After a few days of rest Blake logs back into the game. Now that he has acquired some gold he heads back to the blacksmith shop he visited before.
Walking in he is greeted by the old large man "GoodAfternoon, welcome back. What can I help you with?" The man says with a harsh voice.
"I'm looking for a better set of combat gloves, preferably something that enhances fire elements or heals me in combat."
Blake asks the man.
"Certainly!" The man says before heading out the back, bringing back a pair of gloves with a pure white glow. "These gloves are our Tiger claw steel leather combat gloves, they are engraved with a fire enhancer rune that increase damage delt with fire element attacks by 50%. They also increase damage delt from punching attacks by 75%." The man explains to Blake.
"How much is it for?" Blake asks.
"I can sell this one for 15 gold, and I'll include a pair of iron shin guards for kicking attacks too." The man explains.
"Great I'll take it!" Blake says excitedly handing the man 15 gold out of his pouch on his waist.
The man hands him the gloves and quickly grabs the shin guards and hands them to him "enjoy! Have a good day." The man says as Blake walks out, equipping his new gear.
Blake then heads to the quest hall again, after being so long hopefully he can pick from more quests.
Walking to the back wall he looks at all of the quests, deciding to take on lily gatherer 2, goblin slayer 2 and a class quest called Dojo Master chain quest.
Lily gatherer 2 requires him to gather 50 healing lilies and 10 Wind lilies. Goblin slayer 2 requires him to kill 25 goblins and his Dojo Master quest requires him to travel to a town called Sorfen.
Wanting to quickly finish the necromancy quest at least, Blake quickly makes his way back to the foggy graveyard. This time not worried about being able to beat the monsters in the graveyard.
After entering like clockwork again a swarm of ten zombies surround Blake, this time he grins as he activates his burning hands skill and makes quick work of the zombies as his new gloves sport claws on them making his punches turn the zombies into ribbons. As all of the zombies fall to the ground dead, a notice appears in front of Blake "You have learned the 4 strike punch skill, martial skill. A skill that links four punches together, dealing 110% damage, costing 3 stamina with a cool-down of 2 seconds. 56% of martial players have this skill."
Blake grins "with this and all the other skills I might be able to take on that Boss here too." He mumbles before continuing forward. After a few minutes he finds a dull iron chest with 2 undead bones in it again. Annoyed he decided to head straight into the church building.
Once again he saw the Boss bar and quickly made his way forward seeing the skeleton lich move casting a spell.
Blake activated giants strength and burning hands, feeling his body grow in size he quickly dodges the fire ball launching at him and launches at the lich. Bombarding the lich with various punches and kicks, every punch taking a visible chunk out of the lich's health bar, his kicks barely doing anything so he stops attempting them. Without giving the lich space or time to cast any more spells after nearly five minutes of beating the lich to a pulp the lich disappears leaving behind a glowing iron chest. Blake opens the chest with excitement hoping for good loot, inside is a pouch of gold with 20 gold in it, 5 undead bones and a item glowing yellow-gold. The item is a necklace of the undead lich a legendary mid-game item, it has the ability when worn by an undead race to prevent death once on the user per week and it increases damage of all magic attacks by five times. Blake remembers reading about items outside of early game that they can improve a players stats by huge amounts as leveling up isn't a option as the XP amount is too huge, but for someone in the early game getting a mid game item is utterly life changing, his blood slash skill went from dealing 25 damage to 125 damage. Which for this stage could probably one hit any ordinary monster.
Blake quickly checks his stats to see what level he is at.
Blake
Race: Lesser Vampire
Class: Martial Swordsman
Gold: 40
Level 9 (490/2500)
HP: 135/135
Stamina: 442/442
Mana: 30/30
Strength: 63
Speed: 45
Luck: 0.5 (Max: 10)
Equipment:
Common sword (+1 damage to all sword based skills)
Tiger claw steel gloves (+75% damage to all punching based skills) (rune of fire enhancer )
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)
Iron shin guards (+1 damage to all kick based skills)
Necklace of the undead lich
Skills:
1 strike slash (1 stamina)
1 strike punch (1 stamina)
1 strike kick (1 stamina)
2 strike punch (2 stamina)
4 strike punch (3 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:
Lily gatherer 2: collect 50 healing lilies and 10 wind lilies. (1000XP and 1 random herbalism skill scroll)
Goblin slayer 2: kill 25 goblins (400XP and 3 gold)
Dojo Master: travel to Sorfen (100XP)
Inventory:
Undead bones x8
Basic Healing Potion x5
Blake looks at his map to see where he needs to go next, especially for the town he needs to go to. All of his quests are all north of garden forest so he decides to head there and finish the quests he has there and then head onwards from there.