As I was getting out of Silent Woods, alarms where sounding outside the walls, and Dao Powered Speakers were blaring. Beast Swarm Incoming, 5 Epic Monsters inbound, hordes of Adept incoming! I was surprised by the Beast Swarm, they usually happened every ten years. The last one happened 5 years ago.
[New Quest: Defense of Zig's Port.
Kill All Adept Beasts.
Kill the 5 Epic Monsters Leading the Horde. 0/5
Rewards: Choice of 3 items.]
I went out to the city walls, dozens of Daoists and Guildsmen were standing outside, I was standing alone, checking my spells. [Spells. Cantrips: Prestidigitation, Firebolt, Control Flame, Create Bonfire, Green-Flame Blade, Produce Flame, Sacred Flame.
Level 1: Burning Hands, Searing Smite, Hellish Rebuke, Faerie Fire.]
I cast Faerie Fire at the front of the horde, causing the Magic Beasts to balk at the flames. I then flung Firebolts and Produce Flames at at the Adept Beasts, burning and killing a tens of them, sending out a Create Bonfire between the humans and beasts, the fire consuming the majority of the horde. Cheers rang out as the majority of the horde died, I left the rest of the beasts to the cultivators, charging at full speed to the Monsters, using Burning Hands and Searing Smite on them, the Monstrous Bull, Spider, Rat, Ape, and Tiger tried to attack me, but I used Hellish Rebuke to burn them to ashes. After the battle, I collected the cores of the enemies I killed, putting them away in the storage ring for later conversion to SP.
After being thanked by the mayor of Zig's Port, getting five hundred gold for my heroism as a reward from them, I went back home, my small house near the docks was homely and minimalist. I took out my cores from the battle, adding +3 SP from the Monster Cores, and +2 SP from all 100 Adept Cores.
Totaling 215 SP. I spent 10 into Persuasion, Intimidation, Deception, and Performance, leaving me with 178 SP left. 'Skills.'
[Skill Window
Acrobatics(DEX): 2
Animal Handling(WIS): 2
Arcana(INT): 2
Athletics(STR): 2
Deception(CHA): 12
History(INT): 2
Insight(WIS): 2
Intimidation(CHA): 12
Investigation(INT): 5
Medicine(WIS): 2
Nature(INT): 2
Perception(WIS): 5
Performance(CHA): 12
Persuasion(CHA): 12
Religion(INT): 2
Slight of Hand(DEX): 2
Stealth(DEX): 2
Survival(WIS): 2
With the Charisma Skills increased, I felt way more confident in myself, figuring I could talk myself out of fighting Daoists, I had nothing against them, as outside of Dark Sects that oppressed folk like myself, the Light Sects helped cities like mine and even healed the sick and injured. I was considering leaving Zig's Port, because I wanted to get stronger, speaking of which… [Quest: Defense of Zig's Port.-Completed.
Kill All Adept Beasts.
Kill the 5 Epic Monsters Leading the Horde. 5/5
Rewards: Choice of 3 items. +1 Magic Fire Weapon, +1 Magic Armor, Spell Scroll. Which do you choose? Spell Scrolls can be of any other elemental spell, however, they are a single use item, and disintegrate on use.] I was quite curious about the spell scroll, so I chose it, thinking that at a higher level, I would get better stuff. [Spell Scroll Chosen, Scroll of Chromatic Orb gained. High Damage Single Target spell, is usually random elemental damage, but the System fixes it to Fire Damage.] You have leveled up, you are now level 4! Plus 6 SP gained.]