593 Chapter 593 - A Lesson in Fighting Monsters (2/2)
”Got it.” The students dragged out every syllable when they replied.
”Okay. Stick to your separate groups. I'll be taking the Warriors once more; the other groups may try things out on their own,” Gu Fei said as he went to join the Warrior group to help them practice.
After going through the sequence of actions with the Warriors several times, he instructed them to continue their practice on their own and ran over to the Thieves group, followed by the Knight students and then went down the line right after.
”All right. Now that everyone knows how to use their respective methods, we can all practice as one.” Gu Fei stood right in front of all the various groups and gave this directive, occasionally correcting the mistakes his students made.
”Sir, we're very familiar with the moves already. Can we train with actual monsters now?” Gradually, some of the students who had become more proficient with what they had been taught began to look forward to the actual combat.
”Are all of you familiar with it?” Gu Fei asked.
”Yes.” It was yet another dragged out reply.
”Well, if that's the case…” Gu Fei thought about this for a while before he pointed to Ah Fa. ”Take some of your classmates over to pull four monsters over. Every group gets one each and will send forth a representative to engage the monster for practice. The others, pay close attention to see if the said person is doing it correctly. If it becomes dangerous, everyone should quickly take down the monster together.”
The students followed Gu Fei's directive and began to train with monsters. At first, accidents occurred often, but through thorough practice, each of them was able to grasp this fighting style slowly. Once Gu Fei saw that they were all doing sufficiently well, he suddenly moved to clean up the four monsters himself before he clapped his hands to gather everyone anew for a fresh batch of lessons. ”I believe most of you have also realized that this method of fighting style will only be the most common attack patterns that these monsters use. In reality, the monsters will sometimes use different attack patterns. I saw that a lot of you guys merely chose to bear with the brunt of the ensuing attack when it happened, waiting for the monster to return to the attack pattern you've learned, but,” Gu Fei pointed to three students as he continued, ”the three students, Wang Shuangshuang, Zhang Fan, and Hu Yong have done rather well. They noticed that this method of dodging and counterattacking can also be used on the different attack patterns of the other monsters and just requires some minor changes. So, I shall demonstrate these for you.”
A whole two hours passed, and Gu Fei finally ended his lecture on the entire set of fighting routines for these level 30 monsters. Every student had different levels of understanding and athleticism, each grasping at varying degrees, but no matter how much theoretical knowledge contained, everything depended on whether the students themselves would work hard and practice after.
”All right. That's it for today's lesson! You guys can use this style to grind your levels, and tomorrow's lesson will be on how to fight against the level 35 One-eyed Hunter. The One-eyed Hunter has high Agility. There's no need for players that don't have over 20 Agility to turn up since you won't be able to use this style. These students can join me to learn how to take on the level 35 Lumberjack monster the day after. That monster won't require players to have much Agility using this style.” Gu Fei concluded what they had done for the day and a preview of the next lesson's content.
”Ahhhh, sir!” A student, who did not have over 20 Agility, immediately voiced out his opinion. ”Doesn't that mean we'll fall behind by a whole day?!”
”Yeah. They can take on level 35 monsters tomorrow after class, but we gotta spend that day with level 30 monsters, instead.”
”That's right, sir. Since there's already a method to take on level 35 monsters, why don't we learn that to start with? What's the point of learning the level 30 monsters?”
”Already thinking about running before you even learn how to walk, don't you understand what 'step by step' means? Didn't you see that plenty of your classmates were struggling dealing with level 30 monsters?” Gu Fei asked back.
”Of course, they'd be struggling; they're not even level 10,” a student muttered.
Actually, not only were they struggling, those students did not even engage the monsters. Had it not been for the others helping to take care of them, they would have probably died countless times during this practice session. Gu Fei gathered all these students before him and earnestly addressed them. ”Look; the handful of you are representatives of being too low level, which is equivalent to lacking a solid foundation. There's no other solution to this; all you can do is work even harder and level up as fast as you can in these two days before joining everyone with their grind. Otherwise, all you can do is watch everybody train while all of you mooch off EXP on the side. Sounds really boring, don't you think?”
”Nope. I think that's pretty good,” one student mischievously answered.
”Without being self-motivated, there's no way you can make anything out of yourself.” Gu Fei regarded him with derision.
Gu Fei felt a real sense of accomplishment when he saw these students use the routines he had taught them to slay monsters, but he did not forget who he was. Looking at the time, he called all the students. ”All right, practice everything you've learned in the next hour, and you can all log off to rest once it's over.”
