《Spirit contractor》 The beginning Luke was sitting in his desk while he was listening to his classmates "Hey did you already get it?" "Yeah! all people from school have started playing" "I got to level 4 last night" "Only 4? I got 11" School began with almost everyone talking about the new game, Age of myths, that was released two weeks ago. Age of Myths was the first VRMMORPG and the whole world was surprised by how realistic it was, for example if you didn''t eat you will die. People of all ages play the game, even the middle age people who have to work. This was possible because time was faster in AOM, one week in RL is the same as four weeks in AOM. The game itself doesn''t have an objective like conquering the world or something, you can do whatever you want. The only peculiarity was that you could find all classes of mythological beings from all religions. All of this was basic knowledge of the game. To play the game, you can¡ät just play it in your computer like others normal games. You need to purchase a capsule, put your body into it and you fell asleep or something like that. I wasn¡ät really interested in the game like the others. For me it was really hard to believe that my dream became true. A world where magic exists and you can live your own adventure like in the mangas and novels that i read, it was too good to be true. I was thinking that until they forced me to play. Then i notice someone talking to me. "Hey Luke what¡äs up? Nathan asked me "Nothing just another boring day" i replied "You are negative as always" he says with a wry smile "Hey guys what are you talking about?" John asked us "Luke was saying how boring life was" Nathan said mocking me "Shut up" i told him Nathan and John have been my two best (only) friends since we were in primary school. while we were talking a couple of papers fell near my desk and i picked them up and handed them to the girl in front of me. "Here, they are yours right?" i said while handing the papers "Yeah, thanks" she giving me a cold glaze and leaving "I don¡ät know why but she always treat me with a cold attitude" i said turning back to my friends "Poor guy even the most kindest and poplar despises him" Nathan said pitying me "Who?" i asked not knowing who was he talking about "Are you dumb or something? the girl who sits in front of you, Luna Hamilton, the most intelligent, kind and beautiful girl in the school. You are telling me that she was sitting in front of you for almost 4 months and you did¡ät know!!" John said yelling at me "Silence! go to your desks the class is starting" the teacher said looking at us At the end of the school day John and Nathan come to my desk so we can go home together. "Hey Luke sorry for yelling at you earlier" John said "moving on tell me your names in Age of Myths so we can add each other? "No problem and i¡äm not playing that game" i said to them The tale has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.They both have a shocked expression in their face. They couldn¡ät believe that his friend who love reading things about magic worlds and a master at a sword style wasn¡ät playing the game, actually it was his dream becoming true. Nathan and John look at each other and knowing what to do. they will force their best friend to play no matter what even if they threaten him with THAT thing. THAT was the only thing that Luke was so embarrassed and wanted to keep it as a secret of everyone who knows him. "Luke if you don¡ät start playing AOM we are telling all the people that you know about THAT" Nathan said with a serious face Luke need a couple of minutes so he could catch a breath. He knew that his friends were going to make him play the game no matter what, but he never expected them to threaten him with THAT. After a couple of minutes of thinking he couldn¡ät find a way to get out of this so he just gave up. "Okey i will order the capsule when i get home" Luke said with a defeated look on his face Both of his friends smirk when they heard his answer When i got home my mom greet me and i went directly to my room, take a shower and have a little nap. I lived alone with my mother i don¡ät have any siblings and my dad ran away when i was born. Despite that my mom always take good care of me and love. Her name was Mei Kusanagi ,she was Japanese, and she was a master of the Kusanagi sword style. When i was a kid i asked her to teach me, it was the only thing left from her family and when i told her that i wanted to learn it she was so happy that day she cried. when dinner was ready my mom called for me. After we finished eating and cleaning all we went to the living to drink some tea and talk about each others day. "Lu you have to come to the dojo sometime, mommy feels lonely without you" she tells me "Okey, but i will go on the weekend because there are less people" "Yay!" she replies with excitement Mom manages a famous dojo where she teachs all kind of persons the Kusanagi style. I stopped going to the dojo last year because she told me that i already learnt everything that i can from her and the rest i will have to figure it out by myself. Yet she tells me that once in a while i have to show my face there. "hey mom i want to buy that new game Age of Myths with your credit card is it okey?" i asked with some hope of being rejected "Of course, finally my son get interested in something and..." While she was saying that with excitement i stopped listening to her and order the capsule. The next days in school and home where i do my sword practice passed normally and on a Friday the capsule arrived. After it was installed it i look at it resigning to my fate. I took a deep breath and my last thought before entering the capsule was:''Well let¡äs see if this game is a little interesting at least¡­'' Chapter 1: New world '' for thoughts'' "dialogue" 1 chapter plz tell me your opinipn and if you dinf some mistakes i think that i will make the status windows only when its necesary it will be a pain to that often +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The scan on your iris and vein has determined that you are an unregistered user. Do you want to create a new account? "yeah, it''s not like i have another option" Select the name of your avatar. ''Name? i never thought about it. Well i''m a dual wielder so dual will be fine "Dual" Select your gender. Male, Female or Neutral? "Male" Age of Myths has fifty races. You may select your race. Please note that you have only 20 to choose from. ''i only did research of where to train. Lets just go with human.'' "Human" You may alter your appearance as you wish. An image of Luke appeared in front of him. He was near 1 80cm tall. A well toned body, black hair that he got from his mother side and a pair of deep blue eyes that must be from his father. "Change my eyes and hair color to silver, the rest is fine" Your account has been activated. Your stats and class shall be determined while you are playing Age of Myths.. Please select a city and kingdom you wish to start in. "I always wanted to go to a forest. A city surrounded by one please" Welcome to Age of Myths. A tutorial is available if you wish to go through it. "Pass" We wish you all the best in your adventures. Fame and glory await you at every turn! There was a bright flash of light and I closed my eyes... I could immediately sense nature all around me. Opening my eyes all my fears of this game being too fake disappeared. This is beyond of what i think it would be. I was in a small city surrounded by big trees. You could see all the merchants trying to sell their things to both NPC and players. His eyes started to tear up his dream finally became true. Dual felt really excited for the first time in almost a year. ''I must really thank Nathan and John when i see them'' Back to normal Luke decide to go directly to the training hall so he can get the sword mastery skill and dual wield mastery skill. The only research he did of the game was about a place where he could train so he can get the skills that he wanted and raise some stats. The best place for that was the training hall. He didn''t know why most of the players didn''t go to the training hall to raise stats for him it look pretty much easier than doing other kind of stuffs to raise them. It never crossed his mind that a normal person couldn''t stand doing that hell of train. He was about to ask for directions when he saw a small green light trapped between the branches of a tree. Just for impulse he free the small green light and turn to leave he heard a tiny voice. "Thank you" Looking back he didn''t see anyone. ''Just my imagination''. He thought What he didn''t know was that that encounter will change his life in the game. He asked the instructions for where the training hall was and went there immediately. The moment the instructor saw Dual walk in the entrance, he made a dubious face and asked him: "Young adventurer, I presume you have arrived at the Berradian continent very recently can i ask you why are you here in the Spirit Forest? it¡äs really rare to see one of you here." ''So this place is called Spirit Forest, i have to befriend the instructor so i can get more info'' "Yes Sir i just arrived here. I came to this beautiful forest because the story i heard about it and also because it is said that a legendary instructor was here" Luke said trying to flatter the instructor "Well i will never call me a legendary instructor but i have my experience" said the instructor with a prideful look on his face Seeing that his flatter work Dual have a smirk in his face "For now just take any unattended scarecrow and strike him in any way you want. A wooden sword is placed in front of a scarecrow, and it is all yours. If you need my guidance or information about this little city come here and ask me" the instructor said with a warm smile in his face "Yes Sir, thanks" happy with the results Dual and went in front of a scarecrow and started hitting it. One week had passed in game time. Dual logged on to Age of Myths on a daily basis, he was becoming addicted to the game , except for the minimum sleeping hours, eating and his daily training he woudn''t stop playing. For that week he would hit the scarecrow for eight hours a day, have his meals with the instructor and the rest of the time he made a couple of quests or easy jobs so he can get some familiarity with the villagers and earn money while getting some stats. Support the creativity of authors by visiting the original site for this novel and more. At the start he couldn''t believe that one day in real life where four in game but soon he got accustomed to it. Also he was near death a couple of times because the satiety bar was nearly empty for lack of food. He didn''t expected the game to be so realistic. If it wasn''t for the instructor he would have lose a lot of precious time because of his stupidity. In this period of time Dual raised some stats like Vitality, Strength and Agility. Most important he gained the sword mastery skill and raised it to beginner lvl 2. He checked his stats. "Open stats window" Character name: Dual Alignment: Neutral Class: None Title: None Level 1 Fame: 0 Health: 140 Mana: 100 Strength: 15 Agility: 16 Vitality: 14 Wisdom: 10 Intelligent: 10 Luck: 3 Offense: 3 Defense: 0 Magic resistance: 0 Happy with the results he keep hitting the scarecrow to get the skill that he wants Now Dual has finally achieved his goal, he just got the skill dual wield mastery. "Finally!!!" he yelled with all his might taking out all the frustration for the time needed to get the skill He sit in the floor so he could catch a breath and after some minutes he went where the instructor was waiting for him with some drinks. "Good work it seems like you finally get the skill" the instructor said while handing him the water "Yeah i was going to give up if i needed more time than that. Now i need to think what kind of a class i want to get" Dual said thinking about it "You still don''t know?" the instructor asked "No, i just want a melee class" i replied "There are a lot of options then think carefully witch one will you choose" "Yes i will think about it" Dual didn''t want a normal class he hoped he could find a hidden class or something like that. Thinking of that he remembered the first day when he crossed that small light. After hearing the name of the city he thought that it must be a spirit but he never asked anyone. "Honorable instructor are there any spirits in this city?" The instructor take his time to think and then said:"No that i know but you should ask the rest of the villagers" "Ok thanks, see you later" waving his hand to the instructor Dual went to the village to get some information about of the spirits. Hours passed and he asked almost every person of the village but no one knew anything ''It must have been my imagination then'' Dual thought. He was a little down because he thought that he found a way to get a hidden class. Then he decided to ask to an old lady that was seated on a bench, this was one of his last hopes. "Excuse nice lady do you know if there are any spirits in this city?" i asked her the nicer way that i could "Sorry honey i don''t anything about spirits" she replied with a sad face I was leaving when she stopped me and said "but you should asked to Benjamin. He is the old man sitting near the fountain. If someone knows of that it must be him, he has been living here for more than 60 years" Saying my thanks while leaving i ran towards the fountain and saw an old man standing there feeding the birds. He was taller than me with some scars in his face and long white hair. He looked like an old experienced warrior that have many battles. "Sorry Sir can i take a little or your time to ask you something " i asked him the very politely "Sure young one. What do you need of this old man? Seeing that he was a nice a nice person i relax a little "Sir do you know anything about spirits? "Why are you asking that boy?" he suddenly get serious ''Did i make him angry?'' i was pondering "Because i think that i saw one over a weak ago" i replied with a low voice a little afraid of the old man He look if someone is near, seeing that no one around he pulls me near and give a fierce look while saying "Listen well lad you wont said this to anyone and you will meet me here tomorrow at this time. Do you understand" "Yes sir absolutely" i replied cowering "Good then see you tomorrow" he said and then leaves ''Shit what was that? i could some sort of pressure coming out of that geezer. Cool i¡äm feeling so excited now i can¡ät wait'' Dual said while logging out to rest. Chapter 2: Explanation ''for thoughts'' "dialogue" 2 chapter plz tell me your opinion and tell me if you find mistakes it can be a little borin now but bear with me plz. the next chapter will be his training and the some action +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dual logged back and appeared in front of the fountain where he met the old man. He has been waiting for the old man almost for 6 hours. ''This old man, how longer is he gonna make me wait'' Dual was starting to lose his patience. ¡°Hey boy pay attention when someone is talking to you¡±. Dual surprised from the sudden voice jumped from the place where he was sitting. ¡°What''s with that reaction, are you afraid of an old man?¡± he said mocking me with a big smile on his face. ¡°Of course i was surprised, do you know how long i have been waiting you?¡± i said furious. ¡°Near 6 hours¡± he said with a calm voice. ¡°Why the hell did you male me wait that long? I was yelling at him i couldn''t believe that he make me wait for purpose. ¡°Well i needed to see if you really wanted to know about spirits. You had to be committed enough for at least wait for a couple of hours.¡± he explained to me. ¡°Fine i get it .Now could you please tell me more about the spirits? ¡°Sure but let''s go to my place first.¡± We walked for approximately 15 minutes and we arrived at his house. Entering you could see at the back an enormous yard. I followed him to what it looks to be the living room. He sits on a chair and i sit on another one facing him. Looking more carefully at the house it also has a kitchen and 4 doors. ''One of them must be his room, the rest i don''t know.'' ¡°Nice place right? Take a good look since you are going to live here until you finish your training¡± the old man said. ¡°Yeah..... em what? I said dumbfounded. ¡°Obviously I¡¯m not going to tell my secrets so easy, you need to become my apprentice.¡±
Ting. Benjamin offers you his apprenticeship! During this time, you are to listen to his instructions. Will you take it?
¡°Yes. I will become your apprentice master Benjamin¡±
You accepted becoming Benjamin apprentice. You received the title Benjamin apprentice.
¡°Master i like that¡± he said with a smile in his face ¡°Now the important matter. The only thing that you need to know about spirits it''s that they are magical beings that humans or any other race can make a contract with. It sounds pretty easy but it''s not. For making a contract you first need to find a spirit that it''s almost impossible. They always avoid all kind of races even elfs. This is because of their distrust towards other races.¡± he explained to me ¡°Then how do you make a contract with them?¡± i asked him ¡°Well it depends. After you find them you can force them the contract but the usually succeed in escaping before you could make it. The best way is to befriend them, for this you have to save them from danger or do them a favor that must of the times it''s life risking.¡± he keep explaining with a serious face. ¡°Mmm yes i start to understand more about them. But why one of them was here? The story has been illicitly taken; should you find it on Amazon, report the infringement. ¡°To explain that i need to go back some time. More than a century ago this city was one of the favorite places for spirits because it was a really quite place near the nature. All the people of the village in that time helped the spirits and they helped back, they had a good relationship back then. But then some villagers started capturing the spirits so they could you use their powers. The spirits seeing that they were betrayed they decided to never trust another living being again. Because of their distrust they went to live in secluded places. The only moment they go out is because they need to be in contact with the nature to keep living. A lot of spirit might live near this city and when one of them went out to be in contact with the nature it got trapped and then you helped the spirit¡± ''That¡¯s why i came across with one of them'' ¡°So some of them might live near here because this city used to be their home¡±? I asked curiously. ¡°Yes probably¡± ¡°Last question why the spirit had a small green light?¡± ¡°It depends in what kind of spirits are they. The green ones are wind spirits, red are for fire, light blue for water and brown for earth spirits. If you are thinking about other elements like light and darkness we don''t know if they exist because no one find them.¡± he finished the explanation. ¡°So i already make a favor to the spirit the only thing that i need now it''s search for him and make the contract¡± i said while imagining how strong i will be ¡°You think that it''s that easy?¡± he said as if i was stupid ¡°you need to be strong enough to control the power of the spirits .Even after the training that you will have only then you are going to be capable to control the weakest skills that the spirits will give you through their power. The skills that they give you can improve a lot but you are the only one that can find a way to improve them even i can''t help you with that¡± he finished ¡°okey...¡± i said depressed ¡°Fine i will give you a little incentive. You know.... you can fuse skills that you get from different spirits¡± he told me in a low voice. ¡°Really!? No way. I''m going to be the strongest person in the world...¡± i start yelling with excitement like if i were a child But before i could continue he smack me in the head. ¡°Silence, First you need to complete the training and then find some spirits. You are saying all of that as if it was easy¡± he said repressing me ¡°Yes master. So how will be the training¡± i asked calming down ¡°For the next two weeks all the days will be like this: 4 hours you will be hitting the scarecrow, another 4 fighting against me. For this two i will give you some weight and they are going to increase with the time. Then another 3 hours you are going to read books about elements, you need to have some knowledge so you can use the skills that you will obtain. It also will increase your amount of mana, you need a lot for the class that you will get. And last but not less important 6 hours of repairing and identifying some things that i have in my storage room.¡± he told me how my training was gonna be. ¡°Master why do i need the repair and identifying skill¡± i asked wondering. ¡°You will know when the time comes¡± ¡°Yes master¡± i just replied him ''Why would i need that skills. Well it doesn''t matter i can''t wait to start training.''Dual thought not knowing all the pain that his master was going to make him through this training. Chapter 3: Training ''for thoughts'' "dialogue" 3 chapter plz tell me your opinion and tell me if you find mistakes Sory another boring chapter but i promise some action in chapter 4 and i will put the status window updated next will be a short bonus chapter with Luna POV and then finally some action ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ After master told me how my training was gonna be i log out because i promised my mother that i will visited her at the dojo. Today is sunday, it''s sad that tomorrow i will have to go back to school after all of this time playing. I leave my house and went directly where the dojo was. From home you only need to walk for 10 minutes to get there. As soon as i open the door my mom greets me. ¡°Hi Lu, it''s nice that you visited us¡± she greeted me smiling ¡°Yeah, since i came i will do my practice here¡± i told her ¡°Fine use one of the empty rooms then¡± ¡°Okey¡± In the way i talk with some of the students that i used to practice together. ''It¡äs seems that they got a little better, but still i hope there was someone i could fight besides mom'' After finishing i took a shower there and when i was about to leave i notice a familiar person that was training with the rest of the students. It was Luna Hamilton, the school most popular girl who also sits in front of me. ''I will better leave before she sees me. I know that she doesn''t like me, it will be awkward if we meet here.'' So before she could see me i leave. ---------------------------------------------------- Logging back i start stretching before master comes and when i see he coming before i could talk to him he yelled at me. ¡°Were where you!? You were supposed to start your training hours ago!¡±he said with his face becoming red from anger ¡°I told you that i needed to do something in my world master...¡± I replied calmly ¡°Oh you are right.... well it doesn''t matter, now go and start training¡± he ordered me ¡°and don''t forget the weights¡± I put on the weights and leave my stupid master behind. After 4 hours of striking the scarecrow with the weights i was exhausted. I couldn''t feel my body anymore. While i was trying to recover master came and gave some water. ¡°Here, drinks this¡± ¡°Thanks¡± i drink it as if i were in a desert for months ¡°Good now it''s time for fighting lesson¡± ¡°What!? can¡ät i rest a little more¡± i pleaded ¡°Oh but we just start you can give up if you want¡± he said with a big smirk in his face ''This geezer i will make him pay for this'' ¡°Fine let''s do it¡± ¡°Thats the enthusiasm. Let¡äs go to my back yard¡± We arrived at his yard and he went to get the equipment inside the. He came back and throw at me a pair wooden swords. ¡°Here, for what i saw you use two. Also it seems you already know how to handle a sword right? I saw you using some king of techniques.¡± ''When i was training i tried to use some techniques that my mom taught me. The system asked me if i wanted to registered them but i refused, i didn¡ät want to depend and them to much and i wanted to come with some techniques on my own.'' ¡°Okey now we are doing some mock battle¡± he continued ¡°Try to attack me when you feel ready¡± he said trying to provoke me. He was using a wooden sword and a shield. ''He is old so i will try to use my speed to beat him. I was always more of the speed type rather than strength, i always prefer to strike the enemy more times than one with more amount of strength. In my opinion you could deal more damage that way.'' I threw one of my sword to his face and he easily dodged it, but it distracted him enough time so i could close the space between us. I wanted to finish this quickly. ¡°Take this¡± i yelled thinking that it was already over, but i was wrong... ¡°Don''t underestimated me!!¡± he yelled avoiding my attack with an unbelievable speed. Before i could notice he was behind me smacking my back. The fight finished with me felling on the floor with a wooden sword pointing at my face. A case of content theft: this narrative is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation. ¡°I guess that you already know that when you face a stronger enemy you have to wait for the right time to strike?¡± he reprimanded me. ¡°But you told me to attack you and...¡± i tried to explain but he interrupted me. ¡°What? Are you saying that if the enemy says attack me you will just follow. Stop behaving like a child.¡±he told me with a scowling face. ¡°But you have your merits it was a good tactic to distract me.¡± ¡°Yes master, it won¡ät happen again¡± i said ashamed of how i behave ¡°It¡äs okey if you understand¡± he relaxed ¡°Now explained the way you fight so we can improve it¡± I explained him the basics of the Kusanagi style. I told him that it focus in counter attacking and abandoning all the defenses to concentrate only in beating the enemy fast, like what i try to do in our mock battle. ¡°Pretty weird, it focus in two tactics that they are totally the opposite of each other¡± he said taking more interest in the Kusanagi style. ¡°yeah... i heard that a lot¡± i said tired of always hearing the same thing ¡°Well you will tell me more about it later, let¡äs continue¡± Like that we continue for 3 more hours. With these two part of the training my stats raise considerably faster than before. After we finished he told me to eat and drink something and then go to his office. ''Now i know all the house it has 2 rooms, office and a bathroom'' Dual was thinking Dual knocked the door and enter. It was a normal office with a desk, a pair of chairs and a shelf filled with books. His master took out 5 books of the shelf and ordered me to read them. The names of the book were Mana: How it works and Basic element fire, water, earth and wind element, one of each. While reading i gained the fast reading skill and when i finished all the books i also get
New skill unlocked: Magic mastery (Passive) Beginner Level 1(0%) The ability to use magic freely. Your understanding of mana has enabled you to use magic with much ease, the more you improve the stronger the spell becomes. You are only able to use basic spells. Increase casting speed by 2% Increase magic strength by 5% +5 to INT and WIS +50 to mana
New skill unlocked: Water mastery Beginner level 1 (0%) Understanding the element of Water has made you stronger than before. Allows manipulation of the Water element. As your skill proficiency increases, the amount of water produced and the strength of the magic will also increase. +5% strength for water based spells +1% water affinity +1% water resistance
And this skill for the rest of the elements. I also get +1 to INT and +1 to WIS for each book. It took me 1 hour more of the necessary time to finished the books. As punishment master made me spent 2 extra hours training the repairing and identifying skill. For the next 2 weeks it was also the same routine, hitting the scarecrow and mock battles with the old man, reading more book about the elements to get more affinity with them and also increase my amount of mana and last and the most annoying thing i raised my repairing skill to intermediate lvl 1. I couldn''t do it with the identifying skill but master said ita was okey. Doing all of this was harder than before because i also needed to go to school i was exhausted at the end. Now i was waiting for master because he said he was going to give me something for finishing the training. ''i don''t need anything. All i want is to know is why he made me train that fucking skill!'' His master finally arrived with some things ¡°Master what''s is that?¡± i asked dumbfounded ¡°Presents boy. Presents¡± he said with a big smile ¡°But before that we have to talk¡± Chapter 3.5: Luna Hamilton ''for thoughts'' "dialogue" 3.5 chapter chapter plz tell me your opinion and tell me if you find mistakes in this chapter you can see the peculiar person that Luna to don''t say something bad about her wait for chapter 4 where we finally have some action ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Luna Hamilton was a 17 years old girl. She came from a normal family. Her father worked in an office and her mother was a kindergarten teacher. She also have a big brother 4 years older than her. She excelled in most of the things that she did such as sports, academics and was adored by almost everyone. They all think that she was a kind girl that always helped because of just good will. But the truth was that she thought of herself better than almost everyone of her age. She only offered her help to the others to demonstrate how good she was. For example when she helped others with their homework she just did it to hear at the end ¡°Finally, now i understand all. Thanks Hamilton i wish i were as good as you¡± or things like that. She always thought ''keep dreaming you''ll never be as perfect as i am'' but she just said ¡°it''s only because i study really hard.¡± This attitude of her was developed in her childhood. Since she always do things pretty well for her age they praised her saying ¡°she is too mature and intelligent and she is still so young¡±. At the beginning she thought that they were saying that just because of good will, but with the time more people started saying the same thing and Luna slowly start believing that she was better than the rest of her schoolmates and finally all normal people of her age. She wasn''t stupid enough to think that she was better than genius and prodigys of her age. One of her favorites things since she was a kid was playing video games with his brother. She loved being the most famous and stronger player in all the MMORPG that she played. Because of this she always wanted to know how to handle a sword so she started attending a dojo in her city. The master of the dojo was a young Japanese woman named Mei Kusanagi. After years she got really close to her master till the point of thinking of her as her big sister. Mei considered Luna a very talented swordwoman probably the best since her son didn¡ät come anymore. Luna didn¡ät know that Luke was his son because when he was born the hospital registered him with his father surname that was White. He is going to change it to Kusanagi when he turns 18, it¡äs a secret that he keeps from her mother as a surprise. They also never encounter each other in the dojo because Luke was in a more advanced class. At the present time Luna was really impatient she couldn¡ät wait to log back into AOM. Her capsule arrived some days ago and she used all her free time for playing. She wasn''t concentrated on what was she writing so some papers fell from her desk and someone picked them up and handed to her. ¡°Here, they are yours right?¡± that boy told me ¡°Yeah, thanks¡± i replied him coldly and then leaving I could hear one of his friends yelling something but i didn''t care. That boy name was Luke White i never liked him. He was one of the few people who never asked for my help or even talked to me. He was a lazy person who didn''t have any interest . Also he always slept in class and have a depressed face. She never see him smiling. He was the kind of person that Luna hated the most because he never look at her as if she was better than him. ''He treats me as if we are the same. He must know his place i''m way better than him'' she was thinking with an irritated face while walking. ¡°Hey change that face they all will see you¡± she hear a voice ¡°Uh? Ah Ana it was you, sorry i was thinking about that idiot¡± i replied her If you encounter this tale on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. Ana is my best friend since we were 3 years. She and her brother were the only ones who knew her real nature. ¡°Let him be. It doesn¡ät matter to you right¡± Ana said with a wry smile I sighed ¡°you are right i shouldn''t think about him.¡± ¡°Hi girls what''s up?¡± Leo asked Leo is one of the most popular and handsome boys in the school. Most of the girls have a crush on him. He tried to seduced me a couple of times but ignored him. He is a nice guy but i only see him as a friend. I need someone as good as me to be my boyfriend. ¡°Nothing Leo let''s go back. Class is about to start.¡± i just said to him At the end of the day Luna went directly to her home and log back. Yue (Chinese for Luna) open her eyes and saw the familiar room where she had stayes the las 3 weeks. She was near 1 70cm tall, long blonde hair and green eyes. Her body wasn''t voluptuous but have nice curves. You would think that she altared her appearance but she didn''t change anything. She looked just like in real life. Yue left the room to search for her master. ''I will finally get my new class i''m so excited'' she thought finally finding his matter just outside the house ¡°Hello master i¡äm here to finished my training¡± Yue said trying to hide her excitement Her master was a really old man that always forgets everything. ¡°Training but we finished it yesterday. Why are you still here, i already give you the class right?¡± he asked me ''This stupid old man always forgetting everything'' ¡°No master you stil didn''t give me the class¡± i replied in the border of yelling at him ¡°Oh sorry then here you have¡±
You have been offered with a new class: Magic swordsman. Will you accepted it?
