Slowly getting up, I checked my surroundings with the radar. It showed a total of 238 small dots and 3 large dots.
“Mmmmm… Looks like I have a lot of work to do” {Rex}
I spent the next 5 hours firing Death bolts. I had infinite mana, so it was not like I was going to run out anytime soon.
Something I noticed was that mana was not listed under my stats. It was almost as if it didn’t exist.
Rex Level 42 Strength: 52
Defense: 52
Ability: 43 Magic Defense: 43 Speed: 52
Body: 10
I left the 3 big dots alone, but to be more accurate I couldn’t find them. Even when I was standing on them.
20 minutes later I had finished killing 230 rats. All that were left were 8 rats and 3 mystery monsters.
“Notification Sub-boss has spawned.
Baby fire Dragon has awakened.
Baby fire dragon has awakened.
Proceed with caution.” {Monotone voice}
A low roar resounded through the area after the Monotone voice left.
I didn’t need to guess what that was, but something did make me wonder. Why did a dungeon for dragons have mice in them? I would have expected a ton of dragons.
I digress.
The baby dragons had a much higher lv than me.
They were level 120.
And each of them had 4 rats following them. It could be inferred that they were helping the dragons.
What surprised me the most was that the dragons seem to know where I was.
Like any sane person would, I dashed back into the valley to prepare my Death bolts.
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Aiming the Death bolts was easy, but that didn’t mean I would hit the target. The dragons were a good wake up call, because the rats never dodged my bolts. When I shot my Death bolts, the dragon simply sidestepped it and continued to chase me.
It was completely frustrating to watch.
I never had good stamina, but it seemed like my stamina increased as I leveled up. Just like mana, stamina wasn’t listed there either.
The level difference was obvious. The fire dragons caught up to me at break neck speeds. This time I landed a death bolt, but I hit one of the surrounding rats.
The rat’s head disintegrated into nothing. This was the turning point of the fight, because it stunned the dragons long enough for me to shoot 2 more. These 2 death bolts were more accurate. They hit the first fire dragons leg and wing. This caused it to fall over in distress. Most humans would stay down after having their leg and arm destroyed, but this wasn’t a human.
It slowly got up unsteady on its three feet and chased me with a renewed passion. The other baby dragon seemed to be scared senseless. It ran away with the remaining rats the moment it awakened from its trance. The dragon was surprisingly a coward.
I, of course started running again, while charging up another death bolt.
The baby dragon knew what it needed to do. It stopped, sucked in all the air around it and roared a ferocious roar. The roar seemed to have affected me in a negative way, because I wasn’t able to move.
A little box on the edge of my vision was flashing with red letters, ‘You are stunned, stun last for 3 seconds’.
This scared me, because the baby dragon would be upon me in three seconds. The baby dragon started moving faster in my direction. Only 2.5 seconds had passed before the dragon had open its mouth to swallow me whole.
I would never allow it to kill me in this pitiful manner.
The stun wore of right before he closed his mouth.
CRUNCH
This was the sound of it biting off my right arm.
I quickly swung my left arm filled with death touch at its eye.
BOOM
The dragons right eye and brain turned to dust.
It could be called scary, but it truly wasn’t as scary as it is ripping my right arm off.
Ding. Ding. Ding
I knew what that sound meant. It meant that my level was rising. It stopped at level 50.
Rex Level 50 ‘capped’ Strength: 60
Defense: 60
Ability: 50
Magic Defense: 50
Speed: 60
Body:10
I quickly put 2 out of 3 of my skill points into Siphoning grasp.
Siphoning grasp lv2 à Siphoning grasp lv3 à Siphoning grasp lv4
Siphoning grasp lv3 is now able to regen lost limbs.
Siphoning grasp lv4 is now able to steal the souls of other living beings to act as shields. Shields are not based on the amount of souls one has collected, but the quality is what really matters.
I quickly used Siphoning grasp on the dead dragon.
When I used it, the dragons body seemed to grow smaller and smaller.
My right arm was slowly regenerating to its former form.
I would say im glad that my right arm is back, but regening it was not painless. I was also light headed, because it didn’t replenish blood.
When I finished draining the dragon of all its energy and soul, 10 chests were shown in my inventory.
I couldn’t open it because of a system notification.
“Would you like to play the tip video.” {Monotone voice}
Just like all the other tutorials, I accepted.