Chapter 8[Volume 2]
Ned looked back at his opponents.
Mercenary slaves, who protected a thief, a rich thief of course, but a thief nonetheless.
"Who's next?" he asked.
"Can I help?" Arya asked.
"Not yet, only if I'm in trouble," he said.
Arya looked at him resignedly and sat down, she had helped Ned on several missions, she was sure that she would soon level up.
Another mercenary approached and the Stark looked at him before decapitating him with a swift movement that did not seem possible for a man of his age.
"I can give you a fortune," the thief offered, but Ned ignored him.
A mercenary approached, not like the others, with good armor at least. And he stood in front.
Ned attacked, he defended himself, held back his attack, and hit him with a kick.
"Not bad, you can't be cheap," he said.
"I was part of the golden company, but I had to leave," he said.
"You steal from your own company?" Ned asked, disgusted.
The mercenary shrugged.
"I have to eat" he justified himself and attacked.
"Critical hit" Ned whispered.
He attacked, but the mercenary evaded it.
"Magic, huh. I've fought against witches, I just have to avoid you" he said smiling.
He quickly threw a blade at him, Ned defended himself with Ice.
"A very big sword, well it doesn't matter, I'm just a distraction after all," he said.
"What?" asked the guardian of the north, confused.
Then he remembered Arya sitting, he turned to see that a mercenary had stood behind her and grabbed her hands, putting the knife to her throat.
"Arya!" he exclaimed.
"Stop or I'll kill her," said the mercenary.
"KILL THEM BOTH!" They heard the thief.
"May I?" Arya asked.
"You can," Ned agreed.
Arya looked into the mercenary's eyes.
"Kill yourself" she whispered.
The mercenary looked at her confused before letting go of her and cutting his throat, the girl arrived at the white room.
"Okay, I hope Dad lets me help him, I mean, I'm really good, right? Why shouldn't I help? In fact, these mercenaries are pathetic. I can finish them off by myself" she said before leaving the room.
"What was that?" said the mercenary.
He was so distracted that he didn't notice when Ned approached.
"My daughter is persuasive," he said before bisecting him.
Ned found himself drawn into the white room again.
He blinked, the mercenary gave him more points than he thought he would, increasing too quickly, but he was not going to complain, and headed to the computer.
{Name: Ned Stark
Title: King of the North
Skill Points: 3
Level: 9 (0/990)
Health: 900/900
Mana: 800/800
Attributes: Low
Skills: 2
Swordsmanship Level: 3
Atlantic Magic Level: 2
Do you want to spend three skill points and get one of the level 3 swordsmanship skill upgrades?
Yes/No}
He pressed yes.
{Swordsmanship Level: 3
Cost: 50 mana.
Aura of the elements: Creates a golden aura on the swords, and grants the ability to burn, poison, and electrocute with one sword, and freeze, push, and hurt with the other. Lasts 5 minutes.
Upgrade 1: Lightning element immobilizes opponents, earth element dismembers opponents it hits.}
Ned whistled at the improvement, it was too good, and left the room.
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Jon walked around the earth, while the reptiles threw themselves at him, he was in the fourth dungeon with Ghost, this was made up of a swamp, and it led to the sea, but it was full of reptiles.
Jon raised his sword to kill the reptile as he headed to the center of the dungeon. He walked for hours with Ghost and the reptiles, among the snakes and alligators, which had tough skin, made everything difficult for him.
"That's it" he muttered.
He looked at the entrance to what looked like some kind of temple, guarded by a guard. A beautiful woman, or at least that's what she seemed like from a distance, when he got closer he noticed that she had half the body of a snake.
When she saw him she hissed and launched herself towards him at great speed with a three-pronged harpoon. Jon put his weapon in defense and stopped the attack but was attacked and thrown back.
Ghost attacked the snake woman's tail, she hissed with her bite and launched an attack with her harpoon on the wolf, which he evaded.
"Critical hit," Jon said standing up.
He lunged at her and attacked her weapon, but she defended herself, she had the strength to resist his critical hits.
Ghost attacked the tail, she screamed in pain and Jon managed to stab her in the shoulder, the snake woman flew backwards. But she got up in a second.
She looked at Jon with hatred and he gulped, the woman took her harpoon and threw it at him, Jon surprised by the attack could barely put his sword in defense, the harpoon collided with his sword and the woman at great speed hit Jon with her hands, throwing him back.