¡°Yes¡± Finally my new class i thought.
You have accepted the new class. Class change: you are now a Magic swordsman.
¡°Thanks for all master¡± Yue expressed her gratitude. ¡°Oh you are still here?¡± ''Die already you are too old!!¡± i thought and left. The next days Yue did some quests to get some money before leaving the city. ''So stupid why do i have to spend 1 month without going out''. This one of the rules of AOM you couldn''t leave you starting city for a month in game time. Finally the day she could leave the city come and with the great news that she hear from Ana she was in a good mood. Yue finally arrived at the class and went to her desk waiting impatiently to go back home.. At the end of the school day she was talking to her best friend and when she was about to leave when she remembered that she forgot some notes on her desk. When she got to her desk she saw something unexpected .It was Luke talking with his friends but that wasn''t the weird part, Luke was actually smiling. She didn''t know that the reason was that they were talking about AOM exchanging their names in game to add each other. Luna couldn''t believe what she was seeing ''wow i had never seen him smiling. He can be a little handsome while doing it'' she was thinking. Returning back to her senses she thought to herself ''don''t get distracted over that!. You need to concentrate in the tournament that the school is organizing. I will show everyone that i¡äm the best player and will be one of the persons that represents the school in the national torment.'' Thinking that Luna run to her home so she could play AOM and get stronger for what was coming. Chapter 4: Preparations, Battles and Spirit? ''for thought'' "dialogue" 4 chapter plz tell me your opinion and if you find mistakes Well finally some action. the chapter was the longest one so for now i couldn''t check the grammar and the spelling sory if it is too bad Enjoy +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ¡°What''s the matter master?¡± Dual asked intrigued ¡°Listen boy the are three things that you will always have to remember if you have this class. I''m not gonna repeat them so pay attention.¡± He started explaining to me. ¡°First you must never forget that this class you got it because you were lucky not because you were better than the others. A lot got corrupted by the immense power that you have with this class and started thinking that they were superior beings. Second if you try to fuse your skills like I told you before take all the safety measures that you can, they can be really dangerous and you can end hurting your self or worst he people around you. And third you must remember to never force a contract to a spirit. The last thing that you want it''s make them angry. Understood?¡± he finished. ¡°Yes master¡± I replied him absorbing all the things things he said in my mind ¡°Good. Now before I give you this you need to accept this class¡±
You have been offered with a new hidden class: Spirit contractor. Will you accepted it?
¡°Yes¡± finally I got a hidden class I thought excitedly
You have accepted the new class. Class change: you are now a Spirit contractor.
¡°With this we finished your training¡± he told me with a warm smile in his face.
You are no longer Benjamin apprentice.
¡°Here take a look at your presents¡± he said while handing them to me He looked at them. They were a pair of white swords and an odd white and gray cloth, He identified both things.
Cloth of spirits. A rare cloth made it from the magical powers of some spirit.
Spirit swords Bathed with the spirit power the swords can channel that power- Requirements: Spirit contractor class Attacked damage: 30-35 Durability: 150 Cannot be dropped Cannot be stolen Cannot be traded
¡°The cloth you will need to take it to the tailor so he can make a leather armor from it. This things will level up with you¡± he explained to me. ''Cool now I don''t have to worry about armors and weapon anymore'' I thought ¡°Thanks for all master¡± I expressed my gratitude. ¡°No problem boy. Now I investigate a little and I think I know where that spirit it''s resting¡± he said smiling ¡°Awesome... but I can''t leave the city for one more week¡± I replied discouraged ¡°Who said that you will leave the city?¡± he smirked responding me ¡°What!?¡± I couldn''t believe what I was hearing. ¡°Listen you didn''t explore much this city. You don''t know that there is a very small forest in the middle of the village. The villagers don''t go there anymore because some kind of wolf somehow get there. It also have some rabbits and foxes so be careful. The most probably thing is that the spirit is living in that small forest. Now leave and don''t you dear to come back before making the contract from now on I won''t help you any more I already help you too much.¡± ¡°Thanks for all master I will go now, make a contract with the spirit and then come back here before I leave¡± I said him that before leaving. I went directly to the tailor so he can make me the leather armor. He told me that if there was any design that I want it. I tried to explain him the cloths that they use in assassins creed all white with the hood obviously and without the artifacts of course it was impossible to have them, even if I really want them. I think that he understood me and before leaving I asked him if also could made something that could hide my face until my nose including it. The only thing he said was that he will do his best and told me to pick it up tomorrow. After leaving the tailor shop Dual start thinking on what would he need to survive in the small forest. He went to buy food and then to the alchemy store to buy health potions and some poison. ''Probably I will have to fight that wolf so better be prepared'' He went to the blacksmith and bought some old swords and a shovel. ''It''s good that I saved some money in the first week doing all of that jobs and a couple of easy quests for the villagers.'' Then Dual logged off to have some rest ---------------------------------------------------------------- As soon as Dual logged back he went straight to the tailor shop so he could try on his new leather armor. When he try it on it looked better than he expected. It was as if he was one of the assassins of the game. The only thing you can see from his body was a little of his hair and the pair of silver eyes. ''Now I feel like If I were Altair'' he thought excited. Now that he didn''t need anything else Dual went to the small forest. As soon as he arrived Dual decided to use the first day to explore the forest. The only knowledge that he had from the forest is that it has rabbits, foxes and a wolf. Being really cautious Dual explore all the forest and discovered that the rabbits were only in the more remote areas of the forest near the borders. The foxes were more in the middle areas of the forest and in the center there was a small hill were the wolf passed most of his time. He also find out that the wolf has white fur. Did you know this story is from Royal Road? Read the official version for free and support the author. ''It seems that he is some kind of unique monster I will have to take care when I fight him. And it seems that I earn the hiding skill I''m really becoming an assassin haha'' he thought while laughing He learned that the rabbits never leave their areas, the foxes will leave to hunt the rabbits and the white wolf will only leave the hill to hunt. Also both rabbits and foxes will evade the area of the wolf at all costs. Knowing this Dual started hunting rabbits. Because of all the training that he did he just needed one slash to kill the rabbits. ''It will take me more time that what I expected huh'' Dual sighed because he knew he had to wait till the rabbits respawn again. Due to the small area and the low number of rabbits Dual had to wait a lot of time. It''s not like he was in a hurry, he used that time to rest, but sometimes it was really boring. He was two days hunting rabbits and raised his lvl to 6. Seeing that the rabbits hardly gave him any experience he decided to start hunting foxes. From the first day he learned that the foxes were between lvl 5-10 and that they moved in pas of 3 or 4. He began searching for one and after half an hour he found one that have 3 foxes. ''I hope that they give a better fight than the rabbits'' Dual thought While he was distracted thinking that one of the foxes attacked Dual from his left side. But Dual dodged it with the minimal movement needed. He started using the counter attacks from the Kusanagi style. It consists on dodging with minimal movements and then with fast attacks aim at the vital points of the enemy, like the throat, the arteries, etc. This was to end the battle as fast as possible. You could see Dual dodging all the attacks and then killing the foxes with 1 or 2 blows aiming at their throats and some times their limbs. If someone could see this scene they would think that he was dancing around the foxes and that they were falling for the beautiful demonstration of art that he was exposing. While doing this Dual always have a smile in his face demonstrating how much he was enjoying the fight. ''I have never felt so alive in my entire life'' He was thinking while killing all the pack of foxes that he came across. After 3 days Dual reached lvl 16 and he was already doing the preparation for fighting the white wolf. ¡°I need to calm down a little. I don''t have to be overconfident when facing that monster. It seems that I get to excited when I fight and think of myself as if I were invincible,¡± he said reflecting on his behavior. For that battle he will wait till the white wolf to leave the hill to go hunting. Then Dual is going to draw out all the rabbit meat that he has in his inventory and put the poison that he bought on the village on the meat. He will wait until the wolf comes back and start eating the poisoned meat. While he is eating Dual will attract a pack of foxes to the hill and then leave them fighting the wolf. And if that wasn''t enough he prepared for an emergency case. Preparing all of this took him one day and after executing it the life of the wolf only dropped by 30% ¡°Well it seems that it''s my turn to go on stage¡± Dual said while doing a surprise attack hitting the neck of the white wolf twice making him loose another 10% of his life The wolf recognized Dual as a real threat and start attacking him. Dual was using the same tactic with the foxes, dodging with minimal movements and then striking at the vital points. This continue for 15 minutes and the wolf only have 25% left. Dual started to get overconfident again.''I already win the fight I will finish this now'' he thought. He decided to use the other main tactic of the Kusanagi style, leave all the defenses to concentrate only in beating the enemy fast. He didn''t know how wrong he was with this decision. As soon as he started attacking with all his might loosing control over himself the wolf retreated and made some space between them. ¡°You think you can run away from me!?¡± Dual yelled not thinking what was he doing and running straight to where the wolf was. ''this is over'' he thought. He didn''t realize that the wolf has already recover from the poison and was waiting for Dual to let his guard down so he could kill him. The white wolf leap forward with greater than before attacking with both claws. ''Oh you became faster but that attack I can easily block it'' Dual said while he keep running. The wolf and Dual collide with each other. Dual succeed in blocking the attack from the wolf but he forgot something. Animals can also attack with their jaws. The wolf has bite Duals shoulder and he was in great pain. ''Fuck!! I get overconfident again'' he yelled in his mind enduring the pain. Before the wolf could kill him he kicked his belly separating himself from the wolf. Dual was panting he almost die. ''I don''t have another option'' He thought while drinking a health potion and running to where his last hope was. The wolf start chasing him refusing to let Dual escape besides the serious injuries that he had. They kept running for 5 minutes and the wolf was reaching Dual slowly. But suddenly Dual jumped when the wolf almost catched him. He looked back but couldn''t see his enemy just a big and very deep black hole. Dual prepared this in advance if he needed to retreat. At the end of the hole he put all the old swords that he bought. He didn''t check if the white wolf was dead because he received a notification saying that he gained some fame for killing a unique monster but he didn''t pay attention to it. He also earned like 7 lvls but just wanted to finish this. ''It''s almost over. The only thing left is...'' his thought were interrupted by a sudden voice ¡°Nice fight human you almost lost, but you emerged victorious at the end¡± said a tiny but clear feminine voice. ¡°It''s a pleasure to meet you. My name is Sylph one of oldest wind spirits and also I used to have a power comparable with gods.¡± She introduced herself. Dual stood silent and stupefied seeing the small green light in front of him. Chapter 5: Contract and new skills ''for thoughts'' "dialogue" 5 chapter plz tell me your opinion and if you find mistakes This chapter was short enjoy. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dual recovered from the shock and spoke to the spirit. ¡°Nice to meet you my name is Dual and I was searching for you¡± he said composing himself. ¡°Oh that must be because you want to make a contract with me, right?¡± she asked me. ¡°Yes it will be an honor but could I ask you something first¡± I replied to her. ¡°What''s your question human.¡± ¡°Are you the same spirit that I free from the tree branches 4 weeks ago?¡± ¡°Yes... I¡¯m¡± she said knowing what he was going to ask. ¡°Then if you are an old and powerful spirit couldn''t you escape without help?¡± I asked her. ¡°Well to tell you the true I¡¯m not a powerful a powerful spirit anymore¡± she said ashamed of herself. ¡°But it was just a tree...¡± I retorted. ¡°I''m old it''s hard to move my body you know!? Also there isn''t the same amount of nature as before. I can''t absorb as much as 100 years ago. Now I can''t even get 1/20 of what I could back in that days.¡± she explained to me while yelling ''Is she stupid or she just can''t control well that weak and old body? It seems that the need too feed themselves to maintain there power. Well it doesn''t matter now''. ¡°My apologies for being rude. Will you still accept to make the contract with me? I asked trying to look humble. ¡°Mmm you helped me back then when I was in that predicament and you also killed that beast that was making troubles in my house.¡± she was thinking about it ¡°Fine let''s do it but only because I received your help, the contracts are not important or sacred to us anymore since the time they betrayed us.¡± ¡°I really appreciate it¡± I expressed my gratitude
Sylph the spirit of the wind has offered you to make contract with her Will you accepted it?
¡°Yes¡±
You have accepted the contract. Because of the power received from Sylph mana is replaced by spiritual energy. You can no longer use normal spells or skills that require mana.
Gained new skill: Wind steps beginner lvl 1(0%) Your energy now permits you to move swiftly like the wind. +15% to AGI. Because of you speed your enemies will think that you disappear. +10% When attacking from the back. +5% wind affinity +5% wind resistance Spiritual energy costs: 75. Duration 1 minute,
¡°There you have human but before I leave, remember that you can always make new skills with that power that I gave you but that only depends of you. Oh also don''t worry about the spiritual energy it''s very similar to mana but a lot more powerful and don''t worry you won¡ät lose the mana that you have it will transform into spiritual energy¡± she said and turn to leave. ¡°Wait!? do you know where other spirits mat be¡± I asked her before she could leave. ¡°I only know of a water spirit that was sealed in some kind of pendant. Look for him.¡± After saying that she disappeared.
Quest received: Unseal the water spirit that it''s trapped inside the pendant, Difficulty: B-. Reward: Friendship with the water spirit. The author''s content has been appropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon.
''I don''t have any idea of where to start searching. I should asked John and Nathan about it'' Dual thought. Before he leaves he decided to test his new skill. He activate Wind steps and start running. He couldn''t believe how fast he was. It was like the world was becoming slower to his eyes but actually it was him running at an incredible speed. ''This is too powerful and it''s only in the beginner level stage, I can''t imagine in the advance one. I feel like if I was cheating'' Dual thought getting a little excited of how powerful he will be. He also remembered that he could generate new skill. So he try one of the most common skills related with wind. He pours Spiritual energy to his swords and tries to throw it. In front of him there were two trees cut in half.
New skill generated: Blades of wind beginner lvl 1(0%) Now you can fire two invisible wind blades from your swords. They ignore all kind of armors and deal direct damage. Damage dealt: 100 (each) Spiritual energy costs: 125
¡°I thought that I will get wind affinity and resistance like before. I wonder why it ignores all kind of armors? It must be because the spiritual energy I guess. Well it doesn''t matter¡± he said thinking loud. Dual keep using the new skills until he get used to them. After some hours he was tired and decided it was enough. Both of the skills rose to beginner lvl 3. Before leaving he distributed the point and check his status window ¡°Show status window¡±
Status window
NameDualAlignmentNone
ClassSpirit contractorTitleNone
Level23Fame50
Health1560Spiritual energy650
Strength82Agility110
Vitality59Luck3
Intelligent45Wisdom37
Offense41Defense22
Magic resistance
Wind15%Fire5%
Water5%Earth5%
Light0%Darkness0%
Happy with the results Dual thought ''where should I go now that I can leave the city. I should go to where Nathan and John are.'' While going back Dual didn''t notice a little spirit that was looking at him. ¡°What an interesting child. Let''s see how will he use the power that I gave him.¡± Sylph said smiling happily like a kid who got a new toy to play with. Chapter 6: Normal day ''for thoughts'' "dialogue" -text message 6 chapter plz tell me your opinion and if you find mistaked I didn''t check the chapter sorry if the grammar and spelling suck i will fixed it later. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Luke was sleeping in the middle of the class. His seat was at the back next to the window. While sleeping he received a text message from Nathan. -After school we are going to eat something. Wanna come? -Sure. - We will wait you in the usual place. Luke was really tired for all the time he spent playing. He needed some rest from the game and hang out with his friends was perfect for that. After sleeping for all the school day Luke started to feel a little better. He put all the thing in his bag and went to the Burger king near school where his friends were waiting for him. As soon as he arrived he could see two brown haired guys waving his hands from a table. They were Nathan and John, sometimes people thought that they were brothers they resembled each other. The only notable difference between them was that Nathan wears glasses. I went there and greeted them. ¡°Hi guys, sorry for making you wait¡± ¡°No problem. Here we ordered your food you will pay me later¡± Nathan replied me while eating. After we finished they started telling what they have been doing in AOM. It looks like John finally got the class that he wanted some, it was kind of paladin that plays the role of tank and support. He can''t deal a lot of damage but he can heal his partners and has high health and defense. Nathan wanted to be a mage so he got the fire mage class. He told us that for now his class was weak but with a little of training he will become stronger. Then they finally asked me what class did I get. We all started playing almost at the same time so they didn''t expected much because I was the one who started last. ¡°So Luke what class did you get?¡± they both asked. ¡°Well it''s hard to explain¡± I replied trying to avoid the topic. ¡°Come on tell us, we are friends right?¡± ''It seems that they won''t stop until o tell them'' I thought sighing. ¡°Fine you might not believe me but I don''t care.¡± I started telling the story. I told them all about it, how I free the stupid spirit from the tree branches, my training, the fight with the white wolf in the small forest, the contract and finally about the quest to see if they could help me in some way. While doing it I felt like if I was an old man telling a story to his grandkids because of how much interest they show about it. When I finished they both stayed silent for a couple of minutes and then spoke. ¡°Wow you have lived quite an adventure Luke¡± John said still assimilating what I just told ¡°You must be terribly strong¡± Nathan said looking at me with admiration. Before I could speak someone interrupted us. ¡°John, Nathan hi¡± said Leo Jones he was a friend of John and Nathan. He was with Luna Hamilton and another girl with short black haired. ¡°Oh hi Leo, Hamilton and... sorry I don''t know your name.¡± Nathan replied to them. ¡°It''s fine. My name is Ana Williams.¡± She said with a smile on her face she was cute but not like Hamilton. ¡°Nice to meet you i''m Nathan Drake and this are John Taylor and Luke White¡± he said while pointing at us. ¡°Hi¡± we both greeted ¡°Can we seat with you?¡± Leo asked us ¡°Sure¡± John replied without consulting us. Not that I have a problem with them sitting with us Jones and Williams sit on my side and Hamilton in the other one with my friends. ''She really hates me huh?'' I thought with a wry smile. ¡°So guys I''m guessing that you guys are going to participate in the school tournament? Jones asked us. Unauthorized use of content: if you find this story on Amazon, report the violation. ¡°Of course we will¡± John and Nathan said at the time. ¡°What tournament? I asked not knowing what they were talking about. They all look at me as if I was some kind of weirdo. And after a breve silence someone explained to me. ¡°The school is organizing a tournament that most of the people from it are going to participate. If you win or get into the top 5 they give some rare items.¡± Hamilton explained to me. I didn''t her to answer me so it took me a little to reply. ¡°Is that so? And what are the prizes¡± I asked her. I wasn''t really interested in it but they could always give a useful item. ¡°I only know 3 of them, a dragon armor, some kind or rare potion and a spirit pendant was the name of that jewel? I don''t know I can''t remember, you can check at the school website.¡± she finished saying with a forced smile. I have a surprised look on my face I couldn''t believe how lucky I was if that was the pendant that I needed. ¡°Thanks I understand now¡± I said to her. For the rest of the time most of the time Jones, John and Nathan spoke. Williams only talked a little and Hamilton and only said a few words. After departing with all of them Luke run straight to his face to check the school website. He entered his house and went directly to his room without hearing his mother. ¡°Good afternoon Luke eh? Perhaps he didn''t hear me.¡± she said with a confused face. Luke¡¯s room was like any other boy of his age, a TV, a computer, a desk, a bed and a closet. The only difference was the pair or swords that he kept in his closet. As soon as he entered his room he turned on the computer and checked the school website to see if they had an image of the pendant. He found, it was a silver pendant with a little blue stone hanging from it. ''I can''t believe it. There is a big chance that it''s the one I¡¯m looking for. I need to go to the city where tournament is held.'' He find out that the tournament is going to be in next two weeks, game time, in a city called Norvex. Luke didn''t know where he was but he will definitely go there. ''Thinking about it is all thanks to Hamilton, I really own one to her.'' Luke thought logging back into AOM. ------------------------------------------ Luna¡¯s POV After they separated from the rest of the group Luna went back home with her friend that lived near her. While walking Ana asked her: ¡°It seems that only few people know that the finalists will go to the national tournament between all the schools of the country. I wonder why didn''t tell them.¡± she asked curiously. ¡°Only few people know about it because they want skilled people to win the tournament no a high lvl player who won because of his higher stats. If all knew about they will start leveling like crazy so they decided to don''t post it on the website.¡± she said while explaining with a serious face. ¡°I see you have your point. But why did you answered White''s question, you despise him right?¡± ¡°Exactly because of that. I have the hope to encounter him at the counter and crush him. You could see that he wasn''t interested on the tournament it''s because of that mention the prizes¡± She said proud of herself ¡°Poor guy he doesn''t what awaits him¡± Ana said pitying Luke They walk a little more and went in separated ways. ¡°Bye Ana see you tomorrow¡± she said while seeing off her friend. Arriving home the only thought in Luna''s head was. ''I''m going to crush that idiot. I really hope to battle him in the tournament. I will make him regret treating me as an equal and never looking at me. I will definitely will show you Luke White that I¡¯m much better than you in everything.'' She then logged back to AOM to prepare for the tournament. Chapter 7: Journey and new friends ''for thoughts'' "dialogue" 7 chapter plz tell me your opinion and if you find mistakes. Happy new years guys i hope you enjoy this chapter. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dual appeared in the entrance of the small forest where he logged back last time. He decided to ask his master of how to go to Norvex city. As soon as he arrived at his masters house he greeted him. ¡°Hello master? I''m back¡± I said loud ¡°Boy you took you your time. Tell me did you make it¡± he replied to me ¡°Yes I did it master, my first contract with a spirit¡± I said proud of myself ¡°Thats my discipline. Now tell this old man all about it¡± After I finished telling him the story you could see a glint in his eyes. ¡°Your are incredible Dual. You made a contract with an old and powerful spirit and also the whereabouts of another. If you keep like this you will become stronger than me in no time...¡± he said with a sorrow face ¡°well it''s natural adventurers like you are much stronger than us¡±. NPC called the players adventurers. ¡°Haha yeah I don''t know what to say¡± I said a little uncomfortable ¡°oh yeah master do you know how to go to Norvex city?¡± ¡°Yes I know, let me get map so I can show you¡± He said leaving and coming back 5 minutes later. He putted the map on the table that we were sitting. It''s the first time that I see a map of this continent. It have some small and big kingdoms and a lot of unexplored territory but I only payed attention to where master was pointing. ¡°Listen boy we are here now in the Spirit forest and the city where you want to go is really close. They are both in the Niovax kingdom. If you walk through this road you will get there in one week. Be care of the monster they aren''t very strong but they are a lot of them.¡± he finished explaining to me. ¡°Thanks master I will leave now I don''t much time.¡± ¡°Take good care Dual. Try to visit me some time¡± he hugged each other and I before we could get emotive I left Before leaving I sold the white wolf fur to the tailor so I could buy the necessary food for the trip. For the first time I was at the entrance of the city for the first time. No walls were surrounding these small city and the entrance was just like a normal road. I took a big breath and took my first steps out of the place where I lived for one month. It didn''t took me more than two hours to leave forest. Now I could only see big plains with no ending. ''This is going to be a long and tiring trip uh?'' I sighed and start walking. At the beginning Dual could see some deers and they were strangely aggressives if you came near them. As soon as I did it they started attacking me. It was easy to dealt with them. They usually came in group of 5 or 6 but it didn''t take much to killed them. I tried to don''t use my skills very often. I shouldn''t depend on them all the time, I spent the first day like that only stopping for eat. Sometimes on the road I could saw some trees at the side. It was nice to sit at their shadow and eat something. On the second day I came across some party¡¯s of players hunting boars. One time while I was resting some guy came to me and envited me to hunt with them. ¡°Hey we are hunting some boars would you like to come with us¡± the boy that looked like a warrior asked me.
You have been invited to a party will you accepted?
¡°Sorry i''m going to Norvex city now¡± I replied.
You have declined.
