Friend's dream party

(A/N Notes: Sorry for the tardiness, I got delayed by my job as a senator for the Antares Confederacy)

"... Why do I have a boot in my inventory?"

Red was checking his inventory outside the city walls, some time had already passed since the potion crisis event. And after that event, more people started picking the alchemist, and Red had his in-game wallet full of money

"But maybe, it'll come in handy in the future so I'll keep it... For now"

He dismantled or threw away all the stuff that he had considered trash, mostly consisted of pebbles and normal grass

"With that, I have two full stacks of herbs, now let's go do some hunting"

Then he noticed a rabbit right underneath the tree branch he was sitting on, he was using his stealth skill as always, so it was already fully leveled up thanks to it, he got up, and jumped down, squashing the poor rabbit

[Level up, level 10] [You received 2 skill points]

"Oh! It was about time already dangit!... So let's see what I should this skill point on... Not on my offensive and mobility skills surely, since I can level them up easily just by hunting... Maybe I should use it on my production skills... Nah, I also leveled the up to a decent amount... I guess I should get a new skill then"

With that, he opened the skill pages while using stealth and searched for a new skill or class, and he managed to narrow down his options

And after reading that line, he remembered that time he played the latest installment of the Gud of Warru, that was set in Scandinavia, and he remembered throwing the macho dad's ax at an enemy, freezing it, and punching it to death

<... ... ... Throwing is it! And note to self to find out how to make a metal that can freeze my opponents... Now what do I do with the other skill point> *Sees a skill named Slapping*

And he picked that skill without think twice

"Now let's go hunt and test my new skills!"

With that set, he picked the loot the rabbit he had squashed to death had dropped and went search for enemies

Minutes later

*Shoots a wolf in the rear* "C'mon boy! come here!"

The wolf charged at him, but Red had already set another arrow, but instead of shooting it he had another idea, he stored his bow and arrow and prepared to receive the wolf head

*Preparation breathing* Believe in the force... Believe in the force... Believe in the force...>

When the wolf jumped to attack his neck, he dodged in the nick of time to the side as he slapped the wolf in the face to the opposite he was dodging, he rolled and stopped in a kneeling position, and didn't move...

"Pffffffft!... Pukukukuku!... Worth it! Kukukuku!..."

Because he was trying not to laugh at what he just did, and after a few moments he managed to get up and saw that the wolf was with the disoriented status

"Huh, so a slap at the right time can disorient the enemy? That's pretty good... But..." *Sees that the enemy only lost negligible health* "The damage sucks... Also... Pffffftttt!!!... *Deeply inhales* Haa... ORAAAAAAA!!!"

He picked his ax and threw at the wolf, but he missed it, so he shot another arrow at the wolf to kill it, then he went to retrieve the loot and his ax, and he went hunting with his bow and from afar

*Hiding in the middle of the bushes* "I spy with my little eye, two dead goblins... By me of course"

And when the two goblins turned in his direction he jumped out of the bushes and threw his ax at the goblin closest to him, and he missed it, hitting the goblin who was behind right on the head with the handle of the ax and still killing it

"... Damn... That was weird and cool"

"GUAAAA!!!"

And the other remaining goblin went to attack him, as he got out of the bushes

"Parry this you filthy casual! *Invokes a fireball on his left hand and slaps it on the goblin's face*... I'll call this one... Blaze slap *Casually shoots an arrow to the goblin to finish it* I think this will do for today's hunt"

And as he was about to fast travel back to the city, he receives a call from Jwak, that he swiftly accepted

"What's up, dude?"

//Yo, wanna party with us

"You, Lillie, and some other people?"

//Yup

"Sure, why not? Where do I go to reach you?"

//Great! Here are my coordinates, see you there

"Got it"

//And I expect good food from you

"1000 gold per plate"

//You scrooge!"

Minutes later

"Sup' everyone"

"You're finally here, c'mon let me introduce you to everyone else"

Jwak hit Red on the back as he brought him to meet the other two members of the party. the first one being a black guy with a white armor

"Palin, Red. Red, Palin"

"Hey, dude"

"Helo"

The two shook hands, with Red quickly asking him

"Let me guess, Paladin class, and the tank of the party?"

"Yup"

"Strength and charisma, man"

"That's right, boi"

(A/N Notes: Paladin Terry Crews)

"Alright, now the other one is..."

"I shalt introduce myself, I am the master of... Blah blah blah"

"He's chunni, isn't he?"

"Yup!"

"..."

"Blah blah blah"

"For how long is she going to keep saying all those titles"

"The longest I ever heard lasted five minutes"

"Oh!..."

"Blah blah blah and blah! I am Fickler, the party's damage mage and rogue, and thief when the devs introduce it"

"I see, it's good to meet you"

"Likewise, and we shall fight all of our enemies..."

"And I guess Lillie is the healer and support mage, right?"

"That's right"

Lillie confirmed his suspicion at the same moment

"Okay, so what're we going to hunt, Jwak?"

"Bears"

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's depart!"

"Ou!"

And with that, the five went hunting some bears, after some minutes they found a group of three bears and attacked them

"Come here!" *Activates taunt*

"GRAAAAAHHH!!!"

"Two arrows to the eyes" *Shoots to charged arrows at the center bear eyes*

"Nice shot, Red"

"Thanks, Jwak. And bear to your left"

"Huh? Woah!"

"Fickler, watch out for the bear at the right coming to you"

"Huh? Ack!" *Gets hit by a bear*

"Let me heal you"

"And I'll go get the bear"

" "And what about us here!" "

"You two can deal with one bear each just fine"

" "We can't argue with that!" "

Red then began shooting arrows at the bear, but not causing a lot of damage because of the monster defense against projectiles, but he still managed to get its attention, the bear ran towards him, and tried to slash him, but he perfectly dodged it like a guy who played a lot of Darkborne, which he did

"Blaze water double slap counter!"

And he slapped the bear in the face while he invokes a fireball and a waterball on his plans and slapped them, and did a dab while at it. Then rolled to the back of the bear, and swung his ax at its left leg, downing it

"I sentence you to a boot to the head!" *Kicks the bear in the face* "And beheading!" *Swings his ax at the bear's neck*

[Critical hit]

"And donezzo! What about you guys?"

"Yeah, we managed to finish the bears faster, thanks to Fickler support, but you did great with that dab"

"Oh my! thanks a lot, Jwak"

The four who had an easier time defeating the bears were still impressed by his fight, then Fickler asked Red

"How were you able to attack again with the ax so soon?"

"Oh! That? Yeah... At first, I had found out that I could simply use kick to attack again in succession after using my ax, due to the recovery speed didn't affect the feet, and a few days ago, I discovered that I could simply cancel the recovery time of the ax by simply kicking once when I accidentally did an ax-kick-ax combo during a hunt"

"Isn't that a bug, shouldn't you report it?"

"Definitely, but I won't report it since it benefits me, and the devs will probably change the combat system in the future to allow for some anime-ish battles, that they'll certainly use for propaganda"

"... yeah, that makes sense"

"Forget about that! Cook us some food!"

"Sure, Jwak. 2000 gold per person and you will pay for it"

"It's even more expensive than before!"

"I'm just kidding, I'll start cooking the bear meat asap"

And with that Red cooked a meal for the party, after that they went hunting more monsters. When it was almost 23:00 they called it a day and logged out, aside from Red

"I still have an hour, I guess you go try to mine some ores... God, this felt like something I would say in Minceraft"

(A/N Notes: And I also got pretty busy during the week so only three chapters this week)