Chapter 19: Level 40
As the post becoming famous, more and more members from the Imperial guild who formed a group began to search for Scarlet guild members. Meanwhile, a group, which was spying on Williard for a while, whispered to each other as Williard and Milena left the city.
"What should we do, now?" as a person from the group spoke, the leader of that party replied, "what else? Let's follow him. Since it seemed like he's doing a quest that requires accompanying a level 115 NPC, then it must be something incredible with huge rewards. My intuition is telling me it's going to be something big. When it's the right time, we can post the matter in Guild chat, and with everyone around, even a level 100 Heroic monster with millions of HP won't survive much less a mere NPC with 280K HP."
Then one player asked, "what if it doesn't turn out as we think?" The leaders sighed, "Then, think of it as wasting some time. A day here has 48 hours. What're a few hours matter?"
Meanwhile, after forming a party, two of them set out to the wilderness while a party was following them by maintaining a distance. "Lord Time Traveler, do you want me to remove those pests?" Williard shook his head and replied, "Nah, let's just be on our way. I also want to see to what great lengths they'll follow us."
They proceeded to the Barren Lands, one of the two leveling zones of East Ocean City. Since all the cities are separated from a barrier, currently, each structure is like this. On the two directions of these Cities lie the beginner villages and their leveling areas 1-20. To one side, there are level 21-50 area zones and a dungeon per every ten levels and on another side, there are level 51-100 area zones, and a dungeon per each level and also three racial dungeons. The area lies this with no safe point like a city or a village is we call them, wilderness.
As for East Ocean city, Sea and the port is on the east; the beginner villages and the forest of Dawn, a level 1-20 are zone, is on the south; The Forest of Dusk, a level 21-50 zone is on the west; Finally, the barren Islands a level 51-100 zone is on the north, which is almost three times larger than the Forest of Dusk."
Half n hour later, they reached the Barren lands. As he mumbled, "it's too bad that I can't carry other people while flying our else…" Remia apologized for wasting his time since he can just fly over in a few minutes. He shrugged it off, "it's only 30 minutes. After all, we came here for my purpose."
Meanwhile, as the pair were moving forward while Remia just massacring the monster that is in their way, the people who are following whispered, "Leader, it seems they are here for leveling." "Idiot, how is that possible? An NPC doesn't help an adventurer to level up."
Then, one asked, "but what if he employed them? Maybe he's a baron, a Noble? They can employ guards, right?" The leader looked at him and asked, "So, you want to say there is someone who became a baron when our Guild Leader, White Tiger, fifth in the rankings hasn't even become one? If you say number one ranker, Flame Emperor is a baron, I would believe but this guy… it's not even funny. NPC also can't enter dungeons. I bet it must be some higher-level quest. Or it also might be a world boss? It's better to stick around."
But then, he was suddenly reminded by one of the members, "then, what do we do about the monsters? We are not strong to defeat them. What if we will be ambushed by them? Not only we lose our lives, but we would also lose our target, our EXP, and worst if we lose equipment." The party leader thought for a while and replied, "What you said is right. Let's just inform in the guild chat about it. There must be a few people here, leveling up at the moment, right?"
As he informed the guild like there's a possibility that it might be a treasure chest or some quest with great rewards. This message of him developed greed in the above fifty level players' hearts.
As for Williard, he was simply walking while Remia is clearing out the monsters in one slash since all the normal monsters in level 50-55 have only around 20K HP, which was even lesser than her attack stat. As they are in a party of two, each one is getting a 50% share of EXP.
Even though Williard wanted to practice Fire arrow to improve mastery as well as his Archery skills, he wasn't getting a chance to do that as Remia was killing them like ants. So, he kept his bow on his back and thought of doing that after they reached the level 80 zone. A while later, Remia suddenly spoke as they were proceeding towards level 55-69 zone crossing a narrow passage through the two cliffs, "Lord, there's a human following us. What should I do?"
Williard frowned since he wasn't able to detect a player for a while. He turned back but wasn't able to see the Assassin player who hid behind one of the medium side rocks in the passage while messaging his guild leader, who is leveling with a 5-member party in level 60 dungeon just like most of the players.
As Williard continued to proceed without stopping at level 55-60 area zone, level up notification rang in his ears and then received another notification.
"Congratulations, you leveled up. You reached level 40."
"You reached level 40, you gained a skill point. Check the skill panel."
Upon reaching level 40, Williard immediately took out the Leopard King's light Armor he got from the level 38 Heroic Boss and equipped it. Then, after replacing his level 30 bronze Armor with the level 40 gold armor in which two of its stats still sealed since he never had the time to go to Appraiser, his HP increased more than 2500 HP.
With a 25.2% bonus, his HP reached 25.5K but, Williard didn't feel an ounce of happiness as he was staring at NPC with 300K HP before him. Feeling a little bit of low, he added all the ten free attribute points to Vitality that made his total HP crossed 28K. As he inspected his character panel, he saw,
Character name: Time Traveler (Angel)
Title: I CAN FLY
Class: Elementalist
Level: 40
Stats: Base (Current)
HP: 22517/22517 (28191)
MP: 145 (174)
Attack: 2072-2116 (2486-2539)
Defense: 817 (980)
Attack Speed: 10 (12)
Movement Speed: 57 (68)
Flying Speed: 100 (120)
Critical rate: 4.7%
Pierce: 15.7%
Critical resist: 4.8%
Active Skills:
Fireball (Max): Throw a Big fireball onto your enemy with a 155% attack. Apply the burning effect on targets for 10 seconds with a 10% attack. 20m range. Costs 5 MP; No cool down.
Heal (Max): Recover yourself or your ally with a 100% attack. Costs 5 MP; No cool down.
Flying (Max): You can travel from place to place with the help of your wings, Costs 2MP per minute;
Dash (Max): Increase your speed to 300% for 10 seconds, Costs 0 MP. Cooldown time: 180 seconds.
Fire Arrow (level 4): Conjure a fire arrow and shoot the enemies using your bow with a 140% attack. 35m range. Costs 5MP; No cool down.
Dragon Fire (level 2): Breathe fire continuously and burn the targets to ash with a 160% attack every second. Apply the burning effect on the target. Cost 2 MP per second; 30m range. Cooldown time: 120 seconds.
Absolute Freeze (level 4): Freeze the entire area around you with Ice Magic. For 20 Seconds, everything and everyone around you would be frozen except your Allies. Apply the freezing effect on the targets. Cost 10 MP; 20m range. Cooldown time: 180 Seconds. Skill doesn't affect Ascended players, NPCs, and legendary above grade monsters.
Passive Skill:
Aura of an Angel (Max): Being born as an Angel, your stats and EXP gain increases by 20% in the material world.
The Bow of Elementalist (Max): Every arrow you fire contains elemental magic, instead of magic energy.
Aura of Elementalist (Max): Damage against other classes and Monsters increased by 10% and Damage reduction against other classes and Monsters increased by 10%.
Available Skill Points: 6
Attributes:
Strength: 1
Intelligence: 100
Agility: 50
Vitality: 68
Endurance: 1
Free Attribute points: 0