357 7.85 Flaming Arrows To Be Smouldering Arrows Soon

It was slightly after 6 pm when we had reached back to our Camp Salvation and seen us returned early, Will.I.Am and the two support staffs went about to prepare a hurried dinner for the hungry and weary 85 adventurers while 1 being a visitor from The Flaming Arrows, Boss Hugo himself.

The support staffs initially thought that we would not be back so he had prepared dinner just for the Dwarves and themselves. Seeing the conditions of the adventurers, Will.I.Am immediately prepared thick vegetable gruel and accompanied with scrambled eggs with tomatoes. In just 30 minutes, everything was whipped up and all of us settled down to eat our simple meal.

The support staffs also prepared boiled sweet corns with its ears intact in boiling water with a heap of salt to accentuate the taste. It was a welcome for the adventurers as seconds helping of the vegetable gruel failed to satiate their hunger after the last 3 battles they had.

"Tell us Hugo about your boss raid, you can either progress and regress from it right now?" I asked emphatically since we are all adventurers alike as we put aside our differences.

"I was actually enticed to do it as we have the overwhelming numbers to tackle it at first but after partying with other bands and combining forces, we weren't able to even subdue the small little opening where these demons from Hades emerges from."

"Their numbers are incomparable to the men that held their positions and a single demon could take down as many as 5 men with one slash and their simple weapons could slice apart the army like a hot knife through butter."

"We had suffered losses from Day One till now and there's no way from us to back down from it. We can't abandon the boss raid and move to a party raid or even grind normal monsters at all and we seemed to be stuck at that stage until we overcome it, or simply everyone dies from the battle."

Hugo explained as he looked down at his gruel and poked it around with his spoon. Probably looking for answers on how to overcome the dilemma.

"You said that you were enticed by it, what makes you drawn to organise a boss raid?" asked Matilda as she pondered on with the tale that Hugo had spun.

"There will be some mythical items that will be dropped every boss raid and this would drop after each successful run, and these items are considered as epic to legendary grades that could boost someone's level higher, add an enormous amount of attributes by adding equipment or accessories."

"That sounds rather enticing already to me," replied Jean Lethal as he listened on.

"The criteria is this, it's a pyramid system, beat one boss and level up to the next one and so on so forth until you hit the mega boss on the topmost level of the pyramid."

"So it's something like a party raid, we start from the lowest level and advance when we had the confidence to beat those at other levels?" Stef asked in comparison.

"No, in party raids we get to choose our sets of demons in whichever level we are comfortable with. In boss raids, we can't choose and we won't even know their levels even."

"On boss raids, if anyone gets killed, they would drop all their equipment, wait for 6 hours before respawn at their location where they placed the hearthstone. Whatever inside the storage also would be dropped and ends with 75% less money in the pouch. But items left in the guild's storage won't be affected."

"Hmm, very harsh rules. Now you are not able to exit from the boss raid and go anywhere else either to quit or replay back the scenario?" I asked with raised eyebrows that looked like Hiko Seijuro with a permanent frown on his face.

"That's right, the moment I exit from the raid, everyone would exit from there automatically. Once I participate back in another boss raid it would be automatically rejected. I can only be an observer in party raids like the one I had just done with you."

"Please...tell me what is the next course of actions that I need to do right now... I'm in dire need to get out of there and I'm either stuck with getting myself killed or disband everyone to save them."

"It sure looks that it would be a very difficult decision to make. Disbanding your team doesn't kill them right? It's a way to release them from the hole that they are stuck in right now. Disbanding them means they would not be in the boss raid as well as in Flaming Arrows, right?"

"That's right, and there's a penalty. They won't be able to access for the next 48 hours. The members get disbanded and became new adventurers and I get booted out and restart too when we quit the boss raid prematurely."

"Guess Flaming Arrows would be Smouldering Arrows soon... It is pretty sad to hear that, whatever your decisions you make is for the best of your team members and yourself. Talk to them and find out their ultimatum, place your hearthstone together and regroup. That's the only way now. I would do the same if I were you."

I replied emphatically and gave Hugo some assurance of me duplicating what he would do. In fact, it is just a saying since we would be ensuring that we do not fall into this type of trap in the future. Boss raid reaps the most benefits, drops and spoils but in the end, it would failure once you step inside that shit hole.

After having a lengthy chat with Hugo, he decided to summon everyone and have a chat with them and discuss the next course of action. He excused himself and heads back to Leeds alone.

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"Time to upgrade the NVA... The last battle that we had mainly focuses on brute force and physical capabilities and its AntiMagic. So we need more tomes on those. What do you think?"

I proposed as I took out the sales book on all passive skills and shouts. I looked at the Archers Patriot skill and found that it could be enhanced with a few more skills that made it truly formidable. Same goes to the rest of the classes. A few class names had been changed and Amazonian Fighters had been obsolete except the ones still active and wish to remain as they are.

"Silly boy, you never returned the book to the Peddler? How is he going to sell his Tomes to other people?"

"Haiya... I asked for the books and he never responded so I take them la... If he said cannot take then I return to him, silence means OK you can go ahead and take and buy the tomes and duplicate them, granny's little cutie pie."

"It is a good idea that you had this book, Robin. The last battle made the Mages, Druids and Necromancer useless as we are into sorcery and magic and wished we could be of some help in the future."

"There's a class restriction and also you will not be allowed to wield any other ranged weapon. Your staff could be used as a weapon but all of you are not melee class. If we equip you with a bow, then it's going to be an overkill and it's a prohibition. Not everyone is a mastery of weapons like the Barbarians which are now called Berserker."

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"Even as Archers now known as Rangers, they had with them a small dagger in case they need to face melee which is rarely the case, except for the battle at the graveyards earlier. They cannot equip with a long sword or shield or any other type of weapon since their primary class is archery and bowmanship."

"How about other classes, would there be any changes at all?" asked Stef full of curiosity and was relieved when I told here her class remained unchanged but with newly added spells, chants and other stuff.

"Alright, let's get to work then," I said as I gathered the sergeants of all classes and passed around the copy of the sales book which I had recently duplicated so everyone will have an exact copy and I drew the whiteboard closer for the meeting. Hahahahha.