survival of commons

Tutorial: beginning of integration (2)

The chaos due to future integrations between the tutorial and reality only increased the deaths of those who rushed to gather power and money, while others wisely focused on increasing the city's resources without putting themselves at risk. themselves to at least have a safe place to be. After everyone had become a place full of looting and murder without reason when the tutorial was announced, everyone feared how things would be when they returned to it; Emma and I were sad that in the registry there was no trace of family or friend in any of the linked cities. Fearing the worst we decided not to think about it and to be thankful to at least stay alive and prepare for what is to come, we decided to try to grow our strength to the point of being able to challenge a level C dungeon before the integration happens just in case; Something that we were doing training that was to see good news and have bad results.

There were people who could meet or receive good news thanks to the Citizen Affairs building and there was a moving atmosphere near this building and the magic tower of people who in order to meet made great expenses and efforts, we felt envious of their fate but not We hated or recriminated them; In addition, our loved ones may be in safe areas not so developed. Hopefully if this is the case, they will be able to improve the conditions of this so that everything goes well.

In truth we despaired in our attempt to strengthen ourselves and tees days before everything was finished we still did not feel confident to go, so we ended up emptying savings to buy the best equipment and warriors to try to clarify it; Nobody had done it and we wanted to do it in search of materials to strengthen our strength in addition to the prize that could be given by being the first to defeat it. The dungeon was a maze full of traps and deformed creatures that were scary; some of them were filled with pus or blood and moved as if they were made of water. It was difficult to fight against something like that not only because of its physical properties and its attacks but because of the mental state in which it left you, we could barely advance in it and not feel the urge to go back and leave; But thinking that in the future we could face things like this on a daily basis or worse, he gave us the resolution to move forward, even if it was vomiting and shaking with disgust and horror.

The images around us looked like a living recreation of a Sailent Hill or worse, it took us two days to get to the dungeon boss just for our sanity; It was really easy to talk to each other to continue even though we knew it was necessary to do so. The chief was a mass made of lumps and pus and blood came out, his bones and intestines came out, leaving him a putrid odor difficult to compare to anyone known; the image was grotesque and full of gore to top it off the being found itself eating itself with its rotten and fallen teeth which were sharp and pointed. Nobody wanted to make that thing go, nobody wanted to fear that to keep looking at that thing, it was better to ignore it and pretend that it did not exist but unfortunately we could not leave it like that; Despite the fact that the dungeon breack is years away, we must take advantage of the tutorial while it is in force, something tells me that if we do not do it, the difficulty will increase later. Being the current C (easy) and when integrating C (pirgatorio) or who knows if maybe its category increases or not, we reluctantly cast spells at it and charge into battle; which was not difficult because due to the nature of being this could hardly counterattack. The difficulty of the dungeon relies more on your mental strength to cope with fighting the being itself than the real strength that it could have, something that could be recovered when the integration is finished.

We managed to beat the dungeon and we didn't even bother to take the remains back, we just excavated the gems and left that place as fast as we could, nobody wanted to go back there, the system rewarded us with improving a current skill or giving us a new one to level 5, at that level the ability could already be used to fight decently since it would do damage and have a little less consumption; it was a good bargain. I and Emma did not mind having one more but we decided that it was better to strengthen the ones we already had, as the level rises it is more difficult to achieve that it improves either because of the resources it asks for or the preconditions it requires; Emma, when choosing to strengthen a skill, the system let her choose to strengthen her SP and Qi instead of some skill and the accession to the latter is even more difficult. I was not that lucky and I felt envious at least my level of healing could recover the lost blood; small organs or grow a finger back. It was quite good in itself but seeing that he asked me for the new level, he does not ask to do more than breathe exasperated, it is better that I spend my resources in gathering more mana and some other ability to be more useful at battle time. Although it will slow me down when it comes to growing as a healer, difficult times are going to come and with my current skills I don't know if I can face them.

On the day of integration, the system wishes us luck and excitement to give prizes to each one of us in private according to our performance, me and Emma, who had all our lives, had the possibility of choosing between a greater number of advantages than the others; We could go up 10 levels to any skill or 5 to two skills, a rise in MP or Qi Bars, SP and HP, a pet or the ability to tame one and a mithril bar. The prizes were super fun with the myrrh bar. We could make super swords and reinforce them with crystals, giving them the best resistance and productivity that existed, in addition to being able to reinforce it with some magical material of animal origin before and after having forged it; it was better to wait to get a good animal material if we wanted to get the most out of this material, since the reduction loses its effect if cheap or lower quality materials were used first. We both said that if there were dragons that would be what we would use, something quite ambitious and dangerous as a goal; nor do we know the real danger of our idea, so that when we know it, we change our mind. Our Status Bars were so well strengthened thanks to the award that we would not have to worry about re-enchanting them until we reached level 100 and for that there was a travel band, especially because it was becoming more and more difficult to level up, we are currently at the level 15 and the highest level we saw in the city was 22 in an NPC; which cannot help but show their level and occupation when one looks at them on a screen or with a bar on their head. They almost look like real NPCs from a video game but we are aware that no one is an AI at least most of them do not have conspiracy ideas of that type, or if they do, they do nothing that threatens the safety of others despite that although it may be by the effects of the safe zone and the ability of the system on them; which makes it impossible that even if you want to hurt them by some crazy idea in your mind.

Regarding the pet, we were almost tempted to accept it but we wanted the possibility of capturing for our account who knows if after raising the skill we can have an army of beasts that fight for us, although at our skill level we can only catch one and Let it be rabbit size and only when it dies and for a long time in between could we try to catch another; We decided to wait and not yearn to capture one until it rose and enhance it was not something easy. It was as complicated as uploading the healer reluctantly, we focused on uploading it without leaving the safe zone for a while, after all the worlds had recently been integrated and we did not know what would wait out there.