Status WindowName:Jack SilversAlignment:NeutralLevel:39Class:AvailableRace:HumanGender:MaleTitlesAssassinHealth:100%Psionic energy:100%Mana:100%Aura:100%-Strenght:14Agility:16Dexterity:12Magic power:11Life force:20Endurance:15Cerebral speed:26Cerebral power:23Mental resistance:35Luck:15Magical resistance:5Physical resistance:18108 status pointsSpecial ability:Growth x 3Psionic ability:Down the Rabbit HolePhysical ability:AccelPsionic powers:Telepathy; AlertSkills:Boxing:Level 3Mana sense:Level 1Swordsmanship:Level 2Mana manipulation:Level 1Stealth:Level 1Mana materialization:Level 1Dagger arts:Level 1Night Vision:Level 1Magic:Arzaudian basic attack spells:Slicer: Level 1Piercer: Level 1Crusher: Level 1Arzaudian basic defense spells:Shield: Level 1Sphere Shield: Level 1Lure ball: Level 1Elemental affinities:-???-
Jack: Status!
A big grin was plastered on my face, seeing my new status window. I felt that my evolution was quick, but from what I found out in the tomes, the best places to practice magic were mana spots, dungeons of course being one of such places. (Fun fact dungeons had an Instant-Learn option for magic tomes which gave you a fucking annoying headache.) Growth x 3 of course had a hand in this, I have no delusions of being one in 100, a special or talented person. The drops from the monsters and mana beasts also helped a lot. Most stats were unlocked by my loot, tiny, little, precious, glowing cubes of power.
Still when Mr.Bones asked about monster parts that dropped left me with a bitter taste. Yesterday I was to worked up, about learning magic, but now on a fresh mind, that mistake hurt like a bitch. I simply ignored the body parts and meat...I'm not mentally prepared to eat these creatures when I know there is food in this mall. As a gamer I'm ashamed letting monsters stealing such precious crafting materials.
Yesterdays half a day and almost an all nighter took me too new heights. My training session was an eventful one. With me consuming half of my stock of potions to recover and heal. Magic was too awesome... now it felt like an extension of myself like always it has been there.
I could feel the mana in the air and in my veins, but I needed to complete concentrate and not to move. I was like a little kid playing with a new toy, even though I could cast only 6 spells they were amazing. Today I'll see how they work on monsters.
Also need to pay Mr.Bones a quick visit today. That mana elemental affinity test, I bought yesterday didn't work. And this whole Aura thing, I got the message when I was practicing magic, but no description like it was the most obvious thing. It felt really annoying.
Took the dark simple looking pistol, had no sci-fi feeling to it just a chunk of metal...but an awesome one. The dagger on the other hand, screamed of fantasy, a bluish metal with a few weird engravings...maybe some kind of magic runes. Blue stones on the spine of the blade and some small ones on the hilt.
I teleported in front of the shop, no monster in sight.... strange were are the outcasts? Now that isn't important.
Jack: Good morning Mr.Bones!
Mr.Bones: ...Morning Jake...you are early...what can I do for you today?
Jack: I need help with a few things. How to say this?... I used the scroll with the elemental affinity test, but in my status only showed questions marks.( I almost said it didn't work, but a change did occur.)
The weird light-like fire danced for a few seconds in his eye sockets...(seemes he does have some tells....)
Mr.Bones: That was an basic elemental test..most living beings tend to have an basic primary affinity ..hmmm...come back later I will make a more comprehensive test..for free since the product didn't work..shop policy..
Again more questions came up in my head, but seeing him getting to work I remembered the other thing I came about.
Jack: Also what can you tell me about Aura.
Mr.Bones:..more specific..
Jack: It replaced my stamina, I don't know much else besides that.
Mr.Bones: Have you practiced.. a form of martial arts.. daily in your life?
Jack: N- Does a few minutes a day count?!
Mr.Bones: Yes...haah this is. OK listen.. Aura depends on your mind set..when you were practicing martial arts..It comes in a lot of variations.. Aura is still stamina..but combined with a part of your mana, life force and even a minuscule part of your soul. It is greatly affected by your..state of mind and state of spirit... Not much of on expert on this...but I know you have to let it develop naturally... just keep practicing martial arts..if you like to make something more of this...
