As Vex walked into the library, he proceeded with a bit of cautious inside of him, with the astonishing look on his face, really huge bookshelves ranging in size from 100-metres to 1000-metres can be seen from the sides, in front of him consisted of a really tall bookshelf, reaching itself to the end of the ceiling. As Vex looked up, it was misty and he could not see any farther than that. "Woah!, that is so tall!, I cannot see a thing there...", with the thrilling face he now took, he carried on exploring this library on his own despite the fact, the size of this building was like a house on the outside. What made Vex even surprised was on the inside, it was like a whole new world, nothing but a bunch of books stuck inside here.
The colors of the walls were black, decorative thorns with flowers sticking out, and the outlines were navy blue with a glowing effect, As if the walls were breathing. Bright little blue lamps on the walls, 5 metres apart, enough light to spread across rooms. Numerous people walked past Vex with 3 or 4 books carried with them, they were magicians, priests, librarian (it was a hidden class, but mostly people knows all about it) and battlemages. Vex couldn't contain his excitement, Vex imagined if he were to read all the books in here.
Mostly all people (gamer(s)) knew that if you were to read books, the book instantly vanishes and a new skill is taught to the user within seconds. Sometimes, it would require to reach a certain stat number to learn a skill but this game, it allows you to learn any skills regardless of rarity or rank. But people would need the potential to actually understand it fully as in to learn the history of it, understand the causes and the effects and how to fully control it. Many people didn't seem to get that bit, and players would get frustrated. For instance, a player tell his friend how he got such awesome skill or spell, then he replies to go and read the book named "Blah, the Blah Blah" in the library at town. He gets excited and starts reading the book, but he actually skips the history bit and continues to the sections whereas explains how to learn and control it. Then, he starts to complain why he didn't learn it. Because he didn't have the potential within to know how it truly works, what negativity this spell or skill work, what impact will it have on players and such. Skipping such important information can result in failing to learn the spell or skill specified in the book.
Vex could see a lot of people getting frustrated over nothing, players jumping up and down angrily shouting out non-sense words saying as in "Why didn't I learn it!". Players would leave the library with a angry expression and will leave with a atrocious aura emitting within.
Vex: "Stupid people, getting angry over books, seriously?"
It seemed their were 8 floors in total, meaning 8 trials/training he will have to pass to proceed onto the next floor, the librarians cast a spell onto the stairs, it was some weird magic that will only allow players to enter if they meet the requirements. As Vex approached the stairs, he was stopped by some powerful invisible force-field. It was the barrier that kicked in.
Vex: "Woah!, what was that?"
Then a notification appeared in front of his eyes.
! NOTICE !You cannot pass beyond this point until you have met the following requirementsRequired Books to Read:500Current Books Read:0RewardsNew Title+25 INT+25 WISGain Skill 'Concentration'Gain Skill 'Focus'+25 CON, FCS
Vex: "Wow!, such intriguing rewards for low-leveled players."
With vex drooling, nearby female players gave him a disgust face whilst walking past him. As Vex cleaned his mouth, he proceeded into reading the books. But first he needed a place to read the books, He saw a black table with no one there so Vex decided to occupy the table. With his fists clenched whilst walking quickly towards the black table, he thought to himself, 'This is gonna be fun!...' despite the fact it will be boring to read straight 500 books non-stop. An average bookworm would've read about 25 books till he/she got sick of it, mostly they like reading but doing something repetitive over long periods can really bore someone, even though it doesn't involve actions as such.
Until he arrived at the table, a black-hooded person was there already with a book he/she read. Something bothered Vex about that mysterious person, it appears to be a female due to her body shape, large rounded objects (lol...) were spotted on her chest, a bodily figure resembled much like female. Of course, Vex would have noticed such appealing Ahem!, anyways Vex sat opposite to the hooded person and started giving facials to that person, it didn't respond. "Who is she!" with a confused face he pulled off. Vex assumed it was a high-leveled player but no high-leveled player would visit such poor-like town. Vex probably thought the library might have contained some useful basic information players may not get, even a high-leveled player.
