Vol 1 – Chapter 5 (Discovery)
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  • 3rd Person POV

Entering the world of ‘Eidolon’ Evan is back where he logged out as he move quite fast to the general store shopkeeper. Since Umbra is with him, he felt safe to write more words to his notepad to the shopkeeper. The old man read it quite quickly.

“I see, I see you want a robe that’s not brown in colour, and some napkins?” He seems to be confused at the last item Evan wanted to purchase. Before sighing, the shop keeper thought “He reminds me of my grandchild who wanted to try every tiny bits in the world”

“Here ya go, everything for 1 gold. Mind you the robe I have isn’t enchanted for fancy folks. Ouh? You want to purchase more Napkins? Alright…” Shopkeeper gets more confused. “What he’s going to do with all of these napkins?” The shopkeeper muses while seeing the figure dressed into green robe.

So far, Evan bought 5 napkin packs which contained around 10 of each so he has 50 individual napkins. Instead of trying to infuse them one by one, Evan thought of 1 pack at a time as such he held the pack of napkin on an alleyway with Umbra beside him.

He occasionally give treats to Umbra whenever he went on alert and sensed someone who comes too close for comfort as Evan begin the infusion process.

The flow of mana being redirected and soaked into the napkin pack that he held as he thinned out the threads, so it is easier for it to enter. In addition, he took care to make sure they cannot leak from its container.

The process took quite a while approximately 1 hours for 1 napkin pack as he then realigns the flow of mana to make the intended effects of the broom with added benefit this time. He heard a ping, but he opted to ignore it.

Upon opening his eyes, the napkin pack he held has been turned magical.

[Napkin of Hygiene]

Rarity:

Uncommon

Category:

Magic Item

Consumable:

Yes (Reusable)

Bound:

No

Worth:

10 gold

Weight:

50 grams

Requirement to use:

None

Description:

A 15 by 15 centimetres napkin that has been enchanted with unusual cleaning magic

Effect:

Upon wiping an object with the napkin, it instantly cleans the surface of that object. In addition, leaving behind different fruity smell. After being left for 1 hour, the napkin will clean itself

 

Looking at that, Evan satisfied with himself as he begin to round up the other napkins then he starts to focus the flow of mana into it. He does this after giving some treats to Umbra for guarding him as he continues in infusing mana into the napkins.

After 5 hours have passed with  logging out in between, Evan hugged Umbra while his head is aching. It seems concentrating is too much for poor Evan as Umbra just licked his cheeks. After having bunch of these napkins, Evan put them up for sale in ‘Player’s Market’ but he adds his own username.

Magie & Magia or short as M&M, “Heh...” chuckled Evan upon hearing his own username in player’s market. After putting them up for sale, Evan stands up and readying himself to hunt for slimes. “If I meet my goal today, I can use tomorrow and the next for something else such as discovering potential sites to farm or learn crafting.”

*WOOF*

Umbra is tapping his paws also excited by what Evan is thinking as they left Novitas heading to the west side towards Slime Field. Looking left & right they didn’t see any hostile intentions as Umbra didn’t react in addition, to any people as well in Slime Field.

Smiling due to that realization, They began to hunt together as Evan unleashed multiple bolts of arcane energy to multitude of slimes with Umbra biting or paralysing them with Fear status effects.

“Hehehe… I’m getting the hang of weaving & modifying spells on the get go.” Indeed, as when he unleashed magic darts, they follow along his direction even capable of manoeuvre themselves to avoid hitting Umbra or tree lines making it a sure hit.

Cutting the farm time again for an hour as Evan finished farming. He gives a big bone treat to Umbra with the dog happily chomps down the treat. “Oh yeah! I forgot to check my current stats. I’ve been tuning them out for quite a while. Bless my brain for that ability” Evan smiled as he opened his status panel.

