Chapter 48 – New Equipment.

[Explorer Necromancer Armor Set]

[Equipment: Torso, legs, boots, belt, gloves, shoulder pads, cape (Back).]

[Rarity: Rare]

[938 Armor]

[+200 Intelligent]

[+400 Mana]

[+656 Necro Mastery]

[Decrees a cost of summoning or making undeads by 11%]

[Your skeleton servants as well as their variants under your control will have bonus 8.5% all stat.]

[Restrictions: Level 145 / Class skill [Standart Necromancy].]

[Staff Of The Explorer Necromancer]

[Rarity: Rare]

[Attack Power: 176] 

[+100 Intelligent]

[+120 Mana]

[+212 Necro Mastery]

[Decrees a cost of summoning or making undeads by 5%]

[Your skeleton servants as well as their variants under your control will have bonus 3.5% all stat bonus.]

[Restrictions: Level 145 / Class skill [Standart Necromancy].]

[Mana Ring]

[Rarity: Common]

[+15 Mana]

[Intelligent Ring]

[Rarity: Common]

[+15 Intelligent]

[Mana Bracelet]

[Rarity: Common]

[+30 Mana]

[Intelligent Bracelet]

[Rarity: Common]

[+30 Intelligent]

"Nice." – said ClownFrog.

"I've got to say old man. You did damn good job." – said ClownFrog.

"Hey. I told they will be good. Since all of you wanted a different equipment and all, it took quite some time to get materials for each armor set as well as the weapons." – said the old blacksmith.

"Well, it was worth a wait. Now we have some proper freaking equipment." – said GreyHunt while inspecting his new revolvers.

"Yea, but holy shit. We did spend way more money than we though." – said Shri.

"I did warned you. Normally people bring the materials with them if they want costume made equipment and if you don't, you have to pay shit tons of money." – said the old blacksmith.

"Yea… I think we should do that next time. When we would a new equipment again, we would probably have to spend even more money." – said Oron.

"I agree as well. It's very good and it worth the money, but it was very pricy. It would be a good idea if we had somebody like a production specialist on our team." – said GreyHunt.

"Production specialist?" – asked Shri.

"Alchemist, blacksmith, farmer, cook and some other similar classes are called production classes by people. There are some players that rather than fighting monsters or exploring a world, enjoy just playing it their own way. Some people become a farmers that takes care of normal or some unique creatures while some people want to learn the blacksmithing to make their own equipment and see what they can create." – said ClownFrog.

"Apparently people didn't paid much attention to the production classes at the start, but slowly more and more people began learning production classes or just all together becoming production class specialist."

"Huh. Didn't know that. Are the production classes that good?" – asked Shri.

"Yeb. When I looked online, there were some post about guilds looking to hire production class user or some were about just recruiting them into the guild." – said GreyHunt.

"However just because you got the "Skills", that doesn't mean you can do stuff already. You have to learn and other stuff. For example, like we had to learn and understand how to use our weapons of choice correctly and how to use them with skills and all. So just getting a blacksmith class doesn't makes you a real blacksmith." 

"Oh, I see." – said Shri.

"So should we also look for some blacksmith to join us?" 

"And do you really think anybody would join us? Plus, we are a small guild that only consist of 4 members, so we are not in THAT big of a need of the blacksmith or something. Unless our guild get more members and our guild itself became bigger, than we would have to look for somebody that would join us or work for us or have one us maybe learn one or two production classes." – said ClownFrog.

"Hm... Okay. Anyway, thanks for everything old man." – said Shri.

"No problem. You are always welcome if you need anything. But please bring materials next time you want costume order equipment. It's a giant pain in the ass to gather all necessary stuff myself." – said the old man blacksmith.

After getting the costume made equipment, the party left the blacksmith shop.

"So, now that we have a proper equipment, what do we do? Do we hunt everything we can get our hands on and began traveling again?" – asked Oron.

"Hm… I don't know. Honestly, we need to get stronger before getting to the dessert part of the kingdom. So, I was thinking maybe going to outside areas monitored by the adventure guild." – said ClownFrog.

"?"

"I don't get it." – said Shri.

"Neither do I. What the hell are you talking about?" – asked GreyHunt.

"Well, I was about to explain it to you right now anyway, so listen up."

[Adventurer Guild]

[What is the purpose of the adventure guild?]

[Many players believe that the adventures guild exist for adventures (The players) to help them grow stronger, but that is not exactly the case.]

[There are two reason why an adventure guild could be found in some settlements.]

[The first reason is safety.]

[Some settlements are located in some areas where there are monsters present that could be dangerous to the settlement or people traveling.]

[The second reason is a loot.]

[So, materials from a monsters or stuff you can harvest in those areas can fetch some money. These resources you can get from monsters or plants could be used for armor making or for a medicines for the sick.]

[If either or both of those reason are fulfilled, the adventure guild will be formed in the settlement.]

[The counties benefits greatly from an adventures guild since not only they are getting resources from them but also, they deal with any annoying stuff.]

[The adventures guild offers a repeat type of quest. This type of quest can be completed over and over again, not only by single person or a group but by everybody.]

[Since the adventure's guild offers a rewards, the people such as players are naturally drawn to them, since not only they would be leveling from hunting monsters, but also will get paid for completing the quest from the adventurer guilds. It's a win-win situation for both parties.]

