Chapter 42: Fighting With Cragens & Dragons Part 1
''Flood Poison skill: For swordsman only. Needs sword. It creates a flood of poison in area 10 m*10 m around the yer. Any yer inside this zone has his Attack and defense decrease by two folds.
It causes personal damage equal to 200% of sword attack bonus stat every second. Any target hit by it two times had an extra poison effect for 1 second after the end of the skill.
Any target hit by it 5times had an extra poison effect for 3 seconds after the end of the skill. Any target hit by it 10 times had an extra poison effect for 10 seconds after the end of the skill.
Duration: 10 seconds. The extra poison effect causes the target to lose 5% of his total HP every second. Cooldown: 30 minutes. Mastery: 0/10,000''
''Arrow of sun skill: For archers only. Needs bow. It creates an arrow made of fire which attacks targets in area 1m*1m around the yer.
It causes personal damage equal to 200% of Strength stat every second. Duration: 5 seconds. Cooldown: 30 seconds. Mastery: 25/10,000''
''Fire tropical rain skill: For wizards only. Needs staff. It creates a rain of fire apanied by an increase of the temperature by 50-degree celsius in area 5 m*5 m.
It causes personal damage equal to 150% of MANA stat every second. Duration: 10 seconds. Cooldown: 1 minute. Mastery: 15/10,000''
''Redemption fire skill: For healers only.
Needs staff. It creates a healing fire tempest in area 50 m*50 m around the yer. Any yer inside this zone would be healed by 350% of MANA stat every second.
Any enemy hit by it will have 50% MANA as damage. Duration: 5 seconds. Cooldown: 30 seconds. Mastery: 120/10,000''
I checked these skills and I found it obvious which direction we should take. I looked to the team as I said:
"We will attack those dark cragens first."
Goda said at once:
"These cragens have high agility, so Grendy wouldn''t fit as the main tank."
"I agree with that, I prefer to have the two of you as a main tank and Grendy would support you from the back," I agreed on Godas words as I pointed out to him and Shin in my speech. Shin nodded as he said:
"The usual tactic then, but I''m afraid taking down one monster will take quite a time."
I got his meaning, so I added:
"That''s why we will withdraw a couple of tens of meters towards the dragons'' side, then you will try to grab a monster or two in maximum towards us."
Shin looked to Goda as he said:
"I will go first, as I have the highest agility between us. Your job is to distract any other monsters that I might attract by mistake."
"What about me?"
I looked towards the excited Mony as I smiled. It seemed this girl got pumped up from the idea of attacking these monsters. Heda replied whileughing:
"You will be right next to me, as you will attack and heal from far."
Monyughed like a little girl as she said:
"No problem, as long as I can add some DPS."
We allughed then I said:
"I will act as your helper at any moment of danger. When we seed in pulling some monsters, we need to kill them all rapidly."
Shin interrupted me as he teased:
"No silly princess, we need first to know their abilities and skills. We also need to know their patterns, can they regenerate HP per 5 seconds or not? Do they have berserk modes? Or they are just like any normal monster."
I looked at him as Iined:
"You always tease me, if you continue doing that I won''t mind killing you a couple of times."
He then moved as he said:
"Ok, ok, I know how crazy our little princess can be. Now, let''s get rolling, we have monsters to kill."
That noisy cool swordsman needed to be taught a lesson one day. I moved to lead all the team in the direction of the dragons while Shin and Goda moved to bring some cragens to us.
Once we neared the location of the dragons, their fire illuminated the whole tunnel from far. It was like hell was waiting for us back there.
"Snad you will be right behind me, then Mony, andstly Heda. Heda, keep an eye over these dragons, I don''t want to be attacked from my rear."
They all nodded in agreement while they took their ces. I observed the other end of the tunnel, as it was nearly ck with nothing to be seen from my ce.
In moments, I noticed flying sparks that were very catchy in this darkness. Shin had moved, so I prepared myself for the uing battle.
I didn''t consider this as a game but a real battlefield, any single mistake was enough to end it all. I admitted to myself that being in-game with the ability to resurrect again after death was reassuring, but it wasn''t a good thing at all.
This death free environment would dull anyone''s fighting senses. Fearing death was a crucial step I had to ovee to be a sessful general, but here I feared the sense of safety would destroy it.
So, I treated here as war, one death meant losing everything. In a few moments, I managed to notice many sparks that wereing near me. I raised my spear and we were ready for the iing monsters.
''I brought up two monsters, be ready to receive them.''
Shin sent this in the team chat, which made me relieved. Each monster had thick blood and a higher level than us. So, our skills would be weakened when attacking it.
I hoped we could manage both of them efficiently. If not, then I had to attract one monster and y solo with it. That was in case my agility was higher on at least equal to it.
When the flying sparks neared us, I could finally nce over the shapes of these monsters. They were like a miniature version of that huge boss back there. The only difference there was they had only one head.
They moved using their 15 arms swiftly. From just moments of observation, I concluded that their agility wasn''t that high, but their ability to attack from several directions were superb.
Shin faced a difficult time dealing with both of them until Goda joined him. Each took responsibility for one monster each. It was now time for me to show up and join the fight.