Chapter 72 - 73 – Lamias relocation.
As soon as the necromancer was killed, the two undead giants he summoned began slowly disappearing.
[You have defeated the Sand Devouring Bandit Zo.]
[You have managed to defeat all the bandits that belonged to the Sand Bandits group.]
[You have slain the mad necromancer who led the Sand Bandits – Krugel.]
[You have earned the title: The One Who Dealt With The Sand Bandits.]
[The One Who Dealt With The Sand Bandits (Special)]
[Rarity: Epic]
[You have successfully exterminated the bandit group called "Sand Bandits" that terrorized the dessert of the Adernul kingdom.]
[You have successfully manage to deal with the "Sand Bandits" all by yourself without the help of anybody. The title rank has been changed to: Rare ->Epic]
[Title Effect]
-Receive 90 free stat points.
-Receive 90 free skill points.
-Receive Additional 60 free stat points.
-Receive Additional 60 free skill points.]
"Oh. A title. And pretty good one at that."
(The zombies just disappear after the boss died.)
"Huh."
"I fuking did it."
"I manage to take over this entire fuking place just by myself."
"And I survived!"
"…"
"Well, kind of."
"Both of my legs are pretty messed up completely."
Both of the GreyHunt legs were completely broken and bend way too many freaking times.
(I knew that necromancer wouldn't fall for the trick with the poison grenade distraction, but thanks for him not falling for that and not realizing I threw the healing potion at him instead, he ended up sending his undeads at me while trying to run away from the fake poison grenade range.)
(While he was running away, I waited for one of the zombie giants to do that big arm attack.)
(I positioned my self just right before taking off my feet of the ground and making myself being send directly towards that fucker.)
"But fuck me. I wasn't expecting that guy to have even more power than that the first guy."
[HP:12%]
(My defense should be much higher now, since I have now that unique rags equipped, but still, so much HP just went bye bye in the moment.)
"Anyway, speaking of the items. What did that bastard dropped?"
[Hearth Soul Necklace]
[Rarity: Unique]
[A cursed necklace made by the made by the Mad Necromancer Krugel. This artifact was one of the many experiments conducted by the Krugel. It was supposed to bring the user an effect similar that of the immortality, but alas, he did not succeeded. However, the artifact was however successful in providing some form of protection to the user.]
[+350 Health]
[+1 HP regeneration]
[Your brain as well as other important organs are longer classified as the weak spot and even when you lose them completely, you can still live without any problem. However, as the side effect any attacks that hits your heart directly will end dealing 100% more damage. If the user the possess multiple hearts, the increased damage is reduced based on the amount of hearts the user possess.
If the user dose not possess a single heart, this ability will be not active.]
[Durability: 12000/12000]
[Restriction: User Level being at least 245 / Base stat of the health stat being 1000]
"Huh. This seem quite broken."
"I though he did some sort of experiments to his body, like transforming parts of his body into undeads body parts or something, but in reality, it was work of this thing?"
"But I cannot wear it. My HP is nowhere near close enough to fulfil the reaction."
"The only one who should be able to equip it, should be Rampage."
(It shouldn't hurt giving it to her, since she is our meat shield.)
(I could also get a favor from her by giving her this.)
"Anyway, what else we have here."
"…"
"Necrotic gems, reinforcements crystals, cursed gems…"
[Staff Of The Mad Necromancer Krugel]
[Rarity: Epic]
[A staff once belonged to the mad necromancer Krugel. The staff its self was made using multiple human hearts.]
[Attack Power: 370 - 484]
[+350 Intelligent]
[+620 Necro Mastery]
[Each time one of your undeads dies, restore 20 MP.]
[Decrees the cost of summoning or making undeads by 7%]
[Durability: 32000/32000]
[Restriction: User Level being at least 245 / Class skill [Advance Necromancy].]
(Necromancer staff. That will go to the ClownFrog.)
[Class Book – Cursed Mage] – [Rare]
"Huh. A rare class. But I'm not a freaking mage!"
"I can probably give it to the Oron, since he does have a cursed poison class or something."
"…"
"Hand of the cursed mummy and that is all."
"I got a lot of these necrotic and cursed gems, maybe I should have Blueberry use them to make me an equipment?"
(That boss did dropped something good and all… But I can't use it. The only thing that I can use are those rags I got from that first guy.)
(Well, I can't complain much. They are unique rarity and pretty good.)
"But it would be much better if those rags were instead armor piece or something else, since they would provide even bigger bonus."
"Well, that bastard did dropped few enchantment crystals, so I can upgrade this gear
"Anyway… I guess I have to wait until my legs recover before I log out."
[Next day.]
At the lamias hideout.
"Hm?"
"Hey! Its those guys." – said a lamia on the guard duty.
"Wait, you mean those guys that came yesterday? Why they are here?" – asked the other lamia.
"Don't know. This time I see two caravans. Maybe they already manage to get the food?" – asked the first lamia.
"Miss Alin! Those adventures from yesterday are coming back!"
"Hm? Already?" – said the lamia with short hair named Alin.
The two caravans that were being dragged by the sand running lizards were heading straight to the lamias hideout.
From afar, the lamias could spot the two people ridding the caravans being Shir and ClownFrog.
After a while, the two caravans has entered the lamias hideout.
After entering the hideout, the two caravans stopped while the group of lamias approached them.
"You came back already? Did you already manage to get the food?" – asked the Alin.
"Well, kind of? We still need to hunt bit more for the whole tribe." – replied ClownFrog.
"Hm? Then why are you here? Did you came here to deliver to food you have right now on you or something?" – asked Alin.
"Well, yes? But our visit today has a quiet different meaning." – said ClownFrog.
