On the deck of the Silver bullet was a human female with chestnut color short hairstyle, brown colored eyes, big circle glasses a few freckles on her face, wearing white and gold colored cleric attire. That fitted well with her Athletic shape. Her height was around 5'6-5'8.
The girl had an excited look on her face as she look around the massive port of possibly thousands of ships each rocking their on guild flags just like her guild ship the most cool looking thing about this place was the massive building that took up the whole island and port. It was bigger than most palaces.
"Pretty neat, right?" A familiar male voice spoke up from behind her as her head turn to look at her Guild leader and captain of the Silver bullet Mykenai Azelas.
"Yeah you bet it is! You wasn't kidding at all. I can't believe that a whole island is basically a tavern." The girl says towards myke who just smiles as he also look at the massive tavern that was made up of coconut trees.
"Yeah it's the only safe zone where players can relax before heading into The Labyrinth." Another male voice spoken up walking towards them. He was a tall human male with light blue eyes a face that looks like he's about to drill some military drills into you. With Short blonde colored hairstyle, wearing heavy set paladin attire with a silver sword on his waist and a silver shield on his back. This player was the guilds vice-leader and main tank Coldaddy.
"Now that we arrive, let's head in, the others are waiting for us." Myke says towards the two as they both nodded and walked off the silver bullet heading towards the large building.
Once inside the trio was greeted by a world of wonder inside was all kinds of lights and attractions that would make a king jealous. There were different sections from adventure guild, a few crafting guilds, and even a clergy. The section they were heading straight to was called the lounge area where players can drink, socialize, and even sleep in rooms here. The place was like a 5 star hotel.
Arriving at one of the many bar stands Myke greets four players who stood out as they was louder than most and had all the attention on them.
"Yo GB! You finally got here!" One of the four spoke up noticing the three walking up. He was a muscluar tall human male with brown skin tone, a large black colored afro, wearing purple and black colored gi like a martial artist. This player was the monk known as Martial King.
"Yeah, sorry it took longer than it should. We had to make a few detours because of the heavy traffic going towards the north continent." Myke says towards the group with a sigh.
"Ah! That makes sense. I should have warned you since my guild is operating out there." The next player to talk was the legendary class player Dragon Knight Ryu whose whole attire was dark brown colored dragon scale armor wielding a large War hammer of the same color. Right beside ryu was a large Earth dragon that was probably bigger than a mammoth just sleeping by the bar.
"And whose the new girl? I think she's having some type of panic attack." The next to talk was A player that has Stitches all over their body of different color skin tone from pale blue to green, and pink. His Attire was that of a battle mage wearing light & heavy armor his eyes was mismatch one look like that of a cat it was glowing yellow the other regular human eye that was green colored this player was known as Monster King, Iniko.
"Hey! Acorn! Snap out of it your starting to drool." Coldaddy says towards the cleric who shakes her head than pushed her glasses up with a cough trying to clear her throat.
"Um guys there is a dragon randomly just laying by the bar." Acorn says looking flabbergasted
As the group laughs at her the earth dragon looks up at Acorn and snorted blowing hot air at the cleric blowing her hair back as she look nervous now.
"Dont worry this is my good pal Falkor. A powerful Earth dragon." Ryu says with a reassuring smile.
"Um okay, it's nice to finally meet you all my name is Acorn." Acorn says towards the group at the bar as they all introduced themselves to her one by one. after introductions was over with. Acorn notices they was getting strange stares and glares from different groups of players as some made her feel uncomfortable.
"Yep i think it's time to leave guys she finally starting to notice the glares we are getting in here." A male voice spoke up as Acorn looked at the player it was the guy named Zero a dark elf Ranger who had a bad ass title on display called
"Yeah, all because of your title and that large bounty on your head." Ryu answer back to Zero who just shrug.
"Your right Zero. With introduction out of the way let's head for the ship and get this adventure started." Myke says as the group all nodded in agreement.
The group arrived back on the silver bullet as the ship starts to sail for their destination Acorn look back at the Island as myke walks up to her.
"So what you think about our rag tag group so far?" Myke question
"They seem like good people. Except I can't get over the fact of why Ryu is here. I thought this was a
"Well there's only two good reasons. One is that he is basically a member even though he is in another guild we all been gaming together for years so he's basically a friend of the guild that is helping out. Two he also needs the materials of a certain monster that spawns only in The Labyrinth". Myke says as Acorn nods with acknowledgement.
"So how long in till we get there?" Acorn asked
"It should take about a day for us to reach the dungeon, so basically 1 hour in RL so if you wanna take a break and log off you can." Myke says as Acorn thought on it.
