Johnnie was a bit surprised. It was still daytime, yet Lina was actually able to log in.
Unknown Player: "Why weren't you online last night?"
Johnnie: "I had something to do."
Lina felt annoyed as she read his message.
Last night, she logged into the game more than a dozen times, feeling extremely nervous, but she never saw Johnnie come online.
If there hadn't been no signs of anything amiss around her, she would have worried that she'd been betrayed.
She replied again, "So? Have you found any information about the Fossil of Creation?"
Johnnie was speechless. Shouldn't he be the one asking her this question?
Johnnie: "I still haven't found a way to enter other novice villages. Do you know how to find the Fossil of Creation?"
Unknown Player: "No. I can only detect that there's a Fossil of Creation in Novice Village No. 001, but this kind of secret information is beyond my reach."
Johnnie felt helpless. It seemed he could only rely on himself for this.
Unknown Player: "You'd better hurry. My situation is precarious. I'm under close surveillance. If I wasn't still of some use, I would have been eliminated already. But I'm not sure how long I can hold out."
Johnnie: "Got it. Be careful. I'll figure something out."
He closed the private chat directly. He wasn't worried about Lina's safety. This woman was very smart. In his previous life, she didn't reveal the conspiracy of Apocalypse Group and Horizon until the mid - stage of the game.
It was only the early stage of the game now, so she wouldn't be in danger.
Unknown Player: "As long as you can rescue me, I can help you boost your strength, and I know a lot of secrets in the game."
Looking at Lina's message, Johnnie knew she obviously didn't trust him. She was afraid that once he got the Fossil of Creation, he would leave her to fend for herself.
After all, going against the Apocalypse Group was dangerous even if one could materialize their in - game abilities in the real world.
In his previous life, the first player to break through to the Divine Stage and materialize his abilities in the real world was still outwitted and killed by the Apocalypse Group.
However, Johnnie had no intention of going back on his word.
This woman was indeed very valuable to him. She not only knew the hidden information in Horizon, but her research on the Elixir of Immortality could also cure Holly's illness.
He had promised Joseph that he would treat Holly. He originally thought he'd have to wait until the late stage of the game when attributes could be merged, but this woman was surely capable of doing it.
Seeing that Lina had logged off, he stopped dwelling on the matter and continued to slaughter werewolf elites to level up.
[Killed a Stage 1, Level 9 werewolf elite, gained 2 experience points]
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[Your level has been upgraded to Stage 1, Level 9. All four basic attributes +1, gained 2 free attribute points]
As the prompt messages flashed, after reaching Stage 1, Level 8, he could only get 2 experience points from killing werewolf elites.
It wasn't until the afternoon that he finally reached Stage 1, Level 9.
After that, killing werewolf elites only gave him 1 experience point.
It required 900 experience points to upgrade from Stage 1, Level 9 to Stage 1, Level 10. That meant he had to kill 900 more werewolf elites.
He wanted to hunt higher - level monsters, but the most powerful ones in the novice village were only Stage 1, Level 9 werewolf elites.
"I can only keep killing these werewolf elites." he sighed helplessly. Looking at the equipment on the ground, he picked up four pieces of green equipment and contacted Cox and the others again to clean up the battlefield and deal with the gray and white equipment.
In the past few days, he had already earned over two billion yuan from selling equipment, so he no longer had to worry about money.
The four members of Cox's team had also made a lot of money. With their white equipment sets, they were in the first echelon of the novice village, at Stage 1, Level 4, and were currently hunting half - orc elites.
When the group received Johnnie's message, they rushed over immediately. Seeing the Equipment scattered all over the ground,they were already used to it.
"Guru, that Wecheat contacted me and wants to buy a large number of white and gray equipment. Should we agree?" Cox thought of something and asked.
Johnnie was surprised and said, "Doesn't he already know your relationship with me?"
After Sunhocker's betrayal, Wecheat had already learned that all of Cox's equipment was obtained by Johnnie.
Cox nodded. "Yes, he knows. But only you, Guru, can obtain white equipment in large quantities. His Prince Guild has suffered two serious setbacks, and the morale is low. He wants to buy equipment to stabilize the situation."
"Heh, what a rich fool." Johnnie sneered. This guy surely had ill intentions in buying the equipment, but he wasn't afraid at all.
It was rare to meet such a gullible buyer, and he wasn't going to turn down the money.
