It was a day after I woke up when Headmaster Zaemon gave an explanation of what happened.
“The simulation crashed because of overheat,” he explained, “the coolant was stolen. Don’t worry, we will find the culprit.”
“But sir, what about the finals?” a random voice in the crowd shouted.
“They will not happen,” Headmaster Zaemon said simply. “The rankings will decide whether you graduate. Five Stars are the minimum. And now, the Rankings.”
Below Six Stars
28 people(Expand?)
Six Stars
14 people(Expand?)
Five Stars
8 people(Expand?)
Four Stars
Chad Riding +3 people(Expand?)
Three Stars
2 people(Expand?)
Two Stars
0 people
One Star
0 people
Moon
0 people
Sun
0 people
Verizon
Everlon Quiazine(You)
Whispers began sounding throughout the crowd. The Headmaster waved his hand, and they fell silent.
“Now, for rewards. Chad Riding, Veneen Ameni, Glaedon Haipe, and Quam Dikok, come forwards for your choice of Tier-1 Spell and Uncommon equipment.”
The Headmaster continued: “Cia Mandeel and Endo Vornger, come forwards for your three Tier-1 spells and Uncommon set.”
“And lastly,” the Headmaster said, with a pained expression, “Everlon Quiazine for your reward.”
“Sir, that’s a third of our school’s savings! You can’t be seriously-“
“Silence, Professor. Don’t forget the vow we made to Inchagyl when the school was founded.”
The Professor shuddered. How could she forget? Legend said, when the school was just about a year old, the legendary Immortal Spirit of the Dawn Inchagyl came down to this very school, where the Spirit and the Headmaster of the time made a Vow. What that Vow said specifically was never mentioned; however, the school began flourishing around that time.
“Now, if you will, I’ll have to go observe Inchagyl’s resurrection.”
I looked at what I could select. They just all looked so powerful! Ultimately, I decided on these spells:
Persistent Flame
Spell
Tier 2
Attunement: Fire
Rarity: Epic
Requirement: 60 Mana/sec
Attack Type: Area of Effect
Radius: 1 foot
Cast Time: Long
Fire Damage: 100/sec
Inflicts Burn III
Thunderbolt
Spell
Tier 2
Attunement: Thunder
Rarity: Uncommon
Requirement: 1200 Mana
Attack Type: Single Target
Cast Time: Very Long
Thunder Damage: 3600
Inflicts Burn
Cyclone
Spell
Tier 2
Attunement: Air
Rarity: Rare
Requirement: 200 Mana
Attack Type: Area of Effect
Radius: 100 feet
Cast Time: Medium
Air Damage: 0-200
Inflicts Disorientate III
Earth Surge
Spell
Tier 2
Attunement: Earth
Rarity: Epic
Requirement: 1000 Mana
Attack Type: Area of Effect
Radius: 200 feet
Cast Time: Very Long
Earth Damage: 3000
Inflicts Suffocation II
Healing Wave
Spell
Tier 2
Attunement: Water/Life
Rarity: Legendary
Requirement: Variable
Type: Area of Effect
Radius: 10 feet
Cast Time: Long
Health Healed: 4 per Mana
Inflicts Regeneration II
Void Flame
Spell
Tier 3 (Tier 1)
Attunement: Space
Rarity: Legendary
Requirement: Variable
Attack Type: Single Target
Cast Time: Short
Void Damage: 3 per Mana
True Damage: 0.5 per Mana
I got an extra three system notifications, informing me I had learnt the skills Spacial Magic and Life Magic respectively. The last one was a tutorial.
Congratulations for unlocking your first Specialized Attunement!
Reward: Knowledge
Type: Tutorial
Sub-Type: Magic
Topic: Specialized Attunements
Specialized Attunements are combinations of two or more Attunements in order to form an entirely new Attunement. For example, Fire and Earth forms the Lava Attunement, and Earth, Water, and Fire forms the Stone Attunement. We can then combine even further, combining Lava and Stone to form Volcano, and so on. Note that some elements cannot combine without a third element in the middle; Water and Fire cannot combine without Earth.
