The Revenge of the Village Guard
[looted Wild Wind Wolf's Bone Dagger]
Wade looked in his inventory and saw a dagger that was the opposite of his Karambit-style knife. The dagger was straight with three grooves in it that resembled the wolf's eyes and muzzle. He then used [Inspect] on the dagger and saw skills and stats that made him yearn to kill more wolves.
[Wild Wind Wolf's Bone Dagger (Rare)]
[A knife crafted masterfully out of a Wild Wind Wolf's Bones.]
[Requirements = None]
[Stats:
+25 damage
+5 movement speed
+2 damage reduction]
[Skills:
Tear = Active Skill: A skill that resembles a wolf's skill at tearing apart its enemies. Deals 1.05x damage counter. If meat is torn out when this skill is used, regenerate 5% health in 5 seconds. Cost = 20 Mana/Cooldown = 10 seconds
Weak Wind Blast = Active Skill: An inefficient skill that the Wind Wolves created to knock their opponents off balance so that they could swarm them. Deals 1x damage stat. Cost = 30 Mana/Cooldown = 7.5 seconds]
The game allowed you to do anything as long as you could do it in the real world. Wade was an ambidextrous person and his dual-wielding skills were second to none. He equipped the Wild Wind Wolf Dagger on his right hand while equipping the curved Karambit knife on his left. His stats were now...
[Menu]
[In-game name = War (Wade Raze)]
[Level = 1]
[Experience = 0/100]
[Class = Assassin]
[Equipped: Wild Wind Wolf Bone Dagger(Rare)/Curved Knife (Common)]
[God = None (changeable at the Temple)]
[Elements = None]
[Abilities = None]
[Skills:
Inspect: Level 1: 0/100 = Active Skill: Used to see the opponent's hp and level. Will be blocked if the opponent is 5 levels higher than you. Cost = None/Cooldown = None
Tear = Active Skill: A skill that resembles a wolf's skill at tearing apart its enemies. Deals 1.05x damage counter. If meat is torn out when this skill is used, regenerate 5% health in 5 seconds. Cost: 20 Mana/Cooldown = 10 seconds (Dagger Skill)
Weak Wind Blast = Active Skill: An inefficient skill that the Wind Wolves created to knock their opponents off balance so that they could swarm them. Deals 1x damage stat. Cost: 30 Mana/Cooldown = 7.5 seconds (Dagger Skill)]
[Health = 10] (1 point in health = 10 points of hp)
[Strength = 22] (1 point in strength = 1 point of damage)
[Agility = 23] (1 point in agility = 5 points of movement speed)
[Magic Power = 10] (1 point of magic power = 10 points of Mana capacity)
[Endurance = 10] (1 point of Endurance = 1 point of damage reduction)
[Stat Points = 0]
[Hp = 100/100]
[Damage = 22+15+25/Total damage = 62]
[Movement speed = 115+5/Total movement speed = 120]
[Mana capacity = 100 (Recharges 5 mana every minute)]
[Damage Reduction = 10+2/Total damage reduction = 12]
Wade then left the forest after equipping his new dagger and headed back to the blacksmith where he handed over a pelt, three pieces of wolf meat, and the 8 copper coins to Ralph.
"This should be enough to pay for the sword that I broke this morning, right?"
"Yes, yes. I hope you will come again." Ralph laughed nervously as he saw Wade walking out of his shop again after handing him the three items.
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In the plains somewhere near Beast Forest
A gorgeous golden-haired woman climbed over a small hill in the plains when instead of the natural animals she expected, she saw rats instead. The rats were extremely smelly and looked as if they had just crawled out of a sewer. These rats were the natural monsters here in the plains as they had destroyed all other life except those under the ground. The woman equipped her wooden bow and started shooting off the rats in a precise manner. The woman immediately leveled up to level 3 after only shooting a couple of rats. She then walked up to loot the rats and found one copper for each rat.
"Damn this game, how stingy can they be?"
After she looted the rats, she had collected a total amount of 10 rat carcasses and 10 copper coins with no other loot whatsoever. She walked back to her village to hand in the rat carcasses and copper coins to the village alchemist. The village alchemist needed the rat carcasses for a specific experiment to test if rat carcasses could serve as a repellent for other types of beasts due to their smelly nature. The reward for this quest was 20 coppers and now the woman could buy the thing she most needed.
The beautiful woman's name was Jasmine. As Jasmine walked to the equipment store, she threw her wooden arrows in her inventory. Her wooden arrows wouldn't serve any purpose after she bought a quiver of metal arrows. These metal arrows would only be used for a [Uncommon] Boss that she found in the plains. It was surprising that no one but her had found it yet but it made sense as to who would hunt level 3 beasts after the game had just been released. Especially rats as well. Everyone was still doing beginner quests that barely yielded any exp and those who ventured out were too cautious to challenge any creatures above their levels and much less a boss.
