Online Game: I'm in MapleStory

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He raised his magic wand, transformed into a warrior, and smashed the cap of the blue mushroom.

A basic attack directly reduced the blue mushroom to low health. Wu Ming felt very happy when he saw that he could use the magic wand to deal more damage than the current warrior.

With the help of the passive skill, Wu Ming had canceled his magic shield skill when he finished clearing the stone man. Looking at the blue mushrooms that were still causing -1 damage to him, Wu Ming smashed them all to death with his magic wand.

If other people knew that Wu Ming hunted blue mushrooms like this, they would definitely say that he was cheating! Of course, he was cheating!

The experience brought by the level 30 stone man directly filled up the experience slot that was about to be upgraded. The next moment, Wu Ming reached level 22, and the sound of random skill prompts appeared in front of him.

[Congratulations on your successful upgrade, and you will be rewarded with a career skill choice.]

"1: Magician professional passive skills"

"2: Magician's professional active skills"

Wu Ming stared at the skill bar in front of him and directly selected the active skill, thinking of a skill that would allow him to deal group damage.

The next moment, a mechanical voice came from my mind.

"Congratulations on obtaining the Mage's active skill: Fast Movement!"

Hearing that this was not the group attack skill he wanted, Wu Ming couldn't help but complain in his heart, but the next moment, after seeing the description of the skill, he showed an extremely perverted smile again!

【Fast Movement】(Not activated)

[Maximum Level: 20]

After using the skill, you can control the up, down, left, and right directions with your mind and move a certain distance instantly.

[Current Level: 0]

Consumption 0, travel distance 0

It's actually a teleportation skill, which is even more powerful than the flying hero's lightness skill. In most games or movies, the skill of teleportation is basically an exclusive skill for the mage profession. There is no mage who cannot teleport, unless he is a wizard!

Although it was not the skill he needed, it was a standard skill exclusive to the mage. Wu Ming looked at the description of the skill and upgraded it to the maximum level without hesitation.

【Fast Movement】

[Maximum Level: 20]

After using the skill, you can control the up, down, left, and right directions with your mind and move a certain distance instantly.

[Current Level: 0]

Consumes 130 MP and moves 15 meters

After the skill reached the maximum level, Wu Ming couldn't help but feel excited when looking at the skill description.

Based on my current MP, if I use quick movement to clear the MP bar, I can at least reach a distance of two to three hundred meters in a few breaths.

The most important thing is that active skills rarely have cooling time limits, but Wu Ming's exclusive skill as a mage just happens to have no cooling time!

"I wonder if I can use this skill on Blue Star!"

Wu Ming looked at the skill introduction, feeling uneasy in his heart, and occasionally making strange gie gie gie laughs.

As for whether he had any thoughts of peeping at people taking baths or visiting prostitutes, and then using quick movement to sneak away if discovered, Wu Ming definitely didn't have such dirty thoughts in his mind!

Wu Ming tried to use the quick movement. Although it consumed more MP, this escape skill was absolutely invincible!

After being excited for a while, Wu Ming finally realized that he had not picked up the light ball dropped by the stone man on the ground. Suppressing the urge to use fast movement, Wu Ming walked directly to the stone man's body, stretched out his palm, touched the light ball, and while touching the dropped objects, he cut off the blue mushroom cap and the stone of the stone man.

[You get 80 Maple Leaf Coins and a Stoneman Stone]

[You get 30 Maple Leaf Coins and a blue mushroom cap]

[You get 120 Maple Leaf Coins and a Stoneman Stone]

[You get 80 Maple Leaf Coins and equipment: White Magic Warrior Clothes, Yellow Moon Shoes, Nameless Sword...]

[Trigger the blessing of Time Transcendant Lena to gain Luck +1, Intelligence +1]

"I actually triggered the blessing of Lena, the Time Transcender! It turns out I have to pick up the orb of light dropped by monsters I kill to pick it up! Does that mean this orb represents the monster's soul?"

Looking at the two bonus points of four-dimensional attribute points he obtained, Wu Ming began to think silently, but he was soon surprised by the explosion rate of the stone man.

After a round of picking and harvesting, Wu Ming was surprised to find that the stone man's drop rate was really high! He actually dropped several pieces of equipment and weapons.

Wu Ming directly checked the equipment attribute details.

