“AHHHHHHHHH! There’s nothing!”
Mylo was currently surveying the surrounding area around the wolf’s den dungeon. Two hours passed since he was searching for clues that could lead him to the unknown beast, but to no avail.
“Ha… how am I even supposed to complete this quest… couldn’t he give me some tips or an item that could help?”
“…”
“Ha… guess il move further ahead inside the forest instead of staying around the den. I might be able to find something that leads me to something.”
Mylo left the wolf area and headed further ahead. Mylo could see many players hunting level 10 boars and such beasts around the area.
“Damn! I guess it won’t be long until the elite players get to level 10.”
As Mylo was thinking about who might be able to reach levels first in each class. A system message appeared in front of him.
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-GLOBAL SERVER ANNOUCEMENT-
Congratulations to ‘Zero’ to be the first on reaching level 10
Guild affiliation: None
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“Zero? … Such as Badass Nam-“
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- GLOBAL SERVER ANNOUCEMENT-
Congratulations to ‘Zero’ to be the first player to choose the Rogue’s path.
Guild affiliation: None
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“Poor guy… his going to get harassed hard.”
“Okay, Let’s mo-“
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- GLOBAL SERVER ANNOUCEMENT-
*Congratulations to ‘Zaros’ to be the first player to choose the Warrior’s path.
Guild affiliation: Cosmos Legion
*Congratulations for ‘Eadward’ to be the first player to choose the Cleric’s path
Guild affiliation: Law Keeper
*Congratulations for ‘Amilia’ to be the first player to choose the Mage’s path.
Guild affiliation: Frost Lust
*Congratulations for ‘Ulyle’ to be the first player to choose the archer’s path.
Guild affiliation: Amazon
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“… Yeah… now I don’t need to worry about the bonus reward… no more distraction.”
“For now let’s look around the area, haven’t been in the level 10 area before. Better leave the populated area first.”
Mylo left the infested player area and was currently searching around, while invading any boars he came across.
“Can’t fight right now even though my level will stagnate, better if I try to find at least one clue. I have a time limit of 7 in-game days. I can’t slack off.”
As Mylo was rationalizing his situation, he heard a familiar and more than welcome sound.
[Hidden Item has been located 20 metres north from your location. ]
“OH!”
[Hidden Item has been located 16 metres north from your location. ]
[… 14 metres… ]
[… 8 metres…]
[… 1 metre…]
“What is that?”
What mylo was currently seeing was a beautiful eye-catching lime-green petal edged by the thinnest gold coat that highlight’s its gorgeous circular blooms.
“A Dahlia flower?”
Mylo reaches down and picks it off the ground to see its information.
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Name: Sage’s Dahlia Flower
Stolen novel; please report.
Rank: B
Requirement: Intermediate Alchemist Lvl.5
Use: Used to create potions that strongly attracts monsters in the area, only an alchemist of mastery has reached intermediate could produce it. The flower could also be used as it is, without making a potion with it but its effect won’t be as potent, does not have any requirement if used this way.
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“Oho, as expected from the valsea’s forest. its earthly riches aren’t to be underestimated.”
“Wait!”
“I-I can use this!”
“I need to find what zone the unknown beast is currently residing in, I can’t use the follower randomly in hope of it being in this location. e.”
Mylo took the flower and stashed it inside his inventory, but on doing so he felt that it was too easy. Then suddenly the branches from the tree next to the location of the flower started to shake intensely until a shadow jumped out of it directly heading towards Mylo.
“Shit!”
Mylo jumps to his right evading the sudden attack.
“What is that? It’s HUGE!”
What Mylo was currently eyeing was a captivating and enormous green serpent. It's about the size of an elephant and has the length of a whale. Its scale looked similar to a lizard’s with Dark-green colour. Ferocious slit-shaped pupils, with a darkish yellow other area. The serpent makes sounds ranging from very low pitched to extremely high pitched hissing noise.
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Name: Vakmon Viper (Field Boss)
Level: 15
Hp: 3200/4000
Description: Vakmon is a venomous snake. One is able to distinguish it from other venomous snake by the shape of its head. A typical venomous snake that uses its venom for defending itself has a triangular-shaped head, but the head shape for a predatorily venomous snake such as Vakmon can easily be distinguished from its crown-shaped scale coming out of the top of its nose. The Vakmon uses its special glands and teeth designed to inject venom into its prey. His venom has two functionality, the first is to paralyze its prey and the second is to inject deadly poison slowly killing its prey in case of it running away. The Vakmon Viper favourite hunting method is to use the Sage’s Dahlia flower in order to attract preys while it hides on top of the tree right below the follower. When it sees a prey getting near its hunting parameters it attacks and most likely feasts as well.
*Currently Afflicted by ‘Tracking stench’.
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“A FIELD BOSS? LUCKY!”
“Wait…why is it health pool lower than his maximum health? Was it attacked? Is that why he has a status affects…Tracking stench?”
