Exile: Hello again!I don't own!
And BTW...the questions from last chapter haven't been answered, so now they are null and void.
These chapter bonus questions (for a free preview of next chapter!)
1) What song is Len singing?
2) What song is Len's Mage-type? (Hint: There's a high-pitched scream in the beginning, and it's often associated with megaphones. There's also a plane in the PV, and it was originally sung by Miku.)
3) Which chapter in the light novel is Iori Yagami's Rage of Eight Maidens mentioned? (Hint: it's in the first book)
The Prince's Rebirth
The Vocaloid and the Bounty Hunter
"So, so far we have a warrior, a rogue, and a priest." Kurotenshi thought aloud, nibbling away at a Vietnamese mung bean cake. I was doing the same. The only main things wrong with our priest was that she (1) was a huge glutton, and (2) is more of a mage than a priest.
"We should get some mages and possibly another melee striker." Fai chipped in.
Are you kidding? This glutton is like a mage and a priest all in one! I thought indignantly. "Well, we need strong people, definitely. I'm now Level 30, Fai is 29, and Angel is 29 too… Fai, what is the minimum level to be able to take the "Reborn Prince" world quest?" Angel's jaw dropped, and she looked at Fai with eyes of disbelief.
"One second! You intend to take the "Reborn Prince" quest?" she said loudly, attracting the attention of the people in the small café. They directed looks at Fai, who remained unfazed by the stares. Instead, he reached across the table and yanked Angel up by the ear. I grabbed the rest of the food and followed them, still eating.
Dang this food is really good. I should learn how to make it. I mused, going into a dark alley to follow Fai and Angel. "Oi, where are we going?" I asked, looking around confusedly. "Where are youuuuuuu?" There was no answer. I went further down the dark alley, looking around confusedly.
I shrugged, "All well. I'll just finish this food first and then I'll find them." With that, I turned around and headed towards the main street, intending to find somewhere to sit down and enjoy my mung bean cakes, Vietnamese sandwiches, broiled meat, and packaged phở that were in my inventory. Much to my dismay, Fai and Angel appeared right in front of me. "There you are!"
"Fai, are you sure that this person was Prince?" Kurotenshi muttered under her breath. I stared at Fai in disbelief. "Whatever. As long as you can back up your claims." I breathed a sigh of relief.
"Fai, why did you tell her?" I PMed him. The redhead winced.
"It was the fastest way to explain." he PMed back reluctantly. "And I'm not that good at lying."
Angel stared at us, her head going back and forth. "You know what? Let's go train."
I brightened up right away. "Good idea! Fai, I want to tell you something." the former GM turned to me, a puzzled expression on his face. Still smiling, I said, "Every monster that you steal from me will result in me sending you to the rebirth point. And…" I let the threat hang in the air, keeping back a smirk as Fai's eyes widened fractionally.
"Darnit." I heard him curse under his breath as I hummed happily to East Dragon Gate.
"Bun Bomb!" Angel declared, tossing Firebun at the groups of mobs that were chasing Fai. To the east of Green Dragon City were Demon Plants, which ranged from Level 30 to 36, perfect for farming. This mob looked like a brightly colored flower, but when you stepped near them, each petal would split in half, revealing a mouth for each petal. The leaves were so sharp that they should be illegal, and the roots could project each Demon Plant into the air, enabling them mobility. The lucky thing was that Fai's agility was rather high…
Our strategy worked like this: I would use Firebun's Scorching Flame and Flame Wings ability to provoke a large patch of "flowers", and they would subsequently rise up like zombies from the ground and start chasing Firebun, which was too fast and could fly high enough that he wouldn't get any damage. Fai would then use a Wildfire Bomb (Ability Level 20, uses 75 mana, range 200 meters, AOE 15 meters, causes 80 Fire damage and gives Burn status for 4 seconds, HP – 40/sec) to draw their attention to him.
By now, the Demon Flowers would have only around 1/2 their HP left, so then I could use Bun Bomb to draw a large bunch to me whilst I used Inferno Slash (Ability Level 25, uses 30 mana, causes 125 Fire damage and 75 normal damage) to cut them down, tossing in a Nine-Headed Dragon Strike every now and then.