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Wade searched for a village guard to offer him a quest since he had heard that some of the village guard's quests were a bit too hard for the players at level 1 and even the players at level 2. Some of the players leaked details mentioning that the quest required them to kill a bunch of wolves that were plaguing the village. Truthfully speaking, he didn't know if the wolf he had killed had been the same one that the players needed to kill for the village guard's quest. Wade thought killing the wolves was easy but he had never noticed that many other players died because there were too many wolves surrounding them.
"So you've already killed one of them..."
When Wade approached the village guard, the guard said something entirely different than what he had expected. The players who had talked to the village guard before had entirely different dialogue than what he had now. It was to be expected as all the NPCs AI had personalities and could make up their own sentences.
"What do you mean, sir?" Wade acted confused as he didn't know what the guard was talking about.
"Your dagger. The one in your left sheath. You already killed a Wild Wind Wolf at level 0 and that already proves that you're quite the formidable fighter for killing something above your level. Everyone else has been killing weak animals to level up and yet the first monster you've killed was a Wild Wind Wolf. So son, would you like to help me eradicate the Wild Wind Wolves?"
[Revenge (Part 1)]
[Kill 10 Wild Wind Wolves]
[Reward: 2 silver coins]
[Chain Quest Activated (0/3 Completed)]
[Yes/No]
Wade tapped [Yes].
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A few minutes later
Wade arrived at the forest and met 5 Wild Wind Wolves that were laying down and whining. The wolves seemed pretty calm so he activated [Stealth] and [Bleed] and snuck towards the area where the wolves were laying down. Wade stabbed downward at the nape of the wolf and a critical hit activated once again.
[Fatal area hit]
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[Bleed activated]
[Level 1 Wild Wind Wolf slain]
[+200 experience]
[Level up]
[You are now Level 2]
[Experience = 100/300]
[3 stat points have been assigned to Agility and 2 stat points to Strength]
[10 stat points gained]
Wade then flipped backward after seeing that he killed the wolf in front of him. When the other wolves noticed him, they turned around and howled. He knew that this was bad as a wolf howling could mean many things like communicating their location to their comrades or signaling to their pack leader that one of their own had been killed.
Wade dashed towards the 4 other wolves while dodging the [Weak Wind Blasts] that flew toward him at high speeds. As he neared the first wolf charging towards him, Wade threw his Wind Wolf Bone Dagger towards the wolf charging towards it and a yellow number appeared over the Wind Wolf's head as it slid to the ground in front of Wade.
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It seemed that the wolves here had the same health as the lone wolf he fought before.
[Level 1 Wild Wind Wolf slain]
[+200 experience]
[Level up]
[You are now Level 3]
[Experience = 0/400]
[3 stat points have been assigned to Agility and 2 stat points to Strength]
[10 stat points gained]
There were now only 3 wolves left in the pack. Wade cautiously walked over to the wolf he had just killed and pulled out his Wild Wind Wolf Bone Dagger. Wade activated bleed and dashed to the nearest wolf and slashed the side of the wolf with his left hand while throwing his knife at the other wolf with his right.
-66
[Bleed activated]
-5
-5
-5
-5
-5
[Level 1 Wild Wind Wolf slain]
[+200 experience]
[Experience = 200/400]
[Level 1 Wild Wind Wolf slain]
[+200 experience]
[Level up]
[You are now Level 4]
[Experience = 0/500]
[3 stat points have been assigned to Agility and 2 stat points to Strength]
[10 stat points gained]
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[Level 1 Wild Wind Wolf slain]
[+200 experience]
One wolf died to the bleeding while the other was killed by Wade's thrown knife.
Wade got into a slouched stance as if he was tired and the wolf seemed to get more energetic at the sight. It thought that Wade was at the end of the line and that his brothers could be avenged. Little did he know that Wade was pretending all along. The wolf tried to headbutt him with his [Headbutt] skill but Wade lazily dodged it. As soon as it saw that it had missed, it charged again but this time using its [Tear] skill. Wade didn't even allow the wolf to regenerate a sliver of health and slashed it across the muzzle with his curved knife.
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The wolf realized that it had no chance and ran away whimpering like a dog but Wade was a merciless person and threw his curved knife directly into the wolf's anus.
-68
The wild wolf let out one more whimper before dying at the hands of Wade. Only after he killed the last wolf did Wade let out a breath and looked at his system notifications.
[Level 1 Wild Wind Wolf slain]
[+200 experience]
[Experience = 200/500]
Wade then noticed he had leveled up 3 times just from killing 5 wolves.
