Chapter 326 - Ancient Ruin (1)

A huge group of soldiers were marching towards the teleportation gate in Miderian. This parade was watched by all of the citizens in the Miderian. Not only that, but there were also some players mixed among them.

The groups disappeared into the teleportation gate. As the players knew where the group headed at, many of them followed the group. And, Auron also was one of them.

Previously, Auron had decided to play in his swordsman character for this huge sudden quest. The reason was obviously because of the rewards. However, he still couldn't forget that his mage character only had one life. That was why he didn't want to leave the mage character alone.

After several teleportation, the soldiers and Auron had arrived in one of the destination town, Crager. It was one of the nearest towns to the impacted place.

Crager was used to be one of the places that supplied gemstones to the kingdom as it was a miner town. However, right now, all of the citizens here had already been evacuated. The town was filled entirely with soldiers from various places in the kingdom. Not only soldiers, but some players had wanted to join the occasion.

This was not a surprising thing for the soldiers. When there was a massive event like these, there would be some players who wanted to leech off the soldiers.

Especially for a lone wolf or players that had no huge guild, they would participate in the event by fighting alongside with the NPCs. Auron was among the players that was also in the Crager.

A few minutes later, the group of soldiers started to depart from Crager, followed by the players. Auron had left his mage character to the AI to control. He had set the AI to fight passively.

Five minutes later, they had arrived at the border where the mysterious monster had been stopped. When Auron came, he could see that there were already several soldiers who had previously fought.

Not only soldiers, but some players were helping the soldiers. These players came from a large and famous guild.

Some players had a territory to control. For a lord, to upgrade and increase their territory size, one of the requirements required was to have high nobility points. And, participating in this quest was one of the easiest way to gain that nobility points that they needed.

With the new reinforcements from the headquarter, the soldiers started to push back the monsters. At first, they pushed the monster quickly as the monster was weak. However, when they got into deeper, the monster started to get stronger.

Auron was fighting against one of the 'butterflies' monster. As a swordsman, Auron fight against the monster at close combat. He fought against the 'butterflies' monster, who had a slim appearance. Its speed was fast. However, Auron still could match the monster's speed.

Auron could overwhelm the monster. However, when the monster was in his deathbed, the monster started to fly. As a swordsman, he had only a limited number of range attacks. So, when the monster flew, Auron had difficulty in killing the monster.

BANG... A [Fire Bolt] hit the monster that was fighting flying to avoid Auron. Several spells also hit the flying monster and killed it. These spells were coming not from Auron's mage nor the soldiers. They were coming from the other players that tried to kill steal.

With the monster dead, Auron quest got updated and showed his current contribution points. Auron got 7 points from that dead monster. Each monster would give different contribution points depending on its strength. The previous monster should give Auron 10 points if he killed it by himself. However, since the other player got the last hit, his point got deducted.

Such kill steal practice was common during events like these. Moreover, the chaotic environment helped to make it more challenging to locate the kill stealer. Of course, an NPC soldier would not get angry if there was someone kill-steal their monster. After all, their job was to eradicate this monster, whether it was they who killed them or other people didn't matter.

However, for players who were greedy enough to chase for the point, one kill steal could make them lose a chance to get a better reward. Of course, the player would not immediately ask for a fight. They would check their opponent first.

If the kill stealer was weaker than them, they would curse even fight against them. However, if the kill stealer was stronger than them, they would shrink back and moved to another place.

Auron, who got kill steal by another player, didn't get angry. Although he felt disappointed as well, but he chose to let it go. It was because of two reasons. First, he was still thinking about his mage character. Rather than getting into meaningless conflict, he would use this chance to secure his mage character's safety.

The second reason was this was still an outer area. Auron's goal was so that he could arrive at the ruin and saw the crystal once more. He believed that if he could contribute all the way until the crystal, he could get the necessary contribution to achieve what he wanted.

Slowly, the monsters got pushed back closer and closer to the ancient ruin. Only ruin left from the cities, towns, and villages that had been destroyed.

Although Auron's mage character only joined the fight passively, but he also got some contributions. Unfortunately, Auron's mage character and swordsman's character contribution points were separated.

It was because the contribution point that Auron's swordsman character got was the kingdom point from the king, but the one that his mage character got was the military point.

Slash... Auron killed another 'butterflies' monster. This time, he killed the monster before it could fly away. After killing the monster, he looked at the situation near the battlefield. Thanks to the joint effort from the players and soldier, the 'butterflies' monster started to get pushed back.