Chapter 3
The footsteps crushed the grass under them. The one who was making his way through the plains was Arthur riding atop Galion. The Drake took his drake form resembling, a lion made of yellow-brown scales with bone like spines running from the back of the drake's neck to the end of its tail forming 2 sharp barbs, it's head was crowned with bone like horns as well, along with 4 golden eyes with a slit pupil.
With its large size it made for a good mount for Arthur who decided to take Galion, and a few dragon-sworn soldiers to check the surrounding forest. He decided to check for the nearby forest, for food and danger.
While Galion was tracking forward, Arthur was scrolling on Lord's chat forum.
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"AH, why is this happening?"
"Damn it, I'm stuck with weak goblin units, I'm going to die for sure."
"You're lucky, I got some stupid slimes."
"Hahahaha. Look out you outsiders soon the rumbling will descend upon you!"
"No way you got titans!?"
"Hahahahaha, you foolish surface dwellers I am my under-sea kingdom will drown all of you!"
"Ha! You fool my demons will reduce your kingdom to ash!"
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"Are these guys idiots? We should be focusing on how we can get out of here!"
"I know right?"
"True, but the is nothing we can do or discuss outside of we just logged in and got stuck in this world without a way to log out."
"Is it that we are inside the game or we're we teleported into this new world?"
"Hard to tell, you know how advance VR tech has gotten, but my guess is teleport because scent is something nigh impossible for VR to mimic."
"Same for taste, but here I can taste things just fine, in fact much better than I normally could considering my race."
"Same here, my short sightedness was fixed,"
"Same for paralysis."
"Ok that's interesting information, but it doesn't really help with us getting out of here,"
"Should you really be focusing on this right now? I mean you should be gathering food, from what my units told me the is something strange going on."
"Ok captain obvious, that clear from the world announcement."
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May lords lamented while other boasted, each one with their own circumstances to feel joyful or regretful about. Others discussed the situation. It was no different from normal social media platforms.
Arthur smiled lightly at this. 'I'm sure other lords are preparing like I am.' He thought before closing his eyes, his mind drifting to the situation and how he might have ended up here. He wasn't alone but that didnt really make the situation any better.
"Sire, we have reached the forest. " spoke Galion.
"Ok then have the soldiers surround us, the elves on our flanks, the dwarf in front and have the human atop the trees behind us." He said giving simple orders.
"Yes lord." All the soldiers present moved as asked and leaped to their positions.
Then they started moving forward once more.
Arthur decided to look around finding a few eatable foods like mushrooms and fruit with a few bee hives. This made for a both a good foraging sight and a logging sight.
It was at that moment that Arthur felt a strange sensation overcome him.
"Sire!" Shouted the dwarf as he quickly brought up his shield and it was immediately struck by a loud bang. Forcing the dwarf to skit a step back.
"Huh?" Shocked by this Arthur looked to see their attacker. It was a creature of human height, made of tree bark and branches. It was basically a tree with limbs as it stomped towards them, and on the middle of its bark was a dark face.
[Corrupted Treant Lv 2]
Arthur was shocked by this, but that shock didn't last long as the Treant roared and unleashed powerful bullet-like seeds at them. The dwarven dragon quickly raised his shield and it was coated in a radiant golden aura. The aura grew into the side of the shield, and the bullets struck the aura of the shield, before bouncing off.
At that moment a flaming arrow shot passed the and struck true, piercing into the treant's body, and setting it ablaze.
"GRAHHHH!" shouted the treant before turning to ash moments later.
[You've defeated an enemy +50 exp]
The battle log that suddenly appeared surprised and intrigued Arthur, as his exp grew. However, the was something that surprised him. 'So the kills of my subordinate count as my own?" he asked in surprise. Then he smiled, however that changed to shock as more battle logs appeared.
[ You've defeated an enemy +25 exp]
[ You've defeated an enemy +25 exp]
[ You've defeated an enemy +25 exp]
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[You've defeated an enemy + 50 exp]
Dozens of messages continued to flow into the battle log.
'This must be the work of Morgan, she truly is an origin dragon.' He marvels. He also assessed, 'So this means the further I am away from the unit the less Exp I get.' He thought.
This in itself was a good harvest of info for Arthur but he still needed a to collect food and other items so he spoke.
"Everyone spread out and deal with the nearby threats, make sure to preserve the bodies as much as possible, these are valuable materials, so collect them and the fruits around we'll take them with us when we head back," he said.
"Yes lord!" the dragon-sworn soldiers acknowledged the orders before going off quickly to fulfil his orders.
"Galion, we'll go deeper into the forest to see if the are any significant threats,"
"Is that wise lord? It might put you in danger."
"What kind of dragon king would I be if I fled from danger?"
Galion smiled at his lord's words, and his pride towards the young man rose as well.
