《World of Legends: True Magic》 Reason to Leave Hello everyone I''m "new" to writing I hope you like this short intro please ******************************* World of Legends the newest and greatest VRMMORPG to date. To those that aren¡¯t familiar with the term It is a virtual reality. The game uses a capsule to bring players completely into a new fantasy world. World of Legends was just released and in only two weeks it was claimed to be the number one game in the world. Legends boasts an astounding 90% realism and almost limitless possibilities in game play. Players could take the form of a giant orc wielding an almost equally big axe mowing down humans, to a little pixies using magic to decimate huge fields of monsters. Where a world of undiscovered riches and power await those who have the guts to go out and conquer. The thoughts of such possibilities caused players to come in droves to get a Capsule and join the world of legends. I also wish to join into this new world. If you must have a reasons it is due to the nature of my family and our¡­¡±business.¡± My family is part of the ¡°Other world¡± the part that most normal people don¡¯t know of. You think that our world and the virtual world are different, but there are some things you wouldn¡¯t believe. Anyway my family is a clan of Western Magi. Yea you heard me, Magi, the wise wizards, magicians, conjurers, exorcists, holy men, druids¡­ you get the idea. Anyway my family is originally from Central Europe, but we moved around quite a bit, currently we are helping some ¡°old¡± (300 years old) friends of ours in Japan. Now you must think that it would be awesome to be part of the ¡°Other world¡± but I¡¯m not like the other members of my family. I have no Spirit power or Mana. I am just your run of the mill 17 year old kid that is overshadowed by my genius siblings. After discovering my lack of power at the age of five my parents were ashamed. I was the first powerless person in the main family in the last 2,000 years. They started to try strange methods to induce my power to awaken, such as keeping me in a spirit field, forcing Mana into my body, and other more devious methods¡­. yet to no avail. It wasn¡¯t until my little twin brother and sister turned four and started to use powers beyond a normal magi. Realizing that I was no good, my parents just left me to my own devices and doted on the twins. This made me resent them for a time, but that is just foolishness. I love them, but I still don¡¯t have a good relationship with my parents. You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story. In order to pass my time in a house that doesn¡¯t want me, I drowned myself in the ancient text of my ancestors. Reading scrolls tablets and accumulating knowledge. It was mostly useless except that I learned to create special potions and other alchemical recipes. With the help of the twins we made a great living selling them to other magi. This however was the limit of my ability. I started to dream of what it would be like to have power like the rest of my family. Then it hit me like a brick. There was a world different yet similar to our own. A world where anyone could be anything. Even better it was a world where I could use magic! A small grin spread across my face as i sat there dreaming of what the future held ****************************** I''m doing this purely for fun (plus i can)[(plus I''m bored)] so releases may be very inconsistent Game start Note: please rate and comment if you like this or not. It is still relatively early in writing so i can always go and make it better or correct flaws in the story. ><><><><><><><><><> My name is Seth Myrdread (our last name changes every 5 years for some reason) your average 17 year old teenager. I¡¯m 6 feet tall with short dark brown hair and light blue eyes. I also have a medium build, for those who run by a different scale I would be ¡°Husky¡± yea completely normal. My family however is anything but average. We are a family of wizards, sorcerers, shamans, and Magi formed since before Christianity was conceived (quite literally). We have about 5,000 years of ¡°recorded¡± history in our family. At least that''s what our founding ghosts say, they apparently won¡¯t leave for the other plain. (by the way I can¡¯t see or hear them so you will have to ask for me) Anyway I¡¯m the only person in the 5,000 years that was born within the main family with no magical potential. My Mom and Dad where deeply disturbed and thought it was because I was cursed. They tried many different methods to try and awaken my nonexistent talent. They first forced me to swallow various mana elixirs. Next was making me take a meditative state and forcing mana directly into my body. I had such a violent reaction to it that my body almost combusted. It was not a good experience. This was just the start of two years of torture. The only thing that probably saved my life was when my twin siblings awoke to their power at the early age of four. Both possessed power far beyond my parents. So now they looked at me as filth and started focusing solely on my brother and sister. My only saving grace is that I am relatively smart¡­ I say that but my hobby at home has been to dig into our storage and find old scrolls and tablets. I love to find and translate them. It¡¯s all to try and learn anything new that could show my parents I¡¯m not a complete waste. When I was 12 I found an alchemic scroll that showed how to create a mythical potion of some type of cure. After synthesizing it I found out it was the cure to baldness¡­.. I made quite a bit of money off of that but still¡­. I figured alchemy isn¡¯t my thing. I have spent nearly a decade in a lifestyle that not only is not for me, but with a family that doesn¡¯t love me. I don¡¯t blame my siblings for this. This is due to my parents forcing them to keep away from the ¡°disgrace.¡± But soon my way out of this terrible world is right around the corner. The new Game World of Legends is soon to be released. I can finally experience what I have missed for most of my life. Most people would not care about this, but growing up in a house where im the only one who can¡¯t. I hate it, I want to feel power, to prove I¡¯m not a failure¡­ but I guess it¡¯s too late in the real world. But I can still start again in a different one. ********** Today is the day! My pod is finally here! I quickly direct the delivery crew as they just arrived into the front of the house, to place the pod into my private room in the back corner. As right now we are living in one of our family friend¡¯s house. That happens to be a Shinto shrine in japan. I move as they place the egg shaped pod into the corner and start the fast installment. One man who appears to be the manager walks over to me and hands me a clip board with a contract, bill, and a shipping form. I quickly signed on the dotted line of all three of the pages, not even bothering to read the print in my haste to try out my new device. Bowing the delivery team thanked me for using their service. As the manager starts to leave he reached into a large bag on his assistants back and hands me a large book as they walked out the door. As I have a staring contest with the strangely thick book I realize it is a manual. I open it up and begin to browse the information inside. The manual contained information such as starting races, locations, inventory, stats, skills, satiety, stamina, health, mana, and much more¡­. Soo much more that I took a deep sigh and just closed it, throwing the book onto my bed. I already knew enough about the capsule and game to know how most of it worked. I did quite a bit of research in the month of waiting impatiently. I touch the hatch on the side and open the door. I sit into the seat formed of the egg¡¯s back with padding. This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it. As I sit down, I expected it to be weird, but it was surprisingly comfortable. I close the hatch and bring down the helmet that was suspended above me by a very thin cable. Putting it on, at first there is nothing¡­. Then light, light everywhere. I look in amazement as I¡¯m now standing on what appears to be a cloud. As I was peering over the edge of the cloud down to the sprawling land below, I start to hear a computerized female voice from around me. ¡°Hello, welcome to World of Legends. Due to your retina scan we conclude that you are a new player. Would you like to start customer creation or take the tutorial?¡± I looked around and tried to find the source of the voice, but I found nothing else up here. I got over my initial amazement and began to frown. I didn¡¯t need to take the tutorial I just wanted to start playing as soon as possible. I shook my head and started talking in a hurried but respectful tone. ¡°No the tutorial won¡¯t be necessary. I would like to just get straight to character creation and start playing.¡± The disembodied voice began to speak again ¡°Confirmed, right now we have 8 starting races they are Orc, Elf, Hum¡­..¡± ¡°Human¡± I quickly interjected. Then quickly followed up with ¡°Male please¡± the last thing I want to be is a girl in a 90% real universe. The voice continues and confirms my choices. Then a holographic appeared in front of me. It looked exactly like me in every way except for the clothes. ¡°Human male selected, would you like to make any additional changes to your features?¡± At this I pause, I took a minute to look at the character at the ¡°me¡± that will represent me in this new world. Making up my mind I began to make some modifications to show a proper image of the new me. ¡°Yea I would love to make some minor changes, first I would like to keep the height, but loose some of the weight¡­ maybe thirty pounds or so?¡± the image changes in front of my eyes and I could tell this is starting to be good. ¡°Yea that is good for the weight, now can you please change my hair to a black with dark blue hues? Ok good now can you give it a messy spiked look? Perfect!