Second Life: Welcome to Gaia

Chapter 60: Beer, singing and fighting

As they keep fighting Captain Antonio, they feel how powerful the injection of chicken blood is. It not only increased the damage they deal on the boss but increased their survivability as well.

On Hell Mode, the boss attack and defense are higher than on other modes, thus without this buff, the boss would be taking very little damage from their attacks.

Ye Yan used his closed fan to deflect the boss attacks and open to attack or defend when needed. Sometimes, Ye Yan couldn't deflect Captain Antonio's strikes and need to use his fan as a shield. 

To defend, Ye Yan opens his fan and puts his left hand behind it as support to stand the boss's attacks.

The fan is the most suitable weapon for Ye Yan. It can attack, defend, help deflect attacks, and still can be used to fan himself in an elegant way. That's why, if he didn't find another fan, he will just pay a forger to upgrade it, using some of the material he has stored.

Upgrading a weapon is very expensive but it can increase its power by a huge amount. Not only that, but players can personalize it and put some cool gadgets on it as well. However, everything depends on the materials used when forging or upgrading weapons and equipment.

When choosing the material for upgrading or forging, the player needs to be very creative and think about how it should be used. Thus, when they hand the items to a forger or any other craftsman, the players need to say how it should be used because the craftsman will not think like the player.

A player can hand a red fabric to a tailor, wanting a cool red blood tunic, representing violence and aggressiveness but gets a sensual dress instead. 

When crafting, attention to detail is very important because it can change the shape and power of an item. Even the sewing thread used to sew an outfit can change its quality. 

If a tailor uses a silver sewing thread but the other materials are of very low quality, the result would not be a silver quality cloth armor.

Luckily, Ye Yan is a very creative person and already thought about the modifications he will do on his fan. It will not have as many functions as an umbrella can have, but it will also be very powerful. The only problem is that it will be very expensive.

Ye Yan continues to use his strength to help himself deflect and defending the boss attacks using his fan while punching and kicking the boss to deal damage at the same time.

And when he hit the boss with an open fan, he always aims at the boss's joints or other weak spots to deal more damage, like the throat and the groin.

While Ye Yan was tanking the boss, the others didn't remain idle. They were using all kinds of skills to deal damage to the boss.

Arrows, and lighting and ice bolts hit the boss one after another, together with My Girl's needles. Needles are normally very cheap but if you need to buy too many, it will cost a lot of money. And at the speed My Girl is using his needles, he will have to spend a lot of money to restock later.

While Ye Yan is tank Captain Antonio from his front, Ashardalon, Conan, and I Love Skooma is attacking him in the back.

Ashardalon is hitting the boss using his large shield, while I Love Skooma is taking advantage of his agility to attack the boss almost nonstop with his daggers, only pausing when the boss attack in a way that could hit everyone in close proximity.

Conan, like Ashardalon and I Love Skooma is hitting the back of the boss. He is using a two-handed sword, thus he is a little slower than I Love Skooma but faster than Ashardalon to attack.

As their attacks have different tempos, they don't get in the way of each other. It looks like they synchronized their attacks to show off.

Conan, wearing his pirate's hat, started to sing to motivate his friends in the battle. He thought it would be a good complement in a battle against a pirate.

Conan: "The pirate ship is coming,

We know it's on its way,

The pirate ship is coming,

We've seen it in the bay.

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A skull and crossbones on the mast,

A wild and noisy crew:

The pirate ship is coming

And it's after me and you!"

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After Conan started to sing, the others started to smile, feeling the pressure of the boss battle decrease. And soon, they started to ding along with Conan, singing the chorus.

Everyone: "Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum,

pirates like to have their fun!

Yo-ho-ho on the 'Salty Breeze'

as they sail the seven seas."

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Conan: "The captain wears an eye-patch,

A cutlass in his hand,

And on the bridge beside him,

His faithful pirates stand.

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A skull and crossbones on the mast,

A wild and noisy crew:

The pirate ship is coming

And it's after me and you!

