After almost 3 days, the mainstream player level have reach 12, leaving the two who were busy crafting and selling to the dust. Yulis was still stuck at level 13 while Eara is still level 4. The only advantage the two had was their subclass level, Yulis's blacksmith subclass reached level 7 while Eara on the other hand reached level 5.
When the two spawned, they immediately ran towards the auction house to check on their items. All of them were sold and a bag of coins appeared in each of their hand, Yulis received around 7 gold coins while Eara got 11.
The two began celebrating for a moment causing the nearby players watch in amusement as two girls hugged each other and jumped around. Yulis already removed her blood red gear in order to stop catching attention and changed into a new set of clothes she sewed.
The two girls who were causing a ruckus wore the same set of clothes making them appear really cute, unfortunately they were wearing a mask that covered their face preventing the surrounding players to look at their faces.
Yulis insisted on those masks, Eara didn't know why but they looked rather cool so she didn't object in wearing it.
After calming down, two left the auction house disappointing the male players who were browsing the auction house.
Eara noticed a bunch of players who already reached level 15, they were rather high leveled comparing to the mainstream players.
Yulis decided to level up aswell, when Yulis told Eara of her plans, she couldn't agree more.
The two left the town, Yulis led the way to a farming ground on the grassy plains just outside of the town which hold plenty of low leveled players but she didn't stopped there. She continued until they reached the forest, once again they encountered several players that were currently around level 14 to 16.
Yulis ignored them and continued to jog ahead, the two entered the deeper part of the forest where little to no players were spotted.
The mobs were of higher levels at around level 20 or so, so Eara was suprised to find a huge group of players grinding at the dark forest.
The enemy mobs they were fighting are called Horned Dark Wolf Younglings Tier 0 Level 18-21 and Red Hornet Tier 0 Level 20-24.
Eara was curious and asked Yulis.
"Hey Lister? Who are those guys? they don't seem to be ordinary players?" Eara pointed towards the group of high leveled players grinding.
"oh they?" Yulis's gaze followed the finger pointing towards said players.
"They're players from a third rate guild Crimson Skull, and that buffed guy over there i believe is one of their vice guild leader." Yulis responded while glancing at her sister.
"Do you want to join them?" Yulis asked worriedly, Crimson Skulls isn't really the best guild to join in. They're one of the lowest of the low, backstabbing shits, and the worst of all is their guild leader Blood Scabbard.
Crimson Skull used to be a respectable guild, a famed fighting guild who pride themselves with high attack power that could mow down any guild of equal power in an even field. No third rate guild was sane enough to fight them head on.
Though they still fall short on dealing with ambush, magic wars, assassinations and battle of attritions.
Kleidth the Founder of the Guild was removed when he rejected an order from their biggest backer, although the order was unknown, it caused a severe backlash when Kleidth rejected it.
When Kleidth was removed, a new guild leader was appointed, Blood Scabbard. After the change of guild leader, so did the guild.
The guild began to achieve progress and became a 2nd rate guild in just a year, and their tactics changed, instead of overwhelmingly high attack power and focusing in brute strength and fighting head on.
The guild instead began using underhanded tactics, blackmailing, bribery, and even using real life information against enemy forces, and other unspeakable acts, this allowed the guild to strengthen themselves.
Since then, many of the original guild members left, like the guild leader, they crave battle, they salivate upon the mention of war and fighting, they love battling equal or stronger opponents. They hate fighting weaker enemies and even more so of bullying.
The new guild leader is that kind of person, a bully who likes bullying the weak and cowering away from the strong. They were disgusting of course, but what's left of the guilds were scums.
That reminds me, if i somehow befriend their guild leader Kleidth, then maybe i could ask for his help concerning, quests or maybe even his aid when it comes to fighting any future enemies. Yulis wondered in her head before Eara responded.
"nah, they seemed like the kind of guild that you would join big sis." Eara said while staring at their vice guild leader wielding a giant iron sword that he would smack again and again against a poor wolf.
"huh? why would you say that?" Yulis asked.
"because, every time you fight, you make this scary smiling face." Eara switched her gaze towards Yulis's hidden lips.
"w-what do you mean?" Yulis tried to recall her previous fights but fails to remember any helpful details.
"ah, forget about it." Eara shrugged.
Yulis simply tilted her head before continuing on.
Dreaded WarHammer, one of the vice guild leader of the Crimson skull, looked to his left after sending a wolf flying before smiling.
"Such peircing gaze, it even made me flinch a little." He smiled after bringing his sword down and crushing a Red Hornet to the ground.
