PFM: LEGACY
Ep.21 Hunting Windwolf and the Sakuya Problem
Ali's attack caused the windwolf Leader's HP to drop below 90% and slow down. If that windwolf leader was not an elite monster, his HP would at least drop to around 70%. The attack formations of the windwolves were interrupted by it, as the windwolf leader's speed was reduced.
Instantly, the distance between the 2 facing groups reached 20 meters. And the speed of the windwolves was reduced due to exposure to the winter aura. Before the clash, Ali still had time to throw 2 ice arrows. As a result the HP of that windwolf leader was reduced to 50% less.
The windwolf leader's speed was reduced again, until finally another windwolf preceded him, then when the distance was about 5 meters, the ibex did Dash. Their speed increased many times over and then crashed into 3 windwolves, causing the three to bounce around without being able to use their skills. Their HPs dropped to 40% to 15%.
The HP of one of the windwolves dropped to 15% because Dika thrust his spear when Dash ibexnya will hit the windwolf. Dika speculates, if he attacked with his spear while his ibex was doing Dash, the demage of his attacks would increase. And that's what happened. His attack demage had increased by at least twofold.
Dika was able to carry out the attack because he was more experienced fighting on horseback while on server 1. While other 2 team members such as Dino, Ali and Ron must hug their respective ibex bodies so as not to fall.
While Romeo targets the windwolf leader who is left behind. Maybe because it was left behind, the windwolf leader had time to jump and use a skill. The skill seemed to be centered on the sole of his right front foot, as streams of air gathered on the soles of his feet.
But Romeo did not give the leader a chance to use the skill. Romeo slammed open the windwolf leader's chest. As a result, he jumped into the air. His HP instantly dropped to below 15%.
Then, just as Ali had witnessed, with his horns, Romeo received the windwolf leader's body and pushed it tens of meters away.
Then, when Dash's skill ended, Romeo twisted his body quickly and used a hind kick skill. The kick hit the head of the windwolf leader, and caused him to die.
Ali, who had to fight hard to stay on top of Romeo's body during the dash, was unable to use the ice arrow at all. And when Romeo turned, Ali almost fell. ‘I should practice more often. Maybe if the saddle and stirrup for Romeo is ready, it would be better', Ali muttered when he saw the windwolf leader's corpse.
Ratih, Fiona and Sakuya did not remain silent. Even before the flocks of ibex did dash, they had already dashed towards the windwolf from behind. When the ibex swarms parted with the windwolf, they were between 20 and 30 meters behind the windwolf.
They then carried out a long-range attack on the flocks of windwolves who were confused by the loss of their leader and some windwolves bounced around.
Fiona uses arrow rain, Sakuya uses fox fire, the raptors use fire ball and kuro, the shadow crow uses shadow arrow. Only Ratih did not attack because he did not have a long-range attack.
Their bombardment shocked the windwolves. The three windwolves that had been bounced immediately died and the rest were still confused because there was no command of the windwolf leader.
Ratih's group had time to cast 2 more times their long-range skill. As a result 2 windwolves died.
There were still 4 more windwolves left, their HP ranging from 60% to 30%. Seeing the situation getting more difficult for them, they tried to escape by splitting up.
But Ratih's group doesn't let the windwolves escape. They also split up after their respective targets.
Ron's group, having finished doing the dash, they deliberately did not return to attack the windwolves. They rushed around the windwolves some distance away, so as not to disturb the attacks of Ratih's group.
When the 4 windwolves tried to escape, they were ready and blocked the fleeing windwolves.
The end result is predictable. No windwolf can escape.
In their last match, they had injured Dino's ibex and Dika's Ibex.
One windwolf used a skill that the windwolf leader showed, with a slapping motion to the side of ibex Dika's head, the ibex was thrown to the side. Caused its HP to drop to 75%.
Lucky Dika had jumped, so it did not get thrown. After landing, Dika uses continuous stabs skills on windwolves who try to balance themselves after doing the skill. Twice critical, and finally the windwolf was dead.
One more windwolf after being blocked by Dino and his ibex, hit the ibex Dino ride. Opened his mouth wide, then he quickly bit towards the neck of the ibex Dino and twice the bite hit the ibex.
