After chatting with the NPC friends for a while in the village, the vendor came to me and told me that he was leaving the village to purchase goods. He asked me what I wanted to reserve. I then ordered a batch of magic potions, but the skill books and equipment I most wanted, the vendor said were not within his business scope. This made me feel very depressed. Why could he help Ah Bo with weapons but not me? It seemed that my reputation was still not high enough.
The vendor sold me all the remaining blood potions on his person, and I gritted my teeth and gave him a horse, hoping he could return quickly. Unfortunately, he said he couldn't ride a horse and didn't deal in horses, which made me even more frustrated.
The next day after the vendor left, I consumed most of the blood potions. However, I successfully cleared most of the wild beasts on the path to the river valley. Ah Shui, although he couldn't ride a horse, I chose a gentle one to give him as a means of transportation. It could also be used for traveling, and it could reach the river valley in an hour.
Based on my experience, after killing all the monsters in an area, it usually takes two days for them to respawn in a denser form. Ah Shui's fishing was temporarily safe, and during this gap, I decided to go to Blue Jade Mountain to look for the magic crystals to restore the teleportation array in the village.
The advanced monsters on the way to Blue Jade Mountain were indeed many. Halfway there, the monsters encountered were all of the monster level. At the foot of the mountain, there were even 29-level monsters. Fortunately, I had the magical horse Flying Dragon, which was extremely agile and could dodge easily, along with an absolute speed advantage. I was able to arrive at Blue Jade Mountain safely after four hours.
Recalling Flying Dragon to the pet space, I began to search on the mountain. This mountain had basically no special plants or minerals. I didn't know where the magic crystals would be. Just when I was feeling disappointed, suddenly, several people came on the road not far away.
I excitedly watched these people. They were not NPCs, but real players! I never expected that I was so eager to see other players. I hadn't interacted with people for 20 years, and I simply didn't know how to get along with them. This excitement was unimaginable before. At that time, I was always alone, having few friends in both reality and the game. But this time, after being lonely for a long time, I decided to change and hoped to make more friends in the game.
This group of players consisted of five people, two warriors, one priest, one mage, and one archer. It was a perfect combination. They were surprised to see me as well because the village we were in was far from the surrounding villages (not visible from the teleportation array map).
The mage quickly signaled to the others behind him, and the leading tall warrior came towards me, smiling and saying: "Brother, are you also here to kill the Blue Demon?" I shook my head: "No, our village doesn't have a teleportation array. I'm here to look for magic crystals." The warrior said with a chuckle: "So, the teleportation array is made with magic crystals, right? This kind of magical thing should be guarded by advanced monsters. Maybe it's there. But you don't need to come to this dangerous place. Magic crystals are sold in the magic store in the city for 100 silver coins. It's not too expensive." I was stunned. 100 silver coins wasn't too expensive. People from these big places were different. At that moment, the thin-faced mage came over and said sarcastically: "Friend, your strength can't kill the Blue Demon. Life is more important. Wait until you reach level 30 to come back." Apparently, this mage knew scouting techniques and immediately saw that I was only 23.5 levels and my equipment was definitely junk.
The tall warrior frowned: "Fire Spirit Tian, let's take him with us. More people mean more strength. Anyway, this brother isn't here to fight the boss. As long as he wants the magic crystals, he won't share anything with us." The mage's expression slightly changed: "Lion King, fighting monster-level bosses is very dangerous. He might even involve us!" Lion King smiled: "Alright, he'll just lead the small monsters for us. By the way, what profession are you?" Of course, I couldn't say that I was the only full-time "apprentice" in the game. So I had to deceive him: "I'm a 23-level mage." Before officially leveling up to 30 and changing my profession, there was no emblem of this profession on the character. Although I didn't have anything specifically for a mage, it was already confirmed that I was a novice. They no longer doubted me. Next, the Tiger King introduced the others to me.
The Tiger King's full name is "Bloodthirsty Tiger King", a 30-level warrior; the mage "Fire Spirit", 30-level; another warrior at 28-level "Unyielding in the Swordsmanship", the archer at 28-level "God of the Moonlit Night", and the priest at 26-level "Specialized in Ventilation".
The Tiger King is from the Village of Sunset. Due to his high charisma, when he went to the neighboring village of Jade Gathering Village to seek a mission, he received a message from an NPC: There is an evil beast "Blue Demon" guarding a precious treasure he urgently needs. Thinking of the power of the evil beast boss, he agreed to go kill the demon together with Unyielding in the Swordsmanship, who also called in his other three friends. They formed this five-person team.
I thought that the currently ranked "Holy Demon King" was probably already above level 45. These people could only be considered beginners. They just had a better birthplace and indeed had decent equipment. (I didn't know that, apart from the "Holy Demon King" and the intelligent characters simulated by various game companies, the highest level of real human players in this game is only 35, and the vast majority of players are currently between 20 and 25 levels, and those above 25 are mostly professional players who log in for more than 15 hours a day.)
