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The story of a young man who is looking to find his own path in a world of swords, special abilities, and adventure, even though he can’t level up like his friends. Things change though, after meeting a gruff, rude fairy named Pork. Aiden and Pork embark on a quest to save the Four Heroes scattered throughout the world, and to stop a danger bigger than any of them could have ever imagined.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:47):
Bliz, did I hear you write a giant rock word
named Caltor that's the cause of the end of the world.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
No way, it's impossible.

Speaker 4 (00:59):
Yes, you heard me. I don't believe it. He would never,
he would never do that. Am I missing something? You
all seem more shocked at the name of the worm.
And when I told you this thing is going to
end the world?

Speaker 5 (01:16):
Well, uh, Blizz, Caltoor is sort of kind of Cane's
pet rock.

Speaker 6 (01:22):
Work Kine, Are you kidding me what?

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yes, he's my pet and he's the most loving, what
most cuddly, ah, most perfect boy in the whole ward
wool dude.

Speaker 5 (01:39):
Caine's gone crazy, Kane. I don't want to be mean
or anything, but haven't you noticed all the bad things
Caltoor does. He bites everyone, he growls at everything, and
he pukes everywhere.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
But he so he has a little spunk to him.
Boys will be boys.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Don't listen to these three blizz Come see for yourself.
I'll show you what an amazing pety is. How calt
come here?

Speaker 4 (02:13):
Boy? Someone wants to meet.

Speaker 7 (02:15):
You, Calto Oh this is bad Cowtor's gone.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
No boy, daddies coming? What's free?

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Hey?

Speaker 4 (02:34):
WHOA?

Speaker 5 (02:35):
That was seriously cool. I guess I know why they
call you Blizz. You've got ice powers and I.

Speaker 6 (02:41):
Can do a lot more than just freeze people's feet
in place.

Speaker 8 (02:45):
I'm a level fifty four Frost Maiden Epic class.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
Let me go, Blz, my boy needs me.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Your boy isn't a pet cane. We've all been trying
to tell you, but you wouldn't listen. Now he the
loops and we know he's the reason the world is
gonna end.

Speaker 6 (03:04):
Bad news, Bros.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
We're in big trouble. Now. What do we do?

Speaker 7 (03:10):
Coltoor is going to destroy the world and Glitch is
going to erase the future?

Speaker 4 (03:14):
Which one do we try to stop?

Speaker 5 (03:16):
We go after Glitch first. At least we know where
he is, and we'll focus on getting stronger so that
maybe when we find cal Tour we'll have a chance
of stopping it.

Speaker 6 (03:31):
Pork, it's been days.

Speaker 7 (03:33):
Are you sure the quest to find my legendary equipment is.

Speaker 6 (03:35):
In this area?

Speaker 4 (03:37):
Yeah, I'm sure.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
There's supposed to be some pirates who sail up and
down this river. If we can stop the pirates, we
complete the quest and we get your equipment back.

Speaker 6 (03:47):
We've been walking down this river for days, dude, Why
can't we make a wrapt and just float?

Speaker 7 (03:53):
Because the quest is somewhere upstream, Marco, not downstream.

Speaker 5 (03:59):
We better hope we can complete this quest soon. Once
we do, we will need to make a raft and
float down the Snake River should take us straight to
the dark forest, and Glitch's castle is on the other
side of that forest, right.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
Right, kid, today, So traveling and walking and looking, that's
still no side of Caltor.

Speaker 6 (04:21):
Oh, I'm sure we'll find him sooner or later.

Speaker 8 (04:25):
I just want to find these pirates, man, then we
can just have a nice relaxing ride down to the
dark forest.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
Wow, what's with the nut upside the loggin pork?

Speaker 6 (04:40):
You chunkin acorns?

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Bro, wasn't me?

Speaker 4 (04:45):
Well, well, what do you know? Did you hear that?

Speaker 3 (04:48):
Me?

