《to reach the pinnacle: Etheria》Chapter 12: First recruit
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Able Drake-
Me and Osgar Started to converse and plan
Osgar said "If you want me to help you plan, I have to know what you want"
then I said "Then I'll tell you, I want to rule this continent. In the spotlight or from the shadows. But that is too big a goal currently, so my current goal i'm going after is building my faction to make sure nobody gets any ideas about usurping my position as the future patriarch" Osgar then said "how do you plan on building the faction?" I then explained "By getting the adaptable, or what the normies would call talented on our side quickly. You must be wondering how I'm going to do that. Well first I plan on showing my superiority, today at the dungeon run" Then Osgar said "how do you plan on showing that?" I quickly asked my Erebus to look through the door to see if someone was spying on us, It said there wasn't any there. I then said "well my drake will definitely not be stronger than people that have had their beast for more than a couple months, since I have you I can move away from the group so I can calmly make my traps and loot the monsters without dividing them with a group. And you already know that if you get more loot you get better rewards"
I then said "Oh yeah Osgar can you get me a lot throwing knives, two swords and a spatial ring. Wait also 1 hilt for the type of sword you get me and two or more pouches for quick use of throwing knives" You might be wondering why I'm not using the spatial ring for storage of the throwing knives, thats because Spatial rings take 3 seconds to take something outside/inside the ring
Osgar then said "The Drake house will already give you a bronze rank spatial ring and an amount of stuff that together costs the same as 1 month of pocket money, so if I just tell them that's your choice you'll get it" After hearing that I said "Then also ask for a life sign detector, and a beacon locator. With the adult that is in charge of the main group having a beacon attuned to my locator" Osgar said "That's all possible, also you can go into one of the dungeons whenever you want its just that every zeven days all the points are calculated" I then reacted by saying "That's good" I then thought 'I'll be able to officially go to one of the dungeons and get rewarded for it that's great'
I then said "Osgar, change of plans we'll stay by the main group in the manditory dungeon run and scout for children with potential and the day's I don't have appointments we'll go do a dungeon run, specifically the light one. Because I want a light drake"
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Then Osgar said "Don't worry I'll make you'll get that with your ring"
1 hour later-
I walked to the gate of the mansion where children where gathering with Erebus I saw Osgar I walked to him and he gave me a spatial ring, it had everything I asked for plus a belt. I took out the belt and put it on, It was my size. Then I took out the two pouches and attached them to the belt, they attached well to the belt. I filled the pouches with 10 throwing knives per pouch, I had 300 throwing knives. Then I attached the hilt for the sword too the belt, and put the sword inside the hilt. All that I was given was of high quality
You may want to know about spatial ring ranks-
- Iron = 3 cubic meters
-Bronze = 10 cubic meters
-Silver = 25 cubic meters
-Gold = 50 cubic meters
-Mythril = 100 cubic meters
I saw everyone had a bronze spatial ring, and weapons. I was the center of attention, I didn't like it. It went against secretly looking if anyone had talent
Then one of the adults started talking loudly "Everyone, we will now go to the dungeon!" then they started to walkaway everyone else followed. Inculding me
After a couple of minutes of walking or riding, I choose riding we arrived at the earth dungeon under the control of the drake house, we stopped and the adult from last time sais "As you all know a new person has joined today, Able drake come forward!" I walked forward with Erebus, the man then said "Introduce yourself" And I said "My name is Able Drake and I don't feel comfortable with telling you anymore information" Then I walked back with a calm face
After a while I started to tune out the man, and started to look at my throwing knives
When everyone started walking into the dungeon I followed carefully. after I entered the dungeon I saw a cave system, no Was in a cave system. when I looked around I saw the children gathering around, and weird mise that had stones attached to their hide. I started throwing the throwing knives at one of weird rats, which I will call gray skins. I missed the first 13 knives and gained a skill
Throwing E 0/100
-makes corrections when throwing based on skill level
When I threw my next knife, It was closer to hitting the gray skin and 1 got 20 exp for the "Throwing" skill after throwing 4 extra knives. It leveled up, then all exp was 25 exp. After 8 throws it leveled up again, then I hit the gray skin and got 50 exp
Dealt 5 dmg
After getting hit the gray skin ran at me, then I told Erebus {Kill it with the breath} and he did, he burned it to death
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-Erebus has dealt 32 dmg
-Killed hard stone mouse lvl 1
-100 throwing exp gained
-1 essence gained
After I killed the gray skin it's corpse disappeared and it's skin appeared and looked like a moderately skilled skinner had skinned it. I then thought 'For most people, They get a low quality hide. High luck strikes again, but if given a couple weeks I should be able to train skining. There should be something in the options to make it that you don't gain the 'loot' but the corpse. But I won't do that right now because I don't have the time to skin the gray skin's hide'
I then picked up the knives I threw at the gray skin. I then fed Erebus the essence through the status, he looked happy that he was no longer hungry. I quickly looked at his status and saw that "drakish breath" had gained 1% proficiency.
