The BroodMother stood up and got into a military stance. The other undead quickly followed suit and stood in front of her. RifterMax walked in front of his undead horde. He used his magic to create a large stone platform raising him up nearly 10 feet into the air.
"We were once enemies but now we are nothing. I would like to thank you humans for helping me and my partner deal with those vile creatures. He are no longer under their control and will now create our own lands. As an act of kindness I will allow you to leave."
The group was confused. The all stood around each other not sure what to say. Power nudged Swift to the front of the group.
"I just have a few questions. You called us humans. Aren't you humans too? We are all players." Swift started to point around at his group and the two still corrupted players.
"We are all from another world and this was a video game. You are human as well"
A puzzled look appeared on the face of RifterMax. He looked towards Hellacious who was back in her human form but slightly different then before. She had less clothing revealing her alluring figure but had patches of green goblin like skin and sliver green hair. Her eyes were still very wolf like. He even looked down on his hands and noticed they were still human but with similar patches and hair color of his partner. He looked back at the group saying.
"We are no humans! We are Goblinoids. We stand above other goblins commanding them! We are tricked and controlled by that despicable shaman. Which we are great full that you killed. But at the end of the day. We are enemies. I will say this one more time. You and tie companions are free to leave. Next time we meet. We will kill you"
The undead horde all moved together into a fighting position.
"We can't fight them now" Grimm whispered. "Let's leave and regroup. We need more players for this. We have a lot we have to do."
"You're right" Swift said "we need to get better prepared for next time."
Now yelling "We take your deal! My group and I will leave. We thank you for allowing us to leave peacefully."
Swift gave a fake bow and turned with his group to leave. Everyone felt disappointed they couldn't take but the bus, but had two problems.
First, they didn't think RifterMax would let them take it.
Second, it was flipped over and couldn't take it with them. Didn't think Rifter would even help flipping it back over.
Leaving with the experience was the best thing. Unable to loot anything treasures from the fort did hurt their pride.
Looking over their levels everyone made it past level 20. Swift was 23, Power and Grimm were 22, Lazy was now 21 and Nitro barely made it past 20. Even Tantrum was able to get to level 20. Not really sure where to go Nitro suggested going to his parents house. Their house was big enough for everyone to have their own room and a fence around the property. With the raid over the group assumes that no more enemies will bother them and if there are it won't be difficult.
After walking for nearly 30 minutes they finally reached Nitros parents house. It was a large house with a 6ft tall fence around the entire property. Vines and nature reclaimed the outside. The white paint color was peeling off, the concrete drive way was cracked with weeds sticking out and even the fence had broken boards.
"Well least it's still standing" Nitro commented nervously. He lead the way through the gate into the house. All the furniture was worn down with broken pieces and missing pieces. He lead the group up the stairs to different rooms. All the beds were missing the bed frames and were just mattresses on the ground.
"There's a generator in the garage. I'll go get it started while you guys pick rooms. The one furthest down will be mine" Nitro said while heading down the stairs.
Everyone slowly looked through each room and picking one. Swift picked a room with two beds, one for him and Tantrum. Power picked the biggest bed. Grimm couldn't decide and let Lazy pick between the last two. Lazy ended up picking the worst bed so Grimm would have a better one. Shortly after everyone picked a room they could hear the sound of a motor going off and a couple of the lights around the house turned on. They all started to cheer.
"First one in the shower" Lazy yelled while running to the bathroom and locking the door behind him. He slowly turned on the water. It surprised him that water was actually working. He changed the temperature to a nice high heat before getting in. It was relaxing to actually shower. It's been days since they have and have no idea the next time they will be able to. He took a quick 5 minute shower before getting out. He opened the door to see the rest of the guys slightly angry at him waiting their turn. Power pushed passed him into the bathroom once again locking the door behind him.
It took nearly 30 minutes for everyone to shower and be in semi normal clothes. Lazy said he would keep first watch if everyone wanted to evolve their class and get some rest. Everyone went into their respective room while Lazy went down to the garage and started building work tables.
[Astap, would you mind keeping a look out for me?]
[Yes. There are no enemies near by.]
Over the next couple hours he created his workstation and created his own weapon. It was a pair of gauntlets with beaded claws on the finger tips. The forearm part was made with extra metal to be used as shields and connected all the way up to his shoulder.
While Lazy was working everyone else was sitting in this rooms. Flipping to their stat page they all say a button saying {Evolve Class}. They all hit the button and were sent into an excruciating pain as they started to evolve. Even Tantrum was groaning in pain as he and Swift evolved. Everyone now knew how much pains Lazy was in but was thankful it was only a couple minutes. Not the day he had.
Tantrum Lv 20 Hp 800 Mana 230
Str 50 Dex 60 Con 80 Int 20 Mnd 13 Lck 4
Tantrum evolved into a Gator Raptor. Having the similar appearance but sleeker with 6 inch feathers on its body.
