Zajcica 0 Posted March 6, 2020 Author #21 Report Share Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) The group of wasps continued their aggravated assault on the pink paladin. Their stingers reached out kill her, most of them actually hit, but still Yuki only takes a single point of damage from each one of them. Even though she took damage from three of the enemies, only a single one of them took damage from her thorns. Stupid critical hits. Luckily, one died to her thorns and exploded into data, just more strings of binary. She slashed her sword at the wasp but missed awfully. Her blade wasn't even close to making contact with it. She backed off again to get her bearing, hoping to make sure that her next attack would hit home, even if it wasn't going to a lot of damage. It wouldn't take any more than a few more successful proc of thorns to finish this combat and she could be finished with questing for today. Yuki Level: 4 | HP: 77/80 | Energy: 0/8 Stats DMG: 3 | EVA: 0 | MIT: 27 | ACC: +2 | Thorns: 18 Giant Wasp 1 35/75 Giant Wasp 2 48/75 Giant Wasp 3 -2/75 -18 thorns Giant Wasp 4 31/75 Giant Wasps (75HP, 20DMG) Edited March 7, 2020 by Zajcica Link to post Share on other sites
Zajcica 0 Posted March 6, 2020 Author #22 Report Share Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) One down, three to go. It wouldn't be much longer now, she just had to keep fighting. She readied herself for their next attacks taking her defensive stance as they charged at her. The stingers they used to jab her wouldn't pierce through her armor, meaning they didn't do any damage to her, except for the one that landed a critical attack on her. Critical attacks don't proc thorns unfortunately, which continued to annoy her. She had heard that there was a special type of thorns that could activate if an enemy lands a critical. She would have to look into that type of enhancement because this was getting outrageous. Her blade slashed through the air and into one of the wasps flesh, leaving another tiny gash in its body. Barely any damage as usual, but she could hardly be upset. This is the type of build that she was making and it would mean relying on thorns. Yuki Level: 4 | HP: 78/80 | Energy: 0/8 Stats DMG: 3 | EVA: 0 | MIT: 27 | ACC: +2 | Thorns: 18 Giant Wasp 1 35/75 Giant Wasp 2 45/75 -3 DMG Giant Wasp 3 -2/75(Dead) Giant Wasp 4 31/75 Giant Wasps (75HP, 20DMG) Edited March 6, 2020 by Zajcica Link to post Share on other sites
Zajcica 0 Posted March 6, 2020 Author #23 Report Share Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) The three remaining wasps surrounded her again. A pattern was beginning to form in Yuki's memory. They attacked at the same time, as they have done several times over and over again. Two of their stingers were unable to get past Yuki's armor, but one of them did and he paid the price for being stupid enough to attack her again. Even stupider if it were to try to hit her again, as it would be the end of it's digital existence. To be fair, though, it probably would just explode into data and reform as a new mob later. She wished it would just hit her again and die already so she could go back to the city. She tried to make another attack as the wasps came in to attack her, but she couldn't find a good chance to land a definite hit on any of them. Unnecessarily long combat annoyed her, but it was getting close to being over so she would hold off. (Yuki attacked the second wasp) Yuki Level: 4 | HP: 79/80 | Energy: 0/8 Stats DMG: 3 | EVA: 0 | MIT: 27 | ACC: +2 | Thorns: 18 Giant Wasp 1 35/75 Giant Wasp 2 45/75 Giant Wasp 3 -2/75(Dead) Giant Wasp 4 13/75 -18 thorns Giant Wasps (75HP, 20DMG) Edited March 6, 2020 by Zajcica Link to post Share on other sites
Zajcica 0 Posted March 6, 2020 Author #24 Report Share Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) The wasps regrouped together to make their next assault on the pink paladin. She let her defense down a little bit in hopes to ensure they landed the attacks they made on her. Maybe a little bit too much as one of them hit a critical on her and did not activate her thorns. One of them missed and the last one did get a regular hit on her. Thankfully that meant that her thorns was able to deal some damage. Two of them looked weak enough to finish off in a single hit, but that relied on them actually hitting her, not the other way around. She readied her white blade to slash through the wasp once more. The blade met its digital flesh and left another mark in it. By now it was littered with the scratches that she had already given it. Hopefully soon she would be able to deal more damage. She did have that spear in her inventory, perhaps it would be better than her current sword. She would have to try it next time, but she didn't have any skill in spears, unfortunately. Yuki Level: 4 | HP: 78/80 | Energy: 0/8 Stats DMG: 3 | EVA: 0 | MIT: 27 | ACC: +2 | Thorns: 18 Giant Wasp 1 17/75 -18 thorns Giant Wasp 2 42/75 -3 DMG Giant Wasp 3 -2/75(Dead) Giant Wasp 4 13/75 Giant Wasps (75HP, 20DMG) Edited March 7, 2020 by Zajcica Link to post Share on other sites
