Learning new skills

While Noah went back to inside the beginner village, looking for a place to rest and sleep, he could not help but access his character equipment.

Finally, he had a good equipment that befit his skill level.

[Equipment Name: Dragon Tooth]

[Equipment Type: Weapon]

[Weapon Type: Battle Lance]

[Weapon Class: C]

Level: 5

Durability: 100/100

Physical Attack: +15

Magical Attack: +12

[Special Effect: +8% passive movement speed]

>Description: A Battle Lance that was made from a special metal ore in the possession of the Slumbering Bandit<

'Nice'. Noah thought as soon as he finally paid attention to his new weapon.

Compared to the D-rank battle lance that he used previously, the base physical and magic attack for this one was higher and most importantly, it had a special effect.

Since it was just a level 5 battle lance, +15 physical attack and +12 magical attack was on the high side.

As for the special effect, +8% passive movement speed didn't seem like much but in the hand of a gamer of Noah's caliber, even a 2% difference meant a lot.

In hindsight, thinking about it, 8% was a bit too much. 'Maybe it's another effect of it dropping from a unique skill challenge dungeon run'.

After looking at his equipment just as he arrived at the beginner village again, Noah arrived at a conundrum. 'How am I even supposed to sleep?'

Playing in the Pork Labyrinth in a party with the others made him forget about the reality of his current existence for some time but now, Noah finally remembered that he reincarnated into the game.

'Wait, am I an NPC?'

He shook his head, realizing how foolish his thought was. If he was an NPC, he would not be able to join a player party not to talk of raiding a dungeon.

But if so, how was he supposed to sleep?

But then, he realized something. In Warstar, when players log out of the game to go rest, to make sure that their in-game avatars were fully revitalized when they get back, most players spend coins to rent an inn.

Inside an inn, it takes 3 hours for an in-game character to return to full capacity, fully replenished.

Noah wondered how it would be with him.

He didn't think too much about it though, simply going over to the inn and paying 10 gold coins. Noah walked into a room and as soon as he laid down on the bed, before he knew it, he dozed off.

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About 4 hours later, Noah woke up feeling revitalized.

Incredulously, after just 4 hours of sleep, all the exhaustion that he felt before were completely gone like they were never there.

Noah stretched, feeling amazed. 'Gaming has never been more convenient'. He thought.

Leaving the inn, the first thing that he did was to go visit the Hunter guild in this beginner village again.

After getting so rich all of a sudden in terms of skill points, Noah had no intentions of hoarding his skill points. He wanted to spend them all and purchase skills for his avatar.

A normal player would not be able to make full use of the SSS-Rank 10x skill points unique skill but Noah was one of those few players in the world that could make full use of this unique skill.

His knowledge about Warstar was at a textbook level. At some point in time or the other, he had played using all the classes available in Warstar.

Back when the video game was just launched, it was normal for players to have multiple Warstar accounts of different classes as they experimented to determine which class they loved best.

He knew all the class skills at the back of his hand despite how numerous they were, and he also knew the best combination of skills.

This was why Noah now confidently went to the Hunter guild.

As he walked, a lot of combinations were already playing around in his head, including combinations that had never been used before in the game simply because it was unrealistic due to the skill points restriction for a single game avatar.

By the time that Noah arrived at the Hunter guild, his head was full of so many ideas that even he was struggling to keep them contained.

Of course, he didn't get to buy skills immediately. This was because this was still the early phase of the 11th server launch.

The night players already left but with them leaving, the day players arrived, continuing the excitement of a new server's launch.

Due to this, the beginner village was congested again.

Noah had to wait patiently till it came to his turn before accessing the NPC of the Hunter guild that was in charge of selling in-game skills.

And he quickly caused a commotion due to how long he was spending there.

Noah was meticulous with the skills that he bought. Because he suddenly got an overpowered unique skill that helped him break the game restriction of skill points allocation did not mean he would spend his skill points foolishly.

After a lot of thinking, he arrived at a plan.

He divided his preferences into attack skills, defense skills, healing skills, taunting skills, and of course movement skills. But mostly attack skills.

For example, Noah had no intentions of learning 5 different rapid movement skills. He would only go for multiple if their usage could be stacked for better effect.

[You have learned low level Cleric Skill: Heal]

[You have upgraded low level Cleric Skill, Heal to level 1]

[You have upgraded low level Cleric Skill, Heal to level 2]

[You have upgraded…]

[You have upgraded low level Cleric Skill, Heal to level 5]

In one go, Noah learned and upgraded the low-level Cleric Skill, Heal to the highest skill level of 5.

For this upgrade, he spent more than 400 Skill Points. This was because the higher the level of a skill, the more skill points were needed to upgrade it.

Noah had his reasons for upgrading the skill to the max level still.

A level 0 Heal skill and a level 5 Heal skill's effects had a whole world of difference in Warstar.

Five levels didn't sound like a lot but in Warstar, each level higher had the restriction of Level Suppression.

And once the difference goes as high as 5 levels, this suppression increases exponentially, this was one of the factors the game developers implemented to balance out the game.

It did not just apply to players, it also applied to in-game bosses, skills, and of course equipment too.

Also, in Warstar, levels were not only used to define players. Physical attack, magic attack, bleed, stun, and other status effects had levels too and some of them could be leveled using skill points.

When the system didn't display the difference in levels, then these levels would all be the same as the player's level, the perfect example of this would be an in-game avatar's physical and magic attack.

For example, Noah's Lord Grim was currently at level 7. If he used the Combat Mage's Arcane Riposte skill to stun a BOSS, then the stun level would be at level 7.

Level 7 damage or level 7 stun would have a reduced effect on level 8 and up monsters. The higher the level gap, the more obvious the reduction. This type of situation is called level suppression.

The difference between being high-leveled and low-leveled wasn't just the difference in attributes and equipment. The concealed calculations of level suppression added to the difficulties of challenging those at a higher level.

Originally, most players only level up high-level skills after making their class change at level 20 due to the tight restriction on skill points.

But Noah's SSS-Ranked 10x skill points unique skill just opened an avenue for a whole new unprecedented playstyle for him to get a boost over other in-game avatars in terms of level suppression.

[You have learned low level Cleric Skill: Rejuvenation Aura]

[You have upgraded…]

[You have upgraded…]

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[You have learned low level Paladin Skill: Sanctuary]

[You have upgraded…]

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[You have learned low level Paladin Skill: Inspiration]

[You have upgraded…]

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[You have learned low level Elementalist Skill: Lightning Strike]

[You have upgraded…]

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[You have learned low level Combat Mage Skill: Spellblade Flurry]

[You have learned low level Combat Mage Skill: Flame Spiral]

[You have learned low level Combat Mage Skill: Lightning Arc]

[You have learned low level Combat Mage Skill: Void Slash]

[You have learned low level Combat Mage Skill: Counterspell]

"Hey! Bastard, that's enough!" Someone yelled behind him.

"People are waiting in line!"