In the passing days more and more players left the Town Of Level Zero, everyone's mind set on beating this game. Though a few of them stayed behind as fear still lingers inside them, the fear of dying in this world. The players that made it pass the first level boss advanced to the next stage, as each of them choose the kingdom they would, to them temporarily call their home. Everyone has one goal in their mind defeat every level boss and make out alive back to the real world.
Inside a dungeon cave a group of players are engaged in a fierce battle with some goblins, farther inside the main group is fighting against the second level boss.
"You adventurers are much stronger than I anticipated" the goblin king said holding his right arm that is bleeding, where his elbow used to be.
"Is that what we are called in this world... hmmm I guess that's what we will go by then" a male knight wearing a helmet that is covering his eyes said smirking. "Archers at the ready" a group of archers aimed their bow at the goblin king. "Fire" he ordered the archers as the unleash a barrage of arrows at the goblin king, he grabs his sword trying to deflecting the arrows but there are too many as they pierce his body allover. The goblin king stands motionless on his last breath, as the knight light steps behind him delivering the final attack.
[Congratulations on defeating the second level boss: The Goblin King. EXP goes to Jung Faris of the Spirit Kingdom]
Name: Jung Faris
Gender: Male
Age: 25
Height: 7.6 ft
Race: Human
Class: Wandering Knight
Weapons: Long Sword
Ability: 3
Skills: 4
Strength: 59
Speed: 70
Country: Korea
A female player walk to Faris handing him a small towel, Faris takes the towel as he wipes the blood from his sword. "How is the first unit doing" he ask her handing the towel back k to her. "They managed to hold back the goblin king's army very well, however some of them didn't make it" The female explained to him. Faris let out a deep sigh as he sheath his sword. He looked a bit annoyed and frustrated as he heard her explanation of the situation.
Faris turned around and started walking towards the exit as he spoke to the female player. "Choon-hee I want you and the others to gather the equipments and other stuff of the adventurers that didn't make it, and distribute them among the adventurers that need them the most" Choon-hee nodded her head as she calls a few other adventurers, they headed out first before Faris and a few others. 'So the last person who lands the final attack gets all the exp's and a additional skill or ability. It's also seems that we are becoming the avatars we made, I'm usually very talkative, loud and outgoing. Is this what the game master meant by this becoming our new reality'
Faris headed for the exit as keep looking at his new ability he got, a small smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. 'Maybe, just maybe, this world isn't half bad after all'
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Inside the Trinity Kingdom it is bustling as everywhere you look people are going in and coming out of stores or shops, the wind carrying the voices of the vendors trying to get the attention of people walking by.
"Um... were the NPC's always this lively and realistic" Jarrett said a bit confused at what he is seeing, it's almost like they're still in the real world. One of the resident of the kingdom saw them and runs up to them. It is a little boy, he has a big smile on his face as he approached them. "It's you guys!, you're the adventurers who defeated the guardian!. You guys were awesome the way you dodged and attacked him!"
Both Jarrett and Nitro have big smiles on their faces as they hear the little boy praising them, while Ling and Erza faces slowly turned red from nervousness. Mystagun face is unreadable due to his mask covering his face. "Well hello there little man, were we really that awesome" Nitro said as he crouched down to meet the little boys gaze. The little boy nodded his head happily. While Jarrett and the little boy are talking to each other, other people started coming their way as they also recognised them. Soon they were talking to some residents of the Trinity Kingdom, the residents welcomed them and even praised them for their heroines.
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As everyone were focused on escaping thinking all of this would be over in just a few days, however their days turned into weeks, then into months, then finally over 3 years have passed. In those 3 years they have only managed defeat 15 bosses, with the Trinity Kingdom having defeated 7 of them and the Spirit Kingdom defeating 3. The Theravion Kingdom managed to take 4 of them down as the Heart Kingdom only defeated 1.
