+40 Grind : Forest of Kin ³
Serven Palace , Serven Territory
The sun was already set but Garius was still working on the documents before him paying no to the female Elf sitting on his laps staring at him , her eyes were asking for his attention. She could easily seduce any human or Elf she'd met until now , but Garius was different.
"Master , did you hear that someone attacked the Labyrinth of Frils? This is a sensitive information so don't go telling any random person this."
Garius's hand stopped writing , he turned his head towards Herial and said ,
"I wouldn't be your 'Master' if I needed you to get my hands on this kind of information."
'So somebody tried to attack the Dark Lord's territory huh , I've trained her well.'
He stood up making Herial fall down on the floor and knelt down to speak to her. He grabbed her hair and said in aggressive tone ,
"Don't tell what I should do and what I shouldn't."
A smile appeared on Herial's face as she saw how Garius handled her.
"Yes , Master."
×-×-×
「 Caution
Player is exceeding the limits
」
The bright white message shone with a irritating sound snapping me out of my focused state. I completely forgot about what I thought during that state and passed out. I opened my eyes and found myself lying on the ground , I looked around my surroundings and saw the monster's corpses.
"Show Unread"
A bunch of unread messages popped open before me.
「 A new skill will be created 」
「 Haste » Inhuman Instincts 」
「
Skill : Inhuman Instincts
Rank : A
Level : 1
- The mana flowing in your body will be boosted and make you more sensitive to your surrounding.
- Speed will be increased by 200%.
- Stamina consumption will be increased by 25%.
Exp : 0.23%
Mana Consumption : 100
Cooldown Duration : 20 minutes
」
「 You've dealt 1589 」
「 You've dealt 1604 」
「 You've gained 48390 Exp Points 」
...
「 You've leveled up 」
「 You've leveled up 」
...
「 Caution
Your stamina has dropped below 30% 」
「 Caution
Your stamina has dropped below 20% 」
「 Caution
Your stamina has dropped below 15% 」
「 You'll be unconscious once your Stamina is dropped below 10% 」
'A-Rank skill!? Amazing!The Instincts skill is literally a cheat , for it's CD time and mana consumption it's truly OP.'
I checked the level up messages and apparently I leveled up 3 times killing all the Garfon's in this base , seeing how I was going to face stronger monster which will give me more Exp points. I assumed every base will level me up 2-4 times , with over 50 bases I would be able to level up to 100 easily.
"Show Sub Quest Objective"
「 Kill 301 monsters with higher level than you [19/301] 」
'Hah'
I let out a huge sigh seeing the number of monsters I'd killed till now. It was almost midnight , at the end of the my first day I was able to kill only 18 monsters. So I decided to raid all the normal Garfon bases near me.
To my north were 6 bases , 1 to south , 3 to east and 2 to west , in total I'd to clear 12 bases during the night. I warmed up before going into fight , after warming up I took out my daggers and cleaned the green blood off them. I still couldn't use my sword , but for some reason I felt that it will be possible at the end of the training.
It took me 40-70 minutes to clear a normal Garfon base , the number of Garfon's present on each base was between 20-30. Out of which 8-11 were higher than my level which meant that I would get 8-11 monsters added to my quest monster count.
After the cycle of 'Boom Blast' , 'Inhuman Instincts' , some of my magic skills and my basic attacks , I was able to get through all the 12 bases in the total time of 14 hours 11 minutes. My level jumped to level 37 just in those 14 hours , I invested in my stamina as I needed it to use 'Inhuman Instincts'.
After my Stamina surpassed 150 stat points a new 'SP bar' was unlocked on my status window showing my Stamina Points. This helped me to keep 'Inhuman Instincts' in control , I used the skill till my SP bar dropped to 50% which prevented me from passing out and being exhausted.
I didn't go to kill the Mid's and only focused on clearing the normal Garfon's bases. After my successful 1st day I saw the sun rising and left for the other bases expecting to get another 10 levels up , but my expectations came crashing down after seeing the result of my 2nd day.
