Crimson Dust: Pet and pet equals two pets
I slowly wake up on a hard ground and try to move my fingers, I get on my feet and look around. I'm in some sort of village.
„You okay?" I hear a soft female voice.
I turn around to face the girl and nod my head but the stranger grabs my arm.
„You just arrived, right? I only came, too. Shall we go together in order to level up?" I nod and follow her into a cave. As soon as we step into it we are attacked by small, furry creatures that look like foaming rabbits. After good 30 minutes we reached Level 10 and went to the village
„What do you want to be? An archer, a knight, a mage or maybe something else? I'm gonna be a knight" She tells me excited.
I point to the sorcerer sign and she tells me the requirements.
She turns to leave but stops „If you need help, my name is 'Clock'. Until next time Dust!" she waves and continues on her way.
I accomplish the requirements with ease and become a sorcerer. I purchase fitting robes and a staff and go back into the cave. Beside being able to achieve higher skill levels and technics, I'm able to level up a lot. The deeper I venture into the cave the stronger the monsters. The caves boss is surprisingly a frog but I manage to defeat it with a few spells.
The boss leaves behind an egg and some gold which I take. I have no idea about that egg stuff so I went to that pet store or whatever it is. First: The egg hatched into a black cat, Second: Cats aren't born through eggs, Third: I'm the cats new owner, Four: I'm rather lazy so I called the kitty '3 o'clock', Five: 3 o'clock calls me 'mama', is that normal?
Normally a person would say that it was fun till now but did it seem to you that I'm having fun? I don't but this game is just to pass time, so it's alright.
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/I defeated some idiot player that was apparently this continents second strongest... Yip-py.../ I look desinterested at the group before me whose leader came back from the revival point.
„You brat! I will beat you up!" he shouts while his man hold him down.
„How about we settle this at the battle arena? Every player can fight against every player there so you can beat her and win a grand battle at the same time, boss?" one man tries to reason.
We both agree to the mans idea in the end, not that I care about it. It's only been five days since my arrivel but I manage quite well. But that guy sure had some nerve, I may not care if they beat me up but that doesn't meen they can step on 3 o'clock and say it doesn't matter afterwards. Even if my pet is just part of the game, that doesn't mean that I don't care about him. 'Just a pet!' they said. Not true, 3 o'clock is my only friend and he understands me well. Humph!
/Just you wait, I will make pancakes out of you!/ I walk away with 3 o'clock close behind me. The grand battle that the pigs subordinate mentioned is a fight that happens in every continent but there's a difference for the Shadow continent. Since there are only around 600- 700 players on this continent, you can either battle with a team or alone. I will of course be fighting alone and without 3 o'clock since pets aren't allowed.
I will make a few quests till then cause there's still time. I look for possible quests and find one, I'm supposed to find herbs in a nearby forest. /There are only tree-demons... does that mean that the boss is one, too?/ I lean against a normal tree to rest when I notice a sword near me, I pick it up and continue to rest.
/Enough rest, I need to go/ I sit up and stretch, ready to go on. I reach the middle of the forest, it's said that the boss is here. I look around as something strikes me from behind. I swirl around and block the next attack with my staff. I jump back a few feet and concentrate on my magic attack. My opponent is fast and I can't see him so I need a large area attack. My shoulder gets pierced and I fire my spell, I hear a groan but the attacks continue.
I create a barrier and block the attacks with it but creaks already form. I release a shockwave of energy in all directions and a body gets slammed into a tree. I let the barrier shatter and walk over to the man that seems to belong to the demon race. This is defenitly the boss, he has tied black hair that reaches his waist and wears light armor. In his hand is a sword that was possibly from a player that came across him, he looks at me and I hand him the sword I found. His eyes widen and he mutters his thanks.
I find the herbs not far from him and go back to the village and the NPC follows me. I take out a notepad and ask what the matter is.
You don't need that, I can understand human speech. You completed the secret quest and I'm now your human-pet, I hear his voice in my head.
I try to do the same using the PM system, Can you hear me?, he nods which I didn't expect, I never heard about a secret quest like that.
You need to find my sword, beat me but without killing me and give me my sword. You fullfilled the requirements and now I need to follow your commands, he looks at me.
Your name?, I ask and he shakes his head, How about Kaikishoku?
Kaikishoku? If you that's what you want, he replys.
I'm asking for your opinion, I unknowingly pull his cheek.
I think it's a fine name, he pulls my cheek in return.
I give up on the matter and bring the herbs to the village chief when realization dawns upon me /Did I... did I just... talk with someone? I did it via PM and was more like thinking between each other but it was somehow talking, right? Right?! / The village chief asks me if I'm alright and I nod.
