Re-uploaded with a different plot. This time, you will be seeing new characters coming into the story.


Chapter 4: The lost Tome

We continued our journey down the dark, dingy cave, not knowing who we will meet next. I stopped as I heard footsteps echoing down toward us. I took out my hand and stopped Crystal. She looked at me, confused and startled.

"Shh, someone is coming." I informed. Two figures in the distance approached us. Both of them were males with black hair but one of them was an archer.

"Oh hello, newcomers I bet." The archer greeted. "Well, if you seemed to be lost, you are on the right path. Follow this passageway and it will lead you to a room with a tutorial guide.

"Did he or she instructed you to come back down here?" I questioned, puzzled.

"Ah, that... I actually dropped something on the way there, now Hardiz and I are looking for it." He answered. "Well, I can't gain anything from chatting away. Best of luck in Tutorial Island." He gave me a salute and walked away. I watched as he walked down the way we came. The hair on the back of my neck rose, and my spine tingled as he disappeared into the darkness. Something was different about him. It was as if he was disguising his darkness.

"Are you all right?" Crystal waved a hand in front of me. I blinked and looked at her. She gestured me to move on, so I did.

Our footsteps continued like an off-sync metronome. My patience grew thin and I was on the verge of screaming my lungs out. We had been walking for hours but still no sign of a tutorial guider, or a room.

"Rgh..."

"Hmm?" Crystal looked.

"We have been walking for hours! It feels like we are going practically nowhere!" I screamed.

"We had just been walking for fifteen minutes you know?" Crystal announced.

"Y-you actually kept track of time?" I questioned, feeling odd.

"Well yeah...shh! Listen closely." Crystal shut her eyes and there was nothing but complete silence, or I thought so. There was a faint sound of metal slamming onto metal. My hopes rose and both of us began to run toward the sound. The light grew brighter as we reached the opening. As we ran into the room, several people looked at us. Some of them were even smiling. I guess they too had walked down the long corridor, which seemed to go on endlessly. A man came walking toward us. He wore a white bandana, gray singlet, short brown pants, followed by a pair of brown, muddy boots. He smiled at us warmly.

"Hi, glad you could finally make it. I am Dezzick, and I will be your instructor for today." He introduced. "You must be Crystal, Laura's older sister." Dezzick looked at me with a perplexed look on his face. "Looks like Crystal got herself a boyfriend." Dezzick crossed his arms.

"Wh-What? No, it's not like that. We just met!" She retorted quickly. "Anyway, this is Sinlimitless. You may call him Sin." Crystal looked away, flushed. Dezzick shook my hand with great enthusiasm, and I could feel the strength in his arms. "Care to teach us a bit about mining and smithing?" Crystal continued.

"Looks like you are leaving Tutorial Island too Crystal, but I won't stop you. Well, let's begin." He clapped his hands together for emphasis. He gave us both a pair of leather gloves to begin with. "Use this to prevent injuries while mining. They could be a great deal of help if you are not careful." I put on the leather gloves, and it was warm. "Behind you is a wooden chest, and in it contains bronze pickaxes. Take one and I shall continue." He pointed past us, toward a wooden chest with a silver key hole. Both of us proceeded toward the chest, but I opened it. In it were a couple of bronze pickaxes, each with its own sharp and pointy tips.

"Dezzick always keeps the pickaxes around here maintained. You don't want to be picking rocks with a blunt pickaxe now, don't you?" Crystal commented and questioned at the same time. We did as we are told and only took one bronze pickaxe for ourselves. I shut the chest close and returned back to Dezzick with a bronze pickaxe.

"Great, both of you know how to follow instructions. Now, behind me are two types of rocks. One of them is gray, and the other, light brown. My memories seemed to be slipping away from me, could both of you tell me what ores do they contain?" He smiled. "It's not that hard. Just prospect them and see if any of the ores are familiar to you." I nodded and decided to split up. Crystal will be prospecting the gray rocks, while I will be prospecting the light brown ones. It didn't take me a minute to realize what kind of ore I was prospecting. It was copper; always used as a thermal conductor. Crystal called my name from across the room. I twisted round to see what she wanted.

"Let's get back! I know what ore this is!" She yelled. I gave an 'Okay' signal and walked back toward Dezzick.

"So, any idea what ore does those rock contains?" Dezzick quizzed.

"Mine contains copper." I answered.

"Mine contains tin." Crystal followed.

"Great job! Now it is time for the physical part. Mine both of those rocks and bring back the ores. We will combine both of them later to create your very first combat weapon." Dezzick couldn't help but smile at our progress. It gave us the strength to move on. We split off again. My arm began to ache halfway through the mining process. No wonder Dezzick's arm was tough. I grimaced the pain away and continued to slam my pickaxe against the rocks. Chunks of tin and copper flew, and soon there was enough for a whole bag. 14 ores from both rocks were sufficient. My stats book began to shook and glow. As I revealed it, it was bathed in a white light. It began to open automatically, flipping through pages after pages, stopping at the 'Mining' section. It was telling me that my mining level had grew to a level three. I shove a fist up into the air with joy, feeling a small sense of accomplishment.

"Good job, you are the first to actually mine a whole bag load of ores. Others usually stop and throw away their excessive ores. It's a waste actually, but I'm proud of you." He clapped. Crystal dragged her heavy bag toward us, and her face was covered in dirt and sweat.

"Here you go Dezzick." Crystal passed him her bag, which was nearly filled with ores. "I could go on, but I can't handle the weight of this bag, ugh." She cringed.

