"...What the heck, why are they all dead?" Haruhi said with some dissatisfaction as she looked at the little tentacle monsters scattered around, gradually disappearing. She had been ready to go all out, but this was nothing like what she had imagined.
"An expert came through." Jiu Ming picked up an arrow from the ground. That single arrow had wiped out every little tentacle monster in this area.
"An expert? What kind of expert bullies little animals? Don't try to fool me." Haruhi shot Jiu Ming a sidelong glance.
Jiu Ming gave a laugh. "Even an expert has to clear mobs to level up here. Otherwise... well, believe it or not, if a monster is over ten levels higher than you, then no matter how skilled you are, it'll be hard to kill."
He was not saying that just to Haruhi, but also to some of the capable people among the onlookers. Judging by their expressions, though, they did not seem to believe him. Well, whatever. Once they learned the lesson the hard way, it would leave a deeper impression.
Still, this arrow looked rather familiar. Could it be...
"Let's head farther in. We probably won't see any monsters here for a while." After the public beta began, monsters in every area naturally respawned more slowly. It was no longer a matter of one wave reappearing immediately after the last was wiped out; at the very least, they had to wait for the corpses to refresh away, then wait a while longer.
As they ventured deeper into the monster zone, Jiu Ming spotted a familiar tall figure. By the time they approached, that figure already had an arrow pinched between her fingers.
"It's you... You really have nothing better to do?" Upon seeing Jiu Ming, Eirin Yagokoro lightly flicked her