119 Chapter 119 - Grinding on Monsters Beyond Their Levels (1/2)

Gu Fei treated Moonlit Nightfalls as a teacher's pointing stick and instructed his guildmates to run all over the grinding spot that they had claimed as their own. The bold and confident tone he used to address them and the aura his body emitted had convinced the ladies that he was a natural-born instructor who used it for a living.

That was truly the case, since Gu Fei's job as a P.E. teacher had him instructing students to run around the academy grounds in reality. Compared to those lazy students that only put forth half-hearted effort in his P.E. classes, the Amethyst Rebirth's ladies currently before him were way more diligent and obedient. For instance, none of them headed west if Gu Fei pointed at east; they also gave their all into running and luring the monsters in this grinding map.

After a few rounds of monster grinding, Gu Fei clutched his sword under his armpit, clapped his hands, and shouted, ”Take five at your current position! Stop luring the monsters!”

No one was so obedient this time. Gathering around Gu Fei, they asked, ”Why are we stopping? Why the need to rest right now?”

”Mana recovery,” Gu Fei sat on to the ground and took an apple from his dimensional pocket.

The ladies composed mostly of Mages became aware of the situation. It was faster to recover mana by eating fruit and, as expected, Gu Fei stood up not too long after. He waved at the crowd of ladies surrounding him and commanded, ”Continue!”

The ladies became busy again… but only for a short while. Just as they were beginning to enjoy luring the monsters after a few rounds, Gu Fei clapped his hands once more, ”Take five and recover your mana!”

”What?” The ladies questioningly looked at Gu Fei who had sat on to the ground to munch on fruit once more.

”He only casted the spell for five times, right?” everyone asked one another, bewildered.

”You are out of mana after casting Descending Wheel of Flames just for five times?!” the ladies clamored with widened eyes. They could understand why he had run out of mana the first time, as he had dueled with players before and lured and killed monsters after, but he only rested and ate an apple moments ago… He should have fully replenished his mana when they had resumed grinding, right? A fully replenished mana that was only capable of powering Descending Wheel of Flames for five times... Was this the competence that a Mage should be having?

Gu Fei sighed, ”It can't be helped! I don't want this to happen as well.”

”How high is your spell proficiency?” Ice Glaze was more optimistic; she assumed that Gu Fei's spell proficiency was so high that it caused his spells to consume a lot of mana.

Gu Fei did not intend to reveal his spell proficiency, as doing so would only cause him to be ridiculed by these ladies. He merely sighed and gave a general answer, ”I don't have high spell proficiency; it's just that my mana is low.”

Luo Luo explained to the others, ”Miles poured all his points into Agility, so his Intelligence is lower compared to others.”

Gu Fei nodded his head in confirmation.

The ladies kindly consoled Gu Fei, saying that he should not fret about it much since he could reallocate his stat points upon reaching level 40. After this segment, they very generously offered the variety of fruits that they had on them to Gu Fei. This gesture allowed Gu Fei to find out exactly what kind of fruit each lady liked: three liked apples, three liked bananas, two loved pears, and one loved peaches.

Gu Fei felt touched. He could not help but ask them a string of questions and request: ”Where did you buy these bananas? Where can I get peaches? Give me some more pears!” His low mana forced him to buy and eat fruit all the time, yet he only knew where to buy apples. Munching on apples day after day had naturally caused him to grow tired of them that he now felt like puking whenever he had to eat one.

Fortunately, the game was not so uptight that it required players to finish a whole apple. As long as they took a bite, the system would consider them as having eaten an apple and would recover their mana after three seconds. While keeping a once-bitten apple for later consumption was possible, it would not be able to replenish mana again.

After Gu Fei ate one banana, the grinding party resumed their activities. Five casted spells later, the ladies stopped running on their own before Gu Fei could say something and waited for him to consume another fruit.

Although it was somewhat grating to halt their level grinding after every five casted spells, their current grinding method's efficiency was undeniably something that the usual grinding methods could not hold a candle to. Fortunately, Gu Fei's mana recovery was fast so the ladies did not have to wait long for him to fully replenish it. This was a reprieve – if it could be considered as such – in Gu Fei's otherwise frustrating situation.

While the ladies felt satisfied with the rapid rate that their experience points were increasing, Gu Fei thought differently. After a few more rounds of monster grinding, Gu Fei could not help but suggest during his latest mana recovery session, ”Grinding here is too slow. Let's switch to another map.”

”How is grinding here slow?” the ladies asked.

Gu Fei counted with his fingers, ”There are ten of us and this grinding spot has a respawn rate of nine monsters at a time; if we consider everything, it's almost like you all are only standing by for one monster each to respawn before luring them back. While killing them doesn't take much time, leveling up through this process is very slow!”

Luo Luo smiled wryly and said, ”That may be the case. But the way things are in the game right now, a grinding spot is already considered as good if it can provide one monster for every player in a grinding party. Look around us; every grinding party is more or less in the same situation.”

Gu Fei nodded his head, ”So I suggest we switch to another map.”

”Where else can we go?!” the ladies asked, baffled. They added, ”Every level 40 grinding map is crowded with people.”

Gu Fei smiled, ”To a level 50 grinding map. There should be fewer people in it.”

”Grinding on monsters beyond our levels!” all the ladies exclaimed with wide eyes. Everyone knew the significance of grinding on higher level monsters in Parallel World. But with their mediocre abilities, the Amethyst Rebirth's ladies were simply not capable of challenging higher level monsters and merely envied those who could. Thus, the idea of grinding at a map populated by higher level monsters never crossed their minds.