Part 1 – Nether Fortress
Getting close to it now I realise how big it was. It wasn't some small fort but something that could live up to its name as a fortress. One main buildings with countless other side attachments made to enchant the entire building in whole. And every inch of it was made of this black material that seems like brick at least but was harder and stronger than normal stuff you could get.
Due to possibly the extra buildings that were added after it was first made, the fortress itself seem to be unbalanced with it being more like a rectangular shaped fortress instead of the usual square or even circle style ones. However this place was really sturdy, I couldn't even make a decent dent into the walls even though I was using Earth Magic that was being boosted by this place to destroy the walls.
“Earth Destruction! Earth Destruction!”
It took a few minutes and possibly hundreds of casting the same spell over and over again in which a hole big enough for me to get into was created. In the actual fortress itself, it was actually quite empty even though there were possibly hundreds of creatures in here at a time.
It was either because the monsters in this fortress gather at certain places more than others, there are places you can't get to normally or its just that this place is too big.
“Hmm...I wonder where I can go from here now.”
According to the information given by the game, there should be some sort of portal back....considering that I fell into this place in the first place, there should be more than one portal at least. But I don't know where any of the other ones could be. But I'm pretty sure that there's at least one portal here though may be inactive in this place however.
Plop~ Plop~
Hmm....? An enemy?
I expanded my range of soul scan and sort of saw some weird shaped being. I walked to it and my eyes confirmed that thought as well. It was a large creature that was in the shape of a cube and it was around 3 metres in perfect diameter as a cube. It was red and black with large yellow eyes at the front and it was....hopping around....
“What the hell is this thing?” I asked to no one in particular.
With those words it seems like this strange creature saw me and hopped on me while I was still stunned by its appearance and movements.
Smack~
You took 7 414 damage
“Ow!”
That actually hurt! Damn this thing and every other damn thing in this damn dimension!
I took my Divine Sword and stabbed into the creature several times until it died. Then....it split into 4 smaller creatures that looked exactly the same but it was just smaller.....around 1 metres in diameter now.
The 4 red and black cube things that resembles slimes hopped around without care attacking me....doing no damage at all....why do I feel pity to this creature?
Taking my sword more in an emotion I don't understand rather than rage, I killed these 4 creatures in front of me. And....another 4 appeared from the corpse of each of them making 16 of them in total.
“....”
What was going on here? I killed them all as well and they dropped some interesting items. It looked like some sort of ball but was sort of like dust or slime in content. It was also in the colour of its eyes as well.
“I better keep these....they may come in handy soon after.”
Pocketing those items that dropped in large quantity, I continued walking in the fortress. Another thing I noticed about this place was there were often fences around this place. I mean in the gaps between the walls were fences that were placed there for no reason. What was the purpose of such a thing? Was it only to be it look better in design or was there another reason....
Rackle Rackle...
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuush!
Dodging whatever attack as that I looked and saw a skeleton. A grey skeleton with a bow in its hand. It was the first time I seen something in this place use a bow. Of course creatures that used bow or magic or any kind of range attack was rarer than the other types for some reason....well it was more like they didn't have the materials or skills or intelligence to do so. You don't see an Orc use a bow...well what would happen if they had a bow that could withstand their strength and they could aim.....instant death cannon....
Well onto topics other than instant death machines.....I noticed another thing. Everything was strangely......block like. I mean the fortress itself was designed in such a way that everything was a block. There was no spiral stairways or even circles in this place.
Walking up the stairs there were also some weird looking plants on the side on some of the unique dirt only found in this place....well it was literally everywhere in this dimension but I never seen it anywhere else besides in this dimension.
Picking some up I placed them in my inventory as well before heading a level higher. The fortress was really tall so I expect there would be several levels in it and perhaps a basement or underground level as well but I haven't seen any stairs leading that down yet.
“Ruuuuurhuuuuuuuuuuuur”
What was that noise....? I started to head to my way further up in this fortress making sure to avoid the pigmen creatures and fighting the variety of skeletons I see since they give good experience to me.
When I reached the top of the fortress was....fire elementals? No these guys were different from the fire elementals that didn't have a physical body. These guys did. With poles as their body and being bind together by flames, they floated in the air in which moved around slowly. There were 5 of them....
I tried to sneak away since I rather not fight them yet...
Creeeeeeeakkkkk!
“....”
Not again....why does this always happen at the worst possible timing?
“Ruuuuurhuuuuuuuuuuuur”
Pin Pin Pin
The strange fire creatures fired fireballs at me in the form of what seems to be literally some sort of ball with flames around it.
“Mana Shield!”
Casting a mana shield to protect myself from the attack, I started my counter attack.
Wind Formation ? Blade Form ? Wind Blade
“Wind Blade!”
I gathered wind in my hand and threw it at one of those fire creatures. It narrowly hit it and it made a mechanical sound as it was hurt my the attack. One of those rods things were damaged by my attack. Was that their weakness.
I continued to gather wind blades and fired them at the fire creatures at mass. Eventually their numbers whittled down to only 2. However my mana shield was sort of half melted now and one of their attacks broke through to hit me.
Instantly my body was covered in flames as the ball covered in flames broke.
On fire, will lose 400 Health per second
Was there some sort of flammable liquid in them which allowed the flames to spread to my body? Damn I can't even use water to get it off. I rolled on the ground while still being fired by those attacks and got to cover where I rolled in the dirt until the flames went away.
A bit pissed now I used Earth magic against these things.
Earth Formation ? Spike Form ? Earth Spikes
“Earth Spikes!” I shouted slamming my hand to the ground.
The ground under the fire creatures shook and dirt and other material gathered through the floor and hit the fire creatures several times.
