Zach casually entered the first floor of the solo dungeon and waited for the goblins to spawn.
Zach recalled what the players they met in the town told him about the dungeon.
'First floor will have five goblins. The second floor will have 10. The third floor will have 20. The fourth floor will have 30. And the fifth floor will have 51, with 50 normal goblins, and one goblin king— that would be equal to 50 normal goblins.'
Five goblins spawned at some distance from Zach.
[Level 5. Low Goblins! HP- 100/100.]
"..." Zach watched them as he thought, 'Not what I expected.'
Normally, anyone would expect the goblins to be green-colored, but here, they were pale yellow.
Zach calmly took out his sword and let the goblins dash at him.
He was too lazy to approach the goblins, so he let them come at him.
Zach swiftly swung his sword and walked past the goblins as their bodies dropped to the ground in pieces.
"Hmm~ who would have thought my kitchen skills would come in handy," he chuckled. Even though he knew, he has no kitchen skills.
Zach has never cooked in his life. Heck, he has never been in the kitchen. His mother and sister don't let him enter because he can't cook.
[Received 10 EXP.]
[Received 10 EXP.]
[Received 10 EXP.]
[Received 10 EXP.]
[Received 10 EXP.]
"Each goblin gave only 10 EXP…." Zach muttered in frustration.
[Quest- Defeat five goblins has been completed!]
[Congratulations! You have received the reward of completing the quest. Reward- 500 EXP.]
Zach opened his menu to see how many more EXP he needed to level up.
[EXP- 550/1000.]
After looking at his stats, Zach pondered for a while and uttered, "So 45 more goblin to kill to level up."
[Floor 1 has been cleared!]
Two portals appeared in front of Zach after he cleared the first floor.
One portal was blue colored, and it said, 'Enter to proceed to the next floor.'
Another one was yellow-colored, and it said, 'Enter to exit the dungeon.'
Zach then looked at the time and saw only 5 minutes had passed from the one-hour time limit Shay gave to them.
Zach entered the blue portal and entered the second floor.
'This one will have ten goblins, huh? Well, I can handle ten at once,' Zach thought to himself.
Ten goblins spawned in front of Zach, but this time, instead of pale yellow, they were dark yellow.'
[Level 5. Low Goblins! HP- 100/100.]
The goblins were carrying a small dagger in their hands. They looked at Zach with a fierce glare in their eyes and dashed at Zach.
This time, instead of standing and waiting for the goblins to come to him, Zach ran past the horde of 10 goblins while swinging his sword in a motion.
The goblins' bodies fell, but one goblin remained.
"Tch!" Zach clicked his tongue and uttered, "I missed one."
He dashed at the one last remaining goblin and cleaved its head.
[Received 100 EXP!]
[Floor 2 Has been cleared!]
The same two portals appeared before Zach, and he entered floor three.
"20 at once might be a little tough considering I messed up on the previous floor," Zach murmured.
Twenty green-colored goblins spawned in front of Zach. They were carrying a short sword with them.
[Level 10 goblins. Rogue Goblins! HP- 300/300]
"This game seriously needs to work on the power system. Here, level one players are easily defeating level 10 goblins without breaking a sweat," Zach commented.
Surprisingly, Shay also said the same thing a while ago in his solo dungeon. But he knew that mobs were mobs.
However, were they truly mobs? It was a game created by gods, it was a world created by gods, so can the monsters be mobs? Or perhaps, they were real monsters?
Zach carefully glanced around the dungeon and calculated his attack.
Since there were more goblins, the space to move freely in the dungeon was low.
Zach wanted to plan more before engaging in an attack, but the goblins weren't so patient.
They surrounded Zach from the sides and jumped on him to attack him at once.
SIGH!
"As expected from the mindless monsters." Zach jumped in the air and leaped over the goblins. Then, as soon as he landed, he launched himself at the goblins and slashed them down.
"Only managed to get 7 of them, huh?"
Zach jumped again to make some distance between them. Then, he dashed at them and cut them one by one. To make it more interesting, Zach killed the last remaining two goblins in a bizarre way.
He stabbed his sword in the goblin's ass that came out of its front, and then he raised that sword with the goblin's body still on it. Then, he stabbed the last goblin in the face, or rather, in the mouth.
