This was originally 2 chapters, but I combined it into one.

ஜ۩۞۩ஜ▬▬▬▬▬ Chapter 8: The Goddess of Luck (?) ▬▬▬▬▬ஜ۩۞۩ஜ

2 days and a half had passed in Einstel World and we finally reached the Tindal Harbor. It’s a harbor that was located even further away than the Beginner Town harbor.

It took quite a time for me to unload the loots that I had, I was planning to sell the loots later but it seemed like No Hair had volunteered to sell those loots in my stead. I agreed and decided to check out the village that we arrived at.

The area was quite crowded; it was filled with players with exaggerated fashion and weapon. Damn, their outfit looked so awesome, compared to my outfit, it was like heaven and earth. I wonder if I should focus more on making myself presentable.

When I got myself out from the ship and took my first step on the ground. I could feel an intense staring coming from multiple directions, and for some reason my stomach began to hurt. It can’t be 'that' new inferiority syndrome right?

Anyway, leaving the intense staring that I received from the players surrounding me I kept on walking. I wonder if there are something wrong with my outfit that they kept on starring at me. I looked at my outfit, my armor is looking good. The armor that I had on my body now is way better than the half burnt armor that I wore when I was fighting the Mermen.

In the end, unable to stand the intense stares of the players around me I ran into the forest. It’s not because of the inferior symptom that I had, but it was purely because I feel like peeing. Now that I think of it, if I took a leak while being inside this virtual reality, does it mean that I'll wet myself in real life? For some reason I don’t feel like peeing anymore, instead I just wandered around the area began reading Sheldon’s The Secret to Medicine processing.

For the sake of reassurance I logged out from Einstal Online, went to the toilet and let it all out. After a few minutes of ‘investing’ inside my toilet I went back inside the Monolith Capsule and continued on reading The Secret to Medicine processing.

It was then when I heard a voice of a man screaming for help.

“Someone… Can someone help me? Preferably a woman within 18 – 26 years old, Asian and not in relationship. I need help here!”

There were so many things that I wanted to comment with the way he was asking for help, but I hold it in as I was trying not to be rude.

“Err….” I said and pulled out my dagger into plain view.

The man that I saw was an Elf; I don’t know what kind of Elf but if there is such things as kinky Elf in the game. He would probably be the Race Chief. For now I’ll just call him the Weird Elf.

The Weird Elf was hanging upside down; one of his legs was caught in a trap. Basically, my eye sight was aligned perfectly with his crotch. I’m going to make things clear, I am damn straight and I don’t have any interest in people with the same gender. I actually felt kind of gross staring at his crotch area right now.

“…Should I?”

“… …” The Weird Elf kept silence. His face was dyed in red, I’m not quite sure if it is due to blood rushing to his head or he was embarrassed as the person that was in front of him was not woman, but instead another man who gave him a weird look.

“Do you need any…” I did not finish my sentence, instead I moved my dagger. “…should I?” I added.

The weird Elf closed both of his eyes using his hand, much like the Emoij of monkey that I saw in facebook.

“… Please do.” He replied in a small voice.

I cut down the rope and he fall onto the ground with his face first. He then rubbed off the dirt that had soiled his white robe and offered a handshake with me.

“I don’t usually shake hand with the same gender people, but as you’ve saved my life. I’m very grateful of your deed.” He added with a big smile on his face.

“Uhh… Okay.” I answered short. “This is the first time I ever see people who was caught in such an old trap…” I said.

“I know right?” He said in a cheerful expression, but not long after that his body weakens and turned into the shape of “orz”

“I was chasing over the love of my life, but she got too angry with me that she set a trap to teach me a lesson. Of course I would not fall into such an obvious trap myself, but considering how good did my love of my life created the trap, I couldn’t help it but to step on it.”

You’re just a damn masochist aren’t you!

“Anyway, thank you for your help. Though I would be much grateful if the one that saves me to be a woman…”

“… …” I was not able to say anything in reply.

I tried to check for his info but a notification of restriction appeared. This man is an adventurer just like me. He is not an NPC.

“It’s a rare sight for me to see a human player, or rather you are the first human that I had ever laid my eyes on.” The weird Elf added. “Oh I’m sorry, the name is Orhis.” He added.

The weird Elf name is Orhis. What a befitting name, even his name is weird.

“My name is Ichiroku.”

“Can you speak Japanese?”

“喋れる けど... 何か…?”

“Woah! You’re Japanese?”

“Err… Yes.” I replied short.

“Wow… This is the first time I’ve seen Japanese in online games.”

“Really?”

“Yeah… As expected from Einstal Online. The players are really from all over the world.” He added. “Sorry for my behavior, but I only played this game for around 1 month in Einstel world. Let me introduce myself properly, my name is Orhis, HighElf level 82.”

