POV: Laura
It's been days on this field of flowery hell or at least I think it has, it's hard to figure out how much time has passed with no clear indication to help us.
The past few days have been absolutely draining on all of us, the fear of getting ambushed by something, the sky that turns dark seemingly on random had us all on the edge, the one who had it worst was Collin however.
Along these days nothing really changed in our scenery, the same breath taking flowers the same seemingly normal road, the change that came however was as expected on the plains.
The further we ventured down the road, treasures started appearing... first there was the weapons, swords, bows magic staffs, all sorts of weapons lay seemingly within our reach, some would only need us to stretch an arm to grab.
Finally seeming to give up Collin asked with uncertainty "You think we should try to grab one?"
Lana turned to look at him and replied furiously "Are you crazy?! Or are you stupid?? You saw what happened to those adventures back there right? We are NOT doing that got it?!"
"She's right Collin, what's gotten into you?"
He held his head with his hand "It's just that... ah yes look at that!" He said pointing at a staff that was within arm reach from the road.
"And?" Asked Allen
"We don't need to step off the road to get it just reach out and take it! I mean Look at it! That staff is probably worth more then some kingdoms!! That's not even considering what type of magical spells could be infused within!! It's It's mine!" By the end of his speech his eyes were slowly turning red, I walked over to him he turned to look back at me with eyes slowly turning redder by the second
*SLAP*
"Snap out of it, is your will so weak that you get tempted so easily?"
giving me a light bow while holding his now red cheek. "Uhh.. I-I.. Thank you..."
"You didn't need to slap me that hard though..." he muttered under his breath
"Haha you deserved it, jeez getting so worked out over a bunch of sticks, you sure you only want them for *magical purposes*" asked a grinning Lana, to which he gave her a death glare.
"Knock it off you two something is changing, look ahead."
Sure enough, the sea of weapons and flowers was no more, in it's place now was just normal plain of green grass in all directions.
In front of us a couple of adventures were getting ready to fight a herd of monsters that were apparently blocking the exist of this realm.
The first one a human holding a giant claymore his partner an Elf I assumed considering his long ears and relatively taller frame was equipped with a bow.
There must have been at least 300 to 400 monsters blocking the portal, and I could see a few that looked dangerous, most of the monsters present were those living on the outside world, but there were some I never seen before, in particular the Humanoid ones have a very dangerous aura surrounding them, but none of the monsters seemed to pay us any head, there was still a bit of distance between us so I assume once we get closer they will attack.
The Elven archer soon noticed us and notified his partner who called to us waving.
"Well hello there, it's good to see some others have made it this far." He said smiling, he looked to be in forties? A dark black hair with a few strands of grew neatly combed to the back, and a thick well trimmed black beard.
"Indeed, it looks like the more people on our side the better our chances against that eyy." Said Allen while pointing his chin towards the sea of monsters.
"True that, i'm Zavier this right here is Amon." He said patting the Elf's shoulder.
"A pleasure to meet you." Replied the Elf while giving a graceful bow
"I'm Allen that's Collin, Shalana and that is Laura." He said introducing us.
"Of course never thought I'd come across the famous Shadow Slayer in person, an Honor to meet you all, I already feel much safer with all of you here" Replied Zavier giving a hearty laugh, to which I just nodded politely.
We then moved a bit back and sat down in a circle on the road, after a few minutes of talking with Zavier and Amon, we came to understand a few things.
The first is that it is indeed true the Monsters will not attack you unless you come closer to them, the only way to leave and go to the next level apparently is by passing the portal, and finally you don't have to kill your all the monsters to pass if you can sneak in past them all you can safely pass as impossible as that may seem with all of them densely packed over there.
Apparently when Zavier and Amon just arrived here another group of adventures were trying to pass to cross the sea of monsters they fought head on and managed to get quite far ahead and kill quite a number of monsters before their tank got taken down and soon enough the swordsman followed and then the mage, the one who made it was the Rogue as when things seemed to go south he rushed towards the portal while his friends downfall bought him enough time, or so Zavier said.
"Now then what's the plan?" Asked Lana
"I don't think we have much of a choice except rushing in no?" (Collin)
"Indeed, but won't we end up the same as the past adventures that tried? Overwhelmed by that swarm of monsters?" (Amon)
"Those humanoid ones do look terrifying,
reminds me of the shadows..." grunted Zavier
"What do you think Laura?" Asked Allen to which then all turned to face me
"I think a frontal clash is unavoidable, with Mister Zavier and Mister Amon here are chances are much higher, I will take care of clearing a path for us in front Mister Zavier and Allen should take care of our back and flanks, do not let any get near our archers and mage, and keep up with me, we hit hard and we hit fast!"
"Hell if Miss Laura is leading, I don't have anything to be afraid of, I'll protect our archers and mage alright you can count on me on that, ain't that right Amon." Replied Zavier loudly while winking at Amon
"*cough* certainly with you protecting my back I have nothing to worry about."
"Then that's decided any objections? Lana? Collin?" Asked Allen
To which they replied simultaneously "Nope"
"Then let's head out!"