Chapter 469: Stronghold in Unknown Forest
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
[SourceOfDawn: Polio, Phoenix, and Frangipani... Hmm... They aren’t big BOSSES, they are Sherlie’s pet nas ╭∩╮( ̄▽̄)╭∩╮]
[PeacefulPickaxeHandle: Yggdrasill has been targeted. Even Jesus can’t save it now.]
[SlagNest: I suddenly thought of Mana replenishnt (Manual Cody).]
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The content updates in version 0.39 were nurous. In the coming future, there would be more new content. In order to implent the Open Beta Testing, the gars of Victoria City and Eternal Kingdom had to cooperate to take over Yggdrasill.
This was what the gars speculated. If they had Yggdrasill, then the ga could implent Open Beta. The Yggdrasill Plot had been triggered by Dragonborn’s Strange Encounter Mission.
The gars didn’t know the location of Dragonborn, but they knew it was only a matter of ti.
There were many updates, like a new map at Eternal Kingdom for the Unknown Forest. It didn’t an that the forest was called Unknown Forest. The lazy ga officials were simply too lazy to give the forest a proper na. The gars were used to the laziness of the ga officials. Most of the nas on the maps were given by the gars, including the various areas in the Dungeon and the Sighing Wilderness, where the Ogre Fortress was located. After discussion, the gars suggested using Moonlight Forest, but the na was already used by the forest at Victoria City.
The gars couldn’t co up with a good na.
All the Guilds had sent their mbers to the forest. As such, there were ten Beetlemons that serviced the route between Eternal Kingdom and the Unknown Forest.
If a Beetlemon could only carry 100 gars, ten Beetlemons could only carry 1,000 gars. However, there were 5,000 gars in Eternal Kingdom. There was no consideration for the fact that an Orc’s body was much larger than a Gno. Perhaps a Beetlemon wasn’t able to ferry 100 Orcs. Most of the Guild mbers organized their Darting Birds and ford groups to ferry their mbers to the entrance of the forest. However, this thod wasn’t feasible for non-affiliated gars.
Marco Polo’s post had stated clearly that the entrance was pitch dark. It wasn’t suitable for Darting Birds to go in, as they would panic in the dark environnt. Many gars complained about the darkness phobia of Darting Birds when the birds were living in the Underworld. The gars had no choice, as it was a ga setting. The end was a steep cliff, and the gars could climb down, but the Darting Birds were unable to do so. A lone non-affiliated gar wouldn’t know where to put his Darting Bird.
Marco Polo, who was a lone adventurer, lost his Darting Bird and equipnt.
The gars of Eternal Kingdom couldn’t steal each other’s rides. If a gar had a Darting Bird and another gar killed the owner, the second gar was unable to take the Darting Bird. Of course, he could choose to kill the Darting Bird.
For opposing factions, the gars could steal each other’s rides. For example, gars of Victoria City could kill the owners of the Darting Birds and take their rides.
This fact was confird at the Sighing Wilderness.
The Pioneer Alliance organized its mbers to explore the Unknown Forest. As a 500-mber Guild, it organized a group with 300 mbers, each having a Darting Bird. They also arranged for extra tens of Darting Birds to carry loot and necessities such as tents, lamps, food, and water.
The gars knew that there was hunger and exhaustion in the ga. If the gars didn’t eat and rest sufficiently, their combat power would be greatly diminished. There was even so food that had a special BUFF that increased their agility. That was what the food description said. However, it wasn’t clear whether the food was effective.
Most of the gars believed the food to be effective, though there wasn’t an attribute panel for confirmation. Could the description be used to deceive the gars?
After the battle between the Pioneer Alliance and Changan City, the Pioneer Alliance was able to have a sizable force. One reason was that there were more rich gars in the Pioneer Alliance. The other main reason was that after attacking the two Changan City Strongholds, they pillaged the enemy’s resources and captured their high-ranking mbers.
Arthur didn’t want to build a Stronghold in the wilderness to imprison the high-ranking mbers of Changan City. He found a convenient location to imprison them and got so Guild mbers to keep watch. He didn’t care how long they were imprisoned. Arthur was nonchalant about whether Changan City was willing to spend money to rescue the prisoners.
The imprisonnt was a thod to tarnish the Guild’s reputation and serve as a warning. It wasn’t ant to keep them locked up for a long ti.
There were 300 Pioneer Alliance mbers and other allied Guild mbers that made up the five to six hundred mbers that set off from Eternal Kingdom towards the Unknown Forest.
The contingent looked like a long Dragon. Under good managent of the Guilds, the contingent traveled orderly towards the destination. There was no way unaffiliated gars could have such an orderly contingent.
As it was a large contingent, the speed wasn’t as fast as Marco Polo’s traveling speed. The 600-mber contingent traveled for half a day before it arrived at the entrance of the Unknown Forest. One hundred of the mbers went offline for various reasons, but they weren’t abandoned. Instead, they were placed on the backs of the Darting Birds or tied to the carts. If they were left on the road, their equipnt would be stolen.
