miércoles, 1 de abril de 2015

Volume 3, Chapter 3 - The first meeting

Chapter 3 – The first meeting

The timeless moments that happens in one life are strange and almost non-existent if you don’t realize about them

For Juran Miles there has been two, and strangely enough both of them has been because of an arrow

Common situation but with different results, but what affected Juran the most in those two was only one thing

Helplessness

Juran is extremely talented, but his talent resided on magic, specifically in the divine ways of it

But he wasn’t born with the talent he strived for

And that was combat talent

A gift two of his siblings were granted, something the man before him excelled to unimaginable heights

Not even when he strived and worked for it, not even when he puked blood and destroyed his body and bordered the limits of mental exhaustion using selfheal

Deciding from an early age to live with the soldiers and train with them he never gave up

Looking up for his big brother and being proud of his younger sister who are physically talented

Even after all his efforts he could never be like his brother, not even when he was considered a genius by everyone, Juran always sought that, thus the people remained silent and just watched over him, his older brother proud and his younger siblings with respect and worship

But the more he trained the more he felt his own limit

And then, when that first arrow was directed to his heart he truly felt it, that helplessness of just waiting for ‘it’ to come

As he devoted every fibre of his being on moving and helping Ardha get out of the path of the projectile, he noticed a slight stream going around Ardha’s armour

Thus, instead of dedicating his being on moving he simply watched, capturing this moment with his eyes awed by the sight

A single motion from taking his scabbarded sword out in a single line

‘But it’s too late’ grimaced Juran on his overdriving mind

Then, a feeling of drain surged in Juran’s body, knowing the feeling very well he immediately deduced it from Ardha’s very peculiar set of skills

Losing almost all his buffs, Juran just watched as the arrow slightly slowed down because of the Annulment camp

Feeling the effect coming off, another thing appeared in front

Darkness appearing out of nowhere, taking an irregular shape like it was alive and desperate to protect its master, but it was incomplete

The arrow went through the Dark Coat almost unaffected, but Juran noticed it

Ardha’s motion which seemed late before was perfect, like cutting through space into a fine unchanged line, not even a single hesitation on the movement, as if everything was premeditated

Juran finally believed it when the metallic sound between a sword and an arrow reverberated through the space

In less than a second Ardha didn’t simply react to the upcoming projectile he used multiple skills and calculated the right timing for everything

Such a thing that Juran even doubted his siblings could do the man before him pulled it off

With a last emotion, the moment passed and with it time came back

Watching ahead, a silhouette appeared, the most catching of that was not his shape, the skill that was displaying or even that swinging shape that came from its back, it was those deep golden eyes full with shining brilliance

But even with that catching figure, Juran noticed that pale shine of blue flowing through the slightly shaking right hand of Ardha

All things went away for Juran at that very moment, and a single thought remained like second nature to him with a slight smile

‘I have to train more’

But that second time...
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‘Crap, I blacked out for a moment there, the action was too abrupt’ I thought as I feel my feet stumble slightly

A slight headache roamed inside my head and I use my water element slightly to heal my right hand because of the fast motion, but despite all of it I am feeling really excited

‘I finally can use the fourth element enhancement now! Well, maybe not now, but definitely when my Elemental Enhancing reaches advanced level 5!’

Using four elements has been an impossible task even after struggling for month, even after I could control 3 elements like normal and with few strains going further than that has been a pitfall every time I dare try… like the last time I ‘succeeded’

God that was awful, my whole body broke apart like a glass shattered by a rock, if it wasn’t because of Juran, Peko and my water element I would have died right there

‘But now I have an answer, it will be really hard though…’

Suddenly I hear a noise and I wake up from my thoughts

Deep golden eyes appeared from the dark along with a silhouette hidden by the shadows that was getting closer and closer

‘So they are finally showing up… well, at least one of them is, but that shape…’

Seeing the shape of what its coming closer we ready our weapon but something is amiss with it

Surprise arise from our faces when its body comes to light

Human facial expression with azure scales extending from the cheeks to the rest of its body, deep golden eyes that are alert to everything, azure blue hair and a tail that just about reaches the ground, wearing leather armour and having a bow and two daggers as equipment

Watching each other for a second i finally ask the first thing that comes to my head

“That attack was really good”

As if taken aback slightly by that comment the ‘man’ before me answers

“Eh, thanks…”

Without letting him finish, my fighting spirit and my killing intent comes out as I look at him at the eyes

Flinching for a moment because of the sudden imposing aura I give he takes a step back and put his hands on both of his daggers in a split second ready to fight as other presences that were hidden comes out to back up the fellow in front of us

But without taking notice of that I just continue saying

“But if you dare do that again I by myself will split you in half with the rest of your friends”

Without getting out from his stance he nods his head and I calm down, asking the second thing that comes to my head

“Are you Scardi?”

