Prison World Online (Web Story)

• Chiyuri wrote on 2013-04-02 13:48
  [SIZE="5"]Prologue : The Ending of a World, the Beginning of one[/SIZE]
  
  
  
  It all began on a normal day… The sky had been clear all day long with only a few clouds floating around and the temperature was rising with each passing days. Snow had already started melting and the spring would soon bring life to the plants around the garden. Rachelle was just sitting in front the lunge TV, half looking at some show while looking at the sky outside. Her and her family, as well as her best friend Michael were on a trip to the Niagara Falls in Canada. Currently her family was out shopping for souvenir while she remained at the hotel. She didn’t know where Michael had run to, maybe she should have followed him but it was too late to change her mind. Right now was stuck alone in the hotel lunge, looking at some stupid Canadian TV show she never heard of nor was even interested in. Deep down she was wishing for something to happen, like Michael to comeback or her family to return. That was about when something caught her attention outside the lunge window.
  
  “Fog?” she lightly said to herself as she looked at it.
  
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  It all ended on a normal day… Michael was outside, looking at the Niagara Falls from one of the cliff. The scenery was rather calming and he couldn’t get tired of it despite seeing it many times since they had arrived here. In one day they would have to return to the States so he wanted to just absorb this scenery as much as he could even through it was rather cold outside. His peace of mind was soon disturbed through. A female scream resonated all the way to him from far away and made him turn around. At first he didn’t fully gasp what he was seeing. In the far distance was a yellowish fog pouring down over the town.
  
  “What the F***” he said to himself as more people around him noticed the abnormality happening right in front of them.
  At first he couldn’t even more and his legs started to shake a little. What brought him up to his sense was another scream that followed, this time a little closer. That fog was coming over here too. Quickly Michael started to run away, heading toward the Hotel. Once inside he found his friend Rachelle starting at the window. He quickly ran to her and grabbed her right wrist, pulling her. Rachelle was so immersed in watching the phenomena outside she didn’t notice Michael until he grabbed her arm. Looking at him, surprised by his sudden appearance she was about to say something but the look on her friend’s face was enough to shut her down.
  
  “Rachelle let go right now! That –thing- is coming over here and people are screaming, this is really bad! I don’t get what is going on but I’m not staying to figure it out.” He said to her.
  Rachelle only nodded as words just couldn’t come to her mouth, she was still under shock. Pulling on her arm as hard as he could, Michael ran outside the building, looking toward the direction the fog was, they saw how quick it was advancing and more people screaming. Many people had already started running in the opposite direction. Doing the same as them, Michael ran with Rachelle. They ran and ran and the screams were only getting louder.
  
  “We are not going to make it!” Rachelle yelled to Michael when she turned her head for a moment to look at the fog covering people and hearing their scream.
  
  “Don’t look and keep running!” He told her but soon, Rachelle fell down to the ground, Michael stopped for a moment to look at her.
  
  “I.I can’t run anymore” she said, panting heavily and quickly. She wasn’t the athletic type much and that was her limit.
  
  “Go! I’m done for! You don’t have time so just GO!” She told him, crying.
  Michael hesitated and then ran away, not looking back. Turning around to look at her once more, he saw the yellow fog cover her small silhouette in its thickness. Sadly for him, having abandoned her wasn’t enough as that fog was quicker than his tired feet and as he was running, the fog covered him up…
  
  
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  A week later…
  
  Washington, in front the white house. Kohane had rejoined the many people had gathered from through out the country. About a week ago the USA had declared their supremacy over the world and did a test of their new weapon over the Canada to both show the power they had and that they would use it on any country that go against them. The military had taken over the country by getting rid of the government and then on the same day, had render all of Canada as a ghost town. Many people had disagreed with that and started to protest. Many of them were people who had families and such in Canada or were just plain old against having the USA control the world. Everyday the group of protestors was increasing. Kohane is young girl who had some online friends who lived in Canada. They might have been only online friends but it didn’t change a thing that they were her friends. She still couldn’t accept that they were gone just like that in a day. She loved her country a lot but for that reason itself she couldn’t stand that her country would do something that cruel. She had to beg her father to let her come here as he was against having her take part in the protest, at least in the open. Another one in that protest was Alexander who had a lover who was in Canada. Well it wasn’t exactly a lover, more like a one side love and admiration for her. Alexander was mostly just protesting because his love had been stolen from him, but otherwise, he didn’t care much for what had happened to Canada. Near the end of the day, someone walked out at the white house and looked down on the protesters. Many people looked up at him as he preached the wonders of been the owners of this world now and that small sacrifice were needed for those. At that point some people started to throw shoes at him.
  
  “If you really want to vent about those who are gone, WHY NOT JOIN THEM!” the leader said out loud to the group. At that moment people stopped to throw things and some even begged for their life. A yellowish fog had appeared right over the ground and quickly engulfed them…
  
  
  
  
  [SIZE="5"]Chapter 1: Hello World.[/SIZE]
  
  
  
  Seeing Michael run forward, her heart felt pressured, as if something was going to squish it. She wanted to scream but her breath was out of sync. When the yellow fog covered her up she…
  
  “WAAAAAAAA!!!” Rachelle screamed as she opened her eyes and rose up her body, sweating like crazy.
  Her heart was beating fast. “A nightmare?” She murmured to herself but soon the reality of where she was hit her. This wasn’t her room. She was on a bed in the middle of a room full of bookcase with books. The roof was rather low and there was no one else. Slowly, she crawled out of the bed and quickly noticed her own body. She was light… Her entire body was just some sort of very basic glowing white light. She looked at her hand in mystery and fright. She could still feel her body and as she pinched her skin, she could feel pain. This was not a dream but it couldn’t be reality either.. Before she could straight out her mind, a voice resonated in the room.
  
  “You are awake now?” the voice said, it sounded robotic or synthesized, not very human sounding.
  
  “Who, who are you! Where is this! What happened to me!” Rachelle asked in a quick succession.
  
  “One question as a time, first who I am isn’t very important. Second right now you are kind of a prisoner.. It’s hard to explain in a way you’ll understand so just listen to all I have to say.. America made a discovery that permit them to link the mind of multiple people and modify reality itself using the power of hundreds of mind together. Using that power they lunched an attack on Canada in an attempt to gather more minds to strengthen the power they discovered. There is one fatal flaw to this; they had to keep the mind of all these people active… The best way to do that was to create a virtual reality to trap the mind of all those people in. But making such a thing is time costly so they took one that was already been made. This world you are in right now is a Multiplayer Online game that was been developed to come out in the next few years with a new technology. Every prisoner was connected to that world while their mind is been used to power up their new weapon. For stability, your memories were all locked up and replaced by a set of memories that fit with that world’s lore and culture.”
  
  Rachelle called out to him “Wait, I remember clearly everything about myself?”
  
  The voice stopped and then answered her “That’s cause I unlocked your memories, let me finish. As I was saying, all the people who got trapped at now living in this virtual world. You might not remember but you already lived in it for a while as someone else. Here is where I come in. I’m one of the scientist who was part of the military, but I disagree with the cruel treatment you guys received. That is why I’m trying to free you guys. Right now the system has all command to free or stop the server disabled so I cannot actually free you guys but because this world is a game, there is one way out. If people are to clear the game, everyone will be disconnected from it. That’s why I am unlocking your memories and transferring your Character Data to be a player object instead of an NPC object. Here is my request.. as a player please clear the game and free everyone.”
  
  Waiting for him to say something else Rachelle remained silent but the moment soon turned awkward so she spoke back to him. “Alright so I just have to clear this game? I’m pretty confident in my skill on games so lets see, I’m a player so I gotta create a character first right?”
  
