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Jason slew another orc as blood spilled on the ground. A window opened up, announcing his swordsmanship increased by another level.
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Intermediate Swordsmanship level up to level 6 |
It’s been a while since this one appears.
A welcoming notification. He smiled, while those around him were fighting to their utmost ability. Every Inuits in his party were fighting alone to their very best. There were no more team-fight as the journey they went through was riddled with intense fights.
Like they always said, difficult adversity built one’s character, but for Awakened, they grew in strength and prowess. Arrluk bashed a single orc with heavy slaps of his metal rod. The grandson, Nuniq, fought like he always did. His claws shredded an orc into pieces as his Druid Warrior class shined during battle. A little Scan let Jason knew of what he was, and it also included the sister.
Jason watched Tapeesa dodged the heavy attacks of the orc as she timed her attack.
“Frost Orb,” a ball of chilling coldness emerged from her hand as it struck the orc by the torso. A chilling breeze spread from the orc’s bulging stomach as it turned bluish purple. It froze on its track as the coldness spread throughout its body, and it wasn’t the end.
“Icicle Spear,” a spear made out of ice floated above her with her arm outstretched to the sky. She threw the Icicle Spear with every might that she had. It pierced right through the orc’s belly as it flopped to the ground to its death.
Cryogenist, a class that can easily correlate to an Ice-based mage. Looking at her skills can really put one’s emotion down, their numbers…. Huh, who cares. I’ve already chosen Assassin, and I might as well hope for a future class advancement or something.
Since turning into an Awakened, Jason had felt too much regret. Tilting his head, Jason shrugged those fleeting regrets as he knew what matters.
“Let’s go. We need to cover more ground.” Jason glanced at his watch as the time was well past afternoon. He had been traversing through Oshawa’s land since morning, and it was more difficult to navigate with the surroundings no longer bore the same as before disasters struck.
The land was no longer flat as the earthquake changed everything. Like a rocky mountain path with roads hidden by the debris and dirt, and buildings broken to the point of not resembling buildings.
“For once, let me catch my breath,” said Nuniq as he was on his knees. Tapeesa too was squatting down as her eyes were a bit of a daze. Arrluk gulped down a mouthful of water as he stood back up, readied to depart.
“Stop whining. What Mr.Park said is right. We need to get a move on before the sky turns dark,” said Arrluk.
Nuniq complained in his whispers, and Tapeesa got up with her eyes still a bit dazed. The four continued their journey. Jason didn’t have any problem climbing and jumping around as his status was adequate for harsh environments. He even had the leisure to killed any orcs that he encountered with just a swing of his swords.
Those who trailed behind weren’t fazed by Jason’s feat. After many times of seeing it, they just accepted that this Jason was even more of a freak than their grandpa. But Jason wasn’t liking it as seeing these many orcs surviving the disasters wasn’t a good sign. He hoped his initial assumption was wrong, but the detest answer was becoming clearer and clearer.
Another four hours of trekking through the harsh road and there, Jason stood. The rest of them lagged behind as Jason stared down the black abyss. A bead of sweat trickled down his temple as he glanced left and right. It was the same scene.
“Shit, they really did it.”
He couldn’t believe it, but the plan from the military came to a realization. What he saw in front was a real-life fact. A long ravine, splitting the earth from one end of his sight to the other. He couldn’t see the end of it, but at least the approaching danger was stopped for a while. Jason stared at the deep abyss as the ground was nowhere in sight.
Even if those orcs survive, I doubt they can climb up with this height.
It would be best if the Orc Chief was also down there, but deep down, he hoped that bastard pig was still walking around here as he had a debt to be paid.
“Wow,” an exclamation from two siblings. At times like this, their sibling unity came to life. Arrluk watched in silence as he didn’t have much to say.
“For a bunch of soldiers, they really outdid themselves,” said Nuniq.
“So, what are you going to do?” Arrluk posed a question.
“I found that the plan succeeded, but there’s still a…” at the corner of his eyes, he saw something. His eyes went wide as he kicked Arrluk back on the path that they trailed.