Wind Formation ? Blade Form ? Wind Blade
“Wind Blade!”
Taking this chance I killed the rest of the two with Wind blades which ended the battle.
Part 2 – An update on things happening
Back out of the game, it had been around 6 or so months in the game since I ended up in that place and that means 6 months in with the training. And that means a quarter of the time in which we have to prepare.
In that time period I had gained around 17 levels at most leaving me at a level of around 368. At this rate I would be a bit short when the time comes after 2 years end.
“How many times have you guys levelled up?” I asked the two. Every month or so we gathered out of the game in this virtual space to talk about what to do and what progress we made over the month.
“This month we gained only 4 levels since we had to go to the central continent and stop the nobles on the border from invading the place. There had to be a line of church troops to stop their march. Really saddening when an army had to be made to stop an army” said Alexandra sighing. Viv continued with his words.
“While I was with Al, I encounter a number of dead spirits that wanted help and I couldn't deny as well. Although some certain skills increased, it wasn't related to the ones I need to fight with. Though I could just summon and command a ghost army when the time comes.”
“Are you trying to make a horror film or something? Nothing too flashy that will make other people notice us. I went through the videos that other people took a while back....” I said denying Viv from creating a possibly powerful army but at the same time a attention drawing one as well.
Some of those videos were really exciting for most parts but most of them were really just we slaughtering a large number of things by ourselves whether it was monster, NPCS or other players. There were lots of talks of whether we were actually event creatures or not since we never seem to give the impression of being players....
“What about you Eden?” asked Viv.
“Ah, finally got to that black fortress the game was talking about. Maybe I'll be able to find a way out soon....sigh....this would never happen if I could find the portal I fell through of to begin with.....”
Alexandra waved her hand casually dismissing my words and said, “With your luck, I'm surprise you really didn't end up in the real hell.”
That's true. When I got there I really expected it to be hell with all the heat and lava and strong powerful monsters as well...
“Also didn't you say that the place increased your skills with fire and earth magic as well? Something like your body remembering the feeling of the power over those spells and such increasing your skill levels in those types of magicks?” she continued.
What Alexandra was talking about was some messages saying that the speed that my skills with Fire and earth increased faster than normal in that place. Its whole effects on me wasn't completely known but I had a feeling that my skills with those types of magicks increased faster than other elements in that place.
“The only problem is that I never heard of the place called 'The Nether' before on the forums at all” I sighed. There was literally no information about the place besides the things I had to learn about it.
[I can explain that]
“Eh?”
There was some sort of robot body next to meeeeeeeee!
“Ah!” I screamed of the sudden appearance of the thing sitting next to me. Calming down and shouted, “Don't do that!”
[In that case I will change the way I will appear in this virtual realm in the future. Next time may be as a tentacle monster in the bath]
“....”
What is this horrible sense of humour.
[To answer your question, that place called the Nether is a leftover piece of code from simulations that I had done of other games integrating their game mechanics with virtual reality as a test run before this game was finalised. My creator wanted some Easter Eggs about those games since it helped him create this game in Royal Road after we weren't suppose to change things and as such it inadvertently caused a ripple effect in which some features of other games appearing in this game. The reason why those other world people appeared for no reason was due to this]
“Hmm? In that case why was some lore changed to integrate them in?”
[That is because there was already coding in which their history was written. All the system did was collect that data and made some adjustments to the history of the game. The tower that appeared in this game already existed once as data in storage so it could be recreated in game easily]
“In that case llyfr, Warlic and Crysero once existed in the game?”
[Not exactly. Only the model of the tower existed, every other entity did not even though it was a simulation. All the simulations were of the beginning and game mechanics of other games, what occurred in those simulations differed from what exactly happened in their game as well as individuals and their personalties. When that Tower first appeared, it was truly like something from another dimension appearing in the game itself. The possibility of such a thing happening existed but it only occurred to such a scale with the appearance of the tower]
“Okay....I don't remember llyfr being something that was in a game with Warlic and Crysero.”
[That is because of the parallel entity of both what you know and what actually happened in another alternate-]
“Okay stop explaining! So how did llyfr first appear then? Why did some creatures from Royal Road know him?”
[Perhaps during the simulations in which multiple games were being simulated at the same time to test the strain in which the servers could hold at the same time, llyfr a character that had no relation to Warlic and Crysero mixed into their world in the simulation or llyfr was a glitch of multiple factors in which also ended up in another game world simulation. There are many possibilities but the data in which those events happened were deleted and only the structural data were stored. What they are are the leftover code in which the simulation continues. As such only the buildings and other items from other game words could be easily placed in the game without much effects. However some items when still previously recorded are too powerful to be balanced in Royal Road such as the mana fragments as they are called now which have a negative effect on Royal Road's game world. The reason in which other creatures know of the one called llyfr was that his data was and is continuously scanned and the world is slowly adjusting to his personal history and power. Bit by bit he is being integrated into the game so he would not affect the system and the system would be able to affect him. This is so he can not do damage to the system itself and to protect the safety of other players]
“Okay then....what about me then? My class and race. What about them? And my skills and powers?”
[Your current class and race did not exist in the game previously. It is as a result of the scanning of llyfr that such a thing could be in the game in the first place as the system recognises the race and class to exist in the game itself. The skills you currently posses besides the ones that were already in the game before the tower event occurred was also due to the scanning of the unknown entities as well. As such the system was able to create something similar to what did not exist in the game and gave it a connection to what already existed in the data. Your powers from what the data suggest comes from the race you have and the class you possess only adds to that. It is the same as I previously stated. The data of the game was just updated live to make sure nothing dangerous happens]
“....Damn I thought I met inter-dimensional aliens...”
