Suddenly pain throbs through his back as he feels a dagger glide through his back, turning back he sees the three goblins grinning holding daggers, one now covered in blood. Blake steels his nerves and quickly activates his slash skill to strike one of the goblins, as his sword lands on the goblin as it tries to back away it leaves a shallow wound along its shoulder as the other goblins back away. Blake grits his teeth as every movement shoots pain through his body.
Once again he activates his 1 strike slash skill and moves forward to strike the goblin this time managing to slice its head off, the goblin quickly disappear into nothing. The other two goblins charge at Blake, with no hesitation Blake activates his 1 strike punch skill and with a fluid motion strikes the goblin square in the chest sending him back a few meters but only leaving a light bruise. He quickly puts his sword away and continues to activate his punching skill and strike the goblins as he can strike faster with more skill with his fists than with the sword. After a few minutes of fighting the two goblins vanish into nothingness, leaving Blake to fall to the ground in pain, tears running down his face. He quickly thinks "Exit Dungeon" and finds himself in the town spawn area before, a screen pops up in front of him reading "Town healing commencing. When in town's players HP will never drop below 1 and will heal 10% every second. Stamina will only recover with a mix of food and sleep."
Blake looks at his stats quickly hole he feels the pain in his body disappear.
Blake
Race: Human
Class: martial swordsman
Gold: 2
Level 2 (140/750)
HP: 83/35
Stamina: 162/134
Mana: 1/1
Strength: 25
Speed: 14
Luck: 0.5
Equipment:
1 common sword (+1 damage to all sword based skills)
Skills:
1 strike slash (1 stamina)
1 strike punch (1 stamina)
Quests:
Goblins slayer 1: kill 10 goblins (100XP and 1 gold) (3/10)
Defeat 'Thrasher Level 5' (500XP and 5 gold)
Dungeon fighter 1: survive in a dungeon for 1 hour (100XP and 1 Gold)
Inventory:
5x healing lily
Now that he has some gold Blake decides to go explore the town to see what he can find. He decides to search for some kind of herbalist to sell his healing lilies.
After a few minutes he finds a small shop selling all kind of herbs and potions. Walking inside and up to the register instead of someone talking to him a menu showed up. He selects sell and sells all five of the healing lilies for 5 gold. He smiles before leaving the shop.
He continues looking around till he sees a blacksmith but all of the weapons and armour in the store seam to glow with energy. He walks in interested, a larger man comes to him and asks "Anything in particular your looking for?" His voice coarse like a smoker.
"Umm… yes I saw all of your weapons and armour glow unlike the other blacksmiths and was wondering what's the difference?" Blake asks nervously.
"Ah yes! You see these weapons are not only made by a Master blacksmith but also are engraved with elvish runes that give them enhanced properties." He pulls out a short sword that glows a beautiful purple colour, "This one is engraved with three runes, the first makes this sword stay ever sharp allowing for the user to never worry about sharpening it. The second one increases its enchantability by two times and the last one is pretty cool, it grants a life steal effect that heals the user 0.5% of the damage delt with the sword. Only thing is that the runes increase its price to a whopping 30 gold. But if you have a budget in mind I can help you find something to your liking." The man says.
"I see! Definitely too much. I have seven gold is there anything even a basic simple sword or combat gloves I can get with that?" Blake asks feeling more confident.
"Hmmm, we have a few basic swords but none will be as good as what ever you started with, but for combat gloves we have these that are always good" he pulls out a pair of gloves, the fabric a light brown while the knuckles and finger tips are coated in a silvery metal. "These are our basic iron gloves but this particular pair is engraved with a rune of elements, if you break an element crystal with your hands while wearing the gloves they take on some of those elements to have unique effects, these will cost you six gold though." The man explains holding up the gloves that are glowing a dull grey colour.
"I'll take them!" Blake says quickly handing over the six gold coins and grabbing the gloves pulling them on.
With his new weapon maybe the goblins will be easier to defeat, but first he needs to log out to eat and sleep and replenish his stamina as the game bases stamina recovery based on real world actions. He quickly logs out.
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Logging back in Blake quickly reviews his quests seeing that two new ones have been added regarding the dungeon he entered before.
