Free Resurgence: The Rise of Resurgence Book 1 by Joshua W. Nelson Page A

incapacitate or kill a child. Slaughter these beasts and return to me when you have completed the job.”
    A quest window appeared in my screen and I saw that I needed to kill ten bunnies before I could return to Sir Kenyon. However, once I hit the accept button the new number was a group number. And we had to kill forty bunnies. This was an easy way to ensure that one did not get their kill count and leave before the rest of the group succeeded in attaining their goals as well. Once we had all accepted, and were enveloped by the same shimmering light we had seen earlier, we made for the front gate where our journey would begin.
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    “So you thought, what, that you would just get this done and over with and pull all forty at the same time?” I asked a bit exasperated.
    Dan laughed and said, “Nah man, believe it or not, I totally had a plan. See, I went and aggro’ed my first rabbit, and then had him attacking me for a bit. With my Agility I was able to avoid a few of its hits. Then I ran around and collected a whole bunch more mobs. Then ran to the guards,” he explained.
    “And the point of that was?” Wayne asked.
    “I know exactly where that first rabbit came from, bro. Now when it respawns I will be able to bring it, and only it, for our first fight. The others won’t respawn before I am able to grab it and bring it back. I can’t do this every time, but at least for our first kill we will get to do it as a single mob,” Dan said.
    We all looked at each other and it was Jason, who grudgingly said, “Damn it Dan! That’s brilliant. I hate that you have these moments of total awesomeness.”
    Dan beamed from Jason’s praise. Wayne and I just laughed. Dan headed back out to the field to get ready for the respawn of the rabbit and to bring our first mob to kill as a group. “Look sharp everyone. Obviously there won’t be any heals coming. Wayne establishes aggro and after he engages for five seconds we will jump in. If the rabbit turns to attack you just stop attacking. Don’t run. Give Wayne a chance to reestablish aggro,” I ordered.
    Wayne asked, “How about you give me 10 seconds Alex, since this Rusted War Hammer is a little slow?”
    “Sounds good Wayne. Now everyone get ready, here comes Dan.”
    “The group function on this game is really cool man. Even out there in the field I could hear your orders Alex. Oh yeah, incoming!” Dan yelled.
    Dan ran past Wayne and brought the rabbit immediately into his line of sight. Wayne didn’t waste any time and swung his hammer at the rabbit. It immediately stopped in front of Wayne and began attacking me. I had seen the rabbits running around but this was the first time I had seen one up close. I had focused on the rabbit and my RAC designated it as my target. Above its head was the name Venomous Bunny Rabbit and the name was shaded blue. This meant that the mob was probably a level or two above my own, so level 2 or 3. I was guessing here, but I was figuring AltCon was using a standard means for classifying mobs by color code. Green was at least two levels below you, white was at your level, blue was one or two levels above you, yellow was three or four, and red was five and above. After 10 seconds, with the rabbit’s hit points slightly going down and Wayne’s descending a bit faster, Wayne made the call. “Engage!”
    Dan, Jason, and I went behind the Venomous Bunny Rabbit and began swinging our weapons. I only had the one dagger, Jason had his mace, and Dan was slightly behind us shooting arrows. Each of my strikes was doing 5-10 damage. But the rabbit’s hit points were going down at a much faster rate. After just 15 more seconds, the rabbit died and we all cheered. We must have looked like complete idiots jumping around and high fiving each other around a rabbit corpse. “The honor is yours Alex,” Jason said.
    As the leader of the group I was also the master looter for each mob. This meant I would inspect the rabbit to see if it had any