Yulis noticed her sister's agitated expression, to which she smiled and called to her.
"Hey sis! aren't you gonna join me here?" Yulis said with a playful tone.
"i can't" Eara replied, visibly frustrated.
"why?"
"im just gonna be in the way, i..... can't..... im not skilled enough....." Eara was obviously disappointed with herself.
Yulis smiled warmly at her sister. "then how about i teach you? we can use this opportunity to teach you how to fight properly."
Eara perked up but was hesitant, her hesitation only took a few seconds before she slapped both of her cheeks using both hands. Yulis gazed at her sister with confusion before shaking her head.
Eara finally decided to go forward, Yulis responded by tutoring her sister the basics of battle. From positioning, to footworks, offensive and defensive stance, how to attack, defend, deflect and parry and so on and so forth.
Yulis acted like an instructor while applying her teachings to the undead knight, Yulis unknowingly began multitasking. She would apply her cqc skill that was usually defending and deflecting since the knight is too strong for the other cqc skills, While at the same time slowly damaging the knight with the holy potion. She then would teach her sister how to apply it and some several tips and tricks and some creative way to use said techniques.
Yulis was unaware of what she's currently doing, she's wholly devoted to teaching her sister how to fight, that her strategy that she was reciting was automatically being used by her body at the same time her instincts would compensate with her lack of attention to battle while her mind was focused on teaching her sister.
Eara watched it all and started to absorb her sisters teaching. She was incredibly amazed by her sister but she didn't bother to point it out but instead busied her self on memorising each words and movements.
The two didn't notice but the knight's hit points was already nearing 30 percent. A black miasma suddenly engulfed the knights body and weapon, hiding his body making him look like a black cloud with a sword.
Yulis finally broke from her concentration when she noticed the black smoke.
Yulis then checked the timer only to be shocked to see that there was no more than 5 minutes left.
Yulis quickly stopped her lessons and started to throw holy potions in a much quicker succession, as quick as the cooldown would allow to.
Eara also followed suit, she noticed that their attacks suddenly gained an increase in damage which gave her a confused look.
The Knight however started attacking more fiercely, ignoring defence and going all out. Causing the two to receive more damage.
Both players were at half of hit points, the holy potions are no longer taking effects, and both had to rely on their healing potions.
The Knight is also not in good shape, only 10 percent of its hit points were remaining. The holy potions suddenly gained an amazing damage boost the moment the Knight donned on its black miasma.
The knight then gained another speed boost causing the inexperienced Eara to be smacked backwards. Yulis took back the initiative by blocking his attempts of killing her sister with her own body and started to rain holy potions towards its face.
Eara stood back up and dodged side ways giving space for her sister.
The knight ignored yulis and charged at eara once more.
Yulis started to panic, she somehow couldn't take the aggro off of her sister. She watched as her sister tried her best to dodge even employing some deflection techniques in order to get away.
The Knight has only 3 percent in hit points so Yulis decided to take an unpredictable action.
The knight was about to plunge his sword to a cornered Eara when Yulis pushed her aside and receive the full blow.
The sword pierced through Yulis's red wolf armor with ease and went through her body, the sword entered from her chest and exiting through her back, and embedding itself on the wall behind her.
Yulis made a final retaliation by throwing a couple more potions to it's head.
Eara saw the whole thing in slow motion, she was shocked, enraged and also despaired, tears swelling on her eyes. Before slowly going crazy and started to wildly swinging her sword on the knight.
"Get off her! get off her!" She desperately tried to pry the knight off of her sister.
Yulis coughed before trying to speak. "c-calm down! don't get distracted, focus on the potions."
Eara switched her gaze to her bleeding sister, tears flowing down her eyes before stopping her pointless slashing and switching to her potions.
The knight tried to pull his sword back only to be stopped by yulis, although her meager strength only managed to buy time for a few seconds. It was more than enough for it to succumb to the holy potions.
The Knight suddenly bursts into flames as the potions acted like gasoline being set ablaze. It struggled for a few moments before falling down to its knees and collapsing.
"w-we did it!" Eara celebrated and fell to her butt, however remembering her sister's predicament, she quickly switched her gaze to her sister only to find her laying down on the floor.
"YULIIIISSS!!!" Eara scrambled to her feet and sprinted to her sister's side.
She quickly pulled her head up to lay it down on her legs. Yulis coughed out blood and smiled at her sister, "we sure did!"
