A/n"anything" = Author notes
'I am thinking....Thinking very hard'
"I am Speaking, speaking nonsense"
F/c = Favorite color
N/n = nickname
NC = Number of Cores
"Speaking to Y/n telepathically" or "sudden flashback" you'll know from context
[anything] = gamer notification, using a skill or gamer action
{Lucid Adventure}
Flashback
A/n: Anyways The Lucid Adventure arc is gonna be a longer one... because I really want to write it :p Hope you enjoy it as much as I will. Tell me if you want to see Y/n build up his skills or if you want short time-skip.
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{Welcome to Lucid Adventure Supreme god}
"Hello!" I said in the Boundary gap, "I wanna create a new character!" I said smiling,
{Enter password for "Supreme God" character lock down}
I entered the holy words inside the password, a combination of three holy things and then saw another screen appear in-front of me.
{Enter Username}
Hmmmm, "I'll go with Joker" I said.
{Player 'Joker' has been created}
I chose Joker, because... well because he looks cool(and because I looked a lot like him in my old life)
{Choose User's Apperance}
I then spent a few hours on my appearance...
"Yep, that aught to be enough." I thought looking at my appearance, I wasn't too sure about the gold – but I could always change my clothes, that wasn't a real problem.
[System is temporarily shutting down, until user leaves "Lucid Adventure" he cannot regain system]
{Lucid Adventure system re-downloaded}
{Appearance loaded}
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{Status}
Name - (Joker)
Level - 1
Hp - 20 /20 ( 0.1Hp/sec)
Mp - 10/10 ( 0.01Mp/Sec)
Class - Gambler
Personal Trait - ???
Charyeok - [None]
STR - 1
END - 1
AGI - 1
INT - 1
WIS - 1
LCK - 10
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"Hehehe, I'm starting again! This is exciting and nerve-wrecking at the same time."
{Loading user in spawning territory!}
{User has gained +100 Copper Coins to Start his adventure}
{User has gained Bronze Sword to start his adventure}
I closed my eyes and then waited for me to be transported to the initial part of the map.
I opened my eyes and saw a grass field, "Oh look! A newbie!" I heard someone say coming towards me. I turned around and looked at the others there...
Why were they here?
I saw Rias and Sona standing in the grass-field.
I looked above their heads and saw their level – something I added to MY system! Stupid cheap system god gave me...
{Rias Gremory, LvL 1}
{Sona Shitori, LvL 1}
So they just started as well, I looked to my right and then saw Kiba, Issei, Koneko... Basically Rias' and Sona's peerage.
"Which class are you in?" asked the girl in-front of me.
Really what were they doing here? Today was for the delta testers only – only me, Aoi and Kunou could enter the game. What's going on?
"P-pardon?" I asked, the girl in-front of me was part of my class, she was wearing a pointy hat and holding a staff – a mage...
"Oh! You must be another of the delta testers!" said the girl, "The whole of Kuoh academy got the Delta release for Lucid Adventure," she explained with a happy smile on her face, 'Grandpa!' I thought sighing, "It's because the grandson of the CEO goes to our school." she said, making me nod.
I thanked her for the info and then walked towards Rias and Sona, not because I wanted to talk to them, but because they were in a place filled with good beginner items.
"Excuse me, could you please scooch a little?" I asked the red-haird girl who nodded, interestingly enough Rias had a sword on her hip and Sona battle gauntlets, they chose physical classes over magic based classes, interesting.
"Oh, a newcomer, you don't look like you are part of our class," said Rias, looking at me with her green eyes, "What class did you choose?" she asked, I crouched and took out a small pouch that is given at the beginning of the game.
"Gambler." I told her truthfully, as I continued to take out some of the grass beneath my feet, "Sorry, what are you doing?" asked Sona, tapping my shoulder, wow, she was a lot more outgoing inside the game, normal Sona would be all stuck up and start calling me Mr Joker or something.
"I'm taking the grass here, I want to decorate my house later." I lied taking some more of the grass – I know it's selfish and childish, but I don't want them to get ahead of me.
Once I finished filling my pouch I put it in my inventory.
