Free End Online: Volume 1 by D. Wolfin Page A

cold out of your bones. It doesn’t have much in terms of defensive power,
but it can be worn over any armour. Also, you are best hiding that face of
yours, just looking at it makes me feel violent inside! Pulling the hood over
your head will help with that, although it will inhibit your movement speed, so
it’s no good for battle.”
    “I also have some coins
here for your efforts, it’s a decent amount so don’t waste it and get yourself
some proper equipment!”
    He slides across 3 gold
coins and hands me the cloak, I was near shedding tears of joy of being able to
hide my face which should prevent my aggravation skill from destroying NPC’s
opinions of me!
    Equipping the cloak the
cold chill in the air around me immediately disappeared, allowing my body to
warm up to a comfortable temperature.
    “Now! You never told me your name before! What is it!?” I wasn’t
entirely sure if he was asking me or demanding I tell him.
    “My name is Lost-“
    “HAHAHAHA! NAME! PATHETIC!” That’s it. I turn
around and walk away from this child. Before I get out of the room however he
has more to say.
    “Come back sometime if you
want to get even stronger, I will be sure to per-son-al- ly train you. HAHAHA!”
    Well, I don’t exactly see
myself ever going back to see that guy ever again if I could help it,
but stranger things have happened.
    Putting the military
academy behind me I need to find myself some actual armour, but it’s night time now so it can wait until tomorrow.
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    Name: Lost
    Health: 167/167
    Stamina: 113/113
     
    Lvl : 10
    Lvl UP: 42%
     
    Str : 17 +4
    Agi : 29 +6
    Dex : 20 +4
    Int : 9
    Mnd : 9
    Lck : 9
     
    Fame/Infamy: 0
    Alignment: +0
    God: -
    Belief: 0
     
    Equipped Skills:
    Aggravation ( SLvl 10, 21%)
    Advanced Military Arts ( SLvl 6, 12%)
    [Empty]
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    Reserve Skills:
    [Empty]
     
     
    White Wolf Winter Cloak
    Made from the pelt of the great white wolf, tailored
by an unknown man of master skills. It will prevent any cold from entering and placing
the hood on will conceal your face, preventing people from recognizing you.
     
    Requirements:
    - Level 10
    - Agi 15
    - Dex 11
     
    Defence : 4
    Durability: 50/50
    Weight: 12.3 lbs
    Ice Resistance: 40%
    Fire Resistance: -10%
     
    Abilities:
    - Regulates the air around the wearer to always be at
the optimal temperature.
    - Placing the hood over your head conceals your face,   intimacy with NPC's can neither increase nor
decrease.
    - 50% movement penalty when face is concealed.

 
    Chapter 3 – Money Made and Everything Lost
     
    I was glad to finally be
out of the barracks and away from Centurion Markus. It’s not that I
particularly hate him or anything, I will simply never
be able to get along with him.
    Pulling the oversized hood
of the ‘White wolf winter cloak’ over my head, it came down to just above my
eye level, covering about the top quarter of my vision. Some strange icons appear
in the top left of my vision, an outline of a person with a question mark in it
and a figure of a stopwatch, I figure these are the mask identity and slow
enchants currently on me.
    It was certainly odd
however as I don’t feel like I had been slowed down, at least not until I tried
running and felt like all the air surrounding me at become a thick mud, to
the point where moving in any direction was incredibly difficult.
Understanding that this was the feeling of being ‘slowed’, I returned to walking
for the duration of the time it took to enter the central courtyard.
    At first I was a little
surprised at how busy it was, the players crowded the area trying to get into
the item shops they wanted. I guess this is End Online’s peak hour, it must be an extremely good server to handle this many people at
once in a single area.
    I weave through the
crowd until I arrived at the weapon shop I had previously browsed through
before my training began,