Chapter 3: Chapter 3
'Hooh, the pathway to power is so stressful!' Antares thought to himself as he walked back to his apartment to finish his Daily Quest.
'Open Shop.' Antares said as a grey holographic screen displaying items appeared in front of him.
[Shop:
Minor Healing Potion: 100 gold
Minor Mana Recovery Potion: 100 gold
Basic Leather Armor (Full set): 500 gold
Basic Knights Armor (Full set): 1000 gold
Basic Assassins Armor (Full set): 1000 gold
Basic Mage Robes (Full set): 1000 gold
Basic Steel Sword: 250 gold
Basic Steel Dagger: 250 gold
Basic Wooden Mage Staff: 250 gold]
'I could use some armor, that fight with Leo has shown me my body isn't impervious to damage.' Antares said as had selected the Assassins Armor. Two black braces, two black boots, one green hood, one pair of black pants, and a black chest piece appeared in Antares' inventory.
'Examine, I wanna see the stat bonuses.' Antares said as multiple holographic screens popped up.
[Assassins Braces
Rarity: Common
Type: Armor
+2 AGL
+2 STR
Basic assassins armor.]
[Assassins Boots
Rarity: Common
Type: Armor
+2 AGL
Basic assassins armor.]
[Assassins Hood
Rarity: Common
Type: Armor
+2 SENS
Basic assassins armor.]
[Assassins Pants
Rarity: Common
Type: Armor
+2 AGL
+2 STR
Basic assassins armor.]
[Assassins Torso
Rarity: Common
Type: Armor
+2 VIT
+2 STR
+1 AGL
Basic assassins armor.]
'Some pretty good bonuses for common armor.' Antares said as he walked through his front door and began starting his Daily Quest. Antares didn't suffer as much as before due to him not having to run. He finished his Daily Quest within 6 hours and laid down on his bed.
[Daily Quest Complete!]
[You have gained: 1 Common lootbox, +3 Stat Points.]
[Ailments Recovered!]
Antares sprung back to life and put all 3 of his stat points into INT.
'Now, should I go do another instant dungeon?' Antares contemplated and walked around his room for about an hour.
'Hey, system, just curious what's the date?' Antares asked to get instant dungeons off his mind.
[April 30th, 2012.]
'Thank you, I'll go into an instant dungeon again. 30 is my new lucky number!' Antares said as a red key appeared in his hands.
[Dungeon Key
Rarity: Uncommon
Type: Key
Use at the entrance of 'Stark Tower.']
'Isn't that the new building that Tony Stark just built?' Antares asked himself as he walked out of his apartment and got into a taxi.
'Isn't this planet supposed to be riddled with intergalactic danger? I haven't seen anything that looks intergalactic to me.' Antares sighed at the lack of imminent danger. The taxi took him to a cafe that was a couple of blocks away from Stark Tower. Antares paid his fee and started to walk to Stark Tower.
'Open that lootbox and skill rune I got from my last dungeon run, please.' Antares said and two holographic screens appeared.
[Eye of the Pride
Rarity: Rare
Type: Necklace
+10 STR
+10 INT
+5 AGL
+5 VIT
+5 SENS
A necklace made from Pride King Leo's remaining eye.]
The necklace was a gold necklace with a red ruby In the center.
'Wow! If this is the stat bonuses for rare equipment what about the rarities beyond?' Antares said as he equipped the necklace and felt a surge of power course through him.
'This definitely has to be a drug somehow.' Antares said as he looked at the other holographic screen.
[Guttural Strike
Type: Skill
A passive skill that allows the user to do more bleed damage and has a high chance of dismembering opponents. Can also be used as an active skill that will rip opponents to shreds.]
'Well, that's a bit gruesome.' Antares said as he reached the entrance of Stark Tower and immediately used the key until a red holographic screen appeared.
[!Warning!
You have not reached the level requirement to fight in this dungeon without facing certain death. If you proceed, time will NOT stop and all injuries will not be healed until you level up or drink a potion.]
'Blah blah blah, let me in.' Antares said as he dismissed the warning screen and walked into the red portal.
[Welcome to Bloodcritter Dungeon.]
The dungeon was in a large red cave with blood dripping from stalactites and small red bugs crawling around everywhere.
'This place needs to be cleansed with fire.' Antares said as he stepped on a small bug that tried crawling up his leg. The moment he stepped on that bug, all of the small red bugs in the cave stopped what they were doing and stared at Antares.
"SKREEEE!!" They all screeched and the screeching sound rebounded off the cave walls creating a loud noise harmful to human ears.
"Ah!" Antares held his ears and closed his eyes as his ears were bombarded to the point of bleeding.
