The rank she had been assigned was Princess? Were her parents actually royalty from Eldria? Aurelia didn’t believe that her parents had no clue about Eldria. From the information provided by the system, only people from Eldria could travel here, and she had. Which meant either she was born here in Eldria and then went to Earth, or her parents were from Eldria.
Aurelia was okay with the stat sheet portion of the tutorial, she had a good understanding of what it was and how to use it. If she wanted levels and classes, she would need to go on to the next portion of the tutorial. Aurelia stood up from her sitting position in the meadow’s grass. She gazed over at the village below the hill, wanting to head over there and find someplace to rest. Resolving to finish the tutorial before trying to head to the village, she pulled up a prompt asking her if she wanted to continue the tutorial.
“Yes, continue.”
A bright blue light flashed in her vision, and Aurelia cried out, closing her eyes. She could feel pressure all around her, making her chest tight and causing her to feel out of breath. Then, as suddenly as it had appeared, the light and pressure disappeared. Aurelia opened her eyes and found herself no longer in the meadow.
“What the…?”
Aurelia stared all around her, finding herself in a dimly lit cave. The cave she was standing in was small, maybe the size of her bedroom back on Earth. The gray rock walls were covered in white and blue crystal, which glowed slightly and provided meager light for the room. The cave was enclosed except for a stone door that stood in the wall right in front of her. Aurelia was wondering where she was, when a new system prompt came into her vision.
Congratulations, User [Aurelia]
For being the first person to discover this new dungeon, you have been awarded 10,000 experience! You have been awarded three skill points! You have been awarded a [Platinum Chest]!
Level One reached!
You have received 10 free stat points
Class selection unlocked
User [Aurelia] must select a class to use remaining experience to level up
Would you like to choose a class now?
After she finished reading the message she heard a thump sound and she saw a platinum covered treasure chest had appeared right in front of her. The sight of the chest surprised her, but she couldn’t help but still gape at the message in front of her, she was in a dungeon? She looked around once more at the cave. The door in front of her seemed a bit more imposing. On the other side might be actual creatures and monsters. She shifted uncomfortably in place, more worried than she had been in the meadow. She no longer had a village in sight to run towards in case something went wrong. Aurelia was definitely alone here, the system message even said she was the first person to discover this dungeon.
She knew from games she had played in the past, that dungeons were meant for players to beat monsters, traps, and puzzles to gain levels and loot. Since the last part of the tutorial was meant to teach her how to fight, Aurelia guessed she was getting a trial by fire lesson. What better way to learn how to fight than to have beasts trying to eat you? To be honest with herself, the thought of doing traps and puzzles seemed scarier to her. Fighting something you could see right in front of you was one thing, but not being able to detect a trap could make you dead before you even knew what had killed you.
Since she wanted to have an idea of what kind of class she could get before worrying about more skills, she decided to progress with that first. “What are my class options?” Aurelia asked aloud.
Choosing a Class:
Cook: Common
A class for preparing, cooking, and baking food. Will give two stat points in agility, two stat points in perception, two stat points in intelligence and four free points per level reached.
Soldier: Uncommon
A class offered to all Users with the authority rank of Knight or higher. Gives skills related to fighting in a number of different styles. Will give two stat points in strength, two stat points in vitality, two stat points in Endurance, and nine free stat points per level.
Healer: Uncommon
A basic magic healer class based around healing and revitalization. Requires knowledge of healing, an affinity for magic, and a rank authority of Knight or higher. Will give three stat points in intelligence, three stat points in wisdom, three stat points in perception, and six free stat points per level.
Scholar: Uncommon
An academic class for those searching for new knowledge to preserve and share. Will give four stat points in intelligence, four stat points in wisdom, two stat points in perception, and five free stat points per level.
Mage: Uncommon
A class for Users with an affinity for using magic and a rank authority of Knight or higher. Will give four stat points in intelligence, four stat points in wisdom, one stat point in agility, one stat point in perception, and five free stat points per level.
Noble: Rare
A class offered for all Users with the rank of Lord or higher, allowing them to possess territory and gain skills in leading and management. Will give four stat points in intelligence, four stat points in wisdom, five stat points in charisma, and seven free stat points per level.
Spatial Mage: Legendary
A mage class giving skills in spatial magic and spells. Offered to Users with the affinity for spatial magic and a rank authority of Lord or higher. Will give five stat points in intelligence, five stat points in wisdom, four stat points in vitality, four stat points in agility, three stat points in perception, and nine free stat points per level.
As Aurelia started reading through the classes, she was first a little disappointed. She expected more variety in the types of classes she would be offered, but then she read the last class description. A spatial mage? That’s when she remembered what blondie had said about some orb of space. He had indicated that it had something to do with her. She wasn’t exactly sure what, but perhaps whatever it was, it had given her the chance she needed to get offered this class.
