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Chapter 249 - 78 Startling Discovery on the Forum_2

Chapter 249: Chapter 78 Startling Discovery on the Forum_2

Plus, now that she could summon zombies, it was clear she had mastered the entry-level ghost curse, which was pretty impressive.

"I feel like you’re quite familiar with the profession system in this game. What’s the next rank for the Nightwalker? Have you figured it out yet?"

"Impermanence Walker, but it’s a bit tricky to unlock this profession. You need to kill some undead-type bosses to accumulate merit."

"Merit?" That was yet another mechanic he hadn’t heard of.

"Yes, merit. It’s a hidden attribute that everyone has, though it’s usually not displayed."

Malicious killings would diminish one’s merit, while saving people or helping good NPCs in quests would increase it. The judgment of this attribute was uncertain, but one thing was clear, killing undead, especially undead bosses, always increased merit.

To unlock the Impermanence Walker at level 20, you need at least 3000 merit points.

Little Monsters contribute a point or two, but bosses could give three hundred, five hundred, or even up to eighteen hundred."

"So, wouldn’t killing three or five bosses be enough?"

"Heh, if only it were that easy. Undead bosses are rare and usually very powerful, like the Ghost General we fought before; that was only half a boss."

Xiao Jie nodded in understanding; it indeed sounded challenging.

However, the tougher the unlock conditions, the stronger the profession must be, he guessed.

"So, shall we level up and hunt monsters together later? Maybe we could even team up again when you fight bosses."

"Heh, I’d love that—Feng." Xiao Jie felt a bit awkward being called "Feng."

Ye Luo was really something, using a very ordinary term of address in a calm tone, but somehow it felt like he was teasing.

"That settles it then. I’ll talk to the senior members of the guild tonight about our development strategy. Maybe we can choose a map related to the undead, and you’ll be able to farm a lot of merit that way."

After Ye Luo left, Xiao Jie did not go out to level up again.

Back in Luoyang Town, he ran into Ye Luo and Dongfang Sheng again, which inexplicably made him feel like he was back in his hometown. Especially now that the World Association had disintegrated and he had joined the local Dragon Soaring Knights, Luoyang Town seemed like his own territory.

Once a person was home, they tended to feel at ease.

He decided to wait for the meeting in the evening to finalize the leveling map, leveling with the guild would naturally be relaxed and enjoyable.

Right, that forum!

He was curious to see what was on that forum now.

Xiao Jie messaged Jin Fugui privately for the forum’s URL.

Gathering any intelligence on the game was crucial.

After logging off the game, Xiao Jie directly logged onto the forum.

Sure enough, it was a very rudimentary forum.

The login page was simple, with the need to create an account and password by answering some game-related questions—clearly designed to prevent non-players from intruding, all related to the content of the game, which an ordinary player couldn’t possibly answer correctly.

Once he created an account and logged into the forum, there were only a few sections.

[Game Experiences], [Exciting Videos], [Insightful Exchanges], [Game Business]...

Xiao Jie first clicked on Game Experiences, scanned through cursorily, and was instantly disappointed,

Everything available was very basic information, essentially at the level of fundamental game knowledge. It seemed that everyone was keeping their game experiences very secret.

Thinking about it, game information indeed decided one’s fate and future in the game. Even the experiences he had earned couldn’t be casually revealed to his closest acquaintances, let alone shared online with others.

That would be utterly foolish.

Even the trick to obtaining Secret Dog Food couldn’t be leaked. If more people knew the recipe, his money-making business would surely be affected, not to mention those rare encounters, which shouldn’t be mentioned at all.

Casually closing the Game Experiences section, Xiao Jie opened the Insightful Exchanges section, which was meant for exchanging information.

Players needed to add each other as friends and contact privately, so Xiao Jie closed it again.

Then he opened the Exciting Videos section.

The content here was also sparse; videos could reveal information, and it was unlikely that people would post their own videos on the forum; they were probably videos of others.

Xiao Jie immediately noticed his own video.

[Shocking: A miraculous Level 15 solo killing of the World Association’s leader, Xiong Ba.] This video was ranked third, with over three hundred views.

On any other site, three hundred views would be pathetically low, but here, it was a popular video. There’s no helping it—there were only a few players in the game, and even fewer who logged onto the forum.

The top video was [Detailed Record of the Azure Dragon Association’s Dragon Slayer Team’s Total Annihilation.]

The second ranked video was [Look, I encountered an Immortal!]

Huh, an Immortal! That was interesting.

Xiao Jie clicked on it.

The video was brief, mainly about a player leveling and hunting when suddenly something flew by overhead, so he filmed the sky. You could vaguely see someone flying in the sky with a sword, resembling an Immortal.

Since it was too far away, even with high game resolution, details were unclear, and even a lot of comments below doubted whether it was AI-generated or edited.

Xiao Jie was somewhat disappointed. This was hardly an encounter with an Immortal. One should have seen his own real encounter.