All the runes in the array began making sense, for example she could pin point the rune that meant containment, and the one meaning transfer. Looking at how long she had until her shroud wore off, she noticed that she only had a minute left.
Hurrying towards the array, there were two level 6 Hobgoblin guards standing just outside it. Acting quickly, she summoned her wings and struck the closest one with her wing, sending him flying.
[-120]
Casting [Unholy Chains] to keep him away for a minute. The Hobgoblin town roared with fury, as onlookers noticed her attacking their guards. Bringing her wings down, she shattered the stone that part of the array was crafted on, breaking it apart.
Noami sprung into action, her fighting spirit invigorated at the sight of her prison breaking apart. Crackles of dark purple lightning emitted as she struck down the other Hobgoblin guard.
Before her [Unholy Chains] could run out on the other guard, she dived towards him and struck him down, killing him in seconds.
[You have slain a Level 6 Hobgoblin]
[You have gained 150 exp]
'That's half of what I would've gained in the Town of Beginnings. I guess that way it'd discourage people from slaughtering weaker groups.' She thought.
"Can you fly?" Elya asked the weather Druid, eyeing the horde of hobgoblins rushing towards them at a fast speed.
"Yes I can but not very fast." She responded, unfurling her dark green wings, Elya noticed a difference to other Misbegotten Druids wings compared to hers. They were mostly like the others except with dark purple lightning looking lines spread throughout.
Taking flight, they both began the journey towards the tree city. However, before they could get far, a loud whoosh zoomed passed her, narrowly missing her. Looking backwards, she saw the Hobgoblins had brought out a net launcher made entirely of dark wood.
"They are starving to death but they have a net launcher, yeah makes sense." She mumbled angrily, swerving to the side to avoid another shot. Glancing at Naomi, she saw a net about to hit her but she was too injured to fly any faster. In response, she cast [Runic Shield] on her.
The net hit her shield and fell down to the floor as it slid off. The shield fizzled out as they both began putting more distance between the catapults. With the crisis averted, and the quest completed she checked her status.
[In-game Name: Fallen Heretic
Race: Human
Level: 10
Exp: 750/2,000
Class: Occult Ravanger
Bloodline: Lesser Fallen Angel
Stats:
Hp: 670/670
MP: 590/590
Strength: 21
Endurance: 34
Agility: 26
Speed: 26
Intelligence: 32
Wisdom: 31
Skill Points: 0
Bloodline Traits:
-Fallen Wings
Other Traits:
-Innate Arcane Magic (Demonic)
Skills (5/10):
-Runic Sight Lvl 1
-Unholy Chains Lvl 1
-Life Drain Lvl 1
-Feather Storm Lvl 1
-Demonic Eye lvl 1
Class skills (3/5):
-Death's hand Lvl 1
-Ebony Whip Lvl 1
-Battlefield's Wrath Lvl 1
Inventory: 5/20 (Upgradable)
-Lvl 1 Arcane Spellbook (Starter) x1
-Rat's entrails (Common) x5
-Bloodthirsty Dagger (Uncommon) x1
-Tainted Angel Feather (Extraordinary) x1
-Ghastly Glass pendant (Unique) x1]
Currency:
-2 Silver coins
-50 Bronze coins.
'2,000 exp to level once? That's a drastic jump from before, but I guess it'll weed out those who don't put in as much effort as others. And I need to sell those Rat's entrails and I'll keep the Arcane Spell book for now until I get a better shield spell, since the [Arcane Burst]'s damage had stopped scaling to her intelligence stat.' She began thinking of a plan of everything she needed to do.
Landing in the city, she watched an emotional reunion between the two girls, involving a lot of crying and hugging.
"Thank you," Turning around, she saw the leader of the city addressing her. Humming, she acknowledged his gratitude.
"We would've helped if we could, but we couldn't expend enough warriors to recover one girl from a whole town of Hobgoblins. How'd you even get past them all?" He asked her.
"An item." She responded to him.
"Oh okay. Here you go, to show my sincerity." Opening his hand, he offered her three silver pieces and a couple of bronze ones. Not turning down free money she took it.
[+3 silver coins and 40 bronze coins].
The leader walked off. Exploring the city some more, she found a shop labelled as a butchers and decided to see if she could sell the Rat's entrails. The butcher decided to buy the entrails off her for 5 bronze in total, as he didn't know if it would taste good since it's not from around here.
[+5 bronze coins].
'Not like I'm going to need it anyway, might as well just take the money.' She thought.
Heading out, she saw something that she never expected to see. Standing in the crowd, returning a lost flying cat thing to an older woman was Alex. The model Alex. He had obsidian horns sprouting from his head and scales in some parts of his face but it was undeniably him.
'Why is he everywhere. Is this why he quit modelling? To play ascended. And out of the many spawn places, he's in the same continent, same Kingdom, same island and the same city. What are the chances?' She thought, debating whether she should talk to him. Deciding not to, she turned around before the stupidly attractive guy saw her.
"Elya?" His voice rang crisp in the air, like everything else quieted down for her to be able to hear him.