[Mission Score]
You have completed your introductory mission. Congratulations!
After much trial, error, and dedicated focus on general ass-kickery, you have successfully completed the task set before you. Due to your actions in being the first to complete this mission properly, you receive the first prize reward. A new champion power will be unlocked!
Grade: B
Base Reward: 400 EXP
Grade Bonus: X4
Total: 1600 EXP
Elimination Bonus: 26 EXP
-Settings Bonus-
Beloved Champion: You not only completed the mission, but caught the attention of the mission boss, Saelil Lothuialeth. This route is determined as the best ending route for the mission. Due to discovering the best end route, you will receive a further bonus.
Grade: A
Route Bonus: 2800 EXP
Special Bonus[1]: You defeated a powerful opponent
Bonus: 2000 EXP
Special Bonus[2]: Hero's Resolution – You killed no champions, nor did you kill non-aggressive NPCs in a premium world setting designed for team play and competition.
Bonus: 4000 EXP
Total: 8800
-Entertainment Bonus-
You proved to be highly entertaining on several occasions. This reduces the annoyance of our people as they wait for your race to fail their challenges and become our property.
Entertainment Grade: B
Entertainment Bonus: 1600 EXP
Fan Following: You have acquired new fans. Once you have 100 fans, you will be granted a one percent bonus to all EXP earned. Each additional 100 fans will increase your EXP by one percent as well.
Fans: (727)
Fan-Base Bonus: 841.82
Total EXP Earned: 12867.82
[--]
[Special Bonus]
Congratulations!
Due to the fact that you have been taken under the care of a personal manager, you have earned a special one-time bonus.
- EXP +5000
[--]
"H-holy shit!" Scott ran his hand down his face in surprise. With the eleven hundred or so EXP he had remaining from before, he was now nearly back to the experience point total that he had after his story mission! It was unbelievable that an introductory mission would provide such a boon. He was not done receiving rewards yet, however.
[Warning]
Unfortunately, not all of your premium equipment falls under the category of treasure items. They will be destroyed. However, due to their premium world-setting nature, you will receive EXP credit for them. Items pertaining to Saelil Lothuialeth will not be destroyed for one hour.
If you choose to resurrect her as a true companion, she will be able to equip those items in most world-settings and they will not be destroyed.
Resurrection and Companion Acquisition Cost: 3763 EXP
Her power level will be reset to level one upon resurrection. All knowledge will be retained.
[--]
"So, ghost girl can live again if I pay the price," said Scott.
It really was not much of a decision. The system deemed her as a true companion which was basically a companion tied permanently to him. Thankfully, she would be a permanent team member with a lot of magical knowledge.
He did not immediately resurrect her, however. There were more messages to sift through.
[--]
All non-treasure items from Fear Rune, or items not associated with Saelil Lothuialeth, have been destroyed.
EXP Compensation: 987
[--]
"Now that I think about it, where is all that stuff?" asked Scott. He looked around, but he did not see any of it.
Curious, he searched within himself then blinked. "I still have my internal inventory?" As it turned out, the next message cleared up that mystery.
[Special Reward]
Champion Ability Unlocked: Spatial Storage I
Spatial Storage is a rare ability earned only by those who complete missions in premium world settings that allow for such usage. Unlike items that provide similar functions, this ability will scale with strength directly. In order to carry non-system generated items, or non-treasure items, upgrade to Spatial Storage Type II
Load Capacity: 40 lbs. + 10 lbs. per point of strength.
[--]
"This... No fucking way." Scott threw back his head and laughed. He now had an internal storage space!
He checked out the upgrade for the spatial storage feature then grinned. Five thousand EXP would allow him to have personal carrying capacity that would let him carry items from one world to another without those items being destroyed when traveling through the home point. The only exception was for premium world items. He would need to upgrade to the third spatial storage ability first in order to keep those items. Though, it was possible that he might not be able to deploy them outside of their setting-of-origin.
There were four total spatial storage upgrades. However, the last one was only a massive upgrade in carrying capacity.
He checked his status briefly then nodded. He now possessed just over twenty thousand EXP. That was enough for several serious upgrades. A large chunk of it would go to his spatial storage upgrade and the resurrection of Saelil, but that still left far more EXP than he had before his latest adventure.
Unlike the last time that he acquired such a windfall of EXP, he did not want to spend it on infrastructure. His real need at the moment was serious permanent upgrades. Rather than spend half of his points at that moment, he preferred to heal his lingering injuries and purchase a handful of healing items from the system.