  The voice resonated again. “Yes, everything to create a character is in this room so just go ahead, I have to go, my maintenance shift over the server is over. You will not be alone; I’ll try to create more players to help you.” With this the voice faded away and Rachelle was left alone in the room…
  
  
  
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  Day 0. Chiyu had just received an introduction from some voice resonating in this room that looked like a library. She remained relatively silent as the voice left the room for her to make a character. Looking around she found some large console like platform with all sort of buttons and windows. From that console it was pretty self-explanatory on how to make a character.
  The system would pick 4 randomly chosen races and let her pick which she wanted. Her result was; Human, Greer, Tetora or Angelic. Each of them came with a description of the race, it’s advantages and disadvantage. The human and Greer race looked rather boring and while the Tetora race sounded fun, cause it was a race that was half cat, Chiyu picked Angelic since that was more her calling. After passing an entire hour just playing with the system’s capacity to change the appearance of the body, she picked up what she liked the most.
  Angelic had no normal hair colors, so she picked a purple like tone for her hair. Her eyes would be yellow and her wings would be purple energy too. Height and facial structure couldn’t be modified through. Choosing her skills from the list wasn’t too difficult through. The skills were pretty simple and were more of a Mastery of an ability than an active ability. Chiyu didn’t know if this was intentional but the amount of Ability Points she had at the beginning permitted her to be a rather powerful individual, maybe it was a bonus that voice had given her and other players to help clear the game sooner. Within the various skills available, Chiyu had picked Whip Mastery level 2, Dual Wield Mastery level 2, Darkness Psy Magic level 2, Blacksmith Mastery level 3 and Whitecraft Mastery level 3. In that game, each skill had level 1, 2 or 3, 3 being the highest.
  Once she confirmed her skill choice in the consol, she got a pop up message saying “Unlocked Hidden Skill Whitesmith Mastery Level 3” That popup was rather interesting but what happened afterward was a lot more interesting. The system had asked her to put her hand over some orb and when she did, it felt like knowledge was poured into her mind. Once it was over she felt confident about been able to fully enjoy that game. She had received knowledge on how to accurately fight using any whip like weapon, how to efficiently dualweild how to use a specific ability that was called Darkness Psy Magic, everything related to blacksmithing, Whitecrafting and the secrets of Whitesmithing. After her skills had been chosen, she had to pick her stats but there wasn’t much to pick, they were all randomized stats, through her skills gave her stats too. Once it was all done, she was asked by the consol which weapon she wanted to begin with. Picking a Metal Chain which was part of the Whip Mastery weapon group, Chiyu was logged into the game world.
  
  
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  Descending upon the world, the young Yulishees arrived in a little town. Kohane wondered what she would have to do now. She had picked up Bow Mastery and Water Nature Magic and Water Psy Magic as her skill since the race she ended up picking was water based. She didn’t know if she would get used to those fin ears. The sensation of touching them was still very odd and unnatural to her. When she arrived at the town no one noticed her presence at first. She had an hood on her as well as a long bow, some simple clothing and a little bit of what might be that world’s currency.
  She wasn’t sure how she would go at beating this crazy game. If this was indeed a MMORPG, the first thing would be to strengthen herself by fighting monster but.. The world looked so real around her, wouldn’t monsters be scary? No No, she couldn’t have this in mind. If she was to survive, she would need to build up her strength and fight if she must.
  Her knowledge on how to use her skill made her rather confident that she could beat anything in this game. First thing first, she needed a place to stay. A little shy about it, Kohane asked some people walking in the village if there was any inn. The village had a few but the nearest one was the Pumpkin Inn.
  
  “How much is a room?” She asked the person who looked like he was the owner.. in reality wouldn’t that person also be just another prisoner, unaware of his fate?
  
  “A room is only 10 Rul young lady, but if you let me see your beauty, I’ll make it 9 Rul.” The owner commented, his glance trying to peek at her under her hood. Looking at her bag with Rul, is what he called them? Well anyway
  
  “Is there enough Rul in there for the normal price?” She told him, showing him her Rul bag. The guy only flicked his tongue and took a coin from the bag and then threw a key at her.
  
  “The room ups the stairs, furthest to the right” Nodding to him a little, Kohane started to head torward the stairs.
  
  “Hey miss, your name?” To that question she stoped and looked at him a little. “It’s Yulaseca”
  
  
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  The voice then left the room, Alexander was now all alone in the library of this prison game. Looking around for how to create a character, he spotted the console and started fooling with it. As he played with it, one thing became obvious.
  
  “Why is there only a female avatar options? Where is the gender switch option? I’m a guy for god sake!” Sadly to his call, the voice did not comeback. He waited an hour and still nothing.
  
  “Well damn it!” he said and pressed the confirm button on the console. The light on his body started to shine brightly and soon his body had turned into the avatar he made on the console. Looking down at the plain clothes covering his body, Alexander sighed. Those were really.. there… just to be sure he pulled on the shirt to see inside but then let go, blushing.
  
  
  

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  Shaking his head, he tried touching the large wings on his back. The race he had picked was the Harpuia, a winged race. Through the description indicated they could only glide, not really fly. This was relatively fantastically well made, he could feel the touch of his hand on his wings, trying to move them he got them to shake a little. Would those.. feel real too.. he though deep down. Shaking his head he refuted the idea, he was a man, he shouldn’t be doing that with his own body.
  After some time he finished picking up his skills, somehow he unlocked two hidden skill, Wind Bending and Earth Bending. His beginning weapon was a spear and he felt rather powerful with that weird knowledge that just popped up in his mind.
  When he entered the world. The place he arrived was a pretty lively city full of other winged Harpuia. The architecture of the place was rather interesting, houses were made of a white stone like material and all the houses had really large doors. Must be because they all had wings.
  His first decision was to learn more about this world if he wanted to survive in it.
  
  “Hey miss, are you lost?” Some guy approached her, taller than her. Alexander felt disturbed, it wasn’t the first time he had been mistaken for a girl back in the outside world but this was the first time he couldn’t openly declare he’s a guy considering his body.
  
  “I’m fine but, would you know any Inn around here?” He replied to the guy who frowned a little.
  
  “If you want I can let you in my house for free..” the guy said, placing his hand on her shoulder. A cold shiver ran up his spine.. This was bad, real bad. Alexander quickly brushed her body away from the guy.
  
  “No-No thanks!” She rudely said to him before walking away without turning back. Living in this female avatar is going to be much more troublesome than he thought.
  
  
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  The smell of the sea water in the air, the ocean breeze and the background noise of all the port activity going in the city. It had been a week since Michael had awakened in this Death Game. In that port city of the Earth Kingdom he remained there, learning about the world he was in.
  To the town’s folks he was Stratos, an helpful beggar who did manual work for just some food. In the town he wore an hood at all time. He hard learned that people of the Earth Kingdom, mostly humans, looked down on the Sherufanir as inferior race. That race just happened to be the one Michael had picked up because of his love for wolves. His hood kept his ears and his tail hidden from the sight of the villagers and sailors.
  It had been an entire week and yet his level was still only 2. His level increased when his Stamina stat rose from 33 to 34 while he was doing labour on his fifth day. So one thing was for sure, he didn’t need to actually fight monsters to raise his level but at the rate he was gaining exp at, it would take a very long time to clear this game. There was no way this Death Game could be cleared on low levels.
  From what he gathered from different people in this world, the wild animals, probably what is considered monsters by MMORPG terms, usually didn’t go near cities and village, they could be found roaming the plains where there was less to no people at all. Not all were aggressive but those that tend to be aggressive had more value to them. The Rul he had at the beginning of the game lasted him for 3 days before it ran out and now he was working on just surviving.
  He could feel hunger if he didn’t eat but he didn’t know what would happen if he stopped eating. He didn’t want to test it. Death in this world might be permanent.
  On the second day, he met another player who openly claimed this world was fake and to prove it started to attack random people, requesting the sky to let him out of this dumb game. After the second villager fell to the ground in a puddle of blood, a giant strike of lightning, no.. a pillar of lightning fell on the insane killer. When the flash of light ended, a charred body was left on his knees and a wind breeze dispersed it into ashes.
  Asking question to other town people about it, he learned that in this world, their great Goddess Yamira would not allow someone to kill more than one person in the entire world. That absolute rule prevents wars from happening as everyone knows they will die if they were to kill more than one person. If one kills a second, the Goddess judgment would fall upon them. Through for most of the villagers here, it was their first time seeing it happen. After that, he never heard that guy again so he either did not revive at all or revived somewhere far. Anyway Stratos had no intention of testing death out in this world. When he would get more Rul, he would find a way to travel around the kingdom. He wasn’t going to clear the game by staying in this town.
• Kingofrunes wrote on 2013-04-02 14:58
  Well I haven't had a chance to read the entire thing but the beginning sounds captivating enough. I see that the questions you were asking me earlier tie in nicely with this story. I'll read it another time though and give more detailed feedback then.
• Chiyuri wrote on 2013-04-03 18:53
  [SIZE="5"]Chapter 2 : Exploration of the World.[/SIZE]
  
