Distorted World: Rise Of The Black One - Volume 2 Chapter 56 15
At the furthest west side of Avalon is a set of mountains which occupy about 12% of the total landmass and surrounding that are different terrains
This is the hunting grounds the area that makes up most of Avalon, in fact the academy and living section combined only takes up 20% of Avalon
The deeper you go into the west the more dangerous everything becomes there’s even a legend about a god class monster living on top of the mountain
God class monster are monsters that acc.u.mulated power through age, when a monster is born is body immediately begins to absorb magicols so the longer that particular monster live the stronger it becomes, of course it also depends on the particular bloodline and race of that monster which greatly affects the rate of magic absorption for example a baby dragon has a magical absorption rate 124 times faster than a baby troll
This is why monster have such an advantage over mortals a mage or warrior has to train their aura in order to assimilate magicols and gain power which could take years of training while a monster just has to stay alive and they will eventually grow stronger than any magicians
Monster don’t even have an aura to call their own unlike humans who transform magicol before bringing it into their system monster can absorb pure unfiltered magic without feeling any backlash
But in exchange for their great power monster are unable to form any type of true sentience or higher brain functions they’re more of massive moving magic tanks guided by instinct
Currently Asher and the club are in the starting forest leaping through trees with moderate speed
Since this is a starting area there’s nothing but dumb goblins and orcs around (author: just to be clear I’m talking about the orcs you see in western games like WOW and not the eastern pig-like depiction of the orcs like in “that time I got reincarnated as a slime”)
“Re: are you really sure this is a great idea?”
Regis asked concerned
E: you’re free to suggest a better idea”
Elise replied
“E: it’s genius really, if we manage to pull this off not only will all of our problems be fix, we will also have enough funds to do whatever we want”
Elise said reading a holographic map
“As: don’t read while traveling, you might hit a tree”
Asher said
The Forrest they’re in is called tegumento and there’s not really much to say about it, it’s just a starting ground for mages to train their combat abilities
But what’s special about this forest is that underneath it is a subterranean ruin where rare strains of orcs and shadow wolfs spawn
“As: okay we should be on the spot, but are you sure this plan is wise Elise?”
Asher said as they arrived in front of the entrance to the underground ruins which looks like a cave
The cave has a a lot of rotting dead goblin corpses from the massacre that was inflicted by the club a few days ago, they all have holes in their chest where their hearts have been extracted
Asher asked
“E: why are you asking me that? Wasn’t this your plan?”
“As: no my plan was to take them by surprise, I didn’t intend for it to be this destructive”
Asher corrected her
“E: yes, but you said we needed something unorthodox”
“As: sighs…fine, at least the loot will be worth it, send the signal”
“Re: already done”
Regis said pressing a button on his soul shard
About 15 kilometers away from the three leaders Airi,Sakuya and August are setting up a wooden pedestal with a reddish orb on top of it pined into the ground
“Au: are you sure this it gonna work?”
August asked with concern
“Ai: well, to be honest I don’t really trust Elise nee-Chan’s plans but onii chan did make these so I guess it’s fine”
(Au: did she just call Elis…?)
“Sa: do any of you even know what our leaders are planning?”
Sakuya asked
The answer they both gave Sakuya didn’t surprise her
Suddenly Airi’s soul shard ranged and the three knew that it was time
The group of three on both ends began to split and go to their designated locations
“As: it’s all up to you now Sieg”
Asher said with one of those pedestals
Meanwhile…
Sieg is running from a horde of orcs who are riding white wolfs that are the size of 6 humans stacked on top of each other, the orcs are wielding crude metal mace and battles axes and are just as big as their pets
Sieg leaps from one building to another like a thief in the night, his high level of physicality helps him outrun the swarm of monsters
“Si: why do I have to be the one to do this? I mean I know I’m the only one capable of this task but couldn’t I at least have some backup?”
A few days ago…
The coalition of 7 is crouching behind a wall hiding from some orc patrols
“Ai: this was your suggestion?”
Airi whispered to her brother
“As: yes, this part of the dungeon is a monster hot spot, the loot we can get from just one will solve all of our problems, we just need to set some sort of trap, something they won’t expect”
Asher replied
“Si: there’s no way we can take on all of them at once”
“Au: yeah, I don’t know that much about combat”
“Re: we need a plan something that can capitalize all of our strength and get us the most profit as efficiently as possible”
Regis hold his chin
“Si: maybe we can take them out one by one?”
“E:…”
While this was happening Elise was looking at the ceiling of the city in a curious expression
“E: hey, we’re not too deep underground right?”
Elise asked
“As: no we’re just anout 3000 metersI think”
Asher said
“E: I have a plan”
Elise said
Now…
(Si: god I hope this works)
Sieg thought
As he reached his destination Sieg waited until he was surrounded by the horde that charged at him with murderous intent
He pressed the button on his shard to send a signal and the moment he did he disappeared
The monsters paused in confusion and they looked at each other in shock as the prey who disrupted their camps all across this section of the ruins had just disappeared without a trace
But before they could figure it out they heard a loud rumbling noise as the ground is shaking violently
None of them knew what happened until a large amount of dirt and trees began crashing down on them from above
The orcs couldn’t even react as the ceiling itself fell and crushed them all
On the surface where the coalition is standing a hole with a diameter of 15 kilometers had formed around where they set up the pedestal for each member
Back where Asher is Sieg teleported behind him
“Si: you know, I just wanna say you guys are both insane”
Sieh exclaimed panting
(As: I gotta hand it to her, she sure knows how to overturn the phrase “home advantage”)
Asher thought
Explanation: 5 days ago the coalition discovered the monsters hot spots near one of the rarely used dungeon entrance deeper in the forest
They tried to hunt rare monsters for materials but were outmatched due to the orc’s numbers and territory advantage, so Elise came up with the idea to level the playing field (literally) and crashed the ceiling down on the orcs
Elise tasked Asher with the logistics of this plan so he made 6 pedestals and generator orbs which were set up in a circle above the ruins
Sieg was tasked with luring all of the orcs to that circle using pirate/hit and run tactics
And when the signal was sent by Sieg a magic formation formed which served 2 purpose: teleport Sieg out of the dungeon, generate a barrier using all of the member’s magic which made that slice of ground fall bellow and crush the now trapped orcs
The 6 members of the coalition fell to the ground exhausted from the amount of magic they just had to put into this large scale formation
(E: unorthodox and effective I am good)
Elise thought complimenting herself
(As: well I hope this was worth it, cause those pedestals were a pain to create by myself)
Asher thought