After receiving the staff, I was thrown into the dungeon. There was no such thing in the demo, there, after choosing a class, I was immediately thrown into the battle, where Pablo and I met and had fun.
Now, I was standing at the beginning of the corridor, and there was a blank wall behind me. First, I opened the skill tree. Where I had everything pumped one by one.
Minor Heal 1
Instantly restores 10 HP.
Cooldown - 5 seconds.
Progress: 0%.
My little heel. I'm currently at 100 hp. It will take a little less than a minute for a full recovery.
Small Self Gain 1
Increases all stats by 1% for 10 minutes.
Rollback - 30 minutes.
Progress: 0%.
The same self-buff.
Lesser Curse of Movement 1
Slows the target by 1% for 1 minute.
Rollback - 2 minutes.
Such a debuff that still needs to be pumped and pumped.
Lesser Blessing of Speed 1
Increases the target's movement speed by 1% for 1 minute.
Rollback - 2 minutes.
By analogy with the debuff, apparently. And the last skill:
Weak Spiritual Strike 1
Deals 10 damage.
Cooldown 5 seconds.
That's the whole set that they give to the beginning Oracle. The staff raises stats that I can't see.
Having gone a little forward, I met my first opponent. Mannequin standing in the center of the corridor. As soon as I got within five paces, a dark flame lit up in the mannequin's wooden eyes. And his name popped up above him.
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Training mannequin.
Level 0
The mannequin didn't move, but watched my movements closely.
- Strength. - I said, hanging on myself a buff to increase characteristics. - Speed. – The second blessing increased movement speed. – Slow down! Shouting the words of the Curse of Speed, I put forward my hand with protruding fingers, which was a gesture to activate the spiritual strike.
After the curse, the mannequin moved in my direction, but after using the spirit strike, it was pushed back a little. The impact took about 10% of the mannequin's lives. At that moment, he lunged forward, raising his wooden hand to strike. Without thinking of anything better, I just poked him with my staff, pushing him away and dealing damage.
The mannequin... Turned out to be stupid. Every time he tried to attack me with his hand, he received a poke that threw him back a little. Without risking it, I methodically knocked out his hit points. Recoiled spiritual strike, used after another poke. For an experiment, I tried to hit him with all my might with a staff.
-13 hp.
Better than a spiritual blow, but at that moment I received a retaliatory blow that took me 8 hp.
- Recovery. I said as I regained my health.
The last blow and ... The dummy turns into a pile of chips, and a message comes to me.
Statistics recorded.
"Apparently this is necessary for the proofreading of characteristics." I thought.
- Skills. – I said, thus opening the skill progress window.
Spiritual Strike had one-third progress, and everyone else's one-tenth.
“The more I use, the faster it grows.” – then I remembered that I have no mana bar. - "It's a cheat!"
To test, I used Spirit Strike. The bar filled up by 1%, but there was no mana.
Smirking at this discovery, I didn't go any further, but started using all of my backtracking skills.
***
Spirit Strike was the first to max out, after which a message popped up:
The skill can be increased, contact the teacher.
Progress stuck at 100%, but now I can get out of this dungeon by pumping skills to the allowed maximum.
***
After an hour of my "pumping", a message came:
You've been in the beginner's dungeon for an hour now.
Your characteristics are increased by 10, for a more comfortable passage.
It was immediately felt. I felt like I had drunk a dozen energy drinks. I wanted to move, run, jump, be a hero, but I continued to stubbornly wait for the rollback of buffs.
***
After three hours I got tired, I went out to eat. When he returned, he continued pumping the self-buff.
***
At the fifth hour, another message appeared:
You've been in the beginner's dungeon for 5 hours now.
Your stats have been increased by 50 for a more comfortable experience.
If you have any problems, then mentally contact technical support, you will be immediately assisted.
Smiling, I continued my inactivity. Although an ocean of energy raged inside me, which resulted in faster movements and sharp jerks.
I have a few hours left to pump the buff to the maximum. The rest of the skills have already reached the chapel. Cursing myself was fun, but it worked, so I could slow my allies as well. Hill was pumping by hitting the wall with a running start, thereby knocking out crumbs of life from himself.
***
Finally my marathon is over. Self-reinforcement has reached 100% progress. It was a pity for the time spent, but after the message about the increase in characteristics, my intuition screamed about the hidden bonus.
Further progress under the buff from five hours of inactivity, which gave me +60 to all characteristics, turned into the adventures of "One Shot". One hit - one mannequin corpse. There were enough of them. In this dungeon, the beginner had to practice battles with different types of opponents. Mannequin dogs, humanoid mannequins, multi-armed mannequins, etc.
In the last room, there was a dummy boss with an entourage. The player needed to kill one at a time, while trying not to hook the neighbors.
- Ha! - shouting this, I ran into the midst of enemies.
Once spun around its axis - killed two or three. A few circles and now I was left alone with the boss, who was in the form of a huge mannequin in armor and with a mace.
Training mannequin.
Boss.
Level 0
Above his description were two life bars, hinting at a long struggle. But.. It was for mere mortals! With a picture poke, I turned the boss into a pile of rubble.