Okay okay, breath that thing maybe huge but you know the saying, the bigger they are…the more likely they are to crush you without even noticing?
Wait has it noticed me? Or is running a option?
Well let's try moving very carefully away from the humongous beetle...very carefully crawl away.
“Eeep” there's another ten… And another they are eating the trees… They have left, are leaving, an uprooted uneven mess of a field where a large forest once was. Huh scary, what the hell is this, the game never had any creatures this size except raid bosses, and never a herd of the buggers.
What did the god do. Is this a raid boss creature creating a natural habitat? A self made event? A bug…I mean error on her/his/it's part. Am I insane? Or did I simply forget a bit of lore stuff that the player never saw or something?
*Screeee*
Oh great ones spotted me…uh let's think how can I defeat it, or escape. Big creatures could be taken down with a strong wire being flown around the legs wrapping them up a few times Star Wars style…but I haven’t got a ship or any wire that strong…though magic might work I doubt a level 1s string will hold… maybe try bug spray…a county wide gassing of the stuff…I'm screwed.
Wait those marks that, no they can't really be, ok it getting close its now or never do I try running or do I try to fight… Well better to test a stupid idea and fail than, run in a deadly forest were colossus beetles are likely going to terrify all life into a likely rampage through your home if you can stop there harvest…great why did I have to think of even more consequences for running than simply the whole forest unsafe thing.
*Gulp* so here goes nothing [Fireball].
Firing a small puny flaming ball into the creatures mouth I hope I'm right, sure I. Could try rapid fire and over fill it and I would if my idea was proven unfounded but if my belief is right one to the mouth should if all gods errors be praised it will..
[Congratulations you have slain Sap Beetle. Gaining 1xp]
It worked the stupid creature still even scaled completely wrong and probably levelled as fuck still has its 1hp 1xp silly-nous.
[Congratulations you have accomplished slaying your first monster greater than twice a adult humans size. You have obtained your first accomplishment “Giant slayer” and 100 xp.]
Well there goes my none level strategy.
[ congratulations for obtaining your first accomplishment you have also gained another 100xp]
Woo, I guess I may as well be happy for what I get levelling shouldn't be seen as a bad thing ever stupid idea to try skill jumping first just to help my training be easier hehe.
[congratulations on slaying a creature greater than 5X the average humans size. You have obtained a heroic achievement “Gargantuan slayer” and 200xp]
Oh right there are more of them, since it was more than ten times my size hehe.
[congratulations on obtaining your first heroic achievement, for this you shall also receive 250xp]
Well only 12 more and I will have completed the first of the three objectives needed to upgrade to a heroic class hehe it would be funny if I ended up a hero before I took an advance class hehe.
[congratulations on slaying a creature greater than 10X the average adult humans size. You have obtained the heroic achievement “Titan Slayer” and 500xp]
And that should do it.
[congratulations on defeating an Dangerous enemy greater than twice your level. You have gained the accomplishment of a “Dare Devil” and 100xp]
Oh yeah hehe I do like how they added the need for it to be skull level difficulty or “Dangerous” to get any achievements/accomplishments…hehe though when the creature only had 1hp what's really the challenge in its level hehe this probably should have been sold in beta as problems go…
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[congratulations on defeating a dangerous enemy greater than 5X your level. You have gained the heroic achievement of “lucky cannon fodder” and 250xp]
Well I guess that's true.
[congratulations on defeating a dangerous enemy greater than 10X your level. You have gained the heroic achievement of “suicidal maniac” and 500xp]
[congratulations on defeating a Dangerous enemy greater than 25X your level. You have performed a grand deed and achieved the title of “ Grand Underdog” may it serve to tell everyone to stay away from you in the future…it's too risky near you. You also received 1000xp]
OMG that was a grand deed…well guess I have completed an objective here to reaching a heroic class hehe…
[congratulations on completing your first grand deed for doing so you have also obtained a bonus 1000xp]
Whelp now I just need to survive the rest of these Titan beetles and I will happily be the mostly likely bearer of the title strongest of my age group hehe…
So in total I have obtained in that one attack 4001xp or 6 level ups and 1351/1500 till the next level up.
So as a semi-trained level 7 fireball thrower in a manner I could say this was one decent visit to the forest but since I hadn't actually wanted to level up for a while it was massive failure huh ah well I'm stronger that's what matters. Now to make sure I'm not crushed to death by seemingly level 26 bugs… So that means… I look on at the once dumpy but mostly healthy field and observe as the corpses poison blood gushes out by the gallons to decimate the landscape…oh dear and that's from just one of them dying… If I'm not careful I'm going to achieve the grand yet evil deed of wasteland creator.
Um maybe I should pray to God to fix the scaling problem on these things...it's worth a shot…
“Oh great God who likes games won't you please help me, I believe you have used the wrong scale for the sap beetles…please grant them a miracle of rescaling…any second now…no take your time I'm just likely going to leave a poison swamp where once there was a nice healthy dark forest of mid level monsters…please save my bacon…”
Well it was worth a shot what other plans you got genius.
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Sorry it's taken so long for an update I bought two dragon quest games and then my brother bought witcher 3 so I've kinda been wondering the world of fantasy without a care for RL or this. Sorry. I know I did this with my last piece of work as well get to a fight and stop…hehe but I will try and get this moving again… The same with RL really.
And yes I know I should update every one of the statuses to be in little boxes but I got too carried away with that in my last story I stopped keeping any flow in my writing while making them and I too lazy in my editing. Or everything would end up engrish rather than English.
For anyone wants to know the level up costs are as follows
2.50
3.100
4.250
5.500
6.750
7.1000
8.1500
9.2000
10.2500
Without a class
11.5000
12.7500
13.10000
14.15000
15.20000
16.25000
17.50000
18.75000
19.100000
20.150000
Without advance class or a class.
21.200000
Etc.
Of course some classes will make levelling up quicker and others slower. With some having quick starts and higher highs and some the opposite.