NOVEL NEXT WORLD Chapter 5: Chapter 5:How pretentious. I can't wait to see how you die
Qin Feng allocated all 5 of his free attribute points into agility.
Then, he took a glance at his combat stats:
[Health: 130]
[Physical Attack: 13 (+10)]
[Physical Defense: 13]
[All Elemental Resistances: 15]
The 13 points in physical attack came from his strength attribute, while the 10 points in parentheses were from the starter weapon, the Rusty Iron Dagger.
Every player, upon entering the Abandoned Land of the Gods, received a basic, low-quality weapon suited for their class.
[Rusty Iron Dagger (Inferior): Gray Quality. Attack +10]
Qin Feng grasped the rusty dagger and toyed with it for a moment.
In his past life, although he was a warrior, he had used daggers before... though using a weapon that didn't match his class only allowed him to use 70% of its effectiveness.
"The feel's not bad," Qin Feng said with a slight grin.
He then looked at his Physical Attack stat.
With 23 points in attack, this was the standard starting stat for most new players.
This made Qin Feng realize how overpowered his Shadow Strike skill's 90 points of break-invisibility attack damage truly was!
Without hesitation, Qin Feng gripped the rusty dagger and planned to leave the town and hunt monsters.
Whether for leveling up or earning evolution points, he needed to kill as many monsters as possible—the more, the better!
At this moment, no one knew that the monsters in the Abandoned Land of the Gods were unlike those in typical MMORPGs. They didn't simply stay in one spot waiting for players to kill them.
This was the scariest part.
In the eyes of the monsters, every player who leaves the safety of the town is just a walking lifespan!
The monsters actively hunted players, sometimes in packs, attacking and killing them to steal their lifespans!
"Lifespan comes in two forms: tradeable and non-tradeable."
"People's inherent lifespan is non-tradeable… I currently have 75 years left."
Non-tradeable lifespan has only one use: to keep the person alive.
As for tradeable lifespan, it has many more uses.
It not only keeps people alive but can also be traded for resources or consumed to extract in-game equipment, skills, and more into the real world!
This allows players to gain supernatural powers in the real world!
"Tradeable lifespan can only be obtained from the monsters in the Abandoned Land."
"At the same time… these monsters also target the lifespan of players. By stealing a player's lifespan, the monsters evolve and grow stronger."
Qin Feng, as a reborn player, knew all this very well.
Leaving the town meant danger.
One wrong move, and a pack of monsters might come hunting!
Players as hunters?
Wrong!
In the Abandoned Land of the Gods…
Weak players are the prey!
This is why so many players found survival so difficult.
Not only could they not kill monsters and gain lifespan… but they had also been killed by monsters countless times, losing all their lifespan!
With no way to kill monsters and no lifespan left, they could only wait for their life to run out and die!
So, in the Abandoned Land, monsters could be seen as players of another sort—survival of the fittest, where the strong thrive and the weak perish.
Even in Qin Feng's past life, his rise was incredibly difficult.
Now, with Qin Xiaoyou as a burden…
"This time, I'll level up much faster on my own," Qin Feng thought.
With the rusty dagger in hand, he walked out of the town.
Along the way, he noticed a few groups of players gathered together.
One chubby player, looking confused, stared around: "Hey, where am I? The Abandoned Land of the Gods? What class? What codename…? I just pulled an all-nighter and laid down at home. Is this a hallucination?"
Nearby, a young man with glasses also seemed bewildered: "I don't know… I played PUBG all night, and just fell asleep, then woke up here."
Hearing this, the chubby player chuckled: "Bro, what chicken did you eat? Tell me about it…"
Qin Feng ignored them completely.
It was normal for the first batch of players to have such questions.
Suddenly, a few white lights appeared in front of him.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Five figures materialized before Qin Feng…
"Almost forgot, this is the resurrection point."
Qin Feng was about to walk around when a girl in a black t-shirt appeared before him.
She seemed to have just died, her face pale.
Beside her were three men and one woman, likely a group who had just been wiped out in the wild.
It was clear from their appearance…
Their remaining lifespan had already been halved!
"That wild monster was too strong! One bite, and we were half-dead. How are we supposed to fight it?" one of the men complained.
"Isn't it just a level 1 crawler? We surrounded it, and it still only lost a third of its health?" another player said, confused.
"We got wiped out... all of us..."
"Li Zi-jie, what do we do now?"
Their eyes turned to the black-clad girl leading them.
The girl, named Li Zi-jie, wore a ponytail and held a broken longbow, clearly an archer.
However…
Qin Feng instantly recognized her as a hidden class!
Normally, archers start with a shortbow, not a longbow.
Because of this, she had been chosen as the team leader.
"If we can't beat it, we need to recruit someone else," the girl named Li Zi-jie said, glancing in Qin Feng's direction. "This guy looks like a hidden class. How about we invite him into our team? Strength in numbers, right? We still have one spot left in our team."
Her judgment was spot on.
There was a thief in their group, and her starting weapon was different from Qin Feng's rusty dagger.
A soft-spoken girl with long hair approached Qin Feng: "Big brother, will you join our team? The wild monsters are too strong for one person. We've already been wiped out once, so we have experience!"
Qin Feng couldn't help but chuckle.
Experience?
More like experience in dying…
Qin Feng shook his head and ignored the girl, continuing to walk toward the town's edge.
His refusal to join their team was obvious.
The situation caused Li Zi-jie and the three men behind her to frown.
They hadn't expected this assassin-like man to be so rude…
What was more surprising was that Qin Feng seemed ready to leave the town alone!
"Ha, this is hilarious. We warned him about the danger outside, and he still chooses to go alone?"
"We can't even handle the wild monsters as a group, and he thinks he can do it alone?"
"Don't underestimate him. He's a hidden class, likely an assassin. Even if he can't fight, he could probably run."
The group laughed it off, not giving it much thought.
Only Li Zi-jie, having just checked Qin Feng's profile when he got close, noticed his codename.
"Codename 'Shadow'? Talk about pretentious."
Li Zi-jie looked at Qin Feng's retreating figure and sneered, "I'll see how you die… Come on, let's follow him."
She waved, signaling the group to follow.
It wasn't because she was interested in how others died, but the place was too strange, and she wanted to observe him to gather more information.
...
Qin Feng arrived at the town's border.
The boundary was almost indistinct, with only some broken, decaying wooden fences.
Beyond it lay the unsafe zone.
As he left, Qin Feng noticed Li Zi-jie and her group following at a distance.
Shadow Strike!
Without hesitation, Qin Feng activated his skill.
In an instant, his figure melded into the surroundings, vanishing without a trace before their eyes!