Surprise

Morning unfolds as the first light of dawn begins to break over the horizon.

Karl awake from his opened his eyes only to see blue letters appearing in his sight.

[Congratulations to all the survivor who have passed stage 1: Culling of the weak. Reward the user based on their individual growth]

[Storage ring]

[Grothark's blessing]

[Runic bone staff]

[The system partially lifted the restrictions of the users access on the system]

[Will no commence Stage 2: Path to power]

[Note: Beast and class restrictions have been lifted.]

Karl was surprised at the system bombarded him many notification and read them as well the new features one by one.

'Status'

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Name: Karl Arden

Class: Shaman

Age: 19

Affiliation: None

Level: 16

Talent: Blessed by Mana, Grothark's blessing

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Status

Health points: 330/330

Stamina: 280/280

Mana: 1130/1130

Defense: 0

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Equipment

Velocity boots

Runic bone staff

Coward's ring

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Stats

Attribute Point: 0

Strength: 28

Agility: 29(+10)

Vitality: 33

Stamina: 28

Magic Power: 113(+50)

Skill: Basic detection, lesser heal, curse of slow, curse of lethargy, curse of weakness, summon netherhound, earth spike, rejuvenation totem, earthbound totem, nature whisperer

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Pets:

Krass, level: 13

Netherhound(juvenile): 0

Netherhound(juvenile): 0

Netherhound(juvenile): 0

+9

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[Shaman: Shamans draw their power from the forces of nature, ancestral spirits and manifestation. They are adept at channeling the elements, healing their allies, and summoning powerful totems and beast to assist in battle.

Stat multiplier:

+ 1.5x Magic power

+ 0.5x wisdom

+ 0.5x will]

[Grothark's blessing: + Boost all shaman related skills by 100%. Shamans are drawn to you]

[Runic Bone Staff: A staff made from the bone of a wyvern, inscribed by runic master for maximum mana output, specially built for Shamans.

+Shaman class skills boosted by 20%

+Normal skills boosted by 15%

+ Mana recovery increased by 10%

+ 50 Magic power]

[Storage ring: store items in a sub-space with 5x5 cubic meter space

Note: does not work on any being that is alive]

"Damn" Karl said not expecting to have a huge bonus in his stat, equipment, and the new features the system.

Karl stood up finding the staff and the ring that the system has given to him next to his side. He then look at group finding that they are all still asleep, but his attention went to Krass. Krass who's size was now big as a horse with his fur becoming red.

Karl immediately check Krass status.

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Name: Krass

Race: Great netherhound

Level: 13

Strength: 53

Agility: 77

Vitality: 51

Stamina: 51

Magic Power: 19

Skills: Regeneration, lesser poison immunity, Fear, Flaming body, Fire breath

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Karl was surprised again to seeing Krass evolve, and his physical stat almost triple when compared to Karl and now having an element skill.

Karl sighed and went near the window to see the morning sunrise, but was surprised again in his veiw plants are overgrowing outside the building while some inside as well.

Karl being an avid gamer thought that just like human and animals, plants are also affected by the mana and causes it to rapidly

grow and mutate.

Looking at the scene Karl thought using [nature whisperer], practicing on how it work.

The wind breeze making the overgrown plat sway. He stood near the window feeling the air hitting face while the shone above him.

'feels fresh' He thought since he was in high school he holed himself up with games, not having to feel fresh air and sunlight.

He stood there for a while, while maintaining [nature whisperer]. He noticed while using [nature whisperer] the skill didn't cause him mana it just needs it to use manually.

"Boss, are you seeing what I'm seeing"

Suddenly breaking Karl infuriatingly look at Matt who was dumbfounded when reading the system notification.

"Yes Matt, what your seeing is real" Karl roll his eyes seeing, Matt's didn't pay attention to his word let Matt be.

"Hey, Matt what reward did you get" Karl asked curiously since his was good.

"It's a cloak that makes my presence lessen and gives ten defense, and five to all my stat" Matt answered boastful.

Karl thought of about how to get more food, decided to hunt.

"Matt"

He called to Matt who was checking his new cloak.

"Wanna find some food together" Karl asked

"Sure thing, boss" Matt answer directly and catch up to Karl.

"But are you sure, it's okay just us going boss" Matt questioned Karl since they were having trouble yesterday with the pack of dogs.

"I'm sure it's fine" Karl walked outside the building and disregard Matt cautiousness.