Chapter 13 : A Warrior's Trail (2nd Part)

"Congratulations! You are the first adventurer to discover the Lost Jungle, El Arthas. Said to have been lost since the dark era."

"You have gained the title, The Wanderer."

"Fame +500 and +10 Luck for being the first to discover a lost land from the dark era."

"Experience and item drop chance is doubled for 7 days, first monster will drop the best loot."

Chaos: Nice! Another one of those grinding spree in front of me. This will speed up the process of getting stronger. I hope the monsters here are not too high leveled but not below my level as well.. hmmm, better start.

Chaos had step through the vast jungle and as soon as he did, his enemy detection skill had detected several monsters in the area. Chaos unsummoned all his servants and stealthily went to one of the monsters he notice is alone in the vast area. Other monsters congregated numbering from 2-6 on one area, but this one monster on the map is alone and seems to be in the middle of a clearing. When Chaos arrived in the area, a lone monster is sitting in the middle of a clearing. Hundreds of bones of other monsters are scattered in the surrounding area from the middle where the monster is. Chaos thought, this monster must be the top of the food chain in this area. Edging a little more into the clearing, he noticed that the monster is a large bird. It's as large as the black wyvern he fought earlier and may be larger. Edging a little more closer and using all he learned about stealth from Master Asuna, he finally learned what the large bird is. It's a boss monster, and it's name is King Condor, a level 100 monster. Chaos pondered wether to try fighting this monster but erase the idea of thinking and go with his instinct, to fight. He formulated a strategy that will help even a little in taking down the boss monster. After few more minutes, Chaos had finish and proceeded with the plan. Chaos summoned his servant's one by one, then recover with potions and started the plan to defeat the condor.

Chaos had his servant, the lightning ram he named Virgil, charge straight to the condor. When the large condor notice Virgil's charging him, the condor releases a killing intent started attacking Virgil. Chaos unsummoned his servant Virgil which made the condor confused as the enemy in front of him disappeared. Next, without notice, he had Alucard activate "Sonic Wave" which increases the confusion of the condor. Adding to this, now that it has less to little protection or readines, Red release a howl which stopped the bird completely and followed suit with an all out attack on both it's wings. Chaos, earlier had check and deduce that it's still a bird species. Birds on it's wings has some part that is weaker than the rest. He want's to cripple even just one wing to prevent it from taking to the skies where it can take advantage and slaughter them. Chaos and Red, along with Edge and another servant named Azure, the slime attack at one single point on it's wings at the same time. Chaos summoned his slime servant on this occasion for it's acidic property, making it's defense go down more. Chaos's plan was effective, as the onslaught they released had severely damaged the condor's wing, crippling it. They tried to do the same on the other wing but the condor recovered it's sense and defended preventing the same fate to happen on it's other wing.

The second part of their showdown against the condor had commence. Without it's capability to fly, they were able to damage the condor to the extreme. After several confrontation, they were able to cripple both wings and this made the battle a bit easier. Before the end of the fight, Chaos had unsummoned both Red and Azure to prevent them dying. Once Chaos had delivered the final blow, he re-summoned all his unsummoned monsters to have them gain strength. Finally, they were able to beat the King Condor and Chaos was able to maximize the experience with all his summons and gained strength.

Chaos opened a door to his dimension after having his servant feed on the defeated king condor, and rest as most of them are still in critical condition. Chaos meditated to recover, then checked his inventory for any new weapon he acquired. There were two items that catches his eye. One is a pendant that is called "Temple Key Half". Chaos thought that if it's half, he has to find the other half to enter the temple he saw earlier from the distance. The second item is a japanese sword he recognize at first look. He was glad that he finally found the weapon the he's most proficient to but was nervous as he does not want to get disappointed if he could not use it. When he opened the item information, he breath a sigh of relief.

Murasame (Sword)

Type: Unique

-Forge by an unknown demon blacksmith. Said to be made from the bone of a legendary sky monster that had ruled the skies during the dark era.

-Emits a red aura when out of it's sheath especially when being used. May have a life of it's own and becomes stronger the more blood of the enemies it consumes.

Attack: 90-150

Durability: 449/500

Effect:

-Ignores 5% of enemies defense.

