《I'm pretending to be a girl in a MMORPG》 Prologue Girls.The source of all my problems.Since the age of twelve I played mmorpgs. I played many games. Some of themrequired skill, others your time, and some of them team play. That''s why I love those games, and that''s why I hate girls. When I work for new items, they spam guild chat asking for help. When I tank mobs on raids, they talk with other players. When I try to talk with my bros, they come and destroy everything. I''ve been thinking about something for some time now. I could play as a girl too. I could also get free items for nothing. It''s not like I can''t behave like one of those stupid girls. I spent too much time on looking at how they speak and play to not be able to do that. No, that''s not the problem. The problem is voice chat. I can''t play without a voice chat. I can''t imagine playing without it. But years have passed, and technology has gone ahead. I''m seventeen years old right now, and new MMORPG came out. RaS - Runes and Swords. It uses the newest technology of VR, to transfer the player into a fully virtual world.Rumors are saying that it''s the ultimate game, and it''s going to destroy other mmos with its graphics and technology. One of the changes that it brings is changing your voice based on your race, age and the most important thing, gender. Yes. My biggestobstacle was nownon-existent. I looked around my room. It looked normal for a teenager but it was really messy. It was full ofempty bottles andcans.Empty packets of cheetos were laying everywhere, but it didn''t matter. The only thing that mattered was that I hadholiday, a lot of free time and I just bought new VRequipment and a copy of RaS. I didn''t wait long. I connected my new VR headset into the computer, and after that I installed RaS. "It''s time for my revenge." I said to myself as I put on my new equipment. RaS has a new technology that uses all the senses when you are playing.Sight, hearing, smell, touch... Everything. All that you see in this world seems real to you. Now it was my time to see if it was true. I switched the headset on and I opened the game.This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it. After thatI lost contact with reality. I felt really weird. Like I was dreaming or something but this feeling wasn''t long and then I woke up in virtual world. I was in a white, empty space. There was nothing I could see. Not even my body. "Please enter you login andand password." a window appeared out of nowhere before me. I have made my account a long time ago, so there wasn''t any problems. I just typed them on thekeyboard that was under the window. When I did it a new window appeared. It was saying that I don''t have any characters that I can play on, and then it asked me to make a new character. I accepted it, and then another window showed up with names of four races. "Beast, Human, Elf, Orc." I read them all. I could become a beast, human or elf if I wanted to play as a girl. Beast girls even have some cute ears. I don''t think a female orc would be a good choice. I thought about it for some time and I picked a human. It''s always abalanced race, so there is no risk in picking it. "Pick your sex." I read as another window appeared. I could still pick man and try to play normally, but I was too fed up. I was too fed up with girls getting everything. I want this loot too! After choosing that I want to be a girl a new window appeared. It had classes on it. I could pick fromKnight, Healer, Mage, Hunter, Assassin and Warrior. When you think about a cute girl playing a MMORPG, you always think about a healer. That''s why I picked it. After that I only needed to make my character. It took me almost an hour but the outcome was great. I was looking at a young, cute girl. She was really petite, so she looked like she was 15 years old "155cm high, white hair, gray eyes cute face, small lips and nose and petite body." I said as I looked at her. If I wanted items I needed a really cute character. Contrary to all beliefs, sexy characters aren''t as popular as cute ones. People just want to protect cute things, that''s why I needed a cute, small healer. Then I just picked a voice. There were many voices I could pick from, and I could change every one of them. I picked a high but not too high voice. It was cute enough but it didn''t sound stupid. I heard many girls using voices like this and I don''t think they are nice in any way. She just sounded like a cute, young girl. "Are you sure that you want your character to look like this?" a window appeared. When I accepted it another showed up. It was asking me to choose a name for my character. "Lilly" I didn''t think about this and I just wrote something cute. It''s time to begin my new adventure. 1. First quest by a NEET in a small body I was looking at the loading screen. I just made a new character after instaling RaS. Now I just needed to wait for a while, and I will finally play this game. I waited months for it. I even bought newest VR gear. It was my dream game, that''s why I won''t let those girls take my fun. I won''t let those days of hard work go to waste. Finally loading screen showed 100%, and I was teleported to a new location. It wasn''t like anything I ever saw before. When I first loaded this game I was greeted by a white space without anything around me. Now I was in a small village with few wooden houses. Weirdly enough it was full of people, but they weren''t NPCs. Those were new players. Like me, they just started their game in this place. I didn''t even needed to look for their nicks to know that, I just looked at how they behaved. It would be weird for makers of this game to make NPCs jump everywhere or stay on thefence. That''s why I knew those were the players. After looking at them something magical happened.I felt a gust of wind on my face. Never before have I played any other VMMORPG, but I knew that even they didn''t used technology like this. RaS was the first "true" VMMORPG that used all of your senses to immerse you into the game. That''s why I felt this wind, and that''s why I could smell this village, just like it was a normal place. Of course things like pain are really limited but they still exist in this world, making it seem real. Then I looked down, to look on my new character. I was wearing cute, white and airy robes that were reaching my knees. In my hand I had a short, metal staff with a blue crystal on the end of it. I was really small. "It''s hard to get used to those 155centimeters." I said to myself. Normally I look at the world froma higher perspective, but I couldn''t worry about this now. It was my time to start playing. I waited for this game for a long time. I looked straight ahead and my white hair covered my face. It was because of this wind that I felt one more time on my face but not only there. This robe that reaches only my knees wasn''t a good clothing to protect me from wind. I just pulled it down a little but it didn''t help much. After that I looked around and I saw a knight standing near one of the houses. He was wearing full plate armor and he had a two handed sword with him.He caught my attention because above his head I saw a big, glowingquestion mark. It must have been an NPC that was going to give me my first mission. I approached him and I started theconversation. "Greetings! They must have sent you here as areinforcements from the city. Let me go straight to the point. We have a big problem with goblins. I thought that I will defeat them alone, but I was too weak. Please, take care of this and I will give you some potions and new clothes." he said to me.Love what you''re reading? Discover and support the author on the platform they originally published on. I just clicked a button on the screen that said that I accept this quest. I could ask one of those people around me to help mi with this quest. I saw elves, humans, orcs and beasts just talking here or jumping around. I''m sure if I asked they would help me, but now I just want to try this game alone. "I''m not a NEET that can''t speak with people. I just want to try this game out alone." I said to myself as I opened some tables to look at my items and spells, to see what I have. SKILLS
SPELL NAME COST
Magical attack 20 mana
Heal 50 mana
Cure 100 mana
Holy flame 70 mana
Holy shield 30 mana
I had two offensive spells: "Magical Attack" and "Holy flame". I had one buff: "Holy shield". It could give me some armour. And lastly I had normal healer spells: "Heal", "Cure". I could cure poisons and debuffs with "Cure" and I could heal myself with "Heal". After that I looked at my character. CHARACTER
Name Lilly
Race Human
Gender Female
Character class Healer
LVL 1
HP 250/250
MP 400/400
ITEMS
Healer Robes +30 ARMOR
Healer Staff +10 INTEllIGENCE
Healer Boots +10 ARMOR
Those were my items. Armordivides damage taken, and intelligence makes your magic stronger.I had a lot of experience with MMORPGs so I knew things like this. There was no reason to wait. I just needed to finish my new quest. I opened the map, and I checked where I needed to go. The quest could be finished in a nearby forest, that was about five minutes of walking from here. I left, leaving behind people that were just jumping in the starting village, and I went to this forest. After few minutes of walking among the trees I saw my objective. A small camp with few goblins that were living in a forest. They had set up few tents there, and they were even smaller than me. There were maybe six of them, and all of them were sitting around a small fire that was burning in the middle of their camp. It''s not like I need to be careful. It''s a first mission in a MMORPG. It can''t be hard. I prepared a spell. It was a "Holy flame". It takes more mana and time to cast it, but goblins didn''t saw me, so there was no need to worry about this. Then I pointed my staff at them, waited for a second to charge it with my mana and then I fired a beam of energy. When it hit them it exploded, killing two of the goblins and damaging the rest. Four of them were still alive, and when they saw me they started running towards me with angry faces. 2. Do not fight with this NEET loli From all the things you can see in this new world, four goblins running towards you with angry faces aren''t the best thing. They were wearing light armor and they had primitive weapons with them. Only one of the goblins had a short sword with him, the rest of them were using sticks with nails. GOBLIN LEADER LVL 2
HP 40/100
MP 10/10
GOBLIN LVL 1
HP 20/80
MP 0/0
I can understand why "Holy flame" damaged the so much. They are weak and they don''t have good stats. But still, if they all attack me I won''t have any chances to survive. I could run. I have a very fast character, but because of that I don''t have much HP. As I was thinking about this they reduced the distance between us. They were few second of running from me, so I needed to decide fast. I wanted to fight. I casted a "Magical attack" on the goblin with sword. It was too late to cast "Holy flame". "Magical attack" is a basic attack spell, that attacks one target. When it hit him, it took half of his remaining HP. One more attack like this and he will be dead. But I couldn''t attack him right now. He was now near me, so I didn''t had time to cast a spell and he looked really angry that I attacked him. Then he charged at me and above his head I saw a skill name pop up. It was "Downward cut" and when he used it he jumped at me, and then he swung his sword. He was quick, but I had a really fast character. I barely evaded his attack, and he stabbed his sword into the ground. Then I used "Magical attack" on him, killing him. "You received 20 golden coins and 30 EXP." a window appeared above his corpse, and after that he disappeared. I still needed to fight two more goblins. After seeing how I killed their leader, they didn''t just attacked me. Rather they grouped up, and waited for my move. It''s a nice AI. A really nice AI. If I casted a spell right now, all of them would attack me. I couldn''t evade three goblins at once if they time they attacks right. If I wanted to run, they would just run after me. Well, I was fast so I could run from them. But did I want to? "I played MMORPGs for years. I won''t lose!" I shouted. Well, I could say that but what I could do? If I try to cast a "Magical attack" one of them would attack me, and after I evade his attack another would then try to hit me. There would be no chance for me to evade two attack in a row, and they could attack me three times in a row. If you encounter this tale on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. I could try to cast "Holy flame" and pray that I will survive their attacks long enough to kill them all with it. It damages more than one target, so it would kill them all. But if I cast "Holy flame" all of them would attack me and just kill me. They wouldn''t give me time to cast it. Wait. All of them would attack me? If it works like I think it works, then I can use this. "Let''s do this." I said, and I started casting "Holy flame". When goblins saw that I was doing it, all of them went to attack me. They didn''t send one of them to attack me, and then wait for me to evade him. They just attacked me with their whole group because if I cast this spell, then all of them would die. It was their mistake. I cancelled my spell when they were in mid air, and then I evaded all of their three attacks. After that I just casted "Magical attack" on one them killing him. "You received 5 golden coins and 10 EXP." When the other two looked what I did, they looked scared. They knew that I could use this tactic more than once. If one of them attacks me while I cast "Holy flame" then I will just take some damage, and kill them all. If both of them will attack me trying to kill me fast, then I will just cancel my spell and evade both of their attacks, and then I will use "Magical attack" on one of them. When they realized that they started running. Well, it''s not like they are faster than my spells. "You received 5 golden coins and 10 EXP." "You received 5 golden coins and 10 EXP." "Wow!" was the only thing I could say. I played many MMORPGs, and I have never seen such a good AI. They knew that I was using a cheap tactic, so they started running. "You have done your quest. Return to the village to receive your reward." a message popped up in my mission log. There was no reason to stay here. I started walking back, and when I was doing it I thinked about this AI. RaS has a great technology behind it. Playing this game is like living in a fantasy world. Everything seems so real, but this AI i something else. This AI is the best I have ever seen. In normal MMORPGs, fighting with mobs is really boring, but here the first quest I have ever done is so good. Well, this AI isn''t playing as good as normal player, but still it''s something great. "You did it?! Thank you! Take this, it''s your reward. Take this letter to the Captain in the city. It''s a report for him. Thank you again for your help, and good luck!" knight in the village said when I returned to him. After that a window popped up. REWARDS
10x Potion of Mana Restores 50 points of lost MP
10x Potion of Healing Restores 50 points of lost HP
Apprentice Robes +50 ARMOR
Apprentice Staff +20 INTEllIGENCE
After ending this quest I got some EXP, and a new level. CHARACTER
Name Lilly
Race Human
Gender Female
Character class Healer
LVL 2
HP 300/300
MP 500/500
There was no reason to stay in this village. This game was great. I wanted to play more! "Hey! You did this quest alone?!" I heard man''s voice behind me. When I turned around I saw a young elf. He was about 180 cm high. He had long dark hair, big green eyes, and handsome face. His clothes were normal for low level hunters. They were green, and light. In his hand I could see a longbow. For some reason he was really impressed. 3. First city and a new quest "Really?! You did this quest alone!?" this weird elf said. We were just standing in this village, and I just told him how I defeated those goblins. He seemed to be really excited, and for some reason he was very impressed. "I don''t understand. It''s just a first quest." I said. "You don''t read RaS forums?! Because of this advanced AI, first quest can be really hard for inexperienced players. That''s why in the next patch they are going to lower the health and attack of those goblins. I don''t know how it wasn''t fixed to this day, but until then they advise to do this quest in a small party." "Well, it''s not like it is impossible to do." "Of course it''s not, but you must be a really good player!" Obviously I''m a good player. I played MMORPGs for years. I''m not like those noobs, that can''t even kill some goblins without help from others. "Want to join my party?! There are two of us and we are going to do this quest with goblins. We would really need a healer." he said. Well, I will need to join a party sooner or later, but I don''t feel like doing it right now. I don''t want to share EXP and gold with some noobs. I''m a real gamer. "Maybe later." I replied. Yeah, I need to play solo right now. It''s not like I''m some NEET that have problems with socializing. It''s not that for sure. "Eh?! That''s too bad. Can I at least add you to my friends list?" "Okay..." I said and accepted his invitation. YOU ADDED NEW FRIEND TO YOUR FRIENDS LIST
Name BIGelfX
Race Elf
Gender Male
Character class Hunter
LVL 1
HP 475/475
MP 225/225
"Thank you! I''m going to do this quest now! See you later." he said and left me. My first "friend". Well, it''s not like I have any problems to add him to this list. It''s not like I will need to travel with him. It''s just a stupid list. If you come across this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it. When this elf walked away, I quickly went to the city. I didn''t want to stay in this village for any more time, because I could meet him there once again if I stayed here for too long. The city wasn''t too far away from the village. You just needed to follow the road for few minutes, and then you will get there. When I was walking the only things that I could see were fields on both sides of the road. These were the fields on which the grain grew, and they were really big. Then, when I finally left those fields, I saw few wolves resting on a meadow. They were sleeping, so they didn''t knew that I was there, so I tried not to wake them up. SMALL WOLF LVL 3
HP 120/120
MP 0/0
They were even stronger than goblin leader, but I could only see two of them. I don''t think that fighting with them would be harder than fighting with goblins, because of their numbers, but I don¡¯t see any reason to attack them now. Then, after maybe ten minutes of walking I saw the city walls. They were white and to the city lead a big bridge made of stones. It was there because of the river, and inside it I could see some monsters. SMALL FISH LVL 2
HP 50/50
MP 50/50
When I crossed the gate, a message popped up.
