The Tales of Draconic Warlock

We were screwed at the highest level.

Those were roars of monsters coming from the rear and that means there are monsters in the town.

How did they enter the town without completely breaking the defence lines that we had laid out to stop them?

There is only one answer and that is Underground Monsters.

Now that those monsters became part of the tide, then anyone would say that we are utterly screwed.

Even though I have sensory skills, it would be quite difficult with too many magic skills flying around. There are many who are using Earth magic. Unless they have an affinity with Earth element, it would be difficult to differentiate between who is who.

This makes it very difficult for me to understand where the underground monsters are.

If there were no people around, maybe it may be easy, though never verified, as I never went to the areas that are famous for underground monsters.

I read them about in books though. There is a separate section about these monsters in the Nexus library, though that was not the case in my family's library nor in the academy's library.

Speaking of libraries, there are a few more books that I have yet to read in the academy's library. Though the students have access to all books, they restricted them by dividing the books into two parts.

The first part was accessible to students from year one to year three. Only year four and five students can access all books.

When I was in my first year, I completed most of the books from the first part. After completing that I forgot about that. As I spent most of the fourth year at first to relax and then to improve after the bad news from Angela, I had no time to read those books.

I should read them before the year is over.

There are a lot of books in Nexus than there are in the academy but those books are written in a time long before now. Sure, much of what existed back then was far advanced than now but much of the knowledge worked during those times.

Much has changed by now and some wouldn't be the best ways as they used to be. So, it's best to learn modern knowledge in addition to ancient knowledge.

I could use whatever was needed, whenever that was needed, making the best use of everything that is available to me.

Wait, why am I speaking about libraries and books?

Damn, my mind did that again.

What I should be concentrating on should be the underground monsters that were able to gain access to the rear of the frontline and into the town.

Now that the town was breached, we are royally fucked up.

In the front, there are monsters that were fighting all this time. Now there are underground monsters that entered the town. The real problem was not those underground monsters, as they usually don't come out to fight.

The problem was the tunnels that they made, which would make it possible for monsters to enter the town without fighting the frontline. Once that happens, we will be facing attacks from both sides.

The ones on that, who would be facing this new attack front, are not warriors who would fight the monsters in close range. They are long-range attackers and once those monsters reduce the distance between them and us to zero, we long-range attackers are fucked up, especially archers.

Mages, Warlocks etc... who use magic skills would have some defence skills or teleportation skills which are far more powerful than what Archers could get from the market.

This is why I say they are more fucked up than us.

Hmm, thinking about defence skills, I don't have any either. Except for a Mind Defence skill and a few resistances, I never learned anything else related to defence.

Until now, I never needed them. Since most of the time I spent at home or at the academy, I felt quite safe. Even though I went out for a few missions, since no one knows my true power and has no reason to doubt that I am not Tier-2, I had it simple.

I didn't take missions that could cause damage to me, until now.

Even when faced with all those monsters in the Nexus training halls, I didn't think about getting a defence skill as I was never in danger in there.

Even if I wanted them, it was not easy to get hands-on defence skills as they are very much in demand. Out of all the divisions of skills known, the highest demand for skills belongs to the defence category skills.

What most people want is to live longer and enjoy it, when compared to killing others.

Unless they are someone who is sadistic and just wants to kill others just because they feel like it, most people wouldn't choose the option of killing at first.

So defence skills are pretty much in demand, as they would save your life, which is most people's first concern. This makes it almost impossible to get them.

Once they appear, they would disappear as if they never appeared.

As soon as anyone hears that a defence skill is up for selling, many would swarm that area, trying their luck to buy that, but even such scenarios are very low.

The only chance one could have defence skills was if they were able to gain them through their luck or if their families had such a skill in vaults.

Yeah, unless there was a need, no one would be stupid enough to sell a defence skill. Most of the time, they are exchanged for some other skill or resource that was not easy to find. Gold would never be an option in situations like that.

I was neither lucky enough to find a defence skill nor there is such a skill in my family's vault. I mean there could be a defence skill in the family clan's vault but I am sure that my parents don't have one.

Those skills are usually reserved for clan heirs or talented youngsters. I am not the heir nor have I shown them my talents, making me an average one who is good enough. Continue reading at m|v-l'e m,p| y- r

Luckily, I have Evasion skills, which would be very useful in a few minutes.