C008 Learning All The Tomes - Shout Spells
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"I would like to see any spells available for Swordsman. The Doppelganger sounds nice to have but I would to see any others or not that suits me."
"Yeah Boss, we both been using the physical attacks and having spells and also naming some of our moves sure make it more 'swee', don't you think?"
"Yup, it sure is. Elder, please excuse us after this, the 4 would like to go around York and see whats in store. I never got the chance to move about in York merchant District since I had come here before."
"Where did you come from, Robyn?"
"Before this, I think I remember it was Battersby, a small little town in the middle of the woods with some paths passing through it. I was in the marketplace and something horrible happened and made me flee from the scene and chanced upon the Elder, after being more than 9 hours on the run."
"Just forget about my past shall we? It had been long forgotten and I also didn't recall much of what's happening there before. Let's put the past behind us and we could go to the merchant district and see what the Peddler has in store for us."
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"Wow...! This place is just like Leeds and they got alot of new merchants selling their wares this we have never seen before... Simply wow!" commented Jean Lethal in a remarkable manner as he had never seen quite a galore as this since he was in Leeds before.
"Here's a Peddler, maybe we can ask him what he have for those staffers." said Jean Lethal as he approached the Peddler and asked for the sales list for Staffers and he got himself a list based on a Paragon or a pole wielder.
"These are the new group of adventurers that had been named since the old one had been dropped. Any adventurer who holds a quarterstaff or a pole arm would fall automatically in this group. Have you not heard of the new system upgrade?"
The peddler mentioned and handed us a sales list based on the new current warrior class that we had never heard on the system notifications before. Maybe we are just plain busy building hearths out in the forest while other adventurers stays in towns and villages.
"Cool...!!! I never knew I could have these spells to help those around me. Look, Boss, here's a SHOUT spell called 'Brace Yourself'. Prevents the next knock-down and deals 15...63...75 damage to all foes near target ally within 15 seconds. No cooling time required. Cost 15 gold coins."
"Here's another SHOUT spell called 'Fall Back' Allies in earshot gain 5...13...15 Health per second while moving and move 33% faster within 10 seconds. No cooling time required. 15 gold coins."
We looked at Jean Lethal who was flipping the sales book excitedly and were smiling at him as if he had just unwrapped his Christmas presents early in Easter. Hahahahaha.
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After looking at the sales book, Stef didn't purchase any as she thought that her skills would be more than enough for her to handle at the moment. Furthermore, with her current skills, there's not much cooling time except for FrostBeam and Death From Above. She is happy with the way it is and decided to Level up on those as she unleashes them and gain experience points every time she utilises them.
When I looked at the sales book and about the notification that the other adventurers had informed me about, a thought passed through my mind when the bracelets that Matilda wore jiggled in front of me. I quickly opened an interface and sent a message to the rest of the 80 adventurers.
"Hi, this is your leader, Robyn. Don't buy the tomes, just collect them from us when we returned. Thanks and take care during your party raids." and I clicked send and it was sent to all the members of the band. The moment they received the message, I received a lot of emoji from them as replies and it seemed they were excited to receive freebies from us.
"Kind Peddler, could we have the tomes for 'The Patriot' for the Archers, 'The Juggernaut' for the Mages, 'Doppelganger' for the Swordsman, 'Augury of Death', 'Black Lotus Strike' and 'Black Mantis Strike' for the Assassins, please?" said I to the Peddler and paid for the tomes.
"Just one book each? Wouldn't that be enough for the rest of the guys later?" asked Matilda and I immediately gave her the eye and pouted my mouth to keep her from saying so much.
"Alright guys, just buy those tomes and passed it to me first before I let you read and learn the skills, OK?" I answered back and Matilda and Jean Lethal looked at the sales book and pointed those that interests most.
Jean Lethal chose the following tomes:
SHOUT Spell - Brace Yourself
Deals up to 75 damage against foes earshot
Period every 3 seconds for 15 seconds.
No cooling time required.
SHOUT Spell - Fall Back
Allies in earshot gain 15 Health per second while moving and move 33% faster within 10 seconds.
No cooling time required.
SHOUT Spell - Find Their Weakness
Target ally deals up to 50 damage and inflicts Deep Wound condition for every 2 seconds for a period of 20 seconds with the next attack.
No cooling time required.
SHOUT Spell - Go For Their Eyes
Allies in earshot have 30 to 100% to land a critical hit with their next attack.
Duration 10 seconds
No cooling time required
For melee, Jean Lethal chose the following:
Barbed Staff Attack (Passive)
Inflicts Bleeding condition every 1 second up to 20 seconds
Blazing Staff Attack (Passive)
Deals from 5 to 25 damage.
Inflicts Burning condition every 1 second up to 5 seconds.
Unblockable Staff Attack (Active)
Deals 10 to 40 damage.
Unblockable.
Cooling time 30 seconds.
Jean Lethal gleeful paid for those tomes with his own coins and handed it to me. Then Matilda consulted me what she would need for the spells and asked if any of those are good for battle or not. After a while, she had made several choices.
Matilda chose the following:
Shout Spell - Fear Me
15 seconds duration
5 to 30% chance of a critical hit with melee attacks against foes.