He said, "We can sell to him, but at a price 50% higher than the market price, and we only accept in - game currency."
"Okay, no problem." Cox said with a broad smile, "With his personality, he'll definitely be willing to buy."
After cleaning up the battlefield, the group was about to return to the novice village to deal with the equipment when Johnnie stopped them.
"Don't rush to deal with these. I'll help you level up." he said. After thinking for a while, he realized that searching for werewolves was a waste of time and could be left to Cox and the others.
"Really, Guru?" The group's eyes lit up. They remembered the last time they leveled up with Johnnie, it was the most enjoyable and easiest experience ever.
"Let me be the team leader." Johnnie joined the team and immediately applied to be the leader. Then he set the experience point distribution.
He would take 50% of the experience, and the remaining 50% would be evenly split among Cox and the other three.
The group had no objections.
"Just focus on luring the monsters. Leave the rest to me." Johnnie told them.
"Don't worry, Guru. We know what to do." Cox and the other two nodded and went into the forest to look for werewolf elite squads.
Only Poleriver stayed behind. As a priest, she had low health, low defense, and slow speed, making her unsuitable for luring monsters.
"Guru, I'll take care of transporting the equipment." she said. She knew Johnnie had a high item drop rate, and their inventory slots were almost full. She would have to make trips back and forth to the novice village to transport the equipment.
Johnnie nodded and said, "If there's equipment suitable for a priest, you'll get first dibs."
"Thank you, Guru." Poleriver's eyes brightened, and she thanked him repeatedly.
Owwooo!
At that moment, the howls of wolves echoed through the forest. Cox and the other two lured two werewolf elite squads, a total of 11 werewolves.
"Guru, can you handle this?" Warlock asked nervously, looking a bit disheveled.
"No problem." Johnnie said confidently. He stepped forward, taking over their positions. With a sweep of his long sword, damage numbers flashed above the werewolves' heads.
-27
-29
...
As his level increased, his attributes improved again. Even when surrounded by eleven werewolves, he was still in complete control.
"Ah, I feel like I'm redundant." Poleriver raised her staff and then put it down. She noticed Johnnie's terrifying health regeneration and realized he didn't need her to heal him at all.
[Killed a werewolf elite. You gained 0.5 experience points]
The prompt message flashed. In a team, his experience gain was halved.
However, his leveling - up speed didn't decrease. Instead, by eliminating the time spent searching for monsters, his efficiency improved.
Since Cox and the others had lower levels, when they split the 50% of the experience equally, each of them still got 4 experience points.
"Don't just stand there. Keep luring the monsters." Johnnie urged, looking at the stunned group as only two werewolf elites remained in front of him.
With the boost from the Great Transformation Sword Technique, he had to maintain a fighting state and couldn't be interrupted, otherwise, he'd have to start accumulating the effect all over again.
Cox and the others finally snapped out of their shock, nodded, and quickly entered the forest to continue luring the monsters.
Howl...
The sky grew completely dark, and the roars of werewolves resounded one after another in the pitch - black forest.
Johnnie looked exhausted. He had been fighting all day, slaying hundreds of werewolf elites, but his experience points had increased by less than half.
"Are you guys free tonight?" he asked, looking at Cox and the others.
After a day of fighting, he had killed over seven hundred werewolf elites, and the damage and attack speed of the Great Transformation Sword Technique had increased sevenfold.
He was now extremely efficient at killing monsters.
At this rate, he could reach Stage 1, Level 10 before tomorrow morning.
But only if there were enough monsters to keep him in a continuous combat state.
"No problem, Guru." Cox and the others were so excited that they didn't want to miss this chance to level up.
"Good. Keep luring more monsters, the more the better." Johnnie urged.
"Got it!" Cox also noticed that Johnnie's damage output was becoming more and more terrifying. He could basically kill a werewolf elite with just three strikes.
He guessed that it should be a skill that boosted damage and attack speed.
This time, he wisely didn't ask too many questions and the group entered the forest to attract more monsters.
"Guru, a boss!" Soon, Cipher's excited voice came from the forest.
Howl...
A long, melodious wolf howl echoed.
Behind Cipher, a huge werewolf with a massive build, holding a steel blade and baring sharp fangs was hot on his heels.
[Teammate Cox was instantly killed by the werewolf leader]
Then a prompt message flashed. Cox had actually died.
It was the werewolf leader, an elite boss at Stage 1, Level 10!