Underworld Player Chapter 81 - The Stairs

"...So, you got lucky when neutral creeps showed up right inside your home? Two of them, you say?"

As he walked up the stairs toward the sixth floor, listening to Temperance Gentleheart tell her story, Bai Zhi could not help grimacing. He'd only asked Temperance how she had achieved such a high level out of casual interest, but got an unexpectedly earnest and detailed answer in return.

To think she had been someone who had joined as a new Player the same time he did, and even completed the Newbie Run with him. Meanwhile, he had been desperately searching high and low in the city for supernatural entities, going so far as to catch an early taxi to Prosperity Mall specially to participate in the Game there, and even gotten sent on a detour to the Underworld, of all places... and still barely managed to squeeze his way up to Level 5.

If not for circumstances forcing him to order a food delivery, leading to his encounter with—and subsequent dispatching of—the supernatural entity known as the Crazy Delivery Dude, he would not even have enough experience to reach Level 5.

Bai Zhi was completely flabbergasted.

If I had such a hard time leveling up, how could Temperance Gentleheart, who did so poorly in the Newbie Run, end up outleveling me?

He had thought Temperance would be hiding some sort of secret, and was never planning on asking any probing questions, but she seemed to have placed incredible trust in him, and not only shared exactly how she had leveled up so quickly, but even let him know all about her skills and her stat points...

To Verified Players, the importance of skills could not be overstated. Oftentimes, the first Rare skill that Players obtained from their Newbie Run ended up being a core skill that enabled them to survive even at higher levels. Thus, a Player's skills were virtually their biggest asset, and their biggest secret.

Even Lin He, who had told Bai Zhi about his skills back then, had done so as a ploy to earn his trust, after all, which was why, when Temperance Gentleheart openly shared her skil

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