jewelcrafting so even if I mine it, I won’t flipping care. I can also mine gems and other useless things that will go into my infinite inventory. It is good to have a large inventory since Red players lose a lot of shit when they die. Best to be full of stuff I don’t need and fortunately the hammer and pickaxe are bound to me and won’t drop so I should be fine even if I lose everything else, especially since money doesn’t drop.

“So the system told me you killed 20 wild dwarves which is disconcerting, so I have another quest for you!” –Undead Knight Blacksmith

“Why should I do it? You already gave me the only thing I wanted from you, all I have left in this city is to find the City Lord’s Palace and get my badge. You have nothing else I want.” –Me

“Well that is not true, you see as a Blacksmith you will have to have a forge or a smelting station to turn ore into bars and bars into gear. I have a magical portable one that you can have if you finish my quest. But I won’t give you details on your quest, you have to use the system and figure it out on your own, stop being lazy. Do you accept?” –Undead Knight Blacksmith

‘What do you think Faefae, should I do it?’ –Me

‘Yes, the item he is talking about is priceless and since it will be bound, it’s a must have item for a Pk’er like you.’ –Faefae

“Yes I accept!” –Me

*DING*

Quest Accepted!

And like that I was kicked out of the Smithery and sent off to do an unknown quest. At least I don’t have to kill boars!

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Yes, not only do the NPC know this is a game, but they call themselves NPC and call players players as a game should be a game and non game mechanics should be left to real life! Never could understand a VRMMO that makes you eat or sleep, that's foolishness! You already have to do that in real life, why would you do it in a game?

Next chapter Jun finds out more about the mine/crypt as well as the politics of Atlantic City. Life is good if you are a Demon after all!