Well...I think I'm alive
I lied down, regaining my comfortable position.
Suddenly I felt pain in my stomach.
"What's wrong?!" He panicked, standing up. "My stomach hurts..." I weakly replied then it made a grumble sound.
He sighed in relief "Your just hungry." Then sat back down again. "Hungry? Never felt that before..." I must had said that out loud because he is now staring at me, wide eyed. There's only one thought in my mind.
Opps.
I snapped out of my thoughts when I realized he is really close to my face right now.
"I forgot that you resemble the archer in the game." He explained, obviously wanted some explanation.
Now it's my turn to talk...
"Well... Technically you could say... I'm not exactly human..." I tried to explain. "Other than the pointed ears?" He asked, trying to ease the athmosphere. I smiled "other than the pointed ears."
My stomach grumbled. He started laughing. Then his stomach grumbled. We laugh together.
"Want to talk this over dinner?" He asked, standing up again."sounds nice" I replied.
He removed his blue hoodie , revealing his plain white t-shirt, and threw it to me. I stared at him. "Well you have to wear something else or people will think your a npc or something." He said.
I nodded then wore his hoodie.
Big.
"I guess this should do for now." I said then placed the hood over my head.
This short trip reminded me how Lagendia is changing.
Beyond the carnival of Calderock lies a new town that is obviously not part of the game. Bright lights covering square-ish buildings that are not made of wood but some strong like substances. People walking, still in a sense of disrupt but seems normal.
Well...not normal for me though.
"Are you okay?" He asked while we're walking down beside the black and yellow path. "I'm fine just...adjusting to the change of appearance... When did you find this place?" I asked. "I found this place yesterday when I was training with Chandler." He happily remembered. "You should have seen his face he was shocked." He snickered and I smiled at the image.
I can't help but to stare the places. Everything looks so different it's like...
"Another world." I said in awe.
He made a soft laugh.
I looked at him "Is this what your world looks like?" I asked. "Yep well I might be boring to me but I guess it's a whole new experience for you." He smiled.
We went in to a place where they serve food. We sat down, he ordered, then we started talking.
"So...explanation?" He asked.
I took a deep breath. "I'm not a human. I am technically and elf but more importantly...a bug" I said.
"A bug? Like the error in the game?" He asked.
I nodded " yes, I was created along when the game was first created." I continued. "So your like 5 years old?" He questioned.
This made me stop to think about this... All of the time of loneliness and happiness just happened in a span of 5 years when it feels like forever.
"Well... I guess?" I said, not really sure.
I cleared my throat.
"Any questions?" I asked. He is lost in his thoughts.
"Hello?" I wave my hand in front of him.
He snapped out of it." Oh...sorry just...trying to...you know."
I nodded in understanding. "It's fine."
Our food arrived. There are balls of mushy stuff and squids and others. He introduce the food that has a Japanese name and we started eating.
It was delicious
"So... What does you usually do? Are there others like you?..." He bombarded me with questions.
"Woah woah slow down one by one please." I requested.
"Oh sorry, so what do you usually do?" He asked
"I actually do what I want I guess...so far I've not seen any other bugs than me." I said. "I have to act normal in towns and in parties so people won't report and I'll get deleted." I continued.
He's absorbing the information.
"How about the current situation?" He asked.I sighed "let me say in advance that I'm sorry about me being mean to you before okay?" I asked.
He nodded while smiling.
I'm glad.
"Okay" I continued " the world of langendia and your world became one."
"Woah..." Is his reaction.
"Is that even possible I mean like in sci fi stories?" He questioned and took at bite at the mushy balls."Apparently it's possible." I replied, also taking a bite.
He gulp down his food.
"Is there a way to fix this?" He asked. I shook my head "I don't know how..." My head slumped down."Hmm... We'll find a way eventually." He encourage me and took the last mushy ball.
"Hey! You finished the mushy balls!" I exclaimed. He swallowed " it's what you call takoyaki."
"Not used to it."
"The call it mushy balls."
"Fine."
I can't help but to chuckle at the conversation and he chuckled along with me.
"Wanna leave now?" He asked me. I nodded " yeah, we have a long day tomorrow."We went out and returned to our tents. We both fell asleep.
I'm back in the system. Numbers of codes around me. The intruder typing in more changes. My head hurts.
What's written? I can't tell. My vision is to foggy but the words I could make out is...
