Ash looks at the map of his city trying to decide on what dungeon to go to first.
The first one is Enchanted Grove, known for its expansive forests and lush jungles making it a nightmare to navigate through every floor along with various monsters that utilise poison and ranged attacks.
The second on is sky islands, known for its various floating islands and harsh winds, it's been determined that people who enter with less than 1000 Resistance end up having their skin torn off by the wind and those with less than 1000 strength die from falling off the islands. Only the top 10 people in the entire country have made it to floor 5 on this dungeon.
Last one is undead Graveyard, known for its low air quality and undead mobs, it's the easiest for explorers to enter and the church has a watchful eye on it as the church's holy magic allows the easy dispatching of the undead foes.
Ash decides to go to the undead graveyard, he goes to a blacksmith and asks to get a silver spear made, costing him most of his life's savings.
Silver coated steel spear
Level: 1
Durability: 100/100
Can kill undead foes
Skills: N/A
Silver in the country of Ivor is a rare metal as there are only a few known silver diposits and the number of people who use silver in weapons and jewellery is increadibly high causing the price to reach that similar to gold.
Ash walks towards the dungeon, finding its entrance just beyond the forest's edge.
Slowly entering through the wooden door he finds his breaths are short as his feet are in a slightly muddy ground, various skeletons slowly crawl along the ground towards Ash.
Looking around Ash sees 2 skeletons covered in mud walking towards him at a slow pace.
Skeleton (Closest)
Level 2/50
HP: 10
Resistance: 50
Magic: 5
Strength: 35
Speed: 5
Skills:
Undead recovery
Level: 1
Effects: slowly recovers HP and re builds its body even if they hit 0 HP. If they hit 0HP using silver weapons or holy magic this skill is ignored and the user dies completely. (Takes 120 seconds to recover 1 HP)
Skeleton (Closest)
Level 1/50
HP: 5
Resistance: 30
Magic: 5
Strength: 20
Speed: 2
Skills:
Undead recovery
Level: 2
Effects: slowly recovers HP and re builds its body even if they hit 0 HP. If they hit 0HP using silver weapons or holy magic this skill is ignored and the user dies completely. (Takes 110 seconds to recover 1 HP)
Ash smiles and prepares his spear, after watching various people fight using spears and his dad teaching him before he passed his confidence in attacking and landing a strike is extremely high.
With nearly blinding speed compared to the skeleton a swift slash and stab comes from Ash, slicing a shallow gash in the skeletons ribs and shattering its skull. It's bones rattle and fall to the ground definitely dead, Ash moves to the second skeleton and delivers a similar blow, leaving deeper cuts in the solid bone.
Ash uses his black hole skill on the two skeletons, a gust of wind blows into Ash from all sides as the bones disappear into nothing.
"Consuming Skeleton level 2, +2 resistance, +1 strength."
"Consuming Skeleton level 1, +1 resistance."
Ash looks disappointed at the increase gained from the skeletons, he decides to continue forward in the creepy muddy graveyard with low lying fog and dead trees.
He stumbles across a pile of bones, intrigued he decides to use black hole again.
"Consumed Human Level 5 (dead for 4 weeks), +2 Magic."
"Consumed Human Level 8 (dead for 4 weeks), +1 Stength."
"Consumed Skeleton level 3 (dead for 4 weeks), +1 resistance."
"Consumed Human level 2 (dead for 2 weeks), +3 speed."
Ash's eyes goes wide and scared, three human remains scattered around where just consumed by him. He vomits instantly thinking about the dead bodies laying around him.
After gaining composure he heads forward, remembering some key information about the first floor, that skeletons are relatively weak when in small groups and you can kill them but to move to the second floor in this dungeon a party must obtain a skeleton key, the skeleton key is a single use item that can't leave the dungeon, to acquire it a party must defeat a skeleton guard. Skeleton guards are rare spawns and they spawn with two skeleton soldiers.
Ash continues wandering around, no skeletons in sight. A gust of wind fills the area as a skeletal bird flys around Ash, it lands as many gusts of wind burst from its large wings. Unable to dodge Ash quickly sees his HP drop down by 5.
Skeletal bird
Level: 5/75
HP: 30
Resistance: 35
Magic: 40
Strength: 5
Speed: 10
Skills:
Undead recovery
Level: 2
Effects: slowly recovers HP and re builds its body even if they hit 0 HP. If they hit 0HP using silver weapons or holy magic this skill is ignored and the user dies completely. (Takes 110 seconds to recover 1 HP)
Gust of wind
Level: 3
Effects: form 3 gusts of wind that target 1 or more foe, dealing magic wind element damage.
Ash grins as he charges with precision and speed. Compared to the skeletal birds movements Ash is increadibly fast. Land many blows against the bird before taking another attack. Leaving some shallow cuts and a few broken ribs.
Ash sees his HP drop to 40 and he quickly reacts getting back off the ground and launching another attack, killing the bird, the bird's bones rattle and clunk together as they fall to the ground.
Ash takes a seat deciding that it's enough combat for today. Using black hole he consumes the skeletal bird.
"Consumed skeletal bird level 5, +3 magic, +gust of wind skill Level 1"
Ash grins as he heads back to the entrance as quickly as he can.