The Tales of Draconic Warlock

Monster Tide is entirely different. Everything would be different.

Here there would be no personal gains, except for EXP. One can't gain any materials from the killed monsters and if anyone were caught doing that, then they would be fined and would be banned from participating in any quests for at least a year, depending on what they stole. Sometimes the punishments would be even more.

Even with the punishments, there are still would dare every once in a while. It was said that many escaped the punishment as it would rather be chaotic and not everything could be found about, even with the cameras recording the battle.

Cameras could be destroyed during battles and with no cameras, if the materials are profitable enough, there are more than a few who would dare to collect monster corpses from the area.

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Considering that no one would be able to take away the monster corpses, all the corpses would belong to the town or city that the monster tide attacked.

The helpers would be rewarded in other ways depending on their contributions.

This was done for many reasons. If the helpers can collect the corpses, then the support personnel would get nothing as they would be at the back where the wounded are treated.

Treating wounded costs a lot and who would pay them if the corpses are all looted?

Second, if the warriors are concentrated on preserving the materials of a monster, they have to attack in a specific way but that takes time. During hunting in the wilds that would be fine as they have gone to get rich not just get EXP. So preserving the pricey parts intact.

Doing that so during a monster tide would lead to more deaths. So monster corpses can't be looted even if you kill the best of the monsters.

I mean, if you are too concentrated on keeping the best parts viable, then you would create a blindspot, which would make it easier for the surrounding monsters to attack and cause damage to you. Moreover, by clearing monsters faster, it would give breathing room for others too and they would have enough energy to fight more monsters and survive.

In scenarios like this, every action would have far-reaching consequences.

Whatever one's decision might be, it would not just be them who had to face the consequences but others too. the number of people who had to face the consequences of their actions would increase as time went on.

Let's just say that you were assigned to protect a part of the wall. Instead of swiftly eradicating the monsters that come your way, you try to kill them without destroying the pricey parts and that makes you kill less.

The monsters that are supposed to be dead instead attacked your neighbours. Due to the heavy intensity of the monsters, they fell and that made a few monsters free to attack others. It continues like that unless someone powerful intervenes but in a battle like this, no one would have the energy to do so. It may even cause us to lose the battle.

So it's best to swiftly eradicate the monsters you see, instead of trying to make profits out of them.

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After arriving at the town, I went to the Mayor's office to collect the War badge. It is important as without that, I wouldn't earn any points.

The process was smooth. As I am a student from the Royal Academy, the process of getting the badge didn't take long. I had a note from the academy to attest that I am from the academy. So it was easy for me, which was not the same for the ones who are not affiliated with any organizations and even for the adventurers from the adventurer's guild.

Unless an adventurer is famous, it is not easy to vet the people who are participating.

Even though they are calling for help, they can't let anyone come here without proper verification. There are times when some criminals enter the area during monster tides and cause a lot of damage from the rear.

Since most would concentrate on the front where the monsters are, the security at the rear would be almost zero. The ones who stay there are support and logistics personnel. Warriors who are wounded or exhausted would be brought to the area to recuperate.

So the rear end would always be vulnerable and was taken advantage of many times. So before letting anyone participate in the monster tide, verification became mandatory.

Since I come from the academy, it was kind of an assurance that I would not cause any trouble during the monster tide.

Everyone would have to concentrate on the monster tide or else lives would be lost easily that could have been saved otherwise. .net

No one could be distracted to keep an eye on things on our side. They had to keep an eye on the monster's side to see if there were any anomalies. They are pretty common.

Though this monster tide was said to have Tier-6 at most, a Tier-7 could enter the scene. There were many incidents in the past when such a thing happened. The monster tide was supposed to be within a certain rank or certain number but were wrong on both counts.

If the cross happens to be below Tier-6, then it won't cause much trouble but Tier-7 and above are different breeds. So if a monster of that calibre appears suddenly, the losses would be substantial. The leaders who oversee the defence have to keep an eye on such entrants.

If they had to divide their vigilance, then sneak attacks would be possible and that means many would die, and defences may break down. Once frontline defences broke down, the town would become a battlefield. It means that the town would be devasted.

Though the kingdom officers had already relocated unnecessary people from the town to the city, there were still a few people who had to stay behind to oversee the workings of the town. Also, they couldn't bring everything with them, except what was important.

A battle in the town means, everything would be destroyed and has to be rebuilt.

The kingdom though how generous it wants to be, can't allocate too much to rebuilding and that means many people have to live a life, that can be considered as the worst.

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