>>3629295
make as many explosives as possible and dig trenches surrounding the town

>>3629295
Also thanks for running QM lets not die

>>3629295
>>3629337
Dig trenches and spikes. To slow the advance, hell a shovel is better then a shitty club, and any of them can be sharpened so do that?

>>3629357
Don't sharpen Blunt is better for undead. >>3629295
Explosives need to be made as fast as possible. Have the civilians get as many slings as possible so we can throw blunt projectiles. Trenches need to be dug and if we're on a hill soldiers need to be rolling explosives down it.

Dolly and us should set landmines or fuse bombs and if we can use the agricultural sword to do it turn the plant life into combat capable mutations to fight the dead as they approach. We'll plants versus zombies this shit.

>>3629295
Get out the flame sword
lets get some big kegs of moonshine
put them on the trebuchets
then light the kegs on fire and fling them into a crowded horde of the undead
watch as they get set a flame like a forest fire
see if we can get some mage adventurers to blow winds to make the flames stronger and longer lasting

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We didn’ have much time, an I don’ know how half of this is gonna work. Either way it was gonna be a legend.

I arranged so there would be a trench surroundin the walls, armed with blunt thin’s to get in da way. While everyone was workin on this, I got them magic folk together an’ got part two of my plan rollin.

While we didn’ have any Trebuchets ‘ere, we did ‘ave Cliff. So with the dag we scattered the reaminer of me Moonshine onto the front of da forest while some of dem magic folk got ready. With a strike of me [Elemental Strike] I set the forest on fire like it was Independence Day. With that, the Magic people started throwin a bunch of wind at it, causin the flames to grow inta a wave of destruction.

I made my way back, the trenches not even close to bein’ done as the fire started movin in our direction. Well, it wasn’ the main fire but the obviously flamin corpses of the army walkin towards us. Though once it burned though I noticed somethin’ very wrong.

Fuckin hell there were a lot of ‘em.

Even though they were droppin like flies, it didn’ seem to fuck ‘em over. I watched as over a hundred thousand corpses that were lit made their way towards us. They were comin in, maybe a mile away before I could see in the very back a massive fucker, the flames were nothin as they torched ‘is chins.

I could feel a chill in da air as they stared at the army of damnation. These people were fuckin scared as shit an I couldn’ blame ‘em, these fucker were walkin while on fire!

>They need somethin’ to give ‘em an extra umph. A rousing speech I say!

>>3629582
Come on! Are ya gonna let a bunch of walking corpses scare ya cause they're on fire! They're joins are weakening in the blaze! Some of em are gonna be dust before they get here and the rest ill be pickings for the best of us, so let loose with what ranged shit we have and give these walking blights the what for! Don't ya forget ta praise da Lord and pass da ammunition eitha! Come on men, DEUS VULT!

Use [Deus lo Vult]

I'm gonna take it we can't do the plants versus zombies thing, so let's just try to get the mages to slam as much heavy AOE artillery spells as possible into the backline where the undead ranged are.

>>3629632
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV9s1a6AZT0

>>3629632
+1
>>3629859
+2

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With a swiftness in Cliff’s feet we made our way infron’ of the damn forces. Men were scared in their feet as they were tryin to hold their hands.

I started speakin, my voice boomin over those fuckin flames, “Come on y’all just goin to kneel to some fuckin flamin skeleton! I mean half of em are gonna fall over before they fuckin get to ya!”

Cliff gave a victorius roar an’ reared ‘is legs, “So rain holy hell on these fuckin blights on da earth! Praise the lord and Pass da fuckin Ammunition! Come on men, I hereby declare against this menace a [Crusade], [Deus Lo Vult]!”

”Deus Lo Vult”

The earth quaked with our fury as the undead gave for a charge. Thousands of stones rained form the wall above an pelted the fuckers by the hundred. The undead soon impacted the tranches as the men roared in fury to bash as many of their head in as possible.

It was easy to tell though we were outnumbered, the undead easily circlin the entire town with their number. I could at best say that for every human we had, they had three undead goin at us. This meant that the trenches should have fallen in a near instant, but they somehow held firm as if they were weildin the power of God ‘imself. It was so odd I checked my level.

Level 71

Oh yeah, the flames from earlier probly killed half of the damned. With a rush in our step me an Cliff went out, carvin a nice line right through the undead ranks. Soon though I noticed a bunch of dem red eyes surroundin me, Wights.

Lookin at the forces, it seemed the trenches can last only a few more minutes (Two Posts) an they will fall from the sheer volume. Gotta think of somethin!

Jim’s HP: 97% SP:80%

>Well, whats next?

To be honest I was planning on you guys losing, then a guy decided to torch the entire forest. Genius.

Rolls will be happening now.

Rolled 45 (1d100)

>>3629915
>[Ability Boost]: Increase all stats when active
>[Ripple Strike]: By slicing the air, a ripple is forced dealing part of the sword's damage at a range. Range is about 10 feet.
> then start slicing as many as possible

Rolled 55 (1d100)

>>3629915
Get closer and aim for the Wights with our Crusader sword and
attack with [Ripple Strike].
[Ability Boost] to cover our defenses and flank.

>Last call for 1d100 rolls!

>>3630107
Can I roll again?

Rolled 6 (1d100)

>>3629915
Don't have time to read to plan!

>>3630115
nvm

I have an ok feeling about this.

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Cliff reared ‘is legs as we both looked down on the bastards before us, “[Ability Boost]!” I felt the power go through me veins as the Martial Art hit my god given body. With a single strike I swiped at the bastards, “[Ripple Strike]!”

With a single swipe I blew a good chunk of ‘em away. The others tried to get us, but before they could even try I saw some dangerous glow commin from Cliff’s mouth. Next momen’ the boy releases a fuckin torrorent of Black Fire on the bastards, causin ‘em to back off. Didn’ help that the other two head went in an’ started chewin on those who weren’ runnin away.

I sent a few more slices at ‘em before lookin around. The trench lines were not doin so hot, I could already see a number of ‘em dead from either massive amounts of stabbin or gettin their neck ripped out. What made my heart sing was watchin them all continue to fight, not even considering fallin back as they all chanted “Deus Lo Vult”.

I looked towards the horizen an saw the giant was about to arrive, maybe in about two posts. What really caught my eye was somethings that seemed to blought out the star filled sky. They looked to be hooded figures that you could just barely see through, an’ I got a bad feelin just from lookin at ‘em. They seemed to be goin’ straight for the wall.

>Well how am I gonna take care of ‘em all?

>>3630350
Assign cliff and Dolly to fight the giant. We should be rushing to kill the black hoods. They're the much bigger threat that Crusader Kings Sword better be in full use. With ripple strike being mixed with the most damaging to undead of the elemental strikes when within range of a holy Aura. Earth.

Oh and


Jim's SP: 100%

>>3630385
:D YOU JUST GAVE ME AN ERECTION!!

Use [Lord's Grace!]

>>3630369
Support

Give me a roll, d100 like normal.

Rolled 9 (1d100)

>>3630465
Let's heal our guys en mass, and smash the black cloaks!

Fucking Christ someone else roll.

Rolled 15 (1d100)

Just wonderin here.

>>3630483
I think I'll wait till mornin.

Rolled 48 (1d100)

>>3630465

>>3630488
mediocre

We are fucked. FUCKED!

Why the heck is nobody else rolling?

Rolled 27 (1d100)

writing now...

>>3631182
Who's roll is that?

>>3631188
Oh good. The enemy rolls lower then us.

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My men are fallin left an’ right, the dead are bought to make their way into the wall.

I turned to Cliff an Dolly, who was ridin with us, “Go attack the big guy, I’m gonna need to take care of dem flyin bastards.” She gave me a nod beofre I jumped off the boy an’ started runnin for the wall.

I ran fuckin fast, faster than I ever did in my life. As I did the words I spoke were rollin off my tougne like moonshine, “I call upon the Lord above who I have sword my Faith too.” I slaughtered a series of skeletons, seein the remainin’ survivors of the trenched defence, “My Lord, bring upon my flock life so they will continue fighting in your name, [Lord’s Grace]!”

I finished the prayer, an suddenly I got a warm feelin in my chest. I looked up, an watched as the stars in the sky started glowin brighter. I watched in amazmen’ as the sky grew what I could only say were ribbons goin’ across it. Soon those stars in the sky started gettin really bright, an… fallin?

All that fightin seemed to stop as the sky started rainin fuckin stars. They rained upon the town, goin into the bodies of everyone who fought to save ‘emselves. Those who had their guts ripped out were now standin up, sonn chargin into the Hordes of Undead with rightous fury. They were dead, but God has given them another life to protect the flock.

The once almost collapsed trenches were fightin with fury, an while they will still surely die in this battle they will save thousands in death.

As I was standin at the base of the wall tryin to get up to ‘em hooded bastards, I got a horrible feelin goin’ though my gut. On what I could almost say was God’s gift, I turned over to deflect a scythe that was gonna lop off my head.

Turnin, I saw a massive figure that seemed black as a moonless night. His face was that of a skeleton, an big fuckin Scythe made of bone in ‘is hand.

Thanatos, Lv. 95

“So you are the Sword Hero, the Saint of War.” It voice was somhow like clean water, ”You truely live up to what my Master told me from his scrying.”

“Oh he did? Then ya know God’s on my side ya fuckin bastard.”

The figure started noddin, “Yes, you are surely blessed by a Demiurge.” He prepared ‘is weapon, goin into a stance, “My Master wishes for your death, Saint of War, come at me.”

Jim’s stats: HP: 100% SP: 20% Lv.: 83

>Well, how am I gonna fight this guy?

Boss time bois.

>>3631261
First, we gotta get our espee up.
So switch to a espee suckin' sword.
Then we bless our blade to maylay and throw [Pillars of Salt]
at this false god fella.

>>3631261
We just made sure that the enemy won't be able to overrun the battlefield. We'll have to find a way to make this quick.

>>3631291
We don't have that

Instead we'll use sword cage and ripple strike to buy time. If he doesn't look to be damaged by holy Aura then switch from Crusader Kings Sword 2 to Christian crusader sword.

>>3631300
Support.

>>3631300
Are you worthy enought to earn my hats backing? Yust barely make Jim proud winer!

>>3631300
Roll for me fellows

>>3631586
BIG MONEY BIG MONEY NO WHAMMYS STOP!

