Here's the new chapter, sorry it tooked so long to bring out. I've found a brand new appreciation for those that can turn out a chapter once every few days/week.
From this chapter on, I switched from using yards to using meters. I find writing meters easier than writing yards.
Also does anyone know if we can post pictures we find on the web? My descriptive skills suck, so i was thinking of going to google images and find images that fit my characters to give you a better idea of how they look.
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Chapter 6: First Mission
Finishing getting ready for their first mission, the trio came together half an hour before going to meet Alice.
Lisa: “There you are; here’s the new gear I made for you through the night. I better here some praise from you.”
Saying this to Eons as he approached, she handed over to him the new armor and weapon she had forged for him.
{{{Armor of the Flying Metal King.
An incredible armor crafted by an intermediate tailor. The tailor put forth all of her skill and knowledge into creating this masterpiece. Due to the high quality materials used to forge this armor, additional effects have been generated. Due to unknown properties, it is possible to update this armor in the future; perhaps then the unknown properties will be known.
Affects:
Defense: +1000
Agility: +100
Dexterity: +50
Additional Affects:
Health +1000
For 5 minutes, immunity towards physical attacks activated. Can only be used once per day.
Fire/Poison resist: +25%
Requirement: Can only be worn by a person that defeated the creatures this armor was made from.
Durability: 500/500}}}
{{{Duel Fire Swords
Good quality swords that was forged by an amateur blacksmith. Due to the blacksmith adding fire ore into this weapons creation, a fire property was added to the swords.
Affects:
Dmg: 50-75 per sword
Fire Property: 5 extra fire damage added, has a chance to inflict the status burn
Durability: 115/115
Requirements: LVL 80}}}
Eons: “…These equipment pieces are incredible…”
Lisa (With a large grin): “That’s right. It’s nice seeing you speechless. That armor came out a lot better than what I thought it would. Those great stats and that unknown property in the armor are probably due to those strange bosses we’ve taken care off. The sword came out like that thanks to the ore we found in the Fire Bat Cave, you should thank me I made you mine for so long.”
Eons: “…Thank you…”
With Eons thanking her like she told him to, Lisa couldn’t hold it in anymore and started laughing at his reaction.
With Lisa’s laughing fit dying down, Eons turned to Rory.
Eons: “I got these alchemic ingredients for you. I also stopped by the alchemy shop again and bought you a ton of basic alchemy ingredients for you.”
Saying that to Rory, Eons handed over a bag filled with every alchemic ingredient needed for basic alchemy potions, and the few alchemic ingredients he found.
Rory (With a happy expression): “Thank you very much.”
With the exchanging of items done, the trio headed to the barracks to meet Alice and get introduced to their new troops.
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Alice: “Listen up you new recruits.”
Alice said looking at the 15 new soldiers of her army. The soldiers were all young men whose ages range from 16-18. They looked fairly scrawny and some looked as if they had never even held a sword before.
Alice: “I know some of you are worried in being assigned to a female captain. In this army, female captains are usually given the hardest mission with the weakest starting soldiers.””
With Alice saying this, the soldiers face clearly became a bit more depressed.
Alice: “Although this is true, the rewards that come with these risks are typically the greatest. We will be giving some of the hardest missions available, but I have faith that we will prevail and the name of our army will be spread throughout Dragus and the surrounding area. With great risks, great rewards will also come, as long as we come together and do things in the proper order we will succeed.”
With Alice’s speech promising great fame and rewards in the future if they follow her, the soldiers face took on a happier face with a little bit of hope for the future.
Alice: “Now allow me to introduce to you the three officers that will help us complete our missions, and more importantly keep you guys alive.”
Saying these, Alice started introducing Eons, Lisa and Rory to the group.
Soldier 1 (in an outrage voice and pointing at Rory): “You expect that little brat to keep us alive!!!??”
Upon hearing the disrespecting tone the soldier tooked towards her new officer, Alice got mad. Walking up to him, she smacked him across the face. With the force of her smack the soldier got thrown to the side 10 meters.
Alice: “After this meeting, he will be receiving a punishment for disrespecting his commanding officer. Anyone else have any complains.”
With Alice demonstration of her strength, the soldiers became shocked and quickly started shaking their heads, not wishing to upset their new commander.
Alice: “Now continuing the introduction of your new officers before I was rudely interrupted by one idiot” saying this she tooked a sharp glance at the soldier that was trying to get up. “Now, this is your first officer. He’s name’s Eons; he is a self-proclaimed level 80 spellsword.”
