Zandra

Zandra had decided to just sit quiet for awhile, to listen to what the others was discussing and maybe pick up some clues on what have been decided. Thou it seems that she had arrived right after a discussion has ended, since it seems to be some silence. She did saw one of the participants leaning over to Morgenstern that she knew from earlier adventures. Just as she was gonna try to hear any words of what they may say or maybe join their talk, she herd another very much familiar voice. She did smiled as she recognize an old friend with name Ariel. Sadly it seemed she was done here by now and was gonna take her leave. Then just as Zandra was starting to rise, the blonde had said goodbye, said something to another player at the meeting and left. Zandra sat down again with a short sigh. What was she gonna do? Since some have already started to leave, she had probably missed quite alot and the most important parts. Well, at least she could throw in some stuff off what she could contribute to the upcoming fight.

'Hello, for those that dont know, Im Zandra and so, so sorry Ive been late.’’ she gave a slight bow before continuing. ‘’Is it possible that someone can give me a like a short update on what have been decided? Also myself if there is any spots left I can contribute as a support player, as well as can make some potions, crystals and salves for anyone that is in need of it.’’ she said followed by another glance around the table.

Zandra stretched her arms high as was on her daily stroll around the lake infront of her mansion. As she havent really taken part of anything important for quite a long time, she had decided to just enjoy the days doing lazy aor fun stuff on her own. Together with Itzal when he was home as well, which he barely have been. She had no idea of his whereabouts but well, since he also answered her mwssagwa Zandra guessed he wanted to be alone for some reason.

It was at this moment she suddenly remembered! For not to long ago she had got a notice about a floor boss meeting. Since she havent be present for a long time, she had decided to at least be present there, even if she didnt joined the fight, it was at least good to know what the situation was about frontliners and stuff. She glanced at the clock suddenly panicked, she was late! Quickly she pulled out a teleport crystal and few seconds later she was at the Coral portal gate, where she went up to floor one and as she quikly headed to the address while changing to more proper clothes (black shirt with red skirt). She extrachecked the shops name and headed in, then she carefully entered the meetingroom to make sure she wouldnt interrupt any discussion. She took a glance around the room and got a faint smile when she saw how many people was present. *Sweet, looks like we gonna have a chance with these numbers* she thought while she took a seat close to the entrance.

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Team B

Zandra was exiting the warp portal on floor four, entering the snowy landscap of <<Snowfrost>>. She had herd there was gonna be an event here today. All she knew about it was that it was called -Snowball fight-. But she had no idea how it was organized. Was it a big snowman they was gonna fight? Was it gonna be some kind of pvp? Was they gonna use their normal gear or special event weapons? Well, it didn’t took her long to find out. When she arrived at the location where the event was gonna take place, she could see it was a big field surrounded by tree’s with large snowpiles here and there. She saw a few players had already arrived. And they wasent using their weapons. They was… throwing snowballs. A smirk on her lips. ‘’Hehe, yes this will be fun.’’ She said as she shoveled up some snow. But she got met by an unexpected experience. At first it was very hard to form a snowball with this armor, and second was that the flame aura was smelting the snow around her. ‘’Goddamnit.’’ Why didn’t she thinked about that. Well, there was only one thing to do, swap to something else. And of course, as she opened her inventory she saw she had only one other outfit with her. For a few moments she thougth to turn around and get a more fitting outift, but nah, she had her survival skill. A quick change, shoveled up some more snow and entered the arena.

She spotted a few players of which some was recognized and some was new to her. But wait, was it a freee for all or was it some organized teams? Also, would friendly fire be on or off? She saw a ball fly towards one of her newest friends, Astreya, and the shooter was one of her oldest friends, Hirru. She quickly formed the snow into a nice ball before she sent it flying towards @Hirru. If she landed a hit, hopefully she would get most of her questions answered.

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''Hi, Im Zandra. Wanna fight?''

// Team B!

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The party seemed to agree on Zandra’s suggestion to search outside the city. Darkness was mentioned as an obstacle and Zandra nodded, but that obstacle quickly got countered as Vigilon mentioned he had the night vision skill, that’s good. After that they had agreed to head out. Thou it didn’t took long until they did encountered wild enemies. Two elementals bursted out of a flooded mine, their bodies made of the water they had just appeared from.

It was only two enemies infront of them, and they didn’t looked that strong either. Vigilon didn’t wasted any time and entered combat. This fight will probably not last very long so Zandra made the judgement to let her axe do the talking. Maybe she wasn’t built for dps, that didn’t meant she couldn’t do damage.

