He decided to test the waters,
But before he could do it, he got a sudden notification.
He looked at the timer and saw that both timers are
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The dungeon has been updated to the DIFFICULTY MODE!
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Seeing this Leo sighed, smacking his lips in disappointment, He looked at the far North of that place spotting a White Vortex appearing.
Though he wanted to stay in this safe zone for more time he knew there is nothing he could do, The 1.5-hour break feels too short for him, he wish he could spend some more time in this place.
But suddenly something crept into his mind, his heart started to palpitate in the fear of that discovery being true.
As much as he loved being in this place, he did not want to waste that much time, but before he could question the system about this, the system answered him as it had heard his thoughts beforehand.
"This place is not affected by time, so the law of time does not run here, so as soon as you step out of this place, you start from the exact time you stopped... Got it"
Hearing its answer, Leo grinned as he just got some 'Evil thoughts'. According to what the System said, it means that this dungeon has a bog loophole, and he is not gonna let it go to waste... Could he?
But suddenly his 'Evil grin' turned to a Frown as he received an unwanted response.
"Don't even think about it, If you really think that you can spend more time than the usual time required then you're mistaken, if you follow up with your plan, first you will be forcefully teleported out, and your Stats and stats point would be halved in the process, and you will also lose your newly gained Super Thief skill."
Hearing this answer Leo frowned and gulped simultaneously, The punishment is severe so he cannot afford to stay back.
'My stats and start point halved, why am I hearing of this now, so the system has the ability to do all these'
'Master, most things in this dungeon are not under my control...you are the one that placed this. Restrictiono
'There it goes again'. Leo rolled his eyes upon hearing his words.
'Well Whatever, I need to get out of this fuckin place before my stats get halved because of forced teleportation
With this in mind, he quietly walked to the vortex, flexing his newly grown arm simultaneously, It was now that he noticed that the burning pain had stopped, as he was too focused on the rewards when it finished and the system didn't bother to notify him about it.
'I didn't tell notify you because, am not the one doing that, am not the one healing you, and my job is not to go about notifying you about every small thing'
'You could have just told me'
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Leo sighed at its silence, by now he was already in front of the vortex and could feel the actively swirling chaotic mana. He found a sense of comfort in that feeling.
Looking around the place one more time, engraving it deep into his heart as he knew that had would not be able to enter this place again till LVL 50.
After taking the last glance time he sighed again, this place would be engraved deep into his mind as it is an important part of his mind.
With that in mind, he walked towards the vortex, the vortex not wasting time sucking him into the void.
After he was sucked in, his sight blackened, and the void was so dark, that at first thought, he really did thought that he is now blind.
'Is there anything out there that's darker and more chaotic than Void itself' He clenched his fist with excitement.
He was not excited at that thought but the thought of him having an exceptional spatial affinity, of course, he did not have it currently, but that's the first affinity he wants to steal.
He knew how terrifying spatial attacks could be, and how awesome it is to teleport between short distances and far distances.
He is sure that when he becomes high-leveled, traversing through galaxies won't be a problem.
And he can't wait for that day to come, he is sure that the day he steals a spatial affinity would be the happiest and most exciting day of his life.
Soon the darkness disappeared without a trace, leaving him standing on his two feet.
But before he could take a look around the place a wave of cold assaulted him.
He knew what that means, so he subconsciously activated the Mana barrier, and the temperature of his skin reduced drastically.
If there is one thing that he knows right now, it's that he needs to finish this dungeon as quickly as possible.
Firstly, was that he is not able to reabsorb mana like normal because the Qi in the air is foggy. After all, it is mixed with a large amount of ice and frost elemental essence.
This in turn made his Mp reduce at a high speed because there was a reduction in the rate of natural converting of Qi to Mana before absorbing.
Secondly, was that the frost wave is doing his barrier no good, Thin and thick needle-like icicles about 2 to 7 cm were swirling around with the wind, many of them hitting his barrier time and time again, and with less mana for strengthening, it won't take long for his barrier to getting punctured.
He looked around, shivering at the sight in front of him.
The place looked like a no man's land for there is nothing he could use for direction, no sun, trees...nothing at all.
Everywhere was covered by thick mounds of snow, and Leo was sure that the snow is also down about 15-20 meters below where he was standing.
Ferocious winds were swirling around at an inhumane speed carrying along with them, icicles, it's similar to what you might call blizzard.
These Ice storms are many times stronger than the ice storms that usually occur almost half a century ago (30-49 yrs) before the Qi sensing era.
Sigh
'If only I have an affinity to the Ice element, at least my chances of survival would increase Because of my skin would be compatible with ice a little, but that's not the case'
'But master, you can also steal affinities once you fulfill the hidden requirements'