The sun was beginning to rise over the city of Murcia, however, neither the voice of the students nor the cars could be heard. There was no noise, just a silence that marked the beginning of a new day in the tutorial.
Last night, in the main square of the university, a large group of students was formed who called themselves "The Survivors". A group led by Rose at the head and Peter and Charlie as his assistants.
However, on the third floor of the science building, there was Alex, newly raised, by the sound of a system notification.
[ Congratulations on having finished first in yesterday's ranking, as a reward you can choose the difficulty level of the tutorial today. Currently the tutorial is located in [Easy]. Choose the new difficulty:
[Easy]
[Hard]
[Extreme]
Depending on the difficulty chosen, different monsters will appear, and the amount of experience and drops will vary.]
Alex: "Right now it's on easy difficulty, which is understandable, since goblins are very easy to kill, the question now is, how difficult is the difficulty [Extreme]. If I chose that mode, I would level up faster and have better equipment, but there would also be a better chance of dying. No, although there are more chances of dying, I need to make myself as strong as possible before the tutorial is over."
Alex: [Extreme]
[Are you sure about your choice? Currently there are no tutorial in [Extreme]]
Alex: I´m sure.
[Extreme mode activated. Good luck]
As soon as that notification appeared, a noise began to be heard from outside. So, Alex decided to peek out to see what was happening.
The scene he saw was that of a group of three students, who had decided to go hunting early, when they encountered two creatures, one was green, 3 meters high, muscles highlighted and with a wooden mace as a weapon. While the other creature, it was what appeared to be a wolf but too big to be one. In addition to the fact that this wolf has 3 eyes and a pair of horns.
"[Eyes of the truth]"
[ Dumb Troll.
Level: 15
Strength: 28
Dexterity: 15
Physique: 30
Intelligence: 6]
[ Triwolf
Level: 20
Strength: 20
Dexterity: 40
Physique: 17
Intelligence: 15]
After checking this, Alex finally understood, the level of difficulty he had chosen, and these creatures are the weakest and smaller group, as they are the furthest from the exit.
At the same time Alex was thinking of a plan, the three students were horribly losing its ground against the troll while the Triwolf stood there making noises as if laughing at its prey.
Student 1: What do we do now? We can't win against these creatures!
Student 2: We have to run!
Student 1: Do you really think we can outran the wolf?
Student 2: No
After admitting the truth, both students that were talking had a helpless expression. The third student couldn't even talk.
Yet when the troll was about to finish the first student, suddenly the Triwolf behind it shouted in pain. After turning around, the troll saw his companion with three daggers in its three eyes.
And a shadow next to it.
Student 1: Who is him?
Student 2: Does it matter? We are saved!
After sending three daggers to the three eyes of the Triwolf, he wants to take advantage of the moment when the beast had been caught by surprise to end the fight quickly and focus on the troll behind.
So, he quickly appears behind the Triwolf, cutting his two hind legs, while throwing a dagger towards the head of the orc, which was rapidly approaching.
Unfortunately, although the dagger did not fail, once the troll stopped to remove the dagger, he quickly continued to run and the wound on his head healed at a rate visible to the naked eye.
Alex: "Shit, although it's lower level, I had completely forgotten, that trolls are famous for their regeneration."
Although the Triwolf was of higher level, once Alex found his weak point which was obviously his eyes and cut off his hind legs, the Triwolf knew that he had lost this battle.
So Quickly Alex killed the Triwolf.
[ You have killed Triwolf +150]
Alex: "Holy shit, if I can keep up with the hunting pace I had yesterday, I could get to level 20 sooner than I expected!"
Many people seeing the terrible monsters and in the extreme apocalypse situation that Alex was in right now, would decide to hide and not go out.
However, Alex is not normal, Alex is a person whose only goal is to become strong enough so that no one can kill him. In other words, be the hunter instead of the hunted.
So, for this very reason, when Alex saw the amount of experience the Triwolfs gave, Alex decided to focus solely on hunting.
Alex: "Right now I'm in the tutorial, so the biggest danger I can encounter is nothing compared to what awaits me once this is over. So, I have to take advantage of any opportunity to get experience if I want to survive."
The troll saw how his companion laid dead on the floor and couldn't help but to roar.
