The m I got up in time for breakfast. Repeat of the st 2 ms. Help mom set up the table, wake up Anthem and Aria. But that was where I found something strange.
Anthem and Aria were already up and talking.
“Hey, you two, breakfast is almost ready” I tell them, when I find them sitting in Anthem’s room.
“Oh, we will be down in a minute. Just figuring out our pns for the day” Aold me.
“OK, see you two down there” I told them a back down stairs.
Eventually they made their saw downstairs as well. From there we had a good breakfast and all went our separate ways. The only difference for the rest of the day is that mom and dad are pnning on going out for dionight, so I am in charge of making dinner for the three of us.
After breakfast, I head back upstairs to look at some stuff for a dungeon dive today. I want to ge up my strategy for SP gathering. My current pn for the day is to switch over to a dungeon with a hoard boss.
Unlike normal bosses, hoard bosses are a rge group of enemies instead of just ohey most of the time have a leader whiands them. None of the enemies are as strong as a regur dungeon boss of a simir strength dungeon.
The oo me is called the goblin den. It's a rank E dungeon, which I enter. It has a reerength of around 15 which I now pass. Reerength is the best judge for if you should try a dungeon. It is determined by the association. It means that your strength will be as high as any defense in the dungeon, including the boss.
That was the dungeon I nning on today. The hoard supposedly has around 25 members. 24 of them are normal goblins and one goblin chief. The chief supposedly wears some sort of armor, hehe other ons I made. Brute force, which I used in the slime dungeon, isn’t going to work on it.
So that is my pn today. Not only does this dungeon give out more SP, at 25 per run, but also has more necessary enemies, so more EXP for strength boost. Once I get that to level 3, I move up to the eveer dungeons.
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While Zenith was going to the dungeon, Aria and Anthem went back to talking about there pns.
They were trying to find a way to deal with Noah. They had learned about what was going on in the friend group, with Noah saying things about Zenith to them.
They didn’t know everything, but they khat he was behind it all.
They already got Zenith to agree to the test to leave high school, so they had a way to distance Zenith from the group. But it seems that some of the damage is going to tinue. If they are willing to go this far, to tell him not to eveh their family, then they might not let it go even after he leaves. They had a week and a half with nothing, no messages from them to Zenith, and then they got ohat pushed him over the edge, ohat actually got a response.
So they o deal with this in some way.
“What if we just tell the school. One of their students has been harassing another for a year and a half. They might do something.” Anthem said.
“Or, we kill them” Aria said, in a tohat did not make it clear whether she was joking.
“We ’t kill them.”
“I mean, we definitely are able to, just not allowed. And you really tell me that you aren’t willing to kill for Zenith?”
“I would definitely kill someorying to hurt him. But this is different. They are bullying him, it's not like he is threatening his life”
“I don’t care. The less likely the ce they ever see each ain, the better”
“And I ask you. Do you mean Noah, or Mia”
“Both. All of them. Any person who wants to be mean or hurt him”
“Well, he’s going to stop going to school with them, so that is still our start.”
“Yeah, yht”
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The group of highschoolers had po get together again today. Itle over two weeks sihey became Hunters, they had been going to dungeons every few days. They hadn’t gone back since before christmas though.
But today, they made pns to go to a new dungeon for the first time, a E rank dungeon called the Goblin den. Each of them had hit level 10 already. That, with the det equipment they had, put all of their attackers at above 15 in their damage stat. Their main front liner, Noah was 17 without equipment, while the other just hit 15 without. Their backups are currently low level, but have made good use of their skills. They had goo several different E rank dungeons to gather materials for ons with Isaiah's crafting skill.
They didn’t o buy potioher thanks to Mia’s healing magic, which saved them moo be used at pces to learn new skills. On top of the ice magic they had Hunter learn, Noah learned wind magiake use of his magianship skill.
The reason they chose this dungeon was because of the rare material the dungeon boss drop, which be used to make a better shield for David, since he is the only o with the beginner equipment.
