《Moonlit sky》 Prologue "I am sorry Tenebris, but it is as you always say, dont do anything that doesnt make any profit, so there you go, at least you can rest in peace knowing the reason why you died." "But i love you... Cough, cough. And you love me, dont you?" "I do Tenebris, i always did, from the first moment i saw you i fell in love, but there is always one thing that i loved longer than you Tenebris." "That... That is true, i cant blame you, just tell me how much was i worth to you? For how much did you sell me?" Unauthorized use: this story is on Amazon without permission from the author. Report any sightings."Does it really matter? Alea iacta est, the die is cast, goodbye my love, may gods have mercy upon your soul." She stood up, dusted of her knees, sweeped off her long red wavy hair of her shoulders, and with a smile on her beautiful face turned around and walked away in silence. Black haired youth was lying on the ground, dagger sticking out of his pierced chest, dozen of small holes bleeding out of him. "Nice one Mila, you really pulled one on me, played me for a fool, well what did i expect anyway, life is just a game anyway, so its no wonder i got played like this, did you see that brother? Perfect play, i didnt suspect anything untill the end at all, she really did learn fast, that once again proves i am the best, or at least i was untill now, goodnight my brother, i''ll see you on the other side." He silently whispered, gazing upon the moon in the sky, but there was no answer for him, he just lay there, closed his eyes and let the darkness that always was his greatest ally cover him and lead him on. Chapter 1 - Lets talk "Ohh so you are finally here, what took you so long, come sit, want some tea? Not to brag but i got best tea on the whole world, or wait if i remember you are wine lover, never mind i have wine as well, want some? Why are you standing there like an idiot, come and have a seat!" "Who are you, where am i, i just died so this should be hell, so you are devil?" "What!? How can that bastard be as good looking as i am!" Answered that man that was looking like he was mid thirties, dressed in white with short black hair and grin on his face. In fact that whole room was decorated in white, chair, table, flooring, walls, only plants around were green. "G-g-god?" "Well yes, you can call me that and you wouldn''t be wrong, or you could call me Allah, Nirvana, Pangu, whatever that''s all the same..." "But i thought you would look... Well different..." "If you say Morgan Freeman im gonna smack you in the face i swear." "No, no, no, definitely not Morgan Freeman!" "Why because im not black? That''s racist you know..." "No, i didn''t mean that, i just..." "Ohh relax already, im messing with you, you are so stiff, hahaha, get it? Stiff because you are dead! Hahahaha!" "Okay..." "Ohh come on, do you even have a sense of humor at all? Come and sit, drink with me, let''s talk a bit." He walked couple of steps and sat on a wooden chair in front of him. In front of him on the table was a glass of wine, smell of that wine was totally breathtaking, he just couldn''t resist it so he grabbed that glass and downed that wine in one mouthful. "I told you i have best wine on this world." Said grinning god across the table. "Now where were we, ohh yes i wanted to talk with you a bit before you go, you see it''s quite boring up here so i spend a lot of time watching you guys down there, from time to time theres a person or two that grab my interest a bit, and you are one of those persons. You see, by heavenly law killing is a big no-no, and you did quite a lot of that, but that''s not the point, you see, you mortals created something called art, or well just named everything that looks or sounds beautiful, art, and what interested me in you was that you made your every kill an art, every stroke of your sword was like a stroke of a paint brush of an master artist, every bullet you fired was like an heavenly hymn, you made death look beautiful, and i admire you for that so because of that i have a proposition for you."Unauthorized tale usage: if you spot this story on Amazon, report the violation. "What kind of proposition?" He stared at god dumbfounded. "Well you are a mercenary, an assassin, you get payed for your work, so what if i hired you for something?" "Wait what?! Hire me, but you are a god why would you hire me?" "Well it''s not really hire, it''s more like a bet, yes that''s it, let''s have a bet!" "A bet? What kind of bet?" "It''s simple, you lose you spend your eternity with that brat downstairs boiling in one of his cauldrons or something like that..." "And if i win?" "I grant you a wish, any wish you want, well except you replacing me, you can have anything you want, hows that, interested?" "Well... Yes, but what is the bet about?" "It''s simple, i send you to another world, i noticed you like games a lot and even consider your whole life a game, so it will be a world of game, win that game and you win the bet, lose and... Well you won''t have to worry about company for the rest of your eternity!" Big grin was covering gods face as he said that. "What kind of a game?" "Let''s see, i think you call it Survival RPG? Isn''t it, yes you go you do what you do best and that is killing and you level up and beat the game, it can''t be any more simple than that!" "And how do i beat the game?" "Well that''s for you to figure out there, don''t worry you will have company there, there are already some survivors there trying to, well survive and beat the game, interested?" "And what if i refuse this bet?" "Simple, we skip this bet and i send you to that brat to roast a bit until you suffer enough for your sins, which if i may say are a lot, then either disappear or reincarnate, depends how well you manage with heat, so what''s your answer?" "I... Can i think about it?" "Of course you can, ill send you to that brat and you can think for however long you want!" "Can i think about it without being roasted?" "Nope!" "Then i accept your bet..." "As i knew you would, so any questions?" "What happens when i arrive to that world you spoke of?" "Well considering you are not reincarnating into that world like rest of the people, you will keep your memories, even that law of darkness that you managed to study, which is impressive considering the amount of people who actualy have a clue about universal laws, but you won''t keep your strength, you will have a new body there and you can keep that half of soul you have right now, but you can pick your appearance if you wish?" "Wait, half of soul? How come i have half of soul?" "Ohh that, well when you love somebody you gift them with half of your soul, your problem is that you did love that girl, but she never really loved you, so you didn''t get half of her soul in return. Sorry buddy bad news for you..." "I see, so she never loved me..." "Well, she did, it''s just that she never loved you with all her hearth, she loved that paper and gold more than you." "If i win this bet, can you return me to where i first met her and make her love me more than money?" "Well that''s against the rules, but considering it''s a bet yes i could, but are you sure you want that for your wish?" "Yes!" "Okay, but i will wait until bet is over, you might change your mind on the way, it would be a waste if it was like that. So, ready to go?" "Wait, will there be a problem with my half soul there?" "Well it might be, if you decide to learn some soul magic or something you might suck at it because you have half soul, you know what, ill gift you with something in return so don''t worry about it, any more questions?" "Can i have some more wine before i go?" "Nope, see you later, bye!" Swoosh! With a wave of a hand he disappeared from sight, god kept sitting there grinning foolishly. "Ohh this will be fun, i have to watch this!" Chapter 2 - Not so normal high school day Swoosh!
Welcome player, you have been transferred to a new world, you may proceed and customize your character!
"What is this? A game menu? Why is it so dark?"
Please pick your race! Human, Elf, Dwarf, Demon. Each race has it''s own racial bonus.
"Okay, show me racial bonuses."
Human: Evolution - May evolve certain spells and abilities with effort.
Elf: Nature Synergy - Has bonus with light and nature based spells and abilities.
Dwarf: Half size, double effort - Has double bonus for all crafting professions.
Demon: Destruction - Has bonus with destructive based spells and abilities.
"What is this? I don''t get it, this practically says nothing, give me more details!"
Please pick your race!
"Damn it, well everything seems fine, i don''t know, let''s roll with human, i am used to it anyway."
Race human, please customize your appearance.
Swoosh! Almost naked youth appeared in front of him, it was in fact like he was watching himself in the mirror.
Set age!
"Hmm, let it be 18, not too much and not too little, at least i wont be a minor."
Set body construction!
"Keep it as it is, damn im hot i never realised it until now!"
Set hair color!
"Whats wrong with my hair color? Although i always wanted to try out azure, i don''t know if it would fit me!"
Set class!
"Wait what? Hey i didn''t pick my hair color, why did you change it to blue, i didn''t want that, hey, do you hear me?! Oh damn it, never mind i guess i''ll have to live with it, what classes are there?"
Classes: Warrior, Hunter, Assassin, Wizard, Priest, Smith, Scientist, Hidden, Hidden, Hidden.
"What''s with this, why are there 3 hidden classes? Can i pick those? What happens if i pick hidden class?"
Every hidden class represents one of unexplored starting classes. Please pick your class!
"Stupid system, it''s driving me crazy... Well let''s go with a safe pick, i have lived as an assassin, and i died as one, and i will be reborn as one!"
Please pick your name!
"Tenebris!"
Name set as Tenebris, please pick your last name!
"Ummm... Mors?"
Full name Tenebris Ummors!
"Wait what?! I said MORS not UMMORS you stupid system, it sounds like a damn tumor, fix it!"
Character customization finished, commencing world scenario, please wait!
World scenario set, commencing starting scenario!
Starting scenario set! High school day apocalypse. Good luck, have fun!
"Bitch..." Swoosh! "Damn stupid bitch!" Tenebris yell as he jumped up, he turned around himself only to notice it was not dark anymore, he was standing in a classroom and everyone was looking at him, teacher that was lecturing was standing there in front of her table looking dumbfounded with his current act.Love this story? Find the genuine version on the author''s preferred platform and support their work! "Woops..." "Young man i can understand that you don''t find math interesting and that you sleep in my class, but i won''t tolerate you making mess in my class!" She glared at him angrily as she took of her glasses and wiped them with a tissue paper. "I-i-i''m sorry, i-i-i was having a nightmare!" Stupid idiot is that best excuse you could''ve made? "Nonetheless, one more mistake and i will be forced to send you to principal!" "Yes ma''am!" He answered as he sat down on his chair looking around himself. What, like you guys never slept in class! Why are you all still looking at me! Mind your own business! Damn my head hurts... As he thought that a flood of information appeared in his head. Ohh... So this is my new life, i''m an orphan with no friends, well this is a hell of a nice start to get, thanks a lot stupid system! "Ma''am, may i go to bathroom my head hurts?" "Yes you can, and stop calling me ma''am im not that much older than you!" "Yes ma''am!" He stood up and walked out of classroom while everyone was still staring at him and his math teacher was massaging her temple, furiously glaring at him. Damn at least i got out, lets see so this should be some kind of a game? Are those people all like... Real? As he was walking down the hallway wondering suddenly blue screen popped in front of him. Ding!
Apocalypse scenario is starting in 10:00 minutes, please prepare yourself!
"Ohh so it hasn''t started yet, no wonder that school is still working then, prepare yourself? How? With what? Stupid system..." He walked into bathroom and stood in front of a sink with a mirror, looking at himself in a reflection. "Well at least i''m still hot, even with this weird hair." He mumbled as he touched his hair, looking at himself in reflection, as he was looking in the mirror a sudden sound was heard. Swoosh! "Whos there?" He said as he turned himself around, but he heard no response, as he was waiting he walked to toilet cabins, slightly pushing open the doors. Nothing in the first one, huh, maybe next doors. He thought as he proceeded to the next doors, as he opened next doors he was shocked with what he saw!
Slime lvl 5
HP 100/100
What the hell? A slime? Seriously? As he thought that slime bounced off the floor flying right at him. Swoosh! He dodged it as slime flew past right beside him, smashing into wall behind him. "Easy boy, easy!" He stood there dumbfounded, looking at the slime that a moment ago was flying at him. "You have some moves for a slime, but unluckily for you, you met me today!" He said with a big and sinister grin on his face, he ran straight at it kicking at its direction. -6. Red number floated above the slime and slowly faded away. "What?! 6?! That was my full for kick, how can it be only 6?!" As he was mumbling to himself that slime slowly crawled up his leg. "You damn goo, get off me!" He yelled as he started swishing his leg in the air, in the end that slime got of him. He looked around himself trying to find something that he could use as a weapon. In the end he picked up a long piece of a tile that was cracked of the wall when slime rocketed itself into it. With piece of ceramics in hand he started violently stabbing at slime. -10. -10. -11. - 10. -9. -10. After couple of moments that slime ran out of HP and deflated itself, cowering up large portion of the floor, as it deflated completely there was a piece of paper in that puddle, he picked it up and shook it a little and noticed there was some text on it, he started reading it. Hey there Tenebris! Hows it going, did you fit in good in your new world? Anyway this is me granting you a gift for that soul problem you had, use it well, see you! "What the f..." As he mumbled he heard a sound and couple of blue screens popped in front of him again. Ding!
Congratulations! You are a first person to score a kill. You have been awarded 5 bonus attribute points and a title Pioneer!
Congratulations! You are a first person to change your class. You have been awarded 1 bonus skill point!
Congratulations! You have leveled up! You are the first person to level up. You have been awarded 5 bonus attribute points!
He stood there dumbfounded looking at those notifications that popped up in front of him. It took him some time to clear his mind and figure out what was actually happening. So that''s how it is, luckily i played some games while i was still alive. Wait can i say that? I am still alive right? Wait, how do i bring up my character panel, i think i saw it in an anime on earth, oh yeah! "Status!" Blue screen poped up in front of him again, but this time it was different screen.
Name: Tenebris Ummors Class: Assassin Level: 2
EXP: 10/500 Titles: Pioneer
Strength: 9 Agility: 12 Intelligence: 8
Wisdom: 11 Luck: 20 Charm: 9
HP: 60/60 MP: 60/60 Energy: 60/60
Unspent attribute points: 15.
Skills: Law of Darkness lvl 1 Close combat lvl 1
Chapter 3 - Chaotic organisation "What?! Law of Darkness lvl 1? I was quite sure that i figured it out quite a lot, well never mind, i guess i''ll just put some more effort in it, Close combat lvl 1 huh, well considering how weak i am now it isn''t a wonder at all, but what''s this title Pioneer i got?"
Pioneer: Increases experience gained from killing monsters by 10%.
"Oh, cool, you have to love free stuff! Let''s see, there''s 3 more minutes left ''till apocalypse starts, i wonder if anyone else knows of it, i should go back to my classroom and check, i have been out for quite some time now." As Tenebris made his way back to the classroom he was stunned with what he saw, his whole classroom was up and they all stared out through the window. Sky was pitch black, it was like it was suddenly night, but even darker than that, there was no sun nor moon, only shiny beam of light dropping from the sky into city center that wasn''t far from his school. "Teacher? What is happening? Why is it dark all of the sudden?" "I-i-i don''t know, there was some sudden holographic screen in front of me with some timer on it, and, and, and it imediately got dark, then that beam of light appeared out of nowhere and it keeps getting brighter and brighter with time, i don''t know what''s happening, is it really apocalypse?!" She stood there in daze, mumbling quietly, her eyes were watery, full of tears, every student in classroom was like glued to the window, no one spoke, couple of girls were shaking, everyone was pale, like all color was drained from them, but they kept staring out the window, looking at that shiny beam of light. A calm before the storm. "Listen up everyone!" Tenebris suddenly yelled. "You need to calm down, i know this is all quite shocking, but if there really is an apocalypse incoming, you can''t panic, you must remain calm in order to survive, have you never watched a movie, tell me, who dies first in movies like this?" As he finished everyone was staring at him, some of them opened their mouths, wanting to speak, but no words were spoken. Silence, complete silence ruled this classroom. "Okay everyone, we don''t know what will happen when time runs out, but we must prepare for the worst, is anyone here trained in combat, some form of martial arts or anything else?" "I-i-i did go to kendo, but that was a long time ago, but i still know some of it..." This narrative has been purloined without the author''s approval. Report any appearances on Amazon.Said blonde little girl, almost as whispering. "Good, what''s your name, anyone else?" "I''m Tanya..." She mumbled quietly. "I went kick-boxing for couple of years, does that count?" Said tall and skinny boy that was standing almost in the corner of the classroom. "Yes it does, anything is better than nothing, anyone else?" Silence, no one spoke even a single word further. "Damn guys what were you doing your whole life? Ok you two, Tanya and whatever is your name, come stand behind me, rest of you hide under tables, prepare like someone will drop a nuke on this school, hurry up, what are you waiting for?!" As he finished everyone rushed to do as he said, they scurried down under tables, trembling, shaking, panicing, fear was evident on their faces. Well who wouldn''t be afraid if all of the sudden you were told, hey guess what? It''s an apocalypse! Surprise! "My name is Demian by the way, why don''t we hide under tables?" Said that tall kick-boxer when he came up to Tenebris. "I don''t really care about your names at all, i just need your ability, if you prove yourself unable then you will join rest of them under those tables, same goes to you blondey, if you want to take your chance go hide under the table and roll the dices, maybe you''ll survive and maybe you won''t, i want to survive so i''m not hiding, i will fight to live, so are you guys cowards or will you fight to live? It can''t be any more simpler than that." Said Tenebris with a frown on his face as he was measuring up two youths standing in front of him, they were still slightly trembling, but once they heard his words they stood still, shocked, staring at him with their pupils shrunk and mouths open. "I-i-i am afraid." Whimpered tearfully Tanya. "And who says i''m not?! I am also afraid, i don''t know whats happening, it''s normal to be afraid, only question is how will you use that fear inside you, cower? Or stand and fight?" "Fight? Fight who? Fight what?" Asked confused Demian. "Monsters! Bunch of ''em actually considering it is supposed to be an apocalypse! I killed one in the bathroom already, if you haven''t noticed yet all of this is like some sort of a game, i have some experience with games and i played quite a few of apocalypse survival games, so if you follow me and listen to what i say, well i can''t say you won''t die, but at least you will have a chance to live!" "And what about rest of them?" Asked Demian. "In my eyes they are all already dead." Solemnly replied Tenebris. "Dead, but can''t you help them somehow?" Spoke frantically Tanya. "No. It''s their own inability that killed them, well i already did as much as i could for them, in case of some miracle some of them may survive, it''s just a matter of luck now, but you two have some ability, so you have higher chances, now let''s go we need to hurry, apocalypse is starting in a minute!" "Go where?" Asked confused Tanya. "To the gym dummy, duhh... You are a swordsman and you need a sword, and he''s a kick-boxer he needs... Well kick-boxing stuff... You are wasting our time with dumb questions, now run!" Chapter 4 - Gym "We are almost there, how much time do we have left?" Said Demian as he ran to the entrance to gym. "About 10 more seconds, hurry up grab what you need!" Yelled Tenebris as he ran into the gym as started looking around himself, hoping to find something he might use as a weapon. Suddenly ground below them started shaking, that beam of light started shining like a bright sun on the sky, they were standing at the entrance watching that beam expand in size. Ding! Another system notification was heard and bright blue screen popped up in front of everyone.
3!
2!
1!
Apocalypse starting!
With that blue screen faded and that beam of light flashed, blinding everyone as they started tumbling around as they finally fell, gym lockers that were right beside the entrance fell over them with a bang and then, it all stopped, it was a complete silence. Ugh! What is this, what happened, damn this locker is so heavy, i can barely move, i need to get out and check whats going on. Thought Tenebris as he slowly crawled under that locker that was on top of him. It''s dark, wait, no... It''s night, i can see moon again, oh moon my good brother i missed you. As he looked around himself he noticed whole school was a mess, there was no light, only pale moonlight barely outlining the school, east wing of the school was on fire, that fire was lighting up a bit of its surrounding, but oddly enough it wasn''t spreading, it was just burning quietly in the night, flames were licking damaged and burned down walls, but that was it, it was like that fire was trapped in time, only existing, but neither progressing nor regressing, stagnating in place. West wing was half collapsed, whole top floor was missing, stacked on top of second floor, windows shattered and walls crumbling bit by bit, whole west wing looked like it was about to collapse any time now, but it was still standing firm in place. Only central part of the school was whole, well except shattered windows and some peeled of paint. Tenebris turned around looking at the inside of the gym, everything was a mess, lockers were all over the place, there was a huge hole on the ceiling, pale moonlight breaching through that hole, lighting up this gym a bit. "Well damn, this is some messed up shi..."As he was mumbling to himself he suddenly heard a moan next to him, he rushed up to check it, he noticed a hand sticking under the locked, pale, soft and tender arm. "Blondey?! Are you alright, can you move?" He said as he tried moving that locker of her, with some effort he managed to lift it up a bit, enough for Tanya to crawl out a bit. Bang! He dropped that locker back down as soon as he saw her out. "What are these lockers made of, lead?! I almost sprained my arm damn it!" He said, frowning and rubbing his arms. "Are you okay? Can you move? Breathe in, check if you are injured somewhere." He said softly as he turned around to look at Tanya which was sitting behind him. "Huh?! Ye-yeah, i''m fine, just bruised a bit, nothing serious, where is Demian?" "Oh i forgot about him!" He said as he rushed trying to find any sign of life under those lockers around him. "I''m here, i can''t get out i''m stuck." "Put some effort in it, here i''ll try and lift it up a bit for you." Answered Tenebris as he started lifting a locker again.Stolen from its original source, this story is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. "Okay. I''m out, thanks." Ding!
