Chapter 3 Spirit ability
While thinking about ways to speed up his leveling, Simon suddenly remembered about occupations. Like any other game, Stellar too had had occupations like Blacksmith, Potionsmith, Runesmith and many other. Although it required lots of raw materials, design, formulas and many more things but the each successfully made item gave enormous exp.
Simon, decided to got to nearest place and collect all the necessary materials he could find, Simon then headed towards the NPC shop, he bought tools necessary for collecting resources like pickaxe and herb containers.
After buying all necessities Simon was heading toward the village outskirts, there he could see a few players as if they were for him. If one were to watch carefully they could see greed in their eyes.
One of the men said "hand over everything you have and I will let you go".
From their words Simon deduced someone among them must have seen him enter the NPC shop. And they were waiting for him to steal whatever he has bought or the money he got from selling.
Simon smirked, "Why do you think that if you ask for it i will give it to you? "
"I never asked it was a order, everyone kill that guy" the man who seemed to be the leader said
Several players started rushing towards Simon from all four direction, Simon used his newly learnt spell, mana bind, suddenly all players who were rushing towards Simon were binded through a luminous white rope of mana, with none being able to move.
All the players were dumbfounded, weren't they simply waiting for death right now?, Many tried using brute strength to break the but it didn't cause a slightest bit of damage.
Simon headed towards them with a grin, he unsheathed his sword and began cutting their arms, one by one, all arms of the players who tried to steal from were seen lying on the ground below, while the owners of the arms grunted in pain.
[If one had his any limb cut, he won't be able to reattach it without a intermediate healing spell, unless he dies and rebirths.]
Though Simon could kill them, he didn't it was because he wished for them to suffer like the ones who they harrased in his past life.
After the small piece of artwork, Simon headed towards the willow forest. On his way towards Willow forest Simon encounters some level 5 monster, but in the end they all got slaughtered.
Shortly in a while, Simon reached to entrance of the Willow forest, he then entered the forest and began searching for herbs.
Simon has been roaming everywhere in the forest but could only find a few herbs since the forest was similar to a tropical forest green forest. After being unable to find any herbs Simon, took a break under the shade of a giant tree to catch his breath, while being frustrated, Simon began thinking on ways to find herbs.
After thinking for a while, Simon way able to find a way, since herbs absorb mana, if I am able to spread out my mana like my domain, mabye I could sense the mana signature of the herbs, according to theory it should work how he planned. It was similar to bats but unlike them who detect if there is a obstacle near by, Simon was trying to find a peculiar mana signature.
Simon then began began felling the one of the herbs he collected. After a sometime he was able to identify it's mana signature, Simon then began emitting mana around himself after a while he was able to cover a range of 30 meters with half of his mana. Then Simon began sensing the mana outside his body to find similar mana signature and
Bingo! Simon found it, as he rushed towards the spot from where he could sense the mana signature after reaching their Simon found it. He was filled with joy to the brim.
Detected player has created a unique skill
Magic Tower favoraiblity + 20
Enter skill name
Simon named it as Resource Map
The next moment Simon opened his stats and checked the skill description
Name: Resource Map
Level: 1
Type: reconnaissance
Grade: unique
Description: Allows user to detect herb, ores etc. In a range of 30 meters once the mana signature of the object is recorded.
Mana cost: 10mana per minute
(Range will increase as the skill levels up)
Recorded signatures
Silverleaf Milfoil
Seeing the description Simon was delighted he needed less mana than his first try, for a mage to be able to preserve more mana was definitely a thing he would prefer.
Simon then began to record the mana signature of the herbs he had collected before and started collecting herbs a lot faster on his way to herbs if he were to find another herb on his way, he would record it's mana signature.
After Simon filled his inventory half full, he began heading towards a mountain, as he reached near the mountain he could find a mine,
Simon entered the mine and began mining he could find encountered a few level 7 monsters, after slaying them Simon continued to mine ores appeared.
After a while Simon had collected abundant resources, he also needed some exp before reaching level 10, Simon then began exiting the mine.
