“I leveled without even recognizing. Let’s see what the difference is”
“Show status”
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Status WindowName:Sky BrightcloudAlignment:GoodLevel:2Class:NoneRace:HumanGender:MaleFame:0Rank:CommonerMerit:101Evil:0Health:20Mana:10Stamina:10Soul:100Strenght:2Dexterity:1Intelligence:1
“But there is no difference, my strength increased by punching the very first Boing and it seems my health is also increased but other than that there is no visible improvement.”
He keeps talking to himself but because of pride he can’t just log off and read the manual. Walking along the path to the south ignoring the guards and other NPC’s around he finds a huge wooden structure with pretty big sign on it.
“House of Swordsman’s”
“Yes, this is what I was looking for”
He checks inside the building sees no one around just vast amount of empty space made of wooden board like a dojo. He walks inside with careful steps.
“It’s too silent as if building is haunted”
On the wall there are some kinds of figures of human holding a sword with two hands. Following the figures around, he realizes that there are more than 80 different postures each holding sword in a different way. One grasping the sword on top of his heart, the other one over his head, one at rear opposite from opponent as if hiding the sword and one pointing the floor and so on. He decides to copy posture of one of the figures.
Takes his novice sword out and holding it with both of his hands in the same level with his waist prolonging his arms a bit further leaving a bit space between his hands and his waist.
“I think it is something like this”
Swordsmanship increased by %5”
A man comes walking into the dojo:
“Nice try young man, but you are doing it a bit wrong. I am Huxen, Master of this House of Swordsman’s, Council member of Knight’s Training Academy”
“Hello, I am Sky, Sky Brightcloud”
“What you trying to copy is Chudan no Kamae, one of the postures of Kendo. But you should point sword to opponent's throat, face or left eye. That will give you effect of an invisible weapon, since the opponent cannot see any part of the blade except for the very tip. Quick come here let me show you”
Following Master Huxen to the mid of the huge room, he keeps measuring this old man and try to understand his position.
Lord Master Huxen lv??
Huxen has pretty thin body and swift movements. It is hard to see between his steps, as if he is 2D character or lagging within the game. One step ahead and he stops for a moment, sudden blur and he is standing 1 metres ahead. Not bothering with this phenomenon Sky arrives to the middle of the room with the Master Huxen.
“Now, take your posture let me correct” tells Huxen. He talks in a soft tone but his voice makes Sky’s heart tremble. Sky takes the posture again and waits for instruction.
“Now think you are against your opponent, Think I am your opponent and point your sword against my eyes or throat. Just let me see tip of your sword nothing else. Adjust your arms depending on my size and yours. ”
With a few try, Sky gets a better posture at that moment a brief of smile can be seen on the face of Huxen.
“It seems better now.”
Swordsmanship increased by %20
“Now try to slash, taking a step forward with your right foot, but don’t move your left”
Sky tries to slash a few times as Master Huxen is described.
“Stronger” , Sky said to himself
Strenght increased by 2
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He gets exited with this sudden improvement.
“Faster”, Sky said to himself
Dexterity increased by 2
Swordsmanship increased by %5
Swordsmanship Rank UP!
Skill “Cutting Strike learned”
“What? Stats? New skill? At last, I am getting stronger. I need to learn more about One online, but NPC’s have bad temper, I should ask at most 2 questions.”, Sky says inwardly.
“Master can I ask a question”
“Go on”, Huxen says.
“I just felt my Swordsmanship increased, how can I check my current progress?”
“If you have followed Path of Warrior before, you would know all about this and would had Book of Combat Arts. Progress and Skills are written into Books of Legacy which are Divine Artifacts. There are different of Books like Book of Combat Arts, Book of Magery, Book of Necromancy, Book of Crafts , Books of Animal and so on”
Huxen puts his hand inside his pocket and looks for something. A few minutes later he takes out a brown colored book. “Take this and break the seal, you will see your progress”
Sky takes the book and breaks the red wax seal.
Book of Combat Arts Type:BookDurability:IndestructibleQuality:DevineBook of arts records one’s legacy
Inside book there is index, Swordsmanship written on with a sword symbol and Wrestling written below it with a hand symbol. He clicks on the sword icon to see if anything is going to happen.
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*Example of Book from Ultima Online*
Swordmanship:RankBeginnerProgress%30.1Effect:Increases proficiency with sword.
Increases accuracy.
Increases damage.
Cutting Strike:Requirement[/tds][td2]Beginner SwordsmanEffect:%20 increased Critical chance
%20 more Damage
Effect improves with manaUses:%20 of mana
Sky goes back to index of the book and checks wrestling this time.
Wrestling:RankNoneProgress%26.7Effect:Increases proficiency with unarmed combat.
Increases accuracy.
Increases damage.
“Thanks Master, Can you tell me more about stats” and bows to Master Huxen showing his gratitude.
“I will just tell this, your limits with stats will increase along with your level. Keep practicing. Go for now, polish your swordsmanship skills, come back if you stuck at any bottleneck”
Sky bows again, not to anger this NPC which taught him a lot. He leaves to dojo to finds his next quests and tries his new sword skills on monsters. While walking as quickly as possible to southeast gate of Kyrin, a young guard stops him and shouts;
“Commoners are not allowed in this part of city, use other road and round around this region to reach the gate”
“Hi, I just wanted to reach the gate as quickly as possible and try my new skills”
“Go other way; if you don’t leave I will use force”
“But I am a player, you are just an NPC”
“Know your place commoner; rank below Knight cannot enter this region”
Sky nods and remembers the Rank in his Status, “Maybe there are different ranks in this game” he says to himself and leaves the place choosing longer route.