23 Den For Den (1/2)
After killing the hobgoblin, Shesmu looked at Ryan and said, ”Hey, Ryan. Did it drop its shield and sword?”
Ryan checked his inventory before answering, ”Yeah, plus a bunch of pills.”
”Great,” Shesmu responded. ”With this shield, you'll be able to at least tank the boss.”
”Yeah, you can count me on that.”
With those words from Leo, Ryan materialized both a shield and a sword and gave them to the latter
Shesmu then looked at Leo and said, ”I'll take five energy pills, you take the rest. I already have a lot of HP potions. Hopefully next time a dagger drops, that way everyone's equipment is Iron.”
Leo looked at the ten Hp potions on Shesmu's hand before he laughed and said, ”who cares about HP potions? Haha. I already have thirty of them, just split normally.”
”Well, if you say so. In any case, next weapon will be Ryan's, no matter its rarity. We need everyone's gear to be topnotch,” Shesmu concluded, leaving no room for discussion.
Both Leo and Ryan nodded at Shesmu's words. With the equipment split, they decided to take some rest and allocate the points they got from leveling up.
After a few minutes, the party continued the exploration of the den. As they did, they fought a pack of goblins after the next. Most of them dropped unranked weapons and some goblin fabric. However, occasionally, a rare item would appear
Ryan was checking his inventory when he suddenly called out, ”Hey guys. This goblin dropped something weird.”
”What? Is it a weapon or something?” Leo asked as he and Shesmu came over.
Well, if normal mobs dropped something weird, then it must be Ether stones, Shesmu thought as he walked towards Ryan.
When the two reached Ryan, the latter opened his inventory and took out an item. It was a blue stone that was slightly larger than a pebble. It gave off a cold glint, but other than that, it appeared normal.
”Its description is really vague. It says that it's an ether stone and that it drops from monsters with the ability to evolve, but it doesn't say anything other than that.” After inspecting the stone, Leo was left with more questions than answers.
Listening to his friend's confused words, Shesmu smiled and thought: Well, that's to be expected. Hmm, maybe I should start buying them as soon as live servers are out.
”Yeah, that doesn't really say much,” Ryan added. After thinking for a bit, he continued, ”Well, it doesn't really matter anyways. We can just save them up for now until we understand their use.”
”In any case, we can check the forums later after we finish this dungeon. Let's continue with the looting first,” Shesmu concluded.
After a few minutes, the party finished checking on the loot and got some rest. Just as they were about to go out of the room and continue the exploration, Leo noticed that some of the goblins' bodies disappeared.
”Are you sure you aren't imagining things—” before Ryan could even finish his words, another goblin turned into particles and disappeared.
Looking at the disappearing monsters, Shesmu saw this as an opportunity to explain another concept.
”I guess that makes sense. If monsters were to be left alone after players kill them, everywhere would just reek of the smell of blood and death.”
”Well, enough of this. We need to finish this dungeon as fast as possible so that we can reach the tower fast. We don't want to miss out on those rewards now, do we?” Shesmu added.