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Vol2 ch5
The Moon lit Battle
In the city of Gelden, Sairei Kingdom, Don, Rose, and Tolan sat in the corner table of a popular restaurant with a local, a young politician. They had arranged the meeting with this woman to ascertain information about their latest target.
The order the trio killed target gods in was generally their choice, but the other day, Rose got a message from Lu saying that one god moved to the top of Lu’s hit list and needed to be taken care of as soon as possible. The object of Lu’s attention was a minor light god named Zoltan. Although his power was far overshadowed by Lu’s, recently the number of his followers skyrocketed. This usually would not be of great concern to Lu, but Zoltan’s followers weren’t some cult held up in a musty temple. They had actually moved into this city, a city that Lu had domain over. The church of Zoltan became so popular so fast, that there was talk of getting the patron of the city switched from Lu to Zoltan.
Rose asked the woman, “How can people choose this hack over Lu?”
The woman nodded, “I know what you mean, but we have good reason. Lu does his thing in his realm, but Lord Zoltan lives down here. He has proven to us that he has great power, and can watch over our city better than Lu.”
Tolan looked highly pissed but was able to restrain himself, Rose other the other hand, could not. She shouted, “That THING, Lu does in His, realm keeps us safe down here in ways you don’t even know! And What exactly has Zoltan done for you that the people of this city are willing to choose him over Lu?!”
Don noticed that Rose implied that what Gods did in their realm greatly affected the mortal realm. He was interested but would save the questions for later.
The politician calmly said, “A few weeks ago a great army of monsters came from the forest and marched on the city. They came without warning and gave no time for the soldiers to assemble, so our defenses were low. It isn’t that we have a poor military, it was just so sudden, the army came from nowhere. Anyways, that is when lord Zoltan appeared on the city wall and told the people they were safe. He faced the army of 10,000 monster and cast a spell of light that erased the monsters.
After that, people began worshiping him and built a church in the hope that he would stay. The believers say that unless the city makes him their patron, he might leave. Though Zoltan himself has never said so. Still, I hope that the city will convert.”
The woman looked like a teen thinking about her crush, Rose and Tolan noticed this as well and gave up on convincing her with logic. Tolan calmly said, “You know we are members of the church of Lu. Before your city decided to switch their patron, we would like a fair chance to defend Lu’s honor. If we cannot convince you to stay with Lu, then you may convert your city without trouble from the church of Lu.”
The politician looked like she had opened a Christmas present had got exactly what she wanted. It seemed that she may have been worried about the wrath of Lu if they converted, and that fear was shared by many, but now she, and the whole city had a way out.
The politician thanked Tolan and left, no sooner had she exited the door did Rose shout, “What the hell Tolan?! I’m the only one here who can hear the voice of Lu, and I Know he never said that! You saw her, nothing we say will change her mind! We’ll have to kill every person in this city to weaken Zoltan enough to slay him!”
Tolan took in a deep breath and looked around to make sure no one in the restaurant overheard Rose say ‘Kill every person in the city.’. After that he looked at Don, completely ignoring Rose and said, “I need you to destroy the city, as much of it as you can, in whatever way you can.”
Don, almost spit out the food he was eating. Almost. Since playing royal road, he had come to appreciate the scarcity of high quality food and wouldn’t spit it out if even he was stabbed. That being said, he wasn’t sure how to take Tolan’s assignment. Don turned to Rose to see her calm down and take on a somewhat understanding look.
“Why?” He asked. Don wouldn’t do anything that he considered unmanly. Of course his conditions for unmanliness were simply, 'whatever a coward would do'. So, as long as the reason to do so and the way he did it wasn’t cowardly, he didn’t have a problem burning a city or two to the ground.
Tolan said, “I don’t know how Zoltan managed to wipe out an army of ‘10,000 monsters,’ but if people worship him for his ability to protect the city, that ability must be put to the test. If he fails, then the people will turn their back on him, dropping the number of worshippers as surely as if we killed them..”
