Chapter 6 Increase in difficulty

Suddenly the quest window popped up again,

"Save the sister of Irene Gladstone"

Difficulty:A

"The quest difficulty suddenly increased",I freaked out a bit. I am just an level 0 with no hex soul , nor good equipment, I haven't leveled up even once , so how will I complete this quest. I shared the quest with my brother.

"So want my help now ",My brother's smile gleamed too big, it was obvious he wanted in.

"Yes I want your help",I replied and he didn't hesitate , "If my little brother wants my help , how can I refuse it".

I felt embarrassed a bit, but didn't show it out much. It would be much easier if someone else helped with a higher level than me.

He immediately sent a part request , which I gladly accepted. I looked at the party and it showed a limit of eight, "Is the party capacity in this game limited to eight".

"No brother it depends on the quest"

I looked at the party info , I was able to see my brother's info :

Level 1 Vermont

all the other information was blacked out and I couldn't see anything else about him.

"Brother why is your level 1, it must be a mistake right",I asked .

"No it is not a mistake , on this alias my level is one, I am.....No I will keep my level a secret , you try to figure it out on your own "

He pulled out the down of his eye and put out his tongue and made a sarcastic face as if he really was a child. Oh I wish I could film this and show it to my sister...I should figure out that option first.

My brother marked the place of Angel stone in the map which we shared now and we started walking towards it.

"So why did you hide your face, and create new aliases", I asked.

"Well you see I kind of got into a huge trouble at the start of the game , I killed a NPC, sorry a jun , I kind of became someone I really wanted to because of that, don't worry that jun was a really emphasis on the really bad guy".

"So juns are the name given for the NPC's in the game, but what really happens to the NPC's you kill".

"Let me tell you one thing brother , these juns are really like humans in real life, once they are killed they disappear. The other close ones mourn for their death. Quests given by the jun stops and everything moves and the circle of life continues, except for hex souls used by us players , juns can do anything a human can do".

"You mean the kid will get killed if we really don't help her and she will be erased out of existence, I do not want that to happen.", I freaked out increasing my pace a bit.

My brother noticed my increased pace ,he stopped me for a bit , and called me close and handed two strange rocks and four pieces of candy.

"Gummy rocks: Saves your life from trouble and revies you when you are in the brink of death, but has only 7 percentage of activation, Only one can be used per day"

"Hue candy: Covers your body in a heavenly hue which nullifies 90 percentage of damage recieved by you once. Can be used four times per day , but it cannot be stacked.you have to eat a candy every time you want to use this ability."

We continued walking and he started talking, "Use these items properly, I was thinking of gifting you a good set of items when you made it into level 1, You cannot even equip the items being a level 0

,Do you think you can finish this quest with level 0 and no hex soul", he asked .

"No of course not... "I replied and before I could finish what I was saying it happened that we entered the marked place in map.

I looked around the place it had a worn down sign , With words written on a crooked way,"Angel stone".

We walked in and at the middle of the field , we saw a big statue , it was the statue of a Angel with wings that were clipped or ones that couldn't allow it to fly, it had small cracks all over it and it looked as it would breakdown even if someone like me hit it.

As I was walking in looking and enjoying the statue , a loud shriek echoed through the forest and it was the sound of a child.

We rushed behind the statue and there was a plain field stretching over a large area where trees were placed unevenly all over the plain,and at the corner was the opening of a small cave , Irene was standing in front of the cave with a sword ,she had transformed into her true form and was injured a bit , blood were woozing from her wounds and her sister was behind her back and there was a large snake trying to gobble her up , but Irene's sword was keeping the monster at bay.

There were dead bears lying all around the area , and we rushed over to her side. The snake's tongue was pretty large and seeing it's eye from inside the cave it's stare alone can kill you. I gulped down.

"The one I met along the way, have you come to help me".

The message that Irene and Helena have joined the party.

A status effect seems to have affected Irene, a tag poisoned appeared over Irene's name and it looked like she wasn't able to heal it, but her level was too high, it was around 180 and she had a hp of around 6000, so it seemed like she could take care of herself.

Just after Irene and Helena joined the party, a new quest window popped up.

"Save Helena Gladstone"

Difficulty:S

The quest difficulty increased again and I understood that I was treading in very dangerous grounds.