{User has collected 100 herbs}
"I see, so... do you know what we have to do now?" asked Sona, I turned around and nodded. "Could you wait a few more hours? We are waiting for everyone in our school list to log in so we can start." she said making my eyes widen, THE WHOLE FUCKING SCHOOL!?
"That's gonna take a while..." I chuckled, scratching the back of my head, Sona nodded, "Not really, only a few people said they were willing to play alongside us." she said making me sigh, "What do you want me for?" I asked, she looked up and down and then stared at me. Rias tapped her shoulder and took a step forwards, "It's just that you look like someone who'd know a lot about this game, you seem to have experience." she said making me nod.
"Well, can you help us level up?" she asked making me shake my head, "Didn't you know, all the levels are going to be reset once the game is released." I told them, surprising them, what I said is actually true. I want this character to start like the others, and level up alongside everyone, "Then what's the point?!" Asked Rias making me chuckle, "It's to get a feel for the game before others, that's already a huge advantage." I said, turning around and looking at the sky.
"Yo Buchou!" I heard someone say from behind me, I turned around and saw Issei smiling like an idiot. He looked at me and then back at Rias, "Who's that dude?" asked Issei, making me roll my eyes, "My name is Joker," I pitched in, Issei nodded, I looked at his class, he was going for warrior, like Sona, interesting, "He's an expert, we were just chatting a little bit".
I told Aoi what I was going to be calling myself, and that I'd meet him in the furthest dungeon to the right of the spawn point, turning around and looking at Rias I grinned.
"Sorry, but I have to go – my friend is waiting for me." I said, waving goodbye and running away, "Good riddance," I thought running towards the furthest dungeon, "Imagine them following me and Aoi, that'd be horrible." I thought looking at a cave entrance.
{Blue LvL 1}
Yea, Aoi chose the name blue, and apparently he was going in as a mage, that's cool. I'll be going on a more physical approach at the beginning, then again there isn't much for me to learn as a Gambler, the earliest skills I get are at level 15, and it's borrow and lend – so it'll be a long ride before I can do anything that useful, of course I can also get skills from NPC's and Quests.
Back to Aoi, he looked a lot like Rin Okumura from Blue Exorcist. "Nice look you got there Aoi." I complimented.
{/g: Player 'Rias Gremory' has been temporarily banned for using an illegal skill}
'Geez, they are already using supernatural abilities from the other world here...' I thought, looking at the global chat.
"Don't use abilities you don't have in-game, it'll detect it as cheating and kick you out." I said, making him sigh and cross his arms, "You can create a place with stopped time, that I understand." he said, walking inside the dungeon with me, "But a freaking world?! What the fuck?!" he asked, making me chuckle, "It took me month to complete, but here it is, Lucid adventure, cool right?" I asked, making him nod, "Don't worry, the supernatural can't interfere here, it is really only a game." I told him a half truth, it is also a way for me to store my abilities and powers, but that's beside the point.
"By the way, after this I won't help you in-game." I said making him roll his eyes, "I won't need it" he said making me raise an eyebrow, "Ok then, if you say so." I said
(Time-Skip brought to you by the day of the actual release of Y/n's Lucid Adventure TM)
"It's finally the day of the release, so our stats, items and skills will be removed!" said Rias... They had only been able to get to level 20, that's not even enough to know your Personal Trait... They are inefficient is what I'm saying.
"Hey Y/n, you're the grandson of the creator right?" asked one of my classmate. M8... I AM the creator.
"Do you know any ways to level up quickly? Maybe a fast way to beat monsters or get items?" asked another classmate, I sighed, "Haven't played yet." I lied, putting a hand on my chin. "W-What?!" asked the class, surprised.
"What is Rias and Sona doing here again? Aren't they Seniors?" I asked, she nodded and then put up a flyer. Kuoh Guild it said, so they were going to create a guild and wanted us to participate in it.
She then went on to explain about the guild, their purpose and what they would do to support other players – as if they were experts already. I rolled my eyes and then grinned.
"So will you guys join?" asked Rias, looking at me specifically, didn't she have a rating game to go to?
School took a long time to end, lots of my classmates stopped me from leaving to ask me about the game and such, of course I was lucky enough that a lot of incidents happened, not allowing them to follow me, like a bucket of paint falling on top of one of them, or another slipping from a banana peel.
