Chapter 3: First Mission

The Tier System for weapons has been removed.

Why? It felt like it made things too complicated for things to be explained....

Well, the Tier System for items have been removed.

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"Wow, this place looks so beautiful up close!" Marina stood before the large Palace that looked Half Palace and Half Castle. The Palace Castle Hybrid made from Gold, and Multiple metals that had very strong endurance, and beneficial effects if used to make buildings. Also the place had Red and Green Colors.

A soldier wearing a Scout Class Armor ran beside Alexander and whispered something to him. Alexander squinted his eyes and called upon a Servant. "Show my 5th Concubine to her new residence, I have business to take care of."

Alexander left Marina with a Servant to her new quarters and explained what she can do right now.

"5th Mistress, you can bring up the Available Missions by double taping and with a Swipe. In your current status, you can do Low Difficulty Tasks, but when you reach Mid Difficulty tasks, at Gold you can do High Difficulty and Peak Difficulty at Queen."

They reached Marina's new residence, which looked Small ok House, the residence wasn't poor or bad, but at the top condition.

"If you pick any of the Tasks, a person will come to you and prepare almost everything, and give you necessary things before you go. Do you have any questions?" The Servant asks her.

"Yes, I do, When do I get my personal servant?"

"You can pick any servant we're able to present to you, but I recommend you pick someone trust worthy and not just any servant."

"That is all."

"If you say so, I'll excuse myself and attend to my work." The Servant bows and leaves Marina.

Marina tours her house, locating where is where. After that, she dropped onto a couch and brought up the Task Board.

There was various different tasks, going from Subjugation, to Elimination. There were tasks of killing groups of roaming Mummies, Zombies, Skeleton, Desert Goblins, etc. Also the Difference between Mummies and Zombies, are that, Mummies are Zombies who are wrapped in their special cloth that could resist attacks, but not that much.

Zombies are just the Undead, going from Naked Zombies, or Zombies with no armor, to Zombies that have Armor that they wore when they were actual living beings. Zombies mostly come from graves, or battlefields. Mummies are just magical undead that would appear here and there. But Mostly appear around ruins.

Marina accepted all of them, as there no other concubines doing the General's Path. How she know? There was small notes or reminders and what she can do, like accepting multiple missions. And there was a indicator to show how many others where doing the same path as her. But there was no one, so she's the first person to pick General's Path.

*Ding* *Dong*

Marina goes over to the Door to see was ringing her bell. She saw a man, or more like a Soldier waiting at the door. Marina thought that this was the person who would give her the necessary equipment, and bring her into the areas where she would accomplish her missions.

"Hello 5th Mistress, I'm here bring you to get your equipments and get you to the locations of your many tasks."

"Ok." Marina exits and locks her home, then followed the Soldier to wherever.

—<Imperial Palace's Armory>—

Inside Marina was amazed to see up close and with her own eyes to see the entire armory of the Imperial Palace. Marina walked around the armory, looking at the vast different kinds of weapons and armor, even gadgets.

"5th Mistress! Here's the equipment that you would get as Bronze Rank Concubine. " Marina walked over to him and saw the equipments displayed on the table next to him.

"5th Mistress, I'll explain each of the equipment, if you don't know or don't remember." The Soldier held a Assault Rifle that was a bit skinny and long, "This is a C Lancer, and assault rifle that has two mods, Auto and Bolt." The Soldier pressed on the switch by the trigger, and it would transform either longer and skinny, or short and bit bigger.

"In Bolt mode, it has single shots, bit has longer range, accuracy and bit more fire power. As in Auto Mode, it's firing would be more rapid, lesser range distance, bit lower fire power, and lesser accuracy. But Auto Mode is for more closer range, and Bolt Action Mode is for long range." He put down the C1 Lancer, and then picks up a pistol.

"This is called C Razor, Semi-Auto Firing, Close to Mid Range, does good amount of damage, and one of the basic weapons commonly used, even it's C, it's not that bad." He puts that away, and brought up a suit that looks like a Latex Suit.

