“Yeah yeah,” I said. “I’m coming.”
I began to walk toward my pod. It was not the nearest one, though. I could use any of the other three, but out of habit, I had picked my own.
Only when I climbed into my pod and lay down, I realized what I was doing. I was going to join another team of warriors whom I knew nothing about.
What were they going to be like? Would they be nice and friendly? Or would they turn out to be assholes like Vlad?
However, it was too late to have any second thoughts. The lid of my teleportation chamber swung shut, trapping me inside the pod.
Not long after that, I passed out.
To be continued…
David's Current Build Part IV
Stats:
Class: Flanker
Current Level: 75
Experience Points: 543720
Experience Points to Level 31: 765850
Abilities:
Active Ability — Blink
Maximum distance: 30 meters (Learned Skills: Reacher 3/3)
Amount of charges: 3/3 (Learned Skills: Unstoppable 1 2/2)
Delay between charges: 1 second (Learned Skills: Unstoppable 1 2/2, Unstoppable 2 2/2)
Cooldown: 30 seconds (Learned Skills: Ready for Action 3/3)
Passive Ability — Sixth Sense
Effective range: 125 meters around (Learned Skills: The Eagle Eye 5/5)
Cooldown: 1 second (Learned Skills: Guardian Angel 5/5)
Movement Speed increased by: 50% (Learned Skills: Speed Maniac 5/5)
The spectral voice can warn you about: 5 kinds of danger (Learned Skills: Spectral Protector 5/5)
Stats of Malicious Whispers 1:
1. Chance of ruining your enemy’s aim: +100% (Learned skills: Malicious Whispers 1 5/5)
2. Chance of having them pick another target: +50% (Learned skills: Malicious Whispers 1 5/5)
3. Chance of having them attack their allies: +25% (Learned skills: Malicious Whispers 1 5/5)
The recharge delay of the Malicious Whispers 1: 30 seconds (Learned skills: Malicious Whispers 1 5/5, Malicious Whispers 2 3/3)
Your Passive Ability allows you to: see enemies, traps, markers, and so on through walls and structures in front of you as well as blink through them (Learned Skills: Third Eye 5/5, Ubiquitous 1/1)
Distance of Third eye: 50 meters (Learned skills: Third eye 5/5)
Ultimate Ability — Teleport
Maximum length: 250 meters (Learned Skills: Reach Farther 5/5)
Duration: 60 seconds (Learned Skills: Void Walker 1/5)
Cooldown: 5 minutes (Learned Skills: Teleporter 5/5)
Movement speed increased by: 20% (Learned Skills: Violent Speed 1/5)
Jump’s height: 1 meter (Learned Skills: Jumper 1/5)
Regeneration: 50% (Learned Skills: Regeneration 5/5)
Trace visibility: 25% (Learned Skills: Without a Trace 5/5)
Can attack out of the void space: Yes (Learned Skills: Phaseattack 1/1)
Power of attacks: +50% explosion force (Learned Skills: Phaseattack 5/5)
Can see through walls: Yes (Learned Skills: Phasevision 1/1)
Can enemies see your portals: No (Learned Skills: Hide and Seek 1/1)
Learned Skills:
Green Rune (Active Ability) — Blink
The First Branch of the Active Ability:
Name: Ready for Action
Description: You gain improved recharge delay for the Active Ability.
Recharge delay: 30 seconds
Status: 3/3 (Completely Learned)
Name: Unstoppable 1
Description: You gain an additional Blink charge. While the Active Ability can be used several times before going on Cooldown, after you use the Active Ability, you will have to wait some time before you can Blink again.
Recharge delay: 1 second
Status: 2/2 (Completely Learned)
Name: Reacher
Description: Increases the distance of the Active Ability.
Blink Distance: 30 meters
Status: 3/3 (Completely Learned)
The Second Branch of the Active Ability:
Name: Unstoppable 2
Description: You gain improved recharge delay for the Unstoppable 1 skill.
Recharge delay: 1 second
Status: 2/2 (Completely Learned)
Required skill: Unstoppable 1
Blue Rune (Passive Ability) — Sixth Sense
The First Branch of the Active Ability:
Name: Guardian Angel
Description: You gain improved recharge delay for the Passive Ability.
Recharge delay: 1 second
Status: 5/5 (Completely Learned)
Name: Speed Maniac
Description: Increases your overall movement speed.
Speed increase: +50%
Status: 5/5 (Completely Learned)
The Second Branch of the Passive Ability:
Name: The Eagle Eye
Description: Increases the range of the Passive Ability.
Distance: 125 meters
Status: 5/5 (Completely Learned)
The Third Branch of the Passive Ability:
Name: Spectral Protector
Description: The spectral voice warns you when you are in danger.