You have entered dungeon "Benedikt High School". In order to leave this dungeon you have to defeat all dungeon bosses, every attempt of departure before conditions are met will be punishable with death. Good luck, have fun!
"Dungeon? Bosses? What is happening i don''t understand? And how can any one sane say good luck have fun? What kind of a sick mind do you have in order to say that?!" Tanya was practically screaming last part of her sentence. Well i know quite a few people like that... "Keep quiet, you might attract some monsters if you keep screaming like that!" Whispered Tenebris quietly. She immediately shut her mouth and cover her mouth with her hands. "Let''s look around a bit, let''s try and find something useful, you two check the lockers for some food, we don''t know how much time we will spend here, i''ll go around and try to find some weapons for us." Whispered Tenebris as he turned around and started walking away from two youth that were still sitting on the floor dumbfounded. Jeez, will those two wake up already and realise what is happening around them now, do they not realise yet that it''s worlds end already. Gosh, well it might not be an end, maybe it''s something more of a natural selection, strong eats weak world i guess, not that much different from my previous world i guess, just more direct, well anyway i will put myself on top of the food chain so i don''t have to worry about it... Oh look there it is! Tenebris sped up as he saw something he was looking for, doors of gym equipment storage, if there is anything useful in this gym, there ought to be in gym storage! Creak! Sound of doors opening was echoing through the gym, Demian and Tanya turned around and saw Tenebris walk into doors and disappear into the darkness. Jackpot! This is what i need! He knew there was couple of martial arts clubs in this high school so he knew there was spare equipment stored somewhere. Gloves, pads, bats, bokkens and even some old chipped swords. He took a towel and started collecting everything that might be of some use on a pile and he took an iron chipped sword and tied it to his back with its handle sticking out at his right hip. As he finished and started tying a knot of that towel he saw an old heater in the corner, one of portable ones so he went over to grab that when suddenly he felt piercing pain from his shoulder! Ack! He almost screamed out in pain! -12! Critical strike. He turned around only to see a small bat flying around him flapping its wings in the air, but to his shock it wasn''t only one, there were dozens of bats hanging from the ceiling looking down at him. He slowly reached out towards his back to grab his sword, and bats as if sensing that all rushed out swarming him, striking him with their claws in turns. Shing! Swish, swish, swish! Metal slashing flesh was heard as he unsheeted his sword and waved it through the air with utmost precision. -30! Fatal strike! -30! Fatal strike! -30! Fatal strike! -30! Fatal strike! -30! Fatal strike! Red letters faded throughthe air, every single of his sword strike was a fatal strike for a bat, killing multiple bats with single stroke of his sword, just a couple of brief moments later there were no more bats. Ding!
You have leveled up! You have been granted 5 bonus attribute points!
You have leveled up! You have been granted 5 bonus attribute points!
Your close combat has been upgraded to level 2!
For being the first person to level up a skill you have been granted 1 bonus skill point!
As he turned around himself checking for more bats, making sure there were none left he softly said. "Status."
Name: Tenebris Ummors Class: Assassin Level: 4. Exp: 200/2000
Titles: Pioneer.
HP: 80/80 MP: 80/80 EP: 80/80
STR: 9 AGI: 12 INT: 8
WIS: 11 LCK: 20 CHR: 9
Unspent attribute points: 25. Unspent skill points: 2.
Skills: Law of Darkness lvl 1/10, Close combat lvl 2/10
Chapter 5 - Damsel in distress? Who cares "Well isn''t this nice, those bats were practically free experience! I guess i got a minute to spare to spend my attribute points now, but how huh? Oh i got an idea, lets do this!"
Name: Tenebris Ummors Class: Assassin Level: 4 Exp: 0/3000
Titles: Pioneer.
HP:80/80 MP:80/80 EP:72/80 +0.1/min
STR: 14 AGI: 34 INT: 8
WIS: 11 LCK: 20 CHR: 9
Unspent attribute points: 0 Unspent skill points: 2
Skills: Law of Darkness lvl 1/10 5% Close combat lvl 2/10 32%
"But what''s up with this skill point? Where do i spend that?" Ding! Ding!
Unspent skill points are used to upgrade grades of skills. You need to have skill with maximum level to upgrade its grade!
Due to being first person to cross 30 points of agility you have been granted an ability!
"Oh so that''s how it is, then it''s useless at the moment, but whats up with a new ability?" "Status!"
Name: Tenebris Ummors Class: Assassin Level: 4 Exp: 0/3000
Titles: Pioneer.
HP:80/80 MP:80/80 EP:72/80 +0.1/min
STR: 14 AGI: 34 INT: 8
WIS: 11 LCK: 20 CHR: 9
Unspent attribute points: 0 Unspent skill points: 2
Skills: Law of Darkness lvl 1/10 5% Close combat lvl 2/10 32% Dexterous movement lvl 1/5 0%
"Oh, cool, but what does it do? Let''s try this... Skills!"
Law of Darkness lvl 1/10 5% Enables you to use element of darkness to your aid.
"Basic close combat lvl 2/10 32% "Grants you 6% bonus melee damage.
Dexterous movement lvl 1/5 0% Passive: +5% AGI Active: Further boosts your movements. Cost 1 energy/sec.
"Awesome, i like this game even more now! But seriously they could''ve built some tutorial for this, if i haven''t played games before i wouldn''t even know half of this now... Ah, never mind, i should go back and check if those guys found something already..." He picked up his bundle and walked out of the room only to see that Demian and Tanya barely moved at all, and that was not all, there was another person with them. He sped up his pace and came over to check, there was another girl with them, she was sitting on the ground with her jet black hair covering half of her face, she was weeping loudly while Tanya tried to keep her quiet. "Hey boxer boy, what''s up, who is she?" Asked Tenebris clearly annoyed by girls loud weeping. "How do hell should i know? We found her in the corner curled up and once she saw us she clung on Tanya and started weeping maniacally, and i''m not boxer boy!"The tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation. "Yeah, yeah whatever boxer boy, hey blackie who are you, will you shut up already or do you really want us all to be eaten?" As soon as he finished his sentence, that black haired girl immediately stopped weeping and looked at him terrified by what he just spoke to her. "P-p-please, you, you have to, to help me, my da-dad is trapped and, and he can''t get out!" She spoke quietly, still clearly sobbing. "Okay, first of all who are you, who is your dad, where is he, and most importantly, why should we help you, we don''t even know you?!" Shocked by his words black haired girl started weeping loudly again. "Jeez you really know how to handle girls don''t you?" Whispered Demian while rolling his eyes. "What, isn''t it logical, why should we help him if he''s not of any use? She''s cute, er.. ish...But cute won''t help her out now..." "My dad is school janitor!" Spoke frantically girl as she overheard their conversation. "Oh, okay, that might be useful, i guess..." Mumbled confused Tenebris. "You guess? So you mean to say you clearly don''t know what will and what won''t be useful now?" Spoke annoyed Tanya while still trying to calm this girl down a bit. "Well it''s not like it''s apocalypse every day you know?! Do you know what will be useful?" Rebuked angrily Tenebris. "No..." Whispered in response Tanya. "God... Anyway, where is he, if we can help we will, if we can''t we won''t, but at least we will try, is that good enough for you, can you shut up now before you call over every single monster in this school?" "Ye-yes, i''ll be quiet, my dad is locked inside his office next to the gym, but there are some monster in front of his doors so he can''t get out, so i tried looking around, but then that explosion happened and i was so scared..." "Okay, can you describe me what did those monsters look like and how many of them were there?" "Yes... Well they were skeletons, but they eyes were glowing, and it was just two of them." "Just two? Skeletons? This should be easy, in most of the games skeletons are weak, okay i''ll try but i can''t promise anything, so don''t get your hopes high! You two keep searching for food or anything useful, pick your weapons from this bundle here, and if you see some monsters avoid them, we will regroup later here so don''t roam off too far. Let''s go crybaby." "I-i''m not a crybaby..." Spoke quietly black haired girl, while she clearly started blushing. Tenebris didn''t even hear her because he was already at gym entrance, taking a peek outside checking out current situation, she ran up to him and grabed his sleeve, looking out with her pale face and shining brown eyes. "Can you let go of me? I need to use that arm you know, what''s your name anyway?" Spoke annoyed Tenebris. "I''m Diana, what is your name, are you leader of this group?" "My name is Tenebris, and no i''m not leader, i''m just helping them survive so they can increase my own chance of survival." "Oh, i see, Tenebris, that''s an odd name..." "What''s odd about it, it''s Latin for dar..." Suddenly he closed his mouth, looking outside while being high alerted, Diana noticed his alertness and grabbed his sleeve again. "You said there were two skeletons right?" "Yes, there were two of them... Why?" "Because i just saw half of dozen skeletons going into the school..." Mumbled Tenebris with a frown on his face. "What!" Yelped out in surprise Diana. "Shush! God you really are annoying maybe i should just throw you to those skeletons as a decoy..." "Don''t! Please don''t! I promise i''ll keep quiet!" Begged Diana while still grabbing his arm tightly. "Then behave, and let go of my arm already, you stay here, and i will go and check out what is happening there." "Don''t leave me." Whispered Diana. "Can you fight?" Asked Tenebris. "No..." "Then stay quiet and wait here, i will be back soon anyway." Spoke Tenebris as he ran out half-crouching. Chapter 6 - Its so cute! Shit... There is 4 of them there, no, wait, there is 5 now one more came, are they spawning somewhere? Thought Tenebris as he watched entrance to janitors office around the corner. After a minute another skeleton came and then they started moving in group towards the school, entrance to janitors office was clear. Tenebris used this opportunity and sprinted his way into the office slamming the doors shut behind him. "Who''s there?" He heard a faint whisper. "Umm, my name is Tenebris, are you school janitor?" He answered as he looked around trying to see where did this voice come out from. "Oh so you are a student, but how did you get in, there should be skeletons right in front of the entrance?" Whispered slightly older man as he peeked his head behind an overturned table. "They are gone for the moment but there should be more coming any time soon, your daughter sent me here to help you...." "Diana?! Is she safe, where is she?" Spoke frantically janitor. "She is safe, she is hiding inside gym, so don''t worry about that." Looking around himself trying to see if there is anything usable he continued. "Grab anything that might be of some use, tools, food or anything you might find useful, we have to hurry we have a bit time before more skeletons come back." "Yes, yes!" Answered the janitor as he hurriedly started rummaging through the room. "Okay, i''m ready, i got everything, we can go now." Whispered janitor as a heavy backpack was hanging down his shoulder. "There is a skeleton outside, once i open the doors you need to sprint to gym, i''ll take care of this skeleton." Explained slowly Tenebris. "You will fight it?" Asked confused janitor. "No, i will kill it." Answered Tenebris with a cold light glinting in his eyes. "Now, run!" Spoke Tenebris as he opened the doors, skeleton that was couple of steps away from the doors turned around and saw the running janitor. It''s eyes glowed with bright green fire as he ran towards the janitor with a long bone in it''s hands, but before it could reach janitor there was already a foot in front of it''s face rushing madly towards it''s head. With a subtle bang skeleton flew backwards couple of steps as it fell hard on the ground.
Skeleton swordsman
LVL ???
HP 190/200
Tenebris saw it''s information floating slightly above skeletons head before it disappeared into thin air. "I can''t see it''s level, so it must be higher level than me, good, excellent, that means that it''s just a pile of exp waiting to be collected!" Spoke Tenebris before he rushed over to the skeleton that was slowly rising from the ground. Before it could even rise properly a knee appeared in front of it slamming it hard into it''s rib cage area. With another thud skeleton again fell on the ground, but before it could even start rising again a sword smashed into it, and after first strike there were couple of more strikes. -14. -21! Critical strike! -15. -13. -16. In just couple of seconds skeleton was left with half of it''s HP gone, but Tenebris didn''t want to stop there he just kept slashing madly at the "poor" skeleton that couldn''t even move on the ground. +400 exp! Light blue letters floated slowly above skeleton as it fell into pieces. "400 huh? Not bad, couple of them more and i will level up again, oh look it dropped some book!" He whispered as he crouched down and picked up that book, but before he could check what it is another skeleton came from around the corner, noticing Tenebris crouching there it rushed toward him with a bone in it''s hands.This content has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. "Oh another one, come, let''s dance!" He spoke while a grin formed on his face. "Would you prefer tango or waltz? Oh right you can''t speak, never mind then..." He mumbled as he side stepped the skeleton and grabbed it by it''s neck bone and smashed it into the ground, it was basicly the same as before, he relentlessly smashed skeleton with his sword until it died and light blue +400 exp! appeared above its head. "They look so cuuuute, i wonder if i could tame one, i will probably need a skill for that, damn... Maybe one of those hidden professions was a necromancer..." Any other person hearing him say that would definitely throw up, these skeletons looked cute to him? "Anyway... I''ll come back later here to farm this guys some more, but i have to go back now, oh yeah there was that book that i picked up." He picked up a book that he dropped before he pounced onto a skeleton. "Basic introduction to system? Huh it''s some kind of a guide? Well it took you long enough damn it, stupid system..." What he didn''t know that drop rate for that guide was unbelievably low and it dropped now probably because he had 20 points in luck stat. He took the book and read through it while slowly stroling towards the gym. Huh so that''s how you become a wizard? Isn''t that simple? Well it definitely wouldn''t occur to my mind to sit down and meditate for hours, especialy now. Jeez it''s some straight up broken system... As he thought he already reached gym entrance, when he went inside group was already gathered and waiting for him. "Hey boxer boy, catch!" He said as he threw that guide to him. "What''s this? Introduction to system? What is this?" "Are you dumb? Did you hit your head when that locker fell over you, it''s what it says it is, it''s a guide, go read it, after you finish pass it to blondey." Demian scratched his head as he went over closer to the entrance to read this book. "Okay, did you find any food blondey?" "It''s Tanya, and yes we did, although not much, if you want food we should go to school cafeteria instead, we found only few protein bars here..." She spoke angrily as she was clearly annoyed by Tenebris being unable to remember her name. "That might be a good idea, i''ll think about it, hey blackie do you know what meditation is?" After he finished his sentence everyone turned around looking at him, wondering what he was about to say next. "Uh, yes i do, i have read about it, but i never tried it actually, why?" "Go find a corner and try meditating, if what says that book is correct, after meditation you should be able to do magic! Interested yet? Go now, be quick, why are you still standing there." He said to her as he shooed her away with his arms. "Now, what was your name, i forgot already..." He spoke to janitor. "How dumb are you if you can''t even remember some names?" Said Tanya as she was clearly already pissed off by him. "It''s not that i can''t, i just don''t want to remember your names, who knows you might die a bit latter and i would have memorised your name for nothing then, now go be a good girl and stand guard at the entrance will you blondey?" "My name is Tanya!" She glared at him angrily, but in the end turned around and went to guard the entrance. "My name is Tomm, i didn''t even tell you my name earlier so that''s why you didn''t know." Said the janitor as he smiled awkwardly. "Yeah, that might be the case..." Mumbled Tenebris as he scratched his head. "Did you really mean that? All that you might die soon so why bother thing?" "Well i did, but it''s an apocalypse so it''s not like i was lying, anyway tell me how well do you know this school?" "Well i have worked here for more than 20 years already, so i probably know whole school already. Why?" "Well, what blondey said about cafeteria is right, but i don''t think we will be able just to walk into cafeteria and pick food and then leave, so i want to know how many entrances are there leading to there." "Well there should be 2 entrances, no wait, 3 if you count ventilation system." "Where is storage room of cafeteria?" "Uh it is below the cafeteria, but it should be locked." "Can you unlock it?" "Yes i think i can, but it might need some time to do it." "How much time?" "Well, half an hour, maybe an hour, i don''t know yet." "Never mind, it is good, i found an old heater earlier, can you check if it''s still working later? I don''t know if there is still power in this school, but we might find a way for it to work anyway." "Well this school has a backup generator, but it has to be manually turned on because it is quite old." "Oh really, could you rewire that generator so it would power only one room?" "Yes i think i could, why, what do you have in mind?" "Nothing, nothing yet actually, just an idea, go rest a bit, we will move later to cafeteria, bring anything that you might use." Chapter 7 - A lot of math After an hour or so passed everything seemed calm, fool moon was high in the sky, Tenebris was gazing upon the night sky silently pondering to himself. From the info we currently have we can''t leave this school until we clear this dungeon, it has unknown number of bosses and monsters are spawning in random places around the school. So, first we need to establish some sort of a base right? After that we should get some more info on those bosses, their location and strength, damn it this is annoying, what should i do bro, got any ideas? He thought as his gaze pierced night darkness reaching the moon. Nothing huh?! Well i can''t blame you, i can''t think of anything myself either, let''s just do it one step at the time, i''ll talk with the janitor once he is rested, maybe he might know some good hideout. Status! Show sub-attributes!
Name: Tenebris Ummors Class: Assassin Level: 4 Exp: 800/3000
Titles: Pioneer.
HP: 80/80 +0.5/min MP: 80/80 0.01/min EP: 79/100 +0.1/min (resting)
STR: 14 CW: 55kg AP: 12 STA: 12 DMG: 6
AGI: 34 DEX: 27 PRC: 25 SPD: 27 AS: 1
INT: 8 RC: 16 MPWR: 4
WIS: 11 MREG: 0.011 PS: 1.1
LCK: 20 CHR: 9
Unspent attribute points: 0 Unspent skill points: 2
Skills: Due to shown sub-attributes skills have been moved to skills panel.
"Okay, this is interesting, let''s see now... Attributes!"
Strength(STR): 14. Does not increase per level, +1 STR increases percentage of certain sub-attributes.
Carry weight(CW): 55kg. Every +10 STR points increases CW by 5.
Attack power(AP): 12. Every point of AP increases damage done(DMG) by 0.1. +1 STR= +0.5 AP
Stamina(STA): 12. Increases activity duration limit. Every point of STR increases STA by 0.5. +10 STA= +5 EP.
Base damage(DMG): 6. Every bonus point of DMG increases your total damage done with weapon.
Agility(AGI): 34. Does not increase per level, +1 AGI increases percentage of certain sub-attributes. (Class special: +10 AGI= +5EP)
Dexterity(DEX): 27. Increases reaction speed, speed and evasion speed. +1 AGI= +0.5 DEX.
Precision(PRC): 24. Increases basic precision for ranged attacks and passive critical strike chance for all attacks. +1 AGI= +0.5 PRC. +1 DEX= +0.1 PRC.