"I'll need to resurrect Saelil in order for the special equipment not to be lost. Still, there's no need to spend more points than that until I've introduced Saelil to the girls, and brought everyone back here," said Scott. He tilted his head from side-to-side briefly then nodded.
Talking to himself proved to be an effective way to work out his strategies so far. Perhaps there was something to be said for doing such a thing, despite the social stigma one might have to endure if people knew that he engaged in such activities. Not that he would care what people thought about him in that manner. He had seen far too much to feel ashamed over something so simple.
Brief tangent into his own inner workings complete, he decided to follow through on his original plan. It was his best chance for massive personal improvement. Rushing things would not be good. His infrastructure was taken care of, and his team had grown considerably. The words of his so-called personal manager returned to him in that moment. He did in fact need to step up his game even more.
Barely surviving was something he had decided was not good enough a while back. Now he knew that he needed to focus on developing abilities that would work in a large number of locations. He needed to be ready for anything.
Chapter 12
The temptation to burn through all of his experience points was hard to resist. Even after purchasing healing items and restoration, he still had nearly twenty thousand EXP to use.
"A little under thirty-eight hundred points to resurrect Saelil. It's a big chunk, but she would help a lot in the future..." The biggest issue for Scott was not just that failing to resurrect her would be a waste of her potential, but a large number of specialty items would be lost.
Before he clicked the selections necessary for her resurrection, however, he noticed something new in his list. Curious, he clicked on that function instead. His eyes lit up gleefully for a moment, but then returned to normal with a sigh. "I unlocked new bloodlines, but none of them are much better than human..."
Scott frowned at the list. He now had access to the bloodlines for dark elves and a stronger form of zombie known as a ghoul.
"Dark elf maxes out at half a point higher in concentration, charisma, and agility, but everything else maxes out a half point lower than human..." Scott ran through the information carefully. A dark elf was a class of being not too dissimilar to a human. At least, that was the case for the com
mon form that he was able to access now.
Average life span of six hundred years, resistant to dark elemental attributes and fire, but weak to light attributes. If he took the dark elf route he would also acquire both dark and infrared vision, the ability to engulf an area in a sphere of darkness, and improved senses of sight and hearing.
There were few downsides to the upgrade, and it was by far the best bloodline change he had seen so far. But it was not dynamic enough for him. If he was going to cast aside humanity as a racial basis, he wanted to cast it aside for something that would be stronger on the whole, and not just slightly better in some ways while being slightly worse in others.
The ghoul bloodline caught his attention briefly, but other than being a slightly better zombie it was not worth acquiring. He would still be a rotting corpse, but he would also have a few predatory upgrades. Triangular shark-like teeth, claws, the eyes of a hunting cat and an ability to be immune to a lot of status effects were the main claim to fame for the race. Still, he did not want to be a rotting corpse.
"Damn, how about letting me be a Saiyan, or a freaking Kryptonian, something that doesn't lock the stats down in the single digits!" he exclaimed after a moment of introspection. It was ridiculous that the bloodlines acquired so far were so unhelpful.
Scott remembered something after a moment. "Man, how could I forget that!"
He cried out, "Nano-Cloud Activate!"
A swarm of tiny nanomachines formed around him in a cloud of frenetic activity. The old black and gold suit formed around his body in its skintight manner once more. "Oh god yes!" cried Scott as he felt the raw power provided by the suit begin to surge through his body.
His suit, his glorious suit, was back! All stats upgraded by one point! Base durability was high enough to completely negate mid-tier firearms and lesser damage. Base attack boost high enough to mimic a weak shotgun with every punch! Enough extra hit points that he could take multiple shotgun blasts to his unarmored face without taking more than a few bruises! The suit was back, baby!
[Name: Scott Davidson]
[Age: 20]
[Race: Earthling]
[Lifestyle: Shroom Soldier]
[Level: 2][1281/2000]
[EXP: 19714.63]
[Life Span: 9 Day(s)]
[Hit Points: 41[443]
[Floral Power: 7.6[10.6]
ATTRIBUTES
[Strength: 2.49[4.99][Resilience: 4.00[5.00]
[Vitality: 4.00[6.50][Dexterity: 4.00[5.00]
[Concentration: 1.9[2.90][Charisma: 1.00[2.00]
FEATS
[Improved Regeneration I]
[Improved Hit Points I]
[Improved Coordination I]
[Soldier's Resolve]
[Improved Floral Power I]
[Improved Floral Power Regeneration I]
POWERS
[Gravitas Super Jump][FP: 3]
[Burning Smash][FP: 0.75]
[--]
"There are still upgrades that I can get for my standard human bloodline and the shroom soldier lifestyle." Scott rubbed his chin while looking at the options.
