He didn’t delay in getting comfortable on the ground and slipping into his meditative trance while using his mana sight to see into the world around him. As expected, there was more air mana present here, almost twice as much as there had been when he checked after defeating the last boss, and to his disappointment they were also moving around even quicker than he had expected them to be.
There was enough mana around that he didn’t expect to have any issues with being able to fill h...
2024-04-20 18:16:52 +0000 UTC
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Appearing in the air dungeon, Shaun couldn’t help but be shocked at what he found, it was unlike any of the other dungeons he had been in. He had appeared on an island, but not just any island, one that was floating in the air. It was barely big enough for him to stand on, let alone for five people to be able to comfortably move around on it. Walking over to the edge he peered down to see how far he was from the ground and what he saw made him quickly move back to the centre of the little i...
2024-04-20 18:16:11 +0000 UTC
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As Shaun moved through the forest he thought over all of the new things he had made for Gabe and Eric, as well as the rest of their team. He still limited himself to only spending one day with them crafting but he did end up accomplishing quite a bit in that time.
He had made another sword for the warrior, exactly the same as the one he made for Eric, and also managed to make two shields with all the metal they had. The end product was sturdy and he had imbued them with earth and nature...
2024-04-20 18:15:02 +0000 UTC
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After conversation with each member of the group they had figured out what they wanted and where the priority was. Gabe wanted an upgrade to his arrows and bow and also an outfit if there was time, Eric wanted armour, a sword and if possible a shield. The other warrior wanted the same and the rogue wanted daggers and if possible a short sword like Shaun’s. The mage was the only one that was left out, seeming not to need anything as much as the others, but Shaun did have a plan if everything...
2024-04-20 18:13:35 +0000 UTC
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Appearing back outside of the dungeon, he was greeted by even more people than when he had entered, before there had been about 20 people around but now there was nearly double that, he still didn’t get why they were all waiting, time was ticking down after all, but these people had either given up or were preparing to enter, maybe hoping to get some idea of what was inside from people that completed the dungeon.
His appearance caused quite the commotion, everyone stopped their chatte...
2024-04-20 18:12:55 +0000 UTC
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It didn’t take long for Shaun to grow accustomed to the nature affinity, he spent a bit of time meditating to get a better feel of how it had settled into this body before he headed off. The three affinity now swirled around his mana channels, and like when he had only two, they didn’t touch each other but simply moved in their own lanes. When he focused on bringing the nature affinity into his body he couldn’t help but feel the overwhelming urge to just bask in the forest, help it grow...
2024-04-20 18:12:14 +0000 UTC
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The new skill had made it much easier to seek out the mana motes in the area, he hadn’t expected to get a skill from what he was doing, he also noticed that the skill wasn’t under his class but instead part of his profession. Gaining levels for creating the new skill was also rather unexpected, he hadn’t crafter anything, unless it counted on crafting a new skill using his other skills as base to work off?
He had grown distracted by the notifications for a moment and he knew that ...
2024-04-20 18:11:27 +0000 UTC
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Shaun spent a bit of time considering his next steps, he hadn’t left the area where he had fought the boss as he still wasn’t sure whether he was going to move straight into the last area on the other side of the tree or whether he was going to attempt the bonding. He hadn’t been in the dungeon for a full day yet so he had time to spare, he just had doubts as to whether he wanted to use his heritage and the risks that came with it. Dying was a risk, he knew that, but it was the unknown ...
2024-04-20 18:10:47 +0000 UTC
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Shaun was annoyed at himself for not taking the fight seriously from the very beginning, he had stopped paying attention to his surroundings, that was the first mistake, throwing a fireball instead of starting with his elemental strike was the second mistake. The third was not using all of his skills from the beginning, he had become over confident and although it didn’t really cost him much in this fight, it would in others.
He looted the frog and got more of the toxic slime that it ...
2024-04-20 18:10:05 +0000 UTC
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As Shaun looked around at all of the people gathered he noticed that there was quite a range of levels and classes, the highest levelled person was at level 17 with the lowest at 12. How someone had managed to only get 2 levels over the past 14 days was a mystery, the fact they were still even alive at this point was incredible. Level 17 wasn’t bad though, if they found a good team they would probably be able to make it through a dungeon, but only if they got pretty lucky and really t...
