Alrain: Updating now!
Also, this will follow canon but there will be more added to it for example like the races and mainly the Alves and what happened to them, I want to bash actually those landers and many races but I won't do it very obvious.
Chapter 3: The Depths of Palm and the Earlier Years.
Depths of Palm.
"We've really arrived at the Depths of Palm," commented Shiroe as he looked at the arch entrance of the dungeon and the group entered the Dungeon and the first thing Akatsuki did was go ahead and scout the area, while Hibari and Naotsugu took the front while Shiroe remained in the back.
'A few days ago Marielle requested for help to rescue a girl named Serara who can't get out of the city herself, so we had to use Griffins and they are very powerful but they even have their limits as they can be only used 4 hours by a player a day. On horseback, it would've have taken 2 weeks to get to Suskino but unfortunately, we had to use the horse again since the Tier Stone Mountains was filled with Wyverns,'
"No enemies ahead, Milord," reported Akatsuki.
"Then let's go ahead!" said Noatusgu cheerfully as the group walked further into the dungeon.
'The Depths of Palm is a complex maze of ancient tunnels and abandoned mine shafts made by the Dwarves and once we are through we are on the Northern side of the Mountains,'
"Wow man! I hiked this mountain with my gear and it still doesn't do justice, wow!" the ground crumbled underneath surprising the Guardian and making him jump back a little. "The ground is crumbling, I don't remember this being part of the game!"
"The Novasphere Pioneers have changed a lot of things and since we are here they may try to make it look more realistic," commented Hibari who remembered the attempt of Akatsuki and Naotsugu to eat curry and it ended up the same, Shiroe and Hibari didn't eat since Shiroe was still skeptical about it and she simply trusted his judgment.
Looking up Shiroe frowned when he saw the monsters that were around them.
"Milord," said Akatsuki getting a nod in response that he knew.
"Ratmen, one of the many types demihumans in the game," they looked similar to the Briar Weasels with the red lights and the same size as well as the forms, the exception was that they had rat tails like the rat they are instead of vines and had grey fur instead of light brown fur. And their tails didn't shoot laser beams but even so they were the type of monsters that used numbers instead of attack power.
"Level 40 and above and they're easy to beat but a single nibble gives you the plague!" shuddered Naotsugu not wanting to know if the realisticness of the game was also implied with the negative status effects.
"They aren't attacking," commented Akatsuki.
"They normally won't attack anyone with a distinct level advantage, so we should be okay as long as we don't provoke them," said Shiroe as the group continued to walk and Hibari went closer to Shiroe to guard him. "But remember that even a cornered rat will bite a cat and the first thing we don't want to happen is encountering them in confined space,"
Akatsuki halted the group making them look up and see a huge swarm of ratmen above the entrance.
"Like this, Master Shiroe," asked Hibari although it wasn't really a question.
"Holy crap! Should we smack them around?" asked Naotsugu a bit nervous.
"I would like to avoid that even if they are easy to beat and fighting off the plague is something I don't want to as it is too troublesome," replied Shiroe making Naotsugu sigh in relief. "And besides that, I don't want to know how it truly feels like to have the plague, and since we didn't have a single debuff aimed at us even lesser,"
The group decided to rest up after they chose to go another path and Shiroe looked at the map and had already made some markings to the paths they have tried to walk and ended up being closed off by rubble or with monsters, they didn't have a healer so there was a reason why he didn't want to fight as dying meant he would come back at the Cathredal of Akihabara.
"Milord, there seems to be an entrance that isn't blocked by the rubble of the ruins of by monsters," said Akatsuki as she vanished back to the group.
"Thank you, Akatsuki, can you give me the details about the path," asked Shiroe who obviously knew that the path Akatsuki had seen definitely had some monsters as no path doesn't have one at all, luckily they had griffins to ride on so fighting was avoided. "Now that the path is done why don't you eat ahead Naotsugu...oh,"
Naotsugu looked totally blank as he munched unhappily on a piece of bread by the small portable campfire they had lit on, "BECAUSE THE TASTE OF NOTHINGNESS IS TOTALLY DRIVING ME INSANE! TRY TO COOK IT AND IT GETS TWICE AS DISGUSTING!" holding up a sausage by the fire it turned into green purplish goop that moved and twitched around like it was some kind of caterpillar.
