《True Identity》 Chapter 1 - “Hello, Are You There?”
Edited By: Tyhuko, Edet
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True Identity Chapter 1 - "Hello, Are You There? I love you James, please go out with me! Im sorry, I have no feelings for you. Sigh, thats the third confession this week. Ive gotten so many confessions throughout my high school career and its become so goddamn annoying. You would think after denying so many confessions, the girls in this school would get the idea that I wont go out with any of them. Everyone is so superficial, just because Im good looking, they start acting friendly towards me. And just because some of them are also kind of pretty, they expect me to like them back. Society is just so fucked up. Well whatever Ill just walk back to class now. IF I had the time and IF I were to even consider dating someone, they would have to actually know everything about me. Then, and only then could I accept them. I wont date someone just because they like my outward appearance. I think if people knew what my life was actually like, they would pity me and thats what I cant stand. Also, I dont think as many people would talk to me, wait that actually might be a good idea. Well whatever, in order to avoid people from feeling pity for me I put up a facade so nobody knows what my life is really like and how I really am. When I was 12 years old, my parents died in a plane crash. They were going on a trip for their anniversary and wanted to have some alone time. They left their 12 year old son and 11 year old daughter at home alone. But unfortunately there was a malfunction which caused the plane to crash when they were traveling to Japan. The search team never found the plane my parents were on. All we know is that the plane is somewhere in the pacific ocean. When my sister and I heard the news, my sister was crying so much while I didnt cry at all. At that moment, my life changed drastically and I decided that I would keep my promise to my parents. Before they left, my parents told me, Take care of your little sister while were gone James. I decided that I would keep that promise for the rest of my life. After the funeral, our grandmother, our last relative, decided to take care of us. She tried her best to take care of us. She did everything in her power to give us everything we wanted. But, unfortunately she also died last year because of old age. Now I have to keep the promise with my parents even more. When I got back to class my classmates were as noisy as ever. I walked back to my seat in the back corner near the windows. Usually theres a big group around my desk but luckily there was only my best friend Nick. How did it feel getting confessed to by Jenny, the 5th top rank beauty in our school James? Same as always, I rejected her. Come on man, when are you going to relax a little and actually go out with someone one of these days? You of all people should know why I dont want to relax a little Nick. Hmm, cause youre gay? NICK!! HAHAHA, Im just kidding James, calm down man. Unauthorized tale usage: if you spot this story on Amazon, report the violation. Nick is my childhood friend, he is one of the people who actually know about my situation. He used to be my neighbor when we were younger so we played together. Since he actually knows about my situation I consider him one of my true friends. Everyone else, well, I guess you could call them acquaintances. Oh yeah James, did you hear about the first virtual reality game coming out soon? Its called Absolute Authority. My friends and I plan to play together, you should join us. Umm, Ill think about it. I got to see if I can afford it in the first place. Oh come on man, you have been working so hard lately, I think your sister will understand you taking out a little money so you can buy the VR Headset. Its not a little money, the VR Headset is $1500, how is that a small amount? I could buy so much with that amount of money. Well I guess that true But think of it as an investment because you can also sell your items and gold for real money on the online auction. Then if you make good money out of the game, you can quit your job. What do you think? That sounds good, but you never know if I will actually make good money off the game. Well, whatever Ill think about it. Alright man, think about it. I have to go now since school just finished, talk to you later. Cya. I left the school and started walking to my job at the grocery store. Truthfully, I really wanted to play this new game but I have decided to restrain myself from buying it. The reason is, I dont even know if I will have enough time to play the game let alone afford buying it. Ive been so excited about this game for a long time and I basically know everything you can about this soon to be released game. Getting excited about the game just from thinking about it, I decided to listen to the GR radio station that is dedicated to video games. They were talking about how Absolute Authority or in short AA has 97% realism and how the game will be the best thing ever. Before going to an advertisement the radio station made an announcement. Important announcement everyone, everyone call the GR radio station right now! If youre the 1000th caller we will send you a VR headset and a copy of the game Absolute Authority once it comes out! So just call us, theres no harm in just calling and you might just be the 1000th caller. After hearing the announcement I decided to call seeing no reason not to. But I wasnt really paying attention because chances of me actually winning were like 1 in a million or even smaller. So I have just decided to keep on walking towards my job. Suddenly a female voice started to announce the winner. We have a winner! Caller number 1000 whats your name? Caller number 1000 whats your name? Hello, are you there?
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Chapter 2 - This Is Just Getting Embarrassing
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Author Note: Hello everyone, I''m going to try to get the chapters out as fast as I can so we can get the virtual reality started. It should be coming in a couple chapters so stay with me. Again if you have any suggestions, criticism, ideas, etc. please leave a comment. Ill try my best to address them. I hope you enjoy the chapter.
True Identity Chapter 2 - This Is Just Getting Embarrassing Hello, are you there? I guess caller number 1000 isnt there anymore, we will chose another caller at random in a second. Well thats a sham Finally realizing that it was his call that was the 1000th one, James started to panic. Wait! Wait! Im here, this is caller number 1000! Oh hi caller 1000 you finally answer us. Yes Im sorry I just didnt think that I would actually win so I wasnt really paying much attention. Giggle Oh man they are laughing at me. This is so embarrassing. Its alright, whats your name caller 1000? My name is James Oliver. Alright James, how do you feel right now that you won a VR Headset and a copy of Absolute Authority? Umm I am really excited right now I cant believe I have actually won. I was so excited that I was slurring and stuttering my words. *sigh* This is just getting more and more embarrassing. I guess that is to be expected. Well congratulations James for winning a VR Headset and a copy of the game Absolute Authority! Afterwards GR radio brought me to a private call and I had to tell them my address and other information so they could send the VR Headset and a copy of AA once it comes out in the summer. Which is in about 2 months. Im so happy right now, I think I might pee my pants. This is the best thing that has happened to me since I was 12 years old. Ah man, now I feel depressed. Sigh Whatever lets just go to work then go home. When I got home from work I heard Haley cooking dinner Welcome back James, how was work? Same as usual, fine. This story has been stolen from Royal Road. If you read it on Amazon, please report it Hey, I was listening to GR radio station earlier today and someone named James Oliver won a VR Headset and a copy of the game AA. Was it you? I started laughing. Yeah, it was me. I knew it was you! You have such good luck. After hearing that you won, I also decided to get a part-time job so by summer Ill be able to buy a VR Headset and a copy of the game. Then well be able to play together, what do you think? Remembering my promise to my parents I said, Nope, I forbid you from working. You must keep your grades up so you can go to a good college. What, but I want to play with you! Haley started tearing up. Ah man, I cant stand looking at my little sister crying. Dont worry Ill take another part-time job and then well be able to afford the merchandise. Then we can play together, how does that sound? Nooo, James you always use your time for me. Why cant I do it myself? Because I care about you and I want you to do well in school without any distraction. Knowing that she wouldnt be able to change my stubbornness, she finally complied. Making a pouting face Fine, just dont work too hard for me. I started laughing. My little sister was just too cute. Dont worry, I wont overwork myself. We ate dinner and then went to bed
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Chapter 3 - I Never Want To See You For The Rest Of My Life
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Author''s Note: Hi everyone, after someone suggested that I should make the chapters a little longer I decided I would! The last two chapters were around 600 words, this one is 1600 words. I''ll try my best to make my chapters longer in the future. So, like I said before I''m going to get the chapters out as fast as I can so we can get the virtual reality content started. It should be coming in 2 chapters? Or maybe even the next one, so stay with me (depends on how long I make the chapter). Again if you have any suggestions, criticism, ideas, etc. please leave a comment. Ill try my best to address them. I hope you enjoy the chapter.
True Identity Chapter 3 - I Never Want To See You For The Rest Of My Life When I came to school the next day my classmates were noisier than ever. And thats already a hard feat, and no, thats not a compliment. As usual there was a group of people around my desk. What a bother, cant you just talk somewhere else? I thought. Around my desk 7 people have gathered, 4 guys and 3 girls. The guys near my desk were Nick, Eric, Matt, and John while the girls were Kylie, Lucy and Jenny. What the fuck, why the hell is Jenny there. I have just rejected her yesterday One would think she would at least avoid me for a couple of days Whatever, as long as she doesnt bother me Ill act like the yesterdays confession never happened. I dont necessarily hate these people but I cant say that I like them either Eric is a handsome fellow but he is also kind of awkward to be around, he does weird things. You can never really understand what hes doing or thinking. Matt is the type that doesnt talk much, you know the person who has that cool kind of feel to them. I guess thats why lots of girls like him. John can get kind of annoying sometimes. The reason is, when he talks he can just go on and on and on For Christs sake how much can you talk? He should take some pointers from Matt. Nick is my best friend since childhood. Hes someone I know I can trust because he knows all there is to know about me and he keeps his mouth shut. Nick is smart so I believe we can enter the same university together. Kylie Kylie is an annoying bitch. This girl thinks shes a princess just because her family is rich and shes the number 1 beauty in the school. Ill admit shes extremely beautiful but shes still a cocky bitch I remember when 2 years ago she asked me out during my sophomore year. After telling me that she wanted to go out with me, she just stood there in a pose that looked like I was suppose to get on my knees and bow down to her. Id rather die than go out with that bitch. After I rejected her she started to spread rumors about me. But after seeing that I clearly didnt care and that my popularity didnt drop at all, she came running back to me pretending nothing ever happened. Now its more like shes on her knee begging me for a better social status. It always frustrates me when I ask myself why is this girl not going to some prestigious private high school instead of this shithole of a public school? I mean, shes rich after all Oh man now Im starting to talk like John, lets just get back to the topic. Lucy shes a shy girl. Shes really pretty, ranking as the number 8 beauty in the school, but just not my type, I guess. I always feel that shy girls are hiding something and that kind of bothers me. But what do you know I could just be paranoid. Jenny is a sweet girl, but again, just not my type. She never really bothered me before. Well, not until the incident yesterday. Lets just hope that with time everything will go back to normal. The other students of this high school call this group near my desk the cool group or the popular group. They even go as far as calling it Jamess Group,. God, it always makes me cringe so hard when I hear that. Thats because I always feel like everyone in this group, except Nick of course, is just here to leech off my popularity. While I dont really care about the popularity itself, it still annoys me. To think that they are swarming me, just to be viewed higher in the eyes of their peers urgh. Somehow, it really, really irks me. Damn leeches, why cant they just leave me alone? All they care about is their social status. When the people around my desk saw me coming they immediately asked me a question. Hey James, theres a rumor going around the school that you won a VR Headset and a copy of AA from GR radio yesterday. Is there some truth to it? Kylie asked me with an excited face. I looked at all their excited faces God, why the hell are you guys so excited, it annoys the shit out of me. I decided to answer the question carefully. Nah, it wasnt me. I also heard that on GR radio yesterday, it had to be someone else with the same name. Everyones faces turned from excitement to utter disappointment. Ahh, thats too bad. We were all excited when we heard about it. But I could have sworn that the guy on the radio had the exact same voice as you do Eric said suspiciously. They are still suspicious of me. I decided to answer them quickly so they can discard their doubts. Nope, it was definitely someone with the same name. If I had won, I would have told you guys about it wouldnt I? I guess that makes sense. By the time school day ended, the rumor about me winning the merchandise died down. When I was leaving the school, Nick called out to me and we decided to walk together. Did you really not win the merchandise from GR radio? Support creative writers by reading their stories on Royal Road, not stolen versions. Ah, as expected of my best friend, he knows me so well. I thought, smirking. Well, I actually did win the game, but I didnt want anyone except you to know about it. I want to play the game the way I want to, being swarmed by people from the school would restrain my actions too much. Playing it anonymously, on the other hand, will give me freedom of choice! I knew it! Dont worry I wont tell anyone. Thanks After walking a couple more blocks, Nick had to take a turn towards his house. We said our goodbyes and went our separate ways. As I continues walking to my part-time job in the grocery store I was thinking of my future plans. Hmm, today Ill have to find another part-time job in order to buy the game for Haley. Ill look for one after I finish my part-time job at the grocery store. Honestly, we could have already afforded Haleys AA, because after our grandmother died weve gotten the money from the insurance. We have also decided to sell the house and rent an apartment. The money we got from the insurance and the money we got from the house should last us quite a while, but in the end, were still poor, so we cant really afford any extravagance. The apartment we rent costs around $1000 a month. Daily necessities cost us around $2,500 a month, this includes food, insurance, transportation, and everything else we would need. My part-time job gives me around 800$ a month, so all in all were losing money. Luckily we have some money to spare from the insurance and the house. Hopefully, I will find a full-time job that will sustain us in the future, or else were fucked I graduate from high school in about a month then in another month AA comes out. Two months after my graduation Im going to enter university. I will have to work hard for a good three months. Its a good thing I rented an apartment that is near the high school and Atlas University. Atlas University is actually a very prestigious school, that usually only rich people can afford to go to. I dont have enough money to go there, but I plan on getting in with a scholarship. My grades are pretty good, Im number 1 in the school test rankings, so Im hopeful. In order to qualify for a scholarship I just have to take a test and place among the best. About 10 million people are going to be taking this test sounds easy enough. I hope I can go there since its close to home. If I dont get a scholarship I will have to go to college somewhere farther away and I dont really want to deal with it. After finishing my part-time job at the grocery store, I looked around for about an hour and finally applied for a part-time job as a construction worker. The pay is a little better than average and hopefully I can get some muscles simultaneously. One month later Today is the graduation day. Most of the students are sad and crying , well no wonder, they will miss their friends, and the time they have spent having fun together in high school. But the only thing I can think about is, thank god that Im getting out of this goddamn hell hole. After the graduation ceremony finished many of the underclassmen came to say goodbye to me, wished me good luck in college, and told me to visit sometimes. After a few minutes a group of people that is usually around my desk, came to talk to me. With a saddened face John said, Im going to miss you James, make sure you keep in touch with me. Shut the hell up, I never, ever, want to see you again, you annoying brat. I forced a smile and said. Dont worry, Ill make sure to keep in touch with you. As arrogant as always Kylie says, what are you guys so sad about, we should be happy. We have so much more to look forward to in the future. Wow, this bitch finally said something intelligent for the first time in her life Well, whatever, I never, ever want to see you again as well. After our conversation ended we all went our separate ways. There was a graduation party afterwards but I decided not to go. Like I said, I never want to see those people for the rest of my life About 2 weeks ago I was looking at the forums on the Absolute Authority website and a thread piqued my interest. The thread said that if you knew some real life martial arts, it could help you in AA. So I have decided to buy some videos and books in order to learn martial arts. Unfortunately I dont have enough money to spare for real lessons, so videos and books will have to do for now. But on the bright side, Ive been doing my construction job for about a month and Ive got to say, I have grown some serious muscle. I think Ive gained around 15 pounds of muscles! I still have to work hard for another two months, but if Im good at anything its definitely hard work.
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Chapter 4 - Did You Just See That?! Authors Note: Hi everyone, I tried to make this chapter a little bit longer than the previous one. Chapter 3 was 1600 words and this one is 1800 words. Ill try my best to be in the 2000 word range for next chapters. In this chapter I put a little surprise in for you guys. Please answer the poll AFTER you read the chapter because this will give me an accurate conclusion on what I need to work on. Again if you have any suggestions, criticism, ideas, etc. please leave a comment. Ill try my best to address them. I hope you enjoy the chapter.
True Identity Chapter 4 - Did You Just See That?! Two weeks later You would think since its summer time that I would have more free time. Well, I dont, everyday is an exhausting one. I decided to get another part-time job, that makes it 3 part-time jobs a day. I have a part-time at the grocery store from 7 am to 11 am, a part-time job at a family restaurant from 12 pm to 3 pm, and then I have a part-time job as a construction worker from 4 pm to 8 pm. Although my days are exhausting, its well worth it! Im making a lot more money and I can almost already afford Haleys stuff. Every time I get home for work my sister always complains that Im working too hard and that I should take a break. And every time she complains I respond with, were you studying hard? Thats always gets her to walk away from the subject. I''ve been so excited about AA coming out that whenever I eat dinner I look on the internet to see if theres any new information about the game that would help me when I start playing. Unfortunately Emperor Studios, the creators of AA, is being stingy with the game information. They only have given out basic info to know about the game and nothing else. I guess they want the players to find out the information for themselves Everything else on the internet is just speculations that might or might not be true since nobody knows anything. So the rumor that know real life combat might help you in game might not even be true. This is the basic information that Emperor Studios let us know: There are 5 races, Elf, Barbarian, Undead, Halfling ,and of course Human. Elfs had wings so they naturally have high agility but they lack strength. Barbarians naturally have high strength but they lack intelligence. Undead naturally have high defense but they lack agility. Halflings naturally have high intelligence but the lack defense. Humans are just a balance between all of them, no natural strengths and no natural weakness. There are 4 starting kingdoms. The names of the kingdoms are Zarevia, Salia, Prilian,and Edilath. Zarevia is in the east, Salia is in the west, Prilian is in the south ,and Edilath is in the north. They dont tell us if there are any other benefits to each city other than the location. Authors Note: Dont make fun of the names of my kingdoms. I couldn''t think of names so I literally went to a website that generated random kingdom names and these are the first four that generated. lol :P Emperor Studios also said something about there being many different class and professions in the game. You had to choose an class in the beginning of the game but you could change classes if you decided to do so in the future. Some examples of classes are mage, monk, and knight. Concerning professions, you can obtain as many professions as you want but the more professions you have, the harder it will be to obtain the next profession you want. Some examples of professions are cooking, carpentry, and tailoring. You are allowed to get a pet but after you''ve gotten your first pet you aren''t allowed to get rid of it or get a new one. After you get your pet, you will have to train and grow closer to that pet so your compatibility increases, So basically once you get a pet youre stuck with it no matter what, so make sure you actually want that pet. But Emperor Studios doesn''t actually tell us how to obtain a pet. The last piece of information they give you is that if you die you lose a level and the stats you got with that level. But they can be obtained again when you level back up. So if you die too many times you can go back to level 1 God I would hate if I got killed back to level one. So basically Emperor Studios has only told us the basics and nothing special FUCK.... I cant wait for Absolute Authority to come out but theres still 2 more weeks. I still have to work hard. 2 weeks later I have currently been waiting for 12 hours in this god forsaken line in front of the gaming store in order to buy Haleys merchandise. Nick and I got here at 8 pm last night and now it is 8 am in the morning. But its all worth it because were first in line! So we should get out of here the fastest. I have contemplated going to sleep many times while Nick keeps watch and vise verse. But after hearing someone screaming that they got pick pocketed and then start crying because they wouldn''t be able to buy the merchandise anymore, I decided against it... Thanks for the warning pick pocketed person :P. Getting here early doesn''t really mean anything because the Absolute Authority server doesn''t start until 12 pm. Well, whatever at least Ill be able to take a nap before I start playing. 1 hour later After waiting the longest hour of my life the store is finally opened. We walked up to the cashier. Way too excited, I told the cashier I would like to buy a VR Headset and a copy of AA! In a depressed voice the cashier said Alright that will cost you $1500. Damn, someone seems a little depressed. I guess working on the day AA comes out is pretty depressing Luckily for me I took the day off from my part-time job at the grocery store and I also quit my two other part-time jobs. Im going to fully devote my time to AA! Im not afraid of no addiction! The narrative has been illicitly obtained; should you discover it on Amazon, report the violation. After Nick and I bought our merchandise we left the store and started to walk towards Nicks car. While we were walking all of a sudden 3 guys came out of the alley way blocking our path. The 3 gangsters looked intimidating but gangster 1 looked by far the most intimidating because he had a pipe in his hands. Shit, why does this have to happened to me. I swear I have the worse luck. In an aggressive voice Put down the merchandise and nobody has to get hurt gangster 1 said while waving his pipe in the air. What is this, some kind of TV show?! Who actually says that in real life when they have the intention of robbing you. Why would you give the person youre robbing a warning before robbing them? If youre going to rob someone, just rob them without giving them a warning They must not have much confidence in their fighting Probably. HAHA, Ill show you the power of hard work! Theres no way that someone who feeds off others will win against someone like me. But I still have to be careful since its 3 verse 2 and Nick Im guessing is more of a handicap rather than of any assistance... I gave Nick my merchandise stepped forward. I guess its time to test out my self taught martial arts! In a surprised tone No? Without saying another word gangster 1 and gangster 2 came running at me. Gangster 1 attacked me first swinging his pipe wildly. Catching the pipe mid-strike God FUCKING dammit, that hurt my hand so bad. Without a moment to lose, I kicked gangster 1 in the chest knocking him onto the ground. Realizing that gangster 2 was about to hit me from behind, I quickly turned around with the pipe still in my hand. Smash! I hit gangster 2 in the head with the pipe. Holy shit, I just knocked him out While I was in shock from knocking out gangster 2, gangster 1 came running at me. Unfortunately my reaction time was too slow and I got punched in the gut knocking the wind out of me. I dropped the pipe gripping my stomach. Gangster 1 grabbed the piped from the ground and started to swing at me wildly again. Quickly recovering from the last hit, I dodged the pipe and started running in the other direction. Honestly that pipe scares me, considering that I just knocked out gangster 2 with it, I have the right to be afraid Gangster 1 started running after me and was swiftly catching up. Knowing that gangster 1 was closing the distance between us, I quickly turned around to face him head on. At that moment I decided to perform a move that I''ve only dreamed about performing. Wham! Holy SHIT, I just roundhouse kicked his ass and knocked gangster 1 out! Impressed with myself, I looked at Nick to see if he saw what I just did. But to my surprise Nick was on the ground gripping his stomach. I started looking for gangster 3, I saw him running 20 yards away with the merchandise. I sprinted after gangster 3 and was quickly catching up to him. Fortunately gangster 3 wasn''t that fast and was already tired from his fight with Nick. Good job Nick, I was wrong about you. You are good for something Slowing him down! About 3 yards away from gangster 3, I tackled him to the ground. Gangster 3 frantically started to scream but that quickly ended when I put him in a headlock and started choking him. After a couple of seconds gangster 3 became unconscious on the ground. I quickly picked up the merchandise and ran back to Nick. I helped him back to his feet and we sprinted our hardest to Nicks car, afraid that the 3 gangsters would come to their senses. Full of pride When we got to the car I started telling Nick how I beat the crap out of them. Nick was surprised to hear that I roundhouse kicked gangster 1 or more like he didn''t believe me Whatever he can believe what he wants but I know what I did! It must be due to my self taught martial arts training and my work as a construction worker that I''ve become so strong, I''ve basically been born a new man with this muscle. HAHA gangsters, I have taught you the most important lesson of your sad lives, HARD WORK! When Nick dropped me off at my house it was 10 am. Haley saw me walk through the door and instantly started to worry about me. My clothes were dirty and I had bruises all over my body. While she was patching me up with the first aid kit I told her about the fight. In the end, she didn''t believe me either COME ON! Why dont you guys believe me. Is it because I said I roundhouse kicked someone? Is it really that unbelievable? After eating a big lunch because I decided not to eat dinner today and devote the rest of today to Absolute Authority, I took a nap. BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! Hearing my alarm clock go off, I woke up at 11:50 am. I quickly went to the bathroom just to make sure that there would be no distractions while I play. After I was done I went back to my room and put on the VR Headset. After waiting 5 minutes the VR Headset finally started to count down. 3! 2! 1!
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Author''s Note: I hope you enjoyed the chapter. Make sure you answer the poll at the top of the page. Also, leave a comment about your prediction of what will happen next! I would love to hear them. I''ll try to get the next chapter out as fast as I can because that when the virtual reality content starts! Thanks for reading everyone. Thanks for reading the chapter. I would greatly appreciate it if you visited my blog. This is where I''m going to post the chapters some time in the near future. https://trueidentitynovel.wordpress.com Please comment if you liked/disliked the chapter and tell me what I can improve on. This will help me a lot thanks. Chapter 5 - The Adventure Begins! Authors Note: Hey everyone, this chapter took longer to write because I had to think of all the new material and also the formatting stuff took long too, like the classes and professions. Making up a stats system probably took the longest. But on the other hand, this is the longest chapter I''ve written so far, Its around 2400 words! I made another poll for this chapter, please answer it because it will give me a clear understanding if people have a problem with the curse words. You can answer whenever you want. New Key Italics = thoughts/feels Examples: what he thinks about after someone tells him something, what he feels after getting hit in a fight, what he thinks about after he sees something) Apostrophes= Actions that JAMES does (This will not always be there when he performs an action. Itll only be there when it will make my story flow better like when there''s a fighting scene) {Braces} = Actions/sounds of things that happen around James, NOT James himself (Again this will not always be there, just when it will help the story flow better like during fighting scenes) [Brackets] = System Notifications in game I will change the previous chapters to this new key some time in the future, been Im a little busy lately especially on weekdays. Hopefully this will help the story flow better. I hope you enjoy the chapter! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- True Identity Chapter 5 - The Adventure Begins!
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Yes. Swish {Absolute Authority started to launched.} The first thing I saw was a scene of many kingdoms and its kings. Man this is some epic music playing in the background. After that scene the camera went through the forest and there were many different types creatures. Some creatures more frightening than others. The camera then panned towards the sky and started to head towards the mountains. In the mountains there was ruins of a fallen kingdom. The ruins looked hundreds of years old. Past the ruins of the fallen kingdom there was two armies fighting each other. There was a woman commanding the army on the right and a man commanding the the army on the left. It looked like the women''s army was winning because the population of the women''s army was overpowering the man''s army. People were stabbing and slashing each other, thousands died. What a gruesome sight. After the army on the right beat their opponent, they let out a loud roar that could be heard for miles. The scene suddenly shrank with the music in the background fading. That must have been the opening cut scene. It looked really cool and everything appeared so realistic, this game most definitely has a realism of 97%. After a few seconds a window appeared in front of me and a voice that sounded somewhat feminine started to talk to me. According to the retina scan you are a new player! Would you like to create a new character? Yes. Choose a race I started to carefully look at the 5 different races. The elf looked pretty cool, they have pointy ears and wings. Their high agility also intrigued me. The barbarian looked taller and stronger than the rest of the races which looked sort of interesting. But that ultimately makes them a bigger target. The undead were not at gruesome as I thought they would be, but they were still ugly as fuck. I know I want to change my appearance but not that much. The halfling didn''t really appeal to me because I didn''t want to be something that looked like a human and elf combined but also as tall as a baby. And the increase in intelligence didn''t interest me much either. The human looked like any ordinary human, which wasn''t too bad. The balanced stats appealed to me also. In the end, I was stuck with the choice between human and elf. After contemplating for a couple minutes Elf. Are you sure? Yes. Authors Note: HAHA, you thought I was going to make him human didn''t you. :P {A different window appeared in front of me} What is your sex? Male or female? Male. Are you sure? What do you mean are you sure? Of course Im sure! Yes. {A different window appeared in front of me} Choose your class. There were 8 starting classes. This is what the classes looked like:
Class:Knight
Description: Since medieval times, the knight has been performing military services for their kingdom. The knight is a very loyal and powerful class.
Requirements: Plate Armor, 2-handed melee weapons
Restrictions: No Dual-Wielding, No Shield, No Ranged Weapons
Benefits: Higher intimacy with kingdoms.
Class:Mage
Description: For centuries mages have used their extensive knowledge for all things magical. If wielded correctly, mages can have a power stronger than the sharpest sword.
Requirements: Cloth Armor, Any Melee Weapon
Restrictions: No Shield, No Ranged Weapons, No Duel-Wielding
Benefits: Higher CC (Crowd Control).
Class:Assassin
Description: The assassin walks the shadows, striking its enemy when they least expect it. They are masters of stealth.
Requirements: Leather or Plate Armor, Daggers, Allowed to Duel-Wield
Restrictions: No Shield, No Ranged Weapons
Benefits: Higher chance of inflicting critical strikes.
Class:Monk
Description: After meditating for years, Monks have solidified their bodies letting them take less damage. Monks are the masters of bare-handed combat, never relying solely on weapons.
Requirements: Any Armor Set, Any Melee Weapon, Allowed To Use Shield
Restrictions: No Ranged Weapons, No Dual-Wielding
Benefits: Take less damage (increased defense/fortitude).
Class:Healer
Description: For centuries Healers have devoted their spiritual magic to help others. Healers are the heart of the party.
Requirements: Cloth Armor, Any Melee Weapon, Able To Use Shield, Allowed to Dual-Wield
Restrictions: No Ranged Weapons
Benefits: Higher intimacy with churches.
Class:Ranger
Description: Rangers are the masters of ranged attacks and they will do whatever it takes to keep their distance. If aimed correctly, Rangers can deal massive damage to their enemies.
Requirements: Leather Armor, Any Ranged Weapon, Daggers, Allowed to Dual-Wield
Restrictions: No Shield
Benefits: Can attack enemies from far distances, a slight higher chance of a critical hit.
Author''s Note: Rangers are allowed to have their ranged weapon and a dagger equipped at their side for close combat fights.
Class:Warrior
Description: Warriors are masters of weaponry. They rely on speed, strength, and toughness to beat their enemies.
Requirements: Leather or Plate Armor, Any Melee Weapon, Allowed to Dual-Wield
Restrictions: No Shield, No Ranged Weapons
Benefits: The longer the fight the deadlier you become (increased stamina/endurance).
Class:Necromancer
Description: Necromancers are practicers of dark magic. Summoning the dead and wielding the power of lost souls, Necromancers suck the life out of the enemy.
Requirements: Any Armor Set, Any Melee Weapon, Able to use Shield
Restrictions: No Ranged Weapons, No Dual-Wielding
Benefits: Summon multiple minions and make them fight for you.
