Chapter 1 The Increasing Skill Proficiency

Gradually, as his combat skills became more and more refined, Nie Yan found it very easy to deal with ordinary Tier 1 creatures. Ordinary Tier 1 creatures couldn't even touch him, and couldn't cause any damage to him.

After taking down another Dark Mammoth and collecting its crystal core, Nie Yan suddenly had an idea. He wondered if he could use the Steal skill on creatures like the Dark Mammoth.

He checked the attributes of the Steal skill.

Nie Yan's Steal skill was Level 16, with a success rate of about 96%. At the same time, the success rate would greatly increase when stealing from higher-level targets, and he could steal several items at once.

If he could steal something from the Dark Mammoth, one successful steal would be enough.

Nie Yan searched around the area for a while, and soon found another Dark Mammoth.

This Dark Mammoth was sharpening its sharp tusks under a large tree.

Nie Yan slowly sneaked behind the Dark Mammoth, getting closer and closer, and cast Steal on it.

System: Steal successful. You have obtained 30 gold coins, Grand Master Gatherer Skill Book.

He could steal something!

Before Nie Yan could check his backpack, the Dark Mammoth let out a low roar, and its long tusks swept towards him.

Nie Yan took a few steps back, dodging the Dark Mammoth's attack, and with an elbow strike, the Dark Mammoth fell into a state of dizziness.

Once the Dark Mammoth was controlled, it was difficult for it to wake up again.

Nie Yan launched a few attacks and killed the Dark Mammoth, collected the crystal core, and quickly checked his backpack. A skill book was lying quietly inside.

Grand Master Gatherer: When gathering herbs and other items, you can gain additional skill proficiency and can gather herbs one level higher.

This skill book was definitely very rare. If it were given to a production-class player, it could help him quickly increase the skill level of their gathering skill. But this skill book was useless to him, because even if he learned the Grand Master Gatherer skill, he still couldn't gather Red Dragon Grass because his gathering skill level was too low.

After thinking about it, he decided to keep the Grand Master Gatherer skill book and take it outside for the players of Nirvana Guild to use.

He put the Grand Master Gatherer skill book into his backpack and continued to search for the next Tier 1 creature. After this experience, every time Nie Yan encountered a Tier 1 creature, he would cast Steal on it first, emptying the Tier 1 creature's pockets before doing anything else.

Most of the Tier 1 creatures only had some gold coins on them. If he was lucky, he could steal some production-class skill books. There were skill books for almost every type of production class, Grand Master Gatherer skill books, Grand Master Miner skill books, Grand Master Tailor skill books, and even Grand Master Alchemist skill books, etc. These things were very rare, but there were a lot of them here.

In a whole day, Nie Yan obtained three Grand Master Gatherer skill books, five Grand Master Miner skill books, three Grand Master Tailor skill books, two Grand Master Alchemist skill books. The harvest could be considered quite rich. In addition to these things, Nie Yan also obtained two super backpacks with 120 slots.

Ordinary backpacks with fifty or sixty slots already had a large capacity, but two 120-slot backpacks made Nie Yan's backpack suddenly feel much more spacious.

Nie Yan went to First Military Academy for classes during the day, and when he came back at night, he did the Shadow Dancer class-change quest in the Ancient World.

After about seven or eight days, the first stage of the Shadow Dancer class-change quest was completed.

Soon, he received the second stage of the quest, which required him to kill five hundred Tier 2 creatures.

Tier 2 creatures were still relatively easy to deal with. Although they were much stronger than Tier 1 creatures like the Dark Mammoth, they weren't too ridiculously strong. Nie Yan's attacks could still cause decent damage to them.

As his activity area grew larger, Nie Yan gradually became familiar with and adapted to the environment of the Ancient World, searching for the traces of monsters in the jungle.

This place was full of various high-level herbs and high-level ores everywhere, making people drool with envy. If his gathering and mining levels were high enough, Nie Yan would definitely stay here, gathering and mining like crazy, bringing as much stuff as he could. Once he missed this opportunity, he would never have another chance. These things were very precious and rare outside. Maybe he could only get a little bit in a Level 100+ high-level dungeon next time. If he had these things, Nirvana Guild could cultivate countless forging masters and potion masters!

After passing through a narrow jungle area, Nie Yan arrived at a meadow. There was a large patch of golden herbs growing here. He was shocked. It was Golden Orchid Grass!

Golden Orchid Grass was a relatively low-level herb. It was an important raw material for making intermediate instant recovery magic potions. Because players had a relatively large demand for intermediate instant recovery magic potions, the supply of Golden Orchid Grass had always been unable to keep up, so the price was relatively high, selling for five gold coins a piece.

Here, there were patches and patches of Golden Orchid Grass, almost inexhaustible!

