Chapter 2
I then tapped out my stats and clicked onto my inventory, looking at my main items in combat.
Equipped Items
Karu's Boots of Haste
Fallen Angel Gloves
Ghoul Mask
ShadowDemon Coat
Izanagi's Holy Blade
Izanami's Shoulder Guard
Lens of the Oracle
Shinigami's Blade
After looking at it, I closed my menus and got up, walking out of the inn to walk around the fields by myself. I equipped all of my items as I put on my mask, covering my mouth and nose, My eyes then glimmered an emerald green but seemingly tainted with bits of red. I walked out towards the forest, opening my messages to see a message from a player, "There were PKers spotted not far off from a cliff zone. Their base should be near the dungeons that have a crystalized icicle." I closed the message and began looking around the premises. After searching nearby cliffs, I spotted the crystalized Icicles and saw the dungeon they had mentioned nearby. I scouted out a bit more to find where this base was before confirming anything.
After a while, I didn't see any base that was nearby, so I then headed into the cave and walked a bit cautiously. I heard commotion nearby as I moved along the wall and heard more commotion. "That was a good chunk of things we got" a player said as I peeked around the corner, seeing that their indicators were red. "Yeah, I can't believe that we got these of KoB members" The other PKer said as I waited and just decided to eavesdrop.
"What should we do with the loot?"
One of them said as the other replied "Let's just give it to Laughing Coffin, I'd bet they give a lot of COL for it" as they both laughed a bit. I sighed slightly before walking around the corner, making my presence known. Both players turned around and unsheathed their weapons, I looked at them both saying "You guys should just drop those back to KoB" as I crossed my arms.
One of the PKers recgonized my outfit as he dropped his sword saying "O-oh...Shit...W-we're dead..." as the other one looked confused. One of them got on their knees and began saying "PLEASE LET ME GO! I PROMISE I WON'T DO THIS AGAIN!!" as the other one replied saying "What the f*ck are you talking about! It's just one guy!".
The other one got up and grabbed him saying "That's the Reapers Horseman!!! He Took on MULTIPLE PKERS AND LIVED!!!" as the other one started to grow a bit worried and fearful. "At least someone has a brain," I said smugfully as they both began begging. I looked at the loot as I then turned my focus to the two PKers, taking them to Blackiron Palace. I handed back the stolen goods to KoB. I dropped it off as I walked away and heard more back talking from KoB members, I was seen as no better than the PKers that I hunt to most guilds.
I was seen as a double edged sword between players, PKers feared my reputation as a PKer and as the Reapers Horseman, Meanwhile, I was seen as an outcast by top guilds, taking things into my own hands rather than letting them kill each other and lower our player count. I walked into the inn and saw Toru waiting. I walked up to her as she had a pouting face, I chuckled a bit saying "Sorry, I didn't want to wake you up." as she hit my shoulder a bit roughly.
"That's for not waking me up"
Toru said to me as I rubbed my shoulder, she then walked out of the Inn as I followed right behind her. While we walked out of the safe zone we began heading towards a crater in the ground. The Crater was enormous as it had several pathways that led down to the Labyrinth floor at the middle. "Where are we? At a construction site or something?" I said out loud as she replied "I don't know, let's check it out" as she went ahead of me.
"Hey wait up!"
I said as we continued our walk down the path, The pathway was wide as it spiraled down to the bottom of the crater. Toru and I then saw a couple of sturdy rocks sticking out of the wall, I walked up to one as I grabbed it and tried to pull it out. The rock was very embedded into the wall as it didn't budge or move as much, I shook it hard as it shook a little bit but didn't really make any progress on falling out. "I'll get that stone later then.." I thought to myself as I turned around to see Toru looking down.
"What is it-"
I said to Toru, walking over and looking down, stopping my sentence and stared straight down the dark depths of the crater. Above the depths was a gas-like cloud as we looked around to see if there were any other players around. "Don't tell me you want to go down there..." I said to her as she nodded saying "we are definitely going down there".
I sighed and picked up a small rock, dropping the rock down the hole and silently counting to myself the amount of seconds until it hits the floor. The rock hits the floor after 20 seconds, I thought to myself "That's an instant death drop..", I looked at Toru and said "Let's wait for now" as she shrugged and followed behind me to a field nearby.
We walked to the field as a Sentinel Golem got out of the ground, scaring Toru and I a bit. I unsheathed my sword and get my guard up as the Golem looks at us before slamming its huge arms into the ground. Toru and I fell down from the shockwave as I got up a bit quicker than her, running over towards the Golem and slashing its leg. The Golem turned around and smacked me away from the fight, falling onto my back and losing considerable amounts of health.
Toru punched the Golems other leg, causing a crack to appear onto its leg as it tried swiping Toru away. Toru however, quickly ran underneath it and climbed up onto its back. Toru raised her arm up high as she activated a martial arts skill, <
Toru fell down as she landed on her bottom. She rubbed it a bit in a little pain as she looked at me running towards her. When I got there I asked her "Are you alright?" as she nodded saying "Yeah, but what happened to your sword?" I looked at her confused and said "My sword? It's right-" as I held up my empty hand. It took me a couple of seconds to realize my sword was gone as I shouted "MY SWORD?!! WHERE IS IT!!".