Stepping out of a white spiral portal was a boy about 12 years of age.
He had dirty white hair reaching his neck. His amethyst eyes examined his surroundings. The boy had blood slowly dripping down his legs and arms. Wearing a dirty, torn cloth, the boy sat down.
Sitting down, Kai looked at the giant steel door in front of him.
The portal brought Kai to a small stone room. Touches lit up the walls.
~Swish~
Turning around, Kai sighed, "There goes the portal."
Turning his attention back to the door in front of him, Kai had a bad feeling.
Shaking his head, Kai's expression lightened, "Now, where are my rewards!" Rubbing his hands together, Kai was expecting good stuff.
{Obtained 107 Experience Points}
{Level Reached Max Level}
{Evolution Available}
{Obtained, Spider Queen Cloak}
"..."
"Hahahaha!"
Kai seemed to have lost his mind, looking at the new notifications.
~Cough~
Shaking his head, Kai calmed down, though his smile could not be wiped off.
Going into his inventory first, Kai wanted to equip his new cloak, as the clothes he wore wouldn't pass anymore.
{Equip 'Spider Queen Cloak? Set 1/6}
Hitting {Yes}, Kai saw a white mist cover body, shortly dispersing.
The Cloak covered almost Kai's entire body. It was pitch black, with a yellow outline. On the hood were six ruby dots, three on the left side, above Kai's eye. The remaining three were above Kai's other eye.
Feeling the silky smoothness of his new clock, Kai had an idea of what it was made of.
{Equipped 'Spider Queen Cloak', +15 Resistance}
"?"
"Why didn't the mallet give me bonus stats?"
Looking at the cloak, it made some sense. The Spider Queen Cloak can block some of the damage from an attack. It was armor. At the same time, Gnomak's Mallet was something Kai had to use himself.
Or maybe Gnomak's equipment wasn't as good.
Either way, Kai would have to do a few more dungeons to get a good idea of how things worked.
"{Status}!"
{Name: Kai Venator
Race: Human
Class: N/A (Available)
Level: 20/20 -> 20/20 - 210/210Exp
(Evolution Available)
Hp: 1600/1600 -> 1400/1700
Mana: (Locked)
Magic: (Locked)
Mind: 90 -> 90
Vitality: 80 -> 85
Strength: 105 -> 110
Intelligence: 84 -> 90
Agility: 88 -> 94
Dexterity: 85 -> 92
Resistance: 84 -> 89 (+15)
Attribute Points: 10
Equipment: (Click To See)
Inventory: (Click To See)}
Because Kai didn't level up but reached max level and experience points, he also didn't receive any more Attribute Points.
"I can't wait."
Kai was like a little child about to get a toy.
Mentally clicking on (Evolution Available), a list of evolutions appeared.
{Green King Butterfly}
{Evolved from Green King Caterpillars, The Green King Butterfly can detect enemies nearby using its antennas. To compensate for its lack of offense and defense, the Green King Butterfly can fly at high speeds.
+ 30 Agility
+ 20 Mind
+ 15 Intelligence
+ 5 Attribute Points Per Level
+ Racial Ability -[Confusion](Activate)- The user can confuse the target using mind power. Capable of momentarily disabling a 'sense' of the target. Making them blind, deaf, or even lost of touch.}
{Electric Mushroom Monster}
{Evolved from Paralysis Mushroom Monster, the Electric Mushroom Monster evolves from paralysis to lightning. Wielding lighting, Electric Mushroom Monster have a hardened mushroom body, immune to the lightning of the same tier.
+ 40 Intelligence
+ 25 Resistance
+ 15 Vitality
+ 5 Attribute Points Per Level
+Racial Ability -[Overload](Activate)- Condenses all lighting in the user to a small orb. Once charged, the orb will explode, sending electric waves in all directions. Once a target is hit, it will be overloaded with electricity.}
{Mutated Werewolf}
{Using their immense strength and claws, Werewolves tear threw anything standing in the way. Equipped with a human form, Werewolves are extremely dangerous hunters. Where a Werewolf goes, blood will soon follow.}
+ 60 Strength
+ 40 Agility
+ 35 Dexterity
+ 35 Resistance
+ 8 Attribute Points Per Level
+ Ability-[Shapeshift](Active)- Allows the user to change between human and werewolf appearance.
+Racial Ability- [Blood Rush](Passive)- Upon contact with Blood, the user will go into a frenzy state. Upon entering the frenzy state, the user won't be able to tell between friend and foe. During frenzy state +25% Stat boost.
+Mutated Ability-[Death's Embrace](Activate)-Creating a link between user and target, all stats will equalize to the users'. Won't work on those a tier+ higher than the user. Once the connection is formed, the user and target will be bound for 1 hour. If no party is killed within the time limit, both parties will die. During this time, both parties will be forced to be within 5 miles of each other.
-Consumes Mutated Green King Caterpillar Antenna -x1}
After reading everything over, Kai was too stunned. How could this possibly be a choice?
Being a Greek King Butterfly would allow him to fly, which would be good. It wasn't worth becoming a weak Butterfly with no strength and resistance.
