Chapter 40 - Regional Dungeon

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

“Are there only seven people willing to come?” Sean glanced at everyone present and sighed helplessly.

He knew that he was not a very outstanding commander or general. He did not know how to do the things that a commander would have done, like encouraging warriors to maintain high morale. When he had led a team in the game, all the group members had been elites chosen by their families or guilds. As it was a game, there was not too much of a loss if they died. They would only lose the loot that they had put in their inventory. Therefore, no one cared about the team getting wiped out in a dungeon. On the contrary, it stimulated the player’s competitive mentality.

But right now, it was the real world, so everything was different.

Out of the seven people in front of Sean, five of them were middle-aged men, and only two were young men. One of the two young men was the person who dared to step out and voice his doubt about Sean’s ability to command the day before.

Sean was able to guess what they were all thinking by the look in their eyes. The five middle-aged men were participating in the battle to wash away their humiliation. Sean did not care why they thought such things. Apart from the young man who had voiced his doubts about Sean the day before, the other young man was participating to become famous. There was an evident desire for fame and wealth and an intention to take risks. Only the young man who had doubted Sean yesterday had an intense hatred in his eyes. His expression looked like he was ready to face death.

Sean liked people who had such desires.

Once that desire was there, there would be motivation. In the end, it all depended on what kind of price they were willing to pay.

“I won’t say any more nonsense. You guys know how many of the dog-headed people there are,” Sean said in a deep voice. When it came to being a commander, Sean would become very serious. “What I wanted to tell you guys is that the fog around the Starfall Forest has a strong interference ability. The closer the fog is to the Starfall Forest, the stronger the interference will be. It is almost impossible to come out of it alive.”

Sean’s words immediately made them feel a bit of fear because they remembered that when the Black Cat Business Guild had launched an attack previously, they had dispersed the team and surrounded the camp to attack. Later, when the fight had broken out, the number of attackers was a quarter less than they expected. The longer the battle took, the more people stopped attacking the places they were supposed to. At the time, the people did not realize the seriousness of the problem, and later they were killed by the dog-headed people.

“Then… Then how do we get in?” The young man in the team, who had the desire to become famous, now felt a little scared.

“Just follow my lead.” Sean glanced at him and saw that he was a rank three [Thief]. The profession was relatively crucial for their attack. Therefore, Sean would not let him run away, “Inside the fog, our field of vision will be limited to a range of five meters. However, it is the same for the dog-headed people. Therefore, unless they have no other choice, they will not leave their camp to fight us.”

“Is our battle to draw them out of the camp?” One of the middle-aged man’s eyes suddenly lit up. “That is a good idea. In our previous confrontations, we all stormed straight in to attack head-on. This…”

“Tell me first, what is our mission?” Sean cast a sideways glance at the middle-aged man in an indifferent tone.

The middle-aged man was slightly stunned. Then, he blurted out, “Isn’t our mission to kill the dog-headed people?”

“Will we get money if we kill them?” Sean asked.

According to the principle of how items dropped in the game “Miracle,” dog-headed people were humanoid creatures. Therefore, they would not drop any materials. They dropped complete equipment. However, the dog-headed people were only relatively low levels so that they couldn’t drop anything good. The only impressive things they dropped were top-quality equipment. However, the equipment was not useful for Sean at all.

As for coins…

Did the dog-headed people know how to use them?

The thing that had a kill value was the magician of the Medusa Business Guild, who had enslaved the dog-headed people.

“Our task is not to kill every single one of the dog-headed people.” Sean saw that the middle-aged man was a little dumbfounded. “Our task is to find the Square Tipped Crystals,” Sean said. “That is our main goal. The dog-headed people are just obstacles that are preventing us from finding the Square Tipped Crystals. So if there is an easier way for us to find the Square Tipped Crystals, why not use it?”

“But…” The young man, who had suspected Sean yesterday, suddenly became anxious when he heard Sean say that they were not going to destroy the entire dog-headed people’s tribe.

“Your name.”

The young man was stunned. Then he said, “Anyers.”

“Well, Anyers, I don’t know what kind of hatred you have towards the dog-headed people, and I don’t want to know if they killed your family or friends.” Sean’s words made Anyers turn pale. “What I can tell you is that our operation is to kill two dog-headed magicians. It is not a real dog-headed tribe. It is a group of enslaved dog-headed people. That is why there is no unity among them. If we wanted to take back the Square Tipped Crystals with just our strength, it would be impossible unless we had the Son of God with us.”

