Chapter 5 : Quest
Library in the city of Serabourg was a two story building near the residential area on the southren part of the city, Aria and Rinea were reading on one of the table at the corner of the library, they had reading for almost an hour now, with a few more page Aria would be done reading the first book, the basic skills of priest/priestess which she got from the high priest, it contained the basic skills of the priestess class.
Ting!
You have read the basic skills of priestess.
+ 1 Int
+ 1 Wis
You learned 4 new magics.
+ Healing Hand
+ Cure
+ Blessing
+ Holy Light
Healing Hand (Active) (Beginner : 0%)Using Holy power to recover one target health. More higher mastery level can recover more health, reduce mana consumption and cool down time.
Mana cost : 10
Cool down : 3s
Recover : 100 Health
Tier : 1
Cure (Active) (Beginner : 0%)Using Holy power to remove and neutralize any negative stats of one target, more higher mastery level will increase the negative stats that can be cured, reduce mana consumption, and cool down time.
Negative status : Poison
Mana cost : 20
Cool down : 3s
Tier : 1
Blessing (Active) (Beginner : 0%)Using Holy power to increase strength, agility, vitality, faith, and magic resistance to darkness of one target, more higher mastery level will increase % and time limit, decrease mana consumption and cool down time. .
Increase : 10 % target base stasts (without weapon/armor/accessory/any buff)
Time limit : 2 minutes
Mana cost : 15
Cool down : 3s
Tier : 1
Holy Light (Active) (Beginner : 0%)Creating a ball of Holy Light to weaken and inflict damage to undead and darkness type enemies, more higher mastery level will increase the damage power and the range of the ball of light area of effect, reduce mana consumption and cool down time.
Mana cost : 30
Cool down : 5s
Range : 2m
Tier : 2
These basic skills weren’t very useful for herself who had level and stats that surpassed normal players, Aria didn’t really care about that, the most important thing for her right now was a way to be useful for hunting with her party latter.
She was about to take the second book of intermediate skills for priest/priestess in front of her when she saw Rinea suddenly get up from her chairs and walked to her side.
“Sorry, I need to go for awhile, I think I will be back when you finished reading all that book.”She pointed at the books which was about to be taken by Aria.
After saying that she just left Aria there still looking at her and then went away without waiting for an answer. As long as there were books to read, and fortunately this was a library, Aria could wait for Rinea as long as she wanted her to.
Clang clang clang
The sound of an armor was approaching as Aria opened the second book and turned her head, this time it was a knight who came to her, the knight stopped and then gave a knight salute in front of her.
Aria nodded her head as a reply and the knight started talking.
“My apologize Lady Aria, Duke Kanus want to have an audience with you.”
Aria tilted her head when she heard the knight said Duke Kanus, she just came to this city today so why would such a person want to have an audience with her.
(Rinea won’t be back for awhile, lets see what the Duke want then.)
“Where?” As she said that she closed the book on her hand and put it inside her bag,
“He is waiting in your mansion.”
Now this really made Aria puzzled, a mansion?, how could she have a mansion, she never bought any house or even any mansion anywhere in Royal Road, she even didn’t have a single copper to buy one barley bread… well, even if she had a single copper on her, she still couldn’t buy even one barley bread because it cost 5 copper each.
“My mansion? How?”
The knight explained that every nobles in Rosenheim Kingdom were given a mansion in the capital city of Serabourg, and as noble, a ruler of Etna Forest which was part of Rosenheim Kingdom, she also had a mansion prepared for her.
Ting!
You Have Been Given a MansionAs a ruler of a region and a noble in Rosenheim Kingdom you have been given a mansion by the king.
Properties :
Babel Tower : 1
Mansion : 1
+ A mansion have been add to the list of your properties
+ You now can view your mansion information
The knight then led Aria through the market area heading towards the northern part of the city and arrived at a place where a lot of huge and luxurious mansions were, as they were walking through many mansion`s the knight explained that this place was called Northern Residential Area and was used as the residential area for nobles and high rank officers.
They arrived in front of a really huge mansion on the West side of the northern residential area, it was three story mansion with high, white walls were surrounding and protecting the entire mansion, and two knights were guarding the gate to the mansion. the two knights gave her a knight salute as she passed them entering the mansion.
When Aria passed the gate, she never expected to see about 50 servants, maid and butlers were standing, lining on each side of the road which led to the front door of the mansion, and at the front door standing there was a beautiful women with red short hair, wearing a maid outfit had been waiting for her, at the same time as Aria passed the gate, they bowed and with clear and full of respect tone of voice they said “Welcome back Lady Aria!”
