Chapter 1 How Much Is a Title Worth?

Just how valuable is a title? Many players probably couldn't give a definitive answer. Even the lowest-level title allowed players to enjoy slightly better treatment from NPCs when doing various things in cities than ordinary players. As for some advanced titles, such as Demon Hunter, Great Scholar, and so on, they were even more impressive. Demon Hunter could greatly increase Nie Yan's Respect value in human cities, and Great Scholar granted him certain privileges in countless cities.

He wondered what kind of rewards he would get if he leveled up from Intermediate Demon Hunter to Advanced Demon Hunter.

Thinking of this, Nie Yan decided to let the Golden Earth Dragon have the experience points exclusively. The Golden Earth Dragon's monster-killing speed was obviously much faster than his. Leveling up a few levels would make the monster-killing speed even faster.

Based on Nie Yan's guess about the Zennarde Domain, they might have to stay here for the next few days.

He wondered how long it would take to clear out these undead Bonefiends covering the mountains and plains.

Besides game coins, these undead Bonefiends on the ground didn't drop anything. Each undead Bonefiend dropped about one silver coin worth of game coins, so the harvest was still quite considerable after farming like this.

It was definitely impossible to have such a high drop rate when farming monsters elsewhere.

Yao Yao sat in the corner drinking spring water to replenish her magic value, while Nie Yan continued to attract monsters, launching arrows that lured groups of undead Bonefiends over.

Next was Yao Yao and the Golden Earth Dragon's magic display. The Golden Earth Dragon spewed out a dragon breath, and then Yao Yao cast area-of-effect spells, and patches of undead Bonefiends fell to the ground.

The kill count in Nie Yan's Demon Hunter record steadily increased. He found that the Demon Hunter kill count had a certain counting method; only the final attack counted. Therefore, Nie Yan told Yao Yao not to kill these undead creatures, just reduce them to low health and then stop, letting him or the Golden Earth Dragon finish them off. This way, they could accumulate kills.

The Golden Earth Dragon charged into the Bonefiends, sweeping down groups of undead Bonefiends.

The Golden Earth Dragon's level climbed to twenty-eight and learned two skills.

Novice Meteor Fall: Summons a giant meteor, dealing 200% area-of-effect damage to all monsters within a 20x20 yard radius, with 20 seconds of burning damage. Skill casting time is 10 seconds, and the skill cooldown time is 30 minutes. The next level requires level 60.

There was also a passive skill, Counterattack Storm, which had a certain probability of triggering a 200% attack counterattack when attacked. The next level requires level 50.

These two skills were also very powerful.

Although it was becoming more and more difficult for the Golden Earth Dragon to level up, the higher its level, the more formidable its strength.

Seeing the two skills that the Golden Earth Dragon had just learned, Nie Yan raised his eyebrows slightly. The Golden Earth Dragon's growth still exceeded his imagination.

Nie Yan had already made up his mind that even if he sacrificed his own level, he would still boost the Golden Earth Dragon's level.

Nie Yan used the Headless Horseman Doro's Mounted Archery Crossbow to lure over five or six hundred undead Bonefiends. Groups of undead Bonefiends roared as they surged over like a raging tide. A scorching meteor fell from the sky with a boom. This giant fireball exploded in the midst of the undead Bonefiend crowd, sparks flew everywhere, and under the continuous burning flames, groups of undead Bonefiends fell to the ground.

Nie Yan looked at the kill count recorded in the Demon Hunter record: 122,350,000.

The kill count was accumulating rapidly.

"How much spring water is left?" Nie Yan asked Yao Yao. Mages had poor sustained combat ability and had to consume a large number of magic potions, spring water, and other items every so often.

Yao Yao looked at her backpack and said, "I prepared a lot when I came out, and there are still more than sixty stacks of spring water left."

Since Yao Yao bought the best quality magic spring water, she could generally recover her full mana with one bag of spring water, without having to drink five or six bags of spring water each time like other players to recover their health. So these sixty-odd stacks of spring water were very durable.

More than sixty stacks, twenty bags per stack, was equivalent to more than one thousand two hundred servings of spring water, enough to last at least five or six days.

Nie Yan clicked his tongue inwardly. Yao Yao bought all the best quality magic spring water, each bag of spring water costing as much as one silver coin. According to this calculation, more than one thousand two hundred bags of magic spring water were equivalent to one thousand two hundred silver coins, 12 gold! Only Yao Yao would prepare so much spring water at once; Nie Yan wouldn't dare to spend like that.

Since Yao Yao had enough spring water, it wouldn't hurt for them to farm here for a few days.

These few days were relatively peaceful for Nie Yan and Yao Yao. Nie Yan occasionally paid attention to what was happening outside, such as the development of the NiRen Tribe, the movements of Zhan Dao Shi Xue, the Mage Alliance, and so on. The rest of the time was spent leveling up.

However, Yao Yao liked these days, which were plain but real.

This period was a time of rapid expansion for the major guilds. The NiRen Tribe's personnel also expanded rapidly, upgrading to a level-five guild with nearly sixty thousand people. The remaining five affiliated guilds also expanded to more than one hundred thousand people.