Authors Note: Melee Weapons also include two-handed staff and 1-handed wand. Dual-Wielding means that they can hold two 1-handed weapons NOT one 1-handed weapon and a shield. If it says that the class can use a 1-handed weapon or Any Melee Weapon and Allowed To Use Shield then that class can use a 1-handed weapon with a shield in the other arm. These are the 8 starting classes, you have to pick one. But if you are given the option to change classes in game you can. After thinking carefully of which class would fit my playing style and the elf race. Warrior. Are you sure? Yes. I think the warrior would fit best with my playing style. Ill just have to put some stat points in strength to make up for the elf''s lack of strength and have my agility make up for the rest. {A different window appeared in front of me} Change your appearance. Unfortunately Absolute Authority sets a limit to how much you can change your appearance. I guess this makes sense, otherwise every guy would just make themselves extremely handsome and every girl would just make themselves extremely beautiful. Its fine as long as I make myself unrecognizable. It took me a while to change my appearance but when I finish I was satisfied with my work. My character looked somewhat like me in real life but little less handsome I guess. I looked like an average guy but with slightly better looks, nothing too drastic. With my changed appearance and my elf ears, Im practically unrecognizable. After double checking to see if I got everything right, I saw that there was a notice at the bottom of the window. It read you can change your appearance again in game just visit the beautician. Hmm, I guess that could be useful if I ever decide to change my appearance again. After I knew that I was done, I continued onto the next step. Done. Are you sure? Yes. {A different window appeared in front of me} Choose your name. I have been waiting for this moment for a long time. Without waiting another second. Axle. Authors Note: Honestly this took me awhile to think of. Was thinking of simple words that could also be used names. Thought of it and couldn''t think of anything better so Axle is it! You try coming up with a name, its hard! Are you sure? Yes. Axle was the name of my favorite cartoon character when I was a kid. What starting kingdom do you want to be assign to? I just picked my starting kingdom by eeny, meeny, miny, moe because I didn''t know anything about the kingdoms anyway. The Kingdom of Edilath. Are you sure? Yes. Suddenly my surroundings started to change and within a couple of seconds I was in the Kingdom of Edilath. I started to look around to see my new surroundings. The kingdom was on a tall hill with walls surrounding it nearly 30 meters tall (about 98 feet). The walls had 4 gates, located in the south, east, north, and west of the kingdom. In the middle of the kingdom there was a huge castle which is probably where the king lives. God, the things I would do to own my own Kingdom! This place is awesome! Towards the southern part of the kingdom was the market place. It was full of stalls that had npcs selling goods. Some of the goods they were selling were potions, books, armor and weapons. There were also places to eat like diners and pubs within the marketplace. I looked around the marketplace, most of the goods being sold were way out of my price range since the game only gave you 50 copper to start with. In the eastern part of the kingdom is where the profession workshops were located. This place was the center of all the professions you could learn in Edilath. Some of the workshops there were the carpentry, sculptor, and agriculture workshops. The housing center was located in the northern part of the kingdom. The poor housing was farther away from the castle, closer to the walls. The poor housing were basically shacks while the middle class housing center were decent sized houses that could sustain families. The rich housing were the closest to the castle in the center. These were giant mansion like houses. But the biggest mansion wasn''t even half the size of the castle. The castle was about 45 meters tall (about 148 feet), which is 15 meters taller than the walls. Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon. Finally, in the western side of the kingdom were mansions that were reserved for guilds to buy. I looked at the price in order to buy the smallest guild mansion. It was a whopping 25,000 gold! Holy crap, thats a shit ton of money. Nobody is going to be able to afford a guild mansion anytime soon. Looking at the prices of the guild mansions made me wonder how much the castle would cost. Of course I know the castle doesn''t actually have a price tag on it but the castle is about 45 meters tall while the tallest guild mansion is 25 meters tall (about 82 feet tall). If there was a price tag on the castle, it would be an unfathomable number. After I was done checking out the kingdom I started to check out my equipment.
Adventure''s Sword [Tier: Crude]
Type:1-handedDurability:25 / 25
Stats:
Attack: 8-10, Strength: +1
Requirements:Level 1
Adventure''s Chestpiece[Tier: Crude]
Type:Leather ArmorDurability:25 / 25
Stats:
Strength: +2, Agility +5, Defense: +5, Endurance: +5
Requirements:Level 1
Adventure''s Pants[Tier: Crude]
Type:Leather ArmorDurability:25 / 25
Stats:
Strength: +2, Agility +5, Endurance: +5, Defense+5
Requirements:Level 1
After I was done checking out my equipment I started to check out my stats Stats.
No Title
Name:Axle
Level:1Class:Warrior
Health:105 / 105Mana:105 / 105
Stamina:105 / 105Attack:16-18
Magic Attack:5Defense:18
Movement Speed:12Fame:0
Detailed Stats.
Status Window
Name:AxleGuild:None
Level:1Class:Warrior
Race:ElfGender:Male
Title
No Title
Influence Stats
Fame:0Infamy:0
Leadership:0Luck:0
Defined Stats
Health:105 / 105Health Regen:1.0 / Sec
Mana:105 / 105Mana Regen:1.0 / Sec
Stamina:105 / 105Stamina Regen:1.0 / Sec
Attack:16-18Defense:18
Magic Attack:5Movement Speed:12
Defining Stats
Strength: (0.8)5Agility: (1.2)5
Vitality: (1.0)5Endurance: (1.0)5
Intelligence: (1.0)5Wisdom: (1.0)5
Fortitude: (1.0)5
Elemental Resistances
Fire:0Water:0
Wind:0Earth:0
Light:0Darkness:0
Authors Note: If you want to learn how the stats work please click on this link -> Stats SystemThis will explain everything to you. After looking at my equipment and stats, I came to the conclusion that my equipment and stats sucked. But I guess thats to be expected because I just started. Contemplating what to do next, I decided to go to the profession workshops, get my first profession, then go out into the world to train my skills! Theres a rumor on the forums that if you hit the scarecrow in the training center X amount of times, you will eventually complete some proficiency thing and gain some powerful skill. But you know what I think about that rumor, BULL SHIT! The people who actually believe that crap read too many light novels. How can you base your game play off a novel when this is the real thing! Beside, why would I stay inside the castle for like 10 days or so just hitting a scarecrow staying at level 1 when I can go train my proficiency outside the kingdom hitting MOVING targets while level up? Also that forum about hitting a scarecrow was so blown up with comments and believers of that crap that theres probably over a million people trying to get into a training just to hit a fucking scarecrow. With that many people trying to get into a training center, they might not even complete it until 15 days later. Thats even if you can even gain proficiency from hitting a non-moving target. When I reached the eastern side of the kingdom I went straight towards the blacksmith workshop. I wanted a profession that would help me over a long period of time and make decent amount of money. I opened the door and saw a big bulky stout man that looked like a dwarf hitting a sword with a hammer. The dwarf had the name Ferron hovering over his head. When I walked closer to Ferron, he looked up and noticed me. What can I do for you young adventure? I would like to learn blacksmithing. Are you sure you want to learn blacksmithing? Yes. Alright, but you will have to show me that you are worthy first. Can you do that? Yes Sir! Haha, just call me Ferron. Alright here''s your quest, you will have to go to Wildehedge Mine, collect the iron ore thats inside the mine and come back. Wildehedge Mine is south of Edilath about an hours walk, just follow the road and it will lead you there. Once you come back I will give you your next task. Here this will help you on your journey. Ferron handed me a pickaxe. Thank you, sir! Beware on your journey, there are many creatures on the road to the mines. Itll be difficult, especially for a young adventurer like yourself. And I told you just to call me Ferron! Yes Si... I mean Ferron! After I was done talking to Ferron two windows appeared in front of me.
Pickaxe
Type:Quest ItemDurability:25 / 25
Requirements
Receive profession quest from the blacksmith
Quest: Path of a Blacksmith [Part 1]
Difficulty:E
Description:
Go south of Edilath to Wildehedge Mine and bring the iron ore back to Ferron
Requirements:
Mine at least 50 iron ores and bring it back to Ferron
[Do you want to accept the quest?] "Yes!" ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Author''s Notes: I know there''s a lot of authors notes in the chapter but I hope it will help clear things up for you guys. If it didnt clear things up please tell me. Ill try my best to help you understand. Thank you all who answered the poll in the last chapter. It gave me a good understanding of where I stand in the action scenes. Most of you said that it was great and good, but its clear that I still have a long way to go. Make sure you answer the new pole at the top of the page. This will also give me a good understanding about the curse words. Special thanks to Idle Editor, in the last chapter a gave me some constructive criticism on how to make my writing flow better (Im not very good at English). Ill try my best to fix my mistakes and make my writing flow better! Oh and Idle Editor if youre reading this feel free to give me some more constructive criticism again, it really helped. It was pointed out to me last chapter that I need to describe things more like places. I hope this is better for you. If its still not as descriptive as you would like, tell me. Ill trying my best in future chapters. Thanks for reading the chapter. I would greatly appreciate it if you visited my blog. This is where I''m going to post the chapters some time in the near future. https://trueidentitynovel.wordpress.com Please comment if you liked/disliked the chapter and tell me what I can improve on. This will help me a lot thanks.
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Chapter 6 - Meet Haley Oliver Author''s Note: Hey everyone, due to a suggestion I moved my blog to wordpress. Apparently it easier for you guys to follow so make sure you visit it. This is a short chapter but I know you guys have been waiting for this. I put a poll up again but only answer after you read the chapter. You guys have told me that I haven''t described the sister enough. So in this chapter I decided to make a Haley POV. But I also decided to make it a background of Haley and James as well. I hope you enjoy the chapter! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- True Identity Chapter 6 - Meet Haley Oliver Sometimes I wish I could just go back in time and restart my life. I have too many regrets and I did too many terrible things when I was younger. And now, I have no way to atone for them. Almost everyday I ask myself why was I such a spoiled child back then? When I was younger I took everything for granted. I was a spoiled child that had everything she could ever want but never stopped one second to think how grateful she should have been. My family was a semi-wealthy family and because of this reason, my parents gave me everything I wanted. I did many terrible things especially to my brother, James. James never did anything wrong to me but I always told him that he was annoying or that he was the worst brother in world. This is probably because I felt inferior to him. James was always so smart, good at everything, and wasnt spoiled. On the other hand, I was not that smart and I was spoiled a lot. After continuously telling James awful things, he slowly just stopped talking to me and just ignored me. I thought to myself that he definitely hated me. Then everything changed when I was 11 years old. My parents decided to go on a trip for their anniversary. I didnt want them to go so I told them, dont go, stay home. But they responded with dont worry Haley, your brother will take care of you. I became so frustrated because for the first time, something didnt go my way. In my anger I told my parents I hate you and then ran away to my room. After they left for their trip I felt bad and told myself that I would say sorry when they came back. But something happened that I would have never thought would happen, at least not to me. We got a call the next day saying that the plane my parents were on crashed somewhere in the pacific ocean and that our parents were most likely dead. After hearing the new, all I could do was cry and cry. All I could think about and I even think about this today, I couldnt tell my parents I was sorry. This is probably my deepest regret. I was once a spoiled kid that got everything she ever wanted but in just a blink of an eye, I got everything I ever wanted taken away. After that day, my brother and I went to go live at our grandmothers house. But unfortunately our grandmother was mostly in the hospital because she was already in bad health due of old age and with the death of our parents, things were just getting worse. She eventually died last year due to old age. During the time our grandmother was in the hospital, my brother decided to basically take up all the responsibility, he would work many jobs while still making time for studying and keeping his grades up. I always wonder how he could do so many things and not complain one bit. But even then my brother didnt really talk to me, I thought that he still hated me. After seeing my brother do all the work, I decided that I wanted to change. I secretly worked a part-time job even though my brother told me not to. I worked for about a week until my brother found out. James came running to the restaurant where I worked and started to yell at me something that I will never forget for the rest of my life. You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story. What are you doing? I told not to work! I will take care of everything, so just enjoy your life and make sure you study in order to have a bright future! After hearing those words I just started crying and afterwards I got fired from my job anyway. Slowly James and I became much closer and I trust James with my life. He always does everything in his power to let me have a good life and a good future. I wish I wasnt so mean to James before because I know he is such a caring person. He gave me the incentive to really work hard in school and now I get the highest grades in my grade. James is definitely the person I look up to the most. In school, Im very popular. Many guys ask me out, but in the end I always deny them because I dont want to cause James any trouble and they just dont compare to my brother. Maybe Im just setting my standards too high. I havent told James but I have promised myself that I will repay James for what he has done for me. He has basically changed his whole life just to take care of me and hasnt complained about it once. He even changed what college he wanted to go to in order to stay close to home. I never want to be not able to atone for my wrongs ever again, but I just wish that it didnt have to take such a terrible event in order to change me. Recently many of my friends have been talking about a new game called Absolute Authority. I wasnt planning to get it because I didnt want to burden James anymore than I already am. But then I heard on the radio that James won a free VR Headset and a copy of AA. At that moment I decided I wanted to play with James and support him in AA. James worked really hard in order to get me a VR Headset and a copy of AA, which I was totally against. He even got into a fight. I was so worried about him because all I could think about were all the possibilities of losing the most important person in my life at that moment. But James was only laughing about it and even told me that he roundhouse kicked someone. Of course I believe that he actually roundhouse kicked someone, he never lies to me. But I decided not to show it in order to make him a little frustrated. I got a good laugh out of it. When I entered AA, I made myself the elf race and chose the class assassin. My appearance looks exactly like I do in real life and I decided to name myself Hazel. I selected Zarevia as my starting kingdom, which is the east starting kingdom. Now its time to work hard and become strong so when I meet James in-game, Ill be able to support him. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Author''s Note: Make sure you answer the poll at the top of the page. 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Chapter 7 - Cat Slayer! Authors Note: Hey everyone, if you are following my blog you will be able to read my chapter earlier than on royalroad. So make sure you follow my blog. Thank you everyone who answered my last two polls, it really helped me a lot. I will post POVs of other characters when I see fit. But not that often so dont worry. Also if you haven''t noticed, I have finally made a book cover for the novel. Don''t worry I didn''t commit any copyright infringement. :) I updated the key, thank you FrankTobar for the suggestion. Key: Italics = thoughts/feels Examples: what he thinks about after someone tells him something, what he feels after getting hit in a fight, what he thinks about after he sees something) Apostrophes= Actions that JAMES does (This will not always be there when he performs an action. Itll only be there when it will make my story flow better like when theres a fighting scene) {Braces} = Actions/sounds of things that happen around James, NOT James himself (Again this will not always be there, just when it will help the story flow better like during fighting scenes) [Brackets] = System Notifications in game. Also when the MC attacks the enemy, Example: [10!] |Pipes| = When the enemy attacks the MC, Example: |10!| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- True Identity Chapter 7 C Cat Slayer! [Do you want to accept the quest?] Yes! After I accepted the quest I ran toward the southern gate. But while I was running through the marketplace I noticed something that intrigued me. I walked up to a merchant named Francis. Francis was selling various things in his stall, but there only a couple things I wanted to buy. What can I help you with, young adventure? I would like to buy some paper, a quill, and some ink. Alright, that will cost you 43 copper. I handed Francis 43 copper and I only had 7 copper left. I started to leave when Francis suddenly called out to me. Wait young adventure. Can I ask you to do a favor for me? What is the favor? Theres recently been an increase in demand for leather armor because of all the new adventures coming about. But unfortunately I dont have any pelts to make any leather armor. I need you to get me some pelts for me. If you do this favor for me I will teach you a skill that is worth more than money.
Quest: The Animal Hunt
Difficulty:E
Description:
The merchant Francis has asked you to do a favor for him, in return he will teach you a skill worth more than gold
Requirements:
Kill animals out in the wild and skin them. Collect 500 pelts and bring it back to Francis.
Yes, Ill do it. Thank you young adventurer, Ill give this to you so you can skin the animals.
Francis'' Skinning Knife
Type:Quest ItemDurability:1000 / 1000
Requirements:Recieve quest from Francis
I said my goodbyes to Francis and went on my way. Past the southern gate was a dirt road that led into a forest, which seemed to go on forever. There were many players that were fighting mobs in the forest trying to gain precious experience points. There were also groups of people waiting outside the southern gates looking for random players to party up with. I walked past the groups of people near the gate rather fast, many of them tried to ask me to party up but I just ignored them. I walked towards the forest and set my sights on a creature that was about to become my first prey.
Sly Cat [Rank: 1]
Level:2Health:100 / 100
Attack:8-10Defense:10
Abilities:[Timelapse]
I walked up to the cat and when I was with 10 feet of the cat I dashed towards it and started to slash my sword at it. But every time I tried to hit the cat with my sword I missed. [Miss!] [Miss!] [Miss!] What the hell is going on?! I swear Im swinging my sword where the cat is but I keep missing. After swinging several times my stamina started to drop closer to zero, I was getting tired from just hitting the ground! Seeing an opening, the cat started to attack me when I was getting tired. I tried to block the cats attacks with my sword but I wasnt that successful. |6!| [Block!] |2!| |7!| |5!| In the beginning of the fight I was on the offensive but now Im on the defensive. How was the cat able to turn the tides so easily! The cat just kept on attacking while I kept trying to block its attacks. |7!| |5!| |8!| |Block!| |1!| Seeing that if the situation kept persisting I would eventually die, I decided to run back towards the southern gates and try to get out of aggro range from the cat. While I was running back to the gates I heard snickering coming from the groups of players. They must have seen me fail at hitting the cat and then have to retreat from fear of death. One person said, Haha, Im glad we didnt invite that guy to our party. He would definitely just slow us down. Fuck! I just embarrassed myself in front of a bunch of scrubs, what is wrong with me. [I started to look at my sword.] I already know what the problem is, my fighting skills with a sword isnt good enough. Also, I cant use my wings while I fight yet because flying uses a lot of stamina which Im particularly low of right now. I was so confident in my fighting skills because I beat those three gangsters. I thought I could just stroll out here and defeat anything in my path, but I was sadly mistaken. Fuck! How could I make such a big mistake of comparing the skill of those lowly gangsters to the skill of these mighty cats! After I was done being frustrated of my lack of weapon handling I decided that I would observe the cats for now from afar and also see how the other players that looked skilled fought the cats. After I observed the cats for a while, I finally discovered why I kept on missing my hits! When the players tried to attack the cats, the cats teleport back to where they were exactly 2 seconds ago. This must be their ability [Timelapse]! The cat is always moving, making sure it was in a different location by the time the player tries to attack them. Then once the player tries to attack them, they activate their ability and then they teleport where they were 2 seconds ago, making the player miss! The cooldown on that ability must be very low because the cat is using it every time its about to get hit. After acquiring my new found knowledge, I decided I would give fighting the cats another go. Again, once I was within 10 feet of the cat I dashed at the cat. I didn''t attack the cat at first, I started to memorize the locations of the cat because it was constantly moving. Once I found it was time to strike, I swung my sword at the cat. {The cat used it ability.} Then I quickly changed the direction of my blade to where the cat was 2 seconds ago. [12!] I hit the cat! After I hit the cat, the cat landed on its side. I quickly kept attacking the cat afraid that it would get back up. [10!] [12!] [9!] After a couple of more hits, the cat died. I picked up the cat corpse and 1 copper then put it into my inventory. Two windows appeared in from of me
Cat Corpse
Type:RawDurability:-
Description:This is the corpse of a cat. If skinned, it can give you pelts and meat
Skill Name:Skill Rank:Skill Level:Skill Experience:
Understanding the Enemy (Passive)Novice10%
Description:
You have understood your enemy. As you level up this skill, you will be able to gather information of higher level enemies while others with the same level as you wont.
This narrative has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. If you see it on Amazon, please report it. Whoa, I dont know what this skill really does but I just gained my first skill! After I was done looking at the skill and putting the corpse in my inventory, I decided to kill a couple more cats with the same technique. I even used a technique that I saw a different player use in order to kill the cats. I would swing my sword at the cat, once the cat used it ability, I kicked the spot where the cat was 2 seconds ago. The cat would then fall to the ground on it side and I would keep attack it until it died. The cat was surprisingly easy to kill once you get the technique down. This is because once you get the cat on it side and kept attack it, the cat couldnt do anything. Even if the cat was using its ability, you couldnt tell. This is because once the cat was on its side and it was there for 2 seconds already when I started attacking it again. So the cat could have been using it ability trying to dodged my attack while I was just stabbing the same spot killing it. After killing 15 cats, I leveled up. I decided to put 6 points in strength and 4 points in agility Stats
No Title
Name:Axle
Level:2Class:Warrior
Health:110 / 110Mana:110 / 110
Stamina:110 / 110Attack:25-27
Magic Attack:10Defense:23
Movement Speed:22Fame:0
Being proud of myself I shouted, HAHA, my self given title was once Gangster Hunter, but now I shall call myself Cat Slayer! Everyone around me just stared at me. Their glares seemed as if they were saying what a weirdo or a pervert? But I didnt care, I was proud of my new self given title! After I was done checking out my new stats, I moved farther along the road towards Wildehedge Mine. As I was travelling along the road, the difficulty of the mobs was getting harder and the number of players that were near me was slowly getting smaller. I have traveled about 15 minutes from the kingdom on the road but all Ive seen so far are Sly Cats with higher levels. Ive killed a total of 100 sly cats, which also means I have 100 sly cat corpses and 1.07 silver ( 1 silver 7 copper) in my inventory. I also leveled up 2 more times, I put 12 points in strength and 8 points in agility.
Self Proclaimed Title: Cat Slayer!
Name:Axle
Level:4Class:Warrior
Health:120 / 120Mana:120 / 120
Stamina:120 / 120Attack:34-36
Magic Attack:20Defense:33
Movement Speed:31Fame:0
Its lucky that the inventory has some sort of power that lets you store more things in it then you would think. I dont even feel that much heavier with 100 cat corpses in my inventory. This thing is amazing! After traveling 15 more minutes I killed 125 more cats but I didnt level up again. It seems if you keep killing the same monster, you dont get as much experience points. Also, the number of people around me reduced to zero. Maybe they all died. Finally, I saw a different mob.
Hunger Fox[Rank 1]
Level:7Health:225 / 225
Attack:45Defense:20
Abilities:[Impeding Bite]
After realizing that I couldnt just sit back and observe the way the fox fights because the number of people around me had reduced to zero, I decided that I would fight the closet fox. This time I would have to be more cautious considering that the fox is three levels higher than me. I moved slowly towards the Fox but once I got a little too close, the fox attacked me before I could react. {The fox bit me in the leg.} |25!| |Your movement speed has temporarily reduced by 25% for 45 seconds| What the fuck is this! This must be the fox ability [Impeding Bite]. I slashed my sword at the fox in order to get the fox off my leg [24!] [25!] [23!] [24!] [27!] After a couple of hits the fox let go of my leg. I wish I could attack the fox more while he was only my leg though but I couldnt because my movement speed was impaired, The fox moved onto his next attack. It stuck out its paw and started to continuously scratch me, I tried to dodge the attacks but unfortunately my impaired movement speed only let me dodge some of them. |23!| |Miss!| |Miss!| |21!| |20!| [Your movement has gone back to normal] With my health rapidly approaching the red zone and movement speed going back to normal I swiftly attacked the fox. [26!] [28!] [24!] [27!] With my swift consecutive strikes, I was able to kill the fox without dying. After the fox died I picked up a fox corpse and 4 copper. I also leveled up! Authors Note: I decided not to show the stats every time Axle levels up, itll get really frustrating for me. Ill show it occasionally though. Wow I gotta admit, Im getting the hang of using a sword! My sword skills has definitely increased. Ill be a master in no time! Just as I said that another window appeared in front of me.
Skill Name:Skill Rank:Skill Level:Skill Experience:
Swordsmanship (Passive)Novice10%
Description:
As you get better at using the sword you will get bonuses and maybe even new skills
After travel 30 more minutes on the road I saw the Wildehedge Mine! While traveling I killed tons of foxes and leveled up twice to level 7, almost to level 8. I started to observe the outside of the mine in order to make sure it was safe. The outside of the mine was completely free of monsters making it somewhat safe but the real question what were the monsters inside of the mine. I checked my inventory before I entered the mine. I have a total of 225 cat corpses, 150 fox corpses, and 7 silver and 84 copper in my inventory. After concluding that there were no mobs at the entrance, I entered the mine. [You have entered Wildehedge Mine, Beware!] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors Note: Thanks for reading the chapter. I would greatly appreciate it if you visited my blog. I usually post the chapters 24 hours earlier than when I post them on royalroad. So if you want the chapters faster follow my blog!https://trueidentitynovel.wordpress.com Please comment if you liked/disliked the chapter and tell me what I can improve on. This will help me a lot thanks. Make sure you follow me if you like work!
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Chapter 8 - It Broke... Authors Note: Hey everyone, Thank you everyone who answered my last poll about the book cover. Im glad that most of you liked it. But for those of you who didnt and especially those who even picked the choice Looks like shit lol. Dont worry, Ill try my best in making a better book cover next time. :) Also I got rid of the gear sets. It honestly got too confusing even for me. So Ill just call the equipment whatever and say what it is (plate, leather, cloth) in the type. I already changed chapter 5 in order to get rid of the gear sets. Thank you for understanding Tell me if I made any mistakes, Ill try to fix it as soon as possible. I decided to try to put more things like thoughts and action keys in this chapter, tell me what you think. I hope you like the chapter! Key: Italics = thoughts/feels Examples: what he thinks about after someone tells him something, what he feels after getting hit in a fight, what he thinks about after he sees something) Apostrophes= Actions that JAMES does (This will not always be there when he performs an action. Itll only be there when it will make my story flow better like when theres a fighting scene) {Braces} = Actions/sounds of things that happen around James, NOT James himself (Again this will not always be there, just when it will help the story flow better like during fighting scenes) [Brackets] = System Notifications in game. Also when the MC attacks the enemy, Example: [10!] |Pipes| = When the enemy attacks the MC, Example: |10!|
True Identity Chapter 8 C It Broke ... [You have entered Wildehedge Mine, Beware!] [You are the first adventurer to enter Wildehedge Mine! Your experience and monster drops will increased for a week. Fame: + 10 Luck: + 10 ] Sweet, I gained some fame and luck. Also, the experience I get and the drop chances will be increased! Ill be able to level up fast and rise to the top of the AA leaderboards. The inside of the mine was dark and kind of spooky. You could barely see because it was extremely dusty and the mine was only lit by a few torches. I walked further into the mine. Getting over my fears, I took out the quill and paper I bought. I want to draw a map of the mine. A map of this place and other places would definitely make me some decent coin if I make copies of it and sell the copies. As I walked through the mine I drew what I saw, although the drawing was very rough, I think the people can still make it out. I drew for about 3 minutes until I saw the first enemy I had to fight.
Greedy Dwarf [Rank: 1]
Level:10Health:250 / 250
Attack:45Defense:86
Abilities:[Mighty Blow]
I tried to understand the enemy in order to level up my new skill. The dwarf was definitely not as muscular as Ferron but it was wearing plate armor and wielding a massive 2-handed axe. The attack on the dwarf is relatively low, even lower than the foxes'' attack in comparison to levels. But it has high defense and I have know idea what [Mighty Blow] is, it actually sounds like something else but its most probably not. After gathering as much information as I could get, I charged at the dwarf. I rapidly attacked the dwarf taking advantage of having the first strike. The dwarf couldnt stop my attacks because it was caught by surprise and was too slow. But on the other hand I wasnt doing much damage either. [13!] [15!] [12!] God this fight is going to take forever, I do almost no damage. {The dwarf started to attack back at me.} |6!| |7!| HA, this must be a joke. The dwarf isnt fast enough to block my attacks and it basically does no damage to me, this will be an easy fight. |18!| |Critical Hit!| |17!| |Critical Hit!| Never mind! The dwarf has a high chance of landing critical strikes! Its probably the axe, maybe it gives the wielder a higher chance to do critical strikes. If I keep getting hit by those Ill be dead in no time. I kept attacking the dwarf trying to end the fight quickly. [15!] [16!] |4!| |Miss!| |15!| |Critical Hit!| God, fuck these critical hits. Im going to die soon, I only have 68 health left and the dwarf still has 179 health left. I kept attacking the dwarf in desperation of surviving. [20!] [17!] Suddenly the dwarfs axe started to glow a golden tint but I was too late to react. The dwarf swung his axe at my chest. |53!| I was knocked back 10 feet in the air and landed on the ground stunned. [You are stunned for 3 seconds] The dwarf came charging at me ready to strike. Fuck, I only have 15 health left, if thats a critical hit I done for. The dwarf swung its axe at me when I was still stunned for 1 more second. |18!| |Critical Hit| Fuck. I respawned at the entrance of the mine in spirit form. I saw my body lying on the ground near the dwarf that killed me but I still have to wait 5 mins in order to respawn. While waiting for the 5 minutes, I analyzed my situation and came up with a plan. Once I respawn the dwarf will automatically be aggroed to me so Ill have to be careful and dodge the first attack. Then Ill have to focus on defense rather than offense while I attack the dwarf so I dont get hit by those critical hits and by [Mighty Blow]. If the dwarf uses [Mighty Blow] Ill have to somehow dodge the attack or counter it in order to defeat the dwarf. But I still dont know the cooldown on the ability. After the 5 minutes were up I respawned and the dwarf immediately aggroed to me. I dove to my right in order to dodge the dwarfs first attack. |Miss!| Still on the ground, I kicked at the dwarfs legs making him fall to the ground. I quickly got up and started to attack the dwarf while it was trying to get up. [17!] [16!] [27!] [Critical Hit!] HA, I can hit my own critical hits you damn dwarf! {The dwarf started to swing its axe at me after it got up.} Just as planned, I concentrated mainly on my defense. I tried to dodge the dwarfs attacks but if I couldnt dodge them, I tried to block them so they would do less damage. Whenever I saw an opening in the dwarfs defense I would strike the dwarf while retreating afterwards again concentrating on my defense. |Miss!| |6!| [17!] |Miss!| |Block!| |2!| I kept doing this technique repetitively until the dwarf only had 86 health left. But I still had to be careful, I only have 65 health left because apparently after you respawn you only have a portion of your full health. This is precious information that Emperor Studios didnt tell us so we could learn it ourselves. God, why couldnt Emperor Studios at least tell us that you dont respawn with with full health. I didnt factor this into my plan so it makes my situation so much harder. Then just as I feared, the dwarfs axe started to glowed a golden tint. Fuck, I have to dodge this attack or else. I instantly used a move I learn from my books. I ducked just enough in order to dodge the dwarfs horizontal swing and used my sword to stab the dwarfs stomach. |Miss!| [29!] [Critical Hit!] HAHA, I dodged the dwarfs attack and even did a critical hit. Theres no way Ill get killed by the same thing twice. After the dwarf used its ability, I continually used the same tactic as before. Focusing on defense while attacking when there was an opening. This tactic is definitely what youre suppose to use when facing a better opponent. Eventually after another 16 seconds the dwarfs health dwindled down to 15 hp and it felt like Ive been fighting the dwarf forever. Ecspecially with my stamina running low, I was getting extremely fatigued. Beads of sweat were forming all over my body and my legs were getting sore from the fight. I just want to end the fight quickly. Seeing that I still had 40 health left and the dwarf only had 15 health left, I charged at the dwarf thinking that I could just end the fight then and there. Suddenly the dwarfs once again glowed a golden tint and I knew what was coming. Fuck. I tried to stop my momentum from charging at the dwarf but I knew that I definitely couldnt stop myself in time. Instead I dove at the dwarfs legs and I accidentally stabbed the dwarf in the family jewels. Thats got to hurt. The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. |Miss!| [28!] [Critical Hit!] HAHA, I bet that was a critical hit. Authors Note: I know, a bit perverted lol. When the skirmish with the dwarf finally ended, I leveled back up to level 7 and only had 40 health left. Not bad, these enemies give me fairly good experience! I kicked the corpse of the dwarf in order to see the loot that dropped. On the ground was 8 copper coins and a piece of equipment! I picked up the equipment in order to see what it was.
