As the white light receded I found myself in a field with close to 100 people in it. They were all wearing the same clothes as me and had one of the weapons. We were surrounded by giant mountains some the size of skyscrapers. The air was full of the noise of animals and of life. We were in some mix of a Rainforest and the Andes.
[Temporary Safe zone established. The zone will fall in 2 Hours. Welcome to the new world, you are the first of Humanity to come here. The rest will soon follow.]
[Time till next human arrival 14 days]
[Monster surge begins in 9 days]
[Forced save zone last 3 hours]
Chatter erupted as people panicked, and started realizing that this was real and that we could not stop this.
Hollow took a deep breath and swallowed. As he pulled his sword from its scabbard. He tested out the sword to see if it was of any reasonable quality. Finding it to be well-balanced and sharp he was surprised when a notification assaulted him.
[You have analyzed an Iron sword(common)]
Iron sword(common)
- +1 strength
- +1 dexterity
- Base damage 70%
-Cooldowns 150%
{Author Comment: The 150% cooldown is normal for weapons of quality. Eventually, it will get less than 100%.}
[You are one of the first 100 people to analyze an item. Skill Superior Insight (Rare) rewarded]
Pulling up his stats sheet he noticed very few changes.
{
Hollow
Level 0 (0/50)
Health: 64
Stamina: 64
Mana: 104
Defense 8
Titles: Trailblazer, Closest to Death, First to a Title.
Stats:
Strength 17 (5(base)+11(title + gear)*107%
Dexterity 17 (5(base)+11(title + gear)*107%
Stamina 16 (5(base)+10(title + gear)*107%
Vitality 16 (5(base)+10(title + gear)*107%
Wisdom 26 (5(base)+20(title + gear))*107%
Intelligence 26 (5(base)+20(title + gear))*107%
Skills:
Slash(common) 110%(Dex+Strength)/2
Block(common) 40$ strength less damage
Superior Insight(Rare)
Analyze an item and determine its capabilities
}
As he was looking at the changes in his stat sheet he noticed people starting to group up. A person appeared to be organizing them. When he analyzed him, he realized that he was like himself. He already had a title. It appeared to be quite weak, seeing as whatever he had only given him 2 vitality.
{Adrian - Level 0 - Human
Health 27
}
"Hello there, my name is Adrian, we need to organize ourselves so that we can survive," he yelled out to everyone. People just ignored him and started looking around. Getting desperate he displayed his title to everyone.
Fire Born(epic)
+4 to all stats.
+2% to all stats
- +Mana Modifier +1
Unique level fire affinity
Everyone got quite shocked by the high ranking as it was the highest anyone had seen. Hollow however was unimpressed seeing as he had a sealed divine title.
Once the chatter calmed down, Adrian spoke once more "I want all of the people who want to work with me to follow me." He started walking away from the group, and nearly all of the people followed him. Those who remained appeared to have some experience with combat. A few actually knew each other and were forming hunting groups.
Uninterested Hollow wandered off to a secluded area. The floating white thing had talked about upgrading skills through practice. Seeing nothing else productive to do till the barrier fell.
He attempted to use [slash] of one of the stumps that he found doting the ground. The terrain of the safe zone was quite weird. It was dotted with flat rocks and tree stumps. It appeared that all obstacles had been cut in half a close to waist half. It appeared highly unnatural and quite offputting.
Ignoring the oddity Hollow focused on the motions of the slash. Every muscle movement every little twitch. Repeating the motion nearly a hundred times till he heard a notification. Ignoring it he continued on practicing past the point where his muscles would normally have spasmed him into the ground. During this time his concentration was almost broken by Adrian screaming about magic not working. Hollow ignored the pain and drama untill he received his second notification. Collapsing to the ground completely exhausted he checked his stamina and saw himself under the effect of a debuff.
[Exahusted [Stamina regen at 50% regen speed]]'
[Being the First person to go to negative stats. Title Regenerator(Epic) is awarded]
He also saw that [slash had evolved twice]
[Evolved skill [slash(common)]--> [Practiced Slash(uncommon)]]
[Evolved skill [Practiced Slash(uncommon)]--> [Veteran Slash(rare)]]
Practiced Slash(uncommon)
-115%(strength+dexterity)/2 damage.
cooldown =
Veteran Slash(rare)
-120%(strength+dexterity)/2 damage.
Satisfied with the damage upgrade. Hollow lay down on the ground resting and letting his stamina regenerate. A few minutes later Adrian approached him. "You like me, you have a title. Seeing as I can't even read your stats, your title has to be quite nice. You should join me when we hunt. We could level up faster together"
Hollow snorted, "I don't want to be saddled down with a group. I will do just fine on my own. I've heard you can't even use magic yet"
Clearly annoyed with Hollow's response and not expecting to be rejected or insulted, Adrian laughed and shook his head in a motion filled with annoyance and superiority. "Yeah right, you are just going to die, you overconfident idiot".
After being alone, Hollow looked at the stats timer and saw that there were just a few minutes left. He then started getting prepared for his first hunt.