"SHUT THE FUCK UP!" Antares yelled as he created a wave of fire that burned everything within a 10-meter radius. Most of the bugs died but the screeching continued and Antares was getting fed up with all of the noise. Antares sucked in a large amount of oxygen and spewed more flames than he ever has since being reincarnated.
"BURN!" A thick plume of fire tore its way through waves of small bugs and burnt the cave walls as well.
[300 Exp gained]
[200 gold gained]
[MP:46]
"I already hate this fucking dungeon." Antares said as he walked deeper into the dungeon and saw countless red eyes lock onto his figure.
"Not happening! BURN!" Antares spit another plume of crimson flames into the dark room. The sounds of bat screeches echoed throughout the cave as they were burned alive.
[350 Exp gained]
[300 gold gained]
Although Antares spit enough fire to burn a house, the number of blood bats he killed didn't dent the amount in the cave.
'Buy Mana Recovery Potion!' Antares said as a vial of blue liquid appeared in his hands and he immediately drunk it.
[10 MP recovered]
[MP:41]
"Again! BURN!!" Antares spewed a thicker plume of crimson flames costing him 20 MP instead of 15. His fire lit up the dark room and killed hundreds of blood bats and some of the red bugs.
[500 Exp gained.]
[450 gold gained.]
The number of blood bats lessened and Antares panted in exhaustion.
"Fuck! This is harder than I thought, maybe I should've listened to that warning." Antares walked deeper into the cave and his instincts made him move his head to the left. Antares dodged a 3ft spike made out of blood. Antares looked at the creature that shot the spike of blood and shivered slightly. The creature was a large red crab-spider-lizard mix with six eyes, 8 legs, and an open jaw full of jagged teeth.
'Examine!' Antares said as he dodged another blood spike.
[Demour, The Eater.
Type: Miniboss.]
"You've got to be kidding me! I walked into the Miniboss room!? Where's the goddamn minimap!?" Antares raged as he split a blood spike in half.
[Demour has used Blood Rage.]
[Demour has used Mass Minion Summoning.]
Demour began to glow red and it roared and summoned thousands of the little bugs and hundreds of blood bats.
"This only the Miniboss!? BURN!" Antares spit another plume of fire into the large number of nightmare fuel and felt his fatigue rise at rapid rates.
[Fatigue:20]
'Damn it! Buy Mana Recovery Potion!' Antares said and he drunk the blue liquid contained in a glass vial.
[MP:16]
'Fuck, guess I'll have to use melee from this point on.' Antares said as he started to cut down the mass number of minions but his fatigue started to rise faster and faster. Antares ignored his fatigue and pushed his body to the limits.
"BURN!" Antares killed another large wave of the minions and the minions were few in number.
"Haaa...haaa...haaa...haaa...haaa..." Antares panted heavily as his MP was empty and his fatigue was over his limit.
'Buy 3 Mana Recovery Potions!' Antares said and 3 vials appeared and he drunk them all.
[MP:30]
"Alright. TRANSFORM!" Antares yelled as he started to grow and change. A red light made the dark cave light up and where a human boy stood previously, a large red dragon now stood.
"ROOAAARRRR!!" Antares roared as he spewed thick plumes of crimson flames that burned the entire Miniboss room.
[Demour has used Blood Rage.]
[Demour has used Blood Rage.]
Demour was practically uninjured by the flames and shot a thick spike of blood at Antares. Antares deflected the spike by slapping it away with his tail. Demour summoned mass amounts of minions once again and Antares burned them away with a huge column of crimson fire.
[Demour has used Blood Dominance.]
Demour glowed red once again and blood started to form around him. The blood created a sphere and the sphere was turned into hundreds of 2ft long blood spikes. Antares immediately shielded himself with his wings and tail as the large volley of blood spikes were shot towards him. The blood spikes couldn't penetrate Antares' hard scales but he only had 10 minutes left before he returns to normal.
Antares used Fire Control to create a large veil of crimson flames. The blood spikes were melted as they went through the veil and Antares charged up the biggest Fire Breath of his life. He took down the veil and spewed the plume of crimson flames that had hints of blue within it. The flames washed over the cave once again and Demour started to burn.
"SKREEEEE!!!!" Demour screeched as he started to burn from the intense flames and finally died after 10 seconds of Antares breathing fire.
[1000 Exp gained]
[950 gold gained]
[Demour's Ring of Blood gained]
[Level Up!]
[+3 Stat Points gained, All stats +1]
[Ailments Recovered!]
Antares reverted to his human form and sighed.
'If that was just the miniboss, then the boss must be a nightmare.' Antares said as he walked to the next part of the cave.
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