Chapter 7 - Goblin Village

Ryan was still staring at that last part of the system message, what did it mean by the dungeon has also leveled up?

He had never heard of something like that, maybe it was one of the reasons why the Paradox Dungeon has been uncompleted until now.

'Fighting the beasts here, would just lead to the dungeon leveling up even more, I need to find out the source of it's power.' Ryan thought, but his thoughts were suddenly interrupted by the loud screeching of goblins.

Ryan stared before him, all the goblins who had previously been fighting Von and Jack, had suddenly dropped to the floor, and began screaming in pain.

'What's happening?' Ryan asked himself, he had read extensively on dungeons, so he knew that something like this wasn't meant to happen.

[The beasts are currently adapting to the changes in the dungeon, and as such, they are beginning to evolve into E ranked beasts.]

"Kill everyone of them." Ryan screamed loudly, he knew if these goblins were to rise as E ranked beasts, then everything would become much, much harder for him.

'I need to find whatever is making these beasts evolve, and I need to do it quickly.' Ryan thought to himself, he took a step forward, but his attention was quickly drawn by Jack.

"Where are you going?" Jack asked Ryan, while stomping on the head of a goblin, killing it before it could evolve.

"I need to find something, Rachel, come with me." Ryan said, Rachel had proven herself useful seconds ago, and he intended to keep her close, she was carrying his half brother after all.

Status.]

[Name: Ryan RoyalBlood.]

[Age: 18.]

[Level: 2.]

[EXP: 0/200.]

[Status: Player.]

[Ability: Summoner.]

[Grade: SSS RANKED.]

[HP: 100/100.]

[Talent Points: 50/50.]

[Skills: 4.]

[Strength: 10.]

[Speed: 10.]

[Agility: 10.]

[Attribute Points: 5.]

[Gods unlocked: 0]

'Dump all 5 attribute points into speed.' Ryan said, he wanted to move as fast as possible, or he risked Von and Jack suffering a cruel fate.

"Get on my back." Ryan said, he knew Rachel wouldn't be fast enough to keep up with him, which was why he decided to carry her on his back.

Rachel did as she was told without arguing, she had seen the power Ryan possessed, and she knew he could protect her from whatever came their way.

[Hermes Feet activated.]

Ryan's body blurred, bursting forward with an immense ammount of speed, before coming to an immediate halt, Hermes Feet only gave short bursts of speed, and couldn't be used for a sprint or somethingike that.

Ryan looked around, he was trying to find anything, anything irregular, that could at least give him an idea of where he was going to, until he spotted a small exit leading out of the cave.

Ryan's body blurred once more, and the next second, he had been hit with the shock of his life, usually dungeons were limited spaces, maybe at most the size of 20 football pitches, and the size varies depending on the rank.

"No wonder, nobody has ever cleared the dungeon." Rachel said, as her eyes observed what was standing before her. "They has never witnessed the actual dungeon." Rachel said as she stared at the goblin village below her.

Most people would have assumed that the small cave they appeared in was the cave, but they were dead wrong, there was an entire village outside the cave, which was well lit and filled to the brim with goblins.

The entire village was made of mud houses, which lacked any real architectural intellect, but what was shocking was their number, there were about 50 houses here, and in the center was a big house, which resembled a small palace.

'My best guess is that whatever I'm looking for is in that palace.' Ryan thought to himself, he was abput to head directly to the palace, when a thought suddenly crossed his mind.

If he killed all the goblins in those goblin houses, then he would have a massive level up, and would be able to diminish the numbers of goblins Von and Jack would have to fight against.

"Rachel, stay here, and if you see anything, call me." Ryan said, and with that he vanished, he went straight into the first house he saw.

He opened the door to the first house, and all he could see was a single goblin, convulsing on the floor, he wasted no time putting it out of it's mysery.

[+10 EXP.]

[+1 beast crystal.]

A smile appeared on Ryan's face, he spent the next 30 minutes going door to, killing whatever goblins he found in their homes, and at the end of it all, he had killed 35 beasts, leaving 350 EXP and 36 beast crystals.

Status.]

[Name: Ryan RoyalBlood.]

[Age: 18.]

[Level: 3.]

[EXP: 50/300.]

[Status: Player.]

[Ability: Summoner.]

[Grade: SSS RANKED.]

[HP: 100/100.]

[Talent Points: 50/50.]

[Skills: 4.]

[Strength: 10.]

[Speed: 15.]

[Agility: 10.]

[Attribute Points: 10.]

[Gods unlocked: 0]

[E ranked skills cannot be upgraded using F ranked crystals, to upgrade an E ranked skill, you need 100 E ranked crystals.]

'Shit.' Ryan cursed internally, he thought he would be able to upgrade his Zeus Thunderbolt skill, that was the one skill he had a bit of proficiency in.

[F Ranked Skill: Hermes Step has been upgraded to E Ranke.]

[F Ranked Skill: Hercules Fist has been upgraded to E Rank.]

Ryan smiles as he stared at his new improvements, he wasn't fully sure if he was ready for the Goblin King, but he didn't have a choice, he needed to deal with whatever it was that threatened their lives.

"Let's go." Ryan said to Rachel, and she hopped on his back once more, in a few seconds they had arrived at the makeshift palace.

Ryan had to admit that he was impressed, for a bunch of goblins, they had actually managed to build a big palace.

Ryan charged through the palace gates, destroying it with a single attack from his Hercules Fist skill, but he couldn't have been more unprepared for what stood before him.

'Why are there D ranked beasts here??!!'