Oliver arrived at the vacant counter that would become the registration counter the moment the competition would be announced. When he looked at the time it seemed that he was a few minutes early, while he was looking around to pass the time the boss of the shop came up to him.
"Excuse me dear customer, can I help u with anything"
Oliver had nothing to do so he thought he might as well entertain the owner a little.
"No thank you I'm waiting for something."
The owner, after Oliver's response began to feel nervous.
"And what might that be sur."
"I think you know what I'm waiting for, but in the off chance you don't, wait a second."
And approximately 5 second after Oliver said that.
[dear earthlings, this message marks the halfway point of phase 1 of the tutorial, to celebrate this an event will be held, for more info look in your status.]
After hearing this everyone on earth went directly to their status.
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[Monster slayer event]
Description: For the next 48 hours you will get a point for every monster you slay according to the list below, the single individual with the most points will be the winner, point sharing is not possible.
[S-grade] 50 points
[A-grade] 30 points
[B-grade] 15 points
[C-grade] 8 points
[D-grade] 4 points
[E-grade] 2 points
[F-grade] 1 point
Reward: 1x [upgrade stone], +2 LVL
*To participate you need to sign in at a shop.
*If a monster is killed by several people, the reward will be spit.
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[Dungeon completion event]
Description: For the next 48 hours you will get points for every dungeon you complete according to the list below, the single individual with the most points will be the winner, point sharing is not possible.
[S-grade] 50 points
[A-grade] 30 points
[B-grade] 15 points
[C-grade] 8 points
[D-grade] 4 points
[E-grade] 2 points
[F-grade] 1 point
Reward: 1x [upgrade stone], +2 LVL
*To participate you need to sign in at a shop.
*If a dungeon is completed by several people, the reward will be split.
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Oliver was rejoiced, this is the real way to level up, do quests, even though quests aren't that common now, they will be from the second phase of the tutorial onwards.
Oliver didn't go to look at the events and directly signed in at the counter he had been waiting in front of. Directly after that he got a new window on his status indicating his rank and the number of points he had now.
Until the event is over the only thing you can see is your own ranking and number of points, but after the event is over there will be a big scoreboard in the shops all over the world indicating who won. This is going to expose Oliver's identity but with the amount of power he has now it isn't a problem. The big guilds or governments didn't have powerful enough players to harm him.
That's a term everyone has started to use now that people who finished the character creation have become more common. you are considered a player when you have finished your character creation.
When he was finished thinking about all this Oliver had already arrived before the only [S-grade] dungeon in this world [Hell's paradise].
It consisted of only 1 floor, that honestly wasn't even that big, if Oliver sprinted trough it he could arrive at the boss room in about 30 minutes.
It looked exactly like you would imagen hell to look like, a big plane where everything you could see was red, flames where everywhere, the only structures in this plane were big rock formations.
If this was the only thing that made this dungeon special it would not have been difficult, a lot of dungeons have special environments, the problem came with the number of floors it had, 1.
All the monsters who would normally be divided between 10 or so floors are now concentrated in 1 place.
"In my previous life this dungeon was estimated to have 10.000 monster, this should be fun."
The only reason Oliver could be so confident is because he knew that he would be able to take brakes between fights, he had no confidents in fighting 10.000 [S-grade] monsters in one continues fight.
The monsters in this dungeon roamed around in groups of around 500, that shouldn't be a problem for Oliver with his new [Lighting field] and his mana pool of close to 14.000.
While he was in the shop earlier, he also picked up a lot of [mana potion(C-grade)] for 5000 coins a pop with the money he got from selling the items got from the A and B grade dungeons he did.
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[mana potion(C-grade)]
Description: recovers 250 mana after consumption, no mana can be used while consuming this potion.
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If he consumed these potions between every fight, he should be able to do every dungeon run in about 5 hours.
He didn't hesitate any longer and stepped in the portal.
[congratulations Oliver Smith for being the first person to discover [Hell's paradise (S-grade)], as a reward you will get 30 free attribute points.]
The second he entered the dungeon he wasn't given any time to familiarize himself with the environment because the first swarm of little red creatures with horns was already running at him.
Oliver wasted no time and inspected them with [eyes of truth].
