Undral Legacy

Chapter 1 - The Mage Called Myst

A furious s***h hit me from the front.

Looking at the upper-left corner of my vision, I saw that the green «HP bar» lost some of the already depleted points. There were 70 from 140 points remaining, which meant that I lost half of it by now. Beneath it was another bar in blue, which kept track of my mana. It showed me even fewer remaining points than the HP bar.

My body quivered for a short moment as I fell back. If I were to lose the same amount of HP again, the «Game-Over» screen would be the last thing that awaited me, before witnessing how my character would be reset back to zero.

“Not yet...!” I encouraged myself, as I gritted my teeth.

By stretching out my right hand in front of me, a magic circle appeared as I visualized the spell «Quick-Shot». Immediately, as my mana bar lost some points again, three white light-balls were summoned above me, which flew at the attacking monster -a huge dark-blue colored wolf.

“Gruoahh...!”

The beast growled annoyed at me for hitting it.

“Alright! A direct hit!” I shouted relieved, as I jumped to the side.

For a short moment, the smoke that resulted from my attack blinded its vision. I used this chance to reposition myself and quickly began to visualize another spell, called «Barrage». Chanting it took a bit longer than the other spell, which is why I needed this extra time.

The smoked around the wolf dissolved and the beast had locked me quickly as its target again. Not wasting a single second, the virtual enemy dashed at me once more.

“Give it a rest already!”

As I shouted unnerved, the attack I prepared manifested itself, creating similar light-balls as before. However, this time there were about 15 of them.

“Grooooahh!” The dark-blue colored wolf let out a last cry while being bombarded with the magic I had cast, before slowly dissolving into what seemed like red digital dust.

Absolutely exhausted from the battle I just had experienced; I fell with my back on the grassland beneath me as I tried to catch my breath. A bit hesitantly, I glanced at my HP and mana bar. The lower one, which used to be filled with a blue color, was almost empty. The indicator showed me clearly, that only 2 points remained out of 120. I completely ran out of mana, which made me helpless if another monster were to attack me now.

Resting my left palm on my face, I began to chuckle out of despair.

All this work, just because of some dumb quest I received from an NPC (Non-Playable Character).

The reward for killing 10 of these wolves was 300 Gall -which was the currency of UL- and some hand-gloves. I just risked my entire progress for a bit of money and EXP (Experience points). But this was the only way to get stronger in this world. In order to survive, I had to do these quests so that I could defend myself from the monsters roaming around in Undral.

Those wolves were not that strong on their own, but the problem was that they would often stick together as a pack. I did not even get the chance to take a small break between each of them, so my HP and mana points were bound to deplete as I fought one after another.

A gentle bell sound tried to get my attention when a small interface window popped up in front of me. As I got up to check, I could read that it said «Loot».

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- You have defeated a Wolf Stalker (level 9)! -

Rewards:

- 1x Sharp Teeth

- 2x Apprentice Wolves-fur

- 210 EXP

- 10 Gall

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“Hmm...2 apprentice wolves-fur and 1 sharp-teeth. Not bad.” I said as I clicked on the «Accept» button on the bottom of the window.

As a response, the interface closed with the same sound that it appeared with. The items that I had received were now stored in my Inventory.

“There you are, Myst! Are you out of your mind, running off alone?!” A young man yelled while he approached me from a nearby dirt-path.

That was my name: Myst.

Well, at least it was the one I picked in UL, back when I created my character. It was necessary since you were not allowed to use your real name online.

“Sorry, I didn't think that the «Lurking Wolves» quest would be this tough.” I apologized and smiled softly at the man who halted right in front of me.

“«Lurking Wolves»?! This is a quest meant to be done with at least two other party members!” He scolded me harshly, showing how deeply worried he was. His long light-blue hair covered a bit of his face, but I could clearly see the shock and anger in his eyes.

“Oh, I didn't check that when I accepted it. I guess that explains a lot.”

“Seriously, what am I going to do with you...”

The emotional man in question was none other than Hilbert, the leader of our small guild «Night Owls» and a close friend of mine. I met him a month ago when we were out in the fields to grind for EXP, and he invited me to join his new guild.

Although, you could have called it more of a party than a guild, since it only consisted of 6 members, including me.

“Well, was it worth it...? What did you get?”

“In total, 12 apprentice wolves-fur and 7 sharp-teeth.”

“That much?! Considering the drop-rate, you got pretty lucky!”

The eyes of Hilbert widened in awe. He gave me an encouraging slap on the back while grinning at me.

It was true, that the drop-rate of these items was rather low for wolves, but I just could not bring myself to be happy about it. This experience was quite terrifying for me, and my adrenaline was still pumping. Of course, I would not tell Hilbert how close this battle really was.

As I got up to my feet, we took off to the nearby village, called «Irgon». I had completed the quest and was now able to collect my reward for it there.

The sun began to set in the distance, coloring the wide plains in an orange light, which is why we wanted to return to our Inn at the village quickly. Our guild-members were probably waiting for us already after I ran off on my own.

It had been 3 months now since the start of Undral Legacy. Back then, no one could have imagined how our normal daily lives were about to come to an abrupt end.

It was the same day as the game had been released and went online, that would turn this beautiful and magical world into a devilish prison...