The next day after Kaede, take her day off.Kaede decided to join her teammates in training. This training is for the tournament that’s about to happen at the end of summer.While looking at the hardware Kaede can’t help but feel bad about herself. She took the day off while the others are working hard after all.She doesn’t have any excuse.After making a deep breath and pulling out all her courage. Kaede puts the headgear on her head and turned on the game console.She logs in to the game.She opens her eyes to her room. The wood ceiling and the light brimming from the window Illuminated her eyes. If it's the real world, Kaede will surely pull the curtain, but in the Virtual world. The light didn’t hurt her eyes that much. Instead, the light makes her see the beautiful lake in front of their guild.The lake water sparkles the moment the light collided with it. It was like stars swimming in the water.Kaede rises and looks at the mirror.“I should check everything first… I’m not sur
Both players decided to take their fight in the nearby ruins. The place looks like an abandoned temple. Mosses all ready ate the concreted structures. Many angelic statues are all around. Taking a closer look the temple looks very nice.But the two players don’t have time to appreciate the ancient beauty of these ruins.Both standing twenty meters away facing each other. Kaede and Amber have their equipment ready for the battle.Kaede hold her sword and made a sword stance. She was confident enough in herself after all the battles she fought in the past.“Flame acceleration!”Amber chant a skill that made her movement speed up. From 20 meters away she appeared in front of Kaede. She threw a kick.Kaede’s body evaded Amber's kick. Her knowledge of evasion was activated. Knowing this skill. Amber turned her body downward. After that, she put her palm on Kaede’s chest armor for a point-blank attack.“Fire blast!”Kaede has no way of dodging that skill. The flames were so powerful they ma
“As usual Player Kaede did the unexpected. The latest updates add new features in the skill system and nerfed mostly her overpowered skills. She still manages to make an outstanding comeback with her battle with Player Amber.” Administrator Rabbit said at the council meeting of developers. Each developer embodied one of the animals in the twelve zodiacs. These twelve people are the ones responsible for the main game system. The first time they launched the game. They thought that their game is flawless and never had a bug on it. But they are wrong after Player Kaede entered the game. She didn’t just prove that she can defeat higher players, but also bend the game system. Forcing the developers to work hard checking their system. But above the twelve zodiac developers. There is still one person who has the most control in the game system. The one who designed the game and the so-called Chairman. The dog looks at the window containing Kaede’s current status and checks everything.
The summer cup is right on the corner. It only one week left before the tournament begins. Kaede and her guild demon king army are one of the teams invited to the tournament. Because the team is supposed to hard and train.But today is different.Praising the good sunny weather at the game. The five girls decided to sit down and relax. Cloth on laid on the ground and food was served from the baskets.The girls decided to have a picnic.On the lakeside Ronie and Saya are doing their best fishing. Yuki lay on the ground basking in the sun.“Is it fine for us to relax?”Worried looking at her friend's easy-going attitude. Clover looks at them saying that they're doing the wrong thing. Her eyebrows are meeting each other.The wind blows gently.“It feels great...”“Yuki is so easy going… The tournament is about to come. We should be grinding like the other teams.”“It's such a waste of time…”“Waste of time? What do you mean by that? Don’t you want to win the first prize?”“Of course, I w
(On the day before the summer break started.)Early in the morning. Kaede wakes up from the bed.“I am getting excited about the game and could not sleep well … ”Kaede was unable to get a good sleep for the first time. She started walking towards school when she finished dressing up.“It’s pretty hot today,”Kaede advanced the way to school in a hurry to avoid the heat.As she enters the classroom, Yuki is already there.Since they are going to school early, as usual, there are only two people in the classroom.“Good morning Kaede”“Good Morning Yuki!”Kaede approached Yuki after putting her luggage in her seat.“I manage to come to school somehow, it doesn’t feel like seven days have passed!”“Indeed… Well, that will happen if you stay inside and play games for seven days … Oh yeah, Kaede should be careful too.”“Huh? What?”Even if she has been told to be careful, Kaede did not know what to watch out for.“In-game you always guarded against monsters and players all the time, right?
Five days before the summer cup. Kaede is currently in the middle of anguish. She keeps making her mind run thinking about the answers to the equation in front of her.“What should I do with this equation… Where did I go wrong? I feel like I wrote the wrong answer… But there is no way of me knowing if it's right or wrong.”Kaede put his finger on her forehead. Thinking thoroughly for a moment.Her brain is already toasted.She made a deep breath and closed the notebook. She did her best already and she is doing her homework for hours straight without any break. A nice change of pace will be great.“I wonder if Yuki did her homework already?”After saying that, she immediately made a cold face. She remembered Yuki knocking on her door again begging to copy her notes.Kaede didn’t let Yuki copy her homework, but Kaede help Yuki instead.That is something Kaede didn’t want to do anymore. Kaede has lots of responsibilities to do and prioritize. Yuki also needs to learn a sense of responsi
On the northern end part of the map. The two girls reached their destination. A giant ruined castle was located.Standing in front of it were Kaede and Ronie. Kaede gave a big smile and beside her was the opposite. Ronie is having a hard time chasing her breath.The speed felt is too extreme. She is still feeling nervous.“You did your best… now return and rest.”Kaede patted Biscuit's head. After that, Biscuit returns to the familiar's realm.“This is the first time I heard about this dungeon.”Kaede investigated the surroundings and location of the dungeon. She knows it because she used to train to the near mountain area and the lost forest where she found the girl named Layla before.“It's from the new update… The dungeon is not yet captured by anyone. The rare items that can only be found in this dungeon are not yet to be found. Many players already tried to capture this dungeon but none of them succeeded. It's said that there’s a lot of traps and dangerous monsters inside.”“Does
After escaping they fall three floors down from the dungeon. Ronie falls first and followed by Kaede falling on her body.“Its hurts.”“I’m sorry… Are you okay?”“My Vitality is high don’t worry about it, Master.”“I still feel about it…”Looking around Kaede notices how far they go down. The ceiling where they fall is too high. It's about 20 meters high from the floor they stand on.“Far down here they probably won’t pursue us.”“I think we should be careful Master…” Ronie said as she stood up and wipe the dirt on her skirt and armor. She continues. “… I heard bandits usually stole goods and items from other players. Most of them move in groups to accomplish their goal.”“That means the dungeon and rare item in this dungeon are not what they're going after. They are targeting me.”Ronie nods upon Kaede’s realization.“The spear user earlier might come down with other players.”“We need to hide our presence I guess… Smokescreen!”Thick white smoke was released on Kaede's white armor.