¡°No problem¡± he said and left. Before I could another two persons came to talk with me. ¡°Sorry to bother you but we also are going to Norvex city could we join you?¡± a girl who probably was some kind of archer asked me. ¡°Sure my name is Dual nice to meet you¡± ¡°Nice to meet you i''m Sarah and this is Shadow¡± she said while pointing at the boy nest to him that was a rogue I think. ¡°Hi¡± Shadow just said. When Sarah had long brown hair and low height. Shadow was a little taller that me and had black hair. After we presented each other, we add each other as friend and made a party. The party system was like in any other game. You shared the experience with your partners and only the who did the killing attack received more experience. When traveling some times we stopped to hunt some boars. While fighting Sarah stayed at the back firing her arrows, Shadow always did the final blow backstabbing them and I was tanking. Well more than being the tank I just attract them and dodged their attacks. ¡°Amazing Dual you are pretty skilled¡± Sarah said surprised. Probably they thought that I was a low level player because of my cloths. ¡°Yeah I practiced sword training in real life.¡± I replied embarrassed because of the flattery. ¡°Cool I wished I could move like that,¡± Shadow said with a tone of admiration ¡°I''m hungry and you? Let''s eat something.¡± I said trying to change of topic ¡°Yes we need some rest¡± they both agreed. We sat near some trees and started eating. ¡°So guys why are you going to Norvex city¡± I asked curiously. ¡°We are going to see the tournament that some school is doing. We already lost in ours but it''s really fun want to watch them.¡± Sarah replied ¡°and you?¡± ¡°I''m going to participate in that tournament...¡± I said with a wry smile ¡°You probably will win it or at least get to the finals¡± Shadow said ¡°We will see. Let''s keep going we already rest enough.¡± Like that we keep traveling only stopping for hunting and eating. It was nice to talk with Sarah and Shadow they were good persons. Shadow was a little quiet and Sarah loved to talk. It seems that they were childhood friend and they also were attending the same high school. I have never expected that a quiet and a talkative person could be such good friends but I didn''t think much about it because I was having a lot of fun with them. Love this story? Find the genuine version on the author''s preferred platform and support their work! On the fifth day of our journey we encounter some bulls. It was really hard for Shadow and Sarah to fight them. For me however it was easy. ''It must be because I have high stats for me level.'' I thought While fighting Shadow complained to Sarah. ¡°Hey Sarah! Be more careful you almost hit me a couple of times.¡± Shadow said angry. ¡°Sorry but it''s hard to hit them. They are to fast¡± she replied frustrated. In that moment seeing that they were going to die by the attacks of the bull Dual activated Wind steps. With an unimaginable speed Dual start attacking all the vital points of the animal and less than 30 seconds later the bull was already dead. Seeing that the only thought that crossed Sarah and Shadow minds was. ''What lvl is this guy!? So powerful...'' ¡°Keep moving we already finished here¡± Dual said like it was nothing. Because they couldn''t utter a word they just nod. At the present time they could see the wall of the city in the distance. They were finally there. After the long trip they were really tired. ¡°Hurry up we are almost there. Finally I can have some decent food.¡± Sarah said with her jaw open. Seeing that Dual and Shadow only laugh. They were walking on the road with some trees near. While they were talking what to do after getting there the earth started trembling. ¡°What''s happening!?¡± Shadow shouted. ¡°Look out¡± Dual said pushing Shadow from where something was emerging from the earth. A big worm came out of the earth. It was 4 meters tall and 80cm wide. They all started attacking the big warm but with Sarahs arrows and Shadows small daggers they couldn¡¯t deal much damage. ¡°What are going to do!? I knew that they were some worms around the city but to encounter one we really have bad luck¡± Sarah shouted. ¡°Fuck I don''t want to die when we are almost there, I will kill you¡± Shadow said charging at the big worm. ¡°Wait¡± Dual tried to stop him but failed. The big worm easily dodged the attack and hit Shadow on his side making him fly and then hit the ground. Because they were in a party you could see your partners health and Shadows was below 10%. ¡°Sarah! Take Shadow inside the city. I will distract the worm.¡± ¡°But...¡± Sarah tried to say something but interrupted her. ¡°Leave now! I will catch you later.¡± I ordered Without saying anything else Sarah pulled Shadow inside the city. ''Good know I can go all out.'' I started attacking the worm with successive blows but it didn''t dealt much damage. Seeing that I activated Wind steps and started attacking faster than before. Because the worm couldn''t catch me he started going berserker. I need to finish this quickly. I decide to use the rest of my spiritual energy using blades of wind. ¡°Blades of wind, blades of wind, blades of wind...¡± I used it like 5 times. After all of that the worm ended cut in two. Checking that no one saw me doing that I went directly to the city. ---------------------------------------------- ¡°Dual you are fine! what happened? Sarah asked seeing if I was okey. ¡°Well... let''s say that the worm wont be a problem anymore¡± I said trying to avoid talking about it. ¡°You really are a monster eh? Shadow said with a wry smile happy that he didn''t die because of his stupidity. ¡°May be. Now let''s go to eat something I¡¯m starving.¡± I suggested While eating I sent a message to John and Nathan telling them that I already arrived at the city. There names in game were Argos, John, and Gregory, Nathan. After eating I separated from Shadow and Sarah. They told me that they will cheer for me in the tournament, they really are good people. I went to the central square where my friends are waiting for me. Norvex city was really huge I never saw so many players and NPC together. It was like an old medieval city. Kids playing in the streets, merchants trying to sell things and other stuff. Dual arrived at the central Square and saw his friends. They looked exactly like in real like the only difference was that Argos had blue hair and Gregory red hair. ¡°Hi guys how are you¡± I greeted them. ¡°Dual? Is that you?¡± Argos asked me ¡°hahaha you really look like an assassin¡± he couldn''t stop laughing. ¡°I think you look cool.¡± Gregory said me ¡°Thanks Gregory. Now let''s go to register for the tournament.¡± We went to register. They asked us our names in really life to check if we were from school or just someone who wanted to participate. Also to ensure that we were from school they have some kind of machine where you put your thump on it and reads your DNA. With this the receptionist could know your real name before you said it to see if you were really from the school. They didn''t know that all of this was for the national tournament that comes later. ¡°Wow I didn''t expect so much security to see if we just were from school¡± Gregory complained. ¡°Thats because they want to avoid a high lvl player to participate so he couldn''t win the rare items.¡± Argos explained. ¡°well I really don''t care about that. Its a good thing that they won''t say your name in real life or your class. I really don''t want to stand out in school¡± I said happy after hearing that. ¡°now what should we do?¡± I asked them ¡°We should get stronger for the tournament, so some nice place to level I guess?¡± Gregory said ¡°I know where we should go¡± Argos told us. ¡°Where?¡± we both ask curiously. ¡°To a dungeon¡± he just replied. Chapter 8: First dungeon ''for thoughts'' "dialogue" 8 chapter plz tell me your opinion and if you find mistakes. Sorry if the grammar and the spellinng suck i did''t check.Enjoy +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Argos POV Argos knew of a perfect small dungeon where he and his friends could gain some levels. You only need to travel 2 hours by foot to get there The dungeon had 2 floors and the boss room. On the first floor there was a nest of spiders that they were between lvl 25-30. The second floor was a little more dangerous it was inhabited by goblins between lvl 30-40. And finally the boss room where the goblin king lived. It was lvl 55, it may be hard to kill him but we have a well balanced party so we will be fine. Few people went there because they were a lot of better and bigger dungeons near the city that weren''t finish like this one. After he finished explaining all of this friends they went to buy all the things they needed. While walking Argos could see his two best friends talking excited about the adventure that they were going to live. ¡°I can''t wait to fight the goblin king!¡± Dual said with a gleam in his eyes. ¡°Be patient. I know that you are excited but if we rush to much we could die¡± Gregory said trying to calm Dual. Argos was happy, since Dual started playing AOM he became more lively and friendly toward other. Dual also would smile more often than before when he always thought of his normal boring life. He now looks like he enjoys it. It wasn¡¯t like he was a bad person before, Dual would always help someone if it was in his limits but people often misunderstood him. He was actually really generous and If you made him a favor, even if you didn''t realized that you helped him, he will repaid you doing his best in something you need. ''We made the right choice to force him to play, it''s thanks to this game that he changed.'' Argos thought smiling. ¡°Hurry let''s go¡± Dual said running towards the entrance of the city. ¡°Wait!! we need to buy the things first.¡± Argos shouted. ¡°I will catch him. Go to the entrance after you buy everything.¡± Gregory said while leaving ''He may be more friendly than before but he is behaving like a kid.'' he sighed'' Shit now that they left I will have to buy all by myself.'' Argos complained in his mind. ------------------------------------------------------- Dual''s POV Dual only ran away from his friends because he couldn¡¯t pay his part. After some minutes that he got to the entrance Gregory appeared. ¡°Hey why did you ran away?¡± Gregory asked him ¡°Because I didn''t had money to pay. And you? ¡°I didn''t wanted to waste my money¡± we both started laughing. We both waited for 15 minutes until Argos arrived. You could see how angry he was. ¡°You made me payed all by myself idiots!! Next time you will treat me something in real life¡± HE shouted mad at us. ¡°Yeah...¡± we just replied. ¡°So did you got everything?¡± I asked ¡°Yes the health potions, mana potions and just in case anti paralysis potions for the spiders. And also the food.¡± Argos explained to us. ¡°we have all what we need let''s go¡± He finished and we left. After walking for 2 hours we arrived at the small dungeon. You could see a circle of stones with some trees at the sides. When you came near the circle you could saw some stairs leading down and finally some kind of door, ¡°Okey before entering let''s check if we have all prepared.¡± Argos said organizing everything.¡°Food and potions check. Remember Gregory will be at the front tanking, Dual in the middle and I will be at the back. On the first floor let us kill more spiders Dual with my fire elements i can eliminate them faster, this is also because you are higher lvl than us. At the second floor we will fight all together to prepare for the final and we get there... well we will figure that when we are there. And to finish are you wearing your best equipment? He finished reviewing all. ¡°Yes¡± we both answer ¡°Good now let''s go¡± I was lvl 32 while Argos and Gregory were lvl 25 both. My level rose after the journey with Shadow and Sarah. Argos was wearing a full silver body armor without helmet while using a spear with his left hand and a shield on the other. Gregory was just wearing an orange robe. Like this we decide to enter the dungeon. As soon as we enter the passages were illuminated from some kind of light that came from the ceiling. The walls were black with some mold on it. It was like a labyrinth. We walked for five minutes and we started to see some spider webs on the walls. After that we finally encountered the spiders, they were at least 20. Obviously they weren''t the small spiders that we knew, they were one meter tall with huge and thick legs. They started attacking with their jaws or legs. Like they asked I only killed the few ones that escaped from them. If it wasn''t for Gregorys fire spells it would be a lot harder for them to level up. With one hand he was throwing fire balls of all sizes and with the other he was wielding a whip of fire. Argos was shouting at the spiders taunting them with some kind of skill I guess and some times he was enveloped by a white light, that must be his healing spell. Like that we dealt with all the groups of spiders that we came across. We only stopped for resting to eat and recover health, mana and stamina. I always wondered why there wasn''t a stamina bar or stat but it looks like that the stamina in AOM is the same that in real life because of the advances technology of the game. This incentive people to train in real life to raise his stamina in AOM. Really tecnology this days I wounder how does it work... At the moment we are walking through the passages trying to find the stairs to go to the next floor. We were so focused in finding the stairs that we didn''t noticed where we went. ¡°Hey where are we? We have never been in this room¡± Argos asked worried ¡°I don''t know but there are a lot of spider webs in here¡± I replied You could hear some weird noises around the room. ¡°Guys... I know where we are.¡± Gregory said with a resigned face ¡°look there are some eggs over there this must be their nest¡± Argos and I looked where Gregory was pointing and we spouted the eggs. ¡°We better leave.¡± I tried to hurry but it was to late. Some spiders were already blocking the exit of the room and then they surrounded us. ¡°Well guys I guess that we have to go all out.¡± I said smiling finally knowing that I could fight I was getting really bored of watching this two have all the fun. ¡°.....¡± they couldn''t replied at my words and the battle started. Gregory started wielding a whip one in each hands killing all the spiders that he could. Argos was just hanging in there, he didn''t dealt much damage so he could only survive. I instead activated Wind steps started killing tens of them. Now that Wind steps almost reached intermediate lvl it was like if I suddenly disappeared and reappeared behind the spiders. ¡°Finally I can have some fun!!¡± I yelled with a wide smile on my face ''This guy is crazy'' they thought. And when they thought that things couldn''t get worse the spider queen appeared. ¡°We are dead¡± was the only thing that Argos and Gregory said resigning already. ¡°We are not!!¡± I shouted jumping over the spider queen. I was at the top of her and used the opportunity to strike. ¡°Blades of wing, blades of wing!¡± I used my skill two times and cut the queens head. Seeing how easy their queen was killed all the spiders fled away. ¡°Why did they ran? And why are you trembling guys? I asked my friends ¡°You are a monster¡± they could only utter while trembling because of how scared the were of their friend. ¡°Eh I don''t understand why? Well it doesn''t matter let''s go and search for the stairs. They only nod to what I said. After I while we found the stairs leading to the next floor. We we ready to face the goblins now I was level 36, Gregory was 34 and Argos 31. Enjoying this book? Seek out the original to ensure the author gets credit. Now we were on the second floor it looked exactly like the first one but without all the spider webs. We walked some steps and we saw 4 goblins coming at us. They were small muscular green monster armed with picks, old swords and spears. Luckily goblins couldn''t use magic, they were too stupid for it. As soon as the battle started Argos put on us some kind or barrier that increased our defense. Gregory also got a new spell but he needed to concentrate to use it. ''I''m so jealous they get skills just for leveling up I need to make a contract with a spirit or think them myself it''s really hard....'' he thought with some tears in his eyes remembering the disadvantages of his class. Like he wasn''t powerful enough... ¡°Hey Dual! Come back from the cloud and help us!¡± Argos shouted ''I should just let die this bastards'' I was considering. ¡°Help Argos he can''t tank all the enemies by himself now¡± Gregory told me. ¡°Fine¡± He was right it was already hard enough for Argos to keep occupied 2 goblins but 4 were too much for him. He was receiving serious damage. As soon as I saw that I attract the attention of 2 goblins and they start attacking me. There attacks were strong but predictable, it was easy to parry them and counter. With Gregory assisting us we killed all the goblins without problems. But this were the goblins with lowest level. It was going to be hard for them to level on this floor, We decided to do this floor slowly. Goblins in this dungeon didn''t have a camp in this dungeon they only moved in groups between four and six if we took out time we could easily dealt with all of them. With that idea it''s been 6 days till we entered the dungeon. We spent two days and a half on the first floor and the rest on the second. We rose our levels a lot, I was level 44 and my both skills were in intermediate lvl, Gregory was 42 and Argos 41. Argos made a big effort to close the gap lvl between us. He had four skills one to taunt the enemy, the barrier, heal and the new one that was an aura that the health of him and his partners recovered faster. Gregory also had four skills the fire balls of different sizes, the whips, a magical barrier for defense and the new spell for before that he still didn''t use. That''s what happened in this days. At the moment we are standing in front of a big wooden door. The boss room. ¡°It''s time my friends, let''s go¡± I said to them trying to encourage them. ¡°Yeah...¡± they both replied doubting if they could beat the boss. As we enter the room we could see a throne at the end and four torches on each corner, Sitting on the throne the 3 meter tall goblin king glares at us. He has green skin, red eyes, bald head and a really thick and muscular body and is only wearing some kind of pants with a belt. ¡°Get ready he will attack us at any moment¡± Argos told us. Argos stands at the front with me next to him and Gregory behind both of us. The goblin king pulls out two cleavers from the belt. Then he start sprinting toward us with a speed that it''s impossible for his side and body. Surprised for his speed we could barely dodge that attack. Before I could recover from that surprise attack the goblin charge at me. Argos activated his aura and also put his barrier on us. One of the cleavers brushed my back and I dodged the other one activating Wind steps and escaped back where my friends were. When I arrived Argos heal me and now I have full health. ¡°Any ideas of how to deal with this monster guys¡± I asked with a wry smile ¡°No¡± ¡°none¡± they replied. ¡°well then let''s just attack him¡± Dual said The goblin king started to attack us again. This time we were prepared for it. He went straight towards Argos and tried to slash him. He blocked the slash with his shield while receiving some damage and yelled at the monster to taunt him. Seeing now that the goblin king was only paying attention to Argos we started attacking him with all we had, Gregory started throwing fire balls with both hands, I use Wind steps and attacked him from his back with all the consecutives attacks that I could manage to do. Seeing that he was loosing advantaged the goblin retreated. ¡°If we continue like this we can win¡± Gregory said getting a little overconfident ¡°Don''t let your guard down we still need to kill him¡± I said to Gregory. I didn''t want him to get overconfident like when I fought the white wolf. ¡°it''s out turn to attack now go!¡± I shouted Argos run to face the goblin king who tried to kick him. He tried to block it with the shield but he was blown away. That gave me the enough time to get near him and stabbed him in the stomach and Gregory threw a big fire ball to his right eye. At that moment Gregory had enough time to use his new spell. He point with the palms of his hands to the goblin king and shouted. ¡°Fire tornado!¡± Suddenly a blaze of fire hit the goblin. He groaned because of the pain ¡°YAAAAAAAAAH¡± I retreated back. He now only had 20% health left. ''We can do this'' I thought. The three of us were together at the center of the room. In front of us a the injured goblin king who suddenly throw both of his cleavers towards Argos. He only could block one with his shield while the other one hit his left shoulder. Faster than at the begging he appeared next to us and hit me in me stomach making me fall to my kneels and he blow me towards the wall. Only two attack and I only had 25% health left. ''It seems that boss monsters become stronger when they are near death'' Dual thought Things looked pretty bad, Argos had an enormous cleaver stacked in his shoulder and was dieing from the blood that came out from it and I was with only 25% of health. The only one who was fine was Gregory that was defending himself from the attack of the goblin king with his magical barrier. In that moment an idea crossed my mind and I really think that is going to work. But I needed to get near him and that right now was pretty difficult. ¡°Gregory distract him for a little I know how to kill him¡± I shouted ¡°Eh!? Fine whatever¡± He replied. Gregory wrapped the goblin head with his hips making him struggle for a little of time to free himself. On that moment I use Wind steps and go straightly to the goblin kings back stabbing it with both of my swords. Obviously this wasn''t enough to kill him and he was going to attack me know but then... ¡°Blades of wing!¡± I used the skill while stabbing him making damage to all his internal organs and finally killing him. He was already death but he was still standing on his feats and after some time he started falling back and I was going to die crushed by his back because I couldn''t pull my swords. It happened so fast that it didn''t crossed in my mind to release the swords. ''Come on, i''m really going to die in this lame way after that epic battle!? How pathetic i''m? If I at least have a little more of health I would survive because of my high stats.'' Dual resigned wait for the inevitable but it didn''t happen. He felt his body crushed by the corpse of the goblin and he was alive. In a hell of pain but alive. ¡°Haha I saved you just in time¡± he could hear a familiar voice. Someone pulled out Dual from that misery. He now was seeing his two friends smirking. ¡°I pulled out that cleaver of my shoulder and drank a lot of health potions. When I was finally able to stand up I saw that you were going to be crushed by the goblins body so I cast my healing spell just in time¡± Argos explained. ¡°Thank me, after all i''m you hero¡± he said mocking me. ¡°Fine I will buy you something next time, Happy? I said refusing to express to this idiot how happy I was to be alive. ¡°I need some rest lets head back¡± I said with a really tired face. ¡°Yeah let''s go back I need sleep¡± Gregory said also with a tired face. Argos just followed us with a wry smile on his faces like we were exaggerating. They all left without even checking if the goblin drop any loot. Like that the three friends finished their first dungeon. The next thing in their agenda was the school tournament. Chapter 9: Rules ''for thoughts'' "dialogue" 9 chapter plz tell me your opinion and if you find mistakes. short chapter tell me if you understand the rules or if there is something missing. Enjoy. Note: i change the color of Yue armor from red to gold +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Luke was at school right now but not in his class. It''s the opening ceremony of the school tournament. They gathered all of us, even the ones who didn''t participate, in the auditorium. Luke is going to participate only because he wants one of the prizes for the winners. At least he didn''t have classes today. As soon as one went of the teachers went on stage with a man in suit everyone fell silent . He was Mr. Adams the math teacher. He was the youngest and has a good relationship with all students. Mr. Adams has small stature and short brown hair. ¡°Silence please. Now let me introduce you the one who will explain to you all the rules of the tournament. He is one of the developers of the game so be respectful. Mr. Sosa.¡± he finished introducing the man in suit next to him. You could hear some murmurs between the public but that was only until them man started to talk. ¡°Hello students. Let me answer your first question, why is one of the game developers is here? well first you should know that this tournament and the ones from other schools are being run by us. Think about it, how would your school and the others one get the rare items for the prizes? ¡°He is right it was weird.¡± ¡°I couldn''t ask why one of them was here...¡± some students were saying and the man continues. ¡°Okey now about the rules of the tournament. Because so many of you are participating, to be exactly 512, we will do something like a preliminary round where we will divide you in 32 groups of 16 and will held small fast tournaments. Only the winners will go to the real tournament. Also battles will be one vs one and you can''t use any items besides your weapons. The end of the battle will be when one of the contestants lose less than 20% of their healths and will only last 5 minutes, you can surrender if you want. Be calm with the duel system no one will die. Any questions so far? The man asked. No one asked anything. ¡°Good. Let''s continue with the rules of the real tournament. The battles rules will be like before with the exception that there is no time limit. The 5 prizes are..... ''I didn''t hear this part I only want the pendant'' Luke thought bored of all the explanations.''Just tell in what place I need to finish so I can get it.'' ¡°The prizes are going to be selected by the winners. If you win the tournament you have the right to choose first and like that¡± ''FUCK!! the pendant can be sold in a lot of money. If someone just wants money he will choose the pendant...'' He thought pissed off ''great now I need to win this.'' ¡°To finish this you need to know that some of the tournaments that we are doing we broad cast it TV. You may be wondering why we are doing all of this and not with just players, well people will pay more attention if it is competition between all the young people because they know that you are the ones that will do their best on it for how much you love AOM. This is to promote AOM and showed it to all the people of the nation what they can become in our new world.¡± Unauthorized use of content: if you find this story on Amazon, report the violation. All the students except Luke and some exceptions had a blank expression in his face while thinking. ''I''m going to me famous.'' They didn''t care about the deep speech at all... ¡°Last and more important the finalists of this will go to the national tournament that will be hosted in two months. All the persons that wants to leave you can now if someone wants to ask me more questions I ill be here.¡± Luke left immediately and went to his home thinking ''COME ON! If I win this shit I will have to participate in another one? Give me a break. ¡°I need to log back and see in what group they put me¡± he said trying to calm down. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dual appeared back in Norvex city and went where the tournament will be held. After he left so fast from school his friends text him saying that the preliminary part will be in small arenas and the tournament in the city coliseum. You needed to go there to check your group Before going there he went to sell all the loot that he got from the dungeon. As soon as they arrived at the city yesterday after killing the boss the remembered that didn''t even look if he dropped any loot. They felt so stupid who in the world doesn''t check the drops of a boss monster, basis rule of all RPG. At least he rose to lvl 48. He sold all his loot and went to the coliseum. There was a board with all the groups. He was in group 7 and found something really interesting. ''I''m in the same group as Gregory hahaha. I don''t care if I lose anymore I will enjoy that battle so much!. I really hope that we face each other'' Dual thought while laughing like a maniac not noticing the person next to him. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Luna''s POV Yue was going to the coliseum to find out in what group she is. After they finished the explanations at school she only ask where she could check in what group she was. They also told her that the preliminary part will last one week for the small amount of arenas. She went straight to her home when they told her the answer and logged back. The moment that she was waiting for finally came. She trained really hard to get stronger. She was lvl 56 and wore a pure bright golden armor thaw was perfect with her blond hair without helmet. She had two swords at her right side. All her equipment had high quality and was rare for her level. This was the reward for all her hard work. ''Finally I will show them the future strongest player in all AOM'' Yue thought finally arriving at her destination. There was a board with all the groups and only one people was looking at it. She didn''t look at the person who had all white cloths and search for her name. ''I''m in group 32. The battles will start in some hours so I it will be good if I eat something before.'' She was about to leave and then the white guy started laughing like a mad scientist. ''What a weird guy I should get away from him'' Yue thought with a disgusted face and left. Chapter 10: Good friends ''for thoughts'' "dialogue" 10 chapter plz tell me your opinion and if you find mistakes The real tournament will start on the next chapter. I didn''t check anything so sorry if it''s to bad. Enjoy +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dual was now sitting on a bench waiting for his turn. Next to him was Gregory, both are in the same group so there is a big chance that the fight each other on the semifinals. Gregory already won his first battle and was waiting for the next one. ¡°You are next, how are you feeling?¡± Gregory asked me. ¡°Fine¡± I said a little tired. ¡°What''s the matter?¡± ¡°It''s just that I play this game to find some exciting battles, my dream is to fight someone or at least a monster in a battle where we both give all what we have, where you don''t know who is going to win and that if you make the slightest mistake you lose but now i''m here stuck in this tournament for more than one week and only to fight people that now after hearing yesterday explanation just want to be famous. That really bothers me.¡± I finished explaining to him. ¡°Wow man, I didn''t expected such a deep answer or you to tell me your dream, you never talked to us like that before.¡± Gregory said with a perplexed face. ¡°Yeah, sorry I got carried away. But it''s nice to let out your thoughts out. At least it comforts me that I might fight you, I can''t wait for that¡± I said smiling to him. Gregory couldn''t see the happy face of his friend because of his cloths but he perfectly knew that he was smiling. ¡°yeah... me to¡± he said with a wry smile and thought ''I envy Argos, he doesn''t have to fight this demon.'' Then they hear a voice announcing the next match. ¡°It''s time for the fourth match. Dual vs Ryder!¡± the presenter said. ¡°Well time to go¡± I said while leaving. ¡°Good luck¡± Gregory replied me. ''It''s nice to let all things out once in a while'' I thought happy of telling that to my friend. I entered the rectangular arena from the south gate while the man call Ryder came from the north gate. We were separated by 30 meters. He was some kind of rogue I guess for what his cloths are. He is wearing a leather armor similar to mine with a hood with the only difference that he didn¡¯t had something to cover his face. You could see his black hair and brown eyes, a normal boy. The stands were full of public but I didn''t paid attention to what they were yelling. ¡°This time we have a battle between a rogue I think and... I don''t know what he can be, he looks like an assassin but he has two swords in his back.¡± the presenter said dumbfounded. I started wearing both of my swords in my back like Kirito of SAO. ''I really look cool like this'' Dual thought smirking. ¡°Well it doesn''t matter, battle start!¡± he yells. As soon as he said that Ryder throw me some small knives and start sprinting towards me pulling out his two daggers. He was fast but not as me. I easily elude the small knives and unsheathe my swords to defend myself. He was aiming at my throat to finish the battle with one attack. Seeing that I bend and dodge it. He kept attacking me after failing but it wasn''t of any use because I defended against all of them and some times landed a hit on him. Understanding that if this kept going he was going to lose he retreat some steps. ''He still didn''t use any skills, but being a rogue he doesn''t have many combat skills. I will just wait him to attack me and then finish the battle'' Dual thought planning on what to do next. Ryder did the same as before and threw small knives and started running towards me but this time he was faster. He is probably using some kind of skill that buffs his speed. Again I elude the knives but this time when I was waiting for him to attack he disappeared. ''Where is he?'' I thought searching for him and the felt a sharp pain on the back of my neck.
Critical hit! You have received 800 of damage.