In the meantime, Kurotenshi would take Firebun and cast Flaming Rage (Ability Level 24, uses 50 mana, Fire – type attacks +50% damage, lasts for 900 seconds) on it and use Bun Bomb to distract more of the mobs chasing Fai, which would go after her. By now, I would be finished with my batch, so she would cast Flaming Rage on me as I came and chopped up more "vegetables"…while she added in a Thundershock on especially impertinent ones.
For the rest of the mobs chasing Fai, Angel and I would flank the plants and slowly whittle the group down to four or five Demon Plants; we would attack one or two individually and take them down until they slowly decreased. When the mobs were enough for him to handle, Fai would evacuate to some high place and use his stringed kunai (of which he had 10, and 4 were growing-type) like yo-yos and continually spear the Demon Plants beneath him, a sadistic smile on his face the whole time. Though once in a while the tree that Fai would try to hide in would turn out to be a Demon Plant, prompting him to nearly die while Angel laughed her head off and I burned it down with Inferno Nine-Headed Dragon Slash (a combination of Inferno Slash and Nine-Headed Dragon Strike).
This way, we were able to level up quite nicely. Kurotenshi also had forced both of us to accept the Demonic Remedy quest, which required us to get 30 Demon Plant Ashes and gave nearly 5600 XP. So now all we had to do was go to the city again and turn in the quest, and then we'd level up one more time! Yep, that's how efficient we are…when it comes to beating things up.
"Zero, Kuro, don't go into the trees." Fai advised us during a break in which we were busy assigning skill points after getting to Level 37 two hours later. The field which the Demon Plants spawned was directly accessible from Green Dragon City by a small, beaten-down path off the main road between Red Phoenix City and Green Dragon, and was surrounded by a crescent of sickly-looking trees. Leaning on the soft grass, I gave him a questioning look.
"Why?" I asked.
"There are rumors that the entire forest is actually a giant mob, the Demon Plant King." he explained. "It's supposed to be around Level 45, so at our levels, we'd be one-shot in an instant." Kurotenshi shot up, an eerie look in her eyes.
"Seriously!" she exclaimed. "We'll need to kill that thing sooner or later! After all, Demon Plant King Fangs, when used on an equip-able item, raises all the stats by 15%. So imagine how strong we'd be! And when they're ground into a powder and consumed, they provide a +30% Wood damage boost."
Great, she's starting to ramble. I grumbled inwardly. "Well, let's avoid it for now. Like Fai said, we'll be one-shot if we try at our levels. Let's turn in the quest first."
We stood up and trekked back to the city, Fai sorting the party inventory, Angel discussing the traits of Demon Plant King Fangs, and I trying to ignore her. We cashed in the quest, and then went to a café to eat some food and arrange our skill points, now that we were at Level 39 (It turned out we leveled up twice from the quest). "You know, it would be a lot faster if we a mage or two. It would cut the time in half." Fai commented, legs as weak as jelly from all the running. "And I'll see you guys tomorrow night; I have to log off right now because I have to go to work at 6 AM. Bye." With that, the rogue rudely logged off, leaving me with Angel.
"Well now, that was rude." she said peevishly.
Way to state the obvious. "What should we do now? Level up to then we can beat him up tomorrow night?" I suggested.
She shook her head of dark green hair. "No…why not look around for a mage? That way we can level up all together tomorrow." I thought a bit.
"Well, what should we look for?" I asked. "Finding any mage is easy, but it will be difficult to find a mage that suits us. Some mages specialize in area spells good for handling a number of mobs at a time. Others prefer to focus their attacks so that they have stronger spells, but they can only take on one mob at a time this way. There are mages who choose to spam weak but fast attacks, as well as mages who prefer all-or-nothing bursts of magic. The type of elemental magic also plays an important role, so we'll have to find a mage depending on what types of mobs you want to fight…" I quoted, recalling Wolf-dage's words.
Angel's jaw dropped. "You…you…"
"What?"
"You actually said something smart!" she cried in disbelief. I froze. "All I've heard you talk about is food,"
Hey, look who's talking, you eat-and-runner!
"killing Fai,"
You would too, if you had to experience him kill-stealing from you for three days straight!
"killing mobs,"
One second, who was the one that beat up a mob without using any spells even though she's a priest, by just using her staff to whack them repeatedly on the head?
