Chapter 55 - Rewards and Trust (1/2)

The dark bind spell would only bind the character for a period of 10 seconds or till he is attacked. It was a spell that was perfect to be used after a distraction, but it could easily be dealt with by using someone or something to deal a small amount of damage to the bound person.

With Shadow Tyrant bound at the place due the spell of the warlock, the worgen began to attack Holt. But all its attacks were in vain due to the shield from the orb of protection.

”How could you have such a powerful tool and not use it during the ambush,” shouted the worgen like a crazy person. He couldn't believe that Holt who was setting up the teleportation disc had a protective charm that powerful that even using his special ability didn't break it.

”Isn't it obvious,” said Holt. ”I didn't use it because your ambush already killed the Arthur who was setting up the portal. No use in using it if we couldn't fulfill the mission.”

With the situation it was facing the worgen was in a bind and could do nothing. Initially if any attack happened Holt was to be used as a hostage and Althus was supposed to be distraction. But with Althus out of the picture it ran out of options.

As he couldn't do anything, it simply began to run away from the cave. The shadow bind would still hold Balthazar for quite some time, and it was the best time for it to escape. As soon as the bind effect wore off, Balthazar ran behind Mathus.

Seeing Balthazar behind it, it immediately howled calling for the blackrock wolves. Some of them immediately attacked Shadow Tyrant and he rode away into the hills on another wolf. Though Balthazar could kill a blackrock wolf with two or three hits, the number that the worgen called had him stuck far behind.

The wolves managed to halt him for more than 30 seconds and Mathus was already very far away and almost disappeared from their sight. With only 20 or seconds remaining on the light shield, Shadow immediately set to killing the wolves that were around the light shield.

But before the minute of the protection expired, a few circles, pentagrams of light and various other symbols creeped out of the teleportation disc and merged shining a bright light creating a teleportation portal to be used for the special dungeon 'Cave of Wargs'.

Quest updated: Hold back the wargs: Travel back to the portal and report back to the temple.

Holt walked to Shadow as the protection around him expired and started to attack the wolves along with Shadow. Within a few seconds, they easily took down more of the wolves around the teleportation point and cabin while the remaining ran away.

”It is sad that we failed to capture the last of those dogs,” said Holt as the remaining ran away. ”Now that we finished setting it, could you please report back to the temple. I will need to stay at the cabin and observe till more forces are sent by the temple.”

”I will do it immediately,” said Shadow Tyrant and immediately channelled his hearthstone to return to the Blackrock village. He quickly made his way to the temple and reported to the priest that his concerns were right and the team from the temple were ambushed by worgens.

”Ah! So, I guessed right. It was unnatural for them to not report for so long. I am glad that I made the right choice in sending you to their rescue.”

Quest Completed: Hold back the wargs: Successfully managed setup the teleportation point.

Performance: Moderate.

Faults: Failed to capture or kill the worgen warlock.

Experience gained: 1000

Quest Item: Teleportation disc used successfully to fulfill the mission.

Temple of the twelve reputation points +25;

Temple of the twelve contribution points +50;

”In gratitude for your contribution in identifying and thwarting the attempt of a foreign race to silently infiltrate human territory and you being the first one to do so, the temple has decided to reward you in a way to inspire the other immortal adventurers that entered our lands,” said the priest pinning a small dull black badge onto Balthazar's chest.

The badge was like it was made of a metallic black substance in the shape of 12 connected towers. It was the symbol of the temple of the twelve. It also had the roman numeral 1 on it. This was completely unexpected as he never got a badge in his previous life even though he had a lot more temple reputation at that time.

System: You were rewarded a iron grade membership to temple of the twelve.

”World Announcement: Player Shadow Tyrant of the Light faction successful in establishing a teleportation point to the special dungeon 'Cave of Wargs' at the blackrock hills. For his service, he would be rewarded 1% of the payment from the teleportation charges to the dungeon.”

When he heard the system announcement, he first felt exhilarated in finding out that he got a constant source of income from the game so early. The usual sources of income from the game were the guild towns, cities, territories or portals guarded by guilds. This was completely different from them as it didn't need to worry about guild protection or other guilds attacking as it is protected by the temple which being an NPC organization is a taboo for every guild before the gather more information about it. Even after the guilds learn about it, attacking its properties would still be taboo.

But immediately after that he realized that he couldn't set up a guild now as most of the guild and gaming workshops would be hunting him from now on, due to the same. He had a bigger target on his back from now on.

”Why the bloody hell did it have to be a world announcement,” he thought. ”It is as if the bloody system was completely against me. Or does some idiot monitoring the players have some grudge against him. The same crap happened with the special quest.”

He also began receiving calls from his friends, team and also Sirius Imperials. He also got a message from Blue Dart inviting him to join the guild again. ”And so, the hunting begins,” thought Balthazar.

”You also have the partial administrative privilege to the portal at the cave. I trust that you will make good use of the honor given to you,” said the deacon as he patted Shadow on his shoulder. ”I hope you would soon manage to get to the White Heart city and find out more about your destiny,” he continued as he left back to his work in the temple.

With the new information that the deacon provided, Balthazar quickly checked his dashboard and found a new panel for management right below the attributes panel. As he thought about it a window popped up showing his various administrative privileges. It was very similar to guild administrative privileges options he had during his previous life.

Still it varied a lot because it wasn't for a player owned organization. At the top of the screen was the title of the organization followed the emblem of the temple. There was only one name in the list of privileges, and it was the portal for the 'Cave of Wargs'. By default, all players of the light faction were allowed to use it. But on selecting it he could select specific races or other even blacklist races, factions or guilds.

He immediately called Merlin to ask him if they had been done with the attempt on the goblin camp at the blackrock hills.

”Hi dude, we heard the world announcement about the 'Cave of Wargs' portal but in the middle of the goblin camp, there is something called Goblin Champion in the cave here.”

”Goblin champion? I guess that is the boss of the quest.”

”Highly probable. It has a machine strapped to it, gone berserk and is throwing rocks at us inside the cave. How about we talk later? After we are done with this.”

”You need help?” asked Balthazar.

”You can come here within a minute?”