Ferti watched as Dspects squinted at the screen before backing away and shaking his head.

"Nah, man. Must be a fake," he brushed it off, "must be a game with a similar name."

"Really?" Ferti looked at the screen in front of her.

Friends (4):

Dspects (Dee-Spects)

Foggy (Foggy)

Elizabat (Ee-liz-uh-bat)

Rozay (Row-zay)

(To see more information please click on the player's name)

She pressed on Rozay's name to see his information.

Player name: Rozay (Row-zay)

Gender: Male

Class: Fighter/Brawler

Level: 78

Title: Raging Right Hander

"Hmm... is level 78 pretty high?" she asked.

"At the moment, yes, for this game was just launched recently. Not many people have reached passed the double digits," Foggy answered.

"Ah... well whatever. Let's get going," shrugged her shoulders. The others agreed as they started heading toward the hunting ground.

When they reached the bed of flowers, the group let out a sigh as they realized they had to fall down again.

"Hey Batty, can you carry me down this time? I think Foggy can handle himself," Dspects blinked innocently at Elizabat. Elizabat face contorted in displeasure as she backed away and held onto Foggy's arm.

"Disgusting," she muttered quite loudly. Ferti held in her laugh as she carefully walked in front of them. As she navigated the area she noticed Dspect stuck right behind her like glue. She turned around and narrowed her eyes at him. He gave her a small smile and she could tell exactly what he wanted to do.

"Why don't you walk in front?" she suggested.

"Uh, no thank you. You know the way better than I do. Go right ahead," Dspects gestured his hand out. She glared at him before pushing him back.

"Well then please keep your distance from me. I don't want to be someone's cushion again," she called him out. His eyes widened and cheeks blushed as he got caught red-handed.

"O-of course I won't do anything like that. I'm not that big of a jerk," he commented and gestured for her to walk ahead. She kept her eyes on him as she walked over the bed of flowers. They had almost reached the blue flowers already when she paused. She looked down before taking in a deep breath.

"Here goes nothing," she took a step forward. Her feet landed right on some white flowers and she frowned. "Did it change again?" she asked as she looked back at the group.

"Oops," she heard before seeing Dspects push her and his body falling toward her. She had no time to react as she fell backward. Just like before, there was no ground where she thought there was ground.

"You bitch!" she cursed as she saw Dspects falling toward her with a proud smile on his face.

"Sorry!" he yelled back but clearly didn't look very sorry. She wanted to curse even more but before she could, her back hit the floor and knocked the air out of her. She barely took a breath before Dspects hit her from the front and that breath left as fast as it came.

-35 HP

"Asshole!" she pushed Dspects off of her.

"You are the best master and leader anyone could ever have," Dspects helped pulled her up from the ground and started patting the dust off of her clothes.

"Ahhh!" they heard Foggy screaming out before they saw Elizabat land not too far from them.

"Aww, look at them go at it again... why don't I have a relationship like that?" Dspects sighed.

"Shut up," Elizabat snarled before she set Foggy down. Foggy gave her a thankful nod as he cleared his throat, his face red.

"Alright, you guys ready for round two?" Dspects asked as he wrapped an arm around Foggy.

"Well ready or not, it's coming up right behind you," Ferti answered as she pointed behind him to a snib creeping upon them. "Identify," she noticed the snib's darker eye color.

Monster Identified!

Name: Dark Grey-eyed Snib

Level: Mid leveled

A snib is a creature that has evolved from its great ancestor a Crusaniblutia.

"Agh!" Dspect yelped before Elizabat started to run toward the snib to concentrate its aggro to her.

"This one's stronger than the other one we faced! Be careful," she warned the group. Ferti went up and pulled Foggy out of Dspects grasp as she moved them back.

"Start chanting, Foggy," Ferti ordered, "go and help Elizabat, Dspects."

"Yes, master!" Dspects pulled out his spear and charged toward the snib. Ferti observed their surroundings to see that the snib they were fighting was the only snib they were fighting. After confirming they only had one enemy, Ferti checked her teammates' health. She saw Elizabat had taken quite some damage and she quickly healed her. She looked up to see Dspects struggling as the snib's aggro shifted toward him. He took a tail whip and let out a grunt but kept attacking with his spear.

"Back up, Dspects! I just healed Elizabat, she can take the aggro now!" she ordered.

"Yes, master!" he moved back as Elizabat went in front of him. His health was depleting rapidly due to poison and Ferti quickly cast Anti-Poison.

Anti-poison failed!

"Come on," she tried again after waiting for the ten-second cooldown.

Anti-poison succeeded!

"Nice!" she praised herself before also casting her healing spell on Dspects. "How long you have left, Foggy?" she asked.

