Blade of Tera

ESKK: New chapter let's begin folks so review ok.

(Start on the Road)

A day or so pass as the trio reaches the mountain path, and came up to the same spot that the six Heroes had first met both Leina and Risty for the first time. Hezreaus looked around the area with a small hint of nostalgia and then said, "This is where we all meet, look like it got fix up as I don't see where the fight that took part here."

Risty shrugged in response and said, "Sometimes is happens, I don't know why, but it does, but wait till we come over this pass."

Leina look to Risty with a bit of curiosity and said, "What's over the pass?"

Risty didn't say a word as they walk up the hill road and see into the horizon and down below as they saw a great wall as Leina said, "That is right, the border of the Queen's domain."

"And with it opponents left and right for the Queens Blade." Lezanda said knowing full well the tougher foes were just up ahead now.

(Later at the border)

As the trio stood way back from the crowd and wagons that were coming in as Risty said, "Looks like Claudette hasn't been back here. That's a relief."

"How can you tell?" Leina asked to which Risty pointed up at the flags and sees an empty flag pole as Risty said, "There no sign of the general banner."

"Looks can be deceiving my friends." Lorondos said as he looked to the others. "She may have suspected we used this gate and thus made it so her banner wasn't seen that way she can catch us by surprise." Lorondos said as Lezanda nodded.

"That means we need to be careful and plan accordingly." Lezanda said but PamiPami wasn't convinced while riding on Inferneius shoulder.

"How can you tell, maybe we're just that good." PamiPami smiled as if nothing was wrong right now.

"And you all have an idea over what I arranged for this?" Risty asked looking to the group as Hezreaus looked to them.

"For now its best we play it by ear." Hezreaus said knowing full well anything could go wrong if they were not careful.

"Ok then let's keep it as I arranged, we'll be using Leina's name as I act like the adviser, and you'll all be her entourage of guards and servants." Risty said as that was their best bet for now.

"Is that going to work?" Leina asked no doubt worried something could go wrong.

Risty shrugs and said, "Who know, let's leave it up to fate." Risty pull out a gold coin and said, "Heads we go as plan."

"Wait a minute." Freylah said as she saw something amiss here when she didn't say tails or anything for not heads as Risty flip it. Freylah's eyes pay attention to the coin itself as it seem the world around her slowed down to a crawl while she watched the coin flip. As the coin flipped she saw that one side was heads, and the other side… was also heads. Freylah in turn snatched the coin in midair and said, "A double sided coin Risty, really?" She held the coin up to show that one side head and that the other side was heads as well. Leina had the same look like the others as Risty took the coin back and said, "That means the luck is always good. Isn't that great?"

"Can't argue with that." Freylah said with a smirk despite calling Risty out on it fully approved of it.

"Yeah!" PamiPami called out with a smile on her face.

"Yes you can very easily in fact." Lezanda said as Leina agreed with her.

"Lezanda is right it's a lie," Leina said to which Lorondos nodded to this.

"One cannot cheat fate, or those who fool heartedly do so shall learn that fate cannot be denied." Lorondos said offering his pearls of wisdom.

Risty didn't seem to care as she flipped the coin over to Leina who she caught it before Risty said, "Keep it maybe it can bring you some good luck for you."

"No thank you, I don't accepted money from a thief," Leina said as she was about to throw it back until Risty said, "Money alone has no value, it's what you do with it, and right now you and that little coin has more in command than you think. You should keep that in mind, another friendly advice from the Benevolent Bandit of the Wild. Listen, you can give it back once you're a good fighter."

"Stop, don't tease," Leina said as Risty laugh and said, "I'm not teasing you. Come let go, the town awaits."

"Let's hope I don't get a lynch mob on me." Inferneius said as he rather walk around without scaring everyone half to death.

(Meanwhile inside the walls)

Claudette was watching outside the Window as she saw Aster, Leina, and Risty outside knowing full well that once they pass the border they will be harder to catch. Claudette saw Risty using the Vance name to try and get through the border. Claudette then spoke as she saw the guard leave. "So you will use our name but only when it serves you." Claudette said as Risty and the six warriors seemed to be all on guard like any bodyguard is expected to be.

(With the heroes)

Risty looked to Leina as she knew the young Vance girl was on edge. "Don't be nervous as long as Claudette isn't here we should be fine." Risty said as Hezreaus's hand itched to his sword when he saw a soldier pass by.

"If she is then we can take her." Hezreaus said as he had been in many PVP's in his time after all.

That was when Leina noticed something at the window as all she saw was an empty window. "What are you doing? Let's go!" Risty said as she and the six warriors were already leaving.

"Wait a minute." Leina said but they were already leaving.

(With Claudette)

"All this for an adventure." Claudette said with her eyes closed as behind her was an elven woman with green hair and barley any cloths as the only thing covering her gender was what looked like a thong made from a snake which looked quiet alive. Next to her was the same Elin from before as she was wearing a gothic Lolita clothing with lion like ears on her head and a lion's tail as well. What was noticed as well as the fact she had two large chained scythes sheathed on her back as she leaned on the wall nearby with her arms crossed. Claudette was surprised to find another Elin and was grateful to see this one wasn't associated with PamiPami who dominated her last time.

"Sorry but you have to do this." The woman said as Claudette opened her eyes to turn her eyes to her.

"Not according to the orders of the count. He command that she be brought home yet you let her leave." Claudette said as the woman smirked.

"I have an idea don't give me orders please." The woman said as a warning to Claudette.

"I'm not aware of having given you any." Claudette said as she walked away.

"I am Echidna the Veteran Mercenary. I took this job but how I handle her is up to me." Echidna said as Claudette was at the window once more.

"How you handle her?" Claudette asked not liking that tone.

