Richter city, Night
The magic lamps can be seen glowing brightly, several guards can be seen on night patrol. Even during night several streets are still lively in the Richter city.
On the main wall of the city: -
"Man, I am bored! standing here all night is really boring."
"Yeah, there hasn't been any interesting things these few days."
"Hey, guys don't you think today the forest is too quiet."
"The heck are you talking about!"
"No, I mean every other night, there are some howls of monsters but today there's nothing."
"I think, you are an idiot! I have been standing on these walls my whole life, such things happen sometimes, if you mind every single thing, you will overwork your brain!"
Suddenly, a small earthquake started and its intensity continued to increase. As if an army is marching, the whole ground was trembling. Loud rumbling noise started and some weak building started to fell.
"W-What's going on!?"
"I told you there was something wrong!"
"oh! shut up!"
Then a huge number of monsters started to appear from the forest. Most of them were low ranked monsters, after they appeared, they directly started to attack the city walls. After lower rank monsters, the medium and high rank monsters also started to appear. The expression on the faces of the guards got ugly after seeing this.
"Damn it! this is a monster tide!"
"Hey! start the emergency alarm!"
"Someone! inform the city lord about this monster tide!"
Suddenly a guard saw a black shadow running towards the forest. It was jumping from one tree to another and it disappeared as fast as it appeared.
"wha-what was that thing!?"
"what thing!"
"It was there, a shadow of something"
"oh, come on! focus on the monsters in front! you will get killed, idiot!"
"yeah...ok"
Inside the forest near a huge black tree, a young man with black hair and golden eyes was inspecting a black tree. This tree is surrounded by 10 red trees and even its leaves are black.
"It's good that I found this place now, otherwise tomorrow after solving the monster tide the knights will find this tree. And this tree is too eye catching, although they won't find the dungeon but this place will be closed then and some guard's will be stationed here in the future"
If I had come any other day there would have been several high rank beasts guarding this place, but due to the beast tide they are not present.
'I should hurry!'
After confirming the surroundings, Zeo climbed the tree and breaked the highest branch of the tree.
As if some mechanism is triggered the ground rumbled and a huge cave entrance appeared on the left side of the red trees. This is the hidden dungeon Zeo was looking for.
In original story of the game, if you choose the Duke Vlad's son, as your starting character, then you will come across this place. Duke Vlad is a Martial Artist and he believes that only in a life and death situation will you be able to become stronger. Due to which he is very harsh on everyone.
He has a bad temper and he is even harsher on his own children's. In one event duke Vlad will send his son Mark Vlad here in this forest, to hunt without any protection from the family.
As a player you will have to take 10 high rank monster heads back, only then can you complete this event. Otherwise duke will not let you inside the mansion. When hunting a high rank eagle monster, Mark will be a little careless, due to which the eagle will capture him in his paws and take him to sky and leave from the height, in hope to kill him.
But Mark will directly drop on this tree's branch and open this dungeon's entrance. The nearby guard's standing here will see this and will help Mark by giving him an intermediate healing potion.
Then Mark will go inside this dungeon to find more high rank monsters. And here he will find what I am looking for.
Although Mark is not the Main protagonist and not as strong as the Crown prince but he can be considered a protagonist without any doubt. He also has a small amount of heavenly luck protecting his safety, although lower than the prince.
'I shouldn't waste too much time in thinking all this and do what I came here for.'
Zeo hurriedly got inside the cave and started to run deeper in full speed.
After about half an hour of running he finally found the entrance to the dungeon.
[Ding! A dungeon entrance has been found nearby!]
[Dungeon Rank- B+]
[Dungeon Name- Sword Garden]
[Evaluation- A hidden dungeon filled with walking armors.]
The entrance was a gate made of black iron; the hardest type of iron found in this world. It was a huge and heavy gate. After opening it by using half of his strength, he walked inside and started to search for a place which was in his memory.
Several times he encountered those walking armors but since Zeo have upgraded his mana purity and swordsmanship he was able to cut them easily. After taking several turns in this maze, he finally came to a particular end point.
Here, a pile of helmets was placed like a mountain. And several swords were embedded in the walls. All the helmets were pitch black in colour and were exuding a dangerous aura. But Zeo ignored this all and moved towards the third sword embedded on the wall, this sword have white patters on it, Zeo placed his hand on this sword and pulled it out with all his strength.
After the sword was pulled out the wall which was a dead end before, opened and a small door was revealed. Zeo opened this door without hesitating and walked inside. There on a small stone pillar in the middle of the room, a sword was floating.
"I finally found you!"
