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Chapter 5: You Also Need a Beating, Don’t You?

Translator: Henyee Translations

Editor: Henyee Translations

Since it was a little late, Li Huailin went to sleep after checking his bank account. The next day at seven in the morning, Li Huailin woke up on schedule. He found some cold rice in the fridge and made some rice soaked in soup for breakfast. After doing so, he scrolled through ‘Heart of Glory’s’ official website and forums while he ate.

On the stickied forum thread: ‘The most kickass player in history viciously beats the newbie village chief, the village chief surrenders to tyrannical abuse and hands over a hidden quest!’

There weren’t many words below the post, instead, a video link was shown. Li Huailin clicked on it to check it out, and as expected, it was a video of him lifting the grey-bearded old man and fiercely slapping the latter.

These were the comments left below:

Original post: I have no more words to say, dear viewers please see this for yourselves.

First post: Just a single word, kickass.

Second post: Worship this godly man.

Third post: This thread will definitely explode.

Fourth post: Leaving my name before this thread becomes popular1.

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Twenty-first post: Kickass

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Fifty-seventh post: Leaving my name before this thread becomes popular.

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Six hundred ninetieth post: This one’s older brother is the person in the video, worship me.

Six hundred ninety-first post: The one above is an S131

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“Sigh…” Li Huailin, who had just finished reading the thread, sighed lightly. “I’m no longer in Jianghu1, however, legends of this brother circulates everywhere in Jianghu…”

After he was done cleaning the bowls and chopsticks, he was about to enter the game when he suddenly heard a ‘kuang’ sound come from the corridor outside his doorway.

Finding this strange, Li Huailin opened the door, he actually discovered his neighbor, Chen Juan, leaning on his door and sitting on the corridor. Her eyes were closed as her chest rose and fell, it seemed that she had fallen asleep.

“Hey, hey, wake up.” Li Huailin squatted down to wake Chen Juan, before he even got close to her, the scent of alcohol crashed onto his face.

“This gal, how much did she drink?” Li Huailin frowned before continuing to call out her name, “Sister Juan, Sister Juannnn, wake up.”

“Ah, little handsome brother…” Chen Juan drowsy eyes peeled open, her beautiful face had a tinge of rose-colored blush while a seductive voice entered Li Huailin’s ear, “Come, come have a seat in my house.”

“This is my house…” Li Huailin worked up a sweat, “Sister Juan, give me your keys, I’ll help you back to your place.”

Sister Juan was still obviously drunk, she didn’t even know what she was doing anymore. As dazed as she was, she didn’t even respond to what he was saying. Fortunately, Li Huailin saw the bag underneath Chen Juan’s right hand, after he opened and rummaged through it, he found a key as expected—in passing, he also found a few condoms inside the bag. He couldn’t help but break out a sweat again.

“I’ll help you back,” Li Huailin propped up Chen Juan as he said this, he hobbled towards Chen Juan’s unit, 2401. Right when he opened the door, the smell of perfume drifted outwards.

“Wow, doesn’t this gal doesn’t open the windows when she goes out? She’ll get sick like this sooner or later.” Li Huailin hurriedly pulled Chen Juan to the bedroom and tossed her on the bed, he then pulled the blankets over her and then opened the windows in the living room. After tidying up the hideous mess on the living room table, he washed his hands in the bathroom, and then once he was done, he took a glance at Chen Juan who was already in deep sleep. He silently went out the door.

“I might be a lot worse than a beast…” After closing Chen Juan’s door, Li Huailin suddenly realized even after he saw the condoms, he didn’t actually have any thoughts about that certain ‘matter’, could he possibly be gay?

“Forget it, the door’s already closed and the key is in her living room, I can’t enter now even if I wanted to.” After thinking about what just happened, he thought it was better to not increase his worries any further. He wasn’t that thirsty in the first place, there was no need to stress about it.

Li Huailin returned to his room and locked the door, he sat on his homemade gaming pod once again. After the screen turned dark, he appeared in the spot where he went offline yesterday.

‘What should I do today?’ Li Huailin thought, ‘Yes, yes, I should make a simple plan, the first thing I should do is to level up. According to my -250 experience right now, it’ll require dying 105 times to reach level 10… Sh*t, this game isn’t playable at all! To reach level 105, I’ll have to die 1,005 times… Sigh. forget it, I’ll die 100 times first before anything else. What the hell? Why doesn’t this game have a suicide system? I really want to die, I sincerely beg for techniques like the Heavenly Demon Disintegration1.’

Since Li Huailin couldn’t instantly commit suicide, he could only leave the village to find monsters. In the end, he found the Black Slimes again. Li Huailin hit one over here and there and then dragged them along. The Black Slimes chased and struck him fiercely, just when Li Huailin drew in a fifth one, finally, with the tragic scream of “Ah!” he fell to the ground.

“Doing all this was only worth 50 experience points… It’s not much faster than fighting monsters at all.” Li Huailin was a little depressed after walking out of the revival point. The process of running from the village to the outside and then seeking death, then once again, running outside from the village took a long time. However, the main thing was that the Slimes’ attack was too low! it took forever for these guys to kill even a level 1 like him, this wasn’t faster than the players who obtained experience by killing monsters on the spot.

Li Huailin’s current leveling speed was certainly slow, if it were other players, the first level only required a total of 500 experience points to proceed to level 2. With the newbie village chief’s quest of 200 experience points, and then, after fighting another 60 slimes, it would be enough for them to level up. It normally wouldn’t take an hour to level up from level one to level two. However, Li Huailin had to die back and forth a dozen times, this would take around two times the normal amount of time, even then, it still wouldn’t be enough.