Nuniq and Tapeesa were shocked seeing what they just saw. They didn’t expect betrayal from a person that fought together with them. With their teenage mindset, Nuniq blew over his top, prepared to fight to the death with Jason, and his sister was the same. Even if she had a crush on Jason, she still prioritized her family more than some bad boy from nowhere. An icy gaze directed at Jason as her hands became chilly.
But the wrath of the siblings, dialed back down to nothingness, as the man who kicked their grandparents got hit by a huge black club.
The siblings stared as Jason’s whole body was off the ground heading into the air above the deep ravine. Everything happened in just a second. The heavy club dropped as gravity took charge. The club pushed Jason into the deep ravine as a man tried to escape his impending doom.
Yet the siblings watched in stupefaction as they couldn’t grasp what was going on. Realization struck Tapeesa by the second as she shouted and screamed for his name.
“Jason!!!”
Even if it was for a second, her belated realization cast a cloud of sorrow to her heart. She blamed her crush, yet the truth unveiled in an instant. He did it to saved the grandfather.
“Tapeesa!” Arrluk roared, calling to his granddaughter. Yet his eyes were focused on a single entity. The grip on his metal rod tightened as his pupils were quivering in rage.
“There’s time for grief, but not now!” Arrluk shouted. Nuniq, who paid heed to his grandfather, saw the walking monstrosity with a bulging stomach.
“Tapeesa! Stand together! It’s time we fight!”
To his grandfather’s words, Tapeesa turned and stared at the hulking monster that was plodding towards them. She faced her body at the new enemy as her gaze was fierce as she knew who was the one responsible for what had happened. Then a teenage girl bellowed to the top of her lung.
“I’m going to kill you!”
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Jason really needs to get some kind of scouting skill as being sneak attacked by an orc (chief) as an assassin is just embarrassing. Granted he could have dodged had he ditched old man but that’s not good enough.
I can't agree more with this comment. Given the foes he's had to fight, Jason has been given some weak powers. His class selection was flat out ret*rded, epecially if he is going to keep fighting with groups. Assassins work solo, or with other asssasins. They strike once and escape. Totally not the ideal career choice in an apocalypse against unending hordes or when defending groups of folks who can't flee or hide!
No body strengthening. He has literally done nothing interesting with his contract ability. (Fun concept, but if Jason/author didn't have a desire to use it, why...!?) His poison ability is probably something that a good piece of equipment doesn't not really worthy of an "ability", since it doesn't let him do anything he couldn't do without it (maybe a bit less damage) it's more like a buff. Why don't skill scrolls drop any more? The enemies he is fighting are stronger than those he was fighting earlier, right? (If they were only available in early stages, that girl in NY really screwed him over.)
With his start, he should totally be leaving everyone in the world, including the boat trio in the dust; his titles give insane bonuses in combat and when leveling; there should be no comparison. They shouldn't even be fighting the same class of enemies because it should be ridiculously easy for Jason. But... his class apparently sucks so hard that even the piles of extra stats he's been given, on top of being levels above them, aren't enough.
WTF!?? Stop fooling around Jason... grind like your family's life depends on it, because...
And, for gods sake, until you switch to a decent class, act like the cowardly backstabber you chose to be; use stealth, range, poison and target BOSSES. (No groups. No melee with large masses of enemies.)
Maybe. But I keep thinking of my fav build for Fallout New Vegas. 1 Perception, because perception is useless against enemies out of visual sight range, or in cover.
I suspect there isn't a radar type skill, or if there is one, it has an active mode and passive mode. Active mode alerts enemies to YOUR location, at greater range than you can find them, just like how real radar works.
We don’t know what happens when poison goes intermediate. Poison ranged weapons? Unstoppable paralyze? The abilities really shine past their first evolution.
I agree his choices were ret*rded. After boosting his stealth to intermediate, which was bad, but he had no idea it would give him the same skill (stealth) as a class skill, he should have just grinded low level mobs. To get some levels, but more importantly, grind scrolls and sword and bow skills.
I do think this is deliberate. HanNamja wanted to write a protagonist who does make stupid choices. But as I mentioned, poison might go beyond Uber at intermediate level. Besides, stunning foes for a few seconds is already overpowered.
