[fieldbox= Soren (Collab), purple, solid]
Throwing Knife 1
43 - 8 Accuracy - 35
The first knife hit the leaves and branches above it. Not much light shone through, if any at all, but a couple of small twigs and leaves did fall onto the statue. Nothing seemed to happen after the first knife, so the second one may do it.
Throwing Knife 2
0 (Critical!)
The second knife managed to hit and cut a branch just right, causing a gentle fall of leaves and twigs that was on the branch to fall on the statue, all which did not disturb the light. The statue's eyes suddenly opened, its expression clearing up a bit before from its eyes, its eyes opening a bit as if it had a good rest and a gentle awakening that made a good rest even better, shone with a bright light, a path to the east opening.
Then the statue proceeded, as if it was fully awake rather than rudely awaken, almost looked like it was standing up before it just vanished, the stone base it was sitting on seeming to crack right open like a stone box, a few notifications appearing before Soren now.
[fieldbox= Reward, white, dashed]
You managed to find the true solution. +2 EXP. [/fieldbox]
[fieldbox=Thrown Weapons, green, dashed]
Thrown Weapons is Level 2
+1 Accuracy with Thrown Weapons[/fieldbox]
These seemed rather useful, plus now there was a potential loot box to search.
Soren continued to look at the tree above, the light had not gotten through as he planned, but as a consequence of his actions, he got the desired result. "Fine, I guess that works as well." He noticed the boxes appear, turns out he was pretty good at this throwing thing.
Stepping forward, he examined the loot box, before continuing on the new path which had opened up.
Inside of the box was a small brass key with a small 'I' engraved upon it. There was also a small 5,000 Essence Crystal, a small vial with light blue liquid in it, and a small vial with red liquid in it. It seemed like some pretty nice loot, but with no way to appraise it he would have no idea what the potions actually did.
If he chose to take it all, the next path would be his destination, and just like the others he would be greeted with both a light turning into a monster, that monster being the same undead like monster that Keter was fighting at the moment, it beginning to advance towards him now the moment it appeared, the creature rather slow compared to him.
With all of his first reward nicely tucked away into his inventory, Soren shortly found himself staring at a light, which shortly afterwards became a monster.
"Well, what is a tutorial with out any fighting." He looked at the monster, it seemed rather sluggish in comparison to himself. If I keep my distance I should be able to kill it without sustaining any harm. Soren pulled out his knives and proceeded to throw.
As long as he stayed close to make his knives harder to dodge, but a slight distance away, he could easily keep throwing knives until it died.
Throwing Knife
Accuracy: 37 - 25 Distance Bonus - 9 Accuracy = 3
The knife connected straight on, but the damage it dealt was only two Damage. Of course, with how Soren was circling it, being much faster, it didn't really get a chance to attack since it was still trying to get to him.
"Well, I did plan from the get go to not be a fighter from off the bat. Tutorials, enemy of the healer class." Soren spoke aloud to himself as he continued to circle around, and threw another knife.
Throwing Knife
0 (Critical!)
The knife had a much more solid impact, sticking right into the creature's skull, but still despite that only 2 Damage was dealt once again. A notification did appear, but it was a tiny box in the side of his vision, since in combat it wasn't best to read notifications.
The creature suddenly turned and rushed towards Soren, swinging its sword wildly as it attempted to slash right at him. Unfortunately for Soren it missed by a wide margin, which was good as that swing seemed rather powerful.
It seemed like he would have to try a different method to take down this undead creature since his knives seemed to be doing minimal damage, the creature groaning out in pain as it had made its attack.
"Well, this doesn't seem to be working." He then thought of as many ways as he could to defeat the undead monster. Undead! That would be the key, in most games, any thing that should heal, would deal damage to undead, of course this would be more efficient! "Relief!"
Skills, unlike Arts, needed to be incanted in order to be used. So Soren would aim his hands towards to the 'undead' enemy and incant "Relief". His hands would glow with a soft green light before this light would flow to the undead enemy, this being Green Ether. The beast seemed to stop its advancements. It seemed like this worked, the beast lowering its sword as the Skill was used. It then seemed to slowly begin to advance once again towards Soren, but not as aggressively as before, sword still held limply at its side.
"Guess the beast is weakening." His plan had worked, as per usual, though i was hard to tell how much health undead had, and also if they had been injured hard, as they already look frail. "Relief." He used it again.
With the second usage of Relief the beast stopped once again. The orange lights in its eyes seemed to glow with much less intensity, slowly beginning to revert to the white light that had formed this creature in the first place. There was still a bit of that orange there in those eyes though, so the beast trudged forward. Once again. Still, this was good grinding though as a notification did reveal that Relief was now Level 2.
"Well at the very least, I'll come out of this able to come out of this with some experience in healing." He thought for a moment on how much sould he had left to use, assuming he didn't run into another foe too soon, he should be able to finish this one off with another relief, and if not, then it was even slower now, and he could follow it up with a soothing touch. "Time for part one, hopefully no part two. Relief." He cracked his neck and continued to heal it.
Of course, as he did this he would have to wait ten seconds between each usage. Luckily he was quicker than the beast and it didn't really advance quickly since it was becoming less aggressive with each use. Soon enough, with the third use, the glowing lights it had for eyes were now whitened and the beast stopped moving. Its twisted, horrid face seemed to have an almost... calm expression as it dropped the sword in its hand.
Its body seemed to slowly vanish in a poof of the same fog, the sword falling harmlessly to the ground, along with a brass key that had a small I engraved upon it. Where its body once stood was the light that formed it, the light almost having a serene presence to it now, before the area where the creature was standing seemed to be cleared of fog, a small spring now present there, its waters crystal clear and serene. Once that appeared, the ball of light then vanished into thin air.
The following notifications appeared. One that stated that Relief was now Level 3 and another that read as such.
[fieldbox= Reward, white, dashed]
You have managed to use your head and pacified the enemy in your first fight. +2 EXP. [/fieldbox]
Furthermore, to offset the pleasant peace, suddenly the area in front of him seemed to open slowly, the trees moving and fog pouring out from the area as a chill swept through the clearing he was in, something seemingly much more... ominous about this next area as the chills rocked his entire body. A new, more ominous path had been revealed.
Soren stared at the light till it faded away, "That was lovely." He spoke in his monotone lacking emotion, then walked over to the items that had been left behind, a key and the monster's sword, taking both. "Well, now then, I should go...that way, into the chilling unknown and possibly horrible death." He then turned to look at the water, "But first, a likely heal." He walked slowly over to the water and brought his face down to it and drank.
As he drank from the crystal clear waters he would feel instantly refreshed. The taste was so pure, cool, and soothing upon his tongue. His Soul bar would refill to full as he drank it. Then came the items. The Key and the Sword took up two more spaces in his Inventory, meaning that he only had one space left. He would have to be careful in case he found something else that he liked in the next area. [/fieldbox]
