Chapter 004. Bronze's.
From what he remember although this Spider Warrior already was a special monster, it should only have a 2,500 HP. In his previous life he came to this cave for two or three times to get some Silk Thread drop by the spiders, and he clearly remembers in that memory that it wasn't as strong as this one.
The whole place remains silent as Sien starts to do a battle simulation in his mind based on the attack patterns and skills of the Spider Warrior. Even if the situation change a bit right now, it doesn't mean that it's now impossible to kill it, it's just an add of 1,000 HP and nothing else, the only worst case scenario for this raid is that the time for Sien to kill the spider would at most double.
The real problem for him right now is the weapon he carry, he only had a novice sword with him, if he tried to fight the spider head on with the kind of weapon he have, it would certainly break after a few attacks he launch and the damage received by the sword by blocking the enemy's attack. Special Monsters have the ability to greatly damage the equipments and weapons of the players after all. To push the success rate of his raid, he should at the very least have a bronze rank sword.
But since the moment he started to kill the wolves and the spider minions, there isn't a single shadow of weapon that drops until now, although an equipment dropped, it's only a common rank level 1 boots and level 2 leg guard, he's not even equipping it because of how trash the stats they had.
When Sien trying to decide if he should start the raid now or go back after once he obtained a new weapon, his eyes widen when he suddenly remembered the bronze treasure chest he got earlier.
As he's still exploring the cave, he just let it be on his storage bag so that he can open it later but now is the best time to open it. Although the probability of him obtaining a weapon were only at fifteen to twenty percent, it's much better to try it than going back here from the outside, there's still a lot of things he needs to do after this, wasting more time for travel isn't very good for him.
Sien took out the bronze treasure chest and open it. A white brilliant light met his eyes as the chest slowly open, after a few seconds, the chest finally opened and he checked the contents it have.
「Seems like my luck suddenly increase after my regress huh?. I got a top tier bronze rank weapon early in the game, it even have a skill to it.」
He said with a smile on his face as he appraise the sword that came from the treasure chest.
Treasured Long Sword - (Bronze Rank)
Level: 1-5
Attack Damage +45
Strength +7
Sword Skill 1(Passive): Sword Dash - Increase basic attack by 10% while moving and attacking at the same time.
In a bronze treasure chest, the probability of obtaining a weapons or equipments were only at 15 to 20 of percentage, the rest goes for other items such as poiton, coins, herbs, etc. Moreover that percentage only applies to a common rank weapons or equipments, as for getting bronze rank weapons and equipment, there's only a low probability of 1% to 3% and the quality of that weapon would be at the bottom of the bronze rank, so for Sien to obtain a top tier bronze weapon like this one from a bronze treasure chest was unheard of.
「Well, maybe it's because this is the very first time that a bronze treasure chest spawn here that's why it has a good loot inside of it.」
Sien gave a much more plausible explanation other than him having a high luck, as being the first for everything really has a good rewards for this game.
When he's done looking at the stats of the sword, he swings the sword for several times to familiarise himself with it and after a few seconds, Sien is now ready to start his raid. If only he can summon a demon right now, it would be much easier, even though he's mana multiplied by 4 times due to the effect of the ability of his trait, he's still short of twelve points for him to use his [Demon King's Call].
He then activate his cc skill as he walk closer to the Spider Warrior, when the Spider Warrior sense that there's an intruder to its territory, it stood up with an intimidating aura and immediately attack Sien by shooting a steel thread that came from it's open mouth.
Sien who saw the incoming attack calmly dodge to his right side and dash forward, the distance between him and the spider warrior only about 7 metres, when Sien manage to close the distance by taking big leaps while running towards the spider warrior, his trait finally took affect halving the basic stats of his enemy.
The intimidating aura that the spider warrior releasing faded without a trace as its basic attributes has been reduced, Sien who already arrive in front of his enemy activate his sword skill [Sword Slash] to do three consecutive frontal slash without stopping his movements to maximise his damage output.
With the attack damage of his new sword and his own damage, plus the effect of his both active and passive sword skills, with just three slashes, he instantly shaved off more than 300 plus hp from the spider warrior in a matter of second.
「Hoh!」
When Sien saw how much damage he cause for that breif experience, a delightful expression suddenly appeared on his face.
SCHREEEEEECHHH
The spider warrior whose in the receiving end of Sien's attack can't help by cry loudy from the damage it took to it's face and body, but after releasing a loud cry it launch an attack to Sien whose still wearing a delightful expression on his face by using it's frontal giant leg to throw a powerful kick that sent Sien flying and hit the wall of the cave.
Sien who manage to use his sword to defend himself and reduce the damage of the attack before being sent flying back to the entrance of the lair received a large amount of damage that almost depleted his HP.
BANG!
「Sh*t! I let my guard down!.」
He cursed after colliding at the sturdy wall with his back, he stood up even with the pain all over his body as he drank basic potions to restore back some of his hp but the Spider Warrior launch another attack, this time is a long range attack that can bind the target upon contact.
Sien who saw the attack dodge to the left this time and dash forward to attack the spider warrior again. As his skill [Sword Slash] still on 10 seconds cooldown, the damage he dealt this time only at less than 200. Earlier he stop moving after attacking the spider warrior with a particularly dumb reason and because of that mistake, it almost sent him back to the town square to revive himself.
This time is different, he didn't stop and continue moving and hide at the blind spot of the spider. The Spider Warrior's size is four times compared to the spider minions, so Sien is using his enemy's size to find a safe spot to launch a sneak attack to maximise his damage output and at the same time dodge his enemy's attack but still more on dodging as the spider warrior can keep up with his speed even with the effect of his trait.
