Luo Taozhi quickly and easily killed ten small wild boars, yet her experience bar had barely passed the halfway mark.
While others were still struggling to find ways to kill the small wild boars, Luo Taozhi had already effortlessly headed toward the Village Chief to hand in her quest.
“Young lady, thank you for your contribution to the village.”
[**Gain Experience +500**]
[**Congratulations Player [Xiao Taozhi], your experience bar is full. You have leveled up.**]
[**Lv1→Lv2**]
‘I leveled up?’
Completing this one Novice Quest brought her exactly to Level 1. She decided to check her attributes now that she had gained a level.
She silently thought the command to open her attribute panel.
[**Status Window**]
Name: Xiao Taozhi
Level: Lv2
HP: 200
MP: 200
Mental Power: 15
Qi Attack: 15
Qi Defense: 15
Skills: Basic Sword Technique, Basic Footwork, Longsword Mastery
‘Oh? I finally have skills.’
‘But can skills be acquired like this? Aren’t these the skills I already possessed myself?’
Luo Taozhi was somewhat speechless, but a light appeared over the head of the Village Chief, who had just accepted her quest.
“Young lady, a even greater crisis is about to befall the village. I am afraid you cannot handle it alone!”
As the Village Chief spoke, another quest appeared before Luo Taozhi.
[**Accept Quest: The Village Chief’s Worry (Unique)**]
[**Party: 1/5**]
[**High difficulty. Recommended for Level 5 and above. A minimum of two people is required for entry.**]
‘A unique quest, and I can’t enter alone…’
This was a bit of a headache. It was essentially stalling her progress… Wait, that wasn’t right.
It was a unique quest that allowed her to invite four other people.
‘This is the perfect time to earn my first pot of gold!’
The disappointment on Luo Taozhi’s face was replaced by a smile. ‘Yes, that’s exactly how it should be!’
Her next task was to level up.
She looked at the NPCs around her.
Honestly, she found some of them hard to understand.
Luo Taozhi was not the type to enjoy exploration or puzzle-solving. Compared to the feeling of exploring other side quests, she preferred the thrill of directly killing monsters.
After repeatedly hitting dead ends in the Novice Village, Luo Taozhi quickly reached the following two conclusions.
Indeed, it was because she didn’t like them, not because she was completely unable to find any other side quests.
Clearly, the shop owner and the uncle at the blacksmith shop were sighing over there. They were obviously the type to provide quests.
Yet, no matter how Luo Taozhi tried to talk to them, she couldn’t trigger anything!
Frustrated, Luo Taozhi turned around and left on the spot, heading back to the place where she had farmed the small wild boars.
‘Forget the side quests. I can level up just as well by killing wild boars!’
However, Luo Taozhi was stunned when she arrived at the scene.
The crowded scene before her was no longer the empty clearing she had seen not long ago.
The figures of the small wild boars were nowhere to be seen. All she could see were dense crowds of heads and damage numbers floating up from time to time.
“Tch!”
Helpless, Luo Taozhi had to join the queue, thinking of moving forward and then going further away—deeper into the grassland outside the village entrance.
Perhaps she could find higher-level monsters there and avoid this crowd.
But just as Luo Taozhi managed to squeeze through the crowd with great difficulty, she was sent back to the respawn point by a single strike from a player named [Left Hand High Damage, Right Hand High Damage]!
Was this a joke?!
She admitted that her walking style was a bit arrogant, and she must have accidentally overlapped with a small wild boar, causing that player to hit her in passing.
But she was Level 2!
Her HP was a full 200, the same as a small wild boar. How could she be one-shotted by a player?
What kind of damage was that?!
With that kind of numerical power, he must be killing small wild boars faster than her. Why was he still squeezing in here with a bunch of newbies?
He couldn’t possibly be a Level 1 newcomer who had just entered the game.
‘That’s not right either!’
Luo Taozhi was even more confused. She opened the Level Leaderboard to take a look.
She was right; the number one spot was indeed still her.
But the number two player was [Tiger Regiment Leader].
Where did this [Left Hand High Damage, Right Hand High Damage] come from?
‘Is he cheating?’
Luo Taozhi didn’t understand, and she couldn’t make sense of it.
So, she decided to go back and take a look. She wanted to see exactly what was going on with that player’s damage!
Thus, Xiao Nanchu, who had just finished killing ten small wild boars, was blocked by Luo Taozhi before he could find the Village Chief to hand in his quest.
Seeing the silver-haired female player with the ID [Xiao Taozhi] looking unfriendly, Xiao Nanchu was about to explain that it was an accident.
However, the other party didn’t give him a chance to explain at all. She drew her sword and rushed straight at him.
The process of their exchange almost confirmed his suspicions.
This player named [Xiao Taozhi] was definitely Luo Taozhi!
That refuse-to-lose spirit was unmistakable!
But now there was a very serious problem.
Xiao Nanchu hesitated. Should he come clean to Luo Taozhi and admit that he was [Left Hand High Damage, Right Hand High Damage]?
Considering the feeling of being embedded into the ceiling yesterday, he decided against it.
After killing Luo Taozhi in the game several times in a row, her angry voice echoed from the room next door.
“Crap! Who is this guy?!”
Xiao Nanchu decisively shouted back, pushing the fact that he was the culprit to the back of his mind.
[Left Hand High Damage, Right Hand High Damage]?
Who was that? He wasn’t familiar with him, didn’t know him, and they had nothing to do with each other.
What did that guy have to do with him, Xiao Nanchu?
“Luo Taozhi! Who are you calling Xiao Chunan? I heard that! If you keep shouting, give me back the helmet!”
After decisively cutting ties with his in-game self, his voice sounded much more confident.
***
“Tch, what are you pretending for? Do you dare to look now? I’m not wearing any clothes right now—do you want to come and see? You don’t dare, do you? Hehehe.”
***
“Oh my~ why is Xiao Chunan not talking? I must be right. You really are a total loser~~”
Facing Luo Taozhi’s bratty remarks, Xiao Nanchu chose to confront her in person!
But the moment he entered the door, he saw…
On the bed, there was a girl with only a thin quilt covering her vital areas. Her smooth, lustrous shoulders and long legs were all exposed.
She was tilting her head up, looking at him pitifully.
‘Yeah, now I definitely can’t admit it. I must cut ties with my in-game self.’
If he dared to admit it now, the seemingly delicious girl before him would probably give him a live reenactment of yesterday’s events on the spot.
“I can’t be bothered with you! If you have the guts, then uncover the quilt and look!”
“Re… Really? Do you really want to see? If it’s you, Xiao Chunan, it’s not like I can’t…”
Luo Taozhi gripped the bedding tightly, wrapping herself even more securely. Her delicate figure beneath the quilt became even more apparent.
‘Heh.’
‘Clumsy acting.’
Xiao Nanchu gave a disdainful, cold laugh and turned to leave Luo Taozhi’s room.
However, he was slightly hunched over as he walked out.
There was nothing he could do about it. It was just that his morning vigor was a bit high; it had absolutely nothing to do with Luo Taozhi!
Although his exit was extremely cool, the unmasked laughter from Luo Taozhi behind him said otherwise.
“Kekeke, if you don’t want me to spread the word about what just happened far and wide…”
Ridiculous! He, Xiao Nanchu, was upright and honorable!
He would absolutely not succumb to such evil, anime-villain threats!
“Oh, then I’ll have to tell your mother that someone barged in while I wasn’t wearing clothes… How scandalous…”
“Ahem, Great Fairy Luo, why would you say such things? I am at your service!”
Cough, cough. Business is business.