The Tales of Draconic Warlock

During the monster tide, there would be a lot of damage to the place where it happened. It is not something that can be changed unless someone can stop the monster tide before it happens.

No one has such power.

Even though there are powerhouses who can stop smaller monster tides, it would be underneath them to even think about those small monster tides.

In the kingdom, there would be a lot of monster tides happening from time to time. Most of them are considered small monster tides. This was not because they are actually small but the highest monster would not cross Tier-3 in those tides.

Sometimes there would be a Tier-4 mixed in that but unless there is more than one Tier-4 monster, it would be classified as a small monster tide.

After the small monster tide comes the medium monster tide, where the highest would be at Tier-6, maybe even Tier-7 which is controlling the tide. Similar to the small monster tide, unless there is more than one Tier-7 monster, the category of the monster tide would be medium.

The last one is a large monster tide, where Tier-9 monsters would be involved but most of the time only Tier-7 and Tier-8 monsters appear, with a rare performance from Tier-9 monsters. Also, these are very rare compared to the other two.

If a large monster tide occurs every now and then, then that kingdom would be fated for doom no matter how you look at it.

The damage and lives lost from a single large monster tide would be huge and if that is a recurring event, no one would be interested in staying in that place, no matter the benefits, especially the commoners.

Even if someone was interested in staying, the losses would be very high, which would cause cracks in their defence, making it easier for their enemies to act.

So no one would be foolish enough to stay in a place where there are frequent monster tides where monsters that were attacking them are Tier-7 and above.

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The kingdom wouldn't want to deal with such a mess on a regular basis. So they wouldn't officially encourage anyone to settle down in such lands.

Of course, even though there was no official encouragement, if there was someone who wanted to settle in such places, the kingdom would grant them special privileges and nothing more than that.

This was because, usually the monsters wouldn't raid a place where there are no resources. They would target areas near huge resources or magic concentration. This would be the main cause for their attacks on the settlements.

Of course, human settlements would also be near huge resource points or where magic is in high concentration. So clashes are bound to happen.

Though the kingdom needs a lot of resources and would always be on the lookout for them, the kingdom can't properly utilize them even if they find something, as long as those resource points are near the area where the monsters are high in number.

To occupy a resource point, they first need sufficient capital. They need to invest a lot of resources first before they can expect any profits in such an endeavour.

If the kingdom has no problems other than the monsters, then they can truly concentrate on them but that was not the case here.

There are four other kingdoms that are competing with each other in order to absorb the other kingdoms and become an empire. Moreover, there are troubles with demons. Though Glessaria is far away from that place, that doesn't mean we are friends with the demon race nor are they with us.

There are many spies who are working covertly with those demons. Even in my own family, there were many. They were uprooted but what about other families?

So these types of endeavours are not something that the kingdom can bear.
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Moreover, if the kingdom encourages them, then the kingdom is liable for the damages that would occur during monster tides. They can't bear that burden.

If they don't then that would cause resentment among the public. Though the commoners may not be able to do anything, the awakened could cause a lot of damage.

The kingdom was not in the idea of creating trouble for themselves.

If someone wants to open borderlands, they are more than welcome to and the kingdom would give some support but that's it. The troubles that they face are their own and the kingdom is liable to that.

This caused not many to venture out and establish their own territories.

If they successfully did so, they would become a part of the kingdom, even if the kingdom did nothing to help them. If they fail to do so, then the kingdom has nothing to do with you or your "territory".

That is a hassle and not many would try to do so.

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Two Days Later...

It has been two days since I arrived at the town, waiting for the monster tide to appear. I know that the monster tide was informed that the tide was supposed to occur in three days and still there is a day for that.

Hoping for a disaster to happen a day before is not a good thing, in every aspect that one can think of but I was bored to death here.

I can't enter the Nexus, as that would cut me off from the outside. While in Nexus, I couldn't see what was happening outside.

If the monster tide appears before the specified date, then I might miss it. Moreover, if I am inside and someone enters my room to call for the battle, then things might get problematic.

Everyone has secrets. Everyone knew about that, but those secrets would only keep you safe as long as they are a secret. Once it was known, then everyone would be on to you to get that, if they can get it.

So, in those two days, I did almost nothing. I ate, slept and did a small workout, which was nothing.

The mayor's office did assign me some duties though to patrol a part of the town. This is to find if any underground monsters dig from under the walls to enter the town bypassing the defences. If there are any, then we have to stop them and destroy those dug-out entrances.

Roar!

Thump! Thump!

Huh, what was that?

I immediately ran to the top of the battlement. From there everything could be seen easily, and I could see them clearly.

AIR HORN!!!!

That's the monster tide. It is here and its a day early. It's time to earn some EXP and some fame for myself.