After a long long session of love making, we went to sleep. Once we woke up in each other's arms we looked into each other's eyes and kissed. After a while I spoke.
"How about we work on all those notifications and loot?"
"Yes, we should do that, there was a lot of crap that was there. But how about we start by checking our statuses and abilities?"
"Let's do the notifications first. You hit the level 10 in you class, didn't you? There will changes in skills."
"Yes, I did, ok let's do that first."
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Congratulations. You reached level 10 in the class Frozen Blade.
You will get an Option to upgrade one of your skills by one tier up to a maximum of Tier 2. (You will get this option every 10 levels of this class.)
You will get a change to obtain your second class-skill or upgrade existing one by one tier up to tier 4. (Initially you have 10% chance to get a new skill, this will increase by another 10% with every ten levels of the class. Once you get the skill you will only get the upgrade.)
Dealer's choice interrupted random selection. Please chose:
- Acquire new skill: Aura of frost.
- Upgrade one of your skills by one tier.
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"Aura of frost."
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Skill acquired.
Please select the skill to upgrade (Up to a maximum of Tier 2)
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"Ice fencing."
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Ice fencing upgraded to Tier 2.
Congratulations.
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"Fine let's spend the stat points now."
I used my stat point according to usual pattern. 2 into agility and magic per level and one per level into constitution.
"Ok I am done with leveling up. Do you also received the quest to save the girls and kill the chieftain?"
"Yeap."
"Did you get red chest as a reward?"
"Yeap." She nodded while smiling.
"Can you redeem it and give it to me I will open it for….." I stopped speaking since she was already handing me small wooden chest with red ribbon and one with golden ribbon.
"Thanks."
"It is to benefit of both of us if you open that. You can pick anything out of there. I would just get some random stuff." She spoke.
"We got a nice haul from that rescue mission. One golden chest, three red chests, five yellow chests and a lot of blue ones."
"Well, you are planning to use blue ones to gear up this camp."
"We don't need stuff from there and they are using old world stuff to fend off monsters. I want to give chance to survive."
"It's fine Vic. I am happy that you are trying to help. Now let's check out statuses."
I chuckled. "Impatient as ever. OK let's do that. Ask if you want to know something"
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Name: Victor Withworth
Class: Frozen Blade level 10 ( max level for the class is 100 )
Age: 21
HP: 350/350
MP: 1240/1240
Traits: Dealer's Choice
Skills: Basic cooking (Un-tiered), Enhanced agility (Un-tiered), Enhanced magic (Un-tiered), Ice fencing (Tier 2), Summon ice tiger companion (Tier 2), Creeping frost. (Tier 2), Aura of frost (Tier 2)
Stats:
Strength: 10
Agility: 104 +20
Constitution: 30 +5
Magic: 104 +20
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"As you can see there the Dealer's choice. It does what I told it does. Just removes randomness from the occasion."
"Broken, and your skills. 4 tier 2 skills, what the hell is that?"
"Now let's go skill by skill. We can skip enhanced agility and magic you have enhanced strength they are exactly the same just for another stat. They do nothing outside of adding 15 to stat. And cooking just lets me know when meat is edible from monster and gives me some recipes for it."
"OK, we can skip those."
"Now let's start with my bread-and-butter skill. Ice fencing."
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Ice fencing (Tier 2) – Very agile fencing style with focus on quick precise strikes empowered by users' mana which is used to create additional ice damage.
Every strike consumes 2 mana to add amount of ice damage equal to your Magic stat.
Fervor - Effect of agility on your attack speed is doubled. Amount of Ice damage you deal with every strike is increased to double your magic stat.
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"Fuck you must hit like a fucking truck while having mad attack speed."
"I didn't test that yet. I just got the fervor."
"Let's go for next." Karla spoke
"Okay let's go with creeping frost."
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Creeping frost. (Tier 2) – Whenever you hit and enemy with ice damage you also place a stack of creeping frost debuff that covers part of the body with ice, hindering the use of the body part. If you apply enough stacks of creeping frost debuff to a body part to cover it entirely it becomes frozen and will shatter with a lightest strain.
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"So, this is how you beat that chieftain."
"Yes, it needed quite a lot of hits to the leg for it freeze. But he was getting slower with each so it was manageable."
"Now let's check out the new skill, that aura thing."
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Aura of frost (Tier 2) – Once activated it slows down nearby enemies by 1% per 10 magic you have ( up to maximum of 40% ) and adding your agility as Ice damage to your sword. It will also pulse once per two seconds dealing (agility + magic)/10 ice damage to nearby foes (Applying stack of creeping frost to all body parts that are in contact with ground.). Consumes 10 mana per second when active.
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"As usual pretty messed up. Won't you also need mana regeneration? It looks like you are going to lose your mana quite fast."
"There is more." I chuckled. "Honestly until now I mostly maintained it via level-ups."
We checked my last skill.
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Summon ice tiger companion (Tier 2) - When you use this skill for the first time you will create a bond with ice elemental spirit that takes form of ice tiger. It will stay by your indefinitely.
Stats of the ice tiger scale with your magic. Every time your companion is hit it consumes 10 of your mana to heal itself up. If the companion receives lethal damage, it consumes 25% of your maximum mana to revive itself and heal to maximum.
Subskills:
Recall companion - Recall companion to your soul space.
Summon companion – Summon companion out of your soul space
Companion name: Sheela
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"So that's why you recalled her during the chieftain fight."
"Yes, I could not expend 25% of my mana if he killed her, just to do it again and again. He was too powerful for her. She does not scale from agility so she has half the power she should have if I was pumping pure magic. All of my other skills use both stats." I responded.
"And all this time I thought that she is plenty strong." Karla spoke.
"Yes, she is, she is my girl. But she could have been much stronger if I focused on magic. She would most likely be strong enough to solo the chieftain."
"You should pick something that will help you manage your mana. Until now you just relied on level ups and natural regen which seeing your magic stat is not small but it is not optimal."
"Yep, I was thinking about getting same neck as you have but 15 mana per second would help but not solve the issue. So, I delayed the solution until I find something that would cover the issue in its entirety. But enough about my stuff.Let's have a look at what you got."