A few minutes through the forest and the group sees a clearing ahead along with the faint sound of voices and movement.
In the clearing the grass has been cut and some trees and branches have been set around as a rough barrier. People are drinking from up the stream and washing clothes or themselves down the stream. There are a few campfires getting started as it’s approaching dinner and It seems some people have been hunting as well.
Abby: “Welcome to our home! It’s not much but at least we have some shelter from the weather and monsters.”
Oko: “It looks nice! I’ll probably hang around for a few minutes and try to sell some stuff but then I gotta go to the next floor.”
Abby: “Oh right you left before we found out about the door! If you walk up and put your hand to the door there is another menu that pops up, there is a store and a couple upgrades you can get but it’s all very expensive.”
‘Huh guess I found out what the money was for, good thing I didn’t leave it behind.’
Oko: “What kind of things can you get?”
Abby: “Well there are food and potions and floor upgrades, it’ll probably be easier if you just look for yourself. A bunch of us chipped in to buy the tower guide since it’s cheap and can be shared. It said…”
Basically this is what it boiled down to:
Monsters respawn at different rates with the lowest at 1 hour and floor bosses respawning at 32 hours. Legendary bosses respawning much slower.
After the 5th floor you will unlock a subfloor where you may go after completing floors, there will be room to store and trade with people. There are also ‘locals’ that live in the tower but have no system or access to the door.
More batches of contestants will be joining in due time.
Some floors are instances, meaning you can only enter as groups, the party size depends on the floor.
It takes 24 hours to respawn after dying, the penalty for dying is loss of skill proficiency. If you have no lives left, you die for real.
Passing a floor gives 2 - 5 ap based on performance.
Tomes can be dropped by enemies which contain skills and skill upgrades.
Oko:”Hmm it’s pretty basic but it is a lot, I wonder what that subfloor looks like.”
‘Seems the Goblin chief will be respawning soon too.’
Abby: “Ya me too, you can check the door and I’ll see if I can find some rangers. What are you selling anyway? We haven’t been able to get much from the monsters.”
Oko: “Well bosses seem to drop a lot more frequently, I have an enchanted arrow but idk what it does yet.”
Arcus: “An enchanted arrow!? I’ve never heard of something being enchanted yet, are you sure it’s not just some symbols on a goblin arrow?”
Oko: “Pretty sure, see ya in a bit!”
When Oko got to the door he stuck his hand against the door and felt a slight warmth and pressure.
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[The magnanimous tower has gifted you with a 75% discount for your first tower store purchase!]
Money Exchange
100 Copper = 1 Bronze
100 Bronze = 1 Silver
100 Silver = 1 Gold
100 Gold = 1 Platinum
100 Platinum = 1 Crystal
100 Crystal = 1 Supreme Crystal
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Tower purchases:
[Warning: all floor purchases only last one month, you must repurchase upgrades if you want them again.]
Beginners Guide
Price: 20 Copper (doesn’t count for first purchase discount)
Description:
Gives very basic info on random tower rules and useful advice.
Mapping feature
Price: 2 Bronze
Description:
Adds a basic map feature to your window that you can open and scroll back to places you have been. Retains all knowledge even if you don’t purchase the map for awhile.
Player message system
Price: 25 Copper (doesn’t count for first purchase discount)
Description:
Allows messaging between players as long as you have registered contact with them. (This purchase still resets every month but you can message between floors as long as both parties have it.) Contacts last until one person deletes the others information.
Cross floor delivery
Price: depends on package and distance
Description:
Send packages across floors, packages must be sent and picked up at the door. Can send to any player you have contacts for.
Plant Quality
Price: 1 Bronze
Description:
Better quality harvests for all plants and some ingredients found in the wild.
Ore Quality
Price: 1 Bronze
Description:
Better quality ore.
Skinning Quality
Price: 1 Bronze
Description:
Better quality hide, claws, meat, teeth etc.
