Tutorial zone, p.18
Tutorial Zone, page 18
part #1 of Magic Life Series
He didn’t need it upgraded, nor could he upgrade all of it at this time, so he just ignored it for now and walked to one of the smithy. To check out the craft window.
Craft System
Craft List
Alchemy List
Smithing List
Seeing the smithing list open was a very good thing. He opened it to see what he could do with it.
Smithing List
Smelting
Forging
This was similar to the craft list, which was divided between handicraft, tailoring and other class required sections, which could not be accessed at this time, due to the lack of the required craft stations.
He pressed both to see what he could get.
Craft List
Smelting
Stone Brick
Consumes 3 Stone Unit to produce a stone brick building materials
Charcoal
Consumes 3 Wood unit to produce charcoal
Copper Bar
Consumes 2 units of copper ore to produce 1 copper bar
Bronze bar
Consumes 3 units of copper ore and 1 unit of tin ore to produce 1 bronze bar
Craft List
Forging
Forged Stone Knife
Consumes 1 wood and 1 stone brick to produce a Forged Stone Knife
+10 dmg
Stone Pickaxe
Consumes 1 Wood and 3 stone brick to produce a Stone Pickaxe for mining
+12 dmg
Stone Axe
Consumes 1 Wood and 2 stone brick to produce a Stone Axe for lumbering
+10 dmg
Copper Sword
Consumes 3 Copper Bar and 1 Leather to produce a Copper sword
+14 dmg
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The list went on, but only stone items were available, it was interesting to see that stone could be forged in this game, but it did have a direct impact on the quality. The stone knife gained a full 3 points over the Stone knife, which had 7 damage.
As for the tools like stone axe and pickaxe, these were class requirement tools/weapons. Miners and lumberjacks, and maybe even foresters, could use these to work.
Akor clicked on the Stone bricks first and he saw three stone units appear and float over the crucible into a bright crafting light before drop into the inner crucible. In the outer one, it suddenly lit up with a bright blood red flame, which was probably demon fire. He watched and after one minute, a white light jumped out and into the water tank and released steam before a stone brick appeared.
Akor picked it up, felt the faint warmth left behind and felt this process was very interesting to say the least. Then he made the Forged stone knife and a normal stone knife to see if there was a difference in appearance or description.
The brick and wood went into the forge, while two units of stone and one of wood went into making the hand crafted stone knife.
The hand crafted one finished first and it looked like one would expect.
The forged stone knife soon flew out of the crucible and cooled down, before floating to the top of the water somehow, so that Akor could grab it.
He looked at the two knives.
The hand crafted one was as one would expect, two stones hit and cracked to form an edge, which was uneven and sharp enough to cut and damage an enemy. There were uneven lines along the body and looked like primitive tribal work.
The forged one, on the other hand, was interesting. Akor turned it and found it interesting how smooth it was. The blade edge was straight like a forged metal blade and there was no uneven lines along the body. The forged blade was a thumb length longer than the 20 cm long hand crafted stone knife and the edge was definitely more dangerous. What was more, the forged knife looked less primitive giving a more civilized appearance, which gave it more points in its favor in Akor’s eyes.
He stored both pieces, but favored the forged one without a doubt after seeing it. He hoped to get access to more material and make his first set of private weapons, because he was currently only with a small piece of lower body garments provided by the system.
He opened the build window and built these outside of the cave in Prosperity and after looking at the amount of wood they had gathered and the land that was cleared, he set the village walls to be built with the gathered wood along with a second demon hut. There was a few more imps available already, so they began to work as soon as the order came out.
He left it this way and went to look around and see what his imps did when not being ordered around. The lives of his subjects has always interested Akor, and he would occasionally do that as a pass time.
With his grown body, he walked on the dirt ground to explore his land.
Chapter 15
For the next two days, 10 days in game, Akor worked hard and actually was curious about the research process. He made sure to research thing scribe class, merchant class, miner class, pottery, sewing, masonry and finally leather-working.
The first four are self explanatory, scribe class is a support class for administrative work, which is usually for helping a lord or leader figure. Merchants are a class which gathers and transports goods between settlements, the miner class, different from the already unlocked mining skill, actually unlocks the ‘Mine’ building for extracting minerals and stone. Lastly, pottery is pottery, it is self explanatory, it unlocks the skill to making clay or dirt mixed with water. Sewing, Masonry and leather-working on the other hand are skills for unlocking the craft system and improve item quality. Masonry in particular, is used for taking stone bricks and stone and using it in construction as well as making stone based items with higher quality.
