- So here is the problem, there’s been a slight delay in silver and other metals delivery. I’m out of silver threads. I buy from the mines in Ezca and I heard you and your guild had a pretty good reputation there.
-Y-yeah.
-Would you go and talk to Watts? He’s the dwarf that’s my supplier… I guess he’s your supplier now too hahaha.
-I don’t mind at all Otto, his name is Watts right?
-Yes, he’s a young dwarf, so he’s pretty proud, but he has a good heart.
-No worries, I’ll talk to him.
It doesn’t feel like a long thing, he didn’t even get a quest. So he should be out and back in a day or two.
-I can get ready and leave today.
-Are you sure? You’d be a great help.
-I will, don’t you worry.
-Thank you!
Mitras had just got out of the HQ and he entered again and went to his bedroom to see if he missed anything.
The bed.
The bed was a mess.
He started to fix it, but stopped a little to smell the blankets, it smelt like Bjarke. He gotta find where to clean his things.
With the bed all right, he really had everything in his backpack and Axis in his arms.
Time to go to Ezca again.
First stop, the gate.
Blushes.
-Hi, love, are you okay walking?
-Y-yeah, I-I’m okay.
Bjarke pulled him into a kiss.
-Going out on an adventure?
-J-Just a little one, I’ll be quick.
-I’ll miss you… and your sweet body.
He said that part into his ears.
-W-what? Y-you, bye!
He ran away.
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Ezca, afternoon.
Mitras went to Watts’ store.
-Stupid goblins making everything hard! Who do they think they are mining our ores!
It seemed like he wasn’t in a good mood.
-H-hello? Watts?
-Yeah?! Who is it?
-H-hi, my name is Mitras, Otto sent me.
-Ohhh Otto boy, sure sure come in.
-So, he told me there was a problem with the silver thread's delivery a-and asked me to come here , see if everything is alright.
-Oh that, you haven't heard? You Travellers usually know everything that is happening. There was a bombing some time ago at the mine. Apparently they were pursuing an assassin. It opened a new pathway in the mines which at first was great. But then goblins started to come out.
-G-goblins?
-Exactly! And goblin miners to top that off. Can you believe it?! They think they can be miners!
-Oh so it's hard to mine now?
-They are everywhere now! Every nook and cranny the mineshafts have they are there. There are some Travellers trying to help but for now mining is hard. Say, could you take a look? Maybe there is some way to make them go away?
Quest: Watts Mines Got to Do with It
Huh, maybe this won't be something fast.
-Okay, I'll take a look.
-Thank you, I know some are seeing to it, but you know, the more the merrier.
-No problem, I'll go right now.
At the mines.
Things were very different from last time. Mitras only went to the mines once, but he ran a lot of paths and didn't find any monsters.
Now, this place seemed like a normal hunting ground. Goblin Miners were everywhere as well as players, fighting each other.
-Come on Axis, do your thing!
He let Axis down and waited.
And waited.
And waited a little more.
-I guess not this time huh?
Getting Axis back, he started going down the mine.
At first it was pretty easy, the goblins were level 15 to 20. But as long as he went down, their levels went up. Soon he was fighting big goblins, strong and muscled miners. The only luck is that they were very simple.
They didn't have special attacks nor magic.
It took a whole 24 hours, but he found himself in the same opening he fought against the assassin. The creatures were level 35 to 40. It was actually a great hunting ground for him.
So great he kinda got lost in the hunting.
Level 35…
Level 38…
Level 41
He continued going down and continued getting levels. This has gone for 5 days.
He was level 48 now. Soon he would be able to enter Night's Embrace alone. He may actually call Bjarke, they could do it together, what level was he anyway?
He found goblin posts after a day, after entering the new tunnel the bomb opened. With it goblin guards and goblin scouts.
It still was pretty easy, with the exception of the Goblin Scouts, they could find him from far away, and whenever this happened he ended up fighting 4 to 6 goblins at a time.
But he was a player, a Traveller, he wasn't afraid of them. He died twice when the groups of enemies overwhelmed him, but he would just take care of the house and the time would run super fast.
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The only problem was the loneliness. He did find other players grinding here, but he missed people, he wasn't even sure if it was Bjarke in specific or if it was someone to talk to. To spend time with.
He was in a Guild, but he didn't have a party. Fayt had a party. They would always do things together. Even now they were at the Scrapyard gaining reputation. He should look up the Scrapyard too, and the Tower of Leiles. Maybe he could help with the reputation gaining.
This of course wasn't needed, Mitras didn't know but he had the highest reputation among the guild members for Tairo, and it kept increasing.
The hunting continued and with it he met a few players, nothing much, they didn't even exchange profiles, but there was a mutual understanding. They would help each other when one was overwhelmed.
It felt like days passed and he was still going down these caverns.
It was at one point, after one battle, that Axis didn't come back.
-Weird… AXIS! Where are you?
Mitras searched but couldn't find him, that's when he decided to use his skills.
He found a mound of earth near a wall.
-He must have gone here. Hello?! Somebody knows Dig or Mining?
-I know!
His digging skill was for delicate things, he would spend weeks digging if he used Archeologyist Kit.
The one who answered was a warrior type, sword and shield. He learnt Mining to do Blacksmithing and make his own equipment.
The players in the area quickly congregated.
Mitras explained what happened and about what happened last time.
-Wait, I know you! You were evading the assassin in the clip.