Diminutive Boots [Tier: Basic]
Type:Plate ArmorDurability:???
Stats:
???
Requirements:???
What the fuck is this! I can see the name of the equipment and the type but not the rest of the details. Am I not high level enough, do I need as skill? Oh wait, I can equip it. [Warning: Because the equipment is not identified yet, you will only gain 60% of the benefits] Hmmm, I guess its better than nothing. Ill just go get it identified later. Stats.
Self Proclaimed Title: Cat Slayer!
Name:Axle
Level:7Class:Warrior
Health:138 / 138Mana:135 / 135
Stamina:136 / 136Attack:69-71
Magic Attack:35Defense:57
Movement Speed:6Fame:10
The boots I just picked up are plate, since I can wear either plate or leather I dont know which armor set I should use. The plate armor focuses on more defense and strength, while the leather armor focuses on more agility and endurance. Ill equip the plate boots for now just because I have nothing else but Ill have to pick which gear set I should wear sometime soon. I guess itll depend on how my character develops. While waiting for my health to regenerate I decided to take a break and start skinning the animals I got previously. Skinning the animal was tough, Ive cut my hand at least 5 times trying to skin this shit! And Ive said a curse word every time Ive cut myself. Finally finishing skinning the animal 3 windows appeared in front of me.
Pelt [Rank 1]
Type:RawDurability:-
Description:Can be used to make leather armor
Cat Meat [Rank 1]
Type:RawDurability:-
Description:Can be used to make food
Skill Name:Skill Rank:Skill Level:Skill Experience:
SkinningNovice10%
Description:
Skinning animals can be a useful skill for leatherworkers. Although you are terrible at it now, you can get better if you keep practicing. Level this skill can give you bonuses and maybe even skills
Authors Note: Players can acquire skill somewhat easily but its their decision if they want to level it up. So dont expect that the MC to level up every skill he acquires. But Im not implying that hes not going to level skinning though. After looking at the windows, I got up and walked further into the mine while still continuously drawing a map of the mine. I encountered numerous more dwarfs, it was hard to kill them all but I did it. Everytime I killed a dwarf, I would take a break and skin an animal. The cat gave me 1 pelt each while the fox gave me 2 pelts each. The loot I got was 3 more equipment drops, 8 more silver, and I also leveled up to level 8. The drops were a plate chestpiece, a cloth headpiece, and cloth gloves. I equipped the the chestpiece because even though I could only get 60% of the benefits, it was far better than my crude shirt which was also low on durability. I decided that I would sell the cloth equipment later on.
Diminutive Chestpiece [Tier: Basic]
Type:Plate ArmorDurability:???
Stats:
???
Requirements:???
After clearing a great deal of enemies, I was faced with a predicament. There were two paths I could take at the end of the pathway, one to the right and one to the left. I contemplated between the two and eventually chose to go right. The path on the right led into a big room that was darker and duster than the pathway. The dust also made it harder to breath. I walked into the room not knowing what was inside because it was too dark to see. When I was near the other side of the room, I was surprised at what I found. IRON ORE! I quickly started to mine the iron ore with the pickaxe Ferron gave me. I was worried that something will come out and attack me. This place scares the shit out of me.
Skill Name:Skill Rank:Skill Level:Skill Experience:
MiningNovice10%
Description:
Mining is used to dig up ores. The higher your mining, the higher level ores you can dig up
{Crack!} The pickaxe broke in half. The FUCKING pick broke. I looked at the amount of iron ore Ive collected so far. I have only mined 25 iron ore and I still need 25 more. What the hell am I suppose to do now.
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Chapter 9 - To Be Expected... Authors Note: Hey everyone, thank you everyone who has recently followed me on my blog. Was pretty surprised at how much of you followed recently. Again thank you very much! Also, Im thinking of another idea for another novel. You can go on my blog and click on current projects at the top or this link C> Current Projects if you want to see my idea. If you have any ideas that you are willing to let me hear about you can comment it there or just message me. Also if I make another novel, I might just make it exclusive on my blog, so make sure you follow me. Thank you Nasir05 for telling me that I forgot about the real life to game time relation. Its answered in this chapter. If there are any errors in this chapter tell me, Ill try to fix it right away. Although I tried to proofread it the best I could already. I hope you enjoy the chapter!
True Identity Chapter 9 C To Be Expected The pickaxe broke in half. The FUCKING pick broke. I looked at the amount of iron ore Ive collected so far. I have only mined 25 iron ore and I still need 25 more. What the hell am I suppose to do now. There was many more iron ore to be mined in the room but seeing that I had nothing to mine it with, I just returned to the pathway in order to check out the path on the left. The path on the left also led into a big room and just like the other room there was iron ore everywhere. Except the room was distinctively different than the other one. This room is well lit by many torches but still dusty. The biggest difference was that there was a boss standing in the middle of the room. The boss had the red name Calic in big bold letters over his head indicating that it was a boss. The boss was a dwarf that was clearly stronger than the rest of the dwarfs in the mine. He looked so strong that he could possibly even match Ferron. Calic wore big plated armor and was dual-wielding two 1-handed axes.
Calic [Rank: 1 Boss]
Level:18Health:750 / 750
Attack:???Defense:???
Abilities:[Mighty Blow] [Enraged Axes]
Out of habit I started to analyze the boss. It looks like the boss is too high level for me to gather all his stats. Calic has a lot health, 3 times the amount of the greedy dwarfs. But just by looking at those huge muscles, his attack must be high. And his defense also must be pretty high because well because hes a boss of course. I didnt know if I could beat Calic solo but I decided I would try anyway even though beating him was highly doubtful. I have nothing to lose except a level and my dignity. I charged the boss full of confidence planing to use the technique that defeated the other dwarves. Concentrating mainly on my defense and attacking when there was an opening. Imagine epic slow triumphant music while I charge the boss, you know the ones from the movies. Im about to fuck this boss up! {BAM! The boss rapidly hit me when I came near.} |60!| |56!| |63!| And I died. Well, that was anticlimactic. Authors Note: Did you think my character was going to be OP, FUCK NO. Unlike those other novels, its unrealistic that a player that has hardly any experience in fighting can solo a boss! Theres no way I can beat this boss without at least a tank and a healer. The boss attack will just overwhelm me every time. After suffering a miserable and quick defeat, I looked at the time and it was already 7 am in the morning. I logged off. I wonder if its really true that the time in game is the same as in real-life. I feel like Ive been in there for about 12 hours when I was really in there for about 19 hours. I guess its true that time moves faster when youre having fun. Since it was 7 am, I had to eat breakfast and go to my part-time job soon. I went to the bathroom to clean up. When I looked at myself in the mirror, I wasnt surprised at what I saw. My eyes were bloodshot and I had bags under my eyes due to sleep deprivation. Im particularly used to seeing this kind of face because Ive had to pull many all nighters before. This is because I either had to work or I had to study in order to keep my grades up. But now the ironic thing is that now its because I was playing a game. Well, its nothing a good warm shower cant fix. After I took a quick shower, I felt and looked much better. I walked to the kitchen. When I entered the kitchen, just as expected, Haley was sitting at the dining table with breakfast already waiting for me. While eating breakfast together, all Haley and I talked about was AA, but thats also to be expected. James, what are you doing in-game right now and whats your in-game name so I can add you to my friends list. Umm, my in-game name is Axle and right now Im facing a boss in a god forsaken mine. Excited Oh, youre facing a boss! How many times did you die? Bitter Is that the first question that comes to your mind? Shouldnt your first question be something like how did you kill it or what loot did it drop? Sarcastically Yeah, yeah, just tell me how many times youve died so far. Embarrassed Twice. Haley started to laugh and I couldnt help but join in afterwards. What about you? What are you doing in-game. Oh, my friends and I partied up and now were leveling up in a dungeon but we decided to take a little break at the moment. Sarcastically Oh ok, so nothing special. Jokingly angry HEY! What did you just say? Haha, Im just joking, calm down. Ah, I like this much better, I remember that our conversations didnt alway use to be this enjoyable. How about you James, do you have any friends in the game? Slightly arrogant Who needs friends when you can go solo? Disappointed Well, I guess its your choice but I would still prefer if you made some friends. Surrendering Fine, Ill see if I meet anyone interesting enough to be friends with. Great! It was about time for me to go to work so I finished my breakfast and left. Authors Note: I put how each person acted in italics because I thought it would make the conversation better. I am hoping it makes it flow better and you guys get a better image of it in your minds. Tell me if you guys do, if you do Ill keep doing this. At my part-time job in the grocery store, almost everyone was talking about AA. Again, thats probably to be expected. Some of the conversations were about how cool the game was, what level they were, what quest they were currently doing, and even whines about how they couldnt afford a VR Headset or how the store ran out of stock. Some of these conversations interested me. I overheard someone say that she was currently level 12 which was 5 levels higher than mine! Im only level 7 but on the other hand, I have also died twice. I was also asked about AA but I just decided to tell them that I wasnt able to get a VR Headset and a copy of the game. I just dont really want to be associated with these people. Sorry Haley. This story has been taken without authorization. Report any sightings. After work I went out to eat lunch at a Chinese restaurant with Nick. I tried to invite Haley but she said she was too busy EXP farming with her friends. Again as to be expected, Nick and I mostly talked about AA. James, what starting kingdom did you choose? I chose the Kingdom of Edilath, the north one. Oh thats too bad, I chose the Kingdom of Salia. The kingdom in the west. You know what would have been smart? If we called each other beforehand so we could start at the same kingdom. I guess we were just too excited to play the game, haha. Yeah, that would have been smart. What class did you choose? Proudly My characters name is Orion and Im a barbarian monk. I want to be the tank of the group! Hmm, thats an interesting choice. Jokingly But arent monks suppose to be the masters of hand to hand combat? With the skills you showed when we were fighting those gangster, I dont know if you can become a good monk. Authors Note: Jokingly isnt what James says, Its only there to express what James is acting like while saying the things after it. Flustered Shut the hell up. That was in real life, this is a fantasy world. With my barbarian physique, Ill be unstoppable! Anythings possible! Acting unconvinced Hmmm well, whatever makes you feel better about yourself. We talked about AA some more than moved onto a different topic. Nick, have you been studying hard? The test for Atlas University is in 3 days. Yeah, yeah, Ive been studying everyday except for last night. Alright good, lets make sure we get in together. For sure! Nick and I talked some more while finishing our food. When we were done, we split the check and went our separate ways. I walked home. When I got home I decided to take a look at the AA forums to see if any new information could be of any use to me. Apparently most of the players that decided to stay in the kingdom in order to hit a fucking scarecrow got tired of it and stopped. I guess their dedication wasnt high enough to stay with something so pointless. But there are still some people hitting scarecrows hoping for something good to happen, eventually. I also found out that many people also have the skills Swordsmanship and Understanding The Enemy. And here I thought I got something special. Nooo, Im just a scrub like everyone else :(. Authors Note: I told you, I forbid my character from being OP. He has to earn it first! :P There was a very popular thread asking if anyone had gotten a skill that would identify items. But apparently nobody had gotten it yet. This thread was so popular because people were complaining that going to the Classify Shop in order to identify their items was way too overpriced. The Classify Shop was basically a monopoly. There was also a problem with establishing guilds. supposedly in order to establish a guild you need to buy a guild mansion first. And however many people your guild mansion can house, thats the amount of people who can actually join your guild. But a guild is allowed to buy several guild mansions that are under the same guild name. This will allow your guild to expand the amount of people who can join your guild. The smallest guild mansion can house around 150 people while the biggest guild mansion can house around 2,500 people. Then even after all that, you also have to pay the kingdom a monthly rent for the guild mansion. If you dont pay the monthly rent, your guild gets evicted from the mansion. Then if your guild doesnt have anymore guild mansions, your guild gets disbanded. The rent varies depending on how many people the mansion can house. Due to these tough requirements to establish a guild and the limited amount of guild mansions in each kingdom, there is a competition to establish the first guild. Many groups of people are participating in the competition. Groups like [The Brotherhood] from Edilath, [DEFIANT] from Zarevia, [Vengeance] from Prilian, [Purge] from Salia, and many other groups are participating in the competition. These groups believe that the first guild to be established will get some kind of reward. Authors Note: This is the system I thought of for establishing a guild in my novel, took me a while. I didnt want to make it easy for people to make a guild but I didnt want to make it too hard. I thought of this system from thinking about college dorms. Tell me what you think about this system, I think its pretty damn original. What really intrigued me though was a thread discussing about pets. Nobody has gotten a pet so far but there was many rumors about how to get one. Of course you couldnt trust any of the rumors because they were just rumors. I want to get a pet so badly, maybe a pet that looks cool, like a dragon or something. Next I went to the AA leaderboards. There were many different leaderboards. Leaderboards for the highest ranked players, the best weapons or armor, the highest ranked guild which was currently empty, there was even leaderboards for the most handsome guy and the most beautiful girl but it was based from the votes of players. There was also an option for the leaderboards, you could chose all of AA or a specific kingdom. What I specifically looked at was highest ranked players in Edilath Kingdom. The leaderboard showed the highest ranked players in Edilath #1-10. And to my disappointment, I wasnt there. This was the the leaderboard
Kingdom Of Edilath Top Ranked Players
Rank 1Ares (Knight)
Rank 2Faye (Healer)
Rank 3Zorian (Assassin)
Rank 4Xavier (Necromancer)
Rank 5Leon (Monk)
Rank 6Lyssa (Healer)
Rank 7Zephyr (Ranger)
Rank 8Riona (Mage)
Rank 9Giselle (Assassin)
Rank 10Iris (Warrior)
Damn, so these are currently the best people in Edilath right now. Ill have to beat them and rise to the top! After looking at all the information on the forums, useful or not, I put on the VR headset and got ready to start playing again. [Do you want to connect to Absolute Authority?] Yes! Swish {Ching! Clank!} What the hell is that noise? While I was connecting to AA I heard a lot of noise near me. It sounds it sounds like fighting!
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True Identity Chapter 10 C Moonlight Cleaver! {Ching! Clank!} What the hell is that noise? While I was connecting to AA I heard a lot of noise near me, it sounds it sounds like fighting! When my character finally rendered into the game, I was still in spirit form. I saw a party of 4 fighting the dwarf boss, Calic. But even with four people they were getting pummeled. Man, even with 4 people you cant kill the boss. Why the fuck did I try to solo it. The partys fight had moved Calic far enough away from my dead body. Taking the opportunity, I revived and ran back. Not wanting to join the fight and also die. Cough cough I mean, not wanting to interfere with their fight with Calic, I stayed back and diligently watched. In the party of 4 there was a monk, 2 healers, and a knight. The monk was the undead race with the name Garan. The healers were both females of the elf race with the names Amber and Lilith. Oddly enough, they both looked quite similar and good looking, maybe theyre sisters in real life. If I had to rate them, Amber would be an 8.5/10 and Lilith would be 8/10. Amber is rated a bit higher because she has a more mature feeling to her. The knight was a mere human with the name Ronin. Ronin had the party leader tag under his name so he was clearly the leader of the group of 4. Ronin and Garan were both level 14 while Amber and Lilith were both level 12. You could call me heartless for not joining in to help them but if you saw what I was seeing, you wouldnt want to join in either. The monk was getting repeatedly hit while the healers continuously tried to heal him back to full health. The knight was trying his best to attack the boss but with each swing of the dwarfs axes, he had to keep on falling back from fear of losing too much health and dieing. The knight obviously didnt want to give the healers too much trouble because they were already using all their mana on the monk who was being dealt around 35 damage with each of Calics strikes. By the time the healers ran out of mana, they only got the boss down to about 350 health. The monk was still losing health rapidly but now he had no one to restore his health anymore. With a couple more strikes, the monk fell to his knees and died. The aggro immediately went to the knight, Ronin. Before dieing from 3 hits, he cried, Fuck! Our heals are enough but we just dont have enough DPS! Authors note: DPS = damage per second. So basically he said that their party dont do enough damage. Then shortly after the knight died, both healers died with a swift strike of the Calics axes. Ah man, those people were useless, I was trying analyze Calics attacks for my benefit. But they didnt even last long enough for Calic to use [Enraged Axes]. After seeing the gruesome death of the 4, I sat there waiting for them to revive. I read on the AA forums that you can either wait 5 minutes and revive exactly where you died or you can wait 30 minutes and revive at the nearest gravesite. Also, when you die you drop some of your items. The item could be a lame item or it could be something really good, doesnt matter. Clearly not wanting to risk dying again and losing another level, the party decided to wait 30 minutes until they revived. I sat there bored for a good 30 thinking about various things like work, Haley, school, and above all how I was going to kill Calic. Then I saw the bodies of the party disappear, signaling that they had revived. Good theyll be back in a little while. I sitting there for another 5 minutes wondering where the 4 people were and why they hadnt come back yet. I finally realized that I was retarded. Im so stupid, why would they come back after suffering such a gruesome defeat. I certainly wouldnt come back either. That party is definitely smart for know when to stop, while I was retarded and literally sat here for 35 minutes wasting my time! But right after I finished that thought, the 4 people came running into the room. Facepalm Never mind, I gave these guys too much credit, theyre actually just scrubs. Tired from running all the way here, the 4 players tried to form a plan. The knight Ronin was telling the other 3 his plan. Garan you tank the boss and try to deal as much damage as you can as well. Amber since you have better healer you mainly focus on Garan. Lilith you focus healing Garan but you will heal me as well so I can stay there and do more damage rather than retreating every time the Boss tries to hit me. I will I interrupted Ronin before he could finish explaining his plan. Hello there, do you need help defeating that boss? It seems you dont have enough DPS. The party suddenly surprised at my appearance and pointed their weapons into my direction. After a couple of seconds the leader, Ronin spoke up. Who the hell are you and how long have you been here? My name is Axle and I just got here. If youre here to steal the boss, we have dibs on him first. We discovered this mine first. Liar. Well, the first impression is already out the window. No you werent, liar. Yeah, and how would you know that? Because I was the first to discover the mine. Embarrassed, Ronins face turned bright red. After a couple of seconds, Amber spoke up. Ronin, the body that was laying at the feet of the boss disappeared. That means that he revived, maybe its him. {Ronin followed up from Ambers comment} Is that true? Yep, that was me, I just came back from eating lunch and noticed you guys here and wondered if you needed any help killing the boss. The party seemed a bit disappointed because of my level. Ronin eyes looked up and down my body then finally said. Alright, come join our party. Just follow my orders and lets kill this Boss together! But since youre only level 7 make sure you stay back and dont get hit too often. Ronins warning was nothing that I didnt know already. But I think these guys are clearly underestimating my skills. I might only be level 7, but I cleared this mine all by myself. Ronin stated the plan again and told me to inflict as much damage as I could to the Boss. Again, nothing that I didnt know already. Getting ready to start the battle, Garan used his skill called [Toughen], this skill increases his defense and stamina by a decent amount for 3 minutes. Full of killing intent, we charged the Boss. Garan was the first to grab Calics aggro. With a shield in his left hand and a sword in his right, Garan slashed the boss while using his shield to block Calics attacks. Garan was getting hit repeatedly but it wasnt anything to worry about. With his shield, increased defense, and the efforts of the two healers, Garan could take many hits with most of his health still left. Meanwhile Ronin attacked the Boss with all his might. He dealt around 30-40 damage with each strike while I only dealt around 15- 25 damage each strike. Even though my stamina still wasnt that high, I used my wings to dodge the Boss attacks. This is mainly because one hit would instantly take away half of my health. Calic used his skill [Mighty Blow] many times. But Garan used his shield to take the brunt of the blow and since the ability hit Garans shield, he didnt get stunned! We continued fighting the Boss but the hard part was yet to come. By the time we got the Boss down to 250 health, the healers were nearly out of mana and my stamina was running out due to overuse of my wings. We got the boss down to 200 health and then suddenly Calic savagely smashed the ground with both of his axes. {Rumble!} The ground started to shake. I reacted quickly and used my wings to fly up in the air, I shouted to the healers. Healers fly up into the sky! Both of the healers tried flying up but unfortunately Amber didnt react in time. The ground shook like an earthquake dealing massive damage to those who stood within it. Ronin and Amber both screamed in agony and within a couple of second they were dead on the ground. When the earthquake ended, Lilith and I quickly went back to our duties. Lilith healed Garan who was almost dead with only 45 health left. Amber didnt drop anything special, just some copper. But on the other hand, when Ronin died he dropped his two-handed sword! I swiftly went to Ronins corpse and grabbed the sword. Sorry Ronin, Ill be borrowing this for a little while. I quickly equipped the two-handed sword. Ronins sword was a basic tier weapon but it still increased my damage and now I dealt around 25-35 damage. Well, it isnt much but at least our chances of defeating the boss arent as bad anymore. With only one healer now, the situation turned extremely difficult. Lilith only had enough mana to heal Garan 2 more times, 50 health with each heal. I was feeling extremely fatigued because of my stamina. But with the Boss only have 150 health left, the fight was almost over. With Ronin dead, I decided to take command of what was left of the party. I should commands to Garan and Garan, stop focusing on defense now. We dont have enough damage now, youll die before well be able to kill the boss. Focus on offense for now. Lilith, make sure you use your last two heals right when Garan loses a little more the 50 health. Its better to use it earlier than not be able to use it at all. The two didnt want to listen to me at first, probably because of I was only level 7. But since they were both rational people and they knew that I was right, they listened to. We slashed and hacked at the Boss quickly depleting the Boss health. Shortly after Lilith used up her two heals and ran out of mana, Garan fell to the ground suffering a tragic death. The Boss only had 45 health left but since the aggro turned on me, I was running for my life. The Boss attacked me but luckily they all missed. In desperation I shouted. This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report. Lilith, youre going to have to take the hit for me. After he hits you, I will charge at the Boss and deal the killing blow! Alright! Following the plan, Lilith and I charged at the boss. The Boss swung his axe in my direction but Lilith put herself in the way and took the hit. |125!| With one hit, Lilith was insta killed and fell to the ground. I used my wings to reach the Boss faster while my stamina was quickly about to hit zero. [47!] [Critical Hit!] I stabbed Calic in the stomach with a critical strike! Calics health reduced to zero and died. He fell backwards with a loud bang as he hit the ground. Dealing the last hit, I leveled up twice and was now level 9! Suddenly a window appeared in front of me.
New Title: Livin'' On The Edge
Title Buffs:
Agility + 10 Strength + 5 Endurance + 5 Luck + 5
Description:On the brink of death, you delivered the finishing blow to the Boss
Stats
Title: Livin'' On The Edge
Name:Axle
Level:9Class:Warrior
Health:148 / 148Mana:145 / 145
Stamina:151 / 151Attack:83-85
Magic Attack:45Defense:67
Movement Speed:88Fame:10
I moved Calics body in order to see the loot but I did not dare to touch it. I didnt want my dead party members to get the wrong idea, so I waited for the rest to revive. Looking at the loot, I saw 5 gold coins, a plate helmet, a plate chestpiece, a 1-handed axe that glowed a greenish hue. and what do you know, a pickaxe. Fuck you Ferron. When Ronin revived I gave him back his two-handed sword and thanked him for letting me use it. When everyone else revived we were deciding on how to split the loot. You guys wouldnt mind if I take that pickaxe right? I need it to finish my quest. Go ahead and take it. I took the pickaxe and felt satisfied.
Calic''s Pickaxe
Type:Occupation ItemDurability:500 / 500
Stats:
This pickaxe has been enhanced, this pickaxe multiplies mining proficiency by 1.5
Sweet, Ill be able to mine ores faster with this pickaxe. The plate helmet went to Ronin, the plate chestpiece went to Garan, and everyone got 1 gold. It was hard to decide who got what because nobody had a skill to identify items yet. All that was left was the 1-handed axe. We all knew that it was special because of the greenish hue. Ronin finally spoke up. Im a knight so I cant use 1-handed weapons and the healers wont need it either. Why dont Garan and Axle both roll for it. Authors Note: Roll is 1-100 We both rolled. [46] [51] I won the roll! I took the 1-handed axe.
Moonlight Cleaver [Tier: Grand]
Type:1-Handed AxeDurability:100 / 100
Stats:
???
Requirements:???
I equipped Moonlight Cleaver in my main hand and switched my crude sword to my left hand. Even though I only get 60% of the benefits, the axe is definitely better than my starting sword. Afterall, it was two tiers higher! Suddenly 3 windows appeared in front of me.
Skill Name:Skill Rank:Skill Level:Skill Experience:
Ambidextrous (Passive)Novice10%
Description:
Your main hand can deal 100% attack while your secondary hand can only deal 70% attack. You will be able to increase your secondary hand attack percentage when you level this skill up
Skill Name:Skill Rank:Skill Level:Skill Experience:
Axe Mastery (Passive)Novice10%
Description:
As you get better at wielding an axe, you will get bonuses and maybe even new skills
Skill Name:Skill Rank:Skill Level:Skill Experience:
Skull SplitterNovice10%
Description:
This skill does massive damage to the enemy. The effects of the skill vary depending on where you hit the enemy. Head C stun 4 seconds, arm C paralyzed arm 5 seconds, leg C paralyze leg 3 seconds, body C stun 2 seconds
Woooh! I finally got my first attacking skill. This is fucking awesome! This skill will definitely be useful and there are so many different ways I can use it. After I was done looking at the windows, I mined the rest of the ore in the mine while the other 4 waited for me to finish. The mining speed with this pickaxe was really noticeable. Usually it would take me around 10 seconds to mine each ore but now it takes me around 8 seconds. Its not that much but its still a big help. It usually took me 40 seconds to mine 4 ores but now I can mine 5 ores within 40 seconds. I had 250 iron ore after mining the rest of the ores in both rooms.
Iron Ore
Type:RawDurability:-
Description:Can be smelted in a furnace to make other materials
After we were done, the party exited the mine and started towards Edilath Kingdom.
Authors Note: In all honesty, I wanted to make the 4 people bad people but then everything would be too Zhang Longish. So I decided to take another path. Also, I decided to make the names of weapons and gears more fantasy like. This is because it would be boring if they just had literal names haha. Thanks for reading the chapter. Thanks for reading the chapter. I would greatly appreciate it if you visited my blog. I usually post the chapters 24 hours earlier than when I post them on royalroad. So if you want the chapters faster follow my blog!https://trueidentitynovel.wordpress.com Please comment if you liked/disliked the chapter and tell me what I can improve on. This will help me a lot thanks. Make sure you follow me if you like work!
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Chapter 11 - Meet The Crew!
