"L-Level 9!?!" His eyes widened upon hearing this, in all the years his been working here in this city from a teacher to finally his current position as Principal.
There has never been a student to reach level 9 before, the highest was 27 years ago when a student reached level 7.
So Michael reaching this level expicited him greatly, as there was a high chance of him getting into a good academy.
Violet on the other hand wasn't all that impressed as she was level 11 when she took her test, not to mention that isn't the highest in their family's history.
They all continued too watch on as Michael lazily made his way too the dungeon, not caring for the students he just looted.
Even now he pulled out some of his newly acquired food to snack on.
Coming to a stop in front of the entrance too the dungeon everyone focused their attention on him, all but falling off their chairs wanting to know which difficulty he would choose.
"Hmm let's see..." Michael ate a piece of jurky as he checked the dungeons information.
[ Horned Rabbit Den - Lvl 10 to 15 ]
[ Normal, Hard, Nightmare ]
"Hmm (Chewing) Let's see Normal, Hard or Nightmare.... ( More chewing), now what would Victor do? .... Hmm well (Even more Chewing) he would use his weak skeletons to distract and fight monsters, his wolf would act like a tank and to finish off monsters...
As for that rat well... (New piece of jerky) it'll only really be useful for distraction or drawing over monsters, so he would basically use his Summons to distract or tank damage for him while he kills them with mage."
"After all his magic attacks are quite good for our level, especially considering that he has both physical and magic damage magic." Michael tried to think about Victor's actions, as too get a good gauge of how many monsters he would kill.
This allows Michael to get a estimate of how many monsters he'll have to kill to stay on the same level.
It isn't that Michael is weaker than Victor, in fact it's the opposite at this moment, as Victor hasn't had the time to learn magic yet.
But Michael has been training since he was four, so Michael only has to get used to using his skills and abilities before training them.
So even though Michael would basically win against any other student here in Flora City, as his talent, body, skill and experience was just that much better.
But this doesn't mean that he could keep up with Victor's rate of killing monsters, as Victor just could draw large amounts of unintelligent Monsters over and not worry too much.
Allowing him to kill them at his own pace, especially considering that even though his skeletons are much weaker that the monster, they are nearly unkillable.
As most monsters around the city only operate off of instincts, so as long as they don't attack the skull of the get go, then it's already too late.
As the soon get swarmed by Victor's other skeletons, a skeleton would or killed by one of Victor's spells.
Hell Victor could just go to areas with weak Monsters and only use his Summons, without the need to use any magic other than resummoning in dead summons.
So Michael would be lying if he wasn't a little worried about being left in the dust.
"Well then I'll try out Hard, and if it's easy enough I'll come back for nightmare later.." Michael's muttering shocked everyone watching on.
Not about what he was saying about Victor as they didn't understand, instead it was about coming back if it was "Easy" to do it on Nightmare mode.
"What does he think he's doing?" The Principal became nervous as he didn't want Michael, who he now saw as a talented genius to retire early from the exam.
"Over estimating himself." Jin who had gotten off the ground and shut up earlier, but he still couldn't help but sneer as he rubbed his bruised face.
Violet was completely unbothered by both Michael's and the people around her actions.
Even though she didn't know anything about Michael's class or abilities, but she did know what training he has gone through and experience he has accumulated over the years of training.
So she was confident in the hours, days and years of hard training he has undergone, even after being sent to this city away from the family, he didn't stop training instead he increased its intensity.
Walking through the portal that appeared in front of him, on the over side he found himself in a hilly grass land.
"Now where are you little guys at?" Michael looked around for the monster from the top of the hill he found himself on.
"Oh you're over there." Michael found a group of rabbits eating grass.
[ Horned Rabbit (Elite) - Lvl 10 ]
[ Horned Rabbit (Elite) - Lvl 10 ]
[ Horned Rabbit (Elite) - Lvl 11 ]
Michael checked his stats one last time in preparation before fighting these rabbits.
[Name: Michael Knight]
[Title: None ]
[Class: Necromancer Knight (Special Class/Legendary)]
[Level: 9 (21.4%)]
[Blessings: Champion Of ???? (Lvl 1), Blessing of ??? (Lvl 1), Soul Offering (Lvl 1) ]
[Attributes:]
| Constitution - 150 + 5 (155) |
| Strength - 150 + 5 (155) |
| Agility - 100 + 5 (105) |
| Intelligence - 50 + 15 (65) |
| Spirit - 50 + 15 (65) |
[Equipment: Fire Helmet set (Iron), Fire Chestplate (Iron), Fire Gauntlets (Iron), Fire Leg Armor (Iron), Fire Boots (Iron), Fire Sword (Iron), Fire Shield (Iron) - Set Bonus All Stats + 5, Storage Ring (Gold) ]
[Class Skills: Death Slash (Lvl 2), Death Fortitude (Lvl 2), Death Drain (Lvl 1), Death Grasp (Locked), Skeleton Steed (Unusable) ]
[Skills: Hot Blade (Lvl 1), Shield Slam (Lvl 2), Throw (Lvl 1), Block (LVL 2), Parry (LVL 1), Absorption (LVL 1) ]
Nodding Michael drew his sword and pulled his shield off his back before walking down towards the unexpecting Horned Rabbits.