[Magie Magia]

Level

11

Class

None

Race

Hyuman

HP

200

MP

1800

SP

200

Status

STR

8

DEX

6

CON

10

INT

61

WIS

15

Skills

Actives

[Summon Umbra]

Upon using this skill, summon Umbra to accompany you. You can cast this skill again to dismiss Umbra. If Umbra has been defeated, he will return to a safe pocket dimension to rest, and this skill will be unusable until Umbra’s health is restored to full.

 

 

 

Passives

[Mana Control LV3]

INT+ 26. MP+ 1600. MP Regen + 16 per second. Spell Cost, Cooldown, and Chanting Time reduced by 15%. With this skill you can sense the flow of mana and their changes. Including able to tap into it and moulded mana into being.

 

 

 

Titles

<Mana Sensitive (Exclusive)> (Req: Upgrading [Mana Sense LV10] to [Mana Control LV1])

You will gain +1 Permanent INT status whenever you ‘understand’ a spell.

Instead of WIS used for ‘magical resistance’ you will use INT instead.

For every INT you have, increase your vulnerability to physical damage. 1 INT = +0.5% Damage taken from physical source

<Slime Conqueror> (Req: Kill 1000 slimes)

Increase damage dealt to Ooze type creature by 50%.

 

[Magic]

[Knowledge]

Destruction:

Novice

Restoration:

Novice

Abjuration:

None

Illusion:

Novice

Transmutation:

Novice

Divination:

None

Conjuration:

None

 

Confirming that his [Mana Control] skill have been increased by his constant infusing of mana and modifying spells on the get go. He can be sure that its one of the way to raised up that skill. “I’ll try other things as well” Evan decide in his mind while in the familiar tranquil spot waiting for Umbra to finish his large bone treat.

He found a branch and think… “Can I infuse this?” As he began to redirect the flow of mana into the branch he’s holding. The similar occurrence happened as he thinning out the threads, but the process is much faster than Evan’s expected. As he fixed the ‘Leaky pores’.

What he didn’t expect, is that he spent 2 hours infusing them and forgetting he’s already way past the usual time logging in. Upon opening his eyes, he can determine that the branch he’s holding is magical.

On to the next step, of moulding the mana inside it to perform what Evan wants. He wanted it to produce some kind of berries as he imagines the branch growing fruit after flowering. “*Sniff*… what’s that smell? Its sweet” A scent interrupted his thoughts as Evan opened his eyes. Fairly quickly in moulding the mana to produce what he desires but taking long time for it to infused.

What he held is a branch that supposed to have died. But instead it grew fruits and it smells delicious with Umbra ignored the doggy treats and look at that branch with earnest. “Really?” Evan checked for it.

Branch of Good Berry

Rarity:

Uncommon

Category:

Magic Item

Consumable:

Yes (Reusable)

Bound:

No

Worth:

500 gold

Weight:

0.5 kg

Requirement to use:

None

Description:

A branch that has been infused with mana, capable of producing delicious berries in limited amount

Effect:

(3/day): Upon usage, produce 5 berries that can be consumed giving +1% HP  per second for a minute. When the berries are not consumed within 8 hours, it will vanish. The item cannot be used again until the 5 berries have been consumed or vanished. This regen effect can stack for five times (5% HP regen for 5 minutes)

 

“Whoa… this is a pretty good item, I can give it to Umbra to eat when we go for battle.” As He plucked the berries and give it to Umbra to eat. As expected, the dog ate it with earnest even making a mess of his mouth.

Evan want to wipe it but forgetting something “Ah right… I sell every napkins on the player’s market.” He used his robe instead as he wiped Umbra’s messy mouth giving blotches of purple on parts of his robe. As Umbra is cleaned, he’s panting and wagging his tail with Evan just gives kisses much to Umbra’s happiness.

“Should I sell it? I don’t think I should… it’s quite handy to give Umbra passive healing.” Evan thought as his eyes getting a bit tired from concentrating two times in a row. “I need a nice quiet sleep” As Evan dismissed Umbra and move towards Novitas. The day in-game has already turn night as usual with him already inside Novitas’ range for the requirement of entering a safe place.

