Divine Hunter - Chapter 4
Chapter 4: Another Title
Translator: Exodus Tales
Editor: Exodus Tales
Translated by XephiZ
Edited by SnowPeaches
-What was the most important thing to be a hacker?-
-Skills?-
-Definitely not.-
Almost every hacker would have the same answer to the question, creativity!
Skills were only the basics. It would be a joke if an unskilled person wanted to be a hacker, but without creativity, a person would struggle to achieve much as a hacker too.
As a rather reputable hacker, Chen Mo always dared to think about the things that normally people would not dare to think.
Chen Mo immediately assumed the game designer was hoping that the Players would think of a way to overcome the restrictions of the System after noticing the rules when it came to placing down traps.
He would soon know the answer after his attempts.
When using the skill to place a trap, Chen Mo’s character would bend forward and draw on the ground with his glowing finger. After a second, a trap would appear out of nowhere.
Chen Mo memorized the pattern that his character was drawing when laying down the trap. Once the skill was available again, Chen Mo did not execute the skill this time. He imitated the action of his character and drew on the ground with his finger instead.
Nothing happened when Chen Mo’s finger touched the ground. However, as he started drawing the same pattern, his hand began to emit a faint light.
It was the same light that was produced when he was laying the trap!
The hand kept glowing as he continued to draw the pattern.
System Notification: Failed to use skill!
A trap did not appear after Chen Mo was done drawing the pattern. He received a system notification instead.
“As I thought!”
However, Chen Mo was excited instead of being disappointed by it.
He knew he had guessed it right. The skill had most likely failed because there were some discrepancies between his action and his character’s action when using the skill.
He was only using the low-level skill “Set Basic Trap”. The actions involved were not even that complicated, yet he had failed on his first attempt. It clearly implied the System had strict requirements on the action that was performed. During the second attempt, Chen Mo purposely slowed down to focus on accuracy.
System Notification: Failed to use skill!
Chen Mo’s second attempt ended up in failure too, but he knew he was very close to getting it right.
Although he was performing the action at a slower speed, his hand was still glowing like before. It meant he could still use the skill at a slower speed as long as he was following the pattern accurately.
Chen Mo reflected on where he had done wrong during the second attempt before starting his third attempt.
The glowing hand moved along the ground. This time, it took Chen Mo more than three seconds to complete the first step. However, he was perfectly following every step!
When he lifted his hand from the ground, a trap with the size of a palm appeared on the ground right in the center of the path!
He had successfully set the trap!
System Notification: Free Skill Casting system unlocked!
System Notification: You are the first Player to unlock Free Skill Casting. You have obtained the title “The Pioneer of Liberty!”
System Notification: You have received the title “The Pioneer of Liberty”!
Free Skill Casting!
As he thought, the game designer was hoping that the Players would discover the ability to cast skills freely on their own. The game designer purposely fixed the traps to a grid just like a traditional game in order for the Players to think outside the box.
That being said, Chen Mo was quite surprised that he had earned another title after unlocking the ability to execute skills by himself.
The title “The Pioneer of Liberty” was obviously a lot harder to acquire than the title “Dying at the Speed of Light”. Chen Mo was expecting the extra attributes from the title to be a lot better than the title he had now. He should have a better chance of leaving the valley now.
Chen Mo checked his inventory curiously.
Title: The Pioneer of Liberty
Description: The title given to the first Player that unlocked the Free Spell Casting system, an honorable symbol. The title is effective passively. It doesn’t have to be equipped.
Attribute:
Luck +3
Relationship with all Human NPCs +5
Special Effect(s): Decrease the cooldown of a skill by 10% when executing the skill with the Free Spell Casting system.
To Chen Mo’s surprise, the title “The Pioneer of Liberty” did not increase all his basic attributes. However, it was clearly a lot better than he had expected.
The title was effective passively, meaning that as long as he did not forfeit the title on purpose, the benefits of the title would always be effective even when he was equipping a different title!
The benefits of the title “The Pioneer of Liberty” were quite impressive too.
