After eating a hearty meal following the morning rise, Mikkael made his way to Philena's room to wake her up. Back at Vex Vinas during their short-lived study period, she was always late, and always one to procrastinate. Nonetheless, it was the same procedure as always; Knock on the door, be told to wait a couple minutes, knock even more, be told to wait again, barge in, pull the covers off the "sleeping beauty", not react at all to the fact that she's wearing nothing since this has happened before, and finally, after escorting himself out, Mikkael would greet her again when she finally ends up dressed and has left her room.

Before heading off to the gate, Mikkael double checked the gauntlet in his bag. Still secured under the false bottom he had quickly constructed the night before. He stitched the flap shut once more and walked down the Cyndar streets with his Meridian companion.

"I really can't believe we're finally on an adventure.~" Philena happily commented. Mikkael nodded silently.

"Hey, Mikkael? You're being awfully quiet."

"Mikkael?"

He finally spoke, "It seems odd that a beginner scholar is willing to pay so much for a request like this."

"Huh?" Philena questioned.

"I just think it really odd. It's probably nothing though." He then puts on a smile, "I wonder if we'll see any bandits at Selk."

"Are you kidding? Selk is the bandit capital."

"That's true, but I wonder if I'll run into any particularly strong ones this time."

"You seem awfully confident."

"I'm just ready to finally be doing something for someone else." He turns his head and notices Natsuki waiting at the gate, "Speaking of which, there's our friend." He points, then quickens his pace to meet up with the scholar.

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((Wow! Not even two weeks and I made a new update! Download the update here!

Now, first thing you'll have probably noticed is that the update is a DROPBOX link. WELL, the reason why it's Dropbox and not Puush is because I've actually set it up now so that our images here are all hosted on photobucket from now on and the actual game is on Dropbox because Puush is full of evil evil minions who delete stuff after a certain number of days. Like, I'm probably going to have to go down to all my other topics and update those as well. Yes, including ARKNIGHT. Yes, including my AA2 guide. YES, INCLUDING MY AA2 CARDS. In essence, Puush is evil. The end.

NOW ON TO THE ACTUAL UPDATE.

I'm going to address right away the issue everyone SHOULD be complaining about. If you aren't well... Thank you. Soldiers, from now on, will start with a Tomahawk (an axe weapon). I have my reasons, and the reasons are as follows.

-Rapier is a piercing weapon. This means it ignores defense and gives soldiers an unfair advantage at the start. Even as weak as it is, on a Meridian this is too powerful for even a starter character.
-Tomahawk is a balanced weapon in general.
-Tomahawk is now a weapon that can gather but isn't affected by job skills.
-Axes in medieval times were the economy weapon alongside daggers.

All characters who were soldiers before this change will keep their rapier should they still have it.

Beyond that, we have some new releases, such as new monsters and the Meridian Depths Dungeon, the longest and hardest dungeon in the game. It's considered a raid dungeon, meaning any characters can participate without being in the party. It's filled with sea creatures, but the ultimate question is whether or not you can defeat the Ceadeus at the end and claim the massive reward at the very end.

Lastly, we have some new NPCs, new weapons, and new skills. The main thing, though, is the release of Chronicle I Part 2's first two quests have been released. Even without a monarch right now, this should hopefully give everyone more reason to aim for the throne.

That's all for now, happy adventuring!))

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The black tendrils moved from his vision, receding into the corners of his sight as Yemhelch woke up groggily, not in the bed of the inn where he had decided to stay the night - rather an old drainage duct that had become clearly disused with the completion of the newer paved roads in central Cyndar. Brushing off some dirt from his body, he gathered his things as he regarded his surroundings with a look of confusion.

This had happened before - eleven times, in fact; he realized as he recalled his long, directionless trip through the twisted jungle before finally finding the farming commune, one Frenga Farms. Sleepwalking? If so, someone should have woken him up when he walked out of the inn...

Then he remembered that he was supposed to meet an adventuring party for a road-trip to Selk, far to the northwest and he took off at a steady pace, remembering a few seconds later not to run - not to garner attention to himself.

As he walked along the road, he noticed an oddity... soldiers and knight-errant newbies pulling out tomahawks from the most unlikely places and inspecting them carefully, while others customized or notched them. Did he just sleep through a weapons giveaway or something? Shaking his head, he walked towards Cyndar's grand gate.

