Hellbents
Chapter 7: The Incident at the City Gate
The plan is quite simple, Ava will enter by stealing someone's identity card, because after being noticed, Ava will enter, guard soldiers will not manually check a person's status screen if they show an identity card that fortunately does not include a photo in it, only the name, date of birth, and address of origin. But he had to choose his target precisely, not the person known to the two guards personally, not the person who was used to going in and out of the Tezia gate, not the famous person. And the bigger problem is how he got rid of River's presence.
“It seems like enough to get here you drive me,” Ava said slowly, slowly, it sounded pretty sweet even though he was trying to drive away the only person who had been accompanying him without any physical or mental harm in this alien world.
River had a jerk, not expecting that the girl would convey the topic that he had been avoiding bluntly. “Bu-isn't it better if ... if I take care of you to enter the city safely?”
“No need.” The assertiveness expressed by Ava through her refusal to make River has no intention to argue. River actually wanted to say a lot of things, besides that he was also not willing to let go of the only person he could talk to without looking at him strange and afraid because of his skill that could summon monsters, the natural enemies of all other races including humans. But seeing the resolution Ava conveyed indirectly, River doubted that his presence was still needed. So he chose silence, retreating without a sound.
It was then, that suddenly there was a loud cry from the front, which was followed by a mass riot. People ran scared backwards, their horror view implying that something happened that they did not want to see. Then howls boomed loudly until they sounded from a distance.
Monster attacks.
River's face paled, his green eyes losing focus. “Rin-China! We have to-” But Ava is no longer there beside her. “Oh no!” This incident attacks him with bad memories, and he is afraid that things in the past will happen again.
On the other hand, taking advantage of the mass panic that occurred, Ava used the opportunity to steal the identity card belonging to the person she had targeted. A woman who from her appearance looks like a village girl who has just entered a big city, her prospective victims have run away from the roost since the screams of these people. So the general they were riding in was empty, if Ava had been lucky, their identity card would have been missed. And .. sure enough, the contents of the small bag that fell unraveled. Identity cards, small books, and cookies were scattered on the andong floor.
Unfortunately, he has to come back again.
With the windows wide open and the wind blowing hard, they would assume the thin sheet of paper Ava stole flew away in the wind. The girl then stepped out, from a distance she saw an ape with an arm twice as big as her body rampaging with anything within its range.
“[Observation].”
Race: Longhand ape
Level 23
HP: 309/400
Wait a minute, HP?
If [Observation] level 2 shows the amount of money a person has, for a monster to show HP, right? HP or health point, in a game it usually indicates the condition of the opponent, so if the monster's HP runs out to zero, according to game logic he will die.
Refusing to get closer after advancing two positions, Ava chose to climb onto the pedagogical train to observe things more closely. Around the monster, Ava sees a lump of iron junk that she assumes is a cage that traps the monster before it forcibly opens and destroys it. Half a dozen warriors wielded their respective weapons to defeat the great-armed ape.
The attack pattern of the monster was actually repetitive, so it was quite easy to deal with it with six medium-leveled warriors, but after the ape's HP was reduced to 100 points, his movements changed, now he jumps around randomly while hardening. Overwhelmed by the transition, the soldiers were pushed back and began to fall.
Hm.
Even though his HP only stayed 64 points, if left alone it would be fatal for Ava. First, the monkey monster will switch to attack others, including himself. Second, even if the ape is defeated with reinforcements called in just in case, security will be tightened, threatening his plans. Finally, the gate will be completely closed, although Ava already knows the core information about how to return, she still needs additional information, after all she has to pass through Tezia to get to her other destination, Crimsonwoods.
With what she remembers, Ava once read something in Eve's gift book. “Making sleeping gas with Nightingale” monster powder, black lavender has been known as a potent sleeping remedy, which is, but no one knows that mixing it with powder released by the Nightingale monster will make it as an anesthetic that can destroy even a dragon.
After checking the wind direction, Ava immediately bought a black lavender crown and Nightingale powder. After inserting it into the Puff flower, which has characteristics similar to a balloon, the girl is ready to throw it. But he forgot one thing.
“Rina!”
Rivers. Of course, instead of running to save himself like the others, the man looked for him instead.
But Ava didn't have much time before all the soldiers were down. He jumped down and immediately ran forward at full speed. River's call was sounding increasingly desperate behind him. After getting a considerable distance but can be reached with a throw that is stronger than before, Ava designed.
The mixture wrapped in a bundle the size of a fist slid, then erupted when it hit the shoulder of the jumping monster, missing its original target, the head. But it seemed like what he was trying to do was successful, the movement of the monster slowed down, until it finally completely stopped. His body fell down with a huge debuman that shook the ground around him.
The powder effect is not only about the monkey monster, but also the soldiers who fight it because of the influence of wind direction. HP 30, technically he was still alive, so Ava took the initiative to completely end it. The girl then sliced through the monster's thick chest, it took her several tries before which stone
what he was looking for appeared.
Level increased!
Reward: 1 status point
Process error!
Ava checked the situation of the soldiers who were lying down, most of them fainted with bruises, maybe also some broken bones, essentially nothing to threaten life.
The howling of a hard horse approached quickly, reinforcements came. But they're too late. There was only a lump of Longhand ape corpse with an open chest, as well as half a dozen unconscious soldiers. Ava's gone from the scene.