“Ah…”

“Ah!!!”

“Ah!!!!!”

Shrieks of surprise rang out as Brother You was completely drowned out by Gu Fei's performance. The students were of relatively low levels, and the monsters they asked Gu Fei about were no higher than level 35. Gu Fei handled them with ease, but now, facing a level 45 monster, he naturally focused more attention. Those probing moves became even faster and more dazzling, causing the surrounding crowd to erupt in wave after wave of excited screams.

Amidst these cries, Brother You was utterly diminished. No one even noticed that he was Gu Fei's friend. A fellow standing right next to him had a loud, booming voice. While shouting his approval, he grabbed Brother You, exclaiming, "This guy fights so cool! He must be trained! So awesome!"

"Yeah! He is trained," Brother You said.

"Good!!!" The guy was probably just looking for someone to vent his emotions on and didn't even notice if Brother You was alive or a ghost. After tossing out that one sentence, he immediately turned back to cheer.

Gu Fei was quite surprised by the commotion he had caused, but he didn't pay much attention to it. Was he supposed to stop and tell these people to disperse? Let them watch if they wanted to. It wasn't a big deal. Gu Fei didn't take it to heart at all, seriously engaging the bonfire patrolman to uncover its attack and defense patterns, weaving together an effective strategy.

Brother You had spent the whole afternoon preparing for this lesson with Gu Fei, so he knew that this exciting process wouldn't last too long, probably only ten minutes or so. Sure enough, after tangling with the monster for about ten minutes, Gu Fei had figured out its attack rhythm and style, so he started hitting it hard. Although Gu Fei had tried to avoid hitting it as much as possible before, he had been messing around with it for ten minutes, and the small amount of accumulated damage had worn away most of the monster's health. Now, after taking a few heavy blows, it quickly collapsed.

Gu Fei let out a long breath and even gave a smile to the players who were cheering wildly at the monster's demise. Then, he looked around, but he couldn't find Brother You anywhere.

"Where are you?" Gu Fei sent a message.

"Here, here!" Brother You's voice came from the crowd, and he struggled to squeeze out of the throng, also letting out a sigh of relief. As more and more spectators gathered, becoming increasingly dense, he had been squeezed into the middle and was nearly out of breath.

The two met in full view of the crowd. Brother You felt awkward under so many pairs of eyes, but he saw that Gu Fei was acting as if nothing had happened, continuing his work and calmly saying to Brother You, "The moves are clear now. We can move on to the next step."

"Right now?" Brother You asked. With so many people watching, he felt a little guilty, even though he hadn't done anything wrong.

"When else are we going to wait?" Gu Fei asked, puzzled.

"No need to wait. You go ahead," Brother You said, gritting his teeth and going all in. Gu Fei was so at ease in the limelight, what was he, a minor character, acting so bashful for?

Gu Fei nodded, waiting for the new monster to refresh. The watching players could see that he was waiting for it to respawn, and everyone remained silent, following the upcoming performance in anticipation. The previous fight had been so satisfying that everyone had forgotten they were playing a game.

"This time, I'm afraid I'll have to disappoint you…" Brother You said with a wry smile, because he knew that what Gu Fei was about to do would be neither exciting nor interesting, but rather a constant repetition of fixed attack and defense moves. These moves were all selected by Gu Fei from the first round of probing. In fact, these were the real essence, but as the saying goes, experts watch the subtleties, while laymen watch the spectacle. Gu Fei was about to delve into the subtleties, and the spectators who loved the spectacle were naturally not happy.

Sure enough, everyone was still quite enthusiastic when Gu Fei first started, but they quickly realized that this time was different from before. The breathtaking, storm-like continuous attacks were gone. Gu Fei was very polite, trading blows with the monster, and he was always using the same moves repeatedly. Soon, everyone could almost memorize them, and they became bored.

The players abandoned their excitement, returned to reality, and began to wonder what Gu Fei was doing. They whispered among themselves, but they couldn't come to any conclusions. The kind player who had provided Gu Fei and Brother You with the monster spawn point approached Brother You and asked, puzzled, "Brother, what exactly is he doing?"

"His purpose is to research the most efficient way to fight the bonfire patrolman. He was testing the monster's attack and defense characteristics just now, and now he's really studying how to deal with it," Brother You replied.

The player was a little confused. He scratched his head and asked, "When will you guys be done?"

"Still early," Brother You said.