Zajcica 0 Posted March 6, 2020 Author #25 Report Share Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) The wasps surrounded her once more, the theme of pack mentality really was strong with these mobs. They all rushed her again, stabbing their giant stingers into her chest again. Only on of the stingers pierced through and unfortunately for that mob, it would be its last mistake. The stupid bug fell to the ground and exploded into the bits of data. A grin peeled across her face as her enemies began to thin out. Two more to go. She could finish this easily in just a few more rounds of combat if her enemies would only hit her any time soon without blocking her thorns with stupid critical attacks, or else she would stand here and stab them to death with her sword continuing to be annoyed with the mobs ability to actually hit anything. Speaking of, her blade made another nick in the wasps defenses, bringing the health bar down slightly more. Yuki Level: 4 | HP: 79/80 | Energy: 0/8 Stats DMG: 3 | EVA: 0 | MIT: 27 | ACC: +2 | Thorns: 18 Giant Wasp 1 17/75 Giant Wasp 2 39/75 -3 DMG Giant Wasp 3 -2/75(Dead) Giant Wasp 4 -5/75 -18 thorns Giant Wasps (75HP, 20DMG) Edited March 6, 2020 by Zajcica Link to post Share on other sites
Zajcica 0 Posted March 6, 2020 Author #26 Report Share Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) Thinning them out to two made it easier to keep track of them for sure. The two attempted to regroup and fight together the best they could manage but it wouldn't last them long. They both charged her, ready to strike and end her life. It wasn't clear between the two of them that they would easily end up like the other two that thought they could just easily off her with their stingers. They attempted to pierce her armor, but only one got through and paid the ultimate price for it. It collapsed on the ground and exploded into data bits in front of her. Yuki just chuckled to herself. Her blade reflected the moonlight and shined brightly as it lunged through the air, meeting it's miserable opponent for more damage. She was just scratching it over and over at this point. It would kill it sooner or later if thorns didn't do the job for her. Yuki Level: 4 | HP: 79/80 | Energy: 0/8 Stats DMG: 3 | EVA: 0 | MIT: 27 | ACC: +2 | Thorns: 18 Giant Wasp 1 -1/75 -18 thorns Giant Wasp 2 36/75 -3 DMG Giant Wasp 3 -2/75(Dead) Giant Wasp 4 -5/75(Dead) Giant Wasps (75HP, 20DMG) Edited March 6, 2020 by Zajcica Link to post Share on other sites
Zajcica 0 Posted March 6, 2020 Author #27 Report Share Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) The pink paladin was reassured in the fact that only one enemy remained. It would only take about two more turns to finish off her final enemy, or she could attempt to make a break for and just be finished with this combat all together. Nah, it would just be best to stick with it and get the rewards for finishing it off. It's not like she was actually in danger or anything, it was just the matter of killing it off and heading back to town. She wondered how far away from town she was actually, probably pretty far from the main settlement. She went to take another hit at the wasp, but missed awfully. The insect saw the weakness she had just opened up and pierced directly though her back as he swing went wide. Another critical hit meant no thorns to deal damage. How much more annoying can combat get? Yuki Level: 4 | HP: 79/80 | Energy: 0/8 Stats DMG: 3 | EVA: 0 | MIT: 27 | ACC: +2 | Thorns: 18 Giant Wasp 1 -1/75 -18 thorns Giant Wasp 2 36/75 -3 DMG Giant Wasp 3 -2/75(Dead) Giant Wasp 4 -5/75(Dead) Giant Wasps (75HP, 20DMG) Edited March 6, 2020 by Zajcica Link to post Share on other sites
Zajcica 0 Posted March 6, 2020 Author #28 Report Share Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) If one thing was for certain, its that the game was designed to annoy solo tank players. She really wished Luna was here at this point to kill the damn thing so this could be over, but its not like she had the time to message her and ask her to come help. Besides she wouldn't make it in time if she even did message the blue haired rapier user. The wasp made another quick attempt to kill her off, but only ended up missing her as horribly as she missed it just a second ago. She raised her blade again and attempted to cut its long stinger right off its body. She missed the base of the stinger but still was able to land a nice hit on the wasp dealing the minuscule amount of damage that she was capable of to it. A solid three points of damage and the stupid thing was looking a little weaker. Yuki Level: 4 | HP: 80/80 | Energy: 0/8 Stats DMG: 3 | EVA: 0 | MIT: 27 | ACC: +2 | Thorns: 18 Giant Wasp 1 -1/75(Dead) Giant Wasp 2 33/75 -3 DMG Giant Wasp 3 -2/75(Dead) Giant Wasp 4 -5/75(Dead) Giant Wasps (75HP, 20DMG) Edited March 6, 2020 by Zajcica Link to post Share on other sites