Before Mylo could rationalize the reason for the Vipers deteriorated health pool, the Viper hissed a high-pitched noise. He rushes toward him with incredible speed and opens its enormous mouth revealing two giant fangs on each corner of its mouth.
“I wouldn’t be so sure, fucker!”
“COME AT ME!”
Mylo side steps to the right, evading the lunged attack. Mylo uses his rapier and uses the viper continuous lunges to slash almost half the viper’s body.
[You have dealt 120 damage. ]
“What is that defence! I guess those scales aren’t just for show.”
Vakmon doesn’t seem to the slightest bit phased by the attack. It hisses toward Mylo as to mock his puny attack.
“…”
Vakmon then started to curl itself until he was shaped similarly to a twisted cone. It then started released its momentum, making him spin at an incredible speed. Mylo positioned it rapier right at his heart out of instinct.
*BAM*
“Damage mitigated for defending, you have received – 520 damage, you have been paralyzed for 1 second from the impact.”
What came towards Mylo was a high-speed attack from the viper’s long thick tail. Mylo couldn’t believe his eye; the attack almost dealt half his health. He couldn’t even fathom the damage he would have received if he didn’t defend in time. “Shit! I can’t move!”
As describe by the inspection stats, the second of vakmon was none other than a venom status. After paralyzing Mylo, the viper leaps towards him and uses its fang to bite a good chunk of mylos right shoulder. The paralyzing status expired, Mylo then quickly jumped out of the viper’s way.
[You have received critical damage, -891 healths.]
[You have been ‘Poisoned’; you will lose 1.5% of your health every second for 20 seconds.]
[-22.5 hp.]
“SHIT! “
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Name: Cosmo
HP: 112/1500
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[You have used ‘Lesser Health Potion’; you have recovered 30% of your health pool, you will have 0.5% of your maximum health every second for 10 seconds.(COOLDOWN TIME: 60 Seconds.)”
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HP: 562/1500
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[+ 7.5 HP.]
[-22.5 HP.]
[+7.5 HP.]
“One more hit and I’m dead. I can’t let him hit me even once, at least until the potion’s cooldown resets.”
Mylo started to meticulously analyze the viper.”I can’t deal enough damage to its body, he scales defensive capacity are too high. I need find another way…and quick!”.
Vakmon started to quickly slither toward him, closer and closer, then it lunged itself similarly to the first attack it made. While it was in the air, Mylo noticed something.” None? There isn’t any scale in his stomach area”. Instead of waiting for the snake to reach him, Mylo swiftly sprint toward its enemy, and slides below its flying stomach with his rapier raised up with both his hands, holding it tightly. Slashing its stomach from head to tail. A mix of Green and Red liquid started pouring out of it. ”Not smiling now I see.”
“HISSSSSSS!”
[You have dealt critical damage -765 HP.]
[You have dealt the ‘Bligh’ status; enemy will lose 2.5% of its maximum hp every second for 6 seconds.]
[You have dealt -100 hp.]
[You have dealt -100 hp.]
[You …]
[Vakmon, has sustained significant damage. Status ‘Rage’ has been activated; + 20% damage, attack speed and movement speed.]
Mylo dealt a total of 1,365 damage to the viper. Lowering the viper health to 1,835/4000.
“Not so happy that a puny little human dealt so much damage , huh?”
“HISSSSSS!”
The viper started to curl itself once again, but mylo was already prepared it. When the viper started to curl itself it couldn’t move from its spot for four seconds in order to fully prepare the attack. “ Do you really think I wouldn’t do anything, the first time was surprising but not this time!”
Mylo sprinted toward the viper and jumped right on top of its head. Hold his rapier in one hand and holding himself steady into the snake’s giant head. He lunges his rapier downwards, piercing the viper’s right eye. Green liquid was splashing in every direction, intense high-pitched hisses coming out the Vipers mouth.”HISSSSSSSSSSSSSS!”
[You have dealt -434 damage.]
[You have destroyed the Viper’s Paralyzing Gland.]
Mylo read somewhere when he was lying in his death bed in his past life that the venom gland of a viper is an altered salivary gland, and is located just behind and below the eye. Depending of the size of the snake so will the size of the glands it possesses. Since the Vakmon was almost as big as an elephant it was easy to pierce its gland.
[The paralyzing venom has spread inside Vakmon Viper; enemy will be paralyzed for 6 seconds.]
Mylo didn’t waste time and used it advantage in earnest. Hitting the snake’s body continuously for six seconds. Until he heard his favourite message.
[You have defeated ‘Vakmon Viper (Field Boss)’]
“YE-“
Before Mylo could celebrate his victory, an unexpected message showed itself right after the message notifying him of his victory.
[The ‘Tracking stench’ Mark has spread around your location.]
[An unknown entity has realized the death of its prey.]
[You have inherited the ‘Tracking Stench’ Mark.]
[The Unknown entity will head towards your location.]
[The Unknown entity cannot directly locate your exact location; it can only know what zone you are currently inhabited in.]
“…”
“Please…PLEASE…DON’T LET BE A HIGH LEVEL MONSTER!”
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