-Did you really!? That's amazing!
Bjarke looked like a kid jumping up and down. We were at night again, in my time of meditation and I finally told him.
-You could become a high mage and throw fireballs, or become a knight and cut anything with a mana sword ooh man you're so cool right now? Could you do me a favour?
He grabbed both of Dmitri’s hands and put them together. Dmitri could do so many favours right now, he had no idea.
-If you get to Expert, can you teach me your way?
-Eh?
What?
-W-what do you mean?
-When you get the skill to expert you know, teach me your way of the skill
-I can do that?
-Well yeah, how do you guys think you learn from other people? When you get to expert in any skill you can impart to another person your experiences and teach them to trained. Of course, master and legendary are much better, but they are very rare.
-O-ok I'll do that…
For a kiss. Blushes.
-O-oh, wow, thank you, that means a lot.
An awkward silence installs itself between them.
…
They sit there for a while.
-Thank you, really.
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-I knew you were one of us.
Fayt was also excited.
-Tell me tell me, what build are going for? There is no meta right now but the elementalist build seems very strong.
-I-I'm going to make a taming build.
-Oooh, nice having big monsters can be strong and who knows, can be the meta.
Hmm such a weird conversation.
-S-so, I need to go, the falcons need me.
And Dmitri closed the messaging app.
Now that he had the spell to catch his first insect Dmitri had his first problem. He got used to his life taking care of falcons.
He wants more, but can he get more? What if he can't? What if there isn't any insect? What if the spell isn't enough?
He is being plagued by questions and getting swamped by doubts. Does he even like insects? I mean he did have full bulgi-yoh decklists of the insect type.
No! He likes insects in the media! He does! Stop that Dmitri!
-Are you okay?
Dmitri's heart just went away.
-Sorry sorry, training ended early today so I thought I would come see you with the falcons. But you have this really scary face.
-A-ah I was thinking…
-About what?
-What I'll do from now on.
Bjarke got close to Dmitri suddenly.
-And what is it you'll do?
He sounded nervous.
-A-adventuring I guess?
-Oh, yeah, of course.
Now he sounded sad.
-B-but I really like the falcons you know, I just can't seem to say goodbye to them.
-R-really?! The falcons? That's good, that's good, they like you very much too, you should definitely stay.
-I'll do some adventuring, but I'll always come back, for the falcons.
-Yeah the falcons… Oh this week is the last week of drills, if I pass I become a guard in the town, who knows you'll see me around it or taking care of the gate to town to see you going in and out.
-T-That would be nice, seeing someone I know.
-Ok then I'll be at the gate.
-Ok.
Our eyes met.
I knew, he knew. But did we do anything?
No
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This afternoon Dmitri decided to go out.
He prepared his backpack, and went to the gate out of the city.
-Careful out there Traveller without a weapon you can be dead meat in no time.
The guard told me.
-I'll be careful, at first I'll only observe the monsters.
-Hmm well it's your life and it's multiple, do whatever.
Dmitri went out and could already hear the sound of birds, of trees and insects, how many of these would be monsters he still would need to see.
He started to wander out, following the sounds, especially the insect ones. He passed through groups of rabbites, of small crystal geckos and small wolves.
Adquire Stealth untrained
Many times he got a warning he was entering a higher levelled area, so he had to go back, backtrack a little and continue on.
He spent the whole afternoon looking for insect monsters but could not find any. He only found the smallest insects, the normal ones.
Dmitri was getting ready to go back to the training ground, his time with Bjarke being good for his soul. But then he heard movement under the trees.
Immediately he started digging around it and found gold or in this case chitinous balls the size of his head. He just knew it was an insect monster. He put it down, went a little farther away, got his book and started writing and drawing on it.
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It was serious business for Dmitri, he had to learn about this monster, about its activities, how aggressive it is, how it attacks, how it defends.
It has 2 feelers, 6 feet, beautiful green carapace divided in two parts, the head and the body. It can close itself in, forming a ball.
During the night, he noticed the insect could move in the ball mode. He kept drawing and writing everything he saw about the insect.
Adquire Drawing skill
Adquire Scribing skill
He wishes there was an identity spell, it would be so much easier.
The insect monster is a herbivore. He reminds Dmitri of a MonMon that looked like a cow, it could roll around and deal massive amounts of damage.
He saw a baby wolf try to bite it, but it broke its teeth. So it had very hard chitin.
Dmitri started to get tired. He decided to log off and show off his news later. He went back quickly to the town not forgetting to thank the guard who worried about him and logged off.
He went to sleep very nicely with his mind racing and going round and round about the things he would do.
Waking up he took care of his house while humming, he felt almost floating, today he would tell Bjarke about the insect monster he would capture and his idea to make him more aggressive.
He pressed himself up when he realised he took too many hours, he didn't want people to wait too long for him.
Inside the game again, he finds himself near the gate. The guards have changed so he just went to Otto's place.
-Hello Otto! Can I use the workshop?
-Oh hi, hello, yes of course honey.