Dino then used the Roar skill which stopped the unfinished windwolf skill. And the windwolf was stunned.
Hp ibex Dino reduced to 80%. Meaning every bite resulted in at least 30s of demage. Dino felt lucky, she quickly realized that the bite was a skill.
Ibex Dino is angry about being hurt. Then do a hind kick on that windwolf. Reduced the HP of the windwolf by less than 10%.
Then from the air, came the shadow arrow of Kuro who ended the windwolf's life.
After the battle ended, the members of team 2 rested for a moment. Fiona who works as a hunter has not been able to rest.
He had to skin Windwolf one by one. According to the adventurer union, the valuable body parts of a windwolf are its skin and its heart. The skin can be used as leather armor and the heart is a material to make several types of potions.
After the tenth loot crystal windwolf appeared, they got a decent result.67 deca, 1 legacy shadow core level 2, 2 shadow cores air element level 2, 7 blank shadow core level 2, 2, 9 Level 2 windwolf leather (iron), 1 level 2 windwolf leather (bronze) and mission items in the form of windwolf tails totaling 10, 1 elite and 9 ordinary.
After about 1 hour of skinning, Fiona got 3 level 2 windwolf leather (copper), 4 level 2 windwolf leather (iron), and, 2 Levels 2 windwolf leather (bronze) and 1 level 2 windwolf leather (silver).
For the windwolf heart, Fiona gets 8 level 2 windwolf heart (iron), 1 level 2 windwolf heart (bronze) and 1 level 2 windwolf heart (silver).
Skinning is usually better than loot crystal. But the quality of the skinning results was also determined by the damage to the monster's skin. Doing too many attacks and fire attacks would reduce the grade of the monster skin.
Special monsters such as elites and bosses will also increase the grade of the harvested leather. But there are limits too. For example the maximum grade of an elite monster was silver, while the maximum grade of a boss monster was gold.
Actually Ali once asked Ron, “If the maximum grade of boss monster is gold, how can there be equipment that has platinum grade, diamond and magic?”
Ron explained,”it all depends on the ability of the production player. You'll know that the most irreplaceable player in the studio isn't me or Adam. But Delia, then every member of team 3 who has won a master's degree in their respective fields.
Making a product that has a diamond grade is the culmination of the achievements of someone who pursues a profession. Even the requirement to become a grand master is to make 5 products with diamond grade. And only one person managed to achieve it, he was Zeus Thundergate, vice-chairman of the Skywalker guild from the 3.” server
And you won't find the term miracle on an item. Miracle grades are usually represented by the words growth, cursed, blessed, unique etc. And the number is quite a lot. But strangely none of the players claimed to have ever made it. Only NPC products have the possibility of having miracle grade.”
Ron's Tribal War Drum was one example of equipment that had a miracle grade.
After finishing resting, Team 2 continued the hunt for windwolves. For the next 5 hours, they did 3 hunts.
They managed to hunt down 3 groups of windwolves. The second group consists of 8 windwolves, the third group consists of 9 Windwolves. And the fourth group consists of 11 windwolves.
The fourth group was quite difficult, as there were 2 elite windwolves. But the difficulty lies not in the battle. But to hunt all the windwolves. One elite windwolf almost escaped, fortunately Sakuya and Kuro managed to catch up to him and slowly consumed the windwolf's HP with fox fire and shadow arrow to death.
It could be said, the effectiveness of the hunt this time was not optimal. Due to windwolves being speed-type monsters, it often avoids confrontation if it feels inferior in strength.
But in terms of harvest, their hunting results in the forest uppines more than in the nest of goblins, because many forest resources and skin windwolf successfully collected.
Upon seeing the sun start leaning west, Team 2 immediately rushed out of the forest.
Hunting in the forests of the uppines at night is suicide. Forest creatures like windwolves are more active at night. The forest of uppines at night is the windwolf world. Without natural predators, they can hunt quietly at night.
This was one of the reasons the adventurer union issued a windwolf hunting mission. Too many windwolves threaten the existence of other monsters. In fact, other monsters were also resources that required various professions.
