The Treasury (1)
"The world will notice you"
This phrase was something every single player in Tisixa wanted, for the world to notice them is basically saying that the world will reward you with more benefits. It's pretty much another way of saying that you will be luckier, quest rewards will be better, rare monster drops become more common.
There are multiple ways to obtain this message, through a title, a skill or an item. However, even Lennon, someone who knows nearly everything about Tisixa, only knows of a few ways to get this message.
'Damn, I was planning on getting this later, but getting it now is definitely not bad. I've also never seen that skill in the combat series before.'
Without hesitation, Lennon spent almost all his skill points on one skill.
<You have obtained Storyteller's Aura>
'Nice'
<Tabsi has sent you a friend request>
"I accept"
<Player 'Tabsi' has been added to your friends list>
- Hey, I'm here, where are you?
- Ah, wait a minute
Lennon got up, he had just been casually sitting on the sidewalk, and many NPCs eyed him as they walked by. He walked over to the west gate and saw a girl with blonde hair, green eyes with nearly the same height as him looking at him.
"So, what class did you pick?"
"I'll show you"
<Play 'Tabsi' has challenged you to a duel>
Lennon chuckled, it was a very 'Tabsi-like' thing to do, and then pressed accept.
<You have been transported to a duel arena>
There was no countdown, the duel started as soon as the players were transported, just like in Tisixa. As soon as they spawned in, Tabsi immediately rushed towards Lennon and activated a skill.
<Rapid Strikes>
Immediately, Lennon felt as if his body froze, and reacted quickly as Tabsi's fists seemingly multiplied into ten fists, which were continuously striking his body.
<Unheard Tales>
Lennon felt free from the restriction and leaped up into the air, but fell back down quite quickly and landed on his feet.
'Hmm, definitely a close combat class, maybe a fighter of some sort?'
Lennon didn't have time to think as Tabsi was rapidly approaching him. But Lennon was full of confidence because of one reason: the huge level difference. Even if Tabsi spent a bit of time at the starter village killing slimes or goblins, she couldn't have surpassed level five. She must think that I'm still low levelled or something, otherwise she wouldn't do something this reckless.
"Why are you standing still? Are you scared or something?"
Tabsi provoked him, and Lennon just sighed.
"Have a good taste of these!"
Tabsi shouted as she activated another skill.
<Ice Talons>
Ice covered Tabsi's hands, as if she suddenly grew sharp nails made of ice.
"Bye bye! <Rapid Strikes>!"
Tabsi approached Lennon quickly and was about to strike.
<Unheard Tales>
Lennon put all his power into a punch.
Boom! Tabsi was knocked to the ground, all her health depleted. She was soon revived and they were transported back to the west gate.
"Woaahh! How did you do that?"
"Well, it was mostly because you're way too under levelled, but I did get a pretty good skill"
"Wait, what level are you?
"34"
"Ah, that must be why"
"Aren't you surprised?"
"No, you've always been like that, doing weird things, though I am impressed that you're way ahead of the first place on the leaderboard"
"Yeah, yeah, now tell me your class"
"I'll just show you my status"
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Username: Tabsi
Level - 2
HP - 80/80
MP - 120/120
Class: Spellbinding Brawler
Race: Human
[Strength - 13] [Vitality - 8] [Agility - 14] [Intelligence - 12] [Power - 11]
Skills ↓
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'What the fuck, she's only level two, yet her stats are almost as good as mine. But she did get a combat-related hidden class, so it makes sense her stats are high.'
<Rapid Strikes>
- When the skill is activated, eight more fists materials and strikes the target rapidly, dealing 5 x [Strength] per hit
-immobilises the enemy for a certain duration depending on their level
- The skill costs 20 MP per second of usage.
<Cooldown time: 20 seconds>
<Ice Talons>
- Ice will cover your hands, enchanting your attacks with the ice attribute and dealing 1.5 times your usual damage
- Much less effective on monsters of the flame attribute
Consumes 40 MP per second of usage
<Cooldown time: none>
'Her skills are pretty good, though they have quite a high mana usage, but it should pair well with my buffing skill'
"Alright, we should be able to make it work!"
"Huh? What do you mean?"
Lennon's strategy was simple. By using the same strategy he used to level up, and when they are high enough level, start hunting the orcs by themselves to gain even more experience. It took a while to explain this to Tabsi, but she eventually managed to get it.
So, the strategy commenced, it was much faster when Tabsi did it as she already had such high stats. After four days of farming, Lennon was satisfied with their levels and they could finally take on archer orcs by themselves.
Lennon, Lv 54
Tabsi, Lv 51
They were around thirty levels ahead of the number one leaderboard player, but that gap could be closed within a matter of days. Lennon already knew what he needed to do, he needed to widen the gap, the gap needed to be wide enough so that it could never be crossed, even with the power of time.
"Ahhh, we still have a lot of work to do"
Lennon sighed as he glanced up at the sky, the bright yellow sun shining down on him. Lennon felt so good seeing the amazing graphics.
'Oh yeah, there was still that skill'
<Storyteller's Intuition>
Basically, it was a skill which allowed a user to find quests easier, but Lennon had ignored it until now since he knew all the important quest locations.
'We won't be doing any quests for a while, so might as well use it, though I don't think anything of significance happens in the Thinnest Forest, not until much later at least"
<Storyteller's Intuition>
To his surprise, a dark blue line of light appeared in front of him, which twisted and twirled into the forest.
"Why do you look so weird?"
"Can't you see that? The line thingy?"
"Huh, what are you on about?"
"Well, it's a skill of mine, I showed it to you a couple days ago? You know? It was the one I called useless"
"Oh, that one, so it worked?"
Lennon had told Tabsi about his class after the duel, and Tabsi found it quite funny. But Lennon had proved that the class was actually not that bad afterall.
"Yeah, somehow it did"