“Again?” I audibly say looking at both messages.
This was strawo new hiddes pleted.
Before dealing with both of them, I opened my status and saw that my growth for strength and luck had been maxed at 5 as well.
This was good, sinow I know that no matter what, I will grow quickly iat that matters the most to me right now.
I also see I had been ign speed and intelligewo things I o work on.
Intelligence would be easy with mp growth, but speed was still strange.
Then going back to the messages, I open the reward list for both.
My strength skill is quite easy to pick, since I use a variety of ons. It was on mastery, which I picked right away.
on Mastery Lv.1 Obtained!
It was a high level skill, beyond any basic on skill, and included all ons. It also had several options going forward, where it came to evolutions of that skill.
BUt my luck skill was hard to choose, until I spotted it.
SP multiplier - Multiplies the amount of SP gained from monsters by skill level +1
It was one of the best skills to have in general, and the best for me right now. Doubling the amount of SP I got per boss fight was a god send.
The other skills offered by the novice mastery of lucluded the rowth modifier skills, like both cost redus, and EXP multiplier, but none of them had the same immediate be then this one.
SP Multiplier Lv.1 Obtained!
With both of those, I move onto the boss room.
I open it to find a pletely dark room. It has only a few of the pnts that produced light, making it very hard to see the boss.
But you make out its sound clearly.
Based on what I could see and enemy dete, it was bigger than the wolves in the dungeon propper.
But when it attacks, I notice the same patterns as the smaller ones.
And I notice the effects of on mastery instantly. My movements feel different, more precise and knowing.
As I dodge the attack, I, instead of sshing at the wolf, stab it in the side.
My sword was still wooden, but I was able to make it through the wolf’s fur.
I then twist my sword, knowing now that it would hurt the wolf more.
I hear the wolf cry out and fall onto its side, making it easy for me to kill it.
I move to his head, and stab it right in an eye, guaranteeing its death.
Dire Wolf Lv.15 Has died
0 EXP Gained
Skills have gained EXP
100 SP gained
Wolves’ Den Has Been cleared.
I ugh at the message that popped up. Normally it would give double the amount that I got from the goblins den, but now it was 4 times.
This drags the amount of runs I o do by a lot. My goal was 10,000 aing 100 per run would make that insanely quick.
94 more runs was all I needed. I don’t know how long it would take me to do one run, but this dungeon's straight forward yout will let me do a lot of runs in one day.
My immediate goal keeps getting closer and closer.
I collect the boss item, and the dungeon core. The core was still only worth 10 but so was the boss crystal. And with the 180 total wolves I killed, I got 60 more magic stootaling 140 on this one run.
As I leave the dungeon, i get ready to head ba. It was already the middle of the day, since I had taken 4 hours to finish the whole mapping trip, and I started around 8, so it was lunch time. I thought about it and decided to take my break, after one speed run.
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Dire Wolf Lv.15 Has died
0 EXP Gained
Skills have gained EXP
100 SP gained
Wolves’ Den Has Been cleared.
Looking down at my clock, it took me about 1 hour to finish the run, right on my predi. During the speedrun, I only dealt with 3 groups of wolves per floor, totaling 30 wolves in total, aing 10 stones from them. 20 an hour was quite good for money.
And with the 20 more I got from the boss room, it was really good money.
As I left the dungeon, this time, I turned iones and headed to a nearby fast food pce to eat.
I would normally have prepared lunch, but pletely fot this m.
As I pulled out my phone, I noticed a number of texts from people at school, including Mia. I choose to ignore all of them, leaving them unread.
Instead I did some math.
Being at the dungeon from 8 to 5 meant I will be there for 9 hours. That's 9 runs, or 900 SP in a day.
I need 94 runs to finish my goal, and that would be 10.44 or 11 days to finish.
In that time I would also earn about 3960, more mohan I had ever had before.
And thanks to not needing to spend any money for equipment, I would be rolling in it.
Moving onto a different topic, I thought about speed.
I was close to leveling up the speed boost skill, but still had no idea the criteria to gaining EXP for it.
