《The Tale Of A Golem Master》Chapter 1
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At First I wondered to myself, "How far am I willing to go for my own flesh and blood?" The answer to that question came as quick as it was asked. I would utilize every fiber of my being to make sure that my family would complete their goals if they ask for my help. When it happened, at first I didn't know what to think. Let's roll back a bit and start from the beginning. My name is Daz. Typically I sported gray clothing to match my hair color and eyes. I wasn't very tall but honestly that didn't matter much to me. I owned a large mansion due to a ton of investments that went in the stock market. With the amount of money I've made I could like in rich splendor for the rest of my life. However, a few years ago We lost our parents to cancer.
They were two of the four remaining family members I had. One of the two came to comfort my younger brother who looked like a younger version of me, Agnus, was his wife Cindy. These two have been the closest to me for most of their lives, that was until the incident happened. About five months ago, a few men did some unspeakable things to Cindy that drove her to suicide and it made my younger brother want to commit murder, but I didn't want him to stain his hands red so I had to do everything to make this right. I called up a few friends that were amazing lawyers and managed to get all of the men who committed those heinous crimes to my sister-in-law the death penalty. In this period of time when technology had advanced to the point where deep dive VR technology exist, the laws had become even more severe for crimes like this as well.
This didn't completely settle Agnus' heart since Cidny was still gone but, both of us saw an advertisement of a game. A game called Satisfy, that would change our lives for better or worse.
Back to the present time:
Me and my brother decided on to different paths, or in this case, classes in order to achieve our mutual goal. That goal is to bring back the love of his life into this second world known as Satisfy and give myself the love I never had. To others it's just a video game, but based on the experience and the rifts that the game has caused so far, it is much more than that. Agnus has chosen to go with the necromancer class, while I went with a very unorthodox class after switching from my warrior class. This class was unheard of by the online community when I tried to look it up. It was called, Golem maker. We decided to go separate paths for now since both of our classes were meant for solo play and I didn't want to be restricting Agnus until I got stronger. My level also reset when I got the class. My current status says it all.
Name: Daz
Level: 1
Class: Golem Maker
* Experience can only increase through the golems created and not through the user.
* The probability of adding a class to golems created will increase based on inspiration used.
* If a class is added to a golem, they can only grow one rating higher than the class of the user.
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Title: One Who Defies Logic And Reason
* High resistance to Abnormal conditions.
* The growth of the class depends on the determination of the user.
* Tinkerer's will acknowledge the user easier, however they will show disdain if their skill vastly outweighs the user.
* There is a small chance of negating all lethal damage taken for one minute
* When health is at minimum, a golem can sacrifice health in proportion to 50% of the user's health so the user will survive with that amount. This can be activated three times each day.
Health: 4/4 Mana: 25/25
Strength: 1 Stamina: 4 Agility: 0.5
Intelligence: 4 Dexterity: 2 Insight: 2
Stat Points: 0
Weight: 90/200
Skills Window:
[Golem Mimic]
Lv: Basic
Able to copy the skills that a golem the user created can use.
The duration varies depending on the skill copied.
[Golem Craftsmanship Skill]
Lv: Basic
Able to craft a variety of golems only limited by the user's imagination.
The ease of use for the materials of the golem is dependent on the ranking of the skill.
There is a certain probability of creating a normal golem with a class
There is a low probability of creating a normal golem with a rare class
There is a rare probability of creating a rare golem with a normal class
There is a very rare probability of creating a rare golem with a rare class
The rating of the golem determines how far the golem will grow and each golem has different qualifications needed to break through to the next stage.
* When a Golem is defeated or killed, they don't get destroyed but rather recalled to the inventory and can't be dropped. They will recover overtime depending on the severity of the damage.
*When a normal golem with a rare class is produced, all primary stats will permanently rise by +1
*When a rare golem with a normal class is produced, all primary stats will rise by +2
Reputation throughout the continent will permanently rise by +10
*When a rare golem with a rare class is produced, all stats will rise by +3
Reputation throughout the continent will permanently rise by +20
*When a growth type golem is produced, all stats will rise by +5
Reputation throughout the continent will permanently rise by +25
*When a growth type golem with a growth type class is produced, all stats will rise by +10
Reputation throughout the continent will permanently rise by +50
*Stat increase does not count when using the 'Golem Creation' skill.
[Golem Understanding]
Lv. 1
Observe a target in order to use it as a basis to make a golem.
The duration of time for the skill to fully understand the target depends on the strength of the target.
At current level, the user cannot observe targets with a rating higher than rare unless the target currently has strength equivalent to a normal rated or rare rated class of the same level.
[Golem Craftsmanship]
Lv. 1
Produce Golems that you know how to make.
Opens up enemies to drop golem production methods upon death.
There is a certain probability to produce normal golems with or without normal classes.
There is a rare probability to create normal golems with rare classes or rare golems with no classes.