Logging Quality
Price: 1 Bronze
Description:
Increase quality of wood from logging, including less bugs, less bug damage, healthier wood etc.
Monster Drop Yield
Price: 20 Bronze
Description: Double the amount of coins dropped from monsters
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Player Store(only available on subfloor):
Respec Attributes
Price: 1 Copper (x100 after every purchase)
Description: Reallocate your ap
Health potion (Lesser, normal, etc…)
Price: 1 Copper (x100 for every tier higher)
Description: Restore health
Mana potion (Lesser, normal, etc…)
Price: 1 Copper (x100 for every tier higher)
Description: Restore mana
Basic Food
Price: 20 copper
Description: one meal, prevents starvation
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‘Hmmm interesting, with the first purchase discount I can get double yield for a month. I haven’t been paying to much attention to the money drops but I’m pretty sure it’s been dropping around max for first kills. If that upgrade works on my guaranteed max drop then that’s insane value!’
‘Guess I’ll grab it!’
Poko first decided to exchange his copper for bronze. He put 100 copper in his hands (luckily the copper is small) and chose to exchange. He could feel the coins disappear with one slightly bigger coin left in his hand.
Poko then put 5 bronze in his hands and chose the upgrade.
[Tower upgrade purchased: Monster Drop Yield]
When he opened his hand, the coins were gone.
‘Alright next let’s sell the arrow, I wonder if I can sell the tome but Idk the drop rates for tomes.’
When Poko walked back he saw Abby with 2 guys, 2 girls, and 1 Arcus.
‘Seems he’s curious after all.’
Oko: “Hi I take it you guys are interested in my arrow? Don’t worry the shaft is straight and the tip sturdy, it shouldn’t have any performance issues!”
Unknown man: “Hahaha yes please! Names Quincy, I’ll have to play with it a bit before I judge how good it is.” Quincy says as he gives a flirty wink.
Oko gives a smile and takes out the arrow that has been annoyingly sticking out of his pack all this time.
‘I’m Surprised it didn’t break, probably because it’s enchanted I guess.’
Oko: “This is the only arrow I got for you, my other is reserved for the ladies.”
Poko realizes they all have bows and quivers on their backs.
Oko: “I actually don’t know the enchantment on it, I’ve tried stabbing and throwing it but I don’t have a bow and nothing happened.”
Arcus: “How do you know it’s even enchanted? Sure it looks a bit different but that doesn’t mean it’s enchanted.”
Oko: “Simple, someone can shoot it and if it doesn’t seem to do anything or nobody wants it then I’ll just keep it. Who wants to try it?”
Quincy: “I will! I’ll shoot a normal arrow first in case the difference isn’t obvious, but what if your arrow breaks? It’s not uncommon for that to happen even when we are hitting softwood, it’s still wood after all.”
Oko: “If it breaks then it’s worthless anyways.”
Quincy first shoots the normal arrow which hits the target dead on, the arrow barely enters the wood and snaps at the tip.
“Damn, unlucky.”
Then Quincy fires the enchanted arrow.
SWOOOSH
The arrow picks up speed with a gust of wind as it leaves the bow. It hits the wood right next to where the other arrow hit, sinking in a few inches through the wood and slightly quivering.
‘That was better than I thought!’
Quincy: “Damn that felt nice leaving the bow! I’ll give you 28 copper for it!”
The other rangers look with disappointment when they hear Quincy’s offer.
‘Seems he is the richest? That’s not a lot at all!! Damn the drop rates must be much worse than I thought!’
Just as Poko is about to reluctantly accept, arcus finally speaks up.
Arcus: “I’ll give you my health potion.”
Poko: “Oh the doubter wants in? Well I can’t deny a potion after I used mine, how bout you Quincy? If you can match him I’ll sell it to you.”
This clearly pisses Arcus off as he stares at Quincy.
Quincy: “Ahh sorry, the health potion is to valuable to me, maybe next time.”
Poko: “Alright.”
As the others leave Poko catches up with Quincy.
