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And so, watching the golden light shimmer, Layton fell into a deep sleep.
Even the bravest warriors cannot truly live without rest or sleep.
After walking continuously for more than ten hours and fighting intermittently, they were already exhausted both physically and mentally.
Even Lycorina slept on Any's back for nearly two hours before she regained her energy.
As for An Yi herself...
He had experienced hellish conditions far worse than this; going one, two, three, four, or five days without sleep meant nothing to him.
After cleaning for a while, Lycorina noticed that the slimes seemed to have decreased significantly.
"Anyi, are we almost done killing the slimes? There are fewer and fewer slimes now."
“Maybe they’ve already killed everyone in this area, and there might be others coming from other areas,” An Yi replied calmly.
“Now that Annie’s all cleaned up, she can rest for a while,” Lycorina said with a smile.
"Maybe."
Neither Lycorina nor the other two who were asleep had yet sensed the approaching danger.
Meanwhile, An Yi secretly made preparations.
Preparations for defeating the BOSS.
In the game, after being tricked once, players will know the second time that using potions will trigger the Slime King's attack.
Most players will immediately place themselves at full health within the Slime King's attack range after it spawns, use potions, lure it out, kill it, and farm equipment.
Although this world doesn't have a "potion attack" mechanism, Annie knows that as long as the team or one person starts staying in a fixed location to rest, the Slime King will take the initiative to attack.
He deliberately let all four of them reach level 5 or higher before suggesting they rest.
"It's about time you appeared, King Slime."
An Yi thought to himself, and casually chopped down a lone slime.
Chapter 39 Enemy Attack
"Oh!"
As the core of the last slime shattered, the golden light on Lycorina's staff dissipated.
"Is this... over?" Lycorina checked her magic power and then touched her stomach.
I'm not very hungry, thankfully.
An Yi checked to make sure no slimes had escaped, then planted his sword on the ground: "We can't be sure if more slimes will come right now, so let's take a break during this time."
"Great, this is just in time to grab something to eat!"
Lycorina took Miluko's backpack from the side, took out some dry rations, and started eating.
There were originally four backpacks, but the food in two of them has been eaten up.
For an average person, such a large bag of filling dry rations would last a long time.
However, for heroes with the [Gluttony] skill, this kind of dry food is not enough to last long.
It doesn't matter if we finish eating; there are plenty of monsters and animals in the forest.
Aside from the presence of slimes, the Slime Forest is actually no different from any other forest.
Slimes eat a variety of foods and take a long time to dissolve after being ingested.
Even if it swallows an animal, it will only drown it, as it takes several days to dissolve the animal in its body.
Furthermore, their extremely low stats allow most living creatures to easily escape the slime's "hunt." 〇≠⊙|≡
Therefore, they are more like decomposers in the forest than invasive predators that would have a serious impact on the ecosystem.
Even the Slime King couldn't possibly devour all the living creatures in an entire forest, so food is not a problem.
Initially, we brought dry food because we didn't know the ecological environment there, and also to save time searching for food.
However, after entering, they discovered that they occasionally encountered wild animals and magical beasts, and even large groups of them, so they decided not to go back to resupply.
“Anyi, when we came in, the High God said that the recommended level for this forest is 1 to 10, right?” Lycorina asked while eating.
"What's wrong?" Annie asked.
"But it will take a long time to reach level 10 here, right?"
Currently, a slime only has 0.1 experience points, but leveling up requires 5000 experience points, which means you have to kill 50,000 slimes.
But this is just leveling from 5 to 6, and then from 6 to 7? What if the slime gains even less experience points after that?
Fifty thousand, sixty thousand, and then maybe a hundred thousand, two hundred thousand.
"We only have ten years to fight the demons, we can't possibly spend that much time here to reach level 10, can we?" Lycorina said.
“Yes, that’s right.” An Yi confirmed her statement.
"So I was thinking, is there some kind of demon in the forest that could help us level up to level 10?"
Or, could we skip the slimes and try a different type of demon? The experience points we get might be different. Lycorina's beautiful golden eyes were full of thought.
sOUsUＯ:≥≯¨←（∧♀∑〇＠≯ˇ《∫〇An Yi was surprised for a moment.