2024-04-20 18:09:29 +0000 UTC
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Shaun found walking down the mountain a lot easier than coming up. He had a destination in mind, as, when he had woken up he finally gained the courage to come to a stand, and he looked around from the higher vantage point to see if he could find where other dungeons could be located. He was able to make out a few different areas that were around the forest that seemed to be different from their surroundings. In one area he could make out mist surrounding another mountain in the distance, a c...
2024-04-20 18:08:59 +0000 UTC
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Shaun could feel the sun on his body, it was what had caused him to wake in the first place, that and the light. He opened his eyes first, not daring to try and move his body after being hurt to such a degree in the dungeon. I’m not in the dungeon anymore? He didn’t remember how he got outside, couldn’t remember anything since the moment he had passed out, the last thing he did remember was the lion dying and then darkness as his health dropped down to near 0.
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2024-04-20 18:05:56 +0000 UTC
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He decided to run straight into the cavern at that point, it was going to be a twelve against one fight, thirteen if you countered the boss that would either join in the fight from the beginning or would just watch until the end and then decide to fight.
He was going to have to find a balance in the battle, he couldn’t use all of his mana on the lioness, otherwise he would have nothing left for the lion, but he also needed to protect himself using a lot of his mana skills if he ...
2024-04-20 18:04:59 +0000 UTC
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Shaun decided he would look through each option one by one and try not to rule any of them out until he had read all of the options in depth and had weighed the pros and cons of each. However as soon as he read the first one he started to have doubts.
[Advanced] Shadow Assassin: The Shadow Assassin is a class focused on one on one sneak attacks, using the shadows as a key element in their build to take down targets unaware. This class relies on knowing your target, choosing when...
2024-04-20 18:04:19 +0000 UTC
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When Shaun came to he was lying on the ground, he had been rendered unconscious after receiving the last message, as he couldn’t seem to remember anything after that point. He wasn’t hurt which was a good sign but there was a lot going on that he didn’t understand. His body felt different, not in a bad way, but like something vital that he had been missing his entire life was now present inside of him, making him feel whole.
*Heritage: Azreal’s Legacy has been fully ...
2024-04-20 18:03:34 +0000 UTC
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Shaun didn’t drink the elixir straight away, instead he wanted to level up his mediation skill as much as he could first and try to really connect to the fire element around him. To do this he sat himself next to the largest lava pool in the cavern, the one that the boss lizard came out of. He got as close as he could where he could feel the increased heat on his skin but not so close that he would quickly start to burn. He didn’t want his earth affinity to interfere in this process so he...
2024-04-20 18:02:20 +0000 UTC
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When Shaun woke up he was still lying next to the body of the lizard, nothing had changed in the few hours that he rested and he couldn’t pick up on any monsters nearby, getting straight to retrieving all of his weapons, he looted the monster and received something interesting.
**Flaming Frill – The frill, taken of a Frill-necked Lava Lizard, containing the element of fire. The frill is near completely resistant to flame and heat, can also act as a catalyst when broken down ...
2024-04-20 18:01:38 +0000 UTC
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Shaun repeated this process over two days, he would craft, kill one of the lizards, retreat and repeat. He hadn’t gained any levels in his class during this time but did manage to get one in his profession, repeating the same process over and over wasn’t getting him enough experience to level up more which frustrated him to no end.
When he got to the last monster he was glad that he would just be able to move on and do something different, he had been in here for 3 days so far and h...
2024-04-20 18:00:51 +0000 UTC
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Standing in front of the cave entrance the next morning, Shaun had done the last of his preparations, he had attached the new and improved arrow heads to his braces and vest through the use of more salamander skin and practised moving them around from their resting places on his body. The moment he woke up he knew he was going to go into the cave, if for nothing else because his curiosity had gotten the better of him and the idea that if it was a dungeon then not going in now, not knowing how...
2024-04-20 17:59:57 +0000 UTC
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The next day went as planned, he circled his way up the mountain, he hadn’t encountered any dungeons but he did find a new monster that caused him some trouble. It was a giant snake, a Python the system called it, and it was terrifying. It was about the length of a bus and blended into the surroundings so easily that Shaun would never have seen it if it wasn’t for his echo, he got close enough to identify it before it saw him but he didn’t have the element of surprise on his side during...
