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[lightning bolt (D-grade) (1)]
Description: shoots out a lighting hold that does (5x intelligence) damage to a single enemy with a small chance to stun them for 2 seconds.
Cast time: 3 sec
Cost: 35 mana
LVL: 1
Current damage: 861
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Back in the hotel room Oliver was contemplating the next step of his plan.
The next thing on his list was the competition the shops held at the halfway mark of the first phase of the tutorial, that should be in a little less than a month and a half. The big prize is one of the big things he is aiming for, [upgrade stone]x2, these stones can upgrade anything to the next rank with no limitation including classes, races, items and most importantly, talents. He was excited to see the world beyond [SSS-grade].
I mean how could he not be excited; he didn't hear much of the main game in the tutorials last phase, but he could hear little things here and there when the administrator let them slip.
The administrator is the person who steps in when the system isn't enough to make a judgment, most of the times this has to do with rewards for unconventional things or rewards that are too big for the system to give out on its own.
One of those things it let slip is that '[S-grade] is nothing to the big players in the main game' at the time we all thought he was talking about them all having [SSS-grade] things, but now that I have one myself, I can say with confidence that he was talking about something higher, even though the power of this [SSS-grade] talent is amazing, it doesn't give me the power to think of [S-grade] as nothing, not in the slightest.
The thing he plans on doing first is claiming all the dungeon first discovery rewards from all the [C-grade] dungeons he still remembered, maybe even some of the weaker [B-grade]'s when he felt confident enough. He should be able to do 1 to 2 dungeons a day depending on how close they are.
And just like that the days went by, more and more people started to finish their character creation tests at the obelisk. The masses also became aware of the dungeons and monsters, governments started to lose power and powerful guilds, some even ran by the governments, but most by privet companies started to thrive.
At that moment Oliver was sitting in his hotel room in France on the 30th day after he had created his character looking at his status. He had spent 27 days doing 2 [C-grade] dungeons a day, each one giving him 15 free attribute points.
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[Oliver Smith]
Age: 17
Rase: [ancient human (S-grade)]
Class: [archmage (S-grade)]
Titles: [victor of the obelisk (A-grade)]
LVL: [7]
EXP: [1.268.250/3.906.250] (exp needed per level up goes up by 5X)
Health [700/700]
Mana [3000/3000]
Strength: 94 (growth:12)
Agility: 132 (growth:17)
Intelligence: 182 (growth:17)
Dexterity: 94 (growth:12)
Stamina: 94 (growth:12)
Defense: 15
Luck: 5
free attribute points: 810 (growth:10)
Magic affinity: 166
Elemental affinity: [Lightning- 87%] [Space- 83%]
Talent: [genius of magic (SSS-grade)]
SKILLS:
-Passive: [silent cast (S-grade)] [multicast (S-grade)] [meditate (S-grade)] [eyes of truth (S-grade)]
-Active: [magic missile (F-grade) (10)] [lightning bolt (D-grade) (15)]
Equipment: [Ring of storage (A-grade)] [agile leather boots (E-grade)] [apprentices wand (E-grade)]
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The amount of free attribute points he got even amazed him, but after thinking about it further he thought it was only logical, that where close to 55 [C-grade] dungeons, if I remember there were only 60 in the world. At this point only 1 or maybe 2 [C-grade] dungeons lay unfound.
From the 10 [B-grade] dungeons, there should still be 5 that are not found at this time and around 2 [A-grade], and of course the 1 [S-grade]. These where his best bet for points because at this point all the low range dungeons have already been discovered so, in the grand scheme of things, the 1000 free attribute points he is going to take in total doesn't seem like much when you add that it is around ¼ of the free attribute points disturbed to the whole planet.
In addition to the exp and attribute point he got, he also sold everything including the things he could use to eventually buy all the [A-grade] enhancement skills and a good [B-grade] lightning and space skill in preparation for the competition that will be held in 14 days.
The number of coins he got after selling the item and occasional skill book he got after a dungeon was between 100.000 and 200.000 in total making him 10.054.656 coins. This is a lot more then the [E-grade] dungeons because in higher grade dungeons the normal mobs also have a chance to drop items not only the boss.
After looking through everything Oliver could feel that he was ready to start taking on the higher level dungeon, even the [S-grade] dungeons, of course only those on earth, since earth was still in the tutorial phase the dungeon monsters where weakened, that's another one of those things an administrator let slip, in the main game the monsters also possess classes, not only race and they also get more intelligent and better talents and of course a way bigger pool of skills.
