It has been a year since the integration of Earth into the System. The population was cut in half in the first month, then cut in half again the month after that before finally leveling out. People still died, but the top ten on the tutorial leaderboard have been the same for eight months. John Smith has been in second during that time. He like hunting alone, he has a class well suited for it. Before the System he was a wide receiver on a professional football team. He was fast, fastest in the league. When the system came he looked at it like a competition, he started out with a light warrior class and has a max starting dexterity stat. He selected the hardest mission on the System's mission board, completing it solo should put him in first place. Before heading into the Sahara desert to hunt down the Giant Sand Scorpion he checked his status menu:
Status
Name: John Smith
Age: 26
Class: Dark Berserker (Legendary)
Level: 100
Stats
HP: 3,000/3,000
MP: 6,000/6,000
SP: 5,533/6,000
Strength: 150
Dexterity: 770
Endurance: 600
Vitality: 300
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Wisdom: 600
Intelligence: 530
Free Points: 0
Skills
Identify, One-handed Weapon Mastery, Meditate, Major Dual-wielding, Haste, Berserker, Dark Slash, Cross-slash, Shadow Vault, Dark Bolt, Shadow Prison
His stats looked good, with his legendary class and ability to dodge he was confident fighting enemies around level one-hundred and sixty, and he heard the Scorpion was around one-hundred and fifty. Even if he couldn’t win, he was confident in his ability to escape.
He started running full speed through the desert avoiding any enemies he could see on the way. When he got close enough to see the scorpion he stopped and made sure there was nothing close to him so he could meditate and get his stamina points back to max.
He walked towards the scorpion until he was in range to use identify:
Scorpion
Level 152
Right around where he was confident in at least escaping. He continued walking up toward the scorpion until it turned aggro towards him, he activated haste and berserker at the same time and ran towards the scorpion casting a dark bolt at it, the bolt hit the tail flying towards him and didn’t appear to do anything to him. He shadow vaulted to the side to avoid the tail and charged underneath the scorpion’s head, his daggers appearing in his hands along the way and used dark slash along the scorpion’s neck, but his dagger glanced off the shell.
He expected his attack to be ineffective, he activated shadow prison around them to remove the creature’s sight and create a domain where his dark bolts could be rapid fired. He formed ten bolts around him and launched them all at once towards where he felt the scorpion was, right when he launched the bolts, he felt something pointy hit him in the chest, sending him flying backwards. The tail had moved so quickly he didn’t have time to sense the incoming attack, the drawback of shadow prison was you lost your sight as well and had to rely on sensing movement within your domain.
He checked his HP and discovered it was below a thousand, he summoned a greater health potions from his ring and downed it, only to discover it didn’t do anything and his HP was rapidly falling, it was down to five-hundred, he summoned another greater health potions and a major antidote and downed the antidote, his HP depletion slowed, he was now at three-hundred and twenty, he downed the health potions but it still didn’t do anything, the regenerative negation effects of the toxins were still present, he summoned another of each potions, however he was struck in the side by a leg and lost his potions, finding his HP at fifty and still depleting he knew it was over. As his HP hit twenty the scorpion stepped on his chest and finished him off.