Rolled 85 (1d100)

>>3631586
Fucking come on!

>>3631586
IN THE NAME OF GOD

Rolled 97 (1d100)

>>3631586

Rolled 87 (1d100)

>>3631644
whoops, capitalized dice

Ok, we're ready QM!

“An’ I shall, ya damn fiend!” I gave a charge at the monster before me, a quick slice right into the bastard’s arm. Using ‘is other hand the bastard gave a swift slice at me, but I ducked under the blade.

‘Is red eyes glowed like somethin was about to happen, so I backed up an’ readied myself for what this bastard was plannin for.

”You shall end, [Cry of the Banshee]”

I felt my bones quake as the attack hit me, all the air in my lungs were drawn out , an I could feel myself almost fall. But I’m standin tall now, my faith in God that I won’ die! I was so focus on not dyin that I didn’ notice both the people an grass all dyin.

“[Sword Cage]!” At my cry sword fell from the sky an’ entrapped us together, “[Ripple Strike]!” With that I charged at ‘im,. Swingin my sword to create a bunch of fuckin blades that sliced into the bastard.

He then charged me, this time he swept ‘is scythe at me feet. I gave a quick jump, hopin over the sword an slicin into the bastard’s shoulder.

He looked up at me with what I could only call a fury, “You are powerful, Sword Hero. May our fight quake the heavens.”

He broke away from me, readyin his scyth for another round. A quick look at the battle fields an I could see the trenches are still fightin hard, not yet fallin. Though I looked at Dolly’s stats an the poor girl was already at half from fightin the giant.

Jim’s Stats: HP: 92% SP: 35%
Dolly’s Stats: 48% HP
Cliff’s: 62% HP

>What next?

>>3631792
Call Dolly out of the fight, drink a healing potions and come to us. We still can't just hammer the undead fucker with smite. Our SP is too low. It should only take enough SP that we can use smite soon if we call out. Change out [ability boost] for [fortress] so we can tank out his spells as they are effect base. Barron needs to take the reigns on cliff and drive him and as many of his strongest men into the enemies back line to kill their support. Our mages need to be spread out to support as much of the defensive line as they can.

>>3631836
Roll for me!

Rolled 82 (1d100)

>>3632473
Don't fail me now.

>>3632527
yeah!

“[Fortress]!” I screamed at da top of my lungs at the bastard, my skin tightenin to a stupid degree. Just in time to as he came in for another stike with ‘is Scythe, barely diggin into my skin.

For ‘is trouble I gave the bastard a stab in the chest, which seemed to go right through the guy. I watched though as ‘is blackness seemed to simmer at the touch of the Crusader King Sword. We seperated for a momen’, before goin at it again in what was amountin to be a slugin fest.

Dolly went off the Giant ‘long with Cliff. He was comin upon the city walls now, the trenches barely over holdin out as the Undead only just started thinin out. After a few momen’s though there was a openin from the gates, a bunch of horses flyin out with Cliff quickly grabbin onto the leader.

It was the Barron, ‘is guards followin in a break for the undead backlines. What no one was expectin was the sheer amount of civilians wantin to come out, the mob of people chargin ‘long with the Barron to break what this seige.

With a swift upper cut I threw the monster’s weapon into the air, turnin it soon into a swift cut that ripped into ‘is stomach. The being screamed roared in pain as it placed it hands onto the blades an’ pulled it out.

Both of us were startin to feel shit right now. THe bastard was nearin a thrid of ‘is health while I was bein’ placed at half.

‘Is eyes stared into me as he rose into da air, “You fight well, Hero of the Sword. My Master however desires this town to keep the meddling of your fellows.” ‘is weapon started glowin with a bright hue, “You are still in my way. I am the Incarnation of Death, Thanatos. You shall fall my blade just as Gods, Titans, and Mortals have, [Incarnation of Death]!”

Suddenly the bastard grew out four wings form ‘is back, ‘is spear becomin longer an more wicked. A black aura glowed from ‘im as he brought it to bear, “We shall see if your Demiurge can protect you from [Death].” An he charged for me.

JIm’s Stats: 48% HP, SP: 65%

>Well how am I gonna deal with this!

There is only one way I can see you all having a complete victory, but who knows I’ve been wrong before.

>>3632695
[Sword cage]+[Divine Smite]+[Sword Infect Moonshine] = [1000 Cuts Holy Water Execution!]

Nobody else? Come on!

every one send me your mana

pull a goku eveyone send me your mana then blast strongest attack at full power every last drop

>>3632839
That would take all the mana we just saved up, plus there's a chance this guy kills us next turn. It doesn't look like this QM pulls any punches.

>>3632855
I will say the idead is close, you need more of am umph.

>>3632864
And maybe not right now.

you are right we will one day right gm please

Well, give me rolls, lets get this fight over with an the resolves comin in.

>>3632864
This actually makes me put some trust in that anon.


Use [Voice of the God's chosen] to lead the survivors in prayer, asking for judgement upon the one who abuses the dead to make them kill for him. Then using that prayer Mana, slam this guy with a [Sword cage] + [Divine Smite] = [???] power move similar to Naofuckme's Iron Maiden. (Bonus points if we can name it off a metal band as well.)

Rolled 40 (1d100)

>>3632894
>>3632889
I'd like to point out I am this anon >>3632720
I just keep going on and off WiFi.

>>3632899
We're gonna need better rolls than ^

>>3632695
>Focus on dodging his attacks and use [Ripple Strike] since its our only "ranged" attack we have. When our SP is at 75% use Lord’s Fury.

Rolled 68 (1d100)

hope this helps

>>3632989
This is fine too. Just need to do it before we get down to 25% hp.

>>3632989
Super close here. Theres one more step an you guys can fuck over the enemy.

Ok, what's missing? There's the SP build up, then there's the faith pooling, attack combining. There's a missing ingredients somewhere.

>>3633005
Switch Fortress with [Ability Boost]?
should make us faster stronger and tankier

Hint, its an AoE.

>>3633057
I don't think that would help.
>>3633058
Only thing I can think of is Turn Undead, so maybe adding that to the combo might work?

>>3633064
...[God's Fury] is AoE...

>>3633064
Just, please roll. You guys are coming out pretty nice already, just about 20,000 dead.

>>3633068
This anon already suggested it, he's on the money so surviving long enough to use it is what's important.>>3632989

I also already rolled. So we need just one more anon to do it.

Rolled 34 (1d100)

>>3633075
I guess I'll roll twice and hope it doesn't fuck us.

Rolled 42 (1d100)

>>3633075

Rolled 2 (1d100)

>>3633075

>>3633693
Why cant I be good?

Rolled 17 (1d100)

>>3633058
Hope this helps

Rolled 1 (1d100)

Well, I'm gonna get this done. This is gonna hurt.

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The bastard came in with a fury of fuckin blows, an I could only keep dodging without any chance to attack. I could already tell if I got nailed by ‘is Scythe it’d kill me instantly, so I could only dodge.

With a massive swing he sent me flyin though da air, gettin my feet right underneath the giant. I stood strong though an shouted at the top of my lungs, “Everyone, give me you strength! Pray to the Lord!”

Those on the wall started muttering something, bit I was in the middle of defendin’ myself form dat mother fuckin bastard an’ now dodgin the giant’s feet. Left, right, an upper strike, he was fuckin relentless.

I checked my SP gauge, seein it has reached right at 75%. I got a warm feelin in my chest as it was bout time for me to fuckin end this, “[Ripple Strike]!”

I tried goin on da offensive, but the bastard was relentless. I could only land two of my attacks before he came in for another round of slashin!

Unknown to Jim, God was getting a little board not being able to smite this fucker. So using what little influence on the world he had, he created a small block of rock that floated in the air directly in front of the Incarnation.

As he came in though somethin happened, the guy suddenly fell over like he was tripped. I wasn’ gonna lose my God given chance though, “I call upon the Lord above who I have sworn my Faith too.” He tried ‘is fuckin fastest to get up, but I stabbed my sword right into ‘is back, “Before me is a being of pure Evil, an so I ask you to smite this being to salt before me, [Lord’s Fury]!”

A massive cloud quickly appeared over the sky, coverin all the stars in da sky. Next momen’ lightnin erupted from it, going right through the giant an’ into Thanatos. I was bein covered in light, but I felt no pain at all as the bastard was soon turned into a statue of salt.

As the light finally died down I looked up to see the same things somehow happened to the Giant. With a spark in my heart I looked over to see the Barron breakin through the waves of the damned, the mob of people now turnin to slaughter the remainin undead. To be honest there was still a lot, but now I could fuckin kill them all!

Jim's Stats: SP: 15%

>Well, how am I gonna help clean up?

>>3634377
>Its not over yet! Them hooded scum gave you bad fealing you probably should locate them to make shure they dont do somthing underhanded. Would suck if gods miracle was ruined by them.

>>3634377
Cull your way through the horde of the undead towards them cloak folk
before they cut their loss of that false god and leg it.

>>3634377
Also, call Cliff and Dolly to help ya get through faster.

>>3634562
Backing

>>3634562
This, don't forget liberal use of turn undead.

>>3634377
Don't forget to absorb the salt and maybe Thantos's weapon. Gotta get that next sword.

Rolled 54 (1d100)

After collectin the Loot from da salt statues of da killed bastards an unlockin swords that the QM I'd too lazy to make right now, I quickly made my way to da wall.


While the mob outside was busy cleaning up the skeletons and zombies I came into the city to see dem cloaked bastard wondering round everywhere. They seemed to be Killin as many people as they could,sucking their life with a few swipes. The people fightin them seemed to have lots of trouble, their clubs not connectin with flesh.


"[Turn Undead]!" An so I started making round bout the place. They couldn' get through my sword it seemed, so I made myself busy wiping out the bastards.


Took a while though as it seemed them cloak guys occasionally grew from the corpses of people, all of whom seemed to have chosen cowardness instead of fightin under the name of God an Jesus Christ.


It was only the I sliced through the last mob that the sun was risin'. Since they were goin through walls it probly take weeks to clear em all out, but we finally got em to a nice level.


The horde outside was also bein cleaned up, though none really got into the city so the death toll was below half the people.


>What ya want me to do now?

>>3635076
Turn undead the rest of the walking corpses until we get them all out. Then talk to the Barron before resting in the cart and getting to the other city under seige. We still have to get this done before the next wave.

