Goblin Dungeon

It has already been over an hour since the mother-son pair have become a lot closer in their relationship.

During this time they have done quite a lot of things that made them stronger. They managed to complete Madelyne's slime quest and after that grinded wolves to complete the quest that the mayor gave them raising Calvin's level to 5 and Madelyne to quarter of a way to it.

For their attribute points from leveling up, Calvin put 3 in intelligence, 2 each in agility, strength and endurance and 1 in vitality. As for Madelyne, she focused on her intelligence and added some spare points to the other stats.

It might seem idiotic for a rogue like Calvin to put points in intelligence but he had a motive in doing so. It was to increase his mana and mana control.

It ended up as a good move because he was able to increase his mana control. At first it was a bit hard for him because of the big increase in his mana pool but eventually he managed to do it.

With the help of his increased mana control and the two discussing about mana and the possible ways to use it, they were able to create new skills and learn how to manually use all class skills they obtained from the beginning.

The effects of manually using it is the same as using a created skill in the sense that one could alter its effects and ignore the cooldown at the cost of a small backlash.

The skills Calvin created are Body Enhancement, Axe Throw and Mana Bullet. For Madelyne, she created the same Mana Bullet and Power Shot.

[Body Enhancement]

F-rank

Action-Toggle

Increases all stats related to the physical body by 10%

Cost: 5 mana per second

Cooldown: None

[Axe Throw]

F-rank

Action-Active

Throw the axe and deal 150% damage to the target.

Cost: 7 mana

Cooldown: 10 seconds

The skills are simple and self explanatory just by their name so not much is needed to be said about that.

Meanwhile the effects for Madelyne's skills are simple. It was just a simple bullet made of mana that deals damage based on the intelligence and the power shot deals bonus damage on one arrow shot. Both have low cost and short cooldowns

At first, it was a lot harder for Calvin to learn the skill that involves releasing mana outside the body. In fact, he only learned Mana Bullet from Madelyne who created it herself and thought him how to use it, making him learn how to release mana outside of the body.

After numerous trial and error, they finally learned it and it boosted their prowess to new heights. Especially for Madelyne who has a lot more mana than Calvin. With her two created spells, she can deal much more damage than even Calvin can do.

Aside from skills, the notable improvements they have made during grinding is also their fighting techniques and their stats.

Since they have over exerted their body during the fights, they gained a lot of bonus stats especially for Madelyne who just only started playing the game. In total, Calvin gained 4 in strength and vitality, 3 in endurance and 2 in agility and intelligence while Madelyne got a little over 20 stat points that are also divided among her 5 main stats.

They had also looted quite a lot equipments and many of which are armor that are a lot better than what they were wearing. A total of 6 equipments dropped which are a chest armor, bracers, leg piece, a gloves, a hat, and a dagger.

The stats of the equipments are as follows:

Chest armor: Level 3, 3 Defence, 3 Agility

Bracers: Level 3, 2 Defence, 2 Agility, 1 Strength

Leg guards: Level 4, 3 Defence, 2 Endurance, 1 Vitality

Gloves: Level 4, 2 Defence, 2 Strength, 1 Endurance

Hat: Level 3, 1 Defence, 2 Intelligence, 1 agility

Dagger: Level 3, 5 Attack, 1 Agility, 1 Strength

(A/N: Too lazy to think of names so I just decided to do this instead.)

After a long discussion and with the persuasion of his mom to take most of the equipments since he needs it the most due to him being in a risky position when fighting, Calvin took the bracers, legs, gloves, and the dagger while Madelyne took the other two along with Calvin's old gloves and the dagger that he made.

The reason why Madelyne equipped the hat is the same reason that she needs the intelligence stat more than he did. As for the dagger, this is so that she have a backup weapon incase an enemy might get too close to her. She tied it on her waist so it was easy to draw at any moment.

Looking at their status screen showing how much stronger they got, Calvin and even Madelyne can't help but smile at each other feeling happy and proud.

[Status]

Level: 5 (40/300)

Name: Zeke

Race: Human

Title: None

Class: Rogue

Profession: Blacksmith

Guild: None

Health: 140

Mana: 150

Vit: 14

End: 17

Str: 17

Agi: 22

Int: 15

Luc: 3

Fire res: 1

Defence: 15

Attribute points: 0

Skill Points: 1

Blessings:

[Blessing of ???]

Mastery:

[Sickle Mastery]

[Dagger Mastery]

[Dual Wielding]

[Throwing Mastery]

[Axe Mastery]

Skills:

[Camouflage]

[Lacerate]

[Power Strike ]

[Axe Throw]

[Body Enhancement]

[Mana Bullet]

Currently, the two are in the village walking around trying to find a place to eat. They have been feeling hungry from all the grinding so they decided to rest and eat some food first to replenish their energy.

Since they had a lot of money from grinding, they decided to splurge a bit. They ate from many kinds of food stalls, trying out many different foods and ended up very satisfied at their worth it spending.

After eating, they walked around the village just having a relaxing time being with each other. At the same time they bought some supplies and sold some of the materials they looted gaining even more money.

They also found a store that was selling a staff which they immediately bought for the price of 3 silvers.

[Silver staff - Upper 1st Grade]

Level: 5

Requirements: 15 Intelligence

Attack 2, Magic attack 10, Intelligence 7

Durability: 10/10

With her high Intelligence, Madelyne easily equipped the staff, boosting her stats and damage even further.

Even after spending a lot of money, they still had 3 silvers left which is in Madelyne's pockets. Calvin suggested this since she is very good at handling money just like in real life.

At first, Madelyne didn't want to buy the staff since it was so expensive and only she gets to benefit from it. Of course Calvin insisted since after fighting with her for a long time, he knows how helpful she is during fights.

The times when she stopped the enemies with her attacks and healed him was very helpful in keeping him alive. Though it isn't really dangerous for him to fight alone and he might even win, but it will be slow and risky. But having Madelyne's help greatly boosted their efficiency in grinding which is undoubtedly better.

In the end, Madelyne was convinced by Calvin to buy it but in one condition that they must buy a weapon for him too. Calvin refused though since he's weapon are good enough and he didn't want to buy a weapon. Instead he wanted to buy materials and try to create his own weapon again.

Madelyne didn't refuse him and even encouraged him in his desires. For her, some money that has a chance to be wasted isn't important compared to his happiness.

Calvin smiled seeing her agree to his request since there is a chance for him to waste the materials by making a bad weapon. But for her to agree and even encourage made him grateful for her.

So just like what she requested of him earlier, albeit a little hesistant, he hugged and thanked her.

"Thanks mom. Also... love you." Calvin said feeling a bit embarrassed.

Madelyne chuckled and smiled happily seeing that Calvin started to open up to her as she gratefully accepted the hug. "Anything for you Cal."

The two hugged each other for a few seconds until Calvin let go feeling his face hot due to the people watching them and seeing his reaction made Madelyne giggle to herself.

Now that they were done preparing, the two left the village and headed towards the first ever dungeon that players will experience in the game. The Goblin Dungeon.