16th of December
My opinion of other people's been changed. I was terrified of them the day of the riots, but now I'm just disgusted. I went back on edge, even more alert than if I was entering a dungeon, but I just saw players walking about with their heads low. They were ashamed.
Ashamed of what they'd done, ashamed of what they'd done because they were scared and ignorant and stupid and idiotic and retarded! I really hated them. I was pretty close to PK'ing the nearest person, but I restrained myself. I wondered if the people would just forget about it and try to pretend like it never happened. Gritting my teeth, I walked in and brought supplies, then headed for the 2nd floor dungeon as quickly as possible. I didn't get to the third floor though. Apparently vitality potions only deadened the fatigue, and Akihiko had worked in a way for the players to feel stiff muscles. I wasn't as quick as I had been, and I took a few hits from the orcs in the dungeon. I tried to rest and keep going, but I could see I would run out of healing potions soon. I also took a deeper wound to my leg when I got careless and I had to use vitality potion to quicken my reflexes and dull the pain in my leg to finish off the orc.
After that I sat down and rested while I watched the other players try to go up. I saw a couple of groups go up, then saw a huge tide of players rush up the stairs. Typical. These players were too scared to go up on their own and weren't good enough to go up in the first wave, so this was their solution. I had to admit, it got them up to the next floor without losing any lives, and if it cleared out the town then that made it all the better for me.
I limped out of the dungeon and decided to work on my sword skills. I hadn't up to know because I just wanted to get a feel for the battle system, but now it seemed like I needed the skills to get past. I teleported back to the first floor and started to work on the boars. I tried to use sonic leap, but doing it in the training hall in town, and doing it when a boar was charging at you are two different things. I had to do a weird movement with my sword, but I always either tensed up or rushed it when the enemy came at me, and I always just ended up killing it without using any skills.
But after a day or two, I could execute the skill pretty easily.