Moreover, very few people can comprehend a summoning skill like Divine Persuasion. Usually, it's low-damage slowing skills like Suffocating Blade (Phantom Assassin's first skill, effect: deals minor damage and slows) or Frost Arrow (Dark Ranger's first skill, slows), or passive skills like Evasion or Sword Dance. Occasionally, if someone gets a skill like Shadow Assault, that's already considered top-tier.

The alarm clock guy wanted to say something else, but was pulled back by the tall, thin young man. He gave an awkward smile, "Of course, we were being reckless. May I ask your name, sir?"

"No need for formalities, my surname is Luo."

"Mr. Mr. Bennett, a pleasure to meet you. At first, seeing that Mr. Bennett was alone and vulnerable on the grassland, we wanted to invite Mr. Bennett to join our team so we could look out for each other. But it turns out Mr. Bennett has his own clever plans and doesn't need our help at all. If you really joined our team, it would probably be us dragging Mr. Bennett down. What a joke."

"Haha, no problem." William Carter never knew what it meant to be polite. When others made polite remarks, he just went along and took it further.

The tall, thin man's smile became more and more forced, and finally froze on his face.

Of course, William Carter knew what they were up to. In the end, they still hoped he would join their team.

He did like beautiful women, but he never sacrificed his own interests for them. To be precise, ever since his girlfriend left him for someone else, he started to become a bit twisted, and found tormenting beautiful women to be a pleasure.

Did they really think he was some hot commodity? Women are like clothes, men are like flies. No matter how pretty the clothes are, if I can't wear them, what's the use? Even if I can, it depends on the price—if the cost-performance ratio is too low, forget it.

Actually, William Carter was once willing to sacrifice everything for love, but after a series of setbacks, he began to rot and change from the inside out.

Maybe many men aren't bad by nature, but this cruel world forces them to become bad. Maybe many women are naturally pure and innocent, but this real world forces them to be realistic.

So, pretty girls should be with rich guys, and rich guys should have secretaries. That way, everything is harmonious.

Life is like being forced; when you can't resist, you might as well go along with the rules and try to enjoy it.

So, women who marry rich men shouldn't expect to control their husbands, and penniless, jobless young men who want a happy sex life should just rely on their own "hands."

"Take care, I won't see you off!"

The tall, thin young man and his group turned and left helplessly. As they turned to walk away, William Carter noticed the wolf head emblem on the back of their armor—Prairie Wolf Warrior Guild?

So it turns out they were on the same side. William Carter had just joined this warrior guild yesterday and hadn't met many people yet.

As for this warrior guild, William Carter didn't feel any sense of belonging, he was just grateful to the bearded man and the others, since they had basically saved his life.

William Carter was indeed a scoundrel, but he always remembered to repay kindness. His motto was: A favor as great as a spring should be repaid even with a drop of water. If someone wrongs me a foot, I’ll wrong them a yard.

This was what two years of experience had taught William Carter: all feelings are fake, only interests are real. If you act like brothers with everyone, you'll get sold sooner or later.

Leveling up like crazy, grinding and grinding. Five days later, after killing two sheep that were attacking him, a flash of golden light appeared—William Carter had reached level two.

The feeling at the moment of leveling up was extremely satisfying, as if experiencing a climax.

William Carter closed his eyes to savor the feeling of leveling up. The hoarse system prompt sounded again: Hero's current level is 2, 2000 experience needed for next level. You have gained one skill point and one attribute point, which can be freely allocated.

Skill point? Attribute point?

Does that mean a new skill?

William Carter was delighted and quickly focused on checking his skill bar. Unfortunately, he hadn't learned any new skills—he still only had the innate skill Divine Persuasion. The only difference was that there were now three yellow plus signs in the skill bar, representing Intelligence, Strength, and Agility.

These plus signs are like the yellow dots in Dota, allowing you to increase one attribute point, but you can only choose one of Intelligence, Strength, or Agility. The yellow dots in Dota are much stronger, increasing all attributes by two points.

Usually, newbies have no skills to choose from, so they can only put the skill point into an attribute.

Besides the skill point, there was also an attribute point, which could also only be used to strengthen one of Strength, Intelligence, or Agility, increasing it by one point.

The skill point definitely had to go into Divine Persuasion, but unfortunately, level two Divine Persuasion wasn't much different from level one.

Just as William Carter was feeling disappointed, the hoarse system prompt sounded again: Divine Persuasion level two, consumes 10 mana, can persuade up to two units, persuaded units gain 10 extra HP.

One more unit? Awesome!

Chapter 8: The Blue Fatty

It seems the skill system in this world is a bit different from Dota. In the game, Divine Persuasion can only summon an extra unit at level three.

As for the attribute point, William Carter was a bit troubled. Logic told him he should add it to Strength, since it increases both HP and attack.