Approaching the dungeon Andrew looked forward to see a large friend group up ahead waiting in line, they were chatting happily to pass the time. Andrew couldn't recognize most of the faces inside of the group by name. but he remembered seeing a couple of them around john.
"Bro, I can't believe that we can do this all day now. I can't wait to blow a goblins head off while swinging my axe like a bat." he imitated his action on his buddy.
"Woah, dude, might want to chill out. You saw the last nerd to come out of the box was messed up." he lifted his hands up defensively.
'Gross' Andrew thought as he stood behind them. While they were making some sense in a way, he found the group to be rather carefree. He shook his head to himself as he opened up his system to go and see his progress. Which was looking up compared to most people in his knowledge
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Andrew smith (fire user)
Str: 12
Int: 11
Cha:5
dex :14
Bonus stats:
Wis: 30
Mana : 300/300
Spells:
[Item transport (level 1): allows movement of objects telepathically][Light distortion(max) : distort the color of anything you see)
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'I wonder if acquiring a spell that requires mana unlocked that stat. This is sure some complicated stuff' andrew thought looking through the small menu in front off him.
'System, change element attributes too light and space.'
[element attributes changed. Soul enhancing cooldown: 9 min 58 sec]
'Thanks' Andrew replied in his head without a second thought. He lifted his eyes from the screen to look around for a bit. The sky was a dim blue with an orange tint as the sun crept its way out from the other side. The morning dew on leaves slowly dripped onto the path.
The cobbled path that led to the dungeon sprawled outward as the pathing opened directions to each of the facilities.
Andrew looked in front of him to find that it was soon to be his turn. The door opened once more but a young girl exited from inside in a hurry covered in scars and blood. Her clothes torn and rugged, a not so appropriate sight. Tears in her eyes as she ran towards the dorm with double the speed as a normal person. Which wowed the others if they weren't ready interested in the situation.
Andrew gave a quick glance of interest but retreated it just as fast. Multiple people could be seen retreating away from the dungeon in thought. This was the first time many of them have seen someone get even remotely injured. But this was not the time or place to be worried, he turned forward and entered the open door
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Andrew Smith, welcome back!
Floor (2,2)
continue?
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"Yes"
His surroundings returned back to the warmly lit cave, three more humans spawned in front of him as he looked towards them. He noticed that the leader was the same person from before.
"Seems like i had nothing to worry about" he muttered to himself and threw himself forward. He took the sword that spawned with him and prepared to swing down on one of the lackeys but was blocked by the leader's sword.
Andrew retreated fastly as he saw the third guy prepare to strike him.
'Looks like we got to try a different approach.' He looked at the three and noticed that while the leader had an axe, the other two both had swords with varying size. One was a two handed great sword, the other was a quick one handed blade.
"You got some speed twerp, but you're going to need more than that to defeat me." He bellowed with the excitement of a fight.
The man with the short sword ran forward with the intent of using his mediocre speed to catch Andrew off guard. This backfired immediately once he raised his sword behind his head.
"When using speed, don't move your sword against momentum" he noted to himself, from a young age he has been watching fighting tournaments on his small holographic television. He would note all faults and what the other person did to use that fault. But he would also try to take what someone did amazingly and try to find how to avoid that as well.
He used this opportunity to slash the thin assailant in half. With inhuman strength the task was difficult but doable.
"As I thought, learning from others' mistakes is much better than my own." he laughed and charged toward the leading barbarian. His face was distorted with anger and fear as Andrew charged towards him.
"Cliff deal with this bug." he growled as he took a step back.
The man holding a greatsword looked at Andrew with a smile and blocked his path to the barbarian.
'So they have names now… that's interesting. But compared to the last floor they now seem to have the ability to communicate. This may become a problem.' Andrew thought as he threw his sword over both of his confused enemies.
'Lets see if this works'
Andrew activated item transport on his sword mid air and waited for it to line up behind the barbarian who was looking at the sword with a dumbfounded expression. Once it leveled around his chest level he commanded the sword to come back to him.
The sword gained a purple glint as a small field of light purple spawned around it. The sword gained massive speed and caused visible air tracks as Andrew commanded it to return.
The sword punctured the Barbarian's stomach with ease as it slammed into his spine. Exploding his body in two with the vibration. But it approached the second man with a massive difference in speed and it was dodged with ease. The sword glided all the way back to Andrew's commanding hand.