"Oh, then I'll go grab a bite. Will you still be here when I get back?" the player said, glancing at the time.

"Still here," Brother You nodded. He knew that Gu Fei's process wouldn't end so easily.

"Okay, then I'll be back later," the man said.

"Good timing to return the leveling area to you," Brother You smiled.

"Okay, okay," That man actually meant exactly that, so he greeted them and hurried away.

Other players patiently watched for a while, but still didn't see the exciting performance they were expecting. Some shouted loudly for Gu Fei to "do another one," but Gu Fei just smiled and ignored them. The players saw that it seemed like there would be no more excitement to watch, so they gradually dispersed. Others, who were more curious, wanted to ask what was going on. Gu Fei didn't hide anything, and while continuing his experiment, he told the people who came to ask that he was studying an efficient way to fight.

"Efficient? Is this what you call efficient?" Everyone seemed to hear a joke, and they left with mocking smiles. Clearly, Gu Fei's monster kill just now was indeed spectacular, but to the players, it was like watching an exciting martial arts movie. If they were talking about killing monsters, then it had taken more than ten minutes just now. If that was called efficient, it was a bit ridiculous.

Gu Fei ignored these people's attitudes and continued to focus on his own work. After those people left, they still often turned their heads to look over here, to see if there would be any changes. In the end, they only saw unchanging monotony and boredom, and finally, no one paid attention to Gu Fei's actions anymore.

A level 45 monster was obviously more difficult than the students' questions. Gu Fei spent about a class period to completely arrange a set of strategies to deal with the monster. Brother You, who had been watching intently all the while, had seen it all and knew that Gu Fei was about to succeed, so he was extremely excited.

As a monster fell neatly under Gu Fei's sword, Gu Fei showed a smile of reaping the fruits of victory and walked towards Brother You.

"Did you do it?" Brother You quickly came up to him and asked.

Gu Fei nodded, but said a word that Brother You didn't want to hear: "But…"

"But what…" Brother You said, alarmed.

"This monster isn't that easy to fight. It's quite agile. Did you add any Agility?"

Brother You paused for a moment, then replied, "I added a little." Brother You's original stats were based on a Priest's support build, but he had respec'd after switching to Dark Knight. The Dark Knight class was still not fully understood, so the always cautious Brother You added some stats that he thought were necessary, but kept the rest in reserve, planning to invest them when his ideas were clearer.

"Oh? How much did you add?" Gu Fei wanted to know the exact value.

"One point!" Brother You said.

Gu Fei was stunned. Only then did he realize that Brother You's "one point" meant literally one stat point, not that he didn't add much, just a little bit.

"One point? What do you mean by one point?" Gu Fei asked, bewildered.

"Uh, my current movement speed is just a little short of increasing to the next level, so I added one point…" Brother You explained.

Precise calculation was Brother You's greatest trait. Gu Fei didn't dwell on this issue, but continued his topic: "Knights have no Agility modifier, right, like Mages?"

"Yeah, 1 to 1," Brother You replied.

Gu Fei nodded and said, "Then if you want to use my method to deal with this monster, you have to add some Agility."

"How much do I have to add?" Brother You asked, alarmed. He didn't think he had Gu Fei's skills. Imitating Gu Fei's all-Agility build would definitely be a case of trying to draw a tiger but ending up with a dog. So, he was very worried that Gu Fei would lead him down the path to a useless character.

"For me, five levels of Agility would be enough to handle it. For you, I suggest adding eight to ten levels. Anyway, the more you add, the more stable it will be, and the less you add, the harder it will be," Gu Fei said to Brother You.

"That's so much…" Brother You said, conflicted. Before confirming whether Agility was of great use to Dark Knights, should he add Agility to learn Gu Fei's monster-fighting skills?

Gu Fei also sighed, "I know you guys don't add stats randomly, but what I've found is already the minimum requirement. This level 45 monster is too high-level. You definitely can't do it without a certain amount of speed as a guarantee. How about this, I'll demonstrate the routine for you first, and you remember it well. You can try it on a monster and see how much Agility you need to handle it, and then you can add that much! If you really can't bear to, then just level up the same way you always have!"

"Well, that's the only way," Brother You nodded. He thought it would be better to verify it himself.

"Okay, then watch closely! A complete routine demonstration!" Gu Fei said.

"Hehe, I've already seen a lot of it," Brother You smiled. He had watched the whole process and already understood seven or eight parts of it.