"How we handle her is that my elven friend here takes care of Leina." The Elin said with a calm and cold tone. "And I'll keep her new friends busy... my way." She said with a cold look to her eyes.

"She's right though and besides that little bird looks positively delicious." Echidna said in a sensual tone as she had seen both of them.

Claudette looked out the window as she had only one thought that came to mind. "What a fool." She said as who the fool was is currently unknown.

(Inside the town)

"We made it out of Vance territory at last," Leina said happily as Risty look to her and said, "You sound like a little kid." "You really did pull it off, thank Risty," Leina thank her and ignoring she was called sounding like a kid.

"That's right I pull this off," Risty said taking pride in her plan as Hezreaus said to them, "Let's not get all hasty, we may be out of Vance territory, but anything can still happen here if we aren't careful."

"Would you relax a bit, not like something bad is going to happen to us now let's find us an Inn to stay at with big room for the two big boys," Risty said with Lezanda said to her, "Best guess is we may have to get a room for each of them."

"Hey we don't need a room just for us, we can bunker with one of you guys," Inferneius said as Lorondos said to him, "Let's face it Inferneius, we're bigger than the average race, we can just pay for our own room."

"Yea, thank god we did manage to turn in that job from before or else we may not have money at all," Lezanda said as she was afraid they could be lacking money after helping out the church and stuff, thankfully they did that one job before finding Leina, as it wasn't that hard leading a herd of sheep to the barber shop, getting their wool and store it until they could turn it in, with the payout was great sense everyone carried their fair share of wool, other than Risty and Leina of course.

(At the Inn)

The group manage to find a Inn with good prices and enough rooms for all of them, and passing Pamipami as a child does help as well but she have to sharing a room with the Freylah and Lezanda with Hezraeus had to share a room with Leina and Risty, mostly because there was only the 4 rooms available, and Risty idea to let him join her and Leina.

The young Vance girl didn't seem to mind this, mostly because she was getting a bit tired from traveling as she gotten into the first bed giving a yawn and said, "I'm so tired."

"We'll stay here for the time being, so come on," Risty said as Leina looked at her and went, "Hu?"

"We gotten the room so we can do some shopping and store the stuff here, and not get it later when they may not have been available," Hezraeus said as that is the best idea as carrying a lot of things and no place to put it, which not got him thinking, they are going to need a lot of food and stuff and inventory can only hold so much and only certain things as they tested that stuff out.

With Leina she gotten the idea of what Hezraeus was saying as she nodded and said, "Right, I guess we should get some supplies while we are here."

"Let's get the others as well, hopefully they aren't taking a nap now," Hezraeus said as he going to need some help with something, and hopefully find what he needs.

(Soon at the market)

The clan had travel to the market place, seeing all sort of things around, what equipment, food, and good supplies are on sale, with Leina getting all excited from all this as she went to the nearest food stall and said, "Look at this fruit, it looks delicious."

She turned around and show it to the group with Risty scratch her head and about to say something until Inferneius said, "Sweet, let's get a dozen of those."

"We can't get that many, Inferneius," Lorondos said as he hoping to keep the spending cost down with Pamipami look over the Berserker male Amani 's head as she said, "Aww, why not? Those are very juicy."

"We can buy everything that we want, we only get what we need for our travel and need something that would stay good for a while," Lezanda said as Risty thank whoever was listening that there were smart people within the Clan with Risty soon suggest something as she said, "Dry up meat is pretty good and does last long on travel. Its best we get plenty of that."

"They have Jerky here?" Hezraeus question as Risty and Leina looked at the Slayer as Leina asked, "What's Jerky?"

Hezraeus mentally face palm himself as he just remember not many people know about certain thing from where the player is from, as he said to her, "Well we're we are from, Jerky is a type of Dry meat that also comes in different flavors like pepper, smoked, spicy, and many others as well."

That was good call to say, with Risty thought that does sound interesting as she said, "Those sound tasty, but unfortunately the dry meat is just plain meat, nothing like what you said."

"Ah man I was hoping for some Jerky as well," Freylah said as she was upset that they didn't have Jerky in the world they are in as Hezraeus said, "Alright, let us split up and get what we need, and meet each other back in 20 minutes."

"You got it boss," Inferneius with everyone agreeing and soon split up and get what they need for the travel. Meanwhile back over with Hezraeus, the group's leader headed towards the stable area and find something he had in mind.

"Where are you going?" Risty asked as she looked to Hezreaus who then looked to her.

"If we're going to be traveling together then we need some way to not cause a panic with those two around." Hezreaus said gesturing to Lorondos and Inferneius both of which seem to be attracting wary eyes.

"And what are you suggesting?" Risty asked to which Hezreaus smirked in response to this before heading off.

(Later)

"Oh let's get this one it's cute!" PamiPami called out as she held a white outfit of sorts.

"No." Lezanda said as she took it and put it back.

"Why not, it's white so it reflects light and it's easy to move in." Leina said as she looked to the outfit in question.

"Don't be stupid it'll make it easy for the enemy to spot us and that's not factoring in these two." Freylah said pointing an accusing thumb over to Inferneius and Lorondos.

"I see your point." PamiPami said as she saw the two.

"Well at least you're putting some thought into it." Risty confessed as she looked to Leina who had put the most thought.

(Later at the Inn)

"One thing's for sure I'm glad we haven't had any trouble so far." Risty said as the group had a meal in front of them as Infernieus had a huge meal before him no doubt to sustain his diet.

"Yes me too." Leina agreed as Freylah moaned in frustration.

"Don't jinx it every time someone says that things go wrong somehow." Freylah said knowing how things work well enough to know how wrong they could go.

