After Jack's splendid demonstration of how weak I am, he told me to travel to the next village called Greenland. He said that I should find the one who will teach me the basics and advance type of fighting in the game. I decided to take my time a little bit since I'm only level two and haven't leveled up my talents yet. 

After leaving the Guild Hall building, I headed outside to practice the skills that Jack taught me; Dual Thrust, Dash Step, Lunge and Steal.

In the game, you can wave your sword however you want to perform an ordinary attack but it would be different when using a certain skill. There are two ways to use skills. First is to use it from the menu and second, use it inside your head. Within the game, you can perform or activate a skill through thinking and feeling it while performing the necessary action that it requires. Normally, people uses their minds to activate the skills but for mages, most of the low level players still use the menu in order to perform a combo or just use a skill. Having a low level Magical Offensive talent requires some skill to chant it before it can be used. For example, the first chanting skill that can be learned by a low level mage, Frozen Domain.

Frozen Domain is a magical offensive skill that freezes a large area. The chanting or channeling and casting time of this skill takes almost five seconds to cast. With a high level Magical Offensive talent, chanting or channeling won't be necessary anymore.

Excited as I was, I found myself surrounded by slimes. Five of them are coming to charge at me. I remembered that I already acquired some skills that would be quite useful. I found some gap in order to escape my soon to be prison in the middle of angry slimes. I used the Dash Step in the middle of two slimes. They were far enough form each other for me to fit between them. I ran a bit more far to lure them in a single file. The moment they all jumped at the same time. I used another one of my newly acquired skill, Lunge.

Like a barbeque on a stick, all the slimes were pierced by sword. The sword was given to me by Jack. He said that he used this very sword before he was taught the All Trades build. The Lunge skill is performed by stepping one foot forward along with my sword just like in fencing. Jack said that learning fencing would be beneficial with this game and I think he's right.

I think I got far enough from the castle because I saw a new monster coming towards me, a boar. From its black skin, black long hairs sprouted. The boar appeared more of a giant hedgehog than what it is exactly if it weren't for its large tusks and large snout. I felt a bit confident with the new skills I've learned that I charged against the boar. I waited for a moment before showing my third newly learned skill, Dual Thrust.

Having pierced in the head by my blade twice, the beast shattered into a million tiny little pieces like a glass thrown from a high building and landing on a very hard surface causing it to break like the poor beast before me. The skill I used is performed like a lunge but a surge of energy will come after the first that's why it's called 'Dual Thrust'.

After I'm satisfied on my ways of using my skills, the greatest insult was slapped to my face. I was thinking where I can use the last newly learned skill that I acquired when I saw people huddling around something and they were cheering. Lots of boo's, 'wow', 'whoa' and 'ohh' here and there. After scuttling and crawling up for me to find a good place to watch whatever is this crowd is getting hyped for, I saw two players attacking each other. I just realized that this would be the very first duel that I would watch since my arrival here.

A girl against a man. She holds a short sword on the right and a dagger on her left. She wears a black leather jacket on a white tank top. Her pants also leather and she wears black boots. Leather straps criss crossed on her upper body. The leather straps holds small throwing knives. On the other hand, the man wielded nothing but a large double bladed axe and wore a heavy steel armor that would protect him from almost everything that the girl holds. With his steel helmet, he was protected from a lot of attacks that the girl released. He would've already died if it weren't for it. Their fight took long enough but ended in a gruesome way. The girl looked like she was just hitting here and there, waiting for an opening. The man was fast despite of his equipment but he girl was faster and she slapped him with it, figurative and literally.

The girl whirled around so much that the guy had seldom chances to swing his axe. She was jumping, running and rolling around while she cuts his armor with her blades. Finally, she found a good spot and a good timing. The girl dashed when she reached the blind side of the man, his back. She decapitated his right arm resulting for him to drop his axe and fall on his knees. She ran in front of him and kicked his axe away. I never would've thought that a woman would do this but she formed a scissor with her dagger and her short sword against the man's neck and beheaded him. Like a knife to a butter, his head fall off and he shattered into tiny million pieces like what happens to a monster when it dies. This is also the first time that I saw a player die in this game.. AND IT HAD TO BE BRUTAL LIKE THAT.