Understanding what has happened I activate Wind steps turn around and attack Ryder with a flurry of cuts at an unbelievable speed. The battle finished. Only a few players with higher level than me saw how I won. Ryder was sitting on the floor wondering how did he lost. ¡°And the winner is Dual!¡± he exclaimed. The public start shouting but I leave back to the resting area. ''It was good that I knew the skill back stab from before thanks to Shadow, for the next battles I wont let anyone attack me more than one time and end it quickly.'' Dual thought about the tactics for the incoming battles. --------------------------------------------------------------- Now I was waiting for my next match, my next battle was against Gregory. At the quarter finals I faced a druid girl called Rebecca. I wasn''t relaxed like before because of that as soon as the match started I used Wind steps and won without any difficulty. Again only few saw what happened but I couldn''t care less. I wasn''t there to entertain them but to win. Gregory also had it easy. He faced a priestess... I know that a lot of persons wanted the prizes or be famous but if you don''t have a combat class your probabilities of winning are 0%. ¡°And now it''s time for the first semifinal. Dual vs Gregory!!¡± the presenter said and I left the resting area. Like last time I entered from south gate and Gregory from the north one. He was wearing his orange robe that he used in the dungeon. Ignoring the presenter we start talking. ¡°So it comes to this¡± Gregory said ¡°Yeah...¡± I''m excited about the battle but don''t know what to say. ¡°No remorse against the winner okey?¡± he said with a warm smile. I just nod and the battle started. ¡°Battle start¡± I activate Wind steps and attack Gregory. But my attacks were of no use against his magical barrier so with his other hand he threw a big fire ball towards me. Being so close to him I couldn''t dodge it. If you come across this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it.
You have received 500 of damage.
''I forgot that we already know each other skills and spells. Huge mistake'' I thought retreating. Then Gregory wields a whip in each hand and starts attacking. Side stepping I dodge all his attacks. ¡°Blades of wind¡± I used the skill to finish the battle. Gregory didn''t really understood my skill but he knew he couldn''t defend with his barrier so he jump to the side and elude it. Now we were both staring at each other without saying anything thinking what we should do next. No one of the people knew why Gregory suddenly did that. They just heard me yelling some skill but nothing happened in their eyes. All of them were confused for our actions. ''What should I do? If I get near him he just uses his barrier and he dodge my Blades of wing. Well I have an idea but I don''t know if it going to work'' while thinking that Gregory use the time to attack me with his best spell. ¡°You think to much, take this. Fire tornado!!¡± a blaze of fire came towards me. I was to distracted thinking that now I couldn''t dodge the attack so I to cut it. ¡°Blades of wind!¡± I shouted cutting the fare blaze in two only making one to hit me Blowing me away.
You have received 900 of damage.
Standing up I still had 30% of health left, that was really close and it was only half of the max power. ¡°Shit you really are a monster. How can you be alive after that?¡± Gregory said mocking me ¡°Well i''m a tough guy. Let''s finish this already we don''t have much time left, after this I have the final.¡± I said returning the joke ¡°Oh you are really confident on yourself buy you still didn''t touch me. How are you planning to win?¡± he said. ¡°Let me show you, but let me warn you that will hurt like hell¡± I said provoking him. ¡°Then come here and let''s finish this¡± I activate Wind steps again and rush to him. ¡°You can''t win doing the same thing twice!¡± he shouted while using his magical barrier preapring to end the battle with his fire balls like he did once. I only smile at his comments and when I got near enough... ¡°Blades of wind!¡± ''if it ignores armor then it also ignores barriers'' I thought while yelling. It results that it doesn''t ignores barriers but was strong enough to destroy his barrier from the close distance. Gregory lost his balance and I took the opportunity to finish the battle stabbing him in the chest with both of my swords. ¡°AAAAAAAAAAAH¡± Gregory yelled from the pain and fainted, I felt a little bad for him. ¡°That must really hurt...¡± the presenter said sympathizing with him ¡°Oh sorry I got distracted. The winner is Dual!.¡± I didn''t paid more attention to him or the public and went to pick Gregory up and carried him so they could heal him. After a while he regained conscious. We were at the infirmary, Gregory was lying on a bed and I was sitting on a chair next to him. He look at me and with a small smile said. ¡°You are here to finish your job?¡± ¡°Sorry but I warned you that it was going to hurt¡± I replied apologizing. ¡°Yes you told me, but I wasn¡¯t'' expecting till the point of fainting.¡± he reproached. ¡°But don''t worry about it I will only forgive you because how much you enjoy this.¡± he said smiling. ¡°Yeah it''s all thanks to you two that I can be here now.¡± ¡°Of course after all we are your friends, thanks to this game you aren''t the same depressed guy that you were a couple of weeks ago. Now at least we found something that you are interested on it and that you really care about. Do you know how hard is to make you interested in something? The only good thing is that when you found it you will never leave it.¡± he finished ¡°....¡± I couldn''t say anything and feel my face a little hot after hearing that. ¡°HAHAHAHA you are blushing. What did I touch you with my speech? You are such a girl.¡± he laughed. ¡°It seems that both of us gave a deep speech today right?¡± ¡°Yeah¡± I just replied with a small smile. ¡°You know if I didn''t know you I would never know what faces you are doing because of that assassin costume¡± Gregory mocked me. ¡°I don''t care, you wish you could look like this. I need to rest tomorrow is the final.¡± I told him while leaving but I turned back and said. ¡°You really are a good friend Gregory¡± ¡°You had any doubt about it?¡± he said smirking. ¡°What a jerk, wish me luck¡± I just retorted. ¡°Like you need it¡± --------------------------------------------------------- The next day after winning the final I went to eat something near the coliseum while remembering todays fight. The battle was against a boy with the warrior class, I don''t remember his name. As soon as the presenter announce the start of the battle I used Wind steps and finished before he could noticed it. I didn''t want a fight that it almost approached the limit time like the one with Gregory so I decided to finished it fast. After ending the battle so fast I came here. ''What should I do know? I have two more days till all the groups finish'' Dual thought finishing what he was eating. ¡°I guess I can log out and talk with mom, lately I wasn''t much with her¡± After deciding what to do next he gave a last look at the coliseum and thought. ''I wonder what sort of opponents I will face and if there is someone looking for the same kind of battle like me? It would be better to don''t have any hope, probably all of them have their own reasons.'' He logged out with the little hope of finding someone who could make his blood boil from the excitement while fighting. Chapter 11: Tournament ''for thoughts'' "dialogue" 11 chapter plz tell me your opinion and if you find mistakes. Finally the tournament started even if it was even in the latter stages. I didn''t check grammar or spelling i will do ir later. Next chapter is going to be what we all we waiting for. Enjoy. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Yue''s POV I made my way to the quarter finals. My battle is the last one of this phase. Till now I only used two of my four skills including the group stage, it was easier than I thought to get here. I didn''t have to fight against any strong opponent or may be I was just to strong All the people were talking about two persons, the radiant golden sword-woman, me obviously, and a mysterious guy wearing a silver white cloths. You could only see his eyes and a little of his silver hair. I watched his battles but they always finished too fast. He used some kind of speed buff skill and ended the battle quickly. I couldn''t catch his way of fight. He already reached the semifinals. ''I shouldn''t be thinking about that now, I need to concentrate in the next match'' Yue thought. She was in the resting area waiting for her next battle. It was against a monk named Vivi. From what she saw from her battle Yue probably was going to use all of her skills to win this match. This was because if Vivi only needed to hit two times with her close combat skill to finish her. Yue had the advantage that she knew most of her adversary skills but she only showed two of them that were Earth aura, this envelope her body in a brown aura increasing her defenses 25% for 2 minutes that costs 80 mana per 2 minute, and Flaming swords that it''s just as the name say, both of them transform into two swords of pure fire with increases 15% of damage and it cost 75 mana per minute. Because of her class being magic swordsman it was better to focus on one or two elements rather than learning a little of all, so she chose earth and fire that were the best for her fighting style. While thinking that she hear a voice announcing the next match. ¡°It''s time for the last battle of the quarter finals phase. Vivi vs Yue!¡± the presenter said. ''If I won this it''s like already being on the final because of how weak will be the next one'' she thought with a big smile and went to my gate. I entered the coliseum from the south gate. It wasn''t my first match here but it didn''t stop me from admiring this beautiful place. The coliseum was identical like the one in Rome but reconstructed. You could hear all the people yelling, there were approximately fifty thousand people here. Vivi came from the north gate. She was taller than me with short blonde hair and blue eyes. Her outfit was like of a monk from India. Obviously she will fight bare handed. We were separated by 50 meters and I was so concentrated on the battle that I couldn''t the yells of the audience. I unsheathed my swords and wait for the beginning. ¡°Battle start¡± he finally yelled. As soon as he said that we both started running towards each other. Her fists and foots were gleaming and I activate Earth aura and Flaming swords. She try to kick my head but I elude side stepping and attack her left flank. When my attack connect with her body it bounced back. I already knew about this skills of her, it was like trying to break an unbreakable wall. After checking this I retreated and deactivate my skills to save mana. Vivi didn''t wanted me to recover from the failed attack and attack. By the way of her attacks you could know that she knew some martial art like karate. She was throwing punches directed to my face or belly but I dodge them and try to counter with no results because of her skill. Seeing that we couldn''t deal some damage both of us stepped a few steps back and analyze our options. The two of us knew that the one who hit the other first will win the match. ''I need to wait for the right time to use my combination of skills'' Yue thought with a serious face waiting. Vivi decide to make his move and use another of her skills. ¡°Phantom punch¡± she yelled punching the air Suddenly an invisible force pushed Yue back making her lose her balance.
You have received 600 of damage.
Vivi appeared in front of Yue to end the battle. ¡°It''s my win princess!¡± she shouted. But then Vivi heard a chilly sound and stopped moving. All the people were wondering why Vivi didn''t finished the battle yet but no one knew that this match was already decided the moment she let her guard down. ¡°Flames of purgatory!¡± Yue activated her skill putting her swords together and a big two handed blue flame sword appeared and she threw it to Vivi piercing her stomach. ¡°What...?¡± Vivi said with a confused face and then falling to the floor. ¡°What an amazing result. The winner is Yue!!¡± the presenter finished and all the audience cheered. ''That was close, luckily I had that stun skill that master taught me'' Thought with a tired face. Her master taught her a simple skill called Chill voice that stunned your opponent only if they were really close to you for 4 seconds. Yue left to the resting area and found a small girl with short green hair. ¡°Hi Terra. You came here to see me? I was amazing right? I said to me best friend while puffing my chest being proud of myself. ¡°Hehe yeah...¡± she said with a wry smile ¡°but you used your best skill, what will you do know? You are at disadvantaged?¡± ¡°Yes I know, for the semifinals i won''t be a problem but for the final.... well I will figure it out in the moment.¡± I said with confidence Flames of purgatory transformed my two swords into a big one that radiates blue flames that deals a lot of damage. This two handed sword I could throw it or wield it, my choice. If I throw it my two swords reappear in my hands. It''s hard to use because I need at least more than one minute to activate it. In my fight with Vivi I started activating when I was falling. Luckily this game permits you to use two skills at the same if not I would have lose. ¡°Let''s don''t worry about that. What should we do know? I have the rest of the day free. ¡°I asked her. ¡°I wanted to watch the battle of that mysterious silver guy, wanna come? ¡°Sure let''s see if he is capable of defeating Jack. I can''t imagine him losing¡± I said with a big smile on my face and we leave to watch the first semifinal. -------------------------------------------------- Dual''s POV I just finished watching our school princess fight. She was much better than what I thought and she will probably be my opponent in the finals. I was lucky, I could see all of her skills. I don''t think that she fight giving her all it''s just that to win the battle she didn''t had other option than using her best skill. I stopped thinking about it and left the coliseum. Today was my semifinal match. I already know my enemy it''s a guy called Jack, Leo Jones in real life. His class was some kind of tank but he didn''t get into this stage of the tournament because he was good, it was because he had an especial armor with really high defense, with that and his skills you couldn''t deal any damage to him. I wasn''t worry about the battle so because I still had time before it I went to eat something with me friends. My friends were waiting for me at the same cafe near the coliseum that I came before the start of the real tournament. They were sitting on one of the outside tables. I went there and greet them. ¡°Hi guys long time no see.¡± I said ¡°Well we saw each other at school...¡± Argos said with a wry smile, wearing his usual silver armor. ¡°but here we didn''t meet each other since the start of the tournament¡± ¡°Thats you I had to fight this freaking monster you know?¡± Gregory complained. ¡°Haha yeah I heard that you screamed like a little girl¡± Argos said mocking him. ¡°He stabbed me with his two swords in the chest! What did you expected me to do? He shouted. ¡°Guys let''s change of topic plz...¡± I said to stop the discussion. ¡°Okey then tell us how are you doing in the tournament? Although we know.¡± Argos asked me a little displeased because I change of topic. ¡°Actually since the group stage all the battles I won them without any problems and the next one is the same.¡± Dual said a little unhappy about that. ¡°You sure are confident about it. I know that you won all your matches without effort because i watched them but you already saw Jack defense power. It''s impossible to deal any damage to him in my opinion. Do you really think you can defeat him that easy?¡± he asked me with a serious face. ¡°If you don''t believe me just ask Gregory¡± I replied smiling. Argos looked at Gregory for an answer. ¡°Don''t worry about it buddy. This demon is already in the finals¡± Gregory said with a wry smile. ¡°This time I will believe you two¡± we finished our talk ¡°Well then it''s time for my match. I will see you after I win this tournament¡± I said while leaving. ------------------------------------------------- ¡°It''s time for the first semifinal match. Dual vs Jack!¡± the presenter said. In the north side of the coliseum a warrior with a full black armor was standing. He had his helmet in his left hand and the shield in the other while a long sword was hanging in his waist. He was as tall as me with brown hair and black eyes, he was really handsome the dream of all girls, it was Jack. I was watching him preparing himself for the battle, putting his helmet on and the rest. And then the presenter announce the start of the battle. ¡°Battle start!¡± Before I could attack him he spoke to me. ¡°So you are the mysterious silver guy. I thought that you would look more scary.¡± he told me I didn''t reply. ¡°You won''t speak? Fine it doesn''t matter you can attack me when you want no one can deal damage to me while I wear this armor¡± he said like he already won. Actually I didn''t spoke to him because I think it''s annoying, ¡°Thanks if you let me attack you then I will finish this know¡± I said with a calm voice and attack him. ¡°Hahahaha good joke¡± he just laughed at my comment My normal attacks just hit the armor and you could hear a metallic sound from it. Seeing that it was true that I couldn''t dealt damage I give up and decide to end the battle. ¡°Blades of wind, blades of wind, blades of wind¡± I used my skill three time standing in front of him targeting at his chest. I send him flying and he crushed in to the wall. I left the coliseum and couldn''t hear any sound from it. No one could believe that the guy who never receive any damage was just beaten as he was nothing even the presenter need some time to recover. The only person who started laughing in the audience was Gregory because he knew that it was going to end like this. The dumbfounded face of Argos next to him had no price. Dual was now in the resting. ''I''m really disappointed about this tournament, the group stage was more difficult than this one. I hope that tomorrows final will be more entertaining.'' This were Duals last thoughts before logging out. It never crossed his mind that final in two days will change his life. ----------------------------------------------- Yue''s POV She couldn''t believe what she just watch. Her friend who had the best defense that she knew was easily defeated by that guy. Yue wasn''t mad at him on the contrary she was excited. He saw the man leaving without waiting for the announcement of his victory. She then hear someone laughing making her recover. ¡°Dual wins!! I don''t know how but he defeat Jack¡± the presenter yelled surprise about how things ended. Yue left the coliseum with a big smile on her face. Terra that was walking beside her had never saw Yue so happy in her entire life she was wondering what her best friend thoughts were. ''Dual you will see. Our fight is going to be epic and they all will remember it and of course the winner of it and it will be me'' This were Yues thoughts before logging back to wait for her match. If you come across this story on Amazon, it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it. ----------------------------------------------------- Yue''s POV I made my way to the quarter finals. My battle is the last one of this phase. Till now I only used two of my four skills including the group stage, it was easier than I thought to get here. I didn''t have to fight against any strong opponent or may be I was just to strong All the people were talking about two persons, the radiant golden sword-woman, me obviously, and a mysterious guy wearing a silver white cloths. You could only see his eyes and a little of his silver hair. I watched his battles but they always finished too fast. He used some kind of speed buff skill and ended the battle quickly. I couldn''t catch his way of fight. He already reached the semifinals. ''I shouldn''t be thinking about that now, I need to concentrate in the next match'' Yue thought. She was in the resting area waiting for her next battle. It was against a monk named Vivi. From what she saw from her battle Yue probably was going to use all of her skills to win this match. This was because if Vivi only needed to hit two times with her close combat skill to finish her. Yue had the advantage that she knew most of her adversary skills but she only showed two of them that were Earth aura, this envelope her body in a brown aura increasing her defenses 25% for 2 minutes that costs 80 mana per 2 minute, and Flaming swords that it''s just as the name say, both of them transform into two swords of pure fire with increases 15% of damage and it cost 75 mana per minute. Because of her class being magic swordsman it was better to focus on one or two elements rather than learning a little of all, so she chose earth and fire that were the best for her fighting style. While thinking that she hear a voice announcing the next match. ¡°It''s time for the last battle of the quarter finals phase. Vivi vs Yue!¡± the presenter said. ''If I won this it''s like already being on the final because of how weak will be the next one'' she thought with a big smile and went to my gate. I entered the coliseum from the south gate. It wasn''t my first match here but it didn''t stop me from admiring this beautiful place. The coliseum was identical like the one in Rome but reconstructed. You could hear all the people yelling, there were approximately fifty thousand people here. Vivi came from the north gate. She was taller than me with short blonde hair and blue eyes. Her outfit was like of a monk from India. Obviously she will fight bare handed. We were separated by 50 meters and I was so concentrated on the battle that I couldn''t the yells of the audience. I unsheathed my swords and wait for the beginning. ¡°Battle start¡± he finally yelled. As soon as he said that we both started running towards each other. Her fists and foots were gleaming and I activate Earth aura and Flaming swords. She try to kick my head but I elude side stepping and attack her left flank. When my attack connect with her body it bounced back. I already knew about this skills of her, it was like trying to break an unbreakable wall. After checking this I retreated and deactivate my skills to save mana. Vivi didn''t wanted me to recover from the failed attack and attack. By the way of her attacks you could know that she knew some martial art like karate. She was throwing punches directed to my face or belly but I dodge them and try to counter with no results because of her skill. Seeing that we couldn''t deal some damage both of us stepped a few steps back and analyze our options. The two of us knew that the one who hit the other first will win the match. ''I need to wait for the right time to use my combination of skills'' Yue thought with a serious face waiting. Vivi decide to make his move and use another of her skills. ¡°Phantom punch¡± she yelled punching the air Suddenly an invisible force pushed Yue back making her lose her balance.
You have received 600 of damage.
Vivi appeared in front of Yue to end the battle. ¡°It''s my win princess!¡± she shouted. But then Vivi heard a chilly sound and stopped moving. All the people were wondering why Vivi didn''t finished the battle yet but no one knew that this match was already decided the moment she let her guard down. ¡°Flames of purgatory!¡± Yue activated her skill putting her swords together and a big two handed blue flame sword appeared and she threw it to Vivi piercing her stomach. ¡°What...?¡± Vivi said with a confused face and then falling to the floor. ¡°What an amazing result. The winner is Yue!!¡± the presenter finished and all the audience cheered. ''That was close, luckily I had that stun skill that master taught me'' Thought with a tired face. Her master taught her a simple skill called Chill voice that stunned your opponent only if they were really close to you for 4 seconds. Yue left to the resting area and found a small girl with short green hair. ¡°Hi Terra. You came here to see me? I was amazing right? I said to me best friend while puffing my chest being proud of myself. ¡°Hehe yeah...¡± she said with a wry smile ¡°but you used your best skill, what will you do know? You are at disadvantaged?¡± ¡°Yes I know, for the semifinals i won''t be a problem but for the final.... well I will figure it out in the moment.¡± I said with confidence Flames of purgatory transformed my two swords into a big one that radiates blue flames that deals a lot of damage. This two handed sword I could throw it or wield it, my choice. If I throw it my two swords reappear in my hands. It''s hard to use because I need at least more than one minute to activate it. In my fight with Vivi I started activating when I was falling. Luckily this game permits you to use two skills at the same if not I would have lose. ¡°Let''s don''t worry about that. What should we do know? I have the rest of the day free. ¡°I asked her. ¡°I wanted to watch the battle of that mysterious silver guy, wanna come? ¡°Sure let''s see if he is capable of defeating Jack. I can''t imagine him losing¡± I said with a big smile on my face and we leave to watch the first semifinal. -------------------------------------------------- Dual''s POV I just finished watching our school princess fight. She was much better than what I thought and she will probably be my opponent in the finals. I was lucky, I could see all of her skills. I don''t think that she fight giving her all it''s just that to win the battle she didn''t had other option than using her best skill. I stopped thinking about it and left the coliseum. Today was my semifinal match. I already know my enemy it''s a guy called Jack, Leo Jones in real life. His class was some kind of tank but he didn''t get into this stage of the tournament because he was good, it was because he had an especial armor with really high defense, with that and his skills you couldn''t deal any damage to him. I wasn''t worry about the battle so because I still had time before it I went to eat something with me friends. My friends were waiting for me at the same cafe near the coliseum that I came before the start of the real tournament. They were sitting on one of the outside tables. I went there and greet them. ¡°Hi guys long time no see.¡± I said ¡°Well we saw each other at school...¡± Argos said with a wry smile, wearing his usual silver armor. ¡°but here we didn''t meet each other since the start of the tournament¡± ¡°Thats you I had to fight this freaking monster you know?¡± Gregory complained. ¡°Haha yeah I heard that you screamed like a little girl¡± Argos said mocking him. ¡°He stabbed me with his two swords in the chest! What did you expected me to do? He shouted. ¡°Guys let''s change of topic plz...¡± I said to stop the discussion. ¡°Okey then tell us how are you doing in the tournament? Although we know.¡± Argos asked me a little displeased because I change of topic. ¡°Actually since the group stage all the battles I won them without any problems and the next one is the same.¡± Dual said a little unhappy about that. ¡°You sure are confident about it. I know that you won all your matches without effort because i watched them but you already saw Jack defense power. It''s impossible to deal any damage to him in my opinion. Do you really think you can defeat him that easy?¡± he asked me with a serious face. ¡°If you don''t believe me just ask Gregory¡± I replied smiling. Argos looked at Gregory for an answer. ¡°Don''t worry about it buddy. This demon is already in the finals¡± Gregory said with a wry smile. ¡°This time I will believe you two¡± we finished our talk ¡°Well then it''s time for my match. I will see you after I win this tournament¡± I said while leaving. ------------------------------------------------- ¡°It''s time for the first semifinal match. Dual vs Jack!¡± the presenter said. In the north side of the coliseum a warrior with a full black armor was standing. He had his helmet in his left hand and the shield in the other while a long sword was hanging in his waist. He was as tall as me with brown hair and black eyes, he was really handsome the dream of all girls, it was Jack. I was watching him preparing himself for the battle, putting his helmet on and the rest. And then the presenter announce the start of the battle. ¡°Battle start!¡± Before I could attack him he spoke to me. ¡°So you are the mysterious silver guy. I thought that you would look more scary.¡± he told me I didn''t reply. ¡°You won''t speak? Fine it doesn''t matter you can attack me when you want no one can deal damage to me while I wear this armor¡± he said like he already won. Actually I didn''t spoke to him because I think it''s annoying, ¡°Thanks if you let me attack you then I will finish this know¡± I said with a calm voice and attack him. ¡°Hahahaha good joke¡± he just laughed at my comment My normal attacks just hit the armor and you could hear a metallic sound from it. Seeing that it was true that I couldn''t dealt damage I give up and decide to end the battle. ¡°Blades of wind, blades of wind, blades of wind¡± I used my skill three time standing in front of him targeting at his chest. I send him flying and he crushed in to the wall. I left the coliseum and couldn''t hear any sound from it. No one could believe that the guy who never receive any damage was just beaten as he was nothing even the presenter need some time to recover. The only person who started laughing in the audience was Gregory because he knew that it was going to end like this. The dumbfounded face of Argos next to him had no price. Dual was now in the resting. ''I''m really disappointed about this tournament, the group stage was more difficult than this one. I hope that tomorrows final will be more entertaining.'' This were Duals last thoughts before logging out. It never crossed his mind that final in two days will change his life. ----------------------------------------------- Yue''s POV She couldn''t believe what she just watch. Her friend who had the best defense that she knew was easily defeated by that guy. Yue wasn''t mad at him on the contrary she was excited. He saw the man leaving without waiting for the announcement of his victory. She then hear someone laughing making her recover. ¡°Dual wins!! I don''t know how but he defeat Jack¡± the presenter yelled surprise about how things ended. Yue left the coliseum with a big smile on her face. Terra that was walking beside her had never saw Yue so happy in her entire life she was wondering what her best friend thoughts were. ''Dual you will see. Our fight is going to be epic and they all will remember it and of course the winner of it and it will be me'' This were Yues thoughts before logging back to wait for her match. ----------------------------------------------------- The next day all the people were talking about tomorrow final between the radiant golden warrior Yue, the most popular girl in school and the mysterious silver guy Dual, who no knew his real identity. Chapter 12: Gold vs Silver ''for thoughts'' "dialogue" 12 chapter plz tell me your opinion and if you find mistakes. Sorry that i didn''t check the spelling or grammar of this chapter and the last one but i wanted to post this one first. I hope you enjoy the battle between them. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ People''s POV The coliseum was full. The moment that we were waiting for has finally come, the tournament final. The match was about to begin. Both contestants were waiting for the presenter to announce the start. On the north side of the coliseum was a warrior with golden armor and two swords at her right side, she was the school idol Yue, because she excelled on everything we all expected her to reach the finals. But her opponent was a mystery. Standing on the south side was a guy covered in white and silver cloths with two swords at his back, you could only see his eyes and a little of his hair. The name of that guy was Dual. No one knew his real name and didn''t expect him to beat Jack on the semifinals so easy. At the moment they were both staring at each other and the presenter was making things more dramatic. ¡°Welcome to the tournament final. Here we have the two persons that are going to be on the national tournament but only one of them will be your school champion!! Are you ready for this!?¡± the presenter said excited. ¡°YES¡± all the audience yelled. ¡°Cool. Now the battle is going to start when the clock that will appear on the arena reaches zero.¡± the presenter explained. Suddenly a digital clock with two minutes on it appears above the contestants. ¡°Go Dual you already have this in the bag!¡± an archer girl shouted with a guy covered in black next to her. Like that all the people wait anxiously the beginning of the match between the radiant golden warrior and the mysterious silver guy. ----------------------------------------------------- Dual''s POV Dual just hear some people cheering for him. They were Sarah and Shadow. Both of them came to all my battles. ¡°I really got some good and weird friends¡± I said with a wry smile. Now I was staring at her worrying about that powerful skill that she had. ''I couldn''t figure of a way to stop that big blue sword. The only one was the one that Shadow suggest to me earlier today, but it will be a miracle if it works'' Dual stop thinking because he needed to concentrate on the upcoming battle. Seeing that the clock was reaching zero I unsheathed my swords, she did the same. I''m going to attack without any skills to see her reaction. I already know that she goes to me moms dojo so I don''t have to underestimate her. ¡°BAAAAAAAM¡± a loud sound announce the start of the battle. I start running towards her and she took a defensive position. It seems that she is planning to counter attack. I reach where she was standing and attack her left side with my two swords. She elude it with easy and made a horizontal swing with her left sword towards my chest. I already knew this move, it was from the Kusanagi style. She was expecting me to jump back and then stab me with her other sword. But I bend down and kick her on the belly and did some damage. After that she retreated and with shocked expression asked me. ¡°How did you know that move?¡± ¡°From a place that i used to go. You shouldn''t underestimate me¡± I just retorted. She smile at my reply and charged at me. This time I was going to defend. I was defending against a storm of strikes from her. It was really hard, I could never counter and then a hit landed on my left arm. Seeing that I was in danger I decide to step back. ''It seems that she is better at attacking rather than defending. But to bad for her that is also my speciality.'' I thought while jumping towards her. She did the same and we both engage in an exchange of attacks. We were both attacking at max speed. Our swords clashed with the others and generated some sparks. We only looked at each others eyes and while doing it I could see the excitement in her. I was the same, I never feel so lively before in my entire life, my heart was throbbing so hard that I thought that it will come out. Sometimes we landed a hit on the other, but I didn''t care if I receive damage or even if I lose, I was simply enjoying our battle now. I was better than Yue in using the Kusanagi style because I had more experience with it than her, so I slowly started to overwhelm her. With a displeased face because she couldn''t keep the pace she activate two of her skills. Her body was now enveloped in a brown aura and her swords were made of fire. My attacks were doing less damage and with the slightest touch of her flames swords I received considerable damage. I activate Wins steps and escape from her, my health drop down to 80%. I wasn''t considering using Blades of wind because I didn''t know if it will break that aura of hers. It is going to be my last option, I don''t want to waste my spiritual energy. Then she try to attack me again but now with my skill activated I dodge it and we popped again in another exchange of attacks. This one was useless because she could never hit me and when I landed a hit on her I barely did any damage. We understood this and made some space between us. She also deactivate her skills. At the moment we were looking at each other thinking of a way to end this. ''I already know of her two others skill, that blue fame sword and the stun, but she also must know of my Blades of wind...'' Dual thought ''yep I definitely don''t have the slightest idea of how to finish this.'' I decide to stop thinking about it and decide just to attack her. I run to her without activating any skills. Seeing this she only reactivate her defense aura. While running I use Blades of wind once to see what happens. ¡°Blades of wind¡± I was to close when I activate it so she couldn''t dodge it. It hit her and her aura turned off. She was shocked because of what just happened, so I took the opportunity to attack her. She reacted late and couldn''t block it fully. I slash a little of her chest making her health drop to 50%. I smirk at this and didn''t realize the big mistake that I made. I came to close and that was exactly what she wanted. Suddenly I wasn''t able to move my body that was falling to the floor and I already knew what was coming next. ''Good now she will split my body in two. Now my only hope is Shadows idea...'' Dual thought resigned to his fate. ¡°Flames of purgatory¡± she yelled swinging her sword vertically to me. ¡°I''m the champion here!!¡± Seeing the big sword coming at me I did the only thing that I could do in a moment like this. ¡°Blades of wind, Blades of wind, Blades of wind¡± I activate my skill but I wasn''t targeting at her but towards the sword. The sword broke in two, I can''t believe it actually work. Still the broken blue sword pierced my left arm and then disappeared. Did you know this story is from Royal Road? Read the official version for free and support the author. I get up from the floor and yell. ¡°AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH¡± I was standing in front of her and she had a blank expression on her face. I knew the reason, it was because this match was over and I was the winner. And to think that it''s thanks to Shadow.... Flashback I was talking to Sarah and Shadow at the gates of the coliseum. They came to all of my battles to cheer for me. I really appreciate what they were doing. While conversing Sarah asked me the question that I really didn''t wanted to hear. ¡°Dual what are you going to do about that cheat skill of her?¡± ¡°You are saying it like if this guy didn''t had any cheat ability¡± Shadow said with a wry smile. After killing that big worm and reuniting with them they asked me how did I dealt with it. My only option was to tell them the truth. I didn''t said to them my class, only my skills. After hearing they said that I was cheating. ¡°No I don''t. I know that after using it she wont have any mana left but after I rack my brain thinking of a way to do it I got nothing. Any suggestions? I said ignoring Shadows comment. ¡°Mmmm no, no ideas¡± Sarah just replied with a smile on her face. ¡°Huh if I don''t find a way I''m going to lose¡± Dual sighed and started to get depressed ¡°And if you cut that sword with the skill you used to killed the worm?¡± Shadow said. ¡°I don''t think that it will cut that powerful sword but well if thats the only idea...¡± End of flashback Now I was pointing to her with the ¡°Give up you can''t win, you don''t have any mana left.¡± I said. I only had 25% left of health and one usable arm, but it was my victory. This was because I still had at least one third of my spiritual energy. When my skills reached the intermediate lvl they cost less than 75 both. Even if I¡¯m seriously injured I can still use my skills and it''s all what I need to end this. ¡°No¡± she replied with a low voice, tears started falling down of her cheeks, ¡°Surrender now. You know it''s useless. Please just do it.¡± I asked her nicely. She think it for a couple of minutes and when I was going to end the battle she said it. ¡°I surrender¡± Yue said while crying. ¡°Yue gave up. Dual is the winner!! He is the champion of your school...¡± the presenter was talking but Dual left immediately towards the resting area. As soon as he got there he sat on a bench and try to calm himself. His heart was still throbbing so hard. He has never been this excited before. This was the battle that he enjoy the most in his entire life. He also activate the option to see the windows. He disable this because he didn''t wanted a window to appear distracting him saying You have receive damage. ''I almost lost. That girl is really good at the Kusanagi style, if she practice more in some years she will be much better than me. I would really love to fight with her when the time comes'' Dual was thinking happily about that ''But something is wrong. I can''t believe that a nice girl like her can fight so passionately...'' that were his thought when someone interrupted him. ----------------------------------------------------------- Yue''s POV I have lost. In swordsmanship and with powers of the game. Also i''m crying. ''I can''t remember the last time that I cried'' Yue thought with a sorrowful expression. She was standing in the middle of the arena with her face looking down so no one saw her. She couldn''t hear the shouts of the public or what the presenter was saying. Neither she was angry because he made her surrender. She only thought about him. ¡°Who is he? I never met a person in school that was like him. His eyes while we were fighting were full of life. He was enjoying the fight like me. Also he was better than me using the Kusanagi style. But how is this possible. I can''t remember anyone from school going to the dojo. Really who is he?.'' she was troubled by this. '' I need to know so I will ask the person itself. She decided this and went to search for him. It was really easy to find him. He was like I expected in the resting area. He was sitting in a bench thinking about something. It took him time to notice me. ¡°You need something.¡± he asked me with a dubious face. ¡°Yes tell me your name and also how do you know the Kusanagi style¡± I didn''t ask him to say it I demand it. ¡°Why should I tell you?¡± ¡°Just tell me you idiot. You are the first person better than me in something that I excelled!!¡± I shouted. I didn''t hide my real personality anymore. Actually I didn''t care about that I just want him to answer my questions. He had a shocked expression when he saw my true self but after some seconds he recovered and... ¡°HAHAHAHAHAHAHA¡± he was laughing. ¡°WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING!? I yelled angry at him. ¡°It''s just that I have never expected the princess of our school to be like this is so funny haha..¡± he continue laughing. ¡°Shut up moron! Just answer my questions¡± I was losing my patience. ¡°Don''t wanna¡± he said smiling like a kid. I couldn''t see him doing it because of his stupids cloths but I knew he was. ''I really want to kill this guy'' Yue thought. ¡°You know princess now I got a little interested in you. This personality of yours is way better than the other one in my opinion¡± he said naturally. ¡°WHAT!?¡± ¡°We just need to fix a little your true personality and you will be perfect. For me at least.¡± he said the last thing in a low tone that only he could hear. ''Whats with this guy'' Yue thought don''t knowing how to answer him ¡°Well princess we will talk about it later. See you later I have to leave¡± he said while leaving. ¡°Hey wait! Tell me your name before leaving¡± I shouted ¡°Who knows? May be i''m demon, an alien or may be i''m superman!¡± He shouted. ¡°STOP TELLING STUPID THINGS AND TELL ME!¡± I already lose my cool. ''I''m going to kill him after he answers me, I swear.'' ¡°Bye princess¡± he logged out... ''I can''t bear this idiot'' Yue though trying to calm herself down but failed. I couldn''t understand why but me heart was throbbing so hard since the battle and even while talking to this guy. I also didn''t knew why but I wanted an answer for all my questions. Just who is he? How does he knows the Kusanagi style? Why is he capable of talking to me so normally after seeing my true personality? I couldn''t understand why but I wanted to know more about him and also make him pay back for how he treated me just now. Chapter 13: Water spirit ''for thoughts'' "dialogue" 13 chapter plz tell me your opinion and if you find mistakes. Long chapter i hope that you don''t find it boring. Enjoy. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ It was the end of the school day. Luke just woke up from his nap. He was in his usual sit next to the window. He could hear the conversation of his schoolmates and he didn''t like what they were talking about. ¡°They are saying that Dual is Baxter from class 2¡± a boy said to his friends. ¡°No you are wrong. I heard that is Robert from class 4¡± another boy said. All people from school were talking about Duals identity. There are a lot of people saying that they are him. But no one''s really knows, except three persons. Luke wants to keep a low profile about this. He wouldn''t like all the attention that they will give him if they discover the true. He just needed his two friends to stay silent but Luke never expected the stupidity of them. ¡°Hello mister celebrity¡± Nathan and John came to talk with him. ¡°Shut up¡± I said while seeing around hoping that no one heard him. ¡°What? Now that you are famous you won''t talk to us?¡± John asked mocking me. They knew that I didn''t attention but this wouldn''t stop them of making fun of me. ¡°Are you an idiot!? Shut up they will hear you.¡± I shouted angry. ¡°Hahaha sorry but this is so fun.¡± John laughed. ¡°Yeah. They are all investigating about you.¡± Nathan said smiling. ''This bastards are enjoying seeing me in this situation.'' Luke thought cursing his friends. ¡°If you two stay silent about then nothing will happen. Promise me that you won''t tell this to anyone.¡± ¡°Fine¡± they both said a little dissatisfied. ¡°Good thanks uh¡± I sighed and relaxed knowing that they won''t tell it. ¡°But there are still persons that are trying to find out.¡± John said warning me. ¡°Yeah particularly one person. I really didn''t expect her to care about it.¡± Nathan commented. And when I was going to ask that person appeared. ¡°Excuse me guys can I have a minute?¡± Hamilton asked us smiling. I knew that it was a fake smile because of her true personality. ¡°Sure Hamilton what''s up?¡± Nathan asked her. ¡°For any coincidence do you know who Dual is? Hearing that I almost laugh but I held myself. ''I''m in front of you princess hahaha.'' I thought almost in my limit. I restrain myself of talking near the princess because your voice in game and real life are the same. You can change your appearance all you want but you couldn¡¯t do anything to your voice John and Nathan look not knowing what to do. ¡°Is everything okey guys?¡± she asked with her fake smile. ¡°Eh... no sorry we don''t know who he is¡± John said a little awkward. ¡°Yeah, no idea¡± Nathan replied really nervous. ¡°Oh thanks. Sorry for bothering you.¡± she left while thinking ''I knew this idiots wouldn''t be of any use, they really are a group of weirdos'' After seeing that she already left both sigh and look at Luke. ¡°Hey what''s with that smile dude?¡± Nathan asked worried about me. ¡°Mmm? Ah sorry I didn¡¯t knew that I was smiling¡± I said happily. ¡°Did something happen?¡± ¡°Well... you could say that I found something interesting¡± I just replied. ¡°Another thing!? What is it?¡± they both asked shocked. ¡°It''s a secret¡± I said with a smile. ¡°Fine don''t tell us¡± John said offended ¡°Moving on do you have any plans for the vacations?¡± I forgot that vacations were starting next week. I already know what I will do. ¡°I will play AOM¡± ¡°Yeah me to¡± we both answered. ¡°Guys... you need to go out more often¡± John said embarrassed of being our friend. We kept talking for a while and then leave. As soon as I got home I logged back. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Dual appeared in the exit of the resting area. Today he has to choose one of the prizes. He really was excited about it. If the pendant wasn''t the one he was searching he will kill everyone in this city. Now he only needs to go where they will give him his pendant. I went to an office inside the coliseum where one of the teachers will receive him. Dual arrived there and knock the door before entering. I entered and saw Mr. Adams sitting on a chair. It was a normal office, a desk, two chairs and a shelf filled with books. ¡°Oh Dual come sit. Remember you have to call me Trent here.¡± Trent told me. He had short stature like in real life but his hair color was white now. Also he is wearing a black robe. ¡°Thanks but I just came here to choose my prize.¡± I wanted to finish this fast. ¡°Sure which one do you want?¡± he asked me with a small smile. ¡°The spirit pendant please.¡± ¡°Oh I didn''t expect you to choose this one but well it''s your decision¡± he said and gave me the pendant. I took the pendant and could hear a voice coming from it. Fro the moment I decide to ignore it. With a big smile on my face I was about to leave but Trent stopped me. ¡°Wait Dual. Could you do me the favor of coming tomorrow at this time? I need to ask you something. He said nicely. I nod my head and leave to find an isolated place for the next thing that I have to do. ---------------------------------------------------------------- I went outside the city and went deep inside the forest. Surrounded only by trees and with no one near I took out the silver pendant with the blue gem on it. ¡°Can you shut up!? Stop talking for a second please.¡± I yelled at the pendant. If someone sees me now would think that i''m crazy. ¡°Oh? You can hear me. I thought that you chose this pendant to sold it for a lot of money.¡± a tiny but clear feminine voice could be hear coming from the pendant. ¡°I didn''t expected to found someone with spiritual energy who could listen to me.¡± ''So only the ones with spiritual energy could hear her'' Dual thought. ¡°Luckily for you I came to unseal you¡± I told her. ¡°Really? That sounds too good to be true. What do you want from me human? She asked me. ¡°I want to make a contract.¡± I said it bluntly. ¡°i don''t know human I can''t trust you¡± she said crashing all my expectations. ¡°What? I thought that spirits didn''t care about making contracts anymore¡± ¡°Em well that depends on the each spirit. But if you ask me only a stupid spirit would think like that¡± the spirit finished. ¡°Yes you are right....¡± I wasn''t going to give up so I try to suggest something. ¡°Can I do something that will make you trust me?¡± ¡°Well we could add a new clause to the contract¡± she suggested. ¡°Eh what? I asked dumbfounded ¡°It seems that you only know the basic contract where a spirit will give some of his powers to the human. That''s one option, the other one is to add some clauses to it so we can come to an agreement.¡± she explained. ¡°Sure let''s do that I will do anything¡± I said excited. ¡°Good first unseal me. To do it you have to pour spiritual energy, then we will make the contract¡± If you spot this narrative on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. I did as she told me. Suddenly the pendant disappeared and a small blue light was in his place.
Quest completed! You have managed to unseal the spirit trapped inside the pendant. Because of this you gained her friendship, but this doesn''t mean that she will make a contract with you.
''Now you tell me this....'' Dual thought. ¡°Let''s do it human and remember this my name is Aqua the spirit who used to rule the north ocean. Now for the contract it''s simple, you will become my guardian if I call for you come immediately do you understand? You have to protect me from everything. If something happens to me all the powers given by me to you will disappear.¡± she explained me the contract.
Aqua the spirit of the water has offered you to make a contract to you. For this you will become her guardian and protect her for all dangers. Will you accepted it?
¡°Yes¡±
You have accepted the contract.
Gained new skill: Water blessing beginner lvl 1 (0%). Because of this blessing the water inside your body will also heal your injuries (passive). +5% health regeneration. +5% water resistance. +5% water affinity. Active state. Your body will become like water. If you receive any damage while using this skill you will be healed. Also if they cut some part of your body it will recover. Spiritual energy cost: 450. Duration: 30 seconds
You have receive the tittle: Spirit guardian.
''Finally new contract. The new skill will save me one day but it costs a lot and I don''t care about the title.'' Dual thought happy that he can try to generate the skill that he had been thinking. ¡°Aqua do you know where I can find other spirits?¡± ¡°No I don''t but you should now that spirits usually lives near the element they control. Like me, now i''m going to search for a place to live near the water. It''s time for me to leave. I will call you if I need you¡± she explained and left. I was alone in the forest. It was perfect to generate the new skills that I have been thinking. ¡°Water comes in different states so let''s try this one first¡± I said thinking loud. I try to copy the Flaming swords of the princess but with ice. I pour energy into my swords and imagine them frozen. After a couple of minutes I succeed in doing it.
New skill generated: Ice swords Your swords transforms into two ice swords freezing all things that came in touch with them. +10% of damage while activate it. Spiritual energy cost: 75 per minute.
Testing my knew skill I hit a tree and it immediately freeze. I was happy with the results and continue with my next idea. Water also comes in gaseous state. Now i try to emanate spirit energy out of my body and imagine a mist around me. It took more time than before but it worked.
New skill generated: Mist A mist comes out of your body hiding you from your enemies. They can''t perceive or see you. Spiritual energy cost: depends on the size of the mist.
¡°YEEEES¡± I yell because of my success. And now I have to mix the skills that I thought about. Think about this was a pain on the ass. First for this I generated a new skill named Tornado. To do it I started running in circles with Wind steps. It traps the enemy sealing their movement. It cost 200 of spiritual energy. After doing it I was able to activate it without running in circles and only focusing in the place where I wanted the tornado to be. The next one was simpler, it was named Pike of ice. I just imagined a giant pike of ice and with the help of the wind throw it towards a tree. It pierced the tree with easy. In the skill info it said that it cost 100 of spiritual energy each. The moment of the truth arrived. I will try to fuse them. My target was a tree obviously, not like I had anything else. To Begin I use Tornado targeting the tree and then I generated three Pikes of ice and throw them, one from the left, one from the right and the last one from above. They all passed through the tornado and hit the tree. It was like a torture cage.
You have fuse two of your skills and generate a new one: Cage of doom beginner lvl 1 (0%) By fusing Tornado and Pikes of ice you made a trap where your opponents are condemned to die without escape. Damage dealt: 3000 Spiritual energy cost: 1000 Note: if you fuse this skills you won''t be able to generate them again. Do you accepted this new skill: Yes/No.
¡°YES¡± I don''t care if I can''t use them again. Now I have my own finishing move. Until I get another better than this one.
You have accepted the new skill: Cage of doom.
¡°HAHAHAHAHA¡± I laughed. ''Someday I will be as strong as the gods of this world'' I thought with a big smile on my face. ''Thats a battle i''m looking for.'' He lose his mind... I went back to the city and logged out to rest. It was a really tiring day and my mind wasn''t in the best state. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The next day I logged back and went towards Trent office like he asked me. I arrived, knock the door and entered. ¡°Hi Trent I came here like you ask me. Oh hello Princess I didn''t knew you were here¡± I greeted while entering and saw her. ¡°Why is this guy here?¡± she asked with a displeased face. ¡°Sorry I called you two here to ask you something. But I didn''t expect that you weren''t on good terms.¡± he said with a wry smile. ¡°We are¡± ¡°We aren''t¡± we both said in unison. ¡°Well it doesn''t matter. I need you two to go and search something for the school.¡± he said ignoring us. ¡°Both of us together?¡± we asked with a dumbfounded look on our faces trying to understand what was happening. Chapter 14: Mission and game ''for thoughts'' "dialogue" 14 chapter plz tell me your opinion and if you find mistakes. I didn''t chech the chapter hope it''s not to bad. i should check all the chapters after this. Enjoy ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Neither the princess or I could believe what was happening. Then when we were about to say something Trent continue. ¡°Let me explain you. You may already know that our school is forming a guild. Guilds in AOM works in the same way that in others MMORPG, but with one difference. Every guild needs a relic. It needs to be a precious gem. Don''t ask me why is that like that because I don''t know. The relic is like the heart of the guild if it''s stolen then the guild dies. The director of the school explain this to me like that, sorry if you don''t understand. To get to the point we want the two of you to go find a relic and bring it back here. Any questions? He finished. ¡°Why do we have to go together¡± the princess asked directly. ¡°Because we don''t know what kind of monsters you will encounter so we just want our two strongest students to go. But they told me that if you want you can bring friends with you.¡± Trent said explaining to her. ¡°Fine where do we have to go?¡± I was surprised, I couldn''t believe she agreed to it. But I was more happy, after all i''m going on an adventure with the princess. ''It will be so funny.'' Dual thought with a mischievous smile. ¡°Don''t mind this idiot and explain where we will go.¡± the princess said with a disgusted face looking at me. ¡°Good listen carefully. They called the place the unpredictable labyrinth because you will never know what you will encounter inside it. It''s one of the most dangerous places at the moment but also because of this is the best place to find a relic for your guild. To get there you need to travel to the south, your first stop will be in the Felian village. The trip to get there is safe. After that you have to pass through Garudian forest, they said that it''s a dangerous forest but I trust you guys.¡± he said smiling as if it was nothing. ¡°And then you will arrived at the labyrinth. Now listen to me inside there it''s impossible to know what will happen so be care. This is the main reason that we are asking this to you two.¡± he said the last thing with a serious face. ¡°That''s all. The school thanks you for this. We will be waiting for your return.¡± he finished and we left the office. ''They could have been more specific with a lot more of things...'' I was thinking of the lack of details. At the moment we were at the gates of the coliseum making plans for the trips. ¡°We don''t know how many time we will need so we better be prepare¡± Dual said and surprisingly she replied. ¡°You are right but we can resupply in that village¡± ¡°You know princess I didn''t expect you to accept going with me¡± I told her because I was curious why did she accept. ¡°You really are an idiot. Remember this. I won''t stop until I know who you are and also make you pay for the way you treat me before.¡± she explained to me as if I was stupid. ¡°Fine let''s play a game then while we are in this trip.¡± I suggested smiling. ¡°What kind of game?¡± she said looking at me as if I was planning something. ¡°It''s simple while doing this mission I will give you a few hints so you can guess my name. If you have the answer before the end you win and if you don''t I win.¡± I finished explaining the game. ¡°And what do you win of this?¡± she asked suspecting of me. ¡°Let''s do this if I win I will add you as a friend here. Deal? I said and try to give her a handshake ¡°Last thing. How do I know that you won''t lie to me?¡± ¡°That depends on you to take the risk. But you should know that I will never lie to me beautiful princess.¡± I finish while looking at her eyes. Her turned a little red and look away. ¡°Fine! we have a deal. Also stop saying stupid things idiot or I will kill you.¡± she said flustered. ''Haha is cute when she is shy'' I thought restraining myself to say it loud. ¡°Good here is the first one. If it wasn''t for you I wouldn''t have participate in the tournament.¡± I said in a low voice next to her ear. ¡°let''s meet at the south gate of the city in three hours with the friends that will come with us¡± I finished saying that and left to do my shopping. ''Poor princess she doesn''t know that I already win, it''s impossible for her to guess that the person that she is searching it''s just behind her'' Dual thought happily of this while walking. ------------------------------------------------------------ Yue''s POV ''This idiot calling me princess and now beautiful. I already know that and he only said that to mock me, but why i''m blushing!?'' Yue was thinking after hearing the explanation of the game. ¡°Fine! we have a deal. Also stop saying stupid things idiot or I will kill you.¡± I said flustered and he continue talking. ¡°Good here is the first one. If it wasn''t for you I wouldn''t have participate in the tournament.¡± he said in a low voice in my ear. I could barely hear the place where we would meet later because of the schock. Unauthorized reproduction: this story has been taken without approval. Report sightings. It took me a few minutes to process what he told me. ''WHAT!? For me? I don''t understand!'' Yue couldn''t believe what he told her. I need to relax and the think about it more calmly. I went inside the coliseum and went to the resting area so I could be alone. She arrive at the resting area and sit on a bench. ''Now think carefully about it. Did I motivate someone to enter the tournament? No I that remember, I only talk about the basic rules of it. Then I perhaps told someone of the national tournament? No I would never do that, the only reason I knew about was because of a person from another. And if he is just a stalker? What i''m thinking. He is definitely a stalker but that doesn''t help me!'' she keep thinking like that. ''the only option left then it''s that he is in love with and wants to be near me... NO! That can''t be right? Even if he does I don''t have any interest in him. He may be the only boy I know qualified enough to be my boyfriend but he is a jerk!'' then she noticed something. ''why my heart is throbbing so fast!? Enough I will go and find Terra'' She decide that to keep thinking about that will be useless for the moment so she sent a message to her friend.
Yue: Hey Terra are you free? Terra: i''m buying some things. Something happen? Yue: I need to ask you something. Can you come later to the central square? Terra: Sure I will be there in 15 minutes. Yue: I will be waiting.
