Chapter 5 : Tier 1 slayer
While the chilly temperature might have been a bother for others, to a master mage, it was nothing. As a Master mage, Mana was circulating in his body along with his blood.
That circulating mana helps strengthen the body defenses, makes one's skin smooth and free of blemishes. It also boosts the 5 senses and enhances a person's resistance to earthly things, such as extreme temperatures, disgusting smells, etc etc...
Enough with writing an essay, the Tier 2 simply is a great advantage that when faced against others who are less than that tier 2, it is simple to overpower such inferior beings.
Finally, after some looking around for a while, Malik found a monster to hunt.
[Tier 1 common monster "Red-nose Fox"]
level : 20
HP : 35,000 [1]
It loojed like a simple fox with a red nose, what did you expect. Anyway, Malik immediately tested out simple spells such as dark arrow and fireball, with an insta-cast [2], a fireball and dark arrow flew out of thin air, heading spot on towards the unaware fox. Before the spells hit the fox, Malik already started casting a poison bomb. It wad then that Malik realised his mistake.
He should have cast and sent the poison bomb, now the fox might have a chance to dodge it.
And just as expected, after being hit with both spells, the fox immediately jumped to a safer location, easily dodging the slow traveling poison bomb.
Still, tier 0 spells such as dark arrow and fieball, spells every mage could cast, dealt a -831 and a -1658 damages respectively, fireball achieving a critical hit thus explaining the high damage on that. Leaving the fox with 32,511 HP.
Immediately after the fox adjusted its location, Malik casted the lightning strike he prepared, and the fox which was still trying to determine his location was struck by lightning.
Surprisingly, the weakness of this fox was exactly that ; lightning. With it as a weakness, damage increases by 250% and chances of a critical hit is more than tripled.
Hitting the jackpot, a critical hit was achieved, causing a frightening -18,557.
Seconds after the fight started, and the fox was left with less than even half its HP.
By then as well, the fox had determined his location, and jumped towards him, ready to strike. But, Malik was prepared, the moment the fox leaped in his direction, a wall of Ice formed immediately, blocking it's path and slowing it down.
The wall of ice would last 5 seconds, but, the second Malik casted it, he started casting the poison bomb, and jumping atop the wall, he immediately sent the bomb towards the unsuspecting fox.
Upon the initial explosion, a damage of -2391 appeared, but it didn't end there, the poison bomb would deal a damage of 800 every second for 15 seconds.
Although the fox was under constant damage, it immediately towards the unprepared Malik, and bit him on the shoulder. -427 damage appeared above Malik's head, almost a tenth of his health.
Left with 90% health, Malik immediately sent another dark arrow and fireball towards the fox.
It managed to dodge the slower fireball but the dark arrow hit it straight in the head, achieving a critical and causing -1632 damage to the fox.
Just as the fox was about to leap to bite Malik again, the damage from the poison hit it again, finally ending the life of the red-nosed fox.
[Ding! Level 20 tier 1 monster killed!
+250,000 EXP
multiplying EXP by 2
+250,000 EXP
You leveled up
You leveled up
You leveled up
You leveled up
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level : 18 (38,934/86,300 EXP)
Ding! You have slayed a tier 1 monster! Title : "Tier 1 Slayer" gained.
Title : "Tier 1 Slayer" : As few people have managed to gain this title, all people who poses this title in this stage of the game will be treated as a 3rd class noble in all cities and places. ]
That was the end of the notifications Malik got from the main system, "Aqua system" as he started calling it.
Around the dead corpse of the Fox, it dropped loot! It had dropped 2 bronze coins, 37 copper coins, 2 mysterious-iron item, and a secret-silver item! There were also other bronze and common items dropped, but they weren't as important.
Among the items dropped, the common items were... common, like iron swords, bows, daggers, etc. In total, 7 common items dropped. 4 bronze items fell on the other hand, a shield, a 2 handed sword, a bow, and a staff. Among the mysterious-irom items, there was a dagger and a ring. The dagger was a poisoned dagger so when it hit it would cause poison damage, and the best thing about it was the additional effects it had.
[ Mysterious-iron item "Throwing Poison Dagger"
damage power: 90
Has a 30% chance to ignore armor of the attacked.
Additional effect 1 : causes -80 poison damage per second, lasts for 10 seconds.
Additional effect 2 : Returns back to user after hitting target ]
The ring on the other hand was also special.
[Mysterious-Iron item "Ring of Agility"
Increases agility by 50
additional skill "wind steps" : When activated +200 agility for 5 minutes.
Cooldown : 10 minutes ]
While, the secret silver item he got was an... accessory?
[Tier 1 secret-silver Accessory "Lucky Bracelet"
A Tier 2 Master mage used her life energy upon her death to bless this bracelet, she wanted her boy to be extremely lucky.
+6 luck
Additional skill "Lucky moment" : +15 luck for 5 seconds.
Cooldown : 2 days ]
Just when he closed the item's menu, he got a notification from his personal system
[Ding! Your luck is beyond belief. The luck attribute is considered a hidden attribute, which can't be gained by normal means. I have been sneaking around the database of the Aqua system, and I found that 1 point in luck could double a person's luck, but as the amount increased, the amount of luck given would also gradually decrease. +6 points in luck all the time could be considered amazing! It could basically quadruple your luck(×4)!! While a +15, heh, that could only be found on epic items and the like!! A +15 could multiply your luck by around 7 times!!! It is simply beyond normal and simply extraordinary!
On another note, here are the rewards for completing the quest "pick a mate" ]
Author notes :
[1] : Monsters generally have high HP