Chapter 20: Defense Specialized and Friend Strengthening
「Yosh, I’ve arrived!」
Risa arrived at a small house inside the forest. It was a log house.
Right beside the house, there was a water wheel that was slowly turning to the flow of a clear river.
In front of the house were a small field and some unchopped firewood that was probably left there are after chopping firewood.
The sounds of the small birds echo pleasantly.
Risa approached the house, “KonKon” she knocked the door and waited.
After a while, the door opens from inside.
Who came out, was white long beard man using a staff.
「For someone to come here, how rare…… for the meantime, come inside. In these places, there are a lot of dangerous monsters」
The old man said that and let Risa enter the house. Risa obediently entered the house.
If the AGI stat, the old man will not be in his house, and the event will not occur.
Inside the house, there was only a few furniture.
If asked which one was the most interesting, on the top of the shelf around the ends, there was an old small sword that was emitting a very certain presence.
After that, Risa without saying anything, sat in the chair that was near to the table.
The old man placed a teacup with tea in front of that Risa.
「You should drink, your body should get relaxed a little」
「Uhm… thank you very much. Itadakimasu」
Risa drank the tea. As the old man had said, her body really got relaxed a little.
Precisely, her MP was fully recovered.
It is unknown since her HP was full, but in the information, it is said that it would recover.
「Fumu…… you should rest for a while. I will go to draw 【Magic Power Water】」
【Magic Power Water】is the water that is drawn up from the springs that recover magic powers. And the place of that springs can be heard from the NPC in the town of the second stage.
It was about 30 minutes far away in her current position.
Right here, Risa started to talk as if she was waiting for that.
「Yes, then, I will go draw it instead」
「n, really?… I’ll leave it to you here huh…… recently, the condition of my feet had worsened」
When the old man said that, he gave Risa a gla.s.s bottle.
A blue colored monitor appeared in front of Risa.
It was stating, Yes, No.
Risa pushed the Yes, and accepted the quest.
The【Magic Power Water】was immediately checked by the non-combat players as soon as they get to the second stage, but they couldn’t draw it up from the spring whatever they did.
They were able to drink it in that place and recover MP, but it is impossible to bring it back currently.
The only way it could be drawn up, was using the gla.s.s bottle that is pa.s.sed during this event.
But, that also disappears from the inventory after drawing it up after an hour.
It means, it was a spot that was prepared for this event.
「Well then, I’ll go now!」
「I’m sorry… I’ll count on you」
And, Risa jumped out of the log house towards the springs.
The monsters that are inhabiting around here are mostly 3 types.
The first one is the Big Spider.
As its name is, it was a large spider. Its size is about 1 meter and it’s spider thread attack that binds the target is very troublesome.
The second one is the Sleep Beetle.
It is a beetle that has status debuff attacks that make its target asleep. Its size is only a little bigger than the normal beetle, so it is a scary monster that is easy to be overlooked and receive a surprise attack from.
The third one is the treant.
It is mimicking a tree, and is good at surprise attacks.
But, it has a characteristic that it is the only one tree that has a red fruit inside this forest.
Knowing that beforehand, the chance to avoid it will surely go up. But, even without that, the attack range of the branches and roots is long, and there are a lot of players that are blocked on all sides and loses.
Risa is running through the forest.
As she has preliminarily investigated, there are not one monster appearing.
And, she properly arrived at the springs for about 30 minutes.
「It’s beautiful……」
The waters that are clear as it can be was s.h.i.+ning faintly and s.h.i.+mmers to the surrounding trees and flowers.
To that fantastic spectacle, Risa stopped her feet for a while and viewed the springs.
And, after she drank the spring waters to recover her MP, she heightened her concentration.
「It’s from here… huh」
Risa drew the water to the gla.s.s bottle, and put it in her inventory. The time limit is one hour.
If she cannot reach the log house within the time limit, the event will end as a failure.
And, the monsters that did not show up at all when she got here, flows out from the forest as if they were waiting for this moment.
「I should go…」
Risa looked back, and jumped to the forest and ran. The unpleasant sounds of the spiders echo.
The event really starts from here.
The path that took 30 minutes without monsters, return from there with monsters within an hour.
