《Royal Blood Online》 Chapter 1 - Royal Blood Online Chapter 1 - Royal Blood Online "Your Majesty, we can''t stop the Darkness Army. Lands of Elven, Dwarves, Orcs and Faires has been conquered by them. They even started to invade Capital Kingdom Isian. " Emperor Metehan had worn a gloomy face when he heard the report of the Chief Commander. They were overwhelmed by the Darkness Army. The Great Jun Empire was on the verge of annihilation. Metehan looked at his wife, Empress of the Great Jun Empire, Fairy Queen Arora with farewelling eyes. Arora figured out what he was planing. ¡°No, you can¡¯t do this! There must be another way!¡± ¡°I wish there was but there isn¡¯t. If we don¡¯t do anything, we will be all annihilated by the Darkness Army. If I will be able to save my people from annihilation, I will gladly sacrifice my life.¡± Metehan said with a determined voice. Metehan was planning to use a special skill called ¡°Noble Sacrifice of the Royal Blood¡± which only he can use. This was a special skill that creates a holy barrier that prevents any evil from entering and converts the caster life force to the power source of the barrier. ¡°But even if we prevent them from entering for now, what is gonna happen when your life force was depleted and holy barrier disappeared? We won¡¯t possible have the power to defy them no matter how much time passes.¡± Arora asked with a worried voice. Metehan smiled at Arora and handed a parchment to her. ¡°We can create a dimensional gate to another world and allow adventurers to come to our world with this. They are immortals and possess infinite powers. Even though their growth rate is a little slow, I should be able to hold out until they become strong enough to go against the Darkness Army. I believe in you, Arora.¡± Arora started to cry, hugging to Metehan. She was gonna lose her only love. Her heart was aching so much that she could die. But she has to live in order to grant the last will of her only love. ¡°Don¡¯t cry. I won¡¯t die as long as my will lives. I believe that someday someone with my will is going to appear and success me. When that happens, I trust you to guide him well. Our glorious empire will rise again. And I will keep on living in it.¡± Arora tried to subside her tears and smile at Mete. And she returned to the guards. ¡°Prepare the hidden chamber.¡± ********************************************************* ¡°Did you hear that? Sevgi dumped her boyfriend again.¡± ¡°No way! He was so cool! What was the reason?¡± ¡°I heard that it was because of a game. You know that new game, Royal Blood Online which will be launched next month, right? She decided to play it and his boyfriend protested her decision so she dumped him.¡± ¡°Now way! It was because of something so trivial?¡± ¡°Yes. This was the fourth boyfriend she dumped this year.¡± ¡°Well, since she is so beautiful, all the boys are after her. She can find a new one anytime she likes. I wish I was so beautiful as well.¡± After he heard the chatters of girls in the school garden, a faint smile had appeared on Mete¡¯s face. He was in love with her since the Middle School. However he had never found the courage to confess his feelings. Sevgi was the most beautiful and most popular girl in the school. He wouldn¡¯t even image that she would respond to his feelings. The problem wasn¡¯t Mete¡¯s appearance but his self-confidence. His childhood was a hell. Until he was graduated from the Middle School, he had been bullied by the delinquents. Everyday he was beaten and his money was stolen. He had a very thin and weak body so he was targeted by them. Finally his family couldn¡¯t stand it anymore and sent him to the Karate course. He didn¡¯t want to go at first because he was getting beaten more than the delinquents beats him. However after he¡¯s gotten used to it, he had started to like it. Now his body was well-built and stronger. So delinquents weren¡¯t messing up with him anymore. But his self-confidence was still not high. Although his body has gotten stronger, his mind was still weak. ¡®Royal Blood Online, huh? I will look into it when I got home.¡¯ Mete hadn¡¯t played many computer games. Ever since he started to go to Karate course, he didn¡¯t have time for those kind of things. After school he was going to the course and then he was doing his homeworks when he got home. And he was working at a cafe in the summer holidays. His family wasn¡¯t poor. Moreover they would be considered rich for the Turkey standards. However his father was quite poor when he was a kid so he had to work while studying and managed to be a doctor. That¡¯s why he wanted his son to have some life experience and to be strong enough to be able to take care of himself. He had even stopped to give him allowance ever since he started to go to the High School. Mete was working in the summer holidays so that he can have money during the school times. In other words, he didn¡¯t have times for the games. ************************************************** ¡°Wow. So this was a virtual reality game, huh?!¡± The research on the Royal Blood had amazed Mete quite much. While he was busy with Karate course and school, he had become quite ignorant about the current developments in the gaming world. The first virtual reality game in the world was gonna be launched. And it was Royal Blood Online. The technology in the science fiction movies and stroy books had been invented. It was Global Revolution Corporations that created this technology. It was a new Turkish company founded by a young entrepreneur, Hakan Zeybek.Company had many foreigner scientist and engineers and was the first company that invented this technology in the world. The first application of this technology was a Virtual Massively Multiplayer Online Role Play Game. It was gonna be launched after the college entrance exams. A special game unit and a private network connection was required to be able to play the game. Due to security issues, standard internet connection wasn¡¯t gonna be used. The game unit was gonna be around 3000 TL(1 $ is about 2,6 TL). And the private network connection for the game had 200 TL monthly service fee. Mete was an asocial guy so he was almost spending no money. That¡¯s why had saved about 6000 TL by working at the summer holidays. So he had enough money for the game unit and monthly service fees. Mete had good marks and studied for the College Entrance Exam quite well. However he had no goals. He didn¡¯t know what he wants to do in the future. In Turkey, you take a common exam and then chose a college depending on your score you took. That¡¯s called College Entrance Exam. And his family wasn¡¯t indicating anything on him but they were expecting him to go to a good college. ¡°You should decide what to do in your life. We can¡¯t decide for you.¡± That¡¯s what they have been always saying to him. He was planning to decide it after he took the exam. So he wasn¡¯t worried about it too much. This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report. After his research on the internet, the game had taken his interest. At the beginning his interest for the game was because of Sevgi but now he had gotten interested in it too. He pre-ordered the game unit and went to bed. ******************************************************* ¡®I guess I can get a good score. The results will be announced in 2 months. I will have to decide a carrier then. ¡¯ That¡¯s what his thought after the College Entrance Exam. He was now graduated from the High School and had to decide a carrier. However this was not important at the moment. All he wanted was to go home and connect Royal Blood Online. It was gonna be online less than an hour. His family didn¡¯t care about whether he works or not, as long as he doesn¡¯t ask any money from them. So he decided not to work this summer. He had enough money to play it and pay his possible college tuition. Since he was planning to chose a college in ?stanbul, he could stay with his family during his college life. And he could work while studying in the college if he needed money later. So it was all good. He was gonna play Royal Blood Online during his summer holiday. He went home hastily. Royal Blood Online was opened when he got home. He went into the game unit without losing any second and connected the game. ¡°Welcome to Royal Blood Online. You are not registered. Would you like to register?¡± A gentle woman voice said. ¡°Yes.¡± ¡°Please select a username. This will also be your character name as well. You can only create one character. Once you created a character you can not delete it. ¡° ¡°My username is Metehan.¡± Mete had thought about quite much. And he had decided to use the name of the Emperor of the Great Hun Empire. "Account Metehan has been successfully created. Royal Blood Online has 55 different races. However the only selectable race right now is Human. So your race automatically selected as Human. Would you like to customize your appearance?" "No, the way it is." "Royal Blood Online has a City State system. So Continent of Isian doesn¡¯t have any Kingdoms right now. There are 4 selectable City States as a starting town. Those are in the east Semerkant, in the west Viyan, in the north Cedric and in the south Afra. Which town would you like to select?" "Hmm, I will chose Semerkant." "Starting town selected as Semerkant. There are five classes you can select right now. Warrior: Warriors are strong and honorable people. They have high strength, defence and life force. Because of their low intelligence and wisdom, they aren¡¯t well-suited for magic. However they strike fear into their enemies by their high close combat abilities on the battlefields. Mage : Mages are intelligent and wise people. Because of their high magical abilities, they make blood baths on the battlefields. Although their life forces and defences are low, because of their abilities to make blood baths on the battlefields, they are considered as important combat forces in the large scale battles. Ranger : Rangers are agile and cunning people. They cover up their lack of strength with their high agility. They have low defence but they use high speed ranged attacks and hunt their preys without giving them any chance to get close. This ability makes them the irreplaceable and must-have forces of the battlefields. Assassin: Assassin are sneaky and clever people. They lurk in the darkness and hunt down their prey by surprise. They play a critical role on battlefields by assassinating the enemy commanders. Cleric : Clerics are gentle and peaceful people. They don¡¯t have much combat abilities. Their defence is low but they have strong buff and healing powers. They cure their allies and cast strong buffs on them on the battlefields. This ability of them can change the flow of the battle. Please select a class. You can only change your class 3 times in the game and you will get some penalties if you do. " Metehan already decided. He even took Kendo classes during the past month and learned the basics of how to use a sword. "I select the Warrior class.¡± ¡°The Warrior class has been selected. Character Metehan has been successfully created. Royal Blood Online has two play modes as Ideal and Realistic. Those modes determine how realistic your game experience will be. Ideal Mode: You will feel the pain and realism of the game at minimum. Your combat abilities will mostly depend on your character stats and skills. You might need a while to able to control your body properly and you might not be able to perform your movements as you wish. You will have some advantages and disadvantages in this mode. Realistic Mode : You will feel the pain and realism of the game at maximum. Your combat abilities will be influenced by your personal abilities. You will be able to control your body naturally and you will experience everything no different than reality. You will have some advantages and disadvantages in this mode. Please select your play mode.¡± ¡®Play mode? I didn¡¯t see any information about this on the internet. I wonder they added this because this is a virtual reality game?¡¯ Mete had made research on the internet about Royal Road Online and other MMORPGs. But he hadn¡¯t seen any information about this. The ¡°feeling pain at maximum¡± part made him a little hesitant but this was a virtual reality game and he wanted to experience it as possible as real. He had even taken Kendo lessons. He didn¡¯t want his personal abilities to go waste. Personal abilities was a way to make a difference in the game. He wanted to be as possible as strong so he can catch Sevgi¡¯s attention and impress her. ¡®It can¡¯t be as bad as getting beaten by the bullies.¡¯ Metehan made his decision. ¡°I select Realistic Mode.¡± ¡°Play mode has been selected as Realistic Mode. Connecting Royal Blood Online. We wish you a wonderful game experience.¡± His adventure had started like this. He had no idea what Realistic Mode really is. But he was gonna find out about it eventually.
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Chapter 2 - First Quest Chapter 2 - First Quest After a bright light, Metehan found himself in a wreck town. The buildings were in a very bad shape and so the people were. It felt like a town that just got out of a battle. There were also people with relatively better outfits who makes funny moves. They were probably players who just started the game just like him. The wreck state of the town had made him forget where he was. Yes, Metehan was now in a virtual world! What he sees, hears and feels wasn¡¯t real! The extreme realism that he was experiencing had made him forget that fact for a moment. First he tried to lift his right hand and he could do it. And then he tried to lift his other hand, his right and left legs, walk, jump, punch and many other moves. He could do them so naturally that as if he was in the real world. After he tried everything he possibly could, someone grabbed his hand from behind. When he turned back, he saw a little kid around 10 years old grabbing his hand. "Please help me.¡± The kid said with a trembling voice. The kid had ragged clothes as the rest of the people in the town. His face was black and blue as if he was recently beaten up. Metehan had remembered his old days when he saw the kid like that. He would be beaten up and his money would be stolen by the delinquents and on the top of that he would be scolded by his parents for not being able to protect himself. That¡¯s why he doesn¡¯t like his family too much. He doesn¡¯t even talk with them unless it is absolutely necessary. His family was quite busy with their businesses so he wouldn¡¯t have any chance to talk with them anyway. Even though he was the only child of the family, he didn¡¯t get much parental love so maybe that was one of the reasons he had such a low self-confidence. That¡¯s why he was quite shaken when he saw the kid. The extreme realism of the game also was one of the reasons. He grasped the kid¡¯s hand with his two hands and fell onto one of his knees. "Of course. I¡¯d like to help you anyway I can." Metehan said that with a gentle voice, looking into the eyes of the kid with warm eyes. ¡°Will you really help me? I asked many people like you before. They first agreed to help but later on they said they couldn¡¯t. You wouldn''t act the same way, would you? I am running out of time. It must be done before my dad comes back from the hunt.¡± the kid said with a restless attitude. "I will do anything to help you in my power. So don''t worry about it. Just tell me what you need me to do.¡± Metehan said with a reassuring tone. ¡°During the Great Invasion, my mom was killed by the monsters. The only heirloom left from my mom was her necklace. My dad keeps this necklace inside a box in a hidden place in the house. Sometimes he would take it out and stare at it for hours. I figured out the hidden place of the box at one of these times. My dad occasionally goes to hunt in order to feed us. I feel anxious during these times so I take my mom''s necklace and wear it. It feels warm and dissipates my anxiousness. But today I ran into Ted The Bully. He is a bully in the town who beats up the weak kids and steals from them. He beat me and stole my mom''s necklace. Please take it back from Ted before my dad comes back. If my dad finds out about it, he might attack Ted and get in trouble with Ted''s dad. His dad is the former Captain of the City Guards and the current leader of the Strong Guys Gang. They are villains even the City Guards can''t dare to lay a hand on. I have nothing to offer you but I really need your help. I have nobody else to help me." The kid had started to cry. Metehan was also touched by the scene and his eyes had become watery as well. He could understand the helplessness the kid felt. He had felt the same way when he was being beaten up by the delinquents during his Middle School life. The feeling of frustration and not being able to do anything about it. It was the worst feeling a person could experience. That''s why he wanted to help the kid without expecting anything in return. He didn''t care how hard it was. He was not the same guy now. He was strong now. He could protect the ones in need. Nobody helped him when he needed but he was going to help. He didn''t want anybody else to go through the same sufferings. It was unforgivable for the strong to do whatever they want to the weak just because they can. While Metehan had these thoughts, a window had popped up in front of him.
[Quest : Urgent Request of Orphan Mario] Mario is an orphan who lost his mother during the Great Invasion. He lives in Semerkant City with his father. Ted is a resident of the city who beats up the kids weaker than him and steals from them. He stole a heirloom, the necklace of Mario¡¯s mother, from him. Mario asks you to take it back from Ted before his father returns from the hunt. But you should be careful. Ted is the son of Lorenzo, the leader of the Strong Guys Gang. It is a gang terrorizing the city. Lorenzo is the former Captain of the City Guards, who turned into an evil man after the Great Invasion. That¡¯s why even the City Guards can¡¯t dare to lay a hand on him.If Lorenzo finds out that you are threatening Ted, he might come after you. Restrictions: You must bring the necklace of Mario¡¯s mother before his father returns from the hunt. Mario¡¯s father will come back from hunt in a day. If you can¡¯t, you will fail the quest and you can¡¯t take it again. Difficulty : F Do you accept the quest?
This sudden window was startled him. This was the first time he saw something like that. Everything felt very real so far that he had forgotten that this was a virtual reality until this window popped up. ¡®A quest! I had read about it on the net. So that is how it is.¡¯ Metehan started to read it carefully. It seemed a little dangerous because Ted was son a gang leader but he wanted to help Mario no matter what. "Please, stop crying. I will take back your mother''s necklace from Ted no matter what. I swear on my life.¡± Those words made Mario stop crying and gave a bright smile on his face. +You accepted the quest. Metehan left Mario to find Ted after he took the quest. He found Ted in an back alley beating up a kid after he asked around the town. Ted had a big body for his age. He was beating up a kid with a small and weak body. That scene made Metehan very angry. He was planning to convince Ted with sweet talk. Ted¡¯s father was a gang leader and former Captain of the City Guards. City Guards were very powerful NPCs. And he was their captain. His power was undoubtedly beyond Metehan. But he forgot everything when he saw Ted. He approached Ted from behind and landed a punch on the back of his neck. +Backstab. +Critical hit. +You inflicted %200 damage. +Battle Phase is active. Ted had fallen into a confused state lying on the ground because of the hit to his nape and the kid he was beating ran away. After a short while of confused state, Ted put himself together and stood up. "Who the hell are you?! How dare you hit me?! Do you fucking know who I am?!" Ted shouted with an arrogant attitude. However what he got in return was a punch on his face. Since Battle Phase was activated, Metehan could see the basic information of Ted. Level 3, HP %85, Mana %100. Those were Ted¡¯s basic informations. Ted¡¯s name was written in grey. Ted¡¯s level was higher than Metehan but he was quite weak for his level. Even though one of them was a critical attack, he could drop his HP to %85 with just two hits. ''He isn¡¯t a big deal even though he is level 3. Is it because he is a kid?¡¯ In Royal Blood Online, even though level was an important factor, it wasn¡¯t everything. The combat experience, skills, mental and physical conditions were also important. Metehan kept on beating Ted who was confused because of the hit on his face. Ted couldn¡¯t do anything to resist and his HP had dropped to %5 in less than a minute. "Please stop!" Metehan had stopped punching when Ted cried with a begging voice.Ted continued with a bruised face. "I am sorry for being rude to you. I am really reflected on my mistake. So please forgive me.¡± The reason why Metehan was punching him wasn¡¯t because of his rude attitude, it was because he was bullying kids. But Ted couldn¡¯t understand that so what he said had pissed him off even more. However if he kept on punching him, Ted could die and Metehan couldn¡¯t relieve his anger and may fail the quest. It wasn¡¯t like he was sure that Ted was carrying it with him after all. It might not drop even if he killed him The quest information didn¡¯t contain the specifics about how he was gonna take it back. So Metehan pretended to forgive him and started to wait for Ted¡¯s HP to recover. When he relieved his anger a little, he was planning to interrogate him. After 10 minutes in game-time, Ted had recovered fully and was preparing to leave. But Metehan had no intention of letting him go. So he started to punch him again. Ted couldn¡¯t understand why he was punching him again and shouted. ¡°Why are you punching me again?! I already apologized. Tell me what I did wrong!¡± But Metehan kept punching him until Ted¡¯s HP dropped to 5% again. After Metehan stopped to punch him, Ted asked again lying on the ground.¡°Why are still punching me? I don¡¯t understand. Please tell me.¡± Metehan didn¡¯t respond and continued to stare at Ted. After Ted¡¯s HP recovered to %50, Ted tried to escape but Metehan caught him and punched until his HP dropped to %5. This has repeated 5 times. Ted had already given up on escaping and started to beg. ¡°Please Big Brother, stop it already. I will do anything you want. Just stop it already.¡± Metehan had finally snapped and said: ¡°Did you understand how the kids felt while you were beating them?¡± The author''s tale has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. After those words, Ted had finally figured out why he was beaten him up. That person was punishing him for bullying the kids! Ted actually hadn¡¯t thought about it. He was risen that way after all. ¡°Strong is just and being weak is a sin.¡± Those were his father¡¯s words. So what he¡¯s been doing wasn¡¯t practically anything wrong. That¡¯s why he had never considered how the kids he had been beating up would feel. But now he knew how they felt. He had felt frustrated. Not being able to do anything to stop it. It was a terrible feeling. Those kids must have felt that way too. Ted had finally understood it. It was unfair to beat up the weak people just because you can. He had regretted for what he¡¯s been doing. He had wanted beg forgiveness from them and make amends. And at that time, some system notifications had started to pop up in front of Metehan. +Ted has been rehabilitated. Ted realized what he has been doing was wrong thanks to you. He empathized the sufferings of the kids he has been bullying. He repented and wanted to make amends for his sins from the bottom of his heart. His alignment will stay chaotic grey but it may turn to white through his good deeds. +Since you rehabilitated a chaotic grey person, you earned 50 Contribution Points. +You earned the title of Guide of the Lost Souls. All stats has risen by +1 and your Fame has risen by 100. +Due to the special actions, a new skill has been created; Guidance. Metehan was thrilled while he was reading the notifications. He wasn''t expecting this. All he wanted was to relieve his anger. But he got a skill and title in return. He also gained bonus stat points and Fame as well. He checked his new skill in excitement.
Guidance (Passive, Beginner 1 | %0): Guiding lost souls is a tough job. Since not all of them are aware of their conditions, you will need strength to subdue them in order to guide them to the right path. When you are in Battle Phase against chaotic NPCs or players, all stats +%20, HP and MP recovery rate +%5 per 10 seconds, HP and MP fully recovered at the activation of the Battle Phase.
''Woah! This is an amazing skill! It has a %20 boost to my stats. It will give me great advantage against PK players. Moreover %5 HP and MP recovery is a huge bonus during a battle. Normally unless I sit and do nothing for a while, my HP and MP won¡¯t recover. Even then I only get a %10 per minute recovery rate. This gives me a %30 per minute recovery rate! And it is only Beginner Level 1! I image that it will grow when my skill level increased. With this, no player will dare to attack me!'' He was thrilled again when he saw the skill. Then he wanted to check his bag and stats. Since he took a quest right after he connected, he didn''t have the chance. He first checked his bag. He had a sword and 10 wheat breads in his bag. He took out the sword and used the basic identification skill every class has; Inspect.
[Novice Short Sword] Type : One-Handed Attack : 3~5 Attack Speed : 5 Durability : [25/25] Weight : 2 Requirements Level : 1 Strength : 20 Agility : 15 Class : None A light sword for novices. It doesn''t have high attack and durability.But it will be useful for novices.
''I guess it is better than nothing.'' Metehan equipped the sword and checked his stat window. [td2]Level
Status Window
NameMetehan
RaceHumanGenderMale
ClassWarriorSubClassNone
ProfessionNoneSubProfessionNone
Titles[/td4]Guide of the Lost Souls
1Experience0%
Fame100AlignmentWhite
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Satiety90%Fatigue5%
Attack16-18Attack Speed9
Critical Hit Rate0.2%Maximum Weight13
Defence7Evasion Rate1%
CP50GP0
HP220/220MP60/60
Stamina150/193
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Strength26Agility21
Vitality21Luck11
Wisdom11Intelligence11
Leadership11Charisma6
After Metehan finished checking his stats, he turned to Ted. "Hey, if you really want to make amends, you should start with returning the necklace of Mario''s mother." Metehan said with a cold expression. "Of course, but I gave it to my dad and I don''t think he would give it back to me just because I asked him. Big Brother, I need your help. My dad has many items I stole from the kids. I want to give them all back to the rightful owners. And I also wish my dad and other uncles with him would realize what they¡¯ve been doing was wrong. But I can''t do it alone. I need your help, Big Brother. Please guide them to the right path just like you did for me." Suddenly a window popped up in front him.
[Quest: Ted¡¯s Sincere Request] Committing a sin is easy but repenting it is not. Not many people have the courage to repent them and try to become a better person. But Ted is one of them. Ted was a bully who beats up the weak kids and steals from them. But he repented his sins thanks to the guidance of you. He asks you you to guide his father and other gang members to the right path. He can return the stolen things to the rightful owners if you do. And the necklace of Mario¡¯s mother is one of them. Restrictions : This is chain quest that starts with [Quest : Urgent Request of Orphan Mario]. If you reject or fail this quest, you will also fail [Quest : Urgent Request of Orphan Mario]. Difficulty : E+ Reward : The Necklace of Mario¡¯s Mother. Do you accept the quest?
¡®An E+ difficulty quest? If I remember correctly, the quests with ¡®+¡¯ difficulties are quests that requires a group to complete it. But I don¡¯t know anyone in Royal Blood Online and I don¡¯t want to know either.¡¯ His asocial nature had kicked in. Metehan didn¡¯t like being around people. He would feel nervous while talking to people. But strangely he didn¡¯t feel that way while talking to Mario. Still he didn¡¯t want to interact with players. ¡®I guess with this new skill I gained, I might overcome it without needing other player¡¯s assistance, even though its difficulty increased to E+. I don¡¯t want to give up here. After I completed this quest, I will be able to complete Mario¡¯s quest as well. Let¡¯s give it a shot.¡¯ Metehan decided to accept the quest. ¡°Okay, I will help.¡± +You accepted the quest.
