Chapter 3: The Ferocious Rabbit king, The Metal Boar, The Fire Lance, and The Fire Bats Part 2
“Now that’s why I bought this game” Lisa blurted after recovering from her critical state.
“If you enjoyed the fighting so much, why did you picked a crafting class instead of a combat class?” Eons asked.
“Well simple, I enjoy fighting but I also enjoy making things, so I picked a class that would allow me to do both, hence blacksmithing. “ Lisa responded. “So anyway, how come you didn’t mention that you were a half-breed?”
“You never really asked” Eons said “and in case you are wondering, I’m a half lion/human combination.”
“What was that spell you used at the end? I’ve never read anything about that before, and how come you waited till the end to use it?” Rory asked
“You can say that is my ultimate spell that I have, and no I won’t tell you more about it for the time being. And the reason why I didn’t use it till the end is because that spell is a mana guzzler.”
“You know one day you are going to have to tell us what your class really is” Lisa said “Anyway, let’s check what this rabbit king left for loot”
{{{Black Fur of the Rabbit King
A clear black fur of the mysterious Rabbit King that roams around the town Dragus. It is a true testament to the strength require to bring down this Rabbit King.
Can be tailored into outstanding fur armor
Rarity: B}}}
{{{Meat of the Rabbit King
A rare drop from the mysterious black Rabbit King that roams around the town of Dragus.
Can be cooked into very delicious food
1Time permanent Effect: Health +100, Endurance +5
}}}
“These drops from the Rabbit King…are outstanding” Lisa said “I’ve heard stuff of rarity above B are extremely hard to get and with the amount that they sell for…not to mention this meat from the rabbit king, who would’ve thought that its food would have the rare effect of permanently increasing health. I’ve heard that only mythological beasts like the dragon and hydra have that kind of effect…”
“Hmm, I wonder if there is something special behind this Rabbit king” Eons wondered.
After finished saying that a message appeared in front of the group.
{{{
Mystery of the Black Rabbit King
You were the first to witness the wrath of the Black Rabbit King that roams Dragus. Upon inspecting the remains of the Black Rabbit King you found something very mysterious. The meat of the Black Rabbit King have the same effect as mythological creatures. Investigate this matter and find out the mystery behind the Black Rabbit King.
Quest was triggered by successfully identifying the abnormality in the Black Rabbit King.
Quest Cannot be denied.
Difficulty: A
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“Good going Einstein” Lisa said sarcastically “You triggered a Difficulty rank A quest”
“Don’t get hang up on the details” responded Eons “Solving this mystery might turn out to be fun, not to mention that the rewards for a rank A quest should be really good.”
“Putting that thought on hold, are you forgetting that the quest description does not even tell us where we can start searching for the answer?” Retorted Lisa
“Don’t worry about that, we’ll find something eventually. Anyway I’ve been wondering this since I read the description, but it said that we were the first to witness the Black Rabbit King, I thought that this game has been out for years already, how come no one has fought it before?”
“Did you seriously not read up on the town of Dragus before starting here?” Asked Lisa. “Although this town has been available since the game started those that first started in this town highly advised new players not to start in this town due to the difficulty in fighting rabbits and foxes when you first leave the town. It was found that this town has stronger beginner monsters than other towns. Since then the only ones that start in this town are the brave individuals or those that come to play this game in a full party of 8.”
“I see”
“Anyway, I suggest we take the rest of night completely off. The chest piece of my armor was highly damaged by that rabbit king. I’ll take this chance to forge me some new armor that is up to par with my level. Ill also use that fur from the rabbit king to make you 2 some new gear. As for the rabbit king meat, we should save it to when we return to the city. That way we can cook it in the plaza, eat our part for the effect, and sell the rest to the players around the city at a very high price.” Lisa said
“Sounds like a plan. Can you also do maintenance on my katana” Eons asked handing over his Katana to Lisa “I’ll take this chance to experiment with my magic. What will you do Rory?”
