I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 1086 - 793: Attack

Chapter 1086: Chapter 793: Attack

How to prove that she is a dragon and not a child? This matter left Tanshia Filo momentarily stunned. In the game, her strength could be displayed, but in reality, there was no chance to showcase it!

After stammering for a while, Tanshia Filo couldn’t help but roll her eyes; there was no way to prove it.

In the end, the small white dragon looked aggrieved as she watched Zheng Yichen and Lilith further discuss their plans and finalize the subsequent leveling path.

It had to be said that Zheng Yichen seemed a bit addicted to this aspect.

The Challenge Road officially began.

This route isn’t something that can be activated by simply finding an NPC; Zheng Yichen had to find suitable targets to increase his reputation to a certain degree, after which it would automatically activate.

The Virtual World still exhibits a quite realistic approach in this regard.

Thus, by the time the Challenge Road was completely activated, it was already the next day. At this point, his level had reached over Level 40.

In the Virtual World, every ten levels are considered a threshold. Upon reaching each threshold, the requirements for leveling up increase substantially.

So before the Challenge Road was fully opened, his leveling progress wasn’t particularly extreme.

"Hmm... so many people are activating the Challenge Road. I’m not overly noticed yet. Alright, let’s get started." In the city within the Virtual World, Zheng Yichen stretched his body before pulling Tanshia Filo along and entering a martial arts dojo in the city.

The best way to start the Challenge Road is by kicking off with challenges—not outright confrontations, but rather normal challenges.

Generally speaking, achieving ten consecutive victories would be considered enough to activate the Challenge Road.

However, Zheng Yichen didn’t need to engage in those challenges at this point. He had a recommendation letter preserved from yesterday that he needed to use. His streak of consecutive wins was now at twenty-seven victories.

In less than ten minutes, his streak increased to twenty-eight victories.

Next, it was time to continuously find powerful opponents to face off on the Challenge Road. There were plenty of formidable sword saints and similar figures locally, and now he could also start accepting tasks at the Mercenary Guild.

Incidentally, he could also pursue the Mercenary King route.

If not for this reason, Zheng Yichen wouldn’t have bothered challenging martial arts dojos so many times.

This was the fastest way to unlock the Mercenary King route.

By challenging these places, each victory serves as direct proof, which accumulates and can later be utilized at the Mercenary Guild.

Using this accumulation, Zheng Yichen unlocked the Mercenary King route and managed to raise his level to Level 86 within four days.

At this point, the experience required for leveling up had become extraordinarily daunting, but the Challenge Road offered immense rewards. Defeating one boss here was equivalent to the rewards from defeating ten bosses elsewhere.

Adding his extraordinary abilities into the mix created a nearly twenty-fold disparity. As his progress on the Challenge Road accumulated, the disparity would only grow more significant.

However, the Challenge Road required time, and even with the snowball effect, it couldn’t lead to rapid advancements akin to a rocket ride within a short period.

He had been accumulating progress on his Challenge Road for less than a week.

Reaching this level of achievement already felt astonishing.

In reality, Zheng Yichen looked at the content on his computer screen and said, "Based on the plan, there are still two days left, enough to reach max level."

"I’m still not even at Level 70 yet..." Sitting in Zheng Yichen’s lap, Tanshia Filo pouted. She hadn’t managed to unlock the Challenge Road and was merely piggybacking off Zheng Yichen’s Mercenary King route.

The Dragon Knight route theoretically allowed some access to the Challenge Road, but this world’s child protection law wasn’t lenient.

Opting out of that route turned out to be beneficial, considering that right now, as Zheng Yichen’s fame from the Challenge Road grew, many related discussions had already emerged on forums.

Plenty of malicious actors were around, and once they realized they couldn’t affect Zheng Yichen, they began targeting Tanshia Filo instead.

Zheng Yichen was an adult; the small white dragon was not. Calling her one of those who might technically be an adult but still look like a child... who would believe that!

Fortunately, Zheng Yichen was playing the game with Tanshia Filo in a normal manner, so the malice carried little weight. But taking the Dragon Knight route would have been a whole different story.

Currently, Tanshia Filo was twenty levels behind Zheng Yichen. The gap didn’t seem huge visually, but in terms of leveling speed, once Zheng Yichen reached max level, Tanshia Filo wouldn’t even reach Level 75.

The later stages of leveling were incredibly challenging; reaching the maximum level in just a few days was impossible under normal circumstances.

"The Mercenary King route might not be as complete as the Challenge Road, but your leveling speed is already quite impressive. We aren’t facing enemies right away, so you still have time."

Zheng Yichen closed the web page he had been browsing.

These days, he had tried seeking out other players on the Challenge Road. The problem was that those players wouldn’t even give him a chance to interact—upon seeing Zheng Yichen, they immediately used teleportation scrolls to leave.

