[You have been teleported to the starting area: Graveyard Town - Avon]
The blue and white data like particles appeared and gathered, forming a skeleton lizardman.
"…. Huh." – said the man while looking at his hands.
"…"
The man beginned inspecting his body. Touching his face, his chest, his hands, his legs and his tail.
(I'm freaking skeleton and I have a tail.)
"….F-...Wow." – said the man while trying to walk.
(Walking feels bit weird? Well, I'm skeleton and not even a human but a lizardman, I guess I need some time getting used to it.)
(Also, how do I move the tail around?)
(Anyway, this place looks bit grim, but also interesting.)
[Player: ClownFrog]
[Level 1]
[Race: Unliving] [Sub Race: Lizardman – Dark Green Scales Tribe]
[Race Passives]
[Benefits]
[Increase the performance of the skills and other abilities with necrotic, dark, poison and curse elements and skills by 25%. Stackable with itself.]
[Increase defense and magic defense against Necrotic, dark, poison and curse attributes and skills by 15% Stackable with itself.]
[Decreases the effect of the {poisoned} type statues effects as well as {cursed} statues effects by 10%.]
[Defense and magic defense increase by 2.5%]
[Increase the performance of the skills and other abilities with necrotic, dark, poison and curse elements and skills by 10%. Not stackable with itself.]
[Downsides.]
[Decrees healing received from the light and holy elements and skills and other sources by 15%. Stackable with itself.]
[Increase damage taken by light and holy elements and skills attacks by 15%. Stackable with itself.]
[Decrees the performance of the light and holy elements skills and other abilities used by the user by 15%. Stackable with itself.]
[Increase damage taken by light and holy elements and skills attacks by 10%. Stackable with itself.]
[Skills]
[Basic Necromancy]-[LVL1] [Create: Lesser Skeleton Servant]-[LVL1]
[Some time ago during character creation.]
[Plain Dark Green Shirt] [Plain Black Pants] [Beginner Spear]
"…. Honestly, I was expecting that there would be more equipment you can pick on the start, considering how many freaking skills and other stuff there all. I was only able to pick some clothes and my starting weapon."
"Oh well, it's no use complaining, since they already gave me a shit lot of options in other things."
"Anyway, what next?"
[Starting Area]
[Chose a starting area where you want to begin your journey in.]
[Some of the starting areas will allow you or not allow you to start in them depending on your race.]
"Huh. So, I can chose starting area based on what race I picked? That kind of nice."
"Anyway, what do we have here."
Lizardman V'v town, graveyard town Avon, Adventurer town Aan (Recommended starting location) and some other stuff. The Adventurer town Aan has the recommended written on it."
"Hm.... Meh. Let's got with the graveyard town. Since I will be skeleton and all."
[Back to the present.]
(I mean, I did chosen this area and all, but holy shit. Just look at this place. The details and all. And this place also have a vibe of the graveyard, well, it does have graveyard in its name and all.)
"…"
"…. What now?"
(They did said that the game doesn't have anything like main story line or anything and the influence of the players as well as being of this world will influence things, but is there anything like a beginner quest, tutorial or something?) – though the man while looking around.
(Am I supposed to go somewhere or something?)
"Hm?"
(There is a board and there is something written on it.)
Player ClownFrog approached wooden board that was near the spawning area.
"Blacksmith shop, alchemy shop, material shop, adventure guild…... Huh. So, it's like an information board."
(I think should go the adventure guild, since normally in the novels that is the place where you can take quest and all.)
(The arrows is pointing that way, so if I just in that direction I will find the adventure guild?)
ClownFrog beginned walking through the town while looking around.
"…."
(Skeletons, humans, orcs and some dwarfs. Are they NPCs or a players?)
"…."
(This seems to be a place. A board with a sword and mage hat, so that means this is adventurer guild.)
ClownFrog entered the building.
"…"
(Em…. Is this a right place? This place kind of looks like a bar?)
(Well, in some novels and fantasy games the adventure guilds were often depicted with part of them being a bar or something similar.)
"Excuse me. The unliving lizardman over there near the entrance."
"?"
ClownFrog turned around and saw a female dark elf behind the counter waving towards at him. Afterwords ClownFrog approached the counter.
"Yes?"
"You are new here, correct?" – asked the female dark elf.
"Y-Yea."
(Em. Is she NPC?)
"I see. By any chance did you came here to take any quest? If so, would you like telling me your current level so I can suggest you some quest?"
