How I use the skill levels
Beginner > Intermediate > Advanced/expert > Master > Grandmaster
Level: 0.01-10.00 % > 10.01-20.00% > 20.01-30.00% > 30.01-40.00% > 40.01-50.00%.
Chapter 2 -HQ-
*Flash
As Xandit and Sanni were teleported, their vision became black.
And again after a few seconds, they saw tiny little crystals on the wall lighting up and illuminating the entire room.
"Where we are? "
It looked like a living room that hadn't been cleaned for a long time.
Sanni and Xandit started exploring, going around they found the kitchen and the bedroom. When they walked back to the living room, a bright sphere of light appeared in the room.
"Hello, I haven't seen people here in a long time. My name is Cliff. I'm the shopkeeper here. "
"Hello Cliff, we are Xandit and Sanni. Can you tell us where we are? "
"Sure, but first you’ve got to do something for me. "
"Dammit why is it always in games that you have to do something before you get something in return"
"What would you want us to?"
"I would like you to clean this place up."
*Ting
> Quote:Quest
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> Cleaning like it's your home.
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> Quest difficulty E
> Quest reward: unknown
“Fine, we will clean it up.”
Sanni and Xandit were looking around at where they could start cleaning. Then they noticed most of the stuff here was broken down or barely even usable.
The bed was so broken down that it had to be fixed; all the things were useless.
Then Sanni thought "Why don't we ask Cliff if we can fix the place as well?"
Sanni went to Xandit and said "We could ask Cliff if he wants us to repair all the stuff that's broken also."
"That's a good idea, let's go to Cliff and ask him."
They went to Cliff and asked.
"Cliff all the stuff here is broken down or not even usable. Can we not fix them?"
"Well, why don't we fix it to its former glory then? I will allow you to stay here, as it would be a very good base for your travels.”
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> Quote:Quest change.
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> Fixing the place to its former glory
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> Quest difficulty D
> Quest reward: Becoming the owners of the base, unknown, increase friendship with Cliff
"Sure, we want to return it to its former glory. But what do we need to do?”
"Well, I'll give you a map so you can see where you have to make the new rooms. I would like you to build a storage room, strategic room, combat room and alchemy/ blacksmithing/tailoring/crafting room."
*Ting
> Quote:You received items.
> Two pickaxes and one map.
“System show map.”
*Ting
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"Okay, what should we do first Sanni?"
"I think the best thing we could do, is to take all the furniture apart and place all the materials in one spot. Maybe we can re-use them later. Then we can mine out the rooms."
"Well, let's do that then."
Xandit and Sanni started to take things apart. It took them about six hours to take everything apart, and another two hours to place everything in one room.
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> Quote:You learned the skill Scavenger
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> Scavenger skill level 1.01%
> You can re-use 20% of the materials cost to build.
Now the hard part came. They would have to mine out all the rocks to make new rooms. It took them almost 3 weeks, but their hard work paid off. They got a lot of ores, gems and a lot of other stuff, but the best part was their strength, stamina and luck increased: Strength by 7, stamina by 200 and luck by 2.
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> Quote:You learned the skill Mining
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> Mining skill level 4.67%
> mining 30% faster
> When mining you get 20% more ore's, gems and other stuff
> +7 strength
> +200 stamina
> +2 luck
After three weeks, they looked at their stats and saw a nice increase.
"Finally, we're done mining Sanni. This the first time in my life that I worked this hard. Well, I got some nice stats so at least it was not a waste of time."
"Yeah, the stats will help us out later when we have to fight monsters. And we found some nice gems. We could probably sell them for some money. Maybe Cliff wants to buy them."
So they walked to Cliff’s Shop.
"Cliff"
"Yes?"
"We got some gems from the mining, would you like to buy them?"
"Hmmm.... How about you give me the gems and I’ll decorate the storage room, strategic room, combat room and Alchemy/blacksmithing/tailoring/crafting room. As the gems are probably worth 20K and the cost to decorate all those rooms is around 15K, and I myself cost 5K, I think that would be a nice deal."
"We've got a deal."
"Good then give me a few days to make everything."
[2 days later.(in-game)]
Cliff came to Xandit and Sanni and said "I'm done with the rooms."
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> Quote:Quest complete.
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> Quest reward: You have become the owner of the base.
> Friendship with Cliff increased.
> Showing player home levels
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> Level I storage: You the ability to teleport a small amounts of loot to the storage.
> level I kitchen: You can now make foods in your player home.
> level I combat room: Here you can train your skills on dummies.
> Level I bedroom: When having slept here you get a 10% stat bonus for 24 hours.
> Level I living room: Permanent increase for HP and MP by 3%.
> level I strategy room: Ability to teleport to part one of the dungeon.
> Level I ABTC room: Ability to craft all beginners stuff.
> Level I Shop Cliff: Being able to sell and buy beginners stuff.
"Now that you have access to the first dungeon, I suggest you make a weapon for yourself and go hunting. Also I would recommend you think long and hard about what kind of weapon you will make. As the weapon you'll make will be restricted to your sole use. And that counts for you both."
At that, Xandit and Sanni walked away and started thinking about the kind of weapon they wanted to have. As they walked away Xandit said to Sanni "We need to have a good combination of our weapons."
"I think we need somebody to do physical damage, block, and another to buff, heal and do a little bit of magic damage."
"Then I would like to take the physical damage weapon."
"You can do that as I would much rather heal and buff."
As their discussion of roles was concluded, Xandit walked to the bedroom and jumped on the bed. As he was thinking
'I need a weapon to attack, defend and counter, but for that I need a sword and a shield. But I can only make one thing that scales with my level. Then I need to make something that is both a shield and a sword at the same time. hmmmmm.....'
