Chapter 156 - Troll vs Orcs (2/2)
[Gularg's Sceptre] (Gold sceptre)
Level 15;
Requirements: Intelligence: 30; Strength: 10;
Vitality +5; Intelligence +5;
Special Effect: Fire Conduction: All fire spells have 10% more damage.
Active Skill: Fire Vortex: Creates a vortex of fire that would attract and burn your opponent; Channel time: 3 sec; Max Duration: 4 sec; MP: 500 MP per sec; Cooldown: 10 min.
Durability: 32/35;
This was the first equipment which Merlin posted on the team chat. The active and passive skills impressed most of them. The active skill was actually the signature skill of the shaman which uses to attract players towards him if they maintain a distance from him for far too long in its berserk state. Though it didn't have the same duration. It was still enough for a player. But it was clear to them that the durability went down due to the attacks of the troll. The sceptre was given to Grenadier Mage as he was one of the two elementalists of the team and Quiet Fire already had a unique weapon.
[Gularg's Sickle Sword - Deformed] (Silver one-handed sword)
Level 15;
Requirements: Strength: 25;
Attack Power +25;
Special effect: 10% chance of inducing a bleed effect of 30 HP per sec for 3 seconds.
Durability: 15/30;
The second item that he showed was the sickle sword that was used by the shaman. From its description it was clear that the sword lost a grade and its durability during the fight. It was even slightly twisted near the handle. It was clear that using the troll would have a bad effect on the loot.
”I guess it is best if we don't use the troll from now on,” suggested Sultan as he went through the description of the weapon. No one would want to intentionally lose their loot.
”I agree. Though it allows us to go through faster, it is better if we take our time and defeat the boss monsters so that we could get a better loot,” said Quiet Fire. Even Grenadier and Bitter Beast nodded to it indicating their approval as they looked at Merlin who held control over the troll.
”No. No. No,” interjected Shadow before they made any stupid decision. The troll caused them losses, but it wasn't without any use. Moreover, if they actually used their own spells and defeated the shaman, a majority of the attacks would be long distance ones mainly elemental spells. These would cause damage to the weapons and armor worn by the shaman too.
In fact, it was considered lucky if any player got the weapons of the boss monster or its armor in the first clear as the proper method to deal with it wouldn't be formed yet. Even with the proper method, it isn't an easy task to get a weapon in prime condition.
”Have your ever gotten a weapon from the boss monster in such good condition before?” he asked looking at the others. ”It definitely harms the weapons and the loot of the boss but do you honestly thing that it is any better with us killing it. We also cause a lot of damage to its armaments. A prolonged fight by us would probably make it worse. It is not sensible to leave out a strong trump card as the troll for a something which we are not sure yet. If not for the troll's strength, who know how long we would have needed to take down the shaman.”
”He is partly true,” said Merlin supporting him. ”Both of your arguments are just conjecturing at this point of time. It has no basis in fact. It is a waste to set it aside for now. We can only know if this is a good practice or not after some experimentation. Let us continue in this way for this run. I don't even know if I can have the troll in control in the next run as I failed to control one of those orcs during this fight,” continued Merlin.
Shadow didn't care much about other's thoughts as the decision lied with Merlin. He was the leader of the adventurer team and also was the one who actually has control of the troll. He was glad that Merlin didn't agree with the others. Else, it would be wasting a good resource.
”We did get a decent haul actually. I think we just got greedy as the loot provided by enslaving the minor-boss was more than that of the boss of the floor. It is to be understood that enslaving would definitely give us all the things that the monster had,” said Sultan. His words actually had better effect on the rest than the words of Shadow and Merlin as they explained the reason for getting better loot for the mini-boss.
”Fine, let us go through the corpses of the orcs before we go down the stairs,” said Shadow as he went to scavenge the corpses of the other orcs. Only Merlin, Sultan and Mob helped him in that work and the others didn't as they found it extremely queasy to scavenge the dead orcs who had a large part of their bodies turned into meat paste by the troll.
They only found a few Iron grade equips and couple of bronze grade equips from the orcs which none of them wanted to use and were all given to Merlin. They decided to let him keep track of the equipment and resources and let him manage it as he had experience with it in his guild.
With that done, they went to the stairs. The stairs were a spiral one made of stone and went down to the next floor. The bottom of the stairs opened up into an atrium. It was not a complete stone construction like the first floor. The second floor wasn't like the first floor. It was much wider and taller. It had a bunch of wall decorations and even the stone brackets which held the lights were gilded in gold.