After finishing killing the group of 10 goblins and levelling up. Alex focused on the words of the notification that had just pop up.
[You have level up]
[Congratulations! You have reach level 5 and unlocked the inventory.]
Alex: Inventory
And just like any RPG game, the game didn't consist of volumetric volume but of slots. And currently, Alex has 25 slots.
Alex: Nice, now I can leave everything there. Let's check the loot.
10 copper coins but once again no armour.
Alex has already killed 6 goblins with armour yet not even one piece was drop.
Alex: " Next group"
After reaching level 5 he had unlocked the inventory so by all means, that by reaching level 10 he should unlock another part of the system.
And just like that, 3 hours passed, Alex hasn't done anything but kill goblins currently he is level 7. He has killed more than a hundred goblins with armour, yet no armour was dropped.
Alex: You must be kidding me. One more before looking for some food.
After saying this , Alex threw himself into the group of goblins. He was just tired of killing hundreds of these weaklings but no armour, so he planned on finishing this quickly.
After more than 3 hours killing without stopping, he had improved by quite a lot with his daggers.
So, he once again used Shadow movement to get behind the archers, produced 2 daggers, appeared, and directly killed the goblins without much of a resistance.
[ You have killed a goblin. +1]
[ You have killed a goblin. +1]
[ You have killed an archer goblin. +1]
[ You have killed an archer goblin. +1]
…
Yes, once Alex reached level seven, he only got 1 per goblin killed, didn't matter the type. So, its levelling speed was greatly reduced.
[ You have killed a goblin. +1]
So, after finishing killing the last goblin, Alex got a nice surprise.
[Eyes of truth has level up to rank E]
[Shadow movement has level up to rank E]
[Shadow weapon has level up to rank E]
Alex: Nice!
Now eyes of the truth told the class as well when inspecting other people, shadow movement improved from 5 meter to 10.
Lastly Shadow weapon increased the number of weapons capable of being produce at the same time from 2 to 4 and now he could create bows and swords.
[ Due to repeat use of daggers, the skill [beginners' dual weapon] was received]
[[beginners' dual weapon]: Increases the damage and speed attack of dual weapons by 5%.]
Alex: Right now, I am an overkill weapon. I just must increase my defence, although my physique stat has increase therefore my defence as well, but it's still not enough. Please give me an armour piece.
[10 copper coins and goblin leather pants]
Alex: At last!
[Goblin leather pants:
Requirement: Level 5
Effect: Physique + 2.]
Alex: Nice one. Although still trash overall, its useful right now.
After equipping the pants, Alex got back at the main square where there are already students fighting goblins.
Alex: "At least now, more people will survive today, yet they are taking my preys. I have to reach level 10 as soon as possible.
…
Rose: To your right Peter!
After hearing that, Peter evaded an arrow that would have kill him.
Peter: Thanks Rose.
Rose just nodded.
Right now, Rose looked once again into the rankings and was amazed.
[Rankings:
1st:Osiris (140 kills)
2nd:Roseline (64 kills)
3rd :Peter (48 kills)
…]
Rose: " How is this possible? In less than a day 140 kills?"
Harry: Rose! I just heard that a group of students arrived at the main plaza.
Rose: Lets go! We must go and get them to safety quickly!
…
Back at the plaza, Alex was watching a certain student.
"Eyes of truth"
[ Player Martin Meryway
Class: Murderer (epic class)
Strength: 20
Dexterity: 12
Physique:10
Intelligence:20]
Alex: "With such attributes and he is letting himself get carry. Means one of two things, coward or hiding his strength. And considering that his dexterity is at 12, he should be the former."
Student: Hey Martin are you alright?
Martin: Yeah, thanks for saving me before.
Student: No problem. Eh? Hey, did you just go outside?
This student is called Charlie and could be considered the leader of this group of 4 students. Between them Martin.
He was walking towards Alex, while trying to be as amicable as possible.
