Flame Apes

Today was Sunday and the update for the game had been released. Looking down at the phone Brad was a bit disappointed to not see Akira message but shrugged it off.

Placing his headband on Brad sent a text to Jarred that he was getting on and started his game.

Warping into the inn Brad decided he would check out the area first and see the terrain. Starting his walk Brad sent out on his recon mission.

A few minutes later he got to the forest edge. Walking in Brad was confused as to why it was luscious green and not burned and barren. Walking a few more minutes he came over a crest to see a forest of ash and red apes around 8 feet tall walking around.

Seeing the apes Brad knew by how they were clustered he couldnt fight them in the pairs of 3 like they were alone. Checking up on his friend tab he saw Jarred was on. Sending him the location of his whereabout Brad decided to check up on the news and post.

Scrolling down Brad saw that the Guild and player owned towns were now available all one needed to do was get a built order, material, and pay for the cost to live a life as a king.

Scrolling down more he saw two names being repeatedly typed: Serenity and Roses Thorn. Most of the comments were about the beauty duo that are ranking just behind him and Jarred on level. The comments were mostly about the two beauties seen killing the whirlwind leopards with flawless and unparalleled coordinations.

'I guess me and Jarred aren't the only duo trying to make a name for themselves.' Brad thought as he closed his new's feed.

Standing up and doing some stretches Brad saw Jarred approaching from the skies and starting to land next to him.

"You ready?" Brad asked.

"Let's do this" Jarred replied.

Heading out they started a grind fest to complete the mission.

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"Alright I'll kite these three around and you focus on attacking." Brad said as he rushed into the mix of a pair of apes while throwing a 'Crescent slash' to qnger them.

-800

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Flame Ape

Level: 12

Health: 4,200/5000

Attack: 30

Defense: 36

Speed: 28

Magic attack: 32

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Howling the three apes charged at Brad. Dodging to the side the apes met a fireball from Jarred.

-200

"Huh why so low? Oh wait, FLAME apes haha my bad Brad I wont be much help long ranged." Jarred chuckled as he rushed ahead to stab at the apes. Seeing Brad dodging and Jarred coming the apes split up. Two chased Brad while the last stayed to fight off Jarred.

Flying in Jarred throws a thrust forward to strike the beast. To his dismay the ape easily dodged the attack and threw a punch at Jarred. With no time to dodge Jarred was hit square in the stomach causing him to cough up some blood.

-600

"What!? Brad watch out they can all 2 shot us don't get hit." Jarred yelled when he saw his health drop. Hearing this Brad was more cautious and used one of his trump cards 'Duplaganger' To his left was another him to deal with one of the two foes.

Seeing a second Brad show up the apes were confused and showed a sign of weakness that Brad took advantage of. Seeing them distracted Brad used 'charge dash' amd thrusted his mana sword into the stomach of one of the apes.

-1,200

Seeing the damage Brad was surprised thqt charge dash could be used to stack the damage from regular swing and thrusts too.

Swinging his blade out Brad retreated to a distance since he could tell from his doppelganger that these apes were really intelligent.

Angry the ape rushed Brad in a killing frenzy. Seeing its rage Brad knew he didnt have to worry about it being smart at all. doing a roll to the side he evaded the apes swing and even managed to get another slice into the beast.

Critical

-1000

Not far from Brad was Jarred having a easy time widdling down the ape by stabbing from above and dodging both flaming balls and ordinary rocks he was in much better condition.

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After a few more minutes of fighting Brad had finally killed his ape and went to join Jarred and his doppelganger kill the last one.

After the beast died Brad walked up to the corpses amd proceeded to collect the hides for thier quest.

"Do you think the Flame ape Guardian will be like these apes since their underlined problem is their inability to hit quick mid-air opponents?" Jarred asked as they were walking around to find the next trio.

"Honestly I think its mostly because being flying based with high speed is just a hard challenge when the game doesn't give you the skills to counter and since we are still in the newbie village range they can only suffer to us at this point." Brad said shaking his head. "But we should treat this as practice for the Guardian of this forest to get that key so we can leave here and start the game."

Nodding his head Jarred flew up and looked around. After a few more minutes Brad and Jarred spotted another group of them. This lasted till the apes had all been slain for their quest.

Heading back Brad and Jarred had made good progress as to have killed a 12 flame apes. Although they only needed 8 the apes were all in pairs of 3 and the duo decided to grind a bit more for training and exp.

Looking at his stats Brad was happy to see he was looking powerful.

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Name: Chaos

Level 9

Race: Devil-Angel

Class: N/A

Subclass: Alchemist

Hp: 1400/1400

Mana: 1600/1600

exp: 8,000/12000

Stats:

Attack: 24 (+35)

Defense: 22(+55)

Speed: 28(+10)

Intelligence: 25

Magic damage: 25

Skill points: 7

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At this point due to his extra skill points (+2 per level) he had basically the stats of a level 12 player eventhough he is only level 9. 'Honestly later on I'm going to be too overpowered.' Brad smiled inwardly as he shook his head.

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"Quest has been completed and items have been received heres you payemnt adventurers." The receptionist said as she slip over 9 gold coins and 50 silver to the boys.

Splitting 50/50 the boys could only wait for Robert to steal more grass before they headed out to kill the rest. Opeong up his auction house interface (new update) Brad typed up the mushrooms in hopes to find so without having to go searching.

To his happy surprise there was a ton being sold. Scrolling down Brad's attention was caught by a name, Serenity. Seeing she was selling at a fair price of 5 for 50 silvers Brad sent her a message.