11 +11 Labyrinth of Frils
'Labyrinth of Frils' story behind it is related with the path we travelled. The travel route helped us level up , the route was -
Forest of Dilith -> Forest of Kin [Secret Quest of Gildia] -> Labyrinth of Frils
The journey itself wasn't hard if you follow the above route that is. We entered 'Forest of Kin' too early and because of level difference it caused us a lot of problem but we adapted as fast as we could and somehow got through it. Just to be safe we increased our level in Forest of Kin by killing the Mid-Garfon.
The average level of Mid-Garfon's in the forest were 35-45. We trained until we could single-handedly kill level 40+ Mid-Garfon.
And finally crossing the Forest of Kin with our level above 35 , we reached Labyrinth of Frils. It took us 12 days to reach above level 35 for me it was hard , but for beastman Rin it was hell of a challenge.
The Labyrinth was infront of us standing 20m tall , it was below a tree. It took us 4 days to find it , we tried climbing on trees , asking the NPC's nearby but couldn't find a lead. Until on the 4th day we came across it just by chance.
I looked at my status window to check whether the 'Luck' stat was unlocked because of it. It wasn't. I wasn't disappointed as I knew that it couldn't be unlocked that easily.
'Well checking just in case doesn't hurt.'
On our way we had to fight with some Mid-Garfon's so some of our skills were on countdown. Outside the Labyrinth we waited till our skill cooldown was over.
After few minutes we entered Labyrinth , Of course me taking the lead. If Rin was ahead of me he would be stepping on the traps like he was trying to miss the safe steps.
Like a typical Labyrinth traps and some low level monster were waiting for us.
'There must be the boss monster somewhere here too.'
is what I thought. But there wasn't , atleast not on this floor.
After spending 2 hours this is what we found out ,
1. This Labyrinth contained multiple floor's , the entrance was present on the first floor which is our current location. We decided not to go on second floor and fully explored the first floor.
2. While exploring we also found bunch of item's some of them were even B-Ranked item's. Dark Martial gloves was one of the best and only [Upgradeable]B-Rank we found on the first floor. Its was more of a close combat martial arts item so I gave it to Rin.
3. When we defeated all the monsters present on the floor , the door leading to the second floor was opened and that's all we could found in this Labyrinth.
4. This was the most suspicious thing in this Labyrinth we found some corpses of monster while we were exploring the floor. I thought about monster killing each other but that was not possible because there were sword cuts present on their body.
The only answer I could come up with was we were not alone in this Labyrinth. This made me kind of anxious but that didn't last long.
When I found out this was a up-going , multiple-floor Labyrinth my lips curled up. The fact that this was multi-floor didn't entertain me as much the up-going part did.
I was equipped with the 'Low Level Robe' it was a C-Rank and increased my agility by 20 points.
I thought of a plan and was planning on leaving the Labyrinth. As Rin saw me heading towards the exit following right behind me he asked ,
"Yoo , why are heading towards the exit of this Laby. Isn't the second floor door in that direction."
Pointing out his finger in the direction of the door leading to second floor. Oh and while exploring the Labyrinth Rin came up with this Idiotic name to address it.
'Explaining him would be hard anyways , I'll tell him once we are out.'
"I have a plan."
After hearing that Rin followed me quietly out of the Laby- no Labyrinth. That stupid Rin kept blabbering Laby whole time when we were exploring.
At the entry of Labyrinth I told about Rin about my plan. Anyone could come with this kind of plan but executing it would cause them the problem.
But for us I had meathead Rin to smash any obstacles in the path.
"So Rin where is this Labyrinth located?"
"Isn't it obvious below the tree right?"
"Yeah right so tell me if second floor is located in the upwards direction tell me it's location from outside."
Pointing his finger bit above the entrance towards the tree , he got the gist of my plan.
"That's a great f**king plan. Damn I never thought about it."
"You know thinking isn't your strength. Any person would've guessed this."
