Chapter 2.5 Zed's Journal vol.1
Disclaimer: I own nothing , this is purely a fanfic for enjoyment. Cross-over from various games , books and anime.
Date Jan 28 , 20XX
Dear Diary,
Today my gaming Capsule finally arrived. The company employees that installed that piece of equipment were nice enough fellows and installed it. I asked a bunch of questions about royal road and was satisfied with the answer. They finished their business and went on ahead. I was excited and couldn't help smile on the thought was royal road was launching 2 days from now.
Date Jan 30 , 20XX
Dear diary,
Today is finally the launching date of of that new VRMMO Royal Road. It has been the hottest topic around my peers. Reviews were phenomenal and no doubt this would entice the whole world, me included. They said that time runs 4 times faster in the game, how nice. Today I finally start on a new world.
Date Feb 5 , 20XX
Dear Diary,
I'm sorry I forgot to write a few days ago. They were right, it was awesome, I still remember my adventures. It went on like this:
I arrived at the library ready to find information from the books. The librarian stopped me and said that I needed a library card to read them. I asked him how would I could get to have one and replied that it cost 1 silver or worked for them. Since I only had 10 copper I decided to work for it. It was a quest and the reward was a library card.
Some time passed and I finally managed to finish the quest and was rewarded with a library card. I then proceeded to read some books. Some of the books, the books I read we're The history of Versailles, Job classes throughout the ages, The history of Rosenheim Kingdom, Magical theory, Tales of the legendary heoroes, The origin of church of freya and plenty of others. I gained some stats here in there with the wis and int stats and gained the skill magic mastery. It was repetitive but the rewards were worth it in the long run. Time passed and I ran out of rye bread. I decided to do a quest at the restaurant to gain cooking skills and gain intimacy with the npc to get some discount. I was hired as a bus boy at first delivering and shopping for ingredients, then was promoted to a waiter. While working I heard some gossips and rumors among the players about some crazy guy attacking the scarecrow nonstop with zeal and a quest handed at the church of freya. The players were stumped, many tried to challenge the quest but couldn't figure on what to do. The quest mentioned some haunted mansion, there were no monster but floating furniture attacked the players leaving them running out of the haunted mansion. It quickly become a popular double dare challenge and a test of courage among the players.
I was promoted yet again as an assistant chef at the kitchen. They were strict with orders and I learned my cooking skills there , It reached pretty high too, around level 5 beginner mastery. I also gained alot of dex and vit stats . I was finally satisfied and resigned on my position, the staff thanked me kindly and I went on my merry way.
I looked for an empty place to train my Magic mastery. My face and body was covered in soot as to mark of my trial and error. Time passed and I was finally able to discover the skill mana bolt and the lumus skill. I gained the concentration and focus stat too. I practiced some more and as time went by, I gained some level of mastery on the skills and gained some not and wis stats too.
I was finally satisfied and decided I need some sort of challenge, I remembered the quest that the church of freya gives from the time I was working at the restaurant. I decided to try that quest and went to the church. The priest of the church gave me 5 holy bottles containing holy water. I arrived at the haunted mansion shortly after walking for 20 minutes. I opened the large brown wooden antique door, it looked elegant. I entered the mansion and after stepping 10 meters inside the doors behind me suddenly closed. I shrugged it off as a typical haunted house setting and ventured deep inside. I passed by large pieces of armor, broken furnitures and paintings of people that eyes were giving the feeling of looking at you when you aren't looking at it. I climbed the creaky stairs on the 2nd floor. A sound of crying could be heard on the higher floor and I decided to follow the source of the sound. I climbed another set of stairs and ventured deep into the center of the third floor where the sound originated from. Suddenly the crying stopped, furniture started floating around and started attacking me I tried to dodge of course but some of those furnitures nicked me here and there. I was starting to panic seeing my hp bar started to plummet, I was a low level and the enemy can't be seen. I started casting lumus left and right while starting to spray the holy water from the bottles I received. the number of holy bottles began to dwindle untill the last one was left.I stared to panic more and casted a lumus and quickly opened my last remaining holy bottle. In my hurrying, the holy bottle spilled unto my lumos spell. I was begining to loose hope but suddenly the lumus began to grow double in size and began emitting a blue colored hue . A new skill found itself at my status window. The skill was ruwatch, it has the effect of revealing hidden enemies as well as damaging them if they are caught by the skill. I quickly casted it and revealed two ghost grunting from the spell damage, now that I could see them I then casted mana bolt at them. The ghost ghost decided to hide again but it was all for naught as I recasted my new ruwatch skill and the ghosts efforts were in vain. the ghost's hp suddenly plummeted to red and they suddenly stopped attacking and started begging me to spare them . I replied that I will spare them if they leave the mansion and stop the disturbance they caused. They replied that they can't because they wanted to see their daughter that escaped the assassins that they felled victim to for one last time. A quest window appeared describing their situation and I accepted it. Before I left, I asked the ghost couple for information that might help me to finding their daughter. They only mentioned that their daughter was blonde girl named Sheila and she has a stuffed teddy bear she treasured named Teddy.
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I asked around town for some information, hopping from place to place and finally lucked out on finding the haunted mansions former nanny. I asked around regarding the daughter of said mansion and found that after that incident she became very determined and trained very hard everyday and became a soldier. She rose through the ranks very fast and she became the captain of the knights in the kingdom. I asked the Nanny how can I get to meet her and she replied to tell the guards that Annie sent me and that should get Shiela's attention. I thanked Annie and I walked towards the castle admiring the view and saw some nice statues. I received some nice bonus stat that lasts for 24 hours. I finally arrived at the castle and told that guard that I'm looking Shiela and told the guard that I was recommended by Annie. After 15 minutes of waiting Shiela arrived, I greeted her and asked if we could talk somewhere in private. The guards then quickly sprung into defensive position and became very protective of their captain. She defused the situation when she reminded the guards that she didn't receive her tittle and post for nothing and said that this man should not be a problem. Sheila led me to her office and I told her the situation regarding her parents. She didn't believed it right away and threatened me even. I quickly told her about her teddy bear named Teddy, she quickly stood there and gasped, she had no choice but believed the person in front of her. No-one should know the existance of Teddy except her parents and her nanny, She trusted Annie enough that she did not share her secrets with anyone. After that I escorted her back to the ghost mansion and traveled into the third floor.
A tearful family reunion took place and heartfelt words were being exchanged. After a couple of minutes they said goodbye to each other. After that the ghosts was surrounded by light and moved on. Wiping Shiela's eyes he quickly thanked me and gave me 10000 gold as my reward. I gained 6 levels and gained the skill ghost mastery. I was ready to leave the mansion and decided to collect the church of freya quest too. As if reading my thoughts Shiela suddenly cut right in front of me and suggested she report it instead, she looked at my puzzled expression and explained to me that the money I received was in fact the reward that the church was gonna give and it was revealed that it was her who asked the church to commission adventurers in this endeavor. She didn't want to have her parents name be sullied.
This quest finally made more sense to me and after she explained it, a feeling of understanding can be sensed from me. Finally we said goodbye to each other and Sheila was thanked me one last time and left. I stayed a bit longer and experimented the ghost mastery and unlocked the soul strike skill. Feeling satisfied I logged out and went to sleep dreaming happy dreams.