And after 3 days, the notification for the start of stage 2 arrived.
[ STAGE 2
MONSTERS WILL COME SWARMING, DEFEND YOURSELVES
DIFFICULTY - F
TIME LIMIT - 1 HOUR
REWARD - 5000 COINS
PENALTY UPON FAILURE - DEATH ]
Every team had gathered in the middle of the safe zone. Even when the safe zone was about to disappear, James wasn't there. Only some members of his team were present there.
"Surviving for a whole hour is going to be tough for a lot of people as I can see here. Their stats are all single digits. We better help them a bit."
The moment the safe zone disappeared, the leaders of the teams ordered their members to come with them with force.
Hana reached out to Adwin and asked him, "What should we do now?"
"...Well the objective of the stage is to survive not kill, we just need to stay safe for an hour. It is said that monsters will come swarming and only means that their main target will be to kill us. So tell your people to stay in the building and cover any openings from where monsters might come. We will...defend."
"Got it!" She went back to her team and told them to do as Adwin said. "Everyone the main objective of the stage is to be safe from monsters for an hour, so get inside the building and close any openings like the door and windows!"
"Hey Adwin. What monsters do you think might come?"
"...Since it is still an early stage we can assume that the monsters will either be like those fish we saw or just some other low level ones. But still we can't be overconfident...and get ourselves killed. The most important thing in a fight is the strategy." He took a deep breath and continued. "Just make sure to not let any monsters pass by this area and we will be good."
"... If you say so." Daniel chuckles and goes in the front while un-sheathing his sword.
[WARNING! F-RANK MONSTERS 'MUTANT ZOMBIE RODENTS' ARE COMING IN LARGE NUMBERS]
"After its rank rose up I can know what monsters are coming huh...time to get ready!"
Adwin drew out his sword and shield and gave Hana a thumbs up.
Seeing the signal she also got ready and charged up the spell.
A red magic circle appeared infront of her. Even though it was the most basic spell of fire magic, it was not be underestimated since the one using it was one of the geniuses of now a game like world.
"Footsteps!...there they come!. Hana now!"
A ball of flame pierced striked directly in the area from where the footsteps was coming. The screeches of the rodents could be heard in the whole area. Even though they were double the size of an average human, they couldn't do anything against fire.
[NUMBER OF MUTANT ZOMBIE RODENTS - 27/30]
"Damn! With just one attack there were down. Now Daniel and I just gotta kill one or two and it's game over!"
Adwin rushed towards Daniel who was fighting a rodent caught on fire. Its tail was burning so it was quite easy to kill for Daniel.
[NUMBER OF MUTANT ZOMBIE RODENTS - 25/30]
"Hana! Make sure to watch the right side."
"Got it sir!"
Another fire ball hit directly at the group of 4 rodents monsters coming from the right side.
[NUMBER OF MUTANT ZOMBIE RODENTS - 20/30]
With continuous strikes both Adwin and Daniel has killed 10 rodent monsters with all they had. They lured the ten remaining ones in one place and at last Hana charges up a huge fire ball that gets them on fire. Adwin and Daniel kill them with the sword just after when their health was low.
[The Great General Of War Is Impressed By Your Strategy And Rewards You With 500 Coins]
[The Serpent Who Encircles The Whole World Rewards You With 500 Coins]
"Thanks for the reward guys!"
Adwin and Daniel were panting heavily after the fight, but it was worth it.
"Very well guys! Those rodents were nothing but small fry."
"Yeah! Well that was all because of Adwin's plan, right?"
"Don't praise me too much man. If you two weren't here then nobody could've done this so easily."
Adwin took a deep breath and sat on the ground.
[TIME LEFT : 2:12]
"Sheesh!...that was scary. Now just two minutes are left and this is all over. By 'Perception' skill also went up by 8% huh!...now it looks like that it won't go up by a large number. Now let's check how much EXP I got."
[Congratulations you have earned 12 EXP]
"12? So 1 EXP per this mutant rodent monsters huh! I need 20 EXP to get 1 skill point, I guess next time."
[Congratulations you have completed stage 2]
[RANKINGS OF STAGE 2
1. JAMES MICHEL
2. DANIEL LEE & ADWIN RAY
3. HANA LEE
4. GEORGE STOKES
5. HYUN-SEUNG PARK]
[CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAVE RECIEVED 5000 COINS]
[DUE TO ACHIEVING SECOND PLACE IN THE RANKINGS OF STAGE 2 YOU HAVE RECEIVED AN ADDITIONAL AMOUNT OF 1000 COINS]
[Current Survivors : 71]
"James...Michel. He got first rank...and it looks like those guys had many casualties. It was expected seeing their behaviour that was not so good. In a team coordination and trust is most important no matter what."
"Adwin there he is...James."
Adwin looked towards the long road covered by a slight mist. The man coming in the front was James. He had wavy blonde hair and green eyes, a pretty boy; wearing a white shirt tucked in a black chinos.
[Name – James Michel
Age – 24
Title - N/A
Strength - 16
Agility - 20
Endurance - 10
Defense - 8
MP - 6
Skills - Berserker (Lv.2), Beginner-Level Swordsmanship (Lv.2)
James Michel Accardi. The illegitimate son of Italian billionaire, Vincenzo Accardi. James has been a smart and ideal son from the start. He had a half-sister, Alessia Accardi, who went missing 2 months ago.
...Skill level is too low to find out more...]
"James...so he is also one of the geniuses in this now game like world."
James slowly glanced them while he passed by them to their building.
"James...I will definitely need you to be on my team now. Your berserker skill seems very useful."
[Berserker : An active that needs MP to activate. It temporarily increases all the stats of the user by 5...
(Your skill level is too low to get further information)]
Adwin got up and took his sword from the ground.
"All done now let's go back and prepare for the stage 3 that seems to start very soon."
[Time left for the start of Stage 2 : 2:23:20:21]