Chapter 8: Stone mountain
In a nexus city,
The first light of dawn stretched across the horizon, painting the sky in hues of deep indigo and soft lavender. The stars, once bold against the midnight expanse, faded one by one as golden tendrils of sunlight crept over the sleeping land. A hush filled the air, the kind that exists only in the fragile moments before the world fully awakens.
Then, sun emerged with bright sunlight as ember in a volcano towards the city, Ash opened his eyes and sat to ground, from near he see evan sleeping soundly, he lost in deep thought how evan sleep so soundly after all we can died anytime in this world but he thinks it''s normal for evan after all Evan is native of the world of eldros, so he started thinking how to survive in this world Ash said status window ...
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City: Nexus city
Ability: Territory defense double
Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double.
Altar level: 0
Upgrade requirement: (woods*1000, stone 250, 50* mana core (level 0)
Production: mist mana level 0 * 10 per day
Area: 625 square meters
status: very small village
Building: Guide mark*1(active)
Warehouse: wood*84, mana core level 0 *11, Rabbit monster hide level 0* 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1* 1, low grade axe * 1, low grade knife *1, low grade shield *1, low grade market blueprint (stones * 200, woods*50), low grade house blueprint (stones * 100, woods * 25)
Population: 2
Specialty: none
Attack power level: 0 (80/1000)
Description: city''s power level to attack enemies
Defense power level: 0 (20/10000)
Description: city '' defense power level against enemies.
Ash thinks, he should first try to find stone for building a house, living in a ground without a roof and only sky to stare with cold wind, it is really frustrating and in a long time it create some serious health in this situation and he has various problem to deals with, so he think to worry one more problem is not a wise decision.
Here, Evan is also awake after some nap, he started to address ash, my lord what should we do for today.
Ash said to evan you will stay here in city and welcome new comer and I will judge if he should live in city or not and use altar to absorb mist mana to grow your level and I will go out for exploration and come back before new attack from monsters.
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Time left before attack: 12 hours
Ash said first, let''s distribute the treasure we get from the treasure box.
Here, evan you take low grade axe and low- grade shield and i will take low grade knife with me, you have to distribute a low- grade sword or low- grade axe to new person who join our city.
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Evan said “okay”.
Ash said status window ...
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City: Nexus city
Ability: Territory defense double
Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double.
Altar level: 0
Upgrade requirement: (woods*1000, stone 250, 50* mana core level 0)
Production: mist mana level 0 * 10 per day
Area: 625 square meters
status: very small village
Building: Guide mark*1(active)
Warehouse: wood*84, mana core level 0 *11, Rabbit monster hide level 0* 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1* 1, low grade market blueprint (stones * 200, woods*50), low grade house blueprint (stones * 100, woods * 25)
Population: 2
Specialty: none
Attack power level: 0 (80/1000)
Description: city''s power level to attack enemies
Defense power level: 0 (20/10000)
Description: city '' defense power level against enemies.
then,
Ash " my status "
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Name: Ash (altar owner)
age: 24
status: healthy
abilities: none
level: 0 (0/100 mana mist level 0)
weapon: low grade Gun, 14 bullets, low- grade knife
Now, evan goes to city altar for mana mist absorption he is thinking deep in mind.
that he find a good altar owner for his future and he feels ash is trust worthy but he feel he have to see if he want to go another city for living or he trust ash more.
and ash is preparing for deep exploration in forest but he thinks in mind I should eat first before going anywhere and he took bread and water and dry meat to eat from place where evan put food after that he ponder i will create biggest city in this world.
may be super large empire and he will be an emperor without so much to worry about trivial things with unlimited power in his empire.
After 10 mins,
Ash started moving from dinning towards exploration in a outside of the city, as it is ash out from city he started seeing wild level 0 monster after 10 mins of moving away from its city he started seeing some level 1 wild monster.
he started seeing a massive trees with frighting trunk and leaves branch very big and massive stem going into a soil, deep in a forest a loud of wild loud sound he can listen, some wild monsters are attacking each other for food
and some monster grazing plant and trees’ leaf are large and very massive river is flowing as it it’s cutting a forest a two different line.
After 2 hours of exploration ash come to the place where he sees a lot of monsters with level 1 started to appear in his sight and he started holding his gun tight as it life depend on it and he carefully and deep slow walking he is exploring the field.
And sometimes he started to see some bronze and silver treasure but all he could to feel sad about it because he not dared to go there without enough preparation that is, there he can see many monsters live there some are at level 1 he clearly see .it so
he explores other place for finding treasure and material that he needs in this world for future development of city.
So, ash started moving quickly and steadily after sometimes he find a mountain where a many stone are there.
In a one pop up window message to ash ....
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Name: Stone mountain (Resource point)
status: unoccupied
Ability: mine up to 1000 stone
level: 1
In a stone mountain ash can see various monster with some are at level 1 and other are of level 0
After looking seriously into monster ash can look, status of the monsters ....
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STONE RAT (Low-Grade Monster)
Rank: F-rank
Level: 1
Description: A small, rodent-like rat with oversized fangs capable of chewing through wood, leather, and even weak armor. It moves in packs, using its numbers to overwhelm prey and mostly found in stone mountain
Abilities:
Fast Reproduction – If not culled quickly, their numbers explode.
Gnawing Instinct – Can chew through doors, weak barriers, or ropes to escape traps.
Cowardly but Aggressive – Fights only when cornered or in large groups.
Weakness: Weak to fire and blunt attacks. Easily scared by loud noises.
And other stone rat is probably level 0.
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STONE RAT (Low-Grade Monster)
Rank: F-rank
Level: 0
Description: A small, rodent-like rat with oversized fangs capable of chewing through wood, leather, and even weak armor. It moves in packs, using its numbers to overwhelm prey and mostly found in stone mountain
Abilities:
Fast Reproduction – If not culled quickly, their numbers explode.
Gnawing Instinct – Can chew through doors, weak barriers, or ropes to escape traps.
Cowardly but Aggressive – Fights only when cornered or in large groups.
Weakness: Weak to fire and blunt attacks. Easily scared by loud noises.
And other rabbit is probably level 0.
After seeing some time, ash found, there total number that is stone rat level 1 *2 and stone rat level 0 * 13, Ash think it''s look like I have to deal with them another time there is enough if I attack now, I will probably not deal with them and I will be injured.
And going to city, it''s likely impossible with injury so,
let''s watch them some time to fully sure they are only 15 stone rat then I will start going to going to city.
After 1 hours ,30 mins,
Ash become sure they don''t have any new stone rat with fighting power so after ash started to steadily and slowly fleeing from the stone mountain.
After some distraction he comes to near forest and after that he quickly going towards the city.
After 10 min,
he comes to gate of city and he enter to city and started to relax.