Totaling the points showed that from this wave alone I earned 642 points. That was more than the total amount of points I had earned in the tutorial so far. It effectively doubled the amount of points I earned and all it took was an hour of fighting.

The whole group made an astounding amount, over 10,000 combined. The distribution wasn't as even and spread out as it usually was during a wave and I made more than double the amount than some people. The people who hid behind the wall and only participated with a few javelin throws only earned the points for the wave completion and a portion of one or two monsters depending on how many they hit.

It bothered me a little that I fought on the front lines at the risk of injury while they did practically nothing and walked away with 260 points while I got just over double that. It was good for the group that they got points but I felt like they weren't earned. I wasn't going to say anything about it though, but I still thought it.

With the fifty-fifty split that was agreed upon, we had over 5,000 points to figure out what to do with. The first order of business was to build guard towers at the three other gates and that took 3,000 points right there and a few minutes later three new guard towers popped into existence. Now we had to decide on what to use the rest of them on.

"We should have people buy a skill with the extra." Someone said before that was quickly shot down. One or two people getting a skill wasn't going to be very useful during the waves.

"We should double up on the guard towers so we can fit more people up there." That was a decent idea but there was some uncertainty behind it.

We didn't know how much the wall upgrade would cost and how long it would take to save up for it, also, we didn't know if upgrading the wall would make it wider and have a place to stand on making the guard towers obsolete.

"We should save them and see what the pylon upgrade unlocks." That was the idea I got behind. One, it forced the issue of upgrading the pylon, and two, it saved some points for anything good that was unlocked.

With the momentum of the conversation going that way anyway, I tried to force the issue.

"We should upgrade the pylon now. We are all already prepared for a wave, and the defenses didn't even get scratched. It won't take us long to clear the bodies and retrieve the arrows and javelins. If we do it today we will still have two days of rest before the next one." I said.

I didn't want the issue to be pushed off again and wished to use the momentum from the easy wave we just had to get people to agree. Originally, we were going to wait and upgrade it tomorrow after seeing if there were any modifications we would have had to make after seeing how the wall did, but those were moot now. The wall effectively removed any chance of harm and only risked people who chose to fight of their own volition.

It took some arguing and convincing, but people came around. I thought it was mostly the hope of getting a profession rather than seeing what new things would be unlocked in the shop. Kyle and a few of the other teens went on and on about different fantasy professions that they wanted to get and filled people's heads with their own fantasies.

They talked of magical enchanters that could make weapons powerful enough to kill bosses single-handedly and builders who could build a house in a couple of hours flat. Master blacksmiths who could make a sword that could pierce any monster. The source material they were pulling this from was... flimsy, but I couldn't nay say it when I could pull up a status screen that showed my stats. Our world had turned into manga and fiction already, who was I to say they were wrong?

The biggest hit with most people was an alchemist who could make the healing potions that were so expensive in the store. Mostly, people just wanted an avenue to get stronger that didn't rely on danger and professions seemed like it would. I couldn't blame them and based on the fantasy stories I've read, crafters would be necessary.

It took another hour or two to move all the bodies and pick up all the projectiles from the battlefield but we were once again ready to face another wave. The hardest part was getting the bodies out of the trench and that required multiple people and a lot of rope.

We all stood ready and Granddad walked over and put his hand on the pylon. He stood there for a second staring off into space, where only he could see the screen, before a notification chimed.

Upgrade to outpost underway.

Prove you are worthy.

Well, that's delightful, how were we supposed to prove we were worthy? It didn't spawn a hammer we had to pick up and there didn't seem to be anything else happening. There was nothing other than that, no instructions or tasks, not even a quest objective to go do.

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We stood around confused until someone up in the guard tower shouted in alarm. It was another wave. We figured it might be like that since claiming the pylon spawned one, why should upgrading one be any different?

It was annoying that everything came down to being assaulted by a mass of bodies but I figured there had to be a reason for that. I'll take a hundred of the same-level monsters over one powerful monster any day.

The monsters were coming from a different direction than the previous wave and it seemed to be random. It didn't follow the clockwise pattern this time and the assault was coming from the west. The only part of the moat that we had dug out was in the east so there wasn't anything separating the wall from the charging animals.

We all shifted and rushed out the western gate to get ready waiting for Kyle to tell us what we were up against.

