Natures Attendant (Class)
The alchemist of life. An enigma who shepherds all living organisms.
To an extent, the alchemist of life can bend nature to his will. He is both the protector and the champion of the forest.
One of the blessed few emissaries of the Deity Makiling.
Affinity to Nature: Epic
Skill (A): Natures Embrace (U)
The Natures Attendant calls forth the power of nature to summon vines from the earth. The vines grow virulently, entrapping helpless foes in a tangle of thorns. The targets movement is restricted for five (5) seconds and adds physical damage (1% of targets HP) with its thorns. Cooldown is 60 seconds. Mana Requirement: 10
Skill (A): Call of Nature (EX U)
The Natures Attendant invokes the aid of the tree spirits-- The Kodama’s.
The summoned Kodama will fight, protect and do all biddings according to the will of the ‘Attendant’. The summons will expire once its life (HP) is spent or when the ‘Attendant’ elects for its return to the Spirit World. Current number of summons: 2 Mana Requirement: 25 (per Kodama)
The decision came to him as naturally as breathing.
When the first Mulawin tree was finally freed from corruption, Makiling’s Golden Dragonfly form once again have spoken.
Fallen debris was still everywhere and the dust hasn’t even settled yet. However, that didn’t stop the deity from presenting a once in a lifetime offer.
She was thanking me for saving her ‘child’ and at the same time laying out a reward for me.
She spoke to Seitan about a choice.
A choice that would forever change his life in Cefiro.
Everything happened like a blur but he was excited.
Hearing the name ‘Natures Attendant’ for the very first time, Seitan didn’t have a squat clue as to what the jargon entailed.
‘But fuck YES! Sign me up!!’
That was all he had to say for a reply.
He naturally said ‘yes’ because he was going to accept any job anyway.
Mage, warrior, healer and even sculptor. It didn’t matter.
This offer just saved him so much time looking for a Master somewhere in town, doing god knows what quest and finally landing a job class after.
‘And where is ‘town’ anyway?!’
This job class offer just landed into his lap without even discerning.
Plus… it was free!!!
He heard through the online community vine that the Humans would have to pay a commission to study under a master and get initiated for a job class.
Gold was involved since it was the normal route of obtaining apprenticeship.
By how much? He didn’t know.
'University all over again?'
'No thank you.'
With Seitan, he didn’t have to spend a dime.
His was a special case.
‘Does this mean that I have secured a hidden job class?’
He felt prideful just with the thought of it.
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Seitan was not sure but still.
His goal was to just earn gold while having fun. Any job can do that. Even artisans can.
But this?
‘Maybe celebrating amongst the children in the Orphanage during my last 8 birthdays must have rebounded a good karma huh?’
Maybe? Maybe not.
What was important now was that he got the job class.
A well deserved one to be quite frank.
Battling the Cattleya Viper and then the corrupted Mulawin tree, should at least earn him something tantamount to the efforts he exerted.
‘Awesome!’
He just finished reading the description of his new found class.
Seitan was more than excited to try the fresh skills out.
Eyes closed, he peeked into the tutorial for the new skill.
His eyes were rapidly moving under his eyelids.
Few seconds shortly, he learned the truth about the skill.
'So it says to go like this'
Two hands performing seven different symbols separately under 3 seconds or less.
Suddenly, there were circlets of green light in front of his hands.
Enclosed in the middle of the green circlet was a hexagram.
Floating rotating runes were seen navigating around the edges of the circlet as well.
It was like a clockwork.
The spell was an eye candy.
The 14 part 'mudra' was shortened by executing the parts of 7x7 levels separately by utilizing both hands.
Almost like an instantaneous casting.
'Oh. I didn’t know I can execute it this way.'
He was comparing it with his hand signs with alchemy.
As the green circlet of magic glowed more, eight thorny whips jutted out of the coarse earth with amazing speed.
It entangled the unsuspecting Hellwolf Seitan was targeting on.
Arfghheukkk!!
The creature yelped while being embraced by the vines of countless thorns.
'Wait a minute... My lifesteal is also activating?'
So while the target was immobile, Seitan would also be able to drain its life!
Life drain was not in the skill description so this is an added value.
He confirmed it just now.
It was activated because it was his passive. He touched the enemy through the vines thus activating the passive skill.
The lifesteal may be miniscule but it will help a lot during difficult battles once he ran out of potion for healing.
A long ranged life steal!
'Am I cheating?'
Five seconds was almost over.
The effect of Natures Embrace will expire right about a second.
And so, he called forth Bumble-Rumble out of thin air.
He ended its suffering swiftly.
'Two swings huh.'
Seitan noticed he got stronger after that level up.
The added stats given by the character was certainly useful.
His gains were noticeable with every swing.
So far, he was satisfied with Natures Embrace. It will be proven useful in many battles ahead.
He checked the second skill.
Call of Nature.
The skill looked very promising.
It would allow him to call forth the Kodamas to aid him in a fight.
He already saw the little summons just a few hours ago before logging out.
He first saw them when Makiling offered him the job class.
And these little ones are as tall as him. They were only half a foot shorter.
‘Status Window’
Apparently, the Kodama’s has their own status window.
He found out about this when he examined them earlier.
They each have their own individual names and can even equip weapons.
How cool was that?
Their entire body was clad in black.
There was a sort of a black mist that thinly coated the Kodamas body making them appear like animated smoke as they move.
Teemo and Keemo
The twin Kodama’s assigned to safeguard the Mulawin tree ‘Luntian’. They are expert swordsouls adept in handling any long swords, short, blunts and daggers. They are quick on their feet and are very loyal. They would offer their lives if needed be.
‘So the tree that I saved also had a name?’
‘Interesting!’
‘So these twins can actually wield daggers. The Viper Fangs should suit them. The equipment will not be for naught.’
At first, he was unable to summon the twins together.
The required mana was twenty five per summon. Seitan’s entire mana pool at level 23 was only twenty-three as well.
Not even close to summoning just one Kodama, let alone two.
Due to this shortage, he was forced to use all of his accumulated distributable points and fed it all to wisdom.
All 21 points!
It was the moment of no return.
He didn’t even blinked while distributing it. He will just deal about the repercussion later.
Thanks to this, the combined mana point climbed to 44.
He was still short of 6 points, thus, he can only summon just one still.
It was a good thing that he managed to acquire accessories that had a wisdom stat option in them.
Ring of the Bumble(N). A drop he obtained from the Bumble-Spider. It gave him +2 on wisdom.
Cattleya’s Vine Ring(N). A ring that was a product of alchemizing the moon flowers of cattleya. This ring gave him +3 on wisdom.
Lastly, was his Red Aurora Necklace(N)that gave him +2 more on wisdom.
He was scraping mana and barely meeting the quota.
A downside of a race built for melee at the very start of the game.
‘I’m still okay’
There were ways to overcome this dilemma. He just need to find them sooner.
Seitan was very optimistic of the future. He was optimistic about overcoming his weaknesses.
Teemo and Keemo were both looking at him with intense eyes. They both have flaring yellow eyes. It was somehow eerie but quite mesmerizing if you look deep into them for long.
‘They must have been waiting for me to give them a command or something’
Seitan was thinking along the lines of having the twins dance. Dancing would be the shortest way to test their locomotor skills and overall body coordination.
“Teemo! Keemo!”
The twins perked up upon hearing their names.
“How do you guys feel about ----
MACARENA???!!!"
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