•Early morning•
Zae slowly opens his eyes to see the wooden ceiling of their temporary house.
Zae sighs and turns over to face the right side of his bed which had a small window. Through the window, he sees some light flashing around by the forest
Zae smiles*
Zae shoots up his bed stretching and and yawning.
Zae gets off his bed slowly putting down his legs simultaneously.
He then walks towards the door and opens it by pushing it lightly.
Zae makes a light yawn*
"Good Morning Zae"
Tias whishes Zae while carrying a plater which was full of delicious looking cooked meat along with some vegetables.
"Good morning Tias"
Zae walks slowly towards the entrance of the house while scratching his head and yawning
"Good morning Zae"
A light greet comes from the campfire sight of last night
Noto was maintaining the fire which was steaming a black pot which gave off a very pleasant smell
"Good morning, what are you cooking so early in the morning?"
Zae asks while stretching his body
"Oh i just wanted to make some stew, its been a long time since i had some"
Noto with a smile.
"Uhhh where did you get the ingredients?"
Zae asks with a question mark on his face
"Did you forget about my Material transformation skill?"
Noto raises his right hand with a thumbs up.
"Oh yea how can i forget you had a skill like that"
Zae with a dissatisfied face
"Oh where is Snipe and Reva?"
Zae adds
"Reva is out gathering firewood. I don't know about Kiri"
Noto replies
"Ohh OK thanks for the heads up"
Zae walks away from the house slowly and starts walking towards the river in a normal pace.
SFX:splash splash
Zae washes up in the river but just as he finished Washing up he hears sound of water being splashed around. He thought it was Kiri and started to walk towards the spot where he heard the sound slowly like a creeper.
Zae with a very evil smile.
As soon as he reached the spot where he heard the sound
Zae with a very lustrous smile
Just as Zae was about to dive into the water he saw not Kiri but a very feminine figure jumping on the surface of the water in a very elegant way.
Since Zae was still half awake and his vision was blurry he couldn't see who it was clearly. To him it appeared as though a blue colour wisp was Floating around on the surface of the water.
Just as Zae was about to approach it silently, he steps on a dry twig
SFX:break
The blue figure was startled when it heard the twig breaking and suddenly vanishes into thin air.
Zae with a feeling of deep regret.
Zae slowly walks away towards the site where the house was
The figure slowly disappeared into the river.
•Temporary camp•
Kiri, Noto, Tias and Reva were all seated on chairs surrounding a medium size table which had tons of food on it. Just as they were about to start Zae walks in from the woods.
"Not fair you guys were starting without me?"
Zae with a childish expression on his face quickly walks towards the table and takes a seat which was left for him.
"Great our freeloader is back"
Kiri with a cold voice
"Hey don't say that"
Zae with a blushed face.
"Its not that its a lie, everyone contributed their time except for you".
Noto adds to the fun while everyone starts laughing
"Damn you guys should learn to comfort people atleast"
Zae while grinning
"Ok enough with the fun lets eat while the food us hot"
Tias with a big smile on her face.
"En"
Everyone nods and starts chewing down on the food
SFX:chew chew
"WOW, who made the stew its delicious, did you make it Tias"
Zae with glitters in his eyes chomping down on the stew with a spoon
"No, it was Noto, he is indeed a great cook"
Tias replies with a smile while looking at Zae.
"Now don't tell me you forgot that you saw me cooking this a while ago, your memory sucks"
Noto while grinning
"Oh yea, Im sorry, its really good though you should cook every time for us from now on"
Zae with a big smile and a thumbs up
"Hey now dont try to make me your cooking slave"
Noto replies quickly to this
Everyone laughs*
•10 mins later•
"Damn im full, thanks for the food"
Zae with a very satisfied expression.
Kiri right after he finished went and sat down on the foot of a tree right near to the house while getting into his train of thoughts again.
Tias started collecting the plates that were all empty
"Let me help you out"
Reva quickly starts picking up the dishes too
"No its ok ill handle this"
Tias takes the plate away from Reva
"No problem ill help you come on I'll carry it for you to the river"
Reva adds with a smile.
"well if you insist"
Tias blushes and they both starts walking towards the river with a big smile on their faces
"Damn i hate couples"
Zae while grinning
"Hey don't say that"
Noto quickly disrupts Zae who was obviously talking to himself
"It was just a joke ha ha"
Zae tries to play dump
"Well leaving that aside can you tell me what did you do yesterday you seem to have got your hands into a bunch of skills"
Zae quickly changes the topic of discussion
"Yesterday?"
Noto asks for confirmation
"Yea yesterday you got fishing skills , woodcutter skills, carpenter skills and even cooking skills. How did you get them?"
Zae with a curious look
"Oh yea I forgot to mention this yesterday. It seems that if we repeat certain actions a number of times we can obtain various skills. "
Noto adds while looking up and thinking hard
"And also yesterday right after you two left, i went to the river and saw fishes there so i thought why not catch some fish for dinner and them i made a fishing rod with my otherworldly creation skill"
Noto looks at Zae and explains it with every bit of details
"At first it was tough catching even one but as i spent more time on it i got a notification saying that i acquired fishing skills and after catching a bunch of fishes i decided to build a house."