With this introduction of Eons, the soldiers became a bit excited. Although they had no idea why their captain was calling him self-proclaimed, a spellsword was a very rare class. To become a spellsword, the person had to have considerable knowledge in swords and magic. For one of their new officers to be a spellsword must mean that the officer had considerable strength. And with a strong officer, their chances of surviving increased.
Eons: “Hey, why did you call me self-proclaim?” Eons asked Alice.
Ignoring Eons question, Alice continued on with the introductions.
Alice: “Now, this is your second officer. Her name is Lisa; she is a level 80 craftsman specializing in blacksmithing and tailoring.”
With Lisa’s introduction, the soldiers were now truly excited. They had a craftsman as an officer. A craftsman that specialized in armor and weapons, an existence vital in any expedition in order to survive.
Lisa: “Good job calling him self-proclaimed.”
Eons: “Come on, you too? What have I ever done to give you the impression that I’m self-proclaimed?”
Again, ignoring Eons and Lisa, Alice continued with the introductions.
Alice: “Now, this is your third officer. Just because she is young does not mean you should underestimate her. Her name is Rory, and like Eons and Lisa she is also level 80, and her class is mage.”
Now the soldiers became quite and were quite surprised. Even the soldier that had the outburst earlier was quite with a shocked expression on his face. And unlike the other soldiers he was turning pale. In the entire city of Dragus, no other army led by a captain had a mage. Now while mages weren’t rare, they were not common either. Moreover, those that typically followed the path of magic did not directly join the military, they were often hired as mercenaries, and when they did join the military, they typically went to the army of a general, not a captain. While Dragus was a large town, only the 5 generals that were stationed here had mages. The reason being that the mages of Dragus choose to joined the ranks under a general rather than a captain.
A spellsword, a craftsmen, and a mage. With the introduction of their new officers, the soldiers were now truly excited. A rare spellsword, a craftsmen that will greatly increase their strength, and the highly offensive mage. With these people as their officers, the soldiers felt that their chances of survivor had definitely gone up, and that they were now more likely to survive then if they had been assigned to an army led by a man.
Alice: “Now that introductions are done, everyone get ready, we are moving out for our first mission.”
Soldiers: “Yes ma’am!!!!”
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While soldiers were getting ready for departure, Alice, Eons, Lisa, and Rory went into one of the private rooms in the barracks to discuss the mission.
Alice (while bowing down to Rory): “I’m sorry for the disrespect that the new soldier showed you. For the entire mission, he will be in charge of everyones luggage, the carriage, and the two horses that will be pulling the carriage.”
Rory (with an embarrassed expression): “D-d-don’t worry a-a-about i-it.”
Lisa: “Yea, you really gave him a good smack as a punishment. It makes me curious about your level.”
Alice: “Yea. It was a bit hard restraining my strength to the point where I wouldn’t kill him. Oh, and my level is 197.”
197. Upon hearing this number the trio were surprised that Alice was so strong. In the world of Valkyria it can be said that you have not experience the true struggle of leveling up until you reach level 100. Although Valkyria requires higher exp per level than any other game, it is said that any player level 100 or above considers the work required for level 1-99 as heaven. The amount of experience required to reach the next level after level 99 is 500x of the previous level.
Although valkyria has been out for almost 3 years, the average level of players is level 125, with hardcore gamers being around level 200-250, top players ranging from 300-350, and the highest level at 355. For an npc, moreover one that just recently became a captain in the army, to be close to level 200 was truly amazing.
Eons: “That’s incredible; you must’ve truly trained really hard to gain that level.”
Alice: “Yea, it is hard for females to become captains in this army, so I had to give 300% to training in order to reach this level.”
Lisa: “Yea. We’ll do our best to ensure that the efforts you put into becoming a captain are paid off.”
Alice: “Thank you.”
Eons: “Ok. Now getting back on topic, you mentioned that the soldier that insulted Rory will be in charge of a carriage, I didn’t know that as a new army we would get a carriage.”
Alice: “Yes. Typically a new captain is not given a carriage seeing as for their first few missions they will be around Dragus, however due to the nature of our mission, we will be travelling for about a week, so the higher ups gave us a carriage so we can carry our supplies.”
Eons: “Ah, got it.”
Alice: “Now for our first mission. Are you guys aware of the Dragus Gate to the west of here?”
Eons: “Yea, it is the only man made obstacle that any invading army has to pass through in order to reach Dragus.”
