Soon after Xin Zhongze leveled up, his Fireball skill also reached LV2.
With Fireball upgraded to level 2, its magic attack increased threefold.
Thus, a single Fireball from Xin Zhongze could deal nearly four hundred damage to a level 15 monster.
Killing a level 15 monster now only required 6 Fireball casts.
However, not long after Xin Zhongze's Fireball skill leveled up, he ran out of all his magic potions.
If he couldn't replenish his potions, he wouldn't be able to use Fireball to quickly kill monsters.
Still, even without Fireball, Xin Zhongze's physical attack wasn't weak.
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In the jungle, Xin Zhongze swiftly attacked a Magic Deer with his ebony sword.
Magic Deer were the level 15 monsters found in the jungle.
Xin Zhongze's physical attack was over a hundred, and after deducting the Magic Deer's physical defense, he could still deal over seventy damage per second to the Magic Deer.
While it was much less than the over one hundred magic damage per second from Fireball, the difference wasn't actually that significant.
Most importantly, using physical attacks didn't consume magic power.
Since Xin Zhongze hadn't learned any warrior skills, he also didn't need to consume internal energy.
Internal energy was the exclusive power of warriors, just like a mage's magic power and a Taoist's mana.
Because Xin Zhongze simply used his sword to hack at monsters, he didn't need to consume anything; the only thing consumed might be the durability of his equipment.
However, Xin Zhongze's ebony sword had over 70 durability, meaning he could use it continuously for over seventy hours.
Most importantly, the monsters in the jungle only had around twenty agility, while Xin Zhongze's agility was as high as forty.
So when he fought monsters one-on-one, the monsters couldn't even touch a hair on him.
Although directly hacking at monsters with the ebony sword was a bit slower, it wasn't by much.
A few hours later, Xin Zhongze's experience reached sixty percent of level 11.
At this rate, in a few more hours, he would be able to level up to 12.
【Xu Muyan: Hubby, I joined the Anti-Imperialism and Anti-Hegemony Alliance Guild. The guild members want you to come back, and they'll pick you up at the city gate then.】
Around five in the afternoon, Xu Muyan sent a message to Xin Zhongze.
Upon seeing Xu Muyan's message, Xin Zhongze quickly replied.
【Xin Zhongze: Wife, I'm doing great now. Unless I reach a certain level, I'm not planning to go back for now. Oh, by the way, it's getting late, so I'm preparing to log out of the game.】
Xin Zhongze sent a message to Xu Muyan, then chose to log out of the game.
Logging out of the game was simple: as long as he wasn't in combat and there were no monsters nearby, he could log out.
Of course, logging out was easy, but logging back into the game could easily lead to being attacked by monsters.
Because just because there were no monsters nearby when you logged out didn't mean there wouldn't be any when you logged in.
Perhaps a monster had wandered over, and in such a situation, as soon as you entered the game, you might immediately face a monster attack.
Therefore, in the game world, many people chose to log out in a safe zone.
However, Xin Zhongze didn't need to worry about this; if he got attacked by a monster, he would just fight it.
Even if he couldn't win, his high agility of 40 allowed him to completely escape.
Shortly after Xin Zhongze logged off, Xu Muyan also logged off.
“Xin Zhongze, tell me, why did you enter the game alone behind my back?”
As soon as Xu Muyan returned, she questioned Xin Zhongze.
This indicated that he had completely lost his in-game memories.
Hearing Xu Muyan's question, Xin Zhongze quickly began to explain.
However, many of Xin Zhongze's explanations were subjective and deliberately downplayed his danger, making Xu Muyan believe that Xin Zhongze was very safe in the game.
After listening to Xin Zhongze's explanation, Xu Muyan still forgave him.
In the evening, after Xin Zhongze finished dinner and played with his children for a bit, he continued to log into the game to level up.
He had to seize the time to level up.
Bichi Jungle.
After Xin Zhongze logged in, he continued his monster-killing journey.
“Huh? Are there monsters grouping up?”
Just as Xin Zhongze killed a monster and continued searching for more.
He suddenly saw five or six monsters grouped together in the jungle.
This was the first time Xin Zhongze had seen such a situation.
“Oh?”
Seeing this group of monsters, Xin Zhongze couldn't help but let out a surprised sound.
Because he saw that among the group of monsters, there was one that was noticeably larger than the others.
【Magic Goat Warrior: Level 15 Elite, HP 2500, Physical Attack 36, Physical Defense 27, Magic Defense 24, Agility 26... Skill: Charge (Skill allows it to charge at a target at 1.5 times speed, dealing 3 times physical damage.)】
“It's actually an elite monster.” Xin Zhongze couldn't help but be pleasantly surprised when he saw the Magic Goat Warrior's information.
“I wonder what good equipment an elite monster will drop.”
Seeing the information on this elite monster, Xin Zhongze had nothing to fear.
Even if the opponent used its skill to increase its speed by 1.5 times, it still wouldn't be as fast as Xin Zhongze's 40 agility.
Moreover, Xin Zhongze had just been fighting monsters with his weapon for a long time without using magic, which meant his magic power was almost fully recovered.
Xin Zhongze's magic power recovered about one point per minute, so it would only take 110 minutes, less than two hours, to fully recover.
So without any hesitation, Xin Zhongze directly began using magic to clear out this group of monsters.
Meeeh meeeh meeeh...
As Xin Zhongze cast his magic, he quickly attracted the attack of a group of Magic Goats.
However, Xin Zhongze's speed was too fast; he attacked while retreating.
A few minutes later, Xin Zhongze successfully dealt with the last monster.
Xin Zhongze found that this group of monsters, whether they were level 15 regular monsters or level 15 elite monsters, all dropped equipment.
Since Xin Zhongze was the one who killed the Magic Goat Warrior last, he went forward to pick up the items dropped by the Magic Goat Warrior first.
Seeing the items dropped by the Magic Goat Warrior, Xin Zhongze was immediately overjoyed.
【magic helmet: Requires Level 14, Physical Defense 0-1, Magic Defense 1-1, Durability 8, Weight 4.】
Xin Zhongze hadn't expected an elite monster to drop a helmet for him.
Currently, Xin Zhongze hadn't equipped a helmet yet.
However, this helmet required level 14 to equip, so he could only wait until he reached level 15 to equip it.
After picking up the equipment dropped by the elite monster, Xin Zhongze then picked up the equipment dropped by the other monsters.
However, these pieces of equipment left Xin Zhongze a bit disappointed, as he couldn't use them at all; almost all of them were for other professions.
But with one magic helmet, Xin Zhongze was already very satisfied.
However, to deal with this group of monsters, Xin Zhongze's magic power was once again completely depleted.
So, for now, Xin Zhongze could only obediently engage in close combat with monsters using his weapon again.
