- Chapter Five -

The beginning stages of wielding a long sword kinda suck. But, it has it's advantages. We were in a field a few hundred yards outside of The Town of Beginnings when we encountered our first fight.

A few boars were roaming around the field so Ronin decided to try out his newly acquired katana. He rose it to his shoulder and it instantly started glowing red. Flashing forward, he hit it with a seven hit combo, exploding it into a million blue shards.

"Beta tester" I scoffed at him, joking about his previous experience. That's when two more boar approached. "I got these." I snarled. Taking out my massive Iron Sabre, I finally felt exactly how heavy it was to swing. A few practice swings later, I started walking towards the swine duo.

I got within 20 yards before they even noticed me. "These things must be the lowest level in this game." I thought to myself.

As if to prove me wrong, both boars charged me at the same time. I barely had time to react when the first one hit me. Ronin let out a laugh from across the field that did nothing but piss me off. I kicked the nearest boar in the nose and brought my giant sword down into the back of its head. It exploded into blue shards. "Wow, one hit?" I grinned.

I charged the second boar and swung my sword as hard as I could into its side. It's health dropped to barely a sliver of red. That's when a small knife came flying out of nowhere and lodged itself into one of the boar's eyes, taking the rest of its health. It also turned into blue shards and the knife fell to the ground.

"What the fuck!?" I yelled and turned to Ronin.

"You didn't think I only had one weapon did you?" He said, approaching with a smile and picking up his knife. He continued, "I got an extra 500 col for being a beta tester so I bought a set of throwing knives before I saw this bad boy." He pointed towards his katana.

I glared at him, mostly because he took my last kill but I was also extremely jealous that he got 1500 col. I mean, I could've got a pretty decent bow with that much!

That made me think about the Iron Sabre I bought though. It just took out two boars with almost a single hit each. I probably would've had to shoot at least five arrows at each of them to do that.

Ronin spoke up, "Come on. Let's hit up the next field and grind some more. You can't use your familiar until you hit level two."

"Holy shit, you're right!" I replied and followed him back to the path.

I was so immersed into the game that I completely forgot about Sampson. "Don't worry little buddy," I said to myself, but before I could say anything else a loud bell sounded and Ronin instantly turned into blue shards. I freaked out grabbing for him, then I was transported back to the cathedral right next to him and the almost 25,000 other players.