Chapter 4

“Get back behind the corner!” yelled Leon and pulled Arn and Sebastian back. Quick-witted, Giselle had also grabbed Nils and was running in front of them. 5m behind the corner, Leon turned around a pointed the spear in the direction of the bow. Sebastian and Arn also stopped in their tracks, just to face a front of three incoming shark men with their sawtooth-blades. More couldn’t run in a row because of the narrowed passage of the outer circuit.

While Nils furiously tried to reload, Leon made a sidestep to the front and wounded the middle shark man in the chest. Covering him from the side, Arn tried the same with his umbrella. But this attack was blocked by the shark with his blade. As a result, the fabric of the umbrella was in tatters, torn off by the several teeth of the blade. So he quickly drew it back, made a faint to the beasts right side and aimed with a second stab to the creatures abdomen. This time he succeeded to the point that his opponent had to kneel down and sank to the side. Without space for a proper swing, the 3rd shark tried to stab Sebastian. In return, Sebastian did the same, only to achieve the wished result faster than his opponent. Being 50 cm taller and having a bigger reach with his arms was something the shark man couldn’t counter.

But the next wave came immediately after the front row sank down to the floor. As the fight continued, the guys were pushed back by the sheer mass of enemies. After several similar onslaughts, the guys were tired. The only thing that rescued them was that after what felt like eternity, Nils had already reloaded his gun and shot the remaining 6 shark men, excluding the trident user who could flee after he was grazed by a bullet.

Standing panting in front of their bloody battle, the group decided to retreat to the observation deck, to get a small rest. They collected all the useable weapons and also found several lesser healing potions beside the dead bodies.

Sitting in a chair resting on the observation deck, Arn decided to finaly look into the whole status thing.The group was currently resting in a few other chairs, with the 2 last sailors holding watch on both sides. Outside, the ship was just taking the turn around Nordeney. The port should be reached in several minutes. He looked back to the @ sign at the edge of his peripheral view, which was blinking. Curios, he tapped on it.

You got 6 new messages

Do you want to read them ?

Yes/No

“Yes” was Arns answer.

Congratulations!

Through continuous killing Shark men without regrets, you got the new title :

Shark Killer.

5 % more damage against sharks and their kin as well as exp.

Congratulations

Your efforts by stabbing have been recognized. You have aquired the skill

Fencing novice lvl 1

10% more damage through stabbing attacks regardless the weapon (Yes, even umbrellas)

5% more penetration

5/100

Congratulations

You gained a level

Congratulations

You gained a level

Congratulations

The party system has been unlocked. Now you can team up with a maximum of 5 other people.

Congratulations

With getting yourself your first title, 2 skills and 2 levels, further explanations are made.

Titles will affect your environment, be it in a positive or negative way. Titles can’t be unequipped, as they represent you and your actions. So be cautious which course of action you choose.

Skills can be acquired or created by understanding your actions properly. For example: aimless stabbing won’t get you fencing. Instead, you have to pinpoint the location and also hit your target.

Levels are gained by defeating other creatures and gaining experience in return. It serves as a rough estimation of your strength in comparison to others.

With reaching level 3, you have acquired all player accessible menus: Status menu, Inventory and party formation. Further information will be revealed at a higher level.

Hail the struggle.

Thank you for being part of INTERSTELLAR WORLD STRUGGLE TV

So he spoke out : “Status”

*Blink*

Name : Arn Tschiller

Level : 3

Profession : N/A

Alignment : N/A

Age : 22

Required experience for level up : 550 / 1000

Health : 300

Mana : 150

Strenght : 9

Agility : 16

Intelligence : 10

Wisdom : 12

Vitality : 10

Endurance : 8

Luck : 5

Not allocated status points : 10

Skills

Spear combat : novice lvl 1 + 5 % damage and handling spears

Fencing : novice lvl 1 5% more penetration against enemy armor

Title(s)

Shark Killer

“inventory” (Arn)

He was greeted by 13 quadrants, which appeared in the same distance then the blue boxes and had the size of 50x 50 centimeters. Of course, it was empty. As a person longing to know the mechanics, he just took a chair beside him and tried to shove it in. The chair disappeared, and a quadrant was filled with a miniature picture of the chair, in its right lower corner was the number 1 shown.

