It had been four hours since Allwind logged back in, he was sat on the floor with his legs crossed, enjoying a moment’s rest a huge grin on his face, he had done it, he had finally beaten them, made it safely from one end of the low beam to the other.
After that the flood gates had opened, he had managed to repay the two scarecrows for all the frustration they had caused, he even managed to come up with new ways of beating them in the process,
Now all that was left was the waiting for the instructor to arrive and prove that he had done it without cheating, ‘old man’s probably still in bed,’ Allwind mused as he noticed the time it was later than he expected.
‘Waiting like this isn’t doing any good guess ill train some more,’ Allwind proceeded to attack the single scarecrow, working both the wooden blades that he had now got used to in attack patterns, that would have anyone watching breathless with amazement at the speed of which he moved them.
The door to the gym inched open as Allwind trained and a small figure slowly and light stepped into the gym, it stayed by the door until it realised that the person training wasn’t paying any attention before it dashed across the room its hand going into the old worn robe it was wearing and taking out a small silvery gleaming object, it charge straight at the unsuspecting Allwind’s back.
Running lightly across the floor as fast as it could, the figure was unable to catch Allwind as he ducked under the swinging lance that the scarecrow used, and moving as fast as it was it met the lat side of the moving lance, receiving the full force blow to the head, the figure stumbled before collapsing onto a crash mat revealing its identity.
“Owiee” the figure said from the floor groaning while rubbing its head, Allwind paused at the sound of a girls voice, he had no idea that anyone one else was in the gym, he was that absorbed in his training, now there was a girl in the room and an unsteady one at that he noted as the figure finally got back to its feet swaying from left to right as it did, the silvery object still in its hand.
“Ermm Lilly, are you ok?” Allwind asked the swaying girl.
“Ow you noticed,” she said collapsing back to the floor as Allwind sheaved his weapons.
“Bit hard not to when you’re sat in front of me,” he replied bending down to see if she was alright.
Lilly just looked up to him a half smile on her face, before stabbing Allwind in the chest with the silvery object.
’Silence’
“It didn’t work,” Lilly said withdrawing the object before thrusting it at Allwind’s chest again.
’Silence’
“What’s it supposed to do?” Allwind asked looking down at his chest and the object in Lily’s hand confused.
’Silence’
“Why isn’t it working?” Lilly complained.
Slowly reaching out with his hand allwind took the object which had been thrust at him twice and held it up for inspection before realising what he was supposed to have done.
“That’s easy to answer,” He said smiling, “you aimed at the wrong spot, here let me show you how to it,” he said thrusting the object towards Lily’s neck.
[b]Laughter [/] suddenly filled the gym as Allwind moved the object under Lilly’s chin, causing her to cry out, as she tried to get away from him and her silver feather, he was now using against her.
“Stop it, stop it,” she cried laughing all the while.
Allwind chuckled before giving up, “how’s your head Lilly?”
“It hurts,” she replied moving her hand to her head, a red mark was starting to appear were she had hit her it on the lance, “that was mean of you moving like that.”
“Teach you to pick better targets to tickle, what is this any way?” Allwind asked holding up the silvery object for inspection,
Angel’s feather
A worthless soft feather that gives off a silver light said to bring good luck.
New Skill Identification Learnt
Identification Level : 1
Allows you to identify objects in detail including magical influences
Hmm interesting, Allwind said examining the glowing feather, before handing it back to Lilly, who was now rubbing her head with tears in her eyes, as she took her hand away it had a small amount of blood on her palm.
“Let’s get, you seen too first, then we’ll talk ok,” Allwind said noticing the blood he helped Lilly to her feet.
Swaying the two of them managed to make it back to the main house.
“Where is everyone?” Allwind asked looking around as the wound on Lilly’s head, seemed to worse there was now, blood starting to run down the side of her head.
“Grandma went shopping and Granddad went to see one of his friend’s at the castle” Lilly replied her voice shacking from the pulsing pain in her head.
“Ok do you have any medical gear in the house,” Allwind asked.
“Medical?”
“Ermm bandages, plasters, creams, things with healing properties,” he explained as they reached the sofa in the main room of the house, Lilly nodded pointing with one shaking hand at a cupboard in the kitchen as she collapsed on the sofa.
Allwind quickly routed around in various cupboards before retrieving a role of bandages from the appointed cupboard and being extremely gentle, he began to wrap the bandage around lily’s head covering the now visible bruise.
