Chapter 65 - Kanterbury plains (2/2)

Character: Shadow Tyrant (Human)

Affiliated Village: Black Rock Village

Title: None

Job: Assassin

Level:

Exp: 40/2800

HP: 2500/2500; MP: 800/800;

Physical Attack: 92

Defense: 64; Attack Speed: 60; Movement Speed: 62; Willpower: 18; Balance: 27; Focus/Search: 36; Reflect: 1; Magic Resist: 17; Luck: *; Charm: *;

Attributes: Strength 46, Agility 44, Endurance 22, Intelligence 17, Vitality 32, Perception 18.

No Special Racial Attributes or weakness.

Free Attributes Points: 6

With this method he already had started to gather decent amount of materials for exchanging with Kade for contribution points. Kade had asked him specifically for materials from higher leveled monsters from the start and this was no better place to farm them than the Kanterbury plains.

He had used three of the free attribute points in intelligence and three in perception. He had already had all other attributes with values above 20 and continuing to neglect these two attributes would make his character imbalanced. Intelligence along with endurance would improve his magic resist and perception is very important for assassins as then need it for better scouting activities.

He continued with killing the monsters in the plains. It was a decent way to increase his experience and he could also get decent materials. Apart from these, these monsters also dropped a few equipment rarely. Though they didn't have great attributes, he could sell them. As the days continued more people would join the game. The demand for equipment wouldn't drop anytime soon.

He also occasionally fought boars. It was much harder to use the garrote on the boar because it had a wide and short neck. But, as the boars got easily aggroed, they kept coming back to attack, allowing him to repeatedly practice his garrote skill on it and kill it.

Unlike other thieves, who had low stealth and attracted only boars while the stags and antelopes ran away from them, he managed to get deeper than others into the plains.

This also made him the lone player who explored so far into the plains. He was at least a couple of kilometers ahead of any other team that ventured into it. He used the explorer's orb to make a map of the plains.

In another two hour he would reach the lake which the river dumped into. It was at the end of the updated map. He was also getting better at using the garrote. He was able to even choke the monster by holding both the handles of the garrote in one hand while using the dagger in the other hand to inflict damage at a higher rate.

With these monsters being at the same level as him, there was no level subjugation. Though he got lesser experience per monster than when he was at level 6, the damage he could deal per second increased compensating for it. The experience would decrease further when he leveled up again but the rate at which he was gaining experience would still be worth continuing to farm at the plains.

The only thing that concerned him right now was that his team would complete the elite mode of the dungeon and he would be asked to join them to attempt the hell mode. As expected, about 30 minutes later, he got messages from both Slaine and Merlin that they finished the elite dungeon in 76 minutes putting them in top 5 of the fastest records.

Merlin immediately suggested him to join the group to attempt hell mode. Their run in the elite mode dungeon had them all excited and they definitely wanted to try hell mode. Tetsujin also showed them how useful a martial artist can be in crowd controlling monsters.

Shadow knew that he couldn't dissuade them at this time. The best he could is finish the hell mode dungeon as fast as possible and return to the plains to further explore.

He also sent an image of the map of the plains to Slaine. He had plans to get his team to explore the plains along with him after the dungeon and he would also like Rudra and his guild to be exploring the plains. During this time, he hardly got a couple of kilometers into the plains.

He would be able to get more information from Slaine, if he had the map and explored into the plains a bit. He definitely would like to know more about the monsters near the lake. A change of terrain always resulted in a few new monsters, resources and tools.

He channeled his hearthstone to get back to the town. He met with Merlin and the others. Merlin being considered the main cook for the team was given all the meat collected by Shadow. Also, they exchanged any equipment they might need.

He quickly went to the bank to deposit the antelop horns and fangs, stag horns and prairie boar tusks along with the equipment he had in his bag. He also told both Slaine and Rudra to keep on the look for red moss in the auction house without revealing to them about the alva's tincture.

With these done, he along with his team teleported to the 'Cave of Wargs' again to attempt the hell mode of the dungeon. He was already level 7 and the rest of the team was level 6. If he leveled up again, he wouldn't even get a decent experience nor will his achievements of first clear be considered by the system as the limit was up to level 7.

He quickly bought a few torches and opened up the portal for Hell mode dungeon. As expected, the hell mode was quite different from the elite instance. It was darker and gloomier than the elite instance.

As usual he went into stealth to scout. It was mostly the same except that the level of wolves and wargs increased by one. Luckily, their behavior still was the same. But he didn't want the team to advance right now as he was sure just this wouldn't cause the others to fail to finish the hell mode.

He went further but couldn't find anything. ”I guess there must be some change at the end of the dungeon,” thought Shadow as he returned to the team and asked them to move forward.

He didn't wait for the team and began killing the wolves one by one. With the wolves being at level 5 they were subjugated by him easily. The combination of garrote and dagger allowed him to kill a hungry wolf in less than 5 seconds even after they leveled up and had higher HP.

Though the rest of the team used the torches to frighted the wolves, the wolves tend to evade their attacks and a decent number of them missed. Unlike them, Shadow always disables them and then uses the garrote and dagger.

It had the advantage of the martial artists choke skill and didn't have a cooldown. It also dealt damage at the same time. The team waving their torches always attracted the attention of the wolves. This led to Shadow solo killing the wolves at a faster rate than the rest of the team together.

This had them extremely surprised, especially the new weapon garrote that he used. Even Merlin and Tetsujin were impressed by his skill in using a garrote. The garrote attack when used in controlled mode required the opponent to be stunned or still to use it perfectly. But Shadow used it on the quick and fast-moving wolves, which clearly showed them that this man could actually attack using a garrote in real-life. It not only put them in awe of him but also a tiny spark of fear crept into his team.