>>3635098
Support

>>3635098
Oh yeah, we are at like the middle of week 2 I think. It was a two month time.

>>3635334
So four days to one week until the wave. And we have no garentee that the border will hold unless we kill off the undead horde here.

>>3635489
I guess thos is why big bird queen only showed up after the next wave in canon. Someone had to put this fire out and shes close.

>>3635508
Makes sense they probably have their own wave but kings fucking dead and undead are making an army. Nobody local to beat the wave so she probably took it upon herself to take care of it. Cant leave a tear in reality active full time who knows what will happen.

>>3635542
Man I forgot about Fittoria. I wonder if she'll be less pissed off since we're actually taking care of buisness.

I popped open a small barrel of Moonsine I just made today while hangin out in my wagon. Today was the day everyone was recoverin, most were buryin the dead of the battle or rebuildin their homes from those hooded guys, which I guess were called Wairths or somethin.

Dolly was sleepin next to me while Cliff was helpin with the buryin shit since he was a strong boy. I poured my Moonshine into a small container while I checked over all I got from the Wave:

Sword of Azrael, the Angel of Death (Ability: Death Strike, Holy Aura H, Life Steal L)

Nightwalker Sword (Ability: Giantification, Aura of Dread L, Enhanced Strength L)

As I finished lookin over the swords I got I noticed the Barron was comin over. Extin the menu, I got down an’ the man gave me a curt bow.

He flashed me a great smile, “Well I finally found ya, who would have thought the legend in the making would hang out his wagon.”

I threw ‘im the rest of the Moonshine I was drinkin, “‘Course I was, I’ll be headin out to the next city ‘ere soon. So hows everythin’ goin?”

The man shrugged, “Well I say maybe 20,000 dead. I honeslty was expectin more.” The man pondered for a momen’, “ On that note, I want to thank you for saving my Town Jim. Honestly there is not much I could give a hero such as you.”

“An I’m gonna take it you will still try?”

The man let out a laugh, “Hell ya I will, I’m not gonna let this debt go unpaid!” While he stopped laughin at it all he seemed to still have a spark, “I will say I along with my army will follow you anywhere, an if you wanted to become King I’ll fuckin sing to your tune.”

I blinked for a momen’, “Whatcha sayin? You wanna make me ya ruler?”

The man shrugged, “Yup, Kings dead an’ most of children were in the Capital still. Being the guy who’s gonna save the Kingdom, I don’t think any noble will think twice.”

>”So, what do you say?” an what else you guys wanna do in this place?

Time till Melromarc's next wave: a month, two weeks, and three days.

Time will Brusch: Who knows.

>>3635989
Wait, these are the waves now? That can't be right. What of the other hero's?

We'll take em up on dat offer but deres gots ta be a constitution, and it's gonna be president not kang, and there's gonna be term limits, were American not a filthy eurog. What's this guy's level, if it's high enough or his command skill is we'll take him with us to the next town.

Before we leave see if we can't do anything like make defensive plant or leave them with enough food they can hold out a week long seige.

>>3635989
We ain't no king we don't have the smarts; besides kings are gay they need a constitutional democracy.
>make more food for the village then go back to the previous town we were in

Also what's our level?

>>3636072
We shouldn't go back, there's a second town up ahead under seige that needs our help before they become the replacements for the undead horde we just killed.
>>3636075
70 something before we killed the boss.

>>3636004
This is not the wave, but you guys have a pretty good guess that there could be a wave here at anytime.

Level is 85, the others are at level 40 still.

Waiting for more votes?

>>3636072
>>3635989
i'll change my vote
>send dolly for reinforcements then go attack the siege

>>3636267
Great idea. She'll be so much faster than the wagonwe bring, that she'll likely bring enough forces to finish off the seige in the middle of the second day of fighting.

>>3636267
make sure to tell her to bring the trebuchet the villigers built.

>>3635989
We'll go into detail on how to set up this new form of government later.
Right now we need to gather supplies and head to the aid of the town under attack.
Without that false god in the way, we can truly put the fear of GOD into that trouble making Dr. Frankenstein.
Turning all these loved ones into twisted, shambling parodies of their former selves is
despicable. Even calling them parodies is too kind, as if they were supposed to make us LAUGH.

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“Nah, I’m from a place where ‘eres no King, but the people electin the leader. We need to finish our job right now before we are even thinkin of changin your constitution.”

The man grew an even wider smile as he was hearin this, “Now thats an answer I’ willin to listen too.”


I gave the guy a noddin, “Yup, we need to keep on movin. I can have my folks bring in some big shit for us to break dat other city out.”

With that we started workin, after sendin Dolly off to get more men an shit I started gettin thing’s together. The people were really happy to see me movin, an I even got a nice force of people willin to follow me into the depths of dat hell in order to break em out.

As we were workin to bring together some food for the trip I noticed a weird bird cawin from the Window. Lookin more closly at it the thing was a fuckin undead.

Before I could slice it up though I heard a voice comin from its damn beak, “We finally meet, Sword Hero. I am Mrtvý Čaroděj, an Overlord Sorcerer and current ruler of Brusch.”

I took a momen’ to realize the fuckin thing was talkin, an’ then I realize, “So your the fuckin bastard who’s been raisin all those undead!?”

The bird gave a nod at that, “I am, as you have declared. It seems you have taken the rightous path of a Paladin to a Demiurge, which means you likely hate me for all I did.”

I gave that damn bird a death stare, “An why shouldn’ I just kill this bird now ya bastard?”

“Well you see.” The bird looked ‘round for a momen’, “I simply wish to learn about the man who slayed two of my strongest undead. And maybe you wish to know more about me.”

>Well, how am I gonna cuse this bastard out?

>>3636515
"I'll do ya one bettah, ya give me one Gud hail Mary of a reason fer yer raisen up dead bodies ta kill innocent people an maybe ah give it some thought fore ah drop a smite the size of Texas upon your heathen ass."

>>3636515
what are you and where are you

>>3635334
Apparently waves are keyed in to specific dragon's hourglasses with occasional overlap. Theoretically if we're outside Melromarc we could run into random waves that other countries have to deal with because Melromarc decided to be greedy little shits.

Correct me if I'm wrong. The way this is supposed to work out is the 4 heros are summoned, and after working appart for several months are supposed to gather as many people as they can to a last safe bastion, then find a way to fight off the last of the waves. That correct?

>>3636963
So this place is about to be wrecked even more after all the undead and stuff.

>>3635989
Wheres Exe? You have improved on presenting Cliff but now Exe is missing I guess theres will always be that one character.

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>>3637030
We left her back at the other city. The one we started in, someone has to play defender for that place even after all the prep work. we got no garentee that the undead won't come down from town 3

>>3637043
Okay got it.

>So what causes a man to abandion the value of life and go killing towns and villages? Like I really cant understand that the again its probably good thing that I find that mindset so ailien to me.

>>3637043
We need to do a few things.

1. Save town 4 and get to town 3 by cutting through the fields.
2. Advance upon town 1 and two simultaneously some how.
3. Cut off access out of the country from towns 6-7
4. Strike the capital and end the undead reign.
5. Get back to Melromarc to murderstroke Isukie right in the balls and lay Exe before the boat wave and Glass fucking kill us.

>>3637059
Dont forget rank up our companions. We aperently have acess to monster king(?) allready acording to QM but we dont know that IC so out companions stay lvl 40 for now.

>>3637105
Gotta get a way to do that IC.

>>3637105
True. Also why are you using my name?

Hey now no fighting, this thread can handle a few sheep and maybe more.

>>3637159
I wanted to see how it fealt to be a sheep... It was meh probably will go back to anon after this.

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I gave da bird a glare just like Charlie had, “So what in Sam’s Hell are you? You some kind of super undead?”

The bird just gave a nod, “That is pretty close actually. I am a being known as an Overlord, an ancient race of undead the world has only seen from before the advent of heroes. Overlords once ruled numerous city-states around the rule, hosting immortal undead armies. I however am not one of these beings, but instead I learned of a ritual to become one.”

The Crow moved its head to the side, “So Hero of the Sword, you are not form the land of Japan are you.”

“Wha? Hell no I’m some random Jap.” I slammed the table now as I looked at ‘im, “So give me one good reason why you been raisin the fuckin dead an’ killin all the people!”

The crow gave a small laughin, “Yes, I probly should explain myself. You see Sword Hero, I slaughtered the capital and rose them as the living dead because I saw the entire stock of heroes as incompetant fools.”

…

“OH you got to be fuckin kiddin’ me! You pist the Bow Hero killed the King too!”

The bird almost fell off the ledge laughin, “Well close, but I did not care for the Mortal’s death. He only had maybe 10 years left to rule. No what I care about more was the simple fact the Bow Hero killed the man without question. I watched as the Parliment agreed to a Coup and then hired the bow to kill him. And you know what the Hero did while the Capital burned?”

I shrugged “I’m gonna say a guess an say got drunk.”

“No, he instead philandered with some local village girls, acting so suprise she figured out he was the Hero of the Bow.” The bird flattered further inside from the window, settlin on a chair, “Anyone with a brain could have figured out the Bow Hero did it. The King was a Porcupine by the time they realized his ‘esteemed guest’ had betrayed them. Add in the fact the Spear is mating with one of the Calamity's Champions, the Shield likely to be abandoning our world whenever he gets the chance, and you being in a forest for the longest time, I decided that I needed to protect the world.”

The eyes on dat bird started glowin, “Now, what will you do with this information Hero

>TL:DR The Heroes are shit, guy wanted to raise a viable army and protect the world.

>>3637025
It could even be the reason the undead are around if they stuck around after a wave.

>>3637375
>Hmm~ Well I try to stop you from more undead raising at first so could you not? After well I will continue being Naofumi's pall. He is getting better he had an actual smile on his face and he actuall has a companions he trusts. Spear I dont know anythig about calamities champion but I shure will find out and try to deal with it as for bow... He will recive a punishment and get some sense pounded in him one way or other I will drag him all the way kicking and screaming if I have to.

>>3637429
Maybe switch stop him from making undead as last thing we say. Brsides that I think this is good. Have to drag his ass on a trip of self ralisation because while spears misslead the little ass is doing all on his own.

>>3637375
We're only gonna give one chance, this guy holds his army, what's left of it, in a Crypt or tomb until a wave or we're gonna turn him to salt just like their undead.