¡± Satisfied with the new look I stood there and admired my new look with a smile that was just a little, tiny, small¡­ alright it was basically how a Narcissist would look at themselves. The voice began her confirmations again. ¡°Human Male physical modifications accepted, please choose a name for your avatar." "I will call myself Seth Blackwing" this was one of our names several years ago. "Please be ready to depart. I must now ask you where you would like to start. There are 5 starting locations available for you to start off in. First¡­¡­¡± ¡°Lieflen the city of Elves please¡± I knew exactly where I wanted to go there was no need to hear the other places to go. ¡°Lieflen selected, be ready to transfer. Now any time you log in you will skip this screen, unless under special effects. You will go directly from start screen to your last log out point. Now transfer in 3¡­.2¡­.1¡± The cloud suddenly gave way and I was faced with a freefall. I wildly looked around me and found that my avatar was still across from me, and it was falling too! This is madness! I tried to grab ahold of my avatar, but the second I did my body was being forcefully absorbed. It felt like my avatar was sucking my fat body into its smaller one compacting me. Once inside I closed my eyes. As soon as I opened them I was standing in a town square surrounded by trees and building everywhere. With a look of "are you S***ing me" I watched as other players had the same look on their faces. After a few minutes I calmed down enough. People were walking all around me, directly behind my back was a statue of a giant Bird of prey and when you look closely enough a box is visible on it that reads ¡°Fall Zone¡± My first experience in this new world and already I¡¯m hungry for whatever else comes my way. With a small grin I turn around and start marching directly for a giant tower in the distance, It rose far above the tops of the trees. Why here you ask, for it is this place where my dream will finally be fulfilled. I couldn¡¯t help but break out into a little evil laugh ¡°BWAHAHAHAHA¡± Tower I forgot to have someone edit this..... Oh well, please remember to rate and comment if you like it or not, I want constructive criticism... or just criticism in general, because that is what helps Authors grow. Now because this is not checked i reserve the right to change this a little. (don''t worry the story content will be the same) it will just be better worded later. ********* The streets of Lieflen where filled to capacity as people everywhere where walking to and fro. I was ecstatic taking in all the sights, smells, and feelings of the virtual world. The starting city of Lieflen was predominately an elven city. All around me there were elves, elves, one human, and elves. Almost all of them had exceptional beauty, even the guys. Yet many of the elves couldn¡¯t be further from each other. A beautiful elf with white skin and blond hair, walked next to one with a light lavender shade skin and dark blue hair. Their color schemes where amazing. Especially the ones who were working in various store fronts. There was one with reddish pink skin and flaming red-orange hair. (it was as if it was on fire) It is probably the crazy ones were player created avatars. They just didn¡¯t match up with the elves natural grace or color schemes. But after a while my thoughts shifted to the surrounding buildings. They were tree trunks grown into the shapes of homes and stores. Yet you could clearly see them still alive covered in leaves. As I walked down the road I put my hand on several of them and felt the flow of power in the tree. Whatever power the elves used it was amazing¡­ wait It was probably because of the Leyline. I read online that Lieflen was located almost dead center in the Shifting Forest in the central part of the Saltur continent. It was built on top of a leyline. A leyline is an area where mana was extremely dense making it easier to cast high level spells and enchantments. This is the only city known to the world right now to have a leyline, due to their dangerous nature. Most are controlled by powerful mythical creatures such as a Dragon or a Grand Lich. As I walked to the huge Tower, I strolled by a group of people that I believe where NPC¡¯s (non-playable character) selling various wares out on the street. It was still midmorning yet a few had food stalls open and the smell of the food was amazing. I look into my starter bag for the first time only to find a wooden sword, two vials of water, several loafs of hard bread, and about 20 copper coins¡­. Yea not a lot. Well hopefully I can get some money once I reach the tower. Turning away from the food vender I continued on my way. I was still happy I even started whistling a tune as I walked. Nothing is going to ruin my mood now. After walking for nearly thirty minutes or something like that. The time in game is really strange I believe it was a 4:1 hour ratio. Meaning four hours in game is equal to only one outside. I finally reached the base of the tower. Its wide base was easily over 150 meters in diameter. And it scaled up higher than 1,000 meters in the air. It was huge and one of the largest buildings I had ever seen. Its sleek black exterior gave it an intimidating look. It looked awfully similar to a certain evil tower with a giant eyeball in a movie. Walking in through the front door there was a huge line winding around the inside base of the tower. The sheer number of people was staggering. Confused I walked up to the first person I saw at a desk and inquired about the line. The answer was simple. This floor is used for testing magic applicants to the tower. Because of the start of the game most players aspiring to be a mage flocked to the best place to learn. Having to deal with the massive influx of new people the tower was forced to test people to see their potential. Contrary to what most people think Magic in Legends was based on an unforeseen stat. it randomized how people could learn magic. It helped to give the world a better feel of realty. Everyone could learn magic, but some were just not suited for certain types of it. The test was simple put your hand on a crystal ball and it would glow a certain color. Whatever that color was would signal your strongest element to learn. However you must still pass the second stage which was power. You had to stand in the middle of a circle used to identify your magic tier. To join, you must be a second tier grade or higher. If the crystal failed to change color you were deemed too weak to learn at the tower. Stolen from its rightful author, this tale is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. Finally after two hours of standing in line it was my turn. I walk up to the old yet still elegant elf woman with short styled blond hair, light tan skin, with small spectacles resting on her nose. Her long racial ears jetting out, forming into a point past her head. She wore the long elegant robes of the High Mages that rule the tower. Sitting behind her large desk almost exactly like a judge in the court of law. Her face looked tired from the tedious job of administering the test. As it was my turn the woman looked at me and spoke in a strong voice ¡°welcome to the Mage Tower I am Archmage Senerity. I will be in charge of your test. Please give your name, level, and Class please.¡± Looking into Archmage Senerity¡¯s eyes I spoke respectfully and introduced myself. ¡°I am Seth Blackwing, I am level one and no class. A pleasure to meet you Archmage.¡± Finishing it off with a respectful bow I looked up and I saw no hint of emotions leave Senerity face or eyes. I¡¯m sure she had seen this type of spectacle all day. I then saw her jot down something on a piece of paper in front of her. As she looked up she then nodded to one of her assistants that was carrying a crystal ball in their hands. I don¡¯t know the gender due to a strange hood obscuring their face from view. As they walked up to me Senerity spoke to me with the instructions. ¡°Please put your dominate hand on the orb. Then I want you to focus as much mana into the orb as possible. Do not stop until I tell you to. Is that Clear?¡± I silently nodded to her. Placing my right hand on the orb, I began to focus and press mana into it. I could feel something happening around me. I could feel power leaving my body yet nothing happened to the orb. No color was shown¡­. In that instant dread filled my heart After a minute, Senerity ordered me to stop focusing my mana. I stopped and took my hand off the orb my gaze was downcast. Thoughts filled my head. Please dear god don¡¯t take my dream away¡­ please not in this world too!! Pease, please, please, please, please, please NO! Senerity was trying to say something to me in a strange tone but I just didn¡¯t have the heart to listen. One of the other assistants came up to me and pulled me out of line. They led me back to the entrance as I trudged behind and showed me out. I didn¡¯t have the heart to put up a fight. I Ran¡­.. Only to look back and cast my face down in the shadow of the tower, the place that my lifetime dream was supposed to be a reality. Why, why can¡¯t I use magic in this world, a freaking fantasy world!! As I continued to run it was as if something broke in me. The hope that I had built up was suddenly crushed so splendidly. It was almost pitiful. My face still down I ran back into the city ignoring the fact that the sun had died down, ignoring the several boxes that had obscured my vision. I walked deep into the city found a little alley and buried myself into the back where the garbage belonged. I just sat there emotionally and physically drained. Little did I know that a pair of dark green eyes was watching me the whole time from a building across from me. Looking at me with pity and amusement. The owner of those eyes clad entirely in black, as if the shadows covered their very form. The shadow dropped soundlessly onto the street, blending in with everyone walking by and completely disappeared. The only clue as to who it was a small card, with the mark of the tower that fell from their pocket that slowly blew away in the breeze. ********* Starting next chapter he will finally get around to playing the game! Stay tuned!! I can do it! Note Hello and thank you for reading I just want to go on record saying that making charts is a pain in the BUTT.... This will be the first true chapter with charts so please enjoy and tell me if I need to add, subtract, divide, or multiply anything. Oh and i know you know that i know you know that i want you to rate and comment! Criticism is appreciated just keep it reasonable <><><><><<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><<><><> It¡¯s been three hours since I shoved myself into this back alley. I need to go into the real world soon. I don¡¯t want to. I¡¯m still depressed about what happened at the tower. Why is fate so screwy with me, why can¡¯t I learn magic!? Wait a minute¡­ the orb didn¡¯t say that I couldn¡¯t ¡°learn¡± magic it just meant that I was not naturally proficient in an element! Yea, that¡¯s right! I CAN learn magic, I just have to find a way to learn it myself. Since the tower rejected me I need to figure out the basics. Well first I need to check my stats¡­ I knew I should have done that at the beginning, but I was an idiot. ¡°Open status¡± In front of me appeared several boxes, one contained my information and others contained status updates or change notifications.
