Liam was free of worries as he fpped his wings to asd higher. After a few seds he reached anap in the cliff, serving as a good spot to fasten the rope dder.

  Taking out the item he unfurled it, letting it sway freely in the wind. , he took the metal hooks and attached the dder to the cliff side.

  The others felt their stomachs ing ever more the higher Liam traveled. After attag the sed rope dder, they saw him grab onto it and stop moving.

  “What is he doing?”

  “Maybe he also got afraid…”

  The party whispered among themselves when Liam’s wings suddenly vanished. As soon as his item’s effect had run out, gravity pulled on his body as if angry about his defiance.

  Liam held onto the dder, groaning as he felt the strain in his arm. He dangled dangerously in the air for a sed before activating the sed charge of Refresnim’s orb of flight.

  Fortunately, he was already close to the top of the cliff. With a solid push from his wings, he came to a stop above the rocks, quickly installing the st rope dder.

  Silver Bde gulped as she watched Liam happily waving from above.

  “Damn, why is Mirage the only oh useful wings?”

  “My friends, I think you have to tread this advehout me.”

  “No way, you’re ing with us!”

  The party joked around to hide their anxiousness. Eventually it was Silent Acacia who stepped forward bravely, setting an example.

  “Don’t worry. If you drop something upon your iable death I will take good care of it.”

  Silent Acacia’s eye twitched as he stared at Radiant Shield. Before he could say something, Quickstep kicked the tank’s butt.

  “Hey, don’t curse my boyfriend like this!”

  “Let’s go guys, I think it ’t be that bad.”

  With those words Silent Acacia reached for the lowest dder, beginning to climb up.

  A low breeze pyed around his body, causing the rope dder to sway dangerously.

  Don’t look down… don’t look down…

  Hypnotizing himself the hueadily scaled after another.

  Eventually he mao pass the first dder. But his stomach sank looking around as he found the dder blown to the side by a few meters.

  Silent Acacia could to nothing but wait in 40meters height, until the sed dder swayed ba.

  The others watg from the ground cursed Liam for putting them in such a position.

  Eventually Silent Acacia was finally able to grab onto the sed dder.

  Wishing for his ordeal to be over he gathered all his ce, climbing up like an agile monkey.

  Liam was impressed as the hunter soon made it to the top.

  “Good job!”

  Unfortunately, Liam’s praise was met with a punch to his chest.

  “What a stupid idea!”

  Liam only smiled wryly without enting further.

  Following Silent Acacia’s success, the others finally felt emboldehey began to climb up one by one.

  At this point the differences in stats were clear for all to see. Those with high agility found the task easier while the mages struggled the most.

  At least not ting Radiant Shield, who took a long time to vince himself before every single move.

  But even so, he made it, falling on his knees on top of the cliff.

  “I… did it! Never… again! Never ever!”

  Liam patted the man’s shoulder in encement, deg not to mention the fact that they had to get down somehow as well.

  Meanwhile the rest of the party had more than enough time to take a look around. They found themselves on a smooth pteau.

  A few pnts grew sparsely along a ragtag wooden wall blog their sight not far away.

  The steam which could be seen from the bottom of the cliff came from behind the wall.

  “Mirage? What now?”

  “Let me see…”

  Liam trailed off as he looked left and right. Soon, he found a hole in the wooden wall, peeking out behind some shrubbery.

  “There!”

  Liam poi out, bringing the party over. His friends sighed as they figured out what would follow .

  Pushing aside some annoying branches Liam went on all fours, crawling through the hole. Reag the other side he still didn’t dare to stand up, signaling everyoo hide until the party had gathered.

  The others plied while sing the surroundings. Metal cages could be seen lining the walls, taining a bunch of prisoners.

  Most of them were goblins, but a few humans akin were mixed in as well.

  From their positions the party members had a good view. They observed what looked to be a bandit camp, notig the tightly guarded long road up the cliff.

  Still, the decisioween sg the cliff with rope dders and fighting through a hundred bandits was a tough one.