An ordinary looking rusty sword was floating in front of me, I took out a knife from my storage ring, made a small cut on my finger and dripped a few drops of blood on it.
[Ding! an unnamed weapon is being bound to you!]
[Would you like to proceed?]
"Yeah!"
[Please choose a name for the weapon]
"Raone!"
[Binding successful!]
[Bound target: Zeo]
[Gathering Information of the weapon...complete!]
[Name: Raone]
[Category: formless weapon (can be converted in any weapon's form and the form will be maintained according to your will)]
[Special Effects: can be upgraded, can be used in any form according to your will, can only be used by you until death, can be summoned or de-summoned by your will]
[Current Level- 1(0/1000)]
[Skills- None (can be added as level increases by using sword skill books)]
"Hooh...finally got it"
Let's get going now.
Just as Zeo was about to leave, he suddenly felt danger through his perception, as a B rank adventurer, he believed on his senses very much. He immediately rolled aside and moved away from his previous location.
When he saw back a giant living armor was standing there, it's hand was embedded in the floor, just from this, it can be imagined how powerful that blow was.
"Hmm, isn't that the last boss of this dungeon? why is it here, the dungeon master's room is very far away from this place"
"could it be!"
It is very likely possible that what I am thinking is true. This weapon which should have belonged to Mark has been taken by me and Mark is a protagonist type character, he has heavenly luck protecting him. This means that the dungeon boss which should not have been here, has been brought by that heavenly will to stop me, from taking this weapon from here.
Originally, Mark found this weapon when he was injured, during the fight with the dungeon master, he was losing to this boss monster at that time but then suddenly he pressed a tile in the floor by mistake which opened a wall and revealed a secret corridor, this corridor lead him here to this room and as you have already guessed a cliché happened, his blood got spilled on this weapon and he was bound with this weapon. This way he got this item, after that he used the same method of pulling out the sword to escape this room.
Yeah, there is same type of sword embedded in the wall in here it can be used to go out.
The presence of this dungeon boss only suggests one thing, that the heaven's will is preventing me from taking this weapon. But obviously, even heaven's will cannot create things out of nowhere, there should be some possible events for the heaven's will to perform its actions.
"Who cares, as long as I leave this place, the effect of heaven's will on this weapon will get nullified and I will be able to use it freely without worrying about accidents"
You can understand it like this, consider a cultivator of any cultivation manga, when ascending a certain realm, they face heavenly tribulation so as to test you, that if you are capable to hold that power in your hands or not. Same rule applies here if I want to get this weapon, I will have to pass this test, the heaven's will have given me.
"It's really interesting to go against the heaven's will! heh...let's see if you can stop me from taking this thing"
A sinister smile appeared on Zeo's face, he took out his sword and launched towards the boss, although this monster has high strength, it's agility and speed is low, taking advantage of this fact Zeo avoided it's attack and after bending downward, gave a upward sword strike to the armor.
[Critical Damage -1000 HP]
[Remaining HP- 4000]
"It's really tenacious, such a precise strike did not splitted it's body in two, let's see how long can you hold on."
After the strike Zeo moved away and waited for it to attack again, the boss came running as if already enraged and angry due to Zeo's last action. Zeo deflected its punch trajectory by sword, then stabbed his sword with all his strength in the boss's shoulder, then by twisting the sword he pulled the sword upward, this caused the arm of the boss to be dismembered.
[Critical Damage -1500HP]
Then Zeo, jumped on the backside of the monster and gave a clean strike on the neck from the back, all this was done in just a matter of a few seconds.
[Critical Damage -1000HP]
As if on its end, the monster falls down on the floor with a huge bang sound and started to struggle to get up again.
"Let me end your pointless struggle"
[You Killed a dungeon master awarding corresponding reward...]
[+4000 Exp, A random skill book]
"oh, a skill book is an unexpected surprise, let's see which skill is it"
[Item: Skill book]
[Skill: Heavy strike (increases damage be 50 percent for 3 minutes) (restriction: 2 min cooldown)]
"Hmm, it's a good one, I can use it"
"consume: Skill book!"
[Skill book consumed; heavy strike has been added in the skill slot]
Skills are very rare in the game 'Hero's Path' you can get them only through luck or by being the part of some noble family or organisation. Of course, you can also buy them through adventurer's guild, but it's very expensive.
Let's add some of the exp in this sword too, yeah just now the sword I was using was formed by that formless weapon Raone. I turned it into a double handed long sword by simply using my will. Raone can be converted in any weapon's form, Mark used it as a pair of gloves because he was a martial artist.
[Raone has been upgraded from Lv-1 to Lv-3, Damage has been increased to 30 percent!]
"It's time to get out of this place now."