'No matter how good it looks it is still all tasteless, the command menu allows you to make anything as long as you have the right ingredients,' Shiroe then remembered when Akatsuki and Naotsugu tried to eat some curry made by a chef, but no flavor and they almost puked it back out of their stomachs. 'Even chefs can't make the food taste good at all, oddly enough fruits, vegetables, sugar, salt, raw meat, and raw fish still have taste,'
Though eating sashimi was out of the question as even soya sauce didn't have taste rendering the option to eat sashimi out, try it and it would feel like you eat simply raw fish dipped in slimy water. Shiroe decided to settle with salting the cut up sashimi and eating it and it wasn't that bad at all since food poisoning didn't exist in Elder Tales. Well, he didn't know if Food Poisoning existed and merely took the risk as the flavor of nothingness was also driving him a bit insane.
"Today's breakfast was salty mush, today's lunch was sugary mush, and for dinner, it was mush with a side of mush with more mush!" said Naotsugu in a dead tone and expression as he flavored his bread with some salt, attempting to make it delicious and failed at it as he was too tired of the flavor and threw it away.
"Try to it some of the salted sashimi, it isn't that bad if you try it at least," suggested Shiroe and then looked at some runes carved on the wall, must be the Alven Language but even being a Half-Alv couldn't possibly be able to make him read the language...wait, he looked at it for a bit longer and then recognized that he, in fact, could read the language!
It was like clearly written in daylight and easy to read like it was simply English before he could take a further look of what it said a call interrupted him from being able to do that, Marielle was calling now.
Akihabara.
"Eh! You're already in the Depths of Palm in only 3 days!?" exclaimed Marielle shocked.
"Is my Akatsuki doing well there, Shiroe?" asked Henrietta.
Back to the group Akatsuki suddenly shivered in fright and she couldn't hear the chat between Shiroe and Marielle but she still felt that Henrietta was talking about her.
"I know you have told me about your plan but we're still worried sick!" said Marielle.
"I see, so do you have any updates about Serara?" asked Shiroe.
"Yeah, she is still able to talk to me by the Telepathic Link," responded Marielle.
'The Telepathic Link allows you to talk to the friends in your friend list no matter how great the distance is, to add them you need to be able to see them right in front of you but if you can't see them then you can't add them in your friend list at all,'
"She told me that the nice person that saved her is been keeping her safe in some location where Brigandia isn't able to find her at all," replied Marielle back to Shiroe who nodded and wondered who this nice guy was.
"So the situation in Suskino isn't as bad as I thought," said Shiroe.
Suskino.
It was actually nothing like Shiroe thought as the situation was bad as NPC's got abused and things got stolen from them and the screen then focused on a small building built on a ruined building.
"Huh? My Maid Level is now Level 44!" exclaimed Serara surprised as her game menu popped up and showed her that she had leveled up. "It was 42 yesterday and I had just to choose such useless Subclass!"
While she began complaining about not thinking about choosing her Subclass wisely she was doing multiple jobs at the same time, talking if she should've have chosen a Production Subclass or a Subclass that could've enhanced her skills or fighting style to be able to help herself out of the mess she got herself in. "Wait! But isn't this something more of a job for a housewife! Maybe I am merely waiting for my handsome cat husband to come home~!"
"I'm back Serara," came a voice that made Serara look like the child that has been trying to steal some cookies to eat while the parents weren't watching.
"Mr. Nyanta! Ms. Roselle! You're back!"
"Mhhm! You've cleaned up the house rather nicely, you would become one day a great Housewife~!" commented Nyanta making the younger girl squeal at the comment while a woman next to Nyanta merely giggles at Serara and helped him place down the ingredients, the woman was beautiful as she had short blue-black hair wearing a maid outfit and had one of the most gentle looks added with the glasses making them her look more composed.
"Shall I begin with prep work, Chief Nyanta?" asked Roselle.
"Please, do that for us Roselle and perhaps you want to make us a batch of those delightful sandwiches?" asked Chief Nyanta as he began putting in some dried tea leaves into a teapot and then continued with peeling an apple, Roselle merely smiled and went to the kitchen to make the sandwiches.
"So how did it go out there?" asked Serara worried.