After reaching the entrance of the mine, Simon sprinted and began searching for monsters while on his way Simon had already killed a lot and couldn't find much monsters nearby. The only monsters which Simon found were slimes, which a very little exp. He had slain nearly a 100 slimes, and the moment he awaited came.
[Killed slime +1exp]
[Leveled up to level 10]
[Unlocked spirit ability 1]
[Unlocked blessings 2]
[Visit the nearest Magic Tower branch for class promotion]
Without further ado Simon opened his stat panel and check his spirit ability
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Spirit ability 1
Name: Eye of origin
Type: visionary
Description: once used, user is able to see through all illusions. Analyse everything that exists. Detect flaws, combat power. Displays data of the being on whom it is used.
Activation word: detect
Mana cost: none
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Blessing 2
Name: Elemental body
Description: max elemental affinity of all elements. When using spells, spell damage increased by 500%.
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Seeing his spirit ability and blessing he was absolutely delighted he was as happy as a 5 year-old child getting a new toy. His spirit ability was way too broken and the places it could be applied were enormous, and his blessings allowed him to wield any element he wishes, of course he needs the respective spells. The other part of the blessing was even more potent, according to it the spell damage could be increased by 500%, that meant if he used fire ball at its current level(level 4) it would deal a damage of 20, but with his blessing he would deal a damage of 100.
While Simon was rejoicing as a message popped out
[Player has killed 100 slimes and has angered the slime chieftain]
A faint purple coloured slime appeared 3 meters away from him.
"Detect"
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Name: purple slime
Rank: chieftain
Species: slime
Level: 10
Health: 250
Mana: 130
Stats
Vitality: 25
Intelligence: 13
Strength 23
Agility: 20
Endurance: 15
Defense: 15
Skills:
Poison spit
Split
Regeneration
Dash
Combat power: 70
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[Defense stat defines the amount of damage which can be be evaded even after getting hit]
"Oh, it shows stats and skills too" Simon said. Simon realised that his skill would be even more powerful when used against players.
The slime used dash as it rushed towards Simon, Simon stood still without reacting, the moment the slime was within 1 meter of Simon Fired fireball at it on point blank range, with the effects of his blessing, as soon as the fireball hit the Slime, it turned to ashes without even having the chance to split, after dying it dropped 3 silver coins and a spell book. Simon learned the skill instantly.
Simon was returning to the village, as he got close to the village entrance Simon, at that moment Simon felt a sense of nostalgia, yeah, like you guessed it, The group of bandits who had their hands cut by Simon had brought with them another group of players.
Simon could precive that the best in the group was a level 5 warrior, once again began the arrogant chattering.
"Hey, boy you have great courage to hurt my brother, Apologize now and let me cut off your all four limbs"
"Naah ain't gonna do it try and fight if you want"
"Boys I want that boy alive go it doesn't matter if you have to gouge out his eyes or break of his jaw to subdue him, do whatever you want but I want him alive".
"Brat, let me show you the horrors of defying me"
Simon began fighting or mabye dancing with them, all tried to stab him in vital parts but none could even touch him.
After seeing that all of them had been exhausted, Simon started to take the offensive side and began his spree but rather than using his sword he used his hands.
He didn't even consider them worthy of making him use his sword or magic. Simon was breaking their bones from the arms, while at it he punched them at their nose.
The leader of the new group of players was scared out of his wits.
Seeing Simon was staring at him, his instincts screamed at him run away, don't even breathe the same air as him, but no matter what his body didn't listen to him, he was trembling and fell as his legs gave out.
In that moment he remembered what his father said to him whe he was 15, Son no matter what you do remember their are consequences of every action you do. If you are starting a fire in someone's backyard you should be ready if one day your house is burnt to ashes. So either destroy him with no return or never offend someone of that caliber.
He began seeing Simon as the incarnation of the devil himself, he began moving backwards as he saw Simon heading towards him, he said as he cowered in fear "le...le.... Let me go I will give you whatever you want let me go and i give you whatever you want money, women, houses whatever you want i give it to you please let me go" he began to sober at the end.