Cool time 30 seconds
Shout Spell - None Shall Pass
8 seconds duration
Knocks down all nearby moving foes.
Cool time 15 seconds
Shout Spell - Shields Up
Duration 12 seconds
Party members in earshot have +60 armour against projectile attacks.
Cool time 15 seconds
Shout Spell - To The Limit
Duration 20 seconds
10 to 60 maximum Health added every 5 seconds for 20 seconds.
Cool time 30 seconds
Barbarous Slice Sword Attack (Passive)
Deals up to 30 damage.
Inflicts Bleeding condition up to 15 seconds.
Final Thrust Sword Attack (Passive)
Deals up to 40 damage.
Deals up to 40 more damage if target foe is below 50% Health.
Galbraith s***h Sword Attack (Passive)
Deals +1...32...40 damage.
Gash Sword Attack (Passive)
Deals up to 20 damage and inflicts Deep Wound condition up to 20 seconds if your target is Bleeding.
After Matilda had consulted me, she paid for the items and gave the times for me to safeguard.
And as for myself and for the Barbarians that wield their Battle Axes, I decided to choose the following:
Dismember Axe Attack.
Inflicts Deep Wound condition up to 30 damage up to 20 seconds
Eviscerate Elite Axe Attack.
Deals up to 31 damage.
Inflicts Deep Wound condition up to 20 seconds
Executioner's Strike Axe Attack.
Deals up to 40 damage.
Furious Axe Attack.
Deals up to 35 damage.
Lacerating Chop Axe Attack.
Deals up to 25 damage.
Inflicts Bleeding condition up to 2) seconds
Penetrating Blow Axe Attack.
Deals up to 20 damage.
20% armour penetration.
Whirling Elite Axe Attack.
Deals up to 20 damage
Unblockable.
I paid for the items and store them together with the tomes that I had been given by Matilda and Jean Lethal. Mages, Druids and Necromancer didn't make any requests as they were seen as long-range offensive threats.
We walked to the tavern and Matilda asked what I am going to do with the tomes. "Don't worry, I'd be back in 10 minutes." as I drifted off to my meditative state and went to the Realm of Mind and went to the Fusion Chamber.
I pushed the slider to DUPLICATE / MULTIPLY and I place every single tome and I turned the counter on how much I need to multiplier it while I closed the door and pulled the crank.
*DING* Duplicate Multiplier Success. 100 tomes multiplied.
"Sigh, if only I could duplicate gems this way, it would be better..." I sighed outwardly and removed the duplicated tomes and store it back in my storage and I repeated the whole process. It was 30 minutes past and I logged off and returned to the real world.
"Hahahahha...see, I told you. The silly boy just want to have some shut-eye and now he's baccckkkkk..." joked Matilda in her usual ways and I passed all the tomes that were bought by them earlier.
"What did you do to the tomes, Robyn?" asked Stef as she sensed I was up to something when I grinned from ear to ear.
"Oh... It's a little something for everyone, I wish we could buy more but I think these should suit more than enough. Frankly, with these tomes, we could hire some 800 more adventurers but we need something like 30 support staffs to cook meals daily for them."
"I knew you did something to the tomes, heh... I should have known your devious plans from the way your grin is. You are such a devil, Robyn, in a good way."
"Hmm...? A good devil?" Matilda was munching through an Ebi burger she had gotten from Macdonalds and looked at me then she purposely sticks out her tongue to provoke me to say something about her snacking again.
"Hahahahaha... I'm not going to say anything more, granny's cutie pie. Better go and read and learn the tome. I want to buy some more tomes unrelated to battle."
I went to the Peddler again and picked tomes like cooking, fishing, scouting, setting traps, farming, gathering resources, herbalism and some others that would prove beneficial in the future for the support members.
I paid up and went back to where the rest were sitting. Once again, I duplicated these tomes for a total number of 25 copies each and stored them for future use.
"Boss, you sure are making these people lose money. Hoo Hoo Hoo... But these NPC are not complaining one bit." after Jean Lethal looked at what I had purchased for the support members and thought it was a good idea.
I smiled and after we had a short break, we went to the announcement area where there are quite a number of bulletin boards erected. There were some small party raids and since Matilda and Jean Lethal had read their tomes, it's time to Level up those and increase their passive skills immediately.
Soon after, we chose a large party raid, which pays out 55% gold coins based on our party and adds a 1:2 multiplier on the number of enemies. A minimum of 50 demons was being partied on their other side and we went through a portal to bring us to our destination.
All of Matilda's and Jean Lethal's passive skills were at Level 1 when we entered the battlefield and when we emerged back in town, the levels had increased to 15. A few more of those similar party raids had increased them all to Level 35 and the damage ratings had increased more than 1450%.
"Hii Hii Hii... Thanks to these party raids, these new skills we had learnt are a great benefit to our normal hack and s***h physical attacks, don't you think JL? Even with 50 demons on a large scale is still effortless. At least now, these passive assaults are being multiplied with our current refinements, enhancements as well as our socketed gems in our equipment and accessories."
"Yup, just keep your stats hidden so no one knows. This is our little secret. These adventurers need to ask around and not presume every tome drops from grinding monsters. Or even from their clans, that would need them to make the clan contribution before they can acquire the tomes."
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