Everyone seems to be getting it as the party system listed them all. Dispying their LVs, HP, MP, and SP including buffs & possible de-buffs.
“Yay! Since Mr.Ryo here still around LV9 and we are in Frontera, I would suggest we look for Xmas Goblin in Beginner’s Field. How about that?”
“Sure!” -Booba & Deeva-
Both Siegfried and Ryo nodded as I led the way walking towards the southern exit of Frontera.
The dies are chattering to each other about confectionery in Frontera which piqued my interest while I observed the others.
Mr.Ryo wander around with both hands interlocked behind his back surveying the environment of Frontera. He had a rexed look on his face...
“Sorry, the coach is very emotional.” -Siegfried-
As agile as Siegfried is, I didn’t notice that he had scooted over to me.
“Haha... He certainly has an interesting character. No wonder you told us to steel ourselves.”
“Heh, yeah... He does.” -Siegfried-
“By the way... how did you manage to persuade him to py this game?”
I asked out of curiosity, Mr.Ryo doesn’t seem to be a ‘gamer’ kind of person...
“U-uhhhhh... I somewhat mentioned that he can have a dojo of his own?” -Siegfried-
“Eh? You can have a dojo here?”
“Yes. I checked the discussion board in Pochi’s Forum. Completing a unique quest and having high retionships with NPCs may give you property. It can be a house, a vil, or stuff that pyers can edit. The property can also interact with the NPCs depending on what you can edit.” -Siegfried-
“OoooooOoooOooo... You can edit them into a dojo then... So your coach always wanted to have one of his own?”
Siegfried’s expression softened reminiscing old times as he expined...
“He told me about his dream when I finished my trade school. So I’m sure it will catch his attention if I mention it.” -Siegfried-
“Ahahahaha... I guess we need to look for quest hints on getting a property then. I’ll search it up while we grind some Xmas Goblin.”
I fshed him my smile and a thumbs up still waking towards the exit.
-Frontera’s Area, Beginner’s Field (LV1-10)-
“Take this! [Fire Bolt]” -Mage Pyer-
“[Holy Light]!” -Priest Pyer-
“HAAAAAA!!!
My heart feels soft seeing these newbies fighting against horned rabbits and blue slimes with their beginner’s gear.
To indulge myself a bit, I cast some healing and buffing {Spell} on the newbies to ease up their hunts, silently of course...
I do love the confused look on their faces about where these buffs come from.
“Oh! I see one...” -Siegfried-
*JINGLE* *JINGLE* *JINGLE*
(“Is that a bell?”)
I asked myself trying to locate the noise but also wondering about what Siegfried had seen...
Our eyes followed his direction and saw a tiny goblin as tall as my bedside table wearing a Santa hat, bright red shoes with white frills, and carrying huge red burp sacks behind its back.
(“Identifying its {Status}, the Xmas Goblin is LV10 I presume it differs from Area to Area?”)
Each time it moved, the goblin made a bell-ringing noise simir to a Christmas jingle. It also has a whitish beard growing on its chin making the whole look of this monster hirious.
I got a good chuckle out of it...
(“I think Mr.Ryo should hit it first rather than us since he needs EXPs.”)
“Mr.Ryo?”
“Yes?” -Mr.Ryo-
“You’re several levels away from a css advancement so if it’s possible, I want you to hunt the Xmas Goblin.”
“U-uh... Sure? I don’t know what you mean by css advancement though.” -Mr.Ryo-
“I think it would be best expined by the system once you reach LV25. In the meantime, I’ll give you some buffs...”
I extend my left hand towards him and think of a {Spell} belonging to Bishops or higher css that compiles all buffs in one. Making a silent casting...
“Buffs???” -Mr.Ryo-
The cast bar ends and...
Mr. Ryo's body shines in varying colours and immediately in his {Status} he has multiple buffs added.
He raises his hands and clenches & unclenches them, basking in the feeling of the buffs.
“Huh... It’s interesting. I feel like I’m back in my youth with so much energy. Hohoho!” -Mr.Ryo-
He cockily ughs, hopping in pce to warm up, and sets his sights on Xmas Goblins before...
*BAMMMMM* *THUD* *THUD*
He rapidly dashes in such a quick manner that I cannot follow him with my eyes.
Before long, he leapt and unched a flying kick towards the goblin...
*CRUNCHHHH*
(“Oof... That must’ve hurt, he nded straight on that creature’s jaw.”)
“KIEEEEKKKKK” -Xmas Goblin-
It squeals after getting up, it’s HP has taken a hit from Mr Ryo's flying kick. It looks at us warily as Siegfried’ readying his stance and Deeva pulling out her chakram. I too point at the goblin with my left index finger while Booba holds her staff ready for combat.
Then...
*FWOOOOOOOOSHHH*
A cloud of dirt is left in its wake as the goblin vanishes...
“Huuuhhhhhh???”
“The Fuck????” -Siegfried-
“Boy, nguage!” -Mr.Ryo-
“Ehhhhhhhh???” -Booba & Deeva-
(“Where did that thing go?”)
“[Widen: Astral Revetion]!!!”
A quick casting one as when I finished uttering it, the visual animation has taken effect.
In my field of view, I see a glimmering outline of varying creatures and/or pyers hidden in the forest or between the tall grass of this pin.
“[Extend: Farsight]”
Addicting this on top of my revetion, I see all of them more and indeed I pin-pointed a running Xmas Goblin as it slows down after a distance away.
“It is there!!! I’ll share the information with you.”
In the party system, I shared my view with my teammates...