Alice: “Yes that’s correct. According to scouts that were sent out from the gate, there appears to be a small army of lizardmans gathering about 4 days to the northwest of the gate. Our mission is to go ahead and exterminate them.”
Eons: “Geez, I knew that female captains got the hardest missions, but I didn’t think that they’d send a new captain with soldiers level 3 to face a small army of lizarman who’s level range from 60-70.”
Alice: “Yea. So it’s up to us to come up with a plan that will allow us to succeed with the fewest amount of casualties.”
Eons: “That’s right. The first thing we should do before going to face the lizardman is to strengthen up the new troops. It would normally take 1 day if travel straight forth to the Dragus Gate, but I suggest, we lengthen that travel time to 3 days so we can have the troops fight monsters to get experience during the way there.”
Alice: “Yes, I agree, we will also lengthen the 4 day trip from the gate to the lizard encampment to 6 days for the same reason. Also when we arrive, we will spend some time on reconnaissance. Rory do you know any AOE magic?”
Rory: “U-uh not really. B-But I c-can m-make some b-b-before we reach the l-lizard e-encampment.”
Alice: “Good. Do any of you have anything else to say before we head out?”
Lisa: “No, not really.”
Alice: “Alright, then let’s head out. We only have a month to completely destroy the lizardman encampment.”
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With the course of action decided for the next week, Alice’s army started to advance towards the Dragus Gate.
They took 3 days to reach the gate. During the journey there, they had the soldiers fight the rabbits and later on the foxes that were between the town and the gate.
…The results from watching the soldiers fight the small animals were less than what any of them hoped for. Not one of the soldiers had any experience ever holding a sword before. In fact none had any training in any weapon before and the only reason why they joined the army was because their parents force them in the hope that the army would turn them into true man. It was just too bad that they didn’t know that their sons would be given to a female captain…
Upon reaching the gate, Alice, Eons, Lisa, and Rory had an emergency meeting due to the poor results that the soldiers showed when facing the rabbits and foxes.
Eons: “This will never work. If we have those soldiers fight the lizardman with no sword skills then they will die, even if we take 3 weeks to have them raise their levels.”
Lisa & Rory: “Agreed.”
Alice: “Lisa, how long will it take you to make 15 good beginner bows?”
Lisa: “I can do it in a night.”
Alice: “Excellent. We will spend the night here while you make the bows. After that we will spend a week training their bow skills. The training will not make them proficient in using a bow, but it will teach them how to aim and shoot.
Eons: “Make me a bow too; I’ll use it train my bow mastery too. Now getting back on track with the soldiers. After this week of training the plan goes back to normal, with 6 days of travel will hunting to raise level until we reach the encampment?”
Alice: “Yes”
Eons: “Alright. Then when we arrive and due reconainssence, I suggest we take note of the lizardman patrol groups and have the soldiers practice with them before the real show.”
Alice: “Good idea.”
Rory: “I’ll also try to make some potions that raise dexterity that the soldiers can use when we go up against the lizardman.”
Alice: “You have the alchemy skill?”
Rory (with a proud voice): “Yes. I have it at beginner level 2.”
Eons: “I’ll also create this idea for a spell that I had that might help.”
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Like that the week of archery training began. It was a long week of training with unexpected surprises during it.
The first surprise came 2 days after the training started. This surprise involved Lisa.
Lisa had decided to also obtain the archery skill during this stay as you never know when an extra skill might come in handy.
On the second day she obtained a skill related to archery. The skill that she got she got is in part thanks to her half breed traits. The skill that she got was called Eagles Eye and it helped her see in the distance better, which is a nice skill to have if you’re an archer.
When She obtained that skill, she received another pop-up right after. She was surprised when she got it since it was just like the message that Rory had received a few days previously.
{{{Class Change Available
Due to your overwhelming pursuit in the path of becoming a craftsman as well as a warrior, the Goddess of Strength, Mana, has taken a liking to you. For catching her attention, she has decided to bestow upon you a new class that will better help you reach your goal. Do you accept?
Yes/No}}}
Upon reading the message, unlike Rory, Lisa did not hesitate on accepting the new class. A class bestow by a god/goddess is always a blessing. Although she did wondered why Mana was watching them and how she was able to bestow a class to her; since as far as she knew a god/goddess can only bestow a class to a person that had high faith and was present at one of their temple.
What Lisa did not know was that Eons was Mana’s Champion, and because Mana did not require a person that was near Eons to go to her temple in order to receive a class. The vicinity around Eons produced the same effect as being a temple; and since Lisa had been around Eons for so long the requirement to have high faith was not needed.
