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The Knight Mage

A story where Markus is the first person to beat, The Knights End, without cheats. Which leads him to be force into the game with the knight mage class. Will he be able to figure his way out to get or die playing?

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Chapter 2, The tutorial

Markus jerks up in confusion 'What the hell is that!?'

[Hello user, you have chosen to relive with the class <Knight mage> please enter you name]

'What hold up, I still dreaming right it just said that I was playing Knights End as a mage class. I must be dreaming' Markus proceeds to pinch himself 'Oww! Okay! Okay, calm down, you were waiting for the new part of Knights End to download and fell asleep and now your just dreaming about it right? Right?'

[Hello user please enter name or the game will pick one for you]

'Ok well I guess since this a dream than I'll just follow what the story says.'

[You have enter the name <Markus> is this correct? You cannot change it later. (Y/N)]

'Yes'

[Great, now you will chose a class.]

'Okay' Markus looks at the screen only sees <Knight Mage> class 'I guess knight mage please.'

[You have chosen <Knight Mage> you may not change class later.]

[You may now start the tutorial, completing the task is the only way the system will heal you if you do get injured]

'At least I know that if I get hurt that I'll be ok'

[Tutorial: Rat killer

Kill all 10 rats in under 3 minutes.

Succeed and be granted full heal and reward box.

Failure to complete task in time will lead punishment]

'Okay this is just like the original game this should be easy I just need to grab the rusty sword on the ground and should be fine.' Markus looks around for the sword but does not see it 'Hey, system where's the sword?'

[Mission will start in 30 seconds]

'I can't fight without a sword' Markus hastily looking around for a weapon.

[10 seconds]

'Well their just rats so how hard can they be? Plus I still have my fist so I should be fine.'

[Rats have been released. Timer starts now]

A wall in the room starts to raise up and 10 rats come scurrying out. A timer pops up at the top of the room.

'The rats are almost a foot long. How am suppose to beat 10 of them?' Markus see one of the rats hiss at him and sees the 5 inch long teeth as well 'And those teeth could probably kill a person' One of the rats jump toward him missing but grazing Markus arm 'God that hurt, am I not in a game? And if I'm not when it said I had one life, mine, is that what the prenatally is? It doesn't make sense though.' Markus says has he dodges the rats jumping towards him.

[You have 2:30 minutes remaining]

'If this is real how did I end up in the game? Who would do this to someone?' Markus say as dodging at the rats jumping towards him.

[You have 2 minutes remaining]

'I need to fight, I don't want to die' Markus processed to punch one of the rats that flies at him. 'It looks like it did some damage but not enough I need to hurry before time runs out' He continues punching the rats but shows little signs of damage being done.

[You have 1 minute remaining]

'I have been hitting them, but not one has fallen' Markus still dodging the rats attacks but covered in scratch marks made by the rats teeth.

[You have 30 seconds remaining]

'I'm gonna die aren't I, I really am going to die.' Markus is now backed in a corner surround by rats. He bumps into a on the torches on the wall, proceeds to grabs and throws it towards one of the rats. the rats disperse but hits one, which catches on fire and dies. 'Their scared and die by the fire, but I'm almost out of time'

[You have killed you first rat. You have gained 10 exp and leveled up.]

[Time remaining 20 seconds]

He then remembers that he is a knight mage who can use magic 'Let me see if I have a stat window, and see if I have any spells I can use. 'Stat window!'

[Markus: Knight Mage

class: Mage

title: None

Level: 2

Exp till next lv: 50

Strength: 3 - endurance: 2

agility: 4 - intelligence: 4

luck: 4 - ???: 3

Skill points: 3

Items: none

hp: 22/55

mp: 10/15

abilities-

(None)

Spells-

fireball: 0 - toxic gas: 0

shadow dance: 0 - ice spikes: 0

Lighting strike: 0 - holy light: 0

spell points: 1]

'It seem that most of the stat window is the same but it seems that I can level up spells too. Okay since their weak to fire I'll level up fireball'

[You have unlocked the spell <Fireball> it will consume 1 mp per usage at this time]

'Perfect now all I have to do is just burn these rats and I'll complete the mission'

[You have 10 seconds remaining]

'Crap, how does this work? Do I just aim my hand and say fireball?' A ball of fire shoots out of his hand and burns another rat to death 'Okay, I'm almost out of time just need to hurry' Markus than processed to shoot fireballs at all the rat with less than a second to spare.

[You have level up]

[You have completed, Tutorial: Rat Killer]

[Will you accept the reward? (Y/N)]

'Yes' Markus' body is than engulfed by a green light and all the scratches on his body have disappeared . 'I feel so much better now.' He looks down to see a bright grey box on the ground with a screen above it.

[Tutorial reward box. Open? (Y/N)]

'Yes' The box rises up to Markus eye level and shines a bright grey.

Markus now holding a dagger and the box has vanished. 'what's this'

[Element Dagger lv. 1 rank: E

A lightweight dagger that when infused with basic element magic, the blade becomes engulfed and outputs the stored magic type. For every second the blade is engulfed, the dagger will use 1 stored mp.

Shock- 0/60 mp - Poison- 0/60 mp

Flame- 0/60 mp - Frost- 0/60 mp

Darkness- 0/60 - Purification - 0/60 mp

5% chance to have the opponent will be affect by status effect

Exp till next level 100]

'That's a item I never encountered before in the game, but to be honest I don't know if I'm still in the game. Lets see if I can find a way out of this room' Markus looks around the room and head to the hole the rats came from. 'It looks like this the only exit so, lets where this tunnel takes me.'

Hope that you like this chapter. Quick note, when i release chapters wait a bit before reading because I might have missed a mistake and have to fix it later. Thanks for reading.

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