I look upwards at the sun through some willow trees. This must be the game. It does look realistic. Ok lets look at my character page. I call out.

“Character Page” and a screen floats into my vision:

Username:

Tome

Class:

Runic Spellsword

Race:

Lizard Demi-Human

Subspecies:

Venomous Lizard

Subclass:

Enchanter

Currency:

0g 0s 10c

Strength:

3

Intelligence

6

Dexterity:

7

Constitution

4

Vitality:

6

Wisdom:

4

Charisma:

7

Luck:

6

LEVEL

1

EXP

(0/80)

Skill List:

Racial Skills:

Enchant Attack (lvl1. 0%)

Minor Enchant Weapon *Unique* (lvl1 0%)

Minor poison resistance (lvl1. 0%)

Minor regeneration (lvl1. 0%)

Retractable Elbow claws - Poisoned (lvl1 0%)

Enhanced senses (lvl1. 0%)

Not too bad if i do say so myself. I close the window and look around. A particularly concerned Lizardman is glancing around. I guess that's where I have to go first? I walk over and greet him.

“Hi, you look troubled. Need some help?” He looks over at me with a relieved expression and says hurriedly:

“Oh thank goodness! Oh humble adventurer, Mudcrabs are attacking our crops. If we don’t stop them now we won't have enough as tribute to Rattak and feed the villagers. Please help us get rid of them!”

Quest: Slay the Mudcrabs!

Mudcrabs are destroying the village crops and won’t have any food if nobody stops them!

Slay 20 Mudcrabs and bring back their claws to complete the quest.

Rank: Tutorial Quest

Complete the quest and collect a rewards from the village chief.

Y/N

“I accept your quest, don’t worry i’ll have those crabs taken care of soon.” I nod in affirmation. The distressed man smiles and thanks me. “I’ll be waiting for the good news”

I open my inventory to check what equipment i have before setting out.

Equipment:

Stats:

Wooden Training sword

2-3 Attack

Beginner Leather Armor

4 Defence

Beginner Leather Shin-Guards

2 Defence

Beginner Leather Boots

1 Defence

Beginner Leather Arm-Guards

2 Defence

Total stats:

ATK: 2-3 Def: 9

I don’t know if that is actually good or not because I can’t compare with any other players but I guess i can take couple hits to test my defence out. I can tell that my attack is on the low side because of my low strength. I look at the village around me. Its basic mud shacks In a murky swamp. I guess this must be the starting area for reptilian demi-human races. I wonder why nobody else is here?

Brushing away the thought I decide to head towards the farmland where the mudcrabs are terrorising and I see one of them eating spiked vegetables growing out of the muddy ground.

They look like normal crabs but just they are as tall as my knees and are a murky brown/grey colour with large pincers.

After about 20 minutes of walking I see the farmland in the distance and hurry forward when suddenly I see a Mudcrab in the distance, I approach the Mudcrab and it turns towards me with an aggressive stance. They don’t seem very friendly. It charges at me and I roll out the way of it and hit it with the wooden sword.

A number appears in my field of view above the mudcrabs head;

“2”

It seems it will show my damage after every hit. The crab screeches and slaps at me with it’s pinsir.

“8” (72/80) my hp decreases by quite a bit. Looks like I have to be careful around these and not aggro more than one at a time. +1 (73/80)

It seems i regen about 1 hp every 2 seconds. With my higher dexterity i should try to dodge more than tank hits. After couple more hits on the crab it collapses and some numbers appears in my view

“4XP Gained”

(4/80 exp)

It seems that after i kill all the mudcrabs in this quest I should level up.

I pick up the Mudcrab’s claw and l continue on to find more mudcrabs to slay. I should try out my skills on the next couple I see.

Another mudcrab enters my view and i sneak up behind it

“Enchant Attack” i call out, the wooden blade glows up with a magical light as I slash at the mudcrab.

