Temporal Pearls

Anna stared at the Quest and sighed.

Without care, she declared that she will fight alone which means no one should give her an order. A commotion was issued as people accused her of insubordination.

One of the restrictions she had was that, to use her full power no one should order her.

It was Dragon Pride!

How could someone that tanks ts of Dragon attacks take orders from weaker life forms?

And that momt the Chief blessings doubled the player's level and increased their ability twofold.

In five minutes the beasts stamped reached the village, the Archers shot out and Shieldbearers held the line to weak the momtum of the stampede.

Before the shieldbearers and beasts collided a war cry was heard!

"Mighty Shield?"

An illusory shield appeared on Anna's hand as she bolted forward.

"You Dare!"

Her voice contained a Might that shook not just the hearts of players and villagers, but the beast panicked. It was like they were before an Apex Predator.

A Dragon!

A force field emitted from the shield covering the human army. The beasts that were at the front smashed onto it and squashed against the Impetrable Wall.

It was a one-second shield ability, but it was ough to stop hundreds of beasts at the same time.

As everything came to a sudd halt, Anna quickly looked for the higher-level beasts.

"I will hold the level 40 beasts for thirty seconds. Finish the mob and unite to kill the bosses," She shouted before running toward the beasts.

That was her first Game War and she performed spldidly. They title her;

Heroine, the Shield of Black Mamba!

The fight lasted for three days. That meant players were ejected mid-fight after the world froze and wh they came back, the world resumed.

There were a lot of complaints about the game due to that inconvice. The Game developers replied that there will be an update soon.

After the battle, the Chief proposed to her but she kindly rejected him. She said she was married. Thankfully no one knows her name and there was no tag above one's head to show it.

****

Today was the deadline for Nanncy's Quest. She was panicking as there were no new developmts regarding Seth's skills.

She taught him everything she could in that short period. She ev tried teaching him Antique Idtification, Dancing and Singing.

But he only levelled them up to maxed level, but nothing about him converting them into Talts.

Seth sat beside her as he was furiously recording the conversations of the Village Chief with a Merchant.

He was holding a large book with hundreds of pages and a quill. An ink bottle was attached to the book.

He was dragging the quill across the page from right to left, th the line would contort and become words.

Scribe was the hardest to level up because Seth can't level it up by donating EXP.

He needs to list, see and understand actual activity and write those activities that hold the whole meaning. Th he will get EXP to level it up. Copying books and writing stories did not provide EXP.

But if he pursued a single person and wrote that person's activities for a day, that was wh he obtained the Scribe Skill.

And EXP to level it up!

Unlike his other skills, he understood how Scribe works and its rules. The more he levelled it up the more he gained mastery over it.

Ding

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Scribe (/)

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Seth sighed and stopped writing for some second before he continued. With the level up he doesn't need to pay more atttion.

All he had to do was list till they reached a junction in their communications. Th he will squabble the whole page, which will turn into writing.

Two hours later the Village Chief wt back to his manor. While Seth and Nanncy wt to an In to eat something.

"No lesson today. Maybe tomorrow!" Nanncy said to her studt. They were villagers and player teagers that she took as studts.

"You look down today!" Seth said as he sat on a chair while gesturing for the In attder to give them something to eat.

"Show me your skills!" She said.

Seth stared at her before he called his window and st her the information.

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[Skills]

~Drawing Picture (/)

~Painting (/)

~ Carving Sculpture (/)

~ Molding Sculpture (/)

~ Assembling sculpture (/)

~ Scribe (/)

~Antique Appraisal (5/)

[Talts]

~None

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"What are we doing wrong!" She whispered.

"Today is the deadline and you didn't have the skills as your talts. Do you know the reason?"

"Maybe the game is bugged or we have not figured out the condition." Seth watched her face as if she was about to cry.

"The reward must be amazing to make you downcast."

Th she showed him the whole quest.

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[Quest]

Help Seth The Cripple convert his art skills into talts.