"Oh yeah? Well this would be a good time to take care of IRL things that way I don't be bothered in the middle of going through the dungeon." Acorn says as she talked a little bit more with myke than walk towards her room on the silver bullet and logs out.
An hour later.....
Acorn appears back in her room yawning. As she looked at her status showing she was well rested. She looked around her room she still couldn't believe how cool it looked. She had a bed, a desk with a shelf full of books, than a big pillow chair that was designed to look like a sheep.
"Mew!" Acorn looks towards the window of her room A black and green fur cat that had three eyes and two tails with green flames at the end of each tail was looking at her.
"Neko! How my favorite flaming kitty!" Acorn yells out as she scratch the cat in between her ears. Acorn pulls out a few fish treats for the cat as it purr than starts eating the treats as they sat there for a few moments enjoying each other time.
Acorn felt a rattle than she felt it getting worse as she was curious what was going on. She stepped out of her room than heard a loud noise like bombs are going off.
She walked towards the sound taking her up to the deck of the ship as she arrived she saw what all the noise was coming from. Both Martial King and Zero were fighting with their bare hands.
Exchanging blows that was way to fast for her to even see. As they zip around the deck and even flying through the air like an old martial art movie. Acorn couldn't believe her eyes how cool it looks like she was watching one of her grandfather's favorite anime show.
Acorn notices Zero wasn't in his ranger attire but A similar Gi like martial King but just white and gold colored.
"I'm glad they are both pulling their punches or this ship would have been destroyed." Ryu voice spoke up from standing not to far from Acorn who jumped from his voice she didn't even noticed he was even there along with Iniko.
"Oh! Didn't see you two there! Hello or good morning? Haa.. Im still getting use to this whole immersion thing." Acorn says as both Iniko and Ryu nods understanding her issue
"Question? How is zero able to even fight like that if he's a ranger. He's fighting like a monk class player and I also noticed he has Ki like one as well even though he has a mana bar. What going on there?" Acorn asked both the two experienced players who looked at one another than back at her with a shrug.
"Honestly none of us has any clues about that. Even Zero himself doesn't know the real truth other than being granted both mana and ki Mastery skills out of weird circumstances." Myke says as he was looking down from the Helm at them with Coldaddy beside him.
"My guess is because he is The World Strongest." Coldaddy says as Acorn looked at him with confusion
"So that bad ass title is some kind of rare or epic one?" Acorn question
"No, it's way more than that. it's a unique title, a one of a kind title that no one else could ever obtain." Inkio says with a pride smile as Acorn has a shock look on her face.
"No way! So you guys are telling me Zero is the strongest player in the game? Is that why we left Tavern Island so fast?" Acorn question
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"Well it's a big debate on the forums about him being the strongest but the proof is literally floating above his head. And to your second question yes that is the main reason why we left so fast zero has a IRL 5 million dollar bounty on his head to who ever can kill him and show proof of the death also a 100K on anyone that is apart of his guild." Myke says as Acorn turns pale
"Oh that's...Wait a minute! That means all of us in the guild are in danger including me and im only just a healer!" Acorn yells out with panic
"Don't worry new girl! Zero will protect you. I mean he is the world strongest after all." Martial King says with a smirk while still sparring with zero.
"Real funny. You know I'm not God I can't save everyone." Zero says as he dodges an attack from Martial King than used some kind of judo move and put martial King on his back.
"I be damn if your not! Your pretty fucking close." Coldaddy says as Zero rolls his eyes at the man after stopping the spar with martial King as the ship was approaching the dungeon.
The Labyrinth Was a large island shape like a whale with its mouth a gape as Acorn saw multiple ships sailing into the mouth of the island that turned into a cave once they arrived inside it was a port with a few player made stalls and shops. Acorn eyes widen looking at the large blue portal with a line of players waiting to go through.
The Silver bullet docked as their guild leader got all their attention.
"This is it guys!
Than she decided to analyze the other three players she noticed that iniko was level 53 in both character and class. Martial King is level 50 with both character and class. And the most shocking was zero the so called world strongest was only level 55 both class and character.
("The max level is 60 now. how is it Zero is way behind in levels. Im thinking that title isn't so unique after all. The only max level players we have is Ryu who isn't even in our Guild. And Coldaddy. The guild leader is close to 60 well his class is which is at 59 while his character level is 58. With me being the lowest level here at exactly level 30. Even though I'm a healer there is still much to worry about.") Acorn thought to herself as she was lost in her thoughts myke was trying to get her attention as she finally noticed him.
