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Pagtuklas: Ikalawa

Pagtuklas: Ikalawa

First things first time to adjust the pain level, while doing it  I saw a small mail blinking at the corner of my view. I checked it and then noticed Issa message me from her phone, How did she message me? I then got curious about how to use my cell phone in-game, I just started thinking about my cell phone and a small window popped out showing my cellphone's home screen. This is cool It's like Jedi mind tricks, I then replied to Issa and started messaging my group to come at my spot. While waiting I checked my Character page.

Player 477310

level 2

Weapon

Bow (range weapon)

- Allowed to use the bow while walking

Profession

"Jeweler"

- Increased finding precious stones and metals used for jewels

Skills

"Windwalk"

-Increase movement speed and dodge.

"Imbue Arrow"

-Use magic to strengthen the damage from bolts and arrow without penalty.

Armor 

"Heavy armor"

-Armor mostly used by tanking character, Increase the time of invoking magic.

 Stats

Strength - 2.5

Constitution - 1.5

Dexterity - 1.1

Perception - 1.4

Intelligence -1.3

Willpower - 1.2

(all stats are auto filled and randomize to show how the game works - Sam)

"This is fucking awesome! sup bro we're here!" I turned around and noticed Shin and Kael standing behind me. "Yeh true, true. You guys did anything in the game?"  Kael started answering my question "I adjusted the pain level to the minimum, Uncle Shin said he did not change it because it's an important part of the game."

"He's right, It would increase your in-game reaction and is a good not to attack like a typical zombie. It forces us to be more strategic, You should adjust it but don't overdo it." 

We noticed Shin started moving around and practicing his skills, He then started switching his weapon and armor.

I created a  party and told them to use the party chat instead of talking in public. Once they accepted the party invite I told them what we should be doing now. "Shin already started testing the basic movements and his skills, let's get started checking the game, and leave your notes in the chat so we could start discussing stuff about the game. I'll call you guys when it's time to start testing the battle in this game."

The next few minutes I started seeing a couple of messages left in the chat;

-heavy armor decreases movement speed

-I Cast a spell 10 times using heavy armor and it sucks, it slowed the casting time and I failed to conjure a couple of spells because of the armor.

-Shooting while walking decreases the hit chance, the faster you walk the bigger chance of missing a target.

-You could start doing tasks for your profession in-game, it increases your efficiency and gives experience as well. It's mobile games so you shouldn't be bored. each profession has multiple mobile games.

I minimized the chat window and kept changing equipment to familiarize each weapons attack pattern and movement  when We heard Shin say something, "Check chat." I looked at the group chat and he left a huge wall of text explaining an exploit. He noticed something weird whenever he wears a leather armor after the chain mail shirt, the chain mail doesn't go back to his inventory. Then he started checking his character page and it showed that his chainmail was still showing in the armor tab and became an undergarment. When he tried doing the same process with light and heavy armor it doesn't work. It might be a bug or an exploit that could be used. 

I started doing it as well and noticed that it increased my defense by a ton. Sweet!, what if I cast magic, would I get the heavy armor penalty? I then selected fireball to add to my skill and started casting it. I noticed that We all thought the same thing and we just smiled because of it. A fireball shot on one of my hand and then I started typing in the group chat "no penalty on magic, this is an exploit. don't tell anybody!" 

After a few minutes, I saw Kael and notice that he's looking at me like he did something wrong, he then informed us that he just spoiled our secret "Oops, I just reported it" I almost shout at him for telling it to the admin.

Isaiah, It's just a game, He's your son, calm down.

I then heard Shin laugh "LOL bro we got a greenie here! haha!" I then started laughing and barked back at him "Yeh, that would be game breaking if we could have at least used it. oh well, back to the drawing boards."

I then started laughing and laughed back  "Yeh, that would be game breaking if we could have at least used it. oh well, back to the drawing boards."

We both saw Kael feeling bad about what he did and apologized "Sorry, I got too excited... Wait, the admin messaged me again."

After a couple of minutes, Kael gave us an update "Let me post what he said."

Good Evening player 23412,

Thank you for reporting the issue, As we all know we want to make the game fair and balanced for everybody. An undershirt is part of the game but using a chainmail for it is supposed to be a hidden feature that's only available for people who tries to explore the game. While using a chainmail as an undergarment, the user should still have the penalty of wearing a heavy armor. As a sign of appreciation, We'll give you a 1000g and a store token worth 500g at the merchant guild. 

Game Developer,

SAM

Shin then looked at Kael and talked to him "Nice you got a personal message from Sam! Well that's good at least we got something, but it's still not enough to the advantage that we could have used. Going forward, you should follow the saying what happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas."

