AN: The story has hit 100 average views so I am very happy and I have no plans of ending this story anytime in the future so you guys will get your chapters. Ignore the bad tables... Still trying to learn them. Made a little longer chapter to make up for it or how long it took to write this chapter.

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The Grassy Plains

Aeleus's POV

"Excuse me young adventurer but may I know the name of my savior?"

Glancing over at the NPC that he had saved earlier, Aeleus responded enthusiastically "My name is Aeleus, a level 1 [Novice] Mage!"

"Hmm Aeleus, you say" the NPC replied looking as if he was deep in thought.

" I'll tell you what Aeleus, in these plains their should be the leader of the Red Foxes. Bring me back it's hide and I'll give you something good"

*Ding*

The Quest "Leader of the Red Foxes" has been made

Rank: Unranked

Objective: Kill the leader of the Red Foxes and bring it back to the NPC that you saved.

Rewards: EXP, item from NPC

Failure/Declining the mission: Hostility from neighboring towns and reduced trust from NPC.

[Accept] [Decline]

"Well the game isn't really giving me a choice with these consequences" Aeleus sighed and pressed the accept button.

*Ding*

Quest "Leader of the Red Foxes" has been accepted.

However, Aeleus had just realized one crucial fact.

"Leader of the Red Foxes? The leader? Doesn't that mean a Boss monster?" Aeleus began to get incredibly annoyed with himself for missing this key point for the quest.

But, Aeleus was more angry than annoyed because he one that he did not have the power to take out a Boss with his current stats and equipment.

"I have to level up to even have a chance to win against the boss." Aeleus said. "I should check how much exp I need to level up.

Opening his stats page, and looking through it, Aeleus found his exp bar. It currently said 532/750 exp. After he saw this, Aeleus opened his skills page and saw that the exp for [Fire Orb] was at 14% from killing the fox and rabbit.

(EXP given from quests do not increase skill exp.)

"I wonder if this quest is shareable." Aeleus wondered.

If he was able to share the quest with the members in the studio then this quest would go by so much faster.

Pulling up his quest menu, and re-observing the quest he was given he luckily saw "shareable" after the quest name.

"Phew, that means that I can share this quest with Verrick and Derrick. With the Mage not being as strong as it is in other games, there is no way that I can solo a boss." Aeleus said sadly

Quickly pulling up the menu, Aeleus clicked the communication button and clicked both Derrick and Verrick's game names. Their names were Dhark and Vlad respectively. Starting a group call using the skype function, Aeleus saw their faces pop up on his screen.

"Aeleus? What's up?" Dhark asked looking suprised and a bit annoyed since Aeleus had interrupted his grinding.

Aeleus pulled up the quest that he had received from the NPC and watched as Dhark's and Vlad's faces changed.

"Holy shit man! How did you get a quest for a boss monster? Do you know how hard it is to even get a quest?" Vlad excitedly yelled.

Dhark was also very suprised at this but asked Aeleus,

"Why are you showing us this mission? You must be teasing us..."

Aeleus quickly tried to calm Dhark and Vlad down and said,

"Not at all, you are misunderstanding me. With how difficult bosses were made there would be no way for me as a Mage with only one spell to solo a boss. Also this quest is shareable so I thought that both of you would be excited to join me, but I guess you must not like it."

Dhark's eyes widened "I was just joking around, that's all that I was doing." And Vlad hurried to support this.

"I'm got pulling your legs, here is the quest, and we will go kill the boss when we turn level 3"

Both Vlad and Dhark quickly pressed the accept button, and Aeleus ended the call so that they could go and grind levels.

"I should rush level 3 so we can kill the boss as fast as possible"

Aeleus started to walk around before he saw some LVL 1 red foxes and started to fight them.

Suddenly a huge message popped up in front of Aeleus

[You Have Died]

"I died? How could I have di--I am so stupid. I wasn't paying attention to my health bar. If I do this against the boss I will die and fail this mission." Aeleus said depressingly.

"Good thing that before level 10 there is no penalty for dying or else I would be level 0..." Aeleus said

"Let's revive and continue grinding"

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The Grassy Plains

Aeleus's POV

*Ding*

You have reached level 2

You have 5 unallocated stat points

"Took long enough to reach level 2, Can't believe I had to kill 10 foxes to get 200 exp" at this point Aeleus called up his character page

Name: Aeleus

Level: 2

Class: [Novice] Mage

Titles: N/A

Strength: 5

Defense: 3

Endurance: 5

Wisdom : 6

Intelligence: 6

Dexterity: 5

Luck: 0

Buffs: N/A

Stat Points: 5

Aeleus quickly pulled up a guide to a characters stats to see what each one was used for.

Strength- The level of a character's strength determines how much damage a character will deal. The attack damage on a weapon gets added to the level of strength to determine the amount of damage dealt.

Defense- This stat determines how much damage will be dealt to a character from incoming physical attacks. The level of defense gets added to a characters overall equipment defense to determine how much damage will be dealt. If the amount of defense is higher than the strength, the person attacking will only deal 50% of the damage. If the defense is lower, the full amount will be dealt to the defending character.

Endurance- Determines how long a person can attack for. When increased the total amount of hits that you can deal consecutively goes up. Not to be confused with a combo skill, this stat only determines the amount of swings or casts a person can do at a time.

Wisdom- Determines the amount of magic regeneration a character has, also allows characters to see through traps easier and solve puzzles.

Intelligence- Determines a characters total magic damage. The magic damage from spells are added to the total level of intelligence to get the total damage from that spell on a critical hit. Normal spells deal 10% less damage then the total intelligence. If the level of intelligence is lower then defense, then the spells damage will be reduced by 35% and if it is higher than defense, an extra 5-10% damage will be added to the total damage.

