Chapter 76: The Optimistic Ming


    With supply in their inventory, Ming and Shen departed to the river to hunt the Guardian Fish. On the way out, they encountered Yue who was jogging with the stone on her back. They exchanged greetings before Ming and Shen truly left the vige.


    On the way to the hunting spot, Shen told Ming the way to hunt the Guardian Fish. Luring them out from the river, trapping them into three, and the Guardian Fish''s range of attack, "Even if they are onnd, you should be careful. They can leap to you so fast. Let me demonstrate it first for you or else you may die if they manage tond a critical hit," Shen was afraid that his friend would die from the fish. Ming''s level dropped one to arrive at the hidden vige, he did not want to lose all his exp again.


    "Alright, let''s do that," Ming nodded. Even though it sounded so easy, he would let the expert demonstrate the method to him. He did not want to die in a silly way. He would be embarrassed since there were more people in the vige.


    Following Shen''s route, they quickly arrived at the hunting spot where Shen usually hunted the fish. Ming could see holes on the trees, the traces of Shen''s hunting before, "Don''te too close to the river or you will be attacked by the fish. Just stay away from me, I don''t want you to agro the fish when theynd on the ground," Shen briefed his friend.


    "Oh, Shen, should we create a party?" Ming asked. Forming a party could share the experience, but then he remembered something, "Ah, there''s no need I think. This is easy hunting, let''s not share the exp," In order to share the exp, he needed to contribute as well. Without contribution, the exp would not be shared.


    "Then watch me, Ming," Shen approached the river. He stood at the edge of the river for ten seconds and the Guardian Fish sshed out from the river, not one, but two Guardian Fish.


    Just like Shen said, the fish was fast. Ming could tell that by just watching, ''Two? Does Shen need my help?'' he considered helping his friend since the fish was level 32 Monsters. He thought it would be hard for Shen to handle two at one time. However, he did not dare toe over since Shen did not ask for help yet.


    Sure enough, his noob friend had be an expert in hunting the fish that could walk the ground. His friend did not need his help at all. After avoiding the first strike from the two Guardian Fish, Shen ran to the other side. He lured them further from the river and then he leaned against the tree.


    Ming was aware that this was the crucial moment for him to learn, "The Guardian Fish''s range of attack is two meters, remember to prepare to dodge when they reach the range." That was what Shen told him before.


    Ming squinted his eyes, estimating the distance between two fish and his friend, "That should be two meters" Sure enough, the two fish leaped toward Shen with the help of the hind legs they had. He noticed that Shen was the first to make his move before the fish could jump onto him.


    Just like Shen said, this was even faster when they jumped out from the groundpared to when they jumped from the water. Shen ducked his head before he rolled the right, dodging the attack.


    Dak! Dak!


    The sound was an indication that the fish''s snout pierced through the tree''s trunk. The Guardian Fish''s snout fully entered the tree and now they were stuck, waiting to be ughtered. Everything looked so easy, but Ming was aware that it was not that easy as it looked.


    "Ming! Come over!" Shen waved his hand at Ming who was analyzing the strategy. It was a quite smart strategy. How could Shen think about it? Ming asked himself as he headed toward his friend. If he was in Shen''s situation, he doubted that he could think of this strategy to face the Guardian Fish.


    "I got lucky with two fish, get one for yourself," Shen shared his harvest with him. It actually did not matter that he gave his friend one of the catches since a little over twenty thousand experiences amounted to nothing to the experiences he needed to reach level 14.


    Ming was not polite with that as he epted the gift for him. He took out his dagger, the weapon given to him by his Master, "Do you want me to deal the damage first so you can kill the fish faster?" Shen was dealing more damage since he had been training longer and higher in level as well.


    "Nope, I will do it by myself. I don''t want to share the exp with you," Ming said as he approached the struggling fish with his dagger. To reach level 5, he needed 2400 Exp, there was a lot considering the level 5 monster only gave him 30 exp.


    Shen shrugged as he took out the sword given to him by his Master. The good news for the hidden vige was that WealthyGuy now was able to repair their weapon so there was no need for them to worry about breaking down their weapon. On top of that, Brother Jiang was working with the Guardian Fish''s snout. He said that he could make something out of it as well. Everything went well within the vige.


    Ming was about to stab the fish in the belly, but Shen stopped him, "Don''t! Don''t ruin the meat, ZhenZhen needs the meat intact!" Ming stopped midway and nodded his head. He then aimed for the head.


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    The red floating damage appeared above the fish as the dagger hit the head. It was quite a big damage. Just like that, the two were stabbing the fish at the head repeatedly until it died. Shen killed his fish first and Ming killed his fishter.


    [You have killed Guardian Fish!]


    [You gained 22,400 exp!]


    [You have leveled up!]


    [You gained 10 Status Points!]


    [You have leveled up!]


    [You gained 10 Status Points!]


    [You have leveled up!]


    [You gained 10 Status Points!]


    [You have reached level 7!]


    Ming''s eyes widened in surprise that he jumped into level 7 by killing one monster. He looked at Shen, "Shen, we can enter the leaderboard if we keep hunting the fish!" The Ranking Leaderboard was determined by the level. That was what Ming talked about.


    However, Shen waved his hand at his friend, "Don''t get too happy, Ming. You should know that we need more exp to level up as our level gets higher. Simply hunting the monsters in level 32 might not be enough when we reach level 20 or above," He was not optimistic about entering the ranking leaderboard. Even for him to reach level 14 needed 2.4 million exp.


    "Man, you are killing the mood. But the same for the others, Shen. They would be stuck too at a certain point. It would be hard for them to look for a stronger monster to hunt but our ce is filled with high-level monsters. we still have the advantage," Ming maintained his optimistic vision about the future.