Author's Corner: Tutorial finally ends and Jun finally learns what it means to fly.

Legend

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Chapter 3: Finishing the Tutorial with a Bang... Maybe

“Okay stop looking at your stats and get ready! Incoming!” –Faefae

Fuck she didn’t give me any time to admire my new look at all! And not one but five bandits spawned out of thin air. Fortunately they appear to just be wearing regular clothing so no defense there, but they all have different types of weapons and some even are casters!

Bandit Level 10

H: 1100, A: 16-21, D: 22

“Huh? Their attack is pitiful, what gives?” –Me

“It’s day time, their weapons are bad and they have no armor, regular monsters are weak like this.” –Faefae

Hell with my defense they won’t even hurt me

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What the fuck! Oh he is a mage and throw a fireball in my face. I guess defense doesn’t stop magic at all, guess I still need to be careful.

Wanting to test out my wings I look at the five bandits that have surrounded me and fly straight up and over them, landing behind the one caster out of the five, it seems the other one is a healer. I then do my combo with both hands on the mage to see how it fairs.

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Wow one combo set almost took out half his life! Dammit! Fucking healer healed him for a good 10% of his life in one cast, I call hax!

Pissed off I fly up and get behind the healer instead, and in five seconds he is dead. It appears they cannot cast properly while being hit over and over again.

Once I killed the mage I was left with the three guys who could actually hurt me. Testing to see how hard they hit, I let the guy with the club smack me once.

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Buahahahahaha he cannot break my defense! Wait, doesn’t that make my gear hax? How is that possible, I thought this was the tutorial… Oh wait, this is a fake tutorial, I’m sure Faefae is cheating for me! Yay my plan is a success, she is helping me without me even asking! Time to milk this!

Shortly afterwards I dispose of the three remaining bandits and check their loot. It appears the quality of their weapon drops is better this time.

ClubAttack:5-10Durability:100%Requirements: Level 5

He also dropped 5 copper which is much more than the goblins!

Thinking of money reminded me of my childhood. My mother would always buy me whatever I wanted. I only had to look longingly at an item, I never really had to ask for it. It helped that my dad makes a ton of money, but it really hurts that he can’t stand to see me after I survived the crash that killed my mother.

I don’t think he really blames me for it since I wasn’t driving at the time, but he definitely seems to wish I had died instead. Of course I was way too depressed over my lack of being able to capture and kill bugs to worry about his troubles. The day my mother died was the worst day of my life, but at the same time, losing my father was probably worse than losing my leg as I went from having two parents that did stuff for and with me, to having none. I also lost all my friends to college as I wasn’t in any condition to go the first few years… Maybe I can go after my rehab is done, I only have to play this game for a year for that to happen! Only time will tell.

“Okay the fuckers are dead. What now?” –Me

“You are too low level, continue.” –Faefae

Then she spawned an entire camp! It must have a thousand bandits in it, wow! Fortunately only the casters can hurt me so the first thing I did was go into stealth and started killing the casters over and over again.

It took awhile, but I noticed that none of these bandits had advanced classes even though they were level 10, in a lull I asked Faefae in my head why that was.

‘It is because it is day time; mobs are at least a full tier weaker during the day. Once night hits they are the level they are supposed to be. This is only like this during the early game, eventually mobs become strong regardless of day or night and tiered monsters don’t get stronger or weaker no matter what changes.’ –Faefae

‘Okay, I suppose that is good enough.’ –Me

‘Also be careful, mobs with classes will be at least twice as strong as ones without, you are lucky to have the innate dagger mastery as a rogue for the bonus damage, but at level 10 you have to choose this again when you get your class to specialize. Also the bonus status from having a class are huge, your stats will skyrocket when you gain a class.’ –Faefae

At first it only took about 2 hours to clear the camp, but then I noticed they kept respawning. I didn’t know why until the sun was starting to set and they stopped spawning. As when I killed the last guy I finally leveled up to 9. This is clearly a gimmick!

