Sword Master Online

Chapter 2 - Exploration (reminder: incomplete)


 

Although his headache was recovering way faster than what he had originally thought so, his first priority is to check on current events.

The World Map on the top left-hand corner had disappeared, which means that he is unable to pin-point exactly what location he is at.

Under good circumstances, not too far from here there should be a small town or village, where he could then be able to pinpoint his current location.

But likewise, under bad circumstances humans might not exist in this current world, but of course the chance of this occurring is very low, although it cannot be ruled out.

Called out [Control Panel].

Pressed [Character Stats].

On level aspect-wise, Han Mu gasped in shock, as he's actually Lv220. You must know that in <Sword Master Online>, the maximum character level that one can hope to achieve is up till Lv200.

Recalling that during the final battle, Chaos protector [The beginning(De départ)]'s max HP had fallen to 1% and was about to unleash it's Time Reverse, when Han Mu thrust his holy sword of light <Hercules> into it's heart.

He gave the final blow to the boss, can it be because of that decision to attack, that made him jump by 20 levels?

But as expected of a 20 levels difference window, as his stats had increased by a significant amount.

Pressing the [Title] option revealed an extra [The Discoverer] title within. Having an excited interest to know what it is, upon equipping it Han Mu became shocked once more.

All of his stats actually got multiplied by 3!

His own power was already specially strengthened to begin with, it wasn't just any normal character one could use to compare.

As a result, he had reached a horrifying level of strength, even Han Mu now felt it's possible that he could single handedly defeat the [The beginning(De départ)] all on his own.

Other than that, he had also gained two new active skills: [God's soul] [All elemental resistance (God tier)].

Han Mu first pressed onto [God's soul] skill's explanation, and the explanation for it was short and simple, four words.

[User will be blessed.]

An extremely simple, four worded explanation. Han Mu checked his own stats, but it seemed like there wasn't any change, his Luck column was still the same [ A ] rank, no changes.

Then he proceeded to activate [All elemental resistance (God tier)].

Like what the sentence of the skill implied, his own resistance levels had been boosted to unfathomably strong levels.

But in the first place, due to his hidden class as a <Holy Dragon Knight>, all of his natural resistances are already absurdly high. So Han Mu didn't place much thought about it.

The <Holy Dragon Knight> hidden class is one of SMO's many hidden classes of jobs; your character must have achieved certain warrior class jobs requirements like having a Fighter lv20 (Max level) , Holy Knight lv20 (Max level) and Dragon Knight lv30 (Max level) as a prerequisite, then after clearing some complicated series of quests to be able to advance into such a tedious hidden class.

But because Han Mu is a NEET who relies on gaming to earn his living, so for the sake of saving the cost of those scamming potions plus the ability to solo often, he carefully chose this as his main class after much deliberation.

Due to him being a Holy Dragon Knight, his character's race is free to switch between [Human] or [Dragon], with the added convenience of allowing Han Mu to not only complete Human-only assigned quests, but also able to accept quests only unique to Dragon races.

Since Han Mu himself needed to depend on the game to earn his next meal, how he earned money is by him accepting multitude of quests from many different races, hence in the aspect of character's popularity, the Dragon race and Human race are of a [worship] status.

Don't even mention about other races though, for even the Demon race had a [friendly] status meter with Han Mu. But as a result of that, his <good-evil> meter had dropped to -50 , causing certain in-game functions like church-revival to suffer; he would have to fork out an extra 50% for it.

But for the sake of accepting the Demon race's bountiful reward quests, Han Mu could close a blind eye to that tiny flaw.

Also worth mentioning is that the <good-evil> meter is a min-max range of ±200, if a user had shockingly reached the <good-evil> ratio point of -200, then you'll be unable to use the church, and can only rely on the guild or the trade market's goods to revive.

Next up is to check his [Storage], this storage already exists within the system itself.

Nothing seemed to be missing from it, all his materials, as well as potions and weapons are within it.

There seemed to be a few extra stuff though, these items are dropped from the final boss [The beginning(De départ)], while no one went to claim these items equips earlier, the system decided to pass it all to the squad leader, Han Mu.

Han Mu quickly checked these few items.

[Chaos protector's Halberd]

[Chaos' bracelets of protection]

[Necklace: Chao's successor]

These three items seemed to be a set, and the set effect is to become Chaos protector.

(TL note: Whaat? I thought it would add +65% boss damage, +40% total damage, +40% attack/ magic attack, +35% defense ignore, +35% all stats, +5000 hp and mp... wait, you're saying this isn't Maplestory? Oh, wrong game... bye then.)

Han Mu's eyebrows frowned and kept the storage.

Gu~

What sound is that!?

Gu~

Looking downwards, Han Mu realised that it's actually his stomach that's growling?!

Him inside a game, being able to feel hungry?! This was a most unexpected and strange development for him already, but thinking back, didn't he drank some water previously when he suffered a bad headache.

(TL note: since he had super high resistance to almost everything, I suppose the bad headache is a result of crossing dimensions.)

What is exactly going on? If this is said to be a game, then it would be too realistic already. Han Mu had never encountered such things before either.

Although it was mentioned previously he ate food in-game, but it's all artificially flavored, it won't leave any recurring sense of hunger or fullness at all.

The ability to feel hungry was indeed something that he slightly missed; he took out from [Storage] a loaf of Bread, this is the only object within his [Storage] that looks consumable.

Bread is a low-level beginner potion item that recovered HP, many games had that kind of setting as well too.