Howling Wolves [combat]

[Stryke]

The frontier of Sarum was a perfectly good place to train and grind, being a new zone few adventurers actually dwelled there and it was mostly free for him to grind at his heart contents. What most people didn't realize was that the monsters spawning here weren't only for the more higher leveled players, in fact there was this species of golems called "golem sentries" that could range in levels between 1 and 10, perfect for people like Leo who wanted to raise their levels without risking too much.

That day was cloudy and cold, the sun could barely shine through the thick mass of clouds and it looked like it would rain soon. Leo didn't like that weather, he didn't like any weather that made the air colder than 15 degrees manly because he was still used to the beautiful weather of his own country. Although he left his native country to study in Britain since a year, Leo still had to get used to the rainy weather there to the point where sometimes he thought of giving everything up and return to his own sunny land.

Leo traversed the camp with his eyes fixed into an expression that was between angered and annoyed, his body trembled a bit and his armor wasn't even sufficient to warm him up, the only way to make his body a bit warmer was to fight.

By the time he left the camp, the dark clouds in the air completely covered the sun and reversed their wrath on Leo in the form of rain. Leo's expression didn't change, his eyebrows just became a bit more angular due to the amount of annoyance he was feeling. His hair and clothes were rendered completely wet after few seconds, making him even more uncomfortable , he didn't know if he could take a cold in this world and he was sure that if he could then there was no possibility that after this hunting session he wouldn't have it.

The young swashbuckler tried to keep his thoughts from the coldness and the rain, he tried his best to focus on the best strategy to deal with those golem types mobs that dwelt in this part of the over world. They were sturdy creatures that could give quite a punch, thankfully Leo had an edge against these kind of creatures though. His artisan skill "carve" enabled him to inflict 20% more damage to rock type mobs, a particularly handy ability to have against these stone golems.

Suddenly, Leo jumped back on his track as 2 lvl 3 golem sentries appeared in front of him. Leo's feet met the ground again while his body was crouched slightly for better balance while in the air, he grinned at his enemies and brought his arms to the hilt of his trusty swords. With a quick movement he unsheathed the blades and reversed the grip on the hilt so that their edges would point behind him, then he sprinted forward to get a preemptive strike on the closest mob.

He concentrated and activated his toggle skill <carve> while dashing forwards, his swords held behind him cutting blades of grass and drops of rain. Once he was near enough, he jumped forward , just slightly on the side of the mob to not clash on it with his body, he brought his right arm on the left side of his body and then repeated the same movement in reverse with force to hit the mob with a powerful slash. His right sword was then quickly followed a moment later by Leo's left one, which concluded the combo he envisioned. The golem sentry lost a lot HP thanks to the 20% damage output bonus of his carve skill, Leo was thankful that his artisan class still had some useful skills even in combat.

The jump made him fly past the mob, when he returned to ground he quickly rotated his body and made a succession of quick jumps backwards to get some safe distance. Leo grinned again and resumed his battle pose, a long day of grinding had just started.


WC:687
Tag:Kurai Kari-shi

[Kurai Kari-shi]

MP: 80%

HP: 50%

Equipped:

Starter Fist and Kick| Starter Cloth Armor

Skill
Iron Body

Shi needed a break at this point from the other group and was not in high spirits or fortunate with the state of affairs involving sandwiched bag of emotions between her and Eden at this point. They had gone from an abnormal and extraordinary night of budding and prospective romance to completely out-and-out breakdown that malfunctioned into catastrophe fiasco. Eden snubbed Shi’s semi-emotional pleas and gave Shi the cold shoulder that night. In response she left early that morning to think alone and away from Eden and that damned infernal Fox.

These thoughts and more was what Shi was thinking about on this early morning 7:36 am to be precise. Shi walked out the clearing and leaned against a rather tall tree situated herself as comfortable as she could lean against the rough bark where she remained, continuing to think on her point of view about Eden. The fresh, nippy, break of day atmosphere and appearance gave the impression and flavor of a somber melody. One that stated that nature was decisive and confident with her business-like manner. Making the public express and announce to the whole damn planet that she was pissed about something and she will cry whenever she wishes or pissed once of the two. Shi stood peering through the clearing into the mist and rain. A rain had been launch into an advent of nightly suffocation into the watery world of drowning all hopes of good thoughts that it started the early night before and just kept neeping coming down all night long and greeted Shi on this very morning as if to say “Hey you, yeah you I am still here and with you on this morning. Don’t like it well to bad because you can’t do damn thing about it much like your chance with Eden either.”

