Everyone is a hero, but I am a second-year player.

"Well! The task of cleaning up the slime will be left to An Yi and me!" Likolina said happily.

Moving around would drain her energy, but staying in one place and using magic wouldn't!

The Holy Inquisition requires very little mana, and she has 30 points of magic attribute, and the damage she causes is also considerable, able to kill a group of slimes at a time.

In other words, she can clear out a large number of surrounding slimes while consuming very little magic power.

You can even accumulate a wave of monsters and then use skills without any pressure.

Soon, Anyi cut down the trees and moved them to the surrounding areas with Layton to use as partitions, clearing out an open space for isolation.

When I came back after the quarantine, I found Miluko asleep on the grass.

Although she didn't say much the whole day and always looked like she was afraid of trouble, she was not lazy at all when doing things.

Layton used to work as a porter and was used to long hours of hard work.

Komilu is a young lady, and no matter how hard she trains, she will never be able to do the heavy physical labor like a porter.

Her basic endurance is only 1 point, not even as good as Anyi's basic endurance of 2 points.

After a day, she was really tired.

"Whoosh-"

The golden cross light arrows pierced through a group of gathered slimes and blew them to pieces. Likolina also began to clean up the slimes.

An Yi was responsible for providing support and cleaning up some of the escaped fish that had gotten close to the four people.

Layton leaned against his large backpack, looking around anxiously from time to time.

As he expected, more and more slimes began to gather.

But what was also surprising was that Likolina was able to clear out most of the slimes in one go simply by standing in the middle of the clearing, with arrows of light constantly flying out of her staff.

And with An Yi's assistance, the two people resting in the middle of the open space were very safe.

So, looking at the flashing golden light, Leighton fell into a deep sleep.

Even though they are brave, they cannot truly work without sleep.

After walking continuously for more than ten hours and fighting intermittently, they were already exhausted both physically and mentally.

Even Likolina had to sleep on Anyi's back for nearly two hours before she regained her energy.

And An Yi himself...

He had been through far worse hells than this, so going without sleep for one, two, three, four or five days was nothing to him.

After cleaning for a while, Likolina found that the slimes seemed to have become much less.

"An Yi, are we almost done killing the slimes? There are fewer slimes."

"Maybe all the ones in this area have been killed, and there may be others rushing over from other areas." An Yi replied calmly.

"Now that you've finished cleaning up, An Yi can take a break." Likolina said with a smile.

"Maybe."

Neither Licorina nor the other two who were asleep felt the approaching danger at this moment.

And An Yi secretly made preparations.

Preparation for defeating the BOSS.

In the game, after being tricked once, players will know the second time they use medicine will trigger the attack of King Slime.

Most players will directly use medicine on the King Slime within its attack range at full health after it refreshes, then lure it out and kill it to get its equipment.

Although this world does not have a "drug attack" mechanism, An Yi knows that as long as the team or one person starts to stay in a fixed place to rest, the Slime King will take the initiative to attack.

He deliberately let everyone reach level 5 or above before suggesting them to take a rest.

"It's about time you showed up, Slime King."

An Yi thought about it and killed a lone slime with a chop.

39 Enemy Attack

"Oh!"

As the core of the last slime was shattered, the golden light on Likolina's staff also dissipated.

"Is that it, over?" Likolina checked her magic power and touched her belly again.

Fortunately, I’m not very hungry.

An Yi confirmed that there were no fish that had escaped the net, and then he stuck his sword on the ground: "Now we can't be sure if there will be more slimes coming, so let's take a rest during this time."

"Well, it's time to have something to eat!"

Likolina took Miruko's backpack from the side, took out some dry food and started to eat it.

There were originally four backpacks, and the dry food in two of them had been eaten up.

For an ordinary person, such a large bag of filling dry food would be enough to last for a long time.

However, for a hero with the [Gluttony] skill, this kind of dry food is completely unforgivable.

It doesn’t matter if you finish eating, there are plenty of monsters and animals in the forest.

Apart from the presence of slimes, the Slime Forest is actually no different from an ordinary forest.

Slime eats a lot of food, and it takes a long time for food to dissolve after consumption.

Even if it swallows an animal, it will simply drown it, and it will take days for the animal to dissolve in the body.

Coupled with its extremely low attributes, most living creatures can easily escape the slime's "hunting".

So they are more like decomposers in the forest rather than introduced predators that would have a serious impact on the ecology.

Even the Slime King cannot swallow up an entire forest of living creatures, so there is no need to worry about food.

At first, I brought dry food because I didn’t know the ecological environment there, and also to save time looking for food.

However, after coming in, they found that they could occasionally encounter wild animals and monsters, and even large populations of them, so they decided not to go back for supplies.

"An Yi, when we came in, the Lord God said that the recommended level for this forest is 1 to 10, right?" Likolina asked while eating.

"What's wrong?" An Yi asked.

"But, it will take a long time to reach level 10 here, right?

