After killing the bear and pulling out the sword, the bear began to disintegrate into light flying up into the sky. It was an interesting sight to see, as the bear's corpse turned into light particles.
Afterward, I continued to look for bears or for monsters in general to kill. I now knew that by striking the vitals of monsters I could do extra damage.
After a few minutes of looking, I soon came upon another bear with a similar size to the previous bear I killed.
[Mutated Darkmoon Bear - Level 11]
1931/1931 HP
Estimated Raw Damage - 238
...
"Holy Shit..."
The raw damage of this bear was nearly twice as high as the previous Darkmoon bear even though the level difference was only 2. However, this was a mutated Darkmoon Bear, which I assumed is a special type of monster that players can kill.
Currently, the bear wasn't doing anything besides wandering around, making it hard to sneak attack the bear. Furthermore, I was too scared to have a direct confrontation with the bear.
I kept on waiting for the right moment to strike the bear, however, the bear always seemed to be on guard. Eventually, I had gotten tired of waiting and made an opening myself.
I picked up a rock and threw it in the opposite direction from where I cam from. Like I had suspected the intelligence of the bear was too low to find out where the rock had been thrown. The bear had instead relied on its natural senses and immediately got aggressively and stood on both of its legs before making its way over to the rock.
I didn't miss the opportunity and immediately rushed towards the bear and stabbed my katana through the spot where I believed the bear's heart was.
[Critical Vital Hit]
166 + 200% (Critical) + 500% (Heart Hit)
-2988!
...
I did nearly 1k more damage than what was necessary to kill the bear.
+1280 XP
Drops:
Brute Strength Earrings:
+10 Strength
Durability 100/100
Level Up!
Sword Mastery had leveled up!
I quickly distributed 3 points to vitality and 7 to strength.
Currently, my strength stat is around 70, which is something you would have if u invested all your points into a strength by level 7. I kept on gridding the bears I found and using the tactics of distracting them before one-shotting them.
My leveling speed was quite fast it only took me around an hour to reach level 6.
Stats:
Level 6
Health - 380/380
Energy - 450/450
Strength - 70
Agility - 29
Dexterity - 6
Vitality - 18
Intelligence - 6
Fortitude - 6
Stat Points - 0
Copper 200
Basic Swords Mastery:
Lvl 5
Create more skills, or gain more comfortability with the sword to level up.
Deal 45% more damage when using blade type weapons.
+15% Attack Speed
+5% Critical Chance and + 25% Critical Damage (225%).
Currently, my damage right now I can easily wipe out any low-level noobs.
I decided that my level was high enough and was planning on making my way back to the town when I saw another pack of Bluemoon Wolves.
[Bluemoon Wolf - Level 8]
560/560 HP
Estimated Raw Damage - 67
[Bluemoon Wolf - Level 9]
660/660 HP
Estimated Raw Damage - 98
[Bluemoon Wolf - Level 7]
460/460 HP
Estimated Raw Damage - 53
All of the Bluemoon wolves stayed at the same level however, the alpha wolf had a 5 level increase and 3x increase in health and strength.
[Mutated Alpha Bluemoon Wolf - Level 20]
4336/4346 HP
Estimated Raw Damage - 436
"WTF! I was only gone for around 2 hours and he jumped 5 levels?!"
I was shocked at the growth rate of the Alpha Bluemoon wolf but, I wasn't going to no to free XP even though I had already finished the quest. However, I had suddenly heard a ding and saw my Quest update.
Quest Updated:
Eliminate the Pack of Bluemoon Wolves...again
A new pack of Bluemoon wolves had moved to the area, kill them plz ty.
Difficulty - A
Rewards:
10000 XP
5 Silver
Increased Affection with Charles
???
"..."
"More free XP I guess."
I decided to slowly pick off the wolves one by one. I threw a rock too the opposite side of me and the entire pack of wolves turned that way. I quickly took the opportunity to stab my sword through the head of one of the wolves, killing it before quickly retreating.
Killed Bluemoon Wolf
+600 XP
No Drops
The pack of wolves after checking out the sound returned and didn't even notice the missing wolf that had turned into the light behind their backs.
I had repeated the action several more times but by the 5th time after killing 5 of the wolves, they became more cautious and bunched up together when moving.
There were still more than 10 of the normal wolves alive and not to mention the alpha wolf which could probably 2 shot me.
The wolves were also getting used to the sound of the rocks and soon stopped moving towards the sound and ignoring it completely. I decided to switch up where I threw the rock hopefully it would gain the attention of the wolves again.
I threw the rock behind the wolves behind them and this time it gained the attention of the wolves as the sound came from a different place.
I quickly ran up to one of the wolves and stabbed it in its head before drawing out the sword and slashing the head off of another.
However, before I could retreat the entire wolf pack turned at me and were preparing to lunge at me. I activated the only AOE skill I had which was with the Katana and launching it horizontally at all the wolves.
The energy slash created by my katana let out an ear screeching sound as it nearly instantaneously reached the wolves hitting each one of them.
