Chapter 407
After spending an entire afternoon fighting monsters underground, Meng Zhihan decided to return back to Chosen City.
“Sigh, the speed at which I’m earning contribution points has indeed increased, but now, the amount needed to buy skills and equipment at my level is becoming more and more ridiculous…”
Looking at her pitiful account balance, she couldn’t help but feel a faint sense of melancholy.
“Now that I’m a silver ranker, should I also start exploring deeper into the Elven Forest like Brother Mu and the others to seek out more stronger magical beasts to fight?”
“Although I’m now killing monsters much faster, hunting these weaker mobs as a Silver ranker gives me a penalty, so the rewards I get actually decreased instead.”
This level penalty, of course, was implemented by Evé.
It was designed to prevent players from endlessly grinding low-level mobs after becoming stronger and to further encourage them to seek far new monsters to challenge.
Under this penalty system, the greater the level difference between the player and the monster (with the player being the one higher), the less experience and contribution points are rewarded from the kill.
“Moreover, it’s pretty much the same with tasks. The current daily tasks have become less and less rewarding for me. The only thing that still somewhat interests me is raising my favorability with the NPCs. Sigh, I wonder when there will be daily tasks suited for Silver-rankers…”