Ch 15 : Chicken Dungeon

[ DING!!! A new mission has been issued to the host.]

[ Clear the surrounding dungeon.]

[ As the dungeon master, your strength is still too weak now. Clear the surrounding dungeon to level up and prove your strength as a dungeon master.]

[ Reward: Special skill: Power charge( F-Rank, Evolvable)]

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A new mission tab suddenly appeared in front of Ray and startled him.

Clear the surrounding dungeon? Ray didn't think that there would be any dungeon near his current location. But if the system has said so, then so must be it.

This revelation surely benefitted him a lot, but how was he supposed to find those dungeons that even the government could not find?

[ DING!!! Don't worry, host. The dungeon's location has been marked on the maps. You just need to go near the location, and the system will give you the direction of the dungeon.]

Fiuhh, that solved a lot of trouble.

Now, since he already has his grasp on the locations of the dungeon, the only thing left was...

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Ray was currently standing in front of the dungeon entrance.

The location of this dungeon was rather... peculiar(?)

Whoever thought that there would be a dungeon entrance on the root of a tree. Normally, a dungeon theme would greatly be correlated with where it spawned. Like if it was in Egypt, Mummy theme dungeon was the majority, Knight theme in England, or Samurai in Japan.

' A dungeon under the tree, what a cowardly dungeon. Don't tell me this dungeon theme will be something like cowardly.'

Even so, Ray didn't really care about the theme of the dungeon. He just wanted to quickly solve this dungeon and finish his mission. Everything was fine for him if he could get stronger and protect everyone dear to him.

' Luckily, this is just a low-level dungeon. Okay, let's check one more time.'

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[ Ray Sanjaja ]

[ Lv 8 apprentice Awakener ]

[ Exp: 5730/8000]

[ Energy: 100%]

[ Strength: 20 / Vitality: 14]

[ Agility: 22 / Dexterity: 20]

[ Intelligence: 15 / Sense: 24]

[ Special skill: Danger sense (F-rank, evolvable), Appraisal (E-Rank, evolvable), Contracted beast summon (F-Rank, evolvable), Hawkeye ( F-Rank, evolvable), Camouflage ( F-Ranked, evolvable)]

[ Universal attributes point: 0]

[ Natal weapon: The stone]

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' Yosh, I'm ready now.'

Ray had used every one of his universal attributes point now with his main focus on dexterity. And, of course, this increase wasn't baseless.

He had spent some time thinking about how he should use his natal weapon correctly, and after a night of thought, he had decided to use it as a throwing weapon which accuracy will be based on his dexterity. Thus, he had decided to spend most of his attributes point on dexterity.

After a while, Ray approached the dungeon entrance, and then..

*Swoosh*

Ray's body was sucked by the portal in the dungeon entrance.

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*Swoosh*

A portal suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and Ray came out from it.

"*Sigh* No matter how many times i go through it, I could never dismiss the strange feeling of entering a dungeon portal."

Ray dismissed his thought and looked toward his surrounding.

He could see a big forest along the way, but compared to the giant forest in the other plane, Ray could say that this forest looked a little bit cute.

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[ DING!!! Congratulations for being the first person to discover the chicken dungeon.]

[ Reward: Exp +50% for this dungeon for the first month.]

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" Nice! Now first is...."

" Summon!"

In front of Ray, a small portal appeared, and Freed emerged from it.

" Aoo."

This was Ray's strategy to clear the dungeon. After a few experiments, he gets to know that his summon skill has no summoned duration. Thus, he will summon Freed at the beginning of the dungeon, recover some energy that he used to summon Freed, and then clear the dungeon.

A simple but effective strategy, Ray said.

He waited for about thirty minutes, and after his energy reached 90% they started their dungeon exploration.

" Let's go, Freed, to our first dungeon exploration!"

" Aoo"

A man and a wolf strolled along the forest, searching for monsters to slay.

However, the reality wasn't as nice as they hoped.

They had been strolling the path for more than 2 hours, but they haven't even met any monster.

" Aoooo!"

" Don't be like that, Freed. I'm pretty sure that we will soon meet a monster. Just keep your head straight." Ray tried to encourage Freed.

** 2 Hours later **

" Aoooo!"

" It's okay. We just need to be patient. Everything will come in the right moment."

** Another 2 hours later **

" Aooo!"

" This..."

Ray himself has lost all his confidence in this dungeon. His first dungeon exploration as a proper awakener should be exhilarating, but this was just beyond what he thought.

They were just walking around for about six hours without any clues, and their stomach also started to get hungry.

Ray's confidence was now at an all-time low. He started to consider retreating and postpone this dungeon for later days. However, just when Ray and Freed are now in their worst condition.

[ DING!!! A big horde of monsters are coming in your direction.]

A notification from the system makes Ray sobered up.

He never thought that his first exploration with Freed would be like this. A dungeon that waited for the awakened to become tired and frustrated before attacking silently?

The one that designed this dungeon must surely be a psycho.

Luckily Ray got the system with him. If not, just the surprise attack might be fatal to both of them.

Ray quickly chugged a ration that he had prepared and summoned the Natal weapon: The stone on his hand.

" Be ready, Freed, opponent incoming."

" Aooo!"

From Ray's words, Freed also becomes ready. Aura flared up from him, and even though Freed was still the same wolf-pup, Ray could see the image of the dependable Boss-WOlf on Freed.

Ray used the danger sense, and from his danger sense, Ray could conclude which direction he should focus on first.

*ZING!!!*

" Freed, take the north direction. I'll handle the south."

The enemy's strategies made Ray's spine shiver. A pincer attack on a dungeon was never heard before. Now he was getting more convinced that there was something wrong with this dungeon.