"I'm worried Aster." Alder was sitting on a couch enjoying the heat from the fireplace. Aster was pouring a drunk for her friend as she complained about her sorrows.
"About what? If you have a problem just tell the high priests. They should be able to help." Aster tool the two glass and settled down right next to Alder, extending her a glass of wine. "It's not that easy. I took in a new apprentice." "The worries of a master? Don't worry. No matter what, if it's someone you picked out, they will come out just fine." "I'm not worried about him disappointing me. I never had much hope for him. It was a stir of the moment decision. But he was leaking mana. Aster I have never seen someone leak that much mana. I had to give him one of my things. It still overflew."
"Mana cloak couldn't hide the mana?" Aster thought for a few seconds. "Are you certain it's just a class change? A simple class change won't be able to avoid the rings suppression." "I don't know. I never asked him. I'm afraid he might have gone over the edge. I'm telling you Aster, that aura was too strong, too powerful." "To scare someone like you, sister, he must be quite capable. Look at that, the queen of the muscle heads is scared of a little traveller."
Alder slowly sipped the wine, lowering her guard, letting the drink intoxicate her conscious. Aster adjusted her shoulder to support her little sister. "Maybe I should take a look at this apprentice of yours." Aster took another sip and joined her sister calming her head.
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"Well, if you can't handle them, we all are going to die," Anya said matter-of-factly. "My defence will hold. I'm more worried about you guys. I might not be able to hold the aggro of all of them." Looking back into the freshwater lake, the girls let out a sign. "There isn't much we can do. Why not try and pull one at a time?" Sicily said. "Their aggro range is quite high. I'm not sure if I can." Peter stared back at the alligators swimming in the lake.
Underwater Alligator LVL 32
HP: 16000
AP: 4300
DEF: 4000
The few closest to them stood idle waiting for the party to make their move. Even the slightest movement cautious as not to spook the target away. "They are patient. I think I can kill them. You guys just stay here for now." Saying that Peter entered the shallow lake and slowly approached the cautious predator.
Seeing the human approaching, the alligator hummed a bit sending a small vibration through the water. The other alligators were instantly made aware and turned to watch the show. It slowly approached Peter and pushed out to grab his legs trying to pull him into the water. To Peter, the alligator's speed was child play. Within a fraction of second Peter slew the head if the alligator and rushed for the second. The slaughter followed lasted only half a minute as almost four dozen alligators shocked by the inhuman speed were decapitated. "Looks like he was holding back before," Sicily murmured to Anya and Mary who witnessed the scene silently.
Your party killed x50 underwater alligator. Your party gained 12800 experience.
You gained 3200 experience. Please switch classes or complete promotion quest to prevent experience loss.
The trio followed him further through the lake. The party of four soon hit the bank as nothing was blocking their path.
Slithering Silvertongue ELITE LVL 34
HP: 126000
AP: 10000
DEF: 5200
Toxin, Bleed, Mana tear
A serpent was guarding the entrance to the tunnel behind them. Without any warning, the moment Peter entered the range of its weaker vision, it moved in his general direction exposing its fangs. Moving around the slippery serpent, Peter slowly slashed away its health. With no annoying summoning abilities the serpent soon lot it's life anticlimactic.
Your party killed slithering Silvertongue. Your party gained 4080 experience, poison fang, chest key.
You gained 1020 experience. Please switch classes or complete promotion quest to prevent experience loss.
Quest update: dungeon progress: 75%
The chest located at the corner of the room glowed inviting everyone's attention.
Sicily opened the chest to find a leather body armour perfect for her.
Serpentine Chest Piece(R)
Item level: 32
Defence: 720
Strength: 15
Agility: 15
Ability;
Evasion rate: +20%
Passing through the second phase of the dungeon easily, they reached a massive stadium-like structure. The roof of the place was magically enhanced to feel like the open sky. The broken podium one foot high at the centre resembled a fighting arena. There was all but one golem sitting in the middle with a chain attaching it to the middle.
Earth Shatterer BOSS LVL 35
HP: 240,000
AP: 12,000
DEF: 6,200
SPD: 10
Sandpile, Sandstorm, Landslide, Summon minions.
The golem looked at them unable to move even the slightest. To Peter, the golem was almost unreachable. With high defence enough to shatter his attacks, there was a very good chance they wouldn't be able to defeat this enemy, especially at their current level. Peter decided to assign the remaining of his stats to strength. The extremely high health meant that he would need a lot more time to deal with it. If he was lucky and the golem didn't hit him with any critical damage, this would be a similar fight from before. Shattering all of his beliefs, the golem started with it's summoning.
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The arena shook causing sand to raise slowly merging to form multiple smaller golem.
Earth Golem LVL 30
HP: 20,000
AP: 4000
DEF: 3000
SPD: 8
The trio quickly set into motion tagging two of the golems shifting their aggro to them. With barely enough defence to protect from an armour break, Anya fought with extreme caution. With the warrior's beefy vitality, the damage wasn't enough to kill her instantly and a well-timed Healing hand from Mary helped her keep going. Slowly the girls wrestled the golem down while Peter was focused on the rest trying to kill him. Most golems died on his third hit, making it easy as he pushed towards the giant one chained to the floor.
The close-quarter fight proved too hard for the golem due to it's the extremely slow body as Peter shaved its health slowly. After a few attempts to kill the 'human', the golem gave up, starting to use its long-ranged attacks.
Critical Hit (2.5x AP: 30,000 damage, damage absorbed 23120, damage reduced 90%, damage received 688)
Landslide lowered your speed by 50%.
