Chapter 12: Attack on Stone Mountain 1
On a morning day, the sun started to rise and cool air was crossing through Nexus City, and birds were making a sound of chirp-chirp.
Then,
30 minutes after morning, Ash started to wake from sleep, he sees that Evan was already awake, Ash thinks in his mind "evan didn't dare to wake me because evan thought I should rest more.
After all,
Their journey to Stone Mountain would not be easy—they have to take care of many things and deal with monsters.
So,
Evan just waited for me to wake up by self."
Then Ash opened his eyes in a sleepy state. Afterward, he talked with Evan, and Ash said to Evan, "How are you feeling after waking up?" and Evan said, " Very good, my lord." with small smile on his face.
Again,
Ash nodded with normal face.
After that, he said, "Let's freshen up and meet with Ram and eat some meat, and then we'll start our journey to the Stone Mountain, where we have to deal with some monsters and take care of stone mining for our future use. And if everything goes well, then we'll have our first house and market in the city."
Then,
Ash thought in his mind about how many bullets he has to use to deal with this kind of monster. After that, Ash said, "My window," in his mind.
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Name: Ash (Altar Owner)
Age: 24
Status: Healthy
Abilities: None
Level: 1 (0/100 Mana Mist Level 1)
Weapon: Low Grade Gun, 10 bullets, Low Grade Knife
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Ash, after seeing the pop-up window in front of him
He thinks that he only had 10 bullets left. After using bullets, he would have to fight with a knife, so he thinks he has to increase his level at minimum to Level 2 for more protection and increase Evan's level to Level 1.
After thinking deeply,
he and Evan started to do their morning work and freshen their mood.
And then they went toward the altar to meet Ram and see how his injury was doing, and asked if he wanted to eat with them.
In the altar,
Ash and Evan met Ram and Ash asked Ram if he wanted some food or anything else for his health. After that, he asked, "How's your injury?"
After some minutes,
Ram answered Ash, "My injury is healing quickly. After 4 days I will be able to walk in the city normally. And please send some food to eat, I haven't eaten any food for 2 weeks."
Ash nodded and he said to Ram, "Okay, we will give you the food after we cook our food. Evan and I are going out of the city for stone mining, and you have to take care of the city."
Ram said to Ash, "Okay, don't worry. I can detect all parts of the city during my meditation, and if anyone attacks, I can take care of that. If a new person comes, then you have to return to deal with him."
Ash said, "Okay" with smile on his face.
After that, Ash said to evan, "Let's cook our food," and both Evan and Ash go toward the place where Evan has put the food. After that, both starts cooking food in a simple way.
After 30 minutes,
Both Ash and Evan had eaten their food, so Ash said to Evan, "I will go and give the food to Ram and you rest here for some time."
Evan said, "Okay, my lord" with normal voice and smile on his face.
Later, 10 minutes,
Ash met with Ram and distributed the food and said, "Here is your food. Eat it; otherwise, it will become cold." After saying this, Ash departed from the altar and went toward the direction of Evan.
And then both of them met each other.
After that, he said to him, "Let's rest for some time and depart toward Stone Mountain. Before that, prepare all supplies for this trip."
Evan said, "Okay" with normal face.
Again, both began to prepare supplies for the trip. After they rested for 30 minutes,
Then, they began to go outside the city. After traveling for 40 minutes and meeting various monsters, they finally saw the Stone Mountain, where Evan finally saw the monster that occupied Stone Mountain, i.e.,
STONE RAT (Low-Grade Monster)
Rank: F-rank
Level: 1
Description: A small, rodent-like rat with oversized fangs capable of chewing through wood, leather, and even weak armor. It moves in packs, using its numbers to overwhelm prey and is mostly found in Stone Mountain.
Abilities:
Fast Reproduction – If not culled quickly, their numbers explode.
Gnawing Instinct – Can chew through doors, weak barriers, or ropes to escape traps.