The Darting Birds couldn’t be stolen, but if a piece of equipnt wasn’t Soulbound, it could be stolen.
It was almost night ti when they arrived at the entrance of the Unknown Forest. It was also the ti when most of the gars were online. Most of the unaffiliated gars would choose to take the Beetlemons and go offline to do other stuff. When they got online again, they would have arrived at a Beetlemon stop. Even if the Beetlemon arrived early, their friends would inform them via ssaging. Then they would go online imdiately and dismount from the Beetlemon. The gars were safe from attacks and stealing when they were on the Beetlemon.
More gars were online at night. When Arthur and his mbers arrived at the Unknown Forest, there was a vast crowd at the narrow tunnel.
It wasn’t a good choice to set up camp at the tunnel entrance. Arthur ordered half the mbers to stay, while the rest of the mbers escorted the Darting Birds back. They could then return to the Unknown Forest via the Teleport Portal, which would be built shortly.
Arthur and half of his mbers proceeded into the tunnel to explore the Unknown Forest.
Arthur wasn’t worried that the Changan City mbers would take revenge. As there were many gars, if the Changan City mbers attacked, there would be accidental damage to other gars, who would retaliate imdiately. Changan City would have antagonized other Guilds and unaffiliated gars besides the Pioneer Alliance and its allies. Changan City wouldn’t be so foolish as to do that.
Arthur and his 300 mbers brought along their essential equipnt and entered the tunnel of the Unknown Forest.
Almost a thousand gars were jostling in the tunnel. After 30 minutes, they exited the tunnel and arrived at the spacious top of the cliff.
The gars had to find a way to climb down the cliff, like what Marco Polo encountered.
They walked around but didn’t find any tunnels that went down. They could only scale down the steep cliff. Though the constitution of Orcs, Gnos, and Goblins was pretty good, without proper training and safeguards, it was as good as suicide.
The gars were multi-talented. They chose a few expert rock-climbers from the 5000 gars of Eternal Kingdom to scale down the cliff.
Many gars ca forward and revealed their professional rock-climbing experience. They also requested Spider Silk and ropes to create a ladder. It wasn’t difficult to overco this cliff.
The gars were familiar with the tensile strength of the Spider Silk. Even if tens of Orcs bore weight on the Spider Silk, it would be able to support them.
Once the gars were united, their efficiency skyrocketed. Before long, they created tens of ters of rope ladder using the contributed Spider Silk.
Then they used wooden stakes and rocks to fix one end of the rope ladder before throwing it down the cliff.
They climbed the rope ladder down in an orderly fashion.
This took quite so ti, but there were no other choices. The impatient gars could choose to climb down by themselves, but those without proper training t with a grotesque end.
Arthur and his mbers contributed the most Spider Silk, so they had priority in using the ladder. The 300 mbers spent more than an hour to gather in the forest.
The forest was lit up by faint light, and it looked like a fantasy scene.
The gars’ mission was to make a clearing in the forest so that they could build a Stronghold and a Teleport Portal. Then, Brainiac would activate the Teleport Portal.
When the gars were scaling the ladder, Brainiac used Mana to float down the cliff. He chose a good location for the teleportation of the Rune Mana Formation’s materials. The learned gars started logging the trees while the other gars explored the area.
Learning couldn’t be forced on the gars.
Though Arthur was good in his studies, he didn’t stay at the Stronghold and log trees. He didn’t require any wood, and his improved equipnt was at the maximum level.
Arthur didn’t want any furniture or need to make Bows or Arrows.
He led 100 mbers to explore other parts of the Unknown Forest. According to Marco Polo, there were other Orcs. Perhaps, there might be other Strongholds at the far end of the map. Arthur was going for the equipnt of those Orcs.
Compared to logging wood, they preferred to obtain the NPCs’ equipnt.
The size of the Unknown Forest went beyond Arthur’s imagination. After exploring for more than two hours, they didn’t reach the forest boundary. They didn’t find any Strongholds or traces of the Orcs either.
On the other side of the map, other gars discovered sothing and shared their findings on the discussion forum.
It was a Stronghold with a campfire! From the Stronghold size, there were a lot of creatures!
There were hundreds of Orcs and Gnos patrolling the periter. They cleared a large area for defense purposes.
It wasn’t clear where they ca from. After all, the Underground Forest was so huge that it could be connected to other tunnels. So, they could have co in from other tunnels.
To the gars of Eternal Kingdom, they were enemies. Even without being antagonized, the gars saw them as enemies with red nas.
The gars who discovered the Stronghold were small in number. They didn’t have the courage to dash in and take a look. They would lose all of their equipnt if they died.
They retreated imdiately after discovering the Stronghold and shared the information on the discussion forum. The other Guilds learned about this and deployed a group to the enemy Stronghold location.
The Orcs in the enemy Stronghold weren’t aware of an impending attack.
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