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Chapter 3 - Terror Chapter 3 - Terror Metehan turned to Ted and asked. ¡°Ted, do they always stay together?¡± ¡°No, they all go to their houses at the evening unless something unusual happens.¡± ¡°Nice. How many people are there in the gang?¡± ¡°There are 21 people including my dad.¡± ¡°Who is the weakest among them?¡± ¡°Hmmm, I guess that would be Uncle Samuel.¡± ¡°Okay, we will start with him at the evening and you will help me, too.¡± ¡°Sure, I would like to help if I can.¡± Ted said with a happy face. Ted led Metehan to the valley across Samuel¡¯s house and they started to wait for Samuel to come. It was a wreck house with a broken glass and some of the yellow painted grouts on the wall had fallen off. It was quite surprising that someone actually was living here. It was no different from an abandoned house. One could even think that it was a haunted house. Moreover its door was opening from inside to outside and its door handle was on the right side as if it was installed reversely by an amatuer architect. It was a weird door design. However that design had given him an idea. Anyway, it was late afternoon when they came so Samuel came home approximately 3 hours later. Metehan and Ted waited for 5 minutes more before making a move. ¡°Ted, you will knock the door, I will be hiding behind the door when it was opened. When he opened the door, try to distract him.¡± ¡°I understand, Big Brother.¡± Ted answered with a gentle voice. Ted¡¯s character had changed quite much after he was rehabilitated. He had become quite gentle and obedient now. This was creating a conflict with his appearance. He was a little fleshy and quite tall for his age nearly as much as Metehan. And his face was quite intimidating. One could easily be bewildered upon seeing someone like him talking with such a soft and gentle voice. After Metehan took his place, Ted knocked the door three times with a certain rhythm. Apparently they had even had a secret door knocking pattern. Anyway, Samuel opened the door after a few seconds. When he saw Ted, he was a little surprised. ¡°Ted, what are you doing here? Is something wrong with the Boss?¡± Samuel asked with a surprised voice. ¡°No, my dad is fine. We came here to help you.¡± Ted answered with a soft and gentle voice. ¡°We?¡± Samuel was tilted. While he was trying to sort it out, Metehan suddenly pulled back Ted and hit Samuel with the door. Samuel was standing right on the doorstep so the door had hit his nose. Samuel was forced to step back a little holding his nose in pain. +Battle Phase is active. Metehan felt a power surge after he saw the system notification. His new skill Guide was activated since he was in Battle Phase against a chaotic person. Without losing any second, Metehan opened the door and landed a front kick to Samuel¡¯s stomach. ¡°Aughhh!¡± Samuel had fallen on his knees holding his stomach with a cry in pain. His name was written in red. He was a chaotic red NPC. His level was 8 and his HP was at %95. ¡®He is quite tough unlike Ted. He only lost %5 HP with two painful attacks. This is not gonna be easy.¡¯ Even though Metehan¡¯s stats were above his level with the boosts of his title and Guidance Skill, his level could be equal someone with level 5 at most. There was still a 3 levels differences between them. After a little pause, Metehan drew his sword and attacked Samuel. Samuel had recovered from his confusion in this little break so he dodged Metehan¡¯s attack by rolling on the ground to the table on the right side of him. There was a bat under the table, Samuel quickly grabbed the bat and landed an attack to the left leg of Metehan. He was fighting against someone with combat experience after all. He was different from Ted who only knows how to bully weak kids. ¡°Augh!¡± It was Metehan¡¯s turn to cry in pain now. The attack had caused a quite pain no different from reality. Metehan immediately stepped back to the right. He had lost %20 of his HP. It was a quite effective attack. ¡®What the hell?! I lost %20 HP with a single attack! Just how high his strenght is?!¡¯ Actually the main reason why he had lost so much HP was due to his low defence. Metehan had only 8 defence even with his skill boost. He was wearing no protective item. So his defence was quite low. His agility stat was only 25 right now. He was gaining 1 defence for each 3 agility stats. So his skill boost wasn¡¯t helping him on defence wise quite much right now. Of course when his level has risen, this skill was gonna provide him an enormous boost but right now with his low stats, it wasn¡¯t giving much boost to his overall power. They had started to stare each other without doing or saying anything. This was a good opportunity for Metehan to recover a little HP. Thanks to his skill Guidance, his HP was recovering %5 for each 10 seconds. After about 20 seconds, the one who broke the silence was Samuel. ¡°Who the hell are you?!¡± Samuel said with a intimidating voice. Samuel was still trying to understand what was going on. In the city, there was no one who would dare to attack them after all. Even the City Guards wouldn¡¯t dare. So just who the hell he was, daring to attack him? This was what was confusing him. ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter who I am.¡± Metehan said with a nonchalant voice. He had calmed down now. The pain on his leg had eased off too. He was just caught off-guard before. He wasn¡¯t expecting his attack since Samuel was in so much pain. He had thought he was an easy opponent just like Ted and dropped his guard. He was taking him serious now. Metehan attacked Samuel with a vertical slash. Samuel guarded himself with his bat and launched a front kick with his right leg. But Metehan had already read his attack and stepped to the right and landed a roundhouse kick to his left leg. Samuel lost his balance and fell on the ground. Without losing any second Metehan made two quick horizontal slashes on Samuel¡¯s stomach and made two vertical slashes both his right and left arms. It was so quick that Samuel had no time to react and he let go of his bat. However after Metehan slashed his arms, Samuel landed a kick desperately to Metehan¡¯s butt which caused him lose balance and disrupted his serie attacks. Even after these quick successful hits, Samuel still had %80 HP. And the desperate kick of Samuel had dropped his HP to %80 again. Samuel¡¯s attacks were quite effective. So he had to be more careful not to get hit. After a few seconds, Metehan had recovered his balance and started a serie of attacks on Samuel who was lying on the ground in pain. This time his attacks targeted Samuel¡¯s chest, neck and the X spot which caused critical hits. +Critical hit. +You inflicted %200 damage. +Critical hit. +You inflicted %200 damage. +Critical hit. +You inflicted %200 damage. With those three critical hits, Samuel¡¯s HP had dropped to %50. Samuel was literally crying in pain now. ¡®Hmmm, I guess when you hit his vital points, your critical hit chance increases quite much.¡¯ Unauthorized tale usage: if you spot this story on Amazon, report the violation. Samuel couldn¡¯t resist anymore. Metehan had relentlessly started to attack Samuel¡¯s vital points. In less than a minute Samuel¡¯s HP had dropped %5 and surprisingly Samuel had fainted due to extreme pain. Especially the pain which was caused by the attack to his X spot seemed quite unbearable. Nobody could blame him. It was the most sensitive point in a man¡¯s body after all. The extreme reality of the game seems to have applied for this part as well. Metehan used the chance to tie up Samuel. After Metehan waited for about 10 minutes, Samuel¡¯s HP and his injuries had recovered fully. Metehan kicked Samuel¡¯s face and woke him up. Samuel¡¯s sufferings were just starting. ¡°W-Who are you?! D-Do you know who I am and wh-what is the Boss gonna do to you for d-doing this to me?!¡± Samuel was still trying to threaten Metehan with a trembling voice which pissed off Metehan even more. ¡°Shut up!¡± Metehan said while landing a punch on Samuel¡¯s face. ¡®This bastard still thinks himself so high and mighty. It seems it will take some time to guide this guy.¡¯ Metehan started to torture... I mean guide Samuel. Metehan¡¯s main target was his X spot which caused pain the most. After Metehan tortured Samuel for an hour, he could finally break Samuel. Ted was also terrified but he knew he was trying to help him so he didn¡¯t say anything. He just watched it closing his eyes and ears. ¡°Please stop, Big Brother. I will do anything. I regret whatever I did wrong. So please stop.¡± Samuel¡¯s arrogant attitude had finally broken and he had started to beg. During this one hour of torture, Samuel was still trying to threaten him with an arrogant attitude even though his voice was trembling. But now he had started to beg. He even called Metehan as ¡°Big Brother¡±, even though Metehan wasn¡¯t older than him. He had accepted his superiority. ¡°Did you finally understand the feelings of the people you harassed and stole from?¡± Metehan asked with a doubtful voice. ¡°Yes, I am sorry for that. I won¡¯t do it anymore. I will be a good man. So please stop it.¡± However there were still no system notifications about Samuel¡¯s rehabilitation. Which means he wasn¡¯t sincere about what he said. Metehan was also aware of it. ¡°I don¡¯t think you are sincere about what you said. I guess you still need more guidance of me.¡± Metehan said with a malicious smile on his face. Samuel had terrified when he heard this. ¡°Please stop, I am sincere. Please don¡¯t do it anymore.¡± Samuel begged with a desperate voice. However it was futile. Metehan continued his torture for about an hour more. Samuel had lost all of his hope. He had fell into desperation. Before while he was begging Metehan to stop, he was planning to escape and tell his Boss so he could take revenge on him. But now he had lost his hope. He had started to think that he was gonna go through this hell for eternity. The person who was torturing him seemed to have no intention of stopping. ¡®Maybe this is the divine punishment for what I have been doing so far. This person must have been sent to punish me. I wish I hadn¡¯t done all of those horrible things. I regret.¡¯ Samuel had sincerely started to regret for what he has been doing. ¡°Please, stop it. I am really sorry. I really regret for what I did in the past. But I will change. I will make amends for them. I will be a better person. So please give me a chance.¡± Samuel said while he was crying. He had really seemed like he had regretted for what he had done. Suddenly some system notifications had started to pop up. +Samuel has been rehabilitated. The sufferings he had gone through implanted a divine fear in him. He convinced himself that he was being punished for his evil deeds and unless he changes and make amends for them, he will be tortured forever by you, a Divine Agent. He will not dare to harm anyone anymore. He will try his best to make amends for his past sins and seek forgiveness. He will always fear you and follow you. +Since you rehabilitated a chaotic red person, you earned 100 Contribution Points. +Guidance Skill Level has risen to Beginner Level 2. +Due to the special actions, a new skill has been created; Terror. ¡®What the hell?! I gained a new skill again? Moreover what is with this notification? A Divine Agent? It is different from last time when I rehabilitated Ted.¡¯ He was surprised. He was expecting Contribution Points and his Guidance Skill Level to rise but he wasn¡¯t expecting a new skill. On the top of that, Samuel hadn¡¯t actually regretted his sins, he was just scared of the pain he has gone through. And because of this fear of pain, he wasn¡¯t gonna dare to do anything harmful. Metehan wasn¡¯t satisfied with the outcome. But there was nothing he can do for now. ¡®I guess even though he didn¡¯t actually regret for his past sins but he was just scared of being tortured again, as long as he doesn¡¯t harm anyone, I will be satisfied.¡¯ After Metehan settled his thoughts, he checked his new skill.
Terror (Active, Beginner Level 1 | %0) : Fear is the most basic emotion that affects one¡¯s actions and it is a very important factor in a battle. So the ability to strike fear into your enemies provides an enormous advantage to bring them to their knees. When you activated the skill, all enemies in an 10 meters radius will be paralyzed for 5 seconds and their attack powers and morals will decrease 10% for 30 seconds. Mana Consumption : 10 Cool Down Time : 5 minutes.
¡®Cool! This will be very useful while grinding and against possible PK players I will encounter.¡¯ Metehan was satisfied with the skill. It was a quite useful skill after all. Paralyzing your enemy for 5 seconds can turn the table during a combat. ¡°Hey, Samuel. Will you help me on rehabilitating your other friends?¡± Metehan said with a cold expression. ¡°O-Of course, I will. I-I will do anything i-in my power to help the D-Divine Agent.¡± Samuel said with a trembling voice. He was quite afraid of Metehan. ¡°Good. Ted led us to the next weakest person in the gang.¡± ¡°O-Okay, Big Brother.¡± ¡°By the way, what is this smell?¡± ¡°I-I am afraid it is my urine, D-Divine Agent.¡± ¡°...¡± ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you like the story, please leave feed backs. It is very important for me to get feed backs to keep my motivation. Anyway, I hope you have fan while reading this chapter.
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Chapter 4 - The Therapist Chapter 4 - The Therapist They went to the house of their next target, Jason. He was a level 9 chaotic red NPC. His combat abilities was not so different from Samuel. So with the help of Samuel, Metehan could seize him and rehabilitate him with his usual method easily. Metehan used his new skill Terror during the process so the rehabilitation of Jason ended in an hour. His Guidance Skill didn¡¯t rise to next level and he didn¡¯t gained anything new except for 100 Contribution Points. Jason was also gonna follow him and fear him as the Divine Agent just like Samuel. However a different system notification popped up. +Your Satiety dropped under %50. All stats decreased by %50. ¡®What? My stats decreased?¡¯ Metehan checked his stats and as the notification said, his stats were half of his original stats. ¡®I guess I need to eat something to recover it.¡¯ Metehan took out a wheat bread and ate it. His Satiety had recovered to %75 and the stat penalty was also removed. ¡®I guess I need to eat one more to recover it fully.¡¯ So he ate one more and his Satiety recovered fully. ¡®I should pay more attention to that from now on. If I had this penalty during a combat, it would be quite dangerous.¡¯ Metehan turned to Jason and stared at him with cold eyes. ¡®However this is taking too long. I won¡¯t be able to rehabilitate them in time at this rate. I need to think something.¡¯ Even with his new skill Terror, it took an hour to rehabilitate one. There were still 19 people including Lorenzo to rehabilitate. And he already spent 7 hours since he took the quest from Mario. He had to finish the quest less than 24 hours so at this rate he would fail it. After thinking for a while, an idea flashed through his mind. ¡®Hmm, if I do this, I might finish it in time. It might be a little risky but I guess there is no other choice.¡¯ Metehan turned to Samuel and Jason. ¡°Samuel, Jason. I want each of you to go and bring one of the gangs members here. Tell them whatever excuse you can and convince them to come here.¡± Both of them had figured out Metehan¡¯s intention. A sudden cold fear surged through their bodies when they thought about what the gang members they will bring will go through. But both of them nodded and left. This was a risky plan for Metehan. Since he didn¡¯t know whether they would betray him and tip up the gang and come back with them to crash him. It was a gamble actually. However he couldn¡¯t come up with a better plan to speed up the process. 5 minutes later, Samuel came back with a chaotic red NPC. He was a little confused to see Metehan. While he was trying to understand what was going on, Samuel suddenly hit his nape and he collapsed. ¡°I am sorry, bro. This is for your sake.¡± After Samuel said that, they seized him and tied up to the chair. Samuel didn¡¯t betray him. Metehan¡¯s rehabilitation was a complete success. A few minutes later Jason also came back with a chaotic red NPC. And they seized him the same way. Metehan started to rehabilitate them. With his new skill Terror and the physiological impact of seeing his friend tortured, the process had sped up again and it ended in 45 minutes.His Guidance skill had reached to Beginner Level 3 and he gained 200 Contribution Points. His new skill Terror also reached Beginner Level 2. ¡°Nice. It is more effective this way.¡± Meteha was satisfied with the result. ¡®However I can still speed it up a little more.¡¯ Metehan turned to the four rehabilitated gang member. ¡°I want each of you to go and bring one of the gangs members here.¡± Metehan was planning to rehabilitate four people at the same time. Otherwise it would take too much time and he didn¡¯t want to waste anymore time. It had started to be quite annoying now. Even though he was torturing them, he didn¡¯t practically like it. He was just doing it because it is necessary. Metehan continued his rehabilitation with 4 people each time. He had rehabilitated all gang members except for Lorenzo in 4 hours. His Guidance Skill was now at Beginner Level 10 and Terror Skill was at Beginner Level 5 and he had gained 1600 Contribution Points. Now the only one he had to rehabilitate was their Boss, Lorenzo. Metehan checked his skills with a satisfied face before that.
Root Skills: Sword Mastery (Passive, Beginner Level 1 | %11) : It is the essential skill in order to use swords, knives or daggers. You don¡¯t get any penalty while using a sword, knife or dagger. Depending on your skill level, you can unlock branch sword skills. Mace Mastery (Passive, Beginner Level 1 | %0) : It is the essential skill in order to use maces. You don¡¯t get any penalty while using a mace. Depending on your skill level, you can unlock branch mace skills. Axe Mastery (Passive, Beginner Level 1 | %0) : It is the essential skill in order to use axes. You don¡¯t get any penalty while using a axes. Depending on your skill level, you can unlock branch axe skills. Lance Mastery (Passive, Beginner Level 1 | %0) : It is the essential skill in order to use lances. You don¡¯t get any penalty while using a lance. Depending on your skill level, you can unlock branch lance skills. Random Skills: Guidance (Passive, Beginner Level 10 | %5) : Guiding lost souls is a tough job. Since not all of them are aware of their conditions, you will need strength to subdue them in order to guide them to the right path. When you are in Battle Phase against chaotic NPCs or players, all stats +%29, HP and MP recovery rate +%5 per 10 seconds, HP and MP fully recovered at the activation of the Battle Phase. Terror (Active, Beginner Level 5 | %42) : Fear is the most basic emotion that affects one¡¯s actions and it is a very important factor in a battle. So the ability to strike fear into your enemies provides an enormous advantage to bring them to their knees. When you activated the skill, all enemies in an 10 meters radius will be paralyzed for 6 seconds and their attack powers and morals will decrease 11% for 35 seconds. Mana Consumption : 10 Cool Down Time : 4 minutes 50 seconds.
Now he just had to rehabilitate the Boss and his both quests would be completed. Metehan turned to the gang members ¡°Okay, let¡¯s go and rehabilitate your Boss.¡± He said with a confident face. He had 20 loyal followers so he was quite confident that he could easily handle Lorenzo. However when you said that, all of the gang members¡¯ faces were pale. ¡°What is wrong?¡± Metehan asked with a confused face. ¡°Big Brother, we don¡¯t think we are enough to handle the Boss. He is enormously strong. Even with you, we can¡¯t take him down.¡± Samuel said with a worried face. ¡°What do you mean we are not enough? We are 21 people here including me. No matter how strong he is, I don¡¯t think he can handle all of us.¡± Metehan said with a disbelieved face. ¡°Actually he can and he did, Big Brother. We do training with the Boss every month. The training concept is quite simple. We all attack the Boss at the same time and try to take him down. However we could never take him down yet. He always beat us down.¡± Jason said. ¡®Damn it. Just when I thought it was over...¡¯ Metehan had fallen into desperation. He had to rehabilitate the Boss in order to finish the quests. However if the Boss was that strong, he wouldn¡¯t be able to do it. While Metehan was in deep thoughts and desperation, one of the the gang members spoke. ¡°Ummm¡­ I have an idea but¡­¡± Metehan¡¯s eyes flashed at at the moment. He had no idea how to deal with the Boss so he was open to the ideas. ¡°What is it? Let me hear it.¡± Metehan said with hope in his eyes. ¡°I don¡¯t know if it will work but we can drug him to sleep. Today is Boss¡¯ birthday. He doesn¡¯t really care about his birthdays but we can use it as an excuse to drink with him. And we can put drug into his drink and make him sleep. Then you can handle the rest, Big Brother.¡± ¡°Hmmm, it might work. But do you have any sleeping drug?¡± ¡°Yes, we do. We usually use it for kidnapping women and sell them¡­ I mean we used to use¡­¡± ¡°Okay, let¡¯s do it. Let¡¯s go then. Ted and I will be waiting outside. Let us in when you are done.¡± Metehan said with a joyful voice. Gang members knocked the door. Lorenzo was a little surprised when he saw them however he let them in anyway. About 10 minutes later, Samuel opened the door and let them in. Lorenzo was tied up and sleeping on the ground. His name was written in dark red. Metehan kicked Lorenzo to wake him up. +Battle Phase is active. Lorenzo didn¡¯t wake up however Metehan¡¯s eyes had wide opened. He had seen Lorenzo¡¯s level. Lorenzo was level 50! There was really no way he and the gang members could take him down. The highest level among the gang members was 12. The level differences was too high. Metehan got himself together again after a little while. Metehan kicked Lorenzo a few times more to wake him up however Lorenzo didn¡¯t. He was in a deep sleep. Then Metehan drew his sword and slashed the X spot of Lorenzo. ¡°Aaugh!¡± Lorenzo woke up crying in pain. ¡°Who the hell are you?!¡± Lorenzo shouted angrily. After a few seconds he saw the other gang members. Their face were down. They were a little ashamed to look into the eyes of their former Boss. ¡°You bastards, did you betray me?!¡± Lorenzo had figured out what was going on. Metehan continued his torture without answering. Lorenzo¡¯s HP and defence was just too high. Metehan could drop his HP 1% after 5 slashes. ¡®Oh My God! This will take quite time.¡¯ Metehan could drop Lorenzo¡¯s HP to 5% after 10 minutes. Luckily Lorenzo¡¯s HP was recovering faster than others so he didn¡¯t have to wait too long for Lorenzo¡¯s HP to recover fully. This routine continued for 3 hours. However even though he was occasionally using his Terror Skill, he couldn¡¯t manage to break Lorenzo. ¡°You little squirt! No matter how much you torture me, you won¡¯t see me to beg you for my life! I am different from those shits over there! Just kill me! Or else if I manage to get free, I will crash every bones in your body!¡± Lorenzo laughed wickedly. That scene gave shivers to Metehan. Even though he was the one torturing him, the one who started to feel fear was also Metehan himself. Lorenzo had a fearsome willpower so that Metehan¡¯s willpower had started to fall apart. ¡®This is not good. The classical torture method won¡¯t work on him. I need to change my approach.¡¯ Metehan stopped his torture. ¡°Lorenzo, I heard you were the former Captain of the City Guards. It is an honorable job. What made lose your honor and turned you to evil?¡± ¡°Honor?¡± Lorenzo laughed wickedly again. ¡°It is a worthless virtue. What use does it have if you can¡¯t even protect the ones you treasure?! Strong is just and being weak is a sin. That¡¯s the law of this world, kid. As long as you are strong, you can do whatever you like. You don¡¯t have to have useless virtues such as honor.¡± Lorenzo continues with a lecturing voice. ¡°What exactly happened that changed you so much?¡± Metehan asked with a soft and gentle voice. There were apparently some kind of circumstances behind this. ¡°It is the Great Invasion.¡± Ted said with a grieving voice. ¡°Ted, stop it.¡± Jason said. ¡°It is okay, Jason. We can tell him.¡± Samuel said with a gentle voice. ¡°The Great Invasion? What is it exactly? I heard this before.¡± Metehan asked with a curious tone. ¡°You must have realized the current state of the City, right? It is just like a city that just got out of a battle.¡± Samuel asked and Metehan nodded. ¡°It wasn¡¯t always like this. It was a very peaceful and beautiful city until The Darkness Army invaded it.¡± Samuel continued. ¡°The Darkness Army? What is it?¡± ¡°We don¡¯t really know. They are some kind of evil empire. 10 years ago, they invaded the city out of nowhere. Great sacrifices were given but we could somehow defend the city. Many of us lost the people we loved. The Boss lost his wife and his elder son. I lost my sister as well. They were slaughtered while praying in the Temple. However God didn¡¯t do anything to protect them.¡± Samuel had started to cry. Meanwhile a system notification popped up. +You acquired information about the history of Semerkant City. Wisdom +2, Intelligence +1. ¡°God is worthless. He doesn¡¯t do anything to help us and expect us to worship him. How selfish.¡± Lorenzo interrupted while Metehan reading the notification. ¡°We lost our faith and left the City Guards following the Boss.¡± Samuel added while crying. ¡°You were also in City Guards?¡± Metehan asked in surprise. ¡°Yes. We cursed the God and our infirmities. We couldn¡¯t even protect the ones we loved. What was the point to protect the City? We swore to be strong and protect the people we love no matter what it costs.¡± Jason continued. ¡°The cost of hurting other people? The people who are precious for someone else? Isn¡¯t that selfish? Just as selfish as the God you cursed? What is the difference between you and the God you cursed? What is the difference between you and the Darkness Army? That was your answer, becoming the evil itself you cursed so much and make other people to go through the same pain you went through? Fuck you all. You are just worthless weaklings... cowards who were just afraid of embracing the pain and the grief and moving on. Instead of sharing the pain all of you experienced and overcoming it, you just ran away from it. Trying to ease your pain by causing more pain to others. Tell you what? You are the weakest scums I¡¯ve ever met. You are worse than the Darkness Army invaded this City. You scumbags!¡± Metehan was quite furious. He couldn¡¯t ease his anger even after all of those words. The gang members and Lorenzo were speechless. They couldn¡¯t say anything back. Stolen from its original source, this story is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. ¡°Are you happy now? Did your pain and grief pass off now? I inflicted pain you because I thought maybe you could understand feelings of the people you hurt and feel regretted. However you were just scared of having more pain and begged for forgiveness. I thought as long as you don¡¯t harm others anymore, I would be satisfied with that but now I learnt it, I won¡¯t be. Why did you cause the same pain to others if you went through the same pain? I don¡¯t understand how can you even call yourselves humans. I just don¡¯t understand how you can stand yourselves.¡± Metehan had started to cry. Lorenzo and other gang members were conflicted now. They had never thought this way. They had thought what they have been doing was natural. They had lost their precious ones so what would they care about others? However when they saw Metehan, they realized something. What if they were in the same shoes with the people who they had been hurting so far? Actually they were in the same shoes with them, they had lost their precious ones and so the other people did. So why didn¡¯t they act the same way they did and hurt others? They had many friends in the City Guards who also lost their precious ones but they didn¡¯t act the way Lorenzo and his men did. Why did only they acted that way? Why didn¡¯t others do it? How could they stand themselves? They had started to question themselves. However the answer was clear. They were scums, weaklings and cowards who chose the easy way and ran away. Realizing that had made them regret. They wished that they hadn¡¯t acted that way. They had truly wanted to make amends for it. While they were in these thoughts, some system notifications had started to pop up in front of crying Metehan. +You truly rehabilitated Lorenzo, a chaotic dark red person, and his men. Previously you had just subdue them by striking fear into them. Since this had prevented them from doing evil deeds, this was kind of a pseudo rehabilitation. However you made them realize what they were doing wrong and repent for it. You guided them them to the true right path. They will never repeat their past mistakes and try to be better men. Their alignment will stay the same however it can turn to white depending on their good deeds. +Your Guidance Skill reached to Intermediate Level 1. +Due to special actions, a new stat has been created; Therapy(+15). You can not distribute points to this stat. It will increase due to your avatar¡¯s special actions. You will convince other people more easily depending on the stat amount. +Since the special conditions were met, Guidance Skill upgraded to Guidance II Skill. New features added to the skill. +Due to special actions your title upgraded to The Therapist. All stats increased by 2. +Since you rehabilitated a chaotic dark red person, you earned 750 Contribution Points and 500 Fame. ¡®What the hell?! They were rehabilitated? And moreover I got a new stat and my skill was upgraded?¡¯ Metehan was in shock. He was just sad and furious before when he heard their story. All he did was to shouting at them in anger and crying in sorrow of how they could do what they have been doing. And that caused them to be rehabilitated? It was sure a weird game. He stopped to cry and checked his new upgraded skill.
Guidance II (Passive, Intermediate Level 1 | %11) : Guiding lost souls is a tough job. Since not all of them are aware of their conditions, you will need strength to subdue them in order to guide them to the right path. When you are in Battle Phase against chaotic NPCs or players, all stats +%30, HP and MP recovery rate +%6 per 10 seconds, HP and MP fully recovered at the activation of the Battle Phase. Additional Effect : When you are in Battle Phase against chaotic dark red NPCs or players, all stats will increase by the amount of your Therapy stat.
¡®Hmmm, it has an additional effect. It is useful.¡¯ Metehan was satisfied with it. And then he checked his stats. [td2]Level
Status Window
NameMetehan
RaceHumanGenderMale
ClassWarriorSubClassNone
ProfessionNoneSubProfessionNone
Titles[/td4]The Therapist
1Experience0%
Fame600AlignmentWhite
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Satiety50%Fatigue75%
Attack17-19Attack Speed9
Critical Hit Rate0.23%Maximum Weight14
Defence7Evasion Rate1.1%
CP2800GP0
HP240/240MP75/75
Stamina190/209
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Strength28Agility23
Vitality23Luck13
Wisdom15Intelligence14
Leadership13Charisma8
Therapy17
Metehan closed the stat window with a satisfied face. All of his anger and sorrow had passed off. He was calm again. He turned to Lorenzo and the other gang members. Their faces were down looking at the ground like naughty children who had something wrong and waiting for their parents to scold them. Metehan sighed when he saw them. Apparently they had really repented. ¡°Untie Lorenzo. ¡° Metehan ordered gang members. They immediately untied him. Lorenzo stood up his face down. He was so ashamed that he couldn¡¯t look at Metehan¡¯s eyes. ¡°Return all the stolen items you and your people stole starting with the necklace of Mario¡¯s mother.¡± Metehan said with cold voice. Lorenzo nodded silently and opened a chest standing in the right corner of the room. He took out the necklace of Mario¡¯s mother and handed over to Metehan. Meanwhile Ted had also approached to Metehan. ¡°Thank you very much, Big Brother. You really guided them to the right path. I can¡¯t thank you enough.¡± Ted said with soft voice and a tender smile on his face conflicting his appearance. +[Quest : Ted¡¯s Sincere Request] has been completed. +Diamond Necklace of the Innocent Woman has been acquired. Metehan checked the necklace with the basic skill; Inspect.
[Diamond Necklace of the Innocent Woman] [Quest Item] Type : Necklace Durability : [50/50] Weight : 0.3 Special Effects Decreases the fear and anxiety by %90. Provides mental stability. It is a diamond necklace worn by mother of Orphan Mario. It helped him on easing his anxiety and fear and provided mental support. You will complete the [Quest : Urgent Request of Orphan Mario] when you give it back to Mario. Time Left: 8 hours.
