Chapter 72 - New weapons and upgrades. (1/2)
They were both back in the dark room in the mansion underwater. ”You passed my test. Follow me,” said the spirit as it opened a circular trap door on the wall. There was a tube that sloped downwards. This was the sea races, equivalent of a private/secret staircase. They mostly swim. Hence, these tubes are more comfortable for them than a staircase.
Shadow followed the spirit down the staircase. They ended up in another floor where various armaments, gems and other valuable tools were there. As he reached the room, the spirit raised its arms as a couple of objects flew into its hands.
”This is the gem, you have come in search for,” said the spirit opening his left hand. A violet colored gem sculpted like a shark was lying in his hand. Shadow immediately took it out of his hand.
Quest Updated: Save the merman prince: Return the gem to Erdunol.
”These you can consider to be an acquaintance gift as well as my gratitude for helping a prince of my race,” said the spirit opening its right hand. In it there were a pair of white shiny throwing knives. ”They are made from the tusks of the same animal. Hence, you can always one to find the other as long as you have one with you,” continued the spirit.
[Walrus throwing knives] (BlackIron Throwing knives, Upgradeable)
Level 10;
Requirement: Strength: Level x 3;
Attack Power: +25;
Special effect 1: Holding one indicates the location of the other tusk;
Special effect 2: Ignore Defence: 20%;
Can be upgraded by absorbing the 200 life essences of sea monsters.
Durability 25/25;
”This is an old relic of this place. Though it has lost almost all its power, I hope you can find good use of it,” said the spirit.
”Thank you, respected spirit,” said Shadow taking the weapon from him. Though he can equip it right now. He could surely make good use of it when he reached level 10. Good weapons are the hardest kind of armaments to come by. Even if he didn't get daggers, he could do a variety of attacks with a pair of throwing knives like these.
”You better take leave now,” said the spirit pointing to the tube from which they entered the room. Balthazar had wasted more than 2 hours without getting experience. He was eager to get out of the lake and finish the quest.
He quickly made his way out of the mansion. He put on the disguise of bandit again and directly floated up to the surface of the lake. He occasionally saw a few bandit groups trying to kill the lake monsters. But it was the same state as before with the bandits still not able to gain an advantage.
He went into stealth as soon as he reached the surface of the lake and made his way to the prison where the merman prince was being held. He found the prince in the same condition.
”Noble prince, I have retrieved the gem you have asked for,” said Shadow holding out his hand with the shark shaped obsidian gem in it.
”Thank you for your help, adventurer,” said the prince as he took the gem. ”Could you give me back my imperial token,” he asked. Shadow had hoped that he could keep this token which game him the capability to move easily in waters, but it looked like the system wouldn't allow it.
He returned it with a glum expression. The prince placed it back in the location he removed it from. ”You have been of great help to me. Please, let me out of this prison. Be sure to run out of the camp once the alarm sounds,” said the prince. Shadow immediately started picking the lock on the prison gate.
As soon as he opened the gate alarms sounded out. The prince came out hurriedly from the prison. ”I hope you will accept this,” said the prince putting a pair of swimming goggles into his hand. ”Though it isn't as effective as the token, it isn't very bad and is resembles the gear which humans use,” continued the prince as he ran towards the lake.
Quest Completed: [Save the merman prince]:
Time taken: 2 hr, 3 minutes
Performance: Outstanding.
Rewards: Experience +2000; Merman Reputation +30; Erdunol's swimming goggles;
System: Quingol Reputation -50;
”Quingol Repuation? That is hardly ever useful,” thought Balthazar as he made his way in a direction opposite to the lake. With the alarm sounding, most bandits would check the prison and immediately make way to the lake. With the quest completed, he didn't care about the merman anymore.
Moreover, the returns of the quest were also good. It was hard to get 2000 experience at level 9 in these plains. Most monsters were level 7 ones. The only level 8 monsters, he saw were the leopards. He wouldn't get much experience from killing them in these 2 hours. So, he considered these 2 hours well spent.
He also leveled up from all the experience he gained on completing the quest. He was level 9 now and he didn't assign the free attribute points he got from the previous level up. He had a total of 12 free attribute points to assign.
Character: Shadow Tyrant (Human)
Affiliated Village: Black Rock Village
Title: None
Job: Assassin
Level: 9
Exp: 1800/3600
HP: 3300/3300; MP: 1200/1200;
Physical Attack: 98
Defense: 68; Attack Speed: 66; Movement Speed: 68; Willpower: 21; Balance: 32; Focus/Search: 42; Reflect: 1; Magic Resist: 20; Luck: *; Charm: *;
Attributes: Strength 57, Agility 56, Endurance 27, Intelligence 22, Vitality 39, Perception 23.
No Special Racial Attributes or weakness.
Free Attributes Points: 12
He put 6 points each in endurance and perception to finish up the free attribute points left. He decided to improve his defence so that he could finish up the quest of clearing the path to the village.
As soon as he came out of the camp into the plains, he checked the time in real-life. It was a few minutes to 3 p.m. He had about 6 hours left in the game before he had to go to training with Lucius.
With this done, he began to check the merman goggles. As he was opening the inventory panel, he saw a notification at the equipment panel. ”Shit! Did some equipment get broken during the fight with larians?” thought Shadow.
Fire and lightening attacks usually make equipment lose durability. Unless the equipment completely broke down the equipment panel wouldn't show notifications. He could always get equipment repaired at a shop if it wasn't completely broken.
As he opened the equipment panel, he saw that the notification was from the mask of shadows. He expected unique equipment to be a lot more durable than the normal ones. He heard that it was one of the few advantages that a unique equipment provided.
When he selected it, he got a completely different surprise. The notification was not for a loss of equipment but to upgrade the equipment. He had 92 life essences absorbed before the latest quest and in the quest, he killed 432. It had crossed the requirement of 500 for the mask.He happily selected the upgrade option from the mask.
[Mask of Shadows] (Unique Mask, Upgradeable)
Level 5
Bound to Shadow Tyrant.
Focus/Search +10; Willpower+10; Magic Resist: +10;