Ariostia Mountains

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When he comes towards the edge of the mountains he sighs deeply contemplating whether he wants to try to go through the river. There wasn’t many strong monsters but the one that lays there is strong enough to cause problems for Jongin. Not to mention they have the ability to lure his character in without a thing Jongin could do. So he opts instead to teleport. He has already pushed his luck traveling through the mountain without any insurmountable difficulties and doesn’t want to continue to do so. He pulls out his stone figuring it was a reasonable distance he could travel and murmurs, “ Renivohitra.” before he fades into pixels and his avatar is zapped towards the destination he wishes to go.

He knows people can sell things to other players and npc vendors but it didn’t seem very lucrative. Of course the first thing on his mind in the game already was show to quickly earn cash. Even if he if he was rich then he could stock up on potions. The gaming system alerts him of holangs lurking nearby their body heat caught on his sensor map of the area since he’s so close to one. He carefully avoids it not wanting a repeat of him fighting off level B monsters with rocks and his fists. He has a feeling that wouldn’t work and he would be forced to teleport to where he’s meeting Sehun at. Jongin goes around where they’re located making himself be more quiet than he had before. His pace is quick and steady but he can only go so fast in this form wishing silently he would have chosen the race he had thought would work better: Notian.

Tracking up then down the mountain is uneventful without the regular spotting of those damn pixie monsters. He would complain about it but he much rather face a thousand pixies than anything ranked higher than him. If they’re easy enough for him to kill rather they’re more bothersome than they are lethal - he can only imagine what he would be like to something of higher rank than he is. He would be quashed like a bug. With a heavy sigh he moves forward wondering how long in-game travel typically took by foot. It didn’t seem like weeks worth of time but it was surely not a short distance. Jongin wonders if there are crafts each player can learn because that would be a nice attribute to consider if he wanted to earn money.

It seems easy enough for him since the only struggle is the mountains for him as he calculates the distance Princess has to go and from what she has to pass if she goes by foot. Princess has to go from Rithos Peak, most likely across the desert, then head to the river. It’s not entirely too bad but Jongin feels lucky he can just ride up the river hopefully if he stays far enough away from the river he won’t find any monsters lurking about. Pushing his hair back he moves forward carefully to avoid the high peaks of the mountain not wanting to encounter anything seemingly unpleasant. It would be a shame to die and start back at Pilseta - shamefully having to admit to Princess he had died.

It does the trick because soon the pixies are fading pixels and there is a modest pile of coins. But nothing he can do any serious work with. He collects them and surveys the damage. Thankfully they were small enough to not do anything major but eventually he’ll have to take care of it if he doesn’t want to progressively lose health points. Tugging the rucksack with his things he opens the map in his screen figuring the distance and places he would have to get to Renivohitra City from where he’s at. Unlike Princess once he gets far enough out of the mountains he can just catch a ride on the river to the center of Ipar until he reaches the city.

Basic level N - like himself. Their power is only in their numbers and their acidity. He feels rocks under his finger tips and gets an idea. He doesn’t have any weapons so he’ll make due with what’s around him. He launches forward to smash the small pixies between the two rocks in his dwarves hands as they scramble to get out of his way. He does it again and again hearing the chime of small dropped coins not expecting much from a monster like this. However their numbers do overwhelm him as they annoying buzz around him like flies and he feels the burn of their acid touching him. Thankfully he has no armor they can ruin but it also means he grows more sluggish than before dropping the rocks and moving to dismember their limbs with his hands.

The mountains are high and hard to climb. Though physically Jongin isn’t the one doing the work himself he still feels the strain through the game’s stimulator as his dwarf moves. He’s cautious because he knows his luck he might encounter a tamyog. But the likelihood isn’t there since they guard their treasures. So long as Jongin doesn’t move too closely towards them he’s safe. But he had forgotten how annoying yoeongs could he. He curses when he sees the the hovering cloud of pixies coming towards him a moment right before they attack. The first shooting of spit has him rolling out of the way despite his staggered movements he somehow manages to miss the spray of toxicons. They’re weak, he reminds himself.