Brief Ark Spoilers 7-8

Thanks to turtle for everything. This isn't really contributing, but i'll give a brief spoiler to what happens.

So the pioneers end up trying to kill Ark. Mainly because I guess they can use it as some form of a threat so they can force Ark to hand over the ability to siege Alan. And more than likely its petty revenge from the two that lost during the tournament.

So from here on out we find that Alan has not been needed to compete in any sieges because another group has been eliminated the competition. We find out the other shadowy group is Andel, but most of us would suspect this anyway.

Ark manages to make a tentative peace agreement with the pioneer's he'll give them 30% cut of the Castle. He also manages to get the backing of some other guilds two of which are seen as competition to the pioneer guild.

One of the agreements for the backing is he would eliminate the group that has been killing the guilds who manage to get rights to the siege.

So he sets up a trap and manages to hilariously own Andel. Justiceman also gets a title which gives him perks and helps with the carnage. Andel invades and walks into a trap the house or building or hut or whatever you call it has traps set up designed and led by Justiceman. The building is pretty much on fire and Andel gets bombarded by the raccoons/renovated thieves with cannons.

During the siege the alliance is pretty much retarded. They rush and attack the castle and its fortifications even though ARK warned them not too. Ark already experienced what kind of AoE abilities Alan had, but they didn't listen. As they start losing Roco tells Ark about a movie she recently watched and from that he got the inspiration to burrow holes with the raccoons to attack the bunker fortifications. Hilarity ensures. People in bunkers and towers are confused and they get wrecked by blade storm.

Midbattle because Ark gets desperate and his forces are dying he manages to get a two new skills and title. The skill is pretty weird it redistributes all the potions in his bag and gives it to his allies and buffs them too. His healing skill becomes seriously game-breaking. The other skill is blackmailing. Its amusing how he ends up using it on everyone. Its a debuff and it also works on his pets. The ballistas break down so ARK comes up with a scheme to overcharge the pioneers to fix them with his raccons.

After the finally breech the castle they finally manage reach Alan. Alan has his op forcefield again. After some maneuvering he manages to kill Alan, but its still too early to celebrate. With something around 12 mins remaining the pioneer guild leader decides to betray Ark (go figure) and take everything for himself. Little does he know Ark has a skill that turns him invincible to physical damage for 10 mins.

Ark gains control kicks them out of the castle and waits and cries and realizes he won't be able to use any of the gold as most of it ends up being distributed to fix the castle, pay salaries vice versa. I think it stated he'd get a salary in the end of something like 2-6k depending on the excess.

During the battle with Alan snake develops a new skill and finds a item. Apparently Alan can copy skills from other classes or something but at a 70% restriction on how powerful it is. Alan also had some holy knight backup during the siege, which isn't allowed.

Ark ends up finding the dungeon that Alan was secretly keeping to himself. Discovers the secret of the dungeon. Alan's benefactor gets demoted/exiled or whatever. Alan is on the run demoted to chaotic with a bounty on his head and Ark start's his revenge.

So because after a week Ark would need to defend the castle he decides he would rather sell than keep it. Ark can give away the rights if he wants too. Oh yeah he frees Sid, but sid is pretty much a wage slave until he pays back Ark what he owns and interest.

The pioneers showed Ark that there are loop holes with the game system and the reformed thieves/ justiceman group have people with special skills that let them trick and forge he uses that to his advantage. All the money that is used for keeping the castle working is given to the NPCs/ redistributed. He does this for two reasons one is because hes going to screw over the pioneer guild leader the second is because it will make the NPCS really happy and if they hate the new guy they would flock to lancel village.

So the deal with the pioneer guild leader is simple. He'll fork over 6k gold and Ark will hand over the contract. Hes like he can only do 3k + contract. Ark is like screw you. You've screwed me over too many times I'm not falling for that. I think he changes it to something like 4k + the archer guy's shoes. You know the one where he can slide.

So Ark gets what he wants. The archer guy gets screwed over. And when the Pioneer guy gets his lordship hes all happy. Thats right until the moment where the npc butler tells him how they are in a deficit. He realizes Ark screwed him badly. He said he'll get his revenge or something in the later future. Ark manages to level himself with his group in the secret dungeon too.

Oh right and the company who was giving the test starts to freak out. Because a whole lot of data starts pouring out and Ark who originally was part of the throwaway list managed to dethrone Alan. So now hes under observation.
Volume 8 will be brief.

Alan is on the run. Ark starts going after him revenge/bounty. Alan contacts the dark brotherhood he wants to get assassins to kill Ark. Shambala appears! Yeah! I like Shambala.

So the Dark Brotherhood that we know is actually like a renegade sect of Shambala's. For his profession class he needs to exterminate them, rescue someone and unite the Dark Brotherhood something like that.

I've skipped quite a few things. After Ark sneak attacks the Dark Brotherhood with his group he starts chasing Alan all over the place until he finally sees Shambala. Shambala is  fighting against the Dark Brotherhood boss. With their combination skills they manage to bring down the boss. Uh I think it says something about Shambala becomes the leader of the dark brotherhood or something so now they no longer want to kill Ark. Apparently the NPC Shambala needed to save was like a beauty and Ark made fun of him for that. Shamabala complete's his job questline!

Shambala decides not to fight Ark anymore and give him the part for the quest because Ark showed off his slime skill. So Shambala has a skill that lets him make scrolls. Ark realizes that he can actually sell the slime immortal pill so a weird trade partnership happens between the Dark Brotherhood and Lancel village.

So what happened to Alan? Apparently his class wasn't Holy Knight. His class is actually Dark Knight or something. In prison his benefactor visits him again and tells him that the moment he laid eyes on Alan he knew Alan was one of them. So the archbishop was actually part of a Dark Sect of the holy knights. The necklace given to Alan reacted to Alan's hatred to Ark. Hatred is actually a state and Alan changes class.

Ark goes back to hunting and does his next quest. The item he got from the fire guy during the defense of Jackson Castle. And Andel's contact finally found where Ark lives and what not.

The summaries are brief I skipped out on a lot of stuff. The Dark Knight thing seems pretty tense. Ironic how all of this could have been evaded if Alan wasn't a dick and jailed Sid. Archbishop seems like the new "big bad".