Aria made her way to the front door of the mansion and was greeted by the red haired maid.
“Welcome back Lady Aria, I am the head of servants in this mansion, my name is Maria, and I will be the one who will be taking care of you from now on.” Said the red haired women.as she bowed.
“Duke Kanus?”
“He is waiting for you inside, please this way.”
The maid named Maria led Aria into a room on the second floor and excused herself, on one of the sofa inside the room Aria saw there was sitting a middle age man wearing a deep blue knight armor, the man got up from the sofa to greet her and introduced himself as Duke Kanus. one of three commander`s who led the knight captains.
“Then?”
“You know that we are still at war with Arvale Kingdom right ?”
Nedia had explained to her about the situation between Rosenheim Kingdom and Arvale Kingdom before she went. There were four Kingdoms in the Western part of the continent which Rosenheim Kingdom was located on the center, Arvale on the South, North was Vertas Kingdom, and on the Northwest was Balam Kingdom, three years ago after the death of their king, the son of the late king of Arvale Luke had took over the throne, the young king was a very ambitious man, he planned to conquer the entire western continent, and started to invading Rosenheim Kingdom, and because of that the war between the two kingdoms began.
“…Yes.”
“A lot of soldiers and knights had lost their lives in the war, and we are in need for a lot of manpower to protect the border between our kingdom and Avale Kingdom in the South, but six months ago we had divided our force that protected the Southern border into two.”
Duke Kanus explained that six months ago the monsters that attacking the Western border had increased, in the past they would only attacked a few times a month and their number was small, but now they almost attacked the border every day and every time they attacked their numbers keep increasing, so the king divided the army that protected the Southern border into two.
On the West of Rosenheim Kingdom there was a very wide plain called Plain of Despair, even though it wasn’t as dangerous as Etna Forest but still a dangerous area, since a long time ago many high level monsters lived in there and they always attacking the town in the border, because of that the first king of Rosenheim Kingdom made a really huge walls in order to protect the kingdom from the monsters attack.
“This morning, we were informed that Arvale Kingdom had sent an army of 150.000 to attack Southern border, we estimate they will reach the border in a month.”
The total army of Rosenheim Kingdom right now were about 120.000 and all of them were protecting five different place, Northern border 15.000, Eastern border 15.000, Western border 40.000, Southern border 30.000, and Sarrebourg which was the capital city of Rosenheim Kingdom 30.000.
Duke Kanus was planning to send all the army who were protecting Sarrebourg and half of the army in the western border as a reinforcements, but the distance between that two places with Southern border were too far, soldiers from Sarrebourg needed at least two months to reach Southern border and from western border they needed at least three months.
“That’s why we need your help to -.”
“I won’t go to war.”
Aria fame after defeating Nedia made her known to the entire Versailles Continent, almost every NPCs on the Continent know her feat on defeating an ancient dragon by herself, actually the real reason why suddenly Arvale Kingdom sent a large army was because the young king of Arvale feared of her existence, a person who had the power which could defeat a dragon by herself, moreover she was one of the nobles from Rosenheim Kingdom, the king couldn’t help but fearing that she would destroy his kingdom sooner or later. That was why he sent all of his army to destroy Rosenheim Kingdom first before Aria could destroy his.
“But if you don’t help us this kingdom will…”Duke Kanus face turned grim and tried to persuade Aria.
Duke Kanus couldn’t force her to help if she didn’t want to. her status as a ruler of an independent region made her had the same status as a king of her region, even the king of Rosenheim Kingdo himself would treat her like a king of another kingdom.
Aria shook her head and said “I will help.”
She had guess what the Duke wanted since he talked about war and had though a way to solve this problem without her going to the frontline, it wouldn’t be a war anymore but a genocide if she went.
Duke Kanus frowned as he was in deep thought, for a minute silence filled the room, and then the Duke Kanus said “How will you help us then ?”
“Nedia.”
“Yes.”
Suddenly Nedia appeared next to the sofa where Aria and Duke Kanus sat, Duke Kanus jumped from the sofa in surprised, his right hand was holding the sword hilt on his waist and almost swung it at Nedia in reflex, but Aria and Nedia just ignored the Duke and kept talking.
“Can you make large scale teleportation magic circle?”
“Yes, it won’t be a problem, what will you do with it?”
“Move all the army in this city and western border to southern border.”
“A war?”
Aria nodded her head “You take care of this.”
After saying that she got up and walked away, it was about the time for her to return to the library, but when she was about to reach the door Duke Kanus stopped her.
