The Tales of Draconic Warlock

My feeling was right. It seems I had to fight the monsters at close range. This is not good. Maybe I can survive but what about others?

Maybe a few might have learned close-range combat methods but I don't think that there would be many. Moreover, I don't have any skills that may be useful for attacking at close range, and I wonder if anyone here would have such a method.

Even if by chance they did, would being a spell caster, the levels of those skills might be very low.

It looks like this town is doomed.

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Two Hours earlier...

This is more like it. Now with many troops appearing at the defence lines, the advancement of the monsters was halted. Moreover, with so many troops it gave me the perfect cover to use my AOE attacks, though my skill is not an actual AOE, rather it is a multi-target attack skill to be precise.

I used [shadow bolt volley] and none were the wiser.

None of the defenders had the time to pay attention to me at this time, as the first defence line was broken and the second line almost did before the remaining troops joined us and strengthened the line.

With one of the three lines gone, no one had the time or strength to observe how others were attacking. Moreover, I keep my attacks to only Tier-3 and below, which are not the core monsters.

I am thinking about moving to Tier-4 as my target, but I should do that subtly, without others knowing. Hmm, even if others don't see, this war badge would record that. I have no idea how it works but what I know is that it has to be on our body for it to work.

The person at the counter told me to wear the badge during the battle or else it can't count the kills.

I can't let anyone know that I can kill Tier-4 monsters or above. They would be my EXP packets and nothing else. I believe that I killed a lot of Tier-3 monsters and that would suffice to show that I can handle well even if my opponent is a rank higher.

Moreover, I would move on to Tier-4 and above, but that's after I kill a decent amount of Tier-3 and below monsters. I came here to show my prowess and gain some points along the way. Though my main concern was EXP, those two are also the reasons behind my arrival here. So I need a balance way to achieve all three goals.

I know that Angela's father will be arranging her marriage after this year is over and I need to show my power but I am still Tier-2 and a student at that. There is no way one would believe that I killed a Tier-4 by myself.

Thinking that killing a Tier-4 might clear the way for me to Angela is so wrong. No one would believe that a Tier-2 killed a Tier-4. They would automatically assume that I have cheated. It would be a hassle and it may even block me from getting Angela.

So it's best to impress others in a modest way. No flashy shenanigans.

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Half an Hour later...

I left to the rear of the flank, to rest my body. Though I am not in need of rest and recuperation, I had to do that to keep up my disguise as a weak person.

This is such a hassle. I could have been reaping a good amount of EXP from this tide but "being a weak person", I can't show more than I should.

If not for the fact that I might become a target due to other's greed or jealousy, I would have done a lot in this tide and also saved many from their unfortunate deaths.

I can't do anything because I am not alone. I have a loving family, which I don't want to lose no matter what. If I become a target, so would they.

So I played the part of a weak Tier-2 warlock and decided to rest for a while.
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I returned to the battlefield after resting for a few minutes. I didn't go to the same sector as before. Since the defences were in such disarray no one was where they were supposed to be. This gave me a path to use to attack Tier-4 monsters.

Once again I started to attack the monsters but this time I attacked Tier-4 monsters. To make sure that there would be no witnesses, I threw the badge in my personal space, rather than the space ring.

Though the clerk said that keeping the badge in the space ring would disrupt its functioning and would stop counting the kills, to make sure that would be the case, I threw it in my personal space.

After killing my first Tier-4 here, I took out the badge and checked it. The count didn't increase and the highest kill was that of Tier-3.

Knowing that it worked, I threw that back into my personal space and went on hunting more Tier-4 monsters.

I could kill Tier-5 but killing them would surely bring both the defenders and monsters attention on me. The highest monster here is a Tier-6 but there are only four as far as I can see and they are at the back of the battle and were doing nothing.

Well, I can't say that they were doing nothing, they were just ordering around other monsters. So the main concern of this tide was the Tier-5 monsters. If I kill them, I would be noticed. Even though my badge would not show the kills, killing a Tier-5 and attracting everyone's attention is suicide.

Though nothing would happen to me at this monster tide but my fame would be spread too much and that would bring the attention of the evil people, who like to kill or experiment on geniuses.

If that happens, my family would be implicated too. That is not a good thing.

So I decided not to be greedy and stick to killing Tier-4 monsters only.

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Roar!

Huh, wait, did I hear the roars from the rear?

Did I hear a monster roar from the inside of the town?

Oh, shit, we are so fucked.