Playing on hard mode
Chapter 13: a difficult mission 1
So no matter how many times we lose our scores in this game, it's inevitable but it's also inevitable that we achieve glory! For the Elder code, for the glory of the Elves! Firm knights, we have a goddess to rescue. Then she started walking to the exit, move on! And everyone, as if possessed, responded "au!!au!!au!".. and we left with smiles toward a creepy cavern.
Upon reaching the dark cavern and entering, at least I was as terrified as the first time I came to this place. Itzel was no better than me, the horses and mules were worse, but a group of players had them by the muzzle, so the beasts couldn't flee.
Slowly and little by little we delved into this dungeon, after about 1000 meters of darkness and a cold that would freeze the blood if we were in reality, we arrived at a spacious place that was illuminated by rocks that shine with their own light, when I identified them, The following message appeared: Petralux selenica, a rock that can be found in deep caverns lacking any other type of light.
The lights they emitted were a soft blue, if you want to make a serious comparison like the lights of the moon, upon arriving at this place we relaxed a little.
But it was not for long, the goddess of fortune was not with us, today some creatures appeared in the form of bipedal lizards, covered with brown or gray scaly skin; Some of them, presumably the young people, had dark green skin with yellow and black bands, long but strong arms, and a terrifying jaw, because their teeth were sharper than a scalpel, I can only say, many, many teeth, These creatures were known as Xenos, when they saw us they did not attack, they looked at us with suspicion, just like us. Finally, a presumably young lizard attacked, it was one of the small ones. On our side, a woman with golden hair who carried two bastard swords with curved blades, responded in the same way, I mean even more violently, she came out in front of us while shouting come to us. My bastards, he didn't stop for a moment, the neck of the creature, the blow remained between the scales, but the movement of the golden-haired elf did not end yet, her waist turned 360 degrees, to deliver a blow with the hilt of her left weapon on the thigh of her opponent, the Juvenile Xenos went directly to the ground, Lisa continued raising the twin blades in the air, then buried those swords in the poor lizard's chest and abdomen. Turning it into a faint gray smoke, a message appeared on everyone's interface, the player Lisa of the silver elves has killed the player Alexander of the scale xenos.
The rescue mission of the goddess is transformed into a rank A mission, you have 5 hours to rescue the weakened goddess of the day. The gods Nyx and Erebos watch her heralds.
Shit I said to myself, I ordered kill them all now, we had to eliminate these players or possibly they would bring more reinforcements.
There were no more than 10 xenos present so they tried to flee, but fortunately we had great archers and fast players, none of them escaped. Still I wasn't happy.
María saw my state of tension and said calm down, I'm going to lead this, you concentrate on avoiding deaths, I nodded.
I took a book of skills that I had, when I tried to read it I was surprised because it was a very useful skill, it was the famous lunar acceleration: a skill that increased your agility by 30% for 15 minutes, it could only be activated twice a day. cooldown was one hour, an A rank skill, I didn't even try to learn it, I immediately handed the book to my girlfriend. I told him, here, this will be more useful to you than to me.
She said thank you, I will give you my book in exchange, it was an ice breath book, it was honestly not useful to me, it was compatible with me, but it did not match my way of fighting, I was specializing in being a staff and magic user. support, apart from that I couldn't imagine that in the middle of combat I would stop to blow an icy breath, like Superman, this book could be useful but it didn't work for me, I put it away and took the weapon that I won in the mission of the rats, a spear, I raised my hand and said if anyone has a super rare staff, I will exchange it for this spear, to my surprise Naomi approached me and said, have a boss, and she gave me a super rare staff and I gave her the spear. , with that I'm ready.
Exclaiming loudly I roared as if to give myself courage, right now I was very nervous, I hope they have life and mana potions because this is going to be difficult! After a pause continue, we know that there is another intelligent race here and they probably have a mission like ours, if I don't understand what the Xenos are doing here!
Anyway, there's no time to waste, let's go. We're running out of time quickly, I said, trying to quicken my pace just to see the confident and excited smile of two women, one was my beloved girlfriend and the other was Lisa who seemed equally or happier than Maria, these two are dangerous.
I approached both of them and told them why I was so excited, to which the maid replied because if I wasn't, I would do PK at ease, the other woman said I could stretch my arms and the best thing was that this time they weren't rats, the truth was I was very nervous. , thinking we were headed for a rat extermination, but this time it's lizards, it couldn't be better.
While she laughed like a maniac, I think the rats left her traumatized, or she's just crazy, I better not mess with her and I slowly walked away from the two and went to the back, next to my bear.
Lisa the lunar berserker's point of view.