“Well I’m goona defend Shield Boi, kid finally started smilin again after all da shit that bitch put ‘im through. Spear didn’ seem to cause much trouble, but its soundin like he will soon.” I gave the bird thing a stern lookin, “Bow however has done somthin’ I can’ stand for in causin this mess. ‘Is punishmen’ will be comin’ real soon.”


The bird nodded to me, “Definitely. I do admit this is my first time interacting with heroes directly, its just I saw these events as a necessity.”


“Yeah, well now I gotta move to ya!” I drew me sword at the bird, “You back off the Kingdom an’ stop makin all these goddamn undead an I’ll let ya not be a pile of salt.”


“Fufufu,” The bird’s eyes were glowin a bit evilly, “While I would accept those terms knowing the world is in capable hands, however I have grown tired of being on the side lines of these Wars between our world and the Gods. I would like to make you a counter offer.”


The Bird started to look a little more menacing as it stood up a bit more, “I will call off my forces from the Kingdom of Brusch and have them return to my home sin the mountains, but I will still create undead from the corpses of those killed not by my hands, directly or indirectly.” It grew a kind of grin I didn’ know a skeleton bird could have, “But in return, we become allies. I will join your party as an equal and we will face off the Calamity together. These terms will be enforced by a Geas of my creation.”


>”So how about it Hero of the Sword, are you willing to join forces with an undead for the sake of the world?”

>>3637720
Nope, denying the dead their rest (along with cursing the land and potentially this geas thing.) is something we can't abide. We aren't making them an offer, it's a plea deal for all the death and destruction. Either she submits or it's execution.

>>3637720
>Not gona happen atleast as it stands now I simply can't let you expand so as it stands not mutch trust between us as it stands. Geass is way too exploitable so do you know someone who could be called neutral, strong enought to not be brow beat by either of us thats neutral and can be confirmed neutral by others that could overse the deal? [Not holding our breath for that. Fully expect this deal to sink reall fast.]

>>3637791
Derp enlush whats englush. What i'm saying neutral party overseing or bust. [Cough#BigBirdQueen#cought]

>>3637794
Calling her neutral is a streach. Shes firmly in hero unity and I will make shure that the world survives even if I have to hill the 4 heroes to get better ones camp.

Other than that propose the alternative deal fully expect the deal to not be taken.

>>3637832
>>3637794
Yup it basicly on him knowing about that kind a figure then actually be willing to get in contact and finaly our allies also knowing about sutch a figure... Thats a tall order. That said that reasioning should convince Jim to propose the deal expecting it to fail so supporting that. If it actually fails nothing mutch changes in grand scheme of things.

>>3637794
>>3637832
>>3637854
I really want to reject but I will be good sheep and follow the leader. As others have said if he tejects its just back to smiting.

So can I get support for >>3637741 ?

>>3637912
Nope going for long shot. If things fail its back to killing him anyway's.

>>3637937
I myself am suprised of the support I got. Also the fact that theres more than just the 3 of us here. WTF.

>>3637943
It's a well written quest. There's probably about 10 others reading.

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"Like hell I'd agree to somethin like that. Ya hold all the cards if ya be the one bindin us, so you gotta get someone in-between us to do it."


The bird cocked it's little head to da side like it was thinkin for a minute, "Well that would be a problem. For sure the Whip Hero is out, he is just another Champion of Calamity. Poor Ouryuu was shattered into a thousand pieces by Fitoria."


"Fufufu! It would be her!" The bird was on it's back, "Oh I could already hear her, 'I should destroy you, but if you are supporting a hero I will let you live.' Well then Hero of the Sword, why not make this our first quest together."


The bird went out the window as an orb of blackness appeared in da middle of the room. Stepping out was a tall skeleton wrapped in expensive clothin while flanked by wierd looking Knight an' another fuckin Thanatos!


He stretched out 'is hand, "As a show of faith and trust I have come to you, shall we look for that Heavenly foul together?"


>Do you agree? Also do you guys want to execute the Shadow that's hiding in this room?

I'd like to point out I do have my concern since we've been labeled as a paladin about 'falling.'

>>3638162
Shadow? Turn to talk with that first. I'm not exactly gung ho to make a deal with a lich, and I'm not shaken it's hand just to get hit with touch of death or something.

>>3638162
>Lets find a bird. Speak to shadows they might actually have a valid opinion or just no good snoopers we find out witch.

I'm not exactly kidding about the falling thing. The last thing we need is for our holy sword series to be locked.

>>3638224
Support
>>3638269
Shouldnt be a problem for now unless acually do somthing supid like support this skeletor in killing inocents. While I wrote the action now im more intrested in meating bird queen than actualy making a deal.

Can we at least make it clear to this unholy blight that is to follow our direction and absolutely may not raise an Innocent. The guilty fine, but no Innocents. Then he has to atone for his crimes when the waves are over.

>>3638358
I have no problem with this.

>>3638162
And the other heroes aren't THAT bad. It's just hard to think the waves are serious when everyone around them is too stupid to prioritize not dying over exploiting the heroes for dumb schemes. There's no real sense of danger or urgency from all of dat, so of course they're just playing around when the people that are supposed to be serious are just playing around.

>>3638809
Eh, I kinda feel like the only competent hero's at this moment are shield and the ones under calamity's direction.

>>3638838
eh.
Shield keeps on racking up powerups via sheer random luck. Random dragon emperor shards. The last dying practitioner of a secret martial art is saved by him on her deathbed.The queen gives him a super OP slave race/person as a companion.
His filorial doesn't get poisoned.
His curse isn't even that bad comparatively and he gets to maintain control over himself while getting the highest attack power despite having no attack being what's supposed to be his weakness.

Spear is surrounded by leeches instead of anyone taking the hero's duty seriously. As far as he can tell he's playing a game on easy mode and he thinks he can just replay the game from a save after he fails anyway so this whole run is just information gathering while fucking around.
Bow is surrounded by people that act like npcs. He's still a shithead but you can at least see why he's just using it to play out his little hero fantasies.

None of them have any real reason to care when it's transparent that none of the people in charge actually care. They just got summoned and told to fuck off. No training, no long mission briefings. Everything is just utterly half assed at best.

TLDR Naofumi's "competence" actually comes in the form of stumbling into powerups before everyone else can. Not that he's incompetent, but he's not the genius hero he gets treated as being in the books.

“I’ll agree, I’m thinkin.” I pointed me sword at ‘im, “Just don’ be goin’ round usin’ the corpses of innocents for your shit. If we are gonna join together we are gonna follow my rules.”

Mrt, I think was ‘is name was, looked a little down, “Very well, I guess that is acceptable. In this case I will recall my undead.” he rose ‘is hand, snappin ‘is boney finger, “Now if I may ask, is the one hidden within your room your companion?”

“Sneakin? Dolly went to get the fuckin Trebuchets.”

He pointed to a corner in da room, “Interesting, [Paralyse Species].”

I felt a sudden shift in da room as somethin’ appeared in da corner. It looked like a gal, but she was wearin some black shit that made ‘er look like one of them Ninjas. She stood for a momen’ before fallin onto the ground like she couldn’ move.

Mrt walked over to the fallen person, liftin’ ‘er into da air like a doll, “Well it seems I caught an Melrian Shadow. Honestly I should have expected this, now what to do with her?” the Skeleton guy turned to me, “What do you say? She is no match for both of us even without the paralysis.”

“Well fuck…” Looked at the gal futher, she seemed ‘uman at first before noticin a pair of what I guess were cat ears, “Lets question ‘er, like why the fuck do they have Ninjas.”

Mrt shrugged, “I think the Spear hero in the previous generation thought this force up, Melromarc was after all his baby.” He openned a piece of ‘er clothin, showin a small circle on the gal’s breast, “And it seems they are enforced by a Greater Slave Crest. As expected to Melrians, [Greater Break Curse].”

The symbol on ‘er chest glowed for a momen’ before disappearin from her breast. Seemin to be happy with ‘is spell he place the gal on a chair and placed a small bell thing next to her, “[Cure Paralysis], lets began questioning.”

“Oh shit.” The gal stared at us like she was given a death sentance, but she kind of just did doge one.

>Anything y’all wanna ask?

>>3638933
>sup?

>>3638912
Damn I wish I could talk with ya, but I get the feeling it'd fuck with the game. Atleast now I am hopping you guys feel like you are meeting competent people, no matter who fucking evil/psychopathic they are.

>>3638933
"Alright. No need for hostilities. Ye work fer Malromarc, so ah need ta know who of it yet loyal too. Outside of that yer mission and anything important that I'll need ta know."

Then we need to turn to ask skeleton who this calamity is and what's this about a whip hero?

>>3638933
Did the king send you? and why are you spying on me

>>3638933
(I figure that we aren't going to be the only ones asking questions, so i'm leaving a few of the more obvious ones up to Nazarick)
>Got any spells that let us know if they're telling the truth Mr Squirrel Bones?
>You might want to start listing reasons why you're innocent.
>What nonsense is the King up to now?
I'm resisting the urge to have one of the voices in our head reveal plot points since that's not a good idea to do around Ainz.Although it would be funny to point out that they're programmed/customised video game NPCs and do not fall under the category of normal undead when he tries to do his old undead discrimination argument.

>>3639329
You got me, but I guarantee there is not Ainz, I'm just stealing most of his character.

>>3639329
He's what came to my mind first when I thought, 'Who would lead an army of Undead while killing thousands just because he 1. Could, and 2. thought it was right.'

>>3639340
>>3639350
So how quickly can this asshole be expected to curse us in the back in the middle of a fight.

>>3639471
Like I'm gonna tell ya.

>>3639475
2nd interaction alone, got it.

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“Well,” I turned to the Mrt, “how we gonna know she is tellin the truth?”

He gave a little chuckle and pointed to the bell, “This item will ring whenever a lie is spoken near it. I would admit that such an item would be immensly valuable, but it also triggers when either of us tell a lie. Hmm,” He turned to the gal, “I am human.” *ding*

“Alright…” With that knowledge I turned to the lady, “Well honestly I don’ have much problem with ya besides the spyin, so you can get off pretty easy, got it?”

She nodded her head, “I… understand.”

“‘Right my first question is who in da world are you workin for?”

She swallowed before speakin, “I work for the Queen. I removed the traitor who was incharge of watching you before, Sir Hero.”