“Um, I’ll also try to make some new magic spells.”
“Speaking of that, after we get back from the quest and have some money, we should probably buy you a few spell books” Lisa said.
“I agree, will definitely be helpful down the line.” Eons said
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*From this point on, when people start talking, I decided to have the name of the person talking before they say anything to avoid saying he said she said so many times.
Separating from the group Eons was thinking of what kind of spell he wanted to learn.
Well I always wanted to be able to do this Eons thought jumping into the air.
While in the air he moved one leg forward and started gathering wind magic at the bottom of his feet. Unfortunately he gathered too much wind magic beneath his feet and the force flipped him in the air and caused him to fall head first into the ground.
Eons: “OOUUCCHHHHHHHHHHH” he yelled rubbing the spot on his head where he landed.
So if I condense too much wind beneath my feet it’ll flip me over he thought. Let’s try this again.
Jumping into the air again, he moved one leg forward and started gathering wind magic beneath his feet. Unfortunately this time he gathered too little wind magic and fell face first into the ground.
Third times the charm Eons thought rubbing his face.
For the third time Eons jumped into the air and put a leg forward gathering wind magic beneath his feet. This time he got a system message.
{{{
Skill Air Walk Generated
Through trial and error you learned that by condencing the correct amount of wind magic beneath your feet you are able to walk in the air.
Cost: 20 mana per step per 200 pounds.
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Hmm, so for each step I take, it’ll cost me 20 mana, and I’m only able to carry 200 pounds. Ok now time to practice the skill.
For the next hour, Eons practiced only that skill and by the end of it he raised the skill level to beginners’ level 2, increasing the max amount that he can carry/weight by 10 pounds. Unfortunately there was no decrease in mana consumption. One thing that he did learn is that if is falling he can use the skill to stop falling
Ok, enough with practicing the Air Walk Skill, time to make an attack skill. I’ve always wanted to do a sword attack with magic attached to it. I’ve decided I’ll make that kind of attack.
Creating five wind balls around him, Eons moved the wind balls to surround a stick he had picked up to use a temporary weapon. To make the attack stronger he remembered what he had learned about combining different types of magic to make a stronger magic. At the tip of the stick he made a small wind vortex to have the wind balls spiral around his weapon.
Unfortunately things did not go as plan. The wind vortex spiraled the wind balls down towards it, and when the two met together at the tip of the stick, the stick blew up and sent Eons flying 10 yards back, hitting a rock and getting a system message.
-2000 health.
Well that was unexpected. Didn’t think that that affect will happen. Also that combination completely broke this stick, good thing it wasn’t an actually weapon. Good news is that it did prove that if you combine different types of magic, a stronger magic is created. That explosion really did hurt.
Getting up from the ground, Eons got up and started dusting himself off, while thinking on how he can make the magic succeed.
The problem this time was that the stick was not able to handle the high concentration of magic, and combining the wind vortex and wind balls did not stick correctly together. I am missing something to make it all still together. Now what kind of spell will have such an affect?
While thinking of this problem, he remembered a skill that he got when he became Mana’s Champion. It was the skill Mana’s Light. Mana’s Light was a skill that enveloped his body and his weapon with a light that increase defense, health, atk speed, and atk damage.
This skill. That light that envelops my body and weapon can be seen like armor. I wonder if I were to use it will using wind vortex and wind ball, if it’ll provide the catalyze needed for the weapon not to blow up and for the two spells to correctly hold together at the tip of the weapon.
Putting this into practice, Eons grabbed a new stick and activated Mana’s Light. With the light enveloping the stick, he created a wind vortex at the tip of the stick and summoned 5 new wind balls. The wind vortex sucked the wind balls down toward the tip of the stick, but this time the stick did not blow up. Rather the wind vortex, wind balls, and Mana’s light, all combine at the tip of the stick creating a very bright light, with swirling air around the tip.
