Everybody was running as fast as they could, the sound of a multitude of projectiles passing through the air could be heard. Tank mana shield was still up and managed to defend against most of them, some, of course, managed to pass nearby, either missing everyone or delivering some damage.
Thud
Reign winces in pain as a needle stabs his back, biting his lips he ignores the pain and continues running, knowing that stopping now meant certain death. The others were in no better condition, as more time passed in the pursuit the more wounds they got, some got scratches while some got stabbed like Reign.
“Shit, how much longer do we have to run to get away from them, we can’t take much longer!” Shadow shouts as a needle passes by and cuts his arm.
“My shield won’t be able to last much longer!” Tank shouts from the back of the party, his shield depended on his mana and right now he was running quite low on it, it was slowly becoming smaller as tiny cracks started forming on it.
“I think we’re close, that area on our left was the place where we fought the shadows, just a bit more and we’re out,” Wolf tells everyone as he scans their surroundings, every couple of seconds he would find some paths that would force their pursuers to split up for a short period of time, making the attacks on them lessen in quantity.
Exploding Arrow
Beast jumps up while turning around, releasing an arrow at the enemies, the explosion manages to make a small hole in their attacks, but only for a short period of time as more enemies get to the front and continue the attacks.
“Shit, why are these guys so stubborn in their attacks, how much agro did we pull?!” Shadow again shouts out in frustration.
“They saw us killing their mates, they’re probably quite mad for that.” Greenie simply says while shrugging his shoulder, seemingly not concerned about the dangerous situation they were in.
“Dammit!” Shadow curses out while continuing to run.
“The trees around here, these are the ones we fought before!” Wolf shouts to inform the others who get a bit relieved as they hear that, right now they should be close to the exit of the deep forest, nearing the field boss, if the enemies still continued their pursuit their plan was to quickly pass the open area where the boss was, letting him take care of the enemies.
While running they finally see the trees in front of them change, letting them know that they have successfully gotten out of the dark forest.
“I hope they stop following us now,” Reign tells himself while running, they were not going to stop before they were sure the Wood Folk stop in their pursuit.
A couple of seconds pass by before Tank shouts. “We were right, they stopped at the entrance!”
Stopping and turning back they could see a huge crowd of the Wood Folk standing on the edge of the dark forest, hissing and growling in anger as they continue with their long-range attack, alas the party was already quite a distance away, making most of their attacks ineffective.
“So they can’t exit the area they reside in, that’s a good thing to know.” Wolf nods positively at the sight, learning a piece of information like this one meant that they would have one more way of fleeing if an enemy that was too strong for them to defeat showed up.
“But wait, how come the wolf was able to get to our castle then, a monster with such a high level shouldn’t be in the newbie forest right?” Shadow asks while looking confused.
“Now that you mention it that’s true, the tiger and the drake that Reign saw as well, they should be put in the deep forest at a minimum, after all that lizard is weaker compared to the tiger and yet it’s here, the newbie forest shouldn’t have any monster of that caliber.” Wolf suddenly puts his hand to his chin while being in deep thought, right after that they hear the sound of the system.
Ding!
[ Something went wrong while calibrating the zone during the tutorial phase, that has been fixed and the strongest available monster in the newbie zone is a level 10 field boss, further notice, the more limits the monster breaks, evolution, level… the bigger the area it can explore, high-level monster will usually never come to lower level area though. ]
Looking at the notification everyone suddenly got black lines on their foreheads.
“Something went wrong?! We almost died for god’s sake!” Reign shouts at the system out of frustration, knowing that their lives could have ended so soon because of a mistake in the system made everyone angry.
[ The mistake has been fixed, there will be no such things happening further. ]
“Tch, as if I will believe you.” Shadow sneers at the system’s response as he and the others slowly go back to the castle, the day was filled with many adventures and dangerous situations but, they managed to only get benefits out of it. Leveling up, Greenie evolving further and Beast getting a new pet were all good things.
While going back they make sure to go around the boss area as they did before, even in their peak state they would be no match for the boss, they were definitely not going to risk anything now that they were exhausted, injured, and low on mana.
“By the way Beastie, where are your wolves?” Shadows suddenly asks as he looks around them, not being able to see any of the 3 wolves that Beast had.
“Oh that, once I got my 3rd pet the system told me I unlocked a new function, I can simply store my pets in a stable, similar to how we put things in the inventory,” Beast explains to Shadow with a smile on his face, being able to store and hide his pets was something that made him incredibly happy, he could use his wolves better now with it, hiding somewhere during a battle and releasing them would make stealth actions much easier as the monsters wouldn’t be able to see them.
“Nice, we got ourselves a hidden troop now, we should probably get you some more beasts though, what level are the first 2 now?” Reign asks Beast as they all continue going forward.
“They’re at level 9 now, just a bit more and they will be able to evolve, my ability lets me see if they were eligible for evolution or not, luckily they both are.” Beast breathes out a sigh of relief as he says that, without the necessary conditions the monsters would stay at level 9 until they met them, further increasing the difficulty of evolution, Beast’s ability was luckily able to help him out with this, as he could check the condition and see what was approximately missing and how good the evolution will turn out.
“Looking at the status they will both probably get a wind ability, that evolution was the one with the highest percentage rate,” Beast tells everyone even more information as Reign ponders before asking. “Can you check Greenie too?”
“Sure.” Beast simply nods as he looks at Greenie in hopes of finding out his evolution requirement, shaking his head after a couple of seconds he says. “Sorry Reign, it doesn’t work if it’s not mine, furthermore Greenie isn’t even a beast so it’s pretty much impossible.”
“I thought as much.” Reign sighs in disappointment while Greenie simply scratches his head in confusion after watching him and Beast.
“Alright we’re out of the deep forest now, just a bit more and we will be back to the castle, but getting there before night comes is pretty much impossible, luckily for us the size of the enemy groups here are of no worries, even if there were over 500 enemies we would still win,” Wolf tells them again after they set foot inside the newbie forest, relief was over everyone’s faces as they go back to the castle.
Thud
Throwing himself on the bed Reign looks up at the ceiling while concentrating on the lightning on his hand.
“I wonder if this is how everyone feels the lighting.” He says with a low tone.
Ding! ．𝗻𝐞𝘁
[ The better the rank of an ability at the beginning the easier it is to learn, as there will be no bottlenecks before hitting the max level.]
“Oh, so what do the ones with low leveled abilities do then?”
[ Using their ability and creating skills is a good way to comprehend their ability, meditating and contemplating their ability will help as well before they manage to raise the rank of the ability though, the most they will be able to get is the abilities power at its current max level.]
“I see, so this is why it was so easy for me to create new skills, turns out having a rank S ability is even better than I thought.” Reign flashes a smile as he closes his eyes to sleep.