Bald Monk in the City - Chapter 1

Chapter 1: Bald Monk

Translator: Exodus Tales

Editor: Exodus Tales

“Connection to (Will be shortened to Integrated Network) success, checking version details…” 

　　”Due to referrer demands, Integrated Network version set as: Rise of Short Life Species’ Counteroffensive Bloodline.”

　　A hundred years to an elf are just their carefree childhood days; to an ancient dragon, it is a period of slumber within a gold coin ocean; to deities, it is just that short moment when they are hesitating on whether to place a chess piece on the board; but to humans, it is one cycle from life to death. 

　　A hundred years, to someone in an Advanced Magic Plane, it is their goal for working hard; to those in the Intermediate Magic PLane, it is an arduous journey; to those in the Low Magic Plane, it is the journey to the skies that are so out of reach; to those of the Death Magic Plane, it only exists in the Garden of Eden of one’s fantasies.

　　So, how interesting would the story be of a human from the Death Magic Plane who obtains the special nature of the Son of Slaughter, who is able to enter the Integrated Network and adventure freely…

　　The details of the version are as follows:

　　Rise of Short Life Species’ Counteroffensive Bloodline

　　1. Dungeons and exchanging of this universe’s items are unlocked.

　　2. Locking stat buffing ability, unlocking bloodline strengthening function.

　　3. Locking main quests and forced quests.

　　…

　　”Due to referrer demands, player class set as: Monk.”

　　”Due to referrer demands, player has obtained permanent appearance: Bald head.”

　　”You have obtained a skill set by the referrer: Bald Head Explosive Strike.”

　　Player information is as follows:

　　Name: Yi Qiu

　　Class: Monk (LV1) class has been locked, lowest level cannot fall below level 1.

　　Life value: 70% (Life value determines health, stamina. When it is below 10%, the person is weak and has no strength. When it is less than 5%, the person will be in shock, when it drops to 0%, the person will be dead.)

　　Ki: 5/5 (Ki is the source of a Monk’s power. When one uses Monk skills, one has to consume Ki.)

　　Strength: 10 (Power determines the strength of muscles and one’s physical body.)

　　Agility: 10 (Agility decides reaction and thinking speed, hand-eye coordination and balance.)

　　Physique: 9 (Physique determines Life value and resistance.)

　　Intelligence: 10 (Intelligence determines one’s learning and inferring ability.)

　　Charm: 9 (Charm decides one’s charisma, persuasion, personal attraction, leadership ability and external attraction.)

　　Senses: 12 (Senses decide one’s mental strength, judgment, sensory ability and intuition.)

　　Bloodline Ability: 

　　Prayer (Rare): Ignite the ancient special power that is hiding in your bloodline, receiving the ability to affect fate.

　　Effect: In the next 10 minutes, you will obtain 2 lucky fluctuations every minute.

　　Once the prayer effect ends, you won’t be able to use it for the next 7 days, if not, you might die.

　　Class skills:

　　Lv1 Flurry of Blows (Common): When one is empty-handed, after launching an attack, you can consume Ki to launch an extra attack. The strength of this extra attack is in direct correlation with the consumed Ki amount, but it cannot exceed your strongest strike.

　　Lv1 Unarmed Attack (Common): All your unarmed attacks will obtain 10% damage buff, including but not limited to: Fists, elbow and legs. 

　　Condition:

　　Bald Head Explosive Strike (Rare): When one is bald, it is easier for you to deal critical hits to your enemy.

　　Effect: Critical rate increased by 5%

　　Overall Evaluation: Challenge level 1

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　　Yi Qiu sat on the park bench, quietly smoking. He looked like a person who had no more motivation in life. The warm winter sunlight shone on his bright bald head, it was really eye-catching, causing people to turn their heads when they passed by.

　　Life has many magnificent turning points but humans often don’t notice it when they are in the moment, their lives no different from any other day.

　　Yi Qiu certainly faced his greatest turning point in life but regretfully, he didn’t notice it.

　　”Coach, I want to be a Wizard!” Yi Qiu exhaled, his mouth was filled with the bitter taste of the cigarette.

　　A terrible thing happened.

　　A day ago, Yi Qiu posted the goal he earned online, this could be considered his job. After graduating from university, he had already spent half a year farming for in-game gold. To Yi Qiu, the small income from farming gold along with the government subsidies for the earthquake disaster region’s underprivileged people was already enough for him to maintain his simple life. 

　　After completing his tasks, Yi Qiu started to read the forums. For people like Yi Qiu who were total nerds who liked to stay at home, the forums were places where they had the most interaction with the world.

　　Rotten Apple Playground Forum was one of the forums that Yi Qiu visited a lot. Everyone discussed the rules of Dungeons and Dragons to come up with many unique and out of the box ideas. Yi Qiu noticed a very interesting topic: If you can have the ability of any DND class, what would you choose?

　　Most of the people chose wizards, after all it was the strongest class in DND and they would be able to survive in any map.

　　Yi Qiu felt that although the answer was one he agreed with, it was too obvious and he didn’t consider it to be an interesting answer.

　　Toward these kinds of topics, the interesting reply was the correct reply.

　　Thus, Yi Qiu replied in the thread:

　　”Of course its the monk! His body looks good and he runs fast. He has poison and illness immunity, he can wipe out scum with his bare hands and in this Chinese society where weapons are controlled and food has many chemicals in it, he’s perfect. Moreover, the bald head is a unique feature of a boss, bringing with him a +3 deterrence buff…” 

　　Thus Yi Qiu really became a Monk…

　　This is a sad story…

　　What was even worse was to follow. After Yi Qiu obtained the Monk ability, a skull would appear when he closed his eyes. The moment Yi Qiu focused on this blueprint that was similar to Baldur’s Gate… 

　　When he focused his eyes on the skull, several selections would appear:

　　1. Personal Interface

　　2. Dungeon

　　3. Inventory

　　4. Equipment and skill books

　　5. Item exchange

　　6. Duoyuan Universe Exchange

　　The only thing that Yi Qiu could open was the personal interface and dungeon. When he focused on the personal interface, a book would open up. He would see his stats and there would be around 20 pages at the beginning of the book that he was unable to flip to. As he flipped backwards, a quest would appear:

　　First Blood (White Quest):

　　Difficulty: Easy

　　Quest description: Pass a solo random dungeon.

　　Quest reward: Unlock other functions.

　　Ps: This is the only main quest chain of this version, it exists to reject those people who have lost courage.

　　Yi Qiu focused on the dungeon and there was only once choice:

　　Solo random dungeon (Difficulty: Easy) after passing the simple dungeon, one can unlock other challenges. 

　　Attention: Solo random dungeon challenge and character level is linked.

　　Yi Qiu started his first dungeon experience. In less than 5 minutes, a brown-toothed boar flipped him with its fangs.

　　Reality showed that the wizard was the best choice. When you face an aggressive wild boar that is even taller than you with your bare hands, you will know that classes that fight hand to hand aren’t suitable for the most good-natured and timid modern-day person.

　　When he thought about the wild boar, Yi Qiu sulked in his own sadness. 

　　There were many things in life that one could not choose like height, looks, and bald head…