"Oh don't be paranoid." Risty said as Lezanda calmly ate her food while she had her battle dagger ready to draw just in case.

"It's not paranoia if it does happen." Lezanda calmly said opting Risty to roll her eyes in response.

"Well you helped me so I help you so that makes us even now." Risty said as thus PamiPami laughed at Risty for that.

"Hah! You wish." PamiPami said as Risty cursed knowing they haven't forgotten how they not only beat her before but also saved her at Count Vance.

"Dammit." Risty cursed when she heard this.

"So where are we heading off to next?" Leina asked just as Hezreaus walked in.

"We're heading to Velika next." Hezreaus said surprising everyone a bit.

"Hey he's back." Inferneius said as he looked to the undisputed leader of the group as he unrolled the map.

"This town can give us supplies on the way and after that it's a straight shot to Velika." Hezreaus said pointing to the town just before the famous City of Wheels.

"Crescentia if I'm not mistaken." Lezanda said as she saw the town in question remembering it well from Tera online as one of the first areas where they were introduced with Side Quests. Lumber Town wasn't too far away from Crecentia either so it may pay to visit it for a little bit.

"And after that it's the Queen's Capital." Risty said as she looked while Lezanda stretched and saw someone not too far away from them. She calmly ate her food as she knew something was op.

"So once we go to Velika what then?" Leina asked as she wanted some answers of her own.

"We possible stay the night and once we are fully stocked head out." Hezreaus said as they were seemingly unaware of the snake slithering torts them.

"Velika is a big shot city isn't it?" Risty asked a little calm when saying that.

"For some, it's a city of opportunity and the famous capital of the Valkion Federation." Lorondos said calmly knowing its history well. "Tale has it that a Goddess of Hunters named Velik had made it her home." Lorondos said as both Leina and Risty found it interesting.

"A goddess I'm guessing Velika was named after this Velik then." Leina said as she looked to the warriors.

"That's right." Lorondos said as he smiled kindly to the young noble warrior.

"The Federation is comprised of a union of difference races, humans, Castanics, Elves, Amani, Popori, Baraka, and the Elin. They all joined forces to face the common threat of the Argon scourge." Lorondos said as Risty went wide eyed to this.

"The Argons I've been hearing rumors about those bastards but they haven't left the Swamp Lands." Risty said as Hezreaus heard this and was surprised. "Surprised to hear that this Valkyion Federation is a real thing." Risty said as it would explain why Velika was its capital and if that was the case why hasn't the queen joined up as well.

"You know about the Argons?" Lezanda said taking command of this mystery.

"Hard not to, but no one knows where they came from or who they serve all we do know is that they expand and consume anything in its path." Leina said as she heard about the Argons herself but no one has gotten close enough to learn exactly what they were.

"Fuck." Freylah cursed as she realized things were going to get hectic once the Argon war breaks out.

'This complicates things big time.' Hezreaus thought knowing that they might be in trouble soon.

Just then Leina gasped as Risty began to freeze up at the sight of a snake. PamiPami seeing it yelled in shock as Lezanda backed off away from the snake. "Ah it's cute." Inferneius said as Lorondos saw it while Hezreaus shrugged.

In turn Echidna began to pass them by only to find her hand grabbed inches from the gold pouch and with it a knife pointed at her. Echidna looked and saw Lezanda glaring at her not carrying she was currently bottomless. "Kindly get your hands away from our coins and calmly walk away." Lezanda said glaring at Echidna who then backed off and eased away from the group leaving their gold untouched while the snake slithered back to its mistress.

(Later outside)

Echidna exited the inn and in turn saw Ryukala out there with arms crossed leaning on a nearby wall. "Told you it wouldn't work." Ryukala said calmly as the Elin looked to the Elf.

"Oh like you could have done better." Echidna said as she glared at Ryukala who was as good as her and she was caught.

"Perhaps but I have another plan." Ryukala said as she looked to Echidna and smirked.

"Oh and what would this plan be?" Echidna asked in her normal sensual/teasing tone. The only thing Ryukala did was smirk at Echidna which in turn caused Echidna to grow a tad bit curious as to what her small Elin friend had planned.

(Meanwhile Back at the Inn)

After that whole snake event, everyone was calm down as Risty said, "That was a close call, if you haven't caught her, she might have taken everything we had, and Possession is 9/10th of the law."

"Good to know, as right now I need to announce we have a problem," Hezreaus said as everyone turn to their leader as he begins to say, "We can only stay just a night here before we have to move on, as the gold we have on hand right, is pretty much all we have left."

With that Hezreaus surprise everyone by this, as everyone began to question as they say-

"Hu?"

"Why?"

"What happen to the saving?"

Hezreaus raise his hand as he wave them as he said, "Calm down guys, calm down. There's a reason for this, as I have notice with our larger, and aggressive looking members here have scared a lot of people and we can't let this keep happening, so I gotten something that could help us out to help hide better and hold our food and other supplies as we travel as our own bags can only carry so much, and with the Supplies we have now can last us until we can find us a job to regain our saving."

Everyone calm down after that as they understand their leader reason, but they didn't like it as much. With Risty looking at the slayer and asked him, "Alright, but what did you buy that made you spend so much money on?"

Everyone look to their leader, with Leina looking at him as well, wondering what he did, with Hezreaus looking outside as he saw something coming up front of the Inn before smile and said to the group, "I'll show you guys outside as it's just arrived."

Hezreaus stood up, putting some money down on the table before walk out the door, with everyone soon follow suit as they left some money as well paying for their meals and headed out to see what Hezreaus had gotten.

As they came out, they saw Hezreaus on a wagon with a cover on it, and has two Geldings pulling on it as Hezreaus said, "Here is our new transport, the biggest size they come in, made from the strongest wood to support the weight of everyone, and have our strongest rides to pull us out, with this we can get anywhere without causing a scene and hold our supplies."