"Sorry, Tito." 

Like what Shin said what's done is done, we then started doing some duels. Shin sent me a duel invite and started hitting each other, to see what effects and how it would feel being damaged by different types of basic hit and magic.

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I accidentally got hit in the wrist, I suddenly felt a sharp pain and a small icon showing I got disarmed. It only showed for at most a second and I signaled Shin to stop.

"Could you hit me at my wrist again? I go disarmed when you hit me in the wrist. Actually, give me one sec. Kael! come here you're a "thief" right? could you try hitting all my joints? also, try hitting me on the back, including my neck as well both on the front and back."

I saw Kael's jaw drop like he saw a ghost, Shin just started laughing. "Kael, would you come here we're doing some tests for the game to see what quirks and advantages we could use, so come here and don't be a chicken."

He snapped back to reality and looked pissed for calling him a chicken

I then heard my cousin Linus "Haha! he's still not used to our style, so show him the ropes and be easy on him." 

"Oh hey! are you in the game? port to us so we could test some stuff as well."

'No, I just arrived home so I only tried the mobile app one, I saw all the conversation in this party so it's all good, I just wished I could try it as well but it's almost time."

I quickly checked the clock and noticed we only have 10 more minutes. I then quickly told them to focus on dueling while I told Shin to try to check some minute stuff like items or status effects that could give us advantage.

Kael started hitting me but it's all half-hearted, I just told him it's a game so start doing it seriously or He'll not gonna play the first week and I won't give him his allowance as well. He started going seriously and we got the answers we need and posted it in the party chat. Hitting certain parts of the body would give some effects like; disarm, slow, dazed and stunned. Certain hits to the neck would cause a bleeding effect while hitting the back would cause a critical hit most of the time. We called it Lucky hit because it doesn't happen all the time and could only be triggered. We then continued dueling each other while trying to get a Lucky hit.

We then heard Sam making an announcement in the game. 

"Welcome players, The game will be closing in a minute. I would like to commend a player who told us about an exploit that could be done with armor. I wou"

somebody just got the balls to interrupt him while doing his speech "Fuck you whoever you are that told them the exploit"

"LOL greenie!" 

"What exploit?"

another announcement showed up

Server announcement "Changed Administrator power to 0 for all players"

We heard Sam talk again

"now where am I, oh, player 23412 you'll be rewarded once you logged in at the actual start of the game. Now, I won't end this without you guys enjoying the game. Starting right now try to survive against my boys! Let the hunger games begin!

Everyone was wondering what he was talking about. it sounded like he was starting an Armageddon. The environment started to change, It's getting darker and everybody looked at the sky.

"Solar eclipse!" some random guy shouted and pointed at the Sun. While I'm getting goosebumps I still can't stop being fascinated at how the aesthetic of the game was made. Once the moon covered the sun, we heard a Wolf howl on top of a cliff. A wolf started to walk on its 4 legs when suddenly It started to stand on its two hind feet. Fuck a Werewolf, It then howled again and we saw the horde of werewolves, wolves, bear, orcs, and goblins surrounding the place where players are standing. I heard somebody screaming, the ground underneath her is moving and then a hand suddenly grab her leg. Zombies! one by one zombie and some insectoid started coming out from the ground.

Some people started crying and running while the others have a looked in the face like they lost everything, Other people started calling their group to form some sort of a plan. 

Then a guy run towards the horde and started shouting "LEEEERRRROOOOYY JEEENKINNS!"

Before he reached the enemy line we saw a figure step towards the front of the orc and killed him with an arrow in one shot. dark elves, they're also part of the horde? Everybody just wants to do a face palm when suddenly we heard somebody laughing so hard. It's my crazy brother Shin. I saw him standing at the top of a huge rock started talking.

"Hahahaha.! what's up plebs! I just have one thing to say." He had the biggest smile on his face and started casting a skill, warcry!

"TONIGHT WE DINE IN HELL."

He removed a huge weapon behind his back, a hammer with its head as big as an adult pig, he gripped it with both his hand he started dashing to the peak of the rock and jumped off it. He started lifting the hammer on top of his head and started to activate his second skill, it made the whole hammer shine! before hitting the ground he swings the hammer downwards toward a zombie crawling out of its hole.

BOOM! It was so strong that everyone close to the zombie. Players and zombies got blown back a couple of steps. The hit left a huge crater and the zombie that got hit became a puree at the middle.

Once he stands up he raised the hammer with one hand and celebrated like we won the war already! Everyone's morale became better and the players started roaring and some even did the Spartans war cry.