[Reward]

~Obtain a conducive Guide to the Game

~Stand a chance to get back your Personal Arm

~Activation of Your True Talt

~Path to Greatness in Asteroid Online

[Failure]

~Permantly Losing all up the above

[Time Limits]

[00:03:4:00]

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"Hmmm! You are the problem. You have Scribe as a Skill, right?"

"Talt. Everything I taught you, I have it as a talt!"

"Okay, bring out your book and start Scribing. We are reversing our roles!"

Nanncy frowned as she stared at him.

"Don't you want to achieve the Quest in time?" Seth asked. "I have thought of a way but we have to test it to see!"

She brought out her book and a quill float on the first page.

Seth began to explain his views and experice and the momt he spoke the Quill jotted down.

"This game has so many rules. Most of them are hidd. And you need to understand or realize them to make some progress….."

Th he stopped as he stared at the Quill in vy.

He told her about his experice in the first trial and second trials. But he told her how to easily pass the trials without mtioning his sister's feats. Th he explained other things and ev related them to other games in the past.

He told her some rules he found and others he assumed. He kept speaking, bringing out everything he could remember.

Scribe Skill hanced his memory in the game, making him recall things easily.

Ding

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[Formulating Guide Book in progress]

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"Impossible!" Nanncy shouted as she stared at the space before her. Attracting the atttion of people a.

She quickly dragged Seth out and wt to her hotel. She closed the door and said keep talking.

"Where was I!" Seth said with an arrogant smile. He knew he nailed it and he was joying that he garnered the atttion of such a person!

"You said… the classes might be differt from other games…"

"Yes, I thought the classes might be based on the weapon one imagined but that means one can create his or her class if he imagined something out of the norm. This was just speculation and th…"

He spoke for some time before stopping.

"That's all I can think of!" Seth said as he drank water.

Nanncy's room was well furnished with decoration. Hmm! That was why she always complains about not having ough coins.

Ding

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[Quest]

Help Seth The Cripple convert his art skills into talts.

[Reward]

~Obtain a conducive Guide to the Game!

(Book of Guides Obtained)

~Stand a chance to get back your Personal Arm!

~Activation of Your True Talt!

~Path to Greatness in Asteroid Online!

[Failure]

~Permantly Losing all up the above (Except Book of Guide)

[Duration]

59 minutes

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"Your rambling is actually a Guidebook?" She asked.

Seth had his eyes closed as he nodded, joying the praise but th he became serious and said!

"No, I think the system will omit and change things. Valid things will stay while the incorrect ones will go. As for those that are deep and secretive they might disappear too."

"You really are a master gamer!"

"Not really. I'm Game Saint!" He said with a smug.

"What about Personal arms, Path to Greatness and True talt!"

"Personal Arm is the easiest as for the other two I don't know. I have no idea. Maybe the game will give you that." Seth said.

She quickly grabbed him and said, "Th give me the Personal Arm."

"Did you take any Personal Arm in the second trial ara?" He asked.

"Yes, it was a Sword."

"Go sell it to a player!"

Without hesitation, she ran out of the room.

Seth leans back admiring the beauty of the room. Nanncy has tak her time painting it Making sure it looked exotic and mesmerizing.

He checked for food and found some. He also saw some Gold Coins but he did not take them.

T minutes later she returned.

"It can't be sold. I tried but it wouldn't sell out." She said almost crying. "Most I sold it?"

"Yes! Go and meet the Village Chief and tell him how you acquired it. Now you want him to take it away from you!"

She bolted out again. In three minutes she came back full of smiles and relief!

"Now what?" She asked

Seth looked at her up and down and th said, "Sit and close your eyes!" She did it without suspecting a thing. She was agitated because she totally trust someone in her room while doing everything he asked without hesitation or questions

"Imagine your weapon. Think of everything about it!"

****

"Fuck. Weapon 06 is connecting to its owner!" A bulky man with Brown attire shouted. He was sitting in a room that was filled with differt objects floating in place.

Four weapons were glowing, one of them was Nanncy's.