Chapter 13: Stepping Into The Starter Vige
Trantor: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
“You have stepped into the territory of Starter Vige #10021!”
“Note: Stepping into the starter vige without permission will cause the guards and powerful fighters in the vige to view you as an enemy!”
Qin Shujian received a notification from the system when he was three meters away from the vige entrance.
He stopped in his tracks when he looked at the guards standing in front of him.
“The territory of the starter vige? Cause the guards and powerful fighters in the vige to view me as an enemy?” Qin Shujian thought.
These two notifications made Qin Shujian’s expression turn grave.
He had next to no understanding of the starter vige in the Liangshan territory.
However, judging from the guards standing in front of the vige, Qin Shujian could roughly estimate the starter vige’s strength.
If this were an average day, Qin Shujian would not have taken action rashly before he thoroughly investigated his opponent’s strength.
However, it was different for the starter vige.
Giving the yers more time meant they would be more of a threat to him in the future.
Qin Shujian’s main goal this time around was to scout just how powerful the starter vige was.
As for why he took action, the main reason was that there were no other powerful fighters in the Liangshan Stronghold.
If he had sent a few small-fry Mountain Bandits over, they might have be experience points for the yers before they even stepped foot into the vige.
He had to use a sufficient amount of force to determine just how strong the vige was.
Qin Shujian was using himself as the stone to test how deep the waters of the vige ran.
He was confident in himself.
With his stage at Martial Entry-Level Six, he should be able to retreat in one piece even if a terrifying expert was hiding in the starter vige.
The yers who were corralling beside Qin Shujian looked confused when they saw Qin Shujian stop in front of the starter vige. They seemed not to understand Qin Shujian’s intentions.
But the yers didn’t have time to ask questions when they saw Qin Shujian take a step forward.
“Note: You have stepped into the territory of Starter Vige #10021!”
Qin Shujian gave the system notification a simple nce before he tossed it to the back of his head.
At that moment, the guards who originally stood motionless like statues in front of the vige entrance walked forward immediately and blocked Qin Shujian’s path.
“Stop right there!” They crossed their spears. The bright tip of the spear reflected harsh, cold light.
One of the guards, who looked more senior, shouted with a low voice, “This is the territory of the vige. Anyone who is not from the vige is prohibited from freely entering the vige.”
“Haha!” Qin Shujian first let out a calm smile. His expression then turned cold.
“I did not expect that there are people in Liangshan who dared to block my path,” Qin Shujian had just finished his sentence when the atmosphere instantly turned tense.
The spectating yers all had strange looks on their faces. Several people had an excited glimmer in their eyes.
How could they fail to recognize this with their perceptive ability?
The NPC’s simple words wereced with fury. It seemed like a battle was about to erupt.
The new yers did not have to care if the starter vige guards were on their side, nor did they have to care if Qin Shujian was an enemy.
In their eyes, they were all NPCs.
Since they were NPCs, their battle had nothing to do with them.
They might even be able to gain benefits from this battle.
Thus, several of the yers were faintly egging them on. They wanted the two parties to fight.
Qin Shujian disregarded the guard’s obstruction.
The two spears might as well be useless in front of Qin Shujian. Qin Shujian stopped in his tracks for a moment, then stepped forward once again.
Charge!
The two guards attacked at the same time.
They thrust their long spears outward with fierce momentum. Their attack would have easily pierced through an average person.
But, from Qin Shujian’s perspective, they were as slow as a turtle.
He raised his right arm as a reaction to the attack. He struck his palm past the tip of the spear, then tapped on the body of the spears with his fingers at extreme speed.
Boom!
A powerful force erupted from the body of the spear, and the two guards felt their grips shake. They involuntarily loosened their grip on their spears.
Qin Shujian took a step forward and nted his palms on the chest of the two guards.
The force exerted by a person at Martial Entry-Level Six must have weighed a thousand tons.
The two guards were only at Martial Entry-Level One. How could they have taken Qin Shujian’s attack?
Boom!
The two bodies were sent flying like straw.
Their chests caved in, and their ribs had had long been shattered from the impact.
They instantly bled from every orifice. The guards couldn’t even speak before theynded on the ground, devoid of life.
“Wow!”
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The sudden development startled the rest of the yers.
Even though they knew that conflict would erupt between the two parties, they did not expect the battle to be that abrupt.
The guards, who looked powerful in their eyes, had been unable tost even through one hit from the NPC before dying.
Qin Shujian’s attack had been swift. The yers only managed to see two afterimages before the battle ended.
Expert!
The NPC was definitely an expert!
Even the NPCs who were teaching them techniques in the training hall did not seem as powerful as Qin Shujian in the yers’ eyes.
“This NPC is so powerful. Wouldn’t we be able to get a huge lead on the other yers if we managed to learn techniques from him!”
A portion of yers thought about the matter from another perspective.
During the time they had entered the game, a few experienced yers had understood some of the game rules.
There was no leveling system in this game. yers had to focus on cultivating techniques.
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Then, correspondingly, the higher the level of the cultivated techniques, the stronger their abilities would be.
The techniques they could learn from the vige’s training hall were mostly weak techniques that could not differentiate them from the other yers.
If they genuinely wanted to rise above the other yers, they had to find a way to learn techniques that were of a higher grade.
In these yers’ eyes, Qin Shujian was an NPC who possessed high-grade techniques and had abilities that were deep beyondprehension.
Qin Shujian could not be bothered with the yers’ conjectures.
That was because while his Life Value had increased by two points after he killed the two vige guards, he had also received a few notifications from the system.
“You have killed the guards of Starter Vige #10021!”
“The rtionship of the Liangshan Stronghold and Starter Vige #10021 has be that of enemies!”
“Your actions have incited the wrath of the powerful fighters in Starter Vige #10021!”
“Note: The powerful fighters of Starter Vige #10021 are rapidly approaching!”
Powerful fighters!
Qin Shujian squinted slightly when he saw those words.
Even without the hint from the system, he could faintly detect a heavy aura rapidly approaching him from within the starter vige.
On the other side, the two vige guards’ pitiful deaths gained the attention of the other guards.
At the moment, a dozen guards swarmed out from within the vige.
They did not say anything. They did not try to converse with Qin Shujian.
“Charge!” One of the guards roared in fury. He thrust his long spear toward Qin Shujian.
The rest of the guards attacked at the same time.
A dozen spears pierced forward. Their shiny tips caused the hair of the people who saw it stand. It was as if they could sense a considerable threat from the attack.
Qin Shujian silently grabbed the handle of the de behind his back with his right hand.
His gaze gradually turned ice-cold when he saw the long spears piercing toward him.