"It hasn't been that long since I started, I need another minute or so," Foggy replied.

"Okay! Go do some more damage, Dspects," she ordered.

"Yes, master!" Dspects charged in with a swift speed. He landed a critical hit on the snib's abdomen and the snib let out a shriek. Elizabat took this time to land another strike. The snib grew angry as it charged toward them. It landed a critical hit on Elizabat as she flew back toward Ferti. Ferti eyes widened as she saw Elizabat's health bar deplete over three-fourths of its total.

"Take its aggro, Dspects!" Ferti yelled as she bent down to assists Elizabat, "heal," she chanted. Elizabat furrowed her brows in pain as she let out a cough. Her health went just below the halfway point and Ferti quickly healed her again, putting Elizabat's bar just barely past the halfway point. Ferti noticed her bar dropping and realized that she also got poisoned when she took that critical hit.

"Uh, I know you're trying to help Batty but... I um... kind of need some assistance over here!" Dspects requested, his voice shaking as the snib blocked his attack and he bounced back.

"Just hold on for a bit longer!" Ferti instructed.

"O-okay. I'll try my best! Agh!" Dspects took a hit but clench his teeth and continued to fight back. Ferti cast heal again before casting anti-poison on Elizabat.

Anti-poison failed!

"Ughh!" she let out as she tried again.

Anti-poison failed! Anti-poison failed! Anti-poison failed!

Her mana bar was depleting just as fast as Elizabat's health bar was depleting. She kept having to go back and forth between the two spells as anti-poison kept failing.

Anti-poison succeeded!

"Fucking finally," she stared at her almost empty mana bar.

"Help!" Dspects yelled desperately as he took another attack and his health bar went past the halfway point. Sweat trickled down his forehead as he turned again to attack but before he could the snib snarled its teeth at him, paralyzing his movements with its eyes. Ferti realized she couldn't heal him because she didn't have any mana left and then she pushed Elizabat aside because she could only do one thing.

"Ah, fuck!" Ferti sprung up and ran toward Dspects. She pushed the paralyzed Dspects out of the way as the snib whipped its tail. She took the hit straight on as she flew to the side and landed on the ground.

CRITICAL HIT!

-148 HP

She winced in pain and put her hands over her stomach.

"Watch out!" Elizabat warned. She looked up to see the snib's aggro concentrated on her.

"Shit," she scrambled to get up as Elizabat ran toward her to try to take the snib's aggro away from her.

"Heekee!" the snib ignored Elizabat as it chased after her.

"Foggy! Hurry!" Ferti cried out as she ran toward them as fast as she could. Due to her nervousness, her leg ended up tripping over the other and she fell to the ground.

"Careful!" Elizabat tried to increase her speed.

"Master!" Dspects finally broke out of his paralyzation. Ferti turned to see the snib's sharp tail coming straight at her.

"No..." she whimpered.

"It's ready!" Foggy announced, "Freezing ice!" he chanted as the enchanted circle appeared in front of him. The light blue ice ball hit the snib accurately on the throat as the ice spread to freeze its whole body. Ferti felt a cold sweat trickled down her face as the snib's tail was millimeters away from her face.

"Whew!" Dspects let out a breath, "that was a close one," he sank to the floor.

"Good job... Foggy. This time... instead of your fire spell... try your light spell," Ferti said in between pants. She kept an eye out at their surroundings to make sure no other snib was coming near them.

"On it," Foggy started to chant his light spell. Elizabat bent down to help Ferti.

"You okay?" she asked as she held her hand out. Ferti nodded her head as she took Elizabat's hand. Elizabat pulled her up and she let out a sigh.

"Hey, Batty. How about some help over here too?" Dspects blew a kiss to her. Elizabat scowled as she looked at him.

"Disgusting," she commented before turning her back away.

"Ugh, you're so mean. My heart," Dspects pretended to clutch his heart in pain.

"Shut up and get over here," Ferti said as they headed toward Foggy. Dspects let out an unsatisfied sound but complied as they huddled around Foggy.

"I think we should look for an exit after this. We should make some more preparations," Ferti commented.

"Sounds good to me," Dspects agreed. Elizabat just nodded her head as she kept her focus on Foggy.

"These snibs are still too strong for us. We should gather some herbs and whatnot so I can create some potions first," Ferti started to make plans.

"Sounds good, master. You almost done yet, man?" Dspects asked as he poked Foggy. Foggy nodded.

"I'm done! Soaring light!" he chanted. A ball of white light hit the snib before disappearing. The party waited for something to happen and nothing was going on.

"Uh? Wh...at?" Dspects raised an eyebrow.

