Zandra

Zandra closed the chest after she had taken the loot from it. It immediately shattered into a thousand crystals as she rose. ‘’If we continue in this speed, we will get rich in no time. Hehe.’’ And with that, she once again walked up to the edge of the bridge, sat down, and threw the hook into the water. She took a few deep breaths, feeling the seaair filling her lungs and as she exhaled, she letting all that inside air leave her. Even thou it probably didn’t made any difference here in the virtual world. But she still have that memopry from when she was back in the real world, where she will never forget the thick air that it was in some closed tiny areas. Like the basement in the house she had her apartment. Since there was no ventilation down there, it had even started growing stuff on the walls and the smell was terrible.

fishing:

CD: 1+1 Fail!

EXP: +3

Rank 1: 14/49

Zandras eyes was shining. ‘’Oh my god, another one.’’ She looked at Zita again with a big smile on her lips. And it almost looked like the kings eagle smiled back to her. She kneeled infront of the chest. Then she, just like last time, slowly opened it. This was at the beginning of her fishing career, so she wanted to take some time opening chests and stuff. What she found inside was even better then the first chest. Here there was three thousands worth of col. And instead of a rare weapon, it was an armor. And it was even perfect. ‘’Okay Zita, I think we picked the right preoffession when we picked up fishing, or what do you say?’’ she asked her feathered familiar. And the proud eagle nodded in return. Or was it just Zandras imagination, no, Zita understood her, and she understood Zita. So it was totally logical that she would nod to a question.

opening chest:

ID: 189509
LD: 14
Loot: 3000 col and perfect armor/shield

EXP: +3

Total 20/49 EXP

Total:

2 materials
5000 col
1x Perfect armor/shield
1x Rare weapon

Zandra walked back to the edge of the bridge, where she threw the hook in the water again. Now she had to sit for some time. While sitting on the edge of the bridge and dingling with her legs, she felt a real calm flowing over her. Normally, when she needed stuff, she went out to kill mobs in a rage like stance. Kill mob after mob after mob. And she would never forget the day she killed two hundred enemies, in one day. Her teseleth fury was so dear to her. She didn’t remembered why she borrowed it out to Oscar, but anyway, it was amazing to have it back. She even opened the inventory to check sometimes, just to make sure it was still there and that she haven’t borrowed it out to someone else again. That was when she got interrupoted by something being on the hook, she pulled it in and woopås, another chest.

fishing:

ID: 189507
CD: 4+1=5
LD: 11+1=12

+3 EXP

Rank 1: 11/49

Zandras jaw dropped to the ground. ‘’Really? We just threw the hook in and immediately getting the jackpot. This must be our lucky day right Zita?’’ and with those word, Zandra kneeled down, and slowly she opened the wooden chest to see what treasure was hiding inside. ‘’Wow!’’ she said to herself as she picked up a weapon. It wasn’t demonic. Heck, it wasn’t even perfect. But it was still something. She putted it to the side to see if there was anything more in there. And yes, with the weapon followed two thousand col. ‘’Haha, this isn’t bad. This isn’t bad at all, right Zita.’’ She said and took the col to her own wallet. ‘’So, now we have fished up on wooden fish, maybe we are done for the day, or do you think the luck will keep up?’’ she asked her feathered companion. Even thou she already knew the answer.

ID: 189505
LD: 6
Loot: Unidentified Rare Armor/Shield (2), Unidentified Rare Trinket (1)

Total: 8/49 EXP

Total loot:

Unidentified Rare Armor/Shield (2), Unidentified Rare Trinket (1)

The sun was shining, the wind was mild and there was not even a single cloud on the sky. It was just a few days ago that Zandra learned the new skill to fish. She was sio excited to head out and try out her new fishing skill, hopefully get a ton of experience and fish up plenty of fish. She rubbed her hands. ‘’This is the perfect day to do it. You coming Zita?’’ she shouted to her familiar. The feathered predator lifted and flew down to her shoulder. She rubbed her beak on Zandras cheek. ‘’Yeah, I love you too. Whatever happens, I will always have you by my side.’’ She said to her familiar as she exited thru the front door of her estate. Thanks to the location, she didn’t had to go far. After just a hundred meters she reached the bridge. She threw down the hook. And before she could react, something got stuck on it. She pulled and got a treasure chest.

ID: 189500
CD: 9+1=10 Sucess!
LD: 11+1=12 Critical!

