Noob Player - Chapter 135

[You have killed Chameleon Mamba!]

[You Gained 92000 experiences!]

After half an hour of repeating the same course of action, Shen finally killed the snake. Aside from the immense strength, the snake also had a high HP. He had been triggering critical and Void Critical, yet it still took him half an hour to kill one.

“I don’t think it’s worth the time even though the experience gain is six times more than killing the T-bone Rooster.” Shen was not happy with the result. He felt like half an hour for one monster with a high risk like Chameleon Mamba was not worth it. Not yet, if he suddenly aggroed two Chameleon Mamba at the same time, there was a high chance he would die.

The thing was, Shen could not see the Chameleon Mamba. He had to bait them out for him to see. What if one Red Willow had two or even three Chameleon Mambas? He could not see them, so this might happen.

“Let’s explore slightly deeper into the Red Willow Forest if this area is worth exploring or not,” Shen muttered in a low voice. He shook his head and was about to pick up the snake. “Urgh, it seems I am a bit too rough with the snake.” The snake head was unrecognizable. “I don’t know if Brother Lu can still extract the poison or not.”

Shen put the snake body into his inventory and took out the ax. Three Red Willow Trees were close to each other, and he approached the nearest tree where he found the snake. He looked at the other trees cautiously as he was afraid of another snake at another tree.

‘If there’s another snake in the other trees, they should have attacked a long time ago when I fought the first Chameleon Snake.’ That was a logical explanation, meaning there was no snake around anymore. ‘I hope Chameleon Snake is an individual monster.’

With those thoughts in mind, he got closer to the tree. He saw the same red mark on the tree again. He readied himself and swung the ax toward the mark.

Dugh!

A chunk of the wood came off within one swing. The mark was getting redder, but something made Shen curious. ‘What if I hit off the mark?’ Curiosity got him there as he aimed below the mark.

Dak!

It made a different noise, and the ax barely cut the tree. Shen then realized the ax’s durability also got down by three percent with that one swing. He scratched his forehead with his finger for a moment. “This ax must be expensive if we sell it in the market.”

This ax increased the efficiency of chopping down the tree. Of course, this item might not be popular with the combat player, but it would be popular with the production players. On top of that, the newly founded tribe would make a mass order for this ax. They needed a lot of wood to build their tribes, mainly for the building and the wall for the early development.

Shen was done with trying things and followed the mark. Of course, he did not let his guard down while chopping the Red Willow. With his current strength, he managed to chop down the tree, which was about the same size as his body in ten minutes. Getting the tree down was not over as he had to cut the other side as well.

[You have cut the Red Willow Tree!]

[You gained 10.000 Experiences!]

Shen was surprised to hear the notification as he did not expect to gain the exp from chopping down a tree.

“Wait a minute. If I can level up by cutting down the tree, then I don’t have to take the risk to face the monster.” He came to a realization. Of course, he talked of the early phase when the monster around the village instantly killed him. On top of that, ten thousand was not a small number of experiences. “But I didn’t have this ax at that time.” He looked down at the ax.

It took twenty minutes for everything to be done and could be stored in his inventory. One Red Willow Tree turned into three Red Willow Woods. Fortunately, the wood stacked, or else it would consume his inventory space. Shen proceeded with the other two Red Willow Trees, and it was fortunate there were no Chameleon Snakes on the other two trees.

“Hah, I am wasting too much time cutting the tree,” Shen muttered in a low voice after cutting down three trees. An hour for nine pieces of wood and thirty thousand experiences while he got ninety-two thousand experiences for killing the Chameleon Snake in half an hour.

“I will just cut another two trees, and then I will let Ming come by himself to cut the tree.” The Red Willow Tree was for Ming to make a shaft for the arrow. Brother Jiang specifically mentioned Red Willow and the other two trees, hence here was, cutting down the tree for his friend.

Shen checked the ax’s durability, and it still had seventy-one percent durability. “More than enough for another two trees.” He put the ax back into the inventory and ventured deeper into the Red Willow Forest. After a few minutes of walking, he found two Red Willow Trees.

Shen was about to take out the ax and chop the tree, but he quickly remembered the invisible predator on the tree. He halted his action and scanned the tree up and down. Even though he knew it was a futile attempt to detect the snake with naked eyes, he still did it. Of course, he could not find the snake even if there was one in the tree.

‘Alright, let’s do it again.’ He would bait the snake as he pretended to cut the tree and fight Chameleon Mamba out after. Taking out the ax, he approached the tree on the left. He saw the mark and raised his ax. At this moment, he was in a high alert mode, especially for his ears. He would immediately move away as long as he heard a slight noise.

Swoosh!

Shen swung the ax, but he did not hear any noise from the tree. The ax hit the tree, and it shook. Despite all of that, the snake did not attack him. There were two possibilities for the issue. First, the Chameleon Snake was an intelligent beast with high patience. Second, there was simply no snake in the tree.

Shen leaned to the latter since the Chameleon’s fighting pattern. If it was an intelligent beast, it should change its way to attack him instead of following the same movement. Even so, he was still on a high alert as he continued chopping the Red Willow.

Swoosh! Dakh!

The tree fell to the ground, but there was no sign of a snake in the tree. Shen was relieved, meaning he could focus on cutting the tree. He processed the tree into the wood before going for the second tree.

Swoosh! Dakh!

There was no Chameleon Snake on the second tree, so it was a pretty safe task for Shen. He then proceeded with the tree, and by the time he finished it. He heard an unexpected notification.

[You have learned a skill, [Chopping Tree]!]

Shen’s eyes widened in surprise when he heard the notification. He never heard that the player could learn a skill by doing a specific activity. It was a specific skill as well, [Chopping Tree]. That meant the skill was only effective if he chopped the tree and could not be used in battle. He quickly opened the skill details.

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[Chopping Tree (Passive) – Level 1]

Description: Increased the speed to chop the tree.

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The skill added the speed of chopping down the tree. It took him twenty minutes to cut three and cut it down into smaller pieces. “Hmm, maybe the skill will shorten the time to cut down a tree.” Shen then smiled wryly while shaking his head. “I don’t know if the skill will be useful for me.” He then scratched his forehead.

“Let’s look at it from a positive perspective. I discovered that skills could be learned by doing a specific activity. That’s the important part rather than the skill itself.” Shen muttered in a low voice. “Should I make a video for this discovery? I can earn a lot of money if I make and share the video on the forum.”

Moreover, it was an important discovery in the game, so he would not be guilty of increasing the price. “I can lock it with five or even ten Yuan. Because of my previous video, people will wait for my upload too.”

Shen did not want to save the information by himself since this was something that would be discovered over time. Rather than keeping it for himself, he might as well monetize the discovery to reap some profits.

Without realizing it, Shen made a big smile as this truly big money. Especially how strict the Sky was managing the forum as violating the terms might get banned for a lifetime. Yes, the content locked behind the paywall can’t be shared, or else the violator would face a lifetime ban. Just imagine getting banned from the only Virtual Game in the world. That was the worst, and it was something easy to do since The Sky held all players’ personal information.

Shen then sat down on the ground and opened the forum. He wanted to check if the forum had this information. If someone else had shared the information, he could not post it at a higher price. After surfing the forum for five minutes, there was no information about learning a skill by doing a specific activity, even the content behind the paywall.

Shen rubbed his palm at each other and smiled.. “This is my chance.”