"and the Reborn Prince quest – wait, that doesn't count, because I've only heard you talking about it once,"
That's because I AM Prince!
"oh, and getting more party members."
Hello? WE ONLY HAVE THREE PEOPLE AT THE MOMENT!
"But, yeah. How do you know so much?" she questioned.
"Friends." I replied immediately, the face of Wolf-dage and Yulian-dasao appearing in my mind. "Let's look for a mage that can multitask, eh?" Angel nodded.
"Sure…one sec, what's that crowd over there?" she asked, pointing over my shoulder. I turned around, only to be confronted with a massive crowd. "Woah. Let's check it out."
As we pushed and shoved our way through the crowd, I became aware of the reason there were so many people: someone was singing. This sounds so…wow, even better than me! Like a professional!
Doko kara kita no?
Donna sugata o shite iru no?
Dare mo, shiranai
Sou sa boku ga yumekui Shirokuro Baku
Kore wa, ojousan,
Yonanka nemurezu ni iro no kai
Sore nara boku ga
Mahou o kakete ageyou ka?
...hora yubikiri de yakusoku shiyou.
Kowai YUME o mita boku ni makasena yo,
marugoto tabete ageyou
mou shinpai nai yukkuri Oyasumi
ya na koto zenbu wasurete sa.
The person stopped singing, and I felt slightly disappointed. Even though it's in Japanese and I don't understand it, it sounds awesome! We finally broke through the front line and my eyes widened and something trickled from the corner of my mouth. Kurotenshi's jaw dropped, and her eyes turned into hearts.
In front of us was a blond-haired man, with hair tied in a short ponytail that barely reached the middle of his neck. His hair was spiked everywhere, showing large blue eyes. He wore a fedora with a yellow ribbon around it, and very formal, Victorian-era clothing, consisting of a yellow vest with black buttons under a larger black open peacoat, a yellow bowtie, and he wore knee-length shorts and old-shoes boots that only reached his shin. His black-gloved hands were in front of him, outstretched as he resumed singing. On his back was a cane that had a small tapir face carved onto the crook.
Kore wa ojousan,
mata tanomigoto ga aru tte?
Kotowaranai sa
kore koso ga boku no shiawase
...sore nara kisu de yakusoku shiyou
At this line, several females gasped, including Angel. When she saw me questioning look, she leaned over and whispered, "He just sang "Let's seal this deal with a kiss"."
"Ah." I replied unintelligibly; I was too busy listening to the bishie. His looks were good enough that if he went against me - Prince - in a beauty contest, he'd give me a hard time. The fedora went off his head as he put it at his feet and people started tossing coins in. That's smart!
motto YUME o mitai? boku ni makasena yo
zenbu ataete ageyou
kanbi na sutoorii tanbi na inmu o
kokoroyuku made meshiagare
motto, motto nozomeba ii
yokubou o sarakedashite
mou nido to nukedasenai
sokonashi no paradaisu da
"Take me to paradise, Len! That's my desire!" someone fangirl-screamed from the crowd, and it was repeated by several other besotted fangirls. Angel gasped.
"OHMYGOD IT'S LEN KAGAMINE!" she screamed, nearly destroying my eardrums. My eyebrows furrowed.
"Who's that?" I asked bluntly. Several people in the crowd turned to me, shocked gazes on their faces. "Hey!"
"How do you not know the hottest male Vocaloid to exist?" Angel screeched in alarm. "Have you not heard "SPICE!" or his "Len Len Romantic Night"? You are such a deprived soul!" several others nodded in agreement.
"I like listening to music I can understand." Angel just rolled her eyes.
"So? You can still feel the emotion behind this song, right?" she rambled.
"Well maybe if you shut up I can hear him sing." I retorted.
saa, tsuki ga michita nara yakume wa owari sa
o-dai wa...wakatte'ru yo ne?
sono hitomi no oku azayaka na yume
zenbu, zenbu moratte ikou ka
mijime na kao da ne kore ga genjitsu
kimi ga eranda koto darou?
YUME ni oboretara yume wa kanawanai
...monokuro no sekai e youkoso!
