Cherreads

Chapter 5 - Vampiric evolution

Blake logs into the game after a long day at University. 

"I'm so ruined after today. I need to get this evolution sorted." He mumbles as he heads back to the foggy graveyard.

Once Blake enters the foggy graveyard he heads further in more confident than last time. Similar to before a horde of ten zombies surround him. Remembering last time he focuses on one zombie at a time activating his burning hands skill and linking various other skills to take out all the zombies quickly.

One by one the zombies fall to the ground and disappear, Blake able to stay vigilant and keep dodging the slow zombies is making the battle quicker than last time. Before long all the zombies are dead on the floor and Blake only has a few minor injuries that are being slowly healed by his armour.

He continues looking around the graveyard looking for chests, eventually finding a dull iron chest hiding behind an old withered tree, "The monsters in this area are so infrequent." Blake mumbles to himself before opening up the chest to see only two undead bones. "A bit upsetting but oh well" Blake says as he picks them up and puts them in his inventory.

Blake continues exploring the area, while he is exploring he sees a large church building in the centre. deciding to enter the building as he does he sees a health bar appear in his vison with a name "Nova the Undead lich Level 7" Looking around Blake sees a skeleton with fancy robes and a large staff. The door closes behind him and the boss starts moving. Before Blake can even react a fire ball is fired and explodes right on Blake sending him flying in agony. As his body hits the floor he grabs two healing potions and downs them quickly before getting back up, realising he can't beat this boss yet he uses the exit dungeon feature to leave the dungeon and appear back in town.

After waiting in town for a while for his HP to replenish he heads over to the garden forest to see if he can beat the boss there and hopefully get a few more levels in.

Making his way deep into the forest he finds a few groups of goblins that was easily taken out with a single 1 strike slash from his sword.

After a few minutes he made his way into a clearing and the same health bar appeared at the top of his vision.

Infront of him stands a huge goblin holding a giant metal cleaver, leather armour covers the entire goblin's body. With a rawr the Boss charges forward towards Blake.

Blake quickly reacts dodging the huge cleaver easily double the size of his body. Within an instant Blake activates his burning hands skill and unleashes a flurry of punches and kicks against the Boss, quickly dodging the various attacks of the Boss. A few cuts and wounds litter Blake's body but nothing bad enough to cause him to faulter.

After nearly a tough 30 minute fight the Boss falls slowly disappearing leaving behind a small shiny iron chest. After catching his breath a notice appears in front of him "you have completed the quest "Defeat 'Thrasher Level 5'" 86% of players have completed this quest."

Hesitantly Blake walks over to the chest before opening it inside is a small pouch of gold holding 20 gold. Next to the pouch is a skill scroll glowing purple, Blake reads the scroll.

"Epic skill scroll. Giant strength, martial skill. Doubles the users body size causing the users strength stat to double this effect last 5 minutes or till cancelled. Cool-down: 30 minutes. Costs 10 stamina and 1 mana."

Blake grins as he activates the scroll, once it disappears another notice appears in front of him "You have learned the skill Giant strength. 18% of martial players have this skill."

"With this skill I should be able to easy defeat the monsters in the foggy graveyard at least." Blake murmurs to himself.

Quickly he makes his way back to the town logging off for the day as he is out of stamina.

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Blake logs back into the game, finding himself in the starting town still. With excitement he races over to the foggy graveyard again. Carefully he opens the gate to the graveyard slowly making his way in. Like clockwork ten zombies surround him after digging their way from underground.

Without hesitation Blake activates giants strength and burning hands, resulting in zombies falling dead after two hits. Making the group of zombies easy to deal with and the fight end extremely soon. After the fight ended Blake continues exploring the surrounding graveyard area being careful to avoid the church like building in the centre. After a while he finds another dull iron chest, carefully opening the chest he sees only two undead bones. Either way Blake grins as he pockets the undead bones and uses the exit dungeon feature. 

appearing back in town Blake quickly takes out the evolution catalyst, activating it the orb glows and suddenly he is in a white void space, a huge net spreads out revealing an evolution chain that is so complex it hurt Blake's head. It quickly zooms in to the human race and showed the seven other options; Zombie, skeleton, Lesser Vampire, Half-Elf, Lizard-man, Blessed Human and Dwarf. One of the lines flashes green, leading to vampire and shortly after the Zombie and Skeleton lines start flashing.

He clicks the vampire one again and the system asks if he is sure, terms and conditions or whatever as well. "These bloody terms and conditions, I never read them." Blake mumbles. He confirms it, almost instantly the skill tree vanished and a surge of pain floods his body causing him to pass out.

Upon waking up he finds himself one of the in-game inns, he quickly looked at his stats.

Blake

Race: Lesser Vampire

Class: Martial Swordsman

Gold: 27

Level 6 (190/1750)

HP: 126/126

Stamina: 412/412

Mana: 16/16

Strength: 55

Speed: 37

Luck: 0.5 (Max: 10)

Equipment:

Common sword (+1 damage to all sword based skills)

Iron gloves (+1 damage to all punching based skills) (rune of elements)

Slime Ring (+1 damage to all slime monsters)

Ring of Pressure Points

Skeleton armour (Reduces physical damage taken by 1%. Reduces magic damage taken by 1%. Heals the wearer 1 HP every 5 seconds)

Skills:

1 strike slash (1 stamina)

1 strike punch (1 stamina)

1 strike kick (1 stamina)

2 strike punch (2 stamina)

Solid punch (3 stamina)

Blood Punch (5 stamina)

Burning hands (2 mana and 5 stamina)

Giant strength (10 stamina and 1 mana)

Blood Slash (4 mana, 4 stamina and 5 HP)

Quests:

Necromancy 1: Collect 10 undead bones (500XP and 5 gold) (6/10)

Dungeon fighter 2: Defeat 2 dungeon boss' (1000XP and 3 Gold)

Inventory:

Undead bones x1

Basic Healing Potion x5

Blake grins as he feels just how exhausted he is, "Evolution must take it out of you. Damn." Blake says before logging off.

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