  
  
  Day 7. Walking back to the inn she stayed in, Chiyu carried some large bag filled with food and supplies. It had been a week since she had arrived, seven days exactly. Her level was already 3 as she had gone in the field to hunt some wild animals. From what she understood in her stay in Inama, the city she logged on into, she was currently in the Earth Kingdom, the most populated kingdom and safeties of them all. It was a rather fitting place for beginners. In her stay in that village, she had plenty of time to test the limit of her skills, mostly her Darkness Psy Magic skill which had a lot of useful potential. The reason she was going back to her inn with so much supplies was because she planned to move to a village she heard of. Using the money she gathered hunting wild animals, she had already bought a map of the kingdom and had asked people more details about each of the city. The one she was the most interested on was a city in the south-east of Inama. Orima was a central point of the country and was quite famous for it’s coliseum where gladiators fought against monsters and wild beast for the town folks entertainment. If she was to get strong enough to do as she please in this world, she needed to level up quickly and get used to fighting in this world. Walking into the inn she waved her hand to the owner who waved back at her.
  
  “I’ll be leaving soon, thank you for taking care of me till now” she commented to the owner.
  
  “Alright, feel free to comeback anytime little Seirenien.” He responded to her with a smile.
  While she wore a robe and hood over herself to hide her wings, some people had the opportunity to see her purple coloured hair. Luckily for her those people though she was a Seirenien who are known for having vivid hair color. Most Seireniens live in the Water Kingdom far north past the sea. After packing up her things, Chiyu walked toward the counter of the inn, left a bag of Rul for the owner and without a word she walked out of the building.
  
  
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  It had been almost a month now. Rachelle had been in this port city near the border of the desert for almost a month. It was pretty clear by now that no one was going to unplug them from this world. By hunting monsters day and night, only going back to the city to sell and rest, she had already reached level 8. Her plan was to go to the Earth Kingdom to find a more suitable place to train at. The monsters around this main city of the Fire Kingdom were clearly too high level for efficiently train on them. Just fighting one took everything she had to kill it. That was one of her reason for leaving the Fire Kingdom but her main one was that she was sick of the desert heat. It made her clothes wet in sweat from just fighting a little and the heat would get worst the more she adventured into the desert. The sand made poor battle ground too, making fighting much harder.
  
  Still the loot she had gotten from those monsters was pretty valuable. After a month of hunting she had collected enough Rul to pay the boarding price for a ship to bring her to the Earth Kingdom. It was finally time to bid farwell to this hot place and head for the largest kingdom. On her stay in Ilifrt, she had introduced herself as Raelynn to the town folks. She had used that username in quite a few MMORG in the past and she felt it was most fitting to use it than use her real name. The next ship to leave for Balton was tomorrow so Raelynn had made some degree of preparation for the long trip. She had heard it take usually 12 days for the boat to traverse the ocean and reach the port. Those would be boring after a while but there was nothing she could do about it. On that night she dreamt of the real world, of her family and friends. Was Michael in here too? Even if she was to meet him, she didn’t know if she would be able to recognise him.. would he be even able to remember her she though deep down. The next day, Raelynn left her inn and headed for the port, giving a large bag of Rul to the crew member taking care of payments. One of them leaded her to her room inside the ship.. Smelled kind of like rotting wood and a strong salt stench everywhere. The wind breeze was quite refreshing through. Walking back out of her room after setting in, Raelynn look at the port town as the ship departed on it’s long trip to Balton.
  
  
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  After another day of work, Stratos headed to the field to hunt some monsters. It had been almost a month now that he was in this world but it was only recently that he started hunting monsters in the fields. His level was now 5, he was pretty proud of it. While he did make some degree of Rul hunting the fields, it was still not enough to make a living in this world but it trained his stats much faster than the physical labour he did in the town. Usually sometimes he found some swordsmen hunting the wild pigs that got too close to the city but this time he noticed something else. An odd girl with a long halberd like weapon was fighting the wild pigs, slashing one after the other. Unlike the swordsmen who looked scared when fighting, that girl looked like she was enjoying herself. Curious about it, Stratos walked toward her in hope to learn about who she was.
  
  “umm Hello there?” He timidly asked the overwhelming girl who stopped and looked at him.
  
  “That beginner robe..” she lightly said in surprise as she stared at Stratos.
  
  The word -beginner- made Stratos easily understand that she was not an NPC, she was a player like him.
  
  “You are a player too? My name is Stratos, what’s yours?” He quickly asked her to which she responded
  
  “Raelynn. Wow I didn’t think I’ll meet a player in this world so soon, it’s so large after all.”
  
  “What do you mean large? I haven’t traveled much yet.”
  
  “I started in the Fire Kingdom, I had to take a boat to get here and it took an entire 12 days to reach Balton”
  
  Suddenly a wild pig rammed into Stratos, lowering his HP by a chunk while pushing him away. Both of them surprised, Raelynn quickly brought her halberd down on the pig, killing it in a single blow.
  
  “We shouldn’t talk over here, it’s dangerous. Which Inn you stay in?” she asked him.
  
  
  Back in the city, both of them talked for a while in the Inn Stratos had chosen. Exchanging information about what they learned.
  
  “So we might really die if we lose all our hp here?” Raelynn asked him after she heard his story.
  
  “Yea, I haven’t seen that player guy ever since he died before my eyes.. but even if I did, I don’t think I would have wanted to team up with him to clear this game. I have to agree with the system that kill anyone who tries to kill others..”
  
  “Hmm. I wonder if that goddess is really just a back story system or if it’s an administrator who take care of the system.. It might be best if we don’t get involved with her just in case.”
  
  “An administrator, I didn’t think of that possibility. But you are right; our memories might get stolen again if we are discovered by an admin.”
  
  And so on, they talked all night long; Raelynn had a lot of fun messing with Stratos because of his ears and his tail. When the topic turned to how they should clear the game, Raelynn seem rather unsure about wanting to clear it. She had quite a lot of fun so far in this world but when Stratos spoke about all the people trapped in here, Raelynn decided to work with him on clearing the game. Both of them had no idea how to do it through. After Raelynn returned to her own inn, Stratos was left alone in his room to sleep. So much had happened today and more would happen from now on. In the morning he met up with Raelynn again and they started to gather information from the town folks to know where to go from now on. After two days they had a clear idea of where to go. Forcena the imperial City of the Earth Kingdom. If there was to be a clue about how to clear the game, they would find it there. As they made preparation for the long travel it would take to reach that place, Stratos looked back at Balton, he had gotten used to living here already and leaving this place was a bit difficult but he had to.
  
  
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  Coming back from an hunt in the plain north of Escra, Yulaseca returned to her inn to prepare. It had been a month now since she arrived in this world. In hope to find a better hunting spot, she had decided to travel to Varrock, a city to the south-west of Escra. The wild pigs of Escra were too easy to deal with and didn’t bring much exp to her. While it was entertaining at first, by now she had gotten bored of this small agricultural village that never change. She had hopes the world would be more interesting than this village. Leaving her inn for good, she walked to the edge of the town with a bag of supplies. Behind her some of the town’s folks waved at her, they had grown accustomed to her been in the village. She was lucky none of them ever noticed her ears under the hood she always wore. Traveling without a map wouldn’t be too difficult through as from what the villagers said, all of the city and villages had a clear path leading to each of them and directions on each crossroad. One step at a time she embarked on her trip to Varrock on the dirt path west the village.
  
