52 The Nereids Of Njord I : Preparing

When we sailed into the cove and straight into the dungeon, we were ignored, at least for the most part. A lot of ragged looking fellows had ran besides the ship on the platforms that seemed to serve as a demarcation for canal like labyrinth. These shady fellows were without a doubt, the guides that was supposed to lead us through the labyrinth, but I completely ignored them, much to the chagrin of my crew.

"Captain why are we ignoring the guides, though we really can't trust any of them, it's imperative that we have someone lead us through the labyrinth." Dinah said to me.

"You rebuilt this ship, but it seems you don't know anything, about what she can, that's bad. But I don't think it entirely your fault, after all I've not made mention of it yet.Acheron has a special compass that can find anything your heart desires, plus it has a definite chance of finding legendary ranked equipment. So you don't have to worry, Acheron herself will lead us through the labyrinth, and to be honest this is a dungeon, it would be beyond stupid for us not to take advantage of it and improve our strength. Let's use this as a grind stone to improve our strength and become stronger. All of you should checks your stats, and see what you need to take care of, prepare for battle."

Since I asked them to get prepared, I guess I also had to do the same thing. I had to check my stats, and probably increase the levels of some of my skills. I had quite a few skill points left from the last time I used it, and while I've ignored upgrading most of my skills, I think it would be smart to at least get my main skills out of the basic grade and into the advanced grade, there should be a lot more damage and versatility to them from that point on.

Name: Aaren Seven/ Level: 20(35.472.480/604.997.500)/Class: Ventus Draconis Vindex

Race: Dragon Kin Tribrid(Dragon/High Elf/Human)

Title: Thrill Seeker/ One With The Wind/ Bronze Blood Commander

Faction: Elemental Dragon Race/The Coven Of Angeles

Reputation: <>

Strength: 66/Constitution: 51/Agility: 66/Dexterity: 56 Intelligence: 66/ Wisdom:52

Hp 1075/1075(equip bonus +)MP 1282/1282(equip bonus +)

Stat points:0Skill points:44

Skills: <>

Friends: <>

The idea of not being able to level up as soon as I received exp was quite annoying, but that's the rule of the trial. All I can do is accumulate exp until I've finished my current task, and went back to report it's completion. Once that's done, I'll be able to level up again, but for now I just had to keep accumulating exp. The only thing I could focus on was training my skills to make them stronger, speaking of skills, I guess it's about time I leveled up my basic skills.

Passive skills:

• Wind child(level 4) basic. +5% to all wind oriented skills and spells.

• Adaptive(level 4) basic. +2% speed to learning skills and leveling up.

• Precise Aim(level 1) Advanced. +30% to aim when in motion, +35% to aim when stationary.

• Nature Born(level 1)basic. Wherever you are the power of Nature is with you. HP regeneration 30% + 60% in Forests, Jungles and any other place Nature can be found. All attacks within nature oriented areas +30%, +100% favorability with all Nature attuned entities.

• Flight (Level 1) Advanced. Soar for across the sky for 30 minutes. +30% to flight speed and maneuvering.

• Dragon Aura (level 1) basic. Your constantly covered by a draconic aura that shows the majesty of your bloodline. 80% chance to make opponents of a similar level bewildered, 100% for lower levels, 60% for opponents five levels higher, 40% for ten, 20% for fifteen, and 5% for twenty.

• Navigator: level 1 (basic): +20 to awareness and effectiveness in searching for directions. +20 effectiveness to navigating all seas and land terrain.

• Command: level 1 (basic): + 5 increase to stats and effectiveness when you give orders to your subordinates.