+8 EXP
Rank 1: 8/49

Stats:

Fishing stats:

+2 EXP to fishing
+1 LD to fishing attmepts
+1 CD to fishing attempts

Fishin rank 1(after buffs):
-Succesful material: CD 7+
-Treasure chest: LD 11+

stats:

Rolls:

Zandra putted her elbows on the table and leaned her chin in her open palms. Her ruby coloured eyes looked at Itzal as he told her about where to get different kind of food, and that most of it you will find on floor one. With a calm smile on her lips she nodded. ‘’That is true. I think most players that decides to be skilled in the art of cooking decides to open their restaurant or café at floor one. Since you will have the biggest chance to get customers there. After all, I can bet that town of the beginning is the most player populated town of all floor we have dicsoered so far. To be honest, when I started my alchemy carrer, I had my cart on floor one. Hehe, even slept beside it back then, because I couldn’t afford a house or renting a room. IF thinking back on that time and comparing to now, so much have changed.’’

He then mentioned how to do with the important part of their meeting. ‘’Well, I’d suggest that we enjoy or time together now and when the desert arrives, the seriousness arrives with it. How does that sound for you?’’

Zita made a smooth dive towards the café. The café with a big sign saying ‘’The shiny cookie’’. Zita, the kings eagle landed on one of the tables and started picking in the halfeaten blueberry pie that laid on a plate. A woman sat on the chair at the table, thou she had her arms crossed on the table with her ruby eyes staring into the wooden surface. She slowly looked up when she herd the eagle. ‘’Oh, its only you. You can have the rest, Im full anyway.’’ She said with a downed tone in her voice. Suddenly the black haired woman, with the name Zandra, sat up and leaned backwards instead, action so instant that it made Zita jump a bit. ‘’Im boooored!’’ she said as she stared at the rising sun. About ten minutes later or so she spotted something, or rather, someone. It was another player. Zandra didn’t recognized her, so she couldn’t be a frontliner. Would she go back to do what she did before? She exchanged a quick look with Zita and nodded.

Zandra rose, left the cookie and walked over to the girl. She slowly approached the other player soi she wouldn’t startle her. ‘’Hello there, sorry to bother you but, do you know the way to any weapon shop nearby?’’ she asked carefully.

A smile on Zandras lips as she see the last of Hrym’s HP disappear and the big man starting to shatter into a sea of blue and white crystals. ‘’Easy peasy.’’ She gladly say to others. ‘’Well, this was a pretty eas…’’ but she got interrupted right in her sentence as she getting thrown to the side. She tumbles a few feets on the deck before she stops. She is pulling herself up with the help of the railing on the ship, and keeping her grip tight since the whole ship had started to shake. The barrels and crate on the deck got thrown around. When she looked over the side of the ship she saw the source of the storm. With no captain to steer the ship, they had gotten trapped in a whirlpool. ‘’Hold tight everyone! This is going to be bumpy ride.’’ She said as she sat down and tightly hugged a nearby pole. Suddenly Zandra see’s something in the water, but before she can spot what it is, everything darkens and her mind fades out into nothingess.

When she wakes up she is surrounded by fog. Her eyes scanning the surroundings, looking for her party members. After some time they are all together and continue their journey. Suddenly they arrives in a large open chamber, with a throne on the opposite end. The woman on the throne that she first thougth maybe could tell them where they were, suddenly made sure to know that she was their enemy. ‘’Oh god, that is something we cant leave alive.’’ Zandra said and without waiting for an answer, she exploded forward, hitting the woman with a stunning hit.

Craft #1 in 3.0

Zandra gave Astreya a sad smile when she herd the reaction about the frontliners. ‘’Yeah, Ive been present at about a dozen floor boss fights by now, and Ive seen people growing, reaching the frontlines, fighting a few floor bosses, then just disappeared. I don’t know what have happened with them. They not dead because they still on the monument. But maybe they got some other business, or thougth that they have helped, now other players can do the rest of the work. I honestly don’t know.’’

With a smile and thumb up Zandra sent a party invite to Astreya. ‘’Awesome. And I totally agree with that. Solo questing and adventuring can be very boring. But sometimes it can be good to clear ones mind and just relax a bit. Today isn’t one of those days thou. Questing is also a good way to meet new person and befriend them.’’ She said as she thougth to herself if she would send a friend request as well. But no, she maybe going to look way to pushy if doing that, so she decided to hold back when it came to that.

‘’So, time to head upwards then I guess.’’ She said and started to climb slightly to the right of Astreya. She sent another glance at the mountain as she apologized for their first time would be to be climbing the old mountain. ‘’Apology accepted, maybe you can teach me some off the climbing tips or trix from real world while we are at it.’’ She replied. ‘’And yeah, I do have the Martial Arts. Thou before it wasn’t on this mountain. When I did the quest, before this huge patch, it was just to punch a boulder until it broke. This seems to be on another, harder to reach, location. Maybe it will be more fun then  just hit a rock until it breaks. And to be honest, I never had any use of the  martial arts skill, mainly because I didn’t picked up that weapon style and my weapon style wasn’t affected by it in any way at all. Just got it for the extra skill point.’’ She said with a giggle at the end as her legs moved her higher up the mountain, towards the goal that was the top.