Everyone is surprise by Hezreaus choice, but it wasn't bad, it more like it was smart of him to do this as now everyone can relax while traveling as walking around was tiring as it was and quite boring.

"Well I have to hand it to you, boss not a bad idea," Inferneius said as Freylah asked, "Are you sure getting this was a good idea?"

"How I see it as, he made a good choice," Risty said as she think Hezreaus made a good choice of buying this as they can travel without worry of any one that could be after them and get to wherever they need to be as Lezanda, "This is we may get some jobs and Quest done quicker than we had before."

"And hope this will aid us in all future event that is to come," Lorondos said as it sounded like he gave a pray of sort to bless the wagon.

"Still where are we going to get some funds?" Leina asked as she looked to the group.

"Adventurers always have a means and that means is providing a service to those who hire us, particularly explorations of tombs or dungeons, escorts, or more common than not slaying a particular monster." Lezanda said as Freylah smiled to this.

"So we rest for the night and then head to the guild hub in the morning." Freylah said as Hezreaus nodded to her.

"That's right." Hezreaus nodded as his eyes then went to where the would-be thief could have gone but found nothing. He then sighed and began to make his way back to the Inn so they can all rest and head out by morning.

(Scene Break the Next Day Guild)

Many adventurers were gathered in the building either talking, trading, or heading out for a job. As they were all gathered about many whispers were heard about the newest group that had just walked in. Now Amani and Baraka were very rare to see so not everyone had seen them hence the panic for some people. Adventurers had crossed paths with them many times over, the Amani were known to be warriors and blacksmiths of even greater reputation then the Dwarves. Rumor had it that Kaia their patron Goddess very fire is used to forge their weapons. The Baraka were known for their wisdom some called them big brains or stone thinkers, and finally the Castanic were rare as they tended to remain to themselves most cases. Elin tended to stay in the forest but it caused shaky relations with the Elves who also remained in the forest.

Anyway the whispers were about the newest adventurers who had recently registered as part of the guild. Hezreaus was looking the quests over but the truth was he couldn't read any of them and it was a unanimous agreement on this. "Look at those guys." Came the whisper of one of the adventurers. "The guy with the huge sword has some amazing armor wonder how much it cost." One of them said as Inferneius heard them while Freylah was itching to teach these assholes a lesson.

"They're just coppers hard to believe they got that expensive armor." Another said as Hezreaus was keeping his cool. "Bet you one or two of them are rich kids probably presents from dear daddy." Came the same one and thus the group there shared in laughter at the expense of the 'noobs,' in the room.

Leina heard them and saw that she didn't qualify for any of these quests. 'Shit,' Hezreaus cursed as he saw the quests. 'I can't read a single one of them and no doubt the others can't read it either.' Hezreaus thought looking to the others. Considering Risty was a known bandit they left her outside with the Wagon to make sure no one tries to steal it.

Well that was the plan until Leina took a random flyer off the wall. "What about this one? An escort request to Cresentia it's on the way to our main destination and it's paying quiet well." Leina said as Hezreaus was mentally smiling thanking the Titans of this world Gainos and Hinomoto for this good fortune.

"It shall have to do, I suppose." Hezreaus said as he took the flyer from Leina and walked over to the Desk Wench. Once they arrived to the desk Hezreaus put the flyer on the table. "We would like to take this quest I'm to assume our current rank meets the requirements." Hezreaus said as he looked to the wench.

"Yes though the request is asking for a larger group." The woman said as Hezreaus nodded to this.

"Of course the rest of my party are waiting outside." Hezreaus said while he looked to the woman who nodded in response.

"Of course I will have the client informed someone is taking his request." The woman said before taking her leave of the duo to find the client. Hezreaus and Leina then went to a table where they found Lezanda and Freylah waiting for them as they all sat down together.

"So we got a job?" Freylah asked as she looked to Hezreaus.

"Yeah we do." He said and in turn it became a waiting game for them.

(Later)

As the group were given some food they soon herd the arrival of someone and looked and in turn saw a man with a large bag on his person. "Hey you lot the ones who will escort me?" He asked and thus Hezreaus nodded.

"Yes the rest of our party is outside." Hezreaus said showing that they were all ready to go. Thus in turn they all began to head out to meet with the others outside.

(Later Outside)

They had arrived and introductions were made. Luckily he didn't freak out at the sight of the others showing he had seen many things in his travels across the world. "So you need an escort to Cresentia to avoid the likes of monsters and bandits correct?" Hezreaus asked as he looked to the traveling merchant who nodded.

"Yes see I'm a merchant I go from town to town city to city selling my wears and in turn I make my living." He said as the group listened to him. "Lately rumor has it a large monster had been sighted in the area moving closer and closer to Velika and I'm only hiring your group as a precaution." He said and thus the group got the gist of it.

"So we ready to head out or what?" Risty asked as she was itching to head out before the Vance caught up to them unaware that they already have.

"Alright let's be off then." The Merchant said and thus with a flick of the reigns they were off to Cresentia.

(Meanwhile with Echidna and Ryukala)

"So you sure this will get results?" Echidna asked as it was interesting at best while they stood before a cave.

"Yes we first have a few Orcs sent out for the parties appetizers and after which we send in the big guy here." Ryukala calmly said as she glared into the cave in question.

"I'm all for getting results that are fun but this feels like we're pushing it." Echidna said and Ryukala then looked to Echidna.

"Has that ever stopped you before?" Ryukala asked and thus Echidna smirked in response.

"No it has not." She confessed and in turn she got to work on their scheme.