Don asked, “What if he succeeds?”
Tolan smiled, “I don’t think even Lu could stop you if you used your skills to the best of your ability.”
His confidence was not misplaced. Since obtaining Actos’ journal, Don had been making and experimenting with many kinds of sygs and magics. He had made a gauntlet that absorbed lightning magic and discharged it into whatever the arm with the gauntlet next punched, (though it could only absorb one bolt before it needed to discharge or else it would explode.) He made a pair of artifact that transferred heat from one to the other, if they were each thrown into a different tub of water, one tub would freeze while the other would boil. (Of course for this effect to be worth something in a large pool like that of a water serpent god they faced a while ago, he had to make a few dozen pairs.) And he had made a spell sphere that could cast Warrior’s Might on one person at intermediate level 2, once every four hours. (He made a few of them and gave two apiece to Rose and Tolan.)
At this point Tolan believed Don could do anything if given enough time to prep.
Don said, “Alright. I have some ideas. But if you want this to work, you’re going to need to get the local military on your side. If you get the military behind Lu and they save the city, Lu will get the credit.”
Tolan became confused for a moment. “I thought you could just make some dangerous stuff and use it to disrupt the city under Zoltan’s protection and make people doubt him. Why would the local military matter?”
Don rolled his eyes. “If I use artifacts to directly destroy the city, artifacts will get a bad reputation and artificers will suffer for it.” Besides, using the cheap and easy way was not Don’s idea of manly. He continued, “You know the local werewolf population? I bet I could get a whole lot of them to attack the city at the same time.”
Werewolves packs consisted of a dozen or so and their members varied between level 150 and 210 depending on the area you found them. The werewolves found in the Sairei mountain ranges were about level 180. In order for to have a force capable of toppling a city, he needed to get a hundred or so packs of werewolves at least to decide to attack the city at the same time. The military stationed at Gelden had about 1000 soldiers so Don had to get the right number to put up a great fight but ultimately be defeated at the end.
Rose looked like she wanted to ask how the hell he would do that but somehow managed to refrain. Tolan had a similar look but only asked. “And on what day do you think you can get them to attack on?”
Don thought about it, it was a saturday in the real world and he needed to time the battle for when he could participate. “How about the full moon for next month?”
The trio had killed 10 gods in six months, Don had another six months to go to kill 9 more before the egg of the holy dragon hatched. (All in game time) He was actually ahead of schedule so he could afford to spend a month on Zoltan, as long as the remaining gods weren’t too much of a pain to deal with.
Tolan said, “Alright. We’ll gather information about Zoltan in the city and rally the soldiers. You do... Whatever you need to do..”
Rose shook her head, “You know if Don doesn’t get the army together this whole thing will fall on its face and we won’t be able to convince this city to switch. After which we will lose our positions and be expelled from the church...”
Tolan didn’t say anything but simply got up after a moment and left, with Rose following behind shortly.
Don went to an inn and opened Actos’ journal.
Page 42
Light Amplifier.
Materials:
-6 leather straps
-1 type B material (Frame)
-2 type L crystal
-2Type R crystal
-1 Type X crystal
-1 Type E material
Sygs required: Light absorb, Light sustain, Light strengthen, Release activation, energy channeler
The light amplifier was a leather wrist guard that provided little protection. What it did do was absorb light that was shone on it, keep in inside, then upon activation, channel the light to the user. Such a system was not useful unless the wearer was strengthened by light. Don had used it with his light of the heavens skill with some success and he hoped it would strengthen werewolves as well. If charged under any moon but the new moon for a night or two, it could be activated and for an hour bless the user with energy equivalent to being under a full moon. If used while under a full moon then it was like having two full moons.
Later that night, Don left the city for the mountains, seeking something that normally hunts without prejudice.
