Axie Online

Chapter 10 - Rook Turtle

At this moment, a scene that made Rudy very surprised was that the female elf player suddenly walked closer in this direction with a bright smile plastered on her face.

"To think that My Fellow Rudy has taken the Human race."

When Rudy heard the elf female player's words, he was suddenly stunned for a while before finally regaining his senses.

“Follows? Are you and I close acquaintances?”

Rudy was completely confused by what the elf female player had just said. Rudy just played the game Axie Online, it can be said that beginners who still don't know anyone in the game other than the NPCs they meet along the way. Even Haris, one of his closest friends, had never met in the game.

"What? So no one has told you about me yet?”

The blonde-haired elf girl with ocean blue eyes named Ravel smiled wryly in response to Rudy's reply. Rudy's response was within the realm of expectation, as no one thought that they would immediately find out the identity of someone they had never met in the game. Especially now, she uses physical body modifiers when creating characters in the game.

"It's only natural that you don't know me because we've never met in real life!"

The elven female player named Ravel couldn't help but chuckle slightly after saying that.

But before Rudy could say anything, he saw the female elf player named Ravel raise her hand to stop Rudy from interrupting the conversation.

“This sister has Rena's real name, Rena Axies. The little sister of Rachel Axies. How? Great isn't it?"

The female elf player puffed out her huge chest with a wide grin full of arrogance on her face.

“Little sister of Rachel Axies?”

Despite having an arrogant attitude, Rudy didn't see the seriousness in the woman's tone at all. Most likely what the woman said was the truth, but the look of arrogance on the woman's face was like someone intending to joke around with a child.

“Yeah that's right, I'm here to help you level up. How? Are you interested in partying with me?”

The female elf race player stretched her hand forward while smiling broadly at Rudy.

Even though Rudy saw that the woman's smile was very beautiful, for some reason he felt that the woman's smile was a forced fake. Even if Rudy accepted the woman's offer, it was very likely that this favor could only be used once. Then after the offer was finished, the female elf race player in front of her would disappear with an expression full of disgust.

A man who was helped level up by a female player? It was the most embarrassing thing for the male players around the world.

“No, I have no interest in partying together with you!”

Then just as Rudy expected, the female elf race player couldn't help but have a look of surprise plastered on her face.

"Why? Wouldn't it be a good thing to level up as quickly as possible? By doing this, you can catch up to the level of veteran players who have been playing Axie Online for a long time!”

With a surprised expression still plastered on the female elf player's face, She asked Rudy curiously.

"Yes, you're right. The offer is indeed very tempting for a novice player like me! But if I accept the offer, it means that the connection between me and you will simply be cut off. As one of the closest people to the game owner, of course, you will feel annoyed with the person who did that, right?”

Rudy just smiled lightly, him subconsciously paving the way for this female player named Ravel to sit beside him.

"Oh? My fellow, you really said something interesting! It's true that I'm the type of person who doesn't like exploiting system weaknesses in games, that's because it would be unfair to the other players. So, what do you want to do now? Tell me to go and call me in time of need?”

The female player named Ravel didn't hesitate to accept Rudy's offer and sat beside him.

“So Rena, if you're only here to return the favor, how about you help me find a quest suitable for me? There's no need for a special quest, just tell me the location of the quest you recommend."

“My fellow, we are in the game, so can you please call me by my pseudonym, which is Ravel?”

"Ravel? What a name that doesn't match your personality!"

Uhm, how about you take on the mission to kill the Rook Turtle? That should be enough to raise the level you need at the moment."

“Take a mission to kill the Rook Turtle? Alright, I guess that's pretty good."

Rudy immediately stood up from his seat and walked towards the wooden board containing the Quest in the room. He searched for the quest Ravel was referring to.

A quest to finish off the Rook Turtle.

The Rook Turtle is a land-type monster in the world of Axie Online like the Wild Boar but in the form of a large turtle. Different from the turtles in the real world, the Rook Turtle has speed and agility that is not inferior to cats and dogs in the real world. Besides his speed and agility far different from the real world, the Rook Turtle's shell was also much thicker and extremely difficult to destroy.

How did Rudy know about this? Of course, it's all from the internet.

Ravel, this Elf race female player is one of Rachel Axies' relatives, Rena Axies. Ravel started playing Axie Online about a few years ago, shortly after Axie Online first launched.

Even though Rudy couldn't see the woman's true level, he could still guess that Ravel's level was quite high above 80. Maybe it could be said that Ravel was a veteran player in the Axie Online game.

Apart from being a top veteran player who is in the top hundred of the best players, Rena in the original world is also famous for her beauty so many want to propose to her as a wife.

In Axie Online there is a marriage system where male characters and female characters can marry in this world. In addition to getting a pair-specific title and bonus status, their Inventory is combined into one so that one of them cannot hide any items from each pair. This is quite attractive to many players.

How to get married in the game Axie Online is very simple. Players must bring a married couple into a church in a big city, then buy an item in the form of a wedding ring, the Marriage Ring from the priest. It is also necessary to bring witnesses to the marriage of at least two players. After all the requirements are met, the couple can be declared legally married by the game system.

For additional information, this marriage system does not recognize players or NPCs. If these two are in love with each other and want to get married, why not? The pastor would be happy to marry off the couple. Of course, the couple must meet the existing requirements.

Even one of the veteran players, some married NPCs to get special status titles and various other things.

