ã€ŠProject Feliaã€‹


 Chapter 1 - Pilot

    My name is Sky Farrow and i live in a world called Felia. The real world, know as Earth has come to a ruin, the year was 2070 when  ¡°Project Felia¡± became a reality. Three big sphere shaped objects was launched up in the air, these spheres contained a virtual reality.  The game was not really designed to be the new ideal world to live in, it was a work in progress for several years until it was decided what the game was to become.

    The Spheres got a shield that can withstand destructive forces and it is self powered by highly effective subpanels which is also a part of the armor. The Spheres are the servers, three spheres floating around the earth with the capability to hold as many people as it needed, be it billions.

    Earth had become a place filled with famine, corruption and the daily life of any human were not easy. My mother and father died in the third world war that started in 2069. The war was basically every continent versus another, the destructive force of the technology was beyond human comprehension and without any other way to retaliate, nukes where launched back and forth from continent to continent, soldiers was send to fight, but it was futile.

    It was only me and my little sister, we were living in the slums ever since the war started, we lived in the slums before we were evacuated to a safe zone within a bunker, but it got invade after 3 months after the fields above us where blown away, the city and everything was laid to waste.

    We were both skinny at the time, dirty and tierd. Our hair was long, but it got cut short as we entered the bunker to look more civilized. Celia was really short for her age, but dont let the looks decieve you. Me? Guess normal hight, but after some workout and decent food at the bunker my body soon got more healty, that counts for Celia too.

    it didnt take long before we were attacked by scavangers.

    The enemy started killing people in the first wing, me and my sister where located at the last wing.

    The bunker was pretty big, it would take at least 1 hour to get to us. There was a facility which contained capsules where you could transfer yourself into Felia, but your real self would die in the process. Many considered this to be inhumane, a sin, cheap way out, many would rather die then live in a fake world. Religion had grown so vast on Earth as the only hope people had and they would rather go to heaven then to live inside Felia, just like my sister, but me, I didn`t have such a strong faith.

    I remember us sleeping when the alarm started going off and everything was flashing red from the alert lights. There was no way out, I took Celias hand and ran for the facility, which was in the middle of the bunker. We were only kids, those 18 or above had to fight, luckily for me I was a few days away of being 18 and my sister was soon to be 16.

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    Once we reached the facility we jumped inside one capsule each and started the programing, we had been thought by our teachers in class during the safety lessons how to do it. Once the programming was done I had to lay back and let the smoke filled with data microbes enter my skin, it took about 5 minutes for my whole body to be reprogrammed into ¡°Cloud¡± or ¡°Cybernet¡±, once the 5 minutes had past I was dead, the last thing I remember when I was alive was waiting inside the capsule, it felt like it took forever, the enemy had managed to enter the facility and started shooting at the capsule, keep in mind these capsules didn¡¯t have any good armor at all, literally synthetic glass.

    Me and my sister had entered a capsule far away from the others, but it was at the end of the process I realized  that my sister had not started the program, I could not leave the capsule or move, I could only see.  Celia`s capsule opened and she started screaming and waving her arms as she ran and distracted them. That was when I woke up in a white room filled with nothing.

    ¡°Celia! Don¡¯t!¡± I shouted, but it was too late, I was inside an endless white room as vast as my eyes could see.

    My eyes was tearing up, I cant believe it, is she dead......? . I screamed my lungs empty, but it was no use. I fell on the ground in despair hitting the ground as hard as I could several times. After a short while I thought to my self, am I dead. Was this hell? Then I realized I had been transferred to data.

    ¡°Welcome player! Sky Farrow!¡± a big holographic hud appeared before me.

    i raised my head up while i was on my knees.

    ¡°You may select your class¡± The hud said as several classes where presented to me.

    Classes is what type of player I want to be, there was 6 choices and these choices was life defining, once picked it could not be unpicked, you had one character, 1 life. You die in the game, you die for real.

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 Chapter 2 - Yurilia

    Author note:  If you dont want to read about all the classes that is fine.

    I could remember that the military that was co producing the game made a clear order to only have one life so the game would feel more "Real", when you are fighting another player, a beast or even fall a great distance u feel scared for your life, just like it was real.

    Blade master was the first class, expert at weapon handling, could wield any kind of weapon which gives several unique abilities for its weapon type. Heavy armor could be worn as easy as feather, just like a 2 handed sword and mace. Much health, high armor value, surely a good pick, but it was not my kind of style. There was also the sub classes, High damage, but not agile at all, if mastered correctly one successful swing could end a fight in seconds. Melee class.

    Second class was Alchemist. Alchemist class was know for its poisons or flask to cripple foes once abilities. There is no end to what kind of flasks one could make with the right, talent and subclass.  Not much health or armor value, but really agile and the ability to boost several abilities and attributes of himself or teammates, even lowering the opponents attributes is a good choice. Medium damage, but effective for support. Melee and ranged class.

    Third class, Spellslinger. Typical mages, master of arcane magic. Just as the alchemist the potential of abilities are endless. Low armor value and health, not as agile, but the skills like teleporting a short distance sure make up for that. Making mana shields for protection is also a way to boost once survivability. High damage with strategic spells and combos. Melee and ranged class.

    Forth class is the Assassin. Master of shadows and deceit with venoms poisons which is applied mostly to blades to cripple the foe.  Low health, low armor Value, but most agile character. The opportunity of stealth at once disposal is highly useful in solo play and spy missions. Deadly and swift damage from the shadows, even the strongest armor has no say against the penetrating power of an assassin. Melee class.

    Fifth class called the Elementalist. Master of all elements, fire,water, air and earth. Elementalists have the power to do harm and heal. Medium armor value and health, with medium agility. Fire is destructive power to burn the flesh of foes, Water is the healing power, air is agility and earth is CC( Crowd control= Stop foes in their tracks. ) Both melee and ranged.

    Sixth class, archers. Archers use bows for damage, with a really good aim, tracking skills and trap making, archers are not to take lightly. Medium armor, high damage, medium health, medium agility.  The damage is all about the ability to hit the target with the arrows. Several misses can cost you your life.

    ¡°Choose, wisely¡± The hud said with a monotone robotic voice. It took me about 3 hours to pick a class that would represent the rest of my life. The assassin!

    Everything around me slowly turned dark and the hud disappeared, suddenly I was transferred to the starting zone of Felia called Yurilia.

    When I opened my eyes everything was bright again, only this time there was a city here, tall towers, everything made from bricks and wood, horse caravans and everything out from an old medieval city, with a bit of fantasy applied to it. Walking, breathing, looking around was all the same as in real life. I pinched myself to feel pain and it worked. Everything is just as it was. The colors was really bright, I was used to the usual smoggy air. I noticed brown leather clothing, with a leather helmet on me. This is the lvl 1 gear for assassins I thought to myself.

    ¡°Yo! You there, come over here!¡± a tall man with a katana and straw hat called me over to him. I point at myself as he nods. I approach him.

    ¡°Don¡¯t be shy man, im here to help you! As a bodyguard of the Guardian Angels, my duty is to help a fresh spawn like yourself!¡± The man smiled and slightly bow his straw hat, but he seemed a bit scary.

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    His name was over his head as ¡°Nort Anderson, recruit of the Guardian Angels¡±

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    ¡°N-nort Anderson, recruite of the Guardian Angels?¡± I could see his name, but what was the Guardian angle thing?

    ¡°Nice to meet you, Sky Farrow! Follow me I will show you where to go!¡± Nort started walking and I followed him.

    ¡°Why do you help me?¡± I wondered.

    ¡°As a member of the Guardian Angels it is our duty to make sure you will not die within 30 minutes of the game, once you are dead, you are dead, but I wont let that happen, ok?"

    We walked towards what is called a quest giver as I remember my teacher thought me in class.

    ¡°This is your first quest, once you started the game you automatically get a quest to talk to this woman to get your starting weapons, then you have to kill some boars.¡± Nort points at the woman.

    I walk up to her.

    It was an old woman, looked like a nun from the church, probably from the one I saw on the way here.

    ¡°Young assassin, please take this and help me with some bloodthirsty boars that have been ravaging the farm north of here, I will help you with my healing¡± The nun walks fast towards the location as me and Nort follows.

    ¡°Listen here Sky, I will not help you in fights unless you are at the brink of death, my job is to keep you from dieing, not aid your fights, I can give you tips on how to move and such, but I am a blade master, not an assassin.¡±

    This was the first time I have heard Nort in a more serious tone.

    ¡° I will not die that easily¡± The daggers I got from the nun were sharp and shiny, my father used to show me how to fight with daggers before he went to war.

    We went out of the city and the land was filled with green beautiful fields with rivers, cornfields and farms. After a short walk we could see the farm and the boars.

    ¡°Go ahead Sky! I will heal you if you are damaged!¡± the nun held some holy beeds as she started to repeat some kind of mantra.

    I saw the boars, my mind was ready. i slowly approached the ferocious beast. I tried to ambush the boar by sneaking behind it, my footsteps were not to be heard at all, even though there were things on the ground that would make noises. I lunged the boar with my 2 daggers close to each other as one sharp edge to penetrate the skin, as I lunged the boar noticed and knocked me back, I got in a hit but the damage was not that great, the daggers didn¡¯t quite connect to his body.

    ¡°Bwahahah, what the hell are you doing?! Bwahahah, use your stealth man! Your stealth!¡± Nort was laughing his as off as I tried to find out how to use stealth. I suddenly felt a lot better as a glowing light surrounded me, it was the nun that healed me.

    ¡°You don¡¯t know how to use your spells? Think of the type of spell you have in your arsenal and it will be used, right now your spell is to go invisible, which not only makes u go invisible, but your next successful hit will deal extra damage, which will be increased on how much points you have in Stealth!¡±

    I tried to think of going invisible as hard as I could and before I knew it I was totally transparent, I could see the outline of my body, as well as daggers, but everyone else was blind to my presence.

    I snuck around the boar again for my next ambush, this time I jumped and landed with my body on its back as I pierced the dagger through its head.

    ¡°Good job, Sky! Now, kill 9 more! Keep using your stealth, that extra damage sure helped you out there!¡± Nort was cheering me on from afar.

    I entered stealth mode, slowly approached the boar, but since my footsteps did not make any noise I tried to move faster and faster, suddenly I was running without making any noise. My speed was really fast as I shoved both of my daggers down the boar¡¯s neck, it died before it knew I was there.

    Before I knew it all the boars were dead. Ding lvl 2! New ability, poison.

    ¡°Good job Sky, how does it feel to have completed your first quest?¡± Nort seems proud.

    ¡°I got the hang of it after a while, I got lvl 2, how do I use poisons?¡± I figured to ask Nort since he was here to help, but I don¡¯t know for how long.

 Chapter 3 - Learning the ropes

    ¡°Assassins have 3 subclasses, poison, stealth and melee combat. You will get armor and weapons with stats and since you are an assassin you can only use leather clothing. Your stats will be poison, which you can use to cripple, inflict more damage or poison someone¡¯s drink ect. Stealth will give you more ambush power, the stealth mode you used now will get much stronger if you get gear that has more stealth damage then the other subclasses. Melee combat is for fighting outside of stealth, not used by many assassins, but it is never to be underestimated as the attack speed and your body movement increases during a fight.

    Once you have leveled you get 1 point that you can put in either of these subclasses. Max lvl is 60, just like me, you can respec your points everytime you want, but not during combat. Remember that you can have several pieces of gear in your inventory, have one with a lot of poison points, one with lots of stealth points and one with melee combat points. Some missions might require me to have a large portion of health with a big shield and heavy armor, therefor I have to keep it on me, but I feel like this is the most comfortable for me though.¡± Nort seems to know everything, wonder how long he has been here?

    ¡°Take this Sky, this is the least I can give you¡± The nun hands over some money, a poison flask and a little bomb.

    ¡°Thank you¡± The nun headed back to the city.

    ¡°She hurried off quick." what`s the rush?

    ¡°Shes a npc you know? Once the mission is complete she can be found at the same location, keep in mind they are not real players, but that should not make you treat them less than players. They all have their memories and for them they have been living in this world for years, you can speak to them as they were real people. They are always really happy and glad to help, talk, they also have their own routine of life, although it may not seem like it."

    ¡°Let`s head to our next quest location ok?¡± Nort paid a horse caravan to travel us back to the city, it was quite relaxing after killing all those boars.

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    ¡°Your next quest will be to gather food for the homeless shelter, follow me¡±  The city seemed kind of lively with many players roaming around having meals, fun, played board games and some even dueled. Some shops with swords, herbs, food was also a part of the city.

    ¡°It should be right her---?¡± Nort stopped up as someone called his name.

    ¡°You think you can just walk in front of me while you owe me money? Huh?¡± A stranger approached Nort`s face, then he was standing toe to toe, he was wearing some kind of animal skull on his head as a helmet, with markings all over his body.

    ¡°Lets make a deal, if you can beat me in a duel I will give you three times the money i owe you ok? If i win I owe you nothing.¡± Nort lifted his straw hat as he smiled at the stranger with a bit of a cockiness.

    ¡°You think you can defeat me? I accept your challenge, Nort!¡± Both the Nort and the stranger walked towards the duel area. The stranger threw of his shirt and his whole body was filled with markings.

    ¡°I will now show you the power of the elements!¡± The elemtalist put both his hand together and his markings started to glow!

    ¡°GO!¡± The announcer announced.

    The elemtalist shot a big fiery ball toward Nort, but it was dodged, Nort charges towards the elemtalist with his blade drawn, just as he is about to strike, the elemtalist uses earth roots to stop him in his tracks.

    ¡°I got you now!¡± The elemtalists markings turned from green too white as his hair started to flap in the wind. Small tornados surrounded both his feet as he ran incredibly fast towards Nort, it was like he was floating on the ground, he jumped and kicked Nort in his face as his he just managed to cut himself out of the roots!

    ¡°You challenge me to a duel and that is all you have to stand up with? Pathetic! Easy money!¡± The elementalist summons a tornado around Nort while he is on the ground, the tornado lift Nort up in the air.

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    ¡°Die loser!¡± As the elemtalist is about to fling Nort away the tornado was cut! Nort lands firmly on the ground as he jumps with such a force that the ground behind him got turned to rubble! The sword slash was so fast that no one saw it, before we knew it Nort was already behind the elementalist and his sword was sheathed.

    ¡°Impossiable¡­humpf!¡± A big cut on the elemtalist appeared a second after Nort`s sword was sheeted. Nort won!

    After the fight was over the elemtalist woke up with no wounds on his body.

    ¡°Let`s go Sky, we got questing to do?¡± He smiled and had his thumb up, I swear I saw and heard that smile go ¡°ching!¡±

    ¡°That was amazing, how did you do that?¡± How is it possible to move like that?

    ¡°I have been here for a long time, lets just leave it at that, lets keep moving son! If you want to be as good as me, you have to hone your skills, but I will help. There is one thing I have to warn you about, this world is not as peaceful as you might think. This city is pvp protected, u cant hurt other players, unless it is a duel of course. I have been through many fights that have almost cost my life.

    Killing players will not give any mark on you, you can also loot the dead bodies and trust me, some people out there are more then willing the get a hold of your gear one way or another.¡± Nort had a empty expression in his eyes for a split second.

    ¡°How many people have you killed? If I may ask?¡± I immediately regret asking that question, my curiosity was bigger then my sympathy for a moment.

    ¡°Back in the day when everyone was questing and exploring at the same time, some npc`s was to occupied by another player and questing was hard, some could only do 1-2 quests a day if lucky. There was a guild created ¡°Darkblood brotherhood¡± with only one purpose to kill players, by doing this not only was the population lowered, but people feared to go outside of the citys. That was when the ¡°Guardian Angles¡± were created, I joined as soon as I heard, we vowed to always protect the players of Felia, but it didn¡¯t come with a cheap price, many of use died, but not in vein, the ¡°Darkblood brotherhood¡± was weakened and the questing was do able after the battles.

    There is something called zone pvp. If you go to a place to lvl and the zone is said to be from lvl 10-15, you can only kill those who are those lvls only if you are within that range lvl yourself. To say it easy, no lvl 60 character can wait for you to step outside the city and kill you.¡±  I could see the empty eyes of Nort again, I have never killed anyone, but I have lived in the real world long enough to see a lot of people be killed, friends and family, this world is not that different.

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    We got to the quest giver.

    ¡°Please go kill 5 wolfs and 5 bears and bring their meat to me, you will be rewarded!¡±

    ¡°I accept! I will be back shortly.¡± Nort pays another horse caravan to travel us to the location of the wolfs and bears outside the city.

    ¡°hop on!¡± I got on the caravan.

    ¡°This will be the last quest I will be around, now that I know you know the basics you will do fine on your own, if you meet other players, do your best to befriend them, one friend is better then 1 more enemy.

    "You can never have too many friends.¡±

    Nort is looking at the fields, like he is reminiscing the old days.

    I have been living my whole life alone, those close to me usually died shortly because of the regular bomb runs and attacks. It has mostly been me and my sister, but I couldn¡¯t say that to Nort.

    We arrived to our destination.

    The tutorial is soon finished! What will happen after? Real threats? Deadly npc fights? Find out in the next chapter!

 Chapter 4 - Cortez!

    We were dropped of in front of a big forest, there was no animals at the entrance, Nort strolled inside, he clearly knew where he was going. I applied the poison I got from the non on the daggers, the poison was to increase my damage by making the wounds hurt more, like adding salt to a flesh wound. The inventory was really easy to use, just by thinking of it a hud appeared in front of me, where I could see all the stuff I have looted and received, as well as I could see my gear and stats, right now I got no stats, only a low armor value.

    ¡°Hey wait up!¡± I tried to follow Norts pace, because he was strolling so fast.

    ¡°Shhh!¡± Nort quickly crouched and gestured me to crouch and be quiet as well. He pointed towards some bunches as we slowly moved to it. There were 3 wolves I front of us. Should have know that wolfs walk in packs.

    ¡°How are you going to handle 3 enemies at the same time?¡± Nort make it seem like a test for me, I should not disappoint him.

    ¡°First I will go invisible and throw the bomb into the crowd, that will at least deal half their health, then I will ambush one wolf and fight the others of in melee combat, biggest struggle of the fight is the movement after the first kill. Dodging the attacks while managing to land hits. I got this¡±

    I entered stealth mode, opened my inventory and lit the bomb. The bomb landed exactly in the middle of the wolf pack, the bomb blew up and I struck the one wolf from behind and it died.

    ¡°1 down, 2 to go!¡± The remaining wolfs jumped at me at the same time. I could not enter stealth mode while I was seen, running away of an npc`s sight would reset their hp and behavior, so I had to fight toe to toe. I jumped to the side as the wolves laned, but they quickly charged towards me again. I tried to copy the movements Nort used in his fight with the elemtalist.

    I put all my strength to my feet and lunged towards them with my daggers ready to strike. I hit both the wolves in the stomach and they died, just disappeared to pixel dust into the air as the loot was dropped. I could hear clapping behind me. It was Nort.

    ¡°Wow, that was amazing for a guy lvl 2, those planning skills surly fit for an assassin!¡± That was the biggest smile I had seen Nort make!

    ¡°Still not finished, we need to find 2 more wolves and 5 bea---!?¡± 1 bear jumped on me from behind and knocked me down on the ground! It bit my left shoulder with its bloodthirsty teeth!

    ¡°Are you alright, Sky?¡± The bear was slow, but its damage was really strong, I could feel my left shoulder burning in pain! I had no choice to fight toe to toe again!

    I could feel the adrenalin started rushing through my veins because of the pain, even though I knew Nort had my back, it could not be contained. The bear ran towards me with a powerful and intimidating aura, but it was slower then the wolves, I could dodge it! I waited for the bear to come close before I quickly stepped to the left. I could either go left or right, putting into consideration that my left shoulder was damaged I had to jump left so that my right arm was the one to shiv him!

    The bear came closer and roared, but I was ready! I jumped to the left as fast as I could and shived the beast in its right side a perfect hit, but not enough to one hit it! The bear roared in pain and tried to claw me in retaliation, it almost hit me, I was lucky, if I was a little bit slower it could claw my right leg, which would considerably make my movement dull. I could see the health of the bear dropping slowly over time from the poison, but it was like 10% of the damage of the attack from before. The bear turned around and faced me, with even more ferocious eyes!

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    Suddenly the bear was shot with an arrow in the head, finishing it off!

    ¡°Who is there?¡± Where did that arrow come from?

    ¡°Yo! Want to team up?¡± a big guy with furry armor and a bow came out of one of the tree tops. He was wearing goggles so I couldn¡¯t see his eyes, but the glasses are grey with a red dot in the middle.

    ¡°What is this?¡± A party invite came up before me. Accept or decline? I pressed accept.

    ¡°You are now in a party, your exp and loot will be shared, you can not damage each other and the quests can also be shared.¡± Nort says sounding like a teacher.

    I noticed he didn¡¯t have a body guard like me.

    ¡°Where is your body guard?¡± I pointed at Nort. He smiles and that smile went ¡°ching!¡± again I swear!

    ¡°I am lvl 3 and I am done with this quest, I have been waiting here for someone to team up with! I can help you out with the quest!¡± The Archer seemed like a nice and trust worthy guy.

    We killed wolves and bears together, he tracked them down and laid traps while I lurked around. We strategically made our attacks, the Archer named Cortez drew his bow ready to shoot while he had a trap in front of him hidden in the grass, while I was invisible behind the beast! He shot and I ambushed at the same time, the beast was killed in an instant, the trap got a wolf that was hiding in the bushes. Before we knew it the quest was complete and I was lvl 3!

    New abilities ¡°Reappear¡± an ability to instantly teleport behind the target, in or out of stealth mode and ¡°Apparition¡± a clone of yourself, can not attack and is killed by anything damaging, used for decoys and strategic kills.

    ¡°Wow, questing together went so much quicker! We didn¡¯t even get hurt once!¡± Having Cortez on my side sure helped a lot!

    ¡°Lets go, Sky and deliver the quest.¡± Nort without hesitation was already on his way out of the forest. I think he has something on his mind, at least recently.

    ¡° Cortez, come with us after I have delivered the quest we can keep going!¡± I began to follow Nort.

    ¡° Ok, coming!¡± Cortez was disabling the trap and looted the wolf.

    On the caravan back to the city to deliver the quest.

    ¡°Here is the meat, madam.¡± I handed over the 5 wolf and 5 bear meat.

    ¡° Thank you, young adventurer. Take this as a token of my gratitude.¡± I got some gold and a smoke bomb. Each classes gets a piece of equipment for their own class, if I was a Archer I would have gotten something else then a smoke bomb, like a trap set or something.

    ¡°This is where I take my leave, Sky. Maybe we will see each other again sometime.¡± Nort turned his back, but didn¡¯t start walking yet.

    ¡°You should head toward a city called Zuria, your next quests lie there, and you will get several quest chains, so you are not bounded to 1 quest at a time. Good luck and be careful! That goes for you too Cortez!¡± Nort waves as he takes his leave.

    ¡°Thanks so much, Nort!¡± Now it was only me and Cortez against the world of Felia!

 Chapter 5 - Comfurt

    ¡°We should head to Zuria as Nort said, but I think we should buy you some armor first! As you can see my gear looks a bit more then just a lvl 1 default gear.¡± After a closer look I could see that Cortez`s gear was a bit more detailed and cooler.

    ¡°My guardian gave me some of his old gear and he showed me where to buy gear and weapons too, come I will show you!¡± Cortez headed deeper into the city. I followed.

    We arrived to what seemed to be the marketing quarter.

    ¡°Here you can buy food, gear, weapons, supplies. Everything you want, but for a price ofcourse.¡± We entered a building filled with people.

    ¡°This is the auction house, just like in the real world, you buy and sell items here to other players. If you where to sell it to an npc you would not get as much gold and the item you sell would just disappear. How much Meseta you got?¡± Meseta is the currency of Felia.

    ¡°I got 10 000 mesetas¡± Not sure if it was much, but it was what I have gathered from quests and beasts.

    ¡°it is enough to buy some good lvl 3 gear, since other players want mesetas they usually sell outdated gear. The quest givers does not give you the best of items every time, usually it is useless and you can just sell it back to them or some vendors, its not rude. They are npc`s after all.¡± We went up to one of the auction guys.

    ¡°Step right up! Buy or sell whatever you want!¡± The auctioneer cried.

    ¡°Hey! My buddy here want to see some lvl 3 assassin gear, can you show us your wares?¡± The auctioneer picked his pocket and a big hud appeared in front of us.

    ¡°Here you can see the gear, how it looks like, the stats and price. At lvl 3 you will not have so many stats, but if you deal 1 more damage every strike, it could save your life and you know just as good as me that you only got 1 life. Save 3000 mesetas and die by doing so is not worth it you know?¡± Cortez was right, I should always keep my gear updated, if I suddenly meet someone or something and my gear is a few lvls lower then me, it wont be easy to survive.

    ¡°What do you like about your class so far? You should gear up after your own play style.¡± I had 3 choices of gear. Some with good poison boost, some with stealth damage boost and the one with regular basic attack damage boost.

    ¡°I kind of prefer to be the silent type, I guess stealth is more my cup of tea. It is probably the best stat for our questing as well; we can kill everything in one instant with a synchronized attack.¡± The stealth gear appeared in front of us after I enabled the category ¡°stealth¡± as a main stat. The gear was black. Black hood, black bandana as a mask that could cover my mouth and the other parts of the body was also black, but more leathery.

    ¡°I don¡¯t have enough money to buy a whole set, so I think I will buy the hoodie and the mask.¡± It cost me 7500 mesetas and the stealth stats was 3 on the hood and 2 on the mask, the armor value was a bit higher then my lvl 1 default gear, but my default gear did not have any subclass stats.

    ¡°Thank you for the purchase! Come again! We are open all times everyday!¡± The auctioneer was really happy looking with a classy hat and typical old facion salesman suit.

    The auction area reminded me of a bar, all wood, 2 stories and filled with people. The players in the game had so many types of gear, it was like a fairytale. Being inside a data world could take some time to get used to.

    After buying gear for me, we headed outside and the smell of some really good food stooped both of us in the tracks at the same time, like our minds was synched. We headed to the restaurant and ordered some boar steaks.

    ¡°Wow, this smells so good!¡± Cortez sniffed away all the smoke reeking from the boar meat, then he picked it up and took a huge bite!

    ¡°This is just as good as it smells! No wait! Its better!¡± Cortez took another bite as he was struggeling to talk and eat at the same time. He was literally gasping for air!

    I picked up the boar piece and took a bit.

    ¡°Wow, you were not kidding at all! This has to be the best meal I have ever tasted! So tasty! No wondered it cost 1500 mesetas each.¡± I took another bite.

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    ¡°Worth every penny!¡± Cortez swallows the meat and prepares to talk.

    ¡° Tell me, why did you chose to live here? Hope its not to soon to ask.¡± Cortez seemed to have something on his mind.

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    ¡°I was living in a bunker as shelter, we were attack and the only way out was to go here, it was not an easy choice for me to make, but it had to be done to live. My little sister, Celia was with me, but she distracted the soldiers away from my capsule as the programming was going on. I want to think that she made it, but it is not that likely, but I still have faith. I keep telling myself that she knows the bunker much better then them and she is small and fast, there might be a chance.¡±

    I was about to cry as i remembered what i saw back then.

    ¡°Your sister sounds brave, Sky. If she really distracted those soldiers I would say she got guts and your right, she knows the bunker much better than the enemy, if you think she made it, I would bet she did one way or another.¡± The words of Cortez was really reassuring .

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    ¡°My family was not really nice. I didn¡¯t have any brothers or sisters, my father was always depressed and fighting with my mom, I always wished they would both disappear. I lived in an isolated city in a mountain, we had a facility too, a little one with 4 capsules. It took me a long time before I managed to take the initiative of actually using one. I had been reading the brochures secretly so I knew a bit of how to use the capsule and how the world works. My mother found the brochure in my room, she got mad and started crying, my father walked up the stairs, drunk. I knew what was coming, before he got up I was out of there, I jumped out of the window and ran as fast as I could to the facility. I opened the capsule and threw myself in. I managed to program it before my parents came to stop me, once programmed there was no way to open it or stop the process. The last thing I saw was my mom crying and father angry as hell. Sounds worse then it is, I am not that sad actually, even thought it has been several hours, it feels like a whole loot longer, this world keeps amazing me.¡±

    I could see his eyes, it was true what he said, he wasn¡¯t sad. He probably have had some shit parents. I don¡¯t know what is worse, to not have any parents or have some shitty once. There was many times when i and Celia lived in the slums I wished for comfort of my mother and father, I only had pictures that I treasured more than food.

    "You are probebly wondering why i picked Archer? Well, if my father was good at something it was archery and i went hunting with him all the time, there really wasent much else to do. Hunting and working out haha!"

    His smile was really uplifting.

    After the food we realized that it had become dark outside, we found a hotel to stay at, Cortez paid for 2 separate rooms, since he still had some money because he didn¡¯t have to buy gear, he said he could pay. The room was not really big, but it beats sleeping in a black cold alley.

    The bed was just as comfy as the bed in the bunker. As I laid down in the bed all I could think about when I looked at the moon outside was Celia. The flash backs hunted my mind, the uncertainty of her survival, if she actually manage to escape, how could she buy enough time inside the capsule to make it here without being noticed?

    She is a smart girl, I know she will make it! You have to! Celia!

    While Sky and Cortez fell asleep, there was some shady players in a camp in the hills outside the city.

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 Chapter 6 - Finally, a Friend

    ¡°What do you want me to do with him boss?¡± a bandit said as he held a player captive. The captive was badly incurred and filled with blood and injuries.

    ¡° Its late and my house with all the cages are a few hours away from here, just kill him and get it over with, you are free to take everything you want form his gear! Get him out of my sight!¡±

    The bandit boss was chewing on a cigar and he was big and fat with heavy armor and a big axe over his shoulders.

    ¡°N-No! Please don¡¯t kill me! I- I do everything! Please!¡± The captive started to drop his loot on the ground as his gear periodically was removed and his body was more reviled. The bandit punched him in the face and kicked him in the stomach so he fell on the ground.

    ¡°You see, I don¡¯t want your gear, no no no, I have the better gear anyway¡± The bandit laughs in a psychotic manor, more like giggling.

    ¡°What do you want with me then? I have nothing else to give? I can be your slave yes! I can grind materials for you to sell, just please don¡¯t kill me!¡± The captive started to cry as he was speaking, he was desperate.

    ¡°I don¡¯t want money either, I want your life! Tihihihihihih hahahahaah!¡± The laughing maniac takes out a knife after he had successfully tied up the captive to a metal chair. The manic then proceeded to make small cuts on the captive¡¯s body with the sharp knife.

    ¡°Stop please! It hurts!¡± The captive starts to lose his sanity as he can see both his right and left arm are blood filled with deep cuts in a mass quantity.

    ¡°Ohh you feel pain already? This is like being pinched compared to what¡¯s coming! Tihihihi!¡± The maniac throws water on the captive to flush away the blood.

    ¡°Now, let the fun begin!¡± The maniac take out a poisonous flask from one of his many pockets and carelessly pours it all over his arms, the poison is so damaging when in contact with the wounds a mist could be seen! The captive was screaming his lungs empty! Hes eyes was rolling around unnaturally and the shaking was intense.

    ¡°Tihihihhihahaahah! The laughter increased with the screaming.

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    Someone was knocking on the door to my room and woke me up.

    ¡°Are you ready for some adventure, friend?¡± Cortez seemed to be a morning bird, filled with energy already.

    ¡°Here take this! Breakfast!¡± Cortez had already bought breakfast for both of us. A really tasty chicken leg, even how much I tried the food would not make any stains or anything. I could literally drag the chicken leg into the bed sheets and not a single mess would be made.

    ¡°Wow Cortez, thank you! Hope it didn¡¯t cost you too much, I don¡¯t want to be a burden.¡± I took a bite of the chicken leg.

    ¡°Burden? Friends are not burdens! The amount of adventure and questing we have in front of us are astronomical!¡± He was really energic!

    ¡°Astronomical? Really?¡± I could not resist to laugh a little.

    ¡°What? You have to think big man!¡± he took a bite of the chicken leg as well and headed downstairs of the hotel.

    As I went downstairs Cortez was waiting in front of the entrance and I got a party invite from him.

    ¡°I guess we are headed to Zuria then.¡± Cortez was looking for a caravan.

    ¡°Hey over here! Stop!¡± We chanced the caravan and it stopped.

    ¡°Zuria? That will cost you 3000 mesetas for the both of you.¡± The caravan said. We used the last mesetas we had on the caravan ride.

    The trip took about 2 hours. Felia is said to be almost the same size as the real world.

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    ¡°While you were sleeping I was roaming the city a bit and I found a flower trainer, she thought me how to pick up flowers.¡± He seemed a bit proud of it.

    ¡°Flowers? Cant everyone pick up flowers?¡± sounded like a logical question in my opinion.

    ¡°Ofcourse, but if you and I pick up the same flowers only I can use it or see its stats, since the flower you picked up is worthless you cant trade it or sell it.¡± So that¡¯s how it works.

    ¡°I remember Nort said I could use flowers to make poison, maybe I should learn it too.¡± Always poison on my blades would be nice.

    ¡° Would be nice to have for your class, but chose wisely you can only chose 2 professions to learn. Once learned it can¡¯t be unlearned.¡±

    After I realized that it seemed like it was a way to easy choice for Cortez, he doesn¡¯t even need flowers for his class, or does he? Maybe for the traps?

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    As we were bored of the ride we both were silent and reminisced the old life as we beheld the beautiful plains. Animals running around in packs, having fun, beautiful trees and the sky was so blue it almost hurt my eyes. In the real world it was a rare sight to see a blue sky. The pollution and chemical gasses mostly blocked the sun, it used to rain a lot and the rain water was poisonous, not for the skin, but if it was drank.

    I could see that Cortez was thinking about his past. Maybe his parents, who knows, we just meet each other there is still a lot of things we don¡¯t know about each other, but Cortez seems like a open minded guy, I feel comfortable around him. Safe. Maybe one day we can become best buds, Hahah what am I saying, talking in such a weird tone like that. I couldn¡¯t help but laugh a little to myself. Cortez saw me giggle.

    ¡°What is so funny? Is it my face?¡± Cortez made a really funny facial expression, I laughed as much as I could.

    ¡°What is on my face? Where? Where?¡± I couldn¡¯t resist to tease Cortez with my laughter.

    ¡°There is nothing on your face, you just made such a funny expression! I slowly stopped my giggling, my eyes had even teared up.  I couldn¡¯t remember the last time I had laughed like this.

    ¡°You are such a prick! Haha, oh look!¡± Some weird looking birds were flying really close to the water in synch, suddenly some fished jumped up from the water and dragged the bird down to the water with its teeth! It was an amazing sight! We were both astonished.

    ¡°Wow, that was insane!¡± said Cortez, even the caravan rider laughed a little, for an npc he really seemed to have his own personality.

    ¡°Take your heads back in guys! I know the view is nice, but at least keep your torso inside! It¡¯s dangerous!¡± the caravan rider seemed worried. Me and Cortez could not resist the urge to smile.

    We both really needed this.

    A few more minutes past and we arrived to our location.

    ¡°Here we are kids! Zuria! Have a nice stay, may I be of service again later! Farewell!¡±

    ¡°Farewell old man!¡± We said at the same time.

    ¡°I am not that old, hmpf!¡± The caravan rider said as he rode away from us, a little bit upset from that statement.

    Cortez and I could not wait to check out the city.

    ¡°Wow look at this city! Let¡¯s go right away.¡± We both hurried inside after we stretched our legs.

    What kind of mission lies within this city, not only npc quests, but a cry for help from a player?

 Chapter 7- 12 First Encounters!

    ¡°Look at all these players¡± I said as the players, npc and shops were totally different from the city before.

    ¡°There is one of the quest givers, I see several quest givers over there too.¡±

    The first quest we picked up was to find a local thug crew that have been ravaging the town, their hideout was a little bit out of the city. We picked up the other quest as well, they were basically kill 5 thugs, take back some of the stolen goods and kill the thug leader. All separate quest, but still at the same location which was really nice.

    ¡°No, not my son! Has anyone seen my son?¡± a woman was crying her eyes out, it was a player. She was desperately trying to see if people had seen her son, but she was ignored.

    ¡°Calm down woman, calm down, tell me about your son, maybe I can help!¡± Cortez was the one who went to her, we sat down at a tavern close by. She was still so teared up she could barely speak.

    ¡°Now tell me about your son, miss Nora¡± she kept her head down a lot, no wonder.

    ¡°His name was Jason, Jason Gordon, he went missing yesterday. The last thing he said to me was that he was going out to mine some ores so he could smelt it and increase his weapon damage, of his and my blade, but he never came back. I got worried and traveled to where I know he usually dig, but when I arrived I saw corpses of both workers and bandits, this was not the work of npc thugs, but real bandit players. I am afraid he got caught be the lower ranks of the ¡°Darkblood Brotherhood.¡±

    That was the evil guild Nort was talking about!

    ¡°Their base is up on the hills, but they are so skilled and geared for their lvl, that no one dears to try anything. Since I didn¡¯t find my sons corpse he either escaped or he was captured. I fear the worst, if he managed to escape he would have come back here as fast as he could, this place is pvp protected!¡±

    She started crying again.

    ¡°Me and my friend will do everything we can to bring him back to you, you have my word on it!¡± Cortez was really serious, but we both wanted to do what was right.

    ¡°Thank you! Thank you please! Bring him back in one piece! *sniff sniff*¡± we slowly left the tavern.

    ¡°We be back, count on it!¡± We left and headed towards the thug camp to finish our quests. IF we were to fight we needed to be geared and leveled. This place is a lvl 3-5 zone, meaning those bandits had to be lvl 5.

    The thug camp was not so far from the city so we walked by foot.

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    ¡°Sky, we have to be really prepared for this, maybe even gather some more members, you as an assassin and me as an archer are a perfect team for stealth missions, being it on npc`s or real players.¡± His head was bowed down and his eyes were wide open. Determined.

    ¡°There is the hide out! I will go into my stealth mode and scout, Cortez keep an eye out from here, if you have the chance to kill someone who is dumb enough to walk out of his friend sight, pick him of quick and loot him, so the enemies cant find the loot sack on the ground and be alerted.¡±

    Just as I was about to head down to the hideout, Cortez stopped me.

    ¡°Here, I gathered some flowers on the way here, use them to make poison, we need to be on 100% on this.¡± I got the flowers and I started to crush them with my milling skill that assassins get for making poison.

    ¡°This place is really nice, we are high up with bushes and trees as cover, I can get some nice shots from here with my sniper skill I got lvl 3. Takes a long time to charge, but the damage and accuracy is much better than a regular shot, that is also why I used my lvl points into the sniping subclass. This gear also has a few sniper points. Their base got no roof, but the walls are made of spikes, make sure to know your way in and out and be careful!¡±

    Cortez used his hand to cover the sun from his eyes, before he putted on his goggles, which I think is an accuracy enhancing type of gear he got from his guardian. I remember seeing some kind of glasses for the assassin class when we were at the auction too.

    ¡°You ready?¡± my venomous poison was successfully applied to my daggers.

    ¡°Let¡¯s do this!¡± I entered my stealth mode and headed down to the hideout, since we was in a party Cortez could see the outline of my body as well, even though I was invisible. We could speak to each other from a distance because of the party, but if someone was close they could also hear what I was saying, kind of like being on a radio.

    ¡°I see 2 thugs at the entrance, I can get past them, but one of the quest is to kill and another one is to loot, if you could relocate yourself more to the left you can get a shot.¡±

    The two thugs were moving a bit back and forth as they kept watch. Cortez was so far away they had no chance to see him.

    ¡°Roger, moving now¡± after a few seconds Cortez had relocated himself.

    ¡°Charging up my shot now, go in 5!¡± as Cortez was charging up his shot I ran towards the thugs, no sound on my footsteps at all.

    A little glimmer was seen from the hill from my angle as I was behind the target, I put my hand over his mouth and shived him in his back, killing him instantly, the arrow went clean through the head of the other target. I quickly looted both, the loot was also shared because of the party. If we had a mission to kill 5 thugs, we simply had to kill 5, but if we were to loot 5 items from the thugs themselves, then we have to kill 10 because the items does not duplicate.

    ¡°Nice, keep going, I am relocating back to where I was, it is higher up and I got a better view of the whole hideout.¡±

    ¡°Roger, advancing!¡± I snuck into the hideout and did my best to find targets that was isolated. I could see the thug leader in the middle of the hideout, big guy with two axes probably twice as high as me. This was no time to get intimidated, I had to stay focused.

    One of the thugs was checking on some of the horses in the far back of the hideout, I shived him and kept on moving after looting him of course. Suddenly I could see that another thug had been killed, I didn¡¯t see it by my own eyes, but the hud indicated that another had been killed, if not by me it was by Cortez. Archers have a special passive ability that lets them loot from afar, if the kill is a npc and from a sniper shot only.

    ¡°4 down, 6 to go!¡± the quest implied.

    ¡°Sky, I got an idea. You know the bomb you got from that nun? I still have it in my inventory, I can strap that to my next arrow to create a diversion.¡± Cortez starts strapping the bomb to the arrow head.

    ¡°I got another idea, I can use my clone ability to lure all the npc`s to the same location and then you fire, that will at least deal half their health, then I can finish them off with regular melee combat.¡±

    I went towards the entrance again and then summoned a clone that was not in stealth mode. Cortez didn¡¯t have a problem shooting them at the entrance as long as they were still inside the hideout then they had their back turned to Cortez, but earlier they was outside the hideout and there was a spiked wooden wall behind them so he was forced to relocate.

    ¡°Hey you dumb thugs! Come and get me!¡± My clone started to run around the hideout, but he avoided the middle section, because of the leader, my clone did not want to aggro him as well as all the other thugs, even with half health I could not fight them and a wounded leader. Those sniper shots from Cortez would take to long if I am up against 5-6 enemies at once.

    ¡°Shooting now!¡± my clone had done a perfect job by aggroing the thugs we needed. As the shot hit my clone vanished into thin air, I had already snuck up close a shived the first thug in the back, but now my stealth mode was off and I was left to fight 5 enemies at once, I could see what target Cortez had his aim on so I did not attack that target. As the thugs charged at me I used my reappear skill right before I was struck to teleport behind the targets and killed the one that was behind everyone else at the same time Cortez headshotted one.

    Now it was only 3 left and at least 2 of them I had to kill. Once again I saw who Cortez was aiming on so I didn¡¯t attack that target. The one thug that was trying to strike me just before I used my relocate ability just managed to come back on his feet, I ran as fast as I could towards him and pierced his gut as I took into consideration that he was not paying so close attention to the situation he was in after he just stood up, his momentum and balance was not at its peak.

