Half-Moon
The more he killed the faster he got used to the game, he noticed that he was somewhat restricted and couldn't make full use of his past experiences in the game... feeling tired of killing rabbits, Leroy went back to Town.
Character: Sensations
Affiliated Kingdom: Star-Moon
Title: None
Job: Cursemancer
Level: 1
HP: 110/110
Magical Damage: 20
Defense: 10
Chanting Speed: 4
Movement Speed: 4
Attributes: Strength 2 | Agility 9| Endurance 3| Intelligence 8| Vitality 2
Equipment:
Rabbit's Dagger (Uncommon)
Level: 2
Attack: 25
Agi: +4
Str: +1
Vit: +1
Additional Skill: Rabbit Speed (Active): Increases user movement and attack speed by 5%.
Rabbit's Sleeves (Common)
Level: 1
Defense: +3
HP: +10
Agi: +1
Rabbit's Hood (Common)
Level: 1
Defense: +4
HP: +10
Int: +1
He got pretty lucky with his drops, an uncommon weapon was too rare in this stage of the game and two pieces of equipment that he could equip. Also a large number of Rabbit Pelts, Rabbit Meats, and some herbs that he picked along the way. This could probably sell for some coins.
Just when he took a few steps towards town, he caught sight of a monster at the side, it was a black-feathered bird with a glowing half-moon imprint on his forehead.
Half-Moon Raven (Special Elite)
Race: Undead Creature
Level: 4
HP: 700
"Ooh, there was actually such a monster here" according to what he knew, these Rare type of monsters would give good rewards regardless of the game that one played.
Getting closer to the raven that rested in a tree's branch, Leroy just thought of attacking it directly with the only skill that he knew when suddenly the raven noticed him and launched itself toward Leroy.
"Dark Arrow"
-8
The attack made the raven come to a stop mid-air, glaring at the human who attacked it for a second before resuming his attack.
"What a strong defense, isn't it just a Level 3 monster though?" he was a bit taken aback at the damage output, he could easily deal 15 to 25 to a Level 5 Monster but these special elite defenses were actually this high.
Seeing the bird about to strike with his beak, Leroy ducked and the raven didn't have time to stop before crashing head-on into a tree.
"Dark Arrow"
-8
Before the raven recovered he shoot him once again.
Suddenly, the enraged raven made a strong screech that made Leroy stumble, the raven once again launched itself head-on against Leroy who casually let himself fall on the floor, avoiding the charge slightly. But this time the raven was prepared and black fire sphere gathered in his beak.
As Leroy saw the attack from the floor he knew that if the attack landed on him he would be deader than dead so pressed both hands on the floor and sent his body to the side, just as he dodged the attack, the black fire devoured the area where he was standing at, corroding the vegetations and propagating to a nearby tree that was starting to have its bark turning black.
The fight continued on like this for about 30 half an hour, the raven felt helplessness but a had a strange glow in his eyes, he couldn't land a single hit against his opponent before falling dead on the floor.
Half-Moon Raven killed.
Acquired: Half-Moon Staff
Acquired: Half-Moon Hood
Acquired: Half-Moon Robe
Acquired: Half-Moon Boots
Acquired: Half-Moon Necklace
Acquired: Half-Moon Ring
Acquired: Screech Skill Book
Acquired: Dark Fireball Skill Book
Acquired: Falling Moon Raven Feathers x5
Acquired: Black Raven Beak x1
Acquired: Dark Letter (Quest Item)
Seeing the number of loots, Leroy was dumbfounded, he has been killing Rabbits for about 3 hours and got only 3 pieces of equipment. While this stupid bird actually dropped 6 of them and actually all where bronze-rank! it even dropped some skill books.
Before checking the equipment, he used his Attribute Points, 2 on Agi and 2 on Int.
He still felt as if his body had a lock on it that restricted him in several ways but couldn't understand what it was about.
He checked the dropped items with excitement
Half-Moon Staff (Iron Rank)
Level: 3
Magic Attack: 40-70
Int: +7
Vit: +4
Mana: +300
Passive Skill: Increase the damage of dark element attacks by 30%
Passive Skills: Decrease skill's cooldown time by 20%
Part of the Half-Moon Set.
Half-Moon Hood (Iron Rank)
Level: 3
Defense: +6
Int: +8
Agi: +6
Mana: +90
Active Skill: Raven Blessing (Increase int by 20, mana by 300 and magic damage by 30 for 3 minutes) Cooldown: 10 minutes
Part of the Half-Moon Set.
Half-Moon Robe (Iron Rank)
Level: 3
Defense: +14
Int: +5
Vit: +2
HP: +80
Part of the Half-Moon Set.
Half-Moon Boots (Iron Rank)
Level: 3
Defense: +5
Int: +3
Agi: +5
HP: +40
Passive Skill: Increase player Agi by 8
Active Skill: Increase player movement speed by 30% for 10 seconds.
Part of the Half-Moon Set.
Half-Moon Necklace (Iron Rank)
Level: 3
Int: +6
End: +5
Mana: +200
Part of the Half Moon Set.
Active Skill: Half-Moon Curse
Curses the target, making him lose 30 HP for every meter he moves.
Duration: 5 seconds.
Cooldown: 60 seconds.
Half-Moon Ring (Iron Rank)
Level: 3
Int: +4
Vit: +5
Magic Damage: +50
Part of the Half Moon Set.
Half-Moon Set (Iron Rank Set)
(3/6): Increases wearer's Curse and Damage Skills effectiveness by 20%
(5/6): Increases wearer's HP by 250 and MP by 300
(6/6): Active Skill: Dark Knight Call
Summons a Dark Knight who served "Half Moon" in his beginner years.
