Twenty Minutes Later,
“Status!”
[Name- DragonRider97
Race- Human
Level- 2
HP- 15/15
MP- 15/15
XP- 35/ 80
Class- Warlock
STR- 15 / AGI- 15 / VIT- 15
STM- 15 / INT- 15 / Magic- 10 (Warlock)
Active Abilities (Warlock)- Cursed Hands (Lv.1)
Passive Abilities (Warlock)- Mental Fortitude (Lv.1)
Skills- None
SP- 10
God’s Coin- Zero
Inventory- Boar meat (30KG), Boar bones (15KG)]
“Nice! I finally have some strength but I feel mentally exhausted.”
Thud!
Brian falls on his butt and mutters “Using magic continuously hampers mental capabilities. Even though I have Mental Fortitude, constant use of mana with magic truly does make difference.”
Magic was part of warlock. Every player can get access with mana but magic was only possessed by a few classes such as mage, cleric, necromancer, and warlock. But, each has its own specific magic.
Warlock’s dark magic is closer to Necromancer’s summoning skeleton magic while mages’ light magic is closer to cleric healing magic. He could use mana to active Cursed Hands. It only costs two MP but if he uses it, the curse will impact him as well.
So, he wanted to be patient until he gets his hands on Elixir of Dragon Heart. The five stats including STR (Strength), AGI (Agility), VIT (Vitality), STM (Stamina), and INT (Intelligence) are the most basic stats.
Strength measures one’s explosive physical powers. Agility means muscle movement, reaction speed, and running speed. Vitality represents healing ability and endurance. If vitality has reached the highest point, one can even become immortal.
Stamina simply means the energy to do everything else. Finally, Intelligence doesn’t mean knowledge. It means the mana capacity and mana regeneration. If Intelligence reaches a higher level, one can even regenerate more than one MP per second.
Currently, he recovers nearly One MP per minute.
As for Magic, it is an external stat. Unlike the previous five, this stat appears based on class. And unlike other stats, it doesn’t grow with levels. It needs either upgrade in Class or SP that he has.
Increasing Magic doesn’t increase mana or regular strength but it does improve his control over mana and the skills. Currently, he has no skills so he can only use his magic effectively to consume less mana.
But, if he manages to get a skill or even create a skill, he can increase the power of that skill by increasing magic stats. In other words, it is completely related to his skills. And not just skills, even abilities are related to it.
That’s why his magic is only 10 and his SP is also 10 where Magic should’ve been 5 and SP should’ve been 15. He didn’t want to use all of the SP since it can be used in an important moment.
After a certain time of rest, he finally left the middle part in order to find the Spider. He quickly heads to the south and ended up running into a group of spiders. These spiders were nearly half a meter tall. Their legs were truly long but none of these spiders had the poison.
They were just Lv.2 monsters. So he decided to go on an offense. Currently, he was two times stronger than before. And, unlike boars, these spiders can’t be tricked that easily. Of course, he wasn’t planning to use brute force alone either.
He picked dozens of small branches and infuses his mana into them. Using his magic, his flow of mana was quite strong. He kept storing mana into those branches non-stop. He was neither a swordsman to use mana in his sword nor a mage to shoot out a fireball.
His cursed hand was quite useless at this moment. So, he got to do everything with what he got. After infusing mana in those branches, he started sharpening them. The spiders were completely unaware of his existence.
But, without any sharp object, sharpening them was a hassle. So, he used his mana once again and strengthen his nails. But, he had to now do it quickly. He was using a lot of mana continuously. After sharpening those branches, he picked one of them and pointed at the spider.
Brian had been exercising, and training in different martial arts dojos for two years now. Although he doesn’t have marksmanship precision stat, he can still utilize what he has learned over the course of two years. He puts the bundle of branches on a small tree branch before shooting the first branch.
Whoosh! Splash!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Splash! Splash! Splash! Splash! Splash! Splash! Splash! Splash! Splash!
His hand moved at the lightning speed as he shot those spiders with mana-infused branches. He was basically using his agility and his training to the limit. But, he still missed a lot, nearly forty percent. So, as soon as it finished, he rushed towards the spiders while holding two bigger and sharper branches.
At the same time, he was getting the notification again and again.
