Lidie's POV
"When will we leave for the Dungeon?"
Galie pouted like a spoiled brat.
"I told you tomorrow morning we will be traveling by boat towards the the Dead lord's Dungeon"
Mary explained, two weeks had now passed and Galie's exams had ended all there was to it was waiting for the results.
"Galie lets go buy provisions for the road, after we enter the dungeon there won't be any shop or village inside the dungeon so we can only depend on ourselves"
Lidie said, although it would also be her first dungeon raid, she had been their apothecary, she carried in her bag dozens of useless remedies and cures for all and any negative effects.
Sometimes it was difficult to say which of the two was the mage, since Lidie walked with a book in her hand most of the time. There was simply too much Info she needed to learn to gain her desired profession.
"By the way Lidie you are the only one still wearing your noobie attire"
Galie said but it was more like asking.
"Well, it's not really something bad, after all she has a new shield and weapon"
Mary said but Galie didn't buy it.
"Galie, not all people use all their credits on games"
Lidie said, in reality she was saving credits to make a small revolutionary group of her own, of course Galie was an irreplacable member for her new team, after all she was almost eighteen now and an adult non the less, she didn't have to listen to her daddy all her life. At some point Lidie even doubted if he was her father, Darknym was much more akin to an alien or a demon.
"Meenie!"
Galie pouted, Galie had long understood that the pocket money she was given was far more than the others would afford and could even ask for more when she didn't have enough for something.
She even wanted to offer to buy a new armor for her but after what Lidie said she had reconsidered.
The next day was the day of their departure so they went through the stores to stock up with healing items and other usefull things, all but Galie. Galie was window shopping, she had found a rather pretty straw hat with ribbons and a pair of high-heels.
Lidie wanted to laugh at her own stupidity, she really didn't have to let her go alone for shoping, these items were nowhere near as good as their price. Of course they were rather beautiful but they were both rather useless and impractical.
"Galie you do know that these shoes are for level 100, you won't even be able to use them"
Mary said, although in her eyes said otherwise, there was desire for those brand designed red shoes.
"Twenty levels are not so difficult to gain"
Galie snorted, she already knew the level requirements for the shoes but she was enamoured with them the moment she laid eyes on them.
"By the way where did you buy them from?"
Mary asked somewhat anxious.
Galie smiled as she took out of her bag another two identical pairs of shoes
"I thought that you would like them"
Galie said as she gifted them both a pair of shoes.
"Thank you but I don't need them"
Lidie said, she prefered sport wear, but in the end took them.
"By the way I wanted to ask you about something somewhat more serious"
Lidie said.
Mary didn't understand why Lidie became so serious all of a sudden but she too wanted to know what was more important from brand clothing and shoes.
They were now in their Inn room and Lidie was sitting on the only chair in the rather poor room.
"Galie and Mary, I want to create a revolutionary team of my own and I want you two to be with me, together we will defeat the evil empress and save the world"
Lidie said, Galie had gone ecstatic but Mary wasn't as happy about it.
"But the Empress isn't Evil, what exactly has she done to be called evil?"
Mary asked, in truth there wasn't anything that could be considered evil, there was of course discrimination between strong and week but that was there to begin with from ancient times.
"Don't you want to be able to live in the real world, to be able to have children with the man you love?"
Lidie said, the question was rhetorical but Mary and Galie wanted to answer with a "we want" while thinking of their own prince charming.
"But Lidie we already can do that"
Galie said after thinking about it a little. It was true for Mary but Lidie and her were already free from the system.
"And don't you want to fight so that everyone can be as lucky as we are"
Lidie said, they could only see signs of jealousy in Mary's eyes.
"So do we fight or not?"
Lidie asked and their room was now filled with rallying cries.
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Homestrike's POV
Homestrike and Meteorball were two absolutely average level 200 players, they were now boarding a ship to the Dead Lord's Dungeon. Their group was 12 men strong and well balanced but Homestrike's regret was that they were all men. Some of them had girlfriends and even wives but only he and Meteorball were Singles.
"Meteorball, who are those three beauties over there?"
Homestike said as he saw two blue hair twins and a half-ork female coming towards the port.
