Dimnys is pulling a huge bag of Ogre armor and weapons back to the group after the fight, while Cain watches in confusion.
"Is there something wrong with your inventory?" he asks the struggling Dwarf, walking her way.
"Maximum weight capacity is related to strength. I loaded up so much armor off the Ogres that I maxed out." She giggles.
Cain grabs the bag and puts it in his inventory, noticing the weight capacity listing for the first time. He'd always worried about available spaces and not weight.
"Will it be enough for you to work with? It's an awful lot of iron." Mythryll asks, eyes vacant as she checks the drops she got today.
"I'll need more of the valuable ingredients, but this will do me for a long time. Dwarven Smiths can increase the quality of Iron with repeated Forging, but it condenses a lot of regular iron into enhanced magical ores." Dimnys explains.
"And you need then for higher quality recipes, but nobody sells the ones they make?" Cain guesses.
"Exactly right. It's so much work that you only do it if you need it." The Dwarf agrees.
They part ways with the rest of the Raid group after the clerics cast area heals all over the battlefield, saving who they can as the defenders clerics are working with hardly any mana, the battle having run them dry.
[Guild Reputation Increased, Sunnybrook: Friendly]
"Hey, that's pretty awesome, we got guild reputation to friendly with the city. I wonder if we get benefits?" Elmira asks.
Cain looks over the Guild menu, finding that Friendly doesn't do much, but if they get it to Revered or Legendary they'll get tax breaks and better prices from the city's merchants without haggling. Not a bad benefit, but a good reason to help out with city defense.
Just hopefully not so early in the morning next time.
They return to the Guild House and deposit all of the looted armor in the storage room beside the smithy, nearly filling it.
"Don't you worry, by the time I'm done there will only be a tenth that much, and in nice stackable ingots." Dimnys assures Cain, who can't help thinking that's still a huge amount of metal. Maybe she's got a minor hoarding problem from living on the streets? They've got space though, it should be fine.
"Well, you enjoy then. I'm going to go see how Misha is making out." Cain waves goodbye as Dimnys starts stoking up the forge to turn rough iron armor into enchanted ingots for weapon smithing.
The rest of the Guild is up in the living room, looking over a leather bound book from the library.
"We found a map of cities accessible through nearby portals in the Demon Dungeon." Char explains.
Here in Sunnybrook is a bit of a central hub, as there's 4 more exits nearby, and it's in the middle. We knew about Karmazin City already, but it's a lot lower level than we are now. Good for trade goods, but not fighting. There's also a level 80 area exit city called Peaceful River and one called Graska that's also in a level 80 area, but tagged as Dark Dwarf Territory.
The fifth is named as the city of changes, in a level 100 demon infested area, but the author wasn't strong enough to get there to verify if the destination is correct or what the city is like. So, all the book contains is hearsay from transfers who had supposedly come from there.
"We're not quite high enough level for going to any of them yet, but through the Demon Dungeon they're all day trips, so we will be able to go there when we need things. There's a basic map of the dungeon areas too." Misha points to a diagram on the page.
"Should we do a bit of exploring tomorrow? I've been dying to find the last twenty new types of demons to update Vala into her Greater Demon form." Cain suggests.
That gets everyone excited. They're not sure what Vala will look like as a greater Demon. Will she look the same? Will she be a huge monster they can only visit with in the dungeon or at home? How much more powerful will she get?
They relax in peace for the rest of the day, Cain and Misha going back to the park on the South side of town to watch the sunset through the trees. The park is specifically set up to create painting worthy views from a number of spots around the walking paths.
Tanya has prepared blueberry pancakes this morning, and for once this week there is no sign of Ogre attacks, they must be regrouping after the intense battle yesterday.
The grand plan is to head off towards the areas they haven been in yet, all increasingly high level. That seems like their best bet to find new demons without going all the way past the Karmazin City exit and looking for lower level demons they haven't seen yet.
The gamble pays off, they're finding a lot of level 70 demons that have names starting in 'Greater'. They're almost copies of the lower level ones near Karmazin, but count as a new addition to Cain's collection. The numbers of demons in this region is also higher than usual, no more walking for blocks and hiding behind buildings, if the area wasn't ruined they'd think it was a fully inhabited city within the dungeon.
"I'm at 99 now." Cain says, looking at a pale skinned Wrath Demon, nearly 3 meters tall. He's alone, and elite, equipped with a shield and axe. But going by what happened last time, he will upgrade the second he is scanned, essentially becoming a Dungeon boss for them to fight in order to finish upgrading Vala.
"Do we pass, or use him to celebrate Vala becoming a Greater Demonic Companion?" Char asks the group with a smile.
"We're well known for our celebrations, I think it's only appropriate." Misha agrees.
They step out behind the Trolls and Cain scans the Demon to his repertoire.
[Form Gained: Greater Golem Elite Wrath Bringer]
[Quest Objective Completed: Gain Knowledge on 100 demons]
[Summon Lesser Demonic Companion] will be upgraded upon defeat of the targeted Demon.