This book's true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience.
“Wait! If we move all the army on the western borden then who will protect it?”
Without even looking back, she opened the door while saying “I will take care of it.” And then went away.
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Aria finished reading the rest of the skill books in a few minutes using her True Eyes, as she closed the last book Rinea walked into the library, she was not alone, on her left was a handsome young man walking elegantly, he was about the same age and height as Rinea, with short blond hair, blue eyes, white skin, figure like a fashion show model, handsome face, wearing a knight armor with a sword was on his waist, basically he was a prince charming that girl would easily fell for, Aria also sense some kind of nobility aura coming from him, at first glance Aria knew that this person wasn’t a normal player, he must be a real noble in the real world.
“Are you done?”Asked Rinea
“Yes.”
Aria put away the book on her hand and turned her head, looking at the young man who stood beside Rinea.
“This guy is one of my party member, his name is Wales, as you can see he is a knight.”
“Nice to meet you.” With a gentle smile on his face Wales greeted her
“Aria.”
“Okay then, lets meet with the others, but before that…”
Rinea looked at Aria who was wearing white dress, white shoes, a necklace, and a crown, no matter how many times Rinea look, Aria didn’t look like a priestess at all.
“... Lets go shopping first, we need some equipments for you.”
They walked to the market place and entered a few shop before they found a shop that sell equipments for mage and priest/priestess, Rinea bought a white robe of a priestess and a staff for Aria.
Aria equipped her new gears, the staff seemed a bit too big for her but it wouldn’t be a problem, good now she look more like a priestess thought Rinea.
They entered few more shops to restock their supplies and then headed to western gate.
Near the western gate they met with two others Rineas party member, Wales twin sister Liliana an archer, she was a beautiful girl with a long blond hair, and Rinea little sister Refa a thief, her look was just like her sister or you could say that she was the younger version of Rinea.
“Well, let’s go hunting than.”
Rinea was about to walked towards the gate when Refa stopped her.
“Wait!”
“Hm, is there somethings wrong ?”
“No, it’s just that when we were waiting for you guys, we got a quest.”
Refa explained that a mage was suddenly appeared in front of them when they were waiting for them near the Western gate, full with wounds the mage then collapsed to the ground, the two who saw this tried to help the mage but it was too late, before the mage disintegrated, he gave both of them a quest to take back his bag from the bandits in the cave west from here and gave it to mage guild`s guild master, it seemed that the mage was robbed by the bandits on her way to another city,
Quest : Take Back The Mage BagAn unknown mage from Sarrebourg gave you her last request to take back his bag from the bandits in the cave deep in the forest west from Sarrebourg, and give it to mage guild guild master.
Difficulty Level : D++
Quest Requirements :
Meet with the mage before he die. .
Quest Status : Ongoing
Failure :
Familiarity with mage guild and it’s mage`s reduce slightly .
Quest Rewards .
Familiarity with mage guild and it’s mage`s increase slightly
???
“Its a quest level of D++, are you sure you want to do this quest now?”Asked Rinea
Quest`s in Royal Road were divided into nine levels :
F = For players level 1 or higher
E = For players level 10 or higher
D = For players level 150 or higher
C = For players level 300 or higher
B = For players level 400 or higher
A = For players level 500 or higher
S = For players level 700 or higher
SS = For players level 900 or higher
SSS = For players level 1.500 or higher
Each levels were divided into three difficulty : Normal (no mark) - Hard (+) – Very Hard (++), the only level which didn’t have any difficulty was quest level F and SSS.
“You are right, this quest is different from guarding the merchants quest, we are the only party right now.”Wales nodded his head in agreement.
The quest for guarding the merchants which they had done before was a level D quest for multi parties, the merchants didn’t just hired their party but also hired around 14 parties to guard them/
Right now their levels were only around 152-155, for a player who played RR for only 4 months to reached that level, could be said as an abnormal thing. Even so it was still hard for them to complete level D++ quest.
“At least we need to reach level 225 before doing this quest, it’s a good thing that there is no time limits.” Said Liliana while checking her quest log.
“I heard from the shopkeeper in the market that there is a cave full of goblin about two days walk from here.”
“Excuse me.”
A male voice from behind them suddenly interrupted their conversation, they turned around and found two male players were standing behind them, from their armor Aria could guess that they were high level warriors.
“I am very sorry for interrupting your conversation, but are you Lady Aria ?”
“Yes.”
“It’s an honor to meet you, my name is Van, the leader of Crescent Moon guild.”
