Chapter 63 Aggroed the Wrong Mob

System prompt: You have killed a Troll.
You have gained 187 experience points.
System prompt: You have killed a Troll.
You have gained 187 experience points.
……
A consecutive string of twenty system prompts allowed Sun Yu to let out a long breath of relief. He walked up to Lu Yang, scratched the back of his head, and apologized, "I'm sorry, expert. I almost got you killed."

Lu Yang had not expected this kid to be so humble. He replied, "It has nothing to do with you. I anticipated this. Take a rest, and we'll continue."

Even if the Troll had thrown its spear just now, Lu Yang had two ways to evade the skill. The first was to dodge to the right; relying on his footwork, dodging the spear was not difficult. The second was Blink; blinking thirty yards backward would have settled the matter.

Sun Yu had thought Lu Yang would scold him, but he didn't expect Lu Yang to be so easygoing. He instantly cheered up, let out an affirmative "Yeah," sat in place to rest for two minutes, and then ran back into the Troll Forest to pull monsters again.
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After pulling more than forty waves of Trolls consecutively, Lu Yang had killed over nine hundred Trolls. His level was close to reaching 10, and Sun Yu had also leveled up to 6.

"Expert, leveling up by following you is just too awesome! I've made it into the top 100 of the leveling leaderboard. Now I'm an expert too!" This was Sun Yu's first time on the leaderboard, and he was extremely excited.

With his experience from his past life, Lu Yang viewed this with utter detachment. If it weren't for the sake of attracting more top players to join when creating a guild, he would have hidden his name long ago.

"There are many high-level experts in this game. Never take the leveling leaderboard as your sole standard, or you'll suffer losses," Lu Yang advised.

"Oh, I got it, expert. I'm going in to pull monsters now." Sun Yu took his pet dog and ran into the Troll Forest.

Lu Yang looked at Sun Yu's retreating back and shook his head. This kid clearly still had the mindset of a youth and didn't take his words to heart at all.

Eight minutes later, Lu Yang checked the time. This time, Sun Yu's monster-pulling took twice as long as usual.

Just as he was wondering, Sun Yu sent Lu Yang a message, saying, "Expert, I'm back with the pulled monsters."

"Did you run into any trouble?" Lu Yang asked while setting up a Wall of Fire on the ground.

While running back and looking at the fire-casting Shaman Volkins trailing behind him, Sun Yu said, "Not really, I just encountered a magic-wasting Troll while pulling, and it took a bit of time to gather him."
Lu Yang felt somewhat baffled looking at the message Sun Yu sent. He remembered there were no magic-using trash mobs in the Troll Forest; the only one who could use magic was the boss, Volkins.

Right on cue, Sun Yu came running out of the forest, leading more than twenty Trolls behind him.

Lu Yang looked closely behind him and spotted the Troll Shaman Volkins, who was half a head taller than the other Trolls, running right at the front.

"Oh man, how did you manage to pull the boss out?" Lu Yang said, somewhat at a loss for words.

"Ah, this is a boss? I had no idea!" Sun Yu panicked. Hearing that it was a boss filled him with dread.

A boss's movement speed was 1.5 times faster than a player's. At this moment, Volkins had already run to a position less than ten yards away from Sun Yu and was about to cast a Fireball spell.

Sun Yu looked back, instantly panicked, and ran forward at a sprint. However, in his panic, he only knew to run in a straight line. How could human running speed compare to the flight speed of a fireball? Once struck by the Fireball spell, he would surely die.

"Z-pattern movement, run toward my right!" Lu Yang shouted.

He hurriedly swapped out the Cloak of Spores, chanted an incantation, and struck Volkins's head with three consecutive Pyroblasts within 1.5 seconds.

"670" (Critical Strike)
"670" (Critical Strike)
"670" (Critical Strike)

"Roar~" Volkins flew into a rage, turned his head, and targeted Lu Yang, sending a Fireball flying toward him. At the same time, because Lu Yang had unequipped the Cloak of Spores and lost the threat-reduction equipment, the Trolls taking damage from the Wall of Fire simultaneously locked their targets onto Lu Yang.

"Whoosh~"
Over twenty spears were thrown at Lu Yang all at once. The dense rain of spears left Sun Yu dumbfounded.

"Expert, watch out!"

How could Lu Yang not know to watch out? Seeing the spears drawing near, a flash of white light appeared on Lu Yang's body as he teleported thirty yards backward.

The moment he landed, Lu Yang raised his staff and continuously cast Wall of Fire spells along the path ahead, connecting them with the previous sea of fire.

Seeing Lu Yang flee, the Trolls immediately gave chase. Among the sea of fire laid down by Lu Yang, there were ten vertical walls of fire. Ordinary Trolls passing through the fire sea were instantly burned to death; only the Troll Shaman Volkins made it through, stepping over the newly cast Wall of Fire to pursue him.

What Lu Yang was waiting for was precisely the Shaman Volkins. Seeing Volkins approach within thirty yards of him, he chanted an incantation, and Pyroblasts struck Volkins one after another at a rate of 0.5 seconds per cast.

A Level 1 Pyroblast hitting an elite monster could only slow down the elite's casting speed, but a Level 2 Pyroblast was different—it directly knocked Volkins backward into a stiffened state, preventing him from even gathering the energy for a Fireball spell.

Standing on the side, Sun Yu was stunned to see Lu Yang's Pyroblasts streaking through the air one after another like instantaneous casts, hammering into Volkins.

"How can the expert's casting speed be so fast?!" Sun Yu thought to himself.

Lu Yang, however, was completely focused. This kind of technique was very common among high-end Fire Mages in his past life. It could be considered a system loophole, or perhaps a reward from the system for top-tier players.

The deeper your understanding of the game and the longer you practiced your incantation release speed, the more you could achieve this kind of casting speed.

After casting over fifty Pyroblasts in a row, Lu Yang rapidly dropped Volkins's health below 30%.

"Damn human, I'll make you pay the price!" Volkins flew into a rage, his entire skin turning blood-red.

Bloodlust: Immune to all crowd-control skills, casting speed increased by 50%.

At this point, the knockback and stagger effects produced by Lu Yang's Pyroblasts were ineffective against Volkins. Volkins was finally able to cast his Fireball spell.

Yet Lu Yang remained entirely unafraid, still launching Pyroblasts to attack Volkins head-on at a 0.5-second casting speed. It wasn't until the exact moment Volkins finished his 1.5-second cast of the Fireball that Lu Yang sidestepped by the width of one avatar, impeccably dodging the Fireball's attack.

By now, night had fallen. Although there was a bright moon in the sky, Sun Yu, standing off to the side, could not clearly make out the faces of Lu Yang and Volkins; he could only see fireballs constantly flying back and forth around the two of them.

"He can dodge even that?" Sun Yu felt as though Lu Yang was no longer human.

Little did he know that this was Lu Yang's true strength. Relying on the memories in his mind, he calculated out of thin air the exact microsecond Volkins unleashed the fireball from his hands. As long as he dodged that single split second, Lu Yang could effortlessly evade the opponent's Fireball.

One minute later, the blazing fire faded away into the night.

System prompt: You have killed the Troll Shaman Volkins.
You have gained 3,714 experience points (including 1,251 experience points for killing monsters above your level).

A flash of golden light gleamed on Lu Yang; he had finally reached Level 10. He walked over to the boss to inspect the dropped loot—yet another Volkins's Bow (Silver grade).