"Em. Well, I'm current a level one."
"Hmm… Alright. Then I recommend picking the quest herb gathering or grass wandering rabbits quest. They are good for the beginners." – said the female dark elf while pointing her finger towards the board filled with different papers attached to it.
"I see, thank you."
"…"
(WAS THAT PERSON REALLY AN NPC?!?!)
(WTF WAS THAT?!)
(She felt like real person and talked like one.)
(She called out to me when I was looking around and even asked me a question.)
(Is she something like super A.I NPC that acts like a real person?)
"…."
(Wait, should I be even surprised about this?)
(I mean, they literally made this THING and all. The game straight out of the novel. Should I be really surprised at this point about hyper realistic NPCs?)
"…."
(Yep, let's stop thinking :P)
(Anyway, she said something herb gathering and wandering rabbits, right?)
"…."
"Ah, found it."
ClownFrog reach his hand towards the request attached to the board and as soon as he touched it, a floating winddown appeared.
[Quest: Hunt Wandering Rabbits]
[Repeat Quest]
[In the western and north area outside of the village there a rabbit monster can be found called wandering rabbit. The monster posses a brown colored fur with green eyes.]
[Slay: 5 wandering rabbits and bring 5 wandering rabbit meat.]
[Reward: 25 copper coins / EXP]
[Do you wish to accept the quest?]
[Yes/No]
"Oh. It works that way."
(So, I just press this and I'm good to go?)
[You have accepted the quest: Hunt Wandering rabbits.]
(Huh, may as well pick the herb gathering quest, she asked me about.)
[You have accepted the quest: Collect Healing Grass.]
"Please take care." – said the female dark elf to the ClownFrog before leaving the adventure guild.
ClownFrog left adventure guild before moments later leaving the town itself.
"…."
"Huh."
"I though this place, be well…. Dead?"
(I didn't see a lot of grass of plants around the town and when I left, but after I walked a bit, I can see grass and some plants here and there. I though there wouldn't any plants at all or something.)
(Well, these trees does give a bit creep vibe though, as if its haunted or something.)
"…."
"Should be worry if a ghost popped up or something?" – said a freaking skeleton.
(Anyway, I think it's a good thing I picked a spear for my weapon.)
[Beginner Spear]
[Simple made very normal spear.]
[Rating: Common]
[Attack Power: 4-7]
[Durability: 12/12]
(I don't have any skills that can use for the combat expect [Create: Lesser Skeleton]. But that skill needs me to have a corpse to use it in the first place.)
(Pretty much it means I have kill something without use of the skills or anything else.)
(….)
(It won't hard or anything right? I didn't screwed up by not picking a single attack skill, right?)
While walking on the round, a sound of rustling could be heard coming from the bushes nearby before moment later a bunny jumped out of it onto the road.
[Wandering Rabbit] – [Level 1]
"!"
ClownFrog quickly took out his spear and aimed it tip towards the rabbit monster.
(Wandering rabbit, this is the monster I was looking for.)
(Okay. First fight. Its just a rabbit, so don't be so nervous.)
The rabbit monster beginned chagrining straight at the ClownFrog. The undead lizardman noticed that and tried stabbing the rabbit with his spear, but the exact moment he tried attacking, the rabbit jumped, dodging the attack and head butting ClownFrog in the chest.
"!"
"Ow?! That hurt?!"
"You bastard!"
ClownFrog launched attack yet again with his spear, this time stabbing the rabbit.
"Why you! Just- DIE!"
ClownFrog and the rabbit continue brawling around with ClownFrog trying to stabbing and smacking it with the spear while the rabbit kicking and head butting him. Before long ClownFrog manage to stab the rabbit monster once again and killing it.
[You have slain: Wandering Rabbit – Level 1]
[You have received 4 EXP.]
"…. Fuck me…."
"This was bit harder than I thought? I though it would something like very easy or something since this is a start and all."
(Anyway, I can tell that I sucked right now with the spear. Well, this may have been obvious. I never in the bloody hell used a spear in the real life.)
[Item Drop]
- [Wandering Rabbit Meat] x1
- [Wandering Rabbit Fur] x1
"Oh, I got something. I got the meat I needed for the quest."
(I think it was good idea to split my stats at the start. I don't know how hard it would have been if I didn't do that. Maybe I should also think of getting some combat skill as well.)
(Anyway, I should get going and hunt the rest of the rabbits.)
"But first."
ClownFrog turned towards the rabbit corpse.