There was still time. However Metehan wanted to return it as soon as possible since Mario was feeling anxious without it. Metehan turned back to Lorenzo and gang members. ¡°I want you to go back to the City Guards and make amends by protecting the City if you really feel regretted.¡± ¡°We will. Thank you for your help. If it weren¡¯t for you, we would never be able to realize what we¡¯ve been doing was wrong. You guided us to the right path. We will go and beg for forgiveness from our former friends and do our best to protect the City. You are always welcome to visit us.¡± Lorenzo said with a smile on his face. And other gang members nodded. ¡°Then I shall be going. I need to return this necklace to Mario as soon as possible.¡± Metehan left the house and came to the Mario¡¯s house. Mario was quite happy when he saw Metehan. ¡°You are back, Big Brother! I had started to think that you were dead.¡± Mario said with a joyful voice. ¡°Hahaha, I won¡¯t die so easy.¡± Metehan said with a fake smile. ¡°Did you get back my mom¡¯s necklace, Big Brother?¡± Mario asked with an expectant tone. ¡°Ah, sure. Here it is.¡± Metehan gave the necklace to Mario. Mario was so happy that he started to dance with joy. ¡°Thank you, thank you, Big Brother!¡± +[Quest : Urgent Request of Orphan Mario] has been completed. +Your level has risen. ¡®Sweet. I gained a level!¡¯ Metehan smiled with a satisfied face. He checked his stat window. He had 9 unallocated stat points. ¡®Hmm, I am a Warrior so I will need strength. However I need agility and defence too. I guess I will add 5 points to Strength and 4 points to Agility.¡¯ He distributed his points accordingly. Meanwhile Mario was staring at me with a weird expression. ¡°What is wrong, Mario?¡± ¡°Ummm¡­ It is not much but please take it.¡± Mario said with a blushing face and handed out a Silver Coin. Metehan was surprised a little. He wasn¡¯t expecting this. ¡°No need. I am sure you need it more than I.¡± He said with a smile on his face. Actually Metehan had no money. He really needed it. However he didn¡¯t want to take money from an orphan. ¡°No, please take it. I won¡¯t feel alright unless you take it. You helped me while nobody else did. Please Big Brother, take it.¡± Metehan couldn¡¯t refuse it and took it. ¡°Thank you, Mario. ¡° At that moment a system notification popped up. +Warning: Fatigue level exceeded 75%. All stats decreased by 75%. Sleeping is adviced. ¡®What? Sleep? I have to sleep as well?¡¯ Metehan was a little confused. He didn¡¯t encounter any information about sleeping on the forums. ¡®But how will I sleep? Do I have to sleep while connected? Or just logging off will be enough?¡¯ He had no idea about how to do it. ¡°Big Brother, you look really tired. I think you should sleep. If you don¡¯t have anywhere to stay, you can stay here tonight.¡± Mario said with a worried voice. ¡°Well, I don¡¯t have anywhere to stay. But I don¡¯t want to be a burden to you.¡± He had nowhere to stay and wanted to test his idea however he didn¡¯t want to be a burden to Mario. ¡°No, it wouldn¡¯t. Actually I would be very happy if you stayed. I feel a little lonely and scared since there is nobody at home. Please Big Brother, stay.¡± Mario said with begging eyes. ¡°O-Okay, if you insist.¡± Metehan didn¡¯t want to refuse Mario and he could test his idea about sleeping as well. ¡°Yay! Thank you, Big Brother! Come this way. I will show you your room.¡± Mario said with a joyful voice. The room Mario showed was a narrow room with a single bed. The grouts on the wall had fallen. Normally Metehan wouldn¡¯t stay in such a room however he had no other choice. There is no way he would refuse to stay here. It would hurt Mario¡¯s feelings. ¡°Thank you, Mario. ¡° ¡°I thank you, Big Brother. Good night.¡± ¡°Good night.¡± Mario left the room and Metehan lay down on the bed and closed his eyes. It was a long day for him and he was quite tired. So he had fallen asleep after a few seconds later.
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Chapter 5 - Dual Sword Mastery Chapter 5 - Dual Sword Mastery +Fatigue recovered fully. +Satiety dropped under %50. All stats decreased by %50. Metehan saw these system notifications when he opened his eyes. It was morning in Royal Blood Online. He had slept connected to the game. And strangely he felt better. His fatigue was recovered, not only in the game, in the real life as well. He got up from the bed and sat on it for a while. The room was quite bright now. It looked like it was around noon. He had slept for a quite while. He stood up and walked towards the door. He could hear some noises coming from the other side of it. He slowly opened the door and saw Mario and a man sitting around a round table. ¡°Big Brother, you are finally awake!¡± Mario said with an excited tone while standing up and running towards Metehan. The other man smiled and greeted him with a slight bow. ¡°Come Big Brother, meet my dad.¡± Mario held his hand and pulled him towards the man. The man stood up. He was a tall man with a well-built body. ¡°Nice to meet you, The Great Benefactor of our City. My name is Stefan. I am Mario¡¯s father. I heard you helped Mario and while helping him you also helped the City as well. As his father and a citizen of the City, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.¡± ¡°Ah, you¡¯re welcome. However I didn¡¯t understand the ¡°The Great Benefactor¡± part. I don¡¯t remember doing anything for being called that.¡± Metehan asked with a puzzled expression. ¡°HA HA HA!¡± Stefan laughed. ¡°I see. You are also very humble. After rehabilitating Lorenzo and his men that caused great trouble for the city and on the top of that even convincing them to join the the City Guard for their redemptions, you can still see it something trivial. It is truly admirable! HA HA HA HA.¡± In the early morning, Lorenzo and his man had gone to the City Guards Garrison and begged the current Captain Richard for forgiveness and to let them join the City Guards and make amends for all of their sins. Richard was quite surprised to see such a scene. The group that caused quite trouble for the City were begging him to let them join. The City Guards were currently weak so security level in the City was quite low. That¡¯s why they couldn¡¯t handle with Lorenzo and his gang. The fact that Lorenzo and his gang will stop their evil acts was already a big event but on the top of that they were also begging to join the City Guards for the redemption. Power of the City Guards would boost enormously if they¡¯ve joined. The City Guard could definitely use their strength to increase the security level in the City. Richard snapped out of his confused state after a little while, ¡°Okay, I will test you for a while. I am not entirely certain about that you really repented. If you cause any trouble or I see any ulterior motive, I will arrest you all immediately and leave you in the jail until you are all rotten. Are we clear?¡± Richard said with a cold voice. He was still unsure about whether they really repented or not. Nobody would blame him. People don¡¯t change overnight after all. However the rumour about them repenting their sins and joining the City Guards for redemption had spread like a wildfire in the City. Even Stefan who just recently turned back to the City heard about it. And when he heard Mario¡¯s story about his mother¡¯s necklace were stolen and it was taken back by someone, he connected the dots. That person must have caused them repent for their sins. There were not any other explanation. He must have somehow made them realized what they¡¯ve been doing was wrong and made them repented. That had made Stefan so surprised that he even forgot to scold Mario. Mario was happy about it. He was expecting a scold but he didn¡¯t get any. Anyway, Metehan didn¡¯t know about it so he was puzzled. ¡°Gurrr~~¡± Stefan stopped laughing when he heard the sound. Metehan was hungry and his stomach had grumbled. ¡°Oh, so you are hungry. We were about eat something. Join us.¡± Lorenzo invited him with a warm smile on his face. ¡°Ah thank you for your kind offer. However I have food with me.¡± Metehan refused their offer kindly. And took out a wheat bread from his bag. ¡°Is that all of your food? Just a wheat bread?¡± Stefan asked with a puzzled expression. ¡°Yes, it is enough for me.¡° Metehan answered with a blushing face. ¡°I see. You are acting humble again. However you are my guest now. So you have to eat with us. I just got back from hunting with plenty of preys. So don¡¯t worry about causing us trouble and eat with us. It is rude to reject someone''s kind offer.¡± Stefan protested it with a serious expression. Metehan couldn¡¯t reject their offer anymore and joined them on the meal. Stefan had cooked a deer stew with potato in it. It was very delicious. After thanking for the meal, Metehan left the house. Mario¡¯s house was in a back alley so he had to walk a while before he reached the main street. There were many people in the street. It was very hard to distinguish players from NPCs. Since the images were transferred directly to your brain, the NPCs and other players¡¯ avatars were exactly like real people. Metehan passed the street and started to walk towards the south gate of the City until an old man with white hairs and white bread stopped him. ¡°Oh, Great Benefactor please help me.¡± The old man said with a worrisome voice. ¡°How can I help you?¡± Metehan responded with a gentle voice. ¡°My name is Sithred. I am a merchant of this humble City. I have an order to deliver until tomorrow however I don¡¯t have all of the necessary goods in the order. I am short 1000 rabbit meats. Can you please provide me 1000 rabbit meats? You can get it by killing Wild Rabbits in the forest near the south gate of the City. Of course I will give you a reasonable reward for it.¡± Sithred continued. And a window popped up in front of Metehan.
[Quest : Urgent Request of the Merchant Sithred] Sithred is a merchant who lives in Semerkant City. He has an order to deliver but he is short 1000 rabbit meats required in the order. Sithred asks you to get them by killing Wild Rabbits in the forest near the south gate. Restrictions : You have to provide 1000 rabbit meats until tomorrow. If you can¡¯t, you will fail the quest and you won¡¯t take it again. Difficulty : F Reward : Some money Do you accept the quest?
¡®Hmm, I was planning to grind level anyway. I can complete the quest meanwhile.¡¯ ¡°Sure. I will bring you 1000 rabbit meats until tomorrow. Please rest assured. ¡° Metehan answered gently. ¡°Thank you, Great Benefactor. I will be waiting your good news.¡± +You accepted the quest. Metehan left the City via south gate and head to the forest. There were many players grinding in the forest. Each of them had formed parties with 4-5 people and they were hunting Wild Rabbits. Metehan stood and watched them for a while. Wild Rabbits were spawning in flocks in certain spots with about 4 minutes intervals. Each flock had 5 rabbits in it. Parties with 4-5 people were having hard times with dealing them. When one of them got attacked, all of the Wild Rabbits in the flock were attacking the attackers. And they were amazingly agile. Their attack power wasn¡¯t high but their movements and attack speeds were extremely high. Instead of one strong attack, they were dealing multiply weak attacks. However the speed of the attacks were so high that it was more effective than a single strong attack. That¡¯s why they were grinding with parties, not solo. ¡°Damn it! I don¡¯t want to get involved with anyone.¡± Metehan cursed silently. He didn¡¯t want to join any party. However it didn¡¯t seem like he could hunt them easily by himself. The quest he took seemed more difficult than it stated. If he had simply joined a party, he could easily grind and collect the required rabbit meats. However that was out of question for Metehan. So he kept going into the dept of forest. After walked about half an hour, he reached a spot with no players grinding. ¡®What should I do now? I watched the movement patterns of the Wild Rabbits. It would be impossible for normal players to hunt them alone but I am not a normal player. I am a martial artist. I should be able to handle them by using my personal experience. Okay, let¡¯s give it a try.¡¯ Metehan decided to try to take them on alone. Wild Rabbits were normally passive monsters. Unless you attack them, they won¡¯t attack you. Metehan slowly approached the flock. One of them felt his presence and started to snarl at him like a dog. When they heard it, the rest of the flock turned to Metehan and they started to snarl at him as well. They weren¡¯t attacking. It was as if they were warning him to get away. However Metehan drew his sword and attacked the one of the Wild Rabbits. +Battle Phase is active. Metehan could see the Wild Rabbits¡¯ basic informations now since Battle Phase was activated. Their levels were 3. And the one Metehan attacked had 40% HP now. He had dropped its HP by 60% with a single attack. However the flock also started to attack Metehan. They were inflicting 5 damage to him with each paw and they were conducting 3 paws at each of their attacks. Metehan could dodge the attacks of the 3 Wild Rabbits by moving to right and left however they were too fast so he couldn¡¯t dodge more than 3 of them. That¡¯s why 2 of them could attack him successfully and he had lost 30 HP. Metehan continued to attack them while dodging their attacks. He killed the Wild Rabbit with %40 HP and attacked another one. Attack pattern of the Wild Rabbits was simple. They were attacking by pawing 3 times and retreating for a few seconds and attacking again. Now there were 4 Wild Rabbits and one of them had %40 HP. He attacked the injured Wild Rabbit and dodged other 3 Wild Rabbits¡¯ attacks. Now Metehan could hunt the rest of them without losing any HP. He continued with the same pattern and he could kill the flock in less than a minute and his HP dropped by 20%. ¡®Hmm, hunting them wasn¡¯t as hard as it seemed. New flock will spawn in 3 minutes. With my HP recovery rate, I will be at the full HP by then. I can grind here by myself.¡¯ Metehan could hunt them so easily is not just because he was a martial artist, he had also stats points equal to a level 4 player. The parties he passed by in forest were consist of players with level 1 or 2 at most. That¡¯s why there was no way they could hunt the Wild Rabbits alone. ¡®The loot from Wild Rabbits isn¡¯t quite good. They only dropped 5 rabbit meats and 2 Copper Coins.¡¯ Metehan collected the 5 rabbit meats and 2 Copper Coins they dropped immediately. This story is posted elsewhere by the author. Help them out by reading the authentic version. Metehan sat down in order to recover his HP and checked the experience bar. His experience bar had only reached to 0.5%. ¡®What? It only increased by 0.5%? So basically I need to kill 995 Wild Rabbits more to reach Level 3? This game is quite hard. Anyway I will complete the quest when I reached to Level 3. And I will get some experience reward for completing the quest as well. Probably it won¡¯t be enough to gain a level like when I completed Mario¡¯s quest but it is still better than nothing. The quests are sure handy.¡¯ His HP had recovered fully and the new flock had spawned. He took his sword and continued to hunt them. When he had killed the 250th Wild Rabbit, they had finally dropped a sword. This was the first item they dropped. And at the same a system notification also popped up. +Sword Mastery reached Beginner Level 2. You gained 1 Sword Mastery Skill Point. +There are 3 new available Sword Skills. You can unlock them by using required Sword Mastery Skill Points. ¡®Hmmm, I read that Royal Blood Online was going to have a unique skill system. However there wasn¡¯t any detailed information. So it was how it is. Interesting¡¯ Metehan was quite amused. Metehan took the sword and other loots and checked the new available skills.
One-Handed Sword Mastery (Passive, Locked, Available) : It provides some bonuses while using one-handed swords, daggers or knives depending on the skill level. This is an branch skill under the Sword Mastery. So skill level can only be increased by using Sword Mastery Skill Point(s). Skill level can not be increased by constant usage like Root or Random Skills. The skill rank can¡¯t be higher than its root skill, Sword Mastery. Next Level : Beginner Level 1 Requirements : Sword Mastery Beginner Level 2, 1 Sword Mastery Skill Point Two-Handed Sword Mastery (Passive, Locked, Available) : It provides some bonuses while using two-handed swords depending on the skill level. This is an branch skill under the Sword Mastery. So skill level can only be increased by using Sword Mastery Skill Point(s). Skill level can not be increased by constant usage like Root or Random Skills. The skill rank can¡¯t be higher than its root skill, Sword Mastery. Next Level : Beginner Level 1 Requirements : Sword Mastery Beginner Level 2, 1 Sword Mastery Skill Point Dual Sword Mastery (Passive, Locked, Available) : It provides some bonuses while using two swords at the same time depending on the skill level. This is an branch skill under the Sword Mastery. So skill level can only be increased by using Sword Mastery Skill Point(s). Skill level can not be increased by constant usage like Root or Random Skills. The skill rank can¡¯t be higher than its root skill, Sword Mastery. Next Level : Beginner Level 1 Requirements : Sword Mastery Beginner Level 2, 1 Sword Mastery Skill Point
¡®Hmmm, it is hard to decide. I don¡¯t have any two-handed sword but I have 2 one-handed sword now. Let¡¯s check the sword first before deciding.¡¯ Metehan checked the sword with Inspect Skill.
[Short Sword] Type : One-Handed Sword Attack : 4 ~6 Attack Speed : 5 Durability : [25/25] Weight : 2 Requirements Level : 1 Strength : 22 Agility : 16 Class : None A light sword with low attack power. There is nothing special about this sword. All you can do with this sword is to swing it blatantly to kill some rabbits.
¡®What is with this weird description? Is this a joke? Anyway, it is slightly better than my sword. I can use Dual Sword Mastery with it. However it will be difficult to find two good swords instead of one in the future. What should I do?¡¯ Metehan was planning to choose either One-Handed Sword Mastery or Dual Sword Mastery. However he was a little hesitant. Metehan thought for a few minutes and finally decided. ¡®What the hell?! I will choose the Dual Sword Mastery for now and try it for a while. I can switch to One-Handed Sword Mastery if I am not satisfied with it.¡¯ Metehan used his Sword Mastery Skill Point on Dual Sword Mastery and unlocked it. +New skill was unlocked; Dual Sword Mastery. Metehan quickly checked his new skill excitedly.
Dual Sword Mastery (Passive, Beginner Level 1) : While using two swords at the same time, your attack power will be increased by 10%. However swords should be identical in order to use this skill with maximum efficiency. If swords aren¡¯t identical but have the same attack power, you will use it with 80% efficiency and if swords aren¡¯t identical and they don¡¯t have the same attack power, you will use it with 50% efficiency. Next Level : Beginner Level 2 Requirements : Sword Mastery Beginner Level 3, 1 Sword Mastery Skill Point
¡®Damn it! If I knew that swords would have to be identical, I wouldn¡¯t choose it. The descriptions of the skills were too vague.¡¯ Metehan cursed when he saw the skill description. However there was nothing he could do anymore, so he equipped the Short Sword helplessly. Even though he couldn¡¯t get the full boost, his attack power had increased anyway. So he decided to let it go and continued to hunt. When he killed the 600th Wild Rabbit, his Satiety had dropped under 50% so he ate two wheat breads. He had 6 wheat breads left now. ¡®I should buy wheat breads when I got back to the City. If I forgot and run out of them while grinding, it would be troublesome.¡¯ Metehan continued to hunt, drop rate was quite bad. He had only rabbit meats and 1-3 Copper Coins from each flock. However when he killed the 900th Wild Rabbit, another Short Sword dropped. Metehan took it excitedly and equipped it. ¡®Good. Now I will be able to use my Dual Sword Skill with maximum efficiency.¡¯ Metehan resumed his hunt after he equipped two identical Short Swords. He could now kill them by only one hit. When he killed his 1000th Wild Rabbit totally 14 hours after he started to hunt them, 2 system notifications popped up. +Your level has risen. +Due to your dedicated training, your Agility increased by 1. ¡®So you can gain extra stats like this too. However I doubt everybody could hunt for 14 hours without a break. ¡® Metehan distributed 5 points to Strength and 4 points to Agility. And then he went back to the City in order to complete the quest. Sithred had a small shop at the entrance of the south gate. When Sithred saw Metehan, he was very delighted. ¡°Oh, Great Benefactor. I assume you completed my request. Is that correct?¡± Sithred asked with expectant eyes. ¡°Yes, I collected 1000 rabbit meats. Here they are.¡± Metehan kindly hand them over to Sithred. ¡°Thank you very much, Great Benefactor. I would be in quite trouble if it weren¡¯t for you.¡± Sithred said with a joyful voice. +You completed the quest. ¡°It¡¯s nothing. And please call me Metehan. I am not feeling alright when you call me Great Benefactor.¡± ¡°You should. I guess you aren¡¯t still aware of what kind of trouble you saved us from. However I will respect your request and call you Metehan. By the way, here is the reward I promised you.¡± Sithred gave 5 Silver Coins to Metehan. Metehan was quite satisfied with the reward. His experience bar had also increased to 60%. ¡°Can I ask you a favor, Uncle Sithred?¡± Metehan asked with a gentle voice. ¡°Sure. If it is something I can help.¡± Metehan took out 500 Copper Coins and gave Sithred. ¡°Can you exchange these with 5 Silver Coins? It is troublesome to carry that much coins with me.¡± Sithred was a little surprised. He wasn¡¯t expecting such a request however he kindly accepted Metehan¡¯s offer. ¡°Sure. Here it is your 5 Silver Coins.¡± ¡°Thank you very much. If there is anything you need, you can always ask me.¡± Metehan said with a smile on his face. ¡°Of course. You are the only reliable Adventurer I know.¡± Sithred responded with a smile. ¡°Thank you very much.¡± Metehan left the shop after he slightly bowed to Sithred. +Warning: Fatigue level exceed 75%. All stats decreased by 75%. Sleeping is adviced. Metehan saw this system notification just after he left Shred''s shop. ¡®What the hell? Again?! This is quite annoying. I think I will test my other theory and just logg off for a while.¡¯ Metehan logged off and got out the game unit. It was 01:10 AM. He was online for about 11 hours. However he strangely felt like he was online for 2 days. ¡®I guess I felt like I¡¯ve been playing it for 2 days because of the extreme realism of the game.¡¯ ¡°Gurrr~~¡± While Metehan thinking that his stomach grumbled. He didn¡¯t eat anything for a quite long time. He had eaten 3 times in the game, however in the real life he was hungry for about 12 hours. ¡®I guess I will eat something and take a quick nap. And then connect the game again.¡¯ Metehan went to the kitchen and fixed himself some quick meal and then went to the bed for a quick nap. He was very excited. He wanted to connect the game again. However due to this annoying Fatigue feature, he had to wait. ¡®Maybe creators added this feature to protect people¡¯s health. I read on the net that some people had health issues due to the constant playing.¡¯ Metehan thought himself while closing his eyes. However he was going to learn about the truth behind it sooner or later.
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Chapter 6 - Cold and Boss Chapter 6 - Cold and Boss When Metehan woke up, it was around 03:20 AM. He excitedly got up and got into the game unit to connect the Royal Blood Online. +Fatigue is recovered fully. +Satiety dropped under 50%. All stats decreased by 50%. +Warning: Since you slept in a cold and uncomfortable environment, you caught a cold. All stats decreased by 10%. Resting in a warm and comfortable environment is advised. If you ignore your condition, it can get worse. ¡®What the hell? I caught a cold? Wasn¡¯t my body supposed to disappear when I logged off?¡¯ The first thing Metehan saw when he connected was those system notifications. Since Metehan was in front of Sithred¡¯s shop on the main street, including Sithred there were many people staring at him with a weird expression on their faces. ¡°Are you alright, Metehan? Why did you sleep in front of my shop? There are many inns in the City.¡± Sithred asked with a puzzled expression on his face. ¡®What? I have to stay at an inn every time I logged off? What is with this ridiculous setting?¡¯ Metehan was quite disturbed. He wasn¡¯t expecting such a troublesome setting. Normally when you log off, your character disappear as well. And when you log in, your character reappears at the same spot you logged off. However it was different for Royal Blood Online. When he logged off, his character stays in sleeping mode at the spot he logged off. Which makes it quite troublesome. You have a real life as well. If something urgent comes up during grinding, you can¡¯t just log off. You have to go somewhere safe. If you just log off during a hunt, your character probably will die and God knows what kind of penalties will be applied. ¡°Ah, I didn¡¯t know that when I logged off, my avatar would stay in game in sleeping mode.¡± Metehan answered after a little while. ¡°Avatar? Log off? What are you talking about? You aren¡¯t making any sense. Did the cold got into your head or something?¡± Sithred was confused. He couldn¡¯t understand what Metehan was talking about. ¡®Ah, right. It is a game for me but it is the real life for them. Of course they wouldn¡¯t understand.¡¯ ¡°Ah, nothing. I guess I fainted when I got out of your shop due to extreme fatigue.¡± Metehan made up something to cover it up. ¡°Ah, I see. However you shouldn¡¯t push yourself too much. You should take care of your health.¡± Sithred answered with a worried face. ¡°I will keep that in my mind. Thank you.¡± Metehan stood up and left there. ¡°Damn it! I can recover my Satiety by eating some wheat breads however I have to rest at an inn in order to recover my cold. I don¡¯t want to rest anymore. I want to grind and gotten stronger as soon as possible. I can handle with 10% stat penalty. It is not a big deal. I will hunt the Wild Rabbits for a while and see what happens.¡¯ Metehan left the City after he ate 2 wheat breads and went to his previous spot. There was nobody there as usual. He drew his swords and started to hunt them. He wasn¡¯t able to hunt them in a single hit however he could still hunt them without any trouble. There were other spots with 1 minute walking distances. He had waited in the same spot for the Wild Rabbits to spawn during rabbit meat quest however this time he didn¡¯t want to wait and he moved the next spot as soon as he slaughtered the flock in the spot. He was losing only 10% HP so he could hunt the other flocks without waiting for his HP to recover fully. He also started to use his Terror Skill. Since his HP was recovering fully while he was waiting for them to spawn, he hadn¡¯t seen the need to use it. However this time he wasn''t waiting. Since he was moving constantly his HP wasn''t recovering so he needed to decrease the damage as much as possible. He could kill the flock in 5 seconds so every 5 minutes he was killing a flock without getting hurt. ¡®This is more effective. Why didn¡¯t I think of this before?¡¯ Metehan continued hunting going back and forward between the spots. He was taking breaks when his HP dropped to 10% or lower. The drop rate was the same as usual. He was getting Copper Coins and rabbit meats as loot. He was collecting the meats as well. He could sell them to the merchants. Even though he won''t get much money for them. Money was still money. He knew money is very important in these kind of games. On the top of that the rabbit meats were surprisingly light. 1000 of them weigh only 2 kg. And he had 19 kg carrying capacity. So he could carry quite much without worry. That was one of the best feature of the Warrior class. They could carry 0.5 kg for each Strength stat they had. And Metehan had 38 Strenght points right now. Although he was getting a 20% movement speed penalty when the weight he carries exceeded 50% of his total capacity, it wasn''t a problem for now. After all he had only two swords which weight 4 kg right now. He could carry 2500 rabbit meats without taking any penalty. About 4 hours later when he killed the last member of the flock in the spot, some system notifications had popped up. +Due to your dedicated training, your Agility increased by 1. +Your level has risen. +Sword Mastery reached Beginner Level 3. You gained 1 Sword Mastery Skill Point. ''Nice. Now how should I distribute my points? Hmmm.'' Metehan sat down and started to recover his HP and MP since they had decreased quite while. After he thought for a while he had made his decision. ''I will continue with Dual Sword Mastery. It has some drawbacks however it is quite efficient if you met the requirements. And since I get some Agility bonuses once a while during my grindings I will distribute 6 points to Strength and 3 points to Agility. Strength is more important for me.'' Metehan distributed his points accordingly. +Dual Sword Mastery has been increased to Beginner Level 2. Metehan checked his skill. And he was quite satisfied with its new attack boost.
