BXBX NOVEL Chapter 5: Slaying monsters and getting another quest
Chapter 5: Slaying monsters and getting another quest
Mom always makes the best food and nobody can discredit that in my eye\'s. Mom and I were the first ones to start eating, after the smell reached the rest of the house my sister and bother rushed out of their rooms and stared at the delicious food on the table. We all eat and talk about what we will be doing today. I am the only one that doesn\'t need to leave the house on a daily basis and I haven\'t been assigned anymore work as of right now. I am the first to finish my food and I quickly run up to my room and hop on Ancients World in my gaming pod.
The system recognizes the genetic code in your body, so you don\'t have any risk of being hacked. The bright light comes through my eye\'s and I am in the inn I fell asleep in. I also have a healing buff for 6 hours, this is better than an exp buff in my opinion. Every time you die in Ancients World you lose a level. With this buff that\'s less likely to happen. I still haven\'t used my 2x exp boost to. I walk out of my room and notice it is only a few minutes till the wilds open. The wilds that are around Blue City are huge, 3000 square miles to be exact. The best thing are the dungeons once you reach level 5.
I walk out of the city and wait at a remote location away from the rest of the players. If people see how powerful I am as a level 2 then I\'ll give myself away. This iron sword should last me until I reach level 5. If I do everything right I\'ll hit it first and I\'ll unlock a unique quest and dungeon. I know where the best farming spots are in Ancients World, and I am going to the best one for beginners.
[Countdown till wilds open]
[00:00:04]
[00:00:03]
[00:00:02]
[00:00:01]
[00:00:00]
[Wilds are now open!]
The barrier falls and I take off to the high hills 10 miles out. Most players will be staying together while staying close to the cities, they don\'t realize that the further you go out the stronger the monsters. That also means more exp.
I soon run into my first monsters as a Feral Wolf pack is in my way. I would have avoided them if I didn\'t have all these stat bonuses, but I have them. So now I can test out how much damage I can do with my strength stat. Strength determines how much you can carry and how much raw damage you do.
I have 155 strength, that adds 1550 raw damage to all my attacks. I don\'t even have to use skills to kill these grey marked mobs. I could solo dungeon bosses up to level 5 if I want to. The growth in enemies strength is more rapid than the players. However, common and lower mobs don\'t use skills like players. Only named or uncommon and higher NPC\'s or mobs can use skills. I decide to just cut through them fast to get to the real grinding area.
[Feral wolf Lvl.3]
300/300 HP
-1550 HP
+15 exp
I continue this through the entire pack getting rid of all of them. In the future when I leveled up Feral wolves gave 30 exp. So Blue Chaos reached the level he did dealing with half exp. It is a testament to his strength. I hope to meet him one day, he will be a different person though.
Nothing drops except wolf pelts, they sell for 3 bronze coins apiece which is nice. I finish off the pack of 12 and get 12 wolf pelts. This is a good start in my wallet if I say so myself. The economy in Ancients World works in a very lucrative way for the players. 100 bronze coins equals 1 silver coin, and 100 silver coins equals 1 gold coin. The hardest currency to earn are platinum coins, they don\'t work in the games economy so well. You cant really put a price on them, if you have one it is usually a sign of wealth and status, not to be used to buy anything.
I travel for an hour until I reach the unique location, Plague Cave. I walk through the vine tunnel and enter the old and abandoned bandit hideout. The lore stated that the original owners of this place contracted a disease and they all perished. It was a long time ago and it served no purpose to the city so they left it here undisturbed.
[You have discovered a unique location, Plague Cave]
[There are powerful enemies of the undead in this cave]
[+200 reputation with Baron Jackson if you clear this location]
[+5000 exp. This will level you up.]
The man named Baron Jackson is in charge of the city Blue Grass. You have to bring proof of your deed to either the local church or the bounty boards. The bounty boards are a building in every city with bounties in them. There is also an adventurers guild, but those are only available in capital cities. These events don\'t give quest objectives because it is out in the world and you find them by chance.
There are different reputation amounts for different people and factions. Some factions like the church of light have no cap on how much reputation you can earn. NPC\'s like Baron Jackson usually have a cap between 3,000 and 5,000. The higher ranked an NPC or faction is in Ancients World, the higher the cap for reputation.