Speed(SPD): 27. Increases basic attack and move speed. +1 AGI= +0.5 SPD. +1 SPD increases sprinting speed by 0.1m/s, base sprinting speed is 10m/s. +1 SPD increases attack speed by 0.02/sec.
Intelligence(INT): 8. Does not increase per level, +1 INT increases percentage of certain sub-attributes.
Rune count(RC): 16. Increases maximum amount of runes memorised. +1 INT= +2 RC
Magic power(MPWR): 4. Increases base damage of spells cast. +1 INT= +0.5 MPWR
Wisdom(WIS): 11. Does not increase per level, +1 INT increases percentage of certain sub-attributes.
Mana regeneration(MREG): 0.011. Increases amount of mana points gained per minute. +1 INT= +0.001 MREG
Processing speed(PS): 1.1. Increases amount of runes being channeled in a spell. +1 INT= +0.1 PS
Luck(LCK): 20. Increases luck of the character.
Charm(CHR): 8. Increases charm of the character.
"God this is a lot of math, why does it have to be math, can''t it be something like art and crafts? Jeez anyway, it looks like casters have it simpler, except i don''t have a clue what those runes are for, maybe they have something with universal laws. Ah whatever i''m a fighter anyway, i should just focus on my attributes and deal with the rest of it on the way." Tenebris mumbled to himself unaware that he wasn''t alone anymore.The story has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation. "Uh, i could tell you what those runes are for, i finished my meditation." Whispered shilly Diana. "Oh you did already, that was quite fast, speak then, what do you know?" "Well runes are some strange symbols that you use to make a magic circle, each time you meditate you increase your regeneration, gain bit of exp and have a slight chance to gain a rune." "So did you get a rune? Can you cast spells now?" He asked curiously. "Well i did, i got two runes in fact, i got one from meditation and another one from system notification." "Oh, what system notification?" "It said that i was in top hundred people to meditate and that i was awarded a bonus rune." She spoke while blushing slightly. "So what kind of runes did you get?" "My first rune was water rune and my second one was time rune..." "So it seems runes are really connected with universal laws huh..." He mumbled quietly. "Huh? What did you say?" Diana asked confused. "Uh? Oh nothing, never mind, so can you cast a spell then?" "I can''t, i need minimum of three runes to merge them into a spell, and i first need to learn a proper combination to form a spell." "How high is your wisdom?" He asked while thinking. "22, is that good?" She mumbled shilly. "Yes verry good, 8 more wisdom and you will be able to cast a spell, so that is like two more levels, nice, so besides two levels you need one more rune and a spell combination, this should be easy, good job, here take this as a reward!" He spoke excitedly as he tossed a protein bar to her. "Thank you." She mumbled in response as she blushed even more, her whole face from neck and higher was almost pure red color. "Well that''s just how things will go from now on, i don''t need useless people so whoever does something good gets to eat, those who don''t, get punished!" As he finished his sentence a slight shiver ran through her as she watched him, river of thoughts forming in her mind, confused as for what did he actually mean as punishment. "Okay guys pack up, only things you will need don''t burden yourself too much we need mobility more than anything else." He spoke a bit louder so everyone could hear him. "Oh, where are we going?" Asked Tanya while fastening a sword to her belt. "To get some food and grind some exp for you guys, so did you read anything interesting from that guide i gave you?" "Well yeah, it is indeed like a game, we should be able to form a party to share exp from monsters, so we can rely on you for a bit to level us up a bit." Answered Damian. "Nope, you can''t rely on me, if you do you will die faster, exp is not the only thing you get from monsters you know." "Oh did you mean monster drops?" Asked confused Tanya. "Nope, something even better!" He answered with a grin on his face. "What is better than exp and equipment?" Asked Damian totally confused. "Combat expirience! Yeah it might hurt a little, but no pain, no gain. So then, form a party guys and let''s head out!" They all felt a shiver down their spines just from watching Tenebris grin, they didn''t know why but his smiled looked especialy cold and ruthless. "W-where are we going?" Asked Tanya slightly afraid. "Skeleton farming!" Tenebris answered with even wider smile on his face. Chapter 8 - Farming "You can''t be serious right?" Asked Damian. "Why not, you scared? If you are you can stay here and hide somewhere and wait for some good person to save you, if you think i will save you and you can just relax while i do all the job you are wrong, all the food will be under my supervision and you can use your contribution and earn yourself some food, otherwise get out of my sight, any brake of my rules resolves in banishment and any serious brake of my rules is equal with decapitation, am i clear enough?" Smile on his face was gone, he had stern look on his face as he glanced over them. "You can''t do that! We found this food how can you just take it for yourself?" Spoke angrily Tanya. "Oh i can''t? Try me then!" He answered while that cold smile resurfaced on his face as he slowly put his hand on his sword hilt. "I-i-i...." She mumbled while her face was slowly being drained of all her color."At least..." She spoke so quietly almost anyone couldn''t hear her. "I am always fair, as i said, do good be rewarded, do bad and get a spanking, fair enough for you?" He answered her as he already knew what she was thinking. "W-what! Spanking!" She yelled frantically. "Gosh... It''s a metaphore, seriously i don''t know what pervy thoughts you have in your head but don''t expect anything from me, you are definitely not my type!" He answered her with a proud look on his face. "I''m not your type? What? Why?" She was almost screaming at him. "Cough, flat-chest, cough..." He coughed a bit to cover up his words a bit. Tanya heard him even with his pathetic try of covering up his words, she looked down and after realising what he meant she blushed, but not speaking a word. "So if everyone agrees we can go monster hunting now." Tenebris asked as he threw a glance over everyone . "I don''t know how to fight, and neither does my daughter, can we do something else in return?" Asked slightly afraid janitor. "Oh don''t worry about that, if you can do what we spoke of earlier you don''t have to fight, as for your daughter, once we are done she will be capable of combat so don''t worry about her." Answered Tenebris with a solemn look on his face. "What do you mean he doesn''t have to fight, but rest of us does?" Asked confused Demian. "He is an engineer, so he is useful even out of combat, what about you, do you have something special about you that may spare you of combat? Do you?" "I don''t..." Answered Demian with a downcast face. "Then it''s settled, eat one protein bar each and we will go." He ordered them as he took one of protein bars he got earlier and ate it slowly, everyone hearing him did same as him. Demian still stood there silently pondering something, Tanya was slowly chewing her bar with still red face, Diana had a happy smile on her face while she ate her protein bar with her eyes closed and Tomm was eating his bar while slightly pondering as to what did Tenebris mean when he said that his daughter will be combat capable when they finished. After everyone finished their protein bar they started moving, everyone followed Tenebris as he was leading the way, in the end they ended up on a corner of the gym, looking behind the corner observing the skeletons there. "Ok, here''s the plan, once this group of skeletons goes away and new ones start coming, Demian you will go and take the first one, Tanya will take the second one, and if you guys are too slow i will take over remaining ones." Tenebris slowly explained to everyone. "And what about her?" Asked confused Tanya as she pointed towards Diana. "She is a caster without spells, what do you expect her to do, bore them to death? Enough nonsense, invite me into your party and we can start." As he finished system notification popped up in front of him saying that he was invited into a party, when he accepted he noticed that small health bars appeared in the corner of his vision, after he focused a bit he noticed it was his party, everything looked exactly like in games, he was really fascinated by how this system worked. After Demian passed party leader title to him, he ordered Demian to go and grab a skeleton, he explained to them beforehand about skeletons so they shouldn''t have any problems fighting them, but he was unaware of one fact, he was a trained assassin, they were high school kids who never got into a real life and death fight. After Demian ran out and slammed into a skeleton, he tripped over it falling over the same skeleton that he intented to attack. Watching this Tenebris just face-palmed in shame as he couldn''t believe what he just saw. Demian hastily stood up and looked over at Tenebris who was still covering his face with his hand. "What are you looking at idiot, kill it. God what a moron..." Yelled Tenebris as he saw what Demian was doing through the crack of his fingers. "Oh..." Demian realised what he was doing and bowed down his head in shame before he turned around and started fighting with skeleton again, but before he could even reach half of its HP another one came. "Go, this one is yours, can you please not be a total blockhead like boxer boy?" Spoke Tenebris as he turned around to look at Tanya, but before he could even get a reply she was already sprinting towards the new skeleton that came, sweeping its legs with her bokken and then slamming its head when it fell down.This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there. "Well someone seems keen to prove herself, good, where there is will, there is way, so blackie what do you think of them?" Tenebris spoke while he was still watching them fight, Diana noticing that he was talking to her blushed slightly before answering him. "Well Demian has strength but no style, he is just brutishly attacking that skeleton, while Tanya has some technique but she doesn''t have enough force to strike with her sword." "Oh so you noticed it too, well if that boxer boy has some tolerance to pain i might make something good out of him, and that blondey, hmm... That''s an interesting sword technique she has, if she levels up a bit she might be good, but this is too slow, they need to be faster if they plan to finish it today..." Tenebris mumbled as he watched them fight with his usual serious face. Just what is this guy thinking, he is so young but he acts so mysteriously, and what does he plan to do with Diana, poor girl, look at her she''s blushing, don''t tell me she already fell in love with him. Well it''s no wonder actually, he is capable and he isn''t ugly, if he is strong as he looks like he might be perfect for her, but he doesn''t seem to notice her feelings at all, or he just doesn''t care about it. Thought Tomm as he was watching the scene in front of him. "My turn!" Spoke Tenebris as another skeleton started running toward Demian and Tanya, he sprinted out and slammed his sword into a kneecap of the incoming skeleton. Skeleton knelt when it was struck but before it could react another sword strike hit him in the back of it''s skull smashing it into the ground. Bang! Bang! Bang! Tenebris kept striking his skeleton, not giving it a chance to recuperate at all. "So did you guys already plan how will you distribute your attribute points?" Tenebris spoke as he kept smashing his skeleton. "I need more speed, i''m too slow like this i can barely dodge now." Spoke Demian. "And i need more strength, i am barely doing any damage to this skeleton." Answered Tanya. "Wrong and wrong, you guys are dumber than i thought, it''s rather dissapoiting..." Responded Tenebris as he struck his finishing blow to his skeleton. "Yes you need more speed, but it''s not move speed that you need, it is attack speed, and you need more strength behind your punches, if you are strong enough you can incapacitate this monsters without even need to dodge, understood?" "Yes, but how do i get more attack speed if i don''t upgrade my agility?" Asked confused Demian. "It''s simple, harder punches give more force, more force means more acceleration, get it now?" Answered Tenebris as he smirked, slowly walking over to them. "Ah i see, so you think i should put all my points into strength?" Asked Demian as his face light up with his revelation. "Wrong, jeez you really are a blockhead... Put most of it into strength not all, let''s see, for every level up you gain 5 points, so you should put 3 into strength, 1 into attack power and 1 into agility, got it now?" "Yeah, i get it." Demian agreed even though he still had confusion written all over his face, but he didn''t want to be called blockhead again so he just agreed with whatever Tenebris said to him. "Gosh so dense, blondey do you know your mistake?" He face-palmed again as he saw confused look of Demians so he turned around and asked Tanya instead. "Just tell me what to do and stop with the insults already." She answered clearly annoyed by him. "I''m not insulting you, he is a blockhead and you are blonde, am i wrong?" "Yes!" Both of them answered in unison. "Jeez, i''m wrong and here you are still hitting this damn pile of bones while i finished already, and i even gave you a head-start, oh there is another one, of to work then, so blondey how will you distribute your attributes?" Tenebris asked as he started harrasing another skeleton that came. "Well i guess 4 points in agility and 1 in strength?" She answered as she struck her finishing blow to her skeleton, turning around to look at Tenebris fighting. "You really are just a blondey..." Tenebris mumbled as he kept smashing and kicking the "poor" skeleton on the ground. "Then tell me almighty one what should i..." She wanted to respond in annoyance but she stopped before she had the chance, she was watching Tenebris fight. "So you started realising now?" Tenebris spoke with smirk forming on his face. "Uh, i think so..." She answered while still watching him fight. "Tell me then!" He said with a smile as he already finished his skeleton. "Well, i need more precision, more attack speed and more move speed, but i still need some more power for my strikes..." She mumbled quietly. "Exactly, so go 3 points in agility, 1 point in precision and 1 point in attack power, get it now?" "Yeah, but how is that any different from what i said earlier?" She answered while still clearly confused. "It doesn''t have any difference now, but later it will have a big difference, or do you just plan to die early?" "Go to hell!" She yelled as she was already pissed of by his provocations. "Been there, done that..." Tenebris mumbled in response, but Tanya didn''t hear him because she was still fuming with anger, Demian just giggled as he finished of his skeleton. "So how much exp did you guys gain now?" Asked Tenebris with a lazy smile. "Um, totally i gained 352, we have 10% bonus for being in a full party, i have level uped once." Answered Demian. "Same here..." Answered Tanya while still pouting. "Good, blackie did you get any exp?" Asked Tenebris as he looked over to Diana, but she was sitting down on the ground with faint blue aura surrounding her. "She is meditating, but i gained same 352 exp, so she should also have gained it." Answered Tomm with an awkward smile on his face. "Oh how hardworking she is, nice i like it!" Answered Tenebris with half closed eyes and satisfied smile on his face. "How is she hard working? We fought here and she just sat there and meditated?" Asked Tanya. "Well she is a caster, she needs to meditate to gain runes, that''s why i brought her here, i guess she realised my plan faster than you idiots did, now hurry level up so we can continue fighting, and if you guys don''t hurry up i will let them swarm you!" Answered Tenebris as he looked around himself trying to find if skeletons dropped something. "Uh, Tenebris, how much of the guide did you really read?" Asked Demian when he noticed what Tenebris was doing. "Not much, i just skimmed over it then passed it to you guys, why?" Answered Tenebris. "So did you already identify your equipment?" Spoke calmly Tanya. "Identified? Oh right there''s that... How dumb of me to forget that!" He spoke as he remembered something. Well at least he isn''t insulting only us... Thought Tanya as she watched him. "Incoming!" Spoke Demian loudly. "Oh, you take over it, and for gods sake be faster this time, please..." Spoke Tenebris while he was still identifying his equipment. Too bad, i didn''t get anything good, even this sword doesn''t give any bonus, i really should find some better weapon... Thought Tenebris as he rummaged through his backpack. Chapter 9 - Planning next step As more time passed, more and more bones kept piling up on the floor, their pace kept increasing so in the end they kept rotating between skeletons so they could rest a bit. After a bit more than hour they already killed around 50 skeletons and they collected nice amount of exp, Diana woke up from her meditation and informed Tenebris that she gained another rune. After hearing that Tenebris told them to swipe the floor and pick up any items that dropped while he cleared any incoming skeletons, after clearing everything they went back to the gym where they checked their loot. "So in total we earned somewhere around 4500 exp, which is nice, what level are you guys now?" Spoke Tenebris with a satisfied smile. "I''m third level and i need a bit more to get forth level."Answered Demian. "Same here, i think all of us are the same actually, what level are you Tenebris?" Asked Tanya. "I''m fifth, need a bit less than half a level to level up again, so what loot did we get?" "Umm, let''s see, we got two bone swords, four health potions, one mana potion and some book." Answered Demian. "A book? Let me see it!" Spoke Tenebris with his eyes sparkling. "Excellent, this is not just a book, this is a skill book! Check it out!" As he spoke he swiped his arm through the air and blue screen popped up above the skill book.
Tough bones
Passively increases defense of the user.
"Well, it looks like it''s not so useful, right?" Said confused Demian. "Oh but it is, especially for you my dear punching bag." Answered Tenebris with a cold smile on his face, Demian seeing his face felt shivers run through him as he mumbled. "W-w-what d-do you mean?" Fear was evident in his eyes as he stared at Tenebris. "Well i think proper name in games is tank, but i like punching bag more, and you are a perfect punching bag! Forget what i told you earlier about your attribute distribution, you have a new one now!" As he said that he took Demian to the side and explained him what was his job from now on, Demian just stood there, misery written all over his face as he paled second by second as he listened to Tenebris. "Okay, that being solved, blackie what rune did you get?" Spoke Tenebris as he returned to the group, Demian was left there in the back shivering constantly with a pale face. "Oh yeah, i got rune named "Stream" like a river stream." She answered with a proud look on her face. "Good, can you cast spells now?" Tenebris asked full of excitement. "No, not yet, but if i study these runes a bit i think i can figure something out maybe, but for now all i can do is get some water." She answered, that proud look on her face completely wiped out as he stared down to ground, making circles with her feet. "Well that''s something, at least we won''t run out of water any time soon. Blondey are those bone swords any good?" He asked as he turned around towards Tanya. "Well yes, they have almost double damage of my bokken but its durability is really low, here catch." She answered and threw a sword to him.
Bone sword.
10-14 dmg.
10/12 durability.
"Wow, it''s like one third of my sword, but it does have some nice damage, we will save it for now, it might be useful later, are those healing and mana potions any good?" Spoke Tenebris as he remembered about potions. "Yes they are, it''s just that they dont instantly regenerate your HP or MP but over couple of seconds, health potions recovers 60 HP for 3 seconds and mana potions recovers 40 MP for 2 seconds." Tanya answered with her shoulders shrugged. "Good, it might be even better that way, we will see, pass that mana potion to blackie and keep the rest safe, now go get some rest guys, later we will relocate to somewhere better." "Do you know where?" Asked Diana. Royal Road is the home of this novel. Visit there to read the original and support the author. "I got an idea, but i''ll have to talk a bit more with your father about it, now go rest." As he said that rest of them went to the corner and sat down, he motioned Tomm to follow him as he went to the entrance of the gym. "Okay, tell me all you know about school generator, where it is, how much power can it get, how can we get to cafeteria and how do we get to cafeteria storage room?" He turned around and asked Tomm as they stood at the entrance, covered by the pale moonlight. "Well school generator is located in the basement, there are two entrances to there, one is regular one that is located below the center of the school, and the other one is through the ventilation system that is spread through most of the school, i think i have blueprints for the vent system in my office, we can pick it up later." "Okay, tell me more about the generator then." "Well it is an old generator, i don''t know if it is still functioning properly but it hasnt been used so i believe there aren''t supposed to be any problems, if i rewire it only to the basement it should have enough juice for a month or two perhaps." "Well that''s better than nothing, cafeteria?" "There are three entrances to cafeteria in total, students entrance, staff entrance and vent system, but staff entrance is located on the outside of the school so i don''t advise that one because we would have to do a big detour." "Yeah i had same thing in mind, most likely we will use the vents to move through the school, what about storage room?" "Well there is vent system there but it is considerably narrower so i don''t think we can use that, and main entrance is locked with the code so we might need to breach through the doors if we cant get our hands on the code..." Tomm answered while he continued pondering. "Who has that code? Do you know them?" "Well i know some of them, principal and vice principal have the codes, and so does some of the kitchen staff that uses that storage, if we are lucky we might run into some of them on our way to storage." "Lets not count on that, who knows how many people are left alive now, maybe we are the only ones, its better if we don''t have our hopes high." Tenebris said with a solemn look on his face. "Yes you are right, you know for someone your age you are surprisingly mature." Tomm commented with a smile on his face. "Yeah, someone has to be, do you have a phone by the way?" "Yeah i do, but there is no signal, i already checked." "I guessed as much, something must have happened to the network when apocalypse started, do you know any other method of communication?" "Well if its a short distance one we could use walkie talkie, school security might have them, other than that i don''t know, ill have to think about it." "That wont be necessary, lets focus on our current problems, if we go one step at the time there will be less complications." "Yes you are right, by the way why do you insist on nicknames you gave everyone, you don''t seem like you cant remember it, its like you don''t even want to know?" Asked Tomm curiously. "That''s because i don''t, what benefit do i have of their names, they respond anyway, they might die any moment so whats the point in creating connections if they die the next moment." "Why do you have so little faith in them, they survived until now, what makes you think they wont be capable of living further than this." "Its not them, i don''t have faith in anyone, they survived till now because they were with me, and its an apocalypse, who know what kind of monster we will run into next, i can only protect myself, better to be safe than sorry..." As he said that a sad glint of light flashed through his eyes, ordinary persons wouldn''t have noticed it but Tomm was quite older and more experienced with people so he noticed, a small smile appeared on Tomms face, but he didn''t say anything further, he just turned around and went to the rest of them and sat down to rest. Tenebris was left there standing alone at the entrance, looking down in front of himself quietly thinking. I can''t trust them, i was betrayed already, and it was the person that i trusted the most that betrayed me, who says that bunch of kids that i don''t even know wont do the same just to save them self... Chapter 10 - Little bit more skellies "Ah whatever, status!" Spoke quietly Tenebris.