Oko: “Hey actually I got something else you might be interested in, but I want the potion and your coins.”
Quincy: “Oh? The only thing I’ll consider for that is a tome but those things seem pretty rare, there have been about 5 item drops that I’ve heard of so far but most were crappy daggers.”
Oko: “It’s a tome for Piercing Arrow.”
Quincy: “… wow your just getting all the drops! The skill doesn’t sound super rare though and the potion is really valuable, at this stage it’s probably worth more than a bronze. I can get skills through clearing the floors even if they are rare.”
Poko: “Yes but one extra skill can go a long way, and you can level up your skills so getting them early is important.”
Quincy: “You can level up skills!? That makes a lot of sense actually, alright mister salesman you’ve convinced me! I’m going totally broke for this…”
Poko takes off his pack and puts the tome towards the top, after receiving payment he holds the bag up.
Oko: “Just reach in and learn it so nobody sees.”
Quincy: “Thanks!”
Suddenly there is a commotion at the entrance to the camp, an injured person comes running through. She is bleeding from her arm that hangs limp to her side.
Oko: "Seems like she had a rough time."Quincy: "Thats Alice, she was with a strong team of six who was going to fight a wolf boss someone found earlier today. There was a fight over who was going to fight it first and that team won because their swordsmen got a shield drop like yours. I heard some other teams went to cause trouble what with the 32 hour floor boss spawn time, I'm sure it'll cause more problems."Oko: "I'm surprised they wouldn't just all go as a group."Quincy: "That was suggested but most didn't want to risk it not counting for the clear. Besides, not enough loot to go around then."Oko: "Seems everyone is confident in their strength."Quincy: "Of course, these creatures are pretty weak if you have a team. Of course I haven't heard of anyone beating a boss yet so idk."After talking to Quincy a bit about the new settlement, Abby jogs up to them.Abby: "Hey! Apparently the wolf is still up, Alice's team was wiped. She only survived because the leeches jumped in to kil
[Congratulations! You have defeated a fifth Floor Boss!][BA BA BADAH!!! You have completed this floors hidden mission of {Kill all 5 floor bosses in 32 hours(Bosses gain strength based on number of bosses dead)} Since you are the first being to complete a hidden mission you receive 10 AP and your rewards have been doubled! Your rewards:- 2 Extra skill selection at rewards room- 2 Extra rare class at rewards room- 20 bronze at rewards room- Automatically get 2 perfect scores on your floor evaluation (only applicable on the first pass)]Poko couldn't help but be surprised at this!'Holy!! Wait can the others see this notification too!? Also 10 more AP!? Damn the tower is just giving it out for free!'As Poko looked around he saw excited smiles on everyone's faces. Quincy: "Yes! I can actually go to the second floor! We are so ahead of the others!"Abby walks up to Poko with a thankful lookAbby: "Thanks for saving me. I took 5 damage even with you blocking most of it, I would've
Poko put his points into constitution so he wouldn't have to use his potion or get killed in one hit but that's when he realized increasing from 9 - 10 cost 2 ap. And so does 10 - 11. Poko put his con to 10, strength to 8 and the rest to 9. Poko stayed on alert and near the tree since he had 3 mana and 7 HP left, he was holding a health potion like his life depended on it.Quincy skinned the boss since he had a skinning skill. Nothing good came from the corpse but Poko found some weird wood near the tree with the help of Felsen's logging skill which also got upgraded from the wood.Once everyone was done they gathered near the tree and counted the loot, this is what they found:- 29 starter swords/bows- 625 copper- 28 bags- 15 health potions- Misc. meat/fur/herbs (all common)- 1 shield- 2 crappy daggers- Pair of rough leather gloves- Enchanted arrow (from arcus)- Weird woodFrom the boss and minions:- 2 Bronze- Skill: ice spike- Skill: quick feet'If I knew we would get