    Then another one got headshotted. 1 left, he came running at me, I spawned another clone as I ran behind a tent, the thug was dumb enough to try to hit my clone, since my clone could not attack he was standing there dodging and taunting him. Me being out of sight I could reenter my stealth mode and go back to the fight.

    ¡°Tihi, oh look behind you!¡± my clone said, as I struck my daggers deep inside his back, his head turned slightly before he was turned to pixel dust.

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    ¡°That was a nice combo you did there with your clone! You even had me fooled for a second, even though I could see who the real you was haha!¡± The last quest was to kill the leader.

    The leader was sitting on some kind of wooden throne, sleeping.

    ¡°Cortez, I need you to spam those sniper shots now. This thug leader seems like a really though guy, with high damage and health, if I am hit it could be over quick. I will do my best to kite him around while you shoot him! We need to end the fight before the normal thugs respawn! I do not want to fight the leader and his crew at the same time¡±

    ¡°Seems like a good plan! I got your back buddy! Charging up my arrow now, get into position!¡± I snuck behind the leader and got my daggers ready to strike!

    Just as the arrow hit his head I jump up on his neck and cut his throat with my daggers, then jumped off, he got damaged, but it was not enough, he screamed and swinged his axes recklessly at me, I was forced to use clone and run.

    ¡°Blahahah over here fatass! Bleh!¡± My clone did his best to draw the attention as Cortez managed to land another headshot.

    ¡°I will try to cripple him, you finish him off!¡± Cortez started to aim for the legs.

    ¡°Got it, I see what you mean!¡±I could see a marker at the right leg of the leader, where the shot would land.

    Since me and my clone went separate ways I was located behind him so I ran towards his left leg.

    The arrow hit perfectly in the knee cap rendering his right leg useless, my daggers pierced the back of his leg through the tissue and into the bone, breaking it. The thug leader fell to the ground, screaming again. He started to swing his axes around even more recklessly and my clone got hit and vanished to pixel dust, he turned around and focused on me, his attack speed had increased.

    ¡°I will get you! I will get you! I will fucking kill you!¡± the leader screamed as an arrow suddenly pierced his right eye at the same time I used my reappear ability as it just got off cooldown and relocated myself a bit in the air over his neck and used my momentum and gravity to land with my daggers precisely aimed for the top of his spine, as the dagger struck he fell to the ground and the quest was complete, I looted him and got new daggers as well as Cortez got a new bow!

    I entered stealth mode and headed back to Cortez as the thugs was slowly respawning right next to me.

    ¡°Good job, Sky, lets head back and deliver the quest¡± we could see that every npc had spawned again

    ¡°Yeah sure, lets head on back to Zuria!¡± with no time to waste we headed back.

    ¡°Dude, you know what I just realized?¡± Cortez seemed a bit shocked but still he was about to laugh.

    ¡°What?¡± his laugh bursted out.

    ¡°This quest was meant for at least 4-5 players! I think we should read the quests in the future, not just do as we are told from the npc, haha¡± He seemed proud though and he had all right to be, with our cooperation.

    ¡°Ohh, wow, that could have been really dangerous back there, luckily our classes fit each other, if we were some other class we might have died.¡± I just realized.

    ¡°True that! Let`s go eat after we delivered the quests ok? I feel hungry.¡± We arrived to Zuria and delivered the quests, we got 30 000 mesetas each for the 3 quests and lvl 5. New abilites throwing stars and heavenly agility.

    ¡°Wow! We got 2 lvls!¡± now we are the same lvl as the bandits.

    ¡°After killing those thugs we got a lot of exp and meseta. I noticed that I was just about to get lvl 4 when we were done.¡± We headed to the restaurant again and bought ourselves a fresh steaming boar steak.

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    ¡°We should update our gear after this! Even though I got a new bow, I still think I can get a better one for lvl 5, same goes for your weapon too.¡± He takes a bite.

    ¡°Yeah, your right. I also think we should recruit another player to help us with the bandits, maybe an alchemist to boost our stats.¡± Cortez seemed to agree as he nodded his head while eating the meat.

    ¡°Get that baby out of my sight!¡± a loud voice was heard from across the restaurant.

    ¡°We just want something to eat as a family, got a problem with that? The father of the family was standing up the rude man.

    ¡°That is not your baby! That is just pixel dust copying the ways of us humans. You know you can`t have children in this world! They have no soul! They are just a data program!

    ¡°Don¡¯t talk to my child like that you jerk!¡± the family father was just about to hit the rude man, but it doesn¡¯t work in the city.

    ¡°You know it, deep inside of your mind there is a little voice that says, maybe he is right. You know what? I will take my leave, at least I am the one living with a fake child!¡±

    The man leaves the restaurant, the family seemed a little upset, no wonder.

    ¡°Wow, what was that all about?¡± are children regarded as data programs in this world?

    ¡°Makes you think doesn¡¯t it? Are they just as human as us? Do they have an artificial soul? Who knows? One day the world will be filled with them, just like in the real world. Generation to generation. We do die of age here to, luckily we are immune to diseases though, If not poisoned.¡± I had never actually thought about it, but there is no way to know for sure.

    ¡°They cant chose a class before they are age 10 I remember reading¡± Cortez finished his meal, so did i.

    ¡°Is that so, hmm. Shall we make a flyer? Looking for a lvl 5 alchemist who are subclasses as support with the intention of fighting evil even of it cost ones life?¡±

    The flyer was no easy task to formulate without the spies of the Darkblood Brotherhood to know what is up. If they know we are coming we are dead.

    ¡°Sure, lets do it!¡± we left the restaurant and headed to the news board.

    The news board is where we can put up flyers and see several wanted posters. For every real player one kills the meseta for killing the killer is increased and the money is given instantly once the killer is dead. Only if someone saw you though. I putted up the flyer as we saw the picture of some of the bandits from the Darkblood Brotherhood on the wanted posters section.

    ¡°looks like our primary targets don¡¯t you say?¡± we both took a good look at the bandit posters before we left.

    ¡°Let`s go and buy some better gear, Cortez.¡± With almost 30 000 mesetas we could probably buy the best gear for lvl 5.

    We went inside the auction house.

    ¡°Hello there fine chaps! Here to buy? Sell? Do whatever you please!¡± the auctioneer is as happy as ever.

    ¡°This gear doesn¡¯t look all that different from what I am currently wearing, but the stats sure are better.¡± I suddenly noticed some really expensive daggers.

    ¡°Hey, look the price and stats on those daggers! 50 000 mesetas that is way more then my budget. Rare daggers, huh.¡± Wish I had the money for those, would surely be useful, but I don¡¯t have time to grind money now, the life of Jason is slipping every second.

    ¡°Look at me! I got like 3000 mesetas left for food and sleep.¡± Cortez had bought a totally new gear, still the furry type, but different.

    ¡°Look at this new bow, boom! Beem! Swish! Haha¡± Cortez was aiming the bow around making weird noises, I also noticed his arrows was pure steel even the shaft.

    ¡°You find anything useful? Sky?¡± I browse the gear and it will in total cost 25 000 mesetas, but I bought it, even new daggers.

    ¡°Feels fresh doesn¡¯t it?¡± The new gear felt awesome.

    ¡°Let`s head over to the tavern and wait and see if any alchemist shows up.¡± Cortez agreed and we headed to the tavern, waiting at a table. They can find us by looking at our names as it was written down on the flyer.

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    2 hours had past.

    I could see a hot woman probably at my age, short dark bluish hair covering a bit of her face, literally only one eye could be seen, wonder what¡¯s her deal, she was looking around. Wait, she is coming over here, don¡¯t tell me. She had a belt around her waist and some straps around her body, they held some small flasks.

    ¡°Ohh hi! It`s you guys! I am Elisa, nice to meet you!¡± I have to admit I blushed.

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 Chapter 13-17: The three ..... To the rescue!

    Cortez woke up after drooling on the table. He look at Elisa, then at me, then back to Elisa and back to me before he realized.

    ¡°You are the alchemist?! Nice to meet you, Elisa!¡± Cortez seemed a little to eager, probably a little embarrassed himself. I could tell he wasn¡¯t any ladies man, but neither was i, but having such a beautiful girl on our team was not a bad thing.

    ¡°Me and Cortez have been questing around together, but something made us stop. We noticed this woman called Nora, she was crying in the streets, her son have been captured by The Darkblood Brotherhood up in the hills and we want to save him, but it wont be easy. We are a really good team as I am sneaking around and Cortez is sniping. We coordinate our attacks to make the least amount of noise. We figured that if we could have an alchemist that could help us boost our stats that would help us tremendously, if you want to back out, you should go now.¡±

    She didn¡¯t seem to be afraid, she was listening in close.

    ¡°I am in¡± Elisa agreed just like that.

    ¡°What, really?¡± Cortez seemed surprised.

    ¡°We will go later tonight, we don¡¯t know if Jason is dead or alive, but the quicker we move the more likely he is still alive.¡± Elise and Cortez nodded at the same time.

    Tonight we strike!

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    Elise had a map over the area, she told us that she has learned a profession which is called exploring, she can buy maps of every area and It shows where some hidden cave entrances are which can contain rare loot and a bunch of other stuff. We planned out our attack, there was a hill next to the bandit hideout, I was to sneak inside and see if Jason was still alive if I could find him. Elise said she could make me a flask that would improve my own poison making, I could poison drinks and food if i found the food storage.

    Elise and Cortez was scouting the area from afar, they were to give me information if something happened while was inside. Elise made a potion for Cortez that would make him see better at night so he could aim better, even his sniper shot has a chance to miss and while fighting real players it is much harder to predict the motion patterns compared to some npc`s especially at night. Elise also had some flasks with goo inside that would lower the enemies movement speed, but not the party members, this will make it easier for me to escape while Cortez snipes them off.

    Night falls.

    We move upwards.

    ¡°This hill was much steeper then i thought it would be, sigh.¡± Cortez is breathing heavily.

    ¡°H-hang in th-there we are soon there¡± I could barely breath myself.

    ¡°What are you guys talking about, this is nothing haha!¡± Elise was moving ahead of us as she was sipping some kind of elixir she had made.

    ¡°Wouldn¡¯t mind sharing some?¡± she is chugging it down.

    ¡°No can do, this is alchemist only elixir, sorry!¡± we both knew she wasn¡¯t sorry, she was enjoying herself. Her eyes were smiling so to speak.

    Sniff sniff. Cortez smelled something.

    ¡°Get down and be quite! Sniff sniff¡± Cortez is looking around in the dark forest we are currently in.

    ¡°With my tracking ability I can smell that something has recently been here, we should be wary of patrols. I will set up some traps around the area, hold on a few seconds, I already got some pre made trap sets in my inventory, and this will just take a moment.¡± Elise and I were looking at Cortez as he was planting all kinds of traps around here.

    ¡°If you see here there is footsteps¡± Cortez pointed at the ground, but we didn¡¯t see anything.

    ¡°What? You can`t see it? Interesting. Guess I have underestimated my tracking ability, anyways lets keep moving!¡±

    We started moving again and before we knew it we were at the spot.

    ¡°Look at all those torches and guards!¡± The whole base was glowing by torch flames and the guards was patrolling around the fortress. There was only one entrance and the whole base was made out of spiked wood.

    ¡°Cortez, here I give you some of my gooey flasks, if you strap them to your arrows you can make a big field of goo.¡± Elise hands them over.

    ¡°Nice! This will come in handy. Are you ready Sky?¡± I just realized I still have a smoke bomb at my disposal.

    The fortress was heavily guarded, there was two guards in front of the door and on the right and left side there was 2 guards walking right next to eachother to cover more ground, If I were to CC both the guards at the entrance it would take at least a few seconds to get the door open, but I could easily sneak inside.

    ¡°Before you go take this with you Sky, these flasks contain hallucinating poison, if you apply it to your throwing stars it will render the enemy immobile for a few seconds, this only works if the target is unaware of you and if you were to attack him the effect would instantly ware off.¡± It was no end to how many potions or poisons she had.

    ¡°I¡¯m going, stay sharp!¡± I skipped down the hill in stealth mode, there was 2 guards guarding the door and one patrol on each side, one coming closer and one checking the backside in an interval, there was about a 10 second window where I could sneak in.

    I figured the door to be locked and the guards must have the key, I waited for the patrols to pass as I threw my venomous throwing stars at the neck of both the door guards, my stealth mode wore of by doing this,i had no time to waste so I quickly pickpocketed the key and made my way in, I reentered stealth mode as it only got a 8 second cooldown to restealth, although I cant be seen by an enemy to do so.

    I then figured that I was still unseen, the guards had no clue that they had been poisoned. A sedative was also a part of the poison to not feel the wound. Once inside I could see several bandits talking, fighting and gambling. This was not a nice place. The fortress was roofless and it gave Cortez a chance to snipe and do some recon. I kept lurking around and eave scooping.

    ¡°You are cheating you bastard, take this!¡± a fight between two of the gamblers turned really violent. The table was flipped and blades were drawn, luckily for me they caught the attention of the other bandits, I decided to move deeper in the fortress during the distraction.

    The path was really narrow and it went downwards underground, I thought this would be the most logical place to have a slave pen, as I made my way down I could hear someone approaching me from downstairs, he came closer, but I can pass him unnoticed!

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    I could see him there was a little window where I could sneak past him, it was a close call but I made it, barely. The longer down I got the more I hear people talk, I could even hear some screams. As I entered the room I could see several slave cages and torture tools, the screams were deep inside the dungeon, I had to follow it. The dungeon was hot as hell from the big furnace; the room was filled with light from the furnace fire.

    ¡°Someone is coming to the entrance, seems like the chief, I think they just noticed that the door was open all along as he tried to unlock it, they might think it was a mistake, but the chief might be a bit more suspicious.¡±

    I have to hurry up, I don¡¯t want to do one mistake and get caught, I will die for sure. The deeper I come to more screams I hear, I don¡¯t see Jason anywhere, but I could see other prisoners starving in cages, eyes empty like their soul had been ripped out of them, all hope lost. Tsk! There is nothing I can do, I cant save them all. I have to find Jason!

    ¡°Well well well, are you ready for round 9?Gigigihihihihi¡± What was that weird laugh? It was close.

    ¡°No! please don¡¯t! I cant take it anymore! Nonono!¡± I could see a man pouring poison over a mans wounds!¡± It was Jason!

    I ran to him and shoved both my daggers down his neck, he fell to the ground and died in an instant. That was not the first time I had taken a real life¡­I released Jason from the metal chair.

    ¡°Oh god it hurts!¡± Jason was severally injured and he could barely stand on his own, I had to help him walk.

    ¡°I got Jason, but I know of only one way out, I am deep down the fortress, I need you the get those arrows ready! They still don¡¯t know that I am here, I will move with caution¡±

    ¡°I got several arrows ready to fire, give me the signal. Standby.¡± Cortez drank the elixir.

    ¡°You have to be quiet and stay here, I will try to make the way clear, ok Jason?. He seemed really dizzy as he sat down.

    There were 3 people in the next room, one was busy with the furnace smelting some ores and there was two other guards patrolling around. I threw my throwing stars at the two guards to paralyses them for a few seconds, enough for me to silently move Jason to the stairs unnoticed, but we could here another guards footsteps coming down.

    ¡°Hey, what are you doing he--!?¡± the guard death was quick and probably painful.

    ¡°Jason, grab a hold of my shoulder, lets go.¡± We made our way to the top, but there was a bunch of people there, not enough people for me or Cortez together to take down, we had to plan this out just right and I have the perfect plan.

    ¡°Cortez, listen to me and pay close attention, we have to do this perfectly and I will be requesting a lot from your sniper skills, ok?¡± we really have to make this work.

    ¡°You can count on me, tell me the plan!¡± I really hope Cortez can do it the way I plan it, but I do not doubt his abilities.

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    ¡°The big chief is here and he is approaching the wine barrels, there is a weak spot you can snipe that will make the barrels fall over him and some of his troops, this will either kill or weaken him, I will use my clone to draw the attention, they will think that the clone is the real me and blame him for the barrels fall, the guards will probably chase the clone and that will leave me and Jason an opening. I will steal one of the horses, then me and Jason will make a run for it to the entrance, as we are riding to get out, you have to shot one of your gooey flasks behind us to slow down enemies if they are chasing us. I still got the key to the door, but after that shoot you have to double headshot the guards covering the door, at least that would make it easy for me to have a safe passage out. If only get one of the guards I can probably kill the other, but see what you can do. If some of the patrols see us, keep shooting those gooey arrows behind us to slow them down, I will enter the forest part where you laid your traps.¡±

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    ¡°I will make every shot count! We have to make sure the patrols are not at the entrance when you open it, I will calculate their movement and once I shoot the barrels you go, I will tell you before I shoot, be ready!¡± Cortez started calculating their movements.

    ¡°Firing now!¡± The arrow hit the weak spot and the barrels started rolling!

    ¡°Wow, everyone watch out!¡± the barrels hit the chief and the other bandits, only the chief survived. I send my clone out to draw attention.

    ¡°Hahaha, that was easy! I can take all of you on my own, come here! Low lives!¡± The remaining bandits chased the clone down into another part of the fortress, down some spirally stairs.

    I threw Jason onto the back of one of the horses close by, we made a run for the entrance, the bandit chief saw us and threw his big axe at the horse and killed it! We were both send flying as we hit the ground, but it was really close to the entrance.

    Cortez shot the gooey flask behind us to slow down the chief. As I unlocked the door the first thing I saw was two guards fall to the ground.

    ¡°Double headshot, no problem! Keep going!¡± Cortez smirked.

    ¡°Wow, nice shot!¡± Elisa seemed amazed.

    Jason latched on to my shoulder again as we made our way to the forest, but behind us was the chief on a horse, he was coming close and closer!

    ¡°Guards, come here! Intruders! ¡° the chief shouted and alerted the other guards, they were approaching fast.

    Cortez hit the horse in one of its legs, it fell on the ground and the goo was spilled everywhere, but the chief keep going.

    ¡°tsk, they are getting closer, we need to go faster, ok Jason?¡± Jason took both his hands around my waist.

    ¡°Hold on!¡± Jason channeled his remaining strength to his legs and we leaped right in front of the forest.

    ¡°Holy shit Jason, you alright?¡± Jason was about to pass out, he could barley stand.

    ¡°Elisa come here! Take Jason with you!¡± Both Elisa and Cortez came running down the hill.

    ¡°I got him!¡± Elisa drank her stamina elixir as she could carry Jason with her hands without being fatigued

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    ¡°We will hold them off!¡± Cortez and I hid in the trapped forest, waiting for them to come.

    The traps themselves were not lethal enough to kill them off, especially now that Cortez was subclassed sniper.

    ¡°Here they come!¡± Cortez drew his bow ready to shot.

    One of his traps went of and trapped the feet with a rope and flinged him up in the air. Cortez shot the victim straight in the heart.

    Another trap went of, but this was a bear trap, another easy shot for Cortez. Right through the head. The other enemies saw the traps and managed to avoid them.

    A spellslinger equipped with a dagger suddenly teleported in front of Cortez and managed to cut a piece of his face as he stumbled backwards to the ground. I used my reappear ability behind her as she was about to use some kind of spell on Cortez. I had managed to restealth so she died instantly. We were left with 2 more enemies, the chief and one of his minions.

    I suddenly felt severe pain in my left leg. There was some sort of pink dust emitting from it, I tumbled down but i fell.

    ¡°You think you can get away from me? No fucking way!¡± the chief`s guard left was also a spellslinger, the pain was not stopping at all, but there was no blood. Cortez tried to shoot him with regular arrows, but it was deflected by his mana shield.

    ¡°This is it you filthy assassin!¡± the dagger the mage had started glowing as it was pointed right at my stomach. I had no choice! Smoke bomb!

    The whole area was a big and thick smokescreen, the spellslinger started coughing, but me and Cortez was immune to it, we could see and breath clearly. Since the smoke was so thick I could reenter stealth and sneak behind him.

    ¡°Its over¡± I whispered as I was about to strike him in his back, but then the chief came jumping in with the same kind of leap Jason used, it cleared the smoke. It distracted me and the mage managed to teleport a short distance forward away from me.

    ¡°You brats think you can just kill all of my men and leave?¡± both the chief and spellsinger had their eyes on me, I stumbled again from the shake of the leap as it quaked the ground. The mist was still latched to my leg and I couldn¡¯t move it, I tried to crawl away, they came for me.

    Suddenly an arrow was fired from the tree over the mage right through his neck and throat, it was attached to a thick rope.

    ¡°Forgot about me did you?¡± Cortez jumped from the tree with the rope tangled around his hand. The spellslinger was pulled up, Cortez then proceeded to bind the rope to one of the roots on the ground next to the tree, the mage was dangling back and forth, dead.

    ¡°You bastard!¡± the chief swung his axe at Cortez and it barely hit him, the ground was quaking as it connected, Cortez lost his balance and fell.

    ¡°You kill my friends? Then I kill yours!¡± The chief turned around and used all his strength to swing the axe on top of me, I managed to use reappear and clone at the same time and in that order.

    ¡°You sneaky fucker, think you can get away?¡± my decoy was left on the ground as I crawled invisible towards the tree. The split second I got behind him I managed to restealth, but I couldn¡¯t go to far because of my leg.

    Cortez loaded a sniper shot, but it missed!

    ¡°You think I forgot about you? I¡¯m not like my stupid mongrels. Take this!¡± the chief swung his axe several times at Cortez, he got hit in his arm once as he rolled away, he was now unable to use his bow.

    The mist disappeared from my leg, guess that spell doesn¡¯t last forever, of course It couldn¡¯t. I snuck behind the chief and hit him in his neck, but he didn¡¯t die! He grabbed my throat and started chocking me!

    ¡°That hurt you fucker! Now you die!¡± He slammed me on the ground and the air in my lungs was forced out as I coughed up blood. I tried to grab my weapon, but it was just to far away fro my hand! His leg was crushing my stomach so couldn¡¯t reach for my throwing stars.

    Note: He didn¡¯t die by one shot because his health and armor value is much greater then his bandit minions. His gear is really good.

    ¡°Don¡¯t think I can`t fight if I can`t use a bow!¡± Cortez came running towards us with an arrow in his hand! He jumped and stabbed the arrow right into the back of the chief`s head. His corpse fell on top of me.

    ¡°Holy shit Sky! You alright! That was a close call for the both of us!¡± Cortez was bleeding heavily from his left hand. I tried to speak, but my throat was filled with blood and hurt like hell, I could barly catch my breath!

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    ¡°Let`s get out of here, before reinforcements arrive!¡± The best I could do was to nod as he held me on his shoulder. My legs where fine, but my whole body was shaken up by the slam. I really appreciated Cortez helping me even though he was injured himself.

    We slowly got closer to the city, it had been a while since the attack and we guessed we were safe.

    ¡°Just a little more, the we can rest and heal up!¡± some torches appeared behind us, it was the bandits from the camp, they had tracked us!

    ¡°Holy shit, run! Run!¡± Cortez and I ran as fast as we could but they were catching up, I had no choice to pick up Cortez from his feet and use my heavenly agility.

    My movement speed was increased immensely and I was not fatigued at all. Now we was on the same movement pace as the horses behind us, but my ability only lasted for a few seconds, but it was enough to reach the entrance. The bandits retreated.

    ¡°There you guys are! Come inn! I have been waiting for your return, glad to see you guys alive, but not well? What the hell happened up there?¡± Elisa was worried.

    We got in and found a medical station and we got healed up.

    ¡°*Deep inhale* wow that felt good, I could barley breath for 30 minutes¡± I was literally gasping for air.

    ¡°I know you couldn¡¯t talk and all, but if you plan on giving me another piggy back ride in the future let me know ok? How the hell did you even do that if you couldn¡¯t even breath correctly? ¡° Cortez was curious as he was starching his now healed arm.

    ¡°The spell does not fatigue me at all, therefor I didn¡¯t need to breath more than normal.¡± I was still inhaling furiously.

    ¡°Guys, I know someone who wants to see you, come!¡± Elisa smiled and left to the exit, we both followed her.

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 Chapter 18 - What is Real?

    ¡°Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!¡± Nora was crying as she gave us hugs.

    ¡°Words cannot express my gratitude!¡± She backed of a little with eyes filled with joy and tears.

    ¡°Glad we could help Nora! Sometimes good deeds are worth more then any payment¡±

    ¡°I am not sure how I can repay you guys, you saved me from certain death.¡± Jason seemed obligated.

    ¡°You can stay here with your mother and live a safe life, we will leave this place within tomorrow, we got enough money from killing some of the wanted bandits so money is not an issue, please take good care of yourself,  see you around.¡± I turned around and went over to the inn.

    ¡°Thank you!¡± Both Nora and Jason bowed.

    ¡°Bye bye!¡± All three of us said at the same time.

    ¡°Oy oy oy, you don¡¯t think we left too soon?¡± Cortez asked me as he put his shoulder on my shoulder. He could see the side of my face I did not want him to see. Bloodlust.

    ¡°You alright?  Sky, whats the matter?¡± I was shuck out of the bloodlust.

    ¡°No, I am not fine and we are not done. We are heading back to free the rest of the slaves and kill every last one of those bandit scums left!¡± the flashbacks didn¡¯t stop, I couldn¡¯t forgot those eyes, no hope, no soul, only death.

    ¡°What? Are we going back?¡± Elisa overheard.

    ¡°Seems like it, well I am not really tired, the heals was really effective. I am ready to go when you guys are.¡± Cortez seemed a bit laid back about it.

    ¡°This time lets get some horses and charge right in! There shouldn¡¯t be many left, they might be transporting the slaves as we speak!¡± We ran to the outskirt of the city and rented some horses.

    ¡°Sure you remember the way? I can always look at my map again.¡± Elisa didn¡¯t want to get lost.

    "You sure we should charge right in? i mean we could probably do something like last time!" Cortez was worried i could hear it.

    "I will stealth in, Cortez stay on the horse and shot as many as you can see and Elisa, throw slow flasks and deal some damage if you can or stay by our side, we have already finished off the higher ranks of the camp. This should be easy!"

    I could feel the bloodlust clouding my judgment, but i didn¡¯t care.

    " Who are those guys?"  Elisa spotted some white robed people.

    ¡°I don¡¯t know, lets keep our course.¡±  Who were those mysterious people?

    We rode our horses as fast as we could through the thick forest, I could see the camp up a head, but there was something glowing from through the trees. It came from the camp!

    ¡°What is going on here!?¡± The whole camp was burning!

    ¡°Was this the cause of the white robed people?¡± we were all struck by the warm air dashing our faces.

    ¡°Or, did they burn it down themselves?¡± Cortez jumped of his horse and started sniffing around.

    ¡°No, wait, seems like someone¡¯s been here, not the bandits or us I can smell the difference, something familiar. Where have I smelled this scent before?¡± Cortez got a grim facial expression.

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    ¡°This is similar to Nort`s smell.¡± Elisa seemed confused.

    ¡°Who is Nort?¡± I couldn¡¯t speak, did Nort do this?

    ¡°Nort was his guardian when he first spawned here, he helped him out and gave him tips how to survive.¡± My eyes was wide open in shock, I couldn¡¯t close them.

    ¡°I have been here for I while and I didn¡¯t have a guardian, but I managed on my own, but why would a guardian do this?¡± Elisa was feeling a bit scared.

    ¡°I don¡¯t know, but for now don¡¯t trust the guardian angels! We will venture on and level, one day I will find him and ask him myself! Let¡¯s head back and sleep, tomorrow we leave!¡±

    This world really isn¡¯t much different. No one can be trusted! I was a fool, the slightest sign of comfort and I was sucked right in to it. If I wasn¡¯t as lucky with Cortez he could have easily sniped me off, its been a long time now and I think I can trust him fully, but Elisa? I don¡¯t know much about her, but she is support speced, cant be any dangerous...

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    We got back to town.

    ¡°Shall we eat something before we go to sleep?¡± Elisa pointed at a restaurant as we were headed for the inn.

    ¡°I am actually hungry and I got enough mesetas now, Sky you with us?¡± My stomach rumbled.

    ¡° Guess that settles it then!¡± Elisa smiled and both laughed a little, it was a bit embarrassing.

    We headed to the restaurant.

    ¡°Elisa, how much  do you eat?¡± Elisa had more then me and Cortez times two!

    ¡°How do you remain so fit?¡± I had to ask.

    ¡°What can I say? These flask do wonders!¡± She is lvl 5 and has a potion that makes her not gain weight? I¡¯m not going to bother to ask, I could see Cortezes face, he was looking right at me thinking the same think.

    ¡°Elisa, tell us, how long have you been here?¡± I was the first to start a conversation because everyone else were busy eating like savages.

    ¡°I simply chose to live here, I had enough of the whole military bunker thing so I just signed up and here I am¡± She took another big bite.

    ¡°You also lived in a bunker? I do too!¡± now I could take a bite.

    ¡°I wouldn¡¯t call it a living, it was a really strict place and the supplies was really bad, we were skinny and it was like a prison really.¡± She didn¡¯t seem to care about much about her real life anymore, she said shes been here for a while so I wont dig any further, she probably want to adventure now that she has been living here, she trusts us so much? She seems really nice, but it might be too good to be true.

    ¡°Is that so?¡± I looked at Cortez, he finished eating.

    ¡°So tell me Elisa,*Burp* you don¡¯t have any more of those weight loss flasks?¡± Cortez fell to the ground as his stomach was thrice the size!

    ¡°Are you ok man? You don¡¯t look so good!¡± Did he fall asleep? Literally? Maybe we didnt think the same thing.

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 Volum 2 Chapter 1 Nulara, here we come!

    While Sky, Elisa and Cortez was sleeping there was two people hiding inside an ice cave near the so called ¡°Grand fall¡± a big icy wall that has to be climbed down to reach the next city.

    ¡°It is so cold and I am hungry¡± A man sitting down, shacking is trying to absorb heat from the fire.

    ¡°Stop your whining, Odin! Someone has to come soon!¡± Another man with similar gear is standing at the cave entrance scouting the Grand fall.

    ¡°What if someone comes? You are going to shot them while they climb down? Then we are no better then those in the city! I would rather live of off the frost wolfs meat then kill people for food and money!¡±

    The man at the entrance didn¡¯t seem to care much.

    ¡°You are going to soft, if we are going to keep living we have to gather supplies! I am not going to risk my life anymore on those wolves, we are always outnumbered and they can easily withstand our damage, we don¡¯t have any good gear! Your swords are like butter knifes, useless! You should have just given me your money so I could have good, Tsk!¡±

    The man kept scouting the wall as the starts were glittering and the big planet called ¡°Bluvis¡± could be seen.

    ¡°You think you can boss me around, Raul? Your skills are the reason we are stuck here, cold and alone! If you didn¡¯t run your stupid mout--!¡± Raul jumped Odin.

    ¡°You see this arrow? It can be used to much more then just shooting boy, next time I will shove this in your eye ball, got it?¡± Raul had Odin downed and the arrow close to Odin`s eye. (Note: See what i did there?)

    ¡°Alright, alright, back off, don¡¯t slack on your shift!¡± Odin pushed him off.

    ¡°Humf, brat.¡± Raul went back to the entrance.

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    ¡°So tell me, Sky and Elisa¡­.Where is the toilet? The morning was not kind to Cortez.

    ¡°Its right over ther--?!¡± Elisa pointed to the toilets while we were still inside the inn, Cortez ran to the direction without any hesitation.

    ¡°Just because we got more mesetas from those bandit kills does not mean you should buy so much food Cortez! You are not an alchemist!¡± Cortez was long gone.

    ¡°So where are we headed?¡± Elisa asked.

    ¡°I asked the innkeeper and she said the next leveling point is Nulara, it will be cold, we should buy some cold resistant gear¡± I checked my mesetas.

    ¡°Cold place, huh? I will get a map for the location so we know where we are going, be right back¡± Elisa left the inn.

    ¡°Meet up with us at the auction house!¡± I yelled as she waved back.

    Cold resist, gear that will decrease cold, but it is not its own kind of gear, it can be applied to once current gear, it will not give any stats, only the resist. It will make the gear look white and furry once the cold hits a certain level. Without it, health will be lost every second until you are dead, just like starvation. Cortez left the toilet. He was walking funny.

    ¡°Cortez are you o---?¡± He stopped me mid sentence.

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    ¡°Don¡¯t, just don¡¯t ask ok?¡± Cortez sat down, painfully.

    ¡°Elisa went to get a map of Nulara, our next location, but we need to buy some cold resist.¡± Cortez finally managed to sit down after a few seconds of mentally preparing.

    ¡°Ouchaaaaa, cold resist ay? Hope there is snow there; I haven¡¯t seen snow in many years.¡± I had even forgotten snow exsisted.

    ¡°Shall we rent a horse?¡± Horses are expensive, but effective.

    ¡°I think we should just buy a caravan ride, we should not use to much money, we need to get better gear again soon.¡±

    ¡°That is true, one water please!¡± Cortez asked the waitress for some water. Meanwhile Elisa was getting the map.

    ¡°So you are going to Nulara, a pretty girl like you?¡± An old woman lurked out from the darkness behind the map shop.

    ¡°Yes, you don¡¯t think I can handle it?¡± The woman seemed shady.

    ¡°If you don¡¯t know about the Grand fall, then no, I wont believe you can handle it.¡±

    ¡°The Grand fall? What is that?¡± She was walking away, but she turned around.

    ¡°A big fall that can only be climbed down or in your case drink an elixir that you will get level 6 that will make you light as a feather.¡± And just like that she was gone.

    ¡°The Grand fall? I need to tell the others.¡± Elisa headed to the auction.

    ¡°Sky! We might have a problem!¡± Elisa seemed a bit grim.

    ¡°We have to climb down something called The Grand fall!¡± She was sweating a bit.

    ¡°What is that?¡± Didn¡¯t sound so good.

    ¡°A cliff in Nulara, but don¡¯t worry if I get lvl 6 I can use a new potion to make me weightless, we can attach ropes to me and we can jump out safe and sound¡± Elisa didn¡¯t seem too sure about that.

    ¡°You really sure that will work? We will have to try it somewhere else first.¡± We headed inside the

    auction, Cortez had already bought cold resist and full lvl 5 tracking gear!

    ¡°Look at this! My nose can smell all kinds of delicious food now!¡± Cortez took a big breath.

    ¡°Why did you buy tracking gear? You should have saved the money for some higher lvl gear!¡± He seems to be enjoying himself.

    ¡°Don¡¯t worry, no one will ever sneak up on us now.¡± It was true.

    ¡°Well I am going to save the money and just buy cold resist for now, Elisa how¡¯s your gear holding up?¡± Her get up was weird looking, I couldn¡¯t tell.

    ¡°I am going to buy the best lvl 5 gear, my gear is good but not the best for my level, there I go! This feels great!¡± Elisa went over to the mirror to check herself out.

    ¡°You look beautiful, now let me smell you!¡± Cortez sneaked up on Elisa!

    ¡°Get away from me!¡± Elisa had her hand on Cortez`s face as he tried to smell her.

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 Volume 2 Chapter 2 - Come and play by the hearth!

    ¡°How much longer do we have to go? I am freezing!¡± We were all shivering.

    ¡°S-s-sto-p-p compla-a-aini-g, C-c-corte-z-z-z!¡±  Elisa was probably freezing the most.

    The snow was getting unbearable, it was so cold that even our cold resist couldn¡¯t protect all off it, we gradually lost health, we needed a fire really bad! Our vision was blocked by the snow storm, but in the distance there was something glowing.

    ¡°What i-s-s-s that over ther-e?¡± I pointed towards the glow.

    ¡°Yes¡­¡­.. your ri-i-i-ight, I can feel the heat with my tracki-i-ing ability, it lets me have a censori-i-i-ing aura that increases with poi-i-ints in tracking¡± Cortez seemed breathless.

    ¡°Save your b-b-reath Cortez!¡± We got closer to the light.

    There was a weird looking cabin over by the light, wonder if someone¡¯s home.

    ¡°Hello? Anyone home?¡± We knocked on the door once we got closer.

    Knock knock.

    ¡°Hey, guys! How you doing?¡± Some guy in the window yelled at us.

    ¡°W-w are c-cold! Got any room?¡± Elisa yelled.

    ¡°I will unlock the door, give me a second!¡± The man locked the window and after some seconds unlocked the door.

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    ¡°Thank you, wow its hot in here!¡± Our gear went back to normal.

    ¡°Nice place you got here, is it yours?¡± Elisa asked.

    ¡°Yeah! This placed robbed me to the bone! But it was worth it, this place is my life now and I enjoy meeting people every now and then, my name is Lee, you are welcome to stay if you are nice folks!¡±

    Lee seemed really nice and his gear look bad as he said, but it was really casual clothing, don¡¯t know if it even has stats.

    The cabin had a small room with a table, chairs, a carpet almost covering the whole floor and a fire place.

    ¡°Do you always invite people in so easily? What if they are not friendly?¡± Elisa asked a really good question.

    ¡°This is my house, pvp is not ¡°on¡± inside my house, unless I enable it, since I am the admin or owner in this house I can turn things on and off. There is a kitchen over there and bathroom there, you can stay until the storm is over, you guys came at a bad time. Didn¡¯t you know about the regular storms? There is a reason many players decide to not level higher then 5, this place is to dangerous, even if you survive the storm and walk you still have to get down The great fall.¡± Lee went over to the kitchen and grabbed some drinks.

    ¡°Here you guys go, replenish your health with this¡± We all got drinks.

    We got rid of our dehydration and cold so our health started regenerating, but it was a slow process, would probably take some hours.

    ¡°What is upstairs?¡± I asked as I took a sip.

    ¡°Nothing much, beds, windows, books. I like to read as i look outside the window, the view is mostly beautiful on a good day, it makes me feel more comfy, ohh and yeah there is also a fire place upstairs as well, reading next to it also really relaxing.¡± Lee went upstairs and came down with a book. Probably the one he was reading when he got the glint of us.

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    ¡°So, lee, how did you end up here, In the middle of Nulara, not the most ideal home location?¡± Lee started laughing.

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    ¡°I was stationed in Siberia, a really cold place back on earth. We were some researchers, researching the snow an animals for airborne contamination and as soon as we noticed, it was much worse then we thought, after a while the cold got worse to, because of the contamination.  Animals  got sick and our gear couldn¡¯t take the cold, our food supply got dried out after 3 weeks of isolation. The food suppliers couldn¡¯t withstand the trip to us, so we were left with a choice. Die or live here.¡± Lee took a cip of his drink.

    ¡°What happened to the others?¡± I figured he was a open guy, I could ask.

    ¡°We were 6 people stationed, only me and my buddy took this choice. The other 4 choose heaven¡­Yeah, my buddy didn¡¯t make it.¡± Lee took another cip and looked a bit down.

    ¡°I am sorry man.¡± Cortez seemed sympathetic.

    ¡°Its alright, it¡¯s been a long time since then, how about you guys?¡±

    ¡°Real life wasn¡¯t a good place for me, I didn¡¯t have any friends an my family treated me like shit, I ran off and choose to live here, not regretting it at all.¡± Open minded as always.

    ¡°I was in a bunker, we got raided, it was a live or die situation, I chose this life, even if people call this a fake life or a sin¡±  I hear ya, Lee raised his drink and took a sip

    ¡°Same story here, I was in a bunker, but we didn¡¯t get raided, the bunker was filled with crappy people and supplies was running low, I choose this life before the fights and killings started.¡± A war does make people very desperate.

    ¡°Want anything to read? I got lots of books upstairs.¡± I didn¡¯t feel like reading.

    ¡°Sure I could use a good book right now.¡± Elisa accepted the offer.

    ¡°What about you guys?¡± Both me and Cortez just wanted to chill by the hearth.

    ¡°We are fine, thanks.¡± Lee and Elisa headed up.

    ¡°Well suit yourselfs¡± Cortez looked at me.

    ¡°Dude, this place rocks, I cant wait to see the beds!¡± He putted his legs on the table.

    ¡°It will be nice to sleep, I didn¡¯t even know one could build a home¡± I looked around.

    ¡°Neither did I, once we get to max level we should make a awesome place!¡± I have never seen a more dreamy glint in someone¡¯s eyes.

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 Volume 2 Chapter 3-5 - Old memories

    ¡°I agree, a place of our own would be amazing, Cortez?¡± He was drooling on his shoulder and his eyes were closed.

    ¡°Well, I guess I will go to sleep to then¡± I went upstairs.

    ¡°So, lee, where are the beds? Think I will go to bed a bit early today.

    ¡°Sure, they are right over there.¡± Lee pointed behind me at a door.

    ¡°Thanks¡± I opened the door and there was at least 5 beds here. Wonder how many guest he have had.

    ¡°Yo! Cortez! Wake up and get up here, don¡¯t sleep in that position you will hurt yourself!¡± Cortez woke up as I yelled.

    ¡°Wow! You scared me, I am coming upstairs now.¡± He yawned and stretched his hands as he came upstairs.

    ¡°Good night!¡± Lee and Elisa was quiet ready books.

    ¡°Night night¡± Elisa waved as she had her face in the book.

    ¡°I want that bed! Dibs!¡± Cortez jumped at the first bed he saw and straight under the blanket.

    ¡°Fine, I will take the one close to the window, I like to look at the sky as I drift away in thoughts.¡± I lied down and looked up at the sky, sometimes I could see the glint of stars I the night sky, but it was mostly covered by the snow storm.

    I fell asleep.

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    ¡°You are here for one thing and one thing only! Prove your worth, if not you will be thrown back on the streets! Here are some of the missions you can chose! Complete them with evidence and you will become a member!¡± We have to become a member.

    ¡°Why are we here again, Sky?¡± Celia stod behind me and held my sweater.

    ¡°We can¡¯t live alone in this world, we need to stick together.¡± I had to reassure Celia.

    ¡°These people doesn¡¯t seem nice at all! I am scared.¡± Her eyes got watery.

    ¡°It will be alright we just stick together as always, we do the stealing mission and we will be fine! We have been stealing for as long as I can remember now, this will be a piece of cake for us.¡±

    ¡°Really?¡± She didn¡¯t seem scared now.

    ¡°I swear, let`s get going¡± we went over to the mission board and saw the stealing mission, nothing really hard, just steal some food from a camp located a few kilometers away.

    ¡°This one will do, stay by my side Celia¡± We went outside the hideout and headed out.

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    ¡°I think its starting to rain¡± The rain was always black, but it didn¡¯t leave such a nasty spill as one would think.

    ¡°It`s fine, just don¡¯t drink it¡± we both putted our cowl on and bandana to hide our face, we slowly approached the camp.

    ¡°Over this hill, I swear I saw some smoke coming from this direction just a second ago, stay quiet.¡± We snuck over to the hill top.

    ¡°There they are, what is the plan?¡± Celia was ready, but nervous.

    ¡°Look over there, next to that tent. There are some sacks there, probably filled with something useful, lets snatch that and get out, you still got your knife on you right?.¡±  She showed me her knife.

