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Pluto was facing a group of skeletons wielding different type of melee weapons.
Thankfully, these skeletons didn't group up together, instead they were separated all around the hall.
As long he was fast enough he could eliminate them one by one, and speed was his advantage.
His first target was a skeleton with a pair of daggers, he probably would be what we call a thief or an assassin in video games.
Pluto charged at the skeleton and slashed him on the chest breaking three of his ribs, but that was nothing to skeleton.
The skeleton ignored his injury and stabbed at Pluto, the latter twisted his body a bit, and the dagger passed between his ribs.
Pluto held the skeleton arm with one hand, then he kicked the skeleton on the knee cap forcing him to knee, afterward his sword cut the skeleton's neck causing the skull to fly, and Pluto kicked like soccer ball.
The skull hit the pillar and cracked open, the flames inside it eye sockets extinguished and his body fell on the ground.
'who's next?'
Pluto looked at the rest of the skeletons, with a burning fighting spirit and excitement. If he had a blood it would be boiling.
For him only the feeling of dancing on blade's edge could making feel alive, he wasn't much affected about being died, his heart had been died long time ago.
...
After a long fight lasting almost 10 minutes, Pluto came victorious out of it.
In the last moments, he had to fight two skeletons in the same time, it was quite tough.
While standing in the middle of bone piles, he checked his [Status]
[Status]
Name: Pluto.
Race: Undead.
Class: Skeleton Soldier.
Title: None.
Level: 4.
EXP: 900/ 2188.
HP: 45/45.
MP: 20/20.
His quest was complete so he was rewarded with 500 EXP plus 50 EXP for each skeleton, a total of 900 EXP, shooting up his level from 0 to 4.
Now, it's times to take a look on [Attribute]
[Attribute]
Greater Attributes:
Strength: 5
Dexterity: 1
Constitution: 1
Intelligence: 1
Free GAP: 4
Lesser Attributes:
Perception: 3
Charm: 0
Charisma: 8
Willpower: 5
Stamina: 4
Free LAP: 8
It turned out that with each level he gets 1GAP and 2LAP, that seemed a lot but leveling up will be getting harder in the future, so he had to be wise about them.
First of all, he is a melee fighter at least for now, so he needs to invest in his Strength, Dexterity and Constitution, but constitution isn't urgent, as long he doesn't get hit.
So, he decided to go with 2 for each of Strength and Dexterity.
As for the Lesser attributes, he put 3 on perception increasing his senses, and the rest on stamina so he won't get tiered in fight.
'everything is done, now it's time for loot.'
He went and picked that golden necklace, that caused him all of this trouble, he put it on his neck, and he noticed an increase in his Intelligence by 3.
'cool, there is items that could increase Attributes.'
Then he thought of something, he took off his silver ring, and immediately noticed a decrease in Dexterity by 2.
'so, this is the reason I'm faster then the rest of the skeletons.'
He also picked a dagger from the second skeleton he killed, Pluto would use it as a secondary weapon.
And finally replaced his worn-out leather armor with a chainmail from another skeleton.
After he was done, it's time to get out of here.
He went to the giant door, held the circular handle, the pulled with all his strength, but it didn't budge an inch.
Pluto searched for a mechanism or something that could open the door.
And after a while, he finally found a brick with a strange symbol, so he pressed it, he could hear a cracking sound behind the wall.
'this mechanism is too simple; the designer should try harder.'
And it opened, but not the door, instead it was the ground beneath him.
'FUUUUCK!!' cursing while falling, that the only thing he could do.
-what an idiot do you think I will make such obvious mechanism for nothing- that what Mr. Designer would have said to Pluto.
After falling for what it seemed an eternity. He could finally see the light, and…
'SPLASH'
He fell in water, he tried to swim, but he is a skeleton, he can't do that.
So, he just let himself fall until he reached a solid ground, he looked around him.
It looked like he was in underground like, it wasn't too deep, around 5m, but if he was a living being, he would definitely die from that free fall.
The moment he reached the lake floor, he felt danger.
A long shadow was approaching him at high speed, in two second it reached in front of him, it was a huge typhon python, it was 10m long and 1m thick.
Because he was in water he could move easily, the typhon opened her mouth and bit his entire chest, then kept dragging him around the lake.
He took the dagger from his waist, and stabbed it directly to python eye, the pain made it release his bite.
Pluto tightened his grip on the dagger, he escaped the python's mouth, and climbed its head.
Clinging on the python through the dagger that was pierced into its eyes, he wielded his sword using his free hand, and stabbed into the other eye.
The sword was longer than the dagger, it directly reached the python's brain.
After twitching a bit, it stopped completely.
'damn, I so unlucky today.'
Pluto walked out the like drenched in water, he stood on the lake edge, and observed the surrounding.
this place was a huge underground cavern, illuminated by a large glowing crystal stuck on the ceiling.
There were three tunnels leading out of the cavern, Pluto didn't leave directly. He needs a rest.
He noticed his HP has dropped to 11, because of his fight with the python.
If he heedlessly kept moving and met another monster, it would game over for him.
But, it wasn't that bad the python gave him 200 EXP.
After resting for an hour his HP was full, he was ready to go, he picked a random tunnel, hopefully it wasn't wrong choice.