"Hey, how are you doing?" Lucy made sure she visited Yulia every day, sometimes twice, and she would usually spend some time there before leaving. Of course, when she visited after the test in the dungeons, she explained to Yulia everything that happened and how Ren even donated some of his points to Yulia.
"Guess what happened today? I bet you wouldn't be able to even if I give you a hundred tries." Lucy was adamant that Ren had some feelings for Yulia, but Yulia herself didn't think so, even though in the end she was pushed to that line of thinking by her friend.
After the initial tests in the mock dungeons, a kind of ranking system appeared. Together with gaining merit points grading points were also distributed, and these point were going to play an important role later on during the graduation of the students. Of course, it was because the grading determined how well the student would be treated after they graduated from the academy and what kind of battlefield they would be posted to. That is was by the way, though…
Two days later after the rankings appeared, it was no surprise that Ren was at the top of it, after all he contributed the most in his team basically carrying it, and definitely no other person did that in their teams. Luckily, the academy system didn't really encourage fighting between students as they wouldn't get the points of the other person if he or she was beaten, neither could these points be transferred, so one less reason to bully the weak. Regardless, there were still those that gained satisfaction from bullying the weak.
"Tomorrow, we'll begin team mock raids, and it will be done once every week, starting next week, it'll be every Friday. Apart from the raids, you are now allowed to participate in raids on your own and enter dungeons, in or outside the academy." The instructor said.
It had been about two days since the initial test, and since Ren already knew this would happen, he came prepared. He was able to earn some money from selling off the equipment he got from the dungeons he had raided, so he was able to make some money and but himself a decent weapon. Instead of getting himself a sword, being a swordsman, he prioritized getting something that would aid ranged attacks, so shopping for weapons was more than cheap since Ren only bought a lot of iron pebbles, with his strength it would be very deadly.
[Inventory before]
-Large Battle Axe
-2 Health potions
-2 Stamina potions
-2 Force recovery potions
-2 vail of goblin blood
-Goblin chief's staff
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[Inventory after]
-2 Health potions
-2 Stamina potions
-2 Force recovery potions
-2 vail of goblin blood
.
Of course, with the effect of weapon throwing, Ren was definitely unto something there, the pebbles were the perfect weapons for him.
After the sparring class, Ren was about to leave when his teammates approached him with a fantastic idea. "Ren! Hey, we were thinking on raiding a dungeon today, what do you think?" Lucy said. Somehow, she always managed to take the lead when their team was concerned.
"That's a good idea, but I won't be joining you."
"Hey, I know it doesn't affect our points, but still…"
"It's of no use. Anyway, I'm leaving, see you guys later. Hey Yulia, how are you doing?" Ren was quite direct about his decision and didn't even sound like he was going to give any room to be convinced.
"Oh, uhm, I'm fine now." Yulia's voice was a bit shaky when she answered, probably because of the ideas Lucy had put in her head. Ren noticed, but he didn't think anything of it. Ren nodded his head lightly to show that he heard Yulia, then he left.
"What's his problem, refusing to raid with us even though he's headed there himself." 'What reason would he have to do this?' For whatever reason, Lucy was suspicious of Ren, but she couldn't figure out what the problem was.
"Hey, I'm sure he has his reasons, so let's not mind it too much." James said, trying to calm Lucy who was already getting quite angry.
"It's probably because he sees us as useless, right? I mean, he literally soloed the raid during the test."
"Um, you mean… we couldn't do anything to assist?"
"Hng… Hey, let's just go."
Where they were headed, and probably everyone else, was the portal station, where all the portals that led to all the dungeons were located. The dungeons here were the ones that could be cleared multiple times and not ones that close upon clearing. For these dungeons, the scientists still weren't able to figure out how it was possible, since they already knew that the dungeons were parts of other worlds that had been isolated. Well, Ren had gotten there like most others, and he already knew where to go of course.
'The 'dungeon of fallen warriors' should be this way.' This dungeon of fallen warriors, despite being a lower ranked dungeon, it was ever so as menacing as the name suggests. That was because it allowed from level 10 all the way up to level 25 to raid it. This also meant that it could be grinded to no return. But then again, 'the restriction on this one is placed by the military, if not it should be up to 30, the problem,' the problem why the army didn't allow raiding of the last five levels was because no one had ever returned alive. Well, the only person to ever return by using a return stone gave a very terrifying testimony, the strength of the monsters inside was far stronger than what a level 30 would be able to handle, even a level 50 team would have serious problems.
Of course, since those who are higher levels above level 30 cannot raid the dungeon since it's above their level, the dungeon remained with the same record.
"The reason people enter with the maximum team number of ten to be able to clear this is because even though the level of the enemies is normal for the dungeon, their numbers are too insane, and your saying you want to enter alone? Hey, do you want a death wish?"
Ren had passed through the portal leading to the dungeon, and because of the special nature of the dungeon, it had someone placed there to check those entering so they don't enter if they were above a certain level.
"Well, doesn't that mean I am just that powerful? Just let me through, there's no one in there now, so I can just head in right away." Even though the guard was adamant in trying to convince Ren in his own way, Ren was just as strong headed and wouldn't budge.
"Heh… Whatever, if you die, don't blame me, just go then."
"Of course…"