Chapter 2: Beginnings of a Tutorial
Tutorial:
Extreme Difficulty
Human Alive in Tutorial:
16
Humans Alive in Your Party:
1
Tutorial Points: 0
I look around me, it's a forest, a pine forest if you are being specific. Anyways, I now have a simple leather tunic and pants along with, well nothing. And suddenly, I realize that I have a right arm again, primarily because I nearly fell over, given the fact that I usually lean to the right a bit to counter the weight imbalance in my arms. The more concerning thing is that the arm is a metallic structure tipped with a large syringe-like needle with multiple vials surrounding it. As I think about it another screen pops up in my vision-
Ability Discovered:
Manipulator Arm:
Modes:
Genetic Manipulator
Centrifuge
Computing
Genome Injector Crafter
Archite Storage-Creates 1 Capsule Per day.
Poison Synthesis
As I read through the menu, a tusk spears through my stomach, reminding me that I’m in an effective dead-zone. I rip around and attempt to stab the creature with the syringe, but it darts away immediately after impaling me. I tap my Manipulator arm selecting poison synthesis and general neurotoxin. When it comes in for another jab I manage to stab it with the syringe, and fully inject the payload. I slowly back off as the boar-like creature that attacked me begins to fall to the ground and shake, around a minute later it stills.
You have gained 8 Tutorial Points for killing a level 7 creature
Name: Edward Toon
Class: Archite Engineer-2
Health:4/8→8.2/16.4
Mana: 0/0
Attributes:
Strength: 1(1)→8(8)
Mind: 1(2)→173(346)
Dexterity: 1(1.25)→8(10)
Constitution: 1(0.8)→8(6.4)
Charisma: 1(0.8)→8(6.4)
Perception: 1(1.25)→71(88.75)
Free Attributes: 30
Abilities:
Manipulator Arm-
Modes:
Genetic Manipulator
Centrifuge
Computing
Genome Injector Crafter
Archite Storage-(0/5)-Creates 1 Capsule Per day.
Poison/Venom Synthesis
New
Poison/Venom Synthesis-Destabilization time
I nearly fall over as an intended minor adjustment to my stance sends me tumbling to the ground, though after a moment, it resolves itself, possibly due to my heightened dexterity and mind stats. As I look down at my stomach that is no longer a hole, but simply a bad laceration, I wonder what would happen if the attributes became unbalanced. I walk over to the boar and use my Genetic Manipulator- Drawing blood and getting some flesh samples from the boar. I then look through the options for my arm, Genetic Manipulator seems to be a syringe/sample taker to get genetic samples, Centrifuge I am currently using to process the blood and samples from the material, Computing is going to be used to find what the genes from it do and combining them to get genome modifiers. The genome injector crafter is exactly what it sounds like, but you need glass or metal to use it. The archite storage, from what I can tell, is to hold the archite that it creates, though the computing tab has an archite enhancement option, but I’ll have to test it out when I can. Though I looked into the poison synthesis tab, it has more options than I expected, from viruses to gasses, and many other things, but it has long processing times the more powerful things get which can be countered by a high Mind Attribute. The destabilization time is how long the poison takes until it becomes useless after exiting the syringe.
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“Where are the other people in this tutorial?’ A woman asks, her question directed to the man with similar features to her to her left.
“They have to be somewhere.” The man states in response, around them there are 2 other people.
“That shouldn’t be your first bloody question!” A man exclaims. “That's to introduce ourselves, shall we. My name is Robert Trask, my class is the Legendary Class Ethereal Trickster, and my feat is stealing the highest value painting in the world and replacing it with a Duplicate. I’m from England and I’m 38. ” He states. The woman who spoke before responds.
“ My name is Sarah Lin, my Class is the genetic class Emotional Manipulator. I'm from the US, and I’m 21.” After, the man next to her states,
“ My name is Paul Lin, my Class is the same as my sister’s, I’m also from the US, and I’m 23.” The second to final member of the group simply states,
“Given the looks you're given me you already known this, but my name is Lucia Page, my class is the Mythic Class Energy Manipulator, and my feat is creating energy shielding, I’m 25, and I was living in France at the time of the tutorial.” A moment later, a new voice jolts in
“Hello! My name is Tim Walsh, my class is the Leg—-- AHHHHHH!”
