《Paztok》
Chapter 1: Zen
¡°Zen.¡± The name I go by in real life and in all my games. I really like it. I came up with it since I grew up on the street. The only memento I have of my parents is a necklace from my parents.
I don¡¯t know where I am from or how I survived in the slums all this time. However I do remember the accident my parents and me were involved. Don¡¯t remember their names or how they looked like, since I was only three years old when it happened. I am currently 21 years old graduated from the regular schools with almost a failing grade in all my classes. I guess I was kind of a lucky guy.
I grew up on the streets and shelter homes for the homeless. It¡¯s currently the new year of 521SL. Why SL? Well they started counting years again from 0SL when they launched the first mission to colonize mars.
The shelter home I was raised at was filled with older men and women and absolutely no kids. The other shelter homes had a few there and here. During my stay there they all became my family. To an even greater extent they put their money together and went to buy me a simple laptop where I could enjoy different 2D games. I especially like RPG games. To my surprise they even bought me a small solar panel that could recharge my laptop during the day when I was in school. Basic education was made to be free for everyone. I only went there for the free breakfast and lunch that they provided. Well I also did attend class from time to time.
The entire city that we stayed at was exceptionally poor. One could even say it was the slums for the entire world. Over 21000 people lived in this city. However this city was never reconstructed after the WW3 fortunately there were no radioactive materials that were used during the war. So I guess we were lucky.
Back to the topic of what¡¯s so important about this day. As it happens today is the day that I have saved enough money to get myself a virtual reality machine of my own. They aren¡¯t that expensive, to be exact the machine itself is only $100 dollars. However growing in the slums and shelter homes where one rarely sees even a dollar. One could say I was lucky that I was able to accumulate such amount and not have it discovered by the other money hungry people in the slums. As for food, the school provided most of it. At the shelter home I was able to use the fallen rocks and boulders to make myself a private room.
So the shelter I stayed at was an abandoned warehouse that was covered and patched up by the older men to shield us from the rain and wind. The let me build my own room, which was right in the center of the warehouse. No one minded since they all knew that it would help support the warehouses roof that gave way to heavy down poor from the rain. Everyone had a makeshift room however mine was the only one that had 4 walls made of stone, bricks, boulders and rocks.
Ahg¡.. I¡¯m getting off topic again. Ok so I am now standing in front of T.I.E. One might think that I am talking about a tie, which I am not. I don¡¯t know what it stands for however I do know it is the world biggest and known company that is even launching ships back and forth between mars and earth as we speak. It is a company that came up and invented Virtual Reality processing. At first its initial use was to send astronauts to farther places in the universe and while being in cryogenic sleep they could connect to the virtual reality and through that keep in contact with earth and relatives as well as family.
The interesting part is that the company is still somehow able to hold the intellectual property rights for the invention. So it came up with only 2 virtual realities. One is called the Business Virtual World which was made public around 20 years ago and before that it was extremely expensive so only business executives where able to use it for business to have meeting across the 3 world that where now colonized and were terraforming. The second virtual reality came to be made public about 1 year ago. Without any fees of any sort other than you only had to buy the equipment.
Agh¡. Again getting of topic.
As I walked in T.I.E., I was greeted by a young lady who immediately as if seeing where my focus was at asked me. ¡°Are you here to buy the virtual reality machine?
Zen: Yes. I am Miss.
Sales Lady: My name is Lea. As it would have it we have just received the new upgraded version from T.I.E.. It has been a while since anyone has bought a new machine from us since most of the people either have it or just come only for upgrades. The company is also tossing out the old models starting tomorrow. Even though the machines have no correlation with the game play they went from wearing a helmet type to having a watch that wraps around your wrist and as you can see in front of you the watches that I am talking about. From these devices you can enter both of the virtual realities.
Zen: There is a problem miss. I came to buy the model that costs $100 dollars and as I can clearly read the tag it says it¡¯s $1000.
Lea: Hmmmmm. Let me talk to the manager. Perhaps we still have one of those older models.
As I was so anxious and quite dirty compared to this place being so clean. I almost did not move from my spot not wanting to dirty and give the cleaning people more work, by dirtying up the place.
15 minutes later¡
Lea: Here is my manager who wants to talk to you.
Manager: I am truly sorry sir we do not have the older models. We are replacing the older models with the new models free of cost. So this is what I am able to do for you and only you. I will make the transaction as if you bough the older model today, however as a friend I did you a favor and upgraded the older model you had to the newer one a day before. They are already in use in other places of the world and even on the other world so you are the first that will have it and no one will know. How does that sound young man?
As my hands that where clasping each other relaxed for a bit. I composed myself and asked. ¡°So how much will I have to pay?¡±
Manager: Older models cost $100 dollars so only that much.
Zen: Deal.
Manager: Then Lea will finish up with the registration.
Lea: What was your name again young man?
Zen: Call me Zen.
Lea: Zen will you follow me please.
As I followed her we entered a long corridor. It was almost like a long corridor of changing rooms. We entered one of the rooms and in it I saw a shower and a the other part of the room was a huge machine.
Lea: It is our companies policy that everyone who makes a new account with us that would like to use either of the two realities take a shower and then step in, in to this machine like so and when ready say. ¡°I am ready.¡± The machine then will scan you completely, everything from brain waves to heartbeat and cellular structure and even your DNA. There on the bench is a complimentary set of clothes and a robe that you may take with you, when you are done with the scan.
As she left, I undressed and took a shower that seemed to be the longest shower of my life. It was mainly because I didn¡¯t want to leave. What brought me back to reality was the sound in the speaker that said the water would turn off in 5 minutes. I finished enjoying the amazing shower that I rarely got to take.
To sum it up I had to stand in the machine for about 20 minutes until it was complete. Put on the new complementary clothes while taking my other clothes and stepped out side. The sales lady as if waiting for me on the chair near the door. Stood up, she her self seemed to be half asleep by now.
Zen: How long was I in there?
Lea: 1 hour 22 minutes and 15 seconds.
My jaw dropped.
Lea: I bet you were enjoying the shower weren¡¯t you?
Zen: Yea. I don¡¯t have one a home so it was a really good experience.
Lea: Well here it is your watch and just before we finish this transaction. Please put on the watch and come to the machine and place your hand in the holder and it will synchronize you with the watch. I must tell you that with this watch system can only be used by you and if you lose it or it breaks we will replace it free of charge. It will not work with anyone else since it will synchronize with you to the last fiber of your being.
After another 5 minutes I was done and heading home rapidly to try out the new game.
When I got back home many of the older people in my homeless shelter were waiting for my return since everyone knew where I went. When I came back home. Their eyes were wide open when they saw I had only a bag with my clothes. ¡°Where is it?¡± one of them asked.
I looked up and grinned as I showed them the watch. ¡°What we thought you went to buy that virtual reality machine and all you got is a stupid watch where one can find in almost all of the garbages?¡±
Zen: No no. This is the new and improved virtual reality machine.
Everyone¡¯s jaw dropped even further than before. ¡°Go on then boy it is your birthday. You can play for a week and we¡¯ll supply your food for that duration of the time only, so don¡¯t forget to come out and eat.¡± Said a grandpa I considered to be the closest thing to a family. His name is Jo. So I call him Grandpa Jo.
I hurried in to my room and was struck by another fact. I didn¡¯t know how to start it up. Fiddling with it for about 2 hours, even searching online on my laptop I could not find how to start the watch.
Zen: Damn that game watch.
As soon as I said the word game, a voice in my head rang out. Would you like to start the Virtual Game?
Zen: Yes. Hurayyyy
As I said that, I felt as if I fell asleep in the real world within seconds. To only realize I was standing on top of a mountain that was flat with a desk and a chair. I was standing around for quite some time while I was enjoying the scenery. After sitting down behind the desk a screen mid air popped up. ¡°Character Creation.¡±
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It seemed to recognize that it was my first account ever and so it prompted that. I first chose my name that I always use. Zen. Just Zen.
I had read many times about this game to learn that you can practically do anything you wanted. The first 60 hours of game play. You were under a noob protection that meant no one could kill you. However it also meant you could not kill anything-even monsters. It also meant that you could not be affected by any damaging ailments. Poison, fever, infection, and even could not drown, however you could only do what your low stats would allow. This also meant that if something ate you big you would have to go through its digestive system until you were spat out the other side. I definitely don¡¯t want to try that out. The interesting thing that was said on the forums was that the location of the appearance of the desk for the individuals was constantly in a different place.
Right after creating the character and what I chose to be, is a human, with the look of my original body. The desk disappeared and I was still sitting on the chair and around me appeared a total of 15 basic items I could choose from them only 5 items. It had items such as a basic ax, sword, dagger and so on. Another window popped up in front of me and said pick your items carefully.
Before I could decide what I wanted. I lay down and even at one point wanted to see if I could step off the peak of the mountain. Only to find out that there was an invisible wall around the place I was at. Well either way I already knew what I wanted to do and that was to build something that would pass the test of time in this game. I have read that there were wars and such. However I wanted to build something that could even withstand those wars. Well I will see what I need later. For now the basic instrument I need to start building such structure was definitely the following tools. Ax, carving knife, flint stones, pot, and a bag.
As I finished the rest of the items disappeared and 3 pedestals appeared. Before proceeding I wanted to see if I could see my stats windows. Since I played many games I pretty much thought it would be similar.
¡°Status Window¡± I called out.
Notification!!!
You may only see your stats/skills prior to reaching level 20, through the means of getting a status ring, which you may purchase at any Inn.
Well seems I¡¯ll have to find an Inn at some point or just go blind until I reach level 20.
As I approached the pedestal I noticed it had 3 destinations. 3 Random villages where selected none of them a city. Then I noticed another fact that the place I stood at all of a sudden had an unknown breeze blowing through. I again approached the edge of the platform to that the invisible wall that was there before was gone. So even without looking at the options I took another step to see if I really was going to fall off.
I did start falling. To be precise I jumped the last minute to feel what it was to fly/ fall down from the peak of the mountain. As I twirled in the air I saw that the platform disappeared. All that was before me was a pointy mountain peak, the highest in the area.
When I first realized there was an invisible wall, around the platform. I could not see what was below that, even though I could clearly see that since I was so high up and that around me there were a few more peaks poking out of the clouds. I knew that I was on a mountain. Although now I could see what awaited me just below the platform that obstructed my vision.
What I saw was terrifying to a point that my blood became cold and my heart stopped beating. Not exactly like that but something similar to that, of what I saw before me. My destination was covered by snow and green forest. However 5 huge mountains surrounded it and unless I scaled them or dug through them, there was no way I was getting out. What was even worse was what was beyond those mountains and I could not see an end to that where snowy mountains more and more of them, almost as far as I could see.
I knew then that there was no point of looking for a village. Since it was to mountains and spread as far as the eye could see. Only near the horizon could you see some planes.
So it seems that I might have to survive in these plains for a while. Not too bad since I did want to explore this type of world. Either way we have lost what I see before me in the real world so guess I better make the most of my experience.
As I was falling and actually hitting the side of the mountain as I skid down a window popped up in front of me that really stood out from the rest.
Notification!!!
We have verified and are now syncing your inheritance package. Please have our condolences for your loss!
I was at a daze. Why did I receive some sort of inheritance package? I just ignored it since it made no sense, because the game in itself was only available for public only like what one or two years.
Well it seems I was pretty high and still falling crashing from rock to rock. As I hit the rock bottom another message appeared.
Notification!!!
You have arrived at your starting point for the game. This will be your respawn point until you get to a village or bigger populated area. Currently you are under NoobSter protection.
Meaning:- You will not be able to kill or die for the next 60 in game hours.- When you log off your remaining hours will be saved.
Notification!!!
- You are eligible to receive inheritance stats, inheritance items, and inheritance skill.
- You have inherited 1/20 of your parents stats combined.
- Please check your bag, since you have inherited 2 items from your Fathers and Mother¡¯s inheritance. (Items will be one from each parent with their highest item/ equipment level. You can view the items info by saying, ¡°identify¡±. All of the item/equipment requirements for the inherited items will be waived so that you may be able to use them, however if you sell them then those requirement will be reestablished.)
- You have inherited 2 skills from your father and mother. (Unfortunately you won¡¯t know what they are until you either get to level 20 or buy a status ring. All of the class/ profession requirement for the inherited skills will be waived. Mana and Stamina consumption will still be in effect.)
I was stunned by these messages. For a big reason since I know that even though those testing periods existed, you had to be either lucky or working on the project itself to get to participate. Well I went ahead to identify the items I got. I was really, really anxious.
Both of these items I could tell what they where without even identifying them.
A pickax (one of its ends was a hammer end) and a cape (with a hood), is what I got. It might seem to me my folks were probably real Noobs. I chuckled to myself. Either way I went ahead and identified them.
As I took the pickax I said:
¡°Identify
Katonium Pickax LVL 100 -Indestructible-
Damage: 1000 Piercing900 Blunt*********
2000 Fire
2000 Earth
*********
Requirements: LVL. 150STR 1850AGI 750
DEX 750
Required Race: Dwarven
Additional Effects: 75% Element Immunity+500 STR
+5000 Stamina
750% Stamina Recovery
Description & Smiths Note: Made by an unknown Legendary Dwarf Smith with the Guidance of a Dragon.That being that ever receives this item.I will impart a simple fact of how to make Katonium. (Mix a melted: diamond, mithril, platinum, and titanium.)
Notification: All requirements (including race) are waived for ¡°Zen¡± in using this specific Item.You can start using this item immediately.
I have played many games but even to get a hold of such unique item. It was unimaginable for me. My mouth stayed open as if it gained 1000lbs. can¡¯t believe just what was with this item. I felt bad for making fun of the one who was a dwarf from my parents, most likely my dad. Well either way I wasn¡¯t going to let go a heirloom of sorts from my folks, especially since the race requirement was waved and I could use this item immediately.
I was ecstatic to start my project that I immediately came up while looking at this pickax.
Then I held up the cape and also identified it.
Moon Wave Cape LVL 100 -Indestructible-
Armor: 350-50% Any Damage
Requirements: LVL. 150AGI 1850DEX 1500
Required Race: Elven
Additional Effects: 95% Element Immunity+250 AGI
+250 DEX
+5000 Mana
750% Mana Recovery
Description & Crafters Note: We are a race called Zefron. Find us if you can.
Notification: All requirements (including race) are waived for ¡°Zen¡± in using this specific Item. You can start using this item immediately.
My mouth actually started to hurt from the grin I had on my face. With that thought on my mind I logged out to tell everyone the good news. Which is that the virtual machine watch actually works. All of them saw me struggling to turn it on; so all of the residents assumed it was defective or that I was scammed.
As the logging out went pretty easy. All I had to do was say log out.
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Chapter 2: Money.. money.. money..
I got up from my makeshift bed and left the room. I saw everyone¡¯s faces that were just screaming, with the idea of $100 wasted.
IT WORKS!!!!!! I screamed out loud.
If this were a game it would probably make me a skill just from the yell.
Notification!!!
You have created a new skill. ¡°Yell.¡±
note: If you want to see detail pertaining this skill you still must reach level 20 or buy the stats ring to be able to within see further description.
WHAT THE HECK?????? I screamed.
I could see the window that popped up even though I was no longer in the game. Even closed by either me saying close or by swiping my hand.
Grandpa Jo: What is it my boy. What worked and what¡¯s the heck about?
Zen: Grandpa Jo. The game works I just played an hour within the game. Then it seems that I can also see the window that I saw in the game.
Grandpa Jo: What do you mean it works and by the way you have only been asleep for 10 minutes you know. What window are you talking about?
Zen: Really only 10 minutes? I am sure of it. Let me try something. Show notification to Grandpa Jo.
Notification!!!
The person in reference does not have the NGVRW. (New Generation Virtual Reality Watch)
Zen: Hmm seems we will need to get you a watch as well, for you to be able to see what I am seeing.
Grandpa Jo: That will take a while.
Zen: Perhaps or perhaps not. I am going to check out what it says about this watch on the net. Perhaps there is more to it.
I walked over to my antique laptop that worked very slowly. Only to find that it made a huge steam when I turned it on. Seems it is officially fried. So as I lay in bed and said in my mind, if only I could browse the net somehow. All of a sudden another screen before me popped up and revealed the net I wanted to access.
¡°Wow¡± its like I have mind power with this device.
Notification!!!
Welcome to the Business Reality Network.
The next thing that opened up automatically in the net was a video that I couldn¡¯t close or skip. Basically the gist of it was, that the creators of virtual reality have integrated part of the virtual game mechanics and business virtual world mechanics in to our real world. It also mentioned that your actions in the real world would impact your game play. However that option could be turned off if desired through the game system settings, which you can access just by saying ¡°System Settings.¡± Hence since you were able to connect to the net in the business virtual reality you could now connect to it without going to sleep.
Tell me just how far has this world progressed while many people still live in slums?
Don¡¯t they care about the poor people up there, or have they forgotten us already?
I dismissed that train of thought since I was never one to complain. I always told myself that to make this better you have to do it yourself and that no one would help you at that. That was the cruel world we lived in.
I went ahead and told everyone that it worked and what it could do. In order to lift everyone spirit. As I looked online the Chief Operations Manager at T.I.E. said that the watches recharge by intercepting any type of wave around us, from radio waves to cellular frequency waves. It was another igneous design that they made ever since they launched new and improved ships. It would gather the tiniest radiation waves that were converted to power certain things. Now it has advanced to work of simple waves, including sound waves.
Ok so I got a few things straightened out. As I was about to close the net a window with an invitation to join the merchants league popped up. The eye-catching thing was that it had a huge sign saying ¡°Make Real Money¡± through selling items/ equipment/ information from the game. I wondered what that is about so I continued to read. Apparently I could try and so I joined the merchant.lolz.funny. It was very funny name including. As soon as I joined it had given me a rank ¡°Rank Joker.¡± Rank system seemed to go from Rank 1 ¨C 100, however new members were consider just like a joker card. It was unpredictable on what would be sold by them. So it was the first sale that would matter and establish you further rank. As I scrolled through the member list I could see thousands, no millions or even billions of users all over the Universe.
The next screen popped up saying if I would like to sell something. So I gave it a shot. I thought in my mind what I wanted to sell and settled that I would sell a small piece of information. Then a keyboard popped up, as then it said that the further interactions had to be typed as for security reason. So I typed that I was selling a name of a material
Then immediately as I was typing, another window came up and said that they had all of the information in regard to materials up to level 75 Zarkonite. It then said if the material was of higher level they would buy the name and if I wanted I could sell the information on how to acquire it for a bigger sum of money. It also said that they have close relations with T.I.E. and would ask them to verify if the material does exist and providing false information would get you demote your rank to Lvl 1.
I then typed a response and said I will only sell the name of a Lvl 100 Material. The system didn¡¯t respond for a short time then it said connecting to an associate.
It was almost like telepathy that someone said inside my head.
¡°Hello there I am Zack and I am with the Merchant Association. The system alerted me to speak to you since you have a piece of information many are looking for. What the people are looking for are the materials with a level of higher then 75. So how much are you asking for this information.¡±
I then began to speak in my mind as if trying to answer him. He however did not respond so to my greeting and so I changed to speaking out loud and only then he responded that he was happy to be talking to me Zen.
Zen: Ok so for now I will only sell the name of the material. Thus we come to the price.
Since I didn¡¯t know how much it would cost, so I opened another screen to see how much was it costs to receive information in regard to Zarkonite. Which was exactly $1000 dollars.
Zen: How much would you buy it for? Please do try to be reasonable with the price since your Zarkonite information to buy is $1000 dollars.
Zack: You do understand that the $1000 dollars is complete information about Zarkonite. Everything you need to know about it. So since we are talking about only a name I would say $100 dollars.
Zen: Tell me how long has this game been active. Until now it seems no one found even a name of a higher tier material. As to this knowing that just by giving out a name will not only trigger many events in the virtual world but also trigger the rapid development of some other information. Mind we also are talking about a Lvl 100 Material which is nearly 25 level higher then Zarkonite.
Zack: I am sorry that I had to test the waters with you in such a manner. Please accept my apology. I will say that we have a bid for this information of $10,000 dollars. I then extend this offer of $12,000 dollars since we could probably squeeze more money from the buyer.
Zen: That sounds better however I thing you hid the fact that there are multiple buyers for this kind of information. Tell me I am wrong and I hang up.
Zack: No Wait. Wait. Wait. Yes you are completely correct. My official price is $100,000 dollars. I don¡¯t want to loose the information you have to provide for me so I will offer what the company has agreed to pay for this information. With this we will be able to sell it slightly higher to make some money to run this business.
Zen: I was never trying to squeeze out the money however; I was also testing the type of representative you are. So from now I will only deal with you in regard to this type of information. So it will give you an advantage to you as representative vs the other employees. As long as you are straight with me I will only exclusively sell this information through you.
Zack: As you are straight with me from the beginning I will be straight with you. I was on the list of being cut, since I could not provide any new information and if your information proves correct then this will secure my job here. Thus I wont try to make a huge commission of you anymore. Which was the only reason I tried to get the commission before I got fire/ let go.
Zen: Then you¡¯re in luck. So how do we do this transaction? I want to be sure to get my money.
Zack: As for the transaction we conduct them in front of T.I.E. Representative. Since I am on Mars and it seems like you are on Earth. We will login to the Business Virtual Reality and conduct it through that system. If you don¡¯t already have an account then, there is a one-time fee for the Business Virtual Reality portion, its $10,000 dollars.
Zen: I don¡¯t have that kind of money to even join.
Zack: As a sign of apology and faith I will pay on your behalf. Thus you will only receive $90,000 dollars during the transaction.
Zen: Very Well.
Zack: Wait 5 minutes before logging in and I will take care of it quickly.
The call ended with me hearing a long beep sound and a female voice saying, ¡°your call has ended.¡±
I then told Grandpa Jo what has happened and all he did was laugh. All he said was that virtual money wasn¡¯t real money either way. Even though I tried to convince him about it. He still did not believe it.
Notification!!!
You now have access to the Business Virtual World.
That was my que. I went back and lay down. Thinking about me wanting to enter the business virtual world and same like before my eyes closed as if going to sleep immediately.
I then found myself on a road facing a building with big letters T.I.E.
Notification!!!
All of the transactions conducted in this Reality will transfer over to the real world. You can use your watch to access your funds in an ATM machine for quick cash. We suggest that you use the watch as a card instead of carrying loads of money. We will guarantee that your transactions are 100% safe. We also guarantee that up to $100,000,000, which are protected and insured with us.
Thank you for doing business through us. T.I.E.
I then heard a beeping noise in my head again and a female voice said. ¡°There is an incoming call for you Zen.¡± I didn¡¯t notice it before perhaps the last time I picked up the phone call without knowing it was incoming and so I accepted the call.
Zack: I am at the T.I.E headquarters ready for the transaction.
Zen: I am walking in as we speak.
In this space I was wearing a sort of cheap business suit. As I walked in I saw 5 guards standing near the reception desk. A young man in his mid 30¡¯s dark hair and white skin and right next to him a familiar figure that I recognized from the local office. Lea.
As I approached Lea introduced me to someone named Phil.
Lea: Hello Zen. Here we have Mr. Phil a representative who will be making the transaction on the behalf of the Merchant Association.
Mr. Phil: Hello Zen and before you say anything, we offer you a new price of $500,000 since we had to change the associates who are going to be doing this transaction.
Until now Lea didn¡¯t know the sum we were dealing with. So she being surprised, said that we need to proceed in to a private room that has absolute security. Before she could lead us away I said.
Zen: I am not moving from this spot until the Merchant Associate Zack arrived as agreed.
Stolen content warning: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences.Mr. Phil: I am offering a better price then him. Does that not interest you?
Zen: My word means more then money dear Mr. Phil. Lea may you please take me to that room and only allow Zack from the Merchant Association to enter.
Even though Mr. Phil continued to throw offers at me he did not dare take a step after us since 2 of the guards stayed behind to separate us. I guess now I know what the guards were there for.
When we entered a room that seemed simple yet it was located within a Safe that had nearly 10-meter thick doors. Hmm interesting. I was left alone in that room which was delicately furnished. I am amazed at how much detail went in, in to this room alone. Not more then 5 minutes later Lea walks in with what I assume to be Zack.
Lea: Zen here is who you asked for Zack from the Merchants Association.
Zack: Hello Zen, are you sure you don¡¯t want that other guys offer? He is legit you know. The reason you saw him as you entered even though I was here. The Boss of our company favors him since his, his son. So I was told to back down or else I get fired. I have a family to feed you know.
Zen: I don¡¯t mind and we did reach an exclusive contract agreement over the phone. So let make it official.
Lea: Would you please wait I need to secure the door.
After one minute the door close without a sound.
Lea: It is now secure to proceed with the transaction.
Zack handed a check to Lea.
Lea: I have received a check for $100,000 dollars and will give you when you disclose the information out loud, so that I may hear and verify the information.
Zen: I thought you said $90,000 dollars before.
Zack: Well I though having a round number is better that way and the Business Virtual World account is just a bonus for us.
Zen: ¡°Katonium¡± is the Lvl 100 material you wanted the information for.
Lea: That is indeed a Lvl. 100 material.
Here is your money Zen. I receive a check that vanished at I held it.
Lea: I know you are new to this system don¡¯t worry it only went in to your account directly.
Zack: Will you sell me any other information?
Zen: The $10,000 bonus was almost like a bribe. Well I can tell you another piece of information about it although I don¡¯t know how useful it will be.
Zack: You tell me anything else and I will give you and additional $100,000 dollars.
He then handed another check to Lea and she confirmed it.
Zen: ¡°You need to mix several material in order to get a product of Katonium.¡±
Lea: That is also correct.
Zack: Hmmmm. The last bit was kind of obvious but it is information. Since Zarkonite you also need to mix several to get it.
Zack: Perhaps you can tell us which materials need to be melted in order to achieve this.
Zen: I know you would like to know. However I will not tell you anything further then this.
Zack: You know we don¡¯t have to keep meeting like this every time we deal with this kind of sale. In fact you can contact Lea with the information and she can sell it for the amount you set on your behalf. She does also get a rating boost for this type of thing within her own company. So my suggestion is leave the information with her if you would. I then can buy it at a later date when you confirmed that you have received your money. Also to clear any suspicions from Lea here. She has this transaction recorded for record as well as all of the calls so its like 100% guaranteed safe transactions.
Zen: Very well then. I will leave you with a hint, that I have another material of the same level material and I will leave all of the information about it with Lea. So after I confirm that I have the funds I will make more transactions through Lea exclusively between us three. Ok?
Zack: You have another material of such quality?
Zen: I didn¡¯t say I have it. I just said I know of it. XD
Zack: Ah I see you¡¯re pretty clever to be able to catch that last phrase. Ok then leave it here and let me see her confirm the information you give her.
Zen: Hmm. Nope. I still have my money to confirm. XD.
Zack: Agh that right. Well then it was a pleasure doing business with you. I will also tell my contacts that you have more information in regard to another Lvl 100 material I presume. I will text you if they are interested in further information to buy. Who know maybe they can figure it out with only this.
Zen: It is a pleasure. If the money is real Lea I will see you if a few hours with a big group to get more of these devices for them.
Lea: I just have to remind you $1000 dollars each.
Zen: I know trust me. XD
I then went out side and logged out.
As I woke up I noticed another screen in front of me. Man these screens are getting annoying.
Notification!!!
Your account balance has increased by $200,000 at Universe Bank.
I then went out of my room and found Grandpa Jo. Told him what happened and he just continued to laugh at me. He said: ¡°Are you mixing game world with the real world.¡±
I continued to convince me to go to that bank to see if it was true or not. I tried until finally he agreed to go with me. I was in my comfy rags when we went towards the bank. Grandpa Jo, was also wearing his rags.
As we approached the Bank, we saw 4 huge guards outside of the bank. This bank also happened to be on the way to T.I.E. While approaching it, before we were even 10 meters from the door. A guard ran up to us and told us to stop. He told us that in those rags we were not even aloud to step a foot in the bank for security and suspicion purposes. I then asked him were I can withdraw money from then. Since I had not a change to buy new clothes. He told us that we had to go through the drive through even though it¡¯s meant for vehicles.
I didn¡¯t care were I got the money as long as I got them. Grandpa Jo, kept on wanting to leave but we proceeded either way. It only made us look more suspicious every time I was convincing him. As if we were up too no good. There was no one waiting through the drive through and when the woman saw that we where right out side her window startled her. We looked like a bunch of slum people stalking someone at this point.
Teller: Can I help you gentleman?
She was trying real hard to hide the fear in her eyes even though she was quite well protected behind the bullet/ plasma proof window.
Zen: We are here to make a withdrawal.
Teller: would you swipe your card or device over the sensor right there please?
I did what she asked and then for a few seconds waited in silence, only to see her mouth drop.
Teller: Please come in, inside our dear customer.
Zen: I can¡¯t the guards don¡¯t let us through.
Teller: Don¡¯t worry they will let you in now.
Zen: Ok.
We walked around the building again to arrive at the door. This time the guards didn¡¯t move and you could even see sweat on their faces. It was if they were taking a bath on the spot.
That truly was weird I chuckled in my self. Grandpa Jo was also sweating as if taking a shower. He kept murmuring ¡°we are soooo dead.¡± We walked in through the sliding class doors to be greeted by three employees.
Stanger 1: Welcome dear customers. We have been notified you want to make a withdrawal. I am the manager of this facility here.
Teller: Before that please follow us while we provide you with some suitable accommodations while you make your transactions.
Stranger 2: I will be your guide for this facility and if you shall need any help at all let us know.
Manager: May we ask you to follow us.
So we did and arrived at what looked like the VIP lounge, with no one in there.
Manager: If I may be so bold perhaps we can offer you a change of clothes as a complimentary gift for such a customer.
I was still amazed at the treatment so I didn¡¯t have any reason to refuse. When they brought us the 2 suits they showed us where the showers were at and other things in the VIP Suit. It was almost like a hotel in a bank. Thus we changed and as it would happen it fit me 100% and Grandpa Jo as well. They probably got the measurements off the cameras.
Well we sat down and waited for someone to come in.
15 min later no one came in.
Another 15 min later, still no one came in.
I was getting anxious and said out loud ¡°Anyone there?¡±
As if someone was waiting by the door the guide walked in.
Guide: How may I help you?
Zen: I came to make a withdrawal.
Guide: How much sir?
I was going to see what they would do. So I joked and said 100K.
Guide: Right away sir.
2 minutes later came in the guide with two guards carrying 1 briefcase.
She opened it in front of us and asked would you like anything else?
Notification!!!
You bank account has decreased by $100,000 dollars.
I though to my self, what if I order a passenger bus to pick up my so called extended Family at the slums to go get those Virtual Reality Machines. Takes about an hour walk to bank and 2 hours total to the T.I.E. so a bus would be real nice.
I need a passenger bus to accommodate 40 people for the rest of the day.
Guide: Right away.
As they left the brief case the guards also left room.
I was having Goosebumps going throughout my whole body, the entire time we were at the bank. Not believing any of what was happening and even thinking this was a huge TV show prank. I just though let us see how far this prank of theirs continues.
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Chapter 3: Trapped
1 hour later.
Guide: Sir you bus has arrived. As for its cost we will cover it for its use. Of course only till the end of today.
Zen: Thank You. We will be taking our leave now.
So Grandpa Jo and me got on the bus and gave them directions on how to reach our little warehouse that housed 30 people including us. On the way we saw how everyone in the slums were starring at the bus that seemed to be out of place for its venue.
After all this bus was huge and even had a Jacuzzi in the very back of the bus. It didn¡¯t drive on wheels but rather had floatation devices underneath. Our slums of a city had no roads only paths for bicycles and such. Even though the bus remained close to the grounds it would hover over the paths we used. Even though some places it really could pass through however the navigation on this bus found the fastest route. By using the river it floated above it as we went south towards my home. We knew the river passed by our block so it was very convenient to have such transportation. It took us 8 minutes to reach were as it would take us an hour to walk.
Our place was a complete garden of sort. Around the warehouse that had two entrances even though we closed one off, you could see gardens that surrounded it. Next to walls we planted vine type berries. We also utilized the new system to rotate crops that I won¡¯t go in to.
Again getting off topic. Now back on track.
We didn¡¯t have to call everyone since everyone came out at the sight of such majestic buss arriving. I stepped out to call my extended family on to the bus.
Grandpa Jo already got in the Jacuzzi at that time. Saying something like ¡°before I die, I might have a glimpse of happiness.¡±
The moment I stepped out everyone could not recognize me until I started to shout their nicknames and called them to hurry get on the bus. With everyone on board and a briefcase full of money we headed to T.I.E.
1 hour later.
We arrived at our destination. The reason it took us an hour was because the spaces the bus could move through to get out of the slums took it almost 45 minutes. The bank I mentioned earlier was actually near the center of the slums. Even though it rarely saw business but their company motto was that you can find a bank location nearly anywhere.
T.I.E. Was in a center of the neighboring city and it was the center building. It was also the tallest building. The so-called grass roads leading to this building were much better with more space. That¡¯s why we traveled through this city quickly. Meanwhile the bus parked right in front of the T.I.E. building, 4 of the elderly folk were nearly passed out in the Jacuzzi.
I then announced that we had arrived and asked everyone to hurry get up. Since we are going inside the building. Told the people in Jacuzzi to just put on the bathrobes that we found on the shelves. I then made sure the bus wasn¡¯t going anywhere and would wait till we return.
Everyone was now ready to go. So we left the bus and entered the building. Lea was there to greet us and immediately showed us to a group room. Once we arrived she looked around and counted everyone present and said will all of the 29 people present here be buying a VR watch?
After I told her yes. She quickly called for more helpers and they dispatched them to their individual rooms. However this time I would go around knocking telling them to hurry up. As they took their time I paid for their watches $29,000 dollars. I was screaming in my mind, what was I doing. From my calculations I still should have $71k with me and another $100k in the bank. Still plenty I said to my self. We were going to stretch it as much as possible, mainly on necessities.
I had thoughts about buying a house but I knew I would need more then 5 million even for a small property. Since everyone wanted a property, the demand was high without many people selling. At one point the government put a restriction of how much property any individual or organization could own on a planet. Outer space was still technically free for all, as long as you followed regulations.
1 hour later
Everyone was done and even wearing the complimentary clothes that they all received. Many said how much more comfortable it was then their original clothes.
Soon we got on the bus and asked him to take as to a buffet. I still wanted to party with my extended family. Who knows how many years they will still live.
We parties like never before. You could hear some stranger make a reference such as. ¡°The monkeys are coming run.¡± Perhaps it¡¯s due to the Ape planet being a popular TV series that was remade to be experienced in a virtual world setting by T.I.E.
8 hours later everyone was tired and ready to go back home.
To my surprise not one of them drank that night. When I asked about it they said we only drink for things we want to forget. Not for things we want to remember. They all had happy grins on their faces. When we got home we locked the front door and every single one went to bed. I told them how to login and log out and other functions I figured out and so I too went to bed and start a game-playing marathon.
