Chapter 2
Shade arrived in a savannah-like area, with cattle everywhere.
Shade's eyes widened, as an idea popped into his head.
Later
Shade was sitting on a rock, with 5 Onrushing Cow in a make-shift wooden pen, and he held a large jar filled with a white liquid.
Shade placed the jar with a few others, and gave one of the cattle a pat on the head.
"Shade!" a female voice shouted.
Shade turned, and saw a girl his age with blonde hair.
"Ah, Krimzen!" Shade exclaimed.
"What are you doing?" Krimzen asked.
"Farming! There are all of these cattle, of course someone is gonna farm them!" Shade explained, "I've figured out a way to create quests, as well"
"What?"
"One of my cattle is feeling sick, can you please collect one Health Flower, one Mysterious Herb, and one Red Flower Bud?" Shade asked.
"Uh, sure?" Krimzen was suspicious.
"Thanks, you can find them in Parched Plains" Shade explained with no expression.
Krimzen wandered off towards Parched Plains, where she noticed a tall plant growing blue flowers. She walked up to the plant, and picked one of the flowers, which was recognised as a Health Flower. Krimzen wandered through the plains, and came across a small green plant on the ground, which had a yellow glow to it.
Krinzen pulled the plant from the ground, and received 3 Mysterious Herb. Krimzen, satisfied with how easy the task seemed, wandered off to find the third plant.
Krimzen found a tall flower stalk with a single, red flower bud on top. Krimzen walked up to the plant, when the ground began to shake.
The ground around the plant rose up, shaping into a large ox with the flower stem on its head. Red Flower Ox appeared above its head.
Krimzen readied her sword, a long grey sword. Krimzen slashed the ox with her sword, which began to glow red, before she raised it above her head, and slashed downwards, a dragon head forming from red energy, which viciously bit down on the ox, which shattered.
Krimzen received a Red Flower Bud for defeating the ox.
Krimzen walked back to Shade, and received a Blade of the Plagued Beast, 3 Jug of Milk and 5000 Xp.
Shade equipped his own Blade of the Plagued Beast, a bone white blade with a cow skull for the guard, and a bone handle.
Shade unequipped the weapon, and jumped into the pen, where he gave each cow a hug, before opening the gate, releasing them.
Shade walked out of the pen, and walked with Krimzen to the labyrinth, a tall tower reaching up to the sky.
Shade saw the group, and joined up with them, equipping his sword, which sat on his belt in a bony white sheath.
Shade walked straight into the labyrinth, where he quickly reached the boss room, where a giant Minotaur stood.
Without even looking at the name, Shade slashed it hundreds of times in under a second, shattering it.
A second Minotaur appeared, which met a similar end.
The rest of the group arrived just as the third Minotaur appeared.
Shade charged up a sword skill, and thrust his sword forward, taking off some of the boss's health.
Shade jumped up, and cut off the head of the boss, which crashed to the floor.
Shade silently walked up to the next floor.
Much, much later
On the 7th floor, Shade now wielded a Moon Sickle, a small silver scythe.
Shade spun his body around, slicing through an unfortunate Blood Knight. He picked up a bar of red metal from the ground, called Adamantite Ingot.
Shade had, in his spare time, mastered the Blacksmithing skill, and had almost mastered his Metallurgy skill.
Shade walked towards a nearby town, called Ibia. He entered the blacksmith shop he owned, and found that he had unlocked a new skill, Alloysmithing, which was strange, as no way had been discovered to forge alloys.
Shade looked through the skill, it allowed you to create alloys by heating 2 or 3 ingots separately, placing them together, and striking them in specific places to combine them. If you created too much metal for what you want to make, there will be imperfections, you would then have to remove the imperfections without damaging the item.
Shade walked back out, and to the market.
He found a merchant selling metals, and bought a Xedra Ingot, an Elkon Ingot, and an Usco Ingot.
Shade walked back to his shop, and placed the three ingots in furnaces, waiting until they were glowing. He pulled them out separately, and placed them on the anvil, where they stuck together. Shade equipped his Blacksmith Hammer, and a crosshair appeared on the side of the chunk of metal, which he struck, barely hitting the mark, but still hitting it.
Shade struck a second crosshair that appeared, managing to strike the centre. A third crosshair appeared, which was met with a solid strike.
Once the third was struck, the metal glowed, and formed into a large ingot.
Shade picked up the cold metal, and inspected it, it was simply called Xedra-Elkon-Usco Alloy Ingot.
Shade reheated the metal, and placed it on the anvil, a menu popping up, asking what he would like to forge. Shade selected a claymore, and a crosshair appeared on the side of the metal. Shade swung the hammer, striking the mark.
The crosshair vanished, and another appeared on the top, which was struck. A third revealed itself on the opposite side to the first, which met Shade's hammer.
Shade struck the metal a few more times, before it began to glow, reforming into a thick rainbow blade.
Shade picked up Blade of the Rainbows, and equipped it, before walking out into the field.
5 Blood Knights charged towards Shade, getting cut down by a heavy swing of the blade.
Shade received a second Adamantite Ingot, and wandered back to his shop, which was called 'Shadow of Hephaestus'.
Shade was putting the ingots in his forge storage, when a bell behind him dinged. He turned around, and saw a girl, his age, with blonde hair.
"Hello, do you do custom orders?" she asked.
"Yes, I don't have much in the way of regular wares, and if you want it custom, you have to get the metal yourself" Shade said.
"Ok, I want a scythe, I'd like it to be attack based, and have decent accuracy, durability, and speed" The girl informed, "Oh, and my name's Emmaline"
"Ok, can you get 1 Cobalt Ingot, 1 Iridium Ingot, 1 Tantalium Ingot, 1 Adamantite Ingot and 1 Mythril Ingot?" Shade asked.
"Why do you need so many?" Emmaline asked.
"Don't question it, just get the metal" Shade said.
"Ok, where do I find them?" Emmaline asked.
"Cobalt drops from the Thunder Soldiers in the Labyrinth on this floor, Tantalium drops from Death Spiders in the Ominous Forest, Adamantite drops from Blood Knights just outside of town, Mythril drops from Jabbing Wasps in the Mysterious Hive" Shade answered.
"Ok, I'll see if I can get them" Emmaline nodded.