The tower was being constructed, in the presence of the Wendigos outside the barrier, with Maric's metal and reinforced with Erica's ice Trait.Soon, an ethereal tower stood erect at about 14 meters tall with a body that glistened with unnatural light. It had several openings in it with turrets and cannons placed by Matt, making the tower a proper siege tower. They had even added a metal-ice wall, that was as thick as that of a castle's, all round the tower. Currently, they were all on this wall inspecting the tower from the outside.“Yeahhhh. That's not normal.” Eric shook his head as he inspected the tower.“What?! That's probably my life's work, when next would you see me do something like this again.” Erica asked, almost flaring up.“Calm down. Don't get me wrong. It's good and sturdy, very sturdy. But an hybrid structure of ice and metal? Does that sound normal to you?” Eric clarified.“Oh.” Erica simply said, contemplating his question.“It'll have to do.” Maric nodded and looke
The cacophony of bullet storms and gun barrels spinning and whirring came to a stop after about six minutes.The work was done. No one needed to be told that they've accomplished what they came for.Eric let go of hold on the gun, whose barrel and muzzle was already blazing hot like live coals in a furnace, and surveyed the landscape.It was as though World War 1 passed through the area where the dungeon was.His ears rang softly from the noise that they caused.“We sure reeked havoc on these things, huh?” Nelson said, his expression solemn as he sat on the wall behind his weapon.“We sure did.” Eric replied, solemnly as well.Everyone was quiet for about two minutes taking in the results of their handiwork.Black viscous blood, grey flesh, decimated buildings and massive craters was all that covered the landscape.Eric looked up and say the dungeon display message in front of them.[4/10 Wendigo Spawners destroyed]“Let's complete this dungeon raid properly guys.” He finally said be
They didn't bother with packing the bodies of the dead Wendigos and proceeded to just exit the dungeon. No one had the mental strength to start packing body pieces of a creature that would probably go for about 10,000 coins per body.“I'm starting to regret blasting these things to kingdom come. This is cool cash we're passing by.” Matt said in melancholy as he eyed the body pieces of the monsters.“Yeah sure. Only fodders like you would care for scraps. I'm definitely not interested in packing all of this.” Nelson spat hatefully as he walked, hands in his pocket.“Jeez, what's with the beef? Is it about that pistol joke?” Matt frowned and turned his attention towards Nelson who was walking in front of him.“Don't chat to me fam.” Nelson said sharply and hastened his steps slightly.Matt merely shrugged it off and they all kept walking.Chuck and Eric were the ones walking at the back of the cohort.“You defeated a dungeon boss single-handedly, well done bro.” Eric complimented him si
Perhaps it was arrogance, perhaps it was confidence. The fact remained that they were eager to see what would actually try to trap them.They got to the base without checking the surroundings and just went about their normal after-raid routine; cooking, playing games, checking out the world chat and the leaderboard rankings as well as eventually resting for the day.“To be very honest, this is wrong. Very wrong.” Maric protested casually as he went through the shop items to see if there was anything worthwhile.“What is?” Amy asked, directing her attention to him.“I know we're all strong. Just more two grades to go and we would be regarded as Awakened Pinnacle entities. But I still think, we should take necessary precautions and not underestimate their group even if they are somewhat weak.” Maric explained himself as he continued scrolling through several items.“There's eight of them and this is the breakdown of their Traits.” Eric said on his seat with utmost seriousness.Everyone’
Several hours passed and nothing came, even as it was nearly midnight. Eric had briefed them on the abilities of Jasmine's cohort so they were well informed.“I doubt if those bastards will show up, I'm too tired from the speedy advancement today. I’mma go sleep.” Nelson said before going to lay on his mattress.Eric nodded and started walking towards the door.“Yeah… I'll keep…” His voice stopped abruptly and a smile slowly found its way to his lips.There were holographic screens in front of him, his usual unique screen.[Analysis: The shadows are moving towards you. Be advised.][Analysis: A user of Stealth is dangerously close by. Be advised.][Analysis: You're being watched! Be advised.]“They're here.” Eric said with a calm voice, his face already neutral again.Everyone was on high alert but just as planned, they didn't behave as though they were expecting an ambush.He opened the door to see an arrow and an hatchet flying towards him. The arrow had an odd red glow around it wh
Mark didn't recognise the weapon in his hand simply because it was disguised as a pair of jade green escrima sticks so he didn't fret much.‘What is giving these bastard this confidence though? He said something about me being a bad person too. What?’Eric couldn't help but wonder what was going on.The 10-foot giant swung his hammer at blurry speeds at Eric hopping to smack him away like a golf ball being hit.Eric launched himself into the air, totally avoiding the blow, before swinging one of his escrima sticks at Mark.However, it was a mere taunt. The swing wasn't meant to hit the target and it was even swung halfheartedly, without vigour or intentions.Mark was about to make a remark about Eric being sloppy but a concussive force smacked him on the side of his head, knockinhg him to the side and stunning him a bit.The wind generated from the half-hearted swing of the disguised Divine Smite was strong enough feel like an actual attack from Eric.Mark's nose and ears bled from th
“It really is them. Eric?” Amy said in disbelief, her ghostly blue blade shuddering, ready to reap souls.“You don't have to ask.” Eric said simply as the blue glow in his eyes intensified.After a moment, he nodded, having gleaned the necessary details from their profile.“Yeah… the important thing is that one of the is an Awakened Grade 2, four of them are on our level, three of them are Awakened Grade 4 and two of them Awakened Grade 5 with one of them being Jasmine.” Eric said, his hope renewed.Erica put on a scowl at the mention of that name.“Pretty basic shit. We can do this, we can cook these guys for real.” Nelson said, brandishing his trusty elbow long dagger that was blacker than night itself.“We'd have to go all out from start though. No holding back, no playing. This could very much cost us our lives.” Mr. Baker said, already covering himself and the cohort in an invisible forcefield.Just then, Eric's hairs stood on their ends as he forced himself to look up, an expres
The entire area was wiped out and wiped clean, the fodder amongst the ones hiding, utterly obliterated without traces.Eric also received a few skill points and XP from killing the tamed beasts in the surrounding area.An influx of messages flooded him because now, he had several high level and mid level beast type summons available to him.He sighed and inspected himself pitifully.His new tailsuit, that hadn't used up to a month, was in rags and burnt in several places.There were charred patches of flesh on his body as well, half of his face was marred and grotesquely burned with his teeth visible from the outside.Another message popped up in front of him, one he hasn't seen since his days as a low level Awakened.…[-50 Durability Points of Divine Smite.][Divine Smite Durability: 19950/20000]…“No doubt about it. That guy also had a Divine Smite in hand.” Eric muttered unintelligible. “It only makes sense that a Divine Smite would cut a Divine Smite.”“It also means that the ch