Thanks to the lesson he got from earlier, he would only occasionally received little damages since the first attack of the spider warrior that almost killed him in one shot, and barely dodging other every attacks by hair's breadth.
Even though the damages he's receiving were only a little compared to the first attack, damage is still a damage so he would still occasionally drink basic poitions from time to time as he only have more than a hundred HP on him.
Spider Warrior [Boss of the Cave] - (Special Monster)
Level 3
HP: 300
After Sien do a series of non-stop of attacking and dodging for half an hour, the Spider Warrior's hp is now down to 300 points. Right now he's only waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike back.
「Now!.」
When Sien saw that a chance presented on him, he didn't hesitate and took it perfectly by killing it with the combinations of his skills.
*Ding*
〈You have successfully killed the Spider Warrior.〉
*Ding*
〈Your level increase by 1. All basic attributes increase by 1. You have obtained 5 free attribute points.〉
「It's finally dead.... hah...」
Sien let out a deep sigh when he heared the system notification, he only have a little bit of more than 40 HP and one basic poition, if the battle continued for more than another minute, he would have surely died. Because of his low damage output and the regeneration rate of the spider warrior, it took some more time to kill it than what he anticipated even while the effects of his trait active. If he didn't obtained the long sword earlier, the fight would still be on going and he would be at great disadvantage.
He then collect the fruit of his half an hour labor that still glowing brightly on the ground where the spider warrior died and based on what he's seeing now, there's a three different drops this time. An armor, a book, and some silver coins
For someone who's playing the game for the first time, they might think of this odd as of how little the drops was because if you killed the same monster in other games, you would certainly get a hefty loot after killing a special monster even though it's a low level, special monster is a special monster after all.
But Sien didn't thought of it that way, because he new how this game works, this game doesn't go with the same principle law unlike other games that would easily gives players different top tier items for the purpose of to continue playing their game.
Paradise World isn't like that at all, the game was controlled by an ultimate 'Artificial Intelligence' ever created by human, it's the one who's collecting every data inside and outside of the game to not only balances the entirety of the game but also improves it with new update patches, it wouldn't just give anything what the players what they wanted, if they want to get something, then they should work their body to the bone to get it.
The game wouldn't even care if the players play it or not let alone their complaints, also no bug has ever recorded in the span of 25 years when Sien playing the game before he regress.
There's even a rumor that the materials used to create the game were from an alien species, that's why it can affect the reality even though it's just a game. Although it's only a rumor that Sien have heard before, if someone thought carefully of how the game can affect the world, there might be a slight chance that it's actually true.
Sien who just picked up the items on the ground immediately appraise them and put the coins on his bag. After few seconds, the information of the two items his holding appears before him.
Steel Thread Armor - (Bronze Rank)
Level: 1-5
Physical Armor +35
Magic Armor +35
HP +80
Endurance +6
Blazing Ball - (Rare Spell)
A fire that can burn your enemies with a beauty. Created by the Great Wizard from long time ago.
Effect: Cast a ball of fire that can inflict burn damage on your enemy.
Burn Damage Over Time: 10 Damage Per Second
Burn DoT Duration: 10 Seconds.
Mana Cost: 40 mana per use
Spell Use Interval: 10 Seconds
「A loot from a first kill of a special monster really is good huh?. Also this is a perfect magic spell to have for my next destination.」
Sien said as he equip the armor and learn the spell, he also distribute the 10 free attributes he have, he forgot to use it earlier before fighting the spider warrior because of excitement of getting the sword.
He only have six different basic attributes excluding the demon power stats as it's considered as special attribute that can't be increase by normal means. He adds 5 points to intelligence and 1 point each for the others.
Because of his new trait, his priority right now is to increase his intelligence as quickly as possible so that he can use his trait's abilities, by doing that would he be able to increase his growth speed again coupled with his experience and memories. Although he prioritise his intelligence stats, it doesn't mean he would neglect the others.
He knew that increasing the other attributes by only 1 point right now is not a good thing for a swordsman class but he's different than the other's who would suffer in the beginning if they did this kind of attribute distribution. Sien can just use the weapons and equipments he would get to fill the missing attributes for him.
Physical Damage: 52 (+45)
Physical Armor: 31.5 (+35)
Magic Damage: 51
Magic Armor: 31.5 (+35)
HP: 140 (+80)
MP: 309
SP: 160
Strength: 19 (+7)
Endurance: 15 (+6)
Vitality: 14
Intelligence: 17
Agility: 17
Dexterity: 16
Demon Power: 10
The Strength increase the Physical Damage by 2 points and Stamina(Sp) by 5 points, Endurance increase the Physical and Magic Armor by 1.5 points, Vatality increase the max HP by 10 points, Intelligence increase the Magic Damage and max MP by 3 points each.
The Agility then increase the reaction, movement, and attack speed of a player, although the system doesn't give the exact number of increase, you'll eventually feel it as you play the game longer. As for Dextery, it increases the proficiency of using one's skills or spell, same goes for the handling of weapons such as sword, daggers, bow, spear, shield and others, It's even a crucial component for second classes such as blacksmith, alchemist and chef.
When Sien finished looking at his stats, he sat directly on the floor and let himself recover a little of his strength before heading out.
After half an hour of slow running, he finally reach the entrance of the cave where he entered. The amount time he spent going back were far shorter than the amount he spent when he first enter, as he doesn't have to stop and kill every spider he saw because they still haven't respawn yet.
Before fully exiting the cave, Sien can hear voices coming from the outside, the voices were arguing about if they should enter the cave or not. One of the voices seems to win out of the three.