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Year 2040

Feb 16, Thursday, 7am

Ryu woke up from his sleep. It had been two days since Ryu had come to Incheon, South Korea. His grandfather had bought a posh house on the outskirts of the city. The house at first sight did not seem so luxurious. It was a two storey building with a beautiful garden and had a fountain too. The interior was what made the house exquisite. Unlike the exterior of the house, the interior was rich. It gave off a ‘the richest house in the world’ kind of feeling with beautiful furniture and other decorations. In such a big house and exquisite house, Ryu had to live alone. It kind of made him glad and sad at the same time. He could now play without any reserve but he missed his family too.

To meet his family he had asked Isamu to buy two capsules for his mother and Mia. Isamu had agreed but refused buy a capsule for himself saying he was too busy and too old to play around. Ryu then went to have a bath, finishing his morning exercise he proceeded to have his breakfast. He made vegetable sandwich and orange juice. Once the breakfast was over he then climbed on to the capsule which was installed yesterday.

“Dive in”

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Shiv remembered the place he was standing, behind him was the fountain of elixir. With a smile he took a sip of the water and felt the power course through his entire body. After that he walked towards the gate to inform Barin about the quest completion, but not before checking his level. He was no level 40. He had gained 5 level which included one extra level from the sword. He checked his skills and stats and found that some of his stats had disappeared. ‘10 stats points have decreased, so I lost 2 levels. Must get those levels back’. He had by then reached the gate.

“Barin my friend”

“Why if it isn’t the traveller. I heard you successfully defended the pond”

“By Oberon’s grace I was able to. But?”

“But? What happened my friend?”

“I was attacked by a Dralve, seems it was what was leading the rabbit”

“What in Oberon’s name? A Dralve? Are you sure Shiv?”

“Yes I am, a black creature with 3 pairs of eyes and legs”

Barin’s face lost all its color. “We must notify the elders at once. I cannot move from here, Shiv, my friend, I can’t move from the gate so I request you to inform this to the elders ”

QUEST: THE NAIADS SAVIOUR 3The gatekeeper, Barin has entrusted you to notify the appearance of the dralve. Barin fears that this is due to some big evil lurking around

Difficulty : F

Requirements: Kill the Dralve

Rewards

Unknown?????

Failure

The quest will fail

1. if you die

“I will my friend. Where can I find the elders?”

“They will be in the black tower”

“Very well. I shall leave immediately my friend”

“May the True God’s light shine upon you”

Shiv parted from the Gatekeeper and ran towards the black tower. He was excited that he could finally enter the tower.

Shiv ran at his maximum speed but stopped when he reached the fountain. Near to the fountain were 3 familiar figures.

Thorwin, Altair and Petra was standing there like they were waiting for someone.

“Masters” Shiv called out.

Hearing the familiar voice the three of them turned to look at Shiv. Altair ran towards Shiv and hugged him tight,

pressing his face towards her well-endowed chest. Shiv blushed for a moment. Altair then separated from Shiv and looked him into the eyes. She had tears rolling down from her eyes.

“Are you alright? Did the Dralve hurt you? I am sorry I could not come to rescue you.”

“Master how did you know that there was a dralve? ”

“We sent it to you.” Thorwin was the one to reply. “Originally the Dralve was to be dealt by us. But I had it come to you.”

“Why?” Shiv’s voice raising.

“To see if you were worthy enough”

“Worthy of what?”

“Oberon’s mark. You have proved yourself worthy. You have exceeded our expectations and now it is time”

“Time? Are you planning something again?”

“It is time you know the truth. Altair cancel the magic” . Altair nodded and snapped her finger. The three young masters in

front of him suddenly began to age. Instead of the 30’s they now looked like they were more than 90 years old, wrinkled

and feeble.

“We are the elders of this village, I am Gehambel, Knight of the dusk”, said an old man. Pointing towards the one who once was Altair he said,” Irene, the White Fairy”, then pointing towards the remaining old lady, “Briskol, the sage of twilight”

“Um, and you expect me to believe that, Borin? ”

“B.. Borin? Who is that? I.. I am no Borin. I am Gehambel”

“Yeah yeah yeah. So Amber, Serin how have you been? You both looked much prettier the last time we I saw you”

Amber and Serin glided towards Shiv and at the same time gave a knock to his head.

