After Harvey locked up the the store he thanked Akiol again.
Akiol waved off the thanks, it was a small matter. He checked the time and figured it was about time for him to head home. One thing he knew was he was going to come back. Such food must not be forgotten.
Akiol bade farewell and headed towards the train, dreading the way back.
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Kan'na climbed up a mountain, as she was waiting for the rest of the party to log on she has been exploring a bit. Currently she was scaling an extremely tall mountain. Normally players wouldn't be able to climb due to the extreme cold and lack of footing.
This wasn't an issue for Kan'na, as she put a 'warm' magic circle in her body and she used her 'platform' magic circles as her footholds. Utilizing this she eventually made it to the top. Expecting maybe a small item at the top she took a look around.
To her immense surprise what she found wasn't as simple as an item. It was a large magic barrier, she couldn't see inside or enter. When she touched it she saw several magic circles connecting. After spending an hour decoding a few she noticed that the barrier wasn't just a single spell. Rather it was a complicated series of spells, woven together to make an extremely powerful barrier.
When she noticed the size of the barrier she knew that it would take several weeks for her to decode it.
This would serve as an enlightenment to her. With so many unique looking circles she could most likely learn a few new things.
The rest of the party had now gotten on so she left a custom marker for her to find this place again.
She would spend her time on decoding this place privately.
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Akiol was back in A World's Legacy, he was doing research for things to do with the party. With no major goal to work towards he decided to plan out future quests they could work on. The competition was going to start soon and since the party agreed not to join he decided to work towards increasing their levels.
One thing he was paying extra attention to was dungeons. The Departed Warriors dungeon he had participated in before was decent, but it was now far too low level. There would be no experience gain from them doing the dungeon.
The dungeons players had found were always different, in both content and sometimes requirements. There was solo dungeons, which no one had completed just yet, to a whole twenty player dungeon! That dungeon was most popular with guilds.
Akiol narrowed down and chose one dungeon to do. It was a 150 level dungeon, the requirements were 5-10 players, and 100 level minimum. This dungeon was popular with the more skilled players. Akiol felt like it was a good choice.
He sent a message in the chat group to meet up. There was a dungeon that needed to be conquered.
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Wrock was in a room with no ends. Everything was blue, except the white lines that moved in straight lines everywhere. This room was where he made his own skills.
Wrock was repeatedly doing the same thing, for the game to understand his intention. Creating skill may sound amazing, but there was some heavy restrictions involved with the process.
The first step was simple, plan out what kind of skill you wanted to create. Then you have to move like you planned, repeatedly. Once the game understood that the motion was for a skill, it would slap together an effect, cost, name, and description.
A player would have the option to decline the skill if it wasn't what they wanted, and continue to try to make their skill. This had to happen within 24 hours in-game or else the player would be kicked from the creation and would have to wait a whole week before attempting again.
Now it might sound like a game of chance now, but there are some finer details. It helps immensely if the player pictured the skill in action every time they did their motion. This would give the game a direction in the skill making.
Wrock had done the motion and pictured the skill until a notification appeared.
[Indomitable Will: A person's strong Will is not to be underestimated. Using the power of your will you can break through effects dampening your fight.
Effect: Remove debuffs.
Cost: 400MP]
Wrock shook his head, while it was a good skill this wasn't what he had in mind. Cancelling the skill creation he continued. After several hours of trial and error he had finally got what he wanted.
Reading through the text he nodded in approval. He may never use this skill but it was good to have.
Accepting the skill creation he was teleported out of the room. It wasn't long before he received the message to meet up.
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Jarvis was sitting in front of an extremely large tortoise. He wasn't moving nor speaking. Before making a move to initiate a conversation with an animal, you first had to make them comfortable with being around you.
Jarvis had been sitting in the same spot for the past seven hours. Not moving, not speaking. Just watching the animal, making sure not to just stare.
Eventually the large tortoise moved its head to look at Jarvis. The two looked at each other before the tortoise grew bored and looked away. Currently the tortoise was mostly in its shell, the only thing sticking out was its head.
The tortoise was extremely curious towards the individual who was sitting next to it. They had been sitting there for a long time, not long for the tortoise but a decently long time for the human. It had no idea why it sat there, unmoving, but it couldn't help but be curious towards their intention.
The tortoise wasn't scared, many far more powerful things had come to hunt it. Yet it still remained, unfazed and standing. It knew that the human was far weaker than the things it had fought before. So it watched the human back. However the human made no move when it made eye contact, this was a bit disappointing to the tortoise. So it began to prepare to move.
It was at that moment when Jarvis made a move. He knew the tortoise wasn't uncomfortable with his presence, due to the lack of fear in it's eyes. As he saw the tortoise start moving he slowly got up and walked towards it. The tortoise stopped moving and watched Jarvis approach.
Jarvis moved closer until he was two feet away from it. He pulled a large fruit from his inventory. This fruit was the size of a watermelon, but looked like a purple apple. It was an incredibly rare fruit. Usually a favorite of herbivores.
The tortoise watched the human pull out an attractive fruit and set it on the ground. The human backed off a decent amount and remained still. The tortoise found this a bit amusing, it was being offered food? Not only was it an amazing food, but it didn't hesitate.
The tortoise wasn't going to leave such a tasty fruit alone. It walked up to the fruit and began to eat it. It was definitely delicious, the tortoise found that it had gained some unexpected benefits from eating the fruit. It felt a bit stronger.
The tortoise found the human to be interesting. So it sat down again as began to watch as well.