    ¡°Ok, lets go, follow my lead.¡± The ground was really muddy and the black rain and started to settle in, it helped our camouflage.

    We proned slowly towards the sacks as we got covered completely in black mud, it was really cold.  The temperature can switch in matter of seconds as its starts to rain, normally it really hot.

    ¡°Just a little mor--!?¡± a man went out of the tent and looked around. As I turned my head slowly I could see Celia had moved to my side, but she was way closer to the man then I was, I got worried.

    I couldn¡¯t speak, I was frozen and so was she, the man went back into the tent.

    ¡°Phew, what are you doing? Stay close!¡± She came closer to me.

    ¡°Sorry, my eyes got dirty I couldn¡¯t see straight.¡± We moved closer and grabbed two large sacks.

    ¡°I knew someone was out here, get up and drop the sacks!¡± The man came out and had a gun aimed at us.

    ¡°Please don¡¯t hurt us mister, we just want to survive!¡± Celia was really scared and started sobbing.

    ¡°Both of you inside the tent now, we are going to have some fun!¡± We both knew what the man was implying. We crawled inside the tent. There was another man there.

    ¡°Well hello there, glad you could join us.¡± It was a really scary and nasty looking guy inside.

    We were both quiet, Celia was sobbing.

    ¡°You think you can sneak up on us and steal our shit huh? Why do you think we are still alive? We know every trick in the book!¡± I did not like were this was going.

    ¡°Please don¡¯t hurt us!¡± Celia started crying really bad. The one guy approached her from behind.

    ¡°We are not going t--!?¡± Celia shoved her knife right in the gut of the one man.

    ¡°You little!¡± The other guy tried to pick up his gun I jumped him and knifed him several times in the chest, his arm got tangled up while he was reaching for the gun and he couldn¡¯t push me down.

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    It was quiet, only the fire in the middle of the tent was crackling.

    ¡°Let`s get this stuff and go¡± There was a silence, I looked at Celia and her crying had stopped, she seemed more calm then ever. Was it the adrenaline?

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    We left a camp filled with blood, dirty mud tracks, a crackling fire, no loot and two dead corpses.

    As we headed back we got exhausted by the thick mud and had to rest.

    ¡°Want to talk about it?¡± Her hands were still bloody, like she didn¡¯t bother washing it off in the rain or the small ponds on the way.

    ¡°There is nothing to talk about, we did what we had to do¡± She seemed more angry then scared.

    ¡°That is true, but killing someone is not to be taken lightly, even in this world¡± She didn¡¯t seem to agree, but she didn¡¯t say anything.

    It was quiet again, only the rain was dashing down and splashing everywhere.

    ¡°Lets go¡± Celia was the one taking initiative, usually I am the one in charge.

    ¡°Ye-yeah lets get going¡± We both stood up and headed back.

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    We got back to the hideout to prove that we were a worthy asset for the group.

    ¡°Y-you kids got all this?! How the fuck did you manage that?! Good fucking job kids, we will take it over here, now hand over those guns!¡± We gave them the guns and sacks we stole.

    ¡°Let me look at your hands, is that blood? Seems like you have learned a valuable lesson today, well done.¡± Celia didn¡¯t try to hide it, she was just silent.

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    Something was making a awful lot of noice.

    ¡°Cortez get your fat us up! Lee have made breakfast for us!¡± Elisa was kicking Cortez in the stomach, but he refused to wake up.

    ¡°Elisaaaa, stop it, it hurts¡± Cortez was blushing, he was enjoying it!

    ¡°You can be such a creep sometimes!¡± Elisa headed over to me.

    ¡°Ohh you away already, what¡¯s wrong?¡± She looked at me weird.

    I noticed a tear on my cheek

    ¡°Nothing, it was just a bad dream.¡± I got out of bed.

    ¡°Old memories?¡± Elisa seemed to know and it was true.

    ¡°Yeah¡­.¡± Cortez fell out of bed.

    ¡°im ready, let¡¯s go!¡± Cortez`s voice was hard to hear as his face was slammed to the ground.

    We headed downstairs, I also noticed the snowstorm had really calmed down.

    ¡°Wow, that looks really good!¡± Before us was some steamy hot meat of some sort.

    ¡°This is actually wolf meat from my scouting around this area, but I don¡¯t have my gear any longer, I got food here for at least 1 year even with guest! Its incredible that the food does not decay and its insanely cheap in stores.¡± That sure is one of the perks living in Felia.

    We all sat down and enjoyed our meal.

    ¡°So you are headed for the city? Know the way?¡± Lee ate some wolf meat.

    ¡°I lost the map in the storm just before we got here, so I am not really sure.¡± Elisa seemed a bit embarrassed.

    ¡°I have a spare map, here take it.¡± Lee handed over the map.

    ¡°Wow thanks, really appreciate it.¡± The map was in great shape.

    ¡°Lee, this meat was really good!¡± Cortez took another huge bite.

    ¡°Glad you liked it!¡± Lee smiled.

    ¡° Have you ever heard of alchemists levitating down the grand fall while ropes are attached to carry other players?¡± seems like a really dumb question.

    ¡°Sure, all the time¡± We all stopped eating in shock.

    ¡°W-w-what? Really?¡± Didn¡¯t seem like anything unusual.

    ¡°I see it all the time, there is a quest over by the fall that will give you some ropes as a reward, but instead of using it to climb down, you can just attach it to an alchemist and that¡¯s that.¡± We were still shocked.

    ¡°Sometimes alchemist gets payed for doing it.¡± Elisa picked up on that.

    ¡°Is that so¡± She looked at me and Cortez.

    ¡°No, don¡¯t even think about it!¡± Her eyes screamed money!

    We finished up eating.

    ¡°Well it was really nice of you Lee, we will see you again sometime I hope!¡± we all waved back as we left.

    ¡°You know where to find me!¡± He waved back and closed the door.

    ¡°If we follow the map it should be this way, follow me.¡± Elisa took the lead.

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 Volume 2 Chapter 6-8 - Slip n slide!

    The cold was not as bad today, but it was still cold and the cold debuff that reduces our health each second could appear at any moment. The daylight soon became moonlight as the night lasted like 70% of the day.

    ¡°Im tierd of this shit! Sitting here to rot day in and out, we still haven¡¯t seen anyone climbing the wall, if we don¡¯t start killing wolves we will die of starvation!¡± Odin kept his hands close to the campfire inside the cave.

    ¡°You know what, I am going to show them! They threw me out because they think I was talking shit? I will prove it.¡± Raul left his post and went inside the cave.

    ¡°You don¡¯t mean?¡± Odin is surprised.

    ¡°I am going to join the tournament and be rich!¡± Raul was laughing like he`s lost it.

    ¡°That is the starvation and cold talking, there is no way you can win that tournament, didn¡¯t you see the last combations?¡± Raul got angry.

    ¡°Doubt me? You are nothing better then those in the city, you can barley kill a wolf on your own.¡±

    ¡°The day I will stop doubting you is when you actually got something to back up those words!¡± Odin stood up and look at Raul.

    ¡°Just wait and see, I will show you all! Tonight we head back and sign up, you are coming with me!¡± Raul was at toe to toe range.

    ¡°Fine, get away from me!¡± Odin pushed Raul back as he was so close.

    Raul went back to his post.

    ¡°Look over there! I that has to be the place Lee was talking about! Elisa pointed at the hut with a campfire outside.

    Cortez seemed a bit down.

    ¡°Cortez? Are you ok?¡± He glanced a bit at me.

    ¡°I am scared of heights! How can we just casually fly down a big cliff, just the thought makes my heart race!¡± Not sure if he was shacking because of the cold or the fright.

    ¡°I can see that, aslong as we keep close and the ropes knots tight we be fine, you will just have to bear with us, once we get going it wont be that terrifying¡± I tried to cheer him up a bit.

    ¡°You seem to know a bit about this, done it before?¡± Cortez seemed a bit suspicious.

    ¡°Well, I have been on some high mountains before and done some climbing, that¡¯s about it. You be fine!¡±

    ¡°Hope so¡± Elisa turned around.

    ¡°I will carry you guys don¡¯t worry! Now lets get this quest done and get those ropes!¡±

    We approached the door, no one was outside.

    Knock knock

    The door opened by itself and there was an old woman standing in the middle of the tent, filled with furs. It was quite dark, but there was a bunch of candle lights around.

    ¡°Hello there young travelers, what brings you out here in the cold?¡± The old woman was sat down by the fire as she dropped her cane to get a blanket.

    ¡°We have heard you are in need of some help?¡± Elisa was the one talking.

    ¡°That is true, there is a cave nearby, a bunch of vicious yetis are living there. They are what keeps me up at night, who know when they will bash this wall down? Bring me back 5 Yeti furs and I will give you the tools needed for further travel.¡±

    ¡°We will be right back!¡± Quest appeared on our hud.

    ¡°Elisa, you know where the cave is right?¡± I don¡¯t want us to get lost.

    ¡°Got the location right here on the map, see?¡± She showed me the map, but I couldn¡¯t see anything.

    ¡°I don¡¯t have that profession, I can only see a piece of paper.¡± Elisa seemed surprised.

    ¡°You can`t see the map at all?¡±

    ¡°Nope¡±

    ¡°Hmm, cool¡± Elisa smiled and headed to the cave.

    Cortez and I looked at eachother.

    ¡°I didn¡¯t see it either¡± Elisa felt a bit smug about it we could both tell.

    The cave really wasn¡¯t that far, it was just hidden behind a snowy cliff, we could still see the hut from here.

    ¡°Shhh, there they are¡± Elisa was the first to see the yetis, they were big with blue fur and two horns.

    Cortez changed back to his sniping gear.

    ¡°For the record I knew they were there, I could smell them while wearing my tracking gear¡± Elisa and I both looked at Cortez.

    ¡°Sure you could¡± We said at the same time.

    ¡°Humpf I really could!¡± One yeti turned around as he heard Cortez.

    ¡°Quiet! It¡¯s looking at us¡± We all laid down in the snow, cold as hell.

    ¡°What? The yeti is 2 levels higher than us! This place surely is dangerous.¡± We all looked at the yeti camp, some were outside the cave.

    ¡°Shit, its coming right at us¡±

    I turned invisible and readied myself.

    ¡°Run Elisa!¡± Cortez started firing arrows at the yeti, but it kept hitting the arrows away with its hands! Not much damage was done.

    I used my reappear ability to teleport directly to his neck and strike, I got a perfect hit, but he grabbed me and tossed me at Cortez!

    ¡°Watch out!¡± I hit Cortez and we both fell on the ground and slide a bit. The yeti got real close and was about to hit us both.

    ¡°Hold on!¡± Cortez shot a rope arrow at one of the trees covered on snow located a bit away from us, the arrow dragged us towards it at Cortez`s command.

    ¡°That was close! How did you do that?¡±

    ¡°Rope arrow, my new favorite ability¡± The Yeti turned around and started running towards us again.

    ¡°Try shooting its legs, I will go for his neck again!¡± Some arrows managed to hit the legs, but it didn¡¯t do much.

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    ¡°Take this dumb yeti!¡± Elisa threw a gooey flask on the ground, really slowing him down.

    The yeti changed target from Cortez to Elisa.

    ¡°Shoot the Yeti with a rope arrow at his neck I got a plan!¡±

    I used my Heavenly Agility to run and jump up on his neck the damage was not so good as I was not stealthed. Cortez hit his rope arrow, the yeti was trying to take me off his back but I grabbed the rope arrow and Cortez pulled me back to safety.

    ¡°Shoot him in the face now! He is hurt!¡± One perfect shot hit him right between the eyes and he fell to the ground.

    ¡°Good shot!¡± We met up with each other again.

    ¡°Holy shit, that was one yeti?¡± Cortez was a bit scared.

    ¡°Since its 3 of us we have to get a total of 15 furs and that means to kill 15 yetis¡± How will this work out?

    ¡°We need to plan this better, look over there, you see those boulders over the cave? Lets use that.¡± There was a bunch of loose rocks over the cave, probably enough to kill some of them.

    ¡°Lets kill those outside and then we lure those inside out as we trigger the boulders.¡±

    ¡°How are we going to approach the next yeti if not with the boulders? Our damage is getting easily negated.¡± Both Elisa and Cortez was out of ideas, but I noticed something.

    ¡°We could use that¡± I pointed at ice we just slided on.

    ¡°Make them trip?¡± Elisa didn¡¯t see the full picture.

    ¡°First Cortez fires a rope arrow in the Yetis neck at the same time I use my ability to strike his neck and grab a hold of the arrow as Cortez drags me back, the ice will make me slide easily and if the yeti follows me he might trip.¡± They both agreed to the plan.

    ¡°Use this guys, it does do much damage, but it¡¯s a bomb, I haven¡¯t made these in a long time but I had to give it a shot again, I am a support so it does not deal much damage on its own, but if you guys can use it in your ambushes it might do some use right?¡± We both got some small bombs each.

    ¡°Since when could u make bombs?¡± I had to ask since it could have been used before.

    ¡°Since lvl 2 I think? I had to quest on my own right? I needed some damage as well.¡±

    ¡°Why didn¡¯t you say you could make bombs? That could have made some things easier earlier.¡± Cortez got a bit angry.

    ¡°Would you guys calm down? I am not made of ingridienses you know? Spamming slows and carrying Jason was the best I could do and why would you have a bomb that makes a lot of noise? I did think it through back then you know? Maybe using a bomb at the beginning to lure some guards away, but that would have made them more aware.¡±

    ¡°Fine, don¡¯t sweat it and I actually got another idea.¡± Cortez looked ready for everything.

    ¡°Lets go!¡±

    I entered stealth mode and snuck up to the Yeti and reappeared behind his neck as the arrow hit him. I struck the yeti and dropped two armed bombs as I got pulled out. The damage was really high.

    ¡°It worked! Pull him back fast!¡± Cortez pulled me back.

    ¡°I just realized we forgot to loot the one before.¡± Elisa slides down to loot the Yetis.

    ¡°Wow, I am finished! I got 3 fur from this one and 2 from the last!¡± Elisa slowly walked up to us as she tried not to slip, but she did.

    ¡°Hahahah¡± Cortez and I was laughing our asses off

    ¡°Stop laughing you morons! Keep fighting!¡± Elisa`s face was really red.

    ¡°Yes maam¡­pfft¡± Cortez and I tried to keep a straight face.

    ¡°If you got that much from those two, then we need 4 more then? I thought we got 1 fur from each¡± this might not be that hard.

    ¡°I thought the same¡± Cortez got slapped as Elisa got up.

    ¡°Why did you only slap me?!¡± Cortez was puzzled.

    ¡°humpf!¡± Elisa sat down and looked away.

    ¡°Cortez, if you shoot those boulders as I distract them with my decoy then we could get at least 4 out right?¡± We both studied the terrain.

    ¡°We don¡¯t know how many are in there, but we can see how many of them we can get, go when your ready, I will attach a bomb to the arrow.¡±

    I used my decoy and he slided down to the cave entrance.

    ¡°Come get me you dumb Yetis!¡± 4 Yetis was eating some sort of animal inside, but they charged my clone.

    ¡°Now!¡± Cortez shot the arrow and the rocks just slammed the Yetis down to the ground. They all died.

    ¡°That worked really well! I got my loot instantly hehe, got to love that passive.¡±

    ¡°What? So did I, I don¡¯t have that passive¡± Cortez stood up and took his bow on his back.

    ¡°I think its because of the settings I putted on earlier today, even if I loot, it will be shared, the same counts for you guys.¡±

    ¡°Guess its ok, since we are a team.¡± Cortez smilled

    ¡°Lets head back to the old lady!¡± Elisa was eager to fly.

    Next chapter: Will flying down the grand fall go smoothly or will they be seen by Raul?

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 Volume 2 Chapter 9 - Leap of horror!

    ¡°As promised here are some ropes and a potion that will make the cold go away for a while¡±

    The old woman went back to her chair and we left the hut.

    ¡°Well guess that settles that, I am ready are you guys?¡± Elisa was really eager.

    ¡°How you holding up Cortez?¡± He is bent over like he is about to puke.

    ¡°Lets watch our step over by the cliff, it should be really slippery, we don¡¯t want to fall to our death right?¡± Cortez almost pukes.

    ¡°Cmn Elisa, don¡¯t be like that¡± Elisa saw that she went a bit overboard.

    ¡°Sorry, I will stop now.¡± Cortez puts his thumb up as he tries to catch his breath.

    ¡°Cortez, lets strap ourselves in ok? Make sure that knot is tight!¡± We all made the right adjustments.

    ¡°Drink it, Elisa!¡± She drank her potion and she jumped in the air once, she slowly flew down, we almost had to drag her down.

    ¡°You guys ready?¡± Cortez was trying his best to keep it together.

    ¡°Lets get this over with! Sky, you ready?¡±

    ¡°Lets do it!¡± I slapped my face a bit to get more ready.

    ¡°Wait wait! I just realized something, Cortez get over here!¡± I summoned Cortez to me.

    I hugged him.

    ¡°W-What are you doing?!¡± Cortez tried to get away.

    ¡°If we just jump out we will be slammed right into each other! Think of the momentum. Elisa will be still above us and the ropes will automatically go straight down, meaning we will be slammed into each other, so we jump together!

    ¡°Here we GO! Yahooooo!¡± Elisa yelled!

    Cortex and I jumped right after.

    I could feel my stomach being sucked in by the drop, but we quickly slowed down because of Elisa.

    ¡°I have never been this safe in a mans arm before, thank you Sky!¡± his nose was sniffing as he was crying a little.

    We slowed down as started levitating down.

    ¡°Don¡¯t look down, Cortez!¡± Elisa smiled.

    ¡°Seriously don¡¯t look down, look at me!¡± Cortez looked me straight in the eyes, I have never seen anyone that afraid in a long time!

    ¡°Sky, hold me!¡±

    ¡°Ok big guy, calm down, just close your eyes and think of something nice, like---¡° Elisa stopped me mid sentence.

    ¡°Pineapple! Think of that!¡± We both were puzzled.

    ¡°Why the hell would he think of that? How can that help in anyway?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t know, works for me!¡±

    ¡°You think about pineapples when your afraid? Why?¡±

    ¡°Well it all started when---¡°

    ¡°Yeah, just forget I asked please.¡±

    ¡°Its actually helping!¡± Cortez was trying hard to keep his eyes close.

    ¡°P-pineapple of all things? Well whatever works buddy¡±

    Down at the hillside.

    ¡°I see someone floating down! This is our chance!¡± Raul was aiming.

    ¡°What really?¡± Odin ran over to Raul.

    ¡°I can get a clean shot from here!¡±

    ¡°Raul, wait, we shouldn¡¯t be doing this! Those are lives!¡± Odin tried to stop him.

    ¡°Get off me!¡± Raul shot the arrow and hit Elisa in the stomach!

    The arrow hit the rope that was tied to Cortez and it snapped

    ¡°Cortez!!!¡± Those eyes were something I hope I never see again, it was like I was looking into a dead mans eyes. I could see him falling over a big icy field.

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    ¡°Elisa you alright?!¡± She didn¡¯t answer and we were falling down fast as well, we started rotating around in circles insanely fast before I managed to cut the rope.

    I flew away so fast I couldn¡¯t position myself in the air I was aimlessly going round and round as I hit a tree filled with snow, I wasn¡¯t badly damaged because of the snow pillow. I could still see my party.

    Cortez was alive, but Elisa was badly injured and unconscious.

    ¡°Cortez can you hear me? How you holding up?! Cortez!¡± It was silent for a second, but then he started talking, barely.

    ¡°Holy shit! That is the last time I will think of pineapple in a dire situation!¡± he was breathing heavily and stuttering.

    ¡°What happened to you? I can see the frost debuff, but you didn¡¯t lose that much health? How did you pull that off?¡± He was catching his breath.

    ¡° As I fell I drew the bow and shot the ice beneath me to pieces with one shot, then I was sucked away with the current under the ice before I managed to break through and that was like 10 seconds ago, wow I am cold!¡± I could hear the shivering in his teeth.

    ¡°Drink the potion we got from the old lady it should help!¡±

    ¡°Good call.¡± He drank the potion and the debuff disappeared.

    ¡°Who shot us down? I want a piece of them! I can probably track them down with my tracking gear.¡± He switched gear.

    ¡°We should get to Elisa first, she is badly hurt, unconscious and moving?¡±

    ¡°What is going on?¡± Cortez was confused.

    ¡°Someone is trying to kidnap Elisa! Not on my watch, lets go Cortez!¡±

    Cortez changed his sniper gear because it was wet.

    ¡°Odin let¡¯s go!¡± Raul ran out of the cave.

    ¡°H-hey wait up!¡± Odin followed.

    ¡°I cant wait to see what kind of gear they had, finally!¡± Raul reached the location where Cortez fell, Odin caught up.

    ¡°Where is he?¡± after searching around, Cortez could not be found.

    ¡°Look over there¡± There was a hole in the ice.

    ¡°He probably pierced the ice and got sucked forward by the stream.¡±

    ¡°Lets follow it¡± Raul lead the way.

    ¡°Look over there!¡± Odin noticed an ice crack where Cortez had managed to escape from.

    Odin and Raul checks it out.

    ¡°You can clearly see that he got up here and went that way, he can¡¯t have gotten far!¡±

    The snow was wet and trampled upon by Cortez.

    ¡°Where are we going?¡± Raul is the only one who can see the footsteps because of his tracking, even though its snow.

    ¡°I can see some feint footsteps leading towards the city, keep up Odin!¡±

    ¡°Tsk¡± Odin got mad.

    Cortez and Sky met up at the location where Elisa landed.

    ¡°She has been dragged by a sled or something, Sky, follow me!¡±

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 Volume 2 Chapter 10 - Friend or Foe?

    ¡°W-w-wait! Sky! Hold up!¡± Cortez was catching his breath.

    ¡°They are getting away faster then us, we cant catch up to them!¡± I slowed down and waited for Cortez.

    ¡°They are really close to the city, maybe someone saw her injured and dragged her back to heal her?¡±

    It could be possible.

    ¡°True, lets rest a bit, but we have to keep moving soon¡±

    Sniff sniff.

    Cortez caught his breath and sniffed something.

    ¡°Someone¡¯s here¡­..Close, two people are closing in!¡±

    Author note: The abilty to sense/smell people are unlocked at a high tracking lvl and a low tracking lvl can be used to see footprints, therefor not used earlier in the lower lvls.

    I entered stealth mode, Cortez was sitting completely still, like he was meditating.

    An arrow was shot from the snowy forest behind us, Cortez anticipated it and managed to dodge.

    ¡°Who is there? Are you the once who shot us down?¡± Cortez had his bow ready and aimed at the forest.

    I ran to the forest silently.

    ¡°Stop right there! I know you¡¯re here! I saw you got invisible, I can sense you with my tracking, show yourself!¡± Raul screamed!

    I ran towards him and was about to strike his back, but then my leg got caught in a trap! I was dangling from the tree.

    ¡°Don¡¯t kill him, Raul!¡± Odin tried to stop Raul.

    ¡°We need what they have! This is the golden opportunity we have been waiting for!¡± as they were arguing Crotez managed to shot down the rope, I immediately tried to strike Raul, but Odin parried.

    ¡°There is no need for this!¡± Our blades were hold up against each other, sparks were flying.

    ¡°Drop your weapons!¡± Cortez was aiming at Raul and everyone was glaring at each other intensely, but Odin slowly drew back his swords and sheeted them, so did I.

    ¡°Raul drop it, I bet we can come to an agreement instead.¡±

    ¡°¡­¡­Never¡± Raul drew his bow at me.

    I reappeared behind Raul and shoved both my knives down his neck aswell as he got hit by an arrow in the chest.

    Raul fell to the ground, dead.

    ¡°Raul you fool!¡± I force my blade at Odin¡¯s throat.

    ¡°Don¡¯t move or you will die like your friend¡± he gulped.

    ¡°Don¡¯t hurt me please, I tried to stop him and also back when he shot you guys down, its all his fault I am here, didn¡¯t you see I wanted to settle things peacefully?

    I sheeted my blades and distanced myself.

    ¡°My name is Odin, I was assigned to be partner with Raul doing the tournament but we were thrown out of the city because of his behavior¡±

    ¡°Tournament?¡± What is he talking about?

    ¡°In the city, the main attraction is the tournaments, if you win you will be rewarded with gold, fame and you will be able to join killing the rare monsters.¡±

    ¡°Rare monsters?¡±

    ¡°The first rare monster encounters starts close to the city, but it will require a full party with skilled members to take one down, it can take a long time and everything has to be done correctly, if everyone wants to survive that is.¡±

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    ¡°This tournament you speak of is it lethal?¡±

    ¡°It counts as a regular duel so there is no way to die, but the city is not a nice place, you will only be judged by your strength, those who don¡¯t participate or doesn¡¯t reach a high tier will be treated worse then crap.¡±

    Odin seemed a bit sad.

    ¡°My family is really poor, we live in the slums, me, my mother and my younger sister Emma. I wanted to become strong and win at least one of the fights worthy of some mesetas so I can help bringing food on the table and do something useful¡±

    ¡°Isn¡¯t food really cheap?¡±

    ¡°Food is not really the main issue, the hotels cost money, fixing our cloths and gear cost money and the enemies here are way more difficult to kill then the once before. Your gear looks very good compared to what I got, I can barley kill mobs on my own, risking my life every time for some food. My family lives on the streets and going out of the city is risky, other players can kill you for the fun of it. Getting our own house outside is also very expensive.¡±

    ¡°Why are people here so bad? The people I have met so far haven¡¯t been all that bad¡±

    ¡°Those brave enough to go through the winter forest and then down the grand fall are people with guts, those who want to venture forth and level up instead of sitting at the same level for years, but those who cant get any further then this become¡­Mad savages, fueled with misdirected anger and put it out on those weaker then them selves. That is why I want to become strong, I want to help my family!¡±

    ¡°You seem like a good guy Odin, but I still cant fully trust a person who shot us down and nearly killed me a second ago, our friend have been kidnapped and dragged into the city as we speak, because of you and Raul.¡±

    ¡°I see, I am sorry I hope there is a way to make it up for you guys.¡± Odins face got even more sad, I figured he was just a kid who was trying his best in a fucked up situation.

    ¡°Show me where your family lives, we can help you out with some spare money we got, if what you say is true though, that you actually got a poor family.¡±

    Odin was smiling.

    ¡°Thank you so much! I can show you the best way to the city from here, but first¡ª¡° Odin looted all of Rauls gear.

    ¡°OK, now I am ready.¡± Clearly they weren¡¯t friends at all.

    Elisa woke up.

    ¡°Where am i? What is this?¡± Elisa was tied to a sled.

    ¡°Who are you?¡± Elisa checked out a small coated silhouette that was dragged the sled by a rope over her shoulder.

    ¡°Don¡¯t speak, your hurt and I will get u well, just hang in there!¡± it was the voice of a young girl, but the snow and sun made it hard for Elisa to see her face.

    Elisa passed out again.

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 Volume 2 Chapter 11 - An important promise!

    ¡°So tell me Odin, how did you and your family get here in the first place?¡±

    ¡°I have been here for a while, maybe a year now.¡±

    Cortez and I looked at each other and said in synch.

    ¡°A YEAR?!¡±

    ¡°Yes, back in the day when people were more friendly if you don¡¯t count the questing massacre between the Darkblood brotherhood and the Guardian angels. Me and my family flew down the grand fall with many others, but as time went by things turned more and more grim.

    Odins face got blank for a few seconds as he remembered something very important personally, probably something dramatic that happened to him or his family, I wont dare to ask, at least not now.

    ¡°Hey I can see the city over there!¡± The snowy mist slowly disappeared as we got close to the city.¡±

    ¡°Be careful, there can be bandits lurking around!¡± Odin drew his swords.

    Sniff sniff.

    ¡°I cant smell or sense anyone invisible nearby at least¡±

    I entered stealth mode just to stroll safe.

    ¡°Here Odin, you should join our party¡±

    Cortez invited Odin to the party and he accepted as the hud appeared before him.

    ¡°Hey why is Elisa at my place?¡±

    ¡°What do you mean?¡± I wondered.

    ¡°We should hurry, looks like she still isn¡¯t in great shape, I know someone who can aid her if we have the money.¡±

    ¡°Someone? Why not go to the medical bay?¡±

    ¡°There is no medical bay here and probably not later either, we are in the shit now. Everything you know from before have been a tutorial an easy journey compared to what lies ahead and its not an easy one.¡±

    After hearing Odin talk I realized that he might not be such a kid after all as I first thought him to be, he have probably survived a lot of hardships himself, if what he says is true and he want to support his family by fighting then that is a strong moral from someone who have been living here for such a long time.

    We entered the city, the gate was wide open and it smelled really bad. It was dark and foggy, kind of like the real world, at least this climate was always cold and not drastically changing. The city was just a big circle with several districts and in the middle was a big arena where the tournaments are held I suppose.

    ¡°Guys, its just over here!¡± Odin waved us in as he entered a creaky old door.

    It was a small room, dark, dirty and holes everywhere, just as cold as outside too.

    ¡°Hi mom, hi Helen!¡± We all entered the room and saw Elisa unconscious on the sled.

    Helen

    The room was quiet and gloomy.

    ¡°Her condition is very dire, she got several fractions in her back, neck and legs from the fall if not healed she will die.¡±

    ¡°Is there any healers in the city?¡± Elisa woke up, coughing.

    ¡°There is a few, but they will only do it for a bunch of money, that¡¯s how healing works here sadly.¡±

    ¡°How much money are we talking about?¡± Cortez used his money on new gear, but I saved up mine.

    ¡° For these kinds of wounds that will keep dealing damage over time it will cost 150 000 mesetas to heal it and then the regeneration will be enough, but it will take a few days on the bed.¡±

    Author note: These wounds are really severe, a mere healer is not enough, there has to be a fully geared and experienced.

    ¡°150 000 mesetas? Where can anyone get that much money at such short notice?¡± I panicked as I saw Elisa was tearing up.

    ¡°The tournament is the only way to get that kind of money so fast, but then you have to win, because the price is 250 000 mesetas, but that is insane.¡±

    ¡°I will do it! You said this is the only way? I will join the tournament and win! That`s a promise!¡±

    Elisa was crying.

    ¡°Thank you!¡± Were the words she managed to force out of her mouth as she coughed.

    ¡°I will join as well! Then the odds are higher.¡±

    ¡°Take care of Elisa for us, Cortez lets go¡±

    ¡°Wait! I will join too!¡± Odin was sobbing and tearing up, but I could see fighting spirit in his eyes.

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    ¡°I am the reason she is in this condition and I will not stand here doing nothing like a weakling! Wont tolerate it any longer!¡±

    ¡°Odin¡­.¡± Helen seemed worried for her brother, his mom smiled a little.

    ¡°Do your best Odin! Whatever happens we are always on your side, don¡¯t you forget that!¡±

    ¡°Mhm!¡± We left he room with Odin and headed to the big arena in the middle of the city.

    ¡°This place smells so bad, yuk!¡± Cortez held his nose.

    ¡°I cant even smell it anymore, I have gotten used to it.¡± Some creepy people were giving us a nasty look.

    The place was filled with mist and smoke because of the pollution of the armor smiths, bakers, sewers and climate, everything kind off had a greenish hue.

    ¡°Get away from me you creep, this is the last time I will deal with your shit! Join me outside and fight like a man dipshit!¡± Some guy was arguing with someone as they left towards the entrance.

    This place is like hell on Earth or Hell on Felia I guess.

    ¡°There is the sign ups, the tournament starts in 1 hour and ends at 03:00¡±

    ¡°The tournament is hosted ever day and the pot is that big?¡± That is a lot of money.

    ¡°The tournament is the only thing that really matters here, the pot is always sponsored by higher level people who want to see us noobies fight for our survival.¡± Odin signed up.

    ¡°Don¡¯t forget why we do this¡± I signed up.

    ¡°I will do my best¡± Cortez signed up.

    ¡°A big heads up, no one is fan of assassins speced with poison or stealth, people think they are cowards, so I strongly suggest you use combat.¡± Odin decided to tell me this now 1 hour before the tournament.¡±

    ¡°Is that so? How inconvenient, I guess I can use my spare money on the gear, if we win first place then money wont be a problem, can you show me the auction house?¡±

    ¡°Sure, follow me!¡± Odin showed us the way.

    People were still giving us nasty looks.

    ¡°Do we have any idea who our opponents are?¡±

    ¡°The only way to know who is fighting is to look at the list of names, no class or anything is showed, the matches are randomized.¡±

    ¡°We can only hope we aren¡¯t up against each other, cuz you guys will lose for sure, just saying¡± That smug face of Cortez almost made me laugh. He putted his hands behind his head as he said it.

    ¡°Pfffff, i will slice you up before you can hit me!¡±

    ¡°Try it kiddo, you will need to deflect my arrow if you want to win haha. I. Never. Miss.¡±

    Same old cocky Cortez.

    ¡°I didn¡¯t know what I expected¡± The auction house looked like crap.

    There was one person there with a filthy hoodie and I could see his face was a bit deformed.

    ¡°What you buyin?¡± He asked me.

    ¡°Well, bring up the melee combat gear for lvl 6¡±

    ¡°Wait you got level 6?¡± Cortez seemed surprised.

    ¡°Yes, back when we delivered the quest to the old lady, you were probably thinking to much about the jump to notice, you should probably level up soon to.¡±

    ¡°Wait, so there is level advantages in the tournament? That is unfair is it not?¡±

    Good question from Cortez.

    ¡°The damage and health is rearranged before the match to the level, so there is no way others can have better or worse gear than you, that is why the gear I use right now can be used. Even if someone is 2 levels higher, their damage will probably be reduced with 10-15% just like damage and armor. There is no real advantage really, if I fight an opponent lower level then me and I have just acquired a new spell, then I cant use that spell because then I have more abilities and that would be unfair.¡±

    ¡°I see, makes sense¡±

    I bought full combat gear for the rest of my mesetas and some new daggers, light and sharp, felt nice.

    ¡°We should head back and get ready in the waiting room, everyone have to meet there¡±

    ¡°Let¡¯s go!¡±

    Next chapter: Who will they meet in the arena? Will they fight each other? Will they lose? And who is that mysterious assassin sitting for him/her self at the bench?

 Volume 2 Chapter 12-13 - Are you ready to rumble?

    ¡°So this is the gate huh?¡± A big old metal gate was before us as it opened.

    ¡°You guys ready?¡± We were all determined, we all knew what was at stake.

    We entered the gate and our names were gone.

    ¡°Hey, I cant see your name anymore over your head¡± I looked at Cortez.

    ¡°Same counts for you¡±

    ¡°The names here doesn¡¯t matter, you will get a stage name later on. ¡°

    The place didn¡¯t have as many combations as I thought.

    ¡°So this is everyone huh?¡± I looked around.

    ¡° Some of these guys I have seen before, they are trying again I see, that one over there is Skullcrusher, he is a blade master who sacrifices armor for more damage, just look at that giant mace and his inhumane body size.¡±

    Skullcrusher turned his head slightly and glanced at us, we all gulped a bit.

    ¡°That is Flame Fist, he is one of the elementalists that use close combat while infusing the fire damage to his punches, he is also skilled with earth magic as shield and short CC`s.¡±

    I spotted an assassin girl sitting alone at the bench in the corner of the room, the flames were our only source of light inside this filthy battle room. Weapons on the walls and several statues of what I think is honorable warriors.

    ¡°Who is that girl over there?¡± I looked over at her.

    ¡°Don¡¯t know, I haven¡¯t seen here before, the two I have spoken of are the only once I recognize from before, all the others are fresh like you guys.¡±

    A man with a list in his hand came in with two guards, looking mad.

    ¡°Ok listen up warriors, the theme is 1 on 1 combat and the terrains are different for each match, line yourself up and get your names!¡±

    We lined up, except those who already got names, we got looked at intensely starting with Cortez.

    ¡°Pathetic, your name will be cowhide¡± One of the combations almost laughed.

    ¡°Think this is funny? Rat face?¡± The boss walked up to the guy laughing and gave him the name rat face as everyone got quiet, he moved to the next one.

    ¡°Speedy!¡± was the only thing he called him after looking at his markings and eyes were pure white, a fast elementalist and he didn¡¯t get shit on by the boss, maybe he could see potential.

    He walked to the next one in line, the lone assassin girl and looked at her eyes as it was the only part of the face that we were able to see. The boss saw something in her eyes as he didn¡¯t try to be tough guy.

    ¡°Deciever¡± such an intense name.

    The boss looked over at the next one in line, a girl next to me.

    ¡°What is this, an alchemist? Don¡¯t make me laugh. Caf¨¦ waitress.¡± She seemed mad, but she kept quiet.

    Now it was my turn, my face really covered up, only my eyes could be seen.

    ¡°Soul¡± Soul? What does he mean by that?

    ¡°Nice shield you got there¡­Wall¡± The guy next to me was a blade master, but the irony was that he didn¡¯t have a weapon, just a big ass shield and topless, with huge muscles.

    ¡°Follow me, the crowd is getting inpatient!¡±

    The boss and his two guards left the same place they came in and we all followed.

    After a 1 minute walk of complete silence and darkness we could see a light at the end of the tunnel, the cheering of the crowd became louder and louder as we got closer.

    The arena was big and round and the crowd was to many people to count, there were some viewing seats at the top for the V.I.P people, those who sponsored the tournament.

    ¡°Stop here, look and wave at the audience, the first match will be showed soon.¡±

    We all waved to the crowd except the one fire elemntalist, he looked mysterious with that hood on.

    The big screen at the top of the arena was randomly matching us up as our stage names bounced back and forth. The roof of the arena was cover with some kind of transparent matter to hold the pollution and cold out, but we could still see the sky.

    ¡°Are everyone ready to see these brave warriors fight for money and fame?¡± The crowd cheered as the announcer started to speak in his tension building voice.

    ¡°Let`s start right away with!!!¡± The big screen slowed down on the names and landed on.

    ¡° Caf¨¦ waitress and Skullcrusher!¡± None of them seemed scared of one another, they were instructed by the boss to go to different sides of the arena.

    ¡°What kind of terrain are they getting? Roll the dice!¡± The big screen was switching randomly between, molten, winter, desert, jungle, regular and summer.

    ¡°Summer is the first! Let¡¯s see them fight for their dreams!¡± The crowd cheered and the match began.

    The big screen was following the combations with high precision and definition.

    ¡°How can that little girl win over a big guy like him? There is no way, did you see that mace?¡±

    The boss turned around

    ¡°Shut your mouth back there cowhide or you will be fighting with your bare hands!¡± Cortez got quiet.

    They spotted each other after about 30 seconds into the game. Skullcrusher was the first to strike.

    You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story.¡°I got you now cup cake!¡± Skullcrusher slammed his mace and barely hitting caf¨¦ waitress!

    The ground was quaked to pieces! She managed to slip away into the trees as she dropped a gooey flask to slow him down, but it was not as strong as Elisa¡¯s flask because she was speced bomb expert instead of support.

    ¡°Come back here and fight!¡± Skullcrusher headed after her as he got out of the goo, suddenly he was struck by two bombs right to his face from a trap!

    ¡°Damn you bitch! Think you can fuck with me so easily?¡± Skullcrusher charged up his leap and jumped so far ahead that he managed to catch up with caf¨¦ waitress!

    ¡°Hi, there you are you little twerp!¡± he kicked her and she fell to the ground.

    ¡°Die!¡± Skullcrusher slammed his mace to the ground, but she rolled sideways, but it was no use since she got stomped on by his foot!

    ¡°Any last words?¡± both his hands held the mace handle really tight as he lifted his mace behind his head to slam the ground.

    ¡°Catch me if you can!¡± She managed to slip out of his foot because the goo flask she had strapped to her body shattered, leaving her slippery.

    She immediately ran up his face and smashed some kind of flask in his eyes and it was burning!

    ¡°My eyes!¡± Skullcrusher was aimlessly trying to catch caf¨¦ waitress with his hands but it was no use, as she jumped down and dropped several bombs at his feet blowing him up and winning the match.

    ¡°The winner is caf¨¦ waitress!¡± The crowd was cheering as they praised her name.

    Skullcrusher was teleported out of the arena and into one of the losing cages where they are forced to watch the whole tournament. Caf¨¦ waitress was teleported back to us.

    ¡°Piece of cake¡± She said as she flipped her hair and waved to the audience.

    ¡°That was amazing! Will the next one be the same? Let`s roll the dice!¡± The big screen was flickering names again.

    It slowly stopped.

    ¡°Speedy versus Little sparrow!¡± Odin was up against the one who seemed most crazy here.

    I looked over at him, he looked sweat, nervous, scared, adrenaline, who knows?

    ¡°And the terrain will be?¡± The big screen stopped on molten!

    Like last time they were instructed to go to their starting positions, the map was generating itself.

    ¡°Aaaand we are off!¡± The place was dark, filled with lava, small erupting volcanos and the heat had to be unbearable.

    They could see each other immediately and speedy didn¡¯t hesitate he rushed towards Odin with insane speed, just like the one who Nort was fighting.

    Odin parried the strike and kicked him away, but Speedy was retaliating immediately and almost hit Odins throat!

    The fight was so fast we couldn¡¯t see what was happening, sparks flying everywhere and they were constantly moving around.

    One of the volcanos erupted next to Speedy and made him lose his balance Odin sliced up a piece of his cheek, but it was not enough to kill him.

    Speedy took advantage of Odins obvious attack and kicked him in his right leg, Speedy then struck Odin on both his shoulders, but he managed to roll backwards, both took a breather.

    The intense heat and smoke was taking its toll on both of them.

    Speedy charged up some kind of spell on one of the volcanoes ready to erupt, it was a tornado!

    The eruption got caught in the tornado and it was directed towards Odin, but he was already ready with his own attack.

    Odin was crouching and he had one blade in front of him and another one behind him as he prepared his leap!

    ¡°Take this and die!¡± Speedy yelled as the magma tornado was on its way to kill Odin.

    Odin was so concentrated on charging his leap he was looking at the ground the whole time, but right before he was hit he looked up and I swear I saw his eyes glow red for a second before he jumped!

    ¡°Aaaaaaaaaaaargh!¡± A load scream from both of them were heard as Odin leaped right into the magma tornado head on!

    Speedy smiled, but then Odin appeared in front of him filled with fire and his health had dropped dramatically, but the leap was so powerful and the blades became like a razor tornado to counter, his blades were flaming hot as he got an insanely good hit on Speedys chest!

    The cuts instantly caught on fire as Speedy fell to the ground, defeated!

    Odin were in a crouching position again as he sheeted his burning blades, his skin was partially burned, he was breathing heavily and he looked like a totally different person than before!

    ¡°And the winner is Little Sparrow!¡± The crowd stood up and cheered at Odin as he was teleported back to us, fully healed.

