Chapter 9

3 Yi Ji Zhu Cheng, Storm City.

Central Teleportation Array.

Xiao Feng's silhouette gradually solidified, appearing in this Chengshi.

"Wow, it's huge……"

What met the eye was a spacious Western-style ancient city; just the square of the Teleportation Array was as big as a football field.

The streets in the distance could fit eight vehicles side by side, wide and clean.

At this time, there were few players in the main city; the level of the main player group should be around 7, and those who reached level 10 or above were all people who had encountered high-quality rewards during a draw.

"Move, move, don't block the way!"

While Xiao Feng was admiring the scenery of the main city, an impatient voice suddenly came from beside him.

Immediately after, he was shoved away by a domineering brute force.

"Hey? Which blind thing dares to push old……"

Xiao Feng's temper wasn't good; he instinctively wanted to talk back.

Upon taking a closer look, the one who shoved him turned out to be a patrol squad of city guard NPCs wearing silver armor and holding spears!

【City Guard Commander (Legendary-tier Leader)】

Level: 150

HP: 5400000/5400000

(Target level too high, unable to read more data)

【City Guard Soldier (Elite)】

Level: 120

HP: 700000/700000

(Target level too high, unable to read more data)

Xiao Feng: ……

Crazy, this game is crazy!

A bunch of NPCs dare to push players?

Is there any justice left!

Don't they know players are like gods?

But…… this is the city guard; reasoning with them is useless, after all NPCs have no brains.

Moreover, once you offend the NPC army, you'll basically spend the rest of your life in prison!

Can't provoke, can't provoke, better just forget it.

Xiao Feng's grudge attribute was cruelly suppressed by "reality," forcing him to swallow his anger.

"Let's go change class first!"

He left the teleportation square and jogged all the way.

The Chengshi map marked the destination for class change; he jogged all the way, taking about five minutes to reach the designated spot.

Looking up, he saw a towering temple ahead, with the four large characters "Storm Temple" emblazoned on the gate's plaque.

"Halt! The Storm Temple is a sacred ground; no impure persons may approach!"

Just as he arrived at the door, Xiao Feng hadn't even entered yet when the temple's outer guard knight walked over, blocking his path with a huge shield and a long lance.

"What the hell, what's going on?"

Xiao Feng's eyes widened as he suddenly realized a problem.

Otogu's Curse!!!

This curse not only gives him a built-in "Super Taunt," making him the primary attack target of all monsters.

At the same time, it prevents him from entering the temple, inheriting a divine profession, and earning war contributions.

Originally, Xiao Feng merely thought not being able to earn war contributions would be unpleasant.

But now it seems he can't even change class!

The place to change class is the temple, and all the class-change instructors are inside the temple hall.

He can't get in, so how can he change class?

As everyone knows, the significance of changing class mainly has two points: raising attribute growth rate and learning new skills.

If he doesn't change class and remains a mage apprentice, his attributes will be lower than others', whether it's magical attack, HP, or MP growth, he'll lose a lot.

Moreover, each profession's basic skills are limited and cannot be obtained through other means.

The mage profession's signature skills—Fireball, Sea of Fire, Fire Resistance Ring, Meteor, etc. —he can't learn any of them; what kind of mage would he be then?

Play as a mage apprentice for a lifetime?

One magic missile, one lightning chain, and play till old age?

"My head hurts……"

Xiao Feng felt a wave of headache.

"Please leave immediately!"

The temple knight glared, showing strong hostility toward Xiao Feng, who bore the Otogu curse.

If it weren't for the temple knight's position requiring him to mind the occasion, he might have already speared Xiao Feng to death.

"Damn, this sucks! Otherwise, I could barge in and violently threaten the class-change instructor to change me," Xiao Feng thought to himself.

But when he looked at the temple knight's attributes……

【High-Ranking Temple Knight (Legendary-tier Leader)】

Level: 180

HP: 7200000/7200000

(Target level too high, unable to read more data)

And there are 8 such NPCs at the temple gate!

"Damn, I'm not changing class!"

Just being a mage apprentice is fine; worst case, I won't learn those fireball skills, I can just buy some mage skill books from the player market.

Besides, the basic classes in the temple can't be changed, and since they're not hidden classes either, there's no chance.