Chen Mo still had no idea what Luck was used for. As for +5 to relationships with Human NPCs, the relationship system was common in many games too. It was clearly not going to do him any harm. As for the last benefit, it was obvious how useful it would be.
The cooldown of the skill “Set Basic Traps” was currently ten seconds. If he used the skill with the Free Spell Casting system, the cooldown of the skill would be reduced to nine seconds.
It might not be that useful when he only had a single skill, but once he learned more skills, it would clearly give him a great edge over other Players if he could reduce the cooldown of every skill by 10%.
Chen Mo opened his character panel. He noticed the tab for Free Spell Casting in the Skills panel. Chen Mo tapped on it. He did not find anything special. It was similar to the normal Skills tab, but the normal Skills tab was showing information like the levels of the skills and how proficient the character was with the skills. Meanwhile, the Free Spell Casting tab displayed how many times the Player had used each skill with the Free Spell Casting system and the skill’s highest completion rate.
Currently, Chen Mo’s only skill was “Set Basic Trap”. The number of times he used the skill successfully with the Free Spell Casting system was 1. Chen Mo looked at its highest completion rate, 42%.
Chen Mo had no clue what their uses were, but he knew they were not just mere statistics. He believed the success rate would turn out to be very important later in the game.
Chen Mo was not too bothered. He would eventually learn what they were for, but for now, he should focus on familiarizing himself with the spell so he could set the traps at the right spots. His first priority was to leave the valley.
The steps of the skill “Set Basic Trap” were not too complicated. Chen Mo was quite good at learning, memorizing, and adapting too. After practicing the skill for around twenty times, he now only needed just a little over a second to set up a trap. The highest completion rate had reached 78%.
Chen Mo slowly had an idea what the completion rate was too.
The traps that he lay down with the help of the System could last for sixty seconds, but Chen Mo noticed it was not the same for the traps he lay down with the Free Spell Casting system. The traps with a low completion rate would only last for less than twenty seconds. Meanwhile, the traps with a high completion rate would last for a lot longer. The trap with a completion rate of 78%, in particular, had lasted for 55 seconds.
Chen Mo believed if he could reach the completion rate of 80%, the traps he set on his own would last for as long as the traps he set with the System’s help.
If the completion rate was over 80%, it was very likely that the traps would last longer than the normal traps!
Besides, Chen Mo also assumed the completion rate would affect the damage of the traps too.
There was a reason why he would assume so; when the traps with a low completion rate exploded, their sound effects were not as impressive as those with a high completion rate.
The difference was not that obvious, but Chen Mo still noticed it.
He would know the answer with a little test.
Learning the answer was extremely important. If the completion rate did affect the damage of the traps, it would also affect the chance of applying the Disabled debuff to its target. A trap with a low completion rate would have a low chance of applying the debuff to the target. Therefore, if Chen Mo wanted to increase his odds of luring the White Goblin out of the cave successfully, he would have to try his best to set up traps with a high completion rate.
By sacrificing his life, Chen Mo purposely set two traps with a huge difference of completion rate and lure two of the Black Goblins outside the cave to trigger the traps.
As Chen Mo thought, traps with a great difference between the completion rates had a significant difference in damage too. When comparing the two traps, the first trap with a completion rate of 70% inflicted around thirty damage on the Black Goblin. The second trap with a completion rate of 40% only inflicted a little over ten damage on the Black Goblin. The difference was fairly obvious. However, with Chen Mo’s current attributes, the combined damage of two traps that he set with the System’s help would be less than ten.
Therefore, it turned out that the completion rates of his skills were very important.
Since the skill “Set Basic Trap” was not difficult, Chen Mo decided to spend more time practicing it to increase the completion rate.
Sharpening an ax would not necessarily hold up the work of cutting firewood. He could easily make up for the time he had spent here by dying fewer times later.
A sudden thought crossed Chen Mo’s mind as he was practicing the skill repetitively.
He was not considered ‘free’ if he was imitating the System by leaning forward to set the trap. He should be able to use the skill in any way as he pleased if he really had the freedom to use it, for example…setting a trap in the air while he was standing upright!
Chen Mo’s heart began to pound heavily upon having the thought!