All the unlocked items from all of these are as followed…
Scribe
Scribes Hall
The main building, which teaches and runs scribe operations.
Scribe office upgrade
Lord and Mayor houses can all now construct a scribes office within to assume office with a limit depending on the level of the building.
The lead scribe in the Lord’s House gets the title ‘Royal Scribe’ and is the top figure among all scribes in the nation.
Merchant
Merchants Market
Merchants market is the home base of all merchants. They are trained here as well as this being their place for selling goods.
By building this, it will attract demon merchants not affiliated to your kingdom.
Shop Building
A free building for merchants or crafters to sell their goods they made. All items sold here have a certain amount of tax placed on them once coin money begins to circulate.
Miner
Mine
A resource building, building this would open a hole in the earth either into a mountain or into the flat earth. Most common resource gained is stone but, if close enough, veins can be located.
Basic Prospect skill
The second most primary skill of a miner which allows them to see if there are any minerals within a certain distance of his prospected area.
Pottery
Pottery maker hut
The hut of a pottery maker, it has a small fire for heating the pottery. Plates, pots and other goods can be produced here.
Shop upgrade
A special upgrade, which converts a Shop building into a Pottery shop.
Sewing
Sewing skill
Unlocks the sewing skill and the sewing craft list.
Shop upgrade
Makes it possible to learn the skill from shops.
Masonry
Mason Hut
Workplace of masons who take stones as their main resource to make stone based constructions and items as a form of training. Trained masons are needed for stone constructions.
Leather-work
Leatherworking skill
Unlocks the leather-working skill and craft list, which allows you to transform leather and pelts into armor or process them further to raise the quality.
Shop upgrade
Makes it possible to learn the skill from shops.
These research topics were extremely major for any nation. As for Akor’s curiosity about the research, he found that the ones involved actually sat in front of a strange glowing orb, which slowly absorbed little lights which came from the researchers head after injecting a green light. From what Valring explained, the injected lights were broken knowledge floating around the world when the gods made the world. By absorbing these, arranging them and putting it into the research orb, as she called the glowing light, it would slowly piece together the research.
At the end, the research orb transforms into a scroll he hadn’t seen previously. She showed him the growing pile they had.
The scrolls were all basic old looking paper, which showed their ‘grade’. Things like basic skills looked like they were even molding.
She said that as the Tier of the research raises, these scrolls would grow longer, would look newer and they tend to become fancier. They were pretty much skill or class scrolls, which contained the nation’s knowledge, and Lords could either make copies to trade or trade the original. Also, she said that, when upgrading a research, it was done directly to the original or copied scroll so, if they obtained these scrolls, they wouldn’t even have to research a subject.
Now the current research Akor was having Valring do was his main reason for even playing, ‘Minting’.
By this, it means money minting. Minting has a lot of requirements, having a constructed smithy, all the research related to the blacksmithing obviously, Math skill, Writing skill, Scribe, and operating mines with at least copper production.
As for where the copper was, obviously it was in Prosperity.
Because the miner class was unlocked, the imps had the basic prospect skill which gave a 5-10 meter range for prospecting a vein.
They opened the mine inside the cave of Prosperity and with each town being allowed 2, he put one for stone in that village and the other for copper.
As for tin, that wasn’t found around the village, which means he would have to try his luck sometime else.
Now the biggest shocker that happened to Akor was that he got a new kind of demon. How exactly, well the name and description are easy enough to explain.
Race information
Minogida
A goat demon born from the hybridization between goats and an imp. They are similar to their beast-men, they are actually an intelligent race as well as a good magic user race.
The race itself was a goat on two legs with four fingered hands, three fingers and a thumb. A pair of them were born from the Imp nest and raised quite a fuss and somewhat, freaking out Akor, but he did remember hearing that Imps were as fertile as dragons.
Anyway, this was actually a very interesting race. Different from imps, the ‘effect’ of intelligence is a little better on them. They mature mentally, in relations to a human, with around 15-18 INT compared to the 20 points of an Imp.
These being born also unlocked their own nest, which Akor built. They had a 1:8 birth rate and different from the 12 hour birth rate, it is 24 hour birth rate. Like all demons, they lay fertilized eggs and equally, they had their own houses apart from imps.
Because of their appearance, it also prompted Akor to start trying to develop his fighters.
