Versatile: Alternate World

Due to the incident, the 4 players who went in and got chased by a tiger teamed up with me. I don't mind them teaming up with me but I hope they are not some backstabbing bastards. MMOs have many backstabbing players who once they get what they want, will start to kill the one that helped them especially if they received a hefty amount of items. That is something I wanted to avoid at the very least.

Looking at their levels, they barely have any kind of threat to me. In fact, killing them is just so easy by swinging my Versatile Weapon. In fact, they are so lucky that they have managed to reach this area so far with their low levels. Perhaps the tiger just drove them too far.

"Why are you guys here? With the levels you guys have, it's already quite a wonder how you guys managed to remain alive in this high leveled area."

"Ahahaha, to be honest, we forced ourselves to dwell deeper into the high leveled areas. Guilds have already taken over most of the beginner areas for us to farm around. And since we don't want to suffer the PK and the leveling down penalty from being killed in PK, we decided to just go and fight monsters in higher levels than us and a place that isn't much popular for farming."

No wonder they are here. With the current game's unbalanced farming areas, newbie players tend to suffer a lot from leveling especially those who don't want to enter a guild for the time being. I have suffered from it before which is also one of the reasons I was in a guild at that time and I suffered further.

Based on their fighting style, it was clear they are newbie players and they have not played other accounts for sure. But we will have to see how this goes.

"Where are we, umm... Mr. Bladeheart? Our map seems to have not recognized this place and the moment we entered, it said "Island of Avalon". Is this perhaps an exclusive area?" the Druid who is named Shana asked.

"It's not an exclusive area but it was a hidden area that can only be explored by players who have entered the right way and those players who just happened to be lost or being chased by an enemy. In my case, I entered the right way of entering while for you guys, it seems you guys have entered due to the reason you guys were being chased by enemies. The next time you wanted to get back here, you need to learn the right way to enter here."

"There are hidden areas like this existing in the game? Damn, looks like it was the right idea for us to buy the game! The only problem is that it was quite a beginner unfriendly experience for us," the saboteur named Koji scratches his head.

"Well, you have chosen a supporting class and it doesn't even possess any healing! We told you before that we needed a healer if we have to team up!" the samurai named Gin grumbled.

"Hey! I know we needed a healer but I don't even want to run a healer class! I wanted to fight too!"

"Now, now. We are already in this situation. It's too late to keep blaming each other. We should just go and get stronger and perhaps we can team up with a healer later on."

The four rambled and argued on which classes they should have picked up but I don't care much. It's not my problem.

"I will leave you all alone if you guys keep rambling there. Monsters might get attracted to you guys who keep on rambling on and on over there."

"We apologize for the rowdiness of our group, Mr. Bladeheart. It's just that it's rare for us to play a game with all of us 4 playing together."

Looks like they are friends in real life. That is a good thing for them.

...

Since I already know where to find the lady of the lake, I didn't rush to my destination and instead went around where the enemies are to at least help these guys level up a bit decently and that way, they can level up quite a bit when they are now no longer in a party with me. Since monsters around here are too low-leveled, I don't benefit gain any of it at all so it means the majority of the exp points will be divided among them since we are in a party. That's how the boosting process works in this game.

"Mr. Bladeheart, is it alright for you to boost us in levels like this?" Gin asked.

"It doesn't matter to me. It would be a bit annoying if you guys can't even defend yourselves once we reach the area that I am trying to get into. Things are much more dangerous there and there is a roaming boss here. I am fine against it but that boss has a habit of attacking the weakest party member that is why you guys are at risk if you all didn't have any good levels."

"Then, we are in your debt, Mr. Bladeheart," Shanaa happily accepted what I am gonna do.

"Just call me Bladeheart. Adding a "mister" next to my ign is not very good to hear in my ears."

...

The enemies are weak so all I am doing is just doing a one slash kill and leave the drops to them. I also taught them on proper dismantling and getting the good items in a monster's body to sell for the best gold gain.

And since I don't earn any experience, and I am basically killing everything without stopping, leveling them up is very fast to the point that they are already able to defend themselves against enemies. All of them have reached level 55 after roaming around.

"I didn't expect you to be so strong! Are you perhaps a ranker?" Gin is quite amazed on how I work.

"Perhaps, yes. I don't particularly participate in things like that but in the leaderboards, I am in quite of a high ranker guy."

Rankers are players in Alternate World that has the highest and most notable reputation in the game's current battles. Being a ranker doesn't measure in your levels, it measures your overall achievements, your wins in Arena and many more. Not only that but if you are quite famous in the areas of PVP and guild wars, it is quite likely you will be in the rankers. I may have not done much of a PVP but the last Battle for Blood, I won the championship battle and not to mention, I also did two solo guild wars already. I may not be catching up the latest news at the moment but I already have quite a notorious name already.

Since the levels of the 4 is enough to defend themselves against the wandering boss, I decided to head now to my destination. Farming for their levels did not take that long, I still have enough time to finish the reforging of the Carnwennan.

"Where are we now?" Yna asked as we stand at the edge of the lake with the huge castle with a floating tower above that castle just in front of us.

"This is my current destination. I needed something in that castle which is why I came here in the first place."

"Is that some sort of a dungeon?"

"No. There are no dungeons here. And the only monster we will see here is the Wandering Area Boss which is only by chance. It will only be a small chance though so no guarantee we will see it while we are there."

"Still, it was quite amazing that we managed to reach this place out of pure chance. We even got quite a lot of stuff and we can even gain quite a lot of gold after we sell the stuff we had later on!" Koji grinned.

"Indeed! Though we still needed to thank Bladeheart for that. If not for him, we won't even be getting all these stuff in the first place," Gin looked at me with admiration.

"It's useless to me anyways and their materials are not that good to use in many items which is why it is better to give them all to you guys who needed money for later use and to also buy gear. Don't thank me."

​ "We still have to thank you since you aren't a jerk like most players who shamelessly bullies us low leveled players," Shana pouted.

Looks like they are really happy with how I treated them. I don't really care though. Now that we are here, it is time to do the necessary steps to meet the lady of the lake. I opened my backpack and pulled out a bronze ingot and throws it into the water.

The moment the ingot fell deep into the water, a golden glow appeared on the bottom of the lake and soon a woman came splashing out of the water. Despite the fact that it was not her legend in the real world, in the Alternate World, she adapted the role of Hermes in the Greek Folktale, the Honest Woodcutter.