"Three years have passed and we're not even half done, at this rate we might not even make it to 50th level boss before a 100 year" Ji-raya said as he makes his way through a frozen flower field while blowing hot air into his hands. As Ji-raya is walking through the frozen flower field he can hear small footsteps on the snow following behind him. He paid no mind to whoever is following him as he continues on his way. After walking for 10 minutes Ji-raya crossed paths with a group of adventurers from the same kingdom as him.
"Oh?, it's just fucking you... what are you doing here you fucking disgusting monster" a big, tall bulky man said, the man's face showed a disgusted expression. Ji-raya stayed quiet, showing no emotion while looking at the big, tall bulky man. A blonde hair female adventurer sees this and gets irritated at Ji-raya for ignoring her leader, she takes out her daggers and rushes toward Ji-raya. Just as the blonde hair female swings her two daggers at Ji-raya someone came in between them, as her two daggers clashed with a long thin sword, in front of her stands a slim female with long white hair.
"Get out of my way Chang!. He must be punished for his rudeness" the blonde hair female said gritting her teeth as she tries to push her daggers further forward. "Stand down Lex, you should be grateful that you're still alive. Or are so eager to die" Chang said pushing back with her sword.
"What do you think you can kill me... not in a million years"
"No, not by me. But by the person you want to attack"
Both Chang and Lex stared at each other, none of them showing any signs of backing down. The big, tall bulky man placed his hand on Lex's shoulder signalling her to stand down. Lex steps back and places her two daggers at the back of her waist as she glares at Chang.
Chang turns around to face Ji-raya, seeing him looking at her with emotionless eyes she lowers her head. "I'm... I'm sorry for following you" Ji-raya let out a deep sigh before walking past Chang, following after the big, tall bulky man's group. "How many times do I have to tell if you want to come with me just ask, and don't sneak around like some kind of lost animal" hearing that Chang lifts her head and runs to Ji-raya, as she gets close to him Chang then walks close beside him.
Name: Ju Chang
Gender: Female
Age: 28
Height: 6.3 ft
Race: Human
Class: Assassin/ Bounty Hunter
Weapons: Long Thin Sword
Ability: 2
Skills: 6
Strength: 72
Speed: 79
Country: Korea
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Near the entrance of an old dungeon castle, are two male adventurers. One of them is inspecting the huge dungeon door that seems to be locked. "We've been here for 50 minutes!. Do you even know how to unlock this door" a man with glasses and and a blonde ponytail said a bit frustrated.
"Shut it ponytail. I'm already working here with frozen fingers, I don't need you talking my ears off" a young man wearing round goggles said while he's examining the dungeon castle door. The man with the ponytail stayed quiet as he crossed his arms over his chest, lifting his head up he sees how big the dungeon castle door is. Getting bored of waiting he started looking around at his surrounding, as he looks at the open path of the forest he could hear voices of a group of people coming their way. Before he could say something to his partner, he heard a clicking sound coming from the dungeon castle door, followed by more and louder clicking sounds. Turning back around he sees the dungeon castle door descending down.
"There!, the entrance to the snow princess's castle has been open by yours truly, Maximum" Maximum announced proudly spreading his arms wide.
"Which took about 55 minutes. We've been here for almost a whole fucking hour!" Maximum turn to face the man with the ponytail, pointing two fingers at him as a big smile appeared on his face. "And you know something my dear Matthew that is 3 or 4 hours less than anyone else. Speaking of which, Mystagun get up we have some company"
On the right side of the castle dungeon is a pile of snow, it slowly started to crumble apart as Mystagun emerge from under it sitting up. As he sits up he sees the group coming their way then gets up and dust the snow off himself.
"You finally made it, what took you so long"
"Nothing... just had to take a detour" the big, tall bulky man said as he points behind him with his thumb. Mystagun leaned to his left to check behind the big, tall bulky man his eyes scanning everyone, until he sees Ji-raya at the very back. It was almost like he a ghost, and the words that came out of Mystagun mouth shocked everyone.