A safe zone, place, or spot is where the logging out benefits will work if the players do it in that specific spot. In addition to that they also prevent any hostilities to happen in the zone including harming NPCs. Cities, Villages, or Camping Sites are designated as safe zones. There are also hidden spots littered by the developers as a surprise safe zone for them to relax.

After converting the money, he gained from farming slimes. Evan can be sure that tomorrow he’s free from farming and now able to explore the world of ‘Eidolon’

Logging out from the game, Evan stretches his body as he relaxes from sitting around for that long. Although the single sofa chair implemented on the console is incredibly comforting that he could fall asleep while playing.

Evan quickly heat up food for dinner as he eats then take a shower & brushing his teeth. Then he fall asleep forgetting again to set up an alarm for the morning.

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Waking up, its already late afternoon as he sighed heavily. Before eating late lunch and clean his face & brushed his teeth. Today he cleaned up his condo taking around 30 minutes to do ignoring the pings on his phone.

“Fiuf…” Finished cleaning his condo, Evan took the phone and check the notifications. It displays ‘All of your Napkins have been sold in the player’s market.’ Evan grin and made a victory pose.

That means his character earned 500 gold. “Although… its needs sometime for it to be sold unlike selling materials in-game which is instant” Evan ponders for a while before shaking his head and eager to enter the world of ‘Eidolon’

He logged back in the familiar space as Evan decides to grind his levels. There are already several goals in his mind to accomplish. He needed to raise his levels, *not creepily* watch some mages or clerics casting their spells, find some other way to gain money preferable where he didn’t need to farm.

So far, he pseudo accomplished the last but not least goal selling magical items in player’s market. It might look good at first getting them all sold but for now, he didn’t know much about what players want in the market. He’s going to research that while grinding levels.

He decided to move north away from Novitas as he didn’t hear any more rumours about the serial Player Killers roaming in the city. “Thank heavens, it seems either other guilds or the NPC’s guards finally caught him” As Evan freely moves to north.

The beaten path have several NPCs or players walking forward as Evan made his presence fade by wearing the simple looking robe and walk at the edge. He noticed there are players fighting several wolves in the field while continue moving through the beaten path.

If Evan continues using the beaten path, he will move to the closest city of Novitas. So, he opted to move out from the path and explore a bit more hoping to find a quiet spot to farm or random things. “This place is beautiful, but there are players here currently farming wolves or mountain goblins” Evan thought.

He hiked enjoying the travel and fresh air contrary to the condo Evan stays in. As the environment grew tiny bit cold, he continues moving. There are less verdant grass & trees and more grey rocks & cliffs with occasional birds shrieking above the skies.

Looking up, he can see the snow top as he began to notice there are players roaming about. They all having a symbol on top of their heads as he recognize it as a guild symbol. “Ah… they are the ones that patrol the <Icy Cavern>” If Evan comes too close, he will get PKed so he opted to stay beneath.

He take a large amount of breath as he sat down and enjoying the scenery from at least near the top of the mountain. “Huh? What’s that player doing here?” A warrior looking down from the mountain top as he sees a person wearing green robe sitting down and watching the scenery. “Hm? He’s probably taking a screenshot, he’s a newbie so don’t worry about it” Another scout look at what the player is looking at.

Evan sitting and watching the expanse of green, birds flying, the blue skies & clouds adorning the place, there’s even players below hunting wolves and the likes. As he take a large amount of breath, he begin sensing the mana surrounding him. “Whoa… its plenty and everywhere…” Evan is stunned seeing the wisps of cyan covering the entire area as he extended his hand to touch one. Its refreshingly cold and comfortable to touch.