Current: Rank 5
Rank 0: The Voice warns you when danger approaches without specifying what kind of danger it is. (Learned)
Rank 1: The Voice warns you when an enemy is aiming at you and from what direction to expect the attack. It also tells you when a grenade is thrown at you. (Learned)
Rank 2: The voice warns you when a sniper rifle is aiming at you. It works even if the sniper is beyond the range of the Passive Ability.
Rank 3: The voice warns you about nearby traps. (Learned)
Rank 4: The voice warns you if there are many enemies nearby. (Learned)
Rank 5: The voice warns you if many people died near you. (Learned)
Status: 5/5 (Completely Learned)
Name: Malicious Whispers 1
Description: When you take damage, the spectral Voice begins to whisper into your attacker’s ears, trying to confuse them. The voice has a chance of:
1. ruining your enemy’s aim;
2. persuading your enemy to stop attacking you and choose another target;
3. bamboozling them into attacking their allies instead.
Your Stats of the skill:
1. Chance of ruining your enemy’s aim: +100% (Completely Learned)
2. Chance of having them pick another target: +50% (Completely Learned)
3. Chance of having them attack their allies: +25% (Completely Learned)
Note: Only one of the effects can be applied to an enemy at a time. The Voice randomly choose one of the three. If it fails and the enemy still attacks you, the Voice tries another one. After being successful, the skill goes on cooldown.
Recharge delay: 30 seconds (Learned skills: Malicious Whispers 2)
Status: 5/5 (Completely Learned)
The Fourth Branch of the Passive Ability:
Name: Malicious Whispers 2
Description: You gain improved recharge delay for the Malicious Whispers 1 skill.
Recharge delay: 30 seconds
Status: 3/3 (Completely Learned)
Required skill: Malicious Whispers 1
The Fifth Branch of the Passive Ability:
Name: Third eye
Description: When you close your eyes, you can see enemies, traps, markers, and whatnot through all walls and structures in front of you.
Distance: 50 meters
Status: 5/5 (Completely Learned)
The Sixth Branch of the Passive Ability:
Name: Ubiquitous
Description: When you close your eyes, you can see through walls and visualize the area in front of you, which enables you to Blink through walls and structures.
Status: 1/1 (Completely Learned)
Red Rune (Ultimate Ability) — Teleport
The First Branch of the Ultimate Ability:
Name: Teleporter
Description: You gain improved recharge delay for the Ultimate Ability.
Recharge delay: 5 minutes
Status: 5/5 (Completely Learned)
Name: Reach Farther
Description: Increases the length of your teleportation tunnel.
Length: 250 meters
Status: 5/5 (Completely Learned)
The Second Branch of the Ultimate Ability:
Name: Violent Speed
Description: When the Ultimate Ability is active, your movement speed gets higher still.
Speed increase: +20% (Current: 20%)
Status: 1/5
Name: Void Walker
Description: Increases the duration of the Ultimate Ability.
Duration increase: +30 seconds (Current: 60 seconds)
Status: 1/5
Name: Jumper
Description: You can jump higher when the Ultimate Ability is active. Since you are in the void space when the Ultimate Ability is active, you receive no damage in the real world when you land
Jump increase: +100% (Current: 1 meter)
Status: 1/5
The Third Branch of the Ultimate Ability:
Name: Regeneration
Description: Your wounds heal when the Ultimate Ability is active.
Healing speed: +50%
Status: 5/5 (Completely Learned)
Name: Phaseattack 1
Description: When the Ultimate Ability is active, you can attack enemies out of the void space, but they still cannot attack you.
Status: 1/1 (Completely Learned)
Name: Without a Trace
Description: When the Ultimate Ability is active, you and the trace you leave behind become less visible.
Visibility: 25%
Status: 5/5 (Completely Learned)
The Fourth Branch of the Ultimate Ability:
Name: Phaseattack 2
Description: When you fire at enemies out of the void space, your bullets get charged with dark energy, which results in them exploding upon impact like a mini fragmentation grenade.
Force of explosion: 50%
Status: 5/5 (Completely Learned)
Required skill: Phaseattack 1
The Fifth Branch of the Ultimate Ability:
Name: Phasevision
Description: When the Ultimate Ability is active, you can move through walls and other structures.
Status: 1/1 (Completely Learned)
The Sixth Branch of the Ultimate Ability:
Name: Hide and Seek
Description: Nobody, excluding you and your teammates, can see and use your portals.
Status: 1/1 (Completely Learned)
Part V
The consciousness returned to me. The first thing that I saw upon opening my eyes was faces hovering above me. Two girls, who seemed to be in their mid-twenties, and a guy in his late twenties or early thirties were staring down at me.
Then I realized I was lying supine in some kind of container. The three persons stood next to the container, staring down at me through the transparent lid.
What is going on here, I thought.
Then I realized something else. My mind was blank. Absolutely empty. I did not possess any memories at all.