[It is correct to think that. I do not have a way to analyse whether what I had said previously was true or not. They might actually be truly inter-dimensional aliens that came to the Royal road game world by accident and not the byproduct of the simulations I had done before. There are actually theories that we are also in fact fictional beings as well and that this universe is in fact a dream or story if you may say. As long as you don't think about it too hard, it won't affect you]
“Hmm...that make sense. But what is the Nether anyway? I thought that place's data was stored and wasn't in the game.”
[Actually that place is an early prototype of a place called the Divine Realm where Gods lie in the game. The beings you know as Gods in the game are actually just NPCs that are given more administrative power over the game then other NPCs. The power they have is over the game is above what a GM has but a GM can use me to undo a change in the game if it has severe side effects to the players such as causing health problems as an example. One of those Gods were using the old data from the simulations as reference to create a Divine Realm but screwed up and scrapped it leaving it there in the game. There are actually no living NPCs there and it remains incomplete as the other data was just taken and edited over before being discarded so there may be some things that are misplaced in there. It was by pure luck that you fell into a portal that led you to that place]
“.....”
So something screwed up and didn't want to clean it up.
[The system will clean that place off the game system after you make it back to the continent]
“Why can't you teleport me out?”
[Cheating is wrong and there is an actual way out of that place. Only in circumstances in which there wasn't a way out, then I would teleport you out of there]
So....more months exploring the fortress to get out?
“Then what happens if I take stuff from the place to the game?”
[That would be fine since the data is in the system. It will disappear sooner or later when someone uses to make something and fails. It is designed to do that with the stuff you collected so far in the nether so just sell it for a high price to some NPC and they will buy it at a high price off you]
“I see....”
How much gold will I get now from this? I should spend more time then necessary in that place collect stuff then.
A evil grin appeared on my face. But first there was another matter to settle with.
“What are we going to do with our equipment now?” I asked.
“What about them? They're fine right?” asked Alexandra confused on the topic.
“Well most of our armour are...outdated for our level but we make do since it doesn't really matter to us against normal foes. But soon we may need better equipment and such if we want to face something that even we cannot beat. I mean, at our current state, we will completely lose if we went against them 3 to 5. Because of that we need to get better equipment though not know but for the future.....also we may want to buy it if possible.”
“Hmm....” Viv thought about it and said, “What if we get the Goddess AI to tell us where the equipment we want is?”
[No can do, that would be cheating. But I can hint to you where some equipments or items that will result in equipment being built are located though most of the stuff are too high level for you and some of them results in conditions that are difficult to achieve]
“That's fine, how long do you think we would take to get them?” I asked.
[Around a year I suppose, you lot did travel from the eastern continent to the northern continent on foot in around a few months while killing everything in sight. However I do recommend that you gain as many levels as you can before the first half of the time you have ends]
“In that case we can just scrap most of our plans from before and leave it to the others I suppose. You two have to find really high level dungeons properly in the 500 or 600 range. Somewhere like the southern continent I suppose while I spend more time in that dimension I'm stuck in while finding a way out.”
“Aren't you having trouble in that place?”
“Well....yeah though that's only because my focus was to escape from it. Killing everything inside the place is a much easier thing to do.”
“Then we'll met at the new base in 6 months time then. When you get out of that place, PM me so I can tell you the location” said Alexandra.
“....”
Why can't you tell me now...?
Part 3 – The Journal of a Settler
Another 6 months passed in game making that a full year with me fighting and killing everything I saw and that moved. Basically now that I know that the things in this place would be highly valued in the game outside this dimension, which means lots and lots of gold.
Naturally someone without a purpose would not know what to do with all of that gold, so I will just store it in the form of investments, yes for the future or to fund the armies that will be needed soon enough against the 5 Shadow Dragon Kings. Another thing is that I explored most of this fortressed and looted everything it held that I could get my hands on. My natural gaming instincts were returning slowly....
Due to the fact that half the time I would possibly be allowed to train had been consumed quite quickly against foes that are quite strong, I managed to gain quite a few levels in this place. OF the enemies I fought the most experience rewarding ones were definitely the undead pigmen that plagued this place like no other. Because when you attack one, several other know and therefore aggro on you as well, farming them was quite a easily task.
Step one was to get to a large area that wasn't that open. Step two was to make a pit trap in which they were fall into and step three was to attack the undead pigmen which leads to sometimes a hundred of them rushing at me at once. I must say that the scene of so many of those gross creatures trying to kill me with their gold swords was quite frightening. The final step was to naturally push them into the pit trap since they're not that stupid to fall into them themselves.
After that was simple either me crushing them with the environment or training my magic skills and other range abilities on them until they all died. Afterwards I would collect the loot which often involved small quantities of gold which is a nice bonus though sometimes I get their flesh as well. They gave only a moderate amount of experience and the strength of a common level 500 but they were often in large groups which made farming them easier and the most efficient method. The main problem was when I was forced into close combat with a group of them which usually do no end well for me.
The next most commonly met creature in this fortress was unfortunately the skeletons, both the black and grey variant though the grey ones appears more often. For some odd reason, the grey skeletons are unable to shoot in any direction than straight so I can just put a wall that doesn't cover the bottom half and they won't even try to shoot me from there though sometimes they get a bit smart and try to crawl under which makes them great targets for my magic. Not much experience compared to the undead pigmen but they do drop lots of bones when they die
The black skeletons with the powerful swords are another matter. Using the same strategy works to a certain extent but they would run away into other monsters in the fortress when I do. However for some odd reason when I attack them using sword skills alone in close combat, they do not retreat at all even if it means their deaths. While more difficult to handle, out of all the monsters I've seen in this place, they gave the most experience. They were most likely around level 600 but the majority of their strength comes from that wither effect they deal with the sword. Thankfully that debuff does not affect me so they were more like high experience level 400 mobs which I can handle on my own thankfully.
