-Good evening everyone, hope you are all enjoying yourselves, and I can only pray you have all been growing stronger.
"What is this again? This voice-"
"It's this voice."
"Sothing bad is about to happen again."
-I won't say much this ti. Tomorrow marks the beginning of the second trial. The information will be sent to everyone via the system interface.
"It's done."
"It's here again. Another forced quest?"
-I wish you all goodluck.
..
Everyone was a little shocked at the news, as unlike the first ti around, even with the numbers, not many were enthusiastic about this at all. Everyone suspected these quests to be compulsory, so they knew there was no other way around it. There was no choice to reject and not participate, they had to.
Dustin on the other hand was among the people who had half been waiting for this day to co, and it was finally here. Of course, they couldn't check the contents of this next quest as the next day was yet to reach, so they had to wait. The thing was, in such a state, who would be able to sleep and wait for tomorrow to co, many were going to have sleepless nights. Dustin who was now away from the town couldn't even be disturbed by the commotion happening even if he wanted to, so he just went to sleep peacefully.
..
"The next quest is starting tomorrow. Have you replaced the missing parts?"
"Yes I have. I have also readied extra, just in case. Just like you asked to."
"Good. He's causing us this much stress already, I guarantee he's going to be even more troubleso later on."
"We might need a special solution for this sir."
"We just might."
..
[Proceed to the specified location]
[Enter the dungeon there]
[You can go about this however you like, but rember, two heads are better than one]
[Clear condition is to reach the dungeon's final floor]
[Penalty for not completing quest, 10 years taken from lifespan]
[Ti limit, one month]
..
As Dustin read what was written, the system automatically opened a map before him showing the location of the dungeon. Getting there was absolutely no problem, the problem was what would be in the dungeon.
Dustin just as always went into town and stocked up on edibles and so other things he needed for this trip. He would wait for the girls to co first, and maybe then they could form a team and go through the entire thing together, but there was no need for such unnecessary things. He was more of a lone wolf to begin with, plus them there would only restrict him from using this skills fully, as he didn't want to be showing his cards to everyone.
Dustin set out for the quest after stocking up, and after crossing the mountain to the other side, he couldn't believe what was before him. rely looking down from the mountain top, Dustin could tell just how many beast were present, and their number in just one area was twice as much as what he had seen before. Of course, he thought of taking all this experience for himself as he looked at the moving bags of EXP, but-
There was no but! Dustin imdiately rushed down the other side of the mountain and after he had gone half way, he summoned the tigers and the sea serpent. The sea serpent might have not been in it's natural advantageous area, but that didn't an it beca weak at all. On land, the serpent would be sothing between E rank and an E rank, so it was fine as long as nothing serious happened.
Dustin of course would be there in case anything threatened his tad beats. Before he began descending the other side of the mountain, Dustin stole a glance back to make sure that others had not started coming yet, just to make sure. There was no need to show that he had such a monster, it would only drag unnecessary attention.
After continuous killing for a month, Dustin was now close to levelling up again, but he still left the EXP farm before him, the tad beasts and monsters are still important, and can only beco more useful if their level is high enough.
After about 20 minutes had passed, and Dustin was just lying down by the side of the mountain, the two of his tad animals ca back to him, this ti the tiger had combined, but both of them were still E rank. It was enough for now, after killing a few hundred monsters and beasts, Dutsin was sure the coast was clear. In a way, he was being patriotic and saving the others the stress of having to face so much monsters later.
Dustin took the serpent back in, and rode on the tiger towards the destination dungeon. Normally he would stop and finish with the beasts outside before approaching the dungeon, but this ti he wanted to at least leave so beasts for the one's to co, so he completely ignored them and headed straight for the dungeon.
On getting to the location where the dungeon was marked on the map, Dustin reached in front of an old looking structure that looked like it would fall anyti if he were to throw a stone at it. 'Is this the dungeon start point?' He asked himself. The place looked like so kind of cathedral for so weird religion, but then again, he had no other option than to approach it.
Just to be on the safe side, Dustin activated his illusion skill before entering, and also activated his taming skill to scout for monsters in the area. The monsters outside seed to be avoiding this place and staying a couple tres away from it as Dustin could tell, and within the structure, there absolutely was no monster.
Dustin explored the cathedral, but couldn't find anything. In the end it turned out to be just a cathedral, just as he had thought. There was an alter and everything, and even so sections that were new to him.
Not believing that there was nothing here, Dustin went around the cathedral again looking for any clue like a trap door or sothing similar. Since the quest said a dungeon, it ant that the whole thing would descend underground floor by floor, or level by level. Also, the fact that there is no extension upward, ant that there was only the cathedral and the underground place.
Victor went round and on the second round of checking the place, he found what looked like a magic circle at the centre of the alter. The circle looked like sothing one would see back on earth as a demonic summoning circle, only that this ti the colour was neither red nor white, but black. Victor approached the circle, but with everything he knew which could go wrong, he wasn't about to step into such a circle, especially one that is in a world where strange powers exist.
Dustin wasted more ti around waiting for others to co so that he would then use them as experintal subjects. This, was what Dustin planned to do, but after waiting for more than half an hour and no body had co yet, he was starting to see the disadvantages of being a speedster.
'I guess I'll have to be the rat then.' He said while approaching the circle.
He didn't enter the circle imdiately and just went round it checking it out to see if he would find sothing else, maybe that place would be the hollow space. With no progress, Dustin finally decided to step into the circle, if anything was to happen, it would happen.
With the magic circle there, Dustin was thinking maybe it was the way to move people through the floors, and this idea wasn't a bad one, as it was literally the only thing that would be able to connect both floors. Dustin stepped on the circle using one leg, but nothing happened, then so seconds passed before he then stepped on the circle with both feet.
"That's it? To think I was so careful earlier, heh.." Dustin said.
The circle remained the sa as nothing changed with it, and he wasn't sure anymore if sothing was going to happen, and just when he thought that was it, the circle lit up with a red light. Dustin reacted to this imdiately and tried to jump out of the circle, but as he tried he felt his body slow down, as though the ti around him had paused, or at least was slowed down. As his body floated backwards mid air slowly bit by bit, the light around him got brighter and brighter and then it got so bright he couldn't see what was around him.
When the light finally cleared, Dustin's body flew off mid air into a hard surface like so sort of projectile, which he rightfully was at this mont, but then he was alright.
"Urgh!" Dustin grunted as his body slamd the surface.
'So dramatic. All to take to another floor.'
"This place better have good stuff, if not..."
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