Seeing the staff quickly light up and dim Oliver inspected it, he knew of course what the spell power enchantment did, but since he was going to be using this one for himself he couldn't help it.
[Basic Wooden Staff]
White grade
Description: A below average staff enchanted with the grade 2 spell power enchantment.
Effect: -adds 5 damage to all magical attacks. (staff)
-does 5 physical damage. (staff)
-adds 20% damage to all magical attacks. (enchantment)
'O, it's white grade, so it wasn't that bad of a staff after all.'
Naturally Oliver knew how powerful his grade 2 enchantment was, and with bottom of the barrel staffs it didn't have enough power to upgrade them from common to white.
Oliver had just assumed this staff was bad, as most in the tutorial are, but it seemed that the thieves guild really valued him. He didn't have any achievements in crafting or blacksmithing either so the best he could do was make a good guess.
Staffs already possessed a feature that could make your casting more efficient, or more powerful to begin with, although this one was rather lacking. So Oliver naturally chose to enhance this effect even further, stacking the enchantment to get an even greater outcome.
This might seem like an insignificant bonus of merely 1 magic damage, but it was better for enchanters to get into that habit earlier than later. As in higher hub worlds most specifically ask for such things.
Plus there was the fact that Oliver could cast basically all spells he could ever get in the tutorial instantly, and with minimal cost due to mana potions, so any other effect would be a waste.
Having inspected his new staff Oliver with a little glitter in his eyes quickly looked through his notifications, and what he found was beyond his wildest dreams.
[Congratulations. You have become an [Enchanter].]
[Congratulations. You have made an exceptional achievement.]
[Achievement Type: Tower First]
Description: First in the tower to gain 3 Professions in the Tutorial.
AP +100
+1,000 small ether crystals
[Your account has been credited with 1,000 small ether crystals.]
[NOTE: Account is locked until Challenger passes the Tutorial.]
This made Oliver extremely happy, honestly after the gaining 2 professions achievement turned out to be a race first he didn't have much hope for this one. But it seemed that he had worried for nothing.
[Congratulations. You have made an exceptional achievement.]
[Achievement Type: Tower First]
Description: First in the tower to fill all profession slots within the tutorial.
AP +100
+1,000 small ether crystals
[Your account has been credited with 1,000 small ether crystals.]
[NOTE: Account is locked until Challenger passes the Tutorial.]
This achievement might sound weird, especially to those just summoned to the tower, but was completely logical.
Not all races had the same amount of profession slots. As not all races needed the same amount of AP to increase their attributes. This had to do with a races natural talent, or aptitude.
Humans were notoriously low in that aspect, so it wasn't weird to Oliver that he gained another Tower first achievement here.
[Congratulations. You have made an exceptional achievement.]
[Achievement Type: Tower First]
Description: First in the tower to promote three profession to Apprentice Grade (Grade 2) in the Tutorial.
AP +100
+1,000 small ether crystals
[Your account has been credited with 1,000 small ether crystals.]
[NOTE: Account is locked until Challenger passes the Tutorial.]
Oliver nodded happily looking at all the achievements and rewards roll in. He was kind of getting sick of only getting the 100 AP and a small fortune for every tower first achievement, but never the less he was still extremely excited.
When someone achieved a tower first achievement inside the tower not only would they gain an incredible amount of AP, they would also gain some unique prizes.
These prizes however would normally only be rewarded at the end of a floor, mainly to prevent any variables of happening inside of the floor. So Oliver hoped he would gain them as well.
Pushing this thought to the back of his mind for now Oliver opened his status screen, just to see those beautiful numbers.
[Oliver]
Floor Cleared: None
Class: Element Mage (Temporary)
Profession 1: [Alchemist (Grade 2)]
Profession 2: [Array Crafter (Grade 2)]
Profession 3: [Enchanter (Grade 2)]
Health: 20/20 (0.01/minute)
Stamina: 18/20 (0.1/minute)
Mana: 115/120 (0.1/minute)
[Attributes]
Strength 2
Speed 3
Stamina 2
Sturdiness 2
Mana Pool 5
Intuition 1
Magic Power 2
Regeneration 1
AP: 550
[Spells]
Mana Bolt 2
Mana Shield 1
[Innate Trait]
Multitask Level 1
[Temporary Trait]
Pure Magic
[Equipment]
Basic Wooden Staff (White)
Seeing his profession slots filled in Oliver felt relieved, like he had been naked before this looking at the three None after his professions.
Disregarding his insane amount of AP, his three very desirable grade 2 professions would make any challenger or organization in both hub world 1 and 2 drool and do anything to recruit him.
But to Oliver, this was merely the start.
Before doing anything though Oliver needed rest. He was after all going to do something incredibly difficult and important after this.
Well, everything in Olivers plan was difficult and important, but this particular step involved spending AP. And as a general rule of thumb in the tower. 'Only spend AP when you are right of mind.'.
It was looked down upon to even spend a single AP if you were only slightly irritated, not to mention Oliver who at this point could fall asleep on the very anvil before him.
So he called in his assistant real quick.
"Take the remaining materials away and sell them for me, the same with that short sword over there. I will be having a meal in the guild, make sure my room is clean before I'm done eating."