Dual Sword Mastery (Passive, Beginner Level 2) : While using two swords at the same time, your attack power will be increased by 12%. However swords should be identical in order to use this skill with maximum efficiency. If swords aren¡¯t identical but have the same attack power, you will use it with 80% efficiency and if swords aren¡¯t identical and they don¡¯t have the same attack power, you will use it with 50% efficiency. Next Level : Beginner Level 3 Requirements : Sword Mastery Beginner Level 4, 1 Sword Mastery Skill Point
''Nice. Its attack bonus increased by 2%. If it goes on at this rate, I will have a 30% attack bonus, when it reached Intermediate Level 1. It is just awesome! However it is quite hard to increase Sword Mastery Level. Harder than increasing your character level. I wish there was a way to increase it faster.'' Metehan ate 2 wheat breads since his Satiety had dropped quite much and continued to hunt. He could kill them with one hit again. He collected Copper Coins and rabbit meats. His level was higher than them now so the experience he got from Wild Rabbits had dropped considerably. However he could hunt them easily and he had gotten used to hunting them. He was able to hunt them without almost getting any damage. So he decided to hunt here for a little more. His hunt continued without any problem for 4 more hours. However when he was about to kill the last Wild Rabbit in the flock, it did something unusual and cried in a painful voice. Then a system notification started to pop up. +Cry For Help has been activated. Due to your ruthless slaughter of Wild Rabbits, they fell in desperation and called for their mother. Metehan had killed the Wild Rabbit immediately after he read the notification. However it was too late. He suddenly heard a terrifying roar and a giant Wild Rabbit appeared from behind of the bushes in front of him with 2 meters height and 3 meters length. Its size was twice a normal Wild Rabbit. Then another system notification pop up. +Warning : The Boss Monster [Mother Wild Rabbit] appeared. ¡®What? A Boss Monster?! I read about them. They are strong monsters that drops special items. Their power is much more higher than its level. Nice. Finally I will get a nice item. I hope its drop rate isn¡¯t as low as the Wild Rabbits and I get something useful. However I need to be careful.¡¯ While Metehan was in these thoughts excitedly, monster roared again but this time its roar was different and it gave an eerie feeling. And another system notifications popped up. +Battle Phase is active. +Warning: The Fear Domination has been activated. All stats decreased by 10% until the end of the Battle Phase. ¡®What the hell?! Damn it! That¡¯s bad. I must be more careful.¡¯ Metehan already had a 10% stat penalty because of the cold and now he had another. He stats had decreased by 20%. However when it rains, it pours. Another system notification popped up. +Warning : Your cold has gotten worse. All stats decreased by 25%. Resting is strongly advised. If you ignore your condition, it might get worse. ¡®That¡¯s just great. Anything else? Damn it! I will have to fight with 65% of my overall strength. On the top of that my HP isn¡¯t full either. It is at 70%. If I had in my full power, I wouldn¡¯t be worried about the Boss Monster, but now I am in pinch. I should run.¡¯ However Mother Wild Rabbit attacked him without giving a chance to run. Fortunately its attack pattern was similar to Wild Rabbits. Dash, 2 paws and retreat. However speed and attack power were much more higher. Metehan could dodge its first paw but its second paw hit him. It inflicted 30 damage. Wild Rabbits'' paw wasn''t so painful however Mother Wild Rabbit''s paw was quite painful. Still he could somehow endure the pain. Metehan swung his swords right after he received damage however Mother Wild Rabbit faster than his swings and could dodge them by retreating. Metehan checked his HP to see how much damage he received. His HP was at 85% which confused him. He had 70% HP before the combat. However it was at 85% now. Was his HP recovered somehow? That was not possible. After a little confusion he figured it out. ''Right. My stats decreased by 25% so my maximum HP decreased as well which make my HP 100% again.'' Because of the confusion Metehan forgot to attack and Mother Wild Rabbit used this chance to attack. He received the first paw because of his confusion which dropped his HP to 70% again however he could dodge the second paw while landing a counter attack to its neck. +Critical hit. +You inflicted 200% damage. Stolen from its rightful place, this narrative is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.Metehan quickly checked its HP and basic informations. He didn''t have the chance because he was confused before. ''Damn! Even with a critical hit I could drop his HP by 5%. Is it really a Level 5 monster? I guess Boss Monster is really much more stronger than their level states'' Metehan was frustrated. He had lost his 30% HP however he could only decrease its HP by 5%. ''My Terror Skill is in the cool down period however it will be available in 20 seconds. I need to hang in until then.'' After he settled his thoughts, he attacked to the monster. However his speed was slower and his swords were heavier. He was suffering greatly because of the stat penalties. Yet he could still land his attack . Mother Wild Rabbit wasn''t as good as Wild Rabbits on dodging wise. That was fortunate for Metehan. Mother Wild Rabbit tried to counter attack to his attack however Metehan already retreated after his attack. He had under heavy stat penalty however he could still use his experience in martial arts. Mother Wild Rabbit started to attack however Metehan already dodge it by stepping to his right with a perfect footwork even before it started to attack. The Wild Rabbits had a habit before attacking. They were squeezing their bodies just before attacking and once they did that they were unable to change their directions. He had confirmed that many times. That was the main reason why Metehan could dodge their attacks. If he wasn''t fighting against 5 of them at the same time, there was no way they could inflict him any damage. Mother Wild Rabbit also had the habit. He couldn''t dodge its first two attacks completely because he was panicked. His stats had decreased by 35% and this was his first time dealing with a boss monster. However now he could settle down his panic and calmed down. ''Even though my attack damage is low, I can kill him slowly as long as I dodge its attacks. There was nothing to be worried about. Calm down.'' Metehan had calmed down. He was dodging its attacks and attacking when he can while he was luring it outside of the spot. If the fight were to drag on, a new flock could be spawned and they might join the fight since their mother is in a combat. The cool down period of his Terror Skill had finally ended. Metehan immediately activated it. Mother Wild Rabbit was paralyzed for 6 seconds and its attack power had decreased by 11%. Metehan used this chance and started to attack it relentlessly. His aim was mostly his vital points such as neck. Since it was standing on four feet, its chest and other vital points were covered. He could pass to his back and try to attack his X Point however that would waste too much time. So he mainly attacked his neck with quick slashes. He could deal some critical hits. Metehan was counting the seconds while attacking so he retreated immediately when 6 seconds was up. Mother Wild Rabbit tried to attack him as soon as the paralyzing effect was broken up however it wasn''t successful. Its HP was at 45% when the paralyzing effect was broken up. ''Good. I can kill it.'' The fight continued for another 4 minutes. He could lure it out of the spot. So there was no other danger. Mother Wild Rabbit''s HP was at 20% now. In a minute the cool down period of his Terror Skill was gonna end. When he activated it, he could kill it. However Mother Rabbit had done something unexpected when its HP dropped under 20%. It had run away. Metehan wasn''t expecting this so he stared at the running boss monster for a while with a surprised expression. ''You coward. You call yourself a Boss Monster? Shame on you.'' Metehan chased after it. It was running to the spot. A flock was already spawned. It was planning to use the flock as its shield. However during the chase, the cool down period of the Terror Skill had ended. Metehan immediately activated it. The flock and Mother Wild Rabbit was paralyzed. Metehan slaughtered the flock in 2 seconds and killed Mother Wild Rabbit in the remaining 4 seconds. When he killed it, some system notifications started to popped up. +Your level has risen. +You are the first person who slayed a Boss Monster. The best possible item will drop from the Boss Monster. Your Fame increased by 500. +Due to your dedicated training, your Agility increased by 1. ''Ting, ting, ting!'' An item and two Gold Coins had dropped from it. Metehan quickly approached the dead body of Mother Wild Rabbit excitedly. His heart was about to stop. This was his first time killing a Boss Monster and system notification had stated that the best possible item would drop from it. There were two Gold Coins which could be considered a jackpot already. Probably none in the server had two Gold Coins yet. Unless they bought it for real money. The official site was selling Gold Coins and items. So somebody could have bought some Gold Coins. Anyway, he ignored the coins and took the item. It was a couple of boots. He immediately checked it with Inspect.
[Leather Rabbit Boots](Rare) Defense : 10 Durability : [50/50] Requirements : Strength : 30 Agility : 25 Level : 5 Class : None. Increasing Agility +5. Increasing movement speed +20%. Special boots made of high quality leather and other fabrics. It is a rare item with many bonuses.
''Woah! It is a rare item!! It provides 5 Agility points and +20% movement speed. That''s awesome. My day was quite unfortunate until now. I got cold and it''s gotten worse. However I got an awesome item. I am glad I came here to grind.'' Metehan was so joyful that he had started to dance. If someone saw him, he would think that he was crazy. However it was interrupted by a system notification. +Warning : Fatigue level exceeded %75. All stats decreased by 75%. ''Damn! Already? It hasn''t even been 9 hours since last time I slept. Is it because of my cold? I guess I should really rest at an inn until my cold is recovered. I have money now. It won''t be a problem.'' Metehan collected the Gold Coins and Copper Coins along with the rabbit meats, distributed all of his unallocated stats to Strength and returned to the City. It was quite hard with all the stat penalties. His stats were basically zero. He could reach the City in an hour. And another system notification popped up when he arrived at Semerkant City. +Warning : Fatigue level exceed 90%. All stats decreased by 90%. The resting is urgently advised. You might die out of fatigue. ''Damn. I get it. I will.'' Metehan sold his 2500 rabbit meats for 8 Silver Coins and went to an inn. It was 1 Silver Coin for a day. It was quite expensive. However it wasn''t a big deal for Metehan now. He was probably the richest person in the game. He immediately go to the bed as soon as he hired a room. He didn''t want to die out of Fatigue. It would be too lame. He had also some buffs since he was resting at an inn. +HP, MP and Fatigue recovery rate +50% during your stay at the inn. +Movement speed +25% for the amount of resting time after you left the inn. Metehan laid down on the bed and checked his stat window. [td2]Level
Status Window
NameMetehan
RaceHumanGenderMale
ClassWarriorSubClassNone
ProfessionNoneSubProfessionNone
Titles[/td4]The Therapist
5Experience10%
Fame1100AlignmentWhite
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Satiety60%Fatigue90%
Attack38-42Attack Speed13
Critical Hit Rate0.42%Maximum Weight26
Defence24Evasion Rate2.1%
CP2800GP0
HP280/280MP95/95
Stamina20/334
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Strength53Agility37(5)
Vitality23Luck13
Wisdom15Intelligence14
Leadership13Charisma8
Therapy17
He was very satisfied with his stats. He logged off after he checked his stats. It was 06:05 AM when he got out of the game unit. He wasn''t too tired but he had nothing to do so he went to bed. ''It was a good day at the end. I reached level 5 and I got an rare item. I also earned a quite of money. It would better if I hadn''t caught a cold however. Anyway it was a good day at the end.'' Metehan closed his eyes and fell asleep after a while with a smile on his face. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Author''s Note: I am not a native speaker so I misunderstood the Fatigue term. So I was using it wrong. I corrected it now. Previous posts were updated as well. If you like the story, please follow, add favories and comment.
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Chapter 7 - Reward Chapter 7 - Reward When Metehan woke up it was 09:00 AM. He had slept for about 3 hours. He immediately woke up and have some quick breakfast. His parents were already left for their jobs. So he was alone at home. He immediately got into the game unit and connected the Royal Blood Online after breakfast. +Fatigue was fully recovered.. +Cold was fully recovered.. +HP was fully recovered.. +MP was fully recovered.. His cold was recovered so his stat penalty had ended as well. It was dawn at Royal Blood Online when he connected. He got up from his bed and left the inn. He already paid for it in advance. ¡®Now I should buy some equipments for myself. I am level 5 now and I have money as well. I need to upgrade my swords and buy some armours for me. Also I should buy some food as well. I only got 2 wheat breads.¡¯ However shops was closed. He had to wait for a few hours before they were open. So Metehan decided to do some grindings until they were open. He left the City via south gate and went the woods to hunt Wild Rabbits. He didn¡¯t want to go further and find other monsters to hunt before he bought new equipments. He hunted for about two hours. He could hunt them his eyes closed without losing any HP. However he was getting almost no experience from hunting them. He hunted for two hours and his experience bar rose only by 1%. ¡®I guess it is a waste of time to hunt here now. The shops should be open by now. I better return the City.¡¯ Metehan returned the City and went to the market district. His first stop was bakery. He had eaten his last two wheat breads during the hunt. Wheat breads were cheap. They were sold for 1 Copper Coin. He bought 100 of them. His next stop was Merchant Sithred. Since his intimacy with him was high, he could find good equipments for cheap. Even though he was rich right now, he had to manage his money well. Metehan was good at managing money in the real life as well. So he was using the same principles. ¡°Save as much as money you can and spend your money wisely.You don¡¯t know when you really need it.¡± That was his principles. Anyway, Sithred was very happy to see Metehan. He welcomed him with a warm smile. ¡°Welcome, Metehan. How can I help you?¡± ¡°Hi, Sithred. I want to buy some equipments for myself. Such as swords, armours etc.¡± Metehan said with a smile on his face. ¡°I see. Let me check what I have. ¡° Sithred went back to the stand and came back with some items. ¡°I guess these should be good for you right now. ¡° There were 2 identical swords, a body armour, a couple of gloves, a pants and an helmet. Metehan checked all the items one by one.
[Iron Short Sword] Type : One-Handed Sword Attack : 10-12 Attack Speed : 6 Durability : [30/30] Weight : 2 Requirements Level : 5 Strength : 40 Agility : 35 Class : Warrior Low quality novice swords forged from low quality ores. However its sharpness is perfectly tuned.
[Chain Guardian Body Armour] Defense : 20 Durability : [50/50] Requirements : Strength : 45 Agility : 30 Level : 5 Class : Warrior. Low quality novice chain body armour. Even though it was made of low quality materials, it is perfect for novice warriors.
[Chain Guardian Pants] Defense : 15 Durability : [45/45] Requirements : Strength : 40 Agility : 25 Level : 5 Class : Warrior. Low quality novice chain pants. Even though it was made of low quality materials, it is perfect for novice warriors.
[Chain Guardian Gloves] Defense : 10 Durability : [40/40] Requirements : Strength : 35 Agility : 25 Level : 5 Class : Warrior. Low quality novice chain gloves. Even though it was made of low quality materials, it is perfect for novice warriors.
[Chain Guardian Helmet] Defense : 12 Durability : [40/40] Requirements : Strength : 40 Agility : 25 Level : 5 Class : Warrior. Low quality novice chain helmet. Even though it was made of low quality materials, it is perfect for novice warriors.
¡°These items are nice. I will buy 2 swords. How much is it all?¡± Metehan asked with a delighted expression. ¡°Hmm, 5 Silver Coins for body armour, 3 Silver Coins for gloves, 3 Silver Coins for helmet, 4 Silver Coins for pants and 6 Silver Coins for each swords. Totally it is 27 Silver Coins. However that is the normal price. I owe you a favour so I will give you a 30% discount. It is 18 Silver Coins for you. ¡° ¡°Woah. Equipments are really expensive here.¡± ¡°Well, materials necessary to make them are limited. That¡¯s why prices are high. Anyway, will you buy them?¡± ¡°Of course I will. It wouldn¡¯t be a problem if I pay it as 900 Copper Coins and 9 Silver Coins, would it?¡± ¡°Not at all. Actually we need Copper Coins more than Silver Coins so I would be happy if you paid it that way.¡± ¡°Thank you. Here it is.¡± ¡°Thanks for the patronage. When you don¡¯t need them anymore, I can buy them back for the half price.¡± ¡°Okay. I will keep that in my mind. By the way, how much would you pay for these there swords?¡± Metehan took out his old swords and showed them to Sithred. Sithred examined them for a while. ¡°These are useless items. However I can pay you 1 Copper Coin for them.¡± ¡°Deal. ¡° Metehan sold his old swords for 1 Copper and equipped his new equipments. ¡°Is there anything I can help you with?¡± Metehan asked Sithred hoping he might give him a quest. ¡°No, not particularly. I will let you know if I need anything.¡± ¡°Thank you. See you later.¡± ¡°See you.¡± Metehan left the shop and started to walk on the main street. Then three guards started to approach him. When they came close, the man in the front smiled and started to talk. ¡°Hello, Great Benefactor. We¡¯ve been looking for you. My name is Richard. I am the Captain of the City Guards. Firstly I want to thank you for your contributions to our city. Our Lord is also very pleased with that so he wanted to meet you. Could you follow us to the Castle?¡± Metehan was a little surprised. The Lord himself wanted to meet him. In these kind of games, you can¡¯t meet nobles unless you are extremely famous. His fame isn¡¯t low however he didn¡¯t think it was high enough to meet a noble. Moreover it was not any noble. It was the Lord of the City. He was a high noble. You could even say he was royalty since there was no Kingdoms in Royal Blood Online. He was basically the king of this city. Other players also noticed that and started to stare at them. City Guards wouldn¡¯t even talk to players unless it is absolutely necessary. And even if they did, they would be cold and arrogant. And they were talking to a player extremely politely. Metehan also realized the attention of the other players and started to get nervous. ¡°Ah, of course. If the Lord of this City calls me, of course I would go. Please lead me the way.¡± He answered with a low and polite voice. Stolen story; please report. The Castle of the Lord was in the center of the Semerkant City. It had a square shape with a two majestic towers in the east and west sides. The heights of the walls were about 10 meters and the heights of the towers were equally about 20 meters. The thickness of the walls were more than 5 meters. The lengths of the each surrounding walls were about 200 meters. It was like a mediaval castle. There was a luxurious looking majestic mansion between the towers. That was where Lord and his family resided. There were also many garrisons buildings around the mansion. Richard and Metehan passed through the castle gate and head towards the mansion. Beauty of the mansion had increased every step they took. It was so dazzling that Metehan thought he was about to faint for a moment. Metehan had never seen such a structure before. They get into the mansion through the door. There was a spacious hall in the entrance. It was so spacious that you could play a soccer match easily. There were two stairways in the right left sides of the hall. They went to the upstairs via the right stairways and got into a spacious room. There was a young man sitting on a throne in the center of the room. Richard started to walk towards the young man and kneeled before him. ¡°My Lord, I brought the Great Benefactor.¡± Richard said with a polite voice. Metehan was still standing at the entrance of the door in a bewildered state. He would watch medieval movies when he was child. Medieval movies were his favorite movies. He always dreamt about living in a medieval castle. And now he was in one of them. That¡¯s why he was so bewildered right now. However he snapped out of it by the question of the Lord. ¡°What is wrong, Benefactor? Why are you standing there? Come in.¡± Metehan hastily went in and kneeled down in front of him just like Richard. ¡°Please forgive my rudeness, My Lord. I was dazzled by your majestic castle and your presence.¡± Metehan said with a very polite voice. ¡°It is okay. Please raise your head. You are the Great Benefactor of this City. You don¡¯t have to kneel before me.¡± Lord said with a soft voice. Metehan rose his head and stood up. He was quie nervous. This was his first time seeing a Lord. He was feeling like he was in a dream. ¡°I wanted to meet you and give you a suitable reward. The City and I are in your debt. You saved us from a very troublesome man and on the top of that you added that troublesome man to our power. Ever since he joined the City Guards 3 days ago, the crime rate in the city dropped by 90% and in this respect the security level also risen by %90. This city was suffering from that for the last ten years. However now it all ended. I couldn¡¯t believe it when I first heard that he repented his sins and wanted to join the City Guards to make amends for them. And the one who convinced him was an adventurer, you. My pride wouldn¡¯t allow me not to pay this debt.¡± Lord stopped for a while to see his reaction. ¡°My Lord, I only did what I thought was right. I don¡¯t deserve your kind words.¡± Metehan answered with humble words. ¡°I see you are a humble man as well. However you deserve more than my kind words. I want to give you a reward however I can¡¯t decide what to give. I have many good items in my treasury however you are not strong enough to use them yet.¡± Lord paused for a while and thought. Then his eyes flashed. ¡°How about training you in our City Training Camp? Normally we don¡¯t allow adventurers to train there. However as the Great Benefactor, I can make an exception for you. Your can polish your skill there and also you may learn new skills as well. How about it?¡± When the Lord finished his sentence, a window popped up in front of Metehan.
[Special Offer from the Lord of Semerkant] The Lord of Semerkant wants to reward you with City Training Camp usage permission. The adventurers normally isn¡¯t allowed to use it however as the Great Benefactor of the Semerkant City, you will be allowed to use it and train there. You will have %300 skill experience rate while training there. The usage fee is 100 CPs per day. You currently have 2800 CPs. You can use it for up to 28 days with your current CPs. This is an one-time offer. Once you decided the number of days you wanted to use it, you can¡¯t increase or decrease it anymore even if you have enough CPs. That¡¯s why please make your decision wisely. You can also refuse this offer. However if you refuse this offer, your intimacy with the Lord will drop drastically. You might even get punished. Do you accept the offer?
¡®Woah! This is a great offer. I would never refuse it. I was already looking for a way to increase my skill levels faster. This is what I was looking for. You will have to change your items in one point. However skills are permanent! You can use them as long as you play.¡¯ Metehan was quite delighted. This was what he was looking for. ¡°I would be delighted if you had allowed me to use it, My Lord.¡± Metehan said with a respectful expression. +You accepted the special offer. ¡°Great. However I can¡¯t allow you to use it unlimitedly. I can only allow you to use it for 28 days at most. How long would you like to use it?¡± Lord asked with a worried face. ¡°Then I¡¯d like to use it for 28 days. I¡¯d like to train my skills as much as possible, My Lord. I am very grateful for your offer.¡± Metehan answered with a delighted face. ¡°I am glad you liked. I was a little worried about that you might not like it and want something more. However I am glad you are a humble person. You can start to use it immediately. Is it okay with you?¡± ¡°Yes, My Lord. I¡¯d like to start as soon as possible.¡± +2800 CPs was consumed. You were granted the usage permission of The City Traning Camp for 28 days. Metehan left the Castle with Richard. He lead Metehan to the training camp. When he entered the camp, he saw Lorenzo and his men there. They were training there as well. Lorenzo and his men were really delighted to see him. Lorenzo approached to Metehan. ¡°How are you, Metehan? It has been a while.¡± Lorenzo said with a smiling face. ¡°I am fine. Thank you. I heard about your good deeds. I am glad for you.¡± Metehan answered with a smile on his face. ¡°It is all thanks to you. If it weren¡¯t for you, I would never realize my sins. You opened my eyes. I am in your debt. When you need anything, you can always ask me. I will always come to your aid.¡± ¡°Thanks for your kind words. However if you haven¡¯t any goodness in you, I wouldn¡¯t be able to do anything. ¡° ¡°You are humble as always. By the way, why are you here? The adventurers wasn¡¯t even allowed to enter here.¡± Lorenzo asked with a puzzled expression. ¡°It seems I will be training here for a while.¡± Metehan told about how the Lord has rewarded him with allowing him to train here. Lorenzo was quite bewildered. However he was happy that he could somehow helped him and paid some of his debt. ¡°I see. I am glad I could somehow help you. Anyway, see you around then.¡± ¡°See you.¡± Lorenzo left for training after that. Richard lead him to one of the rooms in the camp. This was gonna be his room during his training period. Metehan was quite delighted and excited about the training. He wanted to start the training as soon as possible. ¡°Richard, I want to start as soon as possible.¡± Metehan said with an excited voice. ¡°Okay, follow me.¡± Metehan and Richard left the room. Metehan¡¯s long training had started.