  Once night fell, she set up a small fire camp using some wood she had brought with her. Starting the fire was more difficult than she though but that small Heat stone the villagers had given her helped start it. Without it she might never had gotten a flame to burn the wood. The nigh sky was bright with stars. Back in Real Life she had never seen such a beautiful sky, even if this was just pixels rendered into her mind, it was still beautiful. The next morning, she woke up feeling sore and started packing her stuff once more to leave. The fire had finished burning off the wood so she simply left it there. After an hour she finally reached a crossroad, one path continued west to Orima, the other was going southwest for Varrock. In the afternoon she had arrived at Varrock. It was relatively gloomy for a town, perfect for a place with higher level monsters. As she walked into the town and reached an Inn, some guy came out abruptly and pushed her out of his way. The impact been strong, Yulaseca fell to the ground, her hood coming off. Some of the people around started at her for a few moments, their eyes growing big with surprise but they all remained silent. Quickly Yulaseca put her hood back on and quickly headed into the Inn. The keeper only asked for 5 Rul for her to stay.
  
  She probably never should have come to this town.. Even now she still regrets it. It had been 5 days now. Waking up from the floor covered in cotton, Yulaseca looked at the room just to be reminded that this was not just a bad nightmare but reality. 5 days ago, when she had gone to sleep in the Inn at Varrock, she had gotten kidnapped by some guys in black hood. Because they had blindfolded her, she had no idea where she was brought but it probably was either in Varrock or somewhere close. For 5 days she was kept in this large room with other slaves. All of them were female Tetoras, a race with cat like attributes like tails and ears. From what she understood human in this world looked down on races from the Moon Kingdom and some slave market had been established for the rich nobles of the Earth Kingdom to fulfil their –special- needs.
  
  Luckily for her, been a Yulishees of great beauty, she wasn’t going to be treated badly inside this facility until she was to be sold but… The scream and moans coming from the girls on the other side of the room was truly horrifying. The smell in the facility was so.. lewd and wrong, she felt sick the first two days she was forced to stay here. If she could she would have escaped but without her bow, she wasn’t able to fight and while she normally should be able to use magic, ever since they captured her she could not feel any mana in her body. That weird collar they had –made- around her neck might be the cause. She isn’t sure how they did to place that collar but when she tried to remove it from her neck, she couldn’t figure out no way to unbind it.. it was seamless. Nevertheless, even if she heard the guards talk about how they weren’t supposed to train her, their beast like stares they did toward her every now and then were truly scary to her. There was no guaranty they wouldn’t try it.. Just thinking about it her body shivered. Like usual today, the room was relatively calm in the morning. As the day would go by more outsiders would visit for some -services- on the other side of the facility room. It was pretty hard to watch it happen right infront of her own eyes but by now she was accustomed to it and just looked away. As the day passed by she had dozed off back into sleep and when she had woken up again in the afternoon, she could faintly see two shadows looming over her…
  
  
  

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  After around a month of remaining in the first village he appeared in, Alexander had finally collected enough Rul to try and travel to the Earth Kingdom. The amount of monsters in the Wind Kingdom was relatively low as the Amazons at the top floor took care of most of them. Even so some still got into the lower floor of the mountain and Alexander could make some degree of profit from them as well as raise his level. Despite been treated like a girl by the town folks, probably cause his avatar was one, the people weren’t all that bad to him. He still hadn’t fully gotten used to not having one anymore and avoided looking too much at his own body as it both embarrassed him and felt humiliated by it. Still that didn’t prevent him from testing his male curiosity on that body that was his now, mostly when he had to clean it on the hot spring of the city. The perks didn’t out weight his desire to have a normal avatar but it wasn’t like he could do anything about it.
  
  His trip would bring him to Cerena, a small village of silk and fabric to which he remained a day in. The village had all sort of clothes, not only for Harpuias but also for other races. He had gotten lucky with getting a pair of male pants that would fit his small body and a top part that wasn’t too girly for him. He didn’t understand how girls could wear such revealing clothing, he felt embarrassed with wearing the beginner clothing he started with and was glad to have gotten something more neutral. On the next day he got to Syilf, a lively town with a beautiful sight over the ocean. There was a lot of activity and a lot more humans and other races there too. This time through Alexander did not remain for long in that village and quickly went down the path to the bottom layer of the mountain. It was once he reached Cyr and found how that he clearly had not enough Rul he felt troubled. His only option was to work around the town to collect enough Rul to board a boat to the Earth Kingdom.
• Chiyuri wrote on 2013-04-11 00:57
  [SIZE="5"]Chapter 3 : The Various Meetings.[/SIZE]
  
  
  
  After about 10 days of doing various quests for town people and hunting monsters outside of the port town, Alexander had finally collected enough to take a boat to the Earth Kingdom. Technically he could have tried to fly there using his wings but as he did not know the world enough, he preferred to not risk falling down into the ocean. This was a trick he learned to do but still had to train a bit as he still hadn’t gotten fully used to it yet. Normally while Harpuia possess wings, the best some can do is glide with them; they do not permit true flight.
  Using his Wind Bending Hidden Skill, Alexander had found a trick to turn gliding into flight but he didn’t use it in front of people as he didn’t know how others would react to it. The ship itself was mostly just a trading ship that made trips in-between the Earth and Wind Kingdom. Many of it’s sailors were actually Harpuias through despite being a Earth Kingdom ship. The first day of sailing was rather horrible as Alexander learned his stomach hated the sea with a passion. Most of the day remained as only a hazy feeling in his memory and a strong scent of salt on his clothes. By the time they reached the Earth Kingdom he had gotten a little better at controlling the seasickness, maybe cause he avoid eating much at all. Once he got his feet back on land upon arrival at Balton, Alexander had to hold in his desire to just kiss the ground; he was never going back on a boat ever again!
  
  
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  Day 37. It had been a month now since she arrived at Orima. Back on Day 8, Chiyu had found the giant coliseum in the middle of Orima and soon had registered for it. The inn she had taken to live in was one of the many near the coliseum. Right now it was the morning and finally the beginning of the Monthly Tournament Battle she had been waiting for. For a month now she had been building a name for herself by fighting every day in the coliseum. So far all of her match had been against monsters brought into the city by hunters or some even rose inside of the coliseum for the only purpose of fighting against challengers. People from around the world would come to see the fights but the Monthly Tournament Battles were one of the strongest attraction in which people would fight against other people in a tournament fashion for a price money and fame. Even now only one month of fighting had earned her quite a fortune of Rul, still not enough for what she planned to do but if she was to win this tournament, she would be much closer to her goal.
  When the inscription was over, the cumulative administration fee of all the participant raised up to 28,500 Rul. The coliseum would honour that by giving the same amount to the grand winner alongside the total administration fee, resulting in a big whooping 57,000 Rul. Through when you think of the fee every spectator has to pay, this amount was probably small compared to the profit this tournament would bring them. The new weapon she had made herself at a blacksmith shop in town had helped her a lot in fighting. The uniqueness of it had also attracted a lot of attention to her even in the normal daily match. Using this really odd weapon of hers would be her main advantage in the Tournament Battle as people wouldn’t know how to counter or read her fighting style. Even if she was to fight a player who used their points to master a weapon mastery, she wouldn’t lose just because her Whip Mastery is only Experienced Level.
  