Thinking that he had successfully combined the three spells into one, Eons started congratulating himself. However after five seconds, the magic went out of control and blew up again sending Eons flying into the same rock again.
-5000 health, minor bleed affect active, -10 health/second
Hmm, should’ve realized the spell wasn’t finalized yet, I didn’t get the new spell notification screen. Now, I wonder what I’m missing. I am on a good track seeing as how that explosion was a lot stronger that the first. There was a 5 second delay before the wind, I wonder what would happen if I were to strike something during those five seconds.
While thinking of this, he looked at the rock that he had slammed into twice already and a large evil smile crept through his face.
Seeing as how you were nice enough to stop my flying, Let’s return the favor.
Eon’s then picked up a third stick and activated the 3 spells again and this time before the five seconds were up, he struck the tip of the stick straight into the rock. To his surprise the stick easily penetrated straight into the rock. Following the penetration, the magic gathered at the tip of the stick burst out, cutting the rock into pieces. The stick was not destroyed. This time a system message did appear in front of Eons.
{{{Skill Wind Lance Generated.
A skill created by combining three different types of magic. The caster has a limited amount of time to stick the weapon into something in order to release the magic gathered, otherwise the large concentration of magic will blow up and destroy the weapon, damaging the caster.
Cost: 1500 Mana
Time before magic must be released: 5 seconds
If weapon used before releasing magic: Atk Damage: +100 wind damage, atk speed: +75%
When Released: 5500 wind damage to target, minor bleed affect activated: -10 health/s.
Cannot use mana manipulation on this skill
This skill has a piercing affect.
}}}
I see so that’s why the magic kept blowing up; I have to release it before it blows up.
For the rest of the night, Eons kept practicing with the wind lance and trying to generate a new elemental lance. By the end of the night he was able to generate an Earth Lance and learned two very important facts. One was that these skills were extremely hard to level up. After an entire night both the wind and earth lance were still at beginner level 1. The second thing was that depending on the element, the secondary effect of the lance would be different. For example the wind lance caused a bleeding affect, while the earth lance increased his defense by 5% for 3 minutes.
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Returning to where Lisa and Rory were, Eons was greeted by the pleasant aroma of the breakfast Rory was making.
Eons: ”Something smells delicious, what are you making?”
Rory: “I’m making some rabbit stew. And don’t say anything about having stew for breakfast; I’m in the mood for some stew after last night’s fight.”
Lisa: “Anyway, here’s your new gear that I made from the Rabbit kings fur”
Receiving his new gear from Lisa, Eons checked it out
{{{Armor of the Black Rabbit King
An armor made by a novice tailor with the fur from a Black Rabbit King. Due to high quality fur used, an additional affect has been generated.
Affects:
Defense: +200
Agility: +20
Additional Affect:
Health: +1000
Level Requirement: 25
}}}
Lisa: “Sorry you won’t be able to wear the armor for a while, it was high quality fur, and with my current tailoring ability I couldn’t draw out the full effect of the fur. Luckily, there still is a lot of fur remaining so once my tailoring skill increases; I’ll make some better armor.”
Eons: “It’s fine. The affects are quite good, and it does give me motivation to level up faster”
Rory: “Foods ready, let’s eat.”
After finishing eating the stew, the three discussed their next course of action.
Eons: “I believe we have outgrown the rabbits and foxes around here, I vote for moving towards the Pine forest and hunting the wolves that are there.”
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Lisa: “I agree, rabbits no longer give us good experience, and foxes at best would give mediocre experience to us now.”
Rory: “Although I’m afraid of the wolves, I also agree.”
Lisa: “Ok then. Now to decide on a formation. Although I am acting as a tank, I do not have an agro skill to use on the wolves, so when we are attacked by a pack of wolves, I suggest we use a line formation. I will in the front drawing there attention, Eons will be behind me blocking any wolves that get pass me from attacking Rory. Which would leave Rory as our primary damage dealer.”
