Assassin Reborn - Chapter 10

Chapter 10

[Translated by ChickenBakuba]

By the time Xu Xiang returned to the blacksmith, the blacksmith uncle had already prepared his dagger for him . The platinum-coloured blade of the dagger was pleasing to the eye . The blade, however, held a strange chillness when touched . Xu Xiang glanced at its attributes .

Frostbite dagger (Bronze level)

Level requirement: 3

Type: Dagger

Attack: 16-20

+4 agility

Attack speed: 0 . 8

Can be enhanced by 4 levels, +1% crit rate

Weight: 15 

User's restriction: Thief, Archer . Not limited to race .

The attacks of daggers could not exceed that of bows by a lot, but the dagger clearly held superiority over the bow in terms of attack speed . A bronze level dagger could already satisfy Xu Xiang's current level requirement .  

Seeing his high attack of 39-43 points, Xu Xiang was overjoyed . Bidding the blacksmith uncle farewell, he went offline .

Taking off the helmet, Xu Xiang glanced at the clock . It was a little past 7 p . m . . Time flies when you have fun . Xu Xiang entered the shower and took a hot bath . The hot water helped to relax his muscles and allowed him to sleep sleep better . Xu Xiang was a creature of habit, and the hot bath had become something like a routine . Xu Xiang went downstairs as he prepared to have a meal . [footnote]Creature of habit is original, but I thought I'd add that in because this guy has way too many habits . [/footnote]

Although Dispute at the moment did not earn Xu Xiang a pot of gold daily, he could still drink his soy milk, could still eat his youtiao, and still had his waifu .  

Below his flat, there were various barbecue vendor stands, noodle shops, restaurants, et cetera . Xu Xiang selected a barbecue vendor stall which looked slightly cleaner than the others and sat down . “Boss, bring me a few jars of beer . ” Xu Xiang randomly chose a few different types of barbecue meat and called for a few jars of beer . A young man simply having a meal simply wouldn’t do, one needed beer to feast like a king .

Xu Xiang greedily chugged down the cold beer . This summer seemed particularly cooling . Xu Xiang's ears picked up on a few students from the nearby school animatedly discussing Dispute . It seems like Dispute's influence had extended to everyday conversations .

"What level are you guys? I'm already level 1 and halfway to level 2 . Fast, right?" A student proudly boasted to his other friends . He did have reason to be proud, his speed was incredibly fast for normal players . For the first day of Dispute's release, Xu Xiang had still be busy killing slimes . Although Xu Xiang was a professional gamer in his previous life, only those who were willing to invest time in the game were the real professional gamers . Now that he had his three years of mercenary experience, his body, eyesight, reaction speed and more had been heavily boosted .  

"Wow, I'm still at level 0 . Can you help carry me?" Another student, whose reaction speed was obviously slow - the type that could not manage to steal or snatch monster kills - asked him .

"'Kay . I'll call you tomorrow . I have a fixed group, it should be no problem if you just tag along for some experience . ” Contrary to what one might expect, the student was actually a pretty caring student . Allowing one to leech a portion off your experience as a player was unbearable as it would slow one’s levelling speed .  

“Thanks so much . ” 

“What’s with the pleasantries? We’re friends; brothers . Let’s take down a BOSS one day . ” The two students had already sunk into a reverie of their hopes and visions of the unlimited potentials that the future held in store for them .  

A cynical smile parted Xu Xiang’s lips . A BOSS was not so easily killed . In Dispute, normal players, at the very minimum, needed a team to defeat a BOSS of the same level . If their equipment was not good enough, then they needed at least a few teams . From Xu Xiang's recent experience with the red-tailed snake king, it could be seen that the stats of BOSSes far surpassed players . Unless you were a top-grade player, vainly attempting to fight a BOSS was outright foolish .  

As for Xu Xiang - though it was embarrassing to say - he recognised himself as an expert . At the very least, he was a top expert . Xu Xiang coughed . This wasn't an exaggeration .

Xu Xiang finished his meal, sloshed down the beer, paid the storekeeper and returned home . Instead of going immediately to sleep after eating and drinking his fill, Xu Xiang began to train according to his special training manual .

After training for more than two hours, Xu Xiang was already drenched in sweat and gasping for breath . He stepped into the shower and took another bathe . His body beaten and exhausted, he climbed onto his bed and drifted into sleep .

The sun in summer rose very early and fell very late . This resulted in daytime in summer becoming particularly long . The sunlight of early summer morning flitted through the window and beamed onto Xu Xiang's face . As if stung by the sunlight's glare, Xu Xiang's eyes flickered . He was awake, but he did not want to open his eyes . This behaviour had a scientific name in the study of medicine, known as 'dawdling in bed' .  

If he was still a mercenary in the past, Xu Xiang would definitely not dawdle in bed . However, now that he had been reborn, perhaps it was him missing Wang Xue that his nature had changed . He had become more light-hearted, not the rigid and self-depreciating person he once was . He had become more bright and confident, easygoing and unrestrained .

Xu Xiang lazed around in bed for 10 more minutes before finally reluctantly opening his eyes . He knew his alarm clock had still not gone off, meaning that it was still early . "After waking up, I feel refreshed . It seems like I've slept a little more . " As being in the game classified as mild sleep, by adding on 8 hours of deep, normal sleep, Xu Xiang had passed the level of some domesticated animals to become number 1 in laziness .  

Xu Xiang glanced at his clock . 6:30 a . m . . He got up to wash his face and brush his teeth . Bringing out two packs of instant noodle, 1 egg and 2 hams, he wolfed down his breakfast and went online .

Novice village appeared in front of his eyes . Going online while in novice village did not make a difference . If one went online in a dangerous area, then the player would have 10 seconds of invulnerability . During these 10 seconds, players would be unable to be killed, but they would not be able to be attack either . The 10 seconds were meant for players to find a safe area to escape .  

Xu Xiang suddenly remembered Zhang Fan . He had no idea what was happening on his end . Zhang Fan was a person that loved games . In the normal player ladder, because Zhang Fan was better at playing games than other players, but was not able to compete against professionals, he was probably around level 1 by now . Unless he managed to find a good team . . . . but with Zhang Fan's looks—alright, let's stop here . Discussing this any further would be damaging to the nation's decency .

However, private communication before level 5 was restricted . It required both parties to be level 5 before they could enable private chatting . If Zhang Fan was not in the same novice village as him currently then there was really no way to contact him .

Today, Xu Xiang's goal was level 4 . Currently, levelling up was more important . If it was equipment, dungeon equipment was the most important . However, Xu Xiang knew the complete strategies of all the dungeons from level 5 to 60 and did not need to worry . His previously crafted weapon was only for convenience in levelling .  

Of course, his farming place for levelling would no longer be that . . . hole . If he still farmed there he would require around 6 more hours to level . A levelling speed of that pace was no longer able for him to be in the lead of other players . Now was not a time for casual levelling . Now that he had a convenient weapon, Xu Xiang decided to take up that mission he had accepted last time .

Exterminate the red-tailed snakes:[Mission difficulty: 45]

Kill 500 red-tailed snakes and gather 20 red-tailed snake tails . Present them to the village head to receive a generous reward .

Mission time limit: None .

Now was the perfect opportunity to complete this mission . Level 5 mobs that could not take the initiative to attack as well as the bonus experience that he would obtain from killing mobs higher level than him . It was killing two birds with one stone . This was the best way to level .

Chapter 10, END