"Na... nam-dong-saeng, is it really you"
They all looked at Ji-raya, then at Mystagun, then back at Ji-raya, then again at Mystagun. Everyone was quiet for a few seconds before reality hit them, Ji-raya did infact look a bit like Mystagun. Their build, height, posture and especially their hair are almost the same, the only difference is that Mystagun upper hair color is black and his lower half is white and Ji-raya is the opposite.
"Nam-dong what?, damn it my Korean is that good" Ji-raya said as he is confused at what Mystagun said.
"Nam-dong-saeng it means younger brother" Chang explained to Ji-raya.
Mystagun took little steps forward before to Ji-raya opening his arms and hugging him tightly. Tears were slowly coming out of Mystagun eyes, everyone got confused at what is happening.
"Um... there, there Hyeong. Seriously stop crying this is getting embarrassing"
Sniff.
"Your right, sorry about that. Alright everyone let's go!"
They all entered the old dungeon castle, some of them chattering amongst one another. As Ji-raya follows after them Chang walks beside him as she asked him something.
"What are you doing?. Why did you call him older brother?"
"No reason, I guess he and I are brothers in this world. This world is creating a story for each of us, and we have to play according to what role we're given"
As the adventurers are walking through the dungeon castle, glowing mushrooms that are fading in and out is the light source guiding their path. Their footsteps echoing in the long out stretched hallway.
"Hey Max is it just me or is kind of warm in here" Matthew said as a few sweat droplets form on his forehead.
"Now that you mentioned it, yeah it is kind of warm in here. Though this place would've been a colder inside" Maximum said looking around at the hallway.
After walking for 5 minutes in the dungeon castle's hallway the temperature suddenly started to drop. A cold breeze blew their way, everyone's body shivered from the sudden cold breeze. As they continued walking they came across a frozen lake in the of the hallway, and what's more there is someone laying flat on their back in the middle of the frozen lake. They are all confused, not at the fact that there is a frozen lake in the dungeon castle, but that there is someone here before them.
"Hey!, are you still alive!" The big, tall bulky man yelled out to the man who is laying down.
"Yeah!. Just laying down for a bit" the man said lifting up hand and showing a thumbs up.
"Hold on, I'm going to help you"
"No don't"
The moment the big, tall bulky man stepped on the frozen lake he slipped, both of his legs flew up as he landed hard on his back sliding slowly to the center. Two members of the bulky man's group ran to try and help their leader.
"Leader!" The both of them yelled at the same time.
"No don't, your only going to..." the man laying on the center tried to warn them.
However the two members didn't listen and they met the same fate as their leader did. They slipped, they fell and slowly started sliding to the center as well. Lex saw the two members fail and was about to run and help their leader, but was stopped by Mystagun.
"I know you want to help him, but just going in there with out a plan will not help him"
"Yes but..."
"Do you want to help him or not!"
Lex looked Mystagun in his eyes before nodding her head. Mystagun let go of her arm then tried to come up with a way to safely rescue the 4 adventurers. Ji-raya walked up to Mystagun and show him a rope, Mystagun raised his eyebrow a bit confused.
"What's this for?"
"I'll walk on the frozen lake and hand them this rope, and the rest of you pull them to safety"
"But won't you just slip and fall like they did"
"Don't worry, I've been walking barefooted on icy terrains for a while now. So I'll be fine"
Mystagun accepted Ji-raya's idea. A few members of the bulky man's group grabbed onto the rope while Ji-raya walked on the frozen lake. The man who is in the center of the frozen lake tried to get up, he manage to somewhat succeed as he gets on his hands and knees.
"Wait hold on minute, your clothes and armour are different from ours. You're not from the Trinity Kingdom" Ji-raya said as he gets a better look at the man.
"No of course not!. I thought that would've been obvious"
The bulky man lifted his head to look at the man with a confused expression. "Wait if your not from the Trinity Kingdom, then how did you get here before us?"