Because of his already tense mood he flinches at hearing my words

“Who sent you?” He asks back without answering my question, taking his reaction in count then I assume he is Scardi

“Azalea”

His eyes sharpen for a second and then he relaxes back as he gets out of his fighting stance

“I am sorry about earlier I needed to test you, it has been told to us that human reinforcement might come by the name of Azalea, but when we saw your numbers… well, you have proven that you are strong, my name is Grudell Scardi”

“I understand, we are just a few but you can trust us, my name is Ardha” I tell him then one by one my companions star saying their names

“Juran”

“Isa”

“Vladi”

“Aren”

“Luer”

“Kiner”

“Arksen”

“Zenith… and you should tell your friends over there to introduce themselves too” says Zenith while pointing with his face to the direction of the other presences

Grudell nods and waves his right hand

Five other people like Grudell appear, by the looks of it there are 2 females and 3 males

The females introduce themselves first, both of them identical to each other with short dark green hair and scales with golden eyes, the only difference is that one has a bracelet on her left hand and the other on the right

“I am Sili and the one on my right is my sister, Jun” says the one who has the left bracelet Jun only nods a bit warily

“My name is Hein”

“And I am Pux”

Two of the males introduce themselves; Hein has a smaller build with brownish scales and hair with dark brown eyes, and Piure has about the same build as Arksen with pale green scales and hair and his eyes are light brown

The third one just stays silent while watching me at the eye, pitch black scales and hair with sky blue eyes and a built of about 2 metres with bulging muscles, instead of daggers he has a huge sword like Zenith’s

Grudell steps up and introduces him “He is Isca, he isn’t someone of many words but you can trust your back to him”

Before I could say anything, Isca speaks up “He doesn’t need it”

Grudell’s eyes widens a bit but he returns back to normal after taking a glance at me

“Nice to meet you, do you guys eat meat?” I ask while smiling

Surprised at my question, the Scardi people just say yes and I start getting ready for cooking

Looking at them and my group I say “Sit down everyone”

Nodding, the group sits down, the Scardi group are a bit dumbfounded at my sudden relaxed attitude but shrugged it off nonetheless

While waiting for me to finish cooking, Kagito asks Grudell with a serious expression “Do you guys have any information about Dorek’s army?”

Grudell’s eyes narrow and everyone gets serious, nodding he answers “Yes, it might not be recent but I can say that it should border the 9000s by now”

Hearing those numbers a sinking feeling befell on us

“9000… and I guess it is still growing?”

“Yes”

“That’s quite a number but it doesn’t really mean much of their true fighting force, are there more like Cha Cha?” Zenith asks

Grudell nods with his eyes closed and takes a deep breath before he starts talking again

“Yes, Dorek has 4 commanders at his disposition who are at the very least at Cha Cha’s level… well, 3 now, the fact that Cha Cha was around here took us by surprise but luckily you guys could defeat him”

“Three…. This is getting harder by the minute…”mumbles Kagito

I think for a second and say “I guess we will need her help… Kagito, take one for the team and pm Eliana and tell her about our situation”

“Ugh… Ok” Kagito accedes with a sour look and start speaking with Eliana in PM

While Kagito speaks I ask Grudell “And how about you guys, how many are you?”