The girl looked around and spoke like a true warrior who's hungry for more blood. I saw lots of cool looking players here. I think there are a lot of high levels too. What the hell are they doing in Newbie Land?!

The girl shouted, taunting everyone with her loud and clear voice. "Men do not dominate games! Especially this one! Who's up for the challenge?!" She shouted. "I am just one of my sisters! Proving that we, women, can also be strong in games!"

That's some shit right there. As far as I know, there's no sexism in this game. No posts in the forums of this game had contained any reports about this. This woman is nuts! Along with her sisters or whoever they are, of course. Why would she even say like we are underestimating the women. I myself lose to some, especially to Tia. She defeats me even when I'm not fighting. Why the hell am I thinking about her anyway?

A man stepped forward and accepted her challenge. He looked strong and capable. He wielded a long sword along with that shield, towering the girl from head to toe. I thought that this man would also be dead meat against her because the equipments he used doesn't really differ from the last poor guy who fought this crazy woman. Although, this man wears a better set compared to him. A large and heavy armor that could protect him even against a charge of a raging bull but his head wasn't covered with a helm. 

"Are you sure you want to go through with this?" The woman asked. Cheers and shout started to echo as the man walked to the girl.

"Afraid of you, I ain't. Or are you the one who doesn't want go through this that's why you're asking?" He said. He had a very mocking tone that made the girl look at him raising her left eyebrow.

She suddenly clicked on the air, signalling the start of the invitation for the duel. The man clicked on the air too that started the duel. They were caged in a large transparent box with enough space for almost hundred of peole but we cannot step in it. A large timer appeared above the box. It started with thirty seconds. When the timer was down to five, both of them crouched a little and readied themselves for an attack or to attack. 

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The battle started with a death stare. Everyone was quiet, only the sound of the whistling wind can be heard. After a few moments, they started to move in circles in widdershins. Slowly feeling and analyzing the situation. Their boots are now the ones that can be heard. They're boots against small stones, grinding the earth while circling against each other. It was the man who started the fight. As they say, the first who attacks, wins the battle. But in this one, he was fighting a war. He charged at her with full speed, he was faster than I thought. Faster than what he appeared to be because he almost caught the girl with his shield. She stepped on her side, completely missing his attack. Then again, they were circling around. 

It took quite a while before someone attacked again, it was the man who came aggressive again but now he was prepared. A charge again, his shield up front, missing the girl but he immediately whirled in a clockwise manner almost hitting the girl. Before his blade reached her very skin, she received his heavy attack with both of her blades vertically shielding her from it but even with her mighty defense, she couldn't absorb that attack entirely that it threw her far from her previous location and lead her near the edge of the duel box. She didn't waste a second and she pulled herself up. She looked annoyed with that.

"You got some skills!" She praised him with her sarcastic tone.

The man just brushed it off of his mind and and crouched with his shield on his left hand, facing the girl and his sword pointing at her direction. She clicked her tongue and began to click on air. I didn't know what she did but suddenly, white smoke exploaded around her and she immediately charged at him at full speed. He was ready for the attack, he charged towards her like a bull and smashed the woman with his mighty shield. He thought the he had won because of that contact but suddenly, the woman turned to smoke and she appeared behind him on mid air. Diagonally, with her upper on a 45 degrees angle, she whirled thrice leaving six horizontal holes and wounds at the back of the man. Before he can even take a step forward to support his balance, the woman spun again and when she was facing his back, she coiled up like a fetus and kicked her opponent hard on the back resulting to him kissing the floor. She landed on both of her feet and immediately threw both of her weapons, piercing the ground. She grabbed two throwing knives from the leather straps criss crossed on her upper body and threw it with precision. The knives landed their target on both the man's legs, pinning him down, disabling him from standing up.