Thus I lay down and thought about logging in, in to the game and then my eyes again fell down as if being heavy and I dosed off.
Notification
Your NoobSter protection has resumed. You have 59:50 hours left.
Seems it was about right since I logged out pretty much after it told me I have reached my destination previously.
So I got up and equipped my supreme items that are worth probably billions of dollars in real life and went around looking at where it was I landed.
Right behind me stood the mountain I fell of off. To be more precise there was a huge cliff that I could tell how high straight up it was.
Since I couldn¡¯t die under the NoobSter protection. I wanted to know what where the most dangerous creatures around. Meaning I would go to the very depths of any cave to find them. Given that avoid being swallowed or something of sort.
As the first step I wanted to measure how much time it would take me to cross this small forest until I reached the other mountain that I saw from higher elevation. I was lucky I could run practically forever without rest. Do to the Items I equipped.
During my run I had notification screens popping up one after another and I just dismissed them and even took a pause to access system setting and block them until I am able to see the status screen.
Hence I continued to run in a straight line focusing on the peak of the mountain that I could see through the gaps of the trees.
It took me 4 hours to reach the other side at what seemed like my fastest speed. By then it had been getting dark, however I did not even see a single monster. Wonder why that is. So I thought perhaps I should run back and see if I arrive faster at the other side minus the fact it was dark. I was still focused on finding some sort of monster that probably scared everyone away. Thus I started running.
Since I could not see I would crash in almost every tree on the way. Even when I tried to focus on the energy around I was unable to distinguish anything in the dark. No extra sense no nothing. My goal was the shining peak that was the mountain that I fell of off. Its peak was covered in snow, so that¡¯s why it was shining in a clear sky with a big moon.
15 minutes in to running I really got tired of hitting every other tree in the way. So I thought of trying something with my ultimate weapon of doom. He he he.
I took it out and held it in front of me. Perhaps it will register that I am attacking a tree and somehow divert the pain. As I started to run again while holding the pickax in front of me its tip started to shine just a bit. Still not enough to see however I continue to charge like so.
As I charged like this I all of a sudden tripped on some roots only to find the ax meeting the ground with me on top of it. However the place the ax hit in a radius of 1 meter everything burned. When I pulled out the ax I struck it at the ground again to discover it cut the ground almost like cheese. Not yet butter like but still very soft. I then discouraged my self from using that method.
What would happen to the forest if it caught on fire?
That said I walked in a slow pace back. Not once did I hear an animal cry or a beast howl. The only thing I did spot once was a wing beast very high up circle around and then disappears. To be honest this place screams to me like a beast nest of some sort or perhaps there are animals in this forest that I can¡¯t even spot or notice. So I made a plan to make my self a nice cave where I can escape to and set a few traps on the way to prevent perhaps even invisible prey.
I have played many games to know that such things could exist.
I was going the full day without any food and since my stamina recovery that was off the scales. I finally felt hungry and since I turned off my notification windows. I could tell that they were popping up constantly.
I walked nearly 3 hours in to the night until I tripped over something and hitting the ground I could hear something break beneath me. The moons light was enough to tell me that is was now a smashed apple. I hence looked around the area to spot some lone apples that where not covered by the trees shadow lay. That is when I immediately ate it and started to feel around in the dark shaded areas, thinking there was an apple tree nearby. I did find another one or two apples that I immediately ate. I was finally filled and not dying from hunger.
So that was when I decided to take a small nap before continuing and so I crawled in to a shadow of the tree and fell asleep without worries since I was still under NoobSter protection. I didn¡¯t realize how tiered I was until I woke up and the sun was nearly half way through the sky.
The weird thing was that someone was beating on my back. If it were real I know I would have died 10 times from just one hit. Even though the pain during NoobSter was also turned off. I could still tell I was not just being hit but hammered as if a nail.
The moment I opened my eyes I saw that there was something underneath me. That is also I noticed that my hand was gripping something very soft, I should it wasn¡¯t sonly soft but quite big.
Being finally awake I realized that a girl has crawled up underneath me somehow. She was a completely gorgeous, with pure black long hair and sharp facial feature. I have never seen such beauty before. Her skin had a slight olive tint. That is when it hit me to move my hand, since she seemed to be passed out and clutching me closely to her self. I did not want to know what would happen if she saw me touching her. (She would probably stock me till she kills me.)
XD He he he he.
I had to start and focus on happy thoughts.
In the mean time I still felt the hammer like pounding on my back. I then forced her grip on me to loosen so that I could turn around. I don¡¯t know why the attacking never seized and why it continued for who knows how long.
As soon as I was able to free my self from her clutches I turned around to see an incomprehensible site. It wasn¡¯t what I thought however I could see a huge black bear that was standing on two of its legs launching one of its paws at me while the other hit the ground near me.
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As the impact struck me it sent me crumbling in to the ground. Luckily he was focused on attacking me other then the girl that was passed out near the tree.
I at first fought him barehanded and time-to-time I would actually be able to connect my hits. That¡¯s when it occurred to me that no matter what he does to me where I gain from this or not I will fight him for as long as I could. That is how my longest battle started in my gaming career to this point. Not to sure if there will be more opportunities to be able to train with a such a though opponent without dying.
8 hours later I was still fighting this crude animal. In some cases he could completely overwhelm me and I could only focus on getting out. There was no need to defend since my health was not going down. However after these 8 hours the girl lying next to the tree started to wake up. What she saw now was 2 opponents fighting each other barehanded. I tried to use my weapons and even my ultimate weapon on the bear however it proved difficult to use at a very close range. Especially when most of the time the bear would pin down my legs by stepping on them and then I would only focus on hitting it with only my bare hands.
The girl realized that I was not dying and asked out loud. ¡°Your under the NoobSter protection right?¡±
I replied with a loud shout. ¡°Yes.¡±
That girl was in deep thought for a moment before she spoke up again. So it must have been you who I grabbed last night for protection without realizing you were actually a person.
I hence again replied. ¡°Luckily for you I was there. You do realize I can¡¯t kill it while under that protection system.¡±
The girl said: ¡°Yes I know. However that bear is at a really high level so I can¡¯t help you there since it too almost killed me with a merely one punch. Unlike you I am no longer under that protection.¡±
That is when I came up with the Idea. ¡°Does this system allow partying?¡±
Girl: Yep.
Zen: I am Zen. What¡¯s your name?
Girl: Amelia.
Zen: I invite Amelia to my party.
Amelia: Sure why not. What do you have in mind now?
Then on the left side of my vision I could see her name and health bar next to her name with Mana and Stamina bars.
So this is what we will do. I will keep fighting it and you go find me some food. In the mean time while taking its punches I will lead it to a cliff. Then I will mine a tunnel and hopefully it follows me in. I will choose to mine near a tree that is next to a cliff that way while I¡¯m inside digging the bear should still follow me and continue hitting me while I mine the tunnel. After its barely deep enough for the two of us to fit in we will cut the tree next to the mine and let if all between the cliff and another tree that way the tree cannot be pushed away from the inside of the cave. Before it fall I will try my best to jump out.
Amelia: Are you stupid. Some of my X-Friends who are now on blacklist tried to mine these mountains and could not even go deeper then a foot and you want to mine it?
Zen: I can mine them don¡¯t worry so you up for the plan?
Amelia: I have already died 2-3 times in this place and can¡¯t leave for some reason. I at first thought that I would respawn in a village outside of this place. However it seems I just revive in the same place I died. It gave me a message that said ¡°I was to far from my know location points of revival.¡±
Hence I was constantly running from the bears in this region I think there might be quite a few of them here. I did see some rabbits from time-to-time, however they are quite smart and avoid being spotted.
Zen: Don¡¯t care what really happened between your friends, however we have to solve this predicament and we cant keep running or we wont get anywhere with that. So if I can mine us a mine to live in there its better then in the open am I right?
Amelia: Sure so, then we are first going to mine a trap for the bare and then we are going to mine us a home right?
Zen: That¡¯s the plan.
Amelia: Ok then we should head this way towards that peak it seems to be the closest. (She was point to the place where I hit the bottom of the mountain.)
She ran ahead and I also started to run, although the bear would simply charge and easily catch up to me. So I got to work on my dodging skills especially when they came from the behind.
I arrived at the cliff and found a suitable spot for mining. I then took out my ultimate mining pickax and with the hammer end hit the bear on the head. It seemed to stun the bear for about 10 seconds, enough time to give me a few swings at the cliff.
The cliff still gave adequate resistance and hence I continued my operation of Trap the Bear. From time-to-time Amelia would toss me a few apples that I would eat. Even though I doubt I could die during the first 60 hours it probably effected my stat if I didn¡¯t eat. This entire time Amelia found that the tree she was going to cut down had a nearly perfect nesting spot. It seems she knew where the apples were in this area. She did drink water from a nearby stream and offered me some from time to time.
At first it was hard work to avoid the bears ultimate attack the palm strike but then in about 4 more hours It seemed that the bear to ran out of stamina and would only do simple palm strikes that were easy to avoid as well as its charge. I continued in to the night and in to total darkness. The only thing I could see now and was the bears bright eyes in the dark. I somehow started to know when it was going to attack just by seeing the distance of the bear¡¯s eyes. I still continued to hit the cliff and now it had about a 1-meter wide and 2-meters deep hole.
That is when I yelled at Amelia she woke up from the sound of it and began to chop the tree in a way where it would fall towards the cliff, which later would guide it down to the ground between another tree and the cliff. The tree it self was around 1-meter wide and around 15 meters tall. It looked like one of those yew trees that had long vines on it.
During the day I could tell Amelia wasn¡¯t sitting idling by and cut the bigger branches that came off the tree and even changed her chilling spot to another tree nest.
I lost track of time by then. So when Amelia cut the tree, she yelled at me to warn me to get out. However at that time the bear had charged at me and I didn¡¯t realize that I was pinned by the bear when the tree came down blocking my way out. Hence I continued to fight the bear.
We began yelling to each other because the bear was not only growing and hitting me but also hitting everything around since he realized that now he was trapped and that I was the only food around. He focused with a more sever effort to kill me so that he can eat. He started to bite more often and successfully done so since I had nowhere to run off to.
Amelia: I told you to get out why didn¡¯t you>?
Zen: I was pinned at the moment the tree was going to collapse.
Amelia: So now what?
Zen: Well your safe and I will try to further fight him even though it wont die by my hand for sure.
Amelia: You just continue digging who know perhaps you¡¯ll find a tunnel that leads to lava and lure it there where you can kill it indirectly somehow.
Zen: Is it possible to kill it indirectly?
Amelia: No one has ever tried something like that so I am not sure.
There was a slight problem. I could only barely chip the wall at this point. It was indeed so dense that it became another problem for me to continue digging it further. Even then I continued to try. I hence came up with a new method of mining. I would try to perceive where the next attack came from and truthfully I had the bears tactics and movement down to the last letter. So I would place the mining pick at the location it would strike next and with the bears power it made the pick go in 1 inch. Then I simply applied all my strength at the lever and it would chip away a bigger chunk.
Surprising enough I remembered the forest I was in and even though we were in a much darker place with absolutely no moonlight coming in I was beginning to see different types of shades of gray and black. I could say it was still worse then the time in the forest although I could guess. That I have gained a skill that would allow me to see in the dark if I only continued to train it in this total darkness.
We fought in this darkness until I again heard Amelia¡¯s shout when she screamed to me Good Morning. I really felt as if an evil mastermind imprisoned me.
I then saw a notification screen pop up in front of me.
Notification!!!
You have 1 hour of NoobSter protection left.
This told me that I was playing the game for nearly 10 hours in real lifetime.
So what was I going to do? The bear stopped attacking me 15 minutes later. I wonder why. I also stopped digging, because I wanted a simple rest from constantly having to focus and guess where the bear would have to strike next. Perhaps the bear realized that it was causing more pain by indirect means to it self, rather then making me hurt or perhaps it thought that I was invincible. I could see much more clearer now in the cave and could even make out the figure of the bare.
It made growling and whining noises as if it was starving and hurt badly. The cave we were now in was 2 meters wide and about 5 meters deep. I was happy since I could control the pickax more freely when I truly understood why the other end had a hammer like end. The pickax was probably, meant to be used with another hammer that would strike it. I could even spot the weaker adjoining points in the wall of stone around me. It was easier to mine using those superficial cracks. I could even mine by myself as long as my aim was not off.
Notification!!!
Your NoobSter protection has ended. Normal mode will being immediately, be careful since now you can die and feel pain when you are hit.
***All of those who discovered that you could still learn skills during the NoobSter protection are indeed smart fellows and hopefully you used it to the fullest to attain some needed or hard to get skill.***
I had a grin on my face, for only 3 seconds. It disappeared when the bear that was now on its feet and approaching me was showing its teeth. I could see some liquid dropping from its mouth as if the mouth became watery of the food in front of it.
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Chapter 4: Liquid
I could now see its teeth and my o my, I was in real trouble.
15 Minutes later, no one moved.
I could feel the wet floor beneath me however I don¡¯t think it was mine. To be honest I was scared but at the same time I knew it was a game and so I could not believe I did that. The stench of blood filled the space I was in.
So I got tired of waiting so I punched the bears mouth, so that the bear would finish me already. The only difference now, was that the mouth closed and the bear didn¡¯t move. I then smelled my hand that smelled like blood. I carefully went around the bear and slightly touched under its right legs trying to feel for anything such as a heart.
I could still feel it beating ever so slowly. I then continued towards the exit that was now blocked completely by the mined fractions of the stone. Seems like the bear ended up helping me out without even knowing about it.
I was digging my way out now and noticed that there was nearly 1 meter of this rubble. The most peculiar thing was that there were absolutely no dust particles in the air. Two theories for that either the material was really heave in its composition or it stuck together like some type of magnet. Either way it is a fantasy game with many physics involved.
I had to dig roughly 2 meters of the debris that I carefully transported and filled the space around the bear. I only dug enough for me to squeeze out of the tunnel and when I finally got to the tree I could hear a beautiful voice singing and to that tune I fell asleep near the tree, since I logged out.
When I came out of my room in the real world I could still see everyone still in the sleeping positions. So I entered busted out the all-new cell phone that was like telepathy to me. I called a pizza delivery with some sandwiches and drinks. I then went out side to check on the crops that we grew around the building. There were too many and I don¡¯t want to name every single one.
It was my first time ordering a delivery of pizza but I always saw it happen in cartoons and other movies so I tried it. Within 10 minutes the deliveryman arrived and seemed like he was ready to deliver 5 minutes ago just could not find our particular address. When he came I even paid him a bigger tip then he usually received from the other places and he was really happy to see so much cash being paid. Usually it was through the card or some other device.
As I was walking in to our Home (warehouse) with the delivery man carrying 10 pizzas each, which weren¡¯t all that I ordered. I had ordered 30 pizzas for each of the people that I was living with.
I then took a pan and started bashing it together hopefully they can hear within their game. It seemed to work as each and everyone began to stand up. To the aroma of the food, which was indeed mouth watering.
The conversations started between everyone and then Grandpa Jo spoke up.
Grandpa Jo: Hey Zen, would you like to know our in game names?
Zen: Sure what is it?
They all said in Unison as if they practiced it years and years to get it right.
Group said: ¡°We live; we love, and we dream. We fight to protect our lives; we fight to protect our love and fight to protect our dream. Call us Bellator 1, 2, 3, 4, ¡. > 29.
Notification
Would you like to add these 29 people in too your friends list?
Zen: Yes. Got to say. Wow you guys practiced.
Grandpa Jo: Off course.
Zen: What¡¯s Bellator?
Grandpa Jo: I knew this word and it stuck with me since childhood and it was once said to be a Latin word for Warrior/ Fighter.
Zen: Are you guys perhaps in the same place?
Grandpa Jo: When we got to the location selection part of creating the characters I logged out to see that everyone else also logged out to ask the same exact question. Where to start? As it would have it everyone was given the three choices and only one of those choices happened to be available for everyone one. Kingdom of Argos.
Zen: My, my, my. So what are you all doing now?
Grandpa Jo: We spread out for the moment everyone wanted to do something peculiar on their own and when the 60 hours are up we are going to meet and decide. We still have like 10 min in game before the time runs out. What are you doing in the game my boy?
Zen: Don¡¯t laugh but I am stuck with a bear in a cavern. That bear has been pounding on me for the nearly 40 game hours.
Everyone in the room roared in a laughter as if saying they were jealous.
Grandpa Jo: That right my boy, do thing you can¡¯t in real life. I won¡¯t be amazed if you survive somehow, now that your protection is off.
Zen: I am sure to find a way.
Grandpa Jo: So when you going back in?
Zen: Probably in an hour or so. I need to do some work on the roof. So that it doesn¡¯t leak during the coming winter.
1 hour later I was went back in to the game.
I found my self in the same position and even though the singing has stopped I could hear a fire crackling beyond the fallen tree.
Zen: Hey! Amelia!
Amelia: WHOOOOAAH. Don¡¯t scare me like that.
Zen: Can you help me make a hole in the ground around the tree since it will be more troublesome to cut the tree?
Amelia: Sure right away.
30 minutes later I had a tunnel leading to the bear. When I got out. She asked me how many levels I got from killing it. When I told her that the bear was still alive however he was unconscious. She freaked and said we should kill it and I said that it was my choice since I had suffered the most.
Amelia: What are you going to do now?
Zen: I want to heal it.
Amelia: Are you crazy?
Zen: I was stuck in there for my last 45 minutes of protection and even after the protection it was gone it stopped attacking me.
Amelia: That¡¯s because the hunger affects animals too. He no longer could concentrate and even probably passed out due to blood loss and hunger.
Zen: I don¡¯t know if anyone ever tried to tame a bear of that degree before. However I want to try.
Amelia: Yes there are beast tamers around there and I have played this game for couple years to know that not one ever tamed a beast that was even 20 levels higher then the one self. I assure you that since I am at level 37. Its level and info still showed up as ¡°??????¡±. That¡¯s why I know it has to be atleast 50 levels higher then mine. Other wise I would be able to tell its level at least.
Zen: Do you have a potion I could borrow?
Amelia: Well you did help me and so I will give you a potion of your choice. But know this we are even after this.
Zen: Ok. Deal. Do you have a potion that can heal critical and internal wounds?
Amelia: I see that you don¡¯t know anything about potions but yes I have a potion that would do that however it wont restore much health you ok with that?
Zen: Yes I am.
I hence got the potion and then crawled back in through the skinny tunnel that could accommodate me but since the bear was nearly 3 times my size it was impossible for it to go through, unless it digs its self out. I could see that the bear¡¯s legs gave way and he collapsed down to the grown and was lying on the ground. I could somehow readjust quickly to the darkness an see bits and pieces.
The bear was still unconscious and made it easier to open its mouth. I then prepared my self to run, depending on how fast this potion would work. I poured the vial of the potion in to its mouth and was about to bolt when I noticed that the liquid was only slowly being drained in to its mouth. So I held its mouth until the entire mouth was clear of the healing liquid and so I made my way outside.
Amelia: Is it still alive?
Zen: Oops I forgot to check.
Amelia: You¡¯re an Idiot. What if you wasted that potion on a dead animal, ha?
Zen: How soon will we know?
Amelia: it should wake up within a few hours. Since being in the unconscious state within this game counts like sleeping thus you do gain some health.
Zen: The perhaps I should start on part two of taming the beast.
Amelia: You know how too?
Zen: No but if I perhaps feed it, will it become tamed.
Amelia: Ok that might do it but to be honest it sometimes takes months even for tamers. They also say that a window will pop up displaying that the beast accepted you either as a master, companion or something else like an Overlord of sort.
Zen: There are overlords?
Amelia: Only one and his always on the news, but even his animals are no more then 10 higher then he.
Zen: Ok I better get to some food gathering.
Amelia: There are apples other on that tree.
Zen: I need meat in order to feed the bear.
Amelia: Well then try catching a rabbit or a couple of the squirrels. Good luck though. I wasn¡¯t even able to catch one.
To my surprise all of my clothes seemed not to be torn at all. Seems like they too were part of the NoobSter protection. I gathered some of the vines of the fallen yew like tree.
Then next 2 hours I walked around finding different types of holes in the ground and tree trunks and placed snares that were very simply made. The concept was like in hangman where if something was caught on to it and dragged it would enclose chocking its victim.
After setting 10 of them, I went back and ate some apples. 2 hours later I heard a squirming in the forest and ran over to see that its leg caught a rabbit. I rushed over using my dagger I stabbed it to the area where its heart was supposedly be at. I happened to be close enough to cause major bleeding and it died within a minute.
I took the rabbit back to the fire and skinned it while Amelia looked at me amazed.
Amelia: What level are you and what are you doing in these woods?
Zen: I started here of course. It happened that the starting platform appeared over this mountain. Somehow I fell towards this side rather then the other side.
Amelia: Didn¡¯t it have an invisible shield, to prevent that?
Zen: When I was choosing my location. It seemed to disappear and I could feel the breeze so I jumped of instead of choosing a location and the time I jumped of the shield was no longer there.
Amelia: I have heard that you could start like that but didn¡¯t meet anyone who did it until you came along.
Zen: I liked the scenery and it seemed fun to experience the fall, which I know I won¡¯t be able to experience that type of fall anytime in the future.
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Amelia: So true. There isn¡¯t that many people who would even climb such a peak. Even further fall from it on purpose.
Zen: I am going to go dropped this off in front of the bears nose.
As I headed in to cave while pushing the rabbit ahead of me I crawled in. The bear groaning could be heard slightly. I then went to the bear and saw that there was now a slight puddle where he lay. I smelled it and it didn¡¯t smell like manure or even blood and it had a slight warm feeling when I touched it. After placing the meat right in front of the bears nose I tried to track where the water was coming from.
I could slightly see the much better then before even within this pitch black darkness and so I relied on my sense of touch to tell where it was coming from since I could still not see well enough to tell.
After an hour of touching all over the small cavern I noticed that it was seeping through the cracks in the solid wall. I took out my pickax and started to mine that area. With my renewed strength I was able to chip it away slowly.
1 hour later I was able to make a one two foot hole in width and about ? of a foot deep.
With another strike a sudden poor of water rushed out. It was warm at first but as more came in I realized it was getting hotter and hotter. I really got worried that I might become an ingredient in this type of soup. So I was about to leave the cave when finally I noticed the monstrous bear standing right before me.
Yes I was attacked the bear regained some of his strength charged at me.
This time his charge completely connected because it was a surprise attack and I heard and felt every bone in my body break. I was just waiting for the message that would say. You¡¯re dead or something. Nothing like that came. I must of completely turned off the notification system so it probably would not come up either way.
The bear then noticed that the water pouring out was indeed very hot and if someone could move would not sit in it willingly. Hence I could not move and now the pouring water was going at such a speed that it flooded the cave to about one ? of a foot. Only my mouth was over the water. Even that didn¡¯t last long and I was completely submerged. Do to the sudden charge and breaking of the bones I could not feel the hotness of the water. Only after about 1 minute of holding my breath, I gave up and took in the water only to find a more excruciating pain.
It burned my insides and this hurt more then the bones breaking. I was in such a pain that I passed out. Perhaps it¡¯s a system safety mechanism. I then tried to log out.
Noticication!!!
You are able to log out however when you log back in you will be in the same state you log out.
Zen: Cancel log out.
Log Out Cancled
I thought it was better to get this over with now then later, since I am going to die any minute.
Death never came and I just lay there for another hour. Only then did my eyes started to open. I was still lying in that water although I could see the inside of the cave better. I saw that the rocks around me became extremely red. Since I still could not move I only noticed that instead of breathing in air I was inhaling burning water. What could this mean I wonder?
Another hour passed and I was finally able to move so I pulled my self in to a sitting position to understand what was going on. I saw the bear had pulled some of the mined rocks to make him self a platform. It seems the water raise only to a level of about 1.5 feet. I then immediately noticed that I actually saw the cave and how it looked inside. The bright red rocks all around shone bright enough to tell me that I was sitting in water that was actually really boiling. Even the bear was afraid of it. Perhaps its because his health was low.
I then looked at my skin. I thought perhaps it was also shining like the other rocks. However it was the same as before. To experiment further I placed my head in the water and tried to breath and without any difficult or choking. Was this really water then? If it was then it wouldn¡¯t be boiling and probably just evaporate completely after a while. Then the rocks became red that was odd since it¡¯s usually the opposite. I came to one conclusion that this liquid was hot enough to make these rocks glow bright red probably hot. However I could not feel the heat. This liquid was also not even evaporating which was another fact. I lay back in to the liquid and logged out.
While being logged out I checked online if there were anything anyone knew about this. To my disappointment no one mentioned an occurrence such as this. Thus I decided to keep it a secret. I suffered too much to receive this type of knowledge.
Some people wanted to be rich and so forth. However my extended family and me had one thing in common. We liked our current lives and thus never sold our food products, however we did give to the starving families. Since we had an abundance of food.
After pondering for a few minutes I decided that I should log back in and continue with taming the beast. Since I now had some hot liquid on my side that could help me out with it. Then again if the bear gets used to it I might be in trouble. There was no way I could tell how this liquid affected me. Other then if I asked Amelia to suffer the same scenario only to find out that she is money hungry person who will sell this new found knowledge for a quick buck like I first did with the knowledge of metal. Though I can justify my cause since it was for the better of the community. What if she is in the same position I was?
What ever happens it will be up to her.
Log In.
I hence found my self again under the water without having difficulty to breath. I then made my way to my small tunnel and luckily the bear build his little platform that barely kept him off the water and in a corner. I easily got to my tunnel that led me outside and I was out.
Another interesting fact I noticed as soon as I stepped out. I was completely dry as if my body absorbed every single drop of that liquid.
Amelia: From the noises I heard. I thought that you died.
Zen: I was seconds way from dying.
Amelia: Don¡¯t believe you. You know why?
Zen: Why?
Amelia: I heard you got crushed from the sounds of it the bear did that right?
Zen: Yes that right.
Amelia: You had no more potions so you shouldn¡¯t even be walking. Remember when I was unconscious? I was in that state for nearly 4-5 hours and you are saying that you were crushed, and even a few hours later your not only not unconscious your, also walking around as if you had a miracle potion.
Zen: I guess I could call it a miracle potion then. :D (grinning)
Amelia: So what really happened ah?
Zen: I don¡¯t know I can¡¯t see my stats yet. However I was wondering if you would like to find out using your stats.
Amelia: NO!!!
Zen: Please. I can tell you. You wont regret it. However it will be painful for a few minutes and then it will no longer affect you.
Amelia had a pale face when she asked. ¡°Affect me? What affect me?¡±
Zen: Ok so I will tell you. However you have to give me your word that you won¡¯t tell anyone about this.
Amelia: Deal.
That is when I told her the story. After that I ate some apples and it seemed she was still processing what happened.
Amelia: I have an idea. Perhaps you do not know this about me but I am focusing mainly on alchemy and herbalism. So help me make a specific potion that take of the pain level 75%. Only then will I try it. Since from your story it sounds the liquid really is boiling. With this potion it will make it feel just like hot water instead of boiling water.
Zen: Sure what do you need?
She told me what to look for and mainly the list consisted of different types of roots and even some mushrooms. Perhaps it put on in a high state where they felt nearly nothing. In 3 hours the potion was ready. It only had one dose since the ingredients that were used were hard to find.
We then agreed that she would drink it while being inside the cavern. I made my way first to make sure everything was still in place and as I made out of my tunnel I could clearly see the bright red glow inside the cave. The bear didn¡¯t mind me at all, as if I was some insignificant squirrel. Then after me came Amelia. She saw that the entire cave was lit up like a red Christmas bulb and as she was about to step out. I stopped her and said she should drink the potion before getting in to the liquid. She did just that. Waited a minute or two then slowly stepped in, in to the water. I could see she was no longer smiling and trying to hold it in.
Amelia: AAAAAAAAAAA.
The bear was startle from the scream and refocused tried to attack us. He was able to hit Amelia and me hard enough to send us flying in the cave until we hit the wall and fell down. Somehow I ended up on top of Amelia not being able to move a muscle. We both fell unconscious in a few seconds. When I regained my consciousness first I slightly mustered my strength and slipped of Amelia before she woke up, although I was too late. Her eyes blazing red looked at me. It wasn¡¯t from the water but from the look as I noticed where my hands were resting, on very soft mountaintops.
I tired to move more but couldn¡¯t. Even my hands were broken. That is how we lay for about an hour. Until she was first able to move and pushed me off and then started pummeling me with her fists.
Amelia: Pervert, pervert, pervert, pervert, pervert, pervert, pervert, pervert, pervert
Zen: I am sorry it wasn¡¯t intentional.
Until now we were not able to talk since both of our mouths were completely submerged.
1 hour passed by since the fight and I recovered again. Sat up an enjoyed the still warm liquid that I was feeling.
Amelia: I am sorry for over reacting earlier. I know it wasn¡¯t your intention please forgive me.
Zen: I was at fault too. I am sorry.
Amelia: Any way it¡¯s over what ever happened. Happened. Share info window with Zen, regarding this liquid.
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Chapter 5: First Quest
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The notification screen in front of Amelia immediately appeared in front of Zen. She shared the screen before even reading it. As they were reading their jaws were dropping open as if their jaws gained tens of pounds instantaneously.
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Notification
You have been engulfed and tested by the Dragon Spirit. Who found, no evil intentions and saw that you spared a life of a stronger opponent.
Thus the spirit has permitted both Zen and Amelia, to use this Dragon Spirit Essence Water. Only one pool has been found on this world as of now.
Dragon Spirit Essence Water Effect:
300% Regeneration Rate,
200% in leveling your skills,
150% in raising your stats,
Dulls pain too nearly non-existent.
* While under the effect of this water, you cannot die, however your health might drop to 1 depending on an attack, and at such low health you will be unconscious. *
**** This liquid cannot be separated or removed by any means. One must come to the pool in order to drink the liquid. You should make a better habitat for this pool, in order that a spirit can come and further bless this source and preside over it. This liquid can be moved by the spirit that presides over it, however it can be moved only one time and only when a deemed worthy place is created. ****
The Spirit has also blessed you with a small gift. For finding this Dragon Spirit Essence Water and providing a guardian for this water in a form of a natural Lvl 100 Bear. (The bear will come under the Dragon Spirit Essence Waters control in the next 40 hours, making it officially a guardian of this pool. Until then it will attack anyone within range. Once it has come under the pools control it will recognize the ones permitted by the guardian and not attack, however only them.)
So the Dragon Spirit King has blessed you with the following gifts.
Skills:
Passive Underwater Breathing Lvl 1, Novice
Active Arial Regeneration Lvl 1, Novice
Stats:
Unlocked a Special Hidden Stat. DRG
+5 Stat points in each category.
****There is a Cap on how much this pool can help you. ****
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We did not move from our spots for nearly an hour reading and rereading the information.
Amelia turned to Zen and kissed him on his cheek while hugging him tightly. It was so uncomfortable that Zen was red and could not even push her away. As soon, as Amelia realized what she did, she also turned red, perhaps redder then the rocks that were now glowing around us in a bright red color.
Amelia: If you ever tell anyone about what happened here or this pool. I will kill you until you are Lvl 1 and your stats are at -20. You hear me?
Zen: Mhhhm. did you say that I can lose all that?
Amelia: If you didn¡¯t know that then yes you are able to loose experience and stats. Luckily you won¡¯t loose the skill proficiency. Do you understand what I am saying? Not a word about what I did or this pool. EVER!!!!!!
Zen: Yes I agree.
Amelia: Well it seems our work is cut out for us. Let us work using these bonuses in order to raise our skills and stats. At the time we leave we will lay in this water since when you log out your body remains in the server just unconscious. If we lay in the water is should also raise our underwater breathing while we are logged out.
Zen: I agree we should take advantage of this. Plus I want to mine this and make a nice cave here. Perhaps even engrave this entire place. However before that I will work on my endurance and stats. I think if I use the cave wall as a boxing bag then perhaps ill be able to level my strength up so that I may be able to use the pickax I have to its full potential.
Amelia: I was meaning to ask you about that cape of yours and that pickax which seems to not have broken yet.
So I told her part of my story where it was an inheritance item. She too had on although not on that scale and rarity. In honesty I came to like her, since she seemed like a real girl without the pretend stuff. Even her appearance was the same as in real life or at least she told me that.
She went out side to gather and work on her alchemy while I stayed inside and used my fist to punch at the wall. The first hit hurt, then after it did not. I will call this liquid as Miracle water for now. Thus we both continued to train.
I found it boring after a day of just punching to continue punching. Thus I alternated between jumping from tree to tree, to running never venturing to far since there were more bears around. Even when the bears ran after us we would hide away in our cave that only we could barely fit. I would bring rabbits to the bear that was still hostile to us. As long as we brought it food it stopped trying to kill us.
Three days later when we woke up. I saw the bear was now able to walk on water and did not attack Amelia or me. I then though it was time to clear the entrance. Drinking some of the water I went out side and wanted to see what would happened to the tree with my punches now. I mainly punched the wall, but I wanted to see if I improved even a little.
I started to punch it and could now see small fist size imprinted on the tree. It shattered the bark and imprinted my fists on the stem. I then went to a point and started to punch in the same spot over and over. Getting faster and faster. The tree seemed more suitable to practice on rather then the wall that showed no progress for my eyes.
Amelia logged back in and continued her scavenger hunt for herbs and potion mixing. Perhaps even poison and other things now. I didn¡¯t mind and continued to refine my attack.
After 3 more days of training with my hands, I could now either punch a whole with the full length of my arm or using my finger tips to cut branches of off trees. Hence I concluded my training on the tree and used a Karate chop that could now cut the 1-meter in diameter-sized tree. Leaving a mark as if a sword had cut it, well it was still being perfected and wasn¡¯t as smooth as a sword cut. However the outcome was the same.
I then cut up the tree blocking the cave and put it in a pile near the entrance. It didn¡¯t take long to clear out the mined rock that was in the way and 3 hours later the cave was perfectly clean almost as if I swept it out. The bear even helped once it could come out side and using its paws it to swept the debris out of its new home. Looking at it I noticed that nothing could be used to close the cave if something were to happen.
I looked around and noticed the stump that was still there and I haven¡¯t destroyed it yet. It was around 2 meters tall and 1? meter in diameter. I thought it was perfect to be used as a rollaway door for now. I even trimmed the bark of off it so that it would roll even if Amelia pushed it.
I ate apples most of the time since there were plenty of apple trees nearby. Amelia from time to time even prepared Rabbit stew that she was experimenting on. So I too ate that knowing that the worst that can happen is I falling unconscious.
I was set on mining again to make a better entrance to this wonderful cave of ours and started to use my pickax not only to make the shape of the cave look better but also trim some rough parts.
It was much easier to do so now. I wanted to make the entrance out of this stone in particular since it was so though and at that I wanted the stone blocks to be about 1 meter.
It took me two days to make my first 1x1 meter stone block. As soon as I completed my first block, I had a sort of a better feeling on how to cut them out and this time around it only took me 1 day to make the next one.