"Meteorball, they are going towards us"
Homestike said somewhat excited seeing that the girls were now headind towards their ship.
"Meteorball, they are coming"
Homestike said as they embarked the ship, but a few minutes later he became nervous and the three girls passed right next to them, not even turning an eye to look at them.
"They left"
Homestrike said somewhat disheartened, he was rather uncomfortable around girls but he really wanted a girlfriend.
"Home don't be so desperate, just think about this Dungeon raid, if we can clear it this time it will be great, you might even get some great equipment that will help you get laid at least with the npcs"
Meteorstike said laughing somewhat mockingly.
"Do you think that they will accept to join our team?"
Homestike asked somewhat nervously, he was really into that ork that was with them, she wore a rather sexy pirate attire and he found the eyepatch somewhat sexy, he really wanted some of that pirate booty.
"Forget it they are probably waiting for their team mates, just think about it, no one goes for a dungeon raid with only three people"
Meteorball said and it was rational to think that way since even their twelve man team was considered small for a dungeon raid party.
"Well lets go I'm sure the others are waiting for us"
Meteorball said.
"Can't I have even a few moments to admire them?"
Homestrike said as he looked at the three who were now walking around the ship as if going on a cruise.
"Suit yourself"
Meteorball said as he left.
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Simon's POV
Simon was at a rather strange position right now.
"Why does it say here that you have to stay nine month for training?"
Kaj asked somewhat angry.
"I don't know I only did what you said to me to do"
Simon who was on his knees right now said.
"Tell me word by word what you did and what happened"
Kaj said, she was now totaly angry and didn't believe that Rod would do such a mean thing to her.
He explained the events exactly how they happened, of course he left outside Rod's punishment and the trophies he got but the rest were true.
"That bitch Rod, she's totaly after your power"
Kaj said, she only knew Rod because they were both members of the Funny stars and were a little friendly since they were likeminded.
"So what do we do now?"
Simon asked, he of course had another idea as to why she did so as he knew about the pair of bra and panties in his inventory.
"There's nothing we can do, I will train you for one month in some basic self defence and then you will go to the facility, show me your weapon so that I can abjust the training"
"Em, can you wait a minute"
He said as he headed towards his room.
"Don't tell me you forgot your weapon at home?"
Kaj asked or rather shouted at him.
"No...you see...I just...Yes I forgot my weapon, I even forgot half of the subjects on that exam"
Simon snapped he was rather angry, he was being bullied even at home by his girlfriend.
"You can deactivate your psychic power, I won't try to kill you"
Kaj said but Simon didn't even remember activating it and there were no headaches at all although it was trully activated at the moment.
'Did my clearance level rise?'
He thought but after checking his clearance, it was still at level 2.
'Did my Psychic power just become stronger all of a sudden?'
He thought and trully he could now even control the area his psychic field occupied.
'But why?'
"At last you decided to deactivate your power"
Kaj said as she opened the door to his room where he had locked himself, which before she couldn't open because of his power, but suddenly she felt somewhat strange, everything around her was perfect, she even tried to move the door but she couldn't use either her psychic powers or the system.
"How?"
Kaj asked, it was rather irregular for a psychic power to mutate but there were some such ocations but his wasn't one of them since the power was still the same, only his control of it became better.
"Kaj, kill me"
He said to her surprise, she didn't know why but she wouldn't mind vending some of her anger.
One month later
"More, more"
Kaj was on the floor she was crawling on all four like a dog and Simon was thrusting the club in her ass violenty.
The changes in that one month were eminent, Kaj was now his slave, it was after the hundrendth time that he died. His psychic powers became stronger and stronger with each death, of course there was immense pain involved but he didn't care he was really strong now.
"Kaj, lets go"
He said as it was time for him to enter the training facility.
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Zephir's POV
Zephir and Verina lived a rather happy life together, he even used some links of his to buy a house in the real world for him and Verina, of course he spent millions of credits for that, they would have to wait for a long time before they have enough money to be allowed to have a baby of their own but they were both Guardians, credits were the least of their problems.
"One month, not bad,you know I was only held for a week"
Zephir said proudly.
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"I know my love"
Verina said as she kissed him.
