As they began to celebrate all of the other students rushed inside to the dining hall. Upon arriving in the dining hall Augustus look to see the mighty banquet that was prepared with all of the love of his comrades. It was truly an amazing feast.
As they all started to grab plates and fill them with delicious food Augustus couldn't help but smile. About an hour later half of his fellow classmates that could drink alcohol were drunk. The other half was falling asleep after eating so much delicious food. And the younger students were all getting ready to go home for the night as it was getting late.
As he was finishing up a cup of refreshing sweet tea, since he did not drink alcohol, one of his fellow classmates approached him. She was an orc with a tall athletic build for one of her race. She stood around 7ft tall and her muscles were larger than his, but she still had a defined feminine look and shape to her. Which was normal for women of her race. She had lovely light blue skin and long curly white hair. Her eyes were an even brighter shade of blue which almost distracted you from her cute pointed ears.
She wore a slightly revealing dress for the party tonight, but one that was still good enough to wear around children so it didn't reveal too much of anything. The color of it was white like her hair, and across her neck was a noticeable amulet with a pretty sapphire the size of a quarter hanging from it.
She tugged on his sleeve for a moment and motioned for him to follow her as she wanted to discuss something privately. Realizing that you wanted to have a private conversation he got up and politely excused himself from the rest of the group that he was still sitting and eating with. Following her she ended up outside back in the practice field where nobody would dare come to interrupt their conversation.
Her names was Ysasilma Valt Namossa Hildara gra Snowblood, or when translated to English Ysasilma of the Endless Blizzard of Clan Snowblood. She was 203 which was still younger than him by a bit given that he was 219.
As the two of them stood outside she opened her character sheet and showed it to him. Looking it over it said that her class was called Vagabond and it said that she even already unlocked her subclass for it called Wicked Water Style. With his knowledge of how she has been trained he knows that she fights more akin to a mixture of a samurai and a monk. He knew that the Wicked Water Style was a combat technique that she was learning from their teacher as it was the most closely aligned to her natural capabilities when it came to manipulating water and ice as part of her specific orc bloodline.
Taking a look at the character sheet again he noticed that it said she was level 10 where he was level 15. Looking over her character sheets and more he saw that she had a lot of Health and Mana. Her Armor Class which is supposed to be her natural defenses or overall defense was decently high even in her dress.
She explained, "So halfway during the dinner, I got a notification from the God of Games asking me if I wanted to go to the special planet that I know you're going to be forced to go to. I thought things over for most of the rest of the dinner so far, and I ended up deciding to agree since I had a day to think about it. I guess the thing I wanted to talk to you about is..... Would you like to team up while we're on that planet, so we're both not just stranded and alone on a new world?"
Looking her over he could see that she was nervous and potentially worried she made the wrong choice. But he knew how strong she was, and her a long time he thought she was even stronger than he was. He placed his hand on her shoulder and gave a firm nod.
"Sure. I enjoy watching you pummel your opponents. Better to have you on my side than to potentially be on the receiving end of your fists," Augustus agreed jokingly.
Seeing him easily except her as a future teammate she smiled warmly, "Wonderful.... I'll make sure to try my best to keep up with you."
He laughed and then he asked her, "So what was the unique skill that you got upon receiving the curse?"
She informed him, "It is called Rejuvenating Waters. It's rank is Epic and of course it's a grade of D. It essentially heals me for every second that I remain submerged at least halfway in water. The amount of healing that it does to me is doubled if I'm fully submerged. Currently it only provides a weak amount of healing at the moment. But I'm pretty decent at water magic so I think I can cheat the system in a way by using my water magic to completely surround me in a ball of the stuff. If it works that means I'll be able to essentially heal myself whenever I need to, so long as I have a couple seconds to stop and heal."
"Not bad. I would say that at least yours perfectly suits your skill set," he gives a kind smile to her and the two of them start making their way around the academy and towards the front entrance.
As they walked she started asking questions about his current personal life, "I am sure you know by this point pretty much everyone on the planet saw the footage of how you awakened. I bet your girlfriend was terrifying seeing you in that situation. The few times that I met her she seemed to worry about you quite a lot."
Augustus for a moment fell silent remembering that when he goes home tonight it will just be him and Cuddles. The shame of having lost his girlfriend of a decade it was something that he had been trying to repress his emotions about given everything that's happened today.
Noticing that he didn't say anything Ysasilma looks to him worried, "What's wrong....? Did something happen between you two....? Oh God don't tell me that she ended up getting attacked by that monster in the footage today?!"
"No no. Nothing like that.... We just broke up is all....... and it's all my fault for being unwilling to change," he quickly tried to clarify realizing that he might have gave the impression something worse happened than what actually did.
She felt genuinely sorry for him having to deal with a breakup and then being forced to fight for his life and now be thrust into the spotlight. She try to comfort him some, "Well at least you are alive. My grandma always told me that some people are only in your life for a season, and when they leave it's okay to miss what you had with them. But eventually you'll find someone or something too fill that hole. Since we're going to be working together you can talk to me about anything. I really mean it. I don't want you to feel overburdened."
As they came around to the front Augustus tried to thank her for her attempt at comforting him, "Thanks but I don't-"
He is then interrupted by the shout coming from a car nearby of someone who seems furious with him, "There you are old man!!!! I've been looking for you all day!!!! Do you know how worried I was?!!!"
Comments (0)
See all