Alexia
I really hate this type of dungeon. Give me a boss anytime over this.
The group of draugr numbering over a dozen strong obviously doesn’t care about my internal complaints as the skeletons all charge towards me while sending tiny shards of ice showering down on me. And the two captains leading them just stand at the back while enchanting them all with some sort of frost enhancement spell that reminds me a lot of my Quantum Infusion skill.
I teleport back and forth, dodging the shards as I crack one of the skeletons’ bones after another, my blade no longer being enough to pierce straight through. And after two hits on each bone, they shatter. But during the process of attacking the skeletons, several of them manage to pierce through my armor with their swords, leaving freezing wounds that chill my glitchy blood in the process. Wounds that would’ve likely been far worse if not for Quantum Adaptation.
The battle continues as I make my way through the draugr warriors all the way till the two captains, both of whom raise their swords to fight blade to blade with me for a little bit until I overpower them in skill and physical strength.
[Level 205-213 Draugr Warriors Defeated – User’s earned EXP has been increased by a significant portion due to killing a being whose level is thirty or more levels above their own.]
[Level 216-217 Draugr Captains Defeated – User’s earned EXP has been increased by a significant portion due to killing a being whose level is thirty or more levels above their own.]
{Congratulations! You have leveled up to level 171! Your Species has awarded you +2 VIT, +2 DEX, +2 STR, +2 MAG, and +2 MEN. Your Class has awarded you +1 VIT, +1 DEX, +1 STR, +2 MAG, and +2 MEN.}
I wish I could level up faster from this, but I guess I can’t really complain. The monsters outside weren’t leveling me up almost at all, and I already have an advantage with being a Class S species letting me fight and kill these things in the first place.
There is a little less than a week until the Dimensional Council meets, and I kind of doubt I can get strong enough to face the boss of this dungeon before then. So I’ll just fight these monsters for another five days and leave the dungeon on the last day.
Assuming I ever find a stupid hidden exit that is.
I glance at my mini map as I continue my seemingly endless walk through the frozen wasteland, still ignoring the temples. And all I find on my mini map is endless wasteland with nothing special to see except for the various temples.
Honestly, I’m pretty sure I’d be screwed if it weren’t for this Dungeon Map. Because then there wouldn’t likely be a way for me to find the hidden exit.
I probably would’ve never found the hidden area earlier if it weren’t for the map after all.
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A thought comes to me that has me grimacing.
Please don’t let this hidden exit, wherever it is, end up on a platform high up in the sky again…
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Somewhere in Dimensional Block #108
The former king of the Varal Kingdom from before the Reset frowns as he looks out over the edge of his island at the various islands all around him, the System leaderboards showing to his right.
The Reaper is back to the top spot again.
He closes out of the leaderboards and turns around, walking further into the forest-covered island he has named Varal, after his old kingdom. And after several minutes of walking, he reaches a budding city at the center of the island where workers are all building the city.
Each and every worker there greets him with a light bow, being citizens from his kingdom before the Reset. Some of the initial minority of his citizens who decided to continue going under his rule.
The rest of the citizens are all spread out across the various nearby islands, making their own cities. But none of them are as prosperous so far as Varsac’s. Because none of them have a former Ascendant living within them.
Varsac continues walking through his city, occasionally nodding his head to his people and attendants until he makes it to the newly constructed city hall at the center of the city. And without stopping for even a moment, he walks straight into the building and through it to the other side where he eventually stops in a large meeting room before pulling up a System Item he had gotten from his dungeon. One that he finds incredibly useful now after the Reset.
The item looks like a disc of gray metal nearly a meter in width and it immediately begins to float into the air half a foot off the ground once it’s taken out. Varsac then closes his eyes and raises one hand towards the Tier 3 item and thinks of the people he wishes to meet, channeling is magic through the device as well as an amplification.
Several seconds pass in silence before he opens his eyes again, making two dozen holograms fill up the large meeting room. Each of them being a leader of a different city across the Dimensional Block, the man failing to pierce through the Dimensional Wall even with the help of a Tier 3 item, leading to him only being able to contact the former Ascendants and other rulers that weren’t Ascendants that he knows within the Block.
“I have gathered you all here today to start the first conference for deciding the Dimensional Leader,” Varsac declares, his eyes narrowing slightly as he does so.
“What of the city leaders not present?” One of the many holograms – a man with the head of a shark and deep blue skin – declares, his pitch black eyes narrowing as well.
“And the city leaders not consisting of former rulers?” another hologram asks, this one being a woman with stark white hair and eyes.
Varsac glances at the two before answering, “We will simply have to outvote them with pure numbers. It is unlikely that many of them have high levels of Authority, so they shouldn’t be much of a threat in the vote.”
Muttered agreements mixed with uncertainty run through the gathered leaders, many of whom have already been in contact with competent users who weren’t rulers or former Ascendants prior to the Reset. But in the end they decide not to question it further.
“What if a Class S species is within our Block?” another leader asks, this one wearing a black cloak with a deep black cowl hiding his appearance.
Varsac frowns at that but answers, “Then we deal with it as it comes.”
As long as it’s not one of the top ten on the leaderboards, much less The Reaper herself, we should be set for one of us to become the Dimensional Champion.
He clenches his fist at the thought, feeling like his goal is finally almost near. His goal of becoming the representative of military strength of an entire Planet.
Or I guess it’s a Dimensional Block now.
“Let us begin the conference,” Varsac declares, quickly getting down to business.