Maybe one day, if luck is good, I'll directly encounter an awesome super hidden class and completely crush the temple's trash instructors!

Xiao Feng left with a gloomy mood.

Walking down the main city street, he slowly discovered the effect of the 'Curse of Ottogu'.

This curse makes all NPCs with a 'war' nature extremely dislike him.

For example, city guard soldiers, temple guards, stewards of the War Hall, etc.

This shows how tremendous the influence of Ottogu, the war god's mount, is!

Of course, other NPCs that are not of a 'war' nature are still relatively friendly to Xiao Feng.

For example, the various shop owners in the market are basically the same as usual, greeting him with smiles.

When Xiao Feng produces a handful of gold coins, they even nod and bow, very similar to real-world merchants, with extremely high realism.

Xiao Feng wandered around the city for over ten minutes.

During that time, he bought some 'Medium-grade Life Potions' restoring 500 HP and 'High-grade Life Potions' restoring 1000 HP for daily consumption.

These two potions are the low-end versions of the 'Top-grade Life Potion', sharing the same cooldown.

The Top-grade Life Potion is relatively precious, cannot be bought in shops, and kept on hand can be used as a life-saving medicine.

As for mana potions, there is completely no demand.

The Godslayer Mage Robe comes with a passive recovery of 50 points per second, and the Honor Staff has a small chance to restore mana, so his mana never runs out.

Xiao Feng also bought some wearable 30-level plain equipment from the system store, slightly adjusting his stats.

He also bought a bundle of Town Return Scrolls.

Finally, he went to the warehouse and stored all the artifacts, legendary equipment, skill books, and other precious items he currently couldn't use, so his pack wouldn't be too full and he could still fit other god-level boss drops later.

"First, leave the city to level up, and by the way see if I can find a chance to change to a hidden class."

"Those high-quality equipment, later when the main city gets more people and more gold, I'll consign them at the auction house..."

Xiao Feng thought to himself.

He left the main city, looking for a place to level up.

At this point, his attributes have increased considerably compared to when he was in the novice village.

【Name】: Xiao Feng

【Class】: Mage Apprentice

【Level】: 33

【Talent】: Divine Might (Supergod)

【HP】: 5255/5255

【MP】: 355/355

【Magic Attack】: 192

【Physical Defense】: 68

【Magic Defense】: 112

【Strength】: 33

【Intelligence】: 121

【Constitution】: 51

【Spirit】: 45

【Agility】: 40

【Potential Points】: 0

Having put all attribute points into intelligence, Xiao Feng's attack power can only be described as terrifying.

Um... looking at the panel alone is actually trash, but if you multiply the attack power by 10,000, it's shocking!

Walking out of the east gate of Stormwind City, outside is a herd of level 13 buffalo monsters.

The buffalo monster has 2500 HP, equivalent to a same-level character with all points in Constitution, and also wears a full set of green gear like a knight.

Xiao Feng threw a magic missile.

A huge -2109199 appeared above the buffalo's head, and it slowly fell.

Buffalo: 'What have I done to deserve this!'

Xiao Feng curled his lips, feeling the monster's level was too low, the experience was pitifully low, and couldn't satisfy his need to level up from 33.

So he flipped open the map and headed straight toward the distance.

Within 10 kilometers of the main city, there are no high-level monsters.

If you want to level up, you must go farther away.

Xiao Feng ran over 20 kilometers in one go, casually killing many monsters along the way, but his level remained 33, and the experience bar increased barely.

Having run that far, just the time spent on the road took over an hour.

He opened the level rankings and saw that he, at level 33, was at the top; second place was a player named 'Sword Slaying the Heavens' who had also reached level 27, with an astonishing leveling speed.

And from third place onward, everyone is only around level 17, the efficiency difference is more than just a little.

"This Sword Slaying the Heavens seems to have also appeared on the war zone bulletin..."

Xiao Feng flipped through the system announcement records, found a related message.

Jian Zhan Cang Sheng killed a mythic boss 30 minutes ago, level surged.

"Looks like there are more experts than just me in the Heavens, I still need to improve myself a lot." Xiao Feng thought to himself.

At the same time, the training spot he had selected finally arrived!