"Vice, shouldn't we go after them? a player welding a Tanto named Baptised Warsword asked.
"No need, he wasn't provoking me or anything, and he didn't even came any closer." WarHammer waved his hand before kicking another wolf. "This game is amazing! such freedom no longer constricts me!".
In a dark cave, a pair of girls slowly made their way inwards, moving around the twisting tunnels. And arriving at a room hidden behind a large rock that conveniently hid the passage way towards it. Unless the player moves closer to it and shines a light in the correct angle no one would notice a hidden hole, the passage way is completely obscured by the large rock.
Yulis placed a small and shallow basin on the ground and placed a rock the size of a basketball ball inside of it, next she brought out a slightly larger than normal potion. The moment Yulis poured the contents of the potion into the rock, both the liquid and the rock glowed.
[System notice, Congratulations for discovering the Ancient Bendepal Kingdom's Graveyard of Fallen Braves]
[Pioneer rewards for the discovery of a new location, 15% Attributes plus boost, 15% Experience gain boost, 15% drop rate boost 15% attack bonus, at Ancient Bendepal Kingdom 84th Graveyard for 12 Hours in game time. The timer doesn't pause if the player logs out, or leave the area.]
Eara's eyes widened and she gasped when she saw both the notification and the hundreds if not a thousand gravestones that slowly came into view, rows after rows of stones slowly became illuminated. The stones were old and some were even broken, some turned into a pile of stones.
Yulis suddenly pulled Eara towards another opening that appeared right next to the basin when the light illuminated the large cave.
The opening allows 3 to 5 players to enter shoulder to shoulder while it extended for a few meters before ending at a dead end, before Eara could ask a question, something in the corner of her eyes caught her attention. A hand poked itself out of the ground, no hundreds of hands slowly and one by one dugged itself out of the ground.
In a few moments something more than a hand came into view, a head popped up next. In just a minute thousands of wriggling, boney bodies wearing broken armors slowly climbed out of their graves. All of them staring at the light with great hatred in their eyes, a pale grayish flame appeared in their eyes before suddenly jerking their gaze towards the two living humans.
They screeched and began their slow walk towards the pair. Eara instead of being scared suddenly smiled, her eyes began shining as she began shaking about.
A huge grin also appeared behind Yulis's mask, though she wasn't shaking she was also excited.
She began a trade with Eara, disrupting her trance. Eara didn't hesitate for a moment and accepted the trade only to be stunned, several stacks of exactly 99 bottles of tier 0 lesser holy potions appeared in her inventory.
"Yulis? this is?" Eara was shocked making her forget about the most important rule of never revealing real life name.
Yulis smacked her sister in the head reprimanding her before replying. "Throw them towards those ugly, smelly moving bones, each throw will cause damage that will effectively half their hp. We'll finish them off and repeat, and since your level is low im the one doing the attacking while you sit on the back throwing the potions. "
Eara nodded before frowning," awww no fair, you would take all the fun away now. "Eara grumpily said while looking down.
"nah don't worry, once i'm about to run out of stamina we'll switch out, hopefully you'd be leveled up by then." Yulis cheered her sister up.
Eara perked up and with much enthusiasm she nodded. "sure thing big sis!, i'll make sure not to miss and hit every moving bones i could see! "
"great! now then, here they come!"
Tatatatatatat!
Tetetetetete!
sttttttt!
Hundreds of rattling teeth began echoing in the cave, scratching, grinding, cracking aswell as the sounds of old armor shaking and clashing against the moving bones. Each of those sound began echoing at the cavern walls causing Eara to cover her ears.
A sudden silence ensued that creeped Eara.
Then the the sound resumed but this time accompanied by the sounds of rattling footsteps.
The skeletons began their march towards those foolish infidels who dare step foot in their graveyard and disturb their sleep.
When the skeletons reached the opening, a vial containing clear water suddenly crashed into the face of a skeleton who was leading the charge before splashing around it and drenching a small group of skeletons with water.
The skeletons suddenly halted before suddenly being engulfed in pale white flames, the flames didn't last long and turned into smoke before dissipating. The skeletons started shaking, as if screaming in pain. Without a pause, a red wolf wielding a short blade and a bronze shield charged and swung her sword horizontally.
"slash!" Yulis screamed before a weak but slightly noticeable stream of light followed her blade, slashing through the bony necks of the skeletons.
The skeletons however were unfazed by the attack and were still advancing without fail. Yulis followed by bashing her shield forward before performing a chop, a shield bash again to push them back and then a stab. Once the cycle was finished and her skill cooldown was over she once again started with a slash and begun the cycle once more.