(This was greater than I expected?!.. How? Why? I don't even know were to begin asking. Is this a good thing or bad?..)
Mr.Bones: Don't over think it human..get better at magic and things will come along naturally.. monsters manifest this and control it.. even with their puny brains. Now go!.. come..back later. I have work to do.
Said my farewells and left. For now I decided to practice magic and not annoy my only source of information. My mana reservoir isn't to large at the moment, but it is growing nicely. During my breaks I saw that my smartphone battery was at 23% I didn't charge it, before coming to work. I need a charger and a lot of things. Nedeed to make a trip to that warehouse, shops are crawling with those things so they are out of the question for now. Hope downstairs things are better, but I'm not the most optimistic person.
After increasing my arsenal, I felt confident enough to go in the underground warehouse, the storing space was huge so I was going to find clothes and other necessities...like better food than canned meat and fruits, they were too disgusting to eat repeatedly.
In the afternoon, I saw that Mr.Bones finished and now was reading his usual book. I truly wonder what does a skeleton read about?!
Once the greetings are over he brought out some strange things. I was expecting another scroll.
Mr.Bones: Hold this and infuse it with mana.. stop when I tell you.
I took the glass mini piramid he gave me and did as told, then the discs he put in the round container full of water started spinning. It took some time...my mana was half depleted.
Mr.Bones: Enoug...Jack..
I couldn't tell a bit of what he was seeing there???
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Jack: So?
Mr. Bones: You have..the basic elemental affinities small at the moment.. with practice that won't be a problem..The result that came earlier announced....that your affinity is rare, but it couldn't pin point which one exactly....hmmmm...
(Jack: This guy is killing me!!! Come on already!)
Mr.Bones: You affinity is.. energy..
Jack: Like electricity or energy in general?!
Mr.Bones: All kinds ..of energy: electricity, heat, kinetic, life force, soul even mana and many more...quite interesting never seen someone have this as his primary affinity.... very interesting......
Jack: Is this good or bad?!
Mr.Bones: Neither.... but it is better than the common affinities...and more interesting..........hmmmmm....could?....hmmmm....but?.....hmmm....if?..............
He was in his own world...did I break Mr. Bones.?!..I said my farewell and left, he barely responded. Hope I can get some more answers from him tomorrow. Until then the affinity matter is on hold.
When I arrived in my room I got ready for a quick shopping expedition in the underground warehouse.
I took another look at my equipment, everything seemed in order. A ring which could hold 10 objects on my left hand: 2 high health regeneration potions, 2 medium mana regeneration potions, 2 medium aura regeneration potions, 2 medium psionic regeneration potions, 1 highly corrosion acid potion and 1 high antidote potion. The last one was quite expensive. Another ring to my right with a spear, long sword, magic staff, dagger, great sword, Geraso compass, pepper spray, cuffs, baton and taser. And lastly on me I had the laser pistol which could shot 100 times, but had the recharging rate of 1/minute plus the Arzaudian dagger. And in my pocket there was 1 cube the size of an small fist which could hold 10 tons in 100 different sections. The price of the item box was 200 gold...even I could hardly believe it such a small object could hold such mass, but magic, laser pistols...I kinda believe in everything now.
A fall through the floor later I was in the warehouse... everything looked normal, perfectly normal. Like nothing changed these passed few days.
Jack: Isn't this my lucky day?
Warning! You have entered Hidden Floor!
Leaving without destroying the Floor Boss is punishable by Death!
Jack: Fuck you ! Fuck you! Ahhhhhh....This day is getting better and better! Fuuuuuuuck!!!!! Lucky day my....
Took me a while to calm down... Well getting stuck there, here...Is getting kinda annoying. But at least my yell didn't attract the Floor Boss even my psionic ability Alert wasn't warning me.
First thing on my list is the generator. My trip was short and uneventful, the generator was not functioning, so the electricity came either from the city electrical grid or the dungeon.
Second on my list is the guard post. Seeing the state of things, I had some hopes. The other panic rooms on my floor were empty, maybe someone here made it...Someone was here, but the blood and destruction in the soroundings painted a clear picture. Took out the Geraso compass.
Jack: Human...not pointing anywhere.... haaah....Floor Boss.
Third on my list were supplies, but it seems...my priorities changed. Carefully I went in the direction my compass pointed using "Down the Rabbit Hole" and for maximum visibility I stayed on top the tallest shelves.
