(Lily & Rose)
It’s been 5 days since we came to this new world we are finally starting to get into the rhythm of things, we patrol every morning starting right after the sun comes up and ending after 10 hours and getting the rest of the day off which we mostly spent familiarizing ourselves with the town and the elves that live here. Today is the day we go out for what everyone calls assisted leveling basically, from what we have been told everyone (all 5 of the guards including us) go into the forest to hunt monsters.
We get assigned to a team with Virion who specializes in archery, we are then told to go patrol the forest and kill any monsters we can without dying ourselves. We talk with Virion and decide that Lily will focus on keeping them trying to attack her, while he kills them from afar and Rose kills them from melee range. With our strategy set he invites us to a party and we accept, we now see his HP and MP in the top left of our vision with our counterparts HP/MP underneath that and our own in the bottom middle slightly bigger.
We then start walking through the forest we can tell he’s more alert than either of us, he’s always pointing out the monsters we walk with in sight of. The first monster we end up fighting was a rabbit with two horns on its head when we were fighting it we had Lily distract it as Virion shot at it and Rose attacked it with her longsword. We ended up killing it fairly quickly moving on in the forest we fight quite a few monsters killing most things with minimal effort but there are a few close scraps.
As we are sitting down near a lake taking a break from hunting monsters we hear the thunderous steps of a four legged creature running straight towards us, we jump into position with Lily standing closest to where the creature sounds to be coming from, Rose right behind her and Virion standing 30 ft behind that. We wait ready to attack whatever comes out of the forest, Virion has his bow drawn, LIly has her shield raised and Rose sets down her shield still wearing the chain armor provided, using her sword in her left hand and Lily’s in her right.
When the creature comes out of the forest we see a giant lizard easily 20 ft from end to end with scales that are a deep forest green almost blending perfectly into the background if it wasn’t for the golden crown seemingly made of its scales growing straight out of its head we wouldn’t have even seen it. The first thing that happened when it emerged was Virion shooting it with his bow then calling out, “It’s a fucking Basilisk, don’t look into its eyes!” as he says this out of the corner of our eyes we see him look away. But his warning fell on our ears just to late as Lily was already staring it down and Rose jumped to attack it swinging both swords in a storm of steel throwing sparks in all directions with thunderous clashes of metal hitting metal, barely managing to draw blood by sheer luck of hitting it in its softer underbelly when its attention was diverted to Lily. Lily taunts it again as we feel a crushing force demanding we submit hitting our minds, but is repealed by a feeling of familiarity as we fight together. The storm of attacks from Rose barely inflicting damage to the Basilisk but in return it can barely get a scratch in on Lily who is intercepting the attacks from it with her shield to prevent her sister from coming to harm, but as Lily gets scratched we see a message appear in front of both of us:
‘-10 HP status effect applied Poisoned: affect -10 HP every 5 seconds’ {Lilly}
‘Do to being linked with Lily Asyun Fortuna you have lost 10 HP’ {Rose}
We feel a pure burning pain rampaging through both of our bodies, slowing us both down to the point that we can barely keep up with this thing Rose continues her storm of attacks but not hitting as many or attacking as quickly, we quickly slow even farther until we get to the point our moves can’t keep up with the creature, we would need a miracle to survive.
As we are about to give up we see an arrow pierce one of the creatures eyes causing it to recoil we see this as our only opportunity to attack we both attack with everything we have Lily slamming her shield into the exposed underbelly and Rose once more becoming a storm this time cutting the inner thighs of the creature causing it to fall onto its back giving us the time we need to attack it again and this time we manage to cut it open and then keep cutting and bashing it far past the point it’s dead we keep going pushing through the burning pain until we simply can't and pass out.