To obtain【Super Acceleration】, she must go through this test.
*HyunHyun* the threads of the spiders sounded while they shot from the top of the trees. If these hits, she would be bound and it would be the end.
「Yo, tto! ……!! 【Mirage】!」
Risa runs through, and to her body, a ton of Sleep Beetles. .h.i.t.
But that got squashed and distorts its shape, and melts in the air.
While glancing at that, Risa broke through the swarm of the Sleep Beetle.
「That’s bad, that’s bad… tto!」
From Risa’s feet, sharp tree roots reached out.
With Risa’s status, she would surely die with one hit.
While Risa was dodging the tree roots, she checked the surrounding.
There were three trees that have red fruits with it. It was no doubt treants.
「【Fire Ball】!」
The blazing ball of fire hits the slow moving treant, and burns violently its trunk.
The treant’s angry voice echoes throughout the forest.
「This is…!! That might’ve been a miss…」
Risa had caught on the monsters that were approaching, attracted by the treant’s voice using【Sensory Awareness II】.
「【Mirage】!」
Risa made a phantom of herself run towards the direction of the springs.
The beetles got easily lured by that, but that wasn’t the case with the spiders. They probably have some kind of skill, they were moving towards Risa’s direction.
「It wasn’t effective! 【Slash】!」
While dodging the spider threads, two consecutive attacks.
Their HP bar surely was reduced, but there’s still 70% of it. She had no time at all to defeat that.
「d.a.m.n it!…… the treant is also too annoying…!」
In addition to the enormous number of enemies, they were moving as if each of them different purposes.
On top of that, the spider’s AGI was quite high. It wasn’t that much different with Risa.
In the first place, that was natural since it was a quest made for AGI Specialized to challenge it.
「【Ocean】!」
From Risa’s feet, water thinly spread. The spiders that were chasing her plunged into that and decelerates.
「【Slash】!… 【Wind Cutter】!」
Slas.h.i.+ng through the roots and branches of the treant, Risa continued to move forward.
The distance between the spiders gradually opened.
But it also wears out Risa’s nerves.
She would be caught if she stops running, but this is inside the forest.
The trees that were crowded, the bushes beneath the feet, and there might be mud somewhere.
If she was caught on her footsteps, the situation would only be the worst.
Risa heard a flying sound with her ear, and turned around.
「Beetles again?!…… no way」
The monsters that inhabit this forest are “mostly” three types.
Right, there was another type of monster that was rare to encounter.
Approaching from behind, was a giant dragonfly.
And its name, Wind Dragonfly.
Its name comes from the way it flies at high speed as if there were no trees at all, while accelerating with wind magic.
「That’s too unlucky!…… d.a.m.n it…! 【Wind Cutter】!」
She threatened, shooting blades of wind to her back.
In this situation, there was no time to fight. She should do something and run away somehow. Even now, their distance was gradually closing up.
Highly mixed wind magic pa.s.ses through Risa with sounds of cutting wind. While dodging the wind magic using the trees as a s.h.i.+eld, she spreads out the 【Ocean】and checks the spiders.
She diverts the Sleep Beetle that flies from the side with 【Mirage】. Just like that, while she was running, she was once again surrounded by monsters.
Impatience appears in Risa.
「Spiders coming from the front… treant from the left. I’ll go left!」
Using【Sensory Awareness II】at its fullest, she gained the information the most she could get, and chooses the best route.
To the direction where there are more trees, to where it is hard for the dragonfly to fly. Three treants in front of her. Of course, there was no time to make an opponent of them.
「【Mirage】!」
The treant easily fell for it, and pierces out tens of its sharp branches towards Risa’s phantom.
The treant, seemed to have felt it clearly, it was having a creepy laughter triumphantly.
「Thank you! You really saved me!」
Risa, with relief, mumbles.
What it pierced through wasn’t Risa.
It was the wing of the Wind Dragonfly, one of it.
Even if it was the Wind Dragonfly, it couldn’t completely dodge the unexpected attack.
The Wind Dragonfly that had its wing broken drops its speed.
The distance with Risa opens up.
*GachiGachi* the Wind Dragonfly shot wind magic to Risa while sounding creepily, but that kind of desperate attack had no way of reaching Risa.
