Auron left Alice's office and directly went into the training ground in the academy. The academy's training ground was an open field. The size of it was nearly as wide as a housing complex. On the side of it, there was three huge building. Inside the three building there was a simulation room, the same as the one that was used in the assessment. However, to use that facility, they need a teacher to watch over them. And, if they were not close enough with a teacher, usually they need to give some compensation to teacher. That was the reason why the simulation room was rarely used by the students.
When Auron arrived at the training ground, there were few student still lingering around. It was because two reasons. First, it was almost night, so most of the student were stopping their practice. Second, since it was so rare for them to get opportunity like this, only attending one class, they chose to spend their free time to have some fun.
Auron chose a spot near the corner of the training ground. He started to practice the [Fire Combination]. However, since he only had a limited number of fire spell, he could only chose from what he had. Auron seriously practice the skill. To no surprise, he failed. Since Alice who had a higher understanding of the spell than Auron had a difficult time to use this spell, Auron could not help but failed. He didn't even produced produced anything.
From what Alice said, there was several stage that was considered a failure. First, if you were produced nothing, that would obviously be considered as a failure. Second, when you only produced the original of your base spell without any characteristic of the other spell. Third, when you produced a spell with a weak or only half of the characteristic of the other spell.
In Auron case, he didn't produced anything, so he could be considered was in the first stage of failure. Although, he failed, Auron didn't give up. He tried once again. Another failure was produced. He tried again and again. He even used mana potion to quickly replenish his mana.
Another 5 hours passed, since his understanding of the spell was very low, Auron failed every attempt he made with no progress. Auron was exhausted, so he could only stopped training for that day and back to his room in the dorm. His room was empty. His roommate was still playing outside and haven't got back to the room. Auron went straight to his bed and let his mage character pretending to be sleep and he directly switch on and changed to his swordsman character.
When Auron had switched successfully, he felt a hit to his body. A damage appeared at the top of Auron's head. There was a [Crazy Bull] attacked him. Auron regained his mind and fought the bull calmly.
"It looks like I had to look over the other's situation first before switched over. Luckily, what hit me just ordinary monster, what if it was a boss monster." Auron thought.
After he defeated the [Crazy Bull], the first thing he did when he switched to his swordsman character was to look at his character's inventory. There were a lot of item inside his inventory and needed to be sorted out. Auron need 30 minutes to sort out all of the item in his inventory. After sorting it out, he used a [Town Portal] and went back to his safe point in the town.
He visited the shop and sold out his unused item. Then, he used the money he gained to buy some hunting supplies, he didn't forget to buy a lot of mana potion for his mage characters. He also upgrade some of his swordsman character and his mage character. First, he used some decent equipment he gained from hunting, when he could not find any suitable equipment, he looked it at the market.
Next, with the leftover money, he tried to look for a cheap skill book. Auron still needed to upgrade his skill level. The skill book was very expensive. It was cost a lot of money. After spending some of his money to buy skill book, he finished his shopping session.
He looked at his money left and sighed, "It was really difficult to accommodate two characters". After the shopping session, his only got 5 silvers left. Actually, he could spend that 5 silvers, however, he chose not to and decided to save it for emergency fund.
"Where should I go?" Leaving his money condition aside, Auron was tried to choose a suitable hunting ground for him.
"Maybe, I should go to [Mud Swamp]" Auron decided to go to [Mud Swamp].
[Mud Swamp] was actually a hunting ground for a level 35 player. Auron was still level 22, but he was confident enough that he could defeat the opponent there. Actually, there was a reason why Auron chose [Mud Swamp], his goal was not the monster in [Mud Swamp], but the dungeon in [Mud Swamp].
The reason was for the reward. The dungeon itself was not so rewarding, but the reward for clearing the dungeon was pretty decent. It was a lucky random box. Although it was named as a box actually, the content of it was not an item, instead it was money. And, as it names, the amount was depend on the user's luck.
From what Auron's knew the lowest amount he could get was 1 copper. Meanwhile, from Black Sheep's confirmation the highest amount that a person could get was 10 gold. With an average amount of 10 silver. Although, it seems small, however, this was a level 35 dungeon, for a level 35 player 10 gold was enticing enough for them to go for it.
After making up his mind, Auron checked his preparation once again before he set off to [Mud Swamp]. He checked his potion supplies and his equipment's durability. When he felt that all preparation was enough, he set off and walked to [Mud Swamp]
Not long after, Auron arrived at [Mud Swamp]. When he arrived, two of monsters welcomed him.
[Male Moth] (common monster)
Level: 35
HP: 8300/8300
MP: 100/100
Skills: Stinger
Description: A flying moth. Always followed by at least 1 [Female Moth].