I, Sophia, have always liked martial arts since I was a child, but I never had the opportunity to enroll in one of these schools. I could only practice at home by watching videos on the internet and I must say that they were really useful. For years I practiced alone at home. In school I never fought with a classmate, nor did I have problems with anyone, but when I started working, as a secretary for a real estate sales company, my direct boss couldn't stop looking at my legs in a lascivious way, he was a very repulsive guy. On one occasion the bastard tried to take me by force in his office, to which my body reacted with such violence, my hands fell on his head again and again, then I was taken to the jail, my lawyer managed to claim that it was in self-defense, but even if I lost the case I was sent to jail for 6 months for leaving the face of that misfortune practically disfigured and refusing to pay the damages, even if I managed to make the guy's company go bankrupt by paying attention I publish, showing the videos of the security cameras, thanks to some contacts, the only thing that people agreed on was that the guy was a disgrace and the other thing was that I went too far with the beating I gave him, I say that was not a beating, it was a massacre, I almost killed him, my hands ended up being destroyed from beating him so much, I don't even want to imagine how that guy ended up if my hands are practically unusable, even after so much time, 3 months ago I left prison with the money What I had saved, I bought a virtual reality headset, and a game called Andromeda, why did I do this instead of operating on the fractures in my hands, I simply didn't have enough money to pay for the surgery and since I couldn't work in my current condition .
I thought that if I played for a while maybe my trauma would improve somewhat and I would learn to control myself better, if anger control is important, so I wouldn't end up with eternally bad hands.
When I entered the game, I had my hands back, I gave myself the name Lisa, a name of Greek origin, which means the personification of anger, to honor the name I chose, as a profession I selected the lunar berserker, a profession, not very well seen by NPCs because lunar berserkers have the reputation of losing themselves in infinite rage and only the moon can calm the impulses of these battle madmen. I thought that if I could control this character it would be good for my therapy, I think I made another mistake, looking back.
Getting back to the point, I spent a month training under the guidance of some NPC instructors, the dual-wielding arts, only stopping to eat both in-game and in reality, the rest of the time I spent wielding that pair of twin swords, and practicing the unarmed combat, which she was really good at. When the month ended, I did not dedicate myself to raising levels but to walking and learning more about these elven cities, doing small missions such as helping a boy look for his cat, looking for a rich girl's pet, looking for lost children, and more. Well, yes, I was there, another month passed, when a guy named Dong-Yul approached me and told me that he had a B rank mission, he begged me to help him complete it. He was very insistent, tired of his insistence, I asked him, why not? That precisely me and not another player, said because your statistics are incredible, I have an ability that allows me to see the statistics and skills of players and NPCs, as long as their levels are not much higher than mine.
Although I agreed to help him with his mission, when I found out what we would face I regretted it, they were rats, a large herd of rats, approximately 10,000 or 20,000 rats if there were no more, I hated rats, those filthy creatures, even in the game they chased me , I wanted to leave the group but, I thought, yes, I could face my fear of rats, I could overcome anything.
Then when we met those creatures, I was stunned and frozen with fear, a young red-haired giant, he fought next to me protecting me, he stepped on them, he hit them with a stick, when these vile creatures were too many to step on, he picked them up with his hands and threw them away, He also bit them until they disappear. It gave me courage to see his fight. So, through tears, I got up and started stepping on these rats. I took my swords and shook them. To my surprise, I was good at killing rats. With each blow, one or more rodents died. Because of the fear I felt, I stayed in the middle of the rats. Others near the giant with red eyes and hair, I think his name was Orion53.
After who knows how many hours killing these terrifying creatures, I finally finish this battle.
The rewards of the mission were large, but I was surprised when the boy found out that he gave me the strength not to collapse from fear. He had a girlfriend. I almost had a heart attack. What's more, his girlfriend was the silver maiden, the leader of the group and possibly the strongest player I had found so far, announced that she wanted to form a guard with all of us, she proposed herself as a leader, which many did not like, so I gave up that idea, the next day, I was surprised when They announced that they were withdrawing from the group by selling their share of the rewards to a guy with a sword as big as his body.
I did the same, I needed money, but I didn't do it for that reason, Naomi, Nur and Itzel approached me and told me that it would be a better idea to follow the white-haired acrobat woman and the Nephilim, they seemed to have a plan, with their strength they would surely form a great guard, possibly one of the best.
So intrigued by these two, I followed them to the Spartan guard, founded by the maiden and I think it was the best decision because now I can fight with these Xenos.
Right now I'm in a passage fighting who knows how many intelligent lizards, these damn ones are tough, I roar and curse while my swords move to the music, where does the music come from? Well, a shaman from the moon comes from mass, when she appears she has just learned a skill that reinforces the attack of her allies while she is singing, and to my surprise she has not stopped singing for more than 1 hour, in fact she sings and she dances, while she does so she avoids her enemies, of course I, the crazy maiden who doesn't stop laughing while she cuts her enemies, protect her. Apart from that, there is a white bear covering our backs.
I kicked with my heel into the mouth of the stomach of a lizard that pounced on me trying to bite me, in the next second I hit it with the handle of my left blade, the unfortunate lizard fell face down on the ground, but He never got up, the blade of a halberd finished him off.
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