I woke up to the sun's rays shining into my eyes. I covered my eyes with my hand and rolled over to the other side. But when I felt the grass under my fingers, I immediately sat up. True, I'm still in the game. I yawned and rubbed my eyes. Today was the day I would go on my first mission.
After a while I stood up and dusted myself off. Time to work, firstly, find something to eat and drink, secondly, find or make some weapon and thirdly, get to the meeting place. I had about three hours for the first two things. So let's get down to it and not waste time.
I managed to find water first. It was enough to go a few tens of meters into the forest and I immediately saw a stream with paw prints next to it, so I knew that it was possible to drink from it. I also found something like inventory in my character window. A simple backpack, an empty water bottle, an empty dagger sheath, an old sweatshirt, and earrings were stored there. I clicked on the earrings and a short description was displayed.
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'Common item: Silver earrings'
- Increases Speed by one point
- Increases Strength by one point
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I immediately put the earrings on and said stats increased by one point.
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PLAYER
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Name: Micajah
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Race: Shapeshifter
Class: Assassin
Titles: -
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HP: 320/320
MP: 175/175
EP: 50/50
Level: 1
Affiliation to element: -
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Stats:
Strength: 3 Speed: 5 Intelligence: 2
Agility: 4 Stamina: 4 Luck: 6
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Skills:
- Animal shapeshift (Panther) (1/1) -) R-Rank
- Shadow steps (1/3) -) C-Rank
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Skill Points: 0
Stats Points: 0
Health Points: 0
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I drank a lot from the stream and then filled the bottle, which I put in my rucksack and slung it over my shoulder. Time to find some food.
I started to follow where the animal print lead from the lake and after a few minutes of walking I found the rabbit hole. Catching a rabbit was already more difficult. It took me almost an hour to catch him and get rid of the skin. Then I roasted it and ate it. I kept about half for the trip or for tomorrow, I didn't know when I would be able to eat the next time.
When I checked the time, I had a little over an hour to arrive at the meeting point, so I decided to look for some herbs in the forest that I could sell in town.
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Nate
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"Nate! Hurry up or we'll be late!" Isaiah called to me, to which I just rolled my eyes. Inoa informed us yesterday if we are not interested in clearing the E-Rank dungeon in the next town and taking with us a newbie who was looking for a mission for beginners. Isaiah agreed, as did Abram so there was no reason for me to refuse. And in addition, the more we clear the dungeon, the higher we will be in the ranking. The only thing that worries me a little is that a complete novice is coming with us. We don't have practiced cooperation together and we don't know each other's habits. It will definitely be harder than usual. But so what. At least I level up faster. Especially after I changed my race.
"I'm going" I said to the two and added to the pace.
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In the end, we were at the meeting place ten minutes earlier than the agreed time anyway. I sat down on the wall next to the gate and supported my chin with my hand.
Nine minutes.
Seven minutes.
Four minutes.
Two minutes.
One minute.
Twenty seconds.
Five seconds...
"Ah, are you Abraham, Isaiah and Nate?" I was pulled out of my thoughts by a man's voice. I raised my eyes from my shoes that I didn't even know I was looking at and looked at the man who came. The first thing I thought was, that he was handsome. Second, I thought that his eyes were like lilacs. The third thing that occurred to me - Someone hit me pretty hard. On head.
"Abram!" I growled and fixed my eyes on my friend. He just smiled even wider than he was smiling now and scolded me.
"When you meet someone, it's polite to say hello, Nate" he said to which I rolled my eyes but stood up and put my hand out in front of me.
"Hello, my name is Nate, I'm sure you already know that. What's your name?" I asked the very handsome man in front of me, and after shaking his hand I put my hands in my pockets.
"Nice to meet you Nate, my name is Micajah but Mica will do" the man replied to which I nodded. Abram started to ask Mica something, but I didn't listen to them anymore.
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After a few minutes, we finally set off and Isai and Abram asked the newcomer everything possible. He successfully avoided some questions, the questions mostly related to his private life.
"Hey Mica!" I called out to the newcomer and turned my head back to see him.
"Huh?" he raised his eyebrows questioningly and Isai and Abram finally shut up.
"What race and class are you?"
"Shapeshifter and Assassin, what about you? And Abram and Isaiah?"
"I'm a Human and a Warrior, Isai is a Human just like me but he's a Tank and Nate is a Shapeshifter just like you but his class is Mage" answered Abram immediately. Mica nodded and then turned his curious eyes back to me.
"You changed race?" he asked, to which I simply nodded curtly. Mica took the hint and stopped asking.
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The journey to the city where the dungeon is located took us just over four hours. We had lunch in the city, rested for a while and then it was time to enter the dungeon.
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Mica
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To be honest, I was nervous. But I didn't know if it was from the dungeon we just entered or from the fact that this is my first mission with people I don't know that well.
Isaiah and Abram talked to me all the way here and I got a pretty detailed picture of how they work. I even understood why they were talking to me. The closer you get to know the people you are going to work with, the better your cooperation will be. However, Nate was still a mystery to me. The only thing I knew about him, apart from his name, race and class, was that he used a katana to fight (when he didn't use spells as a Mage) and that was only because he clipped it to his belt when entering a dungeon.
Isaiah was a Tank, which meant he focused on defense and held a large shield in one hand and a light sword in the other in case he had to engage in an attack. Abram was a Warrior and also the leader of this group, which surprised me, I thought it would be Nate. Abram used a spear to fight.
I managed to sell the herbs I picked in the forest and bought the cheapest daggers possible. And that was also end to my money. But if this mission is successful, I'm sure I'll earn at least ten silver.
Isaiah was at the very front, followed by me and Abram, and at the end of our little group was Nate. We had our weapons in our hands and were ready for anything. There was a scraping sound in front of us and we all turned our attention there. It's here, I thought. And then the first monster I saw upon entering this game appeared in front of me.