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Authors Note: Hey everyone, I have some exciting news! We just got two new editors, basically on the same day. Their names are Edet and Tyhuko. They are capable editors who will overall make the story much better. Well, youll see what I mean in this chapter. I hope you like the chapter and make sure you follow! :)
True Identity Chapter 11 C Meet The Crew! Garan: Marshall Zane has always been the type to just charge in and go crazy. Standing at 6 feet and 5 inches, Marshall is very strong. Although he may not be a very bright person, his athleticism and stature make up for it. Ever since he was young, Marshall has been playing football. During his high school career, he was ranked as one of the best running backs in the country. Marshall was so good at football that he was offered a full ride scholarship to the college of his dreams, Atlas University. Atlas University has one of the best football teams and is also well known for its gaming development majors. Many people have this stereotype in their minds that athletic people dont usually play video games. Well, Marshall believes that stereotype is bullshit. Marshalls interest in video games started in his freshman year in high school. During freshman year, Marshall saw a fellow student, Dexter Prince, getting bullied. Marshall hated bullying because in middle school he was actually nope, he wasnt getting bullied, he was making life of the people, who were weaker than him, well, miserable. You probably want to ask why did he do that? Well, mostly because of peer pressure, as he was all brawns and not much of a brain he didnt really think for himself at the time. You may think that he bullied everyone but no, he wasnt that brave. The ones he bullied were weaker than him. Now, after enrolling in high school, was when he matured. Marshall has come to understanding, that what he did, was wrong. He started regretting that he bullied those kids and whats more wasnt even able to apologize to them. Marshall thought he could somehow right his wrongs from middle school by helping Prince. Soon after saving the student, Prince and Marshall became best friends. Prince introduced video games to Marshall and convinced him to play them. Marshall was at first skeptical, but after he started playing his reluctance faded. Ever since then Marshall has been playing video games, with Prince, and playing football while being a prominent player. Amber and Lilath: (Ashley and Heather) Ashley and Heather Parker are both twins but their personalities are completely different. Ashley is an outgoing person while Heather is shy. Although their personalities might be different, they also have some common traits, like intelligence and beauty. Ashleys nickname in high school was the Charmer. She is a beauty that is friendly to everyone. However, if you ask her out and she rejects you, she not only will never be friendly to you, shell start avoiding you. Never having a boyfriend or someone she actually liked, the Charmer has broken the hearts of many men. Heathers nickname in high school was the Ice Princess. She has always been someone who wants to keep to herself and go unnoticed. But due to her beauty, she becomes center of attention very easily. Heather has also broken the hearts of many men. When they ask her out, she just walks away and doesnt respond, mainly because shes too shy. To some of the boys it seemed rude, even arrogant, but most of them didnt bother, they realized that trying to judge this girl when they didnt even talk to her was presumptuous, thus her fanbase stayed mostly the same. After countless confessions, Ashley and Heather became disgusted with men. They started to believe that all men were beasts who dont think before they act. They just do things on impulse without trying to think first. Think first, act second, why cant men just understand that? But as time went on, they both became friends with someone that was an exception to their mindsets. Ashley became friends with Marshall when she went to a group date event that her friends set up. Ashley didnt want to go but her friends begged her to. They were complaining that they needed one more person and she was the only one they could rely on. The group date had 5 girls and 5 guys. 4 out of the 5 guys were just staring at her with ogling eyes and kept on asking her question. She didnt like being asked questions and frankly she found it kind of rude that they were ignoring the other girls. After a great deal of questions, she became annoyed and just when she was about to tell them to shut the hell up, the 5th boy spoke up. Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website. Can you guys just shut up? Why are you asking her so many stupid questions? You guys begged me to come because you needed one more person but this this is just stupid. Im leaving. Shortly after he said that the boy left, Ashley followed his footsteps and left right after. She later found out that the boys name was Marshall and they became friends ever since. Heather became friends with Prince in the cafeteria. She had gotten to the cafeteria late and all the seats were taken except for one table. There was a somewhat nerdy boy who was eating lunch while playing some kind of visual novel on his laptop. Because that was the only table open, she shyly walked up to it. Umm ca-can I sit here? Prince didnt even look up from his game before saying, Yeah, yeah go ahead. Heather was taken aback by the boys rude remarks but she was forced to sit down anyway. She ate her lunch while reading a book. But she would look up from the book every couple of seconds to see if the boy was looking at her because that was what she was used to. But to her surprise, not even once did the boy look at her. After that day, Heather started sitting there everyday and slowly Prince and Heather got to know each other. Then later on, his best friend Marshall and her sister sat with them. Authors Note: Princes mentality: Games > Girls haha Ronin: Dexter Prince is your ordinary otaku. He likes video games, anime, and manga. He was a loner for a very long time because he never really had any friends. And the people who called him a friend would tell him to give them his money and beat him up if he didnt comply to their requests. They would always call him a nerd even though he wasnt that smart. I guess he could be called a nerd of gaming though. Then Princes life changed when he finally made a true friend, Marshall. Marshall saved him from getting beat up by a bunch of bullies. He even stopped them from bullying him in the future. If you guys ever bully this guy again, Ill beat the shit out of you. But as expected, the 4 bullies didnt take his warning seriously and continued bullying him the next day. But luckily Marshall was there and he beat the bullies 4v1, using his huge muscles and his 6 feet and 5 inches to his advantage. The fight ended rather quickly, Marshall knocked out the first two and then the other two ran away, leaving their friends behind sprawled on the floor. Ever since then Marshall and Prince became best friends. Then after that even more people became his friends, two twins, Ashley and Heather. His friends call him Prince because they think its a cool nickname. Prince introduced them to video games and they started playing first virtual reality game together, Absolute Authority. The 4 even planned to go to the same college together, Atlas University. Marshall already got in on a football scholarship, Ashley and Heather also already got in with their superb grades. The only one thats holding them back from their dream is Prince. He might be called a nerd but hes only a nerd when it comes to video games. Prince is studying really hard and hopefully hell be able to pass the test in three days.
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Chapter 12 - The Path Of The Blacksmith!
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Authors Note: Hey everyone, Ive been busy for the past week so the chapter took longer. I try to get 2 chapters out per week but most of the time I cant sorry. Alright, occupations will now be called professions (felt awkward calling it occupations). I changed the previous chapters already. Also, the table formatting really frustrates me and takes me a long time to do it while I could actually be writing the next chapter instead. So I''ll just put horizontal lines between them instead. It''s honestly basically the same.... I''ll only do tables for the MC''s stats. (If you guys really want me to make tables, comment and I''ll do it). Tyhuko (Editor) wanted to put in some editor notes of his own, so if you see them, they were his. I hope you enjoy the chapter!
True Identity Chapter 12 C The Path Of The Blacksmith After we were done, the party exited the mine and headed towards Edilath Kingdom. Right after we exited the mine a window appeared in front of me.
Skill Name:Skill Rank:Skill Level:Skill Experience:
CartographyNovice110%
Description:
When you draw maps, cartography will gain experience, And as the level of cartography increases, so will your maps quality.
[You created a map of Wildehedge Mine! Due to Wildehedge Mine being a Rank E Difficulty, you will gain these benefits: Fame + 5 Luck + 5 Strength + 10 Wisdom + 10] Oh sweet, I even gain buffs from creating maps. Cartography is awesome! While we were walking on the road towards Edilath, the 4 I had just met were talking amongst themselves like they had forgotten that I was here. I was basically the 5th wheel in this group but it didnt really bother me. I was too obsessed looking at my new acquired axe. Just out of curiosity I decided to check out the weapon leaderboards. Weapon leaderboards.
Best weapons in Absolute Authority
Rank 1Soul Rapier [Tier: Grand] (1-Handed Sword)
Rank 2Foe Of Chaos [Tier: Grand] (2-Handed Spear)
Rank 3Warbringer [Tier: Grand] (2-Handed Axe)
Rank 4Promise Of The North [Tier: Grand] (2-Handed Staff)
Rank 5Pact Of The Night [Tier: Grand] (1-Handed Dagger)
Rank 6Moonlight Cleaver [Tier: Grand] (1-Handed Axe)
Rank 7Soul Of The Suffering [Tier: Grand] (1-Handed Staff)
Rank 8Furys Fist [Tier: Grand] (1-Handed Knuckles)
Rank 9Musket Of The Storm [Tier: Grand] (Rifle)
Rank 10Silverlight Blade [Tier: Grand] (2-Handed Sword)
There it is, Moonlight Cleaver is 6th on the leaderboards! I''ve gained something extremely valuable here. Since my axe is 6th place in all of AA, how about just in Edilath. Weapon leaderboards in Edilath
Best Weapons in Edilath Kingdom
Rank 1Warbringer [Tier:Grand] (2-Handed Axe)
Rank 2Promise of the North [Tier: Grand] (2-Handed Staff)
Rank 3Moonlight Cleaver [Tier: Grand] (1-Handed Axe)
Rank 4Whisper Of Trials [Tier: Grand] (Rifle)
Rank 5Warblade Of Secrets [Tier: Basic] (2-Handed Sword)
Rank 6Bruiser Of The Wicked [Tier; Basic] (1-Handed Knuckles)
Rank 7Edge Of Dismay [Tier: Basic] (1-Handed Dagger)
Rank 8Claymore Of The Shadows [Tier: Basic] (1-Handed Sword)
Rank 9Lance Of Hope [Tier: Grand] (2-Handed Spear)
Rank 10Call Of Dismay [Tier: Basic] (1-Handed Staff)
3rd in Edilath! With this weapon I will be able to conquer Edilath and become a top tier player. After I was done being mesmerized by my epic weapon, the other four decided to talk to me. Looks like they finally realized that I was actually here. Amber spoke first in a somewhat over-the-top friendly tone. Axle, how did you clear the mine by yourself? I mean, clearing it wasnt that hard for us but we had 4 people. But you were by yourself and you were only level 7. Umm, it was actually really hard at first but after I got used to the dwarfs fighting styles, it became easier. I purposely left out the fact that I died twice, they dont need to know about that Oh ok, well Im glad that everything worked out well. We killed that boss after all! Yeah, its a good thing that you are a good person I thought you may run away with the drops, haha. C Ronin laughed awkwardly as he said that On a long way back to Edilath, we talked about the game. During our stroll back some foxes tried to ambush us even though we were clearly stronger than them. Seems like the foxes werent as sly as they thought they were The group gave me all the corpses when I said I could process them. While talking to the other four I learned about few things. Apparently many groups that are competing to start the first guild are having a very hard time. Many of the groups are experiencing an uproar within their midst. A group by the name [DEFIANT] can be a perfect example. There is confusion as to who is actually the leader and who is going to be collecting all the money in order to buy the mansion. Due to the unrest, people within the group are PKing each other. Some of the players have already left [DEFIANT] and started forming their own groups. Its not just [DEFIANT] though. Many other groups are facing similar problems. Basically, the leaders of the groups cant control their people and are quickly losing their authority. The only group that looks stable at the moment is [The Brotherhood]. They are led by a fierce leader, his name is Ares. Ares is currently the best player in Edilath and it is said that he uses his power to kill anyone that stands in his way. Therefore everyone in [The Brotherhood] has agreed that he is definitely the leader and no one has dared to disagree. Because of their stability, superiority, and leadership many people want to join [The Brotherhood]. Even Ronins group seems inclined to join them in the future. After just over an hour we finally reached Edilath. I looked at my inventory again, I already gathered 525 pelts from the corpses I skinned in the mine. I also had many more corpses that needed to be skinned from the walk back here. Alright, cya Axle. It was fun! Lets party up again some other time! Definitely, bye. Are you happy now Haley? It seems that even I can make some friends. We added each other to our friends list and went our separate ways. I sprinted towards the stall with the merchant named Francis in it. Like before Francis was busily selling his goods to some people. I didnt notice before but Francis is probably the most popular merchant in the market place. Franciss face showed an excited smile when he saw me running towards him. Welcome back Axle! Did you get the pelts? Yes, I got all the pelts. I took the pelts out of my inventory and handed Francis 500 pelts. After I handed Francis the pelts, he looked satisfied. Thank god! Thank you Axle, I will be able to make a huge profit when I turn this into armor. As reward I will teach you a skill that is worth more than gold. [Quest Complete!]
Completed Quest: The Animal Hunt
Difficulty:E
Rewards:Fame + 10 Luck + 10
Description:
The merchant Francis has asked you to do a favor for him, in return he will teach you a skill worth more than gold
Yes, I just completed my first quest. Now give me my rewards! A light glowed around me and I leveled up to level 10. Stats
Title: Livin'' On The Edge
Name:Axle
Level:10Class:Warrior
Health:153 / 153Mana:160 / 160
Stamina:156 / 156Attack:95-97
Magic Attack:50Defense:81
Movement Speed:98Fame:25
Francis told me to take out an item that wasnt identified yet. I took out my axe. Obtaining this skill isnt easy, it takes perseverance and tons of concentration. Are you ready to learn it? Yes! Close your eyes and concentrate. Feel the item, become one with the item, be the item. When you feel that you are ready say identify. I concentrated hard with all my might and when I was ready. Identify [Failure] Identify [Failure] You will get lots of failures, but if you keep doing it, at some point you will be able to identify it. I sat there for a long time trying to identify the axe, Francis tried to correct what I was doing wrong. . 2 hours later Identify
Moonlight Cleaver [Tier: Grand]
Type:1-Handed AxeDurability:150 / 150
Stats:
Attack: 30-40
Requirements:Level 7, Strength at least 75
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Skill Name:Skill Rank:Skill Level:Skill Experience:
IdentifyNovice110%
Description:
You have struggled for a long time but didnt give up. This skill will allow you to identify items. As you level this skill up, you will be able to identify higher Tiers of equipment.
I did it! I had beads of sweat running down my body from 2 hours of hard work. But it was all worth it! This skill is hard to attain but once you have it, its easy to use. It is hard to learn this skill because only those who have mastered it, can teach it to others. And lucky for you, I just mastered it a couple of days ago and it so happened that I wanted to try it out. So, are you saying that Im just someone you randomly chosen. I identified all of my equipment that werent identified yet. Thank you very much! Oh Francis, I created this map of the mine and I was wondering if there was an easier way to copy these to other pieces of paper rather than just doing it by hand. Haha, you continuously exceed my expectation! Hand over the map to me. I handed the map to Francis and he copied it to some sort of template. How many copies do you want? 100 maybewait how much would that cost? Hmm, normally I would charge 4 gold but for you, Ill charge 2 gold. Is that alright? Looking at my 2 gold and 40 copper in my pocket, I unwillingly handed over my 2 gold. Alright, its done. But before I hand these over to you Axle, I have a proposition for you. What is this proposition? Let me keep 50 of these and Ill sell them to other adventurers and well split the profits. I get 40% and you get 60%. What do you think? I think I can sell these copies for around 10 silver each and but selling 100 copies by myself might be hard. Alright, lets do 50% each and we have a deal. Also, if you need make more copies because you only have 50, make more and charge it from my profits. Haha, Axle I gave you a better deal before why not take the 60-40 ratio? Editors notes: Yeah, Axle, Weed wouldnt be proud ;-; Just in case we do business in the future, and why are you suddenly calling me Axle when you were calling me young adventurer before? I might be poor but Im not stingy. If I treat Francis better now, our intimacy will grow and hell charge me less for the goods in the future. Haha, well, now that we are business partners, I shall call you Axle. For others, they will still be called young adventurers. Are all merchants this sly and greedy? Francis and I said our goodbyes and I ran towards the blacksmith workshop. Welcome back young adventurer, did you finish the quest? Yes I did. Oh, you must be a really worthy one to complete the quest, I even gave you a pickaxe tha *cough* nevermind, good job. Even though he didnt finish his sentence, I knew what he was going to say. Fuck you Ferron. I held my tongue because if I were to say what was actually was on my mind. Well, Ill just leave that to your imagination. [Quest Complete!]
Completed Quest: Path of the Blacksmith[Part 1]
Difficulty:E
Rewards:Fame + 10 Luck + 10
Description:
Ferrons respect for you has grown, intimacy with Ferron has increased.
I gained a lot of experience from finishing the quest, Im almost level 11. If I keep on leveling like this, Ill make up for my 2 deaths in no time! Alright, now its time for the next step, choose the weapon you want to make. I thought long and hard about this. I was trying to think what weapon would go with my 1-handed axe the best. The axe has a higher chance of critical strikes, it also deteriorates armor quicker with greater impacts. But it doesnt have much range to it, in order to hit the enemy you have to be up close. After thinking hard, I found that the sword would definitely be the best choice because it has a longer range, its more versatile, and parry rates are much higher. 1-Handed Sword. Alright lets get to work!
Quest: Path of the Blacksmith [Part 2]
Difficulty:F
Description:
Ferron will now teach you how to make weapons.
Requirements:
The weapon you make must at least be of the Basic Tier
Failure:
Respect and intimacy with Ferron will decrease. Fame will decrease.
Woah, this is the first time a quest has given me a penalty if I fail. I had better complete this quest. I melted the iron ore in the furnace and poured it into a mold. Letting it cool to temper it a little, I reheated it again and then hammered it like my life depended on it. I repeated these steps until I made my desired sword. I wrapped the handle with leather straps and the swords hilt was complete. [You created a 1-handed sword, name your weapon] Oh Shit, I get to name the weapons I make! I better name it something cool! Thinking carefully, I finally said. Call Of Hope
Call Of Hope [Tier: Basic]
Type:1-Handed SwordDurability:125 / 125
Stats:
Attack: 20-30
Requirements:Level 5, Strength at least 60
Description:
This weapon was made by an amateur blacksmith. Due to his hard work, the sword is well made.
Creator:Axle
[You made a Basic Tier weapon. Blacksmithing proficiency has increased.]
Completed Quest: Path of the Blacksmith[Part 2]
Difficulty:F
Rewards:Fame + 5 Luck + 5
Description:
You have met Ferrons expectations. Ferrons respect for you has grown, intimacy with Ferron has increased.
Haha, this was definitely the best choice. A weapon to attack when Im farther away and a weapon to attack when Im up close. I equipped Call Of Hope as my secondary weapon replacing the crude sword. Editors notes: Huh? How is a one-handed sword better than the second one-handed axe? Olaf and vikings dare to disagree!
Profession Name:Profession Rank:Profession Level:Profession Experience:
BlacksmithNovice130%
Description:
Blacksmithery is an occupation that reaps great rewards. As you make more items your blacksmithing efficiency will increase. When your blacksmithing reaches intermediate level you can ask your blacksmith teacher to teach you new techniques that will make your creations even better.
[Warning: There will be a system announcement of your achievements, do you want to show your name or remain anonymous?] I dont want to be targeted by others. Remain anonymous.
Authors Note: Alright there have been some complaints (sorry I dont know what to call them other than complaints) that I dont release chapters fast enough. In a perfect world, Ill release 2 chapters per week but unfortunately, most of the time its not a prefect world. (Im pretty proud of what I just said there lol). Ill try to get 2 chapters out per week but please understand that there is a long process to each chapter I write. I created a page that tells you how I write my chapters -> Chapter Creation. Thanks for reading the chapter. I would greatly appreciate it if you visited my blog. I usually post the chapters 24 hours earlier than when I post them on royalroad. So if you want the chapters faster follow my blog!https://trueidentitynovel.wordpress.com Please comment if you liked/disliked the chapter and tell me what I can improve on. This will help me a lot thanks. Make sure you follow me if you like work!
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Chapter 13 - Kingdom Event
Edited By: Tyhuko and Edet
Authors Note: Hey everyone, so apparently this week is one of those perfect world weeks (see what I did there), so heres the second chapter this week :P. I think things are going to get interesting so have fun reading. I hope you enjoy the chapter!
True Identity Chapter 13 C Kingdom Event Remain anonymous. [System Announcement: Adventurer XXXX has become the first adventurer to become a blacksmith. XXXX will be rewarded: Fame + 25 Luck + 25] Holy crap! These are some major rewards! It too bad I wasnt the first person to get a profession, that was awarded to some chef while I was at work. But my fame and luck are definitely one of the best in AA right now! Too bad theres no way to check. Good job Axle, you have met my expectation by creating such a fine sword. Come back when you have increased your blacksmith rank and I shall teach you new techniques. But take to heart that next time itll cost you some coin. Hmm it seems that if you have high fame or if you have high intimacy with the NPC, theyll call you by your name. Thank you sir! I will make sure to come back. Good luck on your travels. And I told you before just to call me Ferron! I said goodbye to Ferron and went towards the market place. In the market place there was a designated area for adventurers to set up stalls and sell their goods. When I got to the adventurers square, I found a good spot to set up a stall to sell my goods. Selling maps of Wildehedge Mine, great spot for grinding! I can even identify equipment, I charge you less than the Identifying Merchant! If the maps didnt reach the other adventurers, identifying sure did. Once the people heard that I could identify equipment, they came running to see if it was true. Many didnt believe me but apparently there was already 2 other people in other kingdoms that also already got the identify skill, so it wasnt that hard to convince them. People handed all their equipment, putting their trust in me that I wouldnt steal from them. Of course I didnt steal their equipment. If I did would, lose so much profit. The Identifying Merchant charges 50 silver for crude, 1 gold for basic, and 3 gold for grand equipment. They were truly monopolizing the prices. I decided to make it much cheaper. I charges 30 silver for crude, 75 silver for basic, and 1 gold and 75 silver for grand. Some people still complained that the prices were still to high but they didnt really have a choice. They could either get it identified here for cheaper or go to the Identifying Merchant. News spread all over Edilath that someone has gained the ability to identify items. People came from literally everywhere in order to get their equipment identified. Even Ronin and his friends came, but I decided to identify their equipment for free since theyre friends. Im getting money and also leveling up my identify skill. This is a win-win situation for me. I sat there for about an hour identifying equipment. Until nobody else came anymore. My maps had all sold and I identified so much equipment that I cant even remember anymore. I made 5 gold from my maps and I made 250 gold from identifying. 250 gold! I better put this on the online auction as fast as I can. Since earning gold was so hard for regular players the ratio from gold to US Dollars was very favorable. The ratio was 1 gold for 4 US Dollars. The demand for gold is much higher than the supply of it. I put 225 gold for 895 US Dollars on the auction. Lets see how quick this sells. I looked at the time and it was about time for me go to bed. I was so tired because I hadnt gone to bed since my nap yesterday. I logged off of AA and went to bed. When I woke up the next morning I felt refreshed and ready to take on the world of AA but unfortunately I still had to go to work. I thought that my morning was going to be boring just like every other morning. I would go to the bathroom, then to the kitchen, ate my breakfast, chat with Haley, and then go to work. But today was a special day when I checked my phone I saw an email. $895 was sent to my bank account! Im rich! Not really but I just made more than a months worth of work within 2 days! Nick was right, this game is totally worth it. I got home from work excited to start playing AA but first I had to check the forums to see if there was any new information. I wasnt surprised when I saw a thread talking about me identifying equipment in Edilath. These are some of the comments on the thread. Does anybody know how to get the identifying skill? That guy must be rich! Fuck I missed it! I need my stuff to get identified. There is probably more people who are also going to get the skill so I better take advantage while Im still the only one who has it in Edilath. There was another thread that said BEWARE Of [Nemesis] In Edilath. Apparently there was a group of adventurers that were fighting a Rank 1 Boss. They got the boss down to 20% health until another group who called themselves [Nemesis] came and killed them and then stole the boss. I will make sure that I stay away from these people, I cant lose my axe after I literally just got it. When I was done checking out all the recent information I put on the VR helmet. [Do You Want To Connect To Absolute Authority?] Yes! I spawned in the adventurers square, to my surprise there was a big group of people crowding around what looked to be 1 NPC. The NPC shouting words that were hard to hear because of the ruckus but I managed to make it out. Adventurers of Edilath, my village is going to be raided by a big group of goblins. Please help us! [Kingdom Event: You have heard the pleas of the villager. Will you help the save the village?] This is a kingdom event. I wonder if every kingdom has events like this. Yes.
Saving Cobeth
Difficulty:C
Description:
A nearby village has asked the adventurers of Edilath to help them. Go east of Edilath towards Cobeth Village and slay the goblins.
Requirements:
Prevent Cobeth Village from being destroyed and defeat all the goblins
Failure:
Cobeth Village is desroyed and the Kingdom of Edilaths Honor will decrease
Quest: Saving Cobeth [The king of Edilath has created a Kingdom Event. If the Kingdom Event is Successful, the participants will be rewarded.] I opened my friends list and messaged Ronin to see if he also accepted the Kingdom Event. Hey Ronin. Whats up Axle? Did you and your friends accept the Kingdom Event? Yeah we are already on our way to Cobeth Village. Will you participate as well? Yep, but dont wait for me. Ill meet you guys there and we can party up. Sweet, cya later. Cya. With the brief conversation ending, I decided to get ready. I ran to the nearest blacksmith in order to repair all my items. It cost me a whole 3 gold! What the hell is this, I need to level up my blacksmithing quick so I dont have to pay these outrageous prices. After my items were repaired I ran to the usual merchant, Francis. Axle, its nice to see you. Heres your 50% of the profit from the maps. Francis handed me a bag full of coins. I counted 8 gold coins. He must have printed 50 more copies of it or hes cheating me Ill give him the benefit of the doubt for now. I now had 32 gold coins in my inventory. Francis, do you have any consumables that would aid me in fighting?. Well, health potions are essential. Oh, I just finished making the leather armor from the pelts you gave me before. Why dont you have a look, Ill give you first dibs. How much do Rank 1 health potions cost? Usually 30 silver each but for you, 25 silver. Alright, Ill buy 10. Francis handed me 10 health potions and in return I handed him 2 gold and 50 silver.
Health Portion [Rank 1]
Type:ConsumableDurability:-
Stats:Restores 50 health instantly.
Restrictions:20 second cool down
I proceeded to look at the leather armor that Francis made. There were many basic tier leather armor but some cost more than others. I already have a leather chestpiece and pants. I also already have plate boots so itd probably be best to buy something I dont have yet. This narrative has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. If you see it on Amazon, please report it. I picked up a pair of leather gloves and a leather cap. These should do nicely. How much do these two cost? 8 gold. I handed Francis 8 gold and equipped the two.
Rugged Gloves [Tier: Basic]
Type:LeatherDurability:100 / 100
Stats:
Strength: +10 Agility: +15 Endurance: +8 Defense: 12
Requirements:Level 8[Tier: Basic]
[tr][td2]Requirements:
Rugged Cap [Tier: Basic]
Type:LeatherDurability:100 / 100
Stats:
Strength: +8 Agility: +12 Endurance: +6 Defense: 10
Level 8[Tier: Basic]
[/align] With this I was ready to head out. I walked past the eastern gates and followed the road. Unlike the last time I was on the road there are a lot of people on the road heading to Cobeth. Ive been walking on this road for about 30 minutes now. God, this is so damn boring. Id honestly rather get attack by 3 foxes at once then walk any farther on this path. While I was still complaining about the long walk, I overheard a conversation from other bored adventures. Hey do you know how much longer until we reach the village? Ah, I believe that we still have an hours walk more. Wait what! Another hour of walking!! Fuck this shit, Im just going to cut through the forest and hopefully I cut the time in half. Or atleast Ill find something interesting that wont make me bored. I cut through the forest towards Cobeth Village. [You have entered Death Forest, Beware!] Well, thats a good name for a forest. Shortly after I entered the forest I heard a ruckus up ahead. Leaves were rustling, branches were snapping, and loud footsteps that sounded like running could be heard. Oh shit, the noise is heading in my direction. I hid behind the nearest tree and stuck my head out of the side just enough to see. I saw a girl running as fast as she possibly could, which Ill admit was pretty fast. But there was also 7 people chasing after her. The party of 7 had 2 healers, 1 knight, 1 monk, 1 warrior, 1 mage, and 1 ranger. Thats a pretty balanced group if you ask me. The two healers were both girls, 1 human and 1 elf. They were both pretty but no match for Amber and Lilith. The knight was undead while the monk was a barbarian. The ranger was an elf and the mage was a halfling. The warrior, the leader of the group, was a human. Duke, the warrior, started shouting while carrying two swords in his hands. Get back here you bitch! How dare you deny my invitation to our group! I suddenly felt compelled to help this mysterious lady because after all its 7v1. I saw that the ranger was lacking behind the others so I waited for the other 6 to run past the tree I was hiding making sure that they didnt see me. When the ranger was within 5 feet of me I came out of my hiding spot. With a golden hue coming from my axe, I activated my new skill [Skull Splitter]. The ranger didnt have enough time to react so my vertical swing connected with his face. [75!] [Critical Strike!] [Enemy is paralyzed for 4 seconds] Damn, the rangers lack of defense makes me look so strong! I quickly used my sword to stab the ranger in the stomach and then slashed him in the shoulder with my axe. I did this all within the 4 second paralyze. [34!] [42!] Blood splat everywhere while the rangers health depleted to 0 and fell to his knees. But before he died he spoke his dying words. Where the fuck did you come from? I kicked the rangers body out of the way and picked up the health potion and 2 gold coins that were lying on the ground. Surprised, the rest of the party turned around. Duke spoke up, Who the fuck is this guy? Ah whatever, he must be friends with the girl. Grimm, you take those two go fight the girl while the rest of us will take him on. They cant possibly beat us, we outnumber them. After Duke gave his order, the mage, 1 of the healers, and Duke came towards me. Instead of waiting, I charged at the warrior. But to his surprise, I ran right past him straight to the healer. I need to get rid of the support first, Ill deal with the warrior last. The healer obviously wasnt that experienced in fights, but then again neither was I. When I was about 4 feet away from the healer, I slashed my sword at the healer and then moved in closer in order to use my axe. [35!] [67!] The healer only had 33 health left so I quickly slit her throat with my axe before she could heal herself. [36!] |47!| After I kill the healer, Duke stabbed me in the back while the mage was casting a spell. From fear of death, I dove into the nearest bushes and hid while dodging some sort of ice spell from the mage. I drank a health pot recovering me to full health. Stay close together, he could be anywhere. Duke yelled. But even after Duke stated his warning, the mage wasnt listening. I stealthily moved towards the mage. In the bushes behind the mage, I grabbed him by the hood of his robe and pulled him to the ground. I pinned him down and started hacking at him Native American style with my axe until he died. Before Duke could move any closer to me, I quickly turned around and pointed my sword at him measuring the distance. Duke stopped in his tracks. As I was about to attack the Duke some fatal strikes came from behind him. With 3 swift strikes, the girl who was getting chased before killed him! Damn, this girl has already killed the other three, she must be good. I swear [Nemesis] will have its revenge. So this is the notorious [Nemesis] Ive heard so much about. With that, Duke was lying on the ground dead. I kicked over Dukes corpse to find a sword lying on the ground. I picked it up to see what it was. [tr][td2]Requirements:
Claymore Of The Shadows [Tier: Basic]
Type:1-Handed SwordDurability:95 / 130
Stats:
Attack: 35-45
Level 8, Strength at least 80
Oh, Duke had some pretty good equipment. This is the 8th best weapon in Edilath right now. After a long silence of awkwardness, the girl spoke up. How about we roll for it? Its only fair that way. Alright. [78] [42] FUCK I LOST! The sword left my hands and suddenly appeared into the hands of the girl who then equipped it. Why the fuck did I agree to roll?! I then looked at the name hovering over the girls head. The girls name was Iris. Wait, where have I seen this name before.
