307 7.35 Grind...Grind...Grind...

I stared with uneasy eyes as the field was filled with bodies from 4 different categories of Female Bandits, mutilated and bludgeoned, as Matilda and Jean Lethal immersed in a delirious raid on them, striking once and moving on to the next one as one by one fell over to the ground while all the spoils were compiled my Matilda as she had the most storage space of all.

No female bandits evaded their sights whether they are sick, injured or vicious as they keep their uncontrollable attacks on them. At one stage I could even observe several female bandits pleading with their lives with clasped hands under their chins.

The female bandits kept spawning and kept perishing as the duo finally ceased when there are no more spoils to amass. The spoils they had obtained from the female bandits were coppers, pouches and tobacco leaves.

Gotham and Vendetta were trickling with blood and once they realised that the female bandits did not drop any more spoils, they charged at the vipers next. The duo had an ominous look in their eyes and was simply drooling when they attacked the vipers next with a minimum of two strikes from their weapons.

I had left the band so that they would get a kick out of a 50% share on experience points. They were intent of slaughtering that they decided to forgo lunch as they collected venom and viper skin next. I playfully took out my bow and arrow and shot blunt arrowheads at the vipers just to incense them.

Since the arrowheads are blunt, the only damage it would do is to birds. "Heal...!" I heard Matilda shout out and I instantly summoned my Psi Healing Energy Spheres in my hands and I shot several of those at Matilda and Jean Lethal from a distance. The Heal command is entirely to recover and refill their Essense and not because they are injured. They both could self generate their Dexterity and cure their external wounds on their own every 5 seconds.

"Boss...come and join us...!"

"Ya lah...we don't wish to hoard all the fun...!"

"Hahaha...I'm letting you have 50% each...!"

Watching them actually grind those normal monsters would be quite alright since I'm deferring for the BOSS along with the grey wolves. Matilda and Jean Lethal would be facing some difficulties there once they start grinding the grey wolves.

The vipers they were attacking made those tarantulas nearby to react as well simultaneously. Those 2 monsters do not drop coins but the tarantulas drop cocoon-shaped spider webs and tarantulas shells.

Right now, they are confidently going against monsters up to 3 levels higher than themselves. With their improved weapons and upgraded pieces of armour, Matilda toyed with the monsters as she ran around and slices the legs off the tarantulas while Jean Lethal delivering the final bash on them making them a perfect combo partner.

When the sun nearly dipped towards the trees in the distance, I shouted "TIME-OUT" and the response I got was, "HAVE A BREAK" and "HAVE A KITKAT" and their grinding comes to a close as Matilda ran around and gathered up the resources with Jean Lethal.

As they sauntered back to my location, I continuously flicked Psi Energy Healing Spheres at them and soon their energy was replenished and they felt more invigorating and refreshed. "You're really a wonder, boss. You could attack, defence as well as strategizes and healing, all at the same time. Ho...ho...ho..."

"I hadn't had so much fun grinding like this. Those monsters kept coming and I kept slashing at them. We would have a go on the vipers and tarantulas tomorrow after breakfast and once we're done, we would be doing for the grey wolves next."

"And by that time, I'm joining the band back once we hit the BOSS. right now, I let you have 50% shares whenever you fell a monster. It is definitely not fair for me to watch and receive a 33% shares from your hard-earned efforts right?"

"You're the greatest, ring leader...hii...hii...hii... Always seemed to be considerate towards others. I like your character, granny does too."

"You missed your granny don't you?"

"Yeah... It is been quite sometime now..."

"I know how you feel... I'm an orphan too..."

"Boss, I'm an orphan as well..."

"Well... Here come The Band of Horfun... Hahahaha..."

"Hohoho... You really make weird sounding names for the band..."

"He's making fun of me again, this half dimwit dum dum..."

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"Boss, I'm going to catch some fish for dinner and supper as well... It is been some time since we had freshly caught fish..." as Jean Lethal places Gotham aside and retrieved a fishing kit and proceeded to cast into the stream.

An offscreen crew acted as a diver and had a fish basket where he began to hook some herrings to the hook and jiggle the fishing line.