Players on the Challenge Road knew how crucial consecutive wins were; they wouldn’t give Zheng Yichen any chance to exploit their momentum.

Quite a few players tried threatening Zheng Yichen to surrender his streak bonuses or contacted him privately to offer money for his streak benefits. This streak bonus functioned like a persistent buff—it wouldn’t disappear as long as he didn’t die.

Facing other players posed risks, but as long as he avoided them and focused on fighting monsters, such accidents could be avoided altogether—unless he recklessly challenged some insanely powerful boss creatures.

But Zheng Yichen didn’t bother with those who approached him secretly.

As for Tanshia Filo’s specific issues, they were resolved two days ago through a fairly simple approach. This world’s child protection law required kids to receive adequate education.

After taking her to attend an exam, she no longer faced so many restrictions.

In that exam, Tanshia Filo’s scores surpassed the standard level for adults, showing she was academically accomplished. Hence, the education restrictions had minimal impact on her.

In fact, several research institutes extended invitations to Tanshia Filo. But they weren’t interested in studying how her brain worked; they sent test invitations instead, hoping to examine which fields she excelled in.

This way, they could provide specialized education, as this world was in dire need of genius researchers.

Tanshia Filo’s response was that she had recently been studying too much on her own and felt exhausted. She wanted to enjoy gaming with family for several months as a long vacation.

With that, the issues around Tanshia Filo were mostly resolved.

After finishing their meal, they logged back into the Virtual World.

A black cat landed on Zheng Yichen’s shoulder—Lilith’s cat spirit, made manifest in the Virtual World through the connection to Zheng Yichen’s cat spirit cloak. In reality, due to the lower environmental settings, the cat spirit within the cloak remained in a dormant state.

Zheng Yichen scratched the cat spirit’s chin and, along with Tanshia Filo, walked toward the city in the distance to begin their warm-up activities for the day. Many players were eyeing Zheng Yichen’s streak bonus greedily.

To obtain this streak bonus, numerous players risked becoming red-named by forming groups to ambush him.

Moreover, the Virtual World had many realistic aspects, especially those tied to Tanshia Filo’s race. When players transitioned into dragons, they became indistinguishable from actual dragons.

There wasn’t any attribute weakening due to the players’ status as such.

This meant items like dragon blood, dragon scales, and dragon hearts could be obtained, providing massive wealth along with materials necessary for transitioning into Dragon Hominids. Those were even more valuable than the streak bonus.

When these situations first arose, Tanshia Filo was furious, but she soon grew accustomed to them. As for dragon slaying? Her dragon tribe’s inherited memories contained plenty of information on the subject. Ultimately, those dragon slayers were only bold enough to target dragons who were officially blacklisted.

Now, such players were merely trifling nuisances. By attacking first, she could retaliate without getting a red name. Not only that, but she could earn extra experience points, and these players also contributed to Zheng Yichen’s streak bonus.

Initially angry, now she hoped for more players to show up.

Like today.

"The number of attackers seems smaller now?" Tanshia Filo questioned quietly, glancing at Zheng Yichen.

Yesterday, she remembered being ambushed by over a thousand players; that single ambush made her gain two levels while Zheng Yichen rose by three. Today, however, the size of the ambush had dwindled to only a few hundred.

Her Life Perception ability worked here, so the player ambushes were exposed from the start.

"They’re not idiots. Even mosquito legs are meat—get ready to fight," Zheng Yichen replied nonchalantly. The Virtual World indeed housed a large number of players.

After all, there wasn’t much to do outside, and the limited outdoor activity space meant people gathered here. As for why the ambush hadn’t scaled to thousands today? One reason was because it wasn’t necessary; another could be that time was short—he had only been famous for about a week.

For so many players to already be gathering, many weren’t even here for his streak bonus—they were here for Tanshia Filo.

When players transitioned into dragons, they didn’t experience any attribute weakening, but compared to native NPC dragons, players still had more work to do, such as learning skills.

Often, skill acquisition required spending experience points. Otherwise, reaching max level would leave them feeling idle.

Native NPC dragons, often hundreds of years old, naturally mastered numerous skills. Players weren’t as fortunate.

What’s worse, dragon tribe players like Tanshia Filo, who weren’t max level yet, didn’t have too many skills available for allocation, presenting an ideal opportunity for others to farm dragon-related resources.

Fighting NPC dragons directly often resulted in total annihilation for player teams.

But attacking dragon tribe players before they reached max level meant they couldn’t allocate abundant skills, making the gap between them and native dragons narrower.

As for Zheng Yichen, there wasn’t much to target. Players equipped with advanced identification skills assessed him and found his race was still human—it hadn’t undergone special transitions.

Nor did he possess special titles that altered his character template, making him seemingly easy to handle...

Under ordinary circumstances, this held true, but after yesterday’s thousand-player ambush meltdown, the narrative had shifted drastically.

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