SwiftCodex Wind Warrior Apprentice
Lv 23 Hp 600 Mana 400
Str 20 Dex 78 Con 31 Int 27 Mnd 43 Lck 22
PowerPlays Psionic Ice Squire
Lv 22 Hp 1,000 Mana 450
Str 76 Dex 12 Con 55 Int 17 Mnd 49 Lck 10
NitroWarrior Solider Gunidier
Lv 20 Hp 520 Mana 480
Str 24 Dex 88 Con 27 Int 15 Mnd 27 Lck 12
GrimmHeart Grey Mage Novice
Lv 22 Hp 480 Mana 1,200
Str 10 Dex 22 Con 20 Int 70 Mnd 78 Lck 13
Lazylockheart Psionic Mechanic Apprentice
Lv 21 Hp 450 Mana 1,120
Str 20 Dex 38 Con 22 Int 68 Mnd 81 Lck 15
After evolving everyone noticed they had a new class name, new stats and even a lot of skill points to spend. Looking through they also noticed each skill and job now cost only 5 points. Good for some, bad for others. Swift, Power and Lazy all had 35 points. Nitro had the least with 15 while Grimm had the most with 45.
While still on look out Lazy also evolved without the group noticing. He was pleasantly surprised the evolution didn't take as long as last time.
Deciding to tune their skills for their play style everyone decided to spend their points for new skills, jobs and even boosting their stats.
Swift spent his points on the animal tamer and beast tamer jobs. He spent 20 points boosting his Mind stat. He also got the new skill Tornado Strike. The two new jobs he has will help him train more pets if he wants in the future but also to help train Tantrum more to be stronger.
Tornado Strike: Costs 100 mana to use. Able to strike with your weapons to send a small 5ft diameter tornado. The strength of the tornado is based off of your Mind stat. Able to upgrade this skill to increase the diameter by 1ft for every 15 points spent.
Power wanted to focus on being a tank he spend 25 points boosting his Strength, Constitution and Mind stat. He spent his remaining 10 points on two new skills; Psionic Ice Radius and Psionic Ice Wave.
Psionic Ice Radius: Like Psionic Ice Aura but up to 30ft around you costing 100 mana for 1 minute duration. This skill is static and does not follow you. While enemies are in this area they will have slowed movement and slightly weaker attacks. If the enemy is more then 15 levels below you, there is a chance they will freeze completely.
Psionic Ice Wave: costs 40 mana. Able to create a come of jagged ice like a wave in front of you. 20ft with a 15 degree angle.
Feeling semi useless from dying little more then half way through the raid Nitro spent his points on new skills. Picking Life Ammunition, Solider Dodge and Luck of Combat.
Life Ammunition: able to use your own health points to create ammunition. 10 pounds of health is 20 bullets.
Soldier Dodge: (passive skill) while running able to do a combat roll that will grant you immunity to an attack. Only happens once every minute. You are immune to damage for 1 second.
Luck of Combat: (passive skill) while I'm combat you are extremely lucky, but outside of combat you are extremely unlucky. During combat when a fatale attack is about to hit you will be able to sense the attack right before it happens and able to react to it.
Feeling good about his first real battle Grimm mainly focused on his stats and new offensive skills. He raised his Intelligence and Mind stat by 30. He also picked up 3 new skills, Shadow Heal, Light Spear and Dark Strike.
Shadow Heal: (passive skill) for every kill you regain 5 points of health and mana. With every dead body within a 20ft radius of you you regain 2 health points and mana.
Light Spear: costs 30 mana. Able to create a spear of brilliant light. Lasts for 30 seconds and able to use it like a normal spear or can throw it. If thrown it will also explode on impact dealing damage based of Mind and Intelligence stat.
Shadow Strike: costs 20 mana. Up to a range of 10ft able to use your own shadow to attack. It can grab objects or strike at a foe. Each action it does costs 20 mana. If used at night cost is reduced by 50%
Lazy wasn't sure what he wanted to focus on. Being the builder of the group was worth it but his Psionic powers were much more useful. He started to think and go through his friends list to see if any were not in a guild. Scrolling through his list he found 2 friends. FatKidsloveCake and Reroll4Life. Both weren't in a guild and happen to be Mage Engineers. He remembers he took part in a hover bike race and met them. He messaged them both asking if they wanted to join his guild. They told him to meet in person at Kansas City and they'll decide. Assuming they'd join he spent his points on new skills and a new job. new skills I'm total. Psionic Lightning Melee, Psionic Chain Lightning, Psionic Drain, Psionic Barrier, Psionic Cloak, Psionic Speed and the Stealth Job.
The new stealth job would allow him to sneak around better. Unlike the scout job that is more a focus on movement.
Psionic Lightning Melee: costs 2 points of mana for every second this skill is active. You use your Psionic power to create lighting around your weapon. This damage is based off of your Mind stat.
Psionic Chain Lightning: costs 40 mana to hit 4 targets. 10 mana for each additional target. Able to shoot a bolt of lightning up to 100ft and arc up to 10ft from impact. Damage is based off of Mind stat.
Psionic Drain: (passive skill) when dealing damage of pure Psionic energy able to drain up to 5% health and mana from the target.
Psionic Barrier: costs 5 mana per second. Able to create a barrier around you of Psionic energy that acts like a shield. This barrier is able to absorb up to 30% of any direct attack.
Psionic Cloak: costs 100 mana and lasts 5 minutes. With this skill active you no longer create noise or leave behind foot prints. Even pressure plate traps will not detect you.
Psionic Speed: costs 50 mana for very minute this skill is active. While active you are able to move at increased speeds.
The entire group felt stronger and over joyed by their new skills and stats. Lazy ended up falling asleep while on watch. Astap kept an eye out and never noticed anything. It was a peaceful night for the group.