Log Horizon: Alien Chronicles Volume 1

Ch.16

"My level went up again!" Serara said with a slight pout. She ringed out the rag she was using to clean the home she has been hiding in for the last few days. However, she was shocked to see her subclass level of Housekeeper had gone up another level. "I was just level forty-two yesterday!" Serara complained, seeing her level was now forty-four. "Why did I pick such a useless class?" Serara said, continuing with her cleaning.

“Maybe because it keeps you occupied?” Naruko said, busy repairing the Druid’s scarf at the kitchen table.

"But if this keeps up, my subclass will be so high compared to my own class!" Serara blushed while running across the floor with the wet rag, not realizing she was talking to Naruko. I should have chosen a production class! Serara thought.

Serara joined Elder Tales to see how to run a business. However, she was a level 19 Druid and still needing to save more gold before she could do so. When starting Elder Tales as a beginner, it was hard to start a business due to low levels made it hard to get the needed items. Also, production classes needed ingredients that lower level characters had to work really hard to get.

Hence, Serara choose Housekeeper out of eliminating the other choices and was saving up money for later when she changed her subclass for starting a business. She needed to gain levels and complete some quests to become an Accountant or Merchant, which were in her real plans. Housekeeper was a subclass able to clean areas and organize consumables and storage items needed to keep a place clean. It also had cooking skills as well, but low level ones. Though, past that, it was not worthwhile, hence one of the minor subclasses of the game.

"I am so bored that I keep leveling my subclass. If I keep leveling up like this, I will be a NEET!" Serara sighed, yet kept on cleaning. She was now onto washing clothes and hanging them up to dry.

“I don’t get what a NEET is still, but you're quite a productive housewife.” Naruko chuckled, waiting for the reaction.

"I should have become an Artisan or Tailor instead." Serara shifted to wiping the table, careful not to move the sewing tools on it. Subclasses leveled up differently from battle classes. Subclasses easily leveled up and had smaller exp requirements, though some subclasses like Swordsmith and production classes take longer due to special requirements.

"Maybe I am a maid." Serara said. She had been doing the house chores of cleaning and laundry to keep from being bored to death. However, her face instantly went red. "Wait?! I'm a housewife!" Serara shouted, finally looking at Naruko. "No way! No way! I'm a maiden waiting for her kitty-husband!" Serara chimed, her face tomato red in a blush with now frantically sweeping.

"From the looks of it, you are, Serara-chan." Serara's face managed to hit deep red as she froze like a statue with realizing she was still cleaning. "I finished repairing your scarf." Serara looked at the woman who was sitting at the table and putting up her sewing kit.

"Aaah! Naruko-nee-chan!" Serara walked over, taking the scarf from Naruko. "Thank you!"

"How’s the scarf?." Naruko hummed, softly smiling at Serara while holding out the Druid's scarf. "I still can't get this menu system around my head. Thankfully, my Tailor subclass seems to allow me to do things by hand even if I have no real world experience in it."

"Amazing! It looks the same before..." Serara stopped. Her memory flashed back to days before, when several men had prepared to- Nonononono! Serara shook her head, trying to not think back. Her eyes were already tearing up thinking of what happened.

She looked at the girl before her, trying to get her thoughts off of the nightmare they had been through. Naruko had wavy blond hair tied back in a bun with a butterfly-theme hair piece. She had a charming face with a pair of beautiful black eyes that had three odd markings under each eye that was slightly gill looking. Just like a mermaid! Serara thought, also looking at her beautiful clothes with the light purple lace robe covering her simple dress, giving the appearance of wings like a fairy or mermaid fins.