#3Chapter 3 Hatchet
Because he had no teammates to help him, the clone who entered the dungeon for the first time had an extremely difficult time even facing the lowest-level bandit minions, and even faced near-death experiences several times.
Fortunately, the monsters in the level 1 dungeon weren't very bright, and after a fierce battle, your clone managed to land a sneak attack.
Your clone gained 10 experience points. However, a mere 10 experience points didn't bring any changes to your clone.
Your clone felt a wave of despair, but under your earnest urging, he once again groped towards the other miscellaneous bandits in the bandit village.
Three days later, relying on his ultimate kiting experience, your clone finally killed all the miscellaneous bandit soldiers in the bandit stronghold, and your clone's level also increased to level 2.
Feeling the power surging within his body, your clone's face was full of smiles.
However, your clone quickly stopped smiling.
It turned out that as your clone's level increased, the experience gained from killing a level 1 bandit minion was reduced from 10 points per kill to only 5 points per kill.
Your clone killed all the bandit minions, but failed to advance his experience points even by one notch.
Helpless, in order to gain more experience, and also to avoid the penalty mechanism brought about by the level increase, your clone had to bite the bullet and delve deeper into the bandit village...
Soon, your clone encountered a group of level 2 monsters, the patrolling bandits.
Facing the more powerful and grouped patrolling bandits, your clone quickly felt overwhelmed, and in order to save his own life, your clone decisively ended the dungeon, and luckily escaped with his life.
"....Let alone the dungeon BOSS, without a powerful talent, without teammates, he can't even beat the miscellaneous soldiers?"
Lin Ke covered his forehead.
Because he prematurely ended the dungeon, and didn't even see the dungeon BOSS, in the crucial first dungeon, your clone only obtained some relics from the bandit minions and a negligible 125 experience points, which created a huge gap between your clone and other students of the same period.
Your clone sold all the miscellaneous soldier relics and barely scraped together 200 yuan, and bought a Black Iron skill book - Charge - on the school's internal trading platform.
Your clone learned the Charge skill, and under the effect of the talent 'Enhanced Charge', it advanced into a Bronze skill - Enhanced Charge.
Enhanced Charge (Bronze) LV1: Launch a charge to strike the opponent, instantly increasing your movement speed equivalent to your constitution and strength, dealing an additional 10% physical damage, knocking back and stunning the target. The knockback distance and stun time depend on the difference in strength between the two sides.
Having obtained Enhanced Charge, the clone was full of confidence, and felt that he would definitely be able to find a team willing to accept him in the next dungeon.
Seeing this, Lin Ke then remembered that in this world, dungeons couldn't be entered or exited as one pleased.
Professionals need to consume Shelter Value to resist the dimensional pressure generated when traversing space to enter the dungeon, even the most powerful Sky-level professionals are no exception.
Apart from a very few dungeon items, the only way to restore Shelter Value is through natural recovery.
If relying purely on natural recovery, it will take at least a week to fully recover, which means that each Awakener only has one chance to challenge the dungeon per week.
To become a powerful Awakener, one must maximize the benefits obtained in each dungeon as much as possible, especially for genius professionals, each time they fall behind in a dungeon is a huge loss to their potential.
"So, are the Awakeners with sewer-level abilities really destined to become useless, as Lin Qingyu said."
"And in this case, the clone's wishful thinking of finding his own team with just one Enhanced Charge skill is probably too optimistic."
Thinking so in his heart.
Lin Ke continued to read on.
Four days later, your clone's Shelter Value was restored.
Coming to the crowded dungeon square again, your clone raised the banner of the Enhanced Charge skill, hoping that someone would pick him.
However, your clone overestimated the value of the Bronze skill. In Donghua University, a top federal institution, the students who can study here are either rich or talented. Especially since most of the freshmen have already completed a dungeon and received a dungeon reward, Bronze skills are no longer rare.
Under this premise, the clone, who is only level 2 and has no equipment, is still worthless or even a burden in the freshman group with an average level of 4 and at least one white-grade equipment.
Unsurprisingly, until the crowded dungeon square was empty, your clone didn't find a team willing to take him into the dungeon.
Seeing this, your clone directly extinguished the idea of joining a team, resolutely opened the Bandit Village dungeon, and rushed in angrily.
With the Charge skill, the clone was now more than capable of dealing with level 1 bandit minions. Although killing a bandit minion only gave him 5 experience points due to the level penalty, the clone still spent a whole day without any waste, killing all the bandit minions.
Afterwards, your clone went deep into the bandit village, and after killing three patrolling bandits with the Enhanced Charge skill, he attracted the attention of the third boss of the bandit village.
Your clone tried to use the Enhanced Charge skill on the third boss.
When he discovered that his Enhanced Charge only knocked off a sliver of the third boss's health, your clone decisively exited the dungeon.
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"Two dungeons, and he hasn't been able to raise his level to 3, and he hasn't even dropped a single white-grade equipment."
"On the other hand, those elites who can form teams or even join student clubs can raise their level to 4 or higher in the first dungeon, and can get Bronze equipment or even Silver equipment upon joining the club. Who knows how strong they will become after two dungeons?"
Lin Ke felt a toothache when he saw this.
Is this the Black Iron sewer-level ability Enhanced Charge? It really is trash among trash..
Fortunately, it was the clone in the simulation who obtained the ability. If he really obtained this trash ability in reality, then he really wouldn't have any motivation to work hard.
After this, every seven days, your clone would choose to enter the Bandit Village dungeon alone.
The gap between your clone and his classmates widened. On the eve of the final exam, the clone, who had barely raised his level to 6, received a verbal warning from the director of education.
The director of education told your clone that he was the only one in the entire Donghua University who had not completed his job change. Even the student ranked second to last in terms of grades had already completed the job change task. If he still couldn't complete the job change during the final exam, he would be forced to drop out.
Your clone remained unmoved, and still insisted on challenging the Bandit Village dungeon once every seven days.
Finally, after your clone challenged the Bandit Village dungeon for the twentieth time, your clone achieved the feat of defeating the third boss of the Bandit Village in a one-on-one fight! And obtained your first Bronze equipment - the Third Boss's Wood Chopping Knife.
Third Boss's Wood Chopping Knife: Level 3, Bronze equipment, Strength +5, Agility -1, Attack inflicts 20 points of bleeding damage.
Your clone's level increased to 8.
Having obtained the Bronze equipment, the clone immediately ran to challenge the second boss of the Bandit Village with confidence.
After a battle, your clone saw that he was no match, and quickly chose to exit the dungeon.
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