NEW REGION FOUND
AIREDALE
If it''s about the city it looked lovely. It had many buildings made of brick, that looked better than those houses in the village. All of them were painted white, so this city looked like something from a fantasy book. It had many NPCs, so it looked really lively and like a true place that people were living in. After walking for awhile I even found some shops that could sell me new equipment or potions, but I didn''t have enough money for that. Still, there weren''t many players here. Few of them that were in the city were in some kind of party. It looked like this thing this elf said about those goblins was true. "Found it." I said when I looked at a guards building. It was marked on my map because here was this Captain that I needed to talk to. When I went inside I saw few guards here and there just standing, but there was one man that drew my attention. He was wearing full plate armor like the knight in the village, and he had this big, glowing question mark above his head. "Welcome back! I see you have returned with your report. Let me see it! Hmm, those are really bad news. Anyway this is your reward. Thank you for your help." he said and gave me some gold. I even got some EXP, which made me level up. CHARACTER
Name Lilly
Race Human
Gender Female
Character class Healer
LVL 3
HP 350/350
MP 600/600
After looking at my new stats, I talked to him one more time. "You see, about those bad news. This report says that the wolves were spotted near the road. It might be a really bad thing for travelers and people that live there. I would want you to go and take care of this. I know that you just returned after fighting with those goblins, but I can''t send anyone else." he said, and after that I accepted his quest. There was no reason not to. Of course, even in RaS, you could gain EXP just by fighting with normal mobs, but it''s a lot better to just do quests and level up normally. When I left the building I went straight to where I first met those wolfs. There was no reason to wait, I just wanted to play some more. 4. This NEET loli joined a party Wolves. They look normal in this world, and they attack in packs. I just came back to fight with them. I have a quest to take care of them, and it shouldn''t be a problem, but it''s always better to know your enemy. Even if they have more health than goblins, they don''t look that much stronger. And there are not that many of them. When I was fighting with goblins I needed to take care of six of them. Now I only needed to kill two small wolves. SMALL WOLF LVL 3
HP 120/120
MP 0/0
Anyway, after finishing my quest I had better equipment, and potions that I could use without any problems while fighting. After getting lvl 3 I even learned new spell. It was "Quickness". It allows me to cast my spells 20% faster, and move 15% quicker. SKILLS
SPELL NAME COST
Magical attack 20 mana
Heal 50 mana
Cure 100 mana
Holy flame 70 mana
Holy shield 30 mana
Quickness 30 mana
After fighting with goblins I knew that even first quests can be really hard. I casted "Holy shield" and "Quickness" on myself to prepare for the fight. After that I stepped away from those wolves as much as I could to cast "Holy flame". Then I casted it on them dealing them a lot of damage. Of course they immediately ran towards me, but I had time to cast another "Holy flame". This time I killed them. "You received 25 golden coins and 35 EXP." "You received 25 golden coins and 35 EXP." It was an easy fight but there was one problem. For some reason the quest didn''t end, and my map was still showing me that I need to kill more wolves in the place where I was standing. After a while I understood why. I heard loud howl and then I saw a big gray wolf running towards me. ALPHA WOLF BOSS
HP 700/700
MP 0/0The author''s content has been appropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon.
He was gigantic. He looked more like a bear than a wolf, but he was like two times faster than those smaller wolves. He was at least three times bigger than them too. I didn''t had time to do anything. I couldn''t cast a spell, and he was too fast to even dodge his attack. I just took a hit for nothing, and then I lost half of my HP. He hit me with his paw and I flew few meters. It was the first time when I felt pain in this game. After that he looked at me with angry face. I couldn''t use "Heal" because he would just kill me while I would cast it, so I just drank some potions. It took my 4 potions to restore my HP, and I had only six more of them. I couldn''t fight him. There was no way that I would win. "Well, let''s see how the dead screen looks." I said to myself, and waited for him to attack. There was no reason to fight. He was too fast to dodge any of his attacks, and I couldn''t even run from someone like this. I''m even surprised that they made him that strong. I can understand that they want people to play in teams, but something like this is too much for someone who is not prepared. When he saw that I wasn''t moving for some time he attacked me. I didn''t try to dodge or cast anything. I just closed my eyes and waited for my death. But it didn''t come. Instead of it, I heard a clashing noise. When I opened my eyes to see what happened I saw a tall girl standing before me. She was wearing metal armor, but without a helmet. In her left hand she had a sword, and in her right she had a wooden shield that she used to block this BOSS attack. "Heal yourself!" she turned back and shouted. When she did it I could see her face. She was a young, beautiful girl with long red hair and big blue eyes. But most of my attention was directed at her ears. Those were fox ears. She was from a Beast race. After looking at her I jumped away, and used "Heal" on myself. It was probably the first time when I could use this spell. "Don''t forget about me." I heard familiar voice from far away. When I looked into its direction I saw an elf, that was firing an arrow. It hit this BOSS in the head, dealing him critical damage, but he was still really healthy. After that I healed this girl. She took some damage, even after blocking his attack with her shield. Then I casted "Holy flame" on this wolf. He wanted to attack me while I was casting, but once again I was saved by this girl. It took us some time but we beat him using only this tactic. I would cast "Holy flame", then this girl would defend me, and after that I would heal her. It would take a lot of time, but we had a Hunter dealing a lot of damage from the distance. "Thank you very much. I wouldn''t do this alone" I said when we were done. We received a lot of EXP and gold for this one, but they were divided into three parts. "Not a problem. We had a lot of fun, didn''t we?" this girl said and looked at the elf. He was just running towards us, because all of the fight we was firing at this BOSS from the distance. "Yeah! Told you to join my party." he said when he catched up and smiled at me. "You know each other?" "Yeah, we met at the village sis." "Oh?" this girl said and then looked at me. She was thinking about something. "Want to join us? We need a healer." she then asked. Well, I didn''t join a party before but now I can see that playing this game alone can be really hard. I mean, I wanted to look around just by myself, but it won''t work for long. And it''s not like I''m some NEET that can''t socialize. It¡¯s not that for sure. "Don''t even try this. If I couldn''t convince someone then surely you won''t..." "I want to join you." I said, and this elf looked at me surprised. "Then welcome to the party." she replied, and invited me to her friends list. YOU ADDED NEW FRIEND TO YOUR FRIENDS LIST
Name FoXy
Race Beast
Gender Female
Character class Knight
LVL 2
HP 750/750
MP 180/180
"It''s nice to meet you Lilly." she then said and smiled. "Wait! why didn''t you went with me when I asked you?!" BIGelfX asked, but we didn''t listen to him. After that we went to the city. I ended my quest with wolves, and they just started it. They were still one level behind me, but I didn''t care. I still went with them to do this quest with wolf BOSS. I wanted to repay them for their help, and it would be weird for me to just wait for them to come back. "But you really are a good player Lilly. I''m really happy that you are in our team." elf said as we were going towards this BOSS. For me it was the second time doing it. "I used to play many MMORPGs." "Oh? Just like sis. You are so cute!" he then said, and this fox girl looked at him. "Did you already forgot about the last time you met a ¡°girl¡± in MMORPG?" she asked and elf looked at me with sad eyes. I can imagine what they were talking about. But I didn¡¯t wanted to take advantage of them. No, it wasn¡¯t like this. I just wanted to get more items. Even thinking back at those years when I grinded so much, and I still wasn¡¯t as strong as those girls that wouldn¡¯t do anything. I can¡¯t let it happen again. "It''s not a problem. I am a girl after all." I replied. 5. This NEET loli gets her first mount CHARACTER
Name Lilly
Race Human
Gender Female
Character class Healer
LVL 15
HP 800/800
MP 1900/1900
SKILLS
SPELL NAME COST
Magical attack LVL 2 30 mana
Heal LVL 2 70 mana
Cure LVL 2 130 mana
Holy flame LVL 2 100 mana
Holy shield LVL 2 50 mana
Quickness 30 mana
Group heal 150 mana
Sacrifice 50 mana/ Half of your health
Group cure 200 mana
Regeneration 80 mana
Holy missile 250 mana
I''ve got many new skils because of my 15 lvl. "Group cure" and "Group heal" are like "Heal", and "Cure" but can be used on many people. "Regeneration" regenerates your HP every second. "Sacrifice" is used to fully heal every team member, but it takes your own HP. "Holly missile" is a really powerful skill, that damages one person. A day have passed since I started RaS. I played with FoXy, and Brian leveling up really fast. Brian is a BIGelfX, but I think it''s a stupid name, so he told me to use his real name. For some reason it makes him really happy when I call him like this. I got a new equipment too. The tale has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation. ITEMS
Robes of bigger healing +80 ARMOR/ +10% HEALING MAGIC POWER
Bishop staff +60 INTELlIGENCE/ +20% HEALING MAGIC POWER
Ring of healing +10 INTELLIGENCE/ +15% HEALING MAGIC POWER
Bishop boots +25 ARMOR/ +5% HEALING MAGIC POWER
Ring of mages +25 INTELLIGENCE
My new robes were white, and short. I don''t know why but they look cute. When you say "Robes of bigger healing" you think of something massive, but it looks more like a short dress on me. "Ring of healing" is a really rare item that dropped me from one of the mobs. Other things like "Bishop staff" or "Bishop boots" I got for doing quests. "Oh, you''re finally here." I heard a familiar voice. When I looked into it''s direction I saw a Beast girl. She had fox ears, and long red hair. Her equipment was really good for her level. She had a new metal armor that looked really fancy, and a new shield. This time it wasn''t a wooden shield but a big, silver one. She even bought herself a new sword with a golden handle.
