Orc Camp

He was one of countless gold farmers himself. He could navigate this route with his eyes closed and remember the location of every black bear, every Dire Wolf, every Flower Kiss Spider, and every herb on the map.

The two ran swiftly through the forest. After more than three hours, they reached the edge of the woods and arrived in the hills.

"Alright, this is where we came to," Lu Yang said, stopping and turning to Xiao Liang behind him.

Dawn was just breaking, and the sun rose in the east. The scenery before them gradually became clear. Xiao Liang curiously looked ahead, but when he saw the monster he would be facing, he could not help swallowing.

"Boss, what kind of monster is that?" Not far in front of Xiao Liang, a massive creature stood a full half-head taller than him, dusting itself off.

The giant creature had a lion-like head and a muscular human body. Its entire body was green, with a tiger-striped cloth skirt around its waist. It held a white bone club in its hand, and the club alone was thicker than Xiao Liang's thigh.

"The monster in front of you is called an orc," Lu Yang said. "It's level 15."

Orcs were a pitiful race recorded in the racial chronicles of the Second World, the remnants of the war between orcs and humans. They were currently subordinate to the orcs and enemies of humanity.

"Boss, how are we supposed to fight it?" Xiao Liang asked. He had the feeling that one of the orc's fingers would be enough to kill him.

"Don't be afraid of it. Believe it or not, I can kill it without losing a single drop of health."

"Huh?" Xiao Liang's eyes were full of disbelief.

"Watch me," Lu Yang said confidently.

In his previous life, players had called orcs melee meat grinders. With damage as high as 200, decent movement speed, extremely high health, and strong defense, warriors and average rogues simply could not stand against them. It took a properly balanced party to defeat one.

However, Lu Yang had his own method. He remembered a player posting a video in his previous life where five fire mages coordinated their Pyroblasts. Using Pyroblast's knockback effect and casting in rotation, they kept an orc from moving even once from its original spot until it died.

Although Lu Yang was alone now, his casting speed was only 0.7 seconds, even faster than five fire mages casting in rotation. When he reached a point thirty yards from the orc, he gathered the magical energy within him and began chanting. After 0.7 seconds, a huge fireball formed in his hand.

"Pyroblast!"

The fireball shot fiercely from Lu Yang's hand. With a bang, it struck the orc squarely in the head, knocking it back a step. Its body nearly toppled to the ground.

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"Roar~!" After taking massive damage, the orc followed the fireball's path and found Lu Yang. It let out an enraged roar, waving its club as it charged at him. But after taking only one step, the second Pyroblast struck it precisely in the head.

"Bang~!" The orc was knocked back to its original position again.

"Roar~!"

The orc grew even angrier and charged toward Lu Yang in great strides. Yet after taking another step, another Pyroblast hit its body, sending it back to where it had started.

The orc was simple-minded and did not know how to adapt. It only knew how to charge forward. With his incredibly fast casting speed, Lu Yang used a dozen or so Pyroblasts to kill the 2,000-health orc on the spot. Until its death, it never got within a single step of Lu Yang.

System Prompt: You gained 286 experience.

"Boss, you're amazing," Xiao Liang said admiringly.

Lu Yang smiled and asked, "How much experience did you get?"

"I got 262 experience. This is so much faster than leveling by killing monsters outside," Xiao Liang said.

Killing a level 1 monster only gave 10 experience, and each respawn usually only produced one monster. Sometimes they could not even secure it, then had to wait another fifteen minutes for it to respawn. Here, Lu Yang killed a monster in less than a minute, and Xiao Liang gained 262 experience. Killing one here was equivalent to grinding outside for several hours.

Yet Lu Yang was somewhat dissatisfied. He calculated that a normal level 15 monster should give 280 experience. As a level 5 player killing a level 15 monster, he received a 100% experience bonus for killing a monster ten levels above him, meaning 560 experience. Split evenly with Xiao Liang, it came to less than 300 each. Xiao Liang had not received much experience either.

"This leveling speed is still too slow. Come with me, I'll take you somewhere faster," Lu Yang said.

"Huh, it can get even faster?" Xiao Liang felt his imagination was not enough.

"Of course. You have the Serpent Venom Orb, so your leveling speed can increase by at least five times. Follow me, I'll take you somewhere."

"Okay." Xiao Liang hurried after Lu Yang.

The Orc Hills were actually an orc city. From above, one could clearly see the orcs' inner and outer cities. Countless caves dotted the hills of the outer city. These caves were where the orcs rested daily, and they contained large numbers of orcs.

Normally, players hunted monsters inside these caves. However, among the many caves, one contained a bugged location.

In his previous life, a god-tier rogue had been soloing orcs above his level with pure skill when he accidentally drew the pursuit of several orcs. Just as he was forced into a corner and thought death was inevitable, he discovered a gap behind a huge boulder in the corner. He immediately jumped inside. Once he did, the orcs could not hit him at all. Later, he used that bugged spot and a bow to effortlessly slaughter orcs and level quickly. He only revealed the bug after leaving the area.

That was Lu Yang's purpose in bringing Xiao Liang to the Orc Camp. He intended to use this bug to farm monsters as well.

The two fought monsters all the way to the entrance of this cave. The moment they entered, three orcs at the entrance spotted Lu Yang at once and charged toward him, waving their bone clubs.

"Boss, what do we do?" Xiao Liang asked nervously. There were a great many orcs inside the cave. If the two of them scattered and ran, they could easily draw the attention of more orcs.

"Stand here and don't move." Lu Yang was completely unconcerned. He rapidly chanted, and in the blink of an eye, three Pyroblasts flew toward the three orcs in succession. The three orcs, having only taken two steps closer, were almost simultaneously knocked back a step. Lu Yang immediately continued chanting, and before long, he killed all three orcs on the ground.

"Whew, that scared me to death." Xiao Liang let out a nervous breath. "Boss, there are so many orcs here."

Other than the entrance, the corridors on both sides of the cave were nearly packed with orcs.

"That's only a few dozen," Lu Yang said. "Go farther in, and there are several hundred."