They had all po meet at a cafe by the duo get together and pn before they headed in.
They were all pretty excited as well, sihis is the first time sihe festival they would get to see Mia, since she agreed to e with.
In fact, she was the first oo get to the cafe. She wao figure some stuff out about the group, and being able to talk to each of them kind of alone would be helpful.
And the first other person to get there was Abby. She seemed kind of out of it when Mia saw her, but she still o ask her some things. But before Mia could ask Abby anything, Abby walked over to her and started a versation. Or more btantly asked her a question.
“Why did you ell me that Zenith was reted to Anthem?” Abby asked.
“What are you… I mean it's pretty obviht? And why would I o?” Mia responded.
Abby couldn’t respond to this. Deep down she knew she screwed up the stuff with Anthem long before it even started. It was clear that Zenith talked to his family about the stuff that was going on at school, including the bullying.
WIth that Abby walked away from Mia, both a her and herself.
The group to get there was Rachel and Isiah. When they got there, Mia walked over to them, but was stopped from asking questions whearted grilling her about what she’s been doing the st few days, since she had barely respoo texts.
Another bust for her.
o get there was Hunter. And when Mia tried talking to him about what she wao know, she couldn’t get any answers out of him.
Another loss.
And stly before the person she was dreading, Katie and David got there. But really quickly, Katie rushed over to Mia and hugged her.
“I’m so happy to see you, Mia.” Kaite said.
“Oh, yeah. Happy to see you as well, Kaite” Mia said. “Hey, I o ask you some stuff”
“Before that, you tell me what happened between you and Noah?”
“Oh, he just did something I asked him not to. Not a big deal.”
“Then why did you not respond for three days?”
“That's what I want to ask you about. I ran into Zenith at the festival after the fight with Noah…” but before Mia could finish, Katie interrupted her.
“Oh, him. You started dating Noah, you don’t have to worry about that idiot b you anymore” Katie said.
“What are you talking about”
“Nothing. You shouldn’t worry about him anymore, that's it. But hey, we should get ready. Big day for hunting”
And after that Kaite walked away to talk to the others, leaving Mia without the answers she wanted.
Eventually, Noah got there. And from there, the group made their way to the dungeon. They all handed in their ID’s and were let into the dungeon.
“Allright everyone” Noah said, after Rachle pulled out the things she had stored. “Lets go”
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When I got to the dungeon, I sed my Id and headed into the dungeon. Wheered I found a different cave then the one for the slime caves. Noticeably, there was some scaffolding on the sides of the cave.
Currently there were no goblins on them, but I read ohat sometimes they spawn on the scaffolding ter in the dungeon.
Like the slime cave, this dungeon has three levels. The first one mostly just has normal goblins with no ons that spawn around level 5. The sed floor has them spawn with ons and at around level 7. And the third floor is just the boss room with the hoard.
I decided to ge up my armor for this dungeon, ging from the defense cloak to the speed one. Both of them were basically just capes with a hood attached that I could fully around my whole body. The defense one was made of a thicker material and the speed one was made of a light one. Both of them were b color.
Currently I still have the gaus on my arms. Until I fight the chief at the end of the dungeon, I should be able to get away with these.
The reason I had to make another on the night before was because of the chief. They will be the first enemy I fight who wears armor. This means that my attack might o be more precise than what I could do with my fists.
If your armor blocks the attack, the damage from the attack is both halved and is calcuted against the defeat plus the armor's modifier if it has one. My current armor has a speed modifier so the damage will only be halved.
From what I read online, with the defense modifier and the half damage, I would be doing very little damage with my fists.
The reason I o be more precise as well is the damage boost you get on different types of monsters. For example, on humanoid monsters, if you aim for a part of the body that would be fatal if lost, like the head or neck, you do extra damage. This is only known as a critical hit, and the bonus you get is based on the monster. But generally, if you cut off or hit the head hard, it's an instant kill.
