Path of the Shaman. Step 4: Phantom Castle

Chapter 1. Tavia's Tears of Blood

Stop lying around! - Anastaria’s mocking voice broke through my foggy consciousness, forcing me to return to reality. For several moments the brain refused to work, as if it did not trust the perception, but the dam of mistrust broke and thoughts began to bubble like a deep river. So... I’m lying on the ground, which means the flight was unsuccessful. Everything hurts, as if there was nothing whole left in me - the landing was hard. One thing was good - judging by the system time, only ten minutes had passed since the fatal dive, so I was not thrown into rebirth.

Maybe poke him with a stick? - Plinto joined Anastaria. Where is he going? He himself hasn’t fully figured out his abilities, but still the same thing - since he’s a Dragon, he should be able to fly. - What if it starts to move?

I'm poking someone right now! - I muttered, after which I gathered my strength and sat down, leaning against the tree, which, as memory helpfully suggested, I crashed into a few minutes earlier. - What's wrong with Clutzer?

Looks like he's alive! What will happen to me? - a hoarse voice came from somewhere behind the tree, showing that its owner had suffered no less than me, but allowed me to take a relieved breath. It turns out that during an unsuccessful landing on a tree, I did not send my rider to rebirth. At least some joy!

Are you going to continue lying around? You still have forty minutes of training, be so kind as to work them out completely! - Anastaria said, as if she didn’t care at all about my condition. I feel bad, hurt and offended, and she only thinks about how to delay the meeting with our common tormentor. The doll is emotionless! What fool considered her an ideal?..

The first month of our stay at the Patriarch of Vampires was ending and I can say with full responsibility - it was the darkest month of my gaming life! Either a Hunter or a Shaman!

The first two days turned out to be surprisingly calm and pleasant - the Patriarch treated us to all sorts of healthy delicacies, told us various stories, and together with Ishni the Unicorn, showed us the sights of the Dark Forest. The Green Waterfall alone was worth it! From a huge cobblestone, fifty meters high, surrounded by huge and, thanks to Ishni, living trees, the stream began its path. After three hundred kilometers it turned into one of the many tributaries of the Nelda - the second largest river in Malabar, but the source that opened to our eyes amazed us with its beauty. Transparent, tasty, instantly replenishing Vigor and Life water fell from a stone, the very existence of which in the Dark Forest caused huge amount questions. For example, where did he come from here? It is precisely because of little things like these, introduced by location designers, that there are players who devote the entire game to travel. In order to see such masterpieces with your own eyes, a couple of days of flying on a griffin is not enough time for them! And the Green Waterfall, and the absolutely round lake of water lilies, on which green, white, and red flowers grew in orderly rows, and the renewed clearing of the Guardian of the Forest... In two days we had seen enough of so many amazing and beautiful things that we were completely unprepared for the coming changes. Returning to the Patriarch's castle, everyone froze, experiencing conflicting feelings. The Patriarch's gaze expressed pride in the well-done work of his fighters, Ishni - interest, the Vampires - joy that they were able to please their master, and only mine, as well as all other players including - a sad awareness of the future. From a powerful defensive structure that withstood the attacks of the Fallen for twenty years, the castle turned into a huge training ground. Tracks, pendulums, training dummies, boss simulators, again pendulums and tracks... I didn’t even know the names of most of the devices, but from the satisfied look of the main bloodsucker of Barliona I understood that in the very near future I will more than fill this gap in education. One thing was good - I am a Shaman, so treadmills and testing lanes do not threaten me. Let the Robbers and Warriors have fun on them, and Barsina, Anastaria and I will learn to use our magical abilities.

How wrong I was...

At first, we were all given a task - “Training”. Rare, almost unique, telling us that we will be trained for four weeks using a special technique of some monks, which will allow the consciousness to transfer part of the skill accumulated in the game into reality. According to the conditions, while completing the task, players had the right to leave the game a maximum of three times for two hours; if more and longer, the task would fail. Due to the fact that the reward was a one-time increase in all basic characteristics by 15 units, no one wanted to risk losing such a bonus. Having used one exit to reality, the three free players literally an hour later were ready, like partisans, to easily and naturally receive their rightful promotion. Naive Chukchi children!

Twenty-eight game days under the leadership of the Patriarch turned into one filled with fatigue, pain, suffering and more fatigue. A morning workout leading into a workout with a workout break. Then lunch in the form of a workout and a full-scale serious daytime workout, after which a rest in the form of a workout before an evening workout. Before lights out, there was a warm-up workout and getting up three times a day at night for short hour-long training... Even the first month at the Prika mine could not push me as hard as the servants of the Patriarch managed to do.

But the training of the second Dragon begins! In two hours I’m waiting for you in the form of a Dragon at the pendulums. Now - march to run!

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What can a gaming clan do without a castle?