Chapter 14: Floor 2!Poko opens his eyes to see a giant colosseum. He is up very high looking at the distant stage. As he looks around he notices there is rune like object on what looks like an entrance way. But on the other side of the entranceway is the colosseum below, walking through the entrance would lead to falling a good 40 feet and hitting the stands beneath, not even reaching the stage.To his left and right the building circles around but to his right there is a stand and a pretty women behind it smiling at him. "Welcome! Touch the rune to start the challenge whenever your ready, you can have up to 6 people for this challenge."Oko: "Are you a contestant?"Lady: "Nope, I'm a local of the tower. We locals live in the tower, some of us taking jobs helping the tower. Most you can find when you reach the subfloor."Oko: "Oh, do you also climb the tower?Lady: "No we don't have access to the towers system. We cannot even enter the tower much less gain stats and learn skills."O
Poko enters the rewards room and this is the rewards breakdown:- 1 skill- 1 skill (first human to complete floor)- 1 skill (hidden mission completion)- 1 skill (perfect score) - 50 bronze- 1 skill (solo) - 500 bronze- 1 rare class (first human completion)- 1 rare class (perfect score)- 1 rare class (hidden mission)- 1 rare class (solo)- 1 perfect score (floor rating)- 1 perfect score (hidden mission) - 50 bronze- 10 bronze (perfect score)- 20 bronze (hidden mission)- 5 AP- 5 AP (solo)Total rewards:- 3 skills- 4 rare classes- 630 bronze- 10 AP"Ahh solo gives extra AP, kinda wish I did the last boss on floor 1 solo."For the skills the rare classes were:- Advanced Fire (qualified again)- Beserker (qualified again)- Spell Sword (qualified again)- Advanced Skinning (qualified)- Meat Cook (Qualified)- Sword Crafter- Enchanter- Master Miner- Bard"Not any good classes on the random rares. Seems like you should always qualify for rare classes that fit your style
As Draven said, Kran started with a simple frontal assault, but with Poko's high stats it looked slow and was easy to dodge. Poko dodged to the right, away from Kran's shield and pressured him with his sword. Due to the stat advantage it didn't take much and Poko won the fight. Luckily the weapons were swapped for wooden ones so Kran just had some bruising and got some healing.[You have completed floor three's mission of {defeat one of the four instructors}. To move onto the next floor you may proceed to the door where you will enter the rewards room. You may also choose to increase your floor rating and stay at this floor as long as you want.]"You beat me, here's your new medal and a reward for beating me for the first time. Good luck on the next one."The reward was a shield, much better looking than Poko's old one.After winning Poko went to Draven who showed up to watch the fight."Wow your way stronger than I thought, you might beat Tark too but I doubt you could beat Tornis."
————————— POV —————————Darius was confused, suddenly he sensed a new presence but today was not a recruitment day, was it a special admittance? They do happen from time to time, it's best to double check.The boy looked normal and inexperienced, he definitely couldn't get passed the enchantment and guards. Darius discreetly spied on him for a bit, the boy didn't seem to know much about the place which is unusual. Maybe he was here to spy? He also already possessed a medal which shouldn't be possible, how did he get that? It's one of the prized possessions of the greatest unit in the country and it clearly hadn't belonged to an active member so it didn't make sense. Only he had the authority to hand it out, not even the crown prince could get one without earning it.Darius watched as Poko defeated Kran and then Tark. It seemed he actually had great potential considering how strong he already was and how quick he picked things up. But the fight with Turnis was even more startling, cas
On the 4th day Poko was ready to move forward, there would soon be players arriving if they hadn't already and he needed to stay ahead of them, good thing they all probably needed 100 wins. Poko went to see Draven who was still practicing, he didn't want to bother Draven yet so he went ahead and found Darius.Darius was a muscled man about 6ft tall, unlike Kran who was like a bear, Darius was muscular but not as thick as Kran. He held a great sword in his hands.People realizing what was happening started gathering to watch, every time someone challenged Darius people would gather to witness it and cheer on their comrade, or laugh as he got his ass kicked.Once he challenged Darius he started casting a spell immediately but this was really a fake since he knew Darius wouldn't let him cast it. Darius attacked and with each swing Poko felt a giant weight against his shield, this man was strong! Poko did not hold back and started using skills like piercing strike and slashing strike. Th
