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  You have pleted the hidde - Novice’s Mastery of Defense

  Please Pick a reward.

  I quickly got up and killed all of the slimes arouhere were about 20 of them. The message I had received was something I had only heard rumors of. A hidde is something that happens sometimes in higher rank dungeons when you solve a hidden puzzle. The bonuses I have heard of are either new skills or even a level boost or rare items.

  I had never heard of this ohough and I wasn’t even in a duhat has puzzles yet.

  The first hidde I should have seen would be the rainbow wolf quest in a k dungeon in my city.

  When I open the reage I learn a little more about the quest.

  You have maximized your defense growth without gaining any levels.

  That is the only description I am given on how I pleted the task. When I look at my status I do notice that my defense upgrade modifier did hit 5, which is the highest. This means that every level I go up I will get 5 more defense points. This doesn’t normally happen until you are a high level already, if ever.

  The list of rewards I pick seem to include a bunch of high level skills or even some sg equipment. All of it would be quite good, but since I only use equipment from Absolute Creation, not very good for me.

  Because of that, I start going through the list of skills.

  But really quickly oches my eye.

  Enemy Dete - Know the location of all enemies within the 10 meters of the user.

  This is a very good skill for hunting groups of monsters. For a high level party, it is a y sihere be hidden monsters in high rank dungeons.

  So that is the one I pick.

  Enemy Dete Lv.1 Obtained!

  With hitting the level of Defense boost received and remembering that I had to go back to get the results of the test, I decided to really quickly finish the dungeon.

  And about 30 mier I am doh the dungeon and head back to the testing office.

  ?

  LV.10 Greater Slime has died!

  You gained 100 EXP!

  Summons gained 50 EXP!

  You’ve gained 10 Sp!

  Slime Cave has been cleared!

  Slime(Chaos) 1 Has leveled up!

  Slime(Chaos) 1 Has leveled up!

  Slime(Chaos) 2 Has leveled up!

  Slime(Chaos) 3 Has leveled up!

  Slime(Chaos) 4 Has leveled up!

  Slime(Chaos) 5 Has leveled up!

  “Woo!” Nyx yelled when she killed the boss. She was looking at the dropped crystal from the boss, the first item drop she got as an adventurer since she has such low stats right now.

  “You did a good job. It’s a shame that your summons aren’t helpful yet” Aria said.

  “Yeah” Nyx said, looking at another s. It was the summon s for the boss monster. Even after killing slimes after filling every slot, they still appeared for her. “I think this might be a good idea”

  She chose to make one from the boss.

  Please select a slot to open.

  Nyx chose slime number 5 si was the farthest from leveling up.

  Greater Slime(chaos) Lv.10 0/100

  HP:10/10

  Strength - 10 (1)

  Defense - 10 (1)

  Speed - 10 (1)

  Intelligence - 10 (1)

  Luck - 10 (1)

  And just like before, a bd purple energy swirled around where the boss died and a rger slime had appeared before her. When she opehe status, she noticed that the slime had not gone down in level, like the other slimes had.

  “OK, maybe si was an evolved form, it ’t go any lower than that?” she said to herself.

  “Oh, you made the boss into a summon, and it kept the size” Aria said.

  ‘Yeah, it’s even the same level. It’s still a greater slime”

  “Well, we are done from her. And I would definitely say that you are ready to be an adventurer. You should try to get some skills with your SP, or maybe go to a pce to learn them. But you will o choose what your main fighting strategy will be. But your current equipment should be good enough for mid range E rank dungeons” Aria expined.

  From there, they left the dungeon and started looking around for Zenith.

  When they did leave the dungeons, the summons moved towards Nyx and were absorbed into her shadow.

  It had been long enough for him to finish the test acc to Aria, so they wao find him.

  “Hey, I ask? Why is Zenith trying to skip highschool. I never got to go, so maybe I just don’t uand but it always seemed like fun” Nyx asked Aria while they were looking for him.

  “Oh, he kind of gets bullied by a lot of people at his school, so I thought it would be a good idea for him to just avoid them. And he doesn't really o go, since he is so smart” She started to expin.

  “Really? Well that was always an option. But who the hell would do that” Nyx said.