  Day 38. On the second day of the Tournament, people were already screaming her name when she entered the field. She had made a rather flashy display on the first day by overwhelming her opponents with her chains and Void Holes. That’s how people referred to those portals like black circles she could summon due to her Darkness Psy Magic Skill. She could summon a few of these, always in a pair and remote control them with just focus. Anything that entered one would come out of the other, just like portals. The only problem with them was that she couldn’t easily fight using her body and move the holes around; it was either one or the other. Another problem was how one could not see through them as they appeared pitch-black. Her ability to create more of these Holes rose when her magic stat increased. So far she had reached level 27 from all the fighting she had been doing every day. After a few morning battles all remaining contestant were allowed to rest for lunch. There wasn’t much to mention about her free time within the city. She usually either fought in the coliseum or remained in her inn to rest.
  She was particularly careful about hiding herself inside of her robe but there was limit to how well she could hide herself in it, mostly when she fought. It happened quite a few times that as she fought; her hood would slip off her head, revealing her beautiful purple hair to the spectator. Her manager had mentioned to her a few times at how she should show her face and head more often as some spectator wanted to see more. That aside, as she walked to her inn, some tall guy pumped on her and made her fall to the ground, her hood had slipped off and some people started to look toward her and the guy. Quickly Chiyu pulled on her hood once more and hurried into the inn, she didn’t want to cause a commotion in the open. Her fame as a fighter was getting troublesome. After a good meal at her inn, Chiyu was finally ready to return to the Tournament Battle and win.
  
  
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  After a long day of walking, the night was setting down upon Stratos and Raelynn. They had finally reached Escra, a small farming village to the west of Balton. There wasn’t much of interest in that village but for Stratos it was quite a change in scenery. It was very beautiful to him. One the second night they stayed in Escra, Raelynn was insisting they head to Orima quickly to see the Coliseum Tournament Battle. From what she had heard, the Tournament Battle was an event where people would clash against others for fame and Rul. If they hurried they could get there in time to subscribe. Stratos wasn’t much for the idea but Raelynn insisted so much that in the end he gave up and they made preparation the next day to head out. Luckily for them, buying food in Escra was rather cheap, as expected as one of the main village that feed the entire Kingdom. One the next day they headed toward Orima to fulfil Raelynn’s curiosity. This changed their plans a little as Stratos wanted to head to Iliya to reach Forcena sooner. Orima would be a small detour for them through. When they arrived in Orima the next day, to Raelynn’s misfortune, the Tournament battle had already started and registration was now impossible. Considering the spectator fee, Stratos decided to not go watch them but Raelynn went in his stead. Orima was similar to Balton as there was a lot of people and activity in it. So many people were walking around the streets all day long.
  At noon, Stratos headed toward the inn they had rented a room at but as he spaced out, overwhelmed by the liveliness of the city, Stratos bumped into a girl wearing a hood. As the girl fell down to the ground, Stratos remained standing and looked down at her. The girl had very unusual purple hair, clearly not a human race but he didn’t know of any race that had such hair color.
  
  

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  Before he could even apologize to her through, she quickly left the scene. Later that night, Raelynn told him that girl was probably a Seirenien as those were known to have vivid hair color. Back in the city she started in on the Fire Kingdom, one of the shops she visited had a vivid green haired owner. Another thing she showed him that night was a new pair of Halberds she had bought when the tournament second day ended.
  “Why did you buy two of them?” Stratos asked her.
  “Cause I wanted to see the limit of my Dual Wielding Skill. I just felt like I could probably dual wield those. Weird isn’t it, normally a person wouldn’t be able to handle the weight of one with just one hand. But just because I have the Dual Wield skill at high level, I can somehow manage it.
  After the third day of the tournament ended, the two remained in Orima another day before heading out to Inama.
  
  
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  It was pretty horrible. It had been 9 days now since she had been captured by the slavers. Yulaseca was very depressed and felt disgusted. For the past 4 days, two of the guard had been.. visiting her.. Who ever created that world was sick. This was not a game anymore.. this was torture. It wasn’t like they were physically hurting her but.. those sensation they were forcing on her were hurting her soul and mind. On the second day they started visiting her she struggled so much against the chain that her HP started to drop. Maybe dying would be best.. if this was to go on.. they would go beyond just enjoying her skin. Sadly for her, even death was not allowed. When the guard noticed she was struggling to the point of hurting herself, they threw a weird flower at her. The flower itself was relatively beautiful but it had a very dangerous secret. One of it’s thorn had a poison that numbed her body to the point she couldn’t gather the strength to struggle. She could move a bit and all but she couldn’t struggle enough against the chain to hurt herself. Her weakened state also seem to have agitated the guards as they were more.. savage on that day.
  From there on she stopped struggling to the point her HP would drop to avoid another day like that with them. She couldn’t tell what time it was but on that ninth day, some butler looking guy had came to look at her. The guards seemed to bend to that guy’s will as if he was some sort of noble or represented one. Inspecting her similar to how a person inspect an object, the butler remained silent for a while before saying
  “Alright, we are taking her. Bring her to our mansion.”
  Afterward he left and the guard soon started freeing her from those chains and brought her to some caravan filled with other girls who had dead eyes. It looked like they had gone through much harsher experience than she did to look dead despite been still being physically alive. After hours of just hearing the breath of the other girls and the rumbling of the Caravan on the road, Yulaseca started to hear the sound of people, lots of them. Were they in a city now? She wanted to scream for help but she was scared of what they would do to her if she did. Hesitating in-between screaming or not, she waited and waited. Before she could make a decision, the sound weakened and faded away through the day, the caravan probably leaving the city. This might had been her only chance to escape and she wasted it.
  Before she knew it night had fallen but the caravan kept going on. It was pretty dark inside and she couldn’t tell what was going on outside when the caravan came an abrupt stop. Hearing screams coming from a distance, Yulaseca rose up from her seat in the caravan and listened to what was going on. Suddenly something rammed into the Caravan and made it fall over, throwing all of the girls to the right side of it. Quickly looking around her to understand the situation, Yulaseca saw a ray of faint light coming from one side. The back door of the caravan had broken open from the impact. Struggling to get past the girls who just remained still in the caravan, Yulaseca reached the outside and looked up the dark sky. The moon was about to be covered by clouds and soon darkness covered the land entirely. In the confusion of what sounded like a battle, Yulaseca ran with all her might to get away. Wherever she was to run to, it was better than staying with them.
  
  
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  After their little detour in Orima, Raelynn and Stratos had finally arrived at Forcena a few days later. The giant wall all around the capital were amazing and one of the main entrance was gorgeous. The flow of people moving around through the gate and the street was great. To think all of these people are people who are trapped in this world, without even knowing it. The two of them took one of the nearest inn to the south of Forcena. Their main plans for now were to find a way to clear the game but in reality, clearing it didn’t interest Raelynn all that much. She rather enjoyed this world but clearing this game did sound like fun too so that was her main reason to helping out Stratos. That and traveling alone was boring. During the day they would split up and ask various citizens about the world but most people seem to not know much outside of Forcena or the Earth Kingdom.
  At some point Raelynn got access to a library to which Stratos was decline entrance because he looked suspicious. Walking around with a hood over his head did make him look odd and untrustworthy. The library was so full of book that it was almost a wonder how they could have taken the time to invent every single one of these book for the purpose of creating that game world. Despite all of her effort, a few days of looking through those book didn’t result in much.. Most of them were just story unrelated to this world’s lore, like Hamlet or Romeo and Juliette.
  On the 6th day they were in Forcena, as both of them were shopping, Stratos ended up bumping into someone again, a young girl wearing a hood who fell to the ground afterward.
  
  

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  Leaning over to help her, Stratos extended his hand to her but.. Suddenly the girl started shaking and soon enough let out a scream.
  “a-a guy! Get Away don’t touch me!!”
  In surprise Stratos backed away, shaken up by the sudden scream. He didn’t know how to react to this. What saved him was Raelynn who quickly jumped to the girl and blocked her view from Stratos.
  The girl remained rather silent and soon enough Raelynn helped her get up and took her back to the inn, leaving Stratos still lost in the middle of the street. Raelynn last stare at him was similar to a “Don’t follow”. Back in the inn, Raelynn tried to get the girl to explain why she screamed all of a sudden.
  Mumbling at first, the girl’s voice started to get more tangible.
  “..guys.. guys are just.. sick.. When I saw him get close.. I just.. I. I”
  “calm down, no guys are here, take it easy.. Why are you so scared of guys?”
  “Guys.. they.. captured me.. plenty of other girls too… we ..we were forced to..”
  As the girl looked more sick and shaking from just thinking about it Raelynn stopped her, it was pretty obvious what she had gone through. She-herself did not expect this game to have such a thing going on. Was it made to be part of the game world or was it created afterwards by the resident of it?
  “This.. this is not a game.. this is a nightmare..” The young girl mumbled to herself but her words quickly caught up to Raelynn’s ears.
  “Wait.. did you just say –game- ? Would it be possible.. are you a Player?”
  To her question, the girl stopped sobbing and looked up to Raelynn.
  “You are one too?” she asked her eyes looking deep into Raelynn as some sort of salvation.
  “Yes, and my friend who bumped into you too. I know you seem scared of guys but he’s a nice one.. if you’ll like, you could travel with us.. it would be safer and it would make it easier to clear the game as a party.”
  As the girl pondered about it, Raelynn added “My name is Raelynn, what is yours?”
  “I’m… Yulaseca…”
  As the two talked all night long, Stratos waited outside, still in the street waiting for some sign from Raelynn. How long would she make him wait there?
  