【White Magic Warrior Clothes】

Required level: Level 20

Requires four-dimensional attributes: 0

Equipment classification: suit

Intelligence: +4

Luck: +2

Defense: 42

Magical Defense: 29

【Yellow Moon Shoes】

Required level: Level 20

Requires four-dimensional attributes: 0

Equipment Category: Shoes

Intelligence: +1

Defense: 31

Magical Defense: 4

Looking at the details of the mage's equipment, Wu Ming compared it with his own rough robe and purple gem shoes. Seeing that the attributes were much higher than the robe, he changed them directly.

However, the attributes of those shoes were similar to the purple gem shoes I was originally wearing. They only added a little intelligence, but the defense of these equipment was really high, so I took off the shoes directly.

After equipping all the equipment, he put the remaining equipment that he didn't need up for auction. For example, the nameless sword was a level 20 warrior weapon. At this stage, no one had reached this level to wear it, so Wu Ming chose the item auction mode in the auction system!

"Let these big guys bid on the price themselves. I don't know how much to sell it for anyway!"

After finishing, Wu Ming happily opened his attribute panel. He was surprised to find that his defense had actually exceeded 100! This meant that his defense had been greatly improved, making him more resistant to enemy attacks. Seeing such a significant improvement, Wu Ming felt a surge of excitement.

Wu Ming couldn't wait to test how much damage his current defense could block.

So he decided to immediately find the blue mushrooms and have a fierce fencing duel. No, not fencing, but using magic wands to fight them! Before long, Wu Ming quickly found a group of stone people of similar size as before and launched an attack without hesitation.

Wu Ming waved the staff in his hand and began to avoid the stone man directly, then released his power to the blue mushroom next to him.

With his agility and lightness, Wu Ming relied on flexible movement (actually, fast movement), rich skills and flexible strategies to prevent the stone man's attacks from hitting him easily.

After knocking down all the blue mushrooms, Wu Ming looked at the stone man's attack and thought about it. He prepared equipment with group healing skills. When the stone man finally hit Wu Ming, he was surprised to find that the damage number displayed on his forehead was only -23!

This meant that his defense had indeed been greatly improved, and he could effectively withstand enemy attacks! At this stage, even level 30 monsters like the Stone Man couldn't cause much damage to him, so could he easily challenge elite monsters or boss monsters at this stage?

At this moment, Wu Ming was confident in his abilities. He knew that, given his current state, exploring the temple map would be a piece of cake. However, he also knew he couldn't let his guard down, because within the world of MapleStory, the unknown hidden treasures were even richer than he'd imagined.

After killing all the stone men in front of him, Wu Ming looked at the experience bar that had not yet been upgraded. Wu Ming decided to continue clearing all the stone men and blue mushrooms outside the temple!

Perhaps it's because higher-level monsters have slower refresh times! Wu Ming discovered that the stone men he'd hunted in the previous two waves hadn't respawned yet, so he looked at the blue mushrooms, which had also been slow to refresh in this temple map.

Just as he was about to continue hunting the stone men to upgrade, a reminder appeared in front of Wu Ming.

[The weapons you opened for auction in the auction system, such as the nameless sword, have been sold.]

"It sold out so quickly? Has anyone reached level 20 already?!"

Wu Ming opened the auction system and saw a package icon flashing in the lower right corner of the auction panel. Looking at the package, Wu Ming opened it and took a look.

"A total of 6 pieces of equipment were auctioned, including the Nameless Sword, the Red Sun Folding Fan, and the Dark Night Armor, earning 9,000,000 Maple Leaf Coins."

Seeing that the two weapons were auctioned for millions of Maple Leaf Coins, and the equipment and clothes of other professions were also sold for millions, a total of 10 million Maple Leaf Coins. After deducting the 0.9% handling fee, I felt heartbroken for a moment, and then I felt happy.

"Not bad, not bad. Adding the Maple Leaf Coins in my backpack, I have over 10 million!"

The status of Maple Leaf Coins in the MapleStory world is unquestionable, and its practicality is far superior to that of Blue Star Coins.

People all over the world are working hard to upgrade or do business in this MapleStory world, and most of them are striving to make money and improve their lives.

In comparison, the Blue Star stock market pales in comparison! Veteran investors who nearly jumped from buildings due to the stock market crash are now flocking to MapleStory, using Maple Leaf Coins to repay their debts. This phenomenon has caused the prices of various materials and potions in the auction system to continue to fall, but high-level weapons still have room for profit.

