This is the largest town on the first floor, Torbana, except for the six Origin Towns.

Now that the night is getting darker, Kirito has been separated from Wang Shui, and tomorrow he will advance to the labyrinth area, trying to rush to level 10 and wear the ring at the same time, but also replenish the economy.

After all, the materials and a large amount of cash to strengthen weapons and equipment have been swept away by the old father Wang Shui, and Kirito will start to farm monsters with high intensity starting tomorrow.

Wang Shui also finally finished sorting out the item boxes in the town, planning storage space for various materials in advance for easy search later, which is the basic quality of veteran players.

Although they were all in a hurry today, and only one ruin was brushed in the middle, they gained more than the previous ones combined.

Thanks to Kirito's donation, Wang Shui now has most of the materials to strengthen weapons to [+6], only steel ingots can't be dropped directly by monsters, and monsters can drop ores at most.

The town where Wang Shui is now located [Torbana] is in front of a valley, which is a narrow valley in the east-west direction, and there are many monsters here that can drop ores, and in various wild mines, players can also mine ore by themselves and take it to the town for smelting.

But either way, the efficiency is much lower than that of professional [mining] skills.

After entering the town, Wang Shui also went out to brush a few monsters that dropped ores, and he tested the [Gathering] skill, but the things obtained were too miscellaneous, and the efficiency in obtaining additional ores was not very high.

So Wang Shui plans to brush out the [mining] skill, although he doesn't understand how to master this life skill, but to believe in his talent, maybe the first pick will be unlocked!

Emptying his backpack and carrying only simple food, water, a sleeping bag, and ten pickaxes of aqua regia, yes, it was getting late, but he set off.

The destination is a mining farm controlled by the town.

Along the improvised track for transporting ore, Wang Shui found a mine 3 kilometers from the town under the light of a few lights, where there were several simple stone houses, and there was space carved into the mountain wall, and a huge square was enclosed by a stone wall outside, which seemed to be used to pile ore, but there was not a single one here.

There is a fee to enter the mine, which is 100 kl for one entry, and there is an additional fee for deeper ore layers. It's the town militia that's watching, and although it's not very high-level, if you provoke them, you'll be hostile to all NPCs.

To be reasonable, this price is a bit expensive, and the militia only provides the first two layers of security guards, they will clean up the monsters in the valley, do not let them enter the 0th floor (the same floor as the valley), and will also clean up the [Mine 1st Floor] about five meters underground, but from the [Mine 2nd Floor], the player will not only have to pay an additional 50 kels, and will no longer be protected by the town.

Monsters will also spawn in the mines, mainly some beetles, a small number of undead creatures, and - kobolds, yes, sometimes kobold miners and kobold overseers.

The above information is basically only grasped by players a few days ago.

Now in the open beta version, the gold drops have been reduced, and the elite players who have rushed to this mining town are stuck on weapon-enhanced metal ingots, and just two days before Shui Wang arrives, they start an in-depth strategy of the mine.

But the effect is not ideal.

After Wang Shui paid the money, he walked into the 0th floor, which was level with the ground of the valley, and the sporadic jingling sound came to his ears, only about four or five players were distributed in the extremely vast mine cave, and Wang Shui couldn't even see their miner's lamp shaking.

This afternoon, Wang Shui learned that there were about 130 players who came here in the first week of the game, and at least 100 people participated in the strategy of the mine.

The Mine Raiders team advanced to the [Mine Cave 5th Floor] in one go, and the appearance of a level 20 monster there forced them back from their progress, and the ore points of the [Mine Cave 4th Floor] are already quite large, and the ore level is also quite high, so it stands to reason that the harvest should be very large.

But everyone is very helpless to find that without the [mining] skill and the advanced ore pick, the more advanced the mineral, the more it can't be knocked, not only that, the slightly more advanced mine, without the bonus of the [mining] skill, the mining efficiency is even lower than killing monsters.

So everyone withdrew, and no one was willing to stuff the [mining] skill into the extremely valuable skill grid in the early stage, and it was a big deal to buy steel ingots directly with money, or wait for professional miner players to engage in production, so there were not many front-line players in the mine anymore.

These small few, Wang Shui estimates that they are extremely liver kind of players, farming monsters during the day, and hardly resting at night, mining stones at floor 0 with low efficiency, and a small amount of wealth accumulation will also make them feel extremely satisfied and happy.

Wang Shui understands them quite well because he is also this kind of player.

However, Wang Shui did not dig on the 0th floor, he came directly to the [Mine Cave 1st Floor], the ore type here is almost no different from the 0th floor, but the ore point will be much harder, and the mining is relatively slow, and the advantage is that there will occasionally be a small amount of minerals of a higher grade.

Descending the wide revolving stone staircase, there is a well-lit simple miners' camp with smash-proof wooden and stone shacks and fully equipped campfires with wooden beds for sleeping bags and campfires for cooking and heating food.