「Ha〜…ha〜… Arrival!! Ha〜! Seriously, maybe this is the most exhausting ever…」
There was the log house in front of Risa.
She took 52 minutes, and reached it just below.
Risa opened the door of the log house.
「I have returned!」
「Ohh! I have been waiting for you, thank goodness that you’re fine, thank goodness…」
Risa who broke through tens of deadly situation made a subtle face, but the old man did not care about that and continued to talk.
「Fumu… I have to give my grat.i.tude… let me see, come here for a second」
After saying that, the old man brought out one scroll from the drawers.
「You can learn the skill【Super Acceleration】with it. It should help you somehow… you don’t need abstain」
After saying that, the old man’s appearance blurs and disappeared.
「It is something I don’t need」
A voice came from behind Risa, Risa turns back in a hurry.
There was the old man, smiling happily as if a boy who has succeeded his prank.
「Fufu… you should devote to your training」
「Y-Yes!」
She instinctively replied, and Risa left the log house.
Gaining a new power.
Chapter 20 part2
“Help me to find an ap.r.o.n, and tie it for me.” He said.
“Just like that?” Bei Er Duo tried to confirm. She didn’t need to wash veggies or anything?
“Right.”
Bei Er Duo took an ap.r.o.n from the cupboard, a big size black ap.r.o.n. It was the prize that she got from the supermarket. Because it was too big, so she couldn’t wear it.
Luckily today she could use it for Ye Shu Wei.
Ye Shu Wei wore it, and Bei Er Duo helped him to tie it up. She looked at him.
“Are you done?”
“Em. Almost.” She noticed although he is tall, but he is skinny, he is well-shaped.
Hearing how she tied it, it was a light and rustling noise. He couldn’t help to think about the sound of white mouse in the labroratory, who hiding in its bathtub to dig sand.
It’s also mini.
“Okay.” Bei Er Duo retreated, “Then I would not disturb you again.”
She remembered during cooking, he didn’t like for someone to disturb him.
“Em.”
Bei Er duo sat on the chair to wait for the food. She surveyed around the living room. Strangely she noticed that usual she didn’t feel her house to be small, she thought it to be quite s.p.a.cious but how could the moment Ye Shu Wei said that it was too cramped?
It seemed like a giant entered a dwarf world.
Because since she was little, Xu Zhen Fen didn’t allow her daughter to invite male cla.s.smates to come and be the guest. Bei Er Duo never invited opposite s.e.x to coexist in a room. Ye Shu Wei is her first one to get inside and occupy her kitchen.
Indeed if Xu Zhen Fen knew this, she definitely would scold her for not being cautious. She always said that how could a woman easily let opposite s.e.x to enter the room, do you know it would be dangerous?
Dangerous…. would it be?
Bei Er Duo heard the stir-fry voice, she glanced at the kitchen door.
Ye Shu Wei was stir-frying, he stood straightly. With a glance, she concluded that he came here, only for cooking for her, and didn’t have any intentions for coffee or anything.
Except shooting the trailer that day, the day he kissed her ears, he seemed to be very gentleman, he wouldn’t take advantage of her.
He is trustworthy.
Bei Er Duo thought it that way.
Waiting until the pork chop to be ready, and rice to be done. Ye Shu Wei washed his hands, and yelled for Bei Er Duo to help to untie the ap.r.o.n.
The time he turned his body, he lowered his head. Very naturally he pinched her ear lightly: “Don’t you forget your promise.”
“I remember, just sing a song for you right. What song do you want to hear?”
“Whatever, just sing the one that could me feel comfortable.”
“…..” why did she hear his words to be ambiguous.
Ye Shu Wei extended and pa.s.sed the Bei Er Duo’s shoulder, he pushed close the kitchen cupboard.
Once again Bei Er Duo was looped in the middle, she raised her head and he lowered his head, they were face to face.
It was somewhat subtle.
“What is it?” He asked, “Why do you raise your head so high, don’t you feel your neck to be in pain?”
“It’s okay.” Bei Er Duo reminded: “Let’s go out to wait.”