Speaker 9 (04:48):
Boyos, this here crew be looking for pirates. Any of
you've seen any pirates in these here woods?

Speaker 6 (04:56):
No?

Speaker 9 (05:00):
Be what I thought? No pirates here, no, sir, just
good old cap'n Cutter and his crew were.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
Lost lads, Liz, He says, they haven't seen any pirates,
but they look like pirates, and they sound like pirates too.

Speaker 7 (05:16):
That's because they are pirates, Kane.

Speaker 10 (05:19):
They're lying to us.

Speaker 4 (05:20):
Now now last, that not be true.

Speaker 9 (05:24):
Just because people say we be pirates, that don't make
us pirates. Now, then kindly be handing over any loot
or jewels you be carrying, and me and the lads
will let you pass.

Speaker 5 (05:38):
Wait, aren't pirates supposed to be on the water? What
are you all doing up here in the woods.

Speaker 9 (05:43):
We were having a bit of should I catching a
quick nap off the water, as it were, But us
poor swords got woken up by a bunch of chatty
chickens walking along our river bank.

Speaker 8 (05:55):
Huh, chatty chickens.

Speaker 4 (05:58):
Whoa far out?

Speaker 6 (06:00):
I want to see the chickens that can talk?

Speaker 4 (06:02):
Where are they?

Speaker 6 (06:03):
He means us Marco.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
Oh oh hey, not cool.

Speaker 9 (06:11):
Bro lad. They don't seem to be getting the message.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
Oh boy, stanned firm friends.

Speaker 9 (06:23):
Sliss, be your last chance before things get ugly. Lay
down your gear and anything else she be carrying.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
Now, well, gang, what do you reckon we should do?

Speaker 3 (06:37):
Normally I'd say we should keep walking, but since the
quest is to clear out these very same pirates, what
level are our friends here?

Speaker 2 (06:45):
Pork Well, mister peg leg here is level twenty four,
Our friend with the eye patches level twenty six, mister
smelly over there to the left is level twenty seven,
and this guy with the really long bed is level
twenty nine. Not bad, asked the captain Cutter himself. Oh god,

(07:09):
level thirty three.

Speaker 9 (07:11):
Yeah, and don't you be forgetting it. We be the
strongest warriors this side of the Snake River, and make
no mistake.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
Ye be out classed.

Speaker 9 (07:22):
Now for the final time, hand over your gear.

Speaker 5 (07:27):
I'm trying to come up with the plan, guys, but
they've got us surrounding.

Speaker 8 (07:31):
No need for a plan, Aiden.

Speaker 7 (07:33):
I think now that we've got Blizz back and the
whole parties together again. It's time for us to stretch our.

Speaker 5 (07:39):
Muscles a bit.

Speaker 7 (07:40):
Everyone agree, up right, it's settled in Marco. Dear brother,
would you start us off?

Speaker 6 (07:48):
Justus let's rock and roll fronds Forest Frenzy.

Speaker 9 (08:02):
What you be doing?

Speaker 8 (08:03):
Oh, nothing to worry about, amigo, just making our whole
group stronger. My force Frenzy skill gives plus ten to strength,
speed and defense to me and all my friends. And
since we're actually in a forest, that plus ten goes
up to plus fifteen.

Speaker 9 (08:22):
It still won't be enough to save you. And I'm
done waiting all right me buckos time dup.

Speaker 7 (08:29):
Oh, we're not done yet.

Speaker 9 (08:32):
Why I spirit? What be that energy shimmering around you, girly?

Speaker 8 (08:44):
Nothing important?

Speaker 7 (08:45):
Just makes me twenty percent stronger and faster for the
next ten minutes.

Speaker 4 (08:49):
Well, I suppose if we're all getting warmed up heroes hard?
What we going on? Why, dear friend, you almost sound frightened.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
This skill just raises my strength and defense by thirty percent.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
That's all, Captain.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
This be looking.