Zajcica 0 Posted March 6, 2020 Author #29 Report Share Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) Another round of attacks. Yuki didn't waste her time with this stupid wasp. If she wanted this combat to end, she would need to be proactive at least and be sure that her own attacks made their mark. She slashed through the base of the insect again. It was basically glowing red with all the scratch marks that littered its body. Even though she had made the critical strike on it, it didn't improve her damage enough to make her feel like she was making any more significant progress. It was more damage than she could do without it of course, but barely. The wasp had no luck breaking her defense. which still meant that thorns wasn't going to proc for her. She was still getting aggravated that this was her only way to deal damage. Relying on the enemy hitting you was pretty annoying compared to being proactive with dealing damage with your own sword. Yuki Level: 4 | HP: 80/80 | Energy: 0/8 Stats DMG: 3 | EVA: 0 | MIT: 27 | ACC: +2 | Thorns: 18 Giant Wasp 1 -1/75(Dead) Giant Wasp 2 29/75 -4 DMG Giant Wasp 3 -2/75(Dead) Giant Wasp 4 -5/75(Dead) Giant Wasps (75HP, 20DMG) Edited March 6, 2020 by Zajcica Link to post Share on other sites
Zajcica 0 Posted March 6, 2020 Author #30 Report Share Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) The mobs in this game were absolutely stupid ninety percent of the time. The missed tons of hits and when they did hit it was almost always a critical. Again, the wasp continued to miss her. It stabbed nothing with its stinger, only disturbing the air around her and it. The pink paladin pulled her sword back and connected with the wasp again. She could say it over and over again but her damage absolutely sucked, or she needed to get more energy so that she could use sword arts more often. Mari did rely entirely on using sword arts to deal damage, so maybe that was the most reliable damage dealing ability in the game. Made sense. Unfortunately her energy wouldn't be regenerating with her making an attack every time the energy came back. It seemed a bit clunky that normal attacks also consumed energy, but its something she would just have to get used to. Yuki Level: 4 | HP: 80/80 | Energy: 0/8 Stats DMG: 3 | EVA: 0 | MIT: 27 | ACC: +2 | Thorns: 18 Giant Wasp 1 -1/75(Dead) Giant Wasp 2 26/75 -3 DMG Giant Wasp 3 -2/75(Dead) Giant Wasp 4 -5/75(Dead) Giant Wasps (75HP, 20DMG) Edited March 6, 2020 by Zajcica Link to post Share on other sites
Zajcica 0 Posted March 6, 2020 Author #31 Report Share Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) The stinger of the wasp went right by Yuki again. This had to be the dumbest mob that she had met so far. It had missed her so many times, at least ten times it had missed her in this combat. That's really the only reason that it had survived combat for so long. She was half tempted to just start walking towards the safe zone. She was pretty far away and was sure that a few more successful hits to her would send it to it's doom. So it would just follow her as she walked towards the town and hit her eventually right? Nah, she didn't want to feel so stupid, plus it would be pretty annoying to have the thing buzzing around in her ears as she made her way back. She would just continue her assault on the stupid bug and eventually kill it. At least a few more attacks would get it low enough to the point where thorns would kill it in a single hit. She made another attack to it, dealing her damage and getting ready for her next attack. Yuki Level: 4 | HP: 80/80 | Energy: 0/8 Stats DMG: 3 | EVA: 0 | MIT: 27 | ACC: +2 | Thorns: 18 Giant Wasp 1 -1/75(Dead) Giant Wasp 2 23/75 -3 DMG Giant Wasp 3 -2/75(Dead) Giant Wasp 4 -5/75(Dead) Giant Wasps (75HP, 20DMG) Edited March 6, 2020 by Zajcica Link to post Share on other sites
Zajcica 0 Posted March 6, 2020 Author #32 Report Share Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) Yuki focused herself and slashed through the over grown bee another time, dealing her crappy low, but reliable damage. She would kill it eventually, if it was the last freaking thing that she would do. Her luck was turning around a little though as the wasps damage came through her armor. It dealt a solid point of damage to her and took the entirety of her thorns damage. Its health points dipped into the red zone and only a single hit would finish it off at the point. Good thing, too. She was ready to head back to town and get something to eat already. She also wanted to take a moment to look through her skill points and see if she could buy any new skills. That would help her with fighting easier for sure. The grip on her sword tightened as she was ready to make the final killing blow on her opponent and make her way back to the town. Yuki Level: 4 | HP: 79/80 | Energy: 0/8 Stats DMG: 3 | EVA: 0 | MIT: 27 | ACC: +2 | Thorns: 18 Giant Wasp 1 -1/75(Dead) Giant Wasp 2 2/75 -3 DMG, 18 thorns Giant Wasp 3 -2/75(Dead) Giant Wasp 4 -5/75(Dead) Giant Wasps (75HP, 20DMG) Edited March 6, 2020 by Zajcica Link to post Share on other sites