Zandra activated her AoE sword art, thou something felt wrong. That was when she realised it, this was the first time she do use her axe after the new update. This totally took her by surprised, so the axehead missed by over a meter. But as the veteran she was, and thousand of times she had swung the blade, it didn’t took long to readjust the balance and with a twist of her wrist she spun and landed the weapon in such a way that the elemental triggered the burn effect. Yepp, water, started to burn. ‘’Next one up.’’ She said and gave room for her party members.

ID# 210066 BD: 5+1-1=5(miss)

ID# 210067 BD: 9+1-1=9(mini-crit) 18+1=19*11=209-120=89 DMG +56 BRN

Zandra: HP 960/960 |EN 96/108 | DMG 18 | MIT 130 | D. DMG 16 | ACC 1 | FLN 16 | BRN 56 | NVR. FRZ | A-PARA | L-MEND 20%

Zajcica:

Jomei: HP 900/900 |EN 128/128 | DMG 23 | MIT 44 | EVA 3 | ACC 5 | BH 49 | HLY BLS 19 | FLN 16 | HLY 8 | AA | LD 1 | F.Sprt.

Vigilon: HP 780/780 | EN 110/112 | 23 DMG | 78 MIT | 2 EVA | 2 ACC | FLN 16 | T4 Blight: inflicted on BD 9-10 | 6 LD

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Water Elemental 1: HP 1200 / 1200  | 280 DMG | 120 MIT | 2 ACC | 1 EVA | Phase 

Water Elemental 2: HP 1055 / 1200  | 280 DMG | 120 MIT | 2 ACC | 1 EVA | Phase | BRN 1/2 -145 (89+56)

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Up until now, Zandra had been having a slight nervous feeling. She wasn’t sure how well she would be able to work with the rest since she have spent so little time with two of them, and the third she didn’t spent time with in a long time. But by some reason, after hearing them saying they was new here as well and no one of them decided to leave because of that, she relaxed. ‘’Okay awesome, so it seems to be new exploring to all of us.’’ She did some clicks in the air infront of her as she sent out a party invite to each one of them. ‘’There, invite sent.’’ She was sure everyone knew what it meant and what to do. These was not some newbies that had spent all their time on an inn at floor 1. She starting to feel the hype build up inside her and her crimson eyes lit up. ‘’I would guess the labyrinth is not inside the main settlement, so what about we starting to head out of town?’’ she asked as she slowly started to move towards the nearest gatehouse that would bring them thru the wall and into the wild.

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She havent been sitting on the bench for very long when she herd a voice, a voice she havent herd in she dont know how long. And also to be honest, she wasnt sure where it was she had met her. When she looked up at the female adventurer she quickly threw on a smile and friendly voice. ’’Yupp, thats what they call me.’’ She answered and followed up with a little giggle. ’’hihi, dont worry, if there is something important that have happened its more likely I have missed it. Lately I have been almost out of contact with anyone.’’ She replied.

’’But now…’’ she started but stopped when she saw another figure turning up, someone she definitely knew who it was. Oh damn, hoping this will turn out alright. She thougth when replying to him with a friendly ’’It is nice to see you too.’’ She felt really stupid. Who in the world would invite ones ex to a scouting expedition. Before she got to think to much about it, she got waked out of her thougths by a third person. That introduced himself as Vigilon. ’’Hi Vigilon, nice to see you joining in as well.’’ Zandra turned herself to look at the trio that have arrived.

It was probably time now to really explain her thougths so they could all discuss and agree on what path to take. ’’Well, it is nice to see you all here. Can quickly start with saying I have been a little bit out of touch of the frontlines lately to be honest. Though there havent been much progress forward. So I wanted to get us moving forward, sent out the question to most on my friend list, but yeah…’’ the black haired girls face looked a bit disapointed. ’’…as you see, seems not very many other is in on it. But anyway…’’ and she turned back to looking positive. ’’…let us head out. Myself I dont have very much experience off this floor, how about you guys and girl?’’

Zandra blinked a few times as a sun beam striked her face thru her bedroom-window. She turned her face to look out thru it on the blue sky with flowing clouds looking like balls of wool. With a smile on her face she rised and left the bed. She opened the window, fresh air with the smell of the lake flowed into the house. For a few minutes she just leaned on the window while taking in the buitiful scenery that was infront of her.

With a deep sigh she turned around and left the window. She walked up to the other person laying in the bed. With a smile she bow down and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek. ’’Im gonna head out searching for the labyrinth. Dont know when I will be back. Dont you dare go getting yourself killed while Im gone okay?’’ she whispered to not wake him up. Then her feets carried her downstairs where she threw a look at the kingseagle that was sleeping with her head under her wing. ’’Zita, wakey wakey. Time to go now.’’ And the feathered predator opened her eyes before flying down to her shoulder where she rubbed her beak on her cheek. ’’Hehe, time for another adventure.’’ With a pat on the bird she took out a crystal from her inventory. ’’Ronbaru portal plaza.’’ She said clearly and a few moments later, there was no sunshine to be seen. She took a glance around and spotted a bench. She walked over to it, sat down and waited for the other three adventurers she had contacted a few days ago. Soon, it was time to head out on adventuring again, and her heart beated hard of excitment.