Status Window
Name:Seth BlackwingAlignment:Neutral
Level:1Class:none
Race:HumanGender:Male
Titles
None
Fame:0Infamy:0
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Health:150/150Health Regen:1.5 / Sec
Mana:100/100Mana Regen:1.0 / Sec
Stamina:130/130Stamina Regen:1.3 / Sec
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Strength:10Agility:13
Vitality:15
Intelligence:10Wisdom:5
Leadership:N/ALuck:5
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Due to constant running without rest Agility +1 Vitality +1
Due to constant running without rest Agility +1 Vitality +1
Satiety low either rest or consume food
Ignoring the pain of running on empty Vitality +3 Agility +1
After looking at that I gained quite a bit in agility and vitality¡­. I need to eat some bread before I die apparently. Now that my sorrow has been eased somewhat I start to feel a hunger I didn¡¯t realize was there. After consuming I received a new notification.
Gained title "Hunger is for the Weak" when equipped you need less food to fill satiety Vitality +1 Strength +1
Really?!¡­ I just got a title because I¡¯m I freaking idiot. Oh well a title is a title. Pulling myself out of the garbage I look around the alley, and find a clear spot. I walk over and sat down. I may be stupid, but in real life my family used meditation to increase energy by absorbing it from the surroundings. It may be a game but I want to see if it could work here. I sit cross legged in the classic Zen pose. I breathe in and out, trying to relax. Ok breathe in, out, in, out¡­.. I felt something. I felt a warmth envelope me. I felt something!!!! Instantly my posture was broken due to my excitement. But I felt something! I couldn¡¯t help myself. I have tried it many times in the real world but here I actually felt something! Trying to quickly quell my excitement I tried it again. Breathing in, out, in, out¡­. I again felt the warmth surround me. I let it run its natural course. I could feel my body absorb it, slowly ever so slowly, it began to penetrate my skin. I slowly bring my hands to my chest, put one over the other with the palms facing each other and cup them into a ball. I then focus all the energy in between my hands. I feel it flowing throughout my body and around me and focus in my hands. I focus, focus, focus, and relax¡­.. After nearly 30 minutes of maintaining this meditative state, I¡¯m startled to hear a multitude of chimes go off in my head. Opening my eyes several notification boxes appeared in front of me. But what was even more incredible than that was the glowing orb that was firmly between my hands. It had a strange look almost like glass. It was completely clear. Not a single color was present, however it distorted and swirled, giving it an incredible appearance. Unauthorized usage: this narrative is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings. Ignoring the boxes for now I took my first magic and placed it against the wall. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM I was sent flying out of the alley across the street and crashing onto one of the empty stalls. My health dropped to 5 and guards came flying (quite literally) towards the alley. When they got here I was apprehended and questioned by several Elves in full armor. I told them I was just walking by and the explosion hit. I tell them I¡¯m a traveler and just arrived that day. The only thing that saved my butt was no one around, because it was 4 in the morning in game. Most people would be doing other things than wander the street. In the end, they let me go¡­ but they put me under suspicion because I¡¯m a human. I quickly get out of there and head to the forest area. I now bring up the windows that I had closed at the time.
Skill Name:Skill Rank:Skill Level:Skill Experience:
Zen MeditationBeginner10%
A hidden skill used by only the highest class of Mages. Brings mana from the surroundings to replenish and increase the Mages natural healing abilities, Mana pool, and vitality. when active it increases ALL regeneration rates by 5.0 / sec. rates increase as level increases
Skill Name:Skill Rank:Skill Level:Skill Experience:
Mana ManipulationBeginner10%
Grants you control of the mana within your body as well as that surrounding you. the higher the level the greater the amount you control
Skill Name:Skill Rank:Skill Level:Skill Experience:
Mana Bombbeginner210%
Forming a dense ball of mana from your surroundings it causes explosions proportionate to the amount put in. Can be infused with different types of spells to change its properties
Due to your discovery of new mana abilities you earn the title "Self-Taught" when equipped all skills you learn by yourself gain 25% more experience Intelligence + 15 Wisdom +8
HOLY CRAP this is awesome! Skills, title, and stats!? Wooohooo! Wait, wait, wait, wait¡­. I¡¯m forgetting something more important. That was my first magic! I used magic! With a laugh I began to skip out of the town out into the beginner section of the woods. As I was rejoicing in my strange way I was unaware that across town in the opposite direction in the Tower. A meeting was being held by the council. 10 of the highest mages in the continent where sitting around discussing events. As one man was talking a loud gruff voice rang out in disbelief ¡°Are you absolutely sure Archmage Markel? You know that there is no way we missed something like that during our admission to the tower!¡± The man named Markel looked over at his colleague who spoke out. Nodding his head he replied. ¡°I know what I saw Lawson completely clear, not a trace of color. Someone with no color to their mana is something that I have never seen with my eyes before. I followed him out of the tower this morning and watched as he ran like an idiot with a disappointed look on his face. Although I did laugh a little when he ran into an alley and threw himself on a pile of trash.¡± Suddenly a woman interjected ¡°Markel it wouldn¡¯t have happened to be a human boy with short black hair would it? Because if it is I checked the boy and he appeared to not have enough mana to activate the crystal¡± Markel looked a little surprised and turned his head to the speaker Senerity. Looking right at her he sighed and started speaking again. ¡°Senerity let me tell you something, I have special eyes. They allow me to see every individual with an aura around their body. I have found that it works very similar to how the crystal orb works, however you don¡¯t need to actually put in mana. Now when I saw the boy his aura was twice the average. Not only that, it looked like space was distorted around him. A phenomenon I have never witnessed before. We must get him and train the boy.¡± As Markel finished speaking the others in the council sat in silence. Each pondering what type of properties this mana could hold. Finally Archmage Lawson brought his hand down on the table in a loud bang. drawing everyone''s attention to him. "It pains me to say this in the face of the unknown but for now we will wait. If he truly wants to learn magic he will come to the tower. If that is all I would like Markel to act as overseer of this project. Follow him around and see just what this new mana can do" At that all members nodded, then in the blink of an eye everyone but Lawson and Markel had vanished. Lawson then continued to Markel "If this is an unpredictable factor, you know what to do." With a solemn nod Markel waved his hands and vanished. Lawson then sat back on his chair and smiled. The fact that there was something so strange and unknown so close to him made him giddy. He couldn''t wait to have a new toy to play with. After a few minutes he to waved his hand and vanished from the room. <><><<><><><><><><><<><><><<> Remember to rate and comment! Hunting is hard Hello everyone! Thanks for reading. I will not be uploading any new chapters for a few days after this. I''m changing jobs right now so my schedule sucks. Again be sure to rate or comment about anything that is wrong (especially with the tables) <><><><<<><>><><><><><><><><><><><><<><><><> After my short skip I arrived in the beginner clearing right outside the city gates. I looked around yet there was no one, even stranger there was absolutely nothing in the clearing. I am surprised to say the least, i thought for sure there would be tons of players out and about killing things. They are probably deeper in the forest. I needed to prepare myself for fighting the creatures i find in the forest. I took out the only weapon i have the crappy, wooden sword from my bag and inspected it.
Skill Name:Skill Rank:Skill Level:Skill Experience:
Identificationbeginner10%
Gives you information on objects. Higher the level the more information available. some items can not be used until Identified. 20 mana
Identification successful
Wooden Beginner Sword
Type:SwordDurability:15 / 15
Quality:poor
A wooden sword given to all players. If you bought this there is something wrong with you 1-4 damage
Wow this really is a beginner weapon. It absolutely sucks. I start to walk around the clearing looking for something to kill. Still there is nothing around. I begin to run around the clearing looking in the ground, still nothing¡­ After wasting some time doing that I start going into the forest area. Walking in I slowly trying to check my surroundings. Almost instantly I come upon the remains of a large animal, it was some type of deer. I use Identify again
Identification successful
Forest Lords antlers
Type:IngredientDurability:N/A
Quality:High
Rare alchemical ingredient used in many high class potions.
I take the skull with the antlers and stuff it into my bag. Creeping around I hear a loud scream further in the forest. Bringing up my sword I move in the direction that it came from. Within seconds I hear a strange noise and dive straight into a nearby bush . A cute little rabbit comes into my view. It was absolutely adorable, the only thing that was strange was the huge dull tan horn that jetted out if its head. It seemed to be going towards the scram noise from a second ago. Curious i start to follow the rabbit. Still being cautious I was sticking to the shadows and large bushes that gave me plenty of cover. after a few minuted we arived at a clearing. Before i could even take a step out into the clearing a ring goes off in my head and a blue box appears.
Skill Name:Skill Rank:Skill Level:Skill Experience:
SneakBeginner10%
Reduces the sound you make by 40% when active. More effects as level increases. 10 mana / min.
Skill Name:Skill Rank:Skill Level:Skill Experience:
Hide presenceBeginner10%
Makes you 20% harder to detect. More effects as level increases 10 mana / min.
