Chapter 23 - Dark Raven Set

"DK Seven has accepted your friend request." The system sounded.

Going into his friends list, Sato selected Gray's name and decided to send him a message.

"I was very surprised when you told me your username by the way." said Sato.

"Really? What is there to be surprised about?"

"Well, you are in the most infamous guild in country Z! What's crazier is that you are part of the core team in Dark Knights!" Enthusiasm was oozing from Sato.

This was the game that he had the most respect for. Ray Of Light, being the only game that is able to turn reality into virtual reality is by far the craziest invention in this century. In addition to that, the requirements to be the best at the game needed the players to have a 1 to 1 realism exchange rate.

This meant that the players have to play the game using their current physique by using independent. There are two types of modes in the game, assistant and independent mode. As the name suggests, assistant will be fully based on the fixed movements coded by the developers, this requires minimal mental stamina. On the other hand, independent would require the person to move around by himself. It was like comparing a person running with guiding a person to run in a certain direction. Thus, professional players, most of the time, would have great physical stamina.

Most people are confused by what this meant, since aren't you playing a virtual game using your consciousness, hence there is no physical movement? Well, according to the latest research, the best way to improve the reaction rate and mental strength is by training the brain to tolerate different levels of stress. What better way to do that than exercising!

This was the second year of Ray Of Light's release. In the first year, not many people were prepared to play a game that required their physical stamina to be good. Hence, the greatest gamers had fallen short and a new age of gamers rose. Those that had both reaction time and mental stamina rose to the top and became the best.

In terms of The Dark Knights, the founder, Zero had started the game during the open beta period. He was an ex-marine officer who retired due to a war accident where he loss his right leg. He was the great hero of country Z, Roy Federico. Even though he can no longer train, his mental endurance has reach a very high state, allowing him to be second in the individual player rankings.

"Do you not play this game very often?" Sato asked.

"No i don't. I didn't have a reason to play it." Gray gave a straightforward reason.

"Oh." It turns out that his boss was not a very big fan of ROL.

"Until you came along." Gray returned with a sweet comeback.

"hahahaha" Sato typed questionably.

"Where are you located right now? Also what is your class? "

"I am at Greenslate forest. Assassin class. Why?"

"Coming." Gray went offline on chat. This made Sato worried. Was his boss coming down to kill him? After all, he was not part of the same race as him. Regardless, he waited for him since he did owe the man everything.

After 5 minutes, a man wearing a large red cloak over his whole body, appeared at the spawn point. He gave off a deep death aura, his level and information were unable to be viewed by others. It was probably due to a special quest item. The scary man walked up to the Elven Assassin dressed up with a small hood.

"Gray?" Sato spoke out to the masked man.

"Yeah. This is my character." Gray revealed his name and information to Sato. Currently, he was a Lv40 vampire blademaster, which showed that Gray does not actually play this game much. It was surprising to Sato that he was able to remain as a member of the Dark Knights.

" How were you able to remain part of the core team when you do not play much?" Sato said curiously.

"The captain, Zero, was saved by me during a joint special ops mission between land and navy." Gray answered. "When he came back, he decided to open up a guild in this game, to which he invited me to join. Even I'm surprised he has not kicked me out."

"Wow.. What an adventurous life you live!" Sato was in awe. He never knew his employer had done special operations before, even though his well kept body was evidence for his activeness.

"Its nothing. Anyways, I have brought you some equipment. Put it on." Gray took out a full set of Lv10 assasin equipment for Sato to equip. This was the strongest gear you could find during the early start before turning Lv20. Even the Lv15 gear cannot compare due to the great buffs it gives to the player.

"You have received Dark Raven Chestguard, Dark Raven Armguards, Dark Raven Legguards, Dark Raven Boots, Dark Raven Hood."

*Dark Raven Set

[5/5]

+50 Armour

+50 Magic Resist

(Armour and Magic Resist is the amount of physical and magic damage negated respectively.)

*Set effect 1: Grants additional 20% movement speed when out of combat

*Set effect 2: Gain 5% life steal when inflicting damage

*Set effect 3: Reduces durations of crown control effects by 10%

After putting the new equipment on and allocating his remaining stat points into his strength and agility, Sato underwent another drastic change.

*Name : Dawnlore

*Lv10 : 0 / 10000

*Race : Elf

*Job Class : Elven Assassin

*Strength : 40 (+30)

*Agility : 30 (+80)

*Intelligence : 10 (+0)

*Stamina : 10 (+40)

*Health : 500 / 500

*Mana : 100 / 100

*Active Skills:

Dagger Throw

Advanced Stealth

Blink

Assassinate

*Passive Skills:

Night Hunter

Breath Of The Wild

Tamer Skill (Beginner)

Wind Runner

Bounty Hunter

Backstab

*Pets:

Whitie (Roaring Wind Tiger)

*Equipments:

Dark Raven Set [5/5]

+50 Armour

+50 Magic Resist

Set effect 1: Grants additional 20% movement speed when out of combat

Set effect 2: Gain 5% life steal when inflicting damage

Set effect 3: Reduces durations of crown control effects by 10%