There are 3 kinds of monsters in the Sol continent, first, monsters that constantly respawn from dimensional cracks that cannot be repaired. they provide a steady advantage to the community in the area of dimensional cracks that occur, with a record of regular cleaning, so that they do not become a threat.
The second, the monsters that came deliberately through the portal, they were intelligent beings that had an agenda on the Sol continent. To them, the Southeast Alliance's attitude was to seek and destroy.
The third, monsters that came from another world through dimensional cracks formed temporarily. Upon arrival, they adapt to the sol continental environment and breed. The majority of the inhabitants of the uppines forest were monsters of this type.
If the windwolf prey is extinct, the windwolf will exit the forest and disturb the hamlets around the forest uppines. Then the southeastern alliance warriors would be deployed to clear the windwolf.
When the cleanup is done, this will cause casualties, and the windwolf population will also drop dramatically. In the absence of prey, over time the windwolf will also become extinct. This was a huge loss for the Southeast Alliance.
So, it is better to reduce the number of windwolves until their population numbers can be tolerated.
Team 2 arrived at the upbark hamlet around 18:30 legacy time. In the hamlet, several players passed by. It was a little more than last day. Perhaps most of the players went to the Rockhelm fortress to spend the night.
Team 2 does not stop at the sub-bar. They went straight to the Rockhelm fortress.
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On the way Ron asked,”Hei Sakuya, have you ever been to Rockhelm?”
In the form of a fox Sakuya replied,”Never, in this world I am more comfortable wearing the form of a fox. After all, before coming to this world, my figure was hated and feared by ordinary people, so I rarely went to the human crowd.”
“And you call yourself a woman? Which woman likes to run as a monster, and eat raw meat?” Ron mocked Sakuya.
“Hey, that's harassment. Didn't you promise to keep my honor, as long as this clan stands?” Sakuya protest.
“I'm keeping your honor. This clan will get bigger. The various races will become followers of the Mythcaller clan when we open the territory later. If you continue your habit of eating raw meat and prefer the form of a fox, wouldn't you be insulted by other followers?” Ron seriously said. Unknowingly team 2 stopped.
Ron actually did not want to interfere in the affairs of the team members. But these few hours, Sakuya's behavior made the mood of team 2 disturbed. First, other than the first time Sakuya turned into a woman, she had always been a Fox after that.
Second, while eating, he ate windwolf meat like a wild animal ate the food, raw, straight from the windwolf's body.
Third, when he wanted to clean himself up, he licked his body like a cat. When urinating, he also does it in the form of a fox, although he looks for bushes first before doing so.
Even Dino and Dika who liked her before, were annoyed and lost interest after seeing Sakuya's behavior.
Had they never seen Sakuya turn into a humanoid, it would have considered that a natural thing. They will consider Sakuya like other summon creatures, such as an ibex that eats grass, fruit and leaves or a raptor that eats its game meat.
But the impression that Sakuya was a beautiful woman was already ingrained in their minds. Looking at the woman whose beauty they admired a few hours ago eating raw meat and licking her body like an animal, there must have been some discomfort.
Ron didn't really mind. He realized that Sakuya all this time might never be with the other humanoids. Sakuya needs time to adapt. But the rest of the team seemed to disagree. They express it with their expressions. Ron did not want Sakuya to be ostracized, so Ron intended to be the bad guy here. For Sakuya to be aware of the perceptions of the other team members and for the others to be aware of Sakuya's perceptions.
“It was me, what do you know about me? I must admit, I have a form almost the same as you, but from birth I was like this. Why do you deny myself as a fox?” Sakuya's voice implied her sadness.
Sakuya had already started accepting him as part of this team. While hunting Windwolf, the cooperation between them gave Sakuya a new feeling. That he finally had a friend. All this time he had always lived alone before even coming to the Sol continent.
Hearing his friend not accept himself as he is, makes him hit. He wanted to run into the forest of the uppines. Where he can be himself.
But a few hours with them, gave her a happiness that was hard for her to let go of. Sakuya thought whether this was due to her being a follower, so there was an invisible bond that secretly controlled her to want to always be with them.
But Sakuya rejected the possibility. His instincts say that's not the reason. Being a follower does not affect your personality. Then what's the reason? Sakuya was trying to figure out what had changed in her.