I woke up with a migraine. I groan in pain and closed my eyes to rest a little longer. After a while my headache is gone and when I looked for Ragnos I saw a note instead.
Training with Chandler
Meet you at the fountain for lunch.
-Ragnos
I stood up and stretched a bit then went out.
When I went out, I realized that it's already noon so I quickly ran to the
Fountain and when I arrived he is
Already there waiting.
"I'm sorry I'm late. I sorta just woke up." I told him. He smiled "it's fine we slept pretty late last night so no worries."I sighed " so how's your training with Chandler?" I asked.
His whole face brighten up, as if he remembered something. "Oh yeah! Chandler ask me to go to a dungeon for training. He said you can join if you want."
I thought for a moment. ' I have nothing else to do so...'
"Sure I'll join you... So where are we going?" I asked.
" Well he said that we should go to the forest of death. Since it's near afternoon, the monsters won't be that strong as night time." He answered.
"Well then let's go?"
Then we started walking to our destination.
"It's creepy here, both game and and reality." He said with a shiver.
We already in the second part of the dungeon, passing through the gate that opens only if you activate the crystals.
In the second part of the dungeon, you have to activate 3 crystals in order to proceed to the next stage. Each time you active a crystal monsters appears.
"Look the first crystal." I pointed out. He nodded then touched the crystal. The crystal went to a circular motion before going down to the ground. Around the crystals, skeletons and ghouls started to wake up.
"Ready!" I shouted.
The ghouls attacked.
Ragnos did a series of swords swings, defeating the ghouls.
I shot multiples of arrows first then did twin shots then a kick to the skeletons.
All the monsters where defeated and it's time to move to the next crystal.
We did the same thing the second time then went to the last one.
"Finally! After this it's boss time." He smiled excitedly then touch the 3rd crystal.
Trolls and skeletons appeared.
"Let's go!" He said.
The troll immediately rolled towards Ragnos as he is distracted by the skeletons. "Look out!" I shouted then used multi shot to the troll to stop it's spinning. Ragnos took the opportunity to finish it.
"Thank you."
"No problems."
Then we went back beating monsters until he accidentally sliced the spider egg apart.
"Oh no." He said, Knowing the consequences.
"You finish the rest while I take the spiders!" I shouted.
He immediately agreed then ran as far away as possible where he could fight the others.
Spiders appeared.
"I guess you have to stick with me instead." I told them then readied my arrows
"Did I forgot to mention I hate spiders." He asked, trying to release his tension as we walked across the gate to the last stage.
"Nope but I almost forgot that you have Arachnophobia." I answered.
He sight. "You do know there's still spiders at the last part right?" I reminded him. He shivered in fear and I chuckled.
"Hey! they're just really creepy okay?!" He defended. I laugh some more "Okay okay" and I stopped.
"Is it me or it's getting dark?" He observed. I look at the sky. "Oh no we have to hurry before the monsters gets too strong." Then we started running.
We passed by few trees as we followed a small path.
"We're here." I told him.
A big blue ghoul appeared from the ground and spiders crawled from behind.
"Are you ready?" I asked him. He took a deep breath "As long as I don't fight the spiders." "Deal."
Then we charged.
I did a multi shot on 3 spiders then willow kicked them and did a twin shot to another spiders and a magic shot to a far group of spiders but during the process I got shot by a web then slowed down a bit.
He did and impact wave on the ghoul then rising slash combo with destructive swing and kept on attacking.
The ghoul did a counter attack , making Ragnos lose his rhythm, then freezed him. If you listen carefully you can hear him say. "Oh great..."
Then the ghoul started attacking him.
I turned around, surprised to see him frozen, then immediately shot a magic arrow to stop it. The ghoul did stopped but now it's attention is on me.
"Oh no..." I started running while it chased me.
I kept on doing twin shots, multi shot when It got too near, But the web is still in effect and I'm injured from fighting spiders so I am having a hard time out running it. The ghoul is getting too close and I ran out of mana.
Ragnos finally broke free and started running but he's too far to help.
And the worst case scenario is that I got frozen.
The ghoul jumped at me, biting me then started slashing at me. It really hurts. The ghoul is about to finished me until...
A piercing shot found it's target.
I have no excuse for this delay than I lost inspiration. I don't think I would write this now if for my bro to say that he'll try DN then we talked about it. So I thank my bro for reviving my inspiration :)
So before I end I want to ask...
What do you guys think about genderbent classes?