“Anyway, monsters barely hurt me, and I have Lifesteal. I'm not afraid of tanking at all!” "[Multi Shot]'s range is within 8 yards of the target, with no target limit. Doesn't that mean as long as they're within 8 yards, Multi Shot can hit an unlimited number of targets?" “Totally worth a try!”

After a rough calculation, Jiang Bai plotted a route and dashed out. Due to the centaurs' aggressive nature, Jiang Bai just needed to run past them, and the monsters would naturally give chase. And thanks to his 10% movement speed bonus, the centaurs could only eat dust behind him. "Gibber gabber..." "Ooh ooh wah wah..." "#¥#!..." Before long, a group of chaotically shouting centaurs was trailing behind Jiang Bai. The melee Centaur Warriors pursued closely, while the Mages and Warlocks cast spells from afar. But each time Jiang Bai ran out of their range, they would inevitably follow, soon clumping together.

After running about halfway around a small lake, Jiang Bai turned his head to look. “Holy moly!” As far as he could see, there was a dense mass of red monster names. Thinking it was his first time trying this, he didn't dare pull too many and stopped directly. Instantly, the Centaur Warriors behind Jiang Bai swung their large iron hammers at him. Clang clang... Clang clang... -1 -1 -1 ... Hearing the sounds but seeing no health drop, Jiang Bai chuckled. “7 Warriors, meaning I pulled 7 groups, 21 monsters total. So there are 14 Mages and Warlocks...” About twenty yards behind these Centaur Warriors, the clumped-up Mages and Warlocks had begun chanting skills.

“Good, they're within the 8-yard range...” Targeting the Mage right in the middle, Jiang Bai unhesitatingly fired a [Multi Shot]. Just as expected, as the arrow approached the Mages, the purple arrow shadow instantly split, raining down like a sky full of arrows onto the Mages and Warlocks ahead. -169 -169 -328 (Crit!) -164 ... The screen instantly filling with damage numbers made Jiang Bai burst with joy. “Sweet!” “Got a crit for real!” Completely ignoring the "-1" damage numbers frantically popping up on him, Jiang Bai fired another [Multi Shot]. -338 (Crit!) -169 -164 ... “Another crit!” After the second round of Multi Shot, the Mage that had been crit earlier collapsed. Now, Jiang Bai's third round of [Multi Shot] instantly killed the remaining dozen or so caster monsters!

[You have slain Centaur Mage. Obtained 0 EXP...] [You have slain Centaur Warlock. Obtained 0 EXP...] [You have slain Centaur Mage. Obtained 0 EXP...] [[Plunder] skill triggered. Obtained Intelligence +1.] ...

“Damn, if not for the quest restriction, wouldn't my EXP bar have shot up massively?” Watching the screen fill with system prompts, Jiang Bai's blood pumped with excitement. "Nothing is more satisfying than AoE grinding..." Having dealt with the ranged mobs, only the 7 chaotically shouting Warriors remained before him. He continued firing [Multi Shot]. Although he didn't get another crit reset, facing the Centaur Warriors who couldn't break his defense, Jiang Bai wasn't flustered at all. This Multi Shot didn't crit, so Jiang Bai simply picked them off one by one, waiting for [Multi Shot] to cool down for another round. About a minute later... Before Jiang Bai, only haphazardly scattered centaur corpses remained. His own health bar had barely dropped from start to finish, as the 5% Lifesteal resulted in overhealing.

“This is way too satisfying!” “AoE grinding Level 7 monsters while being underleveled!” Jiang Bai saw his quest progress jump by more than a fifth. He began cleaning up the battlefield while analyzing the previous fight. “Undoubtedly, this proves that as long as my defense is high enough, I can absolutely keep AoE grinding indefinitely.” “And if my crit rate were high enough, the AoE efficiency would be simply heaven-defying!” “For AoE grinding, attack isn't the priority; defense is," Jiang Bai concluded. "Because monster attacks interrupt character casting or attack processes, but only if they can break defense. The reason I could AoE these centaurs so smoothly was because they couldn't break my defense and thus couldn't interrupt my attacks. Otherwise, with these 7 melee Centaur Warriors constantly hitting me, I wouldn't have been able to attack at all!"

The 21 monsters yielded Jiang Bai less than two hundred copper coins and one piece of white equipment.

[Centaur Dagger] (Common) Physical Attack: +15 Required Level: 7

Jiang Bai directly opened the Trading Market and listed it for 1.5 Gold Coins. Honestly, as time went on, these white items with no bonus stats would only get cheaper. “Though [Plunder] triggered once. The +1 Intelligence is pretty useless, but it's better than nothing...”

At this moment, Jiang Bai didn't notice. In the distant forest, a five-person party around Level 5 was watching, completely dumbfounded. They were originally just passing through but unexpectedly witnessed Jiang Bai's battle.

Violence No.1: I... what did I just see? Violence No.2: Is that a f***ing GM testing drop rates with an invincible account? Violence No.3: My god... A Level 4 player AoE grinding Level 7 mobs? This is ridiculousness's mom opening the door for ridiculous—utterly f***ing ridiculous! Violence No.4: I say we just leave? I'm honestly scared he'll spot us and insta-kill me with one arrow... Violence No.5: Wonder if he likes men... I'm available... ...

After the successful AoE grind, Jiang Bai had no more inhibitions. He directly pulled mobs by running a full circle around the lake. Each pull gathered around 30 monsters, making the killing process efficient and safe. Normally, killing 100 Evil Centaurs might take around 5 hours. But Jiang Bai did it in just three pulls; including the pulling time, the quest was completed in about twenty minutes. The rewards were also unexpectedly high. Besides over a thousand copper coins, two white items dropped, along with one Green caster ring, which Jiang Bai sold on the spot to Da Tang Wu Zui for 5 Gold Coins. Over the three pulls totaling eighty-plus monsters, the [Plunder] skill surprisingly triggered 3 times, granting +1 Constitution, +1 Agility, and +1 Strength respectively.

“After these three pulls, 3 attribute points... that's almost equivalent to leveling up!” “This is the real deal, f***ing infinite growth!”

“If not for the quest restriction, after these hundred monsters plus the earlier Boss, I estimate I'd probably be Level 6 by now.” Jiang Bai opened the skill enhancement interface while taking out the single [Skill Enhancement Scroll]. He had intended to use this precious scroll on Multi Shot, but suddenly discovered that 1 scroll wasn't enough. It turned out the number of scrolls needed for skill enhancement depended on the skill's rank. The lowest E-Rank skills required 1 scroll per enhancement level, D-Rank required 2, and so on. The A-Rank skill [Multi Shot] required 5 scrolls just for one enhancement!

“Damn, what a f***ing rip-off!” Jiang Bai opened the Trading Market; there were still no Skill Enhancement Scrolls for sale. “Is this stuff really so rare?” “Then couldn't I sell this one scroll for a sky-high price?”

“Whatever, I'll go back and turn in the quest first.” Thinking this, Jiang Bai directly crushed his Town Portal item.