The next day.
Kaede was currently busy taking notes in front of her computer. She is currently researching better equipment for her character in the game.
The money, she reive was a reward. She plans to use it in buying some new equipment just in case she lost the first sword in the battle. The sword is her primary weapon and her lifeline. Without her sword, she can’t do anything. That’s one of her prime and most obvious weaknesses.
Sword user build is very popular and common. There are thousands of players using different types of swords. Each sword has its attributes and damage level. Because of its numbers, Kaede has it tough to pick one.
“Buying a weapon is an option, but looks like the weapon that required materials are a stronger type. Hunting for materials calls for another adventure… I think it’s going to be fun.”
It’s been three months since Fantasy world online was released. Together with that, there will be a large-scale update tomorrow. A few skills and items will be added. That also made the internet on fire, but that was not the highlight.
The highlight was the players that had defeated the dungeon boss on the north end of the map, will be able to move forward from there toward the new map that is added in the update.
Of course, even if it was challenged solo or by the party, there is no problem. In simple words, the players that cleared the first stage will be able to go to the next stage.
Kaede also was thinking of going there after she gained skills.
“In the new update, a new skill was added for sword users like me. It’s decided, today I will acquire the new skill of Power Attack and Power Defence!”
Kaede eagerly said that, but she found one problem. Her sword skill slots are already filled with two skills.
“With my current high damage. Power attack might not be needed but Power defense is a must because it’s going to increase my health points…”
Kaede then stood up from her seat and walked around her room in circles. She is in deep thought. She then started to have a great idea.
She immediately logs in back into the game to do her bright idea. With that, she went straight to Umi’s store where she was taken by a player named Darkblader65 before.
“Welcome… You surely had become famous huh~… When you came here, you only had beginner equipment though…”
“Thank you very much! Umm… There is something I wanted to talk about today…. Although it’s okay if it’s impossible…”
Saying that as a prelude, Kade started talking about it. And Umi who heard what Kaede was saying until she ended, started reciting it to check.
“You want equipment that with its specs not considered, you want white and detailed. To make that, how much will it take… Hmm… Let me think… If there are some materials that you will have that can be used, I think about a million gold for one set. Depending on the materials you bring, the specs will get through.”
Kaede’s moon piercer sword has its skills slots already used. She needed another sword for her new skills in the future.
While she’s back home while thinking. Instead of her crafting her sword. She better gives the work to an expert smith like Umi.
Now that she gather attention, she wanted to be fashionable. That’s why she wanted to have a complete set of equipment.
Her Black knight armor. Like the name said it’s all back. Her sword is also black. This time she wanted to use something opposite to her usual equipment. She going for white equipment.
“Mufufufu.” Kaede giggles inside her head while she’s imagining her look being clad in this white piece of equipment.
“I understand! I will come one and bring the money and the materials needed!”
With that, Kade jumped out of the store. To find out where to get the materials needed for the equipment that she wanted for herself. Kaede came back to the information bulletin board.
First of all, a pure white material that has a certain hardness is needed.
The first one is a white crystal, but Kaede knew that she couldn’t mine it with her DEX 0.
That’s why she decided on another one. The location is the wide underground lake south of the town. It is being told that this lake has some kind of secret, but suspicious things like that hadn’t been found.
Her target in there is a fish that swims with a group, that has snow-white hard scales. One of them is a blue-colored leader that is almost transparent in water.
“There was that kind of story I was reading when I was a little… I feel nostalgic!”
After buying new fishing tools, Kaede eagerly started walking toward the underground lake.
“Well then… Fishing… Let’s go!”
After that, she should only wait silently until the prey gets caught. And, after 20 minutes of waiting.
“I-It hooked!”
Kaede puts strength on and pulled the fishing rod. The splashing waters echoed through the silent underground lake.
And, finally caught a pure-white fish, and it flopped behind Kaede. After leaving it like that for a while, leaving about a 5 cm scale, it became light and disappeared.The original scale was smaller, but it’s she thought about it as the game’s setting and put it in her inventory. She still needs to fish a lot, but Kaede has school tomorrow.“To think, that it would take this much time… After fishing the last two. I’ll just have to go back for today…”
Fishing was set to be relevant to the DEX and AGI status, so Kaede’s efficiency is the lowest. If it was a non-combat player status, they can fish one every minute.
She couldn’t neglect real life just for the sake of a game.
“I’ll end it here… I have school for tomorrow…”
She logged out from the game and put her hardware back on her table. It may be already late but Kaede whose living alone in her home. Have some things to do.
She got so hooked on the game she forgets to eat. She goes to the kitchen and cooks her dinner. After eating dinner she opened her computer and get her notebooks. She started doing some homework.
She stuffed her bag according to tomorrow's schedule.
She stretched her arms up and let her body fall to her soft bed.
“Well then… Good night.”
After laying in bed for a few minutes. “Zzz… Zzz… Zzz…” Kaede started to sound asleep.
With her smile, she surely had a good dream.
