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At the mention of not needing food, Yuki threw her hands onto the counter, giving a good shock to the china that sat upon. "What?! It's not about needing food, NIGHT." She would explode. "It's about sharing it with friends!" She'll continue, grabbing the things she needed and starting to work on her usual craft. In her panic, Yuki would almost forget the most important part of her upcoming meal: The meat. The pink-haired paladin would open up her menu and bring out the haul that she'd gotten from her avian foe atop mount Rabten. "BEHOLD." She would present it as it spawned from her hammer

A moment of silence stilled the air as NIGHT waited for a response. It was starting to seem like there would be no answer, and just as she might decide to leave or try another round of knocking, perhaps this time with a megaphone, she could hear the sound of footsteps on the other side of the door. Louder and louder they got until there was none. A soft breath from behind the door came before it slid open, revealing the paladin in all her... glory? No, more like nostalgia. "Y-You're earlier than I expected. I haven't even started cooking yet! Oh no, I need to get it started as soon as pos

Skill(s) Being Dropped: Howl; Fighting Spirit; Leadership R1 Mod(s)/Addon(s)/Shift(s) Being Dropped: Focused Howl SP Refunded: 30 Cost: Free via Paragon Levels Respec

Claiming Paragon levels 10 and 25 rewards of 2 Demonic Shards.

The massive wing of Aethon, flailing uncontrollably, would soon find the target it was searching for. Though its thrashing was futile and only hastened the avian’s demise. Yuki would be launched by its strength sending her rolling towards her destination at high speed. Aethon would exploded into nothing but digital dust as the blonde steadied her foothold and slid to a stop. The window showing her spoils would appear and she would take note of a special item drop from the creature. “Chuck of the Avian Aethon.” A rare cooking material? She knew just what to do with that. But, first, she ha

Yuki weaved through its attacks one more time, almost too gracefully making herself difficult to target. In retrospect, just letting herself get hit was the safest option to apply her thorns. However, when she launched off the ground and rammed her spear into Aethon’s remaining eye she was ecstatic to see that bleed proc that she was hopping for. Aethon’s death was now determined. The Paladin ground her weapon through its eye and landed back on her feet. Aethon squealed in pain with vision in black and began thrashing around maniacally, hoping to at least finish off Yuki. The blonde retur

Just as she was about to feint and riposte and attack to finish out this fight, Aethon decided to bring out its final trump card: Fire. Its maw lit ablaze and soaked the paladin with pyro glaze. She’d thankfully gotten close enough for her thorns to have proced and dealt it’s damage but she would quickly notice the burn debuff she was now suffering. If it got good hits in from here on, she could be a goner. Stress collided with adrenaline in that moment. The two of them were mere turns from dying should the odds favor one more than the other. She kept the teleportation crystal in mind fro

Lightning was beginning to swirl heavily around the battlefield, a fitting finale of destruction as the two neared the end of their bout. Yuki would see the last foot of this mountain no matter what it took, so she readied her spear for the upcoming attack. Aethon, pissed off enough as it was resorted to the rage induced reckless attacks with the razor sharp talons that once scraped her. Only this time it was much less of a scrape. The beat had managed to get a good hit in on her thanks to that lightning ability that it was using. She attempted a follow-up attack to finish it off but it w

The two struggled for control once again. Yuki was doing everything that she could to get closer to the thing’s head to take out its other eye but the wind was too fast and it was moving way to sporadic for her to find the proper leverage. The last ditch maneuver that Aethon had was to fly upside down momentarily to get her to fall from the wind. It did not expect her to wrestle her spear deep into its wing, pinning the feathered flapper to the bird’s core. Unable to keep its trajectory straight, the both of them plummeted to the mountain top where Yuki would not only suffer the falling damage

Taking a ride on the creature’s back made the paladin feel like a dragon slaying heroine. A lancer stood atop the world of man, soaring higher than anyone could ever dream whilst sending beasts to their doom upon re-entry to the surface. She held tightly with her spear dug into the creatures back as it effortlessly attempted to send her to her own doom. The view from the back of Aethon was one to be envied. So the paladin took this moment of quiet in the battle to take a screenshot for her collection. It wasn’t like she had really felt that threatened by the boss she struggled with up to

The beast followed its ice attack up rather quickly, once again charging her down and clawing her form with talons as big as her. The vice grip that claimed her last time was not so successful the second time, however. The paladin dodged the clutch of the razors, only taking a scrape, and jammed her spear into the wing of the bird. Holding on for dear life, she climbed up to the top side and began traversing its back. A couple more spears at its tough skin ran through, leaving a sizable mark in Aethon’s health bar thanks to the combination of her attack landing and the thorns that burned

The lull of the battle was beginning to set in. The paladin would struggle to her feet, watching her health bar slowly return to full and seeing the mob’s sitting at just a bit over half. Historically this is probably the best her damage per second has ever been without Night and Cro backing her up. Aethon was not pleased with this outcome. It struggled itself to see thanks to the rather large toothpick stuck into its eyeball. When the thing’s vision refocused and set on the paladin, it roared in defiance once again unleashing a giant icicle at her. Yuki raised her spear at the ice. Upon

Yuki in its claw, Aethon flew haphazardly over the edge of the mountain. The paladin struggled to get her weapon into the body of the creature before it plucked her down to the depths of the ocean level ground kilometers below her. Unfortunately she could not get it in time. She soared, wind whistling through her ears as she plummeted. She would quickly free-fall to the side of the mountain and jam her spear into the mountain side. A deep breath escaped her lips, a sigh of relief in a short moment of reprieve. Aethon, wising up to her tricks would follow her up, launching a fireball from

