Chapter 2 - Chapter 2: Hallway battles

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~[Couple hours after]~
~Throne room~

King: How many have arrived thus far?

Councillor: A family consist of 2 adults and a kid, they are the first to arrive in the great hall.

King: A family... interesting..

King: Any news about the other participants?

Councillor: None has yet pass the Juggernaut sire.

King: So be it... We will start the feast

Councillor: But sire..

King: No buts!! ( ~ the room shook for a bit~) know your place, councillor!.

Coucillor: Yes my Liege, everything will be as you planned

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~Somewhere in the multi-verse~

A Figure covered with a bloody cloak sitting on his throne on top of the hill of bones with his Giant Sword enveloped by blue Flames by his side, while being surrounded by his army of legionnaires is currently gazing intently on his floating mirror and has discovered an individual that caught his attention. This person soon laughed hysterically and dropping his guard down for a moment shocking everyone around him including all his subjects kneeling in front of him, then a sudden attack from who knows where has directly hit him on his forehead but left no damage, no sound or signal was made yet it seems he already knew where it came from and all his legionnaires are just standing there waiting for his decree. He took and wielded his giant sword on his right hand and immediately made a snap with his left hand and somewhere outside his world a sudden explosion can be seen from the ground up and then the sky got covered in blue and purple clouds then this person just smiled, and went back to what he was doing before.

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~Back to the Dungeon~

Few humans can be seen walking to their rooms lead by heartless soldier's, some tried poking the monster waiting for a reaction, few took a picture of them. In the faces of those players exhaustion can be seen at the same time they look glad that they were able to rest soon.


~Resting room~
(5 hours after)

We felt so alive waking up from this room similar to when we were on our own house, it feels weird yet its amazing and all our energy was replenished.

I was drinking my coffee while gazing at the horizon outside through the window and had a thought that this scenery is nice, nonetheless we are still in the dungeon and I'm still worried about the final boss that we need to face as a family and hoping my ill feelings when we first step foot inside the boss corridor won't ever happen.

Esme's drinking her tea while gazing at our daughter sleeping soundly but got interrupted by our next door neighbor, from the sound of it, some type of disturbance going on inside their room and those noises from breaking furniture's woke up our daughter. Our daughter M.kei thought where those noises coming from and says, is it time to eat yet. My wife helped our daughter to get ready fast while explaining to her what is currently happening just outside the door, we hurriedly took our weapons out then the light under the door heading outside turned red. A white notification box appeared but immediate change its color to red with an error text in it and slowly peaked outside the door.

I saw a few heartless soldier just walking back and forth from the hallway like they are guarding the prisoners from escaping their cell so I used { inspect II } on them. The first time I inspected their panel the usual passive and clear grey panel can be seen however now it has changed to aggressive and red but the weakness is still the same for all of them.

I'm currently waiting for the right moment when to jump in and as soon as I saw my chance I kicked off the ground, launched myself towards the heartless soldiers then activated my {boost strength and haste}. I wielded my buster blade in two hands and I made sure to put enough force in each swing to cut every heartless in path to two, I noticed right away that using my upgraded weapon cleaving them in half is like using a hot knife through butter. Believing that the sharpness stat might have greatly increased my weapons attacking power for the better.

(I thought why I didn't upgraded my weapon in the early stages of the dungeon, fights might have been way easier if I did, fortunately I was able to discover it thanks to system before its too late)

I returned to our room right after I took their loot and told what I experience outside to my wife, telling her that upgrading weapon stats greatly helped me disposing the monster easily. (So every now and then I will be further upgrading my weapon until I reached its max potential)

My wife was curious of what happened on the next door, and told me to check it out while they follow me right behind. I went and checked, and right after I opened the door I saw dead naked human girl and right beside her, a man with no pants with a slit throat. As soon as Esme saw the scene she covered M.kei's eyes and told me its time to go.

We checked the rest of the rooms in the hallway and found out there aren't any other humans inside and all rooms are empty, so we proceeded to the the door heading to the next hall way.

~{ The Great Hall }~

A large group of monster are gathering in the middle of the hall, it looks a-lot like a conference of some sort, and everything is a mess until a humanoid covered with armour was seen walking to the gate heading to the throne room and faced the crowd of monsters then immediately slammed down its shield and after, the hall went silent.

??? - Get to your places, participants must not suspect anything or else your heads will be on the platter instead

The floating flaming humanoids went and became invisible scattering inside the hall while covering each walls and ceilings while the heartless soldiers are now standing guard on each side of all the doorways.

~{ Back to MC }~
Jason and family was walking on the hallway cautiously checking every rooms that came to pass, some are locked and no ones inside others have humans and monsters in them.

I knocked in one of the rooms checking if someone was inside, 2 girls answered and asked what we are and I told them that we're humans a family of 3, traveling with our 5 yrs old daughter and right after they opened the door and introduced themselves as Belle and Jessica, we also did the same. Right then I told them why I was checking the doors and so the girls told us their part too

We were resting and suddenly heard a ringing sound and after we woke up we saw the notification window turned red and had error in it. I wonder if you seen the error notifications too? Said Jessica

We did that's why we decided to look for few people before we go to the great hall and also saw the soldiers acting weird in our hallway so I went and took care them

How are you able to just kill them, I know they look suspicious but when we approach one before and tried to poke them to see if they would retaliate but they just stood there and didn't do anything to us at all, I'm not defending them I know they are monsters in this dungeon too but they are not hostile to anyone.

I was able to tell because I got the skill to inspect their status and I told belle how I saw their status before compared to the one they have right now.

