The admin finally started the tutorial Stage. Many players cast their eyes on Damian who seemed nonchalant. If he anything he just sat there and grabbed few things from his inventory. They look like monster parts. Damian placed his them on one side while his weapons on another. He then extracted essence from the materials.
[ Skill : Essence Furnace is being used ]
[ Skill : Embers of Samadhi is enhancing essence furnace effectiveness ]
[ Material quality has been improved ]
After a few minites, a dark cube with green hue appeared in Damian's hands. He placed it on the sword. Immediately the sword started fusing with the material.
[ Skill : Embers of Samadhi is flowing through the materials ]
[ +100% effectiveness ]
[ Item : Sword of Dark Swamp (B) is being forged ]
[ Tower intervenes at the high ranking item in the tutorial ]
[ Item is being downgraded ]
[ Item : Sword of the Swamp (C+) has been forged ]
' just as I expected ', Damian thought. And this item also reached it's limit. He can't enhance it any further. This sword will stop at this stage. He will forge another one after he returns. Damian cracked his neck as the stage began after the survivors started buying food from the shop with admin's help.
[ Constellations related to forge look at the craft ]
[ They're saying it lacks originality and spark of an original sword ]
[ Many constellations brush their words off ]
Damian can only shrug at this. Can he forge here, he can't. That's why he didn't choose to be a blacksmith. He instead chose an Alchemy skill.
Damian raised the sword and started swinging it around. For now this will do. Other players looked at the conditions and trembled. Most of them knew they couldn't survive and turned to Damian, but Damian remained stoic. Expecting him to be a nanny. No, he won't. In his previous life, there guys are the guys who jumped at the chance to claim the bounty on him.
These are the people who tried to ambush and murder him after hebis declared as a heretic. He won't make the same mistake of trusting and helping them again. He just ignored their pleading gazes. Preparing himself for the upcoming trouble, Damian looked at the timer that is ticking.
As the clock reached 0. The safe zone around the players vanished. Damian dashed into the forest in the blink of an eye. He is searching for a safe zone and also the territory of wolves and spiders. As he reached deep into the woods, the respawn goblins and Kobolds attacked him.
Damian sent them back on the way along with any other monster that came. But none of them are spiders or wolves. He frowned, they certainly felt a little stronger than before. Crazed state boosted their attributes to extent it seems. Damian didn't stop, he ran more deep into the woods and found a very big tree before climbing it.
He then found few green flashes in certain spots. The safe zones in the tutorial. Nothing some details about their locations he climbed down and resumed his hunt.
*Screech*
*Splurt*
*Swish*
*Pierce*
Slashes and stabs one by one. Each time a monster fell as they tried to ambush Damian in their crazed state. They lost a part of their intelligence and become mindless killers.
[ Killed a Goblin Lv 2 ]
[ Killed a Goblin Lv 3 ]
[ Killed a Kobold Lv 2 ]
[ Killed a Swamp Serpant Lv 3 ]
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Finally he saw a wolf. It's half the size of an adult in height but it's body looked huge and sturdy. It's eyes are gleaming with hunger and killer instinct. Eying him with predatory gaze, Damian simply dodged when it launched its attack and pierced it's heart with the dagger before swinging the sword and cutting the thorat of the wolf that ambushed him.
Wolves move in packs for hunting. Another tried to buy his neck while one wolf tried buying his legs. Another ambushed him from behind bushes trying to bite his shoulder. A casual tactic of the wolves. That's why he is ready. He called the fireball skill, it's now burning fiercely enhanced with embers of Samadhi skill.
He activated eye of hawke and seng the fire ball into the nearby bushes before ducking and stabbing with his sword killing the wolf that's going to bite his leg. From the bushes howls of pain are heard. Immediately wolves being burned by the inextinguishable samadhi fire appeared and rolled on the ground.
Unless you have the embers of Samadhi skill, you can't stop this fire. Samadhi fire is a type of primordial flame which burns anything to ashes and can't be extinguished under normal circumstances. Damian turned the sword back and pierced the heart of another wolf.
He then side stepped avoiding the wolf that pounced on him before piercing the head of another wolf with his sword. Ignoring the notifications he focussed on the battle. After killing like 20-30 wolves he stopped.
Checking his coins, he called loudly," Admin ", as expected the admin arrived. " I want to buy the energy converter skill ", his coins almost reached a thousand. He forgot about the important skill in beginner stages. The Energy Exchange as name suggests let's him convert man he has into stamina and stamina into mana. If he wanted to use more after both of them drained, he can also use his HP to exchange.
A cheap yet useful skill at the beginning, but will grow into an expensive and rare skill later after its use is found. The admin looked at him weirdly, that's the most unpopular skill. Afterall, if one chooses to be a melee weapon user, he will ignore mana and won't use vitality in exchange for stamina in battles.
As for mages, they focus on mp and will be low on their stamina. Sure they will exchange HP with mana but that doesn't mean this skill is chosen by mages, everyone ignores it. This is labelled as unpopular and dropped to even beginner stages with it's price greatly reduced. The admin looked at Damian and can only sigh.