Activating both of my new skills i fallowed slowly, with my gut on the ground and crawled forward through the high grass. The cool thing about activating both skills at once was that my body started to turn slightly transparent, almost like a ghost. It was only slightly, i wonder if they increase in level i could go totally invisible. finally we arrived into the edge of the tree clearing. I poked my head up from the grass I was petrified with what i saw. What I saw was a nightmare to any newb out there. There where a huge number of elven bodies lying around with giant puncture marks in their heads. I counted at least 15 that i could see. The group of bodies was surrounded by about five little white rabbits, but behind them I saw a crazy Huge 4ft tall black Hare. It was equipped with three long glowing horns jetting out vertically on its head. making this horror story complete a body was still pierced on its horn, and fresh blood dripped from the tip. I quickly ducked my head down and frantically tried to used my Identification skill. Nothing, i tired it several more times. and still it would not work. Finally after the seventh try it worked, and what it showed made my face loose all color.
Dark Rabbit King: level 10 boss monster, only appears at night when large amounts of rabbits are killed. It moves at ultra high speeds. It also combines both Shadow and Lightning mana for devistating attacks. Special abilities: Shadow leap, Lightning blast.
FUNK! A boss monster. How the Hell did I get stuck in this situation. I guess curiosity really did kill the cat! Oh well I stealthily try and flee, but as I was backing up a twig snapped. Almost immediately all the rabbits In the area perked their ears up and started to move in my direction. I jumped out of the tall grass and ran¡­ i just realized I''m running a lot in this game. The rabbits were right on my tracks. I backtracked straight to the beginner clearing keeping just ahead of the horned monsters. I ended up gaining +2 agility as I fled with all my might. Thank you improved agility without you I would have died a cute furry, yet really painful death. I almost made it into the city, however there in front of me was the Black Rabbit king. It sat on it''s hind legs looking at me with big glowing yellow eyes. I¡¯m now surrounded. In front of me is the boss class monster behind me is a group of level three rabbits that killed over a dozen other players. There is only one thing to do, Magic! The only spell I had available was my Mana bomb but that would have to do! Holding my hand out in front of me I yelled ¡°mana bomb¡± I could feel the mana leave my body and collect into the palm of my hand. I forced more and more into it, I could feel as the mana became more and more unstable. I look into the corner of my vision as my mana bar appeared. After putting everything, all 210 points of mana into it I cocked my arm behind me like a baseball player getting ready to throw. Instantly turning around I now faced the group of low level rabbits and threw the bomb directly at them. Reading on Amazon or a pirate site? This novel is from Royal Road. Support the author by reading it there. Booooooooooooooooooooooom I had crouched down in anticipation of the impact. Looking in front of me there was a giant crater almost 6 feet in diameter. The rabbits seemed to have vanished. Only a small pile of what looks like fur and some coins remained scatterd about in the bottom of the hole. I was assaulted by blue boxes again. Swiping them away I would deal with them later right now i don''t have the time to celebrate. Turning around to face the Boss i took one look in its eyes. It told me one thing¡­.RUN! I ran as fast as I could. Running around the crater in the ground, I quickly headed back into the trees. Once I got there I looked over and saw the Boss still in the same spot. I breathed a sigh of relief, when suddenly I was sent flying back and slammed right into a tree and crashed on the ground below.
-86 Health
Crap what the heck happened. The huge rabbit was right where I stood before. Apparently that thing is freakin fast. Realizing I can¡¯t outrun the huge furball I start climbing the tree in front of me. I managed to get to the top. Looking down the rabbit boss was still looking at me from down below. After making eye contact there was a sudden light flashing between its horns. In an instant a huge blast of lightning shot directly at me. I drop to a lower branch, barely missing the blast. Using my new conceal presence and hide skills I tried to vanish. Holding my breath, i waited. Not a movement, not a noise, finally the Boss looked away. The big rabbit started to turn back into the forest. After several minutes, I felt safe enough to drop down. I can''t believe that worked! Shaking my head I could feel my previous tensions disappear. I quickly walked back to the starting field. I carefully lowered myself into the crater and collect my loot, it consisted of seven rabbit furs and horns, 50 silver coins, and one strange ring. I use Identify on the ring
Ring of the Inept Mage
Type:ringDurability:15 / 15
Quality:poor
Ring that fell of a inept mage while walking in the woods grants INT+1 WIS+1.
I chuckle a little at the item discription. Right now that is exactly what i am an Inept mage. I need more skills and spells to use. I will have to learn more later. I would hate to rely on a skill that could end up hurting me too. i guess this is for a diffrent time. I slip the ring onto my finger and it fits perfectly. Oh yea I also need to check out what I missed earlier after i killed all these rabbits i call out ¡°open Notifications.¡± All the boxes I closed began to pop up in front of me.
You killed several Horned rabbits at once exp x1.5 Level up Level up Level up
Using a single spell to its maximum you have raised your familiarity with mana Intelligence + 2
You killed several Horned rabbits with one skill due to your "Self-Taught" title you gain more experience skill up skill up skill up skill up
You have 15 unassigned points
I gained 4 levels with my mana bomb!? Wow that''s awesome, just 6 more till it goes up to Intermediate. I have 15 points? Right, i forgot you get 5 points to apply to your stats for every level you gain. Hmmmm. I decide to add all my points in intelligence and wisdom, after all I¡¯m trying to be a mage. If I¡¯m going to get my revenge on that black rabbit I¡¯m going to need to get a lot stronger. "Open Status"
Status Window
Name:Seth BlackwingAlignment:Neutral
Level:4Class:none
Race:HumanGender:Male
Titles
Self-Taught
Fame:0Infamy:0
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Health:102/160Health Regen:1.6 / Sec
Mana:285/350Mana Regen:4.2 / Sec
Stamina:45/160Stamina Regen:1.6 / Sec
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Strength:10 (1)Agility:15
Vitality:15 (1)
Intelligence:19 (16)Wisdom:12 (9)
Leadership:N/ALuck:5
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Taking a long sigh, I look into the sky as the sun begins to rise. After a long time its time to leave the virtual world. Walking into the gates of the city I find an alley way plop myself into the corner and log of for the first time. Thinking about what great adventures are still to come. <><><><><><><><><><><><><>< Edited a few details. thanks for the comments. I will have a extra long chapter ready for you guys on Monday! get ready to read about the real world, but from the view of powerful Magicians. RL I''m sorry everyone my original chapter was over four thousand words long... then i fell asleep at my keyboard last night and my power went out.. [th_107_.gif]. for the first time in two months. I only saved the first three pages of the unedited version. I will work hard and compensate you guys on a later chapter. This chapter is still double the size of my other chapters as promised. hopefully it fills you in on a little bit about how our MC faces the real world. Thanks for reading! be sure to rate and comment. Yes this is an unedited version! there will be some errors. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>><><><>><><><><><><><><> After logging out, I sat in the egg shaped pod for a few more second. I pressed a small button on the right side of the exit and a holographic screen appeared displaying the time in big bold numbers. 1:09 a.m¡­.. I have been in game for over six hours?! Thinking about the time difference being 4:1 I¡¯m glad I haven¡¯t faded any problems. The only thing that is affecting me right now was mentally exhausted. Almost as if on cue my stomach started to make some noises indicating that my satiety is low! But because the kitchen is all the way on the other side of the mansion not only is this house big it¡¯s also old and the floor makes some loud noises when someone walks. I decide to dig into some food I had stashed in my room in advance. I walked over to a large desk in the corner of my room and opened a special compartment that had a huge pile of junk food and soda in it. After stuffing myself with a whole bag of chips I lay down and within 10 min. I had drifted off to sleep. That night I had a strange dream. I dreamed I was back in game; I was surrounded by an army of white rabbits. I laughed at them and their pathetic attempt to try and attack the great and powerful me! I started to chant some strange incantation, and the air suddenly turned cold. I look up and Giant lances of pure ice rained down on the horde of adorable abominations. After my assault the entire field was destroyed and shards of ice stuck out from the ground. Then out of the corner of my vision a large shadow appeared. It was the Dark rabbit boss! I smiled as I looked at him. He stood on his hind legs looking at me¡­ we both didn¡¯t move at all for at least a minute. Finally I raised my hands into the air and yelled the incantation again, but nothing happened. I tried to use it again, yet still nothing happened. I look over at the Boss, to me he had a smug impression on his face. I slowly backed away, but as I did a blast of lightning flew from the horns on the Bosses head. The huge blast missed my face by a hairs width. I could feel burns form on my face were the strike missed. I continued to back away, no at this point I turned and ran, ran for my life. I tried again and again, to activate my mana, yet I failed. For some reason no matter what I tried it wouldn¡¯t work. Then before me was the Boss, taking one look into my eyes, it suddenly vanished. Before I realized it a large horn was sticking out of my chest were my heart was I fell to the ground motionless¡­. Everything turned black¡­ Waking up with a terrible jerk, I sat up so quickly I lost my balance and fell off the small western style bed. I was found myself on the ground panting and sweating. For some reason what I had just dreamed about was already forgotten. Shaking my head I slowly stood back up, looking on the desk where the old radio clock could be seen. It was already 7:30 in the morning. I still felt unrested but it was time to start the day. I walked to a large dresser and pulled out some fresh clothes. I proceeded out of my room and down the long narrow hall to the washroom. When I walked in I couldn¡¯t help but look in amazement at the full Japanese style bath and showers. I wasn¡¯t interested in a full bath, so I just washed myself in one of the sitting shower areas. After fifteen minutes I was done and dressed. Walking back to my room I opened my pod, but instead of logging