"Since the monsters can't deal damage to me, and I have forced life-stealing, I'm not afraid of tanking them at all!"
"The range of Multi-Shot is within 8 yards of the attack target, and there's no limit on the number of targets. Does that mean as long as they're within 8 yards, Multi-Shot can hit targets without any limit?"
"We can definitely give it a try!"
After a quick calculation, Jiang Bai aimed at the path and charged straight ahead.
Due to the centaurs' active attack mechanism, as long as Jiang Bai ran past them, these monsters would naturally chase after him. With a 10% movement speed bonus, the centaurs could only trail behind him, eating dust.
"Blah blah..."
"Ugh ugh..."
"#￥#!..."
In no time, a group of centaurs, making loud noises, followed behind Jiang Bai. The melee centaur warriors pursued relentlessly, while the mages and warlocks stood at a distance, casting spells. However, every time Jiang Bai ran out of their attack range, they would involuntarily follow him, and soon they gathered into a cluster.
After running about half a lap around the small lake, Jiang Bai turned his head and took a look.
"Wow!"
All he could see were dense red monster names. Thinking it was his first time and he shouldn't take on too many, Jiang Bai stopped immediately.
Instantly, the centaur warriors following behind him swung their large iron hammers at him.
"Ding ding clang... Ding ding clang..."
-1
-1
-1
...
Hearing the sounds but seeing no damage taken, Jiang Bai chuckled.
"Seven warriors, which means I've pulled seven waves, a total of 21 monsters. So the mages and warlocks add up to 14..."
About twenty yards behind the centaur warriors, the mages and warlocks, who had gathered into a cluster, had already begun chanting spells.
"Fortunately, the range hasn't exceeded 8 yards..."
Aiming at the mage in the center, Jiang Bai fired a Multi-Shot without hesitation.
Sure enough, as the arrows approached the mages, the purple arrow shadows split instantly, like a shower of arrows shooting towards the centaur mages and warlocks in front.
-169
-169
-328
-164
...
The burst of damage numbers on the screen made Jiang Bai extremely delighted.
"Awesome!"
"Critical hits indeed!"
Ignoring the "-1" numbers frantically floating above him, Jiang Bai fired another Multi-Shot.
-338
-169
-164
...
"Keep getting critical hits!"
After the second round of Multi-Shot, the mage who had already scored a critical hit fell to the ground. With his third round of Multi-Shot, Jiang Bai instantly killed the remaining dozen or so monsters!
"You have killed [Centaur Mage], gained 0 experience..."
"You have killed [Centaur Warlock], gained 0 experience..."
"You have killed [Centaur Mage], gained 0 experience..."
"The [Plunder] skill has been triggered, gained 1 Intelligence"
...
"Damn it, if it weren't for the quest limit, wouldn't my experience bar have surged significantly?" Looking at the system prompts filling the screen, Jiang Bai felt his blood boil with excitement. "There's nothing more thrilling than grinding a group of monsters..."
After dealing with the ranged attackers, only the seven warriors in front of him remained, shouting loudly.
He continued to fire Multi-Shot, and although there were no more critical hits, facing the centaur warriors who couldn't break his defense, Jiang Bai was not at all panicked.
This round of Multi-Shot did not produce any critical hits, so Jiang Bai decided to take them down one by one. He would wait for the cooldown of Multi-Shot to end and then fire another round.
About a minute later...
In front of Jiang Bai, only the corpses of the centaurs lay scattered in all directions. His health bar had hardly taken any damage throughout the entire process, as the 5% life-stealing had already provided excess healing.
"This is just too exhilarating!"
"Grinding level-7 monsters while being a lower level!"
Seeing that his quest progress had increased by more than a fifth, Jiang Bai began to clean up the battlefield while reviewing the previous battle.
"Undoubtedly, this proves that as long as I have high enough defense, I can grind groups of monsters without any limit."
"And if the critical hit rate is high enough, the grinding efficiency would be simply outrageous!"
"The focus of grinding monsters is not on attack, but on defense," Jiang Bai concluded. "Monsters' attacks can interrupt a character's spellcasting or attack process, but only if they can break through the defense. The reason I was able to smoothly grind down this group of centaurs is that they couldn't break my defense and couldn't interrupt my attacks. Otherwise, with these seven melee centaur warriors hitting me constantly, I wouldn't be able to fight at all!"
The 21 monsters yielded less than two hundred copper coins for Jiang Bai, along with a piece of white equipment.
Centaur Dagger (Common)
Physical Attack: 15
Equipment Level: 7
Jiang Bai directly listed it on the trading market for 1.5 gold coins. To be honest, as he progressed further, these white equipment pieces that didn't add any attributes would only get cheaper.
"Still, the [Plunder] skill was triggered once. Although the added Intelligence is pretty useless, it's better than not triggering it at all..."
At this moment, Jiang Bai didn't notice.
In the distant jungle, a five-person team with levels around 5 was stunned into silence.
They had just been passing by when they unexpectedly witnessed Jiang Bai's battle scene.
Violence #1: What... what am I seeing?
Violence #2: This must be a GM using an invincible account to test the drop rates, right?
Violence #3: Holy crap... A level-4 player grinding level-7 monsters? This is just outrageous—outrageous to the extreme!
Violence #4: I say we just leave. I'm really afraid he'll notice us and one-shot me with an arrow...
Violence #5: I wonder if he likes guys... I could handle that...
...
After successfully grinding the group, Jiang Bai had no more reservations and directly pulled a full lap around the lake. Each group of monsters numbered around 30, making the grinding process both efficient and safe.
Originally, it would take about five hours to deal with 100 evil centaurs, but Jiang Bai managed it in just three waves. Including the time spent pulling the monsters, it took him only about twenty minutes to complete the quest.
The rewards were surprisingly high. In addition to over a thousand copper coins, he obtained two pieces of white equipment and a green mage ring. Jiang Bai immediately sold the ring to Datang Wuzui for five gold coins.
In those three waves of over 80 monsters, the [Plunder] skill astonishingly triggered three times, adding one point to Constitution, one point to Agility, and one point to Strength.
"After these three waves of monsters, I've gained three attribute points, which is almost like leveling up once!"
"This is the real deal of unlimited growth!"
"If it weren't for the quest suppression, with these hundred monsters plus the previous boss, I estimate I would be level 6 by now."
Jiang Bai opened the skill enhancement interface and took out the only Skill Enhancement Scroll he had.
He originally intended to use this precious scroll to enhance Multi-Shot, but he suddenly realized that one scroll was not enough.
It turned out that the number of scrolls consumed for skill enhancement was determined by the skill level.
A level E skill required one scroll for enhancement, a level D skill required two, and so on. An A-level skill like Multi-Shot needed five scrolls for a single enhancement!
"Damn it, this is really frustrating!"
Jiang Bai checked the trading market, and there were still no skill enhancement scrolls for sale.
"Is this item really that rare?"
"Then my one enhancement scroll must be worth a fortune, right?"
"Forget it, I'll go back and turn in the quest first."
With that thought, Jiang Bai directly crushed the return-to-town item.