Name: Tenebris Ummors Class: Assassin Level: 5 Exp: 2288/3500
Titles: Pioneer.
HP: 90/90 +0.5/min MP: 90/90 0.01/min EP: 110/110 +0.1/min (resting)
STR: 14 CW: 55kg AP: 12 STA: 12 DMG: 6
AGI: 34 DEX: 27 PRC: 25 SPD: 27 AS: 1/sec
INT: 8 RC: 16 MPWR: 4
WIS: 11 MREG: 0.011 PS: 1.1
LCK: 20 CHR: 9
Unspent attribute points: 5 Unspent skill points: 2
"Uh, ill save this attribute points for later, if i stack them up a bit ill at least be able to feel the difference." Spoke Tenebris to himself as he walked over to the rest of them that were sitting in the corner. "Okay, once you rest prepare to leave, find some bags or something here and pack up everything we might need, im going to get blueprints for vent system, Tomm you coming?" "Yes, let''s go." Answered Tomm as he stood up, Diana raised her head and watched them leave, after which she stood up and went after them. "Where are you going?" Asked Demian. "I have something to speak with Tenebris, i just remembered." She spoke without even turning her head around. Demian just ignored her and kept on resting a little bit more. Diana kept following Tenebris and her father as they went to the corner of the gym, she tried not to be noticed by them as she sneaked behind them. "Okay, ill draw their attention and you go grab those blueprints, get any blueprint we might use." Spoke Tenebris as he ran into pair of skeletons that were in front of the doors, with couple of swift movements both skeletons were on the ground getting a pounding. Tomm ran past them and hurriedly ran into his office, before he entered he flashed a smile towards Tenebris and raised his thumb up before he closed the doors behind him. Okay let''s experiment a little. Dexterous movement! Tenebris activated his spell that he got earlier, he suddenly felt strong energy inside of him as his moves started to hasten up. This is nice, i like this feeling, my speed is almost doubled, only downside of it is that my mind cant keep up enough with this speed, i must check if my processing speed can solve this problem. He kept thinking as he smashed the skeletons even faster than before, but later he started noticing that his EP was draining quite fast, his energy was limited and he wasn''t used to this body, it was quite weaker than his previous body and he couldn''t keep up much with this, and his skill even further drained him. Ill have to work on my energy problem as well, my HP and MP aren''t currently the problem if they cant even strike me, and i don''t have any spells that drain my mana, but with this amount of energy i cant afford to have a battle of attrition. As he danced around now 3 skeletons he noticed he was being watched, around the corner there was a little black haired head peeking at him. "Well, wanna join me or do you just want to watch?" He spoke a little louder this time so she could hear him. Realizing that she has been noticed Diana blushed in shame and ran up to Tenebris. "Here take this, just beat this one on the ground and dont let it get up." Spoke Tenebris as he threw his chipped metal sword to her. Totally confused by his actions Diana grabbed the sword and looked at him before saying. "Aren''t you gonna ask me why did i follow you?" "If you want to tell me you will, no point in me asking, don''t just stand there hit that pile of bones damn it!" Tenebris yelled at her as she still stood there in a daze, upon hearing what he said she realized what was happening and started hitting that skeleton in front of her. Although her strength was weak so she was unable to keep that skeleton on the ground she didn''t experience any problems even then, she kept dodging its attack and striking it back in return, after dozen or so second that skeleton dropped down on the ground creating a pile of bones. A case of theft: this story is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation. "Well look at you, you have some fighting spirit in you." Tenebris praised her as he finished of his last skeleton. "I just tried copying what you did..." Diana answered blushing. "Oh is that so, if you really were copying me than you did really bad work, when did i allow these bones to stand up for longer than couple of seconds?" Tenebris spoke to her without even looking at her, when she heard him she flushed even more, but then Tenebris continued."Just aim for their joints, they have quite weak joints considering they dont have any muscles binding them so they fall down quickly, here is a new one go on this one is yours, try what i just said to you!" As he said that he just side stepped and avoided the rushing skeleton before he kicked him towards Diana. Once she saw that a skeleton was tumbling towards her she panicked for a second before she calmed down and swung her sword towards the skeleton. Considering there was quite a bit of force behind Tenebrises kick and her sword swing that resulted in sword striking directly into skeletons neck, and with that strike she cleanly separated skeletons head from its shoulders, its head flew up in the air before it fell down couple of steps further away. After realizing that its head is missing skeleton started crawling on the ground trying to find its head. "Oh look isnt it cute, like a puppy looking for a bone, nice strike by the way, if i didnt have plans for you being a caster i would make a swordsman out of you!" Praised her Tenebris once more. "Well, what about a spell-sword, i could be that?" Answered Diana. "A spell-sword huh? Well yeah i forgot about that, i dont know if that would be possible but that''s an interesting idea, but wouldnt you prefer being further away from fighting?" "I dont want to hide behind everyone when they risk their lives fighting, i want to do something, i want to feel useful for once..." She spoke more quietly with every words she spoke, in the end she could barely been heard, but that wasn''t a problem for Tenebris considering his heightened senses. "I see, aren''t you a little brave girl!" Tenebris spoke as he grinned brightly. "I am not little!" Diana rebuked angrily. "Oh looks like someone has a soft spot, thanks for telling me!" Tenebris kept teasing her while she was still hitting that skeleton that was crawling on the ground. "But that idea of yours is really interesting, do you think it is possible?" "Yeah i think it is, it might be a little complicated but this apocalypse turned into a game right? If its a game then it should be possible." "It looks like you have some experience with games, doesn''t surprise me though, you look like that..." "What is that supposed to mean?" She answered as she blushed a little more. "Well that pale white skin, shyness and your attitude clearly shows you are a gamer." He continued teasing her with a smile on his face. "That is not true! I-i just played a little bit!" She rebuked loudly as she finished of her skeleton. Just as she finished of her skeleton Tomm went out of his office holding bunch of papers in his hands. "Diana? What are you doing here?" He asked confused as he noticed her standing there on top of pile of bones with a sword in her hands. "Oh she followed us so i gave her something to do so she doesnt get bored. Lets go now, you got everything you need?" Answered Tenebris as he started walking back to the gym. "Yeah, i got it lets go back." Answered Tomm as he watched his daughter standing there foolishly with her red face looking down in front of her while circling with her feet in front of her, making circles on the ground. This silly little girl, what should i do with you... He thought as he followed behind Tenebris Chapter 11 - Bat flood "We are back, did you guys have a nice rest?" Spoke jokingly Tenebris. "Umm, yeah kind of, and where did you go Diana?" Asked Tanya. "I followed them, i wanted to talk about something with Tenebris..." Diana answered with her head down with her cheeks slightly blushed. "Ohh what did you talk about?" Added Demian. "About possibility of spell-swords, we were discussing if it would be possible and how useful it would be." Answered Tenebris. "And what did you think of?" Asked Tanya while packing her bag. "It should be possible, but we will experiment with it later, from now on save up your attribute points so we can try it out later, by the way guys do you have classes?" Said Tenebris. "Uhh, i don''t, i got N/A standing instead of class." Said Demian. "Same here." Answered Tanya. "Same." Spoke in unison Diana and Tomm. "What about you?" Asked Tanya. "I have a class, it says assassin, i get a slight bonus in attributes from my class, so it might be possible for you guys to get a class, i just don''t know how." Answered Tenebris. "How did you get your class? It sounds cool." Spoke Demian. "I don''t know, it was just there when this apocalypse started, might be just luck, i have nice amount of luck." "How much?" Asked Tanya. "20 points in luck and 9 in charm." "You cant be serious, i got 4 points in luck and 5 points in charm." Spoke Demian with shock on his face. "Yeah i got same." Said Tanya similarly shocked. "I have 5 luck and 5 charm." Spoke quietly Diana. "So it must be luck, damn it why don''t i have that high luck, i want a class!" Mumbled Demian. "Okay enough with that, pack up we are going." Spoke Tenebris. "Where?" "We are going to the shelter, after that we will go and grab some food for us, Tomm show me the blueprints lets find a way." As everyone started packing up everything they needed Tenebris and Tomm were talking about vent system and paths they could take, when everything was done they gathered at gym entrance fully armed with bags on their backs. "Okay Tomm lead the way." Spoke Tenebris. As he heard that Tomm started running across school grounds towards central part of the school, everyone followed behind him in line. In front of them group of skeletons ran into central school wing, they waited for them to pass and ran into after them, when they entered the hallway they took sharp turn to the right where staircase was and went downstairs, but at the bottom of the stairs doors were locked with a lock. "Let me." Spoke Tenebris and with a swing of his sword he cut of that lock. "I have a key..." Spoke Tomm. Hearing that everyone was trying their hardest not to burst out laughing, Tenebris just stood there, scratching his head saying quietly. "Oh right, the key..." They went further down in the basement into the hallway, it was completaly dark inside and they couldn''t see anything, well everyone except Tenebris. "There are 4 doors here, which one is it?" Spoke Tenebris. "You can see the doors? I cant even see my own hands in front of my face down here." Said Demian. "Second on the right, there should be large and thick metal doors there, there is a lock on the doors but i have a key for it." Answered Tomm. "Do we have any flashlights?" Asked Tanya. "Yes, i have 2 flashlights, but they haven''t been charged in a while i don''t know if they still work." Answered Tomm as he rummaged through his backpack trying to find those flashlights. "Just one flashlight will be enough, no need to waste them." Said Tenebris, Tomm pulled out a flashlight and lighted it up, now everyone saw 4 doors in a small hallway, pair of doors on each side of hall, 3 of them were old wooden doors only last doors on the right were big and sturdy metal one. After unlocking the doors Tomm went in but suddenly Tenebris yelled. "Watch out!" As he yelled he grabbed Tomm and tossed him to the side and slammed the doors shut. "Whats wrong?" Spoke Tanya shocked. "That room is full of bats, i fought them earlier, they have low HP and are easily killed, but there''s many of them." Spoke Tenebris. "How many are we talking about actually?" Asked Demian. "How should i know, its not like i had time to count them, wanna go inside and count them?" Spoke Tenebris annoyed. "No, but what should we do then?" "I have an idea, we might try it, we will open the doors and provoke those bats out, but we will leave them only a little bit of space to come out so we don''t get swarmed, ill stand in the front and try to kill as many as i can, you two stand behind me and kill anything that passes by me, Tomm you and Diana hold the doors so they don''t push it wide open, how does it sound?" Stolen content warning: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences. "Fine by me, but if u cant hold out for long swap with us and rest for a moment or two." Answered Tanya. "Okay, then lets do it, everyone take your positions." Spoke Tenebris as he took two steps closer to the doors. "Open the doors Tomm!" Tomm opened the doors and Tenebris took the flashlight and put it in his mouth and pointed it towards the room. Light seemed to enrage the bats that flooded the room and they charged out the room through the small opening, Tenebris waited for them with 2 swords in hands and flashlight in his mouth, as they neared him he started slashing wildly, each and every strike was a fatal strike, cutting cleanly through them, bats fell down, one by one, piling up on the ground. Tenebris moved forward and continued mowing through the bat horde, couple of notifications popped out but he just ignored them as he continued slaughtering those bats. Minute or two later he stood there, gasping lightly, covered in some black ooze. "Dude, seriously?" Spoke Demian as he walked into the room, kicking aside those bat corpses. "What, did i miss anything?" Asked Tenebris confused. "That''s the problem, you didn''t skip anything, we didn''t even get a single swing at them, you were like a gatling gun, sweeping right through them, there was like hundred of them, and they all gave nice bit of EXP." Spoke Tanya as she walked in looking around shocked. "Oh really, that''s right i had few pop up notifications i just ignored them, lets see what it says."
Congratulations! You have leveled up, you have been awarded 5 bonus attribute points.
Congratulations! You have leveled up your skill Dexterous movement.
Congratulations! You have leveled up your skill Law of Darkness.
Congratulations! You have leveled up your skill Close Combat.
Congratulations! You have leveled up your skill Close Combat.
Congratulations! You are 39th person to create a skill, you have been awarded 1 bonus skill point.
Congratulations! You have created new skill Dual Wield.
Congratulations! Your recent achievement has awarded you a new title Nocturnal Slayer (s).
Congratulations! You are 2nd person to get two or more titles, you have been awarded 5 bonus attribute points.
Congratulations! You have leveled up, you have been awarded 5 bonus attribute points.
"Damn that''s a lot of notifications, status!"
Name: Tenebris Ummors Class: Assassin Level: 7 Exp: 648/4500
Titles: Pioneer, Nocturnal Slayer (s).
HP: 100/100 +0.5/min MP: 100/100 0.01/min EP: 32/120 +0.1/min
STR: 14 CW: 55kg AP: 12 STA: 12 DMG: 6
AGI: 34 DEX: 27 PRC: 25 SPD: 27 AS: 1/sec
INT: 8 RC: 16 MPWR: 4
WIS: 11 MREG: 0.011 PS: 1.1
LCK: 20 CHR: 9
Unspent attribute points: 20 Unspent skill points: 3
"Skills!"
Law of Darkness lvl 2/10 45% Enables you to use element of darkness to your aid.
Basic close combat lvl 4/10 81% Grants you 8% bonus melee damage.
Dexterous movement lvl 2/5 55% Passive: +5% AGI Active: Further boosts your movements. Cost 2 energy/sec.
Dual Wield lvl 1/10 80% Allows you to use bonuses of both of your weapons, your offhand weapon does 50% of its base damage.
"Well this is progressing quite fast, i didn''t expect that, titles!"
Pioneer: Increases experience gained from killing monsters by 10%.
Nocturnal Slayer (s): Grants you 10% bonus damage against small sized nocturnal creatures.
Chapter 12 - Shadow orbs "Interesting title, might be useful some day, anyway its clear now guys, lets head in." Said Tenebris as he went further inside the room, hearing him everyone followed trying to skip over sea of bat corpses on the ground. "Theres the generator." Said Tomm as he pointed with his flashlight toward an old and rusted machine, he checked around it and continued. "Doesn''t seem damaged, do you want to try it out now?" "No, leave that for latter after you rewire it, we dont want to spend all the energy in one go." Answered Tenebris. "Ok guys lets clear this area up a bit this is gonna be our shelter from now on, unless we find something better." "What should we do with those bat corpses?" Asked Tanya. "Hmm, leave them outside pilled up, if therels any loot bring it here we will check it out later, Tomm can i help you out with anything?" "We will see, lets check it out first." Answered Tomm as he put his bags down and pulled out a toolbox and started working on the generator. After half an hour or so Tomm finished up with generator, Tenebris was of no use to him and rest of them already finished cleaning the room. "Ok all done, this generator should now only be working for this basement area, if u want to limit it to this room only then ill have to pull out some wires from the walls to do so." Spoke Tomm. "No this should be good, we might use those other rooms afterwards anyway, so did you guys find anything good?" Asked Tenebris. "Well, there was couple of weird looking coins there, and we noticed something weird too, we didn''t want to check it without consulting with you first." Answered Demian. "Oh, coins, that doesn''t sound too odd, this is a game now anyway, whats the other thing?" "Well when we were clearing out those bat corpses, we noticed one that had half of its head cut of, there was something slightly glowing inside his head, we didn''t touch it we just moved that bat a bit further from the pile." "Oh, show me." Spoke Tenebris, Demian walked out the doors and rest of them followed him , Demian took one of the bats on the ground and threw it towards Tenebris.
Shadow Bat
0/50
Lvl 5
Tenebris took a closer look and saw a small gem like object inside its head, he stuck his finger in and pulled it out, he was surprised with a sudden pop up.
Shadow orb (s)
Common
Material
Alchemy (25) Smithing (50) Engraving (100)
"Interesting..." Mumbled Tenebris. "So what is it?" Asked Tanya. "It looks like some sort of material, it can be used in professions, interesting indeed, did you check other bats for this gems?" "No, we just noticed this one and didn''t even dare to inspect it at all." "Go check out other bats, gather this if they have it, i will check this bat to find out if it had anything else interesting." Said Tenebris as he crouched down and put that bat on the ground, he took a small pointy knife from his backpack and started dissecting it. After not finding anything interesting he took couple of more bats and started dissecting them too.
Congratulations! For your unique actions your system command "Inspect" has been promoted to active spell "Inspect".
Congratulations! For your unique actions you have been awarded title "Butcher".
"What the fuck?!" Swore Tenebris as he looked dazed into his new notifications. "What is it?" Questioned Diana that happened to be near him. "Uh, my "Inspect" has been promoted to a spell and i got a new title "Butcher". "Wow, awesome, what does that title give you?" Asked Demian amazed. "I don''t know, titles!"
Pioneer: Increases experience gained from killing monsters by 10%.
Nocturnal Slayer (s): Grants you 10% bonus damage against small sized nocturnal creatures.
Butcher: Increases damage done against flesh by 5%.
"It increases my damage against flesh, this is weird." "It is weird, but hey its a small bonus and it might stack, so its good anyway." Spoke Tanya. The narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement. "Anyway, did you guys find any more gems?" "We did, at least half of those bats had them, and it seems only those level 5 or more had them, so it might have something to do with their level, right?" Answered Demian. "Yeah, probably, anyway i guess you guys don''t have any of the professions required for it anyway, so we will just stash it for later, next subject, let me look at those coins you got." Demian grabbed couple of coins he had in his pocket and passed it to Tenebris.