"Not getting any better or worse," answered Nyanta with his usual calm tone but you could somehow hear that he wasn't happy at all, Serara looked down on that as she recalled the faces of some NPC's that she had tried to help and ended up being chased by Demikas but a hand of Roselle on her head snapped her out of her thought.
"Don't blame yourself Serara, you were trying to be a good person and helped those people from getting picked on, I am sure Marielle will immediately understand that you were trying to help and besides that you would be chased whether you didn't help or not," said Roselle in a soft tone that did brighten the mood of the younger girl up, but for extra measure Roselle pulled Serara closer to her and gave her a hug.
"Marielle told me that there would be help coming from Akihabara tomorrow, she said that some friends of her would be coming to help us all out of here and that they're currently as the Depths of Palm," informed Serara looking up to the face of Roselle who simply smiled at her.
"Hm~? That fast?" mused Nyanta as he put the peeled apple skin into the teapot and added warm water, Nyanta knew many people and a few who have the item that allowed people to get faster to certain locations and many people popped up in his head but one certain person got his thoughts about the current situation to calm down even more. "Well, then I guess we should make something ready for tomorrow to leave,"
"Agreed, Serara, would you help me with getting the sandwiches ready?" asked Roselle to the younger girl who nodded and followed the woman to prepare the light lunch they would have.
"Well, Shiroe-cchi, it seems that you are always the one to help first," mused Nyanta as the tea was ready and he poured himself a cup, once filled he brought it up to his lips and blew on it softly before he took a sip. "Delicious~!"
Akihabara.
After the call ended Marielle simply sighs in worry about Serara that she might be discovered by the time Shiroe would arrive in Suskino, she didn't doubt his abilities in any way but it was simply worrying about how sad Serara sounded though it wasn't because she was scared.
"Are you okay, Marielle?" asked Henrietta with a sad face knowing that Marielle was simply worried about Serara, they have been friends for a long time and they knew each other like they were sisters instead of friends. "You're worried about Serara, don't you have faith in Shiroe?"
"Of course I do have faith, I don't doubt his abilities...b-but what if Serara is found and what will happen to her!" even with the news of that players could get revived it was still morally wrong to kill someone over and over for not listening to him, Serara had told Marielle who the Guildmaster of Brigandia was and how crazy he was.
"I know that, I am worried about her as well but Shiroe isn't someone to break his promise and him having arrived in 3 days to the Depths of Palm means he doesn't take the long path, and besides he will be able to do something even with a small party," said Henrietta confident that Shiroe would be able to do it with no problem. "After all, he is the Famous Irregular Enchanter and the Tea Party strategist,"
At that Marielle smiles.
"Uhm, Big sis Marielle, the other Guildmasters have already arrived," informed Liliana to the 2 women and both stood up and walked to the room where the Guildmasters are waiting to discuss some things about making and agreeing to an Alliance, hopefully, it would work because Hien made Liliana also tell that the tension was very thick. "About 60 percent came, 10 percent didn't answer, and the remaining 30 percent refused to come,"
30 percent may not be a lot in some people's eyes and Marielle wasn't one of those thanks to Henrietta so she knew she couldn't be optimistic, for this kind of things she wished Shiroe was here because no one would actually dare to go against him.
DDD Guild building.
"Of all things that out scouts reported to us is that there is a meeting going on of small guild about forming alliances and establishing protection against the bigger guilds," informed Takeyama Misa to the Leader of DDD known as Krusty the Berserker. "The 3 biggest Guilds of the small guilds are also there, Marielle of the Crescent Moon Alliance, Akaneya Ichimonjinosuke of the Radio Market, and ... of Glendale,"
"So they're trying to form a council of some sorts," mused Krusty predicting that it would fail to know that those small guilds had little experience in making Alliances, it would surely backfire and probably only the 3 biggest Guild of the small guilds would be the reasonable ones while the others would lunge at each like wolves arguing over prey that has been caught. "Is there anything else interesting?"
"Yes, it seems that Shiroe the Irregular Enchanter or the Tea Party Strategist has assembled a small group leading to Suskino," said Misa not needing to look at the stack of papers she was holding, Krusty got immediately interested at the reasons why Shiroe would actually lead a small group to Suskino despite the risks.