“Ichiroku, Human level 50..”

“Whoa, I knew it. You are really a human! I never thought I’d see a human in front of my eyes. So, how did you become one? You must be really rich eh?”

“Err…. No.” I answered.

“Ahhh… I know… You must’ve had someone pulling the string for you inside Einstel Game right?”

“No.”

“Oh damn… I wish you can tell me but I know it must be some sort of secret. It’s not something that you can tell anybody, right?”

“Err Yeah…” I lied, I tried to smile but my cheek muscle cramped. My smile must’ve looked weird because I was forcing it.

“Anyway… I glad that I met you. But I really need to get going now, there are about 2 days left before the Sea Demon King re-spawn. I got the feeling that we’re going to stumble to each other later, how about becoming friends with me eh?”

Hmm… Becoming friends with this masochist guy... Let see what is the profit that I will get, first; a guy who can I party with, a person with information, and a person who can be sacrificed to take all the damage and still loving it.

Friend Registered!

Before we bid our farewell, Orhis gave me an ear accessories as his way of gratitude for saving him. It was called as an Elf ear or something. It didn’t give any buff or enhancement worth mentioning. I tried putting it only to find out that my ears had become pointy and I looked like an elf. I heard Elves are beautiful and handsome race.

Well, not that I need this ear accessories to make me even hotter than I am right now. But I think I’ll keep it equipped.

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I stormed out into the open; I did not get the intense stare that I felt during the earlier day. As I thought letting it all out in the toilet was a good thing.

I walked back to the village; there were still a lot of players. However there was a new group of player that had just come from the harbor. They were a group of five, it was that time when I felt as if the time was slowed down and the voice of Frank Sinatra began singing inside my head.

She has a pair of blue eyes, golden hair and fair white skin. Her eyebrow was a little bit thicker than the usual girl’s eyebrow that I saw but I had no any complain for that. She was cute. I honestly thought so. I was looking at her intently when she realized that I was leering at her.

"Wo guckst du mir hin du Affe?!" She said sternly.

I don't even understand what she had said. But I only nodded at her words. Her golden hair was dancing on her shoulder as a soft breeze of wind blew on her direction. I was taken aback a little when she suddenly closed the gap between us. I could see her tan lines clearly in a certain parts of her body that was not covered by her armor.

“Bist du mich hören?"

Her eyes red crimson eyes, her pink puffed cheek and her long dazzling hair. Her arm skin that was as so smooth that you can compare it to a newborn baby was pressing against her two bountiful watermelons.

I swallowed hard. She’s definitely European! She gave out an alluring sensation around her air. Her perfume was like a love potion, for I was already her prisoner of love.

Or no.

She was really beautiful, even prettier than my sisters.

"Warum schaust du mich so an? Wenn du ein Problem hast, komm her und sage es mir ins Gesicht und gaff mich nicht so an!”

I couldn’t say anything. More like I don’t know what the heck is she even talking about. Was my appearance really that attractive? I only put on the Elf ear accessories and I already hooked one definitely-not-Asian young ‘fish’.

I swallowed hard, yet again.

I tried to open my mouth; I think my tongue got twisted. As all that I said at that time was a gibberish question with stuttering voice. I blinked my eyes twice, thrice and even more. I thought it was my delusion, but apparently it was not.

“Sagst du sofört, oder ich werde dieses Messer, die ich hatte in meiner Hand im deinen Rachen schieben”

I felt a cold stingy sensation pressing against my throat. It was a beautiful golden blade, as beautiful as the lady in front of me.

I had never ever seen a beautiful ‘European’ lady since I become a NEET I had always cooped inside my room. I am not a shut-in, it just that I rarely go outside, because I got an inferiority syndrome to deal with.

“H-helo?” I finally able to squeak out a voice after a few minutes.

“Was willst du??”

“Do you speak english?”

“English?”

“Yeah…”

“I can speak the language; now tell me what you want from me. I noticed that you had been leering at me since I got here.”

If you can speak English why didn't you speak it from the start!

“Eer… N-No... I was not leering, I mean jeering, no what I really mean is staring at you! It just that I had never seen Euphoria, I mean a European lady before. And I was thinking that foreigners really do have different air around them.”

Oh damn! My lack of conversation with ‘real’ woman had turned me into some kind of incompetent man in conversation. The only woman that I had ever converse with are my Sisters. Since my day of Elementary School through High School, I had always attended all-male school.

But no worries, my adaptability rate is at advance. Even talking to woman can be as easy as a pie.

“I don’t understand what you are trying to say. But I will take it as a compliment.”

“Well, what I was trying to say was. You are the first European lady that I had ever laid my eyes on in this game.”

I was not lying, it was all true. From the first day when I spawn at the harbor and the time when we arrived at the Tindal Harbor, all I see was male. Well actually, they were all had a very unique appearance which made it hard for me to determine their gender. I even had my doubt if there are even woman playing the game. But now all my doubts now had been washed away.

