- Chapter Twenty Six -

We all must have gotten a morale boost from seeing Thor because everyone began kicking ass after his guild joined the fight.

As welcoming as it was, my attention was drawn to a pitch black creature following one of Thor's guild mates. As soon as it saw Sampson, it shot up into the air and they seemed to start circling one of the wolves.

"Another gryphon!?" I thought excitedly.

I was right. The sound of dual whistles filled the room, then both gryphons slammed into the wolf they were circling. It instantly vanished leaving only the shadows of the birds as they flew back up in unison.

That freed up A LOT of man power to focus on the last 3 giant wolves while we started taking out the remaining 11 that just spawned.

Thor had 3 archers in his guild and they quickly joined Parks, Callisto and Ivy giving us much needed suppressive fire.

Within a few minutes we were down to 4 unevolved wolves and the floor boss remaining. They all tried the whole "glowing blue eyes and growing" trick again but Freya and Gojira's parties were on top of them before they even grew an inch.

Thad's and my parties along with Thor and his guild went after the boss. All 6 archers opened up a can of whoop ass on it while our swords, battle axes and war hammers crashed into it all at once.

Both gryphons clamped down on its back and with one final blow from Thad, it finally exploded into those beautiful blue shards.

"Congratulations!" Was shown spread across the room. Everyone went wild, cheering and high fiving. Level up notifications showed on everyone's status bars which only intensified the cheering.

I ran over to Thor who was in the middle of high fiving one of his guild mates and bear hugged him.

We both fell to the ground laughing. Thad walked over and effortlessly picked us both up. Patting Thor on the back he said, "Didn't think I'd ever be this happy to see you."

Thor smiled and put a hand on my shoulder, "Well I couldn't just let my new friends go and die on me."

Everyone laughed. Ronin walked up and put an arm around Thad. "So, what was the last attack bonus? You got it right?" He asked with a smile.

I remembered the dagger I saw sticking out of the boulder and turned to check if it were still there.

"Medai's Dagger." Thad said, pulling it out of his inventory.

It was a blue and silver dagger with absolutely amazing stats. A white wolf was engraved into the blade and I'm fairly certain it was Steelfang. Thad studied it for a minute, then 2 message notification sounds dinged. One came from Thor, and the other from Callisto.

They both opened and read the messages. Suddenly, all happiness drained from their faces. Callisto looked at Thor, "Flynn?" He asked. Thor nodded.

I could see the muscles in Thor's arm tense as he gripped his hammer in anger.

"What the fuck happened?" I asked them both. "And who's Flynn?"

Callisto was the first to answer, "Flynn is a member of Aeroguard. Milo's older brother."

"Ok, so he's another asshole. So what?" I spat.

"He's nothing like his brother." Thor replied. "Apparently the Blue Diamond guild found the boss room earlier this morning."

Callisto interrupted, "Flynn says Milo convinced them to start it without us. Probably because Blue Diamond recruits almost anyone. They have over 40 members already."

Everyone gasped.

"You can't be fucking serious." Thad said, raising his hands in protest. "And they're starting the raid without a strategy, why? Because Milo has a personal vendetta against us?"

"Probably so." Thor replied.

"That fucking fuck needs his ass whooped!" Yelled Parks and everyone yelled in agreement.

"We can't just let them go in there and die." I said, raising my voice over the uproar.

Everyone went silent. I got a few nods of agreement from Thad and Callisto. Thor on the other hand was still furious.

"He told me they wouldn't raid the floor boss without us." He said, looking at me with rage.

"He probably found out you came to help us." Ronin replied. "Either that or he's just a lying piece of shit. And I'm leaning more towards that."

I turned to Thor and said, "Sounds like you have some questions that need answering."

He looked at me for a few more seconds and nodded then turned to his guild, "Everyone get ready to move out. We have somewhere to be." He then turned back to us and asked, "Y'all coming?"