In addition, in this world where magic cannot be used, there are still some traces of magic. In the simple miners' camp, there was a huge [Expulsion Crystal], a thigh-thick grass green crystal with a height of one meter was wrapped in a pitch-black steel cage, and then firmly welded to the ground.

Monsters will not be spawned within a 50-meter radius of the crystal, and monsters that come close will also be stimulated to run away and clear the aggro value, which is the protection provided by the town.

So it's also a safe place to mine...... As long as you don't dig 50 meters away, or dig a straight tunnel, it's easy to run back.

There is no nonsense, Wang Shui did it, now he doesn't need to dig the stone wall, just dig directly from the bare mining site, no one has come here for a long time, and many large mining sites have grown to a very high place.

Ah, yes, the ore here can grow, I don't know if it's limited by the size of the floating city "Ayn Grant", a lot of resources can be refreshed and grown, and the most direct is the monsters.

Not only does the ore grow here, but even the physical model is almost the same columnar crystal cluster, which is close to the metal element in terms of color and texture.

Wang Shui complained while frantically swinging the pickaxe, each pickaxe hit will make the mine point drop durability, and when the durability of this part is gone, the ore point will be partially shattered, and then the player will get some ore.

Add it to the endless boring pickaxe, Wang Shui opens the built-in music player, which contains some of the game music he unlocked, mainly pure music suites for towns and environments, just to pass the loneliness.

At first, it was more than 30 pickaxe strikes, and Wang Shui would harvest a small amount of ore, and then slowly reduced to 30, reduced to 20, until he was sleepy, Wang Shui suddenly felt a sense of soreness and numbness in his arms, and the next time he swung the ore pickaxe, he hit the ore crystal heavily.

[Mining completed!] Obtain the ...... of the material】

【Ore Ore:21】

【Tin Ore:14】

【Copper Ore:13】

[Iron Ore: 11]

……

This time, the production of ore has almost tripled.

Wang Shui slowly brought up the menu panel and opened the skill column, and sure enough, behind the [Flying Sword] skill in the next row, there was another [Mining] skill.

Wow~It's so invincible~

Wang Shui's face was expressionless, and he praised his brother's talent [Arrogant Knower], and then there was no more.

Yes, it does look powerful, but so what?

This is just a game world, and no matter how powerful you are in the game world, you are fake.

Wang Shui survived in Tiefeng City under the control of his boss [Dream System] for half a year, read a lot of knowledge books, and did a lot of experiments, but he didn't unlock any skills.

Entering the game world can easily unlock a large number of skills, Wang Shui can't understand it, but he has a feeling that it is here that he can learn skills so easily.

But just like his flat mood, pampered and not surprised? That's probably how it feels.

In life, why always forge ahead and make yourself unhappy, Wang Shui has long lost his competitive mentality, and only interests and comfortable life have long been left in his eyes.

Mining is comfortable for him now.

The clanging sound continued to echo through the dimly lit cavern, and aqua regia's backpack and satisfaction were slowly filled.

……

……

Click~

The pickaxe in its hand completed its last blow, the wooden handle breaking and emitting a sound before dissipating into light chips.

Wang Shui mechanically opened the backpack, only to find that the pickaxe had been exhausted, and the time pointed to a little more than five o'clock.

This wasn't the first time he'd used up the pickaxe in his backpack, eight days had passed, yes, eight whole days!

For eight days, Shui Wang had not even touched a weapon, and he had been going back and forth between the town and the mines, and he had sent bags of ore to the blacksmith's shop, while a large number of various basic metal ingots had been piled up in Aqua King's storage box.

The storage boxes in the town had already reached their upper limit, and Wang Shui spent a lot of money to open twenty pages of space to store the smelted metal ingots.

Wang Shui is a person who is particularly addicted to something he is interested in when he suddenly encounters it. But as long as he is slightly aesthetically fatigued, or encounters a large learning bottleneck, he will always quickly lose patience and give up on improving.

That's why Shui Wang didn't achieve anything before he came to the infinite world, even though he still is.

Wang Shui's current enthusiasm for mining has not been exhausted, and the walk on the way back to the city is another relaxation, but the steps are a little heavy.

The ore in a backpack has some effect on his movements, and the weight of the items in the inventory will not affect the player until it exceeds 80% of the weight limit, and once it is exceeded, the player will feel the weight according to the percentage exceeded, as if the gravity has been strengthened.

There is also a similar effect, that is, the upper limit of the weight of the equipment worn, which is enhanced by the [Strength] attribute, and there is also a support skill that can enhance the upper limit - the [Weight-bearing] skill, which Shui Wang has unlocked in the process of carrying ores back and forth in the past eight days, and even brushed its proficiency to [Weight-bearing (133)].

In addition, the highest proficiency level is mining, which is higher than the weapon skill level, with a full 402.

It didn't take long for Wang Shui to return to the town, and then under the frightened eyes of the blacksmith uncle, he stuffed all the 10 smelting furnaces in the small shop with ore, and after paying the fee, Wang Shui also stored all the ore that could not be stuffed in the blacksmith shop, and spent some extra money for the blacksmith uncle to help him finish the refining, and he would come to pick it up at that time.

