Kapitel 20: Trapped
* A few hours later*
*Clang*
*SLASH*
Damien could be seen fighting in a large hall against a skeleton clad in heavy armour just like him. It had a large, chipped sword and its armour was broken in several places, exposing its bones.
Like the others, there was no shining soul or flame-like other classic undead, just an eerie walking skeleton rising in the darkness.
They never made any noises, just the rattling of bones and metal.
[Undead Knight]
[Level: 70]
[HP: ]
"Ha!"
*Clang*
*Fwoosh*
*Crack*
[Ding: You have killed an undead knight]
[Ding: You have received 2000 EXP]
[Ding; You have levelled up]
'Damn.' Damien thought as he looked at the Exp he received.
At first, he thought levelling up would be easy, since the experience needed was simply the current level multiplied by one hundred. However, he soon realized how wrong he was.
Unlike the beginner's village, killing anything below your level would grant you zero exp meaning farming creatures of lower level was impossible.
To make it worse killing creatures of your level granted only hundred Exp but unfortunately this was dependent on stats and the type of creature in question.
Starting with stat less that 7 without awakening the mana core meant having to fight in large groups which also leads to shared exp.
For example, if 10 people faced off against a creature on the same level they all share 100 Exp meaning 10 Exp each. So, to rise from level 20 to 21 they would need to fight 200 creatures.
As for asking a stronger person to carry you it probably wouldn't be as effective as it would be in other games. For someone to come up with such evil system they would obviously have rules in place to counter this kind of thing.
Following this thought process Damien took a glance at his status.
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[Name: Damien Morningstar]
[Race: Human]
[State: Awakened]
[Rank: 0]
[Level: 51 (400/5100)]
[Title: N/A]
[Free Attribute Point: 120]
[Health: 300/300]
[Stamina: 204/500]
[Mana: 670/1000]
[Strength: 47]
[Agility: 70]
[Vitality: 30]
[Intelligence: 100]
[Innate Soul Ability: Adapt]
[Passive Skills]
[Active Skills]
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'There is a chance that most people haven't gone beyond level 20.' Damien thought. 'Looks like the benefits of awakening the mana core early doesn't end with the innate soul ability.'
Since the start of his exploration Damien hadn't increased his stat once in an effort to see how strong he was and refine his skill. Now even without the extra stat he could easily one shot most creatures below level 70. But he knew he was lucky to be facing creatures like this.
From what he could gather so far there was a high chance that different races also carried different total stats at same level.
'What am I saying if levelling up is this hard they definitely have different stats in total.'
'Worse, some creatures won't even take normal damage, forcing me to use other tactics…'
'For example, this guy, he had armour, if I attack his armour… The damage is reduced significantly while a standard player would most likely deal no damage.'
'Unless they are strong enough to bypass the armour, or precise enough to hit its weak points or have something the bypass the armour, it well... Does its job as an armour.'
"In any case..."
'I have explored part of this place but except for some scraps, skeletons, ghosts, rotten books I haven't found anything.'
'The city gets more run down the deeper I went, and the monsters are getting stronger, and the corruption is becoming worse.'
From what Edward told him the city was circular and he made sure to only move in a straight line meaning he could have missed a lot of things but that didn't bother him. He was here for the spears and whatever else laid in the City Manor anything else could wait the city wasn't running away.
Even then going in a straight line means still meant he had to take detours once in a will to escape skeletons hordes since they did nothing but waste his time.
*******
*Inner sector*
The first thing he noticed was that dark mist was stronger and his vision got worse.
[Ding: You have entered an area filled with dense Ancient City's corruption]
[Ding: You have been inflicted with ???]
[Ding: You have lost mobility]
[Ding: Mana usage cancelled]
[Ding: Your stamina recovery has considerably reduced]
[Ding: You will lose 1 hp per second]
[Ding: Your body is Adapting]
'FUCK!!!' Damien struggled to break free from the force but soon realized that he couldn't.
At first Damien was panicking but his rapidly dropping Hp cleared his mind. He didn't want to die.
Making a quick decision 'Add 20 stat to Vitality. Hopefully that should be enough time for my body to adapt to break me free from whatever this is.'
'I need to get away from this cursed place… Just how was someone supposed to explore this place?'
'If I didn't choose the Adapt ability, I would've most likely already suffered an instant kill.'
'What the fuck were the Forechesters doing to cause this.'
Wöchentlicher Energiestatus
-- Power-
Rangliste 
-- Power-
Stein