Dexterity- Determines how fast a character can attack, not to be confused with magic cast time as that depends on the level of Magic Affinity.

Luck- Determines how often a critical hit will be applied to monsters. The level of luck does not increase odds for lotteries. Having 0 luck makes the critical chance 1%.

(As you can see, I went more in-depth for the intelligence and defense stat since our character is a Mage and everyone has a defense stat.)

Now knowing everything about all the stats, Aeleus decided to put 3 points in Intelligence, and 2 points in wisdom. Therefore making his intelligence 9, and his wisdom 8. Boosting his damage up by around 2 points and increasing his mana regeneration from 1/ per minute to 1.05/per minute.

"Jeez, the increase in mana regen from the additional 2 points in wisdom is so low, guess one world doesn't want anyone with super high mana regen early in the game." Aeleus said depressingly.

Pulling up his skills menu, Aeleus saw that his [Fire Orb] skill increased to 84% from 14%. He only needed around 3 more kills on the red fox to level it to level 2.

Continuing on his journey to level 3, Aeleus encountered his first LVL 2 enemy.

[Adult Red Fox]

LVL 2

HP:125

Mana: 50

Strength:5

Dexterity:5

Skills: Pounce

"This level 2 fox has a skill? I wonder what it does" Aeleus said and clicked on the skill to learn more about it.

[Pounce]

Damage: 5-7

Rank: Unranked

Description: Allows the fox to jump 3 meters to an opponent and deal damage to it. Useful for chasing opponents.

"This is a pretty good skill for a level 2 monster to have, this makes me wonder about the skills the boss monster will have." Aeleus said worryingly.

Quickly casting a [Fire Orb] at the fox Aeleus watched as it smashed into the fox and the red damage numbers floated over the body of the fox.

-8

"The extra points in intelligence made my damage increase by a decent amount" Aeleus happily said, but started to look worried as the fox's eyes turned red and the fox charged at him.

The fox quickly used [Pounce] and Aeleus managed to intercept it with a cast of

[Fire Orb] dealing another 9 points of damage to the fox lowering its health to 108/125 and him having full HP (100/100).

The fox had a speck of anger flash through its eyes and quickly used [Pounce] and attack twice dealing 27 points of damage to Aeleus.

"What the hell is up with this foxes damage. Taking out over 20% of my HP in one go. The monsters in this game are truly hard."

[Fire Orb]

Critical! -15

The fox fell to the floor because of this critical attack and Aeleus fire two more

[Fire Orb's]

[Fire Orb]

-7

[Fire Orb]

-9

By the the time the wolf had gotten back up its health had been reduced to 77/125.

The fox now realizing that Aeleus was a real challenge tried to [Pounce] and attack but Aeleus had rolled out of the attack dealing a total of 7 damage.

"Ha, this fox isn't to strong. It's losing health fast due to my fire orbs."

The fox realizing that he had an opportunity, rushed at Aeleus and attacked 3 times, each attack doing 6 damage. This brought Aeleus's HP down to 48/100.

Aeleus now a bit more scared then he was launched 3 consecutive spells right after each other not giving the fox any chance to attack.

[Fire Orb]

-9

[Fire Orb]

-10

[Fire Orb]

-7

The fox now was breathing heavily due to its HP being 51/125, it had lost over 50% of its health due to Aeleus's [Fire Orb] attacks.

Pouncing at Aeleus and dealing 5 damage, the fox attacked twice dropping Aeleus's health by 18.

Aeleus casted 2 more [Fire Orb] that smashed into the fox dealing 10 damage each.

The fox tried to run away, and seeing this Aeleus casted 4 [Fire Orb]'s dealing 8,10,10,9 damage respectively, and the fox fell down dead.

A screen popped up in front of the dead body.

Enemy LVL 2 Adult Red Fox has been killed

45 exp gained

20 copper coins gained

*Ding*

LVL of [Fire Orb] has increased to level 2

Mana cost goes up to 6 per cast

Damage rises to 7-12 damage

"Finally, took long enough to get this skill to level 2." Glancing at his exp bar Aeleus saw that the fox had given him a decent chunk of EXP.

"I'll farm these foxes and see if they drop anything useful or until I get to LVL 3."

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Aeleus's POV

*Ding*

Character level has increased to level 3.

5 star points available

Jumping up and down for joy Aeleus saw that the fox had dropped an item

x2

Recovers 25 mana

"Finally! Some mana potions! Since no one is an alchemist this early on in the game, killing monsters is the only way to get mana potions! These will help with the boss that Dhark,Vlad, and I will be facing"

Opening his friends list, Aeleus saw that both Dhark and Vlad had reached LVL 3 a good amount of time ago and now they were both level 4 halfway to reaching LVL 5. Aeleus quickly started up a group call using the skype function.

"Ha, little brother you took a very long time to reach to LVL 3, we reached a long time ago" Vlad said.

"Be quiet... I'm not a pro like you guys, of course I would level up slower. Anyway let's go kill the boss, let's meet up by the gate to the Plains.

"Okay, we will see you there.

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The West Gate

Aeleus's POV

As Aeleus neared the gate, he saw two people looking around, and Aeleus instantly recognized them.

"Dhark! Vlad!" Aeleus yelled to get their attention and waved them over.

"You guys ready for the boss?" Aeleus said

"You know we are" Vlad said, "Let's go kill it and get the drops"

Dhark also agreed with this statement and hurried both of them to where the boss was hiding.

Aeleus saw the boss monster sitting atop a large rock with two other adult red foxes.

"Let's kill it" Aeleus said with a grin on his face

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AN: The end of chapter 3, with a perfect cliffhanger. Sorry about how long it took for me to post this. Had to shovel so much snow ;-;, too make up for it I made the chapter a bit longer