**This chapter, Shin will now be addressed as his game name, Chaos (of course just within the game).
Chapter V : Obtaining a Class
After the battle with the giant wolf, Chaos noticed that his health has once again had fallen to critical. With the last life, he gave his all to beat the boss monster and was satisfied in the end. He felt that he became stronger, within and outside the game, since with the experience, he will be able to use it outside.
Outside the game, he was bored. He know he's strong and because of it, there was no challenge. Even when his masters brought him along with the dangerous jobs, it game a bit of a challenge but he still didn't need to give his all. However, within the game, he felt the danger, exhiliration and the effort to surpass his previous self. Therefore, he was satisfied. He hoped that every battle with a boss is like this.
He quickly restored his life with "Chakra" and ate 2 breads to restore his satiety. Then looking at the corpse of the giant wolf, the realism was at the top. In games, usually, when a player beat a monster or a boss, it disappears, but in Conqueror Online, the corpse remain, the place they battled are affected and will not restore. Even the scent of blood still lingers in the air.
Chaos: This is definitely my kind of place. I should be able to get past the stagnation that I am feeling for the past year. (smirk)
The notification he ignored previously had piled up again. It was easy to ignore them when all his attention was with the monster he's facing.
"You have leveled up!"
"Congratuations for beating the boss: Wolf of Carnage, Bloodmoon"
"For soloing the boss and beating it, you have gain 500 fame"
"For soloing a boss type monster, you have gained a title: One Man Team"
"For clearing the dungeon by yourself, you have gained fame +50 and a title: Dungeon Sweeper"
"Quest Update: Subjugate the Vile Beast - bring proof that you have killed the blood beast to the town of Levia to get your reward"
"You have acquired a skill: Deflect"
"System detects your advance knowledge of the skill, Deflect has advanced to level: Intermidiate"
"You have gained gained +5 Vitality, +5 Agility, +5 Dexterity, Physical damage: -10%, Nullify physical damage chance: +10%"
"System detects your advance knowledge of the skill, Deflect has advanced to level: Novice"
"You have gained gained +10 Vitality, +10 Agility, +10 Dexterity, Physical damage: -10%, Nullify physical damage chance: +10%"
"System detects your advance knowledge of the skill, Deflect has advanced to level: Advance"
"You have gained gained +15 Vitality, +15 Agility, +15 Dexterity, Physical damage: -10%, Nullify physical damage chance: +10%"
"System detects your advance knowledge of the skill, Deflect has advanced to level: Expert"
"You have gained gained +20 Vitality, +20 Agility, +20 Dexterity, Physical damage: -10%, Nullify physical damage chance: +10%"
"You have acquired a skill: Assassin Edge"
"System detects your advance knowledge of the skill, Assassin Edge has advanced to level: Intermidiate"
"You have gained gained +5 Strength, +5 Agility, +5 Dexterity, Damage per strike on same spot: +10%"
"System detects your advance knowledge of the skill, Assassin Edge has advanced to level: Novice"
"You have gained gained +10 Strength, +10 Agility, +10 Dexterity, Damage per strike on same spot: +10%"
"System detects your advance knowledge of the skill, Assassin Edge has advanced to level: Advance"
"You have gained gained +15 Strength, +15 Agility, +15 Dexterity, Damage per strike on same spot: +10%"
"System detects your advance knowledge of the skill, Assassin Edge has advanced to level: Expert"
"You have gained gained +20 Strength, +20 Agility, +20 Dexterity, Damage per strike on same spot: +10%"
"You have acquired a skill: Limit Break"
"You have acquired a skill: Air Walk"
"System detects your advance knowledge of the skill, Air Walk has advanced to level: Intermidiate"
"You have gained gained +5 Agility, +5 Intelligencce, +5 Luck, Number of times that you can condense the air: +1"
"You have obtained Blood Brothers"
"You have obtained soul card Wolf of Carnage, Bloodmoon: Unique Boss"
"You have obtained Blood & Soul Crystal"
"You have obtained Premium Juicy Meat x 1"
"You have obtained Blood Gem x 6"
"Wolf of Carnage Alpha's Hide x 1"
"Wolf of Carnage Alpha's Bloody Claw x 2"
"Wolf of Carnage Alpha's Bloody Fang x 1"
"System detects your advance movement and motion during combat"
"You have gained +3 Agility, +4 Dexterity, +2 Endurance, +3 Resilience, +3 Strenghth, +1 Wisdom, +1 Intelligence, +2 Vitality, +2 Luck, +3 Flexibility**"
Chaos was shock at the system windows he received. Chaos was not able to play games all the time. Only when he met his friends that he had a chance to play rpg's and mmo games but most of his knowledge about the game was by always listening to his friends stories about games they've played. For this instance, he was not aware that several gamers would band together to form a group to subjugate a monster he just defeated alone.