With another two days I had 4 blocks that were 1x1 meters. After that was done I made a note to my self that they would be the columns of the door. I then decided to carve out a 1x1x3 meters block that would be the base and top of the door. This took me roughly 4 days to complete just one of these blocks and I still had to make one more. All the while the cave was getting longer and wider. The reason being it took a lot of room in order to work around a certain area in order to carve out a rock of this size.
Well pretty much 2 weeks have passed and I finished earlier then expected in carving them. However moving them was though for me. Until the bear who, seemed to read my intentions helped me out and we were able to move them outside. I had dug in 1 meter deep to make the foundation stronger for the blocks by putting one of the longer blocks at the base of the cave. Meanwhile the bear still helped me to push those blocks in to place.
It even helped me lift and stack all of them. It had a tall reach when it stood on both of its legs. So it was easy to put the final long block on the two square columns. The entrance was done except the door. I was wondering what would be the perfect door only to see that the bear went in the cave and drank some of the water. When it came out it spat the water out in a stream to cover the blocks.
I then saw that some of the liquid from the pool, which floated up and in a stream, covered the entrance. The next thing I saw was that the doorway that was still without a door began to turn red and even redder. All of a sudden the color changed and now it was a dark purple color. I did not dare walk through just yet and once it was done whatever it was doing the water again went back in to the pool.
I then saw the columns were now all infused as if they were one. There was also a purplish membrane in place of the door. As I tried walking in, it would just let me through. So I tried and experiment and took a branch and tossed it at the membrane. The branch bounced, I then took a big rock and threw it at the membrane, the rock broke and bounced off. I went even further and brought a boulder that I too threw at the membrane and the same effect happened.
Guess it was a shield of some sort. So I again tried to pass it by walking through it and it was if it was water. It gave me no resistance. That is when Amelia came running and yelling what did I do?
Zen: What do you mean what I did. Can you see the doorway?
Amelia: I can see that. However cant you see the Progression screen that just popped up automatically? Perhaps you should turn your notification screen back up, especially for quests.
Zen: Let me try to enable it only for quests.
I was able to. It seems I can turn off specific notifications through the settings screen.
I then said out loud. ¡°Open last notification.¡±
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Notification!!! You and your party have received a new quest.
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Through your actions, of building an entrance, to a place where a Spirit Water Source is located, you have accepted a quest to build a place of sanctuary for the Spirit Water. Depending on the type of accommodations/ living space including beauty you provide for the location of a Spirit Water Source. It will be evaluated and the appropriate Spirit of appropriate Level will claim it as its home.
This Dragon Spirit Essence Water, which is the Spirit Water Source, that you have provided a small cave with an access doorway cannot sustain a spirit just yet. Upon completion of this quest will a spirit be able to reside in this cave.
Cave:
Entrance Durability 100,000/100,000
General Cave Completion: 1%
Beauty: 0%
Protection: 10% (The material used to make the entrance is one of the strongest especially after the blessing of the Dragon Spirit Essence Water and it has A Lvl. 100 Bear Guarding who will respawn after 10 hours if it dies.)
Completion of Quest is base on the following.
For a spirit to reside in this cave it must meet at least 15% in all of the categories of the Cave Status info. You may look at this info, if you have this quest by touching the doorway with your hand and saying Status of Cave. Upon completion you can further work on this place to make the percentage go up higher which will enable you to get a better reward.
Rewards:
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Amelia: You better get to work. Since I am busy.
Zen: As if you could even make a dent in the wall.
Amelia: You want to fight is that it?
Zen: O no, no, no, I know I cant die since I am under that effect and I don¡¯t want to wait to wake up to get to work you see.
Amelia: Excuses, Excuses.
I didn¡¯t complain, since it helped me with upping my stats, and so I went back in there and mined the entrance to be more oval shape and symmetrical. Once that was done, I picked what seemed like the middle and continued to make a tunnel no wider then 1?-meter wide and 2 meters tall. I was aiming towards the center of the mountain. As it turns out I was going in a straight line ever since the entrance. Call it luck or chance that it turned out to be like so. However I like what looked like a simplistic design.
The tunnel that branched out from the oval cave was now 10 meters further in, in to the mountain. When I hit another obstacle. It seemed to be a different type of ore. When I called Amelia to take a look, she came to the wall.
Amelia: I don¡¯t know what you¡¯re talking about. I can¡¯t see anything in this dark tunnel and I can¡¯t tell the walls apart either. Perhaps you picked a skill up that you don¡¯t know anything about.
Zen: Then perhaps I need a new method of mining.
Amelia: Hmmm. You know perhaps you can enchant your weapon somehow. Try channeling some sort of feeling or if your good at it. Channel manna in to it. Perhaps that will do it.
Zen: Oh like some sort of Sword enchanter except for a mining tool.
Amelia: Yea something like that.
Zen: By the way what do you mean you can¡¯t see anything? I can almost see everything as if it were bright as day.
Amelia: No wonder your eyes shine as if you¡¯re an owl or something.
Zen: Really they shine?
Amelia: Yup totally. That is a nice skill you picked up.
She was standing in front of me and when she turned to head back she seemed to trip on the pick I left near the wall that sent her crashing in to me and we both fell since it was so sudden. However there was a small problem. My hand they were at¡. Um¡ Ya¡ The next thing that followed were her punches that seemed like a mosquito crashed in to me. I didn¡¯t say anything and just got up quickly while being punched.
Amelia: You pervert. You set this up didn¡¯t you?
Zen: No.oo..o
Amelia: I will get you back for this and remember if you dare speak a word of this to anyone. You will regret meeting me.
I had a chill go down my body.
Zen: I am sorry that was totally an accident.
Amelia: I will show you an accident.
She then tried picking my pickax up, however the sheer weight of the pickax was enough so that she could not even budge it.
Amelia: What wrong with this pickax?
Zen: It seems that you wont be able to use it since it STR requirement are of the charts. I can use it since they are waved because it¡¯s an inheritance Item.
Amelia: Your parents were probably the first testers and monsters at that.
I didn¡¯t tell her what happened to them, yet so I thought I should at least mention it.
Zen: I received two Items as inheritance by the way.
Amelia: Are you saying that they¡¯re both?
Zen: Yea dead. I don¡¯t even know, if I have relatives.
Amelia: I am sorry I did know it was to this degree.
Zen: It¡¯s all right I am over that. I don¡¯t know what happened to my younger sister. I do remember that I had a sister or was it a brother? It was too long ago and I don¡¯t remember perhaps even both a younger sister and brother.
Amelia: I am sorry.
Zen: It¡¯s all right. Who knows perhaps they too play this game.
Amelia: OOOOOOOHHHHHHHH I know.
Zen: What? What? What?
Amelia: If you have siblings that play this game. You can see on your friend list. All siblings are matched by DNA they share and Brainwave Signatures, thus when you connect to this world it puts them automatically on your list in the family section. However there is a negative side to that. They can hide their Signatures if they chose to and if you¡¯re too far away they can¡¯t talk to you. It won¡¯t show their name and location unless they accept you as family and you accept them as family, in the family tab.
Zen: Really can I access that window now too?
Amelia: Yep, its not confined to the Lvl. 20 rule or the ring status rule. Just say Friends list or Family List.
Zen: Family List
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Family Members List
Awaiting approval for family member:
In game name: Darius Real world name:¡..@@@@@.... (name not visible till you accept) Do you accept request?
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Zen: Yes
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Family Members List
In game name: Darius Real world name: Daniel Tuck (Brother) **online**
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I had open eyes and starring, until I receive a hit on my head.
Amelia: You have been staring for the past 30 minutes. Your face tells me you found something.
Zen: It would seem I have a brother that plays this game.
Amelia: Well try to contact him. See if it works?
Zen: How do I contact him?
Press on the name and say something like hello brother or something.
Zen: Right.
I pressed on the name and said Hello.
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We are sorry. You need to be within 1,000 thousand miles in game distance to be able to communicate.
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Zen: It says I am out of range.
Amelia: I knew it. I just hopped he would be closer. I hate those friends of mine, who tricked a renowned mage to teleport me to a secluded area. Were it would take me years to get out from. At first it was a joke however it no longer is funny.
Zen: Perhaps it¡¯s for the best. I don¡¯t need to rush and plus I started playing this game so that I can build a place that I can call my own. Thus I will make these 5 mountains that surround this place my own for the time being.
Amelia: I do like the peace and quiet. Not to mention the vast amount of xp and the bonuses I get from that water.
I then place both of my hand on her shoulders and said to her. ¡°Thank you for helping me, find my family, who I always dreamed of meeting one day and now t might not just be a dream, but a reality.¡± I then gave her a hug. I could feel that she turn red, however she did not push me aside and instead hugged me back.
Zen: Thank You
Amelia: Your welcome. Shall we get back to making and breaking stuff?
Zen: Absolutely.
I then started to mine again, however this time I tried to push what seemed like all of my focus to the tip of the pickax and struck the wall.
6 hours later of trying and playing around with different inner feelings. I saw the tip start to slightly shine on the pickax. When I struck with all my might it chipped away a little piece. My manna bar was going back and forth so fast I thought it glitched. I then remember the insane regeneration rate. So it must be that I was using manna so fast for this method of mining that it was barely enough to continue including the effect of the Miracle Water that I started calling it for short.
Only after another day was I able to mine 6 inches in, still keeping the diameter and height of the cave roughly the same.
To be honest I would only log out in order to eat and attend to the crops we had. I even slept in that pool of water.
After 13 days of mining I was mining at a decent rate when I struck my pick and light pierced through the hole. Which was made by the pickax. Even though I could see perfectly well in the dark already. I could still distinguish if it was lighter or darker. At first I though I perhaps made a tunnel through the mountain completely.
I forgot to mention this earlier but while mining the guardian bear was helping me out by bulldozing the ore/ rocks I mined in to the oval shaped cavern next to the pool. I told him that I wanted to sort it and see if the material I mined out could be used for blacksmithing.
Instead of making the hole any bigger I peeked through it and there I saw an unbelievable sight. It seemed to be like a large creature lying in the center.
¡°HUMAN I AM HAPPY THAT SOMEONE WAS FINNALY ABLE TO MAKE IT TO THIS PLACE. COME NOW BREAK THAT WALL AND COME IN. I WANT TO TALK TO YOU. I PROMISE I WONT KILL YOU OR YOUR COMPANION. I HAVE BEEN WARE OF YOUR PRESENCE THE ENTIRE TIME YOU AND YOUR COMPANION CAME HERE. RELATIVLY THE SAME TIME PERIOD MIGHT I ADD.¡±
I was trembling from fear and at the same time it was not really me but my virtual reality character or was it perhaps because of the small earthquake that was happening as the beast of some sort talked.
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Chapter 6: 30 Day Time Limit Set!
When the beast stopped talking I continued to excavate the passageway. I was not in hurry and even the beast whose attention I completely had looked at me surprised.
The reason was simple, even though the hole was big enough for me to pass through. I did not stop and kept to my design to make it the same exact shape as the rest of the tunnel.
This time instead of roaring loudly like before the beast that I could not make heads or tails of. Spoke again, saying: ¡°you intrigued me young human. Especially the fact that you so diligently made to match the rest of the tunnel you dug. I have judged your strength and have to say. There is no way you should be able to dig through this Titanium wall, that I have placed here a long time ago. So how did you do it?¡±
Zen: Is it not proper manners to introduce someone as your self before you interrogate me? By the way my name is Zen.
Beast: You can call me Kal. Just Kal since you wont be able to say my full name either way.
Zen: As for me digging with my puny strength, I have two items I received from my long gone parents. They helped me get this far. No my turn! What are you?
Kal: To be truthful. I am a dyeing ExDragon King. These 5 mountains are to be used as burial chambers for the other to be Dragon Kings. I am just waiting for my life to end peacefully and have been waiting for my dying breath for nearly 200 years now.
Zen: Why are you dying?
Kal: It¡¯s a long story, but the short version of it is. I have not drank, the Spirit Water in over 3 thousand years. My supply has long disappeared. Thus my position was passed over to the next strongest Dragon who still has his supply of Spirit Water. As it stands once a dragon claims the Spirit Water. No other dragon will be able to drink from it, unless they want a quick and painful death that would last at least 500 years. I roamed this planet for 1000 years until I could no longer move. Thus the King Dragon, who is a close friend of mine, built this place as a burial chamber. They brought me here and left me here, since it is a very bad taboo to kill your own kin. I wont be surprised if you came here to kill me, although I sense no such intention. I would not protest but if the other dragon found out, they would obliterate the entire planet.
Zen: Where is your face?
Kal: Why do you want to see my face?
Zen: Just curious if your as ferocious as I think you are?
The ground began to shake as Kal the ExDragon King began to laugh.
Kal: You do indeed intrigue me. Not even afraid to look at a monster such as myself.
Zen: So where is it?
Kal: It is resting on my wing on top of the mass of rocks that have piled around me.
I then proceeded to climb and he continued to ask.
Kal: Perhaps you want something from me human?
Zen: Its true. Your in the way. You are laying exactly in the middle of this mountain. The only place I can plant a tree to make a garden with a little pool, which will then reflect light on the walls of this place.
Kal: Ho? You came here to build? I though you were just mining Titanium since there was so much of it.
Zen: Really? Would I really put so much effort in to making a perfect tunnel just to mess it up later to get titanium?
Kal: Now that you mention it. It intrigues me even more. Why then?
Zen: It seems fun and I wanted a nice place were I could relax in this world and call home. I was then going to make more rooms for my needs later on, first things first. Can you move off the center even a tad pit so I can plant the plant?
Kall: I wish I could; however I am unable to even open my jaw, barely able to move my lips and tongue at that.
Zen: Very well. Would you risk in trying something for me. I think its Spirit Water although I do not know if it¡¯s claimed or not.
Kall: Ho? You have spirit water?
Zen: Not exactly. Since I can¡¯t extract the mineral water from pool. So I do not know if its claimed or not. So want to try it?
Kall: At this point I would be glad if it were claimed since I am so weak that I would die immediately. How are you going to bring it here though?
Zen: Ill ask the guardian to spit it in to your mouth if you don¡¯t mind?
Kall: A guardian? Are you telling me a Spirit Pool has a Guardian?
Zen: Yes. Something wrong?
Kall: Never heard such a preposterous thing. I know there are Sprits near a pool, however never seen a guardian of a spirit pool.
Zen: Well there is currently no Spirit over this pool and as for the Guardian I trapped it for several days near the pool and it became the guardian of the pool.
Kall: Intriguing Human you are. I too am curious of this development. Sure why not lets try it out.
Zen: The wait for me I grab my companion and tell the guardian to bring you some water.
I quickly ran back and talked with Amelia about the current situation and she was surprised and then both of us approached the bear that was lying near the entrance and chewing on a rabbit. I did not know, what to say and if it will understand us, although I asked it either way.
The bear climbed a tree nearby and placed the unfinished rabbit on a branch to hang down. It went to the pool of water and took a gulp of water in to its mouth and headed through the tunnel. Amelia held on to my shirt as we walked through the dark tunnel. Once we were out, we headed towards the dragon who then spoke.
Kall: Welcome back.
It then spoke in a language I did not understand but as soon as it did the bear started to climb up and like before spited the water at the dragons face. Even though the water did not splatter all over the place instead it became a thin stream and proceeded in between the dragons teeth.
Kall: I feel something happening, however I have never felt this way before. Perhaps this was not the same spirit water I was talking about or perhaps the name has been lost in generations. I can say this though. Hide away run through the tunnel an enemy of mine is approaching. I feel he is blinded by hatred and has not noticed your tiny presence, hurry and run though the tunnel.
We were running as fast as we could. The bear was the first one out of there. We continued to run only to feel a huge earth quake, as if something enormous either landed or crash-landed. We stayed in our little cavern until everything quieted down and then we felt a huge gush of wind coming in through the cavern in to our little oval shaped cave.
We waited quietly for another four hours not making a sound. Hoping whatever it was was as far away as possible. Then I quietly made my way through the tunnel. When I was at the end of the tunnel. The only thing I could say was there was blood everywhere. The so-called enemy was no longer there, however the walls were stained from blood that it looked like crimson red crystal walls. I then approached the dragon. It looked dead to me, not even a breath. I began to cry and whisper that one day I will avenge the Dragon. I was so discouraged in continuing and thus went back via the tunnel. Their Amelia was sitting with a sad face and the bear also had a sad face. It was a big loss to lose a friendly Dragon. My hands were filled with Dragons blood as I stood at the entrance of the tunnel.
Amelia: Wash yourself cuz your scaring me.
Zen: Ok!
That¡¯s the only thing I could say. As I began to wash my self in the pool and was done in roughly 30 seconds, I then joined and sat near the Amelia, all dry and without a spot of blood on me. Seems you really could not take that liquid out the pool unless you¡¯re its guardian or something.
We sat there watching how the blood did not mix with the pool and only twirled around. It was about another hour when we noticed that the blood also got as red as the rocks under or around the pool.
Then it happened, the blood disappeared as if it evaporated. The bear stood up at that moment and placed both of its paws in the water and as soon as he did that. I would say about ? of the water that was currently in the pool elevated and formed in to a big ball of water, which then it condensed it self or the bear did that and floated in to the Tunnel.
I being surprised and Amelia as well followed, the bear walking before the condensed water orb, the orb let out small streams that touched the walls floor and the ceiling making it look as if they melted and became as shinny and as flat as a mirror. Once we were out of the tunnel The water orb expanded through the entire cave and examined the cave making the walls, floor, and ceiling also as flat and shiny as a mirror.
I was amazed. I did not know what was happening, so I just waited. The Miracle Water that I now called it again condensed in to a pall let out several stream and lifted up the dragon and moved it to the side of the cave. Before it could say anything else the Miracle Water filled the crater that was exactly in the middle of this place. It was if I had carved it out however I knew it was from that dragon that slammed in to this dragon, which made the crater beneath/ through the dragon.
As soon as the Miracle Water settle at the bottom of the crater. I looked around and could see that there was water seeping through titanium walls and even the rest of the water that floated through the tunnel in to the crater, completely filling the crater. Once it was filled, it reflected the light, which was coming in through top of the mountain down to what seemed like an old lava hole.
The old lava hole was around 35 meters in diameter. The crater was roughly 10 meters in diameter with a depth of 5 meters. The height of the cavern we were now in estimated nearly 40 meters tall. Well those are the dimensions of this burial chamber. Now it was going to be a home to a spirit. I then touch the cavern wall to see how much I still needed in order to make this place at least support a simple spirit.
As I was looking around I did not notice that the lake had turned in to a crystal lake with no rocks that glowed red anymore. Perhaps we have ruined our Miracle Water some how.
Amelia: Zen Look.
I then looked in the direction she was pointing at and could see the dragon being lifted up and floated in to the Crystal Lake. The Miracle Water made sort of a bubble around the dragon, and then nothing happened.
Well I now had hope that perhaps the water will cure and completely heal the Dragon. So I went back to work after watching this cinematic for nearly 2 hours, so did Amelia. It seemed that with Hope it was possible for us to continue.
We had been playing for too long and decided to take a two-day break and logged out.
When I logged out, it seemed everyone also logged out of the game and came out and stretched and some ate. Some began talking that they found out ways to make money. Real money and game money, and so they all decided to go on an adventure to train and gather intelligence that they could sell. There was even a poster board that they referred to. When I opened it through my watch device made me further surprised. It had information people were looking for. Scouting information of areas that they were willing to buy either using game money or real money. Hence my Extended family decided to acquire some information in regard to the northern region that still remained undiscovered or unexplored.
I went around and looked at our surroundings. I was proud of the area we lived in. Around our warehouse, we had probably the most cleared up space from debris in the area. If I can estimate, I would say our property was around 250 meters by 250 meters surrounding us were 4 collapsed buildings. That also housed 2-4 people in each building. Our building/ warehouse was the only repaired one which house a total of 30 of us. In between each bunk there was a foot of space and most of them were sleeping near the walls, with the exception of me. I slept in my little room where one would not have as much space to stretch out as one would of want to although that alone was enough for me.
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I noticed the look our neighbors were giving us, thus I made my way to their lodgings and told them if they too want a watch like ours they can get one. Every one of them agreed. I have to say that every small neighborhood had a fence that separated them apart. So I ended up buying for my entire neighborhood. That was another 150,000 out of my pocket, since there were 150 neighbors that lived near us in the fenced area. The fence it self was crumbling; however it did establish a feeling of a border of sort.
I had around $25,700 left in my account. Thus I decided to leave them for emergencies.
2 days went buy quite quickly, since I had to do so much cleaning around the warehouse. Thus when I was ready again I logged back in as the night had fallen in the real world.
I awoke in the small cavern from where I logged out. Amelia was no longer there and so I went and ate a few apples and then headed in to the interior of the mountain.
Sitting on the edge of the Crystal Lake, was a wan. His feet in the water and not far from him lay the bear. Amelia was near the fire with a cooking pot over it making something. Once the man saw me he spoke up.
Stranger: It is good to see you again lad.
Zen: Do I know you?
Stranger: Agh. Right I¡¯m in this form. Its me Kal the ExDragon King.
Zen: Your alive?
Kal: Thanks to you I am. It seems that truly was the Spirit Water I was talking about and an extremely rare one at that.
Zen: Rare? How rare?
Kal: Well these type of Spirit Waters, especially of this grade appear random once every 1,000,000 years. If the habitat is not made within a year then it disappears. It also seems that this Spirit Water has roughly 30 days left before it disappears. So we must complete it within that time frame. I am currently regenerating my vital organs and such so it will take me 30 days alone to do that. So lad I would ask a favor of you to finish at least the basic habitat for this spring within that remaining time frame. This small crater will show the time limit left by changing its color from this color of crystal water to Dark Black Water.
Zen: Hmm I wanted to plant a tree or two around the water. So that it would feel like a small lake. Also I want to perhaps find a fish that would be able to live in this water.
Kal: Then I will take that as you accept my request.
Zen: I already accepted the request when I encountered the water. It just never mentioned about a time limit.
Kal: The time limit is there only after a dragon has claimed it. That¡¯s how it is.
Zen: So you were able to claim it then? How?
Kal: There are two stages, one I drink the water and two I put a drop of blood on it. When the guardian gave the drink. I knew it was the right water. However I judged all three of your strengths, to find out that you were not strong enough, even with your special inheritance items, you would not be able to make me bleed. The fact that my enemy came, who had been further weakening me, to a point were I was not a threat to him anymore. Barely left me alive, although unable to speak. So I assume you got blood on you and then decided to wash yourself in pool, which was the second part of a secret pact that needed to be made between me and the Spirit World and me, to take ownership of the pool.
Zen: HMMM. So many steps, It would seem impossible for one just to come up with it somehow.
Kal: It seems you did it. Not knowingly and that my lad is even a greater reward. I will tell you this. Finish this pool and beautification within 30 days and the greater the percentage in each category the greater reward I will give Amelia and you.
Zen: On one condition, any information I ask that will help me in making this garden 100% in all categories you will provide me with, without complaint.
Kal: Sure. Agreed.
Zen: It¡¯s a Deal.
Kal: Any first questions?
Zen: Do you know any tree and flowers which can grow within 30 days and that I could retrieve the seeds from fairly easily?
Kal: That¡¯s an easy one. Yes I know where you can get all of those items and more. However the method is not easy. The tree can grow within a day as well as the flowers. Both of them are quite unique and rare. So you can imagine that they are going to be hard to get to. I will tell you another thing. If your friend there the Alchemist can make strength and agility potions quickly enough to replenish you with a high degree of effect. Then it should take you roughly 25 days to reach the area to obtain what you need.
Zen: 25 days just to reach them?
Kal: Yes, although it will take you another 3 days to run back as fast as you can.
Zen: So where are they and what¡¯s the catch?
Kal: You have to dig from here another two tunnels, each tunnel will need to go to the mountains next to this one.
Zen: Are you insane? Why not just go out side thus avoiding digging through this mountain and just dig a new tunnel in to the other one from the outside? It will save time no?
Kal: There is a barrier that will not let you dig through it or unless you are an extremely strong mage who can bring down a dragon barrier then yes. You can do that.
Zen: Why was there no barrier when I first came to dig at this mountain.
Kal: Because I asked the Dragon King when he made this to leave this one without a barrier since I hoped for some company, even if it would be a rabbit that somehow found its way in here.
Zen: So your pretty much saying there is no barrier in the way if I dig from this mountain in to that one? Correct?
Kal: Yes however the only point of access in to the next mountain is if you dig through the titanium veins that lead you to the center of the next mountain. Those mountains have cavern inside of them however they don¡¯t have a top access like this one. Within these two mountains in the center you will find a chest and in each one there are many rewards, however only take the item that look like crystals. If you take more then the crystals it will alarm the other dragons that the tombs were raided. Even though no one is currently dead or buried in those tombs the treasures are very important to a Dragon Kin. They also have traps set on them that will kill you if you take more then two rewards. In the other mountain you will find a bag full of seeds and you can take that bag and it will count it as a single item.
Zen: So only taking one reward from each chest. However there is one more problem. I don¡¯t have any means of clearing the ever-filling debris that I make.
Kal: Hmmm. Oh right I have already given a reward to Amelia and forgot to give you the same. Come here let me place my hand on your head.
When I did as he instructed I got a notification.
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Notification!!!
An ExDragon King has given you a most precious gift called. ¡°Linked Storage¡±
It is considered as a talent and will not be displayed in any status information window. It is a secret tool and is directly linked with your mind.
How to use:
1st Pick a place where you want to store excess loot or other materials, by saying Set Storage. This can be a chest or a house or a cave. However you need to touch the area where you would like it to store something.
2nd You can either manually touch the item or just think store the item that is within 1-meter near you. It will disappear and reappear in the storage area.
3rd You are able to set it to active storing anything that hits the ground within meter of you.
4th If you need an Item just think about the item in your storage and it will appear where you will it to appear within one meter of you.
5th You can release a set storage location by also touching the storage place and saying storage release.
Restrictions: Cannot store things that don¡¯t belong to you. Cannot store living things. If there is no space in the storage, it will not store anything more. You can place items physically in to the storage and then summon them to where you are at later. Maximum storage points you can set are set to 5.
(can be further upgraded if you meet the correct beings who can further unlock this talent)
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Zen: I guess this solves one answer. But where should I dump all of the platinum ore, which I will be excavating in the process?
Kal: I am pretty sure outside is just fine. I know it¡¯s a precious ore, however there are none who are outside who will take it. Since they somehow have to get in there and get out.
Zen: Ahh. Yes your right.
Kal: Before you go. I will tell you this I also gave you something special for a gift since it was your actions specifically that helped me. You will have to discover the gift yourself, as it too is a talent, which will have no information window for it.
Zen: Wonder when I will find out.
Kal: Sooner then you think.
Zen: Well thanks but I got to get started.
Kal: Make sure to drink this water since it has more of a potent effect then the earlier form.
Zen: Good idea.
I drank the water and then ran outside and set the 5-storage points close to the entrance so that later I can use them to make something.
Running back in side I set the storage for active storing everything within 1-meter of my self. In no time I was in side and ready to work, I was immediately approached by Amelia.
Amelia: Drink this potion and put 20 of these in your bag, they should further increase you strength and agility. They are rather weak but still good since they add on to your current buffs from the water. That Dragon taught me how to make potions that instead of giving you a number of points extra. Give you a percentage of points that consider also the buff points you get from items. Currently it¡¯s only at 2% but I will work non-stop to make it better. Oh and their affect lasts 5 hours.
Zen: I am grateful for these. To get a potion to be effective for 5 hours you must be advance in your skill or something.
Amelia: I am glad you noticed. It¡¯s actually Advance Lvl 5, in alchemy.
Zen: Wow, that¡¯s great. Well I should get started. Now which way should I dig in order to make it a straight-line?
As soon as I said that out loud I saw a glowing line in the air pointing in one direction and the other one pointing in another direction.
Zen: So these lines must mean that is the way towards the other mountains center.
Amelia: Lines? What Lines?
Zen: Oh you can¡¯t see them? There are just above your head. Oh look I can even set the height I want to see them at. Guess this must be the other talent that Dragon guy gave me.
Amelia: Sounds useless though. I have the storage one and that one is unbelievably useful. Well then get digging. In the mean time I will gather herbs make more potions as well as haul in some dirt to plant these plants with. Since it seems that the entire floor is also made out of platinum.
Zen: You should as the bear to help dig the dirt and then just use the storage transfer thing.
Amelia & Zen: GOOD LUCK!!! YAA
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Chapter 7: A Trapping Surprise
Kal: Before you get carried away. Do remember that once you open the treasure chest and take your item that I instructed it will teleport away to another place in this world. So, I can say for sure you probably wont see it again.
Kal had a grin on his face as if he told me something about it. I guess I will have to find a way to get more items from those chests. Wonder just how though. He said that if I were to take any item out only once. It was safe and would only teleport to another place on this world and if I were to take our any more then that. I would face a Dragon who would come barging in. I know for sure I can¡¯t face one just yet. Especially when the old man told me that all three of our power were weak and wouldn¡¯t even pierce its dragon scales to make him bleed. It should be same for any other dragon. We are simply too weak currently.
I guess ill find a way to get more then one. For now let¡¯s dig, Amelia did say she was going to bring me food later on. So I should get started immediately.
Zen: Hey Old Man.
Kal: You talking to me?
Zen: Yea, I am. I¡¯m going to call you that since you remind me of another Old Man I know who¡¯s also somewhere roaming the world. Do you perhaps know of any other way to mine that would be faster?
Kal: Hmmmmm.
Zen: Well?
Kal: I think your too weak for it but perhaps later on you may be able to do something with that technique.
Zen: Well? Spill it.
Kal: Oh its simple. Have you seen how some masters fight using a pole arm? They tend to do the wavy thing. It looks like they are making a letter 8 when they do that. So concept wise, twist your wrist while you draw the number 8 side ways. Just careful, because you can hit your self-if you¡¯re not careful with the end of the pick. I am also pretty sure you will die from one hit from your own pickax but that¡¯s the funny part isn¡¯t it?
Zen: Ha ha ha. So funny I forgot to laugh, gzz old man. That was no help whatsoever.
Kal: Don¡¯t get me wrong if you do it properly its not just a good fighting and protection technique but can also be used to dig like a big drill. I got to say though, if you hold on the end of the pickax while doing that, you 99% wont hit yourself, although the cave will be massive in size when you do that. To be more precise I thing it will be around 6 meters in diameter if you do it that way. Compared to your previous one that¡¯s nearly 2 times the width and a few meters taller too. Suggestion you should leave that type of digging for the second mountain. Other wise without enough strength it will slow you down.
Zen: Ya, ya, ya any way back to work.
I finally got to start the digging. The debris was not even a problem and thus. I started on a tedious job. It went like usual for the next two days. I was making decent progress. I remembered the 33 days of hard work just to get to the center of the mountain, however it seems that now I was able to see the impurities in this total darkness better then ever. My night vision or so I called it made it much brighter in the cave not yet at the level of day though. I doubt it will ever be that way.
As I mined another week went buy without me even sleeping. I could now sense rock that had deficiencies about 6 inches in to the wall. With a well placed pick I could now set a small chain reaction which would destabilize up to a foot in to the wall I was hacking at. This was either a new skill I developed or one of the previous ones reached a new level.
This way of mining by focusing on setting these chain reaction style of digging made it faster not just by a little but a hole lot. I still had about 20 days is the time limit I placed in my head.
Amelia would come once a day and bring me a potion with a small soup or steak that she would make. At first she used a torch to go through the dark caves. But now she was walking and I saw a huge fire exploding in front of her not touching her.
Amelia: Hey Zen. Look at what I can do.
Zen: A fire spell?
Amelia: No Silly. I placed one of my storage points just on the logs, which I set on fire, and then actively started transporting it to in front of my self.
Zen: Why aren¡¯t you catching fire then?
Amelia: I have equipment and potion buff that added up to being 95% heat and fire resistance. So actually it keeps me warm. XD
Zen: Oh that¡¯s cool. Do you have something for me to eat?
Amelia: Ok so I brought you your bag and placed a storage circle in it. That way I don¡¯t have to walk nearly a 2 miles just to get here through this mine. I have to say I can hear you mining all the way back there. It pretty loud, guess its like a speaker of sorts.
Zen: Is it really a mile already?
Amelia: Yea. By the way Kal said you better start pushing your self or else we wont make it. He says you have like another 3 miles to go. Oh yes while you were hacking away, with the help of Kal, I was able to construct more potent potions that you should drink and hurry up with the digging. The other mountain is also like 5 miles from the starting place and we have like what 20 days left? Even the bear is helping me bring in fresh black dirt from the outside in order to plant a garden. It seems you forgot that you had to drink that Miracle water since it helps. Although I forgot to tell you to drink it, it seems the effect doesn¡¯t wear off as long as you are within 10 miles of the source.
Zen: Oh snap, I did forget about it, although since I didn¡¯t feel weaker I didn¡¯t go back to drink it. I am glad I am within range still. Ok back to work, I think I can even manage the pickax with one hand now. So it should be faster, since I will use my other hand to make blunt hits in order to make vibration, which might help me.
Amelia: Ok then I will leave you to it then.
I then got back to work. While pound the wall with the pickax in my right, I was focusing on timing my left hands attack on the wall so that it would make a further chain. To my biggest surprise it worked to well. An entire meter of titanium fragments shattered and slid down and were instantly teleported outside.
I was now going at it like mad man. I have discovered a secret art perhaps, for mining fast and effective. That day alone I probably dug around 1,000-meters before I felt the bag on my back get a hole lot bigger.
As I checked, indeed it was my lunch with newer potions. After I ate them, I felt as if the food also gave me buffs with the potions combined I found more vigor and excitement to find another huge chain reaction in mining. It was like a new type of game that was like of who can get the biggest chain that would destabilize the titanium rocks. It was as if I was now playing some smash a pot game.
I was no longer walking but rather power walking just fast enough for me to react to the changes of the scenery in front of me. That day I had reached my first destination. I looked around and saw that it was as big as the last place instead this one had no entrances or exits. Indeed it seemed a bit unfinished. Nothing special I guess, no lights even came in this far.
I thought it would be smarter to go talk with Kal to see if there were any booby traps I should watch out. I then ran back all the way to back.
Once I reached the cave I saw huge pile dirt and more kept making its way to the top. I then realized that it must be the storage ability.
Kal: Oh hey Lad. How is it going on your end? I sense that you have made it to the center.
Zen: Indeed I have, although I wanted to, reaffirm something with you. Are you sure, there are no traps?
Kal: I am glad you came back. I have regained my power just a tad bit and thus my senses have returned although I am still not able to walk or help any way. I am able to sense that there is a trap in that cavern. When you open the chest, it seems you only have 15 seconds to find what you are looking for before the chest disappears and in its stead the entire cavern will be fill with platinum a more crude ore then titanium. Even though you won¡¯t die, you will get stuck and that will get you stuck for a long time. So make sure to make a run for it. I say about 10 seconds to look for the item then run.
Zen: Are you nuts? That¡¯s in possible. I bet there are a lot of items to look through too. Right?
Kal: Yes there are a lot of items. However I believe you can do it. I have given you all the help you need to solve this. Please don¡¯t give up.