Eons: “Agreed, while I’m behind you blocking the wolves from attacking Rory, I’ll also use my magic to attack them. That is if none get pass you”
Lisa: “ah, right, I forgot you claim to be a spellsword.”
Eons: “what’s that supposed to mean?”
Rory: “It means that with the exception of that big attack you used on the Rabbit King, we haven’t seen you use any magic attacks” Rory responded with a smile on her face.
Having decided on a course of action the three moved towards the pine forest.
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Upon entering the forest, the party got attacked by a pack of 6 wolves from the front.
Upon seeing the wolves, the party got into the previous formation that they discussed, with Lisa in the front, Rory in the back, and Eons in the middle acting as wall for any wolves that get pass Lisa.
Lisa: “Analyze. The wolves levels range from level 20-25. Be careful.”
Four wolves dashed forward trying to get pass Lisa, leaving two behind to attack her. Noticing this, Lisa went ahead and swung her hammer in a large horizontal arc to block the wolves from passing her.
While Lisa blocked the wolves, Rory was creating 6 groups of fireballs consisting of 8 fireballs each, and Eons created 4 air spears around himself.
When the wolves jumped back to avoid Lisa’s swing, Eons tooked this chance to launch his 4 air spears towards a wolf that was landing. The wolf’s four legs were impaled into the ground by the air spears preventing him from moving and losing 30% of its health..
Seeing how one of their own got impaled into the ground, the other wolves started being more cautious towards Eons and his companions.
Taking the initiative, Lisa dashed towards the nearest wolf and swung her hammer to hit. The wolf was alerted when he saw Lisa dashed towards it so it jumped backwards to dodge the hammer. Unfortunately for the wolf, Lisa’s charge was a distraction, and it created the necessary opening for Eons to launch another 4 air spears and pin it down to the ground.
Taking advantage of the hole that Lisa left when she charged towards the wolf, the remaining four wolves tried to dash towards Eons. Unfortunately this was part of the plan to deal with them. With the four wolves dashing towards him, Eons used his earth magic to raise an earth wall right in front of the wolves, causing them to slam right into the wall. Slaming into the earth wall with their charge put the wolves into a stun state.
Having finished creating the 6 groups of 8 fireballs, Rory tooked advantage of the stunned wolves to start launching 4 groups of fireballs towards the wolves. Each group of fireball was shot one at a time, with 1 group going towards a wolf.
After getting hit by the fireballs, the four wolves entered into a critical state. With the wolves in a critical state, Eons dashed towards one, and quickly drew his sword, slashing towards a wolf, instantly killing it. While Eons killed the first wolf, Lisa charged towards a second wolf in a critical state, and killed it with a swing of her hammer. Together, Lisa and Eons killed the reaming two wolves that were in a critical state.
While Eons and Lisa killed the wolves that were in a critical state, Rory tooked her chance to send the remaining 2 groups of fireballs towards the 2 wolves that were pinned down to the grown with Eons air spears. The two wolves were instantly turned to BBQ when Rory’s fireballs hit them.
Eons: “Well that wasn’t so hard”
Lisa: “Yea, with a good strategy, these wolves are pretty easy to handle.”
Rory: “Speak for yourselves, I had to use a lot of mana, and it was extremely hard to control 6 groups of fireballs.”
After Rory retorted to the two of them, the three started laughing.
Using the same strategy that they formed for the first group of wolves, the trio hunted hundreds of packs of wolves in the forest for the next in-game month while they headed towards the fire-bats cave. The further in that they went into the forest, the stronger the wolves became. Near the end of the forest, the wolves typically ranged between levels 40-45, and were twice the size of normal wolves. By this point the group had reached level 35 with Lisa reaching level 36, and Eons and Rory had long since equipped the Rabbit King Gear that Lisa made.
