(Lily & Rose)
When we awake we are in what appears to be a coliseum with training dummies wearing purple and blue armor, some holding shields others with weapons. We also see in the center of the coliseum is a man who at first we mistake for just another training dummy but they very clearly moved to look at us and motions us forward.
When we get to the man he says, “Welcome to the class arena, please each of you choose a class.”
We looked through all the options that were available to us there was everything from worker to mage and even some exotic to say the least things like sex-slave and other such things but we simply ignored all of those and looked at the core parts of an adventuring party: The Mage, The Swordsman, and the Healer, the options where:
The arcane magic based classes: you have tapped into the Arcane and unlocked at least some minor secrets of it, allowing you to command a portion of it.
{Apprentice: The First Tier of the base magic line, +1 INT +1 WIS +1 WILL per level}
{Initiate: The Second Tier of the base magic line, +2 INT +2 WIS +2 WILL per level}
{Adept: The third Tier of the base magic line, +4 INT +4 WIS +4 WILL per level}
{Magician: The Fourth Tier of the base magic line, +8 INT +8 WIS +8 WILL per level}
{Magi: The Fifth Tier of the base magic line, +16 INT +16 WIS +16 WILL +8 free per level}
{Arch–Magi: The Sixth and final Tier of the base magic line, +32 INT +32 WIS +32 WILL +16 free per level}
The sword based classes: You have studied martial arts that utiles bladed weapons, having honed your skill to a point.
{Swordsman: The First Tier in the sword line +1 STR +1 DEX +1 END per level}
{Soldier: The Second Tier in the sword line +2 STR +2 DEX +2 END per level}
{Fighter: The Third Tier in the sword line +4 STR +4 DEX +4 END per level}
{Blade Dancer: The Fourth Tier in the sword line +8 STR +8 DEX +8 END per level}
{Blade Singer: The fifth Tier in the sword line +16 STR +16 DEX +16 END +8 free per level}
{Blade Demon: The Sixth and final Tier in the sword line +32 STR +32 DEX +32 END +16 free per level}
And the Healing based ones: Your worship of a deity has allowed you at the very least minor control over the life energies of the world.
{Novice: The First Tier in the priestly/healing line +1 WILL +1 PER +1 WIS per level}
{Acolyte: The Second Tier in the priestly/healing line +2 WILL +2 PER +2 WIS per level}
{Mystic: The Third Tier in the priestly/healing line +4 WILL +4 PER +4 WIS per level}
{Priest/Priestess: The Fourth Tier in the priestly/healing line +8 WILL +8 PER +8 WIS per level}
{Prior/Prioress: The Fifth Tier in the priestly/healing line +16 WILL +16 PER +16 WIS +8 free per level}
{High Priest/Priestess: The Sixth and final Tier in the priestly/healing line +32 WILL +32 PER +32 WIS +16 free Per level}
Not really being religious we decide to have Lily take the Blade Demon class and Rose will end up with the Arch-Magi class, but when we select to ta\ke them we get a warning that says: ‘Inorder to gain the Blade-Demon/ Arch-Magi class you will need to level all other classes in those lines continue? You will start with the Apprentice/ Swordsman class’
Well the mysterious child like voice thing did say we would have to work to be the strongest so we might as well continue with a goal in mind. “Yes we would like to continue.” We say at the same time, when we finish we see what could only be a status screen appear in front of us:
