Chapter 343 - 164: Slaying the Boss, Level Up, an Unexpectedly Massive Harvest
"Bro!"
"You have no idea how arrogant that Director of the Hang City Tourism Management Office was! Relying on Hang City’s two Neutral Cities, he was acting all high and mighty and incredibly arrogant! Not only was he arrogant within the Tourism Management Office system, even challenging headquarters directly, but he was also cocky as hell at the last New Olympic Games in Country F!"
"The only reason they could be so arrogant is that Hang City has two Neutral Cities! But now, Qing City just announced it has nine Neutral Cities, including one large and two medium ones! That’s why the guy suddenly piped down! Otherwise, he’s just way too annoying!"
As Shen Fei continued to grind mobs, Sun Yu quickly reported on the situation with the Hang City Tourism Management Office in response to his earlier question.
"So no one likes him?" Shen Fei picked up on Sun Yu’s meaning.
"Right! Nobody likes him! Absolutely everyone dislikes Ma Bangde!" Sun Yu answered quickly and without hiding his feelings.
"Good! Then let them fend for themselves!" After hearing what Sun Yu had to say, Shen Fei stopped paying any mind to Hang City’s affairs.
Number 0 had gone incommunicado out of sheer arrogance, and he’d done it during the critical period of the full Version 4.1 and 4.2 updates, completely ignoring the bigger picture. Shen Fei had no intention of protecting Number 0’s Mist City.
Since you’ve abandoned your city, just let it fend for itself.
If Hang City could hold, then they would hold; if they couldn’t, Shen Fei wasn’t going to force them to do anything.
Since that Ma Bangde from Hang City is so detestable... then they can just give back what wasn’t theirs to begin with...
WHOOSH... WHOOSH... WHOOSH...
Ignoring the matter of Hang City, Shen Fei once again fell into a rhythm of rapid Teleportation, rapid mob clearing, and rapid experience gain.
「An hour later」
Under Shen Fei’s pleasantly surprised gaze, his personal panel opened once more, and lines of text scrolled into view:
[Ding!]
[+17 Experience!]
[Ding!]
[You have reached Level 120!]
[Ding!]
[Defense Tower Limit +3, Skill Slots Unlocked: 0.5, HP +10,000, Level-Based Combat Power Bonus +120%!]
To Shen Fei’s delight, his level had once again increased by ten, reaching Level 120! Moreover, what made him even happier than reaching Level 110 was that after hitting Level 120, his Defense Tower limit had increased by 3, bringing the total to 616. But that wasn’t all. His skill slots had also increased, and his HP had gone up by 10,000. Although it was a pain that the increase was fragmented—only 0.5 of a skill slot, meaning he couldn’t learn a new skill right away—it was still good news for Shen Fei.
With the Experience Bar unlocked, he could now gain experience to level up. This gave him a new path to improvement that others lacked, and it was a path he could control. Besides improving through inheriting his game abilities, he now had an additional method of enhancement: getting great rewards every ten levels.
In his past life, when the Version 4.7 update rolled out, everyone had already completed their game ability inheritance. All the game’s elements had already been inherited into reality. So, when the leveling system was unlocked in Version 4.7, that was the only method of improvement available to everyone.
But right now, because the updates had been pushed forward, the game ability inheritance was still ongoing. He could not only continue to improve by inheriting his game abilities, but he could also improve by leveling up.
The rewards from Level 120 confirmed to Shen Fei that as long as he leveled up quickly, he could achieve a dual path of enhancement. Although it seemed the rewards couldn’t be used immediately, the improvement itself was real.
WHOOSH.
Leveling to 120 wasn’t a waste.
After reviewing his new gains, Shen Fei’s gaze fell upon his personal Attributes panel, on the level attribute line:
"[Level: 120 (8,387,293 / 4.3 Billion)]"
Shen Fei’s level had risen to 120. At the same time, the experience required for his next level-up had shot up to 4.3 billion, an enormous amount.
Just as expected from a system that gives you rewards every ten levels. The massive experience requirement is directly proportional to the rewards given...
"Bro!"
"Bro!"
"This is bad! The boss is out!"
"We can’t hold them back!"
Just as Shen Fei was feeling exceptionally motivated to continue grinding mobs due to his level-up, he suddenly received a panicked message from Sun Yu.
"Fuck!"
It’s about to end!
Hearing Sun Yu’s message, Shen Fei’s first thought wasn’t worry about the approaching boss. His first thought was that the monster tide was about to end. By now, more than four hours had passed since it began. Each Monster Nest had spawned over a hundred million monsters. Once the boss appeared, the first monster tide after the full Version 4.1 update would be over.
Damn it! And here I was, planning to grind experience until Level 130 and see how things were then!
Speechless, Shen Fei could only complain to himself as he quickly teleported back to Qing City. With the boss’s appearance, the monster tide was about to end, and his grand undertaking of grinding mobs for experience would soon be over.
In a flash, Shen Fei appeared on the city walls of Qing City. Then, through the Detection Tower, he saw 32 massive monsters, each with the word "Boss" floating above its head, emerging from the Monster Nests.
The bosses that appeared were not fast, but their aura was unstoppable. As they emerged, the smaller mobs that spawned alongside them were instantly bathed in a golden light.
"Hm?"
They’re that strong!
What shocked Shen Fei wasn’t that the Ninth-Tier Defense Tower attacks from the Heaven-Reaching Gang members could no longer one-shot the mobs with the golden buff that spawned with the boss. After all, it was completely understandable that the mobs would become a hundred times stronger when led and buffed by a boss.