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Chapter 7

Chapter 7

Chapter 7

When the team heard noises of the battle, they instantly rushed to help. After the party arived at the place, they saw the other group from in middle of the fight with 13 wolves. There were 4 dead beasts on the ground, while woman was using first aid kit to stabilize nasty looking wound on the aclotye leg. The other 3 people protected the wounded team member from the wolfs.

Oliver's group instantly wen't into the action. Tobias rushed to the wounded, Tye and Lorelei succesfuly killed two of the beasts, while Oliver stayed with the girls, so they could focus on killing the enemy.

[Wolf - Monster LV.9 - Grey]

[Threat - Medium]

[Highest Attribute - 20Agi]

[Wolf - Monster LV.7 - Grey]

[Threat - Mild]

[Highest Attribute - 19Dex]

[Wolf - Monster LV.10 - Grey]

[Threat - Medium]

[Highest Attribute - 22Agi]

Wolfs saw the enemy instantly doubling the numbers, they quickly gived up the prey and ran away. Both parties merged into a circle with a wounded and the ranged members inside the cricle. After 5 minutes of waiting, they relaxed and checked on the wounded.

"Our party is very thankfull for your help, my name is Clark" Clark thanked Oliver's team.

"My name is Lorelei, what we did was the only right thing to do as fellow humans" Lorelei said modestly.

"Again, thank you, let me introduce my team, the guy with two daggers is called Zahran, Issa is the fair lady with the sword, our huntmastress is Taya and our wounded battle mage is Steven." Clark introduced his team, each party member greeted Oliver's group when they were introduced.

[Race - Human

Name - Clark

Age - 34

Gender - Male

Class I - Warrior LV.9

Highest Attribute: 26End

Threat - High]

[Race - Human

Name - Zahran

Age - 24

Gender - Male

Class I - Warrior LV.8

Highest Attribute: 24Agi

Threat - Medium]

[Race - Human

Name - Issa

Age - 28

Gender - Female

Class I - Warrior LV.8

Highest Attribute: 27Str

Threat - Medium]

[Race - Human

Name - Taya

Age - 27

Gender - Female

Class I - Archer LV.8

Highest Attribute: 26Dex

Threat - Medium]

[Race - Human

Name - Steven

Age - 19

Gender - Male

Class I - Acolyte LV.7

Highest Attribute: 27Int

Threat - Medium]

"Our frontline, Oliver with 2 one handed axes and Tobias with shield and a mace. Me with the bow and Tye with her magic fill up the backline." Lorelei said while pointing on each of the party members.

"Shouldn't healers be a backline?" asked puzzled Issa.

"If I get hit, I can just heal myself right?" Tobias responded to the question.

"I can see his point," Clark said "but it's going to be hard without physical attributes from levels."

"So far there wasn't anything much stronger or faster, it's not that bad" anwsered Tobias.

"As a team leader I would ask you for assistance with getting back to the ." Clark asked looking at Lorelei.

"We were going back ourself, we can travel back together" Lorelei agreed to the request.

"What about wolfs? I want to test the sack" said Oliver.

"Sack?" asked Zahran.

Oliver showed old looking sack and said "It is supposed to cram in up to 8 meters of stuff"

"Is it possible to use this item to store wolf bodies in exchange for one of the bodies?" asked Taya.

"If Oliver can lift everything up, then I dont see a problem" Lorelei anwsered the other archer.

"Hey! When i became pack mule?" Oliver complained.

"The moment you said you want to test the sack" snickered Tye.

Oliver dramatically huffed and pulled Tobias, who tried not to laugh.

In less than 10 minutes, all the bodies were in the sack. Oliver had to use both hands to lift the sack up, after he got the sack on his shoulder, the groups moved to the . After 20 minutes of uneventfull walk, everyone got the notification.

[Welcome back in the Sanctuary.SN.007 citizen]

[Path to Sanctuary 0.1 -> 0.3]

[You have vigilantly fought and killed enemies of Sanctuary and helped your fellow citizens]

[Monster killed:

Slime - green: 5 - 15 coins awarded.

Goblin - green: 6 - 30 coins awarded.

Goblin leader - green: 1 - 50 coins awarded.

Helped allied team: 1 - 50 coins awarded.]

[Sanctuary Coins: 145]

[Local time: 17:43:25]

"Coins, cool, I wonder when we are going to be able to use them" said Tobias.