“Ha! We are a lot, if we take together our whole race we should amount to at least one hundred thousand… but our race is quite divided” Grudell says it while having a self-mocking face, the others have a sour expression on their faces too

“What do you mean?” Asks Isa with an intrigued face

With a thoughtful look Grudell says “Well, if we convince the nearby tribes we can amount to… 3000 thousands at most”

“Oh… where are the others then?” Asks Vladi

“Well, they are in other regions of the Plains of Gauder and some are in others parts of the Continent” Answers Grudell

“Oh…”

“Well, with 3000 plus our reinforcement it shouldn’t be that impossible to win if he attacks us…” Says Juran with a grim face as he knew what was coming

As expected, Hein shakes his head and says “Dorek’s power and army are still growing he will obliterate us by the time he decides to attack us”

“How is his power growing?” Zenith asks while frowning

“When he fought against Gardan he ended up heavily injured and a part of his powers sealed, his recovery took a long time and the seal slowly faded away but there is one more thing… we don’t exactly know what it is, but it is slowly giving Dorek more power” Answers Grudell

*Sigh* “This place is almost as chaotic as my homeland…” Says Zenith

Grudell looks curiously at Zenith, but before he could ask anything I say “Well, the food is ready and I have cooked a lot, so let’s dig in!”

Everyone cheers and start eating as I fill their plates

While eating we start talking about other stuff, we decided to camp here as the other have to go, and I say

“I’ll stay, I want to practice something”

They nod and Vladi, Isa, Arksen and Kagito log out

The Scardi group looked curiously at us and I realize that they haven’t met a foreigner yet so I tell them

“Oh, forgot to tell you, we are foreigners”

As if lightbulbs appeared on their heads they say “Ohhhh”

Jun who hasn’t talked much ask curiously at my friends here “How is it to live with a foreigner?”

Huh? What am I, an animal?

Zenith shrugs, and says “Well, they have different times than us, after observing Ardha for a few years Peko and I reached an understanding on him, at first he would go on nights after nights with small breaks and then he would go off for 30-40 hours normally… but he seems to say a code word before going on those big breaks that is ‘I am going to rest’”

‘He has a point I always say that whenever I am going to rest for the day’

All the Scardi people were looking curiously while taking glances at me, even Isca was paying attention while feigning indifference

Aren joins the conversation and says “There are also their eating habits it seems they have something as a ‘satiety bar’ and if they eat more than that they start getting sluggish… but it does seem that Ardha’s satiety bar is bigger”

Then Juran jumped in “Oh yeah, I still remember when you guys got into an eating contest…” then the other group of barbarians

I feigned ignorance looking elsewhere while whistling

Then I stand up and say “Well, I’m going over there to practice”

Everyone nod and keep on talking as if I wasn’t there in the first place… *sniff*

As I recluse myself like an outcast I start practicing the fourth elemental enhancing before the feeling goes away

I try slowly the combinations but always fail when I am on the third elemental enhancing… but the started is Wind, at least I know that

‘Hmmm, but using wind has a limit and if I try to enhance it with fire or lightning it start getting out of control… maybe instead of slowly I should do it explosively?’

As I start getting an idea I use Wind and Lightning, but the speed was too much to handle, then Wind and Fire it is

‘Elemental Blending, Elemental Enhancing: Wind-Fire, Max output’

As I did it recklessly I felt the world distorting a bit and a headache came, thus I stop the process because I knew it was doomed to fail

I start growling in dissatisfaction with a bitter expression and I realized everyone was looking at me and I shout “What happened?”

Zenith is the one to answer with an amused expression “Well, it seems we all felt something oppressive and it came from your direction”

“Oh… Don’t worry I am just trying something”

The Scardinians, as I chose to call them, are looking at me as if I am a rare animal and Aren was just shaking his head with half a smile

But then Zenith said something interesting “If you are trying to use four elements then try doing one at a time… and use Overflow”

I look at him surprised and he continues while shrugging “Hey, I might not know much about your skill but I have been hanging out with you for over 3 years, I can catch one thing or another”

I smile and nod

Everyone starts looking curiously because Juran said they would be able to watch something interesting

I shake my head and enter in a state of concentration

“Razer Body”

I feel my body changing and my resistance going up

“Overflow”

Then I feel a wave of energy and power surging while my mind clears up, I smile at this feeling

Then I think for a second how to do it and start figuring out a way

‘Elemental Enhancing: Wind, Max output’

As I feel my senses sharpening and getting an otherworldly feeling I concentrate until I feel that I am going to hit a wall

Then I use the element that would help break that wall with raw power

‘Elemental Blending, Adding Element: Fire, Middle-Low output’

Then, something quite amazing happened, I felt like I could overview everything… well, until a range but I couldn’t dwell on the feeling as the fire element accomplished it role

And now ‘Elemental Blending, Adding Element: Lightning, High output’

Then I felt that range increasing, I felt my body was as light as a feather and every sense blending, I could feel the flow of the elements intertwining and increasing by themselves, but at the same time they were getting erratic

I felt a cold sweat because it was obvious what was going to happen, but thanks to this state my mind was clear, my instinct and my reason were working together, and then I felt it

‘Compress’

Then that huge range of overview that I felt compressed at the same speed it got larger, a huge energy was storing in me at a lightning fast pace and the elements were compacting themselves and organizing

Then the fourth element was coming up, but…

But then I felt something screaming at me, a full sense of danger and the only thing I could think of was

‘I screwed up’

My body was breaking apart

“Annulment!”