  
  

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• Chiyuri wrote on 2013-07-03 18:25
  [SIZE="5"]Chapter 4 : The Battle Tournament[/SIZE]
  
  It had been two days since she had joined them. Yulaseca was staring through the window of the inn room all three of them were staying in. Forcena was a relatively lively city and there was all sort of activity going down below the window. Because of her fear of man, Raelynn had her remain in the room in-case she should get another panic attack if she was to research outside as her and Stratos were doing. Could they really clear this game she though as she sighed. Opening up her Character Stats Window, Yulaseca stared at her level which indicated 4. Considering this was technically a game, wouldn't they need to be high-end gamers to clear it? It was doubtful a group of newbies could clear the game. When those two would comeback, she would ask them if she could atleast go train outside, it's not like there would be guys in the field.
  As she was thinking that, sounds of someone walking up the wooden stairs outside the room could be heard. Yulaseca's eyes started shaking a little and soon her fear started to materialize before her. Stratos had arrived at the room where only Yulaseca was at. Without Raelynn around she felt very scared but tried to keep it from showing as it would be rude to him. In return Stratos only said a soft “Raelynn isn't here? Ok I'm sorry I'll wait outside.” and then he closed back the door and sat down outside. It wasn't like she hated him but Yulaseca still couldn't stand having him around, even now her body was still shading as she struggled to calm it down. After maybe an hour? It was hard to keep track of time in this world, sounds of someone running up the stairs could be heard and soon Raelynn barged into the room, Stratos lightly peeking into the room before walking in with Raelynn. The two of them talked about how they couldn't fidn any lead yet about clearing the game but Raelynn mentioned she had found something else. Out of her bag she pulled out a flyer about the coliseum of Orima. It was a promotional flyer to gather attention of people to come visit the new raising star of the coliseum. What attracted their attention was the tittle that rising star had self-proclaimed herself. -Chiyu the Player-
  As the night was falling for this day, the three talked about how that person must have been a player like them and used that word to attract the attention of other players. They still had found no clue about how to clear the game but maybe they could learn something from that player and even get it to join them.
  
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  Alexander was in Balton for a day now. He finally had recovered from his seasickness and was getting ready to travel the Earth Kingdom. He didn't have much Rul left with him so he would try to hunt the monsters of the Earth Kingdom as he travel to the next city. From what he had heard the closes city was to the south west but it was a border city at the south of the kingdom. The next closest one would be Escra which was his destination. As he left this port town, Alexander headed west along a path. After one hour of walking on the path it was pretty obvious that monsters didn't seem to be around the path so he started to diverge his trip a little bit to the south, hoping to find some monsters on the way. As night was falling he finally reached an herd of monsters that looked like boars. Not knowing how strong they would be, he used his Earth Bending to throw a rock at an isolated one. That monster started to look around frenetically until it saw Alexander in the dim light of the moon. Seeing the monster rush toward him, it didn't feel all that strong and so he prepared himself to take it one. After fighting a few it was rather clear to him that monsters here were weak but atleast there was more of them here than in the Wind Kingdom. After getting some horns and flesh from those boars, Alexander returned to the path and set up a small camp to sleep for the night. He would sell those at the next city. From fighting so many monsters it had become rather apparent none would drop Rul. Players could not upset the economy by creating Rul via monster hunting, or maybe he was just really unlucky with drops. In the next day he finally reached Escra. It was a nice village full of life. The plains filled with farming lands was a sight he didn't get to see yet on the Wind Kingdom. People there were also very nice to travelers, despite treating him like a girl.
  
  
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  Waiting at the southern gate of Forcena, Raelynn and Yulaseca were looking at Stratos falling behind them. Why did they have to make him carry most of the stuff he questioned himself but did not dare raise a complain. He would lose the argument anyway. The three were first going to head to Inama as it was on the way to Orima. Back in Forcena they had use some of their Rul to buy Yulaseca a long bow so she could fight incase they were to meet monsters on the way. So far they had been lucky that in all their travel they had yet to face a monster on the roads. Once at Inama, The group had to get rid of some thieves who tried to mug them. Thanks to Yulaseca's fear of men, she took care to wipe them all out with her water magic. For Raelynn and Stratos is was their first time seeing the Magic skill. It was interesting that it didn't physically damage people but could cause them to faint if hit too strongly by a powerful wave. Maybe the bow wasn't needed with such powerful magic. The group didn't remain in Inama for long and after a short sleep in an inn in the city, they restarted their journey to the south, heading to Orima.
  After another day of traveling they made it to Orima without any problems. Raelynn and Yulaseca were going to see if they could hunt any monsters outside of the city upon Yulaseca's request and Stratos was going to secure an inn for them to remain. In the evening Stratos went outside the city at the meeting point where the two girls were already waiting at. He brought them to the inn her rented a room at and were making preparations to head out to the coliseum before the night would fall. In the end the two of them made him go to the coliseum alone while they were going to the market place to sell the various items they had gotten.
  The end result was that Stratos was unable to meet this Chiyu they had read about. The coliseum guards did not let any individual info about their fighters come out so he couldn't get anything as to where she was or how to meet her. The girls would probably bite at him for returning empty-handed. On that night when all three met again at the inn room, Raelynn couldn't hold back to some easy comments about Stratos. Nevertheless she had a solution for their problem. While the two of them were shoping, Yulaseca had heard that the Monthly Tournament Battle was going to start in 15 days. Since it was people vs people kind of battle, couldn't one of them enter the tournament and meet with this Chiyu fighter. In the meanwhile they could probably train and make some Rul.
  
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  Day 67. The start of another Monthly Tournament Battle. Chiyu had remained in the coliseum since the last Tournament Battle she had won. The number of battles she had gone through were already uncountable to her. The only proof of them was her level 39 which she was rather proud of. The first day of the tournament, Chiyu had to fight some weaklings. Her ability to manage melee fighting and Void Holes manipulation. For most of the fights she didn't use her Void Holes but her manager told her to use it in certain match to raise the hype of the crowd. If she was to win this tournament, she would finally have the amount of Rul she aimed for.
  Day 68. On the second day she met some more powerful people in which she had to use her Void Holes in every match to make it easier.
  Day 69. On the third day, she started hearing in-between match of a new fighter who joined the fight this month. Some wolf guy, oh wait, in this world they called those Sherufanir. A race of human that have wolf ears and tail. They weren't looked very well in the Earth Kingdom but as long as they were strong fighters, people of Orima didn't care all that much. While she wasn't in a match, Chiyu visited one of the match where that newcomer was in. He wasn't that good but his rapier move were pretty sharp. Oh well, if he was lucky he would get to meet her up in the finals.
  Day 70. On the last day for the final match for the championship, it was that Sherufanir guy against her. As they both entered the middle of the coliseum field. The Sherufanir guy started to talk to her first. “So you are Chiyu the Player I presume?” To what she responded “Yes, since you ask such an obvious question, should I take it you are a player too? What is your name?” “Yes, thanks to you using such a name, it made it much easier to find you. My name is Stratos and right now we are a group of..” He tried to explain but Chiyu quickly cut him. “No use talking right now! We are in a match you better take this seriously or you'll get beaten down quick!”
  Her opponent tried to tell her to stop but she couldn't care less, People would get bored to watch them just talk to each others. It was time to let them see what they all came here for. The Championship Match.
  
