Chapter 248:
After resting for two days in the Crimson Citadel, the players set out again towards the Baron of Leim’s territory, eagerly beginning to hunt the gnoll clans there. However, this campaign saw a decrease in both combat intensity and frequency.
It wasn’t that the little players, stimulated by the point pool, had started slacking off. They were still as full of energy and courage as before. It was purely because many of the local gnoll clans had already moved towards the Anderma Hills. Additionally, the student party and Meow King’s team, summoned by Miriam as negotiation consultants, had been hunting around Bataxin, along with some new Witch Hunter recruits who had wandered here to hunt.
They hadn’t been idle these past few days. The combined effects of multiple parties directly resulted in a sharp decrease in the number of gnolls in the area.
This led many solo players to give up on continuing to hunt gnolls in the wild for points, especially those who had entered the game recently and were urgently trying to level up to prepare for the Black Iron Trial. They had shifted back to the sewers beneath the Crimson Citadel.
The “reserve” of ghouls here was still quite abundant, allowing them to engage in combat to quickly raise their character levels. Meanwhile, they could also grind for a set of “ghoul series” equipment from the Blood Rat Gang. This set of armor, which had been used by Tris’s alchemist apprentices for practice with basic enchantments, adding weak effects of endurance and agility enhancement, was now of quality comparable to the veteran set.
At this point, there seemed to be a subtle imbalance again between the players’ enthusiasm and the monster supply.
The return of some players made the previously empty sewers lively again, which made “Frostfang Claw”, who had been wandering in the sewers doing quests recently, feel very uncomfortable.
He was a lone wolf.
Seemingly a bit socially anxious, he didn’t like to move with many people, which was the main reason he chose to become a thief under the Blood Rat Gang.