"Suskino, huh? It is unfortunate that we don't get to see what they are planning to do," mused Krusty and as happy as he sounded he was annoyed.
Back to Shiroe and the party they got up and moved again and as much as Shiroe wanted to stay to know what the Alven Language was written on the walls he couldn't, he did after all have a mission and a reason to go to Suskino and get Serara back to Akihabara.
'Is there a way to get back home? Not that I mind being here but there are people out there that want to go home...why should I help humans of all things!' thought Shiroe the last part very coldly and now that he realized how cruel he sounded like he stopped walking and his eyes got wide as his mind got hazy, everyone realized that Shiroe was far behind him.
'Humans are nothing but disgusting creatures! They are selfish so you shouldn't help them at all! Obey your Goddess and eliminate them right now!' came a voice through Shiroe's head and it was loud and so hypnotic that Shiroe's eyes became a bit blank by it.
"H-Hey! Shiroe! Are you okay there?" asked Naotsugu though the answer was obvious as the wide eyes of Shiroe were the answer and he swore that he saw them flash for a second into the color of red, Hibari took action and ran towards them and that was seemingly a mistake as suddenly Shiroe shouted and looked at her with hatred evident on his face.
"Don't come closer! Die you human scum!" roared Shiroe and suddenly began chanting in some weird language and aimed his staff that got filled with MP that filled the staff as it came out of thin air, Hibari stopped her advance and looked visibly shocked at Shiroe but something caught her eyes like that of Shiroe's looked like his eyes had a rainbow-like color.
"Master Shiroe..." Hibari sheathed out her katana and let it fall on the ground and took a few steps closer.
"Stay away from me you murderers!" shouted Shiroe as his staff was filled with MP and he was ready to shoot any time, but somewhere in the back of his mind tugged at him or it felt...like a hand wiping away the mist in his sight and Shiroe's mind was getting a bit more clear and looked at what he saw. His staff filled with MP he has only seen when a player died and ready to shoot Hibari without any hesitation.
"Master Shiroe...please, come back to us!" shouted Hibari.
"H-Hibari...no!" shouted Shiroe as he shot the MP out of his staff but at the last moment Shiroe aimed it at the ground underneath him and the blast cut through the stone like it was made out of hot butter, the shiny orange glow was evidence that there was extreme heat but then exploded destroying the ground underneath Shiroe who lost his consciousness and fell down to the ground but his hand never letting go of his staff.
"Shiroe!"
"Milord!"
Hibari took no hesitation and rushed past her katana and jumped after Shiroe who fell down in the water.
'What in the hell...just came over to me?' thought Shiroe as he felt his body sinking in the water and he barely felt it was his body was numb, why in the hell did he think people like humans as if they were murderers? He knew he had chosen a Race and that was the Half-Alv Race which wasn't much known about except that they were created through intermarriage but what about the Alves, what did ever happen to them is what made him so curious. 'I was always a loner for most of my life, my parents...were never there for me at all and I never had any friends in my life,'
Elder Tales was simply the way for him to escape the real and cruel world which he found nothing beautiful of it at all, now the Novasphere Pioneers were here and everyone would know what happened and what new things would be added or what would be updated. Was now acting like your race also part of it or was it something else, he didn't know it at all but one thing he knew was that he would die and revive in the Cathedral in Akihabara. 'I'm so sorry Marielle, Henrietta, and you guys as well, of all things I am, is that I am not that reliable,'
...
"Lost in thought again Shiroe?" came a soft voice making Shiroe snap his head up and took in the familiar place he was once in and stood up, he was met with the face of a beautiful woman with black hair and blue eyes that radiated kindness and a strong will. It was Kanami, the leader of the Debauchery Tea Party he was in for 2 years.
"Kanami,"
"Shiroe, you sometimes give yourself a little bit less credit than you ever give yourself, you should be proud of who you are!" said Kanami smiling at him while Shiroe looked even sadder at that.
'If you only knew the truth about me Kanami...then perhaps you would know that those words hurt me more then they comfort me,' Shiroe stood up and began walking away but Kanami didn't allow him, Shiroe wanted to shout at her that she would never understand and that no one would ever understand him for who he was and how he came to this world.
