Translator: Atlas Studios
Editor: Atlas Studios
As for Night Blood Phoenix’s suggestion, Fatty didn’t know what to think of that and agreed to it.
Perhaps this was because it was rare for a celebrity like Night Blood Phoenix to value him. Fatty could feel Night Blood Phoenix’s friendliness in his tone. He had never experienced being respected in the past, so he subconsciously didn’t want to expose himself.
After the two parties added each other as friends, Fatty ran to the player market.
His undergarment was filled with a huge amount of money, namely 40 Silver Coins, so it was inexcusable not to spend some. When he found the player who had been selling the Corrosion Skill Book before, he realized that he had yet to sell it.
Although this Skill Book was not bad, it generally didn’t have an attack power and it only reduced physical armor. It didn’t have a great effect when it came to raising a Venomancer’s output either. Plus, he sold it at a high price, so even though a few Venomancers wanted to buy it, they still shook their heads and gave up after a short discussion.
Most people had a very simple way of thinking. They didn’t need to purchase and study such a Skill Book in a hurry. After all, the Miasma skill was enough during the early stages of leveling up. When there were more Skill Books later on, they would purchase it because the price would drop. The money obtained in the early stages of quests could be used to purchase some restoration food like bread and spring water at the shop to raise one’s leveling efficiency.
However, Fatty was now different from other players. He had money. After thinking about it, he decided he would still learn this skill first, as he might be able to use it. Thus, he talked to that player for half a day and finally purchased the Corrosion Skill Book for 15 Bronze Coins.
After learning the Corrosion Skill, he once again embarked on his quest to level up.
The early novice main quests allowed players to familiarize themselves with the game system and combat methods. They also prepared a set of novice equipment for players through quests to facilitate killing monsters and leveling up subsequently. Therefore, the novice quests did not pose a big difficulty. Fatty was used to being a casual player in the past, so he didn’t team up with other players for the combat quest requested among the novice quests. It took him about three and a half hours to follow the quest guide, level up to Level 10, and successfully reach the so-called capital!
Last line of defense: Asgarod! This was the largest capital of the Dark Council Camp. Due to the successive years of war with the Holy Order Assembly, the Elders of the Dark Council were also worried that if they suffered defeat in the war one day and the Holy Order Assembly attacked the hinterland, the final unanimous decision would be to gather the power of all races to construct this fortress city.
This fortress city had been built more than 200 years ago and had been named after the Apostle Race using the Demon Clan’s language. The word Asgarod meant ‘steel’ and had been used to name the city. It was naturally clear what it represented: the Dark Council Camp’s desire.
This was a very huge city that was said to cover an area as large as a capital. Although there were countless streets in the city, in fact, if a player really wanted to hurry to his destination along these streets, he would definitely be a fool!
In reality, if people wanted to go a little further away, they would try to find a way to ride a car. Since the city in the game was as huge and vast as in reality, there would naturally be a corresponding mode of transportation. In Asgarod, 212 teleportation portals were distributed in all corners of the city. If a player wanted to arrive in a certain area of the city, the best way was to select the nearest teleportation portal to teleport.
Asgarod was a city that connected the spawn points of all races in the Dark Council Camp. In other words, new players of the three races would gather in this city after completing the novice quests and reaching Level 10 according to the quest guide. The so-called last line of defense was probably named after that. After all, the spawn points of the three major races would basically be exposed if this place was broken through.
As the main city of the Dark Council, in addition to its solidity, Asgarod’s architectural style had also inherited dark tradition, which was fierce and mysterious. However, if one actually carefully studied these buildings, one would understand the idea they wanted to convey, which was one of struggle and yearning.
Darkness was not evil. One also had dreams. This was what Team Red Fox of the Bester Company wanted to convey through the architectural style, which showed the knowledge and attentiveness of the development staff…
Even though Fatty was not artistic, he couldn’t help but gasp and admire when he saw this majestic fortress city. When he had played the Human Race Berserker in the Holy Order Assembly Camp, there had also been a huge capital with a similar nature to Asgarod’s. However, the name of that city, which had been called the City of Holy Light, was Bayroy! This capital had been named after the language of the Scions and its architectural style was based on solemnity and serenity, which was exactly the opposite of Asgarod’s.
When the Chaotic Era had been using its servers for four years and was about to reach its fifth year, the players of the two camps had fought countless times. The major guilds had regarded the capture of the other party’s capital as their greatest glory and worked hard for it. However, none of the guilds could have fulfilled their wishes even after a long time…
As he stepped into this capital again, Fatty was a little excited. After all, he knew that once he stepped into the capital of the Holy Order Assembly or the Dark Council, it would be the true beginning of the game.
Leveling up from Level 1 to Level 9 was a familiar process for players. However, starting from Level 10, more game content would be unveiled and would be waiting for the players to experience it.
To give a very simple example, like Fatty’s Apostle Race, when they had yet to enter the capital at Level 1 to 9, the class composition of a party was basically monotonous. They were either Berserkers, Shield Warriors, Death Knights, or Pyromancers. After arriving in the capital, the other two races of the Dark Council Camp would also enter the capital and the class formation would become more enriched.
The Orc Race’s Dark Mage and Prophet, the Undead Race’s Thief and Dark Hunter, and all sorts of classes and races made it seem like the world had become more colorful.
After Fatty arrived in the city, he realized that it was already bustling with vitality. The enthusiasm of players who wanted to level up was unparalleled. From the Novice Village to the capital, the difficulty was not much. It was only a matter of time. After Level 10, the EXP calculation formula for leveling up would change, so Fatty’s level difference was not that big compared to others. The current highest-level players were only at Level 13 and there were very few of them.
After going through the gate that players entered and exited and arriving in the city, Fatty opened the map and looked for the Skill Mentor first so that his Miasma Skill could be upgraded to Level 2.
There was no proficiency requirement for the player’s skill level to be upgraded, only the character’s level requirement. Apart from the Class Skill Mentor, which gave the players a new skill at first, the rest was meant to help the players reach the skill level upgrade requirement and raise their skill level to increase their power.
At Level 10, the only skill to level up was the Miasma Skill. Although Fatty had learned the Corrosion Skill, since he had yet to reach the level requirement, he temporarily couldn’t upgrade it. In addition to raising the direct damage caused by 5 points, the Level 2 Miasma Skill’s health reduction by toxin every second would increase by 1 point while the time remained the same.
Miasma Level 2: Instantly releases a ball of Miasma to attack the target, causing 8 damage. Within the next 8 seconds, the target loses 4 HP/second (Talent Enhancement Bonus). The Miasma Toxin effect cannot stack. It consumes 5 mana.
It was worth mentioning that for all the skills of the Venomancer, only the damage caused by the attack hit was magic damage, which could be enhanced by the magic attack power of the staff. The subsequent continuous damages were all poison effects, not magic damage.
Regardless of the Venomancer’s skills, they had a characteristic: They could directly add bonus magic damage. The value was very low, which was why Fatty had added points to his Constitution. This was because the magic damage raised by Intelligence was simply so little that it couldn’t add much.
After upgrading his skill level, he would learn life skills…