Final Fend attacked as if to prove Liam’s words, his sword drawing a wide arc with fierce fmes trailing behind it.

  [-105!]x8

  [-211!]x8

  “Haha, good job! With us two here those rats will die in no time!”

  Braag ughed heartily, praising Final Fend. But suddenly his eyes widened as he saw damage numbers appear above the warrior’s head.

  [-20!]x8

  [-42!]x8

  “What’s this? I didn’t see aag!”

  “Those rats reflect damaged against cled fighters.”, expined Liam calmly.

  “But how is Final Fend cled? He’s using a sword…”

  “Still ts acc to the game.”

  Braag wao ment the unfairness, but Final Fend cut him off, asking with a fused face:

  “What should we do then? Wait for the ranged fighters to finish the fight?”

  “Why?”, chuckled Liam. “Are you afraid of this bit of damage?”

  Upon hearing this question Final Fend coughed awkwardly, aware that his question was stupid.

  “Furthermore, there is o worry. We have a bard with us after all.

  Edelweiss, do you have a healing skill?”

  “Oh, yes… sorry.”

  Melodious Edelweiss was somewhat overwhelmed, having difficulties finding her p the group. But Liam’s wave her a dire.

  She began gracefully caressing the sites of her lute, filling the cave with her soothing voice.

  “Phamolh eo vanai…”

  The others were fused by her singing and even Melodious Edelweiss herself didn’t uand every word. Only Liam could decipher the ngue of the godspawn, the race Edelweiss beloo, listening to her calling upon the gods for help.

  The voice resonated with the surroundings, which were suddenly filled with a green shimmering magic, which slowly recovered everyone’s HP.

  [+226!]

  Everyohe soothing melody caress their hearts, spending them life. As long as Melodious Edelweiss kept singing her [Song of Healing], her allies recovered HP every sed, but her mana cost also increased per sed.

  Final Fend, who pyed in a band in his free time was immediately impressed by the bard’s beautiful voice:

  “Edelweiss, you truly have talent. What a great singing voice!”

  Melodious Edelweiss didn’t answer, but no ohought much about it as the bard couldn’t interrupt her song. Only Fortune, who stood at the back of the group, gowards the young woman, notig her red ears and strange expression.

  The mage found it amusing but didn’t tease their new member about it. She tinued casting her skills, fog on the fight and watg Bleary Mirage dive into the rats.

  Liam’s swords moved fiercely, his normal attacks followed by a [Double Ssh]. With precise movements he mao hit three e the same time.

  Pained cries echoed through the tunnel as Liam alo close to 2000 points of damage. But he also suffered from retaliation, losing six hundred HP.

  The others were apprehensive about the rats’ skill of refleg damage. If Liam somehow would’ve hit all of them at once, half of his HP would be gone.

  But the person iion didn’t care. He frowned faintly, gng towards the ceiling. He felt as if something was moving in the shadows. But soon he shook his head, fog ba the fight.

  Above the party, holding onto the tunnel a person was frozen iheir body perfectly silent.

  Could that guy have seen me? Impossible!

  Bck Rat apprehensively observed the party but ultimately cluded that he should be safe. The skilled thief focused ba his purpose.

  I was lucky to find someone drawing the mobs’ attention. Now let’s scout ahead and find the treasure. Then wait for them to distract the rats while I do the looting! Hehe, perfect.

  Liam felt the faiion of being observed vanishing and stared thoughtfully into the tunnel, a light smile on his lips. Suddenly another explosioed. Liam felt the pieces of rocks hitting his body, throwing Braag an annoyed look.

  Although the dwarf’s attacks usually didn’t injure his team mates, they were still unpleasant.

  Braag smiled apologetically but didn’t know what else to do. In his opinion Liam just had to get used to it.

  Thus, the fight tinued in aremely unpleasant way for the veteran as well as Watchful Eye. Luckily the rats didn’t hold on much longer. When Fortuhrew her [Are Sphere], the st enemies died.

  Braag immediately volunteered for looting duty. Although the dwarf didn’t have the ‘Advanced Foreruitle, which gave two points of luck, Liam told him to go ahead. The loot of those obs coulder the party’s eyes anymore.