Yuki ushering her challenge made Aethon erupt in another roar. Ice rained from the sky, pelting the paladin like hail from a storm but the fiery aura of brilliance melted most oof anything that tried to find its way through. She let out a hearty laugh in response. “Ice is no different than my spear: It’s is not your strong point. Why don’t you keep your day job if that’s all you’re capable of.” To prove her point, she leaped from her spot and slipped on the ice as she went to make her attack. Metal clanked against the ice on the ground and scrapped it up as she slid over it comically. “As

With a roar loud enough to shatter glass and make ears bleed, the massive bird-like monster swooped in to Yuki. The tank, ever the chip on her shoulder, didn’t even try to dodge its freezing beak. It felt like an icicle being jammed through her core but the fire in her heart made that pain melt away. She hadn’t felt a thrill like this in a while. Upon attempting her rebuttal, Yuki was flung to the ground, sliding against the now-sleet-covered ground she once stood on. When she rose to her feet, she watched Aethon circle her as if she was prey to be consumed. Yuki chuckled with a grin as s

Without much incident, but with an exhausting climb, Yuki had reached what was basically the peak save a few meters. At this point, it was a matter of pride. Pride that the denizen of the summit would not allow her to share with it. It’s massive form wizzed from the side of the mountain and slammed its claws into the stone and dirt. Yuki and the peak were now separated from each other by one single boss. ”I did not spend days climbing this mountain to be stopped by the likes of you!” The paladin would scream. She remembers when they met at the lower edge of the mountain, the chunk of heal

She would spend the morning just reaching the three-fourths mark of the mountain. It had been rather calm since her first meeting with the beast and the view was distracting her. The clouds were below her at this point and the only things she could see was the sky and the mountain peaks tearing the clouds asunder. At this point she was above all the other mountain peaks as well. Her attention would be drawn to her inbox. NIGHT had responded to her message. It felt good to know that people were worrying about her. She was still wanted no matter how long she left them without an upd

Soon, the night would become sheer darkness. Yuki’s skill in Searching and Night Vision made it easier to see but she didn’t want to risk stepping off the cliff so this is where she would stop for the rest of the night. The mobs had started to thin out the closer she got to the top of the mountain, probably because of the angry bird that just tried to murder her. That meant she wouldn’t have to worry about any ambushes. Soon she would drift to sleep with no incident and the morning would come. It was freezing in the morning, as she had expected. The closer to the peak she climbed colder i

Wind blasted through her hair as the monster took wing to the peak. The paladin summoned her spear and jammed it into the mountain. It scrapped and screamed with each foot it carved into the earth. Yuki hung there suspended as she caught her breath. For a moment, she glimpsed down at the impending doom before her. It was only then that she’d noticed the chunk that monster had put in her health bar. It didn’t stay down very long but her heart was pounding! Pulling herself up to perch on her lance, Yuki would grab hold of a carving in the mountain face and climb back up to her original foot

That didn’t mean that she was ready to end it or anything but anything could happen. A boss with plenty of damage over time or phase could put her down for good. Or even one good slip could send her tumbling to her death. Little did she know she was going to get a little to close that reality than she could have realized. The mountain began to rumble as the dark of night crawled over the sky. Yuki stuck close to the wall of the cliff. “An earthquake?!” She panicked a little as she dug in but an earthquake it was not. The trembling got worse with each passing second and Yuki began to reali

A couple more hours passed and Yuki quickly realized that the first third of the mountain was not to scale with the time it would take to make it to the top. Three more hours would pass and she hadn’t even made it halfway. The mobs were denser from the small compressed area and lack of players to remove them. Thankfully, she was one woman army when it came to trash mobs. They were getting noticeably tougher but still unable to leave the paladin with a single scratch. She would punch a few out of her way when they got especially dense but in no way did she feel threatened yet. The temperat

In about 3 hours she would see the one-third mark of the mountain, or what she could assume was the one-third mark with a simple glance looking up. The afternoon was starting to roll in by this point and soon will be followed by the evening. It was clear that she would either be climbing in the night, or stop for a rest at least. Knowing this, she would go ahead and take her first break of the day. The paladin would squat down and rest her back against the mountain’s cliffside. She would open her menu and scroll down the friends list to jog up some memories of the friends she’d made in h

The path was narrow, carved into the side of the mountain with little wiggle room to avoid the mobs that inhabited the area. If the journey to the mountain didn’t put someone out of their element, the climb up it was more than a test of endurance: It was a battle of attrition. Mobs clawed down the mountain, merely walking into their doom from the blonde front-liner’s invincibility. They would freeze, melt and explode into data upon approaching her. ”So even at the edge of the zone, enemies here cannot even touch me.” She comments as she continues to walk through them. A sigh escapes her l

The walk to mountain’s base was just as arduous as the task of climbing it, probably. The slope started very far from the safe zone and had many hurdles in between of climbing small cliffs, weaving through tunnels and crevices and sliding down slopes. The struggle a normal player might have trying to just reach the mountain was one she could understand, the battling and resource rationing was not something could empathize with. Front-liners were strong but Yuki needn’t even lift a finger to send enemies back to their coding over-realm. Shifting metal clanked as the Paladin stepped to the

Blurred vision came to Yuki as the smell of the misty morning woke her from sleep. Her eyes trained on the wooden ceiling she woke to every morning. Dull, every morning. There was a little hope still in her mind that she would wake up to a completely white ceiling under the brightest light in existence with hair down to her heels in a hospital gown or something. In any other context, waking up where she was now would be a dream. Here it would continue to be her waking nightmare. Years had passed by now and her life was passing her by in the real world. Nevertheless, life continued here - Today