CHAPTER XV: FORT CHAVEZ
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{07:26 LOCAL TIME 1TH JULY 1ME}
UNCOMMON PERIOD
MORTAL REALM
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LONG BEACH
PRIME
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< ALERT >
{You are attempting to build a Stronghold in the Area of Influence of another Stronghold. Usually, this is prohibited But since you have built or conquered a Stronghold more advanced than the current Hamlet Leader that controls this area, you may put down a CAMP. Be advised this CAMP and Hamlet will be in conflict at the end of the Uncommon horde.
Time until the end of uncommon horde: 15H:34M:49s.
Live Well Legacy.}
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Clyde frowned at the prompt. ‘I can only build a CAMP? That can’t be right. I have bonuses and...’
Soto looked in the Colonel’s direction, feeling his Presence. “Colonel, why are you always late to the fucking party, boss?” Soto yelled as he did a graceful dance of culling while dual-wielding bladed arrows like a conductor of death. “Look, Jake, they are playing our song, buddy.” He cackled as he killed coyote after coyote after coyote. They seem to just be jumping out of nowhere, appearing and disappearing at will, but every one of them that got close to Soto was bisected and dissipated into motes of light. “This is some good EXP now that you are here.”
Clyde couldn’t help but smile. The time he had spent in the trial had his mind reeling, but he also knew it had only been an hour for his teammates. Either way, he wasn’t going to delay. As he looked around, he noticed that the Raid party was pressed in many places.
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< STRONGHOLD ALERT >
< YOU HAVE BUILT A CAMP >
CAMP NAME: Chavez Park
CAMP LVL: MAX
{A Camp is the smallest stronghold that can be made and conquered. Camps can only be leveled up by Nobility, Clergy and Legacies, they can be conquered by anything however.
A camp can accommodate up to 100 people in peace time and 1000 in war or horde time times level.
Camp Chavez Park can accommodate 130 people in peace time and 1300 in wartime times level.
The base area of control(AOC) of a camp is up to 100 sq meters times level. (With walls or protections)
Chavez Park’s area of control(AOC) is 130 sq meters times level. (With walls or protections)
(Hamlet’s Stronghold AOC is at the edge of your CAMP AOI)
The base area of influence(AOI) of a Camp is two times the AOC.
Chavez Park(AOI) 5 times the AOC.
< NOTE >
{Area of Influence(AOI) is the area on which the stronghold can exert some influence. Taxes go down the further away the transaction from the AOC. Buildings can be built in the area but aren’t fully integrated into the Stronghold until AOC has expanded to incorporate it as it Tiers up.}
Creature spawning in the Base Camp AOC has a high reduction chance.
Creature spawning in Chavez Park AOC is nonexistent outside of Hordes.
Creature spawning in the Base camp AOI has a Slight reduction chance.
Creature spawning in Chavez Park AOI has a Minor reduction chance.
Base Camp Mana Tax gained every 7 days per citizen is 10 per level of citizen minus 1 per 2 levels of hostile players times level.
Chavez Park Mana gained every 7 days per citizen is 100 per level of citizen minus 1 per 5 levels of hostile players times level.
Base Camp EXP gained every 7 days per NPC citizen is 1. Chavez Park EXP gained every 7 days per NPC citizen is 100.
Base Camp Effect: Well Rested; When sleeping in a camp, allied players gain the buff Well Rested, which grants a 10% EXP boost for 24 hours if a player can get at least 6 hours of uninterrupted sleep.
CAV’s Camp Effect: Well Powered; While in the AOC of the Camp, allied players have their Mana regen tripled.
Free Buildings created: Stronghold Vault, Campfire, Main tent, Guard gate X4. Outhouse, Field Shower. Due to your Progenitor title, all buildings and building upgrades are free as long as your Stronghold meets the level requirements and you can provide the mana cost.
While in the area of control of the Camp, citizens do Slightly more damage and take Slightly less damage from enemies.
Bonus Effect: Skill, Ability, and Trades advance slightly faster in the AOC of your Stronghold. (This is a racial effect.)
{Type of Government: A camp is always a dictatorship.}
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The entire park started to change as Mana from the environment was pulled in rapidly, the dying beast’s light motes were also absorbed before it got a chance to disappear helping the CAMP form more quickly around the Raid Party.