[You killed Lv.2 Spider] [You received 10XP] [You received spider legs]
[You killed Lv.2 Spider] [You received 10XP] [You received spider legs]
…….
Splash! Splash! Splash!
As he dashed towards them, he swung his wooden swords, slashing the remaining spiders.
[You killed Lv.2 Spider] [You received 10XP] [You received spider legs]
[You killed Lv.2 Spider] [You received 10XP] [You received spider legs]
[You killed Lv.1 Spider] [You received 10XP] [You received spider legs]
[You killed Lv.2 Spider] [You received 10XP] [You received spider legs]
[Your XP bank is full]
[You level up] [You received 5SP]
[Your XP bank is full]
[You level up] [You received 5SP]
After killing nearly dozens of spiders, he managed to level up two times.
“Status!”
[Name- DragonRider97
Race- Human
Level- 4
HP- 25/25
MP- 25/25
XP- 15/ 320
Class- Warlock
STR- 25 / AGI- 25 / VIT- 25
STM- 25 / INT- 25 / Magic- 10 (Warlock)
Active Abilities (Warlock)- Cursed Hands (Lv.1)
Passive Abilities (Warlock)- Mental Fortitude (Lv.1)
Skills- None
SP- 20
God’s Coin- 55
Inventory- Boar meat (30KG), Boar bones (15KG), Spider Legs (124 Pics), Poison Sac]
‘Nice! My mana is recovered as well. Now, let’s hunt this spider.’ Brian finally walked towards a cave nearly a hundred meters away from him. The Poison Spider was level five. So, even if he had improved, he knew he can’t be careless.
After all, the monsters inside this game are programmed to evolve. He silently walked into the entrance of the cave. From what he had designed, the poison spider was meant to live at the end of the cave where she stores all of her prey inside her webs but never eats them.
But, this led to the old man believing that his son is dead. As he walked inside the cave, he noticed stickiness in the ground. Suddenly, his eyes widen as he somersaults, dodging a web flying to the ceiling.
Thud!
‘Damn! That was one hell of a clever trap. Now, I got no choice but to engage in direct battle.’ Knowing that he was already spotted by the poison spider, Brian wasted no time and dashed inside the cave. As he moves, the light appears in front of him from the small creature known as moonlight bugs.
They are placed in every cave and activate whenever a player walks near them. Suddenly, the poison spider spits out webs at him. But, he quickly uses his fast reflexes to dodge them all.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
?(O)??? Flap! Flap! Flap!
But, just one of the web manages to touch his skin.
“Tch! I got no choice but to finish this quick.” As soon as he got contacted with the poisons, Brian knew he can’t delay anymore. He stomped his foot on the ground and his hand slowly turns purple. The mana was gathering at his palm, condensing strange energy and releasing a purple glow.
Whoosh! Tap!
“Cursed Hands!”
He slapped the leg of the spider with his hand.
[Your enemy has been inflicted with Cursed Hands]
[Enemy’s stats have dropped by fifty percent for the next ten seconds]
[Cursed Hand is affecting Player]
“Alright! Here I go”
Brian took out two bones of boars in his hand and dashed forward. The spider started moving its leg around but its speed was too slow in his eyes. His hands were moving around like a swordsman’s hands.
Each movement was dodging the attack while inflicting damage to the spider. For the next eight seconds, he simply struck the spider from every corner. But, when it was the ninth second, he jumped into the air and held both of the bones together.
Bang!
His bones struck the head of the spider, splitting it in half. But, the next moment, its body scattered around into small spiders.
“Hooo!”
‘Teacher, can a swordsman fight without swords and skill?’
‘Of course, he can. Do you know New Gods?’
‘Yes, I know. But, isn’t it the same? I mean swordsman inside the New Gods also needs sword and skill.’
‘Yeah, you are true but you are talking about those who treat swords as their weapon. For those who treat everything as a sword, a single trace of mana in a branch can split a boulder.’
It wasn’t small. Nearly ten mana points worth of mana were released from his body and condensed at his bones. The small spiders instantly dash toward him with their poisonous legs but at this moment, Brian takes a step forward and swings his body with full power.
“DragonRider97 Sword Style- Dragon Twister!”
Bang!
……
Did you use the powerstones? If you haven’t then you should use it here!