Since Chaos defeated it alone, he was able to get all the drops as well as the effort in defeating the boss gave him more experience. After confirming all the notification and distributing his stats, Chaos excitedly browse through the items and skills he received.
Skill: Deflect (Active)
Level: Expert (0/500)
Mana: 10
-Defense against physical attack. Able to reduce physical damage cause by an attack. Chance to negate attack, completely neutralizing damage.
-Physical damage: -90%
-Nullify physical damage chance: 50%
Skill: Assassin Edge (Passive)
Level: Expert (400/500)
-Like an assassin, your strike will cause severe damage to your enemies. Each strike is more severe than before. By striking the same spot over and over, damage will stack and accumulate. (effect will be canceled if strike hit another part)
-Damage per strike on same spot: +50%
*master level: 2nd strike onwards on the same spot has 10% chance of inflicting bleed, paralyze, silence or cripple.
Skill: Limit Break (Passive)
Level: Beginner (0/100)
-Upon reaching a critical state, your body will enter a state surpassing it's limit.
-At critical state: all stat +10%
Skill: Air Walk (Active)
Level: Intermidiate (0/200)
Mana: 50
-Condense the air at your feet, allowing you to step on it like a solid wall.
-Number of times that you can condense the air: 2
Chaos was happy that the system recognizes his skills. In real life, he also uses the same skills thought by the masters but not often, since there was no danger or chance to use them. This was also the reason he gained the advance level upon receiving the skills.
Afterwards, he checked a pair of what looks like a glaiator's sword, however, it's double edged. It does not have a guard and the middle is tinge with blood red glowing runes. One edge is sharp and smooth while the other edge is jagged for inflicting more pain. Chaos checked the sword's information.
Blood Brothers (Dual Blade)
Type: Unique-Living weapon
-Forge by an unknown demon blacksmith. Said to be made from the fangs of lord behemoth that had cause countless death in the dark era. A soul was infused within the sword, thus allowing it to grow stronger along with the user.
-Emits a red aura when out of it's sheath and leaves a trail of blood red after glow when being used.
Attack: 66 - 99
Durability: 366/500
Effect:
Bleed resistance 66%, Chance to cause bleed: 66%
+10 Strength
+10 Agility
+10 Dexterity
Growth: Beginner 0/100
Requirements:
Level 50
Str 100
Dex 100
Chaos: Sweet! A living weapon that gets stronger when used! Awesome! I feel so lucky today.. Eeheheh.. Now what about the other items?
Card: Wolf of Carnage, Bloodmoon: Unique Boss
Type: Soul
-Rare type of card is soul type. Can be use in many different ways but there are still many application that wasn't known yet. Pure type of essence can be use with equipment strengtening, enchanting, engraving and can be use as consumable attack item.
-additional effect: Bleed +50%
-attack effect: 50% of user's damage + 100% bleed status effect
Blood & Soul Crystal
Type: Quest Item
-Item to start a quest to obtain one of the hidden class held by an unknown conqueror of the dark era.
-A crystal that had absorbed thousand of souls essence and blood of the fallen. Once it's able to complete absorbing more blood and soul essence, it will allow the owner to transcend to a higher level.
+Swallowed by an alpha dire wolf, and had evolved the creature to a carnage wolf. With the crystal inside it, it was able to become stronger by consuming people and other creatures blood.
Although the new weapon interest Chaos, he was not able to use it for the moment, however, the "Blood Soul Crystal" interest him more especially when it said something about gaining a hidden class. Chaos pondered what to do while holding the crystal. Upon inspecting the cave where the boss monster lives in, he noticed that there were many skeletons and bones scattered all around, as well as boxes and items. He also noticed the raised dais where the boss monster stood. Chaos first climbed the raised dais. There he found a spring on top of it. Even though it's called a spring, instead of water, red liquid like blood comes out of it. This gave him an idea and Chaos took out the crystal and pointed it towards the fountain. Then immediately, a system window popped up.
