*Thougts*
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Chapter 19: Above the cliff
After finally receiving the bow and an arrow from Neuron Kyle aimed it at the cliff side and let the arrow fly. But it didn`t went as high as planned and hit the cliff.
“Neuron why did you give me a bend arrow”
“I didn’t, your aim is just crap”
“Doesn`t matter gimme another arrow”
“Here you go”
And this time it finally went over the cliff and Neuron could proceed with his plan of climbing.
Now Neuron was hanging 4m below the edge of the cliff pondering how he could climb those last meters.
“Hey, proceed”
“Let me think for a bit this is tricky”
After pondering for a while which Kyle used to cook himself another dish.
*Seriously?, maybe he should have been the boss inside that dungeon*
~Light bulb appears~ *good, let’s try*
Neuron pulled out one of his axes, fastened a thread on it, and then he threw it over the cliff in a wide arc. Then he made another connection, which went through the rock while fastening the Axe in place. With this Neuron could finally go over the cliff. What he saw was breathtaking view. The cliff he climbed was actually a plateau with grassy field as wide as he could see surrounded by mountains and a really high one in the far end. On this field he could make out some monsters with his Hawkeyes, but they were too far away to pose a thread, and thus he ignored them for now.
Kyle noticed that Neuron got over the cliff, “hey Neuron, care to pull me up?”
“Wait a moment; I have to find something to fasten myself too”
He was desperately searching for a boulder or a tree on which he could fasten himself, as not to get pulled over the cliff while pulling up Kyle, but there was nothing to be found. So he had to improvise. To do this he needed some preparation.
*Finally, he shows up*
“Hey Neuron you ready” Asked Kyle as soon as he noticed Neuron sticking his head over the cliff
“Yeah, I`m going to throw you some threads, fasten yourself and the backpacks to them, then I`m going too pull you up, But before, remove your armor, if not you’ll be too heavy”
“Kk”
After a long time Kyle was finally over the cliff.
“Hey ~Pant~ you didn`t ~pant~ remove ~ your gear ~pant~ you bastard!”
What Kyle saw was somewhat of a unique display. It was Neuron laying flat on his face, panting while countless threads expanded from him towards arrows that were stuck into the ground
When Neuron finally caught his breath he began to shout at Kyle why he didn`t remove his armor. But the person in question was ignoring him, while pulling their back bags that they left behind to reduce the weight, while groaning.
“Hey do you know how heavy those backpacks are, I couldn`t let you shift all the work to me couldn`t I?”
After hearing that Neuron was Speechless but as soon as he opened his mouth:
“Neuron we don’t have time to argue right now, look behind you”
“What?” After turning around he saw what made Kyle so preoccupied. It was a Mountain Troll, that charged/hopped right at them, somehow it looked like an Orang Utan, but what made the difference where his four arms and a staggering height of 2m, and also his fur was colored with a dark brown
“Now look, with all your shouting you attracted one hell of a bastard”
“Ähm, do you know what level this guy here is?”
“Hmmm, no, I do not, but I heard that brown is a common color for weak to middle leveled monsters inside a species, so we could be lucky or screwed, since their level ranges from 10 to 30. But I never heard of one with four arms.”
After that explanation the Troll was finally inside firing range for Neuron. Which Neuron put to good use, but even after 5 arrows it didn`t slow down at all. Then Kyle shouted: “Crap, this guy is a level 50, fuck.”
“Seriously?, what are we going to do now, we can`t beat something five times our level.
As soon as it was near them the Troll swung his arms like a windmill at Kyle, which could block that barrage, but only barely.
“Neuron, I`m going for a last ditch method, please form a connection with me. After hearing this Neuron sprinted towards Kyle and touched him on the head. “Done!”
“Why with my head! Anyway blind him with your shuriken and throwing knives.”
While Neuron was doing as told, Kyle circled around, the Troll/Orang Utan and when he finally had him between the cliff and himself, while barely managing to block those arms that felt like sledgehammers on his shield. He then yelled “Push” And charged towards the Troll, while his shield emanated a dark bluish color, managing to push it over the edge, but because he had too much momentum, he couldn`t stop and so he also was about to fall down. But his fall was soon halted by a Mana thread, which sadly was connected with his head. Looking down, Kyle saw the Troll landing on the ground.
*Ugh, looks really cross*
* You have leveled up
* +50 Fame for defeating a Monster, which was more than double your Party level
“Hey Kyle, I got a Level and some Fame”
“Yeah, me too, although I gained two levels from it.”
Now they were advancing on the Plateau, but with more caution than ever, because if Monsters of those levels could roam freely. But with the vision skill of Neuron, they could easily evade contact.
“Ähm, Neuron do you see that?”
