Tutorial zone, p.11
Tutorial Zone, page 11
part #1 of Magic Life Series
For demons, the four physical stats are all similar to humans in which the average of 7-10 would be an adult humans development while intelligence, in the mental area, would be half as effective as a human, in which case it needs 20 intelligence to equal a human in mental development, but that is only mental development because magic wise they are the same.
When the pain finally subsided, Akor began to feel his body and movements and they seemed strangely keener but his body felt more natural. For one his sense of control was almost perfect to what he had in real life now.
Taking the wooden pen, he tried to write once more and different from the scribbles before, his common letters came out. Of course they were at most legible now which made Valring’s brow twitch but she could at least read it and she had some place to work from. The hardest part he had now was his size difference which was the main problem he had in his sense of balance and control.
Since he can’t level up he will need a lot of help from developing the nation and making the villages.
She left him to copy and went to speed up the research for the foresters class.
When he finished the last letter he finally got a prompt.
You have learned the Skill ‘Writing’
Writing
Level 1
You are capable of writing readable letters.
(requires at least 5 dexterity)
He sighed when he saw that he actually succeeded, but it was only level one, which meant he needed a lot of practice, he looked at his own letter, which he had not seen in some time.
Ding!
Update
Research: Forester class complete.
When he saw the prompt, he perked up and pressed to see the unlocked features.
Research
Research
Description
Unlocked items
Forester
A class which is responsible for planting and replanting trees to harvest. These people are also responsible for maintaining forests from being clean cut.
Forester class
Tree Planting skill
Forester hut.
Tree Planting skill
The primary skill of a forester, is to use this skill, they will require seeds or resource to replant. 1 unit of wood is required for replanting 3 tree sprouts.
Forester hut
A profession building. This building is required to assign the class of forester to a minion. One hut is manned by only 3 workers.
“So to give classes needs a specific building.” he said surprised.
“My lord, the research is complete!” Valring came in saying.
"I saw. I got the writing skill.” He said.
“Great, now lord’s writing skills will only improve, we will work on it daily from now on.” She said excited.
Akor didn’t know if he should feel happy or sad about that, but he did feel somewhat refreshed. In all other games he played with the roll of a leader, there has never been someone to educate him and instead, they expected him to already know because he was a player.
Unknowingly, he had already accepted her as his teacher and wished to ‘fix’ his biggest and most major flaw, which was his incomplete education.
“Shouldn’t we go make the forester hut?” he asked.
“Of course my lord!” she said.
They went to the town management.
Demon Management
Demon Towns
Town Management
Stone
264 Unit
Wood
65 Units
Number of Buildings
Lord’s home
Level 1
Wood 50 units
Upgrade
1
Village wall
Level 1
Wood 20 units
Build/Upgrade
1/1
Demon Hut (Imp)
Level 1
Wood 10 units
Build/Upgrade
5/5
Demon Nest (Imp)
Level 1
Wood 20 units
Build/Upgrade
2/2
Wild Fruit Field
Level 1
Wood 5 units
Build/Upgrade
5/5
<<
↓
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Unlike before, there was a down arrow and pressing it showed the newly unlocked buildings.
Demon Management
Demon Towns
Town Management
Stone
264 Unit
Wood
65 Units
Number of Buildings
Succubus House
Level 1
Stone 50 units
Wood 120 units
Build
0/1
Animal Ranch
Level 1
Wood 90 units
Build
0/3
Forester hut
Level 1
Wood 60 units
Build
0/5
<<
↓
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“Wow… they need a lot of wood.” He said.
“That is only ‘a lot’ because we haven’t developed yet, later for something as simple as our capital cities walls will need tens of thousands of units of stone and wood.” she said.
Of course he knew this, he had passed through enough situations of city management that he knew some of the resource consumption that they would face. He was shocked because these were just level 1 buildings.
He pressed to build a single Forester hut and saw the map appear.
“Where do we build it?” he asked.
“A forester hut always makes a space around 100 meters around it the ‘field’. We also need to take into consideration the demon tree’s development pattern and avoid the main water sources.” She said.
“Demon tree?” Akor asked.
Tutorial Guide
Demon Tree is the most basic as well as most savage tree breed demons can plant as foresters. It is a very environment aggressive tree, which drains the vitality of the land and water in the soil leaving badlands in their wake. They require a special technique to be properly raised, which only demon foresters learn from the start.
“Isn’t it dangerous to plant these trees?” he asked.
“It’s not like we can change anything. In similar cases, dwarf foresters are said to plant Iron tree, Elves plant elf tree and humans plant oak and pine trees. Each monster and animal has their own specialty provided by the gods.” She said.