The current research is…
Demon Management
Demon Towns
Town Management
Research:
Buildings
Craft
Military
Support
Culture
Current Research
Lord House
Architect’s Shouse
Prosperity Mayor’s house
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Minting
Arena
Mage (Bolt - Spell)
Finally Akor had begun to look towards the fighters. What he wanted to make for now was the back fielders. Demon front liners were mostly unorganized, but this was also a fighting style good for their current small numbers. Following mage, he would also make archers, or slingers, since pellets was the main ammo.
The main lack for archers is bow strings, sinew isn’t a constant drop making them hard to get. As for the harvest skill, because so many other research are many times more important, he had yet to actually research the skill. The main reason for this is that he is holding back on hunting making the need for it much less.
Even if the ranch produced meat every day from the goats, there is still no real demand for the harvest skill.
Now the result of all these research being made is that the village was much more active. For one, both villages had a Merchant market and he has already picked several imps as merchants, most of them being the ones who have learned math and writing.
It was slowly becoming a requirement to learn these as time went by among the minions.
As for the Minogida, only one of them was a merchant, while another was a rancher. The result actually made it a better merchant, if not for the fact that it had low intelligence for now. It was still working as a transporter between materials of the two main towns. It still needed to level up and that was quite hard at this time, so Akor was focusing on the remaining 8 Minogida, before pulling that one out for the smarter ones taking over.
The rest were imps, and they were actually given a second order, which was to keep a watch out along the territory for other tribes.
Valring explained that all the demons who are born by leave have to go somewhere, as a result, there is a high chance that they would make their own tribes. As such, the imps were also sent out to keep a track of the tribes forming, because in time to come, they would have to be subdued into being subjects.
Subjects are like civilians of a kingdom, while the minions of a demon lord are destined to become the elites of the nation, even if they are simple imps. The subjects would be the main source of manpower that a demon lord would have to tap into to develop quickly.
That said, to tap into this power, Akor needs the sufficient number of minions and power and this power has to come from his development, which is, of course, planting the Demon hearts.
After 10 days, his minions quickly maxed out with 120 imps, 40 of which will stay back on guard the town.
Over the last few days, he had made forged stone clubs, which were more solid than common ones, had better damage and different from last time, Akor prepared a very large number of ropes and bolas to have plenty of spares no matter the situation.
After ordering the preparations in the early morning, it, surprisingly, took most of the morning and part of the afternoon to check all the things and get the imps ready. Because there were only 10 Minogida, they would not come because of their low level and lack of combat abilities, which would benefit their biological configuration.
Valring was left with the control of the remaining minions and he made sure they had enough tools in case of a devil attack. After all the preparations were complete, he matched out of the village with an 80 imp army, which was actually quite a sight for low leveled players. If not for the fact that they were all in the range of level 2-4, this army would have been really impressive.
The stats were also slowly diverging into different class paths, the slingers would get more in agility and dexterity as well as intelligence to make them smarter and react better depending on the situation, while the front liners got an even distribution of strength, constitution, agility, dexterity and intelligence for the most part.
The imps were much better than they were before, but even if they were good, the distance to the 2nd mana spring of the three feelable mana springs was close to 25 kilometers. Different from leaving early in the morning to reach Prosperity, this time he left somewhat late and actually found that he would have to camp out.
“Stop!” Akor shouted while the sun was close to setting. “Set up camp.” He said.
He had taught them that this order meant to make bed and rest and prepare food and water.
Soon several large fires were made and he saw some imps putting meat near the fires to cook in a crude manner without seasoning.
He did not mind because he had few luxury items like spices. His farms didn’t have spices. Still, he took out several fruits and began to eat.
After eating, he picked 10 imps, “You all, keep watch and scream as loud as you can if anything happens. When the moon is right above us, wake up ten other imps to switch the watch.” Akor ordered.
They nodded and initially had a high vigilance as they quickly spread out.
Akor relaxed when he saw their vigilance and actually let his guard down and dropped down into the grass pile that was his bed to sleep.
The other imps were all the same with only the 10 on full guard.
Of course, to expect imps to be able to maintain full vigilance without training or many serious battles to make it naturally vigilant, they quickly grew bored.
The sun was setting and they were even getting tired after just a short while. In human armies, these wouldn’t even fit to be the lowest level foot-soldier, much less join the army, but Akor only had these classless imps for combat units.
As the sun was setting darkness was quickly spreading, but the darkness didn’t overly impede an Imp’s vision, but it did hinder it under the correct situations.
