In truth, Reidar, too, noticed that he only got two quests during his first day and nothing else following that mont.
"Maybe we need to go to the vendors?"
"That actually makes sense," Reidar said. "I only got two quests until now, and it was during my first day. I wonder, did you get one too?"
The others paused to think.
"If I’m not wrong, we got a quest during the first day, but we were told it failed after night ca. I’m actually not sure of it, though," George said. "As you know, we... we were not in our right state of mind back then..."
"Well, never mind," Reidar said, nodding. "It didn’t give wonderful rewards either way..."
The group spent several minutes looting the monsters. Reidar explained how to do it. Of course, he already explained how to use the inventory to them. They wouldn’t have been able to bring all the provisions inside the gas station otherwise.
Reidar then re-summoned all the creatures that had died.
"So this is what fighting monsters is like," Sarah said as she looked at a particularly large monster.
"This was actually a relatively tough fight for those around my level, so it should have been impossible for you to win without ." Reidar paused. "Keep the level difference between you and the monster as low as possible, because the higher it is, the worse it will be for you."
That left the others quite scared. "Hopefully, most creatures you’ll face starting out will be weaker, but I still suggest you increase your level. Anyway, did you receive C.L.A.S.P. points?"
Reidar already explained what those things were.
"No," Everyone said.
"No?"
Reidar opened his nu. He had unlocked the party function when he reached level 5.
But the system didn’t, and Reidar ended up getting all the C.L.A.S.P. points from the kills.
"Wait a second, I want to try sothing."
He opened the nu.
—[GUARDIAN SYSTEM NU]—
Inventory
Status
Perk Trees
Help
Group Interface
Combat Log
Crafting Log
Party
Map
—[END]—
Reidar opened the party interface and then tried to invite the others.
[UNABLE TO INVITE USERS TO THE PARTY. LEVEL TOO LOW. TARGETS HAVE LOCKED FUNCTION.]
"What?" Mike asked.
"Nothing, I tried to invite you to my party to make you get C.L.A.S.P.S. from my kills, but it looks like until you reach level 5 and unlock the party function, you can’t even get into one."
"Is it bad?" Margaret asked.
"It is," Reidar nodded. "Because it ans you won’t get stronger by simply staying with until you reach level 5, and it also ans you will need to start actively fighting and getting kills yourselves. Otherwise, you won’t get levels or survival points."
"Is it a lengthy process?" Frank asked, showing a glimr of understanding that he needed to take action.
Reidar nodded. "I’ve got so bonuses that boost the C.L.A.S.P. I get from kills, but from what I can tell, each monster around your level gives you a certain percentage of what you need to level up—plus a little extra depending on a few things. I got less than that because I was at a higher level than those monsters, even with my bonuses. If they give about 2% of the C.L.A.S.P. you need per kill—and I’m still figuring that out—then you’d have to take down around fifty monsters at your level. The catch is that hardly ever happens."
"What?"
"That you fight monsters of the sa level." Reidar paused.
Silence ensued.
"Most of the ti, the monsters are too strong or too weak to give you enough points to just kill 50 of them and level up. Sotis you should be able to get more, but that would an facing higher-level monsters, which most likely ans death, or having to work your way through hordes of weaker monsters, which will make leveling up longer, unless you don’t actually fight against thousands of monsters, which I do not recomnd."
Reidar knew from experience that what he did against the Rift-Sprites shouldn’t have been sothing that others could replicate easily unless it was planned and the circumstances were favorable.
The reason was simple. The Rift-sprites were strong in one elent but weak in others, and having the four basic elental skills added to the four basic rift-sprite summons, Reidar could actually one-shot the monsters most of the ti. And that was just in taking advantage of their weaknesses.
But monsters like the Glimrfang didn’t seem weak to his elental spells, from what he’d seen. There had to be so other kind of elent or attack out there—sothing they were vulnerable to.
"You’ll get used to it," Reidar assured him. "Combat becos less terrifying once you’ve survived a few encounters."
Frank was still staring at his weapon. "I hit it. I actually hit it when it mattered."
"You did a good job, Frank," Linda said proudly. "You didn’t freeze up or panic."
"Neither did any of you," Reidar pointed out. "You stayed calm, you listened to instructions, and you helped when you could. That’s precisely what you need to do to survive out here."
The group’s confidence lifted after surviving the fight. Their fear had faded, replaced by a new sense of purpose.
"Are there more of them?" Margaret asked.
"Probably."
"So we need to keep moving," George said.
Reidar nodded. "Three Lakes is still our destination. But now you’ve had your first taste of what we’ll face getting there."
The survivors checked their equipnt. The fight had been brief, but it had changed their understanding of what survival in this new world required. Fights. Deaths. Determination. Courage.
"Now... let’s try to make you reach level five, shall we?"
They resud their journey through the forest, but for the first ti since leaving the gas station, they looked like survivors rather than victims.
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