Quickly finish off the last two wild boars.
Riven Locke opened his backpack to check.
[Poison Coating] (Common White Tier)Class: RogueEffect: Coats the dagger with poison for 10 minutes. Attacks have a 20% chance to poison the enemy, dealing damage equal to 20% of attack power per second for 30 seconds.
...Still just a common white-tier skill.
But Riven couldn't be happier.
Something is better than nothing.
Skill books were rare treasures in this world.
He learned it!
The skill book in his backpack vanished, leaving behind a skill imprint.
It was branded onto Riven's skill bar.
Suddenly—
Ding! — Shadowwalker's Poison Mastery activated!
[Poison Coating] upgraded to [Venomous Coating]!
Riven froze, then burst with excitement.
His skill actually leveled up?!
Was this the effect of his hidden class Shadowwalker's Poison Mastery?
At first, he thought it was a useless skill.
Turns out, it was insanely powerful!
He quickly checked his skill bar.
[Venomous Coating] (Rare Blue Tier)Class: RogueEffect: Coats the dagger with poison for 60 minutes. Attacks have a 100% chance to poison the enemy, dealing damage equal to 50% of attack power per second for 600 seconds!
"No way!"
Riven couldn't help but exclaim.
This upgrade was ridiculous!
First, the buff duration jumped from 10 minutes to 60 minutes.
One cast meant every strike for the next hour was poisoned!
Poison chance increased fivefold—from a random 20% to a guaranteed 100%!
And poison damage skyrocketed from 20% to 50% per second.
The poison duration extended from 30 seconds to a full 10 minutes!
Any enemy hit by Riven would now bleed poison for ten minutes straight!
"Insane!"
"No wonder it's a blue-tier skill!"
Riven's eyes turned cold and ruthless as he stared at the wild boars.
...
"Venomous Coating!"
He activated the skill.
Both of Riven's daggers instantly glowed with an eerie green light.
The sinister green flame danced on the blades like ghostly fire.
It completely masked the shabby look of his novice daggers.
From just his appearance, he already looked like a legendary rogue.
Riven charged into the boar herd.
One dagger strike per boar!
With a 100% poison chance, each hit carried deadly venom.
Every boar he touched instantly glowed green.
Their health dropped rapidly!
Taking 50% of his attack power per second was like Riven striking them once every two seconds.
The effect was devastating!
Soon, a group of poisoned, glowing green boars chased after him.
Riven only needed to sprint forward.
The poisoned boars behind him bled out furiously.
After a dozen seconds,
the first batch of poisoned boars collapsed with pitiful screams.
Before long,
the wheat field behind Riven was piled high with boar corpses.
His experience skyrocketed!
"This is insanely fun!"
Riven ran while stabbing at freshly spawned boars in a frenzy.
One man.
Farming a horde of monsters!
Across the whole world,
there was probably no one enjoying a gaming experience like Riven's!
...
While Riven was happily farming,
suddenly he heard a notification—
Ding! — Your SSS-tier talent 'Sleight of Hand' activated!
Stole a piece of Boar Hide!
Riven froze.
Though the stolen item was common,
this notification was crucial.
Sleight of Hand actually triggered
from the poison damage dealt by Venomous Coating!
Riven glanced back.
The massive herd of boars behind him
each glowed green.
Every second, dozens were suffering poison damage.
Meaning...
his Sleight of Hand had a very high chance to activate every second.
Just as Riven was stunned,
the system beeped again.
Ding! — Your SSS-tier talent 'Sleight of Hand' activated!
Stole 6 copper coins from a Boar!
Before he could react,
Ding! — Your SSS-tier talent 'Sleight of Hand' activated!
Stole 5 copper coins from a Boar!
Sleight of Hand with a 1% trigger rate
had just triggered twice in a row!
Riven smiled.
He couldn't hide his joy.
Not only was he gaining massive experience,
but he was also constantly triggering Sleight of Hand to loot gear.
He definitely made the right choice.
The Rogue class combined with Sleight of Hand
was a perfect match.
...
Five minutes later,
Riven looked at the sea of boar corpses
with satisfaction.
In just five minutes,
he had slain over a hundred wild boars.
Leveled up twice,
reaching level 4
with 32% experience progress.
Meanwhile, Sleight of Hand triggered 67 times in total.
He obtained 152 copper coins, 22 pieces of Boar Hide,
and a white-tier item — Boar Leggings.
Unfortunately, it was heavy armor for warriors,
which a light-armor-wearing rogue like Riven couldn't equip.
But that was just the extra loot from Sleight of Hand.
Ahead, hundreds more corpses awaited to be looted...
"Cha-ching!"
Riven couldn't help but grin.
After ten minutes,
he finally cleared all the corpses.
Gathered a total of 842 copper coins and 108 Boar Hides.
No gear drops, unfortunately.
"Drop rates are really low."
"Just like the familiar game, Glory."
Riven was used to this drop rate by now.
"But Sleight of Hand's drop rate
seems much higher than killing monsters."
"Triggered over sixty times."
"Only got one piece of gear."
"If it was just killing,
I'd have to kill over six hundred boars for one drop!"
"Sleight of Hand must have a bonus drop rate."
"As expected from an SSS-tier talent—so powerful!"
Riven smiled and packed up his loot.
Selling this in the newbie village would fetch
a silver or two in income.
That meant about a couple hundred bucks in real money.
And Riven had been playing less than half an hour.
"Keep it up—pay off my sister's 30,000 debt in a week, no problem!"
Confident, Riven charged toward the next farming spot.
...
Leaving the wheat-filled village behind,
he ventured deeper.
Ahead stretched a vast grassland.
Here lived the last type of monster
needed for Riven's newbie quests—
wild wolves.
Looking out, the grassland was full of them.
Some crouched napping,
others wandered lazily.
Only a few glanced over at Riven, the unwelcome guest
in tattered rogue gear,
then quickly looked away, clearly disdainful...