Rinea had read about this guild in some forums before, Crescent Moon guild, the first and the largest guild in the Rosenheim Kingdom, they were well known for helping and taught various thing to the newbies, it was a good guild, but what did they want with Aria thought Rinea
“I am here to introduce our guild to you, if there is something that we Crescent Moon guild can help you with, we will do our best to help you with it ”
Hearing the rumor about Aria, Van and his guild had searched the entire city looking for her, and a few minutes ago one of his guild members saw Aria was heading towards the Western gate, knowing Aria was about to leave the city, Van rushed to Western gate hoping that she hadn’t leave the city yet, It was easy enough for him to find Aria, he just needed to look for a girl with a very long silver hair,
To introduce his guild meant that he wanted a quest from Aria, she knew that the NPCs treated her like one of them, could she also give a quest to a player? Aria thought about it for a while and decided to try it. But first she needed to know how strong Van was.
“… attack me.”
Van understood that Aria wanted to test him, unsheathing his sword, he took a stance to attack her, but before he could attack Rinea had jumped and stood between them.
“Are you crazy!”Rinea yelled at Aria
“…No.”
“Then why did you tell him to attack you!”
“To see if he is strong or not.”
Rinea knew that Aria wasn’t that stupid to let someone to attack herself without a good reason.
“Strong for what?”
Before Aria could answer her, the other warrior who came with Van had grabbed her shoulder and forced her to move away.
“Please step back miss, this is not a duel or a fight its only a test, so don’t worry.”Said the warrior
Even though she still couldn’t really understand what was going on, Rinea knew that Aria was planning something, so she didn’t try to resist the warrior and moved away obediently.
After Rinea moved away, Van used dash to get close and slashed at Aria, but Aria just wave her staff to deflect his sword, using a basic sword attack movement Van continuously attacking her but she just kept deflecting his attack,
Aria was observing Vans every movements, the timing of his attack, where he would attack, his habits when attacking, his strength and speed, and his sword techniques, from all of that she concluded that Van had completed the basic training in the training hall.
Van level right now was 243 and could be said as the highest level player in the West, but to think the difference between them was this big… Knowing all of his attack were useless Van jumped back to take some distance from her.
“Can I use sword skills?”Asked Van.
“… Use whatever you want.”
Using another dash to get close, Van began his attack using sword skill “Vertical Slash”, this time Aria didn’t deflect it but took a step to her left and let the sword passed beside her, Van continued his attack with another sword skill “Whirlwind”, Aria took a step back to avoid his sword that moved like a whirlwind, Van continuously attacked Aria with many combination of sword skills and basic sword movement, all of it was very fast attack but Aria easily deflected or dodged all of it.
It was not like Aria moved very fast to dodge the attack, by reading Van movement, she could understand when or where he would attack her, and moved even before he attacked,
Van couldn’t keep this up for much longer, he had used almost all of his stamina and mana, as the last attack he decided to use his most powerful skill “Shadow Sword ”, suddenly there were three Van now, each of them began attacking her from every side, as if she was dancing Aria moved elegantly dodging and deflecting all the attacks, Van kept attacking for about 10 seconds after that he collapsed to the ground panting.
“…learn to read your opponent movement.” Commented Aria while looking at Van who was now lying on the ground.
“hah hah hah... .”
Van didn’t have any stamina left even to talk, he couldn’t believe it, after all of that attack Aria didn’t look tired at all, what a monster thought Van.
“Go see Duke Kanus, tell him I send you.”
Aria judged Van was strong enough to gave him the quest.
Ting!
You Gave a Quest : Help Duke Kanus Protecting Southern BorderIn about a month, an army of 100.000 from Arvale Kingdom will invade Rosenheim Kingdom trough Southern border, help Duke Kanus to protect it.
Difficulty Level : C
Quest Requirements :
Pass your test
You recommend the player to Duke Kanus
Quest Status : Given to player named Van (Ongoing)
Failure :
Your familiarity with nobles, citizens, and royal family will reduce slightly.
The player who received the quest his/her familiarity with nobles, citizens, and royal family will reduce greatly.
The player who received the quest will reduce his/her fame by 500
Quest Rewards :
Your Familiarity with nobles, citizens, and royal family will increase slightly
The player who received the quest his/her familiarity with nobles, citizens, and royal family will increase greatly.
You can give him anything as a reward depending on his/her performance in the quest
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Authors notes :
1. Sorry for the late post, someone had stolen my laptop so I need to retype all of this chapter
2. Please give comment
3. Still ooking for an editor