Online Game: The Strongest Landlord

Chapter 25: Teaming Up with Girls to Level Up

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

When Ning Jing and the others heard the word “money” in the conversation between Yang Yongle and Lao Yao, they naturally knew that Lao Yao had given Yang Yongle gold coins. However, because they could not see the transaction situation between the two of them, they did not know how much money they had.

“Don’t ask so much. I earned this.” Lao Yao smiled and said.

Yang Yongle glanced at the transaction amount and gritted her teeth. After thinking for a while, she shook her head firmly and directly canceled the transaction.

“What’s wrong?” Lao Yao looked at Yang Yongle in surprise. In his opinion, these girls were not as lucky as him, who was able to bring people to clear dungeons to earn money. Although these 12 gold coins were not much, it was a huge capital in the early stages of the game. Not to mention anything else, at least they could let the girls in the studio change into good equipment, increasing their leveling efficiency. This would be very beneficial to their future development.

Yang Yongle looked at Lao Yao with a complicated expression and said, “I appreciate your good intentions but I can’t accept this sum of money.”

This was for sure. In the early stages of the game, when there were still very few gold coins, the purchasing power of 12 gold coins was incredible. If Lao Yao took out the gold coins and sold them, there would definitely be people offering 1,000 yuan for them. Although Yang Yongle kept bargaining with Lao Yao about the rent, that was normal business. Now that Lao Yao gave her the equivalent of 1,000 yuan for no reason, she would not accept it no matter what.

Seeing Yang Yongle’s determined expression, Lao Yao could only smile bitterly and keep the gold coins. He had originally wanted to help the girls in the studio out of goodwill, but it seemed like Yang Yongle’s self-esteem was really strong. If he wanted to integrate into their studio, he still needed to continue working hard.

“Sister Lele! Did he give you money? Why didn’t you accept it?” Ning Jing asked in a low voice, “When we establish a family at Level 15, we’ll also need money. Didn’t you say that this pervert is already a member of the studio? It’s normal to give you some membership fees.”

“You don’t understand…” Yang Yongle smiled bitterly. She was sure that Ning Jing probably thought that the money that Lao Yao gave her was at most 1 or 2 gold coins. That was why she instigated her to accept it.

“Since everyone is gathered together, let’s go out of the city to level up!” Yang Yongle said to Lao Yao, “How much time do you have left in the game?”

“There’s still an hour!” Lao Yao replied.

“Alright, we don’t have to run too far!” Yang Yongle smiled and said, “It’s mainly to let you familiarize yourself with the coordination. After all, we haven’t formed a team to train together before. We have to understand your leveling method and you have to understand ours. When we go online tomorrow, we’ll directly go to a suitable place to level up.”

“Oh, okay!” When Lao Yao heard what she said, he couldn’t reject her. He could only temporarily put aside his plans to learn skills from the professional mentor and follow the group of girls out of the city.

On the outskirts of Van Tarost City, there were several respawn points for Level 11 monsters. Although it was almost 10 p.m. in the real world, it was still daytime in the game, and there were quite a number of people leveling up. After searching for a long time, everyone barely found a place with few people and stopped.

However, when it came to forming the teams, Yang Yongle was stumped.

In the game, the maximum number of people per team was six. Before Lao Yao entered the main city, Yang Yongle and the other 11 girls could form two teams. Furthermore, they had already trained together for a day. Now that Lao Yao had suddenly joined them, it was not easy to form a team.

If they formed two parties, one of them would have to withdraw. If they formed three parties, there would only be three people in the third party. Naturally, their leveling efficiency would not be the highest.

The group of girls looked at each other and then looked at Lao Yao, the “third wheel”, gloomily…

Lao Yao also looked at the girls innocently. He had come out with them because he listened to Yang Yongle’s opinion. Basically, he would do whatever Yang Yongle said.

“What are you looking at!?” Ning Jing was very displeased with Lao Yao’s gaze. “You’re a man. Hurry up and think of a way!”

“Don’t ask me!” Lao Yao shrugged his shoulders. “I’ve never formed a full team before. I can’t give any suggestions!”

Actually, Lao Yao also knew that in terms of leveling up efficiency, a full team was the best. However, the problem now was that it was not good to ask anyone to quit. Lao Yao was determined not to do such a thankless and offensive thing, especially when it was very likely to offend a group of girls…

Furthermore, Lao Yao also wanted to see if Yang Yongle, as the big sister and the nominal leader of the studio, had the ability to coordinate the team.