    He took a deep breath once he was back, Cortez and I looked at him.

    I think we were both pretty happy we didn¡¯t have to fight him back then, even though our gear is better that fighting style of his is suicidal!

    ¡°Im not giving up that easily!¡± was the first words he said after catching his breath, his face was determent.

 Volume 2 Chapter 14 - Cowhide Versus The Deciever!

    After the two first fights there was an hour break, Odin, Cortez and I met up.

    ¡°Dude, you almost died! I cant believe you just did that! That was so badass!¡± Cortez was praising the hell out of Odin.

    Odin was the only one sitting on the bench, Cortez was trying to hold in his excitement.

    ¡°How far did you get during you last tournament?¡± I asked him.

    ¡°I didn¡¯t get to enter, back then there was two on two and Raul was fighting and spouting crap so the guards kicked us out before we could even start, the people outside was throwing nasty junk at us as we ran out of the city! I just got my name and that was that really.¡±

    ¡°How did you stick up with that guy anyway?¡± Odin took a noticeable breath and stood up.

    ¡°I didn¡¯t, I just had to cope with his crap, we both did our best to survive and he wanted me to give him gold so he could get better gear to hunt, he was just talking non stop about how good he was and how dumb I were, not really great for my mentality.¡±

    No shit, I think everyone saw you expressing that!

    ¡°Didn¡¯t those flames hurt?¡±

    ¡°Everything happened so quick, it did hurt like hell, but it didn¡¯t really feel hot, it felt, like beyond hot you know? Like it was some sort of burning cold, I don¡¯t know, I was so adrenaline fueled at that moment I didn¡¯t really pay that much attention to the pain I just had to keep my attack going!¡±

    ¡°Well it certainly worked, I give you that!¡±

    The assassin was leaning against the wall like she was listening inn. No one noticed but me, what is she up to?

    The other combations left were all chilling by themselves, mentally preparing.

    ¡°Get up warriors, you have been slacking of much already!¡±

    The boss went out the same place as he entered, just like last time, we followed.

    Cheering crowd again, who is going to fight next?

    ¡°Stand firm and wave!¡± We waved as we were grouped.

    ¡°Look at our fine warriors! This day have already been really exciting, what treats are we in for next? Roll the dice!¡± That over excited announcer again.

    The big screen slowly landed on Cowhide and Deciever!

    ¡°Alright! I am ready! Time to fight! Yeah!¡± Cortez was overly energic, but I could see he was just trying to convince himself that he could do this.

    The assassin did really make any movement as she just stood there, looking blankly out right in front of her.

    ¡°Get to your positions!¡± Cortez was punching in the air like he was shadow boxing, his words got less audible as he got longer away, but he was still keeping up his motivational speech and punches for himself.

    ¡°Molten and summer is out of the equation, what is the next terrain! No time to waste lets roll!¡±

    The big screen stopped at Winter.

    I could see Cortez face got sad, he is always the one freezing the most of us, poor guy.

    ¡°Get ready! 3,2,1 Fight!¡±

    The battleground was a blizzard, dark and cold! Their gear got their cold resist on, their vision was so clouded they couldn¡¯t see each other, there was some hills, trees and ice rivers.

    What is your plan Cortez?

    The assassin girl was the first to get a view of her opponent! She was running straight at him!

    ¡°So that is what your up to huh?¡± Cortez smirked.

    ¡°Take this!¡± He fired a shot that hit her directly in the head!

    Wait? A clone?

    The Deciever was just about to strike Cortez from behind as she was invisible, but Cortez noticed!

    He turned around and kicked her backwards and she slided down the hillside. Cortez quickly drew his bow as she was rolling!

    Just before he managed to shot his arrow he tripped and fell down himself because she had disabled a trap that Cortez had put up, the rope was caught around his leg, was that her plan all along?

    An assassin got much more movability then an archer in a situation like this, what is he going to do?

    The Deciever got back her momentum as she reached the bottom of the hill. She took a firm grip of the rope and pulled it hard as Cortez was dragged out on the open ice, he was trying to get back up, but then she was already there above him she managed to hit Cortez with one of her daggers in his right arm, but then he kicked her away.

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    She managed to attach the rope to one of her daggers as Cortez got up and untangled himself, but then she was gone again, not because she stealthed but the snowstorm got worse, Cortez was at a real disadvantage, but he did his best to draw his bow.

    Two throwing starts hit him in his chest, not dealing a lot of damage, but it was enough for her to hit him in the leg with her rope dagger, then she dragged it out again and Cortez lost his balance and fell, the ice shattered and he fell through!

    The Deciever went over there, it got quiet, only the blizzard and wind could be heard, but then a arrow got shot from under the water and up right at the Decievers face, but she grabbed it!

    ¡°What is this? How did she manage to grab that arrow!¡± The announcer got crazy and the audience got stunned.

    What is with this sudden change of skill? The speed of that shot was so fast I couldn¡¯t even see it coming! She went invisible.

    Cortez got out of the water over at shore after breaking the ice, then he was hit by a snowball in his face by the Deceiver up in a tree. The blizzard had cooled down a little, Cortez drew his bow, but then he realized that she was actually behind him!

    He turned around and shot her, but that was when he noticed that she didn¡¯t attack.

    His face was confused for a moment before he got his sudden realization.

    The real one was on the tree!

    She jumped down and shoved a snowball right into his face, then she stabbed him once in his chest as she landed firmly on the ground.

    Cortez was blinded by the snow.

    She then reappear behind him and shoved both her daggers down his neck, Cortez was at the brink of losing!

    Cortez flapped his arms around trying to grab her, the snow was gone from his eyes, but they were still hurting.

    She kicked his leg and he fell on the ice and hit his head, she then threw her rope dagger at the tree and pulled herself up and swung around the whole tree branch as she landed with both her feet on his stomach!

    The ice beneath them shattered and Cortez was once again forced under water, but that was the end of the match.

    The Deciever was casually chilling in the tree as she was creating another snowball that she tossed back and forth between her arms as the game ended.

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    It was like she was toying with Cortez, she suddenly got much stronger after she got kicked around.

    Did she misjudge his strength at first?

    They got teleported out.

    Cortez opened his eyes and took a deep breath!

    ¡°I really hate the cold, wow! It was like d¨¦j¨¤ vu the first time I got under the ice, but then it happened again, what is that called?¡± He was hitting his ear as he tried to get out some water, although there probably isn¡¯t any water in his ear.

    ¡°I don¡¯t know, but you seem to have a bad habit of getting stuck under water!¡±

    As we were talking I could feel those cold eyes over my shoulder, I turned around and looked slightly back at her, what is her deal?

    She left to the backside of the group, leaning against the wall, even though everyone was in front looking at the crowd.

    Still haven¡¯t heard her say a word.

    That girl.....

    Next chapter: Sky is up against a fast mage, but who is the fastest and what kind of spells can he use?

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 Volume 2 Chapter 15 - Cant afford to lose!

    The announcer shouted and the screen showed me and Rat face, the spellslinger guy, we got desert as our location.

    ¡°You know the drill, get to it!¡±

    The boss pointed out over starting areas and we got ready.

    From my place I could see the losers and Cortez was excitingly holding the bars and screaming, I couldn¡¯t hear him, but he was probably cheering me on.

    After he was teleported back to us he had to be checked on because the water can actually kill you if you drown, but he was fine and after that teleported to the cage.

    ¡°He did his best, but It¡¯s only me and Odin left, I cant afford to lose!¡±

    The gate opened and I was suddenly in the middle of a big dessert, sand blowing in the wind, not as fierce as the blizzard earlier though. I couldn¡¯t see him anywhere, there was a pyramid in the middle of the map and everywhere else was covered by sand, the dessert had some big sand piles here and there.

    I snuck around invisible a bit until I notice Rat Face, he was just standing there almost like he was meditating he was covered with some kind of shield, I snuck up behind him and struck the shield, but it got absorbed like it was nothing.

    He teleported a short distance in front of himself and shot some small purple bolts at me, it wasn¡¯t really hard to dodge them as we both ran around.

    I used reappear to catch up with the distance, but the shield once again absorbed my damage. He turned around and blew a bit powerful purplish bolt towards me, barley hit me.

    He is to fast for me even with my heavenly agility speed, there is no way I can catch up with this guy, unless I use my newest ability!

    Luckily for me he is also the same level as me so we both have our newest ability, unlike Cortez and The Deceiver where she couldn¡¯t use the new ability because Cortez was one level under her.

    At this level every gets an ability for their subclass that has a 5 minute cooldown, its different for every class and subclass, I do not know what his spell is, but I have no choice to use mine!

    Dirty tricks!

    ¡°Oh I have been waiting for this!¡± My clone appeared, but this time he has all the same abilities as me and our mind is synched, he has half my health and it only lasts for 20 seconds!

    My clone reappeared behind the spellslinger and instead off shoving his daggers down his neck he grappled him.

    The spellslinger panicked as I came closer and closer, my clone was smiling, but then the spellslinger teleported, just like my clone had planned out since he got teleported aswell!

    My clone hit his shield over and over until it shattered and then grappled him again.

    ¡°Enough is enough, take this!¡± my clone got knocked down as I ran over and hit him with both daggers in his stomach, but he smiled at me and raised his hand and summoned a black purplish ball, I jumped backwards, but it was not enough the ball was approaching me and I had no way to dodge it, is this his special ability?

    ¡°What?¡± Before I knew it I was suddenly at another place on the ground, I looked around and tried to see where I was, then I saw myself get hit and disappear into pixel dust, that¡¯s when I realized my clone switched places with me at the last second, he sacrificed himself for me.

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    The spellslingers body was filled with some uneasy dark aura, but it quickly ended.

    I closed the distance between us and sliced up his body as much as I could before he managed to teleport away, but I used reappear right after and finished the deal when I sliced his throat, he didn¡¯t see me use reappear right after him so he was ready to shot back at me, but it was too late for him.

    ¡°And the winner is Soul!¡± I got teleported back to the others.

    There was one fight left, between Wall and Fire fist.

    The crowed was cheering for me so I waved back.

    ¡°Next match is between the only combations left, Wall and Fire fist! And the last terrain is the normal arena, like the old times!¡±

    The match started quickly, the map was small and round with only 4 pillars in the middle.

    ¡°Fight!¡±

    Fire Fist was the first on to attack, he infused his hands with flames and charged Wall, but Wall had his own ability, he planted his shield in the ground and his whole body got covered. Fire Fist was punching the shield as hard as he could but nothing happened, Wall then took up his shield and slammed Fire Fist backwards as he knocked down one pillar.

    ¡°What a blow! How is he holding up?¡± The announcer seemed worried, but he was not hurt, he stood up from the debris like it was nothing, parts of his body was covered with some sort of earth shield.

    ¡°He is not hurt at all!¡± the crowed was cheering, but Wall was worried, Fire Fist looked angry.

    His markings turned all green as he ran towards Wall, first a piece of earth was summoned beneath his own feet as he ran, then another piece of earth a bit bigger, then again! Like he was running on a short stair case, he then jumped off and his markings turned red, so did his hands, but only this time there was something else, his hands wasn¡¯t only burning, but it was like molten, like the map Odin fought on.

    ¡°Aaaaa!¡±

    Fire Fist struck his shield and it knocked Wall of balance.

    Before Wall managed to get back up he was rooted to the ground and Flame Fist punched a solid punch right to his stomach as it slowly burned its way through!

    ¡°Argh!! Stop!!!¡± Wall was screaming as his health was dropping quick.

    ¡°And the victor is Fire Fist!¡± He put his hand up in the air and the audience was screaming!

    They were both teleported away.

    ¡°Now everything is reset! The remaining combations have to fight each other again, but who will be victories this time? Remember to vote for whom you think performed the best! That person will be fighting the other person who gets enough votes after the next two matches! Take a short break everyone, we be right back!¡±

    Next chapter: Who will the crowed vote for? And who will be victorious in the next two matches? Then the vote pool starts again and those two will fight each other before the finals!

 Volume 2 Chapter 16 - Haunted

    ¡° That was amazing, I thought you were a goner there!¡± Odin was happy for me.

    ¡°Hehe, all planned out!¡± That was close, need to be more careful next time.

    ¡°Have you been following the news lately?¡± What is Odin talking about?

    ¡°News?¡±

    ¡°The news that gives us info of the real world or the local news paper¡±

    ¡° What? I didn¡¯t know there was anything like that here¡±

    ¡°No wonder, Earth have been silent for the past two months now. The administrators are probably dead, there hasn¡¯t been an update in 4 months, rumors are spreading, is Earth coming to an end?¡±

    ¡°I just came to Felia a few days ago, but what I can tell you is that Earth has just become worse, even the survivalists are fighting against each other for any kind of resource and the climate is close to inhabitable if you¡¯re just strolling around.¡±

    ¡°Figures, I don¡¯t know why, but I fell sad, I mean even though I gave up on the world and everything, all that history and fun that there was before all this. Feels weird that its actually coming to and end and its our own fault really, humans are stupid, violent and too smart for our own good.¡±

    ¡°That is true, I remember before me and Celia, my little sister was rescued and stationed in a safe bunker, we had joined a small organization, it was not a nice one, but we had to if we wanted to survive. We were 12 people including me and Celia, we had some guns and military practice that we were thought by the others, there was only one there that we really considered a friend he was at the same age as me, his name was Zane, but our friendship was cut short¡± I could feel the bad feeling in my stomach.

    ¡°What happened?¡± after a short pause I continued.

    ¡°We got attacked by a gang twice our size, we retaliated as much as we could¡±

    My memories came back.

    ¡°Sky, we have to fight back!¡± People were dying on both sides, people we have been living with for months.

    I aimed my gun outside the window and shot as much as I could with the auto riffle I had, I swear I killed at least one and wounded another, but it was not the time to be thinking of that.

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    I got back in cover and reloaded, took a breather and looked around, I could see Celia shooting out off a window next to me, she reloaded quick and got right back to the shooting.

    I got up and took a quick look outside the window while she just finished shooting, I could see a guy aiming his RPG towards her!

    ¡°Celia, get back! RPG!¡± As I shouted it was too late for me to get to her, the shot was already on its way, is this the last time I would see my sister?

    ¡°Zane?¡± came running from the other side of Celia and pushed her over to me as the RPG hit the wall next to him.

    It was like everything was in slow motion at that moment, after he pushed Celia he turned looked at me, his eyes were tearing up as he said something, but I couldn¡¯t quiet make out what he said. That still haunts me to this day.

    ¡°We have to get out of here!¡± I said as I picked up Celia by my shoulder and made my way out of there, Celia was injured by a piece of debris that fell on her shoulder.

    ¡°No, we have to keep fighting!¡± She said, but I knew we were losing, even our leader was lying dead on the ground, but she didn¡¯t see that right away.

    I forced us out of there, by our secret underground trench, leaving everyone behind except Celia, as I turned my head around back at the hide out it was completely demolished and in smoke.

    ¡°After that we walked for a long time in silence and in turmoil, what are we going to do from now on? We walked without aim and in that climate we were sure to die, but we were rescued after I don¡¯t even know for how long we walked¡±

    ¡°I am sorry, about your hideout and Zane too, he sounds like a good guy¡±

    ¡°He was¡­.¡±

    ¡°Get ready to fight, back to your stations!¡± The boss was back, the break seemed to be really short, but it seems I got caught up in my thoughts.

    We followed him and his guards to the arena again through the long dark corridor.

    Everyone was following the boss, but there was one behind that Sky didn¡¯t notice, it was The Deciever, she shed a tear.....

    Next chapter: Who got the vote? Who will fight and who will lose?

 Volume 2 Chapter 17 - Molten Giant

    The last chapter was a bit short so i wrote another one today as an apology!

    We were looking out at the arena and crowed, waving as instructed. The Deciever was the last one to come, but she didn¡¯t wave.

    ¡°This have been a really good day, these combations have been fighting for the throne, but who won the crowed? The one who got the most votes is¡­. Odin!¡±

    I looked over at Odin, he was surprised and blushed as he waved again at the crowed. Now he was going to fight the other person who wins the next vote.

    ¡°Next fight is The Deciever versus Caf¨¦ Waitress!¡±

    The roll started real quick, I didn¡¯t even notice it had begun.

    ¡°What terrain is it this time? Roll it!¡±

    The screen slowly stopped on desert.

    ¡°Ohh desert again! Let the games begin!¡±

    They had both already gone to their starting locations.

    Looking at the monitor from here is much better then actually being there, the damn sand was annoying, had to cover my eyes.

    ¡°Look at that! She is already on the run!¡± The Deciever used heavenly agility already, not even stealth?

    ¡°Here they meet!¡± The audience was shocked and looking closely in excitement, this match started off quick!

    She used ¡°Dirty Tricks!¡± as she noticed the alchemist, they both ran up to her, but her clone used reappear and tried to slash up caf¨¦ waitress, but she got away barely as she dropped some bombs, but it didn¡¯t hit the clone.

    ¡°So fast!¡± The original Deciever used reappear and stabbed the alchemist in the back with her full body strength and momentum, it was such a strong impact caf¨¦ waitress fell on the ground, but she smiled as a fuse was already lit! She quickly changed places with her clone to get out of the blast radius, that had to be the 5 minute cooldown ability, that was a huge blast!

    Caf¨¦ waitress was still alive, the bombs does not damage herself, but the stab from before did bring her health down to half health. The Deceiver threw some throwing stars at caf¨¦ waitress, but she dodged them all, she retaliated by throwing bombs back, but the blast wasn¡¯t enough.

    It got quiet for a second as they were looking intensely at each other, no attack or running just silently looking, even the crowed got quiet, it was like time had stopped, only the sand in the wind was heard. The tension got broken as The Deceiver smiled and summoned a clone in front of her, she then slapped a smoke bomb on his back and sent him running!

    The Deceiver used reappear again as it was off cooldown and tried to slash her up again, but she anticipated it and jumped backwards, as she tried to throw bombs on the ground she realized that there were none there! They had been stolen!

    The Deceiver held the bomb belt, but she can¡¯t use them though. She then threw one of her knives because she didn¡¯t have anymore throwing starts, Caf¨¦ waitress dodged, but the knife wasn¡¯t trying to hit her, it was aimed at the clone that was right behind her as the clone disappeared the dagger hit the smoke bomb and it exploded!

    Caf¨¦ waitress was in thick smoke, couching, on the monitor we could she The Deciever run inside and we saw Caf¨¦ waitress`s health drop quickly to zero as the smoke disappeared. She then picked up her dagger from the used smoke bomb and blew away the sand.

    ¡°And the winner is The Deceiver!¡±

    Now it was my turn against Fire Fist, we headed to our starting location.

    The big screen stopped at summer.

    ¡°Let the fight begin, go!¡±

    The map was really nice compared to the desert, it was just like being in a forest with some open spaces and a nice sun, but the danger is out there somewhere, I entered stealth and snuck about.

    After a short while I could see him just walking he was waiting for me to make the first move, his body was thickened with earth to reduce my damage from the ambush.

    I was so stupid to not buy anymore smoke bombs when I had the chance, but I have to make the most of the situation.

    His combat skills are highly advanced, he is strong, but I am quicker, since I am not as strong his earth shield will just neglect all my damage, I have to make up a good combo.

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    I summoned my clone and used dirty tricks, then my clone went invisible, but I didn¡¯t. I approached him head on I even used heavenly agility!

    ¡°Aaaaa!¡± I screamed running towards him with my dagger ready to strike, I got his attention!

    My clone went out of stealth as struck his back, Fire Fist quickly turned around and tried to knock my clone away, then my clone used reappear and kicked him in his back and backflip over to me, then Fire Fist turned around and I used reappear behind him and slashed his back!

    Everything happened really quick and we did do some damage, but as I thought his earth shield or earth skin neglected much of the damage.

    ¡°Enough!¡± Fire Fist hit the ground and the earth around him wrapped up into a ball and I got stuck inside it with him!

    Everything got dark, the only thing I could see was his red markings and then the fire around his fist as he slammed my face once before I switched places with my clone, after a short while the wrapped earth fell apart and my clone was gone.

    He took a look around himself, but I was stealthed again.

    I appeared behind him and struck his back, but it didn¡¯t deal much damage, he turned around and punched me but I blocked with my daggers. His hands were not skin anymore, it was molten! Earth skin combined with intense fire.

    What subclass is he if he can use both elements? Two subclasses? No, he chose one subclass, but his gear is only directed to one of the elements, my guess is that he got fire subclass, but his gear is all earth, therefor he can use both.

    I only got melee combat right now, therefor my poison deals almost no damage at all, same goes for my stealth.

    ¡°Take this!¡± He charged up some kind of fire ball in his hands!

    I prepared to dodge it, but he didn¡¯t shoot it, he slammed both his hands together and consumed it, his whole body turned molten!

    He smiled

    ¡°Yes, yes! Now it¡¯s my turn!¡± He looked over at me; his eyes were glowing red like fire!

    This has to be his 5 min cooldown ability, infuses his whole body in flames, but combined with earth; I need to keep my distance and run! Heavenly agility is still on cooldown!

    ¡°Get back here!¡± Even his speed increased, he is catching up to me!

    ¡°Die coward!¡± He slammed the ground behind me and I lost my balance as I fell he punched me really hard in the back, then kicked me over to a tree, it dealt 50% of my health! More of that and I am dead!

    His ability should be over soon, I have to buy more time!

    He was coming closer, I had to stand up and get away at least to his ability is gone.

    Heavenly agility and reappear of cooldown!

    ¡°Any last words?¡± He approached me.

    I chuckled and reappeared behind him, kicked him in the back of his head and ran of with heavenly agility.

    ¡°Damn you coward!¡± He tried to chase me down but he was too slow, his ability also went off.

    He was breathing heavily, sweating and even his hands was back to normal, don¡¯t tell me his ability has withdrawals?

    He turned around and ran towards him my heavenly agility effect was lost but I still had quite the speed, he looked back at me, he stopped walking. He took both his hands together and closed his eyes, taking calm breaths and concentrating.

    His markings turned green, then he opened his eyes, they were green too!

    Roots appeared at my feet as I fell down, the roots tried to drag me down with it to trap my leg in the earth, but I quickly cut it with my right dagger.

    Fire Fist was wide open, he wasn¡¯t as composed anymore, I got up and ran towards him again, he was slowly backing of as he stumbled on his back.

    Now is my chance! I jumped on him as I had him pinned down and I was about to slice his whole torso up, his green markings lit up again!

    A Thick rot came up from the ground beneath him through his stomach and through me!

    * Blood cough *

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 Volume 2 Chapter 18 - Vote Versus Vote

    ¡°Kya!¡± The root went straight through my stomach and I was dangling over him, my health dropped to 25% and it was decreasing quickly as I lost a lot of blood. Fire Fist was just as badly injured like me, if I didn¡¯t do anything my health would deplete quicker then his and i would lose! What to do?!

    ¡°This game is over!¡±

    Fire Fist was smiling, I didn¡¯t have much time, I desperately tried to cut the root but it was too thick, I coughed up blood, I looked over at him as I only had a few seconds on me to figure out a solution.

    I took both my daggers and threw them in each of his eyes!

    ¡°Aaaa, you piece of shit, I kill you!¡± His health dropped to zero and I barely won.

    I got teleported back and the first thing I did was to take a really deep breath.

    The crowed was cheering and the vote section came up

    ¡°Lets vote! The person with the most votes will fight against Odin!¡±

    ¡° You alright?¡± Odin came up to me, The Deciever was no where to be seen, she probably walked off back to the waiting room.

    ¡°I am fine now, but that attack really caught me off guard, I didn¡¯t think he would go to such extreme lengths. ¡° There was a short break before the voting was finished

    ¡°Hope we don¡¯t have to fight each other¡±

    ¡°Yeah same here, I don¡¯t I can hold up to your suicidal way of fighting¡±

    Someone was talking at the top of the arena in the V.I.P section.

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    ¡°We really need some new recruits! We barley made it today, half our squad was wounded, one fault and half of us got to pay for it¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t worry, those 3 people left are really powerful, once we got the victor we will be stronger I am sure¡±

    ¡°Enmy, you can¡¯t be serious? By replacing one person? I don¡¯t think that will do muc---?¡±

    ¡°Shut up Kane, we might need to do an exception this time¡± Enmy slammed his glass of whiskey on the table.

    ¡°An exception?¡± Kane answered puzzled.

    Enmy smirked.

    ¡°Alright everyone, the votes have come in and the winner is!¡± The audience  was waiting in excitement.

    ¡°The winner is¡­.The Deciever!¡±

    ¡°You heard him! Get to your positions!¡± The Deciever came out from the dark waiting room hallway.

    The winner here is the one I will go up against! Odin do your best!

    ¡°Roll the dice!¡±

    The big screen slowly stopped on jungle.

    ¡°Get ready, 3,2,1! Fight!¡±

    The gate opened and Odin ran out fast, The Deceiver went into stealth mode immediately.

    Odin kept his blades drawn and he was ready for everything, The Deceiver had already caught up with Odin and struck him in his back! It didn¡¯t deal too much damage though, Odin turned around quick and almost got in a hit.

    They were staring each other down.

    Reading on this site? This novel is published elsewhere. Support the author by seeking out the original.¡°Humph!¡± Odin rushed towards her swinging his blades, she gradually managed to get some cuts in on him as they were blocking each others attacks, but Odin wasn¡¯t as quick. Odin wasn¡¯t level 6 so none of them had their special attack.

    The blade swinging came to an end as Odin jumped back, The Deciever threw some of her throwing stars, but Odin deflected them, he was getting tired.

    The Deciever ran deeper into the jungle, Odin followed her, she didn¡¯t manage to get restealth.

    Wait? Is she tricking him?

    On the big screen we could see that she was gathering some tree veins she attached summoned her clone and give it to her clone, what is she planning?

    Odin didn¡¯t see this because of the trees and obscured jungle terrain.

    She turned around and headed towards Odin again, but he was waiting for her. Then, with heavenly agility up she caught up to him, blades clinging and sparks flying once again Odin was losing health slowly as she was quicker then him, she managed to kick his leg!

    Odin lost his balance and fell on the ground. The Deceiver forced both blades together and was just about to hit him in his stomach but he managed to roll away, but he quickly got up and retaliates with a low charged leap, which caught her off guard!

    She lost some health, but it wasn¡¯t a clean hit. She used reappear behind him and struck her daggers down his back forcing him on the ground again. Odin was much more exhausted then her.

    The clone jumped in with the tree veins, the original picked them up quick and bounded his legs to each other before he managed to get back up.

    His exhaustion with two daggers deep inside his back wasn¡¯t easy to get back from.

    She took back her daggers and kicked him in his side, Odin flipped over on his back looking straight at her.

    ¡°Think you can toy with me too?¡± Odin sliced up the tree veins and tried to stab her, but he didn¡¯t quite have the reach while on the ground.

    The Deciever was casually walking around him as Odin tried to hit her over and over, but he managed to get back up after a short while, that was what she was waiting for.

    ¡°Come!¡± This was the first time anyone had heard her speak!

    ¡°Aaaaarr!¡± Odin ran towards her trying to hit her, but she casually dodged the hits without even retaliating.

    ¡°Ohh what is this?¡± The announcer noticed that she dropped both her knifes on the ground.

    She landed a hit on Odins cheek, didn¡¯t really deal a lot of damage, but it was with her fist! She dodged all the attacks without parrying.

    ¡°You bastard!¡± Odin got angry as he went for another type of strike, but it didn¡¯t work out.

    The Deciever flipped backwards and kicked Odin right in his chin while picking up her daggers and stabbing them into his stomach.

    That was the end of the match!

    Both were teleported away, now it was only me and The Deciever left for the finals!

 Volume 2 Chapter 19 - The darkness in a good heart

    There was a short break.

    I couldn¡¯t stop thinking about Elisas condition, I had to win this, I promised! I haven¡¯t been able to save anyone, but this time is different! My right leg was nervously going up and down as I sat on the bench; The Deceiver was not to be seen again.

    I got a flashback

    ¡°Hey, let me help you with that!¡± Zane came over to me to help with moving the newest scavenged loot back to the storage room.

    ¡°You don¡¯t really need to help me¡± He didn¡¯t pay attention and picked up some bags.

    ¡°Don¡¯t worry, I don¡¯t have anything better to right now anyway, so I figured I could help you, hehe¡± What is up with this guy?

    After moving everything to the storage we took a break.

    ¡°Thanks for the help¡± I was exhausted, so was he, we were both reeking sweat.

    ¡°No problem, that is the least I could do around here, I am not as good combat wise as you and your sister to be scavenging around. I can steal stuff and survive of that on my own, barley, but fighting? Not my cup of tea¡±

    ¡°In this world you really need to know how to fight, soon there wont be anymore to scavenge, when that time comes there will be a fight for resources.¡± The truth was harsh.

    ¡°You might be right, I try my best to learn fighting from Amon, but I cant keep up with you and Celia.¡± Zane seemed a bit down.

    ¡°My father thought me how to fight before he went of to war, I used to practice dojo before I learned to fight with real weapons though, I still don¡¯t have the hang of these guns. I prefer knives and swords.¡±

    ¡°Is that so, maybe you can show me a few tricks some time?¡± Zane really was the most innocent person I have met in a long time, but it might be a good thing to have some innocence left.

    ¡°Sure! Let¡¯s do that sometime, would be fun!¡± Zane knew I was going to kick his butt, be he was just smiling.

    Smiling huh?

    Not sure what I really care about anymore now, survival and my sister? What future lies before us? Things cant get better than this and this is crap. What makes him smile like that? I haven¡¯t seen another person then Zane smile in months; even I haven¡¯t smiled in a long time.

    Am I starting to lose it? My hope on life and people?

    "Why do you smile?" i didnt even look at him

    "Huh? What do you mean?"

    "How can you still smile in days like this? What makes you smile?"

    "I smile when i am with my friends, there isnt many out there who smile, but that is becuase they dont have friends like i do!"

    I looked over at him i was surprised.

    ¡°Get up! Enemies approaching! Get to your positions!¡± Amon came with his gun ready!

    I snapped back from the flashback.

    ¡°The Deceiver versus Soul, this is the fight we have all been waiting for! Who will win money and fame?¡± The audience were cheering, I could see every one who have lost in their cages around the arena, watching.

    Odin and Cortez were cheering for me, I smiled back and waved.

    The boss turned around and looked at me he just slightly grunted, but I knew what he meant.

    The Deceiver was at her position; I didn¡¯t even see her get there.

    ¡°What is the final terrain? Roll it damn you! I cant wait!¡±

    The big screen stopped on normal, the regular arena, not an artificial one. The one with 4 pillars that Fire Fist and Wall was fighting in earlier, hmm.

    ¡°Place you bets! Who will win? Get ready! 3,2,1! Fight!¡±

    The gates opened we ran towards each other, we both used dirty tricks immediately, our daggers connected like it was slow motion, as I was close to her I could get a good look at her eyes and they weren¡¯t cold, they were actually looking back at me, not through me.

    Her clone used reappear behind me, but I used reappear behind her original, but she reappeared behind my clone as he used reappear behind her clone, everything happened so quick I got a bit disorientated. Everyone just changed places!

    My clone managed to stab her clone to death with a strike through her throat, but the original killed my clone too with the same kind of attack.

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    Both the clones got turned to pixel dust and disappeared.

    We charged each other again, attacking with our daggers furiously, sparks flying, but it was like we were mimicking one another, our speed, strength and style were evenly matched, we didn¡¯t get in any hits.

    I managed to find a short window of opportunity where I could jump backwards to gain some distance.

    Has it really come to this? I haven¡¯t used this stance since back then¡­.

    ¡°Daggers of the crazed jester¡± I took one dagger behind my back and turned it around so the pointy edge was under the hilt, the other one was pointed down at the ground in front of me as I was in sort of a crouching position, this was one stance my father thought me, that took a lot of practice, blood, sweat and tears went into learning this. Now that I fight and opponent that is using melee I can use this.

    My stance was best used in a scenario like this, the counter part was much stronger than its offence.

    She tried to strike me, I deflected her and spun around and stab her side with my dagger, she was knocked out of balance by my deflection so she didn¡¯t hit me with her other dagger.

    I kept on the offensive as I had the chance, I reappeared behind her and tried to strike, but she reappeared behind me, I immediate turned around and landed with my back on the ground and kicked her in the stomach, she was knocked backwards into one of the pillars, but she quickly got up again, so did i.

    I kept my stance up, she was holding her right hand on her wound, she was clearly in bad shape, this time I have to be the offensive one!

    She kept looking at the ground, holding her wound, I lunged at her, but to my surprise she managed to parry it, did she know my stance is weaker offensive?

    We clashed our daggers around only this time she was stronger, was she scared of loosing?

    She managed to knock my left dagger out of my hand! I lost my balance! She was trying to shove her dagger right through my heart!

    There is no other choice!

    ¡°Aaa!¡± I shoved the back of my palm straight through her dagger to hold her attack back, as her dagger was stuck in my hand I head butted her while parrying her left dagger strike with my right dagger, she was dazed for maybe 2 seconds, but during that time I managed to grab her left arm as I dropped my right dagger, then with her dagger still through my palm I shoved it right into her throat as she lost all her health while chocking on her own blood.

    There was a silence, she looked up at me as her hood fell down, tears fell down her face as she looked at me.

    ¡°Onii-chan¡­*Blood Cough*¡­Sorry..¡± I instantly started crying as she lost the life spark in her eyes.

    ¡°Ce-Celia! Why? I am so sorry!¡± She fell down on the ground, dead.

    I ripped the dagger out of my palm and tossed it as I fell on my knees and picked her live less body, holding her against my chest as close and tight as possible. I could fell her hair on my cheek.

    .

    ¡°No,no,no,no, why didn¡¯t you tell me? Why?¡± Her body got turned to pixel dust, but she was teleported out of the arena with full health, but where Sky didn¡¯t know¡­

    ¡°Aaand the winner is Soul!¡±

    The crowed was cheering for me, I was still in the middle of the arena, on my knees in turmoil, I was still in the position I held her.

    I looked at my bloody hands, not sure if most of it were hers or mine as I had a big hole through my hand.

    Cortez and Odin were shocked frozen in their cages.

    ¡°What have i done¡­.?¡± I couldn¡¯t stop looking at my bloody hands as I felt her blood dripping from my face.

    I got teleported out¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­

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 Volume 2 chapter 20

    I got teleported to a platform high up in the arena with the commentator, the crowd was cheering.

    I turned my head around quickly grasping the location.

    "Celia! Where are you?!"

    The commentator putted his right arm over my shoulder and he held his mic in his other arm.

    "After several crazy and intense fights, you were able to win them all with the use of skill and unorthedox methods, what do you fell now that you have won!"

    The crowd slowly went silent to hear my answer.

    i struggled myself out of the commentators grip.

    "Celia!"

    Some armored guards approched me, but the commentator raised his hand and signaled them to stop.

    There was no place for me to go, i was so high up.

    "Hey, stop shouting, tell them what they want to hear!" The commentator whispered in my ear as he put his mic infront of my mouth.

    My face turned red

    "Ehmm, *Clears throut* i couldent have won if it wasent for this amazing audiance and my friends support!Thank you all!"

    i gave back the mic as some guards showed me a way out, where i got teleported back to the entrance of the arena.

    Odin and Cortez was waiting for me, but didnt look all to happy.

    "Hey, whats with the look?" Odin apporched me.

    "Cortez just told me that the deciever was your sister, but the thing is her reputation is really bad, she is a wanted criminal and is a member of the dark blood brother hood!"

    "Dont spout this nonsence! My sister would never stoop so low to join a guild of murderers."

    Although our real life was not so different from it.

    " i have heard from people that see is a cold blooded killer and i have seen her once before late at night outside the city when the criminal activity is at its primetime, i am just saying it for you to know"

    "First we get a healer for Elisa, then i am going to find and ask her personally!"

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    The healers wasent hard to find, they had their own posters of their known locations, we went to the tavern where the healer was to be found, we talked to him in a formal manner and he himself was a really nice person, but we didnt have much time, we went back to Odins home.

    "I can heal these injuries, but first i have to get rid of the dot dmg bleeding to get her stable"

    "This might take some time, i suggest you guys rest too, its late and if you guys fought in that tournament you are probebly insanly tierd already. Tommorow she will have full health, but she still needs some time to recover mentaly aswell, so stay with her.

    "Will do" Cortez and i said togheter.

    "There is a guest room inside that door, it isnt much,but i hope it is enough for tonight." Odins mother showed us her guest room, it was just 2 sleeping bags on the floor, didnt look too comtreable, but we didnt want to be rude.

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    After a while of laying in bed, Cortez fell asleep, but i couldent,i was just watching the celing, her last words, i can still hear them. Celia said she was sorry,what is she appoligizing for? Is it true that she is a criminal? How come our paths havent crossed?

    Too many thoughts, i got out of bed and snuck outside, everyone was sleeping except the healer, as i snuck by i could see that Elisa was looking way better.

    Outside was foggy, the only light source was forges and the moonlight through the fog. I wasent invisble i was just sneaking like the old days. i took a walk around the city, clearing my mind and looking around.

    There was nothing to see, just the same thing over and over,bad mysterious people, forges, poulluted water canals.

    Thats when i decided to head out the city, Odin said he spotted her outside at night, the area around here is huge with much snow and wind while in the city there is no snow.

    As i got out of the gate i could use abilities again, i entered stealth mode an snuck around, i changed back to my stealth gear, which also had its frost resistance applied to it.

    While stealthed i didnt make any footprints in the snow, which was a handy trait for stealth.

    it was actually a really clear night sky as the wind died down, i could see a few people here and there hiding behind old caravan wreckages, stone piles, trees.

    If i know my sister right she wouldent be dumb enough to remain unstealthed, why would se be here with these thugs? There have got to be a reason for her to have been here.

    I snuck around eavscooping converesations of different thug squads trying to get some intel, are they here on their own? or are they here for a bigger organisation? If its true that my sister is a part of the darkblood brotherhood, then she was probebly stationed here. Maybe this is a place to see if you are good enough to join?

    Kill or capture, bring back the loot or the person to get into the guild? These were all hypotetical, but not out of the question scenarios, after all i had to do something really similar in real life.

    "This wont work, we have been here for 5 hours now, i am freezing my but off, lets headback and do it again tommorow, no one is dumb enough to go out at night"

    "We cant go back idiot,you really thing they will give us another chance if we leave halfway through our scouting mission? Someone has to come soon, then we get their loot and head back"

    i snuck up even closer to listen inn.

    "I cant handle the cold anymore, i am going back!"

    "Stupid, you will get us both killed or atleast never have another chance to join!"

    "If i stay here i will die of cold anyways, screw this!"

    The one thug started moving away from the post, then i saw the other thug sneak up behind him and sliced him down with his axe in coldblood. He looted him and headed back to where ever he came from, i was right behind his tail.

    Guess i was right.

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 Volume 2 Chapter 21 - Stalking the Night

    The path shifted from this huge open field, into a narrow road inside the mountains, i have to be careful in case there is a tracker hunter nearby, and still not sure the size of the base we are going to yet.

    The more points in sneak I have, increases the need for the hunters to have more points in tracking, if i the same amount of points in stealth as a tracker hunter has in tracking, then he can sense me in a medium range, if he got more points than me he can notice me sooner, therefor i should keep my distance as soon as i can see the base.

    The wind got stronger the higher we got up.

    Could this be the place Celia is located?

    i could see torch reflections on the rocks in front of us, we were getting closer.

    A man was standing there, but i couldn¡¯t make out a face. I split paths with the thug that I followed and found a vantage point on some rocks, I could see a big tent and some few other tents around that one, smoke was coming from the middle one, the thug got escorted inside, in case of tracker hunters I kept my distance and rather waited for them to come out.

    It didn¡¯t take long before I could hear shouting, the guy I stalked got dragged out as he was tied in ropes, and they probably know what he did. 2 men dragged his body and some other people went outside as well, Celia included!

    ¡°You failing this mission was really bad Celia, because of we know you are skilled and the missions you have had earlier have been a success we will not punish you for this failure, but if you fail one more time you will speak to someone that is not as nice as me.¡±

    ¡°Humf¡± Celia replied as she didn¡¯t seem threatened at all.

    I want to run down there and save her, but there is too many of them or is there?

    There was about 20 people all together.

    Does she even want to be saved?

    ¡°At sunrise we are getting the hell out of this place and headed straight for the Thunder Plains, get your rest!¡±

    Everyone went to their tents, although several people in the same tents, mostly the big one in the middle.

    Celia went to her own tent some guarded the area, they look like archers too. My vision is longer than their tracking sense, if I am prepared I can go all in and as soon as I am within the tracker range I use reappear to kill him off quick before he can think.

    One guard went towards me and it won¡¯t take long before the aura reaches me, I started running towards him. I could see it in his movement when I noticed my presence, then I reappeared behind him and assassinated him.

    The other guards were oblivious as the corpse turned to pixel dust.

    I continued doing this to the other guards flawless, but I had to wait for the right opportunity each time and also wait off my cool downs, if it wasn¡¯t for the blizzard up here it wouldn¡¯t have worked, my cover would have been blown when at least 3 guards were down, the rest would notice they were missing and report it, but that was not the case here.

    I made my way down to the tents, no one was outside, I headed over to Celias tent and crawled inn.

    I unstealthed in front of her, she was shocked to see me.

    ¡°I will get you out of here, come!¡± I whispered.

    She was lying in a bed, Celia teared up and didn¡¯t want to look at me.

    ¡°Celia?¡±

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    ¡°Go, get out of here before they find you, there is no way back for me¡­¡±

    ¡°What are you saying?¡±

    ¡°The things I have done in this world to survive¡­.i was alone and afraid, I had no one to go to, I got recruited by these people and I could use my skills here as well as I did in the real world so that¡¯s what I did.¡±

    A silent pause

    ¡°I have captured people for money and status¡±

    ¡°You didn¡¯t have a choice! You wanted to survive like everyone else, but now that I am here you can get out, what do you say? Let¡¯s get going?¡±

    ¡°If I leave they will track me down until I and everyone I know are dead, I won¡¯t risk your life over my mistakes, I saw your friends earlier, I couldn¡¯t stand watching you and your friends laughing and smiling, made me jealous. I didn¡¯t know it was you at that point until I heard you talk about Zane and that stance during the arena.¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t want you to stay with these people! We have always been together! Life and death scenarios! I don¡¯t care if they are going to kill me, if you stay here much longer you are the one who is going to get killed!¡±

    She started crying.

    ¡°Please stop saying things like that! Like your life doesn¡¯t matter, I won¡¯t go with you! I won¡¯t put your life at risk! Now get away from here please!

    You are the one who thinks your life doesn¡¯t matter¡­Stupid.

    Another silent pause.

    "How did you survive, the bunker attack? I have to know."

