This game is just too kind to mages!

The more Yiye Zhiqu observed, the more envious he became, wishing the game developers would implement a microtransaction button immediately.

His demands weren't high.

As long as he could cast spells, he'd be content whether as skeleton soldiers or slimes!

As time ticked by, the corpses of spiders in the hall piled up into a small hill.

Scarlet and pale yellow fluids gathered in the hall, forming streams that added a touch of terror to the web-covered hall.

With more and more Earth Cave Spiders belly-up, not only did Luo Yan's experience keep skyrocketing, but the players in charge of luring the monsters also got to share in the spoils.

Even though they received less experience due to the lower damage contribution per monster, the sheer number trumped all!

Thousands of Earth Cave Spiders combined, and even if each spider contributed only a two-digit number of experience points, that still amounted to a surge of tens of thousands!

The experience cap at Lv3 was a total of 30,000, and Yiye Zhiqu's experience bar was filled up without him even noticing.

And just as he was breaking through the LV3 bottleneck, an unexpected change occurred that surprised everyone!

"What's... what's happening?"

A ghostly green light emerged from the void, wrapping around Yiye Zhiqu.

In that instant, he felt stronger than he ever had before.

If the skeleton soldier he controlled before was just his real body covered in a different skin, now he was frighteningly strong— in both reaction speed and strength!

A glob of sticky phlegm whooshed towards him. Previously requiring his full attention to dodge, he now easily ducked, causing it to miss him completely.

That Earth Cave Spider seemed startled by the changes in him as well, slowing its hurried pace as if reassessing whether this bony frame was worth the risk.

Taking advantage of the spiders' sluggish moment, Yiye Zhiqu took several jumps back to create distance, then looked down at himself.

Wondering if it was his imagination, he was surprised to find his once frail bones seemed sturdier!

Not only that—

The previously sluggish joints were now moving smoothly, no longer creaking.

Realizing something, he immediately opened the attributes panel and indeed found something extraordinary.

[

ID: Yiye Zhiqu

Race: Skeleton

Soul Level: Black Iron (Level cap LV10)

Level: LV.4

Experience: (18/40K)

HP: (300/300)

Mana: (100/100)

Constitution: 3 (+1)

Strength: 6 (+1)

Agility: 3 (+1)

Intelligence: 1 (+1)

Spirit: 1 (+1)

]

All attributes +1!

Especially the Mana, Intelligence, and Spirit—finally, they're not zero anymore!

Looking at the updated attributes panel, a look of ecstatic joy appeared on Yiye Zhiqu's face.

At that same moment, a light green pop-up window appeared in front of him.

[Server Announcement: Congratulations to player "Yiye Zhiqu" for becoming the first official player on the server to advance to the "Black Iron rank"! We hope other players will continue to persevere and create glory together with the Great Graveyard!]

Seeing the announcement before his eyes, Yiye Zhiqu couldn't help feeling both ecstatic and a bit embarrassed.

Although he felt the sincerity of the development team from this server-wide announcement, if given the choice, he still wanted to hide his ID.

He was a low-profile person, preferring not to draw too much attention.

Meanwhile, not far away, Dragon Roaming Wanli, Qianli, and Baili, who had just finished pulling a batch of monsters and were resting, happened to see this announcement, and envy appeared on their faces.

"We were beaten to it."

"His Contribution Value... it's already over a thousand?!"

"I'm afraid that's the case."

It was a pity.

He had hoped to use this opportunity to make a name for the "Dragon Roaming Under Heaven" guild in "Plague OL" and rally the "Exploiters."

But now it seemed that he could only wait for the next opportunity.

Wanli: "There's nothing we can do about it, I remember they started farming Earth Cave Spiders since yesterday, their Contribution Value is probably way ahead of us, it's not an undeserved loss."

Although they had also tried farming Earth Cave Spiders, the efficiency was too low, and there were casualties.

In the final analysis, the physical qualities of these skeleton frames were just too poor, even worse than his real body.

And since the game's beta qualification was limited, he couldn't mobilize the power of the guild and could only rely on the strength of Qianli and Baili, who had also drawn the beta qualification.

After weighing the pros and cons, they ultimately chose to bully the easier targets, the rats.

Although their efficiency in earning money and gaining experience had improved, looking at it now, it may have been a case of losing more than they gained.

On the other side, Hu Wan didn't feel much, but thought that this server-wide announcement should have come earlier.

After all, early this morning, Yiye Zhiqu had leveled up to Black Iron, just trailing a bit in experience points.

"...It seems that just improving the soul level is not enough, I need to increase the actual level as well."

This was relatively fair for the average player.

After all, the corpses of the Earth Cave Spiders could be traded, and whether it was Joss Paper or Contribution Value, as long as you had money, there was always a way to buy it, not being able to purchase now was purely because there were too few people in the server, obviously there would be private trades later... this is something unavoidable in any game.

Only experience points had to be earned personally.

Even if you paid someone to help, if you didn't contribute any damage at all, you wouldn't get any experience points.

Not far away, watching the Dragon Roaming guys perk up and rush into the maze, a smile of a successful plan finally showed on the face of a certain Big Boss.

The recent server-wide announcement was less of a reward for "Yiye Zhiqu" as an individual, and more like a spur for all the maximum-effort players in the server.

Take a good look, see, this is what you call "enterprise-level" understanding of the game!

Everyone starts with the same set of bones, so why do some skeleton soldiers get to Black Iron in just one day, while others are stuck at lv3?

If you don't grind, he doesn't grind, how will my Demon King Territory evolve and strengthen?

Do I as the Lord Demon King have to get my hands dirty?

Uncapping another vial of the little blue potion, Luo Yan tilted his head back and poured it into his mouth, then raised his arm to wipe his mouth.

However, unexpectedly, his peripheral vision caught a glimpse of a hint of crimson on his sleeve cuff.

Huh?

Nosebleed?

As he was lost in thought, a few plunking drops landed beside the tip of his shoe.

"Lord Demon King, you should really take care of your body... There's no side effect with the Magic Potion, right?"

Youyou looked worriedly at His Majesty the Demon King and whispered with concern.

This was already the seventh bottle.

Intuition told it that constantly taking potions was not a good idea.

"I'm fine, it's probably due to the overload of the spiritual network from frequent spellcasting... it might not necessarily be the potion's fault."

Maybe it was a matter of constitution?

He watched the Demons chug one potion after another, and they seemed fine even with such a large dosage meant for beasts...

Glancing at the nosebleed on the floor, Luo Yan felt apprehensive and dared not to continue recklessly.

"...I better take a rest before grinding again."

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