After that, Wang Shui left the blacksmith shop with the metal ingots he had saved last time and 30 level 10 pickaxes.

Mining and smelting in this way is extremely money-burning, and the nearly 30,000 Keer (Kirito's contribution of 15,000) that Wang Shui once accumulated is basically going to be spent, and he will soon think about going out to farm monsters to make money, as for the metal ingots, without knowing the market, Wang Shui does not want to sell them at a price lower than the NPC store, because he found that the metal ingots in the blacksmith shop have also begun to sell out, but the NPC has no ore in his hands......

This is probably a task, but Wang Shui has no interest and no time to trigger it, he plays the game, and it is not particularly utilitarian, even if it is a game of death.

There are obviously more players on the streets of the town, in fact, as long as players get through the initial period of fear, they will find that the difficulty of the first layer, all the way to the front of the maze area, is relatively low.

Whether they are forced to be helpless when they have no money or really muster up the courage, about thirty percent of the players in the six starting towns have taken the first step in the death game, which is sixty or seventy thousand people......

Therefore, it has only been eight days, and the players of the second and third echelons who originally planned to develop in the low-level area have been forced to come to this side of the valley and gather in the town of [Torbana].

And the original first echelon will either continue to mix here and accumulate strengthening materials, or they have already begun to attack the maze.

Fortunately, the map on the first layer is a hundred times larger than in the closed beta, and even if the number of players who go out is doubled, the world is enough to spread out their development and become stronger.

But one thing that surprised Wang Shui very much was that no one launched the boss strategy on the first floor, he originally thought that if there were enough elite players, the boss strategy would be advanced, after all, at least people can afford to die.

Even in the labyrinth area on the first floor of the floating city "Ayn Grant", they haven't made it to the door of the boss room yet.

The plot line automatically returns? Or is the maze area much more difficult? I haven't entered the labyrinth area, and Wang Shui really doesn't understand.

The only thing that hasn't changed is probably the mine, and now no one on the [Torbana] side of the players is willing to learn [mining] skills.

It's not bad, at least no one is grabbing the mine.

When Wang Shui went out and passed by the militia training ground outside the town, he actually saw the familiar picture of the player battle, it seems that the guys in the small village in the dense forest have brought the habit of relaxing duels here, and it is only six o'clock in the evening, and the greedy players have not returned to the city, and there are already twenty or thirty people on the training ground fighting or simply watching the show.

Gu Gao's footsteps did not pause, Wang Shui quickly returned to the mine, today, his [mining] skill proficiency has reached more than 400, he is going to [mine 2nd floor] to have a look.

The second floor is much darker, pitch black to be exact, and the area that has been cleared out of the mine is also very small, only a circular space with a radius of less than 10 meters.

Moreover, there are no [Exorcism Crystals], no improvised miners' camps, and the only small fire pit is covered in dust.

Wang Shui has a fist-sized lantern on his waist and a crystal mining lamp on his head that focuses forward, which is basically enough to illuminate this small mining hole.

Confirmed.,There are no monsters here on the 2nd floor.,The militia who came to change the guard at the gate of the 0th floor said,Originally, the space on the 2nd floor of the mine was very large.,But the stone wall in the mine will grow like the ore point.,No one has been mining for a long time.,The space here has shrunk to such a big size.,But there is an advantage that the space is too small and there will be no monsters to spawn.。

Of course, the space was too small, and there would be no ore points exposed, so Wang Shui casually found a direction and began to swing the mine pickaxe.

The rock cave wall is extremely fragile under the [Mining] skill of Aqua regia's proficiency of up to 400, and Aqua regia can even dig out an area about a meter deep and slightly higher than his height with a dozen taps, which is simply magical.

According to the more scientific plan, Wang Shui should use the fishbone mining method, but also in order to prevent being blocked by monsters in a small space, Wang Shui chose to expand comprehensively, yes, he expanded the mining area in all directions, using the most efficient way to mine.

The first time he started was around half past six in the evening, and when he went up to the simple camp on the first floor of the mine at two o'clock in the morning to rest, seven and a half hours of non-stop work made the ground radius of the entire two-story mine cavity at least double.

The backpack is full of props called [Rock] and [Dirt], which are not acquired by NPCs and are heavy, and Wang Shui is also thinking about what to do with them, but now he is too tired and just wants to rest.

In these seven and a half hours, of course, it was not all about digging stones, and Wang Shui also dug up many large mining sites.

From the second floor, copper and tin ore began to decrease, iron ore increased, lead ore and sulfur ore began to appear, and a small amount of silver ore appeared, and the amount of coal ore also began to increase.

The new minerals aroused Wang Shuixin's interest again, he had never seen the corresponding chemicals for sale in the town, and thought that the items in this world were relatively simple, but now it seems that there are only not many things exposed.

Speaking of which, Wang Shui's interests in chemistry are not small.