Chapter 3: First Floor Of The Dungeon
As for Arnoux, he is in the second layer of body tempering. Looking at the ten people, he thought of sending someone to scout the area first. Although it might be cruel to send someone to an unknown dangerous place, he doesn't have a choice.
Because if he goes there and dies for some unknown reason, the village will become even more endangered, not just from that unknown thing but also from bandits.
"You three, I need you to scout the place first. Can you do that?"
"Yes, sir." The three unfortunate people looked at each other wryly. They know that it's a dangerous task, but they don't have a choice. It's not out of fear for Arnoux; it's because this is their home, and their wives and children are in this village.
Arnoux can only look at them apologetically. Shortly after, the three left. He then looked at the two first layer body tempering individuals.
"Eryx and Nox, I will trouble you two to prepare everything."
"Okay, sir, no problem," Eryx said while saluting.
"No problem," Nox said leisurely, in contrast to Eryx's serious expression.
Looking around, Argon found himself in a forest.
"Huh?" He looked around with a confused expression.
"Ding!" Abruptly, a transparent screen popped up in front of him.
[This is the first floor of Eternal Dungeon, the Wild Forest map. The first one is considered free. In the next one, the host needs to buy it.]
"Wait a minute, system. I thought you ran off, and now you are back. System, do you know what I experienced? I experienced hell!! You know, you should have told me about the world before you left." Argon wanted to cry in misery.
However, the system didn't respond as though it didn't hear his suffering. But instead, a text popped up.
[To buy a creature, the host just needs to open the shop and go to the monster section. Take note, if the creature dies in the hands of an outsider, it will take an hour or longer to respawn. That's why to maintain the dungeon, the more creatures the better.]
Seeing the text, Argon became serious. He didn't care about the system anymore.
He then opened the shop and proceeded to the monster section. There were all kinds of creatures in the shop, including dragons, demons, angels, and many unfamiliar ones. But looking at the prices made him dizzy.
Without any delay, Argon took out all the expensive stuff. What was left were all creatures below one hundred soul coins.
[King Slime
Cultivation: Early stage Opening Qi
Price: 100 soul coins]
[Wind Wolf
Cultivation: Early stage Opening Qi
Price: 100 soul coins]
[Aufhocker
Cultivation: Early stage Opening Qi
Price: 100 soul coins]
There were still a lot of one-hundred soul coin creatures, but unfortunately, he couldn't afford them. He even felt tempted since the Opening Qi was pretty strong.
Earlier, miraculously, the system told him about the power scaling of this world. It started from Body Tempering, Building Base, Opening Qi, Qi Gathering, Golden Core, Core Formation, Soul Strengthening, Soul-Body Converging, Heaven's Gate, and Heavenly Realm.
After some time of rummaging through the system, he finally found something that interested him.
[Goblin Tribe
40 first layer body tempering
30 second layer body tempering
20 third layer body tempering
4 fourth layer body tempering
3 fifth layer body tempering
2 sixth layer body tempering
1 seventh body tempering
Price: 70 soul coins]
[Great Wolf's Den
40 first layer body tempering
30 second layer body tempering
20 third layer body tempering
4 fourth layer body tempering
3 fifth layer body tempering
2 sixth layer body tempering
1 seventh body tempering
Price: 70 soul coins]