Fantasy World Online's
Leveling squad
[Fantasy World Online's
Avante, Sofya city.]
Yuna walked leisurely through the streets of Sofya while occasionally listening to the conversations of the players who settled in the city. Yuna stopped as she saw quite a number of players gathered in one place near a statue of a Phoenix bird, she then walked over to the group of players.
"Alright, for you new players, I as an old player will guide you to level up your character quickly. First of all, to level up, you must hunt down monsters that have levels above you. For example, if your level is 5 then the monsters you have to hunt are monsters level 10 and below, respectively, more than that you will not be able to and if you are able to experience obtained will not be too big and tend to be small."
Yuna who heard the male player's explanation in front of all the other players smiled faintly as she recalled her past.
'Seeing this incident made me think of the old MMORPGs I used to play as a soloist. Too often I helped Newbie at that time even though after they became pros I was forgotten like there never was, hahah pathetic indeed.'
Yuna smiled wryly as she thought about the end of what she did back then when VR had yet to take over the game world like it is today.
"Alright, for now, let's hunt monsters in Sofya's underground labyrinth, because your current level has stepped on the number 25 and above then there is the most appropriate hunting place. All right, let's make a squad of 4 players each and then after that we go there."
The player who spoke was named Kronos and was seen using high-end gear that was expensive. Yuna just silently did not make any movements until all the players there had formed a squad of 4 people each. The number of squads formed is 4 squads while there are two players left plus him and the player named Kronos who has not formed a squad.
'They lack members, if Kronos joins then there will be less than one. Maybe I'll join their squad.'
"It seems fitting to form 5 squads of 4 people, well I will lead the final squad." Kronos said as he sent a squad formation invitation to the two remaining players along with Yuna.
Yuna looked at the window that appeared in front of her asking for her approval to form the squad sent by the player named Kronos. Yuna raised her hand and pressed the agree button, after which she observed the HP and levels of the other members especially the levels belonging to Kronos.
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Party Members
Leader: [Lv.140][Cronos][HP 13000/13000]
1st: [Lv.26][Claude][HP 3000/3000]
2nd: [Lv.25][Steven][HP 2800/2800]
3rd: [Lv.21][Yuna][HP 780/780]
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'Level 140 yes. He seemed to have fought hard enough to get to that level.'
Yuna stared at Kronos, who was also staring at her with a smiling face.
"Friends, you guys have already noticed the level and HP of the squad members, right?" Getting a nod from everyone made Kronos smile.
"Alright, for those of you who are small HP please be careful because one attack from the monster we will fight is quite large around 690 damage points. If you can avoid it, do not resist the monster attack because it will still damage you even though it is small. For those whose HP is quite large I hope you can protect members whose HP is small so that the member does not die which will make the member affected by the penalty of loss of experience. Is there something you don't understand?" Kronos finished his explanation with a question but no player asked until Yuna raised her hand.
"Yes, there's something you don't understand, Yuna?" Ask Kronos.
"Um, what when a player dies that player will die for real?" Yuna asked in a frightened tone.
'Every action is important to seek information from veteran players like her, I have to behave like a timid woman.'
"No, that player won't die for real, so just calm down, okay?" Yuna nodded despite still showing a scared expression on her face.
"Well, even though this FWO was thrown with the news of a player killed in this game, it is, but it's still uncertain and I'll protect you if there's a mysterious player like in the news a while ago." Kronos said with a smile to calm Yuna who looked scared.
'So there is news like that, although not published to the media by those who know it. I have to find out more information from Kronos, maybe he knows something considering he is an old player of this game.'
"Um, thank you." Yuna said slowly but could still be heard by the players who were there.
"Well, it doesn't matter, Yuna. Oh yeah, you'll attack from behind me, because it looks like you're a bow weapon user and again your HP is so small that you'll be easy to kill because monsters will be easier to target players whose level is the smallest among other players." Kronos said as he glanced at the list of his squad members where he saw that Yuna's level was the smallest among the others.
Yuna who heard that only nodded slowly, she then walked up to her squad members while speaking.
"Um, Kronos, I don't have a strong attack power, can I really help?" Yuna asked with a doubtful face which of course was only pretending because Yuna was actually a professional veteran player who was doing a mission from VR FO which was none other than a government-owned organization, and again Yuna was originally a man.
"It doesn't matter, after all, there's me who can kill those monsters easily. So you don't have to think about that, Yuna." Kronos said with a smile.
Yuna returned Kronos' smile with a beautiful smile that only exists in this VR world because she is only pretending to be a woman at the moment, so that when searching for information is easier than when using a male character. The character of Kronos who saw Yuna's smile blushing red made the player turn his gaze in another direction.