”AH! Sir, there's no need for that. We're having holidays now!” All the students wailed.
”You can't go overboard during the holidays as well. Log off and rest; read a book and eat dinner. You can come back online and play once you're done with dinner. Don't play too late; don't game the entire night. Sleeping early and waking up early keeps your mind alert. Tomorrow's class will be in the morning. Those who fail to turn up will be considered as playing truant and will be reflected in next semester's P.E. class attendance.”
”AHHHH! Sir, that's too much!” The students were in tears.
”Sir, can I not turn up if I have matters to attend tomorrow morning?” Some students began making mental calculations as they came forward and asked.
”Sure. There's no need to come online that day as well. Concentrate on the matter you're attending. If it is coincidentally something in the morning, pass me a written request for leave with your parents' signature,” Gu Fei replied. The students' tears were flowing freely right now.
”Sir, you're not letting us play, yet you're going at it so hard yourself!” The students were all protesting.
”I'll maintain the same schedule as everyone, so everybody can monitor me,” Gu Fei said.
Tears were streaming down their cheeks. What's the point of monitoring you when we can't record your attendance and deduct you based on your conduct?
”Alright, enough with your nagging. The time you spend arguing can be better spent grinding on monsters. You guys will soon discover that, with the method I've taught you, an hour of grinding is all you need. It will really be too much if you continue grinding through the night,” Gu Fei said.
The students took this claim with a pinch of salt, but they no longer had any other choice regarding this matter. All they could do was search for their monsters to grind under Gu Fei's watchful gaze. Gu Fei walked around, leeching off the experience points from his students' efforts even as he corrected their mistakes. When he was in high spirits, he would even personally demonstrate a few techniques that were of higher difficulty, giving the much savvier and quick-witted students even more avenues to improve themselves on.
This hour went by really fast, and at the end of this session, the students were all surprised to find that it was exactly as what Gu Fei had said. The efficiency of this one hour of grinding was exceptional; the experience points they earned was the same as what they would earn from two to three hours of their usual grind.
”It's so amazing?” They were all astonished.
”What's so unique about this?” A student skillfully demonstrated what they learned today.
”If we were to grind for a whole day in this fashion…” Another student began imagining such a scenario, but Gu Fei's gaze fell on him, causing the kid to lower his head and swallow his words.
”Assemble, everyone! Time to head back to the city!” Gu Fei shouted.
The students moved slowly and reluctantly, spending a whole ten minutes just to assemble, even managing to kill some monsters along the way. Gu Fei was not too knotted by it; his eyes were half closed toward this matter as the students gathered and made their way back to the city with Gu Fei taking the lead.
”Heh… Old Sun and the others sure have lost out plenty since they're not here today.” The students were chattering with one another animatedly on their way back, feeling sorry for all their fellow classmates that were unable to get online today.
”For those students not here, make sure to teach them what they've missed when they get online.” Gu Fei reminded the lot.
”Yes!” They obediently nodded.
Reaching the spawn point, Gu Fei escorted all of them to log off. All were in tears again, for if their teacher were the last to go offline, who would know whether he truly logged out or otherwise? Should they all get online again for a surprise spot check? Their teacher would most likely claim that he was the one who had managed to catch them sneaking back online to play the game, instead.
In reality, Gu Fei was not as shameless as what these students had thought. Upon seeing that all his students had logged out, as a man of his word, he went offline soon after. As a result, the ones who had suffered the greatest torment was Southern Lone Blade's team again.
Given that Southern Lone Blade had Gu Fei in his friends list, seeing the latter come online was akin to the seven's greatest nemesis coming online. They were all on high alert, watching their surroundings, afraid that a streak of glowing flames might just descend on them from the skies above or a black figure might suddenly appear right in front of them. Everything red or black left the seven men's hearts beating intensely.
However, what made it all the more excruciating was that, despite all their scares and alarms, from the time Gu Fei came online until he logged out, nothing happened.
”That guy, just what is he up to?” The seven were distressed.
”Yet another day where the buyer of that magic staff has not shown him or herself.” They continued to monitor what was happening down at the Auction House, only this time, Southern Lone Blade and the others had already identified their fellow colleagues that were keeping an eye on the magic staff. Whatever movement or action those colleagues of theirs took, nothing would ever escape their eyes.A rather popular first-person shooter, Counterstrike.