The quartet was naturally stunned at the words of the lizardman. While the girls were stunned by the fact that an armed, bipedal lizard creature was capable of speech, Kirou focused on the words spoken by Draco Blade. 'Great Cave? Could it be that we might have unintentionally entered restricted territory?' thought Kirou as he glanced back at the cave entrance and the current surroundings. As if thinking that the players didn't hear him the first time, Draco Blade repeated himself a bit louder, "Outsides, have you entered the Great Cave?" This time, Kirou went to the front of his group as he spoke, "I'm not sure what this 'Great Cave' that you spoke of is, but if you mean this cavern right next to us, then the answer is yes." As Kirou answered, he noticed that the names above all the lizardmen before him flashed red (hostile) for the briefest moment before returning to yellow (neutral). The lizardmen

Kirou and gang only had to wait a dozen or so minutes later for the twenty-foot long snake boss finally bit the dust. Although he was originally interested in seeing them in action, Kirou quickly grew bored with how the group fought. That isn't to say that the team of players that the Sanming Sect sent up to deal with the boss were weak by any standard, as Kirou could clearly tell that these were all elite players. That being said, Kirou had no interest in the fight as he could tell that their movements had a bit of the system's guidance in it, meaning that they had set their gameplay modes to semi-auto. Kirou had no interest in seeing people being strong through such a method. With the fall of the Scarlet Eyed Boa, the mineral resource points in this section of the cave system started reappearing. Many of the sect's harvesters went forward to these resource points and got to work. Kirou only took a glance at this before walking forward to the place where Guardi

Appearing at the entrance to Elderwood Village, Kirou took some time to check out his current surroundings. Contrary to the hustle and bustle of players he saw when he had just started or even after the update, the village was now back to its rural village persona, with few players both entering and leaving at any given point. Kirou saw this and guessed that most players either grew tired of the quests here and opted to head to SC Pier City or they've gone even further and started making their marks on the other continents. To Kirou, this was a good thing as he needn't put up with the eyes of other players when he pulled out something extraordinary from his inventory. With this in mind, instead of rushing to Bladesmith as he originally intended, Kirou made a beeline towards the other NPCs within the village. Since he was nearby, he might as well make use of their facilities for his work. First on his list just so happened to be General Store Manager Almia, who h

With the gloves in-hand, Bladesmith started examining every nook and cranny that he could find on them. He even went as far as trying them on himself to get a feel for it before taking them off and scrutinizing them once more. Kirou watched as Bladesmith did this without saying a single word or batting an eye. Kirou just watched as Bladesmith examined his gloves to his heart's content without getting into the senior weapon master's way. After scrutinizing the gloves for a few minutes, Bladesmith finally returned them to Kirou before speaking, "You definitely made another new weapon, lad. I've been around for a good while now and I've never seen another weapon master create a weapon as unique as this one. It looks like you've got a knack for these things." Kirou put on the gloves and cupped his hands towards Bladesmith before speaking, "Your words are too kind, Senior. This pair of gloves isn't anything new, as it was something that my master

Somewhere to the south of Stone Mountain Range. The date has already changed since Kirou started working on his quest and he's now quite a good distance away from Elderwood Forest, where he originally started. Kirou was currently locked in combat with a few earth-attributed monsters that took the form of bulls. There were over twenty and with each charge, Kirou was forced to dodge wide as each bull had elongated horns on top of their heads. With that being the case, Kirou could no longer go it alone without the threat of him making a mistake growing, so he summoned out a few shadow clones, along with Tank to help him out. Unlike Mistaken Fox who could make use of monster medallions in place of actual weapons, Kirou himself wasn't able to make use of this trick so the system didn't stop him from taking out said medallion to summon out Tank. With each combatant now responsible for five bulls each, the somewhat intimidating herd lost its feroci