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8. Raiding dungeons, The art of chaos!

After proving herself capable to her new, current team, they all head back to the dinner, Greg muttering to himself as he walks behind the group a bit down trodden and broody, though everyone is ignoring them as they attempt to ask a million questions to silver, most related to her class, some about why she is so strong. She ignores most of them as they enter the dinner. In an instant the place falls silent, Silver being oblivious to the attention, takes a seat ready to order her favorite breakfast here. The team follows though looking around a bit in confusion, some whispers can be heard but not the contents. After everyone orders, its silvers turn and she orders grits and eggs, with toast and sausage, and a huge waffle to go with it and milk to wash it all down with, the meal having been ordered by her many times here it doesnt faze the waitress who takes it down with a smile. While waiting for their food, an older gentleman, pushing close to 40 or 50 years old by now ambles over. "excuse me, miss, I was wondering if you had time to discuss raiding dungeons with me and my party? though we have 5 people we wouldnt mind having a sixth." at first silver is unaware he is talking to her, having assumed that he was trying to recruit the young but higher level archer on the team, when that very person nudges her gently to get her attention. " I'm sorry?...what did you say? I didnt realize you were talking to me, sir." speaking politely as she tunes into whats going on. "ah its mighty fine, was just wondering if you would like to raid with me and my team, though we are a bit older, we have a lot of experience and would love to have you join us." "ahhhhh okay, Unfortunately I have agreed to do a raid with this current team, but maybe in the future we could run another raid then." Silver politely turns them down, seeing most of the people he is with already in their 40s and 50s, making it hard for them to keep up with her future plans. The old man nods politely before walking away, having assumed the answer but asking what the rest were afraid to do. "alright team, What dungeon are we going to try to raid today? I assume one of the big 5 on this side of town? is it wolf mountain? ice bear domain, golem valley, or volcanic ash zone for rare resources, though i suppose you could be aiming for medicine mountain though I dont see a healer among us to gather the resources properly?..." silver cuts straight to the point, eager to level up and see herself with both arms again soon. "wolf mountain, theres a rumor of some new treasures being guarded by a huge wolf pack, it might be worth it if we get something good from the chest." greg replies, finally out of his brooding now that he realizes silver is his equal he treats her better than even the rest of the team. "alright, we can set up just out of aggro range of the wolves maybe and then I can bait them into my turret and the team? you can have the treasure, i have no problems relinquishing all rights to loot, I am just here to power level." As soon as she mentions letting go of her hunters rights to loot, the entire dinner explodes into a million different conversations on the matter, and none are guessing anywhere close to why she is trying to power level. After some time and everyone eats, they set off immediately to the dungeon, once they enter the only thing they can see is a grinning silver standing in front of them. "as you all know, the loot is yours, but the deal was i get to kill as much as i please...so, with that said, touch a single monster...and ill feed you to them first!" with that silver turns on her heel sprinting away even faster than when she was fighting greg, leaving her team standing, dumbfounded at the predicament. "Why is she so fast?!" the dark elf says trying to follow in her path, and as the jog along, they see several large wolves dead and piled up, at first they are confused, ubtil greg sees the cracked craters in each of their skulls. "she...she killed all these wolves with just a punch! we wouldve had to fight together and dodge, maybe even getting injured a few times to fight all these wolves together!" the dwarf stands further ahead looking into the valley just before the giant mountain that looks like a wolfs head, hence the name of the dungeon. All he can see is a blur zipping between small groups of wolves before moving on to the next before all the bodies even hit the ground, leaving the bodies prestine for harvesting, thus increasing their value tenfold."We should speed up, toss the corpses into your spacial rings and lets go, our newest member is chaos, pure chaos!look at the amount of corpses!"