in, I checked online for any news about World of Legends. According to the forum a lot of people are finding dungeons, but lack the power to complete them. There is word that the first Guild had already been formed. This has lead to a mad rush of players trying to make or join guilds to keep up. The first person to obtain a hidden class has finally decided to reveal it to the public. It was called the Mythic Warrior class and it allowed the Fighter to wield any weapon, as long as you meet the player level requirement. What that means is that class and stat restrictions don¡¯t mean anything! The down side is that you can¡¯t wear any heavy armor, but the speed of the class is insane. There were other miscellaneous news, but the news about the hidden class made me think I need to get a class. In most RPGs a common method of improving the capabilities of different game characters is to assign each one to a character class. A character class aggregates several abilities and aptitudes, and may also sometimes detail aspects of background and social standing or impose behavior restrictions. The best example would be a paladin must always act according to the doctrine of their Church with no deviation whatsoever. If they do deviate it could negatively affect their powers granted to them through the church. (Plus Paladins are a$$ holes) If I could get a basic magician class it would increase both the amount of mana I have, and the power of my spells automatically. It would also require less mana for most spells. The problem is that I had to get into the tower to lean the class¡­ Well let¡¯s think about that later. I get out of the capsule, leave my room, and head down the hall in the opposite direction. This place is so big it¡¯s easy to get lost in, but my direction is pinpointed by the savory smell of bacon being cooked. As I turned one of the corners I faced a large double door. I could hear the sound of conversation going on. Taking a long deep sigh, I mentally prepare myself and slides open the large door. Inside was this mansion¡¯s dining hall. It was a very traditional Japanese room with tatami mats and it even had a huge low table that could sit over fifteen guests. It was surrounded by large comfortable cushions placed on the ground for guests to sit on. Sitting at the head on one side of the rectangular table was the master of the house Hojiro Akumatokk¨­, surrounded by three sons and one daughter. While on the other side my family sat with my father, Ryan sitting at the head. Next to him was my mother Nalia with my brother Allan across form her and my sister Drella next to her. The second I walked in everyone looked at me for a few second. Then Momohime or Momo, the daughter of Hojiro got up and greeted me. She walked me over to my spot on the table next to Allen. I silently follow her and take a seat, afterword¡¯s she departed into the kitchen. After I was seated everyone went back to their conversation and ignored me. If you ask me this was just perfect. I didn¡¯t have anything to say to my family and nothing they would even care about. I looked across the table at the Akumatokk¨­¡¯s if I remember right the oldest was 20 yrs old and his name was Genjiro, the second oldest was Momohime who was 16 yrs old. Tobi was third at 12, and the youngest was Hiru who was 8. Their mother died during Hiru¡¯s child birth. Since then Momo has kind of taken over as head Matriarch of the household. If you encounter this narrative on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. Oh and speak of the devil, here comes Momo with a large plate of food for me. I see eggs, slices of a steak, and toast! Thanking Momo I take the plate and start to eat. As I gorge myself I pay a little more attention to the conversation going on between my Father and Hojiro. They seem to be talking about the Overworld Underworld seal. Those of you who don¡¯t know what that is. It is a special seal placed in several locations through the world that keeps the large amounts of supernatural beings from ripping through their dimension and into ours. Every hundred years or so these divine level seals starts to wear out. In order to fix it must be recharged through mana. That is the reason for our family to be here in japan. The Akumatokk¨­ clan is large, but their power is no match for the four members of my family. What would take 10 years by themselves, with us we can get it done in only 1. Well after finishing my breakfast I dismissed myself. Learning anything more would be pointless to me. My monster of a family can just take care of it anyway. As I was almost out the door Tobi the 12 year old left with me. I turned and looked at him for a second ¡°do you need something Tobi¡±? With a little bit of broken English he started talking ¡°Big broder Seth, come pleey wit me! I Knon yun has a fun game fer us to pleey!¡± (Big brother Seth, come play with me. I know that you have a fun game for us to play.) I shook my head a little but soon gave him a short smile. I needed access to some of the magic techniques from the books that this clan has. Coming up with a plan, I looked down at Tobi and said ¡°ok I will play with you, but before that could you show me some really cool things you have stored away?¡± He looked at me confused for a second his eyebrows turning into a little frown as he tried to think. The his eyes light up and started running off in. I slowly fallowed him. I tire to keep my eyes on him the whole way. Finally he took me outside of the main house to one of the side buildings. Tobi lead me to one of the largest buildings then pointed inside. Inside of the large store building of the Akumatokk¨­s they keep large old pieces of furniture. I also spot some artifacts that have lost their power, but what were also there was large quantities of books. An entire wall of old books was before me, some detailing the general history of the world and others had basic runes, and spells. What I looked for was the "Laws of Mana" book. I took it, as well as a strange book titled "Magus of Mana". The last and strangest book I took was the "Runes of power" book. I was always fascinated by runes, for they showed how much power writing had over our world. After writing a Rune on an object and imbuing it with power, you can change the very property of that object. The best example I can come up with is a boulder that weighs a Ton (2,000 lbs) if you wright the rune for weightless and imbue it with power its weight changes to (150 lbs) the very nature of the rock has been changed. Taking the three books all the way back to his room he set them down on the desk. Tobi was quiet this whole time and let me get what I needed. I decided to reward him a little bit by going outside and playing with him a little till lunch. Finally after lunch rolled around I headed to the kitchen in the manor. To get a sandwich. As I walk in Momo was cooking some type of stew with her little helper Hiru. I waved to them both. But momo set the large lid on the pot and came over to talk with me. She had asked what me and Tobi did that morning. I told her in a summarized form about visiting the storage and borrowing some books. we went outside to and kicked a ball around. Momo looked at me and said said with a soft voice: ¡°Seth if you would like to borrow some more books you could just go up to the second floor library. The ones in the storage are all books that have lost their relativity to the preforming magic. I can have Hiru lead you there tomorrow.¡± Momohime looked over at Hiru who gave a little nod at his big sisters rewquest, and went back to stirring a large pot of rice. With a little smile on her face Momo made me a quick simple egg and salami sandwich. After thanking her properly I happily ate it. The second i had polished off my sandwich a chill ran down my spine as my family entered the dining area, ready to eat lunch. They were having an enjoyable chat, I knew they wouldn''t like me being in tier way so I decided to sneak out the back kitchen door and bypass them completely. Before I left I told Momo that I would most likely miss dinner again. She smiled at me and said that she would bring me some rice balls to my room later. She really is a sweet girl. I thanked her and left through the back. Making my way around the outside of the manner I finally reached the side door and walked in. two doors down the hall was my room. I quickly got in and locked the door. Finally, I have a chance to look at the books I got. Now let¡¯s see what I can find. Opening the ¡°Laws of Mana¡± book I began reading the strange text. After only five minutes it put it away. All the book talked about was why we call mana, mana¡­.. I even skipped through the book I couldn¡¯t help but feel that it was a waste. Next let¡¯s see if the ¡°Mana Magus¡± has anything different. As I was reading the book it talked about several pure mana skills that many magi have used through history. One Magus used his mana to form infinite weapons and used his strength to destroy evil spirits and demons. Another used mana to form bolts in the air and have them rain down on the opponent. The one that made me laugh was that there was a Magus several hundred years ago that used his mana and caused entire armies and cities to be blown into oblivion. I¡¯m guessing that must be similar to the mana bomb skill. That means I should be able to make some of these into skills! After reading through most of the book, I decided to change and glance at the ¡°Runes of Power¡± book. This is a wild card but I might as well try it. I memorized the runes for ¡°Power¡± ¡°Speed¡± and ¡°Explosion¡± explosion was a tier 4 rune but I might as well go big or go home right? Putting all the books away on the desk I look at the time 2:15 p.m. alright it¡¯s time to play Word Of Legends! ><><><<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><<><><> Thanks for reading please rate and enjoy. Next chapter lets see what strange fun he gets himself into! Also look forward to the Introduction of some new characters! Do you guys like me to make some POVs from other players standpoints, or leave it as only Seth''s POV? Post your answer down below. depending on how you like it i may or may not make a special chapter! Those of you who don''t know what a POV is it is (point of view) many many many other authors use them, i generally don''t but i want to know what you guys think. WHAT THE HELL!?!?! Hello everyone, My friend who edits for me is stuck in the hospital, with no computer or internet access.... so here is another unedited work... Remember to rate and Comment! <><><><><><><<><><><><><><><<>><<><<><><><><><<><><><><><> I squeezed into the VR pod and put the head gear on. It was dark, but then I was standing in that cloud place again. After only a few seconds a disembodied voice welcomed me with: ¡°Welcome back Seth it has been nearly 2 in game days since your character last moved. Normally if you don¡¯t have shelter it would leave you open to attack, molestation, robbery, death, ect. You need to find some form of shelter. It can be at an inn, tent, a cleared out cave, even the top of a tree. As long as it has a covering and is dedicated as a safe zone by you. Only because this is your first and hopefully your last offense we have provided an emergency save zone for you. Please wait while your server connects.