Online Game: I'm in MapleStory
Chapter 28 The Black Mage's Gaze
Wu Ming sat comfortably on the gold-plated chair in the same posture as Ge You. After a long and tense battle, all the medicine he had consumed was used up. If he had not discovered his weakness, he might have really had to return to the city for free!
After a thrilling, dangerous, and relentless battle, Wu Ming felt as if all his energy and strength had been drained. His only thought was to lie down comfortably and rest.
So, he dragged his exhausted body, slowly took out a chair, and collapsed on it like a puddle of mud. Although his body was extremely tired, he was still energetic when looking at the dropped items. With his tired mind, he opened the auction system and began to carefully check the prices of those precious skill fragments.
Don't look at it, look at it!
The price of these skill fragments was ridiculously high, with each one costing as little as one million Maple Leaf Coins. Even more astonishing was the fact that if one wanted to combine these fragments into a complete, yet unidentified, master skill book, a whopping thirty pages would be required! This meant that gathering so many fragments would require a substantial sum of money.
The next important issue is to synthesize the uncertified skill book and then determine the type of professional skills that this book is suitable for.
To do this, you have to go to the villages of different professions and find the guardian adventurers who are responsible for this task to help you synthesize and then make a judgment. Not only that, this service is not free, and the fees charged are also quite high!
Even if the appraisal is successful, it may not necessarily be the skill you need. Because appraisals are random, they are highly attractive to gamblers. This is why the number of skill book fragments on auctions is increasing, and their prices remain high, yet the consumption of fragments remains unabated.
At this moment, an interesting piece of news on the remaining pages of a skill book in an auction column caught Wu Ming's attention.
According to the notes, there was a wealthy tycoon who went through untold hardships to finally collect a total of thirty skill fragments, and looked forward to finding a guardian adventurer who matched his profession, and prepared to ask the other party to help identify this coveted skill book.
But who would have thought that after going through countless hardships to collect the fragments and paying a high synthesis fee, this big guy actually found that he no longer had enough money to pay the expensive appraisal fee!
In desperation, he had to put the unauthenticated skill book on the auction block at a very low price, and noted in the remarks column that he had collected all the skill books but had no money to authenticate them.
Maybe the words in the remarks column scared people, and until now, no one is willing to buy this seemingly tempting but actually hot potato skill book fragment!
After thinking about it, Wu Ming put a package of ten skill book fragments on the auction system for nine million. If no one bought them, he could just kill monsters and collect thirty fragments to appraise them later. Wu Ming felt that he was still quite rich.
After putting the remaining pages of the skill book up for auction, Wu Ming continued to look for the auction column for the magic wand, wanting to compare the price of his own fire wand. If it wasn't there, Wu Ming planned to put it up for auction directly and trade it in the form of an auction.
It took me more than ten minutes to read it.
Most of them are magic wands of level 10 or so. The only magic wand that Wu Ming is interested in is the attribute magic wand. However, its attributes are too poor and it has a gray panel. It is only worth a glance at, and not even a second glance.
The highest-priced magic wand was priced at 100 million Maple Leaf Coins, with a note stating that it could be paid in Blue Star Coins based on the market price. After looking around, Wu Ming had a rough idea of the current prices of magic wands and weapons. Perhaps higher-level equipment was already in the hands of certain chaebols, waiting to be upgraded. The auction system always had items that were just ordinary cattle and horse equipment.
Without further ado, he immediately put the Flame Staff up for auction. With a reserve price of 50 million Maple Leaf Coins and increments of no less than one million Maple Leaf Coins each, the item appeared directly on the auction system.
"Just sit back and wait to be paid! Hmm! I think I've heard of the term grudge monster somewhere before, um! Never mind."
After dealing with the items dropped by the Stone Man's Resentment, Wu Ming thought about it and opened his personal attribute column to look at it.
In the world of MapleStory, in a certain dimension...
"Ah Qiu! Ah Qiu! Someone must be scolding me! Maybe it's the person who stole our skill book!"
At this time, Gou Daiyu also brought his team into the special map of the maze forest to upgrade.