Name: Rose Astra Fortuna Name: LIly Asyun Fortuna Race: Dvati; Elf: Blessed Race: Dvati; Elf: Blessed Class: Apprentice/Swordsman Class: Swordsman/Apprentice Level: 1/10; 1/10 Level: 1/10; 1/10 Exp: 0/100; 0/100 Exp: 0/100; 0/100 STR: 22 DEX: 22 END: 22 STR: 22 DEX: 22 END 22 FORT: 20 INT: 42 CHA: 40 FORT: 20 INT: 42 CHA: 40 WIS: 42 WILL: 42 PER: 24 WIS: 42 WILL: 42 PER: 24 LUCK: 24 LUCK: 24 Free Attributes: 0 Free Attributes: 0 HP: 84/84 MP: 168/168 HP: 84/84 MP:168/168 22 HP/h 42 MP/h 22 HP/h 42 MP/h Skills: Acrobatics lv 1; Swords lv 1 Skills: Taunt lv 1; Dodge lv 1 Gift: BLESSED: HIDDEN Gift: BLESSED: HIDDEN Gift: Inventory: An extradimensional space that can be used to hold objects. Gift: Inventory: An extradimensional space that can be used to hold objects. Trait: Linked: Lily Asyun Fortuna; You are linked with Lily Asyun Fortuna, you will now progress from both of your actions, and both of your actions will have consequences for both of you. Trait: Linked: Rose Astra Foruna; You are linked with Rose Astra Fortuna, you will now progress from both of your actions, and both of your actions will have consequences for both of you. Trait: Quick Learner: All; You learn everything twice as fast, this allows you to grow better and faster. Trait: Quick Learner: All; You learn everything twice as fast, this allows you to grow better and faster. Trait: HIDDEN Trait: HIDDEN Affinity: 98% Affinity: 98%
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‘Do to special circumstances you have both gained the others class as well as your own’
Well that sure is nice we both gain the same classes as one another, reading over the status screen we come to the conclusion that every part of... us? Or whatever the screen displays is the same except for skills which are for some reason different, weird, wait shouldn't we be thinking that it’s odd that everything else is the same? Looking at our race is also confusing shouldn't Dvati be a subrace of Elf? Not Elf being a subrace of Dvati? And blessed so two subraces? We don't know if that’s normal at all but guess we have something to learn when we get back to… its not earth so whatever that place is called.
‘You have 15 minutes to get used to your skills and new abilities. Good luck!’
15 minutes huh, well what do we need to get used to? We don’t have a sword to test the {Swords} skill but we should be able to test {dodge}, {acrobatics}, and {taunt}. We end up spending 5 minutes on each skill figuring out that for some reason when Lily went to grab Rose she didn't even have to think about activating anything but just seemed to know where she would be coming from but with the other skills we had to activate them. Maybe it wasn’t actually dodge?
When the 15 minutes ended we were put back into our body’s staring at our status screens, with the commander looking at us and waiting. Remembering that we are supposed to show our status to him we both say, “Status Share.”
He looks over our status screens for around 20 minutes before looking us straight in the eyes as best he can and saying, “Do you two want a job? It pays 5 coppers a day each, you get 2 days off a week, assisted leveling, we will provide all the gear necessary, and free room to stay in.” he didn't even tell us what the job was, and is 5 coppers a lot? Hmm we should really ask what the job is, so we say, “We can’t accept or refuse until you tell us what the job is.” He looks at us then says “Oh right how could I forget the two of you would be employed as guards of Thistle Bane you already have the swordsman class so it would be no problem to employ you and with your stats at your level, not to mention your affinity being so high you would make fine guards assuming you respect the law and your superiors.” Guards? well thats similar to what we would be doing when we got out of college anyway, free room and we get paid that's nice we won't have to pay as much for living expenses. Assisted leveling? If this is like a game and you need to kill monsters for EXP then this should reduce the risk by a significant margin.
We look at each other thinking the same thing ‘well this solves income and living, might as well accept’ so we do just that we turn and look at the commander and speaking at the same time say “we will accept this job.”