Not to disappoint, half an hour after entering Don encountered a pack of black werewolves, one of the strongest breed. Add to that the brightness of a moon that had been full two nights ago and it became clear tonight was a good night to be a werewolf.
Don first activated a light amplifying sphere which had similar though more temporary effects than the wrist guards. The upside was that it affected everyone, not just the user.
Don and the oncoming werewolves were bathed in bright moonlight from the sphere, and each werewolf received a small buff that strengthened them. This caused some confusion as to why their prey had done so. The pack slowed down upon approaching Don after noticing he had no weapon out and didn’t seem hostile.
A large black werewolf with a red name above his head, Jorden, walked up to Don. As he approached, Don saw a red diamond on his forehead, the mark of a murderer, but one only Users wore. This werewolf was not an NPC.
As a show of good faith, Don threw the light amplifier to Jorden who caught it with his furry paw.
Don said, “I’ll tell you how to work that if you hear me out. Help me with something and there’s more where that came from for you and your pack.”
Jorden was suspicious. Not because he doubted Don, but because Don was still wearing a (handmade) overcoat that didn’t show his face. Don made it a habit of always wearing it when not fighting, whether in a city or meeting a stranger. Jorden motioned for the pack to go elsewhere and said, “Show your face.” After they disappeared into the surroundings, Don took off the hood. Jorden started chuckling, “Hehe, pretty-boy elf huh? Alright, you have my attention. First explain how to activate this.”
Don ignored the ‘prettyboy’ comment and began, “Squeeze lightly to activate, before it can be activated it needs to absorb light. It can absorb any light, but for it to be useful to you make sure you only have it out at night to absorb moonlight. To make that easier you can hook it to a necklace or something you wear at night. The more light it absorbs before being activated, the stronger the light when activated.”
Another wolfish grin with far too much teeth was shown. He said, “Useful. Did you make this yourself?”
Don nodded humbly. Jorden asked once more, “And should I assist in your request, you’ll make more?”
Don took the wrist-guard model from his inventory. “I can give you more spheres and these as well, these you can wear and have a much longer, much stronger buff, but they only affect the wearer.”
Jorden considered this and said, “What do you need?”
“I need the city Gelden attacked with an army strong enough to take it. You get an army of werewolves, I’ll equip them with these. When used under the full moon these will give you strength greater than any you’ve ever had.”
“Hmm. Difficult. The werewolf tribes has many factions and many creeds. Few of which are eager to work together.”
Don nodded. “I’ll given you as many of these as I can to spread to others who can convince the other tribes.”
Jorden looked at Don suspiciously ,he asked, “Why are you doing this? You are no NPC, that is for sure.”
Don hadn’t expected to meet a user turned werewolf so this entire conversation was outside of his expectations. That being said, lying was another form of running away, and not the manly thing to do.
“I represent the church of Lu, Gelden is worshiping one of Lu’s rivals who claims to provide protection. That protection must be tested.”
Jorden started chuckling. He said, “One of my skills as a werewolf is the ability to smell fear. I can tell when a person lies, and if you had been lying, I would’ve ripped you to shreds.”
Don took a deep sigh, the path of the man had served him well.... this time anyways.
Jorden continued, “I’ll tell you something good. You know the monster army that Zoltan character defeated?”
Don nodded, Jorden said, “It never existed. I went over the battlefield the next day to check out the rumors. But there was nothing. Supposedly ten thousand monsters showed up and were defeated, but my nose told me that no monsters had stepped foot on the plains in front of that city in weeks. I bet the whole thing was an illusion cast by Zoltan. To defeat an illusion you just need to shine a brighter light on it. That’s what those fools saw when he ‘defeated’ the monster army.
Don smacked his head that he hadn’t thought of that. Illusion was a branch of light magic and it seemed that this minor light god had used it to full effect.
