It was a beautiful day outside in the forest, too bad we are headed into the dungeon.
Eric, Jurea, Flora, and I were nearing one of the dungeon entrances.
Each entrance is a portal that leads anywhere on the first floor.
We chose this small entrance because not many other adventurers use it, it's not big enough for wagons to go through.
I raised my hand signaling them to stop.
"Why are we stopping? The entrance is right there!"
(Flora)
"Thank you, I didn't realize that. Anyways Eric."
"Yes?"
"I know Emira gave you that leather armor, bow, and short sword. But before we head in I wanted to ask you if you wanted to be officially added to my party? It would allow me to protect you better."
I have to ask because to really add her I'd have to beat her aka knock her out, and that's not something you do out of the blue.
Shut up Patty.
Eric was steady thinking.
"You don't ha...."
"I'm ready, do it."
"Are you sure?!"
"Yes, you're the first person to ask me what I wanted to do.
If you think this is best, do it."
I kind of expected more push back from this, but okay, here goes nothing.
I lightly tapped her jaw.
Nothing happened.
Shut up Patty.
"I think you have to hit me harder than that."
She has this innocent look on her face.
Damn it! Why couldn't she be an ugly monster, or just look like an asshole.
You can do this! Just imagine Flora's face, just imagine Flora's face.
"Take this Flora!"
I swung and knocked her out cold.
Yes.
She became light and got sucked into my gem.
Smack!
"Ow!"
"Why did you call out my name when you punched her?!"
"Would you believe your name gives me strength to do anything I set my mind to?"
"..."
"..."
"{Water ball}! {Freeze}!"
"Ouch."
"I'll see you inside."
With that she stomped off towards the dungeon.
Jurea shrugged, then followed her.
I rolled my eyes and jogged after them, opening Eric's Status as I ran.
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Name : Eric
Level : 17 points available : N/A
Species : Wolf Wildier
Strength : 500 - 1000
Increases the ease to lift and damage objects and opponents
Intelligence : 220
Makes resisting mind control, solving complex problems, reading people, learning magic and skills easier
Durability : 400
Resistance of disease, sleep deprivation, injury of body and soul, temperature, starvation
Energy : 50
Increases pool of energy and energy rate
Health : 600
Increases pool of health and healing rate
Stamina : 700
Increases pool of stamina and stamina rate
Luck : 36
Odds play out in your favor
Speed : 130
Increases reaction time, sensory perception, rate of travel, time perception
Agility : 600
Allows for complex movement's
Special ability : N/A
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Why does her strength stat have two numbers Patty?
Sweet! Is that an ability? And if it is, why does it say it's not applicable?
Not awakened yet? Huh, I guess I was just used to seeing people with abilities that I didn't think that some people might not have them.
I jumped into the swirling purple orb and landed on the stone floor of the dungeon.
Home sweet dungeon, I'm back.
Jurea was already killing some monsters.
Her hood was up, covering her entire face and neck - except two eye slits, that went from her temples to the bridge of her nose - in metallic scales.
I didn't see Flora, but every now and then a force bubble would crush a monster flat.
I joined in the fray and after ten minutes we cleared out the monsters near us, giving us a breather.
I looked around us, most of the monsters we killed don't have special abilities.
I still absorbed at least one of each mana heart.
You absorbed a heela mana heart. You have gained the ability 'Excess Energy', you have gained the ability 'Acid Blood'. > Two abilities isn't that bad. Plus, I still got some hearts in my cave that I'll absorb later. Might as well find out what those two abilities do. Status. ------------------ Name : Jamal Hendricks / no name monster Level : 41 points available : 0 Species : Akkedis/ human soul Strength : 1,000 Increases the ease to lift and damage objects and opponents Intelligence : 200 Makes resisting mind control, solving complex problems, reading people, learning magic and skills easier Durability : 500 Resistance of disease, sleep deprivation, injury of body and soul, temperature, starvation Energy : 1,000 Increases pool of energy and energy rate Health : 700 Increases pool of health and healing rate Stamina : 300 Increases pool of stamina and stamina rate Extra energy : 00 Luck : 134 Odds play out in your favor Speed : 500 Increases reaction time, sensory perception, rate of travel, time perception Agility : 200 Allows for complex movement's Crafting: 800 Allows one to craft objects well Special ability : adaptation : forced conscription : perfect mimic : empath darts : peerless regeneration : excess energy : acid blood Adaptation : ability to adapt to any situation to survive. Dependent on energy levels. Forced conscription: Anyone you defeat you can force into your party. Can order them unlimited times, but each order takes energy. All previous benefits from 'party leader ' apply. Slots : 4/6 Perfect mimicry: Can perfectly replicate any sound. Lesser ability perfect recall is a side effect of this ability. Due to this lesser ability you will remember everything. Empath Darts : Projectiles made from mana. You can imbue emotions into the dart via mucus. The higher your level the longer you can make the emotions last. Lesser ability Gastron mucus allows you to produce mucus through your skin. The mucus gives you minimal protection and allows you to scale vertical surfaces. Peerless Regeneration: you will continuously heal. Lesser ability Ample Strength doubles strength. Excess energy : all food eaten will be stored as energy. Can use energy as extra stamina at will. Acid blood : can turn your blood acidic at will. ------------------ So, if I'm understanding this, no matter what I eat I won't get fat! Shut up Patty. I was just cracking a joke. "If you're done arguing with Patty, can we get moving? I want to make it to the tenth floor before sundown." (Flora) "That's impossible, this dungeon might be young, but it is still hundreds of square miles on each floor. It takes a minimum of eight hours to clear a floor on the first set." (Jurea) "Not if we use the tunnels." "What tunnels?" "I don't want to use the tunnels too often, we need to collect as much loot as possible." "What tunnels?" "Yes, but we can just skip the lower levels and get the better monsters on the lower floors. The tunnels are the best bet." "What tunnels? Guys!" "Fine, I see your point, we'll use the tunnels and jump out on the sixth floor." "WHAT FUCKING TUNNELS?!" "There's no need to yell." (Flora) "Yeah, you just need to ask." She just stared death stares at us, until a heela appeared and started hissing at us. Jurea threw her hammer so hard that the poor heela was turned into paste. I think she's mad at us. __________________________ Hours later we were on the sixth floor. Every once in a while we'd jump out onto a floor and kill as much as we could, collecting as many drops as we could and putting it into the extra-large capacity bag Flora brought that Eric was wearing on her back. All the while I was stuffing my face to fill my excess energy, even now I was munching on a kobolds leg. Mini status. ------------------ Health:700/700 Energy:789/1000 Stamina:287/300 Excess energy : 142 ------------------ "That's disgusting." (Flora) "It tastes alright to me, and I'm not the only one who thinks so. Right Eric?" "Mmmm.....yuesh, esh weal gud.*" Yes, it's real good * When I was human I had a massive sweet tooth, I could eat a whole box of Oreos before I even got to the car, but ever since I was reborn nothing tastes better than a fresh kill. "Hey, to each his ow..." Flora shoved her palm in my face. "Shut up!" "Hey, I was talking." "Just shut up and look." Flora was pointing further down the tunnel. A lone adventurer was drawing back his bow, ready to kill a spider monster dozens of yards away. "We have to warn him!" (Me) Flora yanked me down to the ground. "Shut up will you. After he kills that rare monster, we'll alleviate him of the burden of carrying the mana heart." "That's the problem! I was an amateur arachnologist, back on my world - I loved spiders. And that monster looks like a huntsman spider, a spider known for ambushing prey with spee....." Before I could finish the adventurer loosed his arrow. The spider side-stepped the arrow, ran up to the adventurer, picked him up with its pedipalps, slammed him into the ground, and ripped into him - devouring him. This all happened in less time than a blink of an eye. "Shit balls! We should get out of here before it notices us." (Flora) "Too late. Those types of spiders have great hearing, sight, and smell, it already knows we are here." "Then, why isn't it attacking us?" (Jurea) Good question. Patty, if you would. I felt a lot of energy leave me. Mini status. ------------------ Health:700/700 Energy:592/1000 Stamina:292/300 Excess energy : 143 ------------------ That question took two hundred energy, I'll have to be frugal with my next question(s). Patty, I'm assuming that the adventurer it killed was the last in a long line of fights it has had recently, it must be running on empty - I hope - can we beat it? ------------------ Health:700/700 Energy:546/1000 Stamina:292/300 Excess energy : 143 ------------------ Okay, not too much energy loss there. "You got a plan fearless leader?" (Flora) Jurea tightened her grip on her warhammer. "Yeah, spread out. Huntsmen spiders are ambush predators, it will try to take us on one at a time. Plus, to see behind themselves they have to turnaround." "That is the plan Patty came up with?!" "Nope, couldn't afford to waste energy. That idea is all mine." They started spreading out. "Great, so on our graves they'll write 'They died, but the damn lizard had extra energy to spare'." "Avoid getting caught in its legs, they use a mix of muscle and hydraulics to bring down prey." Thank you. Mini status. ------------------ Health:700/700 Energy:546/1000 Stamina:292/300 Excess energy : 143 ------------------ My energy didn't go down? Thanks - again. The spider stopped eating and stared right at me. And stare it could