"I only hope that Red isn't too angry with you, of course if matters get hectic we will have to give away Simon, you said that he was also at the exams"
Zephir said somewhat concerned.
"Well I don't know why but he made some sort of a scene as he gave oral exams instead of written, it caught the attention of many of the examinees"
Verina said, she was deeply worried about him since from the moment Zephir disclosed to her whom Red was.
"By the way Oral exams is just a pretext most of the students who have the conections just fake the tests with an oral exam, you probably won't be seeing him this whole month"
Zephir said sure of his words after all he knew a few people who had such conections but he himself did not so he had to coach Verina for the exams, not that they didn't enjoy it.
"Do you think that Red forgot all about it?"
Verina asked somewhat puzzled, Red would have come by now to clear their differences.
"She migh have died by Kaj, although What puzzles me is how comes Simon is still alive"
Zephir said, he hadn't revealed to Verina the rumors about Kaj yet but after all they were but rumors, there was no proof that Kaj had killed all those people.
"What do you mean?"
Verina asked but Zephir just kissed her and said.
"Nope there were just some false rumors about Kaj, that she's one of the funny stars"
He and Verina went to bed as they had passed a rather harsh day of training in Allastar.
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Galie's POV
It would take two whole days to arrive at the Island where the Dungeon was, not that they could have traveled by land, The isleplains continent was consists of thousands of Islands, the larger ones being the governing powers and the smaller ones the subjects, Offshore City was on the Offshore Isle, it didn't have many town and only a single cities on it but it wasn't as small as some other Islands that only had one town, the Island was governed by New Shellon or otherwise, the Great plains that were to the west of it.
Galie, Lidie and Mary were now sitting down at one side of the ship fishing.
"Why can't I catch fish like Mary does?"
Galie complained.
"That's because Mary's luck is quite high today"
Lidie explained.
"Girls, I caught another one"
Mary shouted excited, today she probably had the most catches in her whole life, not that she had ever fished before. Truth was that she had rather good luck today, her luck was set at "best".
"You caught a bottle?"
Galie mocked her, it was a strange purple bottle but it was a bottle non the less.
Mary examined it and then, with a happy smile all over her face signaled for them to come closer.
"Do you two know what this is?"
She whispered.
"A bottle?"
Galie asked she simply didn't want to accept that it wasn't simple trash.
"A djinni bottle, although for some reason it says lamp in the description, this item is rather rare and it can save us in any time of peril a pity I can't put it in my inventory"
"I could help with that"
Lidie said, she had after all a level 1 clearance, she could do some things other people could not.
"What's so great about this bottle anyway?"
Galie asked, she probably didn't know what a djinni was supposed to be.
"I will explain it to you later in the Cabin"
Lidie whispered, they had already a few onlookers and she didn't want to be PKed for it.
Djinni lamps were Items that granted wishes, of course the wishes were rather mundane but with Mary's luck right now it might be something really good.
"Lets continue fishing"
Lidie said smiling after tossing a purple bottle back to the see, of course it was a simple potion but it took all suspicions off of them.
Lidie could only hope that the djinni lamp was worth the price of the purple antivenom potion, it wasn't a really great potion but it still cost her one silver and three copper, normal price one silver 25 copper.
After it got dark to fish they went back to their cabin, Mary had already prepared the lamp/bottle whatever that was.
They were now sitting around the bottle with full anticipation of gaining a great wish from the djinni.
Mary who had the greatest luck took the cork off and puff, smoke came out of the bottle for a short minute and dissipated.
"Was it a fake?"
Galie asked not understanding, Lidie had already explained to her what was going to happen but here there was no djinni at all.
"Maybe it has some time delay"
Mary said, she didn't want to believe that it was a fake.
"Just inspect the bottle once more"
Lidie said.
"Djinni bottle used, it says that it's being used by us but where's the djinni?"
Mary asked in a panic, the item was indeed rare but other people had already posted their encounters with a djinni.
"Lets look through the posts"
Mary said, it was a rather good idea and it came just at the right time.
"Here it says that the djinni appears after the smoke"
Galie said.
"Girls I found our problem"
Lidie said showing them an article called "Player in a bottle". The two of them opened their mouths wide in a smile at the explanation it was rather funny.