Skill: You learned Bandage Skill.
Enables you to stop bleeding.
Increases life of the wounded when tended.
Lilly’s face took on a measure of calm as he finished, bandaging her head it was the first time he had done this in a game but due to having experience in the real world it was easy and quiet surprising to find that there was a skill related to it, Lilly smiled up at him from there she was sat but fell asleep before she could verbally thank him.
Concerned Allwind bent over to cheek for Lilly’s pulse thankfully Lilly’s grandmother got home and after a short explanation and a lot of fussing around, she told Allwind that Lilly would be fine ha had applied the bandage in good time, she thanked him for the care he had shown their went enough people around that showed so much care for others.
“Thank you Allwind, it’s well done and will do the job of stopping the bleeding, there is a trick to bandaging that will help you if you come across a similar situation again.”
“yes that would be help full.” Allwind replied smiling.
Lilly’s grandma smiled back before heading to a one of the cupboards that allwind hadn’t searched through picking out several plants she brought them over to allwind, “All these plants have healing properties, if you crush them an add it to the wound before you bandage it will increase the healing effect.”
Level up: Bandage Skill Level 2
“Thank you very much” Allwind smiled this game was turning out to be quiet easy once you used your head to work things out.
“you’re welcome Allwind, you deserve to know this much if you keep looking after Lilly, now shouldn’t you be getting back to training?” She asked smiling once again.
“Opps your right thank you for the advice,” Allwind said before returning to the gym.
Returning to the gym Allwind began practicing on the single scarecrow again, two hours passed before he took another break this time for food, he was now down to four pieces of bread and half a canteen of water it was a good job that Lilly’s family shared their meals with him or he would have been quiet stuck, stepping away from the scarecrow yet another pop up window appeared.
New Stat learnt fighting spirit
Fighting Spirit
You can call on superhuman strength temporarily, or bring weaker monsters to their knees with a force in your eyes alone. You are prohibited from distributing stat bonus points to this stat, and it rises spontaneously, depending on the avatar’s action, especially if you fight monsters for a long time, or often confront monsters stronger than your current level.
“Hu another stat what exactly am i supposed to with this one? It’s gonna be impossible to raise all of these,” Allwind said while scratching his head, at that moment the door to the gym opened again this time it opened fully and three people walked in one of which was the instructor.
Following the instructor was a man that seemed to be made out of metal, clinking at every movement allwind winced at the sound, before realising that this person was wearing heavy armour and probably an important person, the third person to enter was a young boy no older than Lilly, he looked extremely gloomy.
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“Boy come over here,” the instructor said waving to Allwind to join them.
“This is Sir Balious and is squire, they are here to watch you and ultimately test you as a fellow squire. “ the instructor said introducing the knight and the young boy.
“It’s a pleasure to meet you,” Allwind said realising that he needed to say something to break the ice.
“have you finished on the balance beam?” the instructor asked.
“Yes instructor i have finished the training in which you set me.” Allwind replied.
There was a slight pause before the instructor ask the next very delicate question.
“you mean you gave up?”
“no instructor i have finished the training which you set me,” Allwind replied not liking repeating himself.
“Young squire you should respect your trainer, the training you have been set is impossible to complete.”
“There is no such thing as impossible, do you doubt my word,” Allwind said glaring at the knight
“I do this training is designed to teach you humiliation and for you to prove that you will not give up no mater, what the odds.” The knight replied placing his hand on his sword at his hip.
“i was told to get from one end of the balance beam to the other without getting knocked of the beam and to hit the scarecrow knights that guard the beam in the process, i have achieved this.” Allwind replied gauging the distance between himself the knight and the two wooden swords on the ground where he had left them after training.
The young boy behind the knight saw what allwind was doing and quickly shook his head, his master was a fair man but had a large temper that was prone to exploding.
“That’s enough, if you have finished the training prove it,” the knight said angrily.
Allwind calmly looked at the instructor who just nodded his head looking worried at the heated exchange between his pupil and Sir Balious who was one of the kingdoms top knights.
Allwind calmly retrieved the two wooden swords that had almost become part of him, and headed for the beam climbing up, he stood there for a minute regaining his inner calm and focused on the task at hand getting to the other end of the beam while hitting the scarecrows.
