End of day results

At the end of the day, he had reached two more levels. It was harder to reach them and progressively got worse, but he was fairly certain that he could grind out at least one level per day if he moved up the ranks accordingly and aimed for first kill bonuses. This meant that he should clear all of the other dungeons at least once as well, which was probably a good idea regardless to get some loot disparity. Therefore, he made it his goal for the next day to clear all of the Tier 8 Bosses from the other Instant Dungeons.

However, he had other things to worry about first. He stepped from the Light Door (Which he decided to call Gates from now on because that was a way better name) and into the open field. Lots of things had changed in the last two days.

Because the sun was still moving at the speed outside of the barrier It was still day inside the barrier (The two days inside equalling about 7 hours outside) and in response to that Magoi had created two houses during his absence. The Fateweaver had just copied John’s house twice, “It was easiest that way,” He had explained and walked into his copy of John’s home.

The good thing was he could sleep with shut curtains inside his bedroom; the even better news was that Magoi copied John’s home with all of the electronics running and connected to the internet. The bad was that there was no food and neither was it inside Magoi’s contract to provide any. Therefore, John had to go through with the costly endeavor of getting his food from the Abyss Auction, but that had time.

He turned to the neatly segmented basin where Magoi stored his loot. The High Fateweaver was standing there as well, scratching the chin of his raptor skull mask with one hand while turning a CD in his hand with the other. “Interesting.” He said to John once he stepped into his field of view, “I interpreted your Ability to copy things that existed but instead this album confirms that it also creates things without precedent. Truly fascinating you are.”

Ignoring Magoi’s wonder John looked over the stuff. The common drops where money at best and cheap jokes at worst, which set the tone for the rest of the drops really. He put the money into his inventory, kept one of the Albums, there were some good songs on there but decided to get the Navy Membership Cards on the auction. Surely somebody was interested in a very finely crafted paper card that just said, “In the Navy!” with the music scores of the song printed on it.

He also got three Kryptonite Doorknobs. They were, unsurprisingly, useless but he needed to feed Aclysia something to keep her level up to his so he put them aside for her. The Brush of Black was a brush that could only paint black, no surprise here, and also completely useless. The “Beat(ing) it!” Item was something he might have appreciated in older times, it was a fleshlight of likely good quality, but there was no reason to keep it. ‘Aside from feeding it to Aclysia and make her reshape her pussy out of it.’ He realized and put it on her pile.

Fish. There was a fish. Two to be exact. Two fresh Barracudas. John knew what he would be eating today, but that didn’t make it less weird. Everything about Radio Head was weird. Then there was a stick of dynamite. That was really all there was to it. He would sell it on the Auction.

Rare Items, these should prove a bit better. First to look at that “Spirit of the Radio”.

Good, but boring, but good. John should start to assemble some kind of better equipment in the future anyway so this was nice. He stored the two of them that had dropped in his inventory for later use. What was next?

Confused he put it on. Well, the world was a shade darker thanks to the helmet but otherwise. Sylph burst into laughter, “What is that, what even is that, hihihihihhi.” Salamander and Gnome giggled as well, Undine sent him some amused vibes, and even Aclysia seemed to smile slightly. Sylph’s incisive laughter as she rolled in the air, kicking her feet also revealed what the helm was for, whenever he heard something the helm visualized it with sound bars. This item was trash but would probably sell for good money. ‘Jane would love this.’ He realized as he put it on the ‘Sell’-pile. Needless to say, saving her had a higher priority than hoarding gifts.

The next drop he had four of, hopefully, they were any good.

‘Bad joke.’ John thought and gave one of the daggers to Aclysia. She had still one Slot open in Adaptive Bladery and no really short-range weapon, so this was probably a good investment, especially as they were to go into the Skaven Under-Empire again tomorrow, where both the Cleaver of Streets and the Sword of Glory would prove too big to use. He would either sell the other three or feed them to Aclysia if she needed more to level up.

Last, he had one of these things:

He had no idea what ‘Revealer of Secrets’ actually did. So he turned to Magoi with that question. “No idea.” The High Fateweaver answered truthfully, “Probably something connected to your unique dungeon constructing powers. May I urge you to look at the remaining two items? I am itching to find out what they do.”

