+26 Quest
"Choose child , With whom do you wish to move forwards?"
I repeated the choices I made in the first version and said ,
"I choose no one of you , I would like to stay as a mortal human."
Hearing my answer the two deities disappeared in thin air with no traces of them left. After their disappearance the black room displayed 5 cards before me it was time for 'race selection'.
• Race Selection •
「
Human
Strength : C [Upgradable]
Intelligence : C [Upgradable]
Agility : D [Upgradable]
Stamina : C [Upgradable]
」
「
Battle Elf
Strength : C
Agility : C [Upgradable]
Stamina : D [Upgradeable]
Ranged : B [Upgradeable]
」
「
Mage Elf
Strength : D
Intelligence : B [Upgradeable]
Stamina : C [Upgradeable]
Element : B [Upgradeable]
」
「
Dwarf
Strength : D
Intelligence : C [Upgradeable]
Stamina : B [Upgradeable]
Dexterity : B [Upgradeable]
」
「
Beastmen/women
Strength : B [Upgradable]
Intelligence : D
Agility : C [Upgradable]
Stamina : C [Upgradeable]
」
The stats ranking system was also changed , in the previous version if B-Ranked stat was at 20 after upgrading it would get to 40 which was pretty OP so to balance things out this is what they did was this-
A-Rank
Strength - 1 = 25 damage
Intelligence -1 = 25 mana & 25 damage
B-Rank
Strength - 1 = 20 damage
Intelligence - 1 = 20 mana & 20 damage
C-Rank
Strength - 1 = 15 damage
Intelligence - 1 = 15 mana & 15 damage
D-Rank
Strength - 1 = 10 damage
Intelligence - 1 = 10 mana & 10 damage
Intelligence and Strength were different if you were to hit the enemy with physical attacks strength stat's damage would be applied , But when dealt with Magic skills Intelligence stat's damage was applied.
The attacks which infused magic in physical attacks dealt both Strength and Intelligence damage. Which is why I wanted Swordmages class , only Swordmages could infuse mana in their weapons. If I couldn't get Swordmage class the only way to get that extra damage was to get an attack skill which used sword and mana which would be extremely hard to find.
'They didn't give any information about how to upgrade them , ugh this is gonna be pain in the a**.
I also noticed that Gnome couldn't be found in the selection I wasn't surprised , it was mentioned in the minor update list that Gnome was removed from the game. The reason? it was simple nobody chose Gnome even if their stats were good , Gnome was inferior to Dwarf and did the same work.
Instead of Gnome they added Battle Elf and Mage Elf which was a good addition as Elf would've been OP if they had both ranged abilities and mage abilities. Rick made it clear that he wanted to do all the changes in the system before the global release cause he didn't want to change a single detail once it was released.
"I choose Human."
After choosing Human , the screen before me closed and a new screen appeared and it was 'Class Selection'.
「 Warrior 」
「 Mage 」
「 Maker 」
「 Cleric 」
The class selection was kept pretty short and didn't give a lot information like chances of sub classes , possiblilty of class change. I already decided to choose Mage so going with that I was teleported to the Beginner's Town of Xerus. I was wearing a black mage robe with a hood on my head no items , no weapons just a robe.
Before I could roam around the area I was summoned at , a quest message appeared before me ,
「
Quest : Begginer's Quest
Rank : C
Objective : To complete all the sub quests
Rewards : B-Rank item/weapon/skill and C-Rank Magic skillbook
Time Limit : -- 」
「
Sub Quest : Kill the Monsters
Rank : D
Objective : Kill 20 monsters near the hunting grounds of Beginner's Town. [0/20]
Rewards : D-Rank item/weapon/skill
Time Limit : 12 hours 」
'So this is the class quests doesn't look that bad killing 20 monster , it wouldn't even take more than 30 minutes for the Garfon's.'
I checked my status window just to see if anything was changed. I didn't know if the attribute system was same as before , but if it was then I would be getting dark attribute and based on that I planned to collect as many dark attribute skills as possible.
「
Name : Excess
Level : 1
Class : Mage
HP : 50/50
MP : 100/100
+
」
It looked like they made the status more simple , this made easy for me to see my HP or MP without seeing a big window with extra information. I saw the '+' icon at the middle bottom of window and pressed , the small window infront me extended and got longer.
「
Name : Excess
Race : Human
Bloodline : --
Class : Mage [Beginner]
Level : 1
Title : --
Strength : 10
Intelligence : 10
Agility : 10
Stamina : 10
Stats Points : 0
•Other stats are locked
」
It looked like the stat rank system didn't apply right away , atleast that way it wouldn't be too advantageous for the races with A-ranked stats.
Instead of starting my quests right away I started to roam around the town to find some good items and weapons. Being a Mage I'd to be more conscious of my health , getting hit by just a single attack can be fatal for me.
This was my first time I explored the beginner's town , the town was located in the North-West of Xerus Kingdom. While I exploring the town I encountered a storyteller on the side of the road , who was telling about this town's history. The kids hearing him were giving surprised reaction to his stories which made me curious about what he was telling.
'If the story quests really do give good rewards I need to the history to get some information about this and other Kingdom's.'
So I stood far enough that I could hear the story he was telling.
"One of the most crowded town because of the adventurer , every adventurer starts there adventure from this town. The town's name wasn't beginner's town but Serven at first , but that changed cause of the number of newbie adventurer's that gathered here hence called Begginer's Town."
"Serven was just a town at first but it was later developed and expanded to become a big territory now known as Serven territory which took about 36% of the whole Xerus Kingdom. The name 'Serven' came from the one of the 9 Noble Families , Serven Family. 9 Noble Families were spread across all the three kingdom's Frontia , Gritz and Xerus."
"Serven's ancestors ruled over this territory and thus it was named after the family , the current head of Serven family is Gildian Serven. The head of the Noble Families are the most powerful people in the family that's why the current head's age is 21."
'Now this is new , normally in a Noble Family the head would've been the oldest person.'
He further continued ,
"Each Kingdom have 3 Noble Families , we only recognize 3 Kingdom's as we don't know the real history of Traus Kingdom. All the three Kingdom's respect Traus Kingdom for surviving 300 years even though they are isolated , but some said they were savages who forcefully captured a part of Xerus Kingdom."
"We didn't have a solid evidence supporting it that's why we don't mark them as an enemy. We've tried to contact them by sending messenger's but they couldn't get to Traus Kingdom , which is why all the Kingdom take neutral stance against them."
After getting enough information , I further explored the crowded streets. After a while I was able to find the shop I was looking for. I went up to the owner and asked ,
"Excuse me can you show me some masks?"
"Yes what type of masks are you looking for buyer? We've 2 types of masks normal masks just to hide your face and ability masks in which some increase your power."
"Ah yes I would like a ability mask in the range of 500 coins please."
After telling my request the shopkeeper browsed through his shop and brought 3 masks infront of me. On my left was a white demon mask with gold outlines and in the middle was another plain white mask with no design and on my right was a black demon mask just like the one on my left but with half of it crimson coloured.
I looked at the stats and chose the one on the right , I didn't even consider buying the white one as it would've stood out whenever I would try to blend in the crowd. It would not serve it's purpose of hiding me and my identity.
With that the legend of masked adventurer started.