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He wanted to create some kind of prototype but for that he needed tailoring and blacksmithing skill so he went to Cliff to ask advice.
Sanni was also thinking about what kind of weapon she needed.
'What kind of weapon can heal, buff and do magic damage?'
After some thinking she came with idea to make a gauntlet with magical properties instead of the magic staff. In the same situation as Xandit she went to Cliff to ask for advice on how to make it.
Almost simultaneously Xandit and Sanni went to Cliff.
Once they were by Cliff he said, "Let me guess, you have an idea of what to make, but you don't know how to make it. Luckily for you guys, you have all the tools you need to make something. You also got the materials from mining the rooms, so you only need a teacher, and you guessed it, I will be your teacher. But I can only teach you the basics, as the ABTC roomis only level I."
"At least we got a teacher. We can always improve our works later."
"Well then, your first task will be to fix 10,000 swords and 3,000 clothes"
"WHAAAAAAAT....?!"
"Do you want to learn how to make your weapon or not?"
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> Quote:Quest
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> Endless fixing.
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> Quest difficulty: D
> Quest reward: depends on time spent fixing.
"Hmmmmm."
"How about I pay you depending on the quality of the swords and clothes you fixed."
"Fine, we will do it"
"All the weapons will have to be grinded on the grindstone. I will only show you once, so watch carefully!"
Xandit and Sanni were watching carefully how Cliff was sharpening the sword back to its original state, and improving it.
"Well, good luck guys. When you're done with the swords come to me, then I will show you how to fix clothes."
Xandit and Sanni started sharpening the swords and with a lot of trial and error they eventually got the hang of it. In the beginning it took them one hour to get 6 swords ready. After some time, 10 swords only took 15 minutes. After 16 days of hard work they were done.
*Ting
> Quote:You learned the skill Repair.
> Repair level 10.03%.
> Repairing goes 45% faster and will increase stats of the item your repairing.
> +3 strength
> +2 dexterity
> +300 stamina
> +1 intelligence
"Pfffff.... We are done, let's take a break."
But at that moment Cliff walked in and said, "Good work, now you can repair the clothes. I don't think I have to show how to fix clothes, rights?"
"No, that you don't have to tell us since it’s something easy."
"Well then, get started!"
At that Xandit thought, "I'm going to KILL him"
*Ting
> Quote:You learned the passive skill Killing Intent
> Killing Intent level 0.20%
> killing intent will lower the enemy's defense by 2.5%
> faints will work 10% better
This time they got through it in 2 days.
*Ting
> Quote:You learned the skill Handicraft.
> Handicraft level 3.96%
> Increased attack power with melee and long ranged weapons by 3%
"AND NOW I'm taking a break."
As Xandit walked to the bedroom he walked past Cliff and said, "We are done but I'm going to sleep. Will speak to you tomorrow."
So, Cliff went to Sanni, "I hear you were done."
"That's correct, but we are taking a short break. After that, we will come to you for further instructions."
"Ok....."
After eight hours of rest, Xandit and Sanni went to Cliff.
"Cliff, we are done with the tasks"
"Well, you know..... I said.... I would pay you, depending on the quality of the work, but at the moment I don't have any money. So, how about I will give you special high grade materials? With those materials, you can create a weapon that scales with your level is that okay?"
"But we'll need enough for both me and Sanni."
"I have enough for the both of you."
"Good, then we accept."
*Ting
> Quote:Quest complete
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> Endless fixing.
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> Quest reward: you got the skill to learn tailoring and blacksmithing.
> Cliff will show you how to make your weapons.
> You also received special materials.
> Friendship with Cliff increased.
"Well, then I will show you how to craft the special materials. Follow me."
As Cliff walked to the blacksmith room, he said a magic chant. After a few seconds a magical glow appeared around him, when he took the hammer from the anvil the hammer also got a magical glow.
"As you might have noticed, I used a magic chant. Anyone can say the chant but it won't work if you have not learnt the magical art of Aoxtz. Aoxtz is one of the most difficult magical arts in the world. It doesn't only use MP, it also uses HP, STA and AX. AX is a skill you can receive from someone that can already use it by infusing the person with his or her own AX. I learned this skill years ago and I've only unlocked a small part. I can go on about this all day, but I will leave that for another time. We will now focus on making your weapons. As you need Aoxtz I will infuse with 1 AX, and then you will then have to master the rest on your own."
Cliff used a magic chant and even before Xandit and Sanni could even respond, a magical glow appeared around Xandit and Sanni, but it disappeared after 10 seconds and they lost 300HP 290MP and 240STA, but gained 2 AX.
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> Quote:You learned the skill Aoxtz
> Aoxtz level 0.01%
> AX 2/2
"I suggest you heal up and rest for 2 to 3 hours to let AX connect with your body, so don't use any skill or strength - just rest. Also, what’s very important is the fact that, if you close your eyes you will notice you can see and sense things around you. Don't focus on it, just ignore it, because that is all AX. As your body is adjusting to your own AX, you will be easily influenced by outside AX, which could destroy your body."
Xandit and Sanni walked to the bedroom. After every step it became harder to walk, and they started to get dizzy. Once in the bedroom, they collapsed on the bed and they were forcefully logged out.
A message appeared and a time was shown 6:00:00 ---> 5:59:59; it was a countdown for when they could login again.
Shara and Andre closed Royal Road and returned to the white empty void.
"Andre, I'm going to go outside and get something to eat. After that I'm going to bed, but I will come back as soon as possible."
"Okay, see you tomorrow."
-END- V1CH2
Question: if you guys/girls want a side-story about Andre's time in the white empty void I will write it as ATM it is not my focus. I'm focusing on the Royal Road Story. Leave it in the comments.