In Nie Yan's opinion, whether Golden Orchid Grass was valuable or not was secondary. Five gold coins a piece, even if he gathered ten thousand pieces, it would only be fifty thousand gold coins. For him, it had a more special meaning, that was, if he learned the Grand Master Gatherer skill and gathered these Golden Orchid Grass, with the amount of Golden Orchid Grass here, it wouldn't take him many days to raise his gathering skill to high-level. After reaching high-level, he could gather herbs one level higher, then he could gather things like Red Dragon Grass.

A single Red Dragon Grass was worth at least seventy or eighty thousand gold coins or even more. With the amount of Red Dragon Grass on this map, if he gathered for a few days, he could get hundreds of them. Such expensive herbs were generally difficult to sell, let alone in such large quantities. It would be good to use them to cultivate the group of potion masters in Nirvana Guild.

If he was determined to level up his gathering skill, then he would have to stay on this map for a longer time.

In his previous life, the quantity of Red Dragon Grass in the market had always been very scarce. It seemed that Xiao Mo wasn't able to level up his gathering skill when he changed to the Shadow Dancer class.

Nie Yan weighed the pros and cons. This was a rare opportunity to level up his gathering skill. Once he missed this opportunity, there would be no other like it. If he wanted to level up his gathering skill to high-level or master-level after he left, he wouldn't even think about it without a few months or even years.

After making up his mind, Nie Yan took out a Gathering Skill Book and learned it.

The Gathering Skill Book turned into a white light in his hand. Nie Yan looked at his skill bar, and there was an extra Grand Master Gatherer skill on the skill bar, which replaced the original Gathering skill.

This place was full of Golden Orchid Grass. Unlike outside, where he might not be able to find a single herb after searching for several hours. In fact, the gathering skill was relatively easy to level up, but when players leveled up their gathering skill, most of their time was spent searching for herbs, so the gathering skill couldn't be leveled up.

This field of Golden Orchid Grass was enough to make all players who wanted to level up their gathering skill go crazy.

Nie Yan bent down and began to gather the Golden Orchid Grass on the ground, carefully pulling up the Golden Orchid Grass, going through various processes, confirming that the gathering was successful, and putting the gathered Golden Orchid Grass into his backpack. Most of the time it was successful, only very occasionally would the gathering fail. If the gathering failed, it meant that this Golden Orchid Grass was ruined.

But even if he ruined more, Nie Yan wouldn't feel bad.

One Golden Orchid Grass after another was pulled up. Twenty pieces were a group. After spending more than six hours, and making thirty groups, a crisp system notification sound rang.

Nie Yan looked at the Grand Master Gatherer skill, and it had been upgraded to intermediate level.

He could still gain skill proficiency by continuing to gather Golden Orchid Grass, but Nie Yan still didn't plan to move, continuing his boring gathering work.

If it were an ordinary player, constantly repeating this monotonous work, they would probably go crazy, but Nie Yan persevered. Perhaps it was because he had experienced two lives, his mind was much more firm than before.

In this isolated place, he was the only one alone, as if everything he did had nothing to do with other players. But Nie Yan understood that the improvement of the gathering skill was also an accumulation of strength. After the gathering skill went up, if he saw top-quality herbs during the quest, he could pick them, instead of helplessly missing them.

Day after day, fortunately, nothing major happened in the Greenland Empire, and Nie Yan could safely stay here and do these boring things.

As time passed day by day, Nie Yan and Xie Yao integrated into the life of the First Military Academy. There were occasional small episodes, but the days passed peacefully.

Five days later, accompanied by a crisp system notification sound, Nie Yan's gathering skill finally reached high-level. The high-level Grand Master Gatherer skill could already be used to gather Red Dragon Grass, although the success rate couldn't be guaranteed at present.

Nie Yan stopped and headed towards the direction where the Red Dragon Grass grew, according to his previous memories.

Bypassing those monsters that had just respawned, Nie Yan's eyes finally searched for a Red Dragon Grass in the forest. This Red Dragon Grass was like a flame, very eye-catching.

Nie Yan walked to the Red Dragon Grass, squatted down, and carefully removed the soil near the Red Dragon Grass. The Red Dragon Grass's fibrous roots were displayed in front of him.

He had to be very careful when removing the soil, because if he accidentally damaged the roots of the Red Dragon Grass, a Red Dragon Grass would be ruined.

Gathering Red Dragon Grass was a very troublesome task, with many complicated processes.

Just then, Nie Yan's finger accidentally brushed against a tiny root of the Red Dragon Grass, and with a click, the Red Dragon Grass quickly withered, turning into a withered grass, and he couldn't feel a trace of vitality anymore.

Damn it, Nie Yan, who was halfway through digging, could only stop and continue searching for the next Red Dragon Grass.

If it were outside, if a person in charge of gathering in a team ruined a Red Dragon Grass, they would definitely be scolded to death by everyone in the team.

It was precisely because of its scarcity and the difficulty of gathering that the price was so expensive.

Fortunately, there were enough Red Dragon Grass here, so even if he ruined one, Nie Yan didn't feel much pain. He would just continue searching for the next one.