[Character Name has been registered: Lord Doom]
As soon as the name was accepted by the game system, a satisfied smile crept up Noah's face. "This is good, better than what she gave the other time".
He grinned. "Who said I don't have a naming sense?"
Muttering this, he finally left the secluded corner where he previously hid with his character. By now, some time already passed, meaning most players already took beginner quests to start leveling up.
The congestion of players was no longer as severe as before, it was easier to take a beginner quest now.
Noah did just that, taking a series of beginner quests.
Beginner quests were simple quests to get new players up and running in Warstar. They help new players level up and acclimatize with the game controls. Simple missions like running errands for the beginner village NPCs, finding a missing cat, and all sorts of missions.
Noah did not just want to level up, he took on the beginner quests because just like a novice, he wanted to try out the controls of the game.
Afterall, this was an unfamiliar mode of playing Warstar that he was not used to. He was used to always tapping his keyboard and controlling his mouse.
Being the actual avatar itself now and not just a controller was going to take a lot of getting used to, and so he started.
...
2 hours later...
[You have completed Beginner Quest: Retrieve the stollen Wallet!]
[You have been rewarded with XP!]
[You have been rewarded with 25 Skill Points!]
[You have leveled up to level 5]
[Character Name: Lord Doom]
[Level: 5]
[Class: nil]
[Attributes:]
Strength: 8
Intelligence: 7
Vitality: 7
Spirit: 7
[HP: 100/100]
[MP: 100/100]
[Skill Points: 232]
[Unique Skills: You have 2 locked SSS-Rank Unique Skills]
[Equipment: nil]
After 2 hours of taking Beginner Quests, this was how Noah's character now looked having leveled up to level 5 already.
Leveling up during the early levels was easy as it required less experience points, but after level 5, the required XP to level up increases and it got even higher as game avatars kept on leveling up.
Before the general class change at level 20, for low-leveled characters, every level up gives 1 attribute point to anyone of the 4 main attributes.
After level 20, the distribution of attribute points change depending on the specific main class that a character chooses.
Of the 4 attributes, strength affects physical attack and defense. Intelligence affects magic attacks, defense, and MP. Vitality affects HP as well as stamina. While spirit affects the resistance to and duration of status effects.
The HP and MP of characters in Warstar always appear at 100/100, but the capacity is different.
Based on different factors like main class and equipment, 100 for 1 character may mean 1000 for another character but both will appear as 100/100. The same rule applies for in-game bosses.
The reasons why Noah stopped taking more quests after getting to level 5 was because, one, a level 5 player finally gets access to in-game dungeons.
And two, it was because he finally understood how to control his new Warstar body and character without a keyboard and mouse.
After extensive research to confirm, Noah was surprised by his results.
Unlike what he feared, he didn't need to turn into Jackie Chan and start training his body just to use the different powerful skills in Warstar. Reincarnating into the game as an avatar was far more convenient to him than he expected.
Inside the game, all Noah needed was to have knowledge about the specific combinations to activate a skill, and to use it he just needed to think about it.
To a veteran Warstar player with 11 years' worth of experience like Noah who had extensive knowledge about all the main classes and all their skill combinations, this was a match made in heaven.
Perhaps, this was why he was called a warmonger?
This was even faster than using a keyboard or mouse. Before a player could tap on his keyboard and move his mouse, Noah already thought of the skill he wanted to use and thinking was definitely faster.
After getting used to controlling his body this way, he already started building his beginner skill tree hours ago.
A beginner skill tree comprised low level skills that are accessible to all classes. Noah started by learning the basic sprint and roll skill.
Learning and upgrading skills require skill points and they are gotten through completing game quests. Noah's Lord Doom now had 232 skill points and all of them were gotten from the beginner quests.
He specifically targeted the quests that gave skill points as part of their rewards, and now, he wanted to move on.
Noah wanted to enter a dungeon.
Skill points in Warstar are limited though which meant players needed to be wise in how they spent their skill points on their in-game avatars.
1 avatar could not learn all the skills available in the game, this was one reason why Noah's potential 10x skill points SSS-Rank Unique Skill was so OP.
Before going to a dungeon, Noah visited the Hunter guild in this beginner village where he was able to spend all his skill points to learn more beginner skills.
[You have learned low level Combat Mage Skill: Arcane Strike]
[You have learned low level Combat Mage Skill: Empowered Slash]
[You have learned low level Cleric Skill: Basic Heal]
[You have learned low level Combat Mage Skill: Arcane Riposte]
[You have learned low level Combat Mage Skill: Mana Burst]
[You have learned low level Combat Mage Skill: Blink Step]
Different low-level skills require from 10 to 80 skill points. Noah's 232 skill points was only able to help him learn 6 beginner skills.
Apart from being rewarded with skill points and XP, players also get rewarded with coins from beginner quests.
Noah didn't have much coin yet, but he had just enough from completing the quests to buy a miserly D-rank weapon from a merchant NPC.
He spent 70 out of his 88 coins to buy a basic Combat Mage spear, and with this he finally proceeded towards the only level 5 dungeon in the beginner village, Pork Labyrinth.
Most players don't go to dungeons immediately after getting to the dungeon's level, this was because then, the difficulty would be high.
Most players farm level 5 dungeons only after getting to at least level 7 or 8, some even getting as high as level 10.
This was why the entrance to the Pork Labyrinth was scanty. Arriving, Noah only saw a few dozen players who were already level 5 just like him.
As soon as he arrived, he received a party invite from a certain party.
[Party Nightingale invites you to join her party...]
Noah looked at them. It was a party of 4 players comprising 2 Blademasters, an Elementalist, and a Cleric, they needed just 1 more player to enter the dungeon.
He joined them.