By the end of the song, I wanted to hear more. The voice was able to reach the highest of the male vocal range, but he didn't sound gay or anything. His frequency of high notes just made his low notes sound manlier. Also, he was obviously gifted. "So…is Vocaloid a band or something?" I questioned quizzically. Kurotenshi shook her head emphatically.
"No! It was originally special software that could be used to create songs. Each of the software's has a different voicebank, or collection of phonemes and diaphones that have been recorded from singers at different pitches. Vocaloids are the personas given to each voicebank! Understand!" she rambled. I nodded rapidly, my eardrums feeling damaged.
By now, the fedora had come full circle and was back in the performer's hands. I nearly gaped at the overflow of money in there; heck, there were a lot of crystal coins, and I didn't see a copper in there. "We have to recruit him!" Angel cried, waving her hands excitedly. I frowned.
"No. Even if he's a good singer, we don't know what class or his fighting abilities." Len turned to us, having apparently heard our conversation.
"I'm a Vocaloid." He said smugly. "Thus, I was allowed to choose 6 songs in the beginning of the character-making process. Each song allows me a different "mode", which in turn influences the classes which I emulate. So in reality, I am a rogue, a warrior, a mage, a priest, and a guard all in one."
What's a guard? And grr…no one with good looks should have a rotten personality. Bishie or not! I bristled. "So? Don't you have a team already? Aren't you afraid of fangirls like before?" If possible, his expression grew even smugger.
"I hired a bodyguard." he said, "What's there to worry about? And besides, I have high abilities. I'm Level 38, and she's Level 39." I raised an eyebrow.
"A girl is your bodyguard?" I choked. When I was Prince…no, even Lolidragon wanted to see my XXX! Who in the world would let a possible fangirl be their protector? Yulian-dasao and Doll treated me like a brother…but they also never really stood in front of me a slew the hordes of fangirls. That was Gui and I.
"Len, are we done here?" an extremely familiar voice called from the side. Kurotenshi froze and then started quaking like a leaf. My caution levels shot up. "Oh, hi Zero, hi Kuro! Haven't seen you two for a few days." Seeing her shaking, the tone changed, "Kuro? What's wrong with you?"
"Don't kill me please!" she said abruptly, bursting into tears, her bottom lip quivering. However, I looked at her bottom lip, and sure enough, she was just faking it.
"Hah?" Len and Exile said at the same times, mystified expressions on their faces.
"Exile…what did you do?"
"Oh, she's the eat-and-runner I told you about."
"Ah." With that, Len shrugged. "It was nice meeting you. Exile told me about the female elf warrior, the rogue that apparently knows everything, and the eat-and-runner."
"Wait…this guy is your bodyguard?" I asked in confusion. "I thought you said that it was a girl?"
Exile regarded me strangely. "Um, I am a girl." He said with a raised eyebrow.
*Thunk* Angel and I fell over. I stared at her? him? and stammered, "One second, you don't look anything like a girl!"
He- she facepalmed. "I'm a crossdresser."
That...explains a lot."Why?"
"Correction. She is a crossplayer." Len said. "We knew each other in real life. Cousins. And she is a fangirl of Len Kagamine. Thus…she has decided to protect her little cousin from the scary fangirls." He explained sarcastically, "She likes to cosplay as Len whenever the Vocaloid conventions happen every year in Japan."
"I still envy you." Exile ground out. My mind was blown.
Gah! I thought that XiMen Feng had it bad, but this person…and she's doing it on purpose! As Prince, it was an irreversible choice! But who in the world… "So…you're a girl?"
"…Yes."
"You're a crossdresser."
"…Yes."
"Why are you a crossdresser?" I asked, jaw dropping. "You're a fangirl magnet like this!" Len and Exile looked at each other simultaneously.
"In real life, no matter what I do, she will always look like a guy. Whenever she dressed in a dress or skirt, she was called a crossdresser. Whenever she wore normal clothes, she was mistaken as a guy. That's just…how bad it is." The Vocaloid said resignedly. Exile winced and then started dragging Len away.
"Lennykins, time to go before the wolves come for their steak." Len immediately flinched and straightened himself up, a suddenly regal expression on his face and Exile following behind, sending death glares to fangirls that had hearts instead of eyes.
"We have to recruit them!" Angel shrieked the moment she snapped out of her shock-induced stupor. "Exile's a bounty hunter, and Len is a Vocaloid! A melee striker and a multitasker! Please, Zero?" I looked away.
