Chapter 9

The dungeon gate closes tomorrow, Ruben is now surrounded by hundreds upon hundreds of Giant Cave Spiders.

{Giant Cave Spider killed, 600 exp gained}

{Giant Cave Spider killed, 600 exp gained}

He couldn't see any low level spiders in sight.

Most of the spiders were high level soldier spiders and the remaining few being mid level spiders.

{Giant Cave Spider killed, 400 exp gained}

Ruben has been fighting non stop for the past 3 hours since he suddenly got surrounded on all sides.

I couldn't keep count of how many spiders he had killed.

{Giant Cave Spider killed, 600 exp gained}

....

....

The system notification kept ringing in his ears.

Having enough of it he finally ordered, 'System, silent the notification and add them all up later'

{Yes Host}

Seeing past the consellations' chat and notification foalting in front of his eyes, he ignored them completely.

Being in his fighting zone, his mind completely calm and quiet.

His actions however, were brutal.

Ruben was slashing at the spider's around him skilfully and dodging on comming attacks while attacking another on the side.

Jumping over the spider and stabbing one on the back, he slide over another slashed the bottom of its body, the endless pattern continued.

He fought with a calm gaze, focusing on just killing.

Forgetting he could die if he ever made a slight mistake.

Losing himself and the time, he dodged, attacked, jumped, slide, blocked, moved and eliminated as many spiders as he could.

As soon as his skills countdown cooled, he immediately activated them.

Using dash, he massacred the spiders at a faster pace.

Faster and faster, his attacks getting more and more precise, and efficient.

He could feel his body slowly breaking down from his limit.

Lost in killing the endless spiders, the system suddenly notified him.

{The dungeon gate will be closing in 5 hours}

'How many hours have I been killing these damn spiders?'

'I should be near the Queen since there are so many strong soldiers here.'

Just as he was on the brink, still massacring the spiders he suddenly heard a loud screech.

{Mind attack has been used on host}

{Host Mind is below 40}

{Host is stunned for 5 minutes}

Knowing that he would die the moment he paused, Ruben activated the teleportation skill immediately after he heard the system inform him of the Mind attack.

'Teleport to the gate's location.'

As soon as the stunned came into effect, he was teleported away from the place.

He immediately saw the light orange glowing gate he remembered passing through.

Knowing he would be unconscious the next few days if he closed his eyes.

He forced his eyes open while stunned.

The gate was right in front of him but he couldn't walk through it.

Waiting 5 minutes for the stunned to lose its effect felt like 5 years.

Focusing on his breathing and keeping his eyes open, he could feel the fatigue hitting him.

Just when he was at his limit, Ruben was finally able to gain control of his body.

{Stunned has lost its effects on host}

He immediately took 3 large steps through the gates.

He was greeted by a lush green forest.

'Finally...'

Confirming that he has returned, he immediately laid on the grass in front of the dungeon and fell asleep.

When Ruben opened his eyes again, he found himself at the same location, sitting up, he could see the dungeon has dissapeared.

Checking himself, to see if he had any serious injuries, he was glad to find that he didn't suffer from any infection or worsening wounds while he was unconscious.

'It must be the poison immunity...'

Having ignored the consellations for a while, he checked the channel.

[The Third Lotus Prince is jumping around with tears of joy]

[The Third Lotus Prince say the Marked is alive!]

[The Mistress Of Animals scolds The Third Lotus Prince for cursing the Marked]

[The Third Lotus Prince is pouting]

[The Lord Of The Desert sponsored 5000 Star Coins]

[The Lord Of The Desert has gifted the Marked an Assassin's Blade]

[Shapeshifter Who Loves Pranks claps his hands with a touched expression]

[Shapeshifter Who Loves Pranks say the Marked has shown an excellent performance]

[Shapeshifter Who Loves Pranks has gifted the Marked with a skill]

[Father Of The South say the Marked is worthy of a good gift]

[Father Of The South has gifted the Marked a Demonic Wolf Fang Dagger]

[The Keeper Of The Realm praises the Marked for his tenacity]

[The Keeper Of The Realm sponsored 5000 Stream Coins]

[The Mistress Of Animals sponsored 10,000 Stream Coins]

[Archer Who Shot Down Nine Suns sponsored 5,000 Stream Coins]

[The Third Lotus Prince sponsored 15,000 Stream Coins]

[The other consellations sponsored 5000 Stream Points together]

[Reader Of The Moon is speechless from the Marked performance]

[Reader Of The Moon has gifted a set of 4 Throwing Star Blades]

[Archer Who Shot Down Nine Suns say the Marked was slightly, just slightly as impressive as when he shot the Suns for his wife]

[Archer Who Shot Down Nine Suns has gifted the Marked with a half pill of elixir]

{Host has acquired an Assassin's Blade from a consellation}

{Host has acquired a new skill from a consellation}

{Skill: Memory Alteration, has been acquired}

• Memory Alteration (level 1)

- able to alter the memories of an individual whose Mind points are lower, cooldown: 1 day

{Host has acquired a Demonic Wolf Fang Dagger from a consellation}

{Host has acquired a set of 4 Throwing Star Blades from a consellation}

{Host has acquired a half pill of elixir}

Before Ruben can comprehend the words infront of him, the items gifted from the consellations started appearing one by one on the ground in front of him.