Name FoXy
Race Beast
Gender Female
Character class Knight
LVL 15
HP 2200/2200
MP 700/700
"Yeah, nice to see you again." I replied to her. We were in Airedale now. In it''s marketplace to be precise. It was a place that was used by players to meet each other or sell their staff. They were now shouting everywhere, saying what they want to sell. "Ready for the quest?" FoXy asked. We had 15 lvl each. It meant that we could do a quest for a mount. We were still ahead of many other players if it was about our levels, because we played a lot. If it was about mount quest, it can be really long. Especially if you want to have a flying mount. "Yeah, I''m just sad that Brian can''t go with us." "He has an important test tomorrow, and believe me, he is sadder than you that he can''t be here." FoXy replied. Brain calls her sis. I don''t know why, maybe they are siblings but I didn''t ask. It''s not like it''s my business, and asking about someone¡¯s private life in MMORPG is considered untactful. "Think you will find a flying mount?" I was asked by my teammate. "Don''t even joke about it." I replied and FoXy smiled one more time. After that we left the marketplace and after that the city. This mount quest could be only done in a nearby grassland. To do it, you need to wait in higher grass for a mount to appear. Then you need to sneak on it and use "Mount" skill, when you can. Of course you have many mounts that can appear, but rarely you would find a flying mount. I want it. It''s faster and can fly, but it''s not like I will get it because I want it. There is a really low chance that such mount will appear, and they are harder to mount. Normally you get a horse after ending this quest, so I don''t have high hopes. "Ehh, how much can we wait!?" FoXy said. We were sitting in high grass for ten minutes now, but not even a horse appeared. Its was really weird. "Yeah, it''s really weird. I don''t want to sit there for the rest of my days." "You have something better to do?" FoXy asked and laughed. Well, I don''t. But I can''t look like a NEET that don''t have a real life. I mean, girls aren''t NEETs. I need to keep my appearance. "You know... girly stuff? Like makeup?" I replied. "You like joking, don''t you?" FoXy said with a smile. Was that a joke? I don''t understand. "Look! Look at that!" I then heard her excited voice. When I looked at the grassland I saw a beautiful, white horse with wings. A pegasus, one of few flying mounts, and the only one you could get at that low level. "What do we do?" I asked. "What can we do? We try to mount it." FoXy said and started sneaking towards him. I didn''t want to be left behind, so I went after her. He wasn''t facing us, so we just needed to be quiet. Of course I didn''t want to lose this mount, even for my teammate, but I couldn''t overtake her without making any noise. When we approached him we both used "Mount" skill at the same time. The result was easy to predict. "Ow!" 2X We bumped into each other, and pegasus ran away. My precious flying mount, now flying away into distance. I was too sad to even look at him. "Hahaha!" I heard a joyful laughter. What is so funny? We just lost our only chance for a flying mount. "Don''t worry, we will get another chance." FoXy said while still laughing. We didn''t get another chance. We waited for another flying mount but there weren''t any to be seen. After that we just catched two normal horses. They appeared after about two minutes of waiting, so I tried not to complain. ¡°They are really cute, aren¡¯t they?¡± my always happy teammate said while looking at them. I catched a white horse, and FoXy a black one. It¡¯s not like I wasn¡¯t happy, but after seeing pegasus just flying away, I don¡¯t feel like celebrating right now. ¡°Want to do other quests? Maybe you will even level up.¡± ¡°Okay..¡± I replied like a small child, that was being comforted by his mother. 6. My first raid - 1 I was looking now at a big wooden door. It was a night and we were standing at the cemetery. It was located near the forest, and all I could see were headstones. Almost all of them were small, cheap and didn''t had a name on them. Only some looked somewhat good. One of them was now in front of me. A crypt made of red brick. On it''s roof there was a big silver cross and above the door there was a nameplate. "Here lies a great knight Randle the Handsome. May his soul rest in peace." I read the sign. I don''t know if he really was that handsome, but I wasn''t here for that reason. I was here to kill him. Well, you might say that he is already dead. Well, that''s right but for some reason he became a zombie. It''s all part of a quest "Old and scary stories". It''s part of the main quest, and to do this you need to have 15 lvl. Anyway this quest is bigger than the rest, and for doing it you get more rewards than normally. The reason is simple. It''s a raid. "I''m so excited!" I heard Brian''s voice. Yeah, that was it. Our first raid. The most important thing in MMORPGs. Of course some people like PVP more but I love raids. I love going with your group to do big quests. "Don''t be. It''s not that big of a deal." FoXy replied. Well, maybe she was right. We could do this raid with three people. But still, it was a raid. Can''t you be a little excited? We still didn''t join any guild, and we were doing quests alone. Well, it''s not like there are many guilds for now. The RaS is still young, and I want to wait to join any guild. It''s still hard to see if the guild you are joining is a good one, and if the people there want to play seriously. "I don''t think we will have any problems, but stick to the plan." FoXy said and opened the door. After that we entered the crypt. Inside of it there was a coffin. It was heavily decorated, and it was made of a beautiful kind of wood. It looked rich and nice but there was one problem. It was empty. Before the coffin there was a flat stone that was hiding some kind of stairs under it. They were going underground and the only way to follow them was to get rid of the stone. When I approached it a window popped out. "To enter this raid you need to have 15 lvl or more. Do you want to enter?" it said. After accepting it, I saw a loading screen. I was in this white space, just like when I was creating my character. After a minute of waiting I was teleported to a new location. I was now standing on brick stairs. Everything was dark and I couldn''t really see anything. You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story. Above me there was the same piece of stone which I used to enter this place. "Oh you are already here." I heard familiar voice. It was FoXy. She was just teleported here after me. Then, after Brian showed up we started going downstairs. There was no reason to wait. After walking for some time we saw a big wooden door. When we opened it we saw a big room. It was all dark and empty, with just some columns int it. Then we heard a weird noise. It was like bones rubbing against each other. SKELETON LVL 17
HP 1800/1800
MP 100/100
It was a normal, naked skeleton with a short sword and shield. He was patrolling this room and he didn''t seem to see us. "I will get his attention. Lilly, use your buffs on me, and when I need it heal me. Brain, just hit him with your bow. Understand?" FoXy said and after we agreed she went to attack him. It wasn''t a hard fight, and after maybe a minute we killed him. This skeleton gave us a lot of experience and gold, and even if we divided it into three, we still got more than after fighting with normal mobs. And it wasn''t the only things that was good in doing raids. When you kill a boss of a raid you can get a rare item. You can use it if it''s for your class, and even if it''s not you can sell it for a lot of gold. "Ufff." Brain started panting after this fight. "Are you tired? We can get a rest if you are." I said after looking at him. When he heard me he straightened up immediately. "N-No! Of course we don''t need to take a break! Hehehe. It was so easy hehe!" I don''t understand him. Anyway, we fought in the same way with any monster we encountered in here. There were all different. Wraiths, zombies, skeletons but each of them was easy to kill if we used our tactic. After maybe ten minutes of fighting we saw a big golden door. It was different than others because it was bigger and had some kind of letters on it but I couldn''t read them. "It must be a boss." I said after looking at them. I played many MMORPGs so I know a boss room when I see one. "Think we can handle it?" Brian asked. "Are you asking this now?!" FoXy replied and then started opening the door. She didn''t wait, and she didn''t want to prepare for the fight. I didn¡¯t think it was smart but what can happen? It''s just a first raid. When she did that we saw a big room. It was bigger than any other room we were in. It had many burning candles and books. All of them were placed in some kind of circle and in the middle of it there was a woman. She was young and her skin was really pale. She was wearing a long white dress. Her hair was long and dark and she was looking at the floor, as if she didn''t noticed that we were there. "What do we do?!" Brian asked but FoXy didn''t wait to answer him. She just entered the room. When she did it the woman looked at us. Her eyes were all white just like her skin. After that she started screaming. It didn''t sound like a human scream. AGATHA BOSS
HP 15000/15000
MP 2000/2000
7. My first raid - 2 "No, no, no!" I heard Brian''s voice. It looked like he was really stressed. Well, it''s not like I can''t understand him, this boss was really powerful. She wasn''t like any of those mobs we were fighting before. I would probably die after two of her attacks. "C-Calm down! It''s not like we can''t win!" FoXy tried to sound confident. She probably didn''t know that her legs were shaking. Well, it was her fault that we needed to fight this boss right now. We could wait outside this room and prepare for this fight, but she just wanted to see what''s inside. I can''t really feel bad for her. Anyway, it looked like I was the only person that was calm in this room. We had a boss that just screamed at us, Brian saying "no" all the time, and FoXy with her shaking legs. When I thought about this Agatha started approaching us, and my companions were to scared to do anything. It looked like I needed to take charge. "FoXy, take her aggro! I will heal you if you will need it! Brian, just attack her and try not to get her aggro on you!" I shouted. "Y-Yeah!" x2 After that we started fighting. Health of this boss was bigger than this of a normal mobs, and her DMG was bigger too, but fighting with her wasn''t that much different. She had some psychical damage, and some powerful spells. She even had a skill that could stun enemies that were near her for two seconds. But even with all this we still didn''t really had any problems with fighting with her. Well, of course she was powerful, but we just used our tactic. FoXy took all of her attention while I was healing her all the time. In the meantime Brian was shooting at her from the distance. We were all using our skills, but not too much to make sure that all of the aggro is on the FoXy. After about five minutes of fighting we took half of her HP. "Hahaha! It''s easier than I thought it would be!" I heard Brian''s voice. The only thing I could think about right now was "are you stupid?". It''s the first thing you would say to trigger a death flag. Just when he said it, skeletons started coming out from the underground. Yeah, it was her second form. She summoned some minions to help her, and she started fighting more aggressively. "Why did you said it idiot!" FoXy shouted when she saw it. "S-Sorry!" Brian just replied. Well, your sorry won''t help us. I don''t think we can win like that. I could heal FoXy while she was fighting with boss only, but now three skeletons were going towards her. They weren''t as powerful as the others in this raid, but they were still strong and had high damage. I couldn''t keep her alive like this. We needed to change our tactic, and we needed to do this fast. "Brian, FoXy, take care of skeletons! I will take her aggro on me!" "Are you mad!" FoXy shouted. "Just do it!" After that I started chanting "Holy missile". It was my best offensive spell, but it needed a lot of preparation time. It also did more damage to undead. When FoXy finally got away from the boss I casted it. When it hit Agatha she looked at me with her white eyes, and after that she started going towards me. Because I used my spell only on her, she was coming alone. Doing that I divided my enemies into two groups. One of them contained only skeletons that were attacking FoXy, and the other was boss that was now approaching me. "Go help her! I will take care of the boss!" I shouted to Brian. When he heard me he left me to help FoXy. "Well, I just need to buy them some time." I said after looking at the boss. She was near me now, and looking at the damage of her attack, after two of them I would be dead. She wasn''t quick, so I could even use heal if I found a good moment, but I still needed to be careful. Unauthorized usage: this narrative is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings. As I thought about this I saw her white hand approaching me. It was her basic attack. Her white hand was now slowly coming towards me. It almost looked harmless, but this was one of the most powerful attack I have ever seen. I quickly dodged her attack, and after that I started running away from her. I need to get away from her, because after this attack she would use her stun. I saw this pattern many times while she was fighting with FoXy, so I knew what she wanted to do. There was no reason to counterattack, I just needed to buy some time. She did tried to stun me, but I was already far away from her. After that she tried the same strategy one more time, but it didn''t work. "It''s not that hard." I said, taking an example from Brian, and triggering a death flag. AI in this game was good. It was the best I have ever seen. That''s why it would be weird for her to just do the same thing one more time. Yeah, even goblins weren''t that stupid. When she saw that her attack couldn''t touch me, she changed her approach. She used magic. It was a simple spell - "Ice ball". This spell was slow, and easy to avoid, but I couldn''t do it. The reason was simple. When I tried to dodge it, I saw that she followed my moves. Yeah, she wanted me to avoid the spell, and after that she would counterattack. That''s some scary AI, but it''s still just an AI. "Don''t think something like this will work." I said and started chanting "Heal". I used it when the "Ice ball" hit me. There was no reason to avoid this attack. I had a lot of mana and I could spam "Heal" and potions on me. Even my equipment was good against magical attacks. "That''s too eas..." "Help!!" One more time I took an example from Brian, and one more time I regretted it. FoXy had problems. When I looked at her I saw that her HP was really low. One of the skeletons was killed, but the rest still had a lot of HP, and she wouldn''t live long enough for Brian to kill them. To make this worse, I was too far away to cast any of my healing spells. Well, there was one spell I could cast. I looked at the boss to make sure that I had time to do it, and when I saw that this was the case I started chanting "Sacrifice". A long spell, that heals all of my group members fully, but it takes half of my HP. Well, I couldn''t do anything else. When I finally casted it I looked at the boss one more time. She didn''t wait for me to finish, one the contrary she was standing right before me, trying to use her hand attack one more time. If not for my years of experience in games I would be probably dead right now, but I barely avoided it. After that I started running one more time. When I made sure that I was far away from her stun area I used some potions. I needed to run in a special way, to not get close to FoXy and Brian. I wouldn''t want the boss to get near them, but it really limited my moves. Of course it was the only things I could do, and I would finally die if I needed to do this for too long, but there was no reason to. After maybe three more minutes my comrades took care of the skeletons, and then they helped me. We used the same tactic that we used at the beginning. The boss didn''t summon anything after that, so we could just effortlessly kill her after that.
