However, everyone had changed from how they were in the past quite drastically.
The Geomchis were indispensable but Pale, Hwaryeong, Surka, and Zephyr’s combat skills have improved dramatically.
“More Skeleton Knights! There are five this time!”
Pale had confirmed after Weed had sent him out to scout.
Usually Pale would be leader but things were different when Weed was in charge.
Everything was left up to Weed.
Weed stood at the forefront of battle and dealt damage with his superior swordsmanship and endurance.
Someone that fought directly would usually be more useful as a leader than an archer.
Weed had cold bandages, providing food and repairs, and effective skills that no one else had!
“Hwaryeong put two of them to sleep with you skills!”
“Enchanting dance!”
Hwaryeong put two of the knights to sleep with her dance. In the meantime everyone else fought the rest of the Skeleton Knights.
The Rotten Lich Dungeon increased in level as they moved on.
They would face Skeleton Knights, Chimeras, and other monsters of similar levels.
The monsters were at least level 300 and in severe cases up to 360.
Since it was the stronghold for the Undead Legion, there was no wonder that the monsters had significant levels.
Weed had one overall ability in production skills though.
The could raise the entire party’s damage and defense by at least 10% and 20% respectively!
They could engage moderate numbers of enemies thanks to Hwaryeong's dancing.
The party would collapse upon and destroy moderate groups of 7 to 8 Skeleton Knights.
Exploring high level dungeons required special attention. Dancers had a big role in distracting enemy attention.
Of course, sometimes a dancer’s skills could fail.
They could fall down from dancing. Once they lose balance then the skill loses power momentarily.
The higher level the enemy the more dancing was required.
Hwaryeong had to continue dancing uncomfortably. Her legs were staggering and there was a pain in her legs but she still danced strongly.
Sometimes it would fail when there were Chimeras, a form of contagious disease zombies.
That was because they didn’t have any eyes to see beauty with and the difference of levels was lacking since they were at least level 350.
The Lich had made Chimeras with a wolf’s head on top of an ogre’s body.
“Eat the humans!”
They could only be tempted with food.
A dancer’s dance was usually limited to human and humanoid monsters.
To go above these constraints required a significant amount of skill
“There’s really a lot of experience.”
After hunting for a while, Irene was startled when she checked her stat window.
They were hunting 3-4 times faster than usual.
They had also discovered the dungeon so they were receiving 2 times more experience.
‘It’s thanks to Weed and the Geomchis.’
Irene looked at Weed and the Geomchis’ with envious eyes.
Priests were known to have weak attacking power. Weed had the turn undead skill, but it would be quite useless during hunt with a group.Therefore, strong warriors and priest go well together.
Weed said.
"I think monster in this territory are getting tougher. From now on the battle are going to get faster.”
“Whoa!”
“Ah, here we go!”
Zephyr's eyes darkened. Hwaryeong's held her breath.
Up until now they were hunting comfortably.
The moment Weed said that meant that it was time for the real hunting!
The party's hunting speed accelerated.
By now, they couldn't rest and traveled quickly through the hunting ground, and if no one was injured after battle they immediately went on to the next hunting ground and continued.
So since they started this hunt, they have completed several rounds of battle. After battle had ended, the people who needed to heal up gladly sat down by the healer.
Those that could stand up were free to break off into their own group to continue hunting in the next region.
They got up and started hunting again. The problem was that the speed was slightly increasing. The interval between hunting and more hunting left them with no time to breathe.
Weed lead his companions into more battle and more battle faster and faster.They were hunting at a fearsome speed so they were getting experience and items rapidly.
“I leveled up.”
Someone would say every now and then.
Their companions would quickly say.
“Congratulations.”
“I’m close to leveling.”
“Let’s keep going then!”
There was no time to rest.
Irene had a lot of mana. She would heal them as much as she could and they would keep fighting.
Whenever their health dropped below 30% she would heal them.
To survive as long as possible, Weed would treat them.
With his advanced Cold Bandages, he could heal up up in a flash.
They only took short breaks for bandaging.
Zephyr and Hwaryeong resigned themselves to their fate.
“Keoheok!”
“I’m going to die! Weed I need to be bandaged.”
They would get hit on purpose.
Skeleton Knight skill. Darkness status.
They would deliberately get put into a state of darkness.
Even if it hurt they could lie and rest comfortably for a bit. If their health drops low then Irene would just heal them.
After a while Weed would just bandage them up so it was almost impossible for them to get a fatal wound.
Hwaryeong and Zephyr had the same thoughts when they had hunted with Weed the first time.
The both of them wanted it to end after getting hit by the Skeleton Knight.
‘It got me.’
‘Now I can rest.’
Zephyr and Hwaryeong would just a have a slight smile.
Then Weed would yell and come over with bandages.
“Pale!”
“Yes!”
“It takes about 45 seconds for bandaging. But its not enough to get Zephyr and Hwaryeong back up. Lure the monsters around and bring them back here.”
“Alright!”
Zephyr and Hwaryeong lied down injured and groaning.
‘I’ll never get out of this hell.’
‘Need to die properly.’
This was because of the unprecedented hunting speed.
Seechwi was an Orc!
Early on, Orcs had many advantages.
They had exceptional health and stamina, their death penalty was lower, and they had high defense.
Even if Orcs die, the skill loss was insignificant.
That was the one thing that Orcs had over the other races.
They were in large numbers and Orcs happened to die often but they had high growth rates.
Many people came to the village.
A lot of them were Orc users trying to form parties.
“Chwikchwik. Let’s go hunt foxes.”
“Chwik. Chwik! Fox meat is delicious.”
The number of people in the town were increasing and the Orcs were repopulating.
Orcs sold meat to the stores. A lot of new Orcs were constantly being born.
The city was horribly expanding.
New Orcs were born in village near the Yuroki Mountains.
It takes time for a human village to expand but for Orcs the only thing they needed was food.
Seechwi scoured the Yuroki Mountains for Seoyoon. However to find one person was close to impossible. However Seechwi had a secret weapon.
“That look familiar to the direction that Seoyoon went in.”
She could watch the videos in Seoyoon’s capsule!
Seoyoon was hunting so with a bit of luck she could catch up in time.
Luckily Seoyoon fought three to four monsters at once.
All monsters gave up their lives when they attacked Seoyoon. She killed all the belligerent ogre forces in the Yuroki Mountains.
Seechwi tried to say as gently as possible.
“Seoyoon. Chwichwichwik!”
Horrible nasals sounds came out when she spoke.
Seechwi laughed and said.
“I’ll come with you. I’m Cha Eunhee. Chwichwit.”
“...”
Seoyoon didn’t say anything. However Seechwi knew this wasn’t a rejection. If she had refused then she would have walked away. Seoyoon did not refuse because it was someone that she was close to.
“Chwichwik. Let’s get quests and sell japtem.”
Seechwi stayed with Seoyoon who had gotten a quest from the Dark Elves even though she didn’t say anything.
It was more comforting now that someone was traveling with Seoyoon rather than leaving her alone.
It was still really dangerous and she could die in battle.
However, thanks to Seoyoon it was not dangerous at all. She took care of her because she was we