National Security Incident by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Serial Box Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

New Item Acquired:

Rustic Bow

This simple bow is rough, but lovingly crafted from durable materials. Cannot be used with Incendiary or Magic ammo types.

The bow appeared in Tandy’s hands.

“Great,” Dante said. “Now come on.” He trotted toward the back corner of the fields, and Tandy followed.

She stopped short, though, when she saw the first crow. The bird was easily the size of a German shepherd. Its feathers were glossy and black as pitch, realistically rendered in far more detail than the cartoonish crows she’d created. This was her Alternis . . . and yet it wasn’t.

Tandy shifted in her seat and tightened the glove straps around her wrists so they wouldn’t slip during combat.

The crow spread its wings and hissed at her as she raised her bow. Its tongue was long and acid yellow; she definitely hadn’t coded in that, either. She heard the beat of wings around her—more crows coming from other fields to help chase the players off.

The first took wing and struck at her with its claws. The haptics on her VR rig were terrible, thank god, so she only felt a buzz in her fingers. She only had 32 hit points to start with, and the hit took her down to 14. Good grief, it would be embarrassing to be killed in the tutorial—her own tutorial.

She raised the bow and took aim at the crow. She only had a few arrows, so every shot had to count.

The bowstring twanged in her ear and the arrow flew true. The crow’s health meter dropped and the bird fell into the corn. She aimed again just under the still-visible health bar, and it fell to 0 HP.

A burst of sparkles appeared where the crow had been: +45 XP.

“Nice shot,” Dante said. In the time it had taken her to fell one crow, he’d waded into the fields and cut down the other three with his sword. She watched them burst away in a different color than hers had: +10 XP, +8 XP, +11 XP.

Well, if he was higher level, he’d gradually get less experience than her for killing the same mobs. She wished he’d left more for her, though.

“Is that all of them?” she asked.

“One second.” Dante marched farther into the field. There was a nest on the ground, in a hollow right next to a cheery scarecrow. He pulled a flint from his inventory—as with the sword, it just appeared, like a magic trick. Then he struck it against his blade once. A spark fell from his hands.

The nest caught fire all at once, curls of black smoke rising toward the perfect sky. Then the notification appeared, in Dante’s color, not Tandy’s: +500 XP Bonus.

Did he just steal her tutorial experience? “Wait,” she said.

Zin the Seer reappeared. “Oh, well done, hero! Now go tell Farmer Poke that thou hast completed the job.”

A sound came from outside the game. A loud bang, and then another. A burst of light leaked in through the edge of Tandy’s VR gig. “I have to go,” she said.

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