Dungeon Prowler : One Man Army

The awarding ceremony was forgone by Yunan and the rest, they had taken a week long vacation and were now ready for their first trial on conquering a level 3 nest, thus the juniors choose to just accept the rewards rapidly before heading back to meet up with Debauchery and continue onwards with their training.

The prizes were some level 5 items with decent enchantments; the kind that Balin would scrounge up in a few minutes because he is too lazy to repair low level armament; and some decent books that the Valyrians deemed useful. Yunan as the first place got himself a skill book called armament, it uses mana to create any weapon or armour of any shape the user wants, as long as the user has mana left, the armament repairs itself and with frequent use, the armament would use less mana for stronger arms. The armament does not leech mana actively if there is no damage done to it and it could be used as an extra layer of defense by coating the current armes the user has to add defence or offence depending on how it is used.

Reina, Leol and Lili got themselves a spell called mend, its a healing type of spell that works over a period of time, it uses only a bit of mana from the user to stimulate the healing of wounds and relies mostly on the energy of the recipient. As there was no one in third and fourth places, those rewards were not given out.

With receipts in their hands they went to the guild branch and added those books into the list the guild had to provide for them when they entered Tartarus. After that, they met up with Debauchery who were adamant on splurging the money they just hot on shopping, this time they decided not to do the lucky ritual on case lady luck labeled them as taking too large of an advantage when they did not need to.

The shopping spree was mostly for new clothes and refilling Balins stock on anything related to forging, as for the kids they just enjoyed the various types of sweets and candy and did not buy anything, they already had level 10 gear and were planning on making Balin teach them forging as promised. And they would make their own gear from then on.

That night the kids finally understood what it means to live like kings and why Debauchery always liked more money. Back in the hot spring hotel, Debauchery had hired a whole band of entertainers and servants, in a display of how to spend the money correctly. There were dancers, actors doing a play, a puppet show, maids bringing in all kinds of delicacies, maids feeding them the delicacies, servants ma.s.saging their shoulder, servants ma.s.saging their feet, there was a singer, things that the kids didn"t even knew possible.

The biggest lesson the kids learned that night was that money can make people do anything to get their hands on it, even Reina who was a royalty did not get treated like that in her own palace back at the holy sun islands.

In the morning, Debauchery and the Valyrians returned to the eternal forest and started on conquering the level 3 nest they had chosen for the right pf pa.s.sage. The nest was home to many quadrates, mostly in the shape of boars or bovine, or a mix of the two.

Using the guerilla tactics they had honed for a year the youngsters managed to reach the heart of the nest, it was what you expect a boars nest to be, shallow hole with leaves and under brush as padding, used for raising the babies, while most of the members of the herd stayed out in the open.

It took 3 days and 2 nights of continued fighting before the nest was almost empty and only the boss and a handful of females were left behind, the females never left the nest even when the boss decided to hubt the little trouble makers itself but to its dismay the Valyrians had become quite good at hiding.

After confirming that the females in the nest will not be part of the boss battle, it was time for the first level 4 fight for the Valyrians. The kids chose the safe strategy and went with 2 archers and a damage dealer and a shield, with plans on rotating the shield between them in case of a long fight. But they were a bit off the mark with that a.s.sumption.

The boss, a mix of a bull and a hog, it had the head of a bull with pointed horns and tusks out of its mouth, it had the body of a bull with a boar"s hump and stumpy legs. It didn"t pay attention to Leol who tried his best to taunt it but it just kept watching Yunan even though it was getting hit by arrows continuously. When it"s back was almost to the archers it charged at Yunan like train, Yunan side stepped and the boss. .h.i.t its head on a tree, knocking it down and stunning itself for a moment.

Yunan took the chance to aim his short swords and slash at the back of its hind legs successfully cutting of the tendons at the back of the knees, rendering the boss incapacitated, and only able to wave its head around unable to support its body weight on its two front legs only, and that was the end of the fight, with the boss having its legs underneath its body, the best it could do was rollover to prevent attacks revealing its soft belly for the arrows and bolt coming from Leol, Reina and Lili, who were now just using the boss for target practice. The boss died later on from severe blood loss from all the attacks it sustained.

While the three were target practicing on the boss, Yunan made his way into the nest and was able to kill of the females who were only huge in stature but cowered in the back of the nest and watched their sisters die under Yunan"s sword, until their turns came and they died without moving a muscle.

Inside the nest were 5 piglets that looked like newborns, they would sell for a good sum of money. The corpses were Drogon to feed on and the piglets were taken by Dustan to be sold, it would make the kids feel bad if they fought hard for three days only to feed the bottomless pit they called a pet. As for the rest they headed to the lonely mountain to start their practice in the arts of forging. Lucian had taught the kids all they needed to know about the scouting and ranging in the outside world, all that is left is Tartarus, Bai had taught them how to hide and detect as well as make traps. After they learn smithing it was time to head into Tartarus for the first time.