Payback
After walking down a few steps, this seems to be an entrance to a cave, they are probably using this as an escape route, and this is probably the best time to use this, I'll be placing four exploding runes here, since my exploding rune is now at lvl 5 the maximum runes that I can place is now 20 runes, since I placed 1 rune at the door at that room, I still have 19 runes that I can use,
The cave is just a small area and not too far from where I'm standing is already the exit which is just outside the fortress.
I immediately scattered 4 runes inside the cave, in case someone escapes.
Now I only have 15 exploding runes.
As soon as I got out of the cave, I can see a bunch trees so we are basically in the middle of the fortress.
I have 2 choices right now, either to help Lucas and a payback for General Talius or I can just leave this place and go somewhere safer like a nearby town or something.
But deep inside my heart, I really wanted to kill that General, since he was ready to kill me he should be ready to be killed as well.
so I went ahead and used my skill muffle to silence my movements, so I can look around more safely.
I went around to fortress to thing of a plan. 1 side of the wall is already broken because of the rescue team for Lucas.
I realized that this is a good place if I want to start a kingdom of my own, we are located at a high ground, lots of resources nearby, since there's a cave here there should more out there, woods shouldn't be a problem, I can probably dig some caves and see what other resources I could find.
Also we are in the middle of the woods, since it's hard to march here directly as a group because there are a lot of trees obstructing the way and the ground is uneven as well, we can see incoming troops, but they wouldn't know how many are inside this fortress. Perfect for defending.
this is a good idea.
QS 1 !
Now saving..
Saved!
I went to peak on that broken wall, I can see that the rescue team are outnumbered, they are all wearing light armors, if you are going to think about it that would be the logical way to do this, since there are only a few of you, you need to be fast to move around inside the fortress, they don't have any kind of shield, they only have bows and arrows, Oils and bombs.
they are not attacking recklessly they have planned this through, they are just running around, throwing oils at grouped enemies and then shooting them with arrows imbued with fire magic.
since the imperial soldier inside the fortress are all wearing a heavy full plate armor, they can't run around too much as well.
The imperial soldiers now knowing what to do would make a phalanx formation to counter the arrows, but the rescue team wouldn't care if the arrow will hit or not because they just have to light up the oil and that would be an easy kill, since there are imperial mages, they can just extinguish the fire, not only that, the imperial mages are inside, at the top of the tower, they have the high ground advantage, there are three towers and from what I can see from here, there are about 4 mages each tower, so what matters now would be how high are the mages MP and how many oils and bombs does the rescue team have. It's just a battle of resources.
There are only about 20-30 rescue team personnel and there are about 600-700 imperial soldiers inside the fortress, they are absolutely going to fail, the fact that these mages exist is the reason why they are losing.
but I'm not just gonna stand here idly doing nothing to watch them die.
Since I still have 40 status points and all the skills that I have are all magic type, I put all of them to Int. now i have 41 int
System Message:
due to your intelligent level.
You have received the following bonus.
Increase Max MP my 400
Increase Magic Damage by 40%
Increase MP regen by 40% during combat or outside of combat.
Decrease MP cost by 40%
This would be most helpful, Time to give them a hand.
Cloaking!
Muffle!
Mistral Sword! A sword similar to a katana popped up in front of me, but it's transparent it doesn't weight anything at all, I don't even know if this can kill someone, only 1 way to find out.
I went inside the fortress, and I'm ready.
Since all I'm wearing are just prisoner clothes, it's very easy to move since i'm not carrying anything.
I went to the very left side after entering via the hole in the fortress wall, the first tower is now just in front of me, there are 2 imperial soldier guarding the door. Would be totally logical because they wouldn't want someone infiltrating the inside since that's where the mages are located there's probably more inside the tower.
since they can't see me, I tried to sneak behind their back since I'm invisible.
when using cloaking.
I got behind the other guard, I grabbed my sword tightly, and slit the throat of the other guard.
*ttttttttttsssssssssskkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk*
that's the sound of the blood spraying out of his throat, there's so much blood coming out, it's crazy!
I killed the other guard, by stabbing him in the chest with my mistral sword, pulled it, and another spray of blood straight to my face. I went to be sure and cut of his head. this sword is too sharp it didn't even feel any kind of resistance at all when I beheaded the guard. All I can see is his head flying around and his expression is still in there.
This is my first time killing a person, it doesn't feel good, but it doesn't feel bad either.
I knew that there's a lot more highly skilled guards inside, and I don't have any information like that so I got cautious and played it safe.
I placed all the remaining 15 runes around the tower wall.
and made it explode, the blast was too strong that it made the whole fortress vibrate similar to a small earthquake, i can see the expression of the people inside the fortress they are all shaken by fear.
That's one less tower 2 more towers remaining.
System Message:
novice 1 hand sword mastery: learned : proficiency: 0% / 100% left to learn adept 1 hand sword mastery
novice assassination mastery: learned : proficiency: 0% /100% left to learn adept assassination mastery
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novice destruction mastery: learned: proficiency: 10%/ 100% left to learn adept destruction mastery
novice restoration mastery: learned: proficiency: 0%/100% left to learn adept restoration mastery
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Congratulations You Leveled Up!
Congratulations You Leveled Up!
Congratulations You Leveled Up!
Congratulations You Leveled Up!
Congratulations You Leveled Up!
Congratulations You Leveled Up!
Congratulations You Leveled Up!
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I leveled up a total of 10 times.
Status description:
novice 1 hand sword mastery: Increase 1 hand sword damage by 10%
novice assassination mastery: You are 10% harder to detect, and sneak attack will deal 3x the normal damage.
novice destruction mastery: Increase Destruction spell damage by 10%
novice restoration mastery: Effectivity of restoration spell are increased by 10%
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Status:
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Name: Theotime Octave
Lvl: N/A
Race: N/A
Job: Merchant, etc.
Job lvl: N/A
HP: 100/100
MP: 500/500
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Skills:
Language Comprehension:Max
QS 1: lvl 1
QL 1: lvl 1
Haggling: Max
Speech: Max
Analyze: Max
Calm Mind: Max
Fast Healing: lvl 1
Concentrated MP: lvl 1
Cloaking : lvl 1
Muffle : lvl 1
item create : lvl 1
Mistral Sword : lvl 1
Remote Exploding Rune : lvl 5 : Decrese Mp cost by 20% Increase damage by 20%, Max Rune: 20
Skill points remaining: 11 + 20 = 31
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Str: 1 Dex:1
Agi: 1 Int: 41
Vit: 1 Luk:99
Status points remaining: 50
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mastery:
novice 1 hand sword mastery: Increase 1 hand sword damage by 10%
novice assassination mastery: You are 10% harder to detect, and sneak attack will deal 3x the normal damage.
novice destruction mastery: Increase Destruction spell damage by 10%
novice restoration mastery: Effectivity of restoration spell are increased by 10%
( In case you forgot )
Skill points per level = 2
status points per level = 5
Use SKill QS 1!
End of Chapter 5.