    "I figured we wouldent have enough time, so i held them off, i ran around the facilty, then one of the scientists saw me and waved me to him, to a safe room, but there wasent enough food, after a while i decided to join Felia, there was no other way of getting out of there."

    We could hear footsteps

    ¡°Shhh!¡± I stealthed and waited.

    A guy entered the tent.

    ¡°What is going on in here?¡± The guy asked as his head was sticking inside the tent.

    ¡°I just woke up after having a bad dream¡± Celia said as she was rubbing her eyes to get the tears away.

    ¡°We will get going in a few hours, go back to sleep then.¡± He went back out.

    ¡°I won¡¯t give up on you, I will do whatever it takes to get you back, even if I have to get my hands covered in blood during the process. One day I will come for you and then I will be ready to defend you, I promise, just believe in me and wait till the day comes and be ready¡±

    ¡°Sky¡­.¡±

    ¡°Stay alive¡±

    I was invisible so she couldn¡¯t see my tears as I left the tent.

    One of the worst moments of my life as i left the camp without her.

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 Volume 2 Chapter 22 - Rare Monster!

    I snuck back to the city, I met the healer on his way out.

    "I don¡¯t know what you have been up to, but I am off. Elisa is all healed up and she is resting.¡±

    ¡°Thank you¡±

    ¡°Take care¡±

    He disappeared through the fog and I went inside.

    It was quiet, Elisa was sleeping, I sat down next to her, and before I knew it I fell asleep.

    My sleep was cut short.

    ¡°Sky, wake up, there is some guards here that wants to speak with us.¡±

    I got out of the chair I fell asleep in and dropped the blanket. Elisa was still sleeping, Odin, cortez and I headed outside, several guards was waiting for us.

    The guard in the middle had a scroll, he started reading from it.

    ¡°After your performances you have all been added to a group to kill a rare monster, head over to the main gate within one hour for more information. That is all¡±

    ¡°Wait what? I have not agreed to this¡±

    ¡°I am simply here to inform you, the higher ups have already decided for you, any issues or problems, take it up with them, good bye.¡±

    They left.

    ¡°Isn¡¯t a rare monster really dangerous? ¡° Cortez seemed nervous.

    ¡°There have been many deaths attempting to fight it, but now they know how to deal with him, they know how his abilities and phases works¡±

    ¡° I thought the winner of the arena was the only that would be able to join, didn¡¯t you tell me that, Odin?¡±

    ¡°That is the usual requirement yes, something seems off this time¡±

    ¡°These rare monsters, how does the drop system works?¡±

    ¡°Usually there is a team of 8 players, 1 of each class or sometimes subclass, the boss can drop 3-4 items and spawns once every day, the items are always class only, therefor there is never any arguments of who gets what. An elementalist cannot wield assassin daggers.¡±

    ¡°Wouldn¡¯t it be worth fighting the boss if we could get hands on some of these weapons? It would give us the upper hand in this level and probably the levels to come.¡±

    ¡°That is true, but what about the risk?¡±

    ¡°As Odin said, if they already know what to do we shouldn¡¯t worry too much, they probably already have some experience.¡±

    ¡°That true, I am inn!¡± Cortez was convinced.

    ¡°So am i! I want to become stronger!¡± Odin joined as well.

    ¡°Then it¡¯s settled, we meet up at the gate and see what the deal is¡±

    We figured it was best for Elisa to get some sleep, we told Odins mother and sister what was going on, after that we headed to the gate, everyone was already there it seemed.

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    ¡°Ahh, nice, our last teammates showed up, I will explain the tactics under the way, any questions?¡±

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    The guy talking had some wierd eye piece.

    Everyone just looked at each other, we probably had questions but no one dared to ask, I didn¡¯t really have any questions either, just want this over with, I can¡¯t get away from this one either if I was requested by the higher ups and on the plus side I might get a gear piece, but I am worried for Odin and Cortez, one mistake can be fatal especially against a rare monster.

    I could see the healer that healed Elisa was also a part of the group.

    We all got horses and we started riding out of the city and through the big huge field.

    ¡°Now that we are all here I can introduce myself, my name is Enmy, I have been the leader of this boss fight since nearly the beginning, if it¡¯s one thing I have learned it is that if you can¡¯t work at as a team as well as take care of yourself you will put the whole group at risk.¡±

    ¡°So how do we fight this Monster?¡±

    ¡°What does the boss look like?¡±

    Now the questions came rolling in.

    We road through a wintery forest.

    ¡°The boss is a big ice dragon, there is two phases, the first phase is the easiest one if you all do as I say. First the tank will tank his regular basic attacks from his claws, while the off tank is tanking his mouth bites, the rest of the group will damage his tail legs and torso, during the first phase he will use Ice breath and wind gust, both of these are very lethal.¡±

    Everyone seemed really serious and consentrated.

    ¡°The wind gust will knock you right off your feet and you will get separated from the group, it is important to know that when the fight starts the battle will be covered inside a huge sphere with blizzard zone around us, therefore there is no escape and if u get knocked back, u might get thrown into the blizzard and that is the end of you. That is why we have our Tank and Off tank connects their huge ass shields together to create a wall that will tank the wind, after that it is back to the basics¡±

    Several gulps

    ¡°The next ability is ice breath, the off tank will start running as he got the dragon¡¯s aggro, the breath will leave an ice trail that we cannot step on unless we want to slip, if we don¡¯t finish the boss quick enough the whole battleground will be filled with ice and then it is imposable to fight. So don¡¯t stand in the off tanks way when he is running, we can also try to tank the dragon over his own ice trail to make him slip then we will deal 50% more damage for the short duration he is down.¡±

    Cortez seemed nervous as he wiped sweat off his forehead.

    ¡°Phase two is the real danger, after a loud roar to signal the beginning of phase 2 he will start flying and breathing ice everywhere, so be careful not to get hit or slip! After that he will stoop underground and start chasing a random member and he will not stop until he is directly under you, you can see the ground tremble in front of you as he chases people, once he is under you just jump away as he tries to eat you, after he does that 2 times he will go back to the same as phase 1, but after a short while he will go airborne again, this will happen until he is dead, just don¡¯t get eaten!¡±

    The trees cleared up and we could see a huge ice dragon on a big open field in front of us!

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 Volume 2 Chapter 23 - Hypothermia

    We got of our horses and grouped up behind some rocks with a good view of the dragon and the area.

    I changed to melee combat gear.

    ¡°Listen up, I will shout out things to watch out for and whatever you do, don¡¯t slip! Once the dragon get damaged the fight will begin and the sphere around us will appear, let¡¯s go!¡±

    Enmy and the two tanks was in front of the group, the tanks have done this before I believe. Both of them wields a huge shield, just like the guy from the arena.

    We got really close to the dragon, he saw us!

    ¡°Charge!¡± Enmy charges towards the dragon with everyone else behind him, when he dismounted he slided on the ice and cut the dragon in his foot with his axe.

    The tanks got to their positions and instantly got the agro back with some kind of spell.

    Everyone else started damaging the dragon, arrows, fire and arcane magic flew right at him, I was behind everyone else and I figured that I should just do as much damage at the dragons torso as possiable, I used ¡°Dirty Tricks¡±, me and my clone started slashing his torso and feet, Enmy and some others did the same, constant hack and slash!

    *ROAR!!!*

    ¡°Start running!¡±

    The tank started running as fast as he could while the deadly ice breath was chasing him, luckily no one was standing in his path, but I could see the clear ice trail from the breath.

    After hitting the dragon several times I noticed his blood turned to instant ice and that ice was even thicker than his scales.

    Another loud roar came from the dragon.

    ¡°Wind Gust! Everyone in formation!¡±

    Both the tanks slammed their shield firmly in the ground while everyone else stood behind them.

    ¡°Brace yourself!¡±

    My clone duration ended and he disappeared.

    The dragon first flapped himself up as he landed all the way back at the sphere, there was no way we could get behind him from there, therefor we need to make a shield wall, otherwise we could just go behind him.

    His wings started flapping!

    Even though we were behind the shields I could still feel my body being dragged a bit backwards, but it stopped before anything serious happened.

    The dragon stopped and charged back at the tanks to the middle of the battlefield.

    ¡°Strike him down!¡±

    We went back to our hack and slash tactic.

    ¡°Those who still go their cool down ability, use it now!¡±

    ¡°ALRIGHT!¡± The fire elementalist`s body was infused with fire, it was different from Fire fist form the arena, this looks like a magic caster version.

    He shoot a bunch of fire balls at the enemy, much faster and larger once than normal!

    ¡°Heehehe, now its my turn!¡±

    Enmy fell to the ground emitting a dark red aura.

    His body increased in strength and height, when he picked his two handed axe up it was like it was weightless, his attack speed was evenly matched with mine!

    ¡°Take that and that and that! Bwahahah!¡± It was like he turned mad!

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    The damage sure took its toll on the boss another roar was heard!

    ¡°Phase 2! Don¡¯t get caught and watch your step!¡± Enmy`s cool down spell ended, so did the elementalists ability.

    The dragon jumped up in the air and started flying around, those who could still deal damage from afar did their best to hit, although Cortez was the only one that hit all the time.

    ¡°Ice breath incoming!¡±

    The dragon sprouted his ice breath on us as we ran around like ants!

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    ¡°Watch out idiot!¡±

    One of the members got hit and coverd inside a ice cube quickly losing ice DOT damage ( Damage Over Time)!

    ¡°Idiot!¡± His body was stuck in the ice!

    The dragon saw this and stoop down to eat him!

    The healer managed to cleanse the ice away, but the dragon was right above him, his body was still frozen!

    But meanwhile a rope arrow was shot from Cortez that tied itself around his torso as he was pulled away barely as the dragon went underground!

    ¡°Thank you guys!¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t mention it!¡±

    ¡°Brace yourselfs!¡± enmy shouted.

    The dragon was hunting us from beneath the surface, we could see him coming right at us when the ground was breaking apart from his location and he was fast!

    He found his target, it was one of the tanks, and he managed to jump away to safety.

    The dragon went up in the sky again only to quickly dive back underground.

    Who is the next target?

    Everyone turned their head around quickly to get a visual, no one saw him before it was to late!

    He appeared under the Fire elementalist taking him up in the air while he was stuck in his mouth!

    ¡°Not on my watch!¡± Enmy charged up his leap and jumped after!

    He managed to hit the dragon in his back with his axe and held on while in the air!

    Beside me I could see the Water Elementalist, the healer, charging up some kind of spell, his body started pouring water, his health bar was dropping quickly, I could see big bite marks appear on his body!

    The fire elementalist started healing up, but he was still stuck inside its mouth!

    It was like he was absorbing the damage.

    Enmy managed to crawl on his back all the way to the front of his beak where he viciously bashed the axe on his mouth to get it open and it worked!

    The fire elementalist fell from the sky.

    The healer charged up another spell that summoned water from the ground in the shape of a hand to catch or dampen the fall, but the spell got cut off as he was too hurt to concentrate!

    Just before he hit the ground Odin caught him mid air with his Leap ability!

    The dragon was so hurt that he didn¡¯t go underground, he landed quickly on the ground while Enmy was riding him.

    The dragon slipped on the ice.

    ¡°Everyone! NOW! Attack attack attack!¡±

    We all used what abilities and power we had left to finish him off while he was down and with our good gear and combination we managed to take him down rather quickly.

    The boss fight was over.

    The loot was handed out, i was Lucky enough to get legendary daggers for my Level, then a New Axe for enmy, a heaing staff for the healer and blademaster pants that Odin got since enmy wanted the New 2 handed Axe.

    "Close Call guys, but well done! There is a reason the loot is good hehe"

    We were all catching Our breath

    "Well, you are all dismissed, if you want another run then contact me through guards and they will report to me"

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 Volume 2 Chapter 24 - Mixed Emotions

    When we got back to Odins home, Elisa was awake, the mother was glad to see us and especially Odin safe.

    ¡°What the hell were you guys thinking? The rare monster could have killed you!¡±

    She didn¡¯t really seem as upset as she made it look like.

    ¡°Glad to see you back on your feet, Elisa¡± I smiled.

    She blushed.

    ¡°T-thank you guys for helping me out¡± her face got even more red as she turned her face a bit and looked at the ground.

    We were all happy to see her back to her old self.

    ¡°Don¡¯t think I will pay you back or anything!¡± she had her arms in cross.

    Helen came running out of the house and gave him a hug as she was glad he was back.

    ¡°Look, look, I got these new leggings!¡± Odin seemed really proved and Helen was star stuck by them.

    ¡°So what are we going to do now? Keep on moving?¡± Cortez wondered.

    I remembered what the healer told me, that Elisa might not be mentally healed yet.

    ¡°Let¡¯s relax for today, I will find my sister and bringer her back to safety, that is my mission and to do that we have to go to the Thunder Plains¡±

    They don¡¯t know about me visiting Celia at the camp.

    ¡°Hell, I am with you, I want some adventure, the past few days have been more exiting than my whole previous life, I will help you find her¡± Cortez give me thumbs up.

    ¡°I can¡¯t settle down myself, I want to have more adrenaline kicks, they always make my day worth living, you could say I am addicted. Yes, I will join you guys on your quest or adventure whatever you want to call it.¡± I couldn¡¯t stop smiling, knowing I have such good friends having my back.

    ¡°Everyone dinner on me!¡± I still got some mesetas from the tournament and some loot to sell from the guys I killed earlier.

    Everyone seemed glad.

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    We headed over to a restaurant I noticed while I was walking at night, hopefully the restaurant is not filled with to dangers people.

    As we got inside it was totally different then from the outside looks of it, the restaurant was really nice and clean with almost no people here.

    The food was really expensive, probably the reason it¡¯s almost empty.

    We all laughed and ate great food.

    ¡°Let¡¯s have a toast for Sky for winning the arena!¡±

    Cortez was standing then he took a little break in his speech¡­

    ¡°And those of us who tried, kampai!¡± We took a drink (not alcohol, because Helen is there)

    ¡°Tell me about the dragon! What was he like?¡± Helen was really eager to know. Cortez started to visually show her the dragon¡¯s movements as he stood back up to explain.

    ¡°First the dragon was like *Imitating ice breath + noise*, then a man started running and screaming, it was really funny, but then all of the sudden *starts flapping his arms* he created a wind storm and we had to hide behind two huge shields! I nearly lost my bow in that storm!

    ¡°Then!? And then?¡± Helen couldn¡¯t hold her eyes of him!

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    We all really enjoyed watching Cortez explain the boss in a friendly and funny matter.

    ¡°You should have seen Odin he was so brave! He jumped into the air to save one of our teammates, you have a really brave brother, Helen!¡±

    Helen looked over at Odin as he had his proud face, but it is true, he really earned that praise.

    ¡°Then we have the all serious Sky over here, *Whispers to Helen, but everyone could still hear him* He slipped on the ice and landed on his bum, I will never forget that one haha.¡±

    Both Helen and her mother were laughing, it has probably been a while since they have had some really joyful moments, at least after what Odin told me.

    After a while the energy level dropped down a bit and it was just casual talk and storytelling.

    ¡°Sky, can I talk to you for a second¡±

    Elisa stood up and started walking over to the exit.

    ¡°Y-yeah sure¡± I stood up and followed her.

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    We went outside the restaurant, with no people in site and it was less foggy than usual with the moonlight on us.

    ¡°I just wanted to thank you for everything¡­¡± Elisa was shy.

    ¡°You don¡¯t have to thank me, I just did what was right, and you would have done the same for me, right?¡±

    She hid a bit of her face in the scarf.

    Elisa sneakily took a hold of my hand, it really shocked me, and we were both blushing.

    ¡°I could hear you sitting next to me last night, keeping me company, it feels really great knowing that someone cares.about you..."

    Elisa came closer and leaned on my shoulder.

    I didn¡¯t know what to say, but the silence wasn¡¯t awkward, I have to admit it felt really nice.

    ¡°Sky?¡±

    *Gulp*

    ¡°What?¡± I tried my best to keep my cool.

    She look up at my eyes, her face was really beautiful.

    Ohh no, I am not prepared for this, what am I going to do, I can¡¯t look away that would be mean, should I kiss her or is she going to kiss me? What am I supposed to do?

    I touched her hair as Our eyes got closer.....

    ¡°You guys coming back inside or what?¡± Cortez!!!

    We both acted like nothing, Cortez didn¡¯t notice anything either.

    We got back inside and I paid the bill, thereafter Elisa, Cortez and I headed to a motel to rest up, we promised to tell Odin and his family goodbye before we leave tomorrow.

    As I lied down on my bed I couldn¡¯t stop thinking about Elisa, how can I look her in the eye tomorrow without feeling a bit awkward, I didn¡¯t know she felt like this for me, what do I think of her? She is beautiful, funny, helpful and ¡­¡­Argh what am I supposed to do?????

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 Volume 2 Chapter 25 - Farewell, Nulara!

    ¡°What are you doing Celia, get moving¡±

    While Sky was sleeping his sister was on the move with the darkbloods through the Thunder Plains.

    A big hole in the mountain was behind her and inside the hole was something similar to a subway station, but only with a big squared platform as transportation.

    Celia was facing the Thunder plains, a vast wilderness with rain, quick lightning intervals, dead black trees, wet dirt everywhere and a long single road with several lightning repellent safe zones on the way.

    ¡°Don¡¯t let the view get to ya, get your ass going!¡±

    She didn¡¯t answer, she just started walking with them on this huge road.

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    After I woke up I headed downstairs of the motel, Cortez and Elisa was already there.

    ¡°Hi, Sky, good morning!¡± Elisa greeted me as quickly as she got eyes on me.

    ¡°Good morning to you to¡± I said back to her

    ¡°Why didn¡¯t you greet me like that? Cortez seemed grumpy.

    ¡°There is something I want both of you to know, but I didn¡¯t want to tell you guys earlier when we were with Odin`s family. While staying at Odins place I snuck out at night to search for my sister.¡±

    ¡°What?¡± Cortez was the one to respond, Elisa was more confused.

    ¡°Odin said she saw her so I figured to go look or get some Intel which I did, I followed a thug back to his camp and Celia was there, she is a part of the darkbloods.¡±

    ¡°So the rumors are really true? Your sister is a killer now?¡± Elisa asked.

    ¡°She was upset, she did the stuff she have done to survive, she didn¡¯t tell me that she had killed people, but she have captured some.¡±

    ¡°Captured? You mean like Jason? What if she was the one behind it¡± Cortez stepped over a line.

    ¡°We don¡¯t know that, anyway she needs our help that is why I want to go to the Thunder Plains, because that is where she is, she went with her group to the thunder plains yesterday while we fought the monster.¡±

    ¡°Wait, you were there with her? How did you get to her and why didn¡¯t she leave with you?¡± Elisa was worried.

    ¡°I had to eliminate some guards, but I didn¡¯t get noticed I had it all planned out¡±

    ¡°But what if you got caught?¡± Elisa was even more worried.

    ¡°I had to see her, I had to know the truth¡­

    ..¡±

    Cortez and Elisa didn¡¯t say anything, they kept on listening to me.

    ¡°Celia was really sad, she didn¡¯t want to escape because she would get hunted down until her and everyone she knows are dead. She did it to protect me, but I promised I would come back for her and keep her safe even if they come after us.¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t know her as much as you do, but I feel sorry for her and after everything you have said about her will help you, then I can have my revenge for beating me up in the arena!¡±

    Cortez smiled and laughed.

    ¡°Im with you¡± Elisa was also eager to save her.

    ¡°Well then, let¡¯s get over to Odins place and greet them farewell.¡±

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    Odins mother was outside washing some cloths.

    ¡°Oh hi there!¡± She greeted us as she saw us.

    ¡°Hello, we just came by to say farewell, is Odin and Helen here as well?¡±

    ¡°They are inside, Odin has something he want to ask you¡±

    Cortez and Elisa looked at me, what does he want to ask me I wonder?

    I opened the door and went inside, Odin was talking to Helen.

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    ¡°Hi Odin,Helen! How¡¯s it going?¡± They were both happy to see us.

    ¡°Hi, I was just telling Helen about the arena fights¡±

    ¡°My brother is so tough, I want to be like him!¡±

    Odin blushed.

    ¡°Believe in yourself Helen and one day you and your brother can both fight alongside each other!¡±

    ¡°Yeah!¡± She smiled.

    ¡°Guys, there is something I want to ask you¡±

    ¡°Sure, speak up¡±

    ¡°I have been lousy for a long time, being here without my father and trying to be a good brother and son, but only recently I achieved that, then I realized I want more for my family than for them to live here for the rest of their lives, I want to join you on your adventure! I want to get strong and earn money to support my family, please let me join you!¡±

    ¡°Of course you can join us Odin!¡±

    Odin lifted his head and he was really glad

    ¡°But wouldn¡¯t your family be sad if you left?¡±

    His mother open the door and entered.

    ¡°We had a talk yesterday, we are both supportive of Odins actions and we only want what is best for him, he reminds me of his father so much¡± She shed a tear.

    Elisa went over to Helen

    ¡°Helen, wouldn¡¯t you be sad if Odin joined us?¡±

    ¡°Of course I would be sad, but I love my brother more than anything and I want him to do what his heart tells him to do, one day I will meet him again and then he can tell me all about his adventures while teaching me to become as cool as him! Tihi.¡±

    Odin rushed over to hug her.

    ¡°I promise I will get you guys out of here, I promise!¡±

    They both started crying as he hugged her.

    We couldn¡¯t resist the urge to tear up ourselves, it was really emotional.

    After a few Seconds Elisa broke the tension.

    .

    ¡°The Thunder plains is far from here, we need take some sort of transport through a mountain to get there, but first we need to take a caravan to that transport.¡±

    ¡°Right, let¡¯s get going!¡±

    ¡°Yeah, let¡¯s go¡± Odin lets go of Helen and we went outside.

    ¡°Stay safe Odin, to next time we meet, farewell¡±

    ¡°Farewell, mother¡± Odin hugged his mother

    We waved back to his family as we left towards a horse caravan.

    ¡°Ohh I almost forgot something, wait here.¡±

    I hurried of back to the family.

    ¡°Here take this as a gift of our gratitude¡±

    I gave Odins mother a lot of mesetas for them to have it a bit better until we can give them some more later.

    ¡°But, i-----¡°

    I stopped her middle sentence

    ¡°This is the least I can do for stealing your son away, we will keep him safe and sound!¡± I said while I ran off . Then I did my last wave, before I turned around back to my group over at the caravan.

    ¡°You ready?¡± Cortez asked me.

    I looked over at Odin and Elisa, both looked ready.

    ¡°Oh yes, let¡¯s go¡±

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 Volume 3 Chapter 1 - Get set for stormy weather!

    The caravan ride took hours, the snow slowly turned to rain as we left Nulara, we could see the bad black weather from the distance.

    Cortez and Elisa were sleeping, Elisa was leaning on my shoulder.

    ¡°Tell me, Sky¡± Odin broke the silence of rain, wind and creaking wood.

    ¡°Yeah?¡± I turned my face towards Odin.

    ¡°You think we will be fine? I mean, the weather over there it seems rather scary.¡±

    ¡°Guess we will just wait and see, hehe, don¡¯t be afraid¡­¡± I kind of let my memories slip as I thought of the weather back on the real earth.

    Black rain and sky, thunder and storms. Nothing I am not used to, Odin probably don¡¯t know how bad the weather got back on Earth, and maybe it¡¯s better that way.

    Odin calmed down a bit as he gazed out on the surroundings.

    The place around us was really muddy, the rain was pouring down, we were getting closer, I could even see the mountain a few clicks away.

    ¡°Hold on boys and girls! It will just get worse from here on out! Haha!¡±

    The caravan rider was a crazy, but funny, he was sitting in front with only a raincoat while steering two really tamed horses.

    Not sure if the horses are programmed to be so tamed or if he is really that good of a tamer.

    Odin exhaled heavily as he got a bit scared again.

    *BANG!*

    A huge lightning bolt struck down right next to us!

    Everyone jumped in their seats, even I skipped a heartbeat!

    Cortez randomly made karate moves with his hands.

    ¡°Who is there? Humf, hjaaa!..... ohh¡± His sudden realization when he fully woke up.

    ¡°What was that?!¡± Elisa was scared and jumped my arm.

    ¡°Its fine, it¡¯s just a little thunder¡± as she cooled off she realized she was clinging to my arm in front of Odin and Cortez, then she backed of blushing.

    ¡°We are getting closer, let¡¯s all be prepared for more lightni---?!¡±

    *BANG!*

    Another lightning bolt struck right next to us again and everyone jumped in their seats again and I was cut off middle sentence!

    The caravan quickly stopped and we almost fell out of the seats!

    ¡°What is going on!¡± I opened the door to check, there was an old man in the middle of the road with only a thin robe around him.

    ¡°Get out of the road!¡± The driver was yelling.

    I went over to the old man.

    ¡°pfft, he just came out of nowhere¡±

    ¡°You alright?¡± I crouched down to get a better look at him as he was sitting in the middle of the road.

    ¡°c-c-cold!¡±

    I took him with us into the caravan.

    Everyone seemed a bit shocked to see him, no wonder.

    ¡°Tell me, what were you doing in the middle of the road?¡±

    ¡°They came for us, it all happened so quickly it was d-d-dark and ¨C¡°

    ¡°Take it easy, start from the beginning¡±

    The old man took a deep breath.

    ¡°I work at the mine transport, but we were attack by some dark wraiths, they are probably still there! I don¡¯t know how many of us survived.

    A quest appeared in front of me on a little hud, as well as the others.

    ¡°We are heading there now, we can probably deal with the wraiths, and how many were there?¡±

    ¡°About 20, I am not sure¡±

    ¡°Are you sure you want to go back there?¡± Elisa Odin asked.

    ¡°I have to go back, I have to see if my friends are ok.¡±

    Lightning bolt into a transition.

    *Bang!*

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    ¡°I can see the wraiths from here, stay here, we will come back when the coast is clear, ok?¡±

    ¡°Thank you, save my friends if you see them! Please!¡±

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    ¡°You can count on us!¡± Odin said as he left the caravan first

    His courage overweigh his fear it seems.

    ¡°I will get on top of the wagon and shoot at the wraiths while keeping you safe, hehe¡± Cortez gave him a thumbs up.

    ¡°I will stay here, I am not really good in fights like this, wish I had some poison gear so I could help in fights.¡±

    ¡°Hey, what is that up there, ghosts? Whaa!¡±

    The rider got scared and jumped back to us.

    I took a hold of him and pushed him gently into the wagon.

    ¡°Fine, keep them safe¡±

    ¡°Here, drink this¡±

    Elisa gave the old miner something to drink.

    I closed the door, the rain was pouring down and the lightning could be seen flashing all around us, mostly from the distance.

    The place in front of us was crawling with wraiths, high skinny dark entitis with claws and and no face, just a hood. Cortez was the first to attack with a fire arrow!

    ¡°Wow, did you level up?¡± Cortez was holding another burning arrow in his hand and his face was glowing in the rain and he had a crazy look on his face.

    ¡°Yeah baby!¡± He drew his bow again, but it seemed as if he only had limited fire arrows.

    I entered stealth and my new cooldown ability with the stealth subclass was disappear, the ability to go back to stealth when in combat, with a long cooldown ofcourse.

    I started slashing up some wraiths as my stealth went off.

    ¡°Guys check this out¡±

    Odin shoved both his blades into the ground and he started emitting a dark red aura like Enmy did earlier.

    He leveled up on the dragon fight earlier like Cortez.

    ¡°Wow!, I feel so fast, strong, and invincible!¡±

    Odin went mad!

    ¡°Take this and this and this!¡± He was jumping around with incredible speed and force! His gear isn¡¯t even top notch but still he kills the wraiths with ease.

    ¡°Go Odin, mess them up!¡± Cortez was cheering for Odin.¡±

    I almost got hit in the back by a wraith as I didn¡¯t pay to much attention to anything else but Odin.

    I managed to turn around and kill it.

    Cortez was still shooting arrows from the wagon.

    We managed to kill all the wraiths, then some miners came running out of the little outhouse next to the mountain.

    ¡°Thank you for saving us!¡±

    ¡°Alfred is that you?¡± The old man from the wagon noticed his friend from afar.

    ¡°Joseph, you made it!¡±

    ¡°Joseph told us about the situation, we were on our way here to use the transportation to the thunder plains.¡±

    ¡°We can get it up and running in no time, your ride will be free of charge!¡±

    Joseph went back with his coworkers into the mountain.

    Odin fell down on his bum.

    ¡°I feel so dizzy¡±

    I went over to him and reached my arm out for him.

    ¡°Thanks¡± Odin grabbed my hand as I pulled him up.

    ¡°Well done, can¡¯t believe how quick you were.¡±

    The power was turned back on and then we could see this huge platform that was our transportation.

    We headed over to it and got ready for our travel.

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    ¡°No chairs or anything?¡± Elisa was spectating the platform we were standing on.

    There was nothing on the platform to hold on to.

    ¡°Stay safe on the other side!¡± Joseph with his mining outfit waved us farewell as the platform started moving at a swift velocity!¡±

    ¡°waah!¡± Elisa was screaming.

    ¡°Wooohoo!¡± Cortez was enjoying the speed.

    Odin put his hand in front of his mouth not to puke.

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 Volume 3 Chapter 2 - A Journey of a thousand miles

    As the transportation was under way, there were two mysterious characters up in the hills, waiting¡­

    ¡°Are you sure about this?¡±

    ¡°No, but we don¡¯t got any other plans or options, just keep your eyes open and head down¡±

    One big guy completely hidden in a raid clock as well as the younger girl next to him. The rain was splashing down on them.

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    ¡°Everyone ok?¡± The platform stopped and the big mountain entrance was in front of us, we could see a big open field of nothing but dead black trees, rain, mud and lightning.

    ¡°Let¡¯s do that again!¡± Cortez was eager.

    ¡°I hate transportation¡± Elisa appeared nauseous, but not as much compared to Odin who was leaning over railing and vomiting.

    ¡°How you holding up Odin?¡± He fell down on his knees, breathing heavily.

    ¡°Not so goooo---!¡± He quickly got back up and kept vomiting.

    There was a door on the side of the platform for us to exit, we headed down and outside.

    ¡°Wait up, here take this travelers as a token of our gratitude!¡±

    Lighning resist kit added!

    ¡°Thank you!¡±

    ¡°Try not to get hit by the lightning would you? If you are headed to the main city you have to follow the one and only road over there.

    The miner pointed at a long road a bit downhill from where we were standing.

    ¡°If you need to rest up there are some checkpoints along the way that, a place to rest up while being under a lightning resistant roof, but I must warn you, this road is long, you might meet creatures you have to eliminate on the way, the lightning resist does not absorb all the damage, it is just something you should have applied to your gear if you don¡¯t want to get killed in one hit.

    Safe travels!¡±

    ¡°Thanks for the heads up¡±

    We applied the lightning resistant to our gear as the cold resist got replaced.  The lightning resist also added a raincoat that would cover us from the rain.

    ¡°Well, that was some reassuring news¡± Odin gave the impression of fright.

    Cortez leaned over him.

    ¡°Don¡¯t worry kiddo, just take a deep breath, with me. Breath, exhale, breath, exhale, good good.¡±

    ¡°The air sure is refreshing I have to say that, even though it¡¯s dangerous as hell here¡± Elisa didn¡¯t seem scared at all, but I think she was faking it.

    ¡°Sure you don¡¯t need someone to protect you from this bad weather?¡± Cortez got really close to Elisa.

    ¡°Back off you goof!¡± She pushed him backwards.

    Cortez was smiling as he was just goofing around like he always do.

    ¡°Let¡¯s get down from here and see what the road looks like up close, maybe we meet someone along the way.¡±

    We headed down the hill and at the beginning of the road was a little roof and a huge warning sign.

    ¡°Don¡¯t proceed unless you want to risk getting hit by lightning or stumble upon unfriendly entities. Many players never reach the city, you have been warned!¡±

    We all read the sign in silence as we past by.

    The rain was pouring down on us again once we steep out of the roof shelter.

    We could see the next checkpoint a long way ahead of us, but it was at the end of eyesight, we had no idea how many checkpoints we had to get through.

    ¡°No one is here huh? Wonder what kind of entities we will meet, maybe the wraiths again¡± Odin again was the guy to break the silence.

    We were all lost in our thoughts, thinking of the road ahead, the only thing I could think of was if Celia made it through here, then I had to as well.

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    ¡°Probably, but we can take care of that easily, right?¡±

    ¡°We are 4, ofcourse we can take care of them, no problem¡±

    ¡°Elisa you are not helping much in the fights though¡± Cortez put both hands behind his head as he said it in a weird way.

    ¡°Shut up stupid!¡± She hit him in the back of his head.

    ¡°Ouch, why do you always hit me?¡±

    ¡°Humf¡±

    I could see something up ahead. I stopped moving.

    ¡°Sky? What is it?¡± I didn¡¯t answer Odin, they all noticed something approaching us.¡±

    ¡°Get ready, something¡¯s coming, Elisa stay behind me¡±

    ¡°Yea!¡±

    3 black horses with raiders on them came running at us, there was a dark trail following them as they were running.

    The knights we really tall and the sword they were wielding were the size of claymores!

    ¡°Let¡¯s get one each ok? Once finished help the next one, get ready!¡±

    They got really close, I turn invisible before they got to close, I reappeared behind him and shived him in the neck and off the horse.

    Cortez shot a fire arrow at the knight he was fighting and it killed off his horse.

    Odin jumped forth and slashed the horses¡¯ legs.

    All the knights were on the ground.

    ¡°Die! Hahaha!¡± The knight I was fighting was on his back, but he managed to punch me backwards as I was trying to strike him for the second time.

    Elisa threw a gooey bottle on him to slow him down as he was getting up.

    Cortez and Odin seemed fine.

    As I got back up I used my disappear to gain invisibility again, I snuck behind him and shived him once more, then I followed up with a flurry of strikes that penetrated his armor, I noticed no blood, but only dark mist coming out, but his health dropped sufficiently.

    These new daggers sure packs a good punch.

    The knight turned around with his claymore trying to hit me, I barley dodged it, if it wasn¡¯t for the goo on his body I would probably get hit.

    As I was going in for another strike I noticed Odin getting hit by lightning in the middle of his fight, stunning him as he got knocked back with full force by the claymore strike.

    Elisa ran over to Odin and helped him of the ground.

    ¡°Cortez!¡±

    I landed a kick in the knights chest, making him stumbe backwards Cortez reacted to my shout, he shot the knight clean through his helmet as I could see the arrow in the helmet.

    The knight died, but the armor and weapon just fell on the ground. The dark essence disappeared.

    Cortez was still fighting, after helping me he had to dodge the knight he was fighting.

    I had to help Odin with his fight.

    ¡°You ok, Odin?¡± Elisa was dragging Odin backwards in the dirty mud.

    ¡°I can¡¯t use my ability that grants me immense strength, I am still too weak from last time¡±

    The knight was approaching Odin, I reappeared behind him and shoved my dagger down his neck as he fell to his knees.

    The knight was already a bit damaged from Odin so he wasn¡¯t so hard to finish off with my combo of quick strikes.

    The knight died in the same way as the last one.

    ¡°You guys alright?¡± Cortez went towards us as he was balancing an arrow on his finger tip.

    Odin got back up and we headed towards the first checkpoint.

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    ¡°You think they have noticed?¡±

    ¡°No, not yet, our time is soon here, be prepared¡±

 Volume 3 Chapter 3 - Human Carcass

    ¡°Finally, I am so tired¡± Cortez almost dived in under the roof of the first checkpoint¡±

    ¡°Phew, finally..¡±

    ¡°Feels like we have been walking for hours just to get here.¡±

    ¡°I am so wet and dirty, damn this mud!¡± Everyone was really muddy, mostly Odin since he fell earlier, but Elisa cared the most.

    ¡°Say that again¡±

    ¡°What?¡±

    ¡°The first sentence¡±

    Cortez was trying to trick Elisa.

    ¡°ehmm, I said I was wet and dir---Jerk!¡±

    Elisa was just about to hit Cortez.

    ¡°Please don¡¯t hit me, please¡±

    ¡°urgh, I am to tired for this anyway, I will beat you up twice next time!¡±

    Cortez exhaled relieved.

    We took out something to drink and eat from our inventory and relaxed on the bench.

    The checkpoint almost look like its mushroom shaped, with the celling and the pillar in the middle to hold it all up.

    I suddenly felt really vozy and my back started to hurt, I got up quick,, but I fell on the ground paralyzed. As I was laying on the ground I could only see that Elisa, Cortez and Odin also fell to the ground.

    Someone walked up to me and crouched down.

    ¡°You know what you get when you have a high speced poison assassin, with a poison alchemist and a mage? No? You get this.¡±

    He was waving a flask back and forth.

    ¡°It is a strong paralytic poison, took us a long time of experimentation to make, but it sure does the trick, and you should be going to sleep¡­¡­..about¡­now¡­.¡±

    Everything went dark.

    I came around from time to time, feeling my body being transported, I didn¡¯t know what it was, but it was moving fast. I could not open my eyes, I could just barley feel the motion.

    Then I went back to sleep.

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    I awakened strapped to a cross like object, I was hanging in the air in only my trousers, on some kind of machine.

    I looked over to my left and right, I could see others also being strapped, but they were still unconscious.

    The machine started moving, transporting us more and more to the left, I just nudged a bit left over and over with a 15 seconds interval, I don¡¯t know the hell is going on or where I was.

    I began to look around, it was some kind of facility, I could barely see through the windows across the room, all I saw was some other machines and players experimenting on a dead body.

    The machine was still pulling us more and more to the left, on my far left I could see the beginning of a room, whatever was going on I knew it was my turn soon. I tried my best to get lose from the straps, but it was no use, there have got to be a way.

    They are all sleeping and I am not, I searched the room for clues or something I could use to get me out of these straps, my torso was free, only my arms and legs were strapped.

    I got moved more to the left, I could see a big machine with a long pointy end covered in dripping blood.

    There was no way out of the straps ,at least not by trying to force my way out of them, there was nothing in the room that would help me escape either.

    I got moved even more to the left!

    The guy next to me got stabbed by the machine and it left a big hole in his stomach and the blood was just pouring out down in a big pool of some mixture of blood and chemicals.

    There was guards and players everywhere, it was like they were experimenting. I had no choice but to dislocate my thumb so I could slide my hand easier under the strap on my right side, it hurt like hell and I just barely got my hand free, I quickly tried to free my other hand, but all the straps got loosened because of some kind of error, the machine probably thought there was something wrong and therefor it had to dispose of the body.

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    Right under me was the pool of experimentation, just as I fell into it I woke up in a prison cell and Odin was there sleeping.

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    My thumb was fine and I had all my gear on me.

    Was it all just a dream or hallucinations from the drug? I woke Odin up.

    ¡°Odin, get up¡±

    ¡°What, Sky?¡± Odin got a look around as he was half asleep.

    ¡°Where are we?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t know¡±

    I went up towards the window and saw other prisoners trapped like us.

    ¡°Where is Elisa and Cortez?¡±

    ¡°I was wondering the same thing, but to find that out we need to know where we are, I figure this is some kind of prison, but where this is and how to get out of here is a mystery.¡±

    ¡°So what are we going to do?¡±

    ¡°Only thing we can do, wait and see what this is all about, but when someone opens that door we smash his head in steals his keys and try to make a run for it.¡±

    ¡°Gottcha!¡±

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    ¡°That¡¯s where they are being kept huh?¡± The big guy in the clock was using a binocular as he was look at an old saw mill.

    ¡°The saw mill is only cover, they are working underground¡­ Look over there¡±

    The girl was pointing at a red light on top of the saw mill.

    ¡°If this place truly was abandoned there would not have been any power, let¡¯s get up there¡±

    They went towards the mill and the big guy jumped up on the roof with the girl on his shoulders.

    The girl used a spell that made them pass through the ceiling and they got inside and saw a door with a code.

    ¡°Can¡¯t you just use the same spell to get through?¡±

    ¡°No, this one is spell protected, we have to kill the generators to unlock the door as well as the cell blocks.¡±

    ¡°Where can the generators be?¡±

    ¡°Ohh, that is not hard, I can sense the energy flow through the air, follow me¡±

    They got back outside and headed away from the saw mill to a place of nothingness.

    ¡°What are we doing here? There is just mud here, no generators.¡±

    The girl bend over and started feeling the ground.

    ¡°It¡¯s here, below us¡­I will just use my spell and we will be through in no tim---?!¡±

    The big guy just slammed the ground as hard as he could and busted through to the power room.

    ¡°Well, that works too¡±

    The room was squared, with only 1 door and no windows nor guards.

    ¡°Well, go on, SMASH!¡±

    The big guy just grinned and started smashing all the generators.

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    The alarm started going off!

    ¡°What is happening?¡±

    We could hear and feel something hammering.

    ¡°Get up! Be prepared for everything!¡±

    Everything went dark and every cell block cell opened up.

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 Volume 3 Chapter 4 - Unsung Hero

    ¡°The door is open, let¡¯s go¡±

    Odin and I quickly ran out of the cell, there was chaos in the cell blocks, I could hear screams, shouts and a lot of running.

    The alarm was buzzing loud and the only light left was the red lights from the alarms.

    As we got out of the cell I noticed that the roof was built around rocks.

    ¡°We need to head upstairs to get out¡±

    The place was crowded, everyone was trying to get out at the same time, and someone was fighting the guards while others didn¡¯t dare to leave their cells.

    Odin and I forced our way up the stairs only to see a floor filled with corpses of those before us that got and fought the guards, but the path was clear for us.

    The entrance was right in front of us since we were on the higher levels of the facility.

    Outside there was a big zeppelin and people waving us inn to escort us.

    ¡°Who are they?¡±

    ¡°Probably the ones who cut the power, Odin hold up¡±

    Everyone was running past us towards the zeppelin

    ¡°I can¡¯t see Elisa or Cortez, I will head back and help them, you stay here and when we come back make sure the path is clear and tell them to wait!¡±

    ¡°Sky! Come back in one piece!¡±

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    I ran back inside towards the stream of players and down the staircase.

    The amount of corpses had increased, there were no guards to see as I ran downwards. Cortez and Elisa was nowhere to be seen.

    The cells at the bottom is the most likely place for them to be if I haven¡¯t met them yet, maybe they are stuck fighting? No time to waste!

    As I got to the lower levels it got quiet and the amount of people rushing the stairs stopped, but I still didn¡¯t see them.

    As I got down to the bottom floor I noticed lights and the cells wasn¡¯t opened! I could see people banging on the doors and windows begging to be released. I tried to find the switch to set them free as I was scouting the area, then as I ran past some cells I noticed a huge door and it was slightly open, I headed over to it and peeked inside.

    ¡°What in the world¡­¡­?¡±

    It was the place from my dream, but the place was covered in blood and corpses! The smell was intense and I almost puked as I slammed the door shut.