The hunting in the forest typically went the way they did in the first five, just that sometimes, the wolf packs consisted of 8 wolves instead of 6. The most dangerous situation that they faced in the forest was when they reached the center of the forest. When they reached the center of the forest, they were attacked by a pack consisting of 15 wolves. 8 of the wolves appeared in front of the party and 7 behind. For this fight, Lisa guarded against the wolves in the front and Eons against wolves in the back with Rory in the center. The fight ended up being a long and tiring fight, with Rory wasting all of her mana half way through killing all the wolves on Eons side and 2 on Lisa’s side. While Rory recovered her mana, Lisa and Eons finished off the remaining 6 wolves.
During their resting time, Lisa was constantly using the wolves fur that they were gathering to make new gears in order to raise her tailoring skill and to sell the armors at a much higher price than what they would’ve sold for as just furs. While Lisa was tailoring, Rory and Eons were working on their magic. Aside from fireballs, Rory had branched out to rock bullets, air spears, fire spears, earth spikes, earth walls, and the combination magic infernal fire spear (a combination magic that combines the fire spear, air spear, and rock bullets). Eons had developed the Fire and Water lances. By the time they reached the end of the forest, Lisa’s tailoring skill was at intermediate level 2, Rory’s magic manipulation was at intermediate level 5, and each of Eons lances was at beginner level 2 with his magic manipulation at beginner level 1.
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Upon reaching end of the forest, the group finally saw their end destination: the Fire Bats Cave.
The fire bats cave was about 30 yards away with a large clearing between the forest and the cave. However in the middle of the clearing there was a boar the size of an element with silvery shiny fur.
Lisa: “Analyze. Hmm, that thing is called a metal boar. It says it’s a mini-boss level 58.”
Rory: “D-d-o you guys t-think w-we have to f-fight it? O-or can we p-pass it without f-fighting i-it?”
Eons: “Don’t think we can get pass it without fighting it.”
Lisa: “Yea, there are no hiding places in the plain. Let’s come up with a plan of attack to kill it”
Eons: “Why don’t we go with a surprise attack now that the boar is not paying attention to us? We will have Rory use all of her man to create the infernal fire spears and launch them in a surprise attack towards the metal boar. The hits will probably be mostly criticals. After her mana attack the two us will attack it in and try to kill it together.”
Lisa: “Sounds like a plan, Rory start making the infernal fire spears. And when we attack, stay hidden.”
Having come up with a plan, they began to take action. Rory started to summon her infernal fire spears. The spears were about 2 years long, twice as big as a normal spear. The spear had raging fire and rocks being swirled around in them by wind magic. They were lucky that it was still day time outside; otherwise the boar would have noticed the bright, blinding light being emanated by the spears.
Using all of her mana, Rory was able to create only 10 spears. Positioning the spears to send them directly at the boars head, she waited for the boar to lower its head and start eating the grass on the ground. When the boar started eating the grass, Rory instantly sent her 10 infernal fire spears towards the boars head. Each spear hit boars head with a critical hit. After the barrage of spear landed, the boar’s health was reduced to 35% and received a blind status, testament to the power that each spear held.
With the boar blinded, Lisa charged towards the boars head and swung her hammer down on the boars head. To her surprise the sensation that she got back from striking the boars head felt as if she had just stricken metal; and she was shocked to see that her hammer strike had not even taking away 1% of the boars head.
While Lisa was hitting the boar, Eons moved up to the boars side and drew his blade to slash at the boar’s side with one quick motion. Again to his surprise, the slash did not damage the boar. The boar remained perfectly fine.
After two minutes of Lisa hitting the boars head with her hammer and Eons slashing at it, the boars blind affect was beginning to wear out, and noticing that none of their attacks was doing any damage to the boar the two back off.
Lisa: “I think this thing has complete immunity to physical attacks.”
Eons: “Yea and the blind affect is almost off. Give me a minute I’ll activate the strongest fire magic I have. This thing is mostly vulnerable to fire considering the damage that Rory’s spear did and the fact that it is a metal boar.”