"I also have that necromancer lifestyle to consider..." The champion decided to check on that particular outlet for his point expenditure then grunted loudly. "God damn, put me in the poor house why don't you?"
He shook his head rapidly from side to side. The hedge wizard red necromancer lifestyle offered some good stuff, but the cheapest ability was eight thousand points! "Shit, I have to study those damned books for a while before the prices come down."
What was worse, the necromancer lifestyle did not come with vitality, resilience, or strength upgrades. Until he acquired a new lifestyle slot in the Battledome, switching over to that lifestyle would drastically reduce his stat possibilities through the shroom soldier.
"Hey, yeah... the Battledome. If I can unlock a second lifestyle slot then I can equip both of my lifestyles... Most of my stats could be increased a little more by combining the two..." said Scott thoughtfully.
He had not gone there yet because of his need to check out every other option and to build up his infrastructure. However, the Battledome supposedly offered unique opportunities that even included the ability to purchase lifestyles and bloodlines outside of what he had unlocked to date.
"Yeah, no need to spend on either of my lifestyles at the moment. Maxing my base human stats and resurrecting Saelil would be best," said Scott.
"Dammit, I don't know how much anything costs there." Scott immediately abandoned his thoughts on using his personal exchange and went to the mission door.
He touched it to see what would happen. A window screen popped up asking what he wanted to do. Currently, time was halted in his home point with certain exceptions. He only had a little over half an hour to get back to his home point if he wished to resurrect Saelil without losing those items. However, he was curious about the Battledome. His curiosity caused the system to send up a new message.
[Battledome Operation Rules]
There are three major areas of the Battledome. Those areas are the primary exchange, the hidden exchange, and the battle arena. All champions may go to the primary exchange without time passing in their home point or other locations. Entering any of the other areas of the Battledome will cause time to synchronize and flow normally.
Regardless of where the champion goes, the Battledome area may only be entered once per day.
The Battledome uses its own currency, Battle Points. EXP can be exchanged for Battle Points at the primary exchange, and conversion is automatic if something is purchased through the primary exchange. Battle Points may also be acquired through combat in the arena, or through betting on matches. Battle Points may be converted into EXP.
[--]
"Cool, so I can go to the primary exchange with no problem?" Scott wasted no time in going to check on that. His intent was to pop over and see what would happen. He could always just return the next day with the whole team.
The door opened and he walked through. He was greatly surprised to see that the so-called Battledome was nothing more than an endless white field with another floating orb in the center. "How is this any different than back home?"
Scott walked over to the orb and touched it. Immediately he was given two options. One option would allow him to enter the Battledome Arena. The other would allow him to use the primary exchange. He chose the latter and was inundated with dozens of new list options.
Most of the new options were greyed out, but they were available to be viewed. Scott looked through a few at random for a moment. The pricing seemed off, until he realized it was all in battle points. Each item in the selection literally costed one hundred times the list price in EXP.
"Shit. So expensive," muttered Scott.
His estimation of the prices fell even further when he went to view the bloodlines. "Hundreds of thousands of battle points for the highest tier available?"
Tens of millions of experience points were required for things like the greater succubus that Daedra utilized so well against him. It was much easier to unlock things for free by meeting certain requirements.
"Man, how am I going to afford even a low-end bloodline enhancement like this?" asked Scott in annoyance.
After a few minutes of scrolling through offerings ended in frustration, he was about to turn away. However, a flashing list item caught his attention. There was a counter underneath that rapidly counted down from one thousand. Curious, he clicked on it.
"Hourly discount sales list?" asked Scott. He was listed as one of the ten lucky people to click on the sale this time. He could pick anything from the list at an incredible discount.
He looked at the list and immediately grinned. There was a bloodline section! Scott clicked on it, but to his horror, he discovered that the listed items were rapidly becoming greyed out. Other people were purchasing things and removing them from the list!
Almost at random he stabbed his finger repeatedly at anything he could find that was still
lit, but each time he tapped the item someone else bought the last one. It was not until nearly all of the lights were gone that he managed to tap one that provided a successful pop-up menu detailing a possible purchase. There were only five available, and three were already sold. He had one minute to decide on whether he would buy it, or it would return to the list.
"God damn," muttered Scott. It was obvious that a lot of people waited for the hourly discount sale!
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