“If only I could find monsters with more impressive damage output…” In a short moment, Li Huailin thought of another way. Because the Slimes only dealt damage for 2 to 3 health points, this was why it was so slow. If he were to find a monster that could instantly kill him, then dying would be much more straightforward!

However, after thinking about it more, he found that this didn’t seem right either. The more dangerous monsters were relatively further away from the newbie village, it would take a long time for him to run over there. However, after he revived, he would still respawn in the newbie village, he would definitely die from running alone. Besides, the speed of the whole process wouldn’t necessarily be faster than being killed by Slimes.

“This motherf**king dilemma… it’s better to just kill monsters to level up,” Li Huailin said dejectedly.

Just as Li Huailin was deliberating on what to do, he suddenly overheard the conversation of two players near the side.

“You went mining again, hurry up and kill monsters to level up, you can do that kind of stuff after you’ve left the newbie village,” a player said to the other player, who was carrying a pick, “Support Classes are all worthless, hurry up and change to an actual profession, that’s the kingly way.”

“I feel that the Miner Support Class is quite useful, look here, 10 iron ores can sell for 15 copper coins, it’s quite profitable,” the player carrying the pick responded, “Unfortunately, I only dare to mine at the entrance of the mining cave, the monsters inside are too fierce, they could kill me in two hits.”

“No kidding! With your amount of equipment, it serves you right for constantly mining.”

“You two, please wait,” Li Huailin called out to the two players, “Do you guys have a minute?”

“Hm, what?” The two of them stopped as they looked at Li Huailin.

“Can you guys tell me where the mining cave is? How far is it from the newbie village?” Li Huailin asked.

“Oh, it’s located a little south of the newbie village, not too far,” the player carrying the pick said as he pointed towards a direction, “Walk this way, you’ll be there in a short while.”

“Oh damn, the heavens have really blessed me!” Li Huailin waved his fist in excitement. “Are the monsters inside very strong?”

“Yeah, it’s alright at the entrance of the mine cave since there aren’t many monsters, however, if you walk a little bit further inside there’ll be level six bats and level eight zombies. They’re both especially difficult to deal with,” the player said, “The ore vein inside is also slightly better, but it’s too dangerous for me. Because I’m only level 3, I can’t go in.”

“Oh, thank you.” Li Huailin said with a smile.

“No problem, ah, that’s right. If you want to mine at the mining cave, there’s a prerequisite quest. You have to obtain a mining certificate first or else the system won’t let you in the mining cave.” Since the player saw that Li Huailin was also quite interested in the mining cave, he assumed that Li Huailin also liked to mine. As a fellow kindred spirit, he kindly reminded him what he should do.

“Oh, I see, then where do I accept the quest?” Li Huailin asked.

“At the village blacksmith, you have to accept the Supporting Class quest and learn the Miner support class, only then will you be able to obtain the mining certificate.”

“Oh, I got it, thank you for the information.” LI Huailin said sincerely.

“It’s nothing, everyone should help each other out.” This player smiled and waved his hand as he left.

After Li Huailin bid farewell to the two kind players, he ran over to the village blacksmith. The village’s blacksmith shop wasn’t really large, it was about 40 square meters and there were a dozen or so players at the entrance. Some of them were practicing how to forge on an anvil to the side, these were all players who learned the Forging support class.

The blacksmith was a full-bearded NPC in his forties, he was called Bard. He was currently hammering away on an anvil at the entrance as he was thoughtlessly dealing with the passing players.

“Hm? A boy? You’re that immature newbie warrior that the village chief’s been talking about, I heard you completed the village chief’s quest. It seems you’re somewhat strong. How ’bout this, I have a quest here, you can go and collect 10 fangs from the Fanged Rats, I need to use them for forging.” Once he saw Li Huailin approaching, Bard the blacksmith started to issue a quest.

System Notice: Bard the village blacksmith has issued an E-rank quest, Collect Fangs, Accept or Not?

“Only idiots would do quests,” Li Huailin rejected him outright, “Hurry up and hand over the mining certificate!”

“Oh, you want to mine? Becoming a Miner is also great! I can instruct you on the techniques for mining, but you still need to complete the quest I issued earlier before I can let you learn this support class,” Bard the blacksmith said this with the format formulated by the system, he rejected Li Huailin’s request as expected.

“What the hell? It’ll be another several hundred experience points if I do this mission! How many times do you want me to die? I’m not doing it, I’m warning you, just hand me the certificate quickly, my hands are already itching a lot, so you’d better be careful, I might just slap you into an idiot.” Li Huailin threatened.

“Hmph, you’re a brat who hasn’t grown all his hair yet and you dare threaten me?” Bard the blacksmith threw off all inhibitions and bellowed.

Since Bard had a large voice, it soon attracted the attention of the surrounding players who were currently forging and shopping right now.

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“What’s happening? Who’s that player?” A player asked.

“Why does that person’s face look so familiar?” Another player stroked his chin as he said.

Li Huailin wasn’t scared of onlookers, he didn’t care about them at all. Moreover, he now laughed out of anger for Bard’s actions, “I understand! You also need a beating, don’t you?”

“What?” While Bard still hadn’t understood his words, Li Huailin already threw a slap on Bard’s face.

“Pa!” a loud sound could be heard, the entire smithy suddenly quieted down.