Chapter 406 - Forest Field (2)

At the rest area, Auron was mentally exhausted. With the health left on his mage, he might not be able to pass the fifth floor.

Auron tried to remember the feeling when he was battling under the heavy rain. It was almost like battling in the dark without any light. He could not fight at all while his enemy could freely attack him from any side.

Fortunately, this rain did not happen randomly. There was a scheduled time for this rain. When it rained, it would last for 3 hours before stopping. Then, one hour of the sunny day followed. Those 4 hours would make a cycle, which means in one day, there would be 6 cycles of raining and dry.

When Auron arrived on this floor, he had on the last minute of the sunny day. Which was why a few minutes after Auron arrived, the rain poured down.

Right now, Auron had to wait until the rain stopped, or he had to fight in such a dangerous situation. In his previous swordsman character, Auron rarely fought in such a disadvantaged position. Usually, when he was in a disadvantaged place, then his enemies would also have the same disadvantaged.

During his wait, Auron was thinking a way of how he could surpass this situation. If Auron had to always wait when the rain stopped, his progress on this floor would be longer. Moreover, he had to play on two characters.

When the rain stopped, the monsters would go hide. It would be difficult to find such small and agile monsters in this big forest with many places to hide. Not to mention the competition that would happen.

Auron believed that there would be many others who would have the same thought as he did. All of them would start to hunt when the rain was stopped.

3 hours was up. During those three hours, Auron had racked his brain to remember how the monster fought. However, Auron could not find any idea yet. 

Since 3 hours had passed, the rain should have stopped. Auron went back to the fifth floor. And the rain really had stopped. However, as the rain had stopped, Auron began to see his competitors. 

They were also searching for the monsters. However, just like Auron, they could not find any. The monster really hid deep inside.

A player found one monster that was hiding on a hole. However, as soon as the monster was found, the monster jumped out of the hole. And, with its quick speed, it bounced around trying to run away.

The player, who found the monster, had used their movement skill to chase the monster. Unfortunately, that player was not an agile type. The monster quickly left the player and found another hiding place.

Such a situation could be found throughout the forest. Most of the monster slipped out from the player. However, some players managed to stun or maim the monsters. With that chance, they managed to kill the monster.

Unfortunately, not everyone was as fortunate as them, and Auron was one of them. He couldn't even find any monster yet.

Currently, there were more than 400 soldiers on this floor. And, almost 90% of them were the ones who put their all when the rain had stopped. So, during this time, they went searching the monsters madly as if the monster had exterminated their family.

With this fierce competition, Auron didn't make any progress at all. And, the one hour limit almost passed. Soon, it would begin raining.

Auron could see many other participants had activated their rest function and teleported to the rest area.

Auron was pondering whether he should go back or continue and try his fortune. He looked at his surroundings. There were only trees around, and he could not find anything extraordinary.

Then, at one of the trees far from him, he saw a dark hole. From its size, a human could fit inside the tree. Auron approached the trees. And, what Auron had thought was correct, the tree had a hole that a human could fit inside.

This tree was a strange one as the other tree around didn't have such a big hole like this one. Auron went inside and looked at what was inside.

Inside, Auron could not find any monster nor human. With only one entrance and exit, this could be a great place to kill the monster if he could lure the monster here.

Not long after Auron went inside the hole in the tree, a drop of water came down from the sky. One drop... Two drops... Then, several drops more came down quickly, followed until it rained heavily.

Inside the tree, Auron still could have an option to activate his rest function. However, he decided to wait for a few minutes before doing that. He wanted to try this.

One minute... two minutes... Five minutes... There was still no monster that came to his way. However, Auron still focused out on his surrounding in front of him. At the ten minutes mark, Auron had finally seen a shadow lurking around.

He focused all his vision to follow the shadow's movement. And, it turned out the shadow was approaching him. Auron prepared his dagger and waiting for the monster.

When the monster almost arrived, Auron started to chant a spell. In less than a minute later, the monster arrived at the entrance where Auron was.

The monster saw Auron and tried to barge in. However, before the monster could move a step inside, A [Wind Bolt] hit the monster's chest cleanly and reaped its life.

Auron quickly collected its eyes and went back inside the hole. Unfortunately, no other monsters were coming at him.

Auron began waiting once more. Ten minutes later, a shadow approached his hiding place. Using the same strategy, Auron collected two more eyes.

Although Auron could not find the enemy all the time, this was better than didn't get anything at all. Auron smiled as he had found a way to pass this floor.