Chapter 26: Defeating Monsters Beyond Level 15

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After cutting his way through wave after wave of monsters, Lu Yang led Xiao Liang into the cavern hall. Keeping one hand against the wall, he peered inside. The hall was vast and level, covering roughly two thousand square meters.

Torches lined the circular walls surrounding the hall, while a massive bonfire blazed in its center. Hundreds of half-orcs were scattered throughout the chamber.

“Boss, there are too many monsters packed together here. How are we supposed to fight them?” Xiao Liang asked anxiously.

The NPCs in The Second World possessed remarkably high intelligence. In such a densely packed area, striking one monster would draw at least dozens of others charging over at the same time.

“Don’t worry. See that huge rock in the corner on the left side of the hall?”

Xiao Liang nodded. The boulder in the left corner was impossible to miss.

“That’s a bug. I’ll lure the monsters away in a moment. When I tell you to run, head straight there and jump behind the rock.”

“Ah? Boss, how did you know that?” Xiao Liang asked curiously.

Lu Yang had already prepared an answer to that question.

“Because your boss was a beta tester.”

“A beta tester?” Xiao Liang immediately understood. Excited, he said, “No wonder you managed to reach the top of the rankings!”

Lu Yang nodded with satisfaction. “Listen to my orders later. You’ll only have one chance. If you fail, you’re finished.”

Although the distance from here to the boulder was only a few dozen meters, Xiao Liang would be killed by the half-orcs if he ran at the wrong moment—whether too early or too late.

The death penalty in The Second World was severe. Moreover, there was no resurrection point in the half-orc camp. If a player died, returning here meant running for another three hours, which was extremely troublesome.

“Understood. I’ll do my best.” Xiao Liang stared nervously at the boulder.

“Boss, what will you do after I run over there?” Xiao Liang suddenly asked.

“I have my own way.”

Lu Yang activated Free Mode, which gave him excellent survival capabilities. After observing the movement patterns of the monsters and calculating the distances, he patted Xiao Liang on the shoulder to signal that he should get ready.

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Xiao Liang nodded. Lu Yang began chanting, then launched a Flame Blast that struck a half-orc precisely as it moved to a position on the left, ten yards from the boulder.

“Roar!”

The half-orc let out an enraged howl and charged toward Lu Yang. Its cry also alerted every half-orc within ten yards of the boulder, and they all rushed toward him. In an instant, the monsters around the boulder on the left had been drawn away.

After casting the spell, Lu Yang quickly ran into the hall. When the half-orcs saw him change direction, they turned and pursued him.

Seeing that the left side was clear, Lu Yang immediately shouted at Xiao Liang, “Run!”

Xiao Liang shot into the hall and sprinted toward the boulder on the left. If even one monster had not been lured away by Lu Yang, Xiao Liang would have been doomed. Fortunately, Lu Yang was an experienced player, and his skill at gathering monsters was exceptionally refined. Without leaving a single half-orc behind, he enabled Xiao Liang to reach the boulder safely.

“Boss, I’m here! Come over quickly!” Xiao Liang climbed onto the boulder and shouted from the top.

Lu Yang was still leading the monsters in circles around the hall, drawing the attention of the half-orcs in every other section as well.

The half-orcs were slightly faster than Lu Yang. If they had been running through a forest, Lu Yang was confident he could have shaken them off. But in this flat, circular hall, with more monsters blocking his path, every time he dodged a bone club swinging at him from ahead, he lost a little time. Before long, the half-orcs behind him had caught up.

More and more half-orcs gathered around Lu Yang. Yet in doing so, he had also drawn the attention of every monster in the hall. When the half-orcs finally drove him into the right-hand corner, leaving him nowhere to dodge, dozens of bone clubs came crashing down around him.

Lu Yang knew he had no choice but to run. He chanted a spell—Blink—and a flash of white light swept across the corner. Every bone club struck empty air.

The half-orcs stared in confusion at the place where Lu Yang had vanished, unable to understand why their clubs had failed to kill him.

Suddenly, the sound of running footsteps came from behind them. One half-orc turned its head and happened to see Lu Yang racing toward the boulder in the lower-left corner of the hall.

“Roar!”

The half-orc howled, drawing the attention of its companions, then led the others in pursuit. Lu Yang had already used his only life-saving skill. If those hundreds of half-orcs caught him, he would certainly die.

Fortunately, Blink had a range of thirty yards. With less than twenty yards separating him from the boulder and the pursuing half-orcs thirty yards behind, Lu Yang ran with all his strength.

When he reached the boulder, Lu Yang leaped. Xiao Liang thrust out a hand, seized his arm, and hauled him upward. Lu Yang easily landed on top of the rock. At that moment, the nearest monster had only just reached the boulder.

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The half-orc raised its bone club and brought it down at Lu Yang with all its strength.

“Jump!”

Lu Yang hurriedly pulled Xiao Liang into the gap behind the boulder. The crevice was wide enough for both of them.

The half-orcs had not expected Lu Yang and Xiao Liang to leap behind the rock. When the first strike missed, one of them angrily grabbed its bone club and thrust it into the crevice.

The other half-orcs soon reached the boulder. They too drew their bone clubs and began jabbing into the gap, clearly intent on stabbing Lu Yang and Xiao Liang to death.

The two had only just entered the crevice when the bone clubs came thrusting toward them. Xiao Liang had thought they were safe, and the sight of the clubs rushing in left him frozen in terror. Lu Yang quickly seized him and pulled him close to the wall, narrowly avoiding the deadly blow.

“Whew, that was too close.” Xiao Liang patted his chest, still shaken, then said gratefully, “Boss, thank you.”

“Be careful. Remember this from now on: no matter when it is, as long as success hasn’t been fully secured, never allow yourself to relax.”

“I’ll remember.” Xiao Liang nodded earnestly, taking the lesson to heart.

Lu Yang had only said it in passing, but he never imagined that Xiao Liang would remember those words throughout the games that followed. During the War of the Hundred Nations, Xiao Liang successfully foiled another country’s scheme. When his opponents demanded to know how he had done it, he proudly repeated those very words.

Of course, that was a story for later.

Xiao Liang asked, “Boss, what do we do now?”

“What else? We farm monsters, of course. Take out the Snake Venom Orb. I’ll show you how to use it.”

“Oh, all right.” Xiao Liang hurriedly took out the Snake Venom Orb.

In his previous life, when Lu Yang first saw the effect of the Snake Venom Orb, he had been so envious that he could not sleep through the night. Now, at last, he possessed one himself—and he was about to experience what it felt like to farm two hundred monsters at once.

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