After checking my left hand once more and making sure there was no injury by moving it up and down a few times, the next thing I did was opening the status screen and adding all the stat points which I had gotten by levelling up into the constitution stat. After all, the constitution stat would increase my reaction time, as it would be a waste that I am not able an attack even after sensing it.
I had been able to sense all the three attacks but as they were coming from three different directions and at the same time, I was not able to deflect or dodge them even when I tired my best, hence I wanted to increase my reaction time, which would help me to more efficiently use the acceleration skill.
After adding the points to the constitution stat, I left the room through the hallway opposite to the one from which I came in.
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In a random chamber of the fifth floor in the dungeon, a boy was fighting against three war shadows, the area surrounding them were filled with a few magic stones fallen here and there. The war shadows, outnumbering the human kid were still struggling to get the upper hand, the boy was almost moving before they could even make their move and was blocking their attacks or attacking them making them defend and unable to fight back.
The two war shadows on his right side attacked him once more at the same time, the one on the left side seeing this, impatiently attacked the boy from behind him, lunging at him but what greeted him was a sword, a spare sword from the boy's inventory thrown at the war shadow, impaling through its abdomen.
The other two war shadows stagnated for a minute seeing the death of their comrade which the boy fully took advantage of, a clean sweep at the one nearest to him bisecting it into two parts and a jump into the air, and then moving towards the last war shadow at almost double his previous speed and impaling his sword through the monsters head, making the last war shadow also turn to ash and a magic stone dropping to the ground.
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[Light POV]
15 minutes into the fifth floor, and I had enough exp to Level up to Level 6. I opened the status screen checking my upgraded stats.
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[Status:
Name: Light
Level: 6 (50/1100)
Title: none...
Class: none...
Hp: 2500/2500
Mp: 3100/3100
Constitution: 25
Spirit: 31
Status points: 2
Skills: Acceleration, Trait Maker, Anomaly (True), Miracle Maker
Magic: Float Magic]
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I was now Level 6 and had 2 extra status points from the Level up, which I did not assign and left as is. After all, my stats for now we're good enough.
And my daily quest was,
[Quest,
Daily Quest : Defeat 500 monsters (330/500)]
I still had 170 monsters to go. But no problem, as according to the information from the guild, the number of monsters increases sharply from the fifth floor. I just had to grind to Level up.
I picked all the scattered magic stones and stood up. There were a total of four different hallways including the one I came through in the current chamber I was in.
After deciding to go through the left most one, I was again greeted by some more frog shooters and a lone war shadow, it looked like they were discussing something before I entered the room, the four frogs and one shadow were in a circle looking at each other and turned their heads towards me in sync as soon as I entered the chamber.
This time I would not be foolish enough to let them to attack and then try to dodge, equipping the spare sword from my inventory, I used my acceleration skill moving towards the war shadow first, almost like a single white line.
My increased constitution and Level up were of great help, I was able to bisect the war shadow lunging towards me. Continuing the momentum from the acceleration skill, I turned towards the frogs, a 90 degree from my first dash, the frog monsters still turning towards me to attack, were cut down with two more successive uses of my skill.
Currently my acceleration skill could only be used in one direction and then I had to turn to another direction and use the skill one more time. I could not make turns while moving at faster speeds even with the help of my float magic. Maybe I could do that when my proficiency in my skill increased.
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An hour later later I had mapped the entire 5th floor and successfully reached Level 7.
Wow now me and Ottar, the King were at the same rank except mine was still a little far away compared to his. I can also successfully say that no one has mapped the dungeon as accurately as me, another small achievement in my book.
Currently, I was resting in a small corner room near the stairs with only one entrance facing the hallway, I had made huge cuts on the walls of the dungeon before resting, as the dungeon would not normally spawn any monsters in corner rooms like these, but there were no guarantees, hence adventurers usually made cuts on the walls, as the dungeon would prioritize healing the walls over spawning monsters and one could rest there till the walls were healed and make a cut again if they needed to rest some more, effectively stopping monsters from spawning at least this was effective till the middle floors, not sure about the floors below that.
