Ryu is now standing before a really tall tower, with a large circular structure that is made with a sturdy stone wall. It's the Dungeon. Looking at it closely, Ryu seems to get astonished by it.

"I still really don't understand, how can she make a tower with such gigantic size?"

"Is this within her Creation Magic capability too?"

"Damn... How strong is she actually."

Ryu can't help to click his tongue, thinking about the fact.

"Well, I should focus on this one first."

Ryu is not the only person who's standing here. There's also a lot of parties who are going in and out of the Dungeon. Although it's a dangerous job, it's also the most well-paid job after all.

People who become a Hunter can exchange the material they got from the Dungeon to the association. Also, they can level up faster by fighting against the Dungeon monster. Overall, it's a really great profession if their aim was to get power and influence.

Right now, he is lining up before the peoples who also wants to enter the Dungeon. Before long, it's Ryu's turn to come. Seeing a kid in front of him, the one in the charges of the place entrance tilts his head.

"Hmm, brat, what are you doing in here?"

"I want to enter the Dungeon."

"Kid, this place is terrifying, you should go back."

"But, I have the hunter's card."

Hearing something silly entering his mind, the guard starts to pick his ear before opening his right hand out.

"Don't lie to me, where? Let me check it."

"Here." Taking out his card from his pocket, Ryu then gave it out to the guard. After scanning it for some time, the keeper seems convinced while a trace of disbelief surfaced on his face.

"It's the genuine one, I don't know the means you used to get the card with your Class is still a Novice, did you take a test to get the qualifications?"

"Yes, it's a legal action, right?"

"Who is the examiner?"

"It's Mr. Rogue." Answering the questions honestly, the man instead gets more confused as he begins to blink a few times.

"Mr. Rogue!? Eiii, Brat, I'm not joking around here, tell me the truth."

"You can ask him directly if you don't trust me."

"Well, I'll do that, if it turns out to be a lie, you will regret it brat."

"Go and ask him then..."

Still have a suspicion about the kid, the guard finally agrees for him to enter the Dungeon. After all, it doesn't change the fact that he has a card.

"So you gonna going in solo?"

"There's no rule that I must enter with a party, isn't it?"

"You can enter, but don't go too deep, it can cost your life."

Getting tired of reminding the boy, he just warns the boy while giving off a resignation sigh.

"Thanks for the advice."

Finally, after getting permission from the guard, Ryu enters the 1st floor of the Dungeon. The interior of the Dungeon is similar to a labyrinth. The passage can also be considered broad. The wall was made by a brick that covered with moss and some plant, befitting its name, Forest City Dungeon.

"Hmm, what kinds of an enemy can I find here?"

After a quick stroll, a giant ladybug can be seen wandering around the Dungeon. Its size is about half of the grown human size.

"So it's a ladybug, looks like an easy target."

Ryu's quietly circling around the bug, avoiding to get noticed by the insect. When he succeeds moving to the back of the monster's, he instantly lunges forward, thrusting his dagger aimed at the unguarded ladybug.

Getting stabbed suddenly, the ladybug leak out an eery shriek, before flapping out its wings to shake off its enemies.

"Fuck, I didn't expect that its wings are so hard."

The wings are actually the strong feature of the ladybug, It toughness is equivalent to a good armor. So when the hit lands, it merely startled by the ambush, nothing more.

Outraged by the sudden assault, the ladybug raises its wings for the second time. But, this time, the goal was to smash Ryu into pieces with its body.

"Not so fast!" Ryu, who's quick at reacting, instantly ducks to dodge the crash. Not planning to let its attacker go, the ladybug turns its body again before charging at Ryu for the second time.

"If I can't hit you from above, how about..."

This time, Ryu bends his body again, but it's followed by a swift dagger swing to the bug above him.

"Quick Slash!"

The knife forms a beautiful arc, followed by the bug shriek. Because of this, the ladybug was now in a sorry state, but it's still alive.

"As I thought, it's weak spots is its lower body that's not covered with the wings."

"But..."

Ryu gives a slight glance at the bug that's currently struggling to move.

"It seems that it can't be capable of flight again."

