After Ace leaves Henry and Ellen at the dungeon, Ace heads home, quickly finding out its about a 3 week travel by foot he decides he will make pit stops along the way and learn more about the various dungeons in the area.
he summons his King Steel Fur wolf and races over to the next town, exploring the country side as he goes.
finding himself Windcoll City, A large bustling city known for its farmland and protective wall surrounding it. A nearby dungeon stands tall about 2 Kilometres away from the city. As Ace walks in the town's buildings are like nothing Ace has seen before. Huge towering Modern skyscrapers, Glass and steel everywhere. The people along the streets look at him in disgust as they are dressed in fancy dresses and suits while Ace adorns himself in unsightly armour and "Rags" as the city people would call it. Ace walks into a hotel and pays the outrageously expensive price for one night.
In the morning Ace heads towards the dungeon. The Dungeon of the Wind Islands.
As he makes his way to the entrance he spots a Lady emitting a powerful aura heading into the dungeon, he walks over to her and says hello.
"Hello? Who are you? You look like you should still be breastfeeding kid." The lady says as she turns away.
"I know I'm young but I'm Ace and I've managed to make it to the 3rd floor of a dungeon." Ace says in response upset by the comment she made.
She turns around instantly with shock in her eyes "So you are the one the others could stop talking about. I hope you know my protégé will be competing with you." She says as she walks into the dungeon without another word.
Ace runs after her entering the dungeon, As he enters he finds himself on a floating island no way to travel to any other island. He looks for the lady, only to find her in the sky flying forward. The lime green aura that surrounds her and how the wind elements flow into her and disappear displays the use of a blessing or skill using wind elements allowing her to fly.
"Man if only you could look at other peoples stats that would make life easier." He says to himself as he leaves the dungeon due to no way to progress.
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As Ace is about to leave the area of the dungeon a rumble could be heard as the dungeon behind him grows in size. Intrigued Ace wonders why, quickly he hears.
"Ding... good morning Ace this is the system here. As we discussed all the dungeons have received their 10th floor just now as the death toll within all dungeon across the world has reached 10 million. Good luck and for our sakes destroy these pests." Ace processes this and grows in concern.
"10 Million people have died in these dungeons! Why so many, I thought the guards where stopping people too weak from entering." He remembers Ellen and Henry and puts two and two together realising that the guards are not actually that strong and wouldn't be able to properly survey the dungeons before entering.
Ace continues on to the next town.
Ace makes his way to Crimson-light Village, a small village owned by the Crimson Clan.
As he enters is about 4pm and he is greeted by 2 Crimson Clan Knights.
"Oi... No entering without winning a game in the arena." They say pointing to a small arena outside of the town. The crimson Clan are known for their love of fighting and use of Fire elements.
Ace grumbling heads over to the arena, he signs up and was told it would be 2 hours till he could enter. Ace waited around the lobby eating the minimal rations he has left.
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Ace finally after two hours gets called into the arena. finding himself walking into a fire lit Dome of protection. A protective barrier to protect the hundreds of watchers from attacks and damage.
As Ace enters a guy named Tye, a thin but muscular build and tall, he walks out with Monk style robes. Ace senses around him and notices he doesn't use any particular element, Ace gets a bit worried about this.
As the bell rung Tye charges at Ace matching ordinary speed with Ace. Ace quickly activates Lightning Haste. Tye was almost in Slow Mo as Ace moved, Ace draws his sword and within an instant strikes Tye in the arm, Ace uses the blunt side of his sword to avoid dealing fatal damage. The crowd boos at Ace and as that happens a powerful aura emanates from the barrier reducing Ace's stats and boosting Tye's stats.
With a grin Tye grabs Ace and punches him, Ace before getting punched activates Stat Boost and Mystic snare. Quickly Ace is sent backwards a few metres as Tye finds himself unable to move.
"So this is a fight to the death?" Ace yells to the crowd. The crowd yells in agreement.
Tye's eyes goes wide as Ace easily withstood the punch he just dealt which usually made people into a bloody puddle on the floor. Tye tries to move to attack Ace but finds he can't move.
"You bastard why cant I move?!" Tye yells at Ace.
Ace looks at Tye and giggles, "I used a blessing that's stops you from moving and now I'm going to win this." Ace says as he slowly walks over to Tye, Once Ace reaches Tye he brings his sword down on Tye's neck and instantly beheads him.
the crowd goes wild cheering for Ace as the barrier disappears and storming into the arena is a big hulking guy yelling about Tye's death and how he was super strong. Ace is grabbed by this man, only to find that Ace has grabbed the man's throat and is choaking him.
"Now take the loss or fight for him" Ace says as he lets the man go.
The man yells out to start a new fight and the barrier reforms. Upon the barrier reforming Ace feels all of his blessing become locked. The guy smirks and says "I got your blessings locked so I could pummel you."
Ace walks over to the man with Lightning haste still active and Ace activating Aura Condensing along his fists. The man opens his arms preparing for a punch from what he thinks is a weakling. Ace still a good 3 metres away, launches at him and within a blink of an eye the crowd finds Ace on the other side of the arena and a giant hole in the man's chest where Ace landed a punch.
The crowd goes wild and Ace walks out being rewarded 10000 coins. Ace laughs at how easy that was.
He heads into the village and gets an inn for the night.
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