Chapter 0025

The Perrian Let is faced with a the greatest dilemma of her life, where to place her talent points. This problem is greater than Leviene’s greatest dilemma previously, old fashion or hot beef jerky.

It might not seem like much to the eyes of other people, but to Leviene it is a very hard choice. Hot beef jerky is sooooooo good but she can’t eat much of it without consequences while she can stuff herself with old fashioned beef jerky.

The previous generation always complain about the opportunities the new generations have but never take advantage of, but they never considered the impact having so many choices have on the chooser. Inconsequential choices such as what to have for breakfast has little impact, but a career, a marriage, where to live, those have long lasting consequences.

The chooser is then plagued with insecurities. Is this the right choice for me? What happens if I make a mistake? Are those even mistakes to begin with? What are the consequences? Can I bear the consequences?

The older generations lament the opportunities of the younger generation, the younger generation lament on the simplicities of the older generation. Did they have to deal with cyberbullying? Did they have to deal with peer pressure? Unwanted children? Bad marriage? Domestic abuse? Hell, their sense of self, did they question it? Transgender, sexual preferences.

To the previous generation, well no the grandparent’s generation, they’d say, what that, it’s wrong and ignore it. They eagerly live in their prejudices, confident in their superiority and proud of their hatred. The current generation exposed the prejudices, destroyed the superiority and fight the ever prevalent hatred.

Leviene liken her current choices to the efforts of the greatest civil rights leader of all time fighting for their rights, earth shattering.

As previously noted, thank god mind reading isn’t available yet. Leviene would be turning into a cook roast pig if they knew what she was thinking.

Actually Sylphie had an idea when she glance towards her cousin, but since she didn’t know the exact specific she didn’t head over in indignation and b*tch slap the short Perrian Let silly. Another thought to be thankful for is Erica’s lack of understanding towards Leviene’s personality. If she knew what Leviene was truly like and not the image in her imagination then she’d put Leviene in traction when she saw Leviene’s expression.

The talent trees in Arashia offer options upon options. The talent trees ends at tier 6 with five empty slot for tier seven, four empty slot for tier eight, three empty slots for tier nine, two empty slots for tier ten and one ultimate skills. However, those slots are for the entire tree, not just one subtree.

The slot are for players to further customize themselves with skill books hidden in Arashia.

When indecision racked Leviene, she did what she always did, look for more information. While Kaleseze has answers, Leviene doesn’t want to bother him. Sylphie and Erica is out. Wraith… nah. HotSauce and Hawkain are complete newbies or noobies, which ever sounds more appropriate for the situation.

Only one choice then.

[Leviene whisper to Madalinos]: Madalinos are you there?

[Madalinos whisper to Leviene]: My sweet baby, you contacting me so soon. This is my lucky day.

[Leviene whisper to Madalinos]: I need information.

[Madalinos whisper to Leviene]: Ask away.

[Leviene whisper to Madalinos]: Can we redo our talent points?

[Madalinos whisper to Leviene]: Ofcourse. Except classes and name, everything in the … game can be reset to the preference of the … players.

Leviene notice the pause between unknown terminology but she ignored it. Madalinos is not from Earth. These terms are new to her. Her adaptability is high to only pause a bit before spitting now new words. That’s not important though. The next question is the reason why she contacted the crazy psycho in the first place.

[Leviene whisper to Madalinos]: How much does it cost to change your spec?

[Madalinos whisper to Leviene]: Free, one copper, ten coppers, one silver, ten silvers and so forth, capped at 100 crystal per each …. spec change.

[Leviene whisper to Madalinos]: Oh good.

[Madalinos whisper to Leviene]: Is that all you contacted me for?

Yes, but if she answered it like that, who knows what the crazy lady who think she’s her mother would do.

[Leviene whisper to Madalinos]: Yes.

Whimper. Mouth in foot. Looks for a place to hide.

Surivivial instinct to brain, “Cage that idiot.”

Brain, “You think I haven’t been trying?”

Mouth, “What did I do wrong?”

Survival instinct and brain, “.....”

Boom headshot.

Boom headshot.

Survival instinct and brain has died.