"Oh that?. I snuck pass you guys when you were having your little reunion"
Ji-raya handed the bulky man the rope, the bulky man looked at Ji-raya and after a few seconds he took the rope. Ji-raya raised his hand signalling the others to start pulling. While the bulky man and his two members are getting pulled to safety Ji-raya turned to look at the other man.
"So what's your name and which kingdom are you from?" Ji-raya asked him
"Styles... and I'm from the Spirit Kingdom" Styles answered Ji-raya.
On the other side Mystagun and the other adventurers are all standing side by side in a straight line holding hands, except for Chang, Maximum and Matthew who standing behind them. They simultaneously started walking on the frozen lake and at first it is going pretty well, until someone on the far left side slips dragging everyone down with them. Since Mystagun is in the middle, he managed to hold his ground and fall along with the others. As that happened both Maximum and Matthew ran the opposite direction, running on the sides of the hallway trying to reach the other side of the frozen lake.
While that is happening Chang took a few steps back to get some good distance before she started running, as the reached the edge she leaped into the sky jumping over Mystagun and the others. Styles sees her coming his way and tries to warn Ji-raya.
"Uh you might want to turn around"
Ji-raya turned around and sees Chang coming flying in his direction, out of reflex Ji-raya spread his arms widely as Chang came into his embrace. Ji-raya managed to catch Chang, the momentum sliding him forward a bit. Now that Styles is alone he came up with a idea to make it to the other side, he took a deep breath before moving his hands and legs back and forth really fast while making train sounds.
"... chugga chugga choo choo!. Hey!, this is actually working, who would have thought"
Matthew and Maximum made it to the other, they're waving their hands signalling Mystagun. Mystagun then teleports everyone to the other side. Ji-raya also made it after walking and carrying Chang, Styles also made it though a bit out of breath. After everyone got up gathered and dusted themselves off they continued on their way further into the dungeon castle.
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In front of them is are two huge iron doors, with some symbols on them. Mystagun told everyone to prepare themselves and to get in to position. After a while the two iron doors opened inwards and a cold breeze came out. They all entered the dungeon castle room, everything seems to be made out of ice. Their are a few frozen corpses, a ice chandelier, upon closer inspection the room looks more like a ballroom with snowflakes falling from the ceiling.
All the way at the end of the ballroom are two thrones and in one sits a female frozen with a light blue and white elegant dress.
"Where's the boss of this dungeon?" The bulky man said looking around, his guard up for any thing.
"Maybe we're in the wrong room" Lex said a bit nervous at how quiet the room is.
As everyone is looking and walking around, an ice spike came out of the floor as it pierced through the neck of one of the adventurers. His body started to freeze slowly as his health decreases by the seconds. A few seconds later a few other adventurers suffered the same fate, this shocked everyone as they try to find where the attack is coming from.
Crack. Crack. Crack.
They all turned their heads towards the throne, the female that was completely frozen is now standing up. She materialised a long spear with a axe at the end out of ice.
"It's been a long time since I had any visitors, so tell me... adventurers... why have you disturb my slumber" the snow princess says as she descends down a few stairs.
"Weapons out!, get into formation!" The bulky man ordered his group.
Everyone takes out their weapons as the scramble to get in groups of three. Chang, Mystagun and Ji-raya are standing next to each other ready for combat. Lex tried to run to her leader side but is stop by both Matthew and Maximum.
"Hey let go of me!. I need to be by his side!"
"Sorry but you'll be with us, besides he's too far away. Being a leader means he's pretty strong so have faith in him" Maximum said to Lex ensuring that her leader will be fine.
"Alright fine, your right he is strong" Lex agrees to form a group with them.
"I'm surprised... but not impressed" she lifts her hand up pointing at them as icicles form besides her.
The icicle shot at them with blistering speed, some of them use Incantations to block her attack while the ones with swords, daggers and shields parried them away. The bulky man without hesitation charged towards the snow princess, a small ice shard formed on the floor just as the bulky man stepped down.
