Chapter 345: 345 Job Change

Chen Xu had practically taken down a gang of horse bandits all by himself, and this time he truly became a hero of the town.

He felt that if the game had a reputation system, he estimated his reputation in the town would have soared to revered.

The scene was chaotic, he didn’t linger, and quickly escaped the crowd to return to his dormitory to rest.

After his character entered rest mode, he logged onto the game’s internal forum and started browsing through the posts. The most eye-catching were the few pinned official threads.

The first was a level ranking list, which, after clicking into it, displayed an overall level chart. The highest level was thirty-five, a female by the name of Cang Yue from a Western country.

Only a thousand people were listed, with the first three hundred or so all at level thirty-five, and the rest at level thirty-four. The gap was incredibly small.

Then, he looked at the other rankings. On the homepage, there were ten rankings, which were also the most influential ones. Apart from the level rankings, there were personal combat power rankings, personal wealth rankings, and so on.

In addition, there were many categorized rankings, amounting to over a hundred in total. Many of these were probably duplicates, like the level ranking and the personal combat power ranking, where the top spot was held by that woman named Cang Yue. For now, she was the undisputed number one in the area.

How was the personal combat power ranking determined? Every two years, the officials would hold a PvP tournament for the entire service region. Anyone meeting certain level criteria could participate and pit players against each other.

Not long ago, the first PvP tournament had concluded, and it resulted in the current ranking.

In the game, various competitions were truly abundant, including shooting competitions, swordsmanship contests, alchemy contests, and so forth. Hence, so many different rankings were generated.

He read for a while, gaining a general understanding, then returned to the homepage.

The second official thread was a list of records and achievements: the first player to break level ten, twenty, thirty, etc., the first to change class to become a Transcendent, record holders for the various dungeons…

He clicked on the thread and saw that there were already over three hundred opened dungeons. As for records, he didn’t care much about those.

His main purpose for visiting the forum was to learn some common knowledge.

In this forum, there were plenty of free posts. Taking some time to go through them, one could indeed learn quite a bit.

With one look, several hours had passed.

The next morning, as soon as Chen Xu woke up, he received a new quest to follow a bandit suppression team from the county to raid the bandits’ stronghold.

Two bandits had slipped through the net the previous evening, but they hadn’t gotten far before the townspeople caught them. The police chief immediately notified the county, which took the matter very seriously. A suppression team was dispatched overnight, determined to completely eradicate that band of bandits.

Chen Xu was curious; from background information, he knew that the country he was in had only been unified for a few years, and there was chaos everywhere, with bandit problems especially prevalent in the smaller areas.

That the county would send people to suppress bandits overnight seemed like an incredibly efficient response.

Then someone whispered to him that the head honcho in the county was originally from Chen Family Gathering, with many relatives living there.

It suddenly clicked for him; that was what was going on.

By noon, the suppression team had arrived, a total of more than a dozen people, all in uniform, each one armed with a gun, obviously elite forces from the county.

After lunch, Chen Xu followed them, escorting the two captured bandits, advancing towards the bandits’ lair.

The battle was a foregone conclusion, the bandits left in the stronghold were wiped out.

Chen Xu, with his exceptional marksmanship, took down several more bandits, gaining another hundred or more experience points and leveling up again. He also received several Gold Coins.

Returning from this mission, everyone triumphantly returned to a warm welcome from the townspeople.

After that, Chen Xu focused on leveling up.

As time passed, more and more players arrived in the town. A month later, when Chen Xu was close to reaching level twenty, the number of players in the town had surpassed ten thousand.

With more players, more monsters appeared in the wilderness, and several dungeons had sprung up. There was no worry about running out of monsters to kill.

Level twenty was a bottleneck, requiring a class change with an associated special mission.

The initial class change was crucial as it would determine the future development path.

He didn’t hesitate much, deciding to continue down the path of a gunman, an area where he had talent.

To change class, one had to go to the county city, which meant switching to a larger map.

When he successfully reached level twenty, he received a transfer order. In recognition of his merits, he was reassigned to the county, so he didn’t have to worry about making his way to the county city himself.

It took half a day to reach the county city, and before even entering, he saw countless players fighting monsters, almost blocking the entrance, which looked quite intimidating.

The number of players in the county city was probably more than ten times higher than in the town.

He entered the county city, reported to the police station, and started his class change mission.

According to the forum summaries, the level twenty class change missions varied wildly, with essentially every player’s task being different. Moreover, the higher the completion rate, the greater the benefits received upon class changing.

The mission he received was to rescue a wealthy individual who had been kidnapped and was held at a certain estate outside the city. He had one day to complete it.

Without a doubt, this was a special dungeon mission. If it were an ordinary map, such a task would have been completed by players long ago.

Holding his mission card, he arrived at the specified location and saw an estate with its gates opened. After checking his equipment and confirming everything was in order, he entered.

As soon as he got through the gate, he saw four men coming towards him. Upon seeing him, they didn’t say a word before pulling out their guns.

His speed was quicker. He dealt with them before they could fire their weapons.

Under these circumstances, he had no choice but to charge in headfirst.

Ten minutes later–

Chen Xu reappeared at the main entrance, muttering, “Fuck!”

There were too many enemies inside the estate; thirty-some in total, front and back, which wasn’t a big deal. Spread out, they were just delivering themselves to him.

Having reached level twenty, his physical attributes had greatly improved–strength, constitution, speed, and so on. He was quite the little superman.

The problem was the final barrier; upon pushing open the door, he was met by ten guns, which turned him into a sieve.

Luckily, dying in this kind of class change mission didn’t result in losing levels or equipment. Otherwise, starting over would be too much of a hassle.

He thought for a moment then made a second attempt to fight his way in.

This time, there were over a dozen more enemies inside the estate. He didn’t even break through to the end before facing numerous close calls and nearly dying several times.

This was the toughest part of the class change mission–if you couldn’t pass on the first try, each subsequent attempt would become harder than the last.