A Girl's Life in a Gaming World
Chapter 44 - First Quest

[Your tutorial is now starting]

[Hold Off Goblin Invasion]

*Hold off the goblin invasion for 1 hour to allow the villagers have time to evacuate the village.

*Quest Failure: Half of Honey Combed villager's death

*Reward: Honey Combed villager's survival

*Tutorial quest's benefit: The death penalty is currently reduced to half of the standard death penalty: Players will only drop 25% of the stored items in their inventory. And lose all equipped non-soul bounded equipment.

"We will do everything we can. I promise," Alex replied, hearing Lumiere saying that it is a life-threatening quest for the villagers. 

[Quest Accepted]

Alex pinched Lili's adorable cheeks one last time for an early reward herself. Because she is planning on going all out later.

"Thank you, sister Alex, thank you, brother Ezekiel." Lili bowed to both of them in gratitude.

"I'm sorry, but we really need to go now." The lady uttered as they brought the things in their stall with them. 

"Follow your mother and take care of yourself, okay?" Alex advised Lili.

"Take care," Ezekiel muttered as he patted Lili's head.

"Uhn, bye, sister Alex, bye, brother Ezekiel." Lili nodded then they started walking away while she waved her hands at them. 

Shortly, the mother and daughter disappear from their sight. Alex turned to Ezekiel for them to plan what they are going to do next. "Now what?" 

"Let's try to check the situation first. It is just a tutorial anyway. This event shouldn't be that hard." Ezekiel answered as he has bad feelings about what is going to happen later. 

The reason why he's feeling bad premonition because he has seen the guards patrol the villager earlier. He can tell that they are pretty well-trained for a village guard. Adding the one thousand players on the village. They shouldn't consider goblins a threat at all. 

"Right... but I hope it's challenging, though. The warm-up fight I did earlier is still not enough for me." Alex uttered as they started treading towards the north gate. 

Ezekiel wonders what the people on the plaza would think. If they knew that the frightening scene that they saw was just a warm-up for Alex.

"Don't expect too much; it's just a tutorial. It shouldn't be that hard. Since the enemy is just short green-skinned unintelligent goblins, we are fighting with. If there are around five thousand goblins, then maybe it will be a little challenging for the players. But considering that everyone should have an experience of playing virtual reality already. Then fighting five goblins at once for one player will not pose a problem at all." Ezekiel thinks that this tutorial will be a warm-up for the players. It is for them to get used to playing virtual reality again. After all, they haven't tried any other virtual reality for the past 2 years.

Ezekiel noticed something as they got closer to the north gate of the village. They now encountered a large number of players going the same way with them. At the same time, they also encountered villagers that were running for their lives. Going to the south gate of the village.

"Five thousand is not enough. I hope there are at most ten thousand goblins." Alex muttered, feeling that the tutorial will end fast, with the number of players in the village. 

"It wouldn't be fun at all if it ends quickly." 

"You shouldn't let the villagers hear you say that, or else the villagers will not let us enter the village again in the future. Then we will be forced to live in the wilderness." Ezekiel warned Alex as she is acting weird again whenever she expects to fight something. 

She looked so normal earlier as she promised to hold back the goblins to Lili. And in a few minutes, she wishes to have more enemies to fight.

"What are you worried about? It's just five thousand more than your expectations. Everyone should be able to kill at least 10 goblins without a problem each. Besides, I should be able to kill at least one thousand goblins If I'm given the time." Alex defended. 

"Right, I forgot to tell you, as much as possible, kill as many goblins as you can." Ezekiel suddenly remembers the condition of his skill to level up when Alex mentioned killing. 

"Why?" 

"The more you kill, the faster I level up."

"How does that work??" 

"Healer weapon categories have a different way of leveling up compared to others." Ezekiel explained. Even though the leveling up method of healers is different. Ezekiel actually liked this method.

"Are you telling me that you are going to leech off me later!? Isn't that unfair!? I'm going to do all the hard work while you just follow me around." Alex exclaimed after Ezekiel said that he can gain experience every time she kills a monster. 

"It's the game's system. There's nothing I can do about it. Most of the healers in the game don't have any way to kill any monster in the early stage. That's why we gain experience every time we heal an ally that has managed to kill a monster." 

"It's not experience sharing. You don't lose even 1% of your experience." Ezekiel explained, he was actually fortunate that he started with Alex. This way, his growth will not get left behind by how fast Alex can grow strong in a game. 

"Let's just say that I am lucky; After all, I am lucky." 

"Ezekiel leecher!" Alex grumbled as she hastens her footsteps seeing the north gate's wall in her sight. 

"I don't have a choice," Ezekiel murmured shortly after Alex gained some distance away from him. If he doesn't leech off Alex, he'll probably be eating her dust by how slow he moves. Besides, he still needs to learn how to become an effective healer that can fight beside her. 

"We're here, hurry!! you need to see this!" Alex shouted to Ezekiel. After she jumped up on the roof of the watchtower in the village. She was astonished by the scene in front of her. It was horrifying, yet it is making her blood boil looking at the horde.

Seeing the excited look on Alex's face. Ezekiel guessed that her expectations have become a reality. There should be more than five thousand goblins on the other side of the wall.

"What woman would look happy seeing a horde of green-skinned monsters. That kills any human on sight and abuse women as well as children." Ezekiel grumbled as he hastens his footsteps towards Alex.