[Madalinos whisper to Leviene]: Contact me anytime you want for anything. I’ll help whenever I can.

At times like these, Leviene wished text transmit tone and emotions. She’d know when she needs to run.

[Leviene whisper to Madalinos]: Okay, going back to the classes.

[Madalinos whisper to Leviene]: Take care sweetie.

Leviene thought for awhile then decided to put one point into Dark Reach, Void Ball and Void Blast for damage and ignore the Holy - Incursion sub tree completely. She has 25% into dark attacks. For damage it is better to focus on dark attacks. In the Spirit Tree, Leviene took Holy Shield, Sleep and Lethargy for survivability and put two points into Intellectual Pursuit for the extra mana points.

Leviene put all of her stats points into Intellect.

Leviene changed change into Altreyes and tried to assign talent points for the character but she need to do a class quest before she can assign her talent points. Judging from the talent tree, assassins are agility based characters, so the experienced player toss Altreye’s 25 stat points into agility.

Rayael’s stat point went into constitution. She didn’t want to die any time soon.

Even though Leviene have no intent on leveling Arganox, she can still assign her starting stat points. 10 points went to intelligent and 15 went to spirit.

At the end of the stats assigning session my primary stats:

Agility

35

Constitution

40

Intelligence

45

Faith

25

Strength

10

Secondary stats:

Endurance

11

Dexterity

10

Precision

10

Wisdom

11

Focus

10

Not too bad. “You done yet?” Erica yelled for Leviene. Erica smile was more like a smirk. The experienced player don’t understand where Erica’s sense of confidence came from until she realized Erica was good with numbers. So crazy good with number that her accounting company is famous. She’s in her element assigning stats points.

With her math skills, Leviene wonder why Erica didn’t hit it off with John. They both look at a situation in terms of a set of parameters and the goal was to combine the variables to get an optimal solution.

“I got the talents for my Priest and assigned all the stats, but I need to do a class quest before I can do anything with my Assassin. I haven’t assigned talent points into my Guardian tree either. You?”

Erica shrugged. “I took the skills I wanted, though Sylphie here thinks she could be a better Sword Dancer.”

“I just suggested she take a few talents first.” Sylphie protested.

“If you wanted me to build my character your way, then you should buy another name and play the character!” Erica argued. Ahhh, the ‘I want to play my character my way’ vs ‘this skill tree is the best for dps’ argument. The experienced player is not getting in the middle of this argument again.

“What are you gals going to do now since we chosen our classes?” Leviene asked trying to head off the discussion.

“I’d rather we find a place to rest. Today has been tiring and I don’t want to come back from what you guys think we’re going to do, only to wander the city looking for overprice hotels.” Erica said in an offhand manner.

“How about you guys help me with my class quest then call it a night. We can start early tomorrow morning.”

Leviene didn’t wait for their response. She switched to Altreyes and headed over to the assassin trainer.

“Hiya there, could you tell me give me the quest for the assassin class so I could start distributing talent points?” Altreyes asked the assassin trainer.

“Ah, so you’re training to become an assassin eh, young one. The path of a silent killer requires one to face death and its consequences head on. Only by doing so can you grasp the subtle skills an assassin would need to complete their task. In the south west portion of the city lies The Temple of the Fallen. Go there and acquire a companion who would help you uncover the dark arts of a silent killer.”

The assassin trainer want you to go to The Temple of the Fallen and bring back proof of your determination. Do you accept? [Yes][No]

Altreyes clicked yes. “South west is this way.” Sylphie grabbed Altreyes’ arm, leading the way to The Temple of the Fallen.

“I have a compass and a map you know. I won’t get lost in a game.” The Assassin grumbled.

Erica caught up to the duo. She grab Altreyes other hand, squeezing the short Perrian Let between the two of them. “Without gps and step by step instruction, you’d get lost going to the store on the corner.”

“I do not!”

“Your sense of direction is so bad, you can’t get out of a room with only one exit.” Sylphie joined in the teasing.

“Yeah, she get lost in her room all the time.”

“Hey!” Altreyes protested, but the gentle bantering continued.