Ibro again displayed the prompt and read it carefully for unknown number of times. This was real! The game sat a trap for him and fell in it like a fool! Now he had no time to waste. Previously he was afraid to lose one use of his legendary scroll, but now he was about to lose it all. He was no longer thinking of destroying any other strongholds, as he moved in in the shortest road to the novice village. As soon as he approached the outer border of the leveling areas, he was completely amazed by the sight that awaited him. As far as his eye could see, there were dense clusters of monsters. This horrible sight made him feel hopeless. How should he cross these monsters to reach the village? He now stood near an area that was once filled with ninth and tenth level monsters. This meant that the entire surrounding of the village was filled with these invaders. He turned around then looked at his remaining time of this crazy quest. Almost a quarter of an hour had passed since he heard the prompt and moved out until he reached here.  If he continued to wait in his place like this, he would lose more time. He looked at his Inventory again to find that, apart from that legendary scroll, he had absolutely nothing to help him get past these monsters. He gnashed his teeth in anger and decided, he would never lose this scroll completely due to this plot against him! He always heard about players, NPCs or even legendary monsters would set traps for players, but this was his first time ever hearing a game conspire against a player! That drove him insane! He looked at the monsters around him and used his skill to know their levels. He found out that they were a strange mixture of monsters who had destroyed their strongholds before and monsters he had never heard of. Their levels were around levels 10 to 13. He moved slowly, trying to take the trees as his cover until he penetrated a long distance in the middle of this huge amount of monsters. He began to think about his next step and began to carefully note the movements of the monsters. Monsters in the game usually moved in a fixed pattern, and he tried to discover that pattern. After ten minutes of focused observation, he finally discovered the pattern for each type of monster. He picked out the highest monster in the level from those surrounding him. It was Rosar monster of the fourteenth level.  He used his skill to flip him and made him be his ally for 20 seconds. Rosar coup caused a fuss among the monsters around it, so most of the monsters in the area focused on it, trying to kill it. Ibro took advantage of this opportunity to quickly run past the tenth and ninth level maps to reach the eighth and seventh level maps. He waited for a minute, until he can use his skill again. Then he repeated it more than once. He was not successful every time, as sometimes he was obstructed in his path by a group of monsters running towards the raging monster. After about an hour had passed, he was able to finally approach the village to the point that he was able to see its walls in front of his sight. This time, he stopped using his skill. The number of monsters in front of him made him unable to use this skill effectively. He pauses for a while, trying to figure out a way to get through this huge crowd of monsters. What worried him most was the presence of more monsters inside the village, and these monsters were the croup of the cream.  Their levels and grades should exceed all those he met so far. This made him believe that he wouldn’t be able to pass one step from the gate before being killed. If he failed to reach the Village Centre, he would not be able to free it from the grip of the monsters.

“What if you crossed them and liberated the village from them then they attacked again? I will not be able to protect this novice village against this fierce attack from all those monsters on my own. This is a brutal scheme of the game, how can one player defend an entire novice village?!! Did I make this game very angry because I got that legendary scroll? But wasn’t it the same game that gave this scroll to me in the first place? What is going on?”

This was his thoughts during his fight with the monsters. This game may have noticed its rapid growth and his acquisition of many killing cards early on, so it might now try to undermine his progress forward. The strangest thing was that he never heard something like that before from this game in his past or even from any other VR games. This was a must die scheme and this scheme was succeeding till now! Its first success was to reduce his high level, which had previously reached the twelfth level. Now he was at the eleventh level and soon he will be at the zero level if he does not achieve that impossible mission. He believed that the game was putting him in a difficult test, either to choose to lose his legendary scroll or to lose everything. He returned to look at the crowded monsters around him to have more and more anger. He grabbed the legendary scroll and looked at its stats. The info he read made him regret losing this scroll especially that he didn’t know how to get another one later on. He had no other choice but to use it. Before his hands moved to open it, an idea came to his mind. He looked at the crowded monsters surrounding the novice village wall. He then slowly moved in a direction parallel to this wall. He didn't take a few minutes until he found himself opposite to the village gate. The gate was wide open or its two big doors might have been broken during the attack on the village. He looked seriously at this opened gate thinking hard about his new idea which was developed to a good plan, a plan that would not make him lose his scroll. The more he thought the more he got convinced about the high probability of success. He liked this plan as it would make him keep his scroll at the end. Then he tried to get as close as possible to the gate, taking advantage of a group of tall trees scattered near the wall. He tried to evade the monster herds as much as he could, but after his multiple attempts he only managed to travel a short distance of only two hundred meters. This put him about 600 meters away from the village gate. He stopped moving through the crowd of monsters and then began climbing a big tree behind which he was hiding. As soon as he rose for a distance of ten meters, he found a strong branch that could bear his weight and carried a large number of thinner branches completely covered with thick green leaves, and sat on it quietly, hiding behind a clump of green leaves watching the place around him. It was a good hiding spot. He took his time to calculate and revise his plan as he had only one chance, if he lost this chance he would be forced to follow the game scheme. He chose a place 50 meters away from him and facing the village gate, then he said whispering:

