Waking up besides the underground river. The first thing Poe did was drag his body to the river, so he could get something to drink. Making a bowl with his hand, he put it in the water and let the water enter. The cold water from the underground river against his skin really helped in waking him up.
Putting the water bowl hands to his face, Poe drank the water before finally fully waking up.
Looking around he was still in the crater from before, he really wondered how such a big crater came to be in the first place.
Looking around, Poe could finally look up and see the sky and sun.
Sighing, Poe realized that he would soon leave this sky once again to travel into the dungeon. Now the only thing Poe needed to do was decide whether to follow the underground river upstream or go towards the spider tunnel.
The answer to this question was quite easy for Poe as he wanted to have his revenge against the fluffy rabbit and they were upstream. The other reason was that Poe would rather fight cute little rabbits over big creepy cave spiders.
Having made up his mind, Poe stood up and walked towards the entrance from where the underground river came from.
The reason why he wanted to go upstream towards the river had nothing to do with hating spider, but was only because raw fluffy rabbit meat tasted extremely good. Like candy, Poe had once begged on the street before entering the orphanage and had gotten a piece of candy from an old person. That was one of Poe's best days.
Well, how fluffy rabbit meat tasted like candy was a mystery, even to Poe!
While thinking about how wonderful fluffy rabbit meat was, Poe finally made it to where the underground river entered the crater.
Casting one last gaze towards the sun and sky above him, Poe entered the hole in the wall where the underground river came from.
Walking along the underground river, Poe could not help but feel grateful towards whatever god created the glowing mushrooms. Without them, Poe would have fallen into the underground river several rimes already.
This was most likely also because of the path alongside the underground river missing sometimes, with only gaping holes left behind where the path was supposed to be.
The longer away Poe got from the crater, the more critters inhabited the walls along the underground river.
[River fish, lvl 3]
A few fish could also be seen in the water now, though most of them swam the same direction as Poe walked.
As Poe really wanted to reach level 5, he tried to shoot the fish in the water with his mana ball.
Sadly, Poe realized that the fish were quite agile in the water. From what he remembered, the river fish he killed was not that agile.
Maybe it got exhausted by swimming upstream for so long? Maybe it was even injured, but Poe would never really know why the river fish he fought back then was so slow. For all he knew, it could just be a lazy river fish, which never really wanted to swim in the first place. Just wanting the rivers wild stream to take it from place to place.
*chuckle*
Laughing lightly to himself at the thought of a river fish that lazy, Poe's lips unconsciously curled into a small smile.
After having laughed at the thought of the lazy river fish, Poe continued his journey upstream a little happier than before.
As time passed with walking along the underground river minutes slowly turned to hours and Poe got quite hungry, not having eaten since before he slept back in the crater and water was not really helping with that anymore.
Just as Poe thought he might die of hunger a savior showed himself in front of Poe.
[Fluffy rabbit, lvl 4]
Not thinking straight, Poe launched himself at the defenseless little rabbit upstream launching mana balls towards the frightened little rabbit.
Well, Poe could not really help himself; he went without food for quite a while and was hungry. That is when his favorite food shows up in front of him. Most likely, anyone would go a little crazy at that point. What is left to say is, rest in peace little rabbit. You should not have been here at this time.
After killing the unlucky fluffy rabbit, Poe finally calmed down after having eaten the fluffy rabbit meat.
Finally calm, Poe looked towards the notifications he got from killing the little fluffy rabbit and there were quite a lot.
[Gained 20 EXP]
[*ding* level 5 reached]
[Congratulations class advancement mage, object 1, have been completed]: you have completed the first object to advance as a mage, but also the easiest. Would you give up here or continue down the path of a mage?
[Choose a class now / Continue with object 2]
[If chosen to continue you may not chose a class or go above level 5 before object 2 is complete]
[You have gained 1 skill point]
Looking at the screen before him, Poe realized that he was finally level 5. Overcome with happiness, Poe pulled up his stats and put his stat points into WIS and INT, before looking at the skill point that he got.
Skill points could be used to level up skills by one level and were hard to get, because they were so good. Poe did not use his skill point as he found it a waste with all of his skills being so low leveled.
Done with putting stat points into WIS and INT, Poe chose to continue with object 2, because that was what he wanted from the start. If Poe stopped here he would most likely get a common or uncommon class and that was simply way to low on the ranking for the future number 1 mage.
[CLASS ADVANCEMENT MAGE]
[OBJECT 2: Kill a level 20 king class monster without help]
[REWARDS: 1 skill point, 5 stat points, able to choose a class or continue with final object]
Looking at the object, Poe sighed to himself before hardening his will. This was just what he wanted. After all to get his revenge on the fluffy rabbits, he need to kill king fluffy and he was a level 20 king monster.