Since the system became my girlfriend

Su Rui was unaware of the changes that had occurred to Warwick, as he had already returned to Xuanwu City.

Holding a dagger stained with Warwick's blood, Su Rui headed straight for the cathedral. The NPCs there did not stop him when they saw him again, and Su Rui easily entered the cathedral and met Archbishop Griffin.

Although Su Rui had already been implanted with the cursed blood and transformed into a dark profession, his identity was not exposed even after entering the church because he did not cast any spells.

“Archbishop Griffin, I have completed your mission!” Su Rui presented the dagger, stained with Warwick’s blood, to Archbishop Griffin with both hands!

"Great! Warrior! This heinous evil wizard has finally been vanquished!" Griffin nodded happily, then said to Su Rui, "This is your reward!"

"Ding! Mission updated!"

"Ding! You have gained 2500 experience points! 700 church reputation points! 50 silver coins! Boots of Holy Faith!"

With a series of system notifications, Su Rui received his mission reward. However, the 700 points of church reputation were wasted. Su Rui's dark profession would be revealed sooner or later, and he would almost certainly join the dark faction. Therefore, the church reputation was only of significance to him in the early stages of the game, allowing him to complete a few more missions.

After gaining 2,500 experience points, Su Rui checked his experience bar. At this point, if Su Rui wanted to level up, he would need as many as 51,200 experience points. These 2,500 experience points only increased his experience bar by 5%.

"Upgrading is getting harder and harder..." Su Rui sighed, then turned his attention to the newly acquired equipment.

Boots of Divine Faith (Feet, Blue, Excellent Quality)

Physical Defense: +15

Magic Defense: +15

Constitution: +5

Intelligence: +5

Equipment: Grants you 5% spell vamp!

Equipment: Increases your magic critical strike chance by 5%!

Equipment level: 10

Binds upon pickup! Cannot be traded or dropped.

Since these were equipment rewards from regular quests, they couldn't be traded to players, and the Holy Faith Boots were no exception. After briefly checking their stats, Su Rui equipped them directly.

In addition to changing into these shoes, Su Rui also equipped himself with the old village chief's family heirloom dagger, which was a reward from the previous hidden quest.

Su Rui originally intended to sell the dagger, but unexpectedly, he switched to a magic-based class, which meant he couldn't equip the spiked club anymore. He couldn't just go empty-handed, so the dagger with a decent amount of magic damage became Su Rui's weapon.

After changing his gear, Su Rui briefly checked his attributes. Thanks to the Seven-Colored Equipment Magic Energy Ring, Su Rui's mana could increase his health, so his health had reached an astonishing 655, which exceeded that of tank classes of the same level.

However, Su Rui's high health was merely a facade; he wasn't actually very durable. As a magic-based class, he could only equip cloth armor and lacked damage reduction skills. Therefore, even with a lot of health, Su Rui couldn't replace the tank. But in PvP, having more health was certainly an advantage.

Having delivered the letter and completed the job change, Su Rui waited for a while. Seeing that Feng Lixi hadn't returned yet, he decided to do some quests to level up. He couldn't afford to waste such a big advantage he had finally gained in the newbie village.

When he wasn't playing with female friends, Boss Su was quite the professional gamer. He had to snowball his slight advantage in the early game as quickly as possible. Otherwise, other players would leave the starting village within half a day, and the main city would be full of players after a day.

So Su Rui's lead over others is only in these few hours.

Now that he had made up his mind to level up, Su Rui naturally couldn't just leave the city and grind monsters. He needed more than 50,000 experience points to level up, but each monster of the same level only provided 14 experience points. If he just relied on grinding monsters to level up, he would be exhausted.

Therefore, accepting missions is a must. Moreover, Boss Su is not an ordinary mercenary; he is a special mercenary, with a 10% increase in mission rewards. Why not take advantage of this?

Soon, Boss Su arrived at the Mercenary Guild. Since Boss Su was now considered a special figure in the Mercenary Guild, the staff there treated him with much more respect.

"I am your esteemed sir. Is there anything I can do for you?" The girl in front of the quest board said to Su Rui. She was the NPC in charge of managing the quest board. However, this NPC's attitude was very strange. She spoke to Su Rui very politely, but her face was extremely sour, as if Su Rui owed her hundreds of gold coins.

Actually, this isn't entirely the fault of the unintelligent female NPC. It's mainly because Boss Su's girlfriend is worried about someone poaching her boyfriend, so she keeps the female NPCs' favorability towards Su Rui at a critical point. This makes them instinctively dislike Su Rui. However, since Su Rui is a special mercenary, this NPC has to use polite language towards him, which is why this situation has arisen.

"Let me see what tasks I can do." Su Rui frowned, but didn't bother arguing with the female NPC.

"Okay! This is my lord, these are the existing tasks..." The female NPC opened the task board, and a series of tasks appeared in front of Su Rui.

The tasks on the task board were all fairly ordinary. Su Rui picked two tasks of similar level that involved killing monsters, and then left the city through the west gate.

Su Rui had previously gone out through the North Gate, where monsters were all level 20 or higher. Although "Source" allows and even encourages killing monsters above one's level, that is based on the premise that there is no level crushing. Once the level difference is more than ten levels, it will be impossible to deal damage normally. Not only will there be a lot of misses and other damage reduction effects, but even if it hits, it can only cause a little forced damage.

Therefore, Su Rui, who is only level 10, would be asking for trouble if he went to level up outside the North Gate, while the monsters outside the West Gate are all level 10 or so, which is the best place for him to level up.

Not far from the west gate, Su Rui entered a hilly area. He had just accepted a bounty mission, which he was to complete here.

Wanted: Jackal Girl!

Mission Description: The people who grew up in Xuanwu City are often awakened by the howls of gnolls many years later. No matter how powerful they are now, the nightmares of their childhood still haunt their hearts. Go! Go to the low hills and eliminate the source of the nightmares!

Mission objective: Kill Jackal Girl!

Quest Level: 12

Danger/Difficulty: High!

Quest Rewards: 2000 experience points! And one piece of green equipment.