Chapter 24: Preparation for Evan' s upgrade 3
After seeing the status of the altar, ash finds, how much more resource he needed for all his plans i.e., for city upgrade and red pill, house: stone * 340, wood * 986, mana-core (mana point) *57.
Few min of thinking in his mind,
Ash and robin started to find new prey for their resource requirement and ash only take mana core from slayed bear monster because more weight create problem for their hunting.
And ash's first goal is to take care of the city 's mana-core requirement after that he will consider other resource.
30 min of traveling, ash and robin find a suitable monster for slaying because they are alone and ash sees status of this monster.
A window pop- up in front of ash
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Big Goat (Low-Grade Monster)
Rank: F-rank
Level: 1
Description: A big, Goat with sharp mount capable of chewing through wood, leather, but prefer to mostly eat trees and plant. It prefers to live in pack and female big goat capable of birthing 12 child in a year.
Abilities: none
Fast Reproduction – If not culled quickly, their numbers explode.
Weakness - fire and sharp attacks.
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After few attacks by robin and ash, this monster started to think fleeing, but every time big goat tries to flee, ash and robin attack them with full power after few more attempt by monster to flee but not able to flee, it started to attack ash rashly because monster thinks ash is easy to deal compared to robin. but monster's this attempt also fail because ash counter-attack it, with its his knife on its neck and big goat is successfully badly injured and from its neck green blood is flowing quickly. Then robin also attacked big goat in its neck with his axe quickly after that big goat's head out of its body from few meters of distance.
After that ash took mana-core from big goat's body. and he started to see, if new monster come because of smell of blood.
Few min later because of no response from monster ash and robin decided to roam the forest for finding new prey.
Some sight-seeing later, ash and robin find two level 0 monsters.
Ash tries to see status of this monster.
a new pop-up in front of him.
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Dark Pig (Low-Grade Monster)
Rank: F-rank
Level: 0
Description: A Dark, pig with big mount capable of eating any things in its level, mostly prefer to live dark place or place places where they not get sunlight because in dark places, they 20 to 40 % boost in their power and sunlight strength decrease. It prefers to live in pack and female Dark pig capable of birthing 8 child in a 6-month.
Abilities: none
Fast Reproduction – If not culled quickly, their numbers explode.
Weakness - sharp attacks.
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They killed the monster without any problem because their strength is less compared to level 0 monster.
After that they again started to find new monster for hunt. but their luck is not good because 30 min of finding, they not find any suitable monster since all the monster they find are in pack or with 3 to 5 level 1 are together.
so, they don't able to hunt any monster.
After 15 min of more find, they find a monster pack where only eight -level 0 monster are there.
After some consideration ash and robin decided to killing of this monster.
so, they decide to employ kill and run tactics because terrain is in their favors,
Robin decides to go to kill the monsters in their nest because his level is higher than ash so he can tolerate some mistake comparted to ash.
And ash will wait for him with his knife to kill the monsters, that are after robin.
Robin quickly and cautiously gets into monster's nest, and he hides itself from monster after sometimes later, robin started to kill monster one by one. after he killed three monster, monster blood's smell increase in the nest even with robin 's effort to control blood 's smell. After some consideration robin decided to out of the nest because it will create unnecessary injury to him so, he exits the nest quickly after that he stand in front of the nest because he wants to make this monster comes for him.
few second later, monster became aware of robin 's killing of their kind in their nest. After seeing robin standing in front of their nest, these monsters started to flee in forest without attacking robin after he sees monster fleeing from him so he decided to kill some monster after some catching-up with monster robin only able to killed 2 monster and 3 - monster fled from their nest.
Robin think, he should not underestimate monster survival skill, they know robin is level 2 person so, they flee without thinking any further. if these monster attack instead of fleeing, robin has to flee in the direction of ash. After all robin is butler as profession in his previous altar so his combat skill is not good.
Robin goes to the direction of ash and he tell all the fact about how he deals with monsters.
Ash said to robin
"We learn from mistake, here our mistake, we overestimate the courage of level 0 monster against level 2 person but overestimate of enemy is better than underestimate the enemy because in this case we can die because of this mistake"
After that ash said to robin
"we can find new monster to hunt so don't feel bad about it"
Robin nodded" okay my lord"
After ash and robin started to go to the deeper region of forest for finding prey but they not find suitable prey in the region but frequent encounter with group of level 0 and level 1 monster increase after 30 min of finding.
they find a level 2 monster is the sleeping in the den and its aura is very suffocating for ash, and robin also very fearful of this monster because he can feel if he fights with this monster he will die without a question.
Ash tries to see its status.
a window pop-up in front of his eyes.
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Flying Tiger (Mid-Grade Monster)
Rank: -?
Level:?
Description: A powerful predator in the monster hierarchy, be caution when it sees you.????
Abilities:?
Weakness: ?
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they are lucky, monster is sleeping so both ash and robin quickly fled with silently from deeper region of the forest.
After that ash said to robin
"we should return to the city after all we get enough mana-core for purchasing of red-pill for evan and they are tired after hunting monster."
Robin also nodded with ash and he said " my lord we have to fight the monster in city too so going to the city now is also very good"
After that both robin and ash started their journey to the city after 30 min travel, they safely enter the city but they also hunted two level 0 monsters in their 30 min of traveling.
And ash tries also see the status of these monster. i.e.
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ostrich (Low-Grade Monster)
Rank: F-rank
Level: 0
Description: it has tall leg for fast running but their defense is very low, it attacks its enemy with its legs and its legs' nail and head, not powerful monster in monster-hierarchy but fast runner in case of danger, in some places are used for transportation with taming them.
Abilities: Run fast
Weakness - fire and sharp attack and poison.
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After entering the city, he decided to calculate his gain so he " status window "
A window pop - up in front of him.
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City: Nexus city
Ability: Territory defense double
Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double.
Altar level: 0
Upgrade requirement: (woods*1000, stone * 250, 50* mana core (level 0)
Production: mist mana level 0 * 10 per day
Area: 625 square meters
status: very small village
Mana (money): 62
Tax (from market & city): 0 * mana-mist level
Building: Guide mark*1(active), Market (5 free trade per day)
Blueprint: low grade house (stones * 100, woods * 25)
Warehouse: wood*39, Rabbit monster hide level 0 * 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1* 1, Stone * 10
Population: 4
Specialty: Mana tree (produce level 0 mana * 3 per day)
Resource point: stone mountain level 1 (310* mined /1000 all stone mineable in new mine)
Attack power level: 0 (925/1000)
Description: city's power level to attack enemies
Defense power level: 0 (6000/10000)
Description: city ' defense power level against enemies.
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After that ash notice, city 's defense and attack power increase and total mana point, city 's mana-point is 62 that is more than enough for red pill.
so, he decided to go to the market-building with robin.