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Raising her head against the glare of the morning sun, she spotted the spellsword Mikkael and his protege' Philena coming from the main road. Mikkael's warning echoed in her mind to give Philena a lighter load on work as she would be coming along as an observer and a study, rather than a real party member.

"At least she can carry some items, instead of being dead weight", she noted to herself quietly as she sighed. How she wished to go it alone. She looked longingly at the few adventurers that did dare go alone, and realized that most of them were either seedy thugs or inexperienced rookies.

That's when Yemhelch stepped out from a nearby alleyway, the soft leathery material of his boots silencing his footsteps. Natsuki had a slight start, but calmed down as he flashed her a winning smile.

"Ah, so we're all here. Well then, let's go over the plan... Our objective is the bay south by south east of Selk, where we will take samples from a rare jellyfish that are migrating past the sea. This event takes once every 10 years, so getting samples is a costly task. Any questions?"

There were none, so the party had set out southeast, past the massive walls of Cyndar and into the countryside. The tents and temporary stalls of horse-keepers and traveling merchants finally gave way to silent countryside.

Much as he'd loved to have snuck through the forest, they were traveling as a group this time, and that would make it even more obvious.

This region of the world was well-patrolled. More than once they'd walk by a Knight Platoon, and again they walked past several camps set up by the roadside, with travelers like them either taking a quick rest before entering Cyndar proper, or gearing up for a longer trip.

Walking past a Knights Outpost, a set of hastily set-up tents and a guard post, Yemhelch adjusted his pace to catch up to Natsuki.

"So, what's the deal with these jellyfish?" he asked her.

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"Well, I suppose it's fine if you know. Not that you'd be able to dive into the deep blue sea after'em..." Natsuki smiled to herself as she formulated the words.

"These jellyfish are very rarely seen in the sea - emerging from the depths of the Boundary Ocean every 10 or so years. What makes them particularly of interest to study is the fact their stings, while quite painful, tend to cure Blightworm infection and Corpus, if administered in an early stage."

She pauses to take a breath before continuing.

"Their route... according to observation reports, they emerge far to the west of Bandit Isles, swim across the sea near Ogre Mountain, and once they pass through the inlet north of Rainfall Swamp, they dive into the unknown depths of the North Sea."

"We will be making camp at the shore west of Ogre Mountain, and collecting bits and pieces of the jellyfish as they leave behind tendrils during their migration."

"As of late, word's spread about these expeditions, so the Magus Guild had to tone down the larger expeditions to Selk, in favor of smaller groups like us working independently of each other to avoid having to run into a large force of bandits. Regardless, I suppose you know why these ingredients are worth quite the Legen."

The sun had set, and the last rays of the sun were quickly fading away. This far from the bright lights of the city, the stars shone spectacularly as night rolled in.

"... shall we make camp here for the night?"

((Going to do my reply in a second here. First thing's first though...

UPDATES HAVE HAPPENED! Yep, we're now on Jungalore update 1.16. Haven't downloaded it yet? WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!? That said, here's the overview as usual...

So I've FINALLY gone ahead and done some balancing for the classes, in that they all gain some form of bonus when they've hit their final class... Except Paragon, they're already pretty OP, after all. All the main classes, I mean to say. All of them have been updated to get something cool... Oh, Guardians too, they also didn't get anything new because they already had something if anyone paid attention to the class guide from previous versions.

I will say one thing Guardians have obtained, though, GAUNTLETS. Yep, for the longest time they haven't been able to wear em' because originally I was planning to make this a game on RPG Maker VX Ace, but nothing came of that due to the sheer size of the game in general. So when everything got converted, they were left without gauntlets, originally a SHIELD SLOT ITEM, and everyone else kind of adapted... Just not guardians I guess. However, that's changed. So feel free to wear all the gloves you like. Plus, this offers a nice differentiation between the guardian and the paladin.

Three final classes have had their ultimate skills (not to be confused with ultimate spell) revised. The Shadow Form of Assassin has been redone to fit with the new poison skill, and turn them into a true killing machine. Warlock was more of a redefinition than anything, helping players know that you can still use a non-elemental meteor, even if you have learned an ultimate spell.

Yet the biggest one, I believe is that I changed the Will Armor skill of Rune Lords completely into Will Reckoning. Why? Well...

