Kiel was worried. He wanted to achieve 'Hell Clear' but at this rate it seemed impossible.
He needed to think of something. Looking at the items he had in his inventories. He saw the 8 Minor Mana Cores.
He sighed, he had wanted to keep those for upgrading gears. But clearing the tower took priority.
Having settled his next goal, he had to next think of how to deal the maximum damage.
With that thought in his mind, he went and found a new place to camp.
That afternoon, he made a small list of rules to limit himself:
Move camp every night.
Make more Mana Bombs.
Kill Orcs and gain experience.
Collect Orc heads for bounty at the City.
Power up as much as possible.
Big boom somewhere.
Return to the city.
On the 3rd day, he met another team of Orcs. Looks like the group set up were all the same, 2 Orc Scouts and 7 Orc hunters led by 1 Elite Orc Hunter.
This was going to be a piece of cake.
This time Kiel was more liberal with his use of "Instant Step(S)" and using the same boring trick and movements he effectively and efficiently wiped out the small team.
He picked up 5 Minor Mana Core this time, not forgetting to keep the Orc heads.
The evening of the next day, he learned
"Meditation(E): Meditation, out of combat regenerate 10 mana / minutes"
Now he really took off and he even had the free time to fiddle with the Rune Carvings.
Over the next week, he farmed another 3 teams earned another 13 Minor Mana Core reached level 14 and learned:
"Iron stomach(E): Strong Stomach, reduced chance of suffering from food poisoning, higher resistance to poison."
He continued for another 2 weeks and the Orcs' presence was getting scarce and he had to go deep into the grassland to find the Orcs.
In the 2 weeks he only managed to farm another 3 teams. He had earned another 20 Minor Mana Cores bringing his stash up to 46 Minor Mana Cores.
He had also leveled up to level 15 and learned:
"Basic Martial Art(E): Basic Level Martial Art"
And
"Underwater Breathing(D): Allows you to breath underwater"
With this all his available skill pages are all consumed and he had 46 bombs.
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Name: Kiel Sinclair
Age: 16
Level: 15
Class: Novice SwordMage
Health: 124/124
Mana: 78/78
Stamina: 57+5
Intellect: 72+5
Strength: 74+5
Agility: 74+5
Equipment: Inventory Ring, Hermit's Necklace(C)*, Fine Steel Sword(C), Novice SwordMage Blade(E)*, Leather Armour Set(N/A),
Skills: Extreme Regeneration(S), Instant Step(S), Extreme Mana Sense(S), Sword Casting(A), Spell Casting(B), Life Drain(B), Intermediate Swordsmanship(B), Intermediate Rune carving(B), Sixth Sense(C), Mana Sword(C), Basic Mana Armor(C), Basic Fire Blast(D), Basic Heal(D), Basic Electric Shock(D), Ambidextrous(D), Basic Water Bullet(D), Basic Vine Whip(D), Superior Balance(D), Underwater Breathing(D), Basic Footwork(E), Steel skin(E), Fleet Footed(7), Wisdom(8), Health Recovery(5), Basic Martial Art(E), Power Boost(7), Slash(9), Chop(9), Stab(9), Parry(8), Riposte(7).
Experience: 485/2200
Free Stat: 16
Assessment: Not so Fragile
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The Orcs seemed to have caught on to something. They have lost over 100 Orcs,headless dead orcs everywhere and they couldn't catch the culprit, well they had no clue cause there was no eyewitness.
There were never any survivors but from the bodies, there were sword wounds, blade wounds and spells from multiple schools of magics, 3 known spells, water bullet, fire blast and vine whip.
With this in mind, there should be at least 5 people.
The evidence from the search team showed that there were very little footprints in the battle area. There were suggestions from the scouts that there were less than 5 people in the group.
Unfortunately, the Orcs were not familiar with magic. Thus, they could not imagine someone being able to wield more than one kind of magic.
Their Horde had 500 strong fighters but only 1 magic user. A shaman who was only proficient in Fire magic and only capable of casting 3 "Basic Fire Blast(D) in 1 go with his 94 mana points.
From then on, they decided that the patrol and hunting teams will now be made up of 20 Orcs to be led by 1 Elite Orc Hunter, 15 Orc Hunters and 4 Orc Scouts.
They had believed that this group would be able to defend themself and even kill the invader.
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Kiel had been scouting for 3 days and no longer had any luck finding smaller groups. From afar he found that all of them are now at least a group of 20, 4 scouts, 15 hunters and 1 Elite.
Calculating his odds, Kiel was pretty confident and decided to give it a shot.
First he adjusted his stat.
"Stamina +3
Strength +6
Agility +6"
Kiel was left with 1 free Stat and heard the system prompt.
"Stamina stat has reached 60 points, Climbers acquired a skill:
Basic Health Recovery(6): Health points recover faster, 60%"
"Strength stat has reached 80 points, Climbers acquired a skill:
Power Boost(8): Active skill to increase strength by a factor of 1.8, Cost 40 mana. Last 8 minutes, Cooldown 25 minutes"
"Agility stat has reached 80 points, Climbers acquired a skill:
Fleet Footed(8): Increase Movement speed 80%"
With a new round of improvements, Kiel then started to make plans.
Kiel had prepared a few explosive traps in advance with the mana bombs.
In his time with Thorgen, he had fiddled with the idea of a new kind of mana bomb. Seeing his work, Thorgen had been impressed and with his understanding of rune carving, Thorgen had remarked that it should have greater effect.
After mastering all the basic spells, he already had some ideas and now after weeks of research, he had a new batch of trial products to test out.
He had created a new kind of mana bomb, wasting quite a few mana cores which he cut into tiny pieces. These new types of bombs come in pairs, 1 fire and steel based, and the other lighting and water based. Somehow this combination was deadly.
Only when the two touch each other will they explode and the explosion force is greater than the sum of 1+1.
Kiel was excited to try out his new invention. It would be risky
He was sure that while it would not be easy, he should be able to pull it off.
Hence he planted the Yin-Yang Mana Bombs using "Basic Vine Whip(D)" just under the soil surface.
Then he proceeded to leave breadcrumbs of clues through the ambush site.
Finishing his preparations, he waited.
After 4 hours, just before the sun sets, a hunting party was lured into the trap.
Kiel patiently waited for the group to pass the trap and only when the middle of the group was on top of the trap, he set off 2 pairs of the Couple Mana Bombs.
The explosion was Glorious!!!!