A day passed and the news of Darcia City getting raided by a single player began to spread.
Little did Sol know that he became famous overnight.
A few weeks later…
In Azurion City, in the throne room, sitting down on the luxurious throne seat, it was Odeus, the Demon General.
Not far away, standing on the red carpet, the 12 Demon Knights bowed politely as a way to show their respect to their general.
Naturally, the 12 Demon Knights weren’t the only ones here, there were other demon soldiers as well guarding and protecting the throne room.
Looking at the 12 Demon Knights fiercely, Odeus said, “Do you know why I called you guys here?”
“Yes, my master!!”
The 12 Demon Knights responded nervously.
“Well, since you guys already knew, then there’s no need for me to explain. So let’s get straight to the point, I want you guys to capture this boy and bring him to me.”
Meanwhile, standing next to Odeus, Ingrid bowed respectfully and said, “Master, if you don’t mind, may I say something?”
“Go ahead.” [Odeus]
“I think it’s too dangerous since we still don’t know what kind of poisons that boy is usin—”
Before Ingrid could finish her sentence, Odeus interrupted her and said, “I know.”
In Odeus’s mind, he believed his 12 Demon Knights wouldn’t have a problem dealing with Sol. In short, Odeus doesn’t see Sol as a threat because in his eyes, being able to kill an Elite Demon was not that big of a deal to him. After all, the Elite Demons are only Platinum-Rank, they are nothing compared to the 12 Demon Knights, who are Diamond-Rank.
As mentioned before, in this world, just by being one rank higher is almost like heaven vs the Earth, and Odeus was very confident that his 12 Demon Knights won’t lose easily to a mere poison. Besides that, the 12 Demon Knights had never failed a single mission up until now, this was also another reason why Odeus trusted them a lot.
After the 12 Demon Knights left the throne room, Odeus returned back to his room. In his room, on his bed, there were 7 beautiful women waiting for him. Among the 7 beautiful women, four of them were humans and the other three were elves, and just like that, he enjoyed his time with his sex slaves.
Meanwhile, in the meeting room within the palace, the 12 Demon Knights sat down together to discuss who would be the one to capture Sol. They believed there was no need for 12 of them to capture Sol as one should be good enough to do the job.
After a long discussion, they finally came to a conclusion to let Habelion do it.
Habelion, a Demon Knight who is specialized in using poison magic, due to this, that was why he was selected since he was the one most suitable for this mission.
[Name: Habelion]
[Title: Demon Knight]
[Class: Warrior & Mage]
[Rank: Diamond]
“Look like I have no choice after all,” Habelion sighed. As a lazy person, he wasn’t too happy that they made him do it.
Normally, the Demon Knights would only show interest if their opponent was someone who was Diamond-Rank and above. However, in this case, they didn’t care much because they assumed Sol must be somewhere around high Platinum-Rank at most, which in their eyes, it’s only a small fry and not worth their time. If anything, they would rather spend their time drinking alcohol and partying, as that’s what they enjoy the most.
With this, Habelion and his 6 men left Azurion City to search for Sol.
***
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In the middle of nowhere in a forest, Sol was sitting down on a rock while staring at the map he was holding on.
During the time when he was in Darcia City, he managed to find a scroll that showed the entire map of Aegis Kingdom. However, it was an old map and not up to date, therefore it wasn’t that reliable.
“This is confusing…”
There were too many things showing on the map, as a result, he began to lose track of where he was going.
After a short while:
“Gaahh! I give up! Fuck this map! Why can’t they make it simple instead of adding so many things!” Sol said in a frustrating manner.
Back on Earth, he was so used to using google maps for directions, as a result, he never really had to think so much of where he was going. Probably that was why he was so bad at direction.
At the moment, he’s temporarily lost and doesn't know where to start.
“Whatever, I’ll just go this way for now,” he sighed.
There was no rush, so he took his own sweet time walking leisurely.
A couple of days passed and eventually, he found an empty village.
‘It’s getting dark… I guess I’ll camp here for the night and continue again tomorrow.’
Inside one of the village homes, Sol set up a campfire and started cooking mushroom soup. The mushroom he got was from killing monsters, a type of monster species that looked like a mushroom.
***
Inside the Chaos Tower, on the highest floor known as the 100th floor…
Up high in the beautiful blue sky, inside a room, there was a mysterious beautiful angelic woman with dark wings floating mid-air while staring at the hologram screen in front of her.
“Hmm… this is disappointing, I had hoped for the players to climb the tower by now, but it’s been 10 years already, and there seems to be not much of a progress at all…” Astoria sighed in disappointment.
[Name: Astoria]
[Title: Administrator]
[Rank: Unknown]
During this moment, Astoria wanted to snap her finger to start the next Tutorial, but after giving some consideration, she decided to delay for another 3 months to let the players catch up a bit.
“Nevermind… Just this time, I’ll extend for another 3 months. By then, whether the players will be able to survive the next Tutorial or not, it would be up to their fate to decide.”
***
It was in the middle of the night, inside one of the village homes, Sol was sleeping soundly and suddenly, the ground started shaking violently and making a lot of noises. Hearing that, he immediately woke up in surprise.
“What the hell is going on?”
Before he realized, the ground suddenly collapsed.
“What the fu–?!”
THUMP!!
He fell into an unknown underground dungeon. To be precise, it was a secret dungeon.
[You have discovered a secret dungeon!]
‘Secret dungeon? Fuck. It's so dark here, I can’t see anything…’
It took awhile, but eventually his eyes got adjusted in the dark.
The moment his eyes got adjusted to the dark, out of nowhere, he received a notification from his system:
Ding!
[A new side quest has appeared!]
[Side Quest: Find the secret dungeon’s boss and kill it.]
[Reward: 1 Red Crystal]
Looking up, he realized he was at least 20 meters deep from where he initially was before falling.
‘It’s only an ordinary village, yet who would’ve thought a secret dungeon would appear here. Interesting.’
As he explored the secret dungeon deeper and deeper, he soon realized he was in some kind of a maze.
‘Well, looks like this isn’t going to be easy.’
The dungeon wasn’t empty, every few minutes or so, he would encounter some undead monsters. Since it was undead monsters, therefore he couldn’t use his poison since it was ineffective against them. Nevertheless, he still handled those undead monsters without any problem, after all, it was only low-tier monsters.
Not too long later, ahead of him, he saw a bunch of torches hanging on the walls.
“Torches?”
Eventually, he arrived in front of one of the torches and grabbed it. The moment he grabbed the torch, immediately, a bunch of arrows came out of nowhere shooting at him.
TWANG!!!
‘What’s this? A trap?’
Naturally, he didn’t need to dodge it since nothing in this world could damage him anyway.
Following the torches on the walls, he was led to a massive underground arena.
It was there he saw a giant spider sleeping in the center of the arena.
[You have found the dungeon boss!]
[Name: Hairy Spider King]
[Rank: Platinum]
‘I wonder if my poison is effective against it.’
The Hairy Spider King didn’t move, in fact, it didn’t notice Sol’s presence at all as it was in deep sleep. However, as Sol got closer and closer, that was when it sensed Sol’s presence and suddenly woke up.
If anyone were to see such a giant spider up close, they would be terrified for their lives because this was almost like something coming out from a horror movie. Of course, it didn’t scare Sol at all since he was used to fighting all kinds of monsters back when he was stuck in the Tutorial World.
The eight giant black eyes stared at Sol, and looking at it, Sol found it kinda cute.
“Hey cutie! What’s up!”