44: An imperfect beginning

Looking at the scattered Gray Wolves in the distance, the group breathed a sigh of relief.

"Sigh, we've finally arrived. This myriad realms online is great in every way, except that the map is too big; you have to run so far just to level up..."

Hu Beiyu ignored An Xixi's muttering and looked at Xu Shian.

"Shi Chuan, how shall we fight?"

"Shian, Xu Shian!"

Hearing Xu Shian introduce himself, Hu Beiyu was taken aback, then immediately corrected himself.

"Alright, Shian, how shall we fight?"

Hu Beiyu wasn't surprised by Xu Shian's introduction; everyone had the intention of forming a team.

People don't care about temporary teams, and they probably don't even want to know your name!

But forming a long-term team like this gives people a feeling of hiding things.

Xu Shian took out two stacks of grenades, totaling two hundred, and handed them to An Xixi and Liu Lili respectively!

Then he looked at Hu Beiyu.

"These grenades have a paralysis attribute. After the first one is thrown, you don't need to attack the monsters anymore. We'll take turns bombing, and we can keep the wild wolves controlled until they die!"

"Xixi, do you have the stats for these Gray Wolves yet?"

An Xixi didn't say a word and directly posted the Gray Wolf's stats in the team channel.

[Gray Wolf]

[Common Monster]

[Level: 6]

[Species: Beast]

[Strength: 33]

[Agility: 30]

[Endurance: 40]

[HP: 800]

[Physical Attack: 66]

[Physical Defense: 15]

[Magic Defense: 10]

[Skill: Bite, deals 180% attack damage, causes bleeding effect, loses 8 HP every two seconds, lasts for 10 seconds.]

[Paralysis: Attacks have a 10% chance to cause the enemy to be paralyzed, speed reduced by 80%, lasts for 2 seconds.]

Xu Shian suddenly realized that these monsters weren't getting stronger gradually, but rather jumping in strength with every level...

At this rate, once they reach level ten, can ordinary players really defeat the monsters?

"These stats are fine, I can tank quite a few!"

Hu Beiyu's talent damage reduction was the highest priority; after the talent damage reduction was applied, there was still his equipment.

The damage calculation in myriad realms online is very simple: it's just Attack minus Defense, none of that fancy stuff!

If the attack power isn't enough, you can only deal -1 forced damage. If the defense is more than three times higher than the attack power, you can't even deal forced damage...

There's only endless MISS and resistance...

A 66-point attack hitting Hu Beiyu first goes through the 33-point talent damage reduction effect, and then gets compared to his defense!

Basically, it can only deal -1 forced damage.

"The grenade's damage area is a circular region with a three-meter radius. After the first grenade explodes, you can back out!"

"Alright!"

"These Gray Wolves have 800 HP. My grenades have damage-boosting attributes, so after deducting the opponent's magic defense, it basically takes six to ten grenades to kill a wave!"

An Xixi calculated the grenades in her hand, then calculated the range...

This leveling... doesn't seem so hard after all!

Xu Shian calculated the grenades in his hand... Hmm, enough to grind for a day. If it goes well today, then we'll continue tomorrow!

"Oh, right!" Hu Beiyu, who was just about to leave, turned around and asked: "How do we split the loot?"

The mother and daughter looked at each other, and Hu Beiyu suggested again: "How about Shian takes half, and we three split the rest?"

"There's no need for that. After we're done, let's see how many materials were used. Deduct the material costs for me first, and then we'll just split the rest equally! If we encounter things we need, we'll just use the internal auction method."

Hu Beiyu nodded in agreement!

Xu Shian was also very satisfied with this distribution plan!

Not letting anyone's interests be damaged is the foundation for a team to last for a long time...

Liu Lili suggested at this time: "Then let's assign an attack order! Let's try to attack in an orderly fashion, after all, these grenades share a cooldown with basic attacks!"

An Xixi responded immediately: "Yay, yay, I'll go first!"

Xu Shian replied: "Then I'll be third!"

While the three were discussing, Hu Beiyu had already gone up to take the hits.

After all, he is a Class, so... it's just something that can't be helped.

The three didn't just stand around. Once Hu Beiyu ran off to pull monsters and disappeared from view, they started single-targeting the lone wild wolves nearby...

"How about we give Beiyu 50 Silver Coins for repair costs later?"

"That works. The Class, taking the nastiest hits, and the repair costs are insanely expensive..."

Although the wolf's attacks were powerful, their defense was clearly not up to par!

The group didn't stay idle either; they simply pulled a lone Gray Wolf over and beat it up.

[Ding, congratulations to your team for killing the level 6 monster 'Gray Wolf'. Talent 'Whats Wrong With Me Slacking Off??' triggered. Obtained Experience +12, extra lifespan +6 days.]

Unfortunately, it wasn't a BOSS, so there was no extra loot!

An Xixi trotted over and picked up all the drops.

[Your team picked up: Wolf Fur +2, Wolf Ribs +1.]

"Sigh! Luck is pretty good today."

By the time they were fighting the third wild wolf, Hu Beiyu ran over from the distance with difficulty!

An Xixi finally took out the grenades she had been longing for. After entering the attack range, she aimed at the wolf pack's position and threw them!

Boom!

Patches of red damage numbers floated up from the heads of the wolf pack.

-92 (Fire Damage), -95, -83, -81...

This was a failed throw.

When thrown, the explosion range did indeed cover the entire wolf pack.

The problem was that while the grenade was flying in the air, the wolf pack as a whole was chasing Hu Beiyu forward...

So, in fact, when the grenade landed, it only hit the back half of the wolf pack.

The front half had already run out of the grenade's explosion range following Hu Beiyu.

Xu Shian couldn't care about being the third, stopped Liu Lili from throwing her grenade, and threw his own.

Boom...

-96, -83...

This... still didn't manage to hit everything!

Moreover, the pile of wild wolves that were originally huddled together had now split into three piles!

Bad news: due to being inexperienced with using grenades, the thirty-plus wild wolves pulled over had scattered!

The good news was that the Class in the team could tank really well!

Hu Beiyu had no choice but to call for a stop in the team channel.

"You guys wait! Wait for me to gather the monsters back up!"

The three were in the wrong and had no better solution, so they silently waited for Hu Beiyu's action!

The young man's emotions were quite stable; he was good material for being a Class.

Enduring the pain, he went up and was bitten by the wild wolves again...

-1 damage, under the 50% pain reduction effect of Shield Mastery, it didn't hurt that much anymore!

The feeling of being bitten by a Gray Wolf was about the same as being bitten by a mosquito...

However, what kind of good person would be willing to be bitten by mosquitoes so many times in one go!

Having gathered the monsters again, this time, to prevent any accidents, Hu Beiyu stubbornly waited for the grenades to land before running away...

The rest was simple...

[Ding, congratulations to your team for killing the level 6 monster 'Gray Wolf'. Talent 'Whats Wrong With Me Slacking Off??' triggered. Obtained Experience +12, extra lifespan +6 days.]

[Ding, congratulations to your team for killing the level 8 monster 'Gray Wolf'. Killing a monster four levels higher, obtained extra bonus. Talent 'Whats Wrong With Me Slacking Off??' triggered. Obtained Experience +20, extra lifespan +10 days.]

[Ding...]

[Ding...]

...

The continuous sound of kill notifications rang out, interspersed with a few notifications for killing level 8 Gray Wolves.

Not bad, there's an extra bonus for fighting monsters more than three levels higher?

It's just that the magnitude of this bonus is really not that big!

Xu Shian carefully checked the system notifications.

He found that a total of 37 Gray Wolves had been killed!

Look, this is the meaning of forming a team...