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Zandra smiled heartfully towards Itzal as he replied to her comments. He seemed to be thankful for her going thru the troubles of fixing a table that is hidden but still don’t give you the claustofobic feel it can give if you sitting furthest inside a room in a corner where no light reach you except from a small candle like of spot. But he seemed to not only like the spot she picked, he seemed to like the whole restaurant itself as well. ‘’Yeah, this café is one of my favourites. I think it is the one Ive visited the most to be honest. If we was affected by the food we eat in the game, I would probably be fat enough to be used as a wheel.’’ She said and winked to the man she loves. Zandra sent a glance upwards to the roof. Zita that had visited the café as many times as Zandra had, seemed to surprise Aldion when she smoothly entered thru the door and landed on one of the roof beams without any trouble. She nodded to the raven like she appreciated the help he wanted to give her but that, at the moment, she was fine. After that she did what she always did, was keeping an eye on the guests in the café. After all, her razorsharp eyes could easily spot if anyone of the guests would have any ill intentions towards the couple in case of like, vielding a knife or looking to plan some shady business and stuff like that. But for now, everything was nice and calm. ‘’And Im the luckiest woman being able to share this delicious food with you.’’ She said and smiled. ‘’And actually no, this is not player made.’’ She paused for a few moments before she continued. ‘’I still remembered when I first got here. It was about a week after the floor was unlocked. I was on a stroll to find new food places. I usually do that a week or more after a new floor have been unlocked. You never know when that information can be valuable, as well as some foods in here, I don’t know how they do it, but they have really succeded with remaking the taste of the blueberry cake in here.’’ She glanced at the maid that had taken their order and saw as she prepared their order on a few plates and pured up the drink in a couple of mugs. ‘’But yeah, after I found this, I became a regular customer. How about you? Do you have any special food places?’’

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She knew her past may be a bit dark, all those months she spent all alone in her big house. Back then, the only person that had accepted her had disappeared without a word. She had patiently waited to her to one day come back. But that day had never happened. And thanks to her standing up for Ariel and being on her side after the player kill she did, so many relationship bridges had been broken. Why couldn’t people understand why she did standing up for Arile? What if she hadn’t done that. Ariel would have been almost all alone, and loneliness is not the correct medicine if you shall come back from doing some dark actions. Zandra was going to help her get back on the right track. And then the lioness had disappeared as well, leaving Zandra in loneliness. But yeah, a new update, a new world, new skills, new peoples, but most importantly:

A NEW ZANDRA!

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Rewards:

-1x Gleaming scale (ID: 187597)
-1x Material
-400 col
-EXP: 1 page=200*4=800+3%(paragon)=824 +300(quest)=1,124EXP
-Unlocked <<Fisher>> proffession

Unique Skill Attempt: ID# 187730 results: Battle: 3  Craft: 3 Loot: 18 MOB: 8 - 4/6/2021

Because in the fight, there was so many new players. So many players she had yet to get to know. She had spent a day with Yuki back then. But she was quite low leveled back then. Damn she had grown and progressed a lot. Zandra wondered if she had been starting a guild yet. Well, it didn’t mattered at the moment. Before being all friendly with everyone, she needed to start her journey to become a frontliner again. She still needed to decide what role she would take. She couldn’t be everything anymore like she was in the fight against the Shadow. She actually looked forward to that as well, even if it made her weaker. To be forced to take help from other and not be able to solo everything on her own. That would also give her reasons to spend more time with other players, and hopefully she would make other players accept her as the one she is.

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As she stood there, looking at the sun, she herd two players to her left giggling as they past her. Maybe they thougth that she was crazy or something. She just gave them a glance. They may think whatever they wanted, she was telling the truth. She will keep fighting. She wont let anything stand in her way. Together with her friends Hestia, Macradon, Calrex, Ariel, Shield, Baldur, Morg, Jomei and most importantly her husband Itzal. Together they with the other frontlienrs she soon would get to know, they will push thru to the top. One hundred floors was nothing, it may place whatever they want in their way. Monsters. Puzzels. Challenges. Whatever it will be, she didn’t doubted that they together will be successful. And one day they will stand infront of the gates to the castle, and bring. It. DOWN! Indeed, she looked forward to get to know the other players that had participated in the last floor boss fight.

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So, now that she was back into the town of the beghinnings, she unequipped her heavy armor Inferno, as well as let the two handed Warhammer go back into her battle ready inventory. When she had left the town, the streets had been close to empty of players, only NPc’s that inhabited the town here and there to make it look more alive, but players no, there had been one, maybe two. Thou now it seemed more players had decided to do what she did, to start their adventure. Maybe you could even call it start a new adventure. She took a deep breath, filling her lungs with the air of the town, letting out in a long breath and looking at the sun. ‘’Just you wait Kayaba. You may think you are safe in your castle up there, but you are wrong.’’ She knit her fist. ‘’I will come for you. I will find you. And I will kill you.’’ She said with her ruby globes burning of determination. Her second adventure started, now!