The class that Lisa got when she accepted the new class from Mana was called the “Illusionist Craftsmen.” It was a class that would allow Lisa to be a craftsman and fight in a way that she wanted to. The class was centered on 2 main skills.
The first skill is called mana weave. It is a skilled where she weaves her mana into a piece of equipment. The skill has a high mana usage, but the effects are worth it. The first effect that weaving her mana into equipment has is that it reinforces the piece of equipment. By reinforcing the equipment with magic, durability was greatly increase and depending on whether the equipment was armor or a weapon, magic defense or magic attack would be added. It was a terrific ability to have for any craftsman and it was only at beginners’ level 1. Lisa drooled when she imagined what the skill might do at a higher level. The second effect the skill has was directly tied to the second skill that the Illusionist Craftsmen is centered on.
The second skill of the Illusionist Craftsmen is called Illusion Manifestation. This skill can only be activated when the second effect of Mana Weave is used. The second effect of Mana Weave can only be activated if Lisa the power of imagination. When Lisa is using Mana Weave on a piece of equipment if she holds a clear image in her head for the class and the skills of that class that the equipment is meant for, she is able to project that class into that piece. If Lisa were to wear a complete equipment set with the second ability of mana weave on it, she will be able to activate the Illusion Manifestation skill.
The Illusion Manifestation skill will allow Lisa to make a pseudo (false) class of the class that she projected unto the equipment using Mana Weave. This pseudo-class will allow Lisa to fight as the class that she imagined with the skilled she imagined. Although the skill is great, it also has a high cost. Illusion Manifestation would last for 2 hours unless canceled, and would consume 25% of her mp, no matter how much mp she has. This would mean that when she fights as a pseudo-class, she will only have 75% of her mp available to use the skills she imagined. Furthermore, while Illusion manifestation is activated her mp regen would also be cut in half. In addition to this penalty, the skills of the pseudo-class will only be at the same level as illusion manifestation. This means that if illusion manifestation is at beginners’ level 1, the skills she has in her pseudo-class will also be at beginner level 1. On the other hand this also means that if illusion manifestation is at advance level 1, then her pseudo class skills will also be at advance level 1. In the future that will be extremely OP.
After reading the details of her new class, Lisa decided to make two sets of equipment to use illusion Manifestation on. The first set of equipment was a set meant for archers, while the second was meant for a tanker/warrior for when she used her trusty war hammer. She also weant ahead and updated the equipment she made a few days ago for Eons with her Mana Weave. After using Mana weave, the equipment felt a large improvement.
{{{Armor of the Flying Metal King.
An incredible armor crafted by an intermediate tailor. The tailor put forth all of her skill and knowledge into creating this masterpiece. Due to the high quality materials used to forge this armor, additional effects have been generated. Due to unknown properties, it is possible to update this armor in the future; perhaps then the unknown properties will be known. The armor has been upgraded using a rare skill called Mana weave.
Affects:
Defense: +1000
Agility: +100
Dexterity: +50
Magic Defense: +50
Additional Affects:
Health +1000
For 5 minutes, immunity towards physical attacks activated. Can only be used once per day.
Fire/Poison resist: +25%
Requirement: Can only be worn by a person that defeated the creatures this armor was made from.
Durability: 750/750}}}
{{{Duel Fire Swords
Good quality swords that was forged by an amateur blacksmith. Due to the blacksmith adding fire ore into this weapons creation, a fire property was added to the swords.
Affects:
Dmg: 50-75 per sword
Magic Damage: +10
Fire Property: 5 extra fire damage added, has a chance to inflict the status burn
Durability: 220/220
Requirements: LVL 80}}}
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The second surprise of the training session came after Eons created a new skill.
The skill that Eons was trying to create tooked him till almost the end of the training to learn. It was a skilled that required a precise combination of fire and water magic to active. Trying to balance 2 opposite elements to create a new spell was not an easy matter, but after days of trial and error Eons finally succeeded.
{{{The Skill Mirage Field Has Been Generated.
By correctly using fire and water magic, you are able to create a mirage field where you can create illusions.
Skill Cost: 500 Mana
Field size: 15 meters.
Illusions possible:
Clone: Costs 50 mana per clone
This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.
Army: costs 1 mana per soldier.}}}
By creating an illusion of an army to use on the Lizardman patrol groups, Eons was hoping to create confusion amongst them and decrease moral, allowing the soldiers to have an easier time to kill them.
