Part 1

The white light evaporated and I found myself standing in your usual medieval sci-fi esque town, yes your usual medieval sci-fi esque town of ghosts...there was no one there, not a soul in sight.

I decided that first things first I need to check my stats to see how powerful I am currently.

"Status"

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So...the weird wind that I feel constantly going around me is mana from what I have deduced, what I also noticed is that  I could actually move the mana around a bit, I tried to make it a ball of light and surprisingly enough a small ball of light appeared before me, I decided that the infinite potentials of this can wait because finding out about ghost towns is more important then OP skills and abilities...

I decided to check out the town but to no avail, I found not a single living soul, even the food was simply left smoking good food...was left...WHAT HAS THE WORLD COME TO!!!!!!!

I decided to give in since my human brain can't comprehend what was going on and check the notifications, of course I did this in the mayors mansion while eating some high grade chicken...

<[Quest]>

[Name: The Misery of Duskhaven]

[Description: The people of Duskhaven have gone missing! The town that has met many tragedies as yet to meet another one, but now it has! Find out what happened and rescue them if possible!]

[Rank: B+]

[Reward: 500 Gold|30000 XP|???]

So the dark eerie coldness I felt from the mana was actually traces of dark magic? Well that explains a lot, seems like I am going to have to go to the catacomb and most likely fight some dark wizard...meh!

I raided the long-term food storage and took about 100 pieces of dried jerky and beef, along with some bread, cause you know right, I am going to save them hehe, can't fight on an empty stomach!

I had traversed the whole town and had passed by what seemed like to be a underground entrance way so after taking all the food and putting it in my inventory I went there as I entered I gained notifications which confirmed my suspicions.

I looked at the dark hall that was illuminated with simple torches with a bored expression...until I saw what occupied this whole floor of the dungeon...skeletons..

This posed a problem because I don't know how to deal with skeletons, I took out my gleaming blue sword and decided to just use trial and error to deal with them, the worst that could happen would be that I die and lose a level and some stats.

As if on instinct I rushed and before any of the skeletons could react, took a clean swipe at the neck of the skeleton nearest to me and it just fell down and dissapeared, like that I quickly exterminated what remained of the original horde all of which had fallen to my blue blade...

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As I sat down I noticed that my level increased from level 1 to level 16 and that I had 75 unused stat points, I did a fair calculation and knew that I would use magic soon but was a melee fighter currently so I inputted 20 in STR, 20 in AGI, 35 in VIT, which bumped up my health from the original 1,750 to 1,890.

I ate some beef jerky and collected all the loot, which mainly consisted of rusting weapons and armor that I can smelt down for ore, luckily the inventory was infinite, so I could carry them all because of my enormous STR stat...

As I walked towards the second floor a single chest greeted me before the door, having heard the stories about mimics and the like, I decided to take a quick nap before going to open the chest, fortunately, the chest was not a mimic, it was a trap, which brought in a huge skeletal wolf that gave me goose bumps, I looked on top of its head to see what it was.

We stared silently at each other for a few minutes before the wolf finally decided to start the battle by charging at me and trying to take a large bite out of me, luckily I jumped, yes jumped, up on top of its head, it was actually possible because of my AGI stat, now staying on top of its head was difficult.

You see as much as I want to reenact that one scene from God of War with the cyclopes it would probably be easier to swing my sword than staying on, a few minutes later I had a good stand on it so I started my counter attack and boy did the numerical attack values make me feel good.

After I delivered the daze the wolf stopped doing whatever it was trying to do and fell on all its floors, trying to lift its head up groggily but failing terrible, doing this time I quickly jumped off its massive 2 meter tall body and disabled its legs and started my final attack by drawing mana and filling it up into my sword, as I got ready to attack I suddenly did something that I surprised myself with...

As if acting on instinct I got into a stance that I have never seen, both my hands on my sword, feet opened wide, my body calm, my mind calm, my expression calm, as quick as lightning I slashed with the sword upward then downward horizontally, cleanly destroying the skeletal wolf in two...

<+10,000 XP | Silver Demon Chest | +10 VIT | +50 Fighting Spirit>

I didn't have time to check all the notifications because I felt my fleeting conciousness slowly floating away as the backlash from exerting so much power...

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