"So, you say this heart will work out, right?" – asked ClownFrog.
"Yes. It something totally unexpected, but its many times better than hunger bear heart. Heck, they cannot be even compared in any way!" - said Miggrel
"Are you sure about giving it to me?!" – asked confused and excited Miggrel.
"Yea, but under one deal. If this fails, then we get all of your stuff regardless of the outcome, deal?"
(Its pity that we I will waste it, but I couldn't use it anyway since there was no people in the city that could use it.)
(But if by any chance his plan works out and he manages to create the heart and revive that queen, then we will be able to create a total chaos!) – though ClownFrog.
"…. Deal. If this doesn't work as well, then nothing will." – said Miggrel.
"However, there is a problem. The souls of the living people were meant for the stabilization effect and I'm lacking one of the main ingredients for the crafting and I used all the ingredients you provided me before were all used up."
"Well, we already killed an entire village for you, so give us the task already."
"…Thanks."
[The favorability with Miggrel has increased a lot.]
[The chain quest has been generated.]
[Miggrel and last attempt.]
[Quest Rank: B]
[Miggrel failed in his experiment of creating a special heart that would be able to reawaken the queen Arrianhi Umil and lost all hope.
HOWEVER, thanks to you providing him even better heart with way higher change of success maybe now able to create a heart that will reawaken the queen Arrianhi Umil so his revenge would be fulfilled.
But he still needs your help!]
-Gather total of 300 souls in the soul lanterns.
-Gather 20 ground digging toad livers.
-Gather 40 rotting healing grass.
-Gather 80 Green Bat Poison Sacks.
-Gather 20 Stalking mantis eyes.
-Gather a blood of the Blood Viper.]
[Reward: Depends / Miggrel favorability increase / title: [Miggrel Helper].]
"!"
(B rank quest! Not a C or C+, but a freaking B. Not only that, but there is a rewards is a title?! We have to do this!)
(Other are also looking very excited as well. There is not even a need to ask them.)
"Okay!"
[You have accepted the quest.]
"Good. But there are two problems. The first problem is the soul. The soul that needs to be gather can't be monster or alike, we have to get PEOPLE souls just like before. The problem is where to get these souls. The village I pointed you at didn't had big population and was easy target, however I already used the energy from the souls you gather and now need 300 instead of 100."
"I…. I don't know where you can safely harvest 300 souls. Sorry. I normally had a guy I had connection with to harvest the souls, but now doing that will be end up with me being catched by the adventurer guild."
"So we have to find the way to do that ourselves huh?" – said GreyHunt.
"…. Question. Does the souls of the adventures works? They can come back to live and all, so if we were to kill people over and over, wouldn't that work?" – said GreyHunt.
"?!"
"Well, yea. But adventures posses' ability to come back to live so harvesting their souls is impossible, you can only harvest a small fragment that is 1/4."
"Hm… So, we would have to kill 1500 adventures if we want. Hm…."
"You are not really thinking about doing it, right?" – asked Oron.
"Well, it still good to have an alternative, but still is very risky. Killing 1500 adventures will obviously make way more trouble than killing 300 regular people. But either way it will make lot of mess." – said GreyHunt.
"Agree. What about the blood of the blood viper?" – asked Shri.
"It's a monster that is extremely rich in mana. Its blood is like organs to it and it was able to contain the power of the souls."
"However, before I only used small amount of it before. Now I need the entire thing. I need you to deal with the blood viper and take all of its blood you can get." – explained Miggrel.
"The rest of the material's I need are the same as before but these times I need even more now."
"Hm…."
(This is problematic. We probably won't be able to finish this quest today no matter what we try.)
(We didn't lied about working for the adventure guild master, however she cannot know about our relationship and know that we literally masacreated the village. We need to do something.)
"…. Fuck me. Guys. We have to get souls TODAY!" – said ClownFrog.
"?"
"Why today?" – asked Oron.
"We masacreated an entire village, of course people would notice that something is going on. If they dispatch anything like a guards to keep watch or if they are strong enough, we will get fucked. We need to get theses souls today while they still don't know about the situation. I'm planning on playing today till late. What about you?" – said ClownFrog.
