Lord-level Beast

"A normal Dart Bee has 95 Attack Power."

"Each hit can deal 47 damage to me, not counting hits to vital spots for now."

"I currently have 130 Health Points. At most, I'll die in three hits..."

"Damn it, why are my Health Points so low? This is way too pathetic."

On the way to the Dart Bee Hive, Nan Feng kept thinking of a strategy, trying to figure out how to wipe out this entire nest of Dart Bees.

"I currently have 140 Attack Power, and each hit can deal 115 damage to a Dart Bee."

"But Dart Bees have 380 Health Points. I need four shots to kill one."

"Shit, why does a tiny bee have more Health Points than me? And that much more?"

"Is this fucking reasonable?"

Judging from the numbers alone, Nan Feng would have some trouble even dealing with a single Dart Bee.

But Dart Bees were only level 2 beasts. When it came to intelligence, they were utterly incomparable to humans.

Nan Feng could outsmart them!

"As long as these Dart Bees can't find me, won't that solve everything?"

While grilling meat earlier, Nan Feng's eyes had been stung by the smoke, which happened to give him an idea.

He could use smoke cover!

"I'll make a Smoke Grenade and shroud the whole hive in smoke. Then I can ambush them from outside. Wouldn't that be perfect?"

"Besides, the hive isn't far from the Wooden Cabin. If the Dart Bees really discover me, I can just hide inside the Wooden Cabin."

"Safe as hell, right?"

He immediately got to work.

Nan Feng cautiously approached the Dart Bee Hive, checked the wind direction, then found an ideal spot and started a fire.

The fire gradually grew, and smoke drifted with the wind toward the Dart Bee Hive.

But to be safe, Nan Feng had started the fire quite a distance away from the Dart Bee Hive.

By the time the smoke reached it, most of it had already dispersed.

"No, I need to move closer."

Under the cover of smoke, Nan Feng slowly moved the fire source forward bit by bit.

The Dart Bees in the distance began flying up and down, clearly disliking the smell of the smoke.

"Come to think of it, since I already started a fire, why not just burn down the hive?"

After thinking for a moment, Nan Feng still gave up on using fire.

At most, fire could burn the hive down, but Dart Bees could fly. Nan Feng guessed they would not die alongside their hive.

That would be too stupid. Dart Bees were not moths that rushed into flames at the sight of fire.

There was another issue: Nan Feng did not know whether burned Dart Bees would grant experience.

If they did not give experience, wouldn't this all be for nothing?

After moving forward a few more meters, Nan Feng felt it was about right. Any closer, and he would probably be discovered.

Under the cover of smoke, Nan Feng cautiously retreated and quietly waited for the breeze to carry the smoke into the Dart Bee Hive.

Before long, the entire Dart Bee Hive was shrouded in smoke.

Nan Feng hid behind a tree in the distance. He could vaguely see more than a dozen Dart Bees constantly flying around, seemingly confused and unable to figure out where the smoke was coming from.

"Close enough."

Standing behind the tree, Nan Feng raised the Desert Eagle.

There were roughly thirty meters between Nan Feng and the Dart Bee Hive. With Nan Feng's terrible marksmanship, it would be difficult to hit fist-sized Dart Bees.

But that was fine. There were at least seventy or eighty Dart Bees near the hive. As long as Nan Feng fired wildly in that direction, he would hit a few eventually.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Nan Feng fired three shots in quick succession. Without caring whether he had hit anything, he hurriedly hid his whole body behind the tree.

After waiting seven or eight seconds, Nan Feng cautiously poked his head out again. When he saw that the Dart Bees had not flown over, he could not help giving himself a mental pat on the back.

This method worked!

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

He fired three more shots. This time, Nan Feng saw a pale red number float up from the direction of the hive: -115!

Only one shot had hit.

And Nan Feng did not even know which one he had hit, much less whether his next shot could hit the same one again.

"At this rate, even if I use up all my Mana, I won't kill many Dart Bees."

"This isn't very cost-effective..."

Nan Feng glanced at the five remaining free attribute points and decisively put them all into Strength!

"Fuck Health Points. Someone Nan only wants explosive damage!"

After allocating the points, Nan Feng's Strength had reached 33, and his Attack Power had reached 165!

This shot could deal 140 damage.

It did not seem like much of an increase, but given Nan Feng's current situation, it was an enormous improvement.

Before adding the points, Nan Feng needed four shots to kill a Dart Bee.

Now, he only needed three.

"I'm basically gambling now."

"There are dozens of Dart Bees in this smoke. I need to hit the same one three times to gain experience."

Nan Feng took a cup of mana-restoring potion from his backpack and gulped it down, slowly recovering Mana as he prepared for a prolonged battle.

There were still 1,000 milliliters of mana-restoring potion in his backpack, enough to restore a full 500 Mana Points.

Converted, that was equivalent to 125 shots.

Then Nan Feng began firing single shots one after another, making sure every shot landed around the hive and did not miss too far off target.

Of course, just in case, Nan Feng always kept his Mana Points above 50 to avoid any unexpected situations.

Fortunately, these Dart Bees were not very intelligent, allowing Nan Feng to exploit a bug and farm monsters.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

One shot after another.

Finally, after firing who knew how many shots, Nan Feng heard the sound he had been longing for.

Ding! You have killed a level 2 normal beast, Dart Bee, and gained 20 experience points.

"Nice!"

This method really worked!

Nan Feng happily clenched his fist and continued attacking.

Ding! You have killed a level 2 normal beast, Dart Bee, and gained 20 experience points.

Ding! You have killed a level 2 normal beast, Dart Bee, and gained 20 experience points.

Ding! You have killed a level 2 normal beast, Dart Bee, and gained 20 experience points.

After killing eleven Dart Bees in a row, Nan Feng ran into a new problem—his Mana was almost depleted.

"That shouldn't be right. How did I run out of Mana after killing only eleven...?"

"I clearly landed more than eighty shots!"

Based on the pale red numbers that occasionally appeared in the distance, Nan Feng roughly calculated how many times he had hit.

"Could it be that I injured most of them badly but just didn't kill them?"

The smoke was too thick, so Nan Feng could not see what was happening near the Dart Bee Hive.

After looking at his status panel, Nan Feng was somewhat speechless.

Level: 2 (387/400)

Health Points: 130/130

Mana Points: 48/190

"Just one more kill and I'll reach level 3..."

"I still have 48 Mana Points. Should I fire two more shots?"

Nan Feng had originally saved this remaining Mana for unexpected situations.

But he only needed 13 more experience points to level up, and Nan Feng could not resist the temptation.

Was going back to replenish Mana at a time like this something a real man would do?

A real man should fight to the bitter end and leave nothing behind!

With that thought, Nan Feng raised the Desert Eagle again.

"The last two shots... no, three shots."

"I really need to save the rest of my Mana in case I run into danger on the way back."

Whoosh! The first shot!

-140!

"It hit! But it didn't die..."

Nan Feng did not hesitate and fired another shot.

Weak Point Attack: -280!

"It hit again! But it still didn't die."

The Dart Bee swarm in the distance flew around like mad, seemingly extremely enraged.

Nan Feng did not care. He aimed at the hive by feel and fired another shot!

Weak Point Attack: -280!

Ding! You have killed the level 2 Lord-level Beast, Dart Bee Queen, and gained 80 experience points.

Nan Feng froze.

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