“Elliot, wake up it morning already, did you tell me last night you have a morning practice today,” scream from Elliot mother can be heard by an outsider but Elliot still sleeping without any bother from his mother voice. “This young boy is hopeless, wake up or there will be no breakfast for you,” says his mother, in flash Elliot, wake up and go to dining place to eat his breakfast. “Thank you mom, your cooking is the best” praise Elliot to his mother, “Now, you better do the best performance you could for training section, after eating my cooking, I would not forgive you if you slack away okay” says his mother, by looking Elliot’s mother face, she seem happy that her son praise her meal not to forget able to get job. Before Elliot departs to Adventure Guild, he gives her mother kiss on the cheek and then runs toward the location he and Alex promise to meet.
Elliot has reached the location that both he and Alex promise to meet, but he can’t see Alex no matter where he looks. “Maybe Alex just frighten and don’t wanna do the training to decide our rank, well at least I got an excuse to tell my mom for not going to Adventure Guild, thanks, Alex” says Elliot, right before Elliot even take a single step to his home, he has been hit on his head by Alex who is late to reach the location they decide to meet. “Ouch, you don’t have to hit me every time we meet you know” complain, Elliot, “Well you see, I just hit to make sure it was you, Elliot.” Claim Alex.
“What you mean by that you little kid,” says Elliot.
“Well you never woke up during this time so I thought you were someone who is in disguise.”
“That it's, you going down today Alex”
Elliot chases after Alex to give him payback for hitting his head, but Alex runs toward the Adventure Guild when they reach the Adventure Guild both of them try to catch up their breath. “It nice to be young, very energetic in the early morning” greeting from Lisa, “maybe you don’t need to wearing heavy makeup to cover you age Mrs. Lisa,” says Elliot, during that time Lisa has unleashed her kick and send Elliot flying 3 meters away from original location. Alex who just watching has happened just able to put a fake smile on his face, “you got something to say little bastard?” threat Lisa to Alex if he wants to end up like Elliot just now. After Elliot wake up from the impact Lisa asks what their business is for today, Alex explains that yesterday Lisa said that they need to do a mock battle to decide on the rank or something like that. “Oh my, I forgot about that, please follow me to the back,” says Lisa; there is an open sparring field right behind the counter. Lisa told them to wait then after few minute a man with one eye gone and holding wooden sword enter the ring.
“My name is Brenrat and I will be the tester for you sparing combat, now state your Profession and I will lend you a practice weapon” say the one eyes guy.
After Elliot and Alex state their Profession, Elliot has been given a practice bow and few wooden arrow as for Alex he has been given a huge shield and a wooden sword. “This battle will be held in 30 minutes, try to score many strikes on Brenrat to get a score and each of your scores will be count as the ability you got and also your rank” explains Lisa. Alex charge as soon as the battle begins, despite holding a large piece of shield and heavy sword Alex speed doesn’t show any flaws, it looks like he has been practice every day for a fight, but Brenrat able to hold charge attack from Alex using his sword and make a few attack on Alex shield, Alex being forced to take defence stance to protect himself from being attack by Brenrat. As for Elliot, he just stands far away at the back and just watching his friend under attack, after seeing Elliot doesn’t have any will to fight Brenrat pay full attention toward Alex and he tries to break Alex defense by giving heavy blows but Alex manages to hold up to the impact. Right before Brenrat continuous his attack on Alex, his left side of the body being hit by an arrow shot by Elliot, during entire battle Elliot doesn’t let his eyes to miss any chance to land a clean hit on Brenrat. “That guy, even his eyes do not show any fighting spirit but he has good pair of eyes to observe, and this black hair guy has high stamina to hold and defence during my attack” says Brenrat, Alex tries to scoring some mark by swing his sword in order to hit Brenrat chest, but Brenrat quickly avoid and Alex just able to hit his hand.