do, eight eyes and all. One breath Two breath It launched itself at me. I dodged backwards, while Eric notched an arrow and Jurea prepared to throw her hammer. As soon as its front legs hit the ground where I was it raised two of its middle legs and shot webs out if them, the webs attached to Jurea and Eric and when the spider yanked its legs, it sent them flying. "{Force bubble}." Flora let out a quick spell, sending it sprawling. It righted itself immediately. Even though Flora was basically invisible the spider - who uses vibrations even more so than sight to hunt - turned towards her and charged. "{Godly lightning strike}! {Godly lightning strike}!" Flora let off a couple high-powered spells, which the spider adeptly evaded. "{Inertial carry}! {Force bubble}!" Flora let off two spells damn near simultaneously, one aimed at the spider and the other on ground right next to her - propelling her sideways. I expected the spider to turn on a dime and attack her now that she was visible, instead it kept moving forward until it hit a jutting rock. Not wanting to waste this perfect opportunity, I peppered it with darts. The darts are imbued with my mucus to induce sleepiness, I call these darts 'Nappy time darts.' Shut Patty. The spider didn't fall asleep, instead it just got a little sluggish. It leapt at me again, I caught its two pedipalps in my hands and was holding it at bay while it tried to bite me. Its fangs dripping with venom. Shit! I didn't want to do this, Patty activate 'Acid Blood'. As my ability activated I let go of its pedipalps. Its fangs sank into my flesh, a second later it reared back in pain as my blood splashed over its face. How do you like them apples asshole! Bite me and you'll regret it. I put my wrists together with my palms facing the spider. "{Force bubble}!" A huge force bubble pushed it back dozens of feet. I wish I could have hit it with a godly lightning strike, but I can't. Even though I learned it from Flora, apparently if your intelligence isn't high enough, or it's from a higher rank you can't do certain spells - unless you want to blow up. So, to recap I can learn any spell, I just can't use ones that I ain't smart enough for and ones that's above my rank. Mini status. ------------------ Health:646/700 Energy:322/1015 Stamina:152/303 Excess energy : 143 ------------------ Patty, shock body now! Now Patty! My body took on the form I used to kill the bluecaps. "Flora! Godly lightning me! Full power!" "{GODLY LIGHTNING STRIKE}!!!" A massive lightning bolt hit me in the back, charging me with hundreds of millions of amps of raw voltage. The spider tried to run away from me - maybe it felt what was about to happen? - but Jurea stabbed straight through its abdomen with the chain, then she drove the spike into the ground - holding the spider in place. I ran up to it and stabbed my claws into it, letting all the built up energy go at once. "Die! Just die!" Within seconds, it was fried chicken. Wait, I didn't level up? But isn't there a booster when I kill something ten levels or above? Every time you kill something that is ten levels higher than you are their experience is multiplied by five. Any ten levels after that is multiplied by two point five. In numerical form. Something's XP : 900 Something's level : 90 Your level : 20 XP x 5 x (2.5 ^6) = 1,098,632.8125 XP > Okay, got it. Yup, just one question. If someone in my party with a lower level killed something, would the multiplier work the same for them? Sweet. I saw everyone come towards where I was. "Everyone okay?" "Yup." "Yes." "What do you think?" Good to know Flora will never change. I rummaged through the spider's corpse until I pulled out its mana heart, then I threw it to Flora. "What are you doing?" "We never would have won without you, you should keep it and sell it." Man I'm a good pers..... Ah .....lizard. "Of course you wouldn't have won without me - that's a given. But I want you to absorb this heart." "I'm sorry, but I'm gonna have to decline. You earned that fair and square." Those spells really saved our asses. "..." "..." She jumped on me, making me fall to the ground. Then, she started beating me on the head with the mana heart. "Eat it! Eat it! Eat it! Eat it!!!" "Ow, ow, ow, ow, owwww!" Patty, absorb it now! <...> Patty!!! Patty! Please absorb the damn heart. Ability 'Spatial Awareness' learned. Ability 'Webs' learned. Ability 'Dash' learned. > Thin mana hair popped up on my skin. Once it was absorbed Flora got off of me. "Finally!" "If you wanted to be nice, you could have just said thanks." "Nice? Fuck that, this is about the coin." "What?! Then, shouldn't you have sold the heart then?" "Please, that heart would fetch maybe three hundred gold, but monster spider silk is a deluxe item. Due to the fact that its perfect for armor, ropes, or anything else that requires thread and it is nigh unbreakable. A spool of it goes for at least five hundred gold. And now I have a monster silk making gold mine!!!!" "..." "..." "Fuck you Flora!" I would like to say that she broke down into tears, but she had already left to loot the corpse of the adventurer."