This section of the world did distinguish itself as one of the most rainy back asswards virtual worlds that she ever had the privilege to be a part of in her 18 plus years of life so far. Though this was the only one that she ever was transported to in real life so one can’t be to judgmental. That was to be predictable and even almost anticipated on this world. Shi had thought about the subordinate troposphere and the moisture/dampness ratio received back into the clouds. Whatever it was days like this seemed to match Shi personality quite well. Shi could really care less about the freaking clouds. In her opinion it rained to damn much period end of story. She was beginning to think she had the most appropriate races ever that she chose a wolf race no less and no more instead of her real life human body. Not that she mind the rain much but this was ridiculous even for a virtual world ecosystem to have. None the less she sipped her herbal tea and mulled over last night’s events.

Shi continued to wander and somehow made her way into the province of Sarum after a few hours of travel. Luckily after leaving the other region the day seemed to maintain a cloudy and cold grip within its atmosphere. The clouds seemed to be a blanket of soft fuzz wrapping the sun just out of warming the ground in which she walked upon. Shi was quite unfamiliar with this section of the world and it was only by mere coincidence that she even stumbled upon this place threw a wrong turn she made an hour or so back. Her ears twitched and fluttered as she heard loud yelling and something else. The violent voice sounded like someone that needed help. She ran as quickly as she could to the sounds. When she arrived her eyes went wide as she looked up towards the earthen monsters that stood before her. She steadied her nerves into a steel clinch as she darted forward.

She readied her skill “Iron Body” as she dashed forward bounding off one of the nearby larger rocks. She made no noises and her face didn’t express any sense of anger when she attacked. She landed with full force upon the large earth golem and back flipped off its chest to the ground below. The monster was stunned for a moment from the surprise attack. Shi just readied herself for what was next to come. Though she didn’t think it was going to be from behind. Another Golem that she didn’t see prior hand punched her square in the back. Shi was nearly breathless by the blow and yet somehow as if anchored feel to the ground right where it hit her. She caught her bearings and looked up towards the monster as its fist was coming in closer to hers. Shi narrowed her eyes some and spoke loud very loud to absorb the shock of what she was about to do next. "EDEN YOU FOOL I HATE YOU SO MUCH DAMN YOU!!!” Shi rose up with a flick of her hands and feet and dove straight at the Golem with her own fists. As the two connecting blows came together a small shockwave hit the ground below as the golems hand first and then the rest begun to crumble under her blow.

Shi huffed and puffed as she checked her HP. “Good I only am down to half. I can still keep going onwards. That stupid Fox boy making her laugh like that, making her smile and giggle, making her…Keyyyaya.” She leap backwards, luckily just in time to void another heavy handed blow.

WORD COUNT: 922

[Stryke]

Leo dashed forward and prepared another barrage of attacks on the weaker mob but something suddenly got his attention and made him lose all his built up concentration. All he could see was a steel-colored girl stomping in the face the stone golem which still had full HP. A moment later his lack of attention enabled the other stone golem to sneak on him, Leo wasn't prepared to evade the incoming attack and he couldn't do nothing but watch the inevitable. The golem raised its fist with surprising speed and connected a strong punch on Leo's left cheek, sending him flying for a couple of meters in the opposite direction.

It hurt, damn if it hurt, for him it felt like he was struck by an incoming train at full speed. Leo slowly got up, that stone punch incredibly didn't break his jaw or his skull at all, if something like that happened in the other world he would have surely died at the impact, he had to thank stat based systems for the impossibly strong sturdiness of his own body.

Leo looked aggressively at the mob while spitting some blood on the ground, even though he resisted the attack his body still took some damage along the decrease of his HP. The swashbuckler ran in a straight line and attempted to repeat the same attacking pattern he tried to use before that steel-colored girl interfered, why she thought he needed help was beyond him. Leo didn't like to share his own experience points, not with someone who just jumped in the action without even asking or notify him of her presence.

Leo tried to keep his thoughts off the girl and concentrate on the stone golem, taking another punch like that on the face wasn't exactly exalting experience he wanted to repeat. The golem saw the swashbuckler arrive and readied another strong punch, this time Leo was concentrated. Once the golem began the motion of its arm towards Leo's face, he crouched and then quickly activated his skill <Mirage Dealer>, slashing the mob's stone abdomen with both blades in an x-shaped attack. After the attack was completed, Leo completely vanished from the mobs sight and reappeared behind it, Leo took the occasion to deal the finishing blow. He crossed his left arm over the mob's head to keep it in place and then he pierced its stone body with his right windsor aqua blade, destroying its body and shattering it to pieces.

Leo breathed hard and looked at the girl fighting with the other stone golem, he stared at her with a questioning look after he heard her screaming about a certain...Eden and how much she hated her. Leo didn't want to know, he didn't care to know, the only thing he knew was that he had to be very careful with how he was going to approach her after the fight, he knew better than making angry girls any angrier than before or a stone golem's punch would feel like a little slap on the cheek in comparison.


WC: 510