Tim screamed as a ursine creature with bright yellow fur and porcupine spikes cleaves through his torso.
Edward Toon:
I find a stag with bright red, shining horns drinking from a stream. I begin to consider what I should eat, when I realize I need to eat, so, time to butcher up a stag. I select poison Synthesis from my arm and choose a neurotoxin, and set a destabilization time of two minutes . I begin to walk close to the deer, its head still lapping up water and I rush forward, managing to inject the payload near the middle of its body. I back away as it attempts to turn around, but it soon falls to the ground, dead.
A bit later, I have the stag strung up on a spit, a fire roaring from underneath. I grab a skewer and peel apart the meat, it has no pink on the inside so I dig in. it isn’t that good, but there aren’t any other options at the moment. I pull up my status and see
Name: Edward Toon
Class: Archite Engineer-2
Health:8.216.3→12.6/16.4
Mana: 0/0
Attributes:
Strength: 8(8)
Mind: 173(346)
Dexterity: 8(10)
Constitution: 8(6.4)
Charisma: 8(6.4)
Perception: 71(88.75)
Free Attributes: 30
Abilities:
Manipulator Arm-
Modes:
Genetic Manipulator
Centrifuge
Computing
Genome Injector Crafter
Archite Storage-(0/5)-Creates 1 Capsule Per day.
Poison/Venom Synthesis-Destabilization time
My health has gone up. And as I think that I hear voices to the left of me.
“I wonder where the other two people in the tutorial are. Do you think they lived through something like that bear-porcupine monstrocity?”
“Maybe, who knows, a level 15 against us level 1’s was mildly problematic. We lost one.” An older voice states.
“Anyways, why don’t you come out, person listening in.” A mellifluous voice stated.
‘Wait , someone's here!” Another voice shouts. I groan and respond
“Let me bloody be.” Moments later, a woman around my age bursts through the underbrush to the right, followed by 3 others, a man with similar features to the woman who just emerged from the underbrush, an older man with a black beard and hair, and a woman with orange hair that reaches most of the way down to her waist, who is the only one of them that I am aware of, Lucia Page the person who invented energy shielding.
‘Why did you not heed my request?” I ask, exhausted.
“Because I smelled meat, and what the hell is your arm? ” The woman who emerged first states.
“Apologies for my sister’s foolishness.” A man following after her responds. “But may we have some of the meat?”
“Preferably not, it has a rather potent poison in it that my class gives me immunity to.” I state, lying by omission.
“Then what is your class?” The older man says, “Mine’s the Ethereal Trickster.”
“It is none of your concern.” I replied.
“But it is.” He shoots back.
“No it isn’t, now leave me alone.” I shoot back. That phase is responded to with a blade being held to my neck.
“Well, you asked for it.” I state, given that I had another neurotoxin loaded in my manipulator, I stab him, delivering the payload, but a moment later he disappears, and he appears, with no injuries on the other side of the clearing.
“You're certainly feisty, how about you give us some food to leave you alone.”
“Sure.” But you’d need to be an idiot to eat it, though it actually isn’t poisoned, so that may cancel it out.
“Robert, you know he said the meat was poisoned, right?” Lucia says
“Oh yeah, instead how about you get us some of that venom you used, maybe open up a shop.”
“No, we made a deal, take your meat and leave.” I span back at him.
“And if I choose not to? There isn’t much you can do from what I can tell, given my class is telling me your class is a non-combat type.” He answers in a snarky tone. Given my situation, simply, I’m screwed because my physical stats are likely lacking far behind these people, so I do the best option, I concede. Specifically because the venom I used has 2 minutes spoil time outside my syringe
“Okay.” I create two wood vials out of a tree over the next twenty minutes with a knife that was part of the genetic manipulator, and I hand them the venom, which has already spoiled.
“See you later.” The man responds, completely glossing over the former problem as I watch them disappear into the bushes.