I waited for 30 minutes at the central square and then I spot a small girl girl with green hair and a brown robe. ¡°Sorry for coming later. What do you need to ask me?¡± Terra apologized. ¡°It''s fine....¡± I explain to her about the mission that the school gave us and ask her if she wanted to come. ¡°Sure a mission with that guy sounds like fun.¡± she said smiling ¡°Did you already discover who he is?¡± she asked me. ¡°No I didn''t. But we...'' and like that I also explain to her about my deal with the idiot. ¡°If it wasn''t for you I wouldn''t have participate in the tournament. With only that it will be impossible to guess, you have to wait for the next hint.¡± Terra said while thinking who could be. ¡°Yeah you are right. I already rack my brain thinking and got nothing¡± I said depressed. ¡°Aren''t you too interested in him? Perhaps you just like him. After all he is the person to face you like that.¡± she suggested. ¡°NO!! how could I like a stalker like him!?¡± Yue yelled while blushing to her. Terra knew that it will almost impossible to her to admit that. ''She has to much pride.'' Terra thought this with a wry smile on his face. ¡°Okey relax you don''t need to yell. Let''s go and but the things that we need for the trip.¡± Terra said. ¡°Fine sorry for yelling¡± I just apologized and we left. We buy the potions and food that we will need for the trip. We didn''t but to much after all because we will spent a day in Felian village and there we could but again. It was time for meet with the idiot and his companions. As we arrived at the south gate three persons were waiting there. They were an archer, an assassin and last and less important the idiot. ¡°Finally you came princess. Is she the only one who will come with us?¡± the idiot asked me. ¡°Yeah got a problem with that?¡± I said angry after checking that his friends weren''t from our school. After that useless hint I was mad at him. ¡°No the less we are better for me at least¡± he explained. Well in that he is right. ¡°Hi i''m Dual let''s have a nice trip¡± the idiot introduce to Terra. ¡°Same here my name is Terra¡± she introduced herself. ¡°Yay! I won''t be the only girl here. Let''s get along¡± Sarah said smiling at me and Terra. ¡°Sure...¡± we both replied with a wry smile. ¡°I''m Shadow nice to meet you¡± the assassin introduce and talk to the idiot. ¡°Hey Dual I really need to thank you for this.¡± ¡°Eh? Why? I was the one who asked you to come¡± the idiot said with a confused face. ¡°Thanks to you now I will go on a trip with two beauties¡± he explained. I don''t like this guy. ¡°I never expect you to be like this¡± the idiot said with a wry smile. ¡°He was always like that but you never saw her around other girls¡± Sarah explained a little angry ¡°and why two beauties and not three Shadow?¡± she finished with a scary look on her face. The other guy suddenly escape. ¡°Come here you coward¡± she shouted. ''It will be so tiring be with this three.'' I thought. And like that we left on our mission entrusted by the school. None of us could have guessed the way that it would end. Chapter 15: Confused feelings ''for thoughts'' "dialogue" 15 chapter plz tell me your opinion and if you find mistakes. I was about to go and check the others chapter but i was tempted to write the new chapter. i will really do it now Short chapter hope you don''t find it boring. In next chapter things start to get interesting again. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ We have been traveling for 5 days and we still didn''t get to Felian village. It''s a shame that Argos and Gregory couldn''t come but well things are pretty lively without them. Shadow was being avoid by all the girls in our party. They started calling him the silent pervert, Shadow and I thought that it was a cool nickname but every time we talked about it they gave looked at us as if we were disgusting. May be it''s a thing that only boys thinks it''s cool or we are just weirdos, not like we care. Sarah had been the same lively person who has a good relationship with everyone. Also I became friends with Terra, she is an earth mage and also a girl who is easy to talk with. I couldn''t believe that she was princess best friend. And talking about her.... ¡°Hey princess...¡± I try to speak to her. ¡°Are you going to answer my questions or give me another hint?¡± she said as if I was annoying her. ¡°Emm no¡± I said not knowing what to do. ¡°Then don''t talk to me. I will go ahead and try to get to the village first.¡± she said and started running at full speed. She has been avoiding me since the beginning of the journey. We have been walking on a road made of stone where you could see a tree every so often for this days. While all of us were talking she was always ahead by some steps. Princess only talked to Terra and sometimes to Sarah. The boys of the group were being ignored by her. Seeing my disappointed face Terra came and talked to me. ¡°Don''t mind her. She is just mad at you because she couldn''t guess who you are.¡± she said comforting me. ¡°But that it''s not my fault¡± I complain. ¡°Then you should just tell her who you are.¡± Terra said with a wry smile. ¡°That would be boring¡± ¡°Hey can I ask you something?¡± she said with a serious face. ¡°Sure¡± I said curious. ¡°You already know her true personality. Why didn''t you tell anyone about it? it would be a big uproar in school.¡± ¡°Because she is my princess and I¡¯m her knight. A princess needs someone who she can be herself and stop pretending to act like she was perfect. Also I kind of like that personality of hers.¡± I finished explaining to Terra with a smile on my face. She had her eyes wide open and after some seconds she look at me with a warm smile. ¡°You are a weird guy to like someone like that. It makes me wonder who are you?¡± Terra said. ¡°They called me monster and demon a few times.¡±i said with a wry smile. ¡°Because you are¡± Shadow and Sarah. ¡°That hurts you know? Aren''t you my friends?¡± I said. ¡°Yes that''s the reason we said it¡± they both said again together. ¡°It''s getting dark. Go and search for Yue Dual¡± Terra interrupted giving me a chance to talk with her. ¡°On my way¡± I said with a smile and run while using wind steps. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Terra''s POV ¡°You know that she can take care of herself right?¡± Sarah said wondering why did I suggest him that. ¡°I know but I wanted to help¡± I replied smiling. ¡°Eh?¡± Shadow couldn''t understand what I was talking about and Sarah just nod her head knowing what I mean. ¡°Doesn''t matter. Let''s keep going¡± I said. We keep walking towards our destination. Everything was fine but I couldn''t stop thinking about this mysterious guy. ''I can''t believe that he understands Yue so well and they know each other since a very short time. I know that she pretends to be the nice girl to show that she is better than the others, mainly to make them say it. If they knew that she did all of this only to make them say that she is better than them they would hate her and won''t do it anymore. This will depress Yue. And all of this is caused by that broken personality of her. Dual understands and accepts being treated like that because he knows that it must be hard for her to maintain that false personality. Well he also likes it but thats not the point. Really who are you Dual?'' ¡°Yue I don''t know if you are lucky or not with a guy like this¡± Terra said this while looking at the stars ¡°Did you say something¡± Sarah asked curious. ¡°No, nothing¡± I just replied. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dual''s POV I only need two minutes to reach her. The princess was surrounded by seven persons that had red marks above them. If you come across this story on Amazon, it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it. ¡°I didn''t expect to meet red players so soon.¡± Dual said with an annoyed face. He never liked to encounter them. They will try to steal your items or just kill you for fun. It was just annoying you lose something or you die. Dual preferred to fight because in the end they will just kill you. They started attacking Yue. She was going to be fine but I couldn''t just stand there watching. I activate Wind steps and run towards them killing two in the way. ¡°I hope you don''t mind a little of help¡± I said looking at her ignoring the other guys. She didn''t even turn to see me. Only two remain form the total. ''It seems that she already kill three of them.'' I thought. Before they could escape I used Blades of wind to kill them. There bodies just disappear and then she finally spoke to me. ¡°I didn''t needed your help¡± she just said without looking at me. ¡°Sorry but as your knight I even have to give my life to protect you if it''s necessary.¡± I said to her. ¡°I told you before just talk to me if you will answer questions or will give me a hint. Also stop saying your stupids jokes¡± she said still without looking at me. ¡°It''s a shame that you don''t believe me and think that it''s a joke princess¡± ¡°Again with that I told...¡± she tried to say something but I interrupted. ¡°I will tell you another hint so you won''t be mad at me anymore. I hope it helps you.¡± I said smiling. ¡°Remember princess we spent a lot of time near the other but we never talked¡± after saying that I continue walking towards our destination. She followed me a few steps behind. You could see in her face that she was really concentrated thinking of something. ''I''m making it so easy for her. I want her to discover it by herself and see what will happens after it'' Dual thought knowing that the time for her to discovered it was coming. ------------------------------------------------------------- Yue''s POV We arrived at Felian village the next day. You could see that there were persons of all races elfs, dwarves, demons, etc. It was different from Norvex city where they were only humans. All of the people on our group was feeling excited to finally see other races. I was the only exception. It wasn''t like I didn''t find it excited it was just that I couldn''t stop thinking about the last hint he have me. ¡°Yue we will go buy all the necessary things for the rest of the trip. Do you need something? Terra asked me. ¡°No I don''t need anything. Go without me I will wait for you at the entrance of the forest.¡± I said and left. Felian village was next to the Garudian forest. They needed to pass through the forest to reach the labyrinth. She sat on the floor at the entrance of the forest and wait for the rest. Yue was really unmotivated about going there. She usually would love to go and fight the strongest monsters, it was one of her favorites things. But she was distracted by thought of that guy. After last night hint Yue started reaching the answer. The only possible place where she would spend a lot of time and don''t talk to anyone was school. But there were very few people who didn''t talk with her. Then an image of a boy sleeping behind her came to her mind. She started thinking of the posibility of him being Dual. ''It can''t be. How such a lazy guy could be him? Also that guy never show any interest in me and treated me like any other person. Dual otherwise said that he was interested in me. Also he is more lively than the other guy. They are the complete opposites of each other. The only thing that they have in common is that both are stupids. Aaah i''m so confused every time that I think this my heart starts throbbing fast and my face gets hot. I refuse to like a guy like that'' Yue was really confused about this and her feelings. During this trip Yue started to realize her feelings for Dual but she will never said them loud. She was near accepting them after being help by him last night. She could have dealt with that guys without problems, but actually she was happy than he came to help her that''s why she couldn''t look at him. Also after Dual said the knight thing her face was full red. When she was a kid her favorites stories were about knights saving princesses. Unfortunately she had so much pride to say this things and ended insulting him. She was about to accept her feelings but then he told the other hint. This only made things worst. She was really confused about Dual true self. Was it the lazy boy or the one who was the only person better than her in something. All of this were troubling Yue when her group arrived. They were going to enter the forest to search for the labyrinth. Now was when the really adventure begins. Chapter 16: Garudian forest ''for thoughts'' "Dialogue" 16 chapter plz tell me your opinion and if you find mistakes. i made 2 small changes in the story. i changed Luna age from 16 to 17 and also Luke now has been sitting behind her for four months and a half. Enjoy the chapter. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ It has been two weeks since we enter the Garudian forest but we still couldn''t find the labyrinth. We were really tired because of all the fights against the animals and monsters from the forest. We fought foxes, wolfs, bears and the most annoying thing carnivorous plants. They looked like the normals but suddenly a mouth appeared on them and they attacked you. At the moment we were resting near a small lake surrounded by the trees. All the group was talking about how to find the labyrinth except from one person, the princess who was sitting with her back against a tree. She has been acting weird all this time, she wasn''t focused on the battles and didn''t care about the mission anymore. I guess that she discovered who I was, I know that she wasn''t expecting Dual to be the lazy boy who sits behind her. The only idea I have is to give her some time to assimilate it. ¡°Hey Dual, any idea on what to now?¡± Sarah asked me. ¡°No¡± I replied. I really don''t know what should we do. ¡°The only thing we can do is to keep searching¡± Terra said with an annoyed face. ¡°Someday we will find it. It''s not like we are on a hurry¡± I said trying to cheer them up. ¡°But it will better if we do it now¡± Shadow said while sitting on a tree. At least this couple of weeks the girls stop ignoring him. ¡°Well let''s rest for a couple of hours and then we start again.¡± Sarah said laying down to sleep. They all did the same and I went to talk with the only person who was still awake. ¡°Princess what are you doing?¡± ¡°Nothing¡± she said with a blank expression on her face. ¡°Is everything okey?¡± I asked worried. ¡°Yeah¡± she replied without looking at me. It''s obvious that my real identity is bothering her. The only thing that I can do in a situation like this is speak the truth ¡°Hey Yue¡± she finally look at me when I said her name. ¡°You should know that i''m like this only when I get interested in something. I''m like this in both worlds. You only need to remember our first talk and you will understand.¡± I finished She was only staring at me without saying anything. ¡°Think about it¡± I said that and left to sleep like the rest. --------------------------------------------------------------- Yue''s POV After Dual finished talking to me he left and went to sleep like the others. Now I was alone with my thoughts. ''He told me to remember our first conversation. What did we talked about then? I went and demanded him to answer my questions. He laughed at me and then told me that... he got interested in me'' arriving to the answer Yues face become full red for the embarrassment. She realized now that Dual only behave like that when he was interested in something. But in real life she would never get the chance to see hiss true personality because she only saw him at school and always try to avoid him. Yue wasn''t confused anymore. She finally understood that stupid boy true self and she liked it. ''What a weird guy he is but it''s not like I can complain about that'' Yue thought smiling finally regaining her spirit. Even if she couldn''t say her feelings to him because of her pride, She finally decided what to do. ¡°You won''t make me your girlfriend. I will make you mine first.¡± she said this with a mischievous smile on her face while looking at the poor boy sleeping. And like that another stupid game started. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dual''s POV We restart searching for the labyrinth after the break. Princess looks like it''s back to normal. Even when we encounter a bear she went and killed her alone. ¡°So strong¡± Shadow and Sarah said admiring her. Bears were hard to kill alone. Because the princess kill one like it was nothing this surprised my two friends. She smiled happily and said ¡°You wish you could be as powerful as me¡±. Terra and I both had a wry smile on our faces after seeing that. We kept walking for hours and we finally encounter some strong monsters. In front of us were three giants. They look like a fat bald human with a stature of four meters. All of them were only wearing a loincloth. We took out normal formation, Sarah and Terra at the back, Shadow in the middle and the princess and me in the front. The giants started attacking us but they were too slow. Princess and I easily elude all of their attacks. It seems they understood that it was useless to try to kill us and went directly for Sarah and Terra. Terra was an earth mage rather than attacking she specialized in defending. She create a thick wall of earth before the giants could touch them. They started hitting the wall and it started to havie some cracks on it. Shadow seeing his partners in trouble jump over one of the giants and stabbed him on the left eyes. ¡°AAAAARGH¡± the giant yell because of the pain. One of the giants took the opportunity and grabbed Shadow to throw him against the wall. This one broke into pieces and left them without protection. Knowing that they were in danger I decided that it was time to test my new skills. To finish them I only needed the help of the princess. ¡°Princess I will stop their movement. Take the chance to kill them.¡± without waiting for her to reply I run towards them while activating Mist and Ice swords. The giants were confused because of the sudden mist that appears. They started to look around for the source of it. Because they couldn''t see or detect me I ran towards the two giants that were going to attack my friends and start hitting their foots. Now both of them had their foots frozen to the floor being unable to move. They started struggling to free themselves from the ice, but before that could happen one of the giants was pierced by a big blue flame sword on the stomach. The other giant had a desperate look on his face because of the girl in front of him. After releasing himself from the ice he try to escape. The princess seeing this threw her sword towards him piercing the back of his neck and finally died. The story has been illicitly taken; should you find it on Amazon, report the infringement. The battle is over. It seems that Sarah killed the other giant while Terra helped Shadow to recover. Now they were all looking at me with curious. ''Shit I knew this was going to happen, I should run before the princess kills me'' I thought regretting having shown my new skills. ¡°So dual what was that?¡± Terra was the first to ask. She had a big smile on her face because of how is she going to enjoy this. ¡°What are you talking about?¡± I replied nervous ignoring the stare with killing intent coming from behind. ¡°That mist and your sword transformed into ice. That were the skills that you used right?¡± she keep making this hard to me. ¡°Shadow?¡± I ask the only one who could save me. ¡°Sorry dude you are alone in this one¡± he enjoyed seeing me suffer. ''You traitor. I help you when they called you the silent pervert'' I cursed him in my mind. ¡°Yes Dual tell us please¡± Sarah said smiling. ''I have no allies here'' I started to get desperate. And then the inevitable came. ¡°WHY DIDN''T YOU USE THAT SKILLS ON OUR FIGHT!?¡± Yue yelled at me. ¡°I got them after the battle¡± I said like a small animal scared. The three oh them were laughing of how scared the great Dual was of his princess. ¡°You are telling me that you got two skills after a combat where you don''t any experience?¡± you could see the anger in her eyes. ¡°No it was after that¡± ¡°When? After that we were always together?¡± she said. ¡°......¡± I was cornered. My only way to get out of this was explaining my class. I was about to do it but she didn''t give me enough time. ¡°So you didn''t fight seriously against me¡± she said looking at me as if I was trash. ¡°Calm down Yue. I believe him. After all he almost lose to you back them, if he had that skills you would have last a minute against him.¡± Terra interrupted because things were heating up. ¡°I guess you are right¡± she said that and look at me one more time. ¡°You have some things to explain¡± ¡°Yes he will. Now stop the lovers quarrel and lets search for the labyrinth¡± my savior said to change of topic. ¡°We are not lovers!¡± she shouted while blushing. ¡°For now¡± I said smirking. ¡°Shut up! Let''s go¡± she said and left quickly. ------------------------------------------------------ Another week passed and they still couldn''t find the labyrinth. Something good happen but also something bad happen. The good thing it''s that in real life winter vacations started. That means more time to play AOM. And the bad news is that we are surrounded by a group of lizards. They look like crocodiles but standing in two foots and wielding weapons. They were wielding swords, spears, mazes and they all had leather armor. And also there were two mages between them. ¡°What do we do now?¡± Sarah asked worried. ¡°we just have to kill them¡± the princess answered as if it was easy. Probably she and I won''t have any problem dealing with them. But it will be bad if someone of our partners died. It''s a shame that my skill Mist only affects me. While we all were thinking what to do someone gave the solution. ¡°Dual and Yue you go and kill them while we defend ourselves¡± Terra said. ¡°You sure?¡± I asked worried. We were running out of time and I didn''t want them to die. ¡°Yeah go and beat them up we will be fine¡± she said with a small smile on her face. We both just nod and went to finish this fast. I activated Wind steps and Ice blade. Because of my speed I kill three of them by cutting their heads before they could noticed. Yue has already killed four of them with her two handed flame sword. ''I was really lucky back then that I could destroy that thing. It would have hurt a lot if that sword pierced me'' I thought realizing how strong that sword was. The two mages were still alive and use some kind of spell similar of Gregorys Fire tornado but this one as made of water. Shadow was fighting three lizards while Sarah was supporting with her arrows. And Terra was just standing there. If she didn''t do something they were going to die. I was about to get between them and the spell using water blessing. But then Terra clapped her hands. ¡°Earth castle!¡± she shouted. Suddenly a small castle made of earth covered the three of them of the attack. The spells similar to a water tornado hit the defensive spell and didn''t even make a scratch. I couldn''t believe it water is suppose to be strong against earth but nothing happen. Before I noticed the battle was over. Shadow back stabbed the two mages while Sarah and the princces defeat the rest of them. We all asked Terra about that spell. She only said that it was a defensive spell. No one will tell the secrets of their skills or spells we all understood that. After that we start searching again and we finally found it. It was just a small cabin with a sign next ti it that said ¡°labyrinth¡±. We all look dumbfounded at it. It must be a joke that such a small cabin can be the labyrinth. ¡°Who wants to enter and see if it is a trap¡± I asked looking at Shadow implying that he has to do it. But I never expected to answer the way they did. ¡°You should go Dual¡± they all said together. ¡°Why me!? Shadow is a rogue or something like that. He should go!¡± I shouted. ¡°You are the strongest of us, you go¡± Shadow said smirking. ''This bastard I will make you pay for this'' I thought and before I could say anything else... ¡°Be a man an enter there you coward!¡± the princess yelled and kicked me to go. ¡°What a lovely girl¡± I said and left. I was standing in front of the door doubting if I should open it or not. I finally have the resolve and open it and before my eyes a labyrinth like the ones of the movies was there. That day I learnt that the game developers really love to make some stupid things on the game. Chapter 17: Labyrinth ''for thoughts'' "dialogue" 17 chapter plz tell me your opinion and if you find mistakes. hi guys it''s been a long time. sorry to the people who write and told them that the chapter would be posted months ago. The important thing is that for the rest of this year i will have a lot of free time so i will try to finish this fiction by then. If something in the chapter doesn''t make sense tell me i have been writing thid chapter for months. Hope everything is fine. Enjoy. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Before entering the labyrinth I decide to check my stats. ¡°Status window¡±
Status window
NameDualAlignmentNone
ClassSpirit contractorTitleSpirit guardian
Level67Fame50
Health3060Spiritual energy1250
Strength143Agility175
Vitality94Luck3
Intelligent51Wisdom40
Offense105Defense30
Magic resistance
Wind15%Fire5%
Water10%Earth5%
Light0%Darkness0%
''Everything is fine my new skills gave me more water resistance and the old ones are almost are at the advanced stage. I only need more spiritual energy so I can use Cage of doom without using all of the energy'' Dual thought while nodding with his head.''Good now we only need to think of a party formation so we can search in the labyrinth without problems''. Since the beginning of the mision we never thought of one because most of the fights were handled by the princess and me with the other supporting us but now we were going to enter the most dangerous place known by the users. ¡°Okey everyone before going in we need to decide on a party formation. I was thinking we should go like this...¡± while saying that someone interrupted me. ¡°Hey! Don''t talk like you are the leader of the party. If someone should be the leader someone it will be me.¡± the princess said that as if it was a matter of fact. ''This girl always has to stand out eh?'' Dual sighed while thinking that. He didn''t mind Yue being the leader but she needs to think a little of how the other feels and not how to glorify herserlf all the time. This is what Duals wants Yue to change. It doesn''t have to be with all the people only the ones she cares about.''But she has to change it by herself or it will be useless. I need to think of something so she can realize it '' ¡°Well I actually don''t mi...¡± ¡°Sorry but I think that it''s better if Dual is the leader¡± We all turned back to the source of the voice with a shocked impression in our faces. It was Terra. Who would have though that the princess best friend will oppose the idea. ¡°Yue you very hotheaded sometimes and now we need to be careful so we can find some relic without problems¡± she finished saying with a serious face. ¡°Then at least you should be the leader I don''t want this idiot bossing me around¡± she complained. ¡°I don''t have enouh fighting experience to give orders and besides you two were asked to do this so if it has to be someone between you two I choose Dual¡± Terra explained to Yue. ¡°Fine! Just give me some minutes to organize my things¡± the princess puted and left. ¡°They didn''t asked for our opinions¡± Shadow said with a wry smile. ¡°Well we would have vote for Dual so it doesn''t matter¡± Sarah said not giving it much thought. ¡°It''s decided then everyone should take some minutes to check their things, Dual come here I have something to tell you¡± Terra said with a cold smile on her face while the rest were checking if they had all the things they needed ''Why do I feel like I did something wrong'' Dual went were Terra was like a small terrified animal. ¡°Do you need me for something?¡± I asked without looking at her. ¡°You shouldn''t spoil her to much¡± She said in a low but clear voice. ¡°Don''t let her do as she pleases all the time or it will only get worse¡± She looked at my dumbfounded face and sighed. ¡°Look i''m telling you this because I know her since we were kids and I know more about her than you. Don''t take this as if I was scolding you but as an advice¡± I finally looked at her and she was giviing me a warm smile. ¡°Yeah you are right sorry¡± Dual said with a small smile ¡°It''s good if you understand now lets go¡± She hit me in the back and left. ''She really is a good person and deeply cares about Yue'' I thought smiling as he watched Yue. ¡°What? Do I have something on my face?¡± she noticed Dual and asked while blushing. ¡°No it''s nothing only that you are beautiful¡± ¡°Eh what!?¡± she didn''t expected me to say that and blushed even more. ¡°Okey now lets go everyone!¡±i shouted and left to the entrance of the labyrinth. ¡°Hey don''t say something like that and leave¡± she followed after me. And like that our journey inside the labyrinth began. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ At the moment we were walking around the labyrinth seraching for some nice thing that the school could use as a relic for the guild. The labyrinth was a serie of connected narrow paths illuminated by torches. At most four people could stand next to each other. ¡°So where can we find something to use as a relic?¡± Sarah asked all of us ¡°Maybe in some kind of hidden treasure chest?