Soul Art Online

- Arthas -

I fell on my backside when the gate finally closed shut after we had retreated after clearing out the leftovers.

Shiroe and Veena had already messaged me that the fight on their side had been taken care of too.

There were only a few hundred goblins on their side and they had easily been taken care of by the militia.

So they were coming here right now.

I took this chance to look at my Status.

"Hahahaha…." I couldn't help but burst out into a loud laugh.

The others looked at me and they chuckled and then started laughing. Although all of us were laughing for different reasons.

They were laughing because they had just escaped with their life and overturned the entire pace of the war, taking the win against an army over twenty times their size.

I was laughing at my level.

Level 38.

I was level 3 when this fight had started.

35 levels in one fight.

I couldn't do anything else than laugh my heart out.

But that was not all.

I scrolled through the notifications and reached back to the reference rewards.

The one for the Dragon ball reference was a unique skill.

Congratulations Traveller.

You have discovered another secret!

Reward: Unique Skill: Scouter

Keep working hard.

Traveller.

A Special Title given to those who complete the Hidden Quests, Man of Culture.

+4 to all stats.

+8% to Exp Gained.

Note: The Effect of the Title can be enhanced the more secrets the Traveller discovers in the world.

The Skill allowed me to see the information and stats of other people, three Tiers above me unless they specifically had Skills or high Ranked items to obscure them.

It really was a scouter.

It couldn't be levelled up either.

The one for the JJK reference was another skill.

Congratulations Traveller.

You have discovered another secret!

Reward: Unique Skill: Limitless

Keep working hard.

Traveller.

A Special Title given to those who complete the Hidden Quests, Man of Culture.

+5 to all stats.

+10% to Exp Gained.

Note: The Effect of the Title can be enhanced the more secrets the Traveller discovers in the world.

As much as I wished it was actually the Limitless Skill….it wasn't.

Limitless [Unique Skill] [Level 1] [Exp: 0/1000]

Divides the Space between you and an incoming attack infinite times to slow down and stop any incoming attacks.

Skill Duration:10 Seconds

Cooldown: Two Hours

Cooldown is reduced by one minute for every level.

With a total of one hundred levels, this Skill could allow me to spam it every twenty minutes at max level and stop any kind of attack.

Damn, that's OP.

It was a perfect Skill for me who was at the lead as a tank for the team. It reminded me of the Divine Shield Skill of a Paladin from Warcraft.

And talking about the Paladin Skills from the Warcraft world, last but not the least, the Warcraft reference's reward was another Skill and this was the Skill we needed badly in the team.

Congratulations Traveller.

You have discovered another secret!

Reward: Unique Skill: Holy Light

Keep working hard.

Traveller.

A Special Title given to those who complete the Hidden Quests, Man of Culture.

+6 to all stats.

+12% to Exp Gained.

Note: The Effect of the Title can be enhanced the more secrets the Traveller discovers in the world.

This skill was exactly the same as the one from Warcraft.

Holy Light [Unique Skill] [Level 1] [Exp: 0/1000]

Call upon divine aid to heal your allies and smite the creatures of the dark in a certain area.

Heals 30% of the total health of the target. Damage dealt depends on the stat difference and resistance of the targets.

Cooldown: 90 minutes.

Cooldown is reduced by 1 minute, 1% extra damage is healed and 1% extra damage is dealt to dark creatures for every level.

This Skill went up to a max of 50 levels.

Another incredible skill.

Seriously, until now, all the Skills I had received from the Reference Rewards have been overpowered.

There was one surprising thing though, there were no rewards for the 'Lord of the Rings' reference.

Has someone else already claimed that?

Or was it something else?

Anyways, I had gained a lot already so it didn't matter if I didn't get one reference correct. It wouldn't be the first one. I had tried many others previously and had not received anything from them either.

Apart from that, there were tons of drop items that I had from the whole thing.

Very soon, Shiroe and Veena appeared from their own posts.

"Arthas. Are you alright? Has everything ended?" Veena asked as she reached me.

"Yes. More than alright."

These two had gained a lot too.

Shiroe had received the Mage Class already and was a level 15 Mage while Veena had also completed the Herbalist Class was also maxed out and she was now a level 18 Pharmacist.

I don't know how other teams and players did in the fight but I doubt it would be this good.

"Should we go check out the other gates?" I asked but Shiroe shook his head.

"Won't work. We had to choose the Gates we wanted to protect. I doubt they would put that in if we could just run around to other gates."