  “His former best friend. Or at least who I would call his best friend anyway” Aria said. Then under her breath said “Socal climbing asshole”

  “Really, someone who would be his friend is doing it. That sucks” Nyx says. “So if he isn’t going to be going to school anymore, what is he going to be doing?”

  “Probably just hunting, he is really dedicated to it.”

  “What level dungeon is he going in right now?”

  “I think he is still going into the goblins' den right now. It’s plicated since he hasn’t leveled up yet”

  “What, he hasn’t leveled up?”

  “Yeah, he’s going for a skill that requires you to be level 1, and has ahat makes it so he ’t level up. So he is relying purely on skills for stats right now”

  “Really. So i have a ce to hunt with him right away”

  This es Aria to stht iracks. She missed what happened between them during the nearty, so she didn’t know about the kiss yet.

  “You want to hunt with him?” she asked.

  “Yeah. I don’t have ao hunt with, and since we are friends now, I think it makes since”

  Aria had no way of disagreeing her. She didn’t feel great about more people being close to him, but she o hide her true feelings. For now, anyway.

  “Well, don’t get too close… or hurt him… and no explicit activities betweewo of you” she stammered out.

  This gets Nyx to ugh, and they tio search for Zenith.

  And after about 3 hours, they still ’t find him. They return to the room where he would o get the results of his test.

  Aually he walks right in, seemingly ung for what they had been doing.

  He walks right up to the desk and talks to the person behind it.

  “Yes, are the results of my test back yet?” he says.

  “Oh, yes they are. I will get the necessary paperwht away” and the person walks away.

  “Zenith” Aria says, getting his attention.

  “Oh, Aria, you're here. And so is Nyx” he said.

  “Yeah, we are. And we’ve been looking for you everywhere” Aria told him.

  “Oh, sorry. I went to test something in the dungeon. And I kinda lost track of time” He tells them.

  And while they are talking, the person es back with a stack of paperwork.

  “gratutions. You have passed the test” They tell Zenith.

  ?

  I passed the test. Turns out that I have to submit a bunch of other stuff and fill out a whole bunch of paperwork. They then submit the results to my school and they should send me my diploma soon.

  But officially, I no longer am enrolled or o go to highschool.

  After finishing all of the paperwork, Aria Anthem Nyx and I all left the association and decided to get some lunch, though it was a little te in the day for it.

  Sinyx is a celebrity, she wore some stuff to hide her identity.

  During the lunch she and Aria talked about her orientation and her skill.

  I was really ied in what the summons could do, and how they worked.

  After they were doalked about my pn to increase my defense boost, to which i was lectured by all three of them.

  No matter how much I brought up the fact that they literally couldn’t do damage to me, they were still made that I just let myself take damage.

  I also told them about the hidde.

  Aria and Anthem were surprised but said it was likely that I was the first person to ever plete it, since I was the only person who was trying to stay at level one.

  They also agreed with my reasoning that maxing the growth at level one was what the quest was.

  From there, we said oodbyes to Nyx since she had to go home, and the three of us headed home. I wasn’t going to do anything else in the duoday, so I was just pnning for the day.

  Tomorrow I was going back to hunting at the goblins den, going even more towards strength boost lv. 3 and MP growth.

  Just right bay regur day.

  ?

  Nyx was lying in her bed at the end of her day. She had dinner with her aunt and uncle and told them about her day with Aria.

  They were worried about the attack at the nearty, but she reassured them that she was fine.

  She even showed her summons off to them, since she was so happy about them.

  But she didn’t tell them about Zenith.

  This was the first time in her life she had a crush on someone. She had met movie stars and author musis that all showed an i in her, but she never cared, even finding it annoying.

  But this random high schooler, who could barely talk to her. That is who she was ied in.

  He was younger and looked kind of o her, but also had an iing smile, for the very brief moments she saw it.

  And as she y in her bed, hands toug her lips. The lips she kissed him with.

  That was her first kiss, and she hoped he also was thinking about it.

  She knew his life was much more plicated than it seemed when they first met. The attavolved him somehow.

  And it was clear to her that Aria was in love with him, not as a sister but as a woman.

  “I hope to see you tomorrow, Zen-ith?”

  NamelessAlter

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