Bronze coin (7)
Lowest currency
"This looks like new currency this system uses, we will stash this aswell, it might be useful later when we find where to spend them, anything else?" Spoke Tenebris. "Nope." Everyone answered in unison. "Okay then, settle down in this room, we will use it as our headquarters, Tomm how long can that generator last?" "My best guess is a little bit less than two months, if i cut off other rooms and hallway in basement i might have a bit more, half a month or maybe a month more, they aren''t that much of a problem as long as we don''t use them that much." "We don''t know how long we will be stuck here so lets keep it at minimum, we will turn off all the lights that aren''t necessary and only keep our room lit when we need it, any questions?" "You don''t think we will have to be here for couple of months do you?" Asked worriedly Tanya. "I cant answer you that, first of all we cant leave this place unless we defeat all of its bosses, second, we don''t know how many bosses are there any way, third we don''t know if we are any survivors other than us here and if they are friendly at all..." Before he could continue speaking Tanya cut him of. "What do you mean we don''t know if they are friendly, you mean they might attack us, but why would they do that?" "First of all, we don''t know if there is any others left, and second if there are, yes they might attack us, as for the reason you ask for, well you tell me what can massive counts of deaths and sudden apocalypse do to a persons mind?" Spoke calmly Tenebris, Tanya lowered her head as she realized what he was saying, everyone else did the same. "Yes this apocalypse is game-like, that''s true, but that doesn''t mean its an actual game, we might really die here, and there wont be any resurrection or respawn that might revive us, we don''t have any actual information at all, we can only prepare for the worst and hope for the best, otherwise you might draw your last breath sooner than you think, are you all aware of that?" As he finished his sentence everyone shivered for a second, before snapping out of their thoughts, looking up at Tenebris and answering "Yes." "Good, then lets continue." "But how can you be so calm, people are dying, my family is most likely all dead, our whole classroom might be dead, everyone we know and love might be dead, and still you are so calm, how can you be so calm about it!" Yelled Tanya as she was clearly upset with this whole apocalypse situation. "And who says I''m calm? Just because i don''t shiver or cower I''m calm? You think I''m not scared shitless like everyone other is? But would we all live this long enough if i panicked, where would we be right now if there wasn''t at least just a single sane and collected person here? Answer me!" Yelled Tenebris back at Tanya, she was standing there in front of him, her eyes watery full of tears. "Dead..." Whispered Tanya. "What did you say, say it louder!" "Dead. We would most likely be dead." She spoke a little louder, tears finally escaping from her eyes, slowly drifting down her cheeks. "Exactly, anything else you have to ask?" Asked Tenebris as he calmed himself down. "But don''t you worry about your family, your loved ones?" Added Diana. "I..." Tenebris started, but went quiet. No one did ever really love me, i don''t have a family, everyone i ever loved is either dead or dying... Thought Tenebris for himself, but he knew he couldn''t say that out loud, if he did who know what they might start thinking, he needed them to calm down, he knew that he couldn''t make it out alive if he doesn''t get some help, every game that he ever knew of needed a whole team to defeat a boss, even with his abilities he knows he might not be able to do it alone, so he needed a team, but he cant ever really trust anyone, but he doesn''t have to trust them, he just needs them to cooperate. Yes that''s right, i don''t need to trust them, nor do i need their trust, i just need their cooperation and that''s all! "That is none of your business, you have your own family to worry about so don''t worry about mine!" Answered back Tenebris, scaring back everyone around him a bit, just a moment ago he was one again calm and quiet, and now all of the sudden he was fierce. Chapter 13 - Clearing out the bats Shaken by his sudden change of face, everyone backed up a step, noticing that he scared them he snorted and turned around. "I''m going to check other rooms for more bats." He said as he left the room, rest of them stood there dazed and lost in the thoughts. Why do I have this weird feeling inside of me, what is this feeling, it feels empty, like there is something hollow inside of me, is this what they call longing? Bahh i don''t care, i have my brother and my sisters, they are all the family i will ever need, they will never betray me or abandon me. Tenebris stood in front of doors and thought, after finishing his thoughts he headed towards doors across theirs and pulled it slightly open. Well, there are bats here but they aren''t as numerous as the first room, never mind, i''ll let you guys be my vent for my anger. He thought as he entered the room and closed the doors behind him. Ding!
Congratulations! You have leveled up your skill Dual Wield!
Congratulations! You have leveled up your skill Dual Wield!
Congratulations! You have leveled up your skill Close Combat!
Congratulations! You have leveled up your skill Law of Darkness!
Congratulations! You have leveled up your skill Dexterous movement!
"That''s one down, two to go." Said Tenebris as he finished up with all the bats in the room, whole floor was covered with bat corpses. "I''ll let them collect those orbs, I''m gonna clear rest of the rooms..." He went out and entered the room next doors, once again the massacre began, bats were falling one by one, they were fast, for other people they would be too fast, and there was at least 50 of them in each room except for the first one, so it took Tenebris a minute or two to slay them all. Slicing last bat in the room another series on notifications popped up in front of him.
Congratulations! You have leveled up your skill Dual Wield!
Congratulations! You have leveled up your skill Dexterous movement!
Congratulations! You have leveled up your skill Close combat!
Congratulations! You have leveled up, you have been awarded 5 bonus attribute points!
Your actions have provoked Shadow Bats and they have summoned their leader!
Congratulations! Your unique actions have been recognized, you have created a new skill, do you want to preview that skill? Y/N.
The tale has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. Tenebris was slightly confused by this last notification, but after a moment he cleared his head and clicked yes, after which a video started in his head. "Oh so its a battle style skill, cool i''ve even forgot about that, i guess i was too used to using it non-stop that i even forgot that I''m doing it."
Would you like to name your skill or do you want random generated name for your skill?
"Well fuck me if i will allow this stupid system to name my skills. Phantom edge!" Tenebris said as he named his skill.
Would you like to categorize your skill or do you want random generated category for your skill?
"Battle style skill."
Category accepted, your new skill has been accepted!
"Skills!"
Law of Darkness lvl 3/10 89%
Enables you to use element of darkness to your aid.
Basic close combat lvl 6/10 12%
Grants you 10% bonus melee damage.
Dexterous movement lvl 3/5 63%
Passive: +5% AGI
Active: Further boosts your movements. Cost 2 energy/sec.
Dual Wield lvl 4/10 32%
Allows you to use bonuses of both of your weapons, your offhand weapon does 70% of its base damage.
Phantom Edge lvl 1/5 0%
Battle style technique
While moving according to this battle style technique you gain bonus stats!
+10% Agi, +10% MS, +10% AS, +10% Shadow damage.
"Well this is a nice surprise, but how do i use this shadow damage? Huh it might have something with those runes, i''ll check that out later, two down one to go!" Mumbled Tenebris as he continued to the last room. Opening the last room doors something peculiar caught his attention, there was one big bat, that was at least 3 times bigger than the rest of the bats, and there was at least two hundred bats tightly stacked through the whole room. "Inspect!"
Shadow Bat Lord
LVL 30
Semi-Boss
"This is excellent, now lets get this party started!" Said Tenebris as he charged into thick mass of bats, beginning his slaughter. Chapter 14 - Dead or dying "This is excellent now lets get this party started!" Swish! Swish! Swish! Closing the doors behind him Tenebris ran into the wild sea of the bats, swords in both hands swaying between the charging bats cutting each that passed by him. Bat lord was still hanging at the back of the room, its eyes were open and it was calmly watching Tenebris slaughter its kin. Screech! It opened its mouth and issued a long screech, unfolding its wings, it was about 1 meter long with a wingspan of 2 meters, after the screech bats were even more chaotic, attacking Tenebris wildly from all sides, but Tenebris was completely unfazed by the bat movements, continuing dancing through the storm with his swords towards the bat lord. After reaching couple of steps away from the bat lord, bat lord flew down and charged towards Tenebris, it was so fast Tenebris barely saw it, he didn''t have time to react and bat lord slammed into him pushing him down on the ground, pining him down and embedding its long teeths into his left shoulder, crushing it instantly. "Annoying." Murmured Tenebris as he kicked of the bat lord of himself and jumping up, his left arm was hanging beside his body limply but he still had firm grip on his sword, he took out a potion with his right hand and drank it swiftly while dodging the onslaught of the bats. Not wanting him to recuperate bat lord charged again towards Tenebris but he successfully dodged it this time, slashing his right handed sword at the bat lords back leaving a deep wound on its back. Sensing the pain bat lord screeched once more and turned around, its eyes were bloodshot and it was glaring hatefully at Tenebris. It charged once again but this time it was slower, it seemed it didn''t want to underestimate its prey once more. Tenebris just sidestepped and slashed at it once more, leaving a big red X on its back. It turned around looking at Tenebris that was still calmly thinning out the bats, more than half of the bats were already missing and Tenebris kept dancing through them, bats were falling like the rain. Bat lord unfolded its wings again and low screeching sound could be heard coming out of it, above its head dark glowing balls started to form and grow. Tenebris stopped for a second and watched those dark balls, there were 4 of them and they kept growing until they were the size of a fist. "A spell huh? Come at me!" Yelled Tenebris as he cut through the bats towards the bat lord. Tenebris kept dancing through the bat flood, speeding up his strikes even more, screeches of the dying bats filled the room. Swoosh! Something dark rushed past Tenebris, he barely dodged it but it still grazed his neck, he turned around only to see that there were now 3 dark balls above bat lord head. As he came closer to it another flash happened and something that looked like a spear materialized from that ball and rushed towards Tenebris, sidestepping Tenebris dodged it without any problems. He ran up to bat lord and started slashing wildly at it ignoring rest of the bats that were attacking him. Unauthorized reproduction: this story has been taken without approval. Report sightings. "I will not fall before you do!" Yelled Tenebris while trying to shake of bats that were stuck on his body. After couple of more minutes of of bats gnawing and sword swishes both the bat lord and Tenebris were exhausted, there were no more bats and there was only two of them standing across each other, both heavily panting. "This is the end, prepare to die! Seven paths! Carnage!" Yelled Tenebris as he made his final charge at the bat lord, he was clearly moving even faster than before, slashing with his sword spinning wildly around the bat lord leaving multiple gushing wounds on it. With his last swing he aimed for the bat lords neck but before he could''ve cut it, last black ball produced another spear that pierced through Tenebrises chest, leaving a small bloody wound. "I will not die before you do!" Tenebris gathered every bit of strength he could and made his last attempt for bat lords life, slicing his sword at its head, bit by bit going deeper until he finally managed to cut it of completely. "Haha, still undefeated, time to sleep a bit..." He mumbled as he fell to the ground, the ground was littered with bat corpses so they acted as a pillow for him, his vision fading, he passed out. "Hurry up, put him down here, don''t dawdle around, hurry he might bleed to death, get me some gauze and some alcohol, there are some in my bag!" Commanded Tomm as they dragged almost dead Tenebris into their room. "Stupid kid, what have you done to yourself." Tomm whispered as he watched badly mutilated body of Tenebris, there were bite marks and scratches all over him, his body was died red with his own blood, and he just lied there, unmoving, seemingly dead, if it was not for a very weak motion of breathing they would''ve believed that he was really dead. "Dad, please save him, please, ill do anything just save him, i beg you dad." Said weeping little black haired girl. "I''m an engineer not a doctor! Its a miracle on its own that he is still alive, with this much blood loss he should be dead, but he isn''t, maybe it is because of this game system, or maybe its something else, i don''t know, but whatever it is, he might survive because of it, so calm down and do as i say." Ordered Tomm as he watched his daughter weep over Tenebrises body. Chapter 15 - Lulu "Will he be alright?" Asked worried Tanya. "I don''t know, it looks like he is healing, although slowly." Answered Tomm. "Did you try giving him health potions?" Asked Demian. "I didn''t think of that, give me one lets try it out." Demian passed one bottle of red liquid to Tomm and Tomm poured it down in Tenebrises mouth, after couple of moments Tenebris started gaining back some color in his pale face. "Give me another one, quickly." Said Tomm, as he poured another potion Tenebris started breathing normally and was looking normal, but he wasn''t waking up yet. "He seems stable, he is just unconscious, you guys go and check the other rooms and bring the loot, after you do that dissect the bats and take those orbs of theirs, i hope he wakes up until then." Spoke Tomm, Tanya and Demian listened to him and went out, but Diana was still sitting beside Tenebris hugging her knees. "He will be alright, you don''t have to worry too much about it." "I know..." Whispered Diana. "Go meditate, i can bet he wouldn''t want you guys to be idle now." Said Tomm, he could see his daughters worried look and he was trying to think of any excuse that could help her relax a bit. "Ok, tell me when he wakes up." Answered Diana before she stood up and went to the corner of the room where she sat down to meditate. Couple of hours later Tanya, Demian and Diana finished looting the bats, Diana joined them halfway because she couldnt calm herself enough to meditate. They started organising loot when they heard the voice. "It looks like a lot, anything special?" They turned around, looking stupidly at a person standing in front of them. "You, you, you bastard!" Mumbled Diana before she ran up to him and hugged him. "Why am i a bastard all of the sudden?" Spoke Tenebris while awkwardly scratching his head. "Well you made us worry, especially her..." Said Demian while he smiled sheepishly. "Why especially her?" Asked Tenebris with a frown on his face. "Shut up, stupid..." Spoke Diana as she hugged him even tighter. "Okay... Uhh so, what about the loot?" "Well there''s around 200 orbs, a spellbook, at least a dozen of potions and we also discovered that some of the bat parts can also be used as materials, oh right there was also a cloak there, looks cool." Answered Demian. "There is 213 orbs and one of them is medium grade, there is 9 health potions, 4 mana potions and 1 energy potion, bats teeths and wings are usable as materials and that cloak is much better than just looking cool." A voice was heard again, but this time they didn''t recognise who was the person speaking. "Lulu show yourself." Said Tenebris and suddenly there was little girl size of a palm sitting on top of Tenebrises head."Guys, this is Lulu, she is my new companion spirit, Lulu introduce yourself." "Hello my name is Lulu, i am this blockheads spirit, nice to meet you all." Spoke little girl. "I was unconscious for long because we were talking, i''ve met her in another dimension where i captured her and made her my spirit." "You captured me? If you didn''t sneak upon me while i slept you would have never even caught a glimpse of my tail! You were just lucky this system thing accepted it as that otherwise i would''ve kill you already..." Spoke angrily Lulu. If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation. "Whatever, get over it, system already bound you under my command, the sooner you get over it the sooner we can work normally." Spoke calmly Tenebris. "Work normally? I''ll work on your ugly face idiot, who do you think you are, bow to me your queen and i might pardon you for your sins!" Said arrogantly Lulu. "Dismiss companion." "Wait, wha..." Yelled Lulu before she disapeared. "Okay, so i guess you guys have a lot of questions, i will start my explanation and you can ask whatever you are interested in after i explain, ok?" Said Tenebris. "Ok." Everyone answered in unison. "So here''s the deal, i was mostly dead, well not mostly but i was dead, only thing that brought me back to life was a skill i gained just before i died, the skill was called "indomitable spirit" or something like that, what it does is that if i''m dying out of combat and of periodic damages instead of actual strikes, it has a slight chance of clearing all "DoT''s" of me and boosting my health regeneration slightly for couple of seconds. Anyway, that skill brought my body back to life but my soul already left my body and was in another dimension, that dimension is like a waiting room for death, its called limbo and that place is, well it is the same thing as this world except it is not, everything looks the same but in the same time its different, kinda hard to explain. Anyway, when i got there i saw Lulu sleeping in the corner so i went over to her to ask her what is going on and where am i, but once i touched her body i got a system notification saying that she is now my companion, that notification woke her up so we started arguing but after a while we calmed down and started talking normally, so she explained some stuff to me and in the end i got another skill because of my limbo visit, its basically like stealth, just a bit more complicated, so in the end i gained quite a lot." Tenebris said with a smug expression on his face. "How much is quite a lot?" Asked Demian. "I''m level 10 now, some of my skills advanced, some just progressed a bit, i gained few skills and i got a companion, and to top it all there''s loot, oh right Lulu told me another thing about those shadow orbs, they can be used to increase our understanding of laws." "Understanding of laws?" Asked Tanya. "Yeah, this whole world is based on universal laws, there are some minor laws, basic laws, major laws, prime laws and so on and on, different size of orbs will give you different amount of law understanding, and different type of orb can give you different type of law, orbs that we got from these bats can be used for all sorts of law, but its mostly useful for me, because you guys haven''t even formed understanding of universal laws so they are only materials for you guys." "I have law of water stream, is that universal law?" Asked Diana. "What?! You have it?" Asked shocked Tenebris. "Yes, i got it when i was meditating last time." "Good, very good, i will explain to you more about laws later, and ill answer all of you guys questions later, go sleep now i have to talk with Lulu about something first." Spoke Tenebris as he walked out of the room, everyone else listened to him and went to sleep. Chapter 16 - New Overlord "Let''s check my progress, status!"
Name: Tenebris Ummors Class: Assassin Level: 10 Exp: 329/10000
Titles: Pioneer, Nocturnal Slayer (s), Butcher.
HP: 150/150 +0.5/min MP: 150/150 0.01/min EP: 72/170 +0.1/min
STR: 14 CW: 55kg AP: 12
AGI: 34 DEX: 27 PRC: 25
INT: 8 RC: 16 MPWR: 4
WIS: 11 MREG: 0.011 PS: 1.1
LCK: 20 CHR: 9
Unspent attribute points: 50 Unspent skill points: 3
"Interesting, well i have enough points to make a difference now, so lets do it."
Name: Tenebris Ummors Class: Assassin Level: 10 Exp: 329/10000
Titles: Pioneer, Nocturnal Slayer (s), Butcher.
HP: 150/150 +0.5/min MP: 150/150 0.01/min EP: 72/170 +0.1/min
STR: 24 CW: 60kg AP: 17
AGI: 56 DEX: 48 PRC: 48
INT: 18 RC: 36 MPWR: 9
WIS: 11 MREG: 0.011 PS: 1.1
LCK: 20 CHR: 9
Unspent attribute points: 0 Unspent skill points: 3
"Okay now lets check the skills, skills!"
Law of Darkness lvl 7/10 12% Enables you to use element of darkness to your aid.
Advanced close combat lvl 1/10 8% Grants you 20% bonus melee damage.
Dexterous movement2 lvl 1/5 3% Passive: +10% AGI Active: Further boosts your movements. Cost 5 energy/sec.
Dual Wield lvl 9/10 18% Allows you to use bonuses of both of your weapons, your offhand weapon does 90% of its base damage.
Phantom Edge lvl 3/5 36% Battle style technique While moving according to this battle style technique you gain bonus stats! +20% Agi, +20% MS, +20% AS, +20% Shadow damage.
Indomitable spirit lvl 0/0 The tale has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.Has 10% chance to resurect player and remove all DoT''s from player. Usable only out of combat.