First, a Massive Camp fire formed in the middle of the park, around it three buildings began to materialize. Trees began to break down and flow towards the center of the camp. As the material was mixed with the dirt, and mana met each other in streams of energy, the buildings formed like... well, magic. Clyde’s Mana and Trade Sight made it so that the usually invisible Mana was seen in radiant technicolor right before his eyes.
Each building was built in a few minutes as the Mana was infused by the combination of the Colonel’s massive Mana pool, his Disassemble Skill, and his Forger Profession working overtime. If he didn’t have his titles this would be impossible. But unfortunately for the Mirror Coyotes, he did have his titles. They also had more problems to deal with to be honest.
The bird on his shoulder took to the air as the camp came to life. She could only leave him when she was in an area controlled by him. Her current form was a blue jay the size of a hummingbird. So really tiny, the Mana in the Period not being enough for her to really grow strong. But after she started to fly through Mirror Coyotes with ease, killing them instantly, you can call her tiny, but no one would call her weak. She killed any beast she encountered, even if they were in stealth. She worked around the forming buildings and Camp Fire first every kill, sending more Mana to help build the structures.
Clyde felt her in his Presence, but couldn’t give any attention or praise to her, the creation of the Camp was taking up all of his brain power. His new Trade skill doing a lot of the work.
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< TRADE RANK UP >
{+1 to all Stats but Magic}
{TRADE NAME: Stronghold Structure forging(Active)
TRADE RANK: 2
TRADE TYPE: Non-Combat Building
DESCRIPTION: Manipulate the resources of a designated area while using your mana to make non combat structures for any level Stronghold.
Cost: Variable. Cast time: Variable. Cool down: None. Duration: 2 years.
EFFECTS: The Legacy can forge UnCOMMON Structures with time, concentration, and resources at a 99% chance of completion rate, the higher the rank of the professional the better chance to make higher-level weapons.
Structures available: A ton.
COMMON Trade Benefit: Increased Durability.
UNCOMMON Trade Benefit: Increased Duration.}
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< PROFESSION LEVEL UP >
{+12 to all stats except magic}
< PROFESSION TIER UP >
{PROFESSION NAME: Forger
PROFESSION RANK: 13 (Amateur 2nd)
PROFESSION TYPE: Hybrid-Energy Creation
DESCRIPTION: A Forger is a unique profession as it needs no special materials only the legacy’s Mana and some cases blood to fill in the blanks of what is being forged. The legacy can still use materials to augment and reduce the Mana cost, you can learn Trades but all of that is second to the Mana creation.
Initiate Benefit: Use mana with all trades to forge creations.
Amateur Benefit: Absorb Mana from kills within a controlled area for use in forging creations}
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After the Campfire was built, a small tendril of Mana snaked into the ground as the Stronghold Vault was built under the Campfire. Clyde innately knew that the Vault was a semi-solid representation of storage under the Campfire. It was just the anchor using a concept of space that he had no idea what it meant. Not wanting to use the experience to level his Cultivator Path because he was already happy with that outcome, he moved on to the Main tent.
The Main tent was a massive circus tent-style building. Sleeping cots lined a full half of the tent with a table for meetings in the front end. The space concept here was easier to understand. It was like a storage ring. Clyde had no idea how a storage ring worked, but he knew that they did work, so he had no problem going into the tent and seeing that it was much bigger on the inside than it was on the outside by far, and it was pretty big on the outside. So big that the entire park visibly warped as it grew almost doubling in size.
The Forger fell to his knees as all of his MP was drained, and blood started to flow out of him. Then his bird had killed a few Elites and his pool refilled instantly.
The Outhouse and Field Shower were quickly built, and the fact that a new river was running next to the park made the pipelines form naturally, with recycling set up underground. The trees in the area would take all of the nutrients and use them to grow providing fruits, veggies, and herds in the process. The wastewater would go through the earth and natural Mana filters turning it into the water for the showers cleaner than any water from the pre-breaking world.
Clyde knew he wouldn’t tell Soto where that water came from, he was the kind of guy who would drink water from water bottles even in his own house. Something that annoyed Clyde to no end since he grew up in a country he used to have to boil his water before consuming it and he still would drink the water. That had changed many years ago, but some old-school Trinidadians still boiled their water or avoided the tap water.
As the park grew, the Mirror coyotes within the Campfire light were revealed. That was when Clyde saw his first level forties in the Mortal realm.
