Volume 5: The Elegant Tea Party (Remastered) Chapter 5: The Dangerous Forest (1)

The Angel's Covenant is arguably the first large-scale guild organization to be officially recognized by the Aborigines.

The guilds that players can build in the world of Entagre can basically be divided into three types.

The number of people below 50 is called an adventure group. The easiest requirements to set up a party are as simple as the player who is the leader of the party registers at the city hall of a certain city. As the party's reputation grew, other cities, and even other countries, began to recognize their identity and open up some of their municipal functions to the party as support. Of course, in addition to the small number of people that can be accommodated, the adventure group can enjoy the least benefits.

Groups with less than 500 people can register as mercenary groups. To create a mercenary group, the creator must at least have a certain degree of popularity or status in the city where the mercenary group is registered. Once a mercenary group is established, it can pay a certain amount of gold to have a station in the city where it is registered. However, the mercenary group does not have the same degree of freedom as the adventure group, and will not only be forcibly called up in the event of war, but will also receive mandatory tasks assigned by the town hall in peacetime. If you refuse to accept the draft or fail to complete the tasks issued by the city hall for several consecutive times, the mercenary group's station will be repossessed and the mercenary group will be forcibly disbanded.

The last one is the guild, the word guild is actually the player's own statement, in fact, it has more functions than the guild in ordinary online games, and it is also larger.

In terms of numbers, a guild can accommodate at least 5,000 people, and there is no upper limit. Guild members are not limited to players, but natives can also join the guild.

In addition, in addition to being able to establish a station, the guild can also operate a variety of shops, establish a variety of workshops, and have complete logistical support capabilities. One of the most important is that guilds can have recruiting buildings. Recruiting buildings can be purchased or leased from the lord, or they can be built at the guild's own expense.

Guilds are also exclusive. Villages and towns under the jurisdiction of the city are not allowed to establish trade unions, and only the regular cities have this right. Depending on the size of the city, it is possible to have a minimum of one and a maximum of ten guild organizations. However, in reality, since the establishment of a guild requires the lord of the city to report to the kingdom in person, many lords are reluctant to have multiple guilds in their territory, because that would mean they have to take more risks.

This makes it very difficult to set up a guild. In addition to having a high level of visibility and prestige, the leader of the guild must also have a certain status or a close relationship with the lord. Even if the above conditions can be met, forming an officially recognized guild requires the completion of certain tasks and is extremely costly.

That's why until now, no player guild has been officially recognized, and finally the Angel's Covenant has been preempted.

The biggest reason why Raphael's Angel's Covenant was able to become the first official guild organization among players to be officially recognized and supported was Raphael himself. Now is the time for the Holy See of Light to support her, so there is almost no obstacle to the establishment of the Angelic Covenant. In addition, Lana and others also played a big role in it, and their joining the guild also proved the aboriginal control over the guild organization.

Therefore, after the official announcement of the establishment of the Angel Covenant in Nanhai Town, it quickly caused a huge response among the player community. Not only Terran players flocked to it, but also players from other races. In just a few days, the number of members of the Angel Covenant exceeded 30,000, and the number was growing. If Raphael hadn't quickly raised the bar for joining the guild, I'm afraid the final number would have exceeded the 100,000 mark.

Time passed quietly as Raphael was busy with the guild and expeditionary forces, and on May 20, with the first rainstorm in the hills of Hillsbrad falling, the expeditionary force had finally established several solid camps on the border of the Silverpine Forest and began to advance steadily towards Shadowfang Castle according to the battle plan.

After a heavy rainstorm, the air in the Silver Pine Forest was thick with moisture. The fog filled the forest, and the damp soil could easily pick up a lot of mud on the boots, further slowing down the progress.

And even more uncomfortable are the werewolves who take advantage of the fog to wander in the forest.

Jasmine cautiously followed the captain who walked in front, the cloth shoes under her feet were already soaked, and she could even feel the slippery feeling between the mud and the soles of her feet, which made Jasmine, who was a little clean, very disgusting, and wanted to stop and clean up more than once. But she knew the temper of her captain, and she would definitely get a scolding when she stopped at this time, and the man who didn't know how to do it didn't care that she was a member of the Angel's Covenant.

But compared to the others walking next to her, Jasmine was already very relaxed. Although she had just transitioned from a Wild Priest to a Trainee Light Priest, she had become an important figure in the entire squad, and was even more protected than the two Wild Mage players. This made her very happy with her decision to join the Angelic Covenant.

This is an all-player team of eight people. Their mission is to explore the area and see if any werewolves have snuck in during yesterday's rainstorm. Of course, there is little doubt about that.

The captain who was at the front of the team raised his hand and gestured behind him, and the two thieves who had been alerted immediately went into a stealth state, and swept forward in an arc from both sides of the group, and the knight beside Jasmine strode up to her, raised his shield, and protected the only priest in the group. The two mages were also approaching her, and the archer in the group climbed a pine tree with ease, and quietly prepared to shoot under the cover of the branches.

Soon, from the fog in front came a low wolf howl, and the sound of messy footsteps, and a thief ran back: "Two werewolves, gray. โ€

Shadow werewolves summoned from the shadow plane by Arugao have black or lilac fur, and only those transformed into werewolves have gray fur.

The captain of the warrior breathed a sigh of relief, glad that he had not encountered a shadow werewolf. The most powerful in his team are him and the knight, both of whom are only in their fifties at the first order, and as for Jasmine and those two mages, they haven't even completed the advanced task. If such a team encounters a fourth-order, or even fifth-order shadow werewolf, the only outcome is for all of them to die and return to the cemetery in Nanhai Town to resurrect.