Suddenly around Brenrat body, there is an aura in red surrounding his body, Elliot and Alex who seeing what happen to Brenrat know that he now is in a serious mood to fight. “Don’t let me down boys, here I came”, Brenrat disappear from Elliot and Alex eyes but suddenly appear right behind Alex and ready to strike Alex back. Elliot who able to follow those movements quickly shoot his arrow in order to cover Alex, but instead of hitting Brenrat his attack is directly hit Alex head. “Watch it, Elliot, you shoot your own teammate here” shout Alex, looking for his opponent Elliot take on high guard but he doesn’t notice Brenrat has been at behind him already, Brenrat kick Elliot back and slash Elliot back and then slash using his big sword. That attack makes Elliot faint and unable to fight, Alex attack with his sword try to challenge Brenrat but the distance between their ability is too large and not long after that Alex also unable to fight anymore in that battle.
After Elliot and Alex wake up, the mock battle has already ended, Lisa has called them to tell them about their rank. “Okay boys, based on your performance just now, all the examiner has decided that both of you will be placed at Bronze Rank,” said Lisa. Alex asks Lisa what is Bronze Rank and how many ranks that existed in the adventure system, according to Lisa, there is the highest ranking be called Gold followed by Platinum and then Metal next is Silver and lastly Bronze. “So we just at the bottom of the level right,” says Alex, Lisa said, “don’t worry about the rank, if you showing a good result in each of your quests, you will be promoted to upper ranking.” Listen to Lisa explanation Alex jump up and try to hug her because of he too happy after hearing that he still can become a famous adventurer but before he manages to touch Lisa, Alex need to experiment on the same fate as Elliot in the morning.
“Then let me explain about your quest, skill and Profession” say Lisa with clapping her hand, based on Lisa explanation to Alex and Elliot, quest has been split into several levels which are S, A, B, C and D. S is the higher level of quest so that level S quest only available to Gold rank only, as for Elliot and his friend, they only can access D level quest only. Next, Lisa move on to explain about skill, during mock battle Brenrat has used a skill from Swordsman which is [Haste] to increase his speed in battle. Lisa says each Profession has its own unique skill and only the same Profession and use the same skill, but that skill has its limit to use per day. This is mean that each skill cannot be used continuously during the battle, once the point for that skill is fully uses, that person unable to use the same skill for a period of time. That limitation only applies to active skill, as for passive skill there is no limit to use because it always active after learning, to learn new skill adventurer need to pay a certain amount of money to guild and the price they need to pay depends on the level of that skill but he/she cannot learn skill that is above his current Profession. Special skill only can be learning through ancient scroll which can be found from Dungeon or from the boss or the strong monster.
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Next, “shall I explain about Profession too?” asks Lisa, Alex and Elliot nod their head then Lisa begin to explain that topic. “As you all know, there are many Profession in our world and each of it has their own purpose in battle. To upgrade Profession you need to collect point which we all called PP stand for Profession Point”. Elliot asks “how can I collect this PP?” Lisa answer “Well each of the quests will have the PP point state at the bottom of it, all you need to do is find a suitable quest and then completing that quest after that make a report here then we will add your PP to your adventurer tag”. The long and complex explanation has ended after few minute is taking, “Well then, both of you adventurer tag will be complete at the end of the day, this also acting as pass for you to leave the city and if it loses, you need to pay 40 silver to make a new one, please handle with care” says Lisa again. “Hey Elliot, let go to the market and buy our equipment and some potion after that let's begin our first quest right after that,” says Alex to Elliot. Elliot with a yawn on his face states that “Do we have money to buy those things? As you know I only have 10 bronze coins right now”. “Oh no, we screw right after becoming an adventurer. Let’s go to my house, my father is a merchant so maybe he can help us” says Alex.