The next enemy, the flying flame creature is one of the more difficult ones to handle in which I try to avoid facing against them if possible. Because of the power to easily set me ablaze, I would often have to fight behind cover while they were free in the air attacking me from all directions. While both balls of flames that spread fire quickly are dangerous, I found that they cannot penetrate the thick black walls of this place or even a simple dirt wall in fact. The trouble is that they can fly though very slowly which is a big problem indeed. Making sure they are of the same level or lower seems to be the key strategy in facing them. I estimate their level to be around the 650 mark, one of the highest in this place alone.
The last enemy that existed in this fortress....no to be more precise circling this fortress was something I rather no face. It lets out a great cry whenever it fires one of its attacks which is similar to the ones the flying flame creatures uses but it has a much higher amount of damage and can destroy parts of the fortress itself. It was some sort of white thing in the air which I cannot describe properly since it was too far away to see since it was just sniping me from afar. Sometimes I think there are a few of them at once which makes things worse. I don't know what they are, I don't want to know and it will properly kill me if I do find out.
“This is the last place....” The room that I am about to enter was guarded by the thickest amount of those black skeletons I have ever seen. There were literally 20 or so of them in a group which surprised more than anything since usually for every black skeleton I see, I usually find a hundred of any other mobs in the area first.
But first I still need to get rid of those black skeletons.
Due to the mass amount of grinding I've done which was part boring and part fun in some way, I have gained levels to go over 400 which was very surprising in many ways....well not really. All I did was farm and continue to farm monster in this place.
Earth Formation ? Wall Form ? Earth Wall
“Earth Wall.”
I cut the group of 20 black skeletons into two groups so I won't die as fast. Then I Continued to cast Earth Walls every time I have the chance to split them up even more. Due to this, I managed to separate them into groups of 2 or 3 at most in boxes that I could open and face them.
“Crystal Palace of Reflection.”
Crystal Palace of Reflection is now active, number of mirrors to be created at default 10
During my trip through the Nether and through this fortress I relied on this particular skill to make sure that I don't get ambushed or something like that and die. It was an interesting skill in which the mirrors that are floating around can only take 3 hits before being destroyed. The nice thing is that it can take any attack no matter how strong it is.
Because of this, the strong hitters are much easier to handle but this skill doesn't work as well with the continuous hitters or the speed types. Although this skill is in the intermediate level now thanks to certain perks that increase the levelling speed of skills, and I could make more mirrors than right now, I set it to the lowest which I was comfortable with which was 10.
This was due to the fact that this skill drained mana from me every time a mirror is created. If I'm not careful, the skill would drain tons of mana from me to create perhaps 20 or so mirrors at once to only let them be destroyed again and the cycle of me losing mana continues.
When all 10 mirrors were formed and I was ready to face the first one, I prepared a spell to only partly take down a wall in front of me.
Earth Formation ? Earth Destruction
“Earth Destruction” I said taking down part of one of the walls allowing one black skeleton to let loose.
Rackle Rackle
Suuuuuuuuuush
Immediately seeing me, the black skeleton charged right at me striking me with it's sword.
Bang!
Also immediately, one of the mirrors moved in to block the attack perfectly deflecting back the physical blow to the sword and to the black skeleton. Stunned for a brief few seconds, I moved in to slice at the black skeleton while I had the chance. I think I took about maybe 5% of its health from this.
The cycle of me using the mirrors as cover as I attack the black skeleton continued and I didn't even need to use Dragonic Release or Dragonic Overload as well. I found that to grind up skills, it would be better to have longer more difficult battles than easy quick ones. As such I saved those skills only in situations where I could've been killed. I don't want to die and my progress to disappear after all.
After another few hours of killing these black skeletons, sometimes with great difficulties or sometimes with ease, I managed to gain another level off them brining my total level up to 403. From what I know, I am now in the top tier players in terms of pure level alone as there were only a few hundred players at this point that are over level 400.
During the time period of a year, I spent a lot of time training my skills so they would level up. In particular there were a few skills that increased the most since I trained them the most. Mainly they were skills that went from the intermediate levels to the advance levels or from the beginner levels to the intermediate levels.
My skills were of followed right now.
Sword Mastery Advance Level 1
Allows you to be more familiar with the way of the sword. This gives you great speed and power behind each strike.
Increase sword speed by 100%
Increase sword strength by 350%
Sword Skill only takes only ¼ of what it costs
Magic Mastery Advance Level 8
The ability to manipulate mana. It serves to increase the ability to cast and learn magic of all kinds. Also augments the power of the magic you use.
Increase casting speed by 170%
Increase magic strength by 420%
Magic Skill only takes only ¼ of what it costs
Elemental Mastery Advance Level 5
The ability to master all elements. You can create spells or imitate ones you see if you want. The ultimate ability in magic that was lost long ago. As this skill increase in level you can manipulate the elements more easily and your resistance to the element will increase as well.
Increases Elemental damage by 240%
Increase Elemental resistance by 24%
Ancient Magic Mastery Advance Level 5
The power to distort reality itself. Ancient Magic is so rare not because it was deemed forbidden, but because of the high risk that comes with using it. Because of this, Ancient Magic Users often fail their powerful spells and kill themselves.
Spell Strength Bonus: 240%
Spell Controllability Bonus: 240%
Spell Success Cast Rate Bonus: 24%
Magic Control Advance Level 6
Allows you to manipulate and control magic more easily. It does not affect the speed of the magic but it'll increase your ability to control it properly. As this skill increase you will be able to control the range and trajectory of your magic more easily.