Gu Fei still attacked the monster with his ordinary, broken sword. The mature routine was indeed very different. He no longer traded blows politely with the monster. Continuous movement and attacks constantly dodged the monster's attacks and landed his sword on the monster. This monster wasn't killed very quickly, but Brother You knew very well that this was due to equipment and class restrictions. If Gu Fei had the Dark Night Flowing Light Sword and Dual Fire Flash, or if he himself went up and used the Dark Knight's damage with incomplete stat allocation, that would be the time to truly demonstrate efficiency.

"How was that? Do you want me to do it again?" Gu Fei asked Brother You as the monster fell.

"Almost. I'll try it, and you can correct me," Brother You said.

"Be careful. You don't have enough speed right now," Gu Fei said.

"I understand…" Brother You said, stepping forward to pull the monster to practice. He remembered every move of Gu Fei's routine clearly. When he saw the monster swing its torch at him, he immediately stepped to the side, but felt a burning sensation on his shoulder. Sure enough, he was too slow and couldn't dodge the torch.

As a result, he suffered a setback right from the start, and it was simply impossible to continue. To put it simply, Gu Fei's routine was a routine specifically designed for the monster: ABC to deal with the monster's 123.

But Brother You's situation was that he didn't have enough speed. So, the A that could originally deal with 1 was only half-used, and he naturally couldn't avoid being hit. What was even worse was that the monster's 2 had already arrived, but because Brother You hadn't finished using A, he couldn't use B, so he took a solid hit from 2, followed by 345678. The monster beat him up thoroughly. Brother You was still stuck on that incomplete A, and in the end, he completely abandoned Gu Fei's routine and used his own hick method to tank the monster to death. When he looked back at Gu Fei, he was filled with shame.

"How much Agility do you think you're lacking?" Gu Fei asked.

"…" Brother You couldn't answer. Although he was good at calculation, he couldn't grasp this kind of precision in actual combat.

"I'll demonstrate it for you two more times. Memorize it well!" Gu Fei said.

"Okay!" Brother You said somewhat helplessly, engaged in a fierce ideological struggle within.

"Watch carefully!" Gu Fei made his move. Brother You saw a streak of purple light flash by and realized that Gu Fei was holding his Dark Night Flowing Light Sword. Although he still wasn't using any spells, the damage was incomparable to the previous broken sword. Coupled with the fact that Gu Fei used several enchanted equipment pieces, the monster fell extremely cleanly. The word "efficiency" was finally demonstrated.

"How was that?" Gu Fei smiled.

"Damn!" Brother You said, depressed. Although Gu Fei had never directly advised him to add Agility, he was using this method to lure him. What was even more painful was that he was indeed quite tempted and had a strong urge to go all-in on Agility.

"Here it comes again!" Another monster spawned. Gu Fei shouted and charged forward. This time, his luck was even better than before, the enchanted effects procced more frequently, and the monster fell even more sharply. Brother You restrained himself.

"Damn, that's awesome. Did you successfully research it?" At this moment, a voice came over. Gu Fei and Brother You turned around and saw that the kind player had returned after his meal and happened to witness Gu Fei's last two demonstrations. This time, efficiency was truly demonstrated, something that even laymen could recognize.

"Yeah," Gu Fei nodded.

"How did you do it?" the man asked.

"Wait for me to kill this monster and I'll demonstrate it for you," Gu Fei smiled. He didn't treat his routine as a treasure at all.

"Okay, okay," the man said, extremely excited. He felt like the protagonist of a YY novel at this moment. He had only done something insignificant, but had received a generous reward from the great hero, who was about to impart to him a supreme skill.

The monster spawned quickly. This time, in order to let the man see clearly, Gu Fei switched back to his broken sword and dealt less damage. As a result, when he killed the monster, the word "efficiency" was gone with the wind again. The player was very puzzled: "How come this time it seems…"

"I did it on purpose so you could see clearly," Gu Fei said.

"Uh?"

At this moment, another monster happened to spawn. Gu Fei quickly changed his equipment, Dark Night Flowing Light Sword, turned around and Dual Fire Flash, two beams of fire struck the monster, killing it instantly. Gu Fei put away his gear and said to the dazed player, "You see, you can't see anything if I do it like that!"

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Chapter 2 is here soon. What do you guys think? Do you think "speed is the guarantee"?