[Female Moth] (common monster)
Level: 38
HP: 10500/10500
MP: 300/300
Skills: Stinger, Deadly Attack
Description: A flying moth. It always followed a [Male Moth]. However, it was actually stronger than him.
Auron dodged the attack from the [Male Moth]. However, a [Female Moth]'s attack followed. Auron block the attack with his sword. He quickly counter attack the [Female Moth]. Auron swung his sword and used [Bash].
The [Bash] hit the [Female Moth] and damage her. However, an attack from the [Male Moth] came. Auron tried to dodge the attack, but he can't. A damage appeared above Auron's head. Auron quickly used his area skill, [Whirlwind Slash].
The skill hit both of the enemy and flinched them a bit. It gave Auron some time to prepare for what happen next. Since the [Male Moth] was weaker, Auron quickly focused his attack on the [Male Moth].
Auron took some damage but he managed to kill the [Male Moth]. Since, there was only [Female Moth] left alone, it was easier for Auron to dodge the attack. He took his time and slowly dwindle the [Female Moth]'s health. This time, since he only face one monster it was easier for him to handle. He only took a little bit health to defeat the [Female Moth].
"It look likes, I was overconfident with my attributes. I had a hard time to defeat the monster here." Auron thought.
"Maybe, it was because of the terrain" Auron still thought positively.
As a hunting ground for level 35 player, this place was not very popular back when most of the player still level 35. The reason was because the mud. As it names, [Mud Swamp], fighting in the swamp already limited their movement speed. With the addition of mud inside the swamp, the movement speed was decreased more.
Moreover, all of the monster here were flying monster so they were not affected by the swamp. In addition, the monster here always came in group. Although most of the monster here came in group of 2, however, some time, there were monster that came in as a group of 3 or 4.
Because of the reason above, it was difficult to hunt here. Without a party, it was already difficult to hunt here. Moreover, if the party was not proper, it would be way more difficult. Usually, the party would consist with two melee class and the rest was a range class, of course with some healer class. Although, your party's composition was made like what stated above, however, if your melee player not good at keeping their aggro, it will have the same result, a party wipe out.
With the reduction of the movement speed, more and more player cursed this place. Actually, there was a way to not get the movement speed, which was to use a flying battle mount. However, flying battle mount was introduced for level 50. So, back then, this place was not a very popular hunting ground.
Although, it was not a popular hunting ground, many people still came here. Not to hunt here, but just to past here and get to the dungeon, Auron's goal at this journey. The dungeon was very enticing. Although they needed to past a dangerous terrain, they would still cross it for the dungeon.
Right now, Auron was level 22. However, because he got a "special" class, he would get twice the of attribute point for one player. So, by calculation, actually his attribute was the same as a level 44 player. Moreover, he got a bonus attribute from Peter's task. This was the source of confident from Auron that he could fight here alone.
However, reality spoke stronger, it was already difficult for him to fight with two monster in this terrain. His heart waver. He question his decision whether to continue or to give up and wait for when he was stronger.
After a few minutes, Auron made up his mind to continue his journey. He walked slowly and tried to avoid the monster. The reason was, it was difficult for him to fight in this terrain and it only wasting his time and potion.
When Auron saw a group of monster, he tried to look for another way. He would made a detour if there were a group of monster. He moved slowly so the monster would not notice him. However, the monster also didn't stay idle. They would roam around the [Mud Swamp].
So, although Auron was being careful, a fight was inevitable. When he fought, Auron would tried to use all what he got and tried to finish quickly because he didn't want the other group of monster to notice the fight and join the fight.
Moreover, the deeper one into the swamp, the more monster there were. When Auron goes deeper more and more fight would occurred. Although, he was only fought one group of monster at a time, There were once that he fought a group of three monsters. He managed to defeat all of the monster, but his potion also dwindle rapidly.
Auron moved deeper, he already saw the entrance of the dungeon. He was about to move when he saw a group of huge monster.
[General Moth] (common boss monster)
Level: 45
HP: 35000/35000
MP: 300/300
Skills: Stinger, Deadly Attack, Summon soldier, Moth's Shout
Description: A flying moth. A boss moth. Beware of his soldier
Auron tried to ran away, however it was too late. The boss already looked at Auron. The boss summon his solder and started chasing Auron with his soldier. Auron tried his best to ran away. He used all of his movement skill and just straight ignoring the bunch of monster ahead.
All of the other monster also started to chase Auron. From small group, it slowly snowballed into a bigger group. However, not long after the chasing, when Auron was ran away with a group of monster behind him. Up at his front, he saw a huge bird coming to him.
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