“I see.” She replied short.

The golden blade that was pressed against my throat before was pulled back. Her friends that had been looking at us since before began moving at their own destination. I wonder if such things as greeting people with blade pressed against their throat is a normal occurrence in this game that no one bothered to batter us an eye.

“The name is Ziina.”

“….?” She was looking directly into my eyes. After I realized that I had yet to introduce myself I offered my hand. “Nice to meet you, my name is Ichiroku.”

We exchanged our greeting and shook our hand.

“Ichiroku, race Elf, level 50…”

“Wha-?” I let out a dumbfounded voice. How did she know my level when I only told her my name, and did she really mistook me as an Elf?

“I’m sorry, I took the fancy of looking into your profile for a quick glance. Don’t worry my is not really at high level enough for me to able to look deeper into your character details. I was only able to see through the surface of your profile.”

“Haaaa…” I exhaled.

That is some nice skill she got there. The ability to check other player info, if I’m not mistaken you can only check monster info and restricted from checking other players info. Or maybe checking other player’s info was one of the restrictions that had been put onto human?

“We are looking for people who are willing to join us in Sea Demon King raid. You look you can be of some use, do you want to join us?”

“Oh, unfortunately my level is still low. I can’t join you. If you don’t mind, can I know what the average level of your party is?” I asked.

“It’s between 180 and 200, but there is one of us who are level 260.”

I swallowed hard.

“I see… It would be such a huge drawback if I were to join your party.”

“I understand, I guess it would be a huge trouble for you too. As the area is open map so player can kill each other in order to land the last hit to Sea Demon King. You’ll die in less than 3 minutes when it happened. Anyhow, let us register as a friend first. We are in hurry to fill the position in raid party; the Sea Demon King is going to spawn in 2 days, so levels are not really our main concern.

We only managed to gather 6 people including myself, so there are 4 spot left. It would be hard finding the right people for the raid, my party has enough Tanker and Healer all we need is Damage Dealer. Looking at your ears, you’re an Elf so I thought you can become our vanguard. But I guess it might be pushing the limit.”

“Ah? Oh… I see.”

I’m going to die in less than 3 minutes. I hate dying, dying is painful.

Not long after that she walked away. It looked like she went back to where her friends were. Alexanderia, what a name… Such name is the name of a beautiful girl that had just been registered in my friend list.

Okay I think I had enough dreaming for now!

I went back to where No Hair was. It took me a few more hours waiting for them No Hair whom I thought was already back at the ship. I got the most prized gold and silvers from No Hair. I got about 32 Gold and 15 silvers. I searched the perimeters before but I didn’t manage to find any Game Centre. So for the mean time I will get back to Beginner Town and try out my luck.

“Well then. Thank you for sticking up with me for the past few days, if it were not for your help. We certainly can never defeat the Mermen Army.” No Hair said, he took off his triangle hat and bowed at me with his hat placed on his heart.

“Please, use the finishing technique that I taught you for good. The technique that I taught you is never meant to be used against fellow human.”

“I understand.” I replied. I don’t think I’ll ever become a player killer.

“I’d like to give you my thanks too, Ichiroku. If it weren’t for you, I would not able to make the Medicine and saved the villagers' life. For that, I’m eternally grateful to you.”

“It was my pleasure being able to help the villagers.”

“Thank you, Ichiroku…”

“Thank you too Eden.” I replied.

Thank you for dealing with those Mangdora Creeps, their trash talk deals more damage than its roots attack.

After I bid my farewell to the three of them, they began to set sail once again, back to Verlassen Island. I went on my way to buy breads and potions. Looks like they don’t sell Great HP Potion here, only Small HP Potion is available in the market. For safety measurement, I bought a few antidote and cure potion too, in case I ran across some random wild monster on my way.

Now that I think of it, I might as well spend a few more gold on HP and mana Potion. I can go out and hunt monster to raise my level, and invest it all later to Luck stat. I’ll do that!

With that said, a few more gold were spent on potions. In the end all the gold that I had left was 18 gold and 56 silvers. I also bought a pickaxe. In case I found some crystal in some cave, I can dig it up for extra money.

FOR LOTTERY!

As everything that is needed for a long trip back to Beginner City is almost ready, I made my way to the general store to buy the Continent Map and have it registered in my own map.

Apparently there are 5 countries in this Continent. And the Continent that I am at right now is Esphalt. What a weird name for a continent. Also every Continent is divided into a few regions. To obtain the region map you need to register it down at the region hall, or at that region’s guild hall. What a hassle.

Well, I got my destination marked. All I need now is to re-map the area that I’m going to explore later.

“We are looking for a Mage with AOE healing skills! Preferably level 200 and above, Priest and Monks are most welcomed!”