She took the harpoon and launched an attack at Ghost who was coming after her, she continued attacking. Jon got up in pain and took his sword.
"Aura of the elements" he whispered.
His sword turned green.
"Poison, huh" he whispered.
And he ran towards the woman, when she saw him she defended herself with her harpoon, Jon clashed his sword against her, and the poisonous aura burned her as if it were acid.
She let out a scream of pain.
Ghost lunged at her neck and bit her, the woman let out a new scream and released the harpoon of pain.
"Down!" Jon exclaimed, slashing, Ghost heard him and moved away so Jon could decapitate her, the boy reached the white room and fell to the ground, sore and tired.
He went to the monitor. And looked at his points 2 in total.
Jon had to wait one more level to improve his summons. And he left the room.
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Ned and Arya eliminated all the mercenaries, leaving only the thief. He looked at him intimidated.
"You won't take me so easily" he whispered and took out a black dagger.
Ned raised an eyebrow and the robber stabbed himself with the dagger.
"What is he doing?" Arya said.
Ned frowned as he watched the thief's body turn black, like a stone, then begin to break apart.
The guardian of the north looked in horror at the beast that emerged from the stone, the head and body of a wolf, the legs of a man.
"A werewolf," he said incredulously.
It was a northern legend, men who partially turned into a wolf during the full moon, but it was a story that was told to children, it was to intimidate children from going out at night, it was not real.
It wasn't, was it?
The werewolf let out a howl and moved at high speed towards Ned.
He put his sword in the middle and stopped him but was thrown back by the attack.
"Dad!" his daughter shouted.
She looked at the werewolf with hatred and pointed her finger at him.
"Kill yourself!" Arya ordered.
The werewolf stood still for a second, then shook his head loudly, let out a howl of pain, and then looked at Arya with hatred.
Ned prevented the werewolf's attack on his daughter by attacking him, the wolf defended itself with its claws that seemed to be as sharp as his sword.
"So? Mind magic doesn't always work?" Ned muttered.
Arya looked at everything in horror.
[T/N: HA! Arya still has that casual arrugens here where she can't back it up.]
The wolf attacked her father in a frenzy. He could barely defend himself, the girl thought of a plan and quickly began to look for some weapon she could use, Needle would not work on that creature.
Ned fought back attack after attack, it seemed like the werewolf was in a frenzy, either because it was his nature, or Arya's mental magic touched something it shouldn't have.
" He's faster and stronger... But not very smart... He must be guided by instinct " he murmured.
"Dad!" he heard and turned to see Arya throwing a sword at him, he caught it with his left hand.
"Aura of the elements" He murmured.
Ice turned white, and the other sword turned brown.
The werewolf attacked with his claws, the man put up ice as a defense. The wolf attacked but the guardian of the north was prepared this time, the ice from his Valyrian steel sword froze his claws and the wolf howled, the other sword hit him in the leg and it came out of his body. The wolf fell to the ground, where Ned pierced him with ice.
The man came to the white room and sighed, he reached the monitor.
{Congratulations you have reached level 10
At this level, you gain the ability.
Communicate.
This skill allows you to communicate with other players, but you can only communicate with one every ten levels.
At your current level, you can only call one player, and two at twenty.
If you wish, you can send an invitation to call another player, If he accepts (Must be level 10 to accept), once you or he reaches to required level, they can be found in the white room.
A team request has been sent to Ned Stark from the player Jon Snow.
Do you want to accept it?
Yes/No}
[T/N: This author's work is really pissing me off, if you think the quality is bad right now, think about what I'm working with. Also, I'm sick so my mind is a little foggy.]
The man did not hesitate and pressed yes.
{The request was accepted, as soon as Ned Stark or Jon Snow level up, both of you will reach the white room.
You have been given a skill point, being the first player to enter a group.}
The man smiled at that, he just had to level up one more time or wait for Jon to do it so they could communicate.
He chose character menu.
{Name: Ned Stark
Title: King of the North
Skill Points: 3
Level: 10 (0/1250)
Health: 1000/1000
Mana: 880/880
Attributes: Low
Skills: 3
Swordsmanship Level: 3
Atlantic Magic Level: 3
Do you want to spend three skill points and get the second upgrade of the level 3 swordsmanship skill?