Then Jessica told us their story, Belle was afraid to go out the room since the error message, both of us thought its a quick grab and loot in this place that's why we went here with few people but there's more to it than that, actually our group consist of 7 people two already died because of the obese zombie before coming here and now there is only the four of us left.

So where are the other 2 in your group?

They are three rooms down this hallway just a few rooms before the door to the great hall, Belle said

I went and knocked on the door first but no one responded, so slowly and peaked inside the room incase their is a monster inside that are aggressive and I confirmed it by casting {inspect II} on them.

After the confrontation with all the monsters I was surprised when I saw the killed list notification, after killing 18 soldiers I have levelled up twice and the experience gain from it was 8 times of the brute zombie and killing them was way easier.

Killed a Rank I Class 3 Heartless Soldier ver. 192 exp, and 365 UP received

Killed a Rank I Class 3 Heartless Soldier ver. 192 exp, and 365 UP received

We spoke with Jessica and belle's other companions as soon as we got introduced we went ahead and updated everything, since Jessica's been telling them our side of the story.
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Title : Gamer, Hoarder
Rank: I

Host: Jason A.
Age: 34
Lvl: 17 -> 19
HP: 1800
MP: 600
Exp: 460/1800
UP: 3 -> 6573 (+6570)
BP: 30 -> 0
SP: 20

Str: 114 -> 120 (+6) Int: 30
Agi: 80 Dex: 30 -> 54 (+24)
Vit: 60 Luk: 30

Total stats: 374

Passive:
- Survival I, Pistol Mastery II, Archery IV, Hand to eye coordination VIII, Katana Mastery II, Mechanic I, Carpentry I, Electrician I, Driving II, Dual Wielder (no rank), Adaptability III, HP Regen I, Improve Concentration I, Drop & Critical up II, Mana Sense I, Mana Manipulation I*
Active:
- Inspect II, Boost strength II**, Haste I*, Bash II*

Ability: (Can only be use for any vehicles owned)
- Speed up I

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Title : The Wife
Rank: I

Name: Esme A.
Lvl: 17 -> 19
HP: 2700
MP: 1200 -> 1800(+600)
Exp: 460/1800
BP: 30 -> 0
SP: 20 -> 0

Str: 60 Int: 60 -> 90(+30)
Agi: 50 Dex: 30
Vit: 90 Luck 47

Total stats: 382

Passive:
Knife Mastery III, Scalpel V, Cooking II, House cleaning III, Gardening III, Memorization III, HP Regen II, Drop & Critical up II, Improve Concentration I -> I* (new), Mana Sense II, Mana Manipulation II, Mana body I (new)
Active:
Inspect II, Knife throwing II, Boost strength I**, Haste I** -> II (new)

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Title : Genius
Rank: I

Name: M-kei A.
Age: 5
Lvl: 17 -> 19
HP: 2700 -> 3600 (+900)
MP: 1200
Exp: 460/1800
BP: 30 -> 0
SP: 20 -> 0

Str: 32 Int: 60
Agi: 30 Dex: 30
Vit: 90 -> 120 (+30) Luk 20

Total stats: 322

Passive:
Building blocks (Lego) EX, Structural design S, Good at games I, Quick learner II, Hand to eye coordination VII, HP Regen II*, Improve Concentration I, Defense Up II , Mana Sense II**, Mana Manipulation III, Iron Body I -> I**
Active:
Inspect II, Throwing III, Haste I, Boost strength I, Mana Hands I**
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Equipment:
1000 UP for ★, 500 UP for **, 1000 UP for ***, 10 UP for 1 stats
10000 UP for ★★, 1500 UP for **, 3000 UP for ***, 20 UP for 1 stats
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★* = 50 max stats can be inserted per attribute
★** = 100 max stats can be inserted per attribute
★*** = 150 max stats can be inserted per attribute
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Jason A. - UP: 6573 - 6570 = 3
Attack: 420 Defense: 255 Magic defense: 82 Agility: 120 Sharpness: 150 Penetration: 20
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Main Weapon: Buster Blade★**->★***
Atk: 65 -> 150 (+85)
Shp: 85 -> 150 (+65)
Accessory 1:
- Black Titanium Sword earrings★***
Atk: 20 -> 150 (+130)
Def: 30
M.def: 5 -> 17 (+12)
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Esme A.
Attack: 160 Defense: 240 Magic defense: 100 Agility: 165 Sharpness: 100
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Main Weapon: Sound of Stillness★**
Atk: 30 -> 100 (+70)
Shp: 50 -> 100 (+50)
Agi: 20 -> 100 (+80)
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M.kei A.
Attack: 320 Defense: 767 Magic defense: 110 Agility: 80 Dexterity: 95
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Head:
- Pony tail holder★**
Def: 50 -> 100 (+50)
M.def: 50
Bottom:
- Stretch Jean Pants★**
Def: 50 -> 100 (+50)
Agi: 50
Shoes:
- Mal Prestige Purple combat boots for kids★**
Def: 50 -> 100 (+50)
Dex: 50 -> 65 (+15)

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Before opening the door heading to great hall,
Esme spoke and told me, if its possible to stay in one of the rooms with M.kei instead coming with me since we don't know what is waiting for us in there. Then it made me think then ask if there are anyone else would like to stay as well, Belle wanted to stay with Esme too and so we went and tried opening the door to one of the rooms, but it was locked, I then tried to ram it with my body, even used boost strength and bash on it however nothing worked as if someone is forcing all of us to attend the feast.