    I was left with a million thoughts, but now I had to find the switch to free these people!

    The guards had already fled upwards to fend of the prisoners.

    Next to the huge door was a big console I went over and pressed some buttons trying to release them, but it didn¡¯t work until I pulled the switch. I could remember a similar console back on the real world when people had been living in vaults underground.

    The gates opened and the people ran upstairs as fast as they could, Cortez and Elisa was the only ones who came to me.

    ¡°Sky!¡± Elisa and Cortez came running towards me.

    Elisa ran up and hugged me!

    Cortez had his bow drawn as he was aiming it around just in case.

    ¡°Thank you for coming back for me!¡± Elisa look me right in the eyes.

    ¡°And me!¡± Cortez said from a distance in a funny way.

    ¡°Hehe, well, what can I say?¡± That hug caught me a little off guard.

    ¡°Save it after we have gotten out of here!¡± Cortez took down his bow and headed towards the staircase.

    ¡°Yeah, right! Let¡¯s head out, there is a zeppelin waiting for us!¡±

    We ran upstairs all the way to the top without seeing anyone else, until we got to the exit.

    ¡°Guys they are waiting for you, get inside!¡± Odin made them wait for us.

    ¡°Nice work Odin!¡±

    ¡°Good to see you guys safe and sound!¡±

    We ran in and Odin slammed the door just as we took off.

    The zeppelin was really big!

    ¡°Can¡¯t believe a craft like this can hold all these people.¡±

    Before I could get any response everyone started clapping as some girl was about to speak from a mic, while a big guy was standing next to her.

    ¡°Everyone, the darkblood brotherhood are at a loss tonight!¡±

    Everyone was cheering.

    ¡°I know many good people lost their lives on their way out of the god awful prison, but they shall forever be remembered as the true heroes that fought for their fellow comrades¡¯ freedom!¡±

    People were screaming and applauding the fallen ones.

    ¡°But the fight has just begun, they have been capturing innocent players like your selves, the killings, looting and torture, I say that ends now! Those of you who stands with me and wants to fight back and wipe them out of this zone forever will follow me once we get back to the city! We already know where their headquarters is and we have been waiting for this opportunity for months now. More of the plan will be debriefed if you want to join, but right now, relax and take as much free food and drinks from the bar as your belly can fill!¡±

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    The girl and the big guy went of the stage.

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    Some prisoners were in worse shape than others and was eating as much food as they could.

    The tension dropped a bit as people started to celebrate their release.

    Cortez was gathering a lot of food on a plate and he started eating like a vicious beast, Elisa and Odin was at the bar getting their food, but I wasn¡¯t as hungry.

    ¡°Sky, where are you going?¡± he was talking with his mouth full.

    ¡°I just going to take some fresh air¡± But really I had a lot on my mind.

    That room¡­..

    ¡°Hey, what are you doing here? Not enjoying the party?¡±

    It was the girl with the mic earlier and the big guy was still behind her.

    ¡°No thanks, I got a lot on my mind.¡± I kept looking out at the field bellow us, the road we were supposed to walk, we were just flying over it, the rain was still splashing down, but my rain coat automatically came on.

    ¡°I saw you back there, you went back in and you saved a lot of people that took guts.¡±

    ¡°I couldn¡¯t leave my friends¡±

    ¡°We could use someone like you, you seem well geared and skilled, and what do you say?¡±

    I waited a bit before I answered.

    ¡°I will join, but on one condition that my sister doesn¡¯t get hurt¡­.¡±

    ¡°Your sister? No problem we will keep her safe¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t get it, she is one of them, but she has no way out, therefor I have to save her.¡±

    ¡°I know she is you sister, but why would you save a member of the dark bloods, they are the spawn of the devil!¡±

    ¡°You wrong about her! She is not like them, she was scared and alone, she joined them to survive.¡±

    ¡°If what you say is true, we will do our best not to harm her.¡±

    ¡°Thank you¡± I was still leaning over the railing watching the clouds and feeling the rain pouring down on me, felt nice.

    She got really close to my face, I backed off a bit.

    ¡°My name is Emily, that big guy is bruce, he dosent say much¡±

    ¡°ehhehe, Sky, nice to meet you both¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t look so sad, you will get her back¡±

    I smiled in relief.

    ¡°Yea--?!¡±

    The zeppelin was caught on fire and we slowly lost speed and altitude.

    ¡°What is going on!¡±

    People ran outside to see what this was about, we were being shot at from the ground with fire arrows from a portable ballista!

    ¡°Everyone to the escape pods!¡±

    ¡°There were a lot of safe pods around the zeppelin and people were quickly filling them up¡±

    ¡°Sky, get out of here!¡±

    ¡°Right!¡±

    I ran back to where Cortez was in hope of meeting everyone. I could see only Odin and Elisa as they entered a safe pod.

    Had Cortez already entered one?

    I kept on looking, but he was not outside so I went indoors.

    The place was burning and falling apart, some were laying around unconscious.

    Cortez came out of the smoke with two guys under his arms.

    ¡°*Cough* *Cough*, Sky, get these guys in a pod, now!¡±

    Cortez was really serious and I did not hesitate.

    I grabbed a hold of them, but I could barley lift them both.

    ¡°Im going back in!¡±

    ¡°Cortez!¡± He was already gone.

    I went outside and got them into a pod, but I didn¡¯t get it to drop, something was jammed, there was no more safe pods in sight, everyone was already flying towards the city which was close by.

    Cortez came back out of the smoke, but this time with three people.

    ¡°*Cough* *cough*, Sky, get inn and help me with these guys.¡±

    I got inside the pod to help Cortez with the unconscious people.

    ¡°it won¡¯t start!¡± I tried to pull the switch over and over to get it to ready mode.

    ¡°It has to be dropped manually¡±

    ¡°Cortez, what do you mean?¡± I turned around only to see him close the transparent little entry.

    I punched the glass as hard as I could but it didn¡¯t leave a scratch, Cortez shot the entry door so I couldn¡¯t open it from the inside.

    ¡°Cortez what are you doing! What are you¡ª¡°I slowly stopped punching, my knuckles were bleeding.

    ¡°Find your sister, keep her safe, I know you will¡± He ran inside the zeppelin through the smoke and fire after a few seconds the pod was dropped.

    ¡°Cortez!¡±

    As the pod engines turned on we started moving towards the city, I couldn¡¯t keep my eyes of the zeppelin, begging for Cortez to get out of there, but then it exploded!

    All the funny faces he have made and times we had togheter flashed before my eyes...

    I was left speechless, I couldn¡¯t do anything more than cry as I saw the debris fly everywhere in a big smokey fire cloud.

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    We were getting shot at some pods fell, but I wasn¡¯t thinking about that.

    The pod landed on a platform inside the city where we were safe from pvp.

    I was the last one to arrive, someone was pulling the arrow out of the entry.

    ¡°You ok in there?¡± I was in no mood to talk.

    I got out and the place was filled with people, I headed over to Emily.

    ¡°Sky, are you ok?¡± Odin seemed concerned.

    ¡°Where is Cortez?¡± Elisa asked, I didn¡¯t bother to answer them.

    Sky`S eyes were wide open in shock.

    Everyone was looking at me and made a clear path as I went over to Emily and grabbed her shoulder

    ¡°I hope you plan to attack tonight or I will kill them all on my own!¡±  Bruce grabbed my hand,

    trying to get me off, I looked over at him and he let go in fear.

    I left the scene and headed into the village.

    ¡°Sk¡ª¡° Elisa was trying to go after Sky

    ¡°Elisa, don¡¯t¡± Odin grabbed her arm and stopped her.

    ¡°You don¡¯t see Cortez around do you?¡± Odin let go.

    After a short while Elisa and Odin headed into the planning room with the other people who were willing to fight back, Sky was listening in as he hid in the crowd.

    ¡°Their base is not far from here, the main road continues onward after this city they are located at the end of the road, which is about a 1 hour walk from here or a really expensive zeppelin ride which we don¡¯t have money for again. We want to go as quickly as possible, but first we need a plan of infiltration, their base is in a city that is actually under npc control, but they killed them and every time they respawn, they have built a wall around so there is only one way in and that is through the front gate, unless we jump down from above.¡±

    ¡°How many of them are there?¡±

    ¡°Our recon squad have target about 30 players, so we outnumber them by at least 10 man¡±

    ¡°Are we just going to break through the front gate?¡±

    ¡°It isn¡¯t  as dumb as it sounds, there is no way for them to attack us from the inside out, they have to meet us outside on the field or at the door itself, but once inside we have to find the leader, that is top priority, his name is Garrett, his gear is top notch for his level and his skills in fights are unmatched, but he is the leader who keeps tabs on everything in these lands, we take him out, the rest shouldn¡¯t be a problem.¡±

    Garrett, was that the man I saw with my sister earlier at the camp in Nulara?

    ¡°Pick up everything they drop as it might be useful in combat, but we won¡¯t make this without casualties if we are completely honest with ourselves many of us will not return, we sacrifice our lives for the innocent lives of others who doesn¡¯t have to endure the same torment as you have.¡±

    Everyone was cheering and really pumped up with adrenaline.

    ¡°Meet at the front gate in 10 minutes then we will march!¡±

    I don¡¯t have 10 minutes, every second now they can be relocating that means less chance of finding Celia, I am not going to lose two important people in one day¡­

    Sky headed out on the main road alone right after the conference.

    ¡°Where do you think Sky is?¡± Elisa was concerned.

    ¡° I don¡¯t know, but I think its best we leave him alone, we know he to save his sister, he will be

    there I am sure of it¡±

    ¡°Yeah, you are right¡±

    ¡°I can¡¯t believe Cortez is¡­.¡±

    ¡°Yeah, me neither, I don¡¯t even remember the last thing I said to him¡­¡±

    Elisa and Odin headed to the gate as everyone was prepared to march, but Sky was already on his way.

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    So that¡¯s the hideout huh? At this level it¡¯s probably crawling with tracker hunters, let¡¯s see how their nose works against me.

    The front door was guarded by several guards some of them tracker archers, but Sky didn¡¯t care.

    ¡°Hey, someone is here, he is coming right at u--!?¡± Sky shoved both his daggers in the man¡¯s throat dealing immense damage with his legendary daggers.

    ¡°Die!¡± the others started drawing their bow, Sky tumbled behind one of the archers and knocked his bow out of his hands, the archers fired the shoots, but Sky was unharmed, however his cover died.

    ¡°Disappear!¡± Sky turned invisible, then reappeared behind one enemy striking him down with his out of stealth damage boost on the first strike.

    Sky quickly picked up the rope from the archers waist and knotted it to his dagger and threw it towards the last archer, hitting him in the hand, making him drop his bow, Sky caught up with him and sliced him down.

    Hmm, he had the key in his pocket, this place is just like the last one. Sky heard the gate being unlocked and opened.

    ¡°Hey you!¡± With disappear and reappear on cooldown he was forced to use smokebomb!

    ¡°I can¡¯t see anything, kjaa!¡±

    ¡°Are you ok? Are you the--?! Urgh!¡±

    The two guards who opened the door died in the smoke. Sky entered the base with stealth gear, but no way of getting his stealth back.

    ¡°Think you are the only assassin around here?¡±

    An assassin appeared behind Sky, but sky noticed the splattering sound on the mud behind him and dodged the hit!

    The assassin was left unstealthed, Sky threw dirt in his face and kicked him down only to stab him several times in his torso, then came a big axe swing from his side only greasing his arm. But Sky managed to dodge.

    ¡°What you going to do now, bastard?¡±

    The axe guy used his enrage ability to boost his speed and strength.

    ¡°humf, with great speed comes the possibility of¡­..?¡± The blade master charged Sky in a swift movement, but he slipped as he was about to swing!

    ¡°Slipping¡­.¡±

    ¡°ARRGH!¡± The blademaster got back up and was just about to attack Sky, but then..

    ¡°Stop!¡± Garrett came out with at least 10 men, including Celia!

    ¡°You think you can just kill my men and get away with it?¡±

    He was looking really casual as he approached me.

    ¡°You would get away with it actually if it wasn¡¯t for my elite squad, you see, a skilled player as yourself could be a part of my elite squad, you only have to ask.¡±

    ¡° Pfft, you guys are nothing but scum, abducting innocent players, killing them? Torturing them?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t see the problem, you are more like me then you think!¡±

    ¡°I am nothing like you!¡±

    ¡°You are a Murderer, I can see it your eyes, your movements, your actions. You like to do things alone, you subconsciously want to explore the world only to measure your strength and skill.¡±

    ¡°Hmmmm, hahaha HAHAHA! You think you know me? Why I do the things I have done? You might be right, I am a killer¡­Everyone I know dies because of me, which means now that you know me, you to have to die.¡±

    ¡°Ohh? Is that so?¡± Garrett walked away with his back turned against me.

    ¡°Celia finish him¡± I was shocked as he asked my sister to fight me, did he know our story or was it just a random draw of his elite squad?

    Celia went towards me, she looked at me I could see her eyes, they were sad. We both knew that either one of us had to die.

    I was surrounded by the whole camp, Celia and I had a circle to fight in.

    ¡°This time, you won¡¯t lose right?¡± Garrett laid a cold hand on Celias shoulder and look at her with emotionless eyes.

    It was obvious at that point that Celia would be killed if she lost, Garrett was referring to the fight in the arena, I could recall that he mentioned her failure at the camp, back in Nulara.

    There was no choice, we had to fight!

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    ¡°There is the headquarters, everyone stay sharp and stay behind me and Bruce, we will stay at the front line¡±

    ¡°Yes ma`ma!¡±

    Celia and I drew our blades, she was also wearing stealth gear, we both knew that was the best for quick killings, but in the arena we had to win the crowd with melee combat.

    She appeared behind me, I quickly rolled forwards and threw mud in her face, I was just about to kick her backwards as she grabbed my foot which made me lose balance and fall on the slippery mud, she was using the momentum to try and hit me on the way down, but I used reappear behind her and kicked her away as I got my footing back.

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    We were both looking at each other again, breathing more heavily, I threw my rope dagger at her, instead of deflecting it she sliced the rope, I only had one dagger left, but I was on my way to attack her as she cut it.

    Just as I was about to strike her I used disappear, while I was invisible I slideed under her feet and stabbed her in the back, I knew the damage wouldn¡¯t be fatal. The dagger got stuck in her back, but I tried to pick up the other dagger that was on the ground, she stepped on my hand as I was reaching for it then kicking me in the head with her other foot as she turned around.

    I could see her over me as I was lying on my back, she forced the dagger towards my chest,but I managed to take a hold of her hand, but she was pushing really hard I was struggling to keep the dagger from killing me,I looked up at her face, her tears was dripping on my face, it was pouring down from the rain so no one saw her cry.  I spun my legs up and hit her on her side, no damage was dealt but she got distracted by it, enough time for me the push the dagger to the side and roll to safety.

    When I rolled backwards she was gone, she had used disappear! I couldn¡¯t hear any footsteps like with the last assassin, the last one had to be combat or poison speced. She got the jump on me and hit me in the back, but it didn¡¯t kill me, like I didn¡¯t kill her.

    Reappear was off cooldown and I used it, once I got behind her I noticed the dagger in her back was gone, I had no weapons I ripped the dagger in my back out, I saw around me as I was still in the air, It was another reality check, I was cornered, by atleast 20 people that includes the rest of the elite members. I landed behind her, she turned around quickly I knew she was going to anticipate it and retaliate with a dagger hit, but I did the only thing I could.

    Hug her.

    The dagger went right through my heart, I could feel it inside me, it was cold, and my body quickly got weak as we both fell to our knees, Celia was paralyzed, she probably didn¡¯t think I would let her kill me.

    ¡°Sky!¡± I could hear Elisa scream from afar as I saw the rest of the fighters coming through, the guards that surrounded us started fighting with Emily, Bruce and the others. Garrett hurried up inside his main building with the rest of his elite crew.

    ¡°You know, i finally managed to save someone * Blood cough*¡±

    She couldn¡¯t move, she was paralyzed in shock.

    My eye lids became really heavy and I got sleepy as I feel over on the muddy ground.

    I tried to keep my eyes open, the last thing I saw was Celia on her knees crying over me.

    She was trying to tell me something, but I couldn¡¯t hear anything anymore.

    I thought I could save you alone, I always drag my friends with me and they die because of that, this time I was the one to die, but maybe that¡¯s what I deserve, Zane and the gang, Cortez, our old friends back in the slum, even you.

    Farewell¡­..Live¡­

    ¡°Elisa, get back!¡± Odin shouted as he was fighting a darkblood member.

    Elisa was running over to Sky`s body, she didn¡¯t care about Celia, Elisa put Sky`s head on her lap, feeling his white hair with her fingers.

    Celia stood up and backed off.

    ¡°You know, he never once thought about himself, he always did his best to protect us and help you¡­He wanted to sacrifice his own life for you to have one, don¡¯t waste it.¡±¡§

    A guy was about to attack Elisa, but Celia appeared behind him just about to slice his throat as he was shoot in the head with a arrow from the distance.

    ¡°My brother was willing to die for me, so were you, I will do my best to honor my brother¡¯s name, I will no longer be a part of the darkblood brotherhood that is what my brother sacrificed his life for!¡±

    ¡°Wait don¡¯t attack her!¡± Emily stopped a friendly from attack Celia.

    Emily saw Sky`s dead body.

    ¡°You are his sister? Come with us, help us fight back!¡± Emily stretched out her hand, but the fight was still going on around them.

    ¡°You got it!¡± Celia grabbed Emily¡¯s hand and they started fighting side by side.

    ¡°Is it too late for me to join in to??¡± Cortez shouted from afar, he was at the gate!

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    *Heartbeat*¡­¡­¡­..*Heartbeat*¡­¡­¡­¡­*Heartbeat*

    I opened my eyes everything was red! I was drowning, I could feel something entering my skin, mouth and eyes! I felt really dizzy and disorientated.

    Where am i?

    I was only wearing shorts. I got a look around and I could see the players from the prison in the experimentation lab, I was in the pool, but the pool was drained by me, I felt excruciating pain in my whole body!

    ¡°Argh!!Urgh!!¡± My eyes turned black as a black aura surrounded my body.

    ¡°What is going on? I can¡¯t bare this pain any longer!¡±

    Several black spots appeared on my body, some thin black spikes erupted from the spots, impaling the bodies of all the players, killing them and ripping them apart.

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    I had no control of my body, I got up from the pool of blood, the spikes returned back to my body.

    *Heartbeat*¡­¡­¡­¡­.*Heartbeat*¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­.*Heartbeat*

    I could see, I could move, but I didn¡¯t have full control.

    Sky awoke from the dead in Elisas lap, but Sky¡¯s body was emitting a black aura, tormenting those around him.

    Elisa had to back off.

    Sky got up on his feet, but his appearance was human, but different, his whole body was covered in a darkish hue with extremely pale skin, and he also had two long swords with the same darkish hue, there was no matter, just shadow.

    ¡°Sky is that you?¡± Celia tried to reach through to Sky, but there was no response.

    Sky turned around to the fight and reappeared behind an enemy shoving the blade through his back and draining him of life, the target died instantly. Sky moved quickly around the battlefield, he was so fast the enemies got killed off in matter of seconds, his body appeared and reappeared all over the place while killing them.

    ¡°What is going on?¡±

    ¡°What is that?¡±

    ¡°Sky, what is happening to you?¡±

    There was no more enemies left outside, only Garrett and the elite crew inside. Sky was floating over the ground as he headed over to the front of the building.

    ¡°Stay here¡± Sky¡¯s voice was almost inaudible.

    He walked right through the gate, like a ghost.

    ¡° I knew it, when I heard the prison sounded the alarm, of course they could hold of the prisoners, but something killed them all, it was you wasn¡¯t it?¡± Garrett was backing off, the elite squad jumped in front of him to guard him.

    Sky was standing still in front of them with his Black eyes, two long black swords of shadow, pale skin, dark nails and dark veins that could be seen on parts of his body.

    The elite squad used all their cooldowns to attack, but Sky smashed the 2 handed axe from the elite blade master into pieces with a mere block, the others also tried to hit Sky but their swords passed through his body like thin air.

    ¡°Ohhh?¡± Sky slices them up with a flurry of strikes, the enemies got cut up and the wounds was leaking life essence that was being drained by Sky subconsciously, they died in a matter of seconds helplessly on the ground.

    ¡°I was more than right, you are worse than a monster, you are the devil himself!¡±

    Sky shoved both his blades through his stomach.

    ¡°Then I will be seeing you in hell¡±

    ¡°Ugh!¡± The blades was draining his life essence.

    Everything went quiet, all the enemies were dead.

    Sky went back to his normal human form and fell on the ground in only his shorts.

    Bruce smashed the blocked door open and once inside they gathered up around sky.

    Elisa and Celia ran up to him, they noticed a huge scar around his heart and through his veins it was all colored in black.

    Everything was cold, I could feel someone holding me, I could barely open my eyes, I could see, Celia, Elisa and everyone!

    Sky Noticed Cortez walking towards him, crouching down.

    ¡°Don¡¯t die on me buddy!¡±

    ¡°Cortez¡­You¡­.are¡­alive?¡± I fell unconscious.

 Volume 3 Chapter 7 - Borrowed Time?

    I can¡¯t remember last time I ate something, my stomach was grumbling, i looked over at Celia, she was wet through all her cloths, so was I, and the rain was not letting up.

    ¡°I take the cars on the left side¡±

    ¡°I got the right side then¡±

    We were walking down an old highway, torn apart from vegetation and bombs, but on the bright side there was still some cars left, but we didn¡¯t find much.

    The last car I searched had canned ham in the glove compartment.

    ¡°Celia, come here!¡±

    We regrouped in the middle of the road.

    ¡°Here take this¡± I gave her the can.

    She opened it with her knife, and took out a piece of meat.

    ¡°Don¡¯t, I be fine¡±

    ¡°You sure?¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t think about me¡±

    Something made a racket behind us.

    We both turned around with our guns raised.

    ¡°Who¡¯s there?¡±

    A stray dog slowly approached us from underneath a car.

    *Whimpers*

    ¡°Here doggy doggy¡±

    ¡°Careful, he might be sick¡±

    ¡°His fine, just a little hungry¡±

    She tore of some ham with her hand and laid it in front of him.

    ¡°Woof woof! ¡°

    The dog ate it.

    ¡°Let¡¯s go before the dog follows us¡±

    ¡°Ok¡±

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    I woke up in a bed, Elisa was sitting in a chair next to me, leaning over the bed sleeping.

    My Heartbeat was heavy, I could feel every beat, as I got out of bed I took the sheet over Elisa to warm her.

    There was a mirror in front of me, I was only in my shorts, and then I noticed a big black scar where I got stabbed. My veins was also turning black. My body felt weak, probably from staying in bed, how long was I out?

    Cortez and Odin was sleeping on some couches with a unfinished game of chess on the table,

    Cortez was sleeping in a really weird position with his mouth open and tongue out.

    This place is so dark, where am I, Some kind of hospital?

    No, that¡¯s not it, I am in someone¡¯s house.

    I walked up to a door.

    Someone opened it!

    ¡°Sky!¡±

    ¡°Celia, you are here?¡±

    She hugged me, she started sobbing.

    ¡°We didn¡¯t know if you were going to wake up, stupid!¡±

    ¡°I am so glad to see you, finally¡±

    ¡°You are too reckless, why would you go to such lengths for me! You could have died, if it wasn¡¯t for¡­.¡±

    ¡°For what?¡±

    ¡°You don¡¯t remember?¡±

    ¡°Remember wha---  Ugh, Argh¡±

    ¡°Onii chan, you alright?¡±

    The darkness in my veins was spreading onto my left arm, then it stopped suddenly and the pain faded.

    ¡°Yeah, I¡¯m alright¡± I opened my inventory and equipped my gear to hide the wound.

    I got more used to the heavy heartbeat.

    ¡°H-hey, what is going on? Sky you are up, I am so glad!¡± Elisa woke up, probably from the noise we made.

    ¡°Huh, Skys awake?¡± Cortez woke up.

    ¡°Odin get up!¡± Cortez punched Odin in his stomach.

    ¡°Ugh, im up¡± Everyone seemed really happy to see me.

    ¡°How long was I out?¡±

    ¡°Its been two days¡±

    ¡°What do you mean, two da¡ªUgh!¡±

    ¡°Sky!¡± Elisa ran over to me as I was on my knees, I could feel all these memories flowing into my head.

    ¡°We should get him back to bed!¡±

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    I was in a big dark room.

    ¡°Where am i?¡±

    Someone was there.

    ¡°You are exactly where you need to be¡±

    ¡°Zane is that you?¡± His body was like mine, black scared.

    ¡°Look at you, you should be dead, like me¡±

    ¡°Im sorry,  I was to slow I¡±

    ¡°Enough with your excuses, what about everyone else? You left them to die to.¡±

    Several of my previous friends flashed before me, tormented.

    ¡°Why didn¡¯t you help us?¡±

    ¡°Where did you go?¡±

    ¡°We needed you and you abandoned us!¡±

    ¡°Argh! Get out of my head!¡±

    Everyone disappeared, but Zane was still there with his back turned to me.

    ¡°You are not Zane!¡±

    ¡°I am the face of your regrets and the apparition of your greatest fear¡±

    I could not believe how real everything seemed.

    ¡°You didn¡¯t save your sister, it was me who killed everyone and stopped the fighting, you were too busy being dead, but now thanks to me you are alive, there will come a day when you need my help again, maybe then I will let you stay dead or take your body for myself? Hahaha¡±

    ¡°No, no, no!¡±

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    I woke up in the bed again, it was morning.

    ¡°Sky, I am worried about you¡± Elisa was with me, everyone else were not to be seen.

    ¡°I am scared, I don¡¯t know what is happening to me¡±

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    ¡°I`m here for you¡±

    There was a short silence.

    ¡°We are all here for you¡±

    ¡°Thank you, means a lot¡±

    *Knock knock*

    Cortez entered the room.

    ¡°Sky, could I talk to you for a moment?¡±

    ¡°Yeah, let me just get up¡±

    ¡°You sure?¡±

    ¡°Yeah, I need a walk¡±

    Cortez and I headed outside for a walk around the main city in the thunder plains, Zebos.

    ¡°The food here is amazing, damn¡± Cortez and I were eating and strolling at the same time.

    ¡°Tell me, back then you died right in front of my eyes, how did you survive¡±

    ¡°Yeah, sorry about that, I knew there wasn¡¯t enough space in the pod and the ship would have blown up so , I knew I could at least save you and the others.¡±

    ¡°I got lucky, once I got inside and pulled the lever I thought I was a goner, but I did my best to get out of there, I really didn¡¯t have a plan so I jumped right off.¡±

    ¡°What? You jumped right off?¡±

    ¡°Yeah, the whole place was on fire and there was smoke everywhere, I had to get out fast, as I jumped off I didn¡¯t know what to do, I managed to scout out a big puddle, I would die of course if I landed from this distance, that¡¯s when the explosion kicked in. There was a big piece of the zeppelin cloth flying over me, I shot through it and dragged it towards me, time was really ticking at that moment, I managed to pull the rope arrow through two points of the cloth to make a half assed parachute, it did slow me down, but the impact hurt like hell.¡±

    ¡°I really thought you died back there¡±

    ¡°Yeah, I am sorry, but when I came back to the city I heard you guys were already attacking so I headed over, when I got there you weren¡¯t yourself, it was like you were possessed.¡±

    ¡°Cortez, keep this between you and me, it all started back at the prison, there was some kind of experiments going on, I was strapped to this machine that was killing people in intervals, draining the corpses blood, I woke up earlier than the others, probably because my body is more immune to poison then theirs, because back in the real world we injected small amounts of poison into our blood, it was something we had to do in my previous gang. I manage to get out, but I fell into this weird pool of blood mixed with some kind of chemicals and rituals, for some reason my body absorbed it all and it made me to the monster you saw back at the camp.¡±

    ¡°You did look scary and you did saved many lives, even your sister, to be honest you looked kind of badass¡±

    ¡°I didn¡¯t have much control over it¡±

    ¡°Well, who or whatever was controlling you did a great job.¡±

    ¡°You might be right¡±

    We walked around zebos and I was too busy thinking of our chat to notice the city¡¯s environment. The place was covered with houses and streets, brick by brick. Over our heads was an insanely huge roof that was covering us from the rain and thunder.

    ¡°There you guys are, I need you help again¡± Emily met us on our walk, Bruce was behind her as always.

    ¡°What type of help are you looking for out of these two great men?¡± Cortez was suddenly next to her, almost smelling her hair.

    Bruce was grunting and looking at Cortez.

    ¡°Okay okay I get it¡±

    ¡°I need you to help us completing a dungeon or actually only the last boss, we have already cleared all the trash mobs¡±

    ¡°Sky is your body up for this?¡± I swung my arm a bit back and forth.

    ¡°This walk did wonders, I was tired from not doing anything so this will be good, shall we inform the others as well?¡±

    ¡°Yes, that would be wonderful, meet us at the gate in half an hour¡±

    As we got back to the house I could see Elisa and Celia talking

    ¡°Tell me, have you gotten to know each other while I was asleep?¡±

    ¡°Yeah, Celia is a really nice girl as you said, I know now what you ment. You wouldn¡¯t mind if i---?¡±

    ¡°Cortez, don¡¯t even think about it¡±

    ¡°Hai hai, just kidding haha¡±

    ¡°I still want that revenge for beating my ass at the arena¡­.And chess, juggling and rock, paper scissors!¡±

    Cortez was crying a bit, determent to pay her back.

    ¡°Everyone, Emily have asked us to join her for a last boss fight in a dungeon who wants to come?¡±

    ¡°Only the last boss, sure why not¡±

    ¡°Sure, im inn!¡±

    ¡°Celia, what about you?¡±

    ¡°Let¡¯s fight alongside each other once again!¡±

    ¡°Then its settled, we are meeting them at the gate in about 20 minutes¡±

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    I went to the bathroom mirror, something weird was happening to me again, I could feel my whole body dripping sweat, I took of a piece of my hoodie to watch the scar, it was spreading to my left arm.

    A sudden flash of Zanes face shocked me.

    ¡°What is happening to me?¡±

 Volume 3 Chapter 8 - The Reaper of Zebos

    ¡±This dungeon look like crap, smells to¡­.¡± Cortez held his nose.

    ¡°Kind of glad we are just here to finish of the last boss, look, the ceiling is dripping cold water, brrrr¡± Elisa was freezing.

    ¡°This boss, do you know his attacks?¡± I had to ask Emily.

    The boss was in front of us, but from afar, it was like a big black wraith from earlier but just huge and with a scythe. His name was ¡°The Grim reaper¡±

    ¡°This is the longest we have gotten; we haven¡¯t dared to confront him. We usually wait to next week for the dungeon reset, and then we clear all the trash mobs to get good loot although the boss drops the best.¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s why you want us huh? We are brave enough is that it?¡± Odin replied.

    ¡°Exactly¡± Emily just smiled, not trying to hide the fact or anything.

    ¡°Since we don¡¯t have any clue what its abilities are we just have to fight and see for ourselves¡± She continued..

    It feels as if we are taking this too lightly or have we simply become used to fighting with our lives on the line?

    ¡°Well we have come this far so let¡¯s get to it!¡± Cortez was fired up.

    Celia walked up to me.

    ¡°You sure you are up for this? What about your ar---¡°

    ¡°It`s not hurting anymore, I¡¯m fine, I promise¡±

    I could feel and see the spreading on my left arm, it was almost covered in black veins, weirdly enough it does not hurt though, only when it spreads¡±

    ¡°Attack!¡±

    Bruce charged onwards, this time he was using some kind of brass knuckle weapon.

    Grim reaper noticed us and he started swinging his scythe at Bruce only to be blocked by his guard!

    ¡°Good one Bruce! Now it¡¯s my turn! Emily proceeded with shooting a bunch of purple shaped balls of magic from her hands at the boss.

    Odin went on a rampage with his ability, Cortez spammed his fire arrows as Celia and I reappeared back on his neck and pierced him dealing a lot of damage.

    All these spells at the same time really did a lot of damage to the boss, we were almost down to half his health, that was when he used one of his abilities, it was like a spin!

    ¡°Everyone get back!¡± I made sure to call it out early

    The grim reaper was spinning around the place even ranged attacks were deflected, if hit it would be the end!

    ¡°All we can do now is dodge! Wait it out!¡±

    Some of the rock pillars around the battle field got chopped of and thrown all over the place, we all dodging them as well as we could. Bruce was just standing still with his guard up, all the rock blocks just turned to dust when it hit him.

    ¡°it is slowing down, go at him again!¡± Bruce was the first one to run towards him, taunting him and getting all the aggro towards him.

    ¡°Take this¡± Cortez kept on spamming arrows, but his flaming arrows was on cooldown.

    Celia and I kept attacking it from behind.

    ¡°Cortez take this!¡± Emily used some kind of channeling magic spell on Cortez which increased his attackspeed by at least 50%!

    ¡°Ohh yeah! Take this! Hahah, feels like my fingers are burning!¡± Cortez was all fired up.

    The boss suddenly stopped attacking and became immune to damage as he summoned several small wraiths across the battlefield.

    ¡°Everyone watch out!¡±

    ¡°I got u Emily!¡± Cortez was also moving faster while the spell was channeled on him, he was shooting arrows left and right killing all the wraiths approaching them.

    ¡°Celia stay close!¡±

    ¡°That one!¡± I pointed at one wraith as we both reappeared behind it and hit it simultaneously killing it in one sweep.

    ¡°Nice, now on to the next one!¡± Just as we were running towards our next target we saw Bruce coming from the wraiths side, body slamming it to the ground and then striking it with several vicious punches until it vanished to dust!¡±

    Bruce looked at us and just grunted.

    ¡°I Really need to change my spec, I don¡¯t got any real support abilities in fights yet!¡± Elisa was throwing gooey flask all over the field.

    A wraith flew after her

    ¡°Ahhh! Get away from me!¡±

    Odin lunged at the wraith killing it.

    ¡°Thanks Odin!¡±

    ¡°Stay close, the wraiths have to stop soon¡±

    ¡°Take this, this just might work!¡±

    Elisa handed over a flask.

    ¡°Everyone is flashing with their new abilities, this is mine¡±

    Odin drank the potion.

    ¡°Wow is everyone slowing down? Elisa?¡±

    Everything was going to slow for Odin, the buff lasts for 20 seconds for his time, so for everyone else those 20 seconds seem like 5.

    ¡°Ohh this is going to be cool!¡±

    Odin shoved both his blades into the ground activating his cooldown ability, Endless Rage!

    Odins powers was too overwhelming, he was moving around in light speed for the normal eye, killing all the remaining wraiths in a flash!

    The boss was no longer immune to damage, Odin did immense damage to the boss before his powers vanished.

    ¡°I am so tired¡± Odin did so much damage that Bruce couldn¡¯t hold aggro.

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    ¡°Watch out!¡± The scythe was targeting Odin, but just as it was supposed to hit, a purple barrier blocked the damage and then it shattered. It was Emily¡¯s Shield!

    ¡°I¡¯ll take it from here!¡±  Bruce got the aggro back on him.

    After a few seconds of damage dealing, the boss was about to swing around once again.

    ¡°Back up, Everyone back up!¡±

    ¡°Disappear!¡± The grim reapers screeched out as he spun around, this time dark matter was emitting from the boss coming right for us.

    ¡°Cortez, back me up on this¡± Emily began using spells at the dark matter.

    ¡°Gotcha!¡± Cortez followed up with flurry of arrows.

    As we were running from the scythe I could feel another pulse in my left hand, the dark veins was spreading, soon my whole left hand was covered, weirdly enough it doesn¡¯t hurt as much anymore and I feel fine.

    ¡°Sky..¡±

    I could hear a voice in my head, was it Zane again?

    ¡°Sky! Watch out!¡± I was too distracted to notice a falling pointy edged rock right above my head.

    Celia reappeared behind me and kicked me away as she used that momentum to jump away from the rock.

    I had my arm sleeve a bit up from checking the veins, I forgot to cover it, Celia noticed before I got to cover it again.

    The Grim Reaper was slowing down.

    ¡° Clearly u are not ok, why did u lie to me? To us?¡±

    ¡°It¡¯s not hurting, it¡¯s just ¡­I will tell you later ok? Lets finish this up¡±

    ¡°Hmm, fine!¡±

    The boss stopped spinning and Bruce got the aggro back.

    ¡°Time to finish this!¡± Emily charged up a spell.

    ¡°Cover me everyone, this will finish him off, but I need some time!¡±¡±

    The boss was attacking Bruce with increased attack speed as well as wraiths was spawning again!

    This is the last stage! Stage 3!

    Bruce was holding the boss, Odin was to tired to fight, Elisa made a huge gooey field around Emily to slow the wraiths down.

    ¡°Cortez, keep ur damage on the boss, we will defend Emily!¡±

    ¡°Alright, chief!¡±

    As we were killing of wraiths, the room became brighter and brighter from Emilyes spell.  Emily herself was turned into an entity of light.

    I was almost blinded even though my back was turned, I could feel the warmth behind me.

    ¡°Bruce!¡±

    ¡°Hmm!!¡± Bruce jumped away from the boss.

    ¡°Spear of Odysseus!!¡± The whole room was lit up and a really loud noise was heard, then everything was silent for a split second as huge beam of light was shot forward towards the boss, illumination everything in its way, piercing the boss, leaving a huge hole in his body as he disappeared.

    The remaining wraiths disappeared.

    The boss dropped a staff that only Emily could use.

    ¡°Yay, just what I wanted!¡±

    We were all really exhausted from the fight, but Emily was really excited.

    After we were finished in the dungeon we headed back to the city, relaxing at a restaurant, eating food.

    ¡°I want to thank you guys for everything, The Darkblood Brotherhood, the dungeon, its more peaceful now. Now that we got our guard up on all the check point in the Thunder plains we are sure nothing like that will ever happen again!¡±

    ¡°Your welcome little girl!¡± Cortez was eating like a wild animal as always.

    ¡°Little¡ªgi¡ªgirl?!¡± Emily got mad.

    Bruce held Cortez in a chokehold, he was trying to tap out. Emily was pleased.

    ¡°I am afraid The Darkblood Brotherhood is lurking in every region forwards, at least that¡¯s what I expect. The killings have stopped here, but they will not stop until they are completely shut down.¡±

    ¡°Shutting down The Darkblood Brotherhood? That`s insane, they are one of the biggest guilds! It would take a lot of people and time to make something like that happen.¡±

    ¡°How about the 5 of us?¡± Elisa dropped her jaw, but the others were smiling.

    ¡°Are you insane? You guys might be skilled, but you are just 5 people against who knows how many!¡±

    ¡°We will figure something out, I will not stay idle while this Felia is crumbling, this world is our second chance, we can¡¯t let people make the same mistake as in the first world.¡±

    ¡°I like you dedication, but that is one way of getting yourself killed quickly, I will give you a tip, stay alive and think reasonably, you will need all the help you can get, with your charms I bet that won¡¯t be a problem¡±

    Elisa got a bit mad.

    I blushed a little.

    ¡°We will be heading out, from what I can see there still a long way to go if we want to get out of here¡±

    ¡°I wish I could give u a zeppelin ride, but that¡¯s just too expensive right now, sorry!¡± Emily lowered her head.

    ¡°Its fine its fine, don¡¯t think about it¡±

    ¡°Really?¡±

    ¡°We are adventurous people after all!¡±  We were all smiling.

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 Volume 3 Chapter 9 - The Escort

    I was talking to Celia alone at the restaurant in a backroom.

    ¡°Show me¡±

    ¡°Huh?¡±

    ¡°Show me your arm¡±

    I took of my T shirt.

    Celia noticed all the scars I had on my body from the other world, she paused but didn¡¯t

    comment it.

    The blackness have spread from my heart area onto my left arm.

    ¡°Does it hurt?¡±

    ¡°It did at first, but not anymore.¡±

    ¡°How about now?¡± Celia held around it with her hands and squeezed.

    ¡°It¡¯s like my hand has become stronger, I can feel your hands but it¡¯s really faint, not in a numb way either.¡±

    ¡°We should find a healer¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t think a healer can heal this, take a look¡±

    I showed her that I had no known disease, poison or wound on me.

    ¡°Then what is it?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t know¡±

    It got a bit silent as she was studying my arm.

    ¡°I get these visions¡±

    ¡°Visions?¡±

    ¡°Somehow this darkness makes me see things I don¡¯t want to see.¡±

    ¡°Does it happen often?¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s random, sometimes I get small gimps of..¡±

    ¡°Of?¡±

    ¡°Zane.¡±

    ¡°Zane?¡±

    ¡°I know it¡¯s not really him, but he is a physical manifestation of my fears and regrets, whatever it

    is inside my head, it¡¯s playing tricks, but I won¡¯t let it get to me.¡±

    ¡°You have to stop blaming yourself for what happened, it¡¯s not your fault¡±

    There was a short pause.

    ¡°What if we helped them fight back? We were their best gun men, we could hav--!¡±

    Celia slapped me, then gave me a hug.

    ¡°Its true Zane died to save me, but you also saved me, remember?¡±

    What is she talking about, I was shocked.

    ¡°I was so blinded with anger and fear back then I couldn¡¯t think straight, you got me out of there, safe. I am here with you like always because of that.¡±

    ¡°Thank you, Celia¡± Celia slowly backed off from holding her hands around me from the hug.

    ¡°Let¡¯s head back out shall we? They are probably waiting for us.¡±

    I kept looking at my left hand.

    ¡°Yeah, I be right there¡±

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    After we finished up at the restaurant we noticed a billboard of quests as we were heading out, there was an escort mission, with a high exp reward.

    ¡°Hey, check this out¡± I ripped down the poster

    ¡°What¡¯s that?¡± Elisa came over to me.

    ¡°Escort this person to the next check point, it says¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s where we are headed is it not?¡± Odin stumbled over to us.

    ¡°Fits perfectly, let¡¯s do it¡±

    There was a disfigured man lurking in the shadows, sneaking around Sky and his friends.

    ¡°The exit is over there guys, good luck!¡± Emily and Bruce waved at us.

    ¡°Thanks Emily! Hope we meet again one day! Farewell!¡± we waved back as we left for the big

    open iron gate.

    The mysterious man was following, slithering after them.

    ¡°Be careful out there, the weather has turned for the worse¡±

    There was a guard keeping his post.

    ¡°Ohh wow, you are not kidding!¡± the wind almost knocked Cortez off his feet.

    We were standing in front of the gate, the wind was screeching and the rain drops felt like hail,

    nothing I am not used to though.

    ¡°Call this a storm? Pfft¡± Celia went out first, not hesitating at all¡±

    ¡°Argh, u cocky bastard¡± Cortez was mumbling as he lowered his head, put his hands in his

    pockets and followed while he spat on the ground.

    The rest of us followed.

