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---------------------Jonah's POV--------------------
After I left the Guild I went to the designated meeting place shown on my questlog.
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On the way to the meeting place I bought myself a hotdog at the street and ate it on the way. When I arrived at the place I checked my questlog.
I could check my questlog with my terminal but I could also just check it with my system. The terminal was a system created item that everyone, who used the system, has. To get the terminal you just have to say "terminal" in your mind. I did just that and my terminal appeared in my right hand.
The terminal was just a metalstick that you can flip open, to make it around 20 cm long or just keep the 10 cm.
When I clicked the red button on the 10 cm long metalstick, a 20 cm long blue hologram appeared.
Stats Quests Money Friends Party Minimap Inventory
Options
I then clicked on everything to check.
Stats
Name - Jonah Bellwood Age - 19 Race - Human Trait - N/A Level 5 Class(15) - N/A Class(50) - N/A Class(100) - N/A Health - 200 Strenth - 10 Stamina - 100 Speed - 35 Mana - 100 Endurance - 10 Physical %res.- 2 Intelligence - 10 Magical %res.- 1 Willpower - 10 Mental %res.- 1 Perception - 10
REGENERATION Full Mana Half Mana Empty Mana Health regen 1h- 30 15 7,5 Stamina regen 1h - 150 75 37,5 Mana regen 1h- 100 100 100
OTHERS Full Stamina Half Stamina Empty Stamina Movementspeed km/h - 70 35 17,5 Physical %res. - 2 1 0,5 Magical %res. - 1 0,5 0,25 Mental %res. - 1 0,5 0,25 Perception range. - 2 1 0,5
Quests
Manacrystal Mining Difficulty (E)
The Guild needs Manacrystals to power the terminals. Go into the underground dungeon Station 17 and mine, after defeating the Rat-Boss at the end of the layer 10, 10 Manacrystals(low) and bring them to a Guild-employee to get your rewards.
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Rewards: 1000 credits for non fighters (you) and 3000 credits for fighters.
For 1 Manacrystal with "low" power you could get around 1000 credits. So by doing this quest, instead of selling the crystals and getting the money that way, we have to bring them to the guild and they give us around 17000 credits. Which would be more than the crystals are worth. You can even keep the leftover crystals. Not that I would be getting any.
Money
Credits: 273
Gold: 0
Not much to be seen here.
Friends
Alice Bellwood(Level 3)
Catherine Bellwood(Level 2)
My sister Alice and my mother Catherine.
Party N/A
Let's skip the Minimap.
Inventory 1- Old Ironsword (rusty) - Bonus stats when equipped - None
My old and trusty useless-gonna-break-anytime-now ironsword that I only used on some damn birds. Call me when you need someone to kill birds...
Options let you change the design and stuff, but I changed that a long time a go so that was not really needed. I could also activate/deactivate the U.I (user interface), but I always have it activated. It showed me my HP, MP, ST as a red, blue and green bars at the top right corner of my vision.
Now that I checked everything I waited for my party.
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After some time a group of 5 came and said that we would have to wait for the 2nd non fighter. 10 minutes later he arrived.
The group of 5 consisted of 5 men, 1 Tank, 2 Archer, 1 Fighter and 1 Healer. Which was a standard party formation for dungeon conquering. It wasn't really surprising that there was no mage in the party, because a mage is pretty weak till they have enough mana, which is around level 20, to clear the dungeon fast enough without holding the party back.
The lone boy and I group up and greet each other. Right after that the party leader told us to walk behind them until we reach the layer 10. Because the boy and I have never been in this dungeon before the party has to start at layer 1 and fight up to 10, which made the party a bit grumpy and as punishment we had to stay watch at night.
A dungeon could be basically everything. This dungeon was just an endless tunnel system from an old underground trainstation. Dungeons were mini-dimensions that copy how the surroundings looked like before, just that they made it wayyy bigger and were split into 100 layers with a Boss at the end of every layer.
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There was nothing special on the way there so I just followed them and watched them smash and slice the zombie-rats till layer 10. Me and the boy had to stay awake at night, first was me then him. So we basically only slept for around 4h each and had to do that for 3 days till we reached layer 10.
The boy and me talked a lot and I really enjoyed his company. He was pure and honest. He told me that he had to do this quest, because his mother is ill, so he needed money to get medicine.
The party was efficient and, from what I saw, overleveled. Which wasn't surprising, I mean that was easy money to survive and they leveled a bit. It was just a small bit but enough to make a difference in the long run. So, instead of risking your life killing monster on your level, you just kill lower level ones and get enough money to survive.
I would do the same, but until layer 10 there are no quests and no one wanted to party with me and take xp, because my skill is too weak to be useful. It was the same with this party, the boy and me weren't in the party we were just walking with them. That was why I wouldn't be getting any xp or see them on my party screen and check their levels.
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After some time they killed the Rat-Bossmonster and we started to mine the crystals. Then it happened.