Chapter 2: The Twin Samurais
Miyuki’s stamina and stats were overinflated for her level thanks to her class along with her magical reinforcement skill which was kept active all day. She had had lots of physical and mental training with Tatsuya and Yakiumo sensei. Not having to stop for food or drinks because her satiety wouldn’t go down as long as she had ample mana. All this made the act of continuously attacking the scarecrow very easy. But this caused a commotion and a headache for the instructor.
At first he was happy to see someone take the training seriously but the crowd of people that just stood watching her. Most of them were too nervous to speak to her and the rest were scared to approach her because of her monstrous strength and fighting spirit. She would enter the training hall every morning at 7am and continue attacking the scarecrow without break until midnight every day. After 1 week he finally snapped.
“Right you maggots if you’re not attacking a scarecrow, GET OUT!”
The instructor was an old man at the age of about 60 who had been through countless battles and was at a level of 326 one of the highest in the kingdom. Everyone stopped staring at Miyuki for a moment and looked at him… then they turned back to Miyuki completely ignoring him. That pushed him over the limit. The instructor began to unsheathe his blade and his massive fighting spirit flooded the area.
You have been stunned for 5 seconds
You are in a state of fear
All stats reduced by 10 while feared
The affect was massive because not many players had the fighting spirit stat and of those who did only had a few points in it. In contrast the old veteran had been through countless wars and fights. The only one not stunned was Miyuki who was given 50 fighting spirit with her class. The instructor took a battle stance. All the players were unable to move, and they watched in horror as his blade shined a light blue colour and he slashed horizontally calling out “blade wave”.
Suddenly a massive force pushed all the stunned players out of the training hall just as the wave was going to hit them. The wave sliced through 3 scarecrows then through the wall and into the street making a gash on the wall. Miyuki had saved them by using acceleration magic. They all looked at the wall, then at the instructor…….
“…”
After a monment of silence
“What was that?”
“Everyone run he’s crazy”
“let’s go”
The crowd vanished in seconds and after that there were rumours on various internet forums to never piss off training instructors.
The instructor as he was putting away his sword got a harsh verbal beating from Miyuki that he should not take others’ lives so freely and to be more careful. A good 10 minutes later he felt bad for what he did and Miyuki returned to the scarecrow. Nothing particularly else interesting happened until the 4th week of attacking the scarecrow.
Strength rises by 1 point. (+1 STR)
Agility rises by 1 point. (+1 AGI)
Vitality rises by 1 point. (+1 VIT)
Fame rises by 20 point. (+20 FAME)
Life rises by 100 point. (+100 HP)
She had completed the basic training and received a sword from the instructor. Opting for a short sword which could be wielded of handed with the staff. Even though she completed her training Miyuki was feeling depressed because Tatsuya called about a week ago and mentioned he was going to be delayed for their meeting because he was forced to participate in a siege on the city he was in. He told her that she should try hunting a bit to raise her level now that her stats are at a sufficient level, also she should find a party of people to help her encase of anything going sideways.
Not knowing of anyone who could help her with her levelling she decided to head off to the fields and forests outside the city gates to find people. As she looked to the seemingly endless fields of grass she was happy but her mood was quickly spoiled by countless people chasing and attacking cute rabbits and fox’s. Then she spotted a little girl holding a katana being chased by a group of 4 lizard men.
The moment everyone saw the lizardmen all the players on the field began running towards the safety of the castle gates. Lizardmen in this area are known to be from a dungeon nearby and around level 30-40, it was very rare to see them this close to the city.
“Heeeeeelllllppppp meeeeee” the girl shouted as she ran.
No one did anything but run away from her.
Miyuki was in shook, not because of the weird beast men running towards her with green skin and scales over there body, or the fact that no one was helping the girl running away. The girl herself was why Miyuki was shocked she was Honoka’s doppelganger but 3 years younger. Felling a strong urge to protect mini Honoka, Miyuki used acceleration magic on all 4 of the lizerdmens weapon tips, accelerating them faster than a blink of an eye into their faces and out the back of their heads. In fact Miyuki used too much force and the swords didn’t stop until they hit a tree in the forest around 200 m away.
The bodies of the lizardmen turned gray, leaving behind few silver coins. Meanwhile Miyuki was surprised to see she had levelled up 13 times for killing opponents and a much higher levels than her. Mini honoka ran and jumped hugging Miyuki crying
“Please help my sister” *sob *sob*
It took a good 10 minutes for Miyuki to get her to calm down and took her to a tavern, then mini honoka explain the situation. Her name was Nana, 14 years old and her twin sister who is called Leez were about to go into a dungeon when a party of 5 offered to help them clear the dungeon. They agreed but when they got deep enough into the dungeon they got kicked from the party and were told only to damage the lizerdmen and let them finish them off, so they could get all the experience. If they didn’t they would torcher tem by slowly cutting their skin and the priest would heal them over and over.
