【Mutated Flame Bat】 (Mutated Creature)

　　Level: 8

　　Attack: 20-28

　　Defense: 18

　　HP: 2000

　　Attack Type: Mutated Poison Attack

　　……

　　I couldn’t help but be stunned—this was actually a quasi-BOSS level creature! Its attack was terrifyingly high, with a maximum of 28 points, and its defense had reached 18. With my current level 5 and 26 attack points, I could barely break through its defense!

　　The mutated bat didn’t seem to want to give me much time to think and lunged at me directly. Its sharp claws instantly left a mark on my leather armor!

　　A wave of sharp pain hit me, and the number “88” in damage floated above my head!

　　Although the number was auspicious, I couldn’t feel happy at all. I quickly swung my sword to counterattack. With a “bang,” I struck the flame bat’s forehead for “110” points of damage!

　　That was a decent number too, but it would still take at least 20 strikes to take down this mutated bat. I glanced at the potions in my bag—there were only 5 small potions left. Could I hold out long enough to kill this flame bat?

Volume One: The Comeback Chapter 8: Glimmering Battle Axe

　　Now, there were two paths before me: either get killed, or fight the mutated bat to the end!

　　If I had enough potions, I could kill this mutated bat without much risk. But the important thing was, I only had five potions, each restoring 100 HP, and my own HP was only 780 in total. Whether I could take down this mutated bat was still unknown!

　　Thinking of this, I couldn’t care about anything else. I bit down on a potion and charged forward—there was no other choice!

　　“Slash slash~!”

　　Two consecutive sword strikes exploded on the mutated bat’s back, taking off another two hundred-plus HP, but the bat’s counterattack also forced me to swallow another potion.

　　The battle heated up rapidly. I couldn’t worry about anything else and just swung my iron sword desperately at the mutated bat. Suddenly, as my iron sword swept past the bat’s mouth, there was a crisp “snap” and I dealt “256” points of damage!

　　I was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized—in the game, many monsters have weak points. If you can find and hit their weak spots, you can achieve twice the result with half the effort! And for this mutated bat, its weak point was most likely that big green mouth!

　　So, I sidestepped and swept my sword into the bat’s mouth, feeling the iron blade sink into a patch of soft flesh. Immediately, the mutated bat took another 248 points of weak point damage!

　　Watching this quasi-BOSS’s HP drop rapidly, I was overjoyed. With every two or three attacks, I could land a weak point hit!

　　At this moment, I reached into my bag and found nothing—my heart sank: Damn! At this critical moment, I was out of potions. This was bad!

　　By now, the mutated bat only had a sliver of HP left. It opened its bloody maw and lunged at me!

　　I only had 140 HP left—there was nothing to do but fight head-on!

　　So, I gritted my teeth and thrust my sword upward, driving the iron blade straight into the mutated bat’s mouth!

　　Pain shot through my body, and I lost another 120 HP, but at the same time, I heard a very comforting system chime—

　　“Ding~!”

　　System prompt: You have killed the Mutated Flame Bat and gained 480 experience points!

　　System prompt: You have leveled up!

　　“Ding dong!”

　　The Mutated Flame Bat dropped an item, which fell to the ground mixed in with a few silver coins!

　　It was a faintly glowing axe!

　　My heart skipped a beat: I’ve struck it rich! Glowing equipment means attribute gear—could it be that I’ve just gotten my first attribute item?

　　I quickly picked up the axe and took it out of my bag to take a look—

　　【Glimmering Battle Axe】 (Black Iron Weapon)

　　Attack: 12-18

　　Strength: +4

　　Required Level: 6

　　……

　　Haha, it’s a Black Iron weapon, an attribute weapon! And it gives me +4 Strength, which is exactly what I need most right now!

　　Overjoyed, I quickly equipped the Glimmering Battle Axe. Instantly, my attack jumped to 33-40—definitely top-tier attack power for this newbie village!

　　Ecstatic, I gathered up the silver coins on the ground. As expected of a mutated monster, it was much more generous than ordinary monsters, dropping silver coins directly—a total of four!

　　Happily, I put away the silver coins. Adding in the copper coins I’d picked up so far, my total assets were now 23 silver coins and 68 copper coins!

　　However, I was still quite a ways from the 2 gold coins required by the studio. But that was fine—there was still plenty of time. I was sure I could collect two gold coins to hand in by the end of the day!

　　So, after tidying everything up, I headed straight back to the newbie village.

　　By now, the village and its outskirts were packed with people. Of course, 99.99% of the players were still wielding those crude wooden sticks, so with the Glimmering Battle Axe on my back, I had clearly become one of the top experts in the village. Players all around cast envious glances my way!

　　Frightened, I quickly turned off my name display. Pigs fear getting fat, and people fear getting strong—once you get targeted, it’s no good. I didn’t mind PK, but that was for later. Right now, time was precious, and I should focus on leveling up!