"Did you hear what I just said Acorn? I said you should go see the chef to get some food it will be beneficial it will increase all your resource pools and damage by 15%." Myke says as Acorn nods and walks off towards the kitchen.
Acorn was smiling in a good mood after receiving a few items from Sliver bullet's crew. Before they disembark heading towards the dungeon portal. She still be shocked at how well immersing the game is. She sometimes forget that all of the ship crew are just NPCs hired by the guild leader.
Finally arrived at the dungeon portal She noticed NPC guards at the portal wearing banners that represent some Krakken creature. She asked Myke why was there guards as he explained to her that the dungeon was claimed by the Krakken guild and they make sure no one caused trouble or try to scam people. When the dungeon is free to all players.
Acorn notices one guard more fancy looking than the rest as he came by to greet Ryu as if Ryu was some esteemed noble. Ryu introduce everyone to the guy as he was the guard captain. After a little bit of talk we was finally going into the dungeon walking through the portal my whole body felt like i was on a roller-coaster.
Once arrived inside
we was easily able to dispatch them pretty quick. It made since since everyone but me is over level 30 Acorn was also gaining a Decent amount of experience points.
As they continue through the first floor the Ant monster were coming in droves. There were even some that flew using range attacks. Even with such pressuring numbers. Acorn didn't even have to use one healing spell. Once they got to the boss room she saw the boss she had six personal guards surrounding her along with at least a thousand ant monsters with equal amount of different variants of ants.
like the workers we encountered at the beginning and the flying scouts. now two new enemy types, the soldiers who looked almost humanoid holding spears in each hand as they gave off an aura of combat readiness. they were at least 2x bigger than the workers. Next was the six personal guards that surrounded the queen ant like giant statues. Acorn analyze them and found out they were call [Queen's Royal Guard] and each one was a mini-boss all at tier 3 except one that was tier 4 the six mini bosses were all arch types that match like a party of Adventurers.
Three were damage dealers, two looked like support, and one was a tank. Last but not least Acorn analyze the Queen she was huge bigger than even the tier 4 royal guard that was the tank. Acorn also noticed a bit of humanoid looks on the upper body of the ant queen as she wore a crown with delicate features in the face. She exuded intelligent and domineering pressure of aura. Acorn could tell this is where the kiddy gloves came off as she prepare her self for a fight of her life in till a voice spoken up.
"You guys mind if I handle this one alone?" Iniko says as Acorn looked at the guy like he lost his mind. but yet what was even more surprising everyone just nodded and shrugged like they didn't care. as Iniko smiles with confidence and walk towards the army of giant monster ants.
"Wait! are you guys serious!? Iniko is about to solo a whole boss room!? Tell me you guys are trolling right now?" Acorn question as the party looked at her like she was the one losing her mind.
"Trust me Acorn you have nothing to worry about just sit back and enjoy the show and free exp." Myke says towards her as she looked at him wondering if they all went crazy. But if her guild leader says it's okay. She just gotta trust it.
Inkio rolled his shoulder as he walks slowly towards the army of giant ant monsters. Like he was getting ready to do some warm up exercises before a work out. Acorn noticed how all the attention shift towards Inkio. She doesn't know how he was handling all that pressure but he seem way too relax.
As if being instructed by some invisible command. All the ants begins to attack charging straight at Iniko as he crouched low pounce at the first line of ants. His claw like hands emit a dark glow as he swiped forward. Using the skill
Than iniko used another skill that she was familiar seeing from mages called
Acorn mouth was agape seeing how easily Inkio was able to defeat half of the army already as the scouts flaming corpses was raining down.The soldier ants join the fight next. Inkio lunge towards them with a mighty crash as he Roars like a lion his muscles bulged making him look like he was hulking out.
Iniko uses the skill called
The first to attack was a royal guard that uses green acid like spells launching them at Iniko. He was dodging the attacks. As another royal guard was using their flames to cut off his escape. Iniko was than caught by one of the royal guards that form his fist into a giant earth magic attack slammed into iniko who crashed into a wall along with ranged attacks following him into the wall causing explosions.
After the dust clears Inkio body was shown with half his body melted and burnt along with a few dents. His HP was lower than 30%. Acorn gasped at the sight of her guildmate. She immediately started using her healing spell.
"No! I'm okay Acorn!" Iniko yells out as Acorn looked confused in till her mouth drop showing iniko body regenerating at a fast pace. In only seconds his body was back to pristine condition.
Iniko teleport using the mage spell