The woman stops drinking the wine in her jug and looks at me. She then says, "Can you buy me some more wine, I am almost out of mine?"
I was speechless. Everyone in the chat was speechless. At this point, there were 100,000 viewers in the stream but not a single person in the stream chat talked for 10 seconds. Everyone was thinking the same thing.
An alcoholic!
My lips twitch as I try to hold back my laughter and speak to her. "Sure thing, I will be right back."
"Wait!" The woman shouts when I turn around. I turn back towards her and she flicks 2 golden coins at me and says "Buy me the most expensive wine they have. You can keep the change."
I catch them both and a Quest Notification pops up on my HUD.
[Quest] Go to the Riverdale Bar and purchase a jug of [Spirit Fruit Wine]. Rewards: Unknown
Time Limit: 20 minutes.
After seeing the quest pop up, I see that there is a time limit so I immediately make haste.
The bar was all the way across the town and it took 7 minutes to run from the tree to the bar.
When I went inside the bar, the Bartender at the Bar Table said to me. " Welcome adventurer, what would you like to have?"
"I would like to get a jug of [Spirit Fruit Wine]."
"Oh, ok. Wait a moment. I'll bring it right over."
About 1 minute later, The Bartender brings out a jug and says "That will be 1 gold and 35 silvers."
I immediately paid and went back to the Alcoholic Woman with the jug in hand.
"You arrived sooner than expected. I thought you would I would have to wait till right until it was night time. Alright, thank you for buying my wine."
[System] Quest Reward: Recieved 1 lvl up, 4 basic skill books and 10 silver. Punch, Kick, Block, and Parry.
I was completely suprised when I leveled up. This quest just seemed to... easy.
"Oh, I forgot to Introduce myself. My name is Ivy Rose. I am a very interested in you so I have decided to take you in as a disciple. But you need to pass a test first.
[World Announcement] Player BloodMoon has completed a Mentor Quest and has been taken in by Ivy Rose The Grandmaster Thief. For being the 1st to do so, BloodMoon has recieved 4000 experience and the Shadow Dancer Manual.
With this, I leveled up 2 more times found that in my inventory. There was an old journal called Dancer of the Shadows: Guide to Becoming a Shadow Dancer.
When this happened, the chat in the blew up.
ILikeKats: That was a mentor quest? Wasn't that way to easy?
DomTheGuru: This doesn't seem so simple. The world announcement said tou completed a mentor test but Ivy said you need to pass a test first. If you fail the test, does that mean there would be a world announcement and that it will display punishments?
Hell'sEmbrace: Please don't fail the test. You have over 1 million viewers now because of the announcement. It would be very embarrassing if you actually fail.
...
As Hell'sEmbrace said. Viewers flooded into my stream after the announcement showed up.
Phoenix Wing: It seems to be her first stream ever. Let's see what this test consists of.
JackAttack: Is that the real Phoenix Wing, the Guild Leader of Empyrian Phoenix?
Lieutenant Snipe: The big guilds are watching this too?
...
While the chat was blowing up, I was distributing my atribute points. You get 5 every level so I had 35 to spare.
Character Stats:
Username: BloodMoon
Race: NightElf
Class: Thief
Atributes:
Strength: [7] > [13]
Agility: [7]> [17]
Intelligence: [8] > [12]
Dexterity: [8] > [17]
Perception: [6] > [11]
Constitution: [6] > [7]
After I distributed my points, a menu popped up on my hud.
[Do you want to start the Quest, Ivy's Trial?]
[Yes]
I press yes without hesitation and another menu pops up.
[What difficulty would you like to attempt this on?]
The choices were Normal, Elite, Heroic, Nightmare and Hell.
The stream chat started their discussion.
Phoenix Wing: This seems interesting. Seems like it won't be boring. If you have the spirit of a gamer, go for nightmare.
DomTheGuru: Elite Mode. You could definitely do it.
JayThePvPGod: Do Hell mode for the memes!
...
While they were trying to guess what difficulty I would choose. I read over my options and chose what most wouldn't.
[Hell Mode]
[World Announcement] BloodMoon has challenged the Hell Mode Trial 'Ivy's Trial'. This Notice will stay up till BloodMoon completes the trial.
In the World Chat:
Tank Destroyer: Fu*k, are they insane?
I Like Guns: I'm still getting used to combat and they have the guts to do a Hell Mode trial? Is this being streamed?