'Looks like she blushed, hadeh~' Yuna just looked at Kronos with a smile that belonged to her but in her heart that was none other than Aziz was sweat drop to see the incident because the player could be blushed by the smile of a game character which is not yet certain the player has the same gender as his character.
"Once again thank you, I hope I don't become a team burden." Yuna said.
After the above conversation, Yuna follows Kronos to the outskirts of the city and descends into an iron door into the underground labyrinth of Sofya city where they will hunt monsters to level up their characters.
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[Fantasy World Online's
Avante, Sofya City: Labyrinth - Room 1.]
Yuna walked behind Kronos while the other 2 members of her squad walked behind her. The other four squads walked beside Yuna's squad, they walked carefully following Kronos who was walking at the very front of all of them.
"Alright," Kronos stopped walking, he turned around and looked one by one at the faces of all the players behind him with a serious face.
"Front there is the gathering point of monsters level 28-33, remember what I said earlier, you must protect the members whose HP is the smallest so as not to be killed. Although we are not really dead, it's good you think this game is a game of life and death so you are not easily off guard and become a team burden later. Then come on!"
Everyone nodded at Kronos' words. They continued their steps towards a fairly large area but located in the corner of the first room of the underground labyrinth of Sofya city.
"You need to know, in every room there will be a mini boss. The mini boss acts as the key to opening the next room so we have to defeat him if we want to go deeper, and the deeper the mini boss will get stronger, including the monsters usually." While walking Kronos explained about Sofya's underground labyrinth to the novice player behind it.
"Ano,, Kronos,"
"Yes?"
"Is the item from the mini boss any good?" Ask a player from the second squad who has the name Juna.
"Hm, not really. Depending on the level of difficulty, the more difficult the mini boss the items to be dropped will be the better, roughly that's how simple it is." Answer Kronos.
"That's it, hm. Alright, I'll try to get a good item, especially the fixtures since the fixtures in the store are too expensive for beginners who don't have as much money as me." Said Juna nodding.
They finally reached a large enough area that became a gathering place for monsters level 28-33. With the command of Kronos they fight the monsters until they run out, after the monsters run out new monsters appear and so on until several waves until the mini boss appears. His mini boss, Titax, is a giant one-eyed monster or Cyclops. The mini boss had a level 35 and carried a barbed hammer as his weapon.
"Boss appeared!"
"Protect the small HP, Tankers be prepared for your position!" Kronos said firmly commanding the new players.
"Good!"
Four players advanced in front of their respective squad members. While the Kronos squad, Kronos himself who stood at the front acted as a Tanker even though he was a two-handed sword user.
'I thought Cyclops would appear in the woods, but it turns out in the labyrinth like this. And again, it looks like I've been locked by that monster huh…'
Yuna took her bow that was on her back, she then prepared with the horses to pull the strings of her bow even though she had not touched it yet.
"Ready! Attack!" Kronos shouted loudly making all melee players advance forward to launch an attack on the monster, while ranged players like Mage and Archer like Yuna stood behind while launching their attacks.
Yuna pulled out her bow strings and made a move to activate her skill.
"Strong shot." Yuna muttered softly while releasing an arrow shot strong enough to make Titax, the Cyclops monster was hit by stun effects for 2 seconds.
'I had expected, the mini boss has a higher endurance than ordinary monsters. In any fantasy game it must be like that, hah~'
Yuna let out a sigh of resignation as her attack was not so meaningful as to cripple the monster.
"Good! Yuna, prepare your skill attack again, make the mini boss stop moving!" Kronos orders without looking back.
"Good!" Reply Yuna while preparing with the same skill because she only had that one skill.
"Claude, go ahead and use your skills!"
"okay!" Claude replied as he darted forward while positioning his one-handed sword on his shoulder, the sword glowed blue then…
"Quick-fetch!" Claude shouted loudly as his body was moved by the system to perform a vertical slash with a decent speed towards the mini boss who was ready with an attack of his own.
"Roni, resist the boss's attack, and follow up with your respective skill attacks!" Kronos continues and continues to command all squads to defeat his mini boss. The slash after slash of the sword and spear users did to reduce the HP of the boss. Magic attacks and arrows also rained down on Titax making HP bars reduced a lot until the mini boss in the form of Cyclops was destroyed into shards in the form of program data which then disappeared.
"Wooo! I level up!"
"Me too!"
"Yes, I got a better sword than mine!"
Cheers with a happy tone were thrown from the mouth of players who leveled up or got items from defeating the mini boss Titax the Cyclops.