This was a test of Yang Yongle’s leadership skills.

However, Yang Yongle’s subsequent performance somewhat disappointed Lao Yao. She had been hesitating but was unable to make a decision. Strictly speaking, Yang Yongle was actually not a qualified leader. She did not have the courage that a leader should have.

Perhaps if the girls weren’t members of the studio and were just a group of ordinary players, Yang Yongle would have relied on her affinity to unite the girls around her. However, if the studio was really treated as their career, this kind of overly affinity and lack of decisiveness would become a big problem that restricted them.

At this moment, Lao Yao finally understood why Silver Maple Leaf Studio had never been famous…

In the end, it was Meng Di, the shy girl, who took the initiative to suggest it. “Sister Lele, it’s getting late. Why don’t I quit? I’ll go offline and make you guys some night snacks!”

Although she was a little reluctant, Yang Yongle knew that this was the best solution. She could only hold Meng Di’s hand and give her an apologetic smile.

Meng Di did not mind. Perhaps for a homely girl like her, playing games was not something she liked. She was more willing to take care of her sisters. Therefore, she did not have any complaints about not being able to level up with everyone. She smiled and said goodbye to everyone before going offline.

Thus, Silver Maple Leaf Studio’s two leveling teams were finally formed successfully…

Originally, before Lao Yao came, the girls from Silver Maple Leaf Studio formed a team like this: Besides Ning Jing the Warrior, Wang Ke the Assassin, and Yang Yongle the Mage, three of the other nine girls were Priests, three were Mages, and three were Hunters. In total, they were one Warrior, one Assassin, four Mages, three Priests, and three Hunters!

The distribution of the members of the first team was: 1 Warrior, 1 Assassin, 1 Mage, 2 Priests, and 1 Hunter. The combination was more reasonable. This was their main team.

The second team was two Hunters, three Mages, and one Priest. The main strategy was kiting. The damage output was quite high, and the leveling efficiency was not low.

It could be seen from the professions chosen by the girls in the studio. After all, they did not have the concept of a professional studio. There were not many melee professions, and more than half of them were long-range professions. This could be said to be a common problem for female players, and the girls in Silver Maple Leaf Studio were no exception.

However, Yang Yongle still had some brains. A group of people who were very “biased” actually allowed her to find a reasonable distribution method and she even trained a group of girls to level up. It was a miracle…

After Lao Yao joined the team, Yang Yongle adjusted the class combination. Meng Di, who went offline, was originally a Mage from the second team. Hence, she placed Lao Yao in the same team as Ning Jing and replaced Wang Ke. This meant that the first team did not change and the second team became 2 Hunters, 2 Mages, 1 Assassin, and 1 Priest.

Of course, this was only a temporary adjustment. The specifics would depend on Lao Yao’s performance before he continued to make adjustments.

Although Yang Yongle was not decisive, that was only because of her character and limited vision. She was actually not stupid. Yang Yongle knew that Lao Yao’s attack was high. Therefore, her arrangement was to ensure the strength of the main team.

Yang Yongle was also very satisfied with this combination. In her opinion, placing Lao Yao in the main team was not a waste of a powerful talent like Lao Yao.

However, when it was time to level up, she realized that there was a huge deviation between her expectations and reality.

The reason was that Ning Jing, who was in the main team, couldn’t attract the aggro of the monsters at all…

This was what happened. As Lao Yao had never stayed in a full team before, he humbly studied. He followed Ning Jing’s request and attacked with the Mages when Ning Jing was aggroing the monsters.

However, the problem happened here. Ning Jing, this little girl, only asked Lao Yao to attack after taking away at least one-fifth of the monster’s health. In Ning Jing’s opinion, even if Lao Yao’s attack was very high, this could ensure that the aggro would not be transferred.

Unfortunately, when Lao Yao attacked, his old habit kicked in. After subconsciously finding the feeling of a critical hit, he stabbed out with the Forehand Sword. After so many days of training, he had already formed a habit.

“Critical hit! -502!”

Ning Jing only felt the scene in front of her tremble. Accompanied by the sound of a critical hit, a huge golden skill damage number floated out from the head of the Level 11 Parasitic Demon in front of her.

Then, the Parasitic Demon immediately abandoned Ning Jing and turned around. It turned its big butt towards her and pounced towards Lao Yao without looking back…