Critical hit 1.5x. Appears above the mudcrabs head and it dies in two hits

“4XP Gained”

(8/80 exp)

“5 + 3 damage” so it seems that Enchant Attack adds a magical damage modifier on top of the physical damage. The crit must be from the surprise attack which increases my damage quite a bit.

Mana (90/100). So Enchant Attack takes 10 mana per cast, that means that i can only use it ten times until i need to wait until my mana regens

I continue to kill mudcrabs until there was only one of them left on the farm

After I am closer to it I noticed that this one is bigger than the rest of the other mudcrabs,

There's a name above it, Mudcrab Solder.

I sneak up behind it and get a sneak attack on it,

Critical hit 1.5x

“2 + 3 damage” looks like this mob has a higher defence than the basic Mudcrabs.

The crab retaliated and hit me with it’s pincer -16 (64/80) ah that did a lot, i can't take too many of those.

I continue to fight against the Mudcrab Solder and i dodge all its attacks

“Enchant Attack!” I call out and hit it for“3+3”. The crab suddenly roars and becomes enraged and started to wildly attack with it’s claws and legs. I keep dodging but it hits a few times in between dodging it. I keep using Enchant Attack but it doesn’t take long for me to run out of mana. It shouldn’t have that much HP left so I decide to try out my racial skill “Retractable elbow claws” Suddenly two fang like appendages burst from my elbow on my sword arm which are dripping with poison. I try to stab it with the fangs. -10 (19/80) Oh fuck the fangs broke on it’s hard shell and damaged me instead, I realised that this could get dangerous if any other crabs turn up so I slash a few more times until the crab collapses onto the ground.

“12XP Gained”

(88/80 exp)

LEVEL UP +1

“Whoo that was kinda difficult, well at least i leveled up”

All my mana and health returns to full after leveling.

A gleam catches my eye around the corpse of the Crab Soldier so i go to check it out, I find 4 coppers and a leg which can be used as a weapon. Though it only does one damage but maybe i’ll be able to do something with it later.

I check my stats now that i’ve leveled. It seems all my stats went up by one I also have 5 extra points to apply to stats as I wish so I apply two to dexterity, one to strength, one to intelligence and one to constitution, that should mean that my health and mana have gone up too.

(HP 120/120)

(Mana 120/120) so that means 1 point in wisdom equals 20 Mana and 1 point in constitution equals 20 HP that's useful to know.

Username:

Tome

Class:

Runic Spellsword

Race:

Lizard Demi-Human

Subspecies:

Venomous Lizard

Subclass:

Enchanter

Currency:

0g 0s 14c

Strength:

5

Intelligence

8

Dexterity:

9

Constitution

6

Vitality:

6

Wisdom:

5

Charisma:

7

Luck:

6

LEVEL

2

EXP

(8/200)

It should go turn in this quest. Hope the reward is worth the effort. After roughly 20 minutes of trekking through the swamp the village comes back into view and the Lizardman from before is waiting by the gate.

“Welcome back, young Hero! I trust you’ve experienced success in exterminating the Mudcrabs?” he looks at me with a hopeful look.

I smile at him, hoping my charisma would come into play and say “Fear not. I’ve exterminated all of the Mudcrabs and brought back the 20 claws you wanted. I also happened to defeat a Mudcrab soldier and got this leg. Perhaps you can find a use for it?”

“You’ve slain a mighty Soldier Mudcrab? Amazing news! That should mean we experience less attacks from the Mudcrabs, at least for a while. Please take this sword and for the Mudcrab Soldier you can take this book.”

Quest Complete!

You’ve slain the Mudcrabs that were terrorising the crops of the Lizardmen villagers crops and a reward was given for this. X1 Basic Iron Sword. 10 XP awarded

*Additional objective completed, Mudcrab soldier slain and leg delivered to Village chief. X1 Identify Skill Tome

20 XP awarded

“Thanks a lot. Make sure to find me if you need anything else for me.”

It seems i got a bonus for the Mudcrab solder leg it seemed like some kind a book.

I open up my inventory to check what it is. I call out

“Inventory”