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Chapter 8 - The Creepy Witch of Semerkant, Amatus Chapter 8 - The Creepy Witch of Semerkant, Amatus In the middle of the Semerkant City, a girl appeared out of a bright light. Her name was Amatus. And she was a Cleric. Actually one would mistake her for an evil witch at first. Shaggy pale skin, scarlet long curly hairs, a large jaw, slanting eyes, a medium sized ive under the right eye, a small nose, a flat chest, a slightly large butt and around 165 cm height. That was how she looked like. It was out of ordinary. However the most creepy part was that she had a very sweet and soft voice which isn''t suited her appearance at all. ¡®Geez, finally I am online. I started to play one day later because of my mother. She didn¡¯t have to take me with her to the therapist. I told her I was fine. However she insisted. Anyway, I am finally in the game. Let¡¯s start with finding a party. I can¡¯t grind level on my own.¡¯ Amatus started to walk towards the main street. There were many new players like her. So she was planning to form a party with one of the new players. Clerics were quite popular in the parties after all. Every party needed at least one Cleric. So she could easily join a party. At least that was what she thought. She approached to a novice player like her from his back. He seemed to be a Warrior judging by his clothes. ¡°Excuse me, shall we form a party?¡± She said with a soft and sweet voice. Her voice was so nice that every man would fall in love with her if it weren¡¯t for her appearance. The player turned around to her with a smile on his face however it turned into a shocked one the second he saw her. He had fallen on his butt out of shock. That wasn¡¯t the face he had expected to see when he heard her voice. He was feeling shocked because of the differences between the voice and the appearance. Soon after that shock had turned into a horror because of her appearance. He was seeing a witch right now in front of him. Moreover it was in the middle of the City. Then he started to shout in shock. ¡°Help, Guards! There is a witch monster in the City. Hurry up! Kill it!¡± The other players had started to look at the scene as well. ¡°A witch monster? In the City?¡± ¡°No way! Isn¡¯t the city supposed to be a safe zone? The monsters shouldn¡¯t be able to enter.¡± ¡°What are the guards doing? Letting monsters in the city.¡± Everybody had started to murmur. Amatus was in shock as well. She was looking around to see the witch monster he mentioned. However she couldn¡¯t see anything similar to it. She hadn¡¯t even thought for a second that he was referring to her. ¡°Witch monster? Where? I don¡¯t see any.¡± She answered with a puzzled face. ¡°It is you! The witch monster is you! Are you mocking me, you ugly monster?!¡± The man shouted with a horrified and angry face. Other players were also horrified when they saw her talking with a sweet voice. That was the creepiest thing about her. If she had talked with a more fitted voice, they wouldn¡¯t be horrified so much. However what they heard and what they saw wasn¡¯t making any sense. And that was scaring them like hell! ¡°Me? What are you talking about? Did you hit your head or what?¡± She was still puzzled. There was no way she was a witch monster. Why was he talking bullshit? While she was trying to understand what was going on, some guards had come there. ¡°Where is the monster?!¡± One of the guards shouted. ¡°It is here. Look.¡± The man answered. The guards looked at her and were startled for a moment. However after a few seconds, they had calmed down. ¡°What are you talking about? She is not a monster. She is an adventurer like you. Well, it is true she is quite ugly however that¡¯s not a crime. You can¡¯t choose your appearance after all. God creates some of us like that to remind us how lucky we are that we weren¡¯t created like that. Anyway, don¡¯t make a ruckus for something like that.¡± Guard said with a cold face and they left. However Amatus was in shock this time. She figured out who the witch they were talking about. That was her! Because of her appearance, they had mistook her for a monster! Her pale face had turned into red instantly. ¡®Damn. I guess I overdid it.¡¯ She thought and run away from there to an alley. She calmed herself down there. ¡®Okay. Don¡¯t lose your spirit. There will be at least one or two people that don¡¯t mind your appearance. It is okay.¡¯ She tried to be optimistic and returned to the main street again to find a party. However it didn¡¯t go as well as she assumed. That day she couldn¡¯t find any party. Everybody she approached reacted similarly and even after she explained that she is a player, they didn¡¯t want her to join their party because she creeped them out. This routine continued for 3 days until she became very famous in the Semerkant City. She had started to be called ¡°The Creepy Witch of Semerkant¡±. Now they weren¡¯t reacting the same way. Although some of them were still scared a bit. They had started to get used to her appearance. Moreover some of them even got interested in her. That was how she could join a party for the first time. However after a while, they were losing their interests and kicking her out of the party because she was still creeping them out. She could reached level 5 a week later she started to play. However when she reached level 5, everybody stopped to let her in their parties. Everybody had lost their interests now. ¡®Damn it! If only I could reach level 10, I wouldn¡¯t need them.¡¯ Her goal was to reach level 10. Since she could get a profession when she is level 10, she could become a Merchant and raise her level by doing Merchant quests or trades. It was perfect for Clerics to raise their levels without a party. ''Dont lose your spirit. There must be still someone who would accept you to the party. Keep searching. You can''t give up just because a few people refused you.'' She motivated herself and started to search for a party in the woods near the south gate. She found a party after an hour later. They were hunting Savage Bears. Savage Bears were level 15 monsters. There were 3 people in the party. A male Warrior and a Ranger and a female Mage. Their equipments looked quite high class. They were emitting a light green aura. ''Woah! Their equipments look quite high class. They must be limited edition Excellent items sold in the official site. And they don''t have a Cleric in their party. So I have a chance.¡¯ She approached the party with a hope in her eyes. She had to reach level 10 no matter what. So she was prepared for their possible cruel words. After she took a few steps towards them, the party realized her presence. Three of them had killed a Savage Bear and turned their heads towards her. However they were not horrified or shocked to see her. That gave Amatus more courage. She approached them slowly. When she was at a decent distance to start a conversation, she stopped. ¡°Hello, my name is Amatus. I am a level 5 Cleric and looking for a party. I saw you don¡¯t have any Clerics so I thought you might want one.¡± She said with a polite and her usual sweet voice. This story has been stolen from Royal Road. If you read it on Amazon, please report it ¡°HA HA HA HA!¡± The Warrior laughed with a mocking tone.¡± She asks if we need a Cleric. Does it look like we need one, you ugly witch?¡± He continued with the same mocking tone. He was a young man around early 20s with golden straight hairs, blue eyes, a smooth white skin and a very handsome face. He had a slender body with 180 cm height. Actually he looked a little feminine. His voice was quite thin like a girl. ¡°Well, since you didn¡¯t have one, I thought you might. I guess I was wrong. Sorry to bother you.¡± She was prepared to leave. She hadn¡¯t mind his mocking since she had gotten quite used to it. However for a reason that pissed off the man. His white smooth skin had turned into red instantly. ¡°Wait! You shameless bitch! You dared to mock me?! You will pay for it.¡± He shouted with an angry voice. Apparently she was supposed to feel ashamed. And because she didn¡¯t, it would mean she was mocking him. At least that was what the man thought. Amatus couldn¡¯t really comprehend it and asked with a puzzled face. ¡°Mock you? I think you misunderstood. I had no intention and did nothing to mock you. I just asked you whether you need a Cleric or not and you told me that you didn¡¯t. So I decided to leave. When did I exactly do anything to mock you?¡± ¡°Shut up! You insolent peasant! You are talking back to me?! Do you know who I am?!¡± The man was more pissed off now. However Amatus was still calm. ¡°I don¡¯t know. And I am not interested. I still don¡¯t understand why you are so pissed off but I don¡¯t want to figure it out either. So I am leaving now. Have a nice hunting.¡± She said that with a calm voice and tried to leave. However the man became even more furious. ¡°You bitch! I am The Prince! I am the top player in this game. How dare you?!¡± He drew his sword and prepared to attack her. However the female Mage stopped him. She was a young woman around early 20s with golden straight hairs, blue eyes, a smooth white skin and a very pretty face. Her body was in perfect shape with around 170 cm height. She looked like him quite much though. Probably they were twins. ¡°Stop it, Brother. She didn¡¯t do anything wrong. It is really stupid to get angry so much for nothing.¡° She said with a cold voice. She had a quite serious face. And the Ranger supported her. The Ranger was a teenager with dark straight hairs, black eyes, a tanned skin and an average face. He had a skinny body with around 170 cm height. ¡°She is right, Brother. Don¡¯t mind her.¡± ¡°No! How can you say that?! She insulted me and you are covering for her? You betrayers!¡± Was he even a man? He was more like a spoiled little child. However he was a little calm now. He sheathed his sword. ¡°However I won¡¯t kill her immediately. It would be an act of mercy to kill her. First I will torture her.¡± A rotten smile appeared on his face. Even if you had chosen Ideal Mode, you would still feel a little pain. It was like someone was pricking a needle on your skin however it would still bother you if it were done constantly. The Prince started to run towards Amatus and landed a punch on her. She was a level 5 Cleric with no equipments. So she was blown away to a tree 5 meters back and her HP had dropped to 20%. She was almost dead with a single punch. ¡°Hmp. What a loser. Even though you are so weak, you still dare to mock me. Know your place.¡± Amatus was in shock. She wasn¡¯t expecting that. And moreover she hadn¡¯t done anything to deserve it. Was he even sane? How could he think she mocked her? He was the one who mocked her and insulted her. Yet she hadn¡¯t said anything to offend him. She only wanted to leave right after she was rejected. So why would he attack her? It was so unfair. She could stand all the mockings and unfair treatments just because she had an ugly avatar, however it was too much. She had started to cry. She couldn¡¯t stand this tort anymore. ¡°Look at that. Now she is crying. However it is too late now, you peasant. I won¡¯t let you leave until I teach thoroughly.¡± He said with a rotten smile on his face. He was enjoying this. ¡°Brother, stop it already! She is a weak Cleric. What is the point in bullying her?!¡± The female Mage shouted with an angry voice. However it was futile. He wasn¡¯t even listening. Amatus was still in shock and sitting under the tree she was blown to. And The Prince was waiting for her HP to recover so that he can punch her again. 10 minutes later her HP was full again. So The Prince started to approach Amatus to punch. The Mage and Ranger had given up on convincing him so they were hunting. The Prince rose his punch and was about to land it on poor Amatus. Amatus had also surrendered to her fate and closed her eyes. Then suddenly they heard a voice. ¡°Hey, what are you doing there?!¡± Amatus and The Prince look at the owner of the voice. He was a teenager around late 10s with dark brown straight hairs, hazel eyes, a lightly tanned skin and a cute face. He had a well-built body with around 175 cm height. ¡°Who the hell are you?¡± The Prince asked with a arrogant attitude. ¡°I should ask this question. Who the hell are you bullying a weak girl? Do you even call yourself a man?¡± The boy said with an angry tone. ¡°Hmp. Another peasant appeared. Get lost. Otherwise you will have the same fate.¡± The Prince said with a little irritated tone. ¡°I¡¯d like you to try that.¡± The boy answered with an intimidated tone. He didn¡¯t look quite strong. However he looked quite confident. ¡°What did you say?! Do you know who I am?!¡± The Prince had pissed off. However he was a little hesitant because of his confidence. However there was no way he could do anything to him. He was a level 15 player with a limited edition Excellent set. Excellent items were items with many additional effects and bonuses. And his equipments were ordinary level 5 Chain Guardian items. The boy was no match for him. He overcame his hesitation after he analyzed him. And his rotten smile appeared on his face. ¡°Very well. If you want to suffer so much, it can¡¯t be helped. However I won¡¯t forgive you even if you beg me later.¡± The Prince had started to approach him with a confident look. What was gonna happen to the boy? Was he gonna suffer like her? Amatus felt a relief and pity for the boy at the same time.
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Chapter 9 - Golden Boss Chapter 9 - Golden Boss "Good morning, Mr. Allan. " " Morning, Rachel. " " Are you hungry, Sir? " " No, thanks. I ate in the office. I will just go online without eating anything. So don''t bother with preparing anything. " " I understand. May you have fun." "Thanks." He said with a smile and went directly his room. Today was the day that his ban was over. James Allan was one of the richest people in the world. He owned many companies in many fields. Petrol, clothing, automotive, communications etc. He had also the biggest bank in the world, World Money Bank. He would investigate in many fields he was interested in. And his latest interest was gaming industry. He had played many MMORPGs and he was always a top player. Since he had money, he could buy best items and VIP memberships. So he had gotten bored from them as well. Until he heard about the first VRMMORPG, Royal Blood Online, being launched. He wanted to invest money and get a partnership in the company. However he was rejected politely even though he insisted quite much. He was quite pissed off at first. It was his first time he was unable to get what he wanted. However he wasn¡¯t the type of person who would hold a grudge for something like that. Actually he was quite amused. It was too boring always to get what he wanted. That¡¯s why he had given up on getting an partnership. However he was definitely planning to play it. He had even preordered the game unit. James Allan had started to play it next day after it was launched due to some real life issues. At first it was just curiosity however he had become addicted after a few hours. He had started to play it in Realistic Mode since he wanted to test its realism. And it had blown his mind. He had fallen in love with the extreme realism. However there was a very big problem with it. And he had suffered it at the first hand when he died for the first time on his first day. His character had been deleted and he was banned for 3 days!! He had immediately searched information on the net. However there was no information about the character being deleted if it were to die. All he could find that the character level would decrease and you would be banned for 24 hours. It wasn''t making any sense. Why was his character deleted? Was it a bug? He kept thinking for a while and a theory flashed through his mind. ''What if it was because I was playing in Realistic Mode? In the description it was written as "you will experience everything no different than reality". So when you die, you die for good, huh? That would make sense. Since you would feel the pain to the maximum, I doubt many people would select it. And even among the few who selected it, I might be the first one who died. That''s why all I could find was about Ideal Mode which the majority had selected. I need to test this. '' When his ban was over, he created a new character in Ideal Mode and connected the game. However it was weird this time. He had felt so dull and awkward. While he was playing in Realistic Mode, he hadn''t felt that way. He had felt so natural that he had forgotten this was a game. He was able to walk and move easily. He had taken some self defense classes and he would go to a gym occasionally so he had an athletic body which helped on dodging monster attacks. However now he wasn''t even able to walk properly. ''What the hell? I can''t even walk properly. How am I supposed to play like this? '' He was quite disappointed. He started to practice to adjust to the game mechanics. Few hours later he was finally able to walk and move properly. However he still had to concentrate on his movements. It was quite hard to move unlike in Realistic Mode. ''Now I can at least move. I need to test my theory first.'' His game ID was Golden Boss. He was a 45 years-old man with golden straight hairs, brown eyes and an average face. His body was quite well built and his height was around 185 cm. He hadn¡¯t changed his appearance. He had no problem with it after all. His starting city was Semerkant. He had selected Viyan before but he wanted to change it to see how other starting cities were.Well, it was not quite different from Viyan. It was a wreck city just like Viyan. He was a little disappointed. He left from South gate since it was the closest one to the main street where he spawned for the first time he connected. He went into the woods, found a Wild Rabbit flock and attacked them. He could somehow dodge their attacks while he was playing in Realistic Mode however it was impossible for him now. His self defense techniques or athletic body were useless. He was limited by his stats and skills. He was dead in less than a minute. Since he was level 1, he wouldn''t lose a level. At least that was what he thought. +You are dead. Since you are level 1, your level couldn''t be decreased. That''s why when you reached level 2, your level will be decreased. You are banned for 24 hours. +Forced log off in 5. +4. +3. +2. +1. He could see the Wild Rabbits turning back to their spot. When countdown reached to 0, everything went blank and he got out of the game unit. He was quite frustrated because his level would be decreased when he reached to level 2. However he could test his theory and he was right. He felt relieved and frustrated at the same time. ''Damn it! That''s so unfair. If you wanted to play it as realistic as possible, your character would be deleted when you are dead. And if you didn''t want your character to be deleted, you would have to sacrifice the realism of the game. I want both!'' "Aauughhhh! I wish I had the company. I could play it without a fear to lose my character! " He cried in frustration. " Moreover now I can''t play in Realistic Mode, even if I wanted. There is no delete option when you selected Ideal Mode. Damn it. " He had become more frustrated. He wanted to give up on playing it. However it was too late now. He was already an addict. The next day he had eaten a sandwich in the office so that he can skip dinner at home and go online as soon as possible. He went directly to his room and connected the game. He had informed his employees he wouldn¡¯t come to office daily and he would work at home. He was the boss after all. He could do anything he wanted. He woke up in a temple lying on a flat rectangle stone. Temple was no different from the houses in the city. It¡¯s a wreck building with broken chairs and tables scattered all around the floor. The graffitis on the walls had fallen off to the ground. There was no one in the building except for him. He got up from the stone and left the temple. He headed to the main street. There was no way he could grind level by himself even though he was a Warrior since he was playing in Ideal Mode now. He was restricted by his stats and skills unlike Realistic Mode. In Realistic Mode his stats and skills were only supports. They weren''t really determining his power. But it was a different story for Ideal Mode. He wouldn''t be able to exceed his stats and skill levels. He could only control them which was quite hard compared to Realistic Mode. In the main street he saw a small party consist of 4 players. A male Mage, a female Ranger, a female Cleric and a male Assassin. It was a quite balanced party. They were looking for a Warrior. He approached them and asked to join the party. They accepted him with open arms since all of them were level 1 novice players. Leader of the party was the female Ranger. She had dark, slightly curly hairs, dark eyes, a slightly tanned skin with a cute face. Her height was about 165 cm and she had a nice body. Especially her breasts were quite huge for her body. However she looked quite young around early 20s. "Welcome to the party. My name is Gizem. Since you joined the party, we can go hunting immediately. Is that okay with you? " The female Ranger said with a smile on her face. " Sure. Let''s go." Golden Boss answered while checking other party members. However they weren''t very friendly unlike Gizem so they headed to the south gate without saying any words. Golden Boss didn''t mind it either. Probably they would go different ways once they gained some levels and never see each other again. So there were no need to become friend with them. Although having allies in the game was a good thing, it was too early for that. They were all level 1. You wouldn''t guess who will be a strong ally and who will not now after all. They found an empty spot of Wild Rabbits in around 15 minutes. And they started to grind. Golden Boss was tanking by attracting the hatred of the Wild Rabbits while Mage and Ranger was attacking with long ranged attacks from far away. Assassin would attack when he would find a chance. And Cleric would heal Golden Boss. It was a quite basic and simple grinding method. Love this novel? Read it on Royal Road to ensure the author gets credit. Royal Blood Online had a very cruel party system. The experience was shared equally even if only one player attacked and landed the fatal blow. There was no profit for that. And on the top of that there were no party experience bonus either. The only reason why people were forming parties was because it was quite unlikely to grind level alone under the normal circumstances. After 8 days of constant grinding, most of the party members had reached level 5 except for Golden Boss. He would have reached level 5 if it weren''t for the ban he got for dying while he was still level 1 in order to test his theory. His level had dropped to level 1 again when he had reached level 2. So right now he was level 4. Mage, Cleric and Assassin had left their parties after they reached level 5. So only Golden Boss and Gizem had left. ¡°We should find party members.¡± Gizem said with a worried tone. ¡°Yeah. If we had a Cleric, we could grind easily.¡± ¡°Shall we go back to the city and try to recruit one?¡± ¡°Okay, let¡¯s go then.¡± They went back to the city and tried to find a Cleric for their party. However even after 2 hours, they couldn¡¯t find anyone let alone a Cleric. Golden Boss was quite bored of that. ¡°Well, we have no luck here. Let¡¯s go back to the woods. Maybe we can find a party to join there.¡± Golden Boss suggested since he couldn¡¯t stand it anymore. ¡°Y-Yeah¡­¡± Gizem nodded with a hesitant voice. They went back to the woods again in order to find a party. However they had no luck. You could form a party with max 10 people in Royal Blood Online. However due to the cruel party system, parties were usual formed with 4 or 5 people at maximum. And all of the parties were full with 4 or 5 people. So nobody was accepting them. They had been searching for a party for about 2 hours now. And they had gone into quite deep in the woods until they had seen a party with three people. A ray of hope had appeared in their eyes. However it had immediately disappeared when they had seen the monsters they were hunting and their equipments. They were hunting Savage Bears and their equipments were emitting a light green aura. They were high level players with high level equipments. There was no way they would accept them to their parties. Golden Boss had recognized their equipments. They were limited edition Excellent items he had failed to buy because he had no character since his account was banned. These items were being directly delivered to the character ID. In other words you had to have a character in the game in order to buy them. Since they were limited editions, reservation option did not exist as well. He had felt quite frustrated however there were nothing he could do. "Let''s give up. There is no way they would accept us to their party. Let''s go back and continue searching a party." Golden Boss said with a frustrated voice. "Okay." Gizem nodded with a disappointed face. However just when they were about to leave, a female Cleric approached to the party. So out of curiosity they decided to watch. Cleric and party talked something for a while and she tried to leave. However the man with golden hair was pissed off for some reason and he started to shout with a angry voice and didn¡¯t let her go. And suddenly the man with golden hairs punched her. Poor Cleric was blown away 5 meters back and stayed immobile for a while. Golden Boss couldn¡¯t stand it anymore and decided to go help her. However he was stopped by Gizem. ¡°Stop. What can you do even if you go? They are far stronger than you. You will only suffer the same way with that poor Cleric. That¡¯s all.¡± ¡°However I can¡¯t stand watching this. Does he even call himself a man? Bullying a weak girl. I need to do something.¡± Golden Boss said with a furious voice. Meanwhile the man with golden hairs had started to approach Cleric. He was probably planning to hit her again. Golden Boss was out of patience now and had started to run towards him. However he was quite far away from them. He wouldn¡¯t be able to make it in time. While he was running in these thoughts, he heard a voice. ¡°Hey, what are you doing there?!¡± He was a teenager around late 10s with dark brown straight hairs, hazel eyes, a lightly tanned skin and a cute face. He had a well-built body with around 175 cm height. And he was standing at back of the man with golden hairs. Golden Boss had slowed down when he saw the boy. However he kept approaching them. Now he could hear them somehow. The man with golden hairs turned to the boy and spoke. ¡°Who the hell are you?¡± ¡°I should ask this question. Who the hell are you bullying a weak girl? Do you even call yourself a man?¡± The boy said with an angry tone. ¡°Hmp. Another peasant appeared. Get lost. Otherwise you will have the same fate.¡± The man with golden hairs said with a little irritated tone. ¡°I¡¯d like you to try that.¡± The boy answered with an intimidated tone. He didn¡¯t look quite strong. However he looked quite confident. ¡°What did you say?! Do you know who I am?!¡± The man with golden hairs shouted with an angry voice. ¡°Very well. If you want to suffer so much, it can¡¯t be helped. However I won¡¯t forgive you even if you beg me later.¡± The man with golden hairs was calm now and he had started to approach him with a confident look. Meanwhile Golden Boss had gotten quite close to them now. He was only 20 meters away from them. However he stopped getting closer. He had gotten quite curious. The boy looked quite confident even though he didn¡¯t seem to be strong. He had Chain Guardian set on him. That was a level 5 beginner set that was sold in the city. He had checked them and bought one. However because of the level requirement, he couldn¡¯t wear them yet. Anyway he wanted to see what he is gonna do against a high level player. ¡°You stupid peasant, you will regret big time for this. You don¡¯t seem to know who I am. So I will tell you. My name is The Prince. I am the top player in the weekly rankings so far. But don¡¯t worry. I will not kill immediately. I will beat you up until you beg me to kill you. Then I will kill you.¡± The man with golden hairs said with an arrogant attitude. His name was The Prince. Golden Boss had checked the rankings before so he knew this ID. It was the only level 15 player in the game. The second place belonged to Deadly Beauty, a female Mage with level 14 and third place belonged to Keskin, a male Ranger with level 14. ¡®The Mage and Ranger who are hunting there must be Deadly Beauty and Keskin.¡¯ Golden Boss thought with wary expression on his face. The Prince had sheathed his sword and started to attack the boy with his punches. However surprisingly he couldn¡¯t connect any of them. The boy was dodging his punches quite easily. The boy had a malicious smile on his face while doing it. It was as if he was playing with the top player. It was as if the one in danger was not the boy but The Prince. Golden Boss was bewildered. However he could figure it out and could make sense out of it after a little while. He must be an martial artist playing in Realistic Mode! There was no other way to explain what was going here. After he figured it out, he had started to watch it more curiously. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Author Note: I wanted to make something clear in case you would be confused. The time concept I am talking about in my story wasn''t always the real time. 1 day in the real world is equal to 4 days in Royal Blood Online. For example when I say "They were grinding for 8 days, or 2 hours" it is "game-time" which is equal to 2 days and 30 minutes. And when I say "it has been 3 days" while they were not connected the game, it means it is in real time. Anyway I hope you enjoy it. And if you enjoy it, you can support me by rating, following or commenting. I am open the criticisms. I know I am lacking on many fields however I want to improve myself. So feel free to comment. Have fun.
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Chapter 10 - Dreams and Reality Chapter 10 - Dreams and Reality ¡°Hello, Miss Yurdakul. My name is Faruk Ozan. How are you?¡± The man with 1.85 cm height and quite athletic body said with a smiling face. He had short, straight, brown hairs, a short brown moustache, brown eyes and a handsome face. ¡°Hello, I am fine. Thank you. And you?¡± Gizem Yurdakul said with an uneasy voice. She was quite nervous. ¡°I am fine too. Thank you. I will be conducting your interview. It says you were graduated from Istanbul Kent University of Faculty of Journalism and Public Relations in your CV.¡± ¡°Yes, that is correct.¡± ¡°Okay. Now I will get straight to the point. As you know, the first VRMMORPG, Royal Blood Online, was launched a few days ago. There has been a huge uproar all around the world and it seems that it will be the new trend in the world. So as the TDT Media, we decided to form a new unit focusing on Royal Blood Online. However even though we predict it will be the new trend, it is still too early to invest a huge amount money on this. So we decided to form this new unit from freelancers. Of course in the future when it really became the trend, we will hire the successful freelancers who brought us scoops about Royal Blood Online as the full-time employees. And you are one of them. You have a quite good CV with no experience. So this will be a good experience for you even if you aren¡¯t hired. We will provide you the game unit so don¡¯t worry about it. However we won¡¯t pay you any money unless you bring us something. You can come and go anytime you want. However we expect you to bring at least a scoop in a month. And if you don¡¯t, we will stop working with you. Would you like to do work as a freelancer for us?¡± Faruk Ozan said with a very serious face. ¡°Yes.¡± Her answer was quite short since she couldn¡¯t calm down her nervousness. She had many interviews after her graduation. However all of them had said ¡°We will call you.¡± and never called back. So she was quite desperate for a job. Even if she won¡¯t have a stable monthly salary. However she had a chance now if she works hard and produce good results in this freelance job. She had always wanted to be a good journalist. That was her dream. She was so happy when she was accepted to the Istanbul Kent University of Faculty of Journalism and Public Relations. She was gonna be graduated from there and start to work as a journalist right after that. However reality was not so gentle. It was quite hard to find a job in Turkey unless you have someone with influence in some certain places. And she didn¡¯t have anyone like that. So it has been a year already since she was graduated. On the top of that she had lost his father last month. Her mother had a pension however it was barely enough for the food expenses and bills. So she had to find a job as soon as possible. That¡¯s why she accepted the job without thinking. ¡°Good. You can start immediately, right?¡± ¡°Sure.¡± ¡°Okay, follow me then.¡± Faruk Ozan led Gizem to a very large room at the basement with 50 or more game units in it. Actually it was more like a silo. There was a table with a computer on it at the entrance of the room. And a blonde woman was sitting there. She stood up when she saw them. ¡°Mrs. Tokat, this is our new freelancer, Gizem Yurdakul. Can you please assign her a new game unit?¡± Faruk Ozan asked the woman with a polite voice. She was a woman around late 30s with a short blonde hair, brown eyes and an average face and body. She was about the same height with Gizem. ¡°Sure, Mr. Ozan.¡± She answered with a quite polite tone and started to write something on the computer. After a few minutes later, she took out an electronic security card and handed out it to Gizem. ¡°Here it is, your electronic security card. You can enter here with this. Your game unit number is 48. Please don¡¯t use any other game unit. ¡° She said with a polite tone. ¡°Thank you very much.¡± Gizem took the card. ¡°Now you can go and start if you like.¡± Faruk Ozan said with a smile on his face. ¡°Sure. Thank you very much.¡± ¡°Not at all. Then good luck.¡± Faruk Ozan left and Gizem headed to his game unit. She entered in it and connected the game. A gentle voice welcomed her. She selected Ranger class, Semerkant city as the starting city and Ideal Mode as the play mode. She didn''t customize her appearance. After a bright light, she found herself in a wreck town. She saw many people in the street she spawned. She felt like in a medieval city. Everything was quite realistic. The way people walk, move and behave was no different from reality. However it wasn''t the same for her. When she wanted to walk, she lost her balance and fell onto the ground. She felt a pain like mosquito bite. Game mechanics was a little different from reality. She tried to stand up and she lost her balance again. The people around her were laughing at her. However none of them tried to help her. She was quite frustrated and embarrassed. She wanted to log off and never log in again. However she needed this job. She couldn''t give up easily. So she endured all of her frustration and embarrassment. After a struggle of 4 hours, she was finally able to walk and move properly. She first checked her bag. There were 10 wheat breads, a bow and a quiver with 250 arrows in it. She checked the bow.
[Novice Short Bow] Type : Bow Attack : 2~3 Attack Speed : 10 Range : 10 Durability : [25/25] Weight : 1 Requirements Level : 1 Strength : 10 Agility : 20 Class : None A light bow for novices. It doesn''t have high attack and durability. But it will be useful for novices.