Everything broke apart for a second, my mind shut down and everything was complete darkness

Then everything started slowly, a warm feeling swimming throughout my consciousness and my being

Then a blurry vision started appearing and I felt a distant sound getting nearer and nearer

I could vaguely feel my body now and little by little the pain that was waiting for me

Then I could hear someone growling in pain, and I realized it was me

‘Holy xxxx’ As I was about to log off I suddenly felt I shouldn’t, for a reason I stayed logged in and endured the sharp pain coming from everywhere in my body

Gritting my teeth, the image in front of my eyes finally was clear enough to guess

Juran was in front of me while extending both of his hands on top of my body while a light was appearing in front of them

Zenith is spreading quite an ominous feeling and it felt that the remains were dispersed by him

After a minute that felt like an eternity my body calmed down, with some sequels of the pain and Juran sighs

“What the hell were you trying to do, when we felt something was going wrong you suddenly shouted ‘Annulment!’ and created a mini explosion, then your body fell on the ground like a corpse, if it wasn’t for Zenith dispersing the remains of the power and I trying to repair your body and at the same time supplying your vitality you would have broken in pieces!”

Then Zenith’s eyes opened and sighed in relief while seeing me, and then he says “You screwed up?”

“Yep, I screwed up” My voice sounds a bit hoarse

The Scardinians and the Barbarian looked at me curiously and Aren sighed when he saw that I finally could talk and says

“You really don’t cease to surprise me”

I smile wryly and try to sit down, while doing so I feel that my body is numb from the pain, so it is a bit uncomfortable to move

But my head hurts the most, this headache is quite something, I use the water element to relax and repair my body

Then Juran says “It seems you are fine now, it took us quite a long time to finally get you back, and this is why Isa always says that you are the reckless one of the group”

Everyone chuckles at that comment and I smile

I open the notifications and a bunch of stuff appears

Endurance, Perseverance and Fighting spirit gone up but one caught my attention


System Notification

You have bypassed the systems control of pain, a report has been sent along with a video of the event to the central operation system. Please contact the nearest Insanity Corporation building with your name and ID for more information.

Parallel.

‘Haaah, I screwed up’

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Grrrr, i was going to post it before, but i finally got released!

Well, you could say i am back in the game so, hello everyone~

Hope you enjoy the chapter, it is quite tedious because not much happens, but i needed to do it :V

Well, bye

~Sky

lunes, 10 de noviembre de 2014

Welcome to my Blog~

As the title says, Welcome~

I am really sorry for disappearing just like that without saying anything, i won't do it again and at least i will say it beforehand~... wait, that's no good~

The reason for my sudden disappearance is because of a disease called Procrastination, it really hit me hard~

Anyways without further ado, here is Chapter 2 on japtem~

And here on the blog

I am thinking of writing another story which will be Original this time, but it will be more of a side project

Oh yeah! What do you guys think of the blog? Should i change the image and put a more normal one or just keep it like that?

Volume 3, Chapter 2 - The Fire Chameleon

Chapter 2. The Fire Chameleon


Since the battle against the Prinny Brigade, Kaiser has come to be one of the best and most famous Guild in the entire game, only placing second on a Ranking Guild poll arranged by KK Tv to Pathfinders which is leaded by Brazen, the representative player of Krainall Kingdom and current Rank 6 player in the Level ladder.

During that time, Kaiser’s accomplishment has been second to none, with the release of the fight against the Mini-boss Colossus and Mader, along with clearing the Dungeon of Wishes or, as it is more commonly named, Dungeon of Trials

Claiming mines, which have been known to be extremely difficult to clear even for expedition parties of over 20 players with only 8 people. The hardest thing about this kind of dungeons are the monsters’ defence and crushing attacks, as a clean hit from them can break equipment as if these were glass, thus making the expedition extremely expensive or really slow

Even Ardha, the top ranked player, got killed once in a mine when not even an army of players could defeat him… well, it was mostly because they fell on a trap which severely affected their mobility and sacrificing himself to buy time for the others to get out.