"Lets hope that the player doesn't appear forever, that way we will have this buff for our whole stay in Allastar"
Lidie said, the magic of the lamp had two functions, first was the wish and the second was a rather special buff.
The Djinni buff gave them something many people could only dream about, lesser magic power regeneration.
"Quickly Galie begin using your magic staff and here take these four books they are the four most basic spell books"
Lidie said as she handed her four spellbooks, they looked heavy and Galie was somewhat reluctant to take them, after school she had learned that she really hated studying.
"The four marble spells only drain one stone of magic, I'm sure that you have more than enough magic power to cast them at least for a few minutes"
Lidie said as she now forcefully handed them to her.
-Do you want to learn earth marble? -
- YES - - NO -
Surprised since this was the first time she held a spellbook in her life she pressed NO. She then tried to open the book but she couldn't.
"What are you doing, you just have to hold the book and you will gain the spell"
Lidie said, she always thought that it was suspicious that she wouldn't buy even a single spellbook.
The second time the message appeared Galie pressed Yes and the spellbook disappeared.
"Why did it disappear, I haven't even read it yet"
She panicked, but to her surprise Lidie and Mary were laughing their throats out.
"Galie, spellbooks like skillbooks don't need to be read, they simply give you skills to use inside the game"
Mary explained while still laughing at her funny reaction.
"Lidie, these books are really cheap even if they disappear it won't even bother me"
In truth the books were worth one silver each, normally, but she bought them for two silver and fourty three coppers, it was a great bargain for her as a merchant, but she really was hard to bargain with.
"We should exploit this buff to its fullest"
Mary said as she begun using any skill she had that used Magic powers to activate. They both probably somehow regretted not having the mage profession right now but there were plenty of skills that they could train and even those that used both stamina and magic power.
The others in their cabins could probably hear thousands of skills being used one after the other but they had no right to complain everyone could do whatever they wanted to at least that was the rule.
In reality many went to complain but as the sounds became louder and louder they somehow reconsidered, they didn't want trouble, if inside was some monstrously strong guy or someone crazy enough to practice skills in the middle of the night it was a bad idea to annoy him or in this situation them.
"Lidie how long do we have to do this, I'm getting somewhat sleepy"
Galie said, they had been training almost eight hours now, and all Lidie had to do was create small marbles out of wind, the small spherical marble was see through but the outline was still visible in a white colour.
"Galie, you think that I don't want to go to sleep, but we must use this chance to build our foundations so that we won't have to do something like that later, such exploits are hard to find, right Mary"
Lidie said and awaited for Mary's confirmation but instead was given a loud yawn.
"Sorry Lidie but I think I'll pass, We have been grinding skills and the Wisdom stat for hours now, to tell the truth I would have prefered a stamina buff, most of my skills drain stamina after all"
Mary was a fighter and a master thief but her last profession which was a pirate was mostly stamina based, it did drain a little magic here and there like the fighter skills but the problem was that she already had more than enough magic power to last her for ages, the same could be said for Lidie who was a fighter/merchant although to her it wasn't enough, well a merchant is a rather strange profession but it combines all magic,stamina and even health or money consuming skills.
Mary went home to sleep, she didn't want her sleep to be disturbed by Lidie swinging her sword and shield as she used her skills.
"Galie you said that you could spellcast and use psychic abilities at the same time, can't you try and combine them?"
Lidie asked her somewhat curiously, Galie had a multiprocessing psychic ability in real life but inside the game it worked a bit diferently than in reality.
"Lidie I really want to sleep"
Galie said while Yawning once more. She didn't even have the mental capability to think strait and Lidie wanted her to combine psychic abilities with magic, it sounded like a joke.
Before Lidie could speak a yawning noice escaped her mouth, she too was tired, she too wanted to rest but she wouldn't, she was determined to not lose even a second from this god given gift..
"Galie you can go back alone, I will stay a little longer and train my skills until I can't anymore"
Lidie said, although her eyes and body said otherwise,
'she won't edure even for an hour'
Galie thought but it didn't matter since she could go to her soft bed right now.
Galaxia appeared back at home but a somewhat disapointed voice surprised her deeply.
"92, 87, 74, 51, 42, 2, 2 how exactly did you score so poorly?"