According to the information from the Tiger King, they found the hidden cave and lit torches to move forward. The monsters in the cave were 28-level vampire bats. With the strength of this team, dealing with a large number of bats was very difficult. After I cast a few fireballs, I swung my sword to hack them, and Fire Spirit scolded me: "What are you doing? You're not a mage, what use is that physical attack of yours? It can only break the defense, it's just a waste. You idiot!" I gritted my teeth. If it were my previous personality, I would never team up with them again. But thinking that this was the first time teaming up in "Infinite World", I still hoped that I could become friends with them in the future. Therefore, I suppressed my anger and explained that our village didn't sell magic potions, and then proposed to buy some potions from them.
A mage without magic potions? As expected, I was scolded again by them. Only the Tiger King saved me, and he persuaded Fire Spirit to sell me some potions. Fire Spirit said coldly: "My potions all increase MP by 100. Can he use it?" I was stunned. My MP was only 80 now, it was indeed a waste. The Tiger King frowned and said to the priest: "What about the specialized ventilation? You should have some small blue potions." Finally, "Specialized Ventilation" sold me 20 blue potions with a 50-point increase in HP at 30 copper coins each. When I heard that I only had a few blood potions, they collapsed. They sold me 10 red ones as well. I was really embarrassed.
To save the blue potions, we mainly used the attacks of warriors and archers on the way, "Specialized Ventilation" cast healing spells, which was actually "Intermediate Healing Spell", increasing 60 HP each time. I was really too embarrassed to use my first-class second-level one. Besides, having them see a mage who can cast healing spells would definitely make them faint.
Finally, we reached the second basement level and saw the boss, the Blue Demon. It was lying in a stone-built nest sleeping. The entire body was about three meters long, the skin was all blue, and the most noticeable thing was the long hands, each with sharp nails about one meter long, which were its main weapons.
After briefly discussing the tactics, the warrior slowly approached first. When the Blue Demon sensed something, the two warriors simultaneously gathered energy and then used the "Charge" skill to rush up and block the Blue Demon in its nest and hack it fiercely. The den of the Blue Demon is large, but it is surrounded by deep trenches, with only one exit. Originally, this was the most advantageous terrain for the Blue Demon to defend against enemies. However, now it has made it impossible for the Blue Demon to bypass the warriors and attack the mages and archers behind. It seems that these people are very experienced, and they quickly formulated the most advantageous tactics based on the terrain.
The battle began. After the Priest's "Inspiration Spell" enhanced the attack power, the Bloodthirsty Lion King dealt 70 damage to the Blue Demon. Using various skills, it dealt 100-150 damage each time. It mercilessly killed 50 with its sword, and with the skills, it dealt 60-80 damage (this is the difference between level 28 and level 30. Level 30 has many important skills and equipment). The Fire Spirit Heaven's medium third-level fireball and medium second-level lightning dealt 120 and 100 damage respectively. At the same time, the lightning could make the Blue Demon's body pause for a few tenths of a second. The Moonfall God's bow and arrow dealt 40 damage. Using the skill "Triple Shot", it was 120 attack, and there was also the "Ice Arrow Technique", which caused 60 HP damage and had a chance to freeze the opponent, which was also very useful. And I, although ashamed, still sent out my primary first-level fireball to do my best. Once, it dealt over 20 points of blood damage to the Blue Demon (except for the difference in spell levels between Fire Spirit Heaven and me, there were also no equipment that added spirit power or spell effects on the whole body, which was also an important factor).
The Blue Demon is indeed a 32-level demon-level boss, not someone to be trifled with. Every attack simultaneously hit the two warriors in front of it. Although there was the Priest's "Divine Blessing Spell" to increase defense, the Lion King still lost 200 blood each time, and the sword attack lost 270 blood. Therefore, the Swordless Irrespective was always retreating to replenish blood after each strike. While the Lion King had 400+ HP, with the Priest's healing, and adding his own red, as long as the lightning and freezing spells of the mages and archers succeeded every now and then, he basically didn't need to retreat.
The battle became a war of attrition. No one knows how much blood the Blue Demon has. However, when the two warriors came, they all brought special level 200 blood potions. The player's bag had 300 slots, except for the blue ones used for skills, they should have 200 blood potions. According to this strategy, when the 40,000 blood potions were used up, the Blue Demon would lose 80,000 blood. Judging from my experience in killing the Wolf King boss, the game doesn't seem to have designed the 32-level boss so变态 (extremely difficult).
However, this Blue Demon was still stronger than I expected. When I was reducing its blood by 30,000 points, the Blue Demon began to show panic. According to my intuition, its blood should not be much left. At this time, I noticed that the eyes of Fire Spirit Heaven in the vicinity flashed with light, and then a slight sneer appeared on the corner of its mouth...