Dmitri went inside to the workshop and started on a new job, he was making some modifications to his clothes
He gets his tool kit and looks for things that can be used in clothes, soon finding some needles.
-I-I'm getting some threads!
-Sure, it will be a few coppers for the simple one!
Dmitri looks around the workshop then… He blushes and starts to undress, but stops in the middle and remembers he bought a second pair of clothes.
-Thank gods…
He starts taking his measurements, making sure it's very slim to his body. Especially the legs and the arms.
Having the measurements ready, he starts cutting. He goes for the seams of the clothes as they already had marks of threads being used.
Getting the proper size he realises he might get rashes because of the type of the material so he looks around the workshop for one he might use.
-There, this one is fine.
He stitched the material inside the clothes, putting it in areas that were more sensitive.
-I will need to make a proper “uniform” someday.
Looking at his equipment window he pressed the second tab, instantly he was naked. Immediately he looked around the workshop again.
Quickly putting on his new clothes, he started to stretch, like Brunhilda taught him.
The clothes were not stretchy so it wasn't very good, but it was what he had at the moment. Changing back to his normal clothes…
-Otto, do you know of any material, for clothes, that would be stretchy?
-Hmmm, in the forest, more inside it, there are some vines that can be quite malleable, maybe that's what you want?
Quest: Find the Vines
-Nice! Ok I'll look for it, thank you.
Paying his due to Otto, Dmitri went to the town's gate.
Night was falling, soon the beetles would start coming out and he finally would capture his first monster.
He waited near trees he thought had a bump under them. He waited, waited, until some of the bumps started moving.
It was time to choose, he started going around the forest looking at all the beetles, for what he wanted he needed a big one. And a big one he found, it was munching on some leaves, it was the size of his forearm and hand together.
Stealthily he closed the gap between them. Getting closer and closer. The beetle only not noticing him probably because it was level 1
And then… He pounced!
Dmitri didn't know how to use his spell, he forgot to try it out, so he hugged the beetle, started making soothing sounds to it and under his breath said:
-Catch’em
A soft yellow light enveloped the beetle, it stayed for what it felt minutes, but soon it died down and Dmitri knew. He caught it.
-I-I did it!
Raising the beetle very high, Dmitro started turning around himself.
-Ha ha ha ha ha!
-Hey Mitras, how's the catching going?
Dmitri should start getting resistance to scares now.
-H-hello Fayt, I just caught my first monster.
-Sweet which one?
-I d-don't know it's name, but it's a green bee-
-What do you mean you don't know? Didn't you identify it?
-Hmm hmm, no I don't have that.
-Oh man, of course you have, you have mana manipulation. Just put mana on your eyes and fix them in the monster.
That's what he did, he imagined one of his mana ants going to his eyes.
Unlocked Spell Identify
Rolling Beetle Level 1 Insect PW 1 Harden - Trained 0
-It's called a Rolling Beetle!
-Huh, I don't remember that monster on the first map, no matter, I hope you can make it a good monster.
-I-It's gonna go great, you'll see.
-You better show me. All right, lemme come back to my group, just wanted to make sure you were progressing.
-O-ok, thank you.
The conversation, as always, felt weird, but Dmitri couldn't really touch what it was.
It was the middle of the night but he was full of energy, so he went to the training grounds while hugging his new friend. Lucky he was alone, although part of him did want to see Bjarke, he would have to have waited too much.
Dmitri looked around, making doubly sure he was alone.
-Ok first off, a name. Hmmmm…
A ball, an insect ball, a dancing ball. It will turn around and spin. Spin spin spin, spinner. There's something with maths there? Don't things that spin have an axis?
-Browser!
Yeah, axis… Axis, I like that.
-Hello Axis.
Name Adquire
-I'm Mitras, so.. Hmmm, hello.
Axis feelers move and try to caress Mitras face, but they are a little too short so Dmitri closes the gap. The feelers are soft but prickly, almost like they want to make you laugh.
-He he yes hello to you too. So here is the deal, I know you're not much of a fighter, but together we definitely are. I will show you my plan and you just need to follow, I'm sure we're gonna do great.
During that night a character in Golari Online danced rhythmically to no music with a ball on his hand. Training throwing it high in the air while spinning and catching it, both with his hands and with his feet up high.
With the help of Axis trying and learning to control his fall, both would be a beautiful sight to see.
And seen they were by a young man mesmerised by their movements.
Dmitri Mitras Human Level 1 (PW 3) HP: 10 MP: 10 Skills: SP: 0 Health - Trained 0 Mana - Trained 0 Common Language - Untrained 10 Dance - Trained 2 Tame - Trained 3 Charm - Untrained - 7 Handicraft - Trained 2 Stealth - Untrained - 3 Drawing - Untrained 3 Scribing - Untrained 3
Spells Catch'em (5 MP), Cheer (2 MP Sustained), Identify (0 MP)
Axis Rolling Beetle Insect Level 1 (PW 1) Skills SP: 0 Health: 5 MP: 5 Health - Trained 0 Mana - Trained 0 Harden - Trained 0 Aerodynamics - Untrained 3