Chapter 24: Learning 10 Skills

After an hour the ditch finally disappeared. Also I was getting carried like a child through a mob in this game to finally reached level 16. Furthermore I just realized that I was receiving more experience points than my fellow teammates. It might be due to my demon race. Since my stats are decrease by thirty percent during daytime and a ten percent increase during nighttime they might be trying balancing it out for the demon race. Otherwise who would pick the demon race with such a big disadvantage.

This time I checked my stats and there was a thirty percent reduction on all the stats besides intelligence. I guess their thought process is more like how can you make someone’s intelligence go down when intelligence is not a physical thing.

ID: Dark Bunny

Job: Dark Quasi Mage

Level: 16

Health: 380(-115)

Mana: 413(-125)

Attack: 72-87(-17)

Defense: 32(-9)

Agility: 35(-10)

Intellect: 120

Strength: 43(-13)

Endurance: 19(-6)

Stamina: 19(-6)

After comparing my experience gains with Dong, Susu and Soso I found that my experience bonus was about ten percent. This means I can kill ten percent less monsters to level up. Then again my stats being so low it is gonna be a drag when facing higher level monsters for experience.

Whatever I will figure it out when the time comes. Plus it is just my base stats anyway. So once I get better equipments and stuff my base stat reduction won’t matter that much from a mathematical stand point.

Did I mention I even found some plants to use for alchemy? They were level one vigor flowers. I found 25 stalks of them and since none of my teammates knows alchemy or ingredient picking skills I kept them all.

It took a while but we finally reached the lake from the picture that was given. I looked around and I didn't see any Tomb or dungeon entrances at all.

“Dong help me find the entrance.”

We all began to look around the lake but there was nothing at all. I even looked under huge boulders and still nothing.

“Hey Long sometimes they might place the entrance in the middle of the bodies of water. Lets go into the water and check it out,” Dong suggests.

It sounds reasonable enough so I decided to follow that advice. As I walked into the Lake I could feel the heat leaving my virtual body. It was freezing cold! I braced myself and dived into the water. Then I looked back and saw Dong and the girls standing at the end of lake.

“Are you guys coming?” I asked.

“Nope! It is freezing cold,” he boldly admits. “I’ll keep the girls here occupied while you do your thing.”

I couldn't argue with that so I dived into the water. He has already helped me enough by getting this far. There are some things I must do myself.

Diving deeper into the water a small oxygen tank thingy appeared before my eyes. It showed me my oxygen level and the amount of time I have left before my health begin depleting.

2 minutes.

Thats a lot longer than my real world record of 54.3 seconds.

Ding!

Dark Bunny you met all requirements for you this transportation circle. Will you proceed or recede?

Accept/Decline

I figure this might be the tomb so I accepted.

This tomb allows you to bring two friends along with you? They will be transported to their own section to be tested. Do you wish to bring along your friends?

Yes/No

I clicked yes and selected Dong’s name. Then I didn't select a second person.

Ding!

Warning! This is the Tomb of the first Quasi Mage. The Emperor that united the Demon Race. This is the Tomb of The Emperor Azir Ashura. Once enter you will receive a series of tests. You will not be able to leave until you pass the test or your level is grind back to one. Do you still want to proceed?

Yes/No

Hell no! I need to go back to the city and learn those skills Dark Mage Rabi offered me before.

Then Dong messaged me, “Tf I look like I’m not coming with if I can’t even help you out lol. You are going to have to do this alone.”

I declined and swam back up. When I was out of the water my body was shivering! This game is a bit too realistic isn’t? I thought to myself.

“Hey Dong can you help me back to the city? I need to learn some skills before I can challenge this tomb,” I explained.

“Alright lets go.”

It took us an hour but we finally got back to the city. At the city Lintian enters the teleportation circle to go back to the nooby village. When I got there I immediately ran for Dark Mage Rabi’s house.

“Ello kiddo you are back so soon,” Dark Mage Rabi’s voice rang out like a clear bell.

“Yes, master,” I replied.

“Mhmm your growth rate is indeed a bit slow but since you are already level sixteen it will do.”

“Yes, master.”

“In order to receive this skill book of mine you must pay a fee of 10 gold coins,” he said with a strain frog face.

I wanted to shout what the hell you mean ten gold coins? The game has just started! Most of the players don't even have three gold coins.

“Master, I will be right back with the coins,” I replied to him nicely.

Then I messaged Dong, “Hey bro let me borrow eight gold coins!”

“What for?” he messaged back.

“I need to buy this skill book from my master for ten gold coins.”

“It better be some GODLY skills for this much coins at this stage of the game. Meet me at Confederate city again.”

“Ight!”

I ran back out pay the teleportation fee and got my coins gold coins from Dong and came back Dark Mage Rabi.

“Hi Master I am back with the money!”

“Well done!”

Ding!

Dark Mage Rabi has initiated a trade with you.

Accept/Decline

I accepted and I am now broke but I gain 10 skills from this book. I highly doubt any other players receive ten skills at this stage of the game.

Excitedly I quickly learned all ten of the skills only to realize that out of the ten skills 7 of them were locked. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry about this. Lets talk about the skills I can use first.

The first skill was called Lightning Blade. It requires a total of 120 mana point. The description was by channeling lightning elemental energy through the sword I was able to create the lightning blade style attack.

My attack damage would double with a fifteen percent chance of a five-second stun. Furthermore if I level it to ten my attack damage output would be three times stronger than normal. Furthermore the chances for a stun increases from fifteen percent to fifty percent. Also the stun time goes from five-seconds to eight-seconds. In a one on one this would be OP as hell. Surprisingly enough this is only a B rank skill so I wonder what a S rank skill would be like. Also it has a cool down time of thirty-seconds.

My second skill which I love by the way is a healing skill. It is called Lightning Regeneration. It is a forty-five second cool down time and 80 mana to heal 100 hp. If I can level it up to ten then it would cost 400 mana to heal 800 hp. I wonder if my health would even reach that high.

My third skill was actually an area trapping skill. It can target up to 7 feet. It’s name is Lightning vortex. It requires 90 mana points. This move can stun all my opponents within a 7 feet radius for a total of three-seconds. Also it would stun any monsters for a total of 5 seconds. It might not seem like a lot of time but I can get in 2 skills or a total of 6 to 8 normal attacks in that amount of time. The problem is this skill is a combat mage skill and it require a quick chant and body movement. I need to have my hand or sword make contact with the ground while I shout lightning vortex. It has cool down time of 60 seconds. The good news is that if I can increase the level to 10 then the area increases to 20 feet and the stun time goes from three-seconds to eight-seconds.

Just these three skills alone I felt like if I encounter that same situation as before I can easily beat them all. Then I realize that my mana would not hold up. I have a total of 413 mana currently. 120 for lightning blade plus 90 for the Lightning vortex has already taken half my mana. Not to mention I would need 80 for heal. Also triple stab and flower palm together takes 70 mana. With a mana potion I can probable do these attack twice each at the very most. So I have to plan them well since I can only drink one mana potions every sixty-seconds.

The fourth skill to seventh is locked until level 20. The seventh and eighth are locked until level 30. The ninth and ten is locked until level 50. I can’t even see the name or description of them. If the first three is already so OP I wonder how much more Op the last seven are and if the skill first volume of the first Quasi Mage would be even more OP.

With this I feel that my chances of passing the Tomb quest has gone up on a quantitive leap.

(there will be another chapter Later today)