The sisters were so scared they did as they were told until they were ambushed by 30 lizerdmen and were forced to leave Nana behind as a decoy. Nana somehow managed to escape the dungeon by running nonstop and made it here. Disgusted by the situation Miyuki stood up and hugged Nana and said
“don’t worry, ill save them can you lead me to the dungeon?”
Nana felt secure and slightly blushed at the embrace of this beautiful woman hugging her. A smile grew on her face and said “great lets get a party and save my sister”. Miyuki said “no need I should be enough to handle them if they were in a dungeon with lizermen like the ones chasing you”
She was confused this person infront of her looked like a priest or mage and its true that she could handle the 4 lizardmen earlier. But that was most likely because she had time to chant a spell, in a dungeon they would be surrounded by lizerdmen forcing them into close quarter combat, they needed a tank/melee to help them. Also once they finally reached her sister they would have to fight a party of 5 experienced players who were by now very high level.
Nana was trying to get her message across to Miyuki but she just kept saying “It will be fine, I’m more than enough” with a smile. Looking at the smile all Nana could do is blush and follow her. They got supplies form the city and headed of into the direction of the dungeon. It was not a very popular dungeon because the lizerdmen were tough opponents and are in progressively larger groups the further into the dungeon you go.
As they reached the entrance to the dungeon witch was in the middle of a forest, Miyuki stopped and remembered she needed to assign the stats she gained form levelling up, she split the points between Vitality, Dexterity and strength equally. She was well trained in combat so Miyuki could feel the small changes within herself. Entering the cave the atmosphere turned more humid and the temperature rose slightly, for the first 5 minutes of walking they couldn’t find anything.
“humans”
“mmmmh I want the little one”
“lets get them”
They came across a group of 5 lizerdmen, 4 held a sword and shield with no visible armour while the last was holding a bow. Miyuki was about to take care of them when Nana jumped infornt of her and said take care of the archer ill hold them off. Miyuki used acceleration magic on the archers head making it fly upwards, comically imbedding its head into the ceiling. The other lizerdmen saw this and changed targets from Nana to Miyuki but the moment they turned away from Nana 2 of the 4 lizerdmens heads rolled onto the floor.
Lizardmen have lost the will to fight
30% reduced damage
30% reduced defence
Will stay in effect until reinforcements arrive
Nana retuned the katana into her scabbard and took a stance. Then with a lighting fast attack took care of the remaining two. Miyuki was surprised, because of the rush to save leez she had forgot to ask about Nana’s fighting capability. They took a break and talked for a while, after Nana saw Miyuki’s stat window she was shocked beyond words level 14 with stats that would rival a level 100+ mage. Nana was a level 40 warriors and that the mobs in this dungeon were lvl 25-35 on the first floor and 50-60 on the floor below that. There is another 2 floors below that but only large punitive forces from the kingdom of heaven go down there as army training because the lizerdmen are in groups of about 50 in mid 80s levels. Feeling a lot more secure now that she knew Miyuki would be a big help in getting her sister back.
Out of the blue Miyuki asked “if you’re so high level why didn’t you just kill the lizerdmen chasing you when we met”
Nana tilted her head sideways and put her finger on her lips looking confused “I had lizerdmen chasing me?”
She was so caught up in getting help to rescue her sister that she didn’t notice.
Miyuki sighed.
The dungeon clearing was going smoothly Miyuki was knocking them out with acceration magic against walls or bumping heads between themselves. And then Nana and Miyuki would kill them with their weapons. Miyuki was using the sword the instructor gave her because it did more damage than her staff while a 99% debuff was applied. When they reached around the midpoint of the dungeon the groups of lizard men were about 10-12 making it a lot harder to kill them all while they were stunned. But Miyuki had reached intermediate level 5 with her mana manipulation allowing her to save another magic circle.
Oscillation-Systematic Magic Phonon Maser
With the use of mana creats a high number of supersonic oscillations to form a quantum heat wave
400 mana per use
Miyuki has around 5000 mana because of her stats and class. She decided she would use it 5 times and keep the remaining mana for an emergency so as soon as a group of lizerdmen came within her view 5 bright yellow waves shot out from the head of the bone tree staff instantly killing 5/6 of the lizerdmen (in some cases it would go through more than 1 lizerdman. Then Nana and Miyuki attacked with swords finishing the rest off. By now 5 lizerdmen were easy to deal with so there was no need to stun them.
