anti armor
after the wave of exhaustion swept past him from his first fight in the paradise of deities lucas got up to inspect the items dropped by the snapping turtle.
[turtle skin boots](white, leather boots)
[level:1]
[+5 agility]
[50/50 durability]
looking at the stats that the boots gave lucas equipped them with a satisfied expression.
when lucas finished equipping the boots he looked at his new stats as he wondered how he should allocate his two free attribute points. after thinking about it for a few minutes he decided to add them to agility as it would help him fight the razor snapping turtles better.
lucas had a foolish grin on his face as he looked at the difference in his stats compared to only less than 10 minutes ago.
[eckhart]
[level 1 0%]
[health 200/200]
strength: 8
agility:12
stamina: 6
defense: 11
intelligence: 6
active skills: stab
passive skills: none
looking at his new stats lucas felt more confident than ever for he later fights against the snapping turtles. Just as lucas thought about going to look for another snapping turtle he glanced over the corpse as he remembered that he finally had a chance to see the effect of his talent.
thinking this lucas stretched his hand out toward the dead turtles body as he activated his talent.
as lucas activated his talent he felt a fierce energy come in contact with his hand and enter his body. when the energy entered his body the first thing he felt was a burning pain start pulsing throughout him. thankfully the pain only lasted for a short while as Lucas regained his clarity and a sense of relief swept through his body as he released a sigh.
[you have gained 3 strength, 1 agility, 2 stamina, and 7 defense through the talent bloodline assimilation.]
[you have gained the passive skill anti armor through the talent bloodline assimilation.]
when Lucas processed the rewards he got for assimilating the razor snapping turtle he was ecstatic.
'as expect of a SSS grade talent'
a SSS grade talent meant the best of the best with no other talent being able to out shine it and even though Lucas only used it once since the game started the rewards he obtained from it were enough to open up a gap between him and the vast majority of other players with only the ones with high level talents temporarily being able to stand toe to toe with him.
thinking this lucas laughed as he thought about how he managed to obtain a skill from his talent even though it only had a 10% chance of triggering the skill assimilation effect. while thinking this he pulled up the description of his new skill to see the difference between his anti armor and the razor snapping turtles minor anti armor.
[anti armor: 50% of the damage received is sent back to the enemy as true damage]
as lucas read the description of his new skill he realized that it was more then ten times better then the skill the razor snapping turtle had. If you look at just the percent of damage that gets fed back to the enemy it's ten times higher but the main selling point of the skill is that its true damage.
the reason true damage is so important is because true damage ignores all defenses.
the longer lucas looked at the skill the more he realized that it was more suited for fighting other players or monsters with lower health since he only had 200 health and 50% of that would only be 100 so he could at most kill 1 level 1 player. this didn't bother lucas much though as he wasn't planning on sitting around and becoming a punching back for his enemies.
nonetheless lucas was still extremely satisfied with the skill as it would be useful in any stage of the game and wouldn't get weaker later on.
after lucas finished looking over his gains he got up from the log he was sitting on and went to go find another razor snapping turtle to fight. the only pity being that it doesn't seem that they're guaranteed to drop the turtle shells he needed for his quest.
About 10 minutes of walking along the bank of the lake lucas finally found another snapping turtle and he ran toward it immediately as his agility stat was now 13 with almost no chance the turtle could even touch his shadow.
the moment the fight started the turtle used it's skill fast bite but thanks to the mistake lucas made in his first fight with the turtles he knew to be prepared for it and went to stab it right in the mouth hoping to get a crit like he did previously.
-80
-4
the spear head was still in the mouth of the turtle while the turtle started letting out bloody gurgles in pain as lucas pulled his spear out and went to attack it's legs following the same strategy he used before to lower the turtles already low mobility.
-34
-2
-40
-2
lucas kept feeling a prickling sensation along his body as he attacked the turtle by the turtles anti armor. luckily the damage was so minimal the lucas could ignore it as he faced the turtle.
as lucas thought this he was suddenly hit from behind as the force from the sneak attack knocked him to the floor.
-1
-9
thankfully for lucas his bronze armor, his recent level up, and the stats he received from his talent made his defense so high that he only took 1 damage from the sneak attack. while on the other hand his assailant, which he can now see is another snapping turtle, took 9 damage thanks to the anti armor skill he recently got.
the moment lucas pulled himself together he did a roll to get up just barely dodging the attack of the first snapping turtle.
even though he took a minor setback with the sneak attack he knew that thanks to his speed advantage he would still be able to beat both the turtles and that it would just take a bit longer.
lucas decided that instead of trying to handle both the turtles at once it would be better to deal with the first one that already lost 40% of it's health then finish the one that just appeared.
following this plan and with his stats that far surpassed the razor snapping turtles he finished both of them off in an efficient manner.
[you killed 2 level 3 razor snapping turtles, exp +100]
[leapfrog killed by 1 level, +50% exp]
[you gained 15 copper and a razor snapping turtle shell]