When we awake we are back in the barracks, we see Virion sitting down up to a table seemingly staring off into space. He’s probably checking his status we should do the same so we both are about to pull up our status we see a series of notifications:
‘You have lost 5 HP do to Basilisk poison’ {Lilly}
‘Do to being linked with Lily Aysun Fortuna you have lost 5 HP’ {Rose}
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‘You have lost 5 HP do to Basilisk poison’ {Lilly}
‘Do to being linked with Lily Aysun Fortuna you have lost 5 HP’ {Rose}
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‘You have lost 5 HP do to Basilisk poison’ {Lilly}
‘Do to being linked with Lily Aysun Fortuna you have lost 5 HP’ {Rose}
We ended up taking 90 damage each from the basilisk poison which and after we took 80 from it we got a notification saying we fell unconscious. We also got a notification saying:
‘You have killed a Raid tier Basilisk (lv 15), Total EXP Gain 15,000 your share 5,000’ {Both}
‘Do to your affinity you have gained 98% more to a total of 9,900 EXP’ {Both}
‘Do to your Trait Quick Learner your EXP gain has been multiplied x2, to a Total of 19,800’ {Both}
‘Do to you being linked to Lily Aysun Fortuna / Rose Astra Fortuna you have gained 19,800 EXP (no multiplier applicable) ’ {Both}
We gain the same EXP? Interesting, if our math is correct we both gained 39,600 EXP.
‘Your class Apprentice is now level 8/10’ {Both}
Your class Swordsman is now level 8/10’ {Both}
‘You have gained the title Slayer of Champions’ {Both}
Slayer of Champions? We got a title, we don’t know what they do or if they do anything but it sounds cool anyways.
We finish looking at our notifications and open our status:
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%
We stare at the screens that appear in front of us for a solid 5 minutes before Virion walks over and says, “Well that was damn terrifying I’ve never seen anyone fight with strikes that quick or anyone able to predict the moves of a basilisk quick enough to block for someone else, not to mention staring into the eyes of a Raid tier Basilisk and not being overcome by its abilitie to turn you to stone. Just who are you two to be able to fight like that? From what I saw only one of you were hit by it why did both of you collapse at the same time? Ah sorry probably a bit personal.”
“Well your right that was damn terrifying but i'm not sure about our skill in battle we were simply reacting to what it did.” We reply.
He looks at us then says “Well whatever you say, but thanks to you I have finally managed to get into the second tier of classes, that 5,000 EXP was the boost I needed to get past level 10.”
After he says this the commander comes into the room and looks at us before saying, “Well I’ll be damned, you returned to the land of the living! My wife said you would but I find it hard to believe that people affected by basilisk poison could so easily wake up, from what Virion tells me the two of you killed a Raid tier Basilisk by yourselves, I knew you would make good guards but I never thought two swordsmen could kill something like that.”
He said two swordsmen does that mean he doesn't know of our other class? Or is he just pretending?
Speaking of our other class we haven't learned anything about magic, we should try that soon.
After seeing us lost in thought the commander walks away.
We stand up and walk over to Virion and say, “Where do you suggest we go to learn magic?”
He starts laughing and says, “With your combat skills, there's now way either of you is a mage.”
“Hey we are serious we both have the Swordsmen and Apprentice classes but we haven't done anything with magic yet.”
He looks at us stunned before saying, “You both have both Swordsmen and Apprentice? Swordsmen at least seeing you fight makes since, but having two classes, that's not possible, even if it was having the Apprentice class without knowing magic that's just hilarious. But if you really do have the Apprentice class well there's a Guild of mages not to far from here, but they require you to be able to prove that your a form of magic user to get in.”
“Well for someone claiming to not believe us, you sure did give us a lot of information. Thank you.”
“Yeah, yeah well you guys saved my life so if you want information on a mage guild I figured I could at least tell you what I know, oh and if you really can learn magic maybe go to my sister Vanya, she is the only Arcane magic user that lives in this town. If you want, I can show you where she works and you can try to convince her to teach you.”
“Thanks, Virion we appreciate it.”