¡± Shadow suggested ¡°Or after defeating some king of strong monster¡± the princess said excited next to me. While searching Yue and I were at the front, Shadow in the middle and Sarah and Terra at the back. After all the conmotion about who would be the leader I decide to stand like this so the princess and I would receive most of the attention of the monsters and Shadow using his backstab skill to inflict more damage while Sarah and Terra supported us from behind. ¡°Relax the teacher said that we needed to be careful here¡± I remind the princces who was excited like a kid. ¡°I hate to admit it but you are right¡± Yue said relaxing a little. ¡°Yue try not to jump in as soon as you see a monster there could be traps here¡± Terra said from the back to us. ¡°Yeah Shadow is useless for that so pay attention¡±Sarah said mocking Shadow. ¡°I''m not useless!¡± Shadow tried to retort. ¡°You are¡± we all said in unison. ¡°Why are you guys so mean¡± Shadow said with some tears in his eyes. ¡°Everyone even if we enjoy making Shadow suffer we have some guests¡± I said looking at the monster in front of us. They were a group of seven skeletons. Four at the front with swords and shields and three at the back with bows. The skeleton archers were level 60 and the skeleton warriors 65. The average level of our party was 63 with me with the highest and Sarah with the lowest. This content has been misappropriated from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.¡°Shadow take care of the archers the rest of us will distract the warriors so they don''t bother you¡± as soon as I finished giving the orders Shadow disappeared and we attacked the skeletons warriors. I was fighting against two skeletons like the princces. Sarah wasn''t of much help in this battle because it''s very hard to hit the skeletons with arrows and if she did it didn''t cause much damaged. However Terra made the fight pretty easy. Every time that the skeletons would attack us she would throw a spell that hit and make them lose balance so we could attack them without problems. It was a strange feeling to attack the skeleton because to deal damage we needed to hit their bones and it gave a weird feeling but after some time we got used to it. Shadow only used backstab to attack the archers that couldn''t fight hand to hand combat and after defeating them he came to help us. It took some time to end the battle because except from Terra who was a mage we try to don''t use mana in easy battle like this one because we would need it for other fights and we didn''t have unlimited number of mana potions. Even if me skills didn''t use much of my spiritual power I couldn''t used them carelessly because the mana potions didn''t recover my power. ''I need to ask master about this later'' Dual thought after finishing this mission he was going back to the Spirit forest to consult some doubts he had with his master Benjamin. ¡°We should get going we don''t have to waste time¡± I said and like that we continue searching in the labyrinth. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ It has been five days since we enter the labyrinth and we didn''t have luck. We couldn''t find any secret treasure or a monster that could give us what we needed. For these past days we have fight with skeletons, mummies and some bats. The bats were really troublesome they didn''t have high level but they were so fast that when they attack us we couldn''t hit them and when they were flying only Sarah and Terra could attack them. It took us hours to deal with them until I ran out of patience and use Blades of win to kill them. It wasn''t the best choice but we were all tired and running out of food so no one was in a good mood and to make things worst we were dealing with some tough monsters. ¡°Fuck this is so annoying! Why from all the monsters we run into scorpions¡± Yue angrily complained about our bad luck. Scorpions were very rare in the labyrinth but they were pretty hard foes because of their hard shells. Terra and Sarah could barely do any damage and Shadows daggers were to short to penetrate. That leaves the princces and me to attack them while the others distract them. ¡°Damn it''s even hard for use to penetrate their shells¡± Dual said while fighting the two giant scorpions. ¡°And that tails only make things harder¡± The princces added. Every time that we came close to them they would attack us with their tail so they barely had any wounds. ''Well there is only one thing I can do now'' without any other choice I decide to go all out. ¡°Princess i will slow their movements and make them attack me you finish them off¡± ¡°Okey if it''s the only way¡± she replied dissatisfied seeing to understood my intentios. After receiving the okey I activated Mist and Wind steps so I could get between them. The scorpion didn''t notice me so I Ice swords to attack them as much as I could. ¡°Yep that guy really went crazy¡± Shadow said as if he was expecting something like that. ¡°Shit I won''t be able to use Earth castle in time¡± Terra she yelled worrying about Dual. She thought that he ran out of patience and just jumped in but then something unexpected happen. The scorpions had their movement slowed because of the Ice swords of Dual but they still were able to attack him. Only that the moment they cut him in two with their pincers Dual body started to regenerate as if he didn''t receive any damage. This was because he activate Water blessing and his body started to heal by itself for 30 second. He wasn''t immortal if they continuously attack Dual would die but now he has someone that will help him. Just when the scorpion attacked Dual Yue attacked them from behind with the two handed flame sword. It was so fast that the scorpion didn''t notice until they felt their tails being cut. They tried to attack her but she was faster than them. ¡°Die!¡± princess yell while cutting their heads. ¡°Finally it''s over¡± she sighed and sat on the floor. The rest did the same. ''Uh that was hard I used almost all of my spiritual energy. It will take hours just to recover the half of it'' wen Dual was thinking some talk to him ¡°Mind explain us what just happen Dual?¡± Terra asked curious. ¡°It''s just a skill that I have that heals me¡± I explained without giving much detail. ¡°Fine and Yue did you know about that skill?¡± Terra kept asking. ¡°No...¡± she answered why Terra was asking this. ¡°Then how could you knew that he will be able to stop their attacks¡± Terra finished with a mischievous smile. ¡°Eh eh.. I didn''t knew he said he will do it¡± she replied with a trembling voice with a deep red face. ¡°Oh so you trust him quite a bit to attack without knowing if will be able to stop the scorpions¡± Terra said teasing Yue. ¡°Of course she would trust me i''m her boyfriend¡± Dual said also teasing her. ¡°You are not my boyfriend!¡± she stood up and before leaving said ¡°Lets go we need to find something to use as a relic¡± ¡°We went a little to far with the joke¡± Terra said with a wry smile. ¡°Yeah but she looked cute while being embarrassed¡± I said with a big smile. Dual and Terra followed behind Yue who was ahead. ¡°It''s like we don''t exist for them¡± Shadow said to Sarah ¡°I don''t care it''s fun to watch them¡±she replied and they both stood up and run to where the rest of the party were. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ They kept walking for hours with Yue always ahead of the group. ''She is still mad from before'' Dual thought and decide to go and talk to her. ¡°Hello my princces¡± I went with a smile and talk to her. ¡°What do you want?¡± she asked me not looking at me. ¡°Nothing I just want to talk with you¡± I replied. ¡°I''m not in the mood¡± she said still withou looking at me. ¡°Come on if it''s about what happen before i''m sorry so...¡± before I could finished she covered my mouth with her hand. ¡°Shut up look there is a chest there¡± she said with a glean in her eyes and went there. ''A chest wouldn''t be so easy to find'' Dual thhought There was a chest at the end of the path in a small room. Actually it was an obvious trap but they were all so tired that they took them a while to notice it. ¡°Wait!!¡± we all shouted. I tried to pull her before entering the small room but it was to late as soon as I grabbed her hand we were both inside the room. When she entered the room a light strated to engulf us. ¡°What''s happening!?¡± Yue shouted ¡°We fell into a trap we nee...¡± before Dual could finish they already disappeared. The other were to late to catch up. ¡°Shit what happened!?¡± Sarah asked worried. ¡°It seems that they were teleported to another part of the dungeon¡± Terra said trying to remain calm. ¡°So what do we do now? Send them a message?¡± Shadow asked perplexed. ¡°We will to check how they are but it won''t help us on how to find them¡± Terra replied ¡°Okey we should start searching for them or we can''t accomplish the mission, we don''t have much time let''s go in the meantime we can look for the relic¡± ¡°Yes!¡± they both answered ''I hope Yue it''s fine... well she is with him it will be a nice experience for both'' Terra though. She was sure that they will reunite so she wasn''t that worried.''It''s your chance Dual talk to her and make things clear.'' Like that another search began in the labyrinth. Chapter 18: The duty of a knight ''for thoughts'' "dialogue" 18 chapter plz tell me your opinion and if you find mistakes. hi guys trying to write more chapters before i start to wok so if you could vote or tell me your opinion about my story i would really appreciated. Long chapter. Hope you enjoy it. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Terra''s POV Two days passed since we separated from Dual and Yue and we still couldn''t find them. They sent us a message saying that they were fine but they didn''t knew their location. We agreed that we should search for the other group while also looking for the relic. It was useless when we try to desbribe the place where we were because almost all the paths and rooms in the labyrinth were identical. ¡°How long are we going to be like this?¡± Sarak asked annoyed. ¡°I don''t know we can go out of the labyrinth because we because we have the map but they can''t¡± I replied with a tired voice. In AOM you needed the cartography skill to make a map of the dungeon or buy a map in blank and while exploring the dungeon it will start to write itself, this maps in blank are pretty expensive thats why we only bought one. Normally if the dungeon was already explored by another player that person would sell the map to some store and then the rest could buy it. The problem it''s that the labyrinth is a special place because no one has completed a map of it and if you bought an incomplete one and then got lost it will be almost impossible to find a way back. The only solution was death so you could revive in the last place you chose for it. ''I''m regretting so much that we didn''t brought another of those maps'' Terra sighed while hinking that. They talked about it at the beginning of the trip but at the end they were all cheap persons. ¡°And we are also running out of food¡± Terra said her thoughts in a loud voice without noticing it. ¡°Don''t make me think about that. We need to find those guys before that happens or they will die. For us is just to go back and buy more but for them...¡± Sarah replied with a depressed face. She was right, luckily we all have our own food so at the beginning everything was fine but now that some days have passed if they run out of food they will die and we don''t know where there resurrection points are. Logically we all should have selected Felian village as the resurrection point. ¡°Let''s not think about that¡± I said trying to change of topic ¡°i hope Shadow comes back quickly.¡± At the moment we were waiting for Shadow. Since we separated with the others it was hard for us to fight the monster so we always ended up running away. Because of that we decided that the best idea would be for Shadow, who was an assassin with high agility and it was hard for the monsters to detect him, to look for them while we waited in the resting area where the monsters couldn''t enterit has been like this since the first time that we run away from the monsters. He would take the map and search for them and when he came back tired we try looking for them while avoiding the monsters. ¡°Yeah I wonder where that idiot is¡± Sarah replied. ¡°Who are you calling an idiot!? Shadow yelled. ¡°Whoa!!¡± we both cried. ¡°Why are you both screaming I came running here. How could you not notice me!?¡± He kept yelling. ¡°Sorry it''s just we don''t care about you¡± Sarah replied without mercy. ¡°You don''t have to be so mean!¡± Shadow cried pitifully ¡°Well it doesn''t matter I came runningbecause I found something¡± ¡°What did you find them?¡± I asked with some hope. ¡°No they will be already here if that was the case. Just listen to this...¡± We were both shocked after hearing what he said next. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dual''s POV ¡°Where am I?¡± I asked a little confused. It took me some minutes to remember what happened earlier. ''Oh yeah I tried to pull of the princess of the trap but I ended falling into it as well'' Dual thought recalling the events that happened a few minutes ago.''Right and the princess?'' I tried to look for her but the room was too dark so I could barely see anything. After walking for some minutes my eyes grew accustomed to the darkness and then I started hearing some noises. ¡°Hic hic...¡± To my surprise it was the pirnces sitting on the floor while hugging her knees. ''Is she crying?'' Dual thought dumbfounded. ¡°Are you okay princess?¡± As soon as she heard my voice she looked up and yelled. ¡°WHERE WERE YOU!? One second you were grabbing my hand and then you disappeared¡± Her voice was fading as she talked ¡°I was so scared¡± ¡°Are you perhaps bad with dark places?¡± I asked with soft voice. ¡°Yes when I was little my father and brother weren''t at home and my went out to buy something and then suddenly a storm came and the power went out. Since that day I can''t bear being alone in dark places¡±She explained to me with tears falling from her eyes ¡°If you are going to laugh do it already¡± I couldn''t believe that she was afraid of darkness at such age and even more that she told me about it. But the I had to ask a stupid question. ¡°So you can''t sleep alone?¡± I asked without thinking. ¡°It''s not a problem in my house when my fathers are in the room next to mine!¡± she cried with a red face. ''I shouldn''t have asked that'' Dual thought wanting to punch himself in the face. ¡°Sorry it was insensitive from my part¡± I apologized. She ignored and kept crying so I decided to do something. ¡°What are you doing?I didn''t ask you to do this.¡± she asked me with a weak voice I was sitting next to her with my arm around her shoulder so she could use lean in my shoulder. ¡°Nothing I''m just getting comfortable¡± I replied as relaxed as I could. Actually I was pretty nervous for doing this. ¡°You really are an idiot¡± She said finally leaning in my shoulder. I started to carres her hair so she could calm dow. ''Who would have thought that the school idol had such a fear'' I still was surprised by this reaction of her. We stayed like that until she was well enough to go and search for the others. In the meanwhile I sent a message to Terra telling her that we were fine but we didn''t knew where we were. She replied that they will also loof for us because they had the map. After waiting some minutes more the princess stood up to leave. ¡°We have to go and look for the rest¡± She said like what we did never happened. ¡°Yeah you are right¡± I also stood up and we started walking. By now we could both see well enough in the darkness. After walking for some time we found a path that was very long and at in the of you could see some light. We reached the end and found a path that looked the same as the ones we were before being here. The weird thing is that when we tried to look back we couldn''t see the way we came. I tried to touched but it was a normal wall. ¡°It must be some king of magic¡± I said wondering what kind of magic was. ¡°Let''s go we don''t have time to think about that¡± she said urging me to go. ¡°Fine...¡± I replied downhearted. I was really curious about it. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Yue''s POV It has been three days since we fell into that trap at the beginning I was angry at my own stupidity for not not it but now i''m happy about it because the time I spent with Dual was really fun. We fight against monsters together and then rest or eat something while chatting. He is smarter than he looks but a lazy person. I already knew about it but it was nice to talk like him like that. He even listened while I boasted about how great I was, sometimes he would complimented me and other mocked so much that will make me angry but at the end I had a relaxed feeling. At the moment we were fighting against some new monsters that we encounter for the first time yesterday. They were skeleton knights, they were the same skeletons than before only with some heavy armor that make it hard to deal damage to them. There were two of them so we didn''t had to use skills to kill them. ¡°Hey princess want to make a contest on who can finish one of them first without skills¡± He asked with a big smile on his face. I still couldn''t see what expressions he made but I started to understand it after some time. ¡°Fine but don''t cry after you lose¡± I replied with another smile. ¡°From what I remember you cried a couple of days a go¡± he said making fun of me. ¡°Shut up let''s start¡± I replied embarrassed and couldn''t help blushing. I didn''t wait anymore and started attacking the skeleton on the right. Dual didn''t fall behind and attacked the other one. They swung their swords but couldn''t hit us because of our speed. Since the time we entered the labyrinth we became much stronger so the most part of the monsters that appeared were easily killed by us. Because of their armors and slow movements I decided to strike as fast as I could so I could kill him fast. While doing that I took some glances to see how was he doing. I thought he would do the same as me but he has hitting with strong blows but less times than me. ''Haha it''s me win speed beats strength'' I though happily '' Finally is me win!'' I shouted in my mind and made the final blow and killed the skeleton. i turn around triumphantly smiling to look at him and then... ¡°Finally it took you long enough¡± He said while sitting on the armor that the skeleton left when he died. ¡°How did you killed him faster than me!? It''s impossible I saw you striking him less time than me only with more power!¡± I yelled to him. ¡°Normally you would had win if it was a similar monster with the same features but these were skeletons.¡± I tried to ask him to explain but he continued. ¡°Let me explained before you asked. The key when fighting skeletons is to attack the joints between the bones and if you think but this ones had armor if you had taken a good look you would have noticed that the armor was really weak and after hitting the same spot a couple of time it would have started to tear apart.¡± He finished while showing he broken parts of the armor he was sitting. We spent some few minutes in silence and then I couldn''t bear it anymore. ¡°Why didn''t I think of that?¡± I shouted ¡°Fine it''s your win this time but the next one I wil win do you hear me?¡± I declared to him. ¡°Eh... oh yeah you look beautiful honey¡± He said with a charming voice. ¡°Listen to me when I talked to you!¡± I said and punch him in the stomach and then went to the resting are that was ahead of us. I sat on the floor to rest until my health recovered completely. ¡°Ugh my princess you shouldn''t hit your knight. If i''m injured then who is going to protect you? It''s my duty as your knight¡± he said that while looking directly at me eyes. I will never admitted but I love this of the knight and the princess. ¡°You don''t have to protect me I can take care of myself¡± I said trying to continue the game but I didn''t expect what he was going to say next. The author''s tale has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. ¡°That''s not the point even if you can take care of yourself it''s natural for me to do this¡± he talked as if it was obvious. ¡°Eh why¡± I asked without thinking. I really couldn''t understand. ¡°Well it''s natural to want to protect someone you are about right? Of course I expect you to do the same.¡± He took off the thing that was covering his face and I could finally see his smiling face. My face was burning it was one of the happiest moments of my life I still couldn''t believe it. After a few seconds I already have my resolution to make him my boyfriend but I needed to do it in a way that I wouldn''t lose face. ¡°If... if you really want to be my boyfriend then you will only have to beg a little¡± I said with a strange smile it was hard to say this. ¡°Eh? He asked dumbfounded. ¡°Don''t worry you wont have to do it like other guys did when they asked me out.¡±i finished saying that and waited for him to reply but he was there without saying a word. Feeling nervous I kept talking without thinking. ¡°Shouldn''t you be happy you just have to that to be with me and...¡± ¡°Shut up¡± he said with cold voice looking at me with his sharp eyes. I couldn''t talk back because of the pressure I felt from him. ¡°Did you really think I would ask you like that?¡± I wasn''t able to reply to him ¡°i thought that you already understood that you should consider how others felt when you talked like that only to make feel better. Sometimes you can hurt people you care about without noticing it¡± He said all of this with a serious face but I could see the sadness in his eyes. ¡°Think is it really worth it to glorify yourself all the time? Even if you end pushing away the people that care about you?¡± he finished and was waiting for my answer but before I could say something someone came. ¡°Dual Yue we finally found you guys. Listen I already found a place where we can find for a relic!¡± Shadow came running while shouting. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dual''s POV ''This appears in the worst moment!¡± Dual yelled in his mind. He was trying to make Yue understand her problen and then this guy interrupted. ¡°Uh... Where?¡± I asked in a bad mood. Even if i wanted to keep talking to her it was no longer possible because everyone was here. ¡°Mhm something happen?¡± He asked but then continued ¡°Well it doesn''t matter now lisen to this.¡± He explained that while he was searching for us he tripped and grabbed a torch so he woulnd''t fell down and by doing that a secret path opened next to him. It was really cliche if you think about it. The path had some stairs going down and after he crossed a giant bridge that connected to another long path that was particularly big and at the end of it he found a chamber full of treasures. Shadow marked the place where the torch was to go back with him. ¡°Why didn''t you went by yourself?¡± I asked curiously. ¡°Well it''s just that there is a black dragon down there...¡± Shadow finished explaining. ¡°WHAT!?¡± I shouted. ¡°How do you expect me to steal the dragons treasure if you an assassin couldn''t do it? ¡°It''s not that easy beside i''m only an assassin it will be easier if I was a thief¡± Shadow said the reason why he didn''t approach the dragon. ¡°But you might have a chance with that skills of yours.¡± ¡°Well the might be a chance with Mist¡± I thinked some minutes about it and decided ¡°Okay let''s go I always wanted to see a dragon¡± ''At least my mood became better after this'' Dual thought. He still was concerned about what happened before but now he had to this. ¡°Are you okay Yue? Did you heard everything?¡± Sarak asked her because she noticed that she wasn''t herself. She would have been really excited about the dragon normally. ¡°Eh? Oh yeah i''m fine¡± She responded with a blank expression. At tha moment Terra was looking to her with concerned eyes and sent me a message.
Terra: Did something happen? Dual: Yeah just let her think for a while then she will probably explain it to you. Terra: Fine if you hurt her you know what''s going to happen to you right? Dual: I just followed your advice and please donn''t scare me like that. Terra: Okay I will believe in you for now. Dual: Thanks
''I don''t know since when but I can of developed some of fear of Terra.'' Dual thought whole sweating and a pale complexion. ¡°Well everyone let''s go. All of you will wait for me at the path after the bridge in case I need any help¡± I said to them and we all went there. It took us one hour to get there and I was getting readt to go inside the chamber. ¡°Good I will go now wait for me¡± I told them before leaving and took a glance to see Yue. She looked liked she didnt know where we were or what was happening. ''Was I too rough with her?'' Dual though concerned about Yue. ''she might need some time alone'' I stop thinking about it and left towards the chamber. As soon as I entered I saw the huge amount of gold and treasures in the giant room and at the end of the room was the black dragon with his wings folded while sleeping above a pile of gold. I tried to se his stats the only thing that appeared was ????. I used mist and search for a treasure near the entrance in case that I needed to escape. After searching for five miuntes i found a pure crimsom gem.
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I didn''t have the appraisal skill but I think this is going to be good enough. But then I felt a chill running down in my spine. ¡°Where are you going with my gem?¡± A voice suddenly came from the back of the room. ¡°Did you really think that I wouldn''t notice? Perhaps I can''t perceive you because of that power of yours but I can sense this magic of your that doesn''t use mana. You are really interesting but I still can''t let you go with one of my gems they are all invaluable for me so...¡± ¡°RUN GUYS GO BACK¡± I finally was able to say something. ¡°What a good comrade telling your friends to run so they wont die.¡± He said with that deep voice. ¡°Well I don''t care if they run away as long as I killed you and get back my gem.¡± while he was speaking I was thinking on how to escape ''Maybe if I expand the size of Mist and use Wind steps...¡± but then my thought were interrupted by the presence of another person. ¡°Dual are you okay!?¡± It was Yue she came running. ¡°Whoa¡± a dragon!?¡± she really wasn''t listening back there. ¡°What a good friend to come here and...¡± before he could end I activated Wind steps and strated running awat while carrying the princess in my arms. ¡°Why did you came moron!?¡± I yelled at her angrily. ¡°I was worried about you! I didn''t knew what was happening¡± she shouted. ¡°Now you are worried!?¡± I couldn''t help but retort. ¡°It''s your fault, i''m too confused now because what you said before¡± She said with some tears in her eyes. ¡°We can''t talk about this now. Just hold this for now¡± I finished talking to her and gaver her the gem. ¡°What a disrespectful bastard! Running away while I was talking. I will kill you and all of you friends.¡± I heard the voice of the dragon from the chamber. ''What should I do it can''t finished like this'' I thought while running. ''Shit there is only one thing I can do now'' I sent a message to Terra to tell her my plan. But before doing it I had to say something to the princess. ¡°Hey Yue¡± I talked to her. She was grabbing my cloths while shaking. She looked at me and then I calmly. ¡°Think about what we talked about and the next time we see answer the question I asked you at the end¡± ¡°Eh? Why are you saying this.¡± She was scared and confused. Before I could say something more I saw the bridge and had to start my plan. ¡°Sorry about this¡± I said to Yue and threw were the rest was waiting at the exit of the bridge. Sarah and Shadow catched Yue and started running away while pulling her. ¡°Hey what are you doing¡± She shouted ¡°We have to...¡± before I could hear anything else another voice rose. ¡°Earth castle!¡± it was Terra voice. I asked her to seal the exit of the bridge with his magic. I decided to do this because even if we had reached the bridge before the dragon we still needed to run 800 meters to the entrance. It was impossible to run away from him so someone had to stay and delay the dragon and the only one who could make it was me. ¡°Very noble of you to make time for your friends but it''s useless. I will destroy that wall and killed you to get back the gem!¡± The dragon said when he finally reached us. ¡°Sorry but it''s a knight duty to protect his princess¡± I said. ¡°Shut up I don''t have time for this die¡± before he could attack me I was already using my best skill. ¡°what''s this wind around me and why I can''t pass through it!?¡± He yelled while cursimg me with his eyes. ¡°I know this won''t kill you but at least will give my friends enough time¡± I said with a big smile on my face. ¡°YOU BASTARD¡± he tried to shoot fire from his mouth but I didn''t let him. ¡°Cage of Doom!!¡± I shouted with all my might. Then the three huge pikes of ice that were forming in the air started to pierce the cage of wind. ¡°AAAAAAAAH!!¡± the dragon cried in pain. After that it was over the tornado as well as the pikes disappeared leaving only a dragon with two wounds on his side. I was panting on the floor and could barely move. ¡°That skill of yours is really powerful if the pike ice coming from above hit me then even I would be seriously injured. You had luck that I had to stop it with me hands so the other two pierced me¡± He said while looking at his wounds. ¡°Nothing serious but because of you I just lost one of my gems. In part it''s my fault for underestimating you. But still you are going to suffer for this¡± he kept talking and I was started to gey annoyed. ¡°Can you just kill me and finish this? You talk to much¡± I said trying to piss him off so he would kill. ¡°Shut up! I''m already tired of you. Now I will burn you alive with my flames¡± He said before attacking me. ''I hope it doesn''t hurt much'' That were my last thoughts ¡°DIE¡± he shoot fire from his mouth to kill me. ¡°SHI..¡± before I could finished yelling I died it was that it only lasted one or two seconds but it hurt like hell.
