Going through another slight wardrobe change, Grugo set off for glory, and another attempt at training dragons. This one went slightly better than the previous efforts:
He also talked to the Tinkerer guy and bought a pet saddlebag off him:
Always keep your tigers properly saddled, folks.
Now, despite his best efforts, Grugo still didn’t have all the swords in the game yet. In the hopes of adding another one to his collection, he joined a bunch of other adventurers in raiding the local pirate syndicate. He opened a treasure chest and found…
…an accordion.
Then he killed a giant crab and got…
…another accordion.
But third time’s the charm. This time when he killed a crab, it gave him the thing:
"And it’s even an enchantable one!’ Grugo shouted triumphantly.
“They all do that now you idiot” replied another adventurer, clearly annoyed by their own lack of cutlass.
“Oh. Yay anyways!”
Then Grugo got another blueprint:
Running around the Realm later, Grugo faced many of the toughest challenges that Oryx could muster. Cube Gods were easy enough. Rock Dragons were manageable. But he had to admit that the Kogbold Expeditionary Sentry was a little much:
Then he got another OSanc blueprint:
The OSanc white:blueprint ratio is now 2:6!
Then he fought Oryx 3 with a bunch of his friends. Someone decided to funny Oryx when he was just trying to smash everyone to pieces, and then a whole lot of people made some very poor life choices:
Well, so much for them. Grugo carried on with life, and decided to try his hand at The Shatters. He hadn’t made it past the Bridge Sentinel before, but maybe this time would be different.
It was different! Despite the chaos on a pogo stick that was the first boss, Grugo dodged enough of the bullets to survive! Then he ran forward with his friends to confront the Twilight Archmage and his friends. But before they could get there, one of the stone guys in the dungeon rushed at the group and tried to kill Grugo’s friends. Rather incensed by this, Grugo pulverized the dude and was richly rewarded:
Invincibility armor number two!
Then Grugo navigated the fun of the second boss with his companions and somehow made it through! He got his first point towards an attack exaltation, and a robe:
Time to make this a 3/3 on bosses!
Unsurprisingly, Grugo had to nexus partway through the fight. But with an awesome new armor and some newfound confidence, he had found the whole experience quite worthwhile.