Summon Duration: Until the summon dies.
Cooldown: 1h after the summoned knight dies.
The Half-Moon Set of equipment was used by a monstrously talented mage in his early days.
Processing all the information, Leroy felt lightheaded, an entire set of equipment dropped! what was wrong with this monster? do all rare elites drops entire sets of equipment? and its obviously top-notch equipment with various skills and stats.
"It takes a bit long to level up" seeing his level who was just at 2 with 60% filled he sighed, he was just 40% away from wearing such good items.
Next, he saw the skills, he got excited thinking of the skills the raven used.
Dark Fireball Skill Book
Read it to learn the Dark Fireball Spell (learning the spell will destroy the book)
Dark Fireball (Active Skill): Gathers Dark and Fire element mana to create a corrosive type of fireball
Damage the target for 400% of the user Magic Damage.
Corrode: Decrease the enemy Magic Defense by 30%, effect doesn't stack.
Propagates the corrosive flames up to 3 targets, dealing 25% of the initial effects
Cooldown: 15 seconds
Cast-time: 3 seconds
"Yesss yessss finally another damage skills" he had enough of using the Dark Arrow skill over and over again, and the Dark Fireball skill didn't let him down at all. With Half-Moon Staff passive, the cooldown would be at 12 seconds which was relatively very short.
With this, he could deal about 4 time his damage, and it could inflict enemy allies with his base damage if they come in contact with the fire.
Screech Skill Book
Read it to learn the Screech Skill (learning the spell will destroy the book)
Screech(Active Skill): Produces a screeching sound that makes the enemy lose balance.
Enemies in 5 meter radius lose balance for 2 seconds.
Cooldown: 30 seconds
Although Screech was not impressive at all and his effect would diminish as players got more stats and combat experience, no one complained from having too many skills, especially a magic class.
Last was the letter that the raven dropped.
Dark Letter (Quest Item)
A letter left behind by Half-Moon mage, it contains a seal. Bring the letter to Old Sedma at Falling Moon Town, maybe she could know how to open it.
Dark Raven Beak (Material Bronze Rank)
The Beak of a Dark Raven species, useful for alchemy.
Falling Moon Raven Feathers (Material Bronze Rank)
Feathers of Ravens that lives nearby Falling Moon Forest, can be used by Tailors and Alchemist.
Resuming his way back, he could already see Falling Moon Town, he noticed some parties who were getting closer but not entering the forest, hunting Level 3 Rabbits, and they noticed him.
"What is a player doing in the forest? monsters there are not only Level 4 or more but they are aggressive too, he wouldn't be leveling there right?" Said a male Priest of one party.
"Hahaha that's funny, Savior, even we can barely keep up with a monster at this place much less a solo player, he must have gone there to explore" a Swordsman laughed as he split a Level 3 Rabbit in half.
"Yes, just a look at his equipment and you know it is even worse than ours, he is even a Cursemancer is simply not possible to grind in the forest like that" a Guardian Knight was holding another 3 Rabbits on his own while a Thief backstabbed them from time to time.
Seeing the party chatting and laughing while facing the rabbits, Leroy couldn't help but think that there was quite a difference between players even at the very start, most of the other parties where still adapting to low lvl rabbits and just a few where killing Level 3 ones, but this party actually could take on several of them with just four people.
"I guess you guys are right" Savior just could shake his head while timely casting a basic healing spell on the Guardian Knight.
The other parties around had eyes of admiration every time that cast their gaze to this party, so casual in front of this fucking rabbits and here we are pushing it against just two of them.
Leroy noticed a lvl 4 rabbit nearby and seeing that his staff durability was almost at its limit he choose to take on more kill before entering the town to restock supply and sell junk items.
Rabbit (Common)
Level: 4
HP: 250
Aiming his staff that was full of cracks and about to collapse, Leroy casted fast and calmly.
Hot, dark mana started to gather as pitch-black flames in a spherical shape with tongues of fire unceasingly going out.
"Dark Fireball"
-110
Half his Mana disappeared along with the spell, the rabbit was sent crashing 2 meters from his position and wailed in pain.
"Dark Arrow"
-30
His Dark Arrow skills has leveled up, dealing 120% of base damage.
He started drinking his last bottle of Water to recover some mana.
"What a cool spell !" the party who talked about him looked at the Fireball seemly consuming the rabbit whole and exclaimed in admiration.
"How is it that your casting is slower than his? he casted two spells one after the other just like that" The Swordsman asked the Savior, the Thief also looked at him as if asking.
"I don't know Reker... maybe his spells had a very low casting time? it could be a skill or passive though" Cidus wasn't sure how to respond either, the game was just starting and much information was unknown.
The rabbit recovered from his state and charged at Leroy who used the Screech Skill. As a skill, it didn't have a casting time and could be used practically immediately. The rabbit stumbled mid charge in front of Leroy who gave it a frontal kick in the forehead while casting a Dark Arrow.
The rabbit was kicked back from the kick while a Dark Arrow struck him increasing the distance from Leroy.
Other parties who saw him couldn't help their admiration at his intense gameplay, the poor rabbit could barely bread, and he even got two skills already, at this time in the game the vast majority of players only had their initial skills.
"Could he really be grinding in the forest..." Reker was distracted for a moment and almost got hit by the rabbit.
When the monster died his staff turned into dust, Leroy casually looted him and kept walking into town.
Various guilds that saw his display tried to message him but he had turned down the system, they could only get close to him attempting to recruit him, even if they failed to, they could at least leave an impression on him.