Weird necklace +35 INTELLIGENCE
"We did it! We did it!" Brian started shouting when we killed her. We got a lot of gold, and EXP for that. We even got a rare item. "Y-Yeah." I said tired. It was a really hard fight. The hardest I have ever fought in this game to be exact. Even if it was still a game, after doing something like that I wanted to rest. "That was really great. You are really great! I didn''t know that you are so good at this game!" FoXy said to me. "T-Thanks." It''s not like I''m some NEET that feels embarrassed after getting complimented. I''m just pretending to be a shy girl. Yeah, that''s what I''m doing. "You should get this item. You did the most of all of us, and it''s good for your class." Brian said after looking at our loot. When you kill a boss, you can try getting it¡¯s loot or just pass on it. For example, if we are playing in a group that has three people, if every person would try to get this item then all of us would have 1/3 chances of getting it. If one of us passes on it, then the chances are 1/2 and so on. It''s a good system. In some MMORPGs I have played you needed to be the first to click on the monster, to get the loot. It made a lot of people angry. "I don''t think I should..." "Don''t be like this! Brian is right. You really deserve it." "I mean..." I tried to reply to FoXy. I would feel bad about getting this item. I mean, we all fighted with those monsters to get it. But as I thought about this I remembered one thing. Why was I playing as a girl? Wasn''t it for that reason? "I mean, I can do that. Thanks!" I said and took it. I felt a little bad, but it wasn''t the time to think about this. "You really are great! You should make a guild. I would be the first to join it!" "Shut up Brian!" "I-It''s not a bad idea." I replied. For some reason it shocked FoXy a little. After that we went deeper into the raid. 8. End of the raid and some bad people We were slowly going deeper into the raid. Mobs that were attacking us there were stronger, but they weren''t a big challenge for us. Especially after this fight with Agatha. It was hard to imagine something worse. In this quest you needed to kill two bosses and Agatha was one of them. She was a wife of the Randle the Handsome. Of course Randle was the last boss of this raid, and after looking at our last boss fight I was a little concerned. "Don''t worry. We will win it." FoXy said after looking at my face. It seemed that she could read me very easily. "You are probably right..." I said and we continued our walking. After some time we approached another big gate. It was bigger that the one that was leading to Agatha. This time FoXy didn''t just opened it like a fool, but instead we prepared for the fight. I used all of my buffs on everyone, FoXy repaired our inventory and Brian made us some food, that increased our damage and defense You could learn things like this for your skill points, but I just wanted to be better at normal skills so I didn''t bother. After that we opened the door. There we saw a big throne room. It was a dark place, with many flags with a red rose on them. In the end of the room there was a throne, and a knight was sitting on it. He was wearing a black armor, and he had a massive two handed sword. Randle the Handsome BOSS
HP 30 000/30 000
MP 500/500
Main boss. "Be careful. If he''s too strong we will need to run." Brian said to FoXy and after that she approached him. When she was about twenty meters from him, Randle stood up from his throne and pointed his sword at her. "You will die here!" he said and ran towards her, after that he attacked her with his sword. Even when she used her sword, it still took a lot of her hp. His attacks were powerful, really powerful. He wasn''t like Agatha at all. I would probably die after getting hit once by him. But our team was good at fighting things like him. We were good while we were fighting with one enemy, not like with Agatha where we needed to take care of those skeletons. I wouldn''t say that this fight was easy, but it was really boring. Randle had many really powerful attacks, but all of them were hitting only FoXy. Of course she wouldn''t survive many of them, but she was good at avoiding them, and I could heal her if she needed it. It took us a lot of time, and we couldn''t make even one mistake, but we killed him. "That was really easy." Brian said when we did it. I wanted to tell him that it was a death flag but he was right. "It''s not like it''s easy. It''s just that we are good in fighting things like him. I don''t think that the fight with Agatha was supposed to be that hard as it was for us." I replied and both of them looked at me. We didn''t had the most optimal party. We didn''t had a mage or warrior with us. For that reason fighting with many mobs was hard for us, because we were lacking in the AOE aspect. But if we were fighting with a single target, then we were really good. Brian had a high one target damage, FoXy could tank a lot of attacks, and I could heal her all the time. It wasn''t like the raid was badly done, we just had a weird party, that was more about the defence that it was about the damage. I''m sure that if someone took a mage or a warrior instead of a healer, they would have many problems while fighting with Randle, and it would easier for them to fight with Agatha. "You know a lot Lilly." FoXy said while we were leaving the raid. Well, it was true. I played many MMORPGs, and many times I saw people just playing high dps roles, just because they wanted to do more damage. I can understand that, but you need a healer and a knight in a party. You can always find someone to do damage, but it''s hard to find someone who can take or heal this damage. "It''s still night out there." Brian said when we exited the raid. We were standing in the cemetery, near the entrance to the raid. It took us some time to do this quest, but it wasn''t long enough for the day to come. "Now we just need to go to the city. After that I think I will go to sleep." FoXy said and started walking. Then I heard a laugh. It was a man''s laugh. A laugh that I had never heard before. When I looked into its directions I saw a mage. He had a short red hair, small eyes and a weird face. He was a Beast. But there was something that was more interesting about him. His nick. It was red.This story has been stolen from Royal Road. If you read it on Amazon, please report it "Welcome, welcome, welcome!" xXxYourDeathIsNearxXx said. I could only cringe right now. "It took you so much time I thought you might have died there! Hahaha! But I''m happy that you are safe right now! This way I can take your gold!" he said and smiled. When he did that 4 more people appeared next to him. All of them had cringy names, all of them had red hair, and all of them were weak. "W-What do you want from us!" Brian said. Why are you even scared? "Hahhahaha! I want your life and your gold!" xXxYourDeathIsNearxXx said and smiled with a gross smile. I knew people like them. They thought that they were dark or something. You can find them in any MMORPG. In RaS, after you kill a player in a safe zone you get a red name. It makes guards attack you when they see you, and NPCs won''t talk to you. It goes away after 5 hours. They only things you can get after killing someone like that is some gold, but it''s not really worth it. For that reason the only players that do it must be... "I will enjoy killing you!" Idiots. When he said he started chanting the spell. It looked like a fireball. "Like I will let you!" Brian shouted and shooted at him. The mage stopped his chanting and dodged the attack. "W-What do you think you are doing! Do something about him!" he said, and people that were beside him started running towards us. Well I said that they were weak but still, there were more of them that there were us. Two mages, two warriors and one hunter. All of them were offensive classes. There surely was a way to use this. "FoXy, use taunt one those one the backline!" I shouted. "How would I do that!? There are two warriors before them!" Yeah, there were two warriors now going towards us. It would be hard for her to go after those mages and hunter. It would be hard if they were normal people. There is one thing that is different than fighting against mobs when you are fighting humans. Especially those weird ones. They are weak to words. "Don''t worry about them. They are so weak that it''s sad to even look at them." I said and started running. Strangely enough both of them started running towards me with angry faces. In the meantime FoXy ran towards those mages and used her taunt on them. Then Brian used all of his skills to attack them. I have never seen him attack so fast. They must have made him really angry. In those four seconds of taunt he killed one mage and a hunter, but xXxYourDeathIsNearxXx still had a lot of hp. There was a simple reason for that. He had a better equipment. Looking at all those people, this mage had the best things on him. It looked like they gave him all of his money that they got. It made him really strong, but it was stupid, because others were really weak for that reason. When the duration of the taunt was over, xXxYourDeathIsNearxXx jumped away from them and then he started using his potions. FoXy wanted to go after him but I needed some help. "Hey! Help me!" I shouted. After that FoXy came to rescue me. She ran towards me, and when she was near me she used her shield to cover me. Then I started chanting "Holy missile" on one of those warriors. In the same time Brian used one of his more powerful spells too. It was too much for this warrior to take, and after taking all of this damage he died. The other one then started running towards the mage. Both of them had full hp now. "You are good. Really good. But don''t think you can take us on. Attack them!" he shouted at the warrior. "B-But..." "Don''t worry! You know how strong my spells are! We will burn them!" Well, his spells must be strong. After looking at how much damage Brian made to him, I could say that his equipment was good. His spells must do a lot of damage. It would be bad to take something like this. When the warrior heard him he only smiled, and started running towards us. For some reason he was really confident. FoXy then covered me with her shield, to make sure that this spell won''t do any damage to me. Brian just withdrew a little bit, to make sure that he can''t be targeted. The warrior was running towards us, and we were waiting for the mage to use his spells. But he didn''t. Instead he... "H-Hey what are you doing! Don''t leave me!" He ran. "Hahahah!" Brian started laughing, and FoXy used her taunt on the warrior. After that we took most of his hp. He was almost dying, and he was looking at us with angry face. "D-Don''t think this is the end. I will kill all of you. I will..." I couldn''t listen to this cringy monologue so I just used "Holy missile" on him. "Well, I didn''t want to listen to him either." FoXy said to me when I did it. "Shit. But the other one ran away." Brian said with an angry face. "Don''t think about this. It''s good that we even defeated them." She was right. It was really good. I mean, they weren''t good. They were really bad. They put all of their money on one person, they can''t play as a team, and they are easy to provoke, but there was still five of them. In MMORPGs numbers are everything, and if you don''t have a really overpowered character, something like this should be impossible. After this fight we talked for a little bit. We were all really tired after this raid, and this weird fight. FoXy really wanted to sleep, and I was a little hungry so we called it a day. Then I logged off, and I woke up in my room. It was dirty, but I didn''t mind. I went downstairs, making sure that I don''t make too much noise. I wouldn''t want to wake up my mother. After that I heated up the dinner for myself. My mom used to call me for the food, but she don''t do this anymore. Well, it''s not like it makes me sad. After that I went to sleep. In the next day I started looking at the forums. I wanted to read more about those people, and find out if others fought with them too. RaS has a big community, so something like this should be here, but Instead of this I found a photo of a short, white haired girl that was killing a warrior. It was the most popular topic in the forum called "My cute teammate takes care of player killers" made by a person called BIGelfX. 9. My guild and an old "friend" - 1 CHARACTER
Name Lilly
Race Human
Gender Female
Character class Healer
LVL 25
HP 1600/1600
MP 3250/3250
