Lake Lorgorn

After discussing everything among themselves, August got up from his seat.

" Now that everything is settled, for now, let's go to the next red zone," August said to both of them.

Fatty and Daisy were expecting this to happen, so they didn't ask further. They were the only people left in the guild. Until they recruit new employees and users, they have to keep the guild stuff to a halt. Fatty took all the measures and managed all the loose ends. He also put up an employment advertisement for their guild. After they get back from the hunt, he will interview the applicants and then select who will work at the guild. Daisy will also sit with her as an interviewer.

Both fatty and Daisy got ready and equipped their respective artifacts. After they picked up their weapons, they came back to August. Looking at them ready for the hunt, August didn't delay this any longer.

Lake Lorgorn was in the central parts of Marvian, in the Granie plains. The lake was two hundred kilometers long and 150 kilometers in width. But the thing that made this a massive lake was the depth, which was four kilometers at its lowest point. The lake was ranked 3rd in the world in terms of volume. After the awakening happened, all the flora and fauna were affected by the fields. The animals mutated and became awakened beasts.

After that, the place became a nest of awakened beasts. And due to the depth of the water and the lack of water attribute users, there has been little progress towards the eradication of the beasts. The area around the lake was covered in a thick mist, which was the result of the change in the ecosystem. Nothing that enters the mist gets out unless they are strong enough to protect themselves from the beasts.

August marked the coordinates of the lake and used the cosmic bridge to teleport them to the shore.

*SWOOSH*

The thin mist around the place disappeared when the three appeared. The trees were vaguely seen by the mist, but the lake was not visible at all. There was only mist covering the entire shore.

Fatty and Daisy looked around to see if there were any beasts. But they couldn't spot anything.

"Are we going inside the lake ?" Fatty asked August.

" We will, but first we need to clean up the monsters on the shore," August replied.

" What? I can't see anything in this thick mist. How are we supposed to find them ?" Fatty said while looking around.

*Click*

August snapped his fingers and all the mist around the shore disappeared. The tress can be seen clearly as the beasts lurking within them. The beasts were hiding inside the bushes and waiting for a perfect opportunity. The sudden disappearance of the mist startled them, as they were revealed.

" You could have done that without snapping your fingers." Fatty raised his eyebrow.

*Ahem*

August cleared his throat.

" That doesn't matter. We have more important matters at hand."

Suddenly a notification window popped up in front of both Fatty and Daisy.

[ Quest received ]

[ Kill all the beasts in 1 hour ]

[ Reward: 1000 points ]

[ Failure : -500 points ]

[ Progress : 0/3166 ]

[ Time left : 59:59 ]

" Oh, we got a quest. There is no time to waste then." August spoke while stroking his chin.

" Did you see the new shop items ? There are unbelievable." Fatty looked at both of them while scrolling the item list in the shop.

" Yeah.. I can't believe we can get these items with points. The skills and stats of the artifacts are incredible, to say the least." Daisy also looked through the artifacts in the shop.

" You won't get the artifacts if you don't hunt the beasts in time. See the failure penalty again." August reminded them about the quest.

" Damn, I need to start hunting. I really need that hammer and the shield." Fatty ran towards the hordes of beasts

Daisy also close her window and took out her gun. Her gun was an A rank artifact, that was coated with dark golden beast-skin. There was a beast core in the left panel of the gun. Daisy aimed her gun towards the beasts lurking in the tress.

*BANG* *BANG*

She started to shoot them down one by one. Fatty also swung his hammer towards the beasts in the ground. The beasts tried to gang up on him, but after he fought against hordes in two red zones, he was prepared. His strength was also increased due to the previous hunts, so he was able to easily smash the beasts into pieces. The B rank beasts were killed in one strike of his hammer.

Fatty didn't take a break and kept swinging his hammer like mad.

" Gotta get the new hammer and shield. Gotta get the new hammer and shield." He shouted as he rampaged in the sea of beasts that surrounded him.

The beasts swarmed the entire shore mindlessly and fatty swung his hammer endlessly. Daisy was busy shooting down the beasts, her aim was so accurate that every shot killed two or more beasts. She aimed in such a way that the trajectory overlapped with several beasts. This was she would kill more beasts with her limited bullets.

Looking at them killing beasts left and right, August smiled in satisfaction. They didn't have the best of equipment yet but still managed to perform well. The speed of hunting was no less from the top users in renowned guilds.

But that was not a comparison he wanted to make. For the preparation to deal with the rulers, he needs stronger users. The current strength of the two was far below the desired level to counter the continental rulers.

' After they get the new artifacts, the speed of hunting will increase even more. The artifacts will boost their aura, so it will take even less time for them to reach S level.'

He thought about the next course of action. After they redeemed the artifacts from the shop, their overall combat power will increase significantly. There will be much flexibility with fatty's hammer and shield. Also, Daisy wouldn't need bullets for the new artifact, as he designed it to use nanobots that could be retrieved after the kill. It was an automated process, and the entire artifact was essentially one including the bullets. The toxin attribute was applied to the nano-bullets comprised of diamond coated nanobots. Daisy will apply her own aura on top of that. That will surely create a devastating effect, coupled with virtually infinite ammo, she was unstoppable.