Xin Zhongze: Wife, why did you agree to bring her along?
Xin Zhongze asked Xu Muyan in a private message.
Xu Muyan: It's too boring with just the two of us in the game, so I'm taking on a little sister.
Alright.
Seeing Xu Muyan's explanation, Xin Zhongze let her be.
Anyway, it's just one person, and even if he takes her to level ten, it won't take long.
Soon, the three of them arrived at the Level 10 monster area.
“Husband, you level her up first, so we can have an extra mobile warehouse,” Xu Muyan instructed Xin Zhongze.
“Alright,” Xin Zhongze nodded in agreement.
Immediately, he beat a Level 10 monster until it had only a sliver of health left, then let He Yingxue kill it.
However, to his embarrassment, He Yingxue couldn't even break through the monster's defense.
“Wife, you do it instead; when we go back to restock supplies later, I'll take her to the low-level monster area to level up.” In this situation, Xin Zhongze could only let Xu Muyan handle it.
An hour later.
Xu Muyan's level increased from 7 to 8.
Another two hours later, Xu Muyan's level increased from 8 to 9.
At this point, Xin Zhongze ran out of magic potions, so the three of them returned to Novice Village to restock.
On the way, passing through the low-level monster area, Xin Zhongze casually helped He Yingxue level up three times.
Xin Zhongze told He Yingxue to put her free attribute points into attack first, otherwise she wouldn't be able to break through the defense of high-level monsters.
After restocking their magic potions, the three of them returned to the Level 10 monster area.
At this point, He Yingxue's attacks were finally able to break through the monsters' defenses.
Since He Yingxue was only Level 4, killing Level 10 monsters was skipping 6 levels, and each monster could grant 64 experience points, so after killing just 6 Level 10 monsters, she leveled up to Level 5.
Then, Xin Zhongze took her to kill 16 more Level 10 monsters, and she leveled up again.
When she reached Level 7, Xin Zhongze took her to kill 37 Level 10 Demonic Megarhinoceros.
Killing monsters above one's level made leveling up incredibly easy.
If it were according to He Yingxue's own leveling strategy, she could only continuously kill low-level monsters with her high level to gain experience, and each low-level monster would take her a significant amount of time to kill.
In such a situation, it would be considered fast if she could reach Level 10 within a year.
But with Xin Zhongze, leveling up was as simple as eating and drinking.
After He Yingxue reached Level 7, Xin Zhongze spent a few more hours bringing Xu Muyan to Level 10.
At this point, the three of them returned to Novice Village to let He Yingxue complete her quest and acquire skills.
He Yingxue was also a mage, so she naturally acquired the Fireball skill.
Originally, Xin Zhongze wanted He Yingxue to put all her free attribute points into magic attack.
However, He Yingxue told Xin Zhongze that the game prompted her that her maximum magic attack value could not exceed 2 times her Spirit.
That is to say, if Spirit is 10, then the magic attack value cannot exceed 20. To exceed 20, she must add Spirit.
If calculated this way, Xin Zhongze's current Spirit is 20, and his base magic attack can only be increased to a maximum of 40 points.
From He Yingxue's words, Xin Zhongze also learned that He Yingxue's initial values for all stats were 5 points: 5 Attack, 5 Defense, and 5 Spirit.
Additionally, Xu Muyan also stated that her initial values were all 5 points.
Hearing the two women say this, Xin Zhongze realized that his initial Spirit of 10 points seemed somewhat unusual.
Xin Zhongze speculated that the reason his Spirit was twice as strong as an ordinary person's was likely due to his two lives.
...
Level 10 monster area.
Fireball!
He Yingxue conjured a Fireball and accurately struck the monster's head.
-10.
-11.
-10.
With one Fireball, He Yingxue directly dealt 31 points of damage to the Level 10 Demonic Corpse Rhinoceros.
In this situation, without weapon and equipment bonuses, this was considered normal damage.
Xin Zhongze was different; his base magic attack reached 30 points, and he also had 0-18 points of equipment bonus.
And the iron bracelet provided +10 Accuracy, allowing him to exert 10 points out of the 0-18 range with 100% certainty.
In other words, his current magic attack value was a guaranteed 40 points, with only 0-8 being a fluctuating value.
If Xin Zhongze's magic attack dealt its strongest value, he could directly deal 120 points of magic attack damage, and after deducting the Level 10 Demonic Corpse Rhinoceros's 20 points of defense, there would still be 100 points of damage.
If Xin Zhongze attacked a Level 10 Demonic Megarhinoceros now, one Fireball could deal up to three hundred points of damage to the Demonic Megarhinoceros.
If Xin Zhongze and He Yingxue attacked together, after three Fireballs, the Demonic Megarhinoceros would have no more than thirty health points left, requiring only He Yingxue to cast a fourth Fireball to finish it.
After He Yingxue learned Fireball, Xin Zhongze's speed in grinding monsters with her increased significantly.
In less than 4 hours, He Yingxue's level rapidly increased from 7 to 10.
“Alright, everyone log off and rest. Next, once I clear the path to the main city, we can go to the main city.”
After helping He Yingxue reach Level 10, Xin Zhongze realized it was already past five in the afternoon.
On the way back to Novice Village, Xu Muyan said to Xin Zhongze, “Husband, I want to ask Yingxue some questions. Please walk a little further ahead.”
Alright.
Hearing Xu Muyan say this, Xin Zhongze could only quicken his pace, walking ahead, about twenty meters away from the two women.
Afterward, Xin Zhongze walked in front, while the two women whispered to each other behind him, not knowing what they were saying.
Before long, the three of them returned to Novice Village.
Upon returning to Novice Village, Xu Muyan said to He Yingxue, “Sister He, you should log out of the game first.”
“Okay, Yan-jie, I'm logging out,” He Yingxue nodded, then exited the game.
She was now level 10, thanks to Xin Zhongze, and had learned Fireball; she was already very content.
“Husband, I'm going to tell you some things about He Yingxue. Tell me once you return to reality,” Xu Muyan cautioned Xin Zhongze.
“Okay,” Xin Zhongze nodded.
“Well, He Yingxue told me some secrets that only she knows, such as having a plum blossom birthmark on her butt, and that she stole something when she was little—an eraser from her deskmate Ren Xinxin, which she's always felt guilty about. Her first time was at 17, hiding in her room… ”
“Also, her bank card password is 682437, her phone number is 130..., her...”
Xu Muyan recounted a lot of information about He Yingxue, repeating it several times.
“Husband, let's log out of the game immediately, and then you tell me all the information I just told you in reality,” Xu Muyan said to Xin Zhongze.
“Wife, you're not trying to contact He Yingxue in reality, are you?” Xin Zhongze asked Xu Muyan.
Hearing Xin Zhongze's words, Xu Muyan nodded: “I found He Yingxue to be a bit naive and easy to trick. We worked hard to level her up in the game, so how can we not recoup some of our costs from her?”
“But if we contact her, how do we explain that we know things from inside the game? Wouldn't my special situation be exposed then?” Xin Zhongze said.
“Don't worry, I have a way,” Xu Muyan said confidently.
“Alright then,” Xin Zhongze nodded.