Legend of the Pinnacle of Online Games

Chapter 147 caused a sensation

The drop rate of the Berserk Rhino Monster BOSS is quite considerable, especially with the first kill and Lin Hanchuan's high luck stat.

The fallen debris covered the ground.

Although most of the items were potions and coins, the scene was still quite astonishing.

Combined with the dozens of corpses around them that hadn't yet been pixelated and disappeared, the scene was visually striking to the surrounding players.

"Arakawa White Owl is too fierce! In that pitch-black situation, he was able to accurately kill dozens of top thieves and assassins."

"I've discovered that in our Moon Gazing City, expert players and novice players are treated equally by Arakawa White Owl."

"The fault line in Wangyue City is the strongest!"

"No wonder he could easily clear four dungeons for the first time. Even if he weren't Night Owl, it wouldn't matter. With this level of strength, he could easily surpass Night Owl in the future."

"Arakawa White Owl is too low-key! If I had his strength, I'd walk with my head tilted at a 45-degree angle to the sky, and I'd just chop down anyone I didn't like!"

"So you can't become him."

Everyone looked at Lin Hanchuan, their minds still replaying the previous battle.

The fog blockade lasted for less than a minute.

But in that short period of time, in an environment with almost no visibility, Arakawa White Owl easily killed dozens of top-tier assassins and thieves in Mochizuki City.

If Lin Hanchuan's strength was a vague concept in their minds before, then at this moment, his strength has become tangible in their minds.

So strong it's despair-inducing.

There was absolutely no way to confront him head-on in battle.

Besides Lin Hanchuan, the players also witnessed the performance of Long Xiaochen and the others.

"Shouldn't the focus now be on Arakawa White Owl's teammates? Before the battle, Kanglong Youhui summoned four spirit pets, all of them Lord-level. The moment the fog sealed off the area, a massive barrier immediately withstood the attacks from everyone outside. Then, amidst the horse race on the erhu, one after another, semi-transparent steeds galloped out. None of the other three members of the Heavenly Path Squad are easy to deal with!"

"Once the horse race begins, the entire field is immediately under control, making it impossible for anyone to move, turning them into fish on a chopping board."

"The musician under the cold moonlight brought me a shock that was no less than that of the mage Arakawa White Owl."

"So, what conditions are needed to become a powerful musician? Didn't they say that musicians are the weakest class in the game? Several musician players I added in the newbie village have now deleted their accounts and started over."

"The musician profession is bad? There are no bad professions in District 9, only bad people! Someone who can't even read sheet music dares to choose the musician profession, if he's not bad, who is?"

“I have a friend who frequently wins violin competitions. In another city, he plays the Musician class and has already received many invitations from major factions in other regions. Although the Musician class has the lowest skill floor among all professions in the game, its skill ceiling is definitely the highest, without exception.”

The focus of attention began to fall on the musicians.

Musician and Puppet Master, as two new professions added to the Ninth District, have sparked considerable discussion online even before the Ninth District was launched.

After the server opened, many people directly chose the Musician or Puppet Master.

Puppet master is alright; although the learning curve is a bit steep, with a little effort, you can still improve.

The musicians are ridiculous. No matter how hard you try, if you play a single wrong note during battle, the skill's effect will be greatly reduced.

It drove many players crazy.

This leads to the fact that, in the eyes of most players, the Musician is a useless class, only a burden to the team.

On the forum, someone compiled statistics.

Two-thirds of those who deleted their accounts due to professional reasons were musicians.

This further fueled the sentiment among players that "the Musician class is useless."

But this time, Long Xiaoyue's performance in the battle, with her rendition of "Horse Racing," directly refuted those who said "the musician is too bad."

The shock it left on most people's minds was even greater than Lin Hanchuan killing dozens of top players in less than a minute.

Correspondingly, the video of Lin Hanchuan soloing the berserk rhino monster BOSS and subsequently killing players who were stealing the monster spread rapidly from different perspectives.

Arriving on the forum.

[First-hand video: The strongest mage in Wangyue City, "Arakawa White Owl," solo-kills the first wild BOSS in the entire region—the Berserk Rhino Monster BOSS.]