Back on the first floor:Eventually a group of people entered the camp with some wolf meat and edible herbs to eat. Gof the blacksmith was very short with rippling muscles, he seemed like the quiet type. Resama the tailor has blonde hair and perky… personalities, she seems very outgoing. Rosliny the potion maker is a beauty with red hair, she looks a bit more stern. Masu is a wider man who seems happy with their catch, he immediately gets to preparing the and cooking the food.After some introductions Masu started cooking and Poko watched intently trying to learn. It was clear Masu was already much better than him and even had multiple skills dealing with cooking. Which considering they were still on the first floor, that was very is impressive.‘These guys are already better than me, my crafting skills are pretty bad I’ll probably need some people to craft for me in the future. These guys are dedicated to their craft, I should try to befriend them.’Willow: “So Oko here wanted to jo
Inside a throne room that exudes wealth and power sits a king with a few attendants at his side. The king is thinking with a slight frown on his face. In front of the king stands an old man, If Poko was here he would’ve recognized him as the old man he gave the core to. Beside the old man is a middle aged man in nobles clothing.King: “Are you sure this report is correct?”Old Man: “Yes your majesty, I did a preliminary investigation while it was still fresh in the villagers minds, however I didn’t have time to check out the corpse since we couldn’t risk losing the enhancer again.”Noble: “Sire allow me to investigate this more thoroughly, I’m sure there is an explanation.”King:”No, don’t bother. We have other things to worry about right now, if the problem is resolved then that’s one more thing we won’t need to waste resources on.”Noble: “Yes your majesty.”After the two left an attendant asks???:“Sire, do you think it’s one of those incidents the reports have talked about?”King
There were plenty of investment opportunities such as:Apartment buildings which have 100 units(rooms) each, there are 150 apartment buildings. 1 gold to buy each building, 500 copper a month rent for rooms (standard, can be changed) comes with a local manger.There is a section for buying/ selling including craftsmen/artisan buildings. Varying merchant buildings from stalls to large auction sites. (1 silver to 1 gold)Middle housing area has 500 houses (30 silver each)Upper area has 50 big houses (1.5 gold)Guild buildings in near the door. (One for each main class and can’t be bought)Company buildings for sale in middle area and craftsman area. (Varying from 50 silver to 2 gold)Warehouse/ import district near the biggest gate opposite the residential area, warehouses can be bought here. (1 silver to 1 gold)One premium store house for 15 gold which comes with multiple store fronts to rent out, rooms for each major crafting field, a large storage warehouse. Comes with security en
Poko stats and inventory——————————————————————Name: PokoTower level: 4Lives left: 5Current Health: 75 (75)Current Mana: 31 (60)Mana: 12Stamina: 15Magic power: 19Physical power: 14Constitution: 15AP: 56 Skills:Storage:Store up to 5 square ft or 500lbs (scales with mp)Meditation III:Circulate mana and gather it from your surroundingsLesser Fire II:Create Fire within 100 ft that deals dmg (scales with magic power)Ingredient Identifier I:Identify ingredients and their usesPlant Knowledge II:Identify plants and their usesPiercing Strike I:Increase Pierce damage (scales with strength)Thick Skin II:Decrease incoming physical damageHide II:Others are less likely to see youFire Resistance I:Resist fireQuick Feet II:Move quicker with a burst of speed (consumes stamina)Ore Smelting:Basic knowledge on smelting oreSkinning Knowledge II:Knowledge about skinningTracking I:Used for tracking animals through various terrainSilent Steps II:Move quietly (consum
