At that ti, they heard a loud knock on the door. It soon opened. The workshop owner appeared behind the door.
"Hey, ti's up. I have been knocking for a while already now," he said with an annoyed tone.
"Ah, forgive ! My work is done, thank you for renting the place," Jack quickly packed up and went out.
In the next four days, He spent it by doing so short adventurer quests and hunting quests. He did the hunting quests again on the second day with Fla, Bowler, and The Man. One of The Man's subordinates had succeeded in his Warrior class, so he was also invited to the hunting quests. Fierce Fla and The Man were already level 19, Fla especially was closed to level 20. While Bowler was still at level 18.
Jack thought that if he had not encountered that level 28 special elite Ice Troll Sentinel and kill-stole it, he probably would be lower than Fla in terms of level. After all, it took him twice as much exp to level up compared to the others.
After they completed their hunting quest trip, they celebrated by spending ti together at the tavern. In the tavern, Jack told Fla about the Ta Pet skill since she was close to level 20. He told her that she would need to purchase so baits, cages, and pet foods from the hunter shops. The process of taming a pet was arduous and required preparation. She could choose any monster from the wilderness as long as it was considered small-sized monster. The Silver Wolves and Grey Sabrecats that were commonly found in the vicinity of the capital were one such example of small-sized monsters. The skill would not work on anything larger like Swamp Croc or Horned Rhino.
An Archer could only have one pet. If they decided to choose another pet, they would have to release their current pet, so it was important to choose carefully. The monster would be lured using the bait before being trapped using a cage. Taming would be done after the monster was in captivity. The cage could also break during the taming process, thus the need to prepare more than one cage. Several attempts might be needed before a pet was successfully tad. Once the monster was tad, the skill would change its na to Summon Pet. The pet could then be called for assist during battle.
Jack also told her that it would be better if she chose to capture the offspring of her chosen monster. It would be more difficult for her to find as it would require her to track the monster to its lair. Another drawback was that even if she had successfully captured an offspring, it could not be imdiately summoned for battle. After all, an offspring had no battle capacity. She would need to nurture it and raise it to adulthood before it could be summoned for battle, which would take ti. But if she managed to do so, the raised monster would have a better bond with her and able to coordinate better with her in a fight.
Another advantage was that the raised monster would have better attributes compared to its standard counterpart. The better the pet food used to raise the monster, the stronger its growth would be. There was even a chance that the raised monster would increase in its grade and possess special skills that would not be available from the other monsters tad in a normal way.
All this was of course inford by Peniel to Jack, before he relayed the information to Fla. The others were impressed by how knowledgeable he was. As usual, he used the excuse that he had read the information from the library.
"You really like to read, eh?" The Man comnted. "I would never be able to sit still and spend more than five minutes with a book filled with words."
"I can imagine," Jack replied without trying to be polite.
Jack also inford them all about the Amulet of Rebirth, which could be purchased from the Church of Creation.
"Do you an this amulet?" Bowler showed him the amulet he was wearing.
Jack inspected it and saw that it was really the amulet he was ntioning about. He only heard the na from Peniel, he didn't truly know what it looked like. When Earmouth wore the amulet, he never really paid attention to it.
Bowler also inford them that he had actually beco a mber of the Church of Creation. There were many technique books of spells for Healer available there, but he would need a lot of contribution points before he could get any of them.
Since the topic touched upon the league factions, Jack proceeded to explain to them about the multiple factions available in this world. That they should find a suitable faction to develop. He told them that he had joined the Kingdom faction but he was not sure how he could help them to join, since it required an invitation for it. They, however, were not too bothered by it. They didn't seem too interested to join actually.
They also talked about the developnt after that eting organized by the three big guilds. John had managed to scare off a part of the ones who attended the eting, but so remained. Jack didn't know what the secret content in the third part of the eting, but the resource managent plan, as Manager Steelhand called it, had started to be implented.
After that eting, there were eight guilds, big and dium, who were willing to join the three big guilds. Forming a coalition of eleven guilds. They were a force to be reckoned with.
John and White Scarf had spread the bad rumors about Corporate United's involvent in the robbing incident, and also the dictatorial plan in the eting of controlling certain leveling up areas. These rumors had caused many independent players and small guilds to denounce the coalition. However, their resistances were disjointed and could not form a cohesive front. In the end, the coalition still managed to take control of several leveling-up areas.
The other large guilds, like White Scarfs and Saint Edge, had no choice but to also carve out a portion of area for their own. The wilderness surrounding the capital ended up becoming a collection of turfs between the guilds. The ones that suffered the most were the independent players and small guilds. They were forced to go level up at areas with higher difficulty which provided higher risk, or areas with lower difficulty which gave less exp, or pay tribute to the coalitions in order to be allowed a limited ti to grind for monsters within their turfs.
In the end, it still ca back to who had the most n, Jack thought with a sigh. Gangs, mafias, corporations, governnts, the pattern of the real world was starting to be applied in this world as well. The minority would always have to follow the rules decided by those with more numbers.
And the sad thing was, even with the exposure of the bad deeds by the mber of the coalition. Many players still lined up to join the guilds within the coalition. Such was human nature, always prefer to join the seemingly winning team, even if said team had a moral problem. As long as they could get a benefit, everything else was secondary.
Fla was not too bothered by those guilds' actions, since she usually enjoyed grinding at a higher difficulty area. Bowler, on the other hand, was cursing his heart out when the topic on those guilds ca into talks.
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