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Chapter Two - Jack of All Trades

Chapter Two - Jack of All Trades

The last thing I remember last night is getting into a dark room with a woman by my side. Now, I awoke in a quite spacious room with lots of wooden drawers and smells like girl's perfume. I didn't know that this world also has perfume in it. I sat myself on the bed and noticed something.. astonishing. I'm not wearing anything for my top and there's someone who's having a soft snore beside me. I slowly pulled off the cold blanket that I shared with my currently snoring room mate. Slowly, her head popped out of the blanket. This girl has a hazelnut brown hair and high rosy cheekbones. As the blanket almost uncovered her chest, I realized she isn't wearing for her top too. Before I could freak out, she opened her eyes and that immediately caught mine. Those marble black tantalizing eyes lured me into the greatest trap of all. I think I'm into her. I don't know if it's love or not but it's something.

"You're up early, cute lad."

I felt a bit annoyed because it's like she is treating me like a kid by calling me 'lad'. I brushed off all of that and asked her what happened last night.

"Well, you got a bit drunk" she said. "So, I carried you up here and you were so aggressive. Never knew a man so wild before!"

I felt like I was burning. My face turned red out of embarrassment. But then, she rose to sit up without holding the blanket to cover her big breasts. She immediately realized that I was distracted by them and finally covered them with her right arm.

"Told you, wild as you are!" She continued with a teasing tone in her voice. "Just kidding. You fell asleep on the counter and I had to ask for help to carry you here. It was far too hot last night that's why I slept naked and also, as you can see, I took off your clothes. Except your underwear, of course."

I felt a bit relieved with that and also a bit regretful. Then again, she seemed to have mind reading power that she guessed what I was thinking.

"Well, you can claim your prize for being a cutie right now. After all, I'm all naked." She winked after that.

I re-equipped my clothes again through my inventory and left the bed before I get any chance to lose myself to my instincts of being a man.

"Quite the gentleman, lad." She got off the bed, dragging the blanket and walked gracefully towards me. She then again, came close to my ear, "You don't want some steamy action? I'm yours for the taking right now, tiger."

Yeah, I will become far worse than a tiger if she keeps on doing this. "P-please, stop teasing me." I already feel the hot sensation of burning for both of my heads.

She laughed again and equipped her maid-looking equipment that she usually wear while working in her inn. "You can stay here as long as you like. I took quite a liking for you. Come down stairs if you're ready for breakfast." Then again, another wink but now she slightly bit her lower lip along with it.

I let out a loud and heavy sigh after she left the room. I won't be able to control these raging hormones if this keeps up. Now, I'm slowly walking towards the window where I can see the middle of the town that's quite busy as they are yesterday. I need to keep leveling up if I want to catch up with this game. I climbed myself downstairs and ordered some breakfast.

"Got hungry, huh? Here, have today's special. Made it just for you!" She pushed a large plate of various delicious looking food before me. The man sitting beside me poked me by my side and started teasing me with her. A lot of them came to join except for the one who's looking unhappy with what Tia's doing.

He stood up and headed to my direction. He was carrying a good looking saber resting on his left hip. He wore an eye patch that's covering his left eye. His black coat on a white undershirt was extended until past his knees and also, he was wearing a brown leather trousers along with black high quality leather boots. Slowly, he diminished the distance between us and grabbed me by the arm. He dragged me out of the inn and carried me outside the castle like a little kid. Everyone inside the inn was startled along with the people we passed through while going out.

"You got ball, kid. Flirting with Tia like that!" He shouted. Tia and some of the men whose always drinking inside her inn came to rescue but the man who dragged me ordered them to stop.

"Please! Don't hurt him! He's a newbie! Don't be rude to every who wants to court me!" Tia pleaded. "You're embarrassing me, brother!"

My jaws literally dropped when I heard that latter part. This man is Tia's brother! And hey! Who said I was going to court Tia?! I came here to enjoy the damn game! I thought this was an adventure game, not a dating sim!