Zen: Then one question. When the platinum appears is it seen as a huge block or as ores or as what?
Kal: Hmm. Well at first it will be just ore. However when the summoning trap is finished it will finalize it with a special spell that combines it. Pretty much like transporting a mountain except those take a tone load of Mana and expertise to finish that type of teleportation of such mass within seconds and combining the ores to make it in to a vein.
Zen: But!! Before it finalizes I can transport some threw my storage device thing?
Kal: Now that you mention it. It should work or at least for part of the mass. That ends up being 1-meter around you.
Zen: I got it.
Kal: What? Got what?
Zen: Watch and see Old Man. XD Thanks for the info it was invaluable.
Kal: Sure anytime and please hurry. It seems I was wrong on the time limit. It seems that there is only 14 days left and not 21, as per the original schedule. I am sorry, when I told you the time limit I was off since I was nearly dead.
Zen: Man your pushing me Old Man. This better be worth it.
Kal: I am sure you will find it more worth in it then you actually think.
Zen: Agh. I hate time limits.
I then ran out side to find Amelia to set my plan in to motion.
Zen: Amelia I need your help. There is no time to explain. I will tell you as we both run to the treasure chest. But first go and release your storage areas from everywhere, so that you are able to place them in the cavern leading to the treasure. It seems we only have enough time to open look quickly, take and run 10 seconds precisely.
Amelia: You going to make it?
Zen: What your going to do is place your storage around the cavern so that when the platinum starts to fill the cavern. You will be able to actively teleport them mass to where you will be and that¡¯s out side the near the entrance.
Amelia: I see. So there was a trap of sorts.
Zen: Yep. However by doing this. It will be as if you excavated tone loads of platinum. XD
Amelia: Really? You know platinum is an expensive metal in this world. Its commonly used as money so if you are bale to procure it and smelt them in to platinum coins, Its like getting 100 gold per one platinum square. A wheelbarrow is roughly 1 million gold if not more.
Zen: For normal players it¡¯s transporting such material that would be the problem. However I see no problem here in that regard. XD. They would not only get robbed but also killed for such ore.
Amelia: Yea, your right.
We ran as fast as we could and with all of the buffs, we ran one mile in 3 minutes and within 15 minutes we were at the cavern. Amelia placed the storage circles around the place and ran back outside. She was supposed to teleport a log back in to the cave that would tell me she was ready. I too release 4 of the 5 storage points. Just in case I needed them. I then saw the log that was teleported in to signal me that Amelia was ready.
While she ran back, I examined the treasure chest. It was about 3x3 meters in dimensions. I walked around it to see if anything else was peculiar. Hence I got ready to open it and look threw it.
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Everything was set and I began calming my self in order to do this as quickly as possible even drank speed boost potions.
I opened the treasure chest. It was very bright since the cavern was so dark. It took me 2-3 seconds to readjust to the light coming from within the treasure chest to see a window in front of me with a count down clock. To my surprise there was another surprise for me.
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There was 5 seconds on the timer. Oh I am going to be mad after this.
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I slammed both of my hands on what ever was inside. I still could not see due to the blinding light that came from within. To my luck under my right hand I felt pouch that could be used to store seeds in side. So I grabbed it.
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With my left hand still on the treasure, I yelled, as I was about to bolt as fast as I could.
¡°Set Storage,¡±
As soon as I screamed it out. With all the excitement in the air, I didn¡¯t know what I was doing. Perhaps I even got a wrong Item. I in that split second not only screamed that phrase but also was also able to bolt around 3 meters.
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5-meters to go until I was in the safety of my tunnel, and then the following screen appeared.
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There was another huge flash that did not distract me from my object since I had closed my eyes as soon as it began to flash all around. I assumed it was teleporting the chest away and summoning the platinum in the cavern. The light instantly disappeared and I then noticed there were huge rocks falling from the ceiling. Able to dodge a few I not only sprinted as fast as I could muster that even my feet gave out a faint glow as I dodged huge and taking smaller rocks straight on. That old geezer said I wont die however I think all my bones will be crushed.
With my mind clock it was only a second past the 0 mark I found my self-dizzy laying on the ground inside my tunnel. I then turned around and saw the tunnel was now blocked. Even tired swinging my pickax at the new ore. Even though I could break it apart. I noticed it was so much harder.
Guess If I got stuck there I would be stuck there for an eternity until someone dug me out. On the other hand perhaps only for 30 days until the Miracle Water disappeared. I had shivers going down my body when I thought about that. I had a happy grin on my face, because it seemed that I have gotten a hold of something at least.
I then walked outside and tried to find Amelia and even screamed her name.
Amelia: Catch Me. AHHHHHH.
I looked up and she was falling off a tree that was collapsing. I quickly moved and tried to catch her only to find both of us were eating dirt.
Amelia: DO YOU NOT KNOW HOW TO CATCH LADIES YET?
Zen: Its¡¯ not my fault the weight was unexpected.
Amelia: WHAT ARE YOU SAYING? I AM HEAVY?
I was slapped really hard as I lay on the ground and she was sitting perfectly fine on top of me.
Zen: Umm. Is it a bad time to ask? If you can get of off me?
Amelia: Why? You know you shouldn¡¯t talk about ladies weight ever. Since I am heavy you can just enjoy being squashed by a heavy person.
Zen: Umm. That¡¯s not it. ¡.Ah¡ mm.. I can see your panties¡
Ok so if I said I was slapped hard then. Now it almost put me in to an unconscious situation. I saw she pouring one of her health potions in to my mouth. She was saying something I just could not understand her. O ya she was as red as a red ripe tomato.
Amelia: I guess you didn¡¯t hear what I said. I wont repeat it after this ever again. I am sorry for slapping you. You just said it to bluntly as if you¡¯re used to it.
Zen: I am sorry. I didn¡¯t mean to say those things. I never really got to hang out with a girl so ya.
Amelia: Really? What part of the universe or world do you live in that is without girls?
Zen: There are older ladies in their 30¡¯s but not one my age.
Amelia: Well how old are you?
Zen: Not sure exactly but roughly 23.
Amelia: I see. I am 20 if you want to know. Just don¡¯t tell anyone you meet.
Both of us sat there for a moment. Red!!! I did enjoy the friendly encounter. However what followed blown my cap off. Amelia again turned to me and hastily kissed me on the cheek and ran off in to the forest.
Zen: Hey Amelia. I think I got the seeds. Don¡¯t you want to see them?
She then stopped turned around and I could see a beautiful sight I have failed to see before. Her long Black Hair waved in the air as if it had a mind of its own. Her features and a happy smile the once again was seen on her face ran back towards me and jumped up and gave me a huge hug. This indeed I was not expecting and just embraced her hug by hugging her back.
As we were in our own little world I spoke to her.
Zen: Amelia would you like to be my girlfriend?
She whispered lightly in my ear.
Amelia: Yes only if you agree to be my boyfriend not only in this game but the real world as well.
Zen: I would love too. I am quite poor tough, won¡¯t that bother you?
Amelia: No it wont.
Zen: Then it¡¯s official. From today we are a boyfriend and girlfriend.
Amelia: Tell me where you live.
Zen: Well I am currently on Earth. You?
Amelia: I am at the orbital station on Mars. This will be a set back in meeting you in real life wont it?
Zen: Perhaps. However I will make enough money to buy my own ship one day. So ill see you soon. Perhaps we can trade all this platinum and somehow exchange the in game money with real money.
Amelia: I heard news that the T.I.E are working on making a fair exchange rate for such occasion.
Zen: Then we will stock pile till we are ready to buy a ship of our own.
Amelia: Agreed. Then we can travel the Universe together.
Zen: There are endless possibilities. So perhaps we should start on the stockpiling for now.
Amelia: I agree. Lets just enjoy the moment for a bit though.
We stayed like that perhaps an hour or two. Both of us were exceptionally happy at this moment. We took it easy for the rest of the day and when night fell. I got back to work in digging the new cavern. As luck would have it, I had grabbed the correct item out of the treasure box so; we could now plant the flowers as soon as the flowerbed was finished. It seemed that Amelia had gathered and scattered nearly 2 feet on the ground of black topsoil. She even mixed some of the soil with some special herbs she picked up, that supposedly promotes faster growth and stronger plants.
I didn¡¯t want to push our luck and summon something else from the treasure box. Perhaps it could even have a way to track items in this game. So I didn¡¯t want to summon a dragon by stealing another item threw the storage mark I left inside the treasure box. For now I am going to keep it a secret perhaps that¡¯s why Kal gave me this ability. In order to do just that, anyway I got back to digging with the new method Kal told me about.
I started to swing the pickax in a shape of omega symbol. I practiced in the air first and it made air around me start spinning as if it became a horizontal vortex of sorts. I then proceeded slowly approaching the point were the tunnel would start and when I did. I felt barely any resistance, however there was a moment I could feel the pickax was going out of control.
Kal: HOLD IT TIGHTLY AND USE BOTH HANDS ONE TO HOLD THE PICKAX AND THE OTHER THAT HITS THE HANDLE TO MAKE THE PICKAX SPIN FASTER. MAKE SURE WHEN YOU MAKE IT SPIN FASTER WITH YOUR FREE HAND THAT YOU PUT A FORWARD THRUST IN IT ASWELL OR ELSE THERE WONT BE FORCE BEHIND IT.
His yell was easily heard over the clatter that the pickax made on impact with the rock. I soon applied forward thrust force to the spins I was making to see a big change that my spins now took on a pointer drill kind of effect making it smoother and easier to mine. The diameter was still roughly 6 meters, however now I didn¡¯t care about the beauty of the dig. Especially now it looked better then the previous rush job I did with the other cave exploiting chain type of digging. Which made the tunnel a bit rugged. This time however it was oval shape and less of the rugged rocks that I saw protruding.
Even though I was not going as fast. I thought that if I perfect this technique that I could master it. Before coming back in to the cave I did set up the other 3 storage points outside I still hadn¡¯t put down. So I was already actively absorbing the titanium ores.
As I thought about everything that happened today, I was more energetic and very reflective on the events. It seems that Amelia climbed a tree, was because she can actively release the ore that came from the cave with the treasure chest, but she needed space where to drop it. So instead of running while actively transporting the platinum ores, she climbed a tree so that they would just fall. It got to a point that there were big boulders that were dropped form the top of the tree, which collided with trees. After the amount of ore what not only had damaged the tree badly but put a lot of pressure on the tree in the end because of the weight it made it break and fall. By this time I was already outside and catching her. There was a pile off platinum ore as tall as a tree, a height of nearly 10 meters. When we were in the cave Amelia only put down 4 of the 5 storage points in the cave so that she may be able to use the last one to continue teleporting me food and potions incase I did get stuck, somehow.
All well, ends even better. I had a girlfriend now, which made me even happier then any reward and so I wasn¡¯t mad on the old man for giving me bad and not enough info in regard to the treasure chest.
I guess this ExDragon King has a long way before a full recovery. Even though he was already frightening, even in his weakened state.
I didn¡¯t realize that me analyzing everything took another day and I was at least half a mile in the fairly nicely cut tunnel.
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Chapter 8: Flowers Burned Down
I continued my work digging the tunnel with a new style, even though it took longer, I could see its usefulness in the future. 3 days later I was a few miles in to the tunnel and I would occasionally get potions as well as healing potions. Since there were a few times I struck my self and before passing out I would quickly drink my potions so that I do not fall unconscious. I even got carried away sometimes in developing my new skill that now I could make the pickax dance completely around me, it would spin so fast that even small rocks falling from the celling would get completely crushed to dust by this.
I had was roughly in 4 days of mining before I took the skill one step further to start carving not only completely around me but above me as well. The results of this made the tunnel I was digging a lot taller so instead of an oval tunnel it was completely round with 6 meters in every direction. I made sure not to dig in, in to the ground while several lines that appeared before me guided me.
On the 8th day I finally made it to the other side. I again ran back and asked Kal what this was about. It had a chest that was no more then 1 foot wide and one foot tall. He only said that it contained the item I was looking for and it seemed that it had a trap. The trap was that the cavern would fill with water completely. I didn¡¯t do any other preparations for that since I had a skill for breathing in the water. It too will teleport away in 5 seconds it seemed.
I went back and opened the chest as well. Since it was so small I had to make a choice if I should place a storage point on it. I ended up putting one either way. It was a gamble and it could render that storage point useless because of its small size. However I hoped that something might respawn in it later or something of that sort. Or at least I can hide one item in it. That would take years to be discovered. Either way I placed one in it and in 5 seconds it disappeared. The entire time I had my eyes closed, so that I wont be blinded by the light again if there even was one.
The cavern did flood the place and stayed like that. I swam towards my tunnel to find a film like barrier stopped the water from rushing out of the cavern. It didn¡¯t show resistance as I walked right through it.
When I got back without running this time since I was tired, to the main cavern. Lets just call it that. Main Cavern, everyone was waiting. It seemed that Kal was still sitting with his feet in the Miracle Water. Amelia was cooking something up and the bear rested near the lake. The entire cavern was now filled with nearly 4 feet of black topsoil. It spread out throughout the cavern.
Everything was set and ready to grow the seeds. I quickly took out of my bag the bag of seeds and the crystal I got from the tiny chest and showed everyone. Nothing of note happened what I showed them.
Zen: Hey Old Man now what?
Kal: Simple, that crystal is a seed in itself. Place it in the dirt so that it touches the dirt and the water. The other seeds in that bag should be planted around the edges of the cavern. Make sure the small seeds are planted a hand apart all around the cavern, then enjoy the show.
We did as he instructed and after we planted all the seeds on the perimeter one hand apart. It seemed like the full bag of seeds was now empty and even the bag evaporated as if part of the seeds.
We took apart the fire that was on the black soil as to let something also grow there. It was time to see what happens. As we sat at the little pond we saw lights come up from the water and in to the seed that was touching it.
Suddenly the crystal seed cracked and revealed what was in side. A simple seed that immediately sent roots in to the little pond and some in to the black soil. The bottom of the pond was now completely covered in roots and a sapling began to emerge. As if everything was on a fast forward button the tree began to grow.
Just when the sapling came out little tiny green leafs sprouted on the perimeter and also began to emerge when all of a sudden they stopped.
The small sapling was continuing to grow and the little green leafs began to turn brown and in one fell swoop cough on fire. They were burning.
Amelia: Oh NOOOOOO!
Kal: Its not over. Just you watch.
She quieted down and just watched. The tree grew so fast and even though the little leaflets that were dead and burning where amazing still burning. The sapling was now as big as a small apple tree. Many flowers I have never seen before in rainbow shape began to form on the tree. It then seemed to stop growing, however the flowers radiated in rainbow like colors seemed to make it look as if it was a rainbow sea, on a tree. The fires all around extinguished and we though it was now hopeless. Then all of a sudden the tree burst with a watery mist that touched every part of the cave. As the ground got darker, the dead flowers again began to grow at a much faster pace then ever before. Faster then the tree grew. The flower not only grew where we planted them but everywhere in between the perimeters all the way up to the little pool and the once that grew at the bottom of the pool seemed to have transformed in to another type of flower. They even grew underneath us pushing us up unwillingly, which made a nice feel like a bed of sort.
Zen: Couldn¡¯t your friend make you a burial chamber that looks some thing like this?
Kal: They are limited in what they can make. However dragons specialize in destruction and not creation.
Zen: But if you knew the method of making this then why not use it?
Kal: It requires the Miracle Water first. I can say that the other places are similar to this one. With the exception of the beauty this one has. The seeds you took are what I should call one of a kind. They were given to me and I never told the other about them. I only asked them to place them near the burial chamber so that I may remember them.
Zen: Who where they give to you by?
Kal: Before I answer though. I have to say, your work is not done yet. You have not yet achieved your goal of 100% in every category. Touch the pond and pull up the cave Info. You still should be able to see it since its part of a quest you are on.
Zen: Cave Information.
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Cave:
Entrance Durability 1,000,000/1,000,000 (1000% increase)
General Cave Completion: 80%
Beauty: 95%
Protection: 95%
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Zen: So how do I improve this?
Kal: As for beauty you should think of something yourself. Perhaps give it a human need for it. Protection wise the caverns you made are quite rigid ready to collapse, and before you ask this water will no longer move. It seems it has moved three times in total.
Zen: I only saw it move 2 times though. One when I discovered it seeped in to the cavern from somewhere and then moved it here. When was the third?
Kal: Well the third one it didn¡¯t move however it forced to move one last time by the tree to irrigate the dead flowers.
Zen: I see, So how should I go about making them look as good as this cave?
Kal: That I will have to teach you. So listen closely. The technique I taught you earlier, the figure 8 or the omega motion you used. You must use it on the walls again while pouring Mana in to the pickax. You also need to make sure that since there are no more obstacles in front of you not to focus on digging but focus on trimming and polishing of the tunnels. Thus you have to focus on making your motion even faster. I see that you were able to teach yourself of how to use the skill even above your head. So what you need to do to reach 99% in beauty and protections, is pretty much polish up the tunnels. That should also bring up the completion of the cavern to 99%.
Zen: How do I get the last percent?
Kal: I don¡¯t know. No one has ever achieved it so I don¡¯t know. It requires something either magical or extraordinary, or perhaps a very plain aspect. Don¡¯t know is the bottom line. Even without it your quest will be complete, so don¡¯t worry.
Zen: I still want the 100% completion. So for now I will go polish up the caves.
I then started again at the bigger tunnel and expanded the cavern to match the rest of it that had a 6-meter diameter. It took me one day to make it same size and polished. I was indeed the same style as if the Miracle Water had moved through this tunnel and transformed it a new.
While I was doing this I could not shake the feeling about the messed up tunnel I had to the other Mountain that was around 5 meters in diameter. I guess ill ruggedly dig it again and pass by a finishing touch. It should allow me one more day to come up with something that would finish the last percent.
Indeed it took me 2 more days in order to finish polishing the tunnels and then I sat down looked at the cave info and indeed everything was at 99%. Amelia came and sat beside me handing me a wooden bowl full of a beef stew, which had some stringy vegetable to compensate for the noodles.
Zen: What shall we do with the one percent remaining?
Amelia: I don¡¯t know everything in here is just so perfect.
Zen: Hmmmm..
Amelia: Yawwwwwn..
Perhaps we should take a nap. Maybe that will give us an idea. So we fell asleep.
Suddenly I was shaken awake.
Amelia: Zen we must hurry it seems there are a few hours left before the deadline. What will we do?
I stood up washed my face and sat. I for the first time wanted to lean on something while sitting. The tree was already occupied and Kal was leaning on it. I didn¡¯t want to share a tree to lean on so I went out side and found a huge boulder. Placed the storage circle just next to it and rolled it on the storage circle. It must have been around 10-meters in diameter so there was no way I would be able to carry it in threw the 3-meter entrance. So I then quickly ran back and summoned it before my hand it actually was able to teleport. The huge rock was now the most ugly thing within the cavern. I rolled the huge rock with all my efforts next to the pool and again quickly ran to the water filled cavern and set another storage point within the bottom of that cavern. I then ran back and opened an active storage before my hand and water as if from a pressure gun came out and I washed the rock with both of my hand. The excess water went in to the other water and also mixed in. I didn¡¯t notice it at first but the entire cavern was being filled with water.
The entire now had roughly another foot of water above all of the ground and flowers. I at once thought I had ruined everything. I then noticed that the water never rose above one foot of water. I then looked why was it so. As I continued to actively poor water out of my hand I noticed it didn¡¯t leave the cavern as if another film kept it in, instead of having water run outside via tunnel.
A few moments later I noticed the Miracle Water had a big whirlpool that was taking in all of the water I was pouring our and I then focused on sending the water that came from my hand in to the whirlpool. Just to see what happens. I even expended the active storage summoning to one meter in diameter. Everything bit of water was sucked in even with the increased output, the water never rose above 1-foot in height.
About 30 minutes later after this discovery the water stopped pouring from the storage, so I canceled it. I then watched how the flowers that were spread around the cavern grew even taller with huge leaves all over the place floating on the remaining water. The pool was now also submerged under this water, although the reflection of light intensified so greatly that even though it was night out side it looked as if it was nearly daytime in the cavern. The only shade was probably right next to the tree. Even the huge rock left no trace of a shade.
Kal: My lad! It is time. Let us take a look if that did the trick. I don¡¯t even know if that was your intention or not. It seemed like you only wanted to clean the big rock over there and I have a feeling the turn of events lead you to an new discovery that even I could not for see.
I then walked and touch the pool of water under the foot of water. ¡°Cave Information Window.
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Cave:
If you wish to see the information in regard to this cave, you must now complete the quest by accepting to summon the Spirit who will rule over this pool of Spirit Water.
Once the Spirit is summoned he may show you your end result. You have 2 minutes to accept the terms or else the Spirit Water will disappear and all that will be left is water in its place.
Would you like to summon the spirit now?
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Zen: Yes summon the Spirit.
Amelia: Zen I received a message that says the quest is complete and says to await our reward from the Spirit who will now be summoned.
The water in the cavern started to turn as if a big whirlpool was being summoned. It didn¡¯t go beyond that. Then a huge bright light came from within Miracle Water in the center and after a flash, everything was calm.
Stolen from its rightful place, this narrative is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.I saw a boy who was now talking to Kal.
Boy: It has been a while Kal.
Kal: It has been a long time indeed, perhaps 2 thousand years no?
Boy: More like 2 thousand 500 years. Kal seems you succeeded in this quest I gave you roughly at that time. You have made a perfect dwelling place that I gladly accept.
Kal: Yet it wasn¡¯t I who built this place. Even if I did I would have figured it out, of how to make it 100%.
Boy: Oh you are not the one that did this?
Kal: You can thank those two over there.
The boy who was floating turned to us and seeing us smiled.
Boy: You have my gratitude oh strangers. Not only for saving a dear friend of mine, but also finishing a long going quest of his. He seems to even have forgotten it. Speak what would you like for you gift?
Zen: Hello my name is Zen and this is Amelia. We are glad we have finally finished with this quest. However we did not do this for you. We did it for Kal and of course for our own desires.
Boy: Agh.. Where are my manners? Please call me Elloid, I am the King of the Spirit Realm and I handed the quest down to the King of Dragon to make me a dwelling so that I may visit this world. The power required and the Certain Spirit Water of King level, was also required and between other small and much needed thing also required to complete this. Has been seen as an impossible task that you have completed. So what is it that you desired then?
Zen: Simple, this shall be our home and retreat here whenever we feel like it.
Elloid: Ha ha ha ha ha is that it?
Zen: Yes.
Kal: I did not tell this to you earlier Zen, however when the dwelling is established for a Spirit a person other then the Dragon who has claimed the Spirit Water and the Spirit of the Water. Can only remain within its range for 1 day before they are teleported out.
Zen: Kal I think you are forgetting something I had placed to claim on everything I did here before I met you and I had used my strength to build it. I will not let anyone take and claim my hard work and dwelling.
Amelia: Zen is correct. If we have to we will lay ruin to this place even if it takes us a millennia. We will never hand it over to anyone, who wishes just to take it.
Kal then stood up and walked a little stretching. It was the first time I have seen him so actively walking.
Kal: I am truly grateful to what you did and will forever be in your debt. However the rules are not set by me, they are set by¡¡..
He looked at the Spirit King.
Elloid: This was indeed interesting. Well as your reward, I will give you permission to use this place the way you like. It is after all, as you say, it was you¡¯re before mine. If you allow me to also use this dwelling to visit this world more often I will impart you with another gift.
Zen: I don¡¯t mind sharing as long as I remain the true owner of this place.
Amelia: I wont mind either if Zen is so willing.
Elloid: Very well, you Zen and Amelia are the true owners of this place however you will not be able to kick Kal or me out just because you are owners. You may bring in whom ever you want, however they will only be able to stay here for a day.
Zen & Amelia: Agreed.
A light shown within us and settled down, with a mark that appeared on my shoulder and the same mark on Amelia¡¯s shoulder.
Elloid: So the secondary gift I will give you, is of my choosing since your desire was so grand. I will give you both and have already given you that are within that mark on your shoulders. Lies the ownership of this place and it also gives you the ability to use the blessing of this ¡°King ¡°(new portion of the name which was added with the arrival of the Spirit King) Dragon Spirit Essence Water to be used even when you are not within range. The effect of the blessing is for 10 hours. However you can only use it on your selves and once per day.
Zen: Thank you for the amazing gift. You said no matter the distance I could use this blessing? Are the other affects of the same as that pool of water?
Elloid: Yes they are however you should look for yourself since the pool of water took on new form it also took on new affects.
Zen: I can¡¯t see the stats yet so I can¡¯t check that just quite yet.
Elloid: You can¡¯t? Oh that¡¯s right, you don¡¯t meet certain requirements. Well the how about this I will give you a complimentary gift.
The tattoo on my shoulder again glowed and settled down.
Elloid: You should now be able to see your stats. :D By the way don¡¯t you ever call me King Elloid of the Spirit World. I hate my title name. I don¡¯t even know were it originated.
Zen: Ha ha ha. You wish I would call you that. Ha ha ha
Amelia: Hey Zen wana check your stats yet?
Zen: Oh yes. I waited a long time for this. ¡°Status Window.¡±
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Status Window
Name: [Zen Trilen]
Level: [1]
Race: [Human]
Class: [NA]
Profession: [NA]
Health: [2100/2100]
Mana: [500/500]
Stamina: [1250/2000]
STR: [255]
AGI: [255]
DEX: [255]
INT: [155]
WIS: [55]
FRD: [500] (Fortitude Special Stat)
DRG: [15] (Dragon Special Stat)
Bonus Stats awaiting allocation: 1000
[SEE BUFFS WINDOW FOR ADDITIONAL INFO IN REGARD TO THE BUFFS]
(Regeneration rates apply only if you are resting at an unchanging rate of 20% per hour.)
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Zen: Open FRD, DRG, Info screen.
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FRD: Fortitude
4 X the stat points in FRD will be applied to health. (2000 health is applied to current health.)
2 X the stat points in FRD will be applied to stamina. (1000 stamina is applied to current stamina.)
.1 X the stat points in FRD will be applied to resistance to being knocked down, confusion, and dizziness. (Resistant to the past effect when engaged in battle with enemies of (50) level above your own.
.05 X the stat point in FRD will reduce that number in damage points. (25 damage of any type is reduced before applying the access to one self.)
(Can distribute stat points to this stat. Not affected by any type of Buffs.)
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DRG: Dragon Specialty
10 X the stat points in DRG will apply for using any type of Dragon Skills.
2 X the stat points in DRG will apply directly to unblock able damage to the target. May be countered if they have FRD stat. However the enemies FRD stat has to be at a level to be able to block or else excess damage will roll over and affect the target. (Can currently do 30 Unblock able Damage.)
(Cannot distribute stat points to this stat. Not affected by any Buffs)
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Zen: Hmmmm. I guess I should invest all my bonus points in to Fortitude. If a simple weapon gives you a damage of 15 with STR and other stats it might bring it up to 30 - 50 damage. So if I have 1500 in FRD then I would be able to ignore 75 points of damage including dragon attribute, which bypasses any defense. Hmm. I guess I don¡¯t need so much STR since I got my nice Item, including the buffs it should be nice. Ya I will go with that.
I then distributed all my bonus stat points in to FRD.
Zen: Change Information Window
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Info Update Window
Health increases and is now [6100]
Stamina increases and is now [3250]
Resistance to knockdown, dizziness and confusion [+150]
Damage reduction by [75]
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Zen: I am now satisfied. However lets see the effect of this Miracle Water.
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King Dragon Spirit Essence Effect
Effects lasts forever as long as you drank it and are within 50 miles. If you are past this range it will wear off in 10 hours. (Can be used remotely by individuals who have the Blessing from the King Spirit)
750% Regeneration Rate,
500% in leveling your skills,
250% in raising your stats,
100% Resistance to poison, disease and other substances.
Dulls pain too nearly non-existent.
* While under the effect you cannot die, however your health might drop to 1 depending on an attack, and at such low health you will be unconscious. *
**** This liquid cannot be separated or removed by any means. One must come to the pool in order to drink the liquid. You will not be able to spend more then one day in the cave with the pool. (Exception for the owners of the cave.) ****
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Amelia: So I take it you seen you stats.
I really did have a grin across my face.
Zen: Amelia what is considered normal for your level Stat wise.
Amelia: My stats are about the same as before except strength increased tremendously but the rest of the results are perfectly normal so here take a look.
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Status Window
Name: [Amelia Fox]
Level: [37]
Race: [Human]
Class: [NA]
Profession: [Ancient Alchemist] (Includes Herbalism)
Health: [1575/1575]
Mana: [750/750]
Stamina: [550/550]
STR: [185]
AGI: [85]
DEX: [75]
INT: [75]
WIS: [65]
DRG: [15] (Dragon Special Stat)
Bonus Stats awaiting allocation: 1000
[SEE BUFFS WINDOW FOR ADDITIONAL INFO IN REGARD TO THE BUFFS]
(Regeneration rates apply only if you are resting at an unchanging rate of 20% per hour.)
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Ok so I was making good progress for sure. I guess with the buffs from the water I grew quickly constantly mining. I was still interested in seeing my skills but decided that I will check them at a later day.
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Chapter 9: Best Traveling Ever!!!
I turned towards Amelia to see her in a weird daze.
Zen: Amelia what¡¯s wrong?
She snapped back to reality. It seems ever since the Spirit King had made us owners of the cavern she was in a daze all this time. It seems like that was the time our quest was finished, but since I turned my notifications completely off, it didn¡¯t notify me. Yes at one point it was up, but then every time I was digging and hit my self a window popped up saying that I received damage, so I turned it off since then.
Amelia: You have to see this Quest Completion Window.
Before she said show to Zen, I already spoke up to open it. She had another one of her daze moments?
Amelia: You can already use stat windows? Did you level or something?
Zen: Did you miss the part were that Spirit King gave me this as a complementary reward?
Amelia: Ah I was probably staring at this window. Hurry look at the rewards.
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Quest Completed!!!
You have successfully completed the quest. You have surpassed the requirements. In the end, instead of having a completed Cavern to 100% you were somehow able to complete it and make it even better. The Cavern has reached 150%, in every category. This is a worlds first Extraordinary Accomplishment. Having completed a Hidden Double Secret Chain Quest a Rank of XXXD you will receive 100,000 Fame points.
Rewards:
Are based on the Spirit Summoned.
REWARD ERROR: You are not able to receive 1,000,000 Fame points because there are no village, town or city within 500 miles or 100 and more people in your area. Thus your Fame cannot spread. Thus the points will be converted in to Bonus Stat points. The penalty for converting Fame points in to bonus stat points is 1000 Fame points to 1 Bonus stat point. You are able to do this at any time were you receive fame over 100,000. If anything under 100,000 is earned during any event that is 500 miles away from a city or in the presence of less then 100 people you will just loose the Fame reward. You cannot convert the Fame points freely, unless you make more then 100,000 fame points, which have to be converted within 10 minutes of reward or else it will be locked without further conversions possible.
You have received 1,000 bonus stat points instead of 1,000,000 Fame Points.
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Zen: So that¡¯s where I got those stats bonus from.
Amelia: Do you realize what that means?
Zen: No. What does it mean?
Amelia: You can be considered a level 70 if you properly distribute them.
Zen: Oh that. I already placed all of them in too one stat.
I once again saw her jaw drop.
Amelia: Are you crazy. No one ever does that, ever. Do you realize how hard it is to get stat ordinarily?
Zen: Yes but here take a look at my Skills Screen
I then proceeded to show her the Stat Info and even description of the two specialty stats.
Amelia: Oh? When did you get the Fortitude Stat?
Zen: Not sure. Is there a way to check?
Amelia: Just say Stat Name and Stat History.
Zen: Fortitude Stat History and share with Amelia
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Fortitude Summarized History
After nearly 20 hours of being pounded on by a monster that happened to be 99 X stronger in level then you. You have received Hidden Stat ¡°Endurance.¡±
You have continued to receive the pounding of the beast for another 10 hours. Your stat Endurance Evolved in to a Hidden Stat ¡°Sturdiness.¡±
You have again continued to receive the pounding of the beast for another 10 hours. Your stat Defense has evolved to Secret Special Stat ¡°Fortitude.¡± This Stat is in composition of the too lower Stats and their points had transferred over to your Fortitude Stat.
You have gained a bonus to this Stat of 350 points. Since you have discovered an S Rank Skill.
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Amelia: Amazing I never knew Stat could evolve like that. It never mentioned anything like this even on Websites. Perhaps we can sell this information?
Zen: Hmm perhaps we can. I just wonder what they will pay for such information. I will sell it later not any time soon. We need more things we can sell, but for now did you see the reward we got from the Spirit King?
Amelia: I¡¯m going to check that right now.
Zen: Hmm. I guess I should check my skills while I¡¯m at it. ¡°Skills Window and show Sub Skills¡±
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Skills Information!!!
Silan Magic: (Inherited skill, is reset to Beginner Lvl.1)
Grizan Blacksmith: (Inherited skill, is reset to Beginner Lvl. 1)
Underwater Breathing: Mastered
Night Vision: Advanced Lvl 44. 67%
Devine Infinity: Intermediate Lvl 9. 99%
* Figure 8 Weapon Spin: Mastered
** Horizontal Infinity Spin: Mastered
*** Overhead Infinity Spin: Intermediate Lvl 39. 55%
**** 360-Degree Infinity Spin: Advanced Lvl 56. 43%
***** All Dimensional Infinity Spin: Novice Lvl 1. 1%
****** Undiscovered
******* Undiscovered
Ancient Digger: Advanced Lvl 5. 23%
* Mole: Mastered
** Miner: Intermediate Lvl 89. 1%
*** Enchanted Disintegrator: Intermediate Lvl 63. 2% (used by two skills)
**** Depth Reader: Intermediate Lvl 78. 96%
***** Driller: Intermediate Lvl 4.91%
****** Dual Tool Miner: Beginner Lvl 14. 5%
Elemental Hand Combat: Advanced Lvl 1. 99%
* Slicing Strike: Intermediate Lvl 35. 44%
** Shattering Strike: Intermediate Lvl 76. 55%
*** Earth Shaker: Intermediate Lvl 89. 22%
**** Shattering Waves: Intermediate Lvl 50. 34%
Arial Regeneration: Beginner Lvl 1. 0%
*(Nothing is known in regard to this skill. You must figure out what exactly it does and doesn¡¯t)
Yell: Beginner Lvl 1. 5%
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Well it seems that it¡¯s quite simple to understand what many of them mean but common what kind of naming sense is that? Why wont they just stick to simple names like just a blacksmith or magic instead they put titles to them? What¡¯s with that? Anyway, what should I do now?
I was standing in the water all this time the only spot that was dry were either the top of the leaves that were now around 4 meters in length and 2 meters wide. I tried to lie on one and to my surprise it held me without sinking in to the water. It felt as if I was lying on a waterbed of sort. Even though I never slept on a waterbed. I called it out of my bad naming sense. While looking over the details of some stats, all it really did was enable me to learn higher tier magic or blacksmithing. In the end I will still need to discover them my self over time. I dozed off from thinking so much while lying on such of a comfortable bed.