(Meanwhile back with the group)

Already they were making great time as their traveling method was unique to them. They had the heavy hitters surrounding the cart walking beside it keeping an eye out for any trouble around them. Their range and supports were the second line as Leina and Freylah were both on the cart with PamiPami and the Merchant acting as the final line of defense. So far the journey was a calm one nothing threatening had showed up and thus it was all peaceful. This in turn allowed them time to reflect and relax a bit despite the fact they were on the clock right now. The skies were clear and all was at peace as they continued to travel to their intended destination.

"Man, this just seem easy, like too easy," Inferneius said through their message chat so they don't bother the client as they chat with Freylah said, "I suppose it is easy right now."

"Just because it's easy at the start doesn't mean it won't suddenly change, this is a different world and the rules here are different so we need to focus on anything that could be out of the ordinary," Hezreaus said through the message chat as everyone understood as suddenly PamiPami said in message, "Can we pull over, I need to use the little girls room."

Everyone sighed at this as despite their bodies being different being there are Avatar to the Tera game, it seem the basic need of eat, drink, sleep, and bathroom stuff remains at times as Hezreaus looked around to take a break as he spotted a stream as he turn to the Merchant guy and said, "Hey I know you ask us to protect you but let's take a small break, to give our mounts a rest as there's a steam ahead for them to get a drink from."

"Alright then, good thinking. No telling when the next stop will be at," the Merchant said as the group pulled over and everyone went on break to do their deed, in some cases dig, dump, and bury some waste, or piss behind a bush or a tree.

The merchant gotten the horse some water as they drank well enough with the group gathered including Leina and Risty as Hezreaus to everyone, "Okay listen up, so far it's been easy up until this point, but there are said rumored monsters ahead on this road, then we must keep focus and be on our Guard, no telling what sort of creature we could be facing."

"Even though you are all pretty powerful," Risty said as Lorondos said to her, "That is true, but there always a possibility that there could be others that are as strong as or stronger than us as the rules of nature goes, there is always something stronger than you."

Leina nodded to this as she understand the meaning, as she believe the clan were stronger than her, but they fear there could be something stronger than them, but if it just 1 creature or being, no doubt they can overcome it by working together, and no doubt she can help anyways she can as Hezreaus said, "Alright let's get move- Oh boy."

"What's wrong?" Risty asked as the Merchant guy suddenly said loudly, "O-o-orcs!"

The group turn to Risty and Leina surprise to see a small horde of orcs that were up ahead of the road and slowly coming towards them, with Hezreaus putting his hand on his sword as he said, "Looks like we got problem on hand, everyone prepared to fight."

Everyone drew their weapon, including Risty and Leina as they ready themselves as Hezreaus said to everyone, "Just how we plan it, all heavy hitters!"

"Right," Pamipami said while equip her glove and crack her fingers inside of the, with Inferneius give a laugh as he ready his battle axes as he said, "Time to make you bleed!"

Hezreaus walked forward as he held his blade at his shoulder ready to take them on. In turn the Orc's all charged in on them as they were ready for combat. PamiPami started as she slid across the ground punching her foes as they came at her making quick work of them. Following it up she performed a flip kick before jumping up and kicking it back down splattering its head on the ground. Next up came Inferneius as he cleaved a few Monsters with his mighty axe using a prior skill to help boost his speed and the power behind his attacks he was making quick work of them.

Hezreaus was calm as he took down the Orc's with ease as his eyes scanned the situation in more ways than one. From his perspective and no doubt the perspective of his allies the area before them showed data akin to an RPG and gave them regular updates when needed on the party members. As this progressed he utilized each of his skills as they came up as this had been how they were fighting this whole time. By properly utilizing this form of combat they had managed to accurately estimate what was needed to achieve victory in this strange world they were in. As it progressed the group were making quick work of their attackers as Lezanda kept her distance and fired upon the monsters. Next to her was Lorondos provided magical support and healing for their party as well as a few buffs to keep them in the battle. They soon had their foes gathered in the center and thus Freylah came in and annihilated them with ease ending the threat before any harm could come to the wagon.

"Piece of cake." Freylah scoffed as she smirked while everyone sheathed their weapons.

"Any injured?" Hezreaus asked looking to the amazed merchant.

"No... None at all." The Merchant said as this was one of the most one sides fights he had ever seen.

"Come on we need to keep moving." Hezreaus said and thus they were off once more.

(Scene Break back with Ryukala and Echidna)

Ryukala was observing the group as they made their way to the stream unaware that it was an ambush spot for the local bandits. As she watched from the wood line Echidna came out as she looked to Ryukala. "Well?" Ryukala asked despite being half of Echidna's size.

"Our scaly friend is getting ready to move and he is angry." Echidna said showing some of the minor burns she got.

"Alright." Ryukala said as Echidna had to ask.

"So they're friends of yours I suppose?" Echidna asked as Ryukala looked to the group.

"Something like that." Ryukala said calmly while observing them. "I'm just making sure they are legit." Ryukala said as she looked to the group. She had left Hinomoto a while ago and had left behind some things on her wake to get the other groups tales to be spread. They all had similar thoughts to try and find other players in this world or at the very least get them, all set up to become famous all over again. Ryukala could have remained with them but didn't as in her words to them she'd rather work alone for the time being.

"Well if I do have to end up revealing myself to your friends who's to say our Elven friend won't blast me first chance she gets?" Echidna asked as Ryukala looked to her.

"Two reasons, one because I'm vouching for you and two the same reason I don't give in to the urge to slice you up." Ryukala said as she smirked to Echidna. She then jumped down knowing the group will be in the ambush soon as Echidna smirked.

"Oh so I do get under your skin." Echidna said as she followed after her as she saw the girl had an ice queen disposition mixed with a lone wolf type of person.