The skeletons began to slowly crumble, but those were only the ones in the front, there were still almost a thousand more to come.
An hour later, an exhausted yulis slowly ambled backwards as she dranks a lesser holy potion in order to cure some wounds. Wounds inflicted by the undeads usually contains poison, corrosion, decay, infection and many more similar debuffs.
Another reason why undeads armies are dangerous, they may be weak even if they were several levels higher but their debuffs would quickly stack if not taken care of.
It was Eara's turn to fight, she was actually excited to swing her hammer to those bonies, she wanted to experience the feeling of crushing their bones.
When Eara took the field, The pairs performance suddenly lowered, Eara was clearly not used to fighting. She was hit by the skeletons much more often, she does not dodge but instead absorbs the damage instead. She was literally exchanging blows with the skeletons infront. Good thing there weren't any archers or else she would be definitely overwhelmed and become a pin cushion.
Eara's performance caused her to frown, she continuously tries to imitate her sister but she's obviously much more slower than her.
Yulis realised this and decided to assist her once in a while, whilst tutoring her and advising her on her techniques and footwork.
Eara is surprisingly a quick learner, she not only absorbed the knowledge her sister is giving her but she also applied it multiple times. Her trials and errors was slowly starting to show fruit as she would start using her shield not only as a hiding place but also as a weapon.
By the end of her session, the pair were pushed back more than halfway the narrow tunnel before Yulis took over.
After four hours of grinding, the pair was finally pushed at the very end of the tunnel.
"1097.…. 1098.….1099.…. 1100, okay let's get out of here." Yulis declared.
Eara seemed disappointed but followed her sister's orders, she took out a scroll from her inventory before activating it.
The two appeared in the middle of the town, Yulis stretched her body and sat down at a nearby bench.
The two wanted to evaluate their gains.
[Bones x99]
[Bones x99]
[Bones x99]
[Bones x99]
[Bones x69]
[Old broken armor x26]
[Old rusted armor x37]
[Old armor pieces x78]
[Old broken sword x24]
[Old broken short sword x33]
[Old rusted sword 16]
[Old sword pieces47]
These items were considered trash to be sold for copper coins, but to them these are treasures, they can, not only restore some of the rusted swords, but also smelt both the broken armors and weapons, and the pieces to scrap metals.
After visiting the local smithing shop to borrow their blast furnaces, the pair returned with 126 stacks of scrap metals.
After resting, the two claimed the remaining money that was left at the auction house after the Guilds were finally able to buy the remaining weapons. Spending it all on buying elemental pebbles and some cheap woods, the two started refining the scrap metals.
After which the two crafted more weapons and sold more weapons, their weapons started circulated at the whole entire kingdom.
The two unknowingly started a guild auction wars, as multiple 3rd rate guilds started buying their weapons while trying to outbuy their competitors.
Once finished the pair left to finally change Eara's class and to upgrade Yulis's class.
In a the same Smithy where the pair used to go, a guy clad in robes observed the pair before interacting with his interface.
"i believe i found them.... No their face are both covered and they're also wearing robes to hide their identities... Very well i shall follow them and report their current location..... I'll signal you when they leave the town....."
Yulis was already aware of the stalker, but couldn't do anything as they're inside of a town, Yulis decided to open the report system and mark the guy as a stalker causing the man to receive a warning.
The man was startled but couldn't do anything but clench his teeth before distancing himself from the pair and finally leaving.
Yulis inwardly chuckled and continued to stare at her sister who was completely oblivious of what just happened.
Entering a small restaurant, the two sat down and ordered some food and while waiting, discussed their future plans.
"So what class are you gonna be bi.… Lister?" Eara asked while stretching her back and pulling her arms up.
"You really need to be used to calling me Lister in game..... A mage, i was lucky and found a class change item, and you? " In her previous life, mainstream mage players should start to appear around tier 1 or so, mages aren't that rare but was rather common, the first appearance of a mage was when the players were around level 40.
"Wow!" Eara exclaimed in suprise, before slowly falling into a deep thought.
Yulis tilted her head to match Eara's head while staring deep into her mesmerising eyes.
"a warrior maybe?" Eara finally broke the silence. "A great sword wielding warrior!" Eara proclaimed while raising her head.
Yulis tried to imagine her cute little sister, wearing a warriors armour while wielding a larger then her sword before bursting into laughter.
"pffft hahahaha!" Yulis tried to stop herself from laughing but was still unable to when her sister pouted and blushed, before placing her arms on top of the table crossing it and hiding her face in it.