''Better than nothing. '' She equipped it and left the city via South gate. She had played MMORPGs before and she would always play with Ranger or Archer classes so she knew she had to hunt monsters in order to get stronger. However she didn''t know that Royal Blood Online was quite hard compared to other MMORPGs. She went into the woods and found an empty spot of Wild Rabbits. Her attack range was only 10 meters. So she aimed at a Wild Rabbit from 10 meters away and shot it. +Battle Phase is active. She could drop its HP by only 3%. And all of the flock had started to run towards her at an amazing speed. "Oh my God!" She cried in a shocked voice and started to run. She had figured out that there was no way she could hunt them by herself. Actually there was no way she could hunt by herself at least for a while. However Wild Rabbits were too fast. They caught up with her in no time. +You are back stabbed. Critical damage. You lost %10 HP. +You are back stabbed. Critical damage. You lost %10 HP. +You are back stabbed. Critical damage. You lost %10 HP. +You are back stabbed. Critical damage. You lost %10 HP. +You are back stabbed. Critical damage. You lost %10 HP. System notifications were flooding up. She had lost %50 HP in no time. Fortunately Wild Rabbits were waiting for a few seconds after they attacked. She took this chance and she activated the basic skill all classes had, Dash. It was a skill that increases the movement speed by 200% as long as the stamina holds. However it was consuming 2 Stamina per second and her maximum stamina was 95. So she could use it only for 47 seconds. Surprisingly it was enough to shake off the Wild Rabbits. They had stopped following her after 40 seconds. It was a close call. She had almost died. ¡°Phew. It was so close. However what the hell is wrong with this game?! It is too hard. Can¡¯t I hunt by myself? Do I have to grind in a party?¡± She cried with a pissed off voice. She had seen many parties on her way. And she couldn¡¯t have understood why they were hunting in a party against some mere rabbits. Rabbits were the weakest monsters that a beginner can easily deal with on his own. At least that was how it was in the other games. However it was quite different in this game. She had understood why they were forming party to hunt rabbits now. It was because it was impossible to hunt them alone! She went back to the city and started to look for party members. Fortunately she could find a beginner male Mage, a beginner female Cleric and a beginner male Assassin in a few minutes. Now all she need was someone to tank, a Warrior. However it was quite hard to find one. They had to stand there for a few hours to finally find one. A male Warrior with golden hairs had finally joined their party. They immediately went hunting and hunted for 2 days in real life. They had taken some breaks to eat and sleep. However they were not longer than a few hours. They had grinded constantly for 2 days in real life. She had started to play it for a job however now she was playing it for fun. She had gotten quite fond of it. She had completely forgotten about the job. After 2 days when they all had reached level 5, all of the party members had left the party except for the man with golden hairs. His name was Golden Boss. He seemed to be a decent man. He hadn¡¯t left her. They had tried to find new party members. And for that purpose they had gone back to city for that however they couldn¡¯t find anyone there. And they had gone back to the woods in order to find a party to join on the suggest of Golden Boss. However they hadn¡¯t had much luck there either. They had found a possible party to join but they were top players and there was no way they would accept them to their party. They were about to go back to continue searching for a party. However they had seen a Cleric who approached the party. She had done something they hadn¡¯t dared to. So they had decided to watch it out of curiosity. But it had turned into a bullying for her. Golden Boss had wanted to help her however Gizem had tried to stop him because they were too weak to do anything. Unfortunately she couldn¡¯t do it and Golden Boss had started to run towards them. After a little hesitation, Gizem had followed him. This content has been misappropriated from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. ¡®What am I doing? There is no way we can do anything to stop it. It is the rule of the all worlds. The strong devours the weak. Why am I even following him?¡¯ Gizem didn¡¯t know why she was following him but she couldn¡¯t help it. They were hunting for 2 days and even after other party members had left her, he hadn¡¯t. She had somehow felt bad about letting him go alone. So she was following him. Then suddenly she heard a voice. ¡°Hey, what are you doing there?!¡± He was a teenager around late 10s with dark brown straight hairs, hazel eyes, a lightly tanned skin and a cute face. He had a well-built body with around 175 cm height. And he was standing at back of the man with golden hairs. Golden Boss had slowed down when he saw the boy. However he had kept approaching them. Gizem had also slowed down. Now she could hear them somehow. The man with golden hairs turned to the boy and spoke. ¡°Who the hell are you?¡± ¡°I should ask this question. Who the hell are you bullying a weak girl? Do you even call yourself a man?¡± The boy said with an angry tone. ¡°Hmp. Another peasant appeared. Get lost. Otherwise you will have the same fate.¡± The man with golden hairs said with a little irritated tone. ¡°I¡¯d like you to try that.¡± The boy answered with an intimidated tone. He didn¡¯t look quite strong. However he looked quite confident. ¡°What did you say?! Do you know who I am?!¡± The man with golden hairs shouted with an angry voice. ¡°Very well. If you want to suffer so much, it can¡¯t be helped. However I won¡¯t forgive you even if you beg me later.¡± The man with golden hairs was calm now and he had started to approach him with a confident look. Meanwhile Golden Boss had gotten quite close to them now. He was only 20 meters away from them. However he had stopped getting closer. Gizem had also gotten quite close to Golden Boss. There were less than 5 meters between them. However Golden Boss hadn¡¯t realized her presence. His focus was on the boy and the man with golden hairs. Gizem had also started to watch the scene. ¡°You stupid peasant, you will regret big time for this. You don¡¯t seem to know who I am. So I will tell you. My name is The Prince. I am the top player in the weekly rankings so far. But don¡¯t worry. I will not kill immediately. I will beat you up until you beg me to kill you. Then I will kill you.¡± The man with golden hairs said with an arrogant attitude. The Prince had sheathed his sword and started to attack the boy with his punches. However surprisingly he couldn¡¯t connect any of them. The boy was dodging his punches quite easily. The boy had a malicious smile on his face while doing it. Gizem was bewildered about the scene she was witnessing. How could a player move like this? How could a player dodge every attack? Because of the game settings, you couldn¡¯t dodge every attacks. Some of the attacks had to hit you. However he was dodging all of the attacks. Gizem was trying to make sense of it. However she couldn¡¯t. She approached to Golden Boss. However he didn¡¯t realize her presence. He was focused on the scene in front of him and he had an excited expression unlike Gizem. It was as if he could make sense of it and he was enjoying it. ¡°What is going on here? How can he dodge all of his attacks?¡± Gizem asked with a puzzled expression. However Golden Boss didn¡¯t answer. Gizem kept standing and watching it. Meanwhile The Prince and his friends also had shocked expressions. They seemed like they couldn¡¯t make sense of it either. The Prince had drawn his sword and started to attack him with his sword. However the boy was dodging his attacks by stepping to right and left with a perfect timing. Each of the sword attacks were missing him by hair¡¯s breadth. After an about 30 seconds struggle of The Prince which felt like forever, The Prince had stopped with a shocked and frustrated face. ¡°What the hell are you?! How can you dodge all of my attacks?!¡± The Prince shouted with a wavering voice. ¡°I am just someone who hates the bullies.¡± The boy answered with a smirk on his face. He was making fun of The Prince. Then suddenly Golden Boss approached them and spoke. ¡°He is probably a martial artist who is playing in Realistic Mode. That¡¯s why he can dodge your attacks.¡± Everybody had turned to him. ¡°Realistic Mode? What about it? Isn¡¯t it just a mode made for the mazosists who love pain? What does it have to do with him dodging my attacks?!¡± The Prince answered with a distrusting expression. ¡°Well, since you didn¡¯t play in Realistic Mode, you wouldn¡¯t know. It is a mode that allows you to experience game with utmost realism. Unlike Ideal Mode, you can control your avatar no different from reality in Realistic Mode. The game mechanics are quite different. You can use your personal abilities in the game. It is much more fun than Ideal Mode.¡± Golden Boss answered with an excited attitude. ¡°I see. Are you playing in Realistic Mode as well? You talked as if you knew it.¡± The Prince asked with an calm and arrogant attitude. Since he made sense of it, he had calmed down. ¡°Nope. Not anymore. I had started to play in Realistic Mode. However when I died at my first day, my avatar has been deleted and I was banned for 72 hours. After my ban was over, I started to play in Ideal Mode to test my theory. Since I was quite shocked when my avatar was deleted and I was banned for 72 days and couldn¡¯t find any information about it on the net, I tested whether it was because of the play mode or not. Realistic Mode is much more fun to play but losing your avatar for good when you are dead is just too unfair.¡± Golden Boss answered with sad expression. When they heard that their avatar would be deleted when you died, there was a malicious smile on the face of The Prince, and a panicked expression on the face of the boy. ¡°Good to know that. So if I kill this peasant now, he will lose his avatar, huh? That¡¯s good.¡± The Prince had started to run towards the boy. His sword was glowing with a light blue light. ¡°Piercing Strike!¡± The Prince shouted and his sword moved in a horizontal line. Maybe it was because he was in a panicked state, the boy couldn¡¯t dodge it completely and the sword landed on his right shoulder. The boy cried in pain and stepped back quickly and retreated 5 meters in a second. However after a second pause, the boy started to move towards The Prince with quick steps. His two swords were glowing with an eerie blue light as well! ¡°Deadly Double Slash!¡± The boy shouted and landed two cross vertical slashes on The Prince. ¡°What the hell?!¡± The Prince cried with a puzzled face and fell on the ground. His body turned to the grey and a ¡°ting¡± sound was heard and a golden light bathed the boy. The Prince was dead! He was dead with a single attack! And he had dropped his sword! Everybody was frozen out of shock and started to stare at them with a blank expression even Golden Boss. There was a dead silence. Even he was trying to make sense of it. Even if he was playing in Realistic Mode and have a better avatar control, that wasn¡¯t explaining how he could kill a top player with a single attack. The boy had kneeled down and taken the sword as if he did something so natural. At that moment a voice broke the silence. ¡°W-Who the hell are you?! W-What did you just do?!¡± The female Mage with The Prince had asked with a trembling voice. She had a terrified face. She was shaking in her shoes. ¡°Like I said before, I am just someone who hates the bullies.¡± -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Author Note: I hope you enjoy it. And if you enjoy it, you can support me by rating, following or commenting. I am open the criticisms. I know I am lacking on many fields however I want to improve myself. So feel free to comment. Have fun.
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Chapter 11 - First PK, First Enemy Chapter 11 - First PK, First Enemy ¡°See you later, Metehan. Don¡¯t forget, you can always come to visit us.¡± Lorenzo, Richard and other Guards who he has been training with had seen him off with smiles on their faces. ¡°Sure, I will. See you guys.¡± Metehan answered with a smile on his as well. Today his training was over in the City Training Camp. He had learnt many skills and polished them along with the skills he already had. He was quite satisfied with his reward. Actually it was the best reward he could ever get. If he had got an item, he had to discard it eventually. However skills would be useful as long as he plays the game and he was planning to play it for a quite while. He left the City Training Camp inside the Castle of the Lord and headed the main street. There were even more people than before in the main street now. Many players were looking for a party, selling and buying stuffs. It was quite different from his first days. Some of the buildings were repaired in the city as well. City had a better mood now. ¡®I guess they were repaired by the players via some kind of quests.¡¯ Metehan headed the south gate. He was planning to hunt and test his new skills. He was quite excited to see the results of his training on the monsters. Then he heard a familiar voice calling him. ¡°Metehan, hello!¡± That was Sithred. He was standing in front of his shop and calling him. Metehan turned to him and started to walk towards him. ¡°Hi, Sithred, how have you been?¡± Metehan said with a polite voice. ¡°Fine, thank you. You have gotten quite strong in a month. I guess you can handle my request now.¡± Sithred said with a smile on his face. That was a quest! Metehan had a quest right from the start. A smile appeared on Metehan¡¯s face as well. ¡°Sure. What do you need me to do?¡± ¡°Well, Tailor Martha had requested Bear Skins from me. And I am short for 1000 of them. I need you to bring me 1000 Bear Skins by hunting Savage Bears. They live in the depth of the woods. There were many aggressive monsters in the depth of the woods. So I can¡¯t ask anyone. However it seems you are strong enough to handle it. Of course I will give you a very nice reward. Could you please accept my request?¡± Sithred spoke with a gentle and soft voice. And a window popped up in front of Metehan.
[Quest : The Skins of the Savage Bears] Merchant Sithred took an order from Tailor Martha. However he is short for 1000 Bear Skins. He wants you to hunt the Savage Bears for their skins and bring 1000 Bear Skins. Restrictions : You must be strong enough to hunt Savage Bears and bring 1000 Bears Skin in order to complete the quest. Difficulty : F Do you accept the quest?
¡°Sure. I will bring you the Bear Skins.¡± +You have accepted the quest. ¡°Thank you. I will be waiting for your return.¡± ¡°See you soon then.¡± Metehan said with a smile on his face. ¡°See you, Metehan.¡± Sithred talked back with a smile on his face as well. Metehan left the city and went into the woods. He passed by the parties grinding on the Wild Rabbits. Wild Rabbits were quite weak for Metehan now. They wouldn¡¯t even make a good test subjects for his new skills. So he just skipped them and moved into the depth of the woods. After he walked for about 10 minutes, he encountered with Rabid Dogs. They were moving in packs of three. Metehan didn¡¯t know what level they were however they were definitely stronger than Wild Rabbits. Moreover their numbers were less than them which made them more easy to hunt. He was able to dodge attacks of 3 Wild Rabbits so he might hunt the Rabid Dogs without taking any damage. However he first wanted to find out their defence and HP levels and how much damage he would inflict them. He approached them slowly until they felt his presence. Rabid Dogs were aggressive monsters unlike Wild Rabbits. So they started to run towards him as soon as they felt his presence. Metehan quickly activated his Terror Skill. It was now at Intermediate Level 5 and it could paralyze enemies within 15 meters radius for 10 seconds. Since Rabid Dogs were in his range, they were paralyzed. +Battle Phase is active. Since Battle Phase was active now he could see their levels. They were level 5 monsters. Metehan drew his swords and slashed one of the Rabid Dogs. +Sharp Blade was activated. %64 of the enemy defence was ignored. The Rabid Dog was dead with a single hit. Metehan attacked the second Rabid Dog without a delay. However this time, his Sharp Blade Skill wasn¡¯t activated and it wasn¡¯t dead with a single hit. Its HP had dropped to 30%. Sharp Blade was a skill at Intermediate Level 3 and it was ignoring 64% of the enemy defence within 17% probability. So since it wasn¡¯t activated during his second attack, he couldn¡¯t kill the second Rabid Dog with a single attack. Metehan continued to attack the second one and it was dead with one more hit. There was still more than 5 seconds until paralyzing effect was dissolved. And Metehan wanted to use his new skill. His blades started to glow with a blue light. ¡°Slash Rain!¡± Metehan shouted and he landed four consecutive quick slashes in less than a second. Rabid Dog was dead. He could kill three level 5 monsters in about 5 seconds. He was quite satisfied with the result. Now he wanted to hunt them without paralyzing effect. So he moved to the next spot. In a minute he encountered another Rabid Dog pack. The pack started to run towards him as soon as they felt his presence. Metehan already took a battle stance and he started to run towards them as well. He wanted to make the first attack. He activated his Slash Rain skill on one of the Rabid Dog and it was dead instantly without a chance to attack. The attack pattern of the Rabid Dog was simple. They were biting, retreating for a few seconds and doing it again. However they weren¡¯t attacking blindly head on. One of them was attacking from front and other two were attacking from left and right side. Basically they were trying to surrounding their enemies. Metehan had attacked the one in front of him with an attack skill. However there was a drawback for using attack skills. He had figured it out during his training camp. When he activated an attack skill, he wasn¡¯t able to dodge or change his attack course until his skill was resolved. That¡¯s why he couldn¡¯t dodge the attacks of the other Rabid Dogs. So they had bitten him from his right and left shoulders. Fortunately their attack powers were quite low. Each of them had inflicted only 10 damage. Metehan¡¯s maximum HP was 340 now. So his HP had only dropped by 5%. After he killed one of the Rabid Dogs, he immediately attack the Rabid Dog on his right with a normal attack while dodging the attack of the other Rabid Dog. Since he wasn¡¯t using any active skill, he could dodge his attack with the help of his passive skill, Footwork. Footwork was a skill that was allowing him to move %48 faster during a battle. He had created this skill during the training camp and he had grinded it to Intermediate Level 9. It was partly thanks to his martial arts. His passive skill, Sharp Blade was activated when he attack the Rabid Dog on his right side which resulted with an instant death for it. He immediately turned back and activated his Slash Rain Skill again and killed the last Rabid Dog with one hit. He had only lost 5% HP against three level 5 monsters. And if he hadn¡¯t used his Slash Rain Skill, he might have killed them without losing any HP. Metehan was quite amazed. His skills were making a quite difference during the battle. He was struggling to hunt Wild Rabbits when he was level 3 however now when he was level 5, he was able to hunt 3 level 5 monsters easily. Well, his skill boost wasn¡¯t the only reason why he could hunt so easily. He was also wearing proper equipments that provide quite amount of defence. On the top of that, Metehan had gained quite amount of bonus stats during his training camp. He had even created a new stat, Endurance. It was a stat that provides extra defence against non-magical attacks. With all of his total stat bonuses including title bonuses, he was equal to a normal level 15 player. That¡¯s why Sithred had recognised his strength and requested him to hunt Savage Bears. NPCs didn¡¯t know the level concept however they were able to measure overall powers of the players by the aura they emit. Metehan kept on going into the depth of the woods while hunting Rabid Dogs, level 8 Dark Wolves and level 12 Dire Wolves. When he didn¡¯t use any attack skills, he could slowly hunt them without losing any HP. Dark Wolves and Dire Wolves were also spawning in packs of three. And he could hunt the pack of Dark Wolves in about 20 seconds, and the pack of Dire Wolves in a minute. If he had used attack skills, he could kill them less 10 seconds however Dark Wolves were inflicting about 30 damage with an attack and Dire Wolves were inflicting about 70 damage with an attack. Since they were surrounding him during the battle, when he used an attack skill on one of them, he was taking damage from other two. On the top of that, they were causing an abnormal status, Bleed. He was losing 10 HP every 10 seconds for 2 minutes. And Bleed also was preventing him from recovering HP when he sat down. It was a quiet pain in the ass. So when you calculate the time for his HP recovery, it was faster to hunt them without using any attack skills. Well, even though it was taking quite time, the experience he gets from Dire Wolves was quite good. He had reached the spot where Savage Bears was spawning in less than an hour and his experience bar had already exceeded 70%. It was at 11% when he left the city. His grinding speed was amazingly fast considering his previous grindings. He had to grind for about 13-14 hours to reach to level 3 from level 2. He was hunting monsters that were 7 levels higher than him after all. Metehan saw a group when he reached the first Savage Bear spot. Two of them were hunting and one of them was preparing to hit a weak girl. Well, at least he assumed that she was a girl from her scarlet long hairs. She looked more like a monster. However he was not the type of guy who would judge people with their appearances. ¡®There are bullies everywhere. Why do they have to beat up the weak just because they are stronger than them? The strong should protect the weak, not bully them. I don¡¯t understand that at all.¡¯ The one who was preparing to hit was a man with golden hairs. Metehan started to approach them and shouted. ¡°Hey, what are you doing there?!¡± ¡°Who the hell are you?¡± The man with golden hairs turned to him and asked with an arrogant attitude. That had pissed him off a little. ¡°I should ask this question. Who the hell are you bullying a weak girl? Do you even call yourself a man?¡± Metehan answered with an angry tone. ¡°Hmp. Another peasant appeared. Get lost. Otherwise you will have the same fate.¡± The man with golden hairs said with a little irritated tone. That had pissed off Metehan even more. ¡°I¡¯d like you to try that.¡± Metehan said with an intimidated tone. ¡°What did you say?! Do you know who I am?!¡± The man with golden hairs shouted with an angry voice. ¡®Like I care who you are.¡¯ Metehan thought and didn¡¯t answer. ¡°Very well. If you want to suffer so much, it can¡¯t be helped. However I won¡¯t forgive you even if you beg me later.¡± The man with golden hairs was calm now and he had started to approach him with a confident look. ¡°You stupid peasant, you will regret big time for this. You don¡¯t seem to know who I am. So I will tell you. My name is The Prince. I am the top player in the weekly rankings so far. But don¡¯t worry. I will not kill you immediately. I will beat you up until you beg me to kill you. Then I will kill you.¡± The man with golden hairs continued with an arrogant attitude. ¡®Phew. What an arrogant guy. Stop bragging about yourself and come at me already. I have a quest to finish. I can¡¯t wait for you forever.¡¯ Metehan was quite confident about his skills since he had been testing them for an hour. In his real life when he learnt how to protect himself, nobody had dared to bully him so he couldn¡¯t find any chance to test his new strength. That was one of the main reasons why his self confident was still weak. He hadn¡¯t had any chance to increase it. The Prince had sheathed his sword and started to attack him with his punches. However surprisingly he couldn¡¯t connect any of them. Metehan was dodging his punches quite easily. He had a malicious smile on his face while doing it. He was enjoying it. His self confidence had increased even more. Meanwhile The Prince and his friends also had shocked expressions. They seemed like they couldn¡¯t make sense of it. The Prince had drawn his sword and started to attack him with his sword. However Metehan was dodging his attacks by stepping to right and left with a perfect timing. Each of the sword attacks were missing him by hair¡¯s breadth. After an about 30 seconds struggle of The Prince, The Prince had stopped with a shocked and frustrated face. The author''s content has been appropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. ¡°What the hell are you?! How can you dodge all of my attacks?!¡± The Prince shouted with a wavering voice. ¡°I am just someone who hates the bullies.¡± The boy answered with a smirk on his face. He was making fun of The Prince. Then suddenly another man around middle forties with golden hairs approached them and spoke. ¡°He is probably a martial artist who is playing in Realistic Mode. That¡¯s why he can dodge your attacks.¡± Everybody including Metehan had turned to him. ¡®How did he know that?¡¯ Metehan was a little surprised. ¡°Realistic Mode? What about it? Isn¡¯t it just a mode made for the mazosists who love pain? What does it have to do with him dodging my attacks?!¡± The Prince answered with a distrusting expression. ¡°Well, since you didn¡¯t play in Realistic Mode, you wouldn¡¯t know. It is a mode that allows you to experience game with utmost realism. Unlike Ideal Mode, you can control your avatar no different from reality in Realistic Mode. The game mechanics are quite different. You can use your personal abilities in the game. It is much more fun than Ideal Mode.¡± The old man with golden hairs answered with an excited attitude. ¡°I see. Are you playing in Realistic Mode as well? You talked as if you knew it.¡± The Prince asked with an calm and arrogant attitude. Since he made sense of it, he had calmed down. ¡°Nope. Not anymore. I had started to play in Realistic Mode. However when I died at my first day, my avatar has been deleted and I was banned for 72 hours. After my ban was over, I started to play in Ideal Mode to test my theory. Since I was quite shocked when my avatar was deleted and I was banned for 72 days and couldn¡¯t find any information about it on the net, I tested whether it was because of the play mode or not. Realistic Mode is much more fun to play but losing your avatar for good when you are dead is just too unfair.¡± The old man with golden hairs answered with sad expression. ¡®What the hell?! His avatar was deleted when he died? So my avatar will be deleted as well if I were to die? No way! That must be a lie! A lie!¡¯ Metehan had freaked out when he heard about his avatar being deleted if he were to die. He didn¡¯t want to believe it. He didn¡¯t want to accept it. All of his efforts, all of his skills, all of his bonuses would be gone? There was no way he would accept such an absurdity. So he was in denial. ¡°Good to know that. So if I kill this peasant now, he will lose his avatar, huh? That¡¯s good.¡± The Prince had started to run towards the boy. His sword was glowing with a light blue light. ¡°Piercing Strike!¡± The Prince shouted and his sword moved in a horizontal line. Metehan was still in freaked out state. So he couldn¡¯t react in time and the sword landed on his right shoulder. +Battle Phase is active. +Self Defence Mode is active. Metehan cried in pain and stepped back quickly and retreated 5 meters back in a second. It was so painful that he had felt like his shoulder was torn apart. On the top of that, his HP had dropped to 30% for a second. Fortunately his Guidance II Skill was activated and his HP was fully recovered immediately. ¡®It is not the time to think about this. I need to survive this battle first. His attack power is too high. I can¡¯t let him hit me again. I have to finish this as soon as possible. I need to use Deadly Double Slash Skill. It consumes 180 MP. I can¡¯t use it normally because my maximum MP is 130. However now the Guidance II Skill is active, it became 190. I can use it now. I will bet everything on this skill.¡¯ Metehan had calmed down after a few seconds pause and started to move towards The Prince with quick steps. His two swords were glowing with an eerie blue light as well! ¡°Deadly Double Slash!¡± Metehan shouted and landed two cross vertical slashes on The Prince. +Sharp Blade was activated. %64 of the enemy defence was ignored. +Critical hit. You inflicted %200 damage. +Your level has risen. +Battle Phase is over. +Self Defence Mode is over. ¡°What the hell?!¡± The Prince cried with a puzzled face and fell on the ground. His body turned to the grey and a ¡°ting¡± sound was heard and a golden light bathed Metehan. The Prince was dead! And Metehan had leveled up! ¡®Woah! I didn¡¯t expect to kill him with a single hit! This skill is way too strong. Too bad I can¡¯t use it because my maximum MP isn¡¯t enough. Damn it! I was careless. I didn¡¯t pay attention to its Mana Consumption and added 10 Sword Mastery Points to it. Anyway, he dropped his sword. I need to take it first.¡¯ Metehan approached the dead body of The Prince and picked the sword. However he was amazed and disappointed at the same time when he checked it.
[Gladiator¡¯s Giant Sword] (Excellent) Type : Two-Handed Sword Attack : 90-95 Attack Speed : 5 Durability : [250/250] Weight : 8 Requirements Level : 12 Strength : 60 Agility : 35 Class : Warrior +5% of Damage Dealt is Converted to HP. +5% of Damage Dealt is Converted to MP. It is an high quality Excellent item forged from high quality ores. It is said that only the mighty Warriors could have the honour to posses this sword.
