As the party had finished their sixth pack of thorny devil lizards, they travelled towards the next location that Thyrsus indicated. Smoke saw a familiar scene. A lone thorny devil lizard was drinking near the black part of the river.
Immediately he told his private army to ready their weapons and wait for the monster that would come out. He had told them in their strategy meeting about the monsters that they would encounter in this quest.
Everyone knew what to expect. As the giant alligator snapping turtle came out and chomped at the thorny devil lizard. Smoke and his private army of range specialists released their projectiles at the same time.
All of them aimed for the giant alligator snapping turtles' neck!
+ Atk hit. +ARMOR BRK. FIRE DMG. Jinggu damaged giant alligator turtle for 6822.
+ Atk hit. +ARMOR BRK. FIRE DMG. Sharur damaged giant alligator turtle for 7181.
+ Atk hit. +FIRE DMG. Thyrsus damaged giant alligator turtle for 1228.
+ Atk hit. +FIRE DMG. Sharanga damaged giant alligator turtle for 1218.
+ Atk hit. +FIRE DMG. Vijaya damaged giant alligator turtle for 705.
+ Atk hit. +FIRE DMG. Ichaival damaged giant alligator turtle for 1396.
+ Atk hit. +FIRE DMG. Ichaival damaged giant alligator turtle for 1388.
+ Atk hit. +FIRE DMG. Ichaival damaged giant alligator turtle for 1395.
+ Atk hit. +FIRE DMG. Ichaival damaged giant alligator turtle for 1397.
+ Atk hit giant alligator turtle. FIRE DMG. CRITICAL HIT. Damage 1389.
+ Atk hit giant alligator turtle. FIRE DMG. CRITICAL HIT. Damage 1392.
+ Atk hit giant alligator turtle. FIRE DMG. CRITICAL HIT. Damage 1389.
+ Atk hit giant alligator turtle. FIRE DMG. CRITICAL HIT. Damage 1395.
+ Atk hit giant alligator turtle. FIRE DMG. Damage 586.
+ Atk hit giant alligator turtle. FIRE DMG. Damage 581.
+ Atk hit giant alligator turtle. FIRE DMG. CRITICAL HIT. Damage 1389.
+ Atk hit giant alligator turtle. FIRE DMG. CRITICAL HIT. Damage 1392.
The black giant alligator snapping turtle revealed its lifebar, indicating (37,767/70,000 HP).
It became angry as it took a tremendous amount of damage. It started to lift its body out of the river.
Luckily for Smoke and his group the only thing agile about this monster was its neck! Since they were out of range of the monster's neck, all it could try to do was slowly move outside of the river in order to take a snap at them.
But Smoke and his private army didn't give the monster a chance. They fired two more rounds of their arrows, and the gigantic monster fell dead.
+ Your party has dealt a fatal blow to the giant alligator snapping turtle.
+ Your party has killed the giant alligator snapping turtle.
+ Your party has gained 24,000 exp.
They collected the gigantic shell that the turtle had left them. With the weight of the giant carapace added, they became encumbered as the thorny devil lizard's armor was also heavy. They had about 300 pieces of that monster's armor.
Smoke decided that they should proceed with phase two of his plan.
Using the thorny devil lizard's armor, they started crafting out a barricade wall. They used the electro stone on the thorns sticking out of the wall and also on their bolts and arrows as well.
After the barricade was completed, Smoke and his private army headed towards the mouth of Murray River. On the shallow part of the river, they saw an army of murlocks about 500 strong.
With Smoke signaling Sharur and Jinggu to start firing from their current position, the murlocks started falling down one at a time.
With the murlocks being weak against lightning and the electro stone being an intermediate form of lightning enhancement, the Orkelf twins dished out around 15,000 damage points each.
The murlocks only has a total HP of 14,000, making them single shot targets for the Range Siegers.
The slimy murlocks, not seeing their enemy, started using the siren's song. But the monsters saw no one coming. All they saw was their fellow murlocks falling down beside them.
The slithering monsters recognized that it was time to escape. They immediately started to withdraw into their cave behind the waterfall.
