2 Green Leaf Village (1/2)
-Beginner's Area-
Suddenly, a bright light caught my eye. While it fades, I started to see what's happening. I was teleported to a place. A place where players like me begin their adventure. The place has small houses and shops, also has walls that surround it. Houses and other buildings, even the walls, are made of rocks. A stone masonry expert should have done this.
Man... It's like I'm really inside the world. I feel everything. The feeling of softness of clothes that I wear, my dagger's handle is hard as it supposed to be, and even the smell of the place. Every sense I have is working here like it's real.
Players are everywhere asking questions. Most of us wear the same clothes so I'm pretty sure most of them are beginners as well.
The game didn't ask me about my appearance or class like any other games so, just as I expected, my appearance is the same in real life. I wear a simple shirt, pants, and boots. The equipment is probably for beginners. I have a dagger which I presume a starter weapon. I also have a small sack made of leather which has bread and herbs. not bad for freebies.
It was mentioned in the game manual that we can check our characters stats by opening a window by tapping our head. I was curious so I tried it.
Scythus
Health: 100%
Fatigue: 0%
Hunger: 0%
Stats:
-
Masteries:
-
Nothing much as I expected. So basically, to acquire stats, I need to unlock some mastery first based on the guide.
Wait, there's someone approaching accompanied by two girls.
”Hello fellow adventurer, we are new to this game and we want to hunt some monsters. Would you like to join us?” So formal, this guy looks like he's clueless.
His aura is somewhat like a playboy, with a blond long-layered haircut. He's good looking and probably the same age as me. I won't say I like any company but it would be a great start.
”Sure, why not. I'll accept your invitation,” The guy smiled at me and told her friends that I agreed to join them.
They all came to me and started introducing themselves.
”Elou's my name and this is Akko and Lili.” He waved his hand introducing the others. Are they shy or something?
Akko is the taller girl with long straight black hair, pretty much same age as me. Lili, on the other hand, reminds me of my sis when she was younger, from the look on her face, she's a teenager. She's cute and somehow, I want to hug her for some reason. They didn't tell me much but Elou wants to be an archer while Akko and Lili are thinking of becoming a magician or a healer. That would be a good party set.
”I'm Scythus. I just started playing the game so I can't really help much. So, what's the plan?”
”No worries. We're beginners as well. I asked the guys around here about the monsters and they said that the places around the beginner's area are safe. No aggressive monsters, just some low-level animals like Rabbits, Wild Cats, and the Wolves. Wolves are a bit aggressive though so we should be careful. What do you think?” Elou's pretty handy when it comes to asking people questions.
”Wild Cats would be a good practice for our teamwork,” They look at each other after I said that and I think we made the decision.
Hunting Wild Cats would be a stepping stone because we are four in the party and we can easily defeat one. Wildcats are located at the east side of the Beginner's area.
-East of Beginner's Area-
We arrived at the Wild Cat's area which is just outside. The place is filled with small grass and you can easily see some cats roaming around. After checking the place, we decided to target one Wild Cat to separate it from its friends. We basically hit one of them using a rock to catch its attention.
”KssssssSSSS!” The cat is pissed and rushed towards me.
*SLASH*
The Wildcat suddenly attacked me using its fierce claw. I was caught unprepared and got hit. The attack was just a scratch so it didn't do much damage.
*TIIING!*
A high-pitched sound suddenly echoed in my ears and then a window popped out of nowhere.
”Battle Mastery learned!”
”Light Armor Mastery learned!” I got these two masteries after just being hit.
*BAAAAM!*
I aggressively attacked the Wild Cat using my dagger.
”Light Weapon Mastery learned!” I'll take care of those masteries later, I have some cats to take care of!
The others also attacked the cat simultaneously. The Wildcat sometimes can avoid our attacks. It is really agile but because we outnumbered it, we managed to defeat some of the cats. It wasn't that hard. We decided to hunt more. Whenever we kill something we carve the leather and meat out of it. It's disgusting but it's supposed to be that way according to the game manual. We also saved the bones in case we need it. We also decided to share the loot evenly. The girls did well too. It wasn't a bad start and we did really well.
-Green Leaf Village-
After several hours of hunting, we decided to leave the Beginner's Area and go north to a village nearby. Yep, it took us quite some time. I feel sorry for those cats but we needed their materials. According to the guide, materials we gathered can be crafted to create weapons and armors. Cool!
The village is just a ten-minute walking distance.
We asked one of the guards in the village some questions. It's called Green Leaf village, unique name huh, and the place has lots of vegetation inside, where trees are all around, flowers and other plants are also beside the walls. The leader of the village ordered people to only use rocks when building houses because, with the trees and plants all over the city, fire outbreaks would be too hard to handle. Guards also mentioned a story when the village was still made out of woods and the village was devastated because of a small fire outbreak.
There are a lot more buildings here compared to beginner's area. There are Inns where players stay when they don't own a house to rest, armor and weaponry shops, miscellaneous shops, Trading area, Blacksmiths shops and even Schools for masteries which will be really helpful for new players. We decided to visit the blacksmith to make them craft for us.