(“So Xmas Goblin doesn’t have any offensive capabilities and runs incredibly fast when attacked.”)
“On it... Coach!!!” -Siegfried-
“*Sniffle* my boy is cooperating!” -Mr.Ryo-
They darted together, boasting higher AGI points compared to me. Mr.Ryo seems to be smiling happily...
“DeeDee, let’s go!!!” -Booba-
“Yep, hold on a minute... I’ll buff us to help with movement speed. Hehe~ Y’all such slowpokes.” -Deeva-
“Thankiesss!!” -Booba-
*TING* *TING* *TINGGGG*
Deeva cps her chakrams together making a dinging noise and the music begins to py in the background...
“
Her hips swayed left and right matching the rhythm of that music while she announced her... {Skill}?
(“Rather it’s more like an intro to a song?”)
“
(“Wait-wait a minute... This tune, I recognise it straight away...”)
“
Her voice rang clear echoing through this field...
“
As she continues the song it makes me a bit worried about copyright. We received a buff added to the {Status}.
I can feel my steps are lighter as if it doesn’t take much effort to lift my feet and I lift off...
(“W-whoaaaaaa... It’s such a strange sensation! I feel like I can run a marathon.”)
Deeva still dances and sings while simultaneously running following the vanguards. Deeva matches her pace with Booba while I’m still a bit behind since I’m the slowest in terms of AGI {Status}.
Nevertheless though... This is the fastest sprint I have ever been in. I didn’t even feel tired or out of breath at all in the slightest!
...
...
...
The song continues and finally reaches that familiar chorus.
“
“Daisy dukes! Bikinis on top~” -Booba-
Even Booba is singling along with Deeva, clearly enjoying the performance she put on. I want to sing along too but my voice is worse than scratching the bckboard so I held on to the urges and instead internally sang along.
(“So this {Skill} of hers provides absurd movement speed buff scaling from pyers {Status} and no SP cost from sprinting action.”)
Quite a powerful buff if I say so myself.
Ah! I see them already...
“There you are! You guys are so fast...”
We managed to catch up with them who’s ganging up on poor Xmas Goblin. Siegfried caged the goblin making it unable to run away stun-locking the creature as he asked...
“There, coach... You finished it and get the EXPs.” -Siegfried-
It seems they are in mid-expnation of the game’s EXPs gain mechanic...
“I’ll do the finishing blow? All right, sorry little one...” -Mr.Ryo-
*BAM*
“KIEEEEK...” -Xmas Goblin-
The creature fell being lightly punched by Mr.Ryo as its body disintegrated into smaller cubes leaving behind glimmering orbs.
“Fiuf... Next time, I’ll bind Xmas Goblin first.”
-After one or two hours go by
We moved towards Deep Woods to help Mr Ryo gain more EXPs since in the beginner's field he’s already too high level and receiving the penalty...
“Ooooohhh... This is what you mean by advancement.” -Mr.Ryo-
He’s squinting his eyes seemingly reading something.
“Hmmm... Which one would be best suited to my py style?” -Mr.Ryo-
Instantly Siegfried’ replied...
“Do you see any ‘Hand of Battle’?” -Siegfried-
“Hand of Battle? Where?” -Mr.Ryo-
And so, Siegfried and Mr.Ryo begin to discuss his coach’s advancement css.
Huh... It seems like Siegfried knew about monk csses better than his berserker ones. Seeing how he expins those things quite well to his coach.
“Everyone got their loot already?”
I asked to which, all of them replied with a form of nods or yes.
“Let's find another goblin!”
Since my {Spell} is still active, I gaze around the deep woods differentiating between the silhouette of goblins, wolves, and pyers until I nd on one different silhouette.
“There! Another Xmas Goblin.”
Pointing to that direction, we march onward starting the process of grinding.
-After more hours have gone by
We continued killing these poor goblins... no matter how much damage I dished out. They seemed to take the same amount of damage even if it came from high-level pyers.
Though... EXPs and normal drop of goblin penalty still apply. Fortunately, the unique drop ignores any penalty which is the sole reason why I see high-level pyers as well in this beginner's field.
We have Mr.Ryo here so he does need to nd the st & first hit. Of course, I gave all the loot to him as it is in the unwritten rules of civility.
“What should I do with these?” -Mr.Ryo-
Before I can give him the answer, Siegfried’ have replied forward to do so.
“You can sell them to the adventurer’s guild for money that you can use to buy other things like-” -Siegfried-
Siegfried patiently expined all the mechanics of this game to his coach whenever Mr.Ryo asked any questions.
“Thanks, everyone! We are done killing Xmas Goblin for the day. Any pns after this for you all?”
I asked that question to them...
“Hmmm... Boo, and I probably will go around Frontera and check their stalls. We haven’t been catching up for ages.” -Deeva-
Booba nods agreeing with the pns as I turn my head to Siegfried.
“I’m gonna expin to coach some stuff in Frontera and his advancement. What about you?” -Siegfried-
He replies while Mr.Ryo is at the back still rubbing his chin in the background staring at nothing. Probably deciding which advanced css he’s going to choose...
(“Hmmm... come to think of it what’s my pn?”)
“I’ll probably prepare for the GvG event and search up about quests in Frontera for uh... You know.”
I intend to keep it silent. After all, Siegfried most likely wants this as a surprise to his coach.
“Ah! Thank heaps!” -Siegfried-
He fshed a brilliant grin and went back to his coach as Mr Ryo pelted him with many questions.
(“Disbanding the Party...”)
Pressing confirm, the party system became an empty panel as the group disbanded.