*Sweat* I think that this is my first encounter up-close with a fangirl…that's not after me. "Do you really think that that guy would dare to join a team? He's probably afraid of getting molested or something." *sweat* I remember that nearly happened to me at a concert…*sob*
"So?" Angel whispered. "I don't see any fangirls in this team! Do you? We're just looking for strong people!" I rolled my eyes. "Unless he rejects us outright, I will keep pestering you for the rest of your life, Zero."
"How about…if the two of us can beat the Demon Plant King, then we'll ask him." I suggested helplessly. Kurotenshi's eyes widened as she danced towards the Eastern Gate.
"What are you waiting for? Hurry!" As I walked a far distance away from the fangirl, I faintly heard the lines of "We're going to get another bishie now~" being sung.
*Facepalm*
When we once again reached the Demon Plant field, our first order of business was killing the Demon Plants all over again. After much deliberation on how to kill all the plants in one go (because she wanted to see her bishie as soon as possible), Kuro stacked Firebun and I with Flaming Rage 5 times, then tried out one of his new moves. "Timer Bun Bomb!" Timer Bun Bomb was an amped-up version of Bun Bomb, but with the added effect of +15 damage, +5 range dealt for every 5 seconds that it charged up, and the longest at the moment was 2 minutes.
The sudden movement of Firebun being thrown into their midst awoke the Demon Plants as they began crowding around my poor Firebun, snapping at the poor lil' guy. However, Firebun was too small and compact to be hit by the clumsy blades and snapping mouths. "It's been two minutes. EXPLODE!" In an instant, Firebun opened his mouth and let loose a stream of fire, incinerating all the plants in the nearby radius. Then he flew up in the air and spun around, spewing flames from his little body and eyes everywhere, scorching the whole field. A few moments later…
"This looks like a desert." Angel observed, munching on a marshmallow roasted by Firebun's flames. "That little guy is pretty efficient."
"Of course he is! He's Meatbun's and Phoenix's son!" I retorted around a mouthful of marshmallow. Swallowing, "Now let's attack the big bad boss!" We started across the clearing and I picked up the exhausted Firebun, who was snoring soundly on the ground, his eyes closed and wings folded up, and put him on my head.
The moment we stepped into the creepy forest, the ground started rumbling. Unfazed, I forged on, cutting all things in our path: trees, thickets, shrubs, and large stones. Presently, we reached another clearing, this one much smaller. There was a stone in the middle, and there was a sunbeam shining on the stone and making the granite sparkle. Reading the words etched on the rock face, "Touch not the gem in I, or the Demonic Plant King shall awake and destroy all." I paused for a moment, staring at Angel. "Well it's pretty obvious what we need to do!" I raised my dao above my head and brought it down on the shining gem embedded in the rock, and a crack appeared in the middle. The ground started rumbling once again. "Run!" I cried, sliding down the path of crushed grass that I had produced earlier, Kurotenshi hot on my heels. When we got to the edge of the forest, I screeched to a halt, nearly falling off the edge of the sudden cliff. "What?"
The ground vibrated, the trees grew taller, and it felt as if the earth itself was attacking us. I looked over the edge of the cliff and held back a gasp. The entire forest was in the air, and underneath us was a writhing mass of roots, all which held the forest aloft in the air, at least a hood 40 meters. A shriek made me turn around, only to see Angel fending off a tree-type Demon Plants. I scrambled to my feet and dispatched it with a Inferno Nine-Headed Dragon Slash right away. Stirred by the movement, the trees began awakening into their Demon Plans forms. "We need to jump over!" Angel shrieked in fear. I peeked over the edge once again and held her back.
"No, you fool!" I berated. "If we go down there, then the roots will step all over us!"
"So? If we stay here, then the trees will cut us down – and you need one Inferno Nine-Headed Dragon Slash to finish off a single one! You don't have enough mana and mana potions to kill off the whole forest!" she argued back. I pushed her behind me, between the cliff and me, taking up an offensive position.
"We won't know until we try! Heal me while I cut them down- and conserve as much mana as possible! We need to stall until Firebun wakes up."