“Come and join us! We are one of the strongest party available. We are sure to get into top 10 damage dealer group; we are looking for Cleric and Enchanter with stun ability. We have a lot of free spot!”

“I’m level 180 Chef. Looking for players to party with, my Knives skills are at Phase 2 and I can cook a lot of different cuisine. Party with me please!”

“We are a group of Artisan; we’re looking for a leveling party. We have buff and enhancement Phase 1 Heroic! Anyone there willing to level up together and make sweet memories of adventuring with us?”

There were a lot of people screaming and shouting with their palm placed on their mouth acting as if it was a megaphone. The group of Artisan that I saw were consists of painter, singer, dancer and bard. From the look of it none of them are combat-related profession. At least my profession still has something to do with combat, which is the ‘battle of wits’.

At the center of the village was a wide open area that was bustling with players selling items, trading stuff and chatting with each other. They looked like the random pedestrian that you can usually see at Akihabara. Though, in this case they are all wielding a dangerous looking weapon with thick armor around their body.

Rather than players, they looked like more of an animal. There are a lot of ‘unique’ race with unique stature. There was one woman that looked like a cat. She has cat ears, cat tails, and of course furs all around her body. She was not like the cat-girl which had been portrayed in Anime and Manga that I’ve read. I honestly had my expectation betrayed, first the mermen now cat-girl, I mean woman!

At the center of the wide open area there was a water fountain. It was a magical water fountain where just by standing the area your will get a great bonus of HP regeneration. If you drink the water it will fill your satiety to its max. I tried looking for empty bottles and even went to the general store, but apparently there was none. Left with no choice I went to the forest and wander around once again hoping for wild rabbit or wolf or any monster to appear and fight it. Thus, I’ll be able to put my HP potion into a good use instead of throwing the content away just to get the container.

The Artisans were singing and dancing near the fountain. They said about being a leveling party so, instead of going alone I went to their place and ask if there is any spot for me. One of the Dancers was delighted when I greeted them.

“You want to join us? Certainly, we are in a dire need of damage dealer. As you can see we are all artisan, we don’t have a single player that can fight monster normally.”

“What are you saying Hye Yoon! I can fight just well. If you let me fight as the vanguard we can go and hunt anytime now! Look at these muscles of mine; I can take care of those pathetic wolves and rabbits. I’m not afraid, to take a step!”

“Yoon Jae! How many times have you said that and how many times did you die? Just look at your levels, you died so many times that you level went from 98 to 86! You were the one with the highest level before, well you are still now compared to the most of us who are only level 70 but if you go any further one day your level will dwindle even further than us!”

Whoaw! So if you died so many times you will eventually lose your level? I died once and got 25% of my EXP deducted. That means if I died more than 4 times I’ll eventually lose my a level huh?

“But Hye Yoon!” Yoon Jae said, dissatisfaction was clearly seen in the light of his eyes. He was staring at me as if I’m going to steal his meat that he had been looking for since the start of BBQ party.

“Say anymore words and I will stop playing Einstal online!” Hye Yoon replied.

Such tactic, much threat!

Yoon Jae say no more after he heard Hye Yoon reply. Hye Yoon closed the gap between us and ask, “What level are you, and what is your profession?”

“I’m level 50 and I’m a Gambler.” I replied honestly.

The bright look that she had before had now gone away and exchanged with the look of disappointment. What? Does my level and profession was really that bad that she had to put on that look?

“But my subclass is Rogue. I can fight as the vanguard as long as there are enough healers to heal me.” I replied.

“Okay Yoon Jae. You can fight as the vanguard,” She said while turning her head to Yoon Jae direction simultaneously.

“Yes!” Yoon Jae said while making a victory pose.

“Along with our new party member…” Hye Yoon added.

The look that Yoon Jae had on his looks before had turned sour.

In the end, I was accepted in the party. The average level of the party are 68 due to my low level 50. Hye Yoon was reluctant to add me at first but considering that their time is limited they decided to go with it.

They are a group of friends in real life. They have the same course in K University, if I was not mistaken their course was art. Ah! So that explained what they are artisan in this game, I bet the profession that we had in this game are influenced by our real life activities eh?

The party was consisted of 5 players including me. There are Singer, Dancer, Bard and most random profession that I had ever run across Einstel Online, a Beatboxer. Singer was Yoon Jae, Dancer was Hye Yoon, Bard was Zach and Beatboxer was Jejemon01. That Jejemon01 name though.

I couldn’t help but laugh at that naming sense. Okay, I’ll call him Jeje instead.

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We went deeper into the forest. The forest was not eerie like the swamp back at the Verlassen Island. And it wasn’t even night, so I was walking confidently as their vanguard. The surrounding area was quite quiet, other than the sounds of wind and birds flying across the trees there were no abnormalities that could be felt. I wonder if there are even monsters that could be found here, or it was just me who got used to Verlassen Island creepiness.