¡± After the voice was done talking everything went dark except for a little percentage bar in the corner of my vision giving me a synthesis and buffing update. But woops! I thought that because the alley was in the city it was automatically safe, however I guess I forgot to make it a safe zone. Thank the Seven spirit gods for their leniency on this mistake. Within a minute after it started loading if felt that my body was being crushed. I opened my eyes, and I was absolutely covered in garbage. I guess this would classify as a roof, which is why they let me get away with it¡­. Tunneling myself out of the mountain of garbage I found myself in. I could vaguely see various trees and the tower in the opposite direction. When I got to the last layer I lunged myself out, erupting from one side of the giant trash mound. On my way out I ended up shocking a little elf girl. She fell back on her butt and I was able to get a good look at her. She was small and looked to be around 12 years old she had on a black sleeveless shirt and matching shorts. She had a dark tan with blue tribal tattoos carved on her arms, legs, and face. I was able to recognize a two of them as animals but the others were too obscured to me. After turning away from the girl I was sort of pissed off. Well this is great! Do they really have to treat me like garbage here too!? After a minute my anger dissipated, because out of the corner of my eye I find a treasure! Sticking out of one of the garbage mounds was a staff with a large clear crystal attached to it! Normally the only way to get a staff around here was to either join the tower or steal from someone else. Stealing a staff is normally stupid because staffs are blood bound to the Mage that owns it. I couldn¡¯t believe my luck! I tried to get up on the shifting pile of garbage, but I couldn¡¯t keep my balance. Most hardworking and straightforward people would keep going till they got it, but never underestimate the power of someone who can give up in an instant. Changing my tactics I just rolled over so that I was on all fours, and I shot up like a retarded puma. Grabbing the staff and yanking it out like King Arthur did Excalibur. I also couldn¡¯t help but shout out: ¡°By the power of Grey Skull I have the power!¡± The little girl who I had surprised earlier, was giggling at my antics until that very moment because as I finished shouting the sky turned black and rain started to fall. The little girls eyes became huge with fear. As I tried to lower my newly acquired staff and cover my face from the rain a blast of lightning struck the staff. Due to the ¡°magic¡± of conduction because I was holding onto the staff it sent me flying from the shock.
-100 damage, gained a passive skill elemental resistance due to being hit by lightning you now develop a slight resistance to it 5% damage reduced to lightning based attacks.
Passive skill learned knock-back resistance due to being hit by knock-back several time you now have a 50% chance to resist knock-back this skill cannot be improved
Ouch after I tried to sit up my vision was slightly blurry. However I was glad I just learned 2 new skills. I was going to say, I¡¯ve felt like I was getting tossed around a lot lately. This should help me stand my ground later. Too bad it can¡¯t be trained. Now I have a skill that could help me survive that Rabbit boss. Having damage from getting stuck by lightning based attacks reduced would be huge in a battle with a lightning monster. The problem is how to train that without getting continually shocked¡­ Right before I forget I need to check the staff. I use Identify:
Identify failed
OK, again
Identify failed
lets try this one more time...
Identify failed
This is pissing me of!!! I tried using Identify over ten more times, and still it would not work. Well that''s just great I got a staff but I don¡¯t know jack about it! Taking the staff I placed it into my inventory and just sat there for a few more minutes. Now I guess I need to learn some new magic. I started to hoist myself up I noticed that little elven girl staring Intently at me. I have a really bad feeling about this. ******* On the other side of the forest in the tower. The Archmages where in the middle of teaching their various classes or fulfilling their numerous duties throughout the tower. As if a blast of frozen air had hit them all of the Mages up to the 7th rank started to shiver uncontrollably. All of those who have obtained a higher rank felt a heavy pressure. Everyone could feel a large disturbance not far from their tower. Just to the south a vast amount of magic had been used to cast an 8th tier spell. Judging from its composition it should be the ¡°Storms lightning¡± spell. Storm lightning uses the water from the rain to soak the ground, and then the thunder crashes down dealing large area damage. Archmage Lawson stood up and had a small frown on his face, He has never felt this energy signal before, it didn¡¯t belong to any of the Mages from the tower, or other large countries, and it was much too soon for that boy to even touch a 3rd tier spell let alone an 8th. There must be someone who has decided to challenge the might of the Tower. At this thought a large almost evil smile appeared on his old elegant face. If they wished to challenge the Tower it will take much more than a lowly 8th tier spell, my unknown friend I will happily await you. For I am the Divine Spirit of Fires Chosen! Sitting back down he continued to do the miscellaneous paper work for the tower. Pausing for a second, then the entire stack burned into ashes, then the ashes burned themselves leaving nothing left of the former paper. The excitement was driving him crazy, but in his mind he knew it would be better to wait and get an even better toy to play with. ********* As I was walking out of the huge land fill, I was followed by the little elf girl. After watching me cast a high level spell, she introduced herself as Sapha Woodwind age 14 level 15 summoner. (just old enough to play) She wanted to tag along and learn from a master magician. No matter how much I told her I was nothing but a level 4 novice, she wouldn¡¯t believe me. I even told her I failed the tower entrance exam. Still she was stubborn and continued to say she would follow me even if I didn¡¯t want her to. After an hour of pointlessly wasting my time I gave up¡­. So here we are. I¡¯m in the lead walking to a secluded place to try and see if the techniques of the real world work here. The clearing we come to is a starter area, with only rabbits and small game around. Sapha walks calmly into the clearing and summons one of her creatures, a wolf. After casting the spell the tattoo was glowing and out of thin air the wolf appeared. Sapha ordered it to massacre the local rodent population. I had done a little investigation into summoning when I was waiting for the game to be released. The summoning class is a strange class. It has virtually no offensive spells but relies on boosting the creatures that you can summon. To use a summon requires a contract with a spirit. The caster and the Spirit form a soul bond. The Mage can call on the spirit from within the spirit world to help fight anywhere in the mortal plain. The largest drawbacks are that the Mage themselves have almost no offensive capabilities, and that the summon Spirits are mana guzzlers. The reason is because the spirits have no physical bodies. In order to fight they must use mana to form a body. It is a constant drain on ones mana reserves. Also the spirit has its own level. As it kills it gains half the total experience. So unless you kill monsters yourself you will only gain levels half as fast as other classes. If you have more summons out then the less experience everyone gets. But the stronger you get the stronger your spirit summon naturally is. I read the final summons is a King Black Dragon, but to get it you have to do an insane level S quest by yourself. Unauthorized use: this story is on Amazon without permission from the author. Report any sightings. After watching Sapha and her wolf decimate most of the small fries, I began to get down to business. The first thing on my list is to try and use my mana manipulation and form mana weapons. That is the most likely technique to work here. I sit cross legged on the ground and close my eyes. I calm down and focus. I pull the mana from my body and bring it outside, it tries to fight me, to dissipate, yet it still holds. Now to make a shape, to make a dagger, a short, sharp dagger. I¡¯m hard at work forcing my mind to focus solely on the shape of a dagger. I continue to feel the ball of mana in my hand start to take shape, to slowly¡­¡­ Boom The ball exploded. I ended up with not taking any damage, but it was still a shock. What the hell just happened? I could feel everything going just fine what the hell?! I didn¡¯t put a lot of mana into it, but yet it still exploded? Trying to think calmly about it I think I just tried to form it too fast. Lets try again. Sitting down, I closed my eyes. Again I draw the mana from my body, to force it to stay close to my hand. It again tries to fight me I feel it. I keep my mind solidly on the form, the shape of a dagger. The blade needs to be sharp, and strong, the hilt needs to just be long enough for my hand to hold. I continue to picture it made form nothing but my mana. With my mind I can see the ball of mana slowly take on the shape I wish to use. It slowly starts to stretch, to expand in one direction and forms the blade. The ball then starts to collapse and form a hilt, suddenly it expanded too fast. It formed longer and longer then¡­. Booom It exploded yet again¡­. What is wrong, why won¡¯t it take the shape of a freaking dagger?! I decide to get up and walk around for a bit. Sapha was laying down on her wolf not too far away. Any animals that respawn are food for the wolf. I walk over to her not sure why, but I wanted to ask her something. ¡°Hey Sapha, when I was forming a shape with my mana what did you think it looked like.¡± She thought a little. Tilting her head cutely with a thinking look on her face. To me it looked funny, but soon she replied. ¡°I¡¯m sorry master I¡¯m not very good with weapons, especially exotic weapons. I don¡¯t know exactly what you were trying to make but it looked an awful lot like a short lance or a javelin to me.¡± A lance? Suddenly a strange feeling fell over me, something about a dream, I can¡¯t quite remember. But using a lance¡­ That would be awesome! With a new plan in my head I walked back to my spot. This time I remained standing up. I focused, feeling my mana, ALL of my mana, I poured it out and shaped it into a ball in front of my chest. I gently placed my hand on top of the floating orb of mana and willed it to turn into a Lance. I felt the power surge from within and it took the shape almost like it was made to. It shifted into the shape of a nasty looking short lance. Not to be mistaken for a jousting lance, which are a joke, this was a weapon of war! I grabbed the glowing glass like weapon. Looked at it in wonder, as if on instinct I began drawing my arm back I hefted it up over my shoulder and threw it into the forest with all my might. Because my strength is a joke, and I''ve never thrown a lance in my life, I didn¡¯t throw it very hard, but it launched itself like a rocked from my hand. The force made me stumble a little. The lance was flying at such a fast speed it punctured through the tree I was aiming at and continued its flight. As it continued to fly I started receiving a torrent of notifications.