"Got one..." as Jean Lethal yanked and slowly reeled in the dead fish right up the river bank. A few more of those and he was done fishing and held the dishes in his hands triumphantly as he gingerly walked over to the fireplace and began to dress the fish in little barbie doll's costumes. Hahahaha...

As he dressed the fishes, he drives a stick into it like a skewer and places them near the edge of the fireplace to slowly use the radiated heat to grill them.

Before we had left to grind, I had prepared a mixed vegetable gruel beforehand and had placed them to warm it close to the embers to keep it warm. A slab of pork belly had been smoked and preserved and it had been sliced and fried in the wok with some sesame oil flavourings and crushed garlic.

Matilda was helping to set the bowls and plates as our daily guests would be arriving soon for dinner after she had washed her bloodied hands due to frenzied killings back then.

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"Another fine meal compliments for our young adventurers here. Here's your share of the shares we had collected." said one of the dwarfs as he extended 4 pouches filled the gem's shards and I accepted and thanked them.

"We would be going off soon and be heading back to our home since we have something to attend to. Take care and be seeing you at breakfast then."

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One of the dwarfs spoke up and bade farewell as they shoulder their picks and lumbers towards where they had come during the day.

"Ring leader, I've noticed something earlier while we were slaughtering the vipers and tarantulas. It seemed that the female bandits were ignoring us once we had surpassed their levels. Why isn't so?"

"I guess they do not have a reason to chase after you after all and risked being killed and then respawn again. Furthermore, there are no more spoils to attain from them once you're done with them. Am I right?"

"I think so too boss, if not every single monster that we had annihilated would keep on coming back and attacking us. I think it's been regulated by the developers to make them behave in such a manner. Don't you think so?"

"It might be a possibility, if not it would be an endless horde of them coming at you and disrupting the task at hand. Remove your armour if you're not in battle. This is not some fancy pants medieval English fantasy game where you are with your armour even when you are asleep. Hahahahaha..."

"Ring leader, what do you think we are going to do with all these spoils? Venom, snakeskin, spider web and tarantula shells...all this can't be fixed to make something, right?"

"Let me see, I could turn this venom as anti-venom, this snakeskin to make some kind of fashionable arm and leg stockings, these spider web we can pass it to Spiderman and see if he got any use for it and for these shells...make into ornamentals for Halloween I guess?"

"Or haul these to the NPC in the trading area to exchange them for coins. I don't see any reason to keep this. There's no quest or exchange these obtainable for a mystery item or other collectables. These pouches and tobacco leaves could be exchanged for coins too. Just go to any of the merchants and exchange them for coins and convert them accordingly."

"You won't want to be carrying hundreds of copper pieces where you can exchange 50 of those to be a single shilling and 20 shillings for a piece of gold coin. The exchange rate is pretty harsh here. There's a courier guild in the market place where you can get storage spaces for a maximum period of 24 months."

"These storage spaces are available across the continent, no matter where you save them and you would be able to retrieve them elsewhere. I'm not sure how much it would be but I think it's pretty cheap and you could store weapons and armour into each individual slot, unlike the storage bag."

"Wah...boss, you seemed to know so much. Did you ask any of them for such information?"

"Of course not, JL...I read the help files when I was with you at the grinding fields on their information. It says here in the help section that the storage space was 5x10 and each slot can store up to 255 similar items. It cost 2 shillings for each month and is 48 shilling or 2 gold and 8 shillings for the rental of 24 months."

"It's better than lugging around this useless stuff in the storage bag. We can go there once you had your supper and we could rent these storage spaces individually or as a band. What do you think?"

"Let's do it, ring leader. We can get rent these storage spaces as a band and do we get like 15x30 based on the number of members in a band?"

"As a joint storage space, we could only get the 10x10 ones at a discounted rate of 5 gold for the whole 2 years. Come on, let's go then to the trading area."

"Also it would be best to store some dumplings and salted duck eggs inside your personal storage since you could consume them and recover back your Essense and health every 3 seconds for 15 seconds with a cooling time of 1 minute. It's a start."