Legacy of the Betelgeuse

Chapter 13 - Episode 13: Our Adventure Begin.

I bought lots of food ingredients and some snacks from NPC in the market. We walked past the southern gate. I plan to go to the No Man's Land where the people of Orion chose to not be part of the three sovereignty. In there, there's an NPC that we need to see. Taking the first step to trigger the story quest from this old scroll.

Emma whipped her whip sword towards the level 15 goblin. The goblin's head chopped off and fell to the ground from the impact. I was watching her killing those goblins like flies. I was surprised with how good she is using the whip sword. She said she never played any MMORPG and has no experience in this, but I'm pretty sure she's experienced enough with role-playing by judging how good she was with the whip.

Emma is tilting her head and staring at me.

"What were you thinking just now?"

I chuckle and shake my head.

"Nothing. What is your level now?"

Emma is opening her status screen.

"My level is 22 now."

I nod and approach her.

"Can you share your status screen with me?"

Emma looks at me.

"How to do that?"

I explain here the settings and share options. She nods and now I can see her status.

[Name: Ruscheller

Level: 22

HP: 730

STA: 130

Status:

STR: 15+0 [ATK : 25+0] [DMG : +1.5%]

AGI: 1+0 [ASPD : +0.1%] [SPD : +0.1%]

DEX: 8+0 [CRIT : 0.8%] [SDMG: 0.8%] [CDMG : 50%]

INT: 1+0 [MATK : 10+0] [WIS : 1]

LUK: 1+0 [DDG: 0.05%] [LCKY: 0.001%]

VIT: 1+0 [DEF : 32+0] [MDEF : 32+0]

CHR: 1+0 [REP : 1] [FAME : Nobody]

ART: 1+0 [SMIT : 1%] [ARTIS : 1%]

EXTRA PTS: 0]

Emma is looking at me with worries.

"Did I raised wrong stats?"

I shake my head.

"No, you're doing fine. So you're planning on keep raising STR and DEX?"

Emma nods.

"Yeah, because I want to have my damage output to be high. Or at least based on the information given to me by that A.I. at the beginning. Why do you ask? Was I not supposed to do that?"

I shake my head.

"I mean, you can raise your stats based on what you believe. Anything is possible in this game, the only question is how are you going to achieve that. If that's what you want then I'll help you to get the best equipment for that."

Emma is staring at her status screen.

"Well then, help me to be stronger than most of the players. I'll show them who's the boss here."

I scoffed and she squinted her eyes. She whipped her swords at me, but she missed. She kept trying and trying but she kept missing. I laughed so hard because my LUK and Lazy Luck daggers prevented her from hitting me.

"How the hell am I keep missing my attacks?!"

Emma walked closer to me and she slashed her swords at me. My body moved on its own because when someone is attacking from close range, the game will assist the player for a split second. That's the perk of having high LUK. Compared to AGI, LUK is more superior in dodging attacks.

"F*CK this! I'm not trying anymore."

I laugh and she sighs. She sits on the ground and lays down.

"Let's rest here. I'm hungry and my stamina is slowly depleting. Do we have food? We do, right? I remember you bought a lot of snacks and food ingredients back then."

I nod and sit beside her. I open my inventory, take out a frying pan and food ingredients while Emma is making a fire.

"I miss your cooking by the way. Can I come over to your house tomorrow?"

I'm preparing the ingredients while thinking about what I'm going to make. I look at her.

"Tomorrow? Sure. Are you not working tonight?"

Emma is blowing the amber on the dried leaves.

"I think I'm going to quit my job. Not because I don't like it, but because I think it's time for me to stop and find another job, you know?"

I'm chopping the ingredients and put them on the frying pan while looking at her.

"Well, this time I'll visit you at your new job then."

Emma throws a speck of dirt at me and hits my shirt.

"What was that for? You almost ruined the ingredients."

Emma stuck her tongue out. She exhales and stretches her arms. She sits beside me and watches me cook the food while resting her head on her knee.

"How long until we get to the No Man's Land?"

I look at the map.

"Around three to four days. We are taking the long route since you need to get some levels. You should be around level 40 to 50 when we arrived there."

Emma is humming with understanding.

"Oh, you said that we can increase our weapon mastery, right? Can you explain it to me?"

I'm tossing and stirring the foods in the frying pan.