On the other hand, at this moment, Wu Ming was looking at his character attribute panel, and cold sweat broke out on his back.
Name: Wu Ming (x2)
Status: The gaze of the past time transcendent Lena, the gaze of the black magician
Occupation: Magician
Level: 25
HP: 1186/1186
MP: 3343/3343
Attack power: 348-596
Mana: 509
Physical defense: 106
Magical Defense: 68
Experience: 1542/
Attributes (Available attribute points: 0)
Strength 10 (+7)
Agility 10 (+7)
Intelligence 132 (+8)
Luck 18 (+8)
Equipment: Exclusive purple-gold maple leaf magic wand, exclusive purple-gold maple leaf cloak (sealed), white magic warrior clothes, maple leaf hat, yellow moon shoes, pot cover, time traveler ring, aurora ring
Backpack: 4/32 (two chairs, some red and blue medicine, some materials, etc.)
Maple Leaf Coins: There are quite a lot of them, Wu Ming doesn’t even want to count them carefully!
Skills: Snail Throw, Magic Double Click, Lightning, Group Healing, Lightning, Magic Shield, Falling Leaf Slash, etc.
Wu Ming stared at the attribute panel in front of him, his heart full of surprise and confusion.
Suddenly, two status bars appeared on the previously empty panel. One of the status bars clearly read "The Dark Mage's Gaze," while the other read "The Gaze of Lena, the One Who Transcended Past Time."
Wu Ming could understand the latter. After all, ever since he put on the mysterious time traveler's ring, he triggered such a blessed passive skill and thus gained this state.
Moreover, it is precisely because of the existence of this state that he can continuously obtain unlimited additional attribute points, which undoubtedly brings him a huge improvement in strength.
However, when his eyes fell on the status bar titled "Dark Mage's Gaze," Wu Ming frowned, thinking to himself, "What on earth is going on? Why did such a strange status bar suddenly appear?"
I looked through the skill column and found no passive skill like the blessing of Lena, the Time Transcender.
Suddenly, after a fierce battle with the stone man and successfully killing him, the scene of the black gas that was wrapped around the stone man turning into a dragon appeared in Wu Ming's mind.
Thinking of this, Wu Ming seemed to understand the reason for this state. He couldn't help but feel a chill running down his spine, and beads of sweat began to form on his forehead. His clothes, soaked with sweat from the previous battle, hadn't yet dried, and now, due to his inner fear of the unknown, they were once again drenched in cold sweat.
Wu Ming didn't dare delay any longer. He stood up abruptly and hurried out of the temple. Once outside, he glanced at the stone figure, which still hadn't respawned, took a deep breath, and then quickly walked back toward the maze entrance.
At this moment, he only hoped to find some monsters to kill as soon as possible to see if this state would have any impact on him!
Appearing in the lush forest again, the sunlight shone through the leaves onto Wu Ming's face, and the warm feeling immediately dispelled some of the uneasiness in his heart.
Looking at the groups of blue mushrooms, green water spirits and other monsters in front of him, Wu Ming moved over quickly without saying a word, raised his hand and released a lightning spell.
[You killed the blue mushroom and gained 32 experience points]
[You killed Green Water Spirit and gained 18 experience points]
[You killed the red snail and gained 12 experience points]
. . .
"Nothing has changed? No! I can still gain experience normally even against monsters five levels lower than me!"
Seeing that the explosion rate was normal, Wu Ming thought that there was no change. After he reacted, he found that he was actually gaining experience normally. Before, the experience gained from monsters that were five levels lower than himself would gradually decrease as the level increased. But now he found that even when hunting low-level red snails, he could still gain experience!
"Is this a good thing or a bad thing?"
Seeing that experience was being gained normally, Wu Ming felt both happy and scared, but he didn't know what he was afraid of.
"I'm so tired! Forget it, I don't want to think about it anymore, let's go back to Shooter Village first!"
Wu Ming simply gave up on the annoying imagination for something he couldn't figure out. For him, there was no point in thinking too much about it as he hadn't seen any impact happen yet.
Seeing that he had reached level 25 and could start learning skills again, Wu Ming decided to return directly to the nearest safe zone - Shooter Village.