(Time to test it out!)
"[Create: Lesser Skeleton]!"
[Insufficient Body Mass – Skill has been canceled.]
"…."
"Wut?"
"[Create: Lesser Skeleton]."
[Insufficient Body Mass – Skill has been canceled.]
"…."
"Fuck me in the ass."
"Why the fuck I can't freaking use it?!"
(I used all of my freaking skill points because I wanted ability to summon undead, but now you telling me that I can't FUKING USE IT?!)
(By any chance did I just wasted all of my skill points?)
"…...Fffffuuuuucccccckkkkkk...…"
"…"
"Status open. Skills."
[Create: Lesser Skeleton Servant] – [Level 1]
[Active] – [Cost: Depends on the created creature] – [Cooldown: Non] – [Category: Create Creature / Necromancy]
[Use the corpse of the dead being killed by you to summon an undead creature: Lesser Skeleton, a humanoid skeleton monster.]
[The summon creature level will depend on the corpse that was used as well as user current [Necromastery Stat]. The level of the created monster cannot be higher than the user.]
[The targeted corpse requires to have a minimal amount of mass for the skill to activated. Multiple smaller corpse can be used together for filling out the necessary mass.]
[The number of the lesser skeletons servants that the user can control: 0/2]
"Hm…. It says that I can use some small corpse together as the sacrifice. So, do I need to use 2 or more these rabbits corpse to summon anything? It is quite small in the first place."
(…. I think I'm idiot. I did read that skill description during the character creation before I had picked this skill and I somehow manage to forget about this detail.)
"Em…. So can I take this rabbit corpse with me or something?"
[Corpse cannot be put into the inventory.]
"Well, that sucks."
"Hm…."
ClownFrog grabbed the rabbit corpse by the leg and lifted it.
"Huh. Maybe it will work."
ClownFrog beginned walking around with his spear in hand and caring a corpse of the rabbit on his shoulders.
After some time ClownFrog manage to encounter another rabbit monster. Afterwords, ClownFrog put the rabbit corpse down and beginned fighting the rabbit once again.
[You have slain: Wandering Rabbit – Level 1]
[You have received 4 EXP.]
"Fuck me. Its dead. I really fuking need an attack skill."
"Anyway, lets see if it will work now."
ClownFrog lifted the rabbit dead body and put it on the top of the other rabbit body.
"Okay work this fuking time. [Create: Lesser Skeleton Servant]."
[Insufficient Body Mass – Skill has been canceled.]
"OH FUCK OFF!"
While raging, another wandering rabbit suddenly appeared near ClownFrog.
"…." – ClownFrog looked at the rabbit while holding his spear.
[You have slain: Wandering Rabbit – Level 1]
[You have received 4 EXP.]
"I swear for the love of the god. If this won't FUKING work!"
"[Create: Lesser Skeleton Servant]."
"…"
After trying to activate the skill once again, a magic circle appeared beneath the rabbit corpse.
"!?"
The rabbit corpse sinked into the magic circle and seconds later, a humanoid skeleton appeared.
[Lesser Skeleton Servant] – [Level 1]
"YES! IT FUKING WORKED!"
In front of the ClownFrog an humanoid skeleton stood.
"…."
(Em…. Not like I'm complaining or anything, but it doesn't have a weapon or anything. Does it fights with its fists or something?)
"…Ah! Before I forget. Where was it…. Here."
[Undead Page] – [Level 1]
[Undead Page is a special skill that allows the user to register and store their undead servant.]
[When the creature is registered, it will gain the fallowing effect:
-The creature register in the undead page will be able put into the it and recalled at any time.
-The registered creature upon death will be able to resurrect later on.
-The registered creature will not take the user max creature limit counter (For example you could control 3 skeletons when the limit of the skeletons is 2.). However, some undead creatures will take more than one slots in the undead page.]
-The number of the same type of the registered undead monster cannot be higher than their max amount (If you can only have max of 2 skeleton servants, you cannot register 3 skeleton servants.)
[Undead Page registered monsters] – [O/1]
[ ]
"So, do I press this and then this?"
[Do you wish to register: [Lesser Skeleton Servant – Level 1]?]
"Yea."
[You have registered [Lesser Skeleton Servant – Level 1] to the [Undead Page].]
[Undead Page Slots: 1/1]
[Lesser Skeleton Servants: 0/2]
"Okay. Its registered now."
"Now then, lets see what you have to offer my guy."