John was as well. There was his guaranteed Epic Drop:

Well, that retired his Verdin apparently. He could still use both, but there were limited appliances where he would need both. Also, these puns started to physically hurt him. He landed the Verdin on his hand canceled Possession, using it on the Bee instead. He was even smaller now, and the new way to flap his wings would need some getting used to but aside from that the experience was the same, which he was thankful for, he had no desire to experience the way insect eyes worked.

The last item on the list was legendary. Yes, he had finally dropped one. It had taken eons and the murdering of countless bosses, but he had finally done it. The only other legendary item in possession was the Necklace of the World Ender, and that was stupendously good, so he had high expectations of this.

‘Ehm, I am not sure what to think of this’ John admitted to himself. “What does it do?” Magoi wanted to know, “The mana it radiates is impressive.” Was it? John didn’t really look at aura’s all that often, especially after he had found out that he could toggle it off with a mere thought. It was like looking through multi-colored fog most of the time. Now that he did use it again though the Fateweaver was proven right, the collar did exude a strong golden aura. John relayed what it did as shortly as possible. “Truly magnificent, an item containing its own separate dimension.”

John was not that convinced of the item's greatness, but he would try it out, maybe the rewards were good enough to warrant such a high rarity. That aside, however, he still had other things to do today. After ordering Aclysia to start munching on the items, he didn’t need (and allowing her to grab stuff from the sale pile in case she needed more than he provided) John started to ponder about the next thing on his bucket list: The Skill Evolution Point he had gotten.

As none of the Elementals had a golden + yet, they were sadly all out. Evolving Gnome into a higher elemental was probably his best way to gain power but doing it at the risk of turning her into a crippled or tainted elemental was just not worth it. That left two other good choices for him: Mana Ray and Mana Shield.

Mana Ray was extremely powerful as it was. It was costly, sure, but also reliable in aim, had strong offensive power and a very good range. There was little need to fix what wasn’t broken. Mana Shield on the other hand sucked, and if it would only be good at higher levels, it was better to reset its level right now instead of grinding it up until he got a new point. Therefore, the decision was to evolve Mana Shield.

Okay, in John’s mind this was easy. Mana Fortification was just straight out the window. He could see applications, like hiding inside a protective earth wall, but why not have Gnome guard him with even more earth? Next, Mana **** Field sounded nice, but he had Mana Shield because he wanted a defensive skill he didn’t need to think about. He already needed to control 2 (3 counting the bee that didn’t consume one of the Possession charges) other bodies as well as which elemental his mana was going to AND being the field-strategist. Mana Protection, however, was really good. The in-fight usage was limited, he would very rarely stay at top mana a long time, but it still added a flat barrier he didn’t need to think about in many situations. The choice was made.

Yep, that was pretty good. Doubled his effective HP at the start of the day for the remaining 26 days of this training exercise as well, as he kept Mana Protection active all the time and the shield would, therefore, build up when he slept. Now to spend his points. With the 10 he had he reached exactly 100 Intellect, so it was best to do so.

Jesus, that skill was good. Not right now of course, but given the traditional scaling of his abilities, this would eventually lead to a 100% increase. He should probably increase his mana based arsenal in the future if that were the case, seems like he was some sort of Elemental-Arcane-Puppeteer-Mage now. To be honest, his class didn’t make any sense to him, but it worked nonetheless.

Aclysia had now eaten everything she needed to level up to his level, which turned out to be everything he wanted to sell (Safe the Navy Memberships and CD’s of course). This turned him slightly annoyed but if that was what it took, so be it. However, the Kryptonite Doorknobs apparently were illegible for consumption based bonus stats, so he was only faced with the decision which Stats to raise through level. Luckily increasing her strength was the easy choice as crossing 75 once again made her stupid high regeneration jump even stupider higher.

Yep, that… Not okay. The events of the day had shown that he should raise her Endurance next, so his next goals were probably getting that and Agility to 50. For himself, well he regenerated 2 MP per second now so he should probably work on his Strength first and then on Endurance in order to get to unkillable levels of HP. With this much MP, he also opened the door to get some new skills so he could also check the auction, but all of that could wait.

“Aclysia you prepare something to eat, I will go run for a bit, call me when it’s ready.” He instructed this was his way to try and get ‘Muscle of the Operation’ to increase. So far, he had not succeeded. “Understood,” Aclysia said with the usual small bow and looked at him with a worried expression as he started running.