After going through the door, Soren kept swimming for quite a while, until he reached a big room. The room itself had some cracks on the walls, but the thing that pulled Soren's attention was the big skeleton in the middle of the room. The skeleton seemed to belong to some sort of sea serpent with the length of over 100 feets and the diameter of 8 feet, this was definitely quite the monster. It also looks like ut rolled itself as if it eabted ti have something under it.
'No wonder there was nothing else on the other floors, this thing probably ate everything around here.' Soren thought.
After examing the big skeleton for a bit, he tried pulling out one of its ribs but the it didn't budge.
"What the hell? Are these things superglued or something?" Soren said, clearly annoyed.
Some time later, he gave up pulling out the bone and decided to check the rest of the room. There were actually some broken swords nearby, so Soren picked up one of them and decided to examine them.
[Broken iron sword: (DMG+5) Don't expect to cut anything with this piece of junk.]
"Well it's better than stick, that's for sure."
Near the sword, there was another piece of clothing that looked like a big brown sleeve.
[Tailwear: (DEF+1) Some underwear to cover my unmentionables.]
The moment Soren read, his face became red as beet and thanked his lucky stars that he didn't meet anyone, otherwise he look like some naked dude in the middle of a forest, ready to give the biggest scare to the others. After putting on the tailwear, it looked like a pair trousers but with one leg only that covered the top half of his tail.
The next thing he checked was a half-torn photo that was under the tailwear. The photo was kind of faded but showed a man with black hair and a black beard, but he couldn't make out his face since it was pretty blurry, so he put it in the pocket of the tailwear.
The next course of action was to get under the skeleton, but the space between the ribs was too small for anyone to go through so the only ither entry point was through the head. Of course, Soren had second thoughts about going through the skeleton's mouth but he calmed himself down and reminded himself that he tried to rip a rib off with all of his power and failed with the rib not even budging, so there shouldn't be a problem.
Steeling himself, he raised the upper jaw of the monster with a bit of difficulty and started swimming through its ribcage until he found an open hole in the ribcage, big enough for him to fit in.
In the small area under the sea serpent's skeleton, there a blue egg, bigger than a chicken's egg but smaller than that of an ostrich. It gave also a faint blue glow and had some weird patterns with white color, as if it looked like tribal paint.
When he got close to the egg, he checked it out about its information.
[Mysterious egg: No one knows what could come out of this egg. Status: Ready to hatch. Requires a living being to hatch it.]
Once Soren read that last part, he started to wonder the creature inside the egg. He believed that, the creature that had the highest chance of being inside the egg was probably this sea serpent like monster, but it could be also something else. With nothing else stopping him, his choice was to try and hatch the egg, but the moment he went to touch it, a clacking noise was heard. The clacking noise continued and Soren saw the ribcage moving. The ribcage started getting up and it looked like the layers started to leave one by one, until in the end, the head got up and started down on Soren. It had crimson red fires in it's eye sockets and it started down Soren with a menacing but blank look on its face. At that moment he checked the status of the sea serpent and the info suprised him.
Undead Leviathan (Deteriorating)
LV: 76
HP: 1 (9162)
MP: 0 (2976)
STR: 513 (832)
VIT: 1 (798)
AGL: 214 (802)
INT: 0 (612)
WIS: 0 (687)
RFL: 95 (737)
LCK: 0 (437)
The moment Soren saw those stats, his first thought was that there was no way he could beat it with these kind of stats and that his best course of action was to litteraly use the best move for this situation, the ability to run away or in this case, the ability to swim away from this monstrosity. With the broken sword in his hands, he started swimming as fast as his tail could move towards the door and the undead leviathan followed just behind him to kill him.
After getting through the cellar entrance, the monster literally broke through the entrance and let a loud screech that made Soren's ears feel like they could bleed at any time. With its big build, it had a lot of difficulty getting through the doors and the halls so it ended up hitting a lot of walls, causing damage to itself but it never took actual damage itself. The monster kept chasing Soren through the first floor, then the second and then reaching the third floor and by the time it reached the third floor, it looked like its ribs were chipped and cracked, its skull had been chipped pretty badly but there weren't any cracks while Soren litterally out of breath but he still had to keep swimming.
This chasing sequence kept going on until both of them reached the meeting room on the third floor. With nowhere to run, Soren decided to take an extremely risky plan, cutting the chains with the broken sword. Thankfully, for him the plan works since the chains were pretty brittle and weak it took almost no time and the moment he broke the chains, undead leviathan rammed its head straight on Soren. On that moment though, he lifted the table vertically and used it as a shield praying that it doesn't manage to kill it.
Once the monster hit its head on the table, it pushed both the table and Soren through the cracked stone wall, causing both itself, Soren and the table to fall of the third floor. That hit did major gamage to Soren but it didn't kill him, since that ramming attack didnt have much power due to the amount of space in the room. For a moment Soren blacked out but he managed to regain is conciousness quickly and started swimming a bit to the side so he doesn't get buried under the bones. With a loud thud and a big, sand shockwave the undead leviathan fell down on the ground, but the red fires on its eye sockets still hasn't been put off.
The fall wasn't enough to damage it so with the opportunity of the monster falling on the ground and struggling get up, Soren dives down with the broken and sticks the broken sword, straight on the middle of the leviathan's skull and the moment the sword pierces through the skull a [-1] indicator appears on the undead leviathan. The moment the indicator appears, Soren gets launched by the skull, before the undead leviathan throws one final screech, before it collapses, with its fires finally being extinguished.
At that moment, Soren breathes a sigh of relief because he beat his first opponent, despite the level difference and its crazy stats, he did it.
"Wow. I can't believe it. THAT. WAS. WICKED!How did i pull that off!? Man, that was nuts and borderline suicidal." Soren, said while holding his head with his right hand. After sitting on the dead leviathan's head he decides to check his status.
Name: Soren
Race: Merman (Base)
LV: 09
HP: 156 (+84)
MP: 54 (+24)
STR: 20 (+9)
VIT: 26 (+14)
AGL: 29 (+13)
INT: 27 (+12)
WIS: 22 (+12)
RFL: 18 (+8)
LCK: 19 (+10)
Skills (Active): ---
Skills (Passive): Swimming, Universal Translation, Blessing of the Seas (Minor)
Titles: Undead Huntrer Apprentice
When Soren saw his stats, he couldn't help screaming in anger.
"WHAT THE HELL DUDE!? A LEVEL 70+ UNDEAD LEVIATHAN ONLY GAVE ME 8 LEVELS WORTH OF EXPERIENCE!? ARE YOU BEING SERIOUS RIGHT NOW MAN!?"
At that moment he decided to check fully the reason why got such a small amount of experience.
[Undead Leviathan: The most powerful of the undead sea creatures. Even without its destructive capabilities of its race, its body is more than enough to cause troubles for all the people. Special Traits: Weak against Light, Immune to Darkness, Cursed Experience.]
The moment he saw that phrase "Cursed Experience", he decided to check it.
[Cursed Experience: The amount of the experience gained is 1/10000th of the original amount. Exclusive status to the Undead race.]
"... Are you being serious right now?"