Chapter 16: The first battle
The group tensed up as they had a staring showdown with the two rat creatures across the pond from them.
"What are those things?" Jake asked as he looked across the pond at the two creatures who stared intensely back at them.
Nobody answered as they all subconsciously knew the answer to that question. They were beasts.
Qu Quan seed to be sowhat calm compared to the others, except for Lun, as she had taken the initiative to use her basic identify skill on one of the creatures.
Compared to the information she would get from identifying a plant, the info she got from using on this beast was short but extrely important for them.
[Enraged rodent - level 2]
This piece of info was all got, but she quickly inford the rest of the group of her findings and it didn't improve the atmosphere.
"Oh great idea! How did I not think of that!" Will answered back in a cheer and gave Qu Quan a light pat on the back.
Everyone there was level 0 and had little to no experience in combat except for maybe Shivi and Lun who lied about his experience.
Everyone was still tense until Lun spoke up.
"The gap between levels doesn't seem that big as it's only a difference of two, plus we out number them 5 to 2 so we should have the advantage of both numbers and strength since we have Jake with his strength increasing talent and with the two archers and will backing us up, it shouldn't be too scary to think about defeating them if we are careful and work together." It was the first ti Lun had spoken to them for so long but his words held a lot of sway over the group as it seed to have boosted their morale and confidence.
"He's right, we shouldn't be so scared facing beasts at such a level! Lets get into formation with Jake and Lun at the front, in the middle and the Qu Quan and Shivi at the flank. Co on guys, we've got this!" Will chid in after Lun to rouse everyone into action.
Everyone was still anxious but the feeling was overwheld by the adrenaline coursing through their body.
Very soon they put their strategies in to action.
The plan was simple, to have everyone stand back at first while the archers fired off ranged attacks from a distance, aiming to deal so damage or maybe even get a kill on one or both of them. While this was happening, Jake and Lun would flank from both sides of the pond and cover the rodent beasts' sides.
The idea of attacking them straight on ca from Lun who noted that their na stared with 'Enraged' aning they probably had little reason inside their heads and would attack mindlessly. This would make things both easy and difficult for them as it ant they wouldn't just run away, but them not running away ant they would put up the fiercest of fights and wouldn't hold back in the slightest.
Will wanted to help with the archer's ranged attacks but his Mana bolts only had a range of 15 tres and he couldn't get close to them as the group's 'only' healer. Plus he didn't have any physical capabilities like everyone else.
The archers started firing from the flank of the group as the first round of arrows missed their target, but luckily in the second round Shivi managed to get a good shot in and landed an arrow right on one of the rodent's legs.
With it's mobility majorly slowed Jake and Lun would have an easier ti fighting them.
With the arrival of the third round of arrows the two warriors arrived next to the beasts, this ti Qu Quan had got a hit on the second rodent right in the eye, but not deep enough to reach it's brain.
Lun arrived and upon his first contact with the rodent, he noticed that they weren't as strong as he expected.
Although he knew he had very high stats compared to the average human, he didn't think the sa would be the case for any beasts he ca across.
This revelation naturally boosted his confidence even more as he grew even more aggressive with his attacks, his proficiency in his spear mastery rising every ti he landed a hit on the rodent or blocked an incoming attack with his spear.
Jake was also faring well against the rodent he occupied as he had already activated his strength talent, boosting his strength stat by 2.5x, giving him a big edge over the beast as he was pushing back against it with sheer strength alone.
With the skill activated he even had a little higher strength than Lun, to his surprise, as the battle continued for only another couple of minutes.
The other three didn't even need to help out anymore as Jake and Lun were completely dominating the beasts.
Soon both beasts fell as Lun and Jake stood above their prey, Lun not even breaking a sweat while Jake had so minor injuries that Will had already begun to heal.
The fight had surprised them all as it was actually way easier than all of them thought it would go, to all of their joy of course.
Lun and Jake were too focused on their own gains from their kills though to focus on the chattering of the other three.
Lun inspected all of the system ssages that he had just received.
[Ding! Killed level 2 F tier beast]
[Gained 112 experience]
[Gained 24 credits]
[Obtained 1 F tier beast carcass - edible]
The bodies of the dead beast soon disappeared in front of everyone's eyes and went straight into Jake and Lun's inventories.
"I gained a total of 96 experience from my kill, only 4 exp off levelling up to level 1! I also got 21 credits as well. What about you Lun, what did you get from your kill?" Jake asked jubilantly as his gains hadn't been so bad.
Lun answered truthfully to the group as it seed that the experience and credits gained from a kill would be split in order of contribution to the kill.
Shivi and Qu Quan both confird this as they explained they they had also gained a little exp and credits from the kills, but not as much as Lun and Jake.
Shivi explained that he gained 38 experience from the rodent Lun killed, with 6 credits.
Qu Quan had also received a little more than Shivi due to her shot to the other rodent beast's eye and the team quickly determined that for 1 kill on a level 2 beast, the most one could gain if fought solo would be 150 exp, and 30 credits.
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