Chapter 126 - 127 – Adernul faction – Reward.
[You have received title: Demon Summoner – Tier 3]
[Rarity: Rare]
[Tier 1 – Summon Lesser Demon]
-+50 Demonic Power.
[Tier 2 – Summon Lesser-Low Demon]
-+50 Demonic Power.
[Tier 3 – Summon Low Demon]
-+75 Demonic Power.
(Huh. I just got a new title. I heard about this title online; it get stronger the higher ranking demon you summon.)
(I managed to get it all the way to 3 tier in the instance. I got a 175 demonic power from get go.)
"By the way, do you have name or something?" – asked ClownFrog.
"No. Most of the low and lesser demons doesn't have name." – said the demon soldier.
"Oh, okay." – said ClownFrog.
(Anyway, I with the demon soldier, I still have a lot of points. There is also the fact that I just got free 1 demonic power points after summoning him.)
(Hm…)
(Okay. Let's do it.)
(I've been putting recently all of my points into the demonic power and if I put the stat points, I got from the recent level ups as well as
[754 stat points were distrusted into the [Demonic Power] extra stat.]
(I will use all the stat points I got from the achievement and from level ups I got from this battle to the increase the demonic power.)
[Level 336]
[Demonic Power: 2246{+115}]
{{75 Demonic Power from Demonic Priest and 20 Demonic Power from Demon Summoner as well as another 20 from Demon Mage.}}
(Good. With my current demonic power, I may have a chance to summon another mid demon easier or maybe I will get lucky and summon Mid-High one.)
"[Summon Demon]."
ClownFrog continues summoning more and more demons and making more contracts with demons.
[Hell Soldier] – [Rank: Low Demon] x8
[Demon Hound] – [Rank: Low Demon] x8
(Hm… In the end I wasn't able to summon even a single low-mid tier demon.)
(I guess even if I have high stat, it doesn't change fact that my demon summoner needs to level up.)
(I ended up summoning bunch of weaker demons than. It didn't went according to the plan, but at least I strengthen my army by a bit.)
(The demon hounds are weaker and cost a bit less than demon soldier, but they are have higher agility and skill called [Wounding Bite] that decreases the healing received and regeneration ability of the hit target. But only by 4%)
(Still, its not all that bad.)
(The demonic summoner have some skills that strengthen the demons ability by a bit and there is also the fact that I can bring the demons with me and level them up and maybe help them evolve and become higher ranking demon.)
(Still, the problem is with their levels.)
(The average level of the demons I summoned is around 100.)
(They can deal with low level players, but there are a lot of players with level 200 and they wouldn't stand a chance at all.)
(Pretty much, they are too weak right now.)
(I can make them level up at fast pace, thanks to the war, but the problem would be with their level rising.)
(Demonic power cost would increase if they level up few times and it would change again the moment they evolve.)
(I shouldn't have problem now, since I can level up without much problem the demonic priest, demonic summoner and demonic mage, but I would need to some points into the demonic power just in case.)
(I have so many necromancer classes, so not putting any points into the necro mastery won't hurt me at all.)
"?"
"Em… Boss." – said Blueberry.
"Hm? What is it?"
"The faction quest just got updated."
"?"
"…"
"Oh…. Shit."
[Adernul faction has updated their status.]
[The Adernul faction is now offering a much bigger reward for those who chose to join the Adernul faction.]
[Those who join the Adernul faction and win the war will receive reward much bigger than before. Reward gained from Adernul faction is now doubled.]
[If the Adernul factions won, the top 25 players with the highest contribution point that belongs to the Adernul faction will receive a nobility title from the Adernul kingdom.]
[The guilds who had swarmed their loyally to the Adernul kingdom and had joined with Adernul faction will receive additional rewards.]
"…"
"Fuck…"
"They had us."
The sudden updated to the Adernul faction had created a huge commotion everywhere on the internet.