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"How can I deal with the finishing blow?"

While contemplating what he should do, the ladybug summons its last vitality to take down its enemies. It flaps its wings again, charging at Ryu. But its body is not as high as the original. The insect seems to be determined to take the predator down with it's live. But looking into this scene, Ryu began to notice something crucial.

"Ahh! When that guy flies, it's upper part also left unguarded!"

Waiting for the bug to get close enough to him, Ryu readied his stance.

"NOW!" When the distance was about 3-feet away, Ryu swiftly jumps over the insect, rolling over his back and immediately forms a thrust to the upper part that still left unguarded. This act resulting in the dagger to pierces the meat smoothly.

Letting its last shriek, Ryu's finally able to take down his first monster in the current timeline.

"Huft, it's done." Wiping his sweat off, Ryu then lowered his body down, near the dead creature.

"This guy is quite strong. Now, it's the time to dismantle it."

"But, what's the most precious part of this bug?"

After scanning the ladybug, Ryu quickly makes a decision while nodding his head.

"As I thought, the only valuable part is its wings. I should dismantle it carefully."

In the past, Ryu's already a master, or maybe a grandmaster when it comes to dismantling like this. So he can quickly deduce what's the most crucial body part of a monster and how to collect it flawlessly. Also, thanks to the sharpness of its dagger, Ryu can finish the process relatively fast.

"Haha, this dagger is indeed freaking amazing. It's so sharp. Maybe it's also thanks to this guy that I can win the earlier fight without getting hurt that much."

After finishing the dismantling process, Ryu faces suddenly turned into perplexity as a dark line can be seen formed in his brows.

"Hmm, now, how about the meat?"

"Is it edible..."

Because he wants to stay in the Dungeon, eating Monster meat is bound to happen, sooner or later.

"Let's take a few slices first to try it later."

"Now, let's store this thing first."

Before Ryu comes here, he already purchased with him a tome with a storage magic inscription in it. Although it's cost a lot of Disks, it's definitely worth it.

After he uses the tome, it's disappeared into a particle while the encryption transmuted into his mind. Because of that, he's now capable of using Storage Magic. Its limit is based on how high is his mana stats were, the bigger it is, the more he can put a thing inside the magic.

Following that event, he continues to stroll around, seeking for other creatures. After a while, he sees another ladybug wandering around the Dungeon.

"Let's see, now I know its weakness I should think the most efficient way to eliminate it," Ryu said while placing its hand against his chin.

"Hmm... With my stats, I might succeed in executing that technique."

"Let's try it!" Nodding his head down, Ryu decided to take a risk, after all, just pondering about it is not good. It takes too much of his time. Not wasting his energy like before, this time, Ryu just pokes the ladybug without attempting a sneak attack.

Because of the poke it takes, the ladybug instantly thinks that the man before him is a threat. It's decided to fly and charge him with its full speed.

In response, Ryu simply stays in his place, waiting for the right timing...

"Bingo!" Repeating what he did before, Ryu quickly ducks. This time he decided to take a bet to use a technique that he's not sure will succeed or not.

"All or nothing! Fatal Strike!"

Ryu's dagger instantly hits its weak spots. The dagger pierces the ladybug deeply. Confirming the depth of his thrust, Ryu connects his move with a slash while the dagger still buried deep inside the insect.

Because of this, the red creature was only capable of shrieking loudly before falling to the ground helplessly. It's died in seconds without making a struggle at all.

Seeing these results, Ryu pats his chest while giving out a relieved sigh.

"I've succeeded."

"This is great, it can save me so much time!"

Ryu shouted happily while clutching his fist tightly. After that, Ryu quietly dismantles the wings part. He then decided to hunt at his current pace for a little bit.

Ryu keeps slicing and killing the ladybug that he encounters. But, when he's in the middle of his hunts, he finally sees a different kind of monster.

"What is that?"

In the distance, a Green Worm can be seen afar, its size about the same as the ladybug, eating the moss in the wall happily.

"Hmm, a Worm species. It's generally will spit something from its mouth. But what will its spit?"

"Should I try to ambush it first?"

"No, I can't, the risk is too big, what should I do..."

