{Dungeon: Dark menace
Dificulty: Level 1
Main mission: secure the vilage for ten days (100% complete, F rating awarded)
Secondary mission: A student's wish (100% complete, E rating awarded)
Hidden mission: Save all villagers (100% complete, C rating awarded)
Left before the expected time (B rating awarded)
Battle performance: Extremely active (A rating awarded)
Exploration performance: Very active (S rating awarded)
Special rating 1: Killed over a thousand undead (Received title: Exorcist, +1 Rep)
Special rating 2: Killed the shadowy figures orchestrating behind the undead (SS rating awarded)
Special rating 3: Killed the Lich leading the undead horde (SSS rating awarded)
Special rating 4: Killed the excursion of the church of light (Z rating awarded)
Special event rating: Deliver the package (100% complete, ZZ rating awarded)
Special rating 5: Killed the young vampire queen trying to establish herself on the capital (V rating awarded)
Special rating 6: Integrated a royal abyssal vampire bloodline to your body (VVV rating awarded)
Final rating: VVV
Final rewards:
100.000 points, 45 special points, 15 golden points, Special dungeon: Blood hunt.
Special dungeon: Blood hunt - Having firmly positioned yourself against the church of light and the vampiric invaders despite remaining unknown, it is but a matter of time for them to reach you with their investigation, though the waters are muddled as the church faces a two front war thanks to your efforts.
Main mission: Starts after entering the dungeon.
Note: This dungeon happens in the same world as the Dark menace dungeon.
Note: This dungeon will not be counted towards your total dungeon limit.
Note: The dungeon difficulty will be the same as the player's level.
Note: The dungeon will initiate after the player has completed a single player or team dungeon and the cooldown has been reset.
Note: If the player fails the main mission, they will pay a penalty like they had failed a dungeon of their current level.}
Honestly, Aki wanted to simply go on a spending spree and rid himself of most if not all his points, but to begin with, he wasn't that impulsive, nor did he have the time to do so. Though the details were a bit fuzy after two weeks... yeah, acording to the note he left on his lobby, he was on cafe, renting a room. His cellphone should still have all the nescessary information to get back to his father's home. He'd check everything throughly later.
Loggin off, he decided to ask for a coffee to go and pick up the train line, but something strange happened. When the person that brought coffee entered the room, he became facinated with the man, and more importantly, his blood. He could fucking smell it, hear his heart beat and several other things the moment he opened the door.
Hoping he simply looked dumb on the outside, Aki took the coffee and went to pay, this time beeing more seamless with pretending that he was not overwealmed by the smells. One of the women around was particularly fragant too, her blood having something very sweet about it. He just paid and left, hoping he had not just smelled someone with O- blood tipe. If that was so, the consequences to his actions were that much worse than he imediatly thought. He'd end up attacking his mother were he to go back to Brazil like this.
While he expected to recieve the atribute benefits, he'd never even considered his body suddenly gaining a new bloodline when the system said he did. Not in the real world! His overly stressed mind did not like this, and he was pretty close to having a panic attack, go full beserker in this urban area and rip random bystanders to shreds, be put down with a fight.
Before his own mind could reach the conclusion that was a very bad idea however, he received a system notification.
{Detected increased bloodlust and hunger! System reminder: Exposing the system or anything related to it to the major public will be punished with extreme measures.}
The chill that crossed his spine was not his natural reaction of fear to it, but something else watching him, he was sure, because that thing didn't mind him knowing. In fact, it completly erased his hunger from his mind for a moment, his wish to turn onto a sprint growing for each second as he restrained himself and got down to the subway.
By the time he could care about his surroundings again, Aki noted that the people surrounding him stank despite how he could imagine himself eating any of them. Now would be as good a time as any to figure out how to tune his senses down.
The answer, turns out, was actually quite similar to what he did to reinforce his body, though it wasn't like he was weakening his senses as much as making them numb to an extent. It wasn't as easy as pushing a buton or flipping a switch, but he would get used to it and walk around like a normal human at the same time.
If he could fucking figure out how to learn a shit ton of medical knowledge in less than a week then he could figure out how to keep a spell permanently on when he gained even better stats! Figuring out such a debuff spell could not be a demerit for him even if it only worked on himself at the moment!
*****
It was early night when he pretended to go to sleep, though this time he was actually tired if only mentally.
Returning to the game lobby, Aki imediatly took the chance to level up, though he wished he could simply shove a skill all the way to the limit with his points already. He needed to check the market for skill books and items that might be usefull for him however, and finding good things while scanning the trash was something that happened, nevermind he had to sell several uncommon items he'd managed to get and would never use.
There were still a couple of knives in his boots, but otherwise, there were plenty of things he was unable to use as of now and harbored no intention of learning about, so they would be great to increase his amount of points. Even if each thing sold for a small amount, and he quite doubted that ring of stealth would, he had over twenty paladin swords, each one an uncommon item to be used in formation, perfect for newbies.
