The more expensive travel packs had an expanding enchantment worked in, making them larger on the inside. Because packs were several times larger than bags of holding the enchantment effect was weaker but, still, travel packs had vastly more storage space.
Going through the knight’s packs she found the standard camping gear of food, water, cloths, extra potions, and sleeping bags. Some of the cloths were clearly for the noble, who would even bring a suit to a dungeon outing, and for what purpose, to dress up and impress the monsters?
Shaking her head at noble’s idea of proper camping gear, Emily set about rearranging the packs. Since she could only carry one pack without affecting her fighting ability, Emily chose one of the packs to place all the food, water, and a sleeping bag into.
Emily also emptied all the bags of holding. She transferred the bars of metal into the bottom of the pack, she would not need them until she left the dungeon, she also took all the coins, an impressive twelve large gold, five form the noble, three form one of the knights and four form the other, and eighteen small gold, fourteen large silver, and twenty seven small silver, no copper through, apparently that was too average and common to carry around, and placed them into the bottom of the bag.
Emily took the slightly larger knights shirts and used them to bundle the metal and coins up, to stop them from moving around in the pack, and then took the slightly shorter ones change of clothes and neatly folded them before she placed them on top of the bundle, leaving out the noble’s expensive suit, if Emily need a change of clothes she would use the knights’. Emily then placed the water, then food, on top of the folded cloths.
Next Emily had a verity of potions and wands to sort through. She found twenty two wands in all, eighteen enchanted, an four runic, all made out of mithril. The enchanted wands had a hundred charges, and the runic one had double that, showing why runic items were better. Emily could now recharge the wands herself. If Emily was desperate she could even overcharge the wands for a split second and fire one massive blast that would drain all the charges and her mana for one powerful final attack.
Such a use had a high chance of damaging or even destroying the wands, and also would take a long time for Emily to fully recharge, so that option had to be keep for emergencies. Thinking further about it, Emily place six each of the enchanted wands into Nobag and Bagmor, they would make great one shot weapons that had a chance of killing a high level monster.
Emily split the runic wands and placed two each into Nobag and Bagmor, they were the two biggest bags out of the five with Nighty being a close third. It did not surprise Emily that the Noble had the largest bag followed by the Knights. She also repacked the second ascension crystal back into the noble’s bag, Bagmor.
The potions were a mix of three dozen greater heath potions, two dozen buff potions split equally between strength and endurance, and a dozen poison antidotes. Emily placed two of each potions into Nobag and Bagmor, the rest she split as equally as she could into the three remaining bags. Emily also spit the remaining enchanted wands between the bags, Shady, Baggy, and Nighty, which she then placed on top of the bedding which was on top of the food.
It all was set up for quick access, the three bags first to get access to the potions and wands, then the bedding for setting up a camp, then the food and finally the water, with Nobag and Bagmor having water, food, potions, and wands. The special runic water jug was placed in Nobag, Emily would always have water even if she lost Bagmor and the pack.
With everything packed and ready, Emily had the time to investigate her new skills and status.
Runic Mage Scholar
Class
Increases mana by 20% and increases mana regeneration by 15%
Mana Bolt
Spell
A focused bolt of mana energy that deals mana damage to one target. The damage done depends on the user's intelligence.
Basic Mana Shaping L1
Skill
Lets the mage shape mana into spells, gives bonuses to intelligence and willpower. The higher the skill the better the user is at forming spells.
Basic Mana Regulation L1
Skill
Helps regulate the mana in the user's body. Increases mana regeneration by helping absorb ambient mana from the environment.
Basic Incantation L1
Skill
Increases spell chanting speed and proficiency.
Runic Scholar Scribe L1
Skill
Allows scribing of basic knowledge, spells, and runes to paper.
Mana Sense L1
Skill
Allows you to sense mana.
Basic Runic Scholar Mastery L1
Skill
Increases comprehension of scholastic knowledge, runes, and runic script. Lowers MP requirement .5% per level for using runes, and runic script
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Name :
Emily Warden L 29
Class:
T1 Runic Mage Scholar L 4 [Primary]
T1 Warrior Monk L 25 [Secondary]
HP
620/620
MP
1371/1371
SP
1065/1065
Strength
52
Agility
45
Dexterity
47
Vitality
42
Endurance
50
Intelligence
75
Willpower
61
Charisma
13
Luck
8
The changes to her status were drastic, Emily HP had increased two and half times, with her SP had almost doubled, and her MP gained 528 points. Doing the math Emily found her bonuses 20% mana form the class and 15% from the title were not additive 35% to her base of 994 which would be 1341 mana but compounding first 15% was added to her 994 mana base because it was a trait and those were applied before classes which calculated to 1143 and then 20% form her class was added to that for Emily’s current 1371 mana pool.
She also gained 16 stats form leveling her first class form L9 to L25 in Strength, Agility, Dexterity, Vitality, Endurance, and Willpower. Truly the Warrior Monk was a powerful class; on the other hand, Runic Mage Scholar was also a powerful class, giving her 4 stats in Vitality, Dexterity, Endurance, Intelligence, and Willpower form leveling L1 to L4. With only 1 stat deference between the two classes it showed they both were truly prestigious classes.