"Well, this suit is called a Synthetic Inner Suit. Something you would always wear most of the time, as it brings a lot of protection, and it's what help condition the body when putting on the armor pieces." He points at one of the corners of the armory, "There is a changing room over there, and in there should be Armor Equipper in there. Activate the terminal, have it scan your ID Card, which is also called General Path Card, as it both an ID Card, and a Symbol as a Concubine of the Emperor on the General's Path. I'll be outside the door waiting for you, after your done equipping yourself up, we'll go straight into the area where you'll do some of the tasks there,and go to the next place until you're tried, or the night is about to come."

With all that said, he left the armory and Marina walked over and into the Changing Room. Marina took off the dress, along with the semi-transparent skin tight clothes. She puts it on, and goes onto the Terminal, having her Card scanned, she looked at the many available suits of armor.

Marina went with a C Fighter Armor Suit, which equipped with a grenade Launcher and extra pockets for ammunition and a few items.

Marina soon exits the armory with the C Lancer and C Razor equipped. "Alright come with me, and we'll get to the closest region on one of your tasks."

—<Soon Later On>—

The Helicopter landed carefully onto the ground and Marina walked out of the helicopter. "5th Mistress! When you're done, we'll go to you, so don't worry about getting back! Good Luck!" The Doors closed and the Helicopter flew off.

Leaving Marina alone in this on the Dessert. Marina sighs and started to walk around. She found various herbs, plants, fruits, ores, etc. around in this dessert. She collected every one of them that she spotted, until she found a group of monsters.

Marina took out her C Lancer, turned it into Bolt Action Mode, then carefully aimed at one of the monsters in the group. Marina used her helmet to scan if they were her objective, which was a confirmation. They were a group of mummies, so it would be easy to handle them. Looking at their bandage wrappings color, they were mostly white and one of them had a tint of red on it.

As the stronger the Mummies were, the more red their wrappings were. white was normal or weak mummies, Tint or a bit of Red were bit more stronger. Red were Elite, Crimson was like a MiniBoss. Above that, they become Bosses, which have gold color armor pieces on them, almost their body is covered in Gold Colored Armor.

As for weapons, at the bit of red, they form either, Khopesh, or Bow. When they get a bow, they form arrows with or from sand, and that sand arrow can have different colors depending what color and the strength of the user/wielder.

At Red Elite, the mummies can have either, Dual Khopesh, Shield and Spear, and Upgrade Bow and Arrows. Crimson MiniBoss, have more stronger equipment/weapons, that have more durability, damage, penetration, unique capabilities, etc. Also more golden and cooler weapon looks. At Golden Boss, they have more stronger equipment and unique capabilities, along with getting Golden Armor.

Coming back to the present, Marina aimed and fired her gun, the Mummy's forehead was penetrated by a bullet, and was instantly killed.

*Ding!* -<Headshot! Overkill!>-

Marina's exp bar slowly or gradually raised up a notch from zero. The other Mummies was agitated and were searching for the attacker, aka Marina. Marina took a deep breath and took aim once again, at one of the other Mummies, then fired.

*Ding!* -<Headshot! Overkill!>-

Now Marina was about or almost close to leveling up. Sooner or later the Mummies had found her and they were started to run towards her. Marina hurriedly but carefully took another shot at another mummies head.

[ Headshot! Overkill! ]

[ You have level up! Reached Level 1! ]

[ Gained 5 AP and 1 SP! ]

Marina put all her stats into agility to gain speed advantages.

Marina take out a empty shell into her inventory and loads in another bullet and fired.

[ Headshot! Insta-Kill! ]

Another Mummy drops dead and the rest started to rage and move even faster. Marina takes out the empty shell into her inventory, then she turned the C Lancer back to it's normal form/mode. She fired multiple bullets into the mummies, to which killed them all.

Marina transformed her C Lancer into a Rectangular form, then magnetize and attached it onto her back. She takes her C Stinger into her while walking over to the Near Dead bit red Mummy. She puts her barrel onto its head then fired.

[ Headshot! Overkill! ]

*Sigh* Marina sighed for a bit and started to loot their bodies. She gained body parts, some equipments, like the bit red Mummy's Khopesh, and the mummies strong bandages.