"Um... I'm not sure either," Ferti touched her chin.

"Hit it?" Foggy suggested. Dspects started to walk toward the snib but abruptly stopped when the ice on the snib started cracking. He took a step back before running back and hiding behind Elizabat.

"It's going to unfreeze again isn't it?! I thought you knew your shit, man! You don't know anything! You're not worthy of being my master!" Dspects trembled as he insulted Ferti. Ferti didn't seem to be paying attention as she took a step near the snib.

"What're you doing?" Foggy reached out and pulled on her shoulder.

"It's different," she squinted her eyes at the snib, "the animations for this cracking... isn't it different? Doesn't it look like there's light coming through the ice?" Ferti pointed to the snib as she could see that the ice seemed somewhat illuminated from within by some sort of light.

"Huh?" Foggy stepped forward with her. After a moment, the cracks grew larger and light spewed out from beneath it. Whatever was the snib was now gone, as ice particles flew around them.

You have level up! You have level up! You have level up! You have level up! You have level up! You have level up!

She was bombarded with screens appearing in front of her. She watched as her health and mana bar was restored to full due to the level-ups.

You have gain 60 skill points!

"Wow!" Dspects exclaimed from behind her, "I just went up two levels!" he did a small victory dance. Ferti didn't mind him as she went to observe the drops. There were a few scales, four potions, three fangs, a silver spear, and a grey cloak.

"Identify," she looked over the items.

Item Identified!

Name: Snib Scales

Grade: Green

These scales can be used to help craft clothing or can be accessories for weapons which can help boost stats.

Item Identified!

Name: Snib Poison

Grade: Orange

This is a rare bottle of snib poison. Use with caution!

Item Identified!

Name: Snib Fangs

Grade: Orange

These are rare snib fangs. Use with caution!

Item Identified!

Name: Traveler's Spear

Creator: ???

Grade: Red

Effects: Can occasionally poison enemies

+25 attack

Conditions: Must be level 11 or higher to equip

Description: ???

Item Identified!

Name: Traveler's Cloak

Creator: ???

Grade: Red

Effects: 50% higher chance of not getting poisoned

50% higher chance of not getting paralyzed from monster moves

+15 defense

Conditions: Must be level 9 or higher to equip

Description: ???

"Hmm," she rubbed her chin before picking up the items, "this cloak help protects someone from getting poison and paralyze by 50%. It also helps add 15 points to your defense. Who wants it first?" she turned toward the group.

"Well I guess I ca-" Dspects started.

"You take it. You're weak and we need you to heal us so you can't be getting poisoned or paralyzed," Elizabat interrupted.

"I agree," Foggy nodded his head.

"Ha... ha... yea... you can... have it," Dspects seemed reluctant but gave in to the other two's opinion. Ferti didn't complain as she pulled it on herself.

"Here," she handed the spear over to Dspects, "you're the only one here who can use a spear."

"Woohoo!" he cheered as he took the spear. He swung it around and practiced some stabbing movements before smiling, "heck yeah!"

"You two can take the rest of the loot" she handed the rest of the loot to Foggy.

"Thanks," Foggy took the loot and stuffed it into his inventory.

"Alright, just give me a moment to input in my skill points," Ferti pulled up her status menu and started to fiddle around. The others all nodded as they started to do the same. Ferti poured half her points into agility, and then distributed the others to defense, strength, and stamina. She stared at her status screen and nodded her head.

Status Menu

Name: Ferti Health: 405/405 Level: 9 Mana 424/424 Race: Human Fire Resistance: 5% Light Resistance: 3% Gender: Female Wind Resistance: 5% Dark Resistance: 2% Class: N/A Water Resistance: 5% Goal: To become the ultimate supporter. Title: N/A Earth Resistance: 5% Goal status: Incomplete Attack: 12 Intelligence: 40 Defense: 16 Wisdom: 18 Strength: 23 Leadership: 17 Agility: 38 Charisma: 36 Fame: 50 Luck: 33 Stamina: 25 Charm: 53

"Looks good," she felt satisfied with her choice. She decided to pour half her points into agility as she was probably going to need that to run away from monsters to hide behind other members. She upgraded her stamina to help in her running away and also increased her health bar along with the strength attribute. Her defense needed to be higher as one hit from the snib took away more than a third of her health. She didn't want to die in three hits. She stared at the other members to see all their health bar above 600 points already. Elizabat's was especially high with it being in the 900 which was understandable as she was a tank.

"What do you guys want to do now? Should we keep hunting?" Ferti asked, "or should we find a way out so we can prepare ourselves for tomorrow?"

"I think finding an exit is important because if we don't, how are we going to be able to get out of here?" Foggy commented.