Comparing a basic warrior which would only receive 1 stat per level in Strength, Dexterity, Vitality, and Endurance with 1 stat every 3 rd level in agility, meant that the deference between a standard warrior and Warrior Monk class was a deference of 42 stats at L25, 150 for warrior monk and only 108 for the standard warrior class.
Comparing her Runic Mage Scholar class with a standard mage, which received Dexterity, Endurance, Intelligence, and Willpower per level with 1 stat in vitality on every 3 rd level, meant that at L25 there were only 17 stat point deference between her class and a standard mage class, 125 vs 108 for a standard mage. Still that meant she would receive 25 stats in Vitality with the standard mage only receiving 8 stats in vitality, proving that standard mages were glass cannons.
There was just one more thing to check and Emily was reluctant to found out. With a deep breath she pulled up her affinities.
Name:
Emily Warden
Fire
0%
Wind
0%
Earth
0%
Water
0%
It was as Emily feared, she had no affinities. With how she received the class in the first place, a massive mana explosion that she had barely survived, she had a feeling her affinities would also be different then the norm. Emily was sad that this meant she would not get the chance for a Tier 2 mage class; at least she had survived when most would have died.
The Runic Mage Scholar was also prestigious class that was more a fusion of mage class, scholar class, and scribe class. There were many fusion classes like Elemental Knight class, a prestigious class that was a fusion of mage and warrior, there were others like alchemist assassin class that used potions and poisons to kill, they were some of the deadliest assassins because their special potion poisons were very hard to counter.
With this class Emily had a feeling she could create books based on her knowledge, copy books like a scribe, and create special skill books, which were in high demand. Skill books were just that, a book that taught a skill. Warriors used them to learn special attack skills like shield bash, their class usually give this skill as they leveled but some wanted it immediately, smiths’ used skill books to train in special smithing techniques like precise measurements which allowed them to forge and craft a suit of armor so precisely that the buyer felt it was a second skin and needed no adjustment to fit like off the shelf armor. Emily shook her head, she would need to study her class benefits in more detail after she made it out alive.
Emily turned her attention to the armor she was awarded. Activating her sense mana, programming language, and debugger skills Emily looked at the runic script of the shadow mage rune. This time Emily did see green with red in almost equal colors showing this was an intermediate rune script, there were also the helpful blue of the correct script.
Emily used her mana to slowly make corrections to the need parts of the rune script, draining her mana by almost four hundred points. The mana expanse was worth the cost, for when Emily checked the armor rune rating, it was now High. This meant that the shadow stealth would last a little longer, and the shadow transport would go a little further.
Emily sighed at realizing the shadow transport would not take her up more than 9 meters to the ledge that held the secret door. Emily also considered climbing the walls but the stalactite was in the center of the roof surrounded by a maze of other stalactites. She also considered overpowering the rune for one disparate teleport but if it did not work she would have destroyed her best chance of making it up thirty levels alive. The last crazy idea was to somehow use the wands to blast her way up but, having survive one explosion, she was not prepared to see if she could survive another.
Emily donned the upgraded Lesser Suit of Shadows and, after getting everything adjusted just right, marveled at how well it fit and how light it was. Truly mithril suits were worth the cost and exceptional.
Emily took a leather cord form the second sleeping bag and fashioned a necklace that she hung Nobag and then placed it around her neck, tucking the bag behind her armor, she had taken the idea form the first knight she searched, and tied Bagmor to her waist for easy accessibility.
Leaning the packed bag against the tunnel wall, Emily turned around and reentered the carven. Walking briskly to the pile of her old armor, Emily sorted through the pile and pulled out her four axes, two boot daggers, and the four throwing knifes that were still useful.
Strapping on the axes to her thighs, she then packed the boot daggers and the throwing knifes into Bagmor, without the boot sheaths that were built into her boots, and the bandolier that had been destroyed, Emily could not carry the weapons.
Emily went in search of the knights weapons, she found the knight on the left’s weapon imbedded to the hilt in the metal wall, searching the right wall, Emily was in luck and found the right knight’s mithril sword not far from his body. Identifying it she saw it had a sharpness rune on it. Taking the time, Emily quickly upgraded the intermediate rune script to high and now held a runic mithril sword with a high rated rune.
Emily turned to go back to the tunnel when she spotted the right knight’s leg. Taking a deep breath, and steeling herself, she went to look at the dismembered leg. Emily could not tell if it she was lucky or unlucky to see a boot knife with a sheath still attached. Emily knelt down, and as fast as she could untied the sheath, when she had it free she turned and almost run back to the tunnel.
When Emily got back to the tunnel where the packs were, she looked down at the sheath and knife, it was surprising clean with only few flakes of blood on it. Pulling out the knife she saw it had another sharpness rune on it. Emily was familiar with this rune now and, with her perfect memory, did not even have to use debugger, she fixed the problems with the runes form memory. Emily could see just how useful her memory skills were when working with runic script; she could remember complex runic script perfectly and reproduces it.
Strapping the boot knife on her left calf and throwing on the pack she had placed everything in, Emily grabbed the mithril sword and headed down the tunnel to find a way out of this dungeon.