Chapter 460: Magic Piercing Punch (1/2)
”Mn, I’m heading out at 9 pm tonight,” Beiming Xue said carefully.
”9 pm? That’s pretty late.” I hesitated. ”What for? It’s not exactly safe for you to head out alone at that time, is it?”
I didn’t want to interfere with Beiming Xue’s personal business, but I didn’t want something bad to happen to her either. That was why I couldn’t help but voice my concern.
Beiming Xue smiled. ”Relax, I’m not meeting an online pal or something. Why would I need to when the strongest, most handsome and hot-blooded man in all the servers is already by my side?”
I replied expressionlessly, ”Right. Now tell me why you’re heading out at that time.”
”Mn, it’s like this. It’s almost been half a year since I left Wuxi, and earlier today a group of my high school friends came to Suzhou to have fun. Since they’re leaving tomorrow, they wanted me to join them for a late dinner.”
”I see…” I thought for a moment before replying, ”I don’t see any problems with that. Take care of yourself.”
”I will.”
The line went silent for a couple of seconds before Beiming Xue spoke up again, ”Big bro, are you really going to let me go alone? Aren’t you worried at all?”
”Fuck, what am I supposed to say? It’s a gathering between you and your classmates! I have no place there.”
”It’s fine, just come with me, please? One of my prettier classmates wants to meet you in person!”
”Oh? Who’s that?”
”Come with me to the dinner and you’ll get to know her. Oh right, what are you doing right now?”
”I’m grinding mobs. I should be able to finish by 9 pm, but we’ll see!”
”Okay. Do your best, big bro!”
”You too!”
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I cut the call after exchanging words of encouragement with each other. It really was a bit inappropriate for me to participate in Beiming Xue’s private gathering with her classmates, but on the other hand, I couldn’t trust her to take care of herself completely. In this day and age you never knew what a person was really thinking. Although Beiming Xue was fairly mature compared to her classmates, and I did believe in her ability to protect herself, that didn’t mean the youngsters wouldn’t be tempted to make a move on her. She was a beautiful girl after all. There was no way in hell I was going to let her get hurt again, and anyone who wanted to be my brother-in-law had to survive me first!
Back to the action, the Earth Spike Beasts were dying one after another. Despite being concealed shadow-rank mobs, they didn’t drop anything besides a generous amount of experience. Stingy bastards.
The Sky Obsidian Greedy Wolf left again to aggro the mobs, and this time it was almost petrified and mobbed. After barely stumbling back to my side and occupying a spot, I launched a Thousand Ice Slash to the Fire Lizards’ faces and taught them a lesson from hell!
I then followed up with a War Crush. It was just as devastating as the first attack.
Everything was progressing exactly as I imagined it would be. The Fire Lizards dropped like flies, gave me a ton of experience and dropped a lot of good items.
The massive boost in experience was what I really enjoyed. Killing mobs that were 25 levels above mine had turned out to be far more beneficial than I initially thought. If I could continue solo grinding shadow-rank mobs that were Level 140 or above, then the day I hit Level 150 couldn’t be too far away. For now though, I should focus on hitting Level 120. Looking too far into the future would only serve to demoralize myself.
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Inside the guild channel, the gang was grinding and chatting merrily—
Gui Guzi: ”Fireblade Cavalry, assemble! Is everyone here yet?”
Eighteen Steeds of You and Yun: ”More or less. I’m replacing the three riders who had to log off for private business. What are we doing this time?”
Gui Guzi: ”We’re tackling the Level 132 Ice Plains Wolves in the middle section of Dragonbone Mountain Range today. These mobs yield great experience, have great attack speed but their max Attack isn’t too heaven-defying. Anyway, I’ll aggro about 100 Ice Plains Wolves or so in a line, and the rest of you will charge them back and forth until they’re all dead. Make sure to split them up so that no one person is taking too much damage at a time, and remember, don’t face-tank the mobs even if your Defense is doubled by Knight God! Quick and safe leveling is our motto, alright?”
Eighteen Steeds of You and Yun: ”Okay! Brothers and sisters, prepare for battle!”
High Fighting Spirits: ”Fuck, the Fireblade Cavalry are having one helluva time. When will we be able to join their ranks? Sigh, I should’ve chosen to become a magic knight back then…”
He Yi chuckled. ”Relax, the warrior’s ray of hope lies in Level 150, and even then, Level 150 is just the middle point. We still have a long way to go!”
Li Chengfeng said, ”Yeah, the guild leader is right. We’re not even Level 120 yet, so there’s still a long road ahead of us. Warriors will get mounts eventually, we only need patience. The advantage of Magic Knight and Wanderer won’t last forever.
Xu Yang: ”Where is our archer squad, by the way? Summoning Lil Beiming to the chat!”
Beiming Xue chuckled in response. ”We’re grinding Dark Beastmen at the edge of Black Coast. What’s wrong?”
”Dark Beastmen?” Xu Yang’s voice sounded shaky. ”You mean those Level 140 shadow-rank mobs? I was nearly one-shot by a Dark Beastman once. Those things are hard to kill even one-on-one. Are you sure you’re doing okay?”
Beiming Xue giggled. ”Of course. We have Shock Arrows, Multi Arrows, and Volleys. Those Dark Beastmen can’t even get close to us. We’ve all leveled up once in three hours, and we’ve killed a Purple Gold Rank beastman boss and got a lot of good stuff. You have a problem, Big Brother Xu Yang?”