rlin scanned his environnt, it appeared that eight slis had been spawned. Due to this being the tutorial stage, each sli was level zero, aning they would not pose a threat to rlin at all.
"Open combat settings." As rlin spoke these words, he received a chanical jingle, and a window appeared in front of him.
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[Settings → Combat Settings]
• Fighting Assistance - ON
• Pain Synchronisation - 20%
• Damage Given Notification - Floating Numbers
• Damage Received Notification - Information Box
• NeuroControl - Further Synchronisation Required.
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rlin made sure to turn fighting assistance off. It was an unpleasant feature that gave so of the control of your body to the system when fighting, the closest thing to auto-attack you could get in New Genesis. It was good for casual players but only those who broke away from it could rise up to beco rankers.
rlin took note of a couple changes, that he personally contributed to, floating number damage notifications and the NeuroControl system, unfortunately it seed he couldn’t utilise the NeuroControl system yet.
rlin swiped his hand through the settings window, causing it to fade away.
rlin brought his attention back to the slis, they didn’t appear to be moving. Nevertheless, he took a cautioned fighting stance. He held his shield out in front of his torso and kept his gladius by his side, extended out slightly past the shield.
rlin slowly approached the nearest sli. As he entered within its detection radius, about two tres away, it began to wobble, indicating that it was about to pounce. As rlin took a step closer, the sli pounced into the air towards him.
rlin quickly responded by swinging his shield at the sli to slap it away, much to his surprise the sli exploded into a splash of blue viscous liquid. rlin couldn’t help but laugh, his mories had tricked him into believing the first slis were harder to kill than that.
In the previous tiline, rlin had originally struggled with the slis to start with due to not realising that they didn’t take damage if you just slash the jelly. You had to specifically damage the core inside to deal them any damage.
A major part in adapting to New Genesis is to stop thinking of it as video ga, unlike other gas where you could just spam an attack key to kill creatures, you have to physically do the work yourself, so creatures required special thods to kill them. Although this brought more strategy to the ga than the min-maxing button mashing grind that other MMORPGs tend to fall into. There was still a lot of grind within the ga, especially at the excessively high levels, although that unfortunately just ca with the genre.
rlin regained his bearings, returning to his cautioned stance, he located the next nearest sli and made his approach. As similar as before, the sli began wobbling, but before it could pounce, rlin rushed forward, stabbing it with his sword.
The first attack had pierced the sli’s core, causing the creature to lt as if a stationary water balloon had just been popped with a knife.
Continuing on with his current pace, rlin rushed through the next six slis, each dying in a single hit. "This didn’t feel like much of a tutorial." rlin unintentionally mumbled, kicking the last sli hard enough to shatter its core, the viscous liquid now covering his shoe.
"Ohoho, confident are we?" Gaia’s voice resounded once more, however this ti her voice contained a hint of mischievousness.
rlin was taken back slightly, he never expected Gaia to respond to his mumbling, perhaps this was a secret challenge within the tutorial stage. He responded with confidence. "Sure, got anything stronger?"
Suddenly a quest window appeared before rlin.
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[Hidden Uncommon Quest]
The Tutorial’s Challenger.
Entertain Gaia, Survive her onslaught.
• Reward: ???
• Requirent: Must be in the tutorial stage.
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There were a couple ways of interacting with quests. Two buttons appear below each quest window, a blue one that said "accept" and a red one that said "decline". They could also be interacted with via speech, especially when talking to an NPC, the wording typically did not matter, as long as the aning was clear.
"I accept your challenge." rlin’s face lit up, he hadn’t even left the tutorial and he already found a hidden quest, an uncommon one at that.
"Very well, entertain mortal." Gaia’s voice travelled across a strong gust of wind. rlin covered his face to protect his eyes from the loose blades of grass that were buffeting his body. When the wind subsided, rlin could hear several strange gargling growls.
Lowering his arm, he was t with the sight of five hideous little green creatures, with pointed ears and an elongated nose jutting out from an angular face.
Like other gas, New Genesis went with the easiest way to convey enemy strength to the player. A status bar floating above the enemy’s head, it typically had the creature’s health, level and sotis na. More information could be gathered about monsters and creatures, but it typically took special thods to accomplish, such as a title, knowledge or soul ability, such as appraisal or inspect.
"Oh, level one goblins in the tutorial." rlin took note of the enemy’s status bar, he was surprised to find that there were five of them, let alone that they were level one in the tutorial. Goblins were nasty creatures, although each was weak separately, their strength multiplied when they grouped together.
Two of the goblins were equipped with nothing but a crude club. Another one had a mangled dagger, the one at the furthest back had a makeshift short bow, with what looked to be scavenged old arrows with rotten shafts. The last one, the one closest to rlin, was more well off than his teammates, ard with a wooden buckler and a rusted short sword.
The ranged goblin started the fight, sending an arrow flying through the air, aid towards rlin’s thigh. rlin parried the arrow away with his shield, the rotten wood shattered on contact, leaving the arrow unusable. rlin bent down for a mont and ripped out a handful of grass, only to stand up once more, he decided to kill the shielded goblin first, as he posed the biggest threat.
rlin marched towards the shielded goblin, he noticed the other goblins start moving to surround him. This was a common goblin strategy, usually amplified by the darkness in the caves they lived in. If he attacked their leader, the shield bearer, the dagger wielding goblin would attack his flank in an instant.
Even knowing this, he continued on towards the shield bearer, as he entered combat range, he could see the confident grin on the monster’s hideous wart-covered face. rlin lifted his gladius overhead and began swinging his sword down at the shield goblin.
’Three, two, one.’ rlin finished counting in his head, and if by clockwork, just before his sword made contact with the shield, he could feel a presence behind him.
"Gotcha" rlin’s face contorted into a confident grin. Taking the opportunity to deal with the rogue first, he swung his shield arm behind him while delivering a Spartan kick to the shield bearer.
The shield bearer was caught by surprise, it had braced itself for a sword attack from above, but instead was t with a forceful kick from below. Unable to recover its footing, the goblin fell backwards, leaving it unable to retaliate for the mont.
On the other side of this manoeuvre, his shield arm wasn’t close enough to connect with the dagger goblin. But that wasn’t what he was aiming for. rlin opened his hand at the apex of his swing, and within an instant the dagger goblin’s vision was suddenly obscured by a handful of grass.
Taking advantage of the dagger goblin’s sudden vulnerability, rlin pivoted his supporting foot and twisted his upper body, allowing him to redirect his sword mid-swing. Before the grass could dissipate away, the dagger goblin’s throat was sliced open by the gladius, it was a critical hit.
"One" rlin’s eyes scanned his surroundings, noticing the positions of the remaining four goblins. His eyes narrowed in on the archer, who had just finished pulling back another arrow, although this arrow gave rlin a bad feeling. As the goblin released the arrow, rlin noticed a faint red glint from the arrow head.
rlin instinctively grabbed the dagger goblin’s corpse and threw it in the way of the arrow’s flight path. The arrow pierced the goblin’s corpse, and a mont later the corpse was suddenly set afla.
"A shield-punisher at level one, that’s not fair." rlin grumbled.
Ignition arrows were the bane of all early ga tank players, due to wood being the most common and one of the cheapest materials used for low level shields. Ignition arrows would ravage wooden items, this included wooden shields, leading to the nickna shield-punisher.
"You’re going to be an issue." rlin sighed as he leaned down, picking up the charcoal goblin’s mangled dagger.
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