After creating this skill, the second surprise happened. It was a pleasant surprise related to his class. Since Mana was the goddess of those that followed the path of strength, she rewards those that use their own powers to reach new levels. As Mana’s Champion, it is only natural that Eons uses his own strength to reach new heights. That is why whenever he creates a certain number of skills, his class will reward him for his efforts. This is one of the secrets of his class: by creating x number of skills, he will be rewarded with a new rare skill.
The additional skill that he got from his class after creating Mirage Field was called Growth. It was a passive that made leveling up his other skills easier.
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With the week of training over, the small army started to head out so that they can complete their mission. Alice’s mind was still made up on drawing out their journey towards the lizard encampment so that they soldiers can get stronger while fighting wild animals and monsters.
The first thing that the soldiers found out was that there is a difference between hitting a live target and just practicing with their bows and arrows. When they came up against their first monster, only 2 of the soldiers’ arrows hit while the rest missed. That was truly a terrible statistic, but it was still a lot better than when they fought with swords.
During the six days that it tooked them to reach the lizard encampment, the soldiers accuracy had really gotten better. Now, collectively they had a 25% accuracy rating with the best soldier being at 35%. Furthermore from their journey from Dragus their levels had risen all the way till level 20.
Although they had vastly improved during their travels, the soldiers’ morale quickly dropped when they reached the lizard encampment.
The lizard encampment was vastly bigger than what scout reports had suggested it would be. Scout reports suggested that there might had been around maybe 85 lizardman, but the sheer size of the encampment suggested that their might have been 10 times that amount.
While looking at the encampment, Alice stepped forward and addressed the troops.
Alice: “Alright guys, although there are vastly more troops then what reports suggested, our mission does not change. All of you make sure to stay conceiled we will spend 2 days on surveillance before deciding on a course of action. Now start making camp here for the day.”
Upon Alice’s order, the troops began to make camp. They had decided to stay about 2 kilometers from the lizard encampment on a cliff that overlooks it. The lizardmen would have a hard time spotting the troops at this location because the cliff was concealed in a forest.
With the soldiers making camp, Alice signal for Eons, Lisa, and Rory to follow her. She tooked them down the cliff and started traversing through the forest until she reached the end of the forest. The lizard encampment was located about half a kilometer from their current spot.
On reaching the edge of the forest, Alice kneeled down, tooked her hand gauntlets off and place her hand on the ground. For 5 minutes Alice stayed in the position. Then suddenly she got up.
Alice: “From what I can tell there are about 600 regular lizardman soldiers, around 50 lizardman lt., around 150 Elite Lizardman and 1 lizard commander.”
A typical army of lizardman is divided into 3 ranks. The first rank is just your typical lizardman. Above them and the ones that give them orders are the lizardman lieutenants, and then finally above the lizardman lt. is the leader of the whole army, the lizardman commander. Aside from these three ranks, there is another type of lizardman called the Elite Lizardman that is directly under the lizardman commander and usually consists of the strongest lizardmans.
The levels of a lizardman that are located around Dragus tend to range from level 60-70; the lizardman lt. range from levels 75-85; the Elite lizardman range from levels 80-95; and a lizard commander can be anywhere from level 100-130.
Rory: “H-how c-can you tell h-how many and w-what kind of l-lizardman there are?”
Alice: “It’s a special technique that I have.”
Eons: “What kind of technique?”
Alice (With a seductive smile): “S-E-C-R-E-T”
Lisa: “Stop inquiring anymore, she’s not going to tell us. We have more urgent problems than what technique she used. There’s no way we can take out 800 lizardman with only 15 newby troops.”
This was the unmistakable truth. There were far too many lizardman for their small army to win.
Eons: “I suggest we go with our original plan on reconnaissance. An encampment that big must sent out patrols. Let’s study how their patrols work and then let’s attack those patrols to slowly kill off the lizardman and train our troops at the same time.”
Rory: “U-um I’ve also made big AOE spells.”
Alice: “Very good Rory. Eons, are you able to erect earth walls?”
Eons: “Yup”
Alice: “Can you cover the entire lizardman encampment?”
Eons: “It’ll take a bit of concentration, but yes I can.”
Alice: “Alright, then here’s the plan. We will spend 2 days watching the encampment and figuring out their patrols. After that we will start attacking each individual patrol. Since we will be attacking their patrols, they will envutually catch on that they are being attacked. Once they figure out that they are being attacked, they will probably not send out a lot of patrol groups. Once this starts, we will wait a day before attacking the encampment.”