Sean changed the direction of their conversation as he looked at Anyers. “However, I will give you a chance to take revenge. There is a magician in the dog-headed people’s camp. He is the real culprit who is ordering the dog-headed people around.”

The words immediately rekindled the spirited look in the eyes of the young [Shieldguard].

There was no need for Sean to talk anymore after that. The team sorted itself into subgroups very quickly. Then a group of nine people headed towards the fog surrounding the Starfall Forest.

Of the nine people, apart from Sean and Cecilia, who had rank-two professions, the others all had rank-three professions. There was someone who specialized in the defensive [Shieldguard] and [Guard] professions. There was a [Thief], two [Swordsmen], who used all kinds of sword weapons, and two [Spearmen], who used long spears as their primary weapon. That was the arrangement of the team.

The arrangement would have been considered extremely weird in the game. No matter what dungeon it was, no groups would have been arranged like that. However, on the Miracle Continent, which lacked talents, no matter how strange the arrangement was, Sean had to accept it calmly. Of course, everyone in the team was needed, as they had the core professions to complete the dungeon, just like the Starfall Forest had required two people who specialized in bow and arrow. For the “dog-headed gathering place” they were heading towards, the team needed at least one thief.

Without the core professions, Sean would have never made a move.

The dungeon, the Gathering Place of the Dog-headed People, was very different from a normal dungeon. It was the first dungeon that players in the Portoroa Kingdom had access to.

The term “regional dungeon” referred to the dungeons in a specific region. The size of the land that the regional dungeon was linked to could vary, but each dungeon had the same function.

For example, the Tinders Domain, where Sean was now, belonged to the Gleason Region of the Portoroa Kingdom. If they launched an attack on other areas, then the banner that the troops of the Tindus Domain held would say “Gleason, Tindus.”

That was the exact opposite of how things were in the Serian Kingdom.

The lords who ruled a region in the Serian Kingdom added the word “strength” in front of their title. When Sean was in the Sivir Domain, it belonged to the Suriname Region of the Serian Kingdom. Marquis Nordes ruled the Suriname Region. Even Viscount Damien, the lord of Sivir Region, was, to a certain extent, under the control of Nordes. If a war broke out, then the soldiers would not hold a banner that said, “Suriname, Sivir.” Instead, the banner would say “Suriname,” as Marquis Nordes commanded the soldiers.

However, not all regions had a regional dungeon.

The regional dungeons only appeared in certain areas. Usually, the rate that the regional dungeons appeared was relatively high. The items dropped were relatively rare. However, the dungeons took a long time to refresh. Back in the game, all regional dungeons used a shared CD time. Once the dungeons were cleared, the refresh time ranged from one week to several months according to the size and historical background of the regional dungeon. There were even a few regional dungeons that never reset after they were cleared.

The shared refresh CD meant that many people might enter the dungeon, but after one team had killed the BOSS, the other teams would not be able to see the BOSS inside the dungeon anymore. Once one of the teams had cleared the dungeon, all other groups in the dungeon would be sent out.

Sean remembered that one time, the elite team that he had led and another guild’s elite team had entered the same regional dungeon at the same time. In the end, the first BOSS disappeared with two percent health left, because another elite team had killed the BOSS. However, since the team needed to rest, they let Sean take the lead and kill the next couple of BOSSES, allowing him to clear the dungeon. Afterward, the other elite team was kicked out of the dungeon map.

The competition for regional dungeons was very fierce in the game.

But now that Sean was on the Miracle Continent, no one would compete with him for the dungeon. However, all the dungeons had turned into one-time-only expendable dungeons.

The challenge of the dungeon in front of Sean, the Gathering Place of the Dog-headed People, was a lot more difficult because it was a regional dungeon. There were a lot of dog-headed people inside. If they were even a little bit careless, they would have to face the attacks of all the dog-headed people inside the camp. The dog-headed people had a shared hatred. If the fight against one of the dog-headed people was not resolved within the 30 seconds, then every dog-headed person inside the camp would start attacking.

Therefore, that was where thieves were needed because thieves had a lot of lure and dizziness type skills. If they could properly use the skills, then they would be able to use the slashing and killing method. However, reality was different from the game. The creatures in the game had health points, whereas the real world did not. A hit to a vital area was fatal. That was why Sean had not created the team according to the dungeon he remembered, where three thieves were required.

What he needed now was for the people to move around as quietly as possible.

Judging from the current results, they were indeed a well-trained satisfactory team.