It was interesting to see the classes offered. It seemed she needed some sort of affinity or prior skill in order to get offered a class. Without her high rank of authority as a princess, she probably wouldn’t have any classes like the noble class. She guessed without having any skills in a bow she wouldn’t get an archer or hunter class, or without skill in any other weapon her only options were what she was offered because of her rank.
The rarity of classes also gave her a clue into what might be a better class. Classes with more requirements may also give better skills and stats. Common classes gave only ten stat points, which is the same amount Aurelia received when she hit level one. The uncommon and rare class had five extra stat points between each rarity. With the ten point difference between rare and legendary, she guessed there was another rarity in between the two. Aurelia thought that she probably needed to ask more questions about classes from the system, but she knew what she would pick anyway. She chose the Spatial Mage class.
Congratulations User [Aurelia], you now have the [Spatial Mage] class. You have been given one free skill point.
Level Two reached!
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Level Three reached!
Level Four reached!
Stat points allocated, you have 27 free stat points.
You have been given two free skill points.
Aurelia felt a surge of energy in her body as the stats she had just received came into effect. She could feel stronger, healthier, and her mind felt energized. She took a few moments to appreciate the feeling of leveling up, and smiled. A thrill of excitement rushed through Aurelia, and she realized the idea of progressing in levels, skills, and stats made her feel motivated and determined. She wanted to see what would happen next, and decided before actually starting the dungeon, she would need to use up her skill points and stat points. She decided to start with her skill points, as for the moment she had no real way of defending herself.
Aurelia pulled up her stat page and found it updated from when she had last looked at it. She first looked at her new class and found that it gave a more descriptive summary of the class. She read what it said aloud, “The Spatial Mage class is a specialized class based around the space affinity. Normally offered to draconic races specialized in spatial magic, few other races are given the opportunity to take this class. It offers magical attacks, spatial manipulation skills, and spatial utility skills. Upgradeable.”
She paused, noting that the class was both normally taken by dragon races and the fact it was upgradeable. Those facts made this class seem even more impressive, and she felt a little worried about what the other races of the world would think that someone like her had this class.
Aurelia then looked at the skills now offered to her. She had five free skill points to spend and a variety of skills to choose over. It seemed she had around ten skills to choose from and was overwhelmed by the options. There seemed to be some basic mage attack spells, like magic bolts, fireballs, and ice daggers. She also saw some stronger attacks that seemed specific to the Spatial Mage class like a spell that creates a wide area slashing attack. Some other skills included a defensive shield, a tracking spell, and a couple utility skills.
At least the three extra skill points given from finding the dungeon made the choices a bit easier. Aurelia looked through the list again and read each of the descriptions, and decided on the six skills she would get.
Spatial Mage Skills: Novice
Basic Magic Bolt:
Send a long range magic mana bolt from the palm or a wand that deals moderate magical damage. Cost: 5 mana
Spatial Slash:
Create a long range spatial attack through a chopping motion with the hand or a weapon which creates a wide area blade-like attack that deals high magical and physical damage. Cost: 20 mana.
Basic Mana Shield:
Create a spherical shield of mana which disappears after activation around the wielder to absorb high physical or moderate magical damage. Lasts for one high damage physical attack or three moderate magical damage attacks. Cost: 50 mana.
Identify:
Use skill to scan for stat information about monsters and Users. At lower levels can only scan for race, level, and rank. Cost: none.
Spatial Teleportation:
When activated, it will teleport User up to 30 meters from the point of activation. Cost: 20 mana.
Spatial Storage:
Will allow the user to have a separate dimensional space to store anything they can physically carry, excluding living beings. The storage can be accessed through system prompts and will allow the User to view everything in the storage. Cost: none.
Aurelia felt she needed some variety, having offensive and defensive spells. She felt like the identify skill would be vital for her, as she did not grow up here and would need more help understanding the creatures and people around her. She didn’t want to walk into a situation where she had no chance of survival. The spatial storage skill also seemed like it would be useful no matter what. She expected to be getting some sort of loot, and not having to actually carry everything on her person would be extremely helpful. Also, teleportation? That just seemed amazing to her. Aurelia got a prompt asking her to confirm her choice, and she chose yes.
Similarly to the first time she had gotten skills, a flood of information came into her mind. This time all the information she received was new knowledge, and she waited for the brief pain to pass. As soon as she felt the resulting skills settle into her mind, she used some of her mana to teleport across the room.
“Woah!” she yelped, surprised by the pressure of the teleport and the feeling of an instant change in her point of view. She tried the skill a few more times until she felt more comfortable with it. Looking at her mana, she noticed how it had gone down until she was at only a hundred mana left. If she was going to be in the dungeon for an extended period of time, Aurelia knew she would need more mana. All of her skills relied on it, so it was important that she had as much mana as possible. So, she decided to put twenty five of her free points into intelligence and two into wisdom. She then had the ten points from when she hit level one, and decided to put five into vitality and five into agility.