    We were walking through the storm when we noticed a small shack, which was where the guy we

    were supposed to escort was located.

    ¡°Just a little bit longer¡± Celia and I was in the front, the others had some problems keeping their

    feet on the ground.

    ¡°Cortez, don¡¯t tell me this is exhausting for you? I remember you telling me you fought a 2

    headed bear with your bare hands during a storm!¡±

    ¡°You never told me that Cortez!¡± We could tell that he had lied, but it was funny to play with him.

    ¡°Yeah well, I don¡¯t always brag about my adventures, I could walk backwards if I wanted to¡±

    ¡°Do it then!¡± Elisa tempted Cortez

    ¡°humpf!¡± Cortez turned around, planted his feet firmly in the muddy ground as he proceeded

    walking backwards.

    ¡°See? No probleeeh!¡± His furry leather cape was blown over his head by surprise and startled

    him as he slipped on the mud.

    ¡°You alright Cortez?¡± Odin went over to help him up.

    ¡°Bleh, yack! Just as planned!¡± He spat out mud from his mouth as he stood up all by himself

    even though Odin had his hand stretched out.

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    We had our giggles as he wiped off his muddy cloths.

    We got to the shack and entered the door.

    There was a guy standing in front of a barrel fire.

    ¡°Are you guys my escort? *Sigh*¡±

    ¡°We will keep you safe sir¡± Celia was the one speaking to him.

    ¡°Well, well, can¡¯t be helped, guess you guys will do, just make sure I get to the next checkpoint

    unscratched, I got some private information I need to deliver, and call me Gavin¡±

    ¡°Can you tell me?¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t you get what private means? You stupid fish eyed jock!¡±

    ¡°Fish eyed? Jock? Me?¡± Cortez pulled up his sleeves.

    ¡°Let it go big guy¡± Odin held him back.

    ¡°Well what are you guys waiting for? Get your fingers out of your buts! Especially you, sweet

    cheeks¡±

    He was pointing at me, insulting me, but I didn¡¯t really care, he is just a NPC, probably

    programmed to be a douchbag.

    We headed out, by all of our surprise Gavin was the one in front.

    ¡°Aren¡¯t you guys supposed to protect me? Try to stand in a circle formation around me, don¡¯t you

    know anything?¡±

    Everyone speed up and formed a circle around Gavin.

    ¡°That¡¯s more like it, try to keep up with me, I¡¯m not even moving fast¡±

    ¡°Yes sir!¡±

    ¡°Back in my days I was the worst in my class when it came to running, guess times have

    changed huh?¡±

    ¡°Seems so, you might be old but you are quick on your feet!¡± Odin trying to complement him.

    ¡°Old? Who are you calling old you little rat! If I had to choose to be you or 10 years older, I would

    have gladly accepted 20 years.¡±

    ¡°Are you sure you could survive as a 120 year old man?¡±

    ¡°What is that supposed to mean, fish eyes?¡±

    ¡°Did you also happen to be the worst in math too?¡±

    Gavin got so angry and red he couldn¡¯t answer, I tried to hold my laugh so hard, but a little laugh

    slipped out, but quickly managed to hold the laughter back again.

    ¡°See? I made Sky laugh!¡±

    Celia smiled.

    ¡°Hey look over there!¡± I noticed something in the distance.

    It was a wolf pack, no wait, 3 wolf packs!

    ¡°Let me see what you guys are made off!¡± The old man just sat down on the ground with his

    arms and legs in a cross.

    ¡°Hey wolves, come and get some of this fresh young meat!¡± Gavin was taunting the wolves.

    They came running straight at us, all of them!

    ¡°There is at least 20 of them!

    ¡°Cortez drink this!¡± Eliza gave him a potion that makes time move slow for him.

    ¡°Odin!¡±

    ¡°Got it! Endless rage!¡± Odin ran in with no fear, slashing up some wolves, but even with his

    amazing speed and power the wolves could take hits!

    ¡°Let¡¯s back him up Sky!¡± Celia and I reappeared behind all the wolves and started slashing away

    the once in the back.

    Cortez finished drinking, then he activated his flaming arrows!

    The arrows came flying, but for us the duration only lasts for 5 seconds, while for him it last 20

    seconds, because times moves much slower for him.

    When the wolves sniffed up me and Celia we used our Cooldown ability, which is to get invisible

    during combat!

    The wolves quickly went back to target Odin and Cortez, but one Wolf slipped by and charged

    the old man sitting on the ground!

    ¡°Not so fast!¡± Elisa threw a gooey flask on the ground to slow the wolf down.

    ¡°Cortez!¡± Elisa threw a flask in the air that Cortez shot and all the gooey dropped ontop of the

    wolf snaring him in goo, the wolf was not able to move!

    The potion duration on Cortez ended, Celia and I went over to Odin to cover him as his Endless

    rage ended, ironically.

    Odin was so dizzy from the side effect that he slipped on the ground.

    Elisa went over to him and dragged him back to the old man.

    ¡°Even I have more fuel in me than that, pathetic!¡±

    Gavin was insulting Odin, but he was too exhausted to care.

    We finished of the rest of the wolves, while gaining a lot of exp.

    Suddenly we could hear a bark!

    The wolf covered in goo had managed to get out, because of the rain!

    The foul beast was just about to bite Gavin as Odin leaned over and let his arm get bit instead.

    I finished it off with a dagger through the skull.

    ¡°You all right?¡±

    ¡°Just a scratch¡± Odin fainted from exhaustion.

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 Volume 3 Chapter 10 - Schizophrenia

    ¡±Wha...what is going on, where are we?¡± Odin woke up.

    We were at the checkpoint under a roof that covers us from lightning and rain.

    ¡°Huh? You awake now? Finally!¡± Cortez had Odin over his shoulder, but quickly let him down once he woke up.

    Cortez was down on his arms and knees catching his breath.

    ¡°How`s your arm feeling?¡± I went over to him.

    His right arm was bleeding a lot.

    ¡°it looks way worse than it is, my health haven¡¯t really dropped, guess I just have to wash it off in the rain.¡±

    ¡°Alright, I come with you¡±

    ¡°Sure¡±

    Odin and I headed over to where the roof atop of us ended and the rain was pouring down, Odin took of his chain mail armor as he cleaned his wound.

    ¡°I wonder how they are doing¡­¡±

    ¡°Hmm?¡±

    ¡°My family¡­¡±

    ¡°Yeah, hope they are doing alright, we should send a letter once we get to the next questing zone.¡±

    ¡°Yeah! ¡°

    He took his arm back from the rain and washed himself off with a piece of cloth.

    ¡°You know, my sister and I have always been really close, I remember when our father took us out on fishing trips before the world turned to crap¡­¡±

    He had dried himself up and reequipped his armor.

    ¡°We just sat there on the boat, us 3, in complete silence, waiting for a fish to take the bait, the aura was so soothing, even though we didn¡¯t speak much on those fishing trips I feel like that was the time we got to know each other the most¡­.I miss the times when everything was so¡­.Easy and safe.

    ¡°Same here, I am not a religious person, but I am sure your father is in a better place now¡±

    ¡°Yeah you are probably right, thanks Sky.¡±

    ¡°If you ever need someone to talk to, come to me or Celia¡±

    ¡°S-s-sure, I come to you!¡±

    What was with this overexcited reaction?

    ¡°Anyways, lets head back and keep on moving, we are soon out of Thunder plains, we only got one more checkpoint, atleast that was what Gavin said.¡±

    ¡°Ohh right, how did the quest go?¡±

    ¡°Once we came here we leveled up, even you did if you haven¡¯t noticed¡±

    Odin just realized.

    ¡°Ohh nice, now I can put another point in weapon handling!¡±

    ¡°Weapon handling¡±?

    We started moving back to the others.

    ¡°As a Blade Master we don¡¯t have too many abilities, but a lot of passive abilities that we can put points in. Since I prefer to wield two swords I put a point in duel wielding, others such as Bruce puts points in brass knuckles and so on.¡±

    ¡°I see¡±

    ¡°You can even put a point in armor types, to increase agility or defense¡±

    ¡°So that¡¯s why I see a lot of different types of Blade masters all around, nice to know!¡±

    We regrouped.

    ¡°Odin, how`s your arm?¡±

    Odin blushed a bit while not making clear eye contact.

    ¡°it¡¯s a lot better  n-now!¡±

    So that¡¯s what`s going on¡­..i see

    Elisa noticed too.

    ¡°I can¡¯t believe we have to walk even further, cant we just stay here?¡± Cortez was gazing upon the long road ahead.

    ¡°Are you kidding? It¡¯s so windy and wet all the time, let¡¯s get out of here pronto!¡± Elisa was rubbing her arms together since she was freezing

    ¡°Not everyone has warm fury armor¡±

    ¡°Give me a hug and ill warm ya¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t get on my nerve, fish eye!¡±

    ¡°Why are people calling me fish eye? There is nothing wrong with my eyes! See?¡±

    Cortez took on and off his goggles, his eyes were completely fine, Elisa knew it would just upset him.

    We proceeded onwards to the next and final checkpoint.

    The road is long and quiet, we were all coping with the weather, it had taken its toll on us, even Celia and I felt exhausted, but there was no place to rest.

    I could only grasp the nature around us, the crackling thunder, the splashy mud and rain, when I closed my eyes it was like I wasn¡¯t in Felia anymore, it was the same as the real world¡­

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    ¡°Sky, how about this?¡±

    Zane handed over a can of beans while we were scavenging a ruined home.

    ¡°Let me see.¡±

    I took a hold of the can as Zane handed it over.

    ¡°This one is in perfect shape, nice found!¡±

    We could hear some noise coming from upstairs, even though it was raining viciously outside.

    ¡°Was that footstep--?¡±

    I put my finger in front of my mouth to tell Zane to be quiet.

    He understood immediately as we raised our guns and moved slowly towards the living room.

    The sound we heard from upstairs suddenly ceased.

    I gestured with my fingers to follow me upstairs, quietly.

    There were several rooms, but the room where we heard the noise was locked, the doorknob fell off as I tried to open the door, I was forced to kick it open, then I made sure the room was safe.

    There was no one here, until I got my suspicion on a certain closet.

    Zane came sneaking up behind me.

    I pointed at the closet.

    Zane made his way over there, then he went to the side of the closet as he reached for the knob and quickly opened it, I had a good overview of the whole thing, ready to fire.

    ¡°*Sob* *sob* Don¡¯t hurt me please!¡±

    There was a little girl, dirty cloths and alone.

    ¡°Ohh god, are you alright?¡± Zane put his rifle on his back as he went over to her.

    How could a girl at her age survive so long alone? This was my first thought, her cloths are dirty, but her hair is clean, she dosent seem to have been starved or dehydrated.

    Something¡¯s not adding up.

    Zane looked at me.

    ¡°Sky, should we take her with us? She probably --?!¡±

    I felt a huge adrenalin rush pumping in my blood in a blink of an eye as I noticed she instantly stopped crying and equipped a short knife she had behind her on a belt, the knife was going for Zane¡¯s throat.

    Boom!

    Zane jumped backwards, rubbing his neck.

    ¡°That was close, thank you¡±

    I was speechless for a few seconds.

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    ¡°Yeah, right, ehm, let¡¯s get out of here!¡±

    I took a look outside the window, the rain was pouring.

    *Lightning flash with loud crackle*

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    ¡°Sky? You listening?¡±

    I didn¡¯t noticed that Elisa had snuck up on me.

    ¡°What

    ¡°What?  I didn¡¯t pay attention sorry, I was spacing out a bit¡±

    She got a bit curious, but she didn¡¯t ask me what I was thinking about.

    ¡°Cortez wanted to speak with you¡±

    I lowered my walking pace and caught up with Cortez.

    ¡°What up?¡±

    ¡°I have a bad feeling, I could swear i saw someone, I have had this feeling of being watched over for quite a bit now¡±

    ¡°Have you checked with your tracking gear?¡±

    ¡°Yes, but the area it covers is not large enough, in a situation like this I trust my gut, im telling you man, something or someone is following us, keep your eyes and ears open, I will have my tracking gear equipped for the time being¡±

    ¡°You do that, don¡¯t tell anyone else, we don¡¯t need to get all paranoid!¡±

    ¡°Gottcha¡±

    I headed back to the front with Elisa.

    ¡°Sky, look up there, I think we are getting close!¡±

    We could see a piece of a building in the distance, it was hard to see from all the rain, but it was definitely something.

    ¡°is that a man coming towards us?¡±

    I didn¡¯t notice a figure until Elisa pointed it out.

    ¡°Yes, someone is coming towards us¡±

    ¡°You think it¡¯s a Player or NPC?¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t know, but we will find out soon!¡±

    The person was coming closer, then he suddenly drew both his swords!

    We drew our weapons as well.

    Once it got closer we noticed it was not a player, it was a RARE Monster!

    In this case a Shadow like Humanoid, kind of like the knights we meet at the beginning of the Thunder Plains.

    ¡°Everyone watch out!¡± It started running towards us!

    ¡°Celia , Odin, On me!¡± We headed out first, Celia and I appeared behind him and struck him with our first attack that deals massive damage, but even so it was like his health bar didn¡¯t drop.

    ¡°ugh!¡± We tried to fight it up close but he was so powerful he elbowed me in the face and kicked Celia away.

    He was coming right for me!

    ¡°I handle him! Endless rage!¡±

    Odin caught up and used his ability!

    ¡°What what is going on? Endless rage go!¡±

    Nothing happened, was he still tierd? His cooldown should have been off a long time ago.

    ¡°Die¡± The Rare mob turned into a pure black fog that moved quickly towards Odin as it manifested itself back to his original state and cut Odin`s Torso!

    He was knocked backwards!

    ¡°Odin!¡±

    Elisa ran over to help him.

    Cortez was firing arrows, but he dodged them as he was floating his way over to him.

    ¡°Get away!¡± Cortez began running away and around the monster, over to us.

    ¡°How are we going to fight a guy like that? Doesn¡¯t it take a strategic raid group to kill guys like him?

    ¡°I don¡¯t know if this is the same type or rare Monster, but there is not easy way out of this!¡±

    ¡°How the hell are we going to fight it? I can`t even hit him!¡±

    It was coming towards us again.

    ¡°When I say fire, fire on me AT me Cortez!¡±

    ¡°At you?¡±

    ¡°Trust me!¡±

    I ran towards the rare mob, but not with the intent to deal damage, just to hold him in place!

    Once I got close I manged to dodge some sword attacks from him, then when I saw the oppernunity I stuck his arms with my daggers, then I let go off the daggers and put my hands around his body!

    ¡°Cortez now!¡±

    Cortez shot a fire arrow right at my back! Just before it hit I used my cooldown ability to enter stealth again as the arrow went right through my body and into his!

    I was unscratched!

    Once the arrow hit, I took a hold of my daggers again, reappeared behind him, struck both of the daggers down his neck as I jumped off.

    ¡°Nice work guys!¡±

    Even thought we did all that his health was still high, the monster turned around, facing me.

    He quickly started swinging his swords at me!

    ¡°Ugh, argh!¡± I couldn¡¯t get him off!

    He knocked my right dagger out of my hand, then punched me in the face while disarming my left hand!

    I fell on the ground!

    The Monster was just about the pierce my torso as he got a fire arrow through his head!

    The arrow just dazed him a bit, I managed to get on my knees, but it was no use, the sword was coming right at me!

    ¡°Sky!¡± Celia was running towards me to help me out, but she was out of reappear range!

    I could feel my left arm tighten!

    *Shing!*

    Before I knew it I managed to block of the attack with my left underarm!

    ¡°Let me help you with this mongrel!¡± I could hear a voice in my head...

    ¡°Z-z-zane!¡± My exhaustion was fading, the dark veins had completely covered my whole left arm and was spreading to the left side of me face. My left eye turned Black and red.

    Sparks flied as the sword hit my arm just as it was made of iron!

    With incredible force I managed to push myself up even when the Monster had both his swords on my hand using all his force to push me down.

    ¡°Get off me you piece of shit!¡±

    With my one arm I managed to knock his hands up in the air, during this time I shoved one of my daggers that I picked up while I was on the ground through his head, then I used my left dark hand to grip his throat with amazing force and slam him to the ground!

    I couldn¡¯t stop smiling as I was squeezing his throat!

    Even some laughter came out!

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 Volume 3 Chapter 11 - Transformation

    The Monster managed to kick me toward my friends.

    My mask was shredded  as i was rolling on the ground, i got back up on my feet.

    I could feel my personality splitting inn two pieces.

    ¡°What are you guys just standing there for?¡± I yelled at them, right after that I felt an extreme headache.

    I fell to my knees as I was holding my head with both hands.

    ¡°Argh, it hurts!¡±

    Elisa ran over to me.

    ¡°Keep it together Sky! I know the real you is still inside!¡± I managed to calm down a little, but the pain was excruciating.

    Odin`s chainmail was a bit torn as he was recently slashed and pushed backwards.

    ¡°Let¡¯s give Sky some time! Charge!¡±

    Odin charged forward, when it comes to helping others even he changes personality from being a little shy kid, to a true warrior!

    Celia had reappeared behind the monster, but not to attack! She took a hold of his arms as Odin started to slash viciously at the monsters chest, dealing some damage.

    ¡°I can¡¯t get a clear shot! I might hit you guys!¡± Cortez was trying to aim, but Odin was right in front of the monster, so there was no way he could shot. He tried to get a better position.

    ¡°I can¡¯t hold for much longe--!¡± Celia was knocked back and Odin was left fighting the monster 1 on 1, but he does a good job. Is this the power of his one handed weapon handling?

    The monster was shot in the head again, Cortez had managed to flank him, but the arrow quickly vanished.

    The boss was still going strong with 75% health left.

    ¡°I have to¡­. help them¡­¡± I tried to get up, but the headache immediately started.

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    ¡°Sky, you know there is nothing you can do, there never is¡­.¡±

    I got flash backs from the time Celia and I ran from the gang back in the real world, then I was in a room in my mind all dark and purplish, with Zane in front of me, disfigured in darkness as myself.

    ¡°You are not real! You are dead, Zane! I did what I had to do! Celia wouldn¡¯t have survived by your sacrifice alone! Her blood was boiling with rage I had to get her out of there!¡±

    ¡°You had to? What about the others? There were people there younger than you! Even younger than Celia, who had to face the fear up close! Vulnerable and defenseless! Left alone to the vultures of man¡­¡±

    ¡°You are right¡­¡±

    ¡°Ohh?¡±

    ¡°I left them¡­.to save myself and Celia, there is nothing I can do to change that.¡±

    Zane was quiet.

    ¡°There isn¡¯t a day that goes by where I don¡¯t think about the once I left behind¡­Betrayed¡­Killed¡­. I won¡¯t let that happen again! I will do everything I can from now on to save my friends!¡±

    I equipped my daggers and stabbed Zane in the stomach.

    He smiled.

    ¡°Well done¡­.Be seeing you¡±

    I could feel the fear, pain and guilt leave my body.

    Author note: This is a metaphor for him concurring his fear, pain and guilt. He is not really stabbing the real Zane, only a physical illusion of him within his own mind.

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    ¡°Sky, wake up!¡± I didn¡¯t realize that I had blacked out.

    Elisa was screaming and shaking me back awake, the fight was still going on, but it was looking bad.

    For how long was I out?

    My body was still disfigured and dark, but I could feel warmth and strength in it.

    My left hand felt hard as iron, but at the same time flexible.

    I sat up, dazed from the blackout, but I could feel that I had full control over the power. There was no time to waste!

    Everyone was too exhausted to fight, only Cortez had some more fuel to fight.

    Odin was parrying the flurry of strikes towards him, but a few hits got through his block, then he was grabbed by the throat and lifted upwards, just as the monster was about to pierce Odins torso with his sword I reappeared behind him and instead of using my daggers, my left arm turned into a razor sharp blade that sliced his arm right off! Dropping Odin to the ground!

    I kicked the monster backwards as I landed and positioned myself close to Odin.

    ¡°You alright, Odin?¡±

    ¡°Sky¡­Thanks..¡± He was shocked by my appearance.

    ¡°Stay behind me, I got this now¡±

    The monster grew his arm back from the shadows. The boss was now down to 50% health left.

    ¡°Sky is that you? Or the bat shit crazy you?¡± Cortez made his way over to me as he shot a few arrows towards the boss.

    ¡°I won¡¯t let it get to me again, sorry if I seemed intimidating.¡±

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    ¡° I didn¡¯t know which one of you was the most scary, frankly I still don¡¯t know¡±

    ¡°Let¡¯s find out shall we?¡± I raised my dark hand and turned my hand into fangs, I also had one dagger equipped on my right hand.

    ¡°Ohh?, I like it, kill this bastard!¡±

    Cortez and I was grinning with excitement.

    I rushed forward, still with reappear on cooldown, I started fighting up close, toe on toe, even though I am stealth speced I managed to counter his attack easily enough with my skills and the arm itself!

    My speed and strength had increased significantly. How can this be a part of the game?

    I saw a window of opportunity to punch right through the enemies attacks, I shoved my left arm right through his torso, I could feel the flesh, it was cold as ice!

    When I dragged back my arm, the shadow quickly filled the room in his body and his attack quickly commenced.

    ¡°Sky, grab this!¡± Elisa threw a flask over to me.

    ¡°Drink the flask, I got your back!¡± Cortez shot arrows after arrows, slowing the monsters movements down, not dealing all that much damage, but the boss was down to 35% health.

    I drank the potion as fast as I could, time suddenly slowed down around me, but I was just as quick on my feet.

    ¡°Take this!¡± I ran back with my left arm transformed into a blade, while running I could see Cortezes arrow in the air, I even managed to touch it with my finger as I ran by!

    Slash slash slash!

    The monster had no way of blocking my attacks, his health was dropping quickly.

    30% 25% 20% 15%!

    The effect ended!

    The monster let out a huge scream, creating a shockwave around him knocking me backwards.

    ¡°Time to finish this ugly one off!¡± Cortez aimed a sniper shot at the monsters face.

    Once the arrow was shot it quickly got deflected by a shadow fragment that came from the monsters body.

    ¡°What the hell is going on with him? Cortez was puzzled.

    ¡°This is probably his next stage! Be careful!¡±

    I got back and tried my best to get a hit in, but the shadow tendrials was deflecting my every attack!

    It had the same affect at the same time even with Cortez and Celia on the target.

    We all backed off, the master was slowly regaining health as we were unable to do anything.

    There has to be a way to bypass it, I couldn¡¯t do it with my left arm even¡­.

    ¡°Sky, throw me!¡± Elisa wanted me to throw her?

    She ran towards me, u put both my hands together and in front of me, ready to give her a boost up in the air.

    ¡°As high as you can!¡± was the last thing she said before I threw her up in the air, really high!

    I did not anticipate my new strength at all!

    Elisa drank a potion mid air to make her float instead of fall down.

    ¡°Now Sky!¡±

    ¡°You got it!¡± I reappeared behind Elisa mid air and immediately fell downwards right on top of the boss!

    Mid air i went into a swan dive position as I took my left hand in front of me and with all the force I managed to penetrate the bosses barrier.

    I grabbed a hold of the boss and slammed him to the ground with my momentum.

    ¡°Goodbye!¡±

    I surged the dark energy out of my left hand and into his body, after a few seconds dark spikes started to emerge from his skin.

    ¡°AAAARGGH!¡± The boss was screaming as his health was dropping and dropping as the spikes finished him off!

    There was no loot.

    ¡°He¡­.heh¡­..hehehehe¡±

    ¡°¡±he-heheeh¡±

    We all started laughing out of pure relief of our lives.

    Our gear turned back to its normal state after the combat.

    Odin came over to help me off the ground.

    ¡°Nice fangs!¡± My fingers had turned really pointy, almost resembling fangs!

    I was glad to see Odin smile again, that he is not afraid of me anymore.

    ¡°I am so glad to see that you are back to your original self!¡± Elisa ran over and hugged me.

    I could feel the darkness from my face draw back into my heart, but my left hand was still disfigured.

    A big threat was finally over, if I didn¡¯t have this dark power pumping through my veins, things might not have turned out so good.

    Now we can finally head to the next city!

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 Volume 3 Chapter 11.5 - Summary of classes, characters, spells and subclasses

    This chapter is for information we have gather so far. Hope this gives better overview!

    Keep in mind that levels and gear gives specific stats, thanks!

    Subclasses can be changed whenever a player wants, but not during fights!

    Sky = 18 years old, male, main character with a dreadful past of suffering and war. He`s got a little sister, Celia, she is 2 years younger than Sky.

    Crazy version

    Celia: Sky`s little sister, 16 years old,  also Assassin, with a similar background as Sky, was a part of The Darkblood brotherhood, but was saved by Sky, now she is currently being tracked down by The Darkbloods.

    Cortez: Early 20 `s,  Archer, lived in an isolated city during his real life, had bad parents and a boring life. Ran away from home and let himself be killed to join Felia, where he chose archer because he used to go hunting with his father. Tall and muscular guy also goofy.

    Elisa:  18 years old, female, Alchemist, she was in a bunker for a long time during the war, the conditions turned dire as food and water supplies was lowering, fights and arguments broke out, she chose to live in Felia before all hell broke loss.  Has a crush on Sky.

    (May change)

    Odin: 16 years, male, Blademaster with a duel wield spec, had a peaceful life before the war, enter Felia at the beginning of the war and have been in the game for 1 year with his father, mother and little sister Helen. Odin`s father died over the past year.  Blushes when Celia notices him.

    Helen, Odins little sister

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    Sky and Celia

    Class: Assassin, preferable subclass is Stealth

    Assassin: Spy class, only class with stealth.

    General abilities: Stealth, Reappear( Teleports behind target), Smoke bomb, Heavenly agility (movement speed boost), Throwing knifes/stars and a clone that can attack, can¡¯t use abilities.

    Proffesion: None, currently.

    Subclasses:

    Stealth: More points in stealth increase the damage dealt from the first strike out of stealth. Also grants passive silent footsteps.

    Cooldown ability:  Disappear ¨C Allows the user to go invisible once during combat.

    Melee combat: More points in melee combat increases damage dealt with regular basic attacks.

    Cooldown ability: Dirty Tricks ¨C The ability to summon a clone that deals half damage, but can use the same abilities and the original can swap bodies with the clone if in danger.

    Poison: More points in poison increase the poison damage and effects.

    Cooldown ability:  Currently unknown.

    Author note: The ability to apply poison to the daggers have not been focused on because of the main character is not being speced poison.

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    Cortez

    Class: Archer, preferable subclass Hunting aka Sniping

    Proffesion: Herblore

    General abilities: Sniper shot ( shot that takes time to shot, must stand still), Rope arrow ( Arrow with a rope attached to it, can be shorten and longer at will)

    Keep in mind things like running, dodging, running while shooting arrows are abilities that reflects the person itself, meaning the person has to be good at these things for it to work, just like real life (this applies to all players)

    Subclasses:

    Hunting: More points in hunting increases damage done by arrows and abilities ( not traps).

    Cooldown ability: Flame arrows ( arrows that deals more damage on impact with a short DOT fire damage duration afterwards)

    Tracking: More points in tracking increases the Aura of detection, this includes the ability to sense players, sniff out players or things, tracking beast and humanoids, and discover traps( also disarm able )

    Also worth mentioning is if a target is invisible and speced melee combat or posion a good tracker can sense his presence. Only steath speced assassins are immune to this, that also counts when being tracked by footprints.

    Cooldown ablity:  Currently Unknown

    Trap making: More points in trap making increases the amount of damage and duration of all traps.

    Cooldown ablity:  Currently Unknown

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    Elisa

    Class: Alchemist, preferable subclass is support

    Proffesion: Reading and drawing maps.

    General abilities: Gooey flask ( Creates a sticky ground , slowing all enemies), no exhaustion elixir, elixir of floating, small bombs.

    Subclasses:

    Support: More points in support increases all helpful effect on potions and elixirs. Allows special potions and elixirs to be made ( such as assisting poison damage, when mixing a assassins poison with a support alchemists elixir to create a special kind of poison)

    Cooldown ability: A Potion that allows the person who drinks it to perceive the time more slowly, which means increases attack speed, movement speed and reflexes ( as time passes slowly for everyone else, obviously)  This duration lasts 20 seconds for the person who drinks it, but only 5 seconds for the people at normal speed around him/her.

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    Posion: More points in poison increases poison damage dealt and effect of poisons. Allows special potions and elixirs to be made for this spec such as gooey acid flask, goo that normally slows now also deal a little damage. Acid flask can also be made, as seen by ¡°Caf¨¦ waitress¡± during the tournament. This flask burns flesh.

    Cooldown ability:  Currenlty Unknown

    Subclass 3: Currenlty unknown or none

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    Odin

    Class: Blademaster, preferable subclass, One handed master

    Proffesion: None

    General abilities: Leap( A leap that can be charged up with incredible force), Weapon handling passive ( Special blademaster unique ability that lets the user put points in weapon types to increase the damage and swiftness of the weapon type. Armor handling( Allows points to be spent on shields or armor types) Taunt ( gets enemies aggro)

    Subclasses:

    Author note: Not yet specified in the story, but here they are.

    One handed master: More points in One handed master allows the user to deal more damage with one handed weapons. Also allows duel wielding ( This includes duel wielding, if u don¡¯t use a shield instead)

    Cooldown ability:  Endless rage ( Ability that makes the user go berserk! Increases attackspeed, movementspeed and attack damage, but after the duration the user may feel over exhausted if not correctly mastered) lasts for a short amount of time.

    Two handed masters: More points in Two handed masters increase the damage of two handed weapons.

    Cooldown ablity: Same as one handed master

    Shield master aka tank: More points in Shield master increases health and lowers the amount of damage taken when blocking. Two handed shields deals more damage for more points in shield master, also unlocks the ability to actually wield a two handed shield!

    Cooldown ability: Shield wall, Slams the shield into the ground making all incoming damage nullified.

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    Elementalists are a special class that allowes the player to mix several subclasses instead of having to choose one.

    Fire: More points in fire increases all fire damage dealt and special abilities are unlocked at different points.

    Water: More points in water increases all healing done and several special abilities are unlocked at different points.

    Air: More points in Air increases movements speed and attack speed and special abilities are unlocked at different points.

    Earth: More points in Earth increases the shield absorption of earth shields and root power of all types of root.

    Elementalists can submerge their elements into a specific Cooldown ability.

    One can choose to have only air for the maximum use of speed and movement( as seen in the early chapters)

    Or submerge elements at will such as Fire and earth ( As seen in the Molten Giant chapter, when Fire fist uses an ability that makes his body turn to molten armor, this is Earth + fire.)

    If one chooses to only get points in one element then special abilities will be unlocked, which would otherwise not have been unlocked if the player chooses to combine points.

    Speedy in the arena in volume 2 while fighting Odin, he managed to summon a tornado over a little magma volcano that sucked the magma into the tornado stream and was sent directly at Odin, this spell is a exemple of air magic.

    While during the ice dragon fight when the healer summoned a huge hand made out of water to dampen the fall of a comrade, that is a water aka support ability.

    I cannot address it enough how many possibilities elementalists have to experiment on different combination of spells, we just have to wait and see what people come up with!

    Hope this made any sense.

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    Last but not least, the Spellslinger.

    This class is kind of like the elementalists, but a spellslinger cannot use any elements such as fire, water, air and earth. They use the power of arcane magic, such as barriers, light, time bending,  purpleish magic!

    If I use Emily as an example, she used barrier on Odin even though she is Archmage speced! ( meaning the shield did not absorb nearly as much damage as a barrier speced spellslinger would)

    General abilities: Teleport, arcane shot( small balls of arcane energy that deals damage),

    Spellslinger passive: All subclasses can learn the same spells, but the effect will differ when it comes to point spent and subclass chosen. ( this does not include Cooldown abilities)

    Subclasses:

    Barrier specialization ( as seen when Emily shields Odin during the grim reaper fight)

    More points in Barrier specialization increases the damaged blocked and several special abilities are unlocked at different points.

    Cooldown ability: Currently unknown

    Time bending: More points in Time bending allows the spells to have increases effect and duration such as slows or attack speed and movement speed increase and several special abilities are unlocked at different points.

    Battle mage: More points in battle mage allows the user to infuse magic power in his/her melee attacks and several special abilities are unlocked at different points.

    Cooldown ability unknown.

    Archmage: More points in Archmage Increase damage dealt with arcane spells and several special abilities are unlocked at different points.

    Cooldown abilty: Spear of Odysseus ( A Beam of light that illuminates everything in its path, but has a really long channel time, requires calm and being unharmed, or the spell will be canceled)

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 Volume 3 Chapter 12 - Hand of Midas

    Author note: The dark left hand is now called Midas

    I told them about the incident back at the facility.

    ¡°Are you telling me all that happened back then? ¡° Elisa was slightly touching my left arm, Midas.

    ¡°Sky, I had no idea¡± Odin seemed a bit worried.

    I was opening and closing my fist as I examined it a bit closer myself.

    ¡°It¡¯s so hard, yet so flexible¡± Elisa seemed amazed.

    ¡°I can even transform it at will, only to sharp things though.¡±

    ¡°Why didn¡¯t you tell us more about it?¡±

    ¡°I didn¡¯t want you guys to worry, I really don¡¯t think there was anything we could do to treat it as it did not appear to be any known debuffs or other bad effects.¡±

    ¡°Even so¡­¡± Odin still seemed worried.

    ¡°At least tell us if something is wrong ¡°Elisa got angry.

    ¡°Sorry¡±

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    After the fight and fog cleared up they were faced with a long way up the mountains.

    ¡°Are you kidding me?¡± Cortez was really upset as he fell down to his knees.

    ¡°Hmm, I thought it was a building or something I saw in the distance, guess it was only this gate.¡± Celia banged two times at the gate.

    ¡°I thought we were just finished, this¡­.this¡­..this is beyond me¡­¡± Cortez was really upset.

    ¡°You are the strongest looking guy here yet you don¡¯t have any stamina¡± Celia was taunting Cortez.

    ¡°Looks like the sky is clearing up by the mountains.¡± Elisa pointed upwards.

    ¡°Is that where the next questing area is?¡± Odin gazed at the mountain.

    ¡°One way to find out, be on a lookout for caves, it¡¯s getting dark soon.

    ¡°Alright¡± Celia, Odin and Elisa were eager to keep on going.

    Cortez was following, still disappointed that we weren¡¯t there yet.

    It didn¡¯t take long before we found a cave in the mountains, we started a camp fire with a few branches we brought with us on the way up.

    The fire was crackling as we sat there, mesmerized by the nice warmth.

    Time was hard to get used to in the thunder plains because it was always dark and raining.

    ¡°Ahh this feels so good!¡± Cortez laid down on his back.

    ¡°Yeah, this warmth is so nice, ohh right¡± Odin had his hands towards the fire as he remembered he had a piece of pork in his pocket that he started warming up.

    The rest of us did the same with some food we had bought back at the town.

    ¡°I wonder if the next questing area is as scary as the previous ones, I feel like I need a break from all the bad stuff, why can¡¯t a place contain flowers and bright sun? Kind of like the starting zone!¡± The meat was fizzing almost, while Elisa was talking.

    ¡°I don¡¯t even remember the start zone¡­.¡± Odin seemed a bit down.

    ¡°Ohh that¡¯s true, you have been in that city for a whole year, I can only imagine how it¡¯s been, but you are no longer there and your family will make it! Your mother and sister seem strong, it will take some time for them to use up the money we gave them from the tournament.¡± Cortez tried to cheer Odin up.

    ¡°Once we get to the next city you should send them a mail! We should all donate some money too!¡±

    We all agreed simultaneously.

    ¡°Thanks, everyone¡± Odin blushed.

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    A strange man was seemingly lost in the mountains¡­..it had started raining during the night.

    Is this the man who is following Sky and his friends? Or simply a lost man?

    ¡°Must¡­.Find¡­.shelter¡­¡± The man was walking slowly around the mountain as he kept looking for a place to sleep or relax, that¡¯s when he notices the light from the cave.

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    Some time went by and we were finished eating.

    ¡°So tell me Celia, how did you get to be so strong?¡± Cortez casually asked her.

    ¡°What do you mean?¡±

    ¡°Well, back at the tournament you totally kicked my ass and everyone else¡¯s, you were playing with us, was I no match?¡±

    ¡°Well¡­.¡± Celia didn¡¯t really know what to say.

    ¡°I bet you could beat Sky if you weren¡¯t too soft on him, hihi¡±

    ¡°I didn¡¯t go soft on him just because he was my b-brother, stupid!¡± Celia threw a stone at Cortez.

    ¡°Ow! That hurt¡±

    I was slightly awake as I overheard the conversation.

    ¡°Celia about that, I am sorry¡­..I..¡± Celia interrupted me.

    ¡°It¡¯s ok, you didn¡¯t know it was me right? It was only a game anyways.¡±

    ¡°But still..¡±

    ¡°We have already killed each other once, let¡¯s not repeat that.

    That was true, my memory was faint back then, at The Darkblood Brotherhood camp¡­.I was fighting Celia, trying to save her on my own, I let her kill me so she could still go unharmed, who knew I would actually survive that?

    A knife to the heart.

    I took my hand and felt my heart beat, it was back to normal. Midas is a part of me now, whether I want it to be or not, at least I can use it for good.

    What were they even doing there? The experiment¡­.The Darkblood Brotherhood¡­there is no way that was the only one, how long have they been doing this? How many like me are there? Is this going on in other level zones aswell? They have to be stopped.

    Odin drew his swords.

    ¡°What is it?¡± we were all shocked.

    ¡°Someone¡¯s coming!¡±

    Cortez gave me a quick serious gaze as he drew his bow.

    Is this the guy who is following us?

    We could see a hand leaning against the wall, and then the man slowly showed himself.

    ¡°Please¡­Help¡­Me..¡± He fell to the ground right in front of us.

    He had one dagger, mask, cowl and his right hand had a mark on it.

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    Elisa ran over, then Odin shortly after as he withdrew his swords.

    ¡°He isn¡¯t hurt, but he is struggling with dehydration, hunger and¡­¡± Elisa touched his hand.

    ¡°Frost¡­..¡±

    We all looked at each other puzzled.

    ¡°This man must have been walking around for days¡­.Lost?¡±  Odin touched his cheek to feel his temperature.

    ¡°Don¡¯t tell me these mountains are like a maze!?¡± Cortez started to freak out.

    ¡°I say we take him to the fire, when he wakes up we see what kind of person he is and then give him some food and water, its still dark and raining anyways, Odin, Cortez, help me with him.

    ¡°You got it¡±

    We lifted the man up from the ground and moved him more into the cave, close to the fire.

    ¡°What kind of man do you think he is?¡± Cortez started asking questions

    ¡°What if he is one of the Darkbloods? Are they plotting something?¡± Elisa followed up with another one.

    ¡°Is he the one who was following us Cortez?¡±

    ¡°Someone is following us?¡± Odin got curious.

    ¡°Back when we were walking from the Thunder plains I sensed someone behind us, I don¡¯t know if it actually was someone, but I trust my guts¡­¡­This guy right here? Who knows¡­¡±

    ¡°So my instincts hasn¡¯t dulled at least..¡± Celia continued the conversation.

    We were all looking at her.

    ¡°I also felt something back then, we are certainly being followed, I also trust my guts, but this guy is not the one¡±

    ¡°So this guy is not from the Darkbloods?¡±

    ¡°Hard to say¡­we should be watching our back for them, but this guy? I don¡¯t really feel the evil vibe with him, I got a quick look at his eyes and face before he fell, you can tell a lot just by looking at the persons eyes, but still keep your guard up¡± I stated

    ¡°I will stay awake, get some sleep¡±

    ¡°Sky! I can stay awake with you in case something happens!¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t worry Celia, I will wake you guys immediately when he wakes up.¡±

    ¡°Ok¡±

    Celia and the rest went to sleep.

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    Some time passed by, it got quiet and the fire started to die out.

    ¡°Seems like I should add some more branches to it¡± I got up and unloaded some from my inventory.

    The man on the ground grabbed Midas.

    ¡°That hand¡­..you are one of them¡­¡± I quickly distanced myself from him, but he didn¡¯t move.

    ¡°One of them? What do you mean?¡±

    The guy was panting a bit, his mouth was dry.

    ¡°Everyone wake up!¡±

    ¡°What is going on?¡±

    ¡°He is awake!¡±

    He was struggling when it came to talking.

    ¡°Elisa give him some water¡­¡­And you! Don¡¯t try anything fishy!¡± The man seemed to exhausted anyway.

    Elisa gave him some water¡­

    ¡°Thank you, young lady¡­*cough*  *cough*¡±

    He managed to sit up straight as he took another drink.

    ¡°You said I am one of them¡­Who are you referring to?¡±

    He swallowed the water he had in his mouth.

    ¡°That type of condition you have, I have seen it recently¡±

    So there are others huh?

    ¡°Where have you seen this?¡± I showed more of Midas.

    ¡°There was a guy back in Zebos, he was strange looking, like someone out of a scary movie, but I noticed the same kind of skin type on his body, that you have on your arm. I got curious since I noticed no debuffs or other effects that would have caused these effects, there is no way someone would look like that, at least that was what I thought, so I followed him a bit around the city¡­.He was talking to some really shady guys. I even saw him speaking with a member of the Guardian angels, he was at least 10 levels higher than him, he also seemed really upset, he even smashed a crate next to him, I don¡¯t know what kind of news he delivered, but¡­.¡±

    He seemed to be telling the truth, Elisa gave him some food as well.

    ¡°How do you know he was speaking to a member of the guardian angels?¡±

    ¡°They have this dress code you know? White armor with a huge cross here and there¡± he took a bite of the pork.

    ¡°What happened next?¡±

    ¡°I knew something was up, I got scared and got the hell out of Zebos, alone, but that was a bad idea..¡±

    ¡°How come?¡±

    ¡°They were following me.¡±

    ¡°Who are they?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t really know, but I knew they weren¡¯t up to any good, I started running, so did they, we ran for a long time, luckily I wasn¡¯t far from these mountains when I noticed them, it was like they were waiting for me to get out of thunder plains..¡±

    Cortez gave me a look.

    ¡°These guys, where are they now?¡±

    ¡°I`m not sure, I must have outrun them in the mountains, I hid everywhere I could to disorientate them¡±

    ¡°How long have you been out here, or since you saw them last?

    ¡°it¡¯s been 3 days right now actually, as you can see the sun has just risen.¡±

    ¡°Do you quest alone?¡± He took another bite, it seems his health his getting much better.