Stopping for a bit to drink some water from her canteen, Alice continued with the strategy explanation.
Alice: “Now the attack will happen in the early morning, right before the sun comes up and the lizardman are starting to wake up. Eons will go ahead and surround the entire encampment in earth walls preventing any lizardman from escaping. Rory will then go ahead and unleash her aoe skill on the entire encampment. She will continue to do this till we run out of mana potions. After that we survey the outcome, and if we judge that we are enough to take on the amount of lizardman that survived, we will attack them right there and then; if not then we will continue with surprise attacks till we exterminate them all. Any questions?”
With no one having any questions or objections, the group ended their strategy session and headed back towards the soldiers.
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After observing the lizardman encampment for 2 days, they group found that a patrol group goes out every other hour and that they typically consist of 20 members; 19 lizardmans and 1 lizard lt.
Carefully following one of the patrol groups, it was time to start eliminating them.
Eons activated his mirage field on the group of 20 lizardman and had 100 fake troops surround them.
With the sudden appearance of a force that was 5 times there number, the lizardmans became visible confused and nervous. Before the lizardman could get a grasp on what happened, Alice gave the orders for the soldiers to bambard the lizardmans with arrows.
Due to the fact that all 20 lizardman were all bunched up together, there were not many arrows that missed. Though they did miss their mark, they ended up hitting some part of the lizardman.
It took 1 full minute for the lizard lt. to snap out of his confusion and surprise at the sudden appeareance of a 100 man force. In that 1 minute, the soldiers had managed to kill 5 lizardman.
With his senses back, the lizard lt. went ahead and attack the 100 fake troops head on. When he reached one of it he raised the sword he was carrying and slashed at one of the fake soldiers. To his surprise, the sword went right through the fake soldier, almost as if there never was something there to begin with.
Before the lizard lt. was able to make heads or tails of what was going on, Rory shot the infernal fire spear she was holding straight at the lizard lt. head. The hit became a critical hit and instantly killed it.
With the death of their commander, the lizardmans began to start panicking which lead to a severe loss in morale.
For the next 5 minutes, with the help of Rory’s magic and Lisa & Eons shooting arrows as well, the soldiers were able to kill the remaining lizardman.
Like this for the next 2 days they killed 10 patrols of lizardmans. Of course not every fight went as easy as the first one.
There was one where the lizard lt. was not surprised and shocked, and immediately after the fake soldiers surround them, he ordered the lizardman under him to attack. However this ended up being a pleasant mistake. When the lizardmans clashed with the fake soldiers, the soldiers instantly vanished creating mass confusion and a form of panic in the troops. This made picking them off with arrows and magic all the more easier.
The most dangerous encounter was when after surrounding a patrol with fake soldiers and killing half of them off, a second patrol group came. When they saw the first patrol group being half killed and surrounded, they attacked the fake troops from behind. However when they attacked them, the soldiers vanished. That was when the lizard lt. of them first patrol realized that they were being duped. Upon realizing this, he moved his soldiers to join up with the second patrol group.
Together, it became easier for them to start blocking the arrows, and without the fake troops around, they were able to pin point where the arrows were coming from and slowly start moving towards the real troops.
Unfortunately for them they were not prepared for magic, and thus were unguarded when Eons unleashed Mana’s Smite on all of them and instantly killed them.
After two days of killing the lizardman patrol groups, the lizardman encampment started noticing that they were slowly being killed off and stopped sending out patrol.
This was the moment that Alice was waiting for. With all of the lizardman all bunched up together in one place, they were easy pickings for strong magic attacks. With that in mind the last stage of their plan was moved into motion.
Stepping up, Eons surrounded the entire lizardman encampment with earth walls. The Earth walls were 25 meters tall so that the lizardman could not escape, and 1 meter wide reinforced with magic so that the lizardman could not break through them and Rory’s magic would not destroy the walls.
With Eons earth walls erected, Rory stepped up and prepared to cast her magic. As a catalyst to activate her magic, Rory decided to use a medium mana potion. Mana potions were a special type of regent that she could use to activate her magic. Due to the special properties of a mana potion (by special I mean the fact that they recover magic) they activated equally on all elements and they provided a higher boost to magic.
The medium mana potions allowed her to fire off her spells at 225% power. Rory used two mana potions in order to allow her to cast two wide area magic spells.