[Received 200 EXP!]
[Floor 3 has been cleared!]
[EXP- 850/1000]
"I will be leveling up on the next floor. I should select my Class, or I might get a random one," he muttered.
If the players didn't choose any class while creating a character, they were assigned a random class.
Zach didn't want to get stuck with the Class he didn't like, so he opened his menu and went to the class section to select his Class.
He looked through the available classes.
[Class:
«Bandit. (Can be upgraded to Hunter/ Rogue/ Assassin after reaching the level at 10/ 25/ 50.»
«Witcher. Can be upgraded to Mage/ Warlock after reaching the level at 25/50.»
«Healer. Can be upgraded to Priest/ Pope after reaching the level 25/50.»
«Swordsman. Can be upgraded to Warrior/ Knight/ Paladin Knight after reaching the level 10/25/50.»
«Bowman. Can be upgraded to Archer/ Ranger/ Gunslinger after reaching the level 10/25/50.»]
Zach looked at the classes and pondered, "So there are only five classes, and I have to choose one of them."
"I think I will be fine with anything except Healer class," he scoffed. "And I can't choose the witcher class as my primary Class. So I only have three classes to choose from."
'You can unlock hidden classes if you have the potential.' Zach then remembered the hidden classes Kayden mentioned.
Zach sat down on the ground and closed his eyes.
'Since the game is allowing the players to use real-life skills and talents, I shall make use of them," he asserted with his eyes closed.
There was one thing that no one knew about Zach except his parents, not even Kayden— who was Zach's best friend.
Zach kept his eyes closed, but he was struggling to keep them close.
Suddenly, a prompt appeared in front of Zach's screen.
[Congratulations! You have unlocked the class 'Cultivator'!]
*****
Total players in the game- 46390.
199 new players logged into the game.
21 players died.
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Author's Note- Before anyone jumps to a conclusion, I want to make it clear that this novel won't focus on cultivation. Yes, it has a cultivation tag, and Zach will indeed cultivate, but it will be between chapters and only be mentioned in the following chapters whenever he cultivates.
Although if something new or important happens while Zach is cultivating, then I will write it.
Also, Zach can cultivate, but at the same time, he can't cultivate (yet). What do I mean by that? Well, you will have to read the following chapters to find out.
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[Congratulations! You have unlocked the Class Cultivator!]
Zach opened his eyes with a smile on his face and uttered, "It worked!
He stood up and shouted in excitement: "I can't believe it actually worked!"
"I was unable to cultivate in the real world, but I can cultivate in this game!"
Zach couldn't stop smiling. However, his smile vanished when a thought crossed his mind: 'What exactly am I cultivating?'
He opened his stats menu to see if anything had changed, but everything was the same.
"Hmm~" he hummed as he looked through his stats.
"My EXP points didn't increase, and my stats definitely won't increase. So what am I cultivating?"
'My soul strength and defense haven't increased either… or rather, they are zero. Nonexistent.'
Zach suddenly gasped in realization as though he had figured out what he was cultivating. He immediately opened his inventory and glanced at the coins, but they were still the same.
"Not money either."
Without giving any deep thought to the matter, Zach focused on his main priority, which was the clear first five floors.
He entered the blue portal and proceeded to the 4th floor.
"30 goblins… sigh!"
Thirty goblins spawned in front of Zach, and not only were they different colors, but their size was big compared to the level 10 rogue goblins.
They were red-colored goblins, and their size was the same as a normal adult human.
They were carrying swords in their hands.
[Level 15. High Goblins! HP- 500/500.]
Zach thought there was no point in planning his attack if he was going to attack them anyway. Instead, he improvised.
Now, his plan was to cut everything he saw. However, there was something else he wanted to try.
'Let's see if this works,' he thought to himself.
He looked into the eyes of one goblin and uttered, "Die."
"... It's not working," he muttered with a disappointed look on his face.
"Father told me that I would be able to use it if I can cultivate, but I guess… I truly am a failure."
'Failure, you say? There is nothing like a failure in this world. You are our greatest success.' Zach recalled what his father used to tell him whenever Zach was feeling down.
"That's right. Father told me never to give up and keep trying," Zach uttered to himself.