Yes/No}
He pressed yes.
{Swordsmanship Level: 3
Cost: 50 mana.
Aura of the elements: Creates a golden aura on the swords, and grants the ability to burn, poison, and electrocute with one sword, and freeze, push, and hurt with the other. Lasts 5 minutes.
Upgrade 1: Lightning element immobilizes opponents, earth element dismembers opponents it hits.
Upgrade 2: Fire element makes opponents explode, wind element pushes opponents with hurricane force.}
The man nodded and left the room.
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Jon walked to the center of the room, and looked at a woman sitting on a throne, she was beautiful, except for her snake hair.
"Human...Mh, Lunch" she said.
She looked at Jon with her golden eyes.
"And a wolf for dessert," she said with a smile.
"You speak my language," Jon said.
The woman with snake hair looked at him and nodded.
"Easy, easy. Do you like my sculptures?" she asked.
Jon turned and saw that the place was packed with them, thousands, men with swords, women, children.
"They're amazing," he admitted upon seeing the details.
The snake-haired woman nodded.
"How about you join them?" she asked.
Jon looked at her confused, the woman's eyes brightened.
"BE CAREFUL !" He heard Ghost in his head.
The wolf stepped between her and Jon, and fell, turned into a statue.
Jon looked at him with horror.
"Ghost?" he muttered.
"Oops, I failed" she whispered.
But she didn't have time to say anything else, everything happened too fast, the player seemed to have been in shock for a moment and then moved at an inhuman speed, not even he realizing what he did, the woman felt Jon's fist slam into her face and she flew backwards.
"How dare you?" she whispered, still not understanding the speed and force with which the boy moved.
But the boy didn't react, his face was full of fury, before the woman could get up, Jon was already upon her, his flaming sword pierced her in a second.
"It can't be, so fast" she murmured embedded in the wall.
Jon sighed, and noticed what happened, he remembered well, it wasn't that he was unconscious or anything, just the fury he felt blinded him for a few moments, and in those moments, the entire battle ended.
" I'm fine, that was quick " Jon heard and calmed down, he looked around and saw the statues disappearing turning into flesh, unfortunately, only Ghost survived, the others had spent hundreds of years and withered away, Jon arrived at the white room.
"Jon?" He heard and saw Ned in the room.
"Father...You reached level 10" he told him and hugged him.
Ned Stark looked at him and hugged him back. Neither of them were men who gave out a lot of hugs, but he missed his son, even if he wouldn't admit it openly.
"What happened?" Jon asked.
And Ned explained the situation to him.
"I understand, but it's impossible to get to the North without an army, it's better that they come to Valyria, at least Sansa and Arya will be protected. Until we get one" said Jon.
Ned nodded.
It was true, they were safe in Volantis by using false names, but it was a matter of time before some Lannister spy recognized them, it was just a preventive measure that would not be of much use after a while.
Valyria on the other hand, there was only Jon, they were alone.
But who would look for them there?
" It seems so, well, use your points, and let's go back" Ned finished.
Jon went to the computer.
{You have been given two skill points as a reward for being the first player to create a group.
Name: Jon Snow
Title: King of Valyria
Skill Points: 6
Level: 13 (0/2350)
Health: 1400/1400
Mana: 1150/1150
Attributes: Low
Skills: 2
Swordsmanship Level: 3
Summoning Magic Level: 3
Do you want to spend six skill points and get both level 3 Summoning Magic upgrades?
Yes/No}
He pressed yes.
{Summoning Magic Level: 3
Cost: 300 mana per spell.
Miners: Capable of obtaining precious minerals from mountains and caves, all work they do gives the user experience.
Trackers: Capable of tracking anything below level four of concealment, they come with tracking dogs and tracking eagles. Any work they do gives the user experience.
Artisans: Crafters of precious items and leatherworkers. Every job they do gives experience to the user.
Survival: Market Blueprints, Carriages, Stables, Mining, Mining Tools.
Improvement 1: Miners double the resources they obtain in mountains.
Improvement 2: Craftsmen spend half as many resources on item construction.}
[T/N: My heart almost stopped when Ghost was turned to stone. Also, that little scene with Arya made my day. If you like this chapter then write a comment, drop some stones, and leave a review. If you want access to some advanced chapters then check out the Patreon.]
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