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Do you ever get that feeling?
The feeling where you're lost, out of options and just don't know what to do anymore. You sit there pondering on what you can do and soon realize that it's all over. Your ticket has been called and now you'll be the one that gets judged.
In that moment, your mind is screaming for help but your voice remains silent. "Please help me" constantly reverberating.
I was like that. Stuck and helpless. But when one arm pulled me out of this lonely void, i gasped for air filling my lungs with hope and a new will. Your saviour is someone who shines only to you and this gleeful happiness feels euphoric.
May that day find you too.
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Waking up that day in our small flat with nana felt invigorating and i wanted to make it last.
"Nana I'm going to a rift today" she says over breakfast. "I got a message last night saying they have a spot open and I said I'll go".
"That's lovely dear" "But make sure to be careful" she replies with a gentle smile. "Will do" she says ecstatically while rushing to leave the flat. She rushes to her room after shoving food into her gob and goes towards the door.
"See you later Nana" she says and gets a reply "Bye bye dear".
She starts to run for a bit after leaving home with this new found opportunity and slows down drastically after remembering her stamina is awful.
"Wow this is bad" she says to herself after being out of breath that quick. Wheezing and whimpering, she sits down at a bench catching her breath.
A passer-by stops and says "Hey, Are you okay?". Sophie looks up for a moment, but can't see his face as the sun is blocking. She uses her hand to look closer at his face and for a moment says..
"Arthur?"
Quickly realizing that it isn't him, she responds "I'm fine thank you" for a soft smile. "Take care" he says as he walks away.
With her elbow resting on her thighs and hands on her chin, she reflects on all the things that have happened with Arthur recently and gets pumped up.
"LET'S DO THIS" she says jumping from the bench and going towards the rift.
After a while, she gets to the rift site with a team waiting near the perimeter. "Hey" shouts one of the EVO as she waves back raring to go.
After a rift has already been explored, a system notification appears before entrance showing all EVO nearby the difficulty and mission type as it has already been declared.
"Hi I'm Sophie" "I'm a healer" she says as she greets her team. A large heavyset man approaches her, towering above her. Sophie for a moment gets scared and loses all that pent up energy. "Hello there" he says as he smiles and sticks his hand out for a handshake.
As he smiles, his moustache curls up and it gives her an inviting feeling. "Hello" she replies trembling a bit. "Hey Bruiser" "Your scaring the lady dude" says another EVO as he approaches her at more of an eye level.
"Sorry about that" "He may be as big as a bear but his not as scary as one". He puts his hand on his chin thinking for a moment and gets an idea. "His like a care bear" he shouts.
Sophie looks at him again and sees pink heart on his chest with him looking all fluffy. "Wow" she gasps out with the EVO next her saying "You see it too right?" sarcastically. "Yeah" she says in a state of bewilderment.
"Oh I forgot I'm Louis" "I'm a Ranger". Sophie snaps out of it and greets him.
"I call him bruiser because Matthew (his name btw) just doesn't suit him and that guy is Myst".
"Nice to meet you all" she says before they begin making their way into the rift.
[Goblin Swarm]
[Rift Difficulty: D]
[Kill the Goblin Priest who has unified the goblins under it's command]
They all enter the rift together and find themselves in a forest. With Bruiser and Louis Infront, Myst approaches Sophie and says "Hey sorry I didn't introduce myself earlier" "I'm kind of shy around new people".
"It's fine" "I get like that sometimes too" she replies with smile to make him feel reassured.
Louis uses his Hawkeye ability which allows him to search 1km from the position he stands, detecting mana signatures.
As rifts have designated monsters, he can pinpoint the locations of those monsters and the number of monsters within his radius. But using this ability will also make the monsters aware to his location too as mana is a delicacy to all monsters and EVO have the most attractive ones.
"I've got 4 goblins heading this way" "Bruiser you get in front" "Myst you get any stragglers" "I'll go up there and shoot them down" as he points to a tree.
"GOT IT" they say in unison, but Sophie was left out. "What do i do?" she says while looking down.
As the goblins get closer, they all get ready with Bruiser placing his metal tower shield in the ground and just holding his long spear.
With the sight line Louis has chosen, a tree stands in the way of seeing the goblins as they run while slobbering over the taste of mana. Like starved animals that will pounce on any just to appease it's hunger.
Once they enter this state, monsters with no intelligence lose their sense of will turning into humans.
'Masse'
Louis shoots out an arrow that goes so straight that it curves around the tree and piercing straight through one of the goblins dome. But the others keep running and he shoots again.