24. At Least I'm Still Alive!
With the pack of wolves dead, Lance sat under a tree to regain his Stamina and ease his aching bones. Even though he wanted to hurry and get back to the city and finish the quests and reap the rewards, he wasn't going to risk running into more monsters in his weakened state.
Sharna was sitting on her knees a few feet away from Lance, looking at him with a weird expression. Not angry, but also not happy. She kept scanning him, but couldn't figure out how he was so powerful. Her eyes would dart all around him, trying to see anything that stood out to explain how Lance was so fast and strong.
'Um, your pet is staring at you. Can you tell her to stop, it's creeping me out', Vixen Kept looking over her back as she held her arms around her. She didn't like Sharna and because of her, they almost died.
'Just Ignore her for now.' Lance didn't care much. He decided to take the time to level up a bit. 'Ok, Let's start with the main level.' He pulled up the level window.
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Player: Lance (Rene Knight)
Level: 8
Experience to Next Level: 2250
Next Level:
+5 Attribute Points
+1 Potential Points
+5 Health Points
+3 Energy Points
+5 Stamina
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He added the experience right away!
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Player: Lance (Rene Knight)
Level: 9
Experience to Next Level: 2800
Next Level:
+5 Attribute Points
+1 Potential Points
+5 Health Points
+3 Energy Points
+5 Stamina
New Skill:
- Iron Will (1/1)
- At low Health, reduce the cost of active skills by 10% and increase the damage by 50%.
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He didn't even need to think about it.
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Player: Lance (Rene Knight)
Level: 10
Skill Unlocked:
- Iron Will (1/1)
- At low Health, reduce the cost of active skills by 10% and increase the damage by 50%.
Experience to Next Level: 3600
Next Level:
+5 Attribute Points
+1 Potential Points
+5 Health Points
+3 Energy Points
+5 Stamina
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'Good, Now my class!' He closed the level window and opened his class window.
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Class: Squire (8/20)
Experience to Next Level: 2650
Next Level Bonus:
+ 3 to Strength
+ 2 To Dexterity
+ 1 Potential Point
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He added the required Experience.
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Class: Squire (9/20)
Experience to Next Level: 3400
Next Level Bonus:
+ 3 to Strength
+ 2 To Dexterity
+ 1 Potential Point
New Skill:
- Hard Hit (1/5) Cost: 25 Stamina
- Hit your opponent for 125% damage.
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'YES!' Without a second thought, he leveled it up.
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Class: Squire (10/20)
Skill Unlocked:
- Hard Hit (1/5) Cost: 25 Stamina
- Hit your opponent for 125% damage.
Experience to Next Level: 4500
Next Level Bonus:
+ 3 to Strength
+ 2 To Dexterity
+ 1 Potential Point
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Sharna's eyes grew wide. She could swear as she watched him, his muscles grew a tiny bit bigger. He grew taller, and his skin seemed to harden. She sat there with her mouth almost on the ground, blinking crazily trying to figure out if her eyes are playing tricks on her.
'Your pet has a weird look on her face.' Vixen watched him level himself up but kept an eye on her.
'Can you stop calling her my pet please?' Lance looked down from the sky and glanced at Sharna, "What?"
Sharna shook her head, "My eyes are playing tricks on me. I could swear I just saw you grew taller or something".
Lance smiled and looked back into the sky and opened his status window.
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Player: Lance (Rene Knight)
Level: 10
Rank: F
Race: Humanoid
Class: Squire (10/20)
Sub Class: Blacksmith (1/10)
Sex: Male
HP: 295/295
Energy: 52/52
Stamina: 200/200
Strength: 34
Dexterity: 24
Intelligence: 4
Charisma: 6
Mystic: 3
Luck: 2
Armor Rating: 3 (70)
Attack damage: 11 -12
Stat points: 50
Potential Points: 10
Experience: 1200
UAC: 4650
Equipment:
- Eclipse (Uncommon)
- Damage: 46 - 57
- Bonus Damage in the dark: 41 - 53
- Light Thorn (Uncommon)
- Damage: 45 - 60
- Bonus Silver Damage 35 - 47
- Reinforced Leather Gauntlets (AR 12)
- Reinforced Leather Boots (AR 12)
- Reinforced Leather Chest (AR 30)
- Reinforced Leather Pants (AR 16)
Active Skills:
- Rush (3/5) Cost: 5 Stamina
- Rushes towards the target dealing 70% melee damage instantly. True damage skill.
- Flurry (5/5) Cost: 15 Stamina
- Hit your opponent 7 to 10 times consecutively doing 75% damage each strike.
- Quick Recovery (1/5) Cost: All Energy
- When Stamina falls below 15% you can expend all your Energy to refill it by 50%.
- Knife Throw (1/5) Cost: 2 Stamina
- Throw a small hidden blade at your opponent. Damaged base on the weapon used. +80% Accuracy.
- Hard Hit (1/5) Cost: 25 Stamina
- Hit your opponent for 125% damage.
Passive Skills:
- Quick Reflexes (5/5)
- Your finely tuned body and mind have granted you enhanced reflexes. +45% movement speed.
- Battle Maniac (3/5)
- When health falls below 55%, increase stats by 15%, and damage by 3 points till health goes over 55%.
- Iron Will (1/1)
- At low Health, reduce the cost of active skills and increase the damage by 50%.
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'Oh?' Lance noticed that his stamina and health refilled. He just realized he wasn't feeling tired anymore. 'Well then, what do you say Vix, time to go?'
'Yes, please. Let's get out of here, your cling-on is creeping me out. Oh! Don't forget the loot.' She smiled at him, proud of herself for not forgetting.
Lance stood up and started to stretch, letting out some grunts. After a few bones cracking and muscles stretching to get the kinks out, he begins to walk from corpse to corpse collecting everything he could. For the most part, he only found the fangs, hide, and claws, but he also found a few uncommon bones as well. He then turned to Sharna "Time to go". Lance didn't even wait for Sharna to get up, he just started heading back to the city.
Sharna got on her feet as fast as she could, almost stumbling back down. "Hey!" She couldn't believe he was just leaving without her so she started chasing after Lance, never taking her eyes off him.
While the pair headed off, Lance took a look at his remaining experience. 'I don't have much, and it requires a fair bit to level up again.' He thought for a bit and decided to dump the rest of it into blacksmithing.
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Sub-Class: Blacksmith (4/10)
- Can craft and repair Uncommon items with Uncommon materials.
Experience to Next Level: 1500
Next Level:
+3 Strength
+1 Dexterity
+1 Luck
- Can craft and repair Rare items with Rare materials.
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'I'm getting much stronger. This is good'. Lance was very proud of himself. He also came to the realization that hunting monsters gave him experience much faster than finishing quests. But, some of the quests do give him good perks like skills. So he decided, once he gets back, he'll start hunting every chance he gets. 'Hey Vix, how far away is the city?'
Vixen was floating off to his right looking at a window in front of her. 'If we keep going straight, and can keep this pace till nightfall, we will be halfway home. Then another half day or so and we should be back in the city.'
'Good, I'll finish three quests, gain two new skills, and have a ton of money. I think the first thing we should do is find someone who can craft me some new armor, what do you think?' Lance was excited to get back now. A ton of rare loot in his possession, and a load of cash.
'I'll find a few clothiers when we get back and we can head to them after.' Vixen didn't take her eyes off the map, She wanted to get back as soon as possible and ditch the creepy tag-a-long.