"…. Well, I guess we have no choice then. I'm prepared to pull all nightery than." – said Shri.
"Same."
"Me too."
"Okay, then where do we go then? We obviously cannot hunt people here since the problem of PK players finally calmed down. It would be same as death sentence. Is there really no location where we can harvest souls, mate?" – asked ClownFrog to Miggrel.
"…. There is one. It's another village located in Adernul territory, but unlike the previous village that was a small settlement, this one is obviously bigger and has even bigger population, it will do. However, because the monster near it are stronger and there is a lot of them. Because of that there is quite number of hunters and guards in that village and there are probably stronger as well. Honestly when I scouted there, I already gave up on targeting that place since there would be too much resistance. However, if you really want to get all the souls today then that place would be the only possible target nearby unfortunately. AND remember! You cannot let even a single one escape or it will be all over? Got it?"
"Yea!" – replied everybody.
"Well then, good luck."
The party left the house and as soon as they left a night time came.
After leaving the Miggrel house the party used the path from before to enter Adernul kingdom unnoticed and headed straight towards the second village pointed by Miggrel.
"Hm…. This is trouble." – said GreyHunt.
(Its currently night time so we though it would be easier since the villagers wouldn't be out on the field, but the problem are the houses. There is a wooden wall surrounding the houses and there are even some people on top of them keeping a watch.) – though GreyHunt.
"What do we do? The plan was to surround the village with undeads and have 3 of us infiltrate the village and kill everybody, but that wall and those people keeping watch on top of it ruined the plan completely. As soon as the undead try to get close they will get spotted and will realize the danger, the plan to ambush them won't be possible." – said GreyHunt.
"Yea, things are not good. I can snipe some of these people on the watch with GreyHunt but we can't kill them all, the others that survived will notice immediately and raise an alarm or something." – said Oron.
"Then what do we do? I can make my undead join the main assault, but if I were to do that, there would be less undead blocking the escape for the villagers and that would allow them to just break through them. This sucks." – said ClownFrog.
"…."
"Why the fuck that bastard didn't mention the fuking wall at all?!" – said everybody.
"…."
"…Hey, why don't we just burn it?" – said Shri.
"?"
"I mean, those walls are made out of the wood and we saw some of the houses in the previous village were entirely made out of the wood, right? So, couldn't we just burn it all or something? I mean, we have 2 guys with long range fire element attacks." – said Shri.
"…."
"Oh, that is smart idea." – replied everybody.
"But what about the guards? There is way more of them than we though and there are probably some more inside. The wall does blocks a villagers path and would force them to go through one of 3 gates, I can just all of my undeads and cover all 3 of these gates. But the problem is with still be with guards. If they were to try and help villagers escape at all cost, there is a chance that some of them will escape and that would obviously lead to us being discovered. If me and Oron focuses on setting the place on fire, then won't guards just go at us instead? We still don't know how strong they are or what level they are at." – said ClownFrog.
"Don't worry, we got this, right GreyHunt?" – said Shir.
"…Heh. Well, the last proper challenge we had to deal with was the area boss, so I was kind of getting bored. I kind of like it. I down for it." – said GreyHunt.
"Well then, lets do it." – said Shri.
"Ah, you fucking bastards, fine." – said ClownFrog, giving up trying to convince the two.
"Well, just don't make me regret it." – said ClownFrog before brining all of his undeads from hiding.
"Go!"
All the undeads under the ClownFrog control began rushing poured out from the forest and headed at village.
"?" – the man standing on top of the wall noticed something.
"…."
"!"
"E- "
Before the man could say anything, the man head was pierced suddenly pierced by the bullet.
One of the guards that was near him noticed the man suddenly dropping lifestyle, however before he check on the man condition and see what happened to him, two projectiles made out the fire flew above the man and hit the two wooden buildings, setting them on fire.
"!"
"Everybody! We are under attack! Raise the alarm!" – shouted the man on the watch.
The rest of the people on the watch quickly noticed what was going on and after looking around for a bit, they spotted a large group of undeads running straight at them.
The people on top of the wall began firing arrows at the undead monster, but the skeleton servants lifted their shields to block the attacks and the undead bear just didn't cared.