As soon as the last guy died a huge bandit wearing armor spawned. This is definitely the work of Faefae… oh well time to see how tough this guy is.

Bandit Chief Level 10 (Elite)

H: 5500, A: 21-31, D: 37

Interesting, this guy doesn’t have as good as gear as the Hobgoblin, I guess this will be an easy fight!

Of course Faefae had to rickroll me because as soon as he died and I dinged level 10, he respawned again only with shinier armor and a huge two handed sword. At least the old guy dropped 1 silver even if his gear reappeared when he woke back up.

Bandit Chief Level 10 (Boss)(Black Iron)

H: 55,000, A: 65-80, D: 62

And fuck!

To say that this guy kicked me ass would be an understatement. I was doing 1 dmg per hit and he was doing like 30 per hit! He was also too big to trip up or put in a lock, and his armor was heavy so I couldn’t even lift him! Fortunately, before he was about to kill me and I had 29 health left I realized that I could fucking fly!

So I flew in the sky 25 meters and stared at him. He started to shoot qi blades at me but they would stop around 20 meters away which goes to show much important my flight skill is as normal flight would max out at 20 meters once leveled up to 2 which could be done at level 10. Knowing that even if I weaved back and forth the most damage I could do would be 1 per 10 seconds with my own qi blade.

“Okay Faefae you made your point, I give up!” –Me

“Well that point was that you are not invincible, you were supposed to die, but I guess that is impossible with your flight skill.” –Faefae

“Hey don’t look upset! What am I supposed to do now?” –Me

“You have to figure out a way to kill him silly!” –Faefae

Fuck! I felt like I was being reprimanded by my mother because she wanted me to do something but I found some loophole that made it so I didn’t have to. I mean come on! This guy’s health is ridiculous!

Well I decided to just throw qi blades at him every 10 seconds for now, not much else I could do.

Then it dawned on me that I was level 10 and could get new skills and a class!

“Hey Faefae, since this is going to take awhile and I have no intention of dying, can you toss me my class now and some class skills?” –Me

“Fine, but only because I’m bored!” –Faefae

*DING*

Congratulations for obtaining class: Blademaster!

Choose your specialization: Swords, Daggers, Maces, Axes.

Of course I chose daggers. I could just feel myself get stronger as the stats from 10 levels of having a real class started to kick in.

“Hey don’t forget the skills, which ones can I buy?” –Me

“At level 10 you get parry and one attack skill. They cost 5 silver each so I will deduct that from you now.” –Faefae

Wow a walking vendor, I wonder if I can repair off her too. I’ll have to ask later.

*DING*

Skills Unlocked: Parry, Piercing Strike

“Very cool, now time to check out my abilities as some have leveled up since reaching 10, oh it seems flying around so much leveled that up too, very cool. Show status and skills.” –Me

*DING*

STATUS WINDOW!Name:Psychotic DeathRace:DemonClass:BlademasterLevel:10Health:1400Qi:1400Power:280Speed:280 (+30)Intellect:140Stamina:140Attack:M. 74-90, O. 74-90Defense:48[tr]Currency:2g, 96s, 50c

SKILL LIST!

Active Skills:Manual Flight (level 2)

Qi Blade (level 2)

Piercing Strike (level 1)

Stealth (level 1)

Passive Skills:Quick Steps (level 1)

Body Strengthening (level 2)

Parry (level 1)

Dual Dagger Mastery (level x)

“Hum… some new skills, show details piercing strike, parry, and dual dagger mastery.” –Me

*DING*

Piercing StrikeSkill Type:ActiveSkill Rank:DSkill Level:1Exp:0%Description: Uses Qi to bypass 10% of opponents armor.

Cost: 10 Qi, Cooldown: 5 seconds

ParrySkill Type:PassiveSkill Rank:DSkill Level:1Exp:0%Description: Uses Qi to divert all damage from parrying 10% of the time.