"h-here drink the potion!" Eara tried to bring the potion to her sister's mouth only for blood to pour out.
"sorry, i kinda messed up" Yulis replied while slowly caressing her sister's cheeks.
"NO! i won't let you die!" Eara pulled out another potion and placed it in her mouth, Yulis was confused, but before she could speak out. Eara dived down and touched her lips with her own.
Yulis's eyes widened, a soft warm and weirdly pleasant lips began to touched hers. She wanted to break away but her weakened body just won't move against her sister's tight grip.
(plot armor ftw, stopping the system from booting eara off for doing indecent acts)
Her tongue suddenly felt a warm liquid slowly oozing down and travelling from its tip until her throat. A foreign object suddenly invaded her mouth, an object that weirdly resembled her own tongue.
It momentarily stayed there before Eara pulled herself up, pulling out another potion. Emptying it again on her mouth before plunging back in.
Yulis watched her sister's closed eyes, before noticing her hp bar slowly climbing up. She couldn't take it anymore and closed her eyes.
Her resistance stopped and her perception suddenly increased as she felt her sister's tongue invading once more.
She felt a warm feeling slowly spreading from her core outwards until reaching her finger tips, Eara took a few moments before breaking away and pulling out another potion.
Yulis panicked before managing to speak.
"st-stahp.... i.. it's enough.... i.... my hit points is back up!" Yulis stammered.
Eara with a teary eyes hugged her sister tightly. Yulis was suddenly feeling hotter than usual.
"i thought you were seriously gonna die! Eara cried while hugging her sister.
Yulis wanted to smack herself in the head for thinking weird thoughts before slowly hugging her sister back." It's okay, im fine, thanks to you. "
The pair stayed like that for a few moments before finally standing up.
Yulis spoke first. "you know i can simply revive back in town right?"
Eara sheepishly looked away trying to hide her reddish face. "i.... panicked.... a little bit...."
Yulis also looked away trying to hide her own red face. "uhhh hey look! the Knight dropped some items down!" Yulis switched topics.
On the ground lay several items, first is a black orb oozing with miasma, second is a black crown with an unnoticeable black jewel inlaid in it's front, a black book, two floating glowing books, two scrolls, several pieces of black iron ore, and a good amount of coins.
Checking the attributes of the items, Yulis smiled.
Tier 0 Lesser orb of darkness (upgradeable until tier 4)
An orb that gives the user the darkness attribute, increased defence and offence against magical and physical attacks. Increase damage received from holy attributed attacks.
Passive: Darkness cloak, gain a five percent damage boost and added the darkness attribute to your attacks, gives five percent defence boost from physical and magical attacks. Increased 40 percent additional damage to holy attributed attacks received while the orb is equipped.
Tier 0 Shadow Crown (upgradeable until tier 4)
Active: Summon undead, summons two tier 0 skeletons that are 18 levels below the summoner, they have randomised equipment, they will follow the commands of the summoner. Only a maximum of 4 skeletons can be summoned at once. (cooldown 10 minutes)
Active: Control undead, take control of an undead 18 levels below the summoner, an undead that has been controlled will be counted as a summoned undead and will take one of the 4 slots available from the active skill Create undead. (cooldown 5 minutes)
Tier 0 Skill book, dark fire, fires a ball of dark flames that burns both hit points and mana of the enemy, deals an initial explosion damage and a secondary damage over time for 8 seconds, the damage depends on the users attributes.
Mana usage: 10%
Cooldown: 30 seconds
Tome of strength, grants an additional 1 strength attribute to the player.
Tome of speed, grants an additional 1 speed attribute to the player.
Tier 1 Scroll: shadow bind, constricts any humanoid entity for 10 seconds, the stronger the entity the faster it could break free. (charges remaining x3)
Tier 1 Scroll: Summon undead, summons 4 tier 1 level 40 skeletons, the skeletons will have random equipment and a maximum of 4 skeletons can be summoned at once. (charges remaining x3)
Black iron ore, can be refined to make black steel, which is several times harder than regular steel and is much more durable as well. (x11)
The pair looked at each other for a moment before celebrating, the drops are extremely worth it, Yulis then gave the crown to Eara to which she reluctantly took.
Yulis equipped the orb which caused her body to be engulfed with dark smoke, as if she's wearing a cloak made out of smoke. The orb had a huge disadvantage of receiving additional damage against holy attributed attacks, that was also the reason why the knight quickly fell when it equipped the orb.