[ You gained a Lottery Ticket due to mission completion! ]

"....! Shit! I forgot about the Lottery Function!" Marina had instantly remembered the Lottery Function when that notification popped, out. As Marina had completely forgotten about it and immediately went over to the Lottery Function.

The Screen had a wheel, almost like the Lottery Wheel or something. There was 2 buttons, 1 button was spinning the 6 Lottery tickets that Rearina and the other button was grayed but it said it would spend 10 tickets, but give additional spin or reward(s).

"... Not going to spend any..." She immediately discarded the thought of spending any of her Lottery Tickets, as it was spend if she spend 10 Lottery Tickets for 11 Rolls or Spins.

Marina went over to the Skill Tree, to spend her Skill Point she had. And Looking at the Interface, there was 5 Trees, Technology Tree, which was gray and silvery. Soldier Tree, which had Red and Orange. Magic Tree, which had mixture of Sky Blue and Deep Blue. Scientist Tree, which was lime green and jade green. Lastly was, Infiltrator Tree, had colors between Very Dark Gray and Black.

Marina skimmed through the many available to skills she can unlock.

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[Technology Tree] - [Weaponsmith] [Armorsmith]

[Magic Tree] - [Mana Manipulation]

[Scientist Tree] - [Herbalism] [Metallurgy]

[Soldier Tree] - [Close Combat] [Physical Endurance]

[Infiltrator Tree] - [Hacking] [Sneaking]

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Most of the Skills Rearina sees are kinda like Foundations. In Technology Tree, [Weaponsmith] leads to Weapon making skills, which are [Gunsmith] [Bladesmith] and [Gadget Invention]. Though [Gadget Invention] can only unlockable when certain skill in Scientist Tree is unlocked. [Gadget Invention] leads to skills related to gadgets, and the other two skills are pretty obvious to what they can lead her to.

In Magic Tree, [Mana Manipulation] goes first then [Magic Control], to which leads to the Various different Element Controls or Manipulation, such as Fire, Earth, Water, Air, Light, Darkness, etc. Magic Tree is the largest Skil Tree than the others, as it leads to many different Magic or Element Manipulation and improves them, the Magic Rearina makes or control.

Scientist Tree's [Herb Appraisal] leads to Potion Making and Herb Related things. [Metal Appraisal] leads to Few Metal Skills. Though Mainly, there is a skill that needs [Metal Appraisal] and [Herb Appraisal], which is [Alchemy] that could lead to mixtures of many things, like Gunpowder, unique pills or potions, etc.

Now, Soldier Tree, [Close Combat] leads to [Martial Arts] and [Gun Fighting]. [Martial Arts] leads to various many unique capabilities that improves technique in close combat, while [Gun Fighting] Improves various technique with weapons. As for [Physical Endurance] it leads to improving Rearina's Body capabilities, and her stats. In [Physical Endurance] there was [Nimble Feet] which increases speed, or [Athletic Stamina] which increases her stamina, making her last longer.

Lastly, Infiltrator Tree, [Hacking] leads to either hacking into or improving devices. Such as hacking into Doors so they would open, or improving someone's software, or have powerful firewalls. [Sneaking] would sooner or later lead to skills related to Assassins, Thieves, and Hunters. Ex. Would be [Backstab], a skills both Passive and Active, and we know how it is both Passive and Active...

As to What Marina picks, she went with [Weaponsmith] as she is going for the Skill [Weapon Modification], which would modify and improve her weapons, if she has the material needed to make such improve she's expecting or wanted.

When Marina confirmed spending her SP into [Weaponsmith], nothing really happens, but when she makes any weapons, their capabilities would be improved by 10%.

After all that, Marina went out wandering the dessert, following her mini-map on the HUD from the Helmet, and doing her objectives within the Region.

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[Name] - Marina

[Level] - 1

[HP] - 100/100

[MP] - 100/100

[Strength] - 3

[Flexibility] - 2

[Endurance] - 2

[Stamina] - 2

[Agility] - 10

[Dexterity] - 2

[Intelligence] - 4

[Perception] - 4

[Charm] - 1/100

[Luck] - 5/100

[Free-Attribute Points] - 0

[Skill Points] - 0

[Gift] - [Loot Boost]

[Passive Skills] - [Weaponsmith]

[Active Skills] - None

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