Noto sitting standing up from his chair and points at the house.
"Then i started cutting some trees with the chainsaw i made from the materials that i got earlier from the cave and i acquired the woodcutting skills."
Noto looks at Zae again
"So you're telling me that you got the skills just by repeating some certain activities, thats interesting, its like we're in a fantasy web novel or something"
Zae with a slight laughter
"Let me continue..... After storing the wood in my inventory i used otherworldly creation again to build the house here and then i got the carpenter skill after making various utensils, i even collected some fibres from near the river to make the blankets, bedsheets and
pillows."
Noto Waves his hands telling what he did to make all the things he made and also how he got all his skills.
"You must have collected a ton of experience from them, whats your level now?"
Zae asks
"Show status"
Noto's Status window appears
"Not even a level, I don't know why but i guess such activities dont give us experience points"
Noto with a disappointed expression
Zae starts thinking about this deeply
"Did you guys also notice?"
Kiri steps in from behind them. Zae and Noto looks at him puzzled
"Notice what?"
Zae asks
"Yesterday i while i was scouting the area i found some low levelled monsters around level 15, i killed about 100 of them but i didn't get even one experience points the only thing i got was some useless materials"
Kiri explains what happened on his side yesterday to Zae and Noto eagerly.
Zae starts thinking deep again
"Not only that, after i acquired paralysis shot i got a strange notification"
Kiri with a serious face
"What type of notification?"
Noto asks
SFX:swipe
"see for yourself"
Kiri slide the notification window towards Noto and Zae
(Current level cap reached. Experience points accumulated)
"Ohh so you guys are stuck there too"
Reva walks in with Tias holding the washed dishes
"stuck at what?"
Zae asks with a question mark on his face
"Since you guys were here only two days ago i didnt think you'd reach the first cap already, you guys must have grinded hard"
Reva with an expression looking up to the trio
"You guys already reached the first cap?"
Tias with a shocked expression
"It took us nearly 1 month to get to the first cap but you guys only took two days, and here i thought we were faster than anyone else in levelling!"
Tias adds while sighing
"What's this first cap thing you're talking about? Are we really stuck at level 40?"
Noto asks
"Don't be in such a rush I'll explain everything to you"
Reva replies
"You might already have guessed but this world is a parallel world of earth known as DuoCroZan"
Reva says
"DuoCroZan?"
Zae asks
"Yea, That's the name of this world"
Reva replies
"Though it is in the orbit of earth rotating with sun as its center, it is not visible on earth's satellite because of the magic in this world.
The atmosphere is surrounded by a thick layer of magic wall called Magules which deems the world invisible to others."
Reva adds
"people on earth have great potential here on DuoCroZan due to our strong conduction towards those magules but it is a very difficult task to bring people from earth here because of the magule capsule"
Reva explains about the world they are living in a very detailed manner and was about to tell them why people from earth gets transferred here
"Then how comes we are here?"
Kiri asks
"Good question, Here is where the moderator's jobs takes in. The moderators have the ability to weaken a certain part of the barrier for some time thus allowing others to enter. But since they can only weaken the barrier once in their lifetime, and after doing so they enter a very weakened state, many moderators don't bring in anyone."
Reva explains
"Also since this world has been suffering from the hands of the supreme overlord who rules The entire world of DuoCroZan, moderators have been given the task of bringing people from earth a.k.a. heroes , they have been given high social status and respect and due to this the overlord was suppressed by some heroes 300 years ago. But it seems the overlord is about to be resurrected and hence we are here"
Reva adds
Kiri ,Zae and Noto nods while listening carefully to what Reva was saying. They were always a very good listener and if free knowledge like this came their way they would never back down. Tias was putting the dishes down on the table and joins in the discussion.
"Coming back to the level caps, its like this"
Reva draws a roadmap on the ground
( first cap level 40
Domain obtain
Second cap level 60
Domain level 2
Third cap level 80
Domain level 3
and so on)
"You see after you hit the first cap, you must obtain a quest from the system for a domain. You may choose any quest you one on the first cap but once you choose a domain, the next quests will be specific."
Reva explains
"You just need to say show domain quest and the system will tell you what to do next"
Reva ends his explaination by telling them about the domain quests.
He slowly stands up and stretches and move towards Tias
"What is your level right now?"
Zae asks
"Me?"
Reva pointing at himself
"yes"
Zae adds
"I'm currently level 74 and Asu is 73"
Reva replies with a smile
"WHAT!????"
All three of them was shocked
"Dont be so surprised, we've been here for 4 months now, you guys will be much more better than us I'm sure"
Reva tries to comfort them
Zae with a serious expression finally grasps what he needs to do and what his next goal was , was completely figured in his mind.