And now they are the vanguard players on a new quest with a difficulty of B++!

Reacting first to the crisis, they mobilized their forces and has been helping out the nearby Villages and small Towns of the Plains of Gauder with their representatives going into the plains to solve this quest

Many got interested about this quest and because of that many expedition parties were formed to try and solve it themselves, managing to secure the borders of the Plains of Gauder and bringing safety with them

But that was as far as they could go

Advancing one mile on the Plains of Gauder infested by Lizard-type monster between other things was a colossal task, even more when most of them bordered the level 300!

Even Kagito and Brazen, current Rank 5 and 6 players along with being the Guild Masters of Kaiser and Pathfinders respectively, broke through that barrier not too long ago!

Everyone thought that breaking through the level 300 barrier wouldn’t be that hard as a group of 4 people did it in record breaking time but even after 4 months in real life just 2 more people entered that realm

Smoothly advancing forward as if nothing could stop them are the Kaisers claiming their crown

Encouraging many and discouraging even more

Not even Brazen could stay calm about this as he watches the updated Ranking Ladder

  • 1. User name: Ardha Level: 351
  • 2. User name: Vladi Level: 350
  • 3. User name: Arksen Level: 350
  • 4. User name: Isa Level: 350
  • 5. User name: Kagito Level: 303
  • 6. User name: Brazen Level: 301
  • 13. User name: Tyrfing Level: 297
  • 16. User name: Strike Level: 295

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It has been almost two month since we departed from Gardan Village into the Plains of Gauder in search of the Scardi people

The journey has been quite hectic because of the overabundance of lizard monsters going around so we pay a lot of attention to our surroundings as little by little our teamwork increases with the Barbarians, whose names apart from Aren are Trien, Luer, Zair and Faicen.

We start creating different formations for different occasion as the Lizards are more troublesome than expected…

Once we spotted a group of Lizards and decided to ambush them, but we didn’t notice that one of them had a horn and started giving sound signals for help… it ended up with us running and trying to lose them while Zenith and I tried to slow the horde down with magic

Even with all of that we have managed to keep ourselves alive as I think we are about a few days of travel to get to the pointed mark on the map that signals where the Scardi people are…

…but we have stumbled upon a slightly troublesome problem….

To get there we need to go through a tunnel which we don’t know its total length and trying to border the huge cliff would only take us more time that we don’t really have as we don’t exactly know the power of Dorek’s real army and its growth

But as luck has it, an encampment of Lizards is in front of the entrance guarding it. Their numbers are around 20, but that is not the biggest problem here as a quantity like that is manageable, the reason we don’t just rashly attack them is because they are leaded by a commander type Lizard which appears to be some kind of Chameleon

Commander type monsters are really troublesome, having strength rivalling mini-boss class monsters and leadership skills that makes normal groups of monsters twice as dangerous.

At least their levels aren’t much higher than the group they command, normally differing 5 levels as it is the case with this one


Cha Cha Level: 325

Health: 205.500
Mana: 10.000

Good thing that commander type monsters’ HP isn’t that high, it rivals an above average one at best.

“Are we attacking?” asks Isa in a concerned tone

Everyone stays silent at the question of Isa, but we don’t really have the luxury to waste time so I look at everyone who has serious faces and nod

“Yes we will, but we need to come up with a strategy… especially with that Cha Cha, taking care of it is our first priority”

“Oh! Then can I use the-“

““No”” Isa and I say at the same time towards Arksen

“Ehh… c’mon it’s not like they are going to be unusable forever…” Arksen protests

“Haaah, they are really hard to get you know? I think we are one of the few people in the entire game who possess such materials and you want to use them on a whim… so only use your spear” says Isa in a scolding manner to our hot blooded friend

Well, it’s not like I can’t understand him but really, ‘those’ can only be used in desperate situation

*Sigh* “Ok…” answers Arksen in a dispirited manner

At the mood of our friend Vladi lets escape a giggle and everyone seems to contain their laugh, what a group we are

As if regaining composure, Arksen sharpens his gaze and asks

“Well well, putting that aside, what will we do with-“I stop Arksen before he says anything more

