Back on Earth Reign and the others had just finished another battle in the huge warehouse, the bodies of the hobgoblins were everywhere around them and they had some injuries as each battle was harder than the last, the number of enemies was lower but the average level of the goblins went up and more of them had weapons while some used skills as well.
Reign looks at his status screen and checks his exp and coins
Level 18 ( 10 350 / 11 000 )
S Coins: 1 046
He was close to leveling up again, if they have more battles like this one coming then reaching level 20 won't be a difficult task. One had to know that level 20 was a threshold similar to level 10, only not as big as that one, the biggest difference for them would be the possible class evolution there, it largely depended on their own strength coupled with their talent and the completion of the trial that they had skipped after managing to be the first to finish a hidden dungeon.
Everyone sits down to rest after the 3rd battle they had just gone through, they were unlucky as their enemies were alarmed by the ruckus they caused in the second area and attacked them as soon as they entered. The flying draifs were the hardest enemies to deal with as their strength and speed were top-notch compared to the goblins. If they only fought against them it would have been fine, but fighting them together with tens of goblins was much harder.
"This dungeon is huge man, the hidden one we did was difficult as well but that was to be expected as it was a hidden dungeon, those are usually tougher compared to normal ones, but this, just more and more enemies to fight man." Shadow pants a bit as he leans against a crate while drinking some water he took out of the inventory from. Ronny and the others were surprised when they saw that as they had no idea that something like that was possible.
"Let's rest a little bit longer and then we move on to the next area, I wonder how many enemies we will face there." Reign takes a sip of water from his bottle and looks at the high ceiling above them, something was bothering him, this dungeon was incredibly straightforward, just enter a room and fight, rinse and repeat.
The previous two were both similar to it and yet different, the first dungeon allowed for a high level of stealth and verticality when doing it while the second one had three stages to it, the horde of goblins outside of the castle, the inner area of the castle littered by thief goblins and then the inside of the castle that had a hidden room, he had a hunch that this dungeon wouldn't be so far off from it as it was way too easy right now, the enemies were not even close to the level of being a danger to them.
"What's on your mind?" Wolf sits down next to Reign and asks him while cleaning his sword. Reign tells him what he thought about the dungeon which prompts Wolf to lean his blade against himself while thinking about it.
"You're probably right, I think that the hidden dungeon was more of a test and trial run for what's to come, it's like the game is giving us risks and rewards at the same time. The onslaught of goblins we had to face at the beginning was not something a normal party be able to go against without major difficulty, while the hidden room we found offered really good rewards for our level." Wolf starts cleaning his sword again while talking to Reign.
"We might face something similar here as well, the first couple of rooms are full of enemies we have to fight face on, similar to the horde back then. Those three said that the starting area was different for them, based on the levels of monsters they described it will probably be the second area we go to, while the boss will be found in the 3rd one or even in a fourth area.
Reign nods at Wolf's words and gets up, they had rested enough and now it was time to go forward.
They open the door and expect to be greeted by the same sight as the previous three times but get surprised as the area ahead was empty, it was a huge room with barely any crates and shelves and a huge hole near the end of it.
"That's the path to the next area!" Wolf says as he looks around with vigilance, there was no way that this area would be empty, that would be way too easy.
Thump, Thump
Steps could suddenly be heard from the shelves near the hole. After a couple of seconds five monsters show up, all very different from each other.
There was a huge ogre that had a spiked club as his weapon, his body was almost completely white while his eyes were blood-red in color.
A draif stood with his arms crossed in front of him while his wings were slowly being spread behind him, with an arrogant gaze he looks at them while smiling.
Two hobgoblins stood shoulder to shoulder, one had a katana on his waist while the other had a greatsword on his shoulder. Their looks were quite different as the blue-clothed katana-wielding hobgoblin was slim although muscular, judging by his appearance he probably specialized in speed while the other one was clothed in red and was much larger in size, his bulging muscles almost tearing his clothes apart.
Lastly, a woman wielding a bow came out, by great surprise to Reign and the others she was human. Reign immediately used his Inspect skill to check her out.
[ Lvl 18 ELITE Possessed ]
Description: A human that had her soul weakened to the point of near destruction by some kind of spell before being used as a puppet controlled by someone. Her soul is already incredibly fragile and to repair the damage is nigh impossible right now.
Beast tightens his grip on his bow when he sees the description, for a monster to control a human made him incredibly angry. Reign and the others slowly take their stances and get ready for a fight, it was definitely not going to be an easy one as their opponents were almost all level 18 Elites, with the ogre being a mini-boss of the same level.
"I'll take on the red guy, Reign you fight the blue-clothed one while Shadow can go against the draif." Wolf looks at the way their opponents were spread out and immediately notices that all of them seem to want a private battle. "Beast I need you to fight against the girl, you don't need to kill her but make her unable to come to help the others, we will come to you after we finish, as for you two."
Wolf looks over at Greenie and Tank who were smiling while looking at the ogre.
"The big guy is yours." Wolf shakes his head helplessly as he moves right with Reign towards the area the hobgoblins were moving to.