Increase success rate of all spells hitting the target by 25%
Reduces chance of Spell Failing by 25%
Unarm Combat Mastery Intermediate Level 6
Using the body as a weapon. With the increased mastery of this skill, the body will become more flexible and stronger as you use only hands and feet for combat.
Increase strike speed by 65%
Increase strike strength by 200%
Tri-Aura Mastery Intermediate Level 5
The power to balance three auras at the same time. Along with the balance Golden Aura, you have unlocked the offence driven Red Aura and the Defence driven Blue Aura. According to modern thinking, is act is impossible without negative side effects but this body can handle it. This skills increases the abilities to use Aura as well as better control over all three types of Auras at once in order to balance the three auras at once
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Aura Strength: +14 %
Aura Control: +14%
Aura Skill only takes only ½ of what it costs
Mediation Advance Level 4
Regain your mana by focusing on yourself.
Regain 475 Mana per Minute
Damage taken when Mediating reduced by ¼
Mana Absorption Advance Level 1
The ability to use the force of the enemy and everything around you as fuel. Does not require direct contact and range cannot be controlled. As the skill increases the power of the drain and its strength increases.
Absorb 20 mana per second passively
Range: 200 metres
Reduce Mana Absorption to allies by 50%
Mana Shield Advance Level 2
To create a shell to protect the user form all harm big and small. Also known as a borg in some places, magicians of the past often used this in battle to protect themselves from physical and magical attacks. Only one shell can be produced at a time but as the skill levels up the number of shells produced and the strength of each shell will increase.
Cost: 25 mana
Shield Health per use: 4300
Number of Shields can create at one time: 21
Reduce Damage on Shield by 21% + ¼ reduction to damage
Able to Supply Mana Shields with mana to increase its Health and Defence
Creation Magic Advance Level 2
The power that rivals gods themselves. To create matter requires energy. This comes from any source in exchange to bypass the laws set at the beginning of time. Anything can be create as long as there is enough energy or mana to make it. The strength of the object made and the length at which it lasts will increase with the level.
Mana used per square metre: 1000
Items have the full durability of the original item
Flight Magic Intermediate Level 2
The power to fly freely in the air. Using several complicated formulas to set the skill up, flight is possible. Using Flight magic however requires a large amount of mana to sustain the flight and thus using other spells at the same time is highly difficult.
Mana Cost: 50 per minute
Negate Mana Intermediate Level 1
Able to Negate partly the use of Mana in an area around you. In this state, mana cannot be used at all which includes the use of Magic, Magic Items or Skills that use Mana
Negate Mana Amount: 50%
Range: 10 Metre
Mana Cost: 50 Per Second
Passively able to negate 20% of magic attacks
Soul Scan Advance Level 6
The ability to see the raw essence of all creation. With this skill you will be able to sense the presence of others at will.
Range: 75 metres
Able to sense uncommon and rare souls in the area
Able to sense non-living beings in the area
Mana Channelling Intermediate Level 8
The power to manipulate mana in a finer way. With this skill, using mana will become easier as well as spell having less mana requirements in order to cast. While this skill has been gained, there are properties to be unlocked in this skill via special actions
Current Properties:
- Prevents Mana from leaking from body (Mana Regeneration +90%)
- Rotates Mana in body (Mana Regeneration +130%, Mana Control +130%)
- Able to gather Mana in parts of Body (Attack and Defence +90%)
Spacial Teleportation Beginner Level 1
The ability to bend space itself in order to travel great distances at once. However right now the skill is incomplete to the user as it was made recently. Levelling this skill up however will correct this skill. At this stage you can only teleport to prepared stations for teleportation.
Man Cost: 10 000 per person
Crystal Palace of Reflection Intermediate Level 5
Creates small mirrors of crystal that is magical charged to move about in space and deflect all attacks that are coming towards the user. With this skill, the small crystal mirrors can only take a certain amount of damage before being destroyed however you can create several of these plates at once and will continue to be created as this skill is active. Mana will be drained as the mirrors are continued to be created.
Mirror Cost: 100 mana each
Number of times it can deflect attacks each: 4
Number that can be created at a time: 24
Garden of Eden Intermediate Level 6
An AOE skill that allows the user to use any and all spell in this area without restrictions, cool downs or mana cost at all. However in order to use this skills, you must supply it with mana first for a set period of time. The range of this skill while the mana costs will decrease as this skill levels up. This skill is limited to low and medium levels pells and cannot be used with high level spells.
Range of skill: 20 metres
Mana Cost to activate: 25 000
Mana Cost to maintain: 150/second
Dragon Transformation Intermediate Level 5
Created to replace Body Transformation, this is a skill to transform your body into one of a Dragon, the absolute force of destruction in the world. This skill will help seal off the Body Transformation skill and cannot be used if Body Transformation is active or in skill list.
This skill is the core of power itself. One of the most powerful and deadest transformation skill in existence, it turns the user into a Dragon. Teeth turned to Fangs, hands turned into Claws, the body itself becomes a weapon that can destroy empires and create them anew. With an enormous amount of strength, this form can be sustained for a long period of time.
Skill can only be used after after the Quest 'Path to control the Dragon' is completed.
There are 5 stages in Dragon Transformation.
Stage 1: Initial Humanoid Dragon Transformation +24% to all stats
Stage 2: Part Humanoid Dragon Transformation +38% to all stats
Stage 3: Half Humanoid Dragon Transformation +52% to all stats
Stage 4: Humanoid Dragon Transformation +66% to all stats
Stage 5: Full Dragon Transformation +80% to all stats
Full Dragon Size: 70 metres
Mana Cost Per Hour:
Stage 1: 1000
Stage 2: 5000
Stage 3: 10000
Stage 4: 30000
Stage 5: 50000
Magic King Drive Intermediate Level 4
The act of exposing your basic nature to the extreme in the form of your aura. Doing this will drastically increase your stats and skills to the limit forcefully. However in exchange the burden on the body is increased several fold and can easily lead to death. As such it is more important to have a body that can sustain the state for as long as possible but it still requires some level of magic aptitude. As this skill levels up, the bluff on the user will increase as well.