The roar was so loud that even Alex had to worry about his ears, however Alex took advantage of the moment when the Troll started roaring, Alex quickly appeared in front of the troll and with a sword created using [Shadow Weapon] cut off his legs while creating another sword to slit the throat of the troll who had lost his balance, ending the battle before the dumb troll could figure it out.
[ You have killed Dumb Troll +100]
Student 1: Omg! Did you see that? How strong is he?
Student 2: Imagine if we could stay with him!
Student 3: We would be safe!
After this short conversation, the three students looked at Alex wondering how they could approached him.
Alex: Let me guess, you want me to help you stay alive.
All three students: Yes!
Alex: Of course, we are students after all, so we have to help each other, right?
Student 1: Of course!
Alex smiled after that, which the three students thought that meant that he agreed to their request.
Alex: Before helping you, could you help me first? I want to level up quickly but I´m missing experience.
Student 3: Don't worry, you can count us in!
Alex: Thank you very much.
A sadistic appeared after finishing this sentence, at the same time that three daggers appeared on the three student's forehead.
Alex: "Thank you for the food"
[ You have killed level 5 player +40]
[ You have killed level 5 player +40]
[ You have killed level 5 player +40]
Alex: "Oh my, in less than three minutes I have gained the same experience I gained after 3 hours killing goblins! This is heaven right now! Hahahaha!"
[You have level up]
[Congratulations! You have reach level 10! ]
[ You have unlocked the online shop and the streaming!
Online shop: You can find anything that you want, as well as sell to players all around your world.
Streaming: You can start streaming your fights, and players that want to join will have to pay a fee depending on the amount you have set, to watch you.]
[ As the first player to unlock the store, you have received 50 gold coins!]
[ You have gained a new class skill: [Shadow clone]
[Shadow clone (F)]: You can summon up to two shadow clones, that have all your skills but 50% of your power. As skill level increases, more clones can be summon, with higher percentage of your power]
Alex was stunned of all the notifications that he received in this short period of time.
The thing that got most of his attention is his new skill.
Alex: "Isn't this skill really overpowered? With this, my levelling speed would increase like crazy!"
Yet before he could think about the other notifications, a group of 10 trolls could be seen running in his direction.
Alex: "It seems like the roar the troll made, was to call his friends over. Thanks for the food!"
When the trolls were 10 meters away from Alex, he disappeared to appear behind the last troll, he quickly cut his throat.
Once the trolls realized that their enemy had appeared behind them, they quickly prepared to throw themselves back at him.
However, this was precisely what Alex wanted.
Once the attention of the Trolls had been refocused on Alex, two black silhouettes appeared behind the group of now 9 trolls, taking two by surprise and thanks to their high speed compared to the trolls, piercing their hearts, killing them instantly.
After this surprise attack, the trolls realised that they were surrounded. Yet thanks to the strategy created by Alex, which consisted of attacking and disappearing, the trolls were quickly annihilated.
[ You have killed Dumb Troll +100]
[ You have killed Dumb Troll +100]
[ You have killed Dumb Troll +100]
[ You have killed Dumb Troll +100]
….
[You have level up]
[ You have killed Dumb Troll +100]
[ You have killed Dumb Troll +100]
Alex was laughing out loud; he couldn't believe that he had already levelled up once again.
Alex: "Lets continue the hunt!"
…..
Two hours have passed since the tutorial had change difficulty.
Which could be seen since no student dared to go out and fight against the [Dumb Trolls] and the [Triwolfs]. So, everyone stayed inside the buildings. Trying to be safe, since the only advantage of the large size of the new monsters, is that they did not fit into the classes.
However, in one of these classes, the new group of students, "The survivors" was having a meeting.
Peter: As we've all seen from the system notification, the difficulty of the tutorial has increased to [Extreme]. And as a consequence of this, new monsters have appeared, having what seems a level much higher than ours. So, we are gathered here to see how we can solve this.
Charlie: What we can't do is stay in here keeping ourselves safe, as our level will be below average, and it will cost us much more to survive in the future. What do you think we should do Rose?
At this moment, Rose is reflecting on what happened in the last hours. As soon as she woke up, she found the notification of the change of difficulty. Many people thought that this has been random, but she knew that the difficulty of a new day was determined by the player in first position in the rankings. When the difficulty changed, the rankings were reset.
So, she knew that Osiris had been the cause of this, what she was not clear about is whether the player named Osiris had done this knowing the consequences it would bring or not. she doubted it, but she couldn't be sure until she met this player.
