6 Preparation
Grave stared at the 5 dead bodies around him. It took 1 minute for the dead bodies of monsters to disintegrate into pixels. During this time, players could choose to manually process the bodies or let the system give them rewards. Manual processing was more profitable but more time-consuming.
Grave had no intention of wasting time. He waited 1 minute without doing anything and the bodies disintegrate.
Ding!
[ PLAYER, EARNED 4 WOLF PELTS. 20 BRONZE COINS, ONE IRON SWORD]
[
Noob failed Sword (Iron):
A failed product of beginner's work, very dull, will wear out easily,
+2 Strength
]
'Hmm, at least better than trash trainee sword.' The loot was decent, especially the 20 Bronze coins...
In 'Liberty Online' currency was.
100 bronze coins -> 1 silver coin.
100 silver coins -> 1 gold coin.
1000 gold coins -> 1 platinum coin.
For a normal starting player, 20 Bronze coins as their first loot was a very good amount.
Grave remembered that his monthly making in the MOONSHINE guild was 20 gold coins. He was above a hundred level at that time. "Haaaah, Dungeon master was sure a money-eating class."
Collecting loot, Grave moved deeper into the forest to hunt more.
....
As Grave moved deeper into the forest, he found many groups of people who were killing wolves.
This made a hard situation for Grave. He traveled while avoiding these groups. All these groups were part of some guilds. He did not want to get himself involved with any guild for now.
Just like that, he kept searching. Not much success was achieved.
For new players who were unaffiliated with any guild, finding monsters to hunt was far more difficult than killing them.
Finally, after 2 hours of searching, he found another group of wolves pack. This time he found an average level 7 horde of 11 wolves.
They were near resting near large stones. Grave saw there was an alpha wolf present in this pack.
This time, Grave picked a small stone and throw it at the head of the sleeping alpha.
Ding!
[ -140]
[Ding. A new skill, 'Throw' has been created because of your action]
[Throw: anything you throw can act as a weapon. Deal 120% damage; A critical hit deals 150%; Cooldown: None ]
owwwwwwww
Alpha wolf screams in pain, alerting the whole pack.
Without giving them time, Grave rushed to the nearest wolf.
Seeing Grave coming forward, 1 wolf jumped at him while 2 rushed toward him while others rushed toward the Alpha.
Grave looked at the wolf jumping on him and performed STAB. His sword went from one side of the wolf's skull to another side.
[Ding!. Calculating... Exp]
The dead body of the wolf fell down. Dragging his sword out of the corpse Grave rolled to the side dodging the attack of other wolves.
Grave started fighting the other 2 wolves near him.
[-36, -33,-25, -40.....]
He started moving around with his agility and started attacking at weak points of the wolves.
Within one minute, Grave killed one more wolf. While fighting the next wolf, he looked toward the alpha, who was almost recovered.
"I can let you control the crowd. "Screaming that Grave jumped on the head of the wolf he was fighting.
While in the air, Grave took out his trainee sword and THROW it at Alpha's head.
Alpha was almost recovered. As Alpha opened its eyes, a sword came directly in front of his eyes.
Baaam.
[ - 180 ]
[Ding!. Calculating... Exp]
Trainee's sword pressed deep into the middle of Alpha's forehead.
Grave looked down, falling he performed a slash at the wolf whom he used as a jumping pad.
Wolf's head got separated from the body.
[Ding!. Calculating... Exp]
4 down 7 left.
Seeing the death of Alpha, wolves entered the enraged mode. In a frenzy, all of them rushed at him.
"Well, this is bad." Grave ran back toward the dense forest. He did not want to fight 7 wolves with only level 3d
In 'Liberty Online', players only got exp when they were in non-fighting mode. So no hope of mysterious power-ups.
Just like that, a dangerous war between crazy wolves and Grave started.
[ -20, -30, -25, -31,-37,-40...]
[ Hp 100/120]-> [Hp 90/120].....
After 20 minutes of fighting, Grave finished the last wolf.
Only 1/3 of his health was left. 11 bodies of wolves were splattered in the forest.