-Effects of "Vorpal" when cutting enemies. Can severe parts of opponent's body. Cripple effect +50%

-Fear effect +50%

Growth: Level 01 (0%)

Requirements:

Any Class

Level 60

Str 100

Dex 70

Chaos immediately equipped the weapon. Since it's a living weapon that grows, he wanted to use it more to level it up. Getting everything settled, Chaos went out from his dimension with his servants and looked at the map. He was looking for another monster that was alone just like the condor. This time, he found one on the other side of the forest. He quickly left to challenge the monster and get the other half of the key. Along the way, Chaos encountered high level monsters such as regular condors at level 70, crystal ligers level 60 and a giant snake called constrictor at level 60 as well. At the third quarter of the way to the monster's location, Chaos started encountering dragons but their names are drakes at level 70. There were many so his progress became much slower than before. The first time he fought a drake, it was overwhelming at first as the drake attacks aggressively. It has high attack power and defense and it also uses fire breath which gave him the more trouble. This drakes flies as well but not for a long period as their body were heavy to carry in the air. As Chaos progresses, he was able to learn it's weak spot, traits and movements, making his fight a bit more easier. When he reach the part of the jungle where it's meeting a clearing, this time, it was different. There were many rockes jutted out from the ground, and in the middle of the open field, there was a higher point where his target rested. It was a Crimson Drake Lord, also at level 100.

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Just like the condor, Chaos formed a plan, with the help of his servant's he was able to create a good counter measure against the drake also using the rocks to their advantage. When the fight started, as soon as the drake notice them, it immediately showered them with it's fire breath. However, with the rocks jutting out of the ground, Chaos and it's servant were able to hide, as well as confuse the drake on where each one is located. This is where they started their hit and run tactics. Since they have a fairly good idea at where it's weakness are from the normal drakes they fought earlier, they took advantage of it as well. Even though the drake were fairly strong, it was not able to cope with multiple attackers on all side, gunning at the weakest parts of it's body. It was also unable to take flight as it's wings were tattered early on when the fight began. It was the first part of the drake Chaos and his servants had disabled. Chaos was able to finally defeat the Lord Drake without much damage after two hours. It did had a fairly large health.

Chaos, happy with the results of the fight, went back into the his dimension and recuperated and wish to sort out his items before going to the temple. Inside, Chaos took out the two half pendant and when he do, the two half shines for a minute then when it faded, it was whole, called Forgotten Temple Key. Chaos had collected too many items, and since he does not sell them, the number of items he kept on his dimension has increased. He now have 3 rooms within his dimension. He had unlocked the option for light settings and floor/wall/ceiling editing. He was able to customize the 3 rooms. One room where he kept the extra large timeless food compartment, he made all the floors and walls tiled as he plan to make the room to serve as a kitchen. The other room, mainly for storage purposes made everything from the floors and wall tiled as well. Also, if he had a chance to go back to a village or town, he will request to buy shelves and more boxes, for now, the 4 boxes he obtained from the wolve's cave will have to do. The rest of the items he sorted are on the floor. Finally, the third room, where he plans to make as a living room, he made the walls and floors made out of wood. He adjusted the temperature as 25 degree celcius and the lighting not too bright but not too dimmed. Only things needed on it was tools to relax on and he can spend much comfortable time within his dimension. He made the rooms as the living room is in the middle and would be connected on all four sides with the other room as they become available.

He emptied his inventory once more and left the accesories he may need in emergency as well as extra potions, mana and food. As for the new soul cards, he binded them to himself as the two bosses he fought were fairly strong, he wanted to level them up soon as well. Chaos did not came out of his dimension immediately. He stayed inside longer and read all the books he had gotten earlier. 3 of the books were skill books. He was glad as he was not planning on returning to a town to get supplies. He learned "Equipment Repair", "Grilling", "Chakra" as well as gained the title "Bookworm". This increase his reading capability so he was thankful with the title. It was all useful books, most likely, the wanderer was also the owner. He also read the others the other elemental books and doing so increase his elemental resistance for each book he read by 10%. In total, Chaos stayed within his dimension for 6 hours straight, just reading. It was something like an addiction he got from Crest but he enjoyed reading much as well.

Once done, Chaos looked one last time at the rooms he created within his dimension, he recovered his mana and satiety and went out of his dimension. Looking at the door and trusting his instinct, he did not went inside the temple but goes back to the jungle to hunt and forage. He wanted to secure and see if he can find the unique version of the monsters in the surrounding. He spent another 4 hours hunting in the vicinity of the temple. He fought quite a number of all the monster species on the area, eventually finding the two unique monsters he was searching for. Chaos did not found any other new monster but he gained two new unique servants to summon.

After getting all the things he need from the jungle and monsters around it, Chaos headed back to the temple to finally proceed with the quest. A he was nearing the temple, his instinct kicked in and Chaos looked at his map and using his enemy detection skill to the fullest, Chaos noticed an enemy coming from the ravine and moving fast heading for his direction. Before the creatre get's closer, Chaos disperses his servants around for surprise attack. After few more minutes, the creature appeared in front of Chaos.

????: Found you at last! Now DIE!