Cowardly but Aggressive – Fights only when cornered or in large groups.
Weakness: Weak to fire and blunt attacks. Easily scared by loud noises.
STONE RAT (Low-Grade Monster)
Rank: F-rank
Level: 0
Description: A small, rodent-like rat with oversized fangs capable of chewing through wood, leather, and even weak armor. It moves in packs, using its numbers to overwhelm prey and is mostly found in Stone Mountain.
Abilities:
Fast Reproduction – If not culled quickly, their numbers explode.
Gnawing Instinct – Can chew through doors, weak barriers, or ropes to escape traps.
Cowardly but Aggressive – Fights only when cornered or in large groups.
Weakness: Weak to fire and blunt attacks. Easily scared by loud noises.
And other stone rat is probably level 0.
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After 30 minutes,
Ash and Evan, looking at the number of Stone Rats again, finally confirmed the number of stone monsters is 12, where Level 1 monsters are 2 and Level 0 monsters are 10.
After getting this number, and confirming it matches Ash's count yesterday,
They started planning the attack on the territory of the Stone Rats. After all, they were in Stone Mountain, and the monsters are very dangerous in groups. If they are mining the stone mountain and the rats come in a group, it's dangerous. So, they planned to attack single monsters if they found one alone. After all, they can't underestimate two Level 1 monsters if they want to live in this world.
And,
They started spying on the stone monsters. If some monster came out of the Stone Mountain, they would deal with them. But the two Level 1 monsters were not going out of the Stone Mountain, so they were waiting for one of them to leave. They would finish that monster first. After that, the conquest of the Stone Mountain would be easier.
After 3 hours,
They dealt with 3 Stone Rat monsters of Level 0.
Again,
30 minutes later,
Ash and Evan saw that one Level 1 Stone Rat was getting out of the Stone Mountain. They started to follow that monster. After following for 20 minutes, they were in a forest of lush trees with long vines, and Stone Mountain was very far.
So,
They decided to sneak up on the Level 1 Stone Rat. After 10 minutes, Ash shot a bullet from far away that hit the stomach of the monster. The Stone Rat took a defensive position and came to attack Ash.
At that moment,
Evan took a stone and hit the head of the Stone Rat. The rat saw him with blood-red eyes.
It looked at Evan as if its eyes could swallow him alive without a hint of mercy and quickly moved in his direction.
Evan prepared with his axe to fight to the death with the Stone Rat.
At that moment,
Ash used his gun and triggered 3 bullet shots toward the Stone Rat. All 3 shots directly hit its head, and finally, it died without knowing how it died.
After that, Ash took its mana core from the Stone Rat and
Then, he said "status," and a window popped up...
City: Nexus City
Ability: Territory Defense Double
Description: In the event of city defense, all attack power and defense power of people and buildings become double.
Altar Level: 0
Upgrade Requirement: (Woods ×1000, Stone ×250, Mana Core Level 0 ×50)
Production: Mist Mana Level 0 ×10 per day
Area: 625 square meters
Status: Very Small Village
Building: Guide Mark ×1 (Active)
Warehouse: Wood ×114, Mana Core Level 0 ×14, Mana Core Level 1 ×1, Rabbit Monster Hide Level 0 ×11, Rabbit Monster Hide Level 1 ×1, Low Grade Market Blueprint (Stones ×200, Woods ×50), Low Grade House Blueprint (Stones ×100, Woods ×25)
Population: 3
Specialty: None
Attack Power Level: 0 (500/1000)
Description: City's power level to attack enemies
Defense Power Level: 0 (750/10000)
Description: City's defense power level against enemies
After that,
Ash, seeing his status window, thought the increase in defense and attack power was a very good sign that the city is progressing in a good direction. But he thought the changes were very small, and he would have to work more for the progress of the city and for his safety.
They only collected the mana core from the Stone Rat because the other parts of the Stone Rat were not valuable or usable to them.