-3192!
Followed by another energy slash that killed off the rest of the wolves if they had managed to survive the first slash.
Critical Hit!
-10374
"..."
"I should have just used this skill at the beginning instead of wasting my time."
[Level Up!]
[Level Up!]
...
After killing the entire wolf pack I had reached level 9. I decide to put 30 points in strength just to reach the perfect 100.
[Achievement!]
You are the first user to surpass 100 in Strength! +10 to all stats and +1 point to all stats when leveling up.
Stats:
Level 9
Health - 480/480
Energy - 780/780
Strength - 119
Agility - 48
Dexterity - 25
Vitality - 38
Intelligence - 28
Fortitude - 25
Stat Points - 0
Copper 200
Basic Swords Mastery:
Lvl 8
Create more skills, or gain more comfortability with the sword to level up.
Deal 55% more damage when using blade type weapons.
+25% Attack Speed
+10% Critical Chance and + 35% Critical Damage (235%).
Although I was happy with my stats, I shivered as I saw how much XP was required for the next level. 120,000 I quickly did the math. Just to get to level 20 I needed over 300 million XP wasn't that simply insane, that kind of XP should be needed when you were level 90 in any other games.
Especially since this game where levels can reach the thousands, how many 0's would be needed?
I finished checking out my stats, then I came and picked up all the heads of the wolf too bring them back and show them to Charles. However, while picking up the heads I noticed that there was a book next to the Alpha wolf.
Lightning Mastery - Unique (Growth)
When Used gain the lighting mastery skill.
I didn't give it a second thought before learning the skill.
Basic Lightning Mastery:
Level 0
Create more skills, or gain more comfortability with lightning to level up.
All attacks have a small trace of lightning in it dealing 15% of intelligence + 10% of Energy (90.5 Extra Damage).
It was a very good skill, however, now every time I leveled up I had to put some stat points into intelligence for this skill to be useful.
After picking up all the heads of the wolves I made my way back to the town of Hecum. However, when I made it to the gates 5 players were blocking the entrance.
"5 Copper if you want to enter!" said one the players while the other 4 were holding the stick that you get at the beginning of the game.
"If you don't pay, don't blame us when we beat you to death!" said one of the players while laughing.
I wasn't going to give them the copper, however, I didn't know what would happen if I PK'ed them right outside the city. The game had never mentioned any penalties for killing people. However, after playing this game for a bit, I realized that there are a lot of other hidden elements to this game.
Ultimately I decided with my superior Agility and Strength I would be able to charge my way inside by shoving them aside without hurting them.
As the 5 players were staring at me I dashed at them with a speed comparable to the fastest man in the world. The 5 players immediately prepared to stop me and beat me with their sticks, however before they could even swing at me. I was already in front of them, I grabbed the two players closest to me and shoved them aside before running into the town.
I kept on running until I made it to the town hall. The guards already knew me and let me in without stopping me. I stopped running and walked towards Charles's office so I wouldn't seem disrespectful.
"Hi Charles"
"Oh? Finished with your quest so soon?" asked Charles
"Yep," I said before dumping over 20 wolf heads on his desk.
His eyes widened for a second before, a screen popped up in front of me.
Quest Completed:
Rewards:
10000 XP
5 Silver
Increased Affection with Charles
???
"You killed all these wolves and the Alpha one as well?" asked Charles
"Yep!"
"You did a better job than I initially thought you would hold on I have a gift for you," said Charles before opening one of the draws on his desk and looking for something.
He pulled out an old book and gave it to me.
[Skillbook - Quickdraw - Rare (Evolvable)]
Quickly draws the sword and slashes before sheathing it, takes around 1 second to complete.
Requirements - 150 Strength, 100 Dexterity
To activate the skill, your hand must be on the sword handle before activating.
Consumes 300 Energy, no debuff when used repeatedly.
Deals 200% of Strength + 200% of Dexterity + 150% of Base damage * 2
"I don't think you are quite strong enough to use this skill book, so here take this katana sheath, it once belonged to Jerry," said Charles before giving a pitch-black sheath to me.
[Forgotten Hero's Midnight Sheath]
Set Item when paired with Forgotten Hero's Midnight Katana gain 25 Strength, Dexterity, and Agility.
+50% Attack speed when using a katana.
When drawing your next attack will deal 50% more damage.
I quickly accepted the Sheath and checked my stats to see if I could use it yet.
Stats:
Level 9
Health - 570/570
Energy - 1110/1110
Strength - 144
Agility - 63
Dexterity - 50
Vitality - 37
Intelligence - 28
Fortitude - 25
Stat Points - 0
Copper 200
10 - Silver, 58 - Copper
Basic Lightning Mastery:
Level 0
Create more skills, or gain more comfortability with lightning to level up.
All attacks have a small trace of lightning in it dealing 15% of intelligence + 10% of Energy (115 Extra Damage).
Estimated Raw Damage - 543
"Welp, I quite a bit away from reaching the required standards for Quickdraw..."