Chapter 385: The Ghost''s Progress
Chapter 385: The Ghost’s Progress
( Jacob’s POV )
Compared to the veteran yers who constantly faced new and unforeseen challenges, the new batch of yers in Terra Nova enjoyed the advantage of having future knowledge.
Since the system evaluation for new yers followed the same pattern as the old ones, the new yers already knew exactly what to focus on and what to avoid from the start of their gaming careers for best possible evaluations.
Armed with the knowledge that skills learned from skill-scrolls did not transfer to real life, the newbies avoided learning skills from the skill scrolls, to not make the same mistakes as the veterans.
From the outset, they focused on naturally learning in-game skills and building their social reputation, as they already had prior knowledge about the third evaluation criteria, which was going to be ‘Legacy’.
In just two short months, the average level of the newbies rose to 40, with the better yers already being in the high 80s.
It was expected that by the end of the six-month double EXP period, the new yers would reach an average level of 110, matching the old yers, and the top-rankers would breach the level 200 threshold and enter the top 10,000 rankings alongside the veterans, with Jacob being a prime candidate to achieve this feat.
As the yer ‘Ghost’, he had gone from level 0 to 95 in just two months and was on track to reach the level 200 threshold in theing months before the EXP bonus from the newbie event ended. Among themon newbie yers, he was infamous as ‘The yer Killer’. Daily, yers would unexpectedly meet their end at his hands, with the system message [ You have been killed by yer ‘Ghost’ ] shing on their screens.
This notification had be so frequent that it turned into a familiar story among the new yers, making Ghost one of the most notorious up-anders in the game.
However, his high level and his notoriety were not the only special thing about Jacob, as even the skills that he acquired were the real deal.
His years of experience as a top-ss special operations agent, when coupled with the mana and skill based world of Terra Nova, allowed him to transcend his own capabilities.
Unlike themon yer, who was too afraid to even learn a skill from a skill-scroll, since they would apparently not carry forward to reality once they entered the rainbow stream in the future, Jacob learnt each and every skill that he came across as long as it had anything to do with death, or assassination.
He even bought new skill scrolls out of his earnings, as for him, he only learnt the skills to study them and nothing more.
Since skills could be deleted from one’s skill slots after learning, Jacob did not worry about how many skills he was learning as his end-goal was something else entirely.
Combining his knowledge from learning skills like ‘Cloud Feet’ , ‘Noise Reduction’, ‘Sound Barrier’ with his real life special-ops knowledge, he invented a new and improved skill of his own called the [ Silent Takedown ]
Using this skill he could soundlessly approach an enemy and kill them in such a way that whenever he would engage with the enemy an isted sound barrier would form around him in a 2 meter radius, muffling the killing sounds entirely.
The skill wasbeled as a ( Self-Creation ) in his panel giving him ( mastery ) of the skill from the get-go.
Although the skill in itself was only an (Epic) rated skill, he became apparently the first yer within the Terra Nova world to self-create an (Epic) ranked skill, which gave him the chance to publish a global-announcement which he declined.
The other rewards for his skill-creation included 2 legendary ranked skill scrolls, which contained advanced death-overlord techniques, which Jacob also only learnt for research purposes.
One of the skills was called ( Brainwash ) where he could brainwash any dead creature into bing his ve.
To test the skill out, he enved a low-level undead first andter realized that since the creature was dead, he could store it within his inventory without killing it.
This ability allowed him to store his dead ve in his inventory, calling upon it when necessary, making it a sort of portable tool that could be used when needed.
The second ability he learnt was called ( Undead Transform ) using which he could temporarily take on the form of a Lich.
While in his Lich form, he becamepletely impervious to stab and sh wounds while his MP temporarily increased by 300%, alongside his magic spell damage output.
It also had the passive of ( Undead Dominion ) whichpelled low level undead to obey his will when he was in his Lich form, giving him the powers of a necromancer without actually being one.
Unfortunately, this ability onlysted for 5 minutes currently, after which he reverted to his real form, with the undead ves hemanded now viewing him as an enemy.
Nheless, in a battleground full of undead, this skill could prove to be a huge difference maker in critical moments and hence Jacob did not swap it out immediately and instead kept it in his skill slot to hopefully uncover its secrets with time until he could create his own version of the same skill someday.
In these two months, Jacob also found his own purpose within the game, as when the rebellion in the Southern Duchy began, he resolved to stand-up against the rebellion and started to travel to the Southern Duchy’s biggest city, ‘SouthPort’ where Elena was also residing currently.
His n was to stay with Elena and make the South his base of operations, from where he nned to kill every rebel spy that he came across.
Being a life-long special operations soldier, trained to kill terrorists and other anti-establishment forces.
shing out rebels and taking out hidden targets was what he did best and hence it was the mission he personally chose for himself as a yer, alongside getting stronger.