Vex grabbed out his book from his inventory, the book Siv gave to him at the training hall. Until now, Vex noticed unusual state of power emitting from the book itself. "Was the author of the book really Zakfrost?", he almost fell down to confusion. Vex prepared his mental self and began opening the book, nothing unusual happened, Vex expected like arcane-spells pouring out the book and then a somewhat spirit angel or something appeared out of nowhere, and it needed help of something, like there was someone who will bring only destruction itself to the world. Vex's imagination was really good (he even considered it S-rank), but it was like a ordinary book, open and close and nothing happens. But Vex still wanted to read it, he had the tiniest bit of hope something really awesome would appear. With thrill and curiosity surged inside him, he read without hesitation and interruption.
"Zakfrost Lighorno, the legendary knight (grinder) who served under Lord Hersche, with the power he possessed was beyond human capabilities. Over months and years, he will not stop no matter the circumstances until he has achieved his objective. His power grew and grew until his powers was matched for a mere god.
Thousands of years ago, when the great war of legion was held, Zakfrost, the only knight who soloed against 50,000 knights with their captain by their side, with great fear the opposition felt they hesitated due to the enormous power emitting from Zakfrost, with the legendary blade he held, he rushed in without any hesitation and murdered those who were obstacles in his way. a slice into the chest, a thrash into the legs, and a stab into the head. Zakfrost was nothing but a mindless killing machine on the war-grounds. with 10,000 soldiers remaining, Zakfrost continued without any hints of injuries or exhaustion.
Moments later, the war ended like nothing happened, thousands of people either sliced in half or stabbed lay flat on the ground surrounded with blood. With the smiling face he held, he knew the outcome of the battle, "You fools didn't see my possession of god-like powers, never should of stood in our way" in a strong forceful voice. Zakfrost walked away as powerful traces of pure power emitted from him. No sign of him after 3 years, rumors spread, saying that he was killed by the elite guardians (they were the personal guardians of the king itself) due to his foolish acts"
Vex: "That was so epic!, well excluding the disappearing bit..."
With amazement Vex contained, it was nothing but pure awesomeness despite his atrocious-like behavior when Zakfrost fought in the war. With his curiosity urged him to turn over the next page, this time it was something even interesting. It even recorded his history of grinding but never told any specific details of what he was trying to improve/increase his chosen skill. This place Zakfrost wrote down "The Garden of Elterie", perhaps it was alchemy he was trying to improve, maybe that place contained such S-grade leaves which has a stronger potency when in use of creating potions. With even stranger places he marked down, Vex somewhat finds the places familiar as if he already knew about these strange places. Vex thinks that this may help him, even just a little bit so he proceeded into reading his grinding history.
*3 hours later*
Vex: "Damn, this book is so long (Vex is not complaining) but the story is so good!"
Moments later, the book itself exploded any many magical spells were pouring out of the book, with huge smoke coming out, a familiar spirit appeared right before his eyes. Everyone in Vex's sight was frozen, including his surroundings, the time stopped ticking, everything was paused. With his crimson eyes sparkled with terror, he approached Vex with a surprisingly weird but demonic-looking face.
Zakfrost Lighorno: "Do you seek my power! young adventurer!..." with a cold breath he let out, it was indeed chilling, even his breath froze parts of the books left onto the table.
Vex: "Well ye-"
Zakfrost Lighorno: "It is done!" as he interrupted his last sayings, Vex was utterly shocked and attempted to cancel the offer, because he didn't really trust him, the reason is "Its a damn spirit!"
Vex: "Wh-wh-wait!, I didn't finish my sent-"
With the power collecting from Zakfrost's hands, it resembled a white-looking sun, it is expanding as huge gust of winds blew straight to Vex's face, with the surprised and terrified looking face. His response was quite the childish look, but with amazement, when such indescribable power came from Zakfrost itself. Momentarily, he threw the huge-ball and straight into Vex, huge explosion with bright lights came crashing down to Vex, and moments later, Vex was glowing white color, he could feel the very essence of its power surging through his veins.
Then a notification appeared.
*Ding*
! NOTICE !Congratulations!, You have obtained a hidden class!