Suddenly Allwind leapt forwards running down the beam, at a full sprint, coming into range of the first scarecrow it reacted just as it normally did to his presence and swung its lance, allwind threw his wait forwards into a flip that sent him over the top of the lance, swinging his right sword at it as he went over, his left sword immediately struck downwards at the balance beam and using all his strength, he used it as a pole to throw himself over the top of the second lance that was now heading his way, this time though he added a spin to the second flip and managed to hit the second scarecrow twice on the head before landing on his feet on the balance beam, it took exceptional timing to come up with the stunt and it was one, he could take pride in he shortly reached the end of the beam before turning back and sprinting straight back at the scarecrows to attack them again.
The entire routine took only four minutes, Allwind had reached the beginning of the balance beam having hit both scarecrows five times. As the three stood their mouths open in shook as Allwind jumped down from the balance beam.
“My apologies, young squire for doubting your words,” the knight said recovering quickly, before addressing the instructor, “well old friend it seems that you have finally managed to train a squire that is indeed worthy of a challenge.”
Quest complete
You have finished the second phase of training speak to the instructor and the knight for further instructions
Reward : Level Up
“I never believed it would be possible,” the instructor said still in shock.
“will you duel me squire it is the third phase of your training if you can last to the count of 1000 or beat me you will be awarded as a knight?”
Quest knight hood training phase 3
Beat the knight or last in combat to the count of 1000 to receive a knight hood
Rewards : knight class unlocked
“I accept your challenge Sir Knight”
“Good come then we will start now,” the knight said walking over to a area that was free of obstructions he picked up one of the long wooden two handed swords that where on the wall before turning to face allwind.
‘what have i got myself into now, let’s just get this over with then i can do what i want again.’ Allwind thought to himself readying himself he adopted a low stance with his two blades, the instructor managed to regain his senses enough to actually start the match as the young squire began to count under his breath.
The match was slow to start with, each testing the other for any signs of weakness, Allwind silently thanked the instructor in his head for all the practice matches he had been put through between training with the scarecrows, it allowed him to stay focused in this match, as their weapons clashed the knight was strong but didn’t seem to have the same agility that Allwind had, if Allwind got hit it would be over, but Allwind in return couldn’t make a decisive hit because of the knights heavy armour protecting him.
The end came faster than Allwind anticipated the knight seemed to stumble and allwind took full advantage of it as he had been taught ,to find that the stumble was a ruse and the knight quickly ended the hard fought match, hitting Allwind on the back sending him flying landing on his back Allwind grunted as a popup message appeared telling him that the skill soft fall, had absorbed 10% of the damage. The knight then pressed his wooden sword on the Allwind’s chest lightly ending the match.
“It was a good match, but you still lack experience,” he said offering a hand to pull Allwind to his feet.
“it seems that i must train some more,” Allwind replied to which the knight shook his head. “This experience can only be learned on the field of combat and not in a training room,”
“Thank you for the advice it was a good match, i guess i failed the final quest then,”
“no a voice interrupted them,” it was the young boy, “you passed i counted to 1026 before you were hit,”
“Is that so?” the knight asked “WHY DIDNT YOU SAY SO YOU BUMBLING SQUIRE,” the knight shouted
“my apologies but i did not want to interrupt your duel,” the boy said quickly looking down at the floor.
“when congratulations are in order Allwind you have passed the third phase of training, we will have a meal before discussing what you should do next.”
Quest complete
You have passed the third phase of knight hood training.
Reward: knight class unlocked
Level up
New Stat: Honour has been added
AVATARALLWINDTYPENEUTRALLEVEL4 (+15)CLASSKnightTITLEN/AFAME20Honour0HEALTH300MANA100STAMINA400SUBSTINANCE1Fighting Spirit1STR15AGI22VIT11WIS10INT10ENDURANCE16LUCK0LEADERSHIP0DEFENCE0%OFFENCE5%MAGICAL RESISTANCE0%
“will you be joining us Sir Balious?” the instructor asked
“I am afraid i will have to decline old friend, my squire needs allot more training if he is ever going to match up to this young knight.” The knight said heading for the door the young boy following him down cast.
“well that was unexpected, Sir Allwind shall we have a meal and discuses your future?”
“that would be nice.” Allwind replied not quiet believing what had just happened.
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Authors notes :
Yeay finally hehe that was fun :) ill have to leave it their till the next chapter
If u see a mistake let me know :) ill do my upmost to fix it.
Let’s see what’s next some interesting things maybe, ill see if i can come up with a good idea or two i’m really gonna have to stop adding skills and stats it like bonanza ow well i few more won’t hurt surly ???? have fun guys ?