Chapter 263 (1/2)
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Everything was ready except the crucial element.
I observed my surroundings for a moment until I found the spot I was looking for. I pointed at the needle bushes to our south east and said, ”How's that spot for a choke point?”
Lin Yixin glanced at it before replying, ”I don't like it. It can be used as a choke point, but it's extremely tight. If our formation gets. .h.i.t harder than expected, the players at the back will be knocked into those needle bushes. It will hurt…”
Murong Mingyue and Beiming Xue nodded at the same time. ”We strongly disagree to be poked!”
I smiled. ”Eve, I and Yiyi all have high Strength, and those Vine Flowers only have 1000 Attack. There's no way they can knock us over, so you two have nothing to worry about!”
He Yi said, ”Let's clear out the Vine Flowers at the choke point and lure the rest with the Dark Wasp after we're done!”
”Yeah!”
……
Three Vine Flowers were occupying the choke point we chose, and we had to deal with them first before we could AoE them down. I chose this attack method because the earlier test revealed to me that the Vine Flower's root effect didn't affect my ability to attack or interrupt my skills. This was good. The Vine Flower's Attack was average at best, and all three of us frontliners had good equipment and good defensive skills such as the Ghost Deity Soul and Rock s.h.i.+eld. Our enemies wouldn't be able to pierce our Defense, so all we needed to do was maximize our damage output.
By now everyone knew just how powerful my Thousand Mirage Slash, Purgatory Slash and the 20% splash damage were. It was the perfect counter to tanky mobs such as these. Had I chosen to fight the Vine Flowers one at a time, the girls would probably mob me themselves, especially after they experienced the thrill of AoEing down the Mountain Spiders and soaking up experience like crazy.
I charged the first Vine Flower!
Whoos.h.!.+
Once it was stunned, I executed Ice Ray and Slayer Slash to remove a huge chunk of HP from its health bar. The Vine Flower immediately rooted me with Wrap after it recovered its poise, but it didn't matter because Beiming Xue had fired two arrows at it. Surprisingly, overtaunt happened, and the Vine Flower charged toward her instead. I could do nothing except watch because I was still rooted at the spot!
”f.u.c.k, don't attack yet Lil Beiming! Wait until I take its aggro back again…”
It took three seconds for rooting to finish and for me to rejoin the battle. On the other side, Lin Yixin and He Yi were dealing with a Vine Flower each. A couple of minutes later, all three Vine Flowers died and dropped a couple of Rank 8 alchemy ingredients. After I used Death Plunder on all of them, I got another extra 5 Vine Flower Petals. Lin Yixin was positively beaming at my success.
”Lu Chen, your Golden Right Hand is truly amazing!” Lin Yixin showered me with rare praise.
But Murong Mingyue immediately turned around to look at me and Lin Yixin. Then, she said something ridiculous, ”Lu Chen, did you touch Beauty Lin just now?”
Lin Yixin turned completely red. She was no match for the invincible tease master. I rolled my eyes at Mingyue and said, ”f.u.c.k, sis, you're really…”
”Yeah, yeah. Now go lure the mobs with your Dark Wasp already!”
”Why should I do it? You guys have Wasps too, right?”
”Because we might party wipe if we do it wrong!”
In the end, I couldn't refute the statement. Lin Yixin's Fire Blade couldn't fly high enough to escape being hit, and He Yi's Firelight Mouse was Level 3 and ground-based. It was the last pet we should send to lure the mobs to our choke point.
I took a couple of steps toward the sea of Vine Flowers and released the Dark Wasp from my pet s.p.a.ce. Then, I took control of it and made sure that it was flying about 2 meters away from the ground. It was just low enough to draw their attention. Not long after, the entire ”forest” started chasing after it!
”Heavens!” He Yi's mouth fell open. ”I thought there was a forest there, but… the whole area was made up of Vine Flowers!”
I was pretty astonished myself. I counted thousands, if not tens of thousands of Vine Flowers as they chased after the Dark Wasp. Our joy was equal to our shock, however. The more Vine Flowers there were, the more experience we were going to get. This was going to be a good day for sure!
A beautiful smile blossomed across Lin Yixin's lips as she watched the shuffling sea of Vine Flowers. ”Oh my, would you look at these walking bags of experience! It looks like I'm going to hit Level 82 today. Lu Chen, this quest of yours is seriously fruitful!”
”Mn!”
I nodded. We wouldn't have come this far to grind if the quest hadn't pointed out this location for us. Thanks to the quest, we were now treated to a feast of experience that would drive a normal person to madness!
He Yi smiled a little and walked up to me. ”Right now, the only thing I'm worried about is our supplies. Are we sure we have enough pots? It would suck if we ran out of them halfway…”
I checked my bag and said, ”I have 70 sets of Rank 7 Magic Consumables. We ain't running out of MP in the next two weeks at minimum. What about the HP pots?”
Lin Yixin replied, ”We're fine. I brought 40 sets of Rank 7 Health Potions with me, the kind that restore 2000 HP in one go. Anyone who runs out of pots can come to me for more!”
”Mn!”
I stared at the Vine Flowers and said, ”Now I'm worried about something else. What if there are so many mobs that our weapons run out of durability?”
The girls burst into giggles. ”That would be great, wouldn't it? Literally running out of durability because there's too much reward to reap…”
Finally, the Dark Wasp had successfully aggroed all the Vine Flowers. To say that there were too many of them would be an understatement!