Some distance ahead, breathing raggedly, finally being able to unleash everything without restraint as she hunts down every wolf she can, some try to run before their skull gets shattered from the powerful blows, killing level 10 to 20 normal and even the odd elite wolf with single punches, leaving behind a sea of carnage and chaos. Stopping after killing hundreds of wolves and finally gaining level 4, getting no class improvement yet or anything more than 5 free attributes, which is a bit depressing considering the cost of leveling, this amount of wolves would have pushed a normal person to level 10 easily, but barely shifts her experience bar. Taking a break when she sees a breath taking site on the side of the mountain, thousands of wolves, congregating on the side of the mountain, guarding a bright golden chest,signifying its rarity as legendary. "huh, guess it wasn't such a rumor afterall." after waiting nearly an hour the 4 team mates finally catch up to silver, completely wilded and exhausted. "could...you...not...?" greg asks breathlessly. "What? a girl can't have a lil fun every once in awhile?" She giggles to herself as she stands up, her long break almost over with. "found your rumor by the way, same rules apply, so stay the fuck outta my way and the treasure is yours." with that silver walks away her tail and ears swishing and twitching cutely in her excitement, the huge pack looking like nothing but numbers on her experience bar. "Art of chaos!" Silver roars out summoning her turret within 50 meters of the pack, making the entire pack now under her domain, and almost immediately the turret opens fire, killing one, to two wolves in single shots, sometimes the manasplosion claiming an extra kill, all the while they react and charge towards silver, who is standing there, waiting. 40 meters, 30, 20, 10,then...5 before she moves, punching and kicking as she jumps from wolf to wolf claiming lives just as much as her turret, the scene is a beautiful sight of chaos, thousands of wolves growling, howling and lunging, at a tiny blur in the midst of them, the bodies pile up on top of eachother, growing 2 deep, then 3, and 4, with still too many for anyone to count. "ahahahaha this is exhilarating!" silver cackles with glee. after fighting the huge number of wolves for nearly 3 hours straight, its down to just her and one huge wolf, about level 25, having leveled up twice more from the sheer numbers of wolves giving her a replenished mana pool, but already tapped out again. Silver stares off against the wolf, with shaky exhausted legs, covered in hundreds of tiny cuts that are healing visibly, and having recieved thousands before now showing just how resilient her body is from minor injuries now. "one last bang for the finally big guy! what say you? you ready ro die today? Ive made my arrangements already." Silver talks to the wolf, already crazed and drowned in battle, the bloodlust gone leaving nothing but the madness of it all behind. "her team saunters over, still looking prestine, if not a bit pale having watched a massacre for 3 hours straight, they leave a healthy distance from silver and the wolf as they start collecting the wolves, the meat on the elites a delicacy in the market. While the wolf has a staring contest with Silver, a notification pops up letting her know her mana reserves has enough for her to use, with an evil grin and a wave of her hand, her new favorite turret forms and fires rapidly, punching the huge wolf back as silver darts in much slower than she began earlier, ducking under the wolfs clumsy attempt to push her back while defending against the turrets lethal shots, she upper cuts the wolfs jaw, making contact when she detonates another explosive punch, the directed blast being enough to blow the wolfs head clean off at the point. Its lifeless body drops to the ground, soon followed by a grinning but exhausted silver. "I made level 7 guys!" silver calls out to everyones surprise and wonder, confusing them as the sheer experience she gained would have easily made everyone else present reach level twenty even if they shared experience from working together.'now...to see what all the notifications are about...' she thinks as she opens her status page, and right away a class advancement panel pops up. Congrulations on gaining enough experience and combat data to push your class to the next level, please select which type of advancement path you would like to start now! [please note that any selection made here will not lock the other paths, only starting one of the available paths]

1. additional turrets + 1

2 Elite turrets - turn all current turrets into an upgraded version.

3. artillery emplacement turret +1

4. self deployed blueprint +1

5. defense wall +1

With a flash of interest in her eyes, silver without hesitation, selects artillery emplacement, knowing that if its battery is weak, she can easily upgrade it, and with what she has seen of her mana bullets, the upgrade will be...chaos!

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