Where was I? Who was I? What was happening? Why was I lying in a container of sorts? How did I end up in such a situation?
Lots of questions without answers.
And since I could not remember anything before this moment, I did not even know if what was going on was normal or not. Should I be scared by the situation I had just found myself in? I had no idea.
“Why isn’t he climbing out?” One of the girls asked, snapping me back from my reverie.
I looked up at the three people towering above me again.
“He most probably does not know how to open his teleportation chamber yet,” replied somebody who was keeping out of sight for some reason.
“What are you talking about, Echo?” The same girl asked. “Hasn’t he already been in such a situation?”
“He surely was, warrior,” the person who was outside my field of vision replied. “But he does not remember it.”
“Why doesn’t he?” The girl replied. “Did something happen to him? Got knocked on the head or something?”
“Temporary memory loss is one of the unfortunate side effects of teleportation travel,” the other girl said. “Echo told us this some time ago. Don’t you remember?”
“I can’t remember every single thing I hear somebody say, Maya,” the other girl replied, looking indignant.
Maya emitted a short laugh and said, “I’m just messing with you, Nadia.”
The guy did not participate in the girls’ bickering. He looked down at me and said, “Hey, there should be a touchscreen panel to your right. You can use it to open your pod.”
I turned my head to the right and indeed saw a small button on the right-hand wall. When I pushed it, a holographic display screen popped up. It contained a piece of information.
Name: David Tanner
Level: 75
Class: Flanker
I had no idea what the second and third lines were about. I figured David Tanner was my name, though.
Out of curiosity, I touched the tip of my index finger to the holographic screen. It did not go through it. Instead, I could feel a hard surface under my fingertip.
I tried to scroll down, and it worked. The piece of information about me disappeared to be replaced by two what appeared to be buttons.
[OPEN CHAMBER DOOR]
[CLOSE CHAMBER DOOR]
The second button was grayed-out and could not be pressed. I pushed the first one to open the door. As soon as my fingertip made contact with the button, the transparent lid above me parted vertically, and then the two halves soundlessly slid in the opposite walls of the chamber.
I sat up. The two girls and the guy stepped away from the container to give me room. I climbed out of the pod and glanced around.
The room I found myself in was square in shape. It was pretty spacious but mostly empty. The container I had just climbed out of lay along one of the walls. Farther along the same wall was another container that looked exactly like mine. Along the opposite wall were two other identical containers. In the middle of the room sat something that looked like a round table. One of the walls was completely transparent. Through it could be seen a bluish disk of the local star and the blackness of space with myriads of stars scattered against it. The wall opposite the huge window had a door set in the middle of it.
“What is your name?” The guy asked.
I shifted my attention to the three people standing in front of me and studying me. The guy was tall and kind of lanky. However, while he did not seem to be particularly strong, he looked tough. Something in his eyes told me that he had endured a lot of challenges in his life.
The same held true with the two girls. Though they were not muscular, I could tell they could handle themselves.
Each of them had a hard look in their eyes. It was clear that these people had gone through a lot of hardships. Yet none of the three strangers displayed any hostility toward me. Nadia looked a little sulky for some reason, though.
I already knew the two girls’ names. The one whose short hair was dyed blue was Maya. The other was Nadia. She wore her red hair in a short pigtail.
They were still waiting for me to say something.
“I’m David, I guess,” I finally replied, then pointed back to the pod I had climbed out from. “At least, that’s the name I got from that thing.”
The guy nodded and said, “Yeah. My name is Thomas. You can call me Tom.”
“But we prefer to call him Pinky,” Maya put in, with a teasing smile on her lips.
“Pinky?” I asked as I shifted my eyes back to Thomas.
“Yeah,” he said. “That’s the nickname they gave me.”
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By way of answer, he held up his left hand. I instantly noticed that his hand was missing the little finger.
“What happened to your pinky?” I asked.
Thomas seemed hesitant. When he finally opened his mouth to say something, Maya beat him to it.
“He lost it on one of our previous missions,” the blue-haired girl said with a big smile on her face. “There was a big explosion not too far from us. It knocked us in different directions. However, when we got to our feet and examined ourselves for injures, we found that none of us so much as got a scratch. Well, except for Pinky.” Maya emitted a short laugh before continuing. “Just like us, he was uninjured. Well, almost. He lost his little finger. Other than that, he was absolutely sound. Not a scratch or a bruise on his body. Can you imagine it?”
Maya was openly laughing now.
Thomas seemed eager to change the topic of conversation. He nodded at Maya and said, “Okay. So this girl’s name is—”
The blue-haired girl spoke up again, silencing Thomas.
“I tried to heal him but even my magic-like healing abilities couldn’t restore his finger,” she said. “All I could do was stop the bleeding and heal the wound. Anyway, that’s why we call him Pinky.”
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