《In Pursuit Of Accolades》First “Fight”
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Potential is but a tool, derived from experience and used in pursuit of greater heights.
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I blanked out at the screen, the sudden appearance of grey and blue boxes only served to confuse me.
Potential, Stats, and Ranking...
What the fuck?
I know for a fact that something very fucked up is going on with my eyes right now.
Overall Stats updating...
25%
50%
75%
99%
>Error
-compatibility
>Patch Installed
99%
........100%
Pain once more courses through my body as a wave of light flows from the blue screen into my eyes.
Seconds later and the pain had abruptly vanished.
I sat down on the ground. Squatting softly I fell back into the wall as I collected myself.
slowly resting my head I tried to understand what I was feeling in that moment.
Pent up feelings from last night had been building in me, for lack of a better word, I was terrified.
What am I supposed to do?
I know that none of this is my fault, but the guilt weighs so heavily on me.
Was it my fault?
I know I could have stopped the suicidal episode which resulted in his death, but I still can't figure out why I did nothing.
Sitting there as the howls of dying surround me I barely composed myself again.
I was still terrified, and had no clue what to do next, but it was not a crippling fear like before.
The roar of a beast rumbled down the hallway.
Skill Gain; Inspect, Fear Resist, Observe.
Inspect; General Beastiary. Inspects the (?)unique) characteristics of beast encountered. Gains accuracy on level up. Less effective on higher ranking beasts. (Upgradable)
Fear Resist; General Fear reduction, activates under situation of extreme stress. Current effect 1% total fear reduction. Not effective on debuffs greater than Fear. (Upgradable)
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Observe; Basic system observation, conditional activation (System Touched Materials, Events, Environment Effects, and system explanations). Not Effective on higher rank Misc.(Upgradable)
Sound waves crashed down on my body as a result of the oppressive wave of force.
I used my new skills to try and see what made that noise.
*Inspect*
...no response?
*Obsevation*
Unique System Event Zombie land is now active.
System Boss; Razor Zombie (Rank 120,365)
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Event Beast total number; 1,000
Average rank; 120,034,420
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First Observer reward; 20% potential boost for duration of time spent in Zombie Land
Inspect Boss Y/N?
*Warning; due to ranking gap, information will be provided in a range of possible stat values.
I Click yes, eager to know if the "Boss matches up to the updated stat values I have now.
Razor Zombie
Rank; (120,365)
Strength; 25-50
Constitution; 75-100
Speed; 15-25
Will; 0-0
Magic; 0-0
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Skills;
Boss body = increased effectiveness of constitution (75%)
Ravished Razor = ?
Domain = ?
Anguish = Perpetual state of pain, speed stat rises as Constitution lowers.
Stonefaced I observed the Boss's Stat Sheet.
I pull up my stats
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Greg Lenore
Titles; N/A
Rank(Human); ?/2,678,213,177
Rank(Contender); ?/100,000,000,000
Blessings; No Capacity
Potential Scale; Min
System Buff; Rank 0 = 0%
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Strength; 16 (14.4)
Constitution; 14 (12.6)
Speed; 13 (11.7)
Will; 18 (16.2)
Magic; 0
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Skills; Inspect, Fear Resist, Observe
Bestowed Skills; No Capacity
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Active Debuffs;
Minor Terror = Small reduction to combat effectiveness.
Greater Mental (general) = reduced capacity for magic. *Locked*
Cut potential = reduced stats.
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Congratulations on first discovery of an event dungeon.
Title Awarded; Lucky Bastard
As dungeon completion is mandatory for the awarded title, you will have 10 seconds to prepare for the dungeon.
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...Fuck this shit
I dashed down the hall as a timer starts on the prompt.
10...
Desperately trying to escape the message, I pray that it has an effective range that I can exit.
9...
The hall ways are different here. I had chemistry here before, now the wing is replaced with more student dorms.
8...
Running
5...
Dead end. I have to backtrack.
4...
Panic Sets in and I hear a few alerts through the system.
3...
No time to check it.
2...
"HELP" I yell.
time slows as I round the last corner.
I can see it there, an outer rim of a glowing circle. The end of the effective range.
Dan, Christine, Damian, and Terrance also see the barrier, and call out to me as the light once again rips me away into the event dungeon.
CONGRATULATIONS
Legend Event; High Honor
Has been discovered.
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Legend Event; High Honor
Ongoing Event (4/100) Completion
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Meeting 4 blessed; Ranks (24,27,53,61)
Has granted you 4 free skill upgrades.
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(Provisonal) Lucky Basterd Trait Activated due to conditional requirements.
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