As the words shone with brilliance in front of Nem, a strong force suddenly originated from his body, emitting a powerful blast that spread in all directions. The power extended 50 meters and everywhere it went, grass bent over. The scene looked each blade of grass was a hare running away from a lion, and in the center of this scene stood the lion, the source of this phenomenon, Nem!

Nem’s eyeballs bloated like balloons as he read the words “Breakthrough: Dou Bishop!” For normal people, they would have to level up 100 times! Although the beginner quests were rigged to give you 100 levels by the time you leave, Nem had been stuck at level 1 for a while now.

If the words in from of him wasn’t a mistake, then doesn’t that mean Nem has skipped 100 levels all at once? Also, if he had skipped 100 levels, then that means that he had the stats of a character 100 levels ahead of the him from before!

Estatically, Nem quickly reached over with his hand to open the stats screen. He was slightly hunched over, panting from excitement. The whole scene appeared a bit comical to be honest. Opening up his stats, Nem’s excitement quickly disappeared. He had made the mistake of raising his expectations again, only to be let down.

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Class: Spear Bearer

Health: 200 (+100)

Mana: 0

Str: 3 (+9)

Dex: 3

Luck: 3

Int:3

Special: 40 (+10)

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Nem’s face turned ugly and the smile he had worn just a moment ago instantly disappeared and his mouth opened so wide that a baby elephant would easily be able to waltz in. Not including the +9 from his equipment, Nem’s stats all around only had increased by 2! All though all of his stats increased, instead of the traditional 2, wasn’t this increase too small? He had leapt from one rank to the next only to find out that the difference was basically non-existent.

Fortunately for Nem, disappointment had slowly become an old friend of his by now. It took Nem a considerably less amount of time to compose himself then it took him when he first started playing Spear Bearer. Although he was bitter, he had no choice but to accept the fact that his road will be significantly harder than others. Even if he wanted to, MobRingler has special means to keep people from creating multiple accounts, so Nem had no choice but to cling on to the hope that the Spear Bearer will eventually get stronger as time progresses.

After taking several deep breaths and gathering his thoughts, Nem opened up his inventory. Although his equipment were a little lack luster, they were still better than nothing. He had been promised a new set of equipment every time he ranked up. Luckily for Nem, although they were trolls, the game developers weren’t liars. As promised, in his inventory was another chest, containing the goods that was promised.

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Dou Bishop Class Equipment Chest

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Luckily for Nem, the heavens were on his side today. When he opened the chest, he was faced with several things that made him leap with joy. The first of which, and the most important, was a skill! Inside the chest he had received a skill. Most games, there were set skills and the player would choose which to get and level. In MobRingler, they were automatically given to you and players could also pursue rare skills through events. This process was done by making skills in the form of items, like Observable was. The player would receive an untradeable item that they can use to give themselves a skill. (As for leveling up the skill, the game will automatically do so depending on the frequency the player uses the skill and the player’s level.) Nem had received such an item in his inventory.

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Spear Bearer Skill: Triple Talon Threat

Skill Description

Triple Talon Threat: Active: 1 Skill Point; The player calls forth holy power from within himself to temporarily increase their attack speed to the max (3 attacks per second) for the next 2 attacks. Attacks done with Triple Talon Threat on does X5 damage.

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Nem was astounded that this was his first skill. There was nothing special about it; it just wasn’t… flashy. His first skill was simply an attack empowerment, albeit the effects aren’t too bad. Another thing that worried Nem was the fact that he needed Skill Points to use his skill. Doesn’t that mean that this empowerment skill was his special skill? It uses his SP (Special Points) after all. “This is it?” Nem ungratefully murmured.

If the skill had cost mana, then Nem would easily be able to replenish his mana and constantly spam his skills. He had a large stock of mana potions waiting after all. The skill, however, costs SP! SP only replenishes at the beginning of each month. Since he had 50 SP after his breakthrough, he would be able to use Triple Talon Threat 50 times, and no more than that. 50 times!

Nem would do the math to find out just how badly he has it, but he was simply too lazy. Quite frankly, even if he wasn’t lazy, finding out how large his grave is, won’t help him at all. Thankfully, this wasn’t the only thing he had received from the chest.

Just like before, he received 4 items that were named Dou Apprentice Helmet, Chestplate, Leggings, and Boots. This time, however, he didn’t receive another spear. Instead, he found a strange gem. The gem had flat edges and was shaped into a perfect diamond. It was like a master smith went through and carefully refined its edges to shape it into a diamond. The already dark gray colored gem also had a strange black mist inside of it that one can only see if they looked carefully.

Strangely, this item was a consumable object. Its description said, “This gem can be used on a Spear Bearer spear to upgrade it.” Nem’s first thought upon reading this description was to save and hoard as many of these gems as possible to use on his final spear, making the end result frighteningly powerful. Unfortunately, the very next line read, “These “Shadow Essences” can upgrade a spear 3 times.”

Since he can’t hoard these essences, Nem decided to just use it on Bo Fai. When Nem used the Shadow Essence on Bo Fai, the dark gray outer crystal shattered and the mist inside of it seeped out, slowly gathering on Bo Fai’s tip. After the strange mist was fully absorbed by Bo Fai, its previously specless tip turned dark gray, making the spear look like it was dipped in poison. After the strange phenomenon occurred, Bo Fai’s stats changed. Formerly, they gave 5 STR and 10 SP. Now, after upgrading it with the Shadow Essence it changed to 10 STR and 20 SP! That, combined with the new gear that each gave 50 HP and 2 STR, left Nem’s stats looking like this:

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Class: Spear Bearer

Health: 200 (+200)

Mana: 0

Str: 3 (+18)

Dex: 3

Luck: 3

Int:3

Special: 60 (+20)

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Although these stats still hadn’t reached the level of even the lowest level Forgeman, they were still tolerable in the eyes of Nem. At least he wouldn’t have to walk around with only 3 STR.