Frostbound

Day 60

It had been two weeks since the change. 4 Waves and 14 days of grueling training for everyone in camp along with a pylon upgrade wave. Everyone came around and realized what needed to be done.

At first, when I was only training for myself, I thought I would get strong enough so they wouldn't have to go through this. Now that I was looking back on it, it was sheer arrogance to think that.

There was no way I could have gotten strong enough to protect my family throughout the whole tutorial. I was just glad that we changed in time. If we had waited any longer the gap would have been too large to overcome. The pylon upgrade was useful experience to catch up. The level 25 orcs weren't that helpful to me, but to my family, they were walking experience.

We weren't so far behind that catching up was unfeasible, just difficult. There was a lot of complaining and rough days to be had, but everyone powered through.

Evolutions started becoming common in this last wave and now the majority of the camp was in the F-rank. Fighting higher-level enemies gave a lot of experience compared to same-level enemies.

Most were catching up to my level and I was beginning to suspect that class rarity determined how much experience was needed to level up. After getting my Rare class I had only leveled up 4 times and still sat a single level away from my new skill.

The changes were large and were extremely gratifying to watch. We were starting to look like an army of old with the added benefit of magic. Like Lord of the Rings made real.

The rogues evolved out of close-quarters fighting with one even becoming a poison specialist. The nasty smell was easily outclassed by the sheer impact that the poison had. Turning an area into a cloudy smog that the monsters had to run through. Alchemists were having a competition to see who could make the most potent poison.

Another rogue leaned more into the trap-making route and made quite the devastating traps. Our rangers got more powerful and Carrie could now produce a substantial amount of cover fire with her skills.

Hal was more of a sharpshooter and kept his skills for powerful single-target attacks that mostly targeted the boss. Rachel evolved into some sort of pyromancer and she truly had a way with fire.

Austin was the biggest surprise. After seeing that gaining a law was possible he refused to evolve until he had one. He was going for the Law of Light and it took some construction to make it easier.