Trip to the Library [Invite Only, Research]

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Thread Type: Scholar Training
Character: Apoc, unless invited privately
Status: Private to above characters

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Apoc did not like that he could not exit the game. However, this would give him the chance to learn and experience something new. This is why he made his ways to the archives that the People of the Field created that were in London. It was near the Old Parliament Building, so he quickly made his way there. What he really needed was to know more about this world. First, it would be more about spells, After all, he was a Sorcerer and knowing more about his spells would give him knowledge on how they react. His first book to read and study was a book labeled "The Big Book of Spells." He laughed quietly to himself a little at the title. However, his thoughts were, 'Why not start here?'

Apoc grabbed the giant book off the shelf and started reading. The first part of the book just listed the spells. There was no particular order to them. An excert from this section was listed in this order: Call Storm, Castling, Cure, Cure Bloom, Compounding Barrier, Damage Interception, Death Scythe, Divine Favor, Earthbeat Healing, Electrical Fuzz, etc. Now that Apoc thought about this, it seemed that the order in the first section was a list in alphabetical order. However, the words were written in color. There had to be something about that. Not really gaining any knowledge beyond the names, he would go further in the book.

The next section contained a list with the same order as the first section. However, this time there was a page dedicated to each spell. He would notice that it would list a basic description, which after checking his known spell, was the same as the description in the spell list he can pull up using the game menu. After another check, most of the page that had the spell listed most of the sections that was on the game menu. An excerpt of this was:

Spell: Orb of Lava
Description: A ranged Fire-element magic that hurls a fist-sized orb of lava onto enemies. This lava ball bounces across enemy targets, dealing damage on impact. Since this skill is Fire-based, this is very effective against enemies weak against fire. One well-known trait of this skill is that it does not affect allies during combat, making it a popular skill among players.
Class: Action
Cast Time: Two Seconds
Cool Down Time: Eighteen Seconds
Acquisition: Sorcerer

What had Apoc confused was the fact that the Class of the spells seemed to be mostly something called Action, while the Acquisition portion of the spell seemed to be what class could acquire the spell. He needed to see what the last part of the book said, so he turned the pages until the spells were gone. There was only one more page to the book when he was done going through the spells. This page simply said "Classes of Magic" on the top of the page. This was followed by eight different classes with descriptions. The rest of the page had:

Action Class. Action Class spells replicate a single attack.

Combat Class. Combat Class spells are capable of altering the course of a single battle,

Operation Class. Operation Class spells are capable of altering the course of two or three battles at the same time.

Tactical Class. Tactical Class spells are powerful magic that are capable of taking down a castle in a single hit.

Strategy Class. Strategy Class spells are powerful magic that are capable of deciding the tide of a war.

National Defense Class. National Defense Class spells are powerful magic that are capable of deciding the fate of a whole nation

Continent Class. Continent Class spells are powerful magic that are capable of deciding the fate of a whole continent.

World Class. World Class spells are powerful magic that are capable of controlling the laws, the fate, or the very existence of an entire world.

This last page was very revealing. He would need to pay attention to other books that mention these classes of spells. After a quick skim through the book again, he would notice that there were mostly Action Class spells listed with a few Combat Class and Operation Class spells. This would mean that there are other books that could tell him the other five magic class spells or at least give examples of these. The only problem was that he ran out of daylight today. He would need to come back in tomorrow and see what else he could learn about spell interaction in this world.

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A new day. A new book is what Apoc wanted to research. This way he could expand his knowledge in this world. Now that he has returned to the archives the People of the Land put together, he started searching through the books again. This time he landed on a book titled, "Spell Interactions." It was a small book, but it intrigued him. It was grabbed from the shelf and placed on a table to read.

Apoc would open the book and notice the small amount of information from it. However, it did lead him to understanding how elements would work against each other, even though it was extremely vague. It gave some examples of how spells would interact with certain resistances and certain weaknesses. He jotted this down in his mind to remember what this means. However, there was certain interactions he deathly noted. Why deathly? That was due to the fact that if he ran into these interactions then it would be the death of him if he used those elements. Those were Null, Drain, and Repel. If something has Null, then that element would cause no damage. If something has Drain, then that element would heal instead of causing damage. These were annoying to Apoc, but they were still deadly in their own right. What really caused him to blanch while reading this book was the Repel interaction. It said that something with Repel would not only Null all damage and statuses caused by a spell, but Repel would also reflect the all damage and statuses back with the same proficiency that it was casted with. He has never ran against anything with Repel yet, but that does not mean he will not in the future.

Being done with this short book, Apoc just placed it back on the shelf. He still had some daylight, but he was mentally exhausted from the day. Apoc would leave the archives with the thought of coming back tomorrow for another book.

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It was another day for Apoc to gather information. This time he was more intrigued about monsters. There had to be a book about known monsters in the area. What he was really looking for was if anyone had documented about any monsters with Repel in the surrounding areas. He would look for such a book. After searching through a few books that were promising, there was none that listed anything beyond what the People of the Land has hunted. This was a little weird. There was a book on every spell an Adventurer could learn. There was even a book about Spell Interactions, but there is no book that details all the monsters in the area. He would need to figure out if a scribe could publish these books to place it in this archives later.

Now knowing that he needed some field expertise for the information he needed. He now wished he did pick up Scribe as a crafting skill beyond Alchemist. He only chose that due to the fact that he was an Alchemist, commonly known as Chemist, in the real world. Since there was no books on what he wanted to know he started to search the book shelves for more books that may intrigued him. There were a few books that had Alchemy in its name, so he would go back to those when he was ready to start crafting. While searching for a new book, daylight seemed to wane from the sky. He had to give up his search for the day, but he would come back later to see what other books he could read to increase his knowledge. Now, he will travel back into the field to increase his knowledge. He just had to be careful, especially from previous experience he had with Sylvia.