Ascendence of Depravity

The ratsfields was a vast plane of grass, which gleamed under the dual moon's light. Using it as a guide, Elya carefully treaded towards the vast mountains, on alert for any rats.

Ahead, scurring through the tall grass was a oversized grey rat with bright yellow eyes heading her way. Leaving a bloodied trail behind it, its legs hardly supporting its legs. Spotting it, she cast [Appraisal Lv1] to see its stats.

[Name: Large Rat

Class: Beast

Rarity: Normal

Health: 120/200

Lvl: 4]

Since it was injured, she took her chance. As it approached, she opened her book and cast the first spell; [Arcane Burst]. A multi-coloured comet erupted from the page and darted towards the large rat. The rat let out a high pitched squeak as it was struck.

[-40 damage] hovered above its head, leaving it with only 80 left. Before it could approach only further, she cast [Rune of Containment], which caused a myriad of coloured runes to encircle the half-dead rat.

This seemed to weaken the beast, making its moves tired and sluggish, forcing it to lay on the ground under its pressure. As well as slowly ticking off its health in one second intervels.

[-5 damage]

[-5 damage]

As soon as the damage from the circle arose, the cooldown for Arcane Burst expired. Quickly, she cast the spell on the immobile rate shaving off another portion of its health, leaving it with only 40 left.

[-5 health]

[-5 health]

[-5 health]

As the rat neared the end of its life, it let out a loud screech and struggled inside the rune, but gave up soon after.

[-5 health]

[-5 health]

[-5 health]

Due to the [Rune of Containment]'s damage, the injured rat ended up died. Leaving her with 10 mana left and a chorus of notifications. Ding! Ding! Ding!

[Large Rat has been slain]

[120 exp has been gained]

[You have leveled up]

On the floor, where the rat had died, was a item with a white glow emitting from it. Elya slowly walked over and picked it up, watching as it turned into silver fragments of light.

[An item has been gained]

Checking her status, she saw:

In-game Name: Player 46 (Locked)

Race: Human

Level: 2

Exp: 20/200

Class: None

Bloodline: None

Stats:

Hp: 150/150

MP: 60/100

Strength: 7

Endurance: 7

Agility: 7

Speed: 7

Intelligence: 7

Wisdom: 7

Skill Points: 5

Skills:

Appraisal Lvl 1

Inventory: 1/20 (Upgradable)

-Lv 1 Arcane Spellbook (Starter) x1

-Rat's entrails (Common) x1]

Allocating her skill points in intelligence, wisdom and endurance, her stats changes slightly.

Hp: 170/170

Mp: 80/120

Endurance: 9

Intelligence: 8

Wisdom: 9.

Looking at the changes made, it seemed that endurance increased her health by 10 each point, wisdom increased her mana by the same anount while intelligence increased the damage of her magic. Now an [Arcane Burst] hit for 64 damage but its cooldown increased to 8 seconds, and it took 15 mana to cast.

Her other spells also had damage buffs and longer cooldowns though they were not as drastic. Carefully, she continued toeards the pre-destined path to complete her bloodline quest.

Along the way, she encountered several other rats at different times, never more than one at a time. All the rats, were all Level 1 and filled her EXP bar halfway full. Elya also gathered [Rat's entrails] x4.

However, infront of her blocking her access to the mountains was a group of rats but they were different than before. This time, there was three of them and they were standing to close in order to lure one away.

[Name: Large Rat

Class: Beast

Rarity: Normal

Health: 100/100

Lvl: 2]

[Name: Large Rat

Class: Beast

Rarity: Normal

Health: 150/150

Lvl: 3]

[Name: Bloodthirsty Rat]

Class: Beast

Rarity: Uncommon

Health: 200/200

Lvl: 4

Skills: Bloodthirsty aura]

'Guess my lucks ran out, but I can still win' she thought. Since the game gave you 50 mana and health points for every level and she was halfway to leveling up then as long as she killed one during the fight, she wouldn't run out of mana.

Checking the rat's skill, which said that once near death, it empowered itself and its allies, it was probably best to take it out last, as one powered up enemy is better than three.

Since she had not been noticed, Elya slowly creeped closer to the weakest rat, and launched an [Arcane Burst]. It would take at least five seconds for the rats to scurry closer.

Once it hit, all the rats charged at her but before they could get closer, she cast [Rune of Containment] on the strongest one. Quickly, a circle was cast around it, restricting its movements. The other rat, launched at her with the damaged one. Before they both could strike, she crafted [Arcane Shield] around her, causing their large claws to bounce off.

Before they could react, she cast another [Arcane Burst] at the injured rat killing it due to her heightened damage.

[Large Rat has been slain].

[60 exp has been gained].

[You have leveled up].

Wasting no time, she retreated further away from the Lvl 3 rat as the titled one's cage was slowly running out. Opening her status, she allocated her 5 stat points into agility, endurance, and wisdom. With two in agility and endurance.

Since increasing her intelligence also lengthened the spell's cooldown, she put it off as she had enough damage for now.

The sound of something snapping echoed as the [Rune of Containment]'s duraion finished. Placing it on cooldown. Dealing a total of -50 damage to the Bloodthirsty Rat over the period of ten seconds.

As soon as she could, she launched an [Arcane Burst] at the normal rat.

[-80 damage].

Due to all her stats increasing by two points every level her damage still increased, by 8 every point it seemed. Yet the cooldown didn't increase. It staggered in place, becoming slightly slower. With both [Rune Shield] and [Arcane Burst] on cooldown, she had to rely on her agility to avoid attacks until she could strike back.