The Ind of Avalon is located not too far from the Capital. But it was a bit hidden that ordinary yers who passed by the area will be passing by without knowing of that ce. Most of the time, yers will identally discover the ce by pure ident, especially those yers who were always being chased by someone or something and in a hurry, will stumble and reach the Ind of Avalon.
Although it was called the Ind of Avalon, thend that you can call an ind is a bit smaller that if you want to build something on top of it, only a single small castle would fit in and that is if you cut down all of the trees of that ce, and instead of the sea, it was in the middle of theke. Most of the first-timers who have discovered the ce would not expect the ind to be that small.
But despite looking like this, it doesn''t mean it was a normal ce especially since it was named after the famous Avalon that is rted to Merlin the Incubus and King Arthur. Because just like how the Lady of the Lake in the real world''s King Arthur, the Lady of the Lake of the game also exists and lives here on the ind of Avalon.
How did I know all of this?
Because I have experienced and have obtained a quest from the Lady of the Lake before in the past timeline so it isn''t a big wonder for me how I am able to know if the ce is present or not.
I ordered Leona tond in a nearby forest. The Ind of Avalon is quite mystical and it cannot be easily seen up in the sky and no matter how much someone tries to hover around the sky trying to find the ce, it will not appear at all, making the Ind of Avalon a ce where those unfortunate and chased people managed to get away and escape from the threats in their lives, in short, a temporary safe haven.
The ce still didn''t change much, just like in the past, this ce is still very lush in greenery and making it ideal as a ce to easily hide a hidden area. It is also not something simr to other games where there are signs that there are secret areas nearby that will allow yers to discover them. It is only a matter of pure ident or you already know how to enter the ce properly.
I started walking and looked around the forest. I only stopped walking when I spot a big boulder beside a small tree. I went behind the boulder and located a small sprout growing. I pulled out a bottle of small HP potion and poured it on the small sprout before leaving and walking to the east from the boulder in 20 steps.
After counting 20 steps, another sprout appeared in front of me. Just like the first sprout, I poured an HP potion into it. Once I emptied the bottle of potion into the sprout, I faced north and walked 10 steps forward from the small sprout.
There, a small, round stone is currently sitting still on the ground. I picked it up and went 5 steps backward from where I came from and stopped beside a tree. I went around the tree and saw a small hole on the tree. That''s where I put the round stone that I picked up earlier.
[You have performed the proper steps, a hidden way has been opened and can now be essed by you.]
I sighed in relief since the method did not change a bit. It was still the same or else, I would be a bit madder to find out that the method is no longer working. Thankfully, that is not the case and everything is still the same.
However, I am not here to obtain a quest from the Lady of the Lake but to obtain the necessary material to reforge the Carnwennan. Obtaining permission from the Lady of the Lake might not be proven to be easy for me this time around because before, the reason I am friendly with her is because of a certain line of quest that I happened to get in the past timeline.
This time around, I have no time to do that quest to increase the favorability of the Lady of the Lake as that would take me a long time toplete especially since that is also tied to the story quest too which means my only choice is to directly face the Lady of the Lake and hope she is not gonna view me in a bad way.
Alright, let''s get going.
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The group of 4 yers continued to walk into the forest, treading as carefully as they can while trying to avoid the eyes of the monsters. Just like their previous n, their Saboteur, Koji creates some small traps where they will be able to capture a smaller target and use that chance to kill it. That way, their leveling will be bigger and will allow them to quickly reach a certain level where killing these small monsters won''t be hard anymore.
"Yna, have you already reloaded your revolvers? We can''t afford to have the same mistake as before. One wrong move and we will be easily dead here and our progress will be back to the beginning again," Gin looked at Yna who quickly pulled out her revolver.
"Of course. I don''t want to be a burden to everyone so I will do my best to do everything without dying. We have reached this far, we can''t afford to let those yers humiliate us!"<sub> </sub>
The main reason why the group of Gin was forced toe to an area where the monsters are strong is due to the fact that the lower-level grounds are all upied by yers who are grinding for levels. Whenever an outsider is trying to farm in their area, they will immediately initiate a PK. Unless the attacked yer is high leveled or skilled enough to handle the enemy, the end result is always the same thing and that is their death and the reduction of their experience points, item drops from their inventory, and other things.
All four of them suffered from that experience so they didn''t want things to repeat. So in the end, they decided to venture deeper into the forests and head to the higher leveled areas. Since some yers no longer farm around in random ces and would rather head straight to the dungeons, this made the areas where the monsters reside, devoid of yers, allowing them to farm their levels there.
Now, their only problem this time is how to effectively grind up their levels without dying. They might be capable yers but without a healer, they are clearly at a big disadvantage, and one wrong move and they will be immediately sent to the cathedral to resurrect.
As they were walking, Koji detected something after the trigger from his trap has been activated.
"Guys! I think I caught one! Let''s go!"
Everyone nodded and immediately went to the location of the trap that has sprung, slowly but surely as they don''t want to trigger other monsters around. Their careers would be back to the beginning if they trigger an enemy that is harder to beat than they anticipated.
When they arrived, the trap that Kojiid out is broken and had been reduced to pieces already.
"Crap! The prey escaped! Shana, can you track the location of the enemy?"
"I will try!"
Shana is about to cast her ability to track enemies using the abilities of a druid when...
ROOOOAAARRR!
A loud roar from a monster echoed in the forest and soon, they heard footsteps rapidly approaching.
"Oh crap, we are so f*cked up!" Koji sweats.
"Oy, Koji! Stop getting shocked over there, deploy some traps to dy the monsters before we end up bing the prey!"
"Uh! Right! Yes!"
Koji immediately pulled out some of the finished blueprints he have and deployed them to the ground before leaving and following the others.
The four started running for their lives. They abandoned the stay quiet strat and went to full speed ahead strat. With monsters on their trail, it wouldn''t be a mystery if they died easily.
"This way!" Shana led the group as she is the fastest runner of all of them especially due to the help of her Druid ss which enhances her physique and allows her to borrow the abilities of her summoned animals or copy a monster or animal traits.
Everyone trusted theirpanion and followed suit to where she was headed, passing through a small thicket. The moment they passed the thicket, they were surprised the moment they arrived at an area they haven''t seen on the map before. The system also prompted them on what ce they were in.
[You have entered the Ind of Avalon. The overworld map has been updated.]