Alex: Yeah, just got out. My classmates threw me out of the classroom and just arrived here.
Charlie: Are you for real?
Alex: Yeah, but don't worry, I´m fine. Just go your way.
Charlie: I can't do that! I can't let you die like this.
Alex: " Are you for real? You don't even know me; I just invented all this, and you believed me like it was the normal thing to do.
Alex: No need, I´m not going to die.
Charlie: At least tell me your name.
Alex: My name is Alex. Well, I have to go, see you.
Alex: "I have to leave quickly or there will be no food left!"
Alex started running in the cafeteria ́s direction.
Although the cafeteria was not far away, Alex came across 3 groups of 4 goblins each. And finally, when he arrived, he found that there was no food or water left.
Although Alex more or less expected this situation, given that what one thinks about when an apocalypse occurs is to get to safety, and what is fundamental to being safe? Water, food, and shelter.
Alex: Two options available right now, someone gives me food nicely or a class goes extinct. Which one will be?
And so, without thinking it twice, Alex went in the direction of the nearest class.
Class 2C of biology course.
Right now, the whole class is inside discussing what they would have to do next. Some students say that the class must level up to survive as mentioned in the quest, while the other part say that they have to wait until the end of the three days and then leave.
The discussion was starting to heat up when a sudden knock on the classroom door, took the attention of everyone.
Student 1: What do we do? Open the door?
Student 2: We have made too much noise, someone has notice us.
Student 3: Relax, it must be another student looking for shelter.
Student 3: Let me go and see, who is it?
Alex: Hi, I´m a student in of this university, I was wondering if you had some spare food and water.
Student 3 turned around after hearing this and looked at his class with a cocky expression.
Student 3: What did I tell you? Just another beggar.
Student 1: Yeah, nothing to worry.
Student 2: Are we going to give him something?
Student 3: Of course not, we got to the cafeteria first, we keep everything we got. Did you hear that? So, you can start begging to another class.
Alex: I see, well remember your choice.
After saying that, the students thought that it was all over, yet in the next second, the door of the classroom was sent flying.
Student 3: Wtf!
All gazes were on the student who just kicked the door.
Alex: Let me tell you something, don't blame me for what's going to happen, you had your chance.
Inside the classroom there were 23 students, and thanks to the eyes of truth, Alex checked that they were all common classes and nothing special.
Student 3: Everyone! Don't worry, we are 23 and he is alone.
Student 2: Yes! We can do-
Before finishing the sentence, a dagger was sent flying directly into the head.
And that's when panic began.
Yet Alex wasn't paying attention, his gaze focused on the notification.
[ You have killed a level 2 Player +5]
Alex: "Hold up, I get more experience for killing players than goblins? Well, this is getting interesting."
Student 1: Omg, he killed him. R-
4 more daggers were sent.
[ You have killed a level 2 Player +5]
[ You have killed a level 2 Player +5]
[ You have killed a level 2 Player +5]
[ You have killed a level 2 Player +5]
Alex: Now, where were we? Ah, yes! Give me all your food and water.
There were 5 corpses already in the classroom, so for people that didn't dare to fight goblins, it was normal thar no one dared to look directly into the eyes of this monster.
Alex: No one is going to talk?
[ You have killed a level 2 Player +5]
[ You have killed a level 2 Player +5]
[ You have killed a level 2 Player +5]
[ You have killed a level 2 Player +5]
Student 4: Wait! If we give you the provisions, can you let us live?
The student that talked, was a girl, 20-21 years old, so more or less the same age as Alex. Brown hair, nice shape, blue eyes and around 1.6 meters tall.
Alex: I can let the student that gives me the food leave, no one else.
When the students heard this, all gazes left Alex and focus on their peers.
Student 4: Can't you let us all alive?
Alex: I gave you the choice before, but you chose to be stupid. Don't you know that this is not the world we used to know?