Abyss walk lvl 1/5 0% Player can temporarily enter the abyss. First strike when leaving abyss is increased by 50% and damage received while in abyss is increased by 100%
"Lulu come out." Spoke Tenebris after a bit of thinking. "Oh now you need me and i must come? Well fuck you, apologise then we can talk!" Spoke little angry fairy. "Stop acting like a spoiled brat, explain to me about the abyss, didn''t you say it was called limbo?" "I said you could call it limbo because when i searched your memories that is most similar thing i found there, but in fact name of that dimension is abyss, it was a first dimension that new overlord created when he came over to this world." "New overlord? Tell me more." "Even if i told you you wouldn''t understand it, only things you should know is that new overlord is a god, and one of the strongest ones, and that abyss is probably safest place in this world, unless you run into some revenants or that white haired moron in there, but that is not likely." "White haired moron, who is that?" "That''s just a kid who gained immortality from the overlord and is his personal servant, he has a brother, black haired moron, but white haired moron is much more annoying." "Don''t they have names, what should i do if i ever really run into them?" "They do have names, but i don''t know their names, only their titles, and dont worry about what to do when you run into them, if you ever do so, you are 100% dead meat." "Why? At least tell me their titles damn it, do you know anything at all?" "And what use do you have of knowing that, if you ever run into them you are dead anyway, they are both titled as second born because they are twins and were created out of primal chaos by that overlord. Anyway chance of you running into them is almost non existent, your only problems are stray revenants, but even those aren''t wandering in this part of the world." "Where are they then?" "You are asking too much, grow in strength then i might tell you." "What level would i need to fight a revenant?" "Let me think, weakest revenant is around 700, so you should be 1000 at least, but hey ill tell you more stories every 100 levels so you don''t get too bored." Spoke mockingly Lulu. "Where is that novice village that you spoke of, that one where i can upgrade my profession once im level 10?" "Well there is a slight problem, you see, this isn''t a normal starting dungeon, normal starting dungeons have at most 3 bosses that you have to defeat, but this one has 7, and their level is a lot higher than it should be, so don''t think about it too much, later on i will show you boss lairs, but that is once you are strong enough to defeat them." Chapter 17 - Assassin build "So what now?" Asked Tenebris. "Now you should learn how to use laws here, your laws of darkness is rapidly rising in levels just because your soul has memory of those laws, and once you come to your previous point it will drastically slow down, so learn to use laws here, you already created couple of skills that are connected with darkness, now think of something more. And latter i will explain talents to you." Explained Lulu. "Talents? There is even that here?" "Yes, you received notification about it, i just put it away for now until you first realise what are you going to do." "Okay, if you think it is best like that, do you have any ideas about laws?" "I don''t, i never studied laws of darkness so i don''t really know much about it, just try recreating some of your old skills that you used to use." "I already tried that, but it won''t accept most of them." "Then there must be some flaws in those techniques, correct those flaws and there shouldn''t be any problems then, this system thing is done pretty well, if you do something for an enormous amount of time or do something good enough it will create a skill for it, but some more rare or difficult techniques will take a bit longer to create." "So its like that, so do you think i should create simpler ones first or go for the top immediately?" "Why not do both, take this whole day to practice, in the end just perfect up techniques that you didn''t manage to finish. Got any techniques in particular in mind now?" "Yes, couple, Path of Violence firstly, i need good aggressive abilities, that should give me nice amount of aggressiveness, what should i do after that?" "Well you have a battle movement technique, which is totally dumb in my opinion, you are an assassin, you need assassination skills not battle skills, how many of those Path of Violence techniques are actually good for assassinations?" "All of them, not one technique i ever knew was useless, you never know in what situation you might end up on your next task, so i learned a variety of them." "Well that for a change doesn''t sound dumb, then do you know any ambushing skills?" "Well if it''s ambushing skills with laws of darkness i have few, Shadow Steps are maybe best choice, Dark Twin might be useful for distractions, Dark Freedom is good for immobilising opponents..." "Okay stop there, if you continue like this you will be exhausted by the end of the day just counting how many abilities you got, tell me, what is the most important thing a good assassin has to have?" "Patience." "And after that?" "Well, speed is perhaps..." "So speed it is then, find most useful ability that you can use to increase your speed." "Well that should be Shadow Steps, but it isn''t pure speed skill, its more like movement skill." "What does it do?" "I can create Dark Marks and place them wherever i want in my field of vision and teleport through darkness to them, its a skill i used the most for my assassinations, i can appear anywhere and strike immediately." The tale has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. "Good, create that skill then, focus on those 2 skills for now, we will think of anything lacking later, now go train while i think a little." Couple of hours later Tenebris finished with his meditation and started swishing his hands randomly across the room. "What are you doing?" Asked confused Lulu. "I''m placing Dark Marks, i just finished creating that skill but there are minor problems with it, i need to figure it out so i can fix it." Answered Tenebris. "What minor problems are you talking about?" "This system restricted my ability, instead of unlimited range it gave me limited range of 3 meters anywhere around me, although i don''t have to see where i am placing my mark anymore, 3 meters is too little for assassinations. Second problem is that it has cooldown time, i can''t use it indefinitely, placing marks doesn''t trigger cooldown, activating them has 30 seconds cooldown. Third problem is that i am restricted to one mark at the time only instead of indefinite number, its like they put the chains on me." "They?" "The guys whoever created this stupid system, who else?" "Hahaha you really think it took more than one people to create this system? Let me ask you something, if you wanted to do something at least similar to this, how many laws would you have to master to do it?" Asked amused Lulu. "I don''t know, i cant even feel on what law principles is this system working." "Well the answer is almost all of them, but i can tell you what are main laws that make this system going, those are chaos, time, space, death, life and last but not least creation. Dungeons are created by laws of space and time, law of chaos regulates operability of system so that it is never predictable and law of creations is basic frame for everything. But one funny thing you certainly didn''t think about is amount of power required to make this system and put entire world into it, you cant even imagine that amount of power, actually i think no one on this world can." "So basically you are telling me a god created this system?" "In a way yes, but not just any god, not all gods are equal in power, this new overlord of this world is one of the most powerful gods that ever existed, so do you really think someone that powerful has a need to restrict you just because he wanted to do so, this whole world is like an ant farm to him, you are lucky enough he isn''t some spoiled kid that took magnifier glass and started roasting you guys." "No, he just took giant cage and made a show to entertain himself." "He isn''t kind of man to do something this large just for entertainment..." "You talk like you know him." "I might know him, or i might be lying, who knows, anyway, your restrictions will be softer once you level up your spell so dont bother with it now and go finish up your second spell, i still have to think some more." Chapter 18 - Godly luck? "I''ve finished 7 Paths of Violence, but there is another problem with it...." Spoke Tenebris as he walked over from darkness toward Lulu. "What kind of problem is it now?" "I have listed all of the steps, but i can only use first three, other four are grayed out." Explained Tenebris. "I''ll check that later, first have a look at this." Spoke Lulu lazily as she swooshed over her hand in front of Tenebris as blue screen popped up in front of him.
From the Darkness. 0/5 Increases damage of first strike made to unaware enemies by 20%
Energized combat. 0/5 Your critical strikes have 2% chance to restore you 5 EP.
Violent carnage. 0/5 Your ability 7 Paths of Violence - Carnage does 10% of original slash damage as an aditional bleeding damage.
"What are these? Are those talents that you spoke of?" "Yes, every 2 levels after 10th level you will get one talent point, every 10th level you will get a rune point instead of a regular talent point, that is basically same as talent point you just spend it on rune talents instead of regular talents, know you have one talent point, you will get another one at level 12 and then on 14 and so on and so on, you will get first rune talent at level 20 when you will be able to specialize your class, if you by then manage to leave and find a system village. Anyway make your pick, then we shall talk some more." Explained Lulu before she turned around and went out of the room. After thinking for a short while Tenebris selected talent From the Darkness, and immediately after that notification popped up.
You have selected From the Darkness as your permanent talent. Energized combat and Violent carnage have been removed. To check your current talents you can go to talent menu.
At first Tenebris was surprised but then he was frightened as he read all of the text. "Lulu, what the fuck is this, why didn''t you tell me my other talents will be deleted once i pick one." Yelled Tenebris as he stormed out of the room into the hallway. "Its not deleted, it is just removed, later it might be added again. You can always pick only one out of three talents, so you need to think about it carefully before you do so, what did you pick?" "From the Darkness, i was thinking about what you said and i need more assassin abilities instead of combat abilities so i picked that." "You are smarter than i thought kid, now i want to tell you one more thing, earlier you have gained ability to enter abyss right, but there is one thing that you don''t know about and you should know before you enter abyss again. Abyss can claim your soul if you enter it for too long, the longer you stay more of a chance to never leave it there is, 10 seconds is currently your limit and any more than that is just asking for death and trust me being claimed by the abyss definitely isn''t a pleasurable experience, luckily you don''t enter it fully now, your soul enters it partly and your body gets engulfed by the abyss. So think of that ability as a stealth ability most assassins have in games with the only problem being that you cant stay in stealth like they can. Oh right there is one more minor thing, while you use that ability you can still see the outside world but you cant see what is happening in the abyss or you can see the abyss but cant see the outside world, so be careful when using it because you can always get attacked from the dimension you aren''t looking at currently, that isn''t a problem currently because there are no revenants in this dungeon yet, but once you leave this place who knows whats out there, so be careful." Unauthorized usage: this narrative is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings. "Are you worried about me, that''s so cute." Spoke Tenebris teasingly. "Keep dreaming idiot, unfortunately you were my ticket out of the abyss and because of that i am now bound to you, so unless you unbind me my life is tied to yours, if you die i die." "And what happens if you die?" Asked Tenebris concernedly. "Nothing to you actually, system recognizes me as your pet now so you wont get any damage if i''m gone, but don''t worry about that because i cant really die here because im way stronger than this place." "So if you are my pet and you are way stronger than this place then you can just clear this whole dungeon for me and we can then leave?" Hope was starting to rise deep inside of Tenebris. "Bingo! Is what i would say if you weren''t a dumb idiot. There are multiple type of pets, and i am not your battle pet, im your guide, i provide you with system tips and advice you might use, of course i am not just ordinary guide because i am not limited by the system as normal guide pets are because i still own my old memories, which is too lucky for you, otherwise you might have never even found out even a piece of things you learned from me now. You see as your guide pet i have access to all your panels and menus, even the ones you dont have access to, and i know things most of the people don''t know about, so as long as i am here you should have no problem clearing this whole dungeon, that is if you find a proper team for it, you now has no chance of ever clearing this dungeon alone, even though you are quite stronger than a typical assassin should be at your level." "Did you just praise me?" Tenebris spoke with a grin on his face. "Stop daydreaming idiot, i just told the facts, you are still dumb moron with godly luck and no brain." "So you think i have godly luck?" Spoke Tenebris grinning once again. "I admire your stupidity, you always hear only the good stuff i say, yes you have godly luck, otherwise how would you ever meet me if you didn''t have that luck to die but not die." Spoke Lulu with a smirk on her face. "Enough chit chat now, lets go rest a bit then we will go according to your plan." Added Lulu before she entered the room where everyone else was. Chapter 19 - Obstacles and tools "Wake up moron, i said rest for a bit not sleep half a day." Soft but mean voice was heard above Tenebris, as he raised his head he saw little girl with pitch black hair and dark translucent wing fluttering above him. "Finally you are awake, come on, get up, its time for work." Spoke little fairy as she flew over to the group that was sitting in another corner talking. "Hey guys whats up." Spoke Tenebris as he got up and walked towards the group while scratching his head. "Nothing important, we were just talking about everything that is happening." Answered Tanya calmly. "So did you guys get over this whole apocalypse thing already or do i still have to go easy on you guys until you adjust a bit more?" Asked Tenebris. "Go easy? You call this whole thing you are doing going easy on us? Are you some kind of sadistic demon?" Asked Demian with shock on his face. "Well if its easier for you, you can think of me as that, any way once you get over it that is when the real training will start, but until then i guess you will just have to be beaten until you realise what is actually happening now. But hey i can give you a choice, you can either be beaten by monsters or by me, make your choice?" Answered Tenebris with a smirk on his face. "I would rather solo dungeon boss than fight you, at least i might get a chance to strike it once that way." "Oh so you already know about dungeon boss? Lulu talked with you guys i guess, so lets say you know everything you should know, now lets talk business. First things first, food! We need food, lots of it, and if we have enough luck there is still lots of food in cafeteria storage room where we are going next." "What do we do after we get food?" Asked Diana. "Step two, recruitment. If we are lucky enough we aren''t only people left in this school, so we will go scouting and try and find more people that are willing to join us, to clear this dungeon we need more people than this." "And what if they don''t want to join us?" Asked Tanya frowning. "If you are not with me, you are against me." Responded calmly Tenebris. "Which means?" "I kill them, every single one of them." Spoke Tenebris as cold glint flashed in his eyes. "How can you be so calm when talking about killing people? Are you really some kind of a demon?" Asked shocked Tanya. "I told you already, if you find it easier for you to get over it, think of me as a demon, but keep one thing in your mind, this demon saved your asses and is keeping your sorry asses alive. And why couldn''t i be calm when i''m talking about killing people, if they are not with me they are just obstacles then, potential threats." "And what are we to you?" Asked Diana. "Tools that can be used." If you encounter this narrative on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it."And what happens if tools aren''t useful anymore?" Asked still calm Diana. "Tomm what do you do with tools that are broken and you don''t need them anymore?" Asked Tenebris as he turned to look at Tomm. "I throw them away." "Exactly, if you guys aren''t useful to me anymore i will abandon you or replace you, i will spare your lives considering you were once useful to me, but if an abandoned tool ever becomes an obstacle, well i already told you what i do with obstacles, no need to repeat myself, is anything else unclear to you?" Explained calmly Tenebris, not even a single emotion was seen on his face as he talked. "One more thing." Spoke Diana. "Speak." "Is there any way that you can see us as persons instead of tools?" Asked Diana with a glimmer of hope in her eyes. "Impossible." "Why?" "To consider you as a person i would have to be human, but you guys already said that i am a demon, taking that logic in mind demons cant see other people as anything else than objects." "But you aren''t really a demon, you are human just like us!" Spoke angrily Tanya. "I don''t really care how do you really see me, and it really doesn''t matter, if you want to live you have two choices currently. First one is to sell yourself to this demon in front of you and do your best to be useful, or the second one which is to find a way to survive on your own. Oh right i forgot to mention one thing to you guys, betrayal is answered with capital punishment." "Didn''t you just say that we can leave if we want, and now you say that you will kill us if we do? What kind of a fucked up logic is that?" Yelled Demian as he jumped up and stood in front of Tenebris. "Sit down!" Growled Tenebris as bit of his killing intent leaked from him. Demian was immediately frozen in place as fear flooded over him, instantly he fell down on his ass with his eyes wide open. "Leaving is fine, leaving behind my back is betrayal, moving against me is betrayal, conspiring against me is betrayal, well mostly anything that is harmful to me is betrayal, but if you want to leave say so and you can leave." Spoke Tenbris with his eyes squinted and a mild smile on his face. "Any more dumb questions?" "I have one." Spoke Lulu with a chuckle. "Just be quick will you?" Spoke annoyed Tenebris. "Sure, can you guarantee their safety if they follow you?" "Whose side are you on really? Aren''t you my pet, don''t make me banish you again." "But can you guarantee our safety?" Asked worried Demian. "No, that''s why i said you can leave if you think you have better chances without me. Now if there are no more stupid questions, Tomm and blackie get up, you two are coming with me, blondie and boxer boy you two stay here and watch out for uninvited guests, now lets go." Said Tenebris as he turned to leave the room. Chapter 20 - Strong fear the smart "Where are we going?" Asked Diana as she ran up to Tenebris. "Scouting." Answered Tenebris. "But why only three of us?" "I have my reasons." "Aren''t you afraid that they will betray you if you leave them unsupervised?" "That is one of the reasons why only three of us are scouting, i''m giving them a chance to betray me." Tenebris answered calmly. " But why? That doesn''t make sense." Said Diana. "Diana that''s enough, don''t push it." Spoke Tomm from behind them. "It''s fine." Answered Tenebris as he stopped and looked at Diana. "They are weak, weaklings have fears, i will further inspire that fear inside them." "But that also doesn''t make sense, why do you want them to fear you so much?" "You are wrong at one part, i don''t want them to fear me, i want them to fear death, but more than that i want them to fear death by my hands." Continued calmly Tenebris. "But why fear, isn''t it better for them to respect you?" "Fear is easiest to control, respect has to be built, respect has to be earned, i don''t have time for that, weakling fear power that can destroy them, that fear can build loyalty faster than respect could ever do." "Faster yes, firmer no, what are you actually trying to accomplish with so much fear." "Fear is primal emotion, except for loyalty fear can inspire growth, i need them to grow strong." "So you can use them, if they are weak you can''t use them." "You are wrong, even weaklings have their use, Tomm is weak but he is useful." "Strength doesn''t come just from fists, he is smart and he knows things that you don''t, that is his strength, so you want to use that strength." "You are quite smart for a kid, don''t you fear me?" "No." Cold glint flashed in his eyes as he asked: "Why?" "You need me as much as i need you, i''m curious about you but i don''t fear you." "Your words are quite cunning, but if you think i won''t kill you because you prove to me that you are smart you are wrong, being overly smart in front of strong is a flaw more than a virtue." "Strong always feared smart, but smart never feared strong, smart only fears lack of control." "And you are convinced that you are able enough to control me?" Spoke Tenebris as a smile gradually appeared on his face. "No, but i can control your opinion of me." "Ohh, tell me how can you be sure of that?" "Because i know i can be useful to you, being useful to you is only thing that really matters to you." "Diana don''t push it." Tomm added quietly. "I told you it''s fine, you are luckily, you have quite smart and able daughter, but little girl you are wrong one thing." "What is that?"" "I don''t mind killing you right now even if you are useful, strong fear smart, smart fear lack of control, but if you think i''m just strong you will die sooner than you think." "I know, you are powerful, you are both strong and