Not that I am a sexist but I wished that he won. The next happening was a bit pitiful to watch. She picked up her weapons and walked slowly towards him. She kneeled her right knee on his back and before she planted her weapons on his head, he pleaded for mercy but she was too ruthless, she instead pierced his heart with her short sword and planted the knife on the back of his head. The man shattered into pieces, ending their duel. A lot of people sounded disappointed with his loss. 

She shouted the words that she said earlier to taunt anyone who's foolish enough to fight her. I heard some guys behind me giggling and felt that they were acting like kids and pushing each other. With the last push that the other one made, he unintentionally pushed me hard sending me to a very hard staggering. What happened next was like one of the worst happenings in my life.

The woman had turned her attention to me and thought that I was going to fight her. She got a little impatient that she immediately sent the invite for duel. I raised both of my hands showing that I won't be the one to fight her but then the worst came to worst. One of my fingers touched the accept button before I raised both of my hands and started the duel. The duel won't end until one will concede through the menu. I was about to concede when she rushed towards me to attack, I didn't got the chance to concede for it will ask you again if you really want to concede after the first confirmation.

"W-wait!" I shouted. She didn't stop attacking. I was lucky to dodge almost every attack she made. With my unluckiness, I'm getting pretty lucky with this. I don't have any weapons on me because I unequipped them and it would take moments for me to get my sword. I suddenly remembered my last newly learned skill, Steal. It's now or never! 

"STEAL!" I shouted, activating the skill. This skill would steal a random equipped item from someone one pace in front of me. She suddenly stopped and blushed. Slowly, I noticed that I stole something from her and it rested on my hand. I lifted my hand very slowly and saw that I randomly stole her white tank top, revealing her black bra under her jacket. The time that she noticed me looking at her chest, she immediately covered herself with both of her arms.

A thought suddenly came to my mind. 'I can finally concede!' I immediately pressed all the buttons necessary to concede. I turned away and ran as fast as I can. I saw the people behind me with their jaws dropped as I passed through them. I was already inside The Bartender when I realized that I was still holding on to that girl's tank top.

"And what the fuck is that?" Tia shouted. She really looked angry. Everyone around us turned their head to the counter. On my embarrassment, I immediately grab Tia by the wrist and dragged her upstairs.

"I didn't steal this!" I exclaimed. "Well, tehnically I did but.."

Before I can finish my sentence, Tia slapped the shit out of me and I almost passed out. What a slap! I was hearing a long irritating sound inside my ears.

"Please let me explain!" I pleaded. 

She looked at me with both of her eye brows almost connected. I exclaimed everything from practicing my skills until reaching her inn, leaving no information behind. After my explanation I was startled at what I saw. Tia was crying! I panicked, not knowing what to do, something forced me to hug her and I did. She cried for almost an hour and had her face buried on my chest.

"I thought you were seeing someone else." She said with a shaky voice. 

"I'm not! I was so scared to die here that I ran after conceding."

"Good! Because always remember that you're already mine!" She shouted, declaring that she already owns me. How did that even happen. 

Our talk was interrupted by one of Tia's helpers, Marie. She's an NPC for hire.

"I think someone is searching for you, Tobi. She said she was Yvette and she said she wants that back. She didn't say what it is but she looked angry." She was speaking with usual soft voice.

I stood up from the bed and when I reached the door, Tia grabbed me by my arm and lead me downstairs.

"Well if it isn't the perverted tank top thief!" Yvette shouted. Everyone was now looking at me with those creepy angry and jealous eyes.

I immediately handed over her tank top. She was still wearing the same jacket as earlier but it's zipped up. She blushed as she received her clothing.

"He's not a thief!" Tia suddenly shouted. "Not exactly anyway."

"Hey! I'm not!" I added.

Yvette rushed outside without any words to say.