+10 Liger Tooth +20 Liger Claw +1 Liger Mane +1 Liger Tail +45 Large Liger Bone +60 Liger Bone +100 Small Liger Bone ... ... +38 Gold Coins +1 West Summit Hell Dungeon Pass
Other than the usual materials and gold coins that Maria would get from killing a boss monster, there was a new item this time from the drops.
"A dungeon pass? I think this is used to enter a dungeon?"
Item Name: West Summit Hell Dungeon Pass Rank: Rare Description: Use to unlock the Hell-mode difficulty of the Enoch Mountain West Summit Dungeon Uses: 1 Level Requirement: 55
"Aw, there's a level requirement to use this thingy~ too bad then~"
Maria tossed the pass into her inventory and continued to head even deeper into the mountains. Whenever she came across a monster, she would immediately attack it with a [Fire] and then follow it up with her new combo, an ax throw + [Ruin].
She was beginning to enjoy throwing around that large ax of hers because it was satisfying to see the monsters scrambling around or just outright getting hit by the large projectile.
Maria was also relying more on her magic spells rather than her normal attacks or skills now. She remembered about the [Earth Shock] spell book in her inventory, but unfortunately for her, she still couldn't learn it.
She needed to raise her [Magical Affinity] skill's rank to have an affinity with more elements. With her skill only being rank E, Maria could only learn fire and water elemental spells. Even the [Ice] that she would get from Paimon's Magic Tome would have to be shelved until her [Magical Affinity] rose in rank.
"Ugh...how do I raise the skill rank?"
Skill Name: Magic Affinity Rank: E P. EXP: 14/100 Description: Basic affinity with the elements enabling the use of basic fire and water elemental spells. Provides a 10% increase to all Elemental Resistance Upgradeable: Magic Mastery Requirements: Magic Comprehension S, Magic Deduction S, Magical Affinity S
After separating from Paimon, the skill had only risen by 6 proficiency points until now. Even after facing off against a strong boss monster and multitudes of other mobs while mostly using magic, it only rose by so little.
"Muh...if only my normal attacks were based on my M.ATK and not my ATK stat..." Maria mumbled before pulling up her stat window.
Name: Maria Level: 22 Race: Fallen Angel Class: Dark Priestess
Subclass 1: Magus
Subclass 2: N/A Titles: Angel of Death, The Knowledgeable One, Wolf Slayer, Boar Slayer, Sprite Slayer, Rabbit Slayer, Slime Slayer, Monster Bird Slayer, ... HP: 2,560/2,560
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MP: 87,925/87,925
SP: 320/320 EXP: 75,000/2,200,000 ATK: 550 (+50~100)
DEF: 320 (+15)
M.ATK: 879(+20)
M.DEF: 4,396(+15) STR: 100 (+10)
AGI: 100 (-5)
VIT: 120 (+8)
INT: 1,650 (+26)
LCK: 10 Free Stat Points: 20
"Oh yeah, I leveled up earlier...let's just add all 20 FSPs into STR."
Maria was pretty lackadaisical with her stat distribution. She just put in her FSPs in whatever stat she thought was best and didn't go to the forums to see the recommended stat distributions for a player with her class.
Actually, that'd be pretty pointless as well. After all, Maria just made do with whatever skills she had and didn't actually conform to any play style. She wasn't the stereotypical Priestess that only focused on healing.
Technically, she was a Priestess, but a Dark Priestess to be exact. And judging by the class skills she had tucked away in her inventory, a Dark Priestess leaned towards dealing damage and debuffing enemies with status ailments. Unlike the normal Priestess who would do the opposite, healing and removing status ailments.
It was still a long way for her to get her first-class skill since she needed to be level 35, but she didn't mind that and thought that it'd be better to go at her own pace.
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Maria and Lilah were flying through the mountains and killing any monster that she caught within her bird's eye view when a request window for a video chat popped up in front of her.
When she saw that it was Lizzy who was making the request, Maria immediately accepted it.
"Ehehe~, sorry Liz, I got sidetracked!
"W-what?!"
"I am—" Maria took a quick look around. She didn't know the name of her present location and only saw mountains all around her. "—somewhere in the mountains!"
Maria quickly looked at her minimap on her HUD and saw the string of numbers and quickly informed Lizzy.
"It's 523,221,211!"
"Hehe~ I dunno~ I was only flying and suddenly I wound up here for some reason!" Maria replied with a shrug.
Lizzy shook her head helplessly on the screen and quickly bade farewell to Maria. She also made sure to tell the directionally challenged girl to stay put and not move around so much. Maria only gave an okay sign before she disconnected the video chat.
Maria was only able to wait in place for about 10 minutes before she could no longer take it.
"Let's walk around a bit~"
"Master...didn't your friend say to stay in place?"
"It's only a little bit~ come on, I'm bored!"
"...That's up for you to decide Master. I listen to whatever you say," Lilah responded.
"Alright, let's get going then!"
Maria began walking around while reminding herself not to stray too far away from her current location. But that wasn't going to happen because if she didn't want to stray too far away, she could have just walked around the area on FOOT. Instead, she stupidly decided to take off into the air.
After Maria had moved quite a bit away from her previous location, she spotted a couple of mobs on the ground and immediately engaged them in battle.
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It took Lizzy and her guildmates another 30 minutes after Maria left her previous location to arrive at the base of the Enoch Mountain Range.
"Alright, the coordinates say she's at the West Summit Area, this should be a cakewalk for us since the monsters are lower leveled than us! Let's hurry, knowing my friend, she's bound to have wandered off somewhere despite me telling her to stay put!"
"Ahaha~ what's with that Guild Leader? Does your friend have ants in her pants or something?" A guild member called out. It was a player named ShootfortheMoon, a Ranger at Level 52. Ranger was the second-tier class after an Archer.
In the Beta, the testers were only able to make it up to the third tier class so it wasn't known how many class tiers there were in total. The developers didn't give out any info so the player base only speculated that there were probably 4-5 tiers altogether.
"Nah, that's just how she is. She's the type who just can't sit around and do anything. Once we're inside, I'll call her again." Lizzy said in reply.
Her group proceeded into the area and immediately came across some Iron Hawks, Iron Moles, and Iron Tigers, all of them monsters unique to the area that ranged from level 35-45.
"Hey, Lead! I thought you said your friend was only level 22 earlier? What's she doing in a place like this?"
Even Lizzy was wondering about that. She had no clue at all what the girl could even be doing here.
"I dunno...the only thing she told me was that she was flying and suddenly—Poof—here I am."
Her guild members could only laugh at the reply. They began to look forward to seeing this eccentric friend of their guild master.
"Okay, enough chit-chat, let's hurry up and go find my friend."