The commander then calls over to one of the other elves in this barracks? And tells them to give us a quick tour then give us are swords. So the guy comes over and says, “My name is Virion if you have any questions please ask, I will be giving the two of you a quick tour of this town, I will also be giving you your swords and armor.” he then waits for about 30 seconds to see if we have any questions when we don’t he starts walking over to a rack with chain armor, longswords, and shields. He glances at us as he's grabing two sets of armor and padding to go underneath. After about 2 minutes he hands each of us a set of armor, a shield, and a longsword, asking, “Do you two now how to put the armor on or do you need help?” neither of us have ever worn anything like this before so we reply, “We need help.” he then leads us into a room that is smaller and helps us put the armor on straps the shield to our wrist and hang the sword on our belts. All in all it takes about 15 minutes for both of us to be armored and ready to leave.
When we walk out of the barracks we see a small group of creatures with pointed teeth, mottled green skin, deep green eyes and wearing nothing but a loin cloth. When we see them Virion says, “Well lets see how you handle yourselves against goblins.” and he steps back leaving us to fight the goblins.
Almost instinctively Lily steps forward and raises her shield, then slams her sword into it repeatedly which effectively gets the attention of the goblins and they start charging at her but right before they get there Rose dashes forward jumping over Lily and cutting one of the goblins head off killing it, before quickly ducking back behind Lily as she draws there attention once more this time they are close enough for her to also attack one of the goblins stabbing it in the side not killing it but definitely wounding it as Rose kills another one and goes back into hiding. We repeat this until we have killed all 6 of the goblins without taking any damage, we then get a pop up in front of both of our visions:
‘You have killed 6 Goblins (lv 2)’
And another one right after that:
You have Gained 178 EXP
And:
‘Do to you being linked to Lily Aysun Fortuna / Rose Astra Fortuna you have gained 178 EXP’
And finally:
‘Your class Swordsman and your class Apprentice have leveled up’
We leveled up and it feels amazing we can feel our bodies getting stronger.
(Virion)
The commander comes in with 2 girls that look like mirror images of each other asks them the basic questions: age, place of birth, years of schooling, and all of that they seem to ignore the question about place of birth but answer the other ones they say they are 18 years of age, with, get this 14 years of schooling only nobles would go to school that long, I mean seriously 140 years, out of the 180 they’ve been alive? When they are asked for their status screens they don’t understand what they are supposed to do so the commander explains they then do so, the commander then stares at their screens for 20 minutes! When he looks away from them the first thing he says is “Do the two of you want a job?” he then lists the benefits.
After they accepted he called me over and is having me give them their armor and explain everything they need to know about being a guard. When I give them there armor, I ask if they even know how to put it on and they say they need help doing so. After taking 15 minutes to help them get their armor and shields on, and strap the sword to their side we start the tour of the town. But of course as soon as we get out of the barracks there is a group of 6 goblins headed for the town I decided that it would be a good test of their skill with the blade so I step back and tell them that these are goblins and ask to see how they handle themselves.
At first I thought that it was just going to be the one that stepped forward who would attack but instead they just got the attention of the goblins and when they got close enough the other one jumped over the first one! decapitated a goblin in a single swing before immediately hiding behind the other one again who then draws the goblins back to her, they do this 6 times and kill all the goblins.
Honestly I was hoping I could get them to fail and have me rescue them but they were surprisingly skilled in a fight and worked together in a way you can only do if you have repeatedly risked your life with the other watching your back, the first one to step forward acted as if they knew none would get close to her and the second one acted on every opening the first created, to be honest im not sure if I’d be able to fight both of them at the same time but I could easily beat one of them on their own.
(Lily & Rose)
After fighting the goblins we end up continuing the tour, and it seems like Virion has a more respectful attitude towards us, but it's hard to tell as he was being respectful in the first place. Going through the town it’s not all that big, it has just 84 people in it plus how ever many are in the noble district which has its own set of guards that was picked by the nobles, and locked off form the commoners.
We go through town and learn about the basic layout of the town, and the path we will be patrolling. We spend most of the day learning and patrolling with Virion. When we finally get back to the barracks the sun is going down, so Virion shows us where we will be sleeping tells us we will be taking the first shift on that route in the morning and asks if we have any questions, not having any we acknowledge our work schedule and go to sleep.