I got home safely, put the earphones in and then laid on my bed. Then I heard the log in countdown, I was starting the game a total of 10 minutes earlier than other people. Being the creator grants you a few perks.
{Welcome! Which Character do you wish to play as today?}
"Joker" I said.
{You will be spawned at the beginning gate}
I was once again at the large grassfield. There was no one here yet, so I started taking the herbs from the ground again – last time it was to check if everything was alright, now that I know everything works I can safely take the herbs from the ground and put them in my pouch.
I then ran off to the closest dungeon, beginner dungeons were going to be flooded in 15 minutes.
I stopped at the dungeon and smirked while taking out my beginner's sword. Killing the boss in this dungeon will allow me to get a quest, which will then unravel a quest chain – of course only I know that, for now, call me childish, but there was a skill that I wanted to get that only I would have.
Smiling I looked at the several red wolves – this part was based off of Solo Leveling. I slashed one of the wolves with my sword.
{+10 Xp}
Right, this'll take a while to level me up. I looked at the other wolves in the dungeon, normally I'd use my martial arts techniques, but it's useless in here – in here I didn't have any knowledge of martial arts, the system brings your soul and wipes any muscle memory, it's a completely fair game, everyone starts the same...except me who starts 15 minutes earlier than anyone and everyone.
I dodged to the side and then lunged the sword forwards.
{+10 Xp}
(Time-Skip brought to you by Y/n killing over 300 red wolves)
Killing them isn't the problem, keeping your stamina in the dungeon is.
{User has grown to level 5!}
I was now in-front of the boss room, in here there is a monster I absolutely have to prepare for. This may be an E-rank dungeon, but the boss monster is a C-rank mob, it may be low leveled, but it's much much harder to beat, it's got a high deffence for slashing damage, so I'll have to go with my bare hands.
I took out my herb pouch from my inventory and then stuck several herbs on my belt. The two doors in-front of me were made of stone, they had two snake carvings facing each other. I touched the door.
{You have opened the boss room!}
I went in and looked around, there it was, the Blue Poison Fangs Rasaka.
{Blue Poison Fangs Rasaka, LvL 20}
I looked at it and got ready, it has high deffence and high attack, but its agility is pretty low, that should give me a shot at it.
I ran towards it and jumped sideways – dodging an attack from the snake, it had lunged forwards trying to bite my head off. I then rolled, diagonally to my right, avoiding a tail-whip from the enormous snake. I was pretty close to its neck, so I climbed up to its head and started punching it as hard as I could, I could tell it was doing little damage, but that wasn't the goal.
I kept punching and punching, the snake tried to knock me off, it swayed left and right, banged it's head against the walls of the dungeon several times, but I always dodged or climbed down temporarily to not get hit.
I hit it one last time and managed to crack one of it's scales, before doing anything else I ripped the scale off along with its scale neighbor.
{You have Gained Rasaka's Scale}x2
I smirked and started ripping off scales until I had 20
{You have Gained Rasaka's Scale}x18
With it's soft skin now exposed I took out my sword and stabbed the snake in the head.
{+11,000 Xp}
The snake then disappeared in particles of light, making me fall down on my but.
{You have grown to level 15!}
{You have gained the Skill Borrow}
{You have gained the skill Lend}
'Nice' I thought looking at an enormous wooden chest in-front of me. This chest is quite important, there is a 40% chance it will give me the Rasaka's Fang, and a 1.5% chance to give me Rasaka's venom, in this lace it doesn't increase damage resistance, instead it opens up a quest I need to enter.
I gulped and sighed. Thanks to the gambler's passive {Beginer's Luck} skill my chances should go from 1.5 to 2.5, not a lot, but it's better than nothing.
I really, really need the poison, otherwise I'd have to re-do the dungeon, and that would take a while. I placed my hand on the chest.
{You have gained Rasaka's Fang!}
'Fuck... I'm too used to getting everything I want out of chests.' I thought groaning and going to the beginning of the dungeon, I checked the time – I had another 10 minutes to waste. I sighed and waited three minutes, the cooldown time for a dungeon.
