Chapter 56 - Cave of Wargs - 1 (2/2)
”How do you know that it is 7-man dungeon? I asked quite a few guilds already and they have tried only 5 man and no info was seen in the official website or forums yet,” asked Merlin.
”I got the administrative privileges for the dungeon. I can see it on the associated menu,” replied Balthazar.
”You got administrative privileges too. Damn! Why did I go to the Arwild forest instead of the blackrock hills? I lost on a great deal. Can you change the charge to teleport to the dungeon?” asked Merlin. ”That would allow you to have great control over your source of income.”
”Yes, it does, and I have no intentions to change it for now. But I can have us go there without any charge as you are in my team,” answered Shadow Tyrant.
”Can you allow a guild to use it for free?” continued Merlin with his questioning.
”Dude, I just have a few privileges. I don't own it. It is not like I own the dungeon. It is just free because I am leading the team. Now, do we have anyone else we can recruit, or shall we continue with just the six of us?”
”Let us go. It would be a lot easier with the six of us. I doubt we would be able to find anyone trustworthy and capable enough to join us,” said Merlin as he began walking towards the teleportation point.
It seemed that most of the players have already reached level 4 and at this stage corrupted forest hell mode was the only one which gave decent experience but can only be used once per day. So, they began to move towards blackrock hill to hunt blackrock wolves for experience.
Shadow and his team quickly teleported to the dungeon 'Cave of Wargs'. He realized that quite a decent number of players from other villages had already reached level 5 and were going through the dungeon. He realized that most of the players were guild members and he had to be quick if he intended to gain any good equipment or resources from the dungeon.
”I want to try the elite mode directly. You guys have any objections?” he asked turning around to look at Merlin and the girls.
”I am all for it. I really like to team up with someone who enjoys a bit of risk,” said Merlin gesturing with a thumbs up.
”Won't our trials at elite dungeon be limited than the ordinary one? I think it is best if we try the ordinary one first,” chimed in little white feet.
”I agree with her. It is too reckless to try the elite mode directly,” added Blinding White to little white feet's argument.
”I think I can increase our attempts per day for the dungeon. Now are you girls willing to try?” asked back Balthazar. Though the game didn't permit him to do so he wanted to try out the elite dungeon. If they fail, they can still attempt the ordinary mode a few times and then try the elite another time. They get two chances at the elite dungeon per day. It wouldn't be too late if they attempted it afterwards, but he didn't want to miss the chance of first kill or the chests he would get hold of in the elite instance of the dungeon.
”It is not that bad. We can try out the elite mode,” said Quiet Fire looking at Blinding and little white in an attempt to persuade them. ”It isn't that hard, and we won't lose our chances at elite dungeons either.”
With Quiet Fire and Tang voting for attempting the elite instance of the dungeon, the elite instance became the obvious choice. He immediately went to the cabin to request the NPC to open up the cave for them. The NPC at the dungeons would be protecting the area and had all controls to open temporary portal to allow players to enter them.
It was an NPC he recognized and in turn was recognized. It was Rickard Holt at the cabin. ”Ah! It is you adventurer. I am glad to meet you though it is expected as I am designated to guard the cave and you obviously wouldn't stay away from this quest,” said Holt.
”I am glad to see a friendly face too. I came to go to the elite instance. Now, I know where to find you in case I want to meet,” replied Balthazar. ”Not hoping to stay here that long,” said Rickard Holt as he opened up the elite dungeon.
”Need any torches for the cave?” asked Holt holding up a few torches. Balthazar immediately checked the price and found that Holt was selling them to him at a reasonable price. He quickly brought a few and the team jumped into the portal.
They were immediately teleported into the cave. The entrance was exactly the same the cave entrance he remembered. A violet light fell on to the walls from the interior of the caves, causing it to have an eerie look and it lowered the visibility range of the players by a lot.
He gave Merlin the torches he brought as he entered the cave. ”It was definitely a good idea to buy torches for this dungeon. I guess it pays to have a few NPC acquaintances. By the way, I found a good sword, level 5. Hope one of you can use it,” said Shadow Tyrant holding up the scimitar he got off the worgen.
”It has got to be better than using the one I have now,” said Tang immediately taking the scimitar and equipping it.
”I will go ahead and scout the cave first. You follow behind slowly,” said Shadow Tyrant as he walked into the cave in stealth. He quickly moved forward into the tunnel. It was the same as before but there were a few wolves sleeping on the ground for every five to ten metres, he took into the tunnel.
[Hungry wolves] (Common monsters)
Level 4;
HP: 600
He immediately informed his team about the wolves. There were also a few small caverns branching out from the tunnel. He walked in to the first one he found that there was a large warg sleeping in the cavern. Balthazar had seen Wargs before in his previous life.
They were quite popular in territories owned by worgen and were commonly used as mounts by worgens and even known as pets or mounts in other empires too for they were known to be very vicious and powerful. But this was much smaller compared to the ones he remembered.
[Blackrock Warg] (Elite monsters - Wargs affected by the blackrock crystals losing their vitality and strength.)
Level 5:
HP: 2500
”Well the description of the monsters dissolves my doubts about these wolves. It seems just like good luck that the portal opened up in the blackrock hills which suppresses the canine family.
He realized that the Cave of Wargs might be a lot more dangerous as the number of wolves in the tunnel would be like a warning system to the wargs and it is going to be a lot difficult to fight them. But then he realized that the solution to this would be having multiple assassins in the team.
Well that is one option which he could think of immediately as the assassins learn cheap shot at level 5 which could be used to effectively solve the problem of attacking wolves without disturbing the other and stopping the chain of sleeping wolves.
There might be other options for doing the same, but he wasn't sure about the skills of other classes. They could still attack one at a time with a single assassin, but that would be a very slow process.
He immediately contacted Merlin to check if any other classes had the similar skills as they would need to chain their stuns. But only other skill with similar effects was terror wave which Merlin had. But it was an AOE skill which might have effect on other sleeping wolves.
He had the others wait at a safe distance while he went and used cheap shot on the wolves. As soon as he used cheap shot, all those that had long distance attacks rained their spell on the wolf. Though he couldn't take out the wolf alone, with the help of other, he managed to kill the wolf within the stun duration of 4 seconds which the cheap shot provided.