"I agree," Elizabat said.

"Alright. Let's look for a way out first and then we can come back tomorrow to hunt again," Ferti also liked the idea.

The party went to search around for a bit. They ended up with quite a bit of loot as they were able to kill the grey-eyed snibs they encountered. If they encounter any dark grey-eyed snibs they would run away as they didn't have confidence in themselves. One of the grey-eyed snib dropped a pair of fighting gloves which they gave to Elizabat. Another dropped a necklace which helped reduce spell casting time which they gave to Foggy. After wandering around for a couple of hours in the dark and still not finding an exit, they gave up as they plopped down to the ground. They were all tired. Their health and mana bars were also close to empty.

"Where the heck is the freaking exit here?" Dspects groaned in pain.

"Don't tell me... the only way to return to the village is to die?" Foggy asked in horror as he shook his head furiously. Elizabat patted his head to Ferti let out a deep sigh.

"I mean... technically we can log out... but that means when we log back in we will be here and we won't know if there are any snibs here or not..." Ferti pulled on her short hair in frustration.

"Uggghhhhh! Can't you think of anything, master?" Dspects pleaded.

"Oh, so now I'm your master again? Didn't you say I was unworthy earlier?" Ferti snapped back.

"Uh... you heard me? Haha... um, I mean, if you can't find a way back then you really are unworthy!" Dspects fired back. Ferti narrowed her eyes at him before turning away. She pulled out Puha Haha's journal and flipped back to the entry pages. She turned the pages back and forth. There was nothing else in the entries and she was going to give up when she rubbed the pages too hard. The one page suddenly flipped up, revealing another page. Ferti's eyes widened as she noticed the flap.

"There's... two pages?" she whispered to herself. She slowly picked the pages apart as they seemed to be stuck on each other probably by accidentally getting the book wet.

-

Dear Journal,

Grandpa's pages dried a bit. I had a magician use repair in it in hopes that it might do something. Only some of the writing could be recover, sadly. One thing I was able to ra read was, "You can only return the way that you came. Look for the light to lead you back." I hope that I can use this somehow when I manage to find the locca location. According to grandpa, there seemed to be something else that happened during his journey there. He was only able to find the hidden location due to a traveler leading him to it. I'm surprised. I thought grandpa had found it by himself. The traveler also told him to waterproof his journal but grandpa didn't feel the need to. It would've been nice if grandpa had done that. Maybe I should do that sometimes too? Anyways, I will keep searching until I find the location of this secret herb. Puha Haha will never give up!

Sincerely,

P.H.

-

"You can only return the way that you came. Look for the light to lead you back?" Ferti furrowed her brows as she looked up. She narrowed her eyes, observing the lights that came shining down into the darkness. For a while, she didn't see anything, but out of nowhere, she noticed that one of the lights seemed to be a different shade. It was as if it had an additional blue hue to it.

"Oyyyy! You have any ideas left or are we just going to have to fight here?" Dspects asked.

"Shhh," she shushed him as she got up and moved closer to the slightly blue light. She walked into the light. She felt as if her body had shed all its weight as she started to get lifted into the air.

"Woaahh!" Dspects exclaimed.

"It's the exit!" Ferti laughed out loud in joy, "come guys," she waved her hand over. Her party members ran over as they entered the light one by one. They all hovered up before appearing at the edge of the flowerbed. Ferti jumped up and down in excitement and the others followed suit.

"Finally, the torture is over!" Dspects yelled out.

"Okay guys. I'll see you guys here tomorrow. I'm going to go exchange some of our loot at the general store for some money so I can get some herbs and brew some potions for us," Ferti updated them.

"Sounds good. I'm going to go get better equipment with my gold," Dspects smiled.

"Elizabat and I have to go set up our stall so come buy from us when you're ready," Foggy said to Ferti.

"Sounds good. We can meet up tomorrow at Dspects again to come here," Ferti planned. The rest agree as they split their ways. Ferti returned to the library to check out some books as she got distracted by that weird man and forgot to.

"You're back?" Floy asked as she walked inside.

"Yes. I forgot to check out some books. Here are the ones that I checked out before," Ferti placed them on the desk. Floy gave her a small smile as he took the books and returned them.

"You look like you're in a good mood?" Ferti pointed out.

"Go away," Floy retorted back. Ferti complied as she headed back to the insect section when she saw the pink-haired man still standing there paging through another book. He noticed her presence as he broke away from the book and looked up.

"Oh, you're back?" he asked, "are you busy now? If not, want to earn some extra gold?" Ferti raised an eyebrow as she looked him up and down.

"Earn gold how?" she asked.

"Easy," he smiled, "just follow me."