Dream World Project

Chapter Seven: What are the Odds?

The first day of the poaching event commenced earlier today. It started 12 a.m. when almost everybody should've prepared to sleep but a system message woke almost everyone up to summon them in every town's gathering hall. Drake and I was still outside the Newbie Land Castle when the system message popped up. we separated our ways before entering the castle. He told me that he needs to take care of something before going in. We almost forgot to add ourselves in our friend list. Luckily, I remembered before I lost him in the vast number of people entering the castle that time.

It's already 5:00 a.m. when Yvette and I decided to start finding a place for us to start our business. We left Newbie Land and reached Red Sand Village and headed a little bit South East for us to reserve a good spot. Yvette is already level 50 so she won't have a problem killing monsters here since they are already in level 40++. I gained few levels in my two days vacation that my mentors gave me. I really wanted to use those time to rest but thinking about what Jack said about that war, I can't just ease myself. I need to get stronger fast. I feel excited and nervous of what Jack has to offer with me. I wish it would be like an epic battle that the whole game would remember. But hey, there are far too many strong characters in-game and it's only a one in a million chance for me to be included in the event that I had in mind. There's no harm in dreaming to be in it anyway.

Arriving at the spot, we were already too late because there are also a lot of people waiting for the event there. We tried to find a more remote place but Yvette told me that some monsters spawn in the area won't really give us anything good for use. Yvette remembered something about Red Sand Village and it was its only dungeon, Red Sand Labyrinth.

Dungeons are zones where monsters are far more stronger than monsters that roam these lands. They also give better gold, drops but they move quite more complicated than normal monsters. In a dungeon, there's always floors for the players to finish and each floor has its own floor boss. At the end of the dungeon, the players needs to defeat the Gate Guardian or the last boss of the dungeon for them to finish it. It is always a pain in the ass to fight Gate Guardians. Normally, they are bigger, faster and meaner but the profits will be good. Gate Guardians have Epic items in them.

The rarity of the items goes like this: Normal, Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic, Legendary, and last but not the least, Godly. These are the rarities of the tems that can be acquired through hunting and killing monsters or rewards from quests. Some of them can be crafted and some of them can only be acquired through hunting specific monsters to have them. Crafting these items normally would need some parts of the monster itself. It is automatically dropped whenever a player kills one. This makes crafting rare to godly items a little bit harder than looting itself. With skilled hands, blacksmith builds can add some stats when they craft items. This makes the items that are crafted far more superior than looting them.

"We should try entering this dungeon." Yvette suggested. "It's always fun to enter dungeons with smaller group because we can kill steal the bosses and acquire the loots for ourselves."

I really like the idea that she's telling me but escaping the crowd is the problem. Though, we can use diversions but there would be far too many people for us to evade. The only way to escape a dungeon is to use Stone of Home or dying. Stone of home is an item that teleports the player to a town that he or she is currently signed in to. The last town that I have signed in to is Newbie Land but Yvette signed in earlier in Red San Village. If ever our soon-to-be-pursuers get out of the dungeon, she will be outnumbered. Even if she's good at fighting, sheer number of people can beat her. Quantity over quality.

"We should just check other places out." I replied. I saw her raise her left eyebrow.
"Look, we can't escape without dying or using Stone of Home. Neither of that would unite us. If I die, I would resurrect in Newbie Land, or even if I use Stone of Home. It's already 6:30 a.m., if we go back to Red Sand Village for me to sign in, it would take us another hour to get here."