  Chiyu took the first step of this fight and rushed toward her opponent with her top speed. Stratos barely had the time to block the right hand Dagger-chain stab with his rapier and he quickly jumped backward at the same time of Chiyu when her first strike failed. Her backward jump had made her hood come off and a roar could be heard from the crowd as her vivid purple hair became visible. Looking at Stratos who was pointing his rapier at her, suddenly a beam of light blinded her vision. The flash was so strong even with her eyes open she could only see whiteness and some fuzzy outline of him running toward her. Trying to block him,. She quickly raised up a Void Hole infront of her and sended the opposite end of it far to the left of her. Stratos came to a stop before he touched the Void Hole, unknowing what it was. The Void Hole to her left quickly turned around to be behind Stratos and then Chiyu rushed into the Hole infront of her, her body emmerging from the hole behind Stratos. Once again Stratos barely could block another straight stab from Chiyu's Dagger-chain who then jumped back in the hole she came out of and the sound of a few jumping steps could be heard coming from infront of him, the sound getting weaker as she distanced herself. Stratos went around the hole and ran to Chiyu, doing some quick Jabs and Slashes at her.
  
  

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  One one them finally hit her, tearing off the cape she was wearing over her body. Letting out a girly cry of pain, Chiyu quickly took jumped into one of her hole that she had left around the place. Her cry seem to had have some effect on this Stratos guy. In the entire tournament she was the only girl so he probably never hit a girl before. Still the pain was still pretty strong since he stabbed her left shoulder. Thanks to the owner of the coliseum's special ability, Contestant could fight to the death without risking actual death.. while they would receive damage and such, they wouldn't actually bleed from it nor die. Before he knew it, Stratos was surrounded by multiple Void Holes and the sight of Chiyu was no where, probably behind one of them.
  “I praise you for getting an hit on me but this will be the end of it.” Chiyu said and moved some of her holes away so that Stratos could see her. Grabbing her tored off coat, she pulled it off from her, revealing her metal wings, a soft purple light emanating from it in the shape of big feathers. Her long hair which people had only had a glism of in the past was fully revealed and to some people, this was quite a shock. She didn't have a second tone of hair color. All Seireniens have a main color tone and somewhere after midway, their hair color change. But Chiyu's hair was of only one pure vivid purple color. That could only lead to one thing, she was not a Seirenien.
  Chiyu's eyes quickly changed to an even more deadly look, it was as if she was killing Stratos already in her mind. The various holes started to spin around Stratos, in a anti-clockwork direction. Suddenly Chiyu jumped into an hole infront of her and cam right behind Stratos, as if flying, and graze him with her dagger-chain. While he could block off the initial stab, the metal ring at the end of one of her chain flew right into his face, knocking him well. Before he could even recuperate, Chiyu came out of another hole from a different direction and this time got another hit in. After repeating this a few times, the holes stoped spinning and distanced themselves from Stratos who was lying on the ground, uncouncious. Chiyuri came flying down from one of the hole and soon rows of applauds could be heard from the crowd. The Match was over, Chiyu was the undisputed winner.
  
  
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  Raelynn, Stratos and Yulaseca were waiting in the Inn that Chain girl had told them to go to. Soon the girl who had beaten Stratos walked in, people in the inn only staring at her. That fame of her was quite a sight. Without a word she took a chair around the table with the three and asked “So you three are players too?”
  Raelynn responded first. “Yea, we met about over a month ago. My name is Raelynn, this girl here is Yulaseca and you already know Stratos.”
  “Nice to meet you, my name is Chiyu so.. what did you guys want to talk to me about?”
  Yulaseca replied this time “well, we are trying to clear this game so we can escape, and a fighter like you could probably help us a lot.”
  Raelynn cut in “So how about it?”
  “I will have to decline” Chiyu told them without taking much time to respond.
  “I don't plan to leave this world. I much more enjoy it here than back in the other world. I have no reason to help you guys with your quest. Still I'm not gonig to get in your way either.. if you really wanna leave this world, go ahead and clear it and die trying. I'm enjoy my life in this world.”
  Stratos asked this time “You will really not reconsider?”
  “No I will not, atleast not now. Maybe in the future but I doubt it.”
  “Alright, still I thank you for meeting with us, if fate wills it may we meet again. Lets go Raelynn, Yulaseca.”
  Getting off his chair Stratos waited for those two to follow him but then Raelynn didn't get up unlike Yulaseca.
  “I'm staying here..” Raelynn replied to him.
  “What do you mean?” Yulaseca asked her a little worried.
  “I first joined Stratos cause it sounded fun, but I have to agree with Chiyu, I would prefer to enjoy my life here in this game. So I'm not going to help you two clear this game anymore. Chiyu, mind if I stay with you for a while?”
  “I don't mind but, I'm not remaining in this city anymore, I quit the coliseum and I'ma go travel.”
  “That's fine it would be even more fun that way.”
  “Wait!” Stratos cut in the two's chat. “You can't just leave us like that we may never meet again!”
  “You two are going back to Forcena right? Let's set the inn we stayed in as our place to meet up. If I ever feel like coming back or just want to get in contact with you guys, I'll head there. That should be fine right?” Raelynn asked them. Yulaseca seemed unsure but she nobed.
  Stratos through asked her “are you really sure?” “yea I am, take care you two...”
• Chiyuri wrote on 2013-09-15 17:03
  [SIZE="5"]Chapter 5 : The Peace of Traveling[/SIZE]
  
  Having finally reached Orima, Alexander's funds finally came to an end. Having not much choice, he remaining in the city for a while and trained outside the city walls for what seem to be weeks. Once he had enough Ruls, he started to travel once more, leaving behind the lively Orima a few days after the end of the Monthly Tournament Battle. While had had wanted to visit it, he didn't want to use up his Rul for it so it had mainly ignored it. His aim was to get to Forcena but before that he had to go to Inama. Since he still had funds left from his weeks of hunting at Orima's fields, his stay in Inama was short as he only stayed there for the night and left the next day to go to Forcena. The size of that city, of that capital of the Earth Kingdom was trully a sight for sore eyes. After finding out a inn to stay in for his stay, his days become mostly oriented to hunting outside the city and reading books in Forcena Great Library. He was learning quite a lot of knowledge about the world this way.
  
  
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  Ever since Raelynn had left them, Yulaseca had been slowly trying to get over her fear of men. It wasn't like she had much of a choice since she was left alone to travel with Stratos. The atmosphere inbetwen them was rather cold and empty as they didnt exchange much words with each others. Their aim was to return to Forcena for the time being and try to gather information about the world again. As they first Traveled back to Inama, the two of them stayed in the village to hunt around and train up their level. As Yulaseca once mentionned, they aren't going to clear this game being low level. Their level were going up but slowly. Whenever Stratos would to approch her too closely, she would start to shake and panic so it made discussion inbetwen the two of them very difficult. At this rate they might even split up. If they ended up talking sometimes at the inn, it was mostly just comments and question about Raelynn and if she was doing fine with that chain-girl. It was rather clear to both of them that they eneded Raelynn to keep them togeter. After a few days in Inama, the two of them traveled back to Forcena and returned to the Inn they had previously stayed in about a month ago. Stratos mostly gathered information from the people of the town, not that they were much useful anyway. Yulaseca in the other hand passed more time training outside. They were mostly just meeting at night in the inn before going to their respective room. Deep down they were really hoping Raelynn would comeback to them.
  