Zajcica 0 Posted March 6, 2020 Author #33 Report Share Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) Ready to end this fight with her next strike, she readied her blade for the wasps next attack. She would dodge it and just strike it down while it was vulnerable. It came after her, charging in and rearing its stinger back for the next attack. It missed just barely so she went to make her final attack, but the wasp was fast enough to dodge her attack. Why did the game insist on being so annoying? The wasp pulled back to prepare itself for its next attack, which was fine because Yuki needed to regain the energy to make her next attack as well. Just one of them need to hit the other and this combat would be finished and she could gain some col and materials for her time. It was kind of funny how these mobs survived so much longer than the Gemini did against her. In either case, they end with her victory. Yuki Level: 4 | HP: 80/80 | Energy: 0/8 Stats DMG: 3 | EVA: 0 | MIT: 27 | ACC: +2 | Thorns: 18 Giant Wasp 1 -1/75(Dead) Giant Wasp 2 2/75 -3 DMG, 18 thorns Giant Wasp 3 -2/75(Dead) Giant Wasp 4 -5/75(Dead) Giant Wasps (75HP, 20DMG) Edited March 7, 2020 by Zajcica Link to post Share on other sites
Zajcica 0 Posted March 6, 2020 Author #34 Report Share Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) The next would surely finish her opponent and she could finally start making her way back to the safe zone. She waited for its attack again to see if she could get another attack on it as it missed her. Surprisingly enough, it did actually hit her. It's thin spear-like stinger pierced directly through her chest. Now was her chance to end it since that attack was a critical strike. She grabbed the stinger stuck in her chest held it place and stabbed through the wasps abdomen. It made some ear piercing noise as it keeled over and exploded into data. She sighed quietly to herself in relief. Now time to loot the items off their bodies and start making her way back to the safe zone. She reached down and started to inspect the remains of the mobs. Hopefully she could identifying anything useful. Consumables or weapons would be really useful for sure. Yuki Level: 4 | HP: 79/80 | Energy: 0/8 Stats DMG: 3 | EVA: 0 | MIT: 27 | ACC: +2 | Thorns: 18 Giant Wasp 1 -1/75(Dead) Giant Wasp 2 -1/75 -3 DMG Giant Wasp 3 -2/75(Dead) Giant Wasp 4 -5/75(Dead) Giant Wasps (75HP, 20DMG) Combat Finished! Edited March 6, 2020 by Zajcica Link to post Share on other sites
Zajcica 0 Posted March 6, 2020 Author #35 Report Share Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) She bent over and collected all the items the wasps dropped for her. Plenty of materials and col for sure. Certainly none of these other items would really be useful to her besides maybe the trinkets. She would have to get them appraised again. She wondered if Ceres would want to take another crack at identifying her items for her. Once she was finished with her looting, she tried to remember which direction she came from originally and started to head back to the safe zone of floor six. The main settlement was pretty far away, so while she walked she could keep her eyes out for an more materials. Maybe she would get luck. She switched her sword and shield out for her rings and started to make her way back to town. If she walked quickly, she could be there before the sun rose and get some sleep or something to eat. Spoiler Rewards for combat 1275 Col 12 T1 Materials 1 Rare Weapon 2 Uncommon Consumable 1 Rare Trinket Edited March 7, 2020 by Zajcica Link to post Share on other sites
Zajcica 0 Posted March 6, 2020 Author #36 Report Share Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) The path was ensnared and blocked up by roots more than she remembered. Though she did kind of explore a bit off the path looking for materials when she first came through. Oh right, she almost forgot to keep an eye out for any materials as she made her way back. Unfortunately nothing really turned up for right now. After what she just endured with those stupid wasps, she wasn't all that upset that she couldn't find any materials the intended way. It felt so much easier to just attack mobs and get them to drop materials or undertake the Nature's Treasure quest and search for them that way. Her mind wandered a bit while she walked, but she was also making sure that no more mobs got close to her. She wouldn't last if she had to go through another combat like those wasps. She couldn't believe how many times that last one missed her before it proced thorns and finally died. Spoiler No materials found Edited March 6, 2020 by Zajcica Link to post Share on other sites
