8 +8 Question Mark
[You've dealt 590 damage]
"Huh!? What is this crazy damage!?"
I calmed myself down and thought about it again.
'The reason I thought it would take 10-12 attacks was assuming that 1 Strenght point = 1 damage. so having the dagger buff my strength became 50 which i assumed dealt 50 damage. Which would deal 50+ damage if additional daggers and skill's low chances buff were added.'
'But 1 Strength in this game deals more than one damage. I can't predict how much damage it can deal , and it's cause I think my daggers full damage was greater tha 590.'
'I'm assuming it cause getting a perfect damage of 590 had really low probability but I could say that 1 Strenght point should be equal to 10 damage anymore than that would and the balance system would be broken.'
Assuming that , I decided to try it on a higher level Garfon. I focused on the Garfon's in my sight multiple window's appeared infront of me.
「 Garfon
Level : 2
HP : 57 」
「 Garfon
Level : 6
HP : 706 」
「 Garfon
Level : 9
HP : 1149 」
「 Garfon
Level : 3
HP : 201 」
「 Garfon
Level : 13
HP : 1632 」
「 Garfon
Level : 3
HP : 178 」
Looking at the stats they were completely random there HP and level had a pattern but it was complicated one. So I gave up trying to make sense how the monster worked. After looking at the window I couldn't find one greater than level 23 so I decided to try my attacks on him.
「 Garfon
Level : 23
HP : 5473 ?」
I didn't notice the '?' present at the corner of message that time and it sure as hell did gave me a lot of problem.
He was far away from me and a lot of Garfon's were present on the path between me and that Garfon. I decided to kill all the Garfon's on the way to level myself up.
I ran towards the level 23 , nearby Garfon's saw me charging and tried to attack me when I was on my way to fight the level 23 Garfon. The best way I could come up with to kill the Garfon's or atleast what I thought to be the best method was attacking there head's.
There arm length was small so they mostly used attack like headbutting me and didn't use there hands to attack only to defend any attack aimed at abdomen after noticing this pattern attacking head was the best method I could come with but that didn't meant it was easy.
Attacking there head was hard as they would sometimes jump to absorb the attack in the abdominal region or sometimes block the attack with the hands by jumping. There leg muscle strength was pretty good. But my daggers agility buff made it easy for me to react faster than them.
Cutting through the crowd of Garfon's. I used skill like 'Slash' which has less cooldown time to take on multiple garfon cutting their head , sometimes stabbing their head and using my daggers as throwable using 'Slash' would blow there head.
Skills had potential all the skills were upgradeable which would increase their power and sometimes reaching a certain threshold could have a new powerful ability added to a skill.
How you use the skills with your weapon's was one of the most important thing. Like how I used slash and throwable daggers combination it was one hell of a lethal attack.
Like that using 'Slash' multiple times I gained a lot of experience points.
[You've dealt 278 damage]
[You've gained 23 Exp Points]
[You've dealt 138 damage]
[You've gained 13 Exp Points]
[You've dealt 362 damage]
[You've gained 35 Exp Points]
[You've dealt 204 damage]
[You've gained 19 Exp Points]
[You've leveled up]
[You've dealt 496 damage]
...
I ignored the level up and Exp notification and kept slaying Garfon's until I reached level 23 monster. From far away I could tell his colour was different from the normal one but when I saw him closely His body was red coloured it was as if he was covered in the blood of his prey.
His built was different , instead of chained neck he had two broken handcuffs on his hands. As he gazed towards me a chill ran down my spine.
Before going in the fight I looked at my status window after calling out ,
"Show Status"
A red window appeared before me. I invested my 60 stat points I got from leveling up and kept the bonus points from 'One-Shot kill' on hold if something goes wrong.
The HP bar which wasn't present on level 1 became visible when I leveled up. The HP bar not appearing on status window first time was kind of bugged me but the reason was simple. It made leveling up easy , nothing satisfies a gamer than leveling up in these kind of games.
'This feature sure is going to get a lot of gamers hooked on this game.' is what I thought.
After investing my points my status window looked like this ,
「
Name : Excess
Race : Human
Level : 7
HP : 750/750
Title : None
Strength : 37 [C-Rank]
Intelligence : 12 [D-rank]
Agility : 20 [C-Rank]
Stamina : 26[C-Rank]
Stat Points : 10
• Other stats are locked
• Bloodline is locked
Exp : 89/5670
」
After my Intelligence crossed the threshold of 10 points I also gained 2 new skill.
「
Skill : Mana Recovery
Rank : D [Upgradeable]
Level : 2
- Recovers your mana whenever you're not using a mana based skill
- For every minute 50 mana is recovered
- Recovery rate may increase when focused.
Exp : 3%
Mana Consumption : 0
Cooldown Duration : No Cooldown
」
「
Skill : Haste
Rank : D
Level : 1
- One of most basic spell. Mages use this spell on there allies to boost there speed.
- Increases your speed by 30% for 5 seconds.
Exp : 16%
Mana Consumption : 150
Cooldown Duration : 3 minutes
」
I used 'Haste' spell every minute , although it made me tired it gave my Mana recovery skill Exp Points and leveled it up. My dagger skills gained a bunch of Exp Points too.
「
Skill : Slash
Rank : B
Level : 1
- With a clean cut slash penetrates easily through monster under Level 40.
- There's good chances of getting +10% damage.
- There's low chances of getting +20% damage.
- There's pretty low chances of getting +40 damage.
Exp : 27%
Cooldown Duration : 5 minutes
」
「
Skill : Bloody Cut
Rank : B
Level : 1
- The blood spats out of the wounds created by this skill. Draken Blood increases the damage by 50% for 10 seconds when this skill is being used.
- The status 'Bleed' is inflicted on the enemy
- 'Bleed' status decreases enemy's HP by 0.3% every seconds for 1 min.
Exp : 12%
Cooldown Duration : 2 hours [2 minutes left]
」
I waited for 2 minutes for 'Bloody Cut's' cooldown to be over. After that I again looked at the Garfon , this time unknown of my presence. I sneaked to the rock near the Garfon once it was in range of attack. I started my strategy to kill this monster. As always in a low voice I said ,
"Haste"
Using this spell I used my speed increased by 'Haste' to reach near the Garfon after decreasing the distance between us I jumped aiming for it's head. It was standing tall about double or triple my height. After reaching near the neck I used ,
"Slash"
[+10% damage was inflicted by skill 'Slash' ]
Cutting through it's thick skin I thought this would be dealing around 700 damage when I saw the additional damage message. But reality was different ,
[You've dealt 400 damage]
[Mid-Garfon has been awakened]
After reading those message I was shocked for a second but I recovered thinking that this isn't the end. I focused on the Garfon and window appeared before me.
「
Name : Mid-Garfon
Race : Garfon
HP : 5473/5473
Level : 23
Strength : 59
Defense : 43
Agility : 25
Stamina : 45
」
While reading it's stats the image of question mark at the corner of this same Garfon flashed in my head.
"That question mark really came bitting me in the a**."
