The morning sun woke up. I feel great.
After a quick arm and leg stretch I got dressed and readied myself for another eventful day. The sli dungeon stood out to the most. The old man said they were a relatively low level, and long range magic attacks should be more than enough to handle them. I'm more curious about the abilities he said they had... the boss can steal its opponents MP...
I made my way downstairs and walked out the door towards the Dungeon Hub. I grabbed a quick bite to eat on the way.
The hub was swarming with hunters again this morning. I scanned the area, it'll be good to make a habit of being much more cautious. I'm going in solo from now on. No more teaming, it never seems to go well for .
I walk up to the D Class guard and hand him my ID. Monts later I make my way down the large escalator to the platform below. On the list of dungeons it says the sli dungeon is right on the edge of the city. It's a lower grade D Class, as expected
I waited patiently, then boarded the train heading off in that direction. Around 20 minutes later I arrived and made my way up the escalator to find the floating blue portal.
I reach into my item storage and pull out my sword while running forward into the dungeon. It's ti to kill so slis.
The dungeon is surprisingly bright. I was expecting a dark cave, or so kind of mountain range. That's been the common the lately.
I'm standing in a wide open adow. The grass is short and there are small patches of flowers everywhere. The sky is blue and the there are beautiful white clouds floating by. There's no sun, but it feels like a nice hot sumr day.
I make my way forward into the dungeon with my sword drawn. I can see so weird looking circular objects in the distance.
After a 5 minute walk through the adow I ca across what I spotted earlier. This is... a sli?
A huge blue glob of gel just stood in front of , maybe 2m in diater. It was slowly gliding along the ground towards .
I used inspect to check it out.
[Lv. 99]
Okay... its a much lower level than . This shouldn't be much of a problem.
I ran towards the monster and sliced its body clean in half to see how it would react.
The body of gel separated then reattached. It continued its slow glide in my direction.
Right... the old rchant said long range magic would be best against these sli.
I'll try out my fire magic, but in a longer range form. I've never really tested it like this before.
While putting my sword into my item storage I stepped back and stood about 10m away from the sli. I concentrated on focusing my fire magic into the space between both my palms. Instead of shaping it into a sword, I'll just keep it as an orb. I took a deep breath and threw the fire orb like a baseball. It wasn't the coolest looking move, but I'm not sure how else to get the orb moving in that direction... I can't control where my fire travels once it leaves my body.
"Take this!"
The orb of fire made impact with the slow moving sli and it blew up into a huge ball of fire and goo.
The sli was mostly incinerated. There was leftover puddles all over the ground. I walked over to check it out.
No blue text... I can't use absorption for so reason.
Monts later the goo dissolved into the ground and it left behind a tiny mana crystal.
"Really? This is it?"
I threw it in my item storage and kept walking deeper into the dungeon. That crystal is the size of a mid grade E Class at best. I guess these slis are difficult to kill because they don't take damage from regular physical attacks, but I understand why not many hunters want to co out here. There's basically no loot in this dungeon, its a total waste of MP.
A few minutes later I ca across another sli, I used inspect.
[Lv. 94]
I sighed and moved in towards it. I wonder what would happen if I touched it. I have plenty of MP potions on , if it drains there's nothing to worry about.
I crept closer to the sli and put out a hand. I shoved it through the side of the sli's body and waited.
.....
Nothing happened...
I ignited my hand with flas and blew the sli to bits. It was still moving around sohow, I guess it separated in ti. I made a couple fire orbs and burned the rest of it with ease. It did use up a good amount of MP though.
This is kind of irritating. How are these monsters even classified as a D Class dungeon? The boss must be pretty tough or sothing.
I used enemy detection and found a large concentration of monsters on one end of the dungeon. This must be where the boss is located. I trekked through over for a little less than an hour. Every sli that ca near was an easy victory, after 16 slis my MP was drained to about half way. Not too bad.
I finally made it to the boss room. This has to be the easiest dungeon I've ever raided, let's see what this boss has in store. The spinning light grey portal invited to enter.
The boss room is oddly similar to the outside dungeon. There's green grass, a blue sky, and it's well lit in here. The only difference is the large walls enclosing the room.
After scanning the area a large glob of blue sli erged from the back of the room. It looked about 3m tall, and a bit darker shade than the normal slis. I used inspect.
[Lv. 141]
Now that's an upgrade from the other slis here, but it's still just a sli. With a bored look on my face I walked over to the monster, it moved towards quickly as well.
Interesting. Looks like this boss has so actual combat ability.
I jumped to the right and dodged its forward movent. This thing is pretty quick.
I started concentrating a ball of fire in my palm as we stared each other down... Well I stared at it, the sli didn't exactly have eyes to look back at . It just felt like it was staring right at .
A mont later the sli started gliding towards at a rapid speed. I continued charging a ball of fire and ran towards it as well. I let out my attack straight at the monster and blew a massive hole clean through it. Over 50% of its mass was incinerated on the spot.
I continued my charge passed the sli with a smirk on my face.
As I ran by so of the sli's innards landed on my left arm and back. Instantly I knew sothing was wrong. That smirk turned serious really quick.
"This is the skill.... My MP..."
The partial fragnts of the sli body were draining my MP fast. Within seconds I could feel all the magic drain from my body. The rest of the sli crawled closer to .
It was impossible to wipe off, like living sticky water all over my body. The rest of the sli started connecting with it and my body was covered in the goo before I could think of anything. It sucked be up and complete reford into a large blob in seconds.
While suspended in the slis stomach, my MP is getting sucked dry. I can't breathe inside this monster either, what a predicant...
I dropped my guard for a second. I can't underestimate any opponent, not even a sli.
I wasn't taking any HP damage, but in less than 5 seconds I could tell my MP has almost hit 0.
If I ignite my flas right now I may do more damage than good. It'll get the sli off for a mont, but my MP will definitely hit 0. Then I'll be screwed seconds later if it attaches before i have ti to act.
There's only one thing I can think of that'll work right now.
I open up my item storage while floating inside the mass of sli and pull out the fire stone.
Instantly, the sli starts bubbling and lting all around . A huge hole in the sli opens up and I crawl out to make my escape. I reach into my item storage again to grab an MP potion and chug it on the spot while erupting into flas burning every last bit of sli residue off my body.
I turned to face the sli boss again with newfound respect for the creature.
"Good try, but that's not going to work on again."
With a slow nod I ford a fireball with almost all of the MP from a full recovery potion into a massive orb in front of my body. I used both my hands to hurl the attack at the sli boss. A huge explosion completely incinerates the remaining slis mass. I've won now.
I walk over and throw my fire stone back into item storage. It burned my hand again, I had to use self regeneration to fix my skin. Maybe my body hardening will work next ti? I have to figure out a way to actually use this thing properly, it's a really powerful stone.
The blue text I've been waiting for finally popped up over the remaining goo on the ground.
[Use Absorption]
Skill: Plunderer
[YES][NO]
"Ahh so it's called plunderer huh?"
With a grin I chose [YES] and collected the mana as the sli disappeared.
That makes sense, the skill user is forcefully taking MP from their opponent during battle. Maybe it has other hidden abilities too... I can't wait to see how it works!
The white light ca and transported back to the dungeon's start point. I stepped out back into the room connected to the Dungeon Hub.
It isn't even mid day yet, but I'm totally done with these slis....
It's ti to search for another dungeon and test out this new skill.
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