After Ameria joined their party, they decided to head directly to the dungeon.
“This game doesn’t have anything else to do,” Zach uttered. He turned to Aurora and asked, “Say, you have played a lot of VR games before this, right?”
“Not a lot, but I have played quite a few,” Aurora answered. “What about it?”
“What would players usually do?” Zach asked with a hint of curiosity in his voice.
“Well, first of all, the situation is a lot different here. But in other VR games, there would be weekly, monthly, and festive events to keep players engaged with their games,” Aurora stated.
“Well, the gods don’t need to entertain us since we can’t leave their game anyway,” Zach snorted. He then turned to Ameria and asked, “What about you? Have you played VR games before?”
“Umm…” Ameria squirmed with a flushed face.
‘Why did I even bother asking her?’ Zach sighed inwardly.
After walking for a few more minutes, they reached the entrance of the dungeon.
“So, what are the monsters in this dungeon again?” Zach asked.
“They said it’s random. We can get any monsters, but it will be from low difficulty to high,” Aurora answered. “Also, the monsters will be hybrid, mutated, evolved, and apparently with intelligence.”
“As long as they don’t talk, I am fine,” Zach scoffed.
Zach turned to Aurora and said, “Kill as many monsters as you can. I will back you up.”
Then, Zach looked at Ameria and asked, “What do you want to do?”
“I will heal…”
“Then, do that.” Zach didn’t fully trust Ameria’s abilities.
‘Just because she is at a higher level than us doesn’t necessarily mean she will be strong.’ Zach thought as he remembered Eren.
‘Who knows, what are the other hidden ways to level up?’
They entered the mixed dungeon and started chopping monsters.
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After six hours.
Zach leveled up by one, and Aurora needed 20000 more EXP to reach level 21.
Zach and Aurora looked at the portal for the 20th floor and nodded at each other. They both were out of breath, but they still wanted to clear the first 20th floor at least.
“Wait…” Aurora turned to Ameria and asked, “What about you, Ameria?
“Huh?”
“Are you okay? Are you not tired? Do you want to take a break? How much of your MP has left?”
‘So many questions at once…’ Zach glanced at Ameria to hear her answer.
“… yes,” Ameria replied.
‘Yes to what?!’ Zach and Aurora thought the same thing.
“I can still go on.”
“How much MP do you have?” Zach asked.
“I have enough…”
‘What’s with her vague answers?’ Zach wondered. ‘I get it that her personality is like this, but… how did her previous party manage to tolerate her?’
‘According to her story, to me, her previous party seemed like a bunch of edgy teenagers. They even went as far as threatening to kill her.’
Zach was acting as though he forgot he did the same thing not long ago. Although he wasn’t serious, his actions were the same.
‘And if she was the same as she is now, I doubt her party was tolerable enough to stay calm.’ Zach raised his brows and thought, ‘Either she is hiding something, or she hasn’t told us the full story yet.’
As Zach was wondering, Aurora nudged her elbow to Zach and whispered, “Why are you staring at her?”
She looked a little agitated and jealous.
“Nothing. Let’s go.”
Zach, Aurora, and Ameria entered the blue portal and proceeded on the 20th floor.
“This floor should have a level 80 boss, considering the last boss floor had a level 50 boss,” Zach asserted. “You have a quest to slay a level 80 monster, right?” he asked Aurora.
Aurora nodded and uttered, “But don’t you have the same quest?”
“Don’t worry about me.” Zach had already finished that quest.
‘My current quests are boring.’
“The reward is 500Magic shop points,” Aurora stated.
“…” Zach furrowed his brows and uttered inwardly: ‘And I got 50000 coins.’
For the first time in his life, Zach wasn’t happy about getting money.
‘If I had gotten magic shop points, I would have used them to summon the magic shop and see how far the bidding has gone,’ Zach let out a weary sigh and waited for the boss to spawn.
The boss monster was a skeletal spider. Its height was tall, similar to the chimera Zach fought before. However, the main parts of the spider, its legs, were long and sharp.
Zach felt chills down his spine after seeing the skeletal spider, not because he was scared, but he was disgusted. He found the monster ugly.
Level 80- [Skeletal Spider]
‘Well… talk about a simple name. But still better than the chimera,’ Zach scoffed.
HP- [3000000]
‘I have enough MP to deal 2000000 DMG to the monster. I am sure Aurora can deal with the rest.’
Zach turned to Aurora to look at her, but she gave him a thumbs-up sign and said, “How about you take this one?”
“What, are you scared?” Zach tried to make fun of Aurora to give her incentive.
“Yes.” Aurora nodded and said, “There is no way I can take this on.”
“I said I will back you up, didn’t I?” Zach pushed Aurora forward and walked along with her after saying, “Let’s go.”
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Total players in the game 452530
0 new players logged in.
333 players died.
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Author’s Note- This is the bonus chapter to show my gratitude. I released six chapters in two days. The update schedule will go back to normal from tomorrow.
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