Chapter 101

After studying the six types of monsters, the afternoon was over. Gu Fei's face was filled with a sense of accomplishment, while Brother Yu's notebook was filled with notes.

"My students are low level, and that knight is only level 30, so the monsters I chose were also level 30. They're too low for you. You can take a look yourself and tell me what level 40 monster you want to practice on, and I'll help you research it," Gu Fei said to Brother Yu.

"What 'take a look later'? Let's go now! Let's go!" Brother Yu said eagerly.

Gu Fei looked at the time. There was still a while before his students logged on after dinner. Gu Fei had been working hard to teach his students these past few days, because after a two-hour lesson, the students couldn't possibly master everything perfectly. Gu Fei accompanied them throughout the remaining leveling time, continuing to correct everyone's mistakes. During the students' break time, he also had to prepare lessons. He could have rested for a while after preparing lessons, but now he had to give Brother Yu extra lessons…

Fortunately, one day of lessons was enough for Brother Yu. There wouldn't be new problems every day. Gu Fei nodded and decided to sacrifice his rest time today to help Brother Yu.

"What level monster do you think I can fight?" Brother Yu asked.

"What level do you usually fight?" Gu Fei asked.

"Level 45, but in terms of experience efficiency, it's about the same as fighting level 40," Brother Yu said. Being five levels higher was the level-skipping choice for ordinary high-level players when soloing. Skilled and powerful teams could generally handle ten levels higher. And someone like Xi Yao Wu, with her abnormal equipment, could also skip ten levels when soloing. Gu Fei, this non-human freak, could skip twenty levels.

But this level-skipping didn't mean that being able to kill a level 50 monster at level 40 was called level-skipping. If you just wanted to kill, any player with decent equipment could do it, but the key was to ensure the efficiency of killing the monster. In the same minute, you could kill two level 40 monsters, but only one level 50 monster. And the experience from a level 50 monster couldn't possibly be twice as much as a level 40 monster. In that case, from the perspective of obtaining experience, it would be better to kill level 40 monsters. So this level of monster-killing didn't count as level-skipping.

True level-skipping had to reflect a higher level of experience. Someone like Brother Yu, who skipped five levels but whose efficiency was still the same as killing level 40 monsters, could only be considered half a level-skip. However, because experience wasn't the only benefit of killing monsters, the higher the monster level, the better the drops. So although the experience gained from level 40 and level 45 monsters was the same for Brother Yu, he was more willing to work harder to kill level 45 monsters.

Even Gu Fei understood this principle very well. The two didn't waste any time and immediately Brother Yu led the way to his usual leveling spot. In fact, leveling as a knight was most efficient in a group, just like priests. But after level 40, Dark Knights had powerful damage output. The former support knights each had a heart set on output after their Dark Knight job change. So when leveling in a group again, they weren't so careful about buffing everyone. They often bravely charged to the front line of the battle.

This half-heartedness was naturally very annoying, because most players responsible for output considered themselves masters and support classes as servants. If the servants didn't serve the masters well and even rushed up to steal their jobs, how could the masters tolerate it? Moreover, the knight class was essentially an accelerator, unlike priests, who were essential. Without a knight, it would just be a little slower to level up, not a big deal. What's more, there were many girls in the priest corps, a natural advantage that knights couldn't match. Therefore, as support classes, knights' treatment was far inferior to that of priests.

Now that knights had decent soloing ability after their Dark Knight job change, they took on the air of masters when leveling in a group, no longer being so accommodating, and they all embarked on an era of wandering alone. However, Brother Yu didn't belong to this situation. As the King of Intelligence, Brother Yu's leveling was mainly based on quests, occasionally joining teams to grind monsters. And now, the idea of focusing on grinding monsters was undoubtedly influenced by the environment.

In the team that Brother Yu was in, not to mention Gu Fei, who slaughtered in all directions, the rest were all capable of standing alone. Even the most unambitious person couldn't help but want to improve themselves in such a team. Brother Yu also gradually felt embarrassed that he was always coasting during battles.

The monsters that Brother Yu currently often grinded were the bonfire patrol soldiers in the wilderness camp of White Stone City. They were level 44-46, Warrior class, and used single-handed swords. They also had a torch in hand, which was also a sharp weapon in combat. Hitting someone would cause a burning effect that continuously drained health, which was very disgusting.

Although disgusting, this was already a pretty good choice among the level 45 monsters to solo. The game's setting clearly encouraged players to team up for team games. The higher the level of the monster, the more they lived in groups. Those monsters that came in groups of three or five and had hatred chains were difficult for even solo players of the same level to grind, let alone skip levels. Fortunately, the game company hadn't completely forgotten those lone wolf players who liked to solo and had created some monsters suitable for soloing. The bonfire patrol soldiers were one of them, and the most loved choice for ordinary players in the level 40-50 stage.