There is a very rare probability of creating a rare golem with a rare class or a growth golem with a growth class of normal or rare rating.
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There is a Minuscule probability of creating an epic golem with or without a class
* All stats of golems will increase by 4%
* Golems give 10% of their experience to the user. This amount is fixed and can't be changed.
*Golems without a class can gain one through special actions depending on the class.
*Something special will happen when five growth golems with classes are created.
[Golem Creation]
Lv.1
Allows user to create two golems every time the skill levels up.
Number of golems that can be made: 2/2
* The details of the golem determined when made will determine what type and how powerful the golem will be or become.
* When golems are produced using this skill, the user's name will be imprinted in the description of the golem.
"There is so much to break down here!"
Why did I have to help an old beggar that happened to be a tinkerer? Why did I give him money? Did I feel pity towards the man? No I lost most of my emotions a long time ago. I really did it because I was hoping for a quest but I ended up with this! This could be a huge boon for me. First off the biggest thing I noticed was that the moment I gave that beggar money and helped him, he disappeared. Right now I'm in some village called Bairan. My best opportunity right now was to leave this place and head to a lower level village or town. First though I need to see if anyone catches my eye and I can use golem understanding on them to get a good production method.
I noticed someone in the middle of the village and it seemed like he was mentally screaming to the heavens with his facial expression. He has some moderate warrior gear equipped and it would seem to be a good idea for me to get a front-liner to fight first. However I want to make a female golem, in case I somehow encounter him in the future and he sees the golem he won't think of it as his female counterpart. It definitely isn't because I want all me golems to be female or anything. I used the skill golem understanding on him while hiding in the distance.
[Scanning Target....]
[Target has a legendary class that is extremely underdeveloped, due to this no title will be gained. Would you like to use golem understanding to create a one time limited use golem production method of user 'Grid'?]
"!"
"Holy grand moly! I think I'm going blind!"
However, I read it again and again without losing site of 'Grid' and it didn't change. After calming myself down somewhat, I realized I just hit the damn jackpot! I found out who caused that global announcement too. However I won't reveal him since that would cause me to reveal myself as well. I will just silently observe him, hee hee.
[User has chosen to use Golem Understanding on User 'Grid'. Due to the extremely underdeveloped nature of that current status of the user 'Grid's' class the golem in the limited use production method will be reduced to a normal(growth) type golem with the growth type class Pagma's Kin(Normal). It will take 7 hours in order to create the method and constant view of the user will be needed, otherwise the skill with be paused. Do you wish to proceed?]
"Yes, Yes, a thousand times YES!"
I felt as if the excitement that I tried to keep down, exploded in that moment and if I wasn't in a somewhat remote corner of the village, I feel as if people would look at my like I was a pervert or creep, but right now nothing matters other than stalk..... I mean following this 'Grid' person. After Grid finished lamenting, I saw him go to a horse-drawn carriage and decided against listening to the conversation and just wanted to keep an eye on him. I didn't truly want to be labeled as a stalker. From the hand symbols that they were making it seemed like Grid was bartering with the coachman. After about 15 minutes, it seemed like the negotiations failed I saw him walk to the corner of the street and it seemed like he was interacting with the system.
Of course I just stood off to the side and observed him, he seemed very oblivious but that was probably just my imagination. I truly confirmed he was interacting with the system when he sat on a bench with a strong lack of onlookers nearby and started waving both of his hands about. He was probably designing something. It probably had something to do with his class. While I was observing Grid I decided to call up Agnus to see how he was doing.
-Hey Agnus! What you up to? Find any good corpses to revive and fight with?
-Bro, it's been a while since you contacted me, what have you been up to? Also I managed to get a few strong skeleton warriors and mages so I should be able to level a lot faster now.
-Agnus, I'm going to need you to listen to me without going crazy okay?
-Bro what's going on? Is it something bad? I'll start raising hell with my undead if that's the case.
-Don't worry man, it's nothing bad. You remember my skill Golem Understanding when I sent you the details of my class right?
-Yeah...what about it? Wait.... don't tell me you somehow managed to observe someone with a low leveled epic class!
-Hah, no it isn't something as weak as an epic class.
-Hold on, you mean that you managed to observe someone with a unique class? Daz don't tell me you're pulling my leg right now because I find that hard to believe.
-Well Agnus let me tell you, within seven hours I will have observed a Legendary class! The same one from the global announcement. The only downside is that since they are lower leveled, the one golem I can make from using the skill on him will degrade to a normal growth type golem with a normal class that can also grow.
-Daz....I think you are seriously undermining growth type classes. From my research, these classes can grow up to unique rating, and since it originally came from a legendary class I imagine it can also grow to that point! Heck with that title of yours it might go even beyond that point! Ha!
-Seriously! Damn bro! Sorry to cut the conversation short but I gotta go, the downside of this skill is I have to keep eye contact on the target during the whole duration of the skill. Talk to you later Agnus! Visit my house when you get a chance, you can even move in if you want!
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