Jorden said, “So the point isn’t to kill everything, but to make them cry for their mommy. Well, I can do that. Fact is, werewolf tribes often fight for no other reason than to thin out the weak and reduce population. Because of how werewolves are created, if we choose to we could populate faster than orcs. And of course there are many old werewolves who fight simply to find a place to die with honor. Now, show me how to work that wristguard and we can get started.”
Don spent his sunday making artifacts and talking with Jorden. Don was especially interested in the details for how he became a werewolf. It seemed Jorden used to be a human monk, but he got a quest in the mountains and got bitten by a werewolf. The chances of becoming a werewolf are very low if bitten and if infected you automatically receive a quest that cures you if you succeed, but Jorden declined it and decided he wanted to be a werewolf.
Don was able to get the characteristics of the werewolf race form Jorden. Werewolves can, if they choose, switch between their beast and original forms. A werewolf in the form of its original race has higher stats than a member of the same race of the same level (not counting additionally gained stats.) Stats further increase while in beast form and several skills are gained, though many skills incompatible with werewolves cannot be used in beast form. And of course the light of the full moon strengthens werewolves regardless of what form they are in.
Although it actually has many upsides, it has many more downsides. Becoming a werewolf automatically changes your alignment from neutral or lawful to chaotic. And unless you somehow become a good samaritan werewolf and get your alignment back to neutral you will be treated as hostile to all non monster races (and plenty of monster races as well). Even if you do get it back to neutral, NPCs won’t treat you well, some cities won’t allow you entrance, and users who attack while you’re in beast form you won’t be given the mark of a murderer (The werewolf race cannot gain Lawful alignment.)
Don went to school and work over the next four days and upon returning, met Jorden. Jorden said, “The recruitment goes well. I’ve convinced the leader of the black tribe as well an envoys from the grey, brown, and white werewolf tribes. Your toys are very useful. There has already been several deaths.”
Don asked, “What do you mean?”
Jorden chuckled. “In the white tribe, a wrist model was giving to the son of the chieftain. He tried to convince his father to join in the battle or else other tribes would receives your toys and the whites would fall behind in strength. When his father refused, he challenged for leadership and killed his father.”
“Woah. I’ve never even heard of white werewolves.”
“They take measures not to be seen. Among the leaders, the white werewolf chieftain was regarded as the strongest. His son used your toy to strengthen himself enough to win, showing off its usefulness and convincing the tribe to follow him into battle.”
Don wondered aloud, “Is that a good thing or bad thing?”
“Depends on your point of view and what happens. Bad for you if you don’t come through, werewolves do not take lies kindly. If you do, then it will be bad for the city. Many will die.” Jorden finished that sentence with the wolfish grin of a devil who signed a contract with a human.
Don shrugged, Tolan never said to go easy on them. He spent the next four days (in game) making powerful and effective light amplifiers and letting them charge. By the night of the full moon, he had 70 wrist models, 200 sphere models, and level 7 in artificing.
The number was lower than he had hoped but at least each clan leader and clan captain had their own wrist model to strengthen themselves and each pack leader had one or two sphere models to strengthen their pack. Don had made enough to make sure a thousand or so werewolves wouldn’t be gunning for his throat any time soon.
Two days before the coming battle, Don entered the soon to be sieged city and met with Tolan.
Tolan asked, “How did it go on your end?”
Don answered, “No problem. About a thousand werewolves are on their way. They’ll attack tomorrow night when the moon hits its peak.”
Tolan sighed deeply, apparently relieved. “Nice going, I can work with that. I was offered a chance to speak with the so called high priest of Zoltan. I’ll talk with him and a few others tonight.”
Later that night, Tolan,. Rose, Don, the high priest of Zoltan, two older looking priests, and three politicians including the one from before were at the meeting.
Don’s overcoat, meant to prevent attention, drew it instead among this crowd. He had to either remove it or leave the room. So he decided to wait outside.
A priest who was also outside said, “You. You feel strange. Are you a follower of Lu as well?”
