I had to equip a small dagger as soon as possible, at least to dig out the magic stones or at least bring a supporter along which would make my life much easier, or better yet try to get a skill through the system which could help me get the magic stones easier.
The entire fight took not more than a dozen seconds and a few more seconds to dig the magic stones, and now more war shadows and frog shooters had spawned around me not giving me any time to rest.
This is one of the pain points about the dungeon as you go deeper, the rate of monster increases and the number of monsters in a party also increases. This increase the need for a party and decreases adventurers trying to go solo unless they had an overwhelming advantage.
I once again readied myself, this time getting into a basic two sword stance, one sword over my head and the other in front of me, waiting for the monsters to attack.
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Using the sword positioned in front of me as a means of attack and the sword over my head of a means of defense. This time I was able to successfully deflect the attacks from the frog shooters successfully, I also did not try to rush this time, instead taking my time and see if I can find any flaws in their attacks and then use it against them.
While the four frog shooters were still attacking me, it was manageable, but there were also three more war shadows which were really a handful. Those three war shadows would attack in sync with the frog shooters and slide back out of my range as soon as I defend, without even allowing me to counter-attack.
Being unable to attack even with my spatial sense active, I made a daring move. Leaving myself open against the frog shooters, I threw my second sword at the head of the war shadow nearest to me, point blank head-shot, it fell down backwards. Not wasting any time, I stabbed another war shadow through its abdomen and twisted the sword, making it scream.
The second one two slumped down, and soon after a few back and forth attacks the last war shadow too met the same fate. The frog shooters were not at all difficult for me to take down.
Catching the tongue of one frog, pulling it toward me and throwing it at another frog, by the time those two could even get up, I kicked a frog shooter in it's eye and slashed my sword at the other one, and the two which had gotten back up did not even get the chance to move, a sword throw and a clean stab for the other frog shooter.
I opened my status screen, because just as I was trying to stab the last frog shooter, I felt that my my spatial sense skill had undergone some change.
[Spatial sense: Allows you to sense anything in a certain range of space all around you.
Current distance: 10m
Proficiency (30%)]
The proficiency in the skill Spatial Sense had reached 30% and the distance had increased to 10m from the initial 5m. I could also feel that the details and impressions I could feel had now gotten better.
'Okay I'll try farm monsters here and reach at least Level 8 or 9' thinking in my mind, I picked up my pace, disappearing into the next hallway.
For the next two hours, I was just going into one chamber after another and farming monsters to get exp.
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I was in some chamber at about half way into the dungeon, with a smirk on my face, the war shadows which were a little tough for me at the beginning of Floor 6 were now easily being defeated by me.
This was the true effect of the Gamers Body, after all one of its features was adaptation, the more I fight, the more my body adapts, like when two war shadows jumped at me from both front and back, I had to lean to the side and balance myself not trying to fall down.
Another time, I had to bend down backwards including my entire upper torso and immediately thrust my sword into the war shadow which was showing a horrified look seeing the gleaming blade move towards it and let out a strong piercing scream.
The skill Gamers Body helped me tremendously by increasing the flexibility of my body to almost twice from that at the beginning.
Another group of frog shooters later and I was close to Leveling up. One more magic stone, even if it was from a frog shooter it was okay after all I required only 10 more points to level up to Level 8.
After wandering around from here to there I levelled up to Level 8, having defeated around 33 war shadows and 34 frog shooters, a total of 67 monsters on the sixth floor and my stat point reserve growing by two points more and constitution and spirit stat increasing by a point each.
Another thing was the unique quest which I had gotten on levelling up to Level 8.
[Quest,
Unique Quest: Defeat an Infant Dragon Solo]
I had only thought of going till the eight floor on the dungeon, but this changes things, I would try to reach the 10 floor at least and see if I could proceed further.
I let out a small smile on my lips as this unique quest was doable, even though Infant Dragon was said to be near Level 2 and was considered as a boss monster, I had the system and also even after this much time in the dungeon my entire stash of potions were not even touched. Even when I was injured somewhere before and my hp decreased, my hp points would become full when I levelled up and seeing the progress I had made during this dungeon dive, this quest was an entirely achievable goal, except I had to level up even more.