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Chapter 14 - Proposal In Distress
Edited By: Tyhuko and Edet
Authors Note: Hey everyone, heres the next chapter. As I said before, I got rid of the tables because it was frustrating but the way I did it without tables is basically the same so don''t worry. I left you guys something nice in this chapter. I hope you like it. :)
True Identity Chapter 14 C Proposal In Distress The girls name was Iris. Wait, where have I seen this name before. Top players in Edilath
Top Ranked Players in Edilath #1 Ares (Knight) #2 Faye (Healer) #3 Zorian (Assassin) #4 Xavier (Necromancer) #5 Leon (Monk) #6 Lyssa (Healer) #7 Zephyr (Ranger) #8 Riona (Mage) #9 Giselle (Assassin) #10 Iris (Warrior)
I knew it! Wait youre Iris, the 10th best player in Edilath! After I said that, Iris started to awkwardly back away. Umm, yeah Oh shit, I gotta calm down, Im coming on too strong. Are you on your way to Cobeth Village? Yeah. Alright, lets go together. We can talk on the way. I sent a party invite to Iris and she was reluctant to accept. As we were moving through the forest towards Cobeth we talked about various things. Supposedly Iris had the same idea as me to cut through the forest but on the way she ran into Dukes group. The minute Duke saw Iris, he asked her to join [Nemesis]. I cant blame Duke for wanting to invite Iris the minute he saw her, shes a beauty. Her blond hair, alluring blue eyes, slender figure, and pointy ears that complimented her captivating smile makes her at least a 9.5/10. Plus shes the 10th best player in Edilath. This woman is just just something else. *Cough* Now lets back on topic. She declined Dukes offer mainly because of the bad rumors and then they got mad. Heres how the conversation went: Iris, how about you join [Nemesis]? Sorry, Im not looking to join any groups at the moment You dare refuse the bosss invitation?! C Grimm, the knight. Well, Im just not that inter KILL HER! C Duke Well, that escalated quickly. Even though she is the 10th best person in Edilath, taking on 7 people by herself is an impossible feat. Realizing her situation, she ran while they chased after her and then I suddenly appeared and killed the ranger. It became 2v6. The odds of us winning were still not very good, but they were better than before and we won! We walked and talked for another 35 minutes before we finally saw Cobeth Village. It surprised me that she didnt ask me anything about my life outside of the game. When people meet in game for the first time, real life is the usual conversation that comes up. What you do, how old you are, where do you live, etc. But Iris didnt ask any of those questions, but I was fine with that, I dont have anything good to talk about anyway. Entering into Cobeth Village I saw my four friends waiting for me. My friends are over there, lets go. We ran towards Ronins group and join his party. With that, we had 6 people in our party ready to take on any goblin that crossed our path. I was surprised that Ronins group just acted normally when they saw Iris, I guess they havent noticed that shes one of the best players in Edilath yet. Alright since our party is established, we have to report to the commander and hell assign us to a zone. C Ronin We walked up to an NPC with the title Edilath Commander. Oh, what do we have here. Youre a small group but for some reason you seem very promising. I will assign you guys to zone 15, the northern part of the village. After hearing the commands we all unanimously said, Yes sir! Suddenly another NPC coming running towards the captain. Commander! Our scouts say that the goblins are coming to raid the village. They are coming from the north and east, about 15 minutes away. How many are there? Were not sure, but probably over 25 thousand. What?! This is bad, we only have around 6 thousand adventurers so far. This will indeed be a hard fight. Suddenly the commander yelled something that could be heard throughout the entire village. Adventurers of Edilath! Prepare for battle, the enemy is near! Defeat the enemy with all your might, fight for Edilaths honor! The moral of the adventurers was heightened and everyone cheered because of the inspiration speech. But not long after the cheers of the adventurers were overshadowed. ROAR! A deafening roar was heard from a distance. It must be the sound of the goblins. We better hurry to our position and get ready. We ran to the northern zone and waited for the goblins to come. Standing there with axe and sword in hand, I felt my whole body shaking. But it was not from fear or nervousness, it was from anticipation and excitement. I couldnt wait to slaughter numerous goblins. Am I a sadist? We should form a strategy. C Ronin Axle, since you are good at observing, what do you think? C Amber Well, seeing as we dont know much about the enemy as of now, I think we should just go with a basic plan. Melee stay in front and attack. When you are losing too much health, fall back a little and heal up while making sure the healers dont get attacked. Healers stay back and make sure you heal us, but dont run out of mana too fast and drink mana potions when needed. We will improvise the strategy when its needed. Alright! Looking around us, I saw many other parties ready to fight. I just hope well be victorious. Roar! Authors Note: I decided to leave you guys with a good old cliffhanger :P Haley/Hazel Perspective: {Ching! Clank!} Hurry up guys we have to finish this quest, the timer is running out! Slow down Hazel, Its not fair. You kill these trolls so fast because you have Pact Of The Night, the 5th best weapon in AA right now. While we only have these basic tier weapons. Stop whining. I told you before, its skill, not just the weapon. Yeah, sure. What did you just say?! Nothing!. My friends and I all started in Zarevia, the eastern kingdom. There are 5 of us in total. Nessa an elven mage, Cyndi a human knight, Esther an undead necromancer, Corrie a human healer, and me an elven assassin. Recently, we received a quest from a distressed NPC named John, the ring he had just bought was stolen by some greedy trolls. He had saved up all his money for the past 3 years in order to buy that ring and now he wouldnt be able to to propose to his girlfriend on their anniversary, which is tomorrow! Our quest is to enter a cavern that is inside a huge mountain and retrieve Johns ring.
Quest: Proposal In Distress Difficulty: D Requirements: Retrieve the ring that was stolen from John. 1 day time limit. Failure: Fame will decrease, John will not be able to propose on his anniversary. Description: Enter the Chaos Cavern of Thieves that is inside Salosk Mountain. Beware, fierce trolls are inside.
Weve currently been in this cavern for about 20 minutes now and have fought gruesome trolls who have strong melee and magic attack. They also wield all types of weapons that were clearly stolen.
Chaos Trolls [Rank 1] Level: 16 Health: 350 / 350 Attack: 60 Magic Attack: 45 Defense 75 Abilities: [Fireball] [Camouflage]
Alright guys, we need to move a little faster but be care Suddenly a troll came out of its [Camouflage] ready to hit me but luckily my reaction time is pretty fast and I evaded the attack. |Miss!| We bombarded the troll with attacks killing it within a couple seconds. I hate these damn trolls, their ability [Camouflage] makes it impossible to see them because they blend in with nature. The only way you can see them in [Camouflage] is if they are basically standing right in front of your face. Killing these trolls isnt really the problem but it scares the crap out of me when they suddenly pop out at you two feet away. If youre not careful in watching your surroundings, youre dead. A troll can come out of its [Camouflage] right behind you and attack you without noticing if youre not careful. But luckily I dont have this problem because the other 4 are watching my back while they slack behind. If you find this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the infringement. We have killed many trolls and collected various things. But the loot still wasnt that good. You would think that since these trolls steal so many valuables, they would drop some good stuff. Most of the loot is crude and not worth much. The other girls dont think the loots worth that much, so they dont want it. In the end, I was collecting most of the loot that dropped. Hey, everythings worth something. Once all the trash loot builds up, Ill be able to sell it for a small fortune and then itll be all worth it. Haha, I must have gotten these tendencies from my brother. Hey guys, I just read on the forums that Edilath got some kind of Kingdom Event. I wonder what the rewards are for completing it. C Corrie The rewards are probably really good because its commissioned by their king. C Nessa Really? Maybe theyll get something cool from the kings treasury or something. C Cyndi No way! The Kings treasury cant reward all the adventurers participating. C Esther Oh, you have a point there. C Cyndi We talked about the Kingdom Event some more and then moved onto other conversations. I just hope James is safe and gets something awesome for his reward. After another 3 hour of killing trolls, resting, and of course collecting trash loot we entered the last room of the cavern. It was a huge room with a dome ceiling. Were probably at the peak of the mountain, except were inside of the mountain instead on the outside. Looking farther down the room we could see an enormous amount of valuable loot. Gold coins, weapons, armor, and everything you could imagine was at the other side of the room. Guys lets go, theres so much valuables just waiting for us to collect! Cyndi ran excited across the room. Wait, something doesnt feel right. Shouldnt there be something guarding all this treasure. I hurry to warn Cyndi. Wait Cyndi, something doesnt feel ri. Just as I thought, a huge troll came out its [Camouflage] state and bashed Cyndi, knocking her back 10 meters. Oh man, why is our temporary tank such an airhead. Looking at the troll standing in our path, we were all surprised at what we saw. Damn this thing is huge, how are we going to defeat this thing.
Hadden the Swindler [Rank 2 BOSS] Level: 22 Health: 1000 / 1000 Attack: ??? Defense: ??? Abilities: [Fireball] [Swindle] [Camouflage]
Standing about 10 feet tall with a huge body, this nasty creature looks fierce. The troll is holding a 1-handed sword in his right hand and a 1-handed staff in the other. Looks like this Boss can do melee and magic damage. The way Hadden looked was like a mother protecting her children except now its a troll protecting its treasure. I really want that treasure so we better kill this thing. Alright everyone, lets kill this thing. Cyndi tank the troll, Esther summon some minions to help us with the fight, Corrie heal those who need it, Nessa use some ice skills to slow the Boss down, and Ill try to do as much damage as I can. Hadden charged at us while I was shouting out commands and now was about 20 meter away. Prepare for battle everyone! Bracing ourselves for the fight to come, Cyndi charged the Boss fearlessly. Maybe its actually lucky that Cyndi is such an airhead, no normal person would be able to charge in fearlessly like that. Cyndi attacked the troll but at the same time, the troll was attacking her back. [35!] |43!| After Cyndi grabbed the enemys aggro, the rest of us started to attack the Boss with all our might. Luckily Corrie is a top notch healer, so no one will die for some time. With my dagger glowing a red hue, I used my best skill [Bleed] on the troll. The skill does massive damage because it ignores some armor defense and will only get stronger as I level it up. [45!] Suddenly Haddens sword turned. Showing a red hue it attacked Cyndi almost killing her instantly. The skill that the Boss has just used was the one I have just used on him. Its as if he just stole or swindled my skill. Be careful guys, the trolls skill [Swindle] can copy your skills and use it against you. Itll be dangerous if he steals something really powerful. We fought for another 2 minutes getting the Swindlers health down to 350. Suddenly the Boss used [Swindle] again. Stealing Nessas ice magic, Hadden used an AOE frost skill, slowing down everything that stood within it. Right after using the frost magic, he used [Fireball] on Cyndi. Cyndi was unable to dodge the fireball because of her slowed state. She took the hit hoping that she would be healed right after. But unfortunately Corrie wasnt fast enough. Cyndi died right after being stabbed with a sword. With our tank dead, our chances looked grim. If the rest of us get hit by one of Haddens attacks, well die instantly because we dont have enough defense to withstand the hits. But the Boss only had 350 health left so defeating it isnt impossible. Esther summon more minions, use them to take hits for us so we dont die. Alright Esther continuously summon more minions, using up her mana and stamina up rapidly. One by one the minions took the hits for us and died. Even though they were undead minions, I still felt terrible seeing their bodies getting torn apart with each hit. But this is survival of the fittest and we need to kill this boss within the next 2 minutes or else itll use [Swindle] again. After 1 minute of continuously summoning, Esther was completely beat. She had no more mana or stamina left. But she has successfully done her job, the troll has 150 health left and we still have 3 minions left to work with. We progressively got the Swindlers health down while using the 3 minions to take the damage. But what I was still afraid of was that the cool down of [Swindle] was almost done. Attack with everything you got, we could all die from the next [Swindle]. Nearly close to what we feared most, I summon all my strength and charged the ugly creature. Closing the distance, I dodged numerous fireballs and attacks. When I was 3 feet away from the Boss, I used my best skill again, [Bleed]. [66!] [Critical Strike!] The Boss fell to the ground with a big thud. Thank you, critical hit! I kicked the Bosss body in order to see the loot. The Boss dropped a 1-handed staff with a greenish hue, 10 gold, plate gloves, and what looked to be a spellbook! Lets get the loot identified first and then well distribute it. Since we all knew each other, there was nothing to worry about. We could trust each other. After picking the Haddens loot, we rushed to collect all the treasure. We found a total of 250 gold! But since we had to split it up 5 ways, we each got 50 gold. We also found Johns ring. Damn, the diamond on this thing is huge! The rest of the treasure was pieces of crude to basic tier equipment which werent that good but all together, it could be sold for a lot of gold. After we finished our business in the cavern, we walked back to Zarevia with our newfound treasure. I wonder how James is doing on the Kingdom Event.
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Chapter 15 - [Crusade]
Edited By: Tyhuko and Edet
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True Identity Chapter 15 C [Crusade] ROAR! Suddenly, a ton of goblins were coming out of the forest. They looked ready to kill anything in their path. From the looks of it the goblins were similar to us, well except the fact that they look ugly as shit. They had goblins holding crude melee weapons in the front the ones in the back were holding crude staves. Goblins that were mages and healers stayed in the back while melee and tanks stayed up front. This fight is going to be tough.
Savage Goblin [Rank 1] Level: 16 Health: 350 / 350 Attack: 50 Magic Attack: 40 Defense 45 Abilities: [Crusade]
Charge! C Edilath Commander Hearing the command, everyone charged at the goblins. Melee adventurers were chopping down goblins left and right trying not to die. Mages from both sides were shooting AOE fireballs in order to kill multiple enemies at once. Healers were healing adventurers but the number of healers could not match the number of adventurers getting injured. The fight was the most epic battle Ive ever seen. Analyzing the situation, I shouted commands to the rest of the party. Try not to get surrounded, their numbers far exceed ours, if we get surrounded then were dead! I used [Skull Splitter] on a goblin to my right that was trying to slash me with its sword. The goblins have higher numbers but their skill definitely doesnt match ours, I think we might have a good chance of winning. Blam! AARRGH! What the fuck was that! Explosions could be heard everywhere. The sound of screams after the explosions were so terrifying that it made me cringe. Looking towards my left, I could see goblins just charging full speed at adventurers then suddenly exploding. Adventurers were dying by the hundreds from the massive explosions. Their bodies being torn apart while their blood spewed everywhere. This must be their ability [Crusade]. The sight was so gruesome. These goblins are savages, theyll do anything to win, even sacrifice their own lives. Theyre taking advantage of their superior numbers knowing fully well that sacrificing thousands of goblins wont hurt their chances of winning. Looking down at myself, I saw blood all over my body. I couldnt tell if the blood was mine or others. Were going to lose. If this keeps up, were all going to die and the village is going to be destroyed. Fall back and regroup! C Edilath Commander All the adventurers that were still alive ran back towards the village. This is going to be the last defense, the last stand. If I had to guess the number of adventurers compared to the number of goblins was 3,500 to 16,000. The battle is just going to get harder from here. Again the goblins continued to bombard us with explosions and adventurers continued to die by the hundreds. Not far from my position I could hear a NPC talking to the commander. Commander our scouts say that we only have 3,000 adventurers left while the enemy still have 17,000 goblins. If this continues, we will surely lose. Shit, the situation is worse than I thought. Angrily slamming his spear into the ground, the commander shouted, Dont give up, fight with all your strength and we will surely win! But despite the commanders words, the situation was looking grim. With adventurers dying by the hundreds there was no way to survive. ROAR! A loud battle cry could be heard from the west of the village but it wasnt from the goblins. All of a sudden an enormous amount of people were rushing into the village from the road. Who are those people? C Ronin I believe theyre from [The Brotherhood]. How do you know? C Ronin Im not totally sure but who else in Edilath would have those numbers. Yeah, youre probably right. C Ronin With the 3,000 reinforcements our chances of winning had increased astronomically. I dont even think were needed at the front lines anymore. Hey guys, I dont think were really needed at the front lines anymore. How about we sneak out of here and try to find the goblin leader. If we kill the leader maybe it will deal a huge blow to the goblins. Thats a good idea, I say we do what Axle says. C Ronin Alright, follow me. We snuck out of the battle making sure nobody saw us. I looked at the battle one last time and saw that we were indeed beating the goblins after the reinforcements came. Now its time to find the leader and get some good drops! Finally behind the goblins, we searched for the leader. All the goblins looked the same but come on, the leader has to look somewhat different in order to distinguish him from the rest. Well, thats just what I hoping for. You guys see the leader yet? Nope, they all look the same. C Amber Suddenly I felt a tap on my left shoulder and I turned around to see Iris beautiful face. Over there. C Iris pointed to a goblin that looked significantly different from the rest. How the hell did I not notice him before. Unlike the other goblins, the leader is tall and packed with muscle. He has scars and tattoos all over his body that showed his experience in battle. The leaders right shoulder was branded with something that looked like swords crossing each other. Maybe it symbolized his rank in the goblin army. He held a fearsome 2-handed spear that looked sharp enough to kill anyone. The leader is still too close to the other goblins. We have to draw him away from the others. C Garan Ill draw him away from the others, just get ready to grab aggro Garan Alright C Garan I slowly moved closer towards the leader in order to see his stats and then draw him away from the other goblins.
Danik the Ravager [Rank 2 BOSS] Level: 24 Health: 1150 / 1150 Attack: ??? Defense: ??? Abilities: [Poison Tip] [Armor Pierce] [Crusade]
Standing about 20 meters away, I picked up a rock thats weight was fairly decent and threw it at Daniks head. What the fuck, did he just not feel it or something? Danik didnt feel the rock! So instead I picked up a nearby crude 1-handed axe and threw it at the Danik. The axe stuck into Daniks back. The story has been illicitly taken; should you find it on Amazon, report the infringement.Just like swatting a pesky fly, Danik pulled out the axe that was stuck in his back and turned around. After noticing me, he started to chase after me while I ran away using my wings. I was clearly faster than Danik because of my wings so getting back to the party wouldnt be that hard. Passing through a clearing I saw the rest of the party. Yes, I made it safely! SHING! |45!| |You have been poisoned, -20 health every 15 seconds for the next 10 minutes| After being hit, I felt a poisonous venom seeping into my body. Aw fuck, Im hit! Someone, hurry and heal me. [+50] What the fuck, -20 health every 15 seconds for the next 10 minutes. Isnt this skill a little too OP! Garan,could you take the aggro already? Im dying here, you know Ill try my best. C Garan Well, try harder! I know Im acting somewhat like an asshole but Im in some serious danger right now. Finally taking the aggro from me, Garan used [Toughen] in order to increase his defense and stamina. Garan wasnt taking much damage from the boss because his defense was quite high. Damn, do shields help that much? Garan used his shield in order to block Daniks attacks while using his sword to attack. The way he worked his sword around his shield slashing and hacking Danik was masterful. In my opinion, hes probably one of the best tanks in Edilath. While Garan tanked the Boss, Ronin, Iris, and I tried to deal as much damage as we could. We have used our best skills as many times as possible in order to get Daniks health down. Ronin used [Feudal Strike], which does massive damage to the enemy with one swift strike. Iris used [Decisive Blow], which hits a pressure point on the enemys body and has a chance of paralyzing the enemy for a couple seconds, while I used [Skull Splitter]. It was unfortunate that Danik was about 4 feet taller than me so hitting his head with [Skull Splitter] was nearly impossible. And moving up close to him in order to hit his body was a death wish. So I settled for an arm or leg, which was also very good. Disabling an arm for 5 seconds or a leg for 3 seconds was still great. We have been fighting Danik for about another 4 minutes now and the situation is becoming tough. Garans high defense helped him stay alive by a great deal, but whenever Danik used [Armor Pierce], Garans health is almost depleted to 0. Were are just lucky that we have 2 good healers that can keep Garan alive. Hurry up guys, I dont know how long I can hold up anymore C Garan Well try our best. Well, fucking try harder! C Garan Alright, Ill admit it, I deserved that. We tried our best to finish the Boss for another 5 minutes. We all constantly attacked Danik while using our best skills when they were off cooldown. With Danik only have 200 health left, I think our victory is secured. In a last effort, Danik used [Armor Pierce] on Garan. The attack nearly killed Garan but I wasnt that worried, our healer will heal hi. BANG! Garan fell to his knees and died. What the fuck just happened. Something from afar shot Garran right after he got attacked with [Armor Pierce], killing him. AARRGH! C Lilith Next a scream coming from Lilith. I quickly turned around to see what the scream was about, Lilith was stabbed in the back and killed by Duke! Oh shit. Well, well, look what we got here. If it isnt the two who killed us before, its our lucky day. Duke was smiling a devilish smile. This is bad, theyre going to steal the Boss and its loot. They have 7 people while we only have 4 people left, plus we have a Boss with 150 health aggroed on us. Our situation didnt look good, we might die. BANG! Amber was shot in the head and fell to the ground. Fuck, our numbers are dwindling. All thats left is Ronin, Iris, and me. I have to think of something fast. Dont worry about them, just kill the Boss and get the drops. Killing 7 people with only three people left while a Boss is aggroed to you is impossible. So instead we continued attacking Danik hoping to get the drops before we died. I just hope once we die, we dont drop and of the Boss drops. BANG! The ranger shot Ronin while Duke stabbed him multiple times. Two more left, 100 health to go. BANG! Iris was shot while Grimm slashed her down. Only 1 more left, 60 health to go. In desperation, I tried to use [Skull Splitter]. |Skill [Poison Tip] has paralyzed you for 5 seconds| What the fuck, I was hit by [Poison Tip] 10 minutes ago and now it has an after effect. This skill is way too OP. AHHHH The mage attacked me with a fireball while Duke slit my throat with his sword. Duke whispered into my ear while my eyes slowly closed shut. Thanks for the Boss. C Duke [You have died] I respawned into spirit form and quickly looked at what I dropped. Thank god, atleast I didnt drop my axe. I only dropped 2 health potions and 50 silver. I looked up to see what was happening. I saw Dukes party moving closer to the Boss in order to finish him off. Danik only had 50 health left so killing him would be easy. Dukes party killed the Boss depleting Its health to 0. After losing all his health, Danik spoke his dying words. If you kill me, Ill bring you with me! C Danik The Boss entire body was swelling up, glowing an orangish red. Light could be seen shining through his skin. Uh-oh this doesnt look good. Everybody run! C Duke Dukes party tried to run but they werent fast enough. BOOM! Suddenly a huge explosion could be seen, devouring everything that stood within its radius.
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Chapter 16 - [The Brotherhood]
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True Identity Chapter 16 C [The Brotherhood] BOOM! Suddenly a huge explosion could be seen, devouring everything that stood within its radius. With the fires gone and the smoke dispersed, there was a ghastly sight to be seen. Where Hadden once stood, was now a huge crater. And within that crater, Dukes party. But on the other hand, I could also see Daniks drops! Lets hurry up, revive and grab the loot! Garan was the first one to revive. Upon reviving, Garan quickly grabbed the loot from the Boss and Dukes party and started to run as fast as he could. But in party chat he said. Dont worry, Im not stealing the loot. I just want to get out of here before Dukes party revives or more people come because of the loud explosion. When you guys revive come to these coordinates, but make sure nobody is following you. C Garan Garan sent the coordinates in the party chat and one by one, everyone was reviving and started moving towards the coordinates. I was the last one to revive but I didnt revive long after Iris, so we moved to the coordinates together. Iris was acting more conscious than me for some reason though. Wait, something is coming C Iris Sure enough we could here numerous footsteps coming from the direction of the village. We both put up our weapons ready to fight. Not long after, we saw tons of goblins running towards us but instead of attack us like we thought they would, they just ran past us, screaming like babies. We were both confused but I think I know what happened. I think they started to panic because their leader died. So without anybody leading them, theyre just running away for their lives. We continued on our way to the coordinates without worry about the stray goblins running past us. While Iris and I were walking, we didnt talk all that much. She was a girl of not many words, only talking when its needed. Some people would feel annoyed because of that, but to me, it made her seem somewhat mysterious and interesting. Tyhukos Rambling: MILF alert. Finally reaching our destination, we saw the rest of the party hiding in a cave. Alright, lets get these drops identified and distribute them. C Garan Garan handed me the drops since I could identify them. He handed me a 2-handed spear that glowed a dark green hue, a cloth helmet, a cloak, and a spellbook. Carrying the items, I started to identify all the loot.
Item Name: Hood Of Lost Justice [Tier: Basic] Type: Cloth Helmet Durability: 75 / 75 Stats: Healing Power + 20 Defense + 15 Requirements: Level 12
Amber and Lilith both rolled for the cloth helmet since it helped healers. In the end, Amber won the cloth helmet and was now, sticking her tongue out celebrating while shoving the helmet in Liliths face.
Item Name: Cloak Of Faded Wars [Tier: Basic] Type: Cloak Durability: 100 / 100 Stats: Defense + 25, Fire Resistance + 5%, Strength + 20 Requirements: Level 14
Cloaks were extremely valuable because they didnt drop much. Even though the Cloak was of the basic tier, it would still help melee players significantly. Garan, Ronin, Iris, and I all rolled for the cloak and to my surprise, I won. I equipped my newly acquired cloak and was now also shoving it in the rest of the partys faces.
Item Name: Crusade [Tier: B] Type: Spellbook Durability: C Requirements: Level 15 Descriptions: Using this skill will turn your entire body into a bomb, damaging everyone and everything within the explosions radius. The higher the skill level, the bigger the bomb. Warning, activating this skill will kill you and the usual penalties for dying will apply.
Woah, this is the skill that the Boss had. If you level it up enough, you could create an explosion as big as the Boss made or even better. Thats awesome! C Garan Yeah but there are a ton of negatives to this skill. I believe that the only way to level the skill up is by using it. Which means youll die and receive the penalties like losing a level. Whatever, lets just roll for it! C Garan We all roll for the spellbook. Honestly, I didnt really care if I won the spellbook or not because I dont think I would be quick to use it. On the other hand, Garan was the only one who seemed really excited about the skill and to his excitement, he won it. He immediately opened the spellbook and started to complain while reading its contents. Fuck, I hate reading books and now I have to read this. C Garan I could see that Garan was struggling to read the words but slowly and constantly he finished reading the spellbook. After reading all of the contents, Garan said the words acquire skill. The spellbook glowed brightly and then started to disappear. Garan had just acquired the skill [Crusade]. I guess the skill fits his personality. HAHA, now shall I test this baby out? C Garan NOOOO!! C Everyone else Tyhukos Rambling: Garan is either Illuminati or ISIS or both. Finally I identified the 2-handed spear that had a darker green hue than usual.
Item Name: Nights Reach [Tier: Grand +] Type: 2-Handed Spear Durability: 175 / 175 Stats: attack: 45 C 55 Requirements: Level 18, Strength at least 95
Holy shit, this is a Grand + tier weapon. Is this the best weapon in AA right now? we immediately check the list Best weapons in Absolute Authority
Best weapons in Absolute Authority #1 Nights Reach [Tier: Grand +] (2-Handed Spear) #2 Soul Rapier [Tier: Grand] (1-Handed Sword) #3 Foe Of Chaos [Tier: Grand] (2-Handed Spear) #4 Warbringer [Tier: Grand] (2-Handed Axe) #5 Promise Of The North [Tier: Grand] (2-Handed Staff) #6 Pact Of The Night [Tier: Grand] (1-Handed Dagger) #7 Moonlight Cleaver [Tier: Grand] (1-Handed Axe) #8 Soul Of The Suffering [Tier: Grand] (1-Handed Staff) #9 Furys Fist [Tier: Grand] (1-Handed Knuckles) #10 Musket Of The Storm [Tier: Grand] (Rifle)
It is! This weapon must be worth a shit ton of money! What should we do with this weapon? C Garan We dont have any spearman, so maybe we should sell it on the auction and split the money. I bet we could get at least 10,000 dollars for this weapon. That would give each of us around 1,666 dollars each! We should do that! Truth is, I really need the money right now. C Amber Yeah lets do that C Ronin Alright, Ill sell this on the auction and send the money to your bank accounts Okay! C everyone I quickly listed the spear on the auction house, making the starting bid price at 10,000 dollars and the timer set for 3 days. But if someone wanted to just buy the weapon without bidding, they could buyout the spear for 50,000 dollars. Maybe I should have set the buyout price lower but on the other hand, there are some rich and crazy people out there who want good equipment. 50,000 dollars would probably be nothing to them compared to obtaining a great weapon. Then maybe I should have just put the buyout price to 1,000,000 dollars! Nah, I dont think anybody would be that desperate. A case of content theft: this narrative is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation. Alright, I put the spear on the auction house, hopefully itll sell. Lets go back to the village now and receive our rewards. When we finally got back to the village, we saw dead bodies everywhere. Goblins and adventurers were dead all over the place. We had to step over torn body parts and it was impossible not to step into a puddle of blood in order to reach the village. The place caused nausea because of the rotten flesh everywhere. We might have won the battle but the village is in ruin. Its going to take a long time before things go back to normal here. It was unfortunate that most of the drops from the slaughtered goblins were already collected, I was looking forward to picking up some valuable loot that was left behind. But I was still fortunate enough to pick up some coins that were left behind. When we entered the Cobeth Village, we walked up to the Edilath Commander looking forward to our reward. Hello commander If it isnt the heroes that helped us win the battle. Here are your rewards. C Edilath Commander [For your efforts in the Kingdom Event you have gained the rank Edilath Officer and 1 Honor Point] Suddenly a silver emblem appeared on my left shoulder. It showed a single silver star and under the star, it read Edilath Officer. I looked at the others and they all also had the Edilath Officer emblems on their left shoulders. Holy shit, I just gained 50 fame, how much fame did you earn Amber? C Garan 60 fame. C Amber What?! How can that be? You didnt even get a single kill! C Garan I have no clue. Maybe different classes are judged differently. Its probably like this: for a knight its based more on the kill but for a healer, its most likely based on the healing done and keeping people alive C Amber Fuck! C Garan Curious, I walked up to Iris and asked. How much fame did you get? 85. C Iris What the fuck, this girl is crazy! Just how many goblins did you kill? This girl is just something else, how am I ever going to catch up to her. Alright lets go back to Edilath C Ronin Not long after we started our walk to Edilath, system announcements started to appear. [Edilath Kingdom has completed a Kingdom Event. For successfully completing the event, the Kingdom of Edilath will gain 10 Honor Points] [Edilath Kingdom currently has the most Honor Points. The adventurers of Edilath are rewarded with 5% experience bonus] Holy shit, this means that gaining experience will be significantly increased. For everything we kill, the monster will give us 5% more experience than usual. This is awesome! C Amber Yeah, I knew that Edilath was the right place to start. And the rest of you wanted to start in Prilian, the kingdom in the south. C Ronin Yeah, yeah, dont rub it in. C Amber said while rolling her eyes. After another boring hour and a halfs walk, we have finally reached Edilath. We passed through the huge eastern gate and saw people crowding around the Kingdom Hall. We pushed through the crowd into the building to see what the ruckus was about. People were crowding around the kingdom merchant. The kingdom merchant was where you would buy kingdom goods like kingdom apparel. But as we approached the merchant, we saw that teleport scrolls were now available. These teleport scrolls allowed you to teleport back to your kingdom but the teleport scrolls were only available to ranked Edilath adventurers. Looking around, we only saw few Edilath ranked players. Only those who had participated significantly in the Kingdom Event had gained ranks. We purchased some teleport scrolls that were 1 gold each and noticed the jealous eyes from the other adventurers watching us. Lets get out of here We rushed out of the Kingdom Hall and stopped when we got to adventurers square. We all looked fatigued from the run and from our past adventure together. Lets go to the pub and talk while eating some good virtual food. C Garan Sounds like a good idea. -Ronin I looked at Iris who then nodded back at me. Alright, lets go. Follow me, I know just the right place! C Garan We went to a pub that looked somewhat suspicious because it was at the end of a dark alley. But the pubs good food and drinks made up for its spookiness. The game also allowed us to even get alcoholic drinks even though we were still underaged. We quickly noticed that the drinks affected us the same way in game that it would affect us in real life. This 95% realism is very real. We talked about various things like what we planned to do in the future. What do you guys plan to do now Ronin. Umm, were actually thinking of joining [The Brotherhood]. They seem like a stable group and from what we saw during the Kingdom Event, theyre very powerful. You should come join us, how about it Axle? C Ronin Hmm, thanks for the offer but Im going to have to decline, sorry. Oh no problem, mind telling us why? C Ronin Ive had the dream since the beginning of this game to start my own guild. A place where all my friends and I could have fun and go on great adventures. Oh that sounds interesting, what would the name be? C Ronin Hmm, I have no idea right now, but when it finally comes down to it, Ill try to think of something cool. Haha, sounds good. Maybe when you establish your guild, well join. C Ronin Is that a promise or just the alcohol talking? Haha, I dont know, well just have to see when you establish the guild. C Ronin Alright, its a promise. We talked more about other various things but now it was time for me to log out and go to sleep. I got to go guys, I have something important to do tomorrow so I have to go to bed early. Bye Same, I also have something to take care of tomorrow. So Ill be taking my leave here. C Ronin But just before we were about to logout, a system announcement appeared. [Ares has established [The Brotherhood]. For this incredible feat Ares is rewarded with 5 Honor Points]
Authors Note: If you were wondering what honor points are here it is. Honor Points for players is like a nobility rank instead of military rank (of course they wouldnt get votes on stuff, just mansions/places for guilds free of cost/free use of stables) and for the others just some salary, influence with noble houses that would make them give them more quests with more and more rewards. Honor Points for Guilds and Kingdoms are a little different. Honor Points are used for not just boasting but if you have more Honor Points, theres a possibility of benefits that will help your guild/kingdom. As you can see, Edilath Kingdom currently has the most Honor Points right now, so they have received a reward of 5% more experience. That will be taken away if they lose their top spot. I hope this helps, it will get easier to understand as time goes on. Thanks for reading the chapter. I would greatly appreciate it if you visited my blog. I post 1 whole chapters earlier than when I post them on royalroad. So if you want the chapters faster follow my blog!https://trueidentitynovel.wordpress.com Please comment if you liked/disliked the chapter and tell me what I can improve on. This will help me a lot thanks. Make sure you follow me if you like work!