“Ouch what was that for”

“You must not say such rude things to a lady, even if you are a king”

“My bad, my bad. So tell me about the Dralve”

“Well you see, the Dralve had skipped into the territory somehow. Usually they live pretty far from here. We tried to find

out how it got in and during the search we found a hole in our barrier. After fixing the barrier we were about to kill the beast when Borin said that we must let you kill it. He was so stubborn that we had to agree. Sorry”

“You don’t have to apologize. It is fine” said Shiv with a smile.

‘Trrrng’

QUEST: THE NAIADS SAVIOUR 3- CompletedYou have successfully reported the appearance of the dralve. You have found out that the dralve got in through a barrier hole which has already been fixed. Knowing this the villagers can sleep in peace

Rewards

+30 relation with Draklake

+30 fame

Gained entrance to the black tower

You have leveled up

You have leveled up

You have leveled up

You have leveled up

You have leveled up

You have leveled up

‘Wow 6 levels from completing a chain quest. I will get a bonus level too. Must spend the points wisely’

“Shiv we have something for you, follow us” and the three started walking, with Shiv following. The walk continued till the four reached the base of the black tower, “This is Oberon Tower, and here we will tell you things you cannot disclose to others” saying so the three entered the tower. Shiv was ecstatic, he had wanted to get in the tower so badly when he had first seen it. The interior unlike the exterior was not eerie, it was clean and white with paintings everywhere on the wall. The three then ascended a spiral staircase which continued all the way above. Shiv was astonished for wherever he looked all he could see were paintings. And some of them were familiar. The painting was not, but the person inside the painting was familiar. It was his or to be precise Orrinshire’s painting. Most paintings depicted Orrinshire with Amber, Borin and Serin, some were his solo paintings, some was of a castle and some were of Linford. Like that, the tower wall was covered with hundreds of painting. ‘Orrinshire sure is loved’ he thought.

The spiral staircase ended in front of a semicircular room. The elders then inserted a key each and unlocked the door. The door opened and the four entered. What lay inside the room was a throne, a throne which had dragons carved onto it, the armrest had a dragon head on each of them. There were black wings on either side of the throne, the throne legs were shaped as that of a dragon’s leg. In total the throne was like a twin headed black dragon.

“Orrinshire’s Throne” Shiv said unintentionally and moved towards it, it was like something was pulling him towards it. Mesmerized he walked towards it. For some reason he felt he was inside a very big decorated court filled with people, it felt like it was his coronation. Shiv proceeded forward while the three looked at Shiv with disbelief. They were shocked the moment Shiv had exclaimed ‘Orrinshire’s Throne’ and now the boy was moving towards it as if it was his throne.

Shiv was now near the throne, his glowing right hand caressing the armrest, ”Beautiful!” he exclaimed and then prepared to sit down. Once he sat on the throne Shiv felt himself being warped in space, he felt all the light disappearing. Looking around he saw nothing but darkness. But for some strange reason he felt oddly calm.

“So you have come mortal”

Shiv kneeled, ”Yes Great Oberon” even though it was only just the voice of the god.

“What do you desire mortal? Is it Power? Wealth? Kingdom?”

“I desire happiness oh Great God”

“I see pain in your eyes but no greed. I see loneliness but no evil. I see love and care. I see desire to help, I see a dark past,

I see a pure heart. Very well mortal, you shall receive what you wish for”

‘trrrng’

Hidden ClassYou have been offered a hidden class by the True God, Oberon. Would you like to acceptYES[td]NO[/td2]

“Yes, it is an honor”

‘trrrng’

You have accepted the hidden class Grand Commoner, a unique class which is given only to a very few. Due to the special characteristics of the class and the class being given by the True God, Oberon your race will be now be changed to a demi human. You will be human with dragon blood flowing through you.

You being a common man is now able to study skills without class restrictions except for skills related to a god or its faction.

All skills that you learn will have a penalty except for skills that are unique to your class or common to all classes.

The number of skills you can learn has been doubled. You can now learn 60 skills

You will gain fame much slower since you are a commoner.