“Basic black blow skill”

His staff glowed to emit a black ray towards the spot he had chosen. He did not direct his skill towards a particular monster, but rather he chose a place that was somewhat empty of monsters. Once the dark ball was formed, chaos started to happen in the area inside and around this dark ball. Because he chose a spot opposite to the gate of the village, so the eyes of those inside began to focus on this ball. Seconds of extreme anxiety passed slowly and Ibro moved his eyesight from place to place rapidly seeing the effect of his skill on the wide field filled with monsters. He noticed finally big crowd of monsters from inside the village began to move towards this ball outside the village. The black ball only lasted for 10 seconds, but as soon as it ended, Ibro was ready so he whispered:

“Basic confusing skill”

This time, he picked a monster outside the village gate heading towards the black ball that had just disappeared. Due to his presence near the village gate, as soon as he was affected by Ibro skill, he began to attack those around him creating bigger chaos than what was caused by Ibro first skill. This chaos managed to ignite the dense of danger inside those in the novice village, as they thought that someone was attacking them. This was matching the steps of Ibro plan so far. Ibro heard a loud noise coming from the depths of the village to finally feel relieved. His plan started to show signs of success. This game wanted to set a trap for him, but now he would get out of it with the least possible losses. He wouldn’t stand still and do nothing to this game scheme. He preferred to die fighting rather than dying doing nothing at all. He waited for about two minutes, during which he used his first skill two times and his second skill many times to increase the number of the monsters crowded around the village. Major part of the new addition of monsters came from inside the village and small part came from the adjacent leveling zone. After he felt satisfied by the presence of a huge number of monsters intensively in the area around him, he took out the scroll of the Land of Fire and looked at it in grief. Even with his own scheme he had to use this scroll two to three times at least so he could escape this well planned trap from the game.

He opened it and then read the chants of the scroll. Ten seconds later, he found a large red dot appearing at his eyesight. He felt a connection between him and this dot. He tried to move it to find it following his mental instructions. He moved it as far as possible until it successfully crossed the village wall after which he lost his control. He now knew the range of the scroll. All magicians had a unique ability to feel the concentration of MANA in the space around them and could feel any subtle change to it. As soon as he lost control over the dot, it disappeared from his sight. Ibro felt a huge rise in MANA concentration in the area around him. He felt that he could touch MANA with his bare hands. Seconds did not pass until he felt a strange shiver of the branch that he was sitting on to find the whole area around him transformed into a sea of roaring fire as far as his eye can see. He felt so anxious as a pessimistic idea crossed his mind. Would his scroll affect him too? He did not know the answer, but he hoped that it would not affect him. The sudden appearance of the angry sea of ​​flames came to completely paralyze all inside and outside the village. All those affected by the flames showed large numbers of damage rising crazily from their heads. Within seconds, many monsters were lying on the raging fire ground. The duration of the scroll was two minutes, during which Ibro witnessed a huge number of monsters got burned in front of him and then fell on the ground accompanied by a series of annoying sounds of alarms about their massive deaths. Ibro did not know how many monsters there were in or around the village, but he knew very well that this fire was like a beacon that shone in the horizon to attract every monster to it. After the end of the destructive scroll, the flames suddenly disappeared as they appeared. Ibro looked around in disbelief to see the effects of this magnificent scroll. He was now more determined about not losing this scroll. Except for the bodies of the dead monsters, the whole area was covered in black charcoal and there was no sign of any monster in his eyesight. This was a scroll of mass destruction! Although there was no monster in his eyesight, he did not move a finger and remained hidden in his place, watching the whole area closely. Fortunately for him, the fire neither affected him nor the trees around him. A quarter of an hour passed until the area started to bustle again with monsters. This time it was a strange mix between monsters of the tenth level and the others from the fourteenth and fifteenth levels. He remained in his place patiently, observing the movement of monsters, which began examining the bodies of their fallen comrades with full concentration. Ibro knew that the level of intelligence of the monsters did not rise to the level of players or NPCs of the game, but those who underestimate them usually ended up in an unpleasant end. These monsters weren’t dump monsters like any other VR games. This was Rioneed and here everything was different. This time he relied on their intelligence to be able to reduce his losses. He kept a close watch on their movements and did nothing to find a group of them returning quickly inside the village. Sometimes doing nothing would be the greatest action from you. Ibro did not need to guess what they would do inside, as that was part of his big plan. They would go to bring up the rest of their commanders and their armies as reinforcements to search carefully about the real culprit behind this massacre. He was not disappointed, as they appeared after a while passing through the village gate, accompanied by a huge number of monsters. Ibro waited a little bit to make sure that all the monsters inside the village had exited it to be in his scroll scope. He looked again around this battle zone to find the monsters were still flowing from the remote areas outside the village. He didn’t rush to use his scroll and decided to wait a few minutes during which he felt that the flowing monsters were becoming scanty. He waited patiently as he aimed to use this scroll for the last time in this difficult quest. He looked at his watch and found that there was less than half an hour till the quest ended. Despite this, he waited patiently and did not move.