Magic King Drive gives the Following benefits:
- Spell Damage Increase by 180%
- Spell Range Increase by 180%
- Freely able to use the Elements at Will
- Strength Increase by 180%
- Agility Increase by 180%
- Movement Speed Increase by 180%
- Defence Increase by 180%
- Able to use 'Golden Weapon Trio' Freely in this state
- Resistance to Magic Increase by 49% (Max is 99%)
Time Limit: Until you die or Stamina is exhausted
Poison Purging Advance Level 3
Through the use of skilfully manipulating the body, you are able to eject harmful substances from your body. Though a bit unsightly, it is effect however you are vulnerable in this state.
Time to Purge Poison: 38 seconds
Poison Resistance: 27%[window]Battle Aura Advance Level 2
Creates a Aura used for battle. It can be used both for offence and defence in battle and is proportional to the amount of fighting spirit or related stats you have. It can also be used to intimidate enemies.
Density can be manipulated when active to defence, attack or intimidate.
Passive Effect:
Defence increase: 26%
Speed increase: 26%
Attack increase: 26%
Fighting Spirit increase: 31%
Active Effect:
Defence increase: 178%
Speed increase: 178%
Attack increase: 178%
Fighting Spirit increase: 183%
Drains Stamina to use when Active
Dragonic Release (MAX)
A modified version of the outer seal which once allowed access to power above the norm. Upon changing to a lesser race, this ability was taken away. In exchange, this state will pushes the body's limit was created to replace that. Improvements have been made so this state has more power and stability compared to the original.
- Spell Damage Increases by 100%
- Spell Range Increase by 60%
- Mana Absorption can be Activated
- Strength is Increased by 60%
- Agility in Increased by 60%
- Movement Speed Increases by 30%
- Defence Increases by 30%
- Resistance to Magic Increases by 20%
- Domination is twice as effective
- Fighting Spirit is increased by 150%
Time Limit: 12 Hours
Dragonic Overload (MAX)
A modified version of the inner seal which once allowed access to power beyond the norm. Upon changing to a lesser race, this ability was taken away. In exchange, this state will pushes beyond the body's limit was created to replace that. Improvements have been made so this state has more power and stability compared to the original. Partly inspired by Balance Breaker.
- Mana Doubles
- Gives Rapid Natural Mana Regeneration of 150 mana/second
- All Skills rank up by 1
- All Skills in Beginner Levels rank up to Intermediate
- Spell Damage Increases by 150%
- Spell Range Increase by 80%
- Strength is Increased by 80%
- Agility is Increased by 80%
- Movement Speed Increases by 50%
- Defence Increases by 50%
- Resistance to Magic Increases by 30%
- Fighting Spirit is increased by 200%
Time Limit: 4 Hours
Dragon Rampage (MAX)
Once a day is can double your stats in exchange to go berserk in the battlefield. This skill does not cause the body to indiscriminately attack people however but rather focus the rage for a burst of power.
Damage you deal: 2 times
Damage you take: 2 times
Evil Glaze (MAX)
A passive skill that projects your fighting spirit through your eyes. Those with low fighting spirit will be paralysed while others will have lowered stats and chance of skill or spells activating.
Presence Concealment Advance Level 3
The ability to fade yourself into the background making it harder for people to detect you. There is a legend that the most the few masters of this skill, the Cloud Knights are able to drift in and out of forts without anyone knowing to the point that even the strongest knights do no know where to swing.
When active:
- Presence is reduced to near zero or to of a normal person's
- Unable to use Flashy Attacks
- No Stat reduction
- Critical Hits will be more likely in this state +15%
- Able to move around people more easily
Recovery Burst Advance Level 7
A burst of regeneration energy surging through the body. Most wounds will naturally heal in this state though it will cause extreme pain to the user. Along with this healing, status debuffs will be removed and mana will regeneration at a high speed.
- Increase Mana Regeneration by 320%
- Wounds will heal instantly
- Body's naturally healing rate will be increased
- Skill will activate automatically after a certain amount of damage
Mental Acceleration Intermediate Level 4
Increase the mental speed in which the brain works at. In this state, time will seem to slow down as the body adapts to it as well as processing speed and thinking speed will increase as well. However in exchange, the mind is heavily restrained in this state resulting in extreme mental exhaustion when used. Some effects includes extreme headaches to blacking out.
- Control over Body and Magic will increase in this state
- Time will slow down in this state
- Speed in which the Body can move as well as the speed of casting spells will increase
- Able to manipulate the strength of this skill
Aura Channelling Intermediate Level 5
The ability to regulate and manipulate the Aura in your body with fine detail. Using this skill, the aura in the body will become more efficient in enhancing the body in both speed and strength. There are some properties that can be unlocked via special means.
Properties Unlocked:
- Aura will be leak out unintentionally (Stamina Regeneration +75%)
- Rotates Aura in body (Stamina Regeneration +150%, Aura Control +150%)
- Able to gather Aura in parts of Body (Attack and Defence +75%)
Six Strike Form Intermediate Level 8
Five Slashing moves and one Stabbing move is the core of the Six Strike Form. Each attack is used via a single step forward and a single attack at the same time. The Trick Shot Form has been integrated into the Form as well, allowing you to change your attack mid-way.