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Chapter 17 - The Church
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True Identity Chapter 17 C The Church [Ares has established [The Brotherhood]. For this incredible feat Ares is rewarded with 5 Honor Points] I logged out of Absolute Authority and ran to my computer. I was extremely tired and needed some sleep but right now, this was more important. I quickly go online to the AA forums and immediately found the thread I was looking for. The thread said Ares creates the first guild, [The Brotherhood]. The thread was filled with multiple readers. I read everything on the forum in order to find the information that I was looking for. In just 3 days, [The Brotherhood] collected 25,000 gold and bought the smallest guild mansion available that could house 150 adventurers. Even though [The Brotherhood] has over 3000 people right now, their first goal was to establish the first guild in the game, which they did. But the opinions to this action is varied, these are some of the replies: [The Brotherhood] is indeed the best guild. C Kline What?! These guys just took the easy way out. If [The Brotherhood] has such huge numbers, they should have just collected enough money in order to buy the biggest guild mansion. C Zilonis Shut the fuck up Zilonis, are you retarded or something? -Viles Butthurt much ^ C Zilonis Congratulations! C player2 After I read all the information I was looking for, I finally went to bed to get some much needed sleep. I woke up the next morning to the yells of Haley calling my name from the kitchen. James wake up, todays the Atlas scholarship test! C Haley Mm, alright, Im getting up now. I finally got out of bed and went to the bathroom. I was in a particularly good mood this morning because of my pleasant dream last night. I dreamt about Iris, I saw Iris and I going on adventures together and along the way, we would see many romantic sceneries. Well that was a strange dream. After washing up, I head into the kitchen looking forward to eat Haleys delicious food. Haley looked at me when I entered the kitchen. Somebodys in a good mood what are you grinning about? C Haley Who, me? Who else would I be talking to? -Haley Oh *cough*, umm I just feel like Im going to ace the exam today. You dont need to know about my dream. Good! Well I wish you good luck. C Haley Thanks. We ate our breakfast and I started getting ready to leave for the exam. Wait James, Ill go with you. C Haley Alright, hurry up Haley and I got on the bus that would take us to Atlas University. Along the way we talked about our recent adventures in AA. How did the Kingdom Event go? C Haley I told Haley all about the Kingdom Event. She was very excited when I told her that we defeated the leader and Garan got a skill that could turn himself into an explosive bomb. I also received a spellbook from a quest I recently completed with my friends. C Haley Oh, whats the skill? Its a secret, but its really good! C Haley Tyhukos Ramblings: Haley>Axle. Hmm, youll just have to show me when we meet. Alright. C Haley The bus stopped at Atlas University, Haley and I got off. Good luck! Ill wait here until youre done C Haley Alright, see you in 2 hours. I walked towards the entrance of the University and saw Nick waiting for me by the gate. Hey James, you ready to pass this test? C Nick You bet! We walked further into the University looking around, checking out the campus. Atlas University was definitely something special. Everywhere you could see happy people talking, beautiful trees in the background, and marvelous buildings that complemented the scenery. This place is truly only for the rich. I told Nick about how much I liked the campus. Haha, usually you wouldnt care about these things but maybe AA is slowly changing you. C Nick Is it? *thud* Suddenly, I felt something bump into me and fall down. I looked behind me and saw a somewhat nerdy kid on the ground who had dropped all his books. Do I know this person, he looks somewhat familiar. Nevertheless, I helped him pick up his books. Sorry for bumping into you, and um thank you for picking up my books C Nerdy Kid Uh no problem. The nerdy kid started to run off, probably towards his testing classroom. I swear I recognize him from somewhere, but I dont know anyone who talks that awkwardly. Ah, whatever, I got to focus on my test. Nick and I went to the classroom we were assigned to, ready to take the test. Two hours later Ah, Im so tired. I just want to go home and play AA C Nick Same, how do you think you did on the test? Eh, alright. How about you? C Nick Honestly, I think I did well. Speaking of AA, hurry up and come to Edilath so we can play together. I want to see you fail as a tank. Shut the hell up, Ill show you that Im one of the best tanks in AA. C Nick *Cough* I doubt that. What did you say?! C Nick Haha, I''m just joking. Lets go home already and play some AA. Nick and I went our separate ways while Haley and I went back home on the bus. When Haley and I finally got home, I checked the forums once more. You know, just in case something important happened again. Apparently 2 more guild have been established. [Purge] from Salia and [Vengeance] from Prilian. These 2 guilds dont really affect me at the moment, so I dont really care. Its time to play some AA. After I ate lunch, I went back to my room and put on my VR Headset. [Do You Want To Connect To Absolute Authority?] Yes! Darkness started to consume my vision and then everything turned pitch black. When Im finally connected to AA, I respawned outside the pub I ate at last night. There was nothing unusual happening so I decided to visit adventurers square. There were many adventurers there looking at stalls and buying items that they needed. I guess Ill just set up my own stall. This book is hosted on another platform. Read the official version and support the author''s work. I set up my stall in the usual spot and started to sell all the goods that I had obtained from the Kingdom Event. The stuff I was selling wasnt anything special, just some crude and basic tier equipment I got from the goblins. I would probably gain more money from identifying equipment rather than selling this junk. I priced my equipment cheaply so it sold fairly quickly and my name is also well known now among the Edilath Adventurers. I gained about 15 gold for my equipment and 30 gold for identifying equipments. Identifying equipment isnt as lucrative anymore because more and more people have obtained the identifying skill. So the price for identifying equipment has dropped significantly. But I knew this was bound to happen sooner or later, so Im just glad that I was able to get a lot of gold before the market started to drop. You know, its all economics. *Sigh* Now that the Kingdom Event is done, I feel like I have nothing to do. I want to go on some crazy adventure but I have no idea where to start. Whatever, Ill just check if Francis has anything for me to do. I pack up and go over to Franciss stall. I told him that I was looking for a quest that someone could give me. I have nothing for you at the moment, but my sources tell me that the church is looking for some adventurers to help them with an important matter. Why dont you try talking to them. You can even say that I recommended you. C Francis Thanks Francis, I owe you one. Just like Francis said, I went to the church that was located in the northern marketplace, closer to the castle. Unfortunately, when I tried to enter I was stopped by an angry priest. Stop, you cant enter! C Priest Umm, sorry. But why cant I enter? Do you not know the law boy? You must hand over your weapons before entering. C Priest Oh, ok. I reluctantly handed the priest my sword and axe. Ill fucking kill you if I dont give them back. After handing over my weapons, I entered the church and was kindly greeted by another priest. Hello adventurer, what can we do for you today? C Priest Umm, hi, I heard that you guys are looking for some adventurers to help you with something important. The merchant Francis recommended me. Ah, you are correct. Let me take you to the back to see the high priest. He will see if you are fit for the job. C Priest The priest brought me to the back to greet the high priest. When I finally saw the high priest, I was surprised. He was really old, frail, and blind. This man definitely has some secret to him, otherwise he couldnt be the high priest. High priest, we have a guest who is asking about the quest. He claims that Francis recommended him. C Priest The old man *cough* I mean high priest started to walk towards me in a slow pace. Ahh, Francis recommended you, so you must be someone special. Come lad, let this gramps see you. C High Priest How can you see me, youre blind. Nevertheless, I walked closer to the old man and when I was within arms length of him, the old man started to use his hands to touch my face. Ahh, I feel a power inside you boy, something great. I can see it, the great potential you have boy and the great challenges you will face in the coming future. C High Priest Umm, thank you, does this mean I get the quest? The old man stopped touching me and went back towards his chair. But since Im such a courteous man, I helped him get back to the chair. Ahh, thank you. Are you ready to face the challenges that await you, lad? C High Priest I thought about the old mans question for a couple of seconds but in the end, I absolutely had know idea what the old man was talking about. So I just answered with what any normal person would answer with. Umm sure. Alright, you got the quest! C High Priest Well, that was easier than I thought it would be. Boy, your quest will be to lead a group from the church to the fallen village in the north. There people have fallen to the evil spirit. Go help them by purging all the evil. C High Priest
Quest: Where Evil Lurks Difficulty: C Requirements: Lead a party to Zovia and purge the evil that has consumed them. Failure: Intimacy with the church will decrease. Faith, fame, luck, and honor will decrease. Description: The high priest has asked you to help them will a major quest. You are to lead the people from the church to Zovia village, defeat the evil, and let the church purge the people.
[Will you accept the quest?] Yes! [Quest accepted] After I accepted the quest, the old man had a satisfied look on his face. You will have 1 day to prepare. Get your things ready and then by the time you come tomorrow, we will have chosen those who will go on the adventure with you. C High Priest Thank you. Oh, one more thing, am I allowed to bring others with me? The High Priest didnt answer me immediately, it looked like he was thinking long and hard about my question. After about 30 seconds, he finally answered my question. Hmm, since this adventure will be hard and vigorous, a lot of people will be hard to look after. But since you insist, I will allow you to bring 1 person along, no more than that. C High Priest Thank you high priest. I will take my leave now and start preparing. Take care young lad. C High Priest When the conversation ended, I received my weapons and left the church in an excited mood. I know exactly who Im going to invite! Tyhukos ramblings: Poor Iris, shes gonna get dragged along. 1jayds Note: No, its got to be Hazel
Authors Note: I understand that some of you might be thinking that I have gone down the LMS route. But let me just tell you that my story will be different. And using the church in your story doesnt mean you copied LMS, the church is for everyone to use. Thanks for reading the chapter. I would greatly appreciate it if you visited my blog. I post 1 whole chapters earlier than when I post them on royalroad. So if you want the chapters faster follow my blog!https://trueidentitynovel.wordpress.com Make sure your vote for me on Top Web Fiction, I would greatly appreciate it! VOTE NOW! Please comment if you liked/disliked the chapter and tell me what I can improve on. This will help me a lot thanks. Make sure you follow me if you like work! Chapter 18 - Cooking Profession
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True Identity Chapter 18 C Cooking Profession When the conversation ended, I received my weapons and left the church in an excited mood. I know exactly who Im going to invite! After leaving the church, I immediately opened up my friends list in order to message Iris. Wait wheres Iris? I stare at my list in confusion, before realizing she isnt there. Fuck!, I forgot to ask her if I could add her as a friend. Now, I have to go and look around for her I ran around Edilath for a while hoping to find Iris, but, unfortunately, I couldnt find her anywhere. Hmm, I guess Ill just invite someone else. Just when I was about to give up, I saw Iris through a window. Shes inside the cooking profession workshop. I decided to wait outside of the school until she was done talking. I had to wait for around 10 minutes and it seems she was finally done. Ah, women Opening the door, she saw me waiting outside. Startled a little, she took a few steps back. Tyhuko: And the winner of the masterchef is Iris *clap clap* Well thats not the reaction I expected. Nevertheless, I just acted as if nothing happened. Iris, I have an important matter to talk to you about. But first let me add you to my friends list. Iris nods We added each other to our friends list. After that I started telling her about the quest. So you see, I just received this quest from the High Priest at the church. The quest is all about going to a village called Zovia in the north and purging the evil that lurks there. Iris didnt answer me with any words, she just kept looking at me as if she was saying, what does this have to do with me? Well, the High Priest said that I can bring 1 person with me and since you are the only person other than Ronins group that I know, I was wondering if you would come with me? Iris looked like she was in a deep thought, it seemed like she was going to answer with something I didnt want to hear. Well, this is a problem. Suddenly a window popped up, it was an in-game message. Now that Iris and I add each other to our friends list, we could message each other now. Sorry, I cant help you because I have an important quest to complete. C Iris Oh ok, well if you change your mind, I have 1 day to prepare anyway. Iris started making all kinds of different gestures but I couldnt figure out what she was trying say Just message me. Again, Iris messaged me. If you help me with my quest first, Ill help you. C Iris Oh, she was trying to tell me to help her with her current quest. And then shell help me with mine. Seems fine to me. Sounds like a plan! Iris led me to the eastern gates. I assumed it was the shortest way to reach her quest destination. When we stopped talking the atmosphere became awkward. Trying to break the silence, I spoke up. So, since you are going for the cooking profession you must be confident in your cooking skills. Seeing Iris nod, I got my answer. Great, that will help us a lot with our quest. Walking past the eastern gate, Iris led me into the Death Forest. Come on, why do we have to enter this place again. I just hope we dont meet those people from [Nemesis] again. All hell would break loose once more. [You have entered Death Forest] It wasnt long before Iris have found what she seemed to be looking for. She picked up a strange looking mushroom. Is that what you were looking for? Iris messaged me. No preparing for the future. C Iris Oh, cool, youre thinking ahead. But how do you know that mushroom isnt poisonous? Iris just stared at me blankly, giving the impression like a realization had just hit her. I dont. C Iris Umm, well lets just hope her cooking skills are better than her gathering skills. We walked around exploring the forest while gathering up ingredients or should I say potential ingredients, on the way towards our destination. We finally stopped when we reached a mountain. This is our destination. The mountain wasnt as big as the others, but you could tell that it was just as dangerous. There were many rough and jagged rocks protruding here and there. The slope of the mountain wasnt that steep so hiking up the mountain wouldnt be a problem. But if you lost your footing and started rolling down the mountain, only one fate awaited you death. That wasnt the only problem, it was getting late, with the sun setting, the air was becoming gradually cooler and the sky was getting darker and darker. Soon it will be night time and we still need to hike up that mountain. Im just not dressed appropriately for this kind of venture. Who knows what type of temperature and what kind of monsters are up there. Umm, so what exactly are we looking for up there? Instead of telling me what her quest entailed, Iris just shared her quest with me.
Quest: Meat On The Mountain Difficulty: C Requirements: Receive cooking profession quest Description: Climb up Sowth Mountain and bring back the animal that tastes delicious. You will know what you are looking for once you see it.
Wait, we dont even know what were supposed to be looking for? Iris nods Oh great, were going to climb this godforsaken mountain, when we dont even know what were looking for this is going to be a long dayThis animal better look majestic or something. Alright, well we better get going before night starts to set in. We moved around the base of the mountain and found a path that seemed less dangerous than the others. Iris wanted me to hike up the mountain first, probably because she would feel conscious if I were behind her the whole time. [You have entered Sowth Mountain] I actually wanted to draw a map of the mountain, but due to the rough terrain, I had to concentrate my full attention on trying to get a good foothold. Also, I didnt want Iris to complain that I am moving too slow. It looked like I would have to try to memorize the area and draw it from my memory later on. I was surprised at how much stamina it took to hike up the mountain. We cant even use our wings to fly, harsh winds would just blow us away. Ultimately, flying would take too much stamina and would be harder than just hiking. We also had to take into consideration the food usage, without eating we would have to take breaks quite often. *Growl* Whats that noise? I think it was coming from the peak of the mountain. Umm, Im guessing that wasnt your stomach growling Iris? No. -Iris *Growl* I heard more growls coming from above us, uh-oh this could be bad. There are definitely monsters above us. A case of content theft: this narrative is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation. Lets hurry up, I feel like something bad is going to happen and we want to be prepared for it. We hiked up the mountain until we found a nice flat ledge. We had a long way to go until we reach the top, but for now, this ledge will be a good resting place. *Growl* Night was setting in and everything was getting darker, making it harder to see. Luckily, I caught a glimpse of the monster that was growling at us from above.
Grey Wolf [Rank 1] Level: 16 Health: 200/ 200 Attack: 40 Defense 35 Abilities: [Night Vision] [Sharpened Claws]
I immediately shared the wolfs stats with Iris. Dont be fooled by their low stats, wolves dont travel alone. Those growls are warnings that we are trespassing on their territory. They will attack us if they see an opportunity. Iris didnt answer me as if this didnt bother her. Are you not scared woman? We could be swarmed by a pack of wolves and youre not the slightest bit disturbed. Looking down the mountain from the ledge we were resting on, I admit, I was somewhat scared. That was a long way down, I cant even guess how high weve hiked so far. Looking at my depleted stamina, I dont think Ill be able to go on without a pit stop. I dont think well be able to go on without food to replenish our stamina. Iris immediately opened her bag and took out some fruits. Its a good thing we picked up ingredients before coming here. We split the fruits between us and ate it. I felt my energy gradually coming back, my stamina started replenishing. While we were still resting I decided to take out my quill and some paper. I immediately started drawing a map of the mountain, recalling every little detail that I could remember. I thought I was doing a good job, considering that I was drawing it all from my memory. Suddenly I was startled by a message window and I almost messed up my map. What are you drawing? C Iris Its nothing special, just drawing a map of the mountain. Its hard to draw it from the memory though. Iris came over to see my map. Judging by her facial expression, it actually seemed like she was impressed. She points somewhere along the path I drew and sketches something that looks like a tree with her finger. Oh, thats a good suggestion, people could use the tree as a landmark, thanks for the help. Iris and I continued drawing the map, trying to remember every single detail. *Growl* Hearing the numerous growls, we immediately stood up and readied our weapons. Looking around, I could see 5 wolves surrounding us. Damn, we created an opportunity for them to strike. I can see 5 wolves, but be careful, there might be more. Its too dark to see anything else. This is extremely dangerous, were cornered. The wolves have surrounded us on the cliff. If were not careful, we could fall to our imminent death. The wolves watched us carefully. They could attack from many directions, we have to be vigilant. The only direction that we knew they wouldnt attack from, was the edge of the cliff, but that wasnt that reassuring either. I held my sword in my left hand and my axe in my right, while Iris held a sword in each hand. We were ready for an attack at any given moment. The staredown that occurred between us was short. Suddenly, the wolves attacked all at once. Three wolves attacked me while the other 2 attacked Iris. The wolves attacks didnt do that much damage, but their numbers more than made up for it. I was getting pummeled, defending against 3 wolves was extremely hard. If 1 attacks, they all attack. |12| |4| [Block] |10| If this continues, I might die. In desperation I used [Skull Splitter] on the head of the wolf closest to me, stunning it for 4 seconds. Without even thinking, I kicked the wolf off the cliff. You could hear its howls of agony as it rolled down the mountain. Now it was 2 versus 1, this will be much easier to deal with. The 2 wolves seemed more conscious of me now, since I had just killed 1 of their own. They didnt attack me as a group anymore, instead they observed my actions and attacked only when they saw an opening. Their hit and run tactic was superior to mine because of their naturally high movement speed. I only had 46 health left so I decided to drink a health potion, which brought my health back up to 96. As there is no healer here, health potions are the only way Im going to be able to replenish my health during the battle. Using my insights, I analyzed the wolves attack patterns. I noticed that the wolves liked to attack their prey when they see an opening, but what happens if I purposely make an opening for them? There was 1 wolf to my left and the other one to my right. Youre supposed to watch both of them and attack carefully so that 1 of them doesnt hit you in the back. But instead, I charged at the wolf towards my left, with my back completely open to the other wolf. This left a clear opening for the wolf to attack me, but as it was about to strike, I quickly turned around and stabbed it in the side with my sword. [45] My plan worked, am I a genius? The wolf howled in pain from being hit, retreating back. Blood was dripping onto the ground from the wound. Goddamn it, I wish I had more skills than [Skull Splitter], having to wait a long time in order to use it is horrible. Just as [Skull Splitter] went off cooldown, I used it on the already injured wolf. I really do rely on this skill way too much. [60] [The enemys leg is paralyzed for 3 seconds] I hit its leg, paralyzing it for 3 seconds. From there, the wolf was fairly easy to kill. Since the wolfs movement speed was significantly decreased with one of its legs paralyzed, I quickly slashed its side with my sword and cleaved its hind with my axe. [25] [42] My consecutive attack killed the wolf in a flash, leaving its corpse lying on the ground. |36| |-60 health over 60 seconds| ARGHH Fuck! I forgot about the other wolf. The last remaining wolf used its ability [Sharpened Claws] on me, not only dealing massive damage, but also causing a bleeding effect. I would lose 60 health over a course of 1 minute. Fortunately, dealing with 1 wolf was much easier than fighting multiple wolves. I blocked most of the wolfs attacks while also dealing damage. The fight with the last remaining wolf ended in less than a minute. I looked at the 2 dead wolf corpses on the ground then to my left where Iris was standing, She had already killed her opponents quite some time ago. Then, finally, I looked up towards the peak of the mountain. Well, this is going to be a long climb.
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True Identity Chapter 19 C Ascending The Mountain I looked at the 2 dead wolf corpses on the ground then to my left where Iris was standing, She had already killed her opponents quite some time ago. Then finally I looked up towards the peak of the mountain. Well, this is going to be a long climb. The sun had finally set and it became colder as night drew near. We better stay warm. Thinking of how we could stay warm, I looked at the wolf corpses and had an idea. Iris guard me while I skin these corpses. Well use the pelts to keep us warmer, well at least a little warmer. I skinned the 4 wolf corpses while Iris guarded me. But as my skinning level isnt that high, I messed up multiple times. But overall the skinned pelts will help keep us a little warmer. Im not a tailor so I cant make any clothes so tying the pelts around yourself will just have to do. Damn, why didnt I think of becoming a tailor. I wrapped one of the pelts around my neck almost like a scarf and draped the other one down my back like a cape, Iris did the same. I assume well be fighting a lot more wolves from here on out. So Ill skin more corpses and well add the pelts to our clothing. With the cold somewhat taken care of and our stamina replenished, Iris and I began to hike up the mountain once again. It was extremely hard to go up the path now since its gotten so dark, soon we wont be able to even see whats right in front of us. I better be cautious, if I fell down I would bring Iris down with me. Slowly but steadily ascending the mountain, Iris and I could hear numerous growls from nearby wolves. But so far none have attacked us yet, probably because they were more cautious of us now since we killed their fellow kin. *Growl* |20!| Awe fuck, I spoke too early. A pack of 4 wolves attacked us. This is probably the worst possible spot to be attacked, the ground was unstable and it was easy to lose your balance. Fuck you wolves! [Miss] |25!| I used [Skull Splitter] on the closest wolf. But due to my unstable stance, I missed the wolfs body giving the wolf a clear opening to bite my right shoulder. Aw crap, I wasted my best skill. The wolves were vicious creatures, their [Night Vision] gave them a clear advantage in the dark. It would be almost impossible to see them if their fur didnt slightly shine against the moonlight and if their eyes didnt glow a reddish color. I felt a continuous pain in my right shoulder from the wolf bite. The mobility of my right shoulder has been severely impaired, I cant move my arm much without feeling the pain. But despite the pain in my shoulder, I still had to defend against the oncoming wolves. I tried to block the wolves attacks while attacking them back with my sword, it wasnt that effective. As the battle went on, I could feel the adrenaline flowing throughout my body. With the adrenaline pumping, I could finally move my right shoulder without feeling any pain. Alright lets do this! The wolves continuously attacked me, but fortunately I was able to use [Skull Splitter] on one of them. Instead of missing this time, I hit the wolf directly in the back. [68] [Enemy is stunned for 2 seconds] Pulling my axe out of the wolfs back, I saw a huge gash. Blood was overflowing from the wound, I cut so deep that I could see the spine. Although the sight disgusted me, I needed to use the 2 second stun to my advantage. |Miss| [70!] The wolf behind me tried to use its skill [Sharpened Claws] on me, but fortunately I noticed it at the last second and was able to sidestep the lethal attack. After dodging the attack, I used my axe to attack the stunned wolf in the same exact place I previously hit. The already horrid wound just became even more gruesome. The stun on the wolf wore off but with an injury like that, the wolf couldnt move much anymore without howling in pain. Feeling sorry for it, I stab it in the head with my sword and put the wolf out of its misery. [45] I quickly turned to face the remaining wolf but surprisingly, the other wolf had already ran away into the darkness disappearing from sight. I looked behind me towards Iris. Just like me, one of the wolves ran away after she killed the other. Maybe they will finally stay away from us. Suddenly all the adrenaline flowing through my body started to dissipate and the sharp pain in my right shoulder came back like an anvil. Ahh, fuck! Dammit, usually healers would help treat these wounds but since there are no healers here, Ill just have to endure with this injury until I get treated. But to my surprise, Iris took out some bandages and ointment out of her bag. She cleaned my wound with water from her canteen, applied the ointment and then wrapped it with bandages. Immediately, I could feel the pain in my right shoulder alleviate. The pain was still there but the ointment and bandages lessened it significantly. I could move my arm around without having to wince every time which was much better. So youre a medic also? Iris nods I was seriously impressed, most people didnt bother learning the medical profession because normally healers would be around to treat the wounds. Obviously, medics arent better than healers at treating wounds but when healers werent available, they were extremely valuable. The disadvantage of being a medic was that they used large amounts of medical supplies and had to make sure those supplies stay sterile. Otherwise they would be forced buy new supplies. This story has been taken without authorization. Report any sightings. Usually solo players became medics because it would help them greatly on their adventures. Maybe Iris initially wanted to be a solo player. With my shoulder treated, I quickly skinned the two dead wolves. We were in need of a break anyways since our stamina was running dangerously low. Looking at the two wolf furs, I could clearly see the difference in skill between us. The wolf Iris killed had few but deadly cuts, the wolf probably died quickly without suffering much. But on the other hand, the wolf I killed had several cuts in it, the biggest one being the wound on its back. The wolf I killed definitely suffered a lot before I put it out of its misery. Learning ones fighting capabilities through corpses was fairly interesting, maybe this technique could be useful in the future. I finish skinning the 2 wolves and in the end, Iris fur came out better than mine because it was less damaged. My fur had a big hole in it, making it somewhat less effective. We applied the furs to our clothing and continued our ascent to the top of the mountain. Ive noticed a while ago going up this path, I havent seen anything other than wolves so far. It might be because its night time but where are the other animals? It makes me wonder what the hell do these wolves eat for food, well other than us. Moving up the mountain, Iris and I were attacked 3 more times by wolf packs. Fortunately, Ive gotten used to their hit and run tactics, so dealing with them was a little bit easier. The wolves seemed to be becoming more and more aggressive as we approached the peak. There must be something important theyre trying to protect up there. I was having a bit of a problem with my shoulder injury. Due to the continuous fighting, my bandages became undone several times. Luckily, Iris had a lot of medical supplies available, so she was able to continuously rewrap my injury again. I felt uncomfortable using all her supplies, Ill have make sure to repay her somehow later. Tyhuko: Yeah, youll make her cosplay as a nurse. Our biggest problem now was the temperature and the terrain. The higher we ascended, the colder it became. Plus, now there a layer of snow covered the ground making it impossible to see what was underneath. We had to be even more careful now, if we took a bad step we would slip and fall back down the mountain. Thatd probably be the worst possibility that could happen to us right now. *Ding!* [You are the first to reach the peak of Sowth Mountain. Fame + 5 Luck + 5] After 4 hours of strenuous hiking, Iris and I finally reached the peak of the mountain. The top of the mountain was a flat plateau. It was dangerously high, falling would mean certain death. With a layer of snow covering the ground, slipping and falling wouldnt be uncommon. I walked towards the edge of the plateau and what I saw was something beautiful. Far off in the distance, the Kingdom of Edilath could be seen. Numerous lights of many different colors illuminated Edilath in the night. The castle in the center of the Kingdom looked dazzling, even more beautiful than in the day. The stained glass windows of the castle glowed elegantly, painting the night sky gorgeously. With Iris by my side, we looked at Edilath in a daze. What a beautiful sight. Tyhuko: Which one? *GROWL!* Suddenly, we could hear a loud growl off into the darkness. But this growl was different from the rest weve heard so far, it was much louder, deeper, and fiercer than the others. Then I could hear the sound of rapidly approaching footsteps. What appeared before us was a beast unlike any other. The alpha wolf was charging towards us at a fast pace. It had a very muscular body with bloodshot eyes that glowed dark blood red, its razor sharp teeth had foam coming out of its mouth. Compared to the beautiful sight of Edilath, this wolf was definitely the exact opposite.