[The terrifying damage of Arakawa White Owl, the strongest mage in the future Ninth District!]

[Shocking! In broad daylight, witnessed by tens of thousands of players, the strongest player in Wangyue City, Huangchuan Baixiao, actually did this to a wild BOSS...]

Major video websites.

[Arakawa White Owl's Complete Guide to Soloing Wild Bosses, Especially the Last Part—You Might Have to Read It on Your Knees]

[In a fourth-tier city in the Ninth District, the strongest mage and the strongest musician have appeared! Don't believe it? Watch the video!]

[The Right Way to Play a Mage: Arakawa Haku teaches you how to master the Berserker!]

How is the strongest mage trained? You'll understand after reading this.

When the video was being circulated on various websites.

Some official media outlets are also publishing related news.

Phoenix – Arakawa Shirao, the “strongest” mage to descend upon the Ninth District upon its launch, becomes the first player in the Ninth District to kill a wild boss.

Asahi News – “Breaking news! Another major event has occurred in District 9!”

Camel – "Arrival in the Ninth District, Another Genius Player Emerges, Suspected to be a Alt Account of Night Owl, the King of the First District"

America – “I’m so angry! How come our great Western power doesn’t have a mage player as strong as Arakawa White Owl in the Ninth District? This is something the whole nation should reflect on.”

……

With the game "Descent" becoming the most popular online game in the world, media outlets around the globe have bowed their heads in homage, even creating dedicated sections to report on the major and minor events that occur within the game.

When the game officially announced the upcoming launch of the ninth server, media outlets in almost every country were following up on the latest news daily.

The two months that Lin Hanchuan was being hunted down by the Immortal Dynasty in Zone 1 were a month of revelry for the media and marketing accounts.

There are all sorts of news reports.

These were also the two months in which Lin Hanchuan's fan base exploded.

One stone caused a thousand waves.

"Arakawa White Owl", "Heavenly Path Team", "The Musician", "The Strongest Mage", "Night Owl"

These keywords instantly became trending search terms on major platforms.

Numerous comments appeared below the video of Lin Hanchuan killing the berserk rhinoceros monster BOSS.

He pulled the blanket over himself and said, "Is this a first-tier mage? He's easily defeating the berserk rhinoceros monster boss. His combat power has probably already exceeded the threshold for second-tier mage."

As night fell: "I also play a mage. The speed at which Arakawa White Owl attacks clearly shows that he added a lot of attribute points to agility in the early stages. I also allocated my attribute points in the same way, so I can cast four skills with no cooldown per second. But when I'm grinding monsters, it's like scratching a thorn. I run out of mana in less than five seconds. When I finally looked at the cumulative damage I caused, it was less than what a ranged player of the same level could do with two arrows."

I'm really good: "@Nightfall, brother, you have to understand that people are different. Arakawa White Owl increases agility to improve attack speed, which means he can ensure that his cooldown-free skills can deal damage, and at the same time, he has unlimited mana."

Why don't you cast a vote: "@Nightfall, the brother upstairs is right. Any mage player can achieve Arakawa White Owl's attack speed as long as they allocate their free attribute points towards Agility. But for skills with no cooldown, the biggest limitation isn't the number of attacks per second, but the excessive mana consumption. Mana runs out in three to five seconds; how can a mage be played like that? Ordinary players should just stick to the conventional way of allocating points."

……

Golden Rhythm: "The musician from the Heavenly Path Team is also very strong. I've seen many videos of musicians playing, but she's the strongest player I've seen so far, without a doubt. In other people's hands, horse racing can only produce short-term hard control within a small range, but in her hands, she can directly perform continuous hard control throughout the entire game. If she didn't actively end the game, she could probably hard control the horse until the end of the performance."

Josuke: "The moonlight is cold, awesome!!"

Death Cyclone: ​​"6666!!"

Loser Eats the Dust: "I've seen a lot of people talking about how strong the musician in the Heavenly Path team is, but haven't you noticed that the Summoner and Tank are also ridiculously strong? The members also have excellent teamwork. If this continues, the Heavenly Path team might become the strongest team in the Ninth District."

……

This time.

The entire Heavenly Path Team undoubtedly garnered significant attention and traffic from across the internet.

