Chapter 1 The Second Step

Next, he was going to implement the second step of his leveling plan, but the premise of this plan was that he needed twenty copper coins!

It was only worthwhile to earn money and level up quickly at the same time. Nie Yan thought for a moment and ran towards Trac Town.

Trac Town, coordinates 309.289.221, NPC: Hunter Klaus, quest: Collect twenty gray giant rat skulls; coordinates 290.231.256, NPC: Farmer Ender, quest: Kill fifty gray giant rats. Trac Town suburbs, coordinates 350.220.389, hidden NPC, apothecary Or, quest: Collect twenty-one gray giant rat tails...

Nie Yan found two ordinary NPCs and three hidden NPCs with quests to kill gray giant rats. The coordinates of those three hidden NPCs were provided by the game strategy guide from his previous life, the experience summed up by countless players. If you didn't know their locations, it would be difficult to find them.

After accepting five quests, he went to the area outside Trac Town where the giant rats spawned. Gray giant rats were some huge, silver-gray rats, larger than a water buffalo. When they moved, they were like small hills, but they moved very slowly and their attacks weren't high.

Gray Giant Rat: Level 1, HP 100/100.

The game had been open for more than a week, and most players had leveled up to level two or three and gone to higher-level monster areas. This level 1 monster area only had a few scattered players leveling up.

Spotting a gray giant rat, Nie Yan moved while stabbing the gray giant rat's back several times.

-21, -20, -21, three damage values floated above the gray giant rat's head.

The gray giant rat turned to attack Nie Yan, who used a vital strike, stabbing the gray giant rat in the eye.

System: Vital strike successful, attack position off by 5%, causing additional attack damage bonus.

-38, a damage value floated above the gray giant rat's head, and the gray giant rat squealed and fell to the ground.

The effect of a vital strike was quite good. Nie Yan picked up the giant rat skull dropped by the gray giant rat.

The cooldown time for a vital strike was thirty seconds, giving Nie Yan plenty of time to find the next gray giant rat.

Finding a place where gray giant rats spawned relatively quickly, Nie Yan began to camp and kill monsters. One gray giant rat after another fell to the ground.

Experience points began to rise slowly, 1%, 2%... 10%... After about two hours, Nie Yan killed more than two hundred gray giant rats, and his experience points rose to about 15%.

He collected a large pile of giant rat tails, giant rat skulls, etc., and got three copper coins.

The drop rate of coins was extremely low, only slightly higher in some dungeons, making the value of coins in *Faith* very high.

Nie Yan used a vital strike to kill a giant rat. Under the giant rat's body, something was shining. His heart skipped a beat, and he bent down to pick it up.

Tough Leather Leggings (White): Level requirement 0.

Attributes: Defense 3-5.

Weight: 3 pounds.

User restriction: Warrior, any faction can use.

In *Faith*, equipment was very rare, only dropping more often in some dungeons with higher difficulty, but the threshold for dungeons was high. Nie Yan still clearly remembered that there were many players at level ten or higher who could only wear level five equipment to team up and kill monsters because they couldn't find level ten equipment.

These Tough Leather Leggings, since they were warrior equipment, could be sold for at least seven copper coins at the auction house.

He put the Tough Leather Leggings into his backpack. The beginner backpack only had twenty slots, and after filling it with so much stuff, only eleven slots were left.

The backpack was a dimensional space that didn't increase the player's weight.

The player's weight only referred to the equipment on the player's body.

He had dropped three copper coins before, plus selling the Tough Leather Leggings, he could raise ten copper coins. He could also get some rewards for turning in quests, so it should exceed twenty copper coins.

Nie Yan looked at his backpack. The five quests he had accepted were all completed. He stopped farming gray giant rats and ran towards Trac Town.

He was desperately chasing time, first catching up with the level gap between him and others, and then using the game information he knew from his rebirth to gradually expand his advantage.

Back in Trac Town, Nie Yan completed all five quests, gaining more than six hundred experience points, bringing his level experience to 55%. He also received thirty-four copper coins. The amount of the reward exceeded his imagination. The hidden NPCs gave several times more gold and experience than ordinary NPCs. In addition to money and experience, he also got three bottles of beginner instant health potions.

Nie Yan put the Tough Leather Leggings up for auction and walked towards the weapon shop.

Arriving at the weapon shop, it was a very small storefront, but once inside, the space was quite large, about 5*10 yards.

On the left and right walls were weapons for various classes, and on the back wall were common equipment for all classes, bows, crossbows, small daggers, etc.

Everywhere he looked, there was equipment, a dazzling array.

The owner of the weapon shop was a burly blacksmith, about forty years old.

"In the entire Western Prairie area, the weapons I forge are the best, respected adventurer, what do you need?" The blacksmith, seeing a customer come in, greeted him in a rough voice.

"Bows."

"What kind of requirements do you have for bows? I have things here that can meet all the needs of adventurers within level five."

"Usable at level 0, attack roll +3 or higher, rate of fire 12 or higher." Nie Yan thought for a moment and added, "The price is within thirty copper coins."

Nie Yan had originally thought that it would be enough to gather twenty copper coins to buy an ordinary bow, but he didn't expect to exceed the target and earn thirty-seven copper coins. After the Tough Leather Leggings were sold, he would have more than forty copper coins, which was more than enough to buy a better bow.

"There are three bows that meet your requirements. The first type, a powerful short bow, attack roll +3, rate of fire 13, attack deviation 11%, range 20 yards, price seven copper coins." The blacksmith took out a short bow and demonstrated it to Nie Yan.

"Is there anything better? The accuracy is best if it's a little higher."

He was going to do something, and in fact, this powerful short bow was enough, but if there was a better bow, it would save a lot of time.

"The second type, a powerful longbow, attack roll +5, rate of fire 12, deviation 9%, range 30 yards, price fifteen copper coins." The blacksmith took out a longbow and demonstrated it. Then, he took out a delicate single-handed crossbow, loaded five bolts, supported it with his arm, aimed it, and said, "The third type, this is my masterpiece, a small powerful repeating crossbow, with a triple-shot effect, attack roll +5, rate of fire 8, but because it has a repeating shot, the single bolt rate of fire roll is 15, deviation 5%, range 30 yards, price twenty-eight copper coins."

"I'll take it, and give me nine bundles of inferior crossbow bolts." Nie Yan said, each bundle of inferior crossbow bolts had 1000 bolts, which was definitely enough.

That used up all thirty-seven copper coins, leaving none. Nie Yan put the newly purchased crossbow and nine bundles of crossbow bolts into his backpack.

"Welcome to visit again, respected adventurer, I wish you a smooth journey."

When Nie Yan first entered the game, he was surprised by the simple intelligence of the NPC virtual characters, but later he got used to it.

Just as Nie Yan stepped out of the weapon shop, a system notification came.

System: Your Tough Leather Leggings have been sold, gaining 8 copper coins.

Sold, not bad. There were 8 copper coins in the backpack, which was better than nothing.

Nie Yan left Trac Town and ran towards the area where the level 8 wild bull monsters spawned. Wild bull monsters were more dangerous than wild cats. They had extremely strong attack power, and their movement speed was much faster than wild cats, more than three times faster than Nie Yan. Confronting wild bull monsters was basically a dead end.

Currently, no player dared to face level 8 monsters, not even the first place on the level rankings.