Class overview and battles

A tempest raged. Winds were cutting the shadow cats. Zephyr, coated with white wind armor, was like a gust of wind continuously slashing.

Each of his ego strikes were either critically injuring the cats or killing them. He was extremely fast and was cutting everywhere and everything. The area 2 meters around him was blurry, filled with wind swords and a tornado like spell. He was like a reaper in a hurry.

Ezyze, the scouts and Rea were attacking weakened shadow cats. The hoplites and goblin mages were mercilessly slaughtering the beasts.

They finally managed to kill them all. Every corpses were assimilated with the darkness.

It was already late in the afternoon. Everyone gained a fair numbers of experience points and few levels.

They installed their camps far away form the cats' l'air, atop a huge fir tree. There, they didn't starts bonfire so as to be as discreet as possible.

Ezyze was seated next to Lampa.

"The langurs are all very strong. You have strong magic power and strong bodies. Even the little one is impressive.

We have been tailoring our fighting style according to our talents. We are usually strong or fast, with an enormous Wisdom stat and significant intelligence. While not everyone does, many of our ranks have ego weapons that are maid by a legendary blacksmith mandrill, that the whole clan tries to hide. For the little one, he was blessed  by the mana when he birthed and is a very rare all white langurs that is already capable of doing raw damages with Mana. He should soon reach a class, by the way.

What about it, did you have any ideas?

We were thinking to have him pick something that was like a mage capable of handling raw mana.

Any specificities?

Not really, why ?

Do you have magic classes that are capable to buff a single unit and showcase strong firepower?

We may have something like this, why?

We have a good synergy so far. You may have felt but I am using my skills partially. I am trying to improve as much my axe skills as possible and to fight at the frontlines as much as possible. My secondary class is simply of normal rank. I am able, with my primary class, to fire mana continuously for hours on end. The little monkey, if he is able to boost one single unit, would be useful in boosting me. As he would be with me at all times, he would be destructive, especially with a ranged magic class. We can have him focus his experience points on his class first until rank 3 or maybe 4. If the class allows it, it would also be able to significantly boost his capabilities, to the extent that he would be a strong and savage, small langur, doubled with enormous firepower. Already strong, increasing his monster's rank and evolutions would make him a fearsome individual.

And until rank 3, he must be protected right?

Rank 2 to 3, yes.

That is an enticing prospect. Your hoplites, are impressive. Their fighting power as a unit could soon rival many beasts. Which direction do you want them to have?

We discussed with Arthur the idea of having them take the hoplite class initially. The goblins are feeble creatures and the hoplite class at the time was the one where they would be able to fight the most as a unit and more importantly protect each others and survive. The hoplite class produces a stacking bonus. It was however quite hard to gain since a prerequisite to have this class was that at least 10 individuals were to be trained together in various formations, shield and spear mastery, and chose the same class together. We managed to make the most of what we could do and have rank 2 classes, where 5 of them were gifted a council's member essence. They are the ones that provide enormous boosts in power to the troops nearby. This and some strong attributes, we managed to gain few battles with the Aries. The evolution definitely changes everything.

That is true, however each of them is a step for them. The hoplite was a formation that we managed once to have. We managed to reach the Mana monkey royal hoplite, which were under the direct command of our king and was a legendary class. They already had enormous innate boosts and were supported by our innate traits. Still, we believe that it is better to focus first on the class' potential and then to develop the monster's powers. Having at least rank 4 hoplite related unique class would allow them to reach as a whole the legendary rank. Similarly than humans, when monsters reach the legendary rank in their class, they obtain an increase of something in their bodies. It is even truer for the rank 5 monsters which all reach something that makes them absolute monsters. The gorillas are a prime example of that. They all now are in a realm when they have serious bargaining power. Still, the higher the innate potential, the higher we reach.

So you think that the class would first change this something which would make them stronger, allowing the monster rank to be something even greater?

In essence. Many of us are trying hard at this very instant to have rank 5 classes. The class rank 2 langurs started staying at monster rank 3 and want to shoot for rank 5. On something like goblins, which seem to have huge increase in their power after each evolutions, to have rank 3s at the ready would be seriously amazing."

"What about the little rank 1 white langur?