Weapon Speed Increase when using this Form: 90%
Weapon Damage when using this Form: 180%
Time to set up Stance: 1.4 seconds
Dance of Water Intermediate Level 7
A dance that was once used to allow humans to be processed by Gods to battle. However such techniques and such Gods are lost now but the basic form of the summoning rite was changed to allow the user more graceful and deadly movements. When active, the body is able to naturally dodge attacks in a smooth manner unless the body cannot keep up or the attack is unavoidable. Other skills can be used in this dance when it reaches intermediate level.
Mana to maintain state per minute: 50
Weapon Speed increase: 26%
Body speed increase: 26%
Golden Weapon Trio Intermediate Level 8
The three weapons of unknown origins have been used by a great hero in the past. It was forged using part of his soul and as such it can be called into the world through such means at any time and place. The three weapons are a sword, spear and bow.
The Golden Sword Torrwch has the power of destorying what cannot be destroyed and is capable to seal and unseal creatures and objects
The Spear Torrwr had the power of being nearly unbreakable and can change its shape form the will of the user.
The Bow Saethwr has the power of multiplying the projectile fired and also had the power to turn the projectiles fired into homing shots.
Mana Cost per Summon: 1000
Number of Weapons able to summon at once: 17 x Level
Impaling Strike Sword Techniques (100%)
5 very old yet powerful sword techniques based on stabbing using a weapon. This can be used for all kinds of weapons such as spears and lances which gives bonuses.
Skills:
- Burst Strike
- Reset Point
- Double Strike
- Crimson Lance
- Armour of Blood Warrior
Increase damage: 100%
Uses Red Aura to increase damage
Slashing Strike Shield Techniques (20%)
Paired with the Impaling Strike Sword Technique, these five techniques involve using the defensive powers of the shield or otherwise other weapon to attack instead of defend. While not having a high amount of power, it does increase defence while attacking using these techniques
Skills:
- Defensive Slash
Increase Defence: 20%
Uses Blue Aura to increase defence
(Now you all know why I switched to the other format of showing skills, this list is 8.5 pages long!)
Anyway I opened the steel door that they gathered at my pulling a level on the wall which opened the door. Inside was what I wanted....or at least part of it.
There was a strange rectangular object standing upwards and with a large hole in it for at least two people to fit in. From the magical feeling that comes from it, I suppose its the portal but its not working right now....
“Did I come here for nothing?”
That would be bad even though I managed to gain so many levels in this place. I looked around some more and found that there was a body....well a corpse....well bones of a corpse to be more precise.
It was strangely shaped as well. Instead of being...well round at places, it was square like instead. The skull in particular was just like a cube with holes in them. This is due to the fact that this dimension was mostly made from stuff from other games?
I looted the body and found two things. A diary journal of some sort and a pickaxe. I looked at the pickaxe first since it was strangely identified beforehand....
Steve's Lucky Pickaxe of Fortune Durability: 300/300 Damage: 30-50
Made of pure diamonds and the best enchantments you can get on a pickaxe, this item is a legendary rank item that all miners desire. The runes on the pickaxe gives it the properties of being near unbreakable, extremely efficient and lucky as well. The ancient works on this pickaxe also gives it unknown effects that were lost in time as well. It was said that Steve always carried it on him where ever he went and used it to mine countless types of ores, even some legendary ones as well. It can also serve as a minor light source as well in the dark
Restrictions:
- None
Option:
- Stamina +50
- Agility +50
- Luck +150
- Able to collect up to 4 times the amount of ore from one ore pocket
- Able to quickly mine through any material
- Can glow in the dark
Jackpot! Well...besides the fact that I don't have the luck stat at all....maybe I can give it to Alexandra or Viv or something to mine for me....well the Goddess AI did say that we may need to find the material to make better gear as well.
Next thing I looked at was the diary journal this guy had. It was really old and looks a bit burnt so I tried to be careful reading it.....the handwriting is horrible as well....
Steve's Journal
When I first opened my eyes in this new world, it was all....peaceful and beautiful to the point I immediately fell in love with it. With nothing on me, I started to gather some of the most basic materials for my new life here; Wood, Cobblestone and Coal. With these materials by the end of the first day, I made a small shack where I soon later gathered and stored excess things in. In this world filled only with blocks, I had so much hope. Then night fell and I immediately realised something was wrong. There were....monsters....
Zombies, Skeletons, Spiders and those awful creepers can and attacked me. Thankfully they were not that smart and hiding in my shack and digging underground was enough to evade them. From there on, I made weapons and armour from the stone and iron I found to defend myself with.
After the first night, slaying the remainder of the monsters that attacked me, I noticed that both zombies and skeletons burned in sunlight while spiders were no longer hostile. The creepers however were still the same and till the end was one of my worse enemies and worst nightmare.
The next thing I needed to do was to gather food and possibly animals to set up a farm since in this world you need food to survive. Gathering small amounts of seeds, wheat and carrots I lured in animals to trap them into fences. Potatoes, Pumpkins and Melon were also gathered and planted to grow as well. In a matter of a few days along with defending my new farm, I had made a self sustaining home.
With time I continued to expand my home making it better and more complex in design to the point it was similar to a mansion. On the borders of my home and farm I had created traps to make sure those monsters would not bother me when I was inside and mechanisms that would clear them away at the morning where they still try to breach my home through the walls I built. It had been months since I first came to this world and I have settled down with little excitement left in my bones. It was at this time that I first made my priced pickaxe of diamond that would soon to be with me until the end of my days.
With it, I mined the black material that was used to make a portal to the Nether. A place that only had flames and lava in it. I still explored it and found new types of monsters in this place as well as sometime black fortresses shattered about this place. There were many things that I have found including materials to make the firsts of potions in this world as well as materials that is used to make items that will guide me to the end.