Both spells were similar in composition. They were both combination magic but with different elements. One element combined earth, fire, and wind to create a fiery infernal tornado. The second element combined earth, fire, and wind to create a freezing water tornado.
She casted both spells at the opposite most extreme of the encampment and for the next 10 minutes she moved the spells all over the encampment killing off the 600 lizardman that were trapped in the encampment.
For those 10 minutes all that could be heard was the shrieks of the lizardman as they were burned alive by the fire tornado, slowly frozen by the water tornado, or ripped to shreds by the wind from the tornados; or a combination of all three.
Just seeing the chaos that the little female magician had unleashed on the lizardman encampment cost the soldiers to start shivering in fear. But the fear that they felt was nothing compared to the soldier that had insulted Rory when they first met. That soldier had fallen unconscious and wet his pants when seeing the vast amount of power that Rory unleashed on the lizardman encampment.
From inside the lizardman encampment, Alice, Eons, Lisa, and Rory could see where a group of lizardman were bunched up together and were surviving Rory’s magic. When Rory’s spells ended, Eons put down a small segment of the wall that was behind the surviving lizardmans.
From the hole that was made, 70 Elite Lizardman came out along with the lizardman commander. Although they had survived, they did not escape scratch free. The elite lizardmans had health ranging from 50%-65% with some were inflicted with a frozen, burned, or bleeding status. The lizardman commander had 90% of his health left and was not inflicted with any status effects.
Upon seeing the surviving lizardmans and their status, Alice decided that they were capable of killing off these survivors.
With that, Alice drew her great sword and dashed towards the lizardman. Upon reaching them she quickly did a horizontal slash decapitating the first 3 lizardman that were in her way. After decapitating them, she then went ahead and turned her sword sideways and did a diagonal slash, cutting a lizardman in half.
Upon seeing this women suddenly run up to them and start killing off his elite troops with ease, the lizardman commander moved all the way to the back of his troops and ordered his soldiers to surround Alice and kill her.
Although the lizardman surrounded Alice, that did not change their predicament in any way what so ever. She was easily dodging all of their attacks, and for those that she could not dodge, she would go ahead and use her great sword as a shield.
Watching the incredible strength that their captain had, the soldiers were awestruck and every fiber of their bodies was brimming with excitement about serving such a powerful captain.
Even Eons could not contain his excitement upon seeing Alice’s strength, though his reason was entirely different from the soldiers.
Such strength, I would love to fight her. He was thinking.
Eons: “What are the rest of you waiting for? Are you going to let Alice kill of them herself? Get your bows out and start shooting at them. Though the lizardman commander is mine!!!”
Finished saying this, Eons dashed towards the group of lizardman surrounding Alice; but upon reaching them, he did not attack them, but rather activated his air walk technique, by passed all of the lizardmans and Alice, and went straight for the lizardman commander.
Seeing Eons childishness on by passing the lizardmans and going straight for the commander, Lisa could do nothing but shake her hand.
Lisa: “Rory, command the soldiers, I’ll go and lend a head to Alice.”
Saying this, Lisa activated her equip skill to switch her equipment to the war hammer set. Equip was an additional skill she got when she switched to her new class. This skill allowed her to instantly put on any equipment set she had registered under this skill.
Upon switching her equipment, Lisa activated her illusion manifestation skill, activating her pseudo class. With her pseudo class activated, Lisa dashed towards the lizardman to give a hand to Alice.
Upon reaching the lizardman, Lisa noticed that Rory had taken command of the troops and started having them shoot their arrows.
Reaching the lizardmans, Lisa swung her hammer and activated her shock wave skill. Shock wave skill was a skill that she had imagined her pseudo-class to have. The skill was set so that upon the strike of her hammer, a shockwave would be released doing internal damage to the target, and releasing a wave that damaged nearby foes. The stronger the force of her hammer when it collides against something the stronger the shockwave.
The reason why she had activated this skill with the first swing was because during their constant assault on the lizardman patrol group, they had noticed that due to the natural touch scales the lizardmans had, they had high defense. By using the shockwave skill, the shockwave damage by passes the natural defense of the lizardmans and did internal damage.
Due to the fact that the elite lizardman was already damaged, the lizardman instantly died. And the shockwave from the hit drew damaged and drew the attention of 5 surrounding lizardmans.
To better deal with them, Lisa activated a tank skill that increased her defense by 10%. With the extra defence added, she was able to take the combined lizardmans attack while she killed them.
