Chapter 711 War's First Wave (II)

The four players standing agape from what just happened. After all, that was a quick disposal of a monster without even using skills.

"What are you guys looking at like that? Come on, pick up the loot. We should make a hustle before we ran out of monsters to kill."

Everyone nodded and soon enough, we found a lot of them. Not just Infected Kobolds but other infected monsters as well. Though not only them are present. Other players are also there, fighting as well but most of them are struggling to the point of being overwhelmed by them.

"Come on, let's jump into the fray."

"Wait, wait, wait! Those are lots of monsters! With our current level, we are dead before we kill one of them!" Yoshinagi didn't like it.

"Don't worry guys. I won't be letting you four die on my watch alright? Just be sure to be near so that you guys receive the experience points as well. Treat it as if I am boosting you guys."

After that, I jumped off to the monster horde. The four are reluctant at first but they eventually jumped off as well.

"Lady Flan, cast [Provoke]. Rowdy, be sure to get your necromancy skills ready and watch out if there are corpses present, we will use that to our advantage. Yoshinagi, be sure to fight alongside me and tear them apart, Samsam230 keep an eye on the health of both Lady Flan and Yoshinagi. You can't let them fall to critical levels of HP."

After hearing their roles, I immediately go into position to ready myself for the [Provoke] skill of Lady Flan. It's a wide-area taunt skill that draws enemies in so it's also a good way to kite around enemies.

Lady Flan positioned herself and slam down her tower shield before she screamed, releasing the [Provoke] skill's activation. I usually use the weaker activation of [Provoke] before but seeing the stronger version is just amazing.

One scream and the monsters nearby started to rush through to Lady Flan.

"Yoshinagi, are you ready?"

"Y-YES!" Yoshinagi held his katana, ready to slice.

"Be sure to catch up to my pace and don't let yourself get overwhelmed."

As the incoming monsters arrive, I grab one splash bottle of Fire Bomb in my inventory and before they got near, I throw it to the monsters, setting them ablaze.

"Let's go!"

We immediately started slicing and killing enemies left and right. Some are easily killed by me and some have to take a couple of swings Yoshinagi was able to deal with most of them by himself and with Samsam230's healing, Yoshinaga is able to keep going.

With all the corpses loitered around, Rowdy immediately cast his necromancy on the dead monsters and used their bodies to fight back. It's quite convenient for Rowdy to fight as he just needed fresh bodies to use for his skill to fight back and once the current corpse he uses breaks down, he can just grab another one just fine.

Although I let the four do some lifting, most of the heavy-lifting battles are all done by me. I made them some work but I carried them over. After all, I don't like carrying players too much and babying them too much that when the time for the actual battle comes, they are high-level but they have almost zero ideas what is happening. I don't want that kind of sh*t to happen.

"Alright, grind and repeat!"

The battle continued and the monsters just keep coming. Even the four who looked enthusiastic at first are now exhausted. I am not exhausted just yet as I am not doing any kind of very heavy battle sh*t that would exhaust me that much so I am fine. It's not that easy for them either compared to me who can easily kill the monsters so it was natural for them to be that tired after the battle.

"Alright. How is the progress?"

"W-we just needed 3 more of the enemies and the quest will be done."

I nodded and changed my weapon into pistol form and shot three monsters down immediately, completing the current quest.

"Alright, that should do it, let's go back and rest after you guys picked up the loot."

The four picked up the loot although I can see that they are all exhausted after the hunt. Still, they did quite well so far and their coordination is also passable as well.

As we arrived in my cabin, they immediately plopped down to the ground as they are tired after the hunt.

"Good job everyone. It seems you guys are great at coordination huh? You guys been together for a while?"

"Actually, we are all childhood friends and we all know each other in the real world so we already know what kind of playstyle we are going to pick and this is what the result is," Rowdy answered.

"So, how was it? Is it bad? Did we mess up a lot of stuff?"

I immediately shook my head. "Nope. You guys did fine but I can also tell that it was the first time you guys have to fight like that. Don't you guys know that tactic?"

"Sorry, no. We just do hunt like normal party and don't do something dangerous like that and we hunt them one by one depending on how strong or weak they are," Lady Flan answered.

"Which also means you guys do not hunt or you guys have not entered dungeons just yet?"

"We can only dream to enter dungeons, to be honest, and we only see them in videos instead. With many guilds occupying many dungeon entrances, it will just be us relying on wild monsters instead of dungeons even though I heard the dungeons are more rewarding."

No wonder the four seem to under geared for their levels. Some of them are clearly drops from monsters found in hostile zones while some are available to be bought in shops which makes me think about why they are desperate for the exchange drops I did last time as they are able to exchange some good items that can be a good replacement to their items without going inside a dungeon.

"Okay, then. Are you guys going to continue to fight again?"

"Nah, sorry, Sir Bladeheart. Seeing you fight makes us exhausted for a bit. We will just rest in the real world for now and come back later. Also, since we wanted to gear up as well, please make sure to stock up on some good armor and weapons for exchange as well. We will be exchanging them." Lady Flan nodded.

"Is that so? Then perhaps you guys should rest. Don't overexert yourselves, it's just a game."

The four nodded, but before that, they requested a friend request to me which I accepted before they left and logged out of the game.

As for me, I am still contemplating the enemies we fought so far. And based on my assumption, it looks like we are just at the very beginning of the waves. Another one will be coming up soon enough. But since there will be lots of stuff happening now, might as well go back inside and open up the store and earn some money and materials. Time to make some profit.