STORY TIME!
In CoJI2, the one that took place on Skype, Spellsword, Gunslinger, and Summoner, as well as the advanced classes of those classes, were proposed by my colleague and fellow RPer, and I said, "SURE, LET'S MAKE THAT." We then went ahead and made all the classes related to them, one of them being the Magic Knight and later, Rune Knight Lord (who would even later become a fifth class, but we don't need fifth classes, because 100 quests is enough, screw doing 200). Anyways, the guy was based off of a certain OP dual swordsman from a certain overrated anime. If this sounds familiar, it should.

So, we basically made this guy so you could do solo play easy. Dark Knight was built because "Meh, why not?" and I was wrong to make it like that, but that's why I revised it, right? Point is though, Magic Knight was all about being the true one man army, and Will Armor made that especially so. He could basically walk through a whole group of combatants and be like, "Meh."


BUT SCREW THAT.

As you all know, Jungalore is about party play and cooperation (although, it has its PvP and competition aspects as well). So I said to my 2014 self with my 2016 brain, "Okay, here's what'll happen. It'll keep the +4 resistance to all elements to ALL party members EXCEPT the Rune Lord. Instead, the Rune Lord gets Fire/Air/Water/Earth elemental attacks on their weapon... Four charges of it, in fact... Except only ONE element." This means that Rune Lords will now be able to have fun in parties, and still get some decent soloing capability. Point is, this puts a better shift into the true heart of Jungalore, rather than give people a loner class.

So, moving on to the final small class change, I added Charged Arrow to the skill list for Snipers alone to use. Reason being that there's not enough archery skills. This one will be quite useful, I think, and give players more of a reason to go for Sniper and Ranger.

As I've mentioned earlier, I did some tiny changes to statuses. Poison now spreads throughout the opposing side, which actually makes it into a viable status condition for enchants and such, but I've also added a double magic damage condition to stun. This will be quite useful for mace users and magic casters... Or even acolyte classes in general.

I've done a small modification to the job system, you can now become a master of your job, which grants you some nice bonuses and even exclusive skills. This will segue into the final point I want to raise about this update, but for the most part, this should offer some incentive for the less extravagant jobs such as enchanter, miner, alchemist, and gatherer. Speaking of which, I ought to get on the armor crafting recipes...

Before we get to the final BIG update part, I'd like to mention that I've made a compilation of songs for each area in Jungalore. Maybe at some point I'll offer them as MP3s in dropbox as well, but for now, you can find the list in the root folder.

OKAY, the main update. Do you like Soul Eater? How about Noragami? Ever want to be a piece of equipment or own a sentient piece of equipment? Well, now you can with REGAL ARMAMENTS!

"A Regal Armament (herein, RA) is a character who has revoked themselves of their regular class in order to become a weapon or armor piece. RA characters function differently than normal characters and equipment."

These guys are powerful, let's just say. No, really. The armor is better than heroic armor at max level, and the weapons are stronger than even the legendary weapons. There are some small downsides, such as durability, and their reliance on gathering experience, but beyond that, they're some of the best items in the game. The biggest downside or in some cases, upside, is the corruption. Committing bad deeds and killing certain enemies will cause an RA to gain corruption. This can cause things like passive damage slipping, greater durability loss, or EXTREMELY HIGH INCREASES IN DAMAGE OR DEFENSE.

Thing is, though, if their durability hits zero, you'll need to take them to Goibne in New Meridia to fix them up after completing his quest. You can always restore it with special alloy bottles as long as their durability is above zero, but it'll be quite a hefty fee otherwise. Unless, well, remember the Master Blacksmith/Artificer deal I mentioned? They can actually restore them as well! Just bring the blueprint from the quest and make sure both of you have the minimum required materials (and any fee the repair person asks for) and they'll be able to fix it for you.

That said, I hope everyone enjoys the new update! Be sure to tell myself or Yom if there's any issues. Happy adventuring!))

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"Wait." Mikkael says. He listens in on the surroundings carefully.

"Something is coming, enter battle formation!"

Party Formation:

-Mikkael (Front, Guarding Natsuki)
-Natsuki (Back, Behind Mikkael)
-Yemhelch (Back)

Three bandits rush the group!

Enemy Formation:

-Bandit Underling 1 (Front) (Human: +35 Defense/Magic Defense)
-Bandit (Front, Guarding Bandit Underling 2) (Elvine: Gargoyle Transformation Skill)
-Bandit Underling 2 (Back, Behind Bandit) (Titan: Titan's Hands Skill)

"Hey! Look lively men! We got some wannabe adventurers to plunder!" The bandit shouts. "Your Legens or your life, now!"

