21 Ch. 18- Monster Break Preparation (2/2)

The other reason is that when scanned, our watch would keep track of our merits, and each monster killed during the break would be worth a certain amount of points that could be exchanged for prizes or lottery spins at the core exchange.

The lottery was set in place by the deity as an incentive for participating in the monster break before the association was created, and these points could be traded in for guaranteed prizes at the association. Additionally, the merit points could be transferred and there would be plenty willing to buy those points, it was a win-win for everyone as long as they survived.

I was dressed in my new fire-wyrm hide armor set and had my bandolier and sword set out on my body in preparation for the battle to come. I was lined up along with the other summoners in the city, with many in groups working alongside those they knew or were familiar with, I was alone as I had always fought alone and didn't know many people.

Looking around at how many people were in groups working together it seemed like I might need to find others to team up with in the future to either ensure survival or take down stronger monsters.

I put the thought to the back of my mind for a later time and began to mentally prepare myself for this challenging trial. I had a general idea of what to expect, but I knew the real thing would be far different from the image that I had in my head.

Despite the insane amount of people waiting to pass through the gate, my turn to scan in and pass through the gate came about 30 minutes after getting in line. At the direction of the association members organizing the summoners through the gate, I scanned myself in and walk through the gate.

The sight that I saw after passing through the gate was incredible, there were rows and rows of people spread out in every direction from the gate. Monsters would be coming from all over, so it made sense to spread out summoners like this, not to mention that the sheer amount of people present would require an insane amount of space to fight.

This isn't even taking into consideration their summons that hadn't been summoned yet. Everyone was saving as much energy as possible and would wait to bring out their summons until the last few minutes before the monster hordes came charging at noon.

There was no real sense of organization between these summoners aside from groups of people gathering likely due to working together normally. I decided to make my way from the gate towards the northern area where most beginning summoners would be stationed.

This was the direction facing the forest full of the weakest monsters, but even then the sheer amount of monsters would be a challenge, there also wasn't any rule that a stronger monster wouldn't emerge from this direction. I just had to hope for the best and pray that I didn't come across any monster I couldn't handle.

I eventually settled into the middle section of the northern side of the gate, I would be sent into battle after around 2 hours to fill in for the summoners fighting at the front, but I could go in sooner if there were too many monsters for the current summoners to handle.

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This was the only type of organization that occurred between summoners during the break, no person could fight straight for 6 hours and there wouldn't be enough room for everyone to fight at once.

I was also thinking about how I would store all the monsters in my storage and settled on only storing tier 3 monsters or higher. Thinking about storage, I realized I would need as much space as possible and decided to dump all of my current credits into extra storage space.

I currently had 32 cubic meters of space and with my credit count at 407 credits I could get an extra 16 cubic meters, so I dumped all of my credits in and made my storage expand to 48 cubic meters and leaving me with a measly 7 credits.

All that was left was to wait until the break began, and so I sat down where I had been standing to conserve as much energy as possible for the upcoming battle. I had only just sat down and the waiting was already killing me, I didn't know how everyone managed to tolerate the agony of doing nothing before an intense fight like the one I knew was coming.

Looking around once more, it seems like people were either by their lonesome and brooding or checking their equipment for the 100th time, or they were joking with others in a concerned tone despite the light subject matter.

It seems like I wasn't the only one who couldn't stop worrying about the battle, I just hoped that I would make it out alive and that no monsters got through to attack the defenseless civilians within the city shelters.

I'll summon out Jareth and Brutus when the time is closer, I had a few things to equip Jareth with before the battle and I needed to go over basic strategy with them before the battle began. Conserving physical and mental energy was the most important thing to focus on during the battle as it was a test of endurance as much as it was one of strength.

I was planning on saving Emett for the beginning of the battle and the end of it. Having him work tirelessly throughout the long battle and helping with the clean up would be no problem since stamina wasn't an issue for him as long as there was earth for him to stand on.