Grinder (Lvl 1, 0.00%)Description: ???
Due to gaining a hidden class, you may receive the following effects:+20 to all stats (ex. Luck)+500 HP+200 MP+150 Stamina+500 FameGain Skill "Fool's Gold"
*Ding*
! NOTICE !New Skill Learnt!As your hands dives into the shadows, it brings the fortunes that your enemies cannot seeSkill Learnt (Active)Fool's GoldRarityBEffectsSteal 10 silvers from one enemy
If activated:
Stunned for 5 secondsExperienceNovice Level 1 (0.00%)
*Ding*
! NOTICE !New Skill Learnt!Hours of grinding, your actions become more efficient at its optimum but your unnecessary knowledge cannot surpass the human's limited intelligenceSkill Learnt (Passive)Grind till ForeverRaritySSEffectsIf grinding for more than 10mins:
-5% Time-flow reduction
10% Experience gained (from all sources)
Lose ability to create repetitive memoriesExperienceNovice Level 1 (0.00%)
*Ding*
! NOTICE !New Skill Learnt!Ignoring everything you own, your desires, people and life. You only focus what your body is doing right nowSkill Learnt (Passive)Just GrindRarityAEffectsIf grinding for more than 10mins:
5x Stamina Regeneration rate (from all sources)ExperienceMaster Level 10 (100.00%)
With Zakfrost disappearing with another huge explosion, with sounds of laughing skulls, huge black smokes started pouring out and suddenly vanished with sprinkling lights sparkling. Time suddenly started and everything in his surroundings continued as if nothing happened.
Vex: "WHAAAAAAT!" he shouted out, in a shocked way.
Players looked at him because he was the source of the shouting, obviously people would look for the root of the sound if someone is either making strange noises, weird actions or just a plain scream/shout. With all the players staring directly at Vex, he couldn't help but cover himself, they were still staring at him, everyone was quiet. 'Do they have a eye problem?' Vex thought to himself, staring at someone either unnoticed or unannounced was considered annoying and rude in his perspective. But Vex sure did give shouted at them for staring at him
Vex: "What!, what is it!" he said in a rather intimidating voice, players around sure gave him the look and left off with their doings. Besides, Vex wanted to check his stats, the reward and the skills were overwhelming. Vex opened his stats with a hint of hesitation.
Vex: "Open Stat Window!"
NameVexLevel1RaceHumanMoney50C 0S 0GGenderMaleProfessionGrinder Lv1 (0.00%)StatsHealth4152/4152Mana452/452Stamina588/588Strength126+(20)Intelligence5+(20)Wisdom5+(20)Dexterity119+(20)Vitality126+(20)Luck5Defense10+(20)Fame500PopularityTitle
Fool's Gold (Novice Level 1, 0.00%)Passive SkillsSword Mastery (Advanced Level 8, 42.51%)
Lungs of Steel (Intermediate Level 9, 54.76%)
Photographic Memory (Novice Level 6, 0.00%)
Just Grind (Master Level 10, 100.00%)
Grind till Forever (Novice Level 1, 0.00%)
Vex: "I-I-It is incred-incredib-"
With the words struggling to say, his face entered in something beyond shocking, his stat points surpasses an average Level 75 player. People struggle numerous times to reach this certain level, with his fists clenched, Vex promised himself never to reveal himself out often. There are number of skills which can inspect other people's stats excluding currency and profession, it would've been a huge problem. All players will crowd, asking where to get such awesome hidden class, by its name, players would fall suspicion on him, because a rather low-leveled player who has obtained it. Vex decided himself to set on his adventuring solo, just like Zakfrost. He is the solidarity type, asking people for support since his previous MMORPG games he played. But he decided to play it safe.
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With Vex looking to the left and right fast, he continued reading some books he gathered himself from the nearby bookshelves, the title has a interesting name. With his "Grind till Forever" passive skill, Vex figured to put it into the test. 'I'm sure reading counts' with the confusion Vex held, 'Anyways, I hope this works', When Vex looked across, the hooded person was still there. It looked like she hasn't noticed me, 'It just staring down onto his book, is it perhaps reading something?, she look frozen', ignoring her, It was time for Vex to start reading. Slamming down the book onto the table, with his determined face, he opened the book and began reading.