"Ready for battle!" The warrior captain said loudly, "The knight and I dragged one, the thief controlled the other, and the mage and archer gathered fire as fast as they could!" Jasmine, pay attention to me! โ€

"Okay, Captain!" Jasmine said as she blessed the warrior with a psychic fire, a level 0 priest skill that can increase the opponent's attack power a little bit, and can also be used to calm the spirit.

Soon, another thief ran back with two werewolves. Without hesitation, the warrior stunted one of them, and the knight slammed them to the ground with a shield strike. The other werewolf roared and tried to come and help, but the thief who had run back before seized the opportunity to release a chisel and backstab, and he also fell into a vertigo state.

The two mages chanted incantations loudly and waved their staffs up and down, but in the end only a small fireball flew out, and it also lost its aim and smashed into a pine tree, missing its target by at least five or six meters. Jasmine then understood why her captain had asked the knight to keep an eye on her as a priest when he set out, leaving the two mages alone.

The faces of the two mages showed a look of shame, but this is also normal, because they have not received systematic magic learning and training, wild mages like them can only grope a little bit in battle, and what they learn from the skill instructor is only the spell to release magic and the corresponding spell casting action, as for how to use it in actual combat, it is completely up to them to master it slowly.

It wasn't until the third round of casting that a small fireball hit the target, and by this time, the werewolf besieged by two thieves and an archer was already scarred and had lost at least half of its HP.

For such a pitiful casting success rate and hit rate of the two mages, Jasmine could only pout secretly, and then silently added a slow reply to the knight, and then took two steps back and began to chant the recovery technique.

A few minutes later, the low-level battle finally ended, and the warrior looked at the claw marks on his shoulder armor and the knight's shield in distress, and shook his head helplessly. Once again, he felt that it was a mistake to have those two mages join the team. The two cast a total of eleven spells throughout the battle, six of which failed, three missed, and one of the remaining two successful hits almost hit the Knight. With such a bad level, these two guys can simply be said to be allies of werewolves!

Fortunately, the only priest in the team is at a decent level, at least the skills are cast, and the success rate is not low. No wonder he was able to pass the threshold of the Angel's Covenant to become a full member, and it was not in vain that he spent a full ten gold coins to ask her to help.

"Rest in place!" After the first battle, almost everyone was in a bad state, especially the two thieves, because the mage could barely help, and the other werewolf was basically killed by them and the archer, so the two thieves lost a lot of health, and a leg armor was cut by the werewolf's claws.

However, just as the two mages sat down to recover their mana, ignoring the mud under their feet, two sturdy figures suddenly jumped down from a tree.

โ€œLok-tar ogar๏ผโ€ With a battle cry, two orcs broke into the team. The sturdy body of more than two meters wielded the battle axe in his hand, and with a single axe, it turned the two poor mages into headless corpses.

"Orcs!" The warrior shouted in horror, he didn't expect his luck to be so bad, if he still had the confidence to lead the team to fight in the face of the two transformed werewolves, then in the face of the two orc warriors, he was left with the only option to escape.

An adult orc civilian has at least two orders of strength, while a regular orc soldier has at least four levels of strength, almost on par with a Shadow Werewolf.

"Knight, you run with the priest! The thieves go back and report the news! "The warrior knew that it would be impossible for them all to escape, but at least he had to find a way to get the thieves to escape and report the news, and as for the knight to protect the priest and escape, it was a complete bet that the two orc warriors would not waste their time on pursuit.

It's a pity that their state is so bad. The knight had already consumed a lot of physical strength in the battle just now, and there was no way to fight with all his strength at this time, not to mention the two thieves, whose mana was almost exhausted, and it was likely that he would not even be able to stealth.

The two orc warriors were clearly unwilling to let the humans go. After hacking the two mages to death, one of the orc warriors drew an axe from his belt and threw the archer who was about to jump off the tree to escape, and the axe pierced the leather armor on the archer's chest, delivering him a fatal blow.

"Weak humans!" The orc warrior who threw the archer to death with a throwing axe spat contemptuously on the ground, strode in front of the warrior, raised his battle axe in the air, and slashed down with all his might.

In the face of imminent death, the warrior only had time to shake his body, perhaps he wanted to use his shoulder armor to try to block the orc's attack, but the final result was that half of his body was chopped by the opponent's axe.

"Mogozar, don't let any humans go!" Another orc warrior had already killed a thief at this time and was chasing after another thief who had escaped, "These humans are very cunning! โ€

"The brave Mogozar doesn't need you to remind you!" The orc warrior Mogozar shouted nonchalantly, and then slashed at the knight who rushed up to buy time for the priest with an axe.

Jasmine, who was left to the end, was naturally not spared, and became the ghost of the orc warrior. It is believed that by the time she is resurrected from the cemetery in Nanhai Town, ready her weapons and equipment, and rushed back to the front line, the expeditionary force will have already surrounded Shadowfang Castle.

Such an easy and simple battle certainly did not satisfy Mogozar. As a member of the Bloodcave Clan, Mogozar, like his compatriots, is imbued with a desire and pursuit of battle, an impulse that is etched into the blood of orcs.

He yelled at the sky, trying to vent his unsatisfied urge to fight.

Then, before he could let out a roar, a dagger plunged into his waist from behind. Apparently, an Assassin managed to get to his side and deliver a kidney blow to him.

The feeling of weakness coming from within his body and the sudden dizziness that surged up made Mogozar realize that this was a real assassin, not one of those weak humans he could slaughter wantonly these days. Fortunately, the strong physique of the orcs gives Mogozar a strong immunity to this level of damage.

The battle axe in his hand swung behind him, forcing the assassin back, and after forcing the assassin back, Mogozar immediately lunged forward, further out of the Assassin's range.