However, Cao Renjie's attention was on Lin Hanchuan. "Boss, what's that scroll of yours?"

Cao Renjie watched as a wisp of white light drifted out of the scroll and entered Lin Hanchuan's body.

"Gatherer Job Scroll!" Lin Hanchuan replied, reaching out to gather all the items in a small patch of ground at his feet.

"Ding! Congratulations! You have successfully collected 5 gold coins, which have been added to your personal account. Please check them."

"Ding! Congratulations! You have successfully collected a gem and placed it in your storage space. Please check it."

"Ding! Congratulations..."

It usually takes more than ten consecutive pick-ups.

This time, Lin Hanchuan didn't even need to bend over; he could simply reach out and collect them.

Gathering is much more convenient than gathering.

In theory, once a gatherer reaches the god-level, they can gather anything.

"Not bad!" Cao Renjie said enviously, "They've already got a life skill so early."

"The system reward is mainly because I jumped 14 levels this time. The greater the level gap, the better the system reward," Lin Hanchuan replied with a smile. "As for the next life skill, I don't know when I'll be able to get it."

Life skills, also known as secondary professions, are a type of skill-based profession. Players can learn as many as they want, so having more skills is never a bad thing.

However, players can only learn one primary job.

Lin Hanchuan had never heard of anyone having two professions.

"Captain, do you think we might suddenly become very popular?" Long Xiaochen asked out of the blue.

When Lin Hanchuan looked at him.

Long Xiaochen was rubbing his chin, staring at the void in front of him, his eyes filled with excitement. "Right now, all the players in the Moon Gazing City public chat channel are talking about our Heavenly Dao Team. There are shocked comments everywhere."

At this point, Long Xiaochen shook his head and said regretfully, "It's just a pity that these people aren't very cultured; all they can say is 'Wow, wow, wow, awesome, awesome.'"

"If they wouldn't say lines like 'Zongzhi, a handsome young man, raises his cup and rolls his eyes at the blue sky, as radiant as a jade tree standing in the wind,' then at least they'd say two: 'A gentleman like jade on the road, unparalleled in the world,' 'Autumn waters as his spirit, jade as his bones, his talent like brocade and his spirit like a rainbow,' 'Standing like an orchid and a jade tree, smiling as the bright moon enters his embrace!'"

"Seriously, it's terrifying how uncultured these people are!"

Long Xiaochen let out a long sigh and looked up at the sky at a 45-degree angle.

Cao Renjie, who had just been standing next to Long Xiaochen, immediately distanced himself from him. There was no doubt that those flowery words were prepared by Long Xiaochen for him.

Lin Hanchuan silently turned his head and used his gathering profession to collect the drops from the Berserk Rhino Monster BOSS on the ground.

With the help of the Gatherer profession, Lin Hanchuan cleared the loot very quickly, finishing off the area around the Rampaging Rhino Monster BOSS in less than three minutes.

In addition to the gold coin potion, Lin Hanchuan also collected three top-tier gold weapons of level 36 with +13 gold stats, each with three slots.

Lin Hanchuan gave Long Xiaoyue a harmonica. Everyone had witnessed her performance in battle, and with this harmonica, she would be even more formidable.

Lin Hanchuan gave Cao Renjie an axe. Tanks can also be equipped with simple melee weapons like axes, in addition to shields. However, the output is very low, and they are generally used to kill monsters and draw aggro.

There are also two fangs, which are the weapons of vampire and werewolf players. These two classes are mainly popular among players with white skin, and they also like to secretly despise each other.

To call vampires monsters who live in the shadows.

To call a werewolf a hairy, two-legged dog.

Lin Hanchuan didn't know how the hierarchy of contempt between vampires and werewolves was formed.

There are also two skill books.

One of the books is the "Summon Rampaging Rhino Monster Skill Book," which can only be learned by players of the Summoning class. Lin Hanchuan gave it directly to Long Xiaochen. After learning it, he can summon a general-level rhino monster of the same level. Although it doesn't have the BOSS title, a general-level tank pet is still incredibly powerful in the current meta, providing a stable guarantee for the Heavenly Path Team's future team operations.