Then something unusual happened. There were other people, just like me. New people that came to this world. Seeing them with joy, I explained the dangers of night to them and gave them some basic supplies for them to start their way as well. I did offer them to stay at my place since it was often empty save me but they refused and wanted to build their own homes. Of course I offered my help and they agreed. The first thing I did was to build defences for them in order to keep them safe.
As more time passed and more and more of my people appeared in these lands as well, the lone mansion turned into a small set of houses to a small village to a town. Each set of homes had their own space where they could set up blacksmiths, farms or whatever they wanted. In the centre was a community set of supplies and other systems in which would supply the town if they do not have the materials themselves. People often donate extra supplies to this which increases what we have in storage.
Months turned into years and the modest town was now a large city with people leaving to set up their homes further out to expand our civilisation. Even more years passed and the first Kingdom of this land was formed with a charming young lad as the King. I did not take up on the offer due to my old age and my bones were not as strong as they were. However there was a odd one older than even me who continues to slay zombies and other monsters at night. Old man Willakers they call him though I just call him Bruce. Things seemed peaceful but things were coming to an end as darkness was soon to take everything from me.
On the 50th year of when I first came to these lands, the monsters attack with a scale much larger than any other. They came from everywhere at every time at once. The cities, the towns and the small villages were soon consumed into war. I too took up my blade to defend my old home that had been with me for 50 long years. However the waves of enemies were endless and all walls were turned into rubble quickly by the creepers while those who tried to escape were shot by the skeletons.
Countless towns and villages were lost in the first night and it was soon to be worse. The monsters retreated when day broke and we gathered out things to move into a more secure location. The battle continued with forts being built all over the place to defend our lands but where darkness lied there were monsters literally....the forests were no longer safe and the mines as well. We had to stay in well lit areas else the monsters would appear no matter the place.
Then something even worse occurred. The zombies and skeletons that were burning in the sun no longer burned. The spiders in the day were still hostile and the creepers sometime had electricity around them which caused even more destruction when they exploded. One by one the forts were destroyed with the cities they were protecting being destroyed soon after as well. My old friend led our people into battle over and over again but all it resulted in some time gained with great sacrifices.
There were many talks of staying underground while others wanted to go into the skies. The monsters ruled the underground now so there were plans to go into the skies where the monsters could not touch us. However a cry that split the sky stop those plans as well. There was a legend that I was investigating for long years for a Dragon that lived at the end. The end was a place where Enderman who controlled space lived. There was also towers of this special material that would appear when lava hardened all over the place as well. And there was the Dragon of the End as well called the EnderDragon. In my trip there I slay it and it left an egg. However when I tried to destroy that as well it disappeared as if someone teleported it. Perhaps this Dragon was that one from the egg from back then.
However all means of escape was cut off. My old friend at the last fort for our people and 50 of our bravest died in one last battle where they fought thousands and thousands of monsters falling one by one. That was the end of the man called Old Man Willakers. In last ditch effort, we made the forbidden Nether Portal and went into it to escape. There, all water disappeared but with the supplies we had we could survive for some time. Only then when I thought about it, the black fortresses that I have found on my journeys to this place were in fact built by those like us. Those who have lost their world to the monsters to come here to escape for one last time.
Upon coming here, one person stayed back to break the portal from the other side while we did the same on this side as well.
The Zombie Pigmen did not attack unless provoked so we avoided them as much as possible and walked through them when we had to. The small amount of gold they dropped were used to make weapons and armour that were usable for only a short while before breaking.
The skeletons with bows were still here but in less quantities which was a god sent. However they were a threat when crossing over lava so we made safety the first and most important thing. Their bows and arrows allowed us to fight from afar which was handy as well.
The black skeletons....the Wither Skeletons were powerful and dangerous even when using potions to combat them. One hit and your life may disappear in mere seconds. But to take care of them, we just had to block their path off and hit their legs till they died.
The blazes that float in the air and fire balls of fire at us were also a threat due to the likelihood of those burning to death. Using a bow here was very important and their rods could be made into potions that increased resistance to fire and lava.
The Ghasts that cry in the air before firing at us were also a major threat to us as well due to the fact their attacks were powerful to take down structures as well. There was a trick to fire at the projectile to hit it back at them which would usually kill them in one hit. Else you may want to fire at them with a bow since they would never come near you enough for you to use a sword.
Finally.....though more rare than anything else was The Wither. A creature that I once almost lost my life to. With three heads and the power to float in the air as well as negate physical attacks to a certain extent, it was indeed frightening. Like the ghasts they could fire projectiles from their mouths that would damage structures but the Wither rapid fired them instead which made them even more dangerous.
As time went on and as the fortress was being built, more and more of us died. Eventually it was just me and these endless swarms of monsters. I made this portal to escape but without a spark to light it I cannot activate it. A strong magical flame stronger than lava itself is needed to light the portal. I am too old and weak to do that now....this is the end....goodbye world. It was a fun run....Till the next one....
The journal ended there and besides the fact that this was interesting stuff, I now know how to activate the portal.
Fire.
I left the journal here since it had no more use to me but took the pickaxe and lit the portal. A purple magical glow came from the middle of the portal and when I stood in it, I felt like I was being teleported.
Due to the lack of portal on the other side, you will be teleported to a random location on the other side
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Author's Notes
- Word Count: 10000~
- Well this went a bit off for this chapter. It was meant to be first half escape then second half, Trio sparring with each other + journey to get equipment and materials for equipment for end game
- Lots and lots of random crap that was spawned when writing this. Well at least Eden now has a pickaxe he can use to mine stuff.....though I was tempted to make him generate the luck stat....for it to be -10000....so tempted