He would be very surprised if someone had the skill and patience to sneak kill over a hundred skilled warriors as early as him, but he also needed a better storage item. The swords had damaged his backpack despite how cautious he'd tried to be, leading him to discarding some of the more useless books he'd found in the dungeon world so he could put then inside proper boxes. Storage was still unlikely to be a problem for a while unless he had to kill hundreds more, but that was honestly a possibility for his impatient ass.
His next dungeon was going to be in a world he knew had armies roaming around somewhere, so going around and massacring the shit out of the other side should garner a shit ton of points for his ratings, but he was not confident enough to say that he could simply ignore shots from tanks and several RPGs one after another yet. Attacking military forts on the other hand, was something he was pretty sure about, nevermind gangs that had good loot...
Something five times the size of the bag he had now would do, though that also mean something with a much higher weight reduction. He was inhumanly strong, sure, but being encumbered in real life could have him killed, much diferent from the problems of a game.
Aki had luckily already researched about the best place to auction his things on and noted down the adress, so maybe he'd find a storage item good enough for what he wanted there too. Auctions were a weekly event there, but it wasn't like he was going during one of them, they also had a market going for them, aparently ussing robots and futuristic technology.
Much like a land of magic that could turn someone in a vampire, of course there were also places where you were under the constant threat of having an ion cannon falling from the skies on to you were you to ever leave populated areas or become too big a threat. No such thing was widely used on the real wold for the same reason he could not use most of his magic, the suppresion needed you to go over a certain level of power, and even if you did, you'd be wiped the moment you were caught with something out of the norm. One of the only foruns where there was actual information was the one talking exactly about this and how to exploit it.
Having left his blocky white house, he'd not seen the exterior before and was surprised to personally see the stopped sun and moon on east and west, both bright in the blue and purple sky, Aki repeated several snippets of information as he waited for the train he'd called. The whole player city was linked by those, and he really agreed with the idea on a instinctual level, his country's education more than enphatising how much their economy suffered because no one dared finish projects of railways through the territory instead of roadways. Japan was quite attractive for that too, so he became a bit more exited about the city when he saw the futuristic and streamlined blue and silver bullet cart with eletromagnetic connections.
Dialing the memorised adress as his destination imediatly sent the vehicle flying, his eyes unable to properly see the world shown by it's windows despite the lack of turbulence as he stood still in front of the control dais. With something like this he'd be able to cross a whole world in no time, nevermind a city.
In the five minutes it took to reach his destination, there would never be too big a number of players but the world never stopped growing so the city was huge, Aki had seen several other blurs, though one of them had either been a player or a flying drone. He didn't know, but the thought made him excited.
Stepping out, the young man walked towards the large two story building aptly named 'auction house', going inside one of the big double doors flanked by heavy robots holding miniguns. The building likely had something impressive about it too, but he was much more interested in the metal of the silvery machine standing guard and how he'd fair against one. What was it treated with? What metals formed it's alloys and how did they keep steady supply? The general store sold common materials, sure, but it wasn't exactly very fair pricing from what he'd gathered. Did someone make production lines of such things or could they simply use a skill/spell to imediatly cast the plating, wiring and folding?
Such questions flyed through his mind, his eyes shining as he received the notification that he'd entered the Golden Lord's auction house. Most buildings were player recidences, which could be raised to the ground and rebuilt to the players wish as long as they paid the price. Otherwise, the whole place was indestructible and no violence was allowed, sans the much sleeker models of the robots.
The whole place was posh and pristine, but also very organised and easy to navigate, so his transaction happened rather quickly, his set of paladin swords and ring of stealth being ofered slots on the weekly auction even, to which he agreed since the price could be brought much higher there despite the cut from the house also increasing from 10% to 12,5% percent. Or so he'd thought, but the robot caught his attention as he made to leave, offering a menbership card for the auction house which would reduce the amount of interest back to ten in all future interactions.
Questioning why led his chin to fall to the floor and his stuter to return for a bit, but the shock of knowing the initial call price of his ring of stealth was actually at 50K and might even reach 100 depending of circunstances eventually passed. His rationale coming back informed him that there was an obvious problem with such amount as the skill itself could be raised to master with much less. This line of thinking, in turn turned to what else could be it's value besides the skill on it, and his mind reached the conclusion that either it could be reforged onto something of much higher quality in a way that would save points, or that it would be studied for production because it was a system reward instead of something crafted by people.
Either way it didn't matter to him anymore, he didn't have a way to claim it back nor did he think about learning a profession just so he could study things like that himself. No, that would require a big background, which he both didn't have and prefered to keep that way, too many unknowns about people that could reach that level of power.
His mood was great though, a radiant smile to the face, noticeable to any and all as he strolled around, avoiding the train as he twirled and jumped around in happiness, no shame at all despite his age.
To the players that prayed on newbies, he looked like an idiot with a blurred out face prancing around. If there was a way to turn the system effect off and reveal your identity that way, he looked just the tipe to do so.