Chapter 003. Adventure Starts.

As some of the players still suffering inside due to being unlucky, A young man can be seen walking out of the town plaza directly going outside of the town.

Sien doesn't have any plan to stay inside of the town any longer, the most important thing he need to do right now is to increase his level first and enter a level 2 solo dungeon, accepting a low quality quest in the town wouldn't yield anything good, the quest would just give him some basic poitions and little bit of exp. He can easily get those basic poitions and exp by killing monsters on the way where the dungeon is so it wasn't really worth to work for.

Right now, Sien's level is 0, all players starts at level 0, and increasing the level by 1 would take at least 6 to 7 hours if he fought a monster with the same level as him, if only he's in a team, it might only take him 2 to 3 hour before leveling up but there's no way he would do that.

Initially the exp would be distributed to all the team instead for him to solo it, and it's the same goes for the item drops by the monsters, moreover there's no way he would reveal his special trait to anyone this early in the game, that would put him in a lot of disadvantages. Also it doesn't really matter to him if he's alone, with the effect of the first ability of his special trait, he can even easily solo fight a level 1 monster despite being a level 0.

If other player do what he's about to do, they might die in the first exchange they had with the said monster and that's only a normal monster, as monster with a level 1 have more basic attributes and hp than a level 0 player, if they were in a team of two or three players, they might have a chance to only contend with a level 1 monster, that's still far away from killing the monster. If it's a special level 1 monster, even if there's a five to six level 0 players, they would still suffer a team wipe with 100% certainty.

So players right now wouldn't try to go to fight a level 0 monster solo let alone level 1 monster, although there's some players who would still try to do it, but once they experience how strong a level 1 monster is, they would already be dead.

Sien, goes from level 0 to level 1 map by sprinting as fast as he could and he made sure to evade level 0 monster to avoid unnecessary fight so that he would have enough stamina and mana when he starts to fight level 1 monsters.

The level 0 map is quite wide with a size of 18 to 20 kilometres, if Sien just walk instead of running, it would take him more or less 4 hours of traveling plus the time he would spend fighting some monsters that he can't evade and that's not all, there's also some deformed terrain that he can't run sometimes, it would take him ages before he reach his destination if he had to kill every single monsters in his way just because he's walking, that's why he keeps running and evading monster as much as he could.

After more than 3 hours of running, Sien arrived at his destination with great difficulty, this place called [The Dark Forest], this were know as dark forest because of the trees here were so tall that you can't see the sky and only a little bit sunlight can pass through the gaps of the leaves of trees.

He first search for safe place and rest for a few minutes, traveling for a few hours continuously with little bit of rest as a level 0 player is quite tiring after all.

If Sien was a high leveled player, he would have arrived on this place with only a few minutes.

In this forest, there's a lot of different types of level 1 monsters that resides this place. Sien doesn't care about the others but maybe later, right now he only wants to hunt one specific race of monsters that he came here for. After recovering his stamina, he then starts to search for his target and after a few minutes of looking around he finally found it.

Forest Wolf - (Common Monster)

Level 1

HP: 850

Sien didn't instantly approach the wolf, as long as he's 5 meters away from the wolf, he won't be attacked. The wolf have a size of one and a half meters with a gray fur and sharp fangs can be seen from its mouth.

He then activate the effect of the <Demon King's Presence> to decrease the basic stats of the wolf by 50% and at the same entering the [Fear State].

The range of Sien's first trait ability is 6 meters, enough to affect the wolf without entering the 5 meters range and being harm by it. When Sien saw that the wolf started to shiver from fear, he held his novice sword with his right hand and dash as fast as he could.

The wolf whose basic stats has been reduce greatly and also facing the other side didn't manage to react on time from the sneak attack of an enemy, Sien who launch the sneak attack jump and swang his sword downward to slash the wolf on its neck, as a swordman, the only sword skill he have right now is <Sword Slash>, it's just a skill that strengthen the player's sword for the first 3 attack by 30% of each slash.

When Sien saw that his sword land on the neck of the wolf, he continuously attacked his enemy until he exhaust the remaining slash from his skill, the wolf who receive the attack can only let a pained howl after receiving three successful consecutive attacks to its neck, the wolf then hastily jump forward to escape from its attacker.

Sien who saw the wolf trying to get away from him didn't stay idle as he also jump and do another consecutive slashes but this time as his sword skill still on cooldown, his attack was reduced. His first three attacks managed to shave less than 100 HP from the wolf, he already expected to only do some small damage to the wolf, after all he's just a level 0. His second barrage of attacks only shave less than 60 hp from the wolf.

The only thing the wolf can do is howl from the pain that his enemy gave him, but after jumping once again, the wolf managed to create some distance and saw who attacked him. The wolf become enraged when he saw that a mere human did a sneak attack him. The fear he's feeling vanished and it then charge forward to Sien direction to attempt to attack the mere human who cause him some pain.

Sien whose still chasing the wolf only smile when he saw that the wolf charges on his direction with enraged expression. The effect of his trait is still active halving it's basic attributes at the same time shaving it's hp by 0.1% every seconds, with his decades of experience from this game even if the fear has been nullified, he can just evade the wolf's attacks if he wants to, so there's no way this wolf can kill him.

But Sien wouldn't just do that, he already wasted time going here, he can't afford to waste more or he will be left behind.

The clash between Sien and the wolf didn't last long, it only took Sien less than 2 minutes to kill the wolf, he didn't even receive a single point of damage.

*Ding*

〈You have received 16 experience points by killing the level 1 Forest Wolf.〉

「The exp gain still so little as ever?.」

One of the reason why it was so hard to level up at the beginning of the game is that because other than the strength of the monster, the exp given after a monster kill were so little. The exp cap of level 0 is 1,000 points, the 16 points that Sien received from the wolf wasn't even 1% of his exp cap. That's why it would take several hours to level up, it would even take days if you're a high level players because every level up the exp cap doubled.