Amos the Dominant [Rank 2 BOSS] Level: 22 Health 1000 / 1000 Attack: ??? Defense: ??? Abilities: [Night Vision] [Sharpened Claws] [Call Of The Wild]
Amos came charging out of the darkness like a bullet. With only a 5 feet distance away from me, Amos used [Sharpened Claws] striking across my chest. [Block] |25| I was fortunately able to block the Boss fierce attack, but the resulting impact between his claws and my sword was so immense that it pushed me over the edge of the mountain. ARGHH! I was rolling down the mountain losing precious health points but luckily my descent was stopped short by a huge rock. |6| |7| |6| |5| |50| Fuck, that hurt! I lost 110 health points during the attack and the fall, thank god I landed on this rock or I would have died leaving Iris to fight Amos alone. I immediately drank a health potion, recovering 50 health points. I then began my hike back up to the peak in an exhausted state. My body was aching with pain, cuts were all over my body. My mobility was significantly decreased, I definitely broke a rib or two. I desperately needed a healer to mend my injuries but that could wait for later. Iris is up there fighting the alpha wolf by herself. If this continued, she would most probably end up dead, I needed to help her. When I finally reach the top of the mountain, what I saw was exactly as I feared. Iris was on the ground defending herself while Amos was readying his attack [Sharpened Claws]. Oh shit!
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True Identity Chapter 20 C [Call Of The Wild] Iriss POV: Absolute Authority is the world I currently live in. A world where I can finally control my own destiny. A place I hold sacred because its my chance to live a new, different life. I originally started playing AA with the mindset of going solo. Going on adventures, and conquering the world on your own seemed pretty interesting to me. But my outlook was changed when I met Axle. I can honestly say, that Im not quick to trust others, after all I basically have no friends in the real world. But Axle left a big impression on me, helping a stranger who was being chased, inviting me to a party with seemingly no ulterior motives, and most importantly not asking about what I am like in the real world. Thats a true philanthropist. I dont want others to know about my personal life. All these factors, led me to believe that Axle is a trustworthy person. He might not be that good at the game, mostly because he needs to practice dual-wielding more, but nevertheless, I think I can start trusting him at least until he proves me otherwise. ARGHH! C Axle I suddenly heard a scream coming from Axle, scream that broke my daze of the beautiful sight of Edilath. Looking to my left, I saw Axle being pushed off the edge of the cliff by Amos. I immediately checked the party status that was located in the top left of my vision. Axles health was continuously dwindling from the fall. He might die soon. Just to make sure, I ran towards the edge where Axle was pushed off in order to confirm his situation. Unfortunately, Amos utilized his high movement speed to get in my way. It seems Amos knew that separating me from Axle, would give him the upper hand. Hit and run tactics and now this, wolves are surely devious creatures. As a Boss, Amos might be stronger than me, but Im not going down without a fight. I held my 2 swords in my hands prepared for Amoss rapidly fast attacks. *GROWL!* Amos came charging at me, his sharp teeth bare and ready to bite my head off. |Miss| [20] As Amos quickly shortened our distance, I barrel rolled to the right, dodging his savage attack aimed straight at my head. While rolling to the right, I swept my sword across the ground, striking Amoss paws. I didnt deal much damage but it was better than nothing. I noticed, as the fight continued, that the thin layer of snow on the mountains peak made the ground wet and slippery, making the ability to slow down or changing directions a very difficult task. As a wolf, Amos was very fast, but his high movement speed could be a disadvantage in itself at least in this environment. Slow and steady wins the race. |Miss| [40] [The enemy is stunned for 3 seconds] Amos, again not learning his lesson, charged at me with all his might. Using the same tactic as before, I dove to my right, dodging the Bosss attack and then used [Decisive Blow] on the alpha wolfs side. Taking advantage of this opportunity, I immediately stabbed Amos in the neck, dealing a critical strike! [60!] I considered attacking Amos again but decided against it. Stun effect was about to wear off. I quickly created some distance, preparing for the next attack. This tactic shows great promise but the drawback was that it used a lot of stamina. Fortunately my stamina is significantly higher than others, due to my strenuous training during the beginning stages of AA. If Axle was using this tactic, I dont know if he could last. Tyhuko: Poor Axle, bed affairs will be hard on him Once more, I readied my weapons as Amos charged at me full speed. You would think that he would learn from his mistakes by now. When Amos was about 5 meters away, I dove to my right, trying to dodge his attack same as usual. Suddenly the Boss leaped up in the air changing his focus to the direction where I was diving. Correctly assuming that I couldnt dodge it, I hurriedly put my two swords in cross formation in order to block the oncoming attack. |15| [Block] Amoss claws clashed against my swords, I had successfully blocked the lethal attack. However, the impact between his claws and my swords was so monstrous, that I was lifted off my feet and blown back into the air. I crashed onto my back about 6 meter away from my original position, luckily the soft snow prevented me from taking damage. Amoss attacks would do some serious damage if they hit you directly. Thankfully, they werent impossible to block as long as your saw them coming. With Amos running to my new location, taking advantage of my unfavorable position, I tried to get back up on my feet, but my reaction was too slow. With his claws radiating a reddish glow, Amos activated [Sharpened Claws]. Oh crap. Axles POV: When I finally reached the top of the mountain, what I saw was exactly what I feared. Iris was on the ground defending herself, while Amos was readying his attack [Sharpened Claws]. Oh shit! I needed to think of something quickly. If [Sharpened Claws] hit Iris directly then she would most likely end up dead. Time seemed to slow down for me, as I futilely tried to think of a solution. I froze when I came up with nothing. In desperation, I threw my moonlight axe at the Boss hoping it would reach in time despite the agonizing pain in my right shoulder. [40] ROAR! Amos howled in pain as the axe struck his left side and [Sharpened Claws] was interrupted. Can this be considered repayment for all the medical supplies Ive been using? Ive actually thought about throwing my axe as an attack before, but I could never figure out how I would get it back during a fight easily, so I never used it until now. In the confusion, Iris got to her feet and retreated back to a safer location. Amos turned to glare in my direction, I feared that he would come charging at me and push me off the peak again. So I immediately started to move away from edge towards Iris. Ive been gone for at least 5 minutes, how the hell did Iris survive against the Boss all by herself? But then again, she was also probably wondering how I survived the fall. When I finally reached Iris, we looked at each other and we both looked happy to see one another alive. Looking at Amos, I was disappointed to see my axe was still stuck in his side, leaving me with only a sword in my left hand. This is why I dont do axe throwing. Its going to be hard, but I have to get that axe back as soon as possible. The author''s narrative has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. I looked towards Iris, to ask her about how we could get my axe back, but seeing her face, I discovered she already completely understood what I was about to say. I returned my attention to the alpha wolf once again. Amos had lost 160 health points in total and now had 840 health left. I inflicted 40 of that damage which means that by herself, Iris had dealt 120 damage! Shes definitely not ranked 10th in Edilath for nothing. *GROWL!* The alpha wolf was now infuriated, he stared at us with vicious contempt. I could almost feel that something even worse was about to happen. AWOOO! Amoss howl echoed through the night, sending chills up my spine. I could actually feel my legs tremble from fear. Suddenly, 3 wolves came out of the darkness, appearing behind the Boss. Is this the skill called [Call Of The Wild]? The angry howl called 3 wolves to the Bosss aid. Amos was the alpha wolf of the pack, so they came to his bidding. This Boss is so overpowered, these other wolves might not be as difficult to kill, but they still made the battle significantly harder. Analyzing the situation, I quickly came up with a plan. Lets split up, focus on the weaker wolves first, then attack Amos together. Iris nodded. I sprinted to the right, while Iris sprinted to the left. Splitting up might be what Amos exactly wanted, but we had no other choice, splitting up would definitely be safer. Two of the summoned wolves chased after Iris while Amos and the other one chased after me. It will be hard for me to fight with only one sword, especially since I kept it in my left hand. I could put the sword in my right hand for now but I plan to get that axe back no matter what. I thought about trying to outrun the wolves, but in the back of my mind, I knew that I couldnt. I stopped in my tracks trying not to slip and turned to face my enemies. AHHHH! I let out a battle cry, taunting the beasts to come at me. The wolves responded to my battle cry as expected, charging at me with no intention of letting me live. Amoss speed was much greater than the underlings, so we would encounter each other first. As the Boss approached me, I skillfully maneuvered around him towards his left side, dodging his attack. Then I pulled out my axe from his side. Am I good or what! Spinning around, I used [Skull Splitter] on the head of his wolf underling. [60] [The enemy is stunned for 4 seconds] From there, I continued stabbing and cleaving the wolf down in its stunned state until it died. Compared to Amos, these wolf underlings are fairly easy to take care of now. [Call Of The Wild] shouldnt be big problem as long as I could kill the underlings quickly. Turning to look at Iris, I saw that she had already killed the two monsters attacking her. She was now running towards my position in order to help me. Even in the midst of all this fighting, I was still analyzing the situation in order to figure out how could we possibly defeat the alpha wolf. If we stuck together, Amos would be able to focus on both of us at once. Suddenly inspiration hit me when I thought about how the wolves used their superior numbers to fight and utilizing their hit and run tactics. Lets use the same tactic theyve been using on us. The pack of wolves would always spread themselves out, making it difficult to focus on all of them at once. They always tried to be on the offensive rather on the defensive. When one attacked, all of them followed. They also retreated quickly, making sure that they didnt take any unnecessary risks. I started to relay my thoughts to Iris who was now standing next to me. Lets spread out, itll be hard for the Boss to focus on both of us at once. I will initiate the attack, follow my lead. If you see me going in for the attack or moving away to retreat do the same. We need to start attacking first, staying on the defensive will get us killed. I looked towards Iris who had a confused look on her face but after, a couple of seconds, she nodded telling me that she understood what I had just said. Right now we have the advantage in numbers, but if the Boss used [Call Of The Wild] then he would regain it. We needed to do as much damage as possible before that happened. Seeing his pack killed before him, Amos, snarling madly, came charging at us with great speed, while Iris and I stood our ground. Now! Just when Amos was about 8 meters away, Iris and I split up running in different directions. I ran towards the right, while Iris ran towards the left. Looking at Amos, I could see that the Boss was having a hard time adjusting to the situation by himself. Attack! I charged forward with axe and sword in hand. I couldnt see Iris anymore, as she was blocked out of my vision by the Boss, but I could only hope that she had heard my voice and followed my orders. Moving within 5 meters of the wolf, I was ready to attack. It looked like Amos chose to focus on me for now, instead of Iris, because he opened his mouth preparing to take a big chunk out of my head. |Miss| [50!] Just as Amoss jaws were about to bite me, I ducked under and stabbed him in the neck with my sword. At the same time I heard slashing coming from the other side of the Boss with red numbers flashing out with each strike. [36] [23] [30] Yes, our plan is working! Tyhuko: Youre a wizard Axle! Not willing to take any more risks, I immediately ran out from under the alpha wolf to a safer location. Looking back, I saw that Iris had also done the same. I might have only been able to land one attack, but since Amos was focusing only on me at the time, Iris in return was able to land three attacks. This tactic is very useful, we were able to do 139 damage without receiving a scratch. Lets just hope this keeps up. Wolves are certainly the masters of this technique, you would think they would know how to counter their own technique, but it doesnt seem so. The Bosss fur was once a glorious silver coat, but now it was stained red. Blood was dripping from its wounds, painting the pure white snow with a dark red hue. I could sense the scorn in the Amoss red eyes, as he became even more enraged. I almost felt bad for it, but theres no turning back now, we have to kill it. AWOOOOOOOOO! Once again, Amos used [Call Of The Wild], but this time the howl sounded more desperate than before. In response, 5 wolves came out of the darkness in order to aid their leader. I wasnt all that concerned about the extra wolves, until I saw how they split up, I started to panic. Amos had sent the 5 wolves to attack Iris, while he dealt with me, this completely countered our strategy. This way Amos would be able to focus just on me, with no interruptions. Wolves are indeed intelligent creatures.
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True Identity Chapter 21 - Untreated Injury Once again, Amos used [Call Of The Wild], but this time the howl sounded more desperate than before. In response, 5 wolves came out of the darkness this time to aid their leader. I wasnt all that concerned about the extra wolves, until I saw how they split up, I started to panic. Amos had sent the 5 wolves to attack Iris, while he dealt with me, this completely countered our strategy. This way Amos would be able to focus just on me with no disturbances. Wolves are indeed intelligent creatures. The series of events unraveling before us was frightening. I would have to fight Amos alone, but that wasnt even the scariest part. Iris would have to face5 wolves all at once, the most weve fought alone was 3 wolves at once. Killing 5 wolves by yourself would prove to be a difficult feat to accomplish. I didnt even have the chance to think about helping her, As I had my own danger in front of me. Amos was clearly challenging me to a duel he was sure he could win. It wasnt that I didnt believe it was true either, but at the moment my determination was overwhelming. When I thought back to when Iris had to fight the alpha wolf by herself for 5 whole minutes, I felt that my pride and bravery was now in question. If Iris can survive five minutes by herself against this thing, so can I, or so I thought. AHHHHH! I let out my battlecry, taunting the boss to make the first move. Wolves are very prideful creatures, so they react immediately when their authority is challenged. I plan to use Amoss pride against him in every way possible. GROWL! As the Boss came rushing at me, I watched his movements very closely. The alpha wolfs movement speed was clearly dominant, but on this terrain, my versatility was superior to his. I could twist, turn, and even change directions better than him. I had to use these differences somehow to my advantage... but how? |35| [20] Argh! When Amos came close, I tried copying Iriss tactic of rolling to my left. Ive seen Iris use this tactic once so I thought I would easily be able to do it, just like her. Unfortunately, my timing was way off, Amos clipped my right shoulder with his razor sharp claws. I quickly reacted to Amoss attack, using my axe to chop down on his front leg. As I tried to make distance between us once more, the pain in my right shoulder intensified to a whole new level, I was already injured from the wolf bite from before, but now Amoss claws hit me directly in the same spot. What was once a sharp stabbing pain, was now violent torturous agony, that wasnt just felt in my shoulder, but throughout my entire body. I momentarily stopped, when I saw a bright red system notice appear before me. [You have suffered a serious injury that must be treated immediately. - 10 health every 20 seconds until treated, more severe symptoms will develop if injury persists.] I immediately redoubled my efforts and quickly moved out of the Bosss attacking range, I couldnt possibly take anymore unnecessary risks. Taking a quick glance at the injury on my right shoulder, I saw the bandages were torn apart and the wound was split wide open, bleeding profusely. Its no wonder Im losing 10 health every 20 seconds. Heck Im actually pretty lucky, with this kind of wound I should be losing 10 health every 10 seconds but lets not jinx ourselves here. The sight of the wound made me want to throw up, but I didnt want to show any weakness to Amos so I tried to put the pain in the back of my mind. Didnt work so well. Looking towards Iris, I saw that she having a hard time as well. She had already killed 2 of the wolves, but took some serious damage in the process. I didnt check her situation for long but instead put my full attention back on the problem in front of me.What had to be done was clear, I needed to kill the alpha wolf quick or else we would both die. GROWL! Amos noticed my weakened state and planned to use it to his advantage. The alpha wolf charged and then leapt into the air towards my location. His actions were so swift that I didnt even have time to react. Suddenly Amoss claws started to glow red while he was in mid leap, he was readying [Sharpened Claws]. Frantically thinking of what to do, I decided to go with what worked before. In desperation, I threw my axe at the Boss, hoping that it would interrupt [Sharpened Claws] like before. [40] The axe cut right into the left side of Amoss neck and [Sharpened Claws] was interrupted. Thank God! Recovering from my shock, I quickly rushed towards the alpha wolf in order to retrieve my axe. |Miss| Running up to the Boss, I dodged a bite Amos aimed with his sharp teeth to the left and tried to pull the axe out of his neck. But to my surprise, the axe wouldnt budge. Its stuck! Suddenly, Amos jerked his body and I was thrown into the air with my hand still gripping the axe. The axe then abruptly came out of the wolfs neck and I landed on his back. It took me a second to realize what had just happened, but I came to my senses quickly. GROWL! Amos tried to fling me off his back by jerking his body back and forth but I refused to be dismounted, I gripped onto his fur as tight as I could. I was in an extremely favorable position right now, this is the only place where Amos couldnt attack me. Realizing he wouldnt get me off his back with his actions, Amos started to run in a circle and rolling on the ground as much as he could. Due to all the movement, my shoulder was feeling intense pain. It was extremely hard to hang on but I managed to do so, it was as if I was riding a bull. Yeehaw! After holding on for who knows how long, I was starting to lose my grip and soon I would fall off. I then decided to take a big risk. I let go of the fur in my right hand, now only gripping his fur with my left hand. I quickly grabbed my axe and cleaved it down on the alpha wolfs back. [80!] [Enemy stunned for 2 seconds] Within the 2 second stun I tightly wrapped the thick fur around my left forearm and gripped it firmly with my left hand. Now it would be nearly impossible for me to fall off. When the stun debuff wore off, Amos furiously tried to get me off by jumping up in the air or by running around like a mad man but my grip was so firm that I clearly wasnt going anywhere anytime soon. [40] [36] With my axe still in my right hand I started to cleave Amoss back with all my might. If this continues, Ill be able to kill the Boss in no time. Suddenly another red system announcement appeared before me. [Injury has not been treated. Movement Speed reduced by 50%, Attack reduced by 50%] The system announcement worried me, but I tried to ignore it for now since I needed to concentrate on the matter at hand, killing the Boss. [23] [18] As I was striking the alpha wolf, I quickly noticed that my axe felt significantly heavier and my damage was much lower. But nevertheless, I continued my assault on Amos, now he only had about 150 health left. But since the last system announcement, my body was now feeling bitterly cold and extremely tired. It wasnt long before the next system announcement appeared. [Injury has not been treated. -10 health every 10 seconds, Movement Speed reduced by 75%, Attack reduced by 75%, Consciousness severely impaired] Unauthorized duplication: this tale has been taken without consent. Report sightings. I immediately felt the effects of the impairments, my consciousness was frequently slipping in and out. But I still continued to attack Amos with all my might. I ha...have... to ki-kill hi-m. [24] [22] [19] Suddenly my vision started to fade. My grip loosened and I fell off the back of the wolf, crashing into the cold snow. As my consciousness was fading, I could faintly hear slashing in the background and Amos howling in anger. Then everything when black and I lost consc.... *Moan* What happened? I opened my eyes trying to see what was happening around me, but my eyesight was all blurry. I desperately tried to remember what happened. Damn, Im dizzy. When my vision started to clear up, I was surprised at what I saw. Staring ahead I saw Iris above me, her face looking down at mine. Wait, why is she above me? I then realized that my head was resting on her lap and I immediately tried move away in surprise. AH FUCK! I tried to jerk my body away but when I moved, my body spasmed forcing me to endure extreme pain. I was sore everywhere, it felt as if sharp needles were pushing in all throughout my body. Dont move, youre hurt. - Iris I couldnt move even if I wanted to! Realizing that I couldnt move anyway, I had to accept Iriss order, at least until I could actually move. Alright, thanks. After that, we stopped talking to each other and everything became silent. I turned my head to look at my right shoulder and it was wrapped with bandages again. Did I die? Iris shakes her head. I looked at my level just to make sure that I didnt die and to my surprise, I was now level 16. Rather than losing a level from dying, I gained a level. What the hell? I turned my head in order to look further to my right, the pain in my neck hurt but it wasnt unbearable. With Iriss help I was finally able to turn farther to my right, I saw the alpha wolf lying on the ground with its blood soaking into the snow. I must have gained a level from killing the Boss.
Stats Title: Livin On The Edge Name: Axle Level: 16 Class: Warrior Health: 100 / 183* Mana: 100 / 190* Stamina 100 / 186* Attack: 75-77* Movement Speed: 100* Fame: 155 Honor Points: 1
Author''s Note: * means impaired states Hmm, my stats are coming along nicely if I say so myself. Looking at my stats, besides seeing the impaired states from my injuries, I felt satisfied. But when I looked at my skill list, I almost had a heart attack, I acquired 2 more skills! I immediately open the skills in order to read the details.
Skill Name: War Cry Skill Rank: Novice Skill Level: 1 Skill Experience: 65% Description: Using war cry taunts the enemy and increases the morale of your allies. Other effects may apply when you level up this skill.
Skill Name: Axe Throw Skill Rank: Novice Skill Level: 1 Skill Experience: 75% Description: This skill is a long range attack and has a 40% chance of interrupting skills. Percentage will be increased as you level it up.
Authors Note: Adventurers can learn new skills from experiences, teachers, or spellbooks Hell yeah, my second attack skill! Now I dont have to rely on [Skull Splitter] all the time. After a little while longer, my body started to feel much better. I was still in excruciating pain but I didnt want keep lying on Iriss lap for much longer. I got up to my feet and started to lose my balance, as I tried to take a couple steps. Iris tried to help, supporting me, but I gestured with my hand saying that it was fine. Damn AAs 97% realism is no joke, you can even lose consciousness. After a little bit more, I regained my composure and could somewhat walk around now. I slowly walked towards the dead wolf on the ground and noticed that the loot was besides it. The loot was leather pants, a plate chestpiece, a shield, a ring, and 30 gold coins. The shield and the ring both glowed a greenish hue. I picked up the loot one by one and started to identify them.
Item Name: Protector of Ice [Tier: Basic] Type: Leather Pants Durability: 125 / 125 Stats: + 30 Defense, 15% resistance to ice Requirements: Level 15
Item Name: Breastplate of Relentless Might [Tier: Basic] Type: Plate Chestpiece Durability: 175 / 175 Stats: + 50 Defense + 15 Stamina Requirements: Level 16
Item Name: Guardian of Frost [Tier: Grand] Type: Shield Durability: 200 / 200 Stats: + 100 Defense 10% Ice Resistance Requirements: Level 18, Strength at least 100
Item Name: Ring of Elusion [Tier: Grand] Type: Ring Durability: 100 / 100 Stats: + 15 Attack, + 20 Movement Speed, 5% chance of evasion Requirements: Level 16
No spellbook huh. Well thats a disappointment, I kinda wanted to obtain that [Night Vision] skill, it would help tremendously with fighting in the dark. Or even that [Call Of The Wild] skill but I dont exactly know how it would work when I have no followers. But even if there wasnt any spellbook, I couldnt complain much. This ring is a great drop, not only does increase attack and movement speed, it also has a 5% chance of evasion! This ring was the perfect match for me. Whoever had that ring would gain some serious buffs. I can only hope that RNGesus is favoring me in this roll. I took the leather pants and Iris took the plate chestpiece. Even though we were both warriors, Iris wore plate armor to increase her defense and stamina while I wore leather armor to increase my defense and movement speed. So deciding on who got those two pieces of equipment wasnt that hard to decide on. Then we both looked at the shield and I suggested an idea. Lets see if Garan wants it, hes a tank and hell need a better shield. I bet we can even sell it to him for a good price. Iris nodded. I took the shield and stored it in my inventory. Finally, it was time to decide who got the ring. I nervously rolled for it, while praying to the RNGesus to help me. [45] [72]
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True Identity Chapter 22 C Immoral Deeds [45] [72] Yes, RNGesus loves me. The ring suddenly appeared in my hands and I immediately equipped it. I tried not to act that excited because I didnt want to anger Iris. I took a quick peek at Iriss face, she didnt show it, but I got the feeling she was definitely furious on the inside. But nevertheless, Ive gotten something really valuable and it will help me significantly in the battles to come. Many people would kill to have this item literally kill. Alright, now what to do about this corpse. I looked over at Amoss dead corpse lying in the blood stained snow. I could already tell from the way the fur shined that it wasnt damaged very much during the battle. Well, lets hope for something good when I skin this bigass thing. I sat down next to the wolf and grabbed one of its hindlegs. I fortunately did some research on the internet after I first obtained the skinning skill from Franciss quest on how to skin different types of animals. Luckily, one of the videos I watched was a wolf skinning tutorial on youtube. Thank god I saw it before we even went on this quest. I sat there remembering what the video told me to do. Alright in the video, you had to start with the hind legs and work your way down. I worked diligently trying not to make any mistakes, but of course that was impossible. I occasionally made some minor mistakes due to my lack of practice and my relatively low skinning level. But after each mistake, I would move on, trying not to let it discourage me.
Amoss Fur [Rank 2] Type: Raw Pelt Durability: C Description: This high quality fur can be used to make leather armor
Alpha Wolf Meat [Rank 3] Type: Raw Durability: C Description: The animal that this meat came from has gone through many years of experience and now it is finally ready to be eaten. This meat can be used for cooking.
[Skill: Skinning has risen to level 5!] Authors Note: Im going to try to say when the skills level up now because I think it will make the story much easier to understand. After working on the corpse for a while, I was finally done. On the ground rested a skinless alpha wolf and in my hands was a beautiful silver coated fur. After skinning so many animals and even skinning an animal of this caliber, my skinning level had finally risen from level 4 to level 5! I guess skinning hard game gives you more experience. There were a lot of patches of blood left on the fur from the battle but after I rubbed some snow on it, the fur glistened in the light. I definitely have to make something good out of this once I learn tailoring. I put the alpha wolf meat in my inventory and hung the fur over my shoulder to dry. After I was done admiring my work, I stood up on my feet and looked around us. It was much brighter out now so night time should be almost over. Seeing farther ahead of us was much easier now but the fog still obscured our vision somewhat. I could see something that looked somewhat like a stone den in the distance. It was protruding out of the ground with snow covering its surface. Curious, I decided to walk towards it and Iris followed me. As we got closer, it became clear that what we saw was indeed a den and we could even faintly hear something in the background that sounded somewhat like whining. What the hell is that? *Crack* I took one step closer, I felt something strange under my feet. I kneeled down and cleared the snow around my feet. Under the snow I saw several bones, but not just any bones, human bones. There are tons of them, who knows how many are under this layer of snow. I took out my weapons, readying for the worst. nnnnnn Again, we could hear some strange noise near us but what the hell could make that noise? We cautiously moved closer and closer, until we finally reached the entrance. I looked inside and I saw something that made me stop in my tracks. In the den, shivering from the bitter cold, was a baby wolf. The pup couldnt even walk, it tried to get up on its four legs but landed on its stomach shortly after. The sight was by far one of the cutest things Ive ever seen. I looked at Iris face but, same as always, I couldnt really tell what she was thinking. I had a feeling that she was feeling the exact same emotions that I was though. I started to think back on the quest, it said that we had to bring back an animal. The quest said that we would know what animal once we actually saw it. Suddenly, I made the connection that I wished I had never thought of. Slowly, I started to tell Iris what was on my mind. So, this is the animal we have to bring back to the chef. Iris slowly digested what I had just said and fell to her knees, tears started to form in her eyes. I wanted to comfort her but I decided to instead give her some space. I left the den and walked towards the edge of the plateau. It just all made sense, those human bones were people of Edilath who had come here before us in order to obtain the baby wolf. But before they could obtain it, the alpha wolf killed them to protect his young. I felt horrible inside knowing I had just done something unforgivable, I just killed its father. I couldnt understand it, was the taste of this little pup so good that people were willing to kill it in order to eat it? I know this is a game but it still seems like an immoral thing to do. I shouldnt have taken in this quest. After recovering her composure, Iris came out of the den carrying the baby wolf in her arms. She walked towards me by the edge of the cliff. Suddenly the sun came out and light could be seen over a mountain the distance. The fog around us started to dissipate and we could finally see everything that surrounded the mountain. The sky was lit with rainbow colors making it even more beautiful than Edilath during the night. The scene was almost like a sign of life in the face of such a terrible situation. This book''s true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience. What a beautiful sunrise. Looking down at the terrain below us, I had an idea. Give me a little while, I want to draw a map of this area. It will help adventurers a lotwhen they want to travel through the eastern terrain of the kingdom. Iris nodded. She had the atmosphere around her that gave the feeling she really didnt want to return to the kingdom anytime soon. Getting her consent, I took my quill and a shit ton of paper out of my inventory. Now lets get to work! First I began to draw the mountain itself, I looked down from the edge and drew all the features I saw. When I finished the map of Sowth Mountain, I realized in dismay that we actually took one of the harder routes up the mountain. Seeing all the other, safer, paths we could have taken made me frustrated. [You have made a map of Sowth Mountain. Fame + 10, Luck + 10] Next I took out my biggest piece of paper, I was about to attempt to draw a map overview of the eastern terrain of the kingdom. I first drew Sowth Mountain at the center of the paper, using it as the main landmark. I then started to draw the surrounding area. Not much farther east, the forest ended and turned into a flat plain. I could even see Cobeth Village in the distance, the place where the kingdom event was held. Past Cobeth, there were also many unexplored things like other villages, caves, and little tiny black specs that looked like monsters. After finishing the eastern terrain, I started to draw all the other surrounding lands in the other directions. Of course I also drew Edilath Kingdom in all its glory well tried to. When I finished the map, I was extremely happy and satisfied. And, for the heck of it, I sign my name, Axle, at the bottom right of the map. I was proud of this work and I dont want anybody else to take credit for it. [You have made a map of Edilaths eastern terrain, this map will be used by a great deal of people and it will help the Kingdom of Edilath grow. Honor Points + 2, Fame + 15, Luck + 10] [Skill: Cartography has risen to level 4!] My map making skills have improved tremendously, I didnt know if its because my cartography skill has leveled up a couple times or if its because Im starting to get the hang of this map making thing. Satisfied with the results, I put the maps away in my inventory. Alright, lets head out. Iris nodded reluctantly . We descended down the mountain on a path which was much safer than the route we took going up. Going down was much easier because it was day now and we could see where we were walking. I actually wanted to try out my new kingdom scrolls that we recently bought, these scrolls instantly teleported you to the Kingdom once you activate it. But as we had the little one in our possession, I didnt know if we could take something else that was living with us, I just didnt want to take any chances and waste the 1 precious gold I used in order to buy it. As we descended down the mountain, Iris was behind me carrying the baby wolf in her arms. I couldnt see her face because I was in front, but I could sense that she was heartbroken and so was I. I just cant imagine what they are going to do to this poor thing once we hand it over. Lets not hand over this little pup, I would feel too guilty if we handed him over to be eaten. Iris looked at me with eyes that said she agreed with me but at the same time, it seemed like she was stuck between the idea of fulfilling or denying the quest. Alright how about this, lets go hand over this pup to the chef and see what he says. If he insists on taking him, well run and deny the quest. Iris had a relieved look on her face and immediately nodded her head. It was a silent, awkward, and depressing walk back to the kingdom. Now that we were off the mountain, Iris and I walked side by side back to the kingdom. Looking at Iris, I saw that she was extremely sad. But despite being severely heartbroken, Iris would still stop walking when she saw a potential ingredient. She would hand the pup to me, hurriedly gather the ingredient, and then I would hand the pup back to her when she was done gathering. When we walked past the eastern gate and entered the kingdom Iris and I walked towards the Cooking Workshop. Our pace seemed much slower than before but that was fine with me, I was dreading what would happen next. *jingle* We opened the door of the workshop and the bell sounded, alerting everyone that someone has come. Instead of waiting outside like last time, I decided to go inside with Iris in order to give her my support. When the chef saw Iris enter through the door, his mouth started to form a devious and greedy smile. We walked all the way to the table at the center of the workshop and the chef came running to meet us. When the chef finally reached the table we were waiting at, he was out of breath and started to talk in an excited voice. Did you get the animal I requested?! C Chef Without even saying a word, Iris reluctantly put the baby wolf on the table. Again the newborn pup tried to stand up on its 4 legs but since it wasnt able to sustain its own weight, the pup staggered and landed on its stomach.
