Chapter 12 : A Warrior's Trail
After Chaos had gotten rid of the player killers, he left the clearing with a light mood. From killing those PK's, some of them had dropped items, and even if the drops where low leveled, Chaos was still happy with the drops.
Leather Gauntlet (Gauntlet)
Type: Common
-The most basic of the gauntlet weapon. Offers protection to the knuckles but does not have high attack power.
Attack: 4-8
Defense: 5
Durability: 90/100
Effect: Fast attack speed
Requirements:
Level 10
Wooden Bow (Bow)
Type: Common
-Common bow that anyone can use. Although, it can be use by anyone, to hit the target, one must have enough precision for a successful hit.
Attack: 5-10
Durability: 98/100
Effect: None
Requirements:
Level 10
Dex 20
Arrows: Regular Arrow x 50
Short Spear (Spear)
Type: Common
-Spear for militia men that guards villages from monsters. Sturdy but not long reach.
Attack: 6-10
Durability: 70/100
Effects: None
Requirements:
Level 10
Buckler (Shield)
Type: Common
-Common shield used by squires. Does not cover much but sturdy made for defense.
Defense: 8
Durability: 45/100
Requirements:
Level 10
Str 30
Thieve's Gloves (Gloves)
Type: Uncommon
-Enchanted gloves of was blessed by fairies. It allows onwer to steal from anyone. Try it at your own risk.
Durability: 99/175
Effect: Allows the use of skill, Steal. The higher the agility and dexterity, the higher the probability of stealing items from opponents.
Requirements:
Level 15
Agi 50
Dex 40
The girl called Tasha had dropped a soul card instead. It was a unique soul card called Slime King: Unique. This must have come from one of their victims who may have worked hard to find this monster. Chaos does not intend to return it though as it was going to be suspicious if anyone found him holding this missing item. Chaos had equipped the gloves and bow. As of now, he has two weapon that he can switch back and forth. He was glad as he was finally will be able to train his Switch Weapon skill. So far, he had met all the monsters around the beginner town but have not encountered their unique counterpart. Chaos unsummoned Red, then he resummoned Alucard to check the surrounding area once again for unique monsters. He specified a unique rabbit, whipper and a goblin. His summon becomes more intelligent as their level becomes higher. For now, his collector's spirit does not want to leave until he tried to search for unique monsters in the area. Good thing he have a flying summon that greatly help with searching.
Soon, the bat found a whipper, but it's color is violet. When Chaos tried confronting it, it was called Venom Whipper. Even though it's low leveled, he had a hard time as all it's vine's are coated with poison. He was able to defeat it but his health was down 50%. It's a good thing he bought antidote before leaving the town. They stayed in the forest for 2 more hours until they found a Hob Goblin and Fleet Footed Hare.
Satisfied for the meantime, before leaving, Chaos went in to his dimentional space and sorted out the rest of the items. While doing so, he remember about the books he got so he checked one that interest him earlier. "The Diary of a Dark Wanderer". He browse through the diary and learned that it was telling the story of the owner's journey and one place he went into is the town of Levia. He notice that the settings on the diary when told by the wanderer is dark and many encounters of monsters. He quickly concluded that it was in the past, maybe further back to the one they called "Dark Era". As he kept reading, Chaos notice that the path the wanderer ventured starting from Levia, is the same as his direction. He became more interested as when the town of Levia was mentioned, it was almost on the last pages of the diary. He got carried away and was able to finish the diary as he was fascinated by the journey. After closing the diary, a notification appeared in front of him.
"Quest Start!"
Quest: The Wanderer's Path
Type: Unknown Quest
Info: Upon reading the mysterious diary of a wanderer, you notice that you are on the same path as the authors book take. If you follow the same path, you may discover something important.
Goal: Follow the path as was mentioned in the diary, and see where it take you.
Success: Able to reach the end of the path that was also mentioned in the diary. Able to learn the truth behind the wanderer.
Fail: Dying before reaching the destination denoted in the diary.
Level: A+
Reward: ????
Requirement: Obtaining the wanderer's diary and reading through to the end
Chaos was surprised as reading the diary lead to activating a quest. He quickly gathered himself and sorted the items quickly. He came out of the dimensional space and started following what he remembered was mentioned in the diary.
As Chaos followed through memory, he encountered new monsters. There was not that many but the levels of the monster encounter suddenly became higher. He started encountering Grizzly Bear(lv20), Trolls(lv18), and Gnolls(20). Most of the bears were at the base of the mountain and quite few but when he started ascending the mountain, small troll settlement were scattered at the entrance. He had to battle through many numbers of trolls and as he go higher, gnolls dominated the middle part when ascending the mountain and their number is higher than trolls. Also, while fighting, Chaos had worn the weights he purchase from the blacksmith back in town. As a training and handicap, since he's higher leveled. Climbing the mountain with it, greatly increase his stats.
Weights (Accessories)
Type: Common
-Training weights. Martial artist wears this heavy accessories to increase their power exponentially.
Effect: While equip, will sometimes raise strength, agility and dexterity. Movement -50%, Attack Speed -50%.
Requirements:
Level 20
Str 50
3 in game days had pass since he left the clearing and headed to the mountain, following the trail of the wanderer. As he rest within his dimensional space, Chaos checked his status screen for progress. It's been awhile when he was able to check on it and he haven't distributed stat points on it as well, not needing to as he did not encounter higher leveled monster like on the Viscious mountain.