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Zandra had to admit, she was really, really disapointed at herself. Something was clearly wrong with her today. She, one the most experienced and combat loving players on the frontlines. She looked down at the sword that she now casually held in a half loose grip. ‘’Well, to see it from the bright side, I wont have to use you anymore. Never liked swords like you anyway.’’ she said to the sword before putting it back at the weapon stand. Then she unequipped the training armor, revealing her casual attire. A black and red hoodie with some comfy pants.

As the weapon was no long with her, she walked over to her opponent with her long, black hair in two tails. Her crimson eyes looked into his as she stretched forth her hand towards him. ‘’That was very well fought. You are quite skilled with that dagger.’’ she started with a warm smile on her lips. ‘’My name is Zandra, was nice to battle you.’’

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Once again, Zandras attack missed, as well as getting countered by the dagger wielding opponent. The wooden dagger striked her arms that was way to much exposed from this attack. But the range she got by this wepaon felt so different. Not at all like the axe she was used to. She threw a glance to the weapon stand, but nope, she couldnt spot any axe there. Why thou? If there was both swords and daggers, why no axe. Zandra saw him twisting his dagger in a backward grip. Zandra stared at him. She wouldnt let him get away with that again. Instead of executing a full powered strike, she just knocked him back with a powerful punsh, so his shortranged weapon wouldnt reach her position. On her lips was still a smile of enjoyment. This wasent going as good as she had hoped, but it was still much exciting. Was so long ago since she fought something that wasnt a mob.

Up to now, he had been allowed to make to many charges, so Zandra decided to take the inititive this time. In on long move she quikly dodged, placing herself behind him with their backs facing eachother. That followed by a swift 180 turn, with Zandras long black hair flying around her as the wooden blade came towards him from behind.

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Zandra saw in almost slow motion, her swing cleaved thru the air, but cleaved only that, air. The young man had dodged her attack. But not only that, he had also countered with a stab at her lower back. What was going on? Had she lost it? Missed and got hit in the timespan of a few seconds. She gritted her teeths as her crimson eyes was locked on the man. She saw what he was intending to do. But before he could land his second strike, she given him a quick punch with her right fist at his wrist, to make his followed up attack miss her, then her left hand swung the wooden blade right into his side. With the few moments after the attack she turned around, facing him and grabbing the sword with a steady two handed grip. This time preparing a quick thrust to his chest.

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1/3 @Bismuth

So, there was someone that had appeared to be her opponent. Zandra had grabbed one of the practice weapons and went to the arena. She had recognized several players present in this almost festival kind of tournament. Thou most of them was already busy figthing. She had sent a wave to one of them, but he was to focused on the combat to reply. And she didnt blamed him for that at all. Just time to talk to him after the competition.

But yeah, she should do that as well. Dont let her mind flating away thinking about other stuff. She had an opponent to fight. It was a male, not that it mattered thou, she had fought males and females in with same skill levels, thou something said her that he wasnt quite as used to combat as most other frontliners. Truth be told, she havent seen him on the frontlines. He even looked a bit frigthened. "M. . . May the best fighter win." he said. Zandra answered with a smile. ‘’Indeed, please go ea..’’ but her sentence got interrupted as she got taken by surprise by his sudden charge followed by a quick slice towards her. She had seen that move before thou, from herself. She didnt knew how many ice elementals she had killed with exactly that kind of attack. So a quick step backward made the dagger miss her. Thou in the same movement, she didnt quite had the balance to do any attack herself. ‘’Damn that was close.’’ she said with excitment in her voice. She looked at him as she retaliated with a diagonal slash from his right.

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0/3 Zandra

Zandra, that still remembered how that crazy boss fight had went where they had decided to spare the enemy, obviously voted to finish this off. But since she was a minority, her will was not the action the frontliners choosed. Still, she wouldnt lower her guard. She wasnt ready to use any healing skills, but she made sure she had a healing crystal in her left hand and a steady grip of her dark, two handed axe in her right. In silence, she followed the group of players that pushed forward.

Together, they pushed forward thru what had looked like some kind of underground ruins. Zandra herd the others talking, but she could hear the words. She started to wonder what the path would lead them, and soon she would get the answer. After some walking, they arrived outside. On the streets of a city. She got so surprised she almost dropped the crystal for a moment. This was not what she had expected. Quickly she pulled herself together and followed the group that had continued heading forward. Within long time, there was another bunch of green crystals. But how? The frontlienrs was the first that had killed the floor boss. How was those players here?