"Do you want to use the "Blood & Soul Crystal" in the Blood Fountain to absorb the power of the underworld?"
Chaos: Huh.. so it's like that then.. let see.. hell let's try it out, YES!
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The crystal suddenly appeared and shines atop the fountain and it started to revolve. Then a new system window came up.
"Quest Start!"
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Quest: Protect the Crystal
Type: Class specific quest
Info: While the Blood & Soul Crystal absorbs the power from the fountain of the underworld, protect it from being taken
by the horde of monsters that will come for it's power.
Goal: Prevent crystal from being taken by any of the monsters that will be coming for it. Absorption must reach 100%.
Success: Hidden Class attainment
Fail:
-Quest fails and cannot be taken again. Crystal will be lost and another boss thrice as strong as the Carnage Wolf will appear
and will wreck havoc on this kingdom.
-People will hate you.
-You won't be able to enter any town for the duration of 1 year.
Level: B
Reward: Hidden Class, exp +50,000, Fame +1000
Requirement: Obtain Blood & Soul Crystal, Find Fountain of the Underworld
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Chaos: Holy crap! I didn't expect it would become a quest! I'd just defeated a boss for crying out loud... Shit! Here they come!
From the entrance of the Boss's lair, several blood wolves and vampire bats can be seen, and more keeps adding up withing their numbers. Supposedly, Chaos should have companions with him, but since he's unaware and was force to cope with the situation, he's alone to confront hordes of monsters.
He still have some luck, since the fountain is at the top of the raise dais, there is only one way up to it, and that is the stairs leading up. Chaos would only have problems with the vampire bats that flies but he wasn't worried, since he can kill them in one hit. The stronger wolves will be coming but can only attack one or two at a time so Chaos can still manage.
As the first set of monster came, he quickly dispatched the bats and kicked the two incoming wolves, forcing them to stumble and hit the wolves behind, thus giving him time to kill off the bats. With higher level, he can now kill the wolves with 2-3 strikes, however, since there is a staggering number that is coming, his kick, punch and slashes did not stopped. His focused was terrifying as anything that enters his range have o been cut down or was torn to pieces. Sometimes, while he fought, time sometimes slowed down and he was able to cut down several monsters at once then after few seconds, time would speed up again, but Chaos did not notice as he's too focused with the fight.
He then checks the crystal as it's showing the percentage completion.
8%, 18%, 33%, 49%, 66%, 81%. Chaos keeps fighting, ignoring his exhaustion and pain from attacks that goes through his defense. Taking a glimpse at the crystal once more, Shin saw that it's at 95%.
Chaos: Gaahh! It's almost done! but there is no sign of this monsters stopping. Where the hell did they came from? When I was going here, there were not this many..!
Chaos continued hacking and slashing through to protect the crystal. Chaos suffered damage after damage upon being attacked by several monster at once but he still manage to repel the monsters. Thanks to the "deflect" skill, he was able to minimize the damaged done to him. Upon checking on the crystal, it was at 99%.
As the crystal went to 100%, Chaos's health was at critial but he felt relief as it's now done. Thank's to his skill "Limit Break" which boost all his stats up 10%, was able to last longer. However, the monsters did not stop attacking, but instead going into frenzy. When Chaos once again looked at the crystal, he couldn't believe what he's seeing. The crystal percentage completion has gong over 100%!
"101%... 102%.... 103%... 104%.... 105%......"
Chaos: What the hell's going on!? It didn't stop?? And the monster became more frenzied. If this continued... ugh!
As the monsters converge up unto the dais and into him, Chaos fought like a madman. His health is almost gone as well. Then, Chaos remembers the crystal's information. He remembered something about the beast swallowed the crystal and it obtain power and evolved. Thinking of this, Chaos did not hesitate. After dispatching several bats and wolves, he used his remaining strength and dashed to the fountain, grabbed the crystal suspended in mid air above the fountain which now shows 166%.
Chaos then swallowed the crystal. This halted the assault of the monsters, then suddenly, Chaos body started to glow until it became too bright to see. This has scared the monsters and started scattering away, clearing the cave empty.