“Yeah, looks like the statue of an archer, and below there is also some sort of entrance, maybe that gives us some lead for my quest”
“Yeah, I never heard of a grave with an archer statue on it”
“Yeah I read in a book, that The archer Profession wasn`t highly regarded, so there where never statues build to let people remember their achievements”
“Hey Neuron where are you going” Kyle asked when he noticed Kyle hurrying towards the statue
“Well entering of course”
“Are you an idiot?, Haven`t you noticed the level range of monsters on this plateau, the weakest are still level 20 and go till 50”
“And?”
“Haven`t you ever played RPG`s?”
“I have, ah you mean, that those monsters inside will be higher level than the monsters outside right?”
“Finally you get it”
“So now what do you suggest?”
“That we power level ourselves till at least level 40”
“Hmm, sounds like a plan, but how, all I see here is grass and some Trolls, but nothing to lay a ambush or something”
“Good lets both think of something, at least we won`t have trouble anymore when we get to level 20.”
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Now Neuron was luring one of the weaker Trolls, fortunately the four armed kind seemed to be a rarity around here, so he had no trouble avoiding its swings, while leading it towards a pitfall they prepared after much work. Well Kyle did the most work, making the shovel and digging. Which was obvious, him investing most of his level up points into Strength and Vitality. While working on it he announced that he got the digging skill, and Neuron obviously wanted to see it
* Digging: beginner Lv1
Enables you to dig faster
You use less stamina while digging
Earth affinity +1%
The task Neuron was assigned was to hide the pitfall, but this he couldn`t do until Kyle had finished digging, so he decided to work on his tailoring, trying to produce some leather armor that helped him against those Trolls, and everything that could await him inside the Dungeon. Occasionally he had to scatter the earth Kyle dug up, but mostly he could focus on Tailoring, but no product satisfied him, well of course because he only used rabbit leather which he got in high quantity by buying it from Players inside Gaber.
When Kyle finally was finished Neuron could get to work. He connected his threads to the edge of the hole, making a net, on which he put crass, completely hiding the pitfall. But one insecurity remained, that was Kyle’s restriction to only attack enemies that attacked him first. But they decided to just come up with something while fighting, as they had no other way.
And now he was luring the Troll to the aforementioned trap. When the Troll was finally standing on the threads Neuron cancelled them making him fall inside, but his torso still was outside the trap.
This was planned, because if the Troll had completely disappeared inside the trap, Kyle wouldn`t be able to do jack even without that restriction, because he obviously had no ranged skills. So Neuron began to attack the Troll who tried to cover its face. Kyle was sneaking up behind him and tried to hit it, but somehow he couldn`t even execute it.
“Problem, I can`t even try to strike it, somehow the system is preventing me from doing it”
“Shit, that’s just too annoying”
Now the Troll neared the ground with its face to protect it while trying to get out of the hole, while ignoring the arrows, so Neuron had no other option than to go into close quarter combat, to prevent him from getting out. So he drew his axes and hacked at one of the hands the Troll used to sustain itself, somehow cutting the tendon, which caused the arm to lose all its force making the Troll loose balance and falling flat on his face. Neuron didn`t let this opportunity go to waste and struck at his head. Getting up the Troll was finally furious and trashed around with his leftover arm; he even rotated his torso, so that the injured arm would fly around. Neuron managed to dodge the limb arm, but this left him wide open for the other, but Kyle managed to block the punch with his shield.
“Thanks, hey, does this count as attack?”
Hearing that Kyle tried to strike at the Troll and this time he managed to execute the attack.
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“Great, now we finally have the upper hand!”
Sadly that false
Both of them where hitting the Troll as hard as they could, but it seemed to regenerate almost all of the damage it took. So now they were left with no other option than to hack away little chunks of its health, while preventing it from getting out of the pit.
Then finally after one hour of continuously hitting it, it died.
“hah, hah, that was hard, damn, they regenerate too fast”
“But the exp is worth it”
“Well yeah, I gained another level from it, and you”
“Me too”
Now for three days they worked like this, till they were finally able to equip the gear Warnton provided them. Now hunting was like a walk in the park for them, because they were heavily over equipped. Neuron even Managed to secure some Troll leather and sewed himself a new armor.
* Simple Leather armor
Made by a Novice Tailor from Troll hides, that somehow knew, where the armors defense is low, and thus reinforced those parts.
Durability: 40/40
Defense: 12
Requirements:
Lv15
When Neuron finally was able to equip the new bow, the regular monsters stopped attacking them, only those with four arms attacked them relentlessly, which was quite annoying, because those where pretty high level and their four arms made predicting the next strike difficult, but soon also their onslaught subsided
Kyle also gained the skill War hammer mastery and managed to level it up to level three.