-W-what?
-Oh yeah, that's right…
-Here, I have it on the Broswer.
Mitras then watched a video of him dancing with the female assassin. It was a long video of the full fight.
He was completely out when watching. Who would do that? Who filmed it? What will people say? Would they say something because he was dancing? What will he do?
He nervously looked around, but the players were excited when re-watching. No angry look or hate look.
-That was amazing!
-Yeah, the way you evaded her, how did you do it?
-I-I'm, it was just the skill I used.
-Don't worry, you don't need to tell us your skill.
-Yah, no worries, let's just finish these crazy goblins.
They guarded the player with the Dig skill. It didn't take a long time, maybe 20 min and 2 waves of enemies. A new pathway appeared before them.
-This place will be full of that right?
-A-Axis?
It was waiting on the other side.
-Thank gods.
It climbed Mitras back to his arms.
-Should we make a party?
-I accept, being a mage it takes so long inside and I'm already level 50 so things just get worse.
-I'm really close to it, but I'm already suffering hahaha
Hmm?
-W-what do you guys mean?
-You don't know?
-Well, when you get to level 50 the amount of XP you get lessens. It's like the tutorial phase where you get skills and raise some. But after 50 it gets harder, so your build must be kinda ready.
-Really? That's scary.
That's why the Guild liked so much of that blessing.
-I mean you seem to know what you're doing so you'll be ok I guess.
-T-thank you. Ah… About partying I accept.
All 5 players ended up in the party. Most were dps of different types, only the warriors could do some tanking.
-This is going to be interesting.
-W-we'll be ok.
The party went down the new pathway and all suffered. The amount of goblins doubled and the levels continued rising.
By the end of the day, all of them were level 50. Another level that gave 2 skill points, like level 10.
Mitas was not ready for it; he knew his equipment was too low level, so he needed to make a new one.
The pathways continued, changed, divided, multiplied. All of the time they had to mark on the map to make sure they wouldn't lose themselves.
-Someone should post it on the forums. This place is too much, there need a population of players here.
-I also think that, we'll end up killing ourselves.
-I can do it then, let's take a photo though.
It took a few minutes to make the post and explain what happened and then, they started the way down again.
-Just doesn't make sense, where do these goblins come from? The center of the earth?
-Maybe there is another hidden pathway to outside.
One day passed and every now and the one of them died, so they would come back up to pick them up and continue down.
It was a slow process.
It was after three day they got to a boss room. It was definitely a boss room. It could only be it. There was even the boss there.
A hobgoblin, wearing military clothing, was sitting on a table drinking some tea.
-Is this an attack on the Ezca?
-Why?
-Well he's using military clothing. He's clearly the boss, he's even drinking tea.
-You don't know that.
-Well you go there and see then.
-Not me, what if he really is a boss?
Mitras listened to the argument, thinking if he should send a message to his guild.
-I'm going back, we're not in a party for a boss.
-Aw come on, we can do it.
-We don't even have a healer!
-Fine fine, it's good xp anyway, I'll continue in the area.
-I-I have a Guild, is it okay if I call them?
-I'm okay.
-Yeah me too
-Oh man I wanted to beat it… Fine! Do it.
-T-thank you..
He decided to call Fayt directly.
-Fayt?
-Hey Mitras, what’s up?
-So…
He explained what happened in Ezca and how he had come back here, then explained Axis' thing of finding stuff and where he is. Finishing up with the room with the boss.
-Ooohhh another boss, nice! We're coming then, wait for us.
Mitras did that, he sent a photo of the mao they made while going down the pathways and sent a screenshot of the boss.
-Cool, he seems like the reinforcements type, it's gonna be a long fight.
This time, Mitras waited for a long time, it did take them long too to find this room.
-Ok, we need to go at it slowly, if he really is a reinforcements type, whatever he calls can come from anywhere.
-Maybe me and Tasha shouldn't be on the backline then.
-Exactly, we should move during the fight, so our backs aren't to the entrance, but we can't leave it open for him to run, so in the end we should be circling him, with him in the middle. I think that's the best way.
-We can do that.
-Let's go!
-Mitras, are you ready?
Tagmar came to him, with a hushed voice, which made him blush especially after his thoughts last time they encountered each other.
-Y-Yeah.
-I'll protect you ok?
-O-o-ok
Dmitri Mitras Guild: Sunstar Human Level 51(PW 15) HP: 71 MP: 76 Skills: SP: 6 Health - Trained 11 Mana - Trained 16 Common Language - Untrained 10 Dance - Trained 29 Tame - Trained 16 Charm - Untrained - 10 Handicraft - Trained 13 Stealth - Untrained 10 Drawing - Untrained 10 Scribing - Untrained 10 Throw - Trained 16 Mana Manipulation - Trained 13 Scout - Untrained 7 Balance - Trained 12 Evasion - Trained 7 Spot - Untrained 5 Archeology Kit - Trained 5
Spells Catch'em (5 MP), Cheer (2 MP Sustained), Identify (0 MP), Inventory (10 MP), Cupid Blow (2 MP)
Rolling Beetle Axis Insect Level 51(PW 11) Skills SP: 2 Health: 58 MP: 55 Health - Trained 6 Mana - Trained 0 Carapace - Trained 29 Aerodynamics - Trained 12 Aim - Trained 22 Poison Resistance - Untrained 4