The World of a Fantasy

Chapter Five

Chapter Five: A Small Episode of Bones

Being at the edge of the graveyard, he dismissed the notification message and slowly made his way into the region. The graveyard was filled with withered trees, bones are litter sticking in or are fully outside of the dirt, uneven grounds, and most importantly graves. Just ten meters inside the graveyard and he had already seen his first mob.

The mob was a bone rabbit. It was under the undead category and was two levels higher than a normal rabbit. The bone rabbit was strengthened with a death attribute. Below are the levels of the two respectively, rabbit & bone rabbit.

Even though bone rabbits are a bit stronger than a normal rabbit, their current status can easily overpower most level ten mobs. Not to mention a bone rabbit that is lower than level ten. As such, he gave the bone rabbit a simple swing of his basic sword before the bone rabbit turned to dust. Then the loot came right after.

-Bone Rabbit was defeated. Gain 50Xp.

(Rabbit = 10~20Xp)

-Obtain Rabbit Bones x2 (Material, Common)

Looking at the doubling experience, he smiles slightly before scouring his way to the next region of the graveyard. Along the way, his level increases by two (Lvl 4) and the same for his ring (Lvl 3). However, the ring had only leveled up once during his trip to the outer part of the graveyard region. For his current level, the experience was plenty enough.

Usually, a field region that spawns mobs will normally have three regions; outer, inner, and finally the core region. Depending on the region, different mobs will be spawned. Right now, he is in the outer region, which only spawns bone animals such as rabbits, foxes, wolves, boars, and bears (Lvl 3~7|10). So, walking through the outer layer was a breeze.

Getting closer to the inner region, bone skeletons begin to spawn and wander. The landscape changed slightly, there was bone dust floating around, rusted & worn weapons, pieces or parts of armor, and dirt mounds littered everywhere to signify graves. Nobody ever considers picking up any of the scrap metals because there was simply no use for such rusty things.

Making his way inside the inner region, he had been lucky enough to witness the spawning of a bone skeleton. The dirt mound slowly expands upward, little by little. It took five whole seconds before a bone skeleton emerged from the dirt mound. The bones were still covered in layers of dirt and scrapped cloth.

A bone skeleton (Lvl 5~10|10) is the most basic mob that can be found in the inner and core region except the outer region. By default, a bone skeleton is just a bit stronger than an average NPC villager, very slow & clumsy. The bone skeleton is a great source of practice for new players. Its description is below:

There are many ways to defeat skeletons or bone monsters in general. One way was bluntness or impact. Hitting them with a blunt weapon will rattle their brittle bones with additional damage. Two, most dark and undead were weak to light magic, with the majority of bone monsters being categorized as undead. Third, directly hitting a bone monster's soul core will automatically inflict critical hits. A bone skeleton's soul core was in its skull.

After seeing the marvel, the spawning of the bone skeleton. He swings the blunt side of the basic sword toward the skull of the bone skeleton, rattling. The spawned bone skeleton was knocked back down with a cracked skull. Another swing at the skull and the skull broke into many pieces. Right after, the bone skeleton was finally classified as defeated.

-Bone Skeleton defeated. Gain 90Xp.

-Obtain Skeleton Bones x2 (Material, C)

-Obtain Soul Core (Skeleton) x1 (Material, Uncommon)

Looking at the Soul Core, he was a bit surprised. The drop rate for a soul core was around ten percent and some were even lower than that. Smiling at his luck, he slowly made his way deeper into the inner region.

Along the way, he got quite a lot of bone materials and soul cores. The drops of the two were surprisingly high, at the rate of five to two ratio respectively (105 bones, 24 soul cores).

By the time he made his way to the edge of the core region. He had leveled up three more times (Lvl 7) and his ring had leveled up once (Lvl 4). All along, he did not even bother to allocate any of his status points. He was waiting for his first main class and that would be at level ten.

Out at the edge of the core region, he could see bone skeletons in a group of two or three. However, the differences were that the bone skeleton now carried rusty weapons and was geared up in loose armor. They seem to patrol on a certain set of routes and are in a loose formation. However, if a player is not careful, that player could be routed. Even for a party member of six, it is still risky since the battle could potentially attract groups of bone skeletons.

Approaching from a hidden view, he calmly picks up a few pebbles. He then threw a handful of it in the direction of a pair of bone skeletons (Lvl 7,8). One reason was to attract the aggro of the two while luring both the outside of the other nearby bone skeletons into aggro range. Usually, these kinds of habits will take time to develop. There were many times when players had to slowly grind their way past groups of mobs.

After leading the two, he quickly eliminates the two bone skeletons. The battle was anticlimactic, with a couple of swings in the skulls and looting the drops. He rinses and repeats before eliminating a pathway of death, to his goal.

By the time he reaches his goals, he has enough experience to level twice (Lvl 9). His ring also gains a level as well (Lvl 5). Looking beyond the bone-dusty fog, he saw his goal.

At the center of the graveyard was a fort in ruins. Lonely and in solitude, a few rare skeleton soldiers patrol the top restlessly. Their flags to signify the pride of the legion had already been torn cloth, colors have already faded, and the human flesh has turn into living bones.

The west wing of the fort had crumbled. The gate had already been rusted, one side dropped inward and the other side of the gate was hanging by a metal hinge. It was a desolate fort. This fort was the reason why he had wanted to come here. Thus, end chapter five.