After putting all his attribute points into intelligence Oliver went to the store to buy the skills ha had been saving up for. The store in France is the same as the one in each major city, a withe and red striped tent entrance in a small alleyway.
After some time browsing Oliver decided to get the space skill [blink (B-grade) (1)] and the lighting skill [lighting field (B-grade) (1)] because they covered 2 aspects he was lacking in, movement and multi-target skills. [lighting field (B-grade) (1)] was especially important for the competition.
They cost him a million coins each.
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[blink (B-grade) (1)]
Description: can teleport you 5 times within a distance of 20 meters. Needs some time to recharge after the 5 charges are used.
Cooldown time: 5 minutes
Cost: 175 mana
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It was a shame that you didn't technically cast the spell, so my cooldown reduction didn't work on it, but it was still a good skill.
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[lighting field (B-grade) (1)]
Description: if you supply it with mana, it will create a domain 15 meters around you that will attack any enemy with a lightning strike dealing (intelligence*5) damage with a delay of 0,5 second.
Cost: 70 mana per second.
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Of course, he also bought his 5 passive enhancement skills for 1,5 million coins each.
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[strength enhancement (A-grade)]
Description: adds +50 to the strength attribute.
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[intelligence enhancement (A-grade)]
Description: adds +50 to the intelligence attribute.
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[dexterity enhancement (A-grade)]
Description: adds +50 to the dexterity attribute.
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[agility enhancement (A-grade)]
Description: adds +50 to the agility attribute.
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[stamina enhancement (A-grade)]
Description: adds +50 to the stamina attribute.
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Now that he felt ready for the competition, he could finally take it a little easy. He has the next 15 days to raid the 5 [B-grade] and the 2 [A-grade] dungeons, the [S-grade] is best cleared while the competition is active, because the [S-grade] dungeon is a swarm type, which means that there are a lot of monsters but that they have low hp in general, at least low for [S-grade] monsters. This dungeon is perfect for the competitions [monster hunting] and [dungeon clearing].
And so, the days past, Oliver managed to clear all the dungeons around 2 days before the competitions were going to get announced. Since the [S-grade] dungeon isn't that big he could possibly do some runs before the competition began but decided against it. In the chest of the dungeons, he also managed to get a [A-grade] staff and [B-grade] robe and shoos that he could use, he had hoped that he could replace some of his equipment because it was getting really outdated.
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[sapphire wand (A-grade)]
+ 75 intelligence points
+ 35% damage to lightning element attacks.
Description: a wand made from a sapphire stone injected with mana by a great alchemist.
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[elemental robes (B-grade)]
+ 70 defends
+ 20% defense against elemental spells
Description: a mass-produced robe for an army who were preparing to fight wizards.
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[speedster boots (B-grade)]
+ 65 defends
+ 20% agility boost
Description: boots made for a real madman.
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After about 2 days of rest Oliver finely felt relaxed again after 1.5 months of stressful labor.
He looked at the time and saw that he had around 1.5 hours left before the announcement of the competitions and thought it would be a good idea to walk over to the shop so he could sign in the second the announcement was made, on the way there he examined his status screen.
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[Oliver Smith]
Age: 17
Rase: [ancient human (S-grade)]
Class: [archmage (S-grade)]
Titles: [victor of the obelisk (A-grade)]
LVL: [8]
EXP: [11.566.155/19.531.250] (exp needed per level up goes up by 5X)
Health [1560/1560]
Mana [13562/13562]
Strength: 156 (growth:12)
Agility: 224 (growth:17)
Intelligence: 1294 (growth:17)
Dexterity: 156 (growth:12)
Stamina: 156 (growth:12)
Defense: 135
Luck: 5
free attribute points: 0 (growth:10)
Magic affinity: 166
Elemental affinity: [Lightning- 87%] [Space- 83%]
Talent: [genius of magic (SSS-grade)]
SKILLS:
-Passive: [silent cast (S-grade)] [multicast (S-grade)] [meditate (S-grade)] [eyes of truth (S-grade)] [strength enhancement (A-grade)] [intelligence enhancement (A-grade)] [dexterity enhancement (A-grade)] [agility enhancement (A-grade)] [stamina enhancement (A-grade)]
-Active: [magic missile (F-grade) (10)] [lightning bolt (D-grade) (15)] [blink (B-grade) (5)] [lighting field (B-grade) (9)]
Equipment: [Ring of storage (A-grade)] [sapphire wand (A-grade)] [speedster boots (B-grade)] [elemental robes (B-grade)]
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