"Well I gotta say, that was badass." he laughed as he stared at the bloodied mush that used to be the barbarian.
Not wasting any time he ran towards the last assailant, planning on beating him swiftly.
Cliff stood there in horror looking at his oncoming death with resentment. He swung his greatsword with all of his strength as Andrew's sword collided with his shoulder.
"GAH, FUCK YOU" He yelled as he brought the greatsword down onto Andrew with all of his remaining strength with shaking knees.
Andrew smiled as he withdrew his sword, saving Cliff's life in order to dodge the oncoming attack.
The greatsword's presence alone granted a slight weight on Andrews shoulders as he leaned back to let the blade pass in front of him. The greatsword passed with Immense speed and the air around the blade retreated in great haste, causing his hair to flicker up and down. Cliff tried to stop the swing but since he thought he was going to die with Andrew's strike he put his whole body into it.
As the blade continued on Cliff tried to stop its movement but was sadly unable to as the sword continued to swing around him. A loud POP could be heard as Cliff's shoulder was thrown out of place.
The greatsword collided with the ground behind him and Andrew swung his sword at Cliff's neck who could only bite his tongue with anger as his body turned to blue shortly after.
Andrew stood there with excitement for the upcoming battles, he was bored of sitting around and studying so fighting was bringing out a more energetic side of him
'I can't wait till they can use spells like me. ' He smiled with his mouth agape in a smile and stood there for a minute before looking in front of the crumbling wall. Another stone door was revealed.
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Floor (2,2) cleared.
Dex +1
Would you like to continue?
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"yes"
Andrew looked around as his surroundings slowly morphed to open more area. Feeling that progress wasn't nearly moving as fast as he would like it too. As much as he was ahead, something felt urgent, like he needed to get ahead. Fast.
[you know, claiming mission rewards might help.]
"Ah…." He let out a stupid noise as he noticed one of his mistakes. But he caught it too late as four more barbarians popped into his vision.
It was the same three from a couple of minutes ago, maybe every floor adds one more bandit to fight. Andrew noted to himself as he took a step back.
'Light distortion' he tried to activate light distortion on himself to try and blend in with the environment. He tried to picture himself dissolving into nothing, he raised his hand in front of him to see it slowly disappear in front of him.
"Awesome." He smiled widely as he lifted his head. Now fully invisible, his opponents stood there with confusion. Looking around wildly as the head of one of their companions slowly rolled off.
The leading man yelled commands at the remaining two, as he began to swing randomly rapidly. Cliff was the only one who stood still seemingly in thought.
'Listening to my movements huh, smart one' Andrew thought as he ran to the poor sword user swinging around wildly and decapitated him with one swift motion. Causing his sword to be bloodied. Previously he was able to decapitate and clean off the blood quickly but now he saw cliff looking at his sword.
The blood ruined his concentration on the sword as it now had blood on it. The sword slowly revealed itself, floating in mid air.
"Too many goddamn requirements." He growled as he ran towards Cliff.
The barbarian also seemed to notice the moving sword but it was a little too late. Andrew used his massive speed advantage to move around Cliff's defensive sword block and once again. A head rolled down onto the floor, and it wasn't long for the leading barbarians head to hit the ground as well.
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Floor (2,3) cleared.
Str +1
Would you like to continue?
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Andrew ignored this message and opened up the missions tab on the small window in front of him.
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Congratulations!
Mission: kill 10 monsters
10/10 (complete)
Reward: 2 Str points.
Mission: Learn a spell
1/1
Reward: 2 Int points.
New missions!
Mission: learn a physical spell
Reward: gain ability to learn 2 more spells
Mission: kill 30 monsters
28/30
Reward: 3 Str points
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"Holy moly, that's a lot of stuff…. I swear. Why did they make you claim it? couldn't it just update immediately instead?"
[because that's what people wanted, to manage everything virtually is of most comfort and is very timely.]
"Fair" Andrew responded as he looked out in front of him at the floating floor message.
"But in all honesty, why was the main purpose of the system to fight. I've been wondering, but when it was announced it was more like an introduction to a sport or a new tournament rather than a breakthrough in the history of biology." Andrew said to himself shuffling off blood and cleaning his blade.
When did you start talking though?" Andrew said as he proceeded to the next floor.
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