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< ANALYZE >
{Name: Mirror Coyote Alpha(Beast)(Elite)
Level:41
HP:28,200
MP:750
DR:900
Highest Stat
Physical: Dexterity
Mental: Charisma
Bane: Dark magic
Weaknesses: None.
Description: Mirror Coyotes are stealth hunters. In daylight, they reflect their background, making them fully invisible from their target direction. This is an active ability that they can instinctually move to cover their movements. This Horde Pack is led by a high-tier Alpha Matriarch who has many Alphas at her command. At Level 40, they gain +50 DEX & CHA, +12 STR & CON, +10 INT & LUCK per level. Elite Mirror Coyotes gain 10 times HP and 5 times damage output.
EFFECTS: Alpha Presence}
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A small mark appeared on the Alpha as Clyde analyzed it, and the entire Raid party was aware of it now.
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{ABILITY NAME: Analyze(Triggered)
ABILITY LEVEL: EXPERT 0
DESCRIPTION: The Legacy can see all of the information about anything they view at their Tier and below and basic information on anything as the Tier rises on what is being observed.
ABILITY EFFECT: Scan and identify everything you can see and what is in your Presence. (Information gleaned is based on the Tier of the Ability and character against the Tier of the target being analyzed.)
STUDENT EFFECT: Auto-share with team and party members.
NOVICE EFFECT: Shows current effects with weaknesses and Banes.
APPRENTICE EFFECT: Once a target is analyzed, it is marked. The marked target not only takes more damage from the player and their allies but also does less damage to them and is more affected by skills, bonuses, and abilities.
JOURNEYMAN EFFECT: Targets that are scanned in your Presence have their senses reduced Greatly over time.
EXPERT EFFECT: When an analyzed Target is affected by a debuff, the duration will reset and stack itself for a slight energy cost. If an Analyzed target is killed in your Presence EXP is Majorly increased.}
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[I got this bad boy.] Sugar said in Party chat as everyone went back to trying to stay alive.
“A black blur of fur slammed into the Alpha that was a full two feet taller, and at least two meters longer. Yes, Kuma knew both metric and imperial measurements, get over it. The Alpha was caught off guard by how much that had hurt it. The tiger-sized dog bypassed the DR of the Alpha and gave it a few Debuffs in exchange.” The Narrator said causing Clyde to look around while maintaining the Stronghold growth.
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EFFECTS: Alpha Presence, Void bleed, Void burn, Void poison}
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The Alpha reacted badly to this turn of events. He turned invisible for a second, and then Battle Kuma was sent flying. She was still only level 33 and very inexperienced in fighting enemies of equal or higher power. She had mostly been support in the Dungeon, but Sugar thought it was time to get some real-world action.
Once Sugar had felt the Party’s mana pools refilling quickly because of the Stronghold bonus, she made her move to get Kuma more experience.
Clyde analyzed the puppy.
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< ANALYZE >
{FAMILIAR NAME: Battle Kuma
FAMILIAR BASE CLASS: Fighter
LEVEL: 33 EXP to next level 4360/340000
POOLS:
HP 975/3200 regen 45HP per hour
MP 553/600 regen 35MP per hour
DR: 0/900
RESISTANCES
Physical: 0%(10%)
Magical: 0%(10%)
Willpower: 0%(10%)
ATTRIBUTES:
Strength:155 Dexterity:68 Constitution:160 Intelligence:32
Magic:3 Charisma:34 Luck:71
EFFECTS: Inspire, Void Touched}
< TOOL TIP >
{BUFF NAME: Void Touched
BUFF TYPE: Offensive/Triggered
BUFF DURATION: 4 attacks
DESCRIPTION: Anytime any form of Kuma is summoned from the void, her next attack will do an automatic critical hit and leave behind stacking Debuffs.}
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That one attack had hurt Kuma more than it had hurt the Alpha, but unlike the Alpha, Kuma was not alone.
“Void Bolt!” A bowling ball piece of void Mana hit the beast, burning through its DR and distracting it enough for Kuma to stack the Debuffs again.
The Alpha roared, and the surrounding Mirror Coyotes turned to the Caster and started to rush her, seeing her as the real threat. Sugar was not a fan of that action at all.
[Hmm, okay, maybe I don’t get this. If I had time, I could, but I didn’t expect to have the kitchen sink thrown at me so quickly. These beasts are already smarter than the Ghouls.] She said in team chat for just Soto and the Colonel.