Opposite to his suprise Simon did the very thing he said he would do to Simon. Simon crushed his lower jaw to dust, gouged out his, ripped off all his four limbs.
In the process flying monkey the player who got tortured grunted screamed in agony, begged for mercy, at end the pain exceeded his limits and he fainted.
Simon then sighed and entered the village.
The group of bandits was asleep on the entrance of the village. The reason they were fine was because of the skill Simon used illusion.
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Name: Illusion of nightmare
Trpe: Mental
Description when used, foes within 10 meters of host, get stuck in a
illusion.
Mana cost: 15 mana
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So in short, he showed them some traumatic experiences, he wouldn't have been so merciless, if not for the fact that they didn't commit any crimes till now if they ever did who knows when they might disappear. He used the spell and entered the village, paying no attention to them. Simon entered the village and headed towards the Blacksmith guild. He went to the reception and said, "I wish to rent a basic forging room for 1 day".
The lady on the reception replied "1 silver for a day and 10 bronze coin for every extra hour".
Simon nodded, and paid the 1 silver coin fee, later another lady led Simon to the forging room.
Simon who couldn't wait, started to heat the ores he brought, once the ores for red hot, he removed them from the furnace and began hammering to bring them in shape, after half an hour of hammering the
the chunk of metal began looking like a long sword. Simon then started to sharpen it's edges and finally he made a handle and fixed it to the sword.
"Detect"
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Name: Long sword
Type: Weapon
Rank: iron
Description: made by a novice Blacksmith, excellent for someone's first time forging.
Durability+10
Strength +3
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Simon once again repeated the same process but this time he used detect during the process of hammering, Simon could see red, yellow and green stops on the sword, Simon guessed that he needed to hammer the red part, yellow parts needed a little hammering, and the green spots were perfect. Simon then began hammering the sword as the skill advised. After 20 minutes the sword was ready.
"Detect"
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Name: Long sword
Type: Weapon
Rank: Bronze (peak)
Description: excellent sword with balanced weight, sharpness surpasses the tier of a apprentice Blacksmith.
Strength +7
Durability: 20
Agility +3
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Simon was quite astonished as well as proud of the sword he made. He made a bronze rank sword without any weapon design. It was big feat to make a weapon without a weapon design even in his past life the number of people who could do it could be counted on 1 hand.
Simon then once again started forging but this time he made different weapons like daggers, shield, axe and spears. But every weapon he made was a bronze tier, Simon began to think about the reason for it, he observed that the ores he had were all bronze rank, and concluded that the skill allowed him to make weapons at the same rank as the ores.
Simon continued to forge more weapons and leveled up to level 12
After he forged quite a lot weapons a system message popped out.
[Detected host has forged 100 weapons Blacksmith occupation acquired]
[Head to the nearest blacksmith guild to have your rank assesed.]
Simon saw that his ores had depleted so he stopped forging any further. He headed towards the reception and sold the the weapons he made, while he was at it he bought a few weapon designs. And asked for him to get assesed.
The assessment test was simple he had to answer 10 questions out of which he has to atleast answer 7 questions correctly, and forge a weapon infront of staff of the Blacksmith guild.
Simon aced the test with all 10 correct questions and made a sword at peak bronze rank weapon.
He was given a badge with a golden hammer on it, with 1 star below it.
[Assesed as 1 star blacksmith]
[Reputation +5]
Simon the began heading towards the Potionsmith guild.
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Name winged heaven
Level: 12
Class: Mage
Occupation: blacksmith
Mana spirit: Eye of Void
Association: none
Wealth: 70 silver coins
Stats
Health: 370
Mana:370
Vitality: 37
Intelligence: 37
Strength: 37
Agility: 37
Endurance: 37
Free attribute point: 130
Skills
Fire ball Lv.4
Mana bind Lv.3
Resource map Lv.2
Illusion Lv.2
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