Chapter 60 - Unexpected developments (1/2)

With the issue of the friendly fire from the member of Sirius Imperials solved, Shadow quickly moved towards the troop of monkeys. He could have simply gone into stealth repeatedly and attacked the monkeys.

But seeing higher leveled monsters than him unable to discover his stealth even when he repeated the same trick, would be considered game breaking and would probably result in reports against him sent to Metis technologies.

He definitely didn't need that sort of reputation. He was already famous enough as it is, and he didn't need to do that as he also knew a tactic to handle these monkeys. He called for Tang and Blinding White to stay beside him.

Though they had higher agility and escaped from most of the attacks of the players, the monkeys had one small issue which he could use. The monkeys attacked by throwing stones and they had to stay still for the instant when they took aim and threw. There would obviously be higher leveled monsters who didn't need to stop while attacking but these monkeys weren't the type.

He had higher level and speed than most players. He stayed behind Tang and Blinding White and their shields to hide himself from the monkeys and had them both move closer to the monsters.

When they came close enough, he went into stealth and attacked a monkey which was in the middle of throwing a stone. The monkey which failed to notice him till he attacked couldn't respond in time. Shadow Tyrant immediately took this chance to stab the monkey and threw it towards Tang and Blinding White.

The two of them who had been waiting for him to make the move, immediately caught the monkey. They hit the monkey with their shields to stun and pulled it back toward the rest of the team as Quiet Fire provided cover by attacking any other monsters.

Blue Dart also saw the them and quickly realizing their plan started to command his men to lay cover for them. It was the first monkey that they were able to actually subjugate rather than attack randomly hoping to hit the monkey.

”It is a good plan, but I doubt you will be able to stealth towards them again and one dead monkey will hardly make much of a difference. We better go back,” he said to Shadow who was attacking at any monkey who came close to the Tang or Blinding.

”No, don't kill the monkey, we have. Just keep it in stun or feared state and hold it down. The monkeys are humanoid creatures they will come near us as long as we have that one captive. Just continue to lay down cover fire and they will come in our line of fire of their own accord,” replied Shadow.

It was then that the rest of them realized the plan and immediately surrounded Tang and Blinding. Tang and Blinding cooperated with the other players under the leadership of Blue Dart and managed to maintain the monkey in a state of stun or confusion while Shadow led the offensive against the other monkeys which approached them.

Now, the monkeys directly came towards a single point, the captured monkey and this allowed the group to be more effective in their attacks. The players were previously in a stalemate with the monkeys due to ineffective attacks and managed to stay alive only due the heals from the healers in the back.

With this new trick, they managed to tip the situation in their favour. Shadow led the force that was using physical attacks against the monkey. He went into the middle of the troop and due to his high agility was able to evade them and also disturb their attacks. He also had high strength almost equal to a warrior of the same level allowing him to cause a lot of damage to the monsters.

Soon, a few monkeys began to die, and this provided them experience. Though they didn't have enough time to loot the corpses, they were at a better situation than before. But they were still faced with a few other problems.

The monkeys focused most of their attacks towards the player around the captured monkey allowing the others to attack easily. But the players around the captured one bore the brunt of their attacks losing health at a faster pace. This put-on pressure on the healers and they were already guzzling mana potions they bought. Some of the players had to use health potions to keep themselves alive.

The other problem was that though the captured monkey wasn't being actively attacked and the team used only controlling skills, even these skills caused some damage. This damage slowly acc.u.mulated and once this kills the captured monkey, they would again need to get a replacement for it.

No one expected the quest to be this hard, it was draining their resources and money. Blue Dart noticed both these problems and didn't want to continue. He wanted to spend more time and attempt the dungeon so as to gain a few levels before this. Else, they would continue to lose money.

He quickly expressed his concern to Shadow who had noticed the same. Shadow was already preparing himself to throw another monkey back to the team but couldn't manage as the monsters seem to be already aware of him after his first stunt. He didn't want to use stealth against higher leveled monsters revealing his enhanced stealth. So, he was in a bind.

When Blue Dart suggested retreating due to the issue, he didn't have any objections and quickly agreed. It is better if his team could clear the quest on their own. He didn't want to share the rewards of finding a new city with members of another guild.

Moreover, Merlin had already contacted him during the fight. He told him that he had already sold the skill book for a value of 200000 credits. It was more than he got for the guide of corrupted forest. Merlin also informed him that the person who bought the book was willing to join them and was playing as a martial artist.

With the information he had choosing to retreat was an obvious choice. He wanted to capture another monkey and kill the entire troop before he went his separate way from the members of Sirius Imperials.

But as Blue suggested retreating, he had also decided to retreat under Blue Darts lead. They soon managed to escape form the monkeys. ”Now, I understand why Merlin decided to work with you. You are quite resourceful. I intend to leave this quest and level up before we pursue this,” said Blue Dart once they were a safe distance from the monkeys.

”Hmm, I understand. A guild can't afford to lose resources. I would suggest 'Cave of Wargs', if you want to improve your level or resources,” suggested Shadow.

”Yes, that is what I had in mind. Any tips?”

”Merlin probably already told you about the torches. I got nothing else to inform you.”

”Nothing at all? Come on. You can give me something,” pressured Blue.

”Have someone learn cheap shot to handle the wargs and if you find a worgen riding a warg your best option is to separate them.”

”Thanks, for the advice. I will leave you with Merlin. Are you going to continue with this quest?”

”Yes, I expect he first one to finish would get better rewards. So, I intend to pursue it.”