[All good, Mamacita! I got you!] The Dark Ranger smiled as he had specialized and had a new trick that he was dying to try out.
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{06:38 LOCAL TIME 1TH JULY 1ME}
UNCOMMON PERIOD
MORTAL REALM
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LONG BEACH
PRIME-
“What? Why?”
“Walk with me." He started to walk towards the southern wall. "You see two more guns in thirty minutes. While nice, I think you should put your trade skills to use. I, for one, am excited to see what a ward does to a wave of beasts who just throw themselves at us with abandon.”
“And what about the Colonel?” Sugar asked as they walked to the edge of the park towards the broken part of the wall, which was pretty much all of it.
“I am sure he is fine; that guy's luck is out of this world, and while I’m not there to save him. He might be the most competent leader the world had during the pandemic, so I am sure he could handle any curveball thrown his way. Except for fatherhood, he was pretty shitty at that.” Soto said confidently. “When he comes back, it will be with a bang.”
For fifteen minutes Soto walked Sugar around showing her where to plant her wards. They were basically mines and Soto was absolutely happy with that. As they came back to center and watched as the combatants heal up he decided it was about time that he specialized.
Soto watched as the medic team picked up the wounded and dropped them off at the center of the clearing making it an impromptu hospital. Soto smiled at their lack of need of direction. His non-commissioned leadership was earning their pay. ‘Wait do we have to pay these people?’ That was before Soto realized that they were filthy rich.
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{Congratulations, you have specialized X 1}
{Defensive Rating(DR) unlocked.}
SPEC: DARK SCOUT
(“If you see me, I have already seen you homie.”)
COST: PAID
Dark Rangers are range, sneak, and reconnaissance-type players. The Dark Scout Spec leans into the sneak and reconnaissance aspect of the Ranger class. The + adds range options. The Dark Scout is a long-range stealth reconnaissance specialist with a minor boost to melee stealth attacks of opportunity.
Dark Scout Spec adds: +3 Strength, Constitution, Dexterity, & Luck with +50% skill point progression per level.
Free spell earned Dark Ranger Class: Dark dagger
Dark dagger(Conjured) The Dark Ranger can create a blade of Dark mana. This blade can be added to an existing blade, or as a stand-alone dagger that scales with Ranger Intelligence stat. All Dark spells cast with Dark Dagger cost slightly less.
Cast time: 5 seconds. Cost: 25 mana. Damage: Variable Duration: 10 minutes or until destroyed. Cool down: none. Requirements: Chant.
Dark Scout spell chosen: Dark Crescent
Dark Crescent(Active): The Dark Scout can imbue his Dark Mana into a melee weapon attack to create a mid-range crescent attack that can hit multiple targets.
Cast time: Instant. Cost: 70 mana. Cool down: 30 seconds per hand and melee weapon. Requirements: Chant, Melee weapon}
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{07:28 LOCAL TIME 1TH JULY 1ME}
UNCOMMON PERIOD
MORTAL REALM
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LONG BEACH
PRIME
Soto held out his bladed arrows and chanted “Dark dagger” twice and smiled as a matte black sheen covered the blades over the next ten seconds. At the end of the time, the matte black mana snapped to the edge of the blade, making it a little longer and much sharper than a level 39 mirror coyote found out as the dark Scout held his arm out and, without any resistance, cleaved through the beast like a hot knife through warm butter. The beast dissipated before he was even halfway through its body, the light being sucked into the building of the Camp.
[Keep doing what you are doing, you boss; we can hold out now that we got Mana. We can brief you after the wave] Soto said in command chat.
[Copy that, walls or defensive guns first?]
[I say you go with walls first. I honestly feel like we can handle this wave easily]
That was when a loud roar of an unknown beast came from out side of the park.
[Of course, it would wait for me to say that. I shoulda just kept my mouth shut.]
Clyde shook his head at his battle buddy’s reaction. “We have heavy incoming,” The Colonel yelled at everyone as he looked at his mini-map. “I need fifteen minutes to make the walls will I get it?” He asked loudly.
“You shall have it, sir!” Was the collective response from most of the NPC’s fighting the Mirror coyotes inside of the Camp.
“Hooah!” The old soldier in him felt the pride of leading troops again, and he loved it. His Raid party Mark was working overtime to empower his troops.