After the raid we started leveling up. For that reason we got a lot of EXP and gold in a short time. Normal mobs were starting to be really easy if you fought them in groups so we didn''t had any problems. For that reason I had some time to think. To think about making a guild. I always wanted to have one. To have a guild with people I like and respect. Many times I needed to find a group, and then when I did, I found out that they don''t really play that much. Of course it was because of girls. If I will have a guild, it would be one with people that love to play, not chat. I also talked to Brian about this weird post on the forum. He apologised to me for it many times. I don''t know why but even FoXy was apologising for it. When I told him that I don''t like it, he was scared that I would stop playing with them. Well, I didn''t felt that way. It was just weird to me. Some people said that I was savage, but then Brian told them that I''m his cute companion and they need to shut up. Some of them said that they had problems with those player killers, and they are really happy that we took care of them, and some of them said things so weird that I don''t want to think about them. We were now in the city. After talking to Brian and FoXy about making a guild, we agreed to try it out. "Hey look. Wasn''t she on this video?" I heard some voices, but when I turned around they went quiet. After some time of walking we approached a big building. It was a guild hall. Here you could make a guild. You need to have 25 lvl, and a lot of money, but we collected some money just for this. I was a little happy that Brian and FoXy help me so much. "I will go alone. Just stay here." I said to them and I went inside. It was a big building and it looked a little like some kind of office. When I looked around I saw few people filling some documents. We played a lot with FoXy and Brian, and we just got 25 lvl. I don''t think many people have characters as strong as we, so it''s not that weird that not that many people are trying to make a guild. It''s a good thing because when you make a guild, one of the most important things is to be first. Guild that were made first are the bigger ones. Stolen content warning: this tale belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences elsewhere. When I was looking around I saw an NPC. A beautiful elf that was standing behind the counter. She had big green eyes, long blonde hair and really big chest. She was wearing a green dress and she was looking at me with a smile. I had a really short character so she looked really tall to me. "How can I help you?" she asked with a nice voice. "I want to make a guild." "Oh! That''s great. Just wait here for a moment. Yes, yes. Here, just fill those papers. After that you will need to pay a fee for making a guild." she said and handed me some papers. After that I took a seat and started filling them up. In them you needed to say what name your guild will have, choose your crest and other things like that. When I was done I returned to the elf lady. "Oh, I see you are ready. So the name is "Mini Crusaders" and your crest is a sword on a white background?" "Y-Yeah." I said somewhat shamefully. I didn''t chose those things, because I didn''t care about them. Instead, I let Brian and FoXy decide what name and crest we would have, but for some reason it made me a little ashamed. Then, after maybe ten seconds of checking a window appeared before me. It asked me if I really want to make this guild. When I clicked "OK" gold disappeared from my bag and near my name a name of a guild appeared, and a caption in green letters, saying "Guild Master". "Thank you." I said and went outside. "Yeah! We finally have a guild." Brian said when he saw me. "Don''t get too excited. Maybe she doesn¡¯t want us in her guild?" FoXy said with a smile. "R-Really?" Well, I liked teasing Brian but I didn''t think it was the time for that. "I''d like you to be in my guild, and I want you to be high in rank in it." I said and I send them invitations to my guild. After that I made them my deputy guild masters. You could have three of them, but now I didn''t even had that many people in my guild. "Thank you!" Brian said as he accepted the invitation. FoXy then did the same thing. "We don''t have much time. We need to find more people. There is no reason to wait, I would like to..." "Ehh, you see Lilli. I don''t really have much time. I need to study and..." Brian interrupted me and looked at me with remorse. "What do you mean? This is the best time to find people. Before other big guilds emerge." "I don''t have time too. I''m really sorry." FoXy then said. Well, things weren''t going as planned. But what I can do? It''s not like I can force them. After saying goodbye to them I went alone to the city hall. It''s the best place in this hour to look for people. If I wanted to find new guild members it was the best place. After maybe three minutes of walking I came there and started shouting. I was advertising my guild, but all the people just looked at me. I don''t know why but no one wanted to come. "It shouldn''t be like this. Not even one person wants to join the guild? Am I really just a NEET that can''t speak with people?" as I said this to myself a cute girl appeared before me. She was small, almost as small as me. She was wearing a really cute clothes. Her robes were violet, and really fancy, and she even had a good staff with her. She was a mage, and a Beast also. A really cute beast. She had a short, black hair and cat''s ears, which made her look really cute. "H-Hey, I saw that you are looking for a guild members. Could I join you?" she asked slowly. "Y-Yeah! Of course you can join! Hmmm "Imphi"?" I said after reading her nick. "Yeah! That''s my name." she said and smiled. Hmm, Imphi? I know that name? I saw it somewhere before. "I''m really happy that you want me in your guild." Where did I saw it? Was it in the previous MMORPG? Yeah, I''m sure it was. I used to play there with someone called Imphi. If I remember correctly this person was... "I never saw a person playing that good. And you are a girl too. I''m so happy that you want me in your guild." She was a girl. And not just any girl. She was the one that had the most items in the whole guild I was playing in, and she wasn''t even playing that much. "It''s nice to meet you Lilly." she said and smiled one more time. 10. My guild and an old "friend" - 2 NEW FRIEND/GUILD MEMBER
Name Imphi
Race Beast
Gender Female
Character class Mage
LVL 23
HP 1350/1350
MP 4000/4000
"M-Maybe we can stop for now? We stayed here for so much time. I don''t want to bother you." I said to this small mage, that was now standing beside me. She had beautiful black hair, and big green eyes. When she heard me she moved her cat''s ears. "What are you talking about?! Look! We have so many new guild members! We just need a little more time, and we will have a really big guild." she said and smiled. Imphi, my old "friend". Well, it''s not like we were arguing in our guild. We were just avoiding each other. I didn''t like girls like her, and she wasn''t speaking with guys like me. Well, now she does. "Hello! Somebody wants to join a guild!" she shouted, and people started going towards her. After that she would led them to me, and I would make them my new guild members. "Don''t you think it''s something bad? I mean, they look really scared when they come to me." I said. "Scared? Are you stupid? They are just embarrassed because you are so cute, and great." she said and smiled one more time. She''s weird. I need to get rid of her. She is really weird. Can''t she see that everyone is scared of me? "You don''t need to worry about anything! After watching this video, and meeting you, I just want to help you! Just leave it to me!" "O-Okay." I responded, and she started shouting one more time. After maybe half an hour we were done. After all this time we recruited 20 people. Most of them had a class, that was dealing lots of damage. We were still short on tanks and healers. They had lower levels than me. Well, it wasn''t weird. I played all the time, so only players that were the best could have a lvl like me. Still, it was weird to see that Imphi had a 23 lvl. She must have been playing a lot. "I''m really thankful, you helped me so much!" I said when she approached me. It was the truth. I don''t think I could recruit anybody. I wanted a cute healer, and now everyone is scared of me. "Don''t be so shy! If you tried some more you would recruit anyone! You just need to go to them!" Imphi replied and smiled. Is she making fun of me? Does she know that I''m a NEET? I''m not a NEET! "Y-Yeah, for sure. Anyway, you should probably end playing for now. I mean, we played for some time, and it''s late. I mean, I can play, but you know. You are not a NEET that can play so much. I mean, I''m not a NEET. I just wanted... Do you understand?" This narrative has been purloined without the author''s approval. Report any appearances on Amazon. "Hahaha, you are so funny!" Imphi said and laughed. She must have a weird sense of humor. "Don''t worry about me! I have a looot of time! We can go to a caf¨¦! I know one that is near, and it''s really great. We can talk there!" "O-Okay?" I replied and she grabbed my hand happily. After that she started walking. Her character was really small, but she was still bigger than me. Her expensive clothes were really beautiful, and they attracted the attention of many players. I could swear that even some NPCs were looking at us. After maybe five minutes of walking we came to a small, wooden building. It was placed far from the center of the city, so there weren''t many players here. "Is it this caf¨¦?" I asked and she nodded. After that she opened the door. When I went inside I smelled some coffee, and sweets.There were many small wooden tables, with a white tablecloths on them. On each of them, there was a vase with some weird, red but beautiful flowers. They weren''t normal flowers, but something you could only see in RaS. Before us there was a counter, and behind it a young girl was standing. She was a human NPC, maybe twenty years old. She was wearing a maid outfit. "Hello! I''m back!" Imphi said and approached the woman. "Welcome back Im-mphi." she said and bowed a little. When she did that I could see her face more clearly. She had long, brown hair, and big blue eyes. She looked like a normal girl, but she was really cute. I don''t really know why, maybe I just like maids? "I told you so many times! Its Imphi, not Im-mphi!" "I''m sorry Im-mphi." this girl replied and bowed a little one more time. Well, even if RaS had one of the best AI''s in computer games, it still couldn''t spell player''s name without problems. It''s still just a normal game. When they were talking I looked around one more time. This place looked beautiful. It had a charming atmosphere, and everywhere you could smell fresh coffee, but for some reason it was empty. It''s not like in RaS you can''t taste things. Of course it''s not like eating something in normal world, but still it could be really enjoyable. So why is it empty? "Do you like it?" this maid girl asked me, when she saw that I was looking around. "Y-Yeah, it''s great. It''s just that this place is really empty." "Ah, don''t mind it. As long as I can have cute customers like you, I''m happy! Oh, I have a great idea! I will bring you some of my cake! For free, for both of you! Just wait here!" "I c-couldn''t..." "Yeah! We''re waiting." Imphi interrupted me, and smiled diabolically. Well, it''s not like I need to argue about this, so I just sat down at one of the tables with her. "So, you wanted to talk with me?" I asked Imphi, when we were sitting. "Yeah! Yeah! It''s about this video! You really are a great player! And how you killed this player killer, I really respect you." Imphi said something weird. "A-And?" I asked one more time. I don''t think that meeting some NEET that killed someone in pvp is really that great. "And?! You are great! You need to have sooo much experience in other games! No one just plays so good in a team, and you are a girl too! At first I thought that you might be some creep that is pretending to be a girl, but after reading this weird guys comments, I know for sure that you are girl. No one would say things like this one the forum if they were lying." Imphi said and smiled. Sorry, but I''m not a girl. "A-And?" "And? Why are you so cold? I just wanted to meet and talk with you. You are so great, and I''m sure that you will become one of the best RaS players." Imphi said with a sad face. Is she really telling the truth? I don¡¯t want to trust a girl. "A-Anyway, why won''t you tell me more about yourself? You say that I''m so great, but look at your equipment." I said, to change the topic. It seemed like she wasn''t a bad girl. Maybe I was wrong about her? Maybe I was just a stupid NEET that doesn''t understand women? "Oh, those items? Don''t worry about them! Some guys gave them to me." Imphi replied and laughed. I wasn''t wrong. I wasn''t wrong. Every woman is like this. Why am I even trying? "Something happened? You don''t look well." she asked me. "I-It''s nothing." I said. After that, this maid approached us with the cake. It was a shortcake with lots of strawberries. "Are you sure we don''t have to pay?" I asked. "Don''t worry about it. Just eat." she replied, and returned to the counter. Then I started eating. The cake tasted great. It was sweet and really tasty. I felt a little bad that I didn''t pay for it though. "Don''t feel bad about it. It''s a great place, and when other players will level up, I''m sure they will hang out in here. Just look at this cute maid." Imphi said, as she stuffed her mouth with the cake. "Maybe you are right?" I replied. It was weird, feeling bad for the NPC, but she was talking like a normal girl. Other NPCs weren''t liker her, it was a little weird, but I decided not to think about this. "Anyway, I''m sooo glad you are a girl." Imphi said, and looked at me. "Why?" "Because I hate men." she replied, and took another bite of her cake. What? 11. My guild and an old "friend" - 3 I just sat there with a blank look. I just heard that Imphi hates men. Of course a lot of people are afraid or even hate the other gender. Even I can understand her. I hate girls. They get free items for nothing, and don''t even play good. In the same time I need to work hard for those things that they get for free. No, that wasn''t the reason I was surprised. The reason that I was surprised was because she was Imphi. That one girl that got items for free in my last guild. That one girl that didn''t do anything, and was just talking all the time. That one girl that made my free time miserable. That one girl that was just talking and laughing with other boys, while getting free items from them. Now she''s saying the she hates men. "It was weird wasn''t it?" she said when I didn''t respond for a long time. "N-No! It''s not weird a-at all that you hate men hehe" I said with a stoic voice and perfect poker face. "So you think it was weird." she replied with a sad face. I don''t understand? Was my poker face not enough? Anyway, for some reason I didn''t want her to be sad. It''s not like I was charmed by her! Oh no! I''m not like those other boys! Yeah, there is another reason. She is now a part of my guild, and I don''t want my guildmates to be sad. Yeah, it''s not like I''m some NEET that can''t look at sad girls. Don''t make fun of this man. "I d-don''t think you are weird!" I replied. When I said she looked at me for a moment and then smiled a little. This book was originally published on Royal Road. Check it out there for the real experience. "Thank you. You can just forget about this." she then responded. I don''t understand her. She''s really weird for such popular girl. Is it something normal? Do boys like weird girls? If I knew about that I would give my character some weird tattoos with a scary eye, and even weirder name. Well, I always liked cute girls, and I thought others did as well, but now I know that this isn''t the case. It''s too late to change