Next to the entrance of the Guardian Adventurer of Dada Shooter Park, Wu Ming thought for a while and decided to take a rest first.
Raising his hands, sparks of the soul emerged from his body.
"Return to Blue Star!"
The next moment, the surrounding scene began to move and change at the speed of light, and Wu Ming once again appeared in the space transfer station before entering the MapleStory world.
Then, Wu Ming exited the space, returned to Blue Star, and appeared in his living room.
"The first time I came back, I was forced to leave by the will of the world. Now it seems like I've been spending a lot more time in the MapleStory world. I just don't know when I can stay there permanently. Sigh!"
Wu Ming lay on the sofa with his arms and legs spread out, looking at the lights hanging in the living room. He seemed dissatisfied with his current activity time in the MapleStory world, and sighed and muttered to himself.
"By the way, I should be the first adventurer to reach level 25 now! I wonder if I can unleash my skills on Blue Star with my current attributes!"
As I was daydreaming, I suddenly had the urge to release a skill.
When I was persuaded to give up traveling back, I was in such a bad state, but I still managed to release the snail throwing technique. Although the effect was not good, I really released it.
Now the time is almost up. Wu Ming traveled back by himself, so he did not have the tiredness of the first time. Moreover, the attribute panel was so much higher than before, and what he was thinking about was whether he could use normal fast movement!
Thinking of this, Wu Ming suddenly jumped up from the sofa and the next moment he was standing in the corner of the house.
He calmed down, took a deep breath, and adjusted himself to the best condition. After all, there were differences between the MapleStory world and the Blue Star world, so Wu Ming was extra careful.
Imagining the feeling of unleashing rapid movement in the MapleStory world, Wu Ming exerted great strength, as if he could appear wherever he wanted in the next second.
"Here it comes! I feel it!"
With the previous attempt of throwing the snail shell, Wu Ming tried to use fast movement for the first time, and it seemed that he was about to release it.
"Zhao! My leg is cramping!"
The next moment, Wu Ming's legs were too tense, and instead of releasing the ability to move quickly, he released a skill called leg cramp! He instantly fell to the ground, his hands tightly covering his feet.
"It seems that my current strength is not enough to unleash the fast movement. How about trying the double-click magic?"
After thinking about it, it seemed that for him now, the magic double-click was the lowest-level skill. After the cramp in his leg was relieved, Wu Ming walked towards the balcony.
Standing on the balcony, Wu Ming closed his eyes and meditated quietly for a while, then slowly raised his hand towards the outside of the balcony.
This time, it seemed that he really felt some kind of power, and Wu Ming's palms slowly became warm.
"Clap!"
Suddenly, two clear and loud explosions were heard in the air. This unique sound instantly attracted the attention of some people who were returning to Blue Star to rest.
Following the sound, I saw a blue and white light interwoven like lightning shooting out from the window or balcony of a building. Its shape was like a hideous and terrifying claw, whistling into the air with an extremely sharp momentum.
Unlike the first time he released the snail throwing skill, this time the light did not disappear quickly like a snail shell after leaving the palm. Instead, it was like a wild horse that broke free from the restraints of the palm, becoming stronger and stronger, and continuously expanding forward.
Wherever it passed, even the surrounding air seemed unable to withstand such terrifying force and was torn apart, forming a vacuum channel visible to the naked eye, extending forward until it slowly disappeared from sight.
Wu Ming stared at the scene with his eyes wide open, his face filled with disbelief as the light gradually receded until it vanished. He could clearly feel his heart beating violently, and his entire body trembled slightly with extreme excitement.
At this moment, he finally understood that in this MapleStory world, his own attribute panel was so closely related to whether he could successfully release skills in the Blue Star world.
In other words, if he can persevere in improving his own strength in the MapleStory world, then even if he cannot ascend to the throne of the Supreme God in the end, when the two worlds merge with each other, he will at least have the ability to protect himself!
Thinking of this, Wu Ming's eyes sparkled with hope, and he was full of infinite longing for the future.
"Or... continue to try to move quickly!!!"
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