"The earlier the better, I need arrows" Lorelei complained.

After few minutes the group was meet with a 3 meter wooden palisade, behind the palisade, they saw wooden tower with a archer on it. Guard saw and recognized the team and shoutet "Gate is that way!" and pointed to their right. The party thanked the archer and walked in the pointed direction. Minute later they saw corner of the palisade and another tower, after turning around the corner, they could see the gate.

When group came close to the gate, two guards came out of it.

[Information resistance 0.2 -> 0.3]

"Welcome back, you guys are the last group to show up." one of the guards greeted them.

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"After 50 monsters were killed unlocked the first shop and [Citizen Pin]'s" said the other guard.

"You need to walk through this gate to be able to wear the pin" said warrior.

The group walked through gate, with each person there was woman's voice greeting them. After Oliver walked through gate he recived notification.

[Welcome back Citizen Oliver]

[Please reedem from the guards.]

Small floating cube near the gate made a 'ding' sound. The guards beckoned the party to follow them, after getting close to cube, the archer said "Please touch the cube to recive [Citizen Pin], after you recive it, simply pin it in a visible place."

When Oliver touched the cube, he felt foreign object materialize in his hand. Oliver inspected the pin, it was fully silver 7 arm star with a black number 7 in middle of it.

[Citizen Pin - standard identification device, bonded with the receiver's life force. Pin breaks after confirmed death of the bounded, teleport to the bounded person if distance between is higher than 10 meters. Unlocks ability to trade via . Bonded user gain attributes depending on prosperity. +1 Willpower.]

Oliver attached the pin to the collar bone area. The party thanked the guards and went to the settlement, Oliver counted 30 identical looking houses, one office like building and shop with the word 'General' on the plate above the door.

The group ignored the shop for now, they first wanted to know where are they going to sleep. They went to the office building, the doors were open, the party went inside and saw the wooden board with few notes. Oliver read some of them, most of the notes had requests to buy diffrent matterials, some looked for ores or hides, while some asked for the new and instresting plants. Few of the notes asked for assistance from the specific classes.

Team took the note asking for wolf parts and went to the clerk. After short greetings, the group asked where they can find person from the note and how to aquire the house. The clerk asked them to wait and went to look for contruction manager. Few minutes later Connor Mcmahon came inside the office and greeted the groups.

[Race - Human

Name - Connor Mcmahon

Age - 34

Gender - Male

Class I - Warrior LV.7

Highest Attribute: 23Str

Threat - Medium]

[Observe 0.6 -> 0.7]

"Welcome back from the hunt, I hope the hunt was succesful" Connor greeted.

After short plesantries Lorelei beckoned Clark's group to talk with the manager first. They went to the room first, 15 minutes later the group came out and said that they were going to wait for Lorelei's party outside of the office. Connor invited them in.

"Hello, I'm Connor and I take care of construction related activites, please sit on." Connor welcomed the party.

"Good evening, my name is Lorelei and this is my party, Oliver, Tye and Tobias." Lorelei introduced the group.

"We wish to rent or buy a house and iqnuire about buying plot of the land for permament residence." continued Lorelei.

"You can rent a house for one Coin a day or 50 Coin's upfront to buy the house. Right now the only aviable houses have 5 rooms, kitchen, salon and two bathrooms. You can buy land, but doing so is done via and the managment personel have no real power over it." explained Connor.

The group looked at eachother and noded.

"We wish to buy the house" said Lorelei, then added "where one can use the to check on the land?"

"To see land options simply touch the [Citizen Pin] and think of buying the land. [Citizen Pin] have a lot of uses, I encourage to find them out." explained Connor.

"Back to the house, after the transaction, bind the token to become owner of the house, it will allow you to move it on the unowned ground." Connor continued.

One transaction later group left office and meet up with Clark's party outside of the building. Together they went to look for house with the number 11 that was arranged as monster processing area. The team found the house that they were looking for, they went inside and found two men working on boar carcas. Noticing the group, men stopped working and came to greet new arrivals.

"Welcome in the 'Hunter's Hut' my name is Declan, what I can do for you?" Declan greeted them.

"Hello, we saw your notice about animals, we have 6 wolf carcases with us." said Oliver.