Rin looked at the gloves on his hands , and a status window appeared before us.
「
Dark Martial Gloves
Rank : B [Upgradeable]
Durability : 300/300
Strength : +80
Stamina : +40
- Fused with Dark Magic it's power has been increased by 'Dark Magician Gildia'. One of the item's she fused her dark magic with during her day's of worshipping Dark Lord.
- Every attack with gloves has 40% chance of dealing additional 30% damage.
- The skill 'Dark Smash' will be created.
- The special skill 'True Black Release' will be created.
• Special skills will be activated only when this weapon is used.
Exp Points : 9273/293740
」
'That's one OP item atleast for a low level players like us.'
The best part was upgradeable and also the worst because it took a lot of grinding to upgrades it's rank. But for B-Rank it was better than my daggers.
Rin charged towards the entrance and jumped with his werewolf like developed legs about 30m high the height of the tree was nearly 60m+ so he had a long way to go.
Right after he jumped I followed him right behind. But instead of jumping like him , I used my daggers to climb up the tree.
「
Skill : Haste
Rank : D
Level : 2
- One of most basic spell. Mages use this spell on there allies to boost there speed.
- Increases your speed by 40% for 5 seconds.
Mana Consumption : 50
Exp : 73%
Cooldown Duration : 3 minutes
」
With all the grinding my 'Haste' was almost level 3. I used a strong rope and tied it to my dagger's handle. Stretching the rope to see whether it was tight enough.
"Haste"
I used 'Haste' on my dagger , the dagger started glowing and purple aura surrounded it. I threw it towards the one of the furthest branch I could see.
The dagger reached the branch I was aiming for. Pulling the dagger down at an angle , it wrapped itself around the branch. I pulled the rope checking the grip on the branch.
'That feels safe.'
I waited for my 'Haste' cooldown to be over and climbed up until I reached on Rin's level. I told him to aim at a certain point by predicting the location of top floor based on the shape of tree.
Rin used 'True Black Release' to power up his skills and used 'Dark Smash' to open a hole in the tree.
But I missed my mark while the skill did create a hole there wasn't anything inside it was just a closed hole.
Rin went near it to check the hole and waved his hand telling me to come there. He pointed his finger towards the bottom of the hole his skill created. The bottom was made up of same kind of material the entrance and first floor's wall was made up of.
This meant that we did find the right location but the depth of the hole and the location of the wall was just a bit south from what I predicted.
After 2 minutes of continuous attack we finally were able to reach the last floor of Labyrinth.
After we stepped on the last floor , a message appeared before us.
「 Congratulations , You're the First Player to reach the Final and Twentieth Floor of Labyrinth of Frils 」
"Huh!? Twentieth Floor?"
While I was still in shock with the message another message appeared on my screen.
「 A Quest has been created 」
×-×-×
At I.G Group HQ , the game management team was surprised as they got the notification of Quest Code #00263AQ activating. A emergency meeting was called.
A group of geniuses who created and managed Infinite gathered together at a round table. The person wearing luxurious black suit with a smirk on his face asked person sitting near ,
"Wasn't this Quest supposed to be triggered 2-3 months later?"
The person who asked the question was 'Rick' the president of I.G. Group and Incharge of 'Project Infinite'. With his dominating voice , everybody thought that he was angry except Vice President 'Jean'.
The person who was asked the question replied ,
"Yes sir , We did created it that way. So that it would be triggered after few months had passed in game and players would've minimum level to clear it."
The smirk on President Rick's face widened he said ,
"I'm not angry so relax you're the one's who have put your hard work in this. So tell me right now who's the player that triggered the quest and which player has minimum level to clear the quest?"
"Sir , The duo of beta tester 'Excess' and 'Rin' there are only 4 people who've cleared the minimum level requirements and the one's who is nearest to them is beta tester 'Yuki'."
"What is her location right now?"
"Sir , right now she's in the same Labyrinth as Excess and Rin."