(Back with the group)

The group had taken a break by the water as they refilled their canteens lucky the water was fresh and clean. The Horses drank from the stream as Lorondos was nearby meditating it seems. As they relaxed Leina walked over to Hezreaus as he drank from his canteen. "Here." Leina said offering some dried meat to Hezreaus who looked at it.

"Thank you." He responded by taking the dried meat and eating it.

"Hezreaus what you did back there was amazing." She said looking to Hezreaus.

"Hmm?" He asked while looking to Leina.

"I mean the way you all moved it was like you all knew what to do without needing to say it." Leina said as she looked to the leader.

"Just takes time and practice is all." Hezreaus said as he ate the food calmly. "Besides we can't afford to mess this job up when you consider Inferneius diet." He said gesturing to their big ferocious friend. Leina looked and saw the guy looking ready to go hunting for a big slab of game to sustain his diet.

"I see." Leina said with a small laugh in response.

"Huh." Hezreaus said as he noticed something pop up for him.

"What is it?" Leina asked as she looked to Hezreaus.

"Nothing." Hezreaus quickly responded as he had noticed a 7th blip on his screen suggesting something close had arrived someone like them.

"Hey you guys merchants!" Came a new unfamiliar voice as the entire group looked and saw a man show up with a kind smile on his face.

"Why yes how can I help you?" The Traveling Merchant asked kindly looked to the man while the group got ready to move in.

"Well we wanted to have a look at your wears... all of them." He added and in turn from the hiding spots nearby more men wielding swords and knives showed up as Risty saw what his was instantly.

"Crap an ambush." Risty cursed as she saw them all as the Merchant was wide eyed by this.

"Never a dull moment it seems." Lorondos said calmly as he began to stand back up ready for battle.

"I agree." Lezanda said as she glared at the bandits and thieves surrounding their traveling group.

"Hey drop all that you own and we'll let you live, chances of survival increase if the girls drop a bit more than just their belongings." One of the men perversely said eying up Risty, Leina, Freylah and Lezanda like they were juicy and delicious slabs of meat.

Hezreaus sighed to this as before Leina or Risty could speak up, Pamipami and Lorondos put a hand on their shoulder to stop them before they could do or say anything as they knew these bandits are just pathetic, with the slayer standing up to face the bandit that was close to them as he said to the guy, "We heard your offer, now here's our counter offer… Just walk away and we will spare you your lives, you can put an end to this if you just walk away."

After that the bandit looked at him weirdly, as Hezreaus took a few lines from a movie he remember when he was the player, with the bandit guy had an upset look on his face while he said, "You think you're funny or something? Because that wasn't a good laugh."

"It's no joke, if you don't leave right now, not only we will fight back, we won't hold back, and we won't show any mercy at all. This is your final warning, Just… walk… away," Hezreaus as he had a serious look on his face, as Leina is surprise that Hezreaus would say that to a bandits with weapon and ready to use them, as fighting against orc is one thing, but against human being, she wonder how could they fight against them?

The bandit guy just get piss off at this as he said to him, "Fine! IF that how you want it, then die!"

The guy pull out a dagger as he then charge at Hezreaus with the dagger, but to Hezreaus, it was even more pathetic, it was an embarrassment as he side step grabbing the bandit arm and twist it hard, making him cry out in pain as Hezreaus whisper into his ear as he said, "You should have walk away."

Now wanting to let the bandit to watch as the other bandits came down to help their leader with the others leaping in and taking care of the bandits, as Freylah jump into at them while held out her Runeglaive to stick the bandits through, taking them by surprise by this.

But before the spear could reach them, a weapon deflected the Runeglaive weapon, not only taking her by surprise by everyone of the group, and the bandits as suddenly two new figures show up as the group soon recognize one of them, the green hair, the pointy elf ears, the snake for underwear, as they knew it was that woman that tried to steal from them.

The 2nd figure, is what taken the group really by surprise as they saw what she is, as it was no doubt she is a Tera character. In fact it was one they knew well the player who made her and all of them created her as a testing for the Reaper Class. Her chain Scythe's were proof of that and thus it didn't take them long to realize they had more than just the six characters that were currently here. It even suggested that the other characters they made may have arrived in this world just like them.

"Sorry to say this but, we cannot let you harm these men," Ryukala said to the group as Echidna look at them as well as she said, "Nothing against you… but we wanted them first."

Suddenly by this Echidna turn around and took out a good chunk of the bandits around her with the slash of her sword, as she smile to this with Ryukala said, "Remember to leave their faces intact, we need to identify them for their bounty."

"I know I know," Echidna said as the bandit were taken by surprise by the two as they attack them, with Freylah didn't want to be left out of the fight, she join in as she started thrusting her weapon at them, taking down a good bunch, while Lezanda took out her weapon… and started blasting at the bandits, mostly at those with who had perverted looks on their faces.

Pamipami decided to join in as well as some of them were giving her a look as well, no doubt something could have been pedophile, as she knock some heads off. Or knocked them up into the air before they came back down hard, as she is a real knock out.

More came up from the side, but Inferneius had that cover as he came at them while yelling out, "I'll make you bleed your own blood! AHHHH!"

More bandits just keep coming with Risty and Leina taking care of them with ease as it seem Leina had learn a few things being with the group, and that go big or go home with Risty watching her back as well while smashing some faces in with her mace, and Lorondos giving them a bit of a hand as well.

Hezreaus keep still as he was still holding the bandit leader, to make him watch as his friends and goons were being slaughtered like animals as Hezreaus said to him, "This could have been all avoided if you just walked away and leave in peace."