"I see.” He said.
He looked at the green space outside the village, which was different from the common space.
He avoided the hunting grounds and 150 meters to the west, which is just around the bend of the mountain they lived on, he placed the foresters hut.
“Alright, get all the imps to build it to transport the wood fast enough.” Valring said.
They closed the windows and walked outside and made the order.
They were given the minion quest and began to run to move the wood walking in an unordered.
“You know it will be a bit hard at the start right?” Akor asked.
“It takes 1 day for the demon tree reach cutting size and each tree produces 3 wood each. 1 wood for 3 so 3 makes 9. It will probably take a week or so to fill this land. That said, we must make sure that there are 3 foresters or there will be too few demons caring for the trees.” she said.
“Just curious, but how are these trees controlled?” Akor asked.
“That is easy, they are ‘bled’ for their sap. It is a great item, which we can make into adhesive. If we are lucky and some rare varieties appear, we could get luxury goods, like Demon Syrup after processing it and can be added as food increasing the food production.” She said.
“Are there only demon trees like that? No fruits?” He asked.
“That is the job of farmers. It will take us along while to get to that stage, since we are still at wild fruits.” She said.
"I understand.” Akor said.
“After we get wood, make sure to finish all the building upgrades and build more forester huts, but whatever you do, keep it away from water sources. If it reaches the water sources it can destroy the water source leaving us without nearby water.” she said.
“Alright.” He nodded, making sure to remember where all the water sources were.
They watched the construction and when it was finally finished, he walked inside. The inside was simple, had an empty wooden pots and a faintly glowing stone. Touching it Akor could feel the class information.
Demon Lord Detected, please choose three minions to class change into Forester.
Seeing the screen, Akor turned and pointed to three imps. “You three will work as foresters now.” He said.
Three lights came from the stone and drilled into the heads of the imps. These three were level 2 imps and weren’t mindless. They fell into a stupor and Valring nodded, “Good, they entered a ‘training trance’, which where the most major information needed for the class is imprinted into their mind. Once they wake up from this state, they will start working on their own.” She said.
“Are we going to research mining now?” he asked.
“Yes, also order the idle minions to clear up the weeds, it is a very valuable source of wood that needs to be exploited early on or we can’t develop.” She said.
He nodded, agreed and sent back the farming imps, while the rest were ordered to clear the weeds from around the village in a circular fashion, so that one side isn’t left closer and another isn’t.
They spread out running to remove the weeds and clear the land for development that needed to be done.
At that moment a call came from outside, Akor returned to his home and logged off to move into his new home.
Chapter 10
The new apartment was much better than the old slum house. It had a kitchen, living room, large bedroom and bathroom with separate shower and tub.
Lucas’s things were moved in, the few pieces of furniture, his pots and pans, or what he had of them, his bed, clothing and food were all properly stored. Because the house was much bigger, it was rather empty, but he didn’t mind, he actually thought it was good this way, since the thin shades let light in and it gave a different atmosphere to his home compared to the somber home he lived in before.
“Thank you for the help.” he said.
“No problem.” The men and women replied and all waved and left.
He sighed before looking at his home. He shook his head before arranging the electronics like the old tv, some pc holo monitors and several old video games. He installed them all in and made sure they all worked before exploring his home.
The bedroom was very large and his single bed felt small but he wouldn’t waste money for a new bed. Finally, he entered the bathroom and turned on the water.
“Warm water…” he said and a faint smile appeared on his face before he turned it off. He walked to the living room and just next to the kitchen was a door, which stored the washing machines. He looked at his clothing, the baskets, bags of dirty clothing and decided that he should wash up properly.
He divided his clothing by color and then put them to wash. He started with shorts and underwear because he wanted to take a warm bath for once.
He watched TV, surfed the net for information and when the cloths were washed, he put them in the dryer and put the rest to wash.
When he finally had clothing to wear, he went in the bath, had a proper bath and scrubbed off the accumulated filth.
He sat in the warm water feeling comfortable.
Grrr!
He moved his hand over his stomach and remembered the feast he had. He lifted his right arm and saw it was a bit thicker than before, but he shook his head, “Even super humans have their genetic problems.” He said and stood up.
Drying himself up he walked out of the bath, letting it drain and dried off, as he got out, he saw the mirror and looked at himself. His thin figure, which could be described as skin and bones was very unassuming. He had long learned to see himself like this, but there was always a sense of self despising when he saw himself.