"Just what is it with the aggression problems?" Mikkael jokes as he pulls out his buster sword.

ATTACK ORDER

1. Yemhelch
2. Natsuki
3. Bandit
4. Bandit Underling 1
5. Bandit Underling 2
6. Mikkael

BATTLE START! Yemhelch goes first!

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"Three of them, three of us." Yemhelch muttered. "I really should have been sneaking."

"Too late for that, everyone stay in formation. Charging in is a rookie mistake." He lowered his head and smiled as he noticed a diminutive figure sneak across the forest's edge.

Tensing his muscles, he readied himself to parry, block and dodge all incoming attacks while providing some degree of cover for Natsuki as he adjusted his grip on the reflex bow, holding it by the curve as he let it fall to the ground.

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Nodding, she steeled herself for a fight. The bandits, clearly overconfident in their victory began their rush into the foray.

"At least those bandits had the common decency to announce themselves." Natsuki smirked as she recalled tales of more skilled plunderers sneaking onto adventuring groups. Both hands on her walking staff, she prepared her Airshot spell. Not as powerful as the more showy elemental spells, but it'd cause a bit of a stagger and damage - especially with the chargestone effect from her spellcasting rod.

"I'm going to attack the one in the back, make him stagger. Mikkael, think you can attack while he's shaken up?"

"No problem... Yemhelch, your move!" Mikkael moves into position as each bandit prepares their own weapons, the Titan made sure to look as menacing as possible, but as an underling, this does not phase Mikkael. He grins and flanks to the right as Yemhelch and Natsuki prepare their own moves as the other enemies close in.

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The elf was the most dangerous enemy, so Yemhelch focused on him. He let his bow drop, eliciting a confused look from the elf. Quickly the bandit underling wielded his dagger as he closed in for a slash attack. Yemhelch stepped forward, as he grasped the falling bow, and whipped it like a scourge into the air, letting his own momentum and his arm swing the bow like a whip. The bandit underling tried to shield his face, but with a dagger in hand, that was a silly idea.

A wet crack sounded through the air as the tip of the bow smashed into the bridge of the bandit underling's nose, severely denting the cartilage and pulping the skin. The elf staggered back, wincing in pain as he dropped his dagger to cover his broken nose.

"Got your nose." Yemhelch chuckled darkly.

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In the alleys of Selk a certain blue haired Nekor boy is asleep against a building. The weather was hot and dry as usual, but the shade from the gunshop covered the boy. The usual thugs stay in their groups, laughing as they go down the streets of the town, passing the sleeping Nekor.

The door to the shop opens up and a young white-haired, royal looking human gentleman wearing a blue coat and glasses walks out. He turns and approaches the boy, then proceeds to take out a fairly simple revolver and fires a shot off into the air next to the sleeping Nekor's ear. Some people turn and look to see where the noise came from, but they keep on walking.

The Nekor jumps and gives a yelp then instantly clutches his ear in pain. "Argh! What was that for you asshole?!....nyaaaaan......"

"Well Alius if you'd stop sleeping outside my shop I probably would leave you alone. I let you stay here, why don't you just sleep inside like normal people?"

"Because it is boring nyan! At least I don't make people deaf like you Percy! Nyaaaan...." Alius continued to hold his temporarly deafen ear in pain as he gets up and begins to walk away.

"Hey, while you are out do something productive!" Percy yelled as he walked back into his shop.

Alius continued to walk towards the edge of Selk. Passing through various alleys and places where one of the more violent nature reside. As Alius passed through an alley a hand came from around a corner and knocked him back. Around the corner came a Reptal man holding a blade.

"A kid like you shouldn't be wandering around here alone you know. Perhaps I can show you how things work around here, for a price. You can pay two ways....your life or your legens."

At this Alius began to chuckle. "If you wanted to die you probably should of hanged yourself....Nyaaaaaan~"

BATTLE START!