"Right now, our weapon mastery is still 0. The max Level of weapon mastery is 10. Each Level will give the player one to two skills, which can be passive or active. Unfortunately, we can't raise them until we do the weapon tutorial from trainer NPC. There are 3 trainers in Aarus Empire and Alliance Kingdoms, Beginner, Advanced, and Master trainers. The beginner trainer will unlock the weapon mastery, the Advanced trainer will help the player to progress faster once they reach Level 5 on their weapon mastery, the Master trainer will test the player once they reached Level 10 weapon mastery. If they passed the test, the player will unlock the last skill or ultimate skill."

I put the foods on the plate and Emma immediately grabs her portions. I chuckle.

"Except for Eluna Empire trainers, in there, there are 5 trainers. Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Professional, and Master. Intermediate trainers help the player progress faster once they reached Level 3 and Professional trainers will help the player progress faster once they reached Level 7. So pretty much it makes the Eluna Empire players reach max level around 33% faster than the other players."

Emma is munching the foods while nodding.

"So, what should we do to progress our weapon mastery once we unlocked it?"

I grab the ale in my inventory and put it in front of us.

"For the players that are not from Eluna Empire,

1000 kills needed to reach Level 2.

2000 kills needed to reach Level 3.

4000 kills needed to reach Level 4.

8000 kills needed to reach Level 5.

14000 kills needed to reach Level 6.

28000 kills needed to reach Level 7.

56000 kills needed to reach Level 8.

112000 kills needed to reach Level 9.

224000 kills needed to reach Level 10.

For the players from Eluna Empire,

1000 kills needed to reach Level 2.

2000 kills needed to reach Level 3.

3000 kills needed to reach Level 4.

6000 kills needed to reach Level 5.

10000 kills needed to reach Level 6.

20000 kills needed to reach Level 7.

37500 kills needed to reach Level 8.

75000 kills needed to reach Level 9.

150000 kills needed to reach Level 10.

That's pretty much how to increase our weapon mastery. It doesn't matter what levels are the monster, you killed one and it counts as one."

Emma grabs the ale and chugs them down. She sighs satisfyingly.

"That's a lot... that's going to be a pain..."

I raise my eyebrows with an agreement.

"Well, the perks are worth the time. Each Level increases base weapon ATK and damage output percentage.

Level 1: ATK +1%, Damage +1%.

Level 2: ATK +2%, Damage +1%.

Level 3: ATK +5%, Damage +2%.

Level 4: ATK +10%, Damage +2%.

Level 5: ATK +15%, Damage +5%.

Level 6: ATK +20%, Damage +10%.

Level 7: ATK +25%, Damage +15%.

Level 8: ATK +50%, Damage +20%, Critical chance +10%

Level 9: ATK +75%, Damage +25%, Critical chance +15%.

Level 10: ATK +100%, Damage +50%, Critical chance +20%."

Emma nods and playing her lips with her fingers.

"Wow, that does sound great..."

Emma raises her hand.

"Wait, since we are not part of the three sovereignty, how are we supposed to unlock the weapon mastery?"

I smile while eating my food.

"Don't worry, there's a trainer in the No Man's Land, his name is Hacal, Jack of all trades master of none. He alone can teach all the weapons, sadly he can only help us to reach Level 9 since he's not a Master trainer."

Emma sighs with relief.

"That's better than nothing. Anyway, let's continue our journey since the sun is almost up."

I nod and tidy up everything and put it back into my inventory.

On our way to the No Man's Land. We both heard growls and roars from far-right where we are standing. We both agreed to check what's going on there. When we arrived, we saw a pack of wolves and a pack of orcs are fighting each other. A jet black huge wolf is ten times larger than the other wolves standing at the back of the pack and an armored orc with bloody axes on both hands standing behind the orcs. A pop-out screen appeared in front of us.

[Unexpected Event. A fight for the unmarked territory! (on progress)]

[Packs of Orcs led by Orc General against Packs of Vagabond Wolves led by Storm Wulf.]

[Objective: Choose aside and help one of them! They will reward you with something precious, or not!

Rewards: 50.000 EXP, 5 EXTRA PTS.]

"Trev, what should we do? They both are Level 90. I don't think we can do this."

I smirk and look at Emma.

"Of course we can. Trust me on this one. Who would waste such an opportunity to get juicy rewards like this."

Emma is looking at me then continues watching the fight.

"Then, which side are we going to choose?"

I grin.

"None. We will kill them both and hope for awesome drops from both of them."