In this forest-like area, they saw a holographic floating padlock. It has a blue color and a computer code glowing on it for aesthetic purpose.
Aiban approached the hologram with confidence. “Function Initiate, Start Challenge”
Defeat 5 Opponents
The hologram disappears and the surroundings of it glows a blue light. Aiban runs away from it while Eichi is in the distance from it. A five monsters appeared and a circle barrier spawned so they cannot flee the battle.
Hornless Goat: Level 5
Element: Desert
All of them step back when they saw a monster. Aiban grabs their sword from their back and point it out to the opponents. “Eichi, activate your atk damage buff skill!”
“As you wish, my friend!” Eichi activates the elemental skill of his cosplay costume that makes it shine a green light.
Atk Buff: 15%
Human HP Drain: 2.5%/s
Aiban’s sword turn to green after the skill activation. He leaps like with a sword in his hands, going toward the hornless goat in front of him.
While he was going to deal with a plunging sword attack, another goat dashed to the right side where his shadow was located. In a sudden, he got knocked out without someone attacking his body.
Human HP: 4,500/8,500
Costume HP: 1,250/5,435
As he got knocked out, his body pushed away Eichi, and they both affected by the knock back attack. Eichi got his body lie on the ground while Aiban lied to the body of his friend.
Aiban’s cheeks turn to red when he feels Eichi’s body behind him. He cannot comprehend the butterfly in his soul during this time. He wants to go out of the embarrassing situation but his body ache so badly that standing out from his friend’s body is an arduous task.
While they are lying, with a tired body after the knock back, Eichi punched Aiban on the back. “My cosplay costume is not a pillow. Get your head lost from it!”
The punch surge an adrenaline to his mind, he forced to stand out and attempting to beat the goat. He goes forward with a sword in his hand.
“I apologize. My body just hurts so much!”
Human HP: 3,500/8,500
“The HP drain from the buff is too strong. I need to finish this as soon as possible before I die!”
His eyes are focused on the right side where his shadow is located. He leaps again, doing the same technique again.
“Taste my blade, soulless AI!”
As he is going to plunge the frontline enemy, the goat on the right side lunged to his shadow. While he is going to land on the ground after leaping, holding a sword going to slice the opponent, Eichi pushed his body to the left.
Because of a slight push, the shadow on the ground dodged the lunge attack from the goat. “Uh, a reliable ally!”
“Slice!” After he dodged the attack on his shadow by the help of his friend, he landed on the ground, the sword in his hand sliced the goat in half.
Opponent Left: 1/5
The sliced goat turned into a digital blue sparkle and disappeared from the existence for good.
Human HP: 700/8,500
Aiban dashed back, looking at the remaining four hornless goats. A warning screen from the system pops up, indicating his dying human HP status bar.
“Eichi, switch your atk buff to healing mode. That’s what I saw on your costume skill details.” He shouts in a panicked voice.
“How can I s... switch it to healing mode?”
He replied with his jaw dropped and a clenched fist. “Activate your secondary active skill. I’m going to die from your HP drain!”
Eichi stopped for a while, comprehending Aiban’s command. He still cannot understand on what he is talking about. “I said how? What function should I activate?”
Aiban looks back, looking at Eichi with a madness on his heart. His mind is filled with urgency. Despite of his intense emotion, he keeps calm outside. “I would die if you keep behaving like that! Your charged attack skill name is Academic Support Switch: Healing. This is my first time seeing a player that doesn’t even know on how to use their own skill set.”
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Human HP: 450/8,500
“Academic Support Switch: Healing!” The sword stops glowing. Instead, the system shows a popping green text per second besides of Aiban’s body, indicating a universal HP passive heal.
Healing Buff: 200HP/s for Human and Costumes
His cosplay costume heals so low. But nevermind, my goal here is to level up his costume so I can maximize the buff. I expect as well, AReality.js is a support dependence RPG system.
Aiban goes back to the battlefield after a few seconds of healing and resting.
“Academic Support Switch: Atk Buff!” The passive HP healing power is now disabled. Aiban’s sword glows again and the popping green text has gone. The atk buff and HP drain have restarted.
Let’s try another slash technique against these annoying goats!
He aimed his sword in a horizontal position, going to slice off the opponent’s head with one shot. Right now, he is looking at the right side. “Ready, set...”
As he is going to wield his sword, we, the hornless goat on the left side, rushed to Eichi’s shadow.
Human HP: 6,100/6,100
Costume HP: 1,500/3,500
Aiban’s ears raised up when he heard Eichi trash talking to the enemy for ruining his cosplay costume. He looked back just to see his friend fighting the one enemy by himself.