  Gazing at the bandits Silver Bde didn’t doubt Liam, questioning carefully:

  “So, who is our target?”

  “That guy.”

  Following Liam’s pointed fihe party members gazed at a goblin in rge yellow trousers far to the left. He certainly didn’t look like the first person one would io a boss fight.

  “Is he some hidden bigshot or something?”, asked Silent Acacia skeptically.

  “Nope. But he has an item we need.”

  “Ok. So Bloody Edge sneaks ets the item and we leave happily?”

  “Unfortunately, not.”

  “Thought so.”

  “We o kill the jailer so that guy have his revehen he will give us a reward after freeing him.”

  Alright. And the jailer is that burly fellow over there?”

  Liam nodded as Silent Acacia poi a rge man. He looked incredibly ferocious in his bloodstained clothes and with his scarred, bald head.

  Not even his colleagues dared to get close. But this was exactly what Liam ted on to defeat him.

  “Is everyone here?”

  The others heir bodies tensing up for the fight.

  “Good. Acacia, you o pull him over here. Don’t fet guys, we o fight him close to the wall without alerting anyone else.”

  “Got it.”

  With Liam’s warning the party positiohemselves along the wall, f a long line as they watched Acacia sneaking forward.

  The hunter moved carefully, stopping as soon as he got into attack range.

  But before he could shoot an arroair of cold eyes already turowards him.

  “Well, where did you e from? Did you break out of my cages?”

  The jailer spoke in a rough voice sounding as if his throat was injured.

  Silent Acacia felt a shiver run down his spine. He turned around, quickly returning to the party.

  “Let’s go, guys!”

  Silver Bde enced the party as she ied the enemy.

  [Deserter Jailer MaliffRank: Lord

  Level: 19

  HP: 4200/4200]

  Silver Bde drew a sharp breath:

  “Damn, level 19.”

  “S?”

  The party felt a heavy pressure on their shoulders as they began attag.

  [-44!]

  [-29!]

  As always, the mages’ attacks arrived first, the damage serving as appetizer for the party.

  “This guy’s defense doesn’t seem weak…”

  Maliff’s jagged knife spun in his hand. His eyes turowards Cye as he fletched his teeth like a rabid dog.

  The mage felt disgusted. Fortunately, it wasn’t her job to ehe jailer.

  Radiant Shield had recovered his bearings as he approached the tall oppo, smming his shield against the man’s chest.

  “Go bato ye!”

  Maliff spoke maliciously as his knife hacked at Radiant Shield. The tank raised his defense, feeling a powerful blow traveling along his arm and shaking his core.

  [Stance -18]

  “Maybe I defend four hits.”

  The tank’s face was grim as he spoke.

  “Then we should hurry up!”, excimed Liam, swinging his swords.

  [-20!]

  [-10!]

  Liam’s damage was almost pitiful. But at least Cye felt happy, finally fronting an enemy with more physical than magical defense.

  “Wait guys, let me use my ultimate!”

  Silent Acacia called out, recalling his new skill. The young man had ged to the css of a beast hunter.

  Using his ultimate, a bloody red mark appeared above the jailer.

  “What does it do?”, asked Silver Bde, knowing that it was important to uand her allies’ abilities.

  “It increases damage done by allies.”

  “It’s pretty strong!”, praised Quickstep as she attacked, dealing more damage than Liam.

  Even Watchful Eye and Bloody Edge were able replicate this feat.

  Naturally Maliff didn’t stand around and allowed the party to hit him as they pleased. He opped swinging his knife, putting pressure on Radiant Shield.

  Sooank was almost out of stance while the jailer barely lost somewhat over 500HP.

  Suddenly a small explosio off above his bald head. Everyoared in shock at the damage number produced by Liam.

  [-265!]

  “Damn, expert how did you do this?!”

  “Well, not many oppos have defense against holy damage.”

  “What about other types of damage?”

  “You o try.”

  Listening to the versation, the others longed for additional types of damage as well.

  Liam could only pcate them, promising that more advanced csses would fulfill their demands ter in the game.