Finished saying that, Eons position himself in front of the boar and activated his Fire Lance skill. With his fire lance skill activated, Eons thrusted his katana into the boars head. With lances penetration ability, the katana slowly sunk into the boars head. Then the magic in the fire lance was released. From the point that the katana entered into the boars head, a stream of fire erupted, going through the boar and coming out of the boar’s rear end. The stream of fire went right threw the boars length and continue for another yard pass the boar.
This was the effect of the Fire Lance. The fire lance sent a stream of fire from the tip of the boar spanning for a couple of yards. As a secondary effect, the target that is hit with this fire develops a burned status. Needless to say, this effect of the fire lance burned the boar from the inside out, instantly killing it.
Rory: “That is a beautiful combination magic you have” she said coming out of her hiding place in the forest
Lisa: “Yea it was. Now let’s see what this boar dropped. It gave excellent exp. My level rose by 5, as I imagine yours did too.”
{{{Metal Boars Meat
A rare drop from the mysterious Metal Boar that roams around the town of Dragus.
Can be cooked into very delicious food
1Time permanent Effect: Health +500, Endurance +20
Metal Fur of the Metal Boar
A Metal fur of the mysterious metal boar that roams around the town Dragus. It is a true testament to the strength require to bring down this metal boar.
Can be tailored into outstanding fur armor
Rarity: B+
}}}
Eons: “Now that is very interesting this metal boars meat has the same effect as the rabbit kings meat. Wonder if there’s a connection. For that matter I wonder if there are other animals like this.”
Once Eons finished saying that, a system message popped up again.
{{{Mystery of the Black Rabbit King: Updated
You were the first to witness the wrath of the Black Rabbit King that roams Dragus. Upon inspecting the remains of the Black Rabbit King you found something very mysterious. The meat of the Black Rabbit King have the same effect as mythological creatures. Investigate this matter and find out the mystery behind the Black Rabbit King. While continuing to hunt near Dragus, you encountered another animal with the mysterious meat that increase status point. Maybe if you continue hunting animals like this you will get a hint to the mystery.
Quest was triggered by successfully identifying the abnormality in the Black Rabbit King.
Quest Cannot be denied.
Difficulty: A
# of animals/things found: 2/10
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Lisa: “So there are a total of 10 animals like this….what a pain this will be. Just fighting one of them is a big pain.”
Eons: “Yea, but it is fun fighting them. Anyway, lets rest up and enter the cave.”
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After resting, the party entered the cave. The cave was very dark, damp, and long. For a source of light, Rory casted a fireball. As the trio continued into the cave, oddly enough they did not encounter a single fire bat.
For the next 4 hours the trio continued to explore the cave. Finally they reached the end of the cave, with wary nerves sense they did not encountered a single fire bat.
Once they reached the end of the cave, the found a very large opening being a hundred yard in diameter in every direction. At the very center of the cave there was a single flower blooming with lots of herbs surrounding it.
The trio walked up to the flower observing their surroundings. Upon reaching the flower, the trio heard wings flapping behind them.
Turning back, they saw a giant bat blocking the only exit out of the cave surrounding by hundreds of fire bats.
Lisa: “Analyze.” With a nervous voice she said “well…good thing is those bats range from level 25-30. Bad news is that that big bat is called Fire Bat King and is level 75.”
Then the trio heard a system message update.
{{{Retrieved the Cave Floor and Herbs: Updated
The Librarian Roxanne has asked you and your companions to get her a rare flower and herbs that is found to the northeast of the city in a cave at the base of a mountain. Be careful though, it is said that cave is infected with Fire Bats.
Upon Finding the flower, you found that there was a fire king, and with his minion he sets a trap for anyone that enters the cave for the flower.
Old Difficulty: E+, New Difficulty: D
Reward: Roxannes specially cooked meal with the herbs
Unkown
}}}