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7 hours had passed since they entered the dungeon, Nana had tried to get in contact with her sister through telepathy (pm) but she got no response. The party forced her to change her windows privacy to public and block all pms so if she answered they would know and torture her, Leez was scared but she fought on, there were currently having a break and they were making her cook for them.
“I still can get in contact with her, wait here Im goning to see if my sisters ok” Nana waved open her windo and logged out but because she was not in a safe zone her body stayed where it was. This confused Miyuki and she was worried about Nana. There was no response at all.
Meanwhile Nana who real name was Sakura disconnected form the game headed over to Leez capsule and manually disconnected her form the game. Leez chose her real name as her avatars name.
“Sakura….”
“Leez are you ok? im in the dungeon with a friend coming to help”
They hugged, leez was in tears.
“its gonna be ok, can you tell me where are you?”
“at the start of the second floor, I haven’t got much time if they notice I am gone for long the will suspect that im logged off and kill me” Leez said frantically and reconnected to the game, skipping lunch
Sakura when to the kitchen quickly stuffed herself with some fruit and logged back in.
During this time Miyuki had contacted Tatsuya explaining to him the situation and asking for help. Tatsuya knew his sister wasn’t stupid she should have had her suspicions by now about how ‘Visitors’ that’s could enter and exit this world with a flash of bright light. Also that when they die they return after 4 days, Miyuki had been in this world for 7 weeks now. Tatsuya decided it was about time she was told the truth, they were in fact in a different world but they were also in a sophisticated program called Royal road and the visitors can enter and exit the world as they please but we were stuck in it. He continued to say that he had been in contact with this programs AI system and is working to find a way back home.
Miyuki had figured most of this out byherself, but know that her oni-sama confirmed it she was scared. The life she has been living so far is a mere game, not real but never less she had met several people and she decided that she didn’t care if they were programs or ‘visitors’ she would treat them the same and enjoy the world shes in until tasuya finds a way home.
Nana woke up, “sorry did I take long? Leez is at the start of the second floor of the dungeon we should hurry they are on a break at the moment”
“you said that were about half way now right it will take us 7ish hours to get there….do you mind if a speed things up” said Miyuki
Nana was pumped up too
“Not at all lets go”
Miyiki grabbed Nana by the collar and dragged her back
“ just wait a little, can you pass me the map?”
Handing over the map Nana was now confused. Miyuki memorised the map then set it as the target area then activated wide area deceleration oscillation system magic niflheim.
In front of them the walls slowly turned to frost, a group of 20 lizardmen were running towards us to get away from the cold but within 5 seconds they were frozen a mere 5 meter from where they were standing. Holding it active for several seconds longer a message poped up.
You have inflicted massive damage to the lizardmen stronghold in the shortest time
623 lizerdmen have been killed
Fame has risen by 50
Fighting spirit has risen by 20
All lizardmen will hate you and hunt you when you enter their territory
Wide area deceleration oscillation system magic niflheim has risen x3 levels
Mana malipulation experience had greatly increased
Massive experience gain
You have levelled up
You have levelled up
You have levelled up
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Miyuki had gained 21 levels reaching level 71 and Nana had gained experience because they were in the same party she levelled up only 5 times to reach lvl 62. (level 30-35 lizrdmen didn’t give her much experience anymore). If Miyuki had killed them separately she would have gained less experience overall due to the slow level increase making each kill worth less, but because she killed them all at the same time the experience was not lowered.
Nana stood there in shook, what she just witnessed was insane. She had never heard of such a magic, mid thought she was interrupted as Miyuki used phonon masor to clear a path in the ice for them. To shocked to say anything she followed behind Miyuki. As they passed frozen groups of lizardmen they smashed there frozen body’s and picked up the loot. It was a gruesome sight for Nana because all the innards were frozen too but she soon got over this because of the japtem they picked up. Making sure not to pick up too much japtem they only took the coins and the expensive looking items as they ran. Within half an hour they reached the entrance to the second floor.
The smell of food and smoke from a campfire engulfed the atmosphere as they entered the second floor. Peaking round the corner of the dungeon they could see the group. A little girl in the corner witch was identical to Nana, 2 warriors a mage and a priest. That meant one of them was missing. Nana took this chance.
“lets go”
She ran towards the unsuspecting mage and got a clean cut upwards from under the armpit through his shoulder blade and his neck. The mage died instantly but both the warriors and priest reacted getting into a battle stance.
“oh so your back little girl trying to be a hero”
“hahaha”
“get her!”
