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Chapter 2: 2 The Throne

I opened my eyes to the white room. But when I looked around, there were no pillars, no deities, just a throne of cold, black, stone. I spent a couple of seconds looking around but found nothing except empty space. I walked to the throne that was about 15 feet away. It's back stood 5 yards high with an intimidating aura that made my spine shutter. I walked around the throne with confusion 'what is this and why is it hear?' I heard of people being forsaken and unable to use magic, but only after disobeying their quests. I climbed onto the throne as the seat was 2 yards up and I couldn't just sit down.

It was just as cold and hard as it looked. It wasn't comfortable, but I still felt better and more put together than when I was just standing in front of it. Then my status screen appeared.

Name- Arcane Evergreen

Gender-Male

Race-Human

Level 8

(584 exp till next lv up)

Class-Mana Monarch

Title-none

Health-80/80 (+.8 per sec)

Stamina-80/80 (+.8 per sec)

Mana-380/380 (+3.8 per sec)

Strength-8

Agility-8

Vitality- 8

Recovery-8

Intelligence-38

Wisdom-38

Spendable points-24

Passives

-None

Actives

-Basic Fire Magic 1 -Basic Earth Magic 1 -Basic Air Magic 1 -Basic Water Magic 1

-Mana Vision 1

Current quests

-Level 10

Condition- reach level 10

Reward 15 spendable points and training arena (active)

"WHAT"

Getting 1 skill was average, getting 5 was unheard of, and what was with this mana stat I had had never heard of? On top of that, why did I get a class I shouldn't get one till level 15. All this and some completely absurd stats. I was so shaken I nearly fell off the throne. How would I explain this to my mom? Would she even believe me?

I stood up and as the kid behind me impatiently asked me to move. I was still kind of stunned and walked away with a blank stare when I got outside I leaned against the wall for a second before Jessica begin the conversation "Hey, Arc you look a little starstruck you feeling ok?" I had no idea what to say and just mumbled under my breath. "What happened, did you not get Victoria" she said with a concerned look. "I-I-I didn't get anyone" I responded. She looked just as confused as I did. After a couple of seconds, she asked, "so you have no magic?" Magic was normally gained by asking your deity for power and them giving you some in exchange for a quest. "No I just don't have a deity, I have 5 actives and 132 stats totaled up." "Now I know you lying, that doesn't even make sense, and I was feeling bad for you." I looked at her and then just ran back home as fast as I could. When I arrived at home mom asked me how it went. Jessica didn't believe me and was my best friend, why would mom. So I ran. Again. Into the wood, I went to avoid people and try my skills. 'Maybe if I could show them my skills they'll believe me, they have to right?' After running for a couple of minutes I realized my stamina was about to run out, and I would be put under the effects of <exhaustion> and stopping my health stamina recovery for a couple of minutes. After stopping awaiting for the full 100 seconds for it to recharge, I became experimenting. "BASIC FIRE MAGIC ONE" I screamed at the top of my lungs, pointing my open palms at a tree. No response. "BACIC EARTH MAGIC ONE." No response. I began to cry on a little bit as I open up my active skills once again. I clicked on basic fire magic one to see its damage and cast time, maybe that would give me a clue of how to use it. It read

-Basic Fire Magic 1

[with the fundamentals of fire magic forming in your mind, you may create small, basic shapes of fire]

Cast time-dependent on effect

Mana cost-dependent on effect

Status effect applied-dependent on effect

(100 exp till next lv up)

'...'

I extended my hand once again and imagined small a ball of fire, about 2 inches in radius. When I open my eyes there it was. A small fireball resting in front of my hand. I imagined if launching into the tree and it did. I looked back at my mana 360/380. '20 mana, thats it!' I squealed with excitement knowing how strong this could get. I formed balls of water, wind, and rock quickly after that. Maybe it was my insanity high intelligence and wisdom, but it was all very easy. Last on my list was mana vision. I clicked on it on skills and it said

-Mana Vision

[Mana makes all spells and monsters, but seeing it's raw form can be quite overwhelming, so most eyes don't see it.]

Cast time-none

Mana cost-none

Status effect applied-those under effect can see raw mana (currently can only be cast on self)

Compared to the others it was quite underwhelming. If I could use it on others it might be helpful to make sure they believe me, but I couldn't. I activated it, the only Chang was small blue dots that floated around everything, and the small blue light that the squirrels emitted. I decided to turn it off like the lights where distracting. Before I knew it the sun began to go down. I started walking home thinking of all the cool things I could do with my new spells, and how tomorrow I would go hunting to get some sweet experience points.I arrived home with a grin wide enough to swallow a horse, which slightly considered mom. She assumed correctly that I wanted to go out and test my skill, even if she didn't know what it was. She wasn't surprised when I showed up so late and was still cooking dinner. "Hey arc I know I asked this before, and I expect a response this time. How did it go?" "I got 5 skills." She recoiled in shock a little almost touching the stew over the fireplace. "O-Oh" the look on the face was hilarious. "So what are these skills that you are so excited about, and who's your deity ?" I had completely blanked on the fact I didn't give a deity, not knowing how to respond I said: "Me, I think?" Mother's face was once again very confused, it had taken me to figure out what was going on and her intelligence was only a couple points higher than mine as she invested in dexterity and agility for her archery. I told her about what happened in the throne room, she really couldn't believe it even after I made a 2-foot long fire spear. I went to bed ready for the next day, and mom went to bed being so confused as barely remembered how to use the stairs.