Zoom!.
In a instant the snow princess appeared in front of the bulky man, her ice spear lifted high above her head before swinging it down aiming for his shoulder. The bulky man managed to block her attack with his sword, however with the sudden pressure on his body the bulky man's body the pain on his feet became increasingly more painful. Two members of the bulky man's group, one male and one female light stepped behind the snow princess already swinging their weapons at her, the moment their weapons were about to make contact, two huge shard pierced their stomach as they dangled motionless in the air.
"Nooo!!" The bulky man yelled out.
"Why are you so angry?, your companions aren't died yet. Though they won't be able to aid you since the ice shards completely frozen their minds, right now they're dying a very slow and painful death"
"You fucking bitch- gllrrkkk"
The bulky man's throat had a icicle through it. He was too focused on his party members that he completely forgot about the snow princess's other hand. As his strength is leaving his body, the snow princess takes her opportunity to push down her ice spear breaking his sword as she cuts in to his shoulder.
Everyone's is shocked at what just happened, in a instant the snow princess managed to kill 3 adventurers. Lex seeing what happened to her leader burst into a fit of rage as dash towards the snow princess.
"No wait Lexy!" Matthew tried to stop but failed to do so.
"Die!!! You fucking bitch!!" Lexy yelled out in anger as she takes out her daggers.
Maximum runs after Lexy to assist her but stop as a icicle pierced him through his left leg. The snow princess teleported right beside Lexy. Lexy turned her head to meet the snow princess's gaze, at the same time she swings her daggers in the snow princess's direction. Suddenly Lexy lost her vision in her left eyes as the snow princess thrust a ice shard in her.
"AAAAHHH!!" Lexy started swinging her daggers wildly around as the pain is agonizing, it did not help that she is still angry at the snow princess.
"Just attack her all at once!" A male adventurer in full armour said.
All of the members of the bulky man's group rushed towards the snow princess. The snow princess raised her hand up as countless ice shards formed in the air, she lowered her hand down as the ice shards rained down like water droplets. Each ice shard piercing through every adventurers.
The scene left the surviving adventurers shocked and in disbelief, Lexy looked at her now unconscious teammates as they're laying down on the ground. Lexy's anger reached its breaking point, she turned her head to look at the snow princess and in that moment felt a sharp in her neck.
"What just happen..." blood started coming out of Lexy's neck.
The end of the ice spear of the snow princess is covered in and leaking blood, she walks pass Lexy as her head falls off her body. She makes her way towards Maximum as he struggles to get free. Just then Mystagun and Ji-raya appeared behind the snow princess already swinging their swords at her, just like the male and female adventurer. And just like when the two adventurers tried to attack the snow princess, two icicle came out of the ground, however both Mystagun and Ji-raya dodged her attack as light stepped in front of her swinging their swords upwards.
The snow princess blocked their swords with her ice spear, though that didn't bother them as they started swinging their swords faster trying to break her ice spear. Their attacks are relentless and coordinated as they are pushing the snow princess back. Somehow though the snow princess is keeping up with Mystagun and Ji-raya's relentless attacks, even managing to parry their attacks and land a few counter attack.
"Did you really think that because there is two of you that I wouldn't be able to keep up with your relentless attacks"
"Well at first we did. But that's why we came up with a backup plan" Ji-raya said as he pointed up.
The snow princess turn her gaze upwards as she sees Chang up in the air, the light of the room cast on her makes her look like a angle without wings. Creating a foothold in the air Chang thrust herself towards the snow princess. Ji-raya and Mystagun both light stepped back a good.
"Sword style... crescent moon-style" as Chang swings her sword a crescent slashed cut the snow princess in half. Chang landed gracefully on her feet as the two half of the snow princess's body falls to the ground crumbling into pieces of ice.
Tips: players with multiple weapons can switch between weapons quickly, using quick switch.