Then walked back to the main group with the beacon locator. I found another gray skin on the way there and threw a knife at it, while telling Erebus to roar. "Throwing" then leveled up and "drakish roar" got 10% proficiency
I then met backup with the main group, I then saw another gray skin it had a bit more defined mucsles, and I wanted to try something out. I put refined mana into my throwing knife without rime or reason, when I threw it, it passed right through the gray skin
-You have dealt 121 dmg
-400 Throwing exp
-400 Mana controller exp
-You have killed a Hard stone mouse lvl 2
-200 Throwing exp
-200 Mana controller exp
- 2 essesnce gained
- throwing lvl up
- mana controller lvl up
then one of the older kids came up and said "Pretty good, mr. I don't feel comfortable with telling you anymore information" I then said "Don't tell me you still salty about that" the older kid behind me then said "Of course I'm salty about that, in here you need to know everyone under your rule's strengths" I then said "Sorry to burst your bubble but, I'm not your follower. You're delusional for thinking that" He then said "Oh really I think you'll change your mind when you hear who I am. I'm the son of the patriach's brother" Then as a Power play I said "Oh, so you're my cousin. my father talked about, I feel bad for you. He said your father regarded you as a disapointment. Well its a fact, but its harsh to say that to your own son" It was the truth, Duke had told that to me a week ago. When the boy proccesed what I said he walked away knowing not to mess with the heir of the house.
from then on I just looked on at what the other children where doing, looking for a worth while recruit. And let Erebus kill the gray skins however it wanted, and it went back to Its old habits. It went into the darkness and started methodically killing gray skins with its claws, tail or jaws
After an hour or two of that I gained 137 hides and 345 essence overall. I also found a worthwhile recruit, A kid called Hemdal. His way of fighting was unique, and that fighting style didn't fit well with the others. so he didn't have friends, he wasn't really bullied but more like evoided. But he had the ability to inovate on the old, even if his inovations were bad
I walked to Hemdal and said "Hello Hemdal" Then he said "What, are you people going to start bullying me now?" After hearing that I sighed and said "no I'm not here to bully you, I'm not even with that group. I'm here to recruit you. Because you innovate, not well. But you actually innovate" Then Hemdal said "Why should I trust you" After he said that I said "You don't, But if you want a reason to join. I guess me being the heir of the house should be good enough right?" Hemdal then laughed "Your saying you're the Heir? Great joke really you don't act like one at all" Then I was done with conversing with him so I said "Would showing my Darkness drake be good enough proof" Hemdal then said "yeah, it would. no there are no other people with a darkness drake except the heir" I then called Erebus out of the shadows, but in a way that only Hemdal could see it. Hemdal then said "I've seen it with my own eyes, yes I'll join you" I then said "Good find me when we're back at the gates of the mansion"
Right after that the leading adult said "It's time to head back!" and everyone followed
When we entered the gate Hemdal came to me and said "So what do you want?" I then said "For you to follow me" Hemdal then said "Fine"
when we entered my room I said "Welcome to the place we're going to meet at." At that moment Osgar came in "Seems like you got what you wanted. But time for more important matters in three days you can meet with the blacksmith and carpenter that will make the oath you asked for" I then said "Then set up that I'm going into the light attribute dungeon for both days. And have do you know of a highly flamable powder that burns quickly?" Then Osgar said "There is a powder with those atributes, its called devil's dust" I then said "Buy me a good amount of the stuff"
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