He quickly and excitedly makes his way to the garden Forest depths where the goblin territory is, staying in the outskirts to avoid any of the stronger goblins. During his break he did a bit of research discovering that the goblins he fought before where around level 3 and the goblins further in are around level 4 but many have skills while the Boss is level 5 and has 3 skills, one of which is a healing skill but according to online it can only use it twice, online recommends being level 7 at the minimum to fight it.
In a matter of minutes Blake finds another small group of three goblins, he charges in quickly using his 1 strike punch skill to attack the goblins, utilising the no cool-down on the skill to continue using it after nearly a minute the three goblins disappear into nothing. After the battle a screen pops up in front of him saying "New skill unlocked '2 strike punch' a skill that links two consecutive punches on a single target dealing 45% damage total with a 1 second cool-down. 98% of martial players have this skill."
Blake mumbles "that's 25% stronger than my 1 strike punch skill."
Blake
Race: Human
Class: martial swordsman
Gold: 1
Level 2 (290/750)
HP: 83/71
Stamina: 162/147
Mana: 1/1
Strength: 25
Speed: 14
Luck: 0.5
Equipment:
common sword (+1 damage to all sword based skills)
Iron gloves (+1 damage to all punching based skills) (rune of elements)
Skills:
1 strike slash (1 stamina)
1 strike punch (1 stamina)
2 strike punch (2 stamina)
Quests:
Goblins slayer 1: kill 10 goblins (100XP and 1 gold) (6/10)
Defeat 'Thrasher Level 5' (500XP and 5 gold)
Dungeon fighter 1: survive in a dungeon for 1 hour (100XP and 1 Gold)
Grinning with joy at his new skill, he continues to search for other goblins to kill. After about ten minutes he finds a group of four goblins and grins before charging in swiftly striking one with his new two strike punch skill, sending the goblin back a meter and to the ground in pain, he continues with his attacks as the goblins surround him he reacts without activating his skills and some of his punches don't deal much damage but mid fight he notices a combo counter at the top; basic punch combo 3, 1 strike punch combo 7, 2 strike punch combo 6. He notices that every 5 seconds it resets but the numbers he is at arn't doing anything different in terms of damage output. After nearly three minutes the goblins are all dead.
As the last one disappears a screen appears in front of Blake "you have completed the goblin slayer 1 quest. 91% of players have completed this quest."
Blake decides to head back to the town using the exit dungeon feature and head to the quest hall to see if any new quests have appeared to help him level up.
After spending a few minutes looking he picks up two quests; the first "slime killing 2" and the second "Necromancy 1"
Slime killing 2 requires Blake to kill 25 slimes. And Necromancy 1 requires Blake to collect 10 undead bones. After accepting the quests he looks on the map to see where to go, the slimes are in the same forest to the north, but the undead bones are located to the east at a place called the foggy graveyard.
Heading back into the Garden Forest Blake searches for slimes to kill, with very little effort he quickly takes them down without using a single skill, his sword easily cutting them in half. After about 20 minutes or so he landed the final blow on the 25th slime. After the slime disappears a screen appears saying "You have completed the quest, Slime killing 2. 79% of players that have completed slime killing 1 have completed this quest."
Blake opens up his menu again as he notices a ring that appeared on his finger and a slight increase in strength. Quickly he looks at his stats.
Blake
Race: Human
Class: Martial Swordsman
Gold: 3
Level 3 (240/1000)
HP: 87/87
Stamina: 179/93
Mana: 4/4
Strength: 30
Speed: 19
Luck: 0.5
Equipment:
Common sword (+1 damage to all sword based skills)
Iron gloves (+1 damage to all punching based skills) (rune of elements)
Slime Ring (+1 damage to all slime monsters)
Skills:
1 strike slash (1 stamina)
1 strike punch (1 stamina)
2 strike punch (2 stamina)
Quests:
Defeat 'Thrasher Level 5' (500XP and 5 gold)
Dungeon fighter 1: survive in a dungeon for 1 hour (100XP and 1 Gold)
Necromancy 1: Collect 10 undead bones (500XP and 5 gold)
"As I thought I did Level up. I will log out for today and when I get back I will continue in with the goblins." Blake says before logging out.