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Turn Order:
Alius HP - 400
Thief HP - 500

Alius - Normal Attack - Pierce/Slash
Thief HP - 500 - 88 Ignore Armor
412
1/10 - Slash
Silence - Fail

Thief - Normal Attack
Alius HP - 400 - (64 - 25) 39
361
Bleed - Fail

Alius - Normal Attack - Pierce/Slash
Thief HP - 412 - 88
324
2/10 Slash
Silence - Fail

Thief - Normal Attack
Alius HP - 361 - 39
322
Bleed - Fail

Alius - Normal Attack
Thief HP - 324 - 88
236
3/10 Slash
Silence - Fail

Thief - Normal Attack
Alius HP - 322 - 39
283
Bleed - Fail

Alius - Bash -
Alius WILL - 25 / 40
Thief HP - 236 - 176
60
4/10 Slash
Silence - Fail

Thief - Normal Attack -
Alius HP - 283 - 39
244
Bleed - Fail

Alius - Normal Attack -
Thief HP - 60 - 88
0
5/10 Slash
Silence - Fail

As the would be mugger staggers back, Alius dashes forward and plunges his blade into the Reptal's neck, then backs away quickly to avoid the splatter of blood from the now suffocating Reptal. The poor thief clutches his neck before falling to the ground, with a thud sand and dust shoots up from the ground.

Alius just backs up and looks down at the dead thief. "Well at least you chose assisted suicide. Not many people do it that way." The Nekor puts away his blade, walks over the body, loots it (Bastard Sword and 400 Legens) and out of the alley. He continued through the alleys and makes his way towards the edge of town. He continued through the alleys and roads of Selk

After a while Alius heard something behind him in a fairly large street and turned around, he thought it could be a drunk or someone wanting to push around a kid. A large Reptal man was swinging a wooden club down on him, Alius didn't have enough time to react so the club hit the top of his head with a loud thud. He fell to the ground unconscious. Next thing he feels is water. Wet, lack of oxygen. His eyes shoot open to see the endless abyss of the sea, and his foot tied to a rope held down by an anvil. He quickly begins to swim up to the surface of the water, his head the only part of him able to get above the water. He gasped for air, taking in the view of the beach that was a good distance away from him.

Alius was taking in the sight when he looked down at the water to see that the anvil was settled down on an elevated part of the sea floor, allowing him to be able to swim up this far. He sees that he was declothed and unarmed by his kidnapper.
His body was surprisingly feminine with a more hourglass figure instead of a more muscular body. He did disguise as girls before to steal from multiple people, it works in ones favor when people are looking for a girl instead of a boy.

He looked in all directions and saw Orge Mountain on another shore opposite from the closest shore to him. He couldn't see anyone on either shoreline, but he did see his gear and equipment on the Selk shoreline.

Alius sighed, realizing his situation and the boredom that would come with it. He would either wait to get rescued or to died. He preferred the former.

"...Well this isn't my best day." Alius looked down to see fish going by his rope and saw....a jellyfish swim by. Alius was surprised to see it, seeing on how he hasn't seen any jellyfish like it before. He relaxed, but continued to see more and more pass by, each one passing by seemed to be closer and closer.

Alius tried to stay still as much as he could, but accidentally kicked one of the jellyfish with his foot. This jellyfish instantly stung him. Alius cried out in pain, not expecting such pain. After that, every single jellyfish that passed by stung him.

Alius realized what was going on, he was being tortured and killed. A sickly grin came onto his face, he loved this. The planning, the unexpected factor, the pain, and the execution. He adored all of it. "Nyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan~" He lives for these situations. He didn't care if he was the one on the receiving end or not.

He didn't care how long he was going to be there, he was going to enjoy every minute of this exciting event. Especially if it is going to be his last.

((Yep, another update happened. Get it here!

This update adds a couple fixes to our latest HUGE update, so it's a must to download! We also have a new legendary boss, and the Jounin's Shadow Eye Jutsu has been changed to be more than a mere glorified status up skill. We hope the Jounin characters will appreciate this.

That said, a new dungeon is available, the Cyndar Sewers! It's a lot easier than the Lumen Mines in that even characters under level 25 can solo the entire dungeon, consisting of three floors.

That's all this time! Enjoy.~))

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Taking advantage of the sudden attack, Natsuki stepped aside and finishing the incantation of the spell as her hand grasped her foci, she fired off an Air Shot against the Titan who had jumped away from his falling comrade. She had read about their fearsome strength, and that wasn't the sort of thing she could take.

(roll die 1d6 - Rolled 5)

The bolt struck the titan flush in the neck, and he staggered back - already unbalanced by jumping away, this attack had him reeling!

The enemy's charge formation was broken, with their strongest either downed or staggered.