We don't know yet. So far, he is able to get close to someone who even during expeditions, hicreased the gravity around him when not fighting. You may not know but us langurs were even a dynasty that was bordering the South of the Blacksaber empire. We were allies of the Embersight dynasty, and were called the Erudit Empire, for our usually high degree of wisdom. We were usually passive and rarely started the wars that we fought in. We had many magic masters. Yet, our clan never had more than 5000 members, even when it was royalty! When we fought the Human Empire over our lands, our royal family was decimated and most of our clan members were killed. They feared us so much that they annihilated us all. In the Emberwood forest, we think that we are the last remaining clans and were a count nobility once. We want the little one to be able to fight many enemies. He is blessed by the mana from his birth. We have been teaching him all we know about mana and how it feels to wield mana and he was able to go in greater depth at level 1. While his interest never decreased, his progress recently hit a wall. We want him to grow through classes fast. So far, you are able to fight in a quite smart manner. While your role is slightly dangerous, it provides only opportunities. With me nearby, I know that he is safe. Until we stop fighting, he will grow by your side. He is currently level 9 and will soon obtain his first class! He even has a title at his age! His growth will be fantastic to see, be expectant!

So you want him to be a portable mage! We will see how safe we truly are!

Still, the coming few days will be something to see!"

Ezyze was looking forward to his progresses using the axe. By picking up a normal class, the speed of learning axemanship Passive skills skyrocketed. Making the moves during fights and aided by his gravity control. When he managed to reach the passive: Aries axemanship, he felt that his axemanship was about to evolve. By ranking up, he gained additional Agility, stamina and strenght stat points. While he was disappointed to be a normal rank 2 class, he was looking forwards to the potential of his second class. Moreover, he could level it up for few experience points so it was overall positive.

He felt that he was starting to understand something with his fighting style.

Still, he kept making efforts and trained his magic martial arts. With the Passive gravity gathering, space mana particles were flowing towards him. This greatly speeded up the process of gathering mana and fighting at close range helped him hone the art. When training, he increased his gravity by x10 and poured mana while training his axe moves and had his blows being heavier so far.

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The following day, only larger packs were sent out hunting. They were about 200 rank 2s with some rank 3 in groups of 50. These Cats were incredibly numerous and they could feast on few shadow's cat corpse.

The langurs became more active with an increased in the number of fights and opponents. Lampa and the others were showing raw power.

The unshakables started to fight longer fights and the hoplites were a spiked wall crushing enemies. The goblin mages were throwing spells in wild abandon, many of them had mana shock, due to depleted mana reserves.

In all, they received more experience, few corpses.

Rea was crashing many enemies with her powerful legs and slashing with her bladed hands. Her front kicks were like spears. She was never tired, her burst movements unending. In the rare instances that she is hit, she doesn't seem to be iverky damaged or is quickly regenerated.

Zephyr was a burst like fighter. This was even more magnified when he started using a magic sword that grants him huge bonuses. He was a moving tempest of sword and casted magic much more efficiently and killing more enemies that simply wounding them.

Ezyze was rampaging delivering strong blows one after another. He sparely casted his magic skills. The monkey was already like a mana turret.

In the middle of this madness, the goblin scouts were doing everything they could in order to simply survive.

They were fighting from morning to late afternoon, ambushing hunting parties. Sometimes, hunter fled and alerted other bands, thus facing 400 cats or so in total. They never rushed and always tried to maximize the use of their force. Like this, they were at the last evening before the agreed time before meeting the others during the expedition.

They just finished fighting 800 cat hunters. During this short week, they fought bigger parties. The more the cats die, the higher the number that they seem to have at every rank. The majority of the rank 3 and higher cats stayed in their stronghold.

The rare hoplite class soon became propelled to a rank 3 Unshakable Aries hoplite - epic. They all reached great level in spearmanship. They practiced the movements that Arthur taught them. Over and over and over again. They had the Passive of arthur' secondary class, thus making them gain huge boosts in learning spearmanship. They were stronger and the way the Aries' arts were to be practiced, they were very dynamic and were like a moving wall. Ranking up gave them huge boost in power, but the difference was not as big as when they evolved. They could always get closer to increasing the level of their rank, thus gaining significant boosts in terms of stats. If they face an enemy that would immediately threaten them and if they could, they had to rank up their monster rank.

Still, it was good to make such plans and understand the ins and outs, in order to have backups in case things don't go well

The rank 1 goblins managed to reach the class rank 2 rare mage of fire,water and their elements.

The goblin with the S rank vast mana capability became an epic Arson magus and rank 2.

The goblin with A rank Trait  became a rank 2 archdruid of plant and still epic class.