@Userunfriendly Plus he isn't specializing the same way everyone else does as he has more points to spend as the first hunter (less oomph than the amount of total stats would imply but no particular weak area either; but he is learning and working on not becoming a jack of all trades master of none). Isn't like there is a convenient walk through explaining consequences and mistakes. It's the first generation of hunters and thus mistakes are inevitable. What Jason should make as his goal is making a build that can go against Scarlet Rex. Of course he doesn't know it's exact skill set or even stats which makes things difficult to estimate but he at least knows it used that terrain aura for the nuke which I imagine it implies it could get hurt from that level of weapon (could have also had other reasons like not letting humans level from nuking monsters or something). Thus, becoming a human with the single-point lethality of a nuke is the way to go I guess?
Ranged is the way to go fighting Kaiju. He should be spending more time in archery, see what happens beyond intermediate. I agree with your reasoning, but I think my reasoning grinding skills and scrolls is as valid too.
@Userunfriendly Depends on luck though. Might as well challenge yourself while grinding for stuff.
@Ediav42 ... how is he diverse? Strong defense? Great strength? Magic? Mental skills? He is a speed melee glass cannon with stealth. Is he good at it, yes. Is he amazing at it? No. (Not compared to the performance of others who are nearly 10 levels below him.) His single-shot damage isn't significantly greater than those around him, which is the key feature of a good assassin. He is a solid dual-classer swordsman-assassin at best; at this point, he'd make a better ranger or pirate (sneaky, sword-focused, some ranged, has been on a boat, isn't an honorable fighter/poison, runs on water...) But, I definitely think the story shouldn't go in a nautical direction.
Unless his class has incredible growth potential... which would be surprising for a specialized class like assassin, I don't see it being useful. Assassins are for kings or select targets; then they flee. And assassins do their job very infrequently because it requires planning and positioning, with a high fail rate (hopefully, without detection, so they can withdraw and try again) and is very high risk even then. Most of the time, assassins aren't stealthy, they are just not noticed. (Snipers are stealthy as are ninjas. Assassins simply kill without being caught; yes, often using poisons, or strangulation, or tall buildings with open windows.) Not a class you want when advancement is based on mass kills and there is no "respawn."
As an interesting aside, I found out that my deceased step-grandfather (married my grandmother after my grandfather died) was a military assassin/killer. ... Not sniper. Not battlefield. Peacetime assassin, working for the military, who took out targets, as ordered, while in foreign countries with permission. I know what his cover job was in the military, and it made more sense after he told the stories (no names, no countries specifically named, but some are implied based on the pistol collection he left behind) shortly before he died. He was... a complicated individual. But when I joined the military, after the death of my grandmother, he wanted to talk to someone when his health was in rapid decline.
Your second point may explain why he chose the class. He probably reasoned this was the best class for anti-Kaiju work.
I agree for your first point. He's missing burst damage. Possibly Blood edge gets super powerful after intermediate?
@Userunfriendly ... Perhaps, but one needs to get strong enough to kill a Kaiju first, right? And stealth is the only skill that he received which was helpful for killing a kaiju, unless he thinks he is going to poison one to death. No burst damage! No armor piercing! The skills granted are not only unhelpful now, but aren't that helpful later. Arguably poison helps ensure that anything he nicks receives DoT, but that is a far cry from actually killing something, and the damage his poison does is super negligable. That said, he should be using it constantly, on orcs, humans, banging random blunt swords against trees... constantly grinding it... if he wants anything that MIGHT ever be useful to incapacitate a strong foe.
Re. grandpa... yeah. I know! It was a shocker for me too. PM me for details, if interested.
But remember, he didn’t know that it lacked burst damage when he got it. Also, the stealth skill may have backstabbing multipliers when it gets leveled up high enough. Certainly this is common for many games.
@Userunfriendly ... possibly. Still, dumb choice with skills that were worse than even he could even have anticipated. It is possible that it gets better, but in my opinion, he had better options.
As I mentioned, I really think HanNamja deliberately chose sub optimal configurations.