Chapter 62: The Camity of Beasts

  The sudden fainting of the young priestess startled everyone. Fortunately, upon iion, it was found that she had merely colpsed from exhaustion and was not seriously harmed. Crk quickly arranged for her to be taken to rest and also prepared a room for Alex. After all, Alex was the town's great beor, and they wao treat him well.

  Taking this opportunity, Alex made a somewhat unusual request to Crk. He asked if Crk could help him collect the spirit crystals from the bodies of the bck wolves. Crk didn’t hesitate at all and immediately agreed. As hunters, they ofte into the forests to hunt low-level magical beasts ahe spirit crystals they extracted. They were well-versed in the process.

  Upon hearing Alex's request, Crk fidently assured him that he would personally ha and that no one would dare to withhold any of Alex’s spirit crystals. Crk was quick. It didn’t take long before he handed over all the spirit crystals extracted from the bck wolf corpses to Alex.

  However, to Alex’s disappoi, the quality of these spirit crystals was quite loart from the spirit crystal from the lead wolf, which provided Alex with 20 points of crystal energy, the rest only tributed oo two points each. Si every beast had a spirit crystal, Alex ended up with a total of 50 points of crystal energy. It wasn’t much, but at least it was better than nothing.

  With some free time on his hands, Alex grew curious and asked Crk about something very important. Where exactly was he?

  "This is the territory of the Northern Alliance... uh, Mr. Alex, you didn’t know?"

  Crk was visibly surprised by Alex’s question but answered truthfully. He then cautiously expressed his fusion. After all, Sweetwater Town was on the border of the Northern Alliance—how did this man end up here?

  "Sigh, don’t even ask."

  Crk’s questiht a look ret to Alex’s face.

  "My teleportation spell malfuned, and I somehow ended up here... I wandered in the wilderness for two days before finding my way out. But that aside, what’s going on here? I walked through the mountains for two days without entering a single animal, and then there was that pack of bck wolves... I thought magical beasts rarely appeared in civilized areas?"

  "It seems your luck really wasn’t good."

  Learning how Alex ended up here, Crk’s expression grew plex as he eyed him.

  "You might not know this, but it’s the season of beast camities right now..."

  Crk’s expnation helped Alex uand why he said Alex’s luck was bad. The Northern Alliance is situated he Twilight Border, where a beast camity occurs every year.

  The reason is simple: magical beasts are wild animals tainted by chaotic magid many wild animals have migratory instincts. They might a instinct or be driven by more powerful magical beasts, but every wihey attack the heartnds of human civilization.

  The Northern Alliance, being the first line of defense, bears the brunt of these attacks. While they use natural barriers and fortress checkpoints to fend off most of the magical beasts, the forests are vast, and some creatures iably slip through.

  The bck wolves that attacked Sweetwater Town were likely among those that snuck through the defenses. However, as Crk spoke of this ret attack, his brow furrowed, and his expression darkened.

  "To be ho, I’m worried. We face beast camities every winter, but this year’s came unusually early. The magical beasts appeared far too quickly. Normally, even if some slip through during a beast camity, they don’t show up until after the third snowfall. But this time, they appeared right after the first snow. I’m really ed that something might have happe the border fortress..."

  Crk was troubled, as he expined. As he mentioned, beast camities weren’t new. Every winter, from the time he was born, these magical beasts would attempt to ihe heartnds during the heavy snow.

  But it was usually predictable. Sweetwater Town, though close to the border, was still a fair distance away. They would typically pack up before the first snowfall and leave o ended, as the snow would block the mountains and drive the wild animals away due to the magical beasts’ threats, making it safer.

  However, this time, the magical beasts came far too quickly. While Crk was anxious, Alex’s eyes were gleaming with excitement the more he listened.

  tless magical beasts? A camity of beasts? Oh my! That’s a lot of spirit crystals! So much money!

  How many ten-pull treasures I get?!

  Right now, Alex’s biggest headache was the ck of dimensional points. But there wasn’t much he could do about it since he had only created the main framework of the game.

  The dungeons weren’t under his trol, and he didn’t know how the "Codex of Dimensions" ected to those strange worlds. What frustrated Alex even more was that the dimensional points awarded in each dungeon were ridiculously low!