[Protect Sugar everyone, then give me some time.] He added in the Raid party chat.
“Dark Crescent!” Soto chanted as he cut the area in front of himself. As his blade swiped the air, a black afterimage was left behind. Just as he finished the motion of moving the blade across his body the black energy snapped into a crescent moon shape of solid black mana that shot out towards Sugar as she backed up to the Main Tent. Everyone, friend and foe, was hit by it.
Soto’s Title allows for some fire-and-forget options.
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{TITLE NAME: One Shot Two Kills
TITLE TIER: Platinum(UPGRADABLE)
DESCRIPTION: For killing two targets with one single shot and for being the first in the world to do so with a mana infused arrow you have earned this title.
TITLE EFFECT: Offensive; Chain attack: Whenever targets are within 4 meters of each other, there is an 8% times Level chance to cause damage to an adjacent target. For every consecutive target -1% Chance.
WORLD FIRST UPGRADE: Range attacks effect do 120% less damage to family members, 110% less damage to Teammates, 100% less damage to allies
RARE BONUS: Utility; Leach: On target kill gain +6% times Class Tier HP back from the target.
PLATINUM BONUS: The more targets affected, the more bonus damage is done.}
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As the spell hit the first mirror coyote a wisp of mana flew out and latched on to another beast and even party members as the attack ravaged the enemies lines in seconds. The Alpha echoed the roar of the beast outside of the Camp as it is peppered with attacks from the now freed up NPCs. The Dark Crescent was devastating to the beast in its way, with his Platinum bonus in effect. The party members were countered as targets and only made the next beast hit feel the pain.
Half of the early and closest Coyotes died from the spell, but every one of them were killed by the time the Spell made it through and passed Sugar. The spell even went on and destroyed the wall on the other side of Sugar.
“Oops.” Soto flinched.
Clyde shook his head again, “Sloppy brother.” The Warlord said under his breath, and then he looked at the guard gates as they started to form. He needed to make walls, so he went on to phase two. Making this Camp into a fort. The first wall he fixed was the one that Soto had just taken out. “Sergeant Major always giving me more work to do.” He complained as the walls, formed, they almost looked like Marquina marble, but instead of white veins running through the black walls there were light blue veins of mana, and that could be seen on the inside.
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< WALL FORGED >
{CREATION NAME: WALL
CREATION RANK: Platinum
CREATION DURABILITY: 100,000
CREATION DURATION: 24 months.
Description: Up to 200X15X10m barrier made of Finely mana-infused stone.
RARE ATTACHMENT: Wall Spikes; 3 inch spikes place equally across the outside of the wall. Each spike does 300 damage and has a durability of 3000.
PLATINUM ATTACHMENT: Any hostile beast that touches or tries to jump over or dig under the wall will be hit with Lesser Mana lightning. Each strike does 4000 damage a 10% chance to chain. Mana Pool:1390/1500}
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[Think it is go time, Mamacita, activate your wards.] Soto said in the team chat.
[Aye aye!] Sugar replied and with a flex of her mind the world around the Camp shifted.
The Alpha succumbed to the attacks and debuffs on it just as Clyde put up the third wall. The walls were already putting in work as most of the beasts that made it over had burnt fur, and some were still spasming, making them easier targets for the Raid party.
The flow of beasts slowed down from the black fog that exploded outside the walls, causing each new beast to come into the camp with debuffs eating away at their defenses.
A few more roars and the beast stopped trying to jump over the walls and tried to make their way to the last side of the Camp without a wall. The icons in Clyde’s map moved around too quickly.
[Concentrate fire on the southern wall area, we got a smart Alpha out there guiding them.] The Colonel yelled in Raid Chat.
Every type of ranged offensive power they had was sent to the southern wall area. The wall was growing slower than the other walls because of the sheer amount of bodies standing in the way, but their deaths served another purpose.
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{SKILL NAME: Disassemble (Active/toggle/triggered)
SKILL LEVEL: Novice 9
DESCRIPTION: The Legacy can use mana to breakdown anything over time and convert them into mana for personal use over time. When using any Trade skills this skill is triggered to offset mana cost.