"Wolfs huh, let me think. Pelt, claws and fangs are going to be usefull, meat isn't that tasty and rest is going for the compost. Best I can offer is 8 Coins per wolf" calculated Declan.

"We are fine with the price" said Clark.

"Us too" added Lorelei.

"My name is Sid. Do you need help with transport?" Sid annouced himself and offered the help.

"We have bodies with us" said Oliver while pointing at the sack.

"They are that small? We were expecting something slightly smaller than this boar" asked suprised Declan.

"It is bigger on inside than outside, start using more often old man" snickered Sid

"That is just rude and you are not much younger yourself" responded Declan.

"Where to dropp them?" inquired Oliver.

"Please follow me to the basement" beckoned Sid and started walking toward's one of the doors.

[Race - Human

Name - Sid

Age - 33

Gender - Male

Class I - Archer LV.7

Highest Attribute: 23Agi

Threat - Medium]

[Race - Human

Name - Declan

Age - 38

Gender - Male

Class I - Archer LV.6

Highest Attribute: 22Agi

Threat - Low]

Oliver, Tobias and Clark went with Sid, as the group walked down the stairs Oliver asked

"How did you make basement so fast? There was no mention of it when we asked about the house."

"You can upgrade the house using the Pin, add rooms, change them, add basement or new flors. Too bad any change cost Coins, we only added basemnt to store meat" explained Sid

"What is going to happen to the basement when house move?" asked Clark.

"While adding basement there was information that it will move with the house, I already love how conviniet this whole is." responded Sid.

While talking group dropped of the bodies. On the way back they heard the conversation.

"Toilets? those are pretty primitive, if we weren't running low on Coins i would already upgrade it" said Declan.

"What about beds? Those should be decent right?" asked Tobias.

"Wooden frame with hay on it. Upgrade it or buy normal bedding from shop, they scam with prize but quality is not terrible" Sid joined the conversation.

"About co-owning of the house, owner make someone co-owner and that person have same access as first owner? How does kicking out someone works?" Lorelei barraged Declan with questions.

"When owner gives co-owner permission she/he become co-owner themself, to add another co-owner all actual co-owners must agree. To kick someone out of being co-owner you will need to make request to the . What is going to happend after, I don't know" explained Declan.

"Thank you for your anwsers" Tye thanked.

"No problem, to who do I send the money?" asked Declan

"Half to me and half to Clark" said Lorelei.

"Please confirm the trade." requested Declan.

"Everything is in order" said Clark.

"So how much does 5kg of good boar cut cost?" asked Oliver.

His whole team looked at him.

"Why are you looking at me like that? Isn't this place that trades meat?" said Oliver

"1 coin per 2kg of the processed boar meat" responded Sid.

"I'll take 6kg then, when wolf meat will be aviable? And how much it's going to cost?" Oliver continued.

"Tommorow morning and it should be 5kg for one coin, when it comes to consumption boar's meat is much higher quality than wolf's." explained Declan.

After Oliver's purchase the group left 'Hunter's Hut' and went to check on their new house. Few minutes later they stood in fron of the house with number 23.

"Quite shoddy huh?" said Tobias.

"It will be better soon" said Lorelei and walked into the house.

Stat Sheet

Race - Human

Name - Oliver Hormoz

Age - 21

Gender - Male

Class I - Warrior Lv.10

Class II - N/A

Specialization - Grinder(U)

Title - Monster Slayer II

Sanctuary Coins: 145

Stats:

HP: 500/500

HP Regen: 27,5/Hr

Stamina: 410/440

Stamina Regen: 47,92/Min

Mana: 210/210

Mana Regen: 32,2/Hr

Attributes:

STR:25

AGI:19,5

DEX:22,5

END:20

VIT:22

WILL:23

INT:15

WIS:14

CHA:11

Free Points:2

General Skills:

Active:

- Observe 0.7

Passive:

- Compass 0.4

- Iron stomach 0.5

- Sneaking 0.3

- Path to Sanctuary 0.3

- Suprise attack 0.1

- Information resistance 0.3

- Pain resistance 0.3

I Class: Warrior (+1 to Str,Vit,End,Will. +0,5 to Agi,Dex. +1 Free Point per level.)

Active:

- Heavy Swing 0.5

Passive:

- Battle lust 0.1

- Basic weapon mastery 0.4

- Basic armor mastery-medium 0.3

II Class: N/A