Chapter 96: Accumulated Skills
Chapter 96: Accumulated Skills
Kalli checked everything else that she had, and found that most of it was what she had expected. The only mystery objects were the workshops that hadn’t been assigned yet.
And that brought her to the sad state of her System Screen.
{Skills}
{Storage Realm} Creates a storage warehouse with floor space equal to 100 square metres multiplied by the Coordinator’s level.
{System Points Store} Common and Uncommon Grade sales partially unlocked.
{Force Barrier} absorbs up to 20 points of damage per level done to the caster or a chosen target within 10 metres.
{System Administrator Privilege} [Quest Creation] Cost 1 System Point for Easy. 10 Points for Hard. 100 Points for Nightmare. 1000 points for an Epic grade quest.
That was it.
She couldn’t see her total stats, she didn’t have a separate backpack, and she didn’t have a skill tree.
Or perhaps the store was her skill tree?
Still, she had managed to get one skill separately, which was more than anyone else had, as far as she knew.
However, she had gear. Well, not a lot of gear, but she had some.
{Light Composite Battle Armour} 40 points of armour.
{Lasrifle} Stored energy weapon, requires 30 mana to recharge. Deals 30 damage per shot. 30 rounds per charge.
{M7 Combat Rifle} [Equipped with Suppressor] 10 damage per shot, plus ammunition modifiers.
[Robe of Fortune] Uncommon Grade. Grants 10 luck, 20 maximum mana.
{Rusty Spiked Bat} 20 damage
{Amulet of Mana Regeneration} Recovers 1 mana every 3 seconds
Honestly, she likely had less stuff than nearly any hero in the Academy, other than the ones who had just arrived. But she really didn’t need a lot when she had her storage space full of everyone else’s stuff.
However, none of those were the most important parts. With so many teams out doing the missions, she had been gaining a tremendous number of System Points, simply for having the heroes keep the food safe and the Swineherd population under control.
{System Points} 805
While that number didn’t feel like a lot, when she was spending so freely, it was forty Hard Mode quest completions, plus a few spare points.
That could all be sorted out in the morning, after she decided where she was going to put that statue, so people didn’t have to come to her directly to get their quest completions. She really didn’t want to have a statue of herself out in the open, like she was some sort of self-important politician, but there really wasn’t another option when it could only grant the quests from one metre away.
Kalli tried her best to sleep, but some time before dawn, the sound of vehicles moving caught her attention.
That was not normal, and she could immediately hear a commotion in the Academy.
So, she was fully equipped and out of bed within seconds, still groggy as she ran down the stairs, pulling her hair back into a messy bun and wondering why she had never gotten around to fixing the haircut that she had arrived in this world with.
"Good, Coordinator, you’re here. There are vehicle lights in the distance, and the sound is really carrying. Should we guide them to us?"
"Vehicles mean humans. Light up the beacons in the towers," Kalli agreed.
Once the first tower put on its clearance light, the red light atop the tower that was intended to make the obstacle visible to aircraft, the sound of the vehicles changed, and Kalli could tell that they were now coming directly for the Academy.
With some luck, they would be reasonable sorts, and not fools that would try to rob the only safe haven in the region.
But there were no guarantees. Especially in the dark.
The vehicles slowed as they approached, and Kalli saw that what they had found was a tractor, three logging trucks pulling trailers full of people, and one jeep loaded with men carrying swords.
"Open the gates. There are Ogres chasing them," the gate guard called.
"HEROES! Form up on me. We will escort the refugees inside the Academy," Kalli shouted.
Her voice carried unnaturally well through the Academy, waking dozens from sound sleep, and armed fighters began to pour from the dorms to join the rescue mission.
Kalli strode through the doors as the first of the logging trucks raced for the gates, with its human cargo huddled low against the floor of what looked like a produce wagon with mesh sides.
The others raced past right behind it, but the Jeep skidded to a stop next to Kalli, and the men with swords jumped out to face the line of Ogres with her.
"Sorry to bring this all to you, but we didn’t know where else to go."
"Don’t worry about it. It’s just a couple or fifty Ogres. We’ve got this."
The men laughed, assuming that Kalli was a bit cracked in the head. But then Esmeralda came out the gate in a black nightgown, with her cat on her shoulder and her undead flanking her.
The skeletons and zombies charged for the Ogres as the Special Forces team ran to join the Necromancer, with the exception of the ones on duty in the towers.
The men didn’t seem sold on the idea that they were safe, but then the soldiers opened fire.
Ogres began to drop, and Kalli continued forward, unloading her Lasrifle into the Ogre horde.
"What is she doing?" One of the men shouted as Kalli approached the front lines.
"Distracting the Ogres. She’s way faster than they are, and she’s wearing bright white in the moonlight. Unless they’ve got worse eyesight than the Swineherd Demons, they can’t miss her," one of the special forces guessed.
Actually, Kalli was trying to motivate the Heroes.
Seeing the Coordinator up front, when it should be the heavily armoured warriors, would shame them into action better than anything else.
And it was working.
Temple was leading a force of warriors out the gate, accompanied by Yara and Amber, while the Rogues were circling the battle in the dark, aiming to attack from the flank while the Ogres were distracted.
The monsters were massive, compared to Kalli. She didn’t even stand to the middle of their chest, and they were broad in build.
But they were slow moving.
The warriors charged, and the Ogres smashed at them with their clubs, while the Skeletons took the opportunity to attack the backs of their legs and the monsters behind them.
It was chaos in the dark, and Kalli slowed her firing rate, so she didn’t accidentally hit her own team, even with the Ogres being so much larger.
They had enough heroes out here now.