Chapter 399 Meet In The Middle

Chapter 399 Meet In The Middle

The two groups began to converge, and Karl could see the fear in the other group leader's face as he saw the Spider Golems putting in work to shred their way through the Ogres who had come from the other side of the anomaly to try to remove the threat.

The Golems weren't interested in the humans, though. Once the two groups got close enough that Team One was becoming concerned about how controlled that carnage actually was, the Golems turned to fight off in a different direction, leaving the last few dozen Ogres between Karl's group and theirs alone.

Karl noticed Hawk diving into the field of bodies, and assumed he must have seen something that looked tasty, or possibly a survivor that was hidden from his explosions, but the bird came back up with a sword clutched in its claws, and made a large loop before dive-bombing the Ogres, using the blade as a projectile.

[Unsatisfying.] Hawk informed him with great sadness as he followed the blade with a barrage of fireballs across the heads of the Ogres.

[Very unsatisfying fight. Everything is too big to eat again.] Remi agreed with great sadness.

Hawk laughed and threw a Rend attack at the ground, then dipped beneath the tall grass to pick something up. [Here, try this, it might be tasty.] He suggested.

The bird tossed a large Common Grade ferret monster over the heads of the defenders, and Remi instinctively struck at it, dosing it with venom before giving it a squeeze to make sure it was finished.

[Oh, not bad. It's got a good texture. We should go out and do this more often.]

Karl sighed as the two beasts got distracted. [If you're done with your mid-battle snack, we've still got work to do.] He reminded the wayward pair.

Remi shrugged off his concern. A large part of her damage output was her totems and Blizzard spell, and both of those were still active. She had even given Lotus and Doug one of her Healing Totems to hold on to until they expired.

She wanted to test them, and it looked like the targeting runes worked, since they were not healing the Ogres, but nobody was injured, so she couldn't be certain that they were properly healing anyone at all.

As magical resources, many of them had purposes beyond simply decoration, including a few Fire Elemental stones that Karl saw could be used to make concoctions to help Hawk, and a Water Element Stone to help Remi.

He really had to put more work into finding all the ingredients that went into these concoctions. There was a very real chance that he might be able to bring the team to the peak of Royal Rank in record time if he could find the identified ingredients.

The problem was that none of the names it gave were the common ones in use for the items that he needed, so when he asked about them, there was only a slim chance that a Librarian of the Blue Dragon, or some other researcher might recognize the ancient name for the resource.

None of the stones or resources in the spaces could make a resource that he hadn't tried yet. There was a chance that some of them could be used twice, but from what he knew of growth resources, they usually didn't have the same level of effect the second time.

The others were picking up random items as they progressed, mostly stuffing them into the silk bags on Thor's sides, so they could donate them to the armoury for credits.

The Spider Golems made their way to the other team, then doubled back, looting what they could understand from the instructions Rae gave them.

Mostly it was larger magic items that the Ogres had, which baffled the other team.

"Where are you even going to put all that? You can't possibly need a load of Awakened and Ascended Rank weapons and jewellery." He asked.

"We put it in bags on Thor, and then we load it in the helicopter when we leave. It keeps the main lines stocked with random stuff, and sometimes there is an actual treasure."

The team leader looked around at the mess, and then at the anomaly. "Should we check that? It might still be allowing monsters out." He asked.

"Rae, send a golem in and see what happens." Karl instructed.

The Golems jumped into the anomaly, spiked forelimbs first, and the group anxiously waited for a few seconds until Rae gave her update.

[It's empty, no treats.]