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As Zandra arrived, it wasnt to a tournament area directly, but first there was a boat that transported her over to where the celebrations and combating happened. Yes, the combat had already started. ‘’Oh crap, am I to late?’’ she cursed to herself. She looked around her, trying to find someone, anyone, to have a fight with. As she looked for someone to challenge she started to move herself to one of the places where the swords and equipments could be borrowed from. She held one of the swords in her hand and looked at it while scratching her chin. ‘’Hmm, dosent really have the same weight as an axe. Still seems to be in good quality. I guess it will work anyway.’’ she mumbled to herself.

''A tournament and a nice fight, how can I not attend to that.'' Zandra said to Zita with a smile.

Half a year ago, the four tree's of the seasons did attack the guild hall owned by Aincrad Trading Hall. The tree did break thru the guilds first defences, and crushed alot of the building. Thou the damages could have been much worse, if it wasnt for the aid of 6 adventurers. Zandra had desperatly sent out a message for help, since she knew she and the other members of the guild wouldnt be enough to defeat the tree's. And help had arrived. Together they had not only defended the guild hall, they had even defeted the four attackers. By some reason, the system had disabled their skills and gear, so everyone was figthing on same conditions. This event itself was really strange as well, why would mobs suddenly just attack a building owned and built by the players, just like that? 3 months later, on floor 23, rummors had started to spread. Rumors about something strange around the Ydalin forest. Some strange creature that shouldnt be there while looking at previous information dicovered by the info breakers. Not long after these rumors started, another event had started surrodning three NPC's. A redhaired, female ranger named Hannah. A blonde, male duelist named Andrey. And last but not least, a heavy armoured knight named Sir John. Together with some brave adventurers, they had headed out to find out what these rumors was all about. But when they encountered the outer guard, a huge, bear-looking beast, the three NPC's and the all the adventurers wasnt enough to bring the beast down. All players had succesfully escaped, but the cost they had been forced to pay, was the life of Sir John.

For three more months, the rumors about the strange beeings around the Ydalin forest had calmed down a bit, thou there was still something hanging in the air. The two surviving NPC was still present not far from the teleportation gate of floor 23. Hannah stood, leaning towards a wall, while Andrey sat on a bench beside her, staring infront of him with empty eyes. If players tried to interact with them in any way, all they got met by was a short stare, filled with sadness, for a few seconds before the NPC kept its focus back into nothingness. But then, exactly three months after the failed attempt to find out what was lurking in the forest, a change had appeared. Hannah and Andrey was no longer sobbing their fallen comrade, instead they had dtermination in their eyes, and whoever got within hearing range, made one of them to shout out, informing the nearby players that in one weeks time, Hannah and Andrey would head out again, and this time they would not fail!

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On the early wednesday morning, exactly three months and a week after the failed event on the dark forest, Zandra once again stepped on from the portal on floor 23 and moved up to the 2 NPC's. ''Hello Hannah, Andrey.'' She said and nodded towards them. ''Im here to acompany you for the event [The danger of the dark forest.].'' She said with a steady tone in her voice. In reply, Andrey gave her a friendly smile. ''We are happy to have you with us. We are waiting for other adventurers to accompany us, we will head out in three hours.'' he said calmly and a countdown timer appeared on the wall beside him, showing the text as it started to tick down:

Time until departure: 2:59:56 hours

You will have until sunday 20:00 CET to join the event. Then it will change from an OP to a PP. A maximum of 1 character/person. Special stats will be used so no need to use any consumables. Everyone will fight on equal terms, if you just starting out on lvl 1 or is a powerful paragon lvl 100. You are free to use Hannah and Andrey as you want. If you colour coding Hannah is green and Andrey is blue.

The fight had come to an halt. Or rather, the combat fight, the fight where they used their experience, their skills, their gear, and now once again, it have turned into a blah blah. Zandra didnt made any attempt whatsoever to try to interrupt the discussion, or get her opinion known to the rest. She hadnt really been active enough lately to be worthy to have anyone listen to her, right? The final boss was down to the red. THE RED! And they wanted to SPARE him? Was they stupid or something? Lessa almost died to that, thing. And it sounded on Lessa like she wanted to spare him as well. She was standing, leaning towards one of the canons, with her crimson eyes walking up towards the ceiling. She let out a deep sigh. Well, maybe they all was idiots, but she stilled loved them and would hate losing anyone of them. Well, almost anyone. While the other members of this combat was talking sparing or killing, sparing or killing, her eyes kept darting back and forth between spots on the wall. She refused to get taken by surprise. She also mumbled a few words to herself, giving a faint yellow shine on her, Lessa, Ariel, Oscar and Night. This would at least protect them a little if any surprises would appear.

She looked down for second and said to herself. ''At least I have this thou.''