In a while, players who have learned the herb gathering skill will flood here.
After gathering, they will provide them to alchemists to make various potions, elixirs, and draughts.
Alchemists will find a guild or shop, sign a contract, and then specialize in manufacturing medicine.
However, most will choose to join a guild because internal consumption within a guild is more stable.
As for shops, they are not highly favored by these alchemists.
This is because shops rely on foot traffic for support; if a shop's location is poor, their income will not be high.
In fact, the income of true pure life players is not low, and it is even higher than the salary of an ordinary job in reality.
In Chu Tian's previous life, later on, he was a miner.
Logically, his life should not have been so difficult.
Other pure life profession miners would follow some guilds to develop prosperous mining areas.
However, Chu Tian, for many years, always went alone to dig crystals in the abandoned mines indicated by the quest.
Moreover, almost every crystal required him to dig through the entire mine to obtain it.
This led to him being extremely poor, surviving on instant noodles for three meals a day, and sometimes not even having money to buy them.
Entering the Gray Canyon, however, do not be misled by its beautiful facade.
There is no safe place here; a stealth monster can appear at any moment from anywhere.
Especially some large wolves called Prairie Stalkers, they possess advanced stealth skills, and their spawn points are not fixed. They roam the entire map, and all of them are elite-tier.
Countless people who gathered here in the past have died under their sharp claws.
Currently, Chu Tian chose this place for two reasons: first, because the monsters are dense here, making it suitable for grinding red names.
Second, he wants to kill more Prairie Stalkers to try and get a drop of the Advanced Stealth skill book, thereby increasing his stealth level.
Only by leveling up his stealth can he explore places he cannot currently access.
Not long after entering, while searching for monsters, Chu Tian suddenly felt a sense of unease.
There is a stealthy creature!
He naturally did not believe that the creature near him was a player.
The base monsters in this map are all level twenty.
At this moment, even a stealthy player venturing here would be detected by monsters and sent back to the resurrection point.
Therefore, it must be a Prairie Stalker.
However, Chu Tian is not confident in his ability to lure out a Prairie Stalker with advanced stealth, as they are undoubtedly level twenty-five silent monsters.
They are three levels higher than Chu Tian.
The only way to lure it out is to be seen by it.
Wild Shape: Bear Form.
He was confident in his defense in Bear Form.
With over 5,500 health, he was not afraid of being instantly killed.
Moreover, Prairie Stalkers have no crowd control skills, so he did not have to worry about being stunned or anything similar.
As long as he could lure it out, he would have a way to kill it.
The moment he transformed into Bear Form, as he had predicted, a giant wolf lunged at him.
-89!
"Damn, that's high damage!" Chu Tian muttered, surprised by the damage output of a level twenty-five elite monster.
Maul, he also directly used the skill on the wolf.
The control skill in Bear Form, a three-second stun.
Then he transformed into Owlkin, cast Entangling Roots in front of it, and followed up with two debuff skills, Moonfire and Sunfire.
Two seconds had passed by then, Chu Tian transformed into Cheetah, and cast Shred.
-35, -44!
-38, -44!
-78, -44!
Three damage-over-time effects appeared above its head.
Just as the Prairie Stalker's stun wore off.
Chu Tian took a step back, and the Prairie Stalker immediately followed.
But it stepped into the Entangling Roots Chu Tian had cast earlier.
The biggest weakness of beast-type monsters is that they do not attempt to remove control effects.
With its claws entangled, it was unable to turn.
Chu Tian immediately moved behind it and began Rending, Rending...
-978!
-1586!
High damage numbers appeared.
Although Chu Tian's damage to it was not low, this fellow had a substantial 60,000 health.
It was unlikely that he could kill it within the eight seconds that Entangling Roots lasted.
In Cheetah Form, casting skills requires energy.
The energy cap is one hundred points.
Combined with the regeneration rate, it was only enough for him to cast three Rends consecutively.
Each Rend attack requires forty energy.
During this time, Chu Tian landed several normal attacks, claw attacks.
As the entanglement ended, Chu Tian had just cast five Shreds.
Dealing over ten thousand damage in total, along with other skills, the Prairie Stalker's health dropped by a third.
In the last second before Entangling Roots expired, he used the Typhoon skill in Cheetah Form.
The Prairie Stalker was instantly blown back about six meters.
However, due to Typhoon's special effect, it entered a slowed state, lasting for 10 seconds, with its movement speed reduced by seventy percent.
Chu Tian then transformed into Owlkin and reapplied the two debuff skills, extending their duration.
With all his control skills on cooldown, Chu Tian charged forward.
Using his agile body, he dodged the wolf's attacks.
If there was an attack he couldn't dodge, Chu Tian would transform into Bear Form and tank it.
Not long after, the wolf let out a howl and fell to the ground.
Chu Tian glanced at the time; it had taken him a full minute to defeat it.
However, upon further thought, he felt proud that he could solo an elite monster that was higher level than him.
Others would not be able to achieve this. At this moment, Chu Tian's level was already twenty-two.
It had been a while since he checked his stats.
He opened his status panel—
[I Am Not A Druid]
Profession: Druid
Race: Human
Level: 22
Faction: Survivors
Bloodline: Elven King (God-Tier)
Strength: 110 (Growth Index: 20) Increases Physical Attack Power.
Intelligence: 110 (Growth Index: 20) Increases Magical Attack Power, Mana Pool Cap.
Agility: 110 (Growth Index: 20) Increases Attack Speed, Movement Speed, Energy Regeneration Rate.
Stamina: 110 (Growth Index: 20) Increases Defense.
Constitution: 110 (Growth Index: 20) Increases Health Cap.
Special Attributes (Reinforced): All-Around +2, Mastery +4, Critical Strike +4, Haste +3
Attack Power: 524-632
Defense: 226-328
Health: 2200
Free Points: 0
Universal Skill: Novice Scrutiny (Can view attributes of monsters no more than 5 levels higher than oneself.)
Description: The peace-loving elves never fear war. In every holy war recorded in history, the elves have an indelible mark.
As his equipment had not changed, only his weapon had been enhanced to thirty.
With his current stats, Chu Tian was confident that he was still at the forefront, or even had the highest attack power in the world.
He happily picked up the copper coins that dropped on the ground and began to search for his next target.
[Author's Note]
The first small climax is coming soon!
Thank you for your support!