When my vision came back, the first thing I do is open my menu. I first look at my inventory. All that’s there is two gold. The money system is quite simple. The lowest coin is copper, a 100 copper makes one silver, 100 silver makes one gold and 1,000 gold makes one platinum. So right now, I have the equivalent of 200 silver or 2,000 copper. This may seem like much to start with but the fact that you start with no equipment except for a few rags, it makes sense.
Next I open my character stats
Name
Noah
Fame
0
Race
Human
Level
1
Class
none
Subclass
none
Title
none
Health
100/100
Stamina
100/100
Mana
100/100
Strength
10
Agility
10
Intelligence
10
Wisdom
10
Dexterity
10
Vitality
10
Luck
10
Everything seems pretty basic and self-explanatory. Now onto the skills.
Skills
Absolutely nothing, great. Guess I’ll first have to learn how to tame monsters. Also I need to pick up a monster encyclopedia. That way I’ll be able to see my progress. I close the skill list and see properly look at the town for the first time. It’s a proper bustling medieval city. In front of me is a giant stone statue of some guy. Upon reading the plaque, it seems he was a hero that rescued the princess after slaying a dragon. God that’s clique.
I decide to walk up to the nearest guard and ask for directions.
“do you know the way to the library?
The guard looks at me oddly before replying.
“behind you”
I turn around, and past the statue is a large white building with a giant sign saying library on it. How did I manage to miss that?... the statue… yep, definitely the status fault for being in the way. I turn back to the guard and say with the most serious face I got.
“good, I wanted to make sure you wasn’t shirking your duties and you passed with flying colours. Until next time”
I quickly turn around and walk towards the library before the confused guard realises what just happened.
I enter the library and walk straight to the small old woman sitting at the counter.
“excuse me, do you have any books on taming and support magic? oh, and a monster encyclopedia”
I mentioned the taming and monster encyclopedia before but the support magic is something I thought of on the spot. Think about it, any monster I tame will be extremely weak and will probably need me to fight alongside it just so that it can win. So if I can buff it then it would at least be able to win a one on one fight without much difficulty.
the old lady looks up at me with dull eyes and replies with a croaky voice.
“We do have books about taming but I won’t recommend it, young soul traveller”
won’t recommend taming? has taming been nerfed or something?
“may I ask why?”
“it’s quite simple. As you soul travellers tend to vanish from this world for unknown times, it is possible that anything you tame would die of hunger while you are away”
what a bullshit gimmick. well, it doesn’t really concern me that much since I’m gonna be on here except for sleeping and eating.
“I still wish to learn taming”
The old lady’s eyes glisten a bit when she heard me say that but that could be my imagination.
“very well, but there is one more problem”
another one!? how nerfed is this god damn skill! Even though i’m raging inside, I keep my poker face on.
“and that is?”
“there’s no such thing as a monster encyclopedia. There are encyclopedias for herbs and ores, but not for monsters”
w-wait… what did she say? there’s no monster encyclopedia?
“w-what! what do you mean there’s no such thing as a monster encyclopedia!? how the hell do people survive against monsters if there’s no information on them!? And even if they do have knowledge on them, there’s no point unless that knowledge is passed down! ya’know what! I’m gonna make my own monster encyclopedia! if the idiots of this world are too stupid to learn about the monsters they could die to then I’ll make it for them! haa, haa”
The blood finally stops rushing to my head and I finally realised what I’ve done. Oh god, Not only did I yell in a library but I yelled at the librarian herself! I’m so doomed. I’m definitely gonna get banned. I look at the librarian in front of me clearing her throat and gulp.
“first things first, NO YELLING IN THE LIBRARY”
“I’M SORRY!”
“well, as long as you’re sorry. Now on to the second thing. Once you finished that monster encyclopedia, will you bring it here to be published in this library? I’ll even supply you with a notebook and writing equipment for free”
Quest: A librarian's request
You have impressed the librarian with you proclamation to make a monster encyclopedia. She wants you to bring her the finished encyclopedia to get published
Difficulty:SSS+
Rewards:
writing equipment(upon accepting)
publishment of your encyclopedia
???
Failure:
Banned from library
Holy shit! a triple S rank difficulty! There’s even a plus! So far, the highest difficulty someone has got was C! But this quest is way too difficult for a level one who just joined the game so my choice is obvious.
“I accept!”
The old woman’s eyes start glittering intently.
“good, very good. AND NO SHOUTING IN MY LIBRARY!”
“I’M SORRY!”
After talking to the Librarian I go read books on taming and support magic. Taming is a bit easier than I thought it would be though I even learned the skill from reading the book. I even gained a point in wisdom from it.
