Back in the blue room, his body had recovered from his wounds, and his tiredness had disappeared. Ikky instinctively cracked his neck and stretched his arms and legs like someone who comes out of a night of sleeping on a friend's uncomfortable couch.
While Data repeated that he was calculating the rewards, Ikky reflected on everything that had happened. The game was a real nightmare of sensations, although he could not complain at the moment about how he was doing.
Although he was surprised to be the best or the first during the first phase of the tutorial, in the end he simply slipped out of the rats' reach and stabbed them from above. It didn't matter how many there were, he simply stabbed the spear again and again and again. He had no merit other than not being exactly a warrior confident in his skills, that and nothing else made him climb onto the pedestal of the statue. The first test had been a matter of luck and fear, not skill.
Maybe that also saved him in the second phase, or maybe it was the skills he chose; although he had been able to choose more skills than the rest according to his calculations, he did not choose any of the most obvious ones, such as stealth that many players used to playing assassins, rogues or rangers would have chosen; he did not opt for first aid to ensure healing, nor did he think about lockpicking... He did not take mobility or endurance skills, such as running or jumping... He was certainly not the only one among the 2000 with this thought, but he had the advantage of choosing more than one of them...
Any warrior or person skilled in combat would have thrown themselves into the fight against the goblins, and with level 1 or even level 2 obtained during the test, how many of the 2000 could survive? How many would find all the exits or would they not choose to finish the test as soon as they had the opportunity? Would they not end this phase as soon as a way out of the darkness and the environment presented itself? And how many would survive the felines in top form if they had chosen that route?
Needless to say, players who previously handled magic classes at that time had no chance, at the very least they would be just as clumsy as Ikky if not clumsier. Ikky wasn't playing to show off, in his own reflection, but to use everything the game had to offer; if he killed goblins while they were shitting, he would kill goblins
Was that bad? Was that cheating? Or was it facing a realistic situation in a realistic way?
"Calculated Rewards"
"For discovering all the dungeon exits, an additional special skill will be granted."
"Being the first to discover the first exit will grant you an additional common skill."
"Being the first to discover the second exit will grant you an additional common skill."
"Being the first to discover the third exit will grant you an additional common skill."
"For being the only one to kill all the monsters in the dungeon, two additional combat skills will be granted."
"For being the only one to reach level 3 during the second phase of the tutorial, you will be granted the title: He Who Walks the Hero's Path. *The experience from all monsters you kill is multiplied by 1.5."
"For being the only player to complete the hidden piece, three magic affinities will be granted: magic affinity with metal, magic affinity with gems, and magic affinity with blood."
"By being the first to unleash and feel the magic in the second phase of the tutorial, you will be granted magical affinity with the spirit."
"For surviving the second phase of the tutorial, the following reward will be granted: 2 items of the player's choice.
S+ Dungeon Performance Evaluation: The player will be able to choose 2 common skills, 1 special skill, 2 combat skills, 1 access to the dream merchant, +2 luck stat increase.
From what he had seen in the development of the phases, the skills could not only be learned but could be triggered in some way, either with the spear or with first aid; therefore, you had to play smart, choosing those skills that were either fanciful or that you had no way of reproducing in real life.
He filtered the skills by discarding all those that were the result of physical acts, or purely physical, athletic or common skills, and discarding others that depended on specific knowledge that you already had, such as first aid, or whose knowledge you could acquire (work of the leather, forging, construction, lockpicking, etc.), and looked at a collection of more mystical or rare skills,
"Detect Presence, Keen Senses, Sixth Sense, Lucky Strike, Beginner's Luck, Detect Secret Doors, Eyes in the Back of Your Head, Calm Mind, Observe the Strange, Meditation, Avoid Panic, Resist Fear, Lightning Reflexes," there were more but these were the ones that caught my eye the most. If I could choose five of them, which would be the most complicated combination? Which would suit me best? He thought about his clumsy and sad life outside of the game.
He was never a very lucky person; he didn't have bad luck, but he never won a prize or came up with a wonderful business opportunity that didn't depend on his own skills, so the skills Lucky Strike and Beginner's Luck were a good choice, or at least a temptation that he decided to fall into.
Lucky Strike * Common * When the character needs or desires something very strongly, the chances of increasing his luck increases (+2 to the luck stat during the event)
Beginner's Luck: Common: When the character does or attempts something for the first time, his luck stat will increase (+2 to the luck stat during the event)
With a base stat of 14, he could add up to an additional +4, and this would make him as lucky as the luckiest of humans, which was a lot even if he didn't know what that luck would consist of.