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"Kirito, that wild boar is charging at you, it's yours."
"Ok!"
Western District of the Starting City.
Kirito and Klein were grinding monsters.
Under the guidance of Kirito, a beta tester, Klein was slowly getting familiar with the basic gameplay of this game.
"Xin!"
Kirito used a sword skill to easily dispatch the wild boar that charged at him.
"Hmph hum~"
The wild boar squealed twice before its death, then dissipated into energy fragments, vanishing into the world.
"Cheng~"
After dealing with the wild boar, Kirito drew his sword across the ground beneath his feet, then stylishly sheathed it on his back.
The movements were extremely practiced.
"So tired."
Klein slumped to the ground, tiredly twisting his neck, propping himself up with his hands and leaning back. His eyes fell on Kirito, who was standing nearby, and he asked,
"Kirito, what if someone went out into the wild without claiming their starter equipment? Would they be killed by monsters?"
"Well, I'm not sure. Most likely they would..."
Kirito hadn't finished speaking when.
A commotion suddenly erupted not far away.
Kirito and Klein simultaneously turned their gazes toward the source of the sound.
They saw a person not far away, surrounded by three or four wild boars. The person's hands were empty, and they wore no armor.
"Kirito, should we go help him? He looks like he hasn't claimed his starter equipment."
"Whatever."
"Yosh, let's go."
Klein quickly got up from the ground, drew his weapon, and was the first to charge towards the wild boars surrounding the newcomer.
However, after only a few steps, he seemed to have seen something incredible, stopped in his tracks, and stood there, mouth agape.
Kirito, who had taken a step, was the same, though his expression wasn't as exaggerated as Klein's.
The "new player" surrounded by wild boars, without any panic, dodged a boar's charge with a sidestep to the left.
Bang!
Simultaneously, he threw a stone from his hand, hitting the wild boar's rear.
"Hmph hum!"
Then, another wild boar charged at the person. The person glanced at it, dodged the boar's charge with a flip, and landed on its back.
He then began to continuously throw stones at the other approaching wild boars like a human turret.
The wild boar beneath him thrashed wildly, trying to shake him off.
But it was useless. Instead, the person used it as a mount, dodging the attacks of other wild boars.
Furthermore, because it was so intent on throwing the person off its back, it charged around blindly, even affecting its own kind.
Although the stones didn't have high attack power, after being hit twice like this by the person...
In fact, Kirito had also speculated that the other party was likely a beta tester.
But what beta tester would go without armor?
Apart from novices who couldn't find where to claim their starter equipment, this situation would hardly occur.
Let alone those whose goal was to clear the game, even casual players who were just relaxing would put on armor in the wild.
In the early stages of the game, player levels were not high. Even wild boars, the weakest monsters in this area, dealt considerable damage to players.
As Klein, a novice, showed, even with equipment and weapons, they couldn't defeat wild boars at first.
And the footwork and skills of that person were several times better than his own, a beta tester focused on clearing quests.
Just the fluid flip he performed to jump onto the wild boar was something even he found difficult to achieve.
He could kill several wild boars at level one without taking damage, but that was with a weapon. This person's fighting style...
Hiss, couldn't learn it.
"Kirito, why don't we go ask him?"
Klein said with a smile. He was amiable and friendly with everyone.
If he could invite the other person to join their party, perhaps he could learn their monster-fighting techniques.
"No need for us to go. He's already coming over."
Just as Kirito said, the person noticed them and walked towards them.
As the person approached, Kirito's pupils contracted sharply.
He quickly grabbed Klein, who was about to step forward to greet them, and pulled him back.
At the same time, his right hand had already drawn his starter longsword from its scabbard and pointed it at the person.
"Hey, Kirito, what are you doing?"
Klein, suddenly grabbed, looked puzzled.