I spent four days practicing my enchanting with Maxwell. it turns out he is some kind of pervert because every now and then when my back was turned my charm stat grew. as I turned around I could see him staring at me.

Maxwell came up to me and said “good you have learnt the basics of how to enchant, now I can finally teach you the next step.”

*triiing*

class upgrade: Sword enchanterA sword enchanter specialises in adding elemental properties to their swords during battles.

do you accept?

Surprised that I was offered a job upgrade I immediately accepted. Usually to get a job upgrade, you must reach level 100 and have intermediate in its main skill. I heard rumours of further upgrades from NPC’s during the beta but, I never managed to find one.

“Good, I only know of two enchantments which I can teach you. The first is fire enchantment which will enchant your sword with fire. In order to create the enchantment you must use fireweed. Lucky for you I have some outside.”

I proceeded to go outside and pick some of the red fireweed which was out front of the house.

“First hold the herb in your left hand against the blade closest to the hilt. Then let your mana flow from the herb into your blade.”

I did as told and a huge bright red flame erupted off my blade completely covering it.

*triiing*

Skill unlocked: Fire Blade Enchantmentusing fireweed, you can enchant a blade with the elemental properties of fire.

flames can give a powerful burning effect.

Duration: 10 minutes

Mana cost:200

“Good now in order to stop the flames, place you hand on the blade nearest the hilt, and absorb the mana.”

I did as he said and the blades flame died out. Even though I absorbed the mana, it did not return to my mana pool. It seems instead it floated out back into nature.

“Now the second enchantment I want to teach you is the wind enchantment. Wind enchantment works the same as fire except, you need to use windweed. Wind week I have out back in the pond.” Maxwell said sending me out back to collect some.

wind weed is a type of seaweed which grows in shallow ponds, I grabbed a small handful and repeated the same steps i used to make fire.

*triiing*

Skill unlocked: Wind Blade Enchantmentusing windweed, you can enchant a blade with the elemental properties of wind.

Wind causes a blade to become shaper allowing it to cut through more surfaces.

Duration: 10 minutes

Mana cost:200

My blade covered with barely visible wisps of wind. In order to try it I struck the blade at a nearby rock. My blade pierced straight into the rock as if it were butter. Immediately I regretted testing it on a rock because it got stuck.

After 10 minutes when the wind died out I finally pulled the blade free landing on my butt.

“Took you long enough” Maxwell commented smiling at my misfortune.

“Ok time for you to practice your enchantments.”

Quest received: Collect Achlis life orbsMaxwell needs Achlis life orbs for his enchantments. You have been tasked to go out and bring back 100 of them.

Requirement: Sword enchanter

Difficulty: E

Reward: unknown

You cannot reject this quest

“Ok where can I find Achlis, and more to the point what are they?”

“Oh there’s heaps of them in the forest, they look like some sort of elk. You will know when you see them.”

I left with a few handfuls of both kinds of weed and entered the forest.

Maxwell was right, I noticed the achlis immediately. I have never seen such a strange creature. The creature looked like and elk except it was eating upside-down. It had a huge upper lip which hung down covering its vision. If it were to try eating any other way than upside down, it would not be able to open its mouth since its lip would fall covering its mouth.

I walked up to the achlis and unsheathed my rapier. The achlis immediately ran away. I attempted to approach achlis several times to no avail. Finally I got closer. I snuck up behind a tree. On the other side was an achlis grazing. I quickly turned around and struck at the achlis with a lunge but, I missed and the achlis ran away.

I continued trying the same tactic, keeping a tree between me and an achlis and then darting out at the last second.

Finally after half a day had passed I gave p resting against a tree. And achlis grazed close to a tree for a while.

I took this chance to enchant my blade with wind and I struck out at the achlis head. My strike went directly at the tree, passed through and hit the achlis square in the head.

Fatal hit

I went to the achlis corpse and used life entrapment.

you have received an achlis life orba reagent used for enchanting

Increases perception

I spent the next day killing achlis and collecting their orbs.

As I was returning to Maxwell to hand in the orb, a blade appeared in front of my neck for a split second. The second after the blade was dropped and I heard a scream of agony.

I turned around quickly and on the ground clutching his heart was Ryan. Ryan started disappearing in a cloud of grey dust.

*triiing*

you have been protected by Hestia

Feeling relieved that I religiously prayed to Hestia at the town’s hearth upon entering a city, I returned to Maxwell.

Quest complete: Collect Achlis life orbsyou have brought back the Achlis life orbs Maxwell requested of you.

Reward: 100 windweed

100 fireweed

“Good work” Maxwell said

I spent the remainder of my death penalty with Maxwell strengthening my enchanting skill.

When the death penalty ended, Rosetta contacted the party through party chat and ordered us to meet at the mine.

Not wanting to disappoint my best friend, I quickly bought food supplies, and left to meet up at the mine.

well I wasn't going to write anymore tonight since it's now 2:30am but, thanks to the request for more, here is a bonus chapter albeit a short one.

I bought in a new monster for this one, tell me what you think of it.

I want to start naming the chapters but, my mind comes up blank. if you have any ideas for chapters, post their names in the appropriate chapter.