Getting deeper into the forest, the Troll's stench became much more apparent from it's lack of hygiene, smelling to something akin to dung and rotten corpses.
Normally a smell of this calibur would force almost any combatant or civilian to flee in the other direction but for Seto, this was just another day walking through the usualy shit. The smell reminded him so much of death and disease from his time in Iraq where death and disease were common place so playing a game with similar circumstances If you could even compaire the two, didn't bother him much like it bothered many players. Along the beaten path, Seto could help but be in awe slightly as entire trees laid near the road, completely ripped out of the ground, such strength could kill them with ease he thought as he looked at an ancient oak tree ripped from it's sacred spot where it probably had lived for decades. His meaning thoughts of the tree's were stopped when Cain decided to speak again, about the Trolls again, not knowing the weakness's of such a beast and how to take it down. He made the statement as well he was in a way a buffer, a support clase that could eliminate his debuff's and give him some passive bonuses, besides Sola's healing, that could prove extremely useful to him.
"That is very good to know Cain, than I can rely opon and appreciate you and your abilities just as I can with Sola....even If she drives me insane."
iiiiiii He sighed a little just thinking of that, Sola was useful as a healer of course but anyone that knew her, himself included knew she didn't have the capacity for tactics or strategy, it was simply against her nature which was something he never understood. She always wants to be where the fighting is thickest and fight on the front yet she wants to be a healer, when would she learned she won't be able to do either skillfully?. He dropped those thoughts for now, returning to the subject at hand he was speaking to, looking back at Cain, he chose to give him an insight as well to tell him the same so they could work better together when shit started to hit the fan.
"Being that....of a Dark Knight and Samurai mixed, it's safe to assume I control the taboo Dark Magic's at my finger tips. You can like or dislike it If you wish, it matter little to me, morality means nothing on the battlefield and If I can wield it as a weapon against our enemies so be it. Dark Magic in the way I have developed it compared to my.....mentor in a way is a double edge sword. I have attacks that deal pure dark damage but I also have spells that drain the life force and energy of other and is able to asorb it into my own body as well as a few other spells. Being of a Knight or Samurai origins, I am adapt as well in swordmenship and defending although honestly they could be significantly altered If I simply increased the mastery with my points earned. The last mastery I have which is also I am Adapt in is Arcanamancy, unforunetely I have not developed my Arcana abilities with it besides having created two powerful ray attacks that requires a large amount of energy so I doubt I'll be using them, I can also teleport too but that was given. Despite all that If you ask me, I will most likely acting as a tank in the early engagement to make sure you guy's don't die, late game I'll probably be switching roles to DPS If I my life force isn't drained badly, hopefully Sola wil keep alive long enough this time around."
After he paused himself from talking, trying to think what next to say, Cain decided to counterattack him with a assortment of words, this time in the form of a plan he wanted to propose. As Cain began to explain, Seto gave him his full attention, listening closely Cain began to tell him a prolonged battle would be a disadvantage, that was obivous being it was a Troll, His plan was to ambush the beast after luring it into a certain beast where he could stab the beast in the heart. He had thought of that but that would probed far more challenging and dangerous than one might think. Cain had also mentioned mages skilled in the art of fire but being in a dry forest, that would not end well at all. When Cain threw a comment at Sola, he couldn't but chuckle a little bit.
"Oooh Cain, you don't know Sola as well as I do, given the chance, she jump into the fray, especially if someone could die, just watch, it's something you see from one of those horrible romance movies on TV."
Turning serious again after his little outburst, he return to look at Cain to answer him about his plan.
"I had thought of that cain but that will prove challenging to say at the least, besides Sola might die as well due to her how she does things. I am open to the idea, am willing to try, dangerous things don't exactly scare me or make me hesitate when something needs to be done, I can't say the same for many players, many haven't experienced battle or seen what death does to a person, am already used to such things so don't worry about me mentally, leave that to sola."
Seto had almost completely forggoten Sylpha was still present with hem, being quiet and reserve until she reminded him and Can she was still there behind them when she finally spoke up. Seto turned his head over his shoulder, wanting to listen to Sylpha as she told him and Cain that her speciality at the moment was Arcanamancy despite the fact she told the two she wasn't skilled in it yet. He shrugged his shoulders, he didn't care right now, she choose to volunteer for a battle that could very well kill her, he take what he could get!
"Doesn't matter Sylpha, you still choose to volunteer yourself for such a dangerous task, that's more than good enough for me at the moment. Since am most likely going to be a tank, Cain going to a buffer, Sola is gonna be the healer......until she feels she can attack and Gil probably going to be a DPS, If you want, you can stand from far firing off Acane blast to provide cover fire, you may not be skilled yet with it but at least it's something."
Despite his praise if you could it that, Sylpha simply went quiet as she usually did. He wanted her to be more lively but that would be against her nature so to say so Seto gave up, turning his attention back to the road and chatting with Cain If he chose to talk once more. After walking down the dirt road for another ten minutes, the destruction of the forest became mure evident than before, the stench was almost unbareable even to him, gasping for air for a moment after taking it in for the first time. Grabbing ahold of his senses once more, he contiuned down the path once more with the group until a few hundred feet away, the ground began to shake as the sounds of thumping feet came from the tree's, hiding the Troll's presence. Infront of them however was almost a dozen of player corpses, he didn't know for a fact If they were players but considering their armor was different than NPC's, he figured it was players. The corpses were in some of the worst considitions he had ever seen in his life, even when he was a soldier, many of the corpses were ripped in half, limbs were missing with their entrails everywhere with the blood decorating many of the shurbs, tree's and evn portions of the road where they wre fately wounded with some even melted from ascid. In the corner of his eye, he saw a woman laying against a tree cladd in steel armor with a katana, opon close inspection she was still alive, that scene reminded him so much of what happened with Sola all those months ago when she was new, he was nearly in the same situation as her. Walking over to the woman, he examined her, her body as well was nearly ripped in half, he wasn't sure how she was keeping herself togethr, her ribs must have been smashed to pieaces, even with her armor hiding it, she was a mess as the blood guhsed out from her plates to the point she laid in her own blood. Kneeling on one leg to her level, the women using all her energy to look at Seto.
