Dual Blade

Description
The Dual Blade is a special branch of the Thief Explorers class. The Dual Blade wields two weapons: a dagger in one hand and a Katara in the other. Dual Blades can only be created during special events.

Dual Blades are "rogue" thieves who have strayed from their original path. Instead of following the Dark Lord, they obey Lady Syl, who has believed the Dark Lord was responsible for the death of her father, when in reality it was the Balrog who had killed him. As thus, she created her own band of thieves, the Dual Blades, to eliminate the Dark Lord. Despite being a covert organization, the Dual Blade is still considered an Explorer Thief. Their base is in the Secret Garden that can be accessed through a portal in Kerning City.

Dual Blades are known for their quick, flashy attacks and stealthy maneuvers. Their signature two weapons give them a tremendous damage output that not only makes them one of the easier classes to level, but also makes them useful in high-level bossing. They also have the highest dodge rate and many of their skills possess invincibility frames. There are still several drawbacks to this class. One example is that 2nd, 2nd +, 3rd, and 4th job classes require mastery books to be used, and those can often be difficult to obtain. The majority of their skills also cannot be used in certain areas. Like all other thieves, Dual Blades cannot easily regain MP without the use of potions.

To see Dual Blade's skill list, click here.

Story
The Dark Lord. It’s an unfortunate name, for it brings up images of evil and fear. Yet the one who bears that title does so not because he is evil, but because he spends so much time in the dark, battling against the things that would bring Maple World down. It’s a high and lonely destiny, one borne well by all those who have carried the title.

The former Dark Lord was a great man who spent his life fighting against the forces of darkness. As all Dark Lords must, he had carefully groomed possible successors. His two greatest students were a young man named Jin and his own daughter, who is known to us now only as ‘Lady Syl’. Both were excellent students, people of great strength and moral character and he cherished and loved both of them. In turn, Lady Syl and Jin revered their teacher and developed a great affection for each other. Times were happy as they all trained and worked together.

The trouble began with an urgent request from Tristan, the Dark Lord’s friend. It seemed that Balrog had been resurrected and was destroying Victoria Island. The Dark Lord immediately headed out to help but when he arrived in Sleepywood, his friend Tristan was nowhere to be found. He eventually tracked down Balrog and faced him in mortal combat. Alas, Balrog is a foe not so easily beaten for his evil is not merely physical, but spiritual as well. The Dark Lord lost his focus for a split second and allowed Balrog’s evil to slip past his shields – and he lost his soul. The Dark Lord had become one of the very monsters he had spent his life defeating and began attacking Kerning City.

Jin, who had followed his master against his wishes, witnessed everything. In despair and agony, he tried to appeal to the thing that was his former master, trying to get it to remember the man of virtue and honor he once was. Alas, it was no use! Jin knew what he would have to do, what his true master would have wanted and he defeated the monster that wore his master’s beloved face. Tears stinging his eyes, Jin carried the body back home to bury him in honor and succeed him as Dark Lord.

As it happened, Balrog claimed two victims that day. Lady Syl, her mind and soul shattered by the loss of her beloved father, blamed Jin for not protecting him. In time she came to believe that Jin had even engineered her father’s death in order to take his position as Dark Lord. Nothing Jin could say or do could convince her that she was mistaken, that he would have given anything to save her father’s life and that he never wanted to become Dark Lord in this way. It did not work. Lady Syl’s heart grew cold and bitter, hating the man she had loved with a cold fury that was like a wall of ice between them.

The last time they saw one another, Jin made one last entreaty to Lady Syl, begging her to remember her father’s honor and greatness and the love they had once shared. Lady Syl merely promised him that when the end came, his death would rival her father’s in pain and anguish.

Now there is a secret war raging in the heart of Kerning City. Lady Syl and her Dual Blades continue her struggle against the Dark Lord from an unknown location simply known as ‘The Secret Garden’. Her new organization is growing in strength and more and more skillful Rogues are disappearing. The Dark Lord knows that Lady Syl is getting ready to make her move, though he does not yet know what that move will be.

Meanwhile, a man named Ryden in a back alley of Kerning City begins talking to travelers here and there, making an interesting offer.

At the Secret Garden, Lady Syl takes care of her plants, gathers her forces and nurses her ever-growing rage and bitterness towards the Dark Lord.

Yet in the silence of her empty heart, a tiny ember of something she’d long thought extinguished remains. Whether it can burst into flames before she and the Dark Lord destroy one another, no one knows.

Blade Recruit
Complete the tutorial given by Ryden.

Blade Acolyte
Accept the quest given by Lady Syl, eliminate 30 specified enemies, and return to Lady Syl for advancement.

Blade Specialist
Accept the quest given by Lady Syl, eliminate 99 Ice Drakes, and return to Lady Syl for advancement.

Blade Lord
To be a Blade Lord, you need to hit lv 70. You must then do the advancement test similar to those done by Assassins and Bandits.

Go to Arec. He asks for the Dark Charm from a clone from, instead of Lady Syl, the Dark Lord. Head to the Holy Field and enter the other dimension via the Crystal NPC. Defeat the clone, obtain the item, and go back to Arec to advance.

Blade Master
To be a Blade Master, you need to hit lv 120. You must then do the advancement test similar to those done by Hermits and Chief Bandits.

Talk to Arec, who refers you to Hellin. Go to Leafre and listen to her story. You are then tasked to bring her the Heroic Star and Heroic Pentagon by killing Manon and Griffey. Bring the items to Hellin, who is now prepared to advance you.