2024-04-20 17:59:21 +0000 UTC
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As Shaun travelled to the mountain he further inspected the Earthen dagger and found that when he controlled it with his affinity, not only was it considerably easier but cost less than half of the mana that it usually did. With that decided he focused on upgrading each of his daggers with earth using his new Mana Attunement skill.
It was a lot harder to do compared to when he had just thrown everything he had into making the last one but we wanted to utilise the skill, not only to brin...
2024-04-20 17:58:39 +0000 UTC
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As he was searching for a place to settle down and get some sleep he felt a monster through the furthest reaches of his echo, different from the Boars and it also had a different vibration to the people he had come across. As he kept moving the monster seemed to be getting closer to him, he didn’t know how but it was like it was following him, tracking him through the forest. He decided to change directions and for a while it continued on until it got to the point where he had made a turn a...
2024-04-20 17:57:09 +0000 UTC
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Shaun felt the same feeling as he had when he was torn out of the bar, like he was being pulled through space, it was unpleasant but this time he had a better idea of what to expect. When he was deposited into Stage 1 of the tutorial he had opened his eyes to a dark cave and was joined by 11 other people. This time when he opened his eyes all he felt was joy, he was surrounded by tall trees, there were leaves on the ground and he could feel the sun on his face.
For a month he had ...
2024-04-20 17:56:30 +0000 UTC
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Shaun learnt many things about his new skill over the next five days, the first being that advanced skills levelled much slower than the basic ones, he had only gained 2 levels in the skill and he had been using it constantly. The second thing he learnt was that with every level he gained in the skill the radius of his echo increased by another blast, so at level 4 he could feel up to 125 metres and at level 5 he could now get to 150. It was also very useful as he no longer had to scout ahead...
2024-04-20 17:55:44 +0000 UTC
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When Shaun woke up his mind was foggy and he couldn’t remember where he was or what he was doing before he had passed out, what he did remember was the pain. He tested out his body slowly, he could move both hands and feet and when he pushed himself up into a sitting position he felt tight, like he hadn’t moved his muscles in days after completely overworking them.
Slowly his mind began to clear and he recounted what had occurred with the Alpha and the others, he couldn’t help him...
2024-04-20 17:55:01 +0000 UTC
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Just as Shaun closed his eyes, ready to give in to the inevitable, he decided to let go of the daggers he still had hold of and try and get to the pouch at his waist, with a monster on top of him this wasn’t going to be an no easy feat, but he figured he may as well try, he had nothing to lose. When he had been thinking about the two potion’s he had used in the fight he had remembered that he never used the second health potion he had on him.
It wasn’t easy, and every moveme...
2024-04-20 17:53:33 +0000 UTC
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Shaun knew his chances of success were slim to none, but he was going to give everything he had to his plan, and if that included his life, so be it. Time to cause some chaos. With the Alpha in front of him and none of the monsters aware of his presence, he threw his first dagger right into the eye of the unaware Alpha. He was proud of how good he had gotten with his aim when throwing his daggers, when he started to incorporate this method of attack it was hit or miss, mostly miss, b...
2024-04-20 17:52:58 +0000 UTC
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As they moved through the tunnel, Shaun became more stressed by the second, there was no way this wasn’t a trap, if Alan truly had only wanted his help he would have just asked and provided him more information on what he was going to walk into, instead he didn’t even know if there was an actual monster that they were supposed to fight or if the plan was for the rest of the team to just kill him and say a monster did it.
He had asked Phil and the team questions, How long until h...
2024-04-20 17:46:29 +0000 UTC
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This situation worked perfectly for Shaun, while he had been watching them earlier he had already decided what he would do if he was to fight them alone, he always did this when coming across a group of monsters. Without any further comment he just turned his back on the team and crept closer to the Mole Rats, they were in the same position as earlier, one of them digging, the other two standing around keeping watch.
Without hesitation and with his short sword in one hand and dagger in ...
2024-04-20 17:45:09 +0000 UTC
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The rest of Shaun’s day went by quickly, the first thing he did was have a bath, the water was cold but he didn’t mind, he hadn’t been able to properly clean himself in over a week and when he left the water he felt like a new person. Afterwards he explored Ruin, everyone he met was very welcoming, some even stopping to talk to him and would tell him about how great it was to have somewhere safe during such a terrible time. He didn’t see any children around, which he supposed was a go...
2024-04-20 17:40:39 +0000 UTC
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