I enter deep into the cave and I can already see weak corpses walking around, all of them are gray names. The strongest in this location is an Elite undead scholar. The exit on the other side of this cave is where the real leveling will happen.
[Rotten walking corpse Lvl.4]
650/650
-1550
+20 exp
I continue to do this to all the undead in the area, they only drop teeth and bones which isn\'t worth anything. The undead Scholar is protecting the exit to the area I want to be in. After carving through so many undead I eventually reach the door. I accumulated 360 exp in my journey to this door. The undead Scholar only spawns when you touch the door. He is also a Lvl.5 Elite, so I should get a lot of exp for being only Lvl.2.
I approach the door and touch it, the air gets way colder and it becomes heavier. Soon a wind pushes me from the door and I take a stance with my iron sword. I will have to use slash on this guy for sure. Slash can do 75% raw damage and cause a bleed if you hit a vital area.
[Undead Scholar Lvl.5 Elite]
5000/5000 HP
The hard thing about this particular battle is elite undead have a regeneration ability in the dark, it is pretty powerful. I should use my slash skill a couple of times to take this guy down. I cast slash and do heavy damage.
[Undead Scholar Lvl.5 Elite]
5000/5000 HP
-2712.5
I hit him hard thanks to that 75% bonus from slash, the thing about undead is they don\'t bleed. He looks very mad. "You filthy human! I will pay you back 100 fold for what you just did!" He begins to cast a poison spell called Green Blood so I will slowly die a painful death. The thing about this spell is that its interruptible. One problem with mage players is common and uncommon spells can be interrupted. I don\'t waste anymore time and strike again with my skill slash. A unique feature about Ancients World is that there is no stamina bar. You have to be able to feel and take care of it yourself.
[Undead Scholar Lvl.5 Elite]
2287.5/5000 HP
-2712.5
+90 exp
+20 slash skill mastery
The Undead Scholar dies in an explosion of smoke as his bones fall to the ground. I get a system notification. I am disappointed that he didn\'t drop any loot till I read my alerts.
[You have cleared this unique location]
[+200 reputation for Baron Jackson rewarded]
[+5000 exp for clearing this unique location]
[You have received the sword Dead\'s Bane from clearing this location by yourself]
[You have Leveled up]
I don\'t remember there being a sword from clearing this. The ones that did clear this place were in a party. There was a theory that taking on hard dungeons and locations by yourself grants unique rewards. I never checked if it was true or not, guess this is proof. I inspect my new sword.
[Dead\'s Bane req. Lvl.10]
[Damage: 650]
[Quality: Rare]
[Durability: 250/250]
[Unique effect: Twice as effective on undead]
This will be helpful when I reach level 10. I can dual wield with the silver sword. These will make a great pair. Now I have access to the unique farming area and I have it all to myself. I\'ll probably end up level 5 by the end of my grinding here. Once I reach level 5 I can enter my first dungeon. Being the first one to reach level 5 you get a unique quest for a dungeon.
[Slayer (Zern) Lvl.3]
[Exp: 1880/5000]
[Title: The Son of Arch-Angel Michael (Hidden),+1 more]
[Stats]
[Strength - 155]
[Endurance - 155]
[Dexterity - 160]
[Speed - 155]
[Focus - 155]
[Mana: 1550]
[Health: 1,240]
[Stat Points: 20 unspent]
[Inventory]
I already know what is in my inventory so I have no need to check. I wont be using that 2x exp boost here. I want to save it for when I\'ll really need it. Having this area all to myself is nice. I walk into the area and I get a quest from the system. This was never in the forums, so that means the people who did it kept it a secret.
[Find the elemental that is eating the magic in this area and kill it]
[+5000 exp]
[Hidden reward]
[Do you wish to accept? Y/N]
Now this is very interesting, elementals are a subspecies of a demon in Ancients World. They have weak physical stats, but make up for it in magic power. All demon species are ranked as bosses since they are rare and hard to find. This is going to go better than I thought it would. I think yes and the quest shows up in my logs.
[Battle with an Elemental]
[Quest Quality: Very Rare]
[+5000 exp]
[Hidden Reward]