*At Alex house*
Alex background comes from merchant family which sells and trade item from town to town, so his parent tends to be away from home. During that time Alex spends his time at Elliot house so that way they alike brother and be a best friend up until now. “Hey dad, are you home?” scream Alex from the front door, they are walking around the house to find Alex father then reach his father study room, Alex opens the door and he can see his father sit on the chair and drink a cup of coffee. “My mine is that my handsome son Alex, what can your father helps you with?” asked Alex father, Alex explain the situation he and Elliot in then his father take out few item under his table. “Here for you Alex, a sword that uses to slay 100 dragons and the shield made up from the strongest steel in the world and for Elliot the bow made from the dragon hair and teeth as for arrow using the giant shark razor teeth. Hope this can help both of you in your journey” without saying a word Alex quickly grasps the entire item and takes Elliot hand and leave his father room.
“I can’t believe your father give us such nice equipment Alex, a bow from the dragon I will make a good use of it, don’t worry Alex” says Elliot with a smile on his face, as for Alex he keep cover his face with both of his hand and say to his best friend “Sorry Elliot, my father just lie to you just now. That bow and arrow, as well as my equipment, are just an item from the unsold item. The entire story behind it is just a lie”. “Let go and be a great Adventurer so we can slay the dragon,” says Elliot while patting his friend shoulder. Because the adventurer tag will be finished at the end of the day, so Elliot plan to take it tomorrow morning “Let’s just go home for today, I bet mom has finish preparing the meals” thinking Elliot to himself, During dinner Elliot mother put 3 kind of coins on the table, “listen here Elliot this is the currency in this world, first is the bronze coin is the lowest value, next the silver, one piece of silver equal to 100 of bronze, then you have a gold, 1 piece of gold equally to 100 pieces of silver and 1000 piece of bronze. Before I forget, here is the light armor that your father used to wear, he also an Archer just like you now” says Elliot mother.
After finish eating his dinner, Elliot has something to ask his mother about “hey mom, just now you said that bronze coin is the smallest value in currency right, so for 10 years you lie to me about the bronze is the medium value did you?” while he drinks a cup of milk. His mother starts to breaking a sweat and with a stager voice she says “I got no idea what are you talking about son tehehe, Oh, I need to go bed early tonight bye, dear”. Speechless with his own mother attitude Elliot just go to his bed to take a rest. While Elliot sleeps, he feels someone is watching him sleep, so he opened his eyes to check and he finds out that he has been at a different place not in his bedroom. “Is this some kind of dream, if that so I hope I can dream about games or become rich and not something pale and boring like this,” says Elliot, “Welcome to realms of dream, you have been summoned by me the true goddess in your world and be known as Eliza” says the weird girl which floating on the air, “the purpose..” before that self-claim goddess finish her sentences, Elliot just going to back sleep in his blanket. “Hey, don’t ignore me your mortal, I’m a goddess you know show some respect please” beg Eliaza, annoying with that girl Elliot smack her in the head and say “If you have something to say to me, come after lunch hour and don’t disturb other people dream, you self-proclaim goddess” says Elliot with angry. Eliaza start to shed a tear but she hold herself and say “Come to church in the Atheni, there we will have to talk. It really importance so comes okay”.
*Adventurer Guild*
“Good morning both of you, just now your adventurer tags has complete and here it is, takes a good care okay,” says Lisa, Elliot and Alex seem happy after receiving their tags. Both of them take a good look at those tags and there is little information that only visible to see by the true owner of tag and also the Adventure Guild only.
Elliot Baumter (Rank Bronze) Item Equipment Bread x1 Head - none Body - light garps Hand - Glove Weapon - Wooden Bow Leg - Traveller shoes Sub - Low Quality Arrow Profession - Novice Archer Hard Shot x3 Silent Shot x3 Hawk Eyes Accuracy Boost x5
Alex Philia (Rank Bronze) Item Equipment Bread x3 Head - bandana Body - Leather Armor Milk x2 Hand - Glove Weapon - Iron Sword Leg - Traveller shoes Sub - Round Shield Profession - Novice Knight Battle Cry x4 Shield Bash x5 Health Regen Iron Wall x3