The first book he read was interesting, this story was based on the legendary blacksmith, Tolfro. Lord Hersche's personal Blacksmith. 'Well, isn't this promising?, I'm sure I can learn something in this?" Vex thought to himself.
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"The Legendary blacksmith, Tolfro, who had served under Lord Hersche for thirty years. A warrior with immense strength, capable of lifting near-impossible objects. With the power he held, he could change the orientation of the weapon with ease, making a worn-out sword seemed stronger and durable. Tolfro had sharp eyes, he could pinpoint the broken sides and attempt to repair with a technique involving magic. Despite his appearances, he is an elf born with special human-like genes.
It was the day Tolfro went for mining, with his palms placed onto the rock whilst manipulating magic. He can detect any ores within his radius, including rare ores can be spotted. Somehow like a metal detector, but more advanced and efficient. His pickaxe was enchanted with chaotic powers, capable of destroying rocks within seconds, Tolfro has not mastered such destructive power, it was not to be handled easily. Tolfro knew he wouldn't needed such power for mining. It was time he tucked this chaotic pickaxe far beneath the mining grounds.
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Vex: "Hmm..., maybe the pickaxe is still here today?, it might be interesting looking for that pickaxe..."
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When Tolfro returned to the kingdom, he was greeted by Lord Hersche and Zakfrost, Tolfro knew something wrong was going on. It was no time for him to be thinking, so he had to listen what both of them had to say. The words coming out of Zakfrost's mouth was indeed mockery to Tolfro, his face was building up anger. Lord Hersche seemed concerned about Tolfro as well, but he didn't had the slightest hint of talking to him.
Zakfrost: "You dare defy our Lord!, your magic, you wield such corruptive power, I saw it with my own eyes. You treacherous elf, don't ever come near us!"
Hersche: "Calm down, Zak, that's enough!"
Tolfro: "You little..."
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Vex: "Woah, who knew Zakfrost was here?, I thought he disappeared befor-" acting in surprised, he sure did interrupt like half of the readers in the neighbouring table.
Librarian: "Be quiet!"
Vex: "Sorry!"
Librarian: "Hmph..."
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With anger both filled Zakfrost and Tolfro, Tolfro pulled his hammer. With his powers, he enchanted his weapon with Fire just because "Frost" was a part of his name. 'Let's give it a go!" Tolfro thought about it, he did feel weird considering fighting his long time comrade. With Zakfrost, he pulled out his golden sword. They began in their stance whilst looking at each other while strafing. Zakfrost made the first move, he dashed towards Tolfro from his side, it was quick but Tolfro was just able to dodge by enchanting his legs with the speed effect, pushing it against the ground, Tolfro was able to sidestep his slash.
Following his counterattack, Tolfro smashed his hammer onto the ground, Zakfrost barely missed his immense flame strike, at its core temperature reaches about just as nearly as the sun's outer surface. Zakfrost's face sure did show a surprise but it wasn't over yet. Zakfrost activated his time-slash ability, when he did, everything was slowed down by 50%. He executed a slash to his torso, then following a uppercut to the head. 'What is this!, Tolfro head is hard'. Zakfrost couldn't barely leave a scratch on it. The time-ability only lasted for 10 seconds, then everything returned to normal.
Tolfro sure was angry, he saw his torso being cut diagonally, blood was pouring out but luckily, he sealed it with his magic powers. Zakfrost was getting frustrated it, but surprisingly Zakfrost was holding back, 'Tsk, you're lucky Tolfro'
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Vex: "Damn, Zakfrost has a time-ability, I wonder if I can learn it if I train hard..., and also, Tolfro has a neat ability"
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Lord Hersche stepped into the battle, he knew to stop both of them. It will cause havoc and even bring destruction upon the kingdom. With his hands outwards and clenched, orbs were growing on his fists and it was expanding. With the words coming out from his mouth, both Tolfro and Zakfrost stopped for a minute.
