Chapter 39 - Corrupted Forest 2 (1/2)

Balthazar quickly made his way into the forest in stealth mode. As he moved through the trees he searched the forest continuously for herbs. He found a couple of corrupted poison ivy by the trees. He collected them whenever possible. The corrupted poison ivy can be used to refine a poison which reduces strength and slows down the monsters.

Within a few minutes another group of 20 rabbits were lured by Balthazar and killed be the team. The group also manged to get a new wand from the killing the monsters.

They even got a hammer and mage cloth gloves from the corrupted rabbits killed by them. It was a level 2 hammer which provides holy damage. It was immediately equipped by Blinding White. The level 2 gloves were obviously used by Quiet Fire.

[One-handed hammer] (White, hammer)

Level 2

Equipment Requirement: Strength 6;

Attack Power +8; Holy damage +6;

Durability 15/15

[Mage gloves] (white, cloth gloves)

Level 2

Equipment requirements: Intelligence: 6

Magic Damage +8; Magic Resist +2;

Durability 15/15

As they continued further, they came to an open clearing in the forest. There were eighteen thin paths leading away from the clearing. However only four of them led to the boss, Vultarc. All the remaining paths were paved with the blood of many players. They were filled with traps and ambushes and led to dead ends. Players could only come back to the clearing and try another path.

Of the four paths that were right, two led directly to Vultarc without meeting the side boss Vultusk. But these were the deadliest paths as Vultusk always ambushed them once Vultarc lost half his health.

The last two paths would allow the player to fight Vultusk before Vultarc. One of them had a lot of rabbits supporting Vultusk who would ambush them during journey. The other allowed the players to ambush Vultusk at his lair. After Vultusk both of them led towards Vultarc.

The best path was the one that allowed them to ambush Vultusk. Balthazar led them along that path. After five minutes they came to a dead end. The only path they could see was a large hole in the ground.

”Are you sure this is the right way? I heard that the boss would be in an open space surrounded by the woods” asked Quiet Fire looking towards Balthazar.

”Yes, we are near the side boss, Vultusk,” replied Balthazar.

”We heard no information of a side boss in the dungeon. Everyone is talking only about the boss Vultarc,” said Blinding White. ”We even followed a different path to reach it.”

”Yes. That is right. But once you finish half his health. The side boss Vultusk would ambush you. This is Vultusk's lair. If we finish him first the boss will become a lot easier to kill Vultarc,” replied Balthazar.

”Stay quiet and follow me. The side boss is much more agile than the corrupted rabbits. Be careful. It is best that we don't allow him to get out of the hole. If he gets out, he will call for corrupted rabbits' reinforcements. That would be irritating,” continued Balthazar.

”Tang you stay a right behind me. Once the fight begins, you need to block his path and make sure that he doesn't get out. Blinding and I will lead the attack as we find Vultusk,” said Balthazar continuing along the hole. It was a long damp hole filled with bones of critters and other animals.

Five minutes later, they saw a 3 feet tall and 2 feet wide furry silhouette feeding upon the carcass of a large deer. Balthazar immediately went into stealth. Hearing them approach the furry creature slowly turn around to look at them.

As it turned around, they noticed that it was like a large furry humanoid with an overly large rabbit head. It had dark black fur with a pair of bright green eyes. It had large fangs coming out of its jaws with blood leaking from its mouth. It was a kind of a gory scene. It was far too realistic for a game.

[Vultusk - Lepusvir kit](Special Ellite)

Level 3

HP:1500

Vultusk is the young offspring of Vultarc. He had been infecting the forest and controlling the rabbits around the forest.

As it turned around it bared its fangs towards them. Balthazar immediately jumped out of stealth and stabbed into Vultusk eyes. The dagger went through the eye and blood poured out of the socket blinding the Special Elite in one eye. The scene was very realistic and gory. It almost made the girls puke out in disgust. A large red 50 popped up on the creature's head which began to shriek in pain.

”How could they put it in something so disgusting in the game? It isn't even a video. How come they make it so gruesome,” said Little White hands looking away.

”Attack it. Don't let it recover. This is the best time,” shouted Balthazar getting out of the way. Quite Fire and Little White Hands immediately began to fire on Vultusk. Tang also charged into the rabbit and slammed it with his shield on the face stunning it raising the aggro towards him.

”I will hold the monsters agro along with Tang. Quite and Little attack him as fast as possible. Blinding support Tang,” said Balthazar commanding the team. Ever since Balthazar began to display his talent the team started trusting him more. After viewing the side boss, it improved they started to believe them more. They also began to take his commands after that.

As soon as Vultusk got out of stun, it swiped its large clawed hands towards Tang pushing her back and showing a damage of 40. The attack also put her in a stunned state for two seconds. Two seconds were enough for Vultusk to deplete 250HP from Tang. Her total health was just above 500HP

”Blinded White, heal Tang if her health goes below 50%. Vultusk has a swipe skill which it uses frequently. It can easily put her in critical state,” commanded Balthazar as he began to take aggro of Vultusk in Tang's place.

”Tang don't use your aggro gaining skills now. I will take hold of the aggro. If I began to lose agro than you use you take aggro using provoke,” continued Balthazar.

”You want to be the primary tank?” asked both Blinding and Tang.

”I am not going to tank, but I got the most aggro among the entire team,” said Balthazar.

”Pretty shameless, aren't you?” asked Quiet Fire. It was good that he was quite an expert in the field but she felt he was quite boastful about it without even meaning to.