This was followed by pain spreading all over his body. The pain within the game was reduced down to 40% so that it won't traumatize the games. But what Chaos felt was real. 100% of the pain was surging through his body. However, since Chaos was used to pain, he just gritted his teeth and endure. Then after some excruciating time, the pain was rising again and with final breath, Chaos howled to fight the pain. Chaos did not notice but the scream he let out was not of a human, but that of a ferocious beast.. of a dragon.
The pain then subsided until it was gone. Chaos was still alive but panting and lying down on the cold floor of the cave. The blinding light is gone but also the monsters that was attacking him previously. When he opened his eyes, system windows, several of them had piled up, now present in front of him.
"You have gained a level"
"You have gained a level"
"You have gained a level"
"You have gained a level"
"You have gained a level"
"You have gained a level"
"You have gained a level"
"You have gained a level"
"You have gained a level"
"You have gained a level"
"You have unlocked a race specific ability: Space Distortion"
"You have gained a level"
"Congratulations, you have encountered and defeated a Unique monster: Darkwing of Shadow, you have gained 20 fame, +1 Luck"
"Congratulations! You have completed the quest: Protect the Crystal."
"Experience +50,000, Fame +1,000, Hidden Class attainment, one of the Legendary Class, Dark Summoner acquired.
"You have gained a level"
"You have gained a level"
"Due to the power that was absorbed exceeded the limit, the Fountain of the Underworlds which was connected to River of the Fallen, has been depleted almost to the limit.
"The crystal's power had exceeded it's limit, thus was able to evolve. And by consuming the crystal instead of grasping it with your hand, you have assimilated the Blood & Soul Crystal that the legendary conqueror of the dark era had and more.
"Quest Start!"
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Quest: Devil's Pursuit
Type: Chain Quest
Info: The Blood & Soul Crystal had absorbed too much from the Fountain of the Underworld, which is connected to the River of the Fallen.
A Duke of Hell, which governs the river became furious because of the power of his river getting stolen. He now commanded his personal knights
to pursue the thief.
Goal: Defeat the Devil Knights that will be retrieving the crystal from you. Find a way to the Underworld to stop the duke from sending more
knights by either negotiation or subjugation.
Success: Depends on how you stop the Duke.
-If it's by negotiation, the devil's on the Duke's territory will hate you and will not allow you any quest or sell any goods to you.
-Familiarity with the Duke's territory will become -100.
-If it's by subjugation, the devil's on the Duke's territory will revere you as their liberator and familiarity will become maximum.
Fail:
-Quest Fail if you die by the hands of any of the demon knight that was sent to you.
-Class will be severely weaken and will only be comarable to a normal hidden class.
-Knights sent by duke will not stop killing you for the expan of 1 year. Each time you die, you will lose ability proficiency.
Level: S
Reward: Legendary Item/Equipment, Experience +500,000, Fame +10,000, 100,000 Gold
Requirement: Blood & Soul Crystal absorbes more than 100% during "Protect the Crystal" quest.
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Chaos: What kind of.. quest is this? Never ending quest unless I die? Che! Who do they think I am, calling me a thief... wait.. personal knights should be strong, so they will be the one coming? Heheh this is great, more practice partners. And I've gained another race ability too! (Grin) I'm sooo lucky eheheh!
Instead of dread, Chaos had made this situation as a way to become stronger. Being a battle maniac, he anticipate meeting the so called duke's personal knights.
Also, another set of system window continued appearing in front of him.
"Class Change: Dark Summoner"
"Congratulations! You have acquired one of the legendary class from the Dark Era, Fame +1000"
"Due class change, you have obtained stat boost from the class."
"Strength +20, Vitality +20, Agility +30, Dexterity +20, Intelligence +100, Wisdom +100, Luck +10"
"All magic resistance + 10%"
"All status resistance + 10%"
"You have gained a class specific skill: Soul Binding & Blood Contract"
"You have gained a class specific skill: Servant Summoning"
"You have gained a class specific skill: Attack Summoning"
"You've gained +9 Strength, +7 Vitality, +11 Agility, +12 Dexterity, +2 Intelligence, +2 Wisdom, +2 Luck, +5 Flexibility, +6 Endurance, +2 Resilience"***
Chaos: Did I read it correctly.. this sounds like a magician class to me... What the heck!
AN:
***Stat boost from fighting the horde of monsters, pushing his body to the limit.