leveling up
after almost half an hour of walking Lucas finally arrived at the heavy water lake. lucas stared at the lake with the same amazement in his eyes as when he first saw the forest. both of which seemed novel to him as this game was the first time he saw these spectacles.
as he looked around he saw huge trees, patches of grass leading up to the bank of the lake, and the lake itself that lucas felt had to be tens of miles wide with almost crystal clear water.
unlike when Lucas looked at the forest when he first entered the game and thought it was something he could only ever see in pictures. the lake seemed too perfect and beautiful to exist anywhere on earth as if it was an idealistic drawing.
after 3 minutes of walking around the lake bank looking for a razor snapping turtle he finally found one eating a fish near a log.
instead of charging straight into battle lucas first used the appraisal skill that all players receive at the beginning of the game to look at the attributes of the almost 3 ft tall snapping turtle.
[ razor snapping turtle, common]
[level: 3]
[health 400/400]
strength:9
agility:3
stamina: 7
defense: 15
intelligence:2
active skills: fast bite
passive skill: minor anti armor
after looking at the stats of the snapping turtle lucas took a second to inspect the skills.
[fast bite: bite attack speed and damage increases by 50% for 1 bite. 1 minute cooldown ]
[minor anti armor: 5% of damage received is sent back to the enemy]
lucas then looked at his stats for a comparison.
[Eckhart]
[level:0 0/100]
[health 100/100]
strength:7
agility:5
stamina: 5
defense: 10
intelligence:5
active skills: stab
passive skills: none
[stab: stab out your weapon increasing damage by 50%. 10 second cooldown.]
after looking at the stab skill lucas felt that it was pretty much trash with the only good thing about it being the short cool down.
at the beginning of the game all stats were set depending on your class.
the way atk is calculated in the game is strength*2 + equipment bonus. with that lucas' atk would be 39. with the turtle having a whopping 15 defence under normal circumstances lucas wouldn't be able to do any damage to it but with the spear he deals 24 damage a hit to the turtle.
after thinking this lucas charged at the turtle alerting it to his presence making him run straight toward him.
the first to attack was the turtle which caught lucas off guard as the turtle used it's skill fast bite right at the start.
the speed of the attack was fast but thanks to the turtle' low agility in the first place lucas was still able to react as he put his spear in front of himself allowing the turtle to bite it.
after realizing it had a hold of something it viciously shook its head making lucas lose his grip on the spear.
after losing his spear Lucas knowing that without it he wouldn't be able to cause any damage to the turtle he backed away from the turtle to not take any unnecessary damage.
seeing its opponent fleeing the snapping turtle dropped the spear in its mouth to chase after lucas.
lucas smirked after seeing this as he knew that the turtle wouldn't give up it's only way to attack in order to keep hold of his spear judging as common grade monsters still don't have intellect and ran almost only based off instinct.
after getting the turtle to drop his spear lucas started running in big circles around the spear to get the turtle away from it.
with the turtles low speed it only took about half a minute to get the turtle far enough from the spear to retrieve it.
at that moment lucas made a break for it toward the spear with the turtle right behind him.
lucas grabbed the spear off the ground and turned around to confront the giant turtle immediately using his only skill to stab at it. right when lucas used the skill stab the turtle also used its skill that just came off cool down trying to bite at its enemy.
out of some crazy luck on lucas' side the spear head stabbed straight into his opponents mouth causing critical damage as the beast gave out a cry that almost sounded like a whimper.
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after the attack lucas pressed on by moving to the side and attack the legs of the turtle this being easy to him thanks to the slow speed of the turtle and it still being in a daze from the pain coming from its mouth.
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everything was going smoothly for lucas except the passive skill of the turtle causing him damage. thankfully the damage he took was so little it was negligible.
the fight ended only a few minutes later as the turtle had an injured leg making it so lucas could keep control of the remainder of the fight.
[you killed a level 3 razor snapping turtle, exp +50]
[leapfrog killed by 2 levels + 100% exp gain]
[you leveled Up]
[you gained all stats +1 and 2 free stats]
[you gained 7 copper and turtle skin boots]
lucas was exhausted and looked at his health only to realize he took 20 damage while killing the turtle even without getting hit once. he then decided to take a break before looking at his gains to replenish his health and stamina.