"Shiroe...of all things I can see is that you are suffering if you think that you don't have a place anywhere without a reason then make that reason!" said Kanami hugging him from behind making the Enchanter widens his eyes, that sentence actually did help him more than he ever thought as tears left his eye sockets and his whole body shaking as he tried to keep his tears and sadness in.
Kanami wouldn't try to understand him knowing it would only end up hurting him more but she could give him at least an answer to his problem even if she didn't know it.
...
"Shiroe! Master Shiroe!" came the voice of Hibari and Akatsuki looming over him making him slowly open his eyes further, sitting him as Hibari helped him and allowed him to sit better.
"W-What happened? T-The last thing I remembered was...attacking Hibari!" turning his head to the Samurai he asked her if she was okay and if she got hurt anywhere but the Samurai replied that she was fine, tears were evident in her eyes although they could be dismissed as the water Hibari lunging forward and hugging him answered it.
"I was so worried! You suddenly shouted and became like a totally different person!" said Hibari as she didn't let go of Shiroe who merely accepts the hug given to him by the beautiful woman, all he could do to comfort her was whispering he was okay and hugging her back.
"Shiroe...I know you don't remember what happened to you, but do you think the Novapshere Pioneers had something to do with your behavior?" asked Naotsugu worried as he put his weapons down.
"...I think it did, my Race is a Half-Alv and since the background of Alvs and Half-Alvs aren't known it must mean that Half-Alvs hate humans a lot, and all 3 of you are humans so it is that a new thing of the Novasphere Pioneers effect that you act like your Race...and what happened to them and their dislike," theorized Shiroe as he stood up after Hibari let him go.
"I think you are right about that, you can do research on what Skills you get depending on your race and their background in Elder Tales," added Akatsuki as she thought about the research she took when she played Elder Tales, she chose for the Human Race as the others weren't preferable to her. "Does that mean it will affect our skills?"
"Well, the way we fight against Monsters is definitely a change except that we don't know when the cooldown time is over when we shout the names of our attack," said Naotsugu. "But the Human Race does have a well-balanced skill set and even allows us to focus a certain field and skill,"
"Half-Alvs like me are just well-versed in using technology and have a high magic affinity," informed Shiroe of his race. "Does this relate to the reason why I have all my previous Subclasses?"
The Subclasses was the Class you could change but you would discard all the skills and level if you wanted to change it, you can truly only have a single Subclass and there weren't any exceptions...well, if you are Shiroe then it was another Story as he had literally all his previous Subclasses and all of them on the level they were when he changed them.
"That's just so unfair and dangerous!" complained Naotsugu getting nods from the rest of the group, but of all things, Naotsugu wouldn't call Shiroe a hacker or anything like that and he had to actually thank Kanami for that who would lead the whole group to a giant problem. "But still, what are your Subclasses? I didn't get a good read except that I saw you have more than one,"
"Well, I am a Level 90 Acrobat which increases my speed-related stats," answered Shiroe as he revealed his status screen and pressed another button that allowed the others to see, for some reason he could deny others from seeing it. "Here they are these were the Subclasses I needed for my Staff,"
Level 90 Scribe.
Level 90 Wand Master.
Level 78 Rune Master.
Level 64 Courier.
Level 86 Collector.
Level 76 Necromancer.
Level 86 Wood Crafter.
Level 75 Artificer.
Level 90 Cartographer.
Level 87 Dragon Trainer.
"Dragon Trainer? I didn't think you would actually choose that Subclass," commented Naotsugu as he looked at the level 87 Dragon Trainer Subclass and he then wondered what type of Dragon Shiroe would have caught, a light of nature attribute since his friend doesn't strike him as the fiery type that focuses on strength and such.
"I tried it out and I thought I would settle down with it but I chose to go for Acrobat instead," said Shiroe putting all the information away.
"Master Shiroe...for some reason, I have a feeling that someone just chose you and gave it to you," commented Hibari.
"Not surprising since you are the Irregular Enchanter, you always managed to blow away everyone's expectations," added Naotsugu as he put his armor back on and sheathed his weapons behind himself. "We should go as we have wasted too much time in here,"
That was agreed with the whole group and Shiroe thanked Hibari and Akatsuki as she seemingly wanted to dive after Hibari but Naotsugu prevented her from doing that, the Assassin blushed and said it was nothing. They walked back to the path that the rest of the group took when Hibari dived after Shiroe, it was odd that Shiroe didn't feel that hurt from the fall.