[
+ 200% level suppression bonus
+ 20% herd bonus
+ 1500 exp
]
[ LEVEL UP! ]
[ LEVEL UP! ]
[ LEVEL UP! ]
[ LEVEL UP! ]
[ LEVEL UP! ]
Grave just lay beside the dead bodies. He needed to restore his health. In 'Liberty Online', there was a natural health restoration for players that depends on the Stamina of the player. Currently, his health restoration is 1.4 hp/ min.
1 Stm -> 0.2 hp/min.
In the last fight, his trainee sword broke down and even his Iron sword was in terrible condition.
After waiting for 1 min, all the dead bodies near him disappear.
Ding!
[PLAYER, EARNED 15 WOLF PELTS, 5 wolf fangs. 60 BRONZE COINS, One Bronze Boot, 1 monster core]
Wow, luckily he got a rare drop monster core. Checking the information.
[
Monster core (Lowest):
A bad quality monster core. Can be used in the construction of weapons or potion-making.
]
[
Leather boot (Bronze):
A decent pair of boots that provide minimal protection. Will wear down easily.
+ 7 Agl
]
Lastly, Grave distributed his 38 unassigned stats points.
Following his earlier distribution, Grave distribute 12 to agility, 10 to strength, 5 to stamina, and 11 unassigned points.
Grave knew how important these save-up stats became helpful in getting out of certain conditions. He has also equipped the bronze boots.
"System open status "
_______________________________________________________
Player Name: Grave
Species: Human being
Class: Dungeon Master
Subclass: None.
Title: Master of Serpent Cave.
Level: 8
Health: 90/170
Mana: 135/135
_____________________________________
AGL: 22 + 7 VIT: 5
INT: 5 STA: 12
STR; 19 + 2 DEF: 5
Status: Healthy.
Unassigned stat points: 11
Equipment:
* Noob failed Sword (Iron)
* Leather boot (Bronze)
______________________________
After checking his stat, Grave looked at the timer and nodded his head.
"Hmm, I am done with my level up for now. Let's start the mega-event, hahaha. Before that, let's wait for my health to be completely filed. With my new 2.4 hp/min health regen, I only need to wait for 34 mins. Let's buy the other necessary thing for now."
Grave casually walked back to the village. There were many new players still connecting to Liberty online daily. Currently, only 40% of the world's population was part of this game. In the future, this number would cross more than 95%.
Without caring about all this, Grave went to the market. There were many players, as well as NPC shops present there.
Grave needed to hide what he was buying, so he chooses NPC shops. For the next 10 mins, he went from one shop to another shop to get the discounted price.
In Liberty Online, Npc acts like humans. Like human shops, they also gave discounts and provided many other benefits. Because of all of this, even after the guilds started their shop, NPC shops did not get shut down, but it became more like a war between players' shops and NPC shops.
After 20 mins Grave spent 5 gold coins on buying all the stuff. That was a huge sum to spend for a newbie.
From 5 gold coins, he bought 200 lowest health potions. 1 silver each. He almost cleans up the whole supply of the lowest health potion from all NPC shops.
Next, he bought 20 Lowest Agility potions, 2 silvers each. 20 Lowest strength potions. 2 silver each. After these came the turn of weapons. He bought a whole 500 trash trainee sword. After getting a huge discount, he bought it for 2 gold and 20 silver coins for the whole. Lastly, he bought 10 best iron swords with 1 gold whole.
"Hahaha, I emptied the whole trash sword from the market."
[
Lowest Health potion:
A failed product can only achieve the bare minimum of what it was meant to.
Restore: + 100 health
Cooldown: None
]
[
Lowest Agility potion:
A failed product can only achieve the bare minimum of what it was meant to.
Increase: 10% Agility
Time: Effective for 2 mins
Cooldown: None
{Effect of the same potion cannot be stacked.)
]
[
Lowest strength potion:
A failed product can only achieve the bare minimum of what it was meant to.
Increase: 10% Strength
Time: Effective for 2mins
Cooldown: None
{Effect of the same potion cannot be stacked.)
]
[
Trainee Sword (Trash):
Only for trashes to use this. Can get broken at any time.
+ 1 strength
]
[
Normal warrior sword (Iron):
Good sword for noobs. Made by a beginner Blacksmith. Can take some hits.
+9 Strength
]