It took us a whole 20 minutes before Yoon Jae suddenly told us to stop. He went out from the formation and began investigating a boulder. I don’t know how he did it but he managed to find a hidden door on the boulder. He signaled us with his hand, and we went inside the boulder.

It was a dungeon!

Ttring!

You are the first one to ever step on this dungeon. +50 prestige and 1 week double exp from the monsters. Monster’s drop rates are high for the first week of discoveries.

“I knew it!” Yoon Jae spoke out. “I’ve read it in the forum before, if you ever found a weird boulder, bushes or a hole. The probability of it being a hidden dungeon is high!” he added excitedly.

“You did it!” Jeje said and gave Yoon Jae a Hi5.

There were a lot of monsters that could be sighted; there are wolves of all time, red colored dire wolves, and gray wolves. Without wasting time Yoon Jae jumped into the crowed of monsters and began ‘dancing’. To be precise, he was using a martial art that looked like dancing. What was it called again, I forgot. Well not that it’s important anyway.

As if the world is his, he went on rampage without care of his own health. He didn’t even bother to evade the attack that was hurdling at him. All that he knew was land an attack after attack. Zach and Jeje was busy doing their ‘music enhancement’ thingy. As their vanguard Yoon Jae and I received a lot of attack buff and defence buff.

“Yoon Jae! What are you doing fighting blindly like that, get back into formation!” Hye Yoon screamed out.

“Grahhhahah!” Yoon Jae said nothing in reply but instead kept on screaming as he punched a hole through the wolves.

Yoon Jae was moving agile moving from one place to one place with his dancing fighting technique. But he wasn’t as fast as me when I use my instantaneous movement. Also I am not that reckless as Yoon Jae. I made sure to observe the wolve's moving pattern. Observation is very important when you are dealing with a heap amount of monsters.

Zach began to give me a weird look when I kept on observing the wolves. He must have thought that I was only going to look and gain EXP while leaving Yoon Jae fighting the wolves alone. Well he was half right and half wrong; I was only going to leave the fighting to Yoon Jae until I managed to grasp the fighting pattern of the wolves.

Yoon Jae HP bar was rapidly declining as he was surrounded by wolves from every direction.

By that time I had finally grasped the pattern of the Wolves attack Yoon Jae HP was already at red. Not that the wolves attack pattern was hard to identify, but I was literally mesmerized by Yoon Jae fighting skill, or should I say; Martial Art. Putting aside that his HP was rapidly declining, his movement was so beautiful. It would be nice if his ‘dancing’ could be accompanied by an upbeat techno song.

I activated my instantaneous movement, and re-appear right before Yoon Jae face. I could see his bewildered face when he suddenly saw me in front of him out of nowhere. I grab his shoulder and threw him back at Hye Yoon side, to where he belongs, at the side way for a side character.

I will show you how to fight ‘beautifully’ without getting any hit from the lowly monsters.

5 wolves charged at me simultaneously. I evaded by jumping backward two times, I pulled out my most trustworthy dagger and slashed it horizontally. The wolves’ throat was sliced opened, bloods bursting out and sprayed all over my whole body.

Damn! The blood graphic was so exaggerated; I doubt the bloods would burst out in that manner in real life.

As the wolves blood would become thick and sticky when it’s dried out. I forget about fighting beautifully and aim to finish the monster’s life fast. I activated my spontaneous movement again and again and again, ‘teleporting’ from once place to another aiming for the wolves nape.

All I need was 1 stab right into their nape and the wolves will die immediately. Due to the staked up buff that I received from Hye Yoon, Zach and Jeje I was able to finish it a little quicker than before.

Zach and Jeje buffed up my damage and defence, while seeing Hye Yoon dance raised my fighting spirit which increases the chances of me dealing critical hit. Forget about raising my fighting spirit, something else had already risen up when I saw Hye Yoon dancing on the floor. Swaying her bountiful body to the left and right, making a delirious movement while shooting left eye winks towards the monsters.

Wooooo Hooooo!!

The dungeon first floor was cleaned up in less than 10 minutes, as the dungeon first floor perimeters itself was not that wide; it was only as wide as my high school football field. My face felt so sticky and its stink!

“… …”

“… …”

“… …”

“… Wow!” Hye Yoon said out loud. Her eyes were widened and her palms were placed together.

On the other hand, Yoon Jae was looking at me with his mouth hung out opened. I could say the same to Zach and Jeje.

Unable to stand their ‘what the hell did I just saw’ kind of expression, I said.

“Should we proceed to the next dungeon floor?”

The four of them nodded simultaneously. Even though I said that, we took considerably a lot of time looting the wolves before we make our way to the second floor. After we made sure that all monsters had been loot and there are no left over monsters in hiding, we planned a strategy with a real formation.