"Now let's get started." His words caught the attention of the Rabbits.
Turning to Michael the rabbits stared at him for a second or two before separating, as they hoped with speed a normal rabbit would never have.
Michael relaxed his shoulders as all three rabbits attacked, one on the left and right with the last head on.
They attacked by jumping at their enemies and impaling them with the sharp spiral horn on-top of their heads.
In fact they were quite cute and popular with young and old girls as pets when tamed.
Especially when the horn on-top of their heads make them look like mini unicorn.
But don't like their looks fool you as they can be quite deadly, as they quick, small and attack in groups.
They're even harder to fight in tight small enclosed areas, as while your mobility is restricted theirs isn't.
So they made for a very deadly enemy for newbies, but didn't provide much of a challenge to experience fighters outside of the strength of the attack and the sharpness of the Horn.
As the power was enough to dent armour, break bones or push over tanks and the Horn can puncher armour, flesh and bone.
So too fight them effectively you have to nullify the Horned Rabbits main attack.
And we'll Michael just so happened to have three abilities that allowed him to navigate or weaken the attack.
Using his new large rectangular shield, Michael swiped his left arm out bashing the rabbit in front of him while taking a step forwards.
"Crack" The sound of bones breaking spread as the shield came into contact with the neck of the Rabbit, breaking it's neck.
While the other two just missed Michael, Michael smiled as his sword slash down upon one of the rabbits in the air.
Blood squirted out as it's head was separated from it body.
"Two down, one too go." Michael smiled before raising his sword to the left like he was about to slash.
But unexpected too the rabbit that was ready to dodge, instead of slash he threw the sword.
"Pewch" The sword stabbed right into the Horned Rabbits body pinning it to the ground before it started to struggle in pain.
Unbothered Michael walked over to the rabbit, placing his foot down on the rabbit and pushing it into the ground he pulled out his sword before finishing off the rabbit with a single slash.
"Now let's go find your friends." After collecting the loot Michael moved on looking for more.
The ease at which Michael dealt with the Horned Rabbits stunned the teachers.
Michael didn't look like a student who had just gotten his class, instead he looked like an adventure who has at least a year's experience at the worst.
Michael moved forwards encounting groups of horned rabbits along the way, using different techniques and strategies to kill them quickly.
Soon he came to a stop in front of a large hole in the side of a huge hill.
"It's the second area!"
"It'll be far harder to fight the Horned Rabbits in such a small area."
"Yes his attack method will be severely limited, without any room to swing his sword."
Going into such a small tight space will limit those within it, as if your not using a small weapon then you have to watch how you attack.
So that you weapon doesn't get stuck in the wall or bounce off, and even then if your using a greatsword, war-axe or warhammer.
Well then your stuffed if there isn't enough room to use it, and hey you could even hit your teammates by accident as your so bunched up.
Hell there are even stories of shields getting stuck or are unable to fit, so underground tight areas are literally a nightmare for everyone but basically dwarves and gnomes as they love living underground.
So everyone was wondering how Michael who fight the Horned Rabbits in their own home ground.
Michael using his sword did a few practice swings to measure how much space he'll have.
"Hmm, not enough space..." Seeing that he didn't have enough space to even generate a quarter of his slashing power only left him with stabbing.
But this would limit him greatly as stabbing would be too slow and limiting especially against such small fast enemies.
So Michael sheathed his sword and pulled out a long dagger that looked exactly the same as Victor's.
23 centimetres long black metal blade, dual edged coming together at a sharp pointy tip, a short crossguard to protect the users hand and fingers.
Silver leather rap grip around the handle, giving it a perfect grip, and finally the pommel was a round metal ball made of the same material as the blade and crossguard.
Overall it was a simple beautiful weapon, that was absolutely perfect for such a tight area.
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(Author Here, so after much deliberation and discussion, I've decided to change the equipment system as it just felt too much like a video game.
Especially with what I'm planning, so a in-depth exploration will be given soon but I just want to give you some info before that.
First equipment outside of set bonus, special and unique equipment, there will no longer be any increase to the wears/users stats.
(Like how does a sword increase you strength? Like what was I thinking? Like my original thought was that it helped with mana circulation... Nevermind it's not important)
Instead equipment will have either abilities, defence/resistance bonuses (elemental, magic or physical), sharpness, mana conductive, elemental bonuses or other stuff.
Hopefully this change helps make the equipment seem more important and easier to write and understand, both for you and me.
Thank you for understanding and sorry for the change :)