Chapter 1

Crossing a large expanse of grassland, Nie Yan arrived at a rocky area. Jagged, grotesque stones were scattered everywhere, with narrow passages between them.

"This is it." Nie Yan observed, confirming that the coordinates were correct. He moved with extreme caution, slowly sneaking forward. This area was a hotspot for wild bull monsters, filled with danger. He slipped into the rocks.

Coordinates 567.528.192.

The terrain here was strange. The gaps in the rocks were narrow, only allowing one person to pass. Looking out from one of the gaps, about twenty-six yards away, was a completely black wild bull, its body covered in strong muscles, its sharp horns like two daggers.

Level 8 Wild Bull Leader: Leader Monster, HP 300/300.

Nie Yan rested his hand crossbow on his left arm, adjusting his aim. The angle was perfect.

He could just barely bring the Wild Bull Leader into his attack range. The Wild Bull Leader was too large, and even if it discovered Nie Yan, it couldn't charge through the narrow paths in the rocks, so it couldn't attack him.

A classic terrain bug!

This was discovered by an arcane mage friend of Nie Yan's in the game, but now, he was the only one who knew about this terrain bug!

Using this terrain bug, Nie Yan could easily kill the Wild Bull Leader, even though it was a higher level!

Nie Yan loaded the crossbow with bolts. In three seconds, three bolts were loaded. He aimed at the Wild Bull Leader, and with three "swoosh" sounds, three arrows shot out in a straight line towards the Wild Bull Leader.

*Pfft pfft pfft*, the three bolts hit the Wild Bull Leader at the same time.

Miss, -1, Miss. The three values floated up from the Wild Bull Leader's head. Because the level difference was too great, Nie Yan's attacks did very little damage to the Wild Bull Leader. Most of the time, it was a miss. Even when they hit, they only did a forced one point of damage.

After being attacked, the Wild Bull Leader snorted and charged madly towards Nie Yan.

With a boom, the Wild Bull Leader crashed into the rock and bounced back. It couldn't attack Nie Yan, it could only circle around the rock, but there was nothing it could do.

Nie Yan skillfully reloaded the bolts, and more arrows shot out, heading towards the Wild Bull Leader.

Although the damage was minimal, under Nie Yan's constant attacks, the Wild Bull Leader's health showed some signs of decreasing, but it was very slow. It dropped little by little, and sometimes it even recovered a bit.

Nie Yan's attack frequency was very stable. After being attacked, the Wild Bull Leader roared angrily, but it couldn't get close to Nie Yan.

Everything was going as smoothly as he had expected. While attacking the Wild Bull Leader, Nie Yan thought about his future leveling steps. After being reborn, if he was still as silly as others, finding a place to grind monsters and level up, that would be too stupid.

He knew that in Nie Yan's head, there was a large amount of game information. He wanted to follow his own thinking and design a perfect leveling process.

Time passed by, and after half an hour, Nie Yan had used up a quiver of crossbow bolts. That was a full thousand arrows! At this time, the Wild Bull Leader's health was still about two-thirds full.

Constantly repeating the process of loading and firing, Nie Yan felt like he was about to fall asleep, but he still tried to maintain a high firing rate, lest the Wild Bull Leader's health rise again after he stopped attacking.

The Wild Bull Leader was a little tired, panting constantly, and anxiously hitting the rocks, knocking down part of them.

Nie Yan retreated a little, when his voice communication rang.

"Master, I went to the coordinates you mentioned to grind monsters, and it's really fast. I've already gotten two Stealth skill books today." Shi Tou sent a message, saying that leveling up in the place Nie Yan told him about was about 50% faster than usual, which made him very excited. Giving Nie Yan a Stealth skill book in exchange for knowing such a great grinding spot was too worthwhile.

"That's for sure. The Fallen Wizards also drop Night Owl Perception. If you have any extra, don't forget to send me one." Nie Yan wasn't surprised at all. He had read countless expert guides in his previous life, and he remembered many of these little tricks. Nie Yan was the kind of person who was careless and very forgetful. He would forget many things in life, but he remembered these game guides the most clearly.

Everyone has a particularly good memory for things they are interested in.

"If I get one, I'll mail it to you. One thing I'm very confused about is, how did you know about this leveling spot?" Shi Tou asked. He had only met Nie Yan when Nie Yan was level 0.

"I used to play a warrior account before, deleted it and re-rolled a thief." Nie Yan casually fabricated. He didn't want people to know the secret of his rebirth.

"I see, your warrior account must have been very high level, why did you delete it? In a few days, a friend of mine wants to form a group to grind the Fallen Wizard camp, Master, can you give us some advice?" Shi Tou said expectantly. Nie Yan seemed to really know his stuff, and his friends had only made it to the outer areas of the Fallen Wizard camp and couldn't get in.

The Fallen Wizard camp was a difficult dungeon. Dungeons were divided into special dungeons and basic dungeons. Special dungeons would disappear after players cleared them and become ordinary maps. Basic dungeons would not disappear even if someone cleared them and could be refreshed repeatedly, but the equipment drop rate was very low and the rewards were not high.

The Fallen Wizard camp was a basic dungeon, divided into five difficulties: Easy, Normal, Hard, Expert, and Master. The higher the difficulty, the better the equipment that dropped. If a team cleared it, the dungeon could be refreshed again after five days.

