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Chapter 32: Strategic Resources
Translator: Larbre Studio
Editor: Larbre Studio
It was night time, and to players, this was not a good time to go out to level up. The night time in Heaven was especially mesmerizing, especially the starry skies. There were traces of light in the complex milky way. It was absolutely hallucinatory, causing one to get lost in the boundless daydreams.
Chu You conserved his energy by jogging throughout the journey. After jogging for about an hour, he finally reached the level 10 XP zone.
Looking at the dense foggy forest in the mountain, Chu You took a deep breath, feeling a sudden sense of eagerness in his heart. Slowly walking in, his whole figure soon disappeared into the grey fog.
In Heaven, the level 10 monsters could be said to be a threshold. Unlike the lower level monsters, the organisms here were equipped with intelligence. Once an organism had intelligence, then it would naturally have the ability to judge.
Chu You carried his long sword. The visibility here was low. The environment here was somewhat stifling to other players; they had to be careful and vigilant. However, to Chu You, none of these things were an issue, as he continued to walk with a calm expression.
At this moment, the sound of wings flapping could be heard from the gloomy forest, causing one to feel nervous after hearing it, yet Chu You was still calm.
One gigantic bat with bloodshot eyes stared at Chu You, flying swiftly to land on the top of Chu You’s head. Revealing its sharp fangs and flapping its wings, it flew at high speed and came striking at Chu You’s head.
Chu You suddenly moved at the moment. He maneuvered his body to dodge it, calmly wielding out his sword at the same time.
Screech. The sword landed accurately on the speedy bat’s body, cutting it. The other party was in agony. It immediately jumped and leaped onto Chu You. Chu You relaxingly turned around, causing his Katana to hit the bat again as he turned. The bat cried loudly and immediately used its ‘Attack of weakness’ skill. Instantly, Chu You’s defense dropped to 0. This skill lasted 20 seconds.
Chu You’s expression did not change. Looking at the bat that was rapidly encircling him non-stop, Chu You stood still there. He knew that if he got hit by the bat the next moment, his fatality would increase greatly. At the same time, the other party might also suck a small amount of his blood, as one could guess it from its name.
Target: blood sucking bat, level 10, Species: one-star elite, health 355/650
Fast species elites like these had a weakness, and that was their thin skin and low health capacity. Once an attack landed on their body, this could often cause a high fatality. However as the other party was always in a rapidly moving condition, it was not easy to attack it, especially for amateur mages. Even after their magic value had been drained fully, it did not necessarily mean that their attacks managed to hit this elite.
Chu You had plenty of experience in dealing with elites like this. He lowered down his head, not observing the bat at all, completely immersed in sensing and glancing from the corner of his eyes, his sharp awareness firmly locking on the bat moving around rapidly.
The bat kept changing its position very quickly. With this speed, it was completely impossible to charge forward and attack it with Chu You’s speed of movement.
He could only wait for the moment it found its position to attack him, so that he could attack the other party!
The blood sucking bat relied on its fast flying speed to appear at Chu You’s every direction non-stop, and made use of this visual distortion tactic to approach the target slowly.
At this moment, the blood sucking bat opened its eyes slightly. Its negative skill on Chu You only had 3 seconds left before its effects would wear off. It launched its attack!
It stuck near the ground behind Chu You and rapidly flew towards him to strike. The body part of the opponent that it wanted to attack was Chu You’s legs.
Chu You moved at this moment. At the moment when he was about to get attacked by the other party, he moved his legs slightly, twisting his wrist upwards at the same time, the blades facing down immediately. Without even looking, Chu You inserted it in ruthlessly!
-156, it got hit! The blood sucking bat panicked as it did not have much health left, making it escape in a hurry. Its life was more important than anything else. This target was not someone it could deal with.
“I knew you would run!” Chu You’s eyes fixed on the bat.
While making the action of chopping down with his sword, Chu You did not bother to think but merely relied on his feeling instead, immediately drawing out his sword straight away and going forward to hit the other party.
Strike of horizontal sweep! A half-moon shaped boundary appeared in an instant at that position as he swept his sword horizontally. If you observed it carefully, you would be able to see that Chu You’s strike had already landed on the bat, which had already blended in with the darkness of the skies surrounding them.
With a blood-curdling shriek, the blood sucking bat immediately wrapped up its wings and fell onto the ground.
System: You have obtained a strategic resource: One timber, EXP +1000!
Chu You’s pupils shrunk. Although he was already eager when he’d just come in, he just did not expect his luck to be so good. He actually obtained a strategic resource just by killing the first monster; this was undoubtedly a good start.
Strategic resources were the key material to start a secret society. Without this item, the design of the towns created by the society would not be able to develop, and furthermore, strategic resources couldn’t be traded. Once a player joined a society, the strategic resources he earned could only be used in his secret society. The society had a resource contribution chart. By contributing one’s resources here, the management team of the society would use these resources to develop the town.
Usually, once the players from the resource contribution chart had contributed a certain amount of resources, they would be awarded cash rewards by the society’s management team. The mechanism behind the awarding was fully designed according to the setting of the person managing it. Of course…those with no gold coins who were part of the backup management could also choose not to do any settings. However, if it was this way, one could well imagine how significant the losses of the society members would be.
Therefore, for all those without any ability who still wanted to set up a secret society, what was waiting for them was merely just being swallowed up and destroyed by other societies.
There were simply too many advantages of setting up a society’s township. Those who liked to play offline would start to find it hard to do anything towards the middle portion of Heaven. Without the added attributed support of secret societies, especially the attributed support of the higher level societies, solo players with lower attribution properties in comparison to their same rank peers would really be at a significant disadvantage when a fight broke out.
Hence, offline players did not belong to the mainstream way to play Heaven. Players not only earned a backup force when they joined a society, but they could also earn some side income, so…why not just do it?
It was just that if one wanted to obtain strategic resources, it was especially difficult. Like Chu You, who would not have been able to kill that elite bat if not for his agile skills and awareness. If his luck was not even that good to a certain extent, Chu You would not have been able to obtain this resource either. In Heaven, the range to score resources was very broad. From level 10 onwards, there would be a chance of gear popping out. However, it was not just limited to earning through the killing of monsters…
The strategic resources earned from killing monsters would be directly added to the player’s resource column, without the process of popping out or earning it by searching the dead body.
Chu You’s eyes swept through the gloomy surroundings, continuing to walk aimlessly. The night time in Heaven had a characteristic, and that was that starting from level 10, the diurnal species would retreat and disappear. They were replaced with other cunning and powerful nocturnal species. They would make their rounds around the XP area on their own accord, and after discovering players, they would lie low and attack. They did not just possess high fatality attacking ability, but they also understood tactical suppression extremely well. This was especially apparent in high level zones, making it hard for players to guard against them.
It looked like he had stumbled upon the inspection zone of the blood sucking bats? It might not even be just one species.
Chu You was in deep thought. He could no longer rely on his method of searching for monsters in the daytime anymore.
The laws of Heaven had turned around at night. Now it was monsters who specialized in hunting who were the ones hunting for players!