Kronos smiled looking at the happy expressions on the faces of the Newbies he was guiding, Kronos then looked towards Yuna because he saw the woman was just silent even though Yuna also leveled up from defeating the mini boss.
"What's up, Yuna?" Kronos asked confusedly.
"There's nothing, I just thought of something." Yuna replied with a smile.
"Is that so?" Kronos said a little.
"Yes." Yeah."
After that they continued their journey to find a way to the next room because as the name of the labyrinth, of course the door to the next room must still be somewhere else, he said, it feels like a puzzle where a player has to find his entrance after getting the key.
They continued to eradicate the monsters that appeared in the first room while looking for the door to the next room where it was.
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[Fantasy World Online's
Avante, Sofya City: Labyrinth - Room 10.]
"Crazy! To find the door for so long, I got dizzy circling around here and there just to find the door!" Steven yelled in frustration because it had been about 3 hours he was with all the squads there looking for the entrance to room 11 but they had not found it at all until now.
"You're right, compared to the mini boss, finding the door is harder. I think I'll just log out of here, I'm too tired of the thought of looking for the door." Said a player named Leon.
"Yes right, I haven't eaten since this morning either." Said another player named Ritano.
"Hey brother Kronos, don't you know the location of the door? Old player." Said a player named Yukie with a tired face even though only mentally tired because the stamina feature has not been applied to the game so that players can not feel tired in the game even though they have been fighting for hours even if.
"Haha, I'm sorry, starting from this room and then the door was always moving from a known starting location to another unknown place. Maybe it's better we go back to the city, and the more frustrated you are, you will just lose the spirit of playing this game later." Kronos said as he scratched his head with a nervous smile as he seemed to have forgotten to tell them about the level within the labyrinth.
"Hah~ you're right, after all how do we get back to the city when we just don't know the location of the door if we were to find the door to room 11?" Said a player named Angga with a resigned face.
"There's a teleportation crystal, we can use it."
"Huh? You don't know yes, those teleportation crystals are quite expensive, and after all we currently don't have any of those crystals!" Juna said as he looked at the player who had just spoken.
"But I have 100 seeds, I bought them with real money."
All were speechless hearing the confession of the player named Kattie.
"Basic, you even bought a teleportation crystal with real money, would you really prefer an instant one over the result of a struggle?!" Juna said with an annoyed face for nothing.
"What's? You think I'm not working hard to make money in the real world what?!" Kattie's yelling doesn't take it.
"Have not made a fuss, we better go back to the city, don't fight in the labyrinth like this." Claude said mediate.
Yuna stared at the incident with a confused face even though she was actually in her heart, she was just sweating drop at the moment, how not they become a storm like that just because looking for the door to the next room that did not meet at all from earlier, then on complaining all the way to the end discussing teleportation crystals and such a storm. Yuna sighed then turned her gaze towards Kronos intending to ask for a solution since he was the leader of all these squads.
Kronos who understood the meaning of Yuna's gaze only scratched his head while thinking.
"Ehem! I'm sorry in advance because I forgot to tell you about the levels in this Sofya city labyrinth. Next time I will explain in more detail when we want to hunt here again. For now let's go back to the city using this teleportation crystal." Kronos said as he took out 38 teleportation crystals and distributed them to all the players there with each player getting 2 crystals.
"This? You seriously gave us this crystal?"
"Yes, use that to return to the city, that too as my apology for forgetting about peting things like the levels in this labyrinth. Already let's go back, sometime if we come back here I'll explain first the level to you guys." Kronos said it ended with taking out one teleportation crystal for him to use himself.
"Then come on. Teleport, Sofya City!"
All players except Yuna return to the city with Kronos-given crystal. Yuna just stood still looking at the teleportation crystal that Kronos gave her which was a different color on its own compared to the one given to other players by Kronos.
'As I recall, blue is normal, green is highclass, and red is Ultimate. Why did that Kronos give me the red crystal? Two more at once.'
Yuna only sighed then she walked over to return to the city without using the Kronos-given teleportation crystal.
'The price of this crystal is very expensive one fruit, I will sell only one and the other I will save for my use if needed someday. After all I've been stuck in a maze like this since the second VR Game back then.' Yuna then looked at the list of members of her squad who one by one name there disappeared leaving her and Kronos.
'Until we meet again, Kronos. I'm sorry I deceived you.'
Yuna scratched her head and out of her squad members made the list of her squad members disappear completely with the notification the Squad dissolved she received from the system.
'Tomorrow I should buy a pretty good kit with money from selling these Kronos-given teleportation crystals.'
Seriate…