Rose: "Rankings"
[Ranking's day 2 (Extreme):
1st: Osiris (50 kills)
2nd: Rest of players (0 kills)]
Rose: " Just who is this Osiris? Is he so powerful to be solo killing all these dumb trolls and Triwolfs?"
She decided on what to do next.
Rose: First, as Charlie said, we have to go out and level up or we won't be able to survive, plus we have to go out and fight to protect and save all the students who can't defend themselves. Second, if someone meets Osiris, tell them that I want to meet with him.
Everyone nodded after hearing this.
...
And so 6 hours passed.
During this time Alex hasn't stop hunting [Triwolfs] and [Dumb trolls increasing his level to 19.
Furthermore, he has increase [Shadow clone] to rank E. Incrementing its power to 60% and he can now summon 3 shadows instead of 2.
Yet not only has he increased his skills levels, but trolls also started to drop armour. And by the end of the 6 hours, he has the complete set of [Dumb troll armour].
[Dumb Trolls gloves (Common)
Required level: 15
Strength +5
Physique +1]
[Dumb Trolls pants (Common)
Required level: 15
Strength +2
Physique +3]
[Dumb Trolls armour (Common)
Required level: 15
Physique +7]
[Dumb Trolls helmet (Common)
Required level: 15
Strength +1
Physique +2]
[Dumb Trolls boots (Common)
Required level: 15
Strength +1
Physique +2]
Alex: "With this I can confirm that depending on the attributes of each species, the equipment they drop will affect a specific part of my attributes. In this case, the trolls focus on defence and life (Physique) and their strength."
Alex: Status window.
[Name: Alex Rose
Level: 19 (3800/4000)
Class: Shadow Assassin (Mythical class)
Subclass: None
Tittles: None
Strength: 53 (+1)
Dexterity: 68
Physique: 29 (+2)
Intelligence: 10
Skills: Eyes of the truth (E), Shadow movement (E), Shadow weapon (E), Shadow clone (E)
Passive skills: Beginners dual weapon ]
Alex: "Right now, thanks to my attributes, I would be ready for tomorrow, in case the difficulty increases again. I'm going to try to get to level 20 before I stop hunting today as it's about to get dark."
…..
After hunting what appeared to be his last group of [Dumb trolls] and [Triwolfs], Alex had less than 100 experience left to be able to climb to level 20 however a notification made him stop before he could continue.
[ Since the difficulty level is extreme, when night comes, all monsters will have a 500% increase in their base attributes. 0:29:49]
After that announcement all the monsters seemed to have disappeared, so Alex unable to do anything else had to start returning to his shelter on the top floor of the science building.
However, Alex heard a noise as he was about to arrive at his shelter, which seemed to come from a conversation between students not far from him.
Alex, without a second thought, approached the group of 5 students.
He had already seen one of them, in the hero´s and murderer's group yesterday.
Charlie: Okay guys, since there are no more monsters left and no sign of Osiris, let's start going back to the base.
Alex: "What the. Why are they looking for me? Did I kill someone from their group?"
Student A: Lets go, I can't be outside any longer outside.
After all, had prepared to leave, Alex had already planned what to do next.
Crush them with pure strength.
Alex: "Looking for me? Well, you get what you were looking for!"
And like that, 4 daggers were thrown to the foreheads of the 4 students leaving only Charlie alive.
Charlie: Guys lets star-. WHAT HAPPENED!
Alex: What do you mean? Weren't you looking for me?
Charlie: What!? Who the fuck are you and why did you kill my friends!?
Alex: Easy, for experience, and now only you are missing.
Although Charlie was a tank, his attributes couldn't compare to Alex's strength.
So, when Charlie tried to slash Alex with his axe. He was dumbfounded seeing how the guy in front of him caught it easily with one hand.
Before he could do any other attacks, three shadow figures appeared from his shadow and pierced his heart, killing him instantly.
[ You have killed Level 13 player +30]
[You have level up]
[Congratulations, after reaching level 20, you have received a class skill: [Shadow Armour]
[Shadow Armour(F)]: You can create parts of an armour with different ranks as skill level increases.
Currently you can create only a mask and common rank.
Alex nodded after looking at the description of the skill. It was a really nice skill that would save him a lot of money and trouble in the future.
After checking the skills, he went to its shelter, as there were only 5 minutes left.
Without knowing that he had just killed a future party member of the hero.