Satisfied about his two discoveries, he put the chair back out and said:

“Party invite Leon”

Nothing.

“Leon, did you get any special notification regarding a party invite?”

“No” was the answer.

“I see” murmured Arn and tried it again.

“Party invite Leon Proetzel”

*Ding* Leon Proetzel has accepted your party invitation.

“Party invite Sebastian Harderker, Nils Martini”

*Ding* Sebastian Harderker and Nils Martini both accepted your party invitation.

“Yeha, did you check this out? Did you check it out? It just functions like games.” said Arn enthusiastically.

“Seems useful” agreed Leon. “But what does it actually achieve ? “

“Maybe split exp, and a display of the party members Health ?” suggested Nils.

“If you look closer, you can see at your right upper peripheral view some pictures of us together with a green and blue bar. Man, this is so much like World of Warcraft, only in real.” Leon

When Arn looked back to his friends, he could see Sebastian tipp into the air and shrug a little bit. “What happened ?”asked Arn

“I think I just found a new function. Just tipped onto Leon’s icon and got a strong pull in his direction. When I do it with yours….” Leon shrugged again. “Yeah, I am pretty sure it pulls one to the tipped person. Maybe instead of a minimap…” said Leon and started mumbling to his own.

“The port, the port, we are saved” screamed a one of the covering students suddenly and pointed outside to the left of the ship.

Arn turned his head into the indicated direction. He felt a wave of relieve. The port was truly in reach of the ship. He could already see some buildings and the docks made of concrete blocks. The distance was shortening every minute, and they would arrive there in several minutes.

As Arn was deep his thoughts about how to progress further, Nils spoke out :

“Guys, do hear this ? Have you realized ? There is no noise anymore. No screams, no cries, but also no motor sound. We are also slowing down.”

“Yeah, has been already a while since the last attack of the sharks and the last death scream.” (Sebastian)

“Hey Müller, is it right that there is no motor sound anymore ?” asked Arn one of the sailors.

“You are damn right lad, seems like our old lady stopped running. Don’t think this is a coincidence this near the port.” Said the Questioned.

The ship was about half a kilometer away from the port swimming in the sea without propulsion. “Probably it is that the 5 men in the engine room got overthrown. No men – no one controlling the engine and it breaks down.” Guessed Nils.

“Anyway, what can we do ?” asked Nils. “Any plans?”

“First we need to reach the island. But swimming seems a no-no with all the shark down there.” Stated Nils the obvious

“Depending how much destroyed the engine is, we could try to fix the engine. Would be also good in the long run, when we want to leave this island.” Said Leon. “ Don’t forget that this was the ship that brought us from the mainland.”

“And what if we don’t fix it ? “ asked Arn “You see, we are not MacGyver who could build a missile with nails, gum and ducttape.”

“Lifeboats!” said Leon who was awoken from his trance.

“There must be lifeboats on this ship, mustn’t they ? “

“Sure, now that you mention it, I saw one at the back of the ship. The only thing is that it was hooked and on the middle deck.” (Nils)

“So how do we get to the boat ?” said Leon

“And who is gonna let it loose and steer ?” interjected Sebastian

In this moment the door to the brigde opened and the officer entered the observationdeck with the remaining 2 sailors and positioned himself in the middle of the deck.

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Hi readers, Darthkecks is here

First of all, sorry that I didn't put up any blue boxes, but it is annoyeing for me and also to much time consuming.

As a first time story writer, i never imagined about how much details you have to think about. Because I write this in Word, I will only copy it and try to edit the format.

I hope you had a nice read, more chapter (s) will appear at the end of the week. Also, I have to make minor changes to the already posted chapters because I had a hard time thinking about the system etc.

Sincerely

Darthkecks