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Taming[lvl1]
You have learnt the way of bending a monster to your will
1% chance of taming a level 1 monster
cost:50 mana
I thought I would have to spend a lot of time getting monster used to me and the monster will naturally be tamed over time but you only have to pass your magic thought the monster and it will have a chance to tame. The only problem is that the chance is stupidly low and you have to be touching the monster in order to tame so taming strong monsters such as dragons i will probably die… a lot.
After learning the taming skill I move onto the support magic. Support magic works as you would expect. It boosts a certain stat for a certain amount of time. there is a range limit though so I can’t stay far away from my monsters. For now I only learned the magic for increasing defence as the book are big… really big. They are interesting to read but not enough to sit here all day reading them.
Support magic:defence[lvl1]
You have learnt the way of imbuing your mana into someone to increase their defence
1% increase to defense for 10 seconds on one target within 2 metres
cost:5 mana
The cost is low but the increase is almost nonexistent. i will have to spam this skill like mad if i want it to be useful.
I get up to leave but something catches my eye, it’s a book. A book about summoning to be precise. I don’t plan to be a summoner as the type and level of the summon is directly related to the skill so it’s technically not tamed, but if I want to get an elemental then I’ll have to summon it. With this mindset, I pick up the summoning book and start reading through it.
From what I understand from this book is that when summoning an elemental, a temporary contract is created between you and the elemental, and the contract is canceled when the elemental is unsummoned. This is how you can get a stronger summon as your skill level increases.
I managed to get the summoning magic: fire elemental skill from this is useless to me the way it is now. I need to summon an uncontracted elemental so that I can tame it. What a pain, though it shouldn’t be too much of a problem for a genius for me. I look down at the book and get ready to discover the secret of manually summoning… screw it, I’ll do it later.
I put down the book and leave to tame some monsters. Outside the city there are many player slaughtering innocent rabbits. How dare they do such despicable thing! These monsters are all candidates to become my first monster. How dare they kill my candidates!
I walk over to a rabbit. As soon as the rabbit sees me, it legs it. In a panic, I jump at the rabbit and activate my taming skill. I go flying through the air towards the rabbit only to crash, I mean gracefully land on the ground… face first….
“damn rabbit!”
I leap after the rabbit again and again to no end. I just can’t seem to catch the fast little fucks. I hear an irritating laughter coming from behind me. When I look, some players are pointing and laughing at my attempt to tame a rabbit.
“hahahaha, that’s hilarious! he’s still trying to kill a rabbit on his own”
“hahaha, come on, give him a break. We were the same haha”
“true hahaha, but we gave up after the first time and teamed up on them. And even then, we at east had some weapons, hahaha. This guy just doesn’t learn, hahahaha. Is he an idiot or something? hahahaha”
How dare they insult the genius that is me! Idiots like them can’t even grasp that I’m trying to tame the rabbit, not kill it. idiots like them are gonna end up in this field hunting rabbits for the rest of their lives.
I get up off the ground and once again jump at the rabbit.
“ahhhhh!”
You have successfully tamed a ‘fly’
“Yes! I finally did it I finally managed to tame a ra- fly?!”
please name your fly
Ok? my first monster is a fly… I guess this could work?
“hahaha! first monster of mine! I shall call thee ‘Buzz’!”
Buzz starts flying around me happily, seems he likes his new name
I wave out my hand towards a rabbit and command Buzz
“Now go my tiny minion! Bring terror down upon this rabbit!”
Buzz gets serious and charges towards the fierce battle between him and the rabbit. Buzz gets in the first attack and bombs at the rabbit. But! the rabbit easily deflects the blow! Buzz gets ready for another dive bomb at the rabbit! he’s gaining speed! this is gonna be a perilous attack! But the rabbit deflects the blow again! it’s like the rabbit isn’t even feeling it. But Buzz isn’t giving up yet! He send dive bomb after dive bomb after dive… bomb… ok… this if going nowhere… let’s check Buzz’s stats.
Name
Buzz
Fame
0
Race
Fly
Level
1
Title
none
Gender
Male
Health
1/1
Stamina
1/1
Mana
1/1
Age
30 days
Strength
0.1
Agility
0.1
Intelligence
0.1
Wisdom
0.1
Dexterity
0.1
Vitality
0.1
Luck
0.1
“Oh god! those stats are terrible!”
I quickly close the menu and call for a retreat.
“Buzz! come back, you’re no match for him yet!”
Buzz leaves the rabbit alone and lands on my shoulder. I sprint from the field back to the city but not before giving the last word to the rabbit.
“Damn rabbit! You haven’t seen the last of the great Noah and his minion Buzz!”