Active skills:

• Shoot(level 1) Advanced. +25% damage and speed for projectile weapons. (Cost 10 MP) (cool down 10 seconds)

• Hard punch(level 1) Advanced. Hit your opponent for 165% extra of your total attack. Speed +40% during skill.(cost 20 MP) (cool down 10 seconds)

• Homing Shot(level 3) basic. Chase and attack any target in sight with projectiles. +15% damage within a radius of 25 meters.(cost 10 MP) (cool down 120 seconds)

• Vacuum Palm (level 3) basic. Hit Targets with a wind element Palm attack. +20% damage and knock back effect. 5% chance to confuse opponents. (Cost 7 MP) (cool down 15 seconds)

• Wind Dance(level 1 ) basic. Become one with the wind, increasing attack and movement speed by 300% defense and evasiveness against attacks raised by 150% for 10 seconds. (Cost 60 MP) (cool down 200 seconds)

• Wind School: Lightening Coat(level 4 ) basic: use the power of lightening and wind to cover your body, increases defense against magical attacks by 14%,defense against physical attacks by 16% and increase speed by 44%. (Cost 25 MP) (Cool down 120 seconds)

• Mana Arrow(level 4) basic. Summon an arrow of pure mana to cause 20% magical and physical damage in a range of 15 meters. (Cost 5 MP) (cool down 15 seconds)

• Stealth(level 1) basic. Turn invisible for sixty seconds. Stealth is broken when attacked or attacking. Every first hit from stealth is a critical. (Cost 10 MP) (cool down 120 seconds)

• Purify(level 1) basic. Purify all things unclean and unholy. +100% chance to clear all debuffs, curses and poison. + 70% damage against the undead,+40% damage against dark creatures. (Cost 5 MP) (cool down 60 seconds)

• Lightning Blade(level 4) basic. Coat your blade with lightening mana for 5 seconds. Every attack made would have extra lightening damage stacked on top by 15% and all slashes are AOE strike of 3x3 meters. Attack speed increases by 10%. (Cost 20 MP) (Cool down 100 seconds)

• Cone Of Silence(level 1) basic. Create a cone of air over a target, eliminating the release of all skills and spells for ten seconds. (Cost 80 MP) (cool down 300 seconds)

Masteries:

• Archery Mastery (level 3) basic. +3% to all archery skills and +5% damage from all bows and arrows

• Sword Mastery (level 2) basic. +3% to all sword skills and + 5% damage from swords

• Magic Mastery (Level 1) basic. +3% damage to all magic skills and spells

Augmented racial trait:

• Gills (III): Breathe underwater for eight hours

• Swim Bladder: +60% to speed underwater, converse with aquatic creatures

• Spirit Of Air(I): Ability to communicate with air elementals and control air freely

• Heart Of Wind(I): Ability to control wind freely.

I increased the levels of precise aim, shoot, hard punch and flight to level 1 advanced from their basic ranks, spending 22 skill points out of my 44, and then I spent 11 points increasing the levels of lightening coat, lightening blade, and mana arrow. For now these are the skills I had to focus on, and there were quite a lot of skills for me to keep track off. And it was because I had too many skills that I decided we should attempt to take on this dungeon, as completing a dungeon would normally awarded the players some gifts, with the elusive skill combining gems being amongst them.That's what I'm really after anyway.

I got my armor on, and hung Thalasio Spathi on my back, and sky already in her bow form was hanging behind my waist with my quiver hanging at the side of my body. Every other person except for Dinah was geared up for battle, but that's to be expected, seeing as she had a production class.

Mark, Zack, Jack and Darke had on the customary elven armor, which if you ask me we have to change, and get them something better. One special aspect of lost descendants online as a game is the fact that the issue of constantly changing gears is not required, you could always find a way to upgrade the current armor you have, letting you have the same armor for the entire duration of your game play, all you had to take care of was the normal clothes you wore.

Raven Song was decked head to toe in a very thick and bulky armor, and he had a war hammer in one hand, a great sword hung on his back, and a shield almost as wide as his body. His helmet completely covered his face, with only his elven ears leaking out from the side of it. A paladin, four common elven guards(we need to get them better classes), a disgraced Patmosian Sniper, a sex crazy masked engineer and then me, the guy with a weird class. Well we could not be any more dysfunctional than this, but I feel as if we could make this work.

[You have discovered the Buried Sea Labyrinth Of Njord]

[Due to supernatural interference all communications devices is cut off. Due to the special nature of this dungeon, resistance against water and ice type attacks has been reduced by 20% and recovery speed has been reduced by 5%]

"all right guys, let's go hunting."