I understand what he is thinking and that is another problem, lately we have found out that someone might be watching us from afar, mostly by instincts and concentration, but even so, that or those that are staying vigilant of our movements are really good hiding their presences

But there is one thing that we are kind of sure, that is that they aren’t hostile… if they were part of Dorek’s faction then we might have been raided long ago, that’s why we aren’t pursuing their presence for now

Noticing my intentions Arksen shuts up, and we all start discussing a plan to attack the encampment of Lizards, taking into account that there are 6 Alligator and 15 normal lizard like monsters that have more of a greenish colour besides the Chameleon

Taking our position and wait for the enemies to let their guard down, we prepare to attack at any moment

I prepare my magic and I hold it in until I see that Cha Cha is giving some instruction and they are regrouping to eat the rest of a Bigfoot monster

Without wasting the opportunity I cast my magic

‘Elemental Blending, Elemental Enhancing: Fire-Earth’

“Vortex!” getting the bonuses from the enhancement I use Vortex to trap them in a single zone

The lizards, noticing their situation, start pushing forwards instinctively but it was too late as some meteors are falling to their direction and some of them get hit by them

Giving them no rest I cast Earth Spikes along with slight tremors to affect their footing and pierce them while doing so

Cha Cha acts quickly and starts giving some kind of instructions that we don’t understand while he hits the meteors and breaks the spikes around, the Alligators starts doing the same to save minimize damage but we don’t let them as a rapid fire from Vladi attacks them from a distance

The bullets hit straight the weaker lizard monsters and kill some of them, Cha Cha looking a ‘bit’ pissed off at their dire situation changes colour

“GROOOOWL!!~~~”

An infuriated Chameleon goes straight to Vladi’s supposed position but knowing this beforehand, Kagito, Isa and the Barbarians appear and begin attacking it

Without a single sign of surprise on Cha Cha, it begin attacking them with heavy hits while the Alligators and the other lizards begins stabilizing themselves

But Zenith and I aren’t that merciful to let them get momentum as we both cast Fire Field on their position, thanks to the cooperation attack the effect doubled and it irritated the lizards more

It’s bad to let them be outnumbered for too long so Juran, Zenith and I enter the stage

“Zenith and I will take Cha Cha down you guys kill the other Lizards!” I give orders and everyone follows them, but Cha Cha seems even more pissed than before as he shout

“You insolent humans dare to stand against me, Cha Cha!? I will make sure to crush and devour all of you!!!!!!!!!”

‘! He can speak!?’ At the shout we get surprised, no lizard monster so far has spoken a word

Suddenly his skin becomes bright red and it begins breathing fire to us

Zenith blocks the incoming attacks of Cha Cha and I use the slight opening he made at his big move, slashing his chest with both swords, if the battle continues Cha Cha will become more and more dangerous as it seems to be transforming

Infuriated at my attacks Cha Cha uses his claws to attack me but suddenly it notices a huge ball of energy coming its way at extreme speed

Cha Cha springs to the side to evade the attack but it touched his flank and exploded, looking at itself in pain he uses his special skill: Cloaking

Almost disappearing from our sight, blinded by the pain and anger, Cha Cha didn’t realize the other incoming attack

A spear imbued with darkness flew at an incredible speed towards his right leg, piercing it and Cha Cha lets out another howl of pain at the sudden attack, having a spear through his right thigh

Everything according to plan, Arksen makes his appearance by trying to attack Cha Cha again with his Dark Spear hand

Zenith and I move fast to corner Cha Cha, and even when it tried using cloaking, because of his right leg almost disabled he couldn’t move or retreat much, making his position easier to detect

Vladi focuses on aiding the others that are fighting against the other Lizards

Taking notice of his dire situation, Cha Cha momentarily stopped moving and as if sucking the air, he begins breathing in strongly, at that action we instinctively fall back-

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

-Then a sudden pillar of fire appeared, exploding with him at the centre

“Ugh” At that explosion we all got pushed back a few metres, and the sudden heat starts spreading everywhere with a heat more powerful than our fire field

‘It seems we couldn’t defeat it before the transformation… oh well, not that we can’t defeat it like that too’

Organizing my thoughts I get ready while looking forward, taking a glance at everyone to make sure if everyone is okay, but it seems my worries were unfounded, the three of us who were closes to the explosion radius were already on our feet