  However, Liam was still ied in their bodies as he expined something to his friends:

  “We should begin harvesting materials from mobs. Especially some like these spiked rats with their iing passive.”

  “Are these materials worth something?”, asked Silver Bde.

  “Not too much, but they are useful for the guild. Once we recruit some bcksmiths, they craft ons and armors.”

  “Ok, so what do we do?”

  “Well, it would be great if we knew someoh the [Skinning] skill.”

  Liam spoke deliberately, turning his head towards Final Fend. The young man wore an oblivious expression.

  “Why are you staring at me?”

  “Didn’t I just mention the [Skinning] skill?”

  “Yes…”

  Final Fend’s face ged as if he suddenly recalled something.

  “Right, I feel like I read something when I y race.”

  “I hope you did. Aviaart with the skinning skill after all.”

  “Yes, here it is. Under auxiliary skills. Haha alright, let me show you my prowess!”

  Final Fend ughed, enjoying the attention as he approached the first rat. With a thought [Skinning] activated. A small knife magically appeared in his hand as lines were projected onto the rat’s body.

  It wasn’t difficult to uand what to do. Final Fend put on his knife and began to cut carefully. But he was immediately met with obstacles. The different parts required different strength.

  Sometimes Final Fend got stuck, damaging the skin unnecessarily and sometimes he cut further than necessary, cutting pieces apart.

  In the end his gaze towards the final product was quite awkward as he evaluated it.

  [Low-quality Spiked earth-eating rat skinCategory: aterial

  Effect: be processed by bcksmiths, gives armor the ability to reflect damage.

  With material of such quality, don’t expeuch.]

  Final Fend’s thoughts moved. He quickly adjusted his expression, putting the skin away without showing it to anyone. However, naturally his friends weren’t stupid.

  “Don’t worry, no one is perfe their first try. Low-quality materials are ideal training material for bcksmiths.”

  “I… I will hand it to Cye…”, admitted Final Fend.

  “No need. You pce it directly in the guild treasury. Sun’s Knight should take care of the tribution points.”

  “From now on everyone should pce the things they don’t need ireasury.”, reminded Liam with a g Braag.

  The dwarf nodded. He didn’t show aand stored the loot he just received. A handy feature provided by the game allowed him tister the loot in the name of the entire party.

  Everyone received an inspicuous note about the tribution points earned. Liam noticed the dozens of points, disagreeing with the amount. However, the system had just bee up and naturally wasn’t as refined as those in his past life.

  It remaio be seen if Sun’s Knight could do the necessary fiuning.

  After the rats had all been taken care of, the party soon tihey ran into more fights, slowly filling the treasury. The movement was soon noticed by the uild members.

  Through Cye’s earlier recruiting efforts, the guild already had 120 members. And more arrived slowly as Cye and Balm worked through the vast number of requests.

  However, a rank one guild could only aodate 350 members. Thus, it was important to filter out as many talents as possible in this first wave.

  , they had to foster a sense of belonging, making these talented pyers the iron core of the guild. In order to do so the party members were ready to i. Even if someone faced difficulties in real life, they might try to offer reasonable help.

  All this work was mostly for Cye and Balm to care for, leaving the young women quite stressed. Thus, the others were motivated to do their parts, advang through the mines with stroermination.

  The rats faced their biggest nightmare, regretting ever opening a tuo the mines.

  Liam and his friends advanced like bulldozers. Even the occasioe couldn’t slow them down. However, after killing one of them, they stared at the small side tunnel in surprise.

  “How e this chest is opened?!”, asked Radiant Shield.

  “Someone must’ve been here before us.”

  “How is this possible, the tunnel isn’t that big.”

  “It seems a skilled thief is at work.”

  Even Liam was surprised. He remembered the earlier sensation, realizing that it was indeed a thief.

  “Ok guys, let’s not get caught up here. Those treasure chests shouldn’t be our focus.”

  “Ok. You are right. Still, I’m impressed.”

  The party agreed with Liam and tinued deeper into the tunnels. Soon, they arrived within a rger cave, notig a figure standing in the shadows.