Right now the slime's experience value is only 0.1, but it takes 5000 experience points to upgrade, which means you have to kill slimes.

But what if it's level 5 to level 6, and then level 6 to level 7? What if the slime gets less experience points later?

Fifty thousand, sixty thousand, and then maybe a hundred thousand or two hundred thousand.

We only have ten years to defeat the demons. It's impossible to spend so much time here to reach level 10, right?" Likolina said.

"Yes, that's right." An Yi confirmed her statement.

“So I was thinking, could there be some demon in the forest that can help us reach level 10?

Or, we can stop fighting slimes and fight another kind of demon, and the experience points we can get may be different?" Likolina's beautiful golden eyes were full of thoughts.

An Yi was surprised for a moment.

Likolina is a "native", but she does not have Anyi's experience as a player, and she does not understand the mechanisms of this world.

However, after a day of fighting, she had already discovered something abnormal in her experience points.

It's not surprising that he was aware of the presence of high-level demons in the forest, because the system had reminded him of this at the beginning.

Perhaps he realized that he couldn't just go down one path and had to deal with more demons. This was something that few heroes noticed in the early days of their previous lives.

Because at this stage, the brave will most likely take two paths.

One is death.

After reaching level 5 by killing low-level demons, he encountered a higher-level race of the low-level demons and was killed.

Second, it is a superior race that defeated the low-level demons.

Once they have the experience of defeating a monster and have tasted the sweetness of experience points and equipment, they will repeatedly fight the same kind of monster.

For example, if you want to kill slimes, you should try your best to kill Slime King, if you want to kill goblins, you should try your best to kill Goblin Centurion, and if you want to kill skeleton soldiers, you should try your best to kill Necromancer.

There is nothing wrong with this method of brushing, and it is actually a good thing for defeating demons.

After all, the demons that different heroes encounter for the first time will be different. A horizontal sweep of the same race will eventually wipe out all the low-level demons on the border.

As a strategy of "occupying the grid", it has to be said that "God" is also very operational.

In An Yi's memory, after this first wave of BOSS strategies, heroes will soon begin to organize themselves and share information from various regions.

Then they would each attack the BOSS that they were good at dealing with and avoid those strange demons that they had never defeated before.

It is true that this can greatly increase the hero's chance of survival, but...

But it will slow down the growth of the heroes.

Just like after killing a certain amount of slimes, the experience provided by the slimes will become less.

The same applies to killing the same BOSS.

In other words, the strategy that all heroes should adopt is to immediately switch to defeating the next type of demon after defeating one type of demon, in order to maximize the experience gained.

In the early days of the previous life, few people realized this, and most of the heroes only shared regional intelligence and did not share any information about the demons.

This slowed down the overall pace of the heroes' crusades, and caused a situation where the levels could not keep up, resulting in the death of a large number of heroes.

And An Yi had experience as a game player, so naturally he did not choose the strategy of defeating the same kind of demons.

Therefore, in the early stage of his previous life, he was almost the one who upgraded the fastest among all the heroes.

He understood the mechanisms of each type of demon and its upper BOSS in the early stage, and driven by hatred, he continued to attack and conquer them.

In his previous life, only the [Killing Brave] and some brave warriors with skills that increase experience points could keep up with his leveling speed.

“You’re right, our current level is not high enough, and we should look for other ways to upgrade before going deeper into the Demon Realm.

As for whether killing other demons will give more experience points, we have to try it to find out." An Yi objectively affirmed Likolina's point of view.

Licorina was recognized and nodded happily: "Yeah, actually I was wondering if we should retreat temporarily."

"Retreat? Why do you think so?" An Yi was a little interested.

Judging from Her Highness the Saint's personality, she should give priority to helping the village resolve the disaster.

It would be better to say, now that you are here, how can you just leave without doing anything?

They have been here for one day and have only killed tens of thousands of slimes, but they still haven't figured out where the slimes came from.

In addition, Likolina also said this morning that even if they encountered a powerful high-level demon, the four of them would not be powerless to fight.

So Licolina's suggestion of retreat surprised An Yi.

"What if, I mean what if.

Our current level is not high enough, and our attributes are uneven. We are already so tired after just killing slimes for a day.

If a high-level demon suddenly appears, will we still have the strength to deal with it?"

However, just as Likolina finished speaking and looked up at An Yi, she found that he was approaching her rapidly.

"Get down!"

An Yi stepped in front of Likolina and pushed her head down, while stabbing out with the sword that had been prepared!

[Skill: Flame Stab LvMax

Multiple Release——】

"Fire dragon."

"boom--!!"

A long dragon of fire as thick as a tree trunk shot straight forward, illuminating the dark forest and instantly igniting a large number of trees!

Licolina looked at An Yi with confusion and fear, then immediately looked behind her.

About two meters away, the fire was shining...

It was a tentacle, flesh-red in color, with the broken part burned into charcoal and emitting a foul smell.