The answer is obvious - nothing, so the main task of any leader in the gaming world is to get his own habitat. Based on precisely this position, Mahan - the Supreme Shaman, the head of the “Legends of Barliona” clan - accepted the proposal of the Emperor and the Lord to destroy the army of Ghosts who settled in Altameda - the Phantom Castle. However, a seemingly ordinary task launched such a flywheel of events that the Shaman had no choice but to turn on his intuition and sometimes act on a whim. After all, a player who is being hunted by three leading clans of the continent has nothing else left...

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A new immersion into the world of Barliona - one of the best worlds of the LitRPG project!

What can a gaming clan do without a castle?

The answer is obvious - nothing, so the main task of any leader in the gaming world is to get his own habitat. Based on precisely this position, Mahan - the Supreme Shaman, the head of the “Legends of Barliona” clan - accepted the proposal of the Emperor and the Lord to destroy the army of Ghosts who settled in Altameda - the Phantom Castle. However, a seemingly ordinary task launched such a flywheel of events that the Shaman had no choice but to turn on his intuition and sometimes act on a whim. After all, a player who is being hunted by three leading clans of the continent has nothing else left...

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Briefly: “the same cabbage soup, pour it thicker...”. but the book has already slipped to 4.
For those interested, more details:
GG is lucky. to the point of disgrace. If you failed a task, it doesn’t matter: you went to Anastaria, through an NPC you got into an area not intended for players, completed the task, and restored your reputation for the failed task. apply abilities not available to his class.
At the same time, he is amazingly naive and stupid. analyzes his own conclusions very poorly and cannot question his own thoughts.
Does not allow the NPC to enter the castle - he yelled at the NPC and his demands were immediately fulfilled, and the NPC was punished...
Whatever he does, everything will be (absolutely) beneficial to him and his clan. I'm afraid even if he doesn't do anything, there will be even greater benefits.
Confusion: then heroes can easily fight at level 50-150 against monsters at 300-350 (a difference of 100++ levels) (dark forest battle with vampires, the moment when a mahan (about 70) with 3 characters of level 29 killed 5 vampires at level 115-150) then when reviewing the properties of the eye, Anastaria says that they will be crushed by monsters 3 levels higher than themselves.... paradox
in the arena they pull out the GG, rather than an experienced raid leader who takes the reins into his own hands and pulls out the raid.
It became clear why he took the reins of the clan to himself - to take and waste 300 thousand gold (clan treasury!!!) on a suit, in order not to lose his reputation with the jeweler (only for himself) and to perform a task unnecessary to anyone except his quest (and to prevent suicide - which the emperor already knew about) - only for his beloved.
Naturally, with such luck, the scroll about chess ends up in his hands. Naturally, just like that.
Again, Mr. acts according to his feelings and returns the scroll, which gives him buns for creating chess (voluntarily giving them up) ... but here he is lucky: the scroll, as a noble gesture, is returned to him and the turnip is also raised.
I believe that if he destroys the city/castle, kills the emperor, abuses the princess, kills all the shamans, his reputation will be raised to the maximum, and he will be given super rare epics, and will also be thanked.)
It’s also annoying that a person who spent several years leveling up the crafting profession, who is the mainland’s leader in craft, was in less than six months overtaken by 1 prisoner who had ALREADY surpassed a high-level player in craft. There is no competition at all.
But, well, you have enough strength to read to the end. Although it more and more resembles nonsense about one lich.
at the beginning of the first book there was intrigue, hopelessness - he experiences pain, everyone else does not experience pain. he is an outcast among his own kind and so on and so forth. Well, it was clear that it would be hard for him. here the only thing that is not clear is how quickly he will complete the next task or level up (that is, the book is not about a prisoner who is being punished, but about a person in a country with some restrictions).
Moreover, no one restricts it particularly strongly. the feeling of pleasure received for the levels (it’s also strange, but okay) has disappeared. gg, in addition to pain, there are also feelings of pleasure (brothel, the whole range of sensations). y sitting, or at a resort with a light regime? the only limitation is the inability to go out real world... for the rest, they are “punished” by experience, leveling, rare tasks, getting money, easy raids, improving physical abilities in reality, sex in a pleasure house (judging by the text, it’s quite traditional, without perversions - 24 hours a week... if remember the physiology of a man - 5-30 minutes... that’s 48 times a week, even if you imagine that he spends 2 hours on this matter (what a loss of strength, really) - it’s just some kind of bull insemination).
Well, I would understand the restrictions when playing - they say you can’t improve your reputation, you can’t complete some tasks, you can’t create a clan and other things that are annoying in the game, showing that you won’t be able to get along in society until you atone for your guilt... but punish like that.. . “give me double the amount too”... it’s time to wonder who the real prisoner is...
Attitude (embarrassment, shock of the NPC at the sight of the characteristics of his hero.) - it is unlikely that they would do “shock” to all NPCs if it was not according to the plot of the quest. Illogical.
2 explanations - either the author is carrying and will continue to have “the same thick cabbage soup”, or the makhan is an experiment, nothing more - which explains his incredible success, luck. out of curiosity what will happen next. I definitely wouldn’t spend money on the series. but "the hedgehogs cried and injected themselves...";)