I don¡¯t remember how long I slept. Once I woke up I noticed Amelia lay by me and too dozed off.
Kal: Oh lad seems you are alive and awake. I though you perhaps will never wake up.
That is when Amelia somehow too woke up. It was if both of us were on some sort of sleep timer, that no one even set.
Kal: I see the Lady also wakes up. You too have been asleep for nearly 3 days. Do you know that?
Zen: No. However I need to go back to sleep for 6 more days I believe.
Amelia: Me too, I presume your talking about logging out right?
Zen: Yea.
Kal: Great then I will see you in 6 days. I should be completely recovered in that amount of time.
Amelia & Zen: See you then.
When I woke up. I saw food placed all around me. Seems I haven¡¯t woken and eaten anything for the past two days. Gosh I am starving, I ate at a slow pace because I didn¡¯t want to cause health problems to myself. After I finished eating I had that feeling gone which was with me even in the game. I think its called starvation. I was used to it, but to go this far playing this game was really bad. I then set a rule to myself. That at most I will ever go inside the game. Would be 1-day real time, which was 6 game days.
I ate real well and did some work around the warehouse before going to sleep in the real world for several hours. Then my internal clock woke me up to tell me that 6 game days have passed and so I logged back in.
I woke up and saw that Amelia was already here and talking with Kal. I then approached them and he spoke up.
Kal: I have something for both of you. Not only did you help me with a quest, I didn¡¯t really feel as if I rewarded you with something other then couple talents and skills. Hey Elloid did you summon the awards I want to give them?
Elloid: If its something for these two fine people and on your request at that. There is no way I can say no.
We saw one huge 3x3x3 meter chests appear on a leaf and to my surprise it didn¡¯t sink in to the pool of water.
Kal: This chest is for you both to use. You both put one of your storage points in it. You will be able to store in it an infinite amount of items and other things. This chest is the only kind in existence since it is part of the Spirit world. No one but you will have access to it. However you will not be able to release the storage mark once set and the chest will enter the Spirit World. So will you sacrifice one of the 5 storage points?
Zen: This will be my third sacrifice with the storage points.
Kal: Third?
Zen: The two flashy chests with traps. Remember?
Kal: Don¡¯t tell me you also placed the mark in both of the chests, right?
Zen: I did just that.
Kal: You do realize what that means. As soon as you take out another item from within the dragon in charge of that chest will be after your skin. You do know that, right?
Zen: That¡¯s why I was going to use your help or do it when I am able to beat any dragon.
Kal: I won¡¯t help you, since I told you about the taboo. With my full strength back, a simple attack of mine might kill a simple dragon. Then I don¡¯t want to reveal my self as alive just yet. I want to see the debt that the assassination of myself was staged. It couldn¡¯t have been only one dragon who wanted revenge and then the other guarding this place also miraculously vanished some years ago.
Zen: Then option 2 I get stronger or I take and items and forever run from the dragon, on the other hand ill just get stronger. What if I place an Item and take an Item out>?
Kal: That wont work. Your storage talent will only work to withdraw from those two chests. Not to place something in them. If at some point you accidentally do withdraw something, the dragon will appear within minutes in front of you. He will give you a moment to return the item. If you want you can ask him that he let you release the storage thing. He will let you, do not try to swap the item or he will just simply kill you then. Then after you have given him his treasure he also might kill you.
Zen: Thanks for the extra information. I always need information.
Amelia: Hey Zen would you put your mark in it already. I really like this infinite space storage. We could probably store all of the ore outside.
Kal: Oh yes one last thing. You will only be able to store a by-product. Not raw material in to the storage. So if you wanted to store all that ore. It would have to be in form of bars. Same with leather and herbs, all of that raw material needs to be refined at least a little bit before you will be able to store them in this infinite chest.
Amelia: Still a good storage. XD
Zen: So why cant we see the info window for this storage?
Elloid: Because its of spirit realm and doesn¡¯t belong to you but the royal treasury which I cannot completely hand over the rights of this storage to you, although I can permit you to use it as much as you like. I will also preserve any food you store in it.
Zen: So we are borrowing?
Elloid: In essence yes. Although the mark you placed will never disappear from it again. Since you two wont ever see it after this.
Zen: Either way thank you for this wonderful gift.
We both placed the storage mark within the chest and it disappeared.
Zen: Hey Amelia, let me try something.
I then stored a potion I had in my bag, in to the chest.
Try taking out what I stored.
Amelia: Zen when I think, of what¡¯s in the chest I see a screen that shows me, that you stored a healing potion I gave you. Right?
Zen: Yes your right. Now let me try. Store something just don¡¯t show it to me.
Amelia: Ok go ahead.
As I pictured what could be inside the chest. Indeed in my mind a widow like interface popped out and showed me that it had, one potion and a gold coin.
Zen: This is amazing. You can even store money. Wonder if it stacks if I put a gold coin.
Amelia gave me a gold coin since I had no money. I placed it in and the weird thing was it didn¡¯t stack. I then tried and actually was able to withdraw both of the coins. However placing them back this time made them stack. It seemed it recognize the money as mine this time since I put it in and it stacked items that came from me and kept separate from thing Amelia put in.
Amelia: Well now that we played around with the new storage thing we got. What now? We finished the quest, but what now?
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Zen: I don¡¯t know either. Perhaps I should build a small forge so that I maybe able to smelt those ores in to bars.
Amelia: That would be a start, I guess. Hmm..
Kal: May I suggest something. I was talking with Elloid there it seems that. The Human Kingdoms are suffering defeat after defeat near the frontier around 800 miles from here. That is probably the closest village to this place. So perhaps you can go help them. You Zen with digging expertise should be able to carve a path through the mountain range where ever one is needed to make it safely to the village. I have to say there are many dangerous beasts right out side these 5 mountains. So you¡¯ll have to be extra careful. Only advance during the day and before night. You should make a cave that will be hard for large predators to get in. It seems that animals in this mountain range prefer the night. I wont give out more info then that.
Zen: NO. It is way to cold out there among the snow. Somehow it doesn¡¯t snow within these 5 mountains. Plus I got a lot of smelting to do.
Kal: If you agree to go help. While your gone, Elloid and me will build you the nicest blacksmiths workshop this world has seen.
Amelia: If you include the nicest Alchemy shop as well then we have a deal.
Kal: Done
Zen: Very well then. So through which mountain shall we dig a hole throught?
Kal: No need for that. I have put a teleport ring just near the entrance to this cavern. It¡¯s a two-way teleport ring and will teleport you just to the other side of the south mountain. You will need to go 800 miles southwest. There you¡¯ll find a human village nearly ruined.
Zen: Can¡¯t you just teleport us all the way there?
Kal: The dragons will sense such a teleportation and come after the person who teleported that distance to get rid of him and anyone around him. Since he is able to teleport that far.
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Notification!!! Your party has accepted a quest.
Quest Rank S:
Help the Human Nameless Village establish a stronger foothold in the north. 800-miles south of your current position, and there is no time limit for this quest. A minimum of 20 villagers must survive. Currently there are 60 villagers of average level 50.
Reward:
Top tier Blacksmith Workshop
Top tier Alchemy Workshop
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Zen: Well then, it¡¯s about time I make the necessary preparations for our departure. One last thing, we got no winter clothing and I don¡¯t know or have tailoring skill to make anything. How am I going to go about that?
Kal: Agh you are correct lad. Then I will put a small blessing on both of you, it only last 15 hours a day, the blessing will renew it self every 9 hours, until you reach the village. I won¡¯t be able to bless you with anything more potent, or the dragons will sense it and come in a flash after you.
Zen: That ok. 15 hours is better then none. I will have to make a fire for the other 9 hours, making a total of 24 hours.
Kal & Elloid: Then we too will get started with the rewards.
Elloid: Just so you know these will be constructed in the spirit realm so if you do not accomplish the quest you will not get the reward.
Zen: Can Kal enter the spirit realm?
Elloid: Yes the Dragon King and former Dragon Kings have that privilege. Since he recovered all his strength he will have to use 90% of Mana and Stamina just to enter. So you can imagine the power required to enter such place.
Zen: Won¡¯t the dragon sense this attempt?
Elloid: Not exactly, since its Spirit Magic and as far as I know. A very few can sense spirit magic and the current Dragon King is not one of those people.
Zen: I see well take care.
I stayed since I was curious on how he was able to do that, however to my disappointment I only saw them blink away. Without any signs of magic, guess I cant see it or sense spirit magic.
I placed down a storage marker near the soon to be pile wood. Amelia placed one on the bottom of a small river, which was going to be our water source. I then commenced to chop trees in to firewood, to make it quick I used 1x1x1 meter wide cubes. It was a simple task with my Elemental Hand Combat Skill. Amelia at this time gathered apples that she stored in our infinite storage which seemed to accept it as food rather then raw source. She also placed an empty storage point out side the cavern to be used as an empty storage point if we need to transfer some goods to this location in their raw form.
Nearly one day later was I had a small mountain of wood pilled over the storage point to be accessed while we travel in order to use as firewood or for any other purpose. We were ready to set off in to the long journey. Both of us decided to take a day off (real world time) and log of. This was going to be a long journey with who know what. So we wanted to eat and exercise our real bodies for once.
As soon as I logged off I went around our little neighbor hood slums and greeted everyone who was around and about doing their chores. All of them had different in game names which would be hard to keep track of so I address them as Neighbor 1, 2, 3 and so on.
I then told them all of how they can make real money through the game and they set their goals on making money so that when the company really does introduce the real money conversion system then they would try and bank in their game coins for real money, only a few showed signs of trying to find something new within the game, which could be sold.
Well it went like usual gardening, exercising, socializing with people and then it was nighttime. Where I actually slept real life sleep. It seems that so much time has passed although in real time it was much shorter.
The next morning, I woke up and did simple stretches and after eating logged back in to the game.
Amelia: You¡¯re late by nearly a day.
Zen: I slept in sorry. Are you addicted or something?
Amelia: Well no, however I am excited to leave this place already.
Zen: Lets get going then.
Amelia: Should we try and catch a few bear perhaps you can win with me? That way we have fur for clothing and some meat.
Zen: Now that you mention it I totally for got about them. Yes lets go take them on. I say we only leave a few alive and store as much meat as we can.
That day we hunted over 100 bears and in all, it only took one strike for me with the pick to instantly kill them. I even tried without the pick ax and it would take me a good 25-minute fight before I was able to kill it with my hand combat skill. When fighting it, with just my hands, I would take enough damage to make my health plummet with nearly ? of my health remaining. It was harder to find them then beat them. It also took time to disassemble them and prepare them so that they were not in raw form to be able to store in the infinite storage box. The food was probably the only exception. It stores the raw meat like a food item so we didn¡¯t have to do much with that.
We hung the bear furs out to dry, however after a slight experimentation where we placed the raw bear hides in the magical water it treated them and tanned it for us. Seems like the properties where the magical water transformed the cave. It also did the same to the raw hides and made the hides tanned with a slight shine in them. I assumed it was a good sign, since the infinite storage was able to store them now. We treated the 100 furs we had and store them. At last after assuming so many times we were ready for travel this was it. I was not going to take any ore I dug up, since we had our own plans for those ores. Thus we never left a mark under them.
Hence we began our journey, to the unnamed frontier village.
Stepping on the teleported and saying teleport, we arrived in a small cave, which seemed to over look a river covered with ice. Walking outside we saw that there too was a film, which not only closed off the entrance to this cave but also camouflaged the entrance. If I didn¡¯t know there was an entrance there I would never have been able to identify this place having a cave at all. It seemed to look like part of the small cliff. I walked back through the wall and was back in the cave. After reconfirming its existence we decided to start walking on the river, which was covered over with thick ice completely supporting us.
I than though about reaching the small frontier village and an arrow pointed to its destination.
Zen: Amelia just curious do you see the same arrow I see?
Amelia: Nope, it¡¯s probably something about that line talent of yours.
Zen: Seems we are in luck. It seems to point to the direction we must go.
Luckily the arrow pointed in the direction the river was going and that is why for the time being we followed the river. There was also a small timer to the right of our vision, which began counting down when we stepped out of the cloaked cave. We had 15 hours till until the blessing would seize for that day.
Walking on ice was very hard, and so I improvised and cut down a huge tree, which I then trimmed it and made a log boat of off it. The elemental hand combat seemed to be useful even outside of combat. I was able to cut out a sort of canoe I once saw a picture of.
The tree I used was roughly 2 meters in diameter and I cut in about 6 meters long. Instead of cutting the top off completely I only made a meter wide hole near the back of the log. I then proceeded to cut the inside of log. The lines again appeared as I was carving, keeping in mind that I didn¡¯t want to make a hole and keep a diameter of the inside at maximum 1 meter. It was done rather quickly, I left about 3 meters in front solid wood incase there would be impacts on the rocks or the like. I then proceeded to carve the bottom of the make shift Log U-boat and made it flat so that it would not roll over.
It took me 2 hours to make while Amelia was scavenging for herbs. She came to check on me often and when she got back I was done and finishing the final touches or our new transportation. Currently we were in the higher mountain ranges and that is why the river flowed downwards. We didn¡¯t know how far we could get using this method, however we were not in a hurry and since no monsters showed up, we took things slow. I in that time also made a sort of a bottle plug to close the entrance to the U-boat after it was under way.
Amelia got in the and made sure to activate her Magical Water Blessing and so did I. Now the question is how were we going to propel even though the river was flowing sort of downwards it was at a very slow decline that would not propel the wood due to the friction.
I pondered for a little until I came up with a simple solution. Paddling seemed like the best idea, however instead of using a paddle I used my pickax. As I slammed at the Ice on the right and then left in quick succession, it made the U-boat take off as if a small speedboat. I don¡¯t know how fast we were going; all I know after I hit it couple have times I then ducked inside. I then checked if we were going the correct route, and noticed it stuck with the river path since it was the least resistant path. The banks of the river were slightly higher so it pretty much steered our U-boat.
After hitting the rocks couple of times Amelia brought out nearly 10 furs and placed them around us and made them like cushions for the impact of future boulders and the like in front.
Every once in a while the U-boat would slow down a little and I would stand up out side and further paddled with my pickax. We were lucky that this entire area seemed to be frozen and as far as my eye could see it was also frozen. The river sometimes veered from left to right, although it did not matter and the 3-meter thick front seemed to hold and not shatter. The log actually also became coated with by ice. It was warm inside the log and seemed like the plug not only did its job, my only concern was the oxygen only to find another simple solution. Activating the empty storage Amelia left back at the Caves it also transported the warmer atmosphere and oxygen at that.
We again were amazed at how lucky we were with that ultimate ability to store thing, pretty much anything. Every time I felt as if we stopped I would push out the plug and propelled us again. Then going back in the now speedy log. For those who are wondering what we did with the plug in order not to loose it, we used Amelia¡¯s empty storage to temporary store it. Since we didn¡¯t want to loose it, during the propelling.
We felt and even my lines showed me that we were at a slightly bigger decline were, further propelling was not necessary. The fur all around us was quite soft and made those small collisions with rocks feel like nothing happened at all. Hence we fell asleep after approximately 8 hours of traveling this way. I guess we just got used to it.
Every 4 to 5 hours I would wake up with my internal clock and check the heading, although there was no need to open the plug due to the speed being decent.
2 days later Amelia and I woke up to a new sensation. It felt as if we were falling. Without thinking much further we both at the same time touched our tattoo and used the blessing, which we have not used since the first time, when we set out on this river. Just in time too.
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Chapter 10: At Last
The fall seemed to have dragged out. It seemed like hours yet it was only seconds until we felt as if we hit something and yet the log did not break. Instead it slowed down severely and the launched back upwards. It seemed as if fell of the cliff in to a waterbed. Perhaps a frozen waterfall, or perhaps there even was a water since we seemed to gain tremendous speed falling down. I was surprised that there was no impact as big as I imagined. Perhaps the area was the waterfall hit only had a small layer of ice or none at all.
The moment we fell being propped up as if from underwater to the surface we hit something. The impact was harder then the one we experienced falling down. I was surely curious what was happening but dared not to open our makeshift U-boat. Instead I used my Depth Sensing skill to confirm that we were in water. There seemed a small 1-inch pocket of air between us water we were in and some sort of hard surface. I could not tell what it was due to never being in this situation before.
Many different ideas came to mind but the most likely ones were that, either we were under the frozen Ice above the river, or a cavern or sort. I even held on to the makeshift plug to our U-boat from opening. I then noticed that it was dripping water slightly around it. It wasn¡¯t a concern since we could use the storage transfer for this problem.
The ride in our makeshift U-boat became much more enjoyable with only a slight problem. The arrow pointing to the village seemed to slight turn to the west as time went by. Seems like the river did not go to the village and veered southeast and now we needed to go southwest. After talking with Amelia on what we should do she said that until we should continue traveling using this method since we still did not know how far it would be. Perhaps the river would veer in to the correct direction thus we stayed on the current route.
Another day passed and it was true, that the river constantly veered to left and right but this was where the arrow was now pointing almost directly west. I could feel that the ice cap was still slightly there but we had to get out now. We were going in a rather fast pace however it had to be now. We put away the bear hides and everything else that could be lost made sure our blessing was still active and had around 8 hours left on it. We also activated our Tattoo blessing, which I am going to start to calling ¡°Spirit Blessing.¡±
I got my pickax ready to strike at the cap, which enclosed us, within the U-boat. It stopped leaking sometime ago and was stuck because of soaking up some water and expanding at the same time. Amelia hugged me by the waste as to not get separated.
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I strike at the cap with all my strength with pickax at hand. It literally obliterates the cap striking in to the ice above the river. At the same time we both push off the log as not to let it drag us further in the river. We did not need to worry about breathing since we could breath underwater, however we closed shut our mouths because it seemed like the blessing was only an exterior factor. The water we took in was so icy cold that it was hard to breathe it. Perhaps further water training was necessary to adapt to colder water.
Luckily the Pickax was able to make a hole in the ice that was about ? foot thick. I then helped Amelia through the hole, which was about 1-meter wide in a circular form. When Amelia got out she helped me out of the water as well. When we were out, only then did I notice that the water beneath the ice was rushing at an immense speed, frightening to be exact. I then looked at Amelia; she had all of the color in her face gone. Pale as if seeing a ghost. At the same time my ears, which were full of water now could hear. A huge crushing sound and I then proceeded to look the direction Amelia was looking.
We could see the entire landscape. We were roughly 5 meters away from the edge to another waterfall. I had my jaw drop. I was in astonishment that we actually got out 5 meters before the fall.
Approaching the waterfall drop and we can see that the waterfall itself was not frozen instead very active. It was only frozen up to the edge. Down below you could see huge rocks that lay there and the now tiny bits of the remainder of the log we were in, surely an instant KO to those without the Spirit Blessing.
We recovered from a gaze when we heard a slight voice. HHHHHHHOwWwwww???
Zen: Amelia did you say something?
Amelia recovered from her daze.
Amelia: No.
We franticly looked around but saw no one.
Zen: I must be hearing things.
Amelia: Probably!
In nearly 3 minutes being out of the water the clothes on us completely froze. Even though we did not seem to feel the cold we still realized that if we did not have the warmth blessing we would freeze to death. Without being able to die we would be in that state till time on Spirit Blessing ran out.
Amelia: Which way do we go now? Hopefully we don¡¯t have to climb down.
Zen: It seems we are in luck and don¡¯t have to climb down. Since now its pointing completely West.
Amelia: Then should we be off?
Zen: Yea we should and we also need to prepare camp soon or will definitely freeze. Dry the clothes while we are still under the blessings protection.
Thus before heading west we looked around and noticed a slight smoke, which came from a little Northwest of us.
Amelia & Zen: Look there.
Zen: Hmm can monsters also make campsites?
Amelia: They could, although I hope its not monsters camp.
Zen: Either way we need clothes, which we can change in to. We should go check either way.
Amelia: Yea lets look at the bright side of things.
We then proceeded to walk that direction. The clothes made sounds, as the icy clothes would crumble luckily it did not really ruin our clothing. It took us 3 hours until we approached the campsite. When we arrived at the campsite. We could see there was a pot boiling on a fire, with no sole in sight.
Zen: This gives me the creeps. There seems to be no one there.
Amelia: Then lets take this opportunity to see if there is any clothing.
We quickly spotted a tent and cautiously looked in and it too was empty. Amelia went in and spoke out for me to hear.
Amelia: Seems like it has places for 4 individuals. They must be nearby, or even already watching us.
Zen: Any clothes?
Amelia: Yea! All of them seem to be human as well.
Zen: Good get dressed. I¡¯ll stand guard and then we will switch.
She quickly got redressed and walked out side. It was very plain but almost fit her too perfectly. It wasn¡¯t compressing or any of the sort. In fact it was very baggy but looked exceptionally well on her.
Zen: That clothing seems to be good for sleeping. In fact it looks like pajamas.
Amelia: I think they are. For this type of weather these are great pajamas.
Zen: Ok well my turn.
I then traded spots with her and went in. I saw that there were two different types of clothing. Seems like this campsite either abandoned or they¡¯re out hunting while the water was boiling in the big pot outside. Either way I found a pair that seemed to fit me more. To be exact they were much bigger then me but still fit me, however also very baggy. Seems like the beings that this camp belongs to be rather big people.
I hence went outside and saw that Amelia was using the fire to cook the bear meet she took out of the storage.
Amelia: I think we should wait for the people. We did take their clothes without permission. Perhaps we can even make something to eat for them, in exchange.
Zen: I agree we aren¡¯t in a hurry either way. Perhaps I¡¯ll even make a shelter for us while we wait.
There was snow everywhere, so I then proceeded and took out the 1x1x1 meter block of wood I had chopped up from my storage and placed in near the fire to use as a table. I also took one more out and chopped it in to small little logs to keep the fire burning. Even though the fire it self seemed like it was enchanted since it would burn for some time without needing more fire wood.
Either way a bigger fire in my mind is better than a small one. I then proceeded to biggest tree that surrounded the fire. Somehow there were many trees with a width of 2 ¨C 3 meters. After making choosing which way I wanted the tree to fall I proceeded to cut the tree. 10 minutes later chipping away at the tree using only my elemental hand combat. The tree gave way and fell roughly 5 meters away from the fire. The fall of the tree would surely summon the owners of the campsite I thought.
I paid little attention since I noticed that so far no monster or person crept up. That is when I proceeded to carve the tree with my hands again. The shape was similar to that of the U-boat. Instead the door was to the side instead of the top. I made a 1-meter round entrance, and then made a whole inside 2-meters tall and ? -meter wide and 4 meters deep to the left side of the tree. After that was done made one shelve 2 meter wide, by 3 meters deep and about a 1-? -meter high, on right side of the ? -meter walkway and ? -meter high from the bottom of the walkway. It was like a small cabin at this point. I though this was enough and walked outside. I saw that there was no one else other then Amelia and I. It was some hours after I had cut the tree down and the sun was already going down. Seems like the sunsets earlier in the mountains.
While the sun set and it had become quite dark and enjoying the food we heard a shout. ¡°Mila it smells delicious. What did you catch and you have better made some for us.¡± Three figures stepped out of the brushes in to the camp. The three figures of people were carrying three huge bags or who knows what it was.
Stranger: Who are you two and what did you do with Mila?
Everybody was staring weirdly at each other. We could only see their eyes reflected by the fire next to us, since they stood in the shadows. No one made a move to get his or her weapons out. At that moment from the other direction of the campfire stepped out of the forest another figure, which also stayed to the shadows. They seemed experts that could read shadows like it was their second nature.
Mila: They did nothing to me and I was just watching them to get a general impression. Mind I tell you one interesting thing though. I went fishing at the icy river and guess what. They fished themselves out from underneath the frozen river. Just 5 meters away from the waterfall, still don¡¯t quite understand how 2 humans were able to survive the freezing water and even force their way out of the river that had nearly ? foot of ice over it. Even look at what they are wearing. Our pajamas that would actually make me freeze in being in the cold atmosphere over 2 hours.
Stranger: Ha ha ha that¡¯s the best joke I have ever heard. Although I can see they are definitely wearing our pajamas.
Mila seemed to be talking to another human which gave off an aura of being their leader.
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Zen: Before you all continue with questions and all the fun stuff. Why not sit down and enjoy some meat and the prepared stew. It the least we can do for taking a pair of your clothes without asking. Oh and yes I am Zen and this is Amelia.
They all came closer to sit on the log next to the fire and warm up. That voice near the lake was probably Mila¡¯s who seemed to be watching us, since then.
Stanger: Mila? Are they hostile?
Mila: Not that I have noticed. They too ate from that pot so it unlikely poison.
Once everyone approached the fire I could finally see they¡¯re appearance. The female called Mila, seemed like an ordinary Human who seemed to be the same size as Amelia. Is quite the beauty with her huge busts, her hair fitted the rouge setting since every feature of hers was completely black, even dark black eyes. Her hair was slightly dark purplish though. She wore a rouges outfit with 2 small daggers on her side and small bow strapped to her back. She also wore a huge dark black fur coat, which covered her entire body.
The other female that also came in to view was tall, skinny also with even bigger busts. You could clearly see that she was an elf because of her appearance; well the ears gave it away with the slight pale whitish skin. Her hair was white like the snow with black eyelashes and blue eyes. She wore a supper fitted robe with a staff in her right hand. It was a staff that had a diamond like gem on the top. She too wore a fur coat but this time it was perfectly white in color.
The guy who seemed to talk out loud came in to view next. He was wearing full plate armor. However between the joints you could see thick fur poking out. He had no shield just a very broad sword that could be used as a shield, hanging on his back. He had a small beard and wore what looked a like a fur hat. Now that I mention every one of them had fur hats that I seemed to not notice at all.
Finally I was able to see the last person. When I saw him, I for some reason though about Robin Hood. From the anime I saw in school. All of his clothes seemed slimmer then the rest of the groups. Perhaps it has some enchantment for cold. We had 3 different bows hanging on his back. With tiny knives across his chest in a belt of some sort, an assassin or rouge mix I guessed. He looked human however something was off. I did not know if he truly was human. His skin was somehow different.
They all walked towards us and sat down without a second of hesitation. Were they that confident of their skills or was there another element? Perhaps they had certain skills that helped them.
Stranger: Well then. I guess introductions are in order as well as a few questions.
Zen: Indeed.
Stranger: Call me Birk and the elf over there her name is Shila, you already hear me call Mila over there. Finally my good old pal Frank.
Zen & Amelia: It is a pleasure to meet you.
Birk: Looks like they have manners at least.
Mila: Not everyone is a brute like you Birk.
Birk: Ha ha ha ha. I like it that way Mila. Ha Ha Ha HA
While these two began blabbering away the other too remained quiet as if shy or something.
Birk: Mila is it true what you said? They came out of under the ice on their own and not through one of your fishing holes?
Mila: Yup. In addition you should have seen the ice explosion that was caused, when the ice shattered flying skyward.
Birk: Your pooling my strings aren¡¯t you?
Mila: Not at all
Birk: So lad and young Miss, mind you telling us your story and why you are here?
Zen: Sure. We are headed to the frontier village in the north.
All of these strangers had a sharp look at us. They all became cautious of us immediately.
Birk: Why are you headed there and do you know how to get there?
Zen: It¡¯s a quest and yes I do know how to get there.
All of them stood up and placed their hands on their weapons.
Zen: Something wrong or is there something behind me?
Birk: HA HA HA HA. THIS IS INDEED A SITUATION.
Zen: Oh yeah? How so?
He was starring very strangely at us. He did not let up his guard with his subordinates standing there and furthering the conversation as to find information.
Birk: It is supposed to be a secret that there is a village on the new frontier.
Zen: Are you sure?
Birk: Yes only the King of New-Thorn and a select few know about this village and hired everyone that¡¯s already there under exceptional secrecy.
Zen: How do you know I¡¯m not one of the villagers?
Birk: Easy, because I know every single one who was sent there. I messenger between the frontier and us. To be exact even I have a hard time finding it.
Zen: Your lost. Right?
Birk: Yes, although we will find them eventually.
Zen: Let me guess on your orders. ¡°You were told to make them retreat or prepare for some sort of onslaught?¡±
That is when they really took out their weapons from the sheaths.
Zen: Relax. Relax. What¡¯s the big deal?
Birk: Since you know about something only a select few know about. I can only be cautious since you may be the apposing force, which threatens the little frontier village. Especially since you know the route already, signifies that you have some sort of spy information regards to it.
Zen: Your wrong. None of it is true. We actually came nearly further north then even the little village it self.
Birk: Lies there was no know village further north.
Zen: No I don¡¯t come from a village. We come from my home. It only 4 of us living there though, the two elders told us to make our way here.
Birk: Elders?
Zen: Long story and I wont tell you who exactly. They told us to come help the new frontier village.
Shila: They also maybe shape shifters from the beast tribe.
Birk: I am more inclined in thinking you are the unknown beast tribe which can take form of regular humans. Which are thinking on attacking the village from inside.
The moment of pause occurred, which I didn¡¯t mind and continue eating the steak in my hands.
Zen: Hmm. So how do I prove myself otherwise?
Shila: I can cast a spell to see.
Birk: Do it. Don¡¯t even ask permission. We need to clear this up quickly.
She cast a high light spell of sort that surrounded the entire area.
Shila: That was a Tier 9 Dispel and nothing changed. Although I also cast a Tier 9 Identification Spell, it looks like they are really human. To be precise they are what we know as Immortal Adventures.
Birk: Ha ha ha ha. Seems you were telling us some truth after all. Where are you identification badges?
Amelia pulled something out and tossed it over to him.
Zen: Um what¡¯s that?
Amelia: You don¡¯t have one since you didn¡¯t start at the city. It shows my: Name, Level, Profession, and Alignment.
Birk: Why does he not have one and how does a low level like you even survive this place?
Amelia: He just arrived to this world. Just because I recently hit level 45 you should not underestimate me.
Birk: You do realize that it took us 2 years to escort all those people in the village with just the 4 of us protecting them?
Zen: If you¡¯re so high and mighty what¡¯s your level? You did see hers after all.
Birk: I¡¯ll tell you, only mine though it¡¯s 250.
Amelia: How? I the strongest of the adventures is level 99. How can there be people with higher level then adventures.
Birk: Ha ha ha. Don¡¯t compare me with that lousy bunch. You may not know this but actually the strongest person that of your kind that I met is over level 200.
Amelia: Some of my friends are level 99 and they have yet to get level 100.
Birk: That¡¯s a secret I will not tell you. Lets get back to the matter on hand. What¡¯s your real purpose to going to the frontier village?
Zen: Help them establish a stable village there. It will benefit us more then you know.
Birk: How so?
Zen: It will make trade easier with our home. :D
Shila: This is enough. While you were talking I cast several other spells and all of them indicated they haven¡¯t lied as of yet.
Birk: Then we apologies for being a little hostile from our part.
Zen: I have a feeling that if Mrs. Shila weren¡¯t here you would have dispatched us already.
With a huge grin on Birks face.
Brik: You will never know. Ha ha ha ha.
Zen: So anyone fancy something to eat. You lot seems terribly tired.
Shila: I will go first then. Since Birk does trust even us.
She began to eat and 15 minutes later nothing happened to her. They all began to eat.
Birk: Is this bear meat? I haven¡¯t tasted this in some time. Where did you get this lad?
Zen: Near my home.
Birk: What level are you lad?
Zen: After killing a hundred bears with Amelia, mine rose to level 22.
Birk turned his head side ways and was saying in his mind what?
Birk: You a level 22 with that miss level 45, were able to kill a bear and a hundred at that?
Zen: Yup. XD
Birk: You are full of surprises. I too know level isn¡¯t a perfect representation of ones true strength so I commend you on your feat. Can you tell me how you survived the freezing water and how you ended up there?
Zen: I guess I can tell you that much.
I then told the story as everyone ate. It had gotten pretty late. I even pointed at our new lodgings to show that I had made a similar thing, which we used under the water and on Ice travel.
Birk: That is quite a story. I am tired and ready to retire. Don¡¯t worry this campsite is protected by high tier warding off spell and you can rest without worry. Do you mind giving us a hand in reaching the village since we are kind of lost?
We had a few minutes left of the warmth blessing and my intent was to sleep until I get it back.
Zen: Sure tomorrow lets set off tomorrow in exactly 8 hours from now.
Birk: Agreed. Why 8 hours?
Zen: Its part of our elders warmth blessing which keeps us from freezing, however for a certain duration of the day.
Birk: Ok till tomorrow then.
Everyone left to sleep and so did we. I closed our little cabin and summoned many bearskins to make it warmer and softer inside. Amelia joined me. The blessing wore off and we felt how cold it was. Well one thing went towards another and in the end we fell asleep side by side completely naked. Use your imaginations of how it went. XD
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Chapter 11: Cause & Effect
I awoke as if a clockwork toy. The 8 hours seemed to short this night. XD
Storing the bear firs back in to the inventory we walked outside. The camp was completely deserted with no signs of a tent or fire.
Amelia: This is too strange, what has happened to those 4 people?
Zen: Interesting indeed. Who are they or what where they? Guess its pointless too brood over that. They maybe even follow us from this point forward.
Amelia: Now that you mention it. You heard someone at the lake once. Then we realized Mila followed us the entire time without knowing about it. They could be our enemies at that, who want to annihilate that little village.
Zen: So the only reason why we are alive is because we know the way and they plan to follow us from a safe distance. They maybe are playing us.
Amelia: Now that I recall something. No NPC calls us Immortal Adventures; they only refer to us as Adventures. So either they are players or are from a race that hasn¡¯t been exposed to our kind.
Zen: So perhaps they are a scouting party for the main force.
Amelia: What are we going to do? If they attack and if they really are level 250 then we are doomed.
I think we need to loose them some how first.
Amelia: How though.
Zen: I don¡¯t know, but one thing is for sure we need to loose who ever is following us. Anyway we should head out.
We started walking north, even though we needed to go west. Walking was indeed much harder an in no time the day went by. Before the blessing wore off I built another cabin with using a smaller tree this time. It was very interesting since I haven¡¯t gotten a new skill on any sort. It just further advances my levels in the skills of hand combat.
I didn¡¯t pay attention to that since we had more present concern. How do we loose our followers who might be level 250?
As we walked now in a snowier region from time to time we saw small avalanches happening. That is where it him me. A method started to develop in my mind, the escape route.
Zen: Amelia we are going to scale a nearby mountain tomorrow morning. It will be a good view don¡¯t you think?
Amelia: Hmm. Seems like you made a plan right?
Zen: Yep.
We quickly made a fire and I continued to make our cabin. The thing was this time I trimmed the 3 meter wide tree in to a ball. It was around 3-meters in diameters and the line again sowed up and helped me shape it. I then made a hole of 2 feet wide diameter to the center and then proceeded to make the interior 2 meters in diameter all around. I put some effort in the next step and made a cork that had a screw type thread. Did the same for the part it was to be placed. The lines that floated mid air in my mind that is, and helped me make them exact and fit perfectly.