    ¡°Sometimes¡­I had made a couple of friends, but one died one after another while questing and being ambushed by other players, staying alone helps when it comes to hiding, I¡¯m not really afraid of the quests or npcs, but the bandits..¡±

    ¡°Sorry for your losses...¡±

    ¡°Thank you¡­¡±

    ¡°Tell me, do you know where the next questing area is?¡±

    ¡°Yes, I have been everywhere on this mountain, entering the city was to scary I would be in the open, they could have taken me out before I managed to get inside the safe zone, but I can show you the way if you want, that¡¯s the least I can do for helping me out¡±

    ¡°My name is Sky, nice to meet you mr¡­.?¡±

    ¡°Call me, Bram¡±

    Next chapter: Who is this Bram, is he trustworthy or leading them to a trap?

 Volume 3 Chapter 13 - the King?

    Sky and his friends ventured forth to the new questing area with Bram leading them the way.

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    ¡°Those chasing you, are they still here? Do they have some sort of outpost?¡±

    ¡°I never saw any outposts, I don¡¯t know if they have left yet, but I had to get out of hiding,I was freezing and I couldn¡¯t even cook myself food, I had a little rain water when I was hiding inside some smushed rocks, it was dripping over me..¡±

    ¡°Sounds awful¡­.¡±

    ¡°it was¡±

    Odin interrupted our little chat.

    ¡°Can you tell us anything about the city up ahead?¡±

    ¡°I did manage to scout out a little bit, on top of these mountains there is a passage that leads to some sort of big land, I never got to check it out though.¡±

    The ground was muddy and slippery from the rain.

    We walked up for a bit on the steep road, it was very exhausting.

    ¡°Get down!¡± Bram signaled with his arms for us to get down as he was carefully looking forward.

    ¡°What is it?¡± I whispered.

    ¡°You were right, they have made an outpost here¡±

    ¡°Sure it¡¯s the same guys?¡±

    ¡°Yes, I remember their outfits all black and red, they must be robbing people passing through, this base is has to be recently build.¡±

    ¡°How many of them are there?¡±

    ¡°There seem to be at least¡­.10 or more people.¡±

    ¡°Well geared?¡±

    ¡°Their gear has changed appearance to follow a certain dress code, it costs a lot, so I can¡¯t really see their gear stats or class¡±

    ¡°Are they from the Darkblood Brotherhood?¡±

    ¡°Not really sure, but most likely¡­¡­¡­Someone is coming out, they are assembling¡±

    ¡°Why?¡±

    ¡°Looks like the leader is having a speech, how do you want to proceed?¡±

    ¡°If they are up to no good we should take them out, but first we should see if they are darkbloods, me and Celia will be in stealth mode while you guys approach them, if their name tag states darkblood brotherhood, have no mercy¡±

    ¡°Got it! Let¡¯s get to it, follow me¡±

    Celia and I snuck in front of our friends, but still held us close.

    Bram and the rest headed towards them, in a passive manner.

    We could hear the crowd had noticed us as the chatter got louder.

    ¡°Who are you guys and what brings you here?¡± The person we figured was the leader asked.

    ¡°We are here to keep on questing, can we pass?¡±

    The name tag was darkblood brotherhood, but Bram didn¡¯t show any hostile intent.

    ¡°Hmmm, we have a mission here that has nothing to do with you, consider yourself lucky¡±

    ¡°Thank you¡±

    ¡°Captain, there are two assassins lurking around here!¡± one of the hunter trackers shouted!

    ¡°You damn brat, trying to make a fool out of me!¡± The captain drew his shield and sword from his back and holster.

    ¡°Shit, guess we have no choice!¡±

    Bram managed to dodge a shield slam.

    ¡°Nether Blade!¡±

    Brams short sword started to glow as he struck the captain in his chest dealing a lot of damage but not enough, Bram got caught by a head butt and knocked backwards, dazed.

    ¡°Celia, let¡¯s go!¡±

    A battle had begun, Celia and I reappeared behind the tracker hunters and ended them quickly, Odin was holding the captain off as Bram got his bearings back.

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    ¡°Cortez drink this¡± Elisa gave Cortez the ultimate flask to slow down time around him.

    His attack speed and aim increased, but some of the enemies also wore huge shields, that blocked most of the damage from Cortez. Their frontline was pushing forward.

    Bram helped Odin bring down the captain by dismembering his right arm and slashing his throat. The captain was to busy fighting Odin to notice Bram`s speed.

    ¡°There she is, capture her and the king will reward us!¡± Most of the enemies started to storm Celia.

    So that¡¯s who they were after¡­

    I made Midas really sharp as I pierced two enemies in one strike from the side, but the others kept rushing her down, she fended of as many as she could, but she needed more help!

    ¡°Celia!¡± Odin had made his way around the big shielded guys as he noticed Celia was in trouble, I was to busy finishing of the two people I stabbed to help her more, but luckily Odin came behind them and got some to fight him, to even the odds.

    ¡°Cortez! Aim for their legs, I deal with the rest!¡± Bram was trying to take down the shield guys, but he needed an opening, once Cortez hit one of the men¡¯s foot, the shield dropped for a brief moment as the pain sunk into the victims mind, Bram took advantage of this and used that brief window to get up close and finish him off.

    ¡°Again!¡±

    The other enemy did his best to hide his feet, but that only made it worse, since Bram had a way in if he wasn¡¯t too focused on the melee part.

    The enemies was falling like flies, but I managed to take one down without killing him.

    His body was on the ground with his face turned towards me, I held his arms and yelled.

    ¡°Who is the King?¡± He was trying his best to get away, but then I stabbed both my daggers into his palms planting his hands to the ground as well as I shoved the pointy edge of Midas right by his eye, half my face was also disfigured, but for once that actually helps.

    ¡°You are¡­.one of them!¡±

    ¡°Who are them?¡±

    ¡°The king will not let her walk free!¡±

    ¡°Answer my question!¡±

    ¡°And you? Once they get the sniff of what you have become, they will be all over you, on every step you take, wish I could be there to see your suffering haha!¡±

    ¡°no wait!¡± I started to shake his collar.

    He killed himself by chewing a poisonous pill.

    I took my daggers back.

    ¡°A bit brutal don¡¯t you think?¡± Elisa asked me.

    ¡°Perhaps¡­..¡±

    ¡°The will pay for their sins¡± Celia said.

    ¡°becoming as brutal as them makes us no different¡± Elisa was a bit shaken up.

    ¡°But he--!¡± Celia was interrupted by me.

    ¡°Shes right¡­.i don¡¯t know what came over me¡­¡±

    When I saw them all focusing Celia the thought of losing her made me snap.

    ¡°We should keep moving incase reinforcements come, there may be more on the other side of the passage..¡±

    ¡°You are right, let¡¯s go!¡±

    We run up the steep road and once we got up the view was marvelous!

    There was a city built on top of a huge tree that had been cut, the weather was shiny and warm, just like summer!

    ¡°Whow, that is HUGE!¡± Cortez`s jaw dropped.

    There was a spiral way around the tree to get into the city, but it was a long walk from here to down there.

 Volume 3 Chapter 14 - Spriga Valley

    ¡°Hello there travelers!¡± There was an npc greeting us.

    ¡°Ohh hi, nice straw hat!¡± Bram answered back.

    ¡°Thank you young man, are you guys heading into Spriga by any chance?¡±

    ¡°Spriga? Are you talking about the city on top of that huge wooden stump?¡±

    ¡°Yes indeed, would you be a dear and deliver these herbs to the merchant by the entrance?¡±

    ¡°There is probably a lot of shops there, got any name?¡± Odin asked.

    ¡°Ohh, I have become so used to this place that I think everyone else is to¡­.The name is Green Health¡±

    ¡°We will do our best!¡±

    ¡°Thank you, say hi from me¡± The npc waved at us as we headed downwards to the city.

    The sky was so blue and clear, it felt weird smelling the fresh air again and feeling the hot wind

    breeze on my face.

    ¡°Ahhhhh this is such a great feeling!¡± Elisa was inhaling heavily as she enjoyed the air and sunlight.

    ¡°Can we please chill out in that cabin over there?¡± Cortez was down to his last sweat drop.

    ¡°I agree, it would be really good to relax a little,¡± Odin agreed with Cortez.

    The cabin was along the road, most likely some sort of motel or restaurant, as we got closer we could see other players

    and npcs.

    ¡°Let¡¯s eat something good, im starving¡± Cortez headed over to the clerk npc too order some food.

    There was almost no one inside; it was an outside restaurant after all.

    ¡°What are you guys waiting for? Aren¡¯t you guys hungry?¡± Cortez summoned us over to him, as he was next in line.

    ¡°Coming!¡± Celia ran over to him, Odin followed her.

    ¡°Bram you coming?¡±

    ¡°Way ahead of ya!¡± Bram started to run as he passed Celia, he be starved.

    After we ordered and sat down, we had a nice chat while enjoying the sun.

    ¡°You guys seem to have known each other for a while, mind telling me the story?¡±

    ¡°Celia is my sister and we entered Felia almost the same time because of our bunker being sieged¡±

    Odin continued after me.

    ¡°The war began in the real world, I fled here with my family¡±

    Then Cortez continued.

    ¡°The real world for me was boring and by parents were bad, I lived in an isolated little town in the mountains, literally nothing happened, so I came here for adventures!¡± Cortez smiled.

    The food was delivered to us.

    We all said our thanks.

    Elisa finished the story.

    ¡°The bunker I was in started to get violent, food shortage made people go nuts, I saw things heating up in ways it could

    only go one way, so here I am.¡±

    ¡°How about you Bram?¡± I continued as I was eating a roasted chicken with some brown sauce.

    ¡°Once the bombs started dropping on my city I knew there was no hope for me, those close to me died in a flash, I didn¡¯t even have time to grieve then and there, I knew where the facility was, and luckily it was stationed underground¡±

    ¡°Im sorry for you loss¡±

    ¡°Thanks, we have all lost someone right¡­¡±

    The aura got a bit tense; it got quiet as we just ate and remembered how things used to be, at least that is what I think everyone was thinking.

    ¡°Why were they after you Celia?¡±

    Celia was caught off guard as she was eating.

    ¡°I used to be a member¡± she slightly coughed as she swallowed her food.

    ¡°Say what now?¡± Bram was surprised.

    ¡°These guys managed to get me out, thankfully.¡±

    ¡°Is that so, it won¡¯t be easy to get them of your tail¡±

    Before she could answer, I interrupted.

    ¡°Let them come, that won¡¯t be a problem.¡±

    ¡°We got your back Celia, no matter what!¡± Odin said.

    Celia looked over at Odin and smiled.

    ¡°You guys are too kind!¡± Odin`s face got tomato red as he blushed.

    Cortez slightly knocked Odin on his back, Celia is the only one oblivious of Odin¡¯s feelings it seems.

    Odin looked over at Cortez, he was smiling as he winked smoothly.

    Odin rubbed the back of his head in slight embarrassment.

    It got a bit silent again as everyone ate their food and looked over at some sort of concert with dancing and music.

    I looked over at Celia as she was happily eating the rest of her roasted pork as she enjoyed the show.

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    ¡°You have to talk to me sometime¡­.Celia..¡±

    She kept on ignoring me.

    ¡°We did what we had to do survive, you know that!¡±

    ¡°There is nothing I or you know! We don¡¯t know what would have happened if we stayed and fought!¡±

    Celia was mad and upset because we left our gang during the firefight.

    ¡°We were outmanned 3 to one, there was no chance, they even had and RPG!¡±

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    Celia started to sob.

    ¡°We are still alive¡­.¡± I said

    ¡°For what?¡±

    ¡°Celia, what do you mean?¡±

    ¡°What purpose do we have to live? What living is just staying alive, look around! Drought, filth, disease, and back in camp at least it was clean, now we will probably rot out here in the wilderness of nothingness.¡±

    I gave her a hug from behind.

    ¡°Please don¡¯t say things like that, we still have each other¡±

    Celia started crying as she was desperately rubbing her eyes trying not to show.

    ¡°I-i¡­know,  b-but what about¡­¡­Zane and----and Am¡ªAmon¡­.¡±

    ¡°Shh, Shhh, there is nothing more they would have wanted from us then to survive.¡±

    ¡°B-But still¡­¡± She turned around and cried on my chest.

    ¡°I know¡­..Do not let the guilty consume you, we did nothing wrong, ok?¡±

    She was still crying, but she managed to calm down a little.

    ¡°People die twice you know, the first time when they pass away and the second time when their name is said for the last time¡­.Lets never forget¡­.¡±

    "Yeah......."

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    ¡°Sky?¡± I was nudged back to reality, or virtual reality.

    ¡°Yeah, what¡¯s up?¡±

    ¡°We are done eating shall we head over to Spriga?¡±

    Elisa and the others were ready to go.

    ¡°Yeah sure, I was just spacing out a little.¡±

    ¡°You doing ok?¡± Elisa seemed worried.

    ¡°Yeah, why do you ask?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t know, it¡¯s just this world can be so brutal, I just wish we could be more peaceful in doing things.¡±

    ¡°I agree, I don¡¯t want this world to become like the real one, that is why I want to get rid of the Darkblood Brotherhood,

    no matter how long it takes, but unforcedly it is not a peaceful path.¡±

    ¡°I will do everything to help you and this world.¡±

    ¡°Glad to have you on my side Elisa!¡± Elisa blushed a little.

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    We got back on the road.

    ¡°I wonder what kind of creatures awaits us, Plants? Wolves and bears again?¡± Cortez was puzzling over this as he had

    his arms behind his head stretching and relaxing.

    ¡°I hope Tigers¡± Elisa wished.

    ¡°Tigers? This isn¡¯t any jungle!¡±

    ¡°Shut up!¡± Elisa punched his shoulder.

    ¡°Oww, why do you have to be so violent, crazy woman?¡±

    ¡°Say what again?¡± Elisa got mad!

    ¡°Nothing.¡± Cortez`s voice cracked out of fright as shamelessly looked away.

    ¡°humpf¡±

    Odin headed over to Celia, her hair and face was not covered up by any mask or cowl, she was enjoying the air and sun.

    ¡°Celia hey!¡± Smooth approach by Odin.

    ¡°Ohh, hi Odin what¡¯s up?¡±

    ¡°I was just wondering if you could tell me a little bit of yourself¡±

    ¡°Sure, what do you want to know?¡±

    ¡°Do you have any favorite foods, what kind of music do you like?¡±

    ¡°I don¡¯t really have any favorite food; I just eat to stay nourished¡±

    ¡°Is that so¡­.¡±

    ¡°Haha, I am joking! My favorite food is fried pork, or any kind of pork! I also love passionate songs, songs that have been worked on with passion from the artist and is clearly heard throughout the song, what about you?

    ¡°My father was a musician, if we weren¡¯t fishing together I used to watch him play on his guitar and piano, he made

    really nice songs.¡±

    ¡°Did he ever teach you?¡±

    ¡°Yes! I am not good at making my own songs, but I know how to play guitar and piano because of him.¡±

    ¡°Maybe one day you can play for me?¡±

    ¡°S-Sure! That would be fun!¡± Odin blushed.

    ¡°Well played kid, well played¡± Cortez once again gave him a smooth wink.

    We got to the tree stump of Spriga, without meeting any enemies on the way, only other players and friendly npcs.

    ¡°Wow, I knew it was huge but this is ridicules¡± Cortez was mind blown.

    As we went through a wooden gate and started heading up in circles around the tree stump to get to Spriga, the npc guard wished us welcome!

    ¡°Thank you!¡±

    ¡°Find the Queen of Spriga immediately when you enter the city, she wants to talk personally to all newcomers!¡±

    A Quest popup notification came up on our huds.

    ¡°Will do!¡±

    We all accepted the quest.

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 Volume 3 Chapter 15 - Queen of Spriga

    We made our way up the spirally path around the huge tree, the view was peaceful, the valley was really clean, not to many trees and a really open landscape, some houses here and there.

    Everyone enjoyed the view as we could finally relax....Or can we?

    The person who was following us in the thunder plains is he still on our tails? Guess i can¡¯t let my guard down completely.

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    ¡±Wow, this city is so cool!¡± Cortez almost dropped his jaw once we entered the city, it had this tribe feel to it, with tents and fires, even the npc clothing reminded me of ancient Indians.

    ¡±Cool theme, i can get used to this¡± Odin was also digging it.

    ¡±Shall we deliver the herbs before we meet up with the queen or what?¡±

    ¡±That is actually a good question Bram, he did say immediately.¡± Celia answered as she was thinking over it.

    ¡±i say we find the queen first, just to be safe, its not like we have a timer to deliver the herbs anyway¡± I figured

    They all agreed and we went over to one of the npc locals.

    ¡°Hey!¡±

    ¡°Ohh hi there traveler, do you need anything?¡±

    ¡°I was wondering where the queen is? Where is her palace?¡±

    ¡°Palace? She is over there!¡± The npc pointed over by the bar.

    ¡°The one sitting over there?¡± The npc nodded.

    We all were a bit shocked as the queen was drinking a smoking from some sort of long pipe.

    I walked up to her, she was reeking of alcohol.

    ¡°Hime sama?¡±

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    She turned around quickly almost like she was shocked.

    Her face was red, she was clearly drunk.

    ¡°Ohh look at you¡± she stood up and got really close to me as she was sniffing me and inspecting me.

    ¡°We were told to have a talk with you? We just got here?¡±

    The sniffing ceased, she was still really close to my face though, looking me dead in the eyes.

    I gulped.

    ¡°Ahhh hahah calm down, you look so tense, you guys over there as well, everyone follow me!¡±

    She went onwards to a tent over the street.

    ¡°What is her deal?¡± Celia asked me.

    ¡°I have no idea, this is not the stereotypical queen I had read about¡±

    She stopped by the entrance of the tent.

    ¡°Are you guys coming or what?¡±

    ¡°Yes, Hime sama!¡±

    ¡°Humf¡± she went inside, we all shrugged as we looked at each other in confusion, we still followed her inside though.

    ¡°Welcome to my humble abode. ¡°

    The inside of the tent was alteast 5 times bigger than the outside.

    ¡°What the hell is going on here?¡± Cortez was shocked.

    He ran out, took a good look at the tent, then went back inside.

    ¡°Something¡¯s not right here¡±

    He went out again, took another good look and headed inside.

    ¡°Ok ok ok ok¡± He was shaking his head in confusion.

    The tent had a fountain inside, butlers going around ,her own bar and even a second floor!

    ¡°Where are you going?¡± She headed up to a room on the second floor.

    Just as we were about to follow her, the butlers stopped us.

    ¡°Please wait for the lovely hime sama to return, make yourself conferrable while you wait¡±

    The butler in front of me looked over me towards some couches by the fountain.

    ¡°Let¡¯s wait for her to come back then¡±

    We sat down by the fountain.

    Elisa was touching the flowing fountain water.

    ¡°This world never ceases to amaze me¡± Cortez was still looking around.

    ¡°Sky, what kind of daggers do you have equipped? I noticed back when we were fighting, but I forgot to ask.

    ¡°Ohh,, these I got from an ice dragon fight back in nulara, they are still really good stat wise.¡±

    ¡°Did you fight that dragon? I thought only those who won the tournament could join?¡± Bram was a bit shocked.

    I slightly couched as I tried not to make a smartass brag face.

    ¡°Well¡­..¡±

    ¡°You won didn¡¯t you?¡± Bram didn¡¯t even know why he got so surprised it seemed.

    ¡±Hey, we fought the dragon as well! ¡° Odin interrupted.

    ¡°That is true, they were short on men so they got to join, but you should have seen Odin during the Tournament, I don¡¯t think I would have stood a chance against, he jumped straight into a volcano tornado!¡±

    ¡°Hey don¡¯t make me blush, Sky¡± Odin got a bit embarrassed.

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    ¡° What about you big guy? How did you do?¡±

    ¡°Well, I did beat everyone that opposed me, but they had to reduce my damage and hp with 50% beuc--!¡± Celia kicked him off the chair.

    ¡°Don¡¯t make me laugh, you are a terrible liar.¡±

    ¡°I figured, so what really happened?¡± Bram was still curious.

    ¡°In short, I kicked his ass¡±

    We could hear Cortez sighing in the background, not even denying the fact.

    Bram got a laugh.

    ¡°Sky you won, but who did you fight in the finally?¡±

    Bad memories came rushing back into all of our mind except Bram since he wasn¡¯t there.

    The feeling of killing my sister was something I wanted to forget as soon as possible¡±

    Luckily before we could answer the queen came down stairs, this time her appearance and outfit was totally different, now she looks like a queen chieftain!

    ¡°The queen will be seeing you now¡±

    We headed over to her, she still had her pipe though.

    ¡°Hey again guys, how you been?¡±

    ¡°This is a lovely place you got hime sama¡±

    ¡°Hime sama? Just call me Alix, you don¡¯t have to be so formal¡± She managed to light her pipe as she was lightly smoking it.

    ¡°Got it, Alix sama¡± Cortez said.

    ¡°Alix! *sigh* Follow me¡±

    We followed her to a room on the first floor, that room was almost the same size as the main room, I looked over at cortez to see if he was shocked.

    ¡°I just accept it man¡± He was shaking his head as he had his hands up like he had given up on being surprised.

    I couldn¡¯t resist to smile.

    ¡°The reason you have been gathered here is because we are going to play a game!¡±

    Alix was talking like she was a teenager all of the sudden.

    ¡° A game?¡± Elisa asked puzzled.

    ¡°Yes, the path to get here must have been long and depressing, that¡¯s why I want all newcomers to come here and play a game with me to lighten up the soul!¡±

    As ridicules as it sounded it actually made sense to.

    ¡°What sort of games do you have in mind?¡±

    ¡°The games are randomly selected once we are ready to go¡±

    I looked over on the others, didn¡¯t seem to mind this at all.

    ¡°Lets begin¡±

    ¡°Ok then!¡± Alix was grinning like crazy.

    She was first a drunk, then she was acting a bit grown up and now she is suddenly a teenager in her behavior, what a weird woman.

    There was a huge screen that  came down from the ceiling as it was scrolling like a casino, the pace started to slow down.

    It stopped at ¡°Stay quiet¡±

    ¡°Stay quiet? What kind of game is that?¡± I asked Alix.

    ¡°Whatever happens, do not make any sound, no screaming, laughing or moving!¡±

    ¡°Moving?¡±

    ¡°Movement can make sound too you know?¡± She had that tricky smile on her face again.

    All of the sudden the floor disappeared and we fell down to nothingness, but then I could feel as if I was sitting on a chair.

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    ¡°What is going on?¡±

    ¡°Be quiet, it is about to start!¡± Alix was eager to begin!

    The room was suddenly lit up, as I looked around we were sitting in a classroom, all of us had a desk and chair of our own.

    ¡°I forgot to mention, if you make a sound, you will not get the reward!¡±

    Everyone got the same thing in mind, what kind of reward was she talking about? Gear? Mesetas? If there is something I know, then it`s that I am going to get that reward.

    The school bell started to ring and we all got quiet, then it ceased almost immediately.

    I looked over at Cortez who was in the desk to my right, he was sweating like a pig, is he nervous?

    The door slammed open!

    We all sat up straight, who is that person entering, now I could feel sweat dripping down my forhead!

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    The tension was rising as no one entered, i slowly moved my head around to look at the others reactions, they were just as puzzled as me, but not Alix, she has probably played this game a million times.

    We could hear footsteps in the distance, it was coming closer by the second.

    It was a big muscle man, looked military, he looked at us with a death gaze as he turned around to the board and wrote James.

    "I will be your ----?!" His voice caught all of us off guard, it was the sound of a little girl!

    Cortez almost blurted out a laugh, so did Elisa.

    The Teacher looked over at Cortez as he walked towards him, leaning down to his ear.

    "What`s funny?"

    Cortez`s cheeks was filled with air as he did everything he could to not let that laugh out, his face was insanely red.

    "Thats what i thought...."

    The teacher went back to the board, that was the first time we could see his behind, he had toilet paper coming out of his pants.

    Cortez emptied his lungs and slammed the table with the palm of his hand!

    "i cant----i cant take it hahahaha!" He disappeared from the game, probably back to the lobby.

    The room started to change, but we were still sitting still in out chairs, the room turned into a magma place, kinda like the tournament when Odin fought.

    Lava was sprouting everywhere and slowly streaming towards us.

    My breathing got really heavy, but the worst part was the big boulder slowly gaining speed rolling from on top of the vulcano.

    I tried to move my hands a little bit, but it felt like they were melted onto the table, if i would have moved i would have torn the flesh right off, it didnt really hurt though, its just a game after all.

    The others were cleaning their forehead with their shoulder as they waited in fear and

    anticipation.

    The boulder was rolling really fast right towards us.

    I closed my eyes...

    "Its not real, its not real...." Although it lookes really really real.

    i could hear the boulder right in front of me.

    Odin screamed and got eliminated from the game.

    The boulder passed by and the game changed again, everything suddenly got all windy and

    cold.

    A sudden fell of Geforce hit me in the stomach, thats when i relized we were all falling from the air, still glued to our chairs, but the table was gone.

    The wind was soothing, but the fall got more frighting the closer we came to the ground.

    Bram freaked out and got eliminated quickly, the game still lasted for a short while as we hit the ground with full force, but once again the game changed.

    The next game was in a dark room and the chairs disappeared, a spotlight was turned on for each of us remaining, we looked at eachother, wondering what the next challange would be.

    We all got bound by our hands and feet and turned upside down and a machine started to tickle us with some sort of duster.

    Our shirts disappeared so the machine could tickle us on the skin, i immidiatly closed my eyes and turned my head as i did not want to look at all the girls, the only remaining people was Elisa,

    Celia, me and Alix.

    All of our faces turned red, the machine started, i could only feel the tickle on the right side of my body since i could use Midas to harden the area so i woulden`t feel it on the left side, would i get caught cheating? Hopefuly not.

    I opened my eyes for a brief moment as i saw that they were eyeboggling my body, they were to distracted to even notice me opening my eyes, but i did shut them again though.

    What are they looking at, Midas, The scars, or my mucles? Couldn''t help but feel a little bit

    uncomfortable as i blushed.

    Celia started laughing from the tickles and got terminated.

    The next simulation started really quickly and there was a guy charging towards us with a sword with a killing intent.

    Out of reflex i grabbed my dagger and coutered him, but i got eliminated and sent back to the lobby with the others.

    The dagger conncting with his sword made to much noise.

    "Welcome, fellow loser!" Odin greeted me.

    "Hmm, was fun whie it lasted" I sat down next to Celia.

    "Look" She pointed at the screen on the table.

    We could see The Queen and Elisa in the next game, it was a cold blizzard, both were shaking immensly.

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    "I wonder who wins" Cortez was looking really excited at the screen

    "Elisa looks tougher than she looks" Bram said, he was right.

    If i think back she never complains, maybe there is more to her than i already know.

    "Look, Alix is cracking up!"

    The Queen was struggling not to crackle her teeth too much, but it made to much noise and she lost!

    They were both transported back to us, Elisa was jumping and cheering while the Queen fell to her knees.

    "Yay i won!" Elisa was so glad.

    "It was so cold, it felt like my eyeballs turned into ice cubes!"

    Elisa leaned over to her.

    "What is my price?"

    The Queen kissed Elisa on the mouth.

    Everyones jaw hit the floor!

    Elisa backed off as she wiped her mouth with her arm.

    "What do you think you are doing all of the sudden?"

    "That was the price ofcourse!"

    Cortez covered his eyes with his right hand as he was crying out of jealousy.

    "As for second place...." Alix walked over to me and slowly leaned over to my face, but i backed

    of a little.

    "I think im good, thank you *Cough*"

    She was really close, all i could do was looking around at random things awkardly.

    "Tihi,is that so?" She waited a bit before she backed off.

    "Well then, lets get to business!"

    She walked up the stairs to the second floor.

    "Are you guys coming or not?"

    We followed.

    As we got into the door on the second floor there was another bar there, Alix poured herself a

    drink before she started talking.

    "I am a self aware NPC, is what i like to call myself" She took a sip.

    We were kind of shocked by that statement, but we kept quiet as she kept on talking.

    "The quests i give out are usually really basic and gives a decent exp, but there is something i need your help with, a person who calls himself The King, he have been making the players unconftreable and the players who usually comes along because of quest has dramaticly dropped, i am not saying that i want him killed, i want you guys to find his location and true identity, the quest will give you more than enough exp, but the mission might be hard."

    Alix finished her drink.

    "The king Is a Darkblood Brotherhood member with a high rank most likely, but how high i do not know."  i informed her.

    "I have heard some rumours from travlers that he has a hideout somewhere her in the valley."

    Alix said.

    "There was an outpost right infront of the entrance of  the passage into the valley, but they are not there anymore." Elisa explained.

    "I used to be a part of the Darkblood Brotherhood, but as i left i am being hunted down, the king was the person who ordered them after me for ransom.

    "Is that so.." Alix mixed herself another drink.

    "i have been trying to enter this village for days, but i was being stalked so i went into hiding for days without food and water until i meet up with these guys..."

    Alix took a drink.

    "I have an idea, why dont we use Celia as bait? The king is looking for her right?"

    "Excuse me? Are you drunk already?" Celia got angry.

    "We will have a plan ofcourse, i have some gadgets we can use that regular players cant use

    without permission of me"

    "Such as?"

    "With the use of a totem we can harvest the smoke to add a clock on every class and it also makes you impossable to be spotted by hunters, last for a limited time though"

    "Sounds dangerous" Odin sounded worried, like the rest of us.

    "The king is after me, maybe this is the best way to do it"

    "Celia,are you sure about this?" i asked, although i was kind of againts it, i dont want anyone to put themself in danger, but if we could get rid of the king, maybe they would stop looking for

    Celia, atleast for a while?

    "If we have this gadget and a good plan we can bait him out and capture him or take him out, if we can ambush them with the stealth we clearly have the advantage, you guys got my back

    right?"

    "Ofcourse, but still, we dont know where to go or how many they are or if we can even beat

    them."

    "I have some soldiers that can aid us under my command"

    "It is the best way to get to him...."Celia continued, She suddenly got really eager, revenge?

    "Ok, lets do it....Alix, you got some other gadgets?"

    "Ofcourse, follow me!" She threw her drink at the wall as she got really excited.

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 Volume 3 Chapter 17 - The Blockade

    We continued onwards to a new room to check out the gadgets.

    "These are your other gadgets?" Odin wasen`t really impressed.

    The place was all dusty and dark.

    Alix coughed as she waved away some dust.

    "Yes, take a look at this one, a displacer, a item that allowes you to swap places with a friend or opponent"

    "That can come in handy" Celia was intrigued as she looked around.

    I got less sceptical as i saw the gadgets, also we have soldiers on our side.

    "What is thi---?!" Elisa was fiddling with something over by a dusty crate.

    "Don`t touch that!" Alix shouted!

    Elisa dropped the stick shaped object on the ground by accident.

    Nothing happened.

    "Phew! You do not want to click this button" Alix careful lifted it up but, as she was about to put it back on its shelf she slipped.

    "Ohh no!"

    Gel was spewed all over the place, freezing Alix and Elisa in place.

    They were struggling to get out.

    "Little help please?"

    The gel could be destroyed by attacks as it had a health bar.

    "I once managed to push that button when i was alone, i do not know for how long i was stuck here, trying to wiggle myself back and forth , but i got out though."

    "Alix, don`t you think we could use that in the fight?" Celia asked.

    "We could , but there is a catch" Alix said.

    "Catch?"

    "The user of the device will get glued in place as well, it is not working properly, also the gel has to be destroyed before you can damage the person stuck in it"

    "I think we can get it to work"

    "Sky, what do you mean?"

    "We don`t really have a plan yet, but i can see a scenario where we use the displacer with this gel contraption, we don`t know in which way we will meet them, but if one would change place with one of the leaders or commanding officer of their squad we could then use the gel to trap

    his whole squad while we take care of the leader."

    "Who would this person be? A soldier?" Cortez asked me and i looked over at Alix.

    "They will do as ordered, but i do not want to put one of my men in so deep, that is suicide, would there be anyway to get him out as well as we take care of their leader?"

    Cortez picked up a piece of broken wood on the ground and threw it at the gel contraption and it went off again!

    "Cortez what do you think you are doing?!" Elisa sceamed as her and Alix were glued once again.

    He proceeded with shooting a rope arrow into the gel, right next to Elisa`s right arm.

    "Grab a hold if you can!" Elisa struggled but managed to grab a hold of the arrow shaft.

    "Guys! Give me a hand!" The rest of us helped Cortez with pulling the arrow back out while Elisa held on.

    As we all pulled quickly with a strong force she was dragged out instantly!

    "There you have it!" He was grinning like hell.

    "Baka!" Elisa hit him on his head.

    "What about me?" Alix was still stuck in the gel.

    We repeated the same thing over again.

    "When the soldier uses this displace technique i suggest that Cortez has his own squad of soldiers ready to help him pull"

    "That can be arranged."

    "Hime sama!" A soldier appeared by the door as he was sweating and had a terrifying look on his face.

    "State you business soldier!" Alix got mad.

    "The King has mobilized most of his army to completly block of the entrence to the valley, no

    players are allowed in or out, there is a total riot!"

    "Bring the gadgets!" Alix shouted.

    We ran outside as quickly as we could.

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    When we approched the gate of the town we could see them.

    "Cortez what do you see?" he used his glasses to zoom in.

    "Players and NPC`s are shouting at them, if this keeps going on it will not end good, we should hurry!"

    Alix was really angry.

    "Sound the alarm soldier!"

    "Yes hime sama!"

    A huge horn was blown and the soldiers quickly got into position.

    "Looks like we have to act faster than anticipated, we will use your plan" She said to me before she went onto a platform where she was about to give a speech.

    " The King has been terrorizing this land for the last time!"

    The players and soldiers shouted out of excitment and anger.

    "We will march on and put an end to this blockade that they have made, if they will not negotiate peachfully, we will bring the heavens down on upon them!"

    Alix lifted a sword out that i didnt even knew she had, it was glowing with some sort of essence, must be really powerful.

    "Archers and spellslingers follow this man, his name is Cortez and he will be a second commander of your squad, he will inform you of our plan, you are our recon team!"

    "The Healers  will follow me, The first and second assult team will be briefed on the way, we don`t have much time, we will initate with the smoke of invisability, lets get going!"

    The crowd cheered again.

    Alix lighted up a huge totem as she was channeling a hymn, the smoke was starting to spread onto the squads and turned us invisable.

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    "You can`t hold me here, i am going to the next questing area, let me through!"

    The player was pushed back by one of The Kings men.

    "No one gets pass this blockade unless you pay us 100 000 mesetas or have The Kings permission"

    "100 000? I do not have to take orders from a self claimed King, the only royalty here is the Queen of Spriga, Alix!"

    The soldier drew his blade and pushed its sharp end up to his throut.

    "You do not speak of the King in such a low manner, strip off all your items and come along or face doom"

    The player gulped.

    "What are you waiting for?"  One of the leaders was approching him.

    "What is all this ruccus about?" He was riding his horse.

    "Hold it right there!" Alix shouted as she appeared out of the stealth on her horse.

    "Well if it isn''t the Queen herself, what a rare sight to see you outside of those walls, what brings you out here darling?"

    "You damn well why i am here, i want this blockade taken down right now, let players and npc`s through!"

    The leader just looked at all of his subordinates with a funny face as if he started to laugh, the laugh quickly spread, but only the Kings men thought it was funny.

    "We do not take orders from a Queen, when we have a much better King! This land is not big enough for the both of you!"

    "What did you say?" Alix drew her blade.

    "You there........Finish him off!" The leader gave his subordinate the order to kill the player that was trying to get pass.

    "Now!" Alix gave an order!

    We appeared out of the stealth, Celia reappeard behind the solider and knocked him on the ground, his gear was too good so he could not be so easily killed, she did get the player out with some cover fire from the recon squad.

    This caught alot of the attention.

    "Arrrrrrrrghh!" A soldier from the squad i was in,  assult team one, charged forward and used the displacer device to change place with the leader, he then proceded with the gel contraption and spewed it all over the enemies army, most of them were trapped.

    As Celia got out, the recon team manage to drag out the soildier from danger.

    The enemy leader was shocked for a moment, but quikly manage to come up with a plan as we destoryed the gel.

    We had everyone  of assult team one on standby to kill him when he got lose, while the other assult team charged onwards to fend of those who did not get glued by the gel, with the recon team as cover fire.

    As the leader got out he immidently defended himself with his shield as much as he could, but we came at him from all directions, he was really in bad shape!

    "Rock formation!" He screamed.

    Some earth speced elementalists made a ball of hardened earth around him, he was trapped in a ball of earth, but we had no way to get to him unless we could stop the channeling elementalists!

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    The recon squad and second assult team were doing their best, but some had already gotten out of the gel as they were helping eachother out, now even the elementalists were protected.

    "Sky! Aid the second assult team!"

    I used my cooldown ability to go back into stealth, with Midas i could do some real damage and probably bring down the elementalists, then fend of the others after, as the first assult team take care of their leader.

    As i got out of stealth i formed Midas into a sharp blade and pierced right through the body of

    one of the elementalists.

    "What the fuck are you?!" The enemy next to him was freaked out of my apperance, he manage to block off my dagger as i lunged after him, he backed a bit off, but i kept the preasure on him and tried to get a shot in with Midas, a arrow hit my shoulder before i could land a hit, it hurt like hell, but my skin is permanently hardned on my left side becuase of Midas, lucky for me it just shattered right off.

    The enemy i was fighting managed to kick me and knock me down.

    I hit my head on the ground and got a bit dazed, he was forcing his blade down upon me, but i gathered my senses and dodged with a roll.

    As i got back up on my feet he was hit right through his arm with a fire arrow from one of our archers.

    "Arghh, arghhh!" He was screaming in agony, i threw my dagger right between his eyes.

    The last elemntalist was brought down by my teammates and the rock shield around the leader disappeared, but he was gone!

    There was a hole that had been dugged out, must have been one of the elementalist that made him an escape route, but where is he now?

    We started off with about 100 soliders, now were down to maybe 40, but the fight wasen`t over, there were 2 other leaders from the other squads roaming around, slashing people up as well as their squad members!

    I coulden`t see my friends anywhere, only Cortez and Alix, too much was going on!

    i suddenly felt a cold stingy sensation in my back as i got kicked down on the ground, it was like everything turned into slow motion.

    "Sky!" Odin manage to pick me up on his shoulder and carefully bring me back to assult team one.

    "Wha--what happened?" I could feel my body getting weaker and everything got blurry.

    "You have been stabbed!" Odin shouted.

    "Alix help him out!" he put me down on the ground as Alix got over to me, she was healing the wounded, with some other healers.

    "i will take it from here! Thank you Odin!" Odin ran back into the fight.

    "Can you hear me Sky? I need to turn you around so i can see the entry wound, this wil hurt a lot!"

    Alix put a piece of cloth in my mouth to bite on.

    "Alexander i need some extra hands over here!" Another healer came, i knew something bad was about to happen.

    "I call upon the aid of the guardians of the earth and water, to help me bring life into this person!" Alix shoved her blade right into my wound, i have never felt anything more painful than that, not even dying!"

    After a few seconds she slowly dragged her sword out of the wound as it got closed and i was healed.

    "Good work Alexander, i need to restore the spirit essence of my blade, could you find Pier?"

    "On my way hime sama!"

    "Wa-wait what? Am i healed?" i was puzzled.

    "Your wounds were deep, it would have taken atleast 3 times the time to heal, but you heal fast!"

    "Is that so?" I looked at Midas, was it its doing? Is the dark matter really in my whole body and not just my arm?

    "How do you feel?"

    "A bit stiff, but i can fight, thank you Alix!"

    "This is a one time only, i need to replenish the essence, others may need my help to"

    "Got it, i will do my best not to get hurt!"

    " Alix over here!" She was called upon by another healer.

    "Got to go!"

    "Same here!" i ran back to the fight, the first assult team had joined up with the second assult team to finish the fight as the recon team was defending the healers, the fight was starting to die down, i tried to find Elisa, but she was no where to be found.

    Dont tell me she...

    Bram was gone aswell...

    Did they both......?

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    The fight finished with the last leader died, i was tierd and sweaty, small wounds all over and my bones were hurting.

    I meet up with Celia, Cortez and Odin.

    "Have you guys seen Elisa and Bram?"

    Odin was halting as his leg was really injured.

    "Elisa was a part of the healing squad, but i think she ran into the fight with Bram, with the

    Second assult team....."

    "Sky, you dont think they are....."

    "Don`t Celia.....We don`t know if......know if..." i could feel myself tearing up as it got hard to talk.

    I found myself walking around corpses looking and looking.

    Celia slowly started to sob herself.

    She sobbed on Odins shoulder as he held around her.

    *Clap* *Clap* *Clap*

    Someone was claping from the top of the blockade, it was a man i have not seen before.

    "Behold peasants, i am your king!" He was a tall gentleman with a cutlass and fashionably

    clothing."

    "Mordecai!"

    "That is me my lady!" He bowed towards her in good manner.

    "Its the ex commander of the assult team! Fleetfoot Mordecai!" The Soldiers were terrified.

    "Why did you team up with the Darkblood Brotherhood, was this you intention all along?"

    "Alix Alix Alix, do you know how i felt when i saw Spriga being run by a drunk? I can do better

    and they deserve better, someone like me, a warrior and a gentlemen!"  Mordecai shouted.

    Some of the soldiers were shouting back things like, "Don`t talk to the Queen like that" and

    "Traitor"

    "I could eliminate whoever i wanted to, every threat you ever had me dispose off, i made it happen, one day it came to me, why do i have to do the dirty work? With my own army i could take this Valley for my own, i know i can`t fight in a town, thats just how this world works, but what is a town if there is no Players there and no one dares to go out and ofcourse no one gets in without my permission!"

    "Mordecai, you are insane!"

    "Im a visionary, in the future people will thank me and hail me as, The King of Spriga!"

    He clapped twice.

    Out came Bram with Elisa as hostage and a disfigured man who`s body was filled with dark energy, just like me, but there was something really off about him, he looked deranged!

    Failed subject? Brainwashed lackey?

    Was this the guy who Bram was talking about? Was this all their plan?

    "Elisa!" I shouted, but Bram kept his hand over her mouth.

    "Let her go Bram!" I shouted once again with my full lungs.

    "No can do Sky!" he put his blade aginst her throut.

    "What was that?" Cortez got fired up.

    "You were a spy all along?! What kind of person are you really?"

    "That is none of you concern, Celia"

    Odin drew his blades and walked towards Elisa.

    I put my hand out to signal him to stop.

    "But Sky, we should!"  Odin clearly had his judgement clouded.

    The fight had taken its toll on us, we were down to atleast 25 people and everyone was injured

    and tierd.

    "Bram lets go and don`t hurt my mademoiselle"

    "As you wish Sir!" Bram was talking to him as a total lackey.

    "Finish them of Tex!"

    Mordecai, Elisa and Bram disappeared, but the other deranged person with the same kind of

    power like me was left behind, he was drooling and walking on all four like a buffolo!

    Tex jumped down from the blockade with a ruthless killing intent!

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