It's been a day since Kirou started hunting monsters, starting with those brown bears. Right now, he was locked in combat with a bunch of giants wasps.
Monster: Jade Forest Silverwing Wasp
Monster Level: 23
Health: 27,000/27,000
Attack: 140
Defense: 70
Skills: Poisonous Stinger, Penetrating Drill, Bug Buzz, Reinforcement Call
The creature itself wasn't anything special, just a half meter tall wasp that was slightly faster than average for a monster at its level. That being said, it shouldn't be underestimated as this monster has had Kirou busy for over twenty minutes now. The reason for this is due to the final skill that the Silverwing wasp possesses, <Reinforcement Call>.
Roughly half an hour earlier, Kirou had found three of these wasps on his search for prey. Looking at their numbers and noticing that he was just a few kills away from hitting level 20, Kirou decided to make th
Having collected the scrap... (cough cough) new gear that dropped from the destroyed wasp corpses and harvested the materials from the rest, Kirou was now on his way to SC Pier City. He needed to make his way back to Elderwood Village quickly to talk to Bladesmith and he could stop by the auction house on his way to sell a few of the gear he just obtained. During this brief trip, Kirou took a look at his current stats.{Name: Kirou}{Race: Werewolf(Lycan/Human)}{Class: Weapon Master}{Subclass: Crafting Master}{Traits: Lycan Transformation(Minor), Keen Senses(Minor), Adaptability(Minor), Information Analysis (Minor), Man-at-Arms(Class), Forge Your Own Path(Class), Fast Hands(Class), <Chimera Creation>(Incomplete)}{Weapons: Gunblade Tonfas, Wolf Claws, Enchanted Steel Chain, Threaded Wires, Metal Spike Boots, Fighter Gloves}{Armor: Basic Leather Armor, Shadow Cloak, Mysterious Bead(???)}{Level: 20}
Monster: Scarlet Eyed BoaMonster Level: 30Health: 395,000/550,000Attack: 430Defense: 270Skills: Shed Skin, Reinforced Scales, Viscious Bite, Constrict, Berserk Transformation, Return to the VoidKirou looked at the stats of the giant black snake with an appraising eye. It was the strongest boss monster that he's seen to date. Scratch that, it was the strongest wild boss that he's met. Kirou remembered that he wasn't even able to see anything on Archmage Anderson's stats. He wasn't sure if this was due to the level difference between them at the time or not. With that in mind, Kirou corrected his statement.After getting an eyeful for the boss's stats, Kirou looked away from it. The life and death of this boss had nothing to do with him, after all. He was only present to skin the beast after it died. Kirou then turned towards the ladies before him as he spoke, "It seems that we'll be here for a while, w
With the trio's attention firmly placed on him, Kirou spoke up, "My method isn't anything special, but I don't think anyone will be able to pull it off without a pet similar to Asura here." As Kirou said this, he ran his hand through Asura's fur, causing the badger mole cub to nuzzle its head on Kirou.The girls looked at the affectionate action between Kirou and Asura and couldn't help inwardly squealing at the scene. Reya was the one who got over it first as she spoke up, "What do you mean by needing a similar pet to Asura? Are you talking about its race specifically or something else, Mr. Wolf?"Kirou directed Asura to a few mineral resource points before continuing, "While I'm sure you could probably find other badger moles with the skill initially, I don't think you'll be lucky enough to get the skill needed on the first try from them since monsters tend to lose a few skills when they are tamed. Instead, I'm talking about creatures attu
The quartet was naturally stunned at the words of the lizardman. While the girls were stunned by the fact that an armed, bipedal lizard creature was capable of speech, Kirou focused on the words spoken by Draco Blade.'Great Cave? Could it be that we might have unintentionally entered restricted territory?' thought Kirou as he glanced back at the cave entrance and the current surroundings.As if thinking that the players didn't hear him the first time, Draco Blade repeated himself a bit louder, "Outsides, have you entered the Great Cave?"This time, Kirou went to the front of his group as he spoke, "I'm not sure what this 'Great Cave' that you spoke of is, but if you mean this cavern right next to us, then the answer is yes." As Kirou answered, he noticed that the names above all the lizardmen before him flashed red (hostile) for the briefest moment before returning to yellow (neutral).The lizardmen
All three of the girls looked at Kirou in confusion at his question. For them, while they knew about the NPCs having an affinity rating for each player, so far they haven't heard about anyone having an affinity rating of friendly with any NPC, much less a greater affinity rating. Thinking up to here, all three girls responded by shaking their heads.Kirou had somewhat expected this but seeing that neither of the three had managed to accomplish this, especially Reya whom he had traded materials with the first time, it seems that he should research that later on when he had time. That being said, Kirou displayed for them the stats of his fur coat and spoke, "This is an item I received from an NPC that I had a friendly affinity with, moments before it was raised to intimate. You tell me if it is a good item or not."Equipment: Camouflage Fur CoatEquipment Level: 10Equipment Type: Prototype (Unranked)Equipment Description
Kirou and gang only had to wait a dozen or so minutes later for the twenty-foot long snake boss finally bit the dust. Although he was originally interested in seeing them in action, Kirou quickly grew bored with how the group fought. That isn't to say that the team of players that the Sanming Sect sent up to deal with the boss were weak by any standard, as Kirou could clearly tell that these were all elite players. That being said, Kirou had no interest in the fight as he could tell that their movements had a bit of the system's guidance in it, meaning that they had set their gameplay modes to semi-auto. Kirou had no interest in seeing people being strong through such a method.With the fall of the Scarlet Eyed Boa, the mineral resource points in this section of the cave system started reappearing. Many of the sect's harvesters went forward to these resource points and got to work. Kirou only took a glance at this before walking forward to the place where Guardi
Kirou and Navi walked in silence as they headed to the entrance of the underground cave system. It was a fifteen-minute trip but the duo spent the time walking. As they walked, Navi couldn't stop herself from asking, "Did you have to do that to Guardian Knight? Considering the focus and speed you employed, I'm sure you harvested a lot of materials."Kirou shrugged as he responded to her, "Your sect was lucky. I was able to obtain some extra materials mainly due to the size of the boss and setting up a few things ahead of time. It's not something that can be repeated too many times, especially now that the system caught me doing it already. If I had to guess, if I try that again, the corpse will directly vanish instead of slowly turning into particles of light."Navi covered her mouth in shock as she listened to those words. Although she should have been used to it by now, Kirou somehow still managed to pull off something to surprise her. She
Appearing at the entrance to Elderwood Village, Kirou took some time to check out his current surroundings. Contrary to the hustle and bustle of players he saw when he had just started or even after the update, the village was now back to its rural village persona, with few players both entering and leaving at any given point. Kirou saw this and guessed that most players either grew tired of the quests here and opted to head to SC Pier City or they've gone even further and started making their marks on the other continents.To Kirou, this was a good thing as he needn't put up with the eyes of other players when he pulled out something extraordinary from his inventory. With this in mind, instead of rushing to Bladesmith as he originally intended, Kirou made a beeline towards the other NPCs within the village. Since he was nearby, he might as well make use of their facilities for his work. First on his list just so happened to be General Store Manager Almia, who h