Volume 5, Chapter 44 – Harvesting Leeks

“So what exactly is going on? What happened?”

Fanster felt unbelievably awful.

It was not just because of the commotion up ahead where the players seemed to have already started fighting, it was also because it looked like he had run into an existence he absolutely could not afford to mess with.

“R-report… i-it was an NPC little girl… that little girl showed up and just, just started attacking us… we were no match, a lot of our brothers got one-shot by her with a single sword swing…”

“Outrageous??!”

After listening, Fanster’s face showed an extremely furious expression.

“Just a tiny NPC and she dares do this to us? There are so many of us, and we are dealing with one NPC?”

“But… but that NPC seems really strong…”

“Can she really be stronger than this many players?”

Fanster glared sternly at the player who had come to report.

“Stop talking her up and talking ourselves down. Don’t be scared, I’ll send reinforcements right away. You head back first.”

“Yes!”

As he watched the reporting player retreat, Fanster’s stern expression vanished in an instant and turned into an unusually gratified one.

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“Come, go invite those Legendary-tier pros over here.”

At this moment, at the front of the player army, Tianyin, who had appeared here, was already killing players with great enthusiasm.

Because she had been influenced by that “violence-prone” guy, the Fortress Emperor, Tianyin had also picked up just a tiny bit of “violent tendencies” in her heart.

Of course, Tianyin was not the type who was totally unreasonable. However, after she was provoked by the players on this side at the very start, she felt that reasoning with these players did not seem workable at all.

So, since reasoning would not work, then would it not be fine if she first beat these players into submission?

As the saying went, you convince people with reason. The method was different, but this was also a pretty good way to “convince people with reason”.

Mm… right, she was absolutely not a loli who liked to “convince people with force” or anything like that.

“Ahhh, this NPC is too brutal.”

“Since when were little girls among the NPCs this terrifying?”

“We are no match, we are no match, how many of our brothers have already been sent back to the respawn point?”

“How are we even supposed to fight this? Ah, don’t come over here—”

The player army was in total chaos.

Of course, quite a few players still tried to resist. However, the Tianyin of today was no longer the clueless rookie she used to be. Relying on the combat experience she had accumulated at the Fortress Emperor’s side, Tianyin used her outrageously fast speed to dodge these players’ attacks.

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If someone were watching this battle from the sidelines, they would only see Tianyin’s tiny figure weaving back and forth through the ranks of the players.

Every time Tianyin’s figure showed itself, a cluster of players would turn into pale white light.

The players’ attacks arrived only after Tianyin’s figure had already turned into an afterimage, and most of those attacks could not even touch that afterimage.

『Samael, these outsiders are so weak… I haven’t even gone all out and I’ve already beaten them into this state…』

Killing players granted tenfold experience.

Because she had this mechanism, Tianyin held absolutely nothing back as she killed these players.

After she killed so many players, Tianyin’s level rose at a speed visible to the naked eye, and in just the brief span of a single minute from just now until now, Tianyin’s level rose by a full ten levels.

「They really are very weak… but Xiaoyin, why do I feel like your power is rising so fast after you kill these outsiders?」

Samael, whose perception was keen, was the first to notice the change in Tianyin’s level. However, things like levels were something NPCs could not understand, so Tianyin did not have any good way to explain.

『Well… maybe it is because fighting these outsiders is helping me get used to my power… Anyway, speaking of which, Samael, there sure are a lot of outsiders here~』

「Mm… there really are a lot.」

They were more than just “a lot”.

Even after Tianyin had killed so many players, in Tianyin’s field of vision, the number of players was still so high she could not count them.

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Heads were packed everywhere. In Tianyin’s eyes, the number of players was practically greater than that of ants.

“Then how much experience can all these players bring me?”

As she watched these players who were both afraid of her and still fearlessly charging at her to kill her, what Tianyin thought of was how much experience such a large number of players could bring her.

Of course, Tianyin would never let Samael know about this kind of thought. In fact, even if she did say it, with the System’s pissy nature, Samael definitely would not hear any words like “level” anyway.

Right when Tianyin paused to have a brief exchange with Samael, a player, seeing Tianyin stop moving, immediately showed an extremely overjoyed expression.

“Brothers, this NPC looks like she is out of stamina. Everyone, let’s kill her together!”

“A NPC this strong must have a really strong template. If we kill her, we might become this strong too.”

“Go, go!”

In the moment when Tianyin was distracted, those players had indeed been intimidated by Tianyin’s power, but under the temptation of Tianyin’s overwhelming strength, one after another they rushed at Tianyin fearless of death.

『Mm… looks like we still have not beaten them into submission yet, Samael… These outsiders still seem to think they can kill us?』

「Pft, looks like that is how it is, Xiaoyin, then keep going, beat them into submission~」

『Got it… Back then, when the Seven Original Sins still had a time limit, I would have worried that this many outsiders would drag things out. Now that I have fused with the power of Sloth and removed the time limit on the semi-fusion state, I really am not going to be scared of this kind of scene anymore. Not only am I not scared, I even feel like this time every one of them is a humanoid experience mob here to deliver experience to me.』

With that thought in mind, Tianyin struck again.

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This time, the players who swarmed forward were almost completely wiped out by Tianyin in an instant.

In a flash, a sheet of white light almost blinded the eyes of the players in the back.

“It was that blind bastard who said this NPC was out of stamina. She is out of stamina yet can still one-shot an entire group of people?”

“Can we really whittle this NPC down to death? Why do I have the feeling that no matter how many players go up, they are all just going to their deaths?”

“You are not the only one with that feeling, brother, I also feel like we are all leeks, and the NPC in front of us is here to harvest leeks…”

“…”

Although among the players there were a few who seemed to have realized the “truth”, the vast majority of players were still thinking of killing Tianyin, getting Tianyin’s NPC template, and then soaring to the heavens.

So, on this day, Tianyin’s experience bar rose at a speed where it filled up almost once every few dozen seconds.

Her level also shot up one after another.

And in several towns of the Kingdom Faction near the Elven Empire, those respawn points that usually did not have many players welcomed their first peak in resurrection numbers, almost overcrowding the huge respawn points.

As for the original culprit Tianyin, she was still here casually wiping out wave after wave of players rushing to their deaths.