After cultivating for thirty more minutes, he had 350 MP. He opened his quest menu and saw only 43 minutes remaining to complete the quest.
[«Quest- Slay 1000 monsters of any difficulty.»
‹Time left- 14 hours.›
«Reward- 50 Royal grade jade runes.»
Progress- 325/1000]
"According to Aurora, the next floors will have a high amount of monsters, so I hope I can finish this quest too," Zach muttered.
[«Quest- Deal 30000 DMG within 1 second.»
‹Time- 43 minutes.›
«Reward- 500 Magic Shop points.»
Zach looked at Aurora, who was sleeping as though there was no tomorrow, and thought, 'One hour rest is enough, right?'
Zach wanted to wake Aurora up, but he was having a hard time deciding how he should wake her up. After thinking for a while, he decided to choose the direct approach.
He tapped on her shoulders and waited for her to react. But she didn't even flinch.
Zach sighed and lifted his leg, causing Aurora's head to fall to the ground with a light thud. But it was sand, so it was just like pulling a pillow from the couch.
"..." Zach kind of felt bad for Aurora, but he had no other choice left to wake her up.
After the impact, Aurora moved her eyelids because of the pain and opened her eyes. Then, he stared at the sky of the dungeon for a while until Zach called her out.
"Wake up, princess. It's time for your daily stroll," Zach laughed out loud as he said that.
Aurora sat up and rubbed her eyes. She looked confused as to what was happening, but she soon realized she had fallen asleep. When she saw Zach sitting in front of her, looking at her with a wide grin on his face, she covered her chest and hugged herself with a pale face.
"Don't worry. I didn't do anything to you," Zach reassured in a calm voice and a gentle smile on his face.
"That's what one would say if they had done something!" Aurora shouted in a meek manner. Her face was blushing red, but she was trying her best to hide her embarrassment.
"Even if I had done anything, it would be your fault, to begin with," Zach commented. "It's your fault for falling asleep and leaving your body defenseless like that." The calm voice and the gentle smile from earlier were nowhere to be seen on Zach's face.
'As expected, there is no way I can talk with a girl, normally,' Zach clicked his tongue and looked at Aurora. "You can go back if you want to."
"I am not going back without you," Aurora retorted. She fixed her clothes and looked at her HUD to see her HP was full.
"How did my HP regenerate to 6000?!" Aurora exclaimed with a surprised look on her face.
"I healed you," Zach stated with a straight face.
"But you said you chose the Witcher class…"
"I lied. Now spare me your interview, and let's proceed to the next floor. I am sure they are also bored because of no development."
"Who… they…?" Aurora wondered with a confused look on her face.
"No one."
Zach and Aurora entered the blue portal to proceed further.
"Let me give you a piece of advice first…" Zach turned to Aurora and uttered with a serious look on his face: "If there is a problem, let me know. If you are in trouble, tell me. If you need my help, inform me. If you are in danger, yell my name. I will come to your rescue, no matter what happens, it doesn't matter where I am."
Zach furrowed his brows and continued, "If you want to fight alongside me as a team, as a friend, then you have to be dependent on me, and in return, I will rely on you too. If you dare to do the same thing you did on the last floor by forcing yourself to fight with me, then I won't forgive you."
After Zach's speech, Aurora smiled under her breath and grinned at Zach in response.
"Why the hell are you grinning?!" Zach hissed.
Floor 21-25 was supposed to have wolves as monsters but with higher stats and levels.
Now that both Aurora and Zach had taken rest, they were ready to go on a rampage. In the next 30 minutes, they cleared the 24th floor without breaking much sweat.
150 [level 50] high-rank wolves spawned on the 21st floor. 100 EXP each.
150 [level 50] elite wolves spawned on the 22nd floor. 150 EXP each.
200 [level 50] high-rank and 150 [level 50] elite wolves spawned on the floor 23rd.
300 [level 50] high rank and 250 [level 50] elite wolves spawned on the 24th floor.
100 Wolves monarchs spawned on the 25th floor. 5000 EXP each.
Zach leveled up two times, and his stats were almost double from yesterday. He assigned the accessible points to his stats, and these were his current stats:
Level 12.
HP- 5000/5000
ATK- 233.
Physical Strength- 233.
Mental Strength- 800
Soul Strength- 0
Physical DEF- 210.
Mental DEF- 730
Soul DEF- 0
AGILITY- 259.
MP- 350/∞
EXP- 19850/35000 (to level up.)
Physique- Celestial- Max.
Class- Cultivator. (Maxed)
Secondary class- Healer
His mental stats also increased after what happened on the 20th floor.
"I can't believe we cleared the floors so fast," Aurora uttered and let out a weary sigh.
Zach glanced at Aurora from the corner of his eyes and asked, "Are you tired?"
Aurora scoffed and replied, "A little."
"Do you want to take a little rest?"
"How much time has left for you to finish the quest?" Aurora asked with a curious look on her face.
Quest menu:
[«Quest- Slay 1000 monsters of any difficulty.»
‹Time left- 14 hours.›
«Reward- 50 Royal grade jade runes.»
Progress- 950/1000]
[«Quest- Cultivate 5000 MP.»
‹Time- 7 days.›
«Reward- ???.»
Progress- 360/5000.]
[«Quest- Deal 30000 DMG within 1 second.»
‹Time- 14 minutes.›
«Reward- 500 Magic Shop points.»
"14 minutes…" Zach replied in a low voice.
"Oh!" Aurora gasped in surprise and said, "The next floor is a boss floor, and each boss has 15000 HP. If you use your skill and touch two wolf monarchs at once, you can easily clear the quest."
