Chapter 13

Freedom and Choice

Jaystyke's part (lvl 32 archer s)

I have gotten me and her out of hell, only to realize we weren't going to heaven. Freedom is a two bladed sword, better wielded than not, but not necessarily beneficial for survival. It's ok though, as long as we are the ones deciding, we will be fine. We will keep our freedom, and we will choose. We won't follow the choice anymore. Not now, not ever, I'm tired of doing the things I am told to do. 18 years were enough of it.

I asked Renova "Well, do you enjoy the freedom and everything?". She replied with "Ye, I definitely do". Well that's enough, if she enjoys it, I'm fine with everything I left when I left that place, not that I left that much. I didn't have that much to start with. Being a slave surely isn't a good thing. To be fair though, unless your owner is some idiotic dude who is very selfish and treats slave like a tool, it's not that stressful nor tough. Nowadays, being a slave isn't as tough as being a slave at the time of legend. However, being a slave is still being a slave, it ain't good. If you have any objections, go become slaves yourselves.

Melarie's part (lvl 9 pit fighter b)

They were talking about some tough stuff. I knew I had to change up our mood soon. I heard from somebody that timing is everything, so I will wait until I think it's my time to interfere. Until then, I will be listening, oh wait a sec, I gotta watch this! They both started crying! Like literally! They were talking about how hard their lives were just about a second ago, and now they started crying! "Wtf is wrong with this word, what did I ever do to end up there!" Shouted Renova, in the midst of wails. "Ikr! When I become strong, I will kill all the slave traders and slave owners.'' Jaystyke said. I definitely knew what they were saying because I have been a slave myself for a long time. So I shouted "shit to all those slave owners, we will definitely crush them ALL!". "But first, we have to progress more" with this Renova broke the mood. "Hey can yah not break deh mood?" I said. "Well, what Renova said is true, we should start hunting more advanced mobs for a start," Renova's boyfriend (Not officially but definitely is) said. These lovebirds, they are very cringy, no joke, wait you think I'm more cringy? Hehe, you must be kidding, or my spear will find the way to your heart. Ok, I do sound a bit cringy.

Renova's part (lvl 33 archer s)

We all cried this morning, 3 hours passed since, and Jaystyke suggested we travel to a different location for a better loot. He said we need more silvers to progress further. Melarie disagreed at first, but when Jaystyke said there will be a town nearby to visit and eat some delicious dishes, Melarie agreed. So now we are setting off. "I can't wait to eat real food!" exclaimed Melarie. "We need to get silver first, so we can progress our classes and buy ourselves some good food," said Jaystyke. “Seems fine by me, so how do we get money?” Melarie asked. I interfered by saying “How about we loot the sunken passage, Nora said she earned tons of money from that place.” “It’s really dangerous though, you sure? I don’t want to put you in danger,” Jaystyke said. Typical Jaystyke, I thought. "Ewww, stop that plz" Melarie said with disgust in her voice. So he stopped.

Okay, we talked for a couple hours, and now we are near the sunken passage. "Yo, be quieter, ultras might pass by here to loot, if we get caught, we might even die," whispered Jaystyke. Well, Jaystyke shouldn't have said that because I think somebody heard us. Eep, that somebody is a Sword master ultra class. He said, "Look kids, if you don't want people to mess with you, you should either try to look tougher or be sneakier." Oh, by the way sword master ultra classes have really cool glowing duel swords, indicating they are sword master ultra class, if you were wondering how I knew it was sword master. Jaystyke replied to the sword master, "mmm… ok, so how do we do that?". The swordmaster answered "I recommend you go get some strong looking armors, that would make people think you're strong. People tend not to mess with people who have good armour. "Let's go to the Sleepin city mall to decide what to buy." "But we don't have much silver,'' I said. "I'm going to the mall too, let's go together, I'm bored right now," said the sword master. "By the way, my name is Kyle Elioniex."

Scroomie’s part (lvl1 scroomie)

I didn’t say much after they started to cry, it felt like I shouldn’t interfere. From what they said, what they have been through was tough. Respect to all the slaves in this world. Anyways, after that, a stranger said that we should go to the mall, which was at flowerlight town. Then he introduced himself as Kyle Elioniex. Before heading to the mall, I said “How about the sunken passage, we haven’t looted it yet.” “I already looted the sunken passage just now, it was only 20% full, it must have been looted a couple hours earlier,” said Kyle. "Oh well, we don't have much silver to buy armor then," said Renova. “Well, I can get some for yall, I have over 50K silver with me.” “Wait, what? 50K? Are you kidding me?” asked Jaystyke. He answered with a tone that this wasn’t much, “Many ultras bring tons of silvers with them because some things are really expensive. Artifacts such as Phoenix down, which gives you an extra life, or a night stone, which changes the region around you to night. Some other traveler might find it and try to sell it, then I would need the money. I could try to beat up the person, but usually the seller is also as strong as ultra. Even if I manage to beat them up, they would probably decide not to give the artifact and would rather even die instead. Anyways, follow me to the mall now.”

When we arrived at the mall, it wasn’t as crowded as I thought it would be, “Why is the mall so empty?” I asked. Someone answered with a husky voice, “it’s because this mall is located deep inside the sleeping forest, no commoner dares to venture in this far.” Turning my head left, I saw the owner of the voice. He had a strong looking sword at his back, which was white as my body (P.S. zombie scroom’s body is whiter than the paper). “Greetings scroomie, I am the owner of this mall.” “Yo, Retari, how’s your day, man?” Kyle asked. “Mmm… I’m fine, so who are these youngsters?” Mall owner asked back. “Nice to meet you, I am Renova.” “And I am Jaystyke, over here is Melarie and Scroomie”. Shopekeer replied “Oh I see! Well, take a look at the things in our mall and come back here after deciding what to buy. Oh wait, scroomie, your race isn’t scroom. You're a variant of zombie scroom, that’s new.”

Melarie’s part (lvl 9 pit fighter b)

When we went into the mall, the owner greeted us, then Kyle gave us 200 silver each to spend on things we need. 200! Are you kidding me? It's an huge amount of money! I never had this amount of money. Well, actually I have once. Red Point gave me 225 silvers when I needed to get the pit fighter. It has 5 skills and it costs 45 each. One of the skills I have gotten in the pit fighter class is slow resistance, which allows me to wear heavy armors without being slow. So I headed right over to the lord’s armor, which had x1.3 hp boost. It was heavy but I was able to wear it without any problems. It was 60 silver. Then I found a bracelet with +20hp, +5 armor defense, which was 100 silver, then I kept the rest 40. Zombie scroomie kept all 200, since there was nothing to spend on for now. Renova and Jaystyke used all 200 in the armor called Lower archer’s outfit, it has +15% fire rate, x1.2 stealth, +3 speed, x1.25 climb speed, x1.1hp and x1.2 feather fall. Mmm… that sounds too complicated, I just like my simple x1.3 hp buff.