Chapter 9 : Avent of the third trial

Speaking of which, why does Luke make all these efforts to keep a friendly relationship with others and most importantly, why is he acting like this with Sheila? The answer to this question is a future investment.

They do not look like much... they are not much, but for any eventuality, he had to prepare. Like now, on the eve of the third quest, which is a forced group quest. Having fodder-life and death comrades who would be willing to sacrifice for your sake is a great thing.

Well, before, he didn't want to mingle with the group since they would be dead weight most of the time but after experiencing the troll-boss fight, he had to strive for companionship. So, here he is, at the center of the ' camp ' which was just a gathering of tents in random locations. He began discussing with Carl, who was faintly the number one leader with a quiet Sheila in tow

" Hello, Carl! "

" Hello huh... Luke? yay Luke, how are you? "

" I'm fine, thank you, I came to ask some questions about what happened in the second quest, you see, I took the solo one so I guess we had different things to do. "

He frowned a little but answered " As you know already, we had to face 3 waves of monsters with 5 minutes of interval time. 200 in the first, it was quite easy with no casualties, 400 in the second with 4 casualties and... the third was when shit hit the fan. There were still 400 monsters but 15 of them had canes and 40 had bows. The cane holding goblins were mages and the bow holding ones were archers. "

He then shook his head as if to clear off some bad memories and continued " We couldn't respond in time to the first salvo of magic, damn fireballs, most died at that time and ... " The more he continued, the more Luke's face was marked with guilt and when Carl finished he said " I-if I was there, I could've stopped most of the deaths, I'm-sigh I'm really sorry " By the end he had his head lowered in ' guilt '

Carl placed his hand on his shoulder " It's alright, after all, you were not the only one and what could a single man have done huh? Nothing much, oh and by the way, what happened in the solo quest? You are the only one who came back from it. "

" The solo quest you say? Uhm... There were 100 goblins with 4 mages and 16 archers, but they attacked 10 at a time. "

" Is that so? Well, that really was hard I guess, no wonder no one apart from you came back. But it also means you should be strong right? What's your ability? "

Smiling faintly, Luke said " Let me demonstrate it instead " He then used his dark hands spell on the ground. It created a small crater in the form of his hand with some residues that were still corroding the ground.

" Wow, that's a powerful ability! No wonder you came back "

" Yay, and I can also coat my weapons with it for more lethality. "

" Good, this will be a great help in the quest "

' Yay yay, let's be done with it, I'm not here for this. '

" Can you tell me about other people's ability, I was too much in my own thoughts to listen at that time. "

" Oh, okay, first off there is Steven who ... "

Like this, they spent the morning talking while anyone who wanted to talk to Carl went to Steven. The latter was thus busy with them all morning.

From the talk, Luke learned that the only ones with powerful abilities were a woman who had a flamethrower ability, another one who had a healing ability and a guy with a rock wall ability. That aside, Carl had a body strengthening one and Steven a lightning bolt one. Luke thought they made great candidates for a certain matter he had in mind...

After this, everyone went to eat lunch inside their tent, not because they were all antisocial, only a few were, but because anyone can have anything they want IF they have the points.

Inside ' their ' tent, Sheila and Luke was enjoying a pizza while talking and in this manner, the 3 days break period passed.

It was weird how he was less and less bothered by Sheila's presence...

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* The third quest will begin in 30 minutes

It will last a week and each day, you will face a tier 1 monster wave accompanied by a mini-boss. On the seventh day, a boss will appear. You will have to choose a champion to fight it.

Good luck humans. *

" Alright, we have 30 minutes to assemble... " Carl and Steven began ordering others around while Luke was thinking about his enemy. ' A boss? Will it be that blue-skinned b*stard? If it is, I will have my vengeance quite fast. this time, let's see how it will fare against a thousand dark hands. Tsk, not even that, just a hundred will be enough... I will shove it up its ass, definitely. ' As he was busy brewing evil plans, he saw the day's wave showing in the distance and his mouth twitched.

' Well, the sooner the better. '