Scout soon felt something beneath his feet when he finally realized he was at the Beginners town of Chronos. In all beginners town, all new players are stuck here for 30 days. This substitutes for a tutorial, and it also teaches new players the basics of the game.
The first 30 in game days determines your class. The only way you can leave or enter the beginners town is by quests. There is still an open field where new players can train and hunt monsters.
1 day in real life is 4 days in game.
Scout was amazed by the new reality that he has steeped upon. He wasn't alone, alongside him were other new players just started playing the game, also amazed. Scout quickly snapped out of his daze because this was not his first time being in a virtual reality, During his time in the army, they would use the "Egg" to run virtual reality field tests for training.
"States WIndom" Scout shouted, he was eager what bonus stats he had gotten.
Status WindowNAMEScoutLevel1Attack damage3-3Magic Attack damage3-3Health150Mana150Strength15Intelligence15Agility15Vitality15Luck15Wisdom15Physical Defence0Magical Defence0
Scout was surprised, he read on the game forums that usually an average person only gets 10 extra stat points. Geniuses, people with high IQ, martial artists, sports people, and people who usually stand above the rest only gets around 15-25 bonus stat points. Scout however got 30 extra stat points, and they were all very balanced. This is of course because of his military training and because he is always eager to learn.
Stats goes like this
[tr][td3]Agility increases attack speed, slightly increases dodge rate, slightly increases movement speed[td3]Increases critical chance and critical damage and also certain events might trigger for the user.[/tds]
StrengthStrength increases damages all physical attacks, it also increases the capacity of inventory you can carry.[/tds3]AgilityVitallyIncreases Health points by 10 for every point. Health is also increased by 10 for each level gainedIntelligenceIncreases Magic attack damageWisdomIncreases Mana points by 10 for every point. Mana is also increased by 10 for each levelLuck
'I should start my journey now, what to do what to do, I guess ill head over to the training center and see the basic weapons'
So scout started to go to the training center, which was right in front of him. As he entered there were many people testing out weapons.
A weapon instructor approached him and asked "would you like to try out weapons that best suit you?"
"Yes please"
"Just go over to that weapons rack, grab a weapon that best suited you, and start attacking the dummies."
"Thank you very much"
Scout then walked over to the weapon rack. The weapon rack contained all types of weapons. It had the normal swords, Short swords, Broad swords, Long swords, Daggers, Hammers, Spear, a bow and arrow, and a crossbow. Scout chose two daggers. Scout was always fond of knives, during his military training, he was one of the best students there using their knives in hand to hand combat.
He tested it for a couple of minutes in the dummies. The weapon instructor then approached him and asked him "Is that the weapon that you like son? If it is, everyone can take their desired weapon with them"
Scout simply nodded and said "Thank you" and then he left.
'I wonder what I should do so that I can get the class that I want' Scout thought, Scout wanted to become a rouge, or something in the line of a rouge like an assassin or a thief. Then he saw a bunch of new players like him gathering around a board. It turned out to be a quest board.
He approached the quest board and looked to see if there were any quests relating to his desired profession. After a minute of looking he found a good quest that suited him.
Quest
Follow the noble that is headed to a nearby cottage in the outskirts of town, make sure you are undetected and no harm comes to the nobles way.
Difficulty:F
Rewards:10 copper
Failure: If noble sees you and harm comes to the nobles way
Accept?
Yes/No
"Accept"
Time Left Before Noble Leaves For Cottage10 minutes
For Scout this was the perfect quest for him. There was only one entrance/exit to the town. So Scout headed that way, and soon enough he saw a noble that seemed to be bringing a parcel. Scout concluded that this was the person he had to escort.
Before Scout headed out, he checked his equipment 1st, he had the beginners clothes that did not give any sort of defense whatsoever, and he had a canteen full of water, and 10 loaves of white bread. He also had his dual daggers that each had an attack damage of 1-3.
Time Left7 minutes
Scout had plenty of time to Scout the area, so he headed outside the gate and saw that there was only one cottage near the outskirts of town, it was about a 10 minute walk Scout estimated.
'I should have no problem on defending the noble since it's a short distance and there are other players training here and killing mobs. This should be fairly easy. And besides there are a lot of trees, so it should be easy to hide from the noble while protecting him.'
Time Left5 minutes
Scout had 5 minutes left so he thought that he should test out the monsters. There was only bunnies available to hunt and kill.
Scout had thought that the bunnies were fairly easy to kill. Oh boy he was wrong, they were fast and aggressive. A bunny started hopping towards him and started biting him, as Scout was about to slash towards the bunny, it would suddenly jump away. He had to time the bunnies attack before he could kill it with his daggers.
People wielding swords had it much easier in killing the rabbits because they had a more wide area of coverage from their swings. Scout however only had 2 daggers.
