Beginning of Act 2
You know, in my lifetime, I have come to realize that, in a sense, there are very few things that can truly annoy me. One is stupid people because, come on, let’s be honest, when someone is truly being stupid, it can get on anyone’s nerves.
Another is wasting money; if you’ve made it this far in my tale, then you already know how devastating it is for my psyche to burn money on useless things.
Not to mention people messing with my carefully laid out plans; yeah, that gets on my nerves more than I would like to admit.
And then….theres the…
"MOTHER FUCKING CAVERNS! OF all the goddamn Instances that have been found, WHY DO I ALWAYS END UP HERE?" I screamed at the top of my lungs as I ran at my top speed through the never-ending twisting and turning rocky tunnels.
"Millions upon MILLIONS OF OPTIONS, AND I END UP IN THE EXACT SAME PLACE AS BEFORE, and to make matters worse, of COURSE, it couldn’t be a fresh spawn, IT’S THE SAME FUCKING ONE I WAS IN THE FIRST TIME!"
Racing through the same path as I had years before, I couldn’t help but point out every single marking I had left behind on the walls, and when I entered the large open area I had fought the Drake some years prior, I easily spotted the devastation left behind from the battle.
Further and further into the void, I ran, coming across very few monsters along the way, which meant I was practically wasting what little time I had here by backtracking through my previous adventure, and to be honest, IT WAS PISSING ME OFF…if you couldn’t tell by my earlier outburst.
Well, that is until I hit my first horde of undead monsters; as expected, the looted corpses I had casually left behind had been reanimated. The only upside to such a situation was the fact that I could earn double XP from them…which STILL FUCKING SUCKED!
So for a full week, all I did was wander through the same space I had previously devastated until; finally, I came across my first living being, yet as luck would have it, the damn thing was at the bottom end of the Alpha-Rank, so even then, I hardly got any gains from it.
Hours turned to days, and eventually, I felt the particle content in the air spike in power until I crossed a certain threshold and entered into the Beta-Rank Zones.
Releasing a pleasure-filled groan of ecstasy as my body was washed with the stronger form of Particles, I expanded my perception to the fullest. I started searching for any living thing I could find.
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"Taylor, Get to the fucking good part already, Jesus; I understand you hate repetition, but come on, so do I, plus you have this stupid habit of over-dramatizing stories," Brenden’s voice cut through the aggravation I was feeling like a knife through hot butter as he interrupted my story causing me to spin around and hurl a random tool from my workbench at his head.
"Fuck you, you were the one who asked me to explain everything, damn it, and that was what I was doing." With a scoff, I turned back around and continued examining the patterns on a golden piece of Dragonhide; that’s right, not Drake, DRAGON!
"Get to the part about how you got Dragon Leather; wait, let me guess, you wandered and wandered around the caverns for an unknown amount of time before ending up in a wide-open expanse, where you found a massive hulking form…blah blah blah."
"Well fuck you too; if you already know the story, why bother explaining it then. Yeah, I fought the bastard and won by the skin of my teeth." I said with attitude, slightly ticked that I couldn’t tell the harrowing tale of my Dragon Fight.
"Which is code for It kept kicking your ass in a head-to-head battle, so you ran around like a monkey taking potshots at it till it died…. didn’t you."
CLANK
The sound of me knocking over several tools bounced around the room…and my brother’s screams for mercy soon followed it.
To cut a long story short, I spent nearly two months in the Caverns this time around, and what do I have to show for it…
Well, a fuck ton of Beta-Ranked materials, a decent chunk of Low-Beta Ark Coins….and I was now level 10, the limit of Alpha-Rank, plus I now had in my hands an absolutely absurd amount of Alpha-Grade Particle Water.
Like, I’m not kidding; I drained the ENTIRE lake this time around. It took me over a week to do. Still, since I had prepared for the unlikely possibility of finding another source before crushing the Instance Token, I had plenty of containers and even a drainage pump, which I painstakingly used for days until every last drop was safely stored away in my inventory.
Needless to say, because of such an amount, I needed someplace to put it…but that is a problem for another day; for now, I had enough resources to fill multiple Olympic-sized pools even after giving my brother what could be considered a lifetime supply of the stuff.
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He about had a heart attack when he saw me laying out thousands of 1-gallon jugs full of Particle water, and it was a pretty funny sight that I wish I had recorded.
Anyway, that brings me to the first objective on my list after returning, and before you ask, no, it wasn’t Ranking Up to Beta-Rank; that would have to wait for now because I had left the very same day after having that meal with my brother, and hadn’t had enough time to upgrade the facilities allowing for a Flood of Beta-Rank Particles in Gnarnia.
Technically speaking, the upgrade was actually the third thing on my list because right now…I needed to go through the therapeutic process of dumping my inventory, identifying all the items, labeling everything, and organizing it in the storage room.