CH.488 Adventuring Tournant, preliminary round[Unika POV]
“... I got our list.” Eline reported, as she returned from getting the list of items we were to retrieve from the Castle dungeon. She handed it to , along with a map the organizers gave us, and I looked them over.
The list had a list of items, and a list of trade points we could get those items from. I then compared the map we got from the organizers to a map Brian got us.
Brian’s map was a lot more detailed, showing all item trade points, while our map only showed those that we needed. And a few of the points we needed were in different places on Brian’s map compared to the competition map. I don’t know which one is true, but I’ll trust Brian on this. I’m sure he wouldn’t lead us astray.
Maybe the dungeon master changed the locations of the trade points or sothing and the map we got was done with the old ones. But Brian just made his map, so he wouldn’t have been fooled.
“Alright. So …” I then pointed out each of the trade points we’d have to visit, while also showing Brian’s map, so I could point out locations from which we could get large amounts of dungeon points, so we could afford the items.
“... shouldn’t we take on these A-ranks?” Einar asked. “We’d get a lot of points, and we should be able to deal with them.”
“Yes, but they are too close to these trade points.” I pointed out. “Other adventurers will likely have items they will need to pick up from those points, so better not to get too close. We don’t want to get attacked by them, if we can avoid it.”
“... isn’t that against the rules?” Eline asked.
“Do you think soone will be able to govern all the rules? To see everything that happens inside?” I asked.
“Brian could.” Einar pointed out.
“But Brian isn’t organizing this tournant, so we can’t assu everything is as good as it would be with him.” I reminded them. “Also, if we need points, we have this spot. At least five S-ranks. They might not be easy points, but we can deal with them, if we use our cards.”
“A bit risky.” Eline said.
“Yes, but because of that, no other adventurers are likely to touch them.”
We made an overall plan, and got ready to head into the dungeon.
“Group C, head in!” We heard the announcent.
The adventuring teams were let into the dungeon in smaller groups to avoid excessive grounding on the first floor. We were in group C, so we headed in with nine other parties.
In total, I counted over 50 parties taking part in the tournant, but only eight will get to the finals. I think we can make it, but I will admit that we are at a slight disadvantage.
The party size for the tournant is minimum of two, maximum of five mbers. We naturally have three, which isn’t the minimum, but most parties I saw were five mbers.
And it isn’t like we get easier items to get just because our party is smaller. The only advantage we have is requiring less food for the dungeon dive.
Except that that isn’t true, because two of us are tars, and we have monsters with us. In Tar’s Paradise. But despite the fact that we can hold our monsters there, we still need to feed them.
Thankfully each of us is carrying both a magic fanny pack, as well as a large magic backpack, so we shouldn’t run out. And if we do, Brian did make sure we carry so holy water, which we can use to purify the miasma from the monster at we can find in the dungeon, so we will still have food.
On the way into a dungeon, we all quickly touched a crystal of so kind. I didn’t know it at the ti, but the crystal was a sort of ‘anti-cheating’ asure, as Brian would call it.
After we were inside, we stuck to the plan we made and headed deeper into the dungeon. Most likely the earlier parties already cleared all the monsters from this area, so we will not be sticking around.
“Nitrum.” I called out, to let my hippogriff out of Tar’s Paradise. While I did so, Einar released his wind griffin.
Einar and Eline both got on the griffin, just so Eline doesn’t have to waste mana summoning a monster, while I rode Nitrum and we got a move on.
We flew past the early floors, only fighting monsters if they were blocking our path. From those few monsters, we did manage to get a dungeon card, which I registered for myself. We will only need one, because there is no point spreading the points to multiple cards.
Once we got deeper into the dungeon, we began hunting monsters and turning them into points. Thanks to Brian’s map, we knew exactly how many points we’d need for all the items we were asked to get.
Luckily we were able to use our real weapons inside the dungeon, not our tournant regulated equipnt, because while our tournant equipnt is good, it isn’t as good as our regular stuff.
I pulled the string on my bow, as I lit an arrow on fire with Foxfla. While doing so, I also put so mana into my bow, to increase its power even more. I then let the arrow fly, landing a good hit on a B-rank monster. The initial hit already did a lot of damage, followed by the Foxflas burn, only that single arrow took down the B-rank monster.
I then fired another few arrows, taking down more B-rank monsters, while Einar and Eline took down the C-ranks. While they could also take down B-ranks with relative ease, I do the most damage out of us, except for a full power Lightning spell from Eline, so it is best for to take down the B-ranks.
When we decided to call it a day and rest, we had collected over half of the points we will need for the items. We hadn’t picked up a single item yet, as it will be better to collect them all on our return trip. We will have more space in our bags then.
Since we were sleeping in a dungeon, we did have to have soone keeping guard all night, but we did have a cheat Brian gave us. It is a card called Swords of Revealing Light.
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I then used my Foxflas to infla one of the S-rank monsters. This was a technique I developed to work with another card monster I could use. Because while inflad by Foxflas, the burning monster is treated as a Fire attribute monster.
And that is important because I flip summoned Hiita the Fire Charr, to bring that monster under my control. Well Hiita’s control, but Hiita is under my control.
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Because of the damage they took from that attack, the S-ranks couldn’t stand for much longer, so we collected the points. I confird we had enough, and headed for the closest dropoff point.
It was after we had collected three out of the ten items we were tasked to get when we ran into a party of adventurers.
They waved at us, while we were riding towards the next trade point, acting as if one of them was badly injured, and asked if we had potions we’d be willing to sell them, or if we one of could use healing magic.
I was a bit hesitant, as I assud this was a trap, but Eline quickly used a Gift Card on the injured adventurer, and it did heal him, so it must not have been a trap.
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