Sien took the item drops by killing the wolf and put it on his storage bag, it's only some potion, and copper coins. This kind of drops isn't really something to be proud of.

After that, every time Sien saw a Forest Wolf, he would strategically attack it, one of the reason he chose this place to grind is that the wolf here wander the whole place all by themselves, they don't wander as a pack like the other monsters, they're a somewhat a prideful kind of race who refuse to work with each others. In the state of Sien right now, a single level 1 monster is enough to keep him busy, a fight of 1 against 2 isn't really possible for him at the moment. So this is for the best.

Sien would always use the combination of <Demon King's Presence> and his <Sword Slash> and also with his experience, the time killing the wolf getting reduce as the time goes by as he's getting used to his new body and trait.

More than 2 hours wandering and killing wolfs in the forest, Sien already reach level 1 receiving an increasing on all of his basic attributes by 1 and 5 free attribute points. He add 2 points to strength, 1 point each to agility and dextery and 1 point for intelligence, as his special trait was a magic type even though he's a swordsman he needs to increase his intelligence little by little for better effects of his own trait. Also he can't increase his Demon Power stats with free attribute points, only by devouring the soul of an npc or a player would it increase.

Name: Sin

Level: 1

Class: Swordsman

Bloodrace: Human

Title: None

Special Trait: Demon King's Heart

Free Attribute Points: 00

Physical Damage: 32

Physical Armor: 18

Magic Damage: 30

Magic Armor: 18

HP: 110

MP: 288

SP: 110

Strength: 16

Endurance: 12

Vitality: 11

Intelligence: 10

Agility: 14

Dexterity: 13

Demon Power: 10

Sien nodded when he saw his own stats, and continued his endeavour to the deepest part of the forest where stronger wolves wander. This time his targets are level 2 wolves instead of level 1. He's already getting used to his body so increasing the difficulty by a little would be better.

After walking for a few minutes, Sien wander quite far away now from where he first entered. In front of him is a huge cave that looks like a nasty monster lives. White web can be seen sticking at the entrance of the cave. When Sien saw the cave a smile appeared on his face as he walk inside of the cave.

〈You have entered the den of White Fang Spiders.〉

The second reason why Sien came to the dark forest is that, to increase his level here, the second reason is that to find this cave, a special monster reside here after all. Although Sien plan to increase his level to level 2 first but now that he's already here, he would just increase his level inside.

The owner or more like a boss monster of this cave is a level 3 Spider Warrior with the rest are level 2 Spider Minions. The size of the cave is huge enough for a 5 people to fight inside without care about the wall touching their back, the ceiling's also tall with the size of almost 10 meters.

As for the sizes of spiders here, they only reach up to 1 meter, but it doesn't mean that they weren't deadly, in exchange for their size and defense, their agility were 2.5 times that of the wolves outside and their physical damage also increase, not just that but they're too adept on launching a sneak attack on their target.

The moment Sien walked inside of the cave, three spider minions started to move to his location without any bit of sound so that to not alert their prey.

「Only three huh?. Well, that's perfect to test myself.」

Sien who saw the movement of the spiders pretends that he still haven't seen them crawling to the ceiling of the cave. With the effect of the <Demon King's Eyes>, he doesn't have a hard time seeing the spiders slowly crawling to his direction. When the spider minions were only 3 meters away, Sien activate his <Demon King's Presence> instantly halving the spiders basic stats and also reducing their speed. For him who can see in the dark like bright day light, sneak attack of this kind is useless.

Sien decided to face multiple monsters now, earlier when he first  started hunting the wolves, he's been adjusting to his new body, although his body now is young, he's much more adept on using the body of a 45 years old man. But after 2 hour of fighting, he feels that he's now getting used to his new body little by little every time he fight monsters, so he decided to fight three monster now.

The spiders who suddenly felt the weight of their body increase slowed down but they shrugged it off like it's nothing and keep moving. Although their stats halve now, they didn't enter the [Fear State], for Sien who experience so many things inside of the game, he doesn't find it odd why the spiders didn't entered the [Fear State] at all, he only thought of it as normal as monsters have some hidden abilities not known by the players, so it doesn't really matter.

When Sien saw that the spiders were about to attack him, he held his sword and give each of the spiders a sword slashes on their back.

SCHREEEEEE

The three spider screech as they received great damage due to being hit on their vital point. Now that their sneak attack failed, their subsequent attacks wouldn't deal damage compared to their supposed sneack attack.

Sien who saw the pained spiders continue his attacks, the spiders who also saw that their being attacked again didn't just stand and aslo tried to counterattack but ultimately failed against the fierce attacks of Sien, the only thing they could do is nothing but defend and die after.

Sien who just finished killing the spiders wore a satisfied look on his face, he feels that his getting more and more better at controlling his movements.

He then continue forward, after the first exchange with the spiders, Sien took the following battle with ease as he keep walking through the deepest part of the cave.

After several hours of killing spree from the spiders, thanks to them Sien is now level 2 and he only need at least 40% of exp to level up again. Killing the three first spider took him more than 5 minutes but now, he can end the battle in a minute. He also got one bronze treasure chest on his way.

Sien then arrived in the lair of the Spider Warrior, he unknowingly spent more than 3 hours inside of this cave now. When he look arround he saw the Spider Warrior sleeping at its nest, he tried to appraise the stats of the Boss, but he was dumbstruck when he saw it.

Spider Warrior [Boss of the Cave] - (Special Monster)

Level 3

HP: 3,500

「What the-.... Why the hell it has a 3,500 HP?.」

Sien can't help but curse in a low voice afraid that he might accidentally awaken the Spider Warrior.