"Kyle, what's taking so long?" Mark was the first to break and ask Kyle what was going on.

I spared a glance toward the person in question myself and saw that his mouth hung open and he had an incredulous look on his face. Hal, next to him in the tower, knocked him on the head which brought him back to normal.

Once he noticed all of us looking at him his face flushed red and he stammered, "S-sorry, I just couldn't believe it. It says that they are level 4 and 5 goblins."

Goblins? Like the green little disgusting creatures in fantasy games? Were we really about to face down a horde of goblins? I could see now why Kyle was out of sorts, it was every gamer kid's dream. Goblins were the starter mob in almost every fantasy game and they symbolized the start of a fantasy journey. Everyone knew what they were and if you didn't, you were living under a rock. A stray thought entered my brain about hiding the women but there was no way goblins were really like that. It's time to slay some goblins.

We did what we usually did, wore them down from a distance before going behind the walls. The long-range bombardment was extremely effective and wiped out over half of the charging goblins. It seemed like they weren't particularly strong and fell quickly when hit with anything.

It was kind of disappointing, at this rate I wouldn't get to fight anything. They were lower level than me so it wouldn't give me as much experience, but I still wanted to fight them. It only took a few moments and all the goblins were either dead or dying. Some we would have to go finish off in the field but most had already breathed their last.

It seemed like we could have upgraded the pylon much earlier. This was on the same level of difficulty as the rabbits and squirrels. Sure the goblins could do some damage if they got close but they were so weak they never made it. The one who made it the furthest was the goblin chief but I think that was because of his higher level rather than a racial thing.

I got some points for the kills and on the success of upgrading the pylon but it was nothing compared to a few hours ago. I got a few points for a kill and a hundred for the upgrade. It was a sixth of what I got earlier. It was supremely disappointing, I felt like I didn't even progress toward the next level at all. We could have finished off that wave a week ago it was so easy.

We walked the battlefield to clean up and threw all the bodies in the forest, there was no way we were eating goblin. They also didn't have any useful body parts and I'm not sure how I would feel about using them. They weren't human and frankly, not even close, but they were humanoid-ish. There was some intelligence in them and they were bipedal like us and that is where the similarities ended though. It was close enough to make it weird.

After the cleanup, we all rushed to see what was unlocked and found a building where the pylon had once been. The pylon was in the middle of our camp and there was nothing surrounding it, so we could access it from all sides, but now there was a wooden building sitting there.

It looked much like the guard towers and the walls and seemed to be made from the same wood. I wasn't near it when it was built so I couldn't tell if it had the same engravings on it the others had.

It looked like a fancy log cabin and extended over twenty feet in the air. It was the same length on both sides and had a single front door in the middle of the wall. It was made fully of wood, the walls were wood, the door was wood, and the roof was sloped and made of wooden shingles. One stray ember and this place is done for.

It was most likely fireproof but I still couldn't help but think it. All of us were curious about the new creation and ventured into it to see what was new. The door creaked open and we filed through the doorway to find the pylon right where it always was, in the middle of the room. It was the first thing that caught the eye since it was the only thing in the room.

There was a staircase on the right-hand wall leading to what was presumably the second floor, but other than that the room was empty save for the pylon in the middle of it. Walking up to the second floor showed more of the same except the ceiling was pitched to match the roof instead of flat like on the first floor. It was anti-climatic to have a building show up out of nowhere and have nothing in it.

With nothing to see in the building we all checked on the pylon to see what was new, and oh boy was there new stuff. The walls were unlocked to be upgraded and the guard towers could be as well. More traps were available for purchase along with better armor and weapons. The skill list was longer and even had different options for purchase. There were skill shards for single use where only one person could learn it before the shard crumbled and there was a skill stone where ten people could use it before it broke. It was way more expensive but it was cheaper per skill than buying ten skill shards.

Those weren't even the most important changes, there was a brand new tab added to the top of the shop labeled 'Information'. In the tab, it listed all kinds of things and most had the 'Introduction to...' label attached to them. It was like enrolling in college classes where you could purchase an information guide on various subjects.

The list went on and there was 'Introduction to Forging', 'Introduction to Carpentry', 'Introduction to Leatherworking', and more. What drew the most attention was the top of the list that said 'Introduction to the Multiverse.'

That sparked interest like none of the others did. We would finally be getting some answers.