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 thud.
“…” 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 life 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.
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Total players in the game 69069.
9669 new players logged in.
1853 players died.
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[Weekly target.]
«150 power stones- 1 chapter.» (not Reached)
«200 power stones – 2 chapters.» (not Reached)
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Author’s Note – Many things happened in this chapter. I had to take several breaks to finish this. Hopefully, it was worth it.