"It seems that my Scribe skills are still in effect and I can even see where we are like an FPS Detector," mused Shiroe as he looked at his map as 4 red dots made it obvious where they were.
"You really are great at making maps, A Level 90 Scribe and Cartographer," complimented Akatsuki.
"Yeah, I did some CAD work back in the real world," replied Shiroe.
"What's CAD?" asked Akatsuki.
"Computer Programming, I studied it at the university," answered Shiroe.
"You're a college student?" asked Akatsuki.
"No, I was a graduate student about to receive my masters, but I sure can't ever get them now that I am here," said Shiroe with a smile as he continues to walk, while Akatsuki simply nodded to them.
"I see, then that must mean that Milord is roughly the same age as me," concluded Akatsuki and for a moment it was quiet and the males of the group shouted out in surprise, while Hibari didn't but she actually didn't have an idea that Akatsuki was the same age as the whole group and the Assassin let out an annoyed expression. "Is it that surprising?"
"Of course! Your height and appearance totally make you look like a middle schoolgirl-GAH!" Naotsugu was kicked into a pile of crystals and rocks.
"Milord, I think his face needs more blood on it," said Akatsuki and Naotsugu got up and shouted at her to say that before she does it, and then he was about to talk again and the same thing repeated itself over with her asking Shiroe if she could do something while she already has done it and Naotsugu shouting and complaining that she should at least allow him to finish his sentence. "Milord! You didn't think I was a middle school girl! Did you!?"
The menacing aura that Akatsuki emitted made Shiroe sweat and not want to answer that question but if he didn't then it meant that the silence said that he did think that. "I-I wouldn't go that far..."
Then it dawned upon him that this conversation reminded him of the twins. "Children, huh?"
"Is something wrong, Milord?" asked Akatsuki.
"Nothing at all!" said Shiroe in a bit of a harsh tone making the Assassin flinch.
"Master Shiroe, that isn't true at all, when you think you always place your hand before your eyes and look badass," commented Hibari mimicking his action of placing his hand on his face and then glaring very hard, it made her look like a complete badass than she already was and Shiroe blushed that e actually looks like that when he does it himself and Naotsugu laughed at that.
"Akatsuki...now you may knee him~!" said Shiroe evilly and Naotsugu looked up and was knocked into another pile of crystals and rocks. "Karma is a bitch, isn't it Naotsugu~?"
"Agh! Y-Your's merciless as ever Shiroe," groaned Naotsugu after he got himself up.
"Why thank you!" said Shiroe simply and suddenly the loud rumbling noise came getting all the attention of the group preparing themselves for what would be coming. "We switched zones, meaning a monster will come and a big one at that,"
Shiroe was right as a giant gree rat came from above and landed in front of them with the lower body of a snake and purple mist surrounded the monster and the whole group, Shiroe immediately looked the monster up and he didn't recognize this monster at all and neither did he remember that there was such a monster in the Depths of Palm. "I don't recognize this monster,"
"Meaning it must be one of the Novasphere Pioneers monsters," added Naotsugu.
"Level 68, it seems that it is a Debuff-Based monster, must be the reason why the paths are falling apart," said Shiroe tapping the ground with his staff and ordering everyone to get ready to attack when his orders were given. "Akatsuki, attack from the side to take some pressure off Naotsugu where he isn't looking and Hibari assist him to switch out damage!"
"Got it!" was the reply of all 3.
"Over here!" shouted Naotsugu using an Anchor Howl attracting its attention.
"Stealth Blade!"
"Head Splitter!"
Both attacks hit their target taking a good chunk of the HP from the monsters roaring and lashed out and Naotsugu generated a lot of hate to himself again and went to the offensive. "Cross Slash!"
Shiroe watches the battle going on and as much as he wanted to join in there wasn't time for fun as he was now needed as the strategist, it still felt weird to attack with your body although by Shiroe it was merely the simple thought about it and the rest felt quite normal.
"Dude! It is way different since I can smell this guy's foul breath and even see how big it is!" complained Naotsugu about the bad breath of the giant rat.