It was finished it looked like a huge wooden ball. I wasn¡¯t finished quite yet, I asked Amelia too pour water all over it. When she did that it only took a few minutes to freeze and so another layer was added. We repeated this step until it was nearly 1 foot of ice covering the entire ball. Rolled it a few times in the snow and now it looked like a big ball of snow.
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Notification!!! You have completed an Experimental Ball!
Durability 600/400 (Added Ice and Snow applied a foot of further protection, adding more will increase durability.)
Damage: 0-??? Damage depends on physics and elements applied.
Can be rolled easily.
Vulnerability X 300 from: Heat ,Fire
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Notification!!! New Skill Learned Innovation
Through building a variety of things that seemed to be useful. You have learned a new skill. Please see a NPC Innovation Skill master to further understand this skill.
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Notification!!! New Skill Learned Old School Carving
You have discovered and extinct method to carving, using only your hands. No one does it since its inefficient and to crude. Either you¡¯re a genius or nerd or just stupid. Furthering in this skill will create finer pieces using your hands only.
Passive Ability:
.01% damage increase for hand combat.
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Zen: Hey guess what Amelia I got 2 new useful skills. At least it seems useful.
Amelia: That¡¯s cool but what did you make here?
Zen: They are probably watching us with dumbfound expressions as if what are we going to do with this ball in the middle of a forested area. Its not like we can really use it anyway here. Ha ha ha
Amelia: Ah so that¡¯s why the mountain.
Zen: Yep, lets eat and then go sleep. Monsters should not bother this ball of ice. He he he
Amelia: I hope so. Lets activate the Spirit Blessing just incase someone tries to kill us.
Zen: Good Idea.
We then ate and went to sleep. We slept in that day since we were in no hurry and this would probably be the best night we slept in the few that would follow.
The next morning we packed up and started to roll the ball of icehouse we made. Then proceeded to pour more water over it until it was nearly 4 meters in diameter. Huge I tell you, it was hard to roll it now, so we rolled it until we could no longer move it around. I then was able to store it although not inventory but the storage transfer. It disappeared instantly and those who were probably watching us had jaws that dropped.
Surprisingly we could never find a trace of them, although we could feel them watching us. That is when we set off to the nearest mountain.
It took us three days to reach the half waypoint. During that time I never summoned the ball of ice as to not give a hint about what we where going to do, the feeling that someone was watching us increased significantly. I would make small caves in the mountain to sleep for the night since the trees began to become rare, especially those that were even a meter wide.
The progress of climbing now took even more effort since it was difficult. You can call it our training. Once we were out of the small woods I could only see a very steep slope of snow-covered mountain. We again made camp and rested, as well as ate bear meat.
Continuously for the past week we felt the strong gaze of someone or something. Not once did we see any monster. Even when we intentionally tired to approach a monster it ran away. I am sure those monsters aren¡¯t afraid of us, but what¡¯s following us.
This only reconfirmed that the gazes we felt were very real. Next morning getting up and out of the little cave we again proceeded to climb. It was nice that Amelia not once complained. I gained roughly 5 strength stat points, 5 dex and 5 agility.
Climbing up for another 15 hours we stopped and looked around everything was white except one point in the snow it was slightly grey.
Amelia: Zen you think that someone whose been watching us?
Zen: Must be!
When I saw the speck I instantly had several screens pop up.
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Notification!!! New skill learned Track
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Notification!!! New Skill learned Observe
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Notification!!! New Skill learned Perception
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Notification!!! New Skill learned Threat Aura
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Zen: Did you get any skills? Here look at mine.
I showed her mine.
Amelia: I got same except Observe since I already had it.
I wasn¡¯t interested at knowing what they meant since they were too simplistic of skill. Every game had some thing of this sort.
We continued to climb however now we were able to spot them more often and we even spotted a total of 8 beings tracking us that seemed to observe us while we climbed. Every time we spotted one we would point it out just to make it obvious to them that it¡¯s no longer a secret. Another day of climbing and our trackers even though they kept a good distance never approached us closer then 100 meters.
We finally reached the top as the night was falling. I didn¡¯t make a camp just for the reason cuz I was afraid that they would get to close to us and not give us any time to execute my plan. While it was dark I summoned my ball of ice and then proceeded to cut around the door to open it. In 10 minutes I opened it I had placed stumps around the ball so that it would not roll down the mountain as we got it. Amelia put one of her storage places on the outer shell at the point were the logs lodged them selves to keep the ball from rolling. We have never tired using the storage device in between other storage devices but I think, either it works or not it was time to try.
Getting in and then closing the entrance behind us, while activating the Spirit Blessing we were able to transfer the log to another storage place without much problem. Just hand to think real hard what it was we wanted to do.
It was done and we started to roll. It really felt as if it was a hard roll and bumpy at first. Then it began to become softer and softer. We were glued to the walls because of the immense rotations of the ice-house-ball. It was a ride not anything like a roller coaster.
In the first 5 minutes we heard many different sounds, which was now completely muffled. The bumpy ride in 5 minutes became a smooth one that only became more steady and slowed down a little, however was at a steady pace.
Within the next 5 minutes we seemed to speed up and now going twice as fast. Many notification screens popped up.
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Later another window showed up.
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Excessive G-force applied. You will loose 100 HP per minute.
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5 minutes later a new window popped up.
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You have gained 10 levels
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Notification!!!
You have gained an achievement for killing 15 blood wolves within 5 minutes.
Rewards:
10 stat points in each STAT.
1000 fame
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Notification!!! You are about to fall unconscious and if you log out, it will be counted as if you died. Penalties are tripled in the North region.
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That¡¯s when I passed out. It was pitch black and could not talk, feel or move at all. I am not sure how much time has passed since then. I just know not more then a day since I did not die. The blessing was still in effect.
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I spent around 3 hours in this total darkness before we had regained some of our HP, enough to a the point were we regained our consciousness to still see the pitch black environment. Although now we could feel that we were no longer moving. I even tried sensing outside of the Ice ball. Only to get the impression there was no air within my senses distance.
I then called out to Amelia who also recovered at the same time I did. I gave her another suggestion. Since we seemed to be deep under either ice or snow. We should take a couple days off and do something in the real world. In all, ¡°the game play¡± for now is to play the waiting game and give our followers/ pursuers an impression of us being dead. We actually agreed to take an entire week off from the game in real time.
Logging of I did my usual routine and spent two days like that. I know it wasn¡¯t anything really productive but either way it was good to take time for the real world activities. Walked and cleaned our neighborhood from trash and dumped them next to a trash burn furnace.
I then received a ringing sensation in my mind. Then remembered it was a call so I accepted it.
Call: Hey this is Zack. Hopefully you didn¡¯t forget me.
Zen: No I did not. What have you called me for? Is it perhaps they have not figured out how to make Katonium.
Zack: No not that. It seems they buyer was able to make use of just the name and figured out how to make it.
Zen: Are you saying there are people capable of making it?
Zack: That information costs money but since it¡¯s you ill tell you what I know. The heat involved in making it is exceptionally high. In fact I know that person who figured it out, used his guilds 30 priests to constantly heal and buff him. He also used nearly 30 magicians to make the fire burn harder and keep it from going berserk. He said something like being exposed to extreme heat would have probably killed him from the moment he began working with melting some of the materials. I wanted to know if by any chance you know a simpler method to make Katonium and the buyer is willing to pay handsomely even 1000% more then the last time for information in that regard.
Zen: Now that you mention it. That would be problematic, especially melting the ingredients; in the future I might be able to do it myself, although I have a feeling that will be in a very far future. Did he say about how much constant damage he was taking while making it, since he used priests to make it that is?
Zack: Yes he did and now he is looking for any clues that may give him some special properties. Since the damage he was taking was not just from the fire element but all of the elements. He said it was somewhere around 150 HP damage per second. That is with nearly 50% buffs to the major element affinities.
Zen: Well I don¡¯t know what to say. I currently have something that would help me, but I am not selling that type of information. I will just say this. If they gather the necessary ingredients and when I am ready I can smelt those ingots for them for a price though.
Zack: I will let him know. Do you know the price you will smelt them for?
Zen: No not yet, however when the time comes I will let you know.
Zack: Agh yes there is one more thing. That smelters guild Leader would like to meet you. He said he would travel anywhere just to meet you.
Zen: Sure. I don¡¯t mind meeting him in the game. Tell him I am in a Frontier Village north of New-Thorn Kingdom.
Zack: I will tell him that.
Zen: Tell him if he tries anything funny I will obliterate them all.
Zack: I doubt you can obliterate one of the biggest guilds and even some of the highest-level players in this game.
Zen: Zack remember not to underestimate them. When I say I could do something, it means I could do it.
Zack: Sure I¡¯ll tell him.
Zen: How long do you think it will take him to reach here?
Zack: Not long actually, the leaders from that guild have a few Pegasus¡¯s under their control. So a select few can reach that village within a month or so.
Zen: Well I¡¯m off then.
Zack: It was a pleasure talking with you.
Zen: Ok bye.
I then continued to wonder about the neighborhood. It was peaceful seemed like not every neighbor was within the game and actually made presence outside once in a while. There were a few new marriages within the neighborhood and thus kids began to occupy the old playgrounds in the neighborhood. Some kids were adopted some born however only a few months to a year old though. It was a nostalgic feeling looking at them play with their parents on the old playground. The feeling of wanting a family like that of my own with my own kiddos downed on me even further.
I ended the day and went back in to the game. It was about that time to go back in to it either way.
When I logged in, Amelia was not there just yet. I had to tell her that some adventures were coming north to find us. Well while I waited I tried using my skills to further sense in to the outer shell of our Ice-Ball-House. I could sense a around 3 meters but even then it seemed to be full of Ice and snow, all around us at that. I continued to practice my skill until Amelia came.
4 hours later she logged in and at this time I could sense nearly 5 meters in too the walls around us.
Amelia: Waiting long?
Zen: Long enough.
Amelia: Did you look through those notification screens from the time we passed out? I read right before passing out that I received 6 levels somehow.
Zen: Oh your right lets check those out. ¡°Notifications Screen¡±
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***You have gained 10 levels!
***You have fainted!
***You have regained minimum HP and are no longer unconscious!
***You have gained 20 levels!
***Spirit Blessing No Longer in Effect
***Warmth Blessing No longer in Effect
*** You are hungry!
***You are starving!
***You are dying from hunger!
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Amelia: We are dying quickly eat an apple or we will die.
Zen: I noticed that too.
As we ate a few apples I looked up how did we get those vast amount of levels?
Zen: Information Window Levels gained description.
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Gained 30 Levels:
By using the Experimental Ball you and your party have receive respective levels based on XP. The Experimental Ball is no longer usable due to extensive damage and merging with the Ice glacier created as the result of your parties¡¯ actions, which set of a chain reaction, for further glacier activities. This will once become a border between the North and the Central continent. The glaciers path is 15 degrees southwest towards the unknown frontier village. The glacier will stop before at the river near the frontier village. The current speed of the glacier is 40 Mph. Further deaths caused as the result of this glacier will not give you any rewards.
You have gained an achievement for killing 15 blood wolves within 5 minutes. Using the chain reaction of which has developed in to a glacier that killed these monsters.
Rewards:
5 stat points in each STAT.
1000 Fame points
You have gained an achievement for additionally killing 20 blood wolves and 1 Boss Class Crimson Wolf. Using the chain reaction of which has developed in to a glacier that killed these monsters.
Rewards:
10 stat points in each STAT.
3,000 Fame points
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Zen: I got 30 levels. How much did you get?
Amelia: Amazing I got 25 Levels. Those monsters must have been very scary for me to gain so many levels.
Zen: I am glad we did not go by foot.
Amelia hugged me and began kissing me. Well what followed was a very pleasant feeling. XD
Three hours later, and after a bit of rest/ fun endeavor, we got up and I regained my bearings. The line in my mind that pointed the way to the little village became bolder and bolder. Guess it means we are near. The entire time we felt no movement what¡¯s so ever, however this time we felt that our ball/ glacier changed direction with a slightly sharp turn south. This not only conferment that we were inside the glacier it self but were also moving.
Zen: Time to go.
Amelia: Yea, I guess the thickness must of made this journey extremely smooth that I didn¡¯t even know we where moving.
Zen: I know right. Its like that time in the bus I took in the real world. After it gained speed it was as if we were not moving. Ok well get ready to follow I will dig in an upward slope. Let us also activate our Spirit Blessings so that we don¡¯t die.
We activated the blessing and I using an active storage for debris that I was going to make from digging. Began to strike with my augmented arms, I held my hands together like a mole and started to dig up. The Mana applied to the tips of my fingers made it easy to dig through wood then ice. It took me 15 minutes to dig us out to the top of the glacier.
We were not at the beginning of the glacier. Nearly 50 meters from the front, though the front seemed like a very scary place to be at. There stood from 1-4 meter wide trees, which crumbled on the impact with the glacier. They got pushed down and underneath the glacier. The ice 10 meters in front of us was dancing wildly and settled, as it got closer to us, to almost a stable platform, which we were standing on. Looking back I could see so much ice following us that it was incomprehensible. Where did so much ice come from? Looking further back we did not see the mountain, which we rolled off. There were curves that the glacier took as it followed between mountains. The mountains that had snow almost looked as if someone scraped the snow of off them. It must have been the intense vibrations that destabilized the snow on the other mountain to cause avalanches and then form in to one big glacier.
Amelia: Zen we better start running there seems to be another big river in front of us. It seems to be bigger then the one we used to get here.
I then looked forward and now the glacier was moving through a small plain before the river. It was very big and I had no clue how we were able to cross it.
Zen: Amelia. What would happen if Ice hits the water?
Amelia: Don¡¯t you know since this Ice is mixed with dirt it might sink, some of it anyway? Look there are some people on the other side of the river.
Zen: My arrow points toward those people only slightly north though. The frontier village must be close.
Amelia: What if that¡¯s the people who followed us?
Zen: That would be a real problem. Who know perhaps this glacier will squash them.
Amelia: I am sure they are much faster then the speed of the glacier. I even have a hard time imagining why we were able to kill those monsters from before.
Zen: Perhaps it¡¯s all the avalanches that happened simultaneously. That caused them to be surrounded and die. What to do now? Honestly if its them then I am out of ideas.
Amelia: I had none to begin with.
She walked up to me and gave me a nice long French Kiss to, which I made sure to close my eyes. XD
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Chapter 12: Would you stop......?
I am telling you we were kissing for who knows how long. It was ruined I say. The moment ruined. How you may ask? Well let¡¯s start form the part I was French kissing Amelia.
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Eyes shut and hugging her at the same time. I even lost track of time to this. The ground beneath our feet began to rumble slightly, however we didn¡¯t mind since we had the tattoos activated so we would die no matter the fate then. What caught Amelia and Me, of guard was a simple phrase said by someone. The person I knew that was on the other side of the river was more then 300 meters away when we began kissing. Well someone said this: ¡°Would you stop kissing my daughter please?¡±
What¡¯s worse was that it was way too calm and then I noticed Amelia bit my lip really hard since she was startled. I am at this point saying thanks for ruining my moment weird stranger that calls people Daughter. Wait Daughter? It finally clicked who the person was. I saw him when he spoke that phrase since he was standing in my line of sight. Over Amelia¡¯s shoulder, the stranger at the bank of the river clearly resembled the same person I saw.
Amelia let me go and turned around since the voice spoke from behind her.
Amelia: Ddd..d.ddd. Daaaa¡ ddaaadd. DAD? WHAAAAA? WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?
Before she finished the sentence the ice we stood on fell in to the water. I then saw Amelia disappear before my very eyes, as if in to thin air. It seems the ice was indeed heave and since the river was a very rapid one at that. The Ice in huge chunks were chipped away and pushed down river to the south. Many sharp rocks that happen to be in this river shred the ice utterly. I was sure that I was going to die, well or it would hurt a lot. I jumped up in the air while summoning my pickax from the inventory to try and grapple some rocks as not to be shredded. That blessing was probably not going to help, even if it enabled me not to die, I would still be shredded and with no way to regenerate my body parts I would die when the blessing wore off.
With my biggest effort to jump as close to the bank as possible, I was able to put a small distance between the ice and me that coming right behind me now. As I struck one of the rocks to my surprise it did shatter the rock blasting me on closer to the bank of the river.
The river it self was quite wide and had to be deep. Since currently I was holding on to the pickax, which was stuck in the rock while fully submerged underwater without ground in sight. I hence wiggled the pickax out of the rock and tried to swim to the bottom. I was right it was exceptionally deep. 10 meters deep to be precise. I saw huge ice blocks smashing in to the water and partially floating away down stream in this rushing water. I used my pickax on the waterbed to stabilize my footing and proceed to outside the river. It took me 10 minutes to fight the current and get out of the river. I hope you didn¡¯t forget that I could breath underwater so air was not a problem. Finally out of the river I flopped on the bank of the huge river and was actually breathing deeply as if I had a huge work out.
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I heard Amelia shouting.
Amelia: Dad there he is.
I quickly stood up and looked around. The first thing I saw was a huge man in plain clothing walking next to Amelia. He was around my Height ¡°6 feet.¡± The other detail I noticed both this man and Amelia were completely dry. How was the question in my mind? Did he jump from the other side of the river, which I could now estimate properly was roughly 60 meters in diameter.
Zen: How?
Amelia: How what?
Zen: How are you not wet?
She then pointed in to the sky. I followed the direction to, which she pointed and there was a small black bird in the sky flying around.
Zen: What about the bird?
Amelia: It¡¯s not a bird. Dad can you make him fly by us?
Stranger Dad Guy: Sure Mel
I then watched after a wave from this Dad guy¡¯s hand. The black bird was now coming closer and closer. In matter of seconds the small black bird spot in sky seemed to speed our way and got bigger and bigger.
Bigger and Bigger
Bigger and BIGGER
BIGGGER and BIGGGGER
From what seemed like a small bird the size of my hand in they sky was just above me. Let me just say this. There is no way this could be a small bird the distance it was flying at was what made it look small. In fact it was huge like nothing I ever saw before. The wingspan was 15 meters wide. In fact it wasn¡¯t a bird at all. It was a Black Phoenix. When it flew buy there was not even a sound that it made. To my surprise no wind gust followed it. It was if it slipped in between wind itself.
Amelia: Zen I want to introduce you my Dad, James Fox Tanis.
Zen: It is a pleasure to meet you James Fox Tanis. My name is Zen Trilen, Amelia¡¯s boyfriend.
Stranger Dad Guy: Call me James or Tanis. It is a pleasure to meet you. I have heard so much about you.
Zen: Tanis it is then. Sorry to say I have not heard anything about you.
Tanis: That is because I forbid her to tell people that she is my daughter. I have heard your last name somewhere before. Hmmm. mmm¡. You do resemble them.
Zen: Resemble who?
Tanis: What do you mean whom? Your father looked like you.
Zen: Well I don¡¯t know how they looked like. So I can¡¯t confirm that.
Tanis: Oh! My, that¡¯s right I know that, Amelia told me everything about that. Either way your last name matches a person I used to play this game with in the Beta Stages. Perhaps it¡¯s only a similar last name. I already saw that mans children so you must also only look alike. If you were his son everyone would know about you. Anyway what are you too doing on a newly formed glacier and in this part of the world?
Zen: Well we are doing a quest and in regard to this glacier, I think I was the one that somehow made it through a chain reaction.
Tanis: How interesting! I was looking for my daughter for a couple days now since I remember her complaining being stuck around some 5 impassible mountains or so. Seems they are passible and where are you headed now?
Amelia: Dad don¡¯t tell him I was complaining, I was only stuck there for some time till I met him there as well. We should head out and while walking to the village we can tell you all about that.
Zen: Why not just fly there?
Tanis: O yes, I have to apologies that I didn¡¯t save you with Amelia back there. You see the Phoenix is a shy creature and can be vary mean. It wont let anyone ride it unless you¡¯re related by blood to me. So, since you have to walk, I will walk with you two and you tell me all about your adventures. I did see a few houses nearly 20 miles north from here, so how about you tell me your story as we continue to walk.
Zen: Ok but we need to dry and eat first so lets make camp for the night since its already approaching quickly. We are not exactly in a rush.
Tanis: Then it will be my treat to treat you both to a nice camp out.
As he said that out of thin air a huge cabin appeared near the river. Another second later a huge bon fire also appeared already blazing hot with some meat on a skewer spinning above the fire.
Zen: Hmm. How peculiar? Do you have something like a storage transfer?
Tanis: Oh and how did you hear of that name?
I then summoned several blocks of wood blocks to use as chairs and small table.
Tanis: You have only begun this game and already found the skill. Last time I saw him he was dying. So how did you come to get that?
Zen: I guess its story time.
Several hours passed by around the campfire we tried different kinds of meat. I never tasted before. He was an amazing cook in all. That night we did not see the phoenix at all. He was probably hunting to eat. It was now nearly midnight with the moon high in the sky.
Tanis: It seems your friends have arrived and are standing upon the glacier.
Zen: I can see in darkness just not that far, and I can tell you for a certain aside from Amelia. I have no friends.
As we were speaking shadows began coming in to view. Somehow 8 figures made it across the river without making any noise. I could now see their faces that were still in the shadows of the camp and near by trees.
Birk: My, my for low leveled people you could have gotten away if you wanted didn¡¯t stay near the end of the glacier. We did loose your track completely but now your not getting away. You will guide us to that village.
Zen: So you must be the ones trying to destroy it then.
Birk: Guess it¡¯s out of the bag. Yes we are the invaders. I seem to be right that disappearing so quickly last time made you suspicious. Although what intrigued me even more was when you began to spot us and point us out. We called for reinforcements since your actions were strange. Well now that we are here you will either point the way to the village or die. You choose!
Zen: I choose neither.
Birk: It¡¯s not like you have an option.
Zen: True I might die but she won¡¯t.
I said that pointing to Amelia who was sitting near her father. Birk looked in the direction and saw that there was a third person.
Birk: Are you saying that all of us which by the way is more then three this time wont be able to kill the two of you?
Zen: Are you stupid or something. Can¡¯t you see the third person sitting next to Amelia? The reason why you can¡¯t kill her now is he won¡¯t allow that. Even though he doesn¡¯t care about me. Probably want¡¯s me dead as well.
Birk again looked at Amelia and then his eyes widened as if seeing a monster.
Tanis: Well hello young fella of the Neofine Race. What brings you here chasing after my daughter or is it that you lost your way home and need her to help you?
Birk: Where did you just come from?
Tanis: Why I never moved ever since you stood on top of that glacier.
Birk: No matter will dispatch you as well.
He was speaking calmly even tough he was excessively sweating.
Tanis: Well not that I know you¡¯re my daughters enemies. I have no regret.
As soon as he said that Birk yelled out. ¡°ATTACK.¡± What shocked him that there were no arrows or spells or even anything moving around him. He looked back because his friends who were just behind him made no sound. While turning back around to face us he began screaming. ¡°WHAT DID YOU DO?¡± When he completely faced us again. He saw the huge phoenix standing in front of him. That was the last thing he saw. The phoenix crunched him in half and then swallowed him whole.
Amelia: When? How? What just happened DAD?
Tanis: Don¡¯t worry my sweat I just killed all of them since they pointed their filthy bows in your direction. I knew they weren¡¯t your friends and intended to kill you either way. The killing intent was just too big even though it was still a spec to me. Ho Ho Ha He.
Amelia: You could have at least left their stuff unharmed.
Tanis: Now, I don¡¯t want to be a hindrance to your gaming experience by giving you free things. You got to get all that stuff your self without the help of people remember that rule. I feel that you already leached enough of Zen over there.
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Zen: I wouldn¡¯t call it leaching off. Just covering ones weakness, in a sense I too leached of her potions. I feel without her I would be here.
Amelia: Zen just to let you know my dad is a professor. So he can go on and on with his lectures.
Tanis: Well fine! Fine! I won¡¯t go in to my lecturing mode. I will tell you this though, there are crimes being committed in this game and there is not a good way to punish those people. I know I am saying this out of the blue. I just felt like warning you. Even though there are prisons, however those prisons have a fault. They are escapable. I know a certain guild called The Phantoms they are a killer guild and kill everyone and everything. When someone from their guild is caught they use their skills to break their members out. So be careful of what you do and whom you deal with.
Amelia: What I tell you. He does sound like a professor doesn¡¯t he. Going on and on about random things.
Zen: Anyhow. Is there really no way to prevent their escape?
Tanis: Hmm. There is one thing that¡¯s possible but extremely rare and hard to get a hold of. Some of the richer kingdoms have a few Katonium shackles and I tell you this, that those are mainly used on extremely high-level people. It works but the negative side to it is; only a few shackles and once those prisoners escape. Even though they cannot take them off due to the metal quality they can simply be killed and respawn again, of course they sacrifice the experience and other penalties but for now there is no other way to take them off.
Zen: Can¡¯t they just pick the lock?
Tanis: That the interesting part no one know how those shackles are placed on an individual. They say they wake up with them already molded their bodies. As if someone smith them on and if people try to cut them or melt them away. Usually the person dies in the process. Even to me it¡¯s a mystery on how they do it.
Amelia and me looked at each other.
When we told mostly everything to her dad. We left out the part about the spirit King and the Dragon with that Miracle water. We summed it up that I dug through the thinnest part of the mountain to get out. How we got the quest was a letter we found near a corpse at the mountain. The secret about what we discovered we hid. One thing was certain it surely sounded and looked like her dad, but in this world of magic and such. Even a great actor could easily disguise himself as someone else or could really be her dad. We kept quite about the secrets we vowed to not tell a soul without both of our consent.
Zen: Oh yes btw I have talked to someone in the business world. Seems a certain guild wants to meet me. I told them where we are at and the representative said that they will be here in a few days.
Tanis: You told them? Do you know the guild name?
Zen: I frankly did not know.
Tanis: But why would a certain guild seek you out, unless you sold some very high information and thus they want to claim you.
Zen: Claim me?
Tanis: Yes some of the larger guild have been recruiting some times its willingly and sometimes not so willingly. In particular they would take you to a fort and lock you up till you comply. Just like arresting people. They also use all their means to prevent you from dying or breaking out. Usually new players just remake their character and therefore the only way to get out.
Zen: Hmm. This might be a problem then in the future.
Tanis: If they are able to make it here in a couple of days means they are some sort of riders and high level at that.
Zen: Yes that guy said they ride Griffins or something like that.
Tanis: I know a few that ride Griffins. Well let¡¯s play it out and see. I¡¯ll hide myself within the village and make myself look like and NPC and their scans will reveal it to be so. Don¡¯t forget though I¡¯m not doing this for you but for my daughter. Seems like you got her out of that mountain range and so I will repay you incase they are hostile.
Zen: Thank You. It seems that I made a blunder and thank you in advance for doing this.
Tanis: This also means we need to prepare and head to the village now. Since Griffin riders and Advanced riders can get here faster then couple of days.
Zen: Ok then it seems like we aren¡¯t camping tonight right?
Tanis: No time.
Within another blink of an eye everything that belonged to the camp disappeared even the wooden blocks I took out. As we started to walk towards the village I could see clearly but since Amelia was complaining about not seeing her dad made a light that projected outward like a extremely bright headlamp from a car.
Amelia: Is that magic?
Tanis: Yes and No
Amelia: Anything else you can tell me?
Tanis: Nope. You have to discover things yourself. Just by seeing it I¡¯ve already helped you too much.
Amelia: Dad please!
Tanis: You know you can¡¯t change my mind. What¡¯s my number one rule?
Amelia: I know. I know. Get it with your strength if you want to have it, something along those lines.
We walked all night at a fairly good pace. As the sun rose we could see beautiful sunrise over the surrounding mountains. This place that we were in was like a small hill in the valley. It was beautiful; we continued north and followed the river.
Soon the river widened and became a huge lake. Don¡¯t forget it was a huge river to begin with. With rapid flowing water, however the lake was very calm and steady, a perfect mirror to in nature.
Tanis: I do like this place of calm and quite. Perhaps I should move out here and live a nice tranquil life.
As soon as he said that we thought it was as if he jinxed us. A small hill began to rise from the ground. It was indeed a small hill in comparison to the surrounding. Although when it stood up completely it was nearly 5 meters tall.
Amelia: Tranquil Dad?
Tanis: In tranquil lands you need scary monsters such as this golem to keep it tranquil.
Amelia: Well it can¡¯t be tranquil if it attacks us.
Tanis: That¡¯s that thing though. It won¡¯t attack us.
Zen: What do you mean by that?
Tanis: Monsters are more proficient in feeling danger and power levels of individuals. If the power level is twice as high as its own they won¡¯t attack.
Zen: How do you measure this power level thing you mentioned?
Tanis: That you too will have to figure out.
We continued to walk and that monster that was in our path and got up. Actually turned away from our direction and walked of. It was if it woke up to make way to an enemy feared by even this golem. What amazed me next was as if the entire valley shook and I could see further ahead. That small hill covered with moss and grass up ahead also got up and move out of our way. When they got their distance they would lay back down. I stopped counting these hills after I got to the number 100. You could see that the path in front of us was like a path without any small hill to obstruct us. I then examined a golem (4 meters tall) that was the nearest to us. As it lay down it camouflaged so well that I wouldn¡¯t be able to believe if I haven¡¯t seen it with my own eyes. They moved out of our way without leaving a footprint on the ground. Just how high was their level?
Zen: What¡¯s their level Mr. Tanis?
Tanis: Don¡¯t ad a Mr. in there and they range from 100 -150.
Just how powerful is Amelia¡¯s Dad? I was afraid to pry and frankly did not really care.
Zen: How is it possible that a village, which has an average of lvl 50 survive here?
Tanis: You can go around these golems and they are not aggressive so they stay within their territory. Frankly it seemed our path had to go near their nest so that¡¯s why.
Zen: They have a nest?
Tanis: Yes and no. Technically they do have their own village and it mainly underground. The entrance is a closely guarded secret by them.
Zen: They can speak?
Tanis: All monsters that are above level 100 can speak. It¡¯s a matter of understanding their language and such.
It was getting more and more interesting. Just what does this game have in store for us? I could not believe that there are so many mysteries to uncover. Once we passed the golems that were next to the huge lake. I assumed there must be a secret in that lake that I would love to uncover, however this was not the correct time. By lunch time we could now see the village of in the distance next to another small lake that was either human made or something of the sort since the water flowed in from the river and then back in to the river keeping it fresh and clean. There was a small bridge connecting the small island between the river and the lake. It made it look tranquil indeed.
Tanis: Look at this place. Isn¡¯t it tranquil? I bet if I placed a few of my touches to this place it would make it even more tranquil then now. Perhaps Ill do just that.
Zen: It is your choice after all. This is the place that seems to be where our quest only starts.
Tanis: Right something about protecting this frontier and making it better right?
Zen: Right.
I was still shocked since Amelia was quiet most of the time. It would seem she never once interrupted or been to disrespectful. I even noted that she was not very spoiled since she gave up on trying to convince her dad to do this or that for her. I think she believes in growing with her own power in this game.
When we were near the village with only a few hundred meters to the closest building. We saw there was not even a small fence or anything of the sort. No guards or anything. I counted a total of 20 houses all in a circular formation and one building in the middle.
Tanis: I have to say. That looks like a very strong barrier. Must be a Lvl 300 at least.
Zen & Amelia: There is a barrier?
Tanis: Yep and that¡¯s why they didn¡¯t bother building walls. Any monster lower then Lvl 300 won¡¯t be able to enter. The bad side to this type of spell and protection magic is it has a time limit. Anything that enters this village will also be alerted to the villagers.
Zen: Can you tell how long this barrier will last?
Tanis: 12 months and 3 days from now. Seems what ever you need to do. Better be done by then.
Amelia: Can¡¯t you do something about that Dad?
Tanis: I could but that would take the fun out of your quest and I don¡¯t feel like it. I helped enough don¡¯t you think, especially through that Tranquil Valley of Death?
Amelia: You just made that name up to scare me didn¡¯t you?
Tanis: Perhaps. He he he
Mr. Tanis had a huge grin on his face. Just what is his aim?
It was interesting while we approached the village no one was in sight and only when we got to the center of the village closer to the center building someone stepped out to great us.
Stranger: Welcome Dear Travellers!
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Chapter 13 - 17
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Stranger: My name is Fiol, a caretaker of this northern frontier village. So who might the three of you be?
Zen: I am Zen; next to me is Amelia and Tanis. When you say caretaker what do you mean?
Fiol: Its nothing special. Rather I am the weakest of the villagers and hence they leave me alone in the village, so that I may train and take care of the village while they are out surveying, hunting, or gathering supplies out in the wilds.
Zen: Aren¡¯t you scared that we could be bandits or robbers?
Fiol: If you were, then you would not be standing and talking to me but rather stealing. Although you still won¡¯t find anything of value. So then how may I actually help you?
Zen: We came here to settle down and help out as much as we can.
Fiol frowned and was thinking for several minutes. All we did was stare. I know its not polite but whatever.
Amelia: Is something the matter Sir Fiol?
Fiol: Oh just call me Fiol and its not that there is a problem. Rather anyone can join our little village. Except there is a small requirement; you adventures have something you call respawn point. It is usually in the center of the village or something like that. However for that to work, the village has to recognize you as its member.
Zen: So how do we get recognized as members here then?
Fiol: You will be very disappointed to know. Many adventures came here but ever-single one changed their mind due to the requirement.
Amelia: You do realize your just making us more anxious. Just say it already. What¡¯s the requirement?
Fiol: Anyone who wishes to join this village has to have their level reset to level one again.
Amelia¡¯s and my jaw dropped.
Tanis: I heard that many frontier villages have this requirement. I wonder if there is anyone who actually done this?
Fiol: Concerning this village not one adventure has done it.
Zen: It¡¯s decided, Ill be the first then.
Amelia: What? But we worked so hard to get these levels.
Zen: I really don¡¯t care about the level I am. Rather I care about the gameplay and enjoy my self.
Amelia: I guess your right. Ok I too will do it.
Zen: You do know you don¡¯t have to just because I am doing it.
Amelia: Well what ever. It has been fun so far with this much risk. If I get to comfy in my position and play it safe. It will no longer be fun to play this game.
Zen: Fiol, Amelia and me would like to become part of your village. So how do we reset our levels?
Fiol: Its rather simple, since you arrived here you should be level 99 or so right?
Zen: No almost halfway there.
Fiol: Oh my then there is another problem.
Amelia: Another requirement?
Fiol: The only way you adventures can reset level is via 2 ways. Reach level 99 and an option next to your level become available to reset to level 1 or die over and over, while suffering the penalties. However if you do die you wont respawn in this village. Who knows where you will respawn.
We made it this far and yet we are not allowed to be hear.
Zen: What if we set up camp outside your village?
Fiol: That is a bad idea. Since the monsters at night in this area are 5x as strong and very aggressive.
Zen: What if we camp on the streets of this village during the night?
Tanis: Lad I didn¡¯t tell you at the time but this barriers power is not strong enough to mask people who are not indoors during the night. The powered up monsters at night will be able to sense you therefore kill you. Except for the people indoors.