Chapter 3: 3 Weapon Talents

I awoke and immediately got dressed. Yesterday we got our skills, today we get our weapons. I went over 2 hours early so I could pick up Jessica and explain what the hell happened yesterday. When I knocked on the door her father, Leonard answered and called her down. When she came out a couple of minutes later, the following conversation ensued.

"I'm sorry about yesterday, I didn't know what was going on and I needed to think before I could talk about it."

"No worries as long as you promise to tell me what abilities you got."

"The story's very long so can you tell me what you got first?"

She was lucky and got 2 skills, the first was called "Astral Empowerment" making the targets next attack or spell hit enemies without physical form, which was one of the more common spells Senna gave. The other was "Astral Projection" which made a copy of the user's body in a single place, it was hard to control but was very powerful.

"You really can be any class with those skills"

"Ya I'm probably just going to go with whatever weapon I have the most talent in"

It made sense to me, I then told her about my spells and just like mother, she didn't believe me till I made a long stick of fire and shot it up in the air.

As far as limitations there really was only 2, that I could make them into balls or staff, and I could spend 100 mana on a single spell max. When we got to the area for weapon talent test she new about all my abilities and what happened at the shrine.

"You probably shouldn't tell people about that, it's weird. Just say you got Pentos and stick to fireball and flame spear as skills."

She was right. I had failed to think about how long it would take to explain it to everyone, to much of a hassle. So I went up to the table to test my talents. To test your talent with a certain weapon you would strike a dummy with that weapon and if you damage came out above average (average was based on what your stats were.) all of the weapons where lv 5 common ranks, to make sure there was no miscommunication with talent. so Ray went first. Ray was a light skin with short hair and a massive build, even at 6 feet tall he looked larger than he was. Since he had been working on his muscles for years, he knew to pick up a strength or vitality based weapon. Picking up the largest sword he could find ray slammed it into the dummy.

Damage=32 Average=32

The tester said

32 damage in 1 hit with a great sword is very impressive. He must have put a bunch of points into strength already. He then moved to the back of the line. A couple of other kids went before us but when my time came, I decided to pick up the bow as it was mother's talent.

I charged up the bow and fired at the target

Damage=19

Average=19

Well, I guess not that one. Maybe I just didn't have a weapon talent, it's quite rare but with all the stuff my class and skills give me I really don't need it. Jessica went up with a dagger, got 15/12, so very strong. I went around using the different weapons getting exactly average score on every single one of them. No talents or deficiencies so I guess it was all evened out. I just told everyone I was going to be a pyromancer so I didn't need a weapon. The day was not over yet. We got to go hunting in a dungeon for the first time. The smallest dungeon around here was a lv 5 plain filled with bigger and stronger versions of regular animals like squirrels and bunnies. Only the boss, a bear was actually very dangerous as long as you went in a party. Of course, I wanted to use all 4 elements instead of just fire, so going alone or with just Jessica. That would drag hen down and it would be easier for her to go with a full party, so alone it is. 'Just don't fight the boss, and I'll be fine' I thought. The dungeon was only about 10 minutes away so all 13 of us and a couple of adults walked together. I didn't think my high stats would affect my life except with magic, but my wisdom was really showing as I could already tell what people invested points into by the way they walk. Bruce was carrying a 1 handed sword, but his speed fluctuated meaning his recovery was increased. 'probably a tank.' It reminded me I hadn't used any of my points, but my stats where high anyway so I would use them in necessary or I know what's important. I could tell Jessica had increased her dexterity as her feet moved in better and more consistent patterns. Dexterity would make time go slower in your head than normal, making it necessary for bows aim and daggers hitting presser points. When we arrived, the door was open and ready for us to enter, we couldn't see in it just apart as a green abyss; the green told us it was low level. As soon as we crossed the doors a bright light flashed and an open field appeared in front of us. The sun was probably brighter in here than the one outside in the real world. After lights wore off I could see the grass and the few trees scattered around, if it wasn't for the 3-foot tall squirrels. the only structure around was the large ruins that the empowered black bear lived in. I went forward with Jessica and Laurel, who was 5.8 with straight pitch-black hair and using a 6-foot long great sword.


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