After clearing only 5 bases I leveled up 6 times , it wouldn't even be possible if I didn't have the extra stats points. The level of monsters increased their monster HP took more time to kill them , more high level monsters were present on the bases now.
Leveling up became harder but at the same time my sub quest was going well. From 18 monsters my kill count jumped to 59 kills , that was the only plus point I could see in the after result of 2nd day.
Days went by , the number of bases I could clear in a day lessened the 12 bases I cleared on the 1st day couldn't be compared to the 5 bases I cleared on the 4th day. The monsters were stronger than I expected and cause of focusing more on the fights I couldn't make any kind of breakthrough with the sword too.
By the 5th day my Intelligence was finally above 200 and the same went for Strength. I got 2 new skills 'Amplify' and 'Sword Dance' , the latter couldn't be use as it required sword and 'Amplify' was a C-Rank buffing skill which I used to buff myself.
On 6th day's afternoon , I was clearing the 4th last normal Garfon base. The last wounded Garfon rushed towards me which I killed with my 'Insane Humanity' , after killing it a bunch of messages flashed before me which completely changed my training sub quest completion speed.
「 The Effect's of the Title ' The Chosen Mage' will now be applied 」
「
Title : The Chosen Mage
Rank : B
- +50 Intelligence
- Stat 'Charm' will be created.
- +100 Charm
- All the de-buffs created by the collision of Light and Dark attribute will be nullified.
」
「 The stats ranking system will be unlocked 」
「
Your current stats ranks are as follows :
Strength : C
Intelligence : C
Agility : D
Stamina : C
」
「 Your skill will be unlocked to their full potential 」
The one thing that bothered me while playing Infinite was that the basic attacks damage and skills damage didn't have much of the damage difference in them.
Getting into gaming I watched many different game's gameplay and saw that the skills normally dealt much more damage than the normal one's. But in 'Infinite' it didn't make much of a difference , but seeing the 'skill to their full potential' message my doubt was solved.
I also noticed the Title effect and was excited to see how 'Charm' stat worked , even though I didn't know how it worked a question came to my mind.
'Would it work on Lecilia?'
Thinking that it would be impossible to guess how it worked I gave up and excitedly opened my status window.
"Show Status"
「
Name : Excess
Level : 50
Class : Mage
HP : 17949/45394
MP : 1750/3450
SP : 1158/2550
+
」
The 1 strength which used to deal 10 damage would now deal 15 damage same went for the Intelligence , my MP which was 2300 increased to 3450 , my SP also increased to 2550.
The system still didn't tell how to increase the rank of stats but I didn't pay that attention to this topic as I was excited to see my stats. I pressed on the '+' sign which extended the small window into a longer and detailed window.
「
Name : Excess
Race : Human
Bloodline : --
Class : Mage [Disciple]
Level : 50
Title : The Chosen Mage
Strength : 220 [C-Rank]
Intelligence : 240 [C-Rank]
Agility : 170 [D-Rank]
Stamina : 170 [C-Rank]
Charm : 100
Stats Points : 16
•Other stats are locked
」
I was pretty sure that at level 50 nobody could've the same stats as me. The 69×4 stats I got from mana channel's were really important when I fought against Garfon's who were 20 level higher than me. I invested the extra 10 points in Intelligence to reach 250 Intelligence complete one of my sub quests.
I didn't check the skill description as I wanted to see the change the next time I attacked the base.
「 Your Charm is increased by 200 」
"Huh!?"
×-×-×
Local Market , Serven Territory
One young boy stood on the table of a pub with all the adventurers eyes on him , eagerly waiting for him to say something. The young boy finally opened his mouth.
"The incident I'm telling you about happened 4 days ago when I was travelling through the hunting grounds of Forest of Dilith. It was my 1st day working as a lumberjack which was why I got lost and entered Forest of Kin. There I saw a man no , not a man a demon killing group of Garfon's within half a minute. He used his daggers..."
There started the 1st rumor of the demon mask adventurer.