Level 1

Teyo came out the other side to a surprise. As his vision cleared he found himself in a room lit by just a few torches. The walls and floor were made of stone that had seemingly been carved into it's square shape. Both the walls to his right, left, and behind had a dark door of shadowy aether. In the middle of the room stood one tall male. He had a head of dark brown shaggy hair and looked to be in the exact same clothing as Teyo. The only noticable thing he had apart from Teyo was his weapon, a large great sword. After a quick glance at one another the man in front of him extended his hand. " Hello. I'm Jack."

Teyo reached forward and shook his hand. " Teyo.. Nice to meet you."

Just after their brief introduction the next three doors wisped away as three more figure stepped through. Two females and a male stood before them. One female was rather tall and slender, the other was rather bodacious but short. The other male was a large husky man. Teyo noticed that everyone seemed to be in the same clothing and surmised the brownish clothes must be universally used by low levels. The tall woman had a bow, the shorter woman held a large staff and the big man had two large shields. As everyone glanced at one another seemingly surmising the capability of each other Jack spoke out again.

" Hey guys, I'm Jack."

" Sadura" The sleder woman replied.

" Reilly" the short woman said in a very high pitched cutesy voice.

" Dorian."

" Teyo.." Teyo being the last caught a few more glances. Dorian and Sadura seemingly almost dismissed his presence. Teyo felt like an outlier. Everyone seemed to have the most fundamental attributes of actual fantasy type classes, and he held a pan and a knife.

" Well, I'm assuming we all are on Hard mode. If you guys read the manual that means this floors difficulty is multiplied, but there is also extra loot and an extra body. So let's stay close and get to the next checkpoint before our timers give out. If you guys are cool with it I'll lead. If we work well together I would be down to add you guys."

Sadura and Reilly nodded in agreement. Dorian was the only one to speak up.

" Look man I don't mean to press the topic, but I should lead. I'm literally our defense here. They look like they're ranged and you can just use me as a wall. Uhm also.." Dorian looked over to Teyo.

" What the heck class are you?"

Teyo was a little caught off guard by his blunt questioning but expected at some point it would be brought up. " I'm a Chef."

Dorian looked at him and around the room. Almost in unison everyone else except Jack burst into laughter. Teyo grew rosey at the sudden outburst in embarrassment. Teyo wasn't going to let it slide though. Seeing that Dorian was just a little shorter than him he stepped forward and got into his face. " Look man this is level one and I didn't get lucky like you guys, but I don't know what I can do. And I'm sure you're all in the same boat. Don't fuckin mock me." Dorian took a step back, even though he was rather buff Teyo seemed to glare into his eyes with a heat that threw him off his high horse. Everyone had gone quiet. Jack stepped in between the two of them.

" Calm down. Both of you. We haven't even left the first room, so let's just take a breath. We all need each other here." Just as Jack said that he grew a coy smile.

" Anyway you said you don't know what you can do? Have you even looked at your status yet?" As he said that he noticed the rest of the group shuffle their feet. " Have any of you? Goodness.." He palmed his face. " You guys didn't read the book did you. Open your status, Say 'Status open'.."

In an off tempo everyone spoke out and brought up there status menus. Teyo looked at his page and after a few more seconds grew dishearted.

Sammich level 1

Chef

Role - Fill

Health - 14

Attack +3

Defense +1

Skills -

Cook level 1 - Create food, Taste determines an amount of mana, health, and stamina restored by product.

Class Passives -

Full stomach - While full you can determine more ingredients when using class skills, as well as Regen 1 health per 2 minutes.

Discern Ingredients - Determine edible ingredients from your surroundings

" Damnit I'm just a shitty healer. And I've barely even a novice at cooking, My Mom does it most the time !" Teyo cried inwardly.

As everyone familiarized themselves with their class skills and status page Jack grabbed a torch off the wall and began to snuff out the other one. Once everyone seemed to look over their page they grew confident. Except Teyo, he grew remised. He wasn't sad he just hated his poor luck. Jack took the front of the group again.

" Okay now you guys know more or less what you can do. Name off your roles please, although I'm sure it's no surprise. I'm a DPS."

Dorian smiled. " Tank"

Sadura spoke out firmly " Ranged DPS"

Reilly squeaked out " It says I can be Support, or DPS"

Teyo finally said. " I'm a Fill"

Everyone raised a brow to him except Jack. His eyes lit up in excitement.

" Whoa really a Fill huh. That's great. Okay Dorian you're out front, I'm behind you, Reilly stay behind me. Sadura and Teyo, hold the back line, protect the rear. Okay Dorian let's move out can you hold a torch?"

" Yeah, But I'll drop it off I need to defend, Just hold it behind me and I'll look onward. Rather not be caught off guard."

Sadura came and stood next to Teyo and pulled out her bow, she gave Teyo a side eye glance and turned in a way giving him a cold shoulder. Reilly stood behind Jack in front of them, her small size becoming even more apparent. They began to leave the room through it's large mouth down a solid stone corridor.

After fifty or so feet the corridor opened wide and lost it's formed shaped and turned into a jagged walled cave that went further on and around. Spires of rock coiled from the roof and ground and the distant drips of water echoed between their footsteps. The room grew colder as they walked through the cave. A short while passed in silence as the group ventured into the cave. The silence was broken by a loud high pitch screech from in front of them and they all slowed down.

