The new dungeon, Forest of Decay, had just opened. When Ryan woke up and logged into the game, the news reached him almost instantly.
The night before, during the Flight Point Battle, his small guild—backed only by a handful of independent players—had managed to capture the Flight Point while being swarmed by over a hundred Dark Horde members. Their improbable victory had quickly spread across the server.
Ryan had logged off right after the battle to rest, while others went back to grinding at the Elemental Portal. It was an efficient spot: not only did it yield a large amount of experience, but it also produced plenty of Elementium. By the time he returned, the guild's reserves had climbed past fifty stacks. With two hundred pieces in a stack, that meant more than ten thousand Elementium. Impressive, but still nowhere near enough to outfit a full forty-man raid.