"They are getting close! Get ready!" – shouted a man wearing an armor.
The undead group headed straight at the gate, however before getting near it, the group splitted into 3.
"?!"
(They splitted up?! But why?)
Before man could realize anything he suddenly got shot in the head and killed.
While the people were still confused what was going on, the undead bears were already attacking the door, trying to break it open.
"!"
"Reinforce the gate! They can't get in at any cost!"
"AAHG?! WHAT IS THAT?!"
"?!"
The man looked towards where the scream came from and saw a giant ant monster climbing on the wall.
The people tried attacking the ant monster with spear and arrows but none of it worked and moments later somebody climbed up using the ant monster and jumping up and landing on top of the wall.
"!"
"Kill her!" – shouted one of the guards.
The guards on top of the wall tried attacking the Shri, however she just dodge the attacks by just jumping over and then using her whip to wrap it around one of the guards necks, before landing on top of him and finish him off.
"Sorry, but you are dealing with me and my pets." – said Shri.
While Shri was distracting the guards the rest of her ant monsters climbed up and began attacking the guards left and right.
The situation was extremely chaotic. Because of the ClownFrog and Oron fire attacks, all of the houses were set on fire and now Shri was rampaging around and occupying the guards on top of the wall with her ants, making them unable to reinforce the gate, ending in the gate being destroyed by the undeads in the end.
"!"
"They breached the gate! Everybody! Evacuate the people now!" – said the one of the guards that was dealing with the ant monsters before getting killed.
The people began running away in panic, however some of them were just mercilessly shot in the back by the GreyHunt that walked through the broken gate.
"Hm?"
In front of a GreyHunt, several mans wielding an axes, bows and spears were blocking his path.
"…. Heh, there is a lot of you, way more than I thought, but should you really be thinking of dealing with me?" – asked GreyHunt.
"?"
"AAAHHHH!!!"
"?!"
Screams could be heard coming from the direction where some of the survivors went in.
"Shit! This path is no good! The monsters is blocking it!" – said the villager while trying to close the gate they just opened, trying not to let undeads in.
"Everybody! This way- "
One of the villagers opened the other gate and as soon as he did, he was pierced by many spears.
Both of the escape routes were completely blocked by undead monsters.
"!"
"We got to help- "
Before the man could finish speaking, he was shoot in the head by the GreyHunt.
"Sorry, but I can't let any of you go." – said GreyHunt.
The entire village was burning. The guards on top of the wall were busy fighting the Shri and her monsters and the village hunters were busy with GreyHunt.
Any of the people that tried to run away were greeted by the undeads blocking all 3 gates.
The fight continue for a long time, however unknown for Shri and GreyHunt, a few hunters and guards manage to sneak by and help out in dealing with the undeads blocking one of the gates.
"Oh, I guess I got in time." – said ClownFrog.
"?!"
Unfortunately for the people that manage to get rid of the undeads, ClownFrog joined the fight with Oron and instantly raised the corpse of the villagers as undeads to attack the group of people that tried surviving.
With the entire village burning and now having ClownFrog and Oron join the fight, all hope for the villagers were lost.
After a long struggle all of the village guards and hunters were killed, making the rest of the villagers being killed by the Purple Hyena guild.
[Soul Lantern has collected 89 souls.]
"Did you checked the houses already?" – asked ClownFrog.
"Yea. Nobody is left. We manage to get everybody!" – replied Oron.
"Good!"
"Anyway, are you two, okay? You look worn out." – said ClownFrog.
"Y-yea…. Maybe? No…. No. There way more of them than I though and they were much stronger that the previous guys that tried to fight us." – said Shri.
"Agree…. I almost freaking died fighting these hunters…. There is big difference between fighting monsters and NPCs and now I know that first hand, they are thinking like players. Fuck me…. I need to drink a potion or two." – said GreyHunt all beaten up from the long fight.
"Yeb. Oh god…. It would be good if we had a healer or something in party if we plan on doing something like that again." – said Shri after sitting down exhausted.
"Anyway, now we have all the souls, right? Can we go back now? I want to log out and finally take rest." – said Shri.
"Yea. We confirmed that everybody got killed. Let's go back." – said ClownFrog.