Monster outbreaks are truly rare and devastating but no one really knows why nor its source. From studies across the centuries people of Eceth are able to conclude a few things.
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Outbreaks happens randomly without any fix pattern or correlation
Outbreak's wave are affected by dungeon rank
Outbreak's monster strength are not affected by dungeon rank, but by chance instead
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The devastating war raged on for days; afterall, it wasn't easy to defeat a B rank monsters, let alone a swarm of them. Many brave souls were sacrificed to finally widdle down the numbers of the shadow lurker.
If you were to regard this as all negative you wouldn't be right. Just like life, for every win you lose something and for every lost you win something. Only if the benefits outweigh the lost do you truthly win.
In the midst of disaster some would vanish in the sea of bloody while some rise up like the mighty phoenix.
The earth equivalent of a great recession.
Emyrs and his team had gain some fame from this outbreak along with a honorable team title of "spider slayer" (why do I feel like they are mocking us?!)
Somewhere amongst the woods
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Splat-
A man laid his left foot on the abdomen of a fresh shadow lurker corpse while using his right hand to reach for a great sword that nailed the shadow lurker to the cold hard ground.
The man pulled out the great sword comparable to his size with ease. A dazzling flow of tacky green liquid sprouted out of the wound. Melting into the tall unknown bushes that harness this land, returning to its roots.
Russell: (worn out) If only we weren't bound to this god damn place.
Faelyn: Yeah, who the heck gave us that team name...(clench his fist) If I ever find him, I'll kill him!
Russell: (fiery flame emerged from within his eyes) Yeah! We'll Slice him into a million pieces and grind him into meat paste! {impossible, they agreed for once?! huuuuuh...}
Natsumi: Stop moaning and start killing, we still have to clear another forest to clear.
Russell: (hmph) If only our leader's "dragon arm" didn't run out of magic, we could have just eradicated those long legged pest out of existence with ease.
Emyrs: If such a strong weapon doesn't have any drawback I would have ruled the world well past this point. Also, that is not a dragon arm, it is a gun... a gun that uses ammo not magic.
Russell: (proudly nodded) Even though I didn't get it, it makes a lot of sense.
Emyrs: (laid his arm on Russell's right shoulder and slowly spoke) I understand you my friend, the pain of not knowing yet needing to comprehend things you never will.
Russell: (shocked) What was that supposed to mean?!?!
Everyone: ?
Back at Krando(capital), dawn
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"Have you heard? The lurker queen has been slain."
"Yeah, apparently it was killed by an 8 men A rank team"
"No more like an 8 women team"
"Right, I heard their leader was a beautiful goddesses."
"Not only does the heart captures the hearts of men, she is undoubtedly strong. Maybe even on par with an S rank adventure"
"Nah, you guys are wrong she may be beautiful and strong but she is only 19."
"Yeah he is right, if S rank adventurers could be found so readily; it still doesn't change the fact that she most likely would be one in the future."
"Don't get your hopes to high, she may be the next King Aron II, the no potential, haha"
Faelyn: They were just lucky.
Russell: True, on the bright side, we don't need to hold that crappy team name anymore.
Faelyn: On the dark side(Star Wars fan?), they stole all the credits-
Russell: (continues) and the fame.
Faelyn: (responded abruptly) All you care about is fame.
Russell: What? Wanna fight you dumb elf?
Faelyn: You think I'm scared of you, lost cause?!
Natsumi: (sigh) Sometimes I wonder how do they even get to this point.
Alice: (?) rub my ears, Nat, rub my ears~
Natsumi: (noticed) Ok~
Alice: It feels so good...
Emyrs: I should be saying the same for both of you.
(Explanation: Those who slays the monster queen of an outbreak stops the queen from creating new monsters to fight for her, ending the war. Those who slay the king are also honored as they are the ones who minimize the strain on others by killing a devastating monster. However no one was there to spread the news that they killed the king... )
Sarah: (timidly) Erm... There has been something on my mind lately...
Emyrs: (A warm smile) Just speak your mind there is no need to hold back.
Sarah: (hesitant) I don't mean to spoil the mood, but everyone here knows that we are just a temporary team, right? I was wondering which road should we be heading?
Russell: (muddled) Road?
Sarah: (worriedly) Yeah, you know as a temporary team we are most likely going disperse and walk our own ways... it's been really fun to be with you guys...
Natsumi: (proudy patting her chest) This cat here ain't going anywhere!
Alice: Yeah!
Faelyn: Yeah, we aren't going anywhere, so don't you worry a single soul.
Russell: With such a beautiful lady like you here, why would I ever wonder off?
Natsumi: (smashed Russell on the back of his head with her fist) Ew!
Sarah: (wiped of accumulating tears from the side of her eyes) Thank you everyone.
Emyrs: Well then, shall we officially make a team?
Everyone: yeah!
End