Skill Name:Skill Rank:Skill Level:Skill Experience:
Mana Weapon CreationIntermediate100%
A Skill that turns mana into a weapon. Damage and effects change based on how much mana is supplied into the weapon.
Skill Name:Skill Rank:Skill Level:Skill Experience:
Mana War LanceBeginner100%
You use your mana to form a terrifying weapon of War. Mana War Lance have extremely high attack and can change based on the use of other skills. Requires a minimum of 200 mp to create. Current Damage ratio 1 mp / 1 dmg. As level increases so does the damage ratio.
For learning a new form of magic on your own INT+5 Wis+2
I looked at the new windows with a look of pride! but then more boxes started to arrive!
Critical Hit: damage X2
Deathly wound is in effect, target looses 200 HP/ min
Bleeding Induces target looses an additional 100 HP/ min
with a a frown on my face, I was trying to figure out what the heck did I hit, when suddenly i hear a huge explosion and more boxes start to harass me
Skill Name:Skill Rank:Skill Level:Skill Experience:
Mana War Lance: ShatterBeginner546%
force your war lance to shatter into hundreds of pieces and explode. It uses the mana from when you created it to detonate. Designed to take out large groups of warriors on the battle field.
Killed Level 3 Dark Mockingbird
Killed Level 12 Stone Mimic
Killed Level 25 Boss Monster Corrupted Treent
Congratulations: Because you are the first person to defeat a Boss monster on your own you receive 500+ Fame and an additional 5 status points
Due to killing a Monster that was over 20 levels above you, you receive the title "Bane of the Strong." When equipped you take 40% less and deal 20% more damage to Opponents with a higher level than you. Strength +15 Agility +15 Vitality +15
Level Up X 10
You now have 55 Unused status Points
"...........WHAT THE HELL!?!?!" <><><><><><><><><><><<><><><><><><<><><><><><><><<><><><><<><> Dun Dun Duuuuunnnnnn! I hope you enjoyed the chapter! I will release the final chapter of this arc soon so stay tuned for the Ultra, super, Mega, Hyper important chapter. Something really important is going on! BWAHAHAHAHA! and yes i freaking agree this game is broken! Soul Bound Really sorry everyone, i have been going through a lot the last several days. I am currently going through a job change. (AKA: BIG RAISE). Because of getting ready to take on my new duties and responsibilities, i have been negligent of writing this story. I have made this a Triple chapter, for all of you! This is the end of the first arc, i will take a short break to get adjusted to work, then i will start releasing longer chapters. Remember to Rate & Review yes this is not edited yet, however i want you all to enjoy it anyway. My buddy gets out of the hospital tomorrow. I will edit it then. <><><><><><><><><><><<><><><><><><><><<><><><><><<><><><><<><>< After a few minutes I finally managed to calm myself down. Taking a deep breath and slowly exhaling it I started to feel my mind go back to normal. Right now there are no more windows appearing, and nothing is charging out of the woods to kill me¡­. Now to check the damage ¡°Status Window¡±
Status Window
Name:Seth BlackwingAlignment:Neutral
Level:14Class:none
Race:HumanGender:Male
Titles
Self-Taught
Fame:500Infamy:0
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Health:310/310Health Regen:3.1 / Sec
Mana:420/420Mana Regen:4.6 / Sec
Stamina:260/260Stamina Regen:3.0 / Sec
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Strength:10 (16)Agility:15(15)
Vitality:15 (16)
Intelligence:26 (16)Wisdom:14(9)
Leadership:N/ALuck:5
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Wow, that¡¯s all I can say right now. I¡¯m starting to get OP for sure! Still might as well continue the path of a mage and put all my points into Int+35 and Wis+20 again. Now I¡¯m starting to look really powerful, all I need now is to get a class. Maybe I should reapply to the Tower, or try and get a private teaching. I have no elemental skills so I don¡¯t know what they would try to do to me. So everything is calm, now to think what the heck happened. Yea this must have been a 1 in a Billion fluke. Anyway I am not one to give up any potentially powerful and rare loot. Rubbing my hands together a smile started to spread across my face. I continue this until I notice a small elf girl, walking my way. As my face begins to reveal my inner greediness. Sapha walks over from her previous position and quickly begins the badgering process, sigh¡­¡­ my smile quickly turns to a frown, as I¡¯m assaulted by questions. ¡°Hey Master, what was that? How did you do that? What is that spell called? Did you just make that spell yourself? How can I learn a spell like that? (Continues on for about 20 more questions)¡± I swear that if this girl continues to bug me, I¡¯m going to turn into a ¡°Divikus.¡± It is a term for mages that commit acts of murder, and other atrocious acts against humanity. Rolling my eyes into my head in frustration I just ignore the noise maker for now, and begin heading in the direction I threw my War Lance. Getting to the tree line I walked deeper into the forest. I just followed the telltale hole in the trees where my Lance had punctured clean through. After walking a little further I reached a slightly open meadow area, but there were two things wrong here. The first, was the area was like a swamp in color, there was signs of rot, and decay all over this place. The second was probably my fault. Covering this entire area was not hundreds, but thousands of shards of glass sticking out of everything. As I walked forward the shards that came within reach of me turned to dust and vanished¡­. Well I guess that means that I can avoid friendly fire with my attack. I continued into the very center of the glade where a giant rotten tree that looked like Swiss cheese with a gaping hole nearly split it into two. Using my Identify skill it was in fact the Treant that I killed. I could now see how it was possible for me to kill it. My Lance was fully charged with all my mana, and it pierced the Treant¡¯s magic core. Then after causing double damage and bleeding, the lance detonated, creating the huge hole. Finally almost all the shards that pierced its body went completely through it turning into Swiss. As I begin approaching the Treant remains, I stop. I need to save that for last, now to look for the other two monsters I killed. The first was the mockingbird on the edge of the clearing not far from me. I walked over to it, kicking it and watching as the body turned into light. What remained was a handful of black and white feathers, and a beak they are low quality alchemy materials. Now I try and find the mimic. For those who have no idea what a mimic is here is what you need to know. A mimic is portrayed as being able to change its shape to disguise its true body as an inanimate object, the most common being a chest. The mimic has a powerful adhesive that holds onto anyone who touches the Mimic. This allows the mimic to beat the target with powerful ¡°fists¡±. As I continue to search, I found a large rock sticking into the ground almost halfway to the Treent. I walk to it and what do you know, I¡¯m right. I quickly kick it and out pops my treasure! What appears this time is amazing! All of the monsters that I have killed so far have been small fries. What comes out of the mimic are 2 large vials of a blue potion, a robe, and boots that match in color. I use identify to check the items.
Medium Mana Potion
Type:PotionDurability:N/A
Quality:Good
Potion used to recover 500 Mana.
Robe of the Forest Druid
Type:ArmorDurability:80 / 80
Quality:Good
Robe worn by the Old Forest Druids it increses Vit+5. Combine with other sets of the armor to increase bonuses.
Boots of the Forest Druid
Type:armorDurability:80 / 80
Quality:Good
Boots worn by the Old Forest Druids in increases Agi+5. Combine with other sets of the armor to increase bonuses.