With the funds from the Longyao Financial Group in place, more and more members advanced to level forty and above. Many of them were equipped with mounts, and the prevalence of mounts among NiRen Tribe players reached 10%, which meant that a new era was coming. Players' footprints were no longer limited to one city and began to expand to activities between cities.

Nie Yan understood what this meant better than anyone else!

Guo Huai had received news that some Zhan Dao Shi Xue players had come to the border of Kalore City to farm monsters and level up. Because Kalore City and Glorious City were the closest, the two guilds had some contact, but at present, both sides were still relatively restrained and had not engaged in any disputes. However, the atmosphere was already thick with gunpowder.

In the future, the two guilds would inevitably become enemies in the fight for fortresses.

On the second day of farming monsters in the Zennarde Domain, Nie Yan advanced from Intermediate Demon Hunter to Advanced Demon Hunter, gaining an additional 30 points of Honor in each city.

Nie Yan had a goal, which was to reach 100 Respect value. When players reached 100 points of Honor in a city, they could get some special rewards, one of which was the Honor Set.

Among all equipment, the Honor Set was second only to the Sub Legendary Set, and in the eyes of players, it could be considered a god-tier equipment. Not many people wore the Honor Set in his previous life; a few thousand throughout the entire Graland Empire was already very good.

Most players only wore it after level 100.

In addition, after upgrading to Advanced Demon Hunter, Nie Yan received another quest progress 7.

System: Quest progress 7, kill level 30 or higher undead creatures, quantity 0/200,000.

He wondered what would come after Advanced Demon Hunter and what kind of rewards there would be. During this period in the Zennarde Domain, Nie Yan and Yao Yao had been constantly farming undead creatures without interruption.

By the fifth day, Nie Yan's kill count of undead creatures had become 162,832,200,000, just a little bit short of two hundred thousand.

In addition, after killing so many undead creatures, Nie Yan also unlocked a skill on the Shadow of Darkness, Storm Assault, which granted a 200% movement speed bonus while Storm Assault was active. It could only target one target, granting a 60% attack bonus when attacking that target, ignoring armor and ignoring level +7. The skill cooldown time was 5 natural days.

As the number of powerful skills in his hands increased, Nie Yan's strength was also increasing wildly. As for level, although Nie Yan had just leveled back to level 30, such a level was considered very low. Like Yao Yao, she had just climbed to level forty-two. There were many people on the level rankings who were level forty-five or forty-six. Level didn't mean anything. Nie Yan could catch up at any time. What excited Nie Yan the most was that after sacrificing so much experience, the Golden Earth Dragon had successfully rushed to level thirty-five. A Golden Earth Dragon with more than three thousand health and over one thousand attack power could already amaze players. With the Golden Earth Dragon as his foundation, what was there to fear even if his level couldn't keep up?

Unfortunately, there were no more points to add after leveling to thirty. According to the Faith's settings, attribute points were not lost after dropping a level, and naturally, no additional attribute points would be given after leveling back up.

Since they were stuck in the Zennarde Domain and couldn't get out, Nie Yan didn't participate in the Holy Roman Empire and Radiant Sacred Flame's fight for the fortress, only sending a hundred or so people. With Brilliant Dagger and others, there was definitely no problem in capturing the fortress. Zhan Dao Shi Xue, the Mage Alliance, and the Holy Guardians didn't send anyone because their elites were busy clearing the fortress and couldn't spare the time to manage the petty affairs of Radiant Sacred Flame and the Triumph Empire. A small accident occurred during this time: Half Awake Fox was killed by Shadow Killer, which almost led to a global collapse on the Holy Roman Empire's side. Fortunately, more than a hundred powerful members of the NiRen Tribe turned the tide and forcibly drove back Radiant Sacred Flame and the Triumph Empire. After Shadow Killer killed Half Awake Fox, he disappeared and never appeared again. However, Shadow Killer left a message when he left, telling Nie Yan to wash his neck clean and wait, "I will come and take it!"

Shadow Killer's arrogant words caused the entire NiRen Tribe guild to boil over and issue a kill order for Shadow Killer.

Nie Yan, who was in the Zennarde Domain, smiled slightly when he heard this. If Shadow Killer dared to come, Nie Yan wouldn't mind meeting him.

In his previous life, people like Shadow Killer were indeed not people that Nie Yan, at his level, could come into contact with. But after being reborn, the current Nie Yan had undergone a qualitative transformation, breaking out of his cocoon and becoming a butterfly, from an unknown person in his previous life to the guild leader of the NiRen Tribe now. The current Nie Yan was no longer the Nie Yan of his previous life! The fearless are invincible; this was Nie Yan's greatest feeling in this life.

Paying attention to the situation outside, Nie Yan and Yao Yao continued to push forward. After the undead Bonefiends here were killed, they would no longer respawn. The two had not found their direction until Nie Yan discovered a directional stone tablet. It was covered with cracks and had been eroded by the wind. A compass rose was carved on the broken stone tablet, along with a few powerful dragon characters: "To the Zennarde Mausoleum."