As i try to forget about the Shield, I also put it away, you know, out of sight out of mind. As I exit the commercial avenue, I remember to put on my new shield.
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[Conical Round Buckler]
Type: Purple
Rank: White
Defense: 15
Endurance: 10
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It's not a bad shield at this level, but it has no skills. Le sigh. The reason why I'm stuck on a shield is that my combat technique requires one. I don't mean like the frontline bodyguard type, but I use it to block or hit my enemy and yes getting smacked in the face by a metal wall hurts and gives me a great opening to strike.
After leaving the commercial avenue, I entered one of the residential streets. These houses are empty, by the way players can rent or outright buy them, and if you're saying but this is only the 5th floor rest area well hate to burst your bubble but all the rest areas are connected or how should I put this all rest areas are the same rest area all that is different is your save each time you go through the 5th floor rest area your progress is saved and it's just going back to the rest area I still think I'm not explaining it right let's just say that buying a house regardless of floor is not a problem. As I ponder the plusses and minuses of renting a house just for the time being, I slowly shake my head. The minuses are more prevalent at this point, so I stop considering it. At this point, I'm considering just moving on to the higher floors because 1 there is almost no one here 2 the farther I go the more rewards I can get.
When I get to a 4 way stop, I see a skeleton walking my way yes its another person. What makes me take a second look is that she has no items on normally. A person will have a weapon at least, and the reason I say she is Maria is over her head, so unless there is a parent that named their son Maria, however what do I care about her as it's not helping me none so after a look I ignore her and start walking to the 6th floor door I should get started on my way there or someone else will get the 5th floor rewards ya not on my watch they aren't.
As i walk through what looks like a residential street I see a person in full plate armor with a sword and shield he also has the name Nightmare over his head so I know he's like me I want to go over and ask him were he got all the gear but he ignored me and kept on walking as I watch him take a turn I decided to follow him. I follow him for a few streets until he makes another turn, and when I take the same turn, I slam into him. I retreat slightly, afraid he might attack me, but he types in the chat window. "Is there something I can do for you?" I look at what he typed and wrote back."Can you please tell me how you got your gear." He seems to think for a minute before typing."OK, I got everything from the floor of the labyrinth. You can find it all lying around, but it only becomes useful after you get a merchant to assess them." After he said that, he took out 2 daggers and handed them to me typing." I don't know how you got here without any weapons, but these should be helpful." After that, he turned around and started to leave, but after I looked at the daggers, I hastily typed."Thank you. I promise to pay you back later." He just lifted his hand and waved bye. But his name got me to thinking he must have changed his name cause I doubt that eny parent would call their child Nightmare, so I checked my status screen and tried clicking on my name yes I knew it after that I type in my UVR[1] game moniker Cotton Cloud. I hope my friends are also here. we can start a guild well if this place has that feature. After that thought, I headed back to the 5th floor door time to start farming.
If I had just turned back, I would have known who I was dealing with. Cotton Cloud was the leader of one of the top 3 human empires Alliances. Hindsight is truly 20/20 because if I had known, I'd have given her the entire Ragnar the Grey set because who wouldn't want to be on the good side of such a powerhouse. But as I said, 20/20 and all that well anyways the 6th floor is calling. To be honest, I already bought enough hp to last me through to floor 10. My new mission is to get to Silver Rank before I get to the 10th floor rest area, and hopefully, I'll have enough money to buy a house. If not, well, there is no rush. I can take my time on that I will only really need it when I become flesh and blood again.
Ok, on the 6th floor, as I look around, the monsters just stare into space. Why, you ask, it's the zombies again just this time they are level 10 and there is now a Kobald variant the Kobald type has better speed but is relatively the same as the others the only problem is now named monsters will start showing up. Zombies that are named have glowing red eyes, and unlike normal zombies, they are active, meaning they hunt you also there stats are better than none named well that's the same with every named monsters they have an all around upgrade and they are very active they also don't stay in one place.
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Note [1]: UVR is short for Universal Virtual reality it is a game that holds a lot of worlds of different genders from si-fi to fantasy all in one, hence the name Universal.