After waiting for the increase in her mana to settle, Aurelia nodded at her updated stat sheet, satisfied. She now was at over 500 mana and now had new skills that would help her in the dungeon. She just had one more thing to do. Loot!
Aurelia teleported in front of the platinum chest, and decided to ask the system about the chest.
History cont:
Rewards given by the system may include loot chests. The rarity of the chests are graded by the material of the chest. These rarities include Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Ruby, and Diamond chests. Loot may include money, weapons, armor, artifacts, or other such items.
So the chest Aurelia had gotten for discovering a new dungeon was one of the best chest rewards she could have gotten. She hoped this chest would give her something really useful to use in the dungeon. Armor could be very useful, though she did have that shield. A weapon would also be helpful, as she only had two offensive spells at the moment. Aurelia couldn’t wait anymore and opened the platinum chest.
Inside, she found that she had been rewarded with more than one thing. She first pulled out three brown leather pouches and could hear the clink of coins in each. The first pouch was the smallest of the three and held ten gold coins. The second held silver coins, and though she couldn’t properly count this one it was a lot more than the ten previously. The last pouch held copper coins, definitely more than the amount of silver coins. Aurelia decided to just put them in her new storage power and activated the skill for the first time. The three pouches vanished and a new screen popped into her vision. She could see a fifteen by fifteen grid with each pouch taking up its own square. Observing the square with the silver coins, she could see that it showed she had 200 silver coins. She looked at the copper coin pouch and could see that she had 500 copper coins.
“Nice! What’s next?”
Aurelia dismissed the screen holding the boxes and looked back into the chest. The next item she pulled out was a leather flask. Inside she found what looked and smelled like water. She decided to take a sip to make sure. Yup, it was water. She wished she had a skill that could identify items, her identify skill only worked on living things, so she wouldn’t be able to use the skill on the water flask. Aurelia put the flask into her inventory and moved on to a leather satchel. Inside the bag she found a small pouch holding what looked like potion bottles, but the size of her pointer finger. Five of the potions were blue and five were a red color. The potions matched what she imagined health and mana potions would look like and decided to try those later. The satchel and the bottles went into her inventory.
The next item she pulled out of the chest was a silver chain necklace holding a large sapphire. It was beautiful, though Aurelia wasn’t sure why it was given to her. Surely a necklace couldn’t help her in the dungeon. She decided to put it on anyway, and clasped it around her neck. The sapphire sat right under the collar of her blouse, hiding it from sight. After she finished putting on the necklace, she felt a surge of mana energy. Surprised, she looked at her stat sheet and found that her mana had increased by 100 points! This necklace was definitely worth it.
There was one last item in the chest, and Aurelia pulled it out. It seemed to be a metal silver wand about twelve inches long. It had quarter sized sapphire set on one tip of the wand and another fingernail sized sapphire set about five inches from the bottom of the wand. Wrapping her hand around the wand, her thumb brushed against the smaller sapphire, and Aurelia jumped up from her crouched position as the wand suddenly turned into a large staff about six feet tall.
“Woah!” Aurelia cried out.
The sapphire on the tip had become a fist sized gem that sparkled in the white and blue crystal light of the cave. The smaller sapphire had stayed the same size and sat in the same place relative to where her hand lay on the wand-turned-staff. She clumsily spun the staff around and laughed. She had absolutley no idea what to do with it. She tried pressing the smaller sapphire again, and it shrunk back to the smaller wand form. She decided to try something else, and for the first time used her Basic Mana Bolt spell. She channeled the spell through the wand and a blue ball of energy shot out of the sapphire end and into the cave wall.
There was a small explosion and a puff of dust as the mana bolt made impact. Shards of rock flew outwards, some of which landed on Aurelia. She cursed as she gained some scrapes from the shrapnel. That’s when she remembered that she had a shield spell.
“Well that was stupid.” Aurelia quickly cast her shield spell around herself and for a split second she could see a sphere of blue light around her before it disappeared. She knew it was there, but she wouldn’t have to worry about looking through the shield as it was in an invisible state. Aurelia guessed that meant other people or monsters wouldn’t be able to tell she had a shield either.
Deciding she could try one more experiment, she sent out another mana bolt, but with the hand not holding the wand. A smaller mana bolt than the first was sent out of her left palm and into the cave wall. This time the explosion was much smaller with barely any shrapnel or dust resulting from the impact. Aurelia guessed that the wand somehow enhanced her spells when she channeled them through it. Knowing that her other offensive spell would be more powerful than the mana bolt, she didn’t want to try it in the small cave, so any experimentation would have to be on the other side of the door.
Looking around her, Aurelia noticed that the chest was no longer laying on the floor. It had completely disappeared, probably because she had gotten everything out of the chest.
Aurelia took out her water flask and took a long sip from it before putting it back into her inventory. She sighed, realizing what she had to do next. Holding her wand in one hand, she walked forward to the imposing stone door. It was time to enter the dungeon.