Terra Nova Online: Rise of The Strongest Player

Chapter 36: Anticipation

Anticipation

Leo figured out a lot of things by using ‘Mimic’ once.

Firstly he figured out that any skill he mimicked was only available to replicate for a limited number of uses.

He could use Feint steps exactly a total of 3 times before suddenly forgetting how to do it and no matter how many times he tried to recreate the movement after that, he could not achieve the same effect.

He did get a feel for the movement and maybe if he repeated it enough he could organically learn the move, however, there was no guarantee.

Maybe the amount of uses could go up if his mastery of the skill ‘mimic’ went up, however, for now the limit seemed to be 3 uses.

Secondly he understood that he did not have to specially observe a skill or study it intensely to copy it.

The skill Mimic was always active passively and anything that he casually observed would be copied for use.

As for whether he could copy multiple skills at once or not still remained to be determined and the skill was still untested when copying human behavior.

For how long could it replicate their behavior?

These were important questions that needed to be figured out before Leo used it in a tense situation but thankfully he still had lots of time to test this skill out.

For now the important question was about his immediate future and whether or not he should continue on his journey to reach a big city on foot.

Transportation was a real challenge in Terra Nova Online and Leo understood that having a reliable mount would be one of the most important aspects of this game in the future.

Just as he was mulling over whether or not he should continue his journey, in the spur of the moment he was reminded about the loot that the naive adventurer group had offered him and about the old map inside.

Out of boredom he decided to open and study the map as instantly, just like how the map of the immediate surroundings was uploaded to his interface, the old map was loaded to his interface as it superimposed with the larger map he already had and marked an ‘ X ‘ on it which pointed the treasure location that the old map contained.

” Whoa-” Leo said as the old map slowly vanished in his hands having already been loaded into his interface.

” So it’s a single use item….. I’ll have to remember this” Leo murmured to himself as he swore to never give a treasure map to anyone while distributing loot.

But just as he had this thought he realized that he could not join guilds or form parties anyways which was why this caution was useless for him.

” Hahaha, fuck my life” he said out loud as he felt disheartened to no limit.

The actor class was truly a curse this way because it brought many problems alongside its obvious advantages.

However, if there was a silver lining in this entire affair it was the fact that the ‘X’ marked location on the map was only about half a day’s march from Leo’s current location.

“Please heavens, let this map lead to some amazing opportunity and not some hideous dungeon or some problem” Leo prayed before deciding on a whim to head towards the ‘X’ mark rather than heading towards a city.

Although he eventually wanted to reach a city, it seemed to be a big waste to spend this critical part of the game while just walking pointlessly and hence he decided to take a gamble on whatever the ‘X’ mark held for him.

Since the mark was off the conventional road trail, Leo had to wander into the forest and perhaps face wild animals on his way there, but he was not much worried about getting lost since the system map constantly showed him his position relative to the main road and the destination.

With such a robust system to understand his path, Leo was assured that although he had no experience navigating the forest, he would be able to manage and perhaps also level up on his way to some big buried treasure spot.

Unfortunately for him however, he had absolutely no clue that the location he was headed towards was not a treasure spot at all, but rather the headquarters of the most influential assassin’s guild in the entire continent whose headquarters was built in a secret location only known to the highest and most important members.

By approaching such a location while hoping to unearth treasure, Leo was inviting nothing but calamity upon himself, yet he marched towards his own death while singing Christmas Carroll’s in the jungle.

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( Meanwhile Cervantez )

“Finally I’m level 22! Enough to give me the lead in the top 10,000 rankings!

This time, the number one spot should easily be mine” Cervantez said as he breathed a sigh of relief thinking that he finally reached a really high level and would shock the world when the top 10,000 rankings opened soon.

According to his memory, it was around the start of day3 in Terra Nova Online when 10,000 players reached the level10 threshold and the rankings opened.

In his past life the highest ranker at the time was level 11, but ‘The Boss’ sat at an impressive level 21 when the rankings debuted and maintained his lead at the top of the charts for many years to come.

This time around, although he missed the achievement to reach level 10 first, Cervantez felt confident that he would debut at the top of the charts and get the leaders benefit, but little did he know that he could never really surpass the big boss.