The others didn’t seems affected at all by the explosion but the Lizards who were under the command of Cha Cha had turned slightly redder

That’s one of the troublesome things about commander type monsters, if they end up transforming, their bonuses transfer to their underlings in a small portion

But the one most concerning is the monster itself, I did expect something like this but it is a pain anyways as the monster standing right now in front of me is really menacing now

Taking the spear out of his right thigh, Cha Cha who is now covered in fire seems like a fire demon with quite an angry look in his eyes. His body almost twice as big because of the flames surrounding him and the wounds previously inflicted were closing at lightning speed, of course, that must have hurt like hell, but now it seems to have most of his mobility back

No monster transform without paying a price

Looking at the HP bar on Cha Cha we know that only 32% of it is left

Being more careful against our new transformed enemy, we end up circling him with him not moving an inch

Looking at us with his predatory gaze, a sudden movement from his right arm flashes

Without wasting a second, Zenith react at the sudden ball of fire coming his way and evades magnificently, taking this as an opportunity, Arksen and I close in an instant

Without letting his guard down, Cha Cha uses his tail to try and hit us

Sadly for him, I am the first one to stand in the tail’s trajectory

‘Elemental Blending, Elemental Enhancing: Fire-Wind, Annulment’ I activate my skills and grab the tail with all my strength taking a bit of damage and a slight burn status, using the fire element to make the consumption of the Annulment lesser

Surprised that his tail engulfed in flames was stopped by me, Cha Cha couldn’t react at the speed of Arksen who is now coated in magic with his right hand covered in darkness making it seems like a spear

“Dark Speeearr!!” shouting his skill just because it makes him looks cooler, Arksen thrusts his right arms on Cha Cha’s abs, almost piercing all the way if it wasn’t because of the fast reaction of the Chameleon using his left arm to attack Arksen

Because of the momentum of the body turn I let go of the tail and Arksen back away, but Zenith arrives before the Chameleon in the next instant, prepared for that and slash horizontally at Cha Cha’s left flank

Giving out another howl of pain, Cha Cha retaliates expanding his flames like an explosion to send Zenith away

I think it is lucky for us that Cha Cha’s element for transformation is Fire. Fire elemental monsters’ defence drops while their destructive power increases a 100%, making up for their low defences they are engulfed in flames which deals damage to nearby players

But because of Arksen unique magical coat, most of the damage done by the fire is fended off, while I have Dark Coat, Annulment, Absorption and a variety of skills to minimize damage and Zenith whose Deathly aura almost nullifies those kinds of attacks if they are not condensed, making him almost immune to detrimental statuses.

Thus driving Cha Cha to his current situation with a desperate look being surrounded by us who are almost intact from the fight

Growling because of the pain, Cha Cha seems to be in his lasts moments, looking at his surrounding and noticing that almost all of his minions are dead

Zenith advances recklessly towards Cha Cha who got distracted by a second, because of the surprise, the Chameleon starts spouting fire at Zenith who stops his movement as if he predetermined the attack of his enemy, waving his sword doing a power wave and neutralizing the flame which destructive power is no joke

Without waiting for Zenith to give us a signal to attack, Arksen and I charge towards the confused and panicked Cha Cha whose attack got temporarily neutralized

But a being in a desperate situation is when it is most dangerous, thus I notice his gaze and sucks up the fire back to his body

As if saying with his eyes that he won’t go down alone, I look at him

By my gaze it freezes on the spot

A look of total despair befall his face as my sword imbued in Annulment with all its power stabs at his abdomen

I nullified his self-destruction

Arksen a moment later appears on the back of Cha Cha with a jump with his Dark Spear and stabs the place where the heart should be

“It was a nice fight” I say to the defeated enemy who couldn’t talk anymore because of sucking up the fire and drops to his knees powerlessly, looking straight to my eyes before losing all colours

Turning into ashes the drops appear, but before looking at them, I watch how the others are doing

Suddenly, the body of an Alligator flies towards my direction, but lands before touching me and stops just a metre in front of me, then, as it vanishes, the others comes to our direction

“Rough fight, but really, you guys are amazing” says Aren while he walks to us with his sword resting on his shoulder

“Bwahahahha! No one can stand against my Dark Spear!” shouts Arksen happily with a V sign

