The now empowered demon rushed towards Zack's party at high speeds. It swung its pitch-black sword at the kobold whose name had not yet been shared. The sword went through the kobold like a hot knife through butter, slicing him in half in an instant.
The demon then turned to where Nev had tripped over himself moments earlier and was about to rush towards him when a great-axe came down upon the demon's shoulder from behind, his right arm, which was carrying the demon's weapon fell to the ground, now separated from the demon's body.
After this, Garrick immediately swung his great-axe again towards the demon's chest, but the demon ducked under the swing as a curved knife formed in his remaining hand. The demon was smiling widely as if they were completely enjoying this fight.
The demon then took the knife and slashed it across Garrick's thigh while still ducking. Garrick winced in pain, it being a knife and him being a large orc though, it didn't hurt so bad that he couldn't fight, in fact, it only slowed down his speed a good bit, though that was still a problem, if Garrick was slower, it meant that he would be unable to assault the demon as easily as before.
Or that is what almost everyone here thought. When using an Individual Summoning Scroll, the player chose the individual's main class, but they also had a randomized subclass. For Garrick, that subclass was a berserker. The berserker subclass allowed the individual to deal more damage based on the amount of damage they had taken.
The demon kept slashing at the non-resisting Garrick ripping off chunks of his skin and muscle at a time. After a very short bit of this Garrick raised his great-axe high into the sky while feeling like he was going to pass out from loss of blood. He then lowered the axe through the demon's skull and then went through the rest of the body and into the floor.
Garrick then fell to the floor, passed out from loss of blood. Zack immediately ran over and made Garrick drink one of the health potions that he had picked up earlier. Garrick's wounds started to close slowly.
Nev who had gotten up at this point spoke up pointing a change in the room. "Hey, wasn't the heart black before?"
Zack looked at the heart which was now a light bluish-silver color, Nev was right, the heart had changed colors, a mental note was made to check this out after the territory was claimed.
Zack decided that this was a good time to try to claim the territory again, so he opened up the map screen and clicked the claim territory button.
'Would you like to claim this territory?' he heard this notification ring out in his head.
"Yes!" He responded to the notification with excitement in his voice, this was the first non-starting territory that he was going to claim. A banner appeared in front of him, it was empty, the game started having him design his kingdom's banner and the symbol to go with it.
He went with a red background with a black symbol of two gears spinning to symbolize that his kingdom was research-based, he chose the red background color mostly because he just liked the color red. There wasn't much more reason to it than that.
'You have conquered a 2-star mountain territory, 10 starting pops of your main race will be spawned to your location.' Another notification rung inside his head.
There were bright flashes of lights and when the light faded to normal 10 more kobolds were standing in the room as well as crates containing basic food. The kobolds didn't seem to be confused about being here though. The newly arrived kobolds waited for instruction from Zack on what to do.
Zack had wanted to start a mine in this territory, quite obviously, given that this was a mountain, so the first thing he did was assign 6 of the kobolds here to the soldier job and had them defend this territory. He then assigned the other 4 kobolds to more soldier jobs as well, this time having them go back to the original territory with Nev assigned to guide them.
Zack told the newfound kobold soldiers to stop by the armory first to get some weapons. Led by Nev, they did this and then 6 soldiers came back, it seemed that Nev and his small amount of kobolds had already left for the starting territory.
The last thing that Zack had wanted to do before logging off for the night was check out the heart again, so he walked up to the heart which was now a light bluish-silver color. He looked at the description of the heart once again and a description was provided.
Mana Heart of Xurmorh:
Rarity: Epic / Type: Relic
Xurmorh was the leader of a faction of the extremely rare race of giants, he was a mighty sorcerer who focused on the improvement of his faction and the improvement of himself, he was capable of casting many spells in quick repetition.
'Obtain more knowledge to add to the lore section of this item.'
Zack sighed, of course, he couldn't expect to get the full story right away, though he was also excited. This was a relic, relics gave kingdom-wide effects in this game, which was quite good, especially once you had a larger kingdom. Either way, he read on, looking at the effects section of the relic.
Effects:
all pops gain +30% resource production relating to mana. (Mining mana crystals, crafting mana catalysts, crafting mana potions, etc)
all pops gain +50% research speed for magic research.
These were the two effects that the relic gave, they were quite basic, but to Zack, these were quite powerful. This relic had shifted his plans, he would now want to start basing his empire on magic and engineering research but mostly on engineering.
This is where he decided to log off for the night either way. He had made huge progress today, he had claimed a territory, gotten an epic individual scroll, and a powerful relic. He found somewhere to rest as he leaned himself against a wall and exited the game.
When he exited the pod he was starving, he hadn't eaten all day which wasn't a good thing, so he grabbed some cereal, some milk, and a bowl and had a meal. After he finished eating, he walked over to his bed, laid down, and fell asleep immediately, today was fun, but it was also quite exhausting.