One could ask why the game could last for over ten years, and still be just as popular as it was when it was at it’s peak, the answer would be the ability to respawn. With this ability, the experts who spend years honing their techniques can fight to their hearts content, with no fear of killing someone. If a country had resources that another one wanted, they had a deathmatch to see who gets the resources.

At first there was scepticism about how it could help in reality. How can physical conflicts be resolved digitally? Create a game so life like that no one can tell the difference and have the armies fight there. Why care about repairing the terrain when you can just fight on a near perfect battlefield. Of course no country got rid of it’s military, however most of them downsized.

Dungeons were made as a place to both increase monster spawn rates and ease up the exp grind just a little. While some were really simple and straightforward, others were complex to an insane degree. There wasn’t really a good way to determine if a dungeon was difficult or not with no players adventuring in it.

If Henry could describe the feelings he had while traversing the dungeon with Emerald, it would be useless. Emerald was a literal juggernaut.

All threats were dealt with swiftly and accurately, Her Blade easily sliced through the undead’s armor, cutting bone and soft flesh. While many experts could do this with enough practice, even fewer could do it one handed, while catching an arrow, while in mid-air, while in full plated armor. One would normally think that heavy armor impares some movement, sacrificing speed for defence. But Emerald was running around like she was wearing leather armor.

At the beginning of the dungeon it was fine as Emerald and Henry worked together, but as they got deeper and deeper into the Dungeon, and as more enemies showed up, Henry became basically useless.

Once when Emerald got surrounded by 5 Higher Death Knights, She put her sword perpendicular to the ground, blade facing outward by her side. She struck, and with a single spin all 5 were sliced in half.

If Henry had a Spiritualist class he could have seen the Life Essence flowing out of the corpse’s corpses into the Blade, which then flowed into Emerald. However, since he did not have such a class, he missed the Blade’s terrifying ability.

As the two got deeper and deeper into the dungeon, and more and more monsters started to show up. Emerald took the full brunt of the attacks, leaving one or two of the undead to Henry. It was at this point Henry saw the terrifying might of the Blade. Slicing through enemies without the slightest hint of being stuck on armor or bone. Although she was being hit multiple times by arrows, most bounced off her armor, very few stuck. Even then they would pop out as the wounds regenerated from the blade’s ability. It seemed little could stop her. Occasionally they would get to a puzzle room, even then it didn’t stop her. They were quickly through the puzzle and in the next room.

They finally reached the cross roads, one path was to the crypt the other to where the ore was.

“So boy, where’s the ore?” Emerald asked, clearly enjoying the Blade once more.

“I believe that it would be the right tunnel.”

“You don’t know?”

“I do know, it’s on the right….probably.”

“Well it doesn’t matter all too much anyways, let's go down the right path.”

The two traveled for about five minute when they finally encountered the first ore vein.

“Finally, wait for a while while I clean this vein.” Emerald said, pulling a pickaxe out of her invintory

Henry stepped forward, asking

“Are you sure you don’t want help mining?”

Emerald’s helm moved to face him

“Are you sure you want to go deeper without me?” her sarcastic voice asked back.

“It takes time to mine, and it always goes faster when two help.”

Henry stated back.

“Hmm…” Emerald said thoughtfully”...NAH”

With that the pickaxe dropped onto the rock. The rock shuddered under the sudden force, separating from the iron ore that was in the vein.

Henry’s mouth once again dropped at Emerald’s might. While most high level mining skills could do a similar effect, it took precision timing, and multiple hits.

Emerald picked the ore up

“This will last awhile. Now to the other path.”

“Wait, that’s all you need?”

“I said my stock was low, I didn’t say I needed the entire cavern’s worth of iron.”

“I have no words to describe the shock I’m getting today.”

“I do… It’s shocking.”

Henry looked at the armored Emerald, who was doing a superhero pose, and sighed.

“What ever, lets go kill the boss.”

Emerald laughed

“Kill the boss, boy you think too small. Let’s go destroy the boss.”