(Time-skip)
{You've grown to level 19!}
{You have gained Rasaka's scale}x20
{You have gained Rasaka's Fang!}
{You have gained Rasaka's Venom! }
'Hell yes! Luck may not be that good, but it's good enough!' I thought, leaving the dungeon, I now needed to sprint to the closest market.
{First dungeon has been cleared! All possible items have been gained! Blue Poison Rasaka has been killed, it will now not re-spawn}
I smirked at the message, when you gained all of the possible loot from a boss in a dungeon the boss was replaced by another, the only really worth it boss is after 1000 boss kills, which is when Revenge Red Rasaka appears, but even then it's not worth it. Of course, normal bosses will respawn, but not named bosses, there is a total of 0.001% chance of a named boss to appear, and after all their loot is gained they disappear forever until the items gained from said bosses were completely used up(that's not going to happen though)
I ran past the NPC's which were actually people... yea, I know people will think of this as a videogame, but NPC's here are actually alive... and most are immortal, so if you fuck up an NPC's life, the moment they respawn they'll kill you or steal your shit, or not sell you stuff.
I entered a clothing shop. "Oh, are you from the other side?" asked the man inside the clothing shop, I nodded and handed him 19 of Rasaka's scales.
"OH MY LORD!!! Are those Blue Poison Fangs Rasaka's poison?!!" asked the clothing shop, I nodded. He gulped and then took them all, "I-In exchange for these h-here! Let me give you this!" he said, handing me a bracelet. I smirked and looked at it.
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{Equipment}
Name - Bracelet of Hidden Truths
Rank - C
Type - Accessory
Effect - User's level is hidden from view and can be configured manually
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"Thank you," I said, looking at the man who gulped, "Y-You look like a powerful adventurer, how about we make a deal?" asked the man, making me smile, "Oh, do tell." I said, the shop keeper got closer to me.
"My name is Claude, I have a brother in the north, in the Snowy Peaks of Narwahl. I need you to hand him poison from the Snake's Mouth, I-I know it's asking a lot to kill it again, but please, I need you to hand it to my brother." said the shop keeper "I-if you do I'll hand you my family's fortune!"
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Name - Powerful venom
Type - Collection quest
Rank - C
Description - Player must collect Rasaka's Venom and travel to the snowy peaks of Narwahl to hand the venom to the Clothing store owner(Cloud)'s brother, Ivan.
Progress - (1/1) Rasaka's Venom
Rewards - 1 random bronze chest, +25 Silver Coins
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{Accept}{Refuse}
I smiled and nodded, "I'll accept, see you in a few days." I said smiling.
{You have accepted quest 'Powerful Venom'!}
I need to get to level 30 before the snowy peaks of Narwahl – the mobs there are on average level 40, so being level 30 with decent equipment should be enough. Right now though I need to travel back to the spawn point so that people don't suspect me of anything.
{You have equipped Bracelet of Hidden Truths}
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{Status}/{Weapon}/{Skills}
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{Status}
Name - (Joker)
Level - 19 (0/2,601)
Hp - 380 /380 ( 1.9 Hp/sec)
Mp - 190/190 ( 0.19 Mp/Sec)
Class - Gambler
Personal Trait - ???
Charyeok - [None]
STR - 19
END - 19
AGI - 19
INT - 19
WIS - 19
LCK - 29
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{Skills}
(Passive){Begginer's Luck} - A passive skill of the gambler class, increases luck by 100 until level 30.
(Active){Borrow} - An active skill which allows the user to borrow stats of an ally, user has to pay back at the end of the battle with interest however.
(Active){Lend} - The reverse of borrow, user is able to give stats to an ally, if ally is not in party he or she has to pay him back with interest, otherwise no interest is needed.
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{Quest}
Name - Powerful venom
Type - Collection quest
Description - Player must collect Rasaka's Venom and travel to the snowy peaks of Narwahl to hand the venom to the Clothing store owner(Cloud)'s brother, Ivan.
Progress - (1/1) Rasaka's Venom
Rewards - 1 random bronze chest, +10 Silver Coins
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Name - Rasaka's Fang
Rank - C
Type - Weapon
Damage - 50
Requirement: 15 on Agility
Effect 1 - Paralysis
Effect 2 - Bleeding
Description: An item Rasaka made with its own fang, it is said that it went into its human form to create it and that it is only given to those who best it in combat.
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