Chapter 245 - Counted as Two (2/2)

hawk backed off, not offended. he laughed and said, “you’re rather pale. has the queen already drained you?”

the players nearby all grimaced.

everybody who frequently visited the forum knew that roland had lured the queen away.

also, roland did seem exhausted at this point.

roland raised his middle finger at them… boundaries were unnecessary when dealing with players.

then, he sat down and said, “let’s talk about the raid.”

“take a look yourself.” hawk pointed his finger in midair and operated on the system menu that was invisible to others. “i’ll share the quest with you.”

after accepting the quest, roland turned on the quest system.

conflict within elves: nature or retribution (epic).

wow… the t.i.tle of the quest was epic enough as it was. roland opened the quest introduction.

“the elven druids now disagree with each other on whether to retreat to the forest or declare war on mankind. their choice will influence the future of the elves, but for mankind, there is only one option, which is to help conservative druids. now, find friends to help the conservative elves to defeat the druids who believe in retribution. (large secondary raid. suggested number of partic.i.p.ants: 10)”

after reading the quest introduction, roland looked at the surrounding players and only counted seven including himself. he couldn’t help but ask, “the system suggests ten partic.i.p.ants, but only seven of us are going?”

“they’re the most suitable candidates in my guild.” link, who had been silent, said helplessly, “this game differs in other games in that a dungeon will be closed for good once the raid fails, unless it’s special. so, we have to find the best candidates and try to complete the raid in one go.”

“do you want me to include the friends in my guild?”

hawk nodded. “that’s exactly why we wanted to meet you.”

if possible, silver wings would rather not involve any players from other guilds in the epic quest that they triggered by good luck.

but there wasn’t a choice. everybody in this guild with a reasonable combat ability had been gathered here.

so, external help was necessary.

roland left a message in the guild channel and asked if anybody in his guild was willing to come.

but everybody except schuck and betta was either occupied or too far away.

as a dragon knight, schuck could easily fly ten thousand kilometers in a day.

betta, on the other hand, had returned to a town near delpon for a quest. it would take only him half a day to come to delpon city.

after reading their replies, roland said, “schuck and betta from my guild can join this quest.”

everybody was delighted.

as a dragon knight, schuck had high combat capabilities and was definitely dependable. the odds of pa.s.sing the dungeon raid would be much higher with him.

betta was a capable boy too. a divine n.o.ble who was capable of both melee and magic skills could deal with all kinds of circ.u.mstances.

after the initial delight, link frowned. “but we’re still short of one person.”

“do we have to hire people from the forum?” hawk scratched his head. “i don’t trust strangers.”

“actually, i think we already have ten partic.i.p.ants,” said roland casually.

everybody else was puzzled.

roland explained, “schuck is a dragon knight. so he should be counted as two people.”

after a brief surprise, everybody realized what he meant.