SKILL EFFECT: -1 mana per sec on UnCommon tier items and receive 25 Mana per second back after item is fully disassembled. Each item takes a certain amount of time to break down, the factors are many including size, rarity, and designer. The player must stay in contact with target the entire time. Each tier is a higher cost by 10 times more mana but also gives 10 times the return. Can only disassemble one item above UnCommon at a time. Speed of Effect is based on Charisma. Common tier items are free to disassemble but only give half the Mana if disassembling with higher tier targets.
STUDENT EFFECT: Increase contact range:
The player can disassemble items at range. Can only disassemble one item at a time.
Current range: 2 meters plus skill level.
NOVICE EFFECT: Increased targets:
The player can disassemble multiple targets at an additional moderate cost for double the return.
Cost doubled up to 5 targets(Free Common targets count against the limit)}
{Skill Quest: Disassemble 1000 Uncommon and above creations or equivalent. (1000/1000)(COMPLETED)}
< SKILL TIER UP >
{+15 Charisma, +10 LUCK}
{SKILL NAME: Disassemble (Active/toggle/triggered)
SKILL LEVEL: Apprentice 0
DESCRIPTION: The Legacy can use mana to breakdown anything over time and convert them into mana for personal use over time. When using any Trade skills this skill is triggered to offset mana cost.
SKILL EFFECT: -1 mana per second on Rare tier items and receive 100 Mana per second back after the item is fully disassembled. Each item takes a certain amount of time to break down, the factors are many including size, rarity, and designer. The player must stay in contact with the target the entire time. Each tier is a higher cost by 10 times more mana but also gives 10 times the return. Can only disassemble one item above Rare at a time. Speed of Effect is based on Charisma. Common tier items are free to disassemble but only give half the Mana if disassembling with higher tier targets.
STUDENT EFFECT: Increase contact range:
The player can disassemble targets at range. Can only disassemble one target at a time.
Current range: 30 meters plus skill level.
NOVICE EFFECT: Increased targets:
The player can disassemble multiple targets at an additional moderate cost for double the return.
Cost doubled up to 10 targets(Free UnCommon and below targets count against the limit)
APPRENTICE EFFECT: Increase speed:
The player can Disassemble unbound targets near instantly as long as they are below Rare, and the speed to break down the higher rarity targets has been Majorly reduced.}
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An influx of mana hit Clyde as the skill Tier up and started to instantly break down all of the common and uncommon unbound items and dead beasts. The wall finished with a snap, and the mana in the area started to swirl. The wall shot out lightning, killing many of the beasts trying to jump over it.
Clyde let his new prompts wash over him.
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< TRADE RANK UP >
{+7 CON}
{TRADE NAME: Wall forging(Active)
TRADE RANK: 8
DESCRIPTION: Manipulate the ground using mana to make a wall. Cost: Variable. Cast time: Variable. Cool down: none. Duration: 4 months per level of trade, Variable base of available materials
EFFECTS: The Legacy can build a Mid Platinum walls with time and resources at a 99% chance of completion rate, the higher the rank of the professional the better chances to make higher level walls.
COMMON Trade Benefit: Increased Durability.
UNCOMMON Trade Benefit: Increased Duration.
RARE Trade Benefit: Wall Spikes.
PLATINUM Trade Benefit: Defensive lightning.}
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< PROFESSION LEVEL UP >
{+13 to all stats except magic}
{PROFESSION NAME: Forger
PROFESSION RANK: 14 (Amateur 2nd)
PROFESSION TYPE: Hybrid-Energy Creation
DESCRIPTION: A Forger is a unique profession as it needs no special materials only the legacy’s mana and some cases blood to fill in the blanks of what is being forged. The legacy can still use materials to augment and reduce the Mana cost, you can learn Trades but all of that is second to the Mana creation.
Initiate Benefit: Use mana with all trades to forge creations.
Amateur Benefit: Absorb Mana from kills within a controlled area for use in forging creations}
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With the walls fully built, the Area of Control of the Camp grew, and the Camp changed to a fort because of the Warlord True class.
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< STRONGHOLD ALERT >
< YOUR CAMP HAS BEEN UPGRADED TO A FORT >
FORT NAME: Fort Chavez
FORT LVL: MAX
{A Fort is a Camp or above stronghold that has been converted for war. Forts can only be leveled up by Nobility, Clergy, and Legacies, and they can be conquered by anything, however. When Conquered, unless the conquerer is a warlord or affiliated with a Warlord, it will revert back to a Camp.
A camp can accommodate up to 100 people in peace time and 1000 in war or horde time times level.
