Ning walked back north, going out of the city when he heard a few demons laying a massive banner by the gate that called for war.
'What's going on?' he wondered and stuck around to see if they were trying to recruit,
"The Demon army is ready to take the north. If you call yourself a demon, go and join the war effort," the demons shouted.
"Let the humans know the terror of our race," another one shouted.
Ning walked up to them. "When is the battle?" he asked.
"In a week. Are you going to join the war?' the demons asked.
"Yes," Ning said. "But not just yet. I'm still weak, so I will have to grow for a day before I can go."
"Good! Your blessed ones will be very helpful to our cause. Come back here tomorrow when you're ready to leave. We will take you," the demons said.
Ning nodded and left.
He arrived at the mountain with the Brownwolf dungeon not long after and looked around for people that were trying to find a party.
Ning found someone that he hadn't seen in a while.
"Brother Triple Shot?" he walked up to him.
"Hmm… oh, brother Energy. It's been a while," TRIPLE SHOT said. He was wearing crimson armor with a dark sword hanging by his waist.
Beside him were 2 people that Ning had never seen before.
"Are you looking for a party member?" Ning asked.
"Ah… ah, yes," TRIPLE SHOT said. "What's your level?"
"42," Ning said.
"Woah! 42? Really? You must have farmed a lot more than we did then. I'm barely level 36," Triple Shot said.
"Oh," Ning said. "What about the other two?"
"Primal Kite here is a level 38 archer, and Asternum is a level 33 Demon healer. We're now looking for a tank and whatever else we can get," TRIPLE SHOT said.
Ning looked at the man and woman who were the archer and healer respectively.
"I can be the 'whatever' you want," Ning said.
"Really? You want to join us?" TRIPLE SHOT was surprised, given how much the difference in their level was.
"Sure, why not," Ning said. "I only want some help to defeat the boss. That bloody wolf is too tough to do so alone."
TRIPLE SHOT scratched his cheeks a little and added Ning to the party. "You're fighting that one alone too?" he asked.
"Too?" Ning asked.
"That video. That was you, right? The one that defeated the Vileshroom Dungeon so fast," TRIPLE SHOT asked.
ASTERNUM and PRIMAL KITE got curious as well when they heard that.
"Oh yeah, I got lucky there," Ning said. "I'm trying hard here too, but it's hard to get lucky a lot with only B- on LUK stat."
"Oh, how did you get lucky?" TRIPLE SHOT asked.
"My class is luck based. I can either use a very strong skill or use a useless one that places a debuff on me instead. It is so random and frustrating," Ning said.
"And you have a B- LUK stat? Brother Energy, you need to change your character soon," TRIPLE SHOT said. "That's what I did too after all."
"Yeah, I've thought about that, but decided not to in the end. What's the point of playing a game if you want to have the easiest time," Ning said.
"I guess that's one way to look at it," TRIPLE SHOT said.
The group waited around for a while, looking for someone to tank them until they found one.
A woman named GIFT LORD wore heavy armor and carried a shield, and she was the tank that joined them.
At Level 40, she was generously invited to the party. After all 5 of them were there, they went in.
They immediately started fighting as soon as they saw the first wolf.
GIFT LORD aggro'd the wolf, and while it was distracted, Ning, TRIPLE SHOT, and PRIMAL KITE attacked it.
Their overall damage was about 600 damage per second, and so within 5 seconds, the wolf died.
"Bursting it down with all the spells and attacks honestly makes it all too easy," TRIPLE SHOT said.
"I didn't even have to do anything," ASTERNUM said with a chuckle in her voice.
"You should keep an eye on the HP and heal me if I take too much damage," GIFT LORD said to her. "Also, I don't know if the wolves have any sort of debuff or not, but you will have to help me there."
"They don't," Ning said. He had fought them many times, so he knew what they had and what they did not. Still, he turned around to look at the girl. "You can remove debuffs?"
She nodded. "Not all, but most, yes," she said.
Ning wondered, could she remove his debuff?
Ning pulled out a common card, and while it was useful, he sacrificed it to try out what he had just found out.
Immediately, a debuff landed on him, reducing his vision by a lot. He could barely only see about 5 meters ahead of him.
"Asternum, can you try and see if you can remove this debuff?" he asked.
"You have a debuff?" ASTERNUM was confused. How did he suddenly have a debuff? Still, she saw through the party panel that he did indeed have a debuff and quickly used her skill on him.
Ning felt his vision clear as he could see more of the surrounding. Hell, his vision had even gotten better as he seemed to have gained a slight temporary buff.
'So I can remove these debuffs,' he thought with a smile on his face. If this was possible, then he knew exactly what it was that he wanted to buy from the market next.
"Let's keep going," TRIPLE SHOT said. They went deeper into the dungeon and fought off a lot of wolves before finally finding themselves in front of the Boss's room.
They all took a deep breath before opening the door and walking in.
