Hacking Eden 16 Breaking Loose

"I've never seen you before, are you new?"

"yes" I replied "I'm RedSparrow I am an adventurer, and i would like to help if at all possible."

with an approving nod of her head she looked to everyone else.

"alright we have one volunteer we need 2 more any takers?"

after some shuffling of feet and glancing around two more elves stepped forward albeit reluctantly.

"ok that's our four attackers then." let's head out as fast as possible and get in position, if you fall behind then you will get left behind, so I suggest you keep up."

with that she turned around and began to run full tilt to the battle ground with everyone else in tow. well almost everyone.....from the get go apparently I was the slowest among everyone. they were quickly leaving me in their dust so I pulled up my stat window

Name: RedSparrow

Level: 4          600 Exp till next level

Race: Elf

Cla.s.s: Thief       HP: 180    Mp: 90
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strength: 7

Dexterity: 6

intelligence: 5

Speed: 4

WillPower: 4

Luck: 3

Free stat points: 4

i allocated my 4 unused stat points, 3 into my speed and one into my dexterity.

with that I went from the slowest, to one of the fastest. I steadily gained ground on everyone until I caught up with the squad leader.

about the time I caught up I began to hear familiar earth shaking roars, I knew we were almost to our destination so I looked toward the squad leader for the next set of instructions.

she slowed down at the edge of the battle field and gave everyone a brief run down.

"we are the 4th squad out of 10, everyone will only fire arrows or shoot magic when team 3's attacker goes out. then once the bear heads toward our team, then the next team will start to fire and our first attacker will go out. the pattern will repeat until either the bear is dead or ran off."

with that we got into position and awaited our turn to fire. I was the second attacker so I would just fire my bow when it came our turn. I pulled out my newly acquired bow and gave it a test pull with my strength and Dexterity I was able to pull the bow back relatively easily, and when I pulled the bow back a small red dot appeared in my vision which I could a.s.sume was my sights, also a little almost invisible arrow showed up at the corner of my left eye. I was perplexed as to what this was for, until the wind changed and the little arrow followed the direction of the wind.

"well this is helpful! with this the bow is more or less idiot proof and I can actually do some damage."

all the teams were in place, and the first team began to fire. it took a while for them to pull the aggro away from the village guards who had already been fighting for quite a while. even so after the bear charged toward the first squad its HP was still nearly at 80%. showing just how tough this bear was and how long this battle was going to be. when the bear was about in the center of all the squads the attacker for the first squad charged out and the second squad began fire at the bear.

the strategy seemed to be working and it also seemed, just like our squad, all the other squad leaders were the first to attack the bear and attempt to keep it in the center.

the first round of 10 went off with out a hitch so we began the second round. each squad was able to shave off about 2-3% of the bears HP so the bear was a little under 60% hp when the next round began.

this round I was going to be the attacker so I prepared my self. i went to the front and unsheathed my daggers psyching myself up for my turn.

squad three's attacker ran out and began to slash at the bear. so our squad began to fire at the bear when the bear turned toward us and began to charge at us I knew it was my turn to act to suppressing the urge to throw up i ran as fast as my feet would carry me and i began to relentlessly a.s.sault the bear. i held one of my daggers in a reverse grip and one in a forward grip. I slashed and stabbed like crazy, the bear took a few swings at my head but with my increased speed I was able to avoid them alot easier than earlier when the bear killed me.

finally the bear began to turn to squad 5 and i knew my turn was done but I wanted one last slash at the bear as if it will make my death earlier some how worth it. but as my last slash hit the bear his HP finally dipped below 50% and its fur began to shine an ominous red color. I knew then that I had messed up.

the bear began to grow in size and its ma.s.sive paws cracked the ground it walked on. it swung at me, but it was so fast I couldn't avoid the hit I was flung away and then some one shouted

" it's going berserk everyone retreat!!"

I slowly crawled up and glanced at my HP which was at 10%. i quickly gulped down a potion. and limped toward my squad. I yelled at the leader.

"what the h.e.l.l is going on! that monster just grew in size and is way faster than before!"

thru clenched teeth she explained

"when a monster like the lord of the forest is hurt enough its attack and speed doubles. it enters a kind of berserk state and it becomes unstoppable! the only upside is that its defense is decreased so we can damage it a little easier, but our origional strategy is pretty much out the window at this point."

" so what are our orders?"

our squad leader looked around to all the expectant eyes that bore down on her and said in a loud and clear voice.

"what happens next is simple attack the lord of the forest with every ounce of strength you can muster. because once it enters berserk state it's either him or us. he wont stop until one of us is dead, although if I were you I would keep it at a distance."

we all pulled out our bows or magic staves and began to bombard the berserk bear, who was rampaging through squad 5 at the moment.

seeing us attack the other squads took the hint and began to hit it with everything.