“Hmm…?” Something attracted his attention, like a river it seems there are mana who flowed from somewhere rather than just roaming about in the world. Similar to tracing cables, Evan looks around the area as the trails of mana doesn’t lead to the top where <Icy Cavern> lies rather near where he sat down to take a rest.

“I wonder where it leads” Evan follows the trail as he was led away from the prying eyes of the scouts in that guild until he landed himself in front of a wall. “Really?” He thought, the sight of the walls made him unsure on what to do as he strokes the surface ever so gently.

“There’s nothing strange with the wall” What Evan meant is like a button or lever that would activate a mechanism. “If this isn’t a mechanical type… maybe its from magic?” Evan focuses even further as his vision changes for a second.

The wall is different when Evan is more sensitive to the currents of mana as he dipped his hands into the surface. “Heh… it feels strange” His arms plunge right in eliciting ripples of the wall as it fades away revealing a small gap enough to fit a single player. “Hmm… interesting” Evan grew curious as he entered the gap. Evan figure suddenly vanished to thin air as his vision clouded in white for a quick second. “WAHHH-“

Before he can get bearings about where he is now, Evan felt a sharp cold air going through his body as his shivers. “Summon Umbra!” Umbra appeared next to him. *WHIMPER* Umbra shivers from the cold as he comes closer to Evan with the green robed mage huddled closer for warmth.

“Wah…. So warm, Where is this place anyway?” Evan look at the map panel as it displays the name <Icy Cavern> widening his eyes upon reading it. “Eh? I’m in the dungeon? Does that mean there are more than 1 entrance to the dungeon? Hmmm…does that mean <Moving Library> would have one? That’s interesting…” Evan ponders for a bit before another whimpering from Umbra broke his focus in addition to a ping that’s a bit delayed showing him a notification.

You’ve entered <Icy Cavern> during your exploration you will be subjected to [Cold] effect. Be wary of them! You can ward them off using fire or heating yourself up.

 

[Cold – Environment]

Effect:

Reduce Movement Speed, Attack Speed, HP/MP/SP Regen, Increase Casting Time, Damage taken from Cold Damage by 5%. This de-buff can be stacked when it reaches 10. You will be inflicted with [Frozen] de-buff for 2 seconds.

 

[Frozen]

Effect:

Unable to take use any skills, spells, or move. Take double damage from any physical source.

 

“Brrr….it’s cold even with huddling. I shouldn’t get those stacks get higher. Me & Umbra don’t want to get frozen” Evan rubbed his shoulder and palms together as his minds begin to turn. “How can I make it warmer? A flame would be nice right?” Evan focuses on his sense to detect mana as he tries to weave the flow of them together making a friction for heat.

*WHOOSH*

A burst of flame appeared on top of his hands as he imagine it to condense making a small mote of fire that slowly hovers between him & Umbra. “I need more” Evan continues his focus and produce several motes of fire surrounding them. Without the need of it on top of his palms rather just gently hovering around the pair.

“Umbra, you feel warm enough?” Evan asked using his mental connection between them as Umbra replies “Woof. Woof!” wags his tail and still cuddling Evan albeit in affectionate manner rather than seeking for warmth.

“Good” Evan got the confirmation as he waved his hand, the motes of flame danced around them not too close but not too far as the de-buff of [Cold] have been removed. In closer look, Evan can see the interior of the icy cavern.

Tall and sharp pointy looking icicles littered the ceiling and floors of the cavern. In addition, a thin sheet of ice covering the flooring making the tread a bit slippery but manageable.

Cold white mist permeating through the environment sometimes clouding their vision. Occasionally, winds that bring biting cold courses through the cavern, but the levitating mote of flames are capable of fighting them off.

The icy blue colours mixed with powdery white of snow make this place looks ethereal with Evan gently hear Umbra & his own footsteps ploughing through the white snow & ice beneath the floors.