“Alright, my turn,” The Skeleton went down to her eyes, “You guys probably gave the Bow a Spy too right? Why did your associate not stop… my King’s assassination.”

She looked at ‘im for a momen’, a cold hatred in ‘er eyes. Mrt gave a shrug an turned to me, “That is the only problem with the [Lie Detector Bell], if they stay silent it will not ring.”

“Well its my turn now,” I said causin the skeleton to back away, “What’s the King been up to? He wantin’ to see me dead?”

She gave a noddin, “Yes, King Aultcray has been angered as of late. He cannot believe the Sword Hero has betrayed his Kingdom to the Shield Hero and is currently searching all of Melromarc for both you and the Shield. Both of you are untouchable… in your own ways now.”

I waited for the other guy to say somethin’, but he just waved me off, “She will never give me a straight answer. You might as well continue.”

“Alright,” I pointed my sword towards ‘er face, “Finally, whatcha got to say for your innocence? This guy gonna turn ya into a meat puppet or nah?”

The gal’s face was drained as she turned skele guy. She slowly have me a shaken head, “I… don’t have anything to defend myself with. I have no family to speak of nor have I had a life outside of the Shadows. I will be executed as I have lost my slave seal.”

We both looked to see the bell did not ring.

>Whatcha gonna do with ‘er?

>>3639567
She'll make a good unit. Especially for spy work which we'll need. Have her prepare a demand for audience with the Queen in writing, we'll meet on the border on her return trip from this direction, otherwise we meet in Melromarc.

Meanwhile we're gonna grab Barron and all of us head to the capital to find the dragon hourglass.

>>3639567
And ask the undead guy more questions with the bell.

>You said your king. Does that mean you were a servent of Rudolph?
>You said you had wanted to fight the wave, yet your killing the same people it targets, isn't like helping the enemy?
>Who's this calamity and fetish (whip) hero?

“Then your gonna be servin me.” I took away the sword from the gal’s face, “Go get that damn Queen to give us a chance to get together, written down! After that, you are gonna be meetin us at the border. Ya got it?”

She slowly nodded ‘er head before disappearing before my eyes. Seems she didn’ need much motivation to get away from Mrt. “Well, we better get goin, eh? We need to head over and get the Baron then go to the Capital.”

Mrt gave a nod, “Yes, we shall. If I remember correctly the Wave was going to occur this week.”

With that we walked our way down the halls, that Thanatos thing followin by Mrt’s side. The place seemed to be gettin better ever since we won, guess all that food is helpin.

I decided to take it easy a little, “So, Skele Guy, you said your King so what did that mean?”

The Guy scratched ‘is skull for a momen’, “Yeah, umu, I guess I did. You see I admired the man for his victory against Siltvelt, and since I lived in the area he was more or less my King.” He gave a soft chuckle, “I would admit my choices were clouded when I heard the King was killed, I always enjoyed the times when I spied on his court.”

“Okay… an why all the Killin? Isn’t the people who your suppose to protect from the wave?”

The Skeleton gave a shrug, “I thought it was the best decision at the time. I needed an army and strong generals so I made them. If only a couple million die to give me the nigh unstopable Thanatos or Nightwalker who in turn can save millions I don’t see a reason why not.”

He looked down for a momen, “Though I’ll admit I went a little overboard. When I realized I had enough to create high-tier undead I already placed multiple cities under siege. Heh, I didn’t really know what to do after that?” He did a quick flourish with ‘is cloak, “I’m a researcher, not a Ruler.”

I looked at ‘im weird, “An so why the fuck you attack me?”

“Well that one was because I wanted to test you.” He pointed at me, “You were obviously better than the Bow, so I wanted to see if you could win against my forces. And if you died I would have simply raised you are an Overlord.”

“Yeah, you now tellin me you were plannin to kill me?”

“Fufu, I could have many times before. I decided not to though because you are an actual hero. Of course the opportunity to become an Overlord is open to you still.”

“I think I’ll be passin.”

Well thats fuckin enlightenin, “An what about this fuckin Clamity you keep talkin about? These fuckin Champions?”

“Oh her…” The guy somehow took in a breath, “I will keep my research explanation of the cosmology of the universe short for you, simply put there is a God currently being kept out of the world by various safeguard a Demiurge installed. While the waves used to be something else, now it is mainly her attempts to prod into the world and eat everyone’s soul.”

“And for those Champions, they are folk she brought along for the ride. Souls given a fragment of a God, they are rather dangerous individuals she infected our world with. I know of two, Tact the Hero of the Whip and Malty, first Princess of Melromarc.” He brought out a small jar, “If given the chance I will take their souls for myself to experiment with. And before you say anything these souls are quite evil, their existences are only because Calamity is here.

After a really lengthy explanation we finally made it to the Baron’s room. With a knockin we entered to see the guy lookin over the map, “Ah, Jim I have recived news that- oh shit!”

The Baron quickly drew ‘is sword at Mrt, but the skeleton seemed to take it in stride, “I mean no harm now. I have called off my forces from the other cities, which leaves the Capital to me.”

“Fuckin hell” I heard the Baron say as he put away ‘is sword, “Well, does this mean we are not at war?”

I looked at Mrt before noddin, “I guess we arn’t. But theres a fuckin Wave comin in to prepare for.”

The Baron looked like ‘is face lose all its color when he heard that. I turned to Mrt an’ he gave me a nod, “We can leave at any time, I will just open a [Gate] there.”

>Anything you guys wanna do or organize before headin to the Capital?

God I hate infodumps, sorry for it guys.

>>3640167
If we have skeletons helping us we need them to look the part, let's see what we can do about turning this horde into a force of undead crusaders. See what papa bones has to say about it

>>3640167
Barron pass along orders to your men and disperse our forces to the other cities. You will be going with us to the capital. Whe will go when Dolly gets back here with reinforcements. Mrt, you said your a researcher so your job will be making this world's first gunpowder, I want an AR-15 with a full 30 rounds in every living man's arms by the end of the month, if we can live that long.

We are a redneck after all, we should know by heart the recipe for gunpowder, and how to put together and take apart an AR-15.

"Potassium nitrate, sulfer, and charcoal. Figure out where to get the nitrate and then mix that and the other stuff together until you get a good enough explosion."

>>3640284
No guns... in this world guns scale by % and not by set value. Meaning they are realy worth it to those allready strrong so not gona give it to army thats like cripling ourselves as moust troops arent induvidualy that strong.

Everything before that is good tho.

>>3640337
Awwww, ok, no guns. What about artillery cannons?

>>3640167
ask him if he can teach us teleportation magic. zip zoop zop

>>3640497
I would imagine learning to read might be a better use of learning time.

>>3640574
we need a magic user to teach us how to move faster. also do we know how to read?

>>3640603
We don't know how to read yet. We need to work on that.

>>3640633
Yea lets learn how to read.

>>3640633
We truly do. Let ask this instead of guns.

>>3640700
I'll agree, but if the QM already wrote it let him post it then we can get our request for basic Ed.

"Okay Baron, let golet some of ya men goin around, we need to be keeping order right?"

The man nodded while still keeping an eye on Mrt, "I guess so if this person is telling the truth. I will be back later."

An with that he headed out.

"Ya know Mrt" I turned the to skeleton, "by chance can you teach me some of that magic stuff?"

He seemed to think bout it for a momen', "It would be easy as I can simply teach you the foundations. Have you learned Magcian yet?"

"What in Sam's Hell is Magcian?"

"Well, let us start from the beginning today." He said bringin put a small fancy lookin book, "I believe we should start with the Germainian Ritual Magic System as it is simply the easiest."

With that I was schooled through the entire fuckin night by a skeleton on how magic works. Maybe I should've just stick to my Lord's miricles.


By afternoon the next day Dolly had the reinforcements coming in from da town in Melomarc. She bout jumped out the window when she saw Mrt, but I kept 'er from gettin 'erself killed from that.

It was bout 4 o'clock as we stood in throne room together, me, Dolly, Baron Guy, and Mrt.

The skeleton guy took a few steps forward, "Since everyone we can head over to the hour Glass, [Gate]."

Just as he came in, a giant blob of black shit appeared in da middle of da room. Without a care in da world he walked through it. We all looked at one 'nother, before I went my way in as well.

What I entered was somethin like a Church, Gold shit everywhere I looked an walls high into da ceilin'. Lookin forward, I saw Mrt studyin the Hourglass thing.

Just like before, I rose my sword to it, causin the thing to zap my sword.

>108:45:20

"Well, looks like we are a little over four days." I said as the others came into da room, "I think we can get a bunch of people together before then."

The Baron nodded, "I believe so."

As we were talkin, I caught Dolly walkin closer to da thing. Next momen' she's zapped.

>Class Up in for 'Dolly' has been initiated.

We looked at one 'nother in a little confusion, an then I looked at da options.

>You guys go ahead and make up a class for Dolly. Ideas I came up with are Spell Thief, Ninja, Assassin, Illusion Wizard. If you really want to push a really off kilter class, I think the resident wizard can do something.

>>3641421
>WILD SCOUT - While the class mainly focuses on finding threats unseen and finding paths for travel like normal scouts. WILD SCOUTS in adition are more in touch with instinct focusing on ambush strikes as openings with deacent burst damige if low sustained damige in longer fights enhanced further with sutch things as killing intent supresion and projection.

>>3641436
Support.

Sounds good enought ambush fighter that takes advantige of her monster instincts.

>>3641436
Support. If only bomber rogue was a thing.

>>3641421
>Assassin

I'd change my vote to spell thief if that can get support.

Shit, I just realized something. The duel never happened, unless something happens off screen the shield won't unlock the cursed series. And we also didn't kill the dragon that triggers it when it came eats Filo. We're gonna have to compensate for the lack of that shield in his arsenal aren't we?

I looked over all da options that were infront of me, Illusion Wizard, Spell Thief, and even ascended Arisan. What really stook out to me was, "[Wild Scout]" and clicky.

Suddenly the Ray went at Dolly again. She tried to dodge the thing but instead got nailed by the attack. Her hood fell off a little, revealin a more wild hair than what she had.

"What happened?" She said lookin over 'erself.

"Ah, it seems she classed up." Said Mrt happily, "So now her level cap has been moved to 100."

Her surprise wore off quick as she nodded, "Then I'll be able to level again. This is good."

