I noticed that chapter 19 has 200 less views than 20, so if you feel confused about Stagola's healing skill or what he did while Emperor was absent read it don't skip it. Also not a boss battle yet, at least I don't think so. Whatever I never alter my author's notes, I just create a second one at the end. P.S. Japtem where are my bonus Ark chapters!?

Emperor took advantage of the chaos at camp to quickly log off, eat lunch, then log back in. Only an hour passed in real life but 4 in-game. At this time Schmied was done with Emperor's armour alongside many weird weapons and armour sets for the noobs. Schmied helped Emperor put the armour back on then sat down.

-Thanks Schmied, you did some good work now get some well-deserved rest.

Instead of answering Schmied began snoring as though he predicted what Emperor said. Or more likely just passed out from exhaustion. Either way Emperor's armour was vastly different from the original.

The entire armour was filled with fur as the interior was lined with the Alpha Wolf's pelt. The leftover pelt was used to make a sick cloak to go with the armour. The chitin lined along the edges of the armour and filled the broken parts of it. Pieces of bloodstone was used as decorative parts on the exterior of the armour glowing like blood red rubies. The wolf's head was used for the hood part of the cloak. Overall it looked like a mix of Skyrim Daedric, falmor, and dwarven armour with a part of the stormcloak officer armour mixed in. The armour was pre-identified by Schmied so Emperor checked its stats

Armour: Lord of Sicheren Untergang's armour

Rarity: One of a Kind

Durability: 689/700

A magnificent armour produced by a skilled craftsmen using the best and worst materials. The interior and cloak is made of high quality wolf pelts creating high insulation to cold temperatures and provides comfort. The armour itself is a mix of various ores, bug parts, and cursed rocks creating an extreme weight and dark resistance. Alongside an eerie glow useful in the dark yet draws the people closer to you in its mystery. It's armour fitting for the future leader of a village.

Requirements: 200 strength

Benefits: +50 elegant, +5% Dark resistance, +25% cold resistance, +500 defence, +10 charisma, +10 leadership

Disadvantages: -50% movement speed(-5% more if requirements aren't met)

New stat Charisma acquired

The first thing Emperor noticed was that his movement speed was much faster now and the armour mysteriously felt lighter despite more stuff being added on. He just attributed this to the game being a fantasy game.

Emperor roused everyone to continue on with the trip since all of the noobs were back and his armour was done. With his new appearance people were shocked but followed along with what he said. They trekked into the next tunnel where the mosquitos were even more numerous. Emperor took the lead and devastated the mosquitos with the help of his new armour.

'Hah who needs to allocate stats when new armour does even better. But I may increase my strength later so I can move even faster. But with a large group like this speed isn't that important since the rest wouldn't be able to keep up. Stagola seems to be the fastest but he's lazy so he's no good as a scout.'

Soon they exited into the spiked cage chamber, which left most of the people gasping in surprise once again. Emperor kept going suddenly motivated more than usual. Upon finding an undamaged spiked cage he immediately tried to destroy it.

-Minotaur Charge

He used a few charges and managed to destroy it within one minute but it was empty. He tried again on a few other ones but with the same result.

'They must be holding them elsewhere right now, maybe the place where the Satyrs and Minotaurs are.'

They continued through the chamber without incident as the normal mosquitos that linger above and swooped down occasionally were absent. It was more unnerving that they were absent prompting questions. Were they killed off in the battle or are they being concentrated even deeper into deeper chambers?

Eventually they reached the other side of the cavern and descended even deeper into the caverns. This next tunnel was much bigger than the others and was frequented by mosquitos much more often and those of the larger variety. Everyone except a few of the noobs were unnerved by mosquitos the size of cars and trucks appearing before them. While they were all killed off, some of them did some damage like injuring villagers or killing a few noobs. The mosquitos don't see Champions as food so they aren't finicky about killing them. Obviously programmed by the system to prevent complaints about being trapped as a blood cattle in a spiked cage underground.

They soon came out into the next chamber which was so magnificent that most of them fell to their knees. A full sized subterranean city lied before them. Giant mosquitos the size of monster trucks lingered around it and it was surrounded by sheer cliffs.

Yes the last word is a pun on cliffhanger. A bit small of a chapter but I wanted to give you guys some more stuff to read since I won't post again till Sunday. Maybe I'll post drafts again in discussion though. But most importantly there wasn't much of a cliffhanger last chapter :grin: . P.S. That was my first emoji usage in a chapter and it was in the author's note, not even the actual chapter.

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