Playing in hard mode
Chapter 16: a difficult mission 4
Raxar's point of view.
Hello I am raxar leader of the blue scale, the scales are a grouping of up to 1000 xenos, of any variant, there are three variants of xenos, the squamates, the nagas, the carapaces.
The squamates are lizards like the dragons of comfortable, but bipedal, their limbs are long and robust in addition to a long tail that serves to not lose balance because as bipedal as they are the squamates are still with the spine widely humpbacked, mostly do not use weapons for any work because the no claws allow them to use them with skill in return their claws are like sharp knives, because the scaly xenos specialize in melee and water, ice and earth magic there are also other specialties for shamans but mostly are these affinities, it is common to see also summoners and lizard shepherds, or some classes that mix magic and melee combat the teeth a great weapon can also generate poison or not depending on the class apart from the damage they do.
Nagas are creatures half snake and humanoid appearance, snake tails and from the waist up are like those of a normal human, with the difference of having scales on the sides of the belly, in the part of the breasts or breasts also, as well as in the sensitive parts of the neck and ears. The ears have a shape like that of an elf, but less long and thinner, the eyes of a snake, but about human size, they have more breadth of work as they use all kinds of weapons from bows, spears, swords and shield, whips, tridents, nets and more. In addition to having an affinity for water, ice, air magic, their magic in these attributes surpass the scaly ones.
The carapace xenos are creatures very similar to the scaly xenos, with the difference that they have a shell on their backs like those of turtles, as well as legs, arms and short neck almost attached to the shell, but the strange thing is that they can stretch these limbs at will when there is trouble.
They are the slowest on land, but the fastest in water. They are good in the use of long weapons, such as halberds, staffs, spears and tridents in the distance they prefer crossbows.
I rexar chose a profession of master summoner, a SSR rank class as far as I know I am the only one with such a rare class, my first skill was reptile summoning, the second command and the third was hard skin.
The reptile summoning is a SSR rank skill that makes appear up to 20 reptiles of the same level that attack everything that is in front of them, for my fortune I managed to get the command skill that allows me to command the nearby reptiles, by combining these two skills I become very scary, and hard skin is a skill that I just got in this dungeon, and is proving its usefulness although it is a rank A skill is very good that allows me to block this pair of madwomen who do not stop attacking me.
A how do we get to this point, where two missions intersect, two races in conflict and the same objective. well this is due to a mission I received yesterday.
Yesterday while exploring the map near the city of the ancestors, after exterminating a group of bald-headed Lycaon, a very aggressive type of dogs.
When I entered this dungeon I got a message warning me to leave this place, because if I continued I could not leave attack complete the mission or I run out of lives, I was informed that possibly here, you will find some remains of the goddess of the day.
I went back to the city and gathered my scale which was approximately 115 scale xenos. I did not want to include the other types of xenos in my scale because I believed that the scale xenos were the best and did not need help from the other lineages.
When we entered the mission it was C rank, we immediately faced many, but many angry rats, I used my ability to summon lizards that I can only use every 6 hours, to avoid deaths of my scale members.
When we finished with the rats, after three hours of battle a message appeared saying that the player lisa of the silver elves had killed the player alexander of the scale xenos.
The rescue mission of the goddess becomes a B rank mission, you have 5 hours to rescue the weakened goddess of the day. The gods nix and Érebos watch their heralds.
Then I found out that the mission of the elves at first was rank B and then when we met it became rank A, I guess it was because of the number of our troops, I had 100 and they had 25.
We were tired, we had just finished with the rats with minimal casualties and now we had to defeat the elves, apart from that we had to finish to get the fragment of the goddess, we could not even collect the reward chests or the gold lying on the ground, I left 15 players digging to get the item and the rest of us went for the elves to forget that first encounter.
I was on my way to intercept the elves in the alley, I needed to buy time for my men to secure the shard first.
But when I got to the place I saw a bear that was charging in my direction, I tried to hit him, like a normal beast, but that creature made a feint, he made the gesture of attacking with his right paw when I tried to throw him over my shoulder, he was already biting my head, he did not let go of me until he killed me.
Then I came back to the entrance of the cave, I hurried to reinforce my people, but when I arrived the elves were already in a big dome, I wanted to go to the bear, but in front were two maniacs, laughing in the middle of a slaughterhouse, slaughtering my brothers, as if they were nothing Alexander had just died again at the hands of the woman with white hair and halberd, I jumped in their direction.
I managed to stop their advance, but it was not enough, I clashed directly with the woman who had twin swords, I dodged her sabers and even gave a kick and then a tail in succession, when I was getting ready to finish off that woman, another one stuck her halberd in my thigh preventing me from moving, then she attacked with a wave of blows with her bare hands full of fury, I died again.
This time I calmed down I could not hurry I met with my brothers who were already around 30 and went to battle the plan was to finish off the women and the bear, then the rest, I knew they had to be the best warriors of the elves.
Before we left for battle, I asked Rayaan, the best water healer I knew, to assist in this task. The rest of the team had to eliminate the bear and the dancer and give us cover as quickly as possible.
We faced them, but their support did not stop dancing and singing, she also threw a magic that stunned my allies, when the shamans aimed at her, this elusive woman turned on her heels, or contorted, even executed graceful somersaults or simple dance steps to avoid direct attacks. While this was happening I was facing these two terrifying women, I dodged their attacks one after another and another, the point of inflation was the moment I took the halberd of the white-haired woman and that same weapon I used to block the incoming attack of a curved blade, then kick the white woman between the ribs, then bite the other to death, great was my surprise when I tried to close my jaw, I was already flying through the air, apparently I received a kick at the height of the ear, It was the woman with the twin blades, when I stopped for a moment to observe the situation, the woman with the halberd was already flying over my head, she had a potion in her mouth, already empty, holding her halberd at the end of its handle then lowered it, while she deployed a foot in the direction where the blow of the blade fell, I rolled on the ground to dodge the offensive and I got up as soon as possible to lunge only to find the blade of a halberd in my face, if I survived it was because of tough skin.
My face almost landed on the ground, fortunately I managed to get up to light speed to hit the woman, I failed, because the damn bitch leaned her body to evade me, I must say that it didn't work, with the other hand I squeezed her shoulder, I wrapped my tail around her waist and pulled her to make her fall, the plan worked, I could kill her, however a spell of charm on me, I was stunned for a millisecond, because almost immediately my healer removed the effect, but I had lost my chance. I don't know how she did it, but the woman far from trying to get away from me released her weapon and bit me in the jugular, I tried to push her away, but her legs were burning me from the waist, I tried to hit her, but her left arm was already wrapped around my right arm, I tried to hit her with my free hand, but she withstood a few blows without power. I tried to stand up taking advantage of my anatomy, but the damned one, prevented it with her legs no, I spent a lot to be again at the entrance of the cave, you wonder what happened to the rest of the team that were eliminated by the bear and the dancer. While my support gave a hard fight against the other woman until she managed to snatch her weapons, but as soon as that madwoman ran out of weapons, her eyes turned red and her attacks went from being a martial artist to a beast, In less than a second the poor water healer was on the ground while taking the form of a ball on the ground, but that did not save him, he died in the middle of a flurry of blows.
I already lost three lives I could not lose more, with the 36 players who appeared at my side, I told them this time the 35 of you attack women just have to buy time I will take care of the bear and shamans be attentive Makoto take care of the dancer at the slightest opportunity.