"Fallen Wizard Camp full walkthrough, price two silver coins, no bargaining." Nie Yan said. Two silver coins was two hundred copper coins, which was a huge sum of money for beginner players. Since Shi Tou's friend could lead a team to grind the Fallen Wizard camp, two silver coins shouldn't be anything.

"I'll go back and discuss it with that friend." Shi Tou was a little doubtful. Nie Yan wouldn't really have a full walkthrough of the Fallen Wizard camp, would he? This thing wasn't even available online.

The rewards for clearing the Easy difficulty Fallen Wizard camp were about three silver coins. If you were lucky, you might get one or two pieces of decent equipment. More importantly, the Fallen Wizard camp dropped Minor Wound Healing skill books. Nie Yan's asking price of two silver coins for information was outrageously high. If they didn't get any equipment, they would have to work for Nie Yan for free.

The Fallen Wizard camp dungeon was a bit difficult. After the group wiped a few times, they would naturally know that the price Nie Yan was asking wasn't expensive at all.

"If your friend agrees, reply to me again. If they don't agree, don't bother me unless it's important." Nie Yan continued shooting. Under his continuous shooting, the Wild Bull Leader gradually showed signs of weakness.

"Okay, I'll talk to our captain." In Shi Tou's mind, Nie Yan was already equated with a master. He wasn't the slightest bit annoyed by Nie Yan's indifference. It was normal for masters to have some personality. Shi Tou was wondering, what level was Nie Yan's original warrior account? It must have been very strong, but why did he delete the account? Could there be some unspeakable reason?

As soon as Shi Tou finished speaking, a busy tone came from the voice communication.

Nie Yan hung up the voice communication, and the crossbow in his hand sped up its firing rate. Arrows shot out one after another.

After shooting for a full hour and a half, consuming three thousand six hundred crossbow bolts, the Wild Bull Leader finally mooed loudly, staggered, and fell to the ground. Its huge body crashed heavily on the ground, and Nie Yan could feel the ground shaking.

Nie Yan estimated that if he used a powerful shortbow, it would take at least five hours to kill the Wild Bull Leader, consuming more than ten thousand arrows. Luckily, he had this small powerful crossbow with the Heavy Shot skill, which saved him a lot of time.

Two rays of white light fell on Nie Yan, and two crisp leveling up notification sounds rang.

System: You have killed the Wild Bull Leader, experience bonus for killing a higher-level monster +1800%, gaining 8290 experience.

Nie Yan checked his level. He was already level 2, 21%. The experience from the Wild Bull Leader was really generous.

Finally done, Nie Yan put away his crossbow and walked towards the Wild Bull Leader's corpse. He searched around under the Wild Bull Leader's corpse and found five copper coins. He also picked up a dagger.

He looked at the dagger's attributes.

Bull Horn Dagger: Bronze grade, attributes unidentified.

Nie Yan's eyelids twitched. It was a bronze grade dagger. Equipment grades were divided into white, bronze, silver, gold, dark gold, and legendary. Occasionally, there would be green set items.

Because the number of rare monsters of leader grade, sub-elite grade, elite grade, and lord grade in *Faith* was extremely small and their distribution was limited, only about one in a thousand items had attributes. Most players could only deal with white equipment. Every piece of equipment with attributes was very precious, and the price was inflated to the point where ordinary players couldn't afford it.

Bronze grade weapons usually had about 20% higher attack than ordinary weapons of the same level, and also came with an additional attribute.

Dropped by an level eight Wild Bull Leader, it should be a level five equipment. Currently, the price of a level five bronze dagger was at least three silver coins, while the total assets of an ordinary level three player were mostly only about twenty copper coins. If they had one silver coin of assets, they were considered very rich players.

He had reaped the benefits from the Wild Bull Leader as planned. After putting the Bull Horn Dagger into his backpack, Nie Yan retreated from the cracks in the rocks and walked towards Thrak Town.

The appraiser in Thrak Town was a short old man with a white beard and a pair of triangular eyes. He was very shrewd and made people feel uncomfortable. But he was the only appraiser in Thrak Town.

Nie Yan opened the trade mode.

"Young man, what item do you need appraised?" the short old man asked.

"A dagger." Nie Yan put the Bull Horn Dagger on the counter.

"Appraisal fee, ten copper coins. Do you want to appraise it?"

Nie Yan's mind moved. The appraisal fee for this dagger was ten copper coins. The appraisal fee was generally charged at 5% of the item's price. This item price referred to the price among NPCs, and the market price was often six times higher. In other words, this bronze dagger was worth at least twelve silver coins.

He thought about it. He didn't need money for anything in the near future. It wouldn't matter to spend 10 copper coins. He clicked confirm.

The Bull Horn Dagger bloomed with a cyan light, gorgeous yet restrained. This was the unique glow of bronze grade equipment.

The Bull Horn Dagger had arcs of texture on it, and the front was very sharp. The thickness was higher than ordinary daggers. It had a unique bull horn shape.

Bull Horn Dagger (Bronze): Level requirement 5.

Attributes: Attack 16-19, Strength +5.

Attack Speed: 2.3

Weight: 1 pound.

User Restriction: Thief, can be used by any faction.

This Bull Horn Dagger added a strength attribute. Five points of strength equaled five points of attack. In addition to the fact that its attack was three or four points higher than ordinary level five daggers, this Bull Horn Dagger had nearly ten points of attack higher than ordinary level five daggers. These ten points of attack had a big impact on beginner players.

He had found a place for the level five dagger, Nie Yan thought.