Kai didn't want to fly around and confuse his opponents. He wants to fight, get up close and cause fear.
How would he do that with a measly Green King Caterpillar?
Next was an absolute no.
How could Kai become the thing he swore to destroy?
While using lightning could give him many advantages, was it worth becoming a mushroom? The Electric Mushroom Monster did sound far better than being a Butterfly, and it seems far more powerful than a Butterfly. There was still a far better option.
The Muted Werewolf completely outclasses the other two. Not only would Kai be able to fight how he wants, with his body. He could also fight those stronger than him with the mutated ability.
Although he wouldn't be able to fight those a whole tier higher than him, if Kai needed to, he could fight a peak tier 1 after just becoming a tier 1 himself.
Plus, the points he would get into his stats were far better with the Mutated Werewolf option.
The only downside was the passive racial ability it came with.
It would make fighting in a group near impossible for him. Then again, Kai doesn't need to fight with people. He alone was enough.
At least for now, Kai would try to improve his control over it so that if he had to fight with people, he wouldn't accidentally kill them.
This wasn't even including the extra three attribute points per level he would get.
"Hahaha, it doesn't matter what's beyond those doors now!"
Clicking on {Mutated Werewolf} Kai had a dangerous look in his eyes.
{Are You Sure?
Yes/No}
Hitting {Yes}, Kai's body began to glow. White mist surrounded him.
A bright light could be seen where Kai was sitting.
--
After 30 minutes of the bright light and mist, it finally dispersed.
After evolving, Kai's body went through a considerable change.
Kai's height increased by a few inches, and the tips of his hair turned the same amethyst color as his eyes.
Kai's new appearance made him appear like a 14-year-old.
{Gain, [Shapeshift],[Blood Rush], and [Death's Embrace]}
Delighted by his new abilities and the increase in his strength, Kai smiled, {Status}."
{Name: Kai Venator
Race: Mutated Werewolf
Class: N/A (Available)
Level: 20/20 -> Tier 1: 1/50 - 0/300 Exp
Hp: 1700/1700
Mana: (Locked)
Magic: (Locked)
Mind: 90
Vitality: 85
Strength: 110 -> 170
Intelligence: 90
Agility: 94 -> 134
Dexterity: 92 -> 127
Resistance: 89 -> 124 (+15)
Attribute Points: 10
Equipment: (Click To See)
Inventory: (Click To See)
Skills:(Click To See)}
"Hahaha, I truly am too good" Laughing like a crazy man, Kai gazed past every besides the point value in his stats.
Kai didn't even see he was able to get a class. He was far too focused on his evolution.
Evolution only increases the stats that race primarily uses.
It would be useless for a wizard to have his points go into strength if all he uses is magic.
Walking to the steel door, Kai wanted to test his new power.
~Boom~
Kicking down the door, Kai was amazed at his new power.
Walking through the doorway with a big grin, Kai could see cold blue eyes watching him move.
"You'll make a fine play thing, hahaha, don't die too fast."
Once through the door, Kai entered a flat grass room. It was just a blank, flat ground, besides the black wolf in the middle, staring at Kai.
Behind the wolf was a white portal.
The very portal that will take Kai back to Nightmare City.
"{Inspect}"
{Mora, The Moon Wolf-Final Floor Guardian}
{Level-20}
"Odd, a moon wolf in a sunny, grassy room. The dungeons truly aren't fair." Shaking his head, Kai walked toward the final Guardian. Putting his cloak in his inventory, Kai got excited.
"Time to test my new Werewolf form, [Shapeshift]!"
Kai's body began to glow white. Only a black silhouette could be seen.
Stepping threw the white light came a beast. Standing at 6 feet tall, with a hunched back. A wolf-like head, long sharp claws on its hands and feet. A tail swinging in the air, white fur mixing into purple, laced the entire body.
Its lips curled up, revealing its long, sharp teeth. Its grin sent shivers down the Floor Guardian's back.
Looking at his claws and fur body, Kai finally understood. Power, this power was addicting.
~Crack~
Rushing toward the Floor Guardian, Kai's made multiple cracks appear along the ground.
With his increasing speed, Kai was already at the Floor Guardian.
The floor Guardian was already frightened as it saw Kai transform, but seeing his speed and the cracks he caused just by running. The Floor Guardian couldn't move, paralyzed with fear.
Kai slashed at the Floor Guardian's head, extending his claws, hoping to test how strong these claws were.
~Shing~
~Thud~
"?"
"Damn!"
{Earned 100 Experience Points}
{Obtained, Mora The Moon Wolf's Fang Dagger}
Kai's attack slashed straight through the Floor Guardian's head, killing it on the spot.
Slightly disappointed in himself for using too much strength, Kai sighed, "Maybe this was just the difference between tier 1 and tier 0. Well, whatever, it's finally time to go home!"
Transforming back to his human form, Kai put on the Spider Cloak.
"I hope I didn't keep you waiting."
As Kai said that, he walked through the portal, ending his first dungeon dive.