Yes! Finally some cool gear! But now it is finally time for the ultimate prize! I hungrily walk to the center of the glade, greed blinding my eyes as I grew closer to it I couldn¡¯t help but to laugh at it. The once mighty boss monster reduced to a Swiss corpse and providing me with more loot! I can¡¯t believe my luck with this. Maybe I am a true genius in this game. I will aim to be the strongest. I may not have strength in RL but here I¡¯m powerful. Strong enough to kill a boss single handedly. Who needs RL, when I can live in happiness here! I freeze on the spot and open my eyes wide in surprise¡­. Was I really thinking things like that? Is that what I truly wish? Holy crap that is very dangerous thinking. Ok I better not let thoughts like that control me¡­. How frightening. I shake my head clear of those thoughts and continue on. As I get within a meter of the base of the Treant I begin using Identify on the various parts of its body. It tells me the bark is a great alchemic ingredient, and the wood can be made into staffs later. The blood is also a type of ingredient, but I¡¯m too low of a level to get any more info. So I go ahead and start stripping the usable materials from the Treant¡¯s body. It¡¯s not like he cares anymore. As I finish taking the final large piece of wood off the Treant It began to be surrounded in light. As it does the entire meadow glows a light green. The story has been illicitly taken; should you find it on Amazon, report the infringement. The corruption begins to peel off as if shedding it from itself. I watch in amazement as the green light intensifies all around me, I notice Sapha has finally shut up and is watching this scene with awe. As the last of it is peeled it starts to be form together in a ball in the sky, and then it just disintegrated. The now healthy forest clearing is all that remains, but right in front of me, where the Treent once stood was a giant stone slab. And in front of the slab was a HUGE treasure chest! HELL YEA!! I quickly opened it up and inside was over 500 gold coins, a large cloak, some magic rings and other jewelry that I think has enchantments, and a strange handle. I picked up everything and shoved it into my inventory, i will look at those later, i don''t want to have a huge pile of treasure sticking out in a big clearing not far from a city. I put everything in except for the strange handle. I use identify and I came up with this:
Sorin''s Mana Blade hilt
Type:SwordDurability:N/A
Quality:Legendary
Weapon used by Sorin the Batttlemage. The blade was broken up into 3 parts, hilt, guard, blade Channel mana into the hilt and create blades of mana that can cut through anything Damage rate 2 mana /1 damage. *** *** *** Find the other parts of the sword to complete
Quest: Find Sorin''s Legacy Sorin Saltear was a man made for battle and war, he helped forge the Human empire to be what it is today. Find and assemble his famed sword and bring his legacy back to the Human race Quest rank: B+ Rewards Sorin''s (Complete) Mana Blade Fame+500 *** *** *** Failure conditions NONE
Quest Accepted
Putting the hilt into my inventory I got up and stood away from the chest as it vanished, all that was left was the huge stone slab. It had small writing on it, and a series of strange magic formations covering various parts of it. I couldn¡¯t help but be impressed at the magic configuration. I counted over 12 of these magic circles. This must be one heck of a spell! I knelt down at the base and tried to study a little about the slab. Sapha, who has been good for the last hour finally started to talk again. But because I was in a good mood I paid some attention to her. ¡°Hey master, you got a lot of pretty amazing gear, what are you going to do now?" without looking up from the slab, I decided to humor the little girl with some answers. ¡°Sapha, as I¡¯ve been telling you, I am not a master or anything. All I know is some magic I figured out myself. I need to learn a class, and focus my efforts on that. Most likely I will go back to try and enter the tower. After that I¡­¡­¡­ What the?! There is no way this is real! Why are there Deleram(Ancient) runes in a game?!¡± I was looking at a real magic formation. I started to read a little, and all I could feel is dread! I immediately step back and start to yell at sapha as the slab started to glow a bright red. ¡°Sapha, Run! Just Run, this is BAD!¡± From what I could recognize from the formation, this spell, is a forbidden spell ¡°Mind Seal¡± it was connected to another forbidden spell ¡°Spirit Meld.¡± Why is there something like this in a game!? Crap!!!! As we try and get away from the slab, a huge barrier surrounded us, forcing us to stop. I looked down at the barrier circle and without hesitation grabbed Sapha by the back of her shirt. I use my mana to wrap around her and just like with my lance I used it to launch her through the barrior. She passed through unharmed. But as she slipped through, the barrier started to condense forcing me closer and closer to the slab. As I struggled in vain, the slab had started to split and out of the cracks chains protruded. When I was forced into a meter away from it, the chains, as if alive, started to grab ahold of me. It started to coil itself around my arms, legs, and neck. Then as I was shoved up against the stone I felt an intense, horrible pain, as the end of the chains punctured through my body. I wasn¡¯t sure where or how many times I was punctured, all I could see hear and feel, was pain. Finally after what felt like hours of torture, I passed out¡­.. and there was nothing but darkness but over and over I could hear something in that darkness speaking to me: ¡°I of the Origins from before the dawn of time, Seek my Champion. I of the Origins that may finally be free, Seek my Champion. I of the Origins with my power released, Seek my Champion. I of the Origins that can bring balance to what is broken, Seek my Champion. I of the Origins call out to YOU, Be my champion!¡± As the last of the words leave me I can no longer think, I just drift off to a dreamless realm. ***************** My name is Allan Myrdread and right now me and my family are living in Japan. There is something different about our family from others. It is the fact that we posses magical power. Right now we are in the middle of helping out an old family friend Hojiro Akumatokko, who is letting us stay in his home. Its been a few day since we moved in and have been working on various projects to strengthen one of the seals that has been coming loose recently. When we moved I was happy that my older brother Seth could come along with us. He is 17 years old this year and is soon going to be kicked out of our home, due to not having any magical powers of his own. My sister Drella and I love him very much, but we also understand that it is because of us that Brother is suffering under Father and Mother. I was kind of sad when Brother turned to games to cope with us. Father and mother didn¡¯t give a care. It¡¯ the 9th day of us staying in the Akumatokk¨­s house and it is early in the morning. All the family is there, except for Brother. But Momohime told us that he should be here in a bit. Today Me, Drella, Hiru, and Tobi are going out. We are going to ask Brother if he would like to join us in the forest. In the past Brother would always come and play with us. Brother always helps us when we need it, treats us like kids, yet respects us. Big Brother is still not here. What is taking so long. I hope he is alright, but it is already 10:30 a.m. Drella and I are getting really worried. Momo is also showing a worried face, she went by the door and looked in. the Rice balls she had made for Brother where still there. I''m sure he will come out at some point. So we go about our day It is now a little past noon and as everyone was getting ready to eat lunch a huge power wave swept over the house. The only thing that causes these distortions are high level spells. Father and mother had serious looks on their faces, and Master Hojiro was frowning. We all could sense that this was an extremely powerful spell! Father led the way to the source, Brothers room. He immediately opened the door and brother wasn¡¯t there. Everyone watched as Momo squeezed passed us and into the small room. Walking over to the corner and banging on the egg shaped statue yelling at brother. She was asking if he was ok. There was no answer, only then Momo grabbed a hidden latch and opened the front, and brother lifelessly fell out. He was covered in sweat, with a dark mist emitting from his body. Every Magician in the world knew what happened if you start to get covered in a black miasma. There was something wrong with your body and soul synchronization. Father grabbed brother and ripped his shirt off. Revealing a strange mark, similar to a chain that continued to circulate around brothers body. In the center of his chest was a strange rune, I have never seen before. But as Father and mothers eyes gazed turned to it, they started to grin. They got up and left brother on the floor, and strolled calmly past everyone and out of the room. Momo gently tried to sit him up on the container she called it a ¡°pod¡± and began to examine Brother. When Father took brothers shirt off everyone had gasped, because on brothers chest was a Powerful forbidden spell, Hojiro was trying to explain to us the implications of such a thing. A spell of this strength could not have been made by a Human, demon, or an angel. No the only ones strong enough to create the seal big brother was under is one of the Supreme Spirits. These Spirits are our like our gods, we pray to them and borrow power from them. One must want brother, but why would they want our powerless, kind, loving, older brother? I felt terrified that we didn¡¯t know what happened, but father and mother had actually showed smiles. If a deity took favor in one of their direct family members, they may give some special favor to them¡­ this thought sickens me. Why, why did this happen to big brother? I must figure out what had happened to my brother, and for what purpose. I look over at my twin sister Drella, and she looked at me. We both turned to face the "pod" and without saying anything, went over to Momo who was trying to take care of brother and asked "How much are these Pods Momo?" <><><><<>><<><><><><><<><><><><><><><><<><><><> Alright I hope you enjoyed the final chapter of the first arc. Stay tuned, and in about a week i will resume Posting. Please comment, criticize and rant (if you must) it always helps me to see what i have to cover and what needs to be changed. BTW someone said that the Regeneration rates were OP... it evens itself out. it just seems insane at a low level. just wait until later. it will look stupid. I will also go back and overhaul the first ark, adding in details and things that i had missed. I will be sure to tell you all when.