The Earth After Rebirth

Chapter 21: True Blooded Folks

Developers were sweet on gold coins at this point in the game. Even they didn't predict that billionaires would take such an interest in their games and make a real world exchange system.

'Oh that is sweet, after this I should force Hiro to go mining for coins. Coins will no longer be available in mines once the patch is up'

1 gold coin would be exchangeable for 100 creds at first. Then as months go on, it will stabalise at 1 coin = 10 creds.

They looked at the skill books, one was about necromancy and the other was dual wielding. Neither of them won at this time. They've stacked up around 20 skill books already. Kiro decided to sell them once real money exchange was introduced. That's when the game will have millions and millions of players.

These skill books alone will sell for millions. The auction was a better bet. As people will raise the price by themselves.

The further they went, the more they ran into the same kind of monsters over and over again, but they were stronger now, so it felt like they were bullying them a bit. Nonetheless they were able to level up 4 times. And just as they reached level 25—

[World Announcement: Congratulations to players, Hiro and Kiro for being the first players to reach level 25]

This was extremely embarrassing, and there was no way whatsoever to make it shut up. That's the downside of this game, nothing gets hidden!

Levelling up was getting more harder. The next level needed 2 000 000 EXP!

After walking and fighting for so long in a moonlit forest, they finally reached an eerie Manor. It looked well-maintained, but it gave off a bad feeling, it looked almost abandoned.

They didn't go in immediately, they decided to sit outside the shrubbery wall fence and replenish their strengths and stamina. Sharpening weapons.

They had drunk 3 Health potions so far, and only 1 Magic potion. So the total number of health potions they had each was 2 and 3 Magic potions.

Going through all these battles without so much as a break, was mildly mentally exhausting. Evolved humans were no doubt stronger and more resilient but because of the second's lag, it put more strain on the brain causing mental exhaustion sooner than it should happen.

"Kiro, what do you think is in that Manor? I can't help but get a chill from just looking at it."

"Vampires I reckon!"

"Wh-Wai-What?" Hiro stuttered, badly.

"Think about it. Blood and vampires go a long way back. In the earth of old they were always portrayed as these rich scoundrels who lived in manors.

"And I bet you anything, we will fight with 15 or so low levelled vampires. Since they're also known to sire subordinates, so their master would be the final boss." He explained.

Hiro looked dejected, as if he'd just been told that his mother had passed.

"My stomach is churning," he said.

"Same," Kiro tried reassuring him.

He was nervous too. So he didn't want Hiro to think he was weird for feeling like this. And the stakes were real, character erasure and a month of not playing. As people who will capitalise the game, they couldn't have that much of a setback.

Yes this was just a game, but its realism was what drew people in! A small setback will guarantee their loss.

Even though the game could get too much sometimes with it's realism, like the smell of blood and rotting corpses. It was popular.

If these two weren't from the slums, they would've emptied out all of their stomach's contents by now, but they're used to smells that were way worse. Rotting corpses were things they were used to.

They soldiered on. And entered the Manor's courtyard. Just then, a wave of Vampires showed themselves. 30 or so it seemed like. Kiro cursed at their rotten luck. But if they did survive this, this was hundreds of EXP. This thought kept both of them from just quitting.

True Blooded Monster Level 27

Race: Vampire

HP: 10 000

Skills:

Blood Drain[Intermediate Level]

Rank: D

A skill that affects you from 2 meters away. If you can keep yourself 3 meters away you won't suffer, but if its close enough, it'll suck you til your HP is dry and you'll die.

Hypnosis [Basic Level]

Rank: C

A vampire can entice your mind and put you under hypnosis for a mere second. But a second is everything on the battle field. Depending on how high your magic defense is, this skill will affect you for half a second.

They both took a stance, showing off their readiness to fight them, Kiro knew he had to kill as much as possible because his best friend was a tank and he'd be affected the most by the blood drain spell.

Drawing the aggro was also not an option in this fight, as he'd die immediately. Kiro was fast, but not that fast.

He ran forward, like a rocket propelling upwards to meet the moon, that had turned bloody when they entered the courtyard.

He swung and fell two vampires, thanks to Staff Wielder it gave 20% more damage.

The damage Kiro and Hiro could inflict had increased greatly for noobs. So they needed to land a couple of hits to completely destroy the foot soldiers.

Kiro had managed to keep them at least 3 meters away with his long staff, anything that got close would either get a staff, palm crashed, bending kicked or hurricane punched. Of course some broke through to 2 meters, and he'd suffer some HP loss but they'd die right after.

Kiro was so much in his head that he messed up completely, he was too used to fighting in sync with Hiro and the strategy of having each others backs, that he went too far in their lair. He forgot that he was alone.

The vampire general came at high speeds from behind, it lunged with it's fangs aiming at his exposed neck, he fortunately saw it by the corner of his eye and instead of panicking, he side stepped to his right.

The vampire stumbled forward having missed its mark, he didn't waste any time with his staff on his left hand, he swung forwards, detaching his head from his body.

He retreated for a bit, to see how Hiro was doing. He wasn't doing too badly. His HP was almost half, but he was holding on.

"I'm still—still fine," he heaved.

"You should be. You have no choice. There are still half of them to kill," Kiro told him nonchalantly.

"Wouldn't—kill—you—nic—"

He was interrupted by one that missed his neck with its fangs by a hair's breath. It missed because it couldn't time the height and the attack right.

"What the hell Hiro, be careful!"

He gave a brief nod. And they went at it again, this time Kiro didn't dare get far into their lair! Before they knew it, they were surrounded.

This didn't look good at all. Kiro used every attack skill in his arsenal. So did Hiro. But their HP was draining faster.

He panicked and activated Blink, and appeared right behind them, and didn't waste any time swinging at the remaining ones. They finally killed them all, both of them just fell on their asses and took a breather.

"They—were—weak—but—strength—in—numbers." Kiro said in-between breathsUpdated from nov𝒆lbIn.(c)om

Hiro nodded in agreement. He couldn't get a word out.

[Congratulations on defeating true Blooded minions. Rewards 4 700 000 EXP each]

[You've discovered and defeated true bloods for the first time. 10 000 EXP reward]

[Rewarded Equiment: rare Armourx2, unique Swordsx3, rare Shieldx2. 2 000 000 coins. 1 Skill book]

They both levelled up twice. They were almost at 30!

[Calculating—]

'Oh, I know this situation. This is bad'