*CRSSS CRSSS*

The sounds of ice cracking with one another can be heard as Umbra growls with intensity. “GRRR…” He leaped in front of Evan with the green robed mage behind the dog. “O… Oh… my first battle dungeon” Evan mind sharpened as he tries to identify what’s in front through Umbra’s [Keen Sense].

Appeared before them are strange small animated things, seemingly created by clusters of icicles resembling a snowflake that hovers in the air with white mist coiling around those things. There are 3 of them facing Umbra & Evan. “Although I can’t determine which way its facing” Evan thought.

[Ice Elemental]

Type:

Elemental

Level:

10

 

Rather than shriek, these creatures emit the sounds of ice breaking apart as they begin to formulate several ice spikes in front of them. “They’re going to attack” Evan unconsciously side-step with Umbra dodges it.

*WHOOSH* *BAM *BAM *BAM

The spikes upon hitting the ground, stab right through as Evan sees it in front of his eyes. “Okay… that’s dangerous. Ice elemental… weak to fire right?” Evan quick thinking as he applies what he has learned by modifying magic in battle. The small motes of fire that surrounding them immediately hurled themselves to the 3 ice elementals.

One got chomped by Umbra when he leaped after dodging the ice spikes. It shatters to tiny pieces of ice and lies on the ground.

*TSSSSSSSSSS* Hissing & Steam coming up from the point of contact where Evan’s improvised fire bolts hit the creature as Evan refocuses his imagination to create more motes of fire surrounding him.

An idea hit in his mind but before he can apply it, the other ice elemental finished creating its ice spikes and shoot it towards Umbra.

“Yaff!!” Umbra whined in pain as it hits his torso, thankfully since Evan set the realism to 10% there are no blood coming out or injuries only it is displayed on the panel that Umbra’s HP has gone down.

Abandoning his original idea momentarily, Evan uses what he remembered from the cleric that he is not creepily watch using his healing magic. “It works in close range, but I might be able to bend it to long range” Evan stretched the flow of mana thin as it infuses itself to Umbra with the hopes of it heals.

“Its hard but I’ll manage” Evan can see Umbra’s HP going up to full before returning to his original idea. There are several motes of fire circulating around Umbra, he opted to use that instead of the ones near him.

As Umbra leaped to one of the ice elemental the motes of flame brighten before hurling itself to the other ice elementals. “Go Umbra!” Evan chimes in as he swishes his hand to the left with the fire bolts hitting the other ice elemental creating steam cloud with hissing as the elemental melted to water.

The other shatters into tiny pieces falling to the ground and goes limp. Several notifications can be heard on Evan’s inventory panel as he opened it, revealing that he obtained a miscellaneous monster drops from the ice elemental. [Elemental Core Rarity: Uncommon] similar to slime jelly it serves as a purpose to be sold or crafting materials.

“Hmmm…since I already reached my goal for the week in terms of dollars. I’ll keep this one in the inventory” Evan closed the panel as Umbra approaches him while tapping his paws like a dance and wagging his tail.

He chuckles before bringing small treats from his pouch “Here ya go, good boy” As Umbra happily eat the treats with Evan scouring around the area. “So far, it is a straight path. Just what they describe in the guide” Evan muses.

While waiting for Umbra to finish his treats, Evan tries to do something that would make it easier for him to trek through the cavern. By focusing on the flow of mana, he tries to make him feel more sensitive to its currents and ripples in the mana.

For a while of focusing, he managed to refine this process to function similarly to radar while extending the threads of mana as thinnest as possible. Although it requires a lot of focus in his part, “I see… we’re going to meet with 10 entities in front. This ‘radar’ that I fashioned can’t differentiate between creatures only identifying if it is an entity or not” Evan stopped his focus as his status panel have a new notification.

Opening it, he can see that his knowledge about the school of divination increase from none to Novice. As he check that Umbra finished with his treats, ready to challenge next wave of enemies.

“10 of them huh? I don’t know if I & Umbra can handle them all together” Evan planned on something. As Evan brought out a branch, Umbra eyes gleamed knowing what it is as he activated the item.