'I didn't realize that leveling up would be this easy' thought Wade as he looted the items that the wolves left behind on their death.
[looted Wild Wind Wolf's pelt(x5) = can be used to craft armor and other accessories with the wind attribute]
[looted Wild Wind Wolf's meat (Consumable)(x12) = can be used to cook a delicacy that tastes quite well]
[looted 47 copper coins]
[looted Wild Wind Wolf's boots]
As Wade was still wearing the beginner leather boots that the game had given him he gladly took the Wild Wind Wolf's boots as its stats were amazing compared to the sub-par leather boots he had equipped now.
[Wild Wind Wolf's Boots(Uncommon)]
[Boots made out of the fur and bones of the Wild Wind Wolf on the outskirts of the Beast Forest. These boots have captured the essence of the Wind Wolf's special ability to give the user a similar speed boost.]
[Requirements = None]
[Abilities:
Sub-par Wind Aura (Passive): Increases movement speed by 5%]
[Stats:
+20 movement speed
+5 damage reduction]
After equipping his new boots and upgrading his agility, strength, and now his magic power in stats, his Menu now looked like...
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[Menu]
[In-game name = War (Wade Raze)]
[Level = 4]
[Experience = 200/500]
[Class = Assassin]
[God = None (changeable at the Temple)]
[Elements = None]
[Abilities:
Sub-par Wind Aura (Passive): Increases movement speed by 5% (Boot Ability)]
[Skills:
Inspect: Level 1: 0/100 = Active Skill: Used to see the opponent's hp and level. Will be blocked if the opponent is 5 levels higher than you. Cost = None Cooldown = None
Stealth: Level 1: 1/100 = Active Skill: Turn invisible while avoiding the senses of the people around you. Your next strike will deal 10% more damage. Cost = 10 Mana/Cooldown = None
Backstab: Level 1 2/100 (Passive): Damage to the backside of others will deal 25% more damage.
Bleed: Level 1 2/100 = Active Skill: Your next strike will make the opponent bleed for 10 seconds with each second dealing 5 damage. Cost = 20 Mana/Cooldown = 15 seconds.]
Tear = Active Skill: A skill that resembles a wolf's skill at tearing apart its enemies. Deals 5% more damage. If meat is torn out when this skill is used, regenerate 5% health in 5 seconds. Cost: 20 Mana/Cooldown = 10 seconds (Dagger Skill)
Weak Wind Blast = Active Skill: An inefficient skill that the Wind Wolves created to knock their opponents off balance so that they could swarm them. Deals 1x damage stat. Cost: 30 Mana/Cooldown = 7.5 seconds (Dagger Skill)]
[Health = 10]
[Strength = 38] (+10)
[Agility = 42] (+10)
[Magic Power = 20] (+10)
[Endurance = 10]
[Stat Points = 0]
[Hp = 100/100]
[Damage = 38+15+25/Total damage = 78]
[Movement speed = 210+5+20/Total movement speed = 235+5%= 246]
[Magic capacity = 200 (Recharges 10 mana every minute)]
[Damage Reduction = 10+2+5/Total damage reduction = 17]
Wade was satisfied with his stats as he went off hunting for even more wolves on the outskirts of the Beast Forest...
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After an hour of hunting...
Wade couldn't find any lone or small packs of wolves around the Beast Forest any longer. He did find rabbits and fish but they gave small amounts of experience that wasn't worth grinding. His experience bar had now filled up to level 6 and it was about halfway full to level 7.
[Level = 6]
[Experience = 388/700]
Wade assigned 10 stat points to Agility and Strength like before since what's the point of extra health and resistance if you aren't even going to get hit. His strength and agility stats were extremely high now compared to other players of the same level because he focused on being a glass cannon instead of a moving hitbox.
[Strength = 52]
[Agility = 58]
[Damage = 52+15+25/Total damage = 92]
[Movement speed = 290+5+20/Total movement speed = 315+5%= 330]
Wade had completed the first quest and also had an extra wolf kill. He walked straight to the village guard and turned in his quest.
"So you actually completed the quest. I thank you for helping me kill these goddamn wolves. I used to be a farmer outside of the village y'know. My mother and son died to these bastards when I was away. I found them at the edge of the forest with their entire bodies almost unrecognizable. I will give you everything I have as long as you can avenge them for me." The village guard handed him two silver coins as he talked with a face of a man in grief.
[Revenge (Part 2)]
[Kill 50 Wild Wind Wolves]
[Kill 1 Elite Wild Wind Wolf]
[Reward: 1 gold coin and ???]
[Chain Quest Activated (1/3 Completed)]
[Yes/No]
"Also, my good friend, I will give this to you as an early reward for your success."
[Token of Saint Academy Acquired]