The crowd followed Chu Tian’s direction, and a giant dwarf statue stood before them.
“As long as we attack the statue from a distance, even if it only takes 1 point of damage, we can wear down the dwarves below,” Chu Tian said.
“Wear them down? Boss, you don’t actually level up like this, do you?” Heng Dao asked.
Chu Tian nodded, “Pretty much!”
Hearing his affirmation, everyone looked at him as if he were crazy.
They understood mobbing monsters. They had used this method in other games before.
Although this method did allow for rapid leveling, the monotony of fighting a single monster for hours, or even tens of hours, was something most people couldn’t endure.
Therefore, they often chose to team up and farm monsters of the same level, or even lower levels.
Even though leveling was slower, they could chat and joke around, and their levels would increase naturally.
There was no need to be alone, constantly focused on mobbing high-level monsters to level up.
“Boss, your patience is really something. It’s almost as good as Heng Dao’s!” Jian Zhi Cang Tian said with a troubled expression, as he really disliked this leveling method.
He preferred a direct, head-on confrontation.
“Oh?” Chu Tian looked at Jian Zhi Cang Tian in surprise.
“You don’t know, Boss Heng Dao once undertook a mission where he stayed hidden in a tree for nineteen days. When he returned, the flesh on his chest had grown into his clothes, and they had to surgically cut the clothes off!” Jian Zhi Cang Tian recounted.
“Are you a sniper?” Chu Tian asked Heng Dao after hearing Jian Zhi Cang Tian’s words.
“It’s all in the past!” Heng Dao said faintly, though his eyes held a hint of melancholy.
Life in the military, though hard, was an unforgettable experience for him. If he had a choice, he wished he were still in the military.
“Boss, your method might work, but how do we get past all these monsters?” Yi Zhi Rou Rou asked.
“Yeah, even if we get there, we can’t climb up!” Luo Luo also raised her concern.
“This is where Heng Dao comes in. Let’s go, we’ll head out first!” With that, Chu Tian led them back to the platform along the spiral staircase.
Upon reaching the top, Chu Tian confirmed their direction and walked a few hundred meters before stopping at a dark, hollow opening.
“This is it. Heng Dao, cast a levitation spell on everyone,” Chu Tian said. Without waiting for others to respond, he transformed into his owl bear form.
Activating his wings, he jumped down.
Everyone looked at each other, wondering what the boss was doing.
Seeing Chu Tian disappear, Heng Dao cast the levitation spell on everyone.
Then, he too entered the black void before them.
The levitation spell lasted for 10 minutes. They floated for a full seven minutes before descending from the one-meter-wide opening.
“Holy cow, the boss is amazing!” Jian Zhi Cang Tian exclaimed in the party chat.
After emerging from the void, they found themselves precisely above the head of the giant statue.
Normally, the levitation spell would allow for gliding movement. However, after such a long and continuous descent within the void, it was as if they were bullets fired from a gun, their trajectory precisely calibrated for a straight descent, not a gliding drift.
Chu Tian was already standing on the statue’s head, waving at them.
They all landed on the statue’s head, feeling a renewed sense of admiration for Chu Tian.
They wondered how he managed to find such a place.
“Ah, it’s finally come in handy!” Jian Zhi Cang Tian remarked.
Everyone was confused by his cryptic statement and looked at him questioningly.
Jian Zhi Cang Tian grinned slyly.
Then, he pulled out an item and tossed it onto the ground.
*Bang…* As the item hit the ground, it transformed into a large bed.
Everyone, including Chu Tian, blinked hard.
They confirmed it was indeed a bed!
Yi Zhi Rou Rou pointed at him, “You…”
“What are you looking at? Get to work. Come on, Little Six, let’s lie down for a bit!”
Jian Zhi Cang Tian retorted boldly to Yi Zhi Rou Rou, then sprawled onto the bed himself, beckoning Sheng Guang Hu You Zhe Ni to join him.
“I…” Sheng Guang Hu You Zhe Ni was about to speak.
“What’s with the ‘I’? Hurry up and get on! It’s not like we haven’t slept on a bed before. We melee characters can’t attack monsters anyway, so why just stand here staring?”
As Jian Zhi Cang Tian spoke, he took out a cigar and lit it brazenly.
“You actually bought the system cigars that cost ten silver coins each!” Heng Dao said, looking at him with evident pain.
“Boss, want one?” Jian Zhi Cang Tian asked, pulling out another cigar and tossing it towards Chu Tian.
Chu Tian watched all of this with a sense of deep familiarity.
In his previous life, this bed was Jian Zhi Cang Tian’s signature item.
Whenever they escaped pursuit and found themselves in desolate wilderness, Jian Zhi Cang Tian would set up this large bed. The two of them would lie on it, completely relaxed, laughing heartily, and smoking cigars!
Back then, without Jian Zhi Cang Tian’s companionship, he might not have endured it. And there was Yi Yi too.
Chu Tian, a brother, a confidant!
These were the pillars that supported Chu Tian through his most challenging four years in his previous life.
“Boss, why don’t we kick him out of the party?” Sheng Guang Hu You Zhe Ni suggested.
“It’s fine. You guys can rest. You two are melee, so you really don’t have much to do here. However, before you rest, let’s have Yi Yi perform for us first!” Chu Tian said with a smile.
After Chu Tian finished speaking, everyone looked expectantly at Luo Luo.
Luo Luo felt a little embarrassed under their gaze and took out the Frost Crystal Dream from her back.
“Just place it in the middle of the plaza. That’s where the monsters are most concentrated!” Chu Tian instructed her.
Chu Tian was quite knowledgeable about Forbidden Curses. In his previous life, he had never acquired one himself.
Forbidden Curse skills had very long casting ranges, especially area-of-effect Forbidden Curses, which could have a range of at least a thousand meters.
Otherwise, if a skill were cast, it would be like dropping an atomic bomb at one’s own feet, instantly killing oneself, rendering it useless.
“Okay!” Luo Luo agreed.
She then drew her bowstring, murmuring incantations that no one could understand.
“Heng Dao, remember to heal her,” Chu Tian added.
At this point, Luo Luo had stopped her chanting, but as she did, the magical arrow that had formed began to tremble violently.
At the arrowhead, a white vortex appeared, with cold energy emanating from its rotation.
It was as if the vortex connected to another realm, and the icy aura was being drawn from that otherworldly dimension.
As time passed, the frigid aura condensed into a massive arrow.
Due to the statue’s hundred-meter height, the dwarves below sensed the disturbance. However, their vantage point prevented them from realizing that humans were present on the head of the statue they revered.
Two minutes later, the colossal ice arrow slowly solidified…