Eara also wore the crown, which suddenly shrunk in order to match her size. Eara looked somewhat elegant with the crown, too bad her clothes aren't. This annoyed Yulis to no end, she wanted to do everything within her power to upgrade her sister's equipment.
She pondered for a moment before deciding to raid another one of these hidden areas in hopes of looting some sort of equipment similar to the crown.
While the two were inspecting the loot, Yulis insisted for Eara to learn the skill book.
"No." Eara firmly replied.
"but why?" Yulis who was holding the book pleaded to her little sister.
"im gonna be a warrior soon, i have no need for a magic skill. You on the other hand want to be a mage right?" Eara gave Yulis a questioning stare.
"yes...." Yulis replied with a defeated tone. "then atleast take both of the scrolls-" Yulis was interrupted when Eara replied with a quick tone.
"you really think a noob like me can use scrolls?" Eara once again rejected the offer.
Yulis sighed and surrendered, but this time she's definitely determined to find a suitable equipment for her little sister! i won't stop till i do! Yulis said to herself.
The final tome was divided to the insistence of her sister, Eara received the strength tome while Yulis the speed.
The pair returned to the town, they had several things to do, Eara wanted to train her blacksmithing skill, while Yulis went to the auction house to look around for rare items, materials and possibly equipment for her sister.
While browsing, Yulis found several equipment for sale but was immediately halted as they were quickly purchased, she looked around to find several players scattered around trying to quickly buy any equipment that pops out.
"guild players huh."
Yulis sighed before leaving the equipment page, she started buying several stacks of materials like elemental pebbles and scrapped metals. She also found other materials that is sold cheap now but will definitely be expensive later on.
She continued buying until her inventory was full, she then went and rented a private warehouse and dumping all the materials there and returning to buy more, she did those multiple times until the warehouse ran out of spaces.
Renting another one, yulis started buying once more when the same materials suddenly started appearing but in higher prices. Yulis ignored the new items added and continued to buy more materials.
After an hour or so Yulis was already at her fifth warehouse when she finally brought all the 'reasonably' priced materials.
Unfortunately, she couldn't find any extremely rare materials or anything similar, she couldn't even find an equipment suitable for her little sister to use.
Yulis then went to a nearby tailoring shop, where she managed to 'convince' the tailor using a few coins and a quest.
Gather silks from the forest silk worm. (32)
Yulis quickly arrived at the specified location to find several gigantic silk worms the size of a human adult.
There were six in total and Yulis made quick work of them but the drop rates of the silk is a little low, the six worms only dropped a single silk and nothing more.
Yulis, ran around the other locations with silk worms and only managed to gather 17 more before clearing them out. The respawn timer of the silkworms are about a week or so, Yulis sadly returned to the town before sitting on the auction house.
Yulis hoped and prayed as she started searching for forest silkworm silk. Yulis was delighted to see several silks were being sold. Yulis brought all silks that are sold appropriately and finally completed her quest with extra silks more.
Yulis was finally an apprentice tailor, she also learned several leather and cloth type blueprint equipment from the tailor for nothing more than several more coins.
And with both of the sisters continously putting up their crafted items in the auction house, they've pretty much gained a steady supply of coins. Buying materials from an npc that only the two of them knew his exact location, crafting the tanto, the shield, plus the dagger yulis received from the village smith. The two weren't short with coins.
Eara who just arrived at the town's blacksmith prepared herself. In order to become an apprentice blacksmith, she has to to multiple quests.
In Eve of Reincarnation, a subclass upgrade quest vastly differ from each other, there are multiple variables at play, from different teacher, different regions, and different npc personality and many more.
If two journeymen blacksmith who had performed two different quest in order to become a journeyman blacksmith then the difficulty levels are usually almost the same.
A blacksmith can't just craft 100 swords, 100 shields and 100 armors and suddenly be promoted to journeyman. Some npc would order them to refine a certain ore, craft a certain blueprint, gain their trust, woo their daughter and many more.
Eara was unfortunate to meet the certain blacksmith who gave her a bow blueprint and told her to craft it within 10 days with acceptable quality or to get lost.
In order to craft a bow though, a player must have atleast the subclass, novice carpenter and the novice wood carver subclass. Yet the bow needs to be in acceptable quality which gave her a headache.
Fortunately, this town had both of those two npc that teaches how to do their craft, thanks to Yulis, she now know of all the secret places that no normal player would know.