LW – Chapter 10

Chapter 10

 

 

 

 

At some point I began to lose track of time. I miss Alice. She was so nice.

A few days passed while I trained.

I began doing exercises also, when I had the chance. I worked up every possible skill I could, trying to make all of them useful enough to help me to have a better life.

Just like that a month passed.

I managed to create a fire place inside my pithouse. And also all the walls are lined up with magitek created wood panelling also, made out of logs. Because I can control the magic power better now also, I’m able to place them precisely and even with some minor cuts on the ends to make it so the ends are notched together.

And by the end of the month I had a full underground cabin, hidden in the meadow! The mana shaping in the item create does let you have a bit of an advantage in where the created item is first placed; which was why it didn’t take me longer. I’d saved a lot of time.

In the time that’s passed, things have gotten harder bit by bit. And the good news is that you can’t even tell the cabin pithouse is here, except for someone might see that parts of the meadow are more trampled than others by where I’d walked through.

The goblins that come this way tend to be ferocious now. And always they come in packs of 2 or 3, that I’m guessing are probably around level 10-ish, which makes for a pretty hard system to beat.

However, in the last two weeks, I’d managed to create another skill by simulating the vine and root growths of the trees with my mana simulations. I did this with a lot of experimentation. And I was lucky.

And the worst part about this is somehow my skills are so permanent that when I use the ‘root’ and vine entrapment mana skill it doesn’t wear off when I’m finished with it! (This can be a pain in the ass now also, because this skill being used means I could end up turning the meadow into full forest soon.)

[Root Trap] skill acquired!

[Root Trap skill; permanently traps monsters in a mesh of durable vine and root growth. Creates a 10′ by 10′ by 10′ square mesh. Creatures caught within are trapped!]

Oops. The version I’d made was a full on trap skill. But I’d originally just been trying for like a combat temporary root. But I’d messed that up also. This result will technically work however. And its ironic that I ended up with this instead.

I began to consider the possibilities…

If I used this skill and spammed it in the same spot over and over, what would happen? Would it end up creating a thorny wall much like the fairy tale of the castle surrounded by a witch’s cursed thorn wall that kills men and beasts?

Or more than likely I’d have to alter the technique also to merge existing spells in the field over one another, I thought.

And is it possible to turn one of the vine sets into something that can produce fruit and vegetables? And what if I just keep pouring in tons of mana into it?

I want to experiment with it!

If I’m a life wizard, that seems closer to what a life wizard would do and need I think.

I don’t feel like I’m used to this land yet still. Everything is difficult here and invasion by monsters is a constant unending danger.

At one point after the month had passed, I realized I’d gotten to level 10!

By now tons of monsters have died by my hand. But my skin and arms feel chapped from all the wind also. I feel almost like a nomad.

 

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Name; Javen
Race; Administrator class (Censored)
Job class; Life/Creation Wizard
Level; 5 –> 10
Age; NA

Health; 121/139 –> 148/186
Mana; 236/651 –> 238/741
Stamina; 52/126 –> 56/175
Health regen; 11 –> 12 per day
Mana regen; 74 –> 90 (hourly)
Str 30 –> 32
Agi 33 –> 34
Con 66 –> 70
Int 104 –> 120
Wis 104 –> 120
App 100

Skills; Survival, Mana Sensing, [Censored], Summoned Danger Sense Turret(human shaped), Smash, Defend, Create Item , First Aid, Meditate, Axe Mastery
Minor Flame Wave, Create Water, Minor Heal, Root Trap
Traits; Memories have been censored, Blessing of the Heavens, Mana Genes, censored skills & traits, Life Affinity, Intermediate Life Affinity, Mana Efficiency, Advanced Life Affinity, Creation Affinity, Intermediate Creation Affinity, Intermediate Creation Affinity!

Equipment; Leather Gloves, Wizard Robes, (Kevlar) Shield, Splitting Maul 34″ Axe, Katana (in scabbard), Backpack, Coat, Throwing Dagger (8), Hunting Knife, Flashlight, Combat boots, Goggles, Soldier Helmet, Leather Armor, Combat Boots, Shin Guards, Wrist Guards

 

But it seemed there’s an increment bonus when you hit 10 levels, as in level 10, level 20, and so on. This gave me other bonuses also of the base states going up further…

 

Name; Javen
Race; Administrator class (Censored)
Job class; Life/Creation Wizard
Level; 10
Age; NA

Health; 148/186 –> 163/211
Mana; 236/741 –> 238/761
Stamina; 52/175 –> 56/200
Health regen; 12 –> 12 per day
Mana regen; 90 –> 95 (hourly)
Str 32 –> 37
Agi 34 –> 39
Con 70 –> 75
Int 120 –> 125
Wis 120 –> 125
App 100 –> 105

Skills; Survival, Mana Sensing, [Censored], Summoned Danger Sense Turret(human shaped), Smash, Defend, Create Item , First Aid, Meditate, Axe Mastery
Minor Flame Wave, Create Water, Minor Heal, Root Trap
Traits; Memories have been censored, Blessing of the Heavens, Mana Genes, censored skills & traits, Life Affinity, Intermediate Life Affinity, Mana Efficiency, Advanced Life Affinity, Creation Affinity, Intermediate Creation Affinity, Intermediate Creation Affinity!