They continued forward. Arthur started receiving exp from around him as well.
.oOo.
10 minutes later the duo found themselves, in a darker part of the forest, they did face a few Treants, and others took on some. During those encounters, he discovered something detrimental about the gain of exp. That was the lack of experience, he didn't gain actual combat experience, which would be detrimental to his survival.
So Arthur decided to take on some of the treants with the steel sword he gained as a starting bonus and the backup from Galion, the drake transformed into his Dragonoid form and used his claws to sweep through the treants.
Once entering the deeper parts, they felt it, the treants were growing stronger. Usually, Arthur would need only one or two slashes to take care of these treants but as they went deeper the power needed grew.
It was at this moment that the earth under them shifted, and to Arthur was swiftly lifted off his feet by Galion and both landed at a safe distance. From where both once stood, root spikes grew.
'Damn I almost died!' shouted Arthur in his mind while looking at Galion and nodding in thanks with the Drake nodding back.
"Let's see what attacked us?" asked Arthur and he looked to see what attacked them and he found it, it was a creature that was made completely out of wooden, green moss, and branches shaped to resemble a woman with a snake-like viny bottom.
[Corrupted Forest Lamia. LV 6]
Arthur gulped, in surprise. This monster was strong, but Arthur knew one thing, Galion could take it. However, he spoke, "Galion please provide support, I'll try and take it on. Please step in when I look like I'm about to die." He said in a calm tone.
Galion looked at Arthur for a few moments before nodding. "Very well Sire. I shall do as you ask," she said.
Arthur himself stepped forward while screaming in his mind. 'WHY AM I DOING THIS TO MYSELF!' although he asked himself this deep down, in the calmest recesses of his mind he knew the earlier he got used to combat and fighting the better.
He stepped forward and readied his sword pointing at the weary Lamia, it didn't attack again thanks to its weariness of Galion. However, the moment it noticed that it was Arthur who stepped forward, its instincts kicked in, and it roared in anger before shooting forward like a python.
Arthur raised his sword and utilized one of his skills, {LORD'S SHARE} this skill allowed him to gain the power and skill of one of his units for a short time. He utilized Galion's fire control and aura coat to wrap the sword in a fiery aura, and when the Lamia was close, he slashed.
CRACK!
The sound of the sword clashing with the wooden claws of the Lamia rang out. The flames forced the Lamia to shrink back while it cleaved through its hand. However, the Lamia retaliated, lashing out with its snake-like tail that struck the Lord's stomach, forcing him back.
"Grya!" Arthur grunted in pain as he was sent flying back and then tumbling on the ground from that single hit. He quickly rolled to her feet, and his danger and survival instincts kicked, in forcing his body into motion as the ground under her birthed spikes of vines and bark.
He ran around dodging the growing spikes, and then in front of her the Lamia's tail quickly descended. Acting he quickly rolled out of the way, and lashed out with the flaming sword, cleaving through the tail.
"grhhahahahh!" the Lamia hissed in pain while retracting the tail.
Arthur took this chance and kicked off the ground while using an aura coat to kick off the ground to boost his speed. He arrived in front of the Lamia as fast as possible even flickering for a few milliseconds. The Lamia quickly tried to lash out with a claw to defend itself however it was too late. The king of dragons lashed out with a slash, slicing off the Lamia's head.
[You have defeated an enemy +300 exp.]
Arthur immediately slumped on the ground as the adrenaline wore off, and he smiled at Galion who walked towards him while clapping his hands steadily.
"Well done my lord, you utilized my fire control skill quite well." Said the Drake.
"Yeah just something I saw a while back, nothing special. For now, let's collect the body and head back," said Arthur as he deposited the Lamia's body into his inventory.
.oOo.
Arthur looked at the sky, it was dusk and the sun was ready to set, 'Guess this marks the end of the first day.' He muttered before opening the inventory and letting all the corpses he gathered land of the ground, joining the corpses gathered by the dragon-sworn soldiers.
He looked to see and saw that many were treants and only 1 forest Lamia. He spoke with the labourers, "Please dismantle the corpses." He said and the dragon-sworn labourers bowed and moved to do just that.
Then he heard a loud slash of water, looking up he saw Morgan land quietly and elegantly on the ground calmly. Then behind her were corpses following, over 1,000 normal fish, and many other monsters from Corrupted Sea warhorses, to even low-level Naga's and sea Lamia. All of them are trapped in water bubbles.
It was a shocking sight to see. 'She truly is an Origin Dragon.' He said once more.
"My lord I've returned, it seems you've gotten yourself quite roughed up," she said with an elegant bow.
"Yeah I guess, put those with the labourers they'll sort them and I'll see what we got after I take a shower," he said while walking into the castle.
"Of course." Spoke Morgan
.oOo. END OF CHAPTER .oOo.
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