“Homework check… Notebook check… lunch box check… Well then… I’m going off!” She wore her uniform and went to school. In these few days, the sunlight had gone stronger and the warm sunshine feels good. It can be said spring has finally come. Kaede’s seat was by the window so if she let her guard down she might fall asleep. If it goes like this, Yuki who was two seats apart will be on a sleeping course in the afternoon class. And while thinking of that, Kaede was walking on the road to school. Kaede’s house is near the school. So she comes to school be a walk. That distance is only five minutes walk. The pleasant wind was blowing, and it is not a bother to walk. Because she didn’t suffer from hay fever, Kaede liked to walk during this season. “Yosh! Let's do our best today~” Passing through the gate, went toward her classroom and she arrived at her seat. After this, she would have started reading books, but when she started Fantasy world online, it was time to think of new skill
“So colorful and quite big for a starter town I should say. I ner expect to see this kind of town.”Yuki looked around and raised a voice happily. Looking at Yuki herself at the start of the game, she thought about it nostalgically.They both used the name in real life in the game. So that they can avoid confusion in calling each other. Yuki also doesn’t have anything on her mind, to begin with.Previously the other game, Yuki played before. Yuki used a name like Snow because Yuki means snow when translated into English. But she decided to use her name instead for some kind of reason. Before when she is typing her name in character creation she hesitated in putting Snow as her name. That name did make some flashbacks from her past that she doesn’t want to remember.Yuki and Kaede immediately registered as friends. And when they made a party. Yuki showed her status to Kaede.Name: YukiLevel 1HP: 32/32MP: 25/25STR: 10 (+11)VIT: 0AGI: 55 (+5)DEX: 25INT: 10Equipements: Starting a
Walking back from her school to her home. Kaede was so excited about the news her friend Yuki told her. With that excitement. Kaede immediately lay on her bed and open her hardware.She immediately logs in to Fantasy world online.Arriving she appeared in the last spot where she logs out. And that’s in the underground cave. There Yuki is already waiting for her.“What happened to you? You’ve not logged in for three days already.”“Sorry, but I got a lower grade on our last exam in math. Our teacher has her eyes on me. I got to study a lot and retake the exam.”“Well, that can’t be helped.”Looking closely at Yuki. Kaede noticed something different. Yuki is currently wearing a different armor from before. It’s not a unique series type of armor but it looks good on Yuki.“Oh… Did you notice? This is my new armor. It's armor I buy in the armor shop. It's not as great as yours but this will do for now.”“I remember, you did fight the underground dungeon. What happened? Did you defeat it?
Today was the day when the students go into a gymnasium to practice their physical body with physical sports. Kaede and Yuki were currently standing on opposite sides of the table tennis. Chatting while they are playing.“That was fun… yesterday.”“Too bad we didn’t get any unique series type of equipment.”“According to the game, a rare drop and only a few monsters in the game has it. Speaking of drops I give them to the smithing store in the starting town. The owner seems to know you and asked about you.”“I also give her money and materials to make me a new sword. I need a new type of sword that can handle new skills. I like to have many skills as possible. With those skills, I feel like I’m being stronger.”Kaede said that, but there is more to it. The next event is happening next week and she wanted to participate once again. She wanted to feel the greatness of the limelight once again.Daydreaming of winning the event once again. Kaede lost herself in reality. The ball then boun
“The next battle event is about to happen. That will be my first battle event. If it’s a battle royale. I won’t pull my punches on you Kaede. Prepared with my blade” “That’s bad, I don’t want to hurt you after all. My damage is very high. I’m scared I might injure you.” “This is just you know… Well, I will still feel some pain from your attack. But it’s not that severe. The maximum level of pain that can be felt in this game is like the maximum punch of a first grader student.” Yuki opened a panel and search for the news for the next event. She then showed it to Kaede. “Look, the next event is decided.” “Hunting event? What kind of event is that?” Yuki then read through the description. After reading she made a sigh of relief. She was happy that She and Kaede will never gonna exchange fists in the next battle event. She then explains the event to Kaede. “The next event is about hunting monsters…” “A special event monster will be scattered on a giant map with different kinds of
“Arrived!” “let's not waste time and enter right away!” In front, there is the entrance of the stone ruins. If the information they saw in the adventurer bulletin was correct, This should be the dungeon connecting to floor 2. Kaede, in the land, walked in the pah. Just holding her sword while she is walking. With that her preparation for the monster attack was perfect. After walking just like that, they encountered a monster. What appeared in front of the, was boar that was a little huge compared to a real-life one. “Wind cutter!” Yuki took the first move and shot magic. But that attack only decreases its health bar by 20%. “The power decreased a lot. I think I should raise my status debuff skill…” While she was saying that, the boar regains its posture and charged again. It was colliding toward Kaede with a lot of momentum. It was devoured by Kaede’s sword. “Can I count on you during fights with the boar?” “Okay!” Because the path was narrow, the boar charging was suicida
Kaede and Yuki started their activities in a new base town on floor 2, but Kaede was groaning with a dark face. The reason for this was the game maintenance.“I didn’t think that there would be a game maintenance days before the next event.”The two girls logged in immediately as soon as the maintenance ended. But they were stunned by the contents of the maintenance.Mainly, Kaede.The contents of the maintenance were about nerfing some skills and buffing the Artificial intelligence monsters. The target skill name, in the settings of the game, was not cleared, so only those who have them knew it. Some things changed.The implementation of attack damage and damage reduction. There are three to five kinds of skills per weapon. Its attack was very decent. The problem was the skills.Kaede looks at it like she was nerfed in the game on purpose.“Don’t make that face… That happened all the time for somebody who stands out too much.”Yuki put her hand on Kaede’s shoulder.There are mainly t
All the players that want to participate in the event were transported on a special map. A huge map consisting of many different dungeon bosses and terrains.The two girls Kaede and Yuki were transported to a rocky mountain area. Before the event started each player was given a map that pinpoints all the dungeons to capture. Each monster was divided into different points. The normal monster was 10 points. High-level monsters were 100 points and dungeon boss monster was 1000 points. Players who give the most points will be the winner of the event.“I’m sorry Yuki I can’t move faster than this.”Kaede apologetically said to Yuki. Yuki just made a sigh and look around the area.“Don’t worry about it it’s not that important. The speed of this event was different from the game's normal speed. We’re currently moving is super high speed. Three days in this event is just 2 hours in the real world. We have too much time to think about things.”“But I’m not moving as fast as you.”“That’s norma