Fiol: We can provide you with a place to sleep. However only for a week and no more. After that the barrier will automatically teleport you out of the village and specifically for that person prevent them from being able to enter for 3 months.
Amelia: Daddy!!!! Dad!!!!
Tanis: No!!! NO!!! No!!!
Amelia: Dad!!!
Zen: Did I miss something?
Amelia: Pleaseeeee DAD
Tanis: NO!!!!!!!!!!!
Amelia: Remember that one time you said you¡¯ll owe me a favor. This is that favor moment.
Tanis: Such a cheater AAAAAHGGGH. Fine. Ask.
Amelia: Help Zen and me reach level 99, so that we can reset and make this village our home.
Tanis: Are you sure you want to use your favor for something so simple?
Amelia: Yes I am sure.
Tanis: Fine so be it.
Zen: Amelia perhaps you should save that favor, NO?
Amelia: Don¡¯t worry; I know how to get another favor from Dad although it won¡¯t be simple.
Zen: How did you get that favor then?
Amelia: I made a bet with my dad, that if I got 4.0 at school that year at school he would owe me a favor.
Zen: Wow 4.0 GPA I assume.
Amelia: Yup
Zen: That must have been hard.
Amelia: Na since I studied in the game. I was well prepared.
Fiol: So it sounds like your going for lvl 99? If so I here give you 3 passes that will permit you to stay in that hut near the gates. Don¡¯t forget you have to return the passes after a week or you will be forcibly removed. Now I have to get back to work. Come again when your level one again.
Fiol turned away but I could tell he had a wicked smile on his face. Perhaps laughing his guts out on the inside.
Amelia: Daddy you¡¯re the best. So how are we going to reach level 99?
Tanis: Amelia, let us make a deal. This is the last time I¡¯m helping your selfish request within the game. I won¡¯t help you solve anything, you will have to solve everything your self. Zen I will still hold my word and help you with whatever guild is on the way but after that I will no longer help. I need you two too grow using your own strength. Zen I better not see you sleeping my daughter either.
Amelia: DAAAAD STOPPPPP! Your taking things too far.
Tanis: Fine lets get you to level 99. Follow me.
We again set off going following Tanis heading south. After a minute he picked up a light jog. To say his light jog was like our sprinting at full speed. We even activated our blessings and continued to run south. Agility improved by 8 points after 10 hours of running. We again stood in the valley of the huge golems.
Tanis: Ok listed the two of you. I will make a bond fire and Zen take out couple longs for chairs. We need to wait till midnight. Remember under any circumstance leave the circle I draw on the ground around us during the night. While we are at it lets make a party.
We made the party with the three of us. He then set up a bond fire I set chairs around the bond fire and ones everything was done he drew a simple circle around us. He then made a small chant and I could see a transparent liquid rise from the ground and surrounded us like a bubble.
Tanis: This is an isolation bubble ones someone tries to leave from the inside it will burst. While from the outside it is indestructible. It covers around us like an eggshell going in the ground and up in to the sky. It circulates the air in here with the outside. Even if the outside air will be raging it will be calm within. Amway¡¯s under no circumstances step out of the circle.
It was around 7 o¡¯clock in the afternoon. The sun began to set. We started to see that the small hill that was almost invisible like the first time we moved through this area started to rise up. It was as if they started to grow.
12 AM Midnight
It was dark and gloomy the sky had dark cloud so the stars could not be seen. We refrained, from talking about scary stories so that we don¡¯t accidentally burst the bubble around us. We told our adventures however the most important and secretive stuff we left out on purpose. Tanis only listened and smiled the entire time.
Amelia: Hey look the sky seems to have cleared. I can see so many stars that are begging to glow all around us. It is indeed a mystery. Why are all these stars different in color?
Tanis: That is simple actually. Just keep watching you¡¯ll figure it out soon enough. I think those stars should start moving right about now.
Just as he said that and indeed those countless lights started to move. The weird thing is they began to grow in size and converge around us. As if we were the center of the universe. All of a sudden the air began to get moist and rain started falling. The drops were not able to penetrate through the barrier and instead of rolling down dissipated on contact. As it started to rain harder we could still see the stars clearly and in an instance.
There was a huge lightning, which struck our egg shield barrier.
That¡¯s when it happened.
We could clearly see what those star were. They were the stone golems that surrounded us. At this point we could only see that one of their eyes was shining.
Amelia: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. DAD WHATS THIS?
Tanis: Don¡¯t you know golems have elemental affinities? Some specialize in one magic affinity, while the other in another that¡¯s why their eyes are different in color.
Amelia: That¡¯s not what I mean. They are all around us and it seems they can see us clearly. Luckily they didn¡¯t attack us yet.
Tanis: They did attack us. Didn¡¯t you see that lightning? We are in their nest after all.
The eggshell protection was able to easily fend of the thunder but now the sky began to rumble.
Tanis: It seems its time.
Amelia: Time for what?
Tanis: Lvl 99 of course.
Tanis stood up wielding a sword. In that instance another big lightning perhaps 100 times bigger then the last time struck down. Before it hit the shell Tanis popped the shell and took on the lightning directly. The sword was shining brighter and brighter.
Tanis: FALL TO THE GROUND NOW.
He shouted towards us. We were in a daze the whole time and when the first lightning struck we already prepared and activated our special blessings that even is we were struck we would not die. Now his shout was clear and made us react even faster then expected, Amelia and I fell to the floor instantly.
From the laying position I could still see the lightning hitting the sword. I wonder why this certain lightning was not dissipating in the least. It even seemed like the sword could shatter any moment. Just when I saw the sword tremble violently Tanis spun himself and now holding the sword horizontally he began to spin in 360-degree radius faster and fast. The entire time he held his sword in the horizontal position the lightning still continued to strike the sword only now the power accumulated in the sword and redirected around us hit the golems around us.
It seems they have converged on us at that moment. However that huge electric shockwave traveled hitting every single golem within at least 1000 meters. You might be wondering how I know this. Well don¡¯t forget I can see in the dark and even mastered that particular skill although the range is not farther then 500 meters.
Its just the light coming of off the 360 degree shockwave was so bright I could see that it traveled far. This was not a single shockwave either it was like a huge spiral that continued to expand from within Tanis. After ever golem was struck the lightning dissipated.
Tanis then sat down.
We were still laying and even the rain stopped and still continued to lie there. The seen went from horrifying to nightmare to a clear sky in matter of minutes. It was calm and no sound came from anything around us. The golems that surrounded us were disintegrated to ash. Nothing was left from them. Not a single gem.
Tanis: Congratulations on reaching level 99.
Amelia: What?
Tanis: Congratulations on reaching level 99.
We still could not comprehend his words.
I quickly opened the only curious notification window.
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NOTIFICATION!!! CONGRADULATIONS ON REACHING THE FIRST LEVEL BARRIER
You have reached level 99. This is considered to be the first barrier next barrier is level 199. The hint provided to over come this challenge is in the following phrase.
¡°BECOME NUMBER ONE¡±
Notice: If you are unable to solve the barrier challenge and wish to reset your level. You can talk to a certain NPC. This NPC will make the button available to reset your level.
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Zen: Amelia are you seeing the notification screen? Thanks you Sir Tanis and congratulations Amelia. I assume you also hit level 99.
Amelia: Yes I am and thank you.
Amelia got up walked over to her dad. Who currently was roasting a monsters leg he took out of thin air. Hugged him and whispered him something in his ear.
Tanis: Ho ho ho ho. It seems my daughter has not forgot her manners at least.
She then punched him in the arm.
Tanis: Aw aw aw aw.
Amelia: It doesn¡¯t hurt stop making fun of me.
She could not see since she cant see in the dark but I could clearly see a little bit of Tanis¡¯s arm through the exposed end of the sleeve. Even thought the clothes was intact his skin looked a little charred. I quickly ran up and pulled Amelia away without saying anything.
Tanis gave me a look of relief. He did not want to look weak in front of his daughter and even endured being punched in the burned up right arm of his. Once I turned her away from her father he moved his slips silently and said thank you.
Zen: I really appreciate what you did for me.
I then whispered to Amelia that he was indeed not a fake pretend to be dad. So we decided to tell him about everything except for the part where we slept together. So that¡¯s when we sat down and told him the few things we left out. All he did was laugh and even sight with amazement.
We continued to stay at the campsite till morning before heading back. He assured us that no monster would dare to come to a place were we massacred a nest full of golems. He explained to us that earlier today the golems channeled all of their manna to the golems with lightning strike affinity. However since he not only stored up the lightning in his sword and unleashed it on the golems who are usually very resistant to lightning strike but because the shear power and temperature of the strike it self which combined this nest of golems was so strong it pulverized them.
I even asked him why they didn¡¯t use other strikes like rock throw or other affinities. All he said was they had felt how strong he was and if they had any chance to live they would have to kill Tanis before anything else so they used the most effective strike against humans and literally one of the most terrifying offense strikes available to them.
Zen: So why did they attack if they didn¡¯t feel like they can beat you?
Tanis: That¡¯s because during the night all of the creatures over level 50 are enraged so much that they attack regardless if they live or die. They will also respawn in 10 days from now, since the center of their nest was eliminated. The area they occupy is vast so to kill every single one of them in the nest would take a guild that can cover 1000 miles in every direction.
Amelia: So Zen what are you going to use those stat bonuses on?
Zen: I think it wont matter since if we reset our levels later wont it just reset as well?
Amelia: Guess I too won¡¯t waste time thinking about that right now.
That morning we got up and went walking this time towards the village. Upon arrival we again did not see even one person. Only when we got to the center did Fiol showed him self.
Fiol: Well come back. So how was your night out of the village? I didn¡¯t see you in the village last night when we were locking up the buildings.
Amelia: Want to take that lead of being the first?
Zen: Absolutely.
Amelia: You sure you want to reset your level?
Zen: Hmm. Yes I¡¯m sure. Fiol so how do I reset my level to join your village. I am level 99 currently.
Fiol: Already a level 99? Was that you guys over south playing with a lightning?
Amelia: That was my dad. He is so powerful, and strong.
Fiol: Oh. You guys not only did a great service to us but also exterminated the center of the next. It has made our lives much easier. As you might already be aware this city is actually within the nest as well.
Zen: Tanis told us that this nest would probably span 1000 miles on this side of the river to the north, south, and west. Except east they don¡¯t cross the river.
Fiol: Mr. Tanis you are very knowledgeable. Perhaps you too want to join our little village?
Tanis: Sure. I am sure I don¡¯t have to reset my level correct?
Fiol: You are indeed correct. It seems you are above level 200 and thus that requirement does not apply to you.
Tanis: Then I too will join your village although I will go build my dwelling on that island over there. Between the two rivers, and you don¡¯t have to worry about my safety. Before that Zen wanted to be the first to join and Amelia would be next and then I.
Fiol: Indeed. Zen I have made the reset button available to you. Please press it.
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Notification!!!
You are resetting your level 99 to level 1. Are you sure?
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Zen: Yes!!
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Notification!!! Confirmation!!!
You are resetting your level 99 to level 1. Are you sure?
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Zen: Yes
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Notification!!! Confirming your Confirmation!!!
You are resetting your level 99 to level 1. Are you sure?
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Zen: YES
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Notification!!! FINAL WARNING!!!!!!
You are resetting your level 99 to level 1. Are you sure?
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ZEN: YESSSSSSSSSSSS.
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Notification!!!
You have been reset to level 1.
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Amelia: Why so many Yes¡¯s Zen?
Zen: Can you believe the system wanted to confirm my confirmation? Really? Really?
Amelia: That is funny. Fiol I am ready.
She did the same thing and started laughing while those confirmations screens popped up.
Amelia: That indeed was funny.
Fiol: Let me congratulate the first three adventures to have ever joined this little village. With time and reputations you will discover many secrets here. As of now the three of you are officially part of this village. There are 6 houses that were built a long time ago and stood empty. We would like to grant you those 3 houses to each of you. They are next to each other right over there.
The place he pointed was on the street leading out of the village. Since most of the houses here were in a circle with the exception of the street that had 6 houses on it.
Fiol: Just choose one of the 6 houses over there and it is yours. You wont need a key and once you place your hand on the bio signature pad it will register the house under your identity. I will tell you be careful how you store stuff since the village will not be responsible for stolen or broken things.
Zen and Amelia: Thank you Mr. Fiol.
Tanis: You can keep that house to your self. I already said I¡¯m going to set my house in between the two rivers. In fact I already have a house ready just for this.
Fiol: Very well Mr. Tanis. Everyone else thank you for joining the village. The villagers are out gathering and tonight will host a small feast for new members of the village. Till later then.
Amelia: I¡¯m choosing a house next to yours Zen.
Zen: Sure. We can even build a tunnel to connect our houses.
Amelia: That is a wonderful idea. Hurry lets go choose.
The buildings were made out of round logs; it was one story with 2 rooms, bathtub, kitchen and a living room. No restrooms existed in the game so there was no need for a restroom. The only difference between our choices was the location of the houses and different types of roofs. Some had flat roofs and some had sloped rooms.
I chose the flat roof house. Since I imagined my self sitting on it or making barbeque on top. Then there was always an option to build a second story because of the flat roof. I also chose it closest to the edge of the village. So that when it expands in the future I can take up that land. Perhaps I can claim it before the village expands. I¡¯ll have to ask Fiol about it.
Amelia chose the house not next to mine but across. She said it would be better that way since she can too claim the other side of the village¡¯s lands when it expands. I personally think after I told her what I was thinking she copied me. That was the new start at a new place. Who knows what awaits these adventures.
Once we claimed the houses. Both Amelia and me decided to get some rest. Thus we stayed at our homes. Tanis took of immediately after being accepted in to the village and thus I poured some hot water in to the bathtub and decided to take a leisurely. We had hot water in the house under pressure as well. This was very weird; I made a mental note to investigate later on.
As I was about to undress to get in to the water, I huge a very loud shout, that even shocked me. It was definitely Amelia.
Amelia: ZZZZZZZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNN!
I hope she isn¡¯t scared of some bugs. Anyway what¡¯s up with that loud of a shout?
Amelia: ZEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNN! ZENNNNNN!
I immediately ran across the street and in to her house.
Zen: What? What? What? What Happened?
I saw Amelia laying on the simple sofa in the living room. Oh yea I guess I did forget to tell you that these houses were furnished with simple things that a house should have. Like sofa, single bed, some dishes, 2 simple chairs a table, few wash cloths, couple towels, bed sheet, blanket, pillow and that was it.
Amelia: Zen did you see your Status Window yet?
Zen: No. What¡¯s up? Are you in trouble?
Amelia: No but look.
Zen: Aghhh Amelia. You can¡¯t do this. If you are not in danger don¡¯t ever scream like that again. I was planning to take a look while taking a bath. Wha wa? Agh whatever. Im going back. Have a pleasant rest of the day and please don¡¯t scream unless it is really necessary.
Amelia: Fine but letting you know. A level one without that special power you were given to see your stats should not be able to open it. So why was I able to open it?
Zen: I don¡¯t know anyway. Will figure this out later. C ya.
Amelia: Sorry for screaming so loudly.
Zen: Forget it. Its ok, just don¡¯t do it again unless you have to. Ok I¡¯m off.
I was actually furious. No matter what it could be? It could wait I thought in my mind. So I headed back and undressed and took that long bath I never had in this game. I found a little soap bar and with that I was able to relax. In no time I actually fell asleep in the tub since it felt so real and very relaxing.
2 hours later I woke up and remember Amelia screaming at me earlier so I decided to check what that was all really about.
Zen: Open Status Window and Skills.
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Status Window
Name: [Zen Trilen]
Level: [1*]
Race: [Human]
Class: [NA]
Profession: [NA]
>>>>>Health: [5425/5425] + [6000FRD]= [11425/11425]
>>>>>Mana: [2750/2750]
>>>>>Stamina: [8000/8000] + [3000FRD]= [11000/11000]
>>>>>STR: [450]
>>>>>AGI: [325]
>>>>>DEX: [305]
>>>>>INT: [195]
>>>>>WIS: [55]
>>>>>FRD: [1500] (Fortitude Special Stat)
>>>>>DRG: [45] (Dragon Special Stat)
>>>>>Bonus Stats awaiting allocation: 425
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Skills Window
Skills Information!!!
Silan Magic: (Inherited skill, is reset to Beginner Lvl.1)
Grizan Blacksmith: (Inherited skill, is reset to Beginner Lvl. 1)
Underwater Breathing: Mastered
Night Vision: Advanced Lvl 44. 67%
Devine Infinity: Intermediate Lvl 9. 99%
* Figure 8 Weapon Spin: Mastered
** Horizontal Infinity Spin: Mastered
*** Overhead Infinity Spin: Intermediate Lvl 39. 55%
**** 360-Degree Infinity Spin: Advanced Lvl 56. 43%
***** All Dimensional Infinity Spin: Novice Lvl 1. 1%
****** Undiscovered
******* Undiscovered
Ancient Digger: Advanced Lvl 5. 23%
* Mole: Mastered
** Miner: Intermediate Lvl 89. 1%
*** Enchanted Disintegrator: Intermediate Lvl 63. 2% (used by two skills)
**** Depth Reader: Intermediate Lvl 78. 96%
***** Driller: Intermediate Lvl 4.91%
****** Dual Tool Miner: Beginner Lvl 14. 5%
Elemental Hand Combat: Advanced Lvl 1. 99%
* Slicing Strike: Intermediate Lvl 35. 44%
** Shattering Strike: Intermediate Lvl 76. 55%
*** Earth Shaker: Intermediate Lvl 89. 22%
**** Shattering Waves: Intermediate Lvl 50. 34%
Arial Regeneration: Beginner Lvl 1. 0%
*(Nothing is known in regard to this skill. You must figure out what exactly it does and doesn¡¯t)
Yell: Beginner Lvl 1. 5%
>>>>>Innovation: Beginner Lvl 9. 99%
>>>>>Old School Carving: Beginner Lvl 78. 65%
>>>>>Tracking: Beginner Lvl 54. 45%
>>>>>Observe: Beginner Lvl 34. 12%
>>>>>Perception: Beginner Lvl 38. 13%
>>>>>Threat Aura: Beginner Lvl 26. 33%
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So that¡¯s why Amelia was shouting. Seems like our levels reset but not our stats or skills. This is interesting, very interesting. So should I start allocating my points now or should I wait? Lets wait. Since I want to get good in smelting ore, so that may be able to smelt that platinum of mine. I guess I will ask if there is a blacksmith in town.
As I was thinking, I happened to look at my watch and realized it was already 4 in the afternoon. Thus I decided to go out since there should be some welcoming party of sort. Well at least according to Fiol.
Thus I got dressed and walked over to Amelia¡¯s place and nocked.
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Amelia: Come in!
Zen: You know you should answer the door instead of letting someone in.
Amelia: You know I knew it was you? So did you realize why I yelled earlier?
Zen: Seems like we kept our stats and skill only the number of the level changed and also had an asterisk beside it.
Amelia: Isn¡¯t that weird. What do you think it means? Oh and what will you do with your bonus stat points? I still can¡¯t figure out what to invest in.
Zen: Well I¡¯m going to go ask Fiol. If there is a master smith here, I want to learn blacksmithing so that I am able to smith our platinum and if there happens to be some stat requirement I can allocate them then.
Amelia: Your right and I can ask if there is herbalists who can help me progress further. Maybe become an apprentice as well. Well then lets go.
Zen: Ok. Lets go.
We walked towards the center of the town and this time arriving at the center of the town. There was no one. Not even the caretaker. We waited 30 minutes and still no one showed up. As if this place became a Ghost town.
Amelia: This is too weird. Don¡¯t you think so? Not much as a sound.
Zen: Your right. So what shall we do? Hmm lets wait 30 more minutes and then we will leave. Perhaps he went after them in the field or something.
Amelia: Perhaps.
We waited another 30 minutes and when we, were about to leave.
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At this point Mr. Tanis suddenly appeared next to us in the village center.
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Tanis: What happening?
BOOOM
Amelia & Zen: Don¡¯t Know!!!
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The entire sky lit up since it was getting dark. It looked like something blew up above the town in the sky.
All of a sudden!
People: WELCOME!!!!!!
People out from the surrounding buildings began to run and shout. When they got close enough they hugged us all. There were young, old and weird looking people. Some I dare not say human. For who looked like elves, dwarfs, humans, beast, and other types of beings I had no idea who they were.
Fiol: Welcome! Now officially you are part of the village.
Next to Fiol stood an old man with his beard reaching his waist.
Fiol: Please let me introduce First Grand Elder Avintus.
Elder Avintus: You can just call me Avintus. I don¡¯t like people using honorifics since it makes me sound too old. Now you young lad must be Zen. You young lady Amelia and her father Tanis. Am I correct?
Zen: It is a pleasure to meet you. I am indeed Zen.
Amelia: I am Amelia. It is my pleasure to meet you.
Tanis: I am Tanis. Avintus nice to meet you.
As we were being introduced to everyone around and to tell you the truth I forgot all of the names except Fiol and Avintus. The people were greeting us and carrying out tables. Each table was stacked with foods and foods all over again.
Zen: Fiol why such a huge celebration?
Fiol: When youngsters such as you join a dying village it makes everyone happy. No the village is no longer dying. A village with young blood like you attracts many more visitors and perhaps will make them stay.
Zen: Fiol I wanted to ask you is there a blacksmith master in this small village by chance?
Fiol: You are in luck. We do have one and I bet you have met him already. Let me guess you want to learn Blacksmithing?
Zen: Yes that is indeed so.
Fiol: Come Ill further introduce him to you.
We pushed out pay through the crowed and came upon a tall skinny man. There were plenty of dwarfs but this person was far from a dwarf so it was too interesting.
Fiol: Master Darv.
He spoke to the man who was standing holding a huge leg from a monster that was perfectly looked while biting in to it. It was too bizarre. You expect dwarves to eat like that but he, he was eating it, and no better say devouring it like it was something small like a potato.
Darv: Well if it isn¡¯t Fiol and that Zen lad. Let me guess you are here to reintroduce Zen to me.
Fiol: Well then I¡¯ll leave you to it. Take care Zen and welcome once again.
Darv: Since we are already introduced, what is it you want? A weapon? Amor?
Zen: Master Darv, I would like to learn blacksmithing from you.
Darv: Oh, I see. Well then I should tell you my requirements. Your strength should be 500 and agility as well. Once you have that. I will give you a task and only after you complete that task will I teach you and even then before I even teach you we are in the process of making a forge right now so it will be a few months. The task I will give you should take just as much. So what do you say lad?
Before replying I opened the window and quickly poured in the bonus stats points I had equally in to agility and strength using both of them up.
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Stat Update
STR: [500]
AGI: [500]
Bonus stat available: 200
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So I used my bonus stat points to balance them out and make them each 500 stat points.
Zen: Master Darv. I have the required strength and agility for the task. Please give me the task and accept me as your apprentice.
Darv: Ok let me take a look at your stats and skills.
After he examined for a minute he raise his eyebrow as if he spot something.
Darv: Well lad. This is quite interesting.
Zen: What is it?
Darv: Ill let you a secret of mine. My race is Grizan.
I stood there shocked.
Darv: What¡¯s really shocking though is you already have the Grizan Blacksmithing. From what I can tell you though after my father thought me this Grizan Blacksmithing he passed away and ever since I have yet to meet someone from the Grizan race. So I am curious how do you have it? Especially as a human!
Zen: I inherited from my father although I have never met him.
Darv: Hmmmm. Then I have decided. You will not do that small task that I thought of earlier instead since you have some skill in mining. You will help me mine, so that I may set up my forge while you mine. This will speed things up.
Zen: So what exactly am I mining?
Darv: To be more precise it¡¯s a hole. A very very very very deep hole.
Zen: How deep are we talking here?
Darv: Now young lads don¡¯t get scared and I¡¯m not goanna hide it from you, but it¡¯s a hole up to the point of blue lava. I saw you have 200 bonus points you can still allocate it. If I were you it would help to invest it in fortitude. Trust me you¡¯ll need it down there. With having 1700 in fortitude it should also negate 85 points damage per second. Since closer to lava you get the hotter it gets and thus you suffer damage. I can tell you this, lava burns a person at 250 damage points per second and you will really need the fortitude to back you up. Not only will your health rise because of fortitude but it will also give you more time to work mining lava.
Zen: Hold on just a second. You know lava is flowing. You mine it a little more will come to fill its place. It is liquid form you know.
Darv: You just don¡¯t know how we mine and let¡¯s do this. Tomorrow come meet me here in the center of the village. I will show you the construction of my forge and how we are mining the deep tunnel. It will all make sense when you see it.
Zen: Ok. I have already decided to become your apprentice. I hope you take me under your wing. I just never heard people mining lava before and blue lava it actually exists? Well that just shows that I don¡¯t know what I am doing in this blacksmithing or mining world.
Darv: Ha ha ha ha. You will learn to enjoy it when the time comes. In fact my dad used to say. That when you are able to swim in the lava as if it was your own swimming pool will you be able to find truly unique things no one has ever seen before. He even told me that there was a man who could mine bare skin in the cooler layer of the lava. Ha ha ha. I think its still far for that to happen to me but. Ill teaches you many cool things and I do accept such a promising student. Well then lad, go enjoy the welcome party. We will have a lot to do starting tomorrow.
Zen: Thank You Master Darv.
Darv: It is and will be my pleasure. Ha ha ha. Don¡¯t forget tomorrow at 6 am be at the center plaza.
Zen: Yes Master.
Then I headed back to the party drinking and eating. They did have some alcohol but I didn¡¯t want to over sleep so did not drink it. As for Amelia she was talking with some women the entire time and didn¡¯t seem like it was about to stop. Tanis he well, he was drinking like there was no tomorrow. The dwarves sitting next to him seemed as if they were in contest with him.
I still remember that there was a guild coming this way, but I was in no hurry to see them so I didn¡¯t give it too much thought. I went and had a quick word with Amelia saying that the Master Darv told me the next time I come out will be a few months and that I should prepare. Amelia at that time also said something similar. I am still puzzled at what it all means. I understood that anyone can comeback by nightfall of any given day but almost all chose to stay wherever it was they were staying at. Well I guess ill figure it out tomorrow. Thus I went to bed at my place.
As soon as I went to bed, don¡¯t know how much time passed by but I was woken up.
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I was woken up and all wet.
Darv: Now, now young lad. I said I accepted you in being my apprentice. Lesson number one. If you are on time you are late. For you to be on time means you must be 15 minutes early. Do you understand?
I hurried upped and bowed slightly.
Zen: Yes master.
Darv: Come along then.
While walking behind him I looked at the clock. ¡°5:44 AM¡± Its true I even forgot to set the system alarm clock.
When we approached the center we saw that the entire village was gathered at the center. I even saw Amelia there. At exactly 5:55 AM elder Avintus began to speak and said a few confusing things as if in a different language. The only thing I understood was this.
Elder Avintus: Now that everyone who is supposed to be here is here. Let us start.
A crystal appeared in the center. Then a huge circle that came floating up from the ground and raised in to the sky.
¡°Piwwww¡±
We seemed to have teleported. The setting looked like a huge circle with 12 huge stairwells going down. This place was lit quite well. It seemed like it was nearly 150 diameter circle and the entire ceiling was made from a stone that emitted light. In the center next to us was a huge fountain. The height from the ground where we were standing to the ceiling was around 80 meters tall. So we looked like tiny things in this place. The floor was some sort of granite since it was polished it even reflected our selves. The only place that didn¡¯t have granite floor was at one side of the fountain. It was a small garden with a Tree growing in it. Next to the tree was a beach chair and not far from the fountain was a tiny house. Perhaps only with a single room inside, although I could not see how big inside it was.
Zen: Master Darv where are we?
Darv: Oh that¡¯s right it¡¯s your first time. Ok so here is what you need to know. We are exactly 1 mile underground from the point where you stood just a second ago.
Zen: So how does one get out?
Darv: You can leave at any time, just drink the water from the fountain and you will be teleported straight to your house. To re-enter one must talk to the caretaker who will then teleport you in.
Zen: What if someone kills the caretaker?
Darv: They can¡¯t. Since he has full body armor that covers him completely, even though it¡¯s completely invisible and cannot be detected no matter what magic or perception.
Zen: Wow.
Darv: Now you must remember it is a secret so don¡¯t tell anyone about this. Now take a look there.
Master Darv pointed to a specific stairwell and then said
Darv: Each stairwell leads to another place deeper underground. This entire space was my job to excavate and prepare. We have set up the basics however; my job ended at this and the stairwells. There are golems under the control of each master of the stairwell. Continue to excavate at the master of the stairs to their specific design. Now look at those stairs I just pointed to. How do you think we distinguish which is which?
I then focused on the stairwell and then all of a sudden a glowing light appeared above saying ¡°Miner & Blacksmith,¡± I then looked at the other two stairwells next to it. To the left was ¡°Structure & Design¡± and to the right was ¡°Enchanting.¡±
Zen: You¡¯re the master of the stairwell of Miner & Blacksmithing?
Darv: He he he lad. You can see those letters because you come from our village. Normal people will only guess.
Zen: What do you mean normal people?
Darv: All in due time, you will figure it out.
Zen: I understand master.
Darv: Follow me.
We hence began going to the direction of the Miner & Blacksmith stairwell. Upon arrival there was a visible bluish barrier.
Darv: Now I can tell you this. You can enter this stairwell with no problem. However you cannot go in to any other stairwell without previously acquiring the permission from the stairwell master. The Grand Elder can also give you permission to enter anyone of these stairwells. He will be staying at the small house back there. Please do not disturb the Elder if anything asks everyone else but him. Lets just say he is a bit tricky.
Zen: Understood Master.
Darv: Ok I have given you permission to enter. Oh yes the reason you need permission to enter is because of the time limit. If one enters without the permission they will later be teleported far away. It¡¯s usually random but is kept on this side of the world. No lets go.
We entered the stairs past the barrier and it was also polished granite floors with a ceiling that gave off light. Soon we entered a vast space that seemed like a storefront. With many weapons hanging down left and right. It seemed to be run by a thin golem looked like a human except seemed to be made out of granite that was standing behind the counter.
Golem: Hello Master and Masters Apprentice Welcome. No one appeared while you were away.
Darv: Good, good. Now lets get to work. Follow me Zen.
We continued towards the back room and entered. What I saw in the back room was a sort of storage and it was 150 meters in length and around 150 widths.
Darv: This is what you can see it as. It¡¯s a storage were we keep cheap weapons we don¡¯t mind handing them out. Over there you can see a metal cart it job is it automatically transports the things you put upon it from the forge that is further in. There is no need to push it back and forth. Once you press the crystal atop it will transport the material by itself. Now then lets go down to the forge.
We then walked in another door next to the rail-cart, which also had a blue transparent cover. There was a tunnel that seemed to span quite far. Next to the path there was the railing that transported the goods. We then walked for a bit or approximately 1 mile. Just before stepping in to the open space we once again stepped through a transparent blue cover.
All of a sudden, my vision went blurry. The heat wave that struck me was like nothing I have ever experience before. Before blacking out I activated my Spirit Blessing and in a few more seconds collapsed and fell to the floor.
2 hours later I regained my vision and was laying in the beach chair near the fountain.
Elder Avintus: Oh lad your alive and awake. Good, good, now get off my chair.
Zen: Excuse me elder.
I immediately got up out of the chair took a few steps and bowed.
Elder Avintus: You could have died if not for whatever blessing/ spell you made. Now while you were out I went and told our head priest to bless you with the four basic affinities. You should now have Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind affinities. The reason you passed out was because the blood rushed to your head because of the extreme heat. Even though you would of died over time, you were brought here by the golem. So your main assignment for now is getting used to that heat. You will go back in there and every time you will pass out. The golem will bring you in to the tunnel where the temperature is much better since its protected by that special barrier. No off you go.
Zen: Yes Elder.
I immediately ran back and went through the tunnels and this time I prepared my self mentally and walked in. This time I was in the room around 5 minutes and even then everything seemed to be too blurry. Thus passing out again.
I woke up in the tunnel next and it was about 2 hours since I went in. Thus I decide to look at my affinities.
Zen: Affinity Window
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Affinity Window
Water: 0
Earth: 0
Wind: 0
Fire: 0
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It seems this method is going to take forever, since there is absolutely no progress. I should tell that golem not to take me out since I can¡¯t die with the blessing. I should tell him to pull me out if I don¡¯t gain consciousness within 15:30 hours from now. Then will see if things improve or not.
That is exactly what I did. When I told the golem he did not mind at all. He didn¡¯t seem to mind since it was as if he was only a robot.
I again went in and this time 2 minutes later I passed out. During all these encounters I could not even make out what was in the room. So I just lay there in total pitch Void.
While lying there I began humming in this dark void. Then began singing out loud as if it was my own dark world. It was tough since I could not tell time here. I knew I would be pulled out only 15 hours or so.
I began to dance, sing and even run. Though there seemed not to be any ground. Even I could not see my self; I still did all those things without any regard. This loneliness got to me at one point. Still I just tossed the feeling to the side and still continued to not care.
??????: You there! You are very strange.
I didn¡¯t mind the voice that popped in my head. It was as if someone was talking to me. I just thought that I was really going crazy now since I could hear voices. Thus I didn¡¯t pay attention and continued to play around.
I really did loose track of time. Then suddenly my conscious was back and I could start to faintly see the ¡°Tunnel Again.¡± I was back in the tunnel. Man that feeling was terrible. I quickly summoned the Affinity Window.
This book''s true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience.
Zen: Affinity Window
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Affinity Window
Water: 0
Earth: 0
Wind: 0
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That is weird seems like the affinity rises at 1.5 per hour.
~~What Zen did not know then is that, to rise ones affinity It takes about a day of exposure to heat to even gain 2 points. The extreme heat is a benefit for him. ~~
Just as I was about to walk in again, the master stepped in to the tunnel.
Darv: Seems your still alive. I have seen you in there all passed out without being removed. The golem told me what you told him so I left you there. But gosh you seem not to have any affinity in anything and how is it your skill in mining is so great? Well anyway I can tell you one thing for sure to be able to work in the forge you need at least an affinity of 90 in fire. So good luck and no there is no shortcut to this.
Zen: Yes master. Master why is it that I am not hungry even a bit?
Darv: Oh yea that. Well it¡¯s a secret however you can rest assured there is one stairwell here that is in charge of the food. They supply the food directly to your blood stream while you are in the radius of 100 miles of this place. To be honest no one uses up those miles. Even the main mine I am making right now is only 10 miles deep and 8 meters wide. It¡¯s actually the only mine and it goes directly towards the core of the planet. Every 10 miles I will make a rest area, where one can relax. So hurry up with this training so you can help me. I have even finished the first rest area.
Zen: Yes master. Are you currently digging?
Darv: No that will be your job for now. I am making things so that once you hit the lava we can deal with it.
Zen: When will we hit lava?
Darv: Hard to say but the next 10 miles are lava free.
Zen: What do you do with the dirt and other minerals?
Darv: I will show you everything once you can walk in that room without passing out. Well then I have to get going. Keep the good work.
Zen: Yes master.
