The King's Mandate: Anomalous System

Mountains...mountains...mountains...

"What's wrong, Adas?" Ricky asked.

"It's nothing."

"Don't worry; we will protect you."

"Ele...Reina."

How do I say it? How can I say that I am not scared of monsters, but I am afraid of heights.

"Do we have to go all the way to the mountains?" Rikka said.

"You don't understand, Rikka."

"I mean, we don't have to go all the way to the mountains to level up."

"There are more monsters in the mountains."

"You are right about that, but it's a pain to climb the mountains."

"Everyone thinks that, and that's the reason no one goes to the mountains. So if we go there, we may find some items."

My girlfriend is greedy.

"Just because you are a leader doesn't mean that you can boss us around!" shouted Rikka. 

Hey now, isn't this getting serious here?

"How about asking your boyfriend?" Ricky said.

Damn you bastard!

"Mountains, right?" Elena said she leaned close.

"Forest, right?"

I looked at Ricky, and he gave me a thumbs-up sign. 

I hate this guy!

"Well." I gulped down and answered, "Mountains are hard to climb, so let's go to the forest."

"Adas!"

Sorry Elena, but no mountains.

And so, we are going into the forest. 

Rikka was walking next to me. She suddenly pulled me and whispered "Thanks!" to me.

Why is she thanking me? I should thank her for--

"Well, you, see, I am scared of heights. So I honestly didn't want to go to the mountains. And you helped me, thanks." said Rikka.

So my so-called savior was only trying to save herself?

As we were walking, I glanced at Elena, who was walking in front of me.

She looks angry.

"Umm," I gathered some courage and said, "Reina."

She didn't answer.

Sigh~

When we reached the forest, I noticed other players were there too.

"There are only weak monsters here." Elena pointed her finger at layer two of the forest and said, "But if we go further deep in the forest, we can find strong ones."

"We will keep the HP of the monsters as low as we can. So you just have to hit them, and you will get some EXP." said Rikka.

"Okay"

"You are a sword user, right?" asked Ricky.

"Yeah."

"Same as your girlfriend, huh?"

"What about you, Ricky?"

"Me? I am a tank."

"Tank?"

"Oh! Right, you don't play games, so you won't understand. I am a shield user; I can take all the damage to the attacks of monsters so you guys can focus on attack."

"I see."

"And as for me," Rikka took out her daggers and said, "I am a dagger user."

How does she use daggers? 

There are two daggers in her hand and eight more in her pocket.

"I will show you. Let's go, Ricky."

"Yeah."

Ricky walked into a group of wild boars. They noticed him and started attacking him.

"See?" He shrugged and said, "This is what a shield user does."

See what?! Aren't you getting attacked?!

I gazed at his HP; it was still 100.

Even though they are attacking him. Hmm. So his DEF is high, or the attack damage is too low.

"His DEF is high, so weak monsters don't have any effect on him."

"Yeah, I figured it out."

Rikka took the dagger in her hand as if she was about to throw it. 

She really wouldn't throw it, right?

She raised her hand, holding the dagger from the end, and...threw it. 

She threw it! She seriously threw it! 

She threw them all one by one, and the boar's HP is getting low.

"I don't like close combat, so this way is pretty convenient for me."

"But shouldn't you use any other weapons? What about using magic?"

"I am more of a support type. And we are just casual players. We just log in when we are bored."

"Now it's my turn," Elena walked to where Ricky was holding off the boar's attacks and said, "Look closely Adas."

"That's enough, Ricky, leave them to me now," she said as she slashed them down one by one.

"Now, Adas! Hit them! Fast!"

All I had to do was hit them one time, and they all died.

"Did you get some EXP?" asked Elena.

"Yeah"

"You get 10 EXP by defeating one boar." said Ricky.

"Only 10?"

"Yeah, and you need to kill at least 500 wild boars to level up by 1."

"That means 5000 EXP to level up by 1?!"

"Yeah, as we said, this game is like that. But if you kill strong monsters, you will get more EXP. There are also some boss fights where you can level up multiple times just by killing them once."

"I see."

"Normally, you would need to hit them 7-8 times to kill them, but," Elena pushed Ricky on the side and quipped, "I can kill them in 2-3. My ATK is high after all."

"Don't push my husband just because he was explaining things to your boyfriend!"

"It's fine, Rikka," Ricky got up and glanced at the group of boars attacking him as he said, "There are some more of them. Let's deal with them first."

They started attacking the boars, leaving low HP on them, so I could kill them and get EXP.

"Nice, Adas!"

"Now, let's deal with Reina," Rikka said as she took out her daggers.

Elena swung her sword, saying, "I can easily end you two."

And they are at it again.

I sighed as I glanced around. 

I noticed a single boar standing right next to me. 

Its HP was 100.

I took out my sword as I said, "Let's see how many times I need to hit them."

Maybe 5-6 times?

To be honest, I am curious about my stats too. I am using the 'Faker' skill to fake my stats, so are my stats the default, or is this skill just faking them in numbers?

I just tapped the boar with my sword, and it died.

I didn't even attack it!

"What's wrong, Adas?" Asked Ricky, who was trying to stop Elena and Rikka's fight. 

"Nothing! It's just that there are no boars around now."

"Yeah, they will respawn in 10 minutes."

I can just stand here all day, kill the boars as soon as they respawn and level up as many times I want.

There are a total of sixty boars in this area. One gives 10 EXP. 

So killing all 60 will give 600 EXP. And they respawn every 10 minutes. 

We can play this game for 4 hours, that's 240 minutes. 

"Hmm. I can level up to around three times by just killing the boars every day."

Though it's pretty dull.

"So, you want to go deeper?" asked Elena.

"Let's leave it for tomorrow."

I am feeling bored.

"But we have to participate in the raid on Monday. If you don't level up fast, then it will be a problem." said Elena.

"We can do it later, Reina. At least go easy on your boyfriend," commented Rikka.

"Wha…!" she glanced at me and said, "Okay, fine. But we are doing it tomorrow, okay?"

"Okay."

She is scary.

"What now? Log out?" Ricky asked.

"No, wait! Let's go to the sea!" Rikka suggested. 

"What for?" Elena questioned.

"Don't you want to show your boyfriend the main attraction of this floor?"

"Well, I want to, but..."

"Let's go."

Sea? I did see it from the sky, but I haven't seen it up close.

We decided to go to the sea before we logged out.

As we were on our way to the sea, Ricky asked, "By the way, what are your stats, Adas?"