Equipment; Leather Gloves, Wizard Robes, (Kevlar) Shield, Splitting Maul 34″ Axe, Katana (in scabbard), Backpack, Coat, Throwing Dagger (8), Hunting Knife, Flashlight, Combat boots, Goggles, Soldier Helmet, Leather Armor, Combat Boots, Shin Guards, Wrist Guards

 

I feel more powerful. I feel so much stronger.

Finally I think I can make a dent in what’s coming at me!

But is the system really going to let me use armor as a wizard?

Its odd. And its a symptom also that something is off about my censored origin and background.

 

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“Come out, come out! Human!” I heard a voice calling me after I’d been warming myself up inside my hidden house.

I got a chill to the bone. They speak my language?! Or am I speaking theirs?!

‘How did they know I’m here?!’

But they had challenged me also to come out in a roaring voice!

I didn’t want to…

But the consequences of being trapped in here could be bad. And if possible I could thin the numers of the enemy. But even more surprising was ‘how did the goblins know my language?!’

I reluctantly went up the ladder…carefully.

I popped the trap door hatch and came out, with the cold air from outside blasting me. (Thank goodness I had a coat.)

There was 7 goblins in a half-circle formation out there with a lead goblin patrol leader. In fact, the status screen system, even said ‘patrol leader’. He also read as a threat level dangerous to me…which meant he was probably stronger than I was.

But I had prepared well for this…

They let me out of my pithouse, but only because they couldn’t get me out on their own. And they wanted to surround me. But I’m more confident now!

The goblins ran at me, so I side stepped and bashed the first one while whipping out the katana blade outwards to slash at him. (-22 damage to goblin 1). The katana is easier to do quick strikes with, with the shield.

The other goblins are forced to approach me slowly.

I had been studying group tactics. The idea is if all of them rush you, they can’t all be next to you if you are just one man. But the danger comes also in dog piling!

You have to stay moving and side stepping them.

I triggered my Root Trap vine entrapment spell on the group of them all at once.

But at the same time two of them managed minor hits on me (-19 damage), and (-17 damage) each.

I jumped back.

All of the goblins except the leader are trapped hard and held. The Root Trap spell is so confining and permanent that its like they are grown into a mess of both vines and even the wood itself is coiled around them thickly!

Amazing!

“What?! How did you do such an advanced root spell? How could you do this?! You are nothing to us!” the goblin patrol leader barked at me.

He charges to attack with a black iron scimitar!

[Root Trap]! I casted.

The vines crash into him thickly! This is the amazing power of a Life Wizard!

They are stuck fast!

The goblins struggled to pull themselves out but can’t! In some cases they did actually end up bending some of the branches. But none of them get free.

“What tribe are you? Why do you keep coming here?” I asked the patrol leader.

“Fool. We figured out you are here. There’s too many of our kind that always go missing when they come this way. We are many! Our town holds hundreds of warriors! We will kill you!” he challenged while slavering rabidly at me.

‘Do goblins have naturally born rabies?’ I wondered.

But also I’m a little worried.

Hundreds of warriors? And they know I’m here now?

I sighed.

The goblins are laughing at me, thinking they’ve won and shaken me with fear.

But I’m not afraid, just stressed out. Fear is a wasted emotion.

They kept laughing until I used the axe to chop them up one by one. Then they were pissing on themselves and pleading for mercy the whole time.

I’d need to work hard from here on out.

My skills won, but it might have been different if they’d had their own caster shamans. And what if they’d had a champion of some kind?

I was pretty sure there were goblin warriors. And the goblins that I’d fought this time were all around my level. They just didn’t have a way of stopping me once I had them held fast. But if they’d had range weapons they might have still tried to resist, although futilely.

How could I put up a resistance that good to stop that many warriors at once?

Jeez this was bad.

When I look down the hill, into the far distance it seems that one of the giant hornet nests is destroyed by them also, leaving only two left.

So they must have swarmed it with as many warriors as they could. And then they came here next.

What to do…

I have to build more and be stronger…

But I don’t have a lot of spells yet. In fact, well, what I do have is pretty good for what I have but its still not a lot.

There was another patrol of goblins after that, this time it was five scouts. They didn’t last long.

One of my tricks is to just root trap all of them and then I can finish them off one by one now. Its like they don’t even matter to me anymore.