Don sat down without looking at the priest or revealing his face beneath the cloak. He answered, “It isn’t uncommon for those on a quest for the church to have an escort or two. I’m not a follower of Lu.”
Don told the truth but made it sound like he was the escort, instead of the other way around.
Don was tempted to look at the priest but didn’t. He felt something from him. Although there was no golden name above his head, Don knew it was Zoltan. Likely a side effect from the divine affinity he had been accumulating. And although Zoltan’s sensitivity was not as high as Lu’s, the minor god could feel the holy dragon egg in Don’s possession. Though he had no idea what it was he felt.
Don could take out his swords and fight him now, but Zoltan currently had tens of thousands of followers, and although he was still a minor god, he was still too strong to fight for now. Don considered taking out the sealing sphere he had in his possession. All he had to do was break it and a level 450 armored behemoth would pop out and destroy everything.
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But he already had a way to destroy the city, it was a waste to use the behemoth for something if he didn’t need it. He decided to pass on the chance for now and let the plan take its course.
Don said, “You should be careful. I probably shouldn’t be saying this, but there is gonna be a coup d'etat soon.”
Zoltan turned to Don, “What did you say?”
Don nodded, “Yea, that sneaky paladin spent the last month convincing the local military to overthrow the current government in case he failed to convince them to stay with Lu. I doubt they will convince anyone, so the coup d’etat will be in a few days, a week at the most. You should leave the city.”
The disguised god said, “Is that so?”
Don nodded and replied, “Well unless the military gets disbanded. But there’s no way that can happen in a few days.”
Neither said anything after that but Zoltan seemed fidgety. Half an hour later the doors opened and Rose and Tolan came out, defeated. The trio left and Rose said, “Those bastards deserve what’s coming.”
Don said, “Yea. What would happen if the church disbanded the army before tomorrow night?”
Tolan looked at Don and said, “I don’t know why they would do that, but it wouldn’t go well for them. Why?”
Don said nothing. The trio rented a Inn for the night and prepared for battle. The next morning, to everyone’s surprised, (but Don’s,) the city was littered with posters put there by the church.
Proclamation of Zoltan.
Zoltan has agreed to be Gelden’s patron deity.
But only if the current army is immediately disbanded, and all soldiers turn in their weapons.
From now on, Zoltan will protect the city, therefore there is no need for an army.
All praise Zoltan!
On the bottom was a large letter Z, Zoltan’s signature apparently. After reading the poster, Rose and Tolan turned to Don. Tolan asked, “How?”
Don smiled and said, “Met Zoltan yesterday. Convinced him you guys were orchestrating a coup d’etat with the military.”
Tolan shook his head in disbelief.
The group wandered around the city for a while. A little after noon, bells on the city walls could be heard ringing. News quickly spread of a vast force of werewolves, many hundreds of them coming the Gelden.
The believers of Zoltan urged the military to turn over their weapons as fast as they could, that way Zoltan would agree to protect them. In a scene of madness never before witnessed, the closer the invading army got, the more defenseless the city became. Don wondered to himself if he had gone too far, but it was not his nature to do something half-way or not give it everything he had. If he was asked to destroy a city, so be it.
Although reluctant, by the time the werewolves made camp a few miles outside the city, the entire army had relinquished their weapons to government, causing the followers of Zoltan to celebrate. The high priest of Zoltan announced this achievement and assured the people that their faith in Zoltan would be rewarded.
After the sun had set and the full moon rose, a werewolf army stood a two miles outside the city walls, and as far back as the eyes could see. The people of Gelden gathered en masse on the city walls, waiting to see Zoltan defeat the monster army. Don Rose and Tolan also found good spots. Tolan looked over the army and said, “This is gonna get messy. Try not to die.”
In the center of the city walls, above the gate, was a robed figure that priests were bowing to. Although his face could not be seen, all the people around knew it was Zoltan, and they all cheered.
