More Than A Game (Epic LitRPG adventure)

Chapter 2: A Brave New World Part 4

Five minutes later, it was our turn to dirty the lake with goblin blood. Frori picked up the fishing pole and cast the lure. At first, nothing more than a few bubbles came to the surface, though they were soon followed by a small whirlpool. A slimy goblin head surfaced, half ears and all wrinkles. His eyes roamed the shore looking for the coin he'd spotted underwater.

Frori grabbed the coin and waved it around to attract the goblin's attention.

"Give it here! Mine!" squawked the goblin, leaping in the direction of the dwarf.

Our leader nodded his head and, once the goblin was close enough, landed a blow with his club.

"Ooph!" the goblin howled, trying to sink his teeth into the dwarf's shoulder.

Four more clubs rained down on him from all sides. The goblin's health bar quickly turned red, and a few seconds later, he whined his life away.

"One down," noted Frori. "Back to work, gentlemen."

The coin flashed off and sank beneath the water.

And so we took a few turns, waiting in line each time. But the third was almost immediately followed by an announcement:

You unlocked Level 2!

Points ready to be distributed: 5

Judging by the satisfied faces of my compatriots, they had also leveled-up. Frori took one look at our faces and shouted, "We're not done yet! There's a goblin coming out of the water!" So we fought on.

About three hours later, we'd leveled-up one more time, at which point Frori announced, "All right, let's be done. They don't give us too much experience, and you're already a few levels in. We could stay here forever, but let's go finish the quest, and we'll do some moose hunting."

We headed for the house, where Auntie Doris stood on the porch. She looked at us with her hand on her head.

"Well, Auntie," Frori happily proclaimed, "those goblins won't bother you anymore. We took care of them."

"Oh, you're wonderful!" The old lady looked like she was about to break into a happy dance. "And I made you something delicious!"

You finished a quest: Rein in the Hooligans.

Reward:

200 experience

3 pieces of cheesecake from Auntie Doris

3 apples from Auntie Doris' orchard

We thanked the kind woman and crunched away at our apples as we walked away from her home toward the town center.

"Okay, sit here for a minute and distribute your points." Frori brought us to the nameless town's central square before heading over to the store, presumably to sell the goodies we got him.

Okay, so what do we have? Ten points. Here goes:

Basic attributes:

Strength: 6

Intellect: 1

Agility: 2

Stamina: 5

Wisdom: 1

I decided not to worry too much about it and invested most of my points in strength and stamina, seeing as how those are most important for swordsmen. One point for agility and that was it. I'll make it somehow without a brain. Brawn—check... Well, future check... Presumably.

The only difference between the moose hunt and the goblin battle, to be honest, was that the moose were much better looking than the slimy goblins with all their teeth and ears. I almost felt bad killing them. Oh, and we had to run after them sometimes, though we could avoid that by strategically assigning positions to everyone in the group. Also, there was no quest. But it was fun hearing everyone yelling and screaming:

"He's running, grab him!"

"By the legs! Grab his legs!"

"Don't let the moose go!!!"

"Yea-a-a-ah!"

The day drew to a close, and it was almost dark when the four of us nearly simultaneously unlocked Level 4. With that, Frori said, "Well, that's that, my children. You're Level 4 now. You got what you wanted, and I did what I said I'd do. It's time you headed over to the big world, so I'll show you the road. I wish I could go with you, but I have some things to do here first. As soon as I finish with them, I'll come find you."

We walked through the trees as nightfall set in, finally reaching a yellow brick road.

"There it is—the road to the city," said Frori. "Just go straight, and you can't miss it. Good luck!" The dwarf melted off into the gathering darkness.

"It's been fun, guys," I said to my soon-to-be former group and left it. "Aegan sounds great, but I think I'll wait until tomorrow. Time to call it a day." I glanced at my groupmates as they walked away to try to get to Aegan the same day. Then I hid behind a tree not far from the road, added three strength points and two stamina points, and clicked the exit button.

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