This time, Smoke didn't give chase. Once he saw that the last murlock was inside the cave, he signaled his private army to execute phase three of his plan.
Immediately, the private army broke into two groups. One group ran towards the entrance of the murlock's cave. Swiftly, they created a perimeter barricade around the waterfall.
At the same time the second group made a perimeter barricade around the river where the exit of the whirlpool that Smoke used to escape was located.
They used the barricade made out of thorny devil lizard's armor. Smoke had also constructed a mobile archer tower. On top of the tower was the carapace of the giant alligator snapping turtle. It would serve as a shield against water attacks from the lamias.
While his private army was setting things up, Smoke ran inside the cave all by himself. He gambled that he wouldn't meet any monsters near the passageway.
He strongly relied on his 'Cunning of the Dire Fox' to detect the presence of any monsters. Seeing the exit of the passageway, he got out some special arrows. These arrows had small canisters with a wick attached to them. He lit up the canisters and targeted the wall at the far side of the exit.
After firing his eight special arrows, Smoke ran outside of the cave with all his might. Since his movement speed has also increased a bit, it only took him 3 minutes to get out of the passageway.
With everything in place, Smoke sent the signal to the hunters to call their falcons to drop the special packages on top of the waterfalls. The top of the waterfalls had hints of small red smoke coming out.
The red smoke came from Smoke's special arrows. This red smoke would guide the falcons into the holes that gave sunlight into the murlock's cavern.
The falcons were trained in Nanahuatl Village to detect the red smoke and to start dropping the small bags into the holes that the red smoke was coming from.
The bags contained dried mandragora flowers. The bags would only start to burn as they got in contact with the red smoke.
From one of the books that he read, Smoke had learned about the special properties of the mandragora flower, particularly its chemical reaction against smoke made from ember stone dust.
Once a falcon had finished accurately dropping the bag into the hole, it would return to the tree where another bag filled with mandragora flowers were waiting for them. The falcons kept on repeating the process until all the bags were delivered into the hole.
Smoke stood on top of the mobile archer tower. It was situated so that it could see the exit of the cave as well as the exit of the whirlpool in the river.
He had divided his army into two groups, one side defending the exit of the whirlpool and the other defending the exit of the cave.
Everyone outside was waiting in anticipation. They have been waiting for almost 30 minutes. The smoke coming out of the holes from the cavern was now black. That indicated that the mandragora flowers were still burning inside the cavern.
Smoke was about to give a command when Igniz motioned for him to look at the exit of the whirlpool. The river started to bubble. Like a flood, the murlocks and lamias came out. Their arrows enhanced by the electro stone gave out almost 3,000 damage points.
The murlocks and lamias coming out only had about 7,000 HP left. They must have been fighting amongst themselves inside the cavern.
The electro bolts from the ballistae of the Orkelves gave an instant kill as it continued to deal 15,000 damage points.
Just a few seconds after the monsters came out from the whirlpool, a torrent of lamias and murlocks came running out of the cave.
They couldn't even touch the electro enhanced barricade. All of them were shot dead as they came stepped outside of the waterfalls.
They had been shooting down murlocks and lamias for almost two hours. The monsters coming out of the exit stopped. However, the monsters coming out of the cave continued on. So they focused their attention on the monsters coming out of the cave.
While everyone's attention was on the exit of the cave, a group of two medium sized lamias and one giant sized lamia jumped up high out of the whirlpool's exit.
Igniz was the first one to notice them, but it was too late. The three lamias targeted Smoke. They already released their glacial spikes.
Smoke was able to dodge the attacks by hiding behind the giant alligator turtle's carapace, all thanks to Igniz's warning. Immediately, he took out a bag and threw it up in the air. Igniz released a fireball, exploding the bag.
The bag was filled with yellow powder. It indicated that there was an enemy behind them or that they were surrounded.
Smoke had come up with the idea to use hand signals and smoke signals. Since they were wearing the specialized earmuffs that completely canceled out all external sounds.
The private army immediately understood. The group assigned to guard the exit of the whirlpool knew that they had made a mistake. They soon turned their attention towards the river.
They shouldn't have let down their guard. Jinggu aimed for the lamia boss.