The bandit tries to wiggle out of Hezreaus grip was scream out as Hezreaus said to him, "What? Leave so soon, the best part hasn't started just yet come on."

"Hehehe looks like someone made sure to wear their brown pants." Freylah said as she looked to them before knocking him clean out with the pommel of her glaive.

As the chaos began to calm down the ones they needed were tied up while the unimportant ones were either fleeing or killed off. As they walked away Ryukala sheathed her twin chain scythe's that made it look like she had demon wings from the right angle. She had a gothic Lolita outfit that showed that she looked adorable but was deadly when approached wrong.

"Now then." Risty began but Hezreaus cut her off.

"Ryukala." Hezreaus greeted as he looked to Ryukala.

"Glad to see you still remember me." Ryukala said as she looked to Hezreaus.

"I can't believe your here too!" PamiPami called out as she looked to Ryukala.

"Wait you know her?" Leina asked as she looked to Ryukala.

"We go a long ways back but last we saw of her was when dealing with a false god in the desert." Lorondos said using info from one of the main story quests of the game and bending it a bit.

"Yes we went our separate ways after that, PamiPami joined them on new adventures while I returned to Pora Elinu before leaving again." Ryukala said as she acted calm and cold.

'She's still the ice queen I intended for her.' Hezreaus mentally commented as he looked to the Elin girl. "I see you became a bounty hunter of sorts." Hezreaus said to the young dark warrior.

"Bounty Hunter Mercenary whatever that has need of a warrior that puts food in my stomach." Ryukala said calmly showing she was more of a wanderer at this point. "I met up with more of the old gang but didn't stay with them long, I'll tell you how they've been later." Ryukala said as the group saw her secret message for them. 'I'll explain what I can later for now just play along,' the secret message said under her words.

"Thank you for saving us." The Merchant said but before Echidna could speak Ryukala cut in.

"We were just getting a bounty and now we're going to cash in on it. We'll be willing to split the rewards for it if you can let us use your wagons." Ryukala said as Echidna nodded.

"Of course after all I doubt making multiple trips will prove any useful for us." Echidna said and in turn they were in agreement on this.

(Later down the road)

As the sun stood high in the afternoon air the group now larger by two knew warriors and three prisoners were heading down the road once more. For the Tera Group they were surprised to see Ryukala here a character they had made in their old life given life much like they were. If their hunch was right then her memories are also fragmented but followed a linear path to help reveal their lost past. But from her fragments they should be able to piece things together some more maybe even how they came to be here.

But he had this dark aura around her a cold one which fit into her class and character but it was different. She was who she claimed to be and didn't have any statues effects that would suggest otherwise. IT was helpful to keep an eye on her but by the looks of this cold distant look she wasn't exactly a team player for long terms.

Ryukala had different thoughts. She suspected all of their past selves toons had ended up here, the game only allowed for 21 characters to be made at any given time. If her memory was to be trusted they had a total of 18 toons made and so far a total of 13 had been made accounted for by her math. The other six were traveling with the Warrior Priestess Tomoe and her attendant Shizuka the ladder of which Ryukala didn't trust. While Ryukala was off alone she was learning what she could and found that this world was similar to Tera's in certain aspects. Prime being that Gainos and Hinomoto were the ancient names of the two titans whose bodies helped make up the two major continents. This world had also spawned its own gods seeing as she had taken a trip to Kaiator and met with the Armani. The Elin and Popolin lived in the forest while Alamenthia was abandoned for some time after Amara had stolen the Core and used it to banish the Elves from their home.

Gaining the aid of the Elves, Elin, and Popolin was something to bring to the table for long terms. The elves don't belong in those woods it's sucking up more resources then they realized and causing some tensions between the three. IF the Elves can return to their ancient home of Alamanthea then in theory all three sides in this standoff would be grateful to them. Two sides for restoring the balance of the forest and the Elves for helping them regain their ancient home after so long.

Echidna had even told her what she could of the Elven Forest and in turn she may be able to use Freylah, Lezanda, or both to help with this plan. Regardless she needed to focus on the current plan as is. After she had left the other group at that beach location she had explored a great deal one of them being Alamanthea. The Core was gone so the city basically died without its main power source, return the Core and in turn the City would live once more. Only an Elf can contain the power of the Core, if Lezanda can get the Core and become its vessel she could take it to the Elven Forrest and begin a great exodus for the elven people to at long last return home. The Core would be the guide and in turn Alamanethia would live once more. It was a long term plan so she had to make sure Lezanda got it to make it happen.

Regardless Risty and Leina were giving Echidna the stink eye but since she's apparently Ryukala partner they kept to themselves mostly. During this the groups of split Isekai's were having a Private conversation amongst themselves. "Did you sick those Orcs on us?" Hezreaus asked as he walked with the wagon.

"Yes I did I needed to make sure you start building a name for yourself." Ryukala responded not even denying it.

"She's not wrong." Lezanda added as Lorondos nodded.

"So our other selves also arrived to this world?" Lorondos asked as Ryukala silently nodded.

"Yes. I saw the minute they arrived, and when they arrived I was already here for about a year." Ryukala said and in turn this got them thinking. "I can't go full detail but they arrived in a group of six. If you had done the same that means any more would have to be in a group of six." Ryukala explained and thus PamiPami spoke up.

"So that means counting you there are currently 13 of us in all on this world?" PamiPami asked and thus Ryukala nodded.

"Yes and that is assuming the other six didn't arrive before I did or are arriving as we speak." Ryukala said and Freylah had to ask.

"You've been busy looking for them?" Freylah asked but Ryukala turned her head.

"No I was not I only kept my ear open for them it would be a waste of time and effort to actively look for them." Ryukala said coldly showing she wasn't going to needlessly waste resources on something that could a pointless wild goose chase.