The moon rose until it was high and at that point, the army advanced. When within a quarter of a mile, Zoltan raised his hand, causing light to emerge. Suddenly, three dragons appeared before the city gates. Bathed in moonlight, they were each larger than a building, majestic and powerful looking. They each roared in a different direction, spewing fire, ice, and lightning into the sky in an impressive display. Don imagined for a moment riding on the back of one of them and flying into battle. But unfortunately he knew that they were no more than illusions. Impressive illusions, but illusions nonetheless.
The army stopped. The dragons did not approach them but stood guard as deterrents.
A small group of werewolves, a group that had at least one of each variety of werewolf, approached the monstrous vision before them. Of course high grade illusions could be seen and heard, some even felt up to a certain degree, but they had no scent. And werewolves were not fooled so easily.
Don noticed that each of them had one of his wrist guards, meaning they were all high ranking, possibly the leaders of the werewolf tribes.
People were murmuring excitedly.
-I can’t believe Lord Zoltan commands dragons!
-Those puppy dogs are gonna get charbroiled.
-Send them back with their tails between their legs!
Don knew where this was going. He planned half of it. One of the group, the black one Don now recognized as Jorden, pulled out a metal rod and pointed it at a dragon.
A moment later, a beam of powerful sunlight came forth and pierced the first dragon, causing it to slowly dissolve. Not all of the light amplifiers were used for moonlight. By using stored sunlight, the bright light can destroy illusions.
A few moments later the other two dragons were pierced by light and dissolved. A city of people fell into panic as they realized what had happened.
-No..
-Illusions? The dragons were fake?
-Was the army from before?
-Oh no, we’re defenseless!
People began scrambling from the walls and screaming for their lives. As the third dragon dissolved, the army of werewolves started charging for the gates. Some of the people were magicians, who tried to cast spells, but their morale from discovering they were tricked was so low, the spells failed to activate.
Tolan said, “Ok, now the hunt is on, find and kill Zoltan before he gets away, and don’t die!”
The group ran for where they last saw Zoltan but a majority of people were running the opposite direction. Don jumped onto the edge of the wall and ran past the crowd, ahead of Rose and Tolan. He couldn’t see Zoltan, but he felt him. He followed the feeling until he saw a small child who was running away. Don took out his own sunlight rod and shot a short beam at the child.
Suddenly Zoltan’s form was revealed in the middle of the crowd. A golden name above his head. Although the sound of pounding on the city gates could be heard, people were focused on Zoltan’s cowering form, and Don.
Don said, “Zoltan. For the crime of misleading the followers of Lu and rendering this city defenseless to invasion, I sentence you to death!”
Zoltan quickly recognized Don’s cloaked figured and scowled in realization. “You, this was all your doing.”
Don charged at Zoltan who then disappeared. Don realized the crowd of surrounding people wouldn’t stop him from escaping for long. Don removed his cloak, revealing his appearance, (to the oohs, and aahs of the female audience.) However he couldn’t use a sunlight wand or sphere to dispel the invisibility, using it while running through a crowd was one thing, but if he used it while everyone was watching, someone might notice it was the same thing in possession of the werewolves.
Don took out his moonlight blades. As soon as they were out they started glowing with a fierce light, they were taking power from the light of the full moon.
Dual Blades of Moonlight’s light based damage has increased
Don put the edges of the blades together and swept them over each other making a scchiiin* sound. A wave of moonlight blew from the swords.
Dual Blades of Moonlight’s durability has decreased
The swords were made of moonlight and if damaged, the moonlight was released. The light wave revealed Zoltan’s location by causing illusion that made him invisible to be washed away. The people didn’t want him to escape so they quickly grabbed him. Although he was a god, he had lost every follower he had. Don also guessed that he was likely weak from the beginning.
Without any preamble Don walked over to the captured god and beheaded Zoltan, causing the god’s body to disappear like fading light.
Quest Update: Slay the Gods
Lu, the god of Light has requested that you kill the lower gods that have encroached upon his territory. Accept and he will offer assistance.