The one at the front looked fairly young and also the leader holding a sword, there was a middle aged women who was probably a healer, an old man holding a wand, a sly looking fella with daggers and a giant man with a tower shield. The tower shield looked very uncomfortable on the horse.“It’s Rose company! Please excuse my humble hospitality, I didn’t expect such prestigious guests for such a simple magical beast extermination.”“You said in the report there was a frost wolf and giant bear right? When did you see them and where?”“They were in the crag tooth ridge, but this man here has already taken care of them. I’m terribly sorry to have wasted your time honorable sirs but if your interested in their hides he is looking to sell them, I’m sure he’ll give you a good price!”The leader of the group looks at Poko. “Hmph look old man you can’t listen to just anybody’s stories, this man is clearly lying.”“No I’m not, I killed them both.”“Do you think I’m an idiot? Show me the hide th
The lesser fire did not destroy the shield, only dimming it a little. He would probably need 2 more flame spells to destroy it. The man now did something weird, he charged at Poko. Poko was caught off guard as all the man needed now was a quick spell and it would probably do a lot to him but instead he charged at him. But this was to his advantage, Poko closed the distance too with his sword and shield.This time the man did not dodge at all and let the shield block the hit, nearly destroying it. He ran right past Poko and Poko realized what the man was doing, he was likely out of mana and running for his bag and equipment. As soon as Poko finished swinging his sword, he started a fire spell with full power. The man grabbed the bag, rummaged quickly until he took out a blue bottle and gulped it down. Just as he started casting another spell Poko finished his which destroyed the man’s shield and hit him heavily. The man let out a scream and his spell fizzled in the air. Poko used qui
Poko sprinted up the hill and saw a blue wolf sniffing at some clothes and a shield on the ground. The sword was the beginner sword and looked like scrap, while the shield was dented but still usable. It seems like he beat the first instructor and got the shield but that was it. [Players: 1/30]Before the wolf noticed him Poko started with a fire spell, he used fire control to increase the strength and did not use quick cast as he had the jump on the creature.Of course a magical wolf would notice the change in mana immediately, it raised its head and dodged the fire with a movement skill. Poko followed it up with a quickened fire spell and hit the wolf as it’s skill was probably still on cooldown. However the wolf didn’t bother to dodge and merely opened its mouth.Poko knew what was coming and immediately used his movement skill to dash behind the ridge as an icy breath passed over above him. Poko ran back up, already casting earth shower. As soon as he saw the wolf he cast it an
Entering the village Poko soon found a small tavern which he entered, at this time of day there wasn’t many people in the building. Poko was greeted by a girl who looked about 14 years old.“Hello mister, what can I get you?”“Hi, I was wondering if this town has an inn?”“Nope sorry, mom says that there’s not enough travelers for an inn but some farmers rent out barn space.”“Hmm ok, do you know what kind of rumors have been going around lately?”“Rumors? I heard herald was sleeping with the butchers daughter and got caught! Now old man rogers is furious!”‘Highly doubt that’s related to the quest but that’s what I get for being vague.’“Hmm interesting, what about monsters rumors? I’m a hunter and am looking for something new to hunt.”“Hmm well there is a lot of hyenas, rabbits, and deer around here. There’s also the crag tooth ridge but no one goes there because of how dangerous it is, I heard there was a dragon sleeping there!”Poko continued to chat with the little girl but she
Poko looks around to see a barren desert.[Welcome to floor 4! Survive!]“So I just have to survive? Probably a time limit I guess.”[You have completed floor four’s mission of {Survive! Last one standing wins!}. To move onto the next floor you may proceed to the door where you will enter the rewards room. You may also choose to increase your floor rating and stay at this floor as long as you want.][BA BA BADAH!!! You have completed this floors hidden mission of {Complete this floor in 30 mins or less without prior knowledge of the floor} Your rewards:1 Extra skill selection at rewards room1 Extra rare class at rewards roomAutomatically a perfect score on your floor evaluation10 bronze at rewards room]…“So everything before about it being a group floor was a trap… you are evil tower!”Just thinking about the groups that would spend days here in the blistering heat not knowing when it will end, with the tower only saying survive and nothing else. It would be a contest to see wh