Immediately after, 5 berries sprouted from the dead looking branch with leaves grew on them. Plucking them all he gives them to Umbra to eat as the dog gained HP regen buff for 5 minutes.

Evan pick some shards littered on the floor, upon approaching where he detected that many entities. He hurled them near the pair but far from the flock.

*PANG *PANG *PANG. Those sounds of shards falling to the ground echoes faintly. “Please!” Evan hopes as 4 snowflakes form ice elementals turned to the side of where the source of the sound would be.

“YES!” Evan seemed proud of himself, the ice elementals floated to the direction with that he commanded Umbra to attack one as the pair revealed themselves.

The surrounding motes of fire brightens and hurl towards each of the ice elementals dealing fire damage as steam coming out from the point of contact. Umbra managed to shatter one with his bite attack as the ice elementals formed ice spikes and hurl it towards the pair.

Before it hits Evan and Umbra though, the green robed mage focuses again on weaving the mana into some sort of dome that individually protect the two. In an instant, a thin line of force barrier made themselves into a dome to Umbra and Evan as the mage’s head begin to ache signifying a low MP.

*PRANG!!*

The ice spikes shatters upon impact to the barrier of force as Evan took that chance to dunk down a (S) Mana Potion to his throat with the headache alleviated. He can continue to focus weaving magics.

Umbra leaped and bite another Ice Elemental in combination of Evan’s shooting several motes of fire like darts to each elementals. Another one shatters upon being bitten by Umbra.

Evan weaved another motes of fires surrounding him and Umbra as the dog using the momentum after shattering one leaped to bite the other. Evan took that chance to hurl several motes of fire from Umbra side to other ice elemental. As it hisses and melt into droplets of water.

Pings come from Umbra and Evan’s status panel can be heard as they both level up, immediately restoring their HP,SP,MP to the maximum. As Evan felt his head refreshed like waking up from a goodnight’s rest as the motes of fire surrounding him like an ominous will-o-wisps, and Umbra brightens.

“Take this!” Evan shoot multitudes of fire bolts to the other 6 ice elementals from afar like a rain of fire. The motes of fire are simultaneously created while the other already hurled themselves to their respective targets.

The process continues again and again it consumes a lot of Evan’s MP as the headache begin to settle in since he needs to concentrate while weaving the flow of mana.

Umbra just stood aghast seeing his master capable of doing it, annihilating the other 6 ice elementals into puddle of water. “Fiuf….” Evan sat down with Umbra cuddling him taking a small break as he waits for his MP to regen to full.

Evan activated the branch again as it produces 5 berries where he given them to Umbra as the dog chomped it down like no tomorrow. Increasing the sensitivity of his mana, Evan senses there’s no entities in the current area while moving forward.

The pair encounter a large entrance leading to a massive oval chamber. “Its… strangely beautiful. Like a frozen lake” Evan muses as he comes in.

Rather than icicle spikes that adorned the ceiling or floors. They are all plants either being buried by snow or outright frozen.

Even the flower fields surrounding the oval sheen of ice which Evan assumed is the frozen lake are petals encased in ice. With the opening of the ceiling letting small bits of sunlight entering the chamber. It is tranquil like life has stand still inside the ice.

“What is that?” Evan eyes caught something, in the centre of that frozen lake is a mound where a single humanoid looking creature possibly taller than Evan with a feminine body stature sat.

Although it has no face, just a feminine body and long hair that floats like in water. The skin itself are crystalline like ice without wearing any clothing

Evan widened his eyes noticing where he’s at. “This is the boss room!” Panic settles in his heart as he turned around only seeing that the path behind him encloses as an ice wall blocking the way back.

A notification appeared.

Boss Battle! <Maiden of the Frost Lake LV 15> adjusted to solo-player settings

Hello readers, i'm playing with the tables colour and stuff is there any preferences or the default tables that I have here is enough?

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