Rebirth of the thief who roamed around the world (BOOK 1)

Chapter 193 - Evolution Crystal

"You can go and look for the loot. I'm going to allocate my points," Nie Yan said as he surveyed his handiwork. The remnants of the destroyed Mechanical Golems filled the streets, stretching out for almost sixty meters in front him, with all sorts of items scattered out in between.

"Alright," Tang Yao replied. He flipped over the frames of the Mechanical Golems, picking up the loot that had dropped.

Nie Yan looked over his character page. He had 9 stat points and 5 mastery points to allocate. Without the slightest hesitation, he put all 9 points into Dexterity, bringing it up to 137 points. He only needed another 23 points to reach 160 Dexterity. Soon, he could equip the Scarlet Poison Ring, and then he'd receive another significant boost in attack power.

Socketing a couple of Dexterity Gems should do it.

As for the 3 mastery points, Nie Yan allocated them into Intermediate Cloaking, Advanced Marksman, and Advanced Dual Wielding. The effects of masteries grew more pronounced at higher ranks. Cloaking, for example, weakened the effects of an opponent's Awareness, making it much harder to detect him. Generally, players with only 20-30 Awareness would be completely incapable of sensing him through stealth. Dual Wielding added 30% of the attack power of his secondary weapon to his primary weapon, allowing him to deal even more damage. Finally, Marksman boosted his attack power by 10% and increased his firing rate with a crossbow or bow.

After allocating his stat and mastery points, Nie Yan joined Tang Yao in picking up the loot from the ground. The two of them were like scavengers as they searched through piles of debris, occasionally bending down to pick something up.

Before long, all of the loot had been collected.

"I found five Energized Crystal Fragments. How about you?" Tang Yao asked. He was noticeably anxious about how many fragments were collected.

"I found two fragments," Nie Yan replied. The first wave of mobs gave them a total of seven Energized Crystal Fragments.

Nie Yan traded his fragments to Tang Yao. In merely one wave, they had already gathered seven fragments. It was pretty decent progress. However, fragments would become harder to find the more they collected because Blue Armoured Mechanical Golems wouldn't respawn.

"Nice! We already have seven!" Tang Yao said in excitement; his hope quickly rose.

Nie Yan sorted through the drops. They had made quite the haul, a few Life Gems (2) and Strength Gems (2), several pieces of Level 40 Silver-grade equipment, and so on. He estimated the total worth of all these items to be around 15 or 16 gold.

It cost him about 19 gold's worth of Magic Bombs to deal with the first wave of Mechanical Golems. All in all, he was down 3 to 4 gold. But then again, spending that much had allowed him and Tang Yao to level up four and two times respectively. It could be considered quite cost efficient.

"Get ready. I'm going to aggro the next wave," Nie Yan said. Even though the Magic Bombs in his bag would only last him for another four rounds, that was more than good enough for him.

As Nie Yan and Tang Yao frantically levelled, an uproar erupted outside. Young Sparrow Hawk, who had stagnated for a while, had yet again explosively risen in level, leaving Heaven Breaker behind in a trail of dust. However, the community's reaction was relatively subdued compared to last time. Everyone was already accustomed to Tang Yao's perverse levelling speed. Even though people were surprised, no one was foolishly running to the official forums to accuse him of cheating on behalf of Heaven Breaker. As for what the other players on the leaderboards thought? Well, that was their own business.