my appearance but it''s a good thing to remember. "Anyway, thank you for letting me into the guild." she said when she finished her cake. "O-Oh, it''s not a problem. You really helped me there, I should be the one thanking you." I replied. I looked at her one more time. Those items on her, they were given to her by some guys. She says that she hates men, but she must hang out with them. It can only mean one thing. Yeah, she must be lying. It''s not like I can talk to her about old times, but I can ask her about that. It shouldn''t be a problem. "You said that you hate men, but you have items given to you by them. Don''t you think that this is weird?" I asked with a devilish smile. I want to hear your answer to that. I was a fool to even believe you for a second. "Yeah, it''s hard to explain. I think it will be easier to just show you." she replied and stood up. "Show me?" I don''t understand a thing that she is saying right now. "Yeah, it''s weird and I don''t understand it myself, so I will just show you. Can you come with me?" Imphi asked. It''s something weird? I don''t understand. How can this be weird. You just take advantage of boy¡¯s fragile heart, and then you get free items. How can you even call it weird. But I was a little bit curious. I wanted to get free items too, so I could learn few things from her. "Yeah, I don''t see a reason not to." I replied "Oh? Are you going already? I thought you would stay for a little longer." Maid said when she saw that we were going out. "Yeah, thank you for everything. The cake was great." Imphi replied while opening the door and I just went after her. 12. You should smile more Am I a NEET? If I were to answer this question I would say yes. Of course, don''t get me wrong, It''s not like I feel bad about this. It''s not like I feel worse because of this. No, I feel somewhat better than others. From outside it might seem stupid, but for me it isn''t. Being a NEET means being free. Maybe it''s weird that someone that doesn''t go outside his room speaks about freedom, but it''s just how I see it. I was never pretending. I never said that I liked things that I didn''t like. I live in a really really plain world. A world where girls are evil. Even now, when I follow one of them I feel like I''m not wrong. It might seem stupid to just judge a half of the population like that, but I don''t care. It''s who I am. It''s hard for me to say it, but being a NEET is one of the most characteristic things about me. Being so boring, that not going out is the most interesting thing about you. Well, it doesn''t look good. And now, if what she shows me is true, if she is not that bad. If she just don''t understand... Am I just a stupid NEET that doesn''t understand women? Stupid NEET. "Something is wrong?" this girl walking before me asked me, after I was silent for some time. "I-I''m not a NEET!" I shouted, just to realise how stupid I am. "Hahaha, you really are funny." she just said and continued walking. We were walking for some time now. We left the city long ago, but for some reason we were still walking. I don''t know what she wants me to see. I don''t know where she is leading me to. She said that she doesn''t understand why she receives free items, but why would I trust her? I remember it too well. How many items she got. No, I just went to see how she does it. After some time we approached a big forest. A forest with gigantic trees. It was a beautiful sight, something that makes playing VMMOPRGs worth it. I could play those games just for things like that, but it was the first time I saw something like that. It might mean only one things. It''s a higher lvl zone. "I don''t understand why we are here." I said to Imphi, still looking at this forest. A cold wind blew lightly, moving leaves around, and they just made some noise. In the game an evening was coming, but in real world it was already night. It was a little weird for me, that Imphi was playing at this hour, but I didn''t say anything. "You will see in a moment." Imphi said, and entered the forest. I went inside just behind her, all the time looking around. It wasn''t a normal forest. Not only trees were big, everything was gigantic. From plants to animals, but they weren''t agresive towards us. "It''s a really weird place." I said, after looking at a mushroom bigger than me. "Shhh, look at that." Imphi just silenced me, and pointed at a place, between some trees. When I looked there I saw a weird animal. Well, if it was an animal. This weird thing had a horse legs, but it''s upper body was that of a man. In his hand he had a bow, and few arrows on his back. He looked like a really wild animal. He had a lot of hair, and he was breathing like a wild dog. WILD CENTAUR LVL 31
HP 13 000
MP 0
"Centaur? He looks strong." I said after looking at him. Well, we fought things that had more HP than him, but those were bosses. And even if he doesn''t has as much HP, his defense is much stronger. It''s not something I could defeat alone without any problems. When I was thinking about this Imphi looked at me with a serious look on her face. Then she grabbed her staff. "Listen. I''m going to fight with him. Don''t help me, do you understand?" she then asked. "Fight with this? You can''t defeat something like that alone, even I..." "Just do it. You wanted to see how I get those items, didn''t you? Just hide here, and don''t help me, even if it looks like I might die." she said with a really serious look. Unauthorized use of content: if you find this story on Amazon, report the violation. "O-Okay." I only replied. It''s true that I wanted to see how she does it. It''s true that I want to get free items. It''s all true, but for some reason I don''t like it. I don''t like her just going there alone. I-It''s not like I''m some stupid NEET, that thinks girls need his help all the time. No, it''s not that. She''s just a part of my guild. I don''t want her to go alone. But I decided to see what did she mean, when she said that she doesn''t understand why boys give her free items. I can''t do anything about that right now. So I just hid behind this mushroom. When she saw that I was safe she started running towards the centaur. When he saw her she used a spell. It was "Fireball". It hit the centaur in the head, but it didn''t look like it made much damage. No, it just made him angry. He looked at Imphi with an angry face, and after that he grabbed an arrow from his back and then he put it into the bow. After that he pointed it at Imphi. He wasn''t as big as normal animals in this forest. No, he wasn''t even as big as some of the plants, but he was still really massive compared to us. And his arrow was so big, that even one hit from it would kill Imphi without any problems. That''s why she needed to avoid it. It was the only thing she could do. Then, he let go of the arrow, and with incredible speed it went into her direction. Imphi barely avoided it, and started chanting her new spell. It was an ice spell. I couldn''t remember the name, but it didn''t do that much damage. But it was really useful. If you hit something with it, it could slow your opponent, or if you were lucky even freeze them. She was chanting now, and if she hit him with that, it might give her more chance in fighting with him. Well, if he was stupid that is. When this centaur saw what she was going to do, he started running towards her. In the middle of his run he took another arrow from his back. That was something bad. Even if she uses her spell, she would still get hit and probably die. But if she stops now, the distance between them would be too small, and mages are really bad in melee combat. I wanted to come out to help her, but then I heard a loud scream. It wasn''t Imphi, it wasn''t this centaur. No, it was a scream of a young boy. When I looked into it''s direction I saw a Beast warrior. He had a short red hair, and long wolf ears. He was wearing a light armor, and to fight he used a big, two handed axe. And... He had a 30 lvl. Someone that strong? Not many people are even on my lvl. Someone with a lvl like him... He must be a disgusting NEET. I choked a little thinking about this, but then I remembered that I''m a NEET too. Yeah, it wasn''t that funny anymore. Well, he just jumped at the centaur, and with one attack he took half of his HP. After that the fight took maybe ten seconds. "Hey, are you alright? Someone with your lvl shouldn''t stay here. Come, I will get you to the city." he said, as he approached Imphi. But for some reason she was angry right now. Well, anyway this is something I wanted to see. Now Imphi, show me how you get those free items. Show me how you "don''t understand" how you get those free items. I''m waiting. Yeah, show me. "I d-didn''t need you help! W-Why did you do that?!" Imphi shouted at him. I don''t understand. Weren''t you going to do something else? Why were you shouting right now? I don''t understand. Yeah, I don''t understand but for some reason... For some reason that was cute? "Hahaha, why are you talking about? He would have killed you." this warrior said as he approached her even more. "A-And? Who said I need your help? Stupid!" Imphi shouted one more time, and this warrior laughed once more. Tsundere? "Don''t be like this. You can''t be here with this lvl of yours. Hey, I have an idea. I could give you some items, and then you will return to lvl somewhere else. What do you think?" he said with a smile. "W-Who would want your dirty items?" She''s pretending, isn''t she? Yeah, she is pretending. It can''t be true. It''s too stupid to be true. Yeah, she is just pretending, for sure. "Hahaha, don''t be like this. I could even help you with some quests. I''m really strong, you see?" he said with a smile. Oh, disgusting NEET trying to show off his lvl. I can''t look at this. "Help? From you? Don''t be stupid. Who do you think you are?" "Hahah, I''m sending you some items right now. You should really use them. They will help you. Are you sure you don''t want my help? I could go with you even now. I''m really bored anyway." I understand. Now I understand. For all this time I thought people like cute girls. Well, I like them. But it''s not true. They like tsundere characters. Now I see. Thinking about this I came out of hiding, and then I approached them. When this warrior saw me he smiled one more time at Imphi. "Your friend? You thought you could get some exp here? Heheh, even two people couldn''t do much with your lvl. Come, I will go with you, and then... Wait, "Lilly"? I saw this name somewhere before..." he said, and his smile started fading. But I didn''t care. I wasn''t even listening to him. Now I was thinking about something else. Yeah, being a tsundere. I don''t really know how should I do it, but I saw many things like this. If I was to be a tsundere, then I would... I looked him straight into his eyes. "Get out or I will kill you... stupid." I said with a stone face. Yeah, this is a tsundere. Heheheh, give me those free items. Those free weapons, and armor. Oh yeah, I waited so much for this. "I''m s-sorry!" What? Why is he running? I don''t understand. "Thank you!" Imphi said and started hugging me, but I couldn''t care about this less. The only thing I cared about now, was now running away from me. Running away from me with my free items. "You were so cool there! He was running so fast. Hahah stupid idiot! You really are great!" Imphi said, while still hugging me. Maybe I should smile more? 13. Guild War - 1 CHARACTER
Name Lilly
Race Human
Gender Female
Character class Healer
LVL 35
HP 4500/4500
MP 9050/9050
Lately, leveling started being a really fun thing to do. I think that it¡¯s because of two things. Firstly, my guild is getting bigger and bigger. Mini Crusaders has 40 members right now. It¡¯s not a large guild, but the game is getting more popular, and in this moment we are one of the medium sized guilds. For that reason, when I go leveling there are always some people that can help me. Of course, those people are FoXy, Brian and Imphi, but I¡¯m still happy. Reading guild chat is a really fun thing to do, even if for some reason no one really responds to my posts. The second reason is the game. I knew that RaS can be a really fun and beautiful game, but it¡¯s getting only better. Even fist locations were really pretty, but now they are gorgeous. Lately I ended all my quest in this weird forest that Imphi showed me, and it was a beautiful place. Now I will be leveling in a new location. I heard that it¡¯s a snowy land, with gorgeous views and weird monsters. I smiled a little thinking about this. I really want to get more levels, and do some more quest in this new location. ¡°Ahh, it¡¯s so boring! I don¡¯t want to level up anymore! Can¡¯t we just go and so some PVP?¡± Brian said, looking at me with dead eyes. We were now sitting in a small inn. It was placed near main road after this weird forest, so not many people ever got there. ¡°What are you even saying stupid? We will do what Lilly wants!¡± Imphi said irritated. ¡°Did you said anything?¡± Brian responded with anger. For some reason he doesn¡¯t treat her like other guys. ¡°Now, now. Let¡¯s not argue. We are in the same guild after all.¡± FoXy said, and smiled. After that both of them looked away with angry faces. ¡°You don¡¯t want to go with me?¡± I asked Brian with a sad face. I can¡¯t force him to do anything, but I still want to go with everyone. Leveling is really fun when we are all together, but I can¡¯t do anything if he doesn¡¯t want to go with me. ¡°I-It¡¯s not like I don¡¯t want to go with you¡­¡±The narrative has been taken without permission. Report any sightings. ¡°Hmmm?¡± Imphi looked at him with smug face. ¡°S-Shut up!¡± ¡°Thank you Brian, but if you don¡¯t want to I couldn¡¯t¡­¡± I tried to say, but he interrupted me. ¡°N-No! I will go! Yeah, let¡¯s go kill some monsters! Even now!¡± he said, and FoXy smiled at him for some reason. To be honest, I was a little afraid at first. I thought that Imphi might get too much attention, or she might anger someone, but I was wrong. She is a really valuable member of this guild, and I¡¯m happy she joined us. Well, I hope she won¡¯t get any free items that I should get, but I decided to not to worry about this for now. ¡°Wahh, it really was hard.