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True Identity Chapter 23 C Prove Your Worth Did you get the animal I requested?! C Chef Without even saying a word, Iris reluctantly put the baby wolf on the table. Again, the pup tried to stand up on its 4 legs but since it wasnt able to sustain its own weight, the pup staggered and landed on its stomach. I look at the baby wolf one last time and said my goodbyes to it in my mind. Goodbye, little fella. The chef looked at us and then at the pup for a couple of times with a confused face. Finally, he spoke up. What the hell is this? C Chef Naturally, I didnt think Iris was going to talk so I decided to speak up. What do you mean? This is the animal you wanted, right? The quest said you would know what it is when you see it, well I see it and this baby wolf looks majestic as fuck if you ask me. The chef put his palms over his eyes and his tone seemed like he was disappointed but most of all, frustrated. No, no, no, this isnt it! I want the meat of the alpha wolf, when you saw the alpha wolf you should have immediately known that it was the animal I wanted. Sure this little fella could taste good but do you think Im a savage or something? The alpha wolf is super lean meat that has gone through many life experiences. Did you get it or not, I mean theres no way you could have missed it. C Chef Relief suddenly started to flow throughout my body, the cub would be spared. Personally I think the baby wolf looked more majestic than the alpha wolf but whatever. You meant the alpha wolf, why the hell didnt you just say so in the first place? I have it right here. Taking the alpha wolf meat out of my inventory, I saw the chefs face starting to light up again. I laid the big piece of meat on the table and tears started to roll down the chefs cheeks. Th-this is it! And its already skinned! Thank you so much! I will now reward you for your hard work young lady. C Chef Iris had completed the quest but she didnt look interested about that at the moment. She once again picked up the baby wolf and held it in her arms as if shed never let it go ever again. Now its time to teach the cooking profession. Come with me, I will teach you everything I know. C Chef With Iris receiving the second part of her quest, I quickly realized I wasnt needed here anymore so I decided to take my leave while she finished up. Im going to go now since I have some stuff to take care of before we go on our next quest. Make sure youre logged on at 6 pm tomorr oh wait, I mean 6 pm today. Ill wait for you at the church. I didnt know if Iris actually heard my words because her attention was completely absorbed by the wolf pup. Whatever, Ill just take my leave now and hope she heard them. I didnt even notice that it was already 6 am in the morning now. Damn, I need to get some sleep. I left the workshop and immediately walked towards the medical ward that was located in the south eastern corner of the kingdom. I was desperately in need of some healing because my injuries still werent properly treated from the previous quest. All the pain in my body dissipated as the healers healed my injuries. I was indeed correct when I thought I broke a rib, two to be exact. The only bad thing about going to the medical ward in order to be healed is that they charged me 10 gold. Damn extortionists. Exiting the medical ward, I went to the tailoring workshop. *Jingle* When I walked into the workshop, I saw a beautiful woman. She was an NPC that went by the name Rina. She had long silky brown hair that went just past shoulder length, exquisite facial features and grey colored eyes. The brown hair seemed to complement her silver eyes extremely well. Rina stared at me as I walked through the door and then looked away, continuing the work she was previously engaged in. What can I do for you adventurer? C Rina Rina spoke to me in a bored, indifferent tone. She also didnt look up from the clothes she was making with some type of fabric. I thought she was acting somewhat rude but I couldnt be picky if I needed something from the person. Umm, I would like to learn tailoring. Would you mind teaching me? *Sigh* Fine but first you have to prove your worth. Go through the western gates an. C Rina Rina was about to give me some quest in order to prove my worth but I didnt have that kind of time. I needed to learn tailoring now. My quest to the north is in about 12 hours and I wouldnt have enough time to go on another guest just to prove my worth. I decided to interrupt Rina when she was in the middle of telling me the quest. *Cough* Teacher Im sorry to interrupt you mid sentence but Im in a rush. You see, I have a big quest instructed by the chur. Get the fuck out. C Rina I was in shock, this woman had just told me to fuck off and she still wasnt even looking at me. I decided to try to smooth things over but that didnt really work out well. But I. But nothing! Just get out of my workshop. I dont have time for people who think theyre above the law and dont need to prove their worth. C Rina For a beautiful woman, she had quite the wicked attitude. I know its mostly my fault but I seriously dont have time for another quest. I saw that there was no way for me to get through to her so I turned around to leave. Just as I was about to leave, something ingenious suddenly came to mind. My worth huh, well Ill prove my worth. I turned back around once again and walked back towards Rina. By now the woman wasnt even paying any attention anymore, well, the attention she had. Look at this. I bet this will prove my worth. Rina jumped hearing me interrupt her again and was surprised that I still hadnt left yet but nevertheless, she continued to work on her clothing and gave an indifferent response. What are you still doing here? I told you that I dont have tim. C Rina If you dont look up to see, I bet youll regret it. After hearing my words, Rina still didnt look up but after a couple of seconds the curiosity overcame her and she finally looked up. At that instant upon seeing what was in my hands, Rina stopped working on her clothing and focused her full attention on me. In my hands was the alpha wolf fur that I had obtained from Iriss quest. It shined nicely against the light coming through the window. Rina face looked shocked when she saw it and was at a lost for words. H-how did you get that fur, adventurer? C Rina Upon hearing her question, I smiled deviously because I knew that I finally had her . Making sure not to screw this up, I responded coolly to her question. I killed the alpha wolf and skinned it for its valuable fur. K-killed it, by yourself? Whats your name, adventurer? C Rina I decided to dodge her question about killing it by myself, she could use her imagination. *Cough* Um, my name is Axle. Axle right, Axle, where have I heard of this name before? C Rina Rina seemed like she has heard my name from somewhere before. Damn, is my fame in this kingdom already this good? Hype! Hmm, I cant seem to remember exactly where Ive heard it before but I definitely heard the name from somewhere. -Rina *Ahem* Well its alright if you cant remember, but what I really want to know is if this proves my worth? Rina pondered about my question for quite some time before finally giving me the answer I wanted to hear. Alright, you have proven your worth. I will teach you tailoring but in return, you will have to do something for me. C Rina I didnt like the sound of this but I didnt really have a choice. Still, I proceeded cautiously. Okay, but before I accept, what exactly do I have to do in return? Unauthorized duplication: this narrative has been taken without consent. Report sightings. Hmm, I havent really thought it through yet but in the future, if I ask you for a favor, you will help me once, no matter what it is. And when I say no matter what it is, I mean no matter what. C Rina Rina look at me with her seductive eyes that naturally stared into your soul and pulled me in closer. I liked the way this woman thought, its too bad shes only an NPC and not someone from the real world. I accept your offer, I will help you with a favor one time in the future no matter what it is. I swear it. Good. C Rina Rina had a devious smile and in that instant, I thought I had just made a deal with the devil. But I cant go back on my word now.
Come, follow me. I will teach you tailoring. C Rina Quest: The Path of the Tailor Difficulty: D Requirements: Receive tailoring profession quest Description: Learn tailoring from Rina and make your own clothing.
[Will you accept the quest?] Yes! I followed Rina into the back room of the workshop. This particular room was dark and secluded, nobody from the outside would be able to see us. I didnt know Rina had this in mind. Obviously I knew this wasnt actually what Rina was thinking but you know, Im a healthy young man. Rina started to illuminate the dark room by lighting some candles around the room, making it much brighter. I was now able to see what was in the room. Looking around, I was amazed at what I saw. Hanging from the walls were numerous pieces of clothing, ranging from dresses to leather armor. These are my prized possessions, Ive made them myself. I keep them in this room so they wont get damaged by anything, not even sunlight. I dont usually show people this place but you seem interesting so I decided to show you what clothes you could eventually make, or even better. But you still have a long way to go. C Rina I was fascinated by the clothes that hung from the walls, these were high quality equipment that I couldnt even meet the requirements to wear. After seeing the clothes, my determination to become a tailor grew tremendously. Well wed better get started then. Haha, I like the way you think, Axle. Follow me. C Rina Further in the back of the room was a table with all the tailoring supplies you could possibly think off, from threads to buttons and to even a makeshift ironer that was made out of a flat piece of metal and heated over a fire. Lets begin. You said you were a skinner. Do you have any furs other than the alpha wolfs fur? C Rina Without speaking I pulled out all the furs from my inventory that I have collected over my travels. I pulled out some cat pelts, some fox pelts, and some wolf pelts. Good, you arent skilled enough to deal with that high quality of a fur yet. C Rina I put the alpha wolf fur back in my inventory for safe keeping and directed my full attention on what Rina about to teach me.
Profession Name: Tailoring Profession Rank: Novice Profession Level: 1 Profession Experience: 60% Description: This skill allows you to make clothing and light armor. The higher the skill the better the attributes.
For about an hour and a half, Rina taught me all the basics about tailoring. She taught me everything she could in such a short time, ranging from threading, where you put the thread in the needle, to many types of stitchings, a fastening method that keeps all the threads together. It was tough at first but after a little while I started to get the hang of it. In the end, I made 8 leather pieces of armor but nothing that great. The best piece of equipment I made was a pair of leather pants, these would be replacing my crude pants that I have been wearing. Ill just give the other 7 to Francis to sell when I see him next.
Leggings Of The Northman [Tier: Basic] Type: Leather Pants Durability: 75 / 75 Stats: + 30 Defense, + 20 Agility, + 5 Strength Requirements: Level 12 Description: This equipment was made by an amateur tailor. Creator: Axle
Authors Note: I know my naming skills arent that great but I think itll get better as time goes on. And besides, who want a legendary name for a sub-par piece of equipment. Alright, this is how much I can teach you for now. Level up your tailoring and come back to learn new techniques. C Rina Thank you Rina, I will make sure to come back. Youd better, you still have to fulfill my favor. C Rina Her grey eyes stared right into mine and she wore a captivating smile. This woman knows fully well what shes doing. We left the back room and went back to the main entrance. Here, you will need this for your adventures. C Rina Rina handed me a small compact box, I look inside and saw a bunch of sewing supplies in it.
Item Name: Sewing Kit [Tier: Basic] Type: Profession Item Durability: 1000 / 1000 Requirements: Tailoring Profession
You will have to pay for more supplies yourself, theres no way in hell Im giving you free supplies again. C Rina Thank you very much. Well, what the hell are you still doing here? Do you need something else?. C Rina Carefully thinking whether I didnt need anything else, I realized I almost forgot to ask something important. Yes, Im going to be going north and I was wondering if I could make something that will keep me warm in the freezing cold. Hmm, the only way to make something like that is with a material of higher tier and, unfortunately, your tailoring skill isnt a high enough level. But if you give me your alpha wolf skin I can make something that will help. C Rina But I would like to make something out of the alpha wolf skin myself in order to level my tailoring up higher. Oh dont worry, Ill just make something simple so you can just reuse it to make it into something else later on. Thats the beauty of tailoring, you can take used materials in order to make other goods. C Rina Alright, but will it affect its quality if it used already? Ah. Yes and no. If you do a terrible job making the item, then the material will be significantly degraded but if you do an excellent job then reusing materials should downgrade it by only a little bit. And since Im a highly experienced tailor, I can do a pretty good job. I guess it just comes down to whether you trust me or not. C Rina Fuck, she cornered me. She posed the question asking if I trusted her or not in order to make sure I gave her my alpha wolf fur. Its not that I didnt really trust her, its just that she wasnt giving me a choice. This woman was devious, I couldnt imagine what will happen if I said I dont trust her. I trust you. I handed over my high quality fur and prayed to god that she wouldnt mess up. Wait here for a couple minutes, Ill have your cold resistant equipment made in no time. C Rina Oh dont worry, PLEASE take your time please. Rina went to the back room again with my alpha wolf fur while I waited patiently at the main entrance.
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True Identity Chapter 24 C Lackey Rina went to the back room and again while I waited patiently at the main entrance. I waited anxiously for about 15 minutes until Rina finally came out from the back room. I was puzzled by what I saw in her hands, it practically looked like the same Alpha wolf fur to me. But she definitely did something to it if I am to judge from the gleaming smile that was on her face, indicating that she was clearly proud of her work. Here is the cold-resistant item, as promised. C Rina Rina handed me the fur but looking closely, it looked more like a blanket now. The jagged edges were smoothed out and there was stitching all along the sides.
Item Name: Alpha Wolf Blanket Type: Leather Clothing Durability: C Stats: 30% cold resistance
Damn, 30% cold resistance! This blanket will be extremely valuable when we are freezing our asses off in the north. The fur blanket was pretty big. If I had to guess it was about 15 feet by 12 feet, enough to fit two or three people within its warmth. Thank you very much Rina, how much do I owe you Umm, how about another favor in the future? C Rina It sounded like Rina had a sarcastic tone to her question but I wasnt completely sure. Umm. Haha, Im just joking, you owe me nothing. Now leave my sight before I change my mind. C Rina She might be beautiful but she had a terrible sense of humor, plus she even laughed at her own joke. Thank you very much. I stored the blanket in my inventory and I left the workshop in an excited mood. With this blanket, I felt like I could take on whatever the north had in store for me. [Adventurer **** has obtained the first pet in Absolute Authority. **** is rewarded 50 gold, + 15 Fame, and + 5 Honor] Shortly after exiting the workshop, a system announcement appeared. Someone had obtained the first pet on the continent. Hopefully information on how to obtain a pet will now be on the online forums so I can obtain a pet too. I was finally done with all the necessary work, so I decided to visit my merchant friend, Francis. I definitely had some good stuff for him to sell. When Francis saw me approaching his stall, he had a big smile on his face. I guess he knew I was coming to do some business. Hello Axle, have anything good for me today? C Francis Yes I do, very valuable stuff if I say so myself. After saying that, Franciss face showed an even bigger smile, or should I say greedy smile whatever. I handed Francis the leather armor that I had just previously made in tailoring workshop then I continued to hand Francis the map of Sowth Mountain and the map of the eastern territory of Edilath. Franciss eyes lit up once he saw the map of the eastern terrain. Is-is this what I think it is? C Francis Yup. This map is extremely valuable. There have been many maps about the surrounding terrain but nothing this specific. If we sell this, were going to make some major gold. Quick, tell me how many copies do you want to make? C Francis Just make as many copies as needed. This map is going to be purchased by almost every player in Edilath anyways. Alright, Ill make a few hundred copies a day or as much as I think is needed and sell each map for 10 gold. Ill sell your other map for Sowth Mountain for about 25 silver each because lets be honest, who the hell wants to climb that mountain. The leather armor however, Ill sell it as high as I can and how about I take 30% of the profit. C Francis Sounds like a deal, I look forward to the good news when I come back from my quest. You will definitely have good news once you return, I can guarantee it. C Francis Francis and I said our goodbyes and I moved onto the next thing on my agenda sleep. I logged out of AA and went to bed. I woke up at around 3 pm. That sleep was needed considering that I stayed up all night finishing that quest. After waking up, I did my usual routine of going to the bathroom to wash up and then going into the kitchen in order to find something to eat. Morning James, youre just in time. C Haley Just in time for what? Hmm, in time for what? Well, you see, my friends and I want to go shopping and it would be nice, you know, if my handsome older brother joined us. Well go shop for, look at stuffed animals. I cared for my little sister for quite some time now, so I naturally knew that she had an ulterior motive. So basically you need someone to hold your bags for you? Pretty pleeaaase? C Haley Haley was showing a puppy dog face. Her puppy dog face just made her even cuter and impossible to deny her request. Alright, but we have to come back before 6, I have a quest I need to attend to. YES! Thank you so much brother. Lets get going. C Haley Haley! Im glad you came, were going to have so much fun! Oh and you even brought your brother, great! C Haleys friend Yeah, I asked him to come hold our bags! C Haley Haley turned around to face me again and started to introduce me to her friends. James, youve seen my friends many times before but Ill introduce you again just in case you forgot. C Haley Haley first pointed to the girl towards my left side. She had straight dark brown hair that draped over her shoulder and down her back. She also had nice facial features and a slender figure. This is Alisa, her in game name is Nessa and shes a mage. C Haley Next Haley pointed to the next girl. She had curly black hair that was about shoulder length. Her curvy figure and big breasts complemented her facial features nicely. This is Chloe, her in game name is Corrie and shes a healer. C Haley After introducing Chloe, Haley pointed to the next girl. She had long blond hair that was tied up in a pony tail. She had a delicate figure and her face was stunning. This is Madison, her in game name is Esther and shes a necromancer Oh a necromancer, you dont come across them that often. Maybe its because most of them are solo players. If you encounter this tale on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. Finally, Haley pointed to a cheerful looking girl. She had light brown hair that was tied up in twintails. She had a charming smile on her face that matched her slim figure but for some reason she seemed kind of aloof I guess. This is Cyndi, her in game name is Cyndi and shes a knight. C Haley Ah, so this is the airhead, I have heard so much about. Arent my friends gorgeous? What do you think James? C Haley Yeah, you all look very beautiful. Also, thank you for taking care of my little sister. After I complimented them, some of the girls faces were blushing bright red. I noticed but I decided to pretend that I didnt. I had to admit though, these were all nice looking girls. How can there be so many from one school and also they are all in the same grade. Alright lets go shopping! C Cyndi Yeah! C The rest of the girls We started moving around the shopping mall, going into all the different types of clothing stores. The girls seemed like they were having a fun time. I started to get a little tired after awhile, so I decided to sit on a bench outside and bask in the sun while I waited for the shopping bags to pile up in the seat next to me. I was only suppose to help carry bags anyway, I thought, why do I need to enter the stores anyway when I can just sit patiently. Suddenly, my rest was disturbed, when the girls came running in my direction and pulled into another one of the clothing stores, complaining I wasnt doing my job properly. I was fortunate enough to grab all the bags before I was hauled off. Here, go into the changing room and put this outfit on. I think it would look good on you C Haley Huh, I thought I was just here to carry bags. Wheres the fun in that? Just go hurry up and put it on. C Haley Alright, alright, stop pushing me. I entered the dressing room and put on the outfit that the girls gave me. After I was done changing, I opened the door and the girls were all waiting eagerly to see me. Holy crap, Haley, your brother looks so good in those clothes. C Chloe The girls were talking amongst themselves about how I looked and I will have to admit, it did make me blush but only a little bit. Alright, youre buying that outfit, right James? C Haley Ahh, yeah sur. I looked at the price tag for the clothes they gave me. The total amount was over 120 dollars, holy crap. Umm, you know what? nevermind, I dont think I need any more clothes. Probably knowing me the best, Haley immediately knew why I didnt want to buy the clothes. Ohh come on, just buy it and relax a little. Youre going to need new clothes for college anyway. C Haley *Sigh* Yeah, fine Ill buy it. The two hours we spent shopping continued like that. Carrying shopping bags, trying on clothes the girls gave me, and them convincing me to buy it even though it was expensive. I already knew I was going to regret spending this money later on. Well whats done is done, Ill just have to work hard in order to make money in AA. Im hungry lets go get something to eat. C Madison We decided to go hang out at a nearby cafe. This cafe seemed very popular, there were lots of groups of teens eating and drinking together, having a good time. As we entered the cafe, it seemed like everyone was staring at us. The girls didnt seem to be fazed by the stares at all, probably because they were used to it. I decided to follow the girls lead and act like I didnt notice the glares I was getting from all the guys in the cafe. I actually dont know what these guys are so jealous about. Sure, the girls Im with are beautiful but Im also carrying over 10 shopping bags in my arms. I look more like a lackey than a stud. We sat down at a table that fit seven people and ordered our drinks. So James, what have you been doing so far in AA? C Alisa So far Ive just been going on all different types of quests and actually when I log back on, I am going on another quest. Oh whats the quest about? C Chloe My friend and I have to go up north and help escort some church members so they can help some village. I dont know that much about the quest yet but enough about me, what are you girls doing in AA. *Giggle* Well actually we were planning to travel to Edilath soon because Haley has been begging us for quite some time now to go visit her brother. C Madison Madison! Dont tell him unnecessary things! C Haley Haleys face was flushed red. I have such a cute little sister. When you girls come to Edilath, message me. We will go on extreme adventures together! Yeah! C All the girls When Haley and I got back to our apartment it was around 5:45 pm. Oh crap, I have to hurry, I promised to meet Iris at 6! I ran to my room and put on my VR Headset. In the distance I could hear Haley. Wait, who is Iris?! C Haley Sorry Haley, I have no time to answer your question right now. [Do You Want Connect To Absolute Authority?] YES! Swish I spawned in the middle of the market area. It was bustling with crowds of people as usual. I got to hurry to the church. As I was approaching the church, I could see Iris standing by the church doors. But she wasnt alone, there was also something sitting next to her. I couldnt tell right away because I was too far away. But as I got closer I realized that the thing next to Iris was a small wolf. The wolf was the same one we got from the quest. But for some reason it wasnt a baby anymore, it look like its grown a little. Wait.it couldnt bea pet?
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True Identity Chapter 25 C To The North The wolf was the same one we got from the quest. But for some reason it wasnt a baby anymore, it looked like itd grown a little. Wait.it couldnt bea pet? After sprinting for quite some time, I had finally met up with Iris. I was out of breath but my excitement dominated my tiredness. Iris, is that a pet? Iris nodded. I looked closely at the little wolf by Iriss side and checked its status.
Name: Kiba Level: 6 Health: 130 / 130 Attack: 40 Defense: 30
The wolf was growing nicely, Iris must have nurtured the pup somehow. Even though it was just a tiny little baby a couple of hours ago, it now looked more mature and fierce. But despite the wolfs development it was still as cute as before. Wait, are you the first person in AA to get a pet? Iris shakes her head and then holds up two fingers. The second?! Who could have gotten a pet before you? I quickly looked on the online forums through the AA navigator and found out that the first person to get a pet was none other than Ares, the guild leader of [The Brotherhood] and currently the top ranked player in Edilath. Ah well thats too bad, you werent the first person to obtain a pet but still your pet is truly fearsome! If it can become even stronger than the alpha wolf we had trouble killing before, your wolf will become the greatest pet ever. Iris nodded in approval. Ding! [Item: Nights Reach has been sold! 47,500 dollars has been sent to your bank account.] Holy shit, the weapon that we got during the Kingdom Quest has finally sold. I put the spear on the auction house 3 days ago for 50,000 dollars and someone finally bought it out. Since Emperor Studios takes a 5% cut from everything sold on the auction we got 47,500 dollars instead of 50,000 dollar. Which was still awesome, theres no way I could complain. Haha, this makes up for the shit ton of money I spent clothes shopping earlier! I checked the balance in my bank account and sure enough the money was there. I felt rich at the moment but then after thinking about having to split the money with the rest of the party, I felt disappointed. But none the less, I still made a lot of money and was happy with the generous profit I just earned. I quickly made a group chat with Iris and Ronins party. These were the 5 other people I had to split the money with. Alright, I have good news everyone, The spear we put on the auction house was sold! Ill transfer the money to each of your bank accounts soon. Thatll be around 7,900 dollars for each of us! Holy crap, 7,900 dollars! Im going to treat myself to something nice! Lets see maybe Ill get my nails done, go shopping, oh and how about even going to the spa. C Amber Yeah, yeah, just dont spend that money all at once like you always do. C Garan Garan just shut up. C Amber Alright, alright, no more fighting because I have even more good news. Garan, Iris and I got a drop from our previous quest and I believe it would be extremely valuable for you to use since youre a tank. What is it? C Garan Without saying another word, I shared the stats of the shield that Iris and I got from our quest.
Item Name: Guardian of Frost [Tier: Grand] Type: Shield Durability: 200 / 200 Stats: + 100 Defense, 10% Ice Resistance Requirements: Level 16, Strength at least 100
Holy shit! State your price right now. C Garan Umm, honestly this shield is worth almost as much as the spear we just sold. Do you have that kind of money? Fuck, youre right. Oh I know, keep my share of the money from the spear we sold, thatll be 7,900 dollars! C Garan Thats still not enough money. Fuck! But I really want this shield! C Garan Keep my share also. C Ronin Ronin thank you so much! C Garan sounded like he was about to tear up. Mine too. C Lilith Sigh, just like that my treat was taken away wu wu wu. AHH! Keep my share too Garan, you owe me big time for this! C Amber Thank you guys so much, Im so happy I could cry. But even after all thats still only around wait dont tell me, I got this 30,000 dollars! Fuck, still not enough money. NOOOO!!! C Garan I dont know if it was because I felt touched by their strong friendship or what. But I decided to sell it to them for a huge discount. I honestly felt somewhat jealous because Ive never had friends like that, except from Nick. Money definitely couldnt buy true friendship. Its actually around 32,000 dollars, you did the math wrong. But 32,000 is fine. I sell it to you for that amount because were friends. Just remember this good deed. I looked towards Iris to see if she was fine with selling the shield at that price because this shield wasnt only obtained by me. I probably should have asked her before saying it though. Thankfully, Iris nodded in approval. Are you serious! Woah, lets hurry up and meet up before you change your mind haha. C Garan Fine by me, meet me at the church in Edilath. Oh cool, we were already on our way there anyway. Well be there in a few minutes. C Garan Our group chat ended with that and then I looked towards Iris. Ill send you the money now, just give me a second. Iris nodded. After a couple of minutes, I transferred the money to Iriss account and each of us were now 25,000 dollars richer than before. Lets go meet the High Priest now. We entered the church and the High Priest was already there waiting for our arrival. If you come across this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it. Ahh, Axle youve finally come. And who might this person be? I assume this is your partner. C High Priest I was surprised by the High Priests welcome because I knew he was blind. How the hell could he tell that I was the one who entered when he couldnt see? Just as when we first met, I got a strange feeling that despite the High Priests disability, he was still a very powerful person. Better stay on his good side. I answer the High Priests question. Yes, this is Iris. She will be the one person that I bring with me to complete this quest. I see very well, I shall give her the quest as well. C High Priest
Quest: Where Evil Lurks Difficulty: C Requirements: Lead a party to Zovia and purge the evil that has consumed it. Failure: Intimacy with the church will decrease. Faith, fame, luck, and honor will decrease. Description: The high priest has asked you to help them will a major quest. You are to lead the people from the church to Zovia village, defeat the evil, and let the church purge the people.
Iris accepted the quest that the High Priest gave to her and now all that was left to do was to see which church members I would also bring with us. Where are the church members that I will bring with me? The High Priest pointed to someone sitting on a bench. This one will be accompanying you and there will also be one more. She will arrive in a couple of seconds. C High Priest Shortly after the church doors opened and Ronins party entered. Seeing Garans anxious face, I took the shield out of my inventory and handed it to him. He immediately equipped it and looked even more fierce. Thank you Axle, Im going to conquer the world with this! C Garan You wish. C Amber We talked some more and then Ronins party left to go level up. But for some strange reason Amber stayed behind. *Cough* Now that everyone is here. I shall get all your equipment ready. Why dont you introduce yourselves to each other in the mean time. C High Priest The person sitting on the bench stood up and came towards my direction. I was surprised because initially I thought the church members that would accompany me would be NPCs but they were actually real players. Hello Axle, my name is Tidus. I am a level 16 paladin. I hope we work well together. C Tidus Tidus had blond hair, blue eyes, and was well built. My first impression of Tidus was that he looked very dependable because of his arrogant smile, making it clear that he was confident in his skills. Hello, Axle we know each other already but Tidus, my name is Amber. Im a level 15 Priest. C Amber Tidus looked at Iris, waiting for her to introduce herself but that clearly wasnt going to happen so I decided to introduce her. This is Iris, shes a warrior and, as you know already, Im Axle. Only four people would be going on this quest. The High Priest did say before that he didnt want a lot people going because of the difficulties but I thought there would at least be six people. Well, I guess there is also a benefit of not having to take care of too many people. Alright, now that you have introduced yourselves we will hand you what you will need. C High Priest Four priests came out of the back room carrying supplies and handed them to us. I quickly scanned over the equipment. The supplies were fairly basic: food rations, water, and bandages. The only thing that was special was the cloak.
Item Name: Cloak Type: Cloth Accessory Durability: C Stats: 15% Cold Resistance Requirements: Level 15
These cloaks are amazing, almost as good as the blanket that Rina made. For the church to have equipment like this, they must be very powerful. You will take horses to Arcton Village in the North. Arcton Village is currently being protected by the church due to the evil forces that continuously threaten to expand. When you reach the village, leave the horses there and continue by foot, the terrain will make it too difficult for horses to travel. Continuing north of Arcton, you will eventually arrive at Zovia Village that has been conquered by the evil. But beware, there are many hardships that you will face along the way. When you are ready, set off on your journey. While I await your return. C High Priest The High Priest went into the back room. All four of us were silent for quite sometime so I decide to act like the leader Im suppose to be. Alright, if everyone is ready, lets go. Okay! C Everyone We left the church when everyone was ready and made our way to the north gate. Axle, I didnt know you were the one who was going to lead us. C Amber I was surprised too, I didnt know that you decided to join the church. Yeah, being a just a regular healer didnt really suit me, I wanted to try something else. Im an adventurer after all. Plus, there are a lot of opportunities there. C Amber Cool, now I have a friend that is connected to the church. This could be helpful in the future! Yeah, you can count on me! C Amber Behind Amber and me, I could hear Tidus trying to woo Iris or something. It kind of bothered me but I felt much better when Iris just ignored him. Tidus quickly caught on that Iris wasnt going to talk back to him so he decided to shut his mouth. When we reached the north gate, there were four horses waiting for us. Each of us chose a horse that we would ride and began our journey to Arcton Village.
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