Lord Hersche: "Stop now or I'll kill both of you"
With both of them dropped their weapons with their hands up, they both knew not to get into the mess with the lord. Even with Zakfrost's grinding skills, capable of taking his combat capabilities to a god, He was more terrified of his lord. Tolfro was scared but showed no signs of fear from his appearances. Both of them walked towards the Lord, they knew what was going to happen.
Lord Hersche: "You!, Zak, It was none of your concern to step into my business, and it was foolish of you to start a fight. And you Tolfro, since your powers can behold such evil, I hereby banishing you from this kingdom. Never come here again!"
Zakfrost: "Pffft...."
Tolfro: "But I was careful, I never use such-"
Lord Hersche: "There were news regarding the citizens, reports found civilians murdered with black magic. Zakfrost was going to report you the news but he saw the dark magic you were possessing, it was similar to the ones on the report. You were such a good blacksmith to me, but to betray others, you're nothing but a murderer."
Tolfro did mess up pretty well, considering the fact he used it to enchant the pickaxe with dark magic. Tolfro didn't know what to say. It was pretty much the ending of him besides the fact he didn't have any proof. This happened the day before he went out for mining, such evidence right now would be considered fake. It was twas the end of Tolfro, he grabbed his belongings and walk out the gates, otherwise The Lord himself will kill Tolfro on spot.
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Vex: "Poor Tolfro, stupid Zak, I'm starting to hate you!", Even though Vex felt like shouting, but he knew he was to get kicked out if he ever shouted again. He didn't want to experience that feeling again.
It has been 6 hours reading the book, 'Damn, that hooded person is still there...', Vex was feeling a bit tired but not a single stamina point was deducted. Vex continued reading, after he turned over the page. It was full of techniques used for blacksmith, 'Woah!, such techniques existed', 'Probably I can make use of it', with Vex reading quickly as he can, he notices that the instructions for learning these moves was a 1000-step instructed. Considering why people haven't learn these moves yet, anyone can come and grab this book and read it.
Every step in the process was complicated, involving precise movement on the exact time. Mostly everyone cannot pull it off, Thanks to Vex's "Photographic Memory", he can recognize every step and the capabilities to handle it. 'These techniques look the same as how you would normally hammer things", but looking close at it required controlling your strength and altering your stance.
Vex muttered to himself: "The first step requires using a quarter of your strength, position your legs, left leg is 5.2cm apart from you right leg. Then hammer."
Every step was complicated, even Vex was having a long time, his stance sure did show funny movements and everyone was just looking at him laughing. But they sure did get in trouble from the librarian, everyone stood quiet and continued on their reading
Librarian: "You there!, continue on what were you doing. Ughh..., you look like a ballerina"
Vex: "Yes!"
About thirty minutes later, people starting to leave the library, mainly because it was either night time in the real world or they were getting sick of it. It was just a few people in here.
Its been 3 hours, a total of 10 hours inside the library. Vex was sweating, just from imitating the techniques from the book, hours of consuming stamina, it just regenerates back instantly. 'Is the "Just Grind" skill detecting it as grinding?', It seemed like it was. One more step Vex had to mastered, it was basically just swing the hammer in motion, with his hands mimicking as a 'hammer head', he smashed it onto the table. It did quite made a lot of noise.
Vex: "Like this isn't it?"
*Ding*
! NOTICE !New Skill Category Learnt!Back in the ancient times, no things ever existed, by using their inner strength, they were capable of surviving in the harsh enviroment.Skill Category Learnt:[Ancient Art]RarityS
! NOTICE !New Skill Learnt!With no tools to create weapons/armors, fists were imitated as hammer heads to create such thingsSkill Learnt (Active)[Ancient Art] - BlacksmithRaritySEffectsAny creations requiring tools is ignored, if using skill apply the following effects:
-2,500 HP
-200 Stamina
3.0x Durability to created weapon/armor
3.0x Damage to created weapon
3.0x Defence to created armorExperienceNovice Level 1 (0.00%)
Vex: "I finally pulled it off!, I manag-", Another notification seemed to interrupted him.