  When Alex inally desighe game, it was inteo be a mobile game. In mobile games, a single chapter usually has at least a dozen levels. Pyers would plete a chapter and, at the very least, accumute enough resources for a ten-pull.

  But for some reason, after ing to this world and traversing those "dungeons," the "Map of Myriad Dimensions" became incredibly stingy. It mostly provided mais and occasionally triggered a side quest, but these didn’t always yield dimensional points.

  This left Alex extremely frustrated. He now deeply regretted not adjusting the points to 999,999 back then, even if just for testing purposes. Now, the dimensional points he could earn in each dungeon were severely limited.

  Although he had gained siderable bes, for Alex, the soul stones were the core. Not to mention, he was still g a powerful finishing move! Both [Arthas] and [Kerrigan] were currently unusable.

  Alex was now hoping that his summon would bring forth a true angel. With that, he would have more fidence, whether it was for funting his strength or taking on a boss. He wouldn’t be as desperate as he was when fag the Lich Lord, where he almost ran out of options and had to rely on luck to survive.

  Alex had already determined his path. He would use the dungeons to farm equipment and skills. But as for dimensional points, judging by how the system behaves, relying os to accumute points is less effective than just paying for them!

  And now, with the front lines in a state of crisis and the try in dire need, as a padin of the Temple, I must dedicate myself fully, even to the point of... well, maybe not that far.

  But in any case, there’s no way I’m passing up all that money! With this in mind, Alex made a firm decision deep in his heart.

  Head to the Order Fortress, farm money, and pay to win!

  Alex’s decision wasn’t purely motivated by money. As a member of the Temple, he was well aware that most of the Twilight Border’s fortresses were uhe Holy Nation’s trol.

  This was somewhat simir to how the Uates has military bases in pces like Hawaii—overseas territories that, while they might infringe on other nations’ snty, are often weled by smaller tries. The same applies to the Holy Nation’s border fortresses. They are even more weled by these small tries.

  The reason is that the Holy Nation’s fortresses faemies that aren’t human but chaotic beasts. These small tries don’t have the manpower or resources to build such fortifications to protect themselves.

  So, when the Holy Nation offers help, they are naturally grateful. Furthermore, the Holy Nation’s military is well-anized and disciplined, far superior to the so-called Western powers.

  From what Alex had seen of people like Malte and Stoheir dedication was exempry, further enhang the Holy Nation’s reputation pared to other major powers.

  Just look at that young priestess who fainted from exhaustion. She had no prior e with the people here, yet she was willing to stand and fight alongside them, despite her youth. Alex had to admit, the Temple was not like the ones he’d read about in novels.

  Of course, not every member was fwless, like that ie... But in a way, that was a good thing. It at least proved that the Temple was a human anization, made up of real people.

  If every member of a group had an exceptionally high level of dedication, Alex would seriously start to wonder if the Temple wasn’t using some kind of brainwashing teique to trol its members.

  After all, it’s acceptable for most of an anization’s members to be good people, but if they’re all good people, that’s a bit terrifying.

  After learning the situation from Crk, Alex decided to rest iwater Town for the night before heading to the Order Fortress. In addition t money and paying to win, he was also effectively rep back to his anization.

  Alex was a bit curious about this. After all, he hadn’t shown up for over half a year—Stone and the others might have eveed him as dead...

  When Crk heard of Alex’s decisioried to dissuade him. But seeing that Alex was determined, he didn’t press the matter.

  As their savior, Crk certainly wouldn’t treat Alex poorly. He gave Alex the best carriage iwater Town, and Alex gdly accepted it. The Order Fortress was several days' journey from Sweetwater Town, and walking the entire distance would be exhausting.

  With a carriage, Alex couldn’t have asked for more. However, what Alex didn’t expect was that the young priestess also sought him out, requesting to apany him to the Order Fortress.

  Alex was a bit surprised but agreed without much thought. After all, they were colleagues, and having someoo watch his ba the journey wasn’t a bad idea.

  So, after spending the night iwater Town, Alex and the young priestess set out together, embarking on their jouro the Order Fortress.

  (End of Chapter)

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