The assistant nodded before quickly taking all the items and leaving. Oliver, after more than a week of crafting only left with a staff, and 10 or so rolled up pieces of paper in his back pocked, hidden by his long coat.
The assistant nodded before quickly taking all the items and leaving. Oliver, after more than a week of crafting only left with a staff, and 10 or so rolled up pieces of paper in his back pocked, hidden by his long coat.
The next morning after a good meal Oliver sat in his room, and after much deliberation decided to bump up his intuition to 25, and all of his other magic stats, and speed to 20.
He honestly didn't want to spend this much, but from what he had gathered this was the bare minimum.
[Oliver]
Floor Cleared: None
Class: Element Mage (Temporary)
Profession 1: [Alchemist (Grade 2)]
Profession 2: [Array Crafter (Grade 2)]
Profession 3: [Enchanter (Grade 2)]
Health: 20/20 (0.01/minute)
Stamina: 20/20 (0.1/minute)
Mana: 420/420 (2.0/minute)
[Attributes]
Strength 2
Speed 20
Stamina 2
Sturdiness 2
Mana Pool 20
Intuition 25
Magic Power 20
Regeneration 20
AP: 457
[Spells]
Mana Bolt 2
Mana Shield 1
[Innate Trait]
Multitask Level 1
[Temporary Trait]
Pure Magic
[Equipment]
Basic Wooden Staff (White)
Even with these stats he could dominate the tutorial, at least when no hidden powers from the kingdom or 3 noble families came out.
Feeling refreshed, Oliver, after over 2 weeks spend in the tutorial, finally made his way towards the inner city.
At his arrival 2 of the 15 or so city guards walked up to him, obviously scrutinizing him.
"Papers, sir, and city entrance fee."
Oliver looked at the guard with a smile as he took out 2 gold coins, giving one to each guard.
"Sorry guys I didn't know I really needed paper, and is this enough for the entrance fee?"
The 2 guards almost stared their eyes out looking at the shining pieces of gold in their hand, and quickly struggled to reply to Oliver.
"S.S.SSir papers are only if no entrance fee is needed, but since you paid you are free to go."
Oliver thanked the men and quickly went on his way, hearing some of the other guards bicker as they noticed the 2 of them sneakily putting the gold in their pocket.
Olivers destination was simple, the military base in the inner city. It was time for him to finally start interacting with the main event of the tutorial. The besiegement of the kingdom, by the wolf king and his army.
Of course at this moment everything was still rather quite, the kingdom was still getting slowly overwhelmed by rising amounts of wolves but nothing some capital couldn't fix.
No, the real battle would start only 2 weeks before the end of the tutorial, approximately 1 month from today.
Of course it wasn't that simple, the wolf king alone couldn't do this much damage to the kingdom.
It was a combination of none of the noble houses reacting quick enough to try and gain power over the others, while a secret group helped the wolve king with both supplies and information.
But taking care of that was for some time in the future, right now he needed to use that pressure the kingdom is under to get two specific items out of the military treasury. 2 other hidden pieces.
Boots and a ring.
Both known to be part of one of the strongest mages equipment sets in the tower, Merlin's mages set.
Merlin was an incredible legend in the tower, being crowned as the greatest magician to have ever lived.
It was so insane that most lower floor challengers didn't even know he was real. Merely thinking of him as a legend.
That changed about 5 or so years from now when someone managed to get the boots. [Merlin's Boots] from this exact treasury in the tutorial.
He had merely picked it up because even he, someone not from the tower had heard of Merlin, thinking of them as kind of cool. They didn't even have any effects, being common boots.
Later he sold them in hub world one, to a magical who was infatuated with Merlin, simply buying it as a conversation started.
Only later did he figure out that there were 5 rune lock enchantments placed on these boots. And so began the constant process of trying to break these locks.
The mage didn't have much luck though. He wasn't an enchanter after all, so to even unlock the weakest lock he spend the better part of a decade.
Even then he found himself stuck at that point, unable to see the light at the end of the tunnel to unlock the second lock enchantment.
But honestly he probably didn't care, as he, now having unlocked to first lock, could partially see some information of the boots, and it was shocking.
The boots, were digit grade.
Even with only one lock removed the boots turned out to be digit grade, no one could even imagen what they would be when the full set got together with all locks removed.
Nevertheless, due to pressure this mage was forced to sell his now incredibly expensive boots, at auction.
At that very moment, the whole of the tower got flung into a frenzy, everything with Merlin's name on it became so incredibly expensive that all previous enthusiasts and collectors became rich overnight. Even if their pieces were nothing but trash.
A well respected appraiser from the 6th hub world later even stated that this was verry likely to be the [Digit #1] mage equipment set, intensifying the tower wide frenzy and search.
Never the less, only one more piece ever got found, at the exact same spot the first piece was found. The treasury of the tutorial army base. A ring, also part of the set.
At this point most chaos had calmed down, but upon discovering that a ring was part of the set a part of the search, especially in higher floors resumed.
Having a ring as part of a set was incredibly rare, to the point that any set with one or more accessories included in the set was seen as 1 grade higher than stated.
For this to happen to a digit grade set, and not any digit set, the number one.
Having his thoughts interrupted Oliver had already arrived at the military base, being approached by a singular guard.
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