Thinking I could spare a little SP to finish get it to level 2, I look at the skill.
Speed Boost - Lv.1 897/1000
It was close, to the point I should just ig for now and just wait.
From there, I quickly finished my food and headed bato the dungeon. I had about 4 hours left on the day.
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Dire Wolf Lv.15 Has died
0 EXP Gained
Skills have gained EXP
100 SP gained
Wolves’ Den Has Been cleared.
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Dire Wolf Lv.15 Has died
0 EXP Gained
Skills have gained EXP
100 SP gained
Wolves’ Den Has Been cleared.
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Dire Wolf Lv.15 Has died
0 EXP Gained
Skills have gained EXP
100 SP gained
Wolves’ Den Has Been cleared.
…
Dire Wolf Lv.15 Has died
0 EXP Gained
Skills have gained EXP
100 SP gained
Wolves’ Den Has Been cleared.
“And I should head home now” I say, doh my st run. Right before I turn in all my stuff, I quickly check speed again, only to be a little a the skill.
Speed Boost - Lv.1 999/1000
“Really” I say, almost ughing about it.
I then turn in the rge amount of stones I got today. The boss room didn’t have any other drops from what I read online, but this still is quite good.
I gave them to the receptionist and she told me that 360 had been added to my at and thanked me for my work.
From there, I run bae, not stoping on my way.
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Your skill has leveled up!
I got this message as I made it home.
“Foodness sake” I yell at no one seeing it.
I had officially leveled up speed boost.
I make my way into my house to find both Aria and Anthem seating in our living room. Mom and dad would be orip now, so it was just the three of us.
“Wele home, Zenith. What was that yelling about?” Aria asked me.
“I was trying to level up a skill, and I didn’t get the level until I got home just now” I told her.
“Ha, really. That’s kind of funny” Anthem said. “What skill was it?”
“Just Speed Boost” I say. “But it's finally level 2”.
“That's good” he says.
“And how is the hunt for MP growth?” Aria asked.
“Good, I made two big strides today. I ow plete the wolves den without issue, and I got a new skill that helps as well” I tell them.
“Really? I thought you weren’t going to get new skills?” Aira asked.
“I didn’t spend SP on it. But you remember that hidde I pleted, I did two more today” I say.
“Really? Two hiddes? Whies?” she asks.
“The two for lud strength in the same vein. Im guessing there is one for each stat, if you max the growth befoing up a level”
“That would make sense. So you got a skill for each then, like how you got enemy dete?”
“Yeah, for strength, I picked on mastery” I say.
“That's good. Since you haven’t picked a on css yet, jack of all trades is a good idea.” Anthem says. WHenever on mastery is brought up, he loves to plement it.
I always thought it was because of Madison.
“And for luck?”
“SP multiplier” I tell them.
“hen you said helpful, I thought it was going to be SP cost redu, not multiplier” Anthem said, astonished.
“Yeah, that's a rare skill. It doesn’t show up in the skill shop, and only really shows up in high ranked dungeons.” Aria said.
“Yep, but now I have it” I say. “I should get w on dinner, what do you guys want?”
I did want to talk more about this, but we needed dinner.
“You pick” they tell me, at the same time.
So I walk into the kit, but stop when I see the mail.
On top there was a rge envelope with my name on it.
Stopping to open it up, inside I find my highschool diploma.
“Hey, why didn’t you tell me my diploma came?” I ask the two of them.
“Oh, that's what that was” Anthem said. “We didn’t realize it was your diploma”.
“Oh, well, I don’t really know what to do with this” I say.
“We go buy a frame for it tomorrow. Even if you don’t want it, mom and dad will” Aria said. “They have ours on dispy”.
“Oh, yeah sure” I say, then go baaking dinner.
I chose a basic pasta, since I didn’t want to wait very long.
As I worked, and we all ate, we talked more about my hunting.
After we were done, we spent some time together, pying games and hanging out.
As it got te, we all went to bed, getting ready for the day.
NamelessAlter