Cost: None, Cooldown: None

Dual Dagger MasterySkill Type:PassiveSkill Rank:DSkill Level:XExp:N/ADescription: Increases attack by 35% while wielding daggers, also removes dual wield penalty while wielding daggers.

Cost: None, Cooldown: None

“Okay now it’s time to die buddy!” –Me

After an hour of shooting qi blades at him and barely seeing his health bar move, I got fed up and landed on the ground. I then started to see how the parry worked. Seeing as he uses a slow two hander, it was very easy to manually parry every attack, unfortunately regular parries still deal 50% damage, only deflections that causes the blade to miss me do no damage.

It seems when the skill activates a burst of qi starts to cover my blade and there is no recoil from the attack, fully neutralizing the damage. Very cool but not something I want to do manually so I’ll probably deflect or dodge most of the time.

“Hey Faefae, how do I level up passive skills like parry? I noticed body strengthening leveled up while just flying and just now quick steps leveled up while running around.” –Me

“You have to activate the skill for it to gain exp. So 10% of your parries will level up the skill, I recommend doing it against characters that don’t hurt you so much however.” –Faefae

“Good point!” –Me

I then tried out Armor Piercer.

ARMOR PIERCER! –Me

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Wow that’s a lot of damage, if only it was more than the one attack per hand.

This got me thinking about making a new skill on the fly, this guy has a bajillion hp and can barely touch me so no harm here really.

After using armor piercer for the 50th time I finally got the hang of the qi passages and qi usage. I think started to do it manually to see what happened, as if I could pierce armor on my own then I could use my 13 hit combo!

After a few tries I finally got it to activate for the full length of my combo!

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*DING*

System Notice: Congratulations, you have created a skill. As a result, you will be able to create an aura of qi that bypasses armor. Please choose a name for your skill!

Bad at naming I chose the first thing that came to mind, Piercing Aura.

*DING*

System Notice: Congratulations, you have successfully named the skill.

“Now time to see what it does. Show details piercing aura.” –Me

*DING*

Piercing AuraSkill Type:ActiveSkill Rank:SSkill Level:1Exp:0%Description: Coats your weapons with Qi to bypass 10% of opponents armor.

Cost: 1 Qi per second, Cooldown: None

“Holy shit batman, this skill is amazing! Sure it’s only 10% armor piercing but that will add up quickly if I level it up!” –Me

“Good job, now finish this guy so we can move on, this is the end of the tutorial. Actually I don’t feel like waiting nor do I want you to gain anymore experience so I’m despawning this guy.” –Faefae

And just like that the Bandit Chief and all his gear and money and experience, disappeared!

“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” –Me

“Okay the tutorial is done, now choose a starting destination. There are three starting locations for the NA server, the City of Angels, Old York, and Atlantic City.” –Faefae

“Wait, tell me what joining each city will do, I don’t want to be tricked here.” –Me

“Good thing you asked or I was going to send you to the City of Angels which is Human dominated and gives 3% bonus to spells meaning only casters and healers would ever start there, and then only if they are human. Old York is a mixed race city that gives 3% bonus to health and Atlantic City which is where you will be starting gives 3% bonus to attack and is dominated by Undead and Demons.” –Faefae

And before I could utter another word I was sent on my way in a flash of light, appearing in the middle of a city near a bunch of other noobs. Only it appeared my armor looked much cooler than others who leveled up to 10 the hard way, some were still even wearing the starter crap!

‘Okay Faefae all is good, I’m not mad at you as I know you helped me a ton and answered my questions so please don’t sulk!’ –Me

‘Thank you.’ –Faefae

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Holiday is here and that means bad things for writers. I hope to release this series during the holiday but my main series will probably be put on hold due to the nature of the story and having kids hovering over me while I type. Have a good holiday for those who get out of school/work because of it! For the rest, screw you!