Team Up? Wait Until You're Eliminated, All the Experience Will Be Mine

Sea of Trees dungeon.

"Snap!"

[Ding! You have killed a Green-Armored Mantis (LV4), EXP +40]

[Ding! Points +1, current points: 10]

After tearing a mantis larger than a human in two, Jiang Yuan's points reached 10.

He bent down to pick up a green steel blade that resembled a sickle from the pile of materials dropped by the giant Green-Armored Mantis; it was covered in jagged teeth and radiated a cold glint.

"This feels pretty good to use."

Jiang Yuan gripped the sickle and swung it twice casually. The sharp blade light flashed, and a thick, highly resilient vine nearby was instantly sliced in half.

Nodding in satisfaction, Jiang Yuan looked around.

"I didn't expect this dungeon to be so large. I've been walking toward the depths for so long, and I'm still in the outer perimeter."

"The monsters are too weak, too."

"Wait, I didn't walk in the wrong direction, did I?"

Jiang Yuan thought, scratching his head.

He didn't exactly have a poor sense of direction, but this area filled with giant trees everywhere made it incredibly difficult to distinguish paths. One wrong step and he could easily go the wrong way, and there was no map for the dungeon.

A troubled expression appeared on Jiang Yuan's face. "It'll be a hassle if I went the wrong way."

"I should have learned a scouting skill if I'd known."

He sighed.

He couldn't open the Star Domain Network to trade now, so he had to use a clumsy method.

He bent his legs, gathered his strength, and pushed off with force.

"Boom!"

The hard ground caved in and exploded. Jiang Yuan's figure vanished from the spot instantly, soaring into the sky with a faint sonic boom until he reached a hundred meters in the air before his speed slowed.

Stabbing the green steel blade into a thick tree trunk, Jiang Yuan gazed into the distance.

"It's all the same scenery. Which way should I go... Hm?"

He looked toward one direction.

Faint flashes of explosion light were coming from that way.

"Boom!"

"Bang!"

Jiang Yuan approached the area.

He saw over ten Goblin Warriors wielding wooden clubs, shields, and axes closing in on three students.

Two men and one woman—a standard combination of a warrior, a great-shield user, and a mage.

The female mage appeared to have no combat experience, frantically casting fireball skills, but they were all blocked by a large goblin standing in front of the others.

"Don't come over, don't come over!"

Once her mana bar was exhausted, all that awaited them was a slaughter.

"Zhang Xuan, calm down," the warrior boy shouted. "That's completely useless!"

"Damn it, we only killed one goblin, how did so many suddenly pop out?!" The thick-browed great-shield boy was covered in cold sweat. "What do we do now? I don't want it to end this early."

While the two were still discussing what to do, something worse happened.

The girl stopped casting skills and collapsed weakly to the ground.

"I, I have no strength left..."

A group of goblins stepped out from behind the large goblin, looking at them with evil smiles on their faces.

"%￥&@34%#!... (Giving up already, stupid humans?)"

"◎★▲△■※￡¤￠℃... (Die!)"

"%￥#@... (All together now, grab that woman!)"

"Damn it!"

The warrior boy gritted his teeth, lunging forward with a thrust to block the wooden club aimed at the girl.

"Hiss... such heavy force, help me!"

The great-shield boy hurried forward to taunt and draw attacks, but he was slapped aside by the large goblin, sending his shield flying.

The warrior parried the attack from the goblin in front of him and activated a skill, his body shrouded in a blood-red glow.

"Blood Rage! And, Earth-Splitting Cleave!"

He gripped the greatsword with both hands and slashed down fiercely, the blade slicing through the goblin's tough hide and carving a deep gash that depleted more than half of its health bar.

"#@...(Ah!! It hurts!! Damn human devil!!)" The injured goblin let out a shrill, agonizing scream.

Just as the warrior boy prepared to deliver the finishing blow, the goblin seemed to be struck by something invisible; its scream cut off abruptly, its eyes popped with a wet snap, and its health bar instantly dropped to zero.

The warrior boy froze, then widened his eyes.

No way! Did I just get kill-stolen?!

You've got to be kidding me.

He was counting on the experience from this kill to level up!