At first, people believed that the Umali faction would win the war after the humiliating defeat of the Bulldog guild and lose of the city fortress Stone.
However, the sudden changed on the Adernul kingdom side created chaos.
Not only you would get a double of the promised reward after the war ended, but the top players would also become nobles.
Not a single players could ignore this.
The enemy maybe be strong, but if you would won, you would be reward.
This made the current situation change completely.
Many players who weren't even in the Adernul kingdom had just traveled far away to just join the faction war.
The number joining the Adernul faction skyrocket and many players who were still depending on what faction they should chose ended up choosing Adernul faction.
[2 days later.]
"FUCK!" – said GreyHunt.
"What the hell is going on!? Why the heck they promised the double players rewards if they joined them?!"
"I know. This is madness. Not only that, but they also promised a nobility status to those with the highest contribution." – said Oron.
"It was just 2 days and people are already flocking to join the Adernul faction."
"Things are bad."
"We may be stronger than average player and could easily kill 10 of players without any problem, but an entire army of players?! This is problematic."
"Should we propose to the queen to update the rewards on our side as well?"
"No. Even if we wanted to, we can't." – said ClownFrog.
"The Umil kingdom was only revived recently, so do you really think that we have enough faction exclusive rewards?"
"We can offer classes as a rewards, just like the queen did before with us, but classes alone are often not enough. People sometimes rather want a good item than a class."
"As for the nobility status, we don't know if the queen would agree on that or not."
"The Umil kingdom still needs time to be fully revived as well."
"In short, the enemy hit us in the worst possible spot right now."
"…"
"Fuck me…So what do we do?" – asked Rampage.
"That is the problem." – said GreyHunt.
"We can't do anything to stop players from joining the Adernul faction."
"The longer this war will lasts, the more players will join in." – said ClownFrog.
"Before the players and NPCs organize, we will have to make our move."
"Today we shall start marching to the Rock city."
"Wait, wait, wait, wait." – said Shri.
"Isn't this too early? I know that the reinforcements finally got here and all, but with now the army of players joining in, we need sobeks to join us."
"Shouldn't we try to play it defensively for now and hold the enemy here?"
"If the Adernul faction want to have the best way of getting to the Umil kingdom, they will have to take back the Stone city."
"I know what you mean Shri, but right now we need to deal a huge blow to the enemy to spread bit of panic and confusion around to slow down the enemy from organizing." – said ClownFrog.
"What do you think would happened if we waited for sobeks and then attacked?"
"…"
"We would suffer a huge loses." – said Shri.
"Yea. Too big loses." – said ClownFrog.
"After taking the Stone city, we had now ability to brute force the entire war and win easily, but now things changed."
"If we don't play smart, we may end up having too many casualties over and over again, to the point where our army would be completely gone."
(Players can respawn after they die, but they will lose a random item and EXP. However, they can rejoin the fight later on again and again.)
(As for the NPCs and monsters, we can create monsters like sand golems and undeads, but NPCs stay dead.)
(If we don't act now, we will be in huge trouble.)
After our meeting was over, I relayed the entire subject of the talk with the queen and told her that we are in trouble.
The queen realized that the plan was risky, but agreed to it anyway.
The Umil kingdom army had once again began their march in the Adernul kingdom.
Our army next target is the Rock city. It's the closes city to the Stone city.
By the way, I noticed something weird. Why the heck most of the cities in the Adernul kingdom are named after gems, but these two cities are "Rock" and "Stone"??? Who the hell named them like that!
…
Anyway, our army had to abandon the sobeks at the Stone city, since they needed to recover and, in their stead, necromancers, monsters' tamers, undeads and sand monsters had joined our ranks.
They are not strong as sobeks, but we gained numbers.
Honestly, I was considering asking our old friends for help, but the time is not yet right. They will need to play the different role in my plan.
Anyway, at our current pace, we should be get to the Rock city in 2 days, but I can tell that the Adernul kingdom will be waiting for us there and yet another battle will soon break out.