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[hell spawn (S-grade)]
LVL: [50]
Health [6000/6000]
Mana [5000/5000]
Strength: 750
Agility: 750
Intelligence: 500
Dexterity: 600
Stamina: 500
Talent: [fire immunity (A-grade)]
SKILLS:
-Passive: [physical resistance (A-grade)]
-Active: [hells claws (A-grade)] [fly (A-grade)] [dexterity enhancement (S-grade)]
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Oliver immediately activated [lightning field] and started killing the [hell spawn], doing just enough damage to kill them with one attack. Occasionally using blink if lightning field couldn't keep up with the amount swarming him at once.
After 10 minutes of continues fighting he had defeated the first swarm of monster. Oliver fingered out that with the ridiculous amount of mana he had combined with the lightning field skill being not that high rank, he could keep the skill going for as long as he wanted because his mana regen was 225 per second.
Now that he was getting to higher levels his ridiculously mana affinity was finally showing its true powers. One had to know that most people sit around 20 mana affinity, and you where considered a genius mage if you had around 50. Mana affinity is also extremely hard to increase, there are no positions, equipment, or titles that can increase it, the only thing is a person's talent.
After the first battle he had gotten 2 [A-grade] equipment's that didn't suit him, 175.000 exp and 100.000 gold as drops.
this same pattern continued for the next 19 swarms. After around 4 hours he arrived at the boss room for the first time.
When he stepped in the room the atmosphere was around the same as the rest of the dungeon but turned up by 10.
In the middle of the room stood a humanoid monster that looked like the [hell spawn] but better developed and with big black wings.
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[King of hell (SS-grade)]
LVL: [50]
Health [12500/12500]
Mana [7500/7500]
Strength: 1000
Agility: 750
Intelligence: 750
Dexterity: 1250
Stamina: 750
Defense: 3000
Talent: [fire immunity (SS-grade)]
SKILLS:
-Passive: [physical resistance (S-grade)] [magic resistance (A-grade)]
-Active: [hells claws (S-grade)] [fly (S-grade)] [dexterity enhancement (SS-grade)]
[flame shield (S-grade)]
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Even though the demon race was a race that was known to be weak against magic, the boss of this dungeon still had a [magic resistance (A-grade)] skill negating 60% of magic damage, that means that Oliver's normal lightning attacks that should do around 12.000 damage only dealt 5.000 damage.
If you add the Defense the [King of hell] has thanks to his armor his damage is only 2.000.
The [King of hell] rushed towards Oliver while he shot lightning bolts at it, but almost all damage was being negated by the flame shield that sat in front of the King.
[-100]
[-100]
[-100]
[-100]
After Oliver shot the first round of lightning bolts at the king, he was already in front of Oliver giving him no time to shoot a second round, the King had already started swinging his sword giving Oliver no time to attack.
BOOM
The blade destroyed the ground, missing Oliver completely who had already blinked behind the King where his Lightning field shot 2 times at the king's back were the flame shield didn't reach.
[-2000]
[-2000]
At that moment the King knew what Oliver's plan was to defeat it, but it couldn't do anything.
Blink being instantaneous plus the automatic aiming and shooting from lighting field made it impossible for it to evade the counterattack and made its Agility advantage negligible.
After realizing this the king realized this, he flew in a rage blindly attacking Oliver.
BOOM
BOOM
The orthodox attacks made it even easier for Oliver to teleport behind the King and damage him.
[-2000]
[-2000]
[-2000]
[-2000]
Every time Oliver managed to pull this off the King's rage grew stronger, totally forgetting about defense, at that point the waiting for him to attack to make a counterattack wasn't necessary anymore, he could just attack and blink when necessary.
[-2000]
[-2000]
[-2000]
[-2000]
Around the end Oliver began to worry, even though the king was almost dead, his blink charges were running out quick.
[-2000]
[-2000]
And after using up all his 10 blink charges Oliver finally managed to kill the King.
"Pff, that was a close one, if I had 1 less blink charge, I would have been dead for sure."
While he was reflecting on the battle, he got a notification.
[you have killed a [King of hell (SS-grade)] and gained 2000 EXP]
[congratulations on clearing the dungeon [Hell's paradise (S-grade)] please choose 1 of the 5 chests in front of you as your reward.]
[congratulations on finishing this planet's hidden mission [one man against hell] as a reward you will be given the skill [mana domain (S-grade)].]