Yvlena woke up to Sprite tugging on her hair. The girl groaned, fetting she was actively trying to return Dyn to his hometown. The quest had been one of the most stressful she’d ever taken but it was worth it to revisit the outskirts and che one of the storylines.

  ‘Only, it doesn’t just feel like a story when I’m in here.’ Yvlena thought standing up and rubbing her eyes.

  It seemed that while her body within the game slept, her health and stamina were fully restored. It must have been a pretty long nap.

  “Where’s Dyn?” Yvlena asked, still in a daze from waking up in her game. She looked towards Sprite who was angrily buzzing in her face.

  “I’m awake now, I’m sorry I slept off in the middle of the return journey.” Yvlena said, pg her hands on her hips and pouting.

  ‘These guys wouldn’t believe what I just went through irl.’ she thought.

  “Dyn ran off into the forest Yvlena, we have to find that rascal before he gets himself in serious trouble!” Sprite said.

  Yvlena threw her neck bad groaned. Of course, he would run off after she had fallen asleep. He didn’t even know where he was and now he’d run off.

  Again.

  “This is getting super annoying.” Yvlena said under her breath but didn’t bme Dyn much, she had spent most of the day asleep and she would o go back soon to cate z’s before the moving tru her world would e.

  ‘Enough thoughts of the outside world, it’s time to have fun pying as Yvlena the elf.’ she thought.

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  “Dyn?” Yvlena called as she walked through the forest, so far she hadn’t entered any of the usual mobs she would find here. There was still no sign of the young man and Yvlena was starting to worry that a wild creature might have picked him off.

  “Yvlena!” a voice called. The voice was small, faint as if he was far into the foliage and so far Yvlena hadn’t bothered to venture beyond the path outlined by old mert carts on their way to Bloom Haven.

  “Dyn?” She shouted again looking beyond. No answer came, f her to dive head first into the thicket.

  Yvlena followed the voito the thicket and reached in with some hesitance, she stepped forward into an almost identical path to the one she was on before but the game notified her she was on another level.

  Bloom Forest L3

  “Level 3?” She asked herself. It made sehough, on the forums most dungeons had five or more floors with five floors minimum.

  She always found it weird how the Bloom Forest stopped at level 2, but now she uood it was because she had not explored the forest area enough to find the rest of the levels.

  “Hey, that means Bavga’s S has more levels too.” The realization made her frown, but it was worth it for the exp. That area was the most intense she had e across so far and she hadn’t checked the rarity of the items she could find there.

  ‘So much to do.’ She thought.

  “Dyn?” Yvlena called, cupping her hands over her mouth to scream his name. Kuti chirruped and lifted a ce-clothed hand to point toward a creature watg them. The sound of something thudding suddenly against the grouedly drew Yvlena’s gaze in the dire her summon pointed.

  Before the party was a familiar enemy with a wist, rather than the single horned rabbit they had entered so far, Yvlena and her group were up against a rger creature with a set of jagged antlers. The rabbit was rge, almost the size of the wild boar they had fought withiskirts.

  Yvlena gulped.

  “I don’t suppose it’s friendly.” She said with a nervous ugh, one go her side told her the summons were gearing up for a fight and it would be a tough one.

  The pounding against the floor stopped and in a fsh, the creature leaped forward.

  [Jackalope Cast Dash]

  With blinding speed, Yvlena almost couldn’t match the creature kig its foot as it sought to gore her on its antlers.

  Rabbit Knight jumped forward, parrying the attack with its rapier and giving Yvlena an opening to cast her skill.

  [Yvlena cast Harvest Skill: Wide Sweep]

  [Kuti cast Weaken (03MP)]

  [Jackalope afflicted with weakness -30% HP and attack]

  Two skills w as one slowed the creature’s attack just long enough for the jackalope to pause in its move.

  Yvlena could tell it was more intelligent than its lesser cousins. The horned rabbits would simply rush forward ung of who their enemy was, but this rabbit creature was sizing her up. Would it run away if it couldn’t fight her?

  ‘I’m not giving it the ce to figure that out.’

  “Sprite cast bind on it.” Yvlena said, running forward and raising her sickle to strike. The jaoved to attack but found itself strained by thorny vines ing around its strong legs. The creature struggled even as Yvlena brought down her on hard.

  Her sickle’s bde ged against the antlers, getting caught in one of the spaces iween. She pulled it back but fot the effects of Sprite’s bind had already worn off.

  [Jackalope cast headbutt]

  The rabbit surged, striking Yvlena’s midse with maximum force. The elven girl felt the wind push out of her lungs and a sharp sensation overcame her. She yelped.

  “Ahh!” she clutched her middle tightly notig her HP had gone down signifitly but what was she expeg from taking such a hit directly?

  “Yvlena!” Sprite called, rushing to heal the summoner while Rabbit Knight unleashed his sword skills upon the Jackalope.

  [Sprite cast Cure (05 MP)]

  [Rabbit Knight Cast Ssh (03MP)]

  “I’m alright, it just caught me off guard.” She said breathlessly. When she saw Dyn again, she was going to hit him as hard as she could for putting her in this situation.

  Again.

  Yvlena stood up, gripping her sickle in one hand and still holdiomach.

  “Kuti cast paralyze quickly, let’s see if the status ailments stack.” Yvlena ordered. The doll nodded and lifted her hands to use her skill.

  [Kuti cast Paralyze (05MP)]

  [Jackalope afflicted with paralyze, Jaight be uo move]

  The rabbit creature froze in pce allowing Yvlena to strike it with a decisive blow of her own. It yelped as it died, disappearing into fkes of light as Yvlena sighed in relief.

  “Finally, that was almost as hard as killing the boar!” she said.

  [Yvlena Acquired

  Exp: 1400/2070

  ***

  Rabbit Meat x5

  Jackalope Antlers x2

  ***

  Moon Points x500]

  [Harvest Skill: Wide Sweep leveled up]

  [Css Skill Summon Leveled up]

  [Rabbit Knight gained a level +1]

  [Sprite gained a level +1]

  “Whew, that was quite the battle.” Yvlena said, looking through the system messages. She read through the level-up messages and nodded in appreciation. It had been quite some time since she had seen any of her skills go up but she supposed that was her fault.

  Lately, her real life hadn’t allowed her to focus so mu gaming, but things would have beeer if she had moved into the neartment.

  “Let’s go.” Yvlena said pressing onward.