‘This is wonderful. I can learn any skills I want except for holy magic. Cool. There are tons of skills I want to learn. And instead of 30 I can learn 60 skills. This is epic’

‘Trrrng’

Your race has been set to demi human. Even though you look like a normal human you have dragon blood flowing through you. Your senses are sharpened and you are much stronger than normal humans

+100 to mana and HP

+3 to all stats

New skill unlocked: Identification (Passive) Beginner Level 1(0%) The dragon blood in you has heightened your senses. You are now able to identify low quality items. As your skill proficiency increases, you can identify higher quality items

New skill unlocked: Presence Detection (Passive) Beginner Level 1(0%) The dragon blood in you has heightened your senses. You are now able to detect the presence of others around you.

Range: 2 meters

Mana consumption: 10 mana/sec

‘Wow! I already got two great skills’

“Mortal! I have given you what you desire and now you must listen to me”

‘Omg! This is seriously bad, maybe I should have denied the class’

“Of course Great one”

“I believe you know Orrinshire.”

“I do great one”

“Hundreds of years ago, in the continent of Aslain there was a kingdom named Lithinia. Ruled by the human king Orrinshire, the kingdom prospered. But a single attack from the neighboring country caused great pain to the kingdom. Though the kingdom survived the loss it suffered broke the king’s heart. It was then that he sought my blessings. Pleased by his desire to bring peace to the whole world I gave him the power he needed. Time flew by and soon the entire world came under his feet. He was a generous emperor, loved and cared by his people. But some wicked and greedy mortals did not like the way the world was. Their greed led to the assassination of their Great Emperor and once again war broke out throughout the continent of Aslain. When I heard of Orrinshire’s death, I in my fury had almost destroyed the world. But I was stopped by the people of Lithinia. They prayed to me to not destroy the world their Emperor had loved and cherished. Accepting their prayers I created the new world and named it Orrinshire in his memory. The people of Lithinia were taken under my protection and became the Draken race which lived in my garden, Draklake. They had wished upon me to grant them life till they could find themselves a new king and from then till now they have been waiting for you to arrive mortal. Do not forget their love for you, do not forget their loyalty for those are hard to find in these times of chaos”

“I will not great one for I very well know how important those are”

“Very well. It is time for you to return, I have kept you away from them for too long” with that the world around Shiv

returned to what it was before. When Shiv opened his eyes he saw the three kneeling, their heads bowed.

“What are you three doing? Get up. Aren’t you too old for that?”

“One is never too old to serve one’s king” said Borin still kneeling

“Get up you three. That is enough”

The three got up and looked at Shiv. The three had tears rolling down their eyes. “We have waited hundreds of years for

you Sire. We have waited for you to return”

“Now that I am here why are you crying. We can be together from now on”

When Shiv said this the three had a painful expression. “Sire, let us go out. Your people await you”

With a nod Shiv began descending the stairs. For some reason he felt happy and fulfilled. ‘maybe it is because I could meet those three’. The three followed Shiv silently. When they reached outside, Shiv was stunned. The entire village had assembled in front of him, all of them kneeling. Shiv could make out that they were all crying. He noticed that there were no children anywhere. ‘They must be at their home’ he assured himself. Shiv once again looked at the villagers, his people. Not even one of them were smiling, ‘Why is my heart aching?’

“Sire, this way please” the three walked in front guiding their king. Shiv followed, troubled by the pain in his heart. “Sire, for hundreds of years we have waited for you. Our entire village was for the sake of greeting you, to train you, to make you a king once again. We worked hard to build this village so that you would feel like you were at your home. Did you find the place warm Sire?”

Shiv nodded. Tears were now rolling down his cheeks like the other three. ‘Why am I crying?’ his heart was in turmoil.

“Sire our life was for you, we prayed to the god to let us live till you came back once again. We traded our humanity, our organs, our souls so that we could see you once again.” Shiv heard them saying this while they passed over the fountain.

“Sire, we are happy to have met you once again, we are happy to have become your masters. We are happy to have you with us after all this time.” They were now at the village gate. The three opened the gate and motioned Shiv to walk in front. Shiv nodded even though he did not want to. The entire village were following them.

Shiv existed the gate and walked forward. He stopped when he heard “We have always loved you Sire”.

“I love you too” and Shiv turned back, crying his lungs out. He froze, his body trembled, his legs became numb.

There was nothing there, no gate, no black tower and no traces of the three. Shiv dropped to his knees, his hands trying to grab what was once the three people he loved.

The village of Draklake disappeared!

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