Leiu managed to Level up 3 times in those three hours, which was decent for a solo-player like himself. Parties would level up less than him as the experience was shared but they would farm for longer periods of time.

After getting off the bed, Leiu ate something to alleviate his hunger, cleaned his apartment, then went to check the Forums. Although he wanted to continue playing right away, he had to take stop to check for any new stuff and give himself a short break.

1 Acyle Lv45

2 Emperor Lv45

3 Kirito Lv44

5 Mister Kind Lv44

6 Lost Lamb Lv43

7 Commander Luo Lv42

8 Frankenstein Lv41

9 Sasha Lv41

10 Scope Lv43

'A lot are at 40 already...'

Leiu was indeed left behind because he had to work, but in the next days, hopefully, he could catch up to them or at least not fall too much behind.

As he was browsing the forums, a piece of information about the Dungeons bosses was posted. Since there were 4 Main Cities, there were 4 Beginner dungeons. In Black Mountain city, the boss was called 'Nuppeppö'.

Apparently, it was a genderless Blob that could directly eat absorb Stamina from the Players. So far, no records of beating were posted as all parties that tried tackling it had failed. However, it was worth mentioning that most of the top guilds didn't actually attempt killing it. The so-called World Bosses had more lucrative loot and rewarded significantly more Experience.

Speaking of which, any Players could create a guild once they reach Lv20. Right now, excluding the second-rate guilds, there were three top guilds competing in Black Mountain City.

The first was Dark Angels, which had more than a thousand members already. It was a famous guild that was controlled by a financial company called GreySticks. This company owned more than 50% of the guild and was providing continuous support, most financial, to encourage and facilitate the improvement of Dark Angels' best Players.

Dark Angel's Guild leader was Fallen Angel, who was a relatively known individual in the gaming industry.

The second guild was called Lost Exiles. Except a few confirmed details, such as its very few members, there wasn't much known about it. Still, Leiu, at least, was aware that the Lost Exiles members were exceptionally skilled in Virtual Games.

Last but not least were The Holy Gladiators. A guild that was famous in every previously-popular MMORPG: their player base was aggressive and arrogant, as well as extremely notorious for stealing farming spots and killing other Players for loot.

After reading some posts; Leiu closed his laptop and went back to his room to resume playing. He put on the game headset and logged in to the came.

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As he opened his eyes, he found himself at the same location, no Blobs were near him and the place was still dark. His passives were activated and the logs from before he went offline were displayed in front of him.

[Chains Mastery : Basic Lv3=>4](passive) : When using Chains, you deal 8% more damage and have 95% chance of entangling the target for 5 seconds.

[Counter : Normal] : Basic Lv3=>4: You can counter any incoming physical attack and return 120% of the damage.

Cost : 1 Stamina

Cooldown : 28 seconds.

His skills were growing at a fast pace. Although, once the Level of the skill was higher, it became harder to level up or 'upgrade'.

The Durability of his sword and chains were still very high as they were made from special materials so it is way harder for them to break. Only if the item is made from low-grade material did it break quickly, like the Steel Swords.

Just as he started advancing, Leiu's eyes landed on a crude-looking chest not far away from his location. It was in a corner, laying there silently, anyone would presume it's a treasure chest, Leiu also did when he first saw it last time.

In dungeons, treasures chests are common but so are mimics, Leiu was not interested in treasures chests so much as to sacrifice himself. While holding his chains, he approached the crude-looking chest.

'Let's see if you can sneak up on me this time.'

Although it was not the same mimic as last time, Leiu still blamed it as it was from the same race or the same category. Whatever it was, he was not planning on letting it go, if it was indeed a treasure chest and it got destroyed, all its contents will vanish that's why almost all players would be hesitant on whether to attack it or check it first. Leiu was not that kind of person, he would attack it either way.

When he was just a couple of meters away from the chest, Leiu used all his strength to swing the chains down at the crude-looking wooden chest.

As the black chains struck the chest with immense momentum, the crude-looking chest which was silently laying there emitted a weird sound.

At that moment, Leiu knew he hit the mark and it was indeed a damn mimic. Before it could retaliate, Leiu activated [Dark Empowerment] and swung down his chains yet again with a power stronger than the last one.

The strike was too powerful as the sound it emitted was very loud, Leiu didn't care about that and rushed at the mimic after entangling it with the chains, making it unable to take out its limbs. Only its ugly and big mouth was opened and biting on the chains.

With his sword in hand, he charged at the mimic and used [Invisible Strike] taking a huge chunk of the tanky mimic. These strange creatures not only were they good at acting, but they also had a lot of Health and were extremely deadly. He didn't pause as he followed that strike with another one.

A white sword beam came out of his black and white sword, the sword beam hit the mimic's tongue, cutting it and making black blood come out of it. But like last time, the tongue was instantly regenerated. Leiu was unfazed by that as he thrust his sword deep into the mimic's mouth. The entanglement was almost over, so Leiu backed away from the mimic while holding his chains.

He couldn't entangle the mimic for another 5 seconds. If he could endlessly entangle the same enemy it would be a cheat, so once an enemy was entangled, after it was over, he couldn't be entangled again for the next 20 seconds.

It was a short time but it was enough for most people to dodge or find a solution, that's how chains were, if you are not careful, getting paralyzed or entangled over and over again is a common thing.

While holding the chains and sword, Leiu backed away, he didn't lift his gaze from the mimic, which already had its long disgusting limbs come out of its body.

It only had 15% or so Health remaining, but it would be too reckless to dive straight at it.

Leiu waited for it to leap at him before he raised his chains and struck it yet again, the chains were meant only as a distraction, he purposely missed the target and waited for the mimic's hand attack to reach him.

Just as the weird-looking hand was going to hit him, an illusory white shield appeared in front of him and countered the attack. Leiu used [Counter] and deflected the attack, the mimic backed away a couple of steps and some of its Health decreased. Leiu didn't let it the time to stabilize its body as he followed with a clean slash from his sword, finishing what remained from its low Health.

Leiu really hated the mimic but he had to kill it as the Experience he received was worth 10 or more Blobs, so it was worth spending so much effort in killing it and it's not like he lost any Health so it was a win-win situation