Chapter 3
**Divine Gift: Thief God (S-Rank)**
**Race:** Undead (?)
**Race Talent:** Undead Will | Consumption
**Health:** 100/100
**Mana:** 100/100
**Strength:** 5
**Constitution:** 5
**Intelligence:** 10
**Agility:** 11
**Luck:** 8
**Charm:** 9
In addition to these basic attributes, there are more detailed advanced stats like critical hit rate, critical damage, hit rate, cooldown reduction, and so on.
Currently, she was broke, and her immediate priority was to find a way to make money and then learn skills.
She approached the nearest NPC with a question mark above their head. After a brief conversation, she received a task to clear out the city’s rats, with a reward of 10 copper coins.
Although Yu Xunge rarely played games, she always valued efficiency in her work. She first strolled around the city, picking up every task available—from killing rats to delivering messages, and even running errands to buy corpse bug bread. Only after filling her task list did she begin to work on them.
On her way to deliver messages, she casually killed rats, and while buying corpse bug bread, she helped the blacksmith buy some wine, and so on.
In just one hour, she completed 17 tasks, earning only 2 silver coins and a tattered cloth bag, which served as a space pouch with 5 slots, allowing her to stack up to 99 of the same item.
But these were not her most significant gains. Rather than merely completing tasks, Yu Xunge had been using her Thief God talent on every NPC she encountered while casually wandering the streets.
The probabilities of 20% and 10% were indeed low.
It didn’t mean that stealing from 100 people would guarantee 20 successes; probability sometimes felt like a mystical art. When luck was on her side, she could hit the jackpot, but when it wasn’t, the success rate could make one question their very existence.
Perhaps she had exhausted her luck by acquiring the Thief God talent, as she had stolen from over a hundred NPCs during her tasks but succeeded only three times.
Her luck was 8! Yet, only three successes!
But the rewards were plentiful.
**[Rune Pouch] [A Bag of Coins] [1 Point Agility]**
The Rune Pouch was a beautifully crafted bag, palm-sized, with 24 slots. Upon acquiring it, Yu Xunge equipped it immediately. Each character had one equipment slot and two pouch slots, so she equipped both pouches to take them into the real world.
When she opened the bag of coins, she found 85 gold coins!
The exchange rate for gold, silver, and copper coins was 1:100. In her previous life, after three years of living and doing many unscrupulous things with her skills, she had only managed to accumulate a little over 300 gold coins before her demise, which showed just how valuable gold coins were.
After completing all her tasks, Yu Xunge stopped taking on new ones and headed to learn skills.
With only 7 hours of game time, leveling up wouldn’t yield much. The reason those who had stolen a head start in her previous life could enter the top 100 with B-rank or even C-rank talents was that they had learned skills from the alien races during the closed beta.
These racial skills were impossible to teach to the Blue Star people after the game invasion.
It wasn’t that the Blue Star people lacked professional skills, but those required time and effort to learn. However, during the closed beta, while one world dropped anchor in another in the form of a game, many things were crudely gamified. The alien races had to spend money, time, and effort to learn their professions, but in this brief 7-hour window, learning in the game world only required progressing through a progress bar.
Now, game characters were seen as kin by the aliens, allowing them to quickly learn various skills from “kin” NPCs for a price. Even if they could only learn the basics, it was still a significant fortune.
With money in hand, Yu Xunge headed straight for her destination.
Her character panel had only two professional skill slots, meaning she could only learn two professions, but there were no limits on life skills.
While on her way, she learned every life skill she could find: **[Cooking] (Beginner) [Fishing] (Beginner) [First Aid] (Beginner)**.
In almost an instant, Yu Xunge transformed from someone who couldn’t cook into a good chef. Moreover, the food made using her cooking skills could enhance attributes. Even if the boosts were minimal, she didn’t hesitate to spend 1 gold coin to learn all the recipes available.
**[First Aid]** allowed her to make bandages, but with everything gamified, modern medicine from the Blue Star was no worse than this. Still, learning it was better than nothing.
There were many professional skills in the game world, broadly categorized into three main types: gathering (herb gathering, mining), crafting (alchemy, sewing, engineering, jewelry making, leatherworking, blacksmithing), and service (enchanting, inscription).
Yu Xunge dismissed gathering and service; the former was too easily replaceable, as many materials could be dropped by monsters, and the latter was not efficient for making money.
She entered the potion shop and spent 5 gold coins to learn beginner alchemy.