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Yupp, that she had to remember when joining up with Itzal again. She needed to find out how much damage they could do to each other. It may seem wrong to attack another player yes, but if it was to find out how strong hits they can survive or how many hits they needed to do to take mobs and other players down it would probably be a good idea. She just wonder what her husband would think about it.

Zandra had just mindlessly strolled forward from the lake whjile she had dived into her thoughts. When she looked up again she saw the familiar buildings that was the outskirts of the town of the beginning. ‘’Hehe, so Ive walked this road so many times, I got back to it with my legs’s musclememory.’’ She said and giggled to herself. Was she becoming to much into the game? Who knows, one day she maybe turns into an NPC even.

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Especially not since she was in possession of the healing skill that could bring her up a lot if she started to get close to half health. A smile on her lips when she rembered that day. A day when one of her friends, or she thougth he was her friend, stabbed her. He stabbed her again and again and again… Thou even since she didn’t weared any protective armor or any other equipment, he hvnt been close to put her in a dangerous zone. And that player was in possession of a unique skill as well. But yeah, with this new update, she wasn’t quite that powerful anymore. That have been the biggest change to be honest. Most of her stats have dropped. And they have dropped a lot. Like her health, it have dropped down to half of what she had been having the day before yesterday. Same with her energy, she wouldn’t be able to just go on and on and on anymore. She would have to keep her energy in mind.

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And the weapon she so dearly wanted, was a demonic one like her Warhammer Teseleths fury. But with a small difference. Instead of the hot, fiery burn enchantment that her current weapon is having, she wanted it to be holy damage. She could just imagine, a weapon that had both the holy damage as well as the fallen damage. That would indeed be something amazing she thougth to herself. The day she had that, she would be complete when it comes to weapon. But as in all games, weapon and damage output is not everything. If you dies before you can attack, it doesn’t matter how much damage you can deal, because you already dead. You also need defensive stats. And yes, back before this new update, she could go around naked with her overpowered health combined with the battle healing skill, not many people would be able to take her down unbuffed.

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A two handed axe with, no, not a two handed axe. By some reason, the new system have made the Warhammer cover all the AoE attacks that previously have been taken by the axe. Zandra had the choice to keep her weapon as a axe and have to change her whole combat-style. Or she could just change the name of her weapon-type and keep the same look, combat style and AoE damage heavy attacks. She took out her Tesekeths fury, that she had been gived back from Oscar that she had let borrow it on undecided time. She was seeing it as lost, but now she have gotten it back. And the words she still rembered someone back in the real world had said really was correct in this case. I only realise what you have once it is gone. And yes, she realized what Teseleths fury truly was while she let Oscar borrow it.

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‘’If you’re ever in the are again, don’t be afraid to visit. You know you’re always welcome.’’ The kind fisherman finished off. And with those words, a notification popped up infront of Zandra. It congratulated her and said that she had acquired the <<Fisher>> profession. As Zandra closed the pop up, turned around and left Anthony behind her, a smile was on her face. 3.0 may have arrived to throw their life and stats over. But it haven’t even been twenty four hours and Zandra had already started making new progress. Progress to adapt to the new way of gaining strength. To gaining better gear in this case. Yesm she loved her Teseleths fury that is true. But there is another kind of weapon that she have always dreamed about. A weapon, that would make damage trully terrifying, maybe that will make her known as something else then the friend of a player killer.

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As reply, Anthony the fisherman smacked her on the back. It took her by surprise so she took a step forward.’’I knew you could do it!’’ he started with a quick wink.  "I knew there was something special about you from the moment I saw you. As a gift from me to you, you should keep the scale. Just don't go giving it away now, because the next time you want one, you'll have to fish without my special bait." He added as he took back the special bait that had made it so Zandra catched the so called rare rainbow fish on her first try. Thou she could keep the scale. And that, that was something that made her very happy. Scales like this is the reason why she is picking up the fishing profession. She also going to need a lot of them, so every extra scale is good.

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With a smile on her face and shine in her eyes, Zandra walks up to Anthony the fisherman. Proudly, she holding forward the rainbow scale towards the man that had borrowed her the special bait. ‘’Here you are. I am probably born for this, got the fish on the first try. Guess that is pretty rare right?’’ well, the NPC infront of her probably wouldn’t understand a single word she says, except that she have finished the quest he game her. Maybe he didn’t evet even would react different because of her short time it took. Like, it must have been one of the shortest catches since she got it on the first try, Or wait, maybe it was like that intentionly. That anyone that picked up the quest from Anthony, would get the rainbow fish on the first try so player would be more motivated to pick up the fishing profession.

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