The messy and shaggy shoulder length hair, the large bags under his eyes and his skinny frame, all made him look like a beggar which Lucas hated about his life. He always wondered what he did he do to deserve life as it was, but at the same time he would snort and ignore this. He put in a pair of underwear and shorts and went to put the washed shirts in a dryer, while folding his already dried clothing.
When he finished with the leg-wear, he went and boiled some water to eat some instant noodles. He sighed, depressed, as he ate it. He kept remembering the feast while slurping the artificially flavored noodles. The two really can’t be compared.
When he finished eating, he finished tidying up his clothing before locking the door and syncing his VR gauntlet device to the house’s system. This will warn him when there is someone knocking. His previous home didn’t have this, for obvious reasons, but this one did, because there were naturally many more chances of being visited as a company employee. Finally he logged in.
***
While the players returned to their lives, Second Life INC wasn’t still. Gathered with the many minor studios, they were building the channels and on Second Life TV, they personally owned a channel of the company, they began to put up propaganda about the new reality show, which would show the life and difficulties of lord class players.
Over the course of a week, they would introduce ten players from several races each day to be able to cover all of the players and they explained their first defining choices, which were if they would get the Good Demon titles.
No one really understood this title and just thought it was a joke by the company for avoiding the Hellish Badlands.
The second choice was their choice to accept or not to save the event.
Surprisingly, a lot of Demon lords buckled under the pressure of the Dark Lord’s people and accepted the eggs from whichever race appeared instead of saving the general or advisor they had chosen.
Those who decided against that, they would all become enemies of the dark lord’s people and would be regularly targeted.
For other races, they were equally pressured.
Animal races would find either a previously powerful figure that originated from the same race and would face the pressure of monster forces from powerful monsters near them. Monsters were the same.
Sentient race like Dwarfs, would face the pressure of either humanoid monster races, such as Ogres, Trolls or other dwarfs. Elves were either made to submit to the monarchy of the forests and their forest gods, or be hunted and more.
The strangely high difficulty the company put on the backs of the players caused 95% of them to relent, but of these, 20% of them actually showed ideas of development to resist these tyrants.
As for the 5%, which saved their chosen minion, they all had different strategies to try and develop in the tutorial zone without breaking the level 5 barrier, which would deactivate the tutorial barrier protecting them.
The show was like a reality show, which passed from 6 pm to 9 pm and actually drew a strangely high public. At the end of the week, each studio already had their large group of players, 10 players from each race.
Akor was under the management of the Dragon Rising studio and made a special section of the website for each character using the information gained by Second Life INC, but it wasn’t real life information, it was game information, such as his major ‘choices’ and his ‘style’. Beyond that, there were the videos they added.
There was always someone watching the video feed when they are online through a VR system. This was a very intellectual job, which needed a very strong brain to watch at accelerated speeds to be able to pinpoint the points of interests.
At the end of the 7th day, the ‘watchers’ logged off and went to their pc’s to edit the chosen things, but the one who watched Akor had a headache.
“Hey, what’s the problem?” one of his colleagues asked.
“It’s one of the players, his play style is incredibly boring and he doesn’t make big development choices.” he said.
“Did you use the territory cam?” one of them asked.
“Yeah, I looked all over, but he is actually not hunting at all.” he sighed and pulled up the information. “Look, what did he do today?” he said and opened the windows and showed Akor studying and commanding minion quests in bulk.
“Hey! This guy already has the forester class!” one of them said.
“Yeah, he has been doing only stuff like this, he is pretty much only researching support or craft classes and skills. Even more, he has yet to research even 1 combat skill to unlock the combat class.” he said.
One of the people pulled up his information, “Akor, the first demon lord, he made the ‘Good Demon’ choice and he saved a succubus from the Devil race.” he said.
“Isn’t he just using strategy to develop his nation without leveling?” one of them asked.
“Yeah but it’s boring as hell. It’s so lame to look through his video feed unlike this guy.” he grinned, shoved Akor and pulled up another Demon lord.
The demon lord was of the Demon (Minotaur) race. He had already reached level 5 and he was one of those who gave into the dark lord, who was from the Noble Vampire race.
They accepted to take in the eggs of Strigoi, malformed Tier 1 vampires, and the general of the Minotaur demon lord was taken away, while flinging curses at him.
He was a very battle ready person, his village was made from the bones, hide of fallen enemy and his food supply was fully meat based. Besides the required research for skills and classes, he raided for resources. There are lots of imp tribes in the Badlands, which he had subjected and made them do his resource gathering as tribute, acting exactly as a demon would.