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Everyone: "Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum,

pirates like to have their fun!

Yo-ho-ho on the 'Salty Breeze'

as they sail the seven seas."

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Conan: "They're seeking gold and silver

And jewels of every kind,

They'll board each sailing vessel

And take what they can find.

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A skull and crossbones on the mast,

A wild and noisy crew:

The pirate ship is coming

And it's after me and you!"

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Everyone: "Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum,

pirates like to have their fun!

Yo-ho-ho on the 'Salty Breeze'

as they sail the seven seas." [1]

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After they started to sing, they felt more motivated and attacked the boss ferociously, mainly the melee classes.

Snow White even started to drink while battling, but it wasn't rum but beer. She took a big mug of beer from her space bag and drank everything in one gulp.

If other races drink so much beer, they would feel tipsy, but a dwarf will only feel refreshed. Dwarves have a racial trait that when they drink beer, they will recover a portion of stamina and mana and started to regenerate both resources for 5 minutes.

There is no doubt, no matter where they are or what they are doing, the beer is a dwarf best friend.

After drinking her tonic, Snow White felt reinvigorated and started to heal her friends faster them before. 

Because of the cooldown, Snow White can't drink beer durant the entire battle, so she drank one before they entered Captain Antonio's cabin and another when the boss was getting enraged.

After Captain Antonio went berserk, My Girl didn't need to worry about using his skills on his friends because he was already enraged, so he started to take turns between healing his friends and attacking the boss, because while he is attacking, Captain Antonio will receive double damage from all sources, so he needs to keep hitting the boss for them to kill it faster.

Captain Antonio started to throw firebombs randomly on the male players after he became enraged but always aiming at their ass. However, after practicing in the other difficulty modes, Ye Yan became an expert in deflecting the bombs, sending them back in the boss direction.

Ye Yan became so good at it that 50% of the firebombs were sent back, hitting the boss. Among the firebombs that Ye Yan couldn't deflect, about 25% were blocked by Ashardalon, and the other 25% passing through him, hitting mainly Mage of the Cold Nights. 

Some of the firebombs hit Conan and I Love Skooma, which now have to attack from a distance because the boss would always attack in a way that would hit players behind him when fighting Ye Yan.

I Love Skooma was using his boomerang to attack the boss but Conan didn't have a ranged weapon. He can only be a meat shield to protect Mage of the Cold Nights from the firebombs.

Conan has a higher defense than other players as a fighter, plus Mage of the Cold Nights'  weakness to fire damage, make it be the best choice as he can't attack the boss now. 

As only being a meat shield is too boring, he starts to sing again to motivate his teammates. Music has always motivated soldiers during battles. Even many books found in the Bible speaks about how music was used by soldiers to help them win important battles.

Conan: "Can you coil a line?

Can you lift a ton?

Can you live with worms and have a lot of fun?

Can you fool a mate and never feel his pain?

Can you laugh at a hurricane?

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So you wanna be a pirate?

Yeah, you wanna be a pirate? Oo, oo oo!

Can you crawl down through a hatch?

Do you look good in a patch?

'Cause that's a pirate!

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So, you wanna be a pirate?

A hooky, spooky, kooky pirate? Oo, oo oo!

Can you stay up in a tower?

Go a month without a shower?

That's a pirate!

Can you swab a deck?

Can you swing a sword?

Can you give a speech with a single word?

Hoist a sail? Can you dig a trench?

And can you stand the stench?

So you wanna be a pirate?

Yeah, you wanna be a pirate? Oo, oo oo!" [2]

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The music indeed increased the morale of the players, except by Ye Yan, that only thought that he would never want to be a pirate as described in the song.

Luckily, the boss died before Ye Yan also went berserk and tried to kill hisfriend. He like music but when it is too much, it starts to get annoying.

While Ye Yan was pondering if he should help his friend shut up, he heard the system announcement. 

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[1] The name of this song is 'Pirates!'.

[2] Fragment of the music 'You wanna be a pirate'.