Suppressing the anger and impatience bubbling within him, he turned his head to scan the surroundings and quickly spotted Jiang Yuan sitting on a Stone a hundred meters away.

"Hey classmate, you're an examinee too, right? How about we team up?"

The warrior boy stifled his rage over the stolen kill, forced a smile, and asked Jiang Yuan.

As for what he was thinking, he intended to drag this person in to draw the goblins' aggro, giving them enough time to escape.

"You've seen it yourself, it's really dangerous here. One person will definitely be eliminated soon. It's better if we all team up, the experience..." Before he could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by a goblin's attack.

The female mage and the greatshield user also saw Jiang Yuan and, as if seeing a glimmer of hope, pleaded urgently:

"Yeah, yeah, classmate, let's team up."

"I can block attacks and absorb damage for you. If the four of us team up, we can definitely wipe out this group of goblins... Ah!"

"If you're willing to help, I... no, I'll even be your girlfriend, look..." The female mage pulled open her robe, revealing a trembling patch of snowy white to Jiang Yuan.

The sight made the warrior boy beside her furious.

That slut!

He had been licking her boots for so long, spending money and putting in effort, and she had only just agreed to be his girlfriend—he hadn't even held her hand yet—and now she was showing her tits to a stranger just like that...

Jiang Yuan yawned expressionlessly, his heart unmoved by their words, and he had absolutely no intention of stepping in to help.

Everyone here is a rival; why should I help?

It's already generous of me not to eliminate you myself.

In fact, it would be better if they were eliminated.

Then all these monsters would be mine.

Seeing his intent, the warrior boy grew angry from embarrassment: "Are you really going to stand by and watch us die?! You even stole my kill, you really are..."

Before he could finish, a large goblin's wooden club slammed down, forcing him to crush the Teleport Stone in his hand.

"I can't hold on either..."

The female mage closed her eyes in despair and, just before the goblins could swing their axes and clubs down, crushed her Teleport Stone, vanishing into a beam of white light.

"Damn it!"

With his companions gone, the greatshield user, no matter how unwilling, had no choice but to crush his Teleport Stone.

As the three of them departed, Jiang Yuan finally stood up from the Stone, looking at the group of experience points—no, goblins—not far away with a smile.

"Finally gone. Now I don't have to worry about them splitting the experience."

The group of goblins shrieked in rage, causing destruction everywhere.

"%!$# ...(Damn human, where did he go?)"

"@#!$# ...&...(Come out!)"

"Swish!"

A green blade of light sliced through a goblin's body without warning, meeting no resistance.

In an instant, its health bar hit zero!

It didn't even have time to react before its body was severed in two.

"!$# ...(Who's there!!)"

The other goblins fell into a sudden panic, letting out shrill screams.

"Whoosh!"

A gust of wind howled past.

Jiang Yuan appeared in the midst of the goblins, swinging the green scythe in his hand in a full circle. Accompanied by a sharp whistling sound like glass shattering, the green arc of light swept across the area, instantly slicing several goblins in two!

Even without using skills, with his terrifying stats, any random attack was enough to one-shot small fry of this level.

[Ding! You killed Goblin (LV5), EXP +50]

[Ding! You killed...]

The system notifications rang out incessantly.

"#!$# &...(It's a human demon!)!"

"△■※￡¤￠℃...(Despicable guy, come out and face me!!)"

The remaining goblins shrieked and swung their wooden clubs, whistling through the air as they struck toward Jiang Yuan.

"Thud, thud, thud!!"

The attacks rained down like a downpour.

-1, -1, -1, -1.

Jiang Yuan didn't even find it necessary to dodge.

He swung the green scythe in his hand casually, slicing the remaining goblins clean apart; even the large goblin, which was LV8 and possessed over ten thousand HP, didn't survive a single strike before its health bar hit zero.

One-hit kills, every single one of them was a one-hit kill!

"More trash materials."

"The experience points are too low as well."

Looking at his experience bar, which had only reached 50% between LV9 and LV10, Jiang Yuan couldn't help but sigh.

"The Tier 2 ferocious beasts still provide more experience."

"Sigh..."

He picked a direction at random and continued walking deeper into the dungeon.