"The last time I fought with the wolf monarch, I almost died. Even though it was only one, I felt overwhelmed. But now… there are 100 of them, waiting for me…" Zach wasn't scared, but he was a little bit worried.
Aurora patted Zach's back and said with a grin on her face: "Don't worry. I am here now, so no need to be—"
Aurora wasn't trying to act cool, she simply wanted to reassure Zach, but it backfired.
"Stop with that grin," Zach remarked. "And do I need to remind you that you almost died on the 20th floor?" He scoffed.
They were in a survival game where one wrong step could end their life.
Zach and Aurora entered the 25th floor, where 100 wolf monarchs were supposed to spawn. However, when they entered, no wolf monarch was to be seen.
The 25th floor was empty.
****
Total players in the game 69069.
9669 new players logged in.
1853 players died.
"What's going on?" Zach wondered as he glanced around. "Why is no one spawning?"
Zach tightened his grip on the sword and walked further in a defensive stance. 'Is this another secret floor or something?'
The same thing had happened when he entered Aria's dimension; no monsters had spawned. Zach thought the same thing was happening again. However, the floor they entered was indeed the 25th floor. The entire map was covered with snow and the visible snowstorm in the distance.
"I think someone cleared this floor just before we entered," Aurora stated in a calm voice.
"Hah?!"
"This is a mixed dungeon, so you have high chances of running into the other players, who entered before or after us— depending on the time we take to clear each floor."
Zach let out a weary sigh and glanced around before looking at Aurora with a curious look on his face.
"I was just explaining things to you as you haven't read anything yet," Aurora said.
He looked into her eyes and asked, "To be honest, I was expecting we are the one with the highest stats record." Zach rolled his eyes in disbelief and muttered, "But I guess there are players better than me."
"That's not the case." Aurora shook her head and continued, "Players have already formed guilds to rise through quickly with minimal efforts. I am sure only a party of more than ten players can survive after the 20th floor."
"That's true…" Zach turned around and pondered, "But how do they level up? Imagine a guild of a minimum of 50 players, the EXP gain among them will be so low that they will need to clear many floors to level up. It seems pointless to me."
"Not all players level up in the guild," Aurora uttered in a low voice.
"I guess the strong players use weak or low-level players as support to level up faster? They use multiple healers and mages as extra, while the knights and Assassins do the rest?" Zach snorted.
Aurora nodded in response and said, "You guessed right."
"Bunch of idiots," Zach scoffed. "Just think about it. If the support players also level up and grow strong, the efficiency of the battle will automatically increase. Yet…"
Zach threw all these thoughts aside and turned to Aurora. "So, what are we going to do now? When will the monsters spawn again?"
"My quest is on the line. And I swear, if I fail it, then I am going to hunt the players who cleared the floors before us," he added with a furious look on his face.
"It takes 10 minutes for the floors to reset," Aurora stated.
"..." Zach furrowed his brows in annoyance and muttered, "I guess my name tag color is going to change to red soon."
"You are not serious about that, are you?" Aurora asked with a pale face.
Zach stared at Aurora with a straight face and smirked at her with a smug look on his face.
"...."
Zach didn't waste his time and cultivated for 10 minutes until 100 wolf monarchs spawned. He looked at his HUD and saw 'Three minutes left to finish the quest' written in red color.
Aurora glanced from the corner of her eyes and asked with a concerned look on her face: "Do you think you can do it?"
Zach turned to Aurora with a grin on his face and answered, "Of course."
Zach had a total of 410 MP, which was enough to deal 41000 HP DMG. However, the quest was to do it within 1 second.
"Aurora…" Zach tossed his sword in the air and caught it. "How much do you trust me?" he asked in a calm voice.
Aurora's face flushed a little as she answered, "Why are you asking that when we are facing 100 bosses?"
"Just answer me."
"My trust for you is equal to my love for a crepe," Aurora answered with a grin on her face and walked forward to stand beside Zach.
"Heh!" Zach scoffed and muttered, "Not what I expected, but okay."
Aurora chose to eat a crepe as a last meal before committing suicide, so it must be valuable.
"Do you think you can handle your own shit?" Zach asked in a solemn voice.
"Huh?"
"I am going to do my stuff. And I want you to do your stuff," Zach asserted. "However, if you feel outnumbered, feel free to yell my name. I can't have you die on me. Who knows, I might not find a personal healer again."
Zach sheathed his sword and conjured the cursed dagger in his hand.
The cursed dagger was originally one of the features of Aria's wings. It dealt damage of 0.1% (per second) of the total HP of the enemy. This dagger was useful in three conditions; one when the monster's HP was high, second when the battle was long, and third, when there were a high amount of enemies on the field.
Here, the battle was going to be long, and the number of monsters was high. It was possible to hit the enemy once with the dagger and never attack the same enemy again; the 0.1% DMG pers second could kill the enemy.
The horde of the wolf monarchs was so enormous that the wolves from the backside weren't even visible to the sight.
Zach took a deep breath and dashed at the horde with nothing but the cursed dagger in his hand.
Of course, the wolf monarchs also sped in packs. Some ran to Aurora while most of them ran to Zach as he was running far ahead of Aurora.
Zach had only two things in his mind: one was to touch as many wolves as possible with the dagger, and the second, was to make sure he didn't get hit by any of the wolf monarchs. Because if one of them pinned Zach down, the horde would rip him apart.
****
Total players in the game 73047.
4755 new players logged in.
777 players died.
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