Maple

Third Rank of the 1st Event

“Monster”

**Maple/ Kaede Honjō** is the main heroine, who has just started playing *NewWorld Online*. Since she doesn't like to get hurt, she puts every skill point she earns into boosting her defense, allowing her to acquire new skills and level up simply by withstanding attacks. Even with her lack of gaming experience, Maple remarkably gains enough resistance to almost anything, giving the game admins many headaches on how to slow her down; to which, her unorthodox methods overcomes the developers' adjustments. She seems to have an innate luck ability to locate rare items, hidden dungeons, and unique quests and skills (such as the Loving Sacrifice quest where she gains a second form).

## Personality

Maple is a bright and cheerful girl, who can be quite dull sometimes. When it comes to her friend Sally, she is very open to her ideas.

## Plot

She just started playing *NewWorld Online*. Since she doesn't like to get hurt, she puts every skill point she earns into boosting her defense, allowing her to acquire new skills and level up simply by withstanding attacks. Even with her lack of gaming experience, Maple remarkably gains enough resistance to almost anything, giving the game admins many headaches on how to slow her down; to which, her unorthodox methods overcomes the developers' adjustments.

Despite her weaknesses, she uses techniques like [Cover], to make up for her lack of mobility. After consuming a Hydra and receiving one-of-kind equipment and shield, Maple acquires powerful poisonous magic, and obtains a skill called [Gross Eater] due to maxing out her vitality points, that devours her foes in a single counter. She becomes the third-rank player after competing in the first event. During the second event, she finds a Monster Egg which hatches into a turtle, which she names Syrup.

## Abilities

* 【Absolute Defense】

Makes the VIT of the skill’s owner times two. The point needed to increase 【STR】【AGI】【INT】 will be three times of normal. Now classified as a unique skill only possessed by Maple alone, because the Developers have taken measures to prevent making a similar occurence to happen again.

* 【Giant Killing (OomonoKurai) 】

During times when you have more than four stats, other than HP/MP, lower than the battle opponent, stats other than HP/MP will be doubled.

* 【Meditation】

If used, 1% of maximum HP will recover in 10 seconds. Duration of effect is 10 minutes. No MP consumption.

* 【Provoke】

Draws the monster’s attention into one point.

* 【Shield Attack】

Attack using a shield. Power is dependent to STR. Knockback effect (Small).

* 【Hydra Eater (DokuruuKurai)】

Nullifies poison, paralyze. To unlock skill, defeat the poison dragon with HP Drain.

* 【Hydra (Dokuryuu)】

Be able to use the powers of the Poison Dragon as you will. By consuming MP, Poison Magic can be used.

* 【Abominable (Gokuaku Hidō】

Every time an attack was received from an opponent intentionally, 【VIT +1】

But skill effects will only be available one day starting from the activation of the skill.

Limit is 【VIT +25】.

* 「【Paralyze Shout】」

Paralyzes all designated targets who are within range of the shout.

* 【Bizarre Eater (Akujiki)】

A skill that changes everything that was devoured as power.

Will devour even magic, and can change it to the user’s MP. When the magic powers overflows, will be stored inside the body as magic crystal.

Nerfed so that its abilities was limited uses of 10 times per day, and the MP that will be absorbed will be doubled. After receiving attacks ten times with the large shield, the Mirror of the Dark Night will return to a normal large shield.

* 【Bomb Eater (BakudanKurai)】

Reduces explosive-type damage by 50.

* 【Knowledge of Large Shield IV】 - Reduces damage by 4.
* 【Body Manipulation】 and 【Attack Diversion】- Both reduce damage by 1
* 【Cover Move I】

Ignoring the AGI stat, will be able to move to the party member within the radius of 5 meters.

After use, damage received will be doubled for 30 seconds.

Can be used maximum 10 times.

The maximum times usable will recover every hour.

* 【Cover】

Cover the party member besides the user from attacks.

When used, VIT would be increased by 10.

* 【Unyielding Guardian】it's a large shield exclusive skill that can be taken when covering an ally when HP is below 10%. Only once every day, it would endure any attack with 1 HP.
* 【Venom Capsule】 It locks in its target inside a venomous capsule and makes escape impossible.
* 【Fortress】- *Multiplies VIT by 1.5x.*
* 【Psychokinesis】- *Makes one monster float. Only works on monsters. Chance of success depends on monster's magic resistance. If you fail you can't use the skill again for 1 hour. Amount of MP depleted depends on magic resistance of monster.* This in truth is classified as a joke skill however, Maple found a way to exploit this and she uses this to allow her pet Syrup to fly in the air
* 【Loving Sacrifice】: Transforms the user into an angel having blonde hair and two huge white wings and it also unleashes a circle of light with a limited radius. For as long as this skill lasts all party/guild members within the circle are constantly shielded by [Cover] of the same defense of the user. Activation of skill needs a huge chunk of HP being lost at the start. Obtained via Extra Quest of the same name from the Benevolent Knight quest series.
* 【Predator】*Episode 8:*  Summons a predator which is very fearsome and can deal attacks to nearby targets or attacks such as vines. The predator's lower body cannot be seen for unknown reasons and is rather embedded to the ground.
* 【Seeping Chaos】*Episode 8:* When jointed with the skill 【Predator】, it allows the predator to stretch its body and immediately reach distant enemies, this however, still needs the predator to come into close contact with the target when attacking.
* 【Atrocity】*Episode 8:* Transforms the user into a demon like predator with an atrocious form which is similar to the 【Predator】. When in this form the user gains 1'000 HP and 50 points in Strength and Agility, the skill can last indefinitely as long as the HP does not go down 0. When the HP reaches zero, the user will not die but instead revert them to their original form. This skill can only be used once per day.
* 【Gift of the Machine God】*its official name has not been revealed.* It transforms the user into a machine god, or to be more specific, be equipped with countless machinery such as guns, lasers, and even a headset which locks on targets. 【Commence Attack!】.

## Equipment

* 『Armor of Black Roses (Kurobara no Yoroi)』【VIT +25】【Destruction Growth】Skill slot ー 【Atrocity】

* 『New Moon (Shingetsu)』【VIT +15】【Destruction Growth】Skill slot 【Hydra (Dokuryuu)】

* 『Mirror of the Dark Night (Yamiyo no Utsushi)』.Skill slot 【Bizarre Eater (Akujiki)】

* 【Snow White】【VIT＋40】
* 【Bridge of Bonds】It is a ring, by equipping this it makes it possible to fight together with monsters.