Slightly stunned, he quickly checked and sensed his surroundings. He let out a breath of relief when he found that he was alone.

He then slowly looked through the items and was shocked by the description.

Grinning ear to ear, he read through the items one by one.

• Assassin's Blade

- 270 damage

- stats increased when armed: +3 Agility, +2 Perception

• Demonic Wolf Fang Dagger

- 290 damage

- 600 damage for all canine beings

• Throwing Star Blades (×4)

- 140 damage

- Blades are upon owners intention

• Half Pill of Elixir

- upon consumption, all HP are doubled permanently

Without a thought, Ruben immediately took the pill and swallowed it.

With a huge grinned he smiled at the air in front of him and said, "Thank you everyone! I love all the gifts, thank you for all the Stream Coins as well! I will use them well."

[Lord Of The Desert cough lightly covering his mouth with his fist and his cheeks turning red slightly]

[Shapeshifter Who Loves Pranks asked if his gift was the best]

[Archer Who Shot Down Nine Suns tells Shapeshifter Who Loves Pranks to shut up]

[Archer Who Shot Down Nine Suns say his gift was obviously the best seeing how he ate it immediately with a smug smirk]

[The Mistress Of Animals says the Marked deserved it]

[The Third Lotus Prince says it's just a drop of the amount he has]

[Reader Of The Moon is glad you like his gift]

[The Keeper Of The Realm say these will help the Marked greatly in the future]

[The Keeper Of The Realm is excited to see what the future holds for the Marked]

[Father Of The South nod his head in agreement]

[Father Of The South say he got the Demonic Wolf Fang Dagger a long time ago and could finally find a Marked that is worthy of it]

[Lord Of The Desert nod his head silently]

[Shapeshifter Who Loves Pranks is excited to see more of the Marked in action]

[A few consellations nod in agreement]

Zoning out of the consellations chatting in the channel, he checked his status.

Name: Ruben Hilston

Level: 15 (0/ 3950 exp)

Title: Spider Slayer (equip)

Race: Human

Health: 3400/3400

Stream coins: 85,350

Exp stored: 1,217,800

Stats:-

Strength: 30

Agility: 32

Stamina: 31

Perception: 32

Mind: 30

Stat points: 0

Skills:

Active skills

• Dash (level 8)

- speed is increased 80% times for 8 minutes. Cooldown: 30 minutes

• Stealth (level 7)

- able to stay hide your presence completely for 7 minute, cooldown: 35 minutes

• Critical Hit (level 6)

- able to increase damage by 600%, cooldown: 50 minutes

• Teleportation

- teleport to the location of user's choice as long as the location is in the same world, cooldown: 30 days.

Passive skills

• Observing eyes (level 1)

- Able too see the stats of other mortals and identify objects along with its description.

• Minor Poison Immunity (level 2)

- immune to all non-lethal poison and a few basic lethal poison.

• Accurate Throwing (level 7)

- able to throw objects accurately 80% faster and 4 meters further.

• Lock Picking (level 1)

- increase the speed of picking locks by 20%

• Disguise (level 1)

- able to slightly shift facial bones and change the colour tone of any body hair.

• Slash (level 7)

- damage increase by 70% for attacks caused by blade

• Sharpshooting (level 1)

- able to increase the shooting distance by 10% when using firearm related weapons

• Concealment: Hidden away from prying eyes

- able to hide from the eyes from consellations and other hidden entities upon user's wish

• ??? (Unlocked at Level 50)

- ?

'Damn, I must have killed more than a thousand spiders when I went on rampage. I should have killed close to a thousand of those high level soldier spiders.'

'Hehehe, the consellations also sponsored me alot of Stream Coins while I was fighting non-stop'

'Shapeshifter Who Loves Pranks may sound like an a**hole but he sure gives impressive skills.'

After some consideration, Ruben decided to increase another 5 levels and save his stats for future use.

A lesson he learnt when the Queen stunned him with a mind attack.

Name: Ruben Hilston

Level: 20 (0/6200 exp)

Title: Spider Slayer (equip)

Race: Human

Health: 3600/3600

Stream coins: 85,350

Exp stored: 1,193,750

Stats:-

Strength: 30

Agility: 32

Stamina: 31

Perception: 32

Mind: 30

Stat points: 5

Ruben then stored the gifts from the consellation that was lying on the ground into his space ring.

Lying with his back flat on the ground, he looked at the clear blue sky.

'How peaceful...'