"Come on, come on, stop grinding! Let's get people together and run a dungeon!" Crimson-Eyed Black Dragon said excitedly as he put his longsword back into his backpack.
"What now?" The gorgeous Winged God Dragon glanced sideways at him. "Did that guy called Kexing give you another task?"
"How did you know?" Crimson-Eyed Black Dragon stiffened.
Before Winged God Dragon could answer, the little Sky Dragon beside her chimed in with a grin, "We saw that lapdog expression on Uncle Crimson-Eyed Black Dragon's face and knew who you were talking to."
Crimson-Eyed Black Dragon: "."
"Besides," the little girl added ruthlessly, "you've never been this proactive when the guild leader assigned you a task!"
Unable to endure his teammates' mocking gazes any longer, Crimson-Eyed Black Dragon gave in.
He waved his hand. "All right, let's head back to the village first."
Then, ignoring his teammates, he took the lead toward Novice Village.
On the way back to the village, Crimson-Eyed Black Dragon opened the private chat interface and forwarded his chat history with Kexing to his boss, Emperor Blood God Slayer.
He also added, "Guild Leader, I think our guild should stop following the 'chaotic evil' route."
"I've found an excellent opportunity to cooperate with Kexing. We'll have more opportunities if we take the legitimate route."
Meanwhile, Su Yu arrived at the area where the level 8 Woodland Grizzly Bears roamed.
There were already a few scattered players in the level 8 monster area.
All of them were hardcore grinders. They had logged in at midnight and kept grinding until ten in the morning.
Some of the best among them had already reached level 7, two levels ahead of Su Yu.
But Su Yu did not care. Everyone only had twelve hours of game time each day anyway, so whether they trained early or late made little difference.
He wandered around the monster area, found a spot that other players could not see, and began killing monsters to level up.
Compared to before, Su Yu's leveling method had become much more unrestrained.
Previously, he had killed wild monsters one at a time, and his leveling efficiency had been decent.
Now, he could lure three or four grizzly bears together and use Chain Lightning alongside spell scrolls to AoE them down, multiplying his efficiency!
The only pity was that the Woodland Grizzly Bears were spread out too far apart. Su Yu wasted most of his time luring monsters.
If he could stand in one spot with an ample supply of wild monsters in front of him, he would only need one or two minutes to gain a level.
But because of the monster pulling, it took him nearly forty minutes to go from level 5 to level 6.
Forty minutes later, Su Yu successfully reached level 6.
His Spell Power naturally rose to 63 points.
However, Su Yu did not stop to look at his status panel. He continued luring and killing monsters.
He planned to head to the level 9 monster area to train after reaching level 7.
Another twenty minutes passed when a tremendous bear roar rang through the forest. It was several times louder than the roars of its kind!
"It's here!" Su Yu's eyes lit up.
He looked toward the source of the roar.
A giant bear with dark brown fur all over its body, a full size larger than an ordinary brown bear, appeared in the clearing ahead and to the side.
Woodland Grizzly Bear Leader lv8 (Excellent) Health: 1200
It was another Excellent-quality boss!
Su Yu focused and began dealing with the boss.
At the same time, the brown bear boss's roar spread throughout the entire monster area. All the hardcore grinders leveling there heard it.
The grinders turned their ghostly faces toward Su Yu's location:
"Huh? Which unlucky fool triggered the level 8 boss?"
"Haha! You can still call people for help after triggering a low-level boss, but if you trigger a level 8 boss, you can't even run away. That's half an hour of game time wasted for nothing."
"Yeah! Let's light a candle for that unlucky guy."
The hardcore grinders chatted casually, but their hands did not stop as they continued attacking the grizzly bears before them.
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A string of numbers rose above the heads of the level 8 Woodland Grizzly Bears, and their health slowly declined.
But after waiting for a while, the hardcore grinders realized something was wrong.
The bear roars had not stopped!
"That's not right! Why hasn't that player died yet?"
"Not only is he not dead, I can hear the boss howling in pain! Monsters usually only make that sound when 30% of their health is taken out in an extremely short time!"
"Who's fighting the grizzly bear boss?"
Awoo—
While the hardcore grinders were still shocked, the grizzly bear boss's dying whimper reached them as well.
The hardcore grinders were utterly dumbfounded. One by one, they stood on tiptoe to look in Su Yu's direction:
"What happened?"
"It's only been less than eight seconds! The boss is down?"
"Could someone have used hacks to instantly kill the boss?"
They were too far away to see what was happening on Su Yu's side.
So quite a few hardcore grinders stopped leveling and ran toward Su Yu.
But when they arrived, they only saw the corpse of a dead Woodland Grizzly Bear Leader. There was no sign of any other players.
The players gathered around the grizzly bear boss's corpse to inspect the marks left by magic, disbelief written all over their faces.
"What's going on? Could the game system have bugged out and killed a grizzly bear boss?"
"Could a player have killed it? They say the great Kexing is in Novice Village 6. Could he have done it?"
"I don't think so! Even if the great Kexing killed the boss, we should have seen him, right? Did any of you see a player named 'Kexing' or an anonymous player pass by?"
"No."
"Me neither."
"Didn't see anyone."
The hardcore grinders all shook their heads.
At that moment, Su Yu canceled his Invisibility Spell, and his figure appeared behind a large tree dozens of meters away from the players.
"Players who come to watch the show are such a hassle. I'd better go to the level 9 monster area."
Su Yu sighed softly and headed toward the level 9 monster area.
Just now, he had faced the grizzly bear boss head-on.
With Su Yu's 63 points of Spell Power, it should originally have taken him no more than three seconds to kill the 1,200-health grizzly bear boss.
But during the fight, the boss used Iron Mane to reduce the damage it received, then used Berserk Recovery to restore a large chunk of health, dragging the battle out to eight seconds.
Still, it did not matter. Su Yu had successfully taken down the boss.
After the grizzly bear boss died, Su Yu saw nearby players rushing over, so he used Invisibility Spell to leave the scene.
He left without a trace, hiding his achievements and fame.
Fortunately, because it was a server-wide first kill, the grizzly bear boss's drops were still plentiful.
Cloth Armor Top Vagrant Wind Robe (Excellent) lv8, Chain Armor Gloves Dreadscale Gauntlets (Excellent) lv8, Skill Scroll Frost Nova (Excellent), Skill Scroll Slide Kick (Common), Woodland Grizzly Bear Leader's Paw (Excellent) x1.
Su Yu could use both the cloth armor top and Frost Nova.
Slide Kick was an Archer skill, a signature skill for Archers who would follow the Martial Arts Style in the future.
Su Yu casually learned the Frost Nova scroll and upgraded it to Rare quality.
Frost Nova (Rare): Hits all enemies within 15 meters around you, dealing frost damage equal to 100% Spell Power and freezing enemies for 4 seconds. Instant Cast. Cooldown: 30 seconds. Mana cost: 30 points.
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