Chapter 24: Preparation for Evan's Upgrade 3
After seeing the status of the altar, Ash finds how much more resources he needed for all his plans i.e., for city upgrade and red pill, house: stone * 340, wood * 986, mana-core (mana point) * 57.
Few minutes of thinking in his mind,
Ash and Robin started to find new prey for their resource requirement, and Ash only takes mana cores from slayed bear monsters because more weight creates problems for their hunting.
And Ash's first goal is to take care of the city's mana-core requirement. After that, he will consider other resources.
30 minutes of traveling, Ash and Robin find a suitable monster for slaying because they are alone, and Ash sees the status of this monster.
A window pops up in front of Ash
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Big Goat (Low-Grade Monster)
Rank: F-rank
Level: 1
Description: A big goat with a sharp mouth capable of chewing through wood, leather, but prefers to mostly eat trees and plants. It prefers to live in a pack, and female big goats are capable of birthing 12 children in a year.
Abilities: none
Fast Reproduction – If not culled quickly, their numbers explode.
Weakness - fire and sharp attacks.
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After a few attacks by Robin and Ash, this monster started to think of fleeing, but every time the big goat tries to flee, Ash and Robin attack it with full power. After a few more attempts by the monster to flee but not able to, it started to attack Ash rashly because the monster thinks Ash is easier to deal with compared to Robin. But the monster's attempt also fails because Ash counter-attacks it with his knife on its neck, and the big goat is successfully badly injured, and from its neck green blood is flowing quickly. Then Robin also attacked the big goat on its neck with his axe. Quickly after that, the big goat's head is out of its body from a few meters of distance.
After that, Ash took the mana-core from the big goat's body. And he started to see if a new monster comes because of the smell of blood.
A few minutes later, because of no response from monsters, Ash and Robin decided to roam the forest to find new prey.
Some sightseeing later, Ash and Robin find two level 0 monsters.
Ash tries to see the status of this monster.
A new pop-up in front of him.
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Dark Pig (Low-Grade Monster)
Rank: F-rank
Level: 0
Description: A dark pig with a big mouth capable of eating anything in its level, mostly prefers to live in dark places or places where they do not get sunlight because in dark places, they get 20 to 40% boost in their power, and sunlight strength decreases. It prefers to live in a pack, and female dark pigs are capable of birthing 8 children in 6 months.
Abilities: none
Fast Reproduction – If not culled quickly, their numbers explode.
Weakness - sharp attacks.
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They killed the monster without any problem because their strength is more compared to level 0 monsters.
After that, they again started to find a new monster for hunting. But their luck is not good because, after 30 minutes of finding, they did not find any suitable monsters since all the monsters they found are in packs or with 3 to 5 level 1s together.
So, they aren't able to hunt any monster.
After 15 minutes more of searching, they find a monster pack where only eight level 0 monsters are there.
After some consideration, Ash and Robin decided to kill these monsters.
So, they decide to employ kill-and-run tactics because the terrain is in their favor.
Robin decides to go kill the monsters in their nest because his level is higher than Ash, so he can tolerate some mistakes compared to Ash.
And Ash will wait for him with his knife to kill the monsters that are after Robin.
Robin quickly and cautiously gets into the monster's nest, and he hides himself from the monsters. After some time, Robin starts to kill monsters one by one. After he killed three monsters, the smell of monster blood increased in the nest even with Robin's efforts to control the blood's smell. After some consideration, Robin decided to get out of the nest because it would create unnecessary injury to him. So, he exits the nest quickly. After that, he stands in front of the nest because he wants to make the monsters come for him.
A few seconds later, the monsters became aware of Robin's killing of their kind in their nest. After seeing Robin standing in front of their nest, these monsters started to flee into the forest without attacking Robin. After he sees the monsters fleeing from him, he decides to kill some monsters. After catching up with the monsters, Robin is only able to kill 2 monsters, and 3 monsters fled from their nest.
Robin thinks he should not underestimate the monsters' survival skills. They know Robin is a level 2 person, so they flee without thinking any further. If these monsters had attacked instead of fleeing, Robin would have to flee in the direction of Ash. After all, Robin was a butler by profession in his previous altar, so his combat skill is not good.
Robin goes in the direction of Ash, and he tells all the facts about how he dealt with the monsters.
Ash said to Robin,
"We learn from mistakes. Here our mistake—we overestimated the courage of level 0 monsters against a level 2 person. But overestimating the enemy is better than underestimating the enemy because in this case, we could die because of this mistake."
After that, Ash said to Robin,
"We can find new monsters to hunt, so don't feel bad about it."
Robin nodded, "Okay, my lord."
After, Ash and Robin started to go to the deeper region of the forest to find prey, but they did not find suitable prey in the region. However, frequent encounters with groups of level 0 and level 1 monsters increased. After 30 minutes of searching,
they find a level 2 monster sleeping in its den, and its aura is very suffocating for Ash, and Robin is also very fearful of this monster because he can feel if he fights with this monster, he will die without question.
Ash tries to see its status.
A window pops up in front of his eyes.
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Flying Tiger (Mid-Grade Monster)
Rank: -?
Level: ?
Description: A powerful predator in the monster hierarchy. Be cautious when it sees you. ????
Abilities: ?
Weakness: ?
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They are lucky the monster is sleeping, so both Ash and Robin quickly fled silently from the deeper region of the forest.
After that, Ash said to Robin,
"We should return to the city. After all, we got enough mana-core for purchasing the red-pill for Evan, and they are tired after hunting monsters."
Robin also nodded with Ash, and he said, "My lord, we have to fight the monsters in the city too, so going to the city now is also very good."
After that, both Robin and Ash started their journey to the city. After 30 minutes of travel, they safely enter the city, but they also hunted two level 0 monsters in their 30 minutes of traveling.
And Ash also tries to see the status of these monsters. i.e.,
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Ostrich (Low-Grade Monster)
Rank: F-rank
Level: 0
Description: It has tall legs for fast running, but their defense is very low. It attacks its enemy with its legs, its legs' nails, and head. Not a powerful monster in the monster hierarchy but a fast runner in case of danger. In some places, they are used for transportation by taming them.
Abilities: Run fast
Weakness - fire and sharp attacks and poison.
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After entering the city, he decided to calculate his gain, so he "status window"
A window pops up in front of him.
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City: Nexus City
Ability: Territory defense double
Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power and defense power of people and buildings become double.
Altar level: 0
Upgrade requirement: (wood * 1000, stone * 250, 50 * mana core (level 0))
Production: mist mana level 0 * 10 per day
Area: 625 square meters
Status: very small village
Mana (money): 62
Tax (from market & city): 0 * mana-mist level
Building: Guide mark * 1 (active), Market (5 free trade per day)
Blueprint: low-grade house (stone * 100, wood * 25)
Warehouse: wood * 39, Rabbit monster hide level 0 * 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1 * 1, Stone * 10
Population: 4
Specialty: Mana tree (produces level 0 mana * 4 per day)
Resource point: Stone Mountain level 1 (310 * mined /1000 all stone mineable in new mine)
Attack power level: 0 (925/1000)
Description: City's power level to attack enemies
Defense power level: 0 (6000/10000)
Description: City's defense power level against enemies.
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After that, Ash notices the city's defense and attack power increase and total mana points. The city's mana-point is 62, which is more than enough for the red pill.
So, he decided to go to the market-building with Robin.