'Thank God for the race change'
Peter quickly got back his bearing started fighting back again. Mary sending another healing hand refilled his HP. Anya and Sicily were barely outside the range of landslide, but the sudden shift in the terrain caused them to fall over. Peter picked up his pace as he started shaving his opponent's health. The golem ignoring his attacks started another mass summoning.
After a few seconds of chanting, another group of golems rose from the sand, two more than the previous once again forcing the girls back into the action. Although there were eight surrounding him, only two could attack Peter efficiently due to the limited space around him. Shipping through the gaps, Peter entered into a frenzy cutting whatever he could however he could.
Cutting down the golems resulted in another dip in the golem's health. Suddenly, the entire place froze as the golem underwent a modification reducing its 'muscle mass'. The stats if the golem changed along with the rest of the appearance pointing more at an agile warrior. The chain that held it to the ground fell off on the floor as the waist was too slim for it.
Earth Shatterer (modified) BOSS LVL 36
HP: 120,000/240,000
AP: 12,000
DEF: 4,200
SPD: 35
Sandpile, Sandstorm, Landslide, Summon minions.
As mindless as before the golem kept its slashing while trying to suppress Peter who was still a step ahead of the pile of sand. The sudden increase in the speed of the golem caused Peter to pause and readjust his tempo. Using the momentary pause, the golem sent another landslide causing Peter to get trapped in the sand again.
Critical Hit (3x AP: 36,000 damage, damage absorbed 23120, damage reduced 90%, damage received 1288)
Massive fatigue rushed through Peter due to the sudden loss in health. After the raging sand vanished, Peter quickly evaded the follow-through slash jumping away from the grasp of the golem. The golem started trying to pointlessly summon another horde which was instantly interrupted by Peter. With almost no health to handle another backlash, the golem tried to switch to another landslide which Peter stopped again with another reckless slashing. Putting everything it had into another landslide, the golem exploded right next to its attacker.
Critical Hit (3.5x AP: 42,000 damage, damage absorbed 23120, damage reduced 90%, damage received 1888)
Your party killed Earth Shatterer. Your party gained 12430 experience.
You gained 3120 experience. Please switch classes or complete promotion quest to prevent experience loss.
Quest update: dungeon progress: 95%
A small glow from what would be the stomach of the golem captured their attention. As Peter closed in for a better view followed closely by the girls, a shard made of Sand rose out and floated with a mild earthly glow.
Peter approached the crystal as it flew into his body. The mana shield shattered as the sand shard slowly merged with it. He felt his mana change as his body felt heavier due to the in used earth mana from the crystal shard.
Attunement to the earth element complete. Quest updated.
Passive Quest
3. Class promotion
Kill a BOSS tier or above threats and use its mana crystal to revive corresponding mana branches.
Receive Flame Crystal(0/1)
Receive Water Crystal(0/1)
Receive Earth Crystal(1/1)
Receive Air Crystal(0/1)
There were four chests around the place waiting to be opened. The passive girls suddenly got excited and they run ahead to open each one, Peter letting them enjoy themselves.
Shatterer's Greatsword(R) ELITE
Item level: 40
Strength: 620
Abilities;
Earth shatter: Send shock waves to lower the attack speed of the enemy by 50% on the terrain.
Landslide: Cause a small landslide with the caster at the epicentre. Has a chance to inflict Frozen.
Anya quickly snatched the sword hiding her drool. Before someone could argue, she put it away in her inventory causing a stare from the rest. She turned around"What? It was for me."
The rest of the items were generic armour and suited for heavy armour users. With Peter having a superior armour, he let Anya jeep the rest. Sicily led the others to the second chest. With another glow, a few items came out mostly enchanting stones, healing potions and one mana potion recipe. Peter picked up the recipe as the rest of them realized what his second crafting class was.
Recipe: Mana recovery potion
Soulbound: Peter
The trio shared the rest of the potions eagerly and proceeded to open the third chest. It contained two cloth armour pieces increasing mana, one staff with healing properties and a skill tome soul bound to
'Faithful'(Maya). The excited girl went ahead and took all the items into her inventory and starter checking out their properties. The last chest too was eventually opened. To everyone's surprise, it contained a mage skill tome and one blueprint to create Shatterers' unique weapons.
Skill tome: Landslide
Req: Earth Affinity
Mana cost: 200
Skill type: AOE (Medium)
Type: Single-use
Cast time: 3 seconds
"Bury the enemy under a pile of earth. Higher damage closer to the epicentre. Frozen status debuff."
The skill had a much stronger effect compared to the same weapon skill due to the increased range. Peter walked away further from the girls as he activated the skill tome and uses the skill. The land around him shifted causing him to feel a bit dizzy. The smooth twenty-five-meter radius area around him became rough as an after effect of the magic used.
Quest update: dungeon progress: 100%
Dungeon deed transferred to party leader Budding Rose.
You have gained the title: Dungeon Conqueror (world fame +10)
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Profile
Name: Peter
Race: illicote(L)
Title: Creative Artisan II(R), Knight
LVL: 21
Gold: 305
Credit: 48,413,624
Available points: 0
STR: 672
VIT: 200
AGI: 50 (max: 50)
INT: 172
AP: 6720
HP: 2000
SPD: 100
MANA: 17200
DEF: 5920 90%
Weapon damage: 510
Sword mage(L): T2 L11 (16179/16,500)locked
Blacksmith: T2 L18 (2294/13500)
Alchemist: T2 L11 (4840/5500)
Herbalist: T1 L11(0/5500)
Miner: T1 L10
World fame: 170
Blacksmith fame: 1050
Swordsman fame: 10