On Wednesday morning all the way to the end of school, everyone was talking about the demon invasion. People were forming groups of at least 10 up to 20 with their friends in school. Some of the groups tried to recruit more people. Every single group with guys as their leader tried inviting Cynthia to join. She turned them all down like usual.
In Royal road that day everyone in their respective kingdoms were trying to get better equipments some were requiting more members for their party. Cynthia choose to stay in the library to continue reading in fear that someone would recognize her. She found a nice silent spot in the library where no one went to. Even the Npc in the library don’t go there. Cynthia continued reading till she logged off.
The next day was a repeat of Wednesday as the uproar had yet to die down. In Royal Road Cynthia continued sitting by herself reading the mountain of books she picked for that day. She tried something new. She activated partial form and brought out her dragon tail. She tried using it to flip the pages but it proved rather challenging. After an hour of practicing she could easily flip the book pages as if she was using her hands to do it.. She enjoyed flipping the book pages with her tail as she read because it is obviously something that can never be done in real life.
The various starting kingdoms were also in a state of turmoil since the word about the demons has reached the ears of nobles everywhere. The nobles were reluctant to give Lv 1 the quest but since they literally had no choice considering the fact that all the players are at lv 1. They gave the quest anyways.
Demon extermination
Kill the demons threatening the safety of our kingdom.
Demons are invading our lands. _____________ request you to help us kill the demon.
Difficulty:C
Restrictions: Have to accept the quest with a party of at least a 100 people. (Quest will still go on no matter how many people in the party dies)
Rewards: Fame depending on the number of demons killed
the noble might also decide to give something else depending on your performance
Author notes:_______________ represents the name of the noble who gave the quest since a lot of nobles are handing out the same quest
The reveal of the quest was pretty much pouring oil onto the fire since it ignited a competition for more people by the various groups of players. Some groups merged together to form a bigger group of players.
Friday was pretty much people getting their groups ready and accepting the quest from the nobles. They also checked their equipments one last time making sure that they are ready.
-Drake POV-
Drake wasn’t planning to join a group and was planning to avoid the demons unless he feels that he could survive a fight against one. This is mainly because The quest was at the difficulty of C. It probably didn’t look like that much of a problem to most but he was taking precautions in case a C rank difficulty was actually much harder than the people expected. His suspicion was mainly because he spent Thursday trying to get NPC to give him quests but the most he got was E difficulty. His conclusion was that Lv 1 wouldn’t stand a chance against these demons even if they di, it would require a lot of casulties.
He decided that the smartest option was to kill the weaker mobs that he can find. He also told himself that he will only attempt to kill or fight the demons after seeing what they were capable of.
-Cynthia POV-
Cynthia was unable to leave the library in fear of being recognize by the players outside. She did cause a uproar in the middle of town so she wouldn’t be surprised if she gets swarmed by players again if she left the library. Saturday was the day all the players who started on the day the game was released, was allowed to leave the city. This meant that she had to wait one more day in the library since it was still Friday.
After reading more books for several more hours her wisdom and intellect stat has gained a tiny boost thanks to the amount she read the past few days. Deciding she has read enough for the day she logged out.
Saturday arrived and everyone who played immediately logged in the game after breakfast. Everyone except Cynthia who was studying.
-Drake POV-
The players from Rhodium was getting ready to leave and make first contact with the demons as Drake spectated the scene from the sidelines. Wave after wave of players left the city gates ready to take on some demons.
After a few groups of player left Drake went out as well. The situation outside the walls were way worse than any of the player imagine it to be. Drake saw a player getting killed from a single swipe from the demons claw. Drake quickly accessed the situation and decided to kill all the rabbits he can find for now and ignore the demons,
A group of 100 players surrounded a demon. Five of the players charged towards the demons with their weapon ready to meet some blood. The demon on the other hand responded to this by simply charging towards one of the five players, ramming him which killed him instantly. The other 95 players all charged towards the very same demon wildly swinging their sword around trying to hit the demon. The demon got hit countless of time by the players but was still standing strong compared to the players who were dying in a single hit.
This book was originally published on Royal Road. Check it out there for the real experience.
The demon was finally killed and the surviving member of the 100 men team gained about 3-4 Lv per person. There were only 20 surviving player out of the 100 all because of one demon.
Meanwhile Drake was easily killing off rabbit after rabbit using the bonus stats he got from hitting the scarecrow non stop. After a while when he hit Lv5 he moved on to the foxes. The foxes didn’t provide much of a challenge to him as well since he could kill them in 2-3 hits. When Drake saw a demon approaching he quickly ran away.
The thousands of people who first came out of Rhodium has gotten reduced to a measly 100 or so people left. The remaining players however were people who knew how to fight, and their Lv are now around 20-30 thanks to the sacrifice of the other players.
Drake was still Lv 9 since he didn’t take part in the fight against the demons. After putting some thought into it he decided to try fighthing one. He ran towards a demon who was busy fighthing 20 other people. Drake raised his shield and ran straight towards the demon with a charge. The shield hit its mark as the demon fell down on the ground.
Taking the chance all 21 players including Drake immediately stabbed the demon as many times as they could not allowing it to get back up. Drake Lv up to 15 from that one demon. The 20 player quickly moved on to the next demon.
The other kingdoms were pretty much facing a similar situation. Thousands of people were part of the initial charge against the demons. After the battle went on for an hour or two only about a hundred people survived.
-Cynthia POV-
Cynthia logged in Royal Road after she was done studying. The kingdom was now partially deserted. Only people who joined later than the initial launch were still inside. She slowly left the library and made her way to the city gates while trying to avoid any players she sees. At the gate she quickly left the city and procedded to go as far away as she could from the battle she could see happening right in front of her.
When she was far enough so that no one can see her she activated partial form on her feet and her tail. She quickly activated dragon steps to rush forward to a horde of demons ahead of her. Using her tail like a whip she activated dragon impact killing everything that stood to close to her,
She did say she didn’t want to kill anymore demons, but sitting in the library doing nothing but reading books everyday she logged in really made her crave for some action no matter what the enemies she has to kill. Cynthia went ahead and continued using dragon steps to get further away from the city as her tail killed any demons she passed through.
-Drakes POV-
The battle against the demons was quickly becoming harder as more and more people died. Including Drake there were only about 18 people who were still alive. Their Lv was now around 40-60. The 18 people were fighthing in about 3 separate groups. 5 in one group 9 in the other group and 4 in the group Drake was in.
Drakes shield was broken beyond repair due to the demons attacks on it , and his sword was about to break in a few more hits. Drake knew that he had to return to Rhodium soon unless he wanted to die. The group with 9 people got wiped out due to the fact that 3 demons attack them at the same time. After seeing that there isn’t enough people to left to distract the demons so that they could fight one demon at a time the remaining 9 player made a dash for the city. Only 4 out of the 9 people who ran back to the city made it without getting killed by demons.
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Drake had obtained a new stat endurance.
He had shield mastery,sword mastery and 2 active skills.
Shield charge (Beginner Lv3 24%)
-Run forward and use your shield to ram against a enemy
Power slash
-Use your sword and slash downwards with all your might
-Cynthia POV-
After a while Cynthia stopped killing demons. She spotted a cave. Curious she wanted to check it out so she went ahead and switched to her wings by deactivating her partial form on her foot, and flew there. She landed at the entrance of the cave.