Lycorina is a "native," but she doesn't have Anyi's experience as a player, and she doesn't understand the mechanics of this world.
However, after a day of fighting, she discovered an anomaly in her experience points.
It's not surprising that they realized there were high-level demons in the forest, because the system had warned them about it from the beginning.
They may have realized that they couldn't go down a dead-end road and needed to deal with other demons, something that few heroes noticed in the early stages of their previous lives.
Because at this stage, the brave will most likely take one of two paths.
First, is death.
After leveling up to level 5 by defeating low-level demons, I encountered a higher-level race of that low-level demon and was killed.
Second, they are a superior race that defeated the lower-level demons.
Once they have the experience of defeating them and have tasted the benefits of experience points and equipment, they will repeatedly try to farm the same type of demon.
For example, those who want to farm slimes should farm the Slime King as much as possible, those who want to farm goblins should farm the Goblin Centurion as much as possible, and those who want to farm skeletons should farm the Necromancer as much as possible.
This method of farming is actually not wrong, and it is actually a good thing for defeating the demon race.
After all, the demons that different heroes encounter for the first time will be different, and by sweeping across the same race, one day all the low-level demons on the border will be wiped out.
As a strategy of "occupying grids," it must be said that "gods" are quite adept at it.
In An Yi's memory, after this first wave of BOSS raids, heroes would soon start organizing and sharing information from different regions.
Then they would each fight their own preferred bosses, avoiding the unfamiliar demons they hadn't encountered before.
This would indeed greatly increase the hero's chances of survival, but...
However, it will slow down the growth rate of the heroes.
Just like how the experience gained from killing a certain number of slimes decreases.
The same applies when defeating the same boss.
In other words, the strategy that all heroes should adopt is to immediately switch to fighting the next type of demon after defeating one type of demon, in order to maximize the experience gained.
In the early stages of the previous life, few people realized this. Most hero organizations only shared information about their respective regions and did not share information about the demon race.
This slows down the overall pace of the adventurers' raids, and causes a large number of adventurers to die because their levels can't keep up.
An Yi, having experience as a gamer, naturally did not choose the strategy of attacking the same type of demon.
Therefore, in the early stages of his previous life, he was almost the fastest level-up person among all the heroes.
He understood the mechanics of each demon race and its superior boss in the early stages, and driven by hatred, he relentlessly hunted and conquered them.
In his previous life, only the "Hero of Slaughter" and some heroes with built-in experience-boosting skills could keep up with his leveling speed.
"You're right, our current level isn't high enough. Before venturing deeper into the Demon Realm, we should look for other ways to level up."
As for whether killing other demons will grant more experience points, we'll have to try and see. An'i objectively affirmed Lycorina's point of view.
Lycorina nodded happily, having received approval: "Yes, actually I was thinking, maybe we should retreat for now."
"Retreat? Why do you think that?" An Yi asked with some interest.
Judging from Her Highness's personality, she should prioritize helping the village solve the disaster.
7. Rather, we've come all this way, how can we leave without doing anything?
Lu and his group have only killed tens of thousands of slimes in the day they've been here, and they still haven't figured out where the slimes came from.
In addition, Lycorina also said this morning that even if they encountered a powerful high-level demon, the four of them would not be without the ability to fight back.
Therefore, Licorina's suggestion to retreat surprised Annie.
"If, I mean if."
Our current level is not high enough, and our attribute points are unevenly distributed. We're already this tired after just one day of eliminating slimes.
"And if a high-level demon suddenly appears, will we still have the strength to deal with it?"
However, just as Lycorina finished speaking and looked up at An Yi, she found him rapidly approaching her—
"Get down!"
An Yi stepped in front of Lycorina and pressed her head down, while simultaneously thrusting out his longsword, which he had prepared beforehand!
Skill: Flame Thrust LvMax
Multiple releases——】
"Fire Dragon".
"boom--!!"
A fiery dragon, as thick as a tree trunk, shot straight ahead, illuminating the dark forest and instantly igniting a large number of trees!
Lycorina glanced at Any with a mixture of confusion and fear, then immediately looked behind her.
The firelight illuminated something about two meters away...
It was a tentacle, flesh-red in color, its severed ends charred and emitting a foul odor.