It would be an amazing sword if only Metehan was using Two-Handed Swords. However he had chosen Dual Sword Mastery and he had gotten quite used to it. Of course he could distribute points to Two-Handed Sword Mastery and use it since he still had many unallocated Sword Mastery Points. However he didn¡¯t know the skill system completely, it might have caused some huge disadvantages for him in the future. So basically it was useless for him. ¡®Anyway, I can sell it for a good price.¡¯ Metehan put the sword in his bag. There was a dead silence while he was doing this. He was quite relieved since he had killed The Prince and had forgotten about other people there. He wasn¡¯t aware of them until a voice has broken the silence. ¡°W-Who the hell are you?! W-What did you just do?!¡± A trembling voice asked. Metehan had snapped out of his thoughts and turned to the owner of the voice. She was the Mage with The Prince. She had a terrified face. She was shaking in her shoes. ¡®Damn. I complete forgot about them. I was relieved when I killed The Prince. However he had friends. What if they attack me? I could somehow kill The Prince but I can¡¯t kill them if they attack me at the same time. And although I have combat experience against a Ranger from training camp, I have no combat experience against a Mage. On the top of that Deadly Double Slash Skill has a 5 minutes Cool Down Time. I can¡¯t use it against them even if my mana increases with my Guidance II Skill. Damn it! Damn it!¡¯ Metehan was freak out again. However something caught his attention. ¡®Hmm, what? She is shaking. Is she afraid of me? Of course she is! I just killed his friend with a single hit. He seemed to be a quite strong player. So it must have struck fear into her. He doesn¡¯t know about my situation after all. I need to calm down. There is nothing to be freaked out. I can use her fear against them.¡¯ Metehan had calm down and answered with a calm expression. ¡°Like I said before, I am just someone who hates the bullies.¡± However the Ranger suddenly drew his bow and aimed at Metehan. Metehan was startled and he had taken battle stance. ¡°Stop it! He survived the most powerful attack of The Prince and killed him with a single hit. Don¡¯t act reckless!¡± The Mage tried to stop him. However the Ranger didn¡¯t listen to her and shoot at Metehan. Metehan could dodge his first arrow however he had shot another one right after it and it had pierced through his left shoulder. +Battle Phase is active. +Self Defence Mode is active. Metehan cried in a pain. The extreme realism of Realistic Mode was doing its job. The pain he felt was no different from a real arrow piercing through his left shoulder. Fortunately its attack power wasn¡¯t as high as The Prince¡¯s and it had only inflicted 40 damage. The name of the Ranger had turned to grey. It was Keskin. Thanks to Guidance II Skill, his HP was fully recovered and it had become 430 now. And when you add his defence boost, he could endure 11 of his arrows. There were less than 30 meters between them so Metehan started to run towards Keskin. However he couldn¡¯t get close to him because of the arrows he rained at him. He was shooting 10 arrows in 5 seconds. His shooting speed was extraordinary. He could barely dodge the arrows from 30 meters away. He wouldn¡¯t be able to dodge them at all if he were to get closer. And if Metehan were to rush towards him ignoring the arrows, he would become a dead meat for sure. Metehan could dodge 9 of 10 arrow attacks. However he was still steadily losing HP. He was losing 9% HP every 5 seconds from arrows and he was recovering %5 HP every 10 seconds thanks to Guidance II Skill however it was still not enough. He was loosing 13% HP every 10 seconds totally. At this rate he would die in about 80 seconds. After about 50 seconds struggle, Metehan couldn¡¯t get close to Keskin and his HP was now at 35% which snapped the Mage out of her fear. Her dominating fear was dissolved when she saw that Metehan couldn¡¯t get close to them because of the Keskin¡¯s relentless arrow attacks. Then she started to cast a spell. ¡®Damn it! It was troublesome enough to deal with Ranger and now Mage also started to participate the battle. Am I gonna die and lose my avatar? Lose all of my efforts, skills, intimacy? No way! I can¡¯t die here. If only I could reduce the distance to 15 meters, I could use my Terror Skill to paralyze them. I need to find a way to get closer! But how?¡¯ Metehan had fallen into desperation. He was unable to get close to them and if Mage were also to participate the battle, there would be no way he could survive this. While Mage continued to cast the spell, something unexpected had happened. ¡°Roarrrrr!¡± Keskin and Mage heard a deafening voice from their behind. Two Savage Bears was standing behind them with angry eyes. Yes, they were hunting on the Savage Bears spot and they were standing in the middle of the spot now. They had completely forgotten about that since an absurd event had occurred in front of them. The Prince was killed with a single hit. They had started to stare at Metehan and tried to make sense of it and then they had started to attack Metehan which resulted with them forgetting about Savage Bears. Savage Bears were respawned and since they were aggressive monsters, they were about to attack them from behind! ¡°Oh my God! Savage Bears!¡± They both shouted at the same time! Keskin and Mage immediately tried to get away from there however it was too late. Savage Bears had already landed an attack on them. They were light armour type classes. So their defences was quite low. Keskin had already lost 40% of his HP with a single attack. Meanwhile Metehan had taken this chance to get close to them. In a few seconds, while they were focused on Savage Bears, Metehan had already come close enough to land a deadly strike on Keskin with his Slash Rain Skill. Keskin was dead with a single hit and as soon as he was dead, Metehan had retreated back to a safe distance in a few seconds. Since Keskin was dead and Metehan immediately retreated, the other Savage Bear had also focused on the Mage which resulted with an instant death for her. By the way, Metehan had gained another level when he slayed the Ranger and now he was level 7. He could deal with them with the help of Savage Bears. Savage Bears were aggressive monsters however they wouldn¡¯t leave their spots and attack unless there is an enemy closer than 30 meters to them. So they hadn¡¯t attacked Metehan and others. It was a close battle and he could survive it somehow. Now all of the threats was eliminated. And his knees had given up on him now and he had fallen on the ground out of relief. 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Chapter 12 - Party Chapter 12 - Party As Metehan was lying on the ground leisurely, he was looking at the sky and thinking about the incident he''s just gone through. He was feeling a gentle breeze fondling his skin. It was a nice feeling. ''I guess I made enemies for myself. That''s why I didn''t want to get involved with players. Why did I have to help her? This is not a real world. It is just a virtual reality. But it feels so real that I always forget that fact. Damn it. They will probably try to hunt me down for revenge. I need to get stronger. Since unlike them, it seems my avatar would be deleted once I died. Wait! Then what happens when they die? In other games, they would lose experience or level and they were resurrected at the saved point. Then they are already resurrected and coming after me now?'' Metehan had stood up upon realizing that in hurry. He had learnt what would happen if he died. However he didn''t know what would happen when others who play in Ideal Mode would die. His eyes searched for the man who talked about what would happen if you die while playing in Realistic Mode. So he must know about Ideal Mode as well. He found him about 25 meters away on his left standing beside a girl with a dumbfounded expression in a few seconds. The girl besides him had the same expression. The spot of Savage Bears had a 30 meters radius woodless wilderness. And they were standing at the border of this empty woodless area. The spawn point of the Savage Bears was at the center of this area. So they were out of range of the Savage Bears. The man was startled when their eyes met. There was a slight fear in his eyes. Metehan started to walk towards him following the border of the wilderness since he didn¡¯t want to attract the attention of Savage Bears. Normally he wouldn¡¯t like to interact with people however this was necessary for his survival. So he had suppressed his nervousness. He could suppress it easily in abnormal cases such as when he was in danger or he was angry. Even though this wasn¡¯t an abnormal case, it was something necessary. The slight fear in the eyes of the man was increasing with each step of Metehan towards him. However they didn¡¯t move from where they stand. Metehan stopped when it was a decent distance to start a conversation. ¡°Hello, my name is Metehan. I want to ask you something. What happens if a player dies in Ideal Mode?¡± Metehan asked with a polite voice which was startled them even more. They weren¡¯t waiting someone so strong would speak so polite. However they were relieved after a few seconds. The man with golden hairs answered with the same manner. ¡°Hello, my name is Golden Boss and this is Gizem. Nice to meet you. Well, about your question; when they die, they lose a level and banned for 24 hours.¡± Golden Boss answered suppressing his fear. ¡°Ah, I see.¡± Metehan was quite relieved to hear that. They wouldn¡¯t be able to come after him immediately. So he had 24 hours to play leisurely. ¡°Thank you very much. See you then.¡± Metehan turned his back to them and prepared to leave. However when he turned back, he saw a witch-like creature with scarlet hairs. He immediately drew his swords and took battle stance. He was quite startled to see that creature. However after a little while, he realized that this creature is the girl he saved. He had seen her from quite distance so even though he could tell she was ugly, it was quite different when he saw her closely. Then she did something that made him even more startled. She spoke. ¡°Ummm, thank you very much for saving me.¡± She said with a sweet, soft and familiar voice. He heard this voice before. However where was it? He wrecked his brain to remember for a few seconds. And an image of Sevgi appeared in his mind. However he immediately discarded it since there was no way such an ugly girl would be her. Even though there was a possibility that she had customized her appearance, there was no way she would make herself so ugly. It must have been someone else. People might have similar voices after all. There was also the possibility of voice customization option while customizing your appearance. She could have customized her voice as well. Moreover she might not be a girl at all. Since he hadn¡¯t customized his appearance, he didn¡¯t know what options there were at the customization option. So he had come up with many theories that would nullify the possibility of her being Sevgi. Because for him, Sevgi was the most beautiful and elegant girl in the world. Such an elegant girl wouldn¡¯t customize her appearance to such an ugly one. Metehan just couldn¡¯t accept that fact. Otherwise the ideal image of Sevgi he created in his mind would shatter to the pieces. He had never talked to her so he had no idea what kind of character she had. He had just created an ideal image for his own from his observations and fallen in love with that image. Actually it was more like an obsession than love. However he had tagged it as love. She was the only girl he would ever love. So he had to have her no matter what. Since there was no way she would accept him as the way he was in the real world, he had to create an ideal and fitting man for her in this virtual reality so that he could steal her heart. He had to be politest, coolest and strongest man in this world. This was the ideal man fitting for Sevgi after all. All of his obsession for Sevgi had revived again when he heard her voice. He had completely forgotten about that until now since he had been quite fond of the game itself. So he had forgotten his original goal in his game. After Metehan had collected his thoughts, he sheathed his swords and answered with a polite tone as possible as he could. ¡°Ah, it is nothing. I just did what everybody else would do.¡± Her slanting eyes had become teary when she heard that. Metehan didn¡¯t know why she was crying and this was startled him again. Did he say something bad? The way he spoke was rude or harsh? He couldn¡¯t make sense of it. There was no reason for her to cry. ¡°Umm, why are crying? Did I say something wrong? If so, I am sorry.¡± Metehan tried to calm her down. ¡®Please stop crying. You appearence is already scary enough. When you cry, you look even more scary.¡¯ Metehan was scared for the first time he started to play this game. Even the Dire Wolves hadn¡¯t scared him. They would seem like cute puppies compared to her. However he wouldn¡¯t tell her that. He had to endure it. He had to be polite no matter what. ¡°N-No, you didn¡¯t say anything wrong. It is just that you are the first person who talked with me like a proper human being ever since I started to play this game. Everybody judged me for my appearance and treated me like I was some kind of monster.¡± She had started to cry sobbingly. ¡®Well, I wouldn¡¯t blame them. You do look like some kind of monster. I wonder that is her real appearance. No, there was no way such an ugly human would exist. She must have done it on purpose. But why would a person make herself so ugly? Wouldn¡¯t it be the reverse normally?¡¯ Metehan had wondered about that. And his curiosity took best of him. ¡°Please stop crying. By the way, why did you customize your avatar to such an ugly one?¡± Metehan asked with a poker face. The girl was a little startled and her cry had eased down when she heard the question. She had a hesitant expression now. At least that was what Metehan thought. Since her face was out of this world, he wasn¡¯t so sure though. After she opened and closed her mouth without any voice, she finally spoke. ¡°There are¡­ some reasons¡­ I don¡¯t want to talk about¡­¡± She answered with a fearful voice. She had stopped crying as well. ¡°I see. If you don¡¯t want to talk about, then it is fine. Well then, be careful from now on and try to not get in trouble with others. Today you were lucky I was passing by so I helped you. However you might not always be so lucky. See you.¡± Metehan said with a warm voice and prepared to leave. However the girl said something he wasn¡¯t expecting at all. This narrative has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. If you see it on Amazon, please report it. ¡°Shall we form a party? I am a Cleric so I can cast support skills on you. You can hunt monster more easily.¡± Metehan was startled and troubled. He had no intention of forming parties with other players. There were no meaning in it. He could hunt by himself just perfectly fine. However he didn¡¯t want to be rude to her. So he tried to refuse her as polite as possible. ¡°Ah, I am sorry. I like playing alone. So I don¡¯t form party with anyone else. Please don¡¯t take it personal. That¡¯s just how I play. It has nothing to do with you or your appearance. ¡° Metehan answered with a fake smile on his face. ¡°I see. Well, in fact I don¡¯t like forming party with other players either. However I don¡¯t like killing anything even though they are virtual monsters so I selected this class. It has no attack skills and have only support skills. I can¡¯t grind by myself even if I wanted to. That¡¯s why I need to form party until I reach level 10. Once I reached level 10, I can be a Merchant and grind by doing Merchant quests and trades without killing any monsters. I am now level 5. I need 5 more levels for that. So please help me until I reach level 10. Once I reached level 10, I won¡¯t bother you anymore. Just help me for 5 levels. I know even though you just saved me, I am still demanding more selfishly. However I want to play this game and start a new life for myself here. So I am desperate. Please help me.¡± She had started to cry sobbingly again. Metehan was speechless. He didn¡¯t know what to say. He didn¡¯t want to form a party with anyone however after he heard her sincere and desperate cry for help, he wouldn¡¯t be able to refuse. It wasn¡¯t just because he wanted to be a new man fitting for Sevgi. It was also because he had pitied her. He wanted to help her too. ¡°I understand. Please stop crying. I will help you. I will help you until you reach level 10. So please, please stop crying.¡± Metehan answered with a begging voice. ¡°Really? Will you really help me?¡± The girl had stopped crying and had a scary smile on her face now. If it weren¡¯t for her appearance, it might have been a cute smile however that wasn¡¯t the case in the current situation. Metehan was freaked out however he endured it. ¡®I just need to help her for 5 levels and I won¡¯t see her again. I had pitied her for a second and that¡¯s why I agreed to help her however now I think about it, she would chase me to the hell if I hadn¡¯t agreed to help her.¡¯ Metehan had conflicted emotions about her. One part of him was pitying her and other part of him was freaking out and wanting to get rid of her as soon as possible. Anyway, helping her would satisfy both of them. ¡°Yes, please send me a party invitation. I will accept it.¡± Metehan answered with a forced smile. ¡°Okay~~!¡± The girl said with a joyful voice and a window appeared in front of Metehan.
[Party Request] : Player Amatus sent you a party request. Do you accept it?
¡®So her name is Amatus, huh?¡¯ ¡°Yes.¡± Metehan answered with a solid voice. +You have joined a party. All experience earned from the monsters will be shared equally. Loots from the monsters will be distributed to the player who had landed the final blow. ¡®Nice. At least I won¡¯t have to worry about the loot.¡¯ Metehan was a little relieved when he read the system notification. ¡°Well, we were looking for a party too. Can we join the party as well?¡± Golden Boss interrupted with a nervous voice. Metehan turned back to Golden Boss with an annoyed expression when he heard him. However he immediately fixed it and changed it to a forced smile. ¡°Like I said before, I don¡¯t like forming party with others. I am only forming with her because of her circumstances. I will help her until she reaches level 10. That¡¯s all.¡± Metehan answered with a tone as polite as possible. He was the only child in the house. Everything was his. So he hadn¡¯t learnt how to share. That¡¯s why he didn¡¯t like sharing at all. That was one of the reasons why he didn¡¯t want to form party with others. The more people join the party, the less experience he gets after all. ¡°Please, we¡¯ve been searching a party for hours now. We won¡¯t be a burden to you. We will be helpful. I promise. Please let us join.¡± The girl standing beside Golden Boss, Gizem, had interrupted with a begging voice. ¡°I am sure you wouldn¡¯t be a burden. That is not the reason. It is just that I don¡¯t like forming party with others. That¡¯s how I play. Please understand.¡± Metehan kept on refusing them with a fake smile on his face. ¡°If you don¡¯t like it because the experience is shared, it would be faster if they had joined. Even though the experience is shared, hunting speed would increase. So totally it would be faster. You probably don¡¯t want to form a party with others because of that, do you?¡± Amatus had read him like a book. Yes, even though he would get nervous when there were people around him, he would be able to endure it if there were a benefit for him. That was how he could work in the summer holidays. He needed money and for that he had to endure it. Even though he was always uncomfortable, he could still work without having any problem. The main reason why he didn¡¯t want to form a party was because the cruel party system of the Royal Blood Online. It had been announced in their official site. That¡¯s why he had avoided forming party with others right from the start. If there would have been any benefit from forming party with others, he could endure his nervousness for the sake of the benefit. And now she had solved that benefit problem, it would be too rude to refuse it. Of course he could still refuse it excusing his way of play, however it wouldn¡¯t be so believable. So he had to give in. ¡°Fine, fine. Let¡¯s hunt all together.¡± Metehan sighed. The expressions of Golden Boss and Gizem had turned to a smiling one. Amatus invited them and they joined the party. Now they were a party with 4 people. ¡°Okay, now let¡¯s go back into the woods and find a good spot. I guess we can hunt Dire Wolves with our current party.¡± Golden Boss suggested with a joyful voice. However Metehan had a confused expression. ¡°What are you talking about? We already have a good spot here. Why would we go back and hunt Dire Wolves?¡± Metehan said with a puzzled face. ¡°Wait a second! Don¡¯t tell me that you are suggesting to hunt Savage Bears?¡± -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Author Note: I hope you enjoy it. And if you enjoy it, you can support me by rating, following or commenting. I am open the criticisms. I know I am lacking on many fields however I want to improve myself. So feel free to comment. Have fun.
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Chapter 13 - Friend Chapter 13 - Friend ¡°Wait a second! Don¡¯t tell me that you are suggesting to hunt Savage Bears?¡± Golden Boss said with a bewildered expression. ¡°Yes. So what?¡± Metehan answered with a poker face. ¡°I know you are strong and you level is quite high but Savage Bears are probably level 15 or higher monsters. Even though I suggested to hunt Dire Wolves, it was a joke. There is no way we can hunt Dire Wolves let alone Savage Bears. You need at least 3 more players with your level to able to hunt Savage Bears. We are all low level players unlike you. I am a level 4 Warrior and Gizem is a level 5 Ranger. Even our Cleric is level 5. The most powerful monsters we could hunt realistically would be Dark Wolves.¡± Golden Boss answered with an anxious expression. ¡°You don¡¯t need to worry about it. While I attract their hatreds, Gizem will attack with her ranged attacks and you will attack when you have the chance. Amatus will concentrate on healing me. Well, If Golden Boss somehow were hit and injured heavily, you can heal him too. That way we should be fine.¡± Metehan answered as if he ignored Golden Boss. Golden Boss was speechless. Did he even listen to him? ¡°Look, I know you killed the top players just now. However even the top players you slayed didn¡¯t dare to hunt them alone. The Savage Bears spawn as flocks of four. You can¡¯t go against 4 possible level 15 monsters alone even though you are playing in Realistic Mode. No matter how high your level is, it isn¡¯t higher than The Princes. So even he can¡¯t dare to go against them alone, you must be stupid to do it. The Mage, Deadly Beauty, in their party was an Ice Mage. She was freezing them so the Ranger, Kesin, and the Warrior, The Prince could slay them easily. That was why they could still continue to hunt them even without The Prince. Since they were frozen so their movement speeds had decreased quite much, Keskin could kill them before they reached them. Do you understand now? We are not strong enough to hunt them.¡± Golden Boss protested strongly again. ¡®This started to be annoying.¡¯ Metehan frowned and answered him with a slightly annoyed tone. ¡°I have a quest to do so this party will hunt Savage Bears. If there is anyone who thinks that they can¡¯t keep up with the party, they are free to leave.¡± Golden Boss was quite pissed off and his white skin had turned to red. ¡°Fine. We will leave. However don¡¯t blame me when you died and lost your avatar. I warned you.¡± Golden Boss answered with an angry tone then turned to the Cleric and continued with a softer voice. ¡°By the way, you are welcomed to join our party if you want. Because he is clearly gonna die soon. He won¡¯t be able to help you much.¡° ¡°Thanks for your kind offer. However I want to try my luck with him. He saved me back then and even accepted to help me on grinding level. I can¡¯t just ditch him just because I found another party.¡± Amatus refused the offer kindly. ¡°I don¡¯t mind. You can go with them if you like.¡± Metehan interrupted with a nonchalant expression. ¡°No, I want to stay.¡± Amatus protested with a firm tone. Metehan sighed with a disappointing face. He had tried to get rid of Amatus and hunt alone as he originally planned. However it didn¡¯t work. ¡°I see. Then we will be watching Metehan¡¯s pitiful death here. After he was dead, we can form a new party and go hunt in a suitable spot.¡± Golden Boss answered while giving a cold glare to Metehan and they left the party along with Gizem. They stepped back to a safe distance not to attract the hatred of the Savage Bears. Metehan just smiled mockingly and didn¡¯t say anything. He figured out that it would be faster to show than to tell him. Then he turned to Amatus. ¡°I didn¡¯t form a party before so I don¡¯t know what kind of skills a Cleric has.¡± Metehan asked with a calm tone. ¡°Right now I have only one skill, Heal. It is at level 2. It can recover 150 HP of an ally within 50 meters radius. It has a 5 seconds cool down time. So I can recover 150 HP of yours every 5 seconds.¡± Amatus answered with a hesitant voice. ¡°I see. That is useful. Then I am counting on you. I can slay them quite easily with your Heal Skill.¡± Metehan said with a comforting tone. Amatus nodded, looking at the ground. Metehan had turned to towards the Savage Bears to start to hunt them until he remembered something very important. He had levelled up twice and he hadn¡¯t distribute the level up points yet. He excitedly opened his stat windows. However he saw something unexpected. He had 20 unallocated points! He would normally take 9 points for each level. And now he had 20 points which meant 10 points for each level. He couldn¡¯t make sense of it and stared at the window for a while until Amatus snapped him out with a worried voice. ¡°What is wrong?¡± ¡°Ah, nothing.¡± Metehan answered with a weak tone. Then continued with a question. ¡°Tell me, how many points do you get when you leveled up?¡± Amatus was a little surprised to hear such an obvious question especially from some so high-levelled. However she answered it anyway. ¡°I get 8 points.¡± ¡°What? You get 8 points for each level up?¡± Metehan asked with a puzzled expression. He had 9 points for each level up until now. How come was she getting only 8 points? And moreover why had he started to get 10 points for each level up? While Metehan was in these thoughts with a puzzled expression, Amatus asked with even more puzzled expression. ¡°What is wrong? Why are so surprised?¡± ¡°Ah, nothing. Okay let¡¯s go after I distribute my unallocated stat points.¡± Metehan gave a fake smile to Amatus. She just nodded without saying anything. ¡®Well, I can think about this later. It is not something so urgent. Now I need to hunt these Savage Bears, help her to reach level 10 and complete my quest. Then I can look into this matter.¡¯ Metehan had decided to let it go for now and started to think how to distribute them. ¡®Hmmm, I didn¡¯t add any points to Vitality until now. However I might need some more HP capacity from now on. That old man made a quite fucus over Savage Bears. They might be really strong. And I don¡¯t know their damage output either. Moreover I will go against 4 of them. I have enough Strength for now. I need more speed and HP. Since I learnt that I would lose my avatar if I were to die, I can¡¯t afford to die anymore. As long as I stay alive, I can somehow kill my enemies. I guess I will add 9 points to my Agility and 11 points to my Vitality.¡¯ Metehan distributed his unallocated stat points accordingly and started to look at his stats with a satisfied expression. [td2]Level
Status Window
NameMetehan
RaceHumanGenderMale
ClassWarriorSubClassNone
ProfessionNoneSubProfessionNone
Titles[/td4]The Therapist
7Experience0.1%
Fame1100AlignmentWhite
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Satiety95%Fatigue2%
Attack38-42Attack Speed19
Critical Hit Rate0.65%Maximum Weight36
Defence78Evasion Rate3.25%
CP0GP0
HP470/470MP140/140
Stamina480/480
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Strength72Agility60(5)
Vitality40Luck13
Wisdom20Intelligence20
Leadership13Charisma8
Therapy17Endurance25
After he had stared at his stats for a few seconds, Metehan drew his swords and started to walk towards the Savage Bears with slow steps. He was quite calm and had an extremely confident expression. He had never felt this confident in his whole life. He was strong now. Probably stronger than anyone else in this virtual world. He was probably the only one who had undergone a special training at the City Training Camp which is exclusively for Guards. He had tested his skills on many poor monsters on the way to here and he had one-handedly slaughtered them. And he still had a skill he hadn¡¯t tested yet. It was an AOE skill drying up his current mana pool with only one usage. So he didn¡¯t want to use it until he found a spot with more than 4 monsters. And now it was the high time to test it. Metehan checked his new skill once more time while walking towards the Savage Bears.