Jack raised his torch higher to give Dorian a better look into the darkness. A large wooshing sound of wings flapping quickly approached them it caused all of their hearts to beat rapidly. Teyo's excitement forced a large smile to appear on his face. " Get down!" Dorian yelled out

A second afterwards a loud clang was heard as Dorian's shields were slashed at by a large bat about the size of a dog. It kept swooping in an out circling the group causing Dorian to step back and forth. Sadura drew an arrow and held it waiting for the right moment as the bat passed over them. Jack swiped his great sword with deep heaves causing the wind to sound out a whirl with each swing.

After a few passes Sadura finally released her first shot at the bat. The arrow swirled out wildly completely off target. The bat was large but fast, it seemed as if it had the reaction time to swoop away as she released it. The bat released a loud screech again this time in front of them causing all off them to wince at the pain their ears felt. Soon after a few more flappings of bats were heard coming from the cave in front of them.

" Shit it's calling more! We can't let them screech!" Jack yelled out. The two new bats flanked them quickly and began to pick at Sadura and Teyo from the back. Their large nails were like thin blades. They did their best to dodge but were slowly getting swiped away from the group. Dorian held his position in front of Reilly deflecting the other bat as it swooped in at them. Jack had left the formation but was running around slashing his sword at the bats any chance he could.

One of the bats swooped in and dug it's nails into Teyo's shoulders. It then tryed to bite at the top of his head. PUNG! Teyo felt his hand vibrate as he smacked the bat off of him with his pan. " Shit these things are relentless! Anyone got any skills!" He cried out as the bat flapped away in recoil. FTHK! Sadura released an arrow that pierced the bat square into it's chest. It fell to the floor and flapped it's wings wildly as it died.

" GOT ONE!" Sadura yelled out. She smiled but was quickly assaulted by another bat. The loud thuds of Jack's feet scampering across the floor rang out. He quickly stepped on a stalagmite and jumped above the bat "Sword Grace!"

As he yelled out Teyo looked up at him from below, Jack's blade began to glow bright white. He slammed down his sword and sliced the bat in half cleanly, spraying blood all over Sadura and Teyo. Teo looked on at Jack as he landed and rolled into a upright stand in jubilee.

" That was fuckin badass! Hell yeah Jack!" He couldn't help but commend his teammate. Jack smirked at him with a smug shrug, Jack then felt a punch on his shoulder.

" Look at this shit you asshole!" Sadura stood there with bat intestines and blood all over her head and shoulders, they draped over her in a messy fashion dripping onto her clothes. Teyo and Jack let out a deep chuckle. Their laughter was cut short by Dorian who yelled out to them. " A little help over here!"

The three of them turned quickly to see a bat had latched onto Dorian's back and was biting at him whilst slashing it's claws into his back. Reilly was underneath him cowering. She was to short to even reach up her staff and smack the bat. Jack and Teyo rushed forward. PUNG! Teyo smacked the bat off of Dorian's back and onto the ground as Jack quickly skewered the bat to the floor with a downward stab. Sadura ran over to console Reilly who was sobbing on the floor.

" It's okay Reilly we got them. They're dead come on get up." She had knelt down to offer her hand.

Reilly looked up at Sadura in horror. She saw the blood and guts strewn over her and then fainted promptly. Dorian put a shield on his back and huffed. He bent over and picked Reilly up and onto his shoulders before he turned to Jack and Teyo who seemed to be reveling in the glory of Jacks attack through a charade and giggles.

" You Two! What the fuck man! I'm sitting here protecting the fucking mage while you're running around like a jackass! Why'd you run in on their fight they had it! Me and Reilly were still dealing with one!"

Dorian was fuming.

Sadura stood there a little upset as well but didn't say anything. Teyo didn't feel like he did anything wrong, if anything the pan he had helped more than the knife. Jack calmed down from his excitement and realized that he did make a few mistakes, from wildly swinging his sword to no avail it took him some time to take into account the environment. Had he done so before he would have been able to relieve the tank sooner for the rest of the group.

Jack sighed and took the criticism upright. " I suppose I learned a few things about the circumstance that I could have done better. I apologize for leaving you two alone, Sadura and Teyo should have had their bats under control I just got amped up when she killed one and wanted that feeling for myself. I'll do my best to be more available for you. I also noticed I was the only one to use a skill. The rule book also states that to activate most skills all you need to do is speak them. So in the future don't hold back unless if your saving mana or stamina for something else. Anyways how are you guys? " Jack finished his apology with a solemn look questioning everyone's current health conditions.

Dorian responded first. " I lost 8 health and my back hurts I'm lucky you guys got it in time it was trying to gnaw at my neck. I'm relatively okay though. I still have 22 health left."

Teyo was surprised at that last response he didn't expect Dorian to have so much health. He himself lost 3 and was sitting at 11! " I'm not to worse off some deep cuts but they aren't bleeding to bad. I'll manage." Teyo responded.

Sudura was a little peeved this whole time but also grateful. The bats seemed to target her pretty particularly. Teyo did his best to fend them off and even though Jack splattered her in guts, she was protected fairly well. Her health had lost 7 points however and she was below her half. Perhaps Jack came just in time. She spoke firmly. " Jack and Teyo ...Thank you I might have been down for the count soon had you not intervened and I'm pretty hurt, I had some hair ripped out and I have some deep cuts on my arms from trying to find them off. We really need a healer. I don't even know if Reilly can heal."

The group all looked to Reilly in her unconscious state on Dorians shoulder. Teyo then spoke up. " Well actually, as a Chef... I can heal us. I just have to cook some food. My skills actually are only for cooking it seems. So in a way, I'm a healer." Teyo then walked over to the bats remains and activated his ability.

"Discern Ingredients"