"You're the one who's being rude, Tia! I was merely testing this scrawny boy if he can protect you!" He drew his saber and charged towards me. "Let's see how can you protect my sister!"

I was frozen solid on the spot. It was already too late before I can summon my dagger. Fortunately, a man came between us. An overhead slash was about to hit me when the man caught it with his left index finger. How did he even manage to stop the damn thing with just a finger?

"Ohh, looks like we got a hot head here." The man said. All the men that came with Tia ran towards her brother to stop him for they knew the man who came between us.

"Ease yourself, DeathKnight. You can't defeat this man! You will only lose your exp if you fight him." Said by one of the men who stopped Tia's brother.

In this game, attacking and damaging someone beyond the protection of a town or safezone will automatically be considered as a P.K or player killing/player killer. Within this mode, anyone who attack someone who has a P.K status will not turn into P.K mode. 

The man slowly turned to look at me. I heard him click his tongue before talking. "Looks like you really are a scrawny boy!" He extended his right hand and offered a shake. "Name's Jack! Jack of All Trades!" He proudly declared.

I slowly extended my right hand to accept the shake hands that he offered. "I'm Tobi."

"Tobi? What's your reason to choose that name? I chose Jack to fit it to my guild's name." He asked. "See? I am Jack! Jack of All Trades! Now your turn. What's your reason?"

In truth, I don't really have any reason why I chose this name. I just remembered an old manga story where a man named 'Tobi' appeared so cool. 

"I don't have any particular reason.. I think?" I replied. I was puzzled by this man's actions. Why save me? Why would he even ask why I use this name? And why is he wearing a smiling pumpkin for a freaking helmet?

"You look puzzled! Is it the helm? It's cute right?"

No it doesn't. But I don't have the guts to tell my savior that. Instead, I asked him why did he save me. He just shrugged and looked away. 

"If you ever want some strength to show that girl's brother, find me in town, I can teach you a thing or two in this game. I'm just in a hurry that I can't teach you right now, so.. bye!" He waved his good bye and walked fast without giving me a chance to catch him. Well, not that it's hard to search for a man who wears a large pumpkin for a helmet but it would save time if I had the chance to add him in my friend list. That way, I can communicate with him easier. In D.W.P, you can't add someone into your friendlist without his or her prescence before you.

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We are now back at the inn except for Tia's brother who seem to disappear before we can enter the inn. I guess, I would have someone stalking me from now on.

I settled myself before the counter and ordered the honeybeer again. I need to earn more gold if I still want to get strong. I got a very unproductive day today. Maybe I'll stretch my bones for a while before searching for Jack.

"Hey Tia."

"Hmm?"

"Do you know anything about, Jack? Jack of All Trades."

Some of the men who heard my question turned their necks towards me with a grim face. Seems like Jack is infamous of some sort even in these parts of the map. This is place is for the newbies after all.

"Jack is one of the strongest players in-game, lad." A man talked before walking towards me. The men who turned their attention to me got back to what they were doing. As for Tia, she seemed to have ignored my question and carried on to her work. 

The man sat beside me and started talking. "Jack of All Trades boasts his mastery of almost everything in the game. He has been playing since the beginning and he never missed any event of the game. The All Trades guild are composed of only thirteen members whose prowess and play style is top ranked. Jack is their Vice President."

As for guilds in D.W.P, guilds provides a lot more compared to parties. It is a permanent companionship and can also give good buffs within its members. The leader of a guild is called Guild Master (GM), the second in command would be the Vice President (VP), the ones under the VP would be the Elders and lastly, the members.

"Is he really that strong?" I asked.

"I haven't really seen him in action but they said that he had master almost every aspect of fighting in the game. That's what the game masters get when they attract players like him with the move recorder update." The man replied.