So I start the dungeon.
The first group of goblins I find are a group of around 5 scouts. They appear to be small green men, about the size of a child, but with cssic gobliures, like pointed ears. None of them have any ons, and are all wearing rags.
I quickly move behind them and use the sharp fingers on the gauo basically ssh at them. The gaus basically have small cws on them, so I am able to cut them with it. My speed is my lowest stat right now, but I am still faster than the goblins react. I kill all 5 before any of them notice.
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I kill all of them i, thanks to the atta the head and my higher attack stat. I’m not sure what I will do when I make it to the lower level, but I believe I should be able to do the same thing.
But ohing I notice is the blood from the goblins. The slimes didn’t have blood, so I didn’t realize that the blood would stain my ons after I killed the monsters. I am also able to get a sione from these goblins. It still is only worth 1 dolr, but goblins should drop them more oftehe slimes did.
I would o remember to either them, or just make new ones every night. It would give me a ge to slowly level Absolute Creation.
But for now, I decide to run through the whole first floor, trying to make a mental map of the whole floor. I was really good at memorization and this would be helpful so I find the fastest path through for ime.
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And by the time I had a mental map of the whole first floor and made my way back to the stairs down, I had killed around 20 groups of goblins, totaling 100 goblins. I got at least one magic stone from each group as well, now having around 25 for the day, and I hadn’t even gone down to floor 2.
And now that I was ready, I made my way down there.
It wasn’t very long before I found a group of scouts again. They didn’t have any armor still but each of them had a small stone on, or a club. I rushed them again and was able to kill each with a si again.
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Only two of them were higher level. But both of them dropped their magic stones. So I tihrough floor 2 until I get my mental map.
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About half way through my mapping mission, I go past one of the scaffoldings quickly, and kill anroup in front of it. But before I grab all of their loot, I am shot in the back with an arrow, hitting me in the shoulder. I quickly rip the arrow out and turn to find a goblin archer on the scaffolding. Not having any le attacks right now, I end up using magic to shoot a light magic attack at it, killing it instantly because the shot ght through the goblin.
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When I am done killing the goblin I check my status and see something.
Hp: 100/110
This meant that for the first time, I took damage. The side effect of dealing with other mohen slimes was that ons would pierce my cloak and I would actually take damage from their attacks. I would be fine shortly from the damage, and it didn’t even hurt anymore.
This was one of the bes of the status. It lessened pain you received so that normal people could take on the higher ranked dungeons.
I then tinued on the floor, more cautious of the scaffolding.
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By the time I fihe floor, I had killed another 50 groups of goblins, and around 5 different archers, totaling 255 goblins, all killed i. I also never got hit again since I repared for the attack. I did o use magi the archers, so I got a little practice there.
I was currently in front of the boss room, pletely prepared. My hp had recovered from a potion I had in my item box. This was the one I had made when I first got my skill, so i still had a few I got as rewards from the slime cave.
So I open the door and head into the boss room.
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Currently, Mia was standing before the boss room for the goblihey had been in the dungeon for a while now, and had finally made a plete map of the first two floors. None of them had a mapping skill so it to Rachel to make one, since she was the most artistie in the group, and it was kept with the iory person.
They were currently waiting for anroup to finish the boss room. Only one group was able to fight the boss at once, so they o wait. After they were dohey would be able to ehe boss room and wait for the dungeon boss to respawn, which took about 5 minutes.
They had seen some other adventurer parties iher dungeons so far, but this is the first time they had to wait for the boss room to clear.
It’s not very long until it empties.
When they ehey find a person wearing a bck cloak holding two swords and wearing gaus on his arms.
But he was also covered in blood. From the looks of it, he had torn the boss' hoard apart with his gaus and swords.
And it didn’t take too long for them to realize who it was. The signature messy bck hair. The slim stature and average height.
But the only one who was able to speak was Mia.
“Zenith?”
