As Cade got nearer and nearer to the time limit dungeon's portal, his heart was thumping faster and faster because he was nervous.
He can feel that the dungeon was dangerous. Looking at the dungeon in a video was completely different than looking at it with his own eyes.
Cade started sweating a bit while he was staring at the dungeon's portal. There were a few explorers nearby that came late like Cade too.
They were all grouped up together and they called Cade too. Cade went to them and they asked Cade if he wanted to join their group.
It was better when they grouped up together than being alone. Cade agreed to join them because he knew the dungeon was dangerous. The chance of him surviving will increase if he were with them.
Even with that high endurance and vitality stat, Cade did not feel confident that he can survive the dungeon.
Cade thought that they will mind his equipment but that did not happen. A few of them had seen Cade before and they knew the cardboard was more that what its appearance was shown.
They already told everyone in the group about it earlier when they saw Cade from a far. They were surprised too that Cade had changed his face mask.
The one that did not know about Cade was skeptical about Cade at first but decided to trust the other who had seen Cade before. Having more people was better than nothing.
Even if Cade's equipment was useless, he might have good skills was what the other thought. However, unknown to them, Cade's skill was nothing impressive.
He had the physical resistance that can resist physical attacks from E grade opponents but useless against higher grade opponents.
He had an emergency skill, the fluid body but he can only use it for three seconds only on himself and it had the cooldown time of one day.
The other two skills he had was useless at this time. The slime language that brought doom to himself was only useful if he met slime opponent and the leader skill was only useful if he recruited some slime which he was unable to due to the appearance of the time limit dungeon.
He lacked fighting experience too and he messed up a lot. Cade was basically useless to them if they expected Cade to be able to do more.
There were about twenty of them in the group including Cade. Some of them wanted to wait for more people but the leader (self-proclaimed) of the group said that they should not waste much more time as time kept passing.
It was possible that they will meet the one that had entered earlier inside and there was no need to worry much about them not having many people in their group.
The other agreed once they heard the explanation from the group leader and they all decided to enter the time limit dungeon.
As they were going inside, Cade looked at the portal and the time limit was shown by the system.
[2 days 8 hours 7 minutes]
"Two days… I wonder if it is possible for us to close this dungeon in two days," thought Cade as he wryly smiled. As they were getting inside the portal, the soldier guarding the portal bowed to them. They knew how dangerous the dungeon was and the chance for them to survive was nil.
Many explorers on the planet was unable to enter the dungeon because of the level limit and thus, all they can do was hoped and prayed that everyone that went inside succeed in closing the dungeon.
One by one, the group entered the time limit dungeon. Cade got more nervous as it was soon his turn. Cade was now in front of the portal and he bravely albeit nervous step forward and entered the time limit dungeon.
Once Cade got inside, the environment around him instantly changed like he was teleported by the emergency badge.
Cade was stunned as he was alone and everyone else that entered the dungeon with him was nowhere around him.
When he looked around, he saw green trees and bushes around him. He was in some kind of forest. Cade looked around nervously as the dungeon did not look and feel like the dungeon he had entered before.
It felt like he was on some kind of planet. He looked up and it was a blue sky with some white cloud around.
"Where is this? Is this inside the time limit dungeon?" said Cade as he was unable to comprehend what had happened. Cade looked behind and around him and the portal was gone and now he knew why no one was able to come out of the dungeon.
While he was busily looking around him, the system sent out notification.
[You have entered the World Dungeon. Connection with your universe has been severed. Until you complete the World Dungeon, you will be unable to come out] said the system.
[The time in the World Dungeon is moving differently compare to the time moving in the real world. One hour in the real world equal to one day in the World Dungeon]
[Approximately 58 days for you to complete this World Dungeon]
[Your mission is simply to destroy the core that is guarded by the owner of this World Dungeon]
[In order to destroy the core, you need to destroy the accompanying core that are scatter all around this World Dungeon]
[The core and the owner of this World Dungeon will appear when all the accompanying core is destroyed]
[This World Dungeon belonged to the Boarman Race]
[Destroy the core and defeat your enemy. Good luck]
[Updating your system…] said the system and Cade's system suddenly went through some kind of update.
"There is too much to process. World Dungeon, core, Boarman Race? So, the time limit dungeon is actually called the World Dungeon by the system and the mission inside this dungeon is to destroy the core of the dungeon," said Cade.
"Hmm~ it is not that much different compared to the dungeon in the past. Destroy the core and the dungeon will close. Why is everyone having problem with this?" Cade wondered.
Cade knew however that the main obstacle will be their enemy. The owner of the dungeon. In his situation, the Boarman Race in which he never heard of this kind of monster before.
Cade decided to hid in a bush as he was afraid that he will meet these 'boarman race'. He did not know how strong they were and everything else about them and he needed to be careful.
Due to the update of the system, Cade was unable to access the system and it will be really dangerous to walk around without the mapping function.
He decided to wait until the system finished updating whatever it was updating and then, he will start exploring the area.
Cade kept his eyes sharp all the time while he observed around him. He did not know who will pop up out of nowhere and if it was the boarman, he will be in great danger.
As he kept waiting, the system finally finished updating. Cade opened his system and a new function was added. The missions function.
Cade opened the mission's function and a list of missions were there. In game, completing the mission will reward the players with items, equipment and many more.
However, the mission listed there was without any reward. It purely told Cade what he needed to do in the World Dungeon.
Apparently, there were three accompanying cores scattered all throughout the World Dungeon and none of them have been destroyed yet.
Each of the three accompanying cores represented the E grade, D grade and C grade. The location of the accompanying core was unknown and Cade needed to search them by himself.
"So, other than the possibly strong enemy, the location of the accompanying core is unknown and that added to the difficulty of this World Dungeon," thought Cade.
"I wonder if the accompanying core being guarded by the boarman? If they were guarding it, it will be easier to locate them," thought Cade.
Other than the accompanying core missions, there were many other missions listed in the mission function and they were all related to the World Dungeon.
For example, there were missions to gather certain herbs, ores, plants, water and many more. Cade found it weird that the system listed all these gathering missions.
Why would they need to gather all these when the most important thing to do was to destroy the core?
If they delayed their time to collect all these materials, they won't have enough time to locate and destroyed the core.
Other than the gathering missions, there was also extermination missions. It was to kill the boarman and destroyed or plundered all their belonging.
Cade kept reading the list of missions and he found more absurd and cruel missions too like torturing the boarman, hanging their heads on a pole (Cade thought this was impossible because monsters evaporated once they were killed) and many else.
"Are we in some kind or war?" thought Cade.