Leez didn’t stand idly, as the priest turned away she stood up and stabber her katana through the priest heart, unfortunately it wasn’t a fatal hit. They had been in the dungeon for 2 days and the priest had level up a lot compared to Leez who was force to let them last hit and take none of the experience. One of the warriors turned around to kill leez while the other was fighting Nana. Suddenly a yellow laser hit each of their legs crippling them on the floor.
“arggg, what was that”
“My leg! Its gone!”
“Who’s there?”
Miyuki walked out the shadows with and ice cold look on her face, looking right through them as they were worth nothing. This look from such a beauty froze the 2 men while the priest felt jealousy. The reason they decided to pick on the twins is because the priests was jealous of their looks. She knew that’s how they looked in real life because its almost impossible to edit 2 characters to have the same face. She began to chant a healing spell
“By the protection of the almight god……..”
You have been frozen
You have died
Nana ignored the frozen bodies and went and hugged leez.
“Told you I would come save” you she said smirking
“sigh” knowing whats goning to come next Leez sighed
“now you owe me”
While Leez and Nana were talking Miyuki had her gard up looking for the 5th member, before she could react a man wlaked out of the shadow and grabbed the two girls by the nack in a choke hold and held a dagger to Nanas neck.
“You bastards killed my team, you won’t get away with this, our guild will hunt you down…..”
As Miyuki was about to use acceleration magic to knock the dagger out of his hands the twins disappeared from his grip, reappearing on the ceiling, they kicked off it holding out their katana and twirled. It resembled a beautiful blade dance as they fell and attacked, the assassin got chopped up like meat through a meat grinder. They looted the bodies and then decided to rest while nana introduces leez to Miyuki.
Nana explained that they were given two swords from a dwarven traveller; they turned out to be ego swords with special teleportation skills available when they fight together and close to each other. After a while more of talking the twins decided that they would leave the dungeon because there equipment was warn out and they were tired, they added each other to their friends lists and logged out after exiting the dungeon. As their bodies disappeared with bright light, Miyuki turned around and looked at the entrance.
“These lizardmen will hurt no more people”
She stabbed the bone staff into the ground and shouted unstoppable force, directing all her hate towards the dungeon. Ripples flew out from where she was standing as they moved towards the dungeon they slowly grew and shook the earth like it was water. A loud roar and a massive gust of wind and what could only be described of a tsunami of mana could be seen flooding the dungeon making it collapse and implode on itself. Rocks bones everything for a mile in front of Miyuki had turned into what looked like fine soil.
Miyuki was shocked at the power that attack had, she only wanted to seal the entrance.
“oh well that should take care of them”
Triing
You have destroyed the lizards stronghold dungeon not leaving a single soul alive from the map, you have earned the title Annihilator
3184 lizardmen have been killed
The king lizard has died
+1000 fame
Bone tree staff has absorbed the lizrd king bones
+5 to all stat
+100 fighting spirit
+5 intellagence
+10 wisdom
+1% magic resistance
You have levelled up
You have levelled up
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The windows didn’t stop coming, she was now level 163 one of the highest on the game. After assigning her stats she looked at her stats window with satisfaction.
“I did what oni-sama said and got strong , I hope he will praise me”
While smiling she skipped back to the city.
Status Window
Avatar Shiba Miyuki Alignment Neutral
Level 163 Class Survivor
Title Annihilator
Fame 1630
Health 9,554/9,554 Mana 16,432/16,432
Health reg/s 6.4 Mana reg/s 35
Stamina 142 System error System error
Strength 246 Dexterity 134
Vitality 352 Wisdom 583
Intelligence 595 Leadership 0
Fighting spirit 263 Endurance 205
Offence 1,312 Defence 490
Stats points remaining : 0
Luck 106
Attractiveness 294
Magic Resistance
Fire 11% Water 11%
Earth 11% Wind 11%
Dark 16%
All stats have increased by 20
+100 wisdom
+100 intelligence
+100 defence
+100 stamina
+10% magic resistance
+1000 Health added
+1000 Mana added
Endurance +100
Fighting spirit +50
Permanent stat gains when defeating a boss monster
Mana can be used to refill your satiety and thirst
Title Annihilator gives you additional affects:
+500 fame
+100 leadership
+50 fighting spirit
Due to natural beauty the goddess Freya has blessed you
New stat has been generated Attractiveness +200
Dark magic ressistance+5%
Effects of holy magic and buffs are increased by 5%
Miyuki didn’t know but her class gave her an overwhelmingly high defence and endurance stat, so when she has mana reinforcement active without any armour has over 20% magic resist and as much defence as a high level Knight.