“Pff, what’s with that ‘Dark Speeearr!!’ shout you did a while ago, so lame” and Isa without mercy crushes him

“Ugh…”

At that, Kagito averts his gaze

“Hmmm, I do remember someone shouting something like ‘Life Overdrivee!!’” I remark teasingly and Kagito seems to make an Urgh sound while everyone starts laughing

“Hahahahaha! We are warriors after all!” laughs and remarks Aren while hitting Kagito’s back with his palm repeatedly

…If Kagito was a normal human, then he would have been sent flying by that kind of strength

“Good job, lad” says Dei, who kept quiet during the entire fight, to congratulate us

“Thanks, partner” after I answer that, Dei becomes quiet again

I just smile at that, he really helped me out to control Annulment at that last moment, if not, Cha Cha would have exploded with me, I might have not died but still severely injured

“Oh well, let’s check the drops~” says Arksen as if nothing happened

Looking at our spoils, Vladi’s eyes shine and we let out an amused sigh

“Hoooh”


Heart of the Fire Chameleon

Material to enhance equipment – Grade B

Surround the user’s body in flames when in combat creating a defensive barrier. The bonuses might vary depending on who enchants the gear.



Chameleon’s Skin

Material to make equipment – Grade B

If used to make armour, the skin will grant the special ability [Cloaking]. Depending on the user’s class or action, the ability might get enhanced.


Mostly those 2 items were really good, the others were regular items. Chameleon’s Skin would be extremely good for Vladi who specializes in covering us

And Heart of the Fire Chameleon seems like a good item for a tanker as it might give a bonus of damage because of the defence

Thus I give the Chameleon’s skin to Vladi and the Heart of the Fire Chameleon to Isa

No one objects to that as they read my intentions, the rest of items is distributed properly for each one to handle

Then Arksen comes to me to repair his spear which received some damage because of Cha Cha

As I repair the spear, I feel a strange presence for a split second before I notice a projectile coming to my direction at an extreme speed

Unconsciously I activate Elemental Blending and Elemental Enhancing while grabbing Dei to face of the projectile

As I face the direction of the projectile I clearly see those eyes

Shining in the darkness with a yellow glow, our gazes meet as I hear the metallic sound of the clash

My consciousness drifts away as I see that gaze coming forward to our direction

That day I met Grudell Scardi

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Here it is, the long awaited (By me) Chapter 2!!!

Well, i do have to apologize as the quality hasn't gone up, i even think it might have gone down, but i will try to fix it up

Anyways, welcome~

I will probably post the Chapters on my blog from today onwards

Thanks to those that waited for my story and were eager to read as the same time i am sorry to have kept you waiting

~Sky

lunes, 3 de noviembre de 2014

Character Introduction - Parallel

Ardha - Ezequiel



Arksen - Nicolas



Zenith



Peko



Isa



Plate



Drakon



Vermillion



Kagito - Kai



Eliana - Ana Elizabeth



Vladi - Viviana



Tyrfing



Brazen



Strike - Steven




Too lazy to do this now, if anyone wants to help fill them up, please do~

Table of Contents

The story is situated roughly 10 years after Royal Road went public. It follows a young man called Ezequiel and his adventure in the new VRMMORPG Parallel, there he will get to meet two mysterious people after the system concedes one of his request for being the number one person to buy the game.

Volume 1

Prologue
Chapter 1 - Welcome to our Parallel world!
Chapter 2 - Hellish Village!
Chapter 3 - Hell for extraordinary students
Chapter 4 - The first quest and a sudden raid
Chapter 5 - The power of Quality
Chapter 6 - The unsurpassable beings
Chapter 7 - The Guild and the preparations
Epilogue

Volume 2

Prologue
Chapter 1 - Growth and the Barbarian
Chapter 2 - Mader
Chapter 3 - The day of the first death and the unforgiving time
Chapter 4 - Dungeon of Wishes
Chapter 5 - The Wishes
Chapter 6 - Welcome Back
Chapter 7 - Days before the Battle
Chapter 8 - Kaiser vs Prinny Brigade
Chapter 9 - Lord
Chapter 10 - Interview
Epilogue

Volume 3

Prologue
Chapter 1 - The Alligator's invasion
Chapter 2 - The Fire Chameleon
Chapter 3 - The first meeting

If anyone thinks of a better synopsis, i am all ears~