After I killed Anna and Hwa-Young killed Miguel I passed out of exhaustion and blood-loss.
(Several hours later)
I woke up , I was lying in a bed I don't know how much time has passed. There was no one in my room and my wounds were all patched up , I wonder what happened after I passed out.
Oh that's right I leveled up didn't I.
"Open Status"
Number of players: 24 579]
[Name: Majo The Murderer ] [Open Inventory]
[Title: The Murderer] [NEW Tab: Switch Title]
[Title bonus: Increase your strenght and speed by 20% while fighting against your own race]
[Class: None]
[Skills: EVOLVED SKILL: Bloody Critical Strike]
[Level: 5 0/800 experience]
[Rank: F+] [Open skill tree Locked]
[Health 77/170] [Mana 20/20]
[Equipment]
Helmet: None
Cloak: Torn Black hoodie [F Grade]
Body Armour: Torn White shirt [F Grade]
Leg Armour: Black pants [F Grade]
Relics: 0/5
Weapons:
Left arm: Goblin Dagger [D Grade]
Right arm: Goblin Sword [D Grade]
[Statistics]
Strenght: 18
Vigor: 15
Intelligence: 10
Endurance: 12
Durability: 16
Speed: 14
[Advancement: Player Killer OPEN rewards]
[Level Up: OPEN rewards]
"Open Player Killer rewards"
[Understood]
[Rewards]
[1. +1 to All statistics]
[2. Blood Dagger D+ Grade]
[Accept rewards?]
"Accept rewards."
[Understood]
"Open level Up rewards"
[Rewards]
[1. 5 points to statistics of your choice]
[2. E-Grade Relic Lootbox: Get a random relic that suits your combat style]
[Accept rewards?]
"Accept rewards."
[Statistics] Points to spend: 5
Strenght: 19
Vigor: 16
Intelligence: 11
Endurance: 13
Durability: 17
Speed: 15
"Give 1 point to strenght , 2 points to durability and 2 points to speed 2"
[Understood]
[Statistics] Points to spend: 0
Strenght: 20
Vigor: 16
Intelligence: 11
Endurance: 13
Durability: 19
Speed: 17
"Open E-Grade Relic Lootbox"
[Opening Lootbox]
[You Received The Berserker Ring E-Grade]
"Explain what is The Berserker Ring"
[The Berserker Ring works as follows , the user's Speed increases in proportion to Health lost.
Every 10% of Health below maximum Health increases user's Speed by 5%]
This is pretty good and it's only E GRADE? I can't imagine how strong A-Grade items must be. Or perhaps S-Grade items if that's the highest ranking.
"Open status"
Number of players: 24 577]
[Name: Majo The Murderer ] [Open Inventory]
[Title: The Murderer] [Switch Title]
[Title bonus: Increase your strenght and speed by 20% while fighting against your own race]
[Class: None]
[Skills: Bloody Critical Strike]
[Level: 5 0/800 experience]
[Rank: E] [Open skill tree Locked]
[Health 94/185] [Mana 25/25]
[Equipment]
Helmet: None
Cloak: Torn Black hoodie [F Grade]
Body Armour: Torn White shirt [F Grade]
Leg Armour: Black pants [F Grade]
Relics: 1/5
Berserker Ring [Grade E]
[Effect-Increase Speed in proportion to Health Lost]
Weapons:
Left arm: Blood Dagger [D+ Grade]
[Special effect: Increase this weapon's damage by 100% when Health drops below 30%]
Right arm: Goblin Dagger [D Grade]
[Statistics]
Strenght: 20
Vigor: 16
Intelligence: 11
Endurance: 13
Durability: 19
Speed: 17
I just noticed something , and that is that the scaling of ranks of players and grades of monsters are completely different.
I just reached Rank E but I would absolutely obliterate that E Grade Dire Wolf if I went against it , which means that Rank>Grade.
Also my skill Evolved I wonder what that's about.
"Check Details on skill Bloody Critical Strike."
[Bloody Critical Strike]
[When your Health drops under 50% there is a 10% chance for a Critical Strike which deals 3 times the amount of normal damage.
This chance raises to 50% when Health drops below 30%
This chance raises to 100% when Health drops below 15%]
"Close Status"
[Understood]
Well I surely became more powerful with reaching Level 5 , wait a minute I should probably do one more thing.
"Open Status and Switch Title."
[Choose the Title you want to use]
[Titles: The Murderer]
The Goblin Killer]
"I want to use The Goblin Killer Title."
[Understood , switching to The Goblin Killer Title now]
[Name Majo The Goblin Killer]
[Title: The Goblin Killer]
[Title Bonus: All of your goblin equipment has 15% increased quality]
"Close Status"
Having my Goblin Killer Title is definitely better than having The Murderer Title.
(Click)
Someone opened the door , it was Hwa-Young and Chinami. Chinami quickly ran towards me when she saw that I am awake.
Chinami - "Majo are you okay? Me and the others heard about what happened and quickly ran here."
Me- "Where am I?"
Hwa-Young - "This is the house of the local doctor , I really want to apologize to you for putting your life on line there."
Me - "It's allright I became quite stronger too."
Then I realized that I don't see Charlotte anywhere.
"What about that other girl? Her name was Charlotte right?"
Hwa-Young - "She is down in the room with the others they are talking to the doctor oh and don't worry I paid for your treatment already."
Me - "Wasn't that expensive? I did get hurt pretty badly afterall."
Hwa-Young - "Nah it was only 5 silver coins and even if it was more expensive I would pay for it , I was the one who put you in danger , so I have to take the responsibility."
Throughout our conversation Chinami was giving me a funny look so I simply asked her.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" I said with a funny tone.
"Oh nothing I just didn't know you were THIS close."
I wasn't sure if she is jealous or if she thinks we are going out but we are certainly not.
Hwa-Young - "Don't worry we are not going out."
She actually read my mind.
(Chinami blushed)
(Boom)
Mamadou barged in like someone who is ready to throw hands.
Mamadou - "Majo , glad to see you're awake. There's something important our group needs to talk
about , we learned some interesting information from the doctor. Can you walk?"
[Current Health: 96/185]
"Yeah I can let's go."
We met up with the others and went to the tavern we were staying at , there was all of us , including Charlotte , Fenhua and Hwa-Young.
Anders - "Let's cut to the chase , there is a dungeon somewhere in this area that was spotted recently."
Mamadou continued Anders's"speech".
Mamadou - "It's a dungeon that the eight of us could potentialy clear by ourselves , we know it's very risky but if we want to get stronger , this is the place."
Me - "How do you know we could potentialy clear it?"
Lisa - "The conversation with the doctor went pretty much like this."
(Back in Doctor's house when Majo was still out cold)
Anders - "Doc , do you know about any place with a bunch of monsters , that's nearby?"
Doctor - "Well , there was a goblin attack at a certain village yesterday , but the army of the Goblins was too big for it to be something ordinary. Rases , the Royal Guard Captain in this city sent a unit of his soldiers to explore the area and they found a Goblin dungeon."
Mamadou - "A Goblin dungeon? What's that?"
Doctor - "Right , I heard you came from a different world so you wouldn't know , allright let me explain.
In this world , monsters spawn at random places at random times out of nowhere. Of course there is a certain limit , like for example a Dragon definitely wouldn't spawn in this city , it just doesn't work like that. Once in a while a Dungeon spawns which can be anywhere from level 1 to 8 , level 1 means that it's a dungeon which a group of few average soldiers could clear. Level 8 Dungeon is something so strong that either thousands of soldiers have to go in and even then a lot of them die if not all of them or the strongest fighters in the world are sent. Thankfully Level 8 Dungeons were created only 3 times in the entire history of this world.
Charlotte - "What if , you left a Dungeon where it spawned and acted as if nothing happened?"
Doctor - "Monsters will eventually start coming out , this is the case with the dungeon that the Royal Guard soldiers found. It's a level 1 dungeon which was hidden , dungeons come in all sizes and shapes , the bigger and more terryfying the dungeon looks. The stronger it is.
Chinami - "So there's no way to measure the level of Dungeon? The soldiers just guessed that it's level 1 because of how it looks?"
Doctor - "No , there are people that can measure the levels , they have some special power , I don't know the details but that doesn't matter , these soldiers are
professionals. They know what a level 1 dungeon looks like."
Mamadou - "Could we enter this dungeon?"
Doctor - "There's a guild in this city which puts up missions , the dungeon has been found already so I expect the quest to come up soon."
Anders - "Thanks for the information."
(Present time)
Lisa - "Well anyways that's what happened."
Mamadou - "We were thinking of taking this quest but we decided to take a vote first."
Me - "So Charlotte , Hwa-Young , you're coming too?"
Charlotte - "I want to level up and I also finally met some other players , so yeah I'll be tagging along."
Hwa-Young - "Same thing as her."
Mamadou - "Well anyways let's take the vote. We'll do it like this , to not influence eachother...
Mamadou gave everyone a piece of a toothpick.
Mamadou continued - "We'll all close eyes and , the ones who don't want to go to the dungeon will place it in their pockets , the ones who want to go will place the toothpick in the middle. If majority votes for not going we won't , if majority votes for going we are all going , but if you don't want to go we can't force you , do you guys agree?"
Chinami - "What if the vote is even?"
Anders - "Let's hope that doesn't happen."
Everyone agreed without a problem.
Everyone closed their eyes , I placed my toothpick in the middle , I want to get stronger to avenge my mother...
Mamadou - "Did everyone place their toothpick."
Everyone answered yes.
We opened our eyes and to my surprise , all of the toothpicks were in the middle.
Fenhua - "Well that was unexpected."
Anders - "Allright simple then , we are all going. I think we should leave early tommorow morning , Majo still hasn't fully recovered , same goes for Hwa-Young and Charlotte. We have to be in the best shape if we want to clear this dungeon."
Everyone agreed with Anders's opinion. This 8 member team is looking pretty good so far.
We decided to meet back at the tavern.
I decided to buy better gear at the market , I sold the items I got from killing Anna. After selling it I was left with 14 Silver coins (including the money I had before). I was not sure if I could buy anything with this but I searched around the market.
A lot of traders tried to scam me , telling me that their equipment is high quality , well I don't blame them , they don't now that I can tell what grade an item is by equipping it.
After searching for a while I finally found something interesting , it was a black shirt made out of material that's used quite a bit in these parts from what I heard from the other traders.
It's silk , but it's much more durable than silk , even though it looks like a completely normal black shirt.
Equipment: Helmet: None
Cloak: Torn Black hoodie [F Grade]
Body Armour: Silkium Black Shirt [E+ Grade]
Leg Armour: Black pants [F Grade]
Guess what , the name is quite similar too , I swear that God Of Knowledge has to do something with this.
The trader offered it for 6 Silver Coins , the sun was about to set , I had no time to search for other stuff.
I gave him the 6 Silver Coins and then sold him my shirt , he gave me 5 Bronze Coins for it. That's a lot considering it was torn , but there is some use for it I guess...
I started going back to the tavern and on the way back I met Fenhua.
I started the conversation
"What were you doing?"
"I was just walking around the city looking for some relics , then I found this relic shop."
I completely forgot that I wanted to go there and buy myself a relic too. Crap.
"Did you find anything interesting?"
"The Relics are quite expensive actually , the best relic I found was a B-Grade but it was being sold for 50 Gold coins. And it was on sale too..."
"Well that surely is quite expensive , what about some F or E-Grade relics?"
"I found and E-Grade relic that piqued my interest , it was this ring that grants you 20% increased damage when you are dual-wielding. And well I am dual wielding as you know. But it cost 3 Gold Coins so yeah too bad."
"How much do you have?"
"I sold some stuff I had and right now I have 1 Gold coin and 6 Silver Coins , I'd like to buy it when we come back from dungeon. After all we will be definitely going back to this city , because we have to claim the prize for clearing the dungeon."
(Note: There are Gold , Silver , Bronze and Copper coins and 10 coins of lower quality are worth 1 coin of higher quality.
For example: 1 Gold coin=10 Silver coins
10 Bronze coins= 1 Silver coin)
"That's right , wait did someone go to the guild?"
"Yeah Anders and Mamadou went there
together , let's hope it went well."
We approached the tavern , we were the last two to arrive.
Anders - "Now that we're all here let's get to the details of this job. Me and Mamadou went to the Guild and asked about the quest. At first there were some problems because we are humans but guess what. Portabella started working at the Guild."
Hwa-Young and Charlotte - "Who is that?"
Chinami explained to them about how we met her and who she is.
Anders - "Yeah that's pretty much it , anyways let me continue. She cleared all the misunderstandings and explained to us how dungeons work."
Mamadou - "In every dungeon there is one monster which is simply stronger than the others."
Lisa - "A boss?"
Mamadou - "You could say that , anyways when the boss is defeated the monsters stop spawning. And after 5 days the Dungeon collapses."
Chinami - "COLLAPSES?"
Anders - "Don't worry it's 5 days , dungeons are never that big."
Chinami - "Oh right of course."
(Chinami started laughing awkwardly)
Mamadou - "Well anyways the point of this quest is to defeat the "boss" , the boss should be a Goblin King because it's a Goblin dungeon. We are supposed to bring his head and then we will all get rewarded two Gold coins + all the loot in the dungeon."
Me - "So it's like a casino , you are risking your life for whatever treasures are there in the dungeon."
Anders - "That's one way to say it. Well that doesn't really matter our main goal is to level up."
We discussed our strategy for clearing the dungeon and the old members didn't change their positions.
And for the new members:
Charlotte - Rear guard (same position as Anders)
Hwa-Young - Flank (same position as Chinami)
After discussing our tactics and strategy we ate dinner and went to sleep.