¡± I heard girl¡¯s voice outside. This place is somewhere, where only high lvl players are, so I was a little interested who might it be. I looked at the door, and after a moment two girls entered the inn. One of them was an elf. She was small and petite, but not as small as me. She had shoulder length blonde hair, and big blue eyes. Her face was really cute, and she had a really nice smile. She was wearing a dark and really light armour, and at the waist she had two short daggers. Both of them were glowing green a little. They were probably poisoned. Yeah, an assassin, and near her an orc. Not many players are playing orcs in this game. They don¡¯t look cute, or even slightly appealing, but for some reason I really liked how she looks. She was a tall warrior. She was wearing a slightly worn armor, and on her back she had a big sword, that probably needed both of her hands. Her face was rough, with many scars and earrings, and her hair was really short. ¡°Rina, and BiGPunch.¡± I read their names. No, this elf girl wasn¡¯t named Rina, and this orc wasn¡¯t named BiGPunch. It was quite the opposite. A really weird naming convention. ¡°Look at their guild.¡± Brian said, and I looked at their nicks. Near them there was a guild name. "Tainted Gods?¡± FoXy said, and started thinking about something. This little elf girl, BiGPunch, had a caption near her name. The same caption as me. She was the guild master. Hmmm, Tainted Gods. I heard it somewhere too. I remember that when I read our guild chat, some people would often said, that they were bullied by other guild. Yeah, this guild was called¡­ ¡°They are those idiots, that are making troubles for us!¡± Imphi said with anger, after she came to the same conclusion as me. ¡°Yeah, it would be better to avoid them.¡± FoXy said quietly, and looked at me. ¡°Let¡¯s go somewhere else.¡± she then said, and started going towards the exit. Well, it¡¯s not that bad idea. I don¡¯t think we should fight with other guild right now. We aren¡¯t that small, but our members are still weak, and don¡¯t know this game that much. Yeah it would be better to just go away for now and... ¡°Hey! I won¡¯t let them get away with it!¡± Brian shouted, and then pointed at those girls. Don¡¯t be stupid Brian, not now. Didn¡¯t you said we will you to get some levels? Are you going to betray me now? Are you!? ¡°Hey. Why are you pointing at us?¡± I heard cute, and unfamiliar voice. When I looked into it¡¯s direction I saw this little elf, now looking at me. Why are you looking at me? Wasn¡¯t it Brian that pointed at you? Why is it always me? ¡°A-Ah, don¡¯t worry about us, we were just leaving.¡± I said, and started going towards the exit, but this time it was Imphi that started talking. ¡°You are making problems for Lilly. Apologise now, or you will regret it.¡± she said with a smug face. Why are you making this face? You didn¡¯t say anything cool! ¡°Hmm? Rina, come here.¡± this elf said, and then the other girl came to us. ¡°Something happened?¡± she responded, with a really low voice for a girl. ¡°I think this girl wants to fight with us.¡± elf girl replied, and then for some weird reason pointed at me. Why are pointing at me? I just wanted to leave! ¡°Fight? With us? But she is just a healer.¡± orc said, and laughed a little. ¡°What are you laughing at, ugly?!¡± Imphi stop, we need to get out. Don¡¯t you see? ¡°Are you talking to me, dwarf? ¡°Don¡¯t argue, but look closer at her name.¡± elf girl said, and pointed at my name. ¡°Oh? She is a guild leader. It can only mean one thing.¡± ¡°Yeah, a guild war!¡± after saying that, this weird assassin smiled for some reason. 14. Guild War - 2 I started looking around. I was in a place similar to a Colosseum. A place where two guilds can fight each other. It looked like something from a history textbook. The place where you fought was covered in sand, and around it were tribunes. "It''s pretty big, isn''t it?" Brian asked, after looking around. Yeah, this place was big. It was likely made to contain tens of people. Well, this fight won¡¯t be that big. "What, are you scared now? It''s your fault to begin with." Imphi said to Brian, and he looked at her with angry eyes. It''s your fault too! Both of you are at fault! "We shouldn''t argue right now. I didn''t want to do this, but if we need to, we should win this." FoXy calmed both of them down, and then looked at me. "Do we have a plan?" she then asked. Well, if I need to be honest we don''t have a plan. After looking at both of our guilds, we decided to fight using only our best players. Tainted Gods are smaller than us, and they don''t have many high level players. Well, it''s not like we have them too, so that''s why only four of us will be fighting right now. It''s not like I wanted to fight them in the first place. I tried to calm the situation down, but there wasn''t anything I could do, and when I thought about just declining their offer to fight, some of our guild members were too excited to see this fight. I can see them in the tribunes right now, waving to us. Anyway, for some reason there are a lot of people now looking at this fight. Of course, not even half of the places were taken, but still many people want to see this fight. It might be one of the first guild wars, but it doesn''t really look like it. "Are you listening to me?" FoXy asked me something one more time. "Yeah, yeah. Just give me a moment." I replied and looked at our enemies. It was a really small war. There was four of us, and four of them. Yeah, in our team there was FoXy, Brian, Imphi and me. In their there was this weird elf girl BIGPunch, this orc Rina, and two others. I couldn''t really see their faces or their gear, because they were wearing coats, but both of them were small. Anyway, I don''t think they are just wearing them to show off. I don''t think we should attack them blindly, it would be better to find out who is behind those clothes. If it''s about this warrior and assassin, then we can just fight them like normal mobs. Low level players can''t really use powerful spells, and we should just make sure that this elf won''t make it to our backlines. I''m a little concerned about those glowing daggers. "It''s bad, because we have only one mele champion, and they have at least two, but I think you should be able to survive. I can heal you and cure poison, so if you could, you should take both assassin and warrior attacks on you FoXy." I said after thinking for a moment. The genuine version of this novel can be found on another site. Support the author by reading it there. "Sure." FoXy just replied shortly. "Brian and Imphi should attack assassin and warrior, while FoXy is taking damage. And I want you to do one more thing." "What is it?" Brian asked, and Imphi looked at me puzzled. "Try to hit those two in coats. It doesn''t look like a normal item, so it should disappear when you hit them." I said, and both of them looked at me surprised. Yeah, this item looked like something you could get in item-shop. Something you could get for real money. "Just do it." I said, and then I looked at our enemies. "Are you ready to fight!?" BIGPunch shouted, with a smile. She was far away, but I could still see her face. "Yeah!" I said, and after that BIGPunch and Rina started running towards us. I casted all my buffs as fast as I could on FoXy, and then she started running towards our enemies. They met in the middle, and FoXy clashed her weapons with Rina. In this commotion BIGPunch tried to get away from them, and attack me, but FoXy used her taunt ability. When I knew that I was safe I started casting healing spells on FoXy. After that Brian and Imphi used their offensive spells to attack BIGPunch and Rina, but something was weird. Everything went according to plan, but those two behind them didn''t move at all. Not even a little. "Something is weird." I said, after casting another healing spell. When the taunt ended, both BIGPunch and Rina retreated because their HP was low. And then, something weird happened. I saw a little movement behind one of the cloaks, and then both of them were healed fully. It didn''t even take one second for their HP to be restored. "What?! Are you scared?!" BIGPuch shouted at us, and smiled. It must have been an item-shop item. I don''t think it¡¯s against the rules, but it doesn''t mean I don¡¯t think it¡¯s cheating. I was just a little angry. "Brian, attack them when they run!" I shouted, and started running towards our enemies. "O-Ok!" Brian just replied, and prepared to attack. "Run?! Aren''t you a little too confident?" this orc girl said, and pointed her big sword at me. But I didn''t care about her. The only thing I needed, was to attack those two behind her. I tried to dodge her attack, but I was still running, so I didn''t manage to do it. Her hit took about quarter of my HP. I didn''t wait to heal, instead I started running once again. "What are you doing?!" this time, this assassin girl got before me. I stopped, and pointed my staff to the sky. After that I used "Holy explosion". A spell that you get at 30 lvl, that damages all near enemies for small amount of hp. As if they knew what I was doing, BIGPunch went to attack me, and both of those weird, cloaked people, started running. Well, I knew that I won''t hit them with something like this, but Brian was only waiting for opportunity like this. He used his "Rain of Arrows" to damage all of our enemies. When he did that, those weird cloaks disappeared. "C-Cute." Brian then said for some reason. When I looked where he was looking, I saw two Human girls. One of them was a Healer, and the other was a Hunter. They both had the same height, and the same hairstyle. The only thing that made them different was the color of their hair. They both had long, straight hair, but this Hunter girl had a black hair, and this Healer had a white hair. For some reason both of them were wearing the same item-shop clothes. And in addition, one of the most expensive ones. "Why are they wearing maid uniforms?" Imphi asked, after looking at them. 15. Guild war - 3 Maid uniforms. Maid uniforms. Why I didn¡¯t think about this!? Everyone loves maids. I should have bought one days ago! I looked at them once more. They were really cute. Yeah! They were cuter than me! It was unbelievable! ¡°For some reason she looks really angry.¡± this orc girl said, while looking at me. ¡°Don¡¯t worry about her.¡± BIGPunch replied, and looked at those maid girls. After that she raised her hand. When she did that both of them started running towards the rest of my team. Ignoring their clothes, both of them had really good items. The Hunter had a really great bow, and this healer had some good jewelry. ¡°Run!¡± I shouted at my team, and started running away. We have some good items, but I don¡¯t think we would be able to win against something like this in a normal fight. Their hunter would destroy Brian, and I don¡¯t think I can go against this healer without a plan. For now we should see what they can do¡­ Just as I thought about this, above my head a ¡°Rain of Arrows¡± appeared. This skill shouldn¡¯t have this much range. Well, it wasn¡¯t anything scary. I just casted a ¡°True shield¡±. A simple spell that negates any damage taken in next four seconds. When I turned around I saw that this hunter girl was running towards me with a scary speed. She must have used some speed potion. My teammates were just running around, trying not to fight with the other three. It was a good thing, but looking at this situation, I was sure that I would need to fight with this hunter. There was no reason to run, so I stopped. You can¡¯t evade a shot from a hunter with a bow like this while moving, and her speed was too fast for me. When I did that she slowed a little, making sure that it¡¯s not a trap made by me. When she did that I could look at her a little better. She had long dark hair, and black eyes. Her face was cute, but without any expression. It was a very weird character. You might be reading a stolen copy. Visit Royal Road for the authentic version. Anyway, I didn¡¯t have time to think about her looks. I needed to fight her. After looking at her equipment, I didn¡¯t think it would be possible. Her every item is better than mine, and she had some weird bonuses from potions. Well, that would be the case if she was as good as I am. I don¡¯t know how good she is, but after this ¡°Rain of Arrows¡±, I¡¯m sure she is not a skilled player. Now I only need to use this. When she was maybe fifty meters from me I used ¡°Holy flame¡±. A strong spell, that can do a big amount of damage. And as I predicted, she avoided it. She avoided it with a giant jump. A skilled player, would just do a little step, and then he would start running once again. She didn¡¯t do that. Instead she jumped. And this jump was a very long one. When I saw that, there was only one thing to do. ¡°Gain strength¡±, ¡°Strength¡±, ¡°Hand power¡±, ¡°Buff attack¡±, ¡°Hand damage buff¡±, ¡°Perfect melee¡±... I used all my spells, scrolls, potions and daily items, that gave me melee combat advantage. I was now a real fighter. Well, for the next half a minute. After buffing myself, I started running towards her. Of course she wasn¡¯t stupid, and she started running away. Even a healer, after so many buffs can be deadly at a close range combat. My melee attacks were much stronger than other ones. After maybe ten seconds of running, I heard a laughter from her. It seemed like she enjoyed herself. I¡¯m sure that she thought that I did something stupid, and that she is going to kill me in a few seconds after my buffs go away. Well, I can¡¯t blame her. I would think the same thing. I would, if I didn¡¯t know what item I had in my pocket. When we were approaching the wall, I threw a small, dark ball. It bounced a few times, and then a dark smoke started coming out from it. ¡°Gas bomb¡±. A shop item. I got it from someone for a cheap item. No one really buys it, because it¡¯s really weak. Its effect is simple. Anyone in range of this smoke will be blinded. That¡¯s all. Any good player knows how to avoid it, and disadvantage is the same for both sides. That¡¯s why this item isn¡¯t popular. Well, that wasn¡¯t the case now. I went into the smoke, and using my hearing I localised my enemy. It seemed like she wanted to run away from the smoke. A smart move, but she wasn¡¯t running in her full speed. It seemed like she was being careful. That wasn¡¯t that smart. I swung my staff into the area where I heard her, dealing lots of damage. Someone who avoids ¡°Holy flame¡± with a jump that big, can¡¯t avoid a melee attack from this near. I knew that, so I didn¡¯t wait for even a moment, and I swung my staff once more. After maybe ten seconds she was defeated. It was a really simple fight. I used all my buffs and potions, but I defeated someone who had really strong items. I think it shows that in VMMORPGs, skill is one of - if not the most important thing. ¡°Good fight.