As a top veteran player who is included in the Hundred Best Players, Rena or Ravel are quite often invited to various television specials that discuss Axie Online. Of course, in order to maintain the privacy of real life, she uses the character in her Axie Online, namely Ravel. In other words, Ravel was a famous person, both in the virtual world and in the real world.

After successfully obtaining the quest that required killing 5 Rook Turtles, Rudy returned to his seat and asked Ravel to leave after adding the woman to the friend list.

What Rudy didn't expect was that the woman wanted to go to the hunting ground.

All Rudy could do was sigh, then the two of them left Quest Central and headed to a special area where there were a lot of Rook Turtles.

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After approximately 15 minutes of walking, Rudy and Ravel have arrived at a lake where the Rook Turtle is located. As far as the eye could see, Rudy only saw a crowd of turtles that were half a meter tall with sharp thorns on the edges of their shells. The spikes looked like hard crystals with a bright blue glow.

Rudy who saw this scene was amazed because he had never seen so many turtles in the real world, while Ravel could only chuckle lightly at the tacky reaction.

Rudy started walking towards one of the Rook Turtles who was alone while preparing his weapon pulling his sword from his back, while Ravel just crossed her arms while watching Rudy's movements from afar.

After entering a certain distance, the Rook Turtle suddenly started to turn its head after sensing the presence of a player approaches. Even so, the Rook Turtle who was Rudy's target didn't seem to care at all.

This is because the Rook Turtle is not an aggressive type of monster like the Monster Wild Boar that Rudy met on the first day of playing Axie Online. Non-aggressive Type Monsters usually never attack a player or NPC first, except in abnormal states such as monsters in Berserk state.

When Rudy saw that, he started throwing a wooden sword that the novice players had at the Rook Turtle to provoke anger.

Roar!!!

Sure enough, the Rook Turtle instantly became enraged by the blatant provocation and immediately dashed towards Rudy.

When the Rook Turtle entered a range of 5 meters in front of Rudy, he didn't panic at all because the Rook Turtle's movements in front of him were too easy to read. Rudy only moved his body to the side to dodge the collision attack.

This was actually used by Rudy who mobilized his Swing skill. Then for the first time, a sword s***h in Rudy's hand began to hit the Rook Turtle's large shell.

In just one hit, the Rook Turtle's Health bar has been reduced by 6%. It didn't look impressive, but what Rudy was currently facing was a ground-type monster that had high Vitality stat points.

In the world of Axie Online, character status points are divided into five, Strength for physical strength or attack, Dexterity for speed or accuracy, Vitality for defense and Health Bar quantity, Intelligence for magical attack power, or energy capacity addition. While Luck serves to increase the probability of dropping items, the number of Byl obtained from hunting and increasing the probability of a player's critical attack.

As a Swordsman with high Intelligence status, Rudy has an Energy capacity that far exceeds other beginner Swordsman. However, apart from having Energy capacity, Rudy has absolutely no other advantages. But with the large amount of energy capacity that Rudy has, he can continuously issue skills to form a combo.

Rudy continuously attacked the Rook Turtle using his Iron Sword +4 sword while accompanied by several Swing skills which had made the turtle hit an abnormal status, namely stunned.

Stunned is a condition where one will feel dizzy due to continuous attacks from the enemy.

Although it looks very easy, but the stunning state is actually very difficult to trigger. The player must attack the enemy continuously without any pause, the vibration waves from the continuous attack will flow into the enemy's brain and trigger a stunned state.

BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM!

Rudy didn't waste any time after learning that the Rook Turtle had entered a stunned state. Because of that, Rudy attacked continuously to reduce the Health Bar of the Rook Turtle in front of him.

Then after several dozen attacks, he finally managed to overthrow the monster.

After finishing the fight, Rudy began to lie down on the grass taking as many breaths and as fast as possible. Fighting an existence much stronger above him, of course, required a lot of energy and focus. The Rook Turtle was at level 5, while Rudy was still at level 0, which had now risen to level 2 thanks to the battle just now.

As for the Health bar, there is still 85% left. Instead of drinking Rudy's first-tier Health Potion in his Inventory, he prefers to lie down because according to the help panel previously read, the more relaxed the player is, the faster the Health bar will disappear.

On the other hand, Ravel was surprised to see the sword ability of the silver-haired player in front of her. Although it looks perfunctory and does not have beautiful techniques, every attack made by Rudy is very precise. It was like Rudy could control the direction of the attack at will.

"Impossible! Wasn't this guy just a novice player? How come every attack made by him can be so precise on the target?”

But at this moment, Ravel saw that the man after a few minutes of rest had stood back up. Even though the man had just rested to relax his body, the concentration behind his eyes didn't dissipate in the slightest.

“This man's background doesn't seem as simple as I imagined! Could it be that the man in front of me was someone who had practiced the martial arts of the sword since he was a child? If that's the case, it's only natural that he doesn't look like a novice player.”

Ravel looked at Rudy with a curious look who had again attacked one of the Hook Turtles on the side.

“Even though that guy is a beginner, his fighting ability is no less than that of a veteran player who has been playing the game for over a year. Interesting, it looks like the world is going to be bumpy as one more person is added to the veteran player leaderboard!”

Ravel started to think about the future excitement that would come in the world of Axie Online, she couldn't hide the sly grin that was plastered on her face.