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Scout finally found a way to deal with the bunny, he planned that when the bunny jumped to bite, this would be the most vulnerable state for a bunny. He finally saw the bunny hopping towards him and concentrated and waited for him to strike. Scout was right, when the bunny jumped, Scout strikes and landed a critical hit. It took 1/4 of the bunny's HP. The bunny was shocked that it was hit while mid air, and was dazed for a second. Scout took this chance to slash the bunny a couple of times and it died. It dropped bunny meat and bunny fur.
Time Left2 minutes
"WHAT?! it took me 3 minutes to kill one bunny?!" Scout was shocked, he thought it would take him 30 seconds to kill one, of course now that he knew the bunny's pattern he should be able to kill them easily, and since the bunny don't do much damage he should be fine for a while.
Scout headed back near the entrance of the gate where the noble was standing. Scout was outside the gate already so he rested in a tree branch where the noble would not see him.
After the timer hit zero, the noble started moving. And so did scout. He was hiding inside a thick bush when he noticed that there was a bunny approaching the noble, but before the bunny noticed Scout, Scout had already grabbed the bunny and stabbed it to death.
'Crisis Averted *whew*' Scout thought he was safe, until he saw a couple more bunnies headed for the noble, luckily there were other players that were training in the area and killed some bunnies. There were 2 bunnies left to deal with. So Scout killed one bunny with ease and started killing the other one.
'This is harder than I thought it would be. At least it cannot get any worse right?' Just as he was saying that, the noble stopped and started picking up herbs while bunnies were approaching him.
'God damn, why do you do this to me?!' so Scout started killing the bunnies before they reach the noble. After 5 minutes, which seemed like an 30 minutes for Scout, he got a notification.
Congratulations, You have learned dagger mastery
Dagger Mastery(Passive):Increases damage dealt by daggers, damage increases when weapon proficiency levels up
Dagger Proficiency:0% (Beginner level 1)
'YEEEEEES' Scout was happy, he read somewhere in the forums that weapon masteries took a lot of time and understanding of the weapon, him getting it this early was a blessing. Not only did he do more damage, he can also get rid of the bunnies faster.
About halfway front he cottage, Scout felt weak and hungry, he forgot about his hunger bar. So he ate a loaf of white bread that was given to him from the very beginning and drank some fresh water from his canteen and his satiety bar rose up by a decent amount. He ate another one and his satiety bar was full.
After a rinse and repeat of killing bunnies, for almost 15 minutes near the halfway mark he got a notification.
Level Up!
"Finally!" Scout almost screamed, but held it back or else he would have alarmed the noble.
In Square One you get 5 stat points every time you level up. The only way to get bonus stat points was to do unique quests or events. Square One did this so that it would a fairer game and no one would abuse stat grinding through any means.
Scout then 2 stat points to strength, 2 to agility, and 1 point in luck. After 10 more minutes of killing bunnies faster than ever, Scout got another level and added the same stats the same number.
The noble was finally 1 minute away from the cottage and was very close until Scout noticed something, there were 2 players approaching the noble, and they had bloodlust aimed towards the noble.
'wow..... really? players? I guess someone also put a quest on the job board to kill the noble.' Scout sighed at the sight, he was not sure how to deal with them, he was not even sure if he could kill them.
'I guess ill try to ambush them, I have the element of surprise.' So Scout had to make sure that the noble was safe, and he saw that there were no more bunnies where the noble was headed, so he was good on that side.
Scout then tried making a bait for the bunnies, he tried giving them bread, and the result? They are attracted to it, but once they it the bread they go crazy after 1 minute. So Scout spread some bread crumbs where the 2 players were gonna pass, and soon enough there was 8 rabbits eating the bread. 1 minute passed and just like Scout planned, the 2 players had a battle with the crazed bunnies.
"God dammit what is up with these bunnies?!" The guy with a sword screamed
"I don't know, they were easier to kill earlier, this is so ANNOYING" another guy with dual daggers screamed in annoyance.
That did not stop them though, they were winning even though they were level 1 and had starting gear.
'I guess ill have to kill them' Scout thought
So when one of the players, that were still busy trying to kill the enraged bunnies, started to be pushed back to where Scout was hiding. Scout took his chance and stabbed the guy in the back of his neck which landed him a critical hit and fatal blow. It instantly killed the player. He then got a notification.
Congratulations: You have learned the skill backstab
Backstab(Passive):Increases damage dealt when attacking from behind, also ignores a small part of the targets defense. Damage and percent ignored increased by increasing skill proficiency
Backstab proficiency:0% (Beginner level 1)
'Hahahahahahaha' Scout almost let out a laugh. 'To think ill get a useful skill like this.
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Ill stop this chapter here guys, it got longer than i thought because I had to somewhat explain how the Square One system works.
BTW, i didnt add the "raising" skill points through training in the training center because i thought it would be a bit unbalanced for players to abuse the system, I want this game to be fair.
If there are any errors or suggestions please leave a comment below.
Thanks for reading, ill try to add the next chapter tomorrow or the next day, I have work tomorrow so
I hope you enjoy