Chapter 88: Raid Plan

Chapter 88: Raid Plan



[Adam - XP: 105.5/1000]

'Koil and Rae both gave me 50 experience points. Those few Black Locusts gave me a total of 5.5 experience points. A long way to go before the second level...'

He then focused his attention on the box in front of him.

"Is everyone dead?" Hana whispered, her voice barely above a murmur.

"Yeah, I suppose..." Knoxx saw a pile of corpses and sighed heavily. "How many we lost?"

"We lost half, six in total..." A well-defined young man said while crouching beside his deceased girlfriend.

They were only together in Mortal Online, as they hadn't met in real life yet.

He knew that she wasn't really dead, but it still hurt to see her lifeless body in the game.

"Half..." Knoxx gritted his teeth. "Cursed!"

This wasn't a good look.

This was his chance to prove himself, but he had already lost half of the team.

'With this, we can't complete the raid...' Knoxx clenched his fists. 'What a failure...'

Adam slowly opened the box and saw a black object inside.

"No way..." He whispered in shock.

"What is it?" Hana came to him and crouched beside him.

Adam showed it to her and said, "A bomb."

"A bomb?!" Hana cried out.

Everyone heard her and surrounded them with curious looks.

After seeing the object, they were equally shocked.

"She planned to blow all of us to pieces." Knoxx said with a scoff, "She must be out of her mind."

From the horizon, the first light of the morning appeared, casting a golden glow over the

scene.

They didn't realize that an entire night had already passed.

The fight lasted for around thirty minutes, but they got ambushed near dawn. They expected everyone to be sleeping.

"Sigh..." Knoxx sighed and clapped his hands to garner everyone's attention.

Adam and others turned to look at him.

"We... have to call it quits." Knoxx said with frustration in his tone. "We lost over half of the team. More importantly, we lost our secondary magician and most of our damage dealers.

"We cannot finish the raid like this."

"Y-yeah, we should also report this to the guild master." Another person added.

Hana and others looked dispirited. It wasn't nice to fail a raid like this.

These kinds of raids didn't come every day. It could take several months before they could try again.

"Ever heard of Triple Defense?" Adam asked. "It should be a common tactic used by

mercenaries."

"Yeah, of course." Knoxx said, "Three shieldmen are at the front, tanking all the damage, and once the enemy is exhausted, the people behind the shieldmen can attack."

"My idea is this..." Adam took a stick and started drawing on the ground.

"Three of us will be at the front-me, Knoxx, and another one-and we'll stop the Spider

Demons from attacking others.

"Then we'll also be the ones attacking. One sword stab to the head will kill a Spider Demon.

"We'll move like that till we have reached the mother."

"What if the Spider Demons attack us from the back or ceiling?" Knoxx asked. "They have

Wall Crawling ability."

"The rest will cover our rear, and about the ceiling ones... we can handle those." Adam said, "Luckily, the hallways in that place are narrow with low ceilings."

'He seems to know quite a bit about their lair...' Knoxx thought to himself. 'Well, so do I. It isn't hard knowledge to find.

'From Dawnwatch's World Library, it is easy to find knowledge about most of the early

dungeon floors.'

"When we see Wall Crawlers, we'll focus our shields in front and use our swords to ward them off. Preferably, if you manage to kill them."

"If we fail to kill even one Wall Crawler, our ranks will fall apart." Knoxx said with a frown.

"That's why I suggest you choose a good third." Adam said with a smile. "I saw you fight earlier. You're good. We can handle most, but we also need a good third." Knoxx nodded and looked at the rest. Then he pointed at an orange-haired young man.

"Alan, you're with us."

"Alright..." Alan said with a dispirited expression.

He was the one who just lost his girlfriend and was quite disheartened about it.

'Seeing his impression, most party leaders wouldn't want someone whose mind is not in the

right place in such an important role. However, I am different.'

Adam thought.

'Maybe he can let out some steam by killing some Spider Demons.'

"Alright, I guess we're doing it." Knoxx said with a chuckle.

Even he couldn't believe that he was agreeing to such a suicidal plan.

"Ameryn Brothers will find out today that their plan failed." Adam said while standing up.

"Once they find out, they'll send another team to finish us off.

"We'll need to finish the raid today and leave before they come.

"If I have to guess, we have till noon."

"Then, let's not waste any time." Knoxx said and then shouted. "Pack your things. We're

going to the Spider Lair!"