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STATUS SCREEN
Name: Chaos
Gender: Male
Race: Halfling (Dimension-Dragon)
Class: Dark Summoner
Sub Class: None
Alignment: Neutral
Title: Beast Slayer, Dungeon Sweeper
Fame: 870
Level: 56
Points: 105/275
Health: 1970
Mana: 1900
Stamina: 1205
Strength: 140
Vitality: 95
Agility: 115 (+25) [140/2 = 70]
Dexterity: 66 (+20)
Intelligence: 132
Wisdom: 124
Endurance: 31
Resilience: 21
Flexibility: 9
Charm: 5(20)
Luck: 38 (15)
Attack: 70 - 140 (+10)
Defense: 95 (+140)
Magic Resistance:
Fire: 20% Ice: 20%
Water: 10% Earth: 10%
Wind: 10% Lightning: 10%
Light: 10% Dark: 10%
Abnormal Status Resistance:
Poison: 60% Paralysis: 10%
Bleed: 76% Cripple: 10%
Burn: 10% Curse: 10%
Petrify: 10% Freeze: 10%
Death: 10% Charm: 10%
Disease: 10% Silence: 10%
Looking at his status, he thought he did not gain much, he should have gained more but since he's not going to the higher leveled places yet (and for him to not know that the highest leveled player is level 20, a week in game had pass).
He also checked that map of the mountain and learned that he was in Helga Mountain Range, and when going deeper was an unknown territory where even the residence of Sylvania had not dared ventured. He also learned "Bow Mastery" and "Light Step" when he started using switch weapon, he used bow to attack long distance enemies in tandem with the sword and with multiple enemies, using advance dodging technique. After making sure that all his items where in his dimension space, he went out to continue ascending to follow the quest.
When he went in to take a rest within his pocket dimension, Chaos was almost at the part where clouds obstruct the views below. Coming out to the open to continue his ascent, as he get's near the clouds, with his "enemy detection" skill, he sense that there is a large creature falling down on his location. With quick thinking and response, he quickly jump sideways and unleased two slashes to the space he was in, and when he looked back, he saw a large monster with a two gashes at it's right wing. It was a Level 50 Wyvern! He quickly summoned Alucard and Red at the same time, he let Alucard used it's "Sonic Wave" Skill and at the same time, Red's "Howl" skill. The first skill confused the wyvern, then the second paralyzed it. It was very effective as the wyvern was not ready for the paralization skill, it was affected immediately.
The wyvern has a high Health but Chaos has a new weapon equipped, the dual sword "Carnage & Slaughter". It's damage is about 200-350, even though his movement and attack speed is cut in half, he was still able to move efficiently and quickly. With the help of his two servants, they were able to feel the wyvern without too much damage. Now that he was aware of enemy attack within the clouds, he summoned another servant, the Bloody Hare he named Edge. He kept Edge close to him since it has the lowest level but he was sure that it will not die on him. They continued on as Chaos alertness is at maximum. They encountered several Wyvern on the way but this monster does not come in packs. Only one at a time it attacks. It's possible because of their territorial instinct that they don't attack until Chaos steps on their territory range. Having this, they were able to advance quickly. Making good time, they have already dealth with 6 more wyverns, Chaos ready himself to face the 8th, but the ones that's coming closer were a lot larger than the others.
As the cloud was cut apart from the decent of the next monster, a loud cry was heard. This immediately instill fear to Chaos group. Because of this, he was only able to save Alucard and Edge from damage but Red received critial, making it's health plummet down to half. However, this cause the fear on the wolf to subside and immediately unleashed a howl at it's surrounding and charge the large wyvern head on. Chaos quickly leapt on Red's back and charge at the monster together. It is a unique monster as Chaos thought and it's a Level 75 Obsidian Dragoon Wyvern.
Chaos: Finally! A high level monster. Your mine!!
Chaos and Red had already formed a combo earlier. Since Red was one of the first servant Chaos had summoned, he was used to it's movement as Red as well because of it's intelligence. Both had delivered a critical hit and Chaos did not stop the attack. Depending on his skill, he hacked away on the monster's wing to cripple it to prevent flying. Red did the same with the other wing, at the same time, aborbing blood from the monster. The wyvern was very strong and Chaos struggled to defeat it. The other two servant's had overcome their fear and joined that assault. After awhile, they were able to finally fell it, with Chaos and Red in critial condition and Alucard and Edge with it's life at below 50%.
Chaos: Gaha hah.. hah.. (panting) That was amazing you guys, good job. Red! Start Devouring the wyvern to recover yourself and Alucard, immense yourself with it's blood while it's still warm, as an attack from other wyverns may follow. Let's all get ready. (grin)
Chaos restored Edge's health through potions and then they prepared and advance once more while ascending. Chaos did not encounter any more wyverns as they are close to penetrating the clouds when they fought the black wyvern. Finally, Chaos pass through the clouds and was again surprised at the scenery in front of him. It was just like when he did the same on Vicious Mountain, this time, he learned that it was not just a mountain but a barrier to another world. The unexplored part of this continent was pass this mountain. What Chaos ascended through was not actually a mountain but a ravine. It's to get to a plateu to a higher ground. In front of Chaos was now a vast jungle and further away was a temple. This must be where the wanderer had ended base on the last passage on the diary. Chaos, excited on his adventure forge through to try to reach the temple the wanderer may have gone through and may have ended within or just a check point to another location the wanderer may have gone to. Chaos doesn't care and moved forward excitedly with expectation of new encounter.