I had to sigh, "Too bad Dolly didn' level durin your assault Mrt. Maybe you should throw a few undead to da cause."

The skeleton gave a shrug, "The only ones worth while enough would likely be the Wights and High tier undead. It would be more efficient to have her hunt with them instead, so we have a stronger force." He seemed to think to 'imself for a momen', "and I could use the monsters to make powerful undead."

"So you said we have fours days?" The Baron said button into our conversation, "What are you all thinking."

>>3641921
"I'm thinking we need even higher tier reinforcements. I'll need you to open another gate into the Guild Hall of Melromarc."

>>3641986
Support.
>That is unless you guys know another place where we can get troups.

I'm thinking we should move most of the spread out population to a few more closer to the capital places, and house the majority of the civilians who won't be able to defend themselves or flee if a town falls into the capital where they'll be the most well defended. For everyone else they'll be other outside the capital or in the two closest by towns. We're gonna need a lot of fire bombs so we're gonna have to find some folks to make a moonshine brewing company. Since we'll have access to proper infrastructure and resources now blacksmiths should be given some help increasing their production time. In part by teaching them about something called metal casting and stamping it won't get them ready for this wave but it will get them ready for the next. Now as for the kingdoms royal armory were gonna have to go in there, copy as many swords as possible, absorb some stuff there into our blade and refine the unrefined ones.

All of the above can be treated as orders handed down. Or done latter.

Also we're gonna need to get cliff and Exe here so they can class up and maybe get Exe involved in some of our defense prep.

>>3642112
This

Its still the first month. Naofumi must be running into messes made by the other hero's. It's towards the end of month 2 that he meets Melty and runs into the other hero's again right?

Sorry for the wait. Internet's down at my place and I already got it written up on my comp. If it gets late though I'll just type it on my phone to be done with it.

"Well first thin' I'm thinking is get as many people 'ere as possible. Capital is da biggest place 'round so I'm sure we can get a lot of people 'ere"

"I believe it would be the safest concidering my undead are still around." Mrt said like it was nothin, "Unless you forgot about that?"

Well shit, I hope you guys didn', so, "Think of dis as a test before we start headin to get day damn bird."

"Umu, then I thank you for this chance." I feel like that damn skeleton face was smiling, though I don' think it was an evil one.

I went to da Baron, "Well you're gonna go get these people here. See if we can't get some shit like sword an' fire bombs made while we are at it."

The Baron turned to Mrt and the skeleton gave a nod, "Ah yes, umu, you shall have command over my undead. Say anything besides suicide and they will do so." An he snapped 'is finger all fancy.

"Shit…" he breathed in an turned to me, "I can get that all done Jim, but what are you going to do?"

"Well I'm thinkin of headin to Melomarc's Guild. Mrt, ya think you can get me there?"

"I can get us in the area," he said with a little weeze, "It is just that I will aim for the local area. Places I have been to a long time ago are hard to pin down a Gate for."

I gave 'im a shrug.

With a wave of the guys hand another of those weird orb things came up. I watched the guy putting on a red mask an metal gloves, coverin up them skeleton features before headin through.

I did the same, an we ended up I those Flatlands near the city, day forest flankin us. Bout 200 yards from us was the city

"Hmm, it seems I was off." He showed is hand towards the town, "It seems I was 150 meters away from my attempted landing spot. Well, I guess we shall start moving"

>Whatcha guys wanna do/say at the Guild. I'm guessing it's advertisement to get some recruits.


Apparently someone forgot to pay the fuckin phone bill. Only post today since posting from phone is hard.

>>3642778
>Recruit the adventures, similar to what we did last time. We're gonna need all hands on deck for this. So let's make mrt pull a hood up and close his robe so people don't start screaming at the undead mage we brought with us.

See ya tomorrow QM.

"Men of the guild, we gots another wave to fight in Brusch. God wills it we do battle in four days time! we gots full access to da treasury, armory, and the undead problems set against dat wave now so we'd gots no excuses not ta get good levels and loot lute outta this one, but I dun gotta promise you mad bastards anything ta get in on dis shit nah do ah! DEUS VULT MEN AN LASS! LETS KICK SOME ET ASS!"

[Voice of God's Chosen, Crusade, and crusader Kings Sword] to inspire these (soon to be) holy men. I'm sure they're gonna remember us.

>>3642989
+1

>>3642989
Support

>>3642989
Sounds good boss.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say either the King or Malty do something exceedingly stupid.

We made our way through the gates of da city an were soon comin close to da Guild. I quickly looked over Mrt, makin damn sure he isn’ lookin like some kind of skeleton, before enterin the Guild.

Walkin in I noticed most of da people were just hangin out havin themselves a drink. They didn’ seem to notice me enterin the place at first, well until one of the receptionist noticed me.

“Oh Lord he’s back.” Was what I heard from the gal, soon a couple of people turned to look.

“Oh shit! Its the Sword Saint!” One of ‘em said before the place started eruptin in cheers. They seemed fuckin happy to see me, an I was happy to see ‘em!

I got myself on a table, “Thats right everyone I’m back!” A cheer came through the place, “But my men of dis Guild, dere is another wave that is comin! It will be attackin Brusch in four days! We got everythin’ from treasure and the armory. Hell, even dem undead are sidin with us for dis fuckin Wave.”

The crowd was cheerin my name now as I was speakin, “There will be levelin, loot, and fuckin carnage! I’ll promise y’all dat an more! Who is with me! [Dues Lo Vult]!”

Soon they changed their chant to that blessin of da lord, “I hereby declare a fuckin Crusade!” An’ once again my list was now fillin up with fighter for da war. I could even hear Mrt laughin to ‘imself as everyone was ready to fight.

>Anything you guys wanna do in the Capital, or head back to da Capital?

>>3644087
This is good. Promising even. Ask the receptionist what's gone on while we left, and about if there really war a murder contract out on the king before we ask them to spread the word of the crusade as far as they can. Then portal back to the other capital, this should give the crowd enough time to gather up to go through somewhat orderly and with all the gear they'll need.

>>3644096
If there really was a murder contract.*

>>3644096
+1 also ask about the reward for the job

Everyone was movin ‘round now. Men were gettin gear together while the gals were strungin up dem bows. While this was happenin I turned over to da Receptionist.

She seemin mixed between wantin to strangle me or thank me, “Sorry bout takin all your men. Guessin y’all wouldn’ wan’ ‘em goin to another country.”

The gal let out a breath before straightenin herself, “Its not much of a problem, the Guild tries to keep itself isolated from politics, though our alliance a few years back does help.”

“Yeah, I was wonderin by the way. Did y’all by chance put out a murderin contract on dat King, Rudolf I think ‘is name was?”

The gal looked at me like I just jumped into a snake pit, “Why would the Guild publish an assassionation? Like I said before we don’t concern ourselves with politics, and I surely believe having a King Assassinated would be against that.”

“Well, I was just wonderin.” An with that I wen’ over to Mrt.

“It seems the Guild suffered a little corruption, I take it?” The mask he was wearin had a crocked smile on it.

“Aye, seems the Bow got duped. Idiot didn’ think twice ‘bout why the Guild would wanna kill a King.” I pointed forward, “Can ya open a portal for any ready? We need ta get movin before dat King knows I’m ‘ere.”

With an outstretched hand Mrt openned ‘nother of dem portal things. Usin da [Voice of God’s Chosen] I announced, “Anyone ready to go come through dis portal!”

An with dat a bunch of people came through, I could already see the numbers buildin up but they’ll be gettin bigger. Takin my own advice I wen’ through.

>75 Adventurers are in the Capital

>125 atleast will be in route.


>Well, guess its time to get everyone workin? What be their jobs?

>>3644530
Adventurers should scope out food spots to set up shop as ranged and mage towers. Voice of God's chosen to request men fo digging trenches or setting up battle walls.

Have the barron selected as general. He'll have the best chance of figuring out who to lead battle groups and how many to divide them into in order to guard all three places.

Last thing we need is to get some flying mounts for our key figures, dolly, Barron, us, Exe, and even Mrt. Then go down to our village on the border. Once the general has firm control we ask Mrt if the range of the wave will include the Melromarc border. If no we bring them in. If yes we have Barron consider who and what they will need for defense.

>>3644716
Scope out good spots*

>>3644716
Support.
>>3644530
I tought your not runing today.

>>3644716
+1

It's been long enough for the QM to sleep or work. So his net must still be down or something.

So let's take this opportunity to figure out how to best introduce the new sword hero following to Christianity And which sect to base it on. I propose mormonism.

With the arrival of all of our people we were movin’ pretty fast. I quickly got da Baron to take a firm hold of bein’ a General, an let his free on what to do. I made sure however to have ‘em build some towers an goin to hunt.

For Food we are lookin pretty low. Apparently dat fire I started back in the Baron’s city made it all the way to da capital, so dere’s been nothin but ashe. Good thin’ was we can bring some food in from da Baron’s place, so we can get by atleast da wave.

As we looked over the city with da undead buildin all the shit I went over to Mrt, “So how big of an area do these Waves cover anyways?”

The guy was hummin to himself, “That would be the natural borders of nations. So Brusch would be at its borders while places like Melromarc might have two or maybe three hourglasses around their nation.”

“Huh?” I looked at da guy, “Dey only had one last time I checked.”

He gave a shrug, “Then they might have forgotten about it. It would be in their little island chain if I were to bet.”

“Alright,” I was noddin with ‘im while wishin someone had a damn map of dis place, “Any ideas on flyin animals by chance. One of dem adventurers had one an it was fuckin useful.”

“Well I can easily cast [Fly] on a few individuals.” He said in a matter of fact, “If we are talking flying mounts, I would suggest you get a True Dragon. At your strength you would be able to steal one from a nest.”

“Alright.” I gave a noddin.

“I do know where one might be. They sometimes infest my mountain, but I have not bothered to check ever since Calamity arrived.”

>With that our day ended, anythin you want to be doin tomorrow?

We are back to regular scheduled programming people. Hooray!

And we are currently on Page three, So we will be wraping up this Wave and the next thread will be made I'm thinking.

In other news, I did not realize it but Kami Turtle, the last guy to do this kind of thing, actually used a lot of in cannon stuff. Mine is just fuckin nuts compared to that.

>>3646915
Tomorrow we should have a complete stock taken of what's in the inventory of the treasury and armory so we can figure out what we can spare to pass out. This should be done by an assigned party while we go to that mountain with Mrt, cliff, and Dolly. If it comes down to it we can cast fly on cliff.

