118 Chapter 118 - Gu Fei’s Grinding Strategy (1/2)

Now that no one else was trying to compete for their grinding spot, the Amethyst Rebirth's ladies began to take their usual positions to start grinding for levels. Evidently, they had long since formed a fixed routine for this grinding spot with one another. After getting into position, the ladies exchanged nods and shifted their gazes at a very bemused Gu Fei.

”Uh... What am I supposed to be doing?” Gu Fei asked, clueless.

”Luring the monsters,” Luo Luo answered.

”But I'm a Mage!” Gu Fei exclaimed in surprise. Although this was his first time participating in a party grind, it was common knowledge that Mages were the main offensive force during level grinding. Thus, an arduous task, such as monster luring, was rarely assigned to them.

Luo Luo reluctantly shared, ”Our group line-up is already fixed. Royal usually did the monster luring.”

Gu Fei heaved a deep sigh as he looked up the sky. Royal sure had it rough! Not only did he have to rise up to the challenge when there's a duel, he also had to do the most tedious task of monster luring! He's pretty much a male nanny at this rate! As for me…”Ptooey!” Gu Fei irritably spat to the ground. To think that he would be reduced to being a substitute male nanny....

”It's not easy for a Mage to lure monsters around here,” Ice Glaze remarked from the perspective of a Mage.

Luo Luo simply smiled and said, ”Miles is no ordinary Mage. He can run REALLY fast.”

”Off you go! Off you go!” the other ladies urged Gu Fei to begin once they heard that.

Gu Fei feebly lifted his sword in hand and rushed toward the center of the clustered monsters nearby. Drawing the monsters' aggro was his way of luring them.

People should not assume that Gu Fei was ignorant of a technical skill called 'monster luring'. As a Mage, especially one that had always been grinding alone, Gu Fei had long since perfected his technique to lure monsters. He swung the glistening blade in a three-hundred-sixty-degree arc, causing the surrounding monsters to chase after him. With the long line of monsters trailing behind Gu Fei, it was as if a train had arrived by the ladies. ”Where am I luring them?” he asked loudly.

”Argh! I forgot to draw the circle on the ground!” Luo Luo exclaimed, smacking her forehead with her palm in consternation.

In actual fact, the ladies' grinding positions and respective attacking turns were devised beforehand by Royal God Call. The circle mentioned by Luo Luo was his idea as well. Since the female Mages of this grinding party were lacking in terms of spell-casting techniques, their Descending Wheel of Flames would often fail to hit all the targets. Hence, Royal God Call came up with this idea of the ladies directing their flame wheels into a drawn circle at a specific time, while he handled the grasping of the right timing to lure monsters into the circle.

Whether Descending Wheel of Flames could hit all the targets or not with this strategy depended entirely on Royal God Call's monsters luring skill.

”Royal always drew the circle, so I've forgotten about it,” Luo Luo explained as she pulled out her magic staff. She then proceeded to draw a circle at the center of their grinding spot using the magic staff while calling out to Gu Fei, ”Lure the monsters elsewhere first; I'll be done here in a jiffy.”

The other ladies intently watched Luo Luo carve a line to the ground. Female players were truly thorough in whatever they did, as none of them removed their gazes on Luo Luo until she finished her work. While they were admiring the roundness of her drawn circle, Luo Luo called out to Gu Fei once more, ”It's done! You can lure them over here now!”

Not hearing any sign of movement, the ladies finally shifted their gazes from the drawn circle to where Gu Fei and the monsters were. The sight that greeted them was of Gu Fei's lone figure bathed by a flame's afterglow and surrounded by a litter of monster corpses.

”No need for that. I've taken care of them already,” Gu Fei said.

The ladies looked blankly at one another. They only watched Luo Luo draw a circle for a bit, yet Gu Fei managed to clear off all the monsters in that short span of time? They all wondered how he did it, as none of them saw him in action.

”Let's wait for them to respawn!” Gu Fei announced as he walked toward the ladies.

”How… did you kill them?” Luo Luo asked.

”Descending Wheel of Flames, of course! Didn't you ladies see it?”

All the ladies shook their heads.

Apparently, my act of killing the monsters is less interesting to watch than Luo Luo drawing a circle on the ground. How distressing… Gu Fei remarked dryly in his head, feeling irked.

”Try doing that again later,” Luo Luo.

”Alright. But you girls do the luring this time,” Gu Fei requested as he acquiesced.

”Ah?”

”You all lure the monsters. I, alone, am enough to take care of them,” Gu Fei reiterated.

”But usually—”