The equipment in Wu Ming's possession, with its gray attribute panels, was no longer valuable, and he could only rely on the high-level attribute weapons that dropped. Currently, the scarcity of weapons even exceeded the number of new investors entering the stock market.

"What a pleasant surprise! I didn't expect these pieces of equipment to fetch such a high price! By the way, does anyone have skill books for sale in the auction system?"

Looking at the Maple Leaf Coins received from the auction system, Wu Ming thought about it for a while, then he cut off his thoughts and suddenly remembered to learn skills.

Wu Ming checked his level. He was only level 22. If he wanted to learn skills from the Guardian Adventurer, he would have to reach level 25. However, he also knew that besides seeking out the Guardian Adventurer, there was another way to learn skills: from the Skill Book Master. For example, the Magic Shield Skill Book he had obtained from his first kill of the Snail King!

So, Wu Ming decided to go to the auction system first to see if there was anything like this for sale.

He opened the auction system, entered the search page, and then entered the word "skills" in the search box.

Soon, a number of skill-related items appeared on the screen, but most of them were fragments of skill books. These fragments had to be found and combined to create a skill book, and then identified to determine what skill book it was. In the early stages, these fragments were useless except for being expensive and clogging up my backpack.

Just when Wu Ming was feeling disappointed, he suddenly found a book on the list that caught his attention. This book was the master copy of the skill book "Thunderbolt Technique".

Skill Book Masters primarily represent freely tradable skills. Some skills, once acquired, cannot be learned or traded by anyone other than yourself. If you obtain this type of skill book and your class doesn't match it, you'll either have to pay a large sum to find a Guardian Adventurer to unseal it and make it tradable, or suffer the consequences in silence!

Wu Ming excitedly clicked to view the detailed information and found that the skill description of this master copy was very much in line with his taste.

[Lightning Technique: Consume MP to create a strong magnetic field around you and launch a lightning attack on monsters, attacking all enemies within a certain range.]

This means that this skill can not only cause damage to a single target, but also attack multiple enemies at the same time, and the attack is area-of-effect. For Wu Ming, this is definitely a dream skill book, especially as a mage professional!

This time when Wu Ming was clearing the temple, he felt even more the necessity of group attack skills. Even if it was a rubbish group attack skill, judging from his current attribute panel, it could be used as a god-level skill at this stage.

"Huh? You're crazy about money! You actually want 10 million Maple Leaf Coins?"

When Wu Ming looked at the price next to the Thunder and Lightning Technique, his head suddenly started buzzing.

The entire world's population has entered the MapleStory world, a figure unimaginable. So even if the drop rate of a skill master copy is incredibly low, there's always a creature called a "dog-backer." So when Wu Ming saw the auction system, with only a single copy of the "Lightning Technique" master copy besides the skill fragments, he thought about it and wasn't surprised.

Those skills that can be quickly leveled up and upgraded, whether they are group attack or single attack skills, basically will not slip out of the market, and most of them will be acquired within the upper-class financial circles.

On the contrary, if this kind of lightning technique can be released into the market, there must be something wrong with it. Either the initial consumption is high, or the attack is low. Otherwise, it would not be seen in the auction system.

After thinking about it, Wu Ming looked at the name hidden as a number next to the consignment and initiated a private chat.

"If you really want it, name a price!"

Opening the private chat bar, Wu Ming sent a message directly.

After waiting for a while and still not seeing a reply from the other party, Wu Ming sent another tentative message.

"Three million Maple Leaf Coins. If you sell it, change the price immediately. I'll buy it in seconds!"

Three million Maple Leaf Coins is not a small amount. Judging from the current price ratio between Maple Leaf Coins and Blue Star Coins, you can basically buy a luxurious villa of about 300 square meters in a third-tier small city.

Maybe there were a lot of people asking about the master copy of this skill book. Anyway, after sending this message, Wu Ming cleared out a group of stone men, but the other side still did not respond.

Wu Ming was not in a hurry. According to the current situation, he could kill the monsters one by one. It would just be a little troublesome.

While cleaning and hunting the stone men, he was thinking in his mind.

"If it really doesn't work, I'll just level up and go back to Treasure Island to learn some skills. With 10 million to buy this master copy, I might as well take a gamble and see if other classes have group attack skills."

According to Wu Ming's view of his own attribute panel, it is basically enough to use the skills of other professions, provided that he changes to an appropriate weapon.

Just after Wu Ming cleared out another group of stone men, he leveled up.

At the same time, a message reminder appeared in the private chat box again.