Well this is the fourth weekend since starting this FF so one of these three days is the one month anniversary but I'm to lazy to check.

The Minotaur/Satyr hybrid said "My name is Khan, what do you think? Way better than yours."

'Is he an idiot, it's pretty much the same name'

-Well Khan, do you know of any way to escape from here

"Let's barge it down, you can charge too so get a running start." said Khan

-I don't think that'll work even with both of us besides I'm still a bit injured

"Oh sorry about that I thought you were one of those bugs trying to drain me" apologized Khan

-Don't worry about it I recover fast.

Emperor then funneled all of his unused points into Endurance which raised it to 100 Endurance total. After a little while he recovered completely with the help of food. Food speeds up health regen. and recovers stamina other than just filling the belly. Since he had plenty from raiding the remains of the camp he passed some over to Khan to.

"You think I'll eat your filthy human food?" Khan responded while eating all the food passed to him.

-That reminds me, what do you normally eat down here?

"The bugs drop down other bugs into the hole every so often, they actually expect us to eat it. It's crunchy but flavorless, it sorta grows on you." Khan said in a contradictory way.

'It must be the same for the other cages so I have some free time to find a way out.'

-Khan how about we train with each other?

"Why?" responded Khan.

-We're of similar skill with our charges so we can benefit each other by mindlessly bashing our heads together for a few hours. But of course you're much stronger than me so maybe you can bash out of this cage with some training.

"I like that logic, it's flawless." said Khan pretending to know what he was talking about.

They got into position at the opposite ends of the cage. The reason why they didn't charge up the walls and grab onto a branch like Emperor did before was due to the cage's shape. On the inside the walls were actually sloped outwards a little bit so it was currently impossible to climb up them. Also the floor on the inside was much deeper than outside so the walls were too high to run up.

-Bull Charge

Emperor charged full speed at Khan while Khan instead walked towards Emperor. Shocked Emperor couldn't reacted as Khan performed a Lariat on him. Emperor did a full backflip before hitting the ground hard and had all of the air knocked out of his lungs. Khan started laughing as Emperor floundered on the ground in pain.

After he recovered enough to get up Emperor ran towards Khan in rage.

-Heavy Punch

After fighting for about an hour both parties sat down out of exhaustion. Emperor thought 'Whatever happened to training our charges, that was a full on brawl.'

Khan then yelled "Good warm up now to train our charges, in a little bit I need to catch my breathe!"

'He didn't need to even yell out that second part. Why were we doing a warm up, and can that even be called a warm up?'

Soon they lined up on opposite ends of the room again. This time Khan leaned forward and seemed ready to charge. Emperor once again decided to start.

-Bull Charge

This time Khan ran to meet Emperor head on. They collided once again and grinded to a standstill. Once again Emperor's skill stopped so Khan won and pushed Emperor away. This time he didn't bash Emperor into the wall. Emperor got back up and then readied himself again.

~8 in-game hours later~

'He's a complete definition of a monster in appearance and stamina. We've been doing this for so long yet forces me to continue.'

Skill level reached level 10, Bull Charge upgraded to Minotaur Charge

After Emperor quickly skimmed the window Khan called out.

"Get back into position, we're not don-" Khan said before falling over. He then started snoring and was deep asleep.

'Guess he was tired too, if I didn't sleep in-game a little bit back I might've too. But sweet a new skill or upgrade of an old one.'

-Open skill Minotaur Charge info

Skill: Minotaur Charge

Rarity: One of a kind

Level: 1

One of a Kind skill created by an unusual action and armour set. Special action available due to it's uniqueness. Recklessly charge at the enemy with the momentum from the weight of your body. Increasing weight and agility will increase the power of the skill but make it harder to control. Upgraded by using it a lot and training with a monster of true-blooded Minotaur descent. Unlike its predecessor it continues as long as you like. Even after hitting an object you can choose to keep pushing to knock it over or move it. Strength decreases chance of tripping and critical chance. Tripping will cause 1/4 of your health to be depleted regardless of level, surface, or defense. Damage may be increased by head decorations such as horns.

Special action: Sometimes when you hit a target you'll automatically lift your head launching it into the air and causing double critical damage. Damage may increase depending on how high the target is launched and what it hits when airborne. Damage determined by strength. Can continue charging after performing this action and you recover quickly.

If you jump while using the skill you may be able to rapidly change direction mid-air then continue charging without losing much speed.

When doing this to a very large monster it will skin it instead of launching it, reducing its defense in that spot. Chance of wounding monsters(injury,skin,cripple,bleed,knock-over,decapitation).

'It doesn't seem that different at first but the improvement is huge.'

Emperor decided that was enough for today and logged out

Lynford exited the Coma with a skip in his step. But he wasn't used to real life yet so he tripped.

'Ouch, that was my fault. Not yet bedtime so I'll do a few things.'

Lynford put dinner in the oven then turned on his sci-fi wall TV thingamajig. It was on the news channel since that was where it last was before he turned the TV off. He was about to switch it but then something about Fantasy Chronicles popped up. The news channel seemed to be covering an interview about it.

The news interviewer asked the guest "Why is the new Fantasy Chronicles' commercial so popular?"

The guest responded "Well we used real in-game scenes with permission of a few players, unlike the YouTube video that it's based on it has several perspectives. It was quite gory so we had to put it only on a few mature channels and put it on YouTube so they can watch the full version. It was quite hard condensing it into a regular three minute long ad. But the full version is pretty much a movie and it's receiving plenty of positive feedback."

The guest continued ranting about the commercial a bit then took advantage of the show to talk a bit about the actual game. The interview wrapped up with the three minute version of the battle that Emperor participated in. Lynford quickly looked up the full video.

It showed everything from Emperor heading into the woods after receiving a quest from Tom to slaying the Alpha Wolf. Lynford only skimmed the video and noticed that there was perspectives from the NPCs as well including the Alpha Wolf. Lynford then checked the views and comments.

The video had over 20 million views despite the commercial appearing just that night. The comments were a mix of people asking where this event happened, saying how awesome the battle was, naysayers calling it fake or staged, some saying it was much better than the other video from two days ago,and most commonly those asking why the head of the wolf exploded. Windows were invisible to the viewers so Emperor's skill set confused players.

After checking all these things out Lynford decided to go to bed so he could return to the game as soon as possible. Of course he ate dinner first.

~8 hour later~

Log-in procedure initiated

Emperor appeared back in the cage with a flash of light. Khan turned around and said "Champion?!"

Khan was standing in front of a hole in the wall leading to the surface with rubble scattered across the ground.

"So you didn't find a way out and abandon me, haha knew it all along. I was just -err preparing to rescue my friends using the strength I gained by training with you" Khan said not very convincingly.

New Quest

Quest: Rescue Khan's tribe

Difficulty: D+

Time Limit: N/A

Khan like you had his citizens captured by the monsters of Sangre Caverns. Help him rescue his tribesmen from the other spike cages. Optional: Rescue the captured Satyr tribe as well.

Reward: The rescued monsters will help you with any quests in the Sangre Caverns, Friendly relationship with Minotaurs, increased reputation

Optional Reward: Friendly relationship with Satyrs

Failure: All Minotaurs in Sangre Caverns die

Effects of failure: Unknown

'Unknown scares me more than whatever it might've said.'

-Let me help you out Khan

Quest Accepted

"Okay let's get going." replied Khan

Just then a few mosquitos appeared before Khan and one behind Emperor.

'Sh*t we're surrounded.'

Seemed like a good way to end the chapter. A bit longer than my average chapter.

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