Attunements have certain Tiers to them. The higher Tier the Attunement, the higher Tier the basic Spell for that Attunement will be. For example, the base Spell for Fire is Fireball, which is a Tier 1 spell. Lava’s base Spell is Lavaball, which is a Tier 3 spell, and Volcano’s base Spell is Eruption, which is a Tier 5 spell.
Afterwards, I could choose my set of epic gear. This was what I chose.
Wyvern Helmet(Epic)
Quality: Masterwork
Set Piece(1/4)
Requires: Strength G-Tier, Agility F-Tier
+150 Defense
+20 Strength
+30 Agility
Set Bonus: +300 Defense, +20 Strength, +30 Agility, access to skill “Wyvern Flight”
Wyvern Chestplate(Epic)
Quality: Masterwork
Set Piece(1/4)
Requires: Strength G-Tier, Agility F-Tier
+200 Defense
+20 Strength
+30 Constitution
Set Bonus: +300 Defense, +20 Strength, +30 Agility, access to skill “Wyvern Flight”
Wyvern Leggings(Epic)
Quality: Masterwork
Set Piece(1/4)
Requires: Strength G-Tier, Agility F-Tier
+150 Defense
+20 Strength
+30 Wisdom
Set Bonus: +300 Defense, +20 Strength, +30 Agility, access to skill “Wyvern Flight”
Wyvern Gloves(Epic)
Quality: Masterwork
Set Piece(1/4)
Requires: Strength G-Tier, Agility F-Tier
+100 Defense
+50 Strength
Set Bonus: +300 Defense, +20 Strength, +30 Agility, access to skill “Wyvern Flight”
Wyvern Flight
Skill
Rarity: Epic
Requirement: 100 Mana, 300 Stamina per second
Effect: Allows you to fly
Minimum Length: 5 seconds
Maximum Altitude: 20 feet above ground
And finally, for the Legendary piece… well, it wasn’t like I had a lot of choice. Only a single Legendary item stood, in the center of the giant vault that held all these wonders:
Inchagyl’s Legacy(Legendary)
Quality: Relic
Class Required: Verizon
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Thankfully, my Quest only told me to graduate from the Academy, not to pass the Finals. With little fanfare, I left the Academy with Chad and a hundred more levels. I had gained another Talent Point, which I decided to put in Strength. However, now, while I was sitting on my bed in an inn just outside the Academy, I was going to distribute my Attribute Points.
Status:
HP: 580/580 (5.8/min)
SP: 10600/10600 (106/sec)
DEF: 902
MP: 4250/4250 (45.5/sec)
Rank: Bronze
Advancement 0 Stage 0 Tier 0 Level 424
Attributes (Unspent Points: 0)
Strength (Talent: Above Average)(Birth: Average)
Rank: Basic D-30 (Actual: Basic D-00)
Dexterity (Talent: Excellent)
Rank: Basic C-30 (Actual: Basic C-00)
Agility (Talent: Excellent)
Rank: Basic C-63 (Actual: Basic C-03)
Constitution (Talent: Average)(Birth: Poor)
Rank: Basic H-88 (Actual: Basic H-58)
Intelligence (Talent: Above Average)
Rank: Basic F-25
Wisdom (Talent: Above Average)
Rank: Basic F-55 (Actual: Basic F-25)
Psych (LOCKED) (Talent: Excellent)
LOCKED: Proceed to Tier 8 to unlock
Meta (LOCKED) (Talent: Above Average)
LOCKED: Proceed to Tier 4 to unlock
With that, I mentally checked off three attributes out of the five required for my class.
Skills:
Space Magic
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Rare II
Level 1
Dual Wielding
Uncommon II
Level 15
Basic Rapiers
Common IV
Level 20
Inspect
Common IV
Level 5
Analyze
Common III
Level 5
Fire Magic
Common II
Level 30
Thunder Magic
Common II
Level 30
Air Magic
Common II
Level 30
Earth Magic
Common II
Level 30
Water Magic
Common II
Level 30
Mana Manipulation
Common I
Level 30
Mana Imbuement
Common I
Level 25
Mining
Unranked
Level 10
Quests:
The Legacy Of The Eviolodons(Locked)
(Locked)
Unlock Quest: “The Legacy of the Eviolodons”
Advance to Tier 11 (Level 424/1000)
Become a Verified Magus
Go to the Magus Council in Asora D’ameya, Chorkorlyth Forest, Q’xam, A’dreya
Location:
Macro: Subspace - Aggressive Realities - Tier 12 - Instance #434
Micro: A’dreya - Dlamalar - Sayamn Plains - Vartur
A waypoint can be set anywhere within the current Macro Location (Waypoints Active: 1/5)
Inventory:
Show?