* War hammer mastery beginner Lv3
Increases attack Damage by 30% (blunt)
Increases attack speed by 6%
+1,5% Stun chance
“So, Kyle what now, they seem to be avoiding us”
“Nothing to do, than to enter and hope for the best”
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* You have entered The Tomb of the forgotten archer
For discovering a new Dungeon +100Fame
Upon defeat the boss will drop a rare item.
“Boah a rare Item, what could it be”
“Dunno, let’s find out!”
Both of them entered the dungeon, only to see a straight corridor ahead which was probably full of traps. Now Neuron looked strangely towards Kyle
“What?”
“You go first” he said with a gleam in his eyes
“No, I won`t, this corridor is obviously filled with traps”
“And? What do you want to do about them, I know we both don’t have a trap discover or disarm skill”
“So now you intent to let the one with the most health points and defense trigger them on purpose.”
“About right, and just look, there is a door, only 30m inside”
“Why is it, that when you suggest something I always get the brunt of it?”
“Don`t know”
With that cleared, Kyle cautiously began his way inside. The first trap he activated was a simple one. It just triggered some arrows that flew at him, but those didn`t give him any damage, because they where reflected by his armor. But as he proceeded the traps grew worse. Mostly they just shot arrows at him, but their number grew steadily till some managed to bypass his armor or hit somewhere the armor didn`t cover. First it didn`t face Kyle, but now they were poisoned, and even with a strong one, so he had to gobble down some antidotes.
Some dropped boulders from above, but Kyle had already gotten acquainted with the traps, so now he could hear a click sound when he activated them, and thus he managed to bring his shield between him and the falling rocks.
And because he had deliberately triggered all of the traps
* Trap triggering Beginner Lv1
Enables you to see traps, and judge their effect
While triggering them you are also able to position yourself so that you won`t get the full impact of the trap you triggered
-3% Damage from Traps
If a enemy gets caught in a trap you triggered it will get 10%more damage from it
Attention
Disarming Traps has become impossible
Then at 10m distance to the door he halted.
“What Happened?”
“The whole floor is a trap; I think it’s a pitfall that gets triggered when someone opens the door or comes close to it.”
“And?”
“This time you trigger it”
“Why?”
“As I said it’s a pitfall, so it will take time to open, and you can use this time to jump towards me, or I could pull you with one of your threads towards me, when you trigger it”
“Hmm, sounds convincing” but his thoughts were *Damn, he got me*
Neuron decided to go with the latter and thus Kyle managed to pull him out of the trap when Neuron activated it, like Kyle predicted right before the door.
But now, they had a serious problem, that being how to cross the 10m broad pitfall.
“Ähm Kyle do you have a suggestion?”
“Nope, not really, well let’s eat, and while eating we can think about it”
“Ähm Kyle what do your stats look like as of now?”
“Didn`t we agree not to show them again?”
“True, but what about only showing the status window, without the skill progression?”
“That, I think we could try”
Both: “Show Status Window only, to Kyle/Neuron
Status WindowNameNeuronLevel30ClassN/AFame290Infamy150TitleN/AHealth3104Mana2680Strength114Dexterity189Wisdom23Intelligence52Vitality60Luck1Endurance23Sustenance20Fighting Spirit13Accuracy10Base Attack33Defense18Magical ResistanceFire0%Water0%Earth0%Air0%Dark0%Holy0%If your Infamy is higher than your fame, you will be wanted
Reward depends on the difference between Fame and Infamy
Status WindowNameKyleLevel32ClassDefenderFame140Infamy50TitleN/AHealth5548Mana2460Strength179 (+10)Dexterity105 (+10)Wisdom36Intelligence46Vitality113 (+10)Luck0Endurance40Sustenance25Fighting Spirit18Block11 (+10)Base Attack54 (+70-80)Defense142 (+20)Magical ResistanceFire5%Water5%Earth5%Air5%Dark5%Holy5%+10 to Vitality, Strength and Dexterity
+20 to Defense
+10 to Block
Mobs attack you before they turn to the group members unless provoked
You may not engage mobs unless they attack you first
+5% to all Magical Resistance
If your Infamy is higher than your fame, you will be wanted
Reward depends on the difference between Fame and Infamy
“Hmm, that isn’t so bad as before, but Kyle you got some massive health and attack there”
“True, I invested most of my points into Vitality, Strength and Dexterity, but you too, how come you have so much health”
“Well, I invested most of the stat points into Dexterity of course, then Strength and nearly equal for the rest.”
End Chapter 19
The next chapter will be...
A boss fight of course :twisted:
Hope you like my FF so far
and as always keep your criticism moderate :lol: