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Chapter 4 - Rat dungeon

It was dark, only the footsteps of the adventurers were heard, a mixture of mud and bone was used as the ground, the faces of the adventurers were tense, full of hesitation in the face of the danger that lay in these black and humid basements, only a small child, blond hair, fair complexion with blue eyes displayed a big smile

the young hero was obviously Alexander, our group of adventurers had managed to enter the rat dungeons and had walked for a few minutes there.

This dungeon was an assortment of tunnels and dead ends, it was  easy to get lost in it, each time our group entered a new tunnel, they wrote a mark there and mark after mark they advanced, after 15 minutes they encountered the first rats

Name: rats

Class: none

HP 100 Mp 100

Strength 15 Agility 15

20 vitality 12 intelligence

The rats had grey skin who turned brown due to the mud and humidity, they had very long front teeth, sharp claws and a great hunger, which could not be satisfied, each time they saw an adventurer , their instincts took over, as possessed they threw themselves on the poor soul, they attacked with such force that the ill-prepared adventurers could only cry for help and die in this labyrinth

Alexander with his level 1 was absolutely not afraid of rats, he activated his spell: shield of darkness ( a shield surround the user and burn everything that  touch it  ) which surrounded him completely, the two rats were burned in 1 second, these rats did not even have a class, so they were  easily killed 

+ 5 experience points

+ 5 experience points

The same number  of experience that the chickens gave him , he was happy with the result

The group therefore walked deeper into the maze, they faced rats and rat soldiers, after an hour  the group was already tired, so Alexander asked them  to take a break, each time the group successfully  killed  rats, they took their tails as proof.

they received 5 bronze coins for each rat they killed, a way for the family in power to control the population of rats, After their break and knowing  that the group was doing well, Alexander decided to go explore the dungeon on his own.

our group wasn't alone in the dungeons , they could meet other adventurers there, so clashes could occur

Alexander gave a bracelet to soren which had the particularity of vibrating when it was activated, it also served as a geolocation device, becoming hotter the closer they get to each other, so he could come back to help them in case of danger, he asked his team to meet  at the entrance of the dungeon in a day and if they did not find him there  after two days, they had to look after him, even if they had to hire other adventurers

taking some water and a rope he headed even deeper , the rat dungeon was divided into three levels, normal rats in the first level and occasionally soldier rats, shaman rats and soldier rats were in the second level and Queen rats shaman rats and soldier rats in the third level.

alexander stayed  in  the first level,  even if he was a  level 1 mage,  he would only leave the first level  if he was 100% sure to come back alive, he had a system that would help him evolve, had a good life , loving parents , why would he sacrifice All of this for some experience points?

Then began a very successful session

Ding +5 experience points

Ding + 5 experience points

Ding +5 experience points...

Sometimes there was 10 rats, sometimes 100 moreover all  he had to do was to walk in the different tunnels, every time a rat smelled his body odor , he would run after him and Alexander would activate the spell: shield of darkness which covered his whole body, the damage of Shield of Darkness was 800 point per second, the rats didn't feel the  energy around him or they had long become crazy anyway they  threw themselves on him and even when they saw their comrades falls they still continued , attracted by the smell of blood and the different shrieks they heard.

after more than a day of hunting alexander managed to get nearly 100,000  experience points

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Name: Alexander Davis

Class: none

HP 5.000 Mp 5.000

Strength 500 Agility 550

vitality 600 intelligence 500

Exp: 0/1,000,000

The dungeon had plenty of other entrances, if he finished with all the low levels in one of the entrance he could go to another one and continue to gain experience points almost indefinitely 

his session finished Alexander headed towards the entrance, there he met with his group 

Alexander: ''well, you don't have a lot of tail, did something happen?''

Soren:''young master, at one point all the rats had disappeared, we looked everywhere and even went deeper into the dungeon but we did not find any ''

Alexander: '' it's not a problem, we will stay here for 1 month, it is only our first day (but Alexander knew very well why there were no more rats)''

the group therefore went to sell their tails and spent the night at an inn, Alexander was  always  in the big basket to lessen the attention they draw on them.

The second day went like the first, the group find an entrance, Alexander leave the group and  explore the dungeon, use the ''dark shield''spell then he attract all of the rats with the blood of the other rats  and finally they return to the Inn.

This routine would surely attract the attention of the most powerful because all the groups of rats disappeared when Alexander's group passed through one of the entrances.

To reduce suspicion, some days Alexander did not participate in the hunt, sometimes he reduced the number of rats that he killed by two.

During the 4th day, Alexander's group was attacked by another group of adventurers

Bad adventurer (level 0- advanced ): good evening gentlemen, your bags seem too heavy, let me help you a little

Soren: No thank you that's  kind of you but we don't need any help

Bad adventurer: I insist, I also think that this charming young lady can come and give us a little help

Soren: sir, you are going overboard, I'm going to ask you to leave

Bad adventurer: well, I'm going to ask you for your life! As they prepared to attack

Soren: wait I'll give you the bags but leave my party members alone

Bad adventurer: you don't have a say in this, I have already said that this young lady was going to help us take the bags and maybe she'll see you again tonight... if she does a good job .

Soren had long since sent out a distress signal, all they needed to do now was to stall for time, after giving all the bags, soren ordered everyone to run for the entrance, if Alexander does not come in Time the guards may protect them moreover they will be slower because they will have to carry all the bags 

After 15 minutes of a frantic running the strongest of the adventurers had caught up with them, it will be 1 against 5 but even with this advantage the chances of victory were slim.

As the Bad adventurer was about to attack, he screamed instead ''ahhhhh'' Alexander came  just in Time and cut off the hand of the adventurer directly

After tying the bad adventurer , he started to interrogate him , it was necessary to know what the enemy knew, for whom he worked and who were his accomplices.

After 15 minutes, Alexander knew who the evil adventurer was working for, the Anderson family, they had placed several adventurers from 0-intermediate to 0-advanced  to harvest the tails

the dungeon was popular so people would not pay attention if anyone disappeared moreover the Anderson family was level 3 family ( they had a level 3 mage ), so they did not fear the jhonson family. After the interrogation, he executed the adventurer

Ding + 300 experience points

He then went for the group with the bags because when the Anderson family will investigate what  happened in the tunnels and why one of their member died, this group will talk about soren and the others so  he had to erase all traces .

The others adventurers were right behind, with the bags they were carrying they advanced slowly, he eliminated them directly

Ding + 200 experience points

Ding + 200 experience points

Ding + 200 experience points

He then took 3/10 of the loot and burned the rest, With the spell ball of darkness it was easy, after that day no other problem occurred 

they continued their routine which was to hunt and sleep in the inn, 21 days passed and Alexander had become level 2, a young child of 5 years old was know a level 2 magician what an achievement

he wanted to tell his parents to celebrate this happy event but he couldn't, in this world of magic it was better to live hiden.

On his 22nd day, during his hunt Alexander noticed that he no longer gained experience points when he killed his enemies.

Alexander: system, what's going on, why don't I gain more experience points when I kill monsters?

System: the quality of the vital energy is too low, the level of the host has increased and only a vital energy of better quality can improve your constitution

Alexander: better quality?

System: now that the host is level 2, only vital energies of level 0 - advanced or higher can improve your constitution 

Alexander:.... My dream of leveling up to level 9 without taking any risks is over but at least attacking monsters at level 0- pinnacle is still acceptable.

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Name: Alexander Davis

Class: none

HP 5.000 Mp 5.000

Strength 500 Agility 600

vitality 600 intelligence 500

Exp: 0/ 10,000