He gripped his sword tightly and dashed at the goblins.
He swung his sword and cleaved the heads of the first two goblins. Then, he ran past a few goblins without attacking them. After that, he turned around and stabbed three goblins at once by piercing his sword right through their bodies.
He kicked the goblins in front of him and stabbed one in the head, one in the eye, one in the mouth, one in the chest, and one in the sacred spot.
The remaining 20 goblins attacked him at once from all sides. However, Zach simply spun around and slashed the eight goblins who were in the front.
'Is it just me, or is this getting really boring? Like, this game isn't challenging at all.' Zach wondered as he cut and killed six goblins.
Zach had no idea that he was going to eat those words in the near future.
'And they even die in one hit, like come on!'
Zach was indeed killing the goblins in one hit, but it wasn't as though the goblins were weak. He hadn't realized that each and every attack of his was a critical hit that instantly killed the goblins; it was the benefits of his celestial physique.
Zach jumped to the higher ground to catch his breath.
"If this game had something like 'Stamina', I would be forked up."
There was indeed stamina in the game, but as this game was using real-life skills and talents to let players play more freely and realistically, the players had the stamina they had in the real world.
Of course, as they trained harder and powered up in the game, their body was growing stronger in the real world. But unfortunately, Zach wasn't an athletic person, or at least, that's what he always thought. He was the type of person who avoided and ignored things that either didn't matter to him or he didn't find it worth it enough.
He wasn't a social person either. Not an introvert nor an extrovert. He was neutral.
He wouldn't do things that he did not want to, but he would do it if he had to.
Because of his troublesome childhood, Zach's mentality was different from the other kids with the same age as him, in a good way.
That was one of the reasons why he was such a miser whenever it came to spending money.
Zach killed all the goblins but left one. He severed the goblin's hands and placed his hand on its head.
He looked into the goblin's eyes and uttered, "Die."
He waited for a while, but nothing happened. He frowned his face and crushed the goblin's head with his bare hands.
"Why is it not working?" He muttered with a hint of frustration and annoyance in his voice.
[Received 300 EXP]
[Leveled Up!]
[Congratulations! You have received 25 accessible points!]
[Floor 4 has been cleared!]
"Accessible points?" Zach muttered. "I am guessing I can use this to increase my stats?"
Zach opened his stats menu and noticed some changes.
Level-2
HP- 200.
ATK- 100.
Physical Strength- 100.
Mental Strength- 333
Soul Strength- 0
Physical DEF- 100.
Mental DEF- 696
Soul DEF- 0
AGILITY- 10.
MP- Locked (can be unlocked after reaching level 5.)
EXP- 150/1500 (to level up.)
Physique- Celestial- Maxed.
Class- Cultivator. (Maxed.)
Accessible points- 25
"My health capacity automatically increased. That's good."
Zach glanced down at his stats and read further.
"Everything else is the same. No change— the level up EXP capacity also increased!" He exclaimed. "But that's given."
He then looked at the 25 accessible points and thought of using them.
"What should I use them on?" He wondered.
His gaze fell on his stats showing his soul strength and defense, and he smirked widely.
"If I don't get them, so what? I can simply use the accessible points on them to increase it."
Feeling victorious, Zach used ten accessible points on 'Soul Strength'. However, a prompt appeared on his screen saying, [No Soul power detected. Unable to use accessible points.]
Zach sighed and murmured, "I should have guessed it wouldn't be that easy."
He used 8 points on ATK, 8 points on Physical strength, and 9 points on AGILITY.
"I don't need to increase my defense," he asserted in a solemn voice.
Zach was normal and ordinary in everything except his dodging skills.
After training with his father ever since he was only two years old, he had realized that if he didn't get a chance to attack or couldn't block the attack, then all he needed to do was dodge and keep dodging.
However, that was when he was against his father. The skills he considered 'normal' were extraordinary for the rest of the world.
"Now that my agility has been increased, I should be able to clear the 5th floor with ease."
Zach entered the blue portal and proceeded to the 5th floor.
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Total players in the game 46399
15 new players logged in.
6 players died.
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Author's note- You might have noticed the EXP gain is broken. But it's not. It's all part of the gods' plan and it will be explained in the following chapters.
Thanks for reading.
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