Cole agreeing to help was well within his calculations. There would never have been a way for Cole to have taken on the entre work of the glade by himself. At least this way his help could pretty much be considered a peace offering. He quickly go into the glade and made his way to one of the pillars where he proceeded to deliver his wood into the glade's inventory and the mana cores were also absorbed. With what was needed going to complete the requirements to upgrade it.
But it was in looking closer that he realized there were already 8 Bronze prisms there, he didn't hesitate to add up to the remaining two. Pleasantly surprised that they had completed the upgrade requirements. There was a loud gong, it reverberated across the entire atmosphere as a surge of energy went through the glade.
Cole shook in response to the surge of energy that rippled across the glade it almost looked as if the Glade was brighter or perhaps more beautiful, but Cole could not be sure. He shifted his attention to the others present, and noticed that just like him they were all little bit surprised by the change.
But ultimately they still had to get themselves stones before the glade would be ready to level up. Which means as it stand now they had to deal with the darkling nest and get to a stone resource in order to achieve that? There was no time to waste about it then. Cole turned to Farida as he marched towards the only other person he was familiar with here.
"You would be responsible for organizing everyone else, we don't know yet how a cradle facility would work on this floor, so let us be as careful as we can possibly be. I would not be held responsible for the spent lives of anybody here. Never the less, I will need you guys to bring your battle ready face and keep any of the stragglers off me.
These things are deceptively fast and extremely vicious to boot. We have to be careful, I exp0ect the nest would be like a dungeon of some sorts. I would say we should party up, but I detest working with you losers and we are already a faction, loads well than a part. We can work out the kinks from then on out…now any questions?" Cole asked as he pulled out his resource compass and took a look at it for the first time while everyone else shook their head no.
The compass was round like all compasses but it had four separated sides. Blue for magic, grey for stone and green for wood and then a black for nests. In each of those sides there were dials that were pointed in different directions, except of course for the wood dial that was rotating round and round really fast, proof that the compass was working and there was an abundance of wood around them,
Cole focused on the nest dial and chuckled as it seemed to roll in only a particular direction. But regardless of what that direction was, Cole knew that was where he would find the nest and probably the stone resource that the glade needed to go up a rank. In a manner of speaking, he was beginning to realize that it would be hard to go through this floor solo as it no longer seems to be a solo race.
And honestly as he made his way in the direction his compass was pointing, he realized that perhaps he did approach the event switching things up a bit. Not that he was tired of the way the first and second floors had been. They had their advantages, but it seemed to him that this events and the floors were a lesson or perhaps a crucifix that the people of earth would have to go through as they prepare for the complete and total subjugation of earth into a digital universe.
He slipped out into the forest again, this time he was not alone as Farida and Xerxes99 brought up the rear with the remaining three people. They would be getting an influx of new players soon enough and before that would happen Cole had to make sure a pecking order of sorts was already established.
"This area is particular populated by the Chitterling Darklings. I can feel almost a dozen of them hiding within the shadows of the first few trees outside the glade in this area. So probably the nest is in this direction and is pretty much closer than we thought. You guys should form a circle, there's five of you so you can walk back to back.
If there is a caster put them in the middle and let them offer support, this challenge is designed for more people than we have available so let's be careful. This is not a push towards the nest, rather this is a test to see if it's possible for us to handle this challenge at our current numbers." Cole said to them as he nodded his head.
"What if we can't handle the challenge?" a middle age orc? Orc like elf? Man asked him as Cole shrugged in response, before sighing and deciding to answer him.
"If we can't push through here, then we will have to back off, recoup and try to look for another alternative. And if there is nothing viable we would continue gathering other resources and wait until we have enough numbers to tackle the nest. Now watch you six you are about to be ambushed!"
Scarcely had Cole finished talking when the chitterlings attacked. But he had still been able to let off a warning in time to get them prepared for the attack that was coming their way. Cole watched surprised as the orc man began to fire off bolts of lightning from his fingertips. And there was enough power behind those strikes that even Cole himself was not sure he would be able to face off against it, he was literally once shotting the darklings before the others had a chance to attack, and it seemed as if he had an inexhaustible supply of those lightning bolts.
But there was enough chitterlings to go around. As Cole ducked down a leap from behinc a curtain of shadows.it wad almost as if he had eyes in the back of his head and that shocked those who were paying attention to him. He pulled out his sword and lobbed a [Chaos Blast] into the confines of a tree were quite a few of the chitterlings were gathered.
He slashed upwards, cleaving a chittering in two as he slashed aound in a circle, using [Black Cut] to augment the strike that left a circular wave of energy around his body. It dissipated quicky enough as Coe had tried to limit the energy he had infused into the strike. He grabbed a chiteering out of the air then ducked down to evade as two of them flew over his had. [Sin Eater] worked faster for these things.
There were made of energy, though the boost they gave was Paltry as it barely put a dent in Cole's entire reserved. He threw out another [Chaos Blast] blasting apart another ground of them hanging around the shadows of the trees around them. To Cole it seemd as if they were forming themselves from the shadows of the trees before jumping out to attack them.
"You guys have to retreat back to the glade. We would not be able to deal with them so it would be best to approach from another direction, or just focus on getting as much of the other resources as possible for making a play for the nest once again." Cole's suggestion amongst the din and cacophony of the fight came as a relief as two of them had already been contemplating retreating at the sheer sight of the Chitterlings.
Coe lobbed one final ball [Chaos Blast] before running and using [Shadow Dance] to cross the distance between the entrance of the glade. Appearing in and out of shdaows as he took out Chitterlings that would have other wise stopped the rest of them from escaping. They made it to the entrance and got in, before Cole reapeaared and stepp right through, giving the forest bejind him a wary look as he noticed something the size of ahorse move through the trees, the9r eerie glow of the chitterings eyes peering through them.
it fifnt matter to him tough, soon he would be dealing with all of this things and he would be the best. this was a promise
· GLADE: [Solitude] RANK: [Bronze I] TYPE: [N/A] MAYOR: [N/A]
· CLASS: [N/A] ENERGY: [1000/1000] GLADE POINTS: 0/10
· STATS: [Attack: Bronze I(0/10)] [Defense: Bronze I(0/10)] [Production: Bronze I(0/10)]
· SKILLS: [Attack:] [Defense: (Passive Health Regeneration)] [Production:]
· RESOURCES: [WOOD: 0] [STONE: 0] [ORE: 0] [MAGIC CORES: 0] [PRISMS: 0BR/0IR/0SI/0GL/0DI]
· UPGRADE REQUIREMENTS: [1000 Stone] [1000 wood] [50 Magic Cores] [10 Bronze Prisms]
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