"AHOO! AHOO!".

That signaled the start of the clash. Everybody started picking the ones on the floor and started to group up. Commands from other leaders are now flowing better than before. Mages started casting AOE spells to start the bloodbath, Range class grouped up and started showering the hordes with arrows and bolts, Melee with shield started to make a wall to protect the mages and range players The "assassins and "thieves started going around the makeshift encirclement to kill zombies and insectoid inside of our area. 

I then started moving to join the fight when I noticed I'm not even equipped with any weapon. I don't even know what my character is so I quickly glanced on my character page. Oh great, I'm a mage class with "blessing" and "grab". fuck this is awesome! what the hell am I going to do here? I just started blessing people close to me, I then grabbed a zombie trying to attack a mage casting a spell. I'm doing everything that I can to last and enjoy this onslaught.

The war is becoming a spectacle. A werewolf jumped on top of the shield wall and tackled a group leader and started feasting on it. Mages cast lightning bolt to the werewolf and a melee player stabbing the werewolf in the back killed it. The commotion gave the Horde a chance to infiltrate the shield wall, once broken all hell breaks loose. magic bolts flying left and right, orcs and goblin beating players, a group of players overwhelming a dark elf. I guess this is what Armageddon in a fantasy world.

A couple of minutes have passed and there are only a few survivors left from both sides. You could still feel the bloodlust from all the players left trying to finish the fight brought to them, I looked around and saw the carnage left of the war. It's wonderful!

I looked around and the players cleaned up most of the monsters. If the one we killed are monsters the players left standing are demons that rule them. From a couple of million that joined the free trial, there are only at most 100 people left standing. A tall black guy that played a role of a priest standing at a mountain of corpse both players and monsters. A fat white mage playing a fireball and ice bolt one on each hand, A young girl that looks like a barbarian and an Arab male ninja leaning back to back just to support themselves. I noticed that Kael died in the skirmish but nothing any of us could do about it. I then started walking towards Shin and wondered how lucky I am to survive with these demons.

I should've just stayed quiet. 

A warhorn was blown from the north, everyone looked where it came from and saw an orc riding a monster bear. What rang in my head when I heard the horn is the voice of Morgan Freeman says.

"Reinforcement has arrived"

An ear shattering scream started coming from the west when suddenly hundreds of banshee and gargoyle came out of the forest and started diving towards the players. 

One gargoyle targeted me and before he snatched me with its claws the black mage cast a lightning bolt on the gargoyle that gave me a couple of second to counter it. I quickly activated my skill grab and slammed it to the ground, I stunned it and started punching it with my bare hands. I then heard the mage screaming, a gargoyle grabbed him and threw him in the air. Before he fell he got mutilated by the banshee before he hit the ground.

The ground started to tremble and heard roars from orcs riding bears and wolves, Round two won't be as good as the first round, Their cavalry unit started to kill all the players Luckily I dodged the one charging at me but I fell on the ground. I checked my status and saw that my HP won't withstand even a flick from this monsters. While lying down, I notice a small speck of dot above me getting bigger as time pass by.

I then saw the first dragon of the game. I tried grabbing a sword beside me when suddenly

System restriction: you are not allowed to switch weapons

Fuck me, really? Am I facing this dragon with my bare hands?

"Foreeeee" I heard my brother shouting when a head of a gargoyle dropped beside me. That was the last thing he did before getting killed by the orcs.

Wow, what a predicament, Orc cavalry surrounding me, Banshee and gargoyle flying all over. To top it all a fucking dragon just dropped beside me. No life, no mana, no weapon, and no allies. It's a good day to die. I grabbed a piece of cloth and started wrapping it around my hands. While doing this I saw the dragon come close to me, He doesn't look happy, does he. maybe I could talk him out of this situation.

"Yo lizard breath!  you want to turn around because this won't be good for you!"

The dragon roared in front of me, I became deaf in-game. I started to see flashbacks of my youth, How happy I was playing a game, First time I finished Contra or the moment I got Snorlax in Pokemon. Playing Ragnarok with my cousins and finishing Orc chieftain when I'm just level 50. I then started laughing maniacally, I looked around and noticed that I'm trapped in the middle of this sea of monsters. I then looked at the dragon and told him my last words.

"I'll be back"

I  started to charge towards the dragon and It did the same thing towards me, I lunged at the dragon and the last thing I saw is the inside of the mouth of the dragon.

"Snap!"

GAME OVER

Thank you for participating the trial period. Would you allow your video feed to be used as part of the Komunidad's advertisement? Compensation would be given to you if you accept the proposal 

I smiled and quickly gave my answer.

"Yes"