Chapter 16: Monster Attack 1
After 1 hour,
Ash gets a prompt from the system about a monster attack, and a window pops up.
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Time left before attack: 3 hours, 30 mins
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After seeing this, Ash thinks he should notify Ram and Evan, and Ash goes toward the altar direction.
And sometime later,
he meets with Evan at the altar, and he tells him about the monster attack. After listening, Evan says let him join in trap building to take care of the monsters. They believe they have enough wood for traps and time to create a lot of traps to handle these ordinary monsters without a problem.
Ash also agrees with Evan on the trap issue. After some deep thought, Ash says "status" in his mind, and after that a window pops up.
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City: Nexus City
Ability: Territory defense double
Description: In the event of city defense, all the attack power and defense power of people and buildings becomes double.
Altar level: 0
Upgrade requirement: (wood * 1000, stone * 250, 50 * mana core (level 0))
Production: mist mana level 0 * 10 per day
Area: 625 square meters
Status: very small village
Building: Guide mark * 1 (active)
Blueprints: low grade market (stone * 200, wood * 50), low grade house (stone * 100, wood * 25)
Warehouse: wood * 39, mana core level 0 * 15, mana core level 1 * 2, rabbit monster hide level 0 * 11, rabbit monster hide level 1 * 1, stone * 10
Population: 3
Specialty: Mana tree (produces level 0 mana * 2 per day)
Resource point: Stone Mountain level 1 (310 * mined / 1000 all stone mineable in new mine)
Attack power level: 0 (600 / 1000)
Description: City's power level to attack enemies
Defense power level: 0 (1050 / 10000)
Description: City's defense power level against enemies
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Seeing the wood and its quantity is enough, Ash thinks in his mind that the wood quantity is enough.
After, he looks at Evan and a pop-up window opens in front of him.
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Name: Evan (altar subject)
Age: 18
Status: healthy
Abilities: none
Level: 0 (50 / 100 mana mist level 0)
Weapon: low grade axe, low grade shield
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Ash says to Evan, "You go make wood pit traps. I will go inform Ram about the attack in the city."
After that, Ash goes toward Ram, and there he says to Ram, "There will be an attack of monsters in the territory, so prepare yourself for the city's defense and get in the altar for healing. Evan vacated the altar for making wood pit traps outside of the city."
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Ram said, "Okay, my lord."
Ash said, "Okay, be ready for the monster attack, and I'm depending on you to take care of level 1 and level 2 monsters."
And Ram said, "Don't worry, my lord. I will try my best, as much as I can do."
Ash said, "Okay," and he started to go to the place where the monster will attack. And he feels it will be good if he gets something after the monster attack, because he listened from Ram that after a monster attack, Eldros world gifts treasures to the defending altar if it finds them exceptional. Ram mainly said it is the will of Eldros, who will give the treasure. It's like support from the world for its natives. But he did not get any treasure in any previous monster attacks, though he thinks two attacks are not enough to evaluate which altar is exceptional and which is not.
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After a few thoughts, Ash quickly starts to go toward Evan, and a few minutes later Ash sees Evan making pit traps for the upcoming monsters. He thinks about the golden shield that will come out from his city 15 days after the complete birth of the altar.
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He thinks deeply in his mind that his chance of survival will increase after getting Ram and Evan as his subordinates, and he believes in his survival.
After that, he starts to talk with Evan about trap installation, and after a few discussions, they decide where putting wooden spikes will give a good killing rate. After that, he starts to dig soil, and Evan is making the wood sharper.
2 hours of work later, Ash has dug soil for trap-making, and Evan is putting wood spikes in the pits for traps and is doing good work.
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Then he thinks about seeing the time before the monster attack, and a window pops up.
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Time left before attack: 0 hours, 30 mins
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After some 5 minutes later, trap-making is complete, and he and Evan check the traps. A few minutes later, both are satisfied with the traps.
Then they finally rest, and they are waiting for the monster attack.
Then he thinks about seeing the time before the monster attack, and a window pops up in front of his eyes.
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Time left before attack: 0 hours, 10 mins
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Ash says, "My status," after seeing the time before the monster attack.
A window pops up in front of Ash.
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Name: Ash (altar owner)
Age: 24
Status: healthy
Abilities: none
Level: 1 (0 / 100 mana mist level 1)
Weapon: low grade gun, 1 bullet, low grade knife
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Ash knew he has only one bullet left. After using this bullet, he will have to combat with the knife, and he is actually practicing with the knife with Evan and got some tricks with the knife from Ram. But he is nervous about fighting the monsters using the knife. He thinks in his mind "I will try my best in this fight with the knife and do as Ram taught me. In his mind, he agrees."
After a few thoughts in his mind, he sees the new time before the monster attack, and the window shows this:
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Time left before attack: 0 hours, 4 mins
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After seeing the time, Ash ponders when Ram is going to come, but after some thinking, he sees Ram will come after the monster attack and directly kill the main monster for them.
After, he sees the time:
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Time left before attack: 0 hours, 2 mins
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Time left before attack: 0 hours, 1 min
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Time left before attack: 0 hours, 0 mins
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From afar, Ash and Evan can see a lot of dirt gathering in the sky and coming toward the direction where the attack will happen.
3 minutes later, Ash and Evan can see dots of brown color in their eyes. A few minutes later, they see twenty big squirrels coming toward the territory to attack them.
After a few moments of seeing, he sees the status of these monsters.
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Big Squirrel (Low-Grade Monster)
Rank: F-rank
Level: 1
Description: A big squirrel with oversized fangs capable of eating through rotten food, leather, and even wearing weak armor. It lives in big trees and likes using its numbers to overwhelm prey.
Abilities:
Fast Reproduction – If not culled quickly, their numbers explode.
Weakness: Weak to fire and sharp attacks
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Big Squirrel (Low-Grade Monster)
Rank: F-rank
Level: 0
Description: A big squirrel with oversized fangs capable of eating through rotten food, leather, and even wearing weak armor. It lives in big trees and likes using its numbers to overwhelm prey.
Abilities:
Fast Reproduction – If not culled quickly, their numbers explode.
Weakness: Weak to fire and sharp attacks
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After seeing this, they quickly start to confirm the level of these monsters. After 5 minutes of observing, they confirm their number and levels.
There are three monsters at level 1 and seventeen at level 0. That is not good news for them, but they are confident the pit traps will take out half the number of these monsters with ease.
Ash sees their eyes are bloody red, and he thinks "these monsters are under some kind of spell that controls their minds. That's why they attack without thinking, without fear of life and death, and without assessing their chances of winning." And he feels that he is right about this guess.