I found something...
(What the fuck is that?!)
A huge mass of dirty white fur, that just snored besides the refrigeration room, with a few bones around. Because it was curled up I can't even guess what it is?
I was extremely tempted to burn it, but the risk was to great in this closed space, the supplies, the ventilation, the sprinkler system to many unknown factors which only could blow up in my face. Another problem was the size of the monster. Last time I opened a hole even near the size necessary to surround half of it, I passed out. Not the best experiences I ever had.
I need to keep my status points from when I will find a Class. As a gamer I knew how important these points are on the long run, more so now in real life.
My magic was still to weak, it barely cuts and penetrates aluminum as my experiments on my chair revealed.
So my only choices are the laser pistol and "Down the Rabbit Hole".
Jack: OK furball let me see what you are?...hmmm maybe it is a better way to do this.
My first though was to shoot it and see what happens, but even though I was itching to use my laser gun in combat I wasn't stupid enough to die by rushing things. So for now it was an waiting game.
Using my compass I found some better tasting food, a video camera, a normal phone charger and a hand-crancked USB charger that I can use in this situation. The rest will be after I kill that behemoth. Using a camera zoom I was a bit of distance away from the Floor Boss, but still keeping a close watch on him. Hours passed by without any change...then it moved.
I was quite relaxed finally after having to eat something else than that emergency food, it was no steak still some fresh vegetables and fruits went a long way.
Everything changed in the second the monster woke up.
My psionic power Alert warned me, I had to concentrate to turn it off and activate Stealth. The temperature plummeted extremely quickly...how powerful was this monster?!
The underground warehouse was tall as a 3 story building, but the monster could not stand up in this place. Massive was an understatement... The monster was a primate, it's feet were like a gorilla also his overall body structure. Had four arms, the lower ones were less muscular, but longer. Four rows of eyes, black sharp nails and fangs...no more like tusks protruding out of his mouth. This creature was basically taken out of a nightmare or horror movie...
( How the fuck I kill this?! Take one limb at a time...)
While I was frozen the creature moved. With one of its longer arms searched in the refrigeration room, pulled out some pig and cow carcasses and started eating leisurely, sitting on his ass.
Jack: This fucker!!! *whisper*
His whole attitude annoyed me. While I was scared for my life he was having a fucking snack. This went on for what seemed like an eternity for me, but my phone told me otherwise just 7 minutes. The mutated gorilla monster stretched and yawned...
Jack: Now or never!
I opened a dimensional hole were he was resting his head. It all happened in a few seconds, his had fell slightly backwards, but before he could take it out I forcefully closed the hole...for the first time I sensed a resistance.
He managed to pull most of his head out... But not all of it.
My attack failed, he was alive. I quickly took a few potions to restore myself...He acted strange, touching his now visible brain then smelling and licking his hand. I prepared mentally for the worst outcome.
Not wasting any time I followed with the next attack. Opened another portal above his head and poured the acid...He didn't reacted...Why?!
(Ah!!! I forgot the brain doesn't have pain receptors. )
He looked my way roared so hard that I felt the air pressure and a foul smell of his breath. The warehouse shook like an earthquake was happening right now.
Opened another portal and got ready to shot my laser gun, my hands were shaking like crazy, that roar affected me somehow. But the battle was already over...fortunately.
The monster fell face forword after a few steps. Turning into black smoke which went into the ground. At the same time I fell on my butt relieved.
My heart was beating so hard and fast, that I wouldn't be surprised if it jumped out of my chest in this instant.
Jack: Haaaaah.....that was scary as hell!
Floor Boss "Rank 2 Level 60-Giant Sloth Yeti" has been destroyed.
Restrictions upon floor has been lifted.
Warning! Monsters will start spawning here in 24 hours!
You have gained title "First Giant slayer"! Due to being the first to single handedly defeat a giant monster on your planet.
You are first on your planet to clear a hidden floor solo in a Grand Dungeon on your planet!
Classes "Adventurer", "Dungeon Explorer" and "Monster Slayer" are now available!
For your achievement you are rewarded with 50 status points!
Congratulations!!! You have reached level 47!
Jack: Maybe today really is my lucky day?! Hahahahahahah...!!!
I was truly gald to be alive.
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