Quantum Leap - Vol. 11 Camp Salvation - New Vagabond Army

C009 Overpowered Skills For Everyone

"Us Vagabonds are an all-rounder and we can read up any spells and skills we want to without causing an adverse effect," I explained as once we had surpassed level 4, no one is eligible to join a clan where they have their own bands made up of 4 sub-clans.

Once we had resolved our matters, we head back to Matilda's Granny little thatched hut to rest and relax before heading back to Camp Salvation the next evening.

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Back at Camp Salvation in the evening, Will.I.Am handed the pouches of shards that were left by the dwarves for me and I kept them in my storage. The same goes to the Stanspar gems that Will.I.Am had harvested every 6 times a day and handed me the pouch as well.

These shards would be turned to fair gems by the end of the 90 days and we would either be moving depending on our next destination of where we wanted to relocate. Even though our current Camp Salvation seems ideal since we are in between York and Leeds, things may change whatsoever.

It's as though we can't leave our dwarven friends behind after being acquainted for more than 4 months. Harrogate seems nice to relocate as there are some smaller towns within a cluster of 1 kilometre or so.

"Sergeants, please gather around. Just want to ask all of you how was it during the lull period and what you all had done to fill up your time."

"Swordsman reporting, Sir Robyn. We had been doing small party raids and manages to gather a pool of gold coins to purchase the tomes that we wanted when we were at the merchant's district on the other day."

"Archer reporting Sir Robyn. The tomes that we had seen there sparks our interests most and we decided to pool our resources together kn order to purchase them for our future battles."

"Barbarians reporting, Sir Robyn. Both the Swordsman and us and found something that would increase our strength in numbers if we were to kite or tank the demons by pitting not ourselves in harm's way but also the Doppelganger instead."

"We Mages, reporting, Sir Robyn. We found something that would prove advantageous to our battle especially in open battles. With the Juggernaut, we can set up impenetrable walls thus making a sort of lane for the demons to pass through and able to concentrate our firepower on them easily."

"Druids and Necromancers, reporting Sir Robyn. Even though we didn't find anything that's of use, but we remain in the background and continue to give support fire to the frontlines."

"That's great. Here are the tomes that we had purchased for you. Keep the gold coins to yourself and we thank you for supporting Will.I.Am and his team financially, even though there is no such need for that."

"We hope to grow in numbers soon and would be expecting another batch of 10 adventurers per group once we open up the recruitment drive for 10 minutes. These will be the secondary tier adventurers and we will need your help to build up their attributes and their levelling up."

"These tomes are at it's the lowest level, and as you utilise them, it would be upgraded and hope you would be able to level them up to at least a minimum of 25% within these few days."

"Sergeant of Archers and Amazonian Fighters, please come forth and collect your tomes of 'The Patriot' from Matilda. Read and learn the tomes well." and Matilda handed 20 tomes to them and they thanked us for our generosity and support for the team.

"Sergeant of Barbarians and Swordsman, please come forth and collect 20 tomes 'Doppelganger', 20 Spell tomes each of 'Fall Back Shout', 'Brace Yourself Shout', 'Find Their Weakness Shout', 'Go For Their Eyes Shout'. 'Fear Me Shout ', 'None Shall Pass Shout', 'Shields Up Shout' and To The Limit Shout'."

"Sergeant of Swordsman and Barbarians take these 20 Sword Attack tomes each of 'Barbarous Slice', 'Final Thrust', 'Galbraith s***h' and 'Gash'. These are specifically for your sword attacks, read and learn them well." and the tomes were handed out by Jean Lethal and Stef.

"Sergeants of Barbarians, take these 10 Axe Attack tomes each on 'Dismember', 'Eviscerate Elite', 'Executioners Strike', 'Furious', 'Lacerations Chop', 'Penetrating Blow' and 'Whirling Axe'."

"Sergeant of Mages, Druids and necromancers, please come forth and take these 30 tomes of 'The Juggernaut'. You may set up walls of ice and block both sides to form a path. You also can summon ice spikes that protrude from the ground to m**m as well as slow down their movement. You know what's best to do with 'The Juggernaut' during the battles."

"And lastly, Sergeants of Assassins, please come forth and collect 10 tomes for 'Augury of Death", 'Black Lotus Strike' and 'Black Mantis Strike'. Hope this would a great journey ahead to aid in your offensive skills on top of what you already had learnt."

"Alright, distribute the tomes according to your members, read and learn them and once we are done, we would move out after lunch for our very own party raids in Leeds later on." I announced and this excites the whole NVA and all choruses "H O O A H H...!!!"

"Silly boy, you did duplicate those tomes right? Saves money and I bet you did duplicate more than 20 copies each, am I right?"

"Hahaha...clever girl.Of course, I duplicated 100 of those and this is for the building of our NVA. Actually,y I saved 40k gold coins when I duplicated all those tomes for the future of our adventurers."

"Robyn, Is this a cheat mode somewhere that I didn't hear of?"