[Adventure guild is an organization that mainly focus on dealing with monsters around the settlements as well as taking some odd jobs.]

[The range of the adventurer guild per settlements depends on the current circumstances, for example the big city could offer not that many quest while a very small town could offer a lot of different quests. It all depends on the danger and what the you could get there.]

[Adventures guild normally offers a quest around the settlements they are located in, meaning that they don't offer much or even any quest that are located quiet far away from the settlement.]

[Adventures guild can also accept an odd jobs or request from individuals or parties. Simple put, they put their request in the adventurer guild and hope somebody would grab their quest. For example, the scam quests we encounter in the Emerald city were those request quests.]

"…Oh. I didn't know that. I though the adventures guilds were formed for us." – said Shri.

"I thought so too." – said GreyHunt.

"Nope. They are using us to do their work, but its fine for the players since they get to hunt and even get paid for all the trouble." – replied ClownFrog.

 "Wait a second, when the hell did you get that information?" – asked Shri.

"In the Emerald city. I've been wondering about this for a while, about why some settlements have adventures guild while some don't. So, I just asked and they just told me. Apparently you can ask any guild in the world and they will say the same thing." 

"Oh, by the way, about my question regarding the lack of the adventure guild in some places, apparently there is a city called Crown where there is no adventurer guild at all since there is no monster threat or anything interesting." – said ClownFrog.

"Wait. Really? I would understand a villager or peaceful town, but not a city! I though all cities had something like adventurer guild." – said Shri.

"Nope. Apparently, there are settlements that have no need of the adventure guild at all. Apparently almost every city has an adventure guild for some reason, but by the look of things some settlements are expectation to this rule." – said ClownFrog.

"Huh. I guess we learn something new each day." – said GreyHunt.

"So, wait. Why do you want to go the areas outside the adventurer guild radar?"

"Simple. The terrain outside the adventurer guild is unknow. Meaning we could encounter some weak monsters like level 10 kobold, or we could encounter something high level." – said ClownFrog.

"Do you remember the minotaurs?"

"Their village and the place they were living in were not in any adventure guild radar. The nearest settlement near them was Emerald City, but there were no quest or anything regarding the area they were residing in."

"There is a good chance we will encounter some higher level monsters if we go outside the area under adventure guild supervision. Meaning, we may end up finding a hunting grounds suitable for us. "

"And not only that, but we maybe be able to find a dungeon or even area boss." 

"Think about. We looked everywhere around the Emerald city, but we could not even find a single dungeon or area boss. Why do you think that we couldn't find anything?"

"!"

"Wait. Maybe you are onto something! Maybe the reason we couldn't find any area bosses or dungeon was because we searched the areas where the adventurer guild offered quests." – said GreyHunt.

"The adventurer guild offers a quest that can help players grow at steady rate, but for us, we are very strong right now and we can hunt things that are much higher level than us."

"Maybe we did have it all wrong. Maybe we shouldn't focus on doing the quests offered by the adventure guild as well as the hunting grounds recommenced by them, but to just go our own ways."

"Maybe all we had to do is to ignore adventurer guild?"

"…"

"…Bit risky since we would enter a territory with no information at hand, but this is definitely worth doing."

"I agree as well. We are quite strong right now and we now have proper equipment. We should be able to handle some unforeseen situation like running into monsters 30 levels higher than us." – said GreyHunt.

"Hm… Okay. This sounds very interesting. I'm in as well." – said Shri.

"Well then, let's do it lads." – said ClownFrog.

Shorty after the discussions was over, the entire party left the city and began heading south.

However, while the party was traveling, in the swamps a solo player was hunting monsters.

[Swamp Man – Level 150]

A female player wearing a robe was charging straight at the group of humanoid monsters while using a shield to block a projectiles thrown at her.

"This is straight up annoying!" – said the female player.

The female player continue charging at the swamp monsters while blocking their attacks. 

After finally getting close to the swamp monsters, the woman used her lance to impale multiple swamp creatures before slamming them on the ground and killing them.

However, while the woman was dealing with the swamp creatures, from behind a creature emerged made out of swamp water.

[Wild Swamp Elemental – Level 153]

The elemental monster shoot a ball of water straight at the female player as soon as killed the swamp monsters.

At first it may seemed like the female player would end up taking a hit, since she did not have time to block with her shield, but –

"[Blood Bubble]."

Out of nowhere a bubble made out of the blood surrounded the girl and blocked the attack.

"Found you!" – said the female player while turning around.

"[Boar Charge]!"

The female player charged straight at the water creature at very high speed by using her skill.

"[Shield Bash]!" 

The girl activated a second skill right before hitting the water monster. The shield attack from two skills ended up hitting the water creature head on and even managing to instantly kill it.

"God damn bastards. Staying hidden. If it wasn't for this place being good spot for me, I would probably go somewhere else." – said the female player.

"?!"

The girl suddenly felt pain on her arm and when she looked at it to see what was going on, she saw a hole in her robes that were covering her body.

The girl instantly moved away her arm and covered it with her shield, as if trying to hide the exposed part of her body.

"God fuking damned! I just got this thing repaired!" – said the furious female player.

"Fuck me…. Maybe changing my race wasn't that good of an idea." – said the female player with red eyes and fangs.