598 Chapter 598 - A Genius at Business (1/2)
”Sir, where are you?” Gu Fei's student hurriedly asked, none of them understanding why their teacher was about to blow a gasket.
”Wilderness Camp. You guys shouldn't make your way over; it's too dangerous here,” Gu Fei replied. Given that it was a level 45 grinding map, it would naturally be dangerous for his low-level newbie students. Gu Fei had to protect them from themselves.
”Then, what do we do?” His students were children, after all. With Gu Fei making decisions for them over these past few days, none of them knew what to do with themselves now that they were abruptly given free rein.
”Go level on your own. Teacher here will join you all once I'm free,” Gu Fei replied.
Having settled his students' matter, he watched the crowd below the 9527 outcrop open a path for those Fighters to bring monsters over as these men all began letting each one over modestly.
”You first.”
”No, you!”
”It's better if you go first.”
Gu Fei, who was standing atop the outcrop, was piqued. ”Just toss one over already.”
Finally, everybody elected the Fighter at the forefront as there was barely enough space for him to kite a monster and was at risk of dying to it at this time. There was no time for civility, so the man grabbed hold of the Campfire Patroller's waist, lifted it, and flung it over.
Everyone's gazes followed the monster as it flew up and fell back down. The monster went straight up with that player's Seismic Toss, before landing squarely back down at the same spot on the ground.
The crowd all looked at this man with contempt, and the player himself felt rather embarrassed by his performance. Swiftly adjusting his position again, he gave it another try.
The throw this time was perfectly placed as the monster went out in a perfect parabolic arc and landed right onto Gu Fei's feet. With his sword at the ready, Gu Fei lashed out. White light shone. The monster had been slain.
Gu Fei laughed bitterly. ”Go easy, bro. You barely left it a sliver of HP with that toss. How am I supposed to fight it like that?”
All the Fighters realized what he meant. This was not the time for them to show how powerful their equipment was. Thus, each of them removed whatever they had that increased damage, working with the bare minimum as best as they could. Quite a few of them even went as far as to remove all their equipment, revealing their torso. Unfortunately, because their figure followed what they had in real life, many found a chunk of gut hanging there.
”Hup!” Another Fighter heaved, using both his arms to pick up a monster, only for it to slam head-first onto the rock. Players raised their middle fingers at the Fighter, and even Gu Fei shook his head vigorously.
Thereafter, a third, fourth, fifth, etc. made similar failed attempts… Gu Fei was on the verge of falling asleep. There were not many people who chose to play as Fighters in Parallel World to begin with, and an even smaller portion of them had made it to level 40. Within this subset, an even smaller pack was capable of solo grinding monsters five levels above theirs. Simply put, there was just this handful of Fighters in the huge crowd present, and it just so happened that these few were struggling with completing this minor task; a good 80% of the attempts ended up with the monsters crashing right onto the rocky outcrop. The Fighters were also in anguish at this, for none of them had ever practiced doing anything like this before! It was nothing but a large rocky outcrop and not a plateau. Certain parts of it sloped, pitted, and slanted, so none of them could simply just toss the monsters up and be done with the task. It was necessary for them to toss the monsters right into position accurately, and this position was a spot none of these Fighters had sight of. All they could do was gauge where Gu Fei was standing and make their attempts accordingly, but it was just regrettable that none of their senses was so refined as all of them failed even after spending a long time with the task.
The crowd's eyes followed the monsters that went soaring through the sky in every direction, sighing infrequently at this display. Gu Fei watched all this and felt that the Fighters were just tossing the monsters randomly. Uncertain of just when they would manage to make a proper throw, he simply pulled out his friends list and searched for Eternal Dominion. ”Where are you?”
”Strolling around.” Eternal Dominion was searching for business, which he humbly called strolling.
”Stop that. Come over to the Wilderness Camp and help out,” Gu Fei said.
Eternal Dominion perked up. There's usually business to attend to when Gu Fei asks for help! There was no further development with that matter Gu Fei had previously called him over for, so Eternal Dominion had no idea what to do now as well!
Thus, he did not ask further questions and just hurried over to the Wilderness Camp, asking Gu Fei where he was at on the said grinding map.
”A huge rocky outcrop. That's where I'll be.”
Eternal Dominion arrived at the Wilderness Camp and quickly spotted the mass of players surrounding the 9527 rocky outcrop.
”He's surrounded!” Eternal Dominion got excited as he started calculating how much he would earn for each kill here, considering how large this mob was. However, when he got closer, he realized that Gu Fei was sitting all calm and composed atop the outcrop, not looking in the least bit like someone trapped. Meanwhile, there were monsters infrequently shooting up in the sky, creating quite the spectacular sight.
Eternal Dominion strove to squeeze his way through, and the players whom he tried squeezing past all turned to let him through the moment they saw that he was a Fighter. Reality proved that those Fighters present were not up to the given task as none of them was lucky enough to resolve the matter. Everyone had enough seeing how long they were taking to muddle their way through this.
Eternal Dominion's arrival gave the crowd an impression of a savior descending into their midst, despite none of them being aware just who this person was.
Gu Fei had quite the range of vision standing so far above the masses, so he had long since spotted Eternal Dominion coming over. He waved at the Fighter shuffling through the crowd.
Eternal Dominion waved back as he continued to make his way over.
”Toss a monster to me.” Gu Fei pointed the small mob of monsters near the rocky outcrop that the other players had pulled over, looking like a corral of monsters these Fighters were sharing for practice.
Eternal Dominion went forward. He moved to grab hold of one when Gu Fei reminded him. ”Go easy on it. I only need you to throw it up here while inflicting as little damage as possible.”
Eternal Dominion paused, deftly shed his equipment, and grabbed a monster. With a wave of his arms, the monster was tossed in the air as per the rest of the attempts, except that it landed squarely right by Gu Fei's feet.
Applause thundered.
Eternal Dominion was nonplussed as to why this applause happened. After recovering from this moment, he cupped his hands at the corners of his mouth and shouted to Gu Fei. ”What did you call me over for?!”
”It's fine already!” Gu Fei shouted back. The players were still applauding; there was no way that he could be heard without raising his voice.
”What?!” Unknown if Gu Fei did not do what Eternal Dominion did, but despite shouting deafeningly, Eternal Dominion could not catch a word Gu Fei said.
”I said it's fine!” Gu Fei hollered once more, and this time, Eternal Dominion heard it clearly. He was left feeling stunned.
The monster that had landed by Gu Fei's feet began moving. Getting to its feet, the monster was now searching for its aggro target. Since the monster did not sustain too much damage previously, and the threat generated was hardly significant, all it took was a few stabs from Gu Fei's sword before he successfully redirected its aggro to himself. Currently, a majority of the players crowding the rocky outcrop absolutely had no idea what Gu Fei was doing and only chose to hang around because they were curious as to what he was doing. The moment Gu Fei managed to peel off aggro and maintain his threat in those few moves, plenty of Warriors nodded their heads approvingly. This Mage is rather good at being a MT. They were all immediately a little confounded after this thought passed, however. Is there ever a Mage that could be a MT?