I then waited a little for the blessing to reach 24 hours so that I may use it once again. 30 minutes later I used the spirit blessing again and walked back in. I did not pass out immediately. Although I still could see nothing. Everything in front of me seemed to be blazing so hot that it seemed like I was in a furnace. So I stepped to the right and crouched down waiting so that I may pass out.
I passed out after waiting for 2 hours. Again, that same old, same old Void.
???????: Your back quite quickly. I have never seen someone so eager to come back to this place.
Zen: Oh last time I though I was going crazy hearing a voice. Seems I was wrong. I was not going crazy.
???????: Are you sure you didn¡¯t create me within your mind?
Zen: I know my mind and in my mind such voice as your self does not exist. Thus I know.
???????: Are you sure?
Zen: Yea. I am.
???????: How are you so relaxed if this is not your own mind then? What if I am a scary being?
Zen: If you were then the first time I came you would of done something.
???????: Ha ha ha ha ha. So Zen. Why are you hear again?
Zen: Seems like you know my name but I don¡¯t know yours.
???????: Hmmm. Ok call me, right Void. It fits me right?
Zen: Ha ha h. Ok sure I can call you Void.
Void: So why are you hear again?
Zen: I was training my fire affinity. Due to the extreme heat I assume that I will be here from time to time.
Void: Oh you have a fire?
Zen: Yea a priest blessed me with it.
Void: Did he also give you a light affinity?
Zen: No just the basic 4.
Void: I see.
Zen: Where you scared to get hurt?
Void: Oh no. You can¡¯t do anything to me here, no matter what affinity you have.
Zen: Is that so?
Void: Yes. That is so. So training ay? Do you want Void affinity?
Zen: If I get Light affinity will that have a negative effect later?
Void: No it just says you will be able to withstand certain spells and things like that.
Zen: Ha ha ha ha. What if this is a trap of sort? Hmm?
Void: Well you visited me twice in a row. At least it will help you not pass out at critical moments with higher Void affinity. Because you visit me so often already I will just give you the affinity even if you don¡¯t want it.
Zen: Oh so you can force an affinity upon a person?
Void: Consider this my dark side of personality.
Zen: Ha ha ha. Void with humor, I bet I can make this in to a joke in the real world.
Void: Well whatever. Now, that you have this affinity that was solely given by me. I will tell you a secret. You can customize this space with whatever attribute you have. Since you have fire attribute you can create a fire with your mind in this place and it will illuminate the Void.
I then focused my mind on flame feeling and a simple flame appeared before me. It illuminated my body and now I can see that I was floating in this Void.
Zen: Very nice. So how do I enter this place whenever I want?
Void: Oh you can always say ¡°Enter Void.¡± Though your body will become limp in the real world and you¡¯ll lose consciousness so be mindful were you using this. Especially since you can be killed and then forced out of here. It won¡¯t show up in the skills menu by the way.
Zen: Then I thank you for this gift. Can I see my stats and other things in here?
Void: No. It¡¯s like a separate different place from where you were just before coming here. Oh and one last thing or never mind its to early for you to know this. My tip for you however is all of the affinities you can and then enter here to build your own world. Well good luck now off you go.
I never saw the being that talked to me but when he said off you go. I started to gain my consciousness in the game world. It was not as blurry as before and I was still in the crouched position near the door.
I stood up and started to walk around to get my blood flow going. I could make out objects in the room. Before that though I opened the affinity window, to see my progress.
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Affinity Window
Water: 0
Earth: 0
Wind: 0
>>>>>Fire: 59
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Seems like I was also almost out for 15 hours again. The time flew by faster or that void thing got tired of talking to me so sped up the time. This is quite interesting that void never showed it self.
Now walking around this place whit blazing heat. I could not tell how big this place was. Since my vision was blurred by the constant sweeting. I didn¡¯t understand why it was so hot. From what I knew master hasn¡¯t even reached the magma level. So why was it so hot?
I then found another spot and sat down because I was afraid of touching something too hot and didn¡¯t want to experience excessive heat burn. I checked my health status which till now was at 1 hp. However now it was recovering slowly and currently at 25 hp. So I assumed that I would no longer die and entered the void. ¡°Enter Void.¡±
I was back to the place I left earlier my fire that I created was still there. The biggest difference was that in my upper vision I saw a timer. It said ¡°Time Limit: 10 hours.¡±
Zen: Hey Void. What¡¯s with this time limit?
Void: It tells you how much time you can be in here by using Enter Void within 1 week. With further affinity in this you will be able to stay longer.
Zen: Why was there no time limit last time?
Void: You did not voluntarily come here but rather were forced to come here. Another tip, you don¡¯t want people to know about this place. So don¡¯t force them in to unconscious state for to long. Or else they will figure this place out like you did. With my help although.
Zen: I see. Thanks for the tip. Now let¡¯s see how big of a fire I can make.
I then continued to summon small amounts of fire. Seems like my affinity with fire can only summon so much fire. However adding small flames to bigger ones I was able to make a fire the size of a bon fire. I still continued to pour small flames in to the bigger one and it only grew in size nothing else happened. When I tried to touch the flame it actually burned me. So I guess my affinity can summon it but it can still harm me. Perhaps I can double train like this. Hence I made 4 huge bon fires around me while sitting in the center. I could feel this body also start to sweat and even slightly burn.
Void: I am impressed that you have thought of this to make your affinity go up faster. Since you don¡¯t have a way to confirm it yet. I can tell you it will work doing this. One more thing you will come to realize but ill leave it at that for you to realize.
Zen: Really? Can I die in here too?
Void: Yes and if you do no matter the protection on the physical body you will still end up dead. So I will tell you this don¡¯t purposely burn yourself since healing will take some time.
Hearing the void say that I immediately pushed the bon fires that surrounded me further away from me so that I was no longer burning my skin. In fact I surrounded my self with more flames so that I was in the center. The flames were far enough for me to feel the heat but not burn. The closed room of flames temperature continued to rise until it reached a certain degree.
Zen: Why doesn¡¯t it show up as an affinity in the other world?
Void: I did say this place is separate. Thus knowledge is power my young friend.
After all that I had only a few minutes left and thus I left. ¡°Exit Void¡±
I felt being warped back and now I could clearly see everything around me. So I decide to check my Affinity. ¡°Affinity Window¡±
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Affinity Window
Water: 0
Earth: 0
Wind: 0
>>>>>Fire: 100
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Now that I could clearly seen in this place. This is what was in front of me.
Since I stood next to the exit. I could clearly see around 250 meters to the left of me was completely empty. To the right of me I saw 8-meter tall tubes with a length of 50-meters minimum; they were stacked up all the way to the celling. They did not roll off or anything like that. The length of the room seemed to span 500-meters. So I assumed this place was a square shape of 500 meters. The height was a whooping 100 meters.
I then saw that master was working on the other end and hence I made my way to him. Getting closer and closer to him. I did not even hear any noise coming from his hammering. He was hammering one of those tubes. The tube was laid on the ground and it was only 49 long currently. To the left of him was a magic circle with a white flame in the center. Left of the fire magic circle was another magic circle that had different ores and even dirt, which compressed everything to a fist, sized raw ore that floated to the magic fire magic circle and was made in to molten liquid. This liquid floated towards master who was hitting the red rim of the tube. With more and more molten ore he advance quite rapidly in making this tube. The tube was spinning slowly as master was hitting it.
Wait a second I thought to my self and looked back to the compression magic circle. Where was the ore coming from? I noticed it was pouring from a whole in the ceiling. There was a trap door there as well. So I assume that¡¯s how they got the ore there. As I was looking at that the door suddenly shut and the ore stopped pouring in. The last of the compressed material was hammered in and then the master stopped hammering.
Darv: Ha ha ha. I am lucky indeed to have a student who in only 2 days reaches this level of affinity to be able to walk around carefree.
Zen: Ha ha ha. I am nowhere near as strong although I do have a question. Why do you need the blue lava when you have this magic formation?
Darv: Magic is not free. Even blue lava is not free. To procure the lava all of these tubes are necessary. This flame is good but not as good as the flame I can make using a furnace and blue lava. I have to let you know these magic circles have duration. They will expire within a year and I either hit a good lava vein, which has blue lava, or continue to buy these magic circles, which are too expensive.
Zen: Why are the magic circles not free? Didn¡¯t you create them?
Darv: Actually no I didn¡¯t create them. What expensive is not the magic it self but the Mana supplied to these circles. The heat in there is actually hotter then blue lava. But as you can see we are not dead so there are not only protection symbols within that circle but other ones such as gravity and movement symbols that suck the manna as if it was eating a 10-meter wide waterfall.
Zen: So where does the Mana come from?
Darv: Even though I know its hard to explain. Our Enchantress worked with the Wizard and Priest to create these magic circles. They said something about buying the Mana needed for this from the spirit world. However the price, even I do not know the price. Only the Elder knows the Price. I don¡¯t really care since I get to create my dream workshop.
I wonder would I get this back at the mountains?
Zen: Master tell me where does the ore come from to fill the compression circle?
Darv: Oh that. You see the wall behind the magic circles?
Zen: Yes.
Darv: Well if you take those stairs in that corner of the room. You will have to climb 200 meters up and then walk 200 meters to a door. Once you open it you¡¯ll see there will be a storage room. It has a certain machine that I once acquired from the dwarves which separates valuable ore from riff raff. The heavier the ore the more precious, however there are exceptions to that too. Well it¡¯s a complicated machine so don¡¯t worry about it for now. There is railways set up to bring the ore and dump ore in to the machine. If you look next to that pile of tubes near the entrance, you probably didn¡¯t notice but that¡¯s were the railroad comes to. It then goes in a slight incline until it reaches the appropriate height and dumps it in to the machine. The machine manages 4 different storage bins, which have a size of 100x100x150 meters. So it¡¯s like a rectangular bin. Even though the machine it self is not that big only the size of a carts load. I made the storage bins bigger so I don¡¯t have to worry about space.
Zen: Wow Master Can I go see really quickly?
Darv: Ha ha. Sure. Ill just finishes this tube up and then come find me. Ill formally introduces the process of digging.
Zen: Yes master.
I quickly ran to the stairs and up in to the room. Everything was illuminated by that rock. I could see how vast this place was. It must be 400 meters in length. I came in right above the machine and the railroad tracks cam out of the wall not far from me on the left. I then made my way to the place where cart dropped ore. Placed the storage marker on it so that we can save time on the hassle of transporting the dirt I excavate. I had a feeling the track system was good but later on it would be slower then my excavating/ mining speed.
Next to the dispenser on the track stood what I assumed was the transport used to transport the ore to this place. It was a cylinder of around 4 meters in diameter, however it was nearly 45 meters long. It seemed like this cylinder can bend like a rubber hose, although that was another mystery.
After placing the storage mark I proceeded back down. Entering the forge. I saw master next to finished tube. I quickly ran to him to see what was waiting for me. To say the least I was very eager.
Darv: So how did you like that contraption?
Zen: It wasn¡¯t bad but what¡¯s up with that long transport tube?
Darv: Guess it¡¯s about time I told you how the excavation works. So listen carefully.
This is what I gathered from what he explained it to me. Any sort of underground facility would require some sort of air support. Cleansing the air and supplying the air in to the mine and everywhere around this place was done the magic division. They placed special rocks all over this place to circulate air and cleanse it. This was done so that magic was not used and only natural resources. Although when in the mines that has not been established yet. One must wear a special helmet, which will supply him with the needed air. As for food and water being supplied directly in to a body was, because the Master of Nature utilized spirit gnomes to transport the food he cultivated to the bodies of the villagers directly. Those gnomes could not be seen even if you are able to see spirits because they are very shy and hide incredibly well.
Those spirit gnomes however came with a small price as well. Each one of them would get 1/10 of the food they transported. Since the food provided by Master of Nature is not only good for the body of regular person they are very beneficial to the spirits since it allows the spirit to rise in personal power rather faster. As for the kind of food and why it was special Master Darv did not know.
Now then the actual excavating was don¡¯t like so. These tubes would be lowered with the person excavating. All of these tubes had special latches to connect them together making a one piece in the end with no holes left or right. Ok so they are lowered in to the hole and then the person mining would mine everything underneath him as well as everything underneath the tubes. With gravity they slide down because the weight of the rings is really heavy. As for when it hits lava, the rings will fall till they reach a hard surface. Then one would have to scoop the lava out till they hit the hard surface as well. If there is no hard surface and the length out of the tunnel reaches they would place the next tube over it and continue to drop tubes either when they reach blue lava or until they hit another hard surface to continue excavating.
I got to look inside a tube and it was not hollow all the way through. It had hatch at the top end of the tube or at least what was to be the top end of the tube. So to describe the tube it was 8 meters wide. It had a 1-meter thick wall of that compressed ore. Both sides were very smooth as to cause less friction. The hatch at the top end of the tube was 5 meters in diameter, the hatch was made from 4 pie shaped pieces. When they came together they made a perfect cover, which then had special latches to give it a good seal. Around the hatch were countless magic circles drawn. What Darv said about those magic circles was that they were going to pull up the blue lava ones we reached it. The also work as emergency shield and restrict the flow of lava upwards so that it wont explode from pressure like a volcano. The hatches are closed either manually or with that same magic circle. They can also be opened via magic or manually. Ones you enter the lowest tube you have to close the closest hatch so that the lava doesn¡¯t decide to enter the tube because of the low pressure and low resistance once you get closer to the center of the planet.
It seems that these tubes can withstand even white lava but to get to white lava it would be to far down and probably no being could survive that heat. Not only the heat but the gravity it self seems to be get stronger. Plus the unknown variables since this type of endeavor might have never been constructed before.
Well my entire job was simple for now. Dig under yourself and under the tubes. The ore was going to transport via that special container that I saw earlier on the rail tracks. That is why it was 4 meters wide, so that it could fit in to the tube and be sealed behind it. That container had a special magic that attracted loose ore and would even swallow lava. Anything besides ore, dirt or lava it would not suction it in. Once it was full it would be pulled up via magic to the surface.
I have to say even if I forgot to say about an aspect everything was thought out to the last detail and the architect of this was not my master either. Well he was happy if he reached his end result.
Right now I am floating downwards with my master within the tube. It¡¯s been two hours since we floated downwards at an incredible speed. The latches opened and closed automatically without us having to stop and wait for them. We have finally landed.
Darv: Here we are. So how do you like the look of this rest stop?
What I saw before me was a space of 100 meters in diameter. It was a circular shape. It had a pond that was about 20 meters in diameter and two trees next to it, with a hammock connecting the two trees. The walls were filled with those stones that regulate the climate. There was a particularly interesting obelisk closest to the tube.
Zen: Its looks very peaceful as if a paradise in middle of endless tubes. But how am I supposed to access it once the tubes go past this point?
Darv: I knew you would of asked this question. There take this stone and place it somewhere safe. If you loose it I have a few more so it¡¯s fine if a couple get destroyed. They¡¯re pretty common but what you will need to do is follow the stone and when it is shining brightly it will signify you are on the same level as one of the obelisks. Then make sure the latches above your position is locked and then come back to the place where the stone was shining it will make the wall transparent and you¡¯ll be able to walk through. This particular stone is attuned with special magic to recognize the obelisk, so a stone of the same type without the special magic imprint cant open this. Well enough of that.
Zen: So many magical items this is crazy.
Darv: ha ha ha. They are not cheap I tell you. But with my blacksmithing skill I buy what¡¯s important. I have done this for far longer then you can imagine. Now let me give you a demonstration.
We stepped upped in the middle of the tube. He then told me to use the command ¡°Up Up¡± an I floated up and then used another command ¡°Stop Stop¡± to stop while floating nearly 10 meters away from master. He took out a pick and started to do that omega-mining symbol completely around him hitting the walls and rocks beneath him. All of a sudden the tube began to sink the latch above me opened and I stepped to the side the tube began to suck the dirt/rocks/ore in to the storage container. Within minutes the tube sank about 10 meters as if it was going thorough soft butter. The entrance was now completely closed to rest stop and then master stopped digging.
Darv: Ok come down and let me show you.
I did how he told me and floated down with appropriate command ¡°Down Down.¡± You can go faster or slower using these commands depending on how of many time you say down or up, although the limit was X10.
He looked up to see if the hatch was locked which it was and then took out the rock and indeed it was shining brightly. Then a light appeared on the other side of the 1-meter thick tube and the obelisk became visible. Soon the wall disappeared and we could enter very simply. We then walked out and he handed the crystal to me and as soon as I put it away the light dimmed and the gap closed. He told me not to worry one will not be cut in half if hides the rock while in the position of the wall. Since the person would be forcibly pushed out of the way.
Darv: Well young lad. I will go continue making those tubes. You know what your job is and I can reconfirm that the next 10 miles there are no veins of any kind, water, oil or even gas veins including. All there is, is rock, dirt many ores, but nothing as hard as platinum. Currently there is enough tubing to go 20 more miles deep. So go at your full speed. I doubt you¡¯ll beat me at the rate I¡¯m making the tubes. But if you happen to beat me, I will come up with an extremely good reward for the effort.
Zen: Master Darv, other then mining what benefit will this task bring me in the future? I just want to clarify.
Darv: Hmm. How about I will tell you how to make Katonium?
Zen: I already know the composition and how to make Katonium.
I said it out loud to him the recipe and his jaw dropped.
Darv: How do you know this?
Zen: It was left on this pickax, which I also inherited.
I took out the pickax from the storage and it seemed to appear right in front of him. His jaw by this time closed and didn¡¯t drop again.
Darv: Ha ha ha ha ha ha. You are indeed special. To be able to show me a Katonium pickax and even take it out of thin air. This must mean you have some sort of storage device. Even if it¡¯s a simple grade storage device they are extremely rare. However even I have a simple storage device. It is not as rare as this Katonium pickax. So an inheritance items I see. Well then ill-use my trump card now. If you help me reach the blue lava I will award you with a chance to acquire the most unique skill I believe exits in this world. To be precise it¡¯s a treasure passed down from father to son and now I happen to have it. Ones you read the content you will get a very unique skill and 1000 bonus stat points or I can tell you how to pass any level barrier up to the level of 600. I my self have not reached that level but my father passed his wisdom to me before he died for each of the level barriers up to level 600 so that means I do not know how to pass the level barrier of level 699. So what say you?
Zen: I can¡¯t be to greedy I accept. I will decide later with what I want to go with if its ok with you.
Darv: Great. Now I get the feeling like this it¡¯s going to go faster then I expect.
Zen: One thing is for sure. I don¡¯t really know if your storage transport thing will be able to keep up with me in a few months.
Darv: Ha ha ha ha. I like your enthusiasm. Just don¡¯t let the storages size full you. Its bigger on the inside. Ha ha ha ha.
Zen: Well then we will see.
Darv: I will take my leave then. Good luck Zen and one last thing. Since you are not a dispensable golem who¡¯s mining. Here take this crystal. It is a one time use teleport crystal so don¡¯t use it unless there is no other way for you to survive or somehow get carried away by the currents of lava later. It will teleport you to the Elder so please don¡¯t use it unless it¡¯s an emergency due to imminent death. To use it just say or scream emergency teleport, you don¡¯t have to touch it just have it in your storage device and that should also be enough.
Zen: Thank you Master Darv. I say let the race begin.
Darv: Ha ha ha. Don¡¯t go to crazy breaks are allowed you know.
Zen: Yes Master.
Darv: Ok have fun.
So the master left and now I am again by myself. I set the active storage to only take 90% of the loose stuff within my mind and set it to active storage. The other 10% was going to go in to the transport. The reason why I didn¡¯t want 100% of it to go in to the storage transfer skill that I have was because then master would not know how to pace him self. If he saw the transport come and go at intervals, he would know if he should hurry up or slow down. It would also tell him that I¡¯m actually doing work. My goal was to see how fast I could completely fill the storage units that would hold these ores and dirt and stuff. Thus without further ado I began using the same technique he used, however this was the first time I was making an 8 meter wide tunnel. This made me hold the pickax at the furthest part of the handle making it harder to control.
Since my skill in mining in particular underneath me wasn¡¯t great. I was making progress slowly.
It has been 6 months already. All I did was mine and mine and the line with an arrow pointed just beneath me pointed to the center of the planet. I was using that gift that the spirit or was it the dragon king gave me. I am not saying I mined non-stop rather I had a routine, which I set up. Mine for couple days and then get out of the game in to the real world eat clean take care of the garden and so forth. It seems my family and neighbors all had roughly the same routine set up although not exactly at the same time. We still continued to clean the neighborhood and even take care of the plants. After that, I would talk to Amelia via the telephone method since both of us were in different part of this underground expanse. We did realize that both of us might have not completely 100% loved the repetitive work we did for now but what we comforted us was this was all for our goal. In turn we spent several hours talking on the phone and then re-entered the game.
Within the actual game every two months we would drop everything we were doing and meet up in the central place near the fountain. Although we never went back to the surface as it was quite nice here. Amelia¡¯s Dad never seemed to comedown in to this place although he could if he liked too. She even told me that her dad told her that there were nearly 50 griffins searching above ground for the said (Zen) person.
They never bothered him as he would just ignore them and the few times they tried to make him speak he would punch them, which sent them flying more then 300 meters although always barely enough to let them live. Thus they left her father alone assuming he was a strong NPC. Guess there really was no way to distinguish a player or NPC just on appearance. He said that after two months of searching they moved further north thinking there was a town further north that could be the said village were the player they were looking for. They knew for certain that the player only begun playing not long ago so they knew to look for a newb.
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Status Window
Name: [Zen Trilen]
Level: [1*]
Race: [Human]
Class: [NA]
Profession: [NA]
>>>>>Health: [16250/16250] + [6000FRD]= [22250/22250]
>>>>>Mana: [3650/3650]
>>>>>Stamina: [19350/19350] + [3000FRD]= [22350/22350]
>>>>>STR: [812]
>>>>>AGI: [610]
>>>>>DEX: [415]
>>>>>INT: [205]
>>>>>WIS: [135]
FRD: [1500] (Fortitude Special Stat)
DRG: [45] (Dragon Special Stat)
>>>>>Bonus Stats awaiting allocation: 200
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Affinity Window
Water: 0
>>>>>Earth: 24
Wind: 0
>>>>>Fire: 109
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Skills Window
Skills Information!!!
Silan Magic: (Inherited skill, is reset to Beginner Lvl.1)
Grizan Blacksmith: (Inherited skill, is reset to Beginner Lvl. 1)
Underwater Breathing: Mastered
>>>>>Night Vision: Mastered
>>>>>Devine Infinity: Advanced Lvl 34. 99%
* Figure 8 Weapon Spin: Mastered
** Horizontal Infinity Spin: Mastered
>>>>>*** Overhead Infinity Spin: Advanced Lvl 89. 55%
>>>>>**** 360-Degree Infinity Spin: Advanced Lvl 76. 43%
>>>>>***** All Dimensional Infinity Spin: Intermediate Lvl 51. 1%
>>>>>****** Impenetrable Defensive Attack: Beginner Lvl 21. 22%
>>>>>******* Infinite Attack Wave: Locked
(Note. Find the secret to unlock the final step in Devine Infinity. Hint:
>>>>>Ancient Digger: Advanced Lvl 15. 23%
* Mole: Mastered
>>>>>** Miner: Mastered
>>>>>*** Enchanted Disintegrator: Advanced Lvl 43. 2%
>>>>>**** Depth Reader: Advanced Lvl 3. 96%
>>>>>***** Driller: Advanced Lvl 14.91%
****** Dual Tool Miner: Beginner Lvl 14. 5%
Elemental Hand Combat: Advanced Lvl 1. 99%
* Slicing Strike: Intermediate Lvl 35. 44%
** Shattering Strike: Intermediate Lvl 76. 55%
*** Earth Shaker: Intermediate Lvl 89. 22%
**** Shattering Waves: Intermediate Lvl 50. 34%
Arial Regeneration: Beginner Lvl 1. 0%
*(Nothing is known in regard to this skill. You must figure out what exactly it does and doesn¡¯t)
Yell: Beginner Lvl 1. 5%
Innovation: Beginner Lvl 9. 99%
Old School Carving: Beginner Lvl 78. 65%
Tracking: Beginner Lvl 54. 45%
Observe: Beginner Lvl 34. 12%
>>>>>Perception: Advanced Lvl 8. 13%
Threat Aura: Beginner Lvl 26. 33%
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As you can see what my stats looks like right now. Just why did my wisdom and intellect rise? Weird. It may be because I focus on two things, such as day dreaming and working or is it because I enter a sort of trance when mining. Hmmm
I am currently 20 miles deep from the forging room above. While mining all this time, my perception reached new heights since I would train it by trying to sense everything around me. I can currently sense up to 1 mile around me. However I can sense 5 miles in to the earth around me because of the additional skill Depth Reader. Master said that max is 10 miles although you can get additional skills to help with that. Well either way the rocks here are really dense and it has become harder to advance. Even though they are not as hard as titanium the pressure of the surrounding earth causes it to be harder to mine. Although we wanted to make a new rest area, master decided to make a new location where we can insert more tubes.
So this 20 mile mark was going to be a way station for further mining operation. Since many good ores were available at this level. He did say there is one other reason although he wasn¡¯t going to tell me yet. Thus I left it alone. I was happy with my stat improvements since this was no joke of a job. The benefit was that I never worried about food the entire time. To mention I never forgot to activate my Spirit Blessing. The thing that was good for a change was the temperature 20 miles away from the furnace was not as hot as it was in the furnace room, but I should not get comfortable because we could hit a vein of lava sooner or later.
In the past 20 miles I came across a tunnel that was 100 meters tall. Master told is about it before I hit it and he reassured me that even if there were a monster there they would not attack the tube or me. I was surprised that he said so. He just said that someone gave them permission to dig this tunnel and no monster was going to be in our way or destroy our work. No wonder no digging worm attacked me even though I could sense it from time to time. I have to say there were miles and miles long and 100 meters tall. What surprised me even further was that at the point were I was drilling I never encountered an underwater spring or a gas reservoir, even an oil reservoir was never in my way.
Thus when thinking the person that gave them this property right. Actually pin pointed were they were able to drill. So I assumed they would not allow one to get access to the resources that were not purchased from who knows the being in charge of this. Well it was a game so I thought anything is possible within a game thus I left the though alone.
When the tubes behind me no longer followed me I assumed I have reached 20 miles since Master said that he will not make more tubes up there. So he was going to move everything down to this spot once we make a room 100x100x100 meters.
Darv: I am astonished boy.
Zen: What¡¯s up Old Man.
Darv: O told you don¡¯t call me that. Call me master. Got it?
Zen: Eh? Again with that, I thought we agreed 3 months ago that if my mining speed surpassed your blacksmithing speed I would be able to drop the honorifics stuff.
Darv: Did we have a talk like that? Hmm.. I don¡¯t remember. If we did then don¡¯t call me old Man, just Darv is fine then.
Zen: Deal.
Darv: Wait what? Did you just trick me?
Zen: Na we did make that deal.
Darv: I feel cheated somehow.
Zen: It¡¯s I who is cheated. I know nothing and yet I do this for practically free.
Darv: I am amazed you stuck with us thus far. Well I guess you pass the final test.
Zen: TEST!!!! REALLY???? TEST????? WHAT IS WRONG WITH ALL THIS????
Darv: Here take this.
He handed me a simple card.
Darv: Break the card.
I did just as he said. Then suddenly a window appeared in front of me. I could see a holographic image of our entire mine. There were even a few hidden rooms back in the Forge. They were also displayed with instructions on how to enter.
Darv: Well you have done so much work that I decide to make you the senior manager of this place. You deserve this much at least. I am still the boss of the stairwell but now you my second in command in here. As such I will give you 95% of the rights for this stair well. The other 5% can only be obtained form the Elder.
Zen: What do I get with the last 5%?
Darv: You can enter the house near the fountain. I sill tell you this. It¡¯s a dimensional door to another world.
Zen: REALLY? I assume there is a catch in getting the last 5% right?
Darv: Indeed. You need to be able to get 95% full access in all of the stairwells. Once you have that he will give you another card with 100% access to this dungeon.
Zen: Wait wait wait. You just said dungeon.
Darv: Indeed I did.
Zen: Any more information on that?
Darv: Hmmm. Ok. So you know how when you beat the final boss in a dungeon or I should say in a particular dungeon. The reward is you get teleported to the fountain in the main hall. Once the adventures get there they can only choose one stairwell to go in to. They however cannot see the names of the stairwell as you can see them. So once they enter that stairwell they have few choices. Buy a certain item that belongs to that stairwell or learn a secret skill that also belongs to that stairwell or finally utilize the facilities available to that stairwell. However, per say the activity they do like mining and stumble upon an earth being in these depths if they are not careful they will get killed. Since they are not protected under our villages contract. Or per say there is a cave-in and they dying from it. Well the penalty included is 30% of their level and all of their items and coins. So they can use the facilities but if they don¡¯t know what they are doing then they are doomed with a severe penalty. If some survive they can teleport out by going to see the golem at the counter.
Zen: That is severe. So why don¡¯t people just join your village then?
Darv: Sadly for over a few years now, the people that came to the village where high level players although they never even once wanted to restart just to join a small town with nothing in it. Thus they would leave. Then they would not know the secrets I am telling you now because the commitment required to be put in to this, is so high and only when the Elder deemed one worthy can the masters of the stairwells bestow such knowledge upon their apprentices.
Zen: So does that mean the master told you I could become more then just a mere apprentice now?
Darv: I wanted to tell you sooner but Elder Forbade. I even tried persuading him seeing how hard you worked without even a hint of complaining or seeking reward. Thus Elder finally Judged that you and Amelia were worthy enough to know a part of the secret. As to the dungeon name it self, only Elder knows what dungeons final boss would reward you with being teleported here.
Zen: I see. Now what?
Darv: Oh right. You can access these schematics by saying ¡°Stairwell 10 Schematics.¡±
Zen: I assume these 3 flashing blue dots on the schematics are the locations of people/ beings in this stairwell?
Darv: Indeed, that golem, you and me.
Zen: Then what is this flashing yellow dot all the way in this unknown place?
Darv: Oh right. That is Amelia. She is in the other stairwell after all. You can only see her since she is still in your party. For the people on your friends list you will see them in the color white.
Zen: Why does it look like the distance is more then 100 km?
Darv: You can ask her. Just do remember that all this is a secret. I also have to tell you one last thing the Elder said.
Zen: What is it?
Darv: This information is so sacred that he monitors the all of the information sources of its leakage and will rain down revenge upon anyone who betrays him. He also said he can monitor even the world you are from in regard to this information. There is always a contingency plan and relocating everything if something does leak out but he doesn¡¯t want people to know that there is another way to enter this place other then the dungeon reward method.
Zen: My lips are sealed but I can still talk about it with Amelia or Tanis right?
Darv: Yes however, Tanis has not proved himself to the master yet so you cannot tell him what I have told you today. Yes he knows the basics about this place since he learned it from the caretaker but the information is limited for him. Once he proves himself then you will be able to talk to him about all this.
Zen: I understand. So now what?
Darv: We make this Area 100x100x100 meters so that we may continue to drill down to the blue lava. I will set up the furnace here and continue from here onwards.
Then there was a minute of quite time as if pondering on something. I examined the hologram projection. It was quite handy. I zoomed in where I set my storage location and there I saw a small sign. So I further zoomed in and saw that the storage symbol had a certain mark on that. Darv looked at me looking at it.
Darv: Did you think I didn¡¯t know? As soon as you placed it there I wanted to see what was that mark. Later I notice it was a sort of storage transfer symbols a type of spirit magic I have not seen anyone use aside from the Elder. Thus I wanted to see what it was going to do. Steal the transported material or transport material there instead. I kept quite and even though I could of taken it off. I saw how useful it was that¡¯s why I did not erase it.
Zen: I didn¡¯t know you could see it much less erase it.
Darv: This dungeon is no ordinary. It is backed by all of the hidden rulers of this plane. You perhaps even met the Spirit King or some sort of older ruler who bestowed that transfer spirit magic to you. It doesn¡¯t show up on any skill do to its secrecy. However if you miss use it I don¡¯t think you will be able to escape unscathed and without further penalty.
Zen: Yea, yea. That person told me to be wise in the ways I use it.
Darv: Be glad you have it. Since even I don¡¯t. Nonetheless I can erase it. Even you can erase it now. If future adventure that make it here place something like that. A notification will appear telling you about it. You need to examine the notification window and if they used a spell to steal or attack something within the stairwell besides the enemy monsters that don¡¯t belong strictly to the stairwell. You need to kill them.
Zen: What if the player is stronger then me?
Darv: Oh right. On the notification screen it will say: Accidental, Pardon, Kill, Notify Stairwell Master, or Notify Elder. If you kill them they will incur the penalty I mentioned earlier.
Zen: How would they know all these rules?
Darv: When they teleport in. They will all be given a small pamphlet with rules and their options to read. They will be silenced using magic until they enter a stairwell. Anyway, we should begin. Clearing this area. By the way used that transfer magic 100% and ill use the tube storage for faster results.
Zen: Get ready! Set! Go.
Darv: Wow still eager huh!
Zen: Darv. Lets not make it a square block. Rather lets make it oval and perhaps even put a building with a lake here. It is after all also a rest stop.
Darv: No matter the size it just has to be able to take those tubes with at least 50 meters high.
Thus we began savagely digging in this area. It took us 30 hours to dig it out. I told Darv I was going to do the ceiling and he did the floor. Thus the celling now looked as if it had stony icicles hanging down with sharp edges.
Darv: That ceiling looks really dangerous are you sure about this?
Zen: Come on. Where is the fun if you excavate an underground cavern without icicles?
Darv: Guess your right.
As we were talking the Elder appeared in the cavern we just built.
Elder Avintus: Oh my. This place, I like the design a bit better then the central chamber. No offence Darv, but the kid has slightly better imagination then you.
Darv: Non taken. I would be surprised if my imagination surpassed a kid. Ha ha ha ha. You know what they say. As you get older so does your imagination.
Elder stretched his hands out. ¡° You two get in to the tunnel above.¡± Thus we did as instructed and then I looked back and a huge wave that melted the ground and made it look like the granite floor in the central chamber. There even appeared the lake I wanted and a nicely designs small house with several trees around this tiny lake/ pond.
Elder Avintus: You can come down now.
I entered and looked at the ceiling and saw the icicles turned transparent and even shined like lanterns. It was amazing.
Darv: That will never get old seeing it over and over.
Zen: Just what in the world happened?
Darv: Didn¡¯t I tell you that our Elder far surpasses in skills the all the masters combined?
Zen: Ah no you didn¡¯t
Darv: Well you can see why. It only took him a second not only to melt things and make them look like granite but also build and construct in just a second. There is no way I can describe something like this in a mere simple discussion. You have to see it to believe it anyway.
Zen: I don¡¯t think seeing and believing will yield fruitful all across the board.
Elder Avintus: You should listen to the boy Darv. He says a true thing indeed. I think ill spend some time in this cavern since the scenery is different and I also transferred your Magical Furnace to that corner over there.
Darv: Thank You Elder.
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