Monster Siege (8)

At the same time, in the rearmost part of the player faction—

“System prompt: Congratulations, you have reached Level 3. All attributes +1, assignable attribute point +1!”

Upon suddenly hearing the system’s level-up notice, Yuewu, who was just aiming at a goblin, instantly jerked her hand, and her Frost Arrow nearly veered off target.

The event had only started a few minutes ago, and she had already reached Level 3?

Thinking about this, Yuewu quickly set down her staff and opened her personal interface.

Sure enough, the number in the level field had changed from 2 to 3.

Not only that—the long experience bar below was also filling up at a visibly rapid rate.

At this pace, it would barely take a minute or two for her to reach Level 4 directly.

So this was what it felt like to be carried by a top-tier player? Cecilia’s monster-killing speed was just too fast!

Those on top really are amazing!

On the other side, Dawn’s Light also noticed his experience points rapidly increasing. His nearly maxed Level 2 EXP bar had now leapt to nearly half of Level 3.

Just as both of them got distracted for a split second, more than a dozen goblins surged toward them, their stone axes and spiked clubs beating down like rain.

Dawn’s Light’s expression grew tense as he quickly swung his greatsword to block them, shouting to Yuewu behind him: “Don’t zone out! There are more monsters now—focus on your DPS!”

Yuewu shuddered from the shout, forcefully suppressing her excitement and closing her personal interface.

She started waving her blue staff ceaselessly, sending balls of light flying to hit the goblins, chipping away at their health, which Dawn’s Light then finished off with a sweeping area Whirlwind Slash.

As they were all in the same party, experience for killing monsters could be shared.

Also, in this event, monsters did not drop loot upon death, so who landed the last blow didn’t really matter.

After all, those tiny points you got from killing regular monsters were next to negligible—almost not worth mentioning.

With the frontlines collapsing, more and more goblins forced their way to the back, and the area was full of players shouting and scrambling.

Gu Yanxi had never seen monsters this lifelike before. At first, she felt a little panicked and flustered, but slowly she adapted.

From time to time, she would use her staff to tap the heads of a few goblins, dealing “scraping” damage while letting out cheerful bell-like laughter.

Although Priests, like Mages, could use weapons to deal ranged magic damage, this was Gu Yanxi’s first foray into this type of game, so her aim wasn’t great—every ball of light she fired missed the monsters.

Eventually, she lost patience and simply chose to become a melee priest, dealing with any goblins that slipped through using physical means for ‘exorcism’.

This was way more fun than fighting alongside Chen Zixuan.

During the fight, Dawn’s Light took a quick glance back and saw Yuewu still working hard on her DPS, while Blooming Smile, despite good gear, continued to mess around. He couldn’t help but feel a bit helpless.

The three of them all had decent gear—even Blooming Smile, the “worst equipped” among them, had a blue-tier priest weapon and respectable combat power. They could have acted as a leading vanguard, fighting at the very front, side by side with Cecilia.

With four working together, it would have been much better than leaving Cecilia to fight alone.

However, because their coordination was lacking, they could only stay at the rearmost position, picking up leftovers from the other players at the front—a situation Dawn’s Light couldn’t help but feel bitter about.

But since this was what the top player had arranged, he could only obediently comply.

Who knew how brutal the battles at the front had become…

After another two hours, out of the hundreds of thousands of players participating in the event, maybe barely one-tenth would remain.

Turning his gaze to the front, the silver-haired girl was still moving fluidly through the monster horde.

She was fast, and her attacks fierce—the accuracy and speed of her responses astonishing.

Every slash of her blade landed squarely on the necks of the large goblins, instantly killing with each blow.

Coupled with frequent blinks and teleports, her figure looked almost ghostly; she didn’t resemble a rookie experiencing the game for only a short day, but more like a fiend possessed by the thrill of slaughter.

Large goblins fell one after another, yet the girl never showed the slightest fatigue, remaining composed and entirely at ease. Seeing this, the team of professional players behind her were completely dumbfounded.

As he fought, Chen Zixuan suddenly felt a bit regretful—she simply had too few active skills at the moment.

Only 【Silverflash Pierce】 and 【Shadow Assault】—one was a true-damage finisher, the other a blink mobility skill, but neither were AOE skills suitable for group combat. Both also had long cooldowns, greatly limiting their effectiveness in a mass battle like this.

If only he had done the Vampire Mentor quest first—once he hit Level 5, he could have learned new skills. Who knew what type they might have been?

In Legend of Kaloran, players could only learn new skills after reaching Level 5 and completing their class mentor’s quest, after which they would visit the mentor NPC for training.

Warriors went to the 【War God’s Temple】, mages to the 【Wandering Mage’s Guild】, and Priests to the 【Church of Healing】… These buildings were easy to find in the main city.

Chen Zixuan thought, since his class was unique on the entire server, the system probably wouldn’t bother establishing a whole building just for a single player to learn skills.

However, when he opened the quest interface, he found that the 【Night Visit to Vampire Mentor】 quest would only unlock at night, after 9 PM. So even if he had free time now, he couldn’t do it yet.

Nothing to be done—there were still hours until nightfall. He would check back after 9 PM…

Closing the quest window, Chen Zixuan realized that the team of pro-gamers had caught up and were now fighting large goblins not far behind him.

Moreover, their combat strength wasn’t too shabby; twenty people working together had already slain several large goblins in just a few minutes.

“You dare to steal my monsters?”

The silver-haired girl’s eyes narrowed, glinting with hostility.

What a joke—these elite mobs belonged solely to him! Chen Zixuan was counting on these hundreds of large goblins to reach Level 8; there was no way he’d let others interfere.

“If you’re so eager to kill, then I’ll take the loss and leave these to you.”

Sweeping his gaze over the area and spotting over a hundred remaining large goblins, Chen Zixuan decided on the spot to abandon these monsters to the others and head even deeper into the battlefield.

The young team captain was still fighting desperately, having already chugged down two bottles of health potion in just two minutes.

Strange—he couldn’t shake the feeling that there were more monsters than before. Was it just his imagination…

————-= Clacky’s Corner ————-=

I left the author’s note.

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