Blade Hurricane (Active, Beginner Level 10) : This is a Dual Sword exclusive skill that slices the enemies within a certain area by allowing the caster to spin like a hurricane with two swords stretched to the right and the left side horizontally. This skill can only be used while equipped dual swords. Inflicts 90% of the maximum attack damage per second for 2 seconds to all enemies within 3 meters radius. Also works as a shield for all kind of non-magical attacks during the skill. Mana Consumption : 120 Casting Time : 0.5 seconds. Cool Down Time : 10 seconds. Next Level : Intermediate Level 1 Requirements : Sword Mastery Intermediate Level 1, 1 Sword Mastery Skill Point
Savage Bears had big crimson eyes. Their huge yellow tooth were as big as Metehan¡¯s arms and their claws was as big as Metehan¡¯s head. Their height was around 6 meters when they stood up on their hind legs. Basically they were huge bears. While Metehan checking his skill, Savage Bears had felt his presence and roared at him with a threatening tone. Metehan had paced up his tempo and started to run towards them. He had bent his upper body to the front and his swords were behind his head with a 45 degrees angle to his body like an arrow decreasing the air resistance. Savage Bears had also started to run towards him. After a few seconds, he was in front of a Savage Bear. There were 3 of them 2 meters behind it. Metehan used his Slash Rain Skill and landed 4 quick slashes on it. Savage Bear was blown back a few meters crying in pain and it had lost 15% of its HP. They were indeed though and its level was 15 just like Golden Boss predicted. Two of the other three Savage Bears had collided with the Savage Bear that were blown back by Metehan and they had fallen on the ground. However the Savage Bear right behind the one who was blown back had managed to dodge it and landed his claws on Metehan¡¯s right shoulder. Metehan had seen the attack however couldn¡¯t dodge it because of his skill binding his movements temporarily. Metehan retreated back a few steps quickly crying in the pain. It had inflicted 188 damage! His maximum HP was 470 now after he added some points to Vitality. So he had lost %40 of his maximum HP! ¡®Oh my God! They were really strong. Maybe I was really overestimating my power.¡¯ Metehan had a shocked expression. He hadn¡¯t imagined that their attack and defence would be so high. They were only 3 levels higher than Dire Wolves however their power was on a whole new level! Enjoying the story? Show your support by reading it on the official site. Amatus had immediately cast a Heal on him and recovered his HP to almost maximum again. He didn¡¯t want to form a party with her however now he was glad to do it. Meanwhile other 3 Savage Bears had also stood up and they were preparing to attack him. If all of them attacked him, he might not have survived this. Metehan immediately activated his Terror Skill and paralyzed them. He thanked God that he had this skill. Otherwise he might have died. Metehan immediately ran towards them and reached the center of them. And he activated his AOE skill, Blade Hurricane. He had started to spin like a vane and started to slay them. His Sharp Blade had been activated twice on two Savage Bears during his spin which killed two of them. When his skill ended, there were two Savage Bears with 70% HP. He immediately used his Slash Rain Skill on one of them with the last drop of his MP and dropped its HP to 55%. Unfortunately his Sharp Blade hadn¡¯t been activated this time. Anyway, he continued the slash it and he could kill it in 4 seconds thanks to his Sharp Blade skill being activated during one of his slashes. The remaining time until the paralysis effect was dissolved was only two seconds. He immediately started to slash the last Savage Bear with his swords and dropped its HP to 50% in the remaining two seconds. And retreated just before the effect was dissolved. Their defences was really high. The Savage Bear roared in pain since he wasn''t even allowed to make a sound while he was paralyzed. It was indeed a cruelsome skill. It was quite angry as well. Just after its roar, it immediately started to attack Metehan with its huge claws. Even though their attack and defence were high, they were quite slow for Metehan. He could easily dodge its slow claw attacks. Its attack pattern was similar to Wild Rabbits as well. It was doing three consecutive claw attacks and pausing for a second and attacking in the same pattern again. Monsters were quite simple here. Maybe it was because they were animal type monsters with low intelligence. Maybe there were more intelligent monsters out there. Metehan didn¡¯t know that yet. Metehan was attacking it during its pauses and retreating back quickly. Metehan had killed the last Savage Bear with this tactic in about 30 seconds. His Sharp Blade wasn¡¯t activated during his attacks. Well, it had only 17% probability after all. He was lucky that it was activated twice during his Blade Hurricane and killed two Savage Bears. Anyway, when Metehan had killed the last Savage Bear, a golden light bathed Amatus. She had leveled up. The experience they got from Savage Bears was huge. The experience bar of :Metehan also reached to 28% by killing only 4 Savage Bears. It was at 0.1% after he had reached level 7. So he could also level up after killing 11 more or so Savage Bears at this rate. ¡°Woah! I gained 1 level in only one minute. I could reach level 5 in 7 days in real time. The experience is amazing here! At this rate I might reach level 10 today!!¡± Amatus was quite excited. However the drop rate was still quite low. He had only got 4 Bear Skins and a few Copper Coins. It was the same for when he had hunted Dire Wolves and Dark Wolves. ¡®I guess the drop rate in this game is really low.¡¯ Metehan picked up the Bear Skins and the Copper Coins and walked towards to the woods where Amatus was standing. ¡°Yes, the experience is good here. I wish the drop were the same.¡± He said with a wry smile while giving a mocking glare to Golden Boss and Gizem standing about 30 meters away from them with their jaws dropped. He sat under a tree to recover his MP and wait for Savage Bears to respawn. ****************************************************************************** ¡°Was it really a good idea to leave the party? We could find it after searching for a quite while.¡± Gizem asked with a worried tone. ¡°What? You would prefer to stay and drop dead? You know how hard to gain a level here. We would have lost a level in a vain.¡± Golden Boss answered with an irritated tone. He was still pissed off. How could he be so stupid even though he was so strong? That was quite pissing him off. ¡°Don¡¯t worry. After that idiot had dropped dead, we will take the Cleric and go hunt Wild Dogs.¡± Golden Boss continued with a comforting tone. ¡°Yeah¡­¡± Gizem nodded with a hesitant tone. ¡°Look, this idiot started to attack them. Let¡¯s watch him die pitifully.¡± Golden Boss pointed at Metehan with a mocking smile on his face. However it didn¡¯t go the way he thought it would have. Metehan had skilfully slayed the four Savage Bears. Golden Boss and Gizem had watched it with their jaws dropped. He had slayed 4 Savage Bears less than a minute after all. After they had overcome their bewilderments, Gizem had started to stare at Golden Boss with questioning eyes. ¡°W-What?! He was just lucky! Didn¡¯t you see it?! He will definitely die in the next battle.¡± Golden Boss still refused to accept it. That would mean eating his own words. His pride didn¡¯t allow it. However Gizem was still staring it. ¡°I promise. He will die in the next battle.¡± Golden Boss continued in order to convince her. Gizem had nodded helplessly. ¡°I hope you are right.¡± She said with a sigh. ¡°O-Of course I am¡± ¡®Damn it! I guess he wasn¡¯t overestimate him. How could I know that?! He is really not normal. Damn it! Damn it!¡¯ Golden Boss cursed himself. ****************************************************************************** The Savage Bears had started to respawn about 4 minutes later. Metehan¡¯s Terror Skill was at Intermediate Level 8 and its cool down time was 4 minutes now. So he could use the same tactics again. Metehan stood up and started to run towards them like an arrow again. He slaughtered them using the pretty much same tactics. This time it took shorter since his Sharp Blade was activated 4 times during the battle. They routine continued for hours. About 2,5 hours later, Amatus had reached level 10. However she didn¡¯t leave Metehan right after she reached her goal. She wanted to help him on finishing his quest to repay his kindness. Metehan was also glad that she didn¡¯t leave. Even though he was also level 10 now and could slay them easier, it was still good to have someone on your back in case of emergency. He wasn¡¯t afford to die now after all. The death means the end for him. He couldn¡¯t even imagine that he would lose his avatar after he worked so hard. He had high intimacy with City people and had special skills that no one else had. He would probably stop playing if he were to die. So he felt relieved to have her. Moreover Amatus had unlocked a new skill, Protective Boost. It was a skill that increases Metehan¡¯s defence and speed by 20% which was quite helpful on the hunt. Thanks to his special skill, Body of the Soldier, he learnt at the City Training Camp, his Fatigue increase rate and Satiety decrease rate was 30% slower now. Which meant he could continue hunting for about 21 hours without resting. Also his Fatigue recovery rate was %60 faster which meant it would be replenished by sleeping for only 3 hours. In other words, it would be replenished by logging out for about 40 minutes. It was a life saver skill for Metehan. His biggest problem was Fatigue after all. It was preventing him to play as much as he wanted big time. Now he could play the game for totally 21 hours a day in the real time as well. Their hunting continued for about 20 hours until Metehan killed the 1000th Savage Bears and got the 1000th Bear Skins. They were both at level 13 now. And as the level gap between them and Savage bears closed, the amazing amount of experience they got from them had also decreased. They were only getting 0.1% experience for each Savage Bears now. So it was time to move on stronger monsters. However durability of items on Metehan had dropped quite much, especially his swords had gotten quite dull. Also Fatigue level of Metehan was at 75% which meant he could get stat penalty anytime soon. So they decided to go back to the city for repairings, completing the quest and getting their professions. Golden Boss and Gizem had left long ago so they were not standing and watching them anymore. ¡°Thank you very much for your help. Thanks to you I am now level 13 which is a quite high level among the players now. I am really appreciated.¡° Amatus said with a soft and grateful voice on their way to the city. Metehan was quite used to her appearance, by the way. She didn¡¯t seem so monstrous now. Sure she was still ugly. However she wasn¡¯t freaking him out anymore. ¡°It is nothing. I got some benefit for it as well. Having a Cleric on your back is really reassuring.¡± Metehan answered with a sincere smile. Amatus¡¯ pale cheeks had gotten a little reddish. However Metehan didn¡¯t realize that. After a little walk they had reached the city. ¡°Well then. See you around.¡± Metehan waved goodbyes to Amatus and was about head to the Sithred¡¯s shop to complete his quest until he was stopped by Amatus. ¡°Well... ¡° Amatus said with a hesitant and low voice. Metehan turned to her and waited for her to finish her sentence. ¡°I am glad to meet you even though you are a man¡­¡± Amatus continued with the same low voice. Metehan had titled his head to the right with a question mark over it. ¡°Even though I am a man?¡± He asked. ¡°No, well. Anyway I want to add you as a friend if you don¡¯t mind.¡± Amatus changed the subject skillfully. ¡°Ah, sure. I don¡¯t mind adding you as a friend. I might need a Cleric in the future after all.¡± Metehan answered with a nonchalant expression. His opinion for forming party had changed after his hunt with her. It was indeed beneficial to have a support character. And he wasn¡¯t feeling so nervous with her around for a strange reason as well. So he easily accepted her offer.
[Friend Request] : Player Amatus sent you a friendship request. Do you accept it?
¡°Yes.¡± Metehan accepted her offer. And he checked his friend list right after that. Amatus was there with her ugly little avatar picture. ¡°Well, then see you later.¡± Metehan waved his farewell again. Amatus had just nodded silently. He headed to the Sithred¡¯s shop then. It was early morning in the Royal Blood Online now. They had hunted all night under the moonlight. The shops were still closed though. He had thought that they would be open by now however they were not. +Warning : Fatigue level exceeded %75. All stats decreased by 75%. ¡°Then I will recover my Fatigue at an inn until they opened their shops.¡± Metehan headed the inn and rented a room to rest. He lied down on his bed and logged out. He was hungry when he got out of the game unit so he went to the kitchen and took out the meal from refrigerator and heat it up. He was bad at cooking so his mother would always leave a meal in the refrigerator for him to eat. He would just heat it up and it was ready to eat. He put it on the table and started to eat. ¡®Today was a good day. I gained quite amount level.¡¯ That was his thoughts while he was enjoying his meal. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Author Note: I hope you enjoy it. And if you enjoy it, you can support me by rating, following or commenting. I am open the criticisms. I know I am lacking on many fields however I want to improve myself. So feel free to comment. Have fun.
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Chapter 14 - Fame Author Note : Hi, guys. I am sorry for not posting a chapter for a while. I was quite busy in real life. So I tried to write a long chapter to make up for it. It didn''t turn out to bel as long as I planned. However it is still a long chapter. I hope you enjoy it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 14 - Fame ¡®Damn it! Damn it! It doesn¡¯t seem like he is gonna die. How can he slay them so easily?! I don¡¯t remember seeing his name among the top 50. The lowest level at Top 50 was 12. So he shouldn¡¯t be more than level 11. He first slayed the top player with one hit and now he is hunting level 15 monsters easily. I guess it wasn¡¯t really a good idea to leave the party. I had thought that he was just a stupid brat who overestimates his power. I should have at least given him a chance. Damn it!¡¯ Golden Boss was in mixed emotions. He was envious and regretful at the same time. It had been more than an hour now. And it didn¡¯t seem like he would die anytime soon. There was no point in waiting anymore. Even though he was frustrated because he missed a chance to gain enormous amount of experience, there was no turning back anymore. He wouldn¡¯t just go and apologize. His pride wouldn¡¯t allow that. He had to move on. ¡°I am sorry. Because of me, you lost a chance to grind on a rich spot.¡± Golden Boss told Gizem with an apologetic tone. Gizem just stared at him with a face as if saying Golden Boss figured out what Gizem was thinking and continued. ¡°There is no helping in dwelling in the past. I promise I will make it up for you. Now let¡¯s go back to the woods and look for a party.¡± Gizem nodded. However there were not any ray of hope and expectation in her eyes. She just followed him since she had no choice. She could go and beg to Metehan to take her to the party, however she was too embarrassed to do and in case of him refusing her, she could lose her only friend in the game so far. As they were walking in the woods with hopeless eyes, they heard screams of two girls running towards them with two Rabid Dogs behind them. ¡°Help! Please help u?s! Somebody help!¡± Rabid Dogs were normally had ash-grey furs and black eyes but the ones in front of them had dark red furs and dark red eyes and they were quite far away from their designated spots. Monsters normally can¡¯t go far away from their designated spots unless they were in Enraged State. Which was the case right now. When the HP of a monster, player or NPC dropped under 10%, they fall under one of the two states. First one is Frightened State. While under the Frightened State, their appearances go pale and the attack and defence decreases by %50, however the movement speed and HP recovery rate increases by 60%. Which allows the ones to run for their lives. Most of the time, they fall under this state. The second one is Enraged State. While under the Enraged State, their appearances go red or dark red depending on how enraged they were, and the attack and defence increases by 50%, however the movement speed and HP recovery rate decreases by 50%. Which they lose their logic and start to attack everything in the sight. This state occurs quite rarely. Golden Boss and Gizem looked each other for a second and nodded. They had literally communicated with their eyes. Golden Boss grasp his sword and started to run towards the Rabid Dogs as Gizem took out her bow and started to bathe them with rain of arrows. Golden Boss swiftly passed by the girls and reached to the Rabid Dogs. He raised his sword over his head grasping it tightly with his two hand and landed it with a vertical slash on the head of the Rabid Dog in front of him. The blood started to gush out of its head. The Rabid Dog moaned in pain like a puppy. +Critical hit. You inflicted 200% damage. As the blood was gushing out of one of the Rabid Dog''s head, the other Rabid Dog had bitten the right shoulder of Golden Boss which cost of 25% HP for him. He quickly turned towards other Rabid Dog and landed a vertical slash on its head however it wasn''t a critical hit this time. Meanwhile other Rabid Dog had stood up and jumped towards his left shoulder with its mouth wide open, revealing its yellowish huge fangs. Just about to stab them on his shoulder, an arrow sank into its eye and the monster fell on the ground, as its dark red fur and eyes turned into ash-grey and its lifeless body disappeared dropping a few Copper Coins. Gizem had landed the killing blow. After the other Rabid Dog died, Golden Boss immediately turned to the remaining one and landed constant slashes on it. With the help of Gizem, it was dead with a few seconds with no chance to fight back. Golden Boss sheathed his sword and turned to two frightened girls. One of them was a Mage around late thirties with long straight red hairs and emerald eyes. Her bright white skin and features were very smooth. She was a beauty. No, she was a Goddess. The ages could not have stolen her beauty one bit. The other one was a Cleric with the same long straight long red hairs and emerald eyes. She was also a beauty just like the other woman except she was a teenager. They were definitely related somehow. ¡°T-Thank you very much for saving us.¡± The Mage said with a hesitant voice. She had a very sweet voice just like her appearance. ¡°N-Not at all. I-I did what everybody else would do. H-Helping two be-beautiful ladies in trouble is the duty of a gentleman. ¡° Golden Boss answered with a trembling voice. ¡®What? Why is my voice trembling? And why do I feel so nervous? Don¡¯t tell me I have fallen for her.¡¯ Golden Boss was a little confused because of his own behaviors. He couldn¡¯t make sense of what he was experiencing right now. ¡®Don¡¯t be stupid. This is not real. This is a virtual reality. She must have customized her appearance. There is no way such a Goddess would exist in the world. Wait! What am I saying?!¡¯ He was in complicated feelings. Meanwhile the Mage was staring at him with a curious expression. It seems that his expression during his inner conflict was amusing and piqued her interest in him. When Golden Boss realized her expression, his white cheeks had turned into red and he was at his wits end. Which piqued her interest in him even more.There was a dead silence now. As the Mage watching his amusing behaviors, holding herself not to giggle, Gizem and the Cleric were also watching him with puzzled expressions. This continued for a few seconds which felt like eternity for Golden Boss. Finally the Mage broke the silence. ¡°My name is Scarlet Light and this is my daughter, Scarlet Mercy. ¡° She said with a sweet voice. ¡°Hello, nice to meet you.¡± Scarlet Mercy greeted them. And Scarlet Light continued with the same sweet voice. ¡°We were hunting in a party with four people on Rabid Dogs, however other two Warriors died letting two of the Rabid Dogs in Enraged State. We tried to kill them at first since their HPs were quite low, however they attacked us without giving a chance to cast a spell, so we started to run for our lives. And just before our staminas were about to be depleted, we saw you. Thank you very much for helping us again. Otherwise we would definitely be dead.¡± Golden Boss had felt a pain in his heart when he heard that the Cleric was her daughter. It meant that she was already taken. ¡®Of course she would be married. There was no way such a beauty would be single, begin with. Stupid. What did you expect? Hey, wait! What am I saying?! This is not REAL!!¡¯ He had an inner conflict again. However he had to get himself together and answer back. ¡°Ah, I see. My name is Golden Boss and this is Gizem. We were also looking for party members. Since you lost your party members, would you like to j-join our p-party?¡± Golden Boss had calmed down a little. However at the end of his sentence, his voice had started to tremble again. ¡°We would be glad if you let us join.¡± Scarlet Light answered with a smile. She seemed quite glad to be invited to their party which had calmed Golden Boss down. He was a little worried about that she might refuse. That¡¯s why his voice had trembled while asking it. However now he had calmed down again and he was quite happy as well. Even though she was already taken, at least he could be around her for a while. Now their party had 4 people with different classes. It was quite ideal to hunt now. Their party had become quite balanced now after all. Golden Boss suggested to continue to hunt Rabid Dogs. And the party agreed. Golden Boss was tanking, while Gizem and Scarlet Light was attacking with ranged attacks from a safe distance. And Scarlet Mercy was skillfully healing him. Her skill level was quite high. She even had a buff, Protective Boost, which increases his defense and speed by 20%. Their overall levels were also high as well. They were both level 6. So they could easily hunt Rabid Dogs. Golden Boss was frequently stealing glances on her when she wasn¡¯t looking at him during their hunt. His heart was skipping a beat and aching tremendously each time he did. She was someone so close and so far away at the same time. It was the first time he was in such feelings. She was her first love even though he was 45 years old. He had many relationships however he couldn¡¯t find the woman he was looking for until now. That was why he was still single. However the love of his life was out of his reach. Was there anything more devastating than that in this world? Their hunt continued for 8 hours until they decided to take a break for eating and other needs. They had gotten quite exhausted and hungry. They were playing for hours even before they started to hunt together. ¡°Okay then. Let¡¯s meet 1 hour later here again.¡± Golden Boss said with a calm voice. Everybody nodded and logged out. *************************************************************************** ¡°This is indeed wonderful. Good job, Miss. Yurdakul. Mrs. Ceylan, please send this video to the editing department. Tell them to finish it until Royal Blood Online News Bulletin. And make a special trial for it and publish it on our site. Especially the final blow should be in the trial.¡± Faruk Ozan ordered his assistant with a satisfied face. Gizem was also quite glad. She could finally found something. She could earn some money for it. ¡°Well, how much will I get for it?¡± Gizem asked with a nervous voice. She didn¡¯t want to look like a avaricious person. However she needed money. So she was quite curious about it. ¡°Ah, right. That one was the best video among the freelancers so far. I guess 250 TL would be appropriate for it. And 50 TL for the other video. So it is totally 300 TL. You can take your money from Cashier¡¯s Office.¡± Faruk Ozan said with calm tone. Gizem was a little disappointed. It wasn¡¯t so low for Turkey standards. It was ? of her mother¡¯s pension however her videos were very good so she was expecting to get more money. ¡°Isn¡¯t it a little too low? That video was a scoop. A non-ranking player slayed the top-ranking player. And moreover with only one hit. Shouldn¡¯t its value be higher than this?¡± Gizem answered with a demanding voice. Faruk Ozan seemed a little annoyed. However the video was quite good and he might get more of them in the future from her. So he eased down his annoyance and answer with a calm voice. ¡°I see your point, Miss. Yurdakul. However this is the standard pricing policy for our freelancer employees. The amount I offered you is already quite high for a freelancer employee. I didn¡¯t know you were such a greedy person.¡± ¡°No, you misunderstood me. I am not trying to being greedy. It is just that I need money to support my mother. I have been a burden to her for the last year. And I thought they were quite good videos. So I was expecting to get more than what you offered.¡± Gizem answered with a defending voice. The author''s narrative has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. ¡°I understand. However you just recently started to work with us. So I recommend you not to get your hopes so high at the beginning. On the other hand, if you keep up the work, it is possible to earn the money you desired.¡± Faruk Ozan said with a comforting voice. Gizem had no choice to submit it. It didn¡¯t seem like she could get more than he offered. So she better accept the money. It was still better than nothing. ¡°I understand. Then I shall excuse myself.¡± Gizem said with a weak voice. ¡°Sure. I wish to see your wonderful videos again.¡± Faruk Ozan answered with a smile on his face. Gizem left the room and headed towards Cashier¡¯s Office to get her money. She got her money and after she had a quick meal, she connected Royal Blood Online again. ***************************************************************************** ¡°WHAT THE HELL?! WHAT THE HELL?! HOW DID I, THE GREAT ME, GET KILLED BY SOME PEASANT?! AND MOREOVER WITH A SINGLE HIT?! CHEATED! HE MUST HAVE CHEATED! THERE IS NO OTHER WAY! THERE IS NO FUCKING OTHER WAY?! ¡° A man with golden hairs was shouting in anger in his room now. His name was Sezgin Zengin. He was the son of the richest man in Turkey. And he was just killed by some player in Royal Blood Online. That was the reason why he was so angry right now. He was kicking the game unit with anger while shouting. After a few minutes of fit of anger, his sister Leyla had got into his room and tried to calm him down. ¡°Brother, please calm down. You will break the game unit.¡± She said with a soft voice. However his brother was still quite angry. ¡°I DON¡¯T CARE! I WILL KILL HIM! I WILL ERASE HIM FROM THE ROYAL BLOOD ONLINE AND THIS WORLD! HE WILL REGRET BIG TIME FOR EVER OPPOSING ME! DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!¡± He answered without calming down a bit. Leyla just sighed. She was quite used to the tantrums of his brother. Once he started, he wouldn¡¯t calm down for a few hours. ¡®However I can¡¯t still believe it. How could he kill my brother with a single hit? Did he really cheat? No, there is no way he can cheat. They have the most secure system in the world. They had even made a demonstration about it, gathering all of the top hackers in the world and made them tried to hack their system. None of them could hack it. Maybe he got a special OP skill? However he was quite cute and manly. I wonder I will ever see him again?¡¯ Leyla was in these thoughts with her beautiful cheeks blushing while watching the tantrum of his brother. ***************************************************************************** James Allan had a quick lunch and now surfing on the Royal Blood Online official site and forums. He was looking for equipments on the auction section. He was level 5 now and was planning to buy good items. However there weren¡¯t any good items for his level yet since the game was online for only 8 days. Sure there was some good items however the level requirements for those items are over 12 which was quite high for him. He could probably find better items when he reached the level 12. So there was no point in buying them now. ¡®I guess I will buy Chain Guardian set since they are the best items I can equip with my current level now. So I need money. I heard they were quite expensive so not many players could afford to buy them. And I don¡¯t have much money in my character either. I guess I better buy some Gold Coins.¡¯ James bought 10 Gold Coins since it was enough for now. One Gold Coin was 10 $ now so he only paid 100 $ for it. ¡®Come to think of it, was Metehan on the Top 50 rankings? I don¡¯t remember seeing him there. Let¡¯s check it to be sure.¡¯ He checked the weekly Top 50 rankings. Rankings weren¡¯t online. They were being updated weekly. So The Prince was still at the top with Level 15. James checked every player on the rankings however his name wasn¡¯t there. The player at the bottom of the rankings was level 12. And since only the top 50 players were displayed, James couldn¡¯t look for Metehan to learn his actual level either. However he wasn¡¯t more than level 12. That was for sure. ¡®That¡¯s incredible. He really isn¡¯t in the Top 50 and he killed the top player with a single hit. Did he learn some special OP skill or what? I still can¡¯t make sense of it. Even though he is playing in the Realistic Mode, still it doesn¡¯t explain it.¡¯ James was quite impressed once again. In the heat of the moment, he couldn¡¯t have comprehend how amazing he was to be able to kill the top player with a single hit. However now he could. ¡®Right! The Prince had dropped his sword! It was a limited edition Excellent sword! It seemed like a two-handed sword just like I wanted! And Metehan has it now. I wonder if he would sell it to me. Come to think of it, he was using dual swords. Right! He will probably sell it! He isn¡¯t someone stupid to add valuable skill points to Two-Handed Sword Master just because he got a good sword. Although I thought he was stupid for a moment which was a grave mistake, I won¡¯t do the same mistake again! He will definitely sell it! I need to contact him as soon as possible and buy it from him! I can¡¯t miss this chance again! It was sold for 10000 $ on the official site so he would probably demand double of it. Then I will offer triple and buy it for sure!¡¯ Golden Boss already had reached Sword Mastery Level 2, and he had already unlocked Two-Handed Sword Mastery. His favourite weapon in the games was two-handed swords. Their attack speed was low however their attack power was amazing. It was making up for their lack of speed which Golden Boss was crazy about. So he had unlocked it even though he didn¡¯t have two-handed sword. However he had already made up his mind. There was no way he would use any other type of weapon. It had to be a two-handed sword. Even though he didn¡¯t have it now, he would definitely have one in the near future. James turned off his pc and got into the game unit in a hurry. He had to contact Metehan as soon as possible and buy that sword no matter what! ****************************************************************************** Mete had eaten. There was still more than 30 minutes before his Fatigue recovered fully. It was too short to sleep. So he decided to surf on the net for a while. He didn¡¯t use his PC ever since he started to play Royal Blood Online so it was good to get some information about it via forums. He still couldn¡¯t figure out why he was getting more stats points with each level than the others either. So he started to surf on the official forums of Royal Blood Online. There were many threads about many things posted there. Metehan searched through them for a while. And two threads had piqued his interest. The first one was about stat points. Their effects on the avatars were different for each classes. For example each Intelligence stat was increasing max MP by 5 for Warrior classes, by 15 for Mage classes and by 10 for other classes, On the other hand, each Vitality stat was increasing max HP by 10 for Warrior and Cleric classes, by 5 for other classes. There were many differences like that. And what piqued his interest most was Luck stat. It was effecting anything related luck such as item drop rate, production success and quality of the item that were created via production profession skills, critical hit success rate, evasion success rate and many other things. It was actually a pretty useful stat. He knew why the item drop rate was so low now. However there was no information about why he takes 10 stat points for each level. The second thread was a hot thread with millions posts. Mete clicked on the thread and there was a video with a few seconds long posted. ¡°The top player was slayed by some mysterious player.¡± That was what was written under the video. Mete clicked on the video and started to play it. However as soon as he started to play it, he became dumbfounded. A player was slaying another player with a single hit. And he knew both of the players. One of them was the bully he slayed and other one naturally was him. That was his video! Moreover there were millions posts under the thread. ¡°What the hell?! Who uploaded this video here?!¡± Metehan said with a dumbfounded expression. After he stared at the screen for a while, he started to read the posts. Some of them were praising him and some of them don¡¯t believe it.
RisingSun : Woah! Who is this guy?! He slayed that bastard beautifully. I know that bastard called The Prince, he was an ashole. He had Pked me just because I was looking at him. Can you believe that?! Serves him right. That mysterious guy is my hero now! I wish I knew his name. RagingRebel : Are you guys morons?! This video obviously is fake. There is no way The Prince would be Pked with single hit. He is wearing the limited edition Excellent equipments. And the other guy has noob equipments. He must have edited it to get some attention. What a loser. RandomGuy : You are the one who is moron here, RagingRebel. This video is taken from the TDT Media official site. This is the trial of a news that will be broadcast during Royal Blood Online News Bulletin. So it is a genuine video. There is no way such a big media corporation would broadcast a fake video.
Those three posts had made Mete more dumbfounded. ¡°My video will be broadcasted on TV? On the top of that, on the TDT Media? Oh my God!¡± Mete was in complicated emotions. He was nervous and happy at the same time. He was nervous because he would be center of the other people¡¯s attentions. And he was happy because he would get Sevgi¡¯s attention as well. When he decided to start to play Royal Blood Online, he had also decided to be famous so that he could get Sevgi¡¯s attention. He had made his resolution for getting other people¡¯s attention as well. He was going to be strong. This was all for Sevgi. However when he was actually at the center of other people¡¯s attention, it was different. He felt extremely nervous by just thinking about it. ¡°No, I can¡¯t give up now. I can¡¯t stay this way forever. I have to change. What is there to be nervous anyway? It is not like they will eat me. Stay strong, Mete. Stay strong.¡± He tried to motivate himself. ¡°Anyway my Fatigue should be recovered by now. I better connect the game. I can think about this later. Still I better try to avoid other people for now.¡± Metehan turned off his computer and connected the Royal Blood Online. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Author Note: I hope you enjoy it. And if you enjoy it, you can support me by rating, following or commenting. I am open to the criticisms. I know I am lacking on many fields however I want to improve myself. So feel free to comment. Have fun.
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