"Not a cheat, but just a loophole only. If I could duplicate the gems, it would be even better, right? Naahh...don't abuse the system that is already been set up perfectly now. Hahaha...we won't want to be labelled as cheaters, do we? Just manipulators would sound nicer this way. Hahaha."

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After an hour or so, all the 80 adventurers had read and learnt their tomes and since it's still early to move out, they decided to practise kn the Shouts and also their new found skills. They set up a formation based on their class and executed the newly acquired skills.

It was like a squad of soldiers performing their drills and the Druids, Necromancers and Mages had gone further where they practised their Juggernaut walls and ice spikes and manages to make a sort of zigzag right angle turns of paths made from ice walls and when the tine limit is up, another one was summoned and it took quite a timely coordination to accomplish it.

Those zig zag path with 90 degrees turning angle made the paths of the demons slow and arduous even when the width is three abreast. With the ice spikes that protrude from the ground, it shows the advancement to a crawl and this would easily be finished off by the Archers while the remaining would be by the Swordsman and Barbarians.

That's what it seems on plain battleground with no enemies around.

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After a hearty lunch, we all made off towards Leeds and informed Will.I.Am that we might be back after dusk as we planned to have at least 15 battles for today and would be taking a short break after each battle.

With the current NVA, we would be going against a large army of 2 times of our normal size with a monetary gold coins reward of 55%. The adventurers informed us that they would give 20% of the proceedings to Will.I.Am for the upkeep of their daily meals and insist of doing so.

And so we went to Leeds and looked up at the available battles from the bulletin boards. Our marching adventurers that entered town was elegant and orderly with identical 8 pieces of studded leather armour. If not for the banners bearing the coat of arms that was fluttering in the wind carried by the Swordsman and Barbarians, other adventurers won't know it's the Band of Vagabonds with their motto 'Ready To Strike'.

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After 3 consecutive battles, we had emerged victorious after we had exited from the party raid portal that teleports us to and fro the battlefield. This party raids that we had to partake do not only show our prowess but also to test our mental skills as well as deploy our newly acquired skills that the adventurers had learnt.

Little did we know, we had been a talking point as we made out in record time each time we entered and accomplish the party raids and there are quite a handful of adventurers were keen to join our party raids as well as The New Vagabond Army.

"How long does it take to defeat the large army by themselves again? I heard it's slightly under 15 minutes and the moment they exit the portal, they enter once more to take on the same number of army. What's their motive?" exclaimed one adventurer.

"Look at their simple armour and weapons, I still can't believe that they could survive and the battle stats show 0 casualties from them...! How did the manage to achieve that...?!?" said another adventurer in astonishment.

"I wish to join their band, we are still under Level 4 so it would be alright to join them since we don't wish to be in a clan or anything." said a young warrior that wields 2 swords in her back.

"Look...!!! They have the 1st generation Amazonian Fighters with them that had been obsolete off the adventurers' list and they are still with the Band...!!! How antique..." quipped another adventurer as he exclaimed on the extinction of the Amazonian Fighters that had been replaced by some other classes of warriors.

"Even the Barbarians, they are now referred to as Berserkers since they are mastery of weapons. Look at their battleaxes and mighty swords on their backs. They shone ever so brightly and I think those went through a refinement, am I right?" asked a Berserker whose main job is to tank enemy forces and made a bottleneck for Mother's to finish the enemies off.

"Woah...Look at those archers. Normally they would be in their basic cloth armour but they even had the studded leather armour on them. 3 set of quivers and I can see the aura of Magic on 2 of them." said a Mage as he watches us exit the teleportal and enters again after we choose to find another set of demons to practise on them.

Little did those adventurers realised that we were there not for the money but for the levelling up of our skills. The Mages, Druids and Necromancers had summoned their Juggernauts in several patterns and impale those incoming enemies with their ice spikes while the rest of us watched and cheered for them. They deploy wild beasts, earthquakes, hail storms, typhoons, raised the dead of the fallen and deployed frost beams and other types of long-distance offences.

Those who deployed the Juggernaut had planned beforehand before they took action and they made a lot of shapes that resemble either a twisting maze, a funnel with a long neck, an enclose large trap and even a pathway made up of two walls. With intermittent summoning of walls and spikes, they bombarded the enemies from afar using their attacks.

On the second assault of the demons, the Archers and Amazonian Fighters took their stances and unleash their arrows. "ONE SHOT ONE KILL" shouted the Archers as their 10 arrows that were shot in the air using the Patriot found their Mark as each arrow flew into their air and struck the demons' vital points.

"Ukudubula okukodwa nje!" shouted the Amazonian Fighters as they too unleash their arrows and every each one had found their precise mark. "Y E A H..." responded the Archers...

They were astonished how their arrows could swerve and turn to find its an individual target and were happy to find that their arrows had pierced through the necks of the demons and nearly decapitate them.

The 3rd wave of the party raid was for the Swordsman and Barbarians as they use Doppelganger, had 30% of their abilities, and combined with the newly acquired skills. Even with their Doppelganger at their forefronts, the adventurers have gotten their experience points and it took just a strike to bring those doppelgangers down. Before long, the Doppelganger takes 2 hits before it vanishes into thin air.