I finished the lunch I had packed and took a small break, after all even if I felt no physical fatigue, there would be a build up of mental fatigue as I had not activated the Gamers Mind skill.
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Going down the stairs to Floor 6 and into the first chamber, I was greeted by four war shadows and more monsters as I could hear the cracking sound from the walls around me.
This time I activated the Gamers Mind and a cool feeling spread through my head almost making me addictive to the cool feeling.
Gripping my main sword in a reverse hold and the spare sword also in a reverse grip in my other hand but towards the ground, I sprinted towards the monster nearest to me without the acceleration skill.
This time I needed to improve my Spatial Sense skill and gain some close combat experience, and not steam roll the monsters.
Sensing the movement of the war shadow on my left, I brought my main sword towards the war shadow blocking it's supposed attack before it even lunged towards me. As I was going for a finishing move with my other sword towards its abdomen, two more war shadows attacked me from either side.
Pushing the first shadow claws backwards and making it stumble, I dodged the claws of the monster from the left and used my entire force and used a shoulder push on the one towards my right. As if waiting for that very moment, the last war shadow moved in to attack my chest and abdomen which were open. My spatial senses which were on overdrive had warned me about the last shadow a second before, allowing me to crouch in a unsightly manner, nonetheless allowing me to avoid the monster's claw.
Now it was the war shadow that was in the open, a sword straight through its stomach from my crouching position, before the other one which I had pushed with my shoulder recovered it's balance, I had gotten up and drove my sword through its body. By the time, I had defeated the two war shadows the earlier two were now back up on their feet again.
Their red eyes gleamed as they stared at me, as if trying to read my movements. The war shadows on the sixth floor were sharper. more cunning and stronger than the ones on the fifth.
Instead of waiting for the war shadows to attack, I made the first move, a basic diagonal slash aimed at the monster's shoulder, if connected, the attack would make a deep shoulder to stomach cut on the monster.
Just as the attack was about to connect, the other war shadow, now behind me, extended its claws towards my open back. I swiftly pulled back my sword, side stepped and crouched down, avoiding both the monsters attacks and standing back up, and a bigger vertical swing of my sword cut through both the war shadows. They fell down but this time they did not turn to ash, I cautiously stepped forward, piercing my sword through both the war shadows once more, but they still did not turn to ash. Looking behind me I found that the other two war shadows I had defeated earlier were also there and had not turned into ash.
It was then that I remembered that the from floor 6 onwards the monster did not vanish upon killing it, I had to manually did through the monsters corpse taking out the magic stone and only then the monster would turn to ash.
'Ugh' Gritting my teeth, I used my sword to poke around and then when it felt like I hit a solid object, used my hand to dig out the magic stone. The same for the other monsters.
I had to equip a small dagger as soon as possible, at least to dig out the magic stones or at least bring a supporter along which would make my life much easier, or better yet try to get a skill through the system which could help me get the magic stones easier.
The entire fight took not more than a dozen seconds and a few more seconds to dig the magic stones, and now more war shadows and frog shooters had spawned around me not giving me any time to rest.
This is one of the pain points about the dungeon as you go deeper, the rate of monster increases and the number of monsters in a party also increases. This increase the need for a party and decreases adventurers trying to go solo unless they had an overwhelming advantage.
I once again readied myself, this time getting into a basic two sword stance, one sword over my head and the other in front of me, waiting for the monsters to attack.
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[Status:
Name: Light
Level: 7 (120/1200)
Title: none...
Class: none...
Hp: 2600/2600
Mp: 3200/3200
Constitution: 26
Spirit: 32
Status points: 2
Skills: Acceleration, Trait Maker, Anomaly (True), Miracle Maker
Magic: Float Magic]
[Quest,
Daily Quest : Defeat 500 monsters (387/500)]
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[A/N: Tried writing a complete fight, the one with the four war shadows on Floor 6, what do you guys think?
Was it good enough? Any improvements?]