154 Chapter 154 (1/2)

Chapter 154

It had been roughly an hours since the battle on the FoB had begun, and about an hour since James had sent Z his message. So far, it seemed to have been working, though much slower than James would have preferred.

”Ah, come on.” He growled as he watched the essence bars continue to slowly fill. Within the spawn area on the FoB for his side, there were essentially large terminal type statues that depicted the various summoning options. They glowed faintly, and by focusing on them, James could actually see how much essence had been put into them. The more essence in one, the more it glowed.

So far, he had watched countless players come and go. Most went immediately toward the mob summoning option, and as Rue had predicted, summoned a dicken for themselves. While the joke got old quick, James had noticed that the dickens that were summoned onto the fields of battle via the summon option at least seemed to have all of James's upgrades to them, as well as seemed to scale to the level of the player summoning them. Meaning they were not a wasted summon…and also meaning that most of James players were forming a dicken calvary of mounted players…. Seriously, it seemed his crazy dungeon floor options was creating a massive instance of trolls.

After summoning their gallant mounts, players generally quickly went over to the larger totems, seeming to consider their options for their remaining 2 essence points. After all, they had to split their valuable essence across either summoning boss mobs, world bosses, or dungeon avatars. And while they knew what the first two options were, the avatars were a very expensive mystery. Plus, with all the dickens running around, there was on option that seemed to instantly gain an essence from the players…Charles the Dicken.

Currently, the Charles the Dicken summon option had 1653 of 2000 needed essence to summon. While it was guaranteed he was going to be summoned soon, the players were at least being cautious. So far, it seemed both sides were still hesitant about the actual battle on the FoB. Other than some tentative launching of ranged attacks from the siege weapons, there hadn't been any actual clashes. Instead, players seemed to be taking their time grouping, and preparing their strategies. Which was probably for the better. James could only imagine how chaotic the scene below him was going to become, once the battle kicked off in full force.

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Next to Charles, all of James's bosses were steadily gaining the needed essence to be summoned. Old Man Jenkins was actually just a few essence away from being summoned. Shortly behind him, B.L.U. and the Terminus were working their way up. Grandma Jenkins was lagging behind, probably because of her cost, and the fact not many of James's players knew what she was capable of. Which was also likely why his M.I.N.E. Craft had barely any essence in it. Well, that, and the note that it was being limited. Not even James knew what exactly was being limited on it, though he could guess. However, no player was going to waste resources on something that was already being claimed to be nerfed in some way shape or form.

From there, it came down to the Avatar. 5,000 essence just to summon one of the two dungeon avatar options. Currently his players had dedicated about 3,000 essence towards the Core Avatar option. Annoyingly, the fairy option had 3685 points. James figured that came from the gamers wondering what exactly the fairy avatar would look like. He couldn't' blame them though. It happened constantly in games, player curiosity outweighing logic. Besides, this was just the third day of the dungeon war. They had the fifth day to strategize. For now, players probably wanted to see what the dungeon fairy would look like. Especially considering that even according to DCO, all dungeon core instances were run by a core AI, as well as a fairy AI, in order to keep with the theme, set forth by the early Dungeon Core Novels. And, while many of those had annoying fairies…they all, with only a few exceptions, were usually scantily clad, attractive fairies…if they were humanoid of course.

”Ha.” Rue was grinning as she watched another group of players step up towards the Avatar Summon totem. A second later, 5 more points of essence went into her option. She, just like James, had caught on to what was happening. And the blood crazed pixie was squirming with excitement. She wanted to join the battle just as much, if not more, than James did.

”I can't believe you're going to get summoned before me.” James grumbled, watching another group head towards the pillar. Once again, Rue's points jumped, though this time, one of the players had given James a single point.

”It's because I'm the lovable fairy. You're just the clueless core.” She stuck her tongue out at him, before darting away as he swung at her with a tentacle. Freaking pixie.

”You do know the stereotype you're playing into, right?” James regretted saying it the moment the words left his…err…mouth?