smart, that gives you control, but you are also arrogant, maybe you don''t think so but that''s your weakness. But you have enough credit to be arrogant, just don''t forget that you can also bleed." "Diana!" Tomm yelled suddenly grabbing her shoulder to stop her from speaking. "Being areeogant means you think are above everyone else, but i''m not arrogant, i don''t think i''m above everyone else, i know i am above everyone. Enough chit-chat we have a task to finish." Said Tenebris as he turned around and continued walking. Support the author by searching for the original publication of this novel. As they left the basement hallway Tenebris started sneaking close to the walls towards the school cafeteria. Cafeteria was withing the main school wing so they didn''t have to leave the school again, but as they neared the cafeteria they saw that entrance was blocked with tables and chairs. "There are survivors there, looks like we aren''t the only ones that thought of going there to grab food, Lulu come out." As Tenebris said that little fairy appeared sitting on his shoulder. "Why don''t you just let me sleep, whats wrong now?" Spoke annoyed Lulu. "Can you scout cafeteria, entrance is blocked so we can''t go in there, and i wouldn''t want to risk it and breach in." "I could, but why don''t you do it yourself, this world has a barrier there but that doesn''t mean that abyss has it as well, and you woke me up for this? Poor dumb kid, im going back to sleep call me if there is something actually important to do." Spoke Lulu before she shimmered out of existence again. "Ok, you guys wait here i will go and check if there is anyone in there and how many are there actually." Ordered Tenebris as he faded out. Tomm and Diana were shocked when they saw Tenebris disappear but they quickly calmed down, they realised that Tenebris had many more secrets than they were firstly aware of. Tenebris totally ignored their shocked faces as he continued walking through abyss towards cafeteria, when he closed in he saw that there was several figures inside sitting on the ground beside the bar in cafeteria and drinking and talking. Tenebris saw that they weren''t dangerous so he closed in to them and exited the abyss. Group was shocked when they noticed Tenebris suddenly appearing beside them and they jumped up in fright. "Wh-who are you, how did you get in, how did you just appear there?" Blond boy slightly taller than Tenebris, he grabbed what appeared to be chair leg that was beside him and stood in front of the group in batting stance. "Who is your leader, i want to talk to him." Spoke calmly Tenebris as he glanced over the whole group, there were 3 girls and 2 guys in this group. "Our leader isn''t here, why do you want to speak with him." Spoke bronze skinned black haired youth behind the tall blonde guy. "Shut up Steven, we don''t know who this guy is and how did he come here, why are you telling him things." Bursted out angrily blonde youth. "He isn''t in fighting stance, he is just calmly standing there, which means he is sure we can''t harm him, i guess he can dissapear the same way he appeared now, he didn''t harm us so what is wrong with talking." Answered back bronze skinned guy. "Smart kid, go grab your leader tell him someone wants to speak with him." Said calmly Tenebris as he grabbed nearby broken chair and tore seat from it and sat down on it. "I won''t harm you, but don''t test my patience, i can kill you all in matter of seconds, be quick." Said Tenebris before he closed his eyes and sat calmly there. Fear was evident on everyone''s face when Tenebris said that. "Go find Ishida, tell him to rush here." Spoke bronze skinned youth, blonde guy looked at him for a moment and then ran of behind the bar into another room. Chapter 21 - Accept or die After 2 minutes several youths came back through the doors behind the bar. First came asian looking guy, he was black haired with glasses and pale skin, he was slightly higher than the blonde following him, there was also a mid sized ginger boy and brown haired boy. "Who are you and what do you want with me." Spoke asian looking youth while he pushed back his glasses. "Who am i isn''t important, but what i want is something we should discus." Answered Tenebris as he got up. "Then speak, i have nothing to hide from my group so we don''t need privacy." "Honesty can be deadly, but never mind thats not the thing i wanted to talk to you about, considering you came from the other room that means you probably know about cafeteria storage room, you are probably coming from there now." As Tenebris said that cold glint flashed in asian kids eyes. "You are right, what does that concern you." "I know that you can''t enter storage room without a password, i have the password, i will trade it for the half of the remaining resources inside storage room." Calmly explained Tenebris. "You are crazy, even if we don''t know the password we will find another way to enter, and you alone want to take half of the food, over my dead body!" Yelled in anger blonde behind asian guy. "I don''t have an issue with stepping over your dead body, it would take me less than couple of seconds to kill all of you here, me leaving you the other half of the food is already generous from me, you can either accept it or die." Answered coldly Tenebris, he reached out slowly with his hand toward his sword that was strapped to his back, but he didn''t move further. "There is no need for that, you don''t seem unreasonable, but half of the storage is a lot for a single person, can we discus the amount?" Asked asian looking guy. "I never said i was alone, amount isn''t negotiable, accept or forfeit your lives." "I see, do you want to consider joining our group, you can bring your people we will share everything we have with you guys." "But Ishida..." Spoke blonde youth but was interrupted immediately. "Shut up, don''t make more problems for us, or do you really want to kill us all." Barked out loudly in return Ishida. "You have to put a leash on your dog, if it tries to bite me i will break its jaw." Spoke Tenebris. This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report. "You..." Growled angrily blonde boy. "Enough, keep quiet, you can''t even scratch him so don''t even bother trying." Said Ishida. "Oh, you seem like you know how powerful i am." Tenebris seemed amused by his sentence. "I got an ability from system, i can see an aura around people, yours is dark and suffocating while you walk on a blood red path." "Interesting ability, certainly colorful, so do we have a deal?" "I have no ambitions of being your enemy, although your proposal isn''t something favorable for us it is still better to feed ourselves than to feed the worms, but what is your answer to my proposal?" "I will not join you, but i will also not be your enemy, i will go and bring some of my people and then we can go to the storage room." "Fine by me." Answered Ishida calmly. As he said that Tenebris once again faded out into the abyss and the whole group stood there dumbfounded, only Ishida stood there calmly with a smile on his face. "Get up, negotiations are finished, we are going in now." Spoke Tenebris as he appeared in front of Tomm and Diana who were sitting in front of the entrance to the cafeteria. "Damn it, can you stop doing that, you are gonna give me a hearth attack." Said loudly Diana. "Follow me, and stand behind me." Spoke Tenebris without even paying attention to what she said, they got up and followed him towards the blockade. Tenebris took his sword and swung it couple of times around him while whispering quietly. "Path of Violence - Annihilation!" He swung his sword in front of him towards the blockade, it looked like time stopped for a moment and then illusion broke down, wooden blockade that was standing at the entrance exploded into splinters which fell to the ground like snowflakes, there was a 2 meter long scratch on the floor in front of them. Tomm and Diana stood dumbfounded as they watched the scene in front of them. "Follow." Said Tenebris as he continued forward, they snapped out of it and followed quickly behind him. "You really know how to make an entrance." Spoke Ishida with a smile, his group was standing behind him petrified in fear. "Let''s go." Tenebris said shortly as he continued towards the bar, Ishida turned around and led the way to storage room. Chapter 22 - Storage room Everyone in the end followed behind Tenebris and Ishida, in the back room behind the bar was a staircase leading downstairs, when they went down they saw big steel doors and a keypad next to it on the wall. "Tomm your turn." Tenebris spoke quietly, Tomm nodded his head and went to the keyboard, he tapped the keyboard couple of times but nothing happened. "We have a problem, looks like they typed incorrect password two times and the keypad is now locked, I could try and override this system but it would take me some time." Said Tomm. "How much time?" Tenebris asked calmly. "Couple of hours, maybe less." Answered Tomm. "Too much, back up let me handle it." Quietly said Tenebris. "Everyone go back a bit, i need some space." Hearing what he said everyone went back to the staircase and watched what is Tenebris going to do. Tenebris took his sword and stood in front of the steel doors. "Seven paths of Violence - Carnage." Whispered Tenebris before he struck the doors twice leaving big black X mark on it. Everyone watched bewildered, they knew how hard those doors were, they tried to break it earlier but they couldn''t even leave a scratch on it. Bang. Doors fell apart slamming into the ground rising the dust all around. "Something is wrong." Said Ishida. "What is it?" Tenebris spoke. "I sense something in there, i can feel week pulses, but it is everywhere inside, looks like there are many monsters inside." "Blackie, party up." Said Tenebris to Diana. "What are we going to do?" She asked concernedly. "Isn''t it obvious, slaughtering time, hurry up and follow me, rest of you guys wait here until i''m done." Said Tenebris as he went inside the storage room, Diana ran behind him. "You have entered second Boss lair. Princess Arachna engaged, good luck have fun." Suddenly system notification popped up in front of them, Diana stood there stunned before she whispered. "Did you know about this?" "Yes, Lulu told me when we arrived in front of the doors, don''t worry we won''t have any problems if you just listen to me, oh and by the way, they can''t hear you outside so there is no use screaming for help, only one group can engage the boss at the time so they can''t even enter." Unlawfully taken from Royal Road, this story should be reported if seen on Amazon. "What''s your plan?" "Quite simple, you won''t have problem memorising it. First step, you will kill as much of spider soldiers as you can, practice your sword skills, but take care because i won''t be here to help you. Step two, when you make a mistake and grab attention of more spiders than you can manage, start screaming and aggro as much spiders as you can, when you are done with that find me, i will be killing this boss." "Quite an insane plan you have, sounds like you." "You seem calm." "I am, panic won''t help me, and crying won''t get me anywhere, so why bother, let''s start then." "Boss is located around 250 meters forward from this spot, oh and there are 3 spiders already incoming here, have fun blackie." Tenebris said teasingly before he vanished. "Jerk..." Mumbled Diana as she went into her battle stance. ... "You think she can handle it alone?" Said Lulu. "If i didn''t think that i wouldn''t have left her to do it." Answered Tenebris as he rushed quickly through the abyss toward the boss. "We are here, Lulu how much time do i have left?" "5 more seconds tops, better leave abyss then re-enter it once you think of a plan." "Will she notice me?" "No." As Lulu said that Tenebris left the abyss and stood there in place. "Bosses are mostly in sleep mode before they are engaged, they are awakened once a player enters certain distance away from them." Explained Lulu. "How much distance are we talking about?" "You can inspect her, but if you take just one more step you will wake her up." "Good enough, how much time do i have to wait before i can enter abyss again." "Double the time you spent in abyss." "Good, let''s check her out." Tenebris went forward and stood 30 meters away from the boss, it was big black spider with what seemed tiara on her head. "Inspect." Princess Arachna Boss (Green) 3000/3000 Chapter 23 - One-shotting a boss
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"So what are you going to do?" Asked Lulu. "Isn''t it obvious, kill the boss." Answered Tenebris. "Well duhh, but how? Can you actually kill it alone?" "If i find its lethal spot i can probably one-shot it." "Oh, interesting, you know of lethal spots even if system didn''t mention it." "Every living being has its own lethal spots, i don''t need a system to tell me that, i just need to figure out whats this boss lethal spot." "Okay, let me give you a hint then, that crown on her head, doesn''t it look suspicious to you?" Asked Lulu with a smirk. "I have thought about it, if that spider is anatomically correct then behind that crown should be her brain, but i don''t know how hard is her head or will i be able to pierce it." "If you just attack her eyes and reach her brain that should do the trick." "Yes i already thought of that, how dumb do you think i am, i spent most of my time assassinating people, do you really think i don''t know something as simple as that?" "I think you are very dumb, but that''s not the point, the thing is that you need to approach her without her noticing and strike before she can react. Oh i have another hint for you, even though there is this system, this system will acknowledge lethal blows and calculate damage done proportionally to HP of the target, so look at it like this, let''s say every person or in this case spider has 100 HP, but because of its armor system will calculate its HP amplifying it by its armor value, so if this big spider has 3000HP that means it has one hell of a thick armor." "That crossed my mind earlier, that problem would mostly be solved by piercing that armor, in general that isn''t that hard you just need sharp enough weapon and enough strength." "Yes but luckily there is this system, so there are skills and abilities that can help you with that, there is even a passive skill named pierce, or even sharpen blade." "Yes i thought of that already, but since i don''t have any of those ill just have to do it old fashion way, stick a blade really hard in its head, now just tell me one more thing, can this boss sense me in abyss or not?" "It can to certain extent, normally a boss can sense you about 2-3 meters away if you are walking though the abyss, but if it senses your killing intent that range can increase." "Would it sense me placing my Dark Mark on it?" "Is that mark physical?" "Elemental." "Then it shouldn''t notice unless its understanding of that law is much greater than yours." "Excellent, lets begin then." Tenebris entered the abyss as he said that and started walking slowly towards the boss. As he reached about 3 meters away from the boss he waved his hand and small dark crossed circle appeared on the forehead of the spider, between its eyes. Tenebris took a deep breath and closed his eyes, he stood there calmly for a second and then suddenly opened his eyes and vanished only to appear right in front of Arachna''s face, with his sword in hand stabbing towards its face. Puchi! 3000! Lethal! Crisp sound of pierced flesh was heard. Tenebris instantly backed away leaving the bone sword deep inside Arachna''s eye. Spider started wriggling and screeching in pain before it dropped its body on the ground as the damage numbers slowly faded into the air. Tenebris stood calmly 5 meters away from the boss as it still twitched sporadically on the ground, not long after system notification popped up. Congratulations! You are second person to kill a boss! You have been awarded with bonus EXP and bonus loot drop. A case of literary theft: this tale is not rightfully on Amazon; if you see it, report the violation. "It seems like i underestimated you a bit, but why did you stop there for a second before you attacked it." "I activated one of my spells, it was one of the 7 Steps of Violence, it takes a bit time to activate it because i need to chanel my shadow energy into my blade." "I see, but i also saw you left a little bit of insurance once you struck, so you weren''t confident that much in yourself were you?" Asked Lulu with a smirk on her face, even though she had childish face when she smirked she looked completely evil, totally unlike a child. "Yes i did leave shadow spear beneath its head but that doesn''t mean i wasn''t sure of myself, i just didn''t want to underestimate my opponent, so if it didn''t die from my sword that shadow spear would definitely pierced its head and finished it off." "I have to admit you are more cunning than i thought kid, now check the loot before that girl comes, she is already slowly approaching here." Tenebris nodded his head and approached spiders corpse, there was a small chest located under its body so Tenebris had to invest a bit of strength to push its body to the side. He picked up the chest and opened it, there was a stack of golden coins inside along with couple of different colored orbs and what seemed to be folded black rag, he took it and inspected it.
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"Nice catch, that''s already the second part of the set you have, you really have godly luck to compensate for your lacking brain." "What do you mean second part, when did i get the first part of the set?" "See, that''s why i say you are stupid, remember that cloak you got from that semi-boss? You didn''t even look at it you just left it there, anyway, now that you have two parts of the set you should get a set bonus, albeit small." Suddenly there was rush of footsteps to be heard. "Tenebris help!" A yell was heard, Tenebris took that chest and stuffed it inside his bag and ran toward the voice. Once he apeared he saw Diana surrounded by dozen of small spiders. "Stand behind me." Said Tenebris as he took his sword and whispered quietly. "7 Paths of Violence - Annihilation." He swung his sword toward the incoming spider swarm and instantly killed of more than half of them while rest who survived were heavily wounded, big black 2 meter scratch was on the floor and black smoke was rising from it, spiders that were also cut by that strike had the same black smoke rising from their wounds. "Interesting, looks like my abilities got upgraded, seems like i can finally use my laws of darkness with my abilities." "Oh yes that, well yeah you aren''t wrong, you did get quite a lot of notifications so i hid them, here look at them now." Spoke Lulu.
Congratulations! You have leveled up your skill 7 Paths of Violence!
Congratulations! You have leveled up your skill Dark Marks!
Congratulations! You have leveled up your skill Abyss Walk!
Congratulations! You have leveled up your skill Close Combat!
Congratulations! You have leveled up your skill Law of Darkness!
You have looted 10g coins, 3 Water orbs, 3 Shadow orbs, 3 Fire orbs and an item!
You gained bonus 3000 EXP for killing a boss!
"Before you lose yourself in joy i have to remind you something, you still have boss corpse to plunder so don''t leave just yet." "What? You already killed the boss?" Diana was shocked when she heard what Lulu said to Tenebris. "Yes, nothing serious, don''t make a big deal out of it." Answered Tenebris with deadpan expression. Chapter 24 - Still paying the price "Before you run of because you are too lazy to explain yourself, there is one minor thing you forgot to do." Spoke Lulu. "And what is that?" Answered annoyed Tenebris. "Dismember the corpse, there are some valuable materials from that corpse you know, you could use them if you manage to get out alive from this dungeon." "And what makes you think i won''t?" "Well you are stupid, that for sure won''t help you." "Jeez thanks, i always know i can count on you to cheer me up." Answered Tenebris sarcastically. "Let''s go then, you will tell me what parts to keep, blackie finish of the squirming spiders here and loot their corpses, i''ll meet you at entrance." Said Tenebris as he walked of back to the boss corpse. When he arrived at the corpse Lulu fluttered in front of him and started pointing out at the corpse. "Look it has sharp and durable legs, you could make spears or javelins out of that, its pincers are sharp you could make daggers, its carapace is hard you can make shield out of it, but most importantly, you forgot to take orb out of her, you think bosses have normal orbs? Well they don''t, it should have at least high grade orb." "So, 8 javelins, 2 daggers a shield and a high grade orb, anything else?" "Well you might extract it''s eyes and eat them, there''s a slight chance to improve your vision with that, also its poison sack might be useful, for either poison or poison resistance, your choice." Spoke Lulu with matter-of-fact face. "If that''s all then shut up, i would appreciate some silence while i work." Said Tenebris as he pulled out his sword and started cutting the corpse, few minutes later he finished dismembering corpse and stuffed all of it into his bag. Spider legs couldn''t fit in so they were pointing out of the bag and part of spider carapace was hanging on his back. "I didn''t really think it would have first rate high grade shadow orb, your luck is really good, with this you might make a minor permanent rune enchantment." "A rune enchantment?" "Yes, there are runes that you can engrave on your weapons or armor to increase their performance or your stats, depends what rune you use and to what degree can your enchanted object use that rune. Really strong spiritual objects can make stunning things with a simple minor rune, but trash objects even with major rune enchanted won''t be able to do much, that is if they don''t break while being enchanted." "So even that is possible? Interesting, i will try it out later." "You wish, you don''t know a single rune, you didn''t even bother meditating to gain runes since you came to this world." "What do you mean came to this world?" Suddenly a weak voice was heard in front of them. The tale has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation. "She meant ever since i left the abyss world." Spoke Tenebris as he looked at Lulu seriously. "Don''t listen to her, she speaks a lot of unclear rubbish, did you clear everything blackie?" "Yes, there is about fifty or so medium grade orbs and some silver coins, oh yes i also found this at the bottom of the pile of corpses you left for me, its a pair of gloves, check it out." Said Diana as she tossed a pair of gloves towards Tenebris. "Inspect."
