64 The Quest of Gathering Souls (1/2)
”Take this Orb of the Souls with you and gather the souls of the enemies you have slain. Since you are fighting alone, you are very vulnerable to enemies but seeing you so confident, I will be expecting good things from you,” the Knight Lich King said.
[You got ”Orb of the Souls”(Quest Item)]
[Orb of the Souls(Quest Item)]
Description: An item given by the mysterious Knight Lich King that tasked you to collect the souls of the monsters killed in the dungeon. It emits a cold chill in the skin when touched and will glow bright red once it consumes enough souls.
”Don't fail me, boy. I expect great things from you,” after that, he disappeared in thin air.
As soon as the Knight Lich King disappeared, an interface appeared before me.
”Warning: If you die in this quest or log out in the middle of the game, the quest will automatically fail and you will face punishment. Please proceed carefully.”
I almost cursed to the message in the interface. Who would have thought I would be accepting a punishment quest?!
A punishment quest is one of the gimmick quests in the game. These particular quests have conditions you need to follow while doing the main quest that is given. If you failed to follow the protocol of the quest like this one where it prevents you to die while performing the mission, you will receive a punishment that will be decided by the NPC that issued the quest. From what I can remember, there should be at least the reduction of stats punishment and less experience debuff. But the most troublesome of the punishment is the 1-month ban and the 1-year ban which stops you to play the game, making you miss many events. I also heard that there was a punishment that deletes your in-game character permanently. It was a really harsh punishment and one guy experienced it.
I am just hoping that this quest is not that kind of quest. Even though I am confident that I will easily clear this dungeon, there is something that might change in the enemies in this difficulty due to the addition of the Knight Lich King's appearance. I have to be cautious about it. The Knight Lich King is absent and nonexistent in the previous timeline so I am not sure who this NPC was.
I've been idle for a bit now. I have to start doing the work.
The next area I was about to visit is the Graveyard of the Damned which is one of the populated areas of monsters in the Insane Mode of the Lesser Purgatory, making it the best place to gather the souls needed for the Orb of the Souls. While going to the destination, the enemies are also appearing slowly especially the Skeleton Goblins which always act in groups.
[Skeleton Goblin]
Level 40
HP: 15,000/15,000
Attributes: Undead
”Here we go again,” I sighed. Honestly, they are an annoying bunch.
The skeleton goblins launched an attack with their short swords and shields equipped. I have trouble with these bunch because their AI is able to predict player movements. As soon as I changed my weapon into a Hammer and swing it to the majority of skeleton goblins gathered, one of the skeleton goblins with the shield quickly deployed itself to the place where the hammer will fall.
BANG!
-16,000
The message of the kill appeared on my interface but it is only one kill. However, I didn't counterattack because I already predicted the attack. Quickly changing the Hammer into a Shield and Spear, I immediately deployed the shield in front of me.
PANG! PANG! PANG!
Arrows rained down upon me and the melee Skeleton Goblins jumped behind me with their short swords in their bony hands. Before the Skeleton Goblins can reach my body, I twirled the spear in my hands and spin it to the enemies, deflecting them to the attacks.