Charging forward with the speed of a cheetah, closing the gap between them, he swings his sword towards the neck of the bandit closest to him, going for a killing blow.
"AH." the bandit jumps back but not before getting a new deep scar across his chest, while his friends pull out a a knife and pitchfork.
The pitchfork bandit goes for a simple forward thrust using his range to the advantage, meanwhile the knife wielder follows along the pitchfork, attacking at the same time in an attempt to overwhelm the adventurer.
The adventurer doges the thrust while turning his sword to the knife bandit, cutting the arm that holds the knife clean off, blood splatters across his sword, arm and grass, as a mix of confusion, fear, and pain spreads across the now, one-handed bandit, while his arm lands on the now bloodied grass with a heavy thump and squish, which caused everyone to shiver, the bandit that was slashed across the chest immediately gets up and sprints away, the other hesitates, unsure of what to do as his friend is on the ground screaming while holding the wound with his only arm left, he ultimately decides it is not worth it and runs off, leaving the one armed bandit left.
"W-Wait I- I AM SORRY WE- I did not- I Was forced, yes. I did not want to do this, I just- I was forced, p-please let me li-live." he said as the adventurer began walking closer, his blade raised, emanating a dark gleam.
"No NO NO NO I Am soRRY PELAse I DID NOT WANT TO, I- PLEASE I WA-" His voice, cut, by the blade which has found it's rest, through his neck, and pulled out. The man stared up at the adventurer, despair and betrayal filled his face, his neck sputtering blood like a fountain, before growing smaller and smaller, the bandit was dead, stuck looking up at the same spot, the spot the adventurer no longer stands.
The adventurer takes anything of value and continues his journey...
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'Hmm, now that I think of it why did I not put anything in the chest at the end of the first floor, but if I think about it I know that I can create items with mana well metal items as I have some metal in my domain so I could just grow it and then alter it's shape to something, but if I do that I would have to constantly lose mana when someone completes this floor and any future floor with a chest in it... And I do need a way to get rid of the excess corpses because that spider I killed, oh so long ago is still there, so lets just do the same thing I did with the spiders and create an automated system, to turn bodies into mana and turn that mana into an item at the end? well there is no reason not to try, so here goes nothing.'
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- 5 mana
'Alright, well, again only one way to know if this works, and it is to wait for someone to finish the floor.'
'I set it up in a way where, it should use the mana from the air (which is not really that strong, or pure enough for me to do anything big with.) to turn the dead bodies into mana by absorbing them, and I have also set a limit on the amount of mana, the quality and type of materials used, I am only using spider parts for now, so their mouths, legs, organs, and whatever else.'
'I am not going to give any weapons for the first or so floors, or at least I will not give weapons and armour by the end chests, maybe through secret chests I will, but I will not put any on the first floor, and I have no idea what the person will get until there is enough mana gathered to form the item.'
"Right, stop getting distracted."
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"Ah, finally I see it, Hern's village."
The adventurer looks ahead to see some basic palisade walls and a rudimentary gate, most villages do not have such luxuries but with the amount of trees and how this would be considered an upper-class, still poor good compared to towns and castles, but very high up for a village, people say, this might become a castle soon, but those rumours are unconfirmed.
The adventurer steps through the gates after a short flash of his necklace which proves him to be a mid copper class.
"Well look who it is. The idiot who took the quest is finally back." says the woman standing by the entrance to the guild.
"Ah, Shut it will you. I told you I was feeling lucky about it."
"You also said that about the runes..." She says staring intently at him.
"So did your feeling pay off."
"Maybe..."
"Huh what does tha-"
"Welcome, Welcome, Come inside, Come inside, we need to talk about the quest and... That." the man interrupting says, pointing at the spider body on his shoulder.
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"So Jack tell me the results of your little adventure." says the man, now sitting on the opposite side of a table.
"Well, First of all I though there was nothi-"
"Then what bout the spider."
"Shh, I am getting to it, sigh, Anyways nothing at first, then I find a cave, the entrance covered and I mean Covered in webs, I had to wipe my sword multiple times, before I finally cut through the damn thing, I step inside, it is pitch black, like I could not see anything, so I get my light rune, and as soon as it lights up I see this little guy flying towards me."
"..."
"Is... that it?"
"Yes, it was a spider den that scared off all the animals."
"Did you clear it out?"
"No I did not think it was worth it, not a part of my job to clear it, just to investigate."
"Sigh, Alright, I'll set a quest to clear it. You can collect your reward by the quest completion guys downstairs."
Just like that, the quest was complete. A new quest appeared the next day.
[Eliminate Spider Den]
[Requirements: Mid-Copper and Up]
[Reward: 200 Coppers]