"Apparently, one of our guild members, GreyHunt who went looking for the new hiding spot for had found something and wanted to have urgent meeting with all of us and all the lamias. He want everybody present."
"Meeting?"
"Yea. He said he will explain everything in person. He made it sound like it was something very important to the point he told us to temporarily stop hunting those scorpions."
"Huh. Anyway, come. I will call everybody on the guard duty. Let's see what your friend of yours will tell us." – said the lamia with short hair.
After arriving to the oasis, me, Shri and Blueberry waited with the other lamias for the GreyHunt as well as Oron and Rampage to come.
After a while, Oron manage to arrive and after him came Rampage. We waited some time, but GreyHunt finally showed himself up.
"Sorry for the wait, I was quiet far away and I kind of needed to run past the horde of undeads along the way." – said GreyHunt.
"No problem. However, what is the thing you wanted to talk about? You even wanted to all the lamias to gather and even stop us from hunting the scorpions." – said Shri.
"Okay. Okay. This will be quiet long talk, so sit down." – said GreyHunt.
"First thing first. I found the perfect hiding spot for the lamias."
"?!"
"Wait, already?" – asked the lamia with short hair.
"Yea. But the situation is bit complicated."
"The place I'm talking about is called cursed oasis."
"?!"
"Wait! You are talking about this god forsaken place?! Are you crazy! This place is called cursed for the reason!" – said the lamia with short hair.
"Em… Question. What is that cursed oasis?" – asked Oron.
"It's an oasis that is filled to the brim with the mummies. Not only those mummies are strong, but when you kill one, a new one is created to take its place in near instance. Everybody knows that place, even us and nobody dares to even get close it." – said the lamia, Alun.
"Yeb. I'm talking about that very same oasis." – said GreyHunt.
"So… You want us to go and exterminate those mummies or something?" – asked Shri.
"Nope. There is no need." – replied GreyHunt.
"I found out some things about this place."
"First thing. This place is safe."
"The mummies do not come out or anything during the night."
"And there is no mummies at all inside the oasis, even during the day. They just don't enter it but instead just surrounds it."
"Wait! Are you saying the truth?!" – asked the shocked lamia Alun.
"Yea. I was there."
"Apparently the place was used as the hideout for the bandits called "Sand Bandits". I have dealt with the bandits and exterminated all of them."
"However, this is not all."
"In the middle of the oasis there is a building with a stairs that leads to the underground temple. With the underground temple and the oasis, there is literally more than enough space for all the lamias to hid in there!"
"I see." – said the lamia leader.
"Then, we can use that place."
"The cursed oasis is quiet far away from any settlements and nobody wants to approach this place."
"If what you are saying is a true, then this place is indeed the hiding spot we could use." – said the lamia leader.
"Huh. I honestly wasn't expecting you to manage to find the hiding place on the first day. I honestly though it would take a week or two to find anything." – said ClownFrog.
"So, if we want to relocated the lamias, we have to do that during the night? But do we have enough food for the lamias for the journey?"
"There is no need to worry." – said GreyHunt.
"While looking around, I found out that place has an armor, a sleeping quarters, a dinning hall and storage room filled to the brim with the food for the entire lamia tribe that could last for more than 2 weeks."
"?!"
"Wait a bloody second." – said Shri.
"So, you are saying, that you found a perfect hiding spot for the lamias, cleared out all the bandits using that place and even found enough food for all the lamias?" – asked Shri.
"Yea."
"…"
"You fuking bastard."
"Oh, and one more thing."
"The bandits had stole a shit tons of money and now its ours. Around 9000 gold? Maybe 10000 or more? I haven't completely looked completely through the chest filled with the gold coins and other stuff." – said GreyHunt.
"…Okay…. Now we have the money necessary to buy two more sand running lizards?! Is there anything else you want to show off?!" – asked Shri.
"Yeb. Rampage, ClownFrog, Oron. Come here for the moment."
"?"
GreyHunt began handing over some items to the trio.
"?!"
"Wait! What the heck is this?!" – asked Rampage.
"Huh. Let me guess. You got that from those bandits." – asked ClownFrog.
"Pretty much. I also got this unique rarity rags that I'm wearing now from them."
"…"
"What about me?" – asked Shri.
"Nope. I didn't get anything for you." – replied GreyHunt.
"Bitch."
"…"
"Okay. Miss Amoloi. Somehow, we manage to find the hiding spot on the first day and even got enough food for your people." – said ClownFrog.
"Do you wish to relocated today?"
"…"
The lamia leader looked at her lamias as well as her daughters in silence.
"…"
"Yes."
"Like you said, we don't know yet when the adventures will arrive, so we have to get out of here before it's too late."
"Listen up everybody! Pack up your belongings as well as anything valuable! We will be moving out today!"
"Excuse me. Do you want us to help out? We do have the caravans, so we can help you out a bit." – said ClownFrog.
"Thank you. I will gladly take up on your offer." – replied the lamia leader.
The lamias immediately began preparing to move out as soon as their leader decided to relocate today.
We obviously helped out a bit with loading some things onto our caravans. Lamias also used that giant cobra of theirs to carry some of their stuff and before long, the lamias were all ready to relocate.
We obviously didn't set out from the start but instead waited some time, since we wanted to get to the oasis during the nigh time.
After the wait was over, all the lamias instantly headed straight to the cursed oasis with us accompanying them.
Our group was quite big and ended up fighting some random monsters along the way, but for lamias, none of these monsters were even a challenge and they managed to completely wipe the floor with them.
(They are really strong. The strongest ones, the lamias leader daughters has yet to make the move, but their regular soldiers are able to easily kill those scorpions like nothing.) – though ClownFrog.
(They are both powerful and big in numbers. It was a good thing that we decided to recruit them!)
Soon, the night came and with it, we finally manage to the cursed oasis.