Phoenix Wing: twitch.tv/BloodMoon
CrazyMage: Are you watching it too Guild Leader?
Phoenix Wing: I don't want to miss the chance of seeing something great. If she fails, its an epic fail. If she succeeds, then she will be, not only a legend but the first legend on this game.
Inside Dogma Gaming's Office:
"Let's hope she just doesn't fail to miserably."
"Its too early to say that she would fail and even if she failed, its only a loss of levels and Atributes. Besides... I think she can get pretty far."
"President Blackburn, what are you saying? I think she is just doing for attention and gaining an audience. Isn't this her first vrmmorpg?"
President Blackburn eyes squinted as he tapped his pen on his desk. "Just shut up and keep track of her progress."
...
At this point, it wasn't just Dogma Gaming watching her, it was even the military who worked closely with Dogma to make this game.
Commander Belvins (aka Scarlett's father was taking a nice nap after escorting the diplomat to his hotel room when he heard his phone ringing.
"Hello-"
"Commander, your daughter is on the news."
As if he just injected caffeine into himself he jumped up and asked. "What happened?"
"Nothing bad this time. You remember that you got ger the new VR Cabin for her birthday right. Well, in the first hour of her being online, she is challenging a hell mode trial and it made it on the headlines. People are trying to see if she is either gonna fail or succeed. Even the Chief of security is watching. She is streaming right now and there are over 5 million viewers."
"Send the link."
...
Unknowingly, Scarlett has caused and uproar around the world with her trial challenge. But she know this. Right now she is opening her last gift to see if she can get a badge, ring or necklace from it.
She throws it on the ground and it opens while confetti flies out.
[You have obtained a mask]
[Mask Of Sylvan] [Epic]
[Intelligence] current Intelligence × 2
[Stamina] current stamina × 3
[Constitution] +8
Special Ability: [Wings of Sylvan]
Transforms mask into a pair of wings. Can fly until stamina runs out or until you take a certain amount of damage (35% of your hp) can use stealth while flying. (Cannot fly durring certain instances like dungeons and trials or on certain hidden maps.)
Phoenix Wing: F***, this item is broken. Well, at least she can't fly during the trial but that stamina increase is nuts. This can only help her take on the trial.
JayThePvPGod: Please don't let me encounter you in pvp.
CrazyMage: WTF kind of rng is this, I only got a silver ring and she gets a dark gold ranked replica. It even comes with a quest. I will eat dirt if she actually completes the trial.
Phoenix Wing: Screenshotted
CrazyMage: ...
...
Scarlett equipment her mask and felt a surge of power enter her body. She felt like she could challenge the trial a couple more times.
All of the sudden every thing froze in the town square. All of the sounds muted. Then I heard a distant voice.
"Step through the portal and your trial will begin."
After the voice ended, portal opened up in front of me and I walk into it.
After walking into it, I wonder around before finding to other end of the portal and when I walk out, I step into what looks like an arena. Then I hear the voice once again.
"There will be 5 trials. In this order, they are Stealth, Assassination, Horde, Boss Slaying and PvP Combat. In the stealth trial, you will have to move quickly and quietly through the forest without being detected. You have 30 minutes. Begin."
After the voice finished speaking, the arena transformed in to a forest. As soon as it transformed, I activated stealth and held my breath. I lowered my presence as much as I could to make sure I wouldn't be detected right away. I crouched down and begin to move nimbly through the forest. after about 2 minutes, imI hear voices in the distance and I slowdown. At this point, my stealth was on cooldown so I waited for it to become available. After it became available, I immediately used it and once again nimbly ran through.
After moving for 10 minutes, I came across my 1st group of enemies. They consisted of 1 Ranger, 1 thief, 2 warriors and a priest. I took a wide flank as rangers have a higher detection value than every class. Fortunately, i managed to not aggro that squad and Immediately used steath to disappear.
After the first group, I had a few close calls. In the 4th group I went past, there were 4 rangers and 2 thieves and those 4 rangers were spread very far apart and this increased their detection range 3 fold. I almost ran into another squad trying to flank their detection range. Luckily, I managed to reach the end of the forest with no issues.
[World Announcement] BloodMoon had completed the stealth trial for 'Ivy's Trial' on Hell Mode in 28 minutes and 37 seconds. 1/5 Complete.