Zajcica 0 Posted March 6, 2020 Author #37 Report Share Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) She had already been walking for about five minutes but hadn't come up with anything useful for materials. It wouldn't stop her from looking around while she walked though. Seemed like a waste to not look around while she walked anyway. She could always just stop for a few seconds, round up the materials and continue on her way. Her mind continued to wander. She wondered how Mari was doing since their last escapade with the elves. She hoped she would find a quest that she could invite her on again. There were thousands other she could ask to do quests with her, but Mari seemed to understand her best, or at least did her best to understand her. She had always mentioned being an awful teacher, but it wasn't true. She was great teacher and definitely wouldn't be as far as she is now if it weren't for her ginger haired friend. Spoiler Yuki switched back to her LD rings. Edited March 7, 2020 by Zajcica Link to post Share on other sites
Zajcica 0 Posted March 6, 2020 Author #38 Report Share Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) Thinking about Mari made Yuki think about her mother for some reason. Maybe it was because Mari came off as the motherly sort. She was doing her best to help others and lead them into directions that would help them get stronger. Where they could learn from their mistakes and become stronger on their own. Her own mother wasn't that kind of person per se, but she cared for Yuki all the same. She was the kind of mother that coddled her children because she always felt the need to. She was like that even before Yuki started her transition and she could only imagine the words her mother would have for her once she found her way out of this video game death trap. About half way to the safe zone now and no materials have shown up since she started walking back. Maybe she wouldn't even find any, actually that seemed like the most likely thing to happen at this point. Spoiler No materials gathered. Edited March 6, 2020 by Zajcica Link to post Share on other sites
Zajcica 0 Posted March 6, 2020 Author #39 Report Share Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) Her father was a little more lax than some of her real life friends' fathers were. The friends that remained on good terms with Yuki when she started her transition had fathers that resented her life choices. She was so scared to tell her father about her change from male to female that she had to tell her mom first and then she convinced Yuki to tell him about her feelings. She was glad she did too. Her father was so accepting of it, much more than she had thought he would be, for sure. Her train of thought was interupted by the glowing craft node of to the side. This one was pretty difficult to not spot. Right on the side of the road just ripe for picking. She reach down and collected the material into her inventory. Once that was done, she got under way again. The safe wasn't much further away now. Spoiler T1 Material found! Edited March 6, 2020 by Zajcica Link to post Share on other sites
Zajcica 0 Posted March 6, 2020 Author #40 Report Share Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) The last member of her family, her younger sister Aki, was probably torn to shreds right now about her current state. She was probably strapped up in a hospital room right now like other were that are trapped in the game. She remembered Kayaba showing news reports of SAO players being moved to medical facilities. Aki was really close to her older sister when she started her transition. She loved the idea of having an older sister, even if it was a bit awkward for her to get used to at first. She wondered how much her family was seeing her in the real world. How much had they cried for her while she sat around doing nothing to escape her situation other than making sure she didn't die. She realized now that she would rather die than watch others die trying to free her. She would help them, or die with them. It was that simple. The safe zone was just ahead, so thankfully she could put this adventure behind her. Spoiler No chest found. Rewards 1875 Col 12 T1 Materials 1 Rare Weapon 2 Uncommon Consumable 1 Rare Trinket 3SP for Gemini Quest + 2SP for 2 pages of Roleplay Acquired the Special Skill: Concentration. Edited March 6, 2020 by Zajcica Link to post Share on other sites
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