Ye Shu Wei took his hands back: “Okay, the kitchen is too small, a lot of things couldn’t be done to heart’s content.”
Bei Er Duo was startled, unexpectedly trembled with fear: “What do you mean?”
“Before when I washed the tomatoes, cut the pork chop, stir-fry, it’s not really convenient.” Ye Shu Wei glanced at her, “Don’t tell me you don’t think about this?”
“……”
Then they both waited in the living room, they sat side by side on the sofa because dislike the square table to be too small, then he couldn’t extend his legs.
Ye Shu Wei’s pork chop is really delicious, the sauce is his special blend, it has a bit sweet taste and well-cooked rice. Bei Er Duo kept on praising him when she ate: “Your cooking is very good.”
Bei Er Duo smiled, and took a tissue to wipe her lips. She looked at him, ” Ye Shu Wei, I notice that sometimes when you talk, your words are very interesting.”
“Is it more interesting that Yu Sheng?” He responded to her gaze.
“I don’t know about it because I am not close to him, how should I answer you?”
“That day when you guys chatted under the tree, you guys were acting as there were n.o.body else present for seven minutes.”
“You also record the time?” Bei Er Duo bit her spoon, and noticed that he is too detailed, it is very interesting: “Okay, let me tell you a secret.”
“Say it.”
“That time we chatted about Tang Li. From his words, I could know that he is caring toward Tang Li.”
“It’s very normal, he uses his position to get close to his female subordinate. This matter of “rabbit eats the gra.s.s on the den side”, it’s not enough to stamp on Yu Sheng’s moral bottom line.”
“…..” once again Bei Er Duo silently realized his poisonous tongue. He threw Yu Sheng from the cloud to the bottom.
“Tang Li really adores him, she even….. has a crush on him.” Bei Er Duo said it, then immediately reminded him, “This matter, I only tell you alone. Don’t you tell to anyone.”
“It is a normal sentence.” He continued: “Its effectiveness is really low.”
Bei Er Duo was speechless.
He placed down his plate and chopsticks, and looked at her: “But the truth that you say make people to be feel it is outrageous, I unexpectedly know someone who has a crush on Yu Sheng.”
“For you….. Chief Yu perhaps is not a man, but for Tang Li, he is a G.o.d.”
He muttered to himself irresolutely for a while: “Then why doesn’t she just tell him directly?”
“This, because I…….” Bei Er Duo hesitated.
“Because of you?” His tone lowered down, and hid the violent tone: “Bei Er Duo, you have crush on him?”
If she dare to nod, he would immediately leave this little room.
“How could it be?” Bei Er Duo immediately emphasized her innocent, “You think it too much, I just say it because I feel Tang Li is considering about the gains and losses to confess. She afraid that her confession would be a failure and make her lose her job. I want to help her but I also know that it’s better to do it by yourself, if someone helps, it would be probably become a mess.”
Ye Shu Wei’s eyes turned calmer, his heart started to be relieved.
Bei Er Duo still wanted a lot of things about this matter.
Because Ye Shu Wei already got a satisfying answer, he didn’t want to continue the topic that was unrelated to them: “Hurry up and finish it, after done, you should sing for me.”
Indeed he is very energetic.
Bei Er Duo switched on her computer, and looked at her private storage of songs.
“Do you have anything special that you want to hear?”
“You could sing what I want to hear?”
“I can but don’t it be too complete unknown, if only I ever heard it once I could sing it.”
“Okay, I remember a song that my mother likes to hear. It’s called “Missing You Everyday.”
“……..”
Unexpectedly he chose this song, doesn’t he know that song is too corny?
This song is about being in love and inseparable, it is a song to tell one’s most inner feeling of love. For Bei Er Duo to sing this in the KTV would be no problem, but to sing it here in front of him, she felt a bit very strange.
He took his gla.s.s and drank the tea. Then looked at her once again, his gaze let her to be unable to escape: “Deal, I want to hear this.”
“Don’t you want to change to another song?”
“This song should be known by majority, including you.”
“But this song, appear to be a song for lover with intimate relations.h.i.+p.”
“I know. In the past, my mother sang this song everyday for my father.” He said it like it was inevitable and right, “Now, it is your turn to sing it to me.”
“……………”