Chapter 492: Jacob’s Progress
( Luke’s POV )
Apart from the leveling progress within the ga, Luke also made rapid progression with his body strength once he started to train in the martial arts manual.
After mastering the manual himself, Cervantez passed the book onto Luke who started to train in it regularly.
Within the first week of training itself, Luke felt his body composition improving rapidly as there was a visible improvent in his bulk and peak muscular capacity.
His body had already improved beyond the limits of a re human when the Arc-Ship entered the rainbow stream, however, the benefits that he was experiencing now pushed his body a cut even above that.
He could now bend steel as if it were rubber, and although he hadn’t yet sparred with anyone in hand-to-hand combat, he felt confident that a suplex would be enough to neutralize any opponent in a fight.
It was as if his entire presence had transford, and although he remained his usual polite self at work, the way his workers responded to him seed to have undergone a drastic change.
The workers in Sector E, who once greeted him casually, now seed to instinctively stiffen and tremble when he arrived.
His re presence exerted an almost palpable pressure, as though an invisible force weighed down on them.
Conversations would abruptly quiet, and the workers, once relaxed, would address him with a newfound deference—more polite, more cautious, as if they could sense the power he now commanded.
This was all very new for Luke who never intended to abuse his power. However, it was almost like his body was brimming with strength and vitality and his power was only increasing each passing day.
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(anwhile Jacob)
After the humiliating defeat to ‘TheBoss’ in Thumba City, Jacob changed his whole approach to gaming.
As a true special operations soldier, he knew that patience was the key to any successful counter operation and he realized that to catch-up to players like ‘TheBoss’, the first thing he needed to do was reduce the level gap.
The speed and strength that ‘TheBoss’ displayed was far above his own and although in-terms of pure technique and experience he was superior to the kid, he could not capitalize on that advantage with his ager speed and below average stats.
Jacob crossed the level 200 threshold by the ti the 6 months newbie boost period ended and managed to raise his level to 234 by the ti that the next evaluation was 105 days away.
A large contributor to his monster leveling speed was the newbie double exp grace period, however, even without it, his Death Overlord class cheat helped him gain levels faster than what an average player could manage.
At level 234 he managed to enter the top 10,000 player rankings, becoming the first and only player from the New-Batch of players to reach that threshold, earning tonnes of rewards from the system as a result.
Although he was still nearly a 100 levels off from ‘TheBoss’, with his rapid improvent, he set the target to catch the kid in a year’s ti.
However, levels was not the only departnt where he saw massive improvent.
Apart from improving in terms of levels, he also raided a group dungeon called ‘Necromancers Hideout’ as a solo player and managed to explore the depths of his powers as a ‘Death Overlord’.
Once inside that dungeon, he realized that undead monsters instinctively obeyed him and if he wanted to, he could even ask them to fight against each other and gain exp when they died fighting.
Undead Skeletons, Undead Horsen, Headless Undead Horsen, Undead Archers, Undead Mages and pretty much any undead monster under the level of a Lich obeyed him when he was in his [Undead Transformation] form, while they reflexively hesitated from attacking him when he was in his normal human form.
Of-course there were limits to his powers as his [Undead-Transformation] form did not last very long, however, having understood those limits and how his class worked still helped him improve massively as a player as he seed to get a grip on how the Terra Nova Online world worked.
To his joy, he obtained the [Necromancer’s Ring] from the dungeon, a rare item drop that only dropped in 1/1000 dungeon runs, which could summon 2-12 undead skeletons every hour.
Equipped with that ring, Jacob found a new dinsion to his gaming, as having extra bodies to order around helped him massively as a solo player.
Finally and probably most importantly, he joined an adventurer group where only military veterans could join, and although it was not an official guild, but more like a rcenary group, joining that group brought Jacob massive benefits.
Firstly, he got to et and chat with like minded military officials who understood the importance of respect and discipline, and secondly he got access to mission requests which other veterans posted, and got to join them on tough adventures.
Not only did he get to pick and choose missions to tag along, but he also got intel about the ga world and hidden developnts in a proper military format, that benefited him greatly.
From ti to ti he would join small adventurer squad units and get paid in gold, while other tis he would recruit their help in exterminating bandits and other anti-social forces, which would yield both exp and fa.
His final goal still remained that of destroying the rebel movent and taking his revenge on ‘TheBoss’, for his humiliating defeat, however, he got to have tons of fun along the way, in what was a perfect retirent life in his mind.
He had little to no work in the Sector A of the arc ship, and could spend most of his ti lazing around with Elena.
And once those heartwarming monts were over, he could beco a crazed killer in the world of Terra Nova, adventuring with other veterans in what was an ideal life that he could only have dreamt of on Earth.
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