Dungeon Prowler : One Man Army

Chapter 21: plans

Dawn of wednesday morning, as usual Leol was still grumbling while Yunan pulled him along into the training field, they did the usual work out: some fast laps with at higher intensity than simple jogging, followed by the basic routine, sit ups, squats, and pushups, today they pushed themselves a bit beyond the point of exhaustion, then they sat and sang the divergent series up to the number 50, three times while alternating singing the equation, unlike yesterday they alternated for a total for four times than they synchronized their singing in the last try.

Yunan and Leol noticed very low number of mistakes during the last chant, well they are still ten and their minds are still flexible and adaptable, thus obvious advancement would be more apparent than those much younger or older than 10, so they were pleased with themselves.

As the sun started to rise the previous groupe come to the field and saw Yunan and Leol were sitting there talking, when Leol noticed the group coming, he pretended to show Yunan how to play paper rock scissors, Yunan figured something was awry and started randomly do the signs while Leol was correcting him," no, you don't wait to see what i chose, we both make a choice at the same time, don't go before me, its useless if i know your hand, dude you can play level up chess and can not even comprehend this simple game" Yunan pretend to lower his head in shame while Leol face palmed.

Once the group of five arrived close enough Yunan looked up and greeted the new arrivals," we were just about to start running, do you think you can join us?" Yunan and Leol stood up waiting for the answer from the group. "Well we actually came here to meet with the teachers, pity they are not here, they refused to talk to us during class time and we thought maybe we can meet them, since they disappear after class" the shadiest guy in the group talked, Yunan could immediately tell he was talking on behalf of another.

Yunan just shrugged and said "well this thing is something only me and Leol do to get into better shape, my teachers never give me anything to do after class, not even homework, so we will be starting, join us if you want, as for meeting my teachers we always meet by the library before class, i never know what they plan for the next for it, so " his voice trailed off as he and Leol started jogging moderately for 3 laps before heading off to the baths, the group only followed behind them but kept their distance.

After breakfast Yunan and Leol went together to the library, they found Bai alone waiting for them, as soon as the shady group came close to talk to Bai he sent them off by saying "not in class time, if you need me, comeback after class" he then brought both Yunan and Leol to hall number 5. Since the halls were restricted to the teacher who booked them, even if the group tried to barge in or listen in on the lecture, the would gain nothing and just stand there like idiots.

In hall 5 Yunan explained what Leol told him yesterday and soon after Bai took Leol into a corner and started working on some scheme, that Yunan wanted nothing to do with. As for the lesson today, planning, leader had a kind of strange lesson. "Today we do something different, you will plan a sortie with only Balin and Lucian and Fae, the goal is to conquer a level 5 nest, i would like you to make a plan for them to follow and successfully conquer the nest, i will not give you any information other than this, the road is a mountain pass, the nest has a cave for an entrance, while the heart of the nest is in the hinterlands of the mountain".

And thus Yunan started discussing with the debauchery party his plan, "well if it is a mountain pass, we need Lucian leading with Fae after him and Balin in the tail-" Leader interrupted him mid sentence " failed", that reminded Yunan about his argument with Bai during the last planning class.

"Okey, how about we get Lucian and Balin to go shop for food, ropes, and climbing gear, while Fae, buys some potions to heal and restore mana-" , "failed", and that started a new chain of failed tries to plan before ven the party made it out of the city, when the class was almost over, Yunan actually made it beyond the city walls.

The plan was simple to execute but very complicated to come up with. First never split up when someone is missing from the party, if only three of them were together then stay together at all times, the amount of dangers multiplate when they split up the small group, then before even thinking about anything, go to the guild branch and get the full information about the quest, it takes more information to sweep a nest clean more than a map and a level, so you need to know the scale of the map and how long it takes to travel there, how many monsters are estimated to be inside the nest, then the type of the monsters, what kind of things to watch out for.

Then comes the time for arranging the travel, they could not walk everywhere unless it was less than half a days walk, otherwise rent a carriage or mounts, flying mounts if the ordinary mounts can not reach close enough to the monster nest, then how much items to take, always take items a level or two higher than the estimated level of the monsters, always have extra mounts, for possible things that maybe brought back, take enough rations for twice as long as the estimated time needed to clear the nest.

Keeping the groupe rested and with enough stamina, traveling fast enough, scouting and gathering information from the locals, hunting when possible to save on the rations, have all kinds of potions from low level ones to high leveled ones, having enough replacements for the damaged equipment. And many other things, like traveling with caution, moving only on safe and scouted routes, dodging bandit groups, and that is before even you arrive at the location of the nest.

Meanwhile Bai and Leol had come up with a plan to just push away any unwanted attention, the plan was basically showing off how battered Yunan looks like after every lesson, and making it looked he even needs a friend to take him back after a session of torture instead of a normal class.