12 My First Mob Slaughter

He's an expert. No doubt.

That's the first thing I thought when I saw Asterios fight against a level four monster.

The rest of the party didn't even feel the need to help him! His skill with the ax is for real, not like some other role players who I saw visibly sauntering around the streets parading their looks.

In fact, I won't be surprised if he knew how to use an ax very well in real life.

But of course, I did find small flaws where I could most likely slip through, although not easy. Who do you think I am!

With Asterios clearing out all the minor mobs we encountered on the way, we didn't find trouble, and other parties left us alone with relatively easy persuasion.

This is great! It's like a nice walk through the forest, very refreshing for the soul.

Ah, Lyssia keeps 'secretly' glaring at me. Sorry miss, I have eyes in the back of my head~!

No, I'm just really sensitive to glares since I'm always constantly getting stared at in town and at school.

Well, for now, it's not like she's bothering me much so I don't mind her.

Let's just keep observing the big guy's ax work. I'll make sure to memorize his fighting patterns and actions today, never know when it might come in handy!

Soon we arrived at the clearing where I had fought the orc before. I didn't notice it last time because the other party must have destroyed it, but there was a massive tent placed smack dab in the middle. It's pretty obvious who was in it.

Securing the clearing and scouting the nearby areas, Asterios turned towards us.

"Alright. We'll use battle Plan B for this boss since Yuka doesn't know it well she can come in if something unexpected happens okay?"

Everyone nodded their head, including me.

But I wasn't okay with it! How will I get a better reward if I don't contribute to the effort! I want something good, not a 'participation' award okay?! The mini-me inside is yelling for action!

My hands fidgeted in boredom while watching the party slowly sneak around the tent.

On the way here Asterios had leveled up to level five, everyone else was level three. I wouldn't be surprised if someone told me he was on the leaderboards.

After all, I'm first on the board but still only level six.

Perching myself in a suitable tree, I sat down and observed their 'Plan B'. I instantly grasped the basic concept behind it, it wasn't that complex. It was basically something close to my kiting technique, except with five people instead of one. Koi would get the aggro and then the rest would bombard the orc with skills, then Asterios would take the aggro while Koi got to another position and everyone waited for their skill cooldown. Violet was a bit farther away, healing Koi or Asterios when their health was low.

Repeat.

It wasn't a flawless plan, but it was better than the previous party where the tank would simply hold the aggro the entire time by himself.

But I saw a major flaw. I assume they only used this on mini-bosses who were easier to deal with, but the King of the Forest actually had intelligence. Once his health got down to 10%, he would aim for the healers of the party regardless of who does more damage. By then, their plan would fall apart with no one to heal them.

Not that they knew that.

And not that I'm telling them~! That would be boring!

So instead I just stayed quiet watched the health of the orc slowly chip away. If they were in a pinch then I would just help Violet out a bit. I do like her after all.

Ah, a few mobs were attracted to their fighting. They're only level four, I guess I'll take care of em so that they don't get in the way.

Taking out my bow, I nocked an arrow, letting it fly at the nearest boar that was nearing the clearing, instantly cutting down an eighth of its health. Shooting out seven more arrows in the same spot, I managed to kill it before it got too close. Easy kill, yeah let's go!

Hehe, East Wind didn't even notice since their focus was completely directed at the boss.

How naive, but I suppose this will be better for me. I can get contribution points by luring mobs near and then killing them! Technically I would be protecting the party right?

Jackpot.

Hehehe. I'm so smart. Praise me.

With a sly grin on my face, I took out the object I had bought from the auction earlier.

[Orb of Luring

Lures all mobs in a kilometer area towards your direction for five minutes

Does not work on mini-bosses or field bosses

Cooldown time of five hours

Uses left: 25/25]

This is gonna be so great.

Picking a suitable place a little distance away from the party, I activated the orb and readied my bow. I suppose it would take around 8-10 shots to kill each mob. Good thing I stocked up on a lot of arrows, I have around a thousand left.

Grinning from ear to ear in excitement, I started my one-sided slaughter.

"Haaaaaaa….that was fun." I sighed deeply to myself while leaning against a tree watching East Wind still fighting the boss. I happily mused over what had just happened.

More mobs than I had expected had shown up, in fact, there was so many that Asterios noticed what I was doing.

Although he was to busy evading the orc's blows to find out how I was doing it. Good job, King of the Forest!

While I was almost completely done clearing out fifty level four mobs, suddenly two level five orc minions had shown up. I suppose that they were supposed to be guarding the boss, but had ventured away instead.

This game is really realistic huh.

Since I had seen that my rookie arrows did basically no damage, I was forced to leap down from my perch and use my new knife to attack them.

They were really fun to kill! Their tactics and skills were very complicated, as expected of the boss's minions.

Ah, but of course I defeated them both with a few stabs with my knife. That's just who I am.

I'm level six and my knife is unique after all. I'm not surprised it was so easy. I'm just too overpowered and overgeared.

But good news! Slaughtering so many mobs had given me a lot of loot, and my experience bar also went up a tenth.

Checking to make sure that the boss still had 50% of his health, I relaxed and opened up my inventory to check out the new drops I had earned.

Hmmm, there were lots of repeats, since I basically only killed the boars and two minions. Although there were a few bears in the crowd here and there.

Overall, I got 53 leather hides, two bear claws, a level five bow and a ring.

Nice gather! Looking at the ring and bow's attributes, I was satisfied with the stats.

[Orc Minion's Bow - Unique

Increase agility by 2

Attack +15]

Wait, how come I don't remember the minions using bows…..? Did my luck overrule the realism of the game?!

...You know what, I'll just ignore the small details. I will gladly welcome an OP bow any day.

[Ring of Slaughter

Attack +30

Increase agility by 2

Increase vitality by 3

Increase charisma by 3]

Yup, I can say it with confidence now.

I think I broke the game.

WHAT THE HECK ARE THESE STATS?!?!?!

For a normal level six to have these are already too scary, but for me? With the extra stat and skill points that I already get from my titles, this is just too much.

Forget the items, I'm already strong enough to easily destroy mobs double my level. If this goes on how am I going to find enjoyment and challenge…

No, Yuri don't be depressed, it's a large world! There are plenty of people just like me, I have to believe it. My father wouldn't be stupid enough to throw the balance of the game away...I think...I hope?

I look forward to meeting more strong people~

Now that I think about it if Asterios and I had a fair face-off, wouldn't he have the ability to overwhelm me with his ax mastery?

…

I need to train more with Toku and Kai. I'll ask them once they're free.

Oh, I completely forgot about the orc boss that East Wind is still fighting.

Directing my focus away from my monstrous status board, I peeked over at how the party was doing.

Wow, they unexpectedly already brought the boss down to 12%, my expectations weren't high in the beginning, but is a normal party supposed to be this powerful? The tactic they are using isn't even that efficient either, that's crazy!

Errrrrr, why do I keep getting tangled up with experts? I'm scared that my view on average players is going to be distorted once I actually meet some…

Oh, there goes the boss's berserk mode, he's already started shifting his attention to Violet.

Heh, I guess it's my time to shine. Lynx here, coming to the rescue!