"One last monster…" Luke said with a tired look on his face. He was sweating from the intense training, but it will soon pay off. He will become a monk today.
"There's one here!" Rensumi replied. He led it toward the acolyte. It was a Cookie. Cookies were green toys brought to life. They were a bit trouble some, since they could heal themselves, but that was not too much of a problem. Luke did more damage than it could heal, so it would die eventually.
Luke began to get impatient with his last monster. "Just die already!" He yelled out as he swung his mace one last time. The monster fell, and bright lights exploded above Luke's head, bearing the sign, "Job Level Up!" on it.
"Congratulations! Let's head over and turn you into a monk right away!" Rensumi, the hunter, dropped a butterfly wing and Luke picked it up. The butterfly wing allowed one to warp back to their save point. They both used it, and a tower of blue light took them back to Prontera.
"So, which way do we go?" Rensumi asked as they walked up the tiled road East road of Prontera.
"I believe you go one map right of Prontera, and one map up, and two more to the right."
Rensumi sighed. "Guess it'll be a long walk." And indeed it was. They walked through a complex forest, often getting lost. They eventually found their way after asking another player for directions. They walked through hills and long, winding paths. Eventually, they were greeted with a grey gate. They hurried through, and soon found their way into a temple of some sort. There, they met a master monk. He told them that to become a monk, he requires one Rosary and one hundred Holy Waters.
"Just great. Where am I going to get a rosary and a hundred Holy Waters?" Luke said in an annoyed voice while he slammed his fist against the stone wall of the temple.
"I know you've been waiting to be a monk for a long time now, but let's take it easy. I think you can buy a rosary in the Church of Prontera. I'll go get that for you. You look for the Holy Waters."
"Fine," Luke said. Rensumi then disappeared back to Prontera in a tower of blue light. Before he went back to Prontera, Luke sent a message to Tamashii, asking for her to come while he turned into a monk. He hoped she would get the message before he did turn into a monk.
Back in Prontera, Rensumi hurried off to buy the rosary. Luke, on the other hand, had no starting place. He decided to walk around the busy streets of Prontera and ask people. Much to his distaste, he learnt that one cannot buy Holy Water from the non-player characters. So what was one to do? There was only one. He begged. "Please, can anybody spare one hundred Holy Waters?"
"Anybody want to sell me one hundred Holy Waters?"
Nobody responded. He sat down on a nearby bench, thinking that he was never going to become a monk now. He sighed, and lowered his head into his hands.
"You need one hundred Holy Waters?"
Luke looked up. There was a priestess before him, wearing a beautiful purple dress and a pretty red ribbon behind her blond hair. "Yes, I was. How much do you want for them?"
"No need," the woman replied. She sent him a trade request and put one hundred of the bottles on the line.
"Wow! I have no idea what to say. Thank you so much!" Luke took the Holy Waters graciously.
"No problem at all!" The woman smiled, and then logged off the game. Just in time, Rensumi returned.
"I have your rosary," Rensumi told him as he gave it to him.
"Thank you so much! I have the Holy Waters too," Luke replied.
"So I guess we gotta walk all the way back again…" Rensumi said with disgust. At least it would probably be his last trip.
"Oh don't worry, I saved a warp there." Luke proved this by concentrating. He then concentrated his energy on his palm, and then sent it out onto a spot on the ground. Soon after, there appeared a swirling blue light with wind circling around it and entering it, like a miniature black hole.
"Quick thinking!" Rensumi complimented as he entered. Luke walked in, but just before he went in, a hunter got in before him.
The three of them appeared back in the stone temple.
"Hey Luke! I got your message. Looks like I got here just in time!" Tamashii smiled at Luke. "Hey Rensumi," Tamashii greeted. Rensumi responded with a shy "Hi." They did not really know each other too well.
"Well, let's go!" Luke said with a little anxiety in his voice. The three of them ran in the next room and waited patiently as Luke talked to the master monk. There was a flash of light, and before them stood a more muscular figure, with a dark cloak. His muscles showed through the gap in his cloak.
"Congratulations!" Rensumi and Tamashii said together.
"Thanks," Luke said with a bright smile. Finally, he is no longer a weak acolyte who can only heal himself in an onslaught. Finally, he is no longer as dependant on another person to level with him. He will be more independent now, creating his own path.
"Well, I gotta go now to study again," Tamashii said with a sigh. "I'll see you guys later!" She logged off after the two boys said good-bye.