>>3646921
Yes! YESS! Sounds like a plan boss. Although I never heard of Kami Turtle or another shield hero quest.

>>3646940
And I forgot. Since the wave won't garenteed land in Melromarcs territory, someone get Exe in here.

(We'll check on our slaves after the wave.)

>>3646915
Obviously we need to check out the nest and get a dragon mount and if we have the time we'll start to learn how to read and maybe get some more magic training. We've got a litch? with us and we need to exploit this

>>3646990
Learning to read will take days. We should do it on downtime when there's not a wave coming in just four of them.

>>3646998
There isn't much to do since the undead problem has not only been resolved but they are now our allies, other than giving some commands we can do what ever we want.

>>3647028
Oh contrar. We have to ensure arms are distributed. Increase the immediate food supply. Make sure bombs are being produced. Go over maps to ensure we can gather enough construction materials from pre existing infrastructure.

>>3647082
perhaps we do however we can spare at least an hour before bed to learn how to read can we not? the more we learn the better we are at defending ourselves from people like the king, church and, dare I say, other "heroes."

>>3647229
Learning to read takes more than an hour. It can take days. The best start we can get though is getting a copy of the alphabet.

>>3646940
Support
>>3646949
He ran a quest not so long ago. He did realy good seting future plot through our party members too bad he disapiered just after the wave with Glass. To bad Blake was about to take big bird queens test too. (Shes a dragon so more like hiden grudge match)

>>3646940
This.
>>3647269
Not quite? She wanted Blake to prove she is not going to become like the old dragon Emperor. While it speaks a bit of past experiences coloring stuff shes willing to work past it eventualy. Thats my read of Kami-Turles story atleast.
>>3647244
Yea it will be atleast a month or so before he has very basic literacy I think.

Rolled 31 (1d100)

Rolling for loot because I bet no one is awake.

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The next mornin was taken by me an Dolly to go through da ol’ treasury. It seemed to be locked by some massive door vault thingy but Dolly, bein the ever so resourceful one, already got started workin on the door.

“Finished,” She said as the gal grabbed onto the handles of the door. She gave it a big spin an soon the door openned like it was easy. Lookin in the place wasn’ dat big but had a few good things in it.

15,000 Silver Pieces (150 Gold)
About 10 pieces of masterwork armor and arms.

Magic Items
Spitfire: An ornate Shotgun that uses one’s mana as ammunition. The attacks are of course fire based and shoots in a short range cone like in video games.

Puresight: A gliscening Silver helmet who’s vosor glows a Golden light when worn. When in use this helmet grants Truesight to the user.

“Well shit this place has fuckin guns!” As I tried pickin it up the gun was once again shocked out of my hands. I truly hate you sword, you wont even let me pick up the gun.

Seeing I dropped it, Dolly grabbed a hold of it like a sword, “Here Dolly your holdin da gun wrong.”

With a little work we got the gal holdin it right an for the hell of it we did a test shot. It fired a large area of fuckin flames, which really wasn’ what a shotgun was suppose to do. I mean, this thing fired in a cone.

“This will work.” Dolly said as she messed with it for a momen’

I gave a sigh, “Well you’ll probly be keepin it then.” An with dat we left da armory.
***
With dat done we made our way to Mrt an had ‘im teleport us towards dat nest he was talkin about. It seemed we ended up someplace like dem Rocky Mountains instead of da Alp like I’m use to.

>Mrt pointed towards one of da points, “I believe they tend to roost over there about a mile out. I placed us here so we could have a chance to discuss how you want to approach the Dragon.”

>>3647505
>Any advice abot dragons you mentioned some ryu or somthing back home that was one of the words geeks used to say dragon? I met one before in the wild but thats not gona fly probably. I mean theres only so many dragons you can fight and get drunk. Maybe a hinor duel for domination?

>>3647626
Honor

>>3647505
>I am guesing your averige dragon mount is hatched from an egg and not recruited straight from the wild... Dont wana its slay parents and probably too slow for us. Tell me are they just as inteligent as the one I meat before it spoke and everything might be able to help as the influx of dangerous creatures from wave might endanger the population of their prey. Let their apetite decide.

>>3647660
Support.

"Now how do Dragon even act anyways? Would I be able to beat them up an' they join me or what?"

"No, they are simply too prideful," Mrt shook 'is head, "they will chose death that be dominated, as they know a shard of their spirit will be carried somewhere else by their Dragon Pulse."

"So you're sayin they some kind of heretic or something?"

He shook 'is head again, "Not a religion but a fact of their atnamony. The only time one could truly manipulate a Dragon would be during their Lust Cycle, when they simply act as a beast in heat."

I gave a sigh, "I have a feelin it's easier on ya than me."

"Fufufu, much so," he nodded, "I will say I will not be joining you, for if I am fairly infamous among their kind. I would bet this one would be angered by my appearance."

I looked 'im up an down for a momen', "Alright, but if day thing starts breathing fire your gonna be comin over to help."

"Aye, Jim of the Sword. I wouldn't mind having some draconic ingredients."

An with that I made my way to da nest. It didn' take too long since I got really fuckin fast. I was about to get into what I guess was a mountain pass when I saw somethin in da air.

It fell down to da ground real fast, revealin it to be a Dragon. This one was red though unlike the other bastard I fought, "Who dares approach my nest?"

"I am Jim da Sword Hero. I was coming over to see if ya could help us with da Wave comin up?"

He lowered 'is neck gettin a closer look at me, "I am more than contempt with my mountain, hero. Though I am not above what you mortals call, tribute."

>'is eye glowed a little as he looked down on me, "I can sense it on you, a Shard of the Dragon Emperor. Give it to me and as you have paid tribute, help you in this wave."

>>3647269
Kami didn't disappear,he is just waiting.
Also, he's reading more source material right now.
His quest is on hiatus right now.

>>3648033
>Shards a worth more for me than a one time alliance. You want the shard I be needing lasting allegiance.

Other than that I can garentee your mountain, protection from the other hero's who seem to be idiots, and fighting the wave ensures your hunting ground exist longer.

(Not enough? Further offer are a cut of the refined metal from kingdoms mines when they reopen no higher than 15% and of course moonshine.)

>>3648067
Support

>>3648067
Seems good enoughta deal.

>>3648067
Honestly it's a good deal but the fucker wants dat Shard. Roll a d100 to appeal to a Dragon's greed in a different sense.

Rolled 5 (1d100)

>>3648225
Ok

Rolled 96 (1d100)

>>3648225
Fingers crossed it works well.

Rolled 95 (1d100)

>>3648379
Fuck that go0d

"Well I got a counter deal for ya." I put a foot on a stone, "Hero's and Monsters are roaming dis world. And ya know, I got asked to become ruler of dis damn country an we are gonna be buildin a lot."

I pointed towards 'is rocks in da day pint to da sky, "Ya can keep ya mountain an' anythin' on it. Nothins gonna be built on it."

He growled a low Goran, "That is already mine Hero.”

"Once I get dis place minin' we will be minin' I'll pay ya for work. I think maybe 15% of da material would be pretty good for ya.”

Steam started comin out of ‘is mouth, “You are ignoring my statement Hero, this land is already mine. Now if you are-”

“Do ya really think dat?” I question da now stunned Dragon. With me sword drawn I continued, “Ya already know dere’s plenty of heroes runnin ‘round now, one doesn’ care what the fuck happens while da other is bein’ led by a fuckin devil. I mean, not like I just beaten up one of ya kind little bit ago.”

‘Is eyes were widenin, “grrrrr. Your the Sword Hero, fuckin shit.”

I grew a smile, “Aye, da one an only. So ya know I can garentee ya don’ bother joinin dat Dragon Purse thingy anytime soon if ya work with me.”

The damn thing took a while to think. ‘is face kept on changin as he was tryin to figure out if upsettin me was da right thin’ to do. Soon though he lowered ‘is head, “Fine, I will work with you. You are however not above me, I can leave whenever I want and there will be no Slave Crests.”

“Oh I understand. Come to the Capital to help prep for dis wave.”

>Anythin else you wanna do ‘ere or there for the day. You are on day two of your four day time to the wave.

>>3648696
>"Hey, for ya just rush to the capital, just in case take the eggs with ya, no telling if the wave will hit the mountain while were fighting away from it. And take Dolly with ya so they don't jumo the gun thinking ya hostile."

>Then go find our lich and have us go to the border village to meet Exe and anyone else who may have come by.

>>3648732
I do need to ask if the egg thing is a scheme. You would have a chance to fuck it up.

>>3649016
Nope. Not this time. Better to get on the fucking lizards good side this time round.

>>3648732
Support

“Ah, an before I go.” I turned back to da Dragon, “Ya better bring ya eggs to da Capital just in case dat wave ends up bein ‘ere.

The beast looked me up an down for a momen’ before noddin, “I will claim one of the buildings as my own. No one is to enter or leave it.”

“Aye, an take Dolly with ya. She can get ya in without bein’ shot at.”

An with that I say dem off, Mrt walkin up to me when da Dragon hit da skies, “It seems you managed to convince it, a pitty I must admit.”

“Ya wantin to add a fuckin Dragon to ya collection?”

He gave a little laugh, “Its been so long since I’ve collected True Dragon ingrediants you see. I mostly just been dealing in crossbreeds, even ones that go back three generations in Dragon’s blood. None of them however can compete with the real thing.”

I let out a sigh, “Well in any case you need to get me to dat border town in Melromarc.”

With that Mrt got me to da town. Things were getin pretty busy as I was gettin through. Makin my way ‘round I noticed Exe walkin over to me, “Ara ara, you have been causing a lot of trouble lately have you.”

“I been more fixin most of it. What trouble you sayin?”

She gave a small chuckle, “Well theres currently an Exodus of Adventurers going towards Brusch last time I heard. Why the King was about ready to call a state of emergency.”

“Well I wanna see ‘im try,” I point over to Mrt, “D’is guy’s been a good help gettin me ‘round.”

She looks him over for a momen’ before ‘er face pales a little, “Oh my, you are… something.”

A little flutter comes from ‘is cloak, “It seems my disguise needs a little more work. Well then John, shall we be off?”

