Author’s corner: HELLO HELLO! The extra, with our first guest appearance and a huge misunderstanding! The legends of green-eyes have to continue!

ANYWAY, fear not dear readers, because I am still keeping all the recommendations, and they will appear sooner or later, be it in a extra, in the main story, or even in the side story!

ALSO, It seems that my ADHD mind can’t be stopped, and I already have an idea on what will be the next Sidestory… I plan on making it about one of my friend’s class up quest… And if everything goes as planned, two of the recommendations will play a large role in the story.

ALSO(2), stay tunned for tomorrow, where we should start the new arc: The first hunt!

Have a good read, and congratulations for Grimmend for having your character chosen!

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Ralivana Grimmend, or Grimm for short, had started on Insania online a bit too late due to having to visit his relatives on a nearby town. Being unable to simply go and cancel his appointment, he simply had to console himself for having started a couple of hours after everyone.

And this took even more time when he saw the character creation area. Spending almost half an hour thinking and trying, he finally took the most appealing choice for him. Combining a dwarf with a rotting undead, left him with a shorty skeleton with, literally, thick white bones and glowing eyes. But even after taking all this time to simply create the character, he still hadn’t even chosen his class! But due to the nature of this game, he found that even before starting playing, he could prepare his character to the class he wanted to be.

He didn’t have any doubt. He, who for so long admired the knights he would often see in televisions shows, movies and games, he decided to don the full plate set, together with a mace and a shield. He decided that, in this world, he would be a righteous knight, that would always uphold honor and justice to any who would dare to do evil deeds upon others.

As soon as he was done, he logged in the game, only to find himself in front of a village in the middle of the afternoon. Like all the others before him, he was left stunned for a moment, but he quickly shook it off and went to the village to look for some quests.

Getting a couple of quests that involved hunting rabbits and wild dogs, he also heard a few worrying things.

A player, who the people called, Green-eyes, the brutal, who was terrorizing the village. Grimm heard many different rumors about this person, but noticed that many of them were probably an exaggeration. He deduced that the player should be around level five or six from when the rumors started to spread.

He felt anger from knowing that this person has been monopolizing a hunting ground all for himself through the use of power and fear, but he knew that he, as he was right now, would be incapable of defeating this green-eyes, so he could only turn his back and go hunt monsters. For now.

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As he hunted the monsters, he had been receiving equipment like better armors and shields. However, as luck had it, he still hadn’t gotten a single new weapon, even as he was barely reaching level seven, and this mortified him.

Deciding that whatever it was the next weapon that dropped, he would equip it, the very next level 6 goblin he killed dropped a staff.

Surprised by this coincidence, he still took the staff, even if an unsuitable weapon for his ideal class, and equipped it, as dire times require dire measures. As he used the staff, more and more, he learned the Light mastery skill. As if waiting for this, on the very same goblin he killed when learning the skill, from it came a good quality mace that increased his magical damage.

The young, undead dwarf took it upon himself that this was a sign from the gods that he should take a step up from his knight idea, and form himself into a noble paladin, the knights that followed the laws of the light.

Leaving the cave where the small goblin camp was, he noticed that in his frenetic grind, the sky had turned dark, so he walked back towards the village decided to sell his spoils and then go after this Green-eyes that so many spoke about. He was certain that for now, he had enough strength to at the very least take him on.

As he walked around the town, distributing minor blessings here and there at the passing players, he strode upon a group of players who came to him and asked.

“Hey, are you perhaps a healer?” Asked a garuda archer.

“Ya! I plan to be a paladin, as this is what the gods have been guiding me to, so I do know a couple of healing spells.” He answered in character.

The garuda turned to his fellow players, an oni warrior with a large axe and a vampire-elf girl as a mage. The other two smiled widely and the oni turned to him.

“You see, we were planning on taking on some lynxes back in the forest, but we heard that they are a bit troublesome, so we wanted to take a healer with us, what do you say?”

Grimm stopped to think for a moment, but nodded in the end.

“Da, just let me get rid of my spoils and repair my armor, and I’ll soon meet ya.” Even if he decided to go after Green-eyes, on his way back he passed through the wild dogs and he wasn’t there, and without a lead it would be meaningless to hunt him blindly.

The trio invited him to a party, and warned him that they were going ahead and wait for him at the forest. Grimm nodded and walked away to the village’s blacksmith, where he repaired his armor and sold a couple of armor-pieces that he got from the goblin, then he went to a general store and discarded the rest of his items, before going towards his party member.

Following the three dots on his map, Grimm quickly reached the forest and calmly walked towards them, but halfway through his stroll, he noticed their life starting to drop every few seconds. Sure that they had just started fighting, he sped up his pace, reading his healing spell on his hand.

Then, the mage’s life dropped by half in a single moment, and soon after another chunk was taken out, leaving her with barely anything left. Then the archer’s life dropped by a significant amount and soon was followed by the warrior. Grimm reached the spot just in time to see the cat and the warrior running towards each other.

He quickly casted the spell on the mage at a distance and kept running towards the warrior, but the cat started it’s attack way to soon, and the warrior’s life started to drop ferociously. He was far too distant to heal him, so he could only watch the scene.

And just as he thought that the warrior had survived the combo, the cat readied another attack.

At that time he was sure that the warrior would die.

But from nowhere came a shadow with green tattoos, and shoved the warrior away while stopping the cat’s attack with one hand and casually kicked him away.

And this attack looked so much more powerful than the previous, yet the person barely moved when he took it. The person looked at the group quickly, then turned his attention to the lynx. It seemed that he hadn’t noticed Grimm, but Grimm had seen him, had seem those mad looking green eyes.

When the Lynx charged at him, he didn’t even lift his shield, and only watched without moving as the cat jumped away at the last second with incredible speed that surprised the dwarf, who hadn’t seen this attack before.

Yet the person simply turned towards the cat as soon as he landed in the tree right behind him, and bashed his shield in the feline. He then proceeded to impale the cat in the tree with his sword. But the brutal scene still hadn’t ended, as the man picked his shield and activated a brutal impact skill upon his sword, impaling the cat even further and making the tree creak in protest. Finally he picked his sword and used it to slash the cat downwards, throwing him to the ground.

Finally, green-eyes looked at the group and gazed furiously at the group.

The four of them stiffened under his furious gaze and were unable to even utter a word. “It’s better to be careful when you hunt...” He said in a low and cold voice, then he turned towards the cat that was barely able to stand up after such brutality. “Or you will end up like this …”

And then he simply walked off.

The group had no doubt that he was threatening them, telling them to never again hunt near him or he would do upon them what he did upon the lynx. For a good time the four in the group were unable to move, still too shocked to even understand what was happening.

But soon, Grimm recovered his control. He had just met the man he was hunting, the cruel tyrant that was controlling this whole area through fear, and he would just let him escape?

He stepped forward and prepared to give chase to the man, but as if waiting for the cue, the tree he had slammed creaked loudly, and then fell upon the lynx that was still trying to recover, finishing it.

Grimm could only watch in shock. How could an attack be so powerful to break a tree like that?

Green-eyes… he was far too strong.

Grinding his teeth, Grimm could only hold himself back. Even if his honor wouldn’t allow him to let such a person to run free, what good would it be if he hunted that person only to die?

So, the group could only turn their backs towards the forest lynxes, and walk away. But in the sockets of the dwarf’s skeleton, a raging fire burned.

He would back away for now, but he would grind like there was no tomorrow, would get his class, the very embodiment of righteousness, and then he would once again start to hunt this madman.

Because Green-eyes, the brutal, had to be stopped.

And Ralivana Grimmend would be the one to do it.