Smiling happily to himself, Plat practiced using the Breeze spell for a few more minutes. Shelly had summoned some fan targets at his request to practice on, and he had managed to get a 85% hit rate when he decided that was enough. Turning to Shelly, he said, "I'm ready to continue to tutorial."
Shelly nodded at him, and another screen appeared in front of him:
Tutorial Part 3Choose a weapon and prepare for battle
A table holding different weapons appeared in beside Plat and Shelly. It held every weapon known and recorded in the system, Plat could see various staves, swords, shields, pole-arms, daggers, and other more exotic weapons. Looking over the choices, he picked out a Roman gladius and Centurion shield. Rather simple in design, Plat figured he start out simple in order to practice.
Once he had his weapons of choice, the table and Shelly both disappeared, leaving Plat alone in the grassland. He looked around for some enemies, but nothing moved except the grass. Suddenly, he felt pain in his left leg and looked down. A rat, much larger than in real life, was biting his leg!
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Plat saw the damage start to rise above his leg. He instantly slice down with his gladius and hit the rat on the head.
-6, Critical hit confirmed
The rat squealed and fell off his leg, running back into the grass.
Plat focused his senses, trying to locate the enemies in the grass. His ears picked up the sound of the wind, the rustle of the grass, and the sound of his own breathing, but not the rat.
Narrowing his eyes, Plat took a closer look at his leg. His age allowed the Kid View to be off, so the injury on his leg looked like a bite wound. His eyes followed the blood trail into the grass.
Another pain came, this time from his right arm. He whirled around, but the rat had already disappeared back into the grass.
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Minor Bleed StatusYour wounds are bleeding. You will lose -1 health every 5 seconds until you stop it.
Scared, Plat grabbed some grass and covered his leg and arm. The status immediately disappeared.
"Wait, how much health do I have?" Plat wondered out loud. He hadn't been given a status menu to look at yet, so he had no idea what his overall stats were.
A notification popped up in front of him, answering his question.
NoticeFor this simulation, you have been given 15 hp. You have 6/15 hp remaining.
Sweat beading down his head, Plat stared at the message. He had already lost more than half his hp!
Swearing loudly, he swung his arm backwards to hit the message.
"Squeak!"
His shield arm, which had moved violently backwards, had hit the rat head on and knocked it into the air. Plat heard the thud it made when it hit the ground.
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Dazed StatusYou have inflicted daze on an opponent. It will be stunned for 3 seconds.
Plat immediate ran toward where he had heard the rat fall. He did not have much time and he wanted to kill the cursed thing before it got back up and hid again.
He saw the dazed rat lying on it's side and, running toward it, leaped into the air with his gladius high above him. He brought it down with his full force in the sword onto the rat's body.
-10 Critical Hit
The rat disappeared with a dying squeak, disappearing from the ground. The grassland around him disappeared in an instant, leaving him back in the original blue-white room. He heard a loud clapping behind him, and turned to see Shelly beaming at him with excitement.
The standard blue notice box appeared before him again:
Quest CompleteFor your actions, you have earned +10 vitality and endurance.
Hidden Quest CompleteFor being able to kill your opponent in a surprising way when the situation was against you, you have earned a hidden bonus to start your adventure. You have gained +10 luck and a hidden skill!
Skill Name:Skill Rank:Skill Level:Skill Experience:InstinctSF1%Is it luck or is it your inner animal? Regardless, you sometimes have the uncanny feeling that tells you where danger is. Dependent on you luck, the more this skill grows, the more actively passive this skill becomes.