"All right, now for the hot part." Dezzick lead us toward a big metallic furnace. You could feel the heat from a distance. I slowly approached the burning furnace and looked into it.

"Woo, now that's hot." I mentioned. My eyes watered just from the sight of its color. It was burning red!

"Now I want you to drop in all of your ores. Here is a list of things you could make. If you combine it with your stats book, it will tell you what you can or cannot make." Dezzick handed us a stack of papers, which showed us pictures of different kinds of tools and equipments. I opened my stats book and slotted the pages in. Crystal did the same. The papers magically merged itself with the spine of the book. "Right now, I need you guys to make as much bronze daggers as you can. The sword store in Varrock needs more bronze daggers. If you are done, come speak to me."

"Hellllooooo?" Someone called out.

"Use the bars on the anvils to make the bronze daggers. Here are your hammers. Now I need to go. More newcomers needs to be instructed." He jogged off toward the waiting newcomer, leaving us behind.

"Let's do this then." I waved the hammer. Crystal nodded and gestured me to start on first. I placed all of the ores into the furnace and all of it slowly melted together, glowing a bright orange. A loud hissing noise could be heard, as it blew off steam from the top. The bright orange liquid slowly moved to the right, and it slid down a small slide, pouring into a rectangular shaped mould. The orange liquid cooled with great speed, changing its colors from orange to a dark brown.

"You can take it now." Crystal pointed. I took the bronze bar away and stuffed it into my bag. The remaining orange liquid in the furnace began to repeat the cycle, pouring itself into the rectangular mould. Once I had retrieved all of the bronze bars, it was Crystal's turn to smelt. It took her less than five minutes to retrieve all of her bars. Judging by her lack of ores, maybe that was the reason. We made our way toward the anvil and slammed our hammers against our metallic bronze bars. We forcefully shaped the bar into a dagger and continued to do so with the rest of our bronze bars. I had made 14 bronze bars altogether, and Crystal made 12. Dezzick called and gestured us to return.

"So how was it? Got used to it yet?" He questioned.

"I think we got it." I grinned. My bag began to glow, and I quickly knew what was the cause. I instinctively took out my stats book, which was again, bathed in white light, and skimmed through the pages. I stopped at the 'Smithing' section, and it informed me that my smithing had increased to level three.

"I'm impressed, but not surprised. Well, looks like-"

"All right! I know one of you took it!" A familiar voice echoed around the room. Practically everyone looked around confused. The same archer we met before was here, only his face was contorted in anger. "You!" He pointed at me. A newcomer crossed his path by accident, and he was shoved away mercilessly.

"Tch." Dezzick watched in silence. The archer grabbed me by the collar, and our faces were inches apart.

"You have the tome don't you?" He assumed. "You must've stole it!"

"I-I don't know what you are talking about!" My voice was strangulated. "Let me go now!" I ordered. Crystal yelled and attempted to interfere, but Hardiz pushed her away.

"Don't lie to me! Hand me the tome, or I shall see you bruised!" He threatened.

"Let the kid go Izdaz. He doesn't have it." Dezzick interrupted. Izdaz clicked his tongue in annoyance and tossed me away like garbage. I was sent skidding down the room, littering the floor with bronze daggers.

"Rgh, I know I didn't loose it. Someone stole it."

"I wouldn't want your stupid book anyway." I muttered.

"You said something?" Izdaz immediately glared at me. His intimidation didn't affect me.

"I said, I-" All of a sudden, I felt a hard blow on my right cheek. Everything was so sudden, it was a blur. I was sent rolling toward the wooden chest but stopped inches away from it.

"Keep those words to yourself next time, unless you don't want to keep those teeth."

"Sin!" Crystal yelled and ran to my aid, but Hardiz slapped her viciously across the face, sending her to the ground.

"Rargh! I have no patience for this. Izdaz, leave this- Ugh, what are you doing?" Izdaz pointed his loaded bow up into Dezzick's face. The others couldn't help but cower behind the rocks. They were outclassed and outmatched, just like me.

"If I don't have the tome, things are going to happen to this island, and I know don't think they are giving away free foods and drinks." Izdaz announced.

"What did you do? Why are you doing this? What will your brot-"

"Don't ever speak about him!" Izdaz interrupted. A loud ear piercing whistle could be heard, followed by a loud, thundering explosion. The whole cave shook and shuddered, leaving Izdaz unbalanced and open. Dezzick quickly seized his bow and snapped it effortlessly like a twig.

"Everyone clear the cave!" Dezzick ordered. Everyone began scattering, quickly leaving without looking back. Izdaz and Hardiz made their escape unnoticed, leaving only Crystal, Dezzick and me behind. "Come on Sin, you are not dying here." He let out a hand and I took it. He pulled me up and ran toward Crystal, who was knocked out. He quickly tapped her shoulder, waking her up instantly. I began to wonder if he had the touch of a god. It was silly. Crystal rubbed her sore cheek and got up.

"What is happening?" Crystal asked. Another explosion shook the cave, but this time stalactites began dropping off from the roof. "Oh no! We got to get out of here!"

"I know of a shortcut, follow me!" Dezzick lead us toward a wall, and I began to wonder where the shortcut was. He placed his hand on it and pressed a hidden switch. Part of the wall slid upwards, opening. It was a secret passage! We quickly ran in it. The door slid back into a close, and everything was pitch black. We continued to follow the sound of his footsteps, not knowing what lies ahead...


I hope you have enjoyed this chapter. You will be seeing Izdaz and Hardiz in the story soon. See Ya!