“Ultimate Skill: Academic Expulsion!” His costume glows and a green fireball with some leaves falling from it.
He threw the fireball at the goat that attacked his shadow. The enemy flies away from the knock effect. The goat goes toward to Aiban. After he launched his magic attack, Aiban spins his sword.
Opponent Left: 3/5
His sword chops off the goat that attacked his friend. He also sliced the opponent he was going to attack in half with his spinning sword.
They both step back, staring at the remaining 2 monsters on the battlefield.
“It’s time to use a direct damage skill alongside of buffing my team!” Eichi smiled and he retrieve his scholarly tome from his costume’s hidden spot.
He holds the book, and it glows a yellow light. His left hand is holding the book opened while his right hand is open palm, pointed to the goat’s head.
“Third Elemental Skill: Scholar’s Willpower!” Eichi released a small light particle from the tips of his all right hand fingers. It shoots out to the remaining goat.
He put his sword in position, aimed at the abdomen of the goat. He lunged to it alongside of the flying particle from his friend’s fingers. “Samurai Dance: Wind Form!”
Elemental Reaction: AeroTree
Their attack released an eye-pleasing animation of a wind with a forest leaves beside of the enemies.
Challenge Complete
As the last enemies vanished, a holographic blue XP only chest appeared in front of them. The barrier that had spawned before was gone.
“Phew, first level is the hardest moment in RPG system!” Aiban wipes his sweat.
“That’s was close. I’m glad if we claim the XP chest in front of us, we would jump to a 2 digit level!”
They both approached it and a system interface pops up. They clicked claim on the notification.
Level up! Current Level: 3
Stamina: 160/200
Eichi’s eyes widened at what he saw. His expectation turns to a major disappointment. “So, we need to do these monotonous tasks for hundred times?”
Aiban laughs as he replied. “Is this your first time experiencing an RPG system? Also, this system has a stamina mechanics, so we can only attempt this challenge 5 times per 24 hours. Unless, if we are going to hunt some over world chests, get some pearls and convert it to stamina credit.”
“My love of my life got damaged. I think we need to go to the nearest nexus to heal and continue to grind again!”
“Oh sure, this is a co-op game, so if I teleport, you will also be affected.”
“Function Initiate Open Map!” A map pops up from Aiban’s system interface. He chooses the nexus located in the Malolos Wet Market.
During this time, they continue to explore the city. They fought XP chest challenges in the Overworld till their stamina depletes to 0.
2 Hours Past
“Phew! Grinding in this system is so exhausting!” Eichi jumps on the bed.
< Please complete the ascension quest to break the level capping >
“Do you want to complete the ascension quest today?” Aiban said.
< Quest Detail >
< Please click to start the quest with your teammates. >
“Nah, my body will going to collapse on the ground if we continue. By the way, you have a shift in your remote job!”
As Aiban is lying on the bed with his friend, he runs towards to his work computer. His heart is pounding. “Sheesh, I’m glad you remind me.”
Eichi was tired during this time and he decided to watch some news.
“Hey Home, open the television in my room!”
“Sure Eichi.” The home assistant speaker said.
A satisfying keyboard tap from Aiban developing a video game for his living surrounded the room.
After a while, they turned on the television. “Breaking News! A tourist in Alonica named Eichi Tenshouin has been killed by a four-man player-killing party.”
The law enforcers have been trying their best to locate the dog tag of the victim for a week, but there’s no feedback from them.
The news organization switched the reporter. She takes a deep breath before he spoke. “Most of the witnesses stated that the dog tag of victim has been thrown out to the ocean and the suspects flee. Therefore, it’s impossible for the enforcements to save Eichi.”
As Aiban heard the name Eichi, he unplugged the television. “Hey Eichi, go to your desk beside me and study for your next intern court trial.”
Eichi stands out and sits in his office chair. He starts up his computer to start studying.
Alright, Penal code of Alonica number 8975 stated that... Eichi’s mind is reading the study material.
“Dang it! I’m figuring out the error in my project for a 2 days. Turns out that the issue is just a single semicolon!” Aiban smashed the desk using his fist. Eichi’s attention was caught.
“You’ve almost given me a heart attack. I wish I can code to help you.”
Aiban snoops on Eichi’s computer. His jaw goes down when he saw some suspicious file from it. “Hey, why is your homework folder is double and one of it has an MP4 file? You cannot fool me!”
Eichi put his guard up, he covers the screen of his computer using his both hands. His face is flushed when he spoke. “That’s none of your business. Don’t even dare to open it.”
If he managed to open this folder, my secrets would be exposed!
It’s time to put a password on this folder if I get a chance!