the grind starts

The three goblins stood there confused as he walked forward towards them. his sword twirling in his hand threatening to charge forward. They noticed Andrew with a loud grunt.

"you're a lot prettier in textbooks," he remarked charging forward.

The three goblins took the oncoming challenge with a shriek as they ran forward. Andrew stayed low with his feet. The stone floor created an echo every time he took a step. He swung his sword wide for the first goblin, who ran with the stone above its head. The sword cut like butter until it reached around halfway through where the blade met some resistance. But it got the job done as the goblin soon evaporated into small blue particles.

Andrew peeled away from the evaporating goblin as the other two quickly attacked. He slammed his foot into the first goblins face as he wound up to slash the third goblins arm. With a loud thunk the second goblin flew backwards as Andrew slashed his blade towards the third goblin. His strike landed perfectly on its collarbone, creating a large cash in its neck. The third goblins' momentum carried it through as it ran into Andrew.

"guh" Andrew let out a grunt as the small child sized goblin barreled into him.

Pushing him off to the side as the second goblin stood up from his blunt attack. He charged forward, trying to reach the goblin before it had the chance to attack. Jabbing his short sword forward towards the goblins chest, connecting with a loud squelching noise. It stood on the top of the sword gargling as it evaporated as well.

Andrew felt a large thump on his back as he stood crouched. The strike made him blow out all of his air as he stood back up. The third goblin was bleeding madly down the left side of his body, but was blinded by animalistic rage as he ran forward again to try and strike Andrew. standing still letting the goblin come to him before he slashed his sword again at the goblins stomach, cutting it open.

With a loud screech he too evaporated into blue particles.

[Well done! Floor (1,1) cleared.

+1 STR

would you like to progress to the next floor?]

"Yes," Andrew called out to the system running the dungeon. The wall in front of him opened on the far side of the cave. It seems they have styled the doors to blend in with the environment. As he progressed down the stairs into the new environment, he noticed the walls around him felt cold, almost perfectly real. He noted as the door at the bottom of the giant stairwell opened to reveal the next stage. The environment around him was a cave rather similar to the one from before, however this one had a large boulder in the middle.

Three more goblins appeared in front of Andrew as he studied his surroundings. This time they had small swords rather than blunt rocks. Andrew looked at them with discontent, he was expecting an increase in difficulty. But to give them sharp weapons already was a bit of a stretch for the second floor. When you are wounded in the dungeon, you will not heal. all damage accumulated here is real. Many people have died in this dungeon for overstepping their bounds and being too confident with themselves.

Andrew charged forward with blistering speed as the goblins saw his presence, turning right to aim for the one on the outside. They were positioned better than the last three, these three were standing like the top three of a set of bowling pins.

"fuck, I really hoped you would stay uncoordinated for a little while longer." Andrew laughed to himself as he curved the sword to impale the goblin in the chest, hoping to kill it without much effort.

He was met with the soft flesh of the goblin, which used to feel as though he was stabbing through carpet with a kitchen knife. Now it felt like he had scissors as he impaled the goblin through its entire body.

"hot danm, this stuff really does work wonders." He laughed as the goblin in front of his dissolved into blue confetti. He then turned to the front goblin who had jumped at him in the scuttle. Andrew backed off sharply too not get hit by the oncoming blow. Even if the blow was from a small goblin with a rusted sword, any and all injuries are critical. As they will hinder his movement for the next couple of days to even weeks without assistance and that can not happen.

The third and final goblin jogged lightly around the other two straight at Andrew, who dropped low yet again to get a better angle. Andrew looked behind the goblin charging to see the other one sit up from its missed attack. he used his left arm to throw a punch full force at the small goblin, nocking it back a couple of feet as he passed by.

"you may be coordinated but you aren't smart yet." he said with a chilling smile. The smile grew wider as he ran forward towards the lead goblin. He used his sword to gain momentum as he turned around in a circle to smash the goblin in half. He slammed the sword into the side of the small goblin, causing the upper half of its body to fly off. disappearing mid air as it was cleared by the system.

Turning to the final goblin Andrew made quick work as he sliced its legs off with a low cut blow. Using its helplessness to secure a free easy kill.

[Well done! Floor (1,2) cleared.

+1 DEX

would you like to progress to the next floor?]

"Yes," Andrew replied as the message floated above the battlefield.

The wall crumbled as a new door opened itself ajar to let him in. He started to walk towards the door smiling as he thought of his oncoming future. But he looked around with wonder at the large cave

"Why do they have such a large battle ground for such a small fight?" he asked himself as he ventured down the stairwell. The cold walls gave off a chilling air as the sound of his steps echoed throughout the wall. Once reaching the bottom of the stairs he opened the door and saw yet another cave. He walked in and three new monsters spawned, three goblins. but the one in the middle was bigger and stronger than the other two. The weaker two still carried rusted swords while the bigger one carried a stone club.

Andrew lunged forward to run a tad bit faster towards the small left goblin. The large one saw this and tried to move to help block the attack, but was slower than Andrew. so his block missed as Andrew cut off the small goblins head. The large goblins counter attack collided with Andrew's side, causing him to be blown away quite the distance. rolling over a couple of times before sitting himself back up.

"you're quite the muscle head ain't ya?" his head panged in pain as he slowly sat up. The other small goblin was charging him with a raised blade.

He used this to his advantage as he swung low at the goblins hip, causing the goblin to lose his leg. The goblin collapsed on the ground, Andrew used this for easy bidding as the large goblin trudged forward towards him. stomping side to side as he ran forward at about half the pace Andrew could run. Andrew stood up and ran around the large goblin, only stabbing at its back when he made it around. its hard texture tried to repel the blade but he pushed down on the sword hard. allowing it to cut down into the skin. blood seeped out of the wound as Andrew jumped back

The large goblin groaned as it fell forward disappearing into the air.

[Well done! Floor (1,3) cleared.

+1 STR

would you like to progress to the next floor?]

"yes"

The next 6 floors were cut through easily as Andrew stormed through. eventually reaching floor 10 where presumably a boss lay.

"Well, let's get this started." Andrew groaned, he had been in the dungeon for over 5 hours and he wanted to get out and take a nap. But he was so close to being done with the first set of monsters that he didn't care to sleep anymore.

Opening the final door he saw one large orc, Orcs were the evolved version of goblins and were immensely powerful but lacked the brain and speed to be a monumental threat to him right now.

"But still, If he hits me it might be game over." He muttered as he walked forward towards the Orc. The orc was sitting on a small cobble throne as it stood up, each step causing the cave to shake as the large orc progressed off his throne.

"might as well give it a shot" Andrew said to himself, if he took out this boss. it could spiral him forward, the rankings for PvP points and dungeon progression will open in two weeks when official classes start and appearing on them will be a major accomplishment.

Andrew ran forward towards the orc who let out a huge roar.

"if I die, so be it"