Alice could see why this mountain had it's name, the peak did look an awful lot like a dragon's head. Alice and Brock had breezed through the plateau, it seemed that dragons really did work better together. Now that they stood at the bottom of the mountain they could see at least 4 regions plus the peak so it would probably get harder by at least 5 times. That was if the difficulty only went up by one per region.
Brock's Black Lightning Dragon was something to behold in battle, it had easily wiped out 60% of the enemies that they had come up against with it's breath attack. However Brock wanted to rest before they went up the mountain. Apparently his dragon needed to recover it's magic.
"I'm sorry Brock but we need to press on, haven't you leveled up your equipment? You should be able to fight on at least par with your dragon, or do you rely on your dragon to do all the work?"
"Well to be honest I didn't think that my dragon would be only slightly stronger then myself, so I haven't leveled up my equipment at all." Brock shook his head, after he had hit level 10 he realized he'd made a mistake as his dragon wasn't killing groups in one shot any more, on top of that he couldn't protect his dragon because all his equipment hadn't even started to level up. He figured if he could get the dragon evolve core from Dragon's peak mountain then he could solve this problem. "I realized my mistake way to late, it's the main reason why I need to team up to even have a chance at getting that evolve core. You see my dragon may have a powerful breath attack but it has no other way to attack, or at least it doesn't have an attack skill in it's list."
Alice had wondered and even kinda figured this as he had only used that breath attack on the way through the plateau. As her dragon could only attack and not use a breath attack, his dragon could only use a breath attack and couldn't attack. It must be the way of the game trying to balance out such a powerful class of character. "I see well you handled most of the enemies coming through the plateau, allow me handle most off the enemies through the first region. We can try to avoid the bigger groups and pick our battles a little more carefully. I believe this should be our main strategy for going all the way up the mountain. What do you think?"
Brock thought for a minute before he nodded, it seemed like a sound strategy especially since he relied heavily on his dragon for battling. " I think this is a good strategy so let's head out."
Through the first region, which contained mostly forest, they encountered a few wolves.
Wolf
Hp 700/700
Dmg 35
Exp 75
They weren't much of a problem and Alice was able to take care of them fairly easily, and any that did get by, Brock was able to handle as Alice had heavily damaged them anyway.
"It seems our luck has run out look up ahead. It seems like we'll have to face a pack of at least thirty. How's your dragon's magic coming along?" Alice looked at Brock and asked.
"He should be good to go, I think that this group shouldn't be a big problem. With your over all level and my breath attack I think that this should be a piece of cake." Brock looked confident so Alice wasn't worried. Dragon looked at both of them and took off towards the wolves it was hungry.
"Shit, Dragon come back here." Alice wanted to make at least a bit of a plan, but Dragon just kept going." Shit, Brock flank this pack I'm going to back up that stupid dragon before it get's killed." Alice didn't even look at Brock to see if he nodded. Brock didn't mind he knew how important your pet was in this class. But he couldn't figure out why Alice's dragon seemed so hell bent on suicide every battle they had been in it was always the first one in.
"Well no matter, let's go Noir, can't let them have all the fun." Brock and Noir ran towards the west side of the pack deciding that Alice and Dragon would end up on the east side causing a huge ruckus making their sneak attack that much more effective. Just as Brock predicted Alice and Dragon ended up fighting in the east so it was basically a sneak attack once Brock and Noir came from the west. Even though there was between 30 and 35 wolves they never stood a chance.
" It seems that the first two regions are all forest, we'll probably only have to deal with more of the same going forward. You should prioritize leveling up your equipment so you aren't so reliant on your dragon going up the mountain. I think that this will be a good opportunity for you to be able to catch up." Alice hoped that Brock would take her advise, she didn't want to have to be the tank going all the way up to the peak. Neither dragon had a healing skill and even though she prioritized buying healing potions she didn't believe that she could hold out all the way to the peak. Alice followed her own advise as she set her equipment to 60% of incoming experience, while setting her and Dragon to 20% each. "Alright lets head into the second region I don't believe that it'll be that much harder then the first region."
"That might be a good idea, maybe I'll do that." Brock said trying to pacify Alice, he didn't really believe that. In Brock's mind the only true way to be a Dragon Knight was to power up his Noir as fast as possible. Currently he had set 100% Exp. to Noir and he wasn't going to change that, he had only reached level 10 while all his equipment was still at lvl 0. Noir was lvl 15 and his breath attack did an a.o.e of 200 dmg. he could also do this attack at least 10 times in battle and Noir's mana recovery rate was getting better with each level. With Alice tanking he believed they'd have no problem reaching the peak. "Anyway let's head out.
The second region wasn't much different then the first region the only change was a new species of wolf.
Grey Wolf
Hp 800/800
Dmg 40
Exp 100
As Alice and Brock continued it became obvious to Alice that Brock was prioritizing his Dragon. In fact it seemed that he was more then happy to let her tank all the way to the peak of the mountain. Alice mentioned this to him as she didn't want to just be a meat shield for Brock. Brock simply stated that it was kinda normal since they could only attack while his dragon only had a breath attack. Alice let it go after Brock offered her half of his healing potions. She was at least now confident of making it to the peak. Just like the end of the first region there was a pack of wolves guarding the entrance to the third region. Once again Dragon took off towards the wolves that were made up of Wolves and Grey Wolves. Alice followed and Brock and Noir again flanked the pack. they had dispatched the group without much difficulty. Alice's weapons and armor also leveled up.
Equipment- Unequip-able
Dragon Knight set- indestructible. Lvl 3> 4 def 35>50
Set includes Pole sword indestructible lvl 2>3 dmg 31>42