The eting ended, and everyone was given 30 minutes to relay the information to their party mbers. Aster returned too, relaying everything back to the three girls.
"... As such, our party would be at the frontlines, mainly in charge of clearing the swarm of Small Cave Spiders."
Thinking of Aster's Carved Seal's ability, it was the best choice. As such, other than Kali, who had a deep frown, none of the other girls had any complaints. "But before that, Kali, let's go and renew our contract."
Today was the 7th day of Kali's party contract, so that ans if they don't renew it right now, then she will say goodbye to the party tomorrow. Of course, Aster wasn't worried that she wouldn't renew the contract, as she wasn't here by her choice anyway.
With Zena working on it seriously, without joking around, the process didn't even take five minutes. She too understands the gravity of the current Boss Raid, so she wasn't wasting Aster's ti.
Soon, the waiting ti ended, and Lizandrea stepped forward once more, gallant as ever.
"Alright, everyone... It's ti to head to the dungeon! Let's kick that overgrown spider's ass!"
"OHHHHH!"
A wild cheer echoed, making the entire guild lobby shake.
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May 12, 4533, at 7:00 a.m., the full Raid Team arrived before the dungeon's entrance.
Under the guild master's na, all mbers of the Raid Party's entrance fee were waived, making sure that nobody would have an excuse to retreat. Thankfully, nobody seed to be thinking of falling back or escaping.
"Everyone! Make sure to have at least five Health Potions each! If you don't have enough, you can get more over there. I already bought all their stocks, so just grab what you need!"
The reason nobody was escaping was that the leader, Lizandrea, was generous. She spent her own pocket money to equip the other parties who were tight on their budget, even upgrading the gears of so of them!
"Woah... look at this insignia! It's from the Millicent Dragon Alliance!"
"Damn! I should get a sword too! I can't miss this chance!"
"Hey, you bastard! I have been eyeing that gun since earlier! Give it to !"
Aster looked on, tilting his head and doubting Lizandrea's words. After all, what was there was basically an entire weapon shop. He was doubtful if soone's "pocket money" could buy a whole shop, but realized that he was mistaken.
"That's from the Millicent Dragon Alliance's Orinfeld City branch, a famous weapon shop owned by the Dragonseal Family," Kali explained. "She's a real princess from a rich family, unlike this fake one over here."
"Hmph! I already ran away from ho to avoid succeeding as the family head, so I don't really care which family is richer. But at least, I have more money than so granny cat sowhere."
"You...!"
Another small quarrel between Kali and Celestinya began. They were quite laid-back, despite the raid almost starting. Of course, they were only that calm because they believed in Aster's Magic Carved Seal's ability.
They had already seen Aster freeze hundreds of spiders in one go, after all. As long as they make sure he can finish casting his ability, then they could simply run around and finish off the spiders he would catch.
Of course, there's also the choice of killing them in one go, but the EXP wasted would be quite large.
Soon, all teams finished replenishing their stocks and were ready to head in. One after another, parties entered before moving to formation.
Party 1 was Lizandrea's team. They were at the pinnacle of the formation, the forefront team, and the main tank. Aster's team was Party 2, which was positioned to the right of Party 1 to support them, clear the little critters that bothered the two parties, and act as the sub-tank.
Party 3 and 4 were both scouting parties. They were to run around and report monster positions to the rest. They were in charge of the left and right sides, respectively. When the boss fight began, their job was to support whichever side was having trouble.
Then, Parties 5 to 7 were the DPS teams. Their main job was to rain down attacks on the Boss Monster whenever they could. During travel, their task was simply to hunt down as many monsters that ca their way as possible.
Looking at their formation from the sky, it was like the letter "W" with two parties in the front, three at the back, and one scout a short distance away.
After all parties entered, the two scouts began to move. They were checking the path ahead and making sure that the main party wouldn't face a surprise attack from monsters.
"Monsters coming from up front! Wolves! Numbers: 15!"
One of the scout teams returned and relayed the information. As soon as they received the heads-up, Lizandrea's team rushed forward, attracting the enemy's attention.
"Knight's Challenge!"
Lizandrea used one of her class-specific taunt skills. As soon as she did, all fifteen wolves changed targets, glaring at her with frenzied eyes. "Everyone! Fire at will! My skill's effect only lasts half a minute!"
Without delay, her party mbers, Aster's party, and the three parties behind her started attacking. Before the 30-second duration of her taunt ended, all the enemies had already fallen!
"Great work! Let's keep this up!"
"OOOOH!"
The plains had few enemies, so they only encountered small numbers of slis and sotis a group of wolves as they forged on. Soon enough, they arrived at the forest where Aster's group had fought the swarm of spiders before.
"So it's here... Party 3 and 4, check the entire forest. There should be an entrance to so underground cave sowhere!" Without delay, she gave out precise orders.
Aster was in awe of her quick-wittedness and wanted to learn her ways. As such, he kept observing her, watching her every little action and speech. Learning from observing is one of his strong suits!
After entering the forest, their march slowed down. This isn't only because the forest terrain was harder to traverse, but also because they didn't want to overtake the scouts.
After about an hour of searching, when the main party reached the middle of the forest, Party 4 returned with good news and bad news.
The good news was that they had already found the cave.
"Hiiik! H-Help!"
And the bad news? They have hundreds of spiders on their tail!
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