Speaker 4 (09:10):
Bad, it'll be no matter. We still be the strongest
warriors around. We'll show you. Let's call cruel.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
Hey, haiden, let's take a few steps back. You don't
want to be close for what's about to happen.

Speaker 5 (09:28):
Thank you, Pork.

Speaker 8 (09:30):
I was about to suggest the same now then I
believe the next move is up to me before a
pirate friend's attack.

Speaker 6 (09:38):
Hmmm, lizard bash.

Speaker 5 (09:46):
Curtain.

Speaker 11 (09:47):
We be in trouble.

Speaker 5 (09:53):
Okay, So Blizz is a new addition to the team.
What's she doing here?

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Well, when she uses a blizzard glass, kid, she ca
yours up all of this ice and all of this wind,
and you see how it's swirling over everybody here. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (10:05):
Wow, that's a beautiful sight. And I see how there's
so much the way that the team works together, the symmetry,
the way the cane is moving his sword.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
What's that move called?

Speaker 10 (10:14):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (10:14):
You see?

Speaker 2 (10:15):
I think that's part of the hero's heart that he has.
It was important that we got the whole team together
to create a scene just like this, kid, it's really
really important for you to set.

Speaker 5 (10:25):
I could tell y'all put in a ton of practice,
a ton of scrimmages. And what Meek's doing right there
is that pirate's bone supposed to.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
Move like that, you see whenever she uses the warrior
spirit bones will just snap wherever they're supposed to snap, kid,
bones tendon. You'll never know what's gonna happen when Mika
gets fired up.

Speaker 5 (10:43):
Oh that's a pretty intense blizzard.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
Oh yeah, Blizz has the second highest level of all
four heroes.

Speaker 4 (10:50):
You know, level fifty four.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
Ain't nothing to sneeze at her. Blizzard Blast causes ice
damage to all enemies and slows them down.

Speaker 8 (10:59):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (11:00):
I think the pirates are regretting picking a fight.

Speaker 11 (11:02):
Why shouldn't be sorry, Please let me go, sad, What
man of plant be this?

Speaker 4 (11:15):
No fat, We're just eaten by that plant.

Speaker 6 (11:18):
I'll let him go if you guys surrender.

Speaker 8 (11:21):
No need for all these bad vibes in the middle
of mother Nature.

Speaker 10 (11:25):
My good man, you know.

Speaker 5 (11:26):
This is gosh. I guess I didn't realize how strong
the heroes are.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
Why do you think people call him heroes?

Speaker 4 (11:35):
Kid?

Speaker 5 (11:35):
But what I can't understand is how Glitch beat them
all by himself.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
That's the thing he shouldn't have been able to. Glitch
was always strong. Yeah, he was a level sixty one,
the same as Cave, but some of his skills are
downright crazy.

Speaker 4 (11:49):
Kid.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
Levels ain't all that matters. I think you've been figuring
that out for yourself, right, not.

Speaker 4 (11:56):
Be now, I'd be mad. I'm sorry. I can't hear
you over the.

Speaker 11 (12:00):
Sound of all this fighting. Look sir, I think.

Speaker 6 (12:07):
That should do it. The rest of the pirates are
out of the fight. Knes Cutter, do you surrender?

Speaker 5 (12:13):
God?

Speaker 9 (12:14):
He asked for this scalliwax escape.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Uh what kind of ability is that? And what's all
this stuff? It looks like some kind of fog. Usually
you don't see fog like this unless you're out on
the ocean.

Speaker 6 (12:33):
I can't see where did Captain Cutter go? Did anyone
see him? He's right here. I got him.

Speaker 4 (12:40):
That's me.

Speaker 5 (12:40):
You do best?

Speaker 6 (12:42):
Oh, never mind, I don't see him.

Speaker 9 (12:46):
Surprised you're coming with me?

Speaker 2 (12:48):
Boy?

Speaker 10 (12:50):
Hey, okay, let me go work work Drek Caine, Hey, guys,
get over here quick, the captain Lorcayden.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
Yeah, I