>Whatcha wanna do ‘ere

I was trying to figure if the Naofumi would be here or not, I figured he was not. It's only just hitting week two so hes probably dealing with the Plant Crisis. Though a large amount of people moving around does bring in merchants.

>>3649874
Check the food supply here if there's not enough get the farming sword and make some.

>>3649949
Might as well.

>>3649949
Support.
>>3649874
See if we can get some Trebuchets loaded with firebombs or water jugs to go through the gate so we can move them into position to scorch or drench hordes of wave creatures.

>>3649874
Oh, Merchants! Excellent! Let's make sure some make it to the capital before the wave starts so we can take advantage of them. We'll need merchants selling seeds of plants we can grow for food, those who are willing to act as caravanners to bring water into the state of Brusch, and those who can sell tools, weapon, and armor to the adventures, knights, and scared civilians.

>>3650098
My hat is freely given to you.

I spent the day with Exe workin on gettin some of the Trebuchets through da portal. Seems by the times I came back they already built about three more, puttin us at about eight fuckin units. I mean, we are goin’ to be fuckin over whatever these bastards hit.

Onc eheadin back we took a stock of all da foodstuff an’ realized somethin. We don’ really have enough to take care of all da people comin over from Melromarc.

Reason I now was runnin my way through the fields with a sword an’ shit. As I was doin so I watched over head as a Dragon wen’ over it with Dolly on ‘is back.

Anyways, the day ends without much issue.

>What should I do tomorrow? (Unless you guys have anything major you wanna work I’m planning to skip to the Wave so we can round that up tonight.)

>>3650520
>We have 2 days left. So let's get some of the arms and armor in the armory distributed. Claim ownership of the helmet. Figure out how much money we can afford to pay the Adventures if any survive and then make an announcement.

"We have one day until the wave, so everyone, enjoy yourselves with some friends family or loved ones, and write your wills just in case. Let's have a damn good time!"

Then I vote we try going for a date with Exe since everything else seems ready.

>>3650530
Yea Exe time.

Ok I did the napkin math. If we paid all the 200 adventurers from the guild hall only 10 silvers, it would subtract 2,000 from our treasury of 15,000. This is without factoring in the cost of paying the soldiers, subsidizing rebuilding efforts, or putting aside enough funds to make the investments necessary to rebuild the kingdom. We're currently riding on "everyone must do their duty" but that won't hold over when the wave is over and people need to live their lives until the next one.

>>3650530
Support
>>3650573
Yea after this comes real kingdom building and organisation.

>>3650573
>>3650604

Fufufu, you figured out my trap!

But really there is a chance you guys can not do kingdom building. I of course am planning both out comes.

>>3651123
Simple plan to fix it, announce a tax break for a month and send the merchants and guildies to spread the news. It will bring in some people who would want to start production industries and a few merchants willing to invest. Meanwhile we can subsidize a temporary food shortage while we help get the farmers back on their feet. They have to understand we can't just make more food for them all the time. (If we're lucky naofuckme shows up with seeds.) Plus we have the best moonshine around, we can make an effort to export it out of the kingdom to find our treasury. We'll need to be strategic about this so we can still leave the area to do hero shit.

>>3651123
What trap? I thought it was a mater of course that we work to get this place back up to speed.

After a good nights of sleep I went my way ‘round da city. Mrt has started lendin out undead to some farmers to get dem crops harvested. The Baron has already gotten it in ‘is head he wants a wall, so he started makin one out of stone sayin to me, “You fucking burnt all my forest!” Dolly was still figurin out most of ‘er skills as a [Wild Scout], so she’s been huntin in whats quickly becomin a plains.

As I was walkin da castle I got a good wiff of somethin, a nice fruit wine if I wasn’ mistaken. So I made my way towards dem fellows who agree dat drinkin in da middle of da day was a good thin’.

Makin my way round a corner I caught Exe next to a barrel with some fruit, “Oh, seems you caught me.” She grew a sly smile, “You want some drink?”

“Sure as hell I would.” I walked over to da barrel an looked in, “So what is dis? Strawberry or Raspberry wine?”

“Ara ara, I forgot you come from another world,” She brought up a fruit dat looked like a red pineapple da size of an apple, “This is a Lucor Berry, something of a novelty in Melromarc’s Apocalego.”

She took a knife to da thing an cut a piece of it, lettin it drop into da barrel. Soon da wine turned into a more dark red, “This berry contains a large amount of Alcohol and Sugar, enough that it can easily put an entire barrel at about thirty proof.”

I grabbed a Goblet from ‘er stuff an took a swig, “Damn dats good stuff.”

“Oh it is,” She gave it a stir before throwin a bunch of fruit into it, “Soon it will get much better, just need to wait a few hours.” She turns to me with a glint in ‘er eye, “It will get… much better~”

“Well what we gonna do before its done?” I take da lid an’ put it on da barrel.

“Well~”, she taps of ‘er tray, “Usually I go out and train, develop a new [Martial Art] on the side.”

My body achin already I pipe up, “Why don’ we go huntin instead. I mean, you got somethin’ you been wantin to kill?”

She taps on da barrel a little, “Well, you know I really want to kill a Magnumlion.”
***
With dat we ended up outside a cave on the other side of Melromarc with a [Scroll of Message] to call Mrt back an’ da barrel of wine. Exe had ‘er sword ready, waitin for me to go in.

>How you guys wanna approach this?

>>3651211
The trap is basically another version of Itsuki's folly. He just thought because he removed a king from power the tax rate smoothes over and everything fixed itself.

Our folly should we just leave after killing the wave and calling it a new constitutional republic would become not making sure the citizens have enough food and money to eat and live while also leaving the treasury naked.

>>3651234
>Hunt the thing Monster Hunter style. Sneak around tracking it then we get it's attention and tank with [fortress] and our Azrael sword.

>>3651259
Support

Eh never tought of abandoning the place. The places without a real leader and also is an nice home base to build up to fight the stronger waves and the 3 guardian beasts. It just dose not make sense as even Naofumi had his little realm in his slave village as force multiplyer.

>>3651259
Roll for a sneaky sneak.

>>3651336
Honestly if you guys didn't want to stay, I was gonna have you get an heir from a nearby kingdom. Intrigue would ensue.

Rolled 33 (1d100)

>>3651823
Oh god no, not intrigue
>>3651814
Rolling.

Rolled 75 (1d100)

>>3651814
Roll

Hope 75 is enough to pass.

“So, whatcha thinkin?” Exe asked as looked practiced with ‘er sword.

“Hmm, I’m thinkin we sneak in on it.” I said changin the sword to da Azreal mode.

“Well, I guess that could work.”

So we made our way in, crouchin so we wouldn’ be noticed. Place was pretty wide an’ we didn’ seem to get noticed. Though…

“It seems he’s not a clean eater.” Exe said pokin at a hangin intestine.

“Pointin out da obvious.” We had to stop just to look ‘round da cave we were in, “Fuckin blood everywhere.”

“From what I learned the Magnumlion likes to play with its prey.” Exe gave a small chuckle, “He would bring them to his cave an release them, seeing if they would try and run for the exit.”

“Dis thin’ sounds like a big cat.”

“Fufufu, thats how the survivors described it.”

We continued on, checkin out da fuckin grewsome scene.

It was ‘bout fifteen when Exe put ‘er hand up, “Its near.”

“Well what it doin? Sleepin?”

“Yeah,” She pointed down a tunnel to da left, “Its breathing is calm, come.”

Sneakin closer, it wasn’ hard not to hear the bastard. Slowly but surely we came into a small room, the beast in full view of us. It was definatly a big fuckin lion, which I’d pit at a size of a large shack. Though it wasn’ just a lion but parts of it were like a Dragon, mainly its tail an legs.

Magnumlion: Level 68

It was sleepin soundly though, an not doin anythin on dat note. Only other thin’ ‘ere was a head of some deer.

>Well, how we goin at dis? I think we start da fight instead of a Coup de Grace.

No pick guys, this things original!

>>3652226
Let's wake it up and fight it. I say we buff up, slap it in the face with the flat of our blade, and duel it till Exe wants a turn.

I'd like to try to learn the Martial Art [big stick policy] and massively increase our knockback on strikes.

>>3652324
Roll!

Rolled 94 (1d100)

>>3652622
[Fortess!]

Rolled 64 (1d100)

>>3652622
Wake it up by bashing it's forehead with the pombal of your sword

Ooc I got an idea.
[Riposte] Increased Parry/Deflection rating and conditional damage {when attacking after parrying/deflecting a blow.}

Next on the fencing tree after it and requiring big stick policy.

[Monroe Doctrine] attacks made after recieving or parrying/deflecting a hit deal twice as much knockback and damage.

“I want to fight it first.” An with that I made my way forward towards the bastard. Slowly but surely I snuck towards the thing, its load purrin vibratin the earth below me feet. It didn’ seem to notice me when I snuck up next to its head, an I started windin up my sword like a Golf Clud.

“[Fortress]!” An with a yell I smacked the fucker in da face. The smack sent the fucker on its back, which seemed to daze the fucuker for a momen’. Since it wasn’ gettin up, I gave it another fuckin smack in da fuckin face.

With that the thing stood up on its feet, lookin more like an oversized cat dan some lion. Didn’ stop it from bringin’ its claw down ontop of me. I went off to da side, once again smackin it in da face.

It hissed at me as I readied myself for another hit, “[Big Stick Policy]!” this smack sent the fucker rollin to da other side of the fuckin room.

“Ara ara, you have gotten stronger. What level are you at Jim?” Exe said as she walked over.

“Eighty five Miss. Hes yours I guess?”

“Yes,” She said as she walked towards the Magnumlion.

The thing rolled ‘round, lookin at Exe with like something weird happened. Since it was a dumb animal though, it decided to run right towards ‘er.

Exe waited there for the thing, the monster comin right on ‘er an bringin its paw down on ‘er. With swift skill, she forced the thing’s paw into the ground before slicin at the foot. The attack however just bounced off it, to which the creature once again swipped at Exe.

“[Fortress], [Ability Boost].” With ‘er form glowin she met the thing, usin ‘er sword to block the paw before duckin under another paw comin in from da right.

“[Greater Ability Boost], [Field of the Sightless Eye].” An with that she drove ‘er sword right up through its arm.

As all this was happenin I noticed somethin. From when Exe started she was gettin faster an faster. When she didn’ have anythin happenin on ‘er however she was slower den even Cliff.

>When you think I Should go in?