+ Atk hit. ARMR BRK. LIGHTNG DMG. Jinggu damaged Matron: Aquaria for 6822.
The lifebar of the lamia boss indicated to be (113,178/120,000 HP).
Aided by their falcons Thyrsus, Vijaya, and Sharanga focused their attacks on one of the medium sized lamias. The targeted medium sized lamia indicated to have (19,000/30,000 HP). After another round of their attacks the first medium size lamia fell down dead.
But the lamia boss and the other medium sized lamia kept on firing out their glacial spike and water ball attacks. The four of them had a hard time getting a clear shot as they kept on dodging.
Smoke released his eight arrows dealing around 24,000 damage points against the medium sized lamia. After taking damage. the medium sized lamia looked at the direction of the source of the arrows only to see that there were another eight coming straight for him.
All that was left on riverside was the lamia boss. She was somewhat dextrous as she was able to release glacial spikes from both her hands and managed to dodge most of the attacks that they were firing at her.
Her lifebar indicated that she still had (105,211/120,000 HP) left. Smoke was furious. He thought that he could eradicate her in an instant!
He jumped from his archer tower and switched his weapons to the old dual knives. He knew that they had smaller damage since he no longer invested in the Strength stat.
Yet somehow his anger got the better of him. He wanted to get up close and personal with the monster who severed Adder's arm.
He was confident that they could still shoot the lamia boss even if he was in their way. He thought that he had to distract her long enough for her to stay in place, giving them a steady shot at her.
+ Atk hit Matron: Aquaria. +LIGHTNG DMG. CRITICAL HIT. Damage 426.
+ Atk hit Matron: Aquaria. +LIGHTNG DMG. CRITICAL HIT. Damage 434.
+ Atk hit Matron: Aquaria. +LIGHTNG DMG. CRITICAL HIT. Damage 443.
+ Atk hit Matron: Aquaria. +LIGHTNG DMG. CRITICAL HIT. Damage 428.
+ Atk hit Matron: Aquaria. +LIGHTNG DMG. CRITICAL HIT. Damage 426.
+ Atk hit Matron: Aquaria. +LIGHTNG DMG. CRITICAL HIT. Damage 432.
+ Atk hit Matron: Aquaria. +LIGHTNG DMG. CRITICAL HIT. Damage 433.
+ Atk hit Matron: Aquaria. +LIGHTNG DMG. CRITICAL HIT. Damage 441.
+ Atk hit Matron: Aquaria. +LIGHTNG DMG. CRITICAL HIT. Damage 422.
+ Atk hit Matron: Aquaria. +LIGHTNG DMG. CRITICAL HIT. Damage 433.
+ Atk hit Matron: Aquaria. +LIGHTNG DMG. CRITICAL HIT. Damage 441.
+ Atk hit Matron: Aquaria. +LIGHTNG DMG. CRITICAL HIT. Damage 422.
+ Atk hit Matron: Aquaria. +LIGHTNG DMG. CRITICAL HIT. Damage 448.
+ Atk hit Matron: Aquaria. +LIGHTNG DMG. CRITICAL HIT. Damage 429.
+ Atk hit Matron: Aquaria. +LIGHTNG DMG. CRITICAL HIT. Damage 445.
+ Atk hit Matron: Aquaria. +LIGHTNG DMG. CRITICAL HIT. Damage 421.
- Attacked by Matron: Aquaria. Miss damage. 0.
- Attacked by Matron: Aquaria. Miss damage. 0.
- Attacked by Matron: Aquaria. Miss damage. 0.
- Attacked by Matron: Aquaria. Miss damage. 0.
+ Atk hit. ARMR BRK. LIGHTNG DMG. Jinggu damaged Matron: Aquaria for 6822.
+ Atk hit. +LIGHTNG DMG. Thyrsus damaged Matron: Aquaria for 2428.
+ Atk hit. +LIGHTNG DMG. Sharanga damaged Matron: Aquaria for 2418.
+ Atk hit. +LIGHTNG DMG. Vijaya damaged Matron: Aquaria for 1215.
+ Atk hit. +POISON DMG. Falcon Vij damaged Matron: Aquaria for 828.
