Minya

We were racing to get as powerful as we could so that we could take out the Night-Mare. I had gotten my last 2 daos and completed the quest.

Dao of Thunder comprehended!

Dao Seed of Thunder: +10 STR, +10 CHA, +10 SOUL

Dao of Finesse comprehended!

Dao Seed of Finesse: +10 AGI, +10 WIS, +10 FOC

Quest: Daoist: Get 3 dao’s before the week is up. Rewards: 30 Free Stat points/ easier difficulty for all humans in the lower levels.

+30 Free stat points

All difficulty levels of the lower modes have been made easier, by a slight amount. Have everyone in your team complete this quest for it to be even easier for everybody else!

We had all finished the quest except for Plikt who only had 2 daos, he was racing to get the final dao on the last day, today.

Brock’s new daos were the dao of power, the dao of connection, which was a higher dao and the dao of unbreakable will. The dao of connection had made his true strength power even better and now he could enhance almost anything to insane levels of durability. His other ones were somewhat expected with his fascination over strength.

Layton’s new daos were the dao of manipulation, the dao of lust and the dao of flaws, which was also a higher law. Layton’s daos were all focused on her body and beauty, but her last one confused me. What did flaws mean exactly? I would have to ask her sometime.

Drake had gotten the dao seed of death and the dao seed of destruction, which Kent had as well. Kent had walked him through all of the things he did while learning the dao seed and Drake had taken it and made his own dao seed of destruction.

Plikt had gotten one other dao seed to go alongside his dao seed of the queen. He was currently meditating on his last dao seed. He and Brock had been talking about something relating to daos, but I hadn’t been close enough to hear what they were saying exactly.

We were all getting as ready as we could before we faced the Night-Mare. All of our visions had tunneled in and focused on taking down the Night-Mare. Nothing was more important to us right now than killing the creature who had taken us down so easily.

We had all been using each other to train, and it was going really well. But on top of that we also had to deal with the increasingly difficult nights that brought more and more monsters every night. As I train with Layton to increase our spatial awareness.

We were going into the thick trees and separating. Layton was currently going around and throwing rocks at me that I had to dodge or duck out of the way before it could touch me. As I turned slowly around I heard a whistle behind me. Cursing I dove to the side, narrowly avoiding the rock as it soared through the air where I had just been.

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The onslaught didn’t stop there though. Rocks continued to fly through the air, pelting the ground all around me as I ducked and dodged as best I could. The rocks were coming from many different directions as Layton ran circles around me. In a full out run I could easily overtake her, but that didn’t mean she wasn’t fast.

An Olympic athlete would fail miserably when racing any of us at this point. Our stats were just too high. A rock came flying from behind me and above me at the same time and I dodged one but the one above me hit me in the leg, making me lose our little game.

I cursed and stood up, stretching as I looked around for Layton. She emerged from the thick forest with a wide grin on her face. “It took me a while to figure out how to throw both of those rocks to impact you at the same time, I am really glad it worked.” She said, coming up to me and giving me a side hug. “You are amazing. I kept thinking that you were sure to get hit but you would dodge out of the way at the last second, you are so good at this.” She told me, eyes shining.

I just smiled at her, giving her a hug too. “Our stats are very different. I am surprised that you are so fast, I was not expecting you to be able to circle me so quickly, it threw me off guard at the beginning.” I told her, a smile on my face as well. We were all growing so fast, I loved the little moments where we could show each other how much we had grown not just physically but mentally.

Plikt has gotten the final dao. He has completed Quest: Daoist.

All of the Nightmares of Earth have officially gotten 3 daos! Good job!

As a reward you will all be given a small recording that will show you how to more effectively use your daos.

Oh? Plikt got his last dao? Good for him. As I wondered what it was I heard a loud shout and ran back to our semi clearing.

There was Plikt, surrounded by monsters and struggling to hold them off. As I arrived I saw Kent and Brock also arrive. We all rushed into the clearing and started to fight. The monsters were all odd bipedal horses with flowing red manes.

Night-Horse

Level: 30

Oh no that wasn’t good, it was the same level as some of the bosses, or higher. And there were a half dozen of them. As I rushed into the clearing the horses turned to us letting out a terrifying winnie and charging us.

Brock slammed into one of the horses, sending it flying back a couple of feet. Brock was so large that his fists were the size of our heads, and his punches HURT. Or at least they looked like they did, I had never been on the receiving end so I couldn’t know for sure.

Kent covered his arms in scales and lightning erupted from his fists before slamming into one of the horses and managing to send it even further than Brock had sent his horse. Which was surprising with the size difference.

Layton started to throw rocks with deadly precision, knocking the horses back and giving us opportunities to strike. As we fought with them, taking out 3 of them in twice as many minutes, Emily and Drake arrived, tearing into the flanks of the disgusting creatures.

The horses let out screams and turned angrily, only to be attacked by us as we zoomed back into the fray. They stood no chance against our onslaught.

‘Nightmares of Earth’ have slain 6 Night-Horses

Dividing Xp…

Level Up! You are now lvl 29 applying class stats…

Level Up! You are now lvl 30 applying class stats…

Level Up! You are now lvl 31 applying class stats…

Check your status? Y/N

Nice. Not only had we saved Plikt, but we had gotten some much needed levels out of it. The levels recently had all been going to Plikt because he had the least amount of levels, but now that he was around our level we were earning equal amounts of experience, instead of them all being funneled into Plikt.

As I was catching my breath a message appeared.

Plikt has passed level 25! He gets rewards previously stated.

I smiled. Now the Nightmares of Earth could stand on equal ground.