Chapter 75 - Reaching the city 1 (1/2)

Character: Shadow Tyrant (Human)

Affiliated Village: Black Rock Village

Title: None

Job: Assassin

Level: 12

Exp: 5/6000

HP: 4500/4500; MP: 1800/1800;

Physical Attack: 128;

Defense: 88; Attack Speed: 84; Movement Speed: 88; Willpower: 38; Balance: 57; Focus/Search: 76; Reflect Damage: 1; Magic Resist: 20; Luck: *; Charm: *;

Attributes: Strength 63, Agility 62, Endurance 37, Intelligence 32, Vitality 47, Perception 38.

No Special Racial Attributes or weakness.

Free Attributes Points: 0;

Once he leveled up he added the remaining, points to vitality and intelligence to pull them closer to the rest of the attributes. Without much delay, he went to meet the rest of the group. There were still battling the lionesses along the path to the city.

With a four level difference between him and the monsters they were fighting, he had a strong advantage against these monsters. With a level 3 difference, the players would have a 50% higher damage than the usual. With a level difference higher than that, the damage wouldn't increment any more till unless it reached 5 levels.

He was easily able to evade their attacks due to the difference in agility and level. With the Red claw daggers, he was easily able to deal large amounts of damage to the monster.

His style of fighting wasn't going in stealth to use cheap shot and attacking the monsters rapidly when they were in a controlled state as he usually did after he got the garrote. He had a more than ten members who were working with him at the same level as the monsters. His garrote which he mainly used for controlling the monsters was at quite a lower level when compared to monster and him.

With the garrote at level 5, the damage he inflicted with it was meager. He couldn't even have a significant effect on the lionesses. Luckily, he was able to inflict a lot of damage from the red claw daggers. Within 5 minutes of his arrival, he managed to frightened the lionesses into running back into the forest.

With the lionesses retreating, he quickly made Merlin and the rest follow into the forest, but they didn't run after the pride. He already checked the location of the monkeys and their leader in the forest. He quickly led them to the location of the monkey as he knew they had to clear up as many monsters as he can before they went to the city.

Shadow provided the antelope daggers to people who could use them like Roll and Tetsujin. Even players who were mainly long-range attackers like mages, could use daggers as secondary weapons. He had always planned to provide his team with secondary weapons, which could pull them out of a pinch.

Along the way, they saw a couple of cougars, but the team were all level 8 and they managed to easily control and defeat them. As they went deeper, they came to lair of the monkeys. The monkeys were all situated around a large tree in the forest. Most of them were situated up in the trees.

The most difficult part of dealing with the monkeys was getting them down the trees. It was a tough task as most of them remained in the trees. Luckily their mode of attack was mostly chucking stuff at the player and the branches and fruits of the trees didn't affect the players much. The fruits could even be used by most of the players as items in potion or to have temporary buffs or increase the health and mana of the players.

Though they tend to come down after some time to attack player using stones. It would be a time-consuming process to wait for them to come down and then take them down. The players could also climb trees in forest, but it required skill from the players. Parkour was a skill that professional game players or even normal people hardly learned in this era. Moreover, such skill in a forest environment is much rarer as people hardly ever had stayed in such an environment.

Player slowly learnt these skills due the effect vita-nova had on human. But right now, most of the players hardly had any decent skill to move at such heights in such an environment. They could only do well in close combat on ground or bombard the monkey with long distances skill, which the monkeys easily evaded. But Shadow had none of these issues.

Shadow could traverse on top of the trees due to his experience in previous life. He quickly made his way up the tree in stealth while the others remained on ground and attacked. With his team having their attention, he could easily push the monkeys off the trees which both reduced their health and also left them in a stunned state on the ground.

The monkeys were level 7 creatures and Shadow's attacks dealt very high damage to them. With the level difference of five levels any player could easily kill a monkey in 10 hits. Shadow always used ambush and other attacks which dealt high damage even without obtaining the corresponding skill books which allowed him to take down within 2 or 3 seconds.

This was his advantage over other player in the game. But it had a side-effect of depleting his stamina which was used like MP. Luckily, he was on trees where there were quite a number of fruits and occasionally eating them managed to keep his stamina from depleting.

Observing Shadow, Roll and Slaine who were also high agility classes tried to do the same, but they didn't have the same effect. Though it was difficult, Roll tried his best to imitate and managed to climb up the trees, but he couldn't move there as easily as Shadow and could only move by slowly in stealth.