Affinities Unlocked:
Fire, Thunder, Air, Water, Earth
Potential Affinities Dormant:
Life, Death, Light, Dark, Wood, Metal, Nature, Spirit
Affinities with No Potential:
None
Spells:
Void Flame
Tier 3
Legendary
Healing Wave
Tier 2
Legendary
Earth Surge
Tier 2
Epic
Persistent Flame
Tier 2
Epic
Cyclone
Tier 2
Rare
Thunderbolt
Tier 2
Uncommon
Aerial Blades
Tier 2
Common
Show Tier 1 Spells?(4)
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12 more tabs locked - Advance System to a higher Level to view them
For the next stage of the quest, it looks like I have to get out of Dlamalar for the first time. I looked at the Waypoints menu.
Waypoint 1 Route:
Sub-Waypoint 1: Guskaid, Sayamn Plains, Dlamalar
Sub-Waypoint 2: Quazo, Sayamn Plains, Dlamalar
Sub-Waypoint 3: Tait, Suk’Orobamn Desert, Dlamalar
Sub-Waypoint 4: Frew, Suk’Orobamn Desert, Dlamalar
Sub-Waypoint 5: Zamas, Suk’Orobamn Desert, Dlamalar
Sub-Waypoint 6: Soqo, Suk’Orobamn Desert, Dlamalar
Hidden(+43 More)
That was a lot of traveling. Suddenly, I heard a knock on my door. I opened it. It was Chad.
“Come in,” I told him. He closed the door behind him and said, “Everlon, I’ll get straight to the point. What are you planning to do?”
“I don’t know,” I said honestly. “Do you know where this Asora D’ameya is?”
“That’s the Dirt-rank Magus Capital,” Chad said, “it’s where the tests to become a Dirt-rank Verified Magus is. Are you planning to go there? It’s a long way.”
Now that I thought about it, that was the best idea. So, I asked Chad: ”How do we get there? By foot?”
Chad snorted and said, “No, of course not. We can travel by horse or carriage.”
The next day, I looked for a place to rent a carriage and I found one. There was a sign on top of the shop that read: “Earnest Ernest’s Sternest Carriages”. I shrugged, then walked in. Inside was a counter with who I presumed to be Ernest behind it.
“Hello, and welcome to my fine establishment!”
I was seriously considering moving to another shop. Anybody who had said that in earnest was insane.
“Look at our wide selection of stunning carriages!” Ernest exclaimed, sweeping a hand at… a single carriage with a broken wheel.
“Uh, I, um, forgot my wallet. Um, I’ll be right back!” I dashed out, looking for any excuse to get away from the obviously deluded man.
Five hours later, I walked back into Ernest’s shop, disgruntled. Nobody would accept my Ruby Mark because they either didn’t know what it was or simply didn’t have enough change or didn’t want to trade away all of their life savings for a single coin, no matter how much that single coin was supposedly worth. After that, I had gone to every carriage and horse shop in the whole town, and, with my measly 500 Silver Marks, was able to get a pair of old, brown horses for 150 Marks apiece. However, the cheapest carriage I could find was a whole Gold Mark, and I couldn’t afford that.
Ernest was busy wiping and sorting air, wiping an imaginary carriage clean with an imaginary cloth, kept wet by nonexistent water in an imaginary bucket.
“How much is that carriage?” I asked him.
“Hmm? Oh, that’s not a carriage, that’s a shield! Fifty Silver Marks for the legendary knight Ernest’s shield!” He made a swinging motion, bumping into his counter and falling over as he did so.
I paid up, relieved to get away once more.
After spending an additional 50 Silver Marks on repairing the carriage, we were off. Suddenly, instead of an estimate of forty-nine days until the destination, only seven were needed.