Gloves of Night
Set item 1/6
AGI +3
"Damn this luck of yours is surely godly, are you sure you aren''t some immortal reincarnation? 3 parts of the set already, you are halfway there, the only problem is you have 3 minor set parts, it would be awesome if you got at least one major part." Said excitedly Lulu. "Start explaining, minor and major parts of set?" Asked Tenebris with deadpan expression. "Oh right i didn''t mention that before, well most of 6 part sets have 4 minor parts and 2 major ones, minor parts are boots, cloak, helm and gloves while major parts are chest and legs, and you my dear stupid master have already 3 minor parts." "What is the difference between minor and major parts?" Interrupted Diana. "First of, there are set bonuses that are unlocked once you link certain parts of set, linking all the minor parts will give you a minor boost, but if you add a major part in that combination, major part acts like a core between minor parts and makes a firmer link which adds more bonuses, also major parts give more stats on their own than minor parts. Think of a set as a tree, legs are tree trunk that gives stability, chest is core of the tree where branching starts and minor parts are all the branches, but considering your luck you won''t have to wait too long before you get full Night set, although its one of minor sets it can be quite usefull once you gather it as a whole." "And how do you know that?" Asked Tenebris. "I''m your consult pet you idiot, and i told you i''m not just any consult, i''m practically an error in this system." Spoke Lulu with a glee smile on her face. "Can i get a pet like her?" Asked Diana with a pleading eyes. "You can have her, i''m already sick and tired of her." Answered Tenebris as he rolled his eyes. "Just go find a smart creature and beat it into submission, you will get your battle pet that way, but if you want a consult pet you will have to wait until novice village where you can buy one, only this moron has enough luck to get one without buying it." "But i''m still paying the price..." Mumbled Tenebris as he walked out of the dungeon. Seeing this both Lulu and Diana chuckled and ran out after him. Chapter 25 - First batch "So what happened inside? We couldn''t enter, there was some invisible barrier in front and it said something about raid encounter in progress." Voiced Ishida once he saw Tenebris walking out of the storehouse. "There was a boss inside, it''s alright now i already killed it, you can collect everything inside, once you collect it we will split it and part ways." Answered calmly Tenebris as he sat down on the staircase. "What do you mean you killed it? How is it possible for one person to kill a boss, that shouldn''t be possible, there never was a game that made it possible." Said shocked blonde guy. "You are right, it shouldn''t be possible, for you." Answered arrogantly Tenebris. "Pretentious dick." Mumbled quietly in response blonde guy. "Anyway, just meet me upstairs once you are done, let''s go..." Said Tenebris as he went upstairs. After walking for a short while Diana spoke: "Actually I am also wondering how you did it, there are some games where a specific class could kill a boss alone, but they would have to be a lot stronger than that boss, but apocalypse, no, this game just started, there wasn''t enough time for you to get overwhelmingly powerful, so how did you do it." "Isn''t it a simple answer, if I didn''t get powerful in this game, then i was even before it?" Spoke Tenebris without turning around. "Yes, that would be true, just what were you doing before this game?" "Hehe, let''s consider it my little secret." Tenebris turned around and spoke with a teasing smile on his face. "A little secret? How can you call this little, being this OP* even before the game started, it is anything but little..." Said flustered Diana. "That''s enough Diana, if he was willing to tell us he would''ve said already, so don''t try to find out." Spoke calmly Tomm. Diana stayed quiet and Tenebris sat calmly on the ground with his eyes closed, not long after cafeteria party came upstairs and started piling up packed food. "This should be all." Said Ishida. "If you don''t believe me you can check it yourself." "There''s no need for that, you are not a liar. As agreed we will take half of the portions and leave rest with you, we will also take one large fridge with us." Answered Tenebris. "Are you sure that''s alright? We did nothing and we get half the food." "It was yours to begin with, you just didn''t claim it until now, besides, i might be many things, but i am not a liar." "If that is what you wish for, but i want to talk to you about my offer earlier, about you joining our group, but let me change it a little, how about we join your group?" Unauthorized duplication: this narrative has been taken without consent. Report sightings. "Interesting, i guess you have something more to say so continue." "I want to know what would our position be in your group, what benefits and responsibilities would we get?" "I have no interest in useless people." Said Tenebris as he glanced over to blonde guy before continuing. "Therefore if you can''t prove yourself useful i don''t intend on sheltering you. As for your position it would be divided, i currently need scouts, guards, cooks and someone handy with hands, jobs would be ranked, everyone starts with one star rank and get their ranked raised with their own abilities, you might even be part of core raid group, that is if you live long enough for that." "That sounds promising, now let''s talk in currency, would we get paid and how?" "Previous monetary system is most likely invalid now, and there is new in-game currency, but all the coins we get will go straight to me for further improvement of the main group, which would of course increase survivability of all side groups, all contributions will be submitted and noted down, once i find someone willing to do that job, later on you will be able to use your own contribution points in ways you see fit, but that''s all in the future, but first we have to clear this school and get out." "You seem like you have a plan, and pretty detailed one, i would like to join your group with the rest of my group if they are willing, that is of course if you will allow us." "Good, later give me briefing about everyone''s jobs or professions and they will be assigned accordingly, we are located in school basement, you can move all the food there and after that we will talk some more." "Deal, you heard him guys, lets get started." "But, Ishida, do we really need to join this maniac?" Asked quietly blonde guy. "Marcus, if you don''t want to you don''t need to, you can try and find another group to join, but my opinion is that this guy is strongest guy you can possibly find here, so i will take cover under his wings, maybe it will turn out right, or maybe not, but i know that he is my best option." Answered Ishida. "What so special about this guy?" "I can see huge amount of killing intent around him, but i can''t sense or feel it, do you know how hard would it be to hide that huge amount of killing intent so no one can feel it?" "Natural killer, a monster..." Mumbled Marcus. "Exactly, and if he isn''t my enemy, then i''ll do my best to make him my friend." Spoke Ishida as he went off to give further instructions to rest of his group. Chapter 26 - Flint and diamond "Here is the list you wanted, i wrote down some of their special skills or talents they may have that might prove useful." Said Ishida as he passed down piece of paper to Tenebris. "Good job, is that blonde guy on this list?" "He is, why is there a problem with that?" "No problems, he has a fighting spirit, he just misdirected it, if he directs it right he will be quite useful." "Is that how you see all people? Useful or not?" "Yes." "But why, don''t you want to trust someone, don''t you need someone you can trust?" "If i see you as tools instead of people you will never be able to harm me, the moment i start seeing you as persons i will be vulnerable, and i won''t allow that to happen. Just remember one thing, betraying me is a death sentence." "I figured that much out, you shouldn''t have problems with my group, as long as you keep most of them safe and not starving they won''t betray you." "I will be the judge of that, i need 3 cooks, 4 guards and a clerk, congratulations you got promoted to a clerk, you can pick rest of your group for other positions, and tell them that if they prove useful they will be promoted to second star, that will provide them with more contribution points, you will write down their contributions and i will personally rate them, that is until i have created suitable enough contribution point system." "I could help you with that." Spoke Lulu who suddenly appeared on Tenebrises shoulder. "What is that?" Asked shocked Ishida. "I am not "that" young boy, my name is Lulu and i''m this dumb morons game guide." "A game guide?" "Yes, and quite an annoying one. Now tell me how can you help me with this?" Spoke Tenebris. "It''s actually quite simple, after clearing this game you will notice that even society has changed outside, most if not all towns outside this dungeon are probably razed, but there are other options, for example guilds. I could copy guild contribution system and make you guys something like temporary guild, which shouldn''t be possible without guild creation token and paperworks at novice village, but if its temporary i could probably make it possible, you just need to input what actions are considered as contributions and how many points each contribution gets, but that would be all, no other guild function would be possible for now, at least without guild creation token." Explained Lulu. "I see, so there are things like guild creation token in this game." Mumbled Ishida. "Not only that, there are even village, city, kingdom, empire or even more creation tokens, but they are limited in numbers, i think there is only about 1000 guild creation tokens all around the world." "That is quite few, considering there are around 7 billion people on planet that would make every guild at least a million humans worth." Said Tenebris. "Yes, that would be true if you only considered guilds and human population." Spoke Lulu with a smirk on her face. "What do you mean by that?" Asked Tenebris. "Well first of all, guilds aren''t only social groups available, and humans aren''t only rational creatures on this planet." "Yes, i forgot about that, there are other races now as well." Said Tenebris. "Other races, what do you mean?" Asked confused Ishida. "Well there are Elves, Dwarfs and Demons now too." Answered Tenebris. "And how do you know that?" "It''s a secret. Anyway, i will work out contribution system with Lulu later, you just need to write down their contributions and i will rate it later, here is the list of contributing actions that are being awarded with points, there is also a list of actions that will deduct points but i haven''t finished it yet, i will give it to you once i finish it." The tale has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation. "I see, if that''s all i will take my leave now, we will clear out the room across yours, by the way what do you plan to do with all those bat corpses anyway?" "Ohh right i almost forgot about them, well i have plan for them, we will use them later, i just hope they won''t rot or disappear." "They are system creatures now, they won''t rot, but they will disappear if left untouched for more than 2 days." "Okay, move them to the third room then, we will be using those corpses tomorrow morning, that''s all you can leave now, i have work to do." "Alright, tell me if there is anything else you need." After a little more than an hour Tenebris left 4th basement room and entered next door where Ishida was with his group. "Okay, contribution system is active, all of you should have already got notification now that you are part of temporary guild group. From now on your every action is rated automatically, daily work for 4 hours gives you 1 contribution point, 8 hours gives you 2 contribution points and 12 hours gives you 4 contribution points, every higher ranked monster than a regular monster will give you 5 points per its rank, starting from white rank semi-boss, slaying it alone will give you ten times normal amount of points. Now that i explained that have you already finished distribution of work?" "We did, you have 3 girls that will cook and 4 guys that will work as guards." Answered Ishida. "Good, 3rd room where bat corpses are currently will be made into kitchen later on, once we get rid of bat corpses, guards will work in shifts, you can decide on your own how long your shift is and whose shift is when, i suggest you use smaller shifts with more switching because slacking on job will cost you a liimb, sleeping on guard duty is punishable by death, also i need one guard who will be responsible for whole guard duty. Ishida who would you recommend as guard captain." "Marcus, step forward." Spoke Ishida while facing the guys. "Ok, Marcus you are now responsible for the guard duty, you are now 2 stars guard, prove your worth and you might increase your rank. Now i will be leaving, if you have any questions point them to Ishida, he will later forward them to me and i will answer them in due time." As he finished his sentence he left without a care for them or their questions. When he entered the first room he saw Diana meditating in the corner, Tomm was fiddling with some tools while Tanya and Demian where sitting on their mats talking. "You two seem quite leisure with your time, don''t you have anything smarter to do, look at blackie even if she is weak she at least tries to get stronger, while two of you are lazing around doing nothing." Berated coldly Tenebris. "We recently finished our meditation, we also gained some runes, let me ask you how many runes you have?" Asked angrily Tanya. "None, but before you start gloating i should remind you that there is a big gap in our levels, if i sit over night and meditate i will catch up in rune count, but will you catch up with my level over night?" Said Tenebris with a cold smile. "N-no... But you are a freaking monster, how can you compare yourself with us?" "I''m not comparing you with me, that would be like comparing a flint to a diamond, i''m comparing you to blackie, she is still meditating, you aren''t. It''s that simple, work hard and be useful, otherwise you can leave whenever you want." Chapter 27 - Masochistic tendencies "Status!"
Name: Tenebris Ummors Class: Assassin Level: 10 Exp: 6547/10000
Titles: Pioneer, Nocturnal Slayer (s), Butcher.
HP: 150/150 +0.5/min MP: 150/150 0.01/min EP: 170/170 +0.1/min
STR: 24 CW: 60kg AP: 17
AGI: 56 DEX: 48 PRC: 48
INT: 18 RC: 36 MPWR: 9
WIS: 11 MREG: 0.011 PS: 1.1
LCK: 20 CHR: 9
Unspent attribute points: 0 Unspent skill points: 3
"Lulu, i need more information about my stats, i have some general knowledge about them but i need to know all of it first." "Damn, you bore me so much, can''t you ask something interesting for a change?" "Then tell me about new overlord?" "Okay what do you want to know about your stats?" "Tell me what their exact use is." "Okay i''ll try to make it as simple as your limited brain capacity can understand. First of you have Strength stat and Strength group stats: STR can increase your basic power, from strikes to even just simple muscle strength. Agility increases your speed, reaction speed, dexterity, precision and so on and so on, dexterity mostly influences your reaction speed and attack and move speed, precision influences your hit rate and critical strike rate. Intelligence, well do i really need to tell you about this you are plain dumb and i doubt you will be using this stat, although if you increased it you might get a bit smarter, anyway intelligence is stat used mostly by magicians or some other type of casters, every spell or ability in this world is based on runes, every rune represents a form of law, any law, so there are countless of runes, combining runes or using them properly will have an different effect depending on who uses it and on what, as i said you can use runes for enchantments, spells, magic circles and so on..." "Wait a second, i know the use of runes, they are just like marks for laws, makes them simpler to use." "Well yes, and no, it might make it easier to recognize or sort out but laws are still same as always, if anything it might be even harder to use laws now that you have to use runes in proper order and way, now lets continue, wisdom stat, which is so pathetically low for you, increases your mental dexterity, makes you focus easier, and think faster, also if you are a caster it will regenerate your spent mana faster, any other questions?" This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there. "What about luck and charm?" "Don''t bother with those much, they are fixed on creation and can''t be increased in regular ways..." "But they can be increased right?" "Yes, by special means, some in game items are capable of increasing them, but those items are rare, but with your unnaturally high luck stat i don''t think it will be too hard for you to get those items, anyway, when are you going to equip those set items, they will increase your power even further." "How do i equip them?" "Just put them on moron, its not some higher law, its just clothes." "So i can use multiple parts of same equipment?" "Of course not, only first equipped item will be counted, anyway just equip them already." After a minute Tenebris finished equipping new items on him and stood in front of Lulu. "So, how does it feel?" Asked Lulu. "Feels weird, i can feel my power increased but it is just weird." "Look this is your item set current description."
Night set.
Gloves. Hood. Cloak.
+10 AGI +2 STR +10% Shadow damage.
"If i remember correctly, this isn''t the right number, it should be 8 agility and 1 strength, and where did this shadow damage increase pop up from?" "I told you linking several parts of equipment gives you a set bonus, your current set bonus is 2 agility 1 strength and 10% shadow damage increase." "Good enough, but i feel i look weird in this..." "Jeez you are such a spoiled child, that equipment covers most of your body so you are hardly recognizable, i might even say you might look just a little bit cool in that." "Oh did you just compliment my awesome looks?" "Don''t daydream idiot." "And here i was thinking there was some hope for you... Anyway we cleared the first boss, although unintentionally and we secured some food for us, we also managed to find some more members for this survival group, we have hell of a start we just need to maintain this pace and we will be out in a blink." "That sure is an optimistic way to say it, don''t forget that every boss will be stronger than the previous one." "That''s fine, after every boss i will only get stronger, it''s a good challenge." "So what''s your next step then?" "More members, more food, more loot and then exit." "But what will you do once you leave this dungeon." "Find the novice village." "And then?" "Look around, and get what i need with the amount of money i got." "You really think it will be that easy?" "I hope it won''t, otherwise it won''t be fun." "I''m starting to think you are quite a masochist." "Think whatever you want of me, it doesn''t matter, i have a bet to win and then score to settle." Chapter 28 - Little trust "It''s going to rain." There was a soft voice behind Tenebris who sat crossleged on the ground in front of school basement. "I can see that, why are you here?" Responded coldly Tenebris without turning around. "I love rainy mornings, they make me want to go back to sleep, what about you?" Said Diana as she sat beside Tenebris while looking up to the sky. "What do you want from me, or do you just want to talk about the rain?" "I want to know you better, i know next to nothing about you and would it really hurt you to be a little nicer to other people?" "And what do i gain from being nice to people, their opinion might change for better of me but it wont benefit me in any way." "It might not benefit you materially, but would it really hurt to have some friends, to have someone to share your troubles and burdens." "Is that what you want, to share my troubles and burdens? How naive, you don''t even know how big my burden is and you want a share of it." "That is why i want to know you better, or do you find me so untrustworthy you can''t say anything about yourself out of your own fears and paranoia." "And why should you know me better, just so you can betray me better later? You can betray me just fine with this amount of information you have on me." "And why do you immediately think i will betray you if i know you better?" "You are a human and that''s what humans do, each human is born with a little traitor inside of them." "Is that so, i wont negate that, but with that frame of mind you wont get any friends you know, and what about you, are you also a traitor like everybody else?" "Friends? Your naive way of thinking is so cute i find it pathetic, is that your goal? To become my friend, is that why you want to know me better? What benefit you have from it, i will provide support for you until the day we leave this place anyway." Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on Royal Road. "Is that so, i find your way of thinking naive." "That is your own opinion that has no relevance to me at all." "I wonder what happened to you that made you like this." "People afraid of water once almost drowned, therefor they have fear of water." "I don''t think that is your case, you are not afraid of betrayal, in contrary you invite betrayal you want to be betrayed so much, its just like that you want to prove a point, who caused you this much pain that now you detest everything that might seem warm to you." "Chain of traitors, one after another, and in the end when i thought there was no one else left to betray me i was betrayed by one i couldn''t afford to be betrayed by, and that costed me my life." After brief moment of silence Tenebris continued. "Trust has a price, a price i can''t afford to pay any longer." "See, was that so hard? You told me something about yourself, even though i don''t quite understand it, i will some day and that day you wont regret having someone you can trust, someone you can talk to." "Persistent aren''t you, but why do you want to know about me so much, what is your goal?" "Goal?! Huh, yes you might say i have a goal in mind, but if you want to know there is a price to pay you know?" "Everything in this world has a price, name yours." "You cant afford to pay it now, i will tell you once you clear this dungeon." "Do you value yourself so much that you think that your thought is that expensive?" "No, i value you that much..." Said Diana as she sat up and went back into basement. Value me that much, huh... Okay i will give you a bit of trust as a reward for this talk, don''t disappoint me little girl... Chapter 29 - Small chat "Quite an interesting girl isn''t she, i wonder if she would cling so much to you if she knew who you really are?" Spoke Lulu as she appeared on top of Tenebris head. "That doesn''t matter, she won''t get a chance to know it anyway, is there anything you need?" "So crude, but yes i have some interesting news for you, it seems you are being watched by someone from the abyss." "Is that so, do you know who?" "No, he or she is too powerful for me to see through, but i don''t think he or she has any bad intentions, why don''t you have a little bit of conversation, it''s location is quite near here." Tenebris continued sitting down, seemingly deep in thought. "Are you sure they don''t have any malicious intent?" "Yes i''m sure, it''s presence was obvious for quite some time, if it had any malicious intent you would be already dead long ago." "Okay then, let''s have a little chat." Spoke Tenebris as he shimmered out. "Show yourself, you have been watching me for some time, do you have any business with me?" Yelled Tenebris when he entered abyss. "Hahaha interesting kid, i love it, so full of fighting spirit, so delicious ahh." There was a voice behind Tenebris, he turned around only to see youth somewhere around 20 years of age standing not too far behind him. He had long white hair tied into a horse tail hanging on his shoulder. His light blue eyes seemed like they pierced though Tenebris as he licked his lips. "Who are you and what do you want from me?" "So feisty, i like it and those eyes, so similar, you really are alike. Anyway, no need to be afraid of me, it''s like as that annoying brat said, if i wanted you dead you would be already, consider me as of a guide or a quest giver. You can call me Neith, my full name and title are a bit long and boring so i will skip over that." "You have introduced yourself but i still don''t know what do you want from me." "Ooh i like you more and more, you are my favorite type of toys, such a shame i can''t toy with you. Anyway i have a quest for you mercenary, are you willing?" "You seem to know who i am so i will skip introduction, before accepting don''t you think quest details are needed before i can decide?" "Let me first protect you from abyss before you erode what''s left of your soul anyway." As he said that he waved his hand toward Tenebris and what seemed like a transparent barrier appeared around both of them. "Oh right i almost forgot one thing, hey stupid pixie stop hiding, if you don''t show yourself i will clip your wings again." "Stupid moron..." Spoke Lulu as she appeared on Tenebris shoulder. "Who are you calling moron, moron. Why don''t you just go die already old granny." "Who are you calling granny stupid brat." "The one calling me stupid is stupid, stupid..." "Will both of you stop already, it looks like you two know each other, mind explaining it to me?" Spoke Tenebris. "I''m sorry but we can''t, we are forbidden of talking about some stuff, but it seems this little chicken already talked too much. Lulu, Zizu asked for you so make some time for visit." Love this novel? Read it on Royal Road to ensure the author gets credit. "Tell him if it is nothing important i can''t go and offer my apologies, as you can see i have this idiot to take care of, is there anything else moron?" "Who would want anything from you stupid chicken. Just keep your mouth shut and listen, now boy here is the deal, i want to offer a job for you, there are 3 tasks for this quest, completing parts of tasks will grant you bonus XP, completing a task will grant you an additional bonus, completing whole quest will grant you a big reward." "I''m listening?" "Task one, kill every boss in this dungeon with a maximum of a week delay in between every boss kill, succeed and each boss kill will grant you a level up for you and your party of 5, and the last boss will give you 3 level ups instead, if someone else kills the boss instead in that time you will have that part of the task completed but you won''t get a level up bonus, completing whole task will promote your party of 5 to level 20 immediately." "Interesting, continue..." "Task two, catch!" Spoke Neith as he tossed piece of rock to Tenebris. Tenebris turned it over couple of times and saw that that stone was glittering and there was a strange rune inscribed on it. "What is this?" "Clan creation stone, i will act as an administrator and accept your clan creation if you do it now, otherwise you will have to do it in a novice village." "So what is second task?" "Isn''t it obvious? Create and fill up a clan, doing this will grant every part of your clan a part of Spirit equipment set, quality is set but everything else is up to your luck, clan requires a minimum of 5 people, chicken will explain everything else to you, so do you wish to create a clan now?" "Yes." "Name your clan then kid and you can later add members." "Name huh... Crepuscular." "Interesting, alright i will accept it, now the third task." When he said that he took out a small black gem out of his pocket and gave it to Tenebris. "This is a special gem, its name is too long for me to bother but what matters is only what it does, it devours parts of souls that are leaving the body of a dead person. Now about your task, collect 10.000 souls, easy right? Your reward will be class evolution if you give it to class administrator in novice village." "10.000 souls? Are you insane, where will i get that amount of souls?" "Oh don''t worry, even system monsters count, and it doesn''t even have to be your kill, you just have to be near an exposed soul to take part of it. Well that''s all from me, i will be leaving now, good luck and have fun." Said Neith as he turned around and started walking. "Oh yes and Lulu, he said to keep your mouth shut or else..." Lulu twitched a little when he heard Neith saying the last part and a small smirk appeared on her face. "What was that about?" Asked confused Tenebris. "None of your concern, let''s leave abyss now, you have clan to fill now."