*Ding*
! NOTICE !New Skill Learnt!With rapid eye movement, you intend to read things at a much higher rateSkill Learnt (Passive)Speed ReadingRarityEEffects:10% quicker to readExperienceNovice Level 1 (0.00%)
*Ding*
! NOTICE !Your [Grinder] level has increased by '1'
Vex: "You should've gave me that skill before I was going to read all of it!!!" with Vex shouting to the notification. Vex noticed the hooded person is not there.
Vex: "Where did she go?"
With Vex's head turning sideways, she is walking towards the stairway leading to the next floor. 'Did she read 500 books!?' Vex thought, he carefully inspected her, she was just a few steps to the force-field. With his eyes widened, her body blurred herself past the force-field and she made it through. 'Wow, she went past through it, but still something still feels weird', but entirely it was just Vex.
Vex can view his library card containing information about Lay-fall Library. It also records how much books Vex had read. Everyone was given one once they had stepped into the library, but he was too distracted by the fascination of the library's inside appearances.
Vex clicked on his card.
Library CardOwner: VexCard Number: #01225690121Books Read:1Current Floor1
Vex: "So the book Siv gave to me didn't count, huh..."
It was a shame, Vex did spend hours reading the book and gained no knowledge from it (Well, just a bit). 'Well thanks to Zakfrost, my damn frikin hero, gave me a overpowered class, capable of battling gods', Still, Vex was pretty shocked getting it. He is only still Level One whose equipping novice armor. 'Damn, I look like a hacker', Vex needed to get some equipment soon. About the books, maybe you needed to read the books from the library, considering someone just could create a book with one word, and BAM!, there goes one book. Thats what Vex thought of it, it probably sounded stupid but it made sense at the same time.
Without that hooded-person there, it seemed Vex can now focus on his reading since that bothering feeling suddenly faded away, it just made him concentrate even more. 'Damn, It feels so cheaty!, all these stat gaining just from books, it just plain stupid'. Vex reminded himself again, no one would ever stay inside the library nearly the whole just reading books. Even someone would've died from extreme boredom and therefore considered as "I'm sick of this!" thing.
Vex: "It's about time!"
With 499 books stacked onto the table, Vex sat on the table and began reading, thanks to his "Speed Reading" skill, he was able to read books at a much faster pace. His eyes rolling to side to side, it was quick, it was spectacular. The amount of books he read was insanely faster, book by book, his reading seemed to get faster and faster at a visible rate. Surprisingly it was only one chapter he read, 'One down, 9 chapters to go to finish one book!' with the determined face Vex pulled off, it was nothing but pure insanity of grinding books.
But when Vex finished one book, massive amounts of people just appeared out of nowhere, 'Am I dreaming?' Vex said confusingly to himself, (Author: For the people who don't get it, the skill "Grind till Forever" has the ability to lose creation of repetitive memories. Pretend he/she was practicing hammering skills and it was day time. Just one hammer action and it becomes night time. His/her hammering skills just leveled up a whopping '5' times! and his/her whole stamina is drained (That's when "Grind till Forever" stops activating), just because he/she lost memories of repeating the same thing over and over.)
Vex: "Woah!, I actually don't remember what happ-"
Then a series of light came teleported Vex, and he appears into some sort of a room, With confusion Vex held, he was floating in mid-air whilst looking around his surroundings, it was nothing but glowing-like white substances. But Vex remembered this place, 'Ahhh, the memories of our first error encounter back in the training hall'
Then a notification appeared.
! ERROR !You are temporarily kicked from this server due to the followingReason:You have passed the limited requirement of gameplayYou may resume your gameplay in:0d 24h 0m
Vex: "I'll be back!"
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Author Notes:
Here is the real Chapter 4!, its finally released!
I kinda rushed it a bit, so if you notice any mistakes, please do so tell!
And also the story, if it doesn't make sense, I'll rewrite it better.
If you notice anything unexplained or unusual, please point them out!
Anyways, I hope you have enjoyed reading this chapter! :)
P.S: I will be making modifications to this chapter!, Any suggestions are welcome! :)
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