As I and Yoon Jae are the only two that have the ability to fight, I will act as the vanguard and Yoon Jae as the rear guard. Hye Yoon does not have any fighting skill; however she has the mesmerizing dance to put monsters into a stunned status using her skills. On the other hand, Zach and Jeje are both musician who only have buff skill unlocked.

Poor bard and Beatboxer, they can only be functional when they are in party. Though I think that it would not be impossible for them to buff themselves and fight with manually learned skill like mine.

After a few minutes of short discussion, I will act as the Vanguard; Yoon Jae will act as the rear-guard. As for Hye Yoon who doesn’t have any fighting skill, she will act as the bait to lure the monsters and stunned them with her atomic dance.

Wooooo Hooooo!! HOOOOOO!!!!

Zach and Jeje… well, they will use their buff skill to buff us up and watch us fight heroically at the side.

“I am sorry for putting you through this.” Hye Yoon said apologetically. “But seeing your amazing fight just then, I knew that I was not mistaken. You are really a great damage dealer; you managed to overpower the wolves with a single hit!” She added.

“What kind of skill was that anyway?” Jeje asked. “I’ve never seen other people use such skill before.”

“Well obviously it’s a skill that you had never laid your eyes on…” Zach said in retort to Jeje question. “Anyway, where did you managed to learn that skill? Was it from a tome? Or a skill scroll?” Zach said while turning his looks from Jeje to me simultaneously.

“Eh?” I was quite shocked when they threw the question right from the bat. “I learned them manually.” I said.

“Whoa!” Jeje exclaimed. “Do you know where we can learn it?”

“Really you want to learn it?” Zach said and turned his sight to Jeje once more. “Have you forgotten the incident when you tried to learn my barding skill saying that it would be awesome if you can dubstep and playing bard at the same time, creating a new music in this Einstal World where everything is possible? Learning a skill based on your profession itself is hard, how can you ever think to learn other profession skills?” Zach smirked at Jeje.

“I almost got it! I almost learn your barding skill if it weren’t for the fact that my art stat is too low.”

“Art stat?” I said confused.

“Yeah… Why?” Jeje said.

“I don’t have an Art stat.” I added.

“Well, each profession have a stat that is exclusive to their profession, for us artisan, we have Art stat as our main functional stat. Even though strength, stamina, agility and all other stat are important, for us Artisan Art stat are very crucial in learning a skill. Hmm… Let me give you an example, you’re a Gambler right?”

“Yeah…” I replied.

“If I’m not mistaken gambler are those people who do stuff at casino right?”

“Well, I’m not quite sure but I think it is.”

“In short, your crucial stat is agility. You need to be agile in shuffling the card and doing stuff; agility is very crucial when you’re cheating.”

“I see… That makes sense” I replied. Though in my case I believe it would be my Luck stat, and I don’t cheat okay. I maybe a Gambler, but I will be a Gambler that will win everything with pure skill and luck.

“I was 10 stat away to learn that barding skill…” Jeje said as he fall on four, he lift his head and looked at Yoon Jae directly in the eye ball. His face was turning ugly as his teary face came to view, “If it were not for Yoon Jae selfishness to attack those Dodo birds blindly and got us all killed, I would’ve gain 2 level now instead of losing 2 level. All the stat that I got was rolled back to zero.” He paused, “Give me back my 10 additional stat points!” Jeje screamed out and grab Yoon Jae by his collar.

“I… I’m sorry? Tee hee.” Yoon Jae said in a half embarrassed manner.

“Okay stop fighting, you are making Ichiroku feeling uncomfortable!” Hye Yoon said.

“No… I’m okay.” I replied.

After having a little chat we proceed by moving downstairs. Whenever you finished exterminating all of the floor’s monsters, a secret door will be opened revealing a path to the next floor. I’m not really used to dungeon as I’ve never play a game with dungeon before. All of the multiplayer games that I’ve played used Towers instead of dungeon.

“So this is how dungeon looks like huh?” Jeje voice broke the silence. He placed his palm on the wall and walked on just like that, leaving his fingers marks on the wall.

“I’ve never been into one. This is the first time I get into a dungeon.” Hye Yoon added.

“It’s awesome right? We can hear the sounds of our voice echoed throughout the dungeon…” Yoon Jae turned looks behind his back and gave Hye Yoon a glance.

Hye Yoon on the other hand kept on moving forward while observing the dungeon area.

“It would’ve been nice if we got hunter, hunters can scout the perimeters fast.” Zach said.

“Want me to do it?” I said, voluntarily.

“Can you do it?” Hye Yoon gave out a dumbfounded expression.

“Yeah, I have learned an invisibility skill in my previous quest.” I added.

