"THIS GAME IS RIDICULOUS!!!" sounded a scream in the middle of the forest.
"I know, right? Jajaja!!" responded another voice.
"Why are you laughing!!" screamed Jake at the figure that was running along him.
Jake and the other man didn´t have much time for bickering because the thing they were running away from was quickly catching up.
"It´s coming" said the man beside Jake
"Do you think that I don´t know that?! Quickly, let´s get out of the forest. We don´t have a chance in its home ground" said Jake seeing that they were about to get out of the forest.
Swish
"GET DOWN" Yelled as he lowered his head without stopping running.
But the man beside him wasn´t fast enough
"Ahhh!!!"
"JOHN!!" screamed Jake but he didn´t get a response.
Without stopping Jake took a look behind him and saw the thing that was chasing them finish John because he saw a red number a bit too big to be John´s remaining health coming out of his body.
-300
"SHIT!!!" seeing that he was not going to reach the edge of the forest before the creature, Jake decided to attack it now that it was distracted.
Jake took out a dagger from his pocket and throw it at that monster.
Normally such an attack would have done nothing but the creature killed his partner a moment ago and it had lowered its guard.
"GHAaa!!!"
It must have been Jake´s lucky day because the dagger landed right in its left eye causing its scream sound in all the forest.
But …
-55 (critical hit)
It didn´t do as much as Jake had hoped, in fact, the monster was fine, well, angrier and it wished to kill all of Jake´s descendants, but besides that it was fine.
"You have to be joking" said Jake as he saw that the monster was alive and ready to fight after having a dagger right through its eye.
-345
You are dead
Jake woke up in his capsule as he vividly remembered what just happened a few moments ago, and in a burst of anger, he screamed.
"A GOBLIN!!! REALLY? I KILL THAT SHIT WITH MY TOE IN OTHER GAMES, WHY THE FUCK I HAVE BEEN KILLED BY A GOBLIN???"
After thirty minutes of venting out, he started to calm himself down.
"Why did I think it was a good idea to skip the tutorial?" lamented Jake.
It has been a week since the ring incident happened.
After receiving John´s money and recovering his mother´s ring, Jake downloaded the three months free trial version of the game in his own capsule and started playing the game.
At first, all was going well. He chose the beastman race and he became a cheetah beastman. A fairly good option, so he decided to be a speed warrior, met some people, and went to the plains outside the beastman tribe in which he had appeared.
And at that moment was when everything went downhill.
Everything was stronger than them, and by that, I mean a lot stronger, the goblins, the wolfs, even the bunnies were stronger than them.
Most of the players that participated in the first fight decided to do quests in the tribe or take a non-combat route. Of the original party, only he and John remained.
To be honest, Jake also wanted to give up like the others, but when he thought about why he was here in the first place he gained the strength to continue and try again.
He looked at the street from his window and started to think again about how to reach level ten.
(Allan, wait for me).
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Through your own efforts, you have learned ??? Beginner Swordsmanship Level 1
"Finally" said Allan as leave himself to fall to the floor.
"Oe, why are you lazing around?" sounded a voice behind Allan.
"I got sword mastery" responded Allan.
"Oh, congratulations, TO ME!!!"
"Do you know how annoying have been seeing you stab a wooden sword in your own foot for a whole month? The fact that I have got to teach you how to swing a sword without losing your stance deserves some praise. Don´t you think so?" said the now cocky voice.
"Yeah, yeah, you are great" said Allan in a sarcastic voice.
While Allan was resting, he started to think about the event of the month before, which lead to this situation.
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"No, nononono" said Tom for the fifth time.
"Oh, come on Tom, the boy needs some help and he isn´t going to receive it while the town thinks that he is a criminal. At least teach him the basics and then he would continue on his own" Carl tried to persuade him.
"Do you think learning to use a sword is the same as learning to count from one to ten? No, it´s not.
It would take a lot of time and I already said to the captain that I would be working extra hours this month. I have no time to teach someone, and much less a foreigner" said Tom.
"Hoo. So, this is the way you apologize to someone who you just hurt with your weapon" sounded a very intimidating voice from behind.
"N-No, l-let me explain, I really don´t have time" said Tom while retroceding a few steps as if he were to start running at any moment.
Unfortunately for Tom, Carl appeared behind him just in time.
"Ahh, don´t worry about your captain I will explain the situation personally to him. After all, we know each other since we were kids. I am sure he will understand it" responded Carl with a smile.
"B-but, but" said Tom while searching for a reasonable excuse to avoid doing such a chore.
(No way I´m going to spend my afternoons training a rookie!! How it became like this!!! No way!! I´ll say I´m not qualified to train someone) though Tom
"I´m sorry I don´t feel good enough fo-"
"Do it" Said Sara.
"Yes Ma´am"
…
"HEY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? GET UP!!" Allan was interrupted from his thoughts by the loud voice that he has been listening to for a month in-game time.
Allan saw in Tom's direction and yelled:
"What´s up? What are you yelling for?"
"Why are you still on the ground? Get up, I have something for you" said Tom while throwing him something.
Normally Allan would have been hit in the head with that, but now he has had enough training to catch the thing Tom was throwing him. Especially because it was a sword, but not a wood sword. No. This was a real sword.
"Are finally going to spar?" asked Allan very excited.
During the whole month in game-time they have been training Allan´s posture and movements, Tom said that doing any other thing would be a waste of time, especially how easy would be for Allan to lose.
"Huh. Spar? Do you think I have no life besides being here with you? No!! A month has been enough I don´t want to see you again in my life" said Tom.
"Then why?"
"You are finally going to start paying your debts!" said Tom glaring at him angrily as if asking him if he had forgotten about it.
"Do you still think that you have not leeched of Sara enough?" almost screamed Tom.
"Do you think that these foods you have been taking all month appeared from thin air? Sara has been providing you with all these foods from her father´s inn while you were swinging that wooden sword worse than me when I was eleven years old"
"So, you are going to pay that debt" said Tom with a look that if he refuses, he was a dead man … again.
"How?" said Allan, he wasn´t against paying his debts, especially after receiving all that help from Carl, Sara, and Tom, but he didn´t know what he could do to help them. If that was the case he would have done it already.
"What do you mean how? Don´t you see the sword I just gave you? You are going to hunt in the forest!!!"