With Lisa’s, assistance, and the soldiers realizing barrages of arrows, the lizardman were slowly but surely killed by Alice.
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While passing over the lizardmans with his air walk, Eons drew his dual swords. With his dual swords drawn, upon reaching the lizardman commander, Eons did a jumping downward dual strike towards him.
Due to Eons moving above the lizardmans, the lizard commander had not noticed him approach and thus Eons dual strikes ended up being criticals. The attack instantly shaved off 5% of the lizardmans commander’s hp.
Upon receiving the surprise attack, the commander became enraged. Issuing a mighty bellow, it drew his mighty axe and faced Eons.
Facing Eons, the lizard commander demonstrated uncanny maneuverability and attack speed. He instantly narrowed the distance between itself and Eons and swung his axe. Eons easily blocked the attack with one sword and counter attack with the second axe, hitting the commander in the abdomen.
Although the lizard commander demonstrated incredible speed, Eons felt disappointed. Speed was the only thing it had. Due to its tough scales, the commander had grown too attached to the natural protection it provided and had neglected his defense, thus making it very easy for Eons to hit him. Furthermore, although the boss was at level 115, it did not have much experience in facing someone 1 on 1, the commander had grown far too reliant on commanding his subordinates whenever he did damage.
This mini-boss character was truly a disappointment. Like this the fight continued with Eons blocking the axe with one sword and hitting the abdomen of the commander with the other. To break through the tough defense of the lizardman, Eons had casted on his blades his Mana’s Light skill and was concentrating all of his attacks on one point.
Due to all of Eons attacks being concentrated on one spot, the lizard commanders natural defense was failing, and each continuous slash that Eons did at the same spot did more damage.
When the lizardman commander’s hp finally fell to 40% Eons drew back and prepared to end this fight. He had judged that 40% was the minimum that the commander needed to be at so that he can one shot kill it.
Seeing Eons fall back, the lizard commander became happy. He was under the impression that he had finally forced his opponent back. This being the case he became more conceited and dropped his guard even further, something that made Eons extremely surprise since he didn’t think that could happened.
Due to this ‘happy’ state the lizard commander was in, he was not prepared for Eons next actions.
Very quickly, faster than what the lizard commander was able of noticing, Eons dashed towards him, activated his Wind Lance skill and hit the commander where all of his previous attacks had landed.
When the Wind Lance skill hit the commander, the special effect of the skill had activated. Due to the natural increase in penetration that the skill cost, Eons blade had easily went into belly of the commander. Then with the blade inside the commander, the tip of the Wind Lance started glowing and unleashed countless wind blades. The wind blades instantly shredded the insides of the commander.
The commander was not able to survive being cut open from the inside out and the 40% hp he had remaining vanished.
With Eons duel with the commander finally over, Alice once again bent down to the ground and placed her hand on the floor. After 5 minutes she finally stood up and addressed her soldiers.
Alice: “Well done guys. You should all be very proud of yourself. When we first headed out here you were all novices, however through this campaign you have grown much and accomplished a task that was neigh impossible. In two days, being vastly outnumbered and out leveled, we were able to kill 800 lizardmans.”
With Alice’s small speech, the soldiers started cheering, high fiving each other, hugging each other, and crying with happiness.
After 5 minutes, Alice again addressed the soldiers.
Alice: “Now that the fight is over, start going throughout the camp and taken and loots that the lizardman had dropped and anything of value that they had in the camp.”
After the dealing with many lizardmans, the small army had collected many, many loots and items. There were two reasons for this. The first reason was thanks to Eons. During each ambush against the patrols and during this attack on the camp, Eons had activated his Mana’s Blessing skill, a skill that increased the drop rates of enemies. The second reason was mainly thanks to the sheer number of lizardmans that were located here.
The troops had not only gathered many loots thanks to Eons spell, but they had grown a lot too. Mana’s Blessing was a skill that also increased experienced. Although they did not kill a lot of the 800 lizardmans, thanks to Mana’s Blessing and the residual experience they got from their commanders and officers kills, they were able to level up level 83.
Not only had the soldiers increased in level, Eons, Lisa, and Rory also increased in level. With the kill of 800 lizardmans, and a mini boss at level 115, the trio had finally reached the beginning of truly hard part of leveling up in this game; they had reached level up 19 times and reached level 99.
Unfortunately 800 kills and 1 mini boss was not enough for Alice to also level up. This combine kill that not even earn her 1% of the experience she needed to level up to level 198.
With their business here finally completed, the small army finally started to return to Dragus.