The Player's System

Eysera Bridge

Tenth quest

Junan ran toward the wolf holding the asset.

He sprinted in the middle of dead wolves. They already took big time in this quest. "This asset belongs to the rare race. I am here to take it." Junan directly asked. The sword was dripping the blood of the enemies.

The senior handed the asset gladly. He was worried that perhaps this human team wanted to get the asset and flee. Junan took the asset and gestured others to keep the cover in case someone try to hinder their path.

They were going back to handover the asset taking same route so to inform rest of the team members to follow behind.

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The senior wolf was holding the card. As soon as Junan picked the asset from the hands of the senior of the other race the card lit up. It got active just like the other cards.

The senior understood that the human team successful. He sent his assistant to stand at the street end to inform the human team where he was hiding.

Junan entered in the colony and saw the assistant. They straight reached the senior wolf. Now that gama race was killed the senior could gather the rest of the living wolves and again organize them.

The senior came out of his hiding spot and welcomed the team. Junan handed the asset without formal words. He was only interested to get the card.

"Wait, don't you want to know the secret about the next quest."

After picking the card Junan moved to enter the card in the inventory however stopped at the words of the senior wolf.

He was shocked to know that the npc of this quest was familiar with what they were going through. Junan moved hurriedly. The senior wolf and his assistant were dissolving in the thin air.

"The card will guide you toward the Eysera Bridge; the next card is hidden under the wooden bridge." Before completely dissolving the senior wolf spoke last words.

As soon as his figure dissolved the previously lit card brought small map on it. The surrounding also changed. This time they did not get transferred in the next quest area instead the present quest area altered.

Team members looked around the increasing fog. The fog shrouded and then cleared slowly.

There were many dots at the various points of the map. Junan carefully looked at the card. The place where the team members were standing showed the starting point. They seemed to follow the mentioned points one by one and reach the Eysera Bridge.

It looked like someone added this quest for fun.

"It is quite obvious how to follow this quest. Perhaps the pointed locations have some challenges to reach the card." Junan spoke. "It will be the simplest quest if the map is present to guide. We can hope things should remain as simple as they look." Albert commented.

Apparently it was clear that they did not need to discuss any aspect of the quest. "The first pointed location is straight from the front. We can follow but the formation will remain the alert one. We are not in some normal game but the portal game. Anything is expected." Junan guided.

The quest area was no more a colony. There was forest at the both sides. The forest looked like any typical forest however it was silent. The straight path was carved as if already selected for their move on.

The straight path might not bring trouble however the forest could potentially threat from both sides. It was thick forest. "Both sides of the forest could hide ogres or creatures. They could attack us. Long range weapons should be ready." Junan gestured Jake and Sashi.

Ahram moved at the left. They stood in proper formation and started walking on the straight path. The weapons were ready. The tenth card was at the end of the quest area.

The winding quest area was leading toward the fixed spots mentioned on the map.

Their pace was slow because they wanted to remain alert. Path was not big or grand for them to walk openly. Barely three human could walk in a row. This made it difficult for them.

In such scenario it was easy for any enemy to appear and attack in the blink of an eye. They were following the map and perhaps could not enter the forest.

It was marked as restricted part or the developers wanted to test the patience of the players.

The first pointed location was getting near as they walked ahead. "Guess what we are going to see?" Clark anticipated something terrible.

Junan looked at the map on the card and then in front. There was nothing special just that the narrow path ended suddenly. "What is this?" Orin asked. He was thinking that any time they would start battle however it turned out he need to battle with the extra grown up shrubs in front of the marked location.

Albert walked near team head and looked at the card. They were exactly standing at the first marked place but unable to understand what they should do with this.

"Ahram your shovel has big deal with these shrubs." Orin laughed. Of course shovel might not help in digging the bunch of thickly populated plants in front.

"Not funny. Your mace might do some prickling to the plants." Sashi added in which Orin noticed. He was not expecting the female player to answer in the place of Ahram.

"Ah girl you are right. Why I always neglect." Orin got stumped with her answer so he stepped ahead and attacked with the thorny mace without talking permission from the team head. Well it turned out his worst dream ever.

Many thorny plants attacked on his body. Some of them covered his arms and others rested on the chest. One of it even glued on his face. "Holy crape what is this." He spoke in muffled voice.

Albert twitched to see the foolishness of this fool. He looked at the team head. Junan was not bothered a bit.

In some situation he acted neutral for the time the player understand his mistake.