Progress 11/19
Don bent down to pick up the items before anyone noticed.
You have obtained the spirit of Zoltan!
Wisdom increased by 10 (+10 WIS)
Luck increased by 20 (+20 LUK)
Charisma increased by 20 (+20 CHR)
Your divine affinity has increased
Don also got a high quality priest robe and some gold, he quickly said to the people, “Arm yourselves and prepare for battle. We will make those dogs regret coming down from the mountains!”
The people around Don began to cheer.
Leadership increased by 2 (+2 LEA)
Don’s speech was not exactly inspirational, but his charisma was almost 200 now which made people more likely to follow his orders.
Don ran to the gates, by the time he got there, the area already had hundreds of armed men standing by. Although the soldiers had been disarmed and disbanded, the city still had many adventurers, warriors, and guards willing to fight. Or at least they appeared willing. They too were likely followers of Zoltan and had been shaken by the revelation of the false idol’s illusions.
Don walked up to the wooden door that was being pounded on and started dancing. The shaken residents saw Don’s movements and regained their fighting spirit. Don’s Dance of the Brave allowed the people to clear their heads gain the will to fight.
The doors to the city broke through, hundreds of werewolves poured in, and as their did they raised metal spheres which shined with the light of the full moon.
Dual Blades of Moonlight’s light based damage has increased
Of course the moonlight increased the strength of his swords as well. Don activated the necklace he was wearing. It was a modified light amplifier that people wouldn’t recognize as the same thing wore by the werewolves.
Dual Blades of Moonlight’s light based damage has increased
The blades of moonlight have been bathed in concentrated light from the full moon.
Additional property revealed.
You have learned the skill: Moonlight Slash
When moonlight slash is used with the dual blades of moonlight, its power is increased, but it will lower the durability of the dual blades of moonlight.
Don had no time to check on the new skill, but as long as he was super empowered by moonlight, “Light of the Heavens!”
Lunar Buff
+100% Ice Affinity
+75% Agility
+40% Increase in light based damage
When Don activated his racial spell, the moon glowed, but so did his swords. The buff took in all the moonlight from the full moon, the light from the werewolves' spheres, the light from Don’s necklace, and the light from both of Don’s swords. The timer on the buff started clicking down from 2 hours. Until then, Nothing would be able to stop Don.
Don started dancing. Although werewolves were strengthened by moonlight, they had no resistance to light based attacks. The regular damage of Don’s swords was now overshadowed by their light based damage. Although it wouldn’t last forever, for now, Don could cut through werewolves like they were made of smoke. Don’s blade dancing was nearly impossible to look away from. Although he moved so fast he looked like a small, glowing tornado, he was still dancing.
Don shredded through the werewolves that poured into the city almost as fast as they came through. A dozen or so at a time would try to attack him but to Don they moved in slow motion. Although they were greatly strengthened by the full moon and Don’s artifacts, Don gained far more.
Although he still didn’t have the leisure of opening and reading the skill description of Moonlight slash, he wanted to use it anyways. He called “Moonlight Slash!” at a group of incoming werewolves. The area around Don darkened a bit but at the same time glowing edges of Don’s swords grew brighter and released a thin wave of light that shot out and cut through the group of werewolves
Dual Blades of Moonlight’s durability has decreased
Don charged forward using the opening his attack had made. The attack was effective even at level 1 due to the light strengthening buffs he had but Don had to use it sparingly. His moonlight blades slowly repaired themselves in moonlight but whether or not they repaired themselves faster than he damaged them during combat was unknown and Don didn’t want to risk it.
The speed at which the werewolves charged in doubled, a grey clan captain had shown up and was directing the wolves around Don while he and several others occupied Don’s swords. Although most werewolves prefered attacking with their claws, the group that now fought Don six on one each had a sturdy weapon to keep Don’s swords from slashing them to ribbons. Don’s speed kept him from being pushed back but being unable to kill with each slashed prevented Don from pushing forward.
