--- Breezing through the Newbie Challenge

After a short silence, players who were in daze, has returned to their senses. Some who was inside dungeons, died and failed thier run. Same can be said to crafters and even experts clearing a hidden realm they luckily stumbled upon.

"T-this..."

"An A rank equipment!"

"Seriously!?"

"Ooof! Crap, i just died!"

"It's not just an equipment, it's a ring!"

"My god! An accessory!"

On a spacious hall, on a huge square table, sat around people with luxurious equipments. They were guild leaders of some of the top guilds in Gaia. You can't see anyone here wearing equipments below B rank. Each has at least 2 A rank equipments.

They were currently having a meeting about farming spots distribution and alliance in dungeon runs, when the announcement suddenly rang in the middle of the meeting which halted their discussion. After the long silence, someone spoke.

"It's that guy..."

"A recipe for an A rank accessory!"

"Unlike weapons and armors, accessories does not need to level up and already had a fixed stats, which was already set very high according to it's rank. The only way to increase it's attributes further, is to upgrade the rank."

"We need to get our hands on the recipe..."

"Yes, with the help of this, even clearing nightmare rank will become possible..."

"Despair, this is the very person who set the highest damage in all begginer's village, being just a meager lvl. 1"

"Let's talk about what we will do to this guy first. How about assembling teams for each capital? It should be a matter of time before he get's out of that village."

"But what do we offer? At such level, he already have at least 2 legendary equipment!"

"Haaah... a newbie with at least 2 legendary equipment..."

"Protection and more benifits."

"Hmmm...I'm sure other factions are already thinking the same thing."

"This is quite tricky. We'll figure it out once he gets out. I'm sure he knows what's good for him once he gets out. It's either he surrenders to any major powers and bow down or be stuck inside the safety of the empire capital..."

"..."

All the world powers in Gilona, who was inside the game and even those who weren't, was already informed on the spot, started to move and assembled teams to watch each temples of the 12 major empire capitals.

The thing that Chris did, drew an even larger target on his back. But those powers were bound to be disappointed as they don't know what he's currently capable of.

His friends were also congratulating him on the GC, urging him to make one for them as well. He said the ring became bound to him after crafting making them disappointed.

He showed the stats of the ring and told them the ingredients so that they can make thier own which made them super excited as the ingredients can be found on the player trading house and it was too cheap. Until rank B that is. After all, you need spirit stones to upgrade it to rank A.

They've gotten curious how he got his hands on the recipe, even speculating that recipe was a quest reward or a drop by those elite bosses he killed. In the end, he told them that he can see hidden info on almost anything thanks to his 'talent'.

They were surprised, happy, and worried at the same time as some kind of talent might get him in danger. They swore that they'll keep it secret until they die.

He mailed the stones he had to the girls as they will definitely decline if he sent gold. Although they are high level and has alot of gold, it will definitely make them bleed if they buy spirit stones.

As for his brothers? He just sent them the remaining stones and gold for the deficit casually. If the fatty was in front of him, he will definitely try to do something skincrawling on Chris. And thanked god, he wasn't.

After successfully crafting their rings, they got their own rewards but no world announcement. He was thankful for that. Sherryl got the second place which gave her half the coins and fame he obtained and Shiela was third getting half the coins and fame Sherryl got. While below third place until 10th, only 10% of coins and fame of the first place.

*******

A few minutes later, after the world announcement that Chris made, he was now waiting for the third and last wave of 8th level.

[Last wave will start in 05:00...04:59...]

He was breezing through the waves as the enemies are all just level 10. Even if their ranks were higher than an elite, with the level being 20 time lower, it was just too easy.

[00:03...00:02...00:01...The enemy has arrived!]

Looking in far front of him, a portal had just appeared. With a ripple, three figures appeared out of it.

In front, a burly humanoid with green skin, at least 3 meters tall holding a large shield and a two-handed hammer. With such a large size, each can just be held in 1 hand. It was an Orc!

There were two more humanoid creatures behind it. One was at least 2 meters tall with dog-like features carrying two throwing javelins on both hands and has a quiver on it's back filled with it. It was a Gnoll!

The third one was only about a meter tall, hunchbacked and red skinned rat-like creature holding a staff. It was a Kobold! And these three were his opponents.

[Ragor, The Examiner(B+)Lvl.10

HP: 2,171,875 MP: 138,500 Atk: 38,950

Skills: Charge, Bash, Double Tap, Shield Throw, Stone Skin, Bond of Sacrifice]

[Glenn, The Examiner(B+)Lvl.10

HP: 1,231,250 MP:115,500 RAtk: 46,450

Skills: Fusion Shot, Hail of Javelins, Speed Up!, Hypershooting]

[Antil, The Examiner(B+)Lvl.10

HP:1,081,250 MP:384,375 MAtak: 41,450

Skills: Earth Spike, Bind, Blink, Magic Missile, Heal, Rock Wall, Power Up!, Detection]

'I see... no wonder those two lost huh? These three are just outrageous! Even Darryl, with his 'Bulwark', probably didn't even last a minute.'

[Power Up]! [Speed Up]! [Blink]!

"Huh? Wha-"

[Bind]! [Charge]! [Hypershooting]!

[You are affected with 'Bind', MS -75%]

'Wow!'

Before Chris made a move notching an arrow on his bow, the monsters already made thier move. The Gnoll and Kobold already casted thier buff, buffing the whole party.

Afterwards, the Kobold blinked a few meters near Chris and casted a spell on him, while the Orc charged and the Gnoll started to bombard him with javelins. It was too fast that he was almost caught offguard.

[Blink]! [Camouflage]!

"Phew! These guys are too excited huh?"

[Detection]!

He blinked out himself then turned invisible and turned back farther to avoid the detection range of the Kobold. Luckily for Chris, the trial grounds is pretty wide so he has more ground to play with.

Losing thier target, the three started to look for him. The Orc was in the front, while the two are behind. The detection was a spell that continue to follow the caster.

'Hmmm...let's start with you...'

He readied his bow to cast his powershot.

[Powershot]! 5...4...3...2...1 *Shwooooosh!* *Bang!* -0 "Wha-!" [Bond of Sacrifice] -319,400

"The heck!"

After shooting at the Kobold, the damage was sent to the Orc instead, completely dumbfounding Chris.

[Bond of Sacrifice: Auto activates when a teammate takes a damage. The damage the teammate recieved, will be redirected to the skill owner. Damage recieved = 10% of the original damage.]

'What an insane skill! I would love to have that for Darryl. Too bad, this trial area don't drop anything... *chuckles*'

[Blink]! [Camouflage]!

He continued his stalking after blinking away then turning invisible once more.