Arriving at the outskirts of the village, Curis saw other players trying their best to level up by defeating level 1 slime but yet some still finds it difficult to do as their rusty sword little to no effect on the slime while others are attempting quest given by NPCs.
One of the players noticed Curis passing by and saw that his equipment is better than that of others and call the attention of one of his friends.
"Look at that guy," exclaimed the player towards his friend "check out his gears, a chainmail armor, a steel gauntlets, a steel greaves, a longsword and a chainmail boot, his must have been very lucky in welcome box," said the first player.
" That is it because I don't understand how he could get all that uncommon items, each equipment will cost at least 2 silver coins or even more. By the way, what did you get from the welcome box," said the second player.
" Well I get a ring but it is of common rank, what about you?" said the first player.
" I got a Iron sword, it is also of common rank as well, but that player will be able to breeze through the early stage of the game," said the second player.
" Yes, don't you see where he is heading to? He is going into the forest, the average level of monster in the forest is 5, for him to head there he must be either confidence or arrogant," said the first player.
" Well that is his choice let him go, if he dies it doesn't concern me so let continue to kil this silmes," said the second player.
"But if he gets killed in the forest, at least one of his equipment will drop so this is a chance of getting an uncommon item," said the first player with a greedy voice.
"You can follow him but I am not going, I barely reached level 2 after fighting for over an hour and my sword durability is low, so I am not going what if we got killed by a monster first or he noticed us and kill us. I am not ready to die unnecessary death," said the second player.
" Ahh, I never thought about that. I was greedy and didn't think about the consequences at all, thank you for reminding me or else I will just die unnecessarily," said the first player as he scratchs his head.
"We better go back to farming exp until the time is up as we have a little over 5 more hours till we are log out from the game," said the second player.
Both players return to kill the slime as the respawn time of the slimes is not long.
Curis heard them but decides to keep walking, soon he passed all players and entered the forest.
[You have entered the forest]
Curis brought out the map that was given to him by the village chief, Akindele and commence to navigate his way through the forest.
Exploring the forest, Curis came across 5 giant rats feeding on a corpse and used the observation skill to determine their level.
[Observation]
Giant Rat
Level:4
HP:100/100
Attributes
Strength:14
Agility:12
Intelligence:2
Vitality:10
Skills:
Bite: Deals 20-25 physical damage.
Scratch: Deals 15-20 physical damage and has 10% chance of causing bleed.
Burrow: Allows the giant rat to hide underground.
[Congratulations, Observation has level up]
[Observation lvl 2]
Curis was surprised at the level up notification which came unexpected s he thought that the skill is easy to level up.
See the stats of the giant rat, Curis decides to kill them first, so he attack one of the rat on its head.
[Critical hit]
-100 HP:0/100
[Congratulations on leveling up]
[Current level:2]
[You have gained 2 attributes point]
Exp:10/200
The remaining rats were alert of the intruder and prepare to attack.
-16 HP:314/330
Curis was not surprised as his defense point is high so he continues to attack the rats.
[Critical hit]
Giant Rat 2
-100 HP:0/100
Exp:120/200
A giant rat scratch Curis which activate the bleeding effect.
[You have affected with bleed]
[You will lose 5 HP every 5 seconds for 30 seconds]
-5 HP:309/330
Curis ignores the notifications and focus on the battle as this is different from the simulation he had in the training hall.
One of the giant rats use the skill [burrow] and hide underneath the ground, making Curis be on alert for it as he battles the remaining two rats that are on the surface.
One of the two giant rat jumped at him to bite him, but Curis dodged it and strike it on the head like he did with the first two giant rats.
[Critical hit]
-100 HP:0/100
[Congratulations on leveling up]
[Level:3]
[You have gained 2 attributes point]
Exp:30/300
Curis suddenly received a bite from underneath and saw the giant rat that went underground biting him.
-16 HP:273/330
Curis strike it head on killing it before it could use it's burrow skill again.
[Critical hit]
-100 HP: 0/100
Exp: 140/300
The last giant rat saw his friends dead leaped towards Curis but Curis strike it before it could reach him.
-52 HP:48/100
Seeing that he couldn't finish it once Curis strikes it again before it could recover itself.
-52 HP:0/100
Exp:250/300
Killing all the rats, Curis continues on his search for Babatunde as it is late and he will be log out soon.
Curis checked his status window and was suprised to see how much stats he earned in just two level.
[Status window]
Name:Curis
Level:3
Exp:250/300
Path:None
HP:410/410
MP:140/140
[Attributes]
Strength:32
Agility:36
Intelligence:28
Vitality:41
Luck:30
Free Attributes points:4
[Equipments]
Chainmail Armor (Uncommon)
Steel Greaves (Uncommon)
Steel Gauntlets (Uncommon)
Longsword (Uncommon)
Chainmail Boots (Uncommon)
Steel Shield (Uncommon)
[Skills]
Observation lvl 2
Seeing his stats, Curis picked up the loots from the rats.
30 copper coins
5 furs
5 claws
Continue searching for Babatunde, Curis came across a human footprint but it is not alone as there are footprint of a smaller creature.
So Curis decides to track the footprint and find out where it leads to, after tracking for more that 25 minutes, Curis arrived in front a cave which is guarded by goblin soldiers.
Curis observe for about 5 minutes before making a decision to attack but before that he drinks a defense potion.
[You drink a defense potion]
[Defense is increased by 10 for 30 minutes]
Curis brought out his longsword and charge towards them.
"Kiiiek, a human intruder," shouted one of the goblin soldier but before he could react, Curs has arrived in front of him and slashed him.
-62 HP:448/500
The second goblin soldier hits Curis with his club.
-15 HP:395/410
Curis cuts across the first goblin chest dealing a critical damage stunning it.
[Critical hit]
-135 HP:313/500
[Your opponent is stuned for 5 seconds]
The other goblins hit Curis again but this time around, Curis blocked the attack with his shield and slash the goblin.
-64 HP:446/500
Pushing the goblin out of the way, Curis brought out the short sword and slash the first goblin with both his swords.
[Critical hit]
-130
-150 HP:33/500
Recovering from the stun effect,the first goblin hit Curis with his club as Curis does not expect it at all.
-15 HP:380/410
Curis hit the goblin on the head finishing it and rushes towards the second goblin.
[Critical hit]
-135 HP:0/500
Exp:115/400
[Congratulations on leveling up]
[Level:4]
[You gained 2 attributes point]
Ignoring the notifications, Curis rushed to kill the second goblin. After about 2 minutes of fighting, Curis finished off the goblin and pick up the loots.
Exp:280/400
3 silver coins
2 health potion
1 Goblin club (Common)
After looking around to see if there are more goblin soldier around, Curis decides to proceed into the cave and trace the footprints.