This game has a unique feature that lets players to record their moves or their way of using their skills to turn it into combos that is vital for their unique play style. This feature attracted a lot of players and also gave the game a boost for support.

To use this feature, a player would enter a special room that accommodates players for their needs in building their own combos. This place can be manipulated by the llayer entirely. Some examples are lowering the cooldowns, the casting time and such. But for the certain combo to be used in the real time game, the player should have the required cooldown or weapon or casting time that they used to record the combo.

I thanked the man who gave me the permission and started to search for Jack in the castle. This is like finding a needle in a million hectares of haystack. Though, as impossible as it seemed, I still managed to find him in the market place by the merchant's place.

"Oh! You found me! Come, come! I'll introduce you to them!" He had a very excited tone in his voice. But then, who's them? "I'll introduce you to all the avaracious ones!"

"Avaracious ones?" I looked puzzled 

"Yeah! All the members of the All Trades!"

We arrived in the Guild Hall building. The Guild Hall Building holds all the zones of the guild that has been made. Every time a new guild is created, a new door appears. This makes the building constantly change in terms of size and floors.

After introducing me to his companions, he took me to a room in their guild hall. This room is called Practice Hall. It's like the Combo Recorder Room but it can't record combos but it can be controlled as entirely as the Combo Recorder Room. Jack was mumbling before he faced me.

"Okay! I have decided that you will be my apprentice!" He said. "Don't look so surprised. You will be my last."

"Last?"

"Yeah! You know about the Apprenticeship Program right?"

I don't really get the Apprentinceship Program but it's about erasing the borders between teaching and sharing the skills that someone acquired to his or her 'apprentice'. Normally, one player only has five chances to acquire an apprentice. But with the donate items, you can refresh this limit. 

"Uh.. yes."

He clapped his hands and summoned the menu for this zone. He started to click here and there. It looks like he was fixing his wanted options 

"The All Trades Guild boasts our play style of being good at everything. We can be anything, remember that." He stopped clicking on his screen and faced me. "The only motto of of this guild is 'We are good at everything but not the best at anything.'"

"Our play style, our build, gives us advantage to almost everything. We can fight head on against magic or physical damage." He was making some hand gestures as he talks. "But remember, we can't fight head on against someone whom mastered something against us who will fight with the same handicap."

I look more puzzled than ever. Sometimes I think that this is just a random guy who's high on drugs that I met who wanted to teach me. 

"Puzzled? Here, listen. A guy who mastered the ways of the sword and already acquired all the skills for it would fight us. If we fight him with the ways of the sword and only with the skills that we acquired, we will lose. But, if we use the other ways like what I'm goig to show you later, almost no one would stand a chance against us."

I opened my mouth to ask him to repeat his damn idea about his play style but before any words escaped my mouth, a minotaur appeared before us.

A minotaur is a high level monster that can be found in the Cave of the Forgotten. They appear to have a large masculine body but their head is of a bull. They usually carry a large two handed dual bladed axe.

"I haven't got my low level equipment on me right now so.. we'll have to use a minotaur for my demonstration." He just crouched and looked like he was ready to attack at any moment. The minotaur looked angry with smoke coming out of its nostrils. "This will be over in a flash!"

Jack rushed to charge the Minotaur without any weapons in hand. By the time he arrived exactly one pace before the monster, a large two inches thick two handed sword appeared in his right hand. He performed a crescent slash coming from below and left a huge vertical cut through the Minotaur's body. As Jack's rush from the attack continues, the momentum threw him into the air, leveled by the poor monster's head. Then again, his weapon vanished as his hands gestured at the back of his head readying an overhead slash. Before his hands moved, a dagger appeared between them and when it reached 180 degrees, his dagger changed into a two handed large mace that bashed the Minotaur's head flat. Jack landed on both of his feet and quickly turned to face me with a large smirk on his face.

"We call ourselves the avaracious ones because we are greedy when it comes to power." His smirk turned into a maniacal smile like a murderer smile while killing.