Fort Chavez can accommodate 800 people in peacetime and 2500 in wartime times level.
The base area of control(AOC) of a camp is up to 100 sq meters times level.
Fort Chavez’s area of control(AOC) is 800 sq meters times level.
Current Size: 10400 sq meters
The base area of influence(AOI) of a camp is two times the AOC.
Fort Chavez (AOI) 10 times the AOC.
< NOTE >
{Area of influence(AOI) is the area on which the stronghold can exert some influence. Taxes go down the further away the transaction from the AOC. Buildings can be built in the area but aren’t fully integrated into the stronghold until AOC has expanded to incorporate it.}
Creature spawning in the Base Camp AOC has a high reduction chance.
Creature spawning in Fort Chavez AOC is nonexistent outside of Hordes, during hordes the structures of the fort will try to kill the horde beast if they have the Mana and capabilities.
Creature spawning in the Base camp AOI has a Slight reduction chance.
Creature spawning in Fort Chavez AOI has a Slightly increased chance.
Base Camp Mana Tax gained every 7 days per citizen is 10 per level of citizen minus 1 per 2 levels of hostile players times level.
Fort Chavez Mana gained every 7 days per citizen is 100 per level of citizen minus 1 per 10 levels of hostile players times level.
Base Camp EXP gained every 7 days per NPC citizen is 1.
Fort Chavez EXP gained every 7 days per NPC citizen is 250.
Base Camp Effect: Well Rested; When sleeping in a camp, allied players gain the buff Well Rested, which grants a 10% EXP boost for 24 hours if a player can get at least 6 hours of uninterrupted sleep.
Fort Chavez Camp Effect: Well Powered; While in the AOI of the Camp, allied players have their Mana regen tripled.
Free Buildings Updated: Stronghold Vault to Fort Vault, Campfire to Campfire+ Smithing station, Chow station, and Alchemy station, Main tent to Command Tent, Guard gate X4 to Guard Towers X4. Outhouse to Latrines, Field Shower to Locker room. Due to your Progenitor title, all buildings and building upgrades are free as long as your Stronghold meets the level requirements and you can provide the mana cost.
While in the area of control of the Fort, citizens do Minorly more damage and take Minorly less damage from enemies.
Bonus Effect: Skill, Ability, and Trades advance Minorly faster in the AOC of your Stronghold. (This is a racial effect.)
{Type of Government: This Fort is always led by the highest tier individual or best fighter.}
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The changes were massive, and they were potent, but it was too late to stop the big bad that had entered the Fort. the Colonel Analyzed the minivan size Coyote.
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< ANALYZE >
{Name: Mirror Coyote Alpha Patriarch(Beast)(Wave Boss)(Elite)
Level:49
HP:38,200
MP:1,500
DR:20,000
Highest Stat
Physical: Dexterity
Mental: Intelligence
Bane: Dark magic
Weaknesses: None.
Description: Mirror Coyotes are stealth hunters. While in the daylight, they reflect their background, making them invisible fully from their target direction. This is an active ability that they can instinctually move to cover their movements. This Horde Pack is led by a high-tier Alpha Matriarch who has many Alphas at her command. At Level 40, Alpha Patriarchs gain +55 DEX & INT, +15 STR & CON, +13 INT & LUCK per level. Elite Mirror Coyotes have 10 times HP & 5 times damage output. Patriarchs gain 10 times more DR.
EFFECTS: Alpha Presence, Rage.}
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This wasn’t going to be an easy target. The Patriarch had a few shields around himself and two fellow Alphas, three more Alphas made it into the fort before the walls were up, and over a hundred normal coyotes, and by normal, that meant normal for the magically enhanced beast with mirror camouflage, and at least doubled the size of a pre breaking coyotes.
“That’s one big bitch!” Soto said as he stepped out of Clyde’s shadow. Colonel had felt the space around him move and he could have used his Presence to stop him if he wanted to, but he was happy that his battle buddy had a good skill, it was almost like his new powers.
“You know Patriarch means male head of family right?” Clyde said looking at the beast power up a buff, he had no idea how he knew that, but he knew it. Then a tiny bird landed on his shoulder and licked his cheek.
“I do now!” Soto whined, eyes on the beast “We should stop that Spell chant right?” He asked.
“Yes, Yes, we should, Sergeant Major.”