With that, I began hacking away at the trees, burning them to cinders. Sometimes I was lucky enough to kill to in one blow, but that happened less often than not. I hope Firebun recovers soon; we need the darned Bun Bomb! I thought angrily as I cut down yet another tree. Kurotenshi was busy healing and buffing me and debuffing the trees, easing my burden a bit. However, Demon Plants have an insane spawn rate, so it seemed almost useless. We needed something to finish or weaken them off in one blow.
"Strafing Hawks!" A male voice declared somewhere below us. "Whoever's up there, put up a defensive barrier now!" At once, Angel took a swig of mana potion and used her Holy Shield (Ability Level 36, uses 100 mana, summons a barrier around all party members for 120 seconds) on us. I felt the light surround me as something that looked suspiciously like giant birds descended, attacking the trees viciously, and many Demon Plants disappearing in white light. I frowned.
Wind element vs. Wood element cancels each other out! I recalled. However, presently the birds flew back up and disappeared, leaving black bumps embedded to the Demon Plant King. My eyes as I stared at the numbers that showed up on the bumps. "Angel! TAKE COVER NOW!" I commanded, tackling her to the ground at the whole forest exploded at once with all the bombs that the birds had deposited. We tumbled over the side, and landed on our feet safely by grabbing a giant root to slide down. When the smoke from the explosions cleared, I banked Angel on the head to snap her out of fangirl mode. It was Len and Exile that had helped us. "Thanks. What are you two doing here?"
"There was a job to observe and defeat the Demon Plant King." Exile said simply, waving her hand to clear the smoke. "So I dragged Len to help me. What about you?"
Before I could answer, Angel launched herself at Len, clinging to him tightly. All of us froze as she began…fangirling. "Oh my God, I was so scared! Kagamine-sama, thank you so much for saving me! I will serve you forever! I'll do anything you want! Thank you so much! From this day on, the one and only Kurotenshi shall dedicate herself to healing Kagamine-sama and protecting him from all who dare try to do anything suspicious to him! I mean," before she could continue, Exile and I, having had enough, grabbed Len and Angel respectively and pried them apart like two halves of a live oyster. Len looked positively frightened, while Angel had fainted from delight.
"Great. Hey, have you forgotten that the boss is still alive?" Exile screamed, pointing at the approaching wall of roots. "We need to keep on burning it down! Where's that rogue?" I made the "AFK" sign and her face blanched. Clearly she had no fire-based attacks.
"Sound Blast." Len whispered, having evidently recovered from the fangirl attack. Taking in a deep breath, he opened his mouth and let out the highest-pitched, loudest, longest scream I had ever heard, probably extreme enough that it would shatter all the glassware at home.
Cracks appeared in the landmass supported by the roots one by one, becoming a spiderweb of fractures. Exile was standing behind Len, looking completely unaffected, whereas I was on the verge of writhing in pain, being right in front of him. Think as if someone put an angry Fire Phoenix in your ears and commanded it to use Heaven's Scorching Flame. You should get the idea. I dragged myself out of the path of the intense scream, and Len immediately faded out. "Sound Blast only affects things directly in its path." The crossdresser explained, casting a worried glance to her cousin, who was red in the face with such a prolonged scream.
When Len finally halted screaming, the Demon Plant King's roots had been decimated and shriveled, but there were still two large roots intact. Inhaling, he informed us, "According to the quest, the Demon Plant King has three stages of difficulty. The first stage is the forest on its back and elevating out of the ground. The second is the roots, which lash out randomly to attack. And the third…" All four of us looked up at the towering landmass, which was now at a 90 degree angle to the ground, and looked like a massive earthen giant, "is an Earth Elemental."
Oh. "How strong are Earth Elementals?" I asked, stretching my muscles to get ready for more hacking. Angel rolled her eyes.
"Don't even think about hacking it to death." She snapped, "We need a Wood-type attack. Wood beats Earth." We looked hopefully to Len, who shook his head.
"Vocaloids can only do Sound-type spells in Mage mode." He said, and when we looked at Exile, "And Bounty Hunters only know support-type spells". Our heads drooped, and I became aware of the tremors that the Earth Elemental's step produced with each slow, grinding step.