¡± I said, and waited for the smoke to disappear. When it did, I saw three bodies of my teammates laying on the ground. 16. To merge, or not to merge ¡°Good fight. That was fun!¡± I heard a girl¡¯s voice. It was BIGPunch. After our fight we went to eat something. Just the two of us. I didn¡¯t really want to, but she insisted. Well, I couldn¡¯t decline her offer, after my guild lost to her in a guild war. I took a bite of my cake as I looked around. We were in some kind of restaurant. A really expensive one to be precise. This place was huge, and beautiful, but it looked like a place you would take someone you like to. No way?! Does she like me? No, it can¡¯t be it. I drank some tea as I tried to calm myself. This can¡¯t be the case. ¡°You really are a great player Lilly!¡± she then said, and grabbed my hands with glowing eyes. In the same moment everyone around us started looking at us. ¡°T-Thanks.¡± I said, thinking about how to refuse her politely. ¡°That¡¯s why I want to merge our guilds!¡± ¡°No, sorry, I¡¯m not looking for a girlfriend... ¡° I said and bowed my head. Wait. What? Am I wrong or she said something different? ¡°What are you talking about? Anyway, I want to merge our guilds. After our fight I saw what you are capable of! I saw what your guildmates, are capable¡­ of¡­¡± she looked like she wanted to say something, but she didn¡¯t. Instead she just smiled. ¡°Merge our guilds? I don¡¯t understand.¡± ¡°Both of our guilds aren¡¯t that big! Both of us need new members! It¡¯s a great opportunity! After I saw your fight with our hunter I knew you are a right person to do it! You should see his face after you defeated him!¡± BIGPunch said, and laughed a little. Wait, ¡°his¡± face? Did I heard it right? He must be some kind of pervert to play as a girl in a¡­ ¡°Something happened? You don¡¯t look well.¡± this elf girl asked me, with concerned look. ¡°N-No continue¡­¡± I said, and took another sip of my tea. If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. Please report it. ¡°As I said, our guilds aren¡¯t that big. We still can¡¯t compete with the bigger ones in RaS. But if we could just play together. We would be indestructible. Just imagine it! Me, and you! My teammates, and¡­ your teammates...¡± I don¡¯t understand. Why is talking about my teammates so hard for you? ¡°Anyway, what do you think!?¡± she then asked, and once again grabbed my hands. Well, you might ask ¡°what do you think¡±, but I don¡¯t really know. It¡¯s not like I can just decide on something like this by myself in a moment. And if I¡¯m not mistaken your guild isn¡¯t really liked by mine. ¡°Let me think about this.¡± I just replied, and after that we split up. BIGPunch looked a little disappointed, that I didn¡¯t gave her immediate answer, but there wasn¡¯t anything I could do. Things like this aren¡¯t easy. Well, maybe I¡¯m just some NEET, that thinks too deeply about stupid things, but I can¡¯t help it. I don¡¯t want to just do something and then regret it. Well, it must be normal for every human. As I thought about those things, I left the restaurant. It was the middle of the night in RaS, but I¡¯m sure that it¡¯s late in a normal world too. I was in the first city - Airedale. It was the main city, and many players still spent here most of their time. When I started walking in this white city, I saw one player with low levels, doing his first quests. When I looked at him I started to think about my real life. My grades are good, I can¡¯t say I¡¯m being bullied, but here I am, playing this game in all of my free time. Well, it¡¯s not like I dislike it. On the contrary, I love this game. ¡°Better not to think about unnecessary things.¡± I said to myself, and continued walking. I thought about contacting the rest of my guild, but they are probably offline at this hour. I can¡¯t really blame them, it¡¯s not like anyone can spend as much time in this game as me. ¡°I will just walk for some time, and then I should call it a day.¡± I thought to myself, and continued to stroll around. Some time has passed, and I entered the shopping district. Many shops were lit by countless lamps, but I could see here only NPCs. No one was online at this hour. ¡°Well, I should call it a day.¡± I said, and started to logout. I can always play tomorrow. I should also tell the others about this weird offer from BIGPunch. Well, it looks like I will have a lot to do. But this will be tomorro... ¡°Hey! Stop! Stop right now!¡± I heard a girl¡¯s voice behind me. Is she talking to me? No, why would she¡­ ¡°Can¡¯t you hear me!? Stop right now!!¡± she shouted one more time. Yeah, she must be calling me. I don¡¯t want to answer her. She must be some weird person, that is online at this late¡­ ¡°Hey! Why are you so sad?! Anyway, just stop logging out!¡± she said, and I reluctantly listened to her. Just who might it be? As I thought about this, I turned around. When I did it I saw two familiar girls, and both of them were wearing maid outfits. 17. A beautiful dance in the moonlight ¡°What is it¡­ Mimi?¡± I said, as I looked at the name of this maid girl. She was a healer like me, with long white hair and emotionless face. She had big, blue eyes and cute face, but for some reason she was shouting at me. To her left there was this maid hunter that I fought in the guild war. Her face was similar to Mimi¡¯s, but her eyes and hair were black. Well, I can say ¡°her¡±, but she is a man. And for some reason this man was now bashfully looking at me. ¡°Don¡¯t remember us? We fought in the guild war, and you defeated Momo!¡± this healer girl said, and pointed at the hunter. Why are they here? Do they hate me? I just wanted to log out. The must hate me. Are they going to attack me? Are they going to whack me? Mamma mia. ¡°Hey! What are you thinking about? Anyway, we are here because of this fight!¡± Mimi said, and looked at me with passion in her eyes. ¡°What do you mean?¡± I asked, but I didn¡¯t look at her, but at the hunter ¡°girl¡± that was standing near her. She was still looking at me bashfully, while holding her maid skirt. ¡°My friend wants a rematch.¡± Your friend wants a rematch? Well, it¡¯s good that you don¡¯t want to whack me, but can¡¯t your friend speak for hers¡­ himself? Anyway, I just wanted to logout. ¡°So? How it will be?¡± this healer girl asked me one more time. ¡°You see¡­ It wouldn¡¯t be a problem, but my items are really bad. At that time I won because of all those buffs and scrolls, but now I will lose in seconds. I don¡¯t want to waste our time. Let¡¯s just say that she won, ok?¡± I said, and this hunter looked at me with sad expression. I don¡¯t understand. Why do you want to fight so much? ¡°Oh, don¡¯t worry about that.¡± Mimi said, and started to undress. ¡°H-Hey! W-Wait¡­¡± I tried to stop her, but a window appeared before my eyes and stopped me. ¡°A player [ Mimi ] wants to trade items with you. Do you accept this request?¡± When I clicked ¡°yes¡±, another window appeared, and in it all of Mimi items were placed for me to take. When you trade in RaS, you need to specify the price you want to get for you goods. The price she wanted was nothing. ¡°Of course, I hope you will return those items after your fight. Now you don¡¯t have any problems, do you?¡± Well, if you put it like this. Anyway, her items were much better than mine. Her weapon could deal two times the damage of mine, and her robes were really expensive. She even gave me her maid outfit, but I didn¡¯t see a reason for that. Items like this don¡¯t give you any stats advantage, but I didn¡¯t say anything. Maybe I wanted to see how I would look in it? ¡°Okay, but let¡¯s make it quick.¡± I replied, and started changing my gear. It took me only seconds, and after that I was wearing a maid outfit, with the best items I have ever had. Well, with something like this even I could get some free items, but I don¡¯t want to spend real money on a game. ¡°A player [ Momo ] wants to have a match with you. Do you accept this request?¡± You don¡¯t waste time, do you? When I clicked ¡°yes¡±, a timer showed up. In 10 seconds, we would start our fight. It was a night, and we were also in a shopping district. No one would bother us, and we had a lot of place to fight here. After looking at this from that perspective, it might seem that they did it on purpose. ¡°¡±Stone skin¡±,¡±Holy shield¡±, ¡°Small blessing¡±,¡±Greater blessing¡±¡± I started using all my buffs, that I could. Well, it might seem cheap, but a healer wasn¡¯t made for PVP. I don¡¯t think they would be angry about it. If you come across this story on Amazon, it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it. ¡°Begin!¡± I stopped thinking, when a window popped up. Mimi moved away, to not bother us, and I was now facing my enemy. We were maybe twenty meters away from ourselves, and the first thing that Momo has done, was using ¡°Rain of Arrows¡±. You don¡¯t need a lot of time to cast it, so it was a good spell to start a fight. I had many options, but I decided to run towards her. I should end this fight before my buffs run out. ¡°It won¡¯t work for the second time.¡± this hunter just said, and used ¡°Invisibility¡±. As the name suggests, it makes you invisible for a small amount of time. It¡¯s not really popular, because you lose it after your first attack, and you gain 50% debuff for all your attacks for the next 5 seconds after you are spotted. Well, there is also another reason. A simpler one. I immediately used ¡°Holy explosion¡±. A simple spell that deals a small amount of damage to all near enemies. The reason for that was simple. You would lose your invisibility, after you get damaged. When I did it, Momo showed up two meters before me with a sword. Hunters can use swords, but it¡¯s rare that you see one doing it. They are weaker than Warriors, and slower than Assassins. That¡¯s why weapons like those should be used only if you can¡¯t do anything else. She attacked me, and I didn¡¯t avoid it. Well, I couldn¡¯t avoid it. It¡¯s not like her attack was fatal at all. After getting the debuff from ¡°Invisibility¡±, and using a sword as a hunter her attack dealt a really small amount of damage to me. After that I just jumped away to make sure, that she won¡¯t surprise me with anything else. But something was weird. Even after I jumped away I was still losing HP. ¡°I bought this poison for this fight.¡± Momo said, and smiled at me. A poison, huh? But I don¡¯t understand. I can just use ¡°Cure poison¡±, and it won¡¯t be a problem. Well, that¡¯s why I thought, but when I looked at my status I saw that this poison wasn¡¯t normal. It was bought from cash shop. Is he rich or something? Anyway, something like this can¡¯t be cured with a normal spell. ¡°Want to resign?¡± Mimi asked from the side, still looking at our fight. She wanted to sound serious, but it was hard to take it that way because she was almost naked. I looked around, thinking about my situation once again. I could resign right now. I didn¡¯t see a reason to continue fighting. I just wanted to log out anyway, so it shouldn¡¯t be a problem to just admit defeat right now. ¡°Regeneration¡± I used one of my spells, to minimize the damage dealt to my by the poison. I could admit defeat. I could, but I was too proud to do it. After staying here to fight, I want to win. But how can I win a fight like this? I can¡¯t do a melee tactic one more time, and I don¡¯t think I can win with her in a normal fight while being under this poison. I can only¡­ No I shouldn¡¯t do it. How will it look? No! Now I need to think only about winning! ¡°This shallow pride! I cast it away!¡± I shouted. When I did both Momo and Mimi looked at me surprised. Well, it might seem weird from their perspective, but I was going to do something that was probably going to make me throw up in real world. ¡°W-What is she doing?¡± Momo asked, while looking at me. ¡°N-No way! Be careful! No one should use this technique!¡± Mimi replied with a shock on her face. Here I was, jumping and changing my trajectory as fast as I could. One could say that I was looking at seven places at once. After few seconds I started feeling unwell. To be precise, I wanted to throw up. But why was I doing that? Well, many first person shooters noobs jump and run around at first to avoid the bullets from the enemy. Of course it isn¡¯t effective at all, and they learn to not do this after a while. Well, it¡¯s not effective against good players. But against other noobs? ¡°H-Hey! I can¡¯t hit her! What is it!?¡± ¡°How you can¡¯t hit her?! Just use some spells! It shouldn¡¯t be that hard!¡± After jumping for a while, I quickly used ¡°Holy bullet¡± on my enemy. It¡¯s a really fast spell, that doesn¡¯t deal a lot of damage, but because of my new equipment that wasn¡¯t the case now. It was hard for her to avoid it, so she took a direct hit from it. Well, she wasn¡¯t the only done taking damage from this ¡°technique¡±. ¡°¡±Holy bullet¡±,¡±Holly bullet¡±,¡±Holly bullet¡±,¡±Holly bullet¡±...¡± I started using this spell as fast as I could. Jumping around like this wasn¡¯t good for me, so it was better for me to end it quickly. At first Momo even avoided some of my attacks, but after a while a few of them hit her, and then¡­ ¡°I lost¡­¡± ¡°Y-Yeah¡­¡± I said, still feeling unwell. Then I started to undress, trying not to fall down. When I was changing my equipment Mimi came to us. For some reason her eyes were shining, while she looked at me. ¡°This technique¡­ it really was something great!¡± she then said with a smile. Eh? ¡°Yeah. It looked like a beautiful dance. Like something from a fairytale.¡± Momo said, and then drank HP potion. From fairytale? Are you both stupid? ¡°Y-Yeah, anyway here is your equipment. I really need to go now so¡­¡± ¡°Don¡¯t worry about us. I just hope we will be able to see this beautiful fighting style once again.¡± Mimi replied. ¡°Yeah¡­¡± I just said, and logged out, trying not to throw up.