🐙 Planet Aberat, Kingdom of Selya-Mira 🐙 Auto-translated

Listening to those around her discuss her writing, Radianta lowered her tomato-red face towards the floor, trying not to make eye contact with anyone. Quietly and barely audibly thanking her senior colleagues for the time they devoted to her work, she awkwardly accepts the award and, ashamed, retreats. Only the appearance of a recent acquaintance helped her to regain her composure.
- H-h... Hello, K-Kearak. Y-yes, it would be g-good... Just... I need to get some lockpicks. Y-you remember, right?

But have I ever smoked them?

The Tree decides to participate in an intellectual conversation that will help it realize the last fragments of existence in order to achieve a level-up.

– Lockpicks are sold at "The Secret Ingredient," but if we go there, we won't have time to visit the puppies today, – Kearak noted. – Perhaps lockpicks can still be found in the cave itself... on the corpses of unlucky adventurers.

As a true master of communicating with distressed people, the fox carefully pretends not to notice Radianta's condition.

Meanwhile, with the guard:

Derevos listens to the elaborate conversations for half a day, but it doesn't give him anything, because there is no such service in this place. Only a small detail... But the guard still loses all his action points, and also learns that the sorntarnites, with the permission of the palace, are having as much fun as they can in the area of Milosti Selara.

- Okay, then... let's go... to the dog's den.

like... I paid for the level-up. does that mean it's not possible?

Character Level Up:

Price (in cetrens): the amount of experience needed to reach the next level, multiplied by 2.5

Oh, you meant this service. I thought you came to chat like in the Philosophers' Guild with Revan. I fell victim to the descriptions again... Come back another day :3 Scam everywhere, what a life...

Rascal:


HP: 230
Damage: 95
Energy: 105

Movement range in battle: 3
Initiative: 10

Accuracy: 36%
Evasion: 36%

Can attack with a dagger in melee, as well as use throwing knives and enhance his weapon with a weak poison. He also possesses several lockpicks.



Kearak and Radianta arrive at the cave. A rascal, recruited by the fox, is already waiting for them there.

– So, everyone is here. Which way should we go?

As their feet carried them towards the dog's lair, the shy writer managed to regain her composure.
- Let's go straight to the chest, - not being greedy by nature, she didn't hide the existence of the stubborn box from her new companion, - after all, it might contain something useful for completing the task. Well, and... I, of course, want to redeem myself and take revenge, but let the one with the nimbler fingers try to open it (the one with the higher chance of picking the lock).

Yeah, I mean just chatting with some random person, it wasn't even a riddle. What's with all this unnecessary hype again?

Okay, so we'll proceed as we did in the special class.

=> headquarters => sleep

The next day:

=> District of Morality and Knowledge (1 Action Point) => 5) College of Wise Minds (1 Action Point) => Character level up: => 85 * 2.5 cetrens

To the looters' great surprise, the pups turned out to be cunning and set up an ambush in a place where greed can so easily lead to ruin...

Young Wild Corgi attacks Radiant O'Mila in melee with Wild Corgi Claws: miss!
Young Wild Corgi provides support against Kearak. Target's evasion is reduced. Increased crit chance against her.
Wild Mastiff Pup provides support against Kearak. Target's evasion is reduced. Increased crit chance against her.
Young Wild Corgi attacks Kearak in melee with Wild Corgi Claws: hit, damage: 50!
Kearak takes damage: 240-50=190. Result: SURVIVED!
Young Wild Corgi provides support against Looter. Target's evasion is reduced. Increased crit chance against her.
Wild Mastiff Pup provides support against Looter. Target's evasion is reduced. Increased crit chance against her.
Young Wild Corgi attacks Looter in melee with Wild Corgi Claws: hit, damage: 50!
Looter takes damage: 230-50=180. Result: SURVIVED!
Young Wild Corgi provides support against Looter. Target's evasion is reduced. Increased crit chance against her x2
Wild Mastiff Pup attacks Looter in melee with Wild Mastiff Claws: miss!
Young Wild Corgi provides support against Kearak. Target's evasion is reduced. Increased crit chance against her x2
Wild Mastiff Pup attacks Kearak in melee with Wild Mastiff Claws: miss!



Turn Order, Round 1:
1) Young Wild Corgi x3: 15
2) Wild Mastiff Pup x2: 10
3) Kearak (190/240, 215/215): 10
4) Radiant (220/220, 115/115): 10
5) Looter (180/230, 105/105): 10

Meanwhile, with the guard:

The ambushed Treefolk has gone to sleep.

Kearak fires an ice arrow at the mastiff on the right (which is next to the rogue), then we don't skip the turn and observe the result of the action.

Kearak (190/240, 175/215) uses the spell "Ice Bolt" against the target Wild Mastiff Pup: hit, damage: 90!
Wild Mastiff Pup takes damage: 180-90=90. Result: SURVIVED!

Deciding not to reveal its full power, Radianta reluctantly fires an arrow at the same dog, letting the pillager attack afterward.

Radianta O'Mila (220/220, 75/115) uses the spell "Ice Bolt" against the target Wild Mastiff Pup: miss!
Raskhitshchik attacks in melee against the target Wild Mastiff Pup with Common Dagger: hit, damage: 61!
Wild Mastiff Pup takes damage: 90-61=29. Result: SURVIVED!
The pups provide various support to each other.
Young Wild Corgi attacks in melee against the target Radianta O'Mila with Wild Corgi Claws: hit, critical hit, damage: 100!
Radianta O'Mila takes damage: 220-100=120. Result: SURVIVED!
Young Wild Corgi attacks in melee against the target Kearak with Wild Corgi Claws: hit, damage: 50!
Kearak takes damage: 190-50=140. Result: SURVIVED!
Young Wild Corgi attacks in melee against the target Raskhitshchik with Wild Corgi Claws: miss!
Wild Mastiff Pup attacks in melee against the target Raskhitshchik with Wild Mastiff Claws: hit, damage: 75!
Raskhitshchik takes damage: 180-75=105. Result: SURVIVED!
Wild Mastiff Pup inflicts bleeding on the target Raskhitshchik for 3 turns.
Wild Mastiff Pup attacks in melee against the target Kearak with Wild Mastiff Claws: hit, critical hit, damage: 150!
Kearak takes damage: 140-150=-10. Result: DEAD!




Turn Order, Round 2:
1) Young Wild Corgi x3: 15
2) Wild Mastiff Pup x2: 10
3) Radianta (120/220, 75/115): 10
4) Raskhitshchik (105/230, 105/105): 10

Juvencius lay in bed for about ten minutes, contemplating whether he should first shave, take a bath, and find some tobacco along with a refreshing drink, or whether it would be better to make a conscious effort and go to the main hall as he was, sleepy and unkempt. After a long internal struggle, his sense of duty prevailed, and Juvencius arrived in the main hall, managing only to comb his hair and wash his face. Let them see how seriously he approaches the affairs of the organization, and let his rugged and worn appearance bear the mark of the trials he has faced. Juvencius clicked his tongue with satisfaction, mentally approving of his new persona as a cool and serious cultist.

The adventure-loving woman had many thoughts swirling in her head, but they were all overshadowed by the clear realization of the impossibility of victory. Her body moved on its own towards the exit, hoping to escape from the devilish dogs.