They were a stronger even artillery like unit and could deliver continuous damages. The Arson magus was basically a walking flamethrower. He burnt and burnt and kept burning everything. He enchants his own spells with fire mana so that he would burn more thing nearby. All of them were more powerful and gained more magic spells, creating even more diversity in the fights. Their power was satisfactory to last a week and they would specialize in shadow magic if they eat a shadow cat and use it as the base of their evolution. They kept experience points aside and boosted their class instead of evolving.

The langurs were more active, but the difference in rank did not grant them much experience points.

The langur infant became an epic class rank 1 student of pure mana. The white hair of his face soon had a light blue glow. He  became a rank 2 unique pure manamancer and could shape the mana as he wanted, thus creating buffs of various forms and attacks of similar diversity. It was like having a sniper on the shoulders.

They picked up their things and rejoined with the Ents, goldenbees, Aries and Thunder gorillas. It was night and the had a feast around a bonfire.

The goblins were eating faes, mountain cats and golems, many things that they never tasted.

After the feast, Algen, Lampa, Harma and Ezyze met under a tent to tell what they went through, the enemies and other things on order to establish a strategy for the following days.

Monsters are territorial creatures. Every group was attacked when they entered these territories.

The gorillas were fighting snakes in the South. Harma told them that these creatures were trees' denizens. They were fighting atop trees. The ground was filled with predatory and poisonous plants and had wsamp like characteristics. Many creatures lived breathing venomous ait. There were venomous lizards, scorpions, slimes, and poison golems. Snakes, poison golems and venomous cats fought for supremacy.

Harma narrated their fights and that they fought only cats and lizards, perched in trees. They were especially worried with being poisoned and thus fought in a conservative manner. Still, they pushed through  relatively deep in the forest - at least deeper than the goblins - and came a cross a rank 5 poison hydra. This monster was over 10 metere tall and had snake like elongated necks and draconian faces, oozing out a reddish substance. They did not engage in fighting the monster and left him bath in poison waters. They fought in the vicinity strong rank 4 snake declination of monsters and the week passed by.

Few of their members ranked up. Harma and other rank 4 especially, focused in increasing their class rank.

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The Ents had amazing improvements. Many former rank 3 became rank 4 wooden humans while 4 of them rank 4 full blood Ents. Since only those about to reach tier 4 left the Emberwood forest, they all got to tier 4. The wooden humans had extremely strong bark. While Ents are a race of sentient trees, most of them focus in developing further their already strong body. These former rank 3 Ents were for most of them, fighting outside of the sanctuary and develop ways to survive on their own. They were strong, yet slow and the rank 4, especially the full blooded Ents, developed their surviving behavior and many of then either make intricate traps or have ways to takedown quick enemies.

One of these rank 4 is a 15 meters tall Ent, from the oak tree family. He can expand an energy shield damaging enemies.

Up north, they fought Earth golems and faes.

An golem is created when elements are saturated with raw mana, gaining sentience in the process. They have strong bodies and are from 4 to 40 meters high. They are extremely territorial and usually form clan like societies with other races, benefiting from symbiosis.

The Earth golems are constituted by things that make up the soil. Mud, stone and crystal golems are earth golems.

The Fae race are fairies that lost themselves in Elemental mana. By doing so, they became so attuned with elements that they lost their ability to speak, communicating only through the elements, and this eventually impacted their bodies. They are a magic race that possess intelligence, high wisdom, and make elements resonate. They are small and weak physically and usually hunt with golems, who are slow but strong and resistant.

The rank 4 Ents battled continuously with the golden bees, during several days. The bees had strong magique resistance and great combat capabilities. They were fast, flew, their shields, spears and armor boosting them, they could both fight brilliantly in close combat, and use magic that boosted each others, as well as defensive and offensive magic.

They had their class reach rank 2, becoming flying magic kinghts and a unique rank champion, mana wielder. The bee unit was the natural counter of the faes, while the ents could rival golems in strenght. When they became wood humans, they gained physical classes, such as Ent warrior, constrictor brawler and even killer ent.

As such, they decimated a tribe of Fae and golems and fought a rank 5 pure diamond golem that bonded with a rank 5 fae thunder queen that had a rank 3 epic spellcrafter class. They were an extremely powerful duo that Algen, the Bees and rank 4 Ents fought for over 2 days continuously. They eventually conquered the isolated tribe.

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