“Not only teleporting but invisibility too!” Jeje said, “Are you really sure your profession is a Gambler?” he added while giving out a suspicious stare to me.

“I am…” I gave out a small laugh. “If you don’t believe me you can see at the party info, there’s, my profession is a Gambler.”

“Please tell me where I can learn it! I’m begging you!” Jeje added.

“Give it up Jeje, there are those who are born Genius. The very fact that he managed to learn other professions skills is the proof that you are not a genius, you can’t even learn a skill from other profession that have the same foundation as your profession, and you hope to learn other skill that has entirely different foundation.” Zach said with his index finger moving in a ‘no-no’ motions.

“Oh yeah?! I almost learned your skill! If it weren’t for…”

“Not this again, guys please! The both of you, do you guys really need to argue over every single thing?” Hye Yoon reprimanded the both of them.

Somehow she looked like a mother who was scolding her children.

“Shhh!” Yoon Jae suddenly spoke out, his right hand index finger was put over his lips and his left palm was shown to us as a sign to quiet down.

“What was I….”

Whoosh!

It dropped down like a meteor summoning deafening shockwave and cloud of dust. It was a monster that was as big as a normal truck; it had 6 eyes and 8 legs. Its body was covered by black furs. It’s mouth was hung out opened and small sphere of ball was seen being formed.

“Spider’s web! Everyone duck down!” Yoon Jae screamed out.

Ppuk!

The Spider’s shoot out its web at our direction, I tried to slice my way through the web but it was so sticky that I was captured along and got plastered onto the wall. It was an ambush by the monsters; I guess the loud voice coming from Jeje and Zach had attracted its attention. My reaction time was not fast enough to deal with the sudden attack.

“Ichiroku!” Zach and Jeje said in unison.

“Dammit! Guys buff me up, I’ll deal the Spider. Hye Yoon get Ichiroku down.”

“I got it!” Hye Yoon run at my direction at Yoon Jae direction.

“Take my dagger!” I screamed out to Hye Yoon while guiding her with the tip of my lips.

“What?” She answered back looking confused.

“My dagger! On the ground!”

After she turned her sight around, she finally saw my dagger. She grabbed hold of it and stat cutting through the web. I was released from the web trap in less than a minute. On the other hand Yoon Jae was having a hard time fighting the Spider. There was not only one, but around a hundred of Spiders. The last time I saw a group of monsters that was as many as this was at Verlassen Island. Furthermore, it was no one hundreds, but more than five hundreds if I were to count the Mangdora Creeps and Titans along.

I fall onto the ground on my knees.

“Hye Yoon, distract the Spiders attention, and Yoon Jae!”

“What? I’m busy here…”

“Sorry but I need you to bring your fight further than us…”

“I can’t guarantee but I will try my best!” Yoon Jae replied. He leapt into the air and did a triple turn and kick hard on one of the spiders killing it in one blow. The green blood that spurted out from the dead spider had driven the others away from us. “I don’t know what are you planning, but you better do it fast!”

“Don’t worry… I will try out my technique that I have learned but did not have the chance to try it out.”

“I hope you know what you’re doing…” Zach said. His fingers were moving furiously over his bard while Jeje was puffing out bass tone from his mouth.

I retrieved my dagger from Hye Yoon, hold it with both of my hand and pulled at back at my right side as if I wanted to launch a K*meh*me*ha.

I put forth every mana that I have in my hand. The finishing technique that was taught by No Hair required me to channel my mana into my weapon. However, there is no specific amount of mana needed to execute this technique. Which means, if I keep pouring my mana into my weapon, then my finishing technique will become even powerful.

My dagger was set ablaze with red fire, weird enough I did not feel any heat from it. Instead I felt very comfortable warmth filling my entire body. Another 10 second passed and the red fire turned into a blue, from there, the blue fire takes form of my dagger, however the blue fire was so fiery that my dagger looks like Poseidon’s Thunder Trident. My mana was left less than 50 when I began to feel the fiery blue heat getting into my skin.

“Whooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!” My voice escaped my mouth as I began to feel the burn in my hand. “Make a way!!!” I said out loud.

Zach, Jeje and Hye Yoon who was looking at me with their mouth hung opened quickly made a way for me. Yoon Jae who kept on driving the Spider’s away from us took notice of this and jumped to the side.

I tried to activate my instantaneous movement; however there is a restriction that saying I cannot activate any other ability while I’m executing my finishing move. Thus I tried putting my mana into both of my legs. I poured every mana that I had left; by the time I couldn’t feel my legs any more. I launched my body forward.

A huge crater was created, and a shockwave was seen in the air as I was moving in a very high velocity toward the spiders. I went through the crowds of spiders in split second. They were burned, scorched down to ashes. From hundred, what was left of the amount was nothing more than a few tenth of spiders. I ran out of mana, but that does not mean I can’t fight.