Student 4: Please, I b-
[ You have killed a level 2 Player +5]
Alex: Stop talking and give me the provisions.
Now everyone started throwing themselves at the
bags with all the water and food.
Alex: "So, if a level 2 player gives me +5, how much would a level 3,4 or 5 give me?"
Alex: Status window
[Name: Alex Rose
Level: 7 (107/150)
Class: Shadow Assassin (Mythical class)
Subclass: None
Tittles: None
Strength: 29 (+1)
Dexterity: 44
Physique: 17 (+2)
Intelligence: 10
Skills: Eyes of the truth (E), Shadow movement (E), Shadow weapon (E)
Passive skills: Beginners dual weapon ]
Alex: "Okay, if everything goes right, I should reach level 9 today, yet I have no idea what monsters would appear tomorrow"
Student 5: Excuse me, here you have all the food and water.
Alex, looked at the student that gave the provisions and behind him, where all the students that lost the fight, were looking down like lambs waiting to be eaten.
Alex: Thanks!
Student 5: So, I ca-
Before finishing the sentence, Alex had beheaded him.
[ You have killed a level 2 Player +5]
Alex: Well, thank you for the food and the experience.
After 3 minutes of slaughtering, Alex reached level 8 and received provisions, now all that is missing is looking for a safe place to stay the night.
…
10 minutes after the massacre of class 2-C, Alex arrived once again at the main plaza where once again, more students than before had found the courage of fighting the goblins.
Alex:" Let me see, around 120-130 students right now in the plaza, killing a level 2 player gives me +5, so even if all of them were level 2, if he killed all the students present, he would receive +600 of experience."
Alex couldn't help but look at the students with luxury eyes.
Alex: "Well, let them grow, and if one comes looking for problems, they will find them."
After thinking that, he moved once again, to the closest part of the exit, because the archer goblins were only present in that part.
While going in that direction, Alex was thinking of the safest place to stay tonight.
Alex: " A place were no one dared to go, and no goblins were present"
However, thanks to his high dexterity, the trip took less than 1 minute.
Alex: " Wait a minute, what if intelligence, not only increases your intelligence but also your thoughts speed. I will have to find a way
…
In the main plaza at the same time, Rose and her team were fighting next to another group of students.
After arriving at the main plaza, Rose found a team of 4 students, and suggested to join hands, and their group leader Charlie accepted.
Nevertheless, Rose also had another motive to join hands, and that motive was Martin.
She did know that name in her past life.
Martin Merywey, one of the best murderers. Many people didn't know, what made the murderer class, a rare class instead of common, but Rose knew the reason.
The murderer class, had a passive skill which increased the damage they did to humanoid creatures, including players.
Rose: "Right now, no one should have found that killing players also gives experience, so students should be safe from PK if I stay with the only murderer.
Charlie: Okay, that was the last one. Wow, it seems that more students are going out now.
Rose: Yeah, although its more dangerous, its better for them to level up before tomorrow arrives.
Charlie: Yeah, we don't know what type of monsters will come. I can't believe that guy named Osiris, how did he arrive at the exit? From what I have seen, the closer to the exit you get, the stronger the goblins get. It will be incredible if he could join us!
Rose: Yeah, although his killing speed is too fast, if he could join us, we could save more people.
Charlie: Ah! By the way, I saw a student that was alone around an hour ago. He told me that he was ejected from his classroom.
Rose: What!? How could they do that?
Charlie: Yeah, but I don't know why, he didn't look scared.
Rose: Mmmm? What do you mean?
Charlie: I don't know, at the time I saw him, I was level 3 yet when I looked at him, he gave me a sense of-
Martin: Danger.
Rose: Danger?
Martin: It gave me the impression that if I got on his bad side, or even bother him a little, I will be dead. As if death had its sickle on my neck as I talked to him.
Rose was shocked, how could one of the best murderers be scared. But she didn't know why but got the feeling that she had heard that description in her past life.
