Battle Master Online (The Tales Of The Shield Knight)32.43%

23***Lost Dungeon

Nylon

"Have you found anything yet?!" I shouted to Angus who was a good distance away from me.

'No what about you? And why are you shouting you idiot!' Ahh that scared me!!! Forgot that this game has a Whisper function for friends. Its real life implements must be throwing me off.

'Sorry, forgot that we could use whisper. Haven't found anything yet either!' She didn't whisper anything back, but I could almost hear the eye-roll and the 'tsk' she was most likely giving me from here.

Ever since I used my *WEIGHT OF A THOUSAND SOULS SILENCE DEATH CRUSH* skill () passed down to me from my mother after years of training () capable of breaking the spirits of battle hardened men () she's been, I dunno, more.... lighter? No wrong analogy. It's more like, she met a small reckoning...

Any who, that doesn't matter now because we're lost!!!! In a game!!!!!!

If you asked us, we'd say we've been out here for an hour or so. But if you told us we've been out here for a day, we would have believed you! We got so turned around looking for a way back that the lost track of time within ten minutes! We have in game clocks (cause people still need to wake up on time to go on with life) but we promptly gave up on them when my clock went from 2:00 to 4:25 within five minutes and Angus' clock can't seem to decide if it wanted to go either backwards or forwards in time!!!!

And just like that, we've wandered around like headless chickens trying to get out of this area, but to no avail!!! My detection mastery, something I rarely use because of the essence intake it requires, was on full blast and reached lvl7 from overuse alone! And outside of a few bugs, I couldn't find a single life form in existence!!!

*Ping* hmm? My radar picked up something!

A few seconds after the ping, a beetle few out of the bushes and was heading for me in a dead tackle, but unfortunately for it, my detection range has gotten ridiculous over the past few hours.

My shield was off my back and in front of my face in seconds, and was already prepared for a Shield Bash by the time it got close enough to see its level

Mini Tank Beetle/ lvl5

Oh good, it a small fry. I redirected its charge upwards with a Shield Bash, and then while it was flailing around, I split it in two in mid air with a new move! *SHIELD ASUNDER*

Countless bugs died before I got that move down pat (it is unsurprisingly difficult to cut a bug in two with a shield, but crushing them doesn't guarantee their death, so what could I do about it) but it was worth it as my Improvisation, Shield Combat and Body Reinforcement Masteries got leveled up a whole lot because of it.

'What is it?! What did you find?!!' Angus whispered to me soon after I was done. We had on Notification Share so any notification we get is shown to each party member. Takes less time delivering a message, but it gets annoying when in repetitive situations.

'No, just another bug as you sho...' *Ping* Huh...?! What the....?!! Two in a row?!!!