  
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  One day after Stratos and Yulaseca left for Inama, Raelynn and Chiyu met up at the inn once more to talk about future projects. Raelynn herself had nothing really in mind other than training and leveling up. When she had asked Chiyu what she planned to do, Chiyu told her she planned to visit the Light Kingdom. With her large fortune of Rul, Chiyu just wanted to find herself a place to call home in this world. The though of going to a new kingdom was relatively aluring for Raelynn. Eversince she arrived in the Earth Kingdom, monsters had been so weak. It was like the Earth Kingdom was the first area of this game world for new players only. If she was to get higher level, she would need to meet up stronger ennemies. That same day the two of them left Orima and headed for Escra the farm town. The next day after camping out at night on the road, they arrived at Escra. Their plan was to go to Justia to the far south, the closes village to the Light Kingdom. To chiyu's sugestion they remained in Escra for an extra day as for her it was her first time being there. She just wanted to do some sightseeing. It took them two days to reach Justia. It was a lively village of woodcuters to where you could see a dense forest in the west. The vilalge bieng on a rising clift, the whole village paths were inclined torward the east. The people of the vilalge had even set up a system in which they would easily let the tree logs roll down torward the village from all the way in the forest.While Chiyu wanted to remain sightseeing this as well, this time Raelynn insisted they go to the Light Kingdom right away. After a day and an half of traveling the two of them arrived at the border of the two kingdom. While Chiyu was aware of it, Raelynn was surprised by what kind of border it was. The two kingdom were seperated by the abyss.. Technically it was a very deep ravine too dark to see the end of it. There was a giant suspended bridge that permited travel inbetwen the two kingdom. Both of them didn't exactly enjoy that part of the trip as even people with no fear of height would tremble at this large abyss. The Light Kingdom was one large wasteland. The two of them went off the path once they entered the kingdom just to see the kind of monsters that resided there. To their surprise, or maybe they should have expected to find those, there was a bunchy of brown colored transparent slimes around the wasteland. They were stronger than the monsters found in the Earth Kingdom fields but.. Chiyu couldn't beat one. Physical Damage on slimes had no effect on them. At best only Raelynn Fire Bending attacks had effects on them. It was clearly not a place melee fighters like them could train. Luckily for them the slimes didn't react much to physical attacks. Only the slimes being attacked by Raelynn's fire started to fight back. Those and one slime that Chiyu had attack over and over again. Leaving monster hunting for the time being, the two of them reached the Plateau of the Light Kingdom.
  
  

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  They could see it since the moment they entered the Light Kingdom. There was a giant mountain formation in the middle of the wasteland. The only city of the Light Kingdom was supposed to be ontop of it. Once at the giant landmass, they found a staircase in the rock that leaded to the top. What they found was an outstanding sight. Jumina the city of the Light kingdom was filled with life unlike the wasteland below them. The city was very different than what they had seen in the Earth Kingdom. If the Earth Kingdom could be said to be medieval like, Jumina was Oriental. The beauty of that city was beyond what they could image and it was very refreashing after having passed months in this game. While the two of them remained in the city for a week, Raelynn discovered something of great importence...
  
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  Day 82. It had been one day now since she and Raelynn had arrived at Jumina. The city was mostly only filled with Jumi, a race of humanoid that have one gem embeded into their body. All of them had hair color based on the gem that was their core so it made a very colorful and vivid population. The hardest thing to deal with was having to hide her wings once more. Ever since the end of the tournament, Chiyu had stoped hidding her wings but Jumina was a different matter. They had a strong belief they were a race created by the Angels and some of the temples had pictures that showed images of beings with metal wings and energy, If they were to see her wings things could go out of control very easily in this place. Another problem the two of them encountered was that unlike the earth Kingdom or the Fire Kingdom, the Jumi were all speaking Japanese with only a few that could also use English. Luckily for them, Chiyu could handle to some degree speaking in japanese but she couldn't read a single line of it. Finding an inn was rather troublesome back on the first day. While they explored the city to their heart content, Chiyu came upon a shop that peeked her interest. It was a carpenter shop. After looking at some of the stuff in it, she bought a scroll that showed how to build a large type of Jumi house. While she wouldn't be able to build it herself as she did not have a carpentry skill, she really liked the design and maybe she could find a carpenter to build it for her. She could have her own house. An house only for herself. Just the though of it filled her with hope and happiness.
  
  Day 87. After a week of being in Jumina, Chiyu and Realynn decided to go back to the Earth Kingdom. Being unable to communicate with the people of the city here was putting a strain on Raelynn's mind so they opted to leave the place. The monsters around Jumina were varying inbetwen slimes and spiritual entity so both of them couldnt get much training from them, too hard to fight. Their stay at Jumina was still fruitful, for both of them. Chiyu had gotten closer to her dream while Raelynn had found an hint to clearing the game. Before Night would fall, they decided to leave Jumina and head to Justia. The bridge still the same scary moment of the trip, they safely arrived at Justia after 3 days and then at Escra one more day after.
  
  Day 92. As Escra was where the two would split up. Raelynn had thanked Chiyu for bringing her to the Light Kingdom but had decided to go back to the group back in Forcena. Leaving Chiyu with the name of the inn if she ever want to meet with them again. Back to being alone, Chiyuri prepared for her journey. From what she gathered, most wood workers and carpenters of the Earth Kingdom live in Mudade, a village to the north of Escra.
  
  Day 93. Having reached Mudade, Chiyu easily found a carpenter that could build the house as on the plans. He could even bring modification to her liking. He wasnt exactly cheap to hire but she had plenty of Rul to pay him for his service and for the material. All that she needed now was a location to live at. Little by little, her dream was becomnig a reality.
  
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  How long has it beein since they were here? Stratos wondered as he looked through the window. He and Yulaseca had been in Forcena for what seemed to be a month, maybe a little under. He hadn't seen Yulaseca for three days now, she was still outside hunting in the fields probably. Still looking through the window of the inn, she looked down at the paths within the city. Suddenly something, someone caught his attention. A figure he had seen before. Before he could double check the figure had entered the inn. Quickly he got off his chair and headed to the door of the room and then when opening it he found Raelynn standing infrotn the door, slightly startle since he opened the door right before she knocked on it.
  “Where is Yulaseca? I need to talk to you two now.”
  “I think she is in the field outside of the town. Lately she has been hunting to the west of Forcena”
  After chating a little the two hurried to the west of Forcena to find Yulaseca killing some boars with her sword. When Raelynn saw Yulaseca she quickly jumped on her and hugged her. Yulaseca too seemed happy to see Raelynn. Back at the inn, Raelynn discussed with them her trip to the Light Kingdom. In the middle of the Jumina city was a small tower. It wasn't very tall but there was no gate at the bottom. Chiyu had to translate from the local but this was call the “Light Lighthouse”. It's a relic from the past said to be used to controlling the world. While the jumi see it as some sort of temple, both Chiyu and Raelynn couldnt image it any otherway than it being a Dungeon. From investigating that lead a bit from the local, the found out that there is supposed to be eight Lighthouses in the world. Both of them investigated the small tower but came to the conclusion they couldnt go into it. To begin with there was no entrance at the bottom and even after going to the top part of it, the only door was locked and didnt seem breakeble to them. Raelynn was entirely convinced that those 8 lighthouses were the key to clearing the game so she absolutly had to make them aware of it.
  From now on, they would have to focuse their goal on figuring out those Lighthouse and conquer them.
  
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  Returning from the Main Branch of Forcena Library, Alexander headed back to his inn room. Through his research he found out that there existed a city of mages in the Water Kingdom in which he could learn stronger psy magic. He had no real aim other than explore the world but if one had to say, he was mostly alured to the idea of making his flying better. He was also interested in seeing the library of the Water Kingdom Capital, Seiren. In this world without T.V., the internet or such, other than reading therer wasn't much to entertain himself. From shuting himself in the Library he learned a lot about the world. He would gather his Rul and travel ni the entire world. Maybe is he's lucky he will meet other players.. Once he had cleared up how he would get to Serien, Alexander left to travel to Inama, Orima, Escra and finally Balton. His aim. Taking a Boat to the Water Kingdom. He didn't like the idea of having to take a boat again but it was a necesary sacrifice.
  Staring at the blue horizon, Alexander wondered how the future will be for him.
  “Err Miss” one of the sailor came to Alexander “it's not safe so could you please go back to your room, it's dangerous for a frail girl like you to stand near the edge.” Upon hearing him, Alexander bursted in a rage. “I'm not a girl!!!!”