Three hours into the journey, we were already in the Desert. Referencing the map that I had bought for what little of my money remained, I saw that we were still a long distance away from our destination. I settled in for a long journey.
Headmaster Zaemon frowned. He was currently in the lush greenery of Tier 4, a relief compared to the deserted wastelands that were Tiers 5 and 6.
“Are you sure you have nobody with a high Psych? Even Basic B-Rank will do.”
“Sorry, sir,” the fae girl behind the counter said, “our strongest is a D-Rank Average Talent boy.”
“Well, let him try. Maybe it’ll work.”
His frown deepened at the sight of a thin boy, hardly more than eight years of age, walk up to the divination pedestal.
“Is he really the best you’ve got?”
“Well, Tier-12 is such a low Tier I doubt anybody would have Psych Protection or even a Reflection Filament there.”
“True, but where are the others? I recall a Bronze F-Rank the last time I was here.”
“Ah, sir, well- look! He’s finished!” she quickly said, changing the subject.
He peered into the pedestal. Inside was a portly man, about seventy years of age, casually chugging a bottle of coolant.
“Hmm. Thanks, count that favor of mine repaid.” Now, he just had to think about where he saw that man. He looked awfully familiar.
Duke Chew was casually chewing on a random chicken bone he had found in the huge bucket of food that was to his right. Even though some of them tasted funny, he hadn’t gotten sick a single time from them. Or had he? Maybe some of those times he had puked in the bucket was related to them. He shook his head. It couldn’t be! It was perfectly sanitary! In fact, he had watched his servants take it out and come back with it clean. Duke Chew dropped the chicken bone on the floor, then a servant picked it up and threw it in the bucket.
Oh right! Cuke Dew suddenly remembered that his son was killed and he had vowed re… ra… Ravange? No. It was something similar, though for the life of him he couldn’t remember. In fact, his son’s name he couldn’t remember as well. It was something like Hopkins… No. Hory? No, although he was getting closer. Yes, he finally remembered! It was Hopkins. He didn’t know how for the life of him he could forget that his own son’s name was Horace. Horatio was his only son! He had to drill into his head that his son’s name was Hank Ew. Honk View. Hans Yew. Somehow, his son’s name never sounded the same. He shrugged. He’ll just call him Hen Sew, and it’ll be fine!
High General Conbi of L’Vamberg and Second Volab of Zeyedos never thought they would meet. However, they did exactly that, and were now discussing a common goal. Taking over the entire A’Dreya Continent, starting from Dlamalar, then pushing west around the lake. This would be their ticket to fame, past the continent of Dum’kta and even past Tier 12!
Second Colonel Kusabi Vontonere was shocked. With his true identity as one of the Third-Level Eyes of Qyean, he had to report back to the officials of Qyean and get them to amass the forces of the entirety of A’Dreya to push back the invaders!
Deep in the Core of the Vormont Active Volcano Zone, a giant construct of obsidian and basalt stood up slowly.
Draedic Obsidian Construct(Mythic)
Silver Rank Advancement 729 Stage 394 Tier 565 Level 203
Level 729 (due to Tier restrictions)
Calculating…
Calculations finished
Strength: Basic S-22 Silver C-22
Dexterity: Basic G-12 Bronze F-12
Agility: Basic G-12 Bronze F-12
Constitution: Bronze H-56 Silver S-56
Wisdom: Basic H-12(unchanged)
Intelligence: Basic H-12(unchanged)
Psych:
Attack Power: None Basic B-13
Defensive Shield: None Bronze H-14
Skills:
Strong Smash Heavy Blow Level 50 Level 293
Charge Level 120
Spin Strike Level 250
Indestructible Body Body of Stone Level 57 Level 278
Recall Level 203 Level 620
It smiled evilly before using Recall. Instantly, two hundred and three Level 203 Lesser Draedic Obsidian Constructs appeared. Suddenly, all two hundred and three of those Lesser Draedic Obsidian Constructs used Recall as well, creating twenty Level 20 Tiny Draedic Obsidian Constructs each, which in turn created two Level 2 Minuscule Draedic Obdisian Constructs for a total of thirteen thousand Constructs, give or take a few hundred.
Now, all he had to do was awaken his brothers. Then, he could take over this Tier.