"She is cold." Inferneius said and thus this provided them with more useful information for later.

"Anyway a word of warning Echidna and I had awoken a Dragon earlier a weak one but its locally known to be powerful, try to best it when it shows up to further your name." Ryukala said as she looked to the group via the PM Messages.

"Wait you what?!" Freylah asked and in turn the Merchant began speaking again.

"We're almost there." The Merchant said getting everyone's attention once more on the job at hand.

"That's good save for the Orc's and Bandits it's been pretty straight forward." PamiPami said as she skipped along with the group.

"Quiet." Lorondos agreed with a nod of confirmation to the statement.

"Once more thank you for taking this job if I had gone without protection I would have been dead by now." He said to which it was true enough after all.

"It was our pleasure." Leina confirmed as she smiled to the travelling Merchant.

Just then the group heard a rumbling sound that affected even the ground under their feet. They in turn all looked torts each other before heading off in order to investigate its source. From the sound of it the source came from nearby which wasn't good if it was close to the village.

They in turn saw a massive draconic form making its way torts the village making them go wide eyed to this. "Oh no it can't be!" The Merchant cried out as he looked to the creature in terror.

"You know what this is?" Ryukala asked feigning ignorance.

"Yes the people of this village call it the king of the Basilisks, deep in the forest many Basilisks roam but this one was different all other monsters feared it and in turn it ruled the forest." The Merchant said as they all heard this. "The Basilsks in general of course keep our village safe by being the strongest predators in the area but this one was the alpha among them." He said as they saw the Basilisk making its way torts the village.

"We need to stop it." Hezreaus said as he stood up glaring at the beast. For him this was just an unusual form of the Basilisk from Tera one of the first large monsters you face in the field. It also acted as a guild quest, slay five of them and your reputation goes up for it. With this fact in mind they had the perfect way to help boost their reputations on this part of the continent.

"What you can't it's too powerful!" The Merchant cried out in shock to this.

"Perhaps but if we can stall it at least it will give you all time to evacuate the village." Hezreaus said as he glared at the beast.

"He's right." Risty said as Echidna agreed.

"Then it's decided, we'll hold it off the rest of you head to the village and warn them in the event we fail." Ryukala said and thus they all got moving. Once the wagon with Echidna, Leina, Risty, the Merchant, and the bandits were gone the group looked to each other and smirked a bit.

"Here's the plan one hit it and then wreck the area to make it look like a major battle took place, we'll injure each other some and in turn we basically rigged a great battle." Hezreaus said as they were all in agreement on this.

"Of course." Ryukala said as that confirmed they were who they said they were for her.

"Let's move out." Lezanda said and thus they went on the move. This Basilisk was about a good 10 levels above the regular Level 19 or 20 monsters suggesting it was a rare field boss or even a bounty in Tera. Still they were Level 65's with powerful armor rates to and boosted stats for it. This beast would be child's play for them but the point of this was to make it SEEM like they struggled to beat it. It was dishonest yes but if other Players from other accounts saw them then they at least have a means to gather them.

(Scene Break hours later in Cresentia)

Leina and Risty had arrived with the Merchant and the Echidna. They started trying to tell the people what was coming but when it came to the three warrior woman they didn't believe them. But the Merchant man they believed showing he was beloved in this area. Thus they began the needed evacuations to a safe location until the danger had passed. Many people grabbed only what they needed and nothing else.

As Leina and Risty helped guide the efforts it felt like hours were going by. The village wasn't big but it wasn't small either. They still had to make sure the nearest town Lumbertown was also aware of what was going on. As they all got ready to leave with only the bare essentials a new commotion was heard. They all ran over as whispers were being made in response. The group of travelers seeing this all began to walk torts the source and carefully squeezed their way to the front. When they got there they were all wide eyed at what they saw before them.

Hezreaus and his party plus Ryukala were arriving with the corpse of the Basilisk King being carried from different points by PamiPami, Hezreaus, Lorondos, and Inferneius. People were amazed at what they saw this group had done the impossible. Freylah was limping using her Runeglaive while Lezanda was carrying Ryukala on her back showing they all went through the ringer on this. People were already talking at this point as they entered the village with the now dead Basilisk King.

"The danger is over." Hezreaus said as everyone was amazed at this group of unknown warriors saving their village.

"Top of the food chain my ass." Freylah said mocking the monster as they entered the village

"Can we have some medical attention?" Lorondos asked and in turn the people either began cheering or helping the group. In turn Leina and Risty began to wonder how powerful they really were.

(Scene Break that evening)

The Basilisk remains was given to the local Guild Hub who had all but promoted them to a Platinum Plate. Leina and Risty became Silver Plates as already the hall was talking about them. The Guild Hall would sell the remains and ensure these heroes received their reward for it. Ryukala and Echidna also turned in their bounties and were of course paid handsomely for it. Celebrations were heard and in turn day eventually made way for night. Hence why they were all gathered in the local tavern. Leina and Risty had gone to sleep not too long ago while Echidna did the same.

Thus only the seven were left as the six originals all gathered around Ryukala who looked to them. "Now then since we have time how did you end up here and where are the others." Hezreaus said as Ryukala looked to them.

"Like I said I was already here in this when they arrived, I was in Hinomoto for a job when I literally happened upon their arrival." Ryukala said as she then sighed a bit. "That is where our story begins." Ryukala said and in turn they all listened to Ryukala and her tale. They were all curious for what she had to say and agreed to save all questions for the very end of the Elin Reapers story that would hopefully provide them with needed answers for their questions.

(TBC)

ESKK: Well here you go a new chapter. I hoped you all enjoyed it and stick around for the next chapter. Anyway please leave a review before you leave and as I again say ja-ne.