After walking for more than ten meters, Di Lan was able to observed his dark surrounding. What made him intrigued was that his vision of the surrounding would only reached up to five meters and he guessed that as every meter passed by within that five meter range of sight, the surrounding was getting dimmer.
The labrynth was like an ancient civilization where the pathway was just like the usual two-way streets and the ceiling was just ten feet high.
The place was really dark however, surprisingly, Di Lan did not find it creepy, like, ghost and zombies would just suddenly popped up and scared him to death, not at all.
As Di Lan continued to walk, there at the distance he saw three huge amoeba-like creatures, two of these creatures were blue while the other one was orange red. Di Lan knew what were these creatures however, what he found weird was that, they are not like what he have encountered on the Stonewood Forest. He was pertaining to the slimes that were just color greyish and somewhat clear like water.
The color of these slimes were much solid. As Di Lan was about to carefully approach these monsters, the two blue slimes pounced towards him simultaneously. Frightened from the sudden aggressiveness of the monsters which he understood as docile based from his experience, Di Lan leaped sideways. Before he could balance himself, the orange red slime also pounced straight at him where this one was much faster than the other two blue slimes.
With no way of dodging the orange red slime, Di Lan unsheathed Sword to parry the incoming monster.
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Water Slime [Level 5]
HP: 1000 / 1000
MP: 1000 / 1000
Water Slime [Level 5]
HP: 1000 / 1000
MP: 1000 / 1000
Water Slime [Level 6]
HP: 1165 / 1200
MP: 1200 / 1200
"They are slimes, indeed." Distancing himself, Di Lan finally able to confirm what were these monsters. The water slimes suddenly shot six water balls that were the size of sniper bullets each. If not through he help of the system, Di Lan would have been littered with six holes around his body. "..and aggressive ones, I should say."
After dodging the water bullets, a ball of fire was shot towards Di Lan, luckily, this was slower and he was able to slash it with his sword.
Thinking that he was not able to afford to be passive, Di Lan started his counter attack. The water slimes pounced simultaneously toward him once more however, Di Lan swung his Sword like a baseball bat, blasting the two slimes towards the fire slime which was about to attack. However, when the three slimes collided each other, a sudden explosion occurred where Di Lan was blasted to the wall due to the impact.
-50!
A hot mist formed in the surrounding which disappeared right away after the explosion.
-10
-15
-20
A total of 95 HP was damaged on Di Lan. Basically 1/3rd of his HP was wiped away. This was really mind rattling as he really needs to be careful when exploring this place he's in.
+1600 EXP
+ 3 Slime Crystals
"Whoah!" Di Lan was surprised with how generous was this when it comes to EXP. For another ten more slimes, it was more than enough for him to level up. Di Lan was seeing a new light in this place -- this was like a level paradise for him.
As he looked forward of getting strong fast, Di Lan saw that the pathway was divided into two direction. With that, he took two HP potion [Common] and 1 VitCoin.
He drank the two potions, restoring his full health, and as for the VitCoin that he was playing with his fingers. One side has an old english text of letter V with two parallel lines of money sign while on the other side has a globe icon which was "CRYPTO" texts surrounding it.
"Heads for East. Tails for West." Di Lan muttered as he flipped the coin up in the air. As the coin was falling down, when the coin was already on his chest level, he caught it and placed it right away on the back of the palm of his other hand.
It was the globe icon.
"West it is." Di Lan announced as he turned left.
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Two hours have already passed by, he was already able to encounter countless slimes to the point that he was now level 11. Yet, there was still no sign of finding the statue of the Goddess.
Slash!
When Di Lan leveled up to 10, the tutorial mode have ended. At first, he was having a hard time with moving the way he wanted to due to the system not assisting him anymore. Hence, he took this opportunity to practice whatever he remembered during tutorial phase. The efficient way of doing and applying the basic movements such as dodging, blocking, parrying, slashing, stabbing, etc., he was now getting the hang of it.
Di Lan was no genius however, with the help of the Semipilot, the system was able to somehow etch these basic movements in his muscle memory. Right now, his goal is to completely own what the system has taught him.
Even though he was about to achieve his goal, Di Lan still hoped to find the statue of the Goddess so that he could stay longer in this place. Right now, he was standing in front of three path ways; left, center and right.
Allan Musk who was somewhat monitoring Di Lan. There were actually two times should have arrived at the statue of the Goddess however, whenever Di Lan's flip coin was able to decide the right path, Allan Musk would instruct the AI to switch the pathways.
This would be the third time where Di Lan gets to have the opportunity to arrive at the statue of the Goddess. Originally, the correct pathway is the one in the right.
Di Lan flipped coin between the center and the left, with the left in favor.
Di Lan flipped coin between the center and the right, with the right in favor..
Di Lan flipped coin between the right and the left, with the left in favor...
"AI, switch the pathways of the center and the right." Allan Musk was amused with Di Lan's way, this was the third time that his flipped got right. But, Di Lan was already set up to fail this quest so that things would somehow go back to how it was planned.
However, coincidentally after giving the order, instead of going to the right, Di Lan entered the center pathway instead.
"What the?!" Allan Musk slammed his palm on the desk as he subconsciously stood up in surprise to what Di Lan did.
"AI, can you still switch the pathways?" Panicked, Allan Musk order. "If so, do it."
"Raise the level of difficulty of the quest then." Allan Musk ordered as he slumped back on his chair. He can't understand why did Di Lan chose the center pathway from out of nowhere. As he think more of this, his eyebrows can't help but twitch in annoyance while his lips were turning into evil grin. "You've really outsmarted me, kid. However, let's see if you're still able to survive."
At the end of the center pathway, Di Lan saw a very wide space. It was like a plaza or a coliseum where at the middle was ten foot ivory statue of the Goddess praying.
Rewards: ???
- Depending on the quest rating
Failure:
- The 360 gates will no longer be operable.
- Monster breakout will occur every month
- 1st floor of the Great Labrynth will no longer be accessible
- Death: revival in one of the cities of Stonewood Kingdom