This could be seen from the scene in front of them. There were quite a few players leveling in the wilderness camp, but they were all fighting on their own, guarding their own little piece of the world and silently grinding monsters. And the fact that so many players were capable of skipping five levels and soloing was precisely due to the difficulty of leveling in the game. The demand for high experience kept players at one level stage for a long time. If their equipment was still relatively trash when they first leveled up to this level, after enduring for so long, a considerable number of people could upgrade their equipment. The advantage of the pioneers was weakened by this setting. The higher the level, the more this was the case.

"Let's find a place to start?" Gu Fei said to Brother Yu as the two entered the camp, looking for a corner that hadn't been occupied.

Brother Yu had been to this place a lot these past few days, but he had never been here at this time. He had learned from Han Jia Gongzi and waited until late at night when there were fewer people online to level up, so he had never encountered this kind of trouble. The two had already walked almost half a circle, but there wasn't a single spot left. Gu Fei was very helpless, and Brother Yu was very depressed.

"What do we do?" Gu Fei asked.

Brother Yu hoped that Gu Fei could clear out a space in seconds, but he also knew that although Gu Fei was a ruthless killer, he wasn't such an unreasonable and domineering guy, so he could only sigh and say, "Let's walk around and see, if there's really nothing... let's come back next time!"

"Okay!" Gu Fei responded, continuing to look for a spot. As a result, they didn't find a spot, but they did encounter many players who were looking for a spot like them. So Gu Fei began to take the initiative, asking the leveling players if they were about to leave. But this behavior didn't seem to be very popular. The players who were asked said in a rough voice that they would level until they died.

But there were good people in the world after all. Gu Fei and Brother Yu asked around, looking very eager to level up. Everyone saw it, and finally someone took pity and waved to the two of them, "Hey, you two, come over here."

The two looked at each other and confirmed that they were indeed the ones being called, and then ran over happily.

"I'm going offline to eat in a little while," the player said to the two of them.

"Thank you, thank you," the two said quickly.

"Are you two leveling together?" the person asked strangely. This place was a well-known solo leveling spot in White Stone City. If two people were leveling together in this kind of place, unless one of them was a noob who was just leeching experience, but the two in front of him were obviously both level 40+.

"We're not leveling, we're just messing around with monsters for research," Gu Fei said honestly.

"Research?" This player was confused.

"Researching efficient monster-killing methods," Gu Fei said.

This player was obviously intrigued by Gu Fei's words and asked with great interest, "How do you research it?"

"We need a monster to do it," Gu Fei said with a smile.

At this time, no monsters had spawned in this player's little world. In such a popular leveling spot, it was a luxury to occupy a large area and kill monsters continuously 100% of the time. It was good enough if two or three monsters alternated spawning for you to guard. Most players guarded one monster, which was very difficult.

"It's about to spawn here, show me one of your research methods," the player said with a smile, pointing to a vacant spot in front of him.

"Okay!" Gu Fei drew his sword.

"Sword?" The player's eyes almost popped out. A mage using a sword... he quickly thought of a terrible legend, so he quickly used an Appraisal spell. As a result, his eyes really popped out. Gu Fei was holding an extremely ordinary single-handed sword, which he had randomly obtained when preparing lessons earlier. Gu Fei didn't want the monster to die too quickly. He wanted to play with the monster for as long as possible.

A white light flashed, and a monster spawned. Gu Fei rolled up his sleeves and smiled at the kind player, "Let's begin." After saying that, he thrust out his sword and attacked the monster.

The player opened his mouth as if to say something, but he couldn't say it. Brother Yu was secretly laughing. This was the reaction that a normal player should have when they saw a mage wielding a sword and fighting a monster in close combat! But he was too shocked now. The exciting part was yet to come!

That exciting attack demonstration that made Brother Yu feel like "after seeing Huangshan, no other mountain is worth seeing" finally began. Brother Yu watched as the player's expression went from shocked, to very shocked, to extremely shocked, to so shocked that he couldn't be more shocked.

"Ah, ah, ah, ah..." The player had lost the ability to speak, pointing at Gu Fei and gesturing to Brother Yu. Clearly, he wanted to ask something, but he couldn't organize his words for a moment.

Brother Yu smiled inscrutably. He realized that having a friend like Gu Fei was a very glorious thing.

"Th-th-th-this... what's the meaning of this!" This player finally spoke.

"Ahem, well..." Brother Yu was about to say a few words when he suddenly heard exclamations one after another. The surrounding players had been attracted by Gu Fei's monster-killing and had stopped what they were doing to look over here. Some people had even abandoned their little worlds just to stand closer and see more clearly.

"Damn, the face seems to be a little too big..." Brother Yu thought.

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It's been a long time since you've seen a 3,000-word chapter, right? I hope everyone doesn't have the feeling of "after seeing Huangshan, no other mountain is worth seeing..."