BXBX NOVEL Chapter 39: This… Is Ours
[Kill-Reward: 7 Exp]
[You have gained Skill Exp]
[Kill-Reward: 7 Exp]
[You have gained Skill Exp]
[You have received a bonus of 100 Exp]
*[Nyx has received 50 Exp]
[Nyx has leveled Up!]
[Nyx is now Level 5]
[Nyx's Hit Point Maximum increased to 80]
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[Name: Nyx]
[Creature: Horse]
[Breed: Valaeren Racehorse]
[Level 5 (Must Evolve)]*
[Hit Points: 80/80]
[Strength: 40 ———> 45]
[Speed: 80 ———> 90]
[Stamina: 35 ———> 40]
*[Nyx has reached the limit of advancement her unevolved species allows. To advance further and Level Up, she must step onto the Evolutionary Path.]
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Henry frowned at the message at the bottom of Nyx's Stat screen that he had not even called up,
''Evolutionary Path' again? I don't even know what it means,' he thought.
[You have received an Evolutionary Quest]
[Evolutionary Quest: Nyx
Quest Condition: Acquire an ingredient that can allow your tamed horse to break through the cage that is her limitations. The more magical and Evolution-friendly the ingredient, the better.
Reward: Nyx gets to evolve.]
Henry's frown did not relax because the sudden Quest and its conditions were not all that clear. What ingredient did he even have to acquire? The System did not make clear.
Oh well, even if the System had shut down further advancements until he acquired the mysterious required ingredient, Henry at least delighted in Nyx's current stats.
With Stats like hers, he was confident in a face-off against another Vyker duo like Rena and Urn.
With one hand patting Nyx's neck almost absentmindedly while she harrumphed with affection, Henry waved the holographic screen away from the front of his face and cast his eyes down at the battle down below.
Down in the Langlot base, the death of two members in broad daylight roused every member of the gang to action and when they heard the sounds of rushing horse hooves coming at their base, they began to yell for cover and to strike down their attackers.
Henry had to squint a bit but he was able to see Charles leading the charge with a lit dynamite in hand and he watched as he tossed the dynamite at a cabin resulting in an explosive *Bang* that sent Langlot gang members jumping to safety with some even sporting injuries on various body parts.
They were ripe for the picking then as Triss and Stefan, on horseback, raised their repeaters and fired multiple rounds and put an end to their miseries.
Devon charged into the base with his large horse and got very close to a Langlot gang member before pointing his shotgun at his head and firing a powerful shot that split the victim's head open.
As the blood and brain matter splattered and even splashed onto his gun, Devon just grinned with an almost sadistic delight before pointing his shotgun at another Gang member and firing another head-shattering shot.
Dana was only a few feet away from him, still on horseback, with her repeater pointed to gun down any Langlot gang member that aimed a gun at their human-Half-orc duo.
Tony had a rifle in hand and was the only one to get off the back of his horse to kick in the side door of a cabin and engage in an intense battle with three gang members taking cover to fire.
One pointed a gun at him and Tony smacked the gun's barrel aside so the fired shot hit another Langlot gang member instead. Two quick-fire shots after and two more Gang members fell.
The last one in the cabin got kicked in the jaw which sent him toppling out of the Cabin window where he received a sniper shot to the head that killed him instantly.
"I had that, Henry," Tony said through gritted teeth even though Henry was not close enough to hear.
[Kill-Reward: 7 Exp]
[You have gained Skill Exp]
[You have received a bonus of 50 Exp]
Henry had a small smile on his face as he moved his scope from the gang member he killed and found himself another target among a group at the very end of the base, who had their guns pointed at Triss and Stefan.
The brother-Sister duo shot a good few of them already but Henry managed to put a sniper shot into the head of one gang member.
[Kill-Reward: 7 Exp]
[You have gained Skill Exp]
[You have received a bonus of 50 Exp]
Finally, once he had reloaded the sniper rifle, Henry looked through the scope at the Langlot base boundaries and saw a duo of gang members that had quickly abandoned the fight and were escaping into the thicket of trees.
The trees gave them cover from the gang who were busy at the time but it didn't keep them from Henry's sight enhanced by the sniper scope and with two shots, he ended their escape attempts.
[Kill-Reward: 7 Exp]
[You have gained Skill Exp]
[Kill-Reward: 7 Exp]
[You have gained Skill Exp]
[You have received a bonus of 100 Exp]
And just like that, the eradication of unsuspecting gang members ended as quickly as it had begun.
Henry grabbed Nyx's reins and directed her to ride into the Langlot base where the others were getting off their horses and charging into the cabins to find anything of value they could scavenge away.
On his way, Henry made sure to tap the loot button once he was close enough to the lookouts he had sniped earlier.
[You have looted 100 Verlans]
[You have looted 80 Quids]
[You have looted 1 Repeater Ammo box (x20 bullets]
[You have looted 1 Revolver Ammo box (x15 bullets]
[You have looted 150 Verlans]
[You have looted 120 Quids]
[You have looted one Rifle Ammo box (x20 bullets]
Once Nyx crossed the boundary line into the base proper, Henry got out of the saddle and roamed about the grounds littered with the bodies of the dead, clicking the Loot button and calling all remedial wealth into his Inventory.
[You have looted 200 Verlans]
[You have looted 800 Quids]
[You have looted one Revolver Ammo box (x15 bullets]
[You have looted 1 Repeater Ammo box (x20 bullets]
[You have looted 300 Verlans]
[You have looted 500 Quids]
[You have looted one Revolver Ammo box (x15 bullets]
[You have looted one Rifle Ammo box (x20 bullets]
[You have looted 150 Verlans]
[You have looted 600 Quids]
[You have looted one Revolver Ammo box (x15 bullets]
[You have looted 1 Repeater Ammo box (x20 bullets]
[You have looted 250 Verlans]
[You have looted 700 Quids]
[You have looted one Revolver Ammo box (x15 bullets]
[You have looted one Rifle Ammo box (x20 bullets] …
There were at least 20 bodies in the base and when all the money Henry had gotten from them all was piled together and added to what he already had in his Inventory, his current wealth was;
'9,700 Verlans and 11,000 Quids. With 100 Quids to a Verlan, this is not enough to pay off my debt to Elminster but it's not a bad haul, overall.'
It was then that Charles and Stefan walked out of the largest cabin with a chest in between them,
"We found what the scumbags had stashed away," Stefan announced with a grin on his handsome face.
The gang gathered as Charles and Stefan put the chest down and pried it open with a knife to reveal valuables like rings and bracelets that could sell for a good bit of money and also, a substantial wad of Verlans.
"This…" Charles said as he held up the wad of cash and looked into everyone's eyes one at a time, "… is ours."
They all knew what that meant.
They were not giving to the Gang collective. Not out of this money at least. They were going to share it right here and now and that would be the end of it.