“There are only a few of the spiders left! Kill them!” I screamed out to Yoon Jae.

“You don’t have to tell me, I already know what I’m supposed to do!” Yoon Jae replied.

I activated my instantaneous movement. Spamming it like crazy and soon ran out of stamina, my satiety bar had already hit 0. Occasionally taking a quick break, I refill my empty stomach.

It took us 20 minutes to finish exterminating the remaining spiders.

“Wew…. That was quite tiring.” I said.

“Are you serious?! What the hell was that technique back then?! You were like ‘gaahhhhhh’ and then ‘roaaarhhh’ and went ‘ssshiuuuuuu’ and 80% of the spiders were scorched to ashes.”

“Another technique that I learned from my previous quest…” I replied honestly.

“Stop! Don’t even bother asking where he learned that skill Jeje, and you Zach! Don’t even bother to give a witty retort!” Hye Yoon said even before they managed to say anything.

“You’re strong…” Yoon Jae spoke out.

“Well thank you.” I replied.

“I don’t know how did you become that strong for your level, but I’ll have you know that I am strong too.” Yoon Jae said and while blowing his long hair away from covering his sight.

We spent a few more days in the dungeon. I think they logged out a few times and left me alone, in the dungeon. I logged out only twice as I need to fill my empty stomach and take care of my hygiene.

We only managed to reach floor 15 of the dungeon as we ran out of food and potion. I think I’ll have more than enough empty bottle to fill it with the fountain’s water. We have registered each other as friend. Though I am pretty sure I’ll delete Yoon Jae, Zach and Jejemon01 from my friend list later. But as we have kind of become quite close, I think I’ll leave your guys name in my list.

I’ve gained 13 levels and now I’m level 63. I got 65 additional stat points.

We went to the general store together and sold all the loots that we had.

“We will see each other again!” Hye Yoon waved both of her hand to me when we bid our farewell.

“Thank you for the party!” Zach bowed down.

“Next time please tell me where you learned all of those awesome skills!”

“… …” Yoon Jae said nothing and only raised his right hand without turning back.

On a second thought, I’ll delete you from my friend list Yoon Jae.

ஜ۩۞۩ஜ▬▬▬▬▬Part 4▬▬▬▬▬ஜ۩۞۩ஜ

I was left with exactly 200 lottery tickets, I mean 20 gold. I purposely taking a slow walk as I was dreaming what kind of awesome item would I get from the lottery? A big smile was carved on my lips.

I just realized that I have yet to invest my additional stat points. I opened my player info and invest it all to luck. I have finally got 200 luck stats.

POMFT!

A small explosion accompanied by a thick smoke appeared in front of me.

She has long blue braided hair up to her hips.. His eyes was blue like the Caribbean Sea, her lips was cherry colored light pink, she has a fair tanned skin and she was wearing a skimpy dress that was made from white satin.

Wait I know her!

“Hello, nice to meet you. I am your Goddess of Luck.”

“You’re my what?”

“I am Clarissa, your Goddess of Luck… Tee Hee...” She replied.

She was the one who asked me if I’m sure to set my race as human!

Even though she sticks ‘tee hee’ at the end of her sentences, she doesn’t sound cute at all. Because what was painted on her looks was tundra arctic expression added with her monotone voice. Clarissa, the Goddess of Luck.

And this! Was where my adventure had truly begun.

ஜ۩۞۩ஜ▬▬▬▬▬Author’s Note▬▬▬▬▬ஜ۩۞۩ஜ

Translation for NON-ENGLISH Sentences.

“喋れる けど... 何か…?” = I can speak it but… is there anything…?

"Wo guckst du mir hin du Affe?!" = “What are you looking at you human ape?!”

“"Bist du mich hören?" = “Do you hear me?”

“Warum schaust du mich so an? Wenn du ein Problem hast, komm her und sage es mir ins Gesicht und gaff mich nicht so an! ” = “Why are you looking at me with that kind of looks? If you a problem come in front and say it clearly and don’t jeer at me like that!”

“Sagst du sofört, oder ich werde dieses Messer, die ich hatte in meiner Hand im deinen Rachen schieben” = “Speak out or I will push this blade that I had in my hand into your throat.”

“Was willst du??”= “What do you want?”

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Preview for Chapter 14 - Clarissa, the Goddess of Luck appeared out of nowhere. Ichiroku unravelled the secret and mystery of Monolith Capsule and Human race that he ought to know before his character creation. He learned the secret behind the difference that Human Race and the other races. And he...

Fasten your seat's belt and ready your grammar gun because the Game is On!

[quote] Thank you Silberwolf325 for the German grammar fix, I had asked my germany friend to translate it for me but he said that your's are correct to so I change line 2 and 4 according to what you have stated. xD [/spoiler]