《Pandora: A New Beginning》Chapter 4: The Smith
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As I approached the wolves I used the Identify skill
Identity (Rookie 3%) Give you information on the opponent, cannot give information if the opponent is 10 levels higher than your level. Skill levels up with every opponent you use the identify skill on. Cost: 0 Mana Cooldown: 10 seconds. Grey wolf Level: 3 Health: 200 Attack: 20 Defence: 20
I Slowly approached the grey wolf from behind, I cast the basic thief skill stealth.
Stealth (Rookie 0%) Stealth provides basic cover from enemies making you invisible for 5 seconds. Skill levels up with every enemy you damage in stealth. Cost: 10 mana Cooldown: 10 seconds
As I continue slowly approaching the wolf I get my Backstab skill ready.
Backstab (Rookie 0%) Provides 150% damage to enemies and stuns them for 2 seconds. Skill requires you to be in stealth to cast. Skill levels up with every enemy you damage. Cost: 10 mana. Cooldown: 10 seconds.
Just when I'm right behind the wolf I cast backstab
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I stab the wolf in the back, revealing myself to the enemy.
I start to run away to repeat the process over again, but the wolf quickly turns around and dashes at me, biting my leg
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Only 175 health left. Looks like I won't be able to run away this time, instead of running away I charge at the wolf, although it is 2 levels higher than me, it is a basic mob used as the objective for the starter quest, I should be able to kill it easily.
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The battle progresses fast as we trade blows with each other, the health points of both sides decreasing fast but eventually I finish the wolf off with a critical.
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After achieving my first critical the system announcement came up.
Congratulations on achieving your first critical unlocking the luck attribute.
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Luck:
The Luck attribute affects the chance of achieving a critical hit and the drop rates from mobs. Stat points received for level ups cannot be put into this attribute.
1 copper received.
35 exp received.
1/10 wolves killed.
I slowly wait for my health to regenerate then I proceed with going back into stealth an using backstab as my first attack, but this time I follow up with another attack straight after instead of running away, using this way I was able to get 2 attacks in before the wolf was able to respond.
After killing another 2 wolves I was able to level up.
Every level you receive 5 skill points, this time I assign 3 into Dex, 1 into Agl and the final in Str
Name: Rose Trinity Race: Dark Elf Level: 2 Class: Thief Life Class: N/A Health: 200 Mana: 100 Strength: 12 Constitution: 11 Agility: 12 Dexterity: 14 Intelligence: 11 Charisma: 11
After adding my stat points for my level up I went back to farming the last 7 wolves, I was lucky killing the final wolf because it dropped a green weapon
Ghost-Forged Shank (Green - Dagger)
Level Required - 5
Attack: 5 - 13
Agility + 1
After picking up the weapon I headed back to the village elder.
Compared to before the village is more populated when I was leaving it was barely filled, but now it's almost packed, every street filled with players talking to NPCs and looking for parties.
I walked passed the players straight into the village elders house, inside it was filled with players, so I went to the back of the line and waited until it was my turn.
"Welcome back traveller, are you here to turn in your quest?" The village elder was surprised when I had come back to turn in my quest this early.
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"Yes"
Congratulations you have complete the village elders quest.
EXP + 1000
Obtained item [Cloth Bracers]
Gain 1 silver.
Congratulations you have levelled up.
I inspected the bracers I had received from the elder.
Cloth Bracers (Green)
Level Requirement - 2
Defence: 3-7
Agility + 1
I equipped the bracers and then went to my stats screen and added the stats I received for levelling up.
This time I put 4 points into Agl and 1 point into Str.
Name: Rose Trinity Race: Dark Elf Level: 3 Class: Thief Life Class: N/A Health: 200 Mana: 100 Strength: 13 Constitution: 11 Agility: 17 (1) Dexterity: 14 Intelligence: 11 Charisma: 11
After levelling up, I went to the blacksmiths to get the quest to become the blacksmith's apprentice.
This was a key point in my plan, out of all the possible life classes the one which makes the most is the blacksmith, but the downside is that its the class that takes the most amount of time to complete any single item, which is why the class is underestimated.
Just outside the smith was a bunch of players arguing with the head blacksmith, Sardrock Flaskfury.
I walked over to the head blacksmith and inquired about the situation.
"Whats wrong with the users?"
When I posed the question only then did they all turn to face me, I could tell that the users were bothered by my question, but the blacksmith appeared to not really care about both my question or the current situation he was in.
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