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Chapter 5
🕑 Added 2024-03-17 11:42:29 +0000 UTC“Since I lost all of my memories, I don’t know how to handle myself on a farm so you and Anna would need to teach me everything,” Anthony told his father.
“Of course, you don’t need to worry about that part. We will make sure that you will know what you will need to know by month’s end.”
“I have a question about something a bit delicate. Are there any sort of monsters that we should be wary of and are there magic and wizards?”
Anthony was really curious, so he directly asked his father about some of the things he was curious about.
“Why are you asking these questions?”
“I’m just curious since I had a dream about magic last night and I thought it was a memory.”
“Our farm and the surrounding farms for that matter are fairly safe. Yes, there might be some occasional goblins and the undead roaming around in the forest, but they could be handled by our militia and if something troublesome appears, we will send someone to inform the adventurer’s guild in the city. Regarding wizards, we do have a mage’s guild in the city but those were something rarely seen by common folks like us. Normally, a particularly troublesome monster would be handled by mages guarded by adventurers.”
“How does one become a mage?”
Anders looked at Anthony, wondering about the questions that he had been asking but he wanted to take advantage of the fact that he could get this information right now without suspicion.
“A person would find himself gifted with mana and then they apply to become an apprentice to a wizard. Noble children are different though. If they find themselves gifted in that area, they will use gold to study magic in one of the wizard’s academies. Age doesn’t matter though when it comes to magic. Yes, the young ones would be in an academy but any person regardless of age could find a wizard to apprentice themselves. These are all the common knowledge regarding the subject that I know. Any more than that, you will need to talk to an actual person who knows about magic and mages.”
Anders checked his timepiece and told Anthony that it was already six in the morning and that he would need to do some farm work. He offered to help but his father declined, asking him to rest some more so he didn’t argue with his father, went to the outhouse to take a bath, and went back to the room to rest.
Anthony thought of the fact that suddenly he had a father and a sister in this brand new world, and they genuinely cared about him or this body. He had been alone for so many years after his parents died. The only relative that he had left was his father’s second cousin and the only thing that man did to show that he was a relative was to rent the least of his apartments to him at a fixed rate.
He thought that after a few years of working, he would have enough funds to go to another city and look for a better job after taking his GED and then he would find himself new friends that he would care about and would care about him but sadly, the pandemic struck taking his life before he really got to experience anything worthwhile.
He didn’t know how to feel about his new father and sister but more than likely, after some time, he would care about them. Right now, the important thing was for him to get strong using his transmigration gift and then once he was strong enough, he could use the information from the other world to get rich.
Anthony summoned his Diablo II screen and entered Rogue Encampment virtually. The first thing that he did was to check out the non-player characters but upon careful study, they looked real, but they still behaved like NPCs. The FAQ did say that the game would have the original game mechanics and would not follow any brand-new rules. The only thing different aside from him being able to enter the world himself was, that he would be able to reset his stats and skill points once a week.
He thought at first that he would allow himself to rush the game just like a veteran player consuming potions all the time, but he decided to explore the game slowly since he was in the world himself.
Anthony spoke to Warriv so he could begin his adventure in the world of Diablo II. His lower stats would be a pain since he would not be able to equip items immediately.
After speaking to Warriv, he went outside the Rouge Encampment gate to begin leveling up. He saw a zombie in the distance and knew that it would be a pain to kill his first monster since he didn’t have any spell at all.
The zombie was slow and the good thing about being in the world himself, he could avoid getting hit. Anthony spent a few minutes killing the zombie and the good thing was, his first zombie brought his experience bar about five percent to level two. It was different from what he remembered since based on his memories, without tweaking the difficulty of the game, a single zombie would only give a few percent of experience.
He carefully looked for another zombie and he was glad to see that he could still utilize the mini-map.
Anthony found his next monster which was a bunch of goblin-like beings called Fallen and after carefully battling with them, making sure to utilize the staff's long reach to avoid getting hit, he was able to kill them.
He walked further, playing as a newbie by exploring the Blood Moor zone carefully and not just following the road. He wanted to make sure that the first zone was fully explored before he went to the next one. Battling with the monsters was surprisingly making him tired. He thought that sure it would exhaust his stamina, but the actual feeling of tiredness was there.
After killing about twenty monsters consisting of zombies, fallen, and quill rats, Anthony leveled up to level two.
He earned the usual which was five stat points and one skill point. He wanted to even out all of his stats, so he added one to his strength, one to dexterity, and one to vitality. Now he had ten strength, ten dexterity, and ten to vitality. He kept the two remaining stats and would use them when he needed them to equip a specific item that required specific stats. His energy was still the highest which was thirty-five. He was still feeling sour about his stats remembering that the original sorceress had twenty-five stats in dexterity at level one.
Anthony put his single skill point to Ice Bolt. He already planned to be a cold sorceress and he didn’t worry too much about it since he was allowed to reset his stats and skills once a week and he did have a way to reset his skills if needed using the Den of Evil quest option if he finds it truly necessary.