One of them is "Flesh and Blood Sacrifice," which can only be learned by players who can play sacrifice-based professions, such as priests and wizards. In battle, by sacrificing flesh and blood, one can help oneself or teammates gain increased combat power.

While the Sacrifice Amplification skill performs exceptionally well in combat, it requires an enormous amount of resources, second only to Soul-type classes. Generally, only large guilds or strong teams can afford to maintain it.

There were also quite a few gems, with the highest quality reaching four stars, totaling five. After glancing at the attribute information, Lin Hanchuan gave them all to Long Xiaochen and Long Xiaoyue, who had just obtained the golden weapons.

Lin Hanchuan put all the remaining dropped items into his spatial ring.

Including the loot from dungeons and monsters, Lin Hanchuan now has a large stockpile of resources. Since the price he could sell them to the system was too low, he plans to wait until he returns to town before making a move.

It's worth mentioning that, because Lin Hanchuan's luck stat was so high, the players he killed also dropped a lot of very good weapons and items.

These extra drops naturally all ended up in Lin Hanchuan's hands, and he would deal with them together later.

After cleaning up the surroundings, Lin Hanchuan's gaze fell on the corpse of the berserk rhinoceros monster BOSS.

The Rampaging Rhino Monster BOSS was already incredibly large, and after it died and fell to the ground, it became an even larger mountain of flesh.

Previously, Lin Hanchuan had no way to collect useful parts from the corpses of these wild monsters and often gave up, but now that he has the profession of Gatherer, it is much easier.

Lin Hanchuan reached out and touched the corpse of the berserk rhinoceros monster BOSS, collecting the loot directly.

"Ding! Congratulations! You have successfully collected a rib from a Berserk Rhino Monster BOSS and placed it in your storage space. Please check it."

"Ding! Congratulations! You have successfully collected 10 kilograms of hind leg meat from the Rampaging Rhino Monster BOSS. It has been added to your storage space. Please check it."

……

At the system's prompt, the corpse of the berserk rhinoceros monster BOSS collapsed at a visible speed.

Lin Hanchuan collected the bones, flesh, and internal organs from the body piece by piece and put them into his spatial ring.

The corpse of a wild monster is actually a treasure from head to toe.

Besides being used as raw materials for medicines, clothing, and some equipment, it can also be made into delicious dishes.

Because the immersive experience in online games is so high, players often experience a completely different feeling when tasting delicious food compared to real life.

Besides providing immense enjoyment to the taste buds, some delicious dishes can also grant players additional attribute points.

Therefore, food is a very large expense for many players.

Restaurants and taverns exist in major cities throughout the game, most of which are backed by powerful forces or large merchant guilds. Their demand for ingredients is enormous, and sometimes they even organize large groups of players to go hunting.

In the game, players with food-related side jobs such as chefs and pastry chefs earn even higher salaries than in real life.

What you can enjoy in reality, you can also enjoy in the coming.

What you can't enjoy in reality, you can enjoy in this world.

As a novice gatherer, Lin Hanchuan's gathering speed was limited when it came to collecting the corpse of a berserk rhinoceros monster, which was as big as a mountain of flesh. It took him five or six minutes to completely collect the corpse.

A bunch of useless things were left behind, which quickly turned into mosaics and disappeared.

After glancing at the various parts of the Rampaging Rhino Monster BOSS that had already been categorized using the Gathering Technique inside the spatial ring, Lin Hanchuan turned to Long Xiaoyue and asked.

"Any other copy messages?"

Currently, five dungeons have been released in Wangyue City, all of which have been cleared by the first player.

Lin Hanchuan won over four of them.

"Not at the moment!" Long Xiaoyue shook her head and replied.

After achieving the first clear of the [Dawn of the Day] dungeon, she kept an eye on the information posted by players in the Moon Gazing City public chat channel.

However, to date, no other copy of this information has been released.

"Boss, five instances have already been discovered in one city in the early stages, that's quite good," Cao Renjie said from the side.

The number of instances a city can have is limited, and they are all based on a fixed level.

Generally, there are 3 at level 10, 3 at level 15, 2 at level 20, 1 at level 25, and so on.

(End of this chapter)