"The line of command in such situations is very harsh. You cannot intrude in other people's positions without their permission." Veena said too.

"Alright." I nodded. "By the way, you chose the Pharmacist Class?"

"I had to use the experience somewhere and we need someone to prepare the consumables either way. Our fighting style is deeply dependent on this so I chose to use this Class."

"Thank you."

"Don't mind, dear. I can always get other Classes later on."

I nodded and looked at Shiroe. "How is the Mage Class?"

"Amazing. The fire power is far better than Scholar. There is a thing about learning better skills through Skill Books and outer sources but hey, the best things need us to work for it."

"So true."

"What about you though? You are almost at level Cap. Guess the Goblin Slayer Class in a Goblin raid was just too broken. I doubt we would have received so much experience if it hadn't been for your Sweet Revenge Skill."

"Yeah. I didn't expect it either."

The fight at the other gates continued for several more hours.

We returned to our gates and waited for any more goblins who may attack but there were none.

Finally, at the end of the day, reinforcements arrived.

An entire cavalry of two thousand Knights marched from the main roads and cleared up any remaining enemies.

All of them were at the very least Tier 4 while the stronger ones were Tier 5 and the leader was a Tier 6, the highest Tier I had seen yet.

Thanks to my newly acquired Scouter Skill, I got the information about the Class of the guy.

Holy Knight.

At least that was a clue.

We were all given the day off to retire and take rest.

The City Lord announced that the town was finally safe and all the attacking goblins had been taken care of. There will be a ceremony for rewarding the ones who had participated in resisting the attack after they took care of everything.

Till then, we were told to rest and not leave the town as the Knight battalion which had arrived was scouring through the forests and cleaning up any and every goblin settlement in the nearby area.

We had been awake for over twenty four hours at that point and while my new fitness could easily allow me to be awake for three days or so, I was too mentally exhausted so we separated and left for our home too.

This mission had changed a lot of things.

Our identities were barely a secret at this point. It just hadn't spread throughout the town yet but even then I had observed many people trying to observe us from a distance.

They didn't approach us in the town though.

As we entered the house, I quickly closed the door behind me.

"Those stares are indeed getting annoying." Veena said as she removed her equipment and set it aside.

Our equipment was covered with blood and grime and while Veena was relatively clean….it was still very dirty.

"It will get even worse after the Award Ceremony as they would probably reveal the rewards. Maybe…."

"Hmm?"

"Maybe we should think about changing town." I said hesitantly.

"And how would that change anything? Instead it would get in the way of making a guild. Most of the players are Tier 3 right now and I doubt anyone else apart from us is Tier 4. They will probably stay here till they reach the level cap for Tier 4. If we want to recruit members, we can only hire from them here. If we go to a higher level town, we won't see any players there for months. That would set back the creation of our guild by months. Not to mention, most of the people would already be part of other guilds." She explained.

And she was not wrong.

She came to me and caressed my hair lightly. "Don't worry about the stares. As long as you are strong, you can take care of those kinds of stares easily. I believe that even with my current stats, I could take down at least two Tier 3 attackers easily."

And that's when she has been using a production class all along.

She walked to her room and came out after a minute, dressed in just a towel.

The scene from yesterday morning came flashing in my mind.

I quickly shook my head and removed my own equipment and cleaned them first. Plate Armour needed a lot of maintenance.

She came out of the bath in the same towel, although her wet hair made her look even better.

I shook off the thoughts and went to the bath quickly to cool myself down.

My thoughts were drifting a lot. Need to control that.

While I took a bath, she prepared something quick to eat. Although extremely tired, none of us wanted to go out to eat right now.

Finally, when it was time to sleep, I was about to go to my room when I heard her voice.

"Oh my, did you not enjoy your nap the day before?" She smiled.

"Ah….it's not like that…."

"Then come and join me." She said and didn't give me any time to say anything as she dragged me by my hand to the bed.

Well….who was I to say no to such an invitation?

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Author's Note:

I am back with another chapter of 'Soul Art Online'.

Arthas and the team took part in the first World Quest.

The quests will start branching off and become more rpg-like than just hunting and levelling from now on. We will see more soon.

Arthas' Skillset is also looking more like the Warcraft Paladin.

The GM realised that he had left some things behind.[BN: That he done goofed]

We will see what rewards Arthas and the team gets next.

Also, more characters will start appearing from now and the team will increase.

Finally, Arthas is going to have another good nap.

[BN: It should've been me…. Not him!!!]

Enjoy the new chapter.

Good Day, Peace Out.