To Don’s relief, a horn sounded from behind as hundreds of werewolves invaded the city. It was the martial horn signalling the arrival of the soldiers. Tolan had lead them to retrieve their weapons and armor and now, although within the city walls, they stood a fighting chance.
However Don was not so lucky. Another sword wielding white werewolf joined the attack on Don and the group pushed back and overpowered Don. Don had little choice but to use his greatest skill. He dropped his guard, looked behind the group and said, “Hit ‘em Now!”
Every werewolf turned around to defend against what Don was calling to, only to realized nothing was there. From behind they heard, “Moonlight slash!”
Skill level up: Bluff [5]Critical Hit!
Don quickly cut through the two strongest ones and afterwards was able to defeat the rest. There was some distance between the other werewolves and himself so he had a few seconds.
“Show skill Moonlight Slash.”
Moonlight Slash [1] 53%
Gathers moonlight to the edge of the sword then releases it in a extended slash.
Strength determined by the amount of moonlight gathered. The longer you take to gather moonlight, the stronger the slash.
Mana cost: 30
It was an impressive skill. There was so much moonlight around that taking almost no time to gather it could kill a werewolf. But because the skill gathered and released moonlight, it decreased the durability of the moonlight blades, though the attack from them was increased as well.
Don wanted to charge into the heart of the werewolf army but his health was less than a fifth. He ran with blinding speed to the area behind him where werewolves and citizens were fighting and Rose was healing. She saw Don and cast healing hand on him before going back to healing people and quickly smashing werewolves with her mace. Since both Rose and Tolan were in his party, they too received the bonus agility from his light of the heavens buff.
The army of a 1000 some soldiers lead by Tolan rushed to the entrance of the town. Although Werewolves were also rushing inside, they did not have the discipline and formation of the soldiers who mowed through. Don tried to make it to the gate before the soldiers so he could fight against the main force but was stopped time and time again by groups of werewolves who singled him out either because they saw him fight before or because they didn’t like how handsome Don looked.
The soldiers made it to the city entrance and pushed the incoming werewolves back and kept going right into the main force. Don couldn’t even leave now because it would take a while for a thousand soldiers to go through the narrow city entrance. Meanwhile Don still was attacked left and right by werewolves. Rose made her may close to him, and by proxy the warriors who wanted to stay near rose made it over to Don as well which reduced Don’s share.
Twenty minutes later, a little over an hour after the door had been breached, the werewolf army sounded the retreat and divided into parties to route out the remaining werewolves in the city. Don had reached level 206 and his dual wielding skill reached intermediate. By far he had killed more werewolves than any two people, (except maybe Rose and Tolan who also got the +70% AGI buff.) However his experience was far from typical. The moonlight strengthened werewolves provided powerful opponents that were difficult to fight, Don's speed and attack were strengthened to abnormal levels which is why he could kill without difficulty. The werewolf army had in total lost less than a third of their total numbers before retreating to the great surprise of the city. The people attributed this to Lu and his three messengers who lead the city to victory.
The next morning the trio was visited by the politician who they first spoke to.
“The entire city deeply regrets forsaking Lord Lu. We couldn’t be more ashamed. Along with the rebuilding of the city, a temple of Lu will be built. You three are the heroes of the city. Please take these as tokens of our gratitude.”
She handed each a bag of gold. It’s size seemed to be related by the number of werewolves killed. Which was likely why Don’s was so large.
Tolan took the bag and said, “You have learned your lesson. If you swear to pass on this lesson so others will not have to suffer such shame, I’m sure Lu will forgive you all.”
Basically he said, ‘Tell everyone that if you abandon Lu, horrible things will definitely happen.’ Don just hoped next time he wouldn’t have to be the one who was given the task of making those horrible things happen.
The trio left the city for their next target, but unbeknownst to them, three men followed.
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