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Chapter 19: Those who lived, Those who died ''for thoughts'' "dialogue" 19 chapter plz tell me your opinion and if you find mistakes. I hope you enjoy it. if the quality is bad sorry i didn''t check. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ After dying fot the first time Luke went to grab something to eat from the kitchen. It was saturday noon so his mother was in home too. While making the sandwich Luke kept thinking about the realism of the game and how painful was to die there. ''Now I understand why Nathan was so mad with me'' He thought recalling the time when they fought against each other in the tournament. ''I really need so avoid dying from now on. If it wasn''t that the system reduced the amount of pain that the players received only masochist could play the game'' ¡°Oh Lu is really rare to see you at this time of the day.¡± Her mother said surprised to him when he entered the living room. She was sitting on the couch while watching the tv. ¡°Yeah it''s just that I died in the game and now I have to wait for one day before I can log back¡± He explained to his mother. He didn''t knew the penalties for dying only that he needed to wait one day before he could log back. ''I should ask Nathan or John about it or I could search for it on the internet'' Luke though and sat next to his mother. ¡°Died? I really can''t understand technology this days. ¡± Her mother said confused. ¡°Please don''t speak like you are an old lady in special when you don''t even look like someone from you age¡± He complained about it. Luke''s mother was about to turn forty but she looked like ten years younger. She had a beautiful straight black hair and a slim body. All the women''s in the neighborhood were jealous of her. ¡°But I really want to understand it. Explain it to me how can you enter a game and move like in real life or how is it possible that one day here is four there?¡± She asked with puppy eyes. ¡°Jeez even if I wanted to even I can''t explain it. if you want to know you should play the game¡± I said trying to end this conversation. ¡°Mmm is not a bad idea but I don''t have much time now so It would be better if I start playing in summer!¡± She said enthusiastically ¡°I''m also going to spend more time with Lu while he explains more of the game to me and...¡± Before she could continue I decided to interrupted her. ¡°Hey mom it''s been a long time since we go out for lunch. What do you think if we do it today? Luke suggested to change the topic. ¡°Sure but aren''t you eating something now?¡± she asked me curiously. ¡°I just finished eating and besides I can eat more so let''s go.¡± I said and went to the door to leave. ¡°Okay it''s been awhile since we went out together.¡± She replied smiling. And like that they both went to a restaurant near their home. The reason why Luke suggested going out for luch was because if her mother keep that line of thought she was definitely going to order tha capsule today. He wanted her mom to play the game but what he didn'' want was to explain her the mechanics of the game to her. That could take a lot of time that he could use to fight monsters, go on adventures or more importantly find another spirit. After eating they went to the park near the restaurant and seated on a bench to enjoy the nice weather and rest. ¡°So Lu did you make some friends while playing?¡± Her mother asked him. She was always worried that her son never had any friend besides John and Nathan. He was a good son never caused problems, doing well enough in school even if he could do better and he also was practicing the sword style that she taught him but he never socialized with people of his age. Because of this she was hoping for him to make new friends in this game. ¡°Yeah I made some new friends¡± I replied normally but then my mother had a delighted expression in her face. ¡°Really? Tell me more about them¡± she inquired more. ¡°Well then...¡± Luke began talking about his friends while her mother listened to him and nodded once in a while. He talked about the sociable Sarah, the kind but also scary Terra, Shadow who was useless and of course about the princess. Her mother was paying him a lot of attention while thinking ''They sound like good and weird people'' Mei thought lisening to his son. Luke didn''t notice but he was happily talking about his friends and when he talked about the princess you could see some light in his eyes. ''He talks about this Yue girl more than the others and it seems that they really get along well. Could it be that she is his...'' ¡°Hey Lu is that girl Yue your grilfriend?¡± she decided to ask directly. ¡°Why do you ask that?¡± Luke said with a red face nervously. ¡°For how you talk about her it seems like that¡± she replied him waiting for his answer. ¡°Well... yeah I like her but she still not my girlfriend yet¡± I explained. ¡°Yet? How''s that?¡± her mother asked not understanding ¡°It''s hard to explain. So mom how is everything going at the dojo?¡± I said to avoid answering the question. ¡°Mmm... well everything is fine. Oh now that I think of it one of my student is similar to the girl you like¡± At the beginning she doubted if she should ask more about it but then she remembered that Luna was similar his son possible future girlfriend. ¡°Oh really? tell me more about it¡± Luke said with a mischievous smile. ¡°Her name is Luna perhaps you know her she goes to your school.¡± Mei started telling happily about her favourite student. ¡°Yeah I hear about her. She is my school idol after all¡± he said refraining from laughing. ¡°Yeah she is a very nica and beautiful girl but she isn''t the honor student that you all think about it.¡± she said as if she had disclosed a very important secret. ¡°How can that be?¡± At this point he was enduring it with all his might. ¡°The truth is that she is a very arrogant person. She thinks that I didn''t notice it but after all the time I spent training and chatting with her it''s impossible to not notice it. I really care about her she is like a little sister to me but well she has that broken personality. Nothing comparing to that girl you like her personality is far worst than Luna i''m wondering what do you like about her¡± she finished while thinking that his son had weird tastes. The truth was that Mei could only grasp the basic of Luna personality after all the time they spent together. This showed how good was Luna at hiding it. ¡°Well it doesn''t matter as long as you present her to me¡± She said smiling. ¡°Okat let''s go back¡± I said and turn around to go home. ¡°Hey! Don''t leave me here alone.¡± her mother said and followed him. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The next day after doing some work up and practicing with the swords I went to meet Nathan and John at the Burger king near school. Like last time they were both waiting for me while eating. ¡°Hi guys¡± I said and sit with them. ¡°Hi Luke How are you?¡± John asked while Nathan kept eating. ¡°Fine and you guys?¡± Luke answered ¡°Good¡± they replied. ¡°So you could speak Nathan.¡± Luke mock him. ¡°Shut up i''m really hungry.¡± he said pissed off. ¡°Don''t mind him. He is mad because he died yesterday.¡± John explained with a wry smile. ¡°It wasn''t my foult my pary was useless¡± Nathan tried to defend himself. ¡°They were all noobs they couldn''t work as a team.¡± ¡°Yeah yeah you are right now eat your food¡± John said ignoring him. ¡°Don''t treat me like a child!¡± he yelled. ¡°So what have you been doing in the game Luke¡± John asked me ignoring Nathan again. ¡°Well I also died yesterday¡± I said like it was something normal. After all it was an RPG someday you are going to die. ¡°What!?¡± they both shouted. ¡°Hey Nathan don''t spit food from your mouth¡± I complained like that to see if they could forget what I just said. I did this because I knew that they will literally want all the details about it. ¡°Oh sorry but you wont be able distract us from the topic now so you should start telling the story now with all the details.¡± Nathan said as if it was an order. ¡°You should give up and tell us¡± John said with a big smile on his face. ¡°Uh okay the thing was like this...¡± I sighed and began telling what happened but as soon as I said that the princess came with me. ¡°Wait! You said Hamilton went with you!? John shouted and Nathan agree also said somehing like that. Then I realize that it will impossible to tell the whole story without letting them know about Lunas true personality. ''I don''t like the idea of telling people about it but they are my best friends so it should be fine with them'' Luke thought deciding telling them the truth. ¡°Okay hear me out don''t tell anybody about this¡± they both nodded at my words ¡°Good do you remember that I tould some time ago that I found another interesting thing well he truth is...¡± After explaining them of Luna''s true personality they were both dumbfounded. ¡°To believe that Hamilton true self is like that¡± Nathan said still processing what he heard. ¡°I need to see it with my own eyes or I wont believe it¡± John couldn''t believe it he really idolized the princess. ¡°Sorry keep telling the story I will think about that later.¡± I told them almost all of the trip the road to Felian village, the time we spent searching for the labyrinth in the Garudian forest and what happened inside and how I died. The only parts that I left out were the princess fear of darkness and the talk we had later. I finished the story and I thought that they were going to ask me all kind of question about the dragon but... ¡°Sob sob¡± they both had some tears in their eyes. ¡°Eh?¡± I couldn''t hide my confusion. ''why were they crying?'' ¡°John we can finally let him go¡± Nathan said with a great sense of accomplishment. ¡°Yes Nathan I never thought that this day will be so soon¡± John replied with a smile while he still had some tear on his eyes. ¡°What are you guys talking about?¡± I asked with dumbfounded expression. ¡°It was hard to raise you but now all of our efforts were paid. You now have a girlfriend and new friends¡± John explained while looking at me as if I was his child. ¡°What the hell!? Are you two out of your minds!?¡± I yelled at the two of them. ¡°Besides she is not my girlfriend¡± ¡°Really? Is hard to believe after all it seems you two like each other.¡± Nathan told me with envious eyes. ¡°You can tell that just from the story!?¡± I still couldn''t believe what we were talking about. ¡°Don''t try to deny it after all you got burned up alive so she could escape!¡± John yelled passionately. ¡°Yeah but...¡± I tried to retort but they wouldn''t let me. ¡°Silence what are you doing here talking to us instead of going back and talk to her!¡± John shouted as if I was an idiot. ¡°He is right if you go now you may be able to found her. You marked that village as your resurrection point right?¡± Nathan followed John speech and told me that. You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story. ¡°Mark resurrection point? What are you talking about?¡± I asked confused. They both stared at me blankly. ¡°How can he be such an idiot and get a girl like that!¡± John yelled as if he was complaining to the heavens. ¡°Let me explain it to you moron...¡± Nathan explained to me how the resurrection point worked in AOM and he penalties for dying. When he finished I run back to my house and log back. It has already passed one day since I died. As soon as I log back I saw the town where my life in this world began. It was the Spirit forest where I met the wind spirit. ''Shit Nathan was right.now I won''t be able to see Yue any time soon. I could ask Terra where she is but...'' I recalled the talk we had and decided what to do. ¡°She probably needs time to think so if I go to where she is I migh make things worst¡± I said my toughts loud. ¡°We maybe encouner each other later or at the end after winter vacations ends we will meet at school.¡± Dual kept saying his thoughts loud and didn''t noticed the person behind him. ¡°Oh boy what a nice surprise I didn''t hought that I would see you so soon¡± It was his master Benjamin +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Yue''s POV ¡°Hey what are you doing¡± She shouted ¡°We have to help him!¡± while I was saying that last sentence another voice interpose with mine. ¡°Earth castle¡± Terra shoutes her strongest defensive skill to seal the exit of the bridge. ¡°Why are you doing!? We have to help him!¡± I shouted. ¡°Shadow do it now before she release herself¡± Sarah yelled desperately. It will be easy for me to break free from them after all I am much stronger than them. But when I tried to do it my body wouldnt move like I wanted.
You have been paralyze. You wont be able to move for five minutes.
She saw a scratch on his left arm wear where she was being pulled by Shadow. Yue was so mad that she wanted to yell but she also wasn''t able to talk. ''Shit! This idiot poisoned me. If something happens to Dual then i''m going to kill you until you reach level 1!'' she cursed Shadow in her mind while they escaped. We reached the resting area after a couple of minutes and then I can finally could move. ¡°Bastard why did you poisoned me!? We have to go and help Dual now and if anything happen to him... SPAK¡± Before I could finished something hit me in te cheek. It was Terra with a red face full of anger. You could see that she was restraining herself from slapping Yue again. ¡°Why?¡± I asked while fealing fear of her. ¡°Stop acting like a spoiled child and think coherently for a minute¡± Terra said with cold voice. Some minutes passed in complet silence. You could feel the tension in the air. And then after 10 minutes... ¡°Hic hic¡± Tears started falling from Yue''s eyes ¡°It''s all my fault. If it wasn''t for me maybe we could had all escaped¡± All of them stayed silent without uttering a word. She was right it was her fault thats why no one try to console her. If she have heard Shadows explanation before she would have known about the dragon. But she couldn''t help it her head was a mess because of what Dual told her and when she knew that he was in danger all of that thoughts went out of her mind she just wanted to see if he was fine. But because he ended dying and she was alive. ¡°It must have hurt a lot being killed by a dragon and it happen to him because of me. Why did he did that? He is an idiot like me he should have left me there so the dragon could ate me and run away. He didn''t have to save such a worthless person like me¡±i said while thinking how pathetic I was. Terra came near me again and SPAK she hit me again in the same cheek as before. I couldn''t understand why she did this time but I kept crying. ¡°You can say that it''s your fault all you want but don''t said he is an idiot for saving you!¡± Terra shouted. I have never seen her so mad in all my life. Yue was really scared of her right now. ¡°He did it for you and you still call him an idiot? You really are a fool I don''t understand why that guy loves you. Uh we should head back guys¡± she sighed and talk to Shadow and Sarah who were silent all this time. Boh of them left without saying anything. Yue was still standing there looking at he floor. ¡°You too go back after all we can''t finish the mission witthout you.¡± Terra said while still acting cold towards her. ¡°Yes¡± I just replied and started walking. I was still crying a little but I needed to end this mission after all or all his efforts will be in vain. ¡°After clearing up your mind you can come and talk to me if you want¡± Terra said and went where the other two were. Yue was really surprised by this but at the end she had a small smile on his face. ''I''m really a lucky person for having her as my friend and also for having a guy like that interested in me'' Yue thought while watching the Phoenix stone. After that we left the labyrinth and went back to Felian village. It only took as one day to go back because before we were wondering around the forest but we were never far away from the village. We bought the necessary food for the trip back to Norvex city. The jouney back was really calm. No one tried to assault us and we didn''t talk much because of what happened. But at least the tension from before was no longer there but it still was a little awkward. The fourth and last night before we arrive I decided to talk to Terra. ¡°Hi can we talk for a minute?¡± I asked her with a timid voice. At the moment she was alone watching for any bandits that could attack us while the rest of us slept. ¡°Sure but don''t you have to say something before¡± Terra asked with a demandant voice. ¡°Yeah sorry about what I said before I was wrong¡± I apologized. I knew I was wrong after all the time I spent thinking. ¡°Good don''t forget to apologize to him when you see him¡± She said smiling. I blushed and sat next to her. ¡°So tell me what happened?¡± she asked about what I wanted to talk about. Even if i already had clear what to do I wanted to hear another person opinion. Also I needed to talk with someone about this topic. After finishing Terra look me directly to the eyes and said. ¡°How can you be so stupid?¡± ¡°Yeah I know¡± I said with a wry smile. ¡°Uh let me guess. After that nice conversation you were captivated by him and wanted to asked him to be your boyfriend¡± she really knows what I think back then. ¡°Yes...¡± I replied ¡°And then you screw it up¡± She said with a smile on her face. It really pisses me off when she does this. ¡°Yes...¡± I replied again. ¡°Well normally you should go and beg him to accept you¡± she said like it was nothing. ¡°What!?¡± I was planning to ask him normally. I started to feel really nervous. ''Do I really have to do that'' ¡°Lucky for you that guy will forgive you if you ask him normally¡± She said with a mischievous smile. She was mocking me. ¡°Uh yeah I will go find him after we end this¡± it was decided. ¡°Yeah but at least try to do it in some special way¡± she suggested me. ¡°Yeah you are right I will think of something¡± I said finallt being able to smile after all of this. ¡°And Yue remember what you learnt that day. You need to try to think of the people you care about. If you can''t do that you may lose them¡± Terra said to mewith a serious face. ¡°Yes!¡± I replied. I knew that I was decided to do it. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The next day Yue went to deliver the relic to Trent at his office. The rest of them decided to wait outside for her. She knocked and entered the room. ¡°Oh Yue is nice to see you again. I hope this means that you habe brought what I asked you for.¡± He said while smirking. ¡°Eh where is Dual? He asked dumbfounded at the end. ¡°Well we had some problems at the end but thanks to him we found a gem suitable for being the relic¡± I said with a forced smile and wanted to leave and go where Dual is. ¡°Oh it''s beautiful thank you very much and...¡± he was going to talk a lot if I let him so I decided to interrupt him. ¡°Yeah no problem. I really want to stay here and talk more but I really have to leave bye!¡± I tried to leave after saying that but he didn''t let me. ¡°Wait! We prepare some rewards for you two¡± he said and grabbed my hand. ¡°Okay give to me so I could leave.¡± I said annoyed. ¡°Sure here who have. Can you also give his reward to Dual I don''t know when i''m going to see him again?¡± Trent asked her. ¡°Sure no problem...¡± Then she saw what the rewards were, she couldn''t be happier about them. ¡°Than you so much¡± she shaked his hand and left running back where her friends were. ''Prepare Dual. I now have the perfect way to ask you to be my boyfriend'' Yue thought with a big smile on her face. ¡°What was that about?¡± Trent was left there dumbfounded. Five minutes later she arrived at the the entrance of the city where they were waiting for her. ¡°Oh there she is and why is he running?¡± as soon as Sarak saw her asked that. ¡°Terraaaaa!¡± Yue came shouting that. ¡°What!?¡± Terra yelled surprised. ¡°I found a way to ask him!¡± I yelled happily. ¡°Good for you then¡± Terra still couldn''t grasp what was she saying. ¡°Sarah sent a messsage to Dual and ask him where he is¡± Yue said smiling like a kid. She couldn''t have been more excited. ¡°Sur...¡± before Sarah could finished bad news came. ¡°Sorry but it would be useless¡± Shadow said with a low voice afraid of what going to happen. ¡°WHY!? I shouted without thinking. I was about to get angry. ¡°I spoke with him yesterday and he went to a trip o an elf village. He also told me that he wanted to focus on this so he will disconnect his chat window.¡± Shadow finished explaining Thhey all felt silent and then.. ¡°YOU MUST BE FUCKING KIDDING ME!? How i''m going to find him there a lot of elven village.¡± she shouted with all her might cursing her bad luck. ''Calm yourself there must be way to find him'' Yue thought and for now she started to make question to Sarah and Shadow to see if they knew something. Shadow was the one with most information so he was really useful. ¡°Good with I don''t need to ask anything else guys thanks for all. I''m going to search for him now bye!¡± she said and left the city without looking back. ¡°I hope she finds him¡± Sarah said. ¡°Don''t worry she will.¡± Terra said while smiling. ¡°Shit Dual will be mad at me later. He said he wanted to focus on that...¡± Shadow said his thoughts loud fearing the day when he will encounter Dual again. Chapter 20: Back where all started ''for thoughts'' "dialogue" 19 chapter plz tell me your opinion and if you find mistakes. Sorry for the delay i''m working at night that was when i used to write the chapters. I need some motivation to write so please i will ask you to rate my fiction, make a review or comment the chapter. (obviously it will be better if i''ts a good review i will have more motivation but the thing i appreciate the most is for you to tell m your honest opinion) I hope you enjoy it. if the quality is bad sorry i didn''t check. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ¡°Oh boy what a nice surprise I didn''t hought that I would see you so soon¡± Benjamin said with surprised look on his face. ¡°Hi Master...¡± I replied downhearted. ¡°What''s with that face kid?¡± He asked me worried. ¡°And why are you wearing this clothes? What happened to the ones I gave you? Benjamin asked confused. ¡°Eh? What are you talking about I''m always wearing them...¡± While saying that I took a look at my clothes. ¡°Why i''m wearing the beginners clothes!? ¡°Don''t ask me I just met you again¡± His master replied more confused than before because of what was happening. I search for them in my inventory but they weren''t there. It took me a couple of minutes to realize the horrible truth. ¡°It''s all that dragons fault!!¡± I yelled angrily. ¡°Dragons fault!? Explain to me boy what have you been through!¡± Benjamin asked. He couldn''t understand anything of what Dual was saying but after hearing about a dragon his face turned to the one of a five year old kid hearing the story of a hero. ''I can''t believe that my precious clothes were burned off by that stupid dragon. One day I will get my revenge I will make him suffer like he did to me but ten times more.'' He pledged in his mind that some day when he was strong enough he will go and kill that fucking dragon. ¡°Dual stop ignoring me and tell me about the dragon now!¡± His master yelled. Dual had completely forgot about his existence. ¡°Oh sorry master what were you saying? I didn''t hear you¡± I said nonchalantly. ¡°TELL ME ABPUT THE DRAGON FOR GOD SAKE!!¡± Benjamin shouted with his face red from anger. ¡°Okay relax you don''t have to yell like that let''s go to your place and I will tell you¡± Dual said with an annoyed face. ¡°Finally...¡± His master sighed and calmed down. They went to Benjamin house and talk in the living room while while drinking some tea. Dual wanted to have a nice talk with his master but... ¡°Now about the dragon¡± Master said with a gleam in his eyes. ¡°Yeah yeah i''m already tired of telling this story uh.¡± I sighed and started telling him the story from the beginning. Like that I told him about the mission, the labyrinth and the dragon. I tried to make it short but Master kept asking me questions about my friends, the monster and every detail he could think of. In special about the princess. ''Why everyone asks about every detail'' Dual complained in his thoughts. ¡°Haha what a nice adventure you had boy and what a particular girlfriend. You really have some weird tastes...¡± Benjamin laughed and at the end he said that about Luna with an awkward voice. ¡°But it was really manly what you did.¡± ¡°Why does everyone tell me the same!? She is not my girlfriend yet and my tastes are not that weird.¡± I tried to retort but he ignored me. ¡°Well you can tell me about your girlfriend next time and present her to me.¡± Master said smiling. ¡°That story of yours reminds me about the time when i fought a dragon.¡± He said the last thing with a nostalgic tone. ¡°You fought againts a dragon!?¡± I yelled without noticing. ¡°Hey what''s with that reaction!? I maybe old now but back in the days I was pretty strong. You couldn''t imagine how strong I was!¡± He shouted offended because of what I said. ¡°Sory my bad but please tell me about it¡± I apologized and asked with puppy eyes. ¡°Fine I will tell you but don''t make that face it''s disgusting¡± Benjamin said while making a furrowing his brows because of the face I made. ¡°Then tell me¡± Dual replied angry because of what his master said. ''And to think there was a time when everyone will call me cute when I made that kind of face'' Dual thought about his dark past that only few people knew about. ¡°Good now listen abouut forty years ago...¡± Before he could continue I interrupted him. ¡°Forty years!? Just how old are you?¡± Dual asked surprised. ¡°You shouldn''t ask about someones age thats impolite.¡± Master retored angrily. ¡°Thats when you ask a woman not a man!¡± I yelled. ¡°Men can also be sensitive about their age too¡± He tried to explain. ¡°Stop talking nonesense and tell me about the time you fought the dragon¡± I tried to end this stupid topic and talk about the important one. ¡°It''s your fault for distracting me.¡± He compleined like a kid and continue. ¡°So like I was saying before about forty years ago I went to an expedition with some people that were almost as strong as me to the north mountains. Our objective were some materials that you could only find there. After some days searching for them we found a strange cave that wasn''t in the map and decided to enter. At the beginning it looked like any other cave but when we reached the end of it we found a room full of treasures. One of my comrade ran inside without thinking and that was the moment that we encounter him. It was a white dragon with enormous wings in his back and a pair of golden eyes. As soon as we saw him he was about to attack our comrade that was searching for the best treasures. We could barely defend us and our partner ended seriously injured but we managed to escape somehow.¡± ¡°Even master couldn''t do anything against a dragon.¡± Dual said with sad look on his face. If his master with comrades couldn''t beat a dragon how could he alone do something about it. ¡°It''s not like that we managed to escape after all. If we had known about the dragon before entering and made some preparations he may have killed the dragon.¡± Master explained to me knowing that I would want to kill the dragon that made me suffer. ¡°Really? That''s good then¡± Dual said relaxing a little. Benjamin said this to him but the truth was that even if they prepared themselves like said he the chances of winning were only about 30%. But he thought that if it was the boy in front of him he would find a way to do it. ¡°Don''t think about that now first you need to become stronger. Tell me your actual power and about the spirits you have a contract with.¡± Benjamin said trying to encourage me. I told him all my skills and the two spirits that I had a contract with. Benjamin have a serious face but actually he was thinking... ''You must be kidding me how can this kid be so strong after this short time! It took me four years to make a contract with two spirit and for this brat it only took him a few months! How can a person with this luck exist!?'' ¡°And what are you planning to do now?¡± He asked me. ¡°Well I was thinking of going to an elven village they might have more information about spirits than the rest of the races.¡± I explained to him. ¡°Thats a good idea elfs were the race that had the best relationship with the spirits even if you categorize it as bad. There must be around three elven village in this forest but you should go to this one is called Galian town it''s only about one day from here. And don''t worry they let humans enter we have a good relationship with them.¡± He took out a map from a deks at the corner of the room and pointed me the location of Galian ciy. ¡°Wow I didn''t pay attention last time but this forest it''s really huge.¡± Dual said amazed. Last time when Benjamin showed him how to go to Norvex city he only notices that the Spirit forest was very near the entrance of the huge forest that had many villages and citys inside it. ¡°But now that I think about it what''s the name of the huge forest?¡± I asked curiously. ¡°Didn''t I tell you before it''s Trinity forest¡± Master answered. ¡°Why did they name a village with the name forest in it? It''s confusing?¡± I asked things that I never thought before because of my lack of interest. ¡°The reason is the small forest in the middle of the village. It''s only for decoration after all because the spirits used to live inside the Trinity forest or thats what they told me.¡± He ended the explanation. ¡°Well enough of this chat. It was good to see you master but I should leave¡± I said. Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more. ¡°Okay but come again to visit me and next time don''t forget to bring your girlfriend with you. I really want to meet that girl.¡± Benjamin said with a grind in his face. ¡°Shut up¡± I replied coldly and left I was really tired of people mocking me like that. It will be more tolerable if she was my grilfriend but... it''s better not to think that now. I went to buy the best leather armor and some food. The armor wasn''t as good as the old one and also it didn''t upgrade with him while he leveled up but it was better than nothing. Dual still had a lot of money because he barely spent any on all of his time playing and he always sold the loot he got from the monsters so he could buy the armot without problems.The money in the game was like in most of the others MMORPG 1 gold coin it''s equal to 100 silvers or 10000 coppers. At the moment he was wearing the leather armor with brown pants and his two swords at the back. ''Luckily my swords are fine. I can be without the spirit cloths but without the swords I wouldn''t be able to fight. I don''t need special armor to use the skills that affect my body but I need a pair of swords that I can pour the spiritual energy.'' Dual was thinking of this before leaving the place where everything started. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ After travelling for an entire day he arrived at Galian town. It was a beautiful town with a lot of elegant buildings nothing that he have see before. You could see that most of the people were elfs but there were some humans between them. Dual didn''t have any problem to enter the city the guards let him pass after asking some routine questions. ''The first place that I can think about information is the library'' Dual thought and ask where it was and went there. As soon as he arrived he asked the old lady in the front desk about the information that he was looking for. ¡°Excuse me miss do you have any books about spirits?¡± I tried asking while smiling and being polite. But as soon as she heard the words spirits she made a frown and replied me. ¡°Sorry but we barely have books about spirits and they are only available for certain people but to tell you the truth the books we have only tells the basic information that every people who knows the existence of spirits already know¡± She finished saying with a cold but polite voice. ¡°I see thanks for everything.¡± I said and left without saying another word. ''It''s really weird that even the elfs don''t have information about spirits. The old lady turn cold when I said information about spirits but I don''t think she lied to me about the books. Let''s try asking other people about spirits.'' Dual thought and went to ask diferent people about this. After some hours Dual was sitting on a bench near the market while thinking about the answers the people game him. Something weird happened. ''Most of the people that I asked didn''t knew even the basic information but thats normal what''s weird is that some people react when I told them that I was looking for information about spirits and they turn really cold towards me and said that i should stop asking about that but why?'' Dual was pondering about this. It didn''t make sense to him that elfs who were the ones that could make more contracts that the rest of the races with the spirits don''t even talk about it. Normally they would brag about it. ''Something is wrong here. I don''t know if it''s only this city ot all the elven villages don''t talk about spirits. I need to have more intimacy with them so I can know the truth about it.'' Dual knew that something odd was happening but the only ones who could tell him more about it were the elfs themselves. It was already night in the game so he decided to talk to someone before continuing with this. He needed to knew how his friends were after he died so he started chatting with Shadow.
Dual: Hey Shadow can you talk now? Shadow: Sure we were waiting for you to talk to someone of us. Are you okay? it must have hurted a lot being killed by a dragon. Dual: Yeah it hurt like hell but well apart from that everything is fine. And also i''m sorry I didn''t knew about the resurrection point Shadow: Yeah we thought that you didn''t knew about it but at the end it was better like this. Dual: Things are that bad? Shadow: Well to make it short after you died Luna and Terra yelled at each other and Terra slapped her after Luna said some stupid things at that moment you could feel the tension in the air. Now we have been traveling for these three days. The mood is a little better but it is still very awkward and nobody is talking. We are going to arrive to Norvex city tomorrow. Dual: Wow I didn''t expect that it would turn out like that. For Terra to be mad at princess who would have thought that that could happen. Shadow: She had her reasons you needed to be there to understand. Even I who was there couldn''t understand it completely. Dual: That''s because you are an idiot who only thinks perverted things. Shadow: Sarah said the same... well it doesn''t matter now what are you doing now? Dual: I''m searching for more information abouut my class in an elf city near the village where I started the game but it''s hard and i''m really tense because of this and also the whole thing about the princess. Shadow: I understand I think that seeing how Luna and you are it''s better if you don''t meet for the moment. Dual: You are right who would have thought that you could give such a good advice. She needs time to think and i''m really tense because of this. Shadow: You don''t need to be so rude. Dual: You are right it''s decided I will focus in this now thanks for the advice Shadow. I will dissconnect my chat window so no one can bother me. Bye see you later. Shadow: No problem good bye.
''He is a pervert but he is a good guy after all'' Dual though of his friend and started to make some quests in the city to raise his intimacy with the elfs. He spent the next three days doing quests for the elfs. He received quests to vlean the dishes, help old people, hunt some monsters, delivery some letters, etc. At the moment Dual was talking to the guard of the front gate. ¡°It''s good that you are here you have been helping us a lot this time¡± The guard said smiling. ¡°How can I not help the people who live in the trinity forest after all I came from I village near here I know that sometime things can me hard inside here.¡± Dual said trying to be humble. ¡°Don''t be so modest about it boy you are becoming slowly known at the city¡± The guard kept talking like that with him. ''It will take me a lot of time to raise the intimacy to the level I need'' Dual though annoyed. After this three days doing quests nonstop he was on the level of being friendly with them and he needed a lot more than that. ''But this is the only way so I need to bear for it now'' ¡°So is there anything that I can do for help I can''t stand here without doing anything.¡± I asked like a hero who helped all the persons in need. ¡°Well there is this cave near the city and a lot of monster have been coming out of it. We need someone to go and clean the cave for us¡± The guard finished saying.
Quest received. Kill all the monster insede the cave near the city. Difficulty: B Rewards: Intimacy raised with the people of Galian city. 1 gold and 50 silvers.
¡°It will be my honor to do it¡± I replied and left to the location. ''That''s weird I heard about this mission before from some people at a bar while eating but the difficulty was C+. They must have been wrong after all'' Dual decided to not think about it to much and went where the cave was. He didn''t knew that the people that were talking about the mission received the same mission but couldn''t complete it because monsters that were to much strong for the level of difficulty were there. No one knew that something inside the cave was attracting stronger monsters and was raising the difficulty of the quest that at the beginning was at C-. Dual was going to encounter something that would really benefit him and also bring him a lot of problems.