Rose: In which direction did he go? Do you remember anything about him ?
Charlie: He went in the cafeteria's direction, and no, I can't remember his face well. Only his black eyes.
Rose: I see, well let's go and look for this guy for a while, because our objective right now is to find food.
Charlie: Yeah, it going to start getting dark soon.
Rose: Lets go.
Along the way, Rose could see a lot of students fighting in big groups against goblins.
Once the reached the cafeteria, Rose´s team saw the same image as Alex. There were no provisions in the cafeteria.
Rose: There is only once thing we can do now. Let's ask other classes for food and water.
Charlie: Are you sure they are going to give us some?
Peter: Of course, we have Rose in our team, nothing can go wrong
Charlie: You are right! Let's go
The group went in the closest class direction, which coincidentally was class 2-C.
Peter: Here we are, lets hope we can have some food and water. I'm starving to death from having fought so hard.
Charlie: You got that right.
Rose: Everyone calm down.
After knocking on the door and receiving no answer, Rose knocked again. Once again there was only silence.
Rose: Hello, is there anyone there? We are here to help you.
Peter: it seems that there is no one behind that door.
Charlie: Yeah, but the light is on and the door close. It's weird.
Rose: I'm going in, please don't get scared.
After opening the door, Rose stood in place looking inside the classroom.
Peter: Something wrong Rose?
Rose: …
Peter: What is-
Before finishing the question, Peter looked inside the classroom and saw the 23 bodies of the students.
In this class there was a massacre. Headless bodies, blood everywhere, bodies piled up.... The picture is hard to forget.
Peter: What happened here? What kind of goblins did this?
Rose: It wasn't the goblins.
Peter: What?
Rose: A human did this.
…
2 hours after killing the class, Alex had focused again on continuing to level up. Unfortunately, his speed had slowed down quite a bit, as all sorts of goblins that killed only gave +1.
And finally, after killing this group of goblins he received the notification he had been waiting for so long.
[ You have killed goblin +1]
[ You have level up]
Alex: Unfortunately, no player has come to look for problems. If I focused on hunting players, I would level up much faster. But I'd rather not get the attention of whoever is out there."
One of Alex's positive qualities is that he never underestimates an enemy. That's why before you fight someone, always use [Eyes of the truth]
After using his skills so much, he has managed to level them up much earlier than an ordinary person would.
So much so that, if Rose saw Alex's attributes and skills right now, she surely wouldn't believe it. She managed to level up her skills to level 14, and that was considered to be a genius.
[ You have obtain the title [ Goblin Exterminator]]
[Goblin exterminator: Damage output to all types of goblins increases by 20%]
Alex: Nice, after killing more than 300 goblins, they gave me this title."
Alex looked up at the sky, it's getting dark, and very soon it would be night. So, he had no choice but to return to the main square and look for a place to spend the night.
If the tutorial hadn't happened, right now Alex would have returned to his little house, where no one would wait for him. And he would have to have dinner, the projects of the university and his series of exercises. All his life had change overnight.
…
Back at the main plaza, many groups of students were getting together, talking about their experiences today and how to continue to survive.
Many people think that the bigger the group in which they are, the safer they will be.
So, when Alex arrived and found this panorama, he didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
He preferred to be alone, because if you are alone no one can betray you. The more people there are in a group, the more variables that will make you more in danger.
Alex: "Right now I'm free to make the decisions I want, but if I got into one of those groups, we would have to discuss any movement and then vote. Loss of time and freedom. It seems that it is time to sleep alone today as well."
However, what caught Alex's attention suddenly was a group of 11 students, of good level, who went around the groups offering them free protection and room to sleep. So many of them accepted without a second thought.
But his gaze was focused on two people, Rose, and Martin. One was a murderer, and another was the hero with a legendary class and fairly high attributes.
Alex: "Better to get out of here before one of those two sees me, [Shadow movement]"
And so, the first day of the quest ended.