Setting my goal as taking down the Infant Dragon, I skillfully collected the magic stones from the monsters corpses, then captivated my how these bodies turned to ash once the magic stone was removed from their body.
Turning and walking towards the exit of the chamber, I expanded the map of the 6th Floor, the one currently displayed on the top left corner of my vision, around 60% of the map had been lit up, and thinking of lighting up the rest of the map gave me a the feeling of being a rare item collector, just that my collection were the map of each floor from the first to the sixth.
As I was immersed in my thoughts and walking, my spatial sense warned me about a presence beyond the wall in front of me. No more than one presence, they were faint but distinguishable from each other.
Peeking into the chamber, I was able to get glimpses of War Shadows on the far end opposite to the entrance.
Holding my breath, I silently stepped into the chamber and brought my sword to a rest in front of me with a two handed grip. Thankfully the war shadows still did not seem to be alerted to my appearance. It also worked that they were looking towards the other side and not my side.
Crouching down and pushing with my heels against the ground lightly, a second was all that it took to activate my acceleration skill, this time I had not controlled my stamina output, so all that could be seen was a single flash of light moving straight towards the monsters without them even noticing it. By the time the monsters noticed it was too late, I was already in front of them, with a look of pity on my face and cleanly bisected the three war shadows
"See you next time" leaving those words to the war shadows, once again poked their chests with my sword just to make sure that would not get up.
I finally let out a breath that I did not even realize I was holding in.
Now was the time for the rewards, the daily quest was done.
[Quest,
Daily Quest : Defeat 500 monsters (500/500) - ✓ Completed]
[Rewards: A random skill
Would you like to receive the reward now? Or Later?]
The same question as the last time, but now there was only a random skill, maybe this is the normal and the first time was 100%, so special? Anyway, I spoke out loud "Receive now" anyway no one is in the dungeon to care.
[Generating rewards:
Your reward is Mimic]
Clicking on the skill it showed me the details.
[Mimicry: A mutated version of the Mimic skill.
1) Allows the user to make an object a complete replica of another object, the replica being temporary or permanent depends on the users. Can make additional changes on the replica. Requires mana.
2) Allows the user to copy others skills/ abilities temporarily by using mana, the higher the level of the skill or the stronger the copied skill, the more the mana cost.
The user must observe the the skill/ ability being used before it can be copied.
3 slots are available, 3 skills/ abilities can be copied.
Magic cannot be copied.]
There were two different uses of the skill, completely different from each other, while I was not sure where the first use would come in handy, the second one was absolutely mind-blowing. I could copy three various abilities from anyone just by watching them and consuming mind.
This can serve as a trump card during any dangerous situation if I can copy the skills of some high rank adventurers and repeat this process would make me invincible, at least till I was able to grow stronger and reach their levels. I would definitely laugh in my sleep tonight, now just need to think of how to copy skills.
I closed the system screen and stored my spare sword back in my inventory and put the wooden sword back into its sheath and gave myself a light slap to my cheeks to pull myself together and make me remember that I was still in the dungeon.
I once again moved out to quickly reach Level 10 and see if I could be able to complete my Unique Quest as well.
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[Status:
Name: Light
Level: 8 (70/1300)
Title: none...
Class: none...
Hp: 2700/2700
Mp: 3300/3300
Constitution: 27
Spirit: 33
Status points: 4
Skills: Acceleration, Trait Maker, Anomaly (True), Miracle Maker, Mimicry
Magic: Float Magic]
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A/N: Think of this as a filler chapter, and also was thinking that making him Level 2 equivalent at Level 10 would disrupt the flow, as his quest is to fight the Infant Dragon.
Instead, I'll make him equivalent to Level 2 at system level 20.
But he'll be equal to a level 3 at system level 30 and level 4 at 40.
Also it'll be the same 1st POV and only the MC at least till this small arc completion, i.e., 2nd Time in Dungeon, a few more chapters. Then I'll start world-building and introducing the characters and pick up even more pace!
Let me know your thoughts about the same! Also how many of you liked the MC's 1st POV?