Battle Maid

After splitting up with Reese, Tokki would find herself on floor two for her next stop of quests. Earning the martial arts skill was not as easy as the other weapons in the game. You couldn’t just invest skill points to unlock it. The skill was locked behind a quest here, so if she wanted to deal any meaningful damage to her enemies she would need to finish this quest. Without that she won’t be laying down much of a smackdown to her enemies. Wasting no time she would locate the quest giver’s starting location, the first problem that stuck out was the climbing of a mountain. In order to re

“ナイス” The girl will say again upon seeing the shield amongst the treasure. She’ll inspect it to make sure it’s usable for him and nod. “Looks like someone has to identify the enhancements on it. I think appraisers do that but I have little experience with that. I do know that’s the way you unique enhancements which can range from pretty powerful to some being useless.” She’ll explain with her limited knowledge. Pete will then hand the two a letter with his debt encased. “Keep that crap for all I care and tell Dorian to leave me alone already.” He’ll rant before getting back to cleaning up

Tokki would nod as Reese asked if they should open their chests. She wasn't not going to open it after digging it of there after all. She would give the lock on it a hefty kick and push the lid open with her foot to reveal a paltry sum of Col and some random consumables. They weren't really useful as is but maybe having a small, spare health potion wasn't the worst idea. They could probably even scrap anything they considered trash for Col somewhere. "Well, not the big haul you were expecting Pete but there it is." She'll tell the fisherman then look to her companion. "Let's see if my luc

“Quests like these tend to be long on purpose so newbies can absorb the knowledge in a slow fashion. Trying to throw information in someone’s face who has little context for these things can easily overwhelm them.” Tokki will explain. “It’s probably a little easier for you since I’m here and you can bounce questions off me.” The duo would find themselves heading to a lake now, shocker. The fisherman is out on a lake. Pete didn’t seem like the nicest man but he got his point across without wasting any time like Lyle did. He would tell them that he was in fact the one that Dorian lent the m

The duo had completed their objective just before Battle Maid was about to lose her cool on the annoyance that was these mobs. She would really need to work on getting those accuracy enhancing items it seemed. After a calm and collected sigh, Tokki would turn to Reese with her tone fixed from her last statement. “ナイスクリティカル. Nice hit.” She would, again, start walking towards their next objective. “Yeah let’s finish this quest up. Though, call it a hunch but I think we’re still going to go on one more excursion. We’ve been taught how to gather, now how to fight. I expect there will be a fin

Despite her telling him to take a rest, he didn’t seem to want to sit around. That was fine since they only needed one more boar beaten now. If she engaged first she could easily keep its attention. “Gotcha, you’re doing just fine.” She’ll simply respond, turning her attention to the last prey they would set their eyes on for this part of the quest. Hopefully it was the last. Charging in with vigor, Tokki would throw her metal-clad foot into its face the same way she did the last. Her sneak attack was not as successful this time around though. He foot flied past its face, cause the little

"I can understand that, you take a break and I'll take down another boar down in the meantime so we don't sit here for too long. Hopefully this will be the last objective for us." Tokki will say, offering Reese the moment to regain his HP. She would engage the closest boar without hesitation. With a quick burst in, she would catch it off guard and put her foot into its face with a strength to knock it on it's ass. It reeled so heavily from her attack that it didn't even have the chance to retaliate. "That felt good with how much these things have been dodging us!" The maid would exclaim a

Thankfully, he wouldn't meet the end of another attack but their chance to hit was rather low. Every turn seemed like they were missing attacks and the boars were just the same. It would have probably been smart for them to have acquired some items that increased their accuracy. They could also attempt to sedate them but getting combat experience seemed more useful. "If you need to take a break feel free. I didn't invest in a sword art yet because I need to do a quest to unlock hand-to-hand combat. I have ranks in armor though so they do a lot less damage to me." Luckily one of them had d

Reese, supposedly feeling more confident would attempt an area of effect attack against two of the boars. The stakes were getting a little high now with the pressure of having multiple targets. "Careful, watch your health and switch with me if you need it." Tokki will say. The boars would strike, one missing quite easily but the second one would strike him in the back and knock him down after he asked her a question. Just as she attempted to follow up with an attack against that boar she would slip and miss it. "Damn! Let me take one off you if you get hit again!" She was worried that he

Tokki will stretch as her tank engages the enemy, ready to do a follow up strike for when he went in. "Hey, we're just five bored teenagers that happened to share a hobby. I used to think that making friends was really hard when I was younger but after I met them I opened up a lot more. You can do it too with anyone if you find the right things to talk about." She'll respond, following behind him. The boar would would feel the bit of the spear wielded by Reese, dropping its HP enough for the maid to jump in and ram its teeth in with her steel heels. Just like last time it would explode in

The strike of Reese's spear was the opening she needed. Tokki would come in quickly, reel back her foot and punt the boar into the sky where it would dissolve into digital dust not too soon afterwards. "Wonderful. One down, only five more to go I guess. Might take us awhile." She'll let him know as they waited for the next one to spawn. When he expressed that it wasn't a problem with her friends he could see her let out an audible sigh of relief. "They can be a handful sometime. We are all women yes. In fact, you've seen all of us. The one that said hello to us and asked if you were my bo

The hit had hardly put a notch in Tokki's Health so she wasn't too worried. A small perk for having invested in protection early rather than a weapon. The only problem she was having now was her accuracy in hitting her target. Her attack would come in just as Reese missed his attack, although she too would miss. A growl of disdain escaped her lips. "Good luck guys! It took as awhile with four people but you have to kill three per person in the party!" One of the friends of Tokki would say as the other group left. Tokki would sigh, and side step the boar giving her a wider attack that made

Battle Maid will shrug at his willingness to follow her. Plenty of people have followed her but she'd never really wanted to be a leader. That, however, didn't mean she cared if they wanted to see her as one, just that they shouldn't expect her to keep that role close to heart. She nods at the confirmation of her words from before. "Yeah, pretty much. We've had a lot of looks for our characters in game." She'll extend her explanation. The two wouldn't take long to meet with Lyle, who would tell them that he's too busy to talk and that they would need to go and kill some boarlets to use th

With their group meeting the requirements, they would now be directed to return to the potion maker Zackariah. Battle Maid would lead the way but not get ahead of Reese, just to signify that they should return now. "I'm not that good at leading people really. My friends only listen to me cause I started our group in a game a long time ago." Reese would then explain his situation to a degree and it really didn't seem that pretty compared to living in Aincrad. She wasn't sure which was worse, not without more details at least. "I see. Well, we find victories in life where we can." Perhaps h

Her luck was clearly front loaded. The material she’d found so easily had been the only one in the area from what it seemed. Not to mention her tripping and face planting into the grass just as Reese began describing how happy he was to try out the game. Despite her disgraceful blunder, she quickly sits back up and fixes her skirt(Not that she was indecent underneath anyway). She would remain sitting on the ground looking off into the distance, letting Reese’s words linger for a moment. “Me and my friends would move so fast through games. We’ve seen each other in several different skins b