Sam ignored his thoughts and focused one the beautiful woman dreased in adventure clothes in front of him "You know, just because I am wearing a potato sack, doesn't mean you should too."
Cecile laughed at Sam's remark and they walked away quickly to the restaurant Cecile reserved. They quickly checked into a tea house together and sat down in a corner. With it being dead in the night, only a few other people were left there besides them.
Cecile ordered some black tea and asked "So, mind telling what exactly happened to you? Why do you look older and why did you become so much weaker?"
Sam smiled and almost broke into a full blown maniacal laughter "On the contrary my dear Cecile. I have become stronger! I am the STRONGEST at this moment" Eyebrows were raised at Sam's statement and he kept merely smiling "Alright, I did technically become weaker, but my potential has been increased through the roof. I found a grand mage, who offered to teach me magic a while ago and I wanted to agree, but, as you know, I was a craftsman at level 27, so I couldn't just switch to fighting that easily. To accept his offer, I decided to end my own life..."
Cecile looked at Sam and was extremely confused "I know this sounds weird, but trust me, it is the truth and, what I am about to say may sound insane, but it is also 100% true. My previous self died and I received help from Gaia herself to reconstruct this new body. Now this might seem illogical, impossible even, but during the reconstruction, I tricked the goddess and managed to keep my blessing of intellect and granted my body the talent of strength. Now, I have the potential to become the greatest battle mage in the history of this world! I also have a formula. A LEGENDARY class formula, which will allow me to gain a certain skill by level 50, when I unlock my third class potential. My casting and scribing skills might have become weaker, but I am almost a completely different person now.
I know what I have told you is a bit much, but I did it because you are a close friend, I can trust you with this info and I Really need the support right now and hope you can support me from the behind the scenes. If possible, reserve the type of quests, that have a "special" aspect to them for me and I hope you can help me and I promise you, this investment in me will pay off. Even if you don't wish to invest in me, that's perfectly fine I have just one favour to ask of you, keep this a secret between the two of us if you say no."
[The legend of Francesco has been updated and ended!]
[Unique existence samshank 'Shanks' has inherited the legacy of Francesco.]
[5 knowledges have been added]
[Gained Divine legend: Blessed Through Deceit]
[Your relationship with Gaia has decreased to 30/100, ire]
*Ooof! Holy shit, a 20 point decrease in relationship with the literal ultimate god of this world! Damn, I think I should have just let my legend die and started a new one! Or not, Legends are pretty permanent, so it's not like I had a choice, plus a divine tier legend is, hot damn!*
Realms of Conquest's character Customizing doesn't allow for much variation in appearance, because of this the games master AI counts each player as an unique character in the game, a special existence and each person has their character's legend inherited through each restart. If the player ever wishes to restart his adventure, but keep the knowledge and special perks picked up along the way, which wouldn't be lost normally from a body being rebuilt, such as personality, your relationships and how NPCs see you.
This allows NPCs to better keep track of players, as if a player character commits a crime, a severe and inexcusable crime, such as sexually harassing a player character or an NPC, they will get severely punished and it will be a permanent record on their legend, so even if they completely restart from 0, they will still be a well know criminal, just an easier to catch one now.
A player character can also transfer skill through said legend, But this comes at a cost, such as only being doable in the first 5 levels of the new character and transfering everything, including curses and all related to said effects. If a powerful god curses you and you restart the game, then you can completely start a new or just accept the curse once again and retain your skills and knowledge. Sam's unique knowledge included his skills and 2 languages his previous character learned. But the cost was completely not worth the benefits for him, as now Gaia itself dislikes Sam, permanently.
Garnering the bad will of the supreme god controlling the world's will, most noticeably, decrease the player character's luck and makes their journey much more difficult in infinite ways.
*At least not even a game dev can take my double talent away now, as it is part of a character's legend and will transfer over no matter how many times I restart. Though, what do my skills look like now?*
Name: samshank
Class: Berserker Knight
level 2: 2%
Health: 56/56
Strength+: 4
Agility: 1
Intelligence+: 1
Constitution: 2
Perception: 2
Charisma: 1
Creativity: 1
armour value: 4
Free stat points:
Skill points: 0
Skills:
Cleave(1):
Two-handed weapon mastery (2):
Unconventional Swordsmanship (1):
Magic Scribing(4):
With a great mastery over mana and using it to create whatever is desired, you have the ability to grant anything the ability to channel mana. Grants the ability to scribe weak intermediate runes onto a weapon and have it lose 8% less durability from it or rones using a rune model owned.
Blacksmithing(2):
As a blacksmith, you know how to work with metal and mold it according to your wishes. Increases the durability of all crafted items by 2% and your success chance by 2%
Spellcasting Mastery(5):
After learning and about magic and training in the art of spellcasting, you have manged to gain a certain mastery over it and mana. Mana cost of magic spells and casting time efficiency increased by 10%.
[Blessed Through Deceit]
As the human, who managed to trick even the supreme God of gods, you have earned a certain reputation with the gods. The strongest of this world know of your existence and might help or hinder your journey or take a liking toward you depending on their standing with Gaia. Upon entering a god's sanctuary, they will be able to pinpoint your existence.
*Fuck! Why did I have to get into the roleplay part of it so much! I could have just said she gifted a second blessing, but then I might have been outed as a cheater. At least now the devs, if they ever find out about my character, will think I was just genuinely able to convince their AI to agree to a deal. I paid the ultimate price for ultimate talent, so the developers can kiss my ass if they feel like interfering. Actually, can they interfere? I haven't ever heard of an active player getting banned... Well, that's probably because cheating is itself impossible and there hasn't been a reason to ban anyone.*
With the base of samshank's legend established and having fulfilled his goal with Cecile, Sam just sat around and chatted with his friend for a while, until it became complete night in the game world "Well, Cecile, it has been nice chatting with you, but I should get back to my inn. It's late and we both should rest."
[Cecile's opinion of you has increased to 95/100, trusted companion]
*Damn, no romance I guess. I was wondering if 90+ opinion would make someone fall in love. Fair enough, if someone has a high opinion of a certain person, that doesn't mean they want to date them or even love them.*
With that final thought, Sam waved Cecile down and decided to wander around the town and look for other opportunities to advance his skills, as only those highly skilled combatants are out this late at night.