Shaking his head off, Ryu decided to cast that idea out of his head.

"Oh, right! I can use that thing as a shield."

Seemingly to remember something, Ryu opened his storage magic and took out the ladybug wings and held it like a shield.

"I'm indeed a genius! I hope this trick is enough to block the upcoming things that the Worm will spit."

"But, there's no harm trying to ambush it first."

Placing the ladybug wing in his back, Ryu continued to quietly approach the Worm. Things are looking good, Ryu's now only 7-feet away from the Worm. He readied his dagger to charge at the unguarded Worm. But just as when he wants to do that, it abruptly looks at his direction, and at the same time, there's something white coming out from its mouth.

"What!? Not Good!"

At a nick of time, Ryu successfully held the wing to block the spits. Deducing that the Worm attacks had ended, he throws his shield to his back and holds his dagger without looking at what kind of spits the Worm had produced.

He swiftly dashes forward, closing the distance between them. Just before the dagger hits its target. Something white coming out again from the Worm. Doesn't have the time to dodge the attack, Ryu blocked the attack with his left arm and struck the creature with his dagger.

The Worm screamed. It's then immediately taking a distance from Ryu. Thanks to this, it gave Ryu a brief time to analyze what the Green Worm had been spiting.

"What is this?"

Ryu inspects the object more closely with his right hand.

"It's silk? But why it's so fucking sticky?"

"I can't get out of this!"

The gluey silks that Ryu blocked by his arm are now sticking in his chest. When he wants to cut the silk with his dagger, another one is being thrown out by the Worm. Luckily Ryu acts quickly and moves his body to the side to avoids it.

"Shit, this stuff is so annoying."

"I must take out that fellow first, it's already wounded."

"But, I also can only use a hand."

"Let's put an extreme focus on this one!"

Ryu swiftly charges forward to close his distance with the Worm. The Worm keeps spitting out its silk at Ryu direction. With his full concentration, Ryu's skillfully dodging these silks.

"Damn, take this, Fatal Strike!!"

Ryu aimed his technique at the same place as where he landed his first hit. With this strike, finally, the Worm is letting out a piercing scream before it went limp and died.

After that, Ryu was quickly cutting the silk that binding his left arm and chest together. He really can't stand the feeling of sticky things like that. He sighed quite loudly after successfully cuts himself free.

"What an annoying monster!"

"Hmm, what's the precious part of this thing?"

Looking at the remain of the silk in his left hand, Ryu can't help but feel bitter.

"Don't tell me, it's this thing..."

"Fuck, it's really sticky. Its gonna take a long time to remove this."

Wants to deny the fact, Ryu began to observe the corpse more closely, hoping that there's something more precious than the silk.

"Oh! Why that green thing is glowing like this?"

Ryu notices that the previously dull horn in the Worm's head was now releasing a faint light. It feels like the horn is shouting that it was the most valuable part of the creature's body.

"I'll trust my guts, it will be good if it's turned out to be true."

After that, Ryu swiftly removes the horn from the Worm remains before storing it in his magic.

"Hmm, I got a feeling that something had changed."

"Let's try and check it."

"Soul check!"

As he said this, a pattern that slowly formed a magic circle is being made subconsciously in his mind. Gradually a fire rises from Ryu's opened arm.

Ryu automatically smiled when he looks into the flame.

"Hehe, bronze color with a tiny quantity."

"Sure enough, I've leveled up to level six."

"But still, I doubt I can survive on the 2nd floor with this level. I should trains more in here first."

Before he extinguishes the flame, Ryu starts to look at the fire and slowly closed his eyes;

'5 points on Agility.'

With that, Ryu's body slowly emits a light radiance before it subsided again. Every time someone leveled up, their stats will improve automatically. But, there's also a bonus stats that can be distributed according to the will of the individual. This bonus will adjust themself according to the tier. For a novice, the gained bonus stats was five points.

It's really still a mysterious thing when it comes to this system. How can it exists, why can people get stronger when they put their stats in, and everything else. Humans still can only unveil a bit of its secret.

"Now, with my stats getting better. Let's continue with the exploration!"