Revolt
The sky was a shade of bright blue and had white fluffy clouds sleeping in its vast ocean.
Below this beautiful skyline was a vibrant, busy town. Carts were moving through the streets, people were walking, bartering, talking, and the birds were chirping.
Although it looked lively and cheerful, that trend was only followed on the surface; under the streets and houses of the town was a dark and musky jail.
Through the maze of halls were hundreds, thousands even of old metal cells. Inside a certain cell, a young man was snoring his life away. A rat was traversing through the labyrinth of cells when it stopped at the cage the young man was resting in.
The rat entered the cell through one of the many gaps and found his way to the young man's face. The rat went closer to his face and loudly sniffed his nose before, without care, biting down with no restraint.
"Ow!"
The young man jumped up to his feet and looked around the cell to find the perpetrator who just bit his nose. His watery eyes locked onto a rat who was staring at him with no intelligence in his eyes. They both stared at each other for a couple of seconds before the rat scrambled out of the jail cell.
The young man was finally able to calm down and observe his surroundings, 'Oh shit, I'm still in the game aren't I? I thought the FBI got me aswell for a moment.'
Vi looked around and was able to recognize that he was inside of a jail cell, 'I promised mom I would never go behind bars... I'll just say this doesn't count. I need to find out a way to get out, I will start to lose progress if I stay here to Iong.'
Vi opened up his inventory, but instead of the usual inventory screen, he was welcomed by an unfamiliar notification.
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You are under the effect of a skill and can't open your inventory for the next 24 hours.
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'Well shit, I suppose I need to think of another plan. The only weapons I have now are my body and anything I can find along the way. But if I want to escape I need more people; I wasn't able to defeat the leader of that group before with all my weapons, let alone with just my bare fists. Hmm, I'll just focus on getting out for now. I'll just break the wall next to me first.'
Vi turned to the left wall and positioned himself into a good punching stance. He breathed in and right as he breathed out he moved his fist to the wall with extreme power and haste.
Boom!
A loud boom occurred when his fist hit the wall, but that was all.
"Ow! That stings!"
He was covering the fist that he hit the wall with, with his other hand while painfully stumbling around the foul cell like a clown in a circus.
'Well, that didn't work... there is only one option then. I must get my punch rune to a higher level. Nothing else to do anyway.'
He stood in front the the cell and got ready for a test of endurance, before throwing out his first punch of many.
"One."
"Two."
"Thr..."
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Inside an open-concept room that smelled of lavender, and was clean as the sky on a sunny day; a lean man wearing a black tuxedo was looking through the wall-sized window observing the lively town beneath him while sipping on fresh, hot tea.
Just as he took a short sip of his luxurious tea, the polished wooden door blocking the room from the outside opened and a skinny man entered the room. He was the leader of the 2nd squad of the militia of Ovum Town.
He quickly kneeled to show his respect to the man in front of him.
The man in the tuxedo calmly turned around in his chair and lightly placed down his tea on a coaster that stopped any liquid from staining his beautiful wooden desk before speaking to the 2nd squad leader, "You may speak."
The 2nd squad leader didn't change his position at all and followed the orders of the man in front of him, "Master, we have killed all the civilians located in Celtic Village and captured all of the chosen ones. The chosen ones are currently locked in the cellar halls. I am currently having the cell keepers cast a spell on them all every 10 hours so they can't access their inventory to pull any cheap parlor tricks."
The man in the tuxedo listened to 2nd squad leader's words closely before slowly clapping his hands together and speaking, "Well done Gringus, I knew you were capable enough to handle this mission"
"Please Master, your praise is wasted on someone like me."
"No, no, I will not let a job well done be ignored. It's so hard for people to finish the things people ask of them, I must praise you for finishing a job with no loose ends left behind. You and your squad can rest for a couple of days, I'll have another mission ready for you by then."
"Yes, Master."
Gringus got up from his kneeled position and left the room after carefully closing the door behind him, leaving the man in the tuxedo by himself once again.
He went ahead and gently picked his tea back up before looking out of the window once again.
"Now I wonder how he will react to this... I have some trouble coming my way."
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"9998!"
"9999!"
"10000!!!"
Vi, who was caked in sweat head to toe, fell to the ground immediately after announcing his 10000th punch.
He breathed extremely hard on the ground for a couple of minutes with his eyes closed before looking at the gains this session had given him.
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Punch Rune I Leveled Up!
Punch Rune I Leveled Up!
Punch Rune I Leveled Up!
Punch Rune I Leveled Up!
Pune Rune I has hit the max level, complete the given quest to upgrade it to the next level.
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Vi breathed out a sigh filled with exhaustion and worry, leaving those feelings behind. He quickly checked what the bonus to his punching was after all those levels.
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{Common}
Punch Rune I, Level 5
Your punches carry more strength.
Buffs: 500% More damage done with punches
Requirements to upgrade rune: Defeat 100 enemies within a one-level difference with your fists, Defeat one enemy 5 levels above yours with your fists.
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'Wow! That is a huge difference, I have to upgrade this rune now that the bonus is already so big but I'll do that another time. For now, there is only one thing to do, get the hell out of here!'
Vi went up the same wall from before that gave him a bruise on his fist. He went in the same stance from before punching with all his might. The speed felt the same, but when he hit the wall he didn't feel the same pain from before; it felt like his fist had just gone through slightly melted butter.
A boom soon went through the hall, reaching the ears of many fellow captives. The wall that he punched soon crumbled to the ground revealing someone on the other side of the cell.
"What the hell?! How did you do that, that wall is extremely hard!"
"Who cares how I did it, let's destroy all the people who arrested us for faulty reasons... at least most of us."
Just as Vi said that both of the men in the room got the same notification.
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Quest Activated
{Epic Quest}
Revolt
You and all the other players have banded together to end the evil plans of the mayor that governs the town. Rewards will be distributed based on personal performance.
Requirements: Destroy all corruption in Ovul Town.
Rewards: ???
Progress: 0%
Accept? Decline?
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