My scream had attracted all that five-player team to look at me with a dumbfounded look. After that they ignored me completely. I felt angrier and was about to start attacking them except for Shin. Shin moved to stand in front of me. his sudden appearance stopped me from doing anything. I looked angrily towards this fool cool swordsman. I was about to start yelling at him but he was faster than me as he explained calmly: "Calm down sweet silly princess. There is a misunderstanding here." "What do you mean? They are stealing my monster. Move from my way or else I will train on you." "Oh god! I said there is a misunderstanding here." "What is this? Tell me rapidly and don't waste my time." "They are not stealing your monster." I didn't give him any chance to continue as I was very mad right now. I interrupted him saying: "I found this monster first. How come they are not stealing it?" "Stop interrupting me silly girl. In the game there is no such a thing as what you are saying. If you see a free monster then you can attack it. If you left then you lost your ownership of this monster. If you started attacking these players then it's you who is stealing their monster." I blinked and still couldn't believe he was siding with those strangers. Before I say a word to him he warned me: "Don't do it. The reputation of monster stealing is very bad and it sticks to you forever. What you want to do is a taboo in this game. I warn you. You don't know a lot of stuff in this game, so trust the opinion of mine." He managed to really make me hesitate. I wanted to just punch him in the face with his silly irritation smile. This damn fool cool swordsman! Our Elite monster would be killed by those players. "And don't be this worry. This team can't kill this monster with their lousy tactics." He said his last words in a high tone as if he was sending a message. I noticed that those players looked at us for a second like they felt humiliated. "Why don't you observe the monster? It's a basic thing to do silly girl." I looked at him and wanted to burn him alive. His teasing always came in an irritating manner. This fool cool swordsman! I checked this monster details nonetheless. "Kifad Elite monster. LVL5 Elite monster. Common class monster. HP: 1320/1518" I was surprised by the thick blood this monster had. Although the five players were attacking feverishly, they couldn't cause much damage. I watched the fight for a minute and got relieved. These players were only at third level. Their skills weren't as effective as they had many misses. If they continued like that for a day they wouldn't be able to kill this monster. I kept my silence waiting for them to get tired and lose hope. From time to time I looked at Shin. He was very confident from the start that those players couldn't kill this monster. That was the reason behind his calm. This mysterious cool swordsman knew from one look at the reality of this situation. He couldn't be a normal person. I recalled our last fight. A whole aristocratic family was after him. Who was he? After more than ten minutes, those players started to get tired. They began to have more misses and their HP kept declining. Although they were a perfect combination team, they were weaker not stronger than both of us. There was one defender, one swordsman, one archer, one healer and one magician in that team. Their skills and fighting experience were holding them back. After these ten minutes Shin started speaking with them: "Hey, you won't be able to kill this monster by yourselves and you will die." The other swordsman replied immediately: "If you want us to withdraw and let you steal our monster then you are mistaken." "I'm not like that silly princess beside me. I'm not a newbie. I don't want to steal your monster, but I'm trying to help both of us." "What do you mean?" "Your skills aren't sufficient to cause enough damage to this monster. This is an Elite monster. It can regenerate HP by 1% every 5 seconds. So you are facing a hard time here. You DPS is very weak and can't keep with this monster RH most of times. Many of your skills have big miss on this monster. You have no tactic which means you are a newly formed team. You even don't know each other's skills or fighting style. These all are newbie mistakes." The other swordsman didn't speak for a while then he asked: "What do you suggest? Leave it for you?" "No, we are just two people as you can see. It will take us a lot of time to deal with this monster." "Then?" "Then we should team-up. We can kill it more rapidly and without losing anyone to any levels. It's up to you to decide. If you don't agree then we will wait for you to be killed and then kill this monster. It's up to you my friend." This Shin wasn't an easy person at all. Although he was like an idiot most of the time, he sometimes surprised me with his cunning nature. His words were even able to convince me. In no time that team agreed to Shin suggestion as the other swordsman said: "We agree to your offer my friend. Do you want to join our team or we join yours?" "I will send an invitation to all of you now." In seconds I heard multiple notifications sound indication that those players joined our little team. I looked at the team and found there were additional five players in it. I looked at their names and found that their HP was lower than half actually. Shin wasn't exaggerating and they were going to be killed if they continued. "Let's go silly princess. The monster is all yours now." I just looked at him then moved. I was excited to know what effect my new skills had. I glanced at my skills at my profile. I already had 7 skills. My main skill would be Strength aux skill. It added double my Strength stat to my spear for 10 sec. although my spear is a trash grade with no stat at all, but with skill, my spear turned into a higher grade spear. In these ten seconds, I needed to output as much damage as I could. My SSP had started to take some shape. All I needed now was to start my experiment on this monster. Once I reached that monster aggro zone which was in 5 m radius, I issued a warning in the team chat: "Anyone in a radius of 5m around me must move immediately." Although that monster aggro was on the tank, I was confident to shift its aggro to me. Wasn't I beautiful enough for him to focus on me? Once these new teammates moved away from me I started a tornado of my skills without stop. "Strength aux skill. Tempest of lightning skill. Triple thrush skill Stab Stab Stab Stab" My burst of attacks hit the monster like it was its doomsday. A long row of damage appeared above his head in white, yellow, and red colors with yellow as predominant one. "63, 126, 126, 189, 162, 63, 66, 66, 66, 102, 102, 102, 138, 138, 138, 102, 102, 102, 62, 92, 92, 62, 126, 63, 126, 126, 162, 94" Five seconds didn't pass and my damage neared the 3k threshold. I stopped my attacks while lightning continued to fall without stop. The monster was dead in the third second of my attacks. Although he was an Elite monster, his aggro was on someone else. I ended his HP without losing a single drop of mine. While I waited for the finish of my skills I noticed these five players were watching me like I was the monster. I didn't feel any strange as I was shocked by myself too. I didn't imagine my damage would be this terrifying from the skills I just learned. I decided to stick to this rhythm I created now. If I used these skills for 10 seconds I could reach 5k damage. What monster could stand in my way? Shin moved to stand next to me. I stood proudly waiting for his praise. "You know you can shift your Penta aux skill before you use tempest of lightning and triple thrush skills. Then you can add to each strike an additional 5 spears strike with 50% of your output. This will double your damage for sure." I got very frustrated by this cold-hearted cool swordsman. I just killed one monster with just my first wave of attacks. He didn't even need to move a finger to get these 20 XP points. This was another issue that made me mad! I killed an Elite monster and now all I get was this small 20 XP. This game was a stingy game. "Why did I get just 20 XP?" "You forgot that you aren't alone now. We have an extra five mouths to feed." I looked at those five players with a murderous look. He was right; the XP was divided on seven of us. That was why I got 20 points only. These players shivered from my look and were very nervous. They just watched me kill the monster that tortured them with just a few hits of my spear. Shin moved near them and said in a very strange friendly tone: "Don't be afraid, she is a nice person when you get to know her. I'm shin."
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