"A Wood-type attack, huh?" I pondered, grinning to myself. The others looked at me incredulously. I swung my whole arm around several times, and then dashed towards the hulking landmass. "Power of the Wood Spirit!" I declared, a brown-green light enveloping me as I stabbed my dao into the giant leg and let go right away.
Flashback – Begin (3 months ago)
"Prince, you never know when you'll be alone and no one knows a certain element!" Lolidragon scolded me, whacking me on the head. "So shut up and keep practicing! You're lucky that Wicked knows some Wood-type moves and is willing to teach you! And we're going to invade the North soon, so double up on your training!"
Wincing, "Okay, Lolidragon." I muttered, shaking my white hair in exasperation. "But I know some Wood attacks already! I don't want to waste Wicked's time!" I insisted. Lolidragon rolled her eyes and pinched my cheeks. "Ow! What's was that for?"
"Be quiet!" she ordered. "Now just get out to the training grounds and listen to Wicked!" I drooped sadly. At that moment, Gui appeared.
"YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS!~" he called. I promptly straightened up and uppercutted his chin, sending him flying back several meters.
(Prince has attacked Guilastes HP – 200)
"Hello, Gui." I said coldly.
"YOUR MOST WONDERFUL ROYAL HIGHNESS LOOKS AS LOVELY AS EVER TODAY!" Gui yelled at the top of his lungs, launching himself at me again. I simply sidestepped, but instead of whacking him like usual, I thrust my Black Dao into the ground.
"Power of the Wood Spirit!" From my Black Dao sprouted several branches, which reached towards the bard and entrapped him in the roots securely. "See, I can do Wood attacks!" Lolidragon facepalmed.
"That's too passive, idiot! Get over there and start training NOW!"
Flashback – End
I could have sworn that everyone's jaws dropped the moment the tree branches emerged from my dao and slowly started growing across the gigantic Earth Elemental, trapping the legs in the ground. We stood there, transfixed as the growth sped up and the mammoth Boss mob struggle with the piercing, thorny branches that kept it mired in one spot. "Now!" At my call, the other 3 shook themselves out of their stupor and proceeded to attack –that is, after Len finished screaming one more time. Those screams are painful!
Now that we had no more fear of its roots, our team made short work of the Demon Plant King. "Fangs of the Viper!"
"Sound Blast!"
"Earthen Strength!"
As my dao was currently keeping the boss in place, I contented myself with grabbing a growing tendril and rising up to see the blank face of the boss, which was slowly fracturing. I leapt off onto the plateau where the Demon Plant Trees has been, carefully sliding to the gemstone that I had fractured before.
"Piercing Sound Blow!"
"Kick of a Thousand Legs!"
"Cursed Yew!"
Sounds like they're having fun. I grumbled, reaching the gemstone. "Rage of the Eight Maidens!" I called, my hands descending on the stone 16 times. The power and force of the ability caused the gem to promptly shatter into individual fragments, and the monolith stilled.
When I leapt back down, I first retrieved my dao from the roots, then strode calmly over to Len and Exile while Angel snatched up the loot from the boss. Reaching out a hand, "Thank you for the help." Len and Exile hesitantly shook my hand. "We probably would have died up there…"
"No problem." Len said politely, apprehensively watching Kurotenshi from the corner of his eye. Exile scratched his – her head. Geez, it's so hard to believe that a bishie like that is a crossdresser! I thought with a sigh.
"Would you like us to join your team?" Exile asked abruptly, startling the 3 of us. "I see that you guys don't have a mage yet, and could use another melee fighter…" her voice trailed off uncertainly. Hiding my smirk,
"Of course! That's very thoughtful of you!" I said cheerfully. Hah, stupid kill-stealer! Now look who's better with recruiting people! "And I'll make sure Angel doesn't do anything that would threaten your cousin's virginity!" I added.
"Thank you." Len replied, relaxing noticeably.
Haha, suckers! I'm not a guy anymore! No more fangirls for meeee~
Exile:...Kurotenshi = Angel = Captain Obvious XDD
Terms:
XP –experience points.
Range and AOE are different. Range is how far away that the spell/attack can be casted. AOE is how much area that it affects.
One-shot: Killed in one hit
World Quest: It's not confined to one continent. The quest has to do with traveling around all of Second Life
Crossplayer- someone that cosplays as the opposite gender.
Review- an action which makes the author want to update every week ^_^