"Here to make him stop breathing for a second, Blackout!" raising his staff a black lightning shot was shot at the giant rat hitting it and making it freeze on spot and shudder, allowing Naotsugu and the others to attack without the risk of getting attacked back for the moment."Time to end this! Thorn Bind Hostage!"
Blue light thorns sprouted out of the ground and wrapped themselves around the monster making it roar and Naotsugu immediately slashes one of the thorns clean through making light erupt from the ground, but the monster barely gave a reaction to it, it did have an impressive high shielding ratio but it would do anyway. "Another one! Mind Shock!"
The dark purple orb hit and the same color erupted from underneath the monster roaring in pain and thrashed around and pinned Naotsugu against a wall.
'First use a Mind Shock to lower Accuracy and Agility, then use an Attack Support move finish it!' thought Shiroe and held his hand and staff out to Akatsuki and Hibari. "To make sure your hits count! Keen Edge!"
Golden light surrounded the weapons of Akatsuki and Hibari who shouted a quick thanks and cut the rest of the thorns away making the white light cover the whole dungeon. Naotsugu grinned and gave a thumbs up while Shiroe covered his eyes as the white light was a tad bit too bright for the likes of him, it has been such a long time that he looked through 2 eyes.
The group managed to pass the dungeon and Shiroe was the last one to climb out of the tight exit of the dungeon, Naotsugu and Akatsuki offered him a hand and he took them both and lifted him up out of the darkness of the dungeon into the open air filled with the orange light of the sun going down on the horizon. 'This reminds me so much of the Tea Party...I now kind of wish Kanami could see it for herself,'
"Dude! This is just awesome compared to when it was simply a screen!" cheered Naotsugu as the air felt great.
"A bit chilly for me but I have to agree that this is beautiful," complimented Hibari as she took in the beautiful scenery that she had seen once, but seeing it for real was better.
"The best part about adventures is experiencing new things," said Shiroe as he took in the sight. "We're the first ones to see this and this is a great reward already, this is different than seeing it from a computer screen and way better,"
Suskino.
On the main way to Suskino, a burning caravan was in the middle of the road and laughing was heard and players salvaging the goods of the burned down caravan.
"You really are an idiot for trying to escape from Brigandia!" cackled one member.
"These NPC's are dumber then I thought!" added another.
"And there wasn't even anything worth in there! Let's just kill them!" the player raised his hammer and ignored the ply for mercy and killed the NPC, one of the members of Brigandia watches with distaste and shock at how the NPC's were treated. They were nothing but information but now seeing them scream in fright like real people...was just wrong to kill them.
"Hey don't slack over there! Help us!" shouted one of the other players gathering things.
"I-I don't think I can do this," muttered the member.
"Fine then you go to the Cathedral!" said a giant man appearing behind the member.
"Demikas?" said the member before he got kicked away by the man named Demikas making him hit the nearby rocks which shattered on contact, the player groaned not in pain but more of the air forcefully leaving his lungs and could only look at Demikas with hateful eyes. "Y-You're a monster! Killing them isn't even necessary as they can't even harm us!"
"They're just data! You guys take all his loot!" ordered Demikas to a small group wh obeyed and got to the Swashbuckler who stood up and got his blades out, ready to fight as this was simply wrong to do! He wished he hadn't join Brigandia!
"I'll die taking you bastards with me!" shouted the member ready to fight knowing he would get in trouble, it didn't matter to him at all as he simply couldn't let the NPC's suffer, from the shadows 2 people watch the player from afar what was happening and both raised their staffs and green vines made out of Mana appeared from underneath the Swashbuckler who looked surprised as he vanished away and in his place took a Dryad in place who began attacking the players.
"What the hell!?"
"Where did he go!"
"More important how did he do that-GUAH!" shouted the last member as 2 more appeared and the girls hiding in the trees disappeared, and the guild got attacked by monsters that shouldn't even be there.
Alrain: Yeah, you thought it would be the same as the canon but there will be a few changes like how Races will literally act like, the Oral Arts or the Overskills will have something similar about those RPG's with **** Equipment to take down certain mobs or Raid Bosses. There won't be only female members joining the guild of Log Horizon as I want just because I give Shiroe a Harem, there is a bigger plot about who Shiroe is and it will be shown in the next chapters how much his name has an influence on the world of Elder Tales and the Subclasses have something to do with it.