This unlocked 8 potion recipes: **[Beginner Healing Potion] [Beginner Mana Potion] [Underwater Breathing Potion] [Beginner Invisibility Potion] [Beginner Strength Potion] [Beginner Agility Potion] [Beginner Constitution Potion] [Beginner Intelligence Potion]**.
Any one of these potion recipes could sell for 500 gold in her previous life. Among the top 100 wealthiest players, aside from guild leaders and some powerful figures before the game invasion, the most anyone had was just over 700 gold coins.
With 13 gold coins left, she clicked to learn all the alchemy recipes available at the beginner level.
After learning 37 alchemy recipes, her account balance stood at 5 gold coins.
She then went to the herb shop to buy the herbs needed to make **[Beginner Healing Potions]**. In a large city, the herbs for this basic potion were not expensive. A **[Beginner Healing Potion]** sold for 1 silver coin, while the herbs to make it cost 50 copper coins each. She spent 4 gold coins to buy 400 sets of herbs for both the beginner healing and mana potions, and with the remaining money, she purchased herbs for 3 sets of beginner invisibility potions.
At this point, it was already 5:32.
She was broke again.
With the server shutting down at 9:22, she had less than 4 hours left.
In her previous life, she had learned a rather useless potion recipe. Once a Blue Star person learned a recipe, the method of crafting that potion would be imprinted in their mind. It was as if someone was playing a video of the potion-making process in her head, allowing players to follow along with the potion master in the video.
Rounding it off, it was no different from learning to cook from an online tutorial.
But now, her character was still in the game, and Yu Xunge only needed to click to craft, with the progress bar moving swiftly—she could produce a potion in less than a second.
Yu Xunge almost ran, directly brewing at the cauldron in the corner of the potion shop.
**5:00 PM**
Yu Xunge had finished brewing all 800 sets of herbs. At first, her low proficiency occasionally resulted in failed brews, but as she grew more skilled, she hadn’t failed since.
Now, her bag contained 380 bottles of beginner healing potions, 392 bottles of beginner mana potions, and 3 beginner invisibility potions.
She hardly paused, only stopping for a couple of seconds to steal from unfamiliar customers who entered the shop.
After 803 brews, her alchemy skill had reached intermediate level, allowing her to upgrade her alchemy and learn new recipes.
However, the problem now was that she was out of money again and needed to go out and “borrow” from the NPCs.
She could sell over 700 potions, except for the invisibility potions, to the potion shop owner, but they sold for 1 silver coin, with a buyback price of only 80 copper coins! Even if she sold everything, she would only get a little over 6 gold coins, but upgrading from beginner to intermediate alchemy required 100 gold coins.
A drop in the bucket.
She would have to hit the streets again, or rather, be a thief once more.
**Chapter 4: The Thief God’s Theft, Also the Theft of a Bandit**
Yu Xunge wandered around the Undead main city again, picking up tasks and stealing from any NPC she encountered, not even sparing the patrolling guards. Her maximum stealing distance was 1 meter, meaning as long as she could get close, she could steal, even from beggars in the corners.
What if one of them was a hidden master?!
From 5 PM to 7 PM,
With just over two hours left before the server shut down, Yu Xunge finally stopped. Besides gaining 1 point in constitution, she now had a level 40 purple bow.
She had stolen it from the innkeeper.
Without hesitation, Yu Xunge walked straight to the weapon shop and sold it for a pittance.
The weapon shop owner clearly recognized the bow, repeatedly emphasizing the risks he would take in buying it in the dialogue box. Yu Xunge stood her ground, refusing to budge. Dialogue boxes kept popping up above the NPC’s head. Yu Xunge wasn’t a newbie; even the most common level 20 purple weapon sold for 500 gold. This was a level 40 purple item she had never even seen before.
She watched the price drop from 3000 gold to 1000. No matter how many times the trade box popped up, she typed in 1000 gold.
That was her bottom line. She knew that anyone who bought it would find it too hot to handle; just selling it was a win.
After 5 minutes, just as Yu Xunge was about to step back, thinking time was precious, the trade succeeded.
Yu Xunge immediately controlled her character to return to the alchemy master, spending 100 gold to upgrade her alchemy to intermediate level, then clicked to learn all the recipes she could, which cost her over 200 gold.
Afterward, Yu Xunge ran halfway across the city to the goblin living area, where she found a goblin engineer only knee-high to herself and learned **[Engineering]**.
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