Chapter 4: Dungeon Run

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[ ] : status and store related sections

<Fireball> :silent activation

<Fireball !!> : voiced activation

*action*

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After arriving at the One Piece world Arthur spent his first ten-day with training his body at the mornings and using nights to practice the mana gathering technique, and for afternoons he explored the edge of the forest using observe the identifying the herbs, fruits anything new he came across.

Although he saw a couple of bunnies and a fox they all ran away the moment they hear his step and he missed the chance the use < observe > on them, but he was able to identify two owls that had a nest nearby his shelter.

On the eleventh day, he bought a blueprint for a simple wooden shack and spent the rest of the day preparing lumber for both the shack and the large wall he planed built around it. On the twelfth day finished his new home in the afternoon and decided to start from the next day on, he will enter Instant Dungeons each day to gain experience and practice his skills.

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Before going into the dungeon Arthur decided to check his Stats for the first time in nearly two weeks.

[ Statu Window ]

Name: Arthur Harris

Race: Human

Level: 1 Title: ( None )

HP: 600/600

MP: 950/950

Strength:19

Stamina:24

Defense:3

Vitality:11

Dexterity:17

Intelligence:18

Wisdom:7

Perception:9

Willpower:3

Luck:1

Soul:1

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Elemental Affinity:

Fire: 5

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Stat Points:0

Store Coins:280

Seeing the results of his training Arthur felt more confident about facing the zombies. He stands up and walked deep into the forest to activate the dungeon.

After finding a nice spot he cast < Instant Dungeon Creation - Zombie Mod>. Space surrounding him loses its color and became grayer, the air became more gloomy and the voices of animals die out.

Arthur used the gamer ability's minimap function to locate zombies in a 300m perimeter. According to the minimap, all the zombies walk with the groups that consist of between 3 to 10 monsters. He chose the smallest group near him as his first preys and start moving towards them.

Before engaging the monsters he cast <Ironflesh> and <Bound Greatsword>. Ironflesh grants him a massive boost in defense which is a part he severely lacks and some bonus in health regeneration and for the Bound Greatsword, its the second most used skill after the mana gathering technique. Both of them are the skills that regularly use and practice with. when he was training the foundation footwork and sword techniques.

After feeling a familiar sensation from the skills Arthur rushed to the nearest zombie and chop its head off with a single swing. Without giving other zombies time to react he cut through the throat of the zombie on his left and finally he dash and bodyslam the final zombie to get it off balance. Once it falls the ground he sent a <Firebullet> to its head and killed the final zombie.

[You killed Level 4 zombie, +20Exp, +1 coins]

[You killed Level 3 zombie, +15Exp, +1 coins]

[You killed Level 3 zombie, +15Exp, +1 coins]

'It's kind of brutal but since zombies can't be stopped by piercing their hearts or any other type of damage to the chest unless completely destroying entire torso, I need either separate the head from the body or smashed to pieces.' Arthur said to himself

'I don't feel bad about the zombies but rushing and killing monsters while only wearing some weird leaf skirt feels really embarrassing. After this dungeon run, I should search for ways to make cloth in store, maybe I can make some leather armor to if I can hunt something big enough in the forest' Arthur mumbled to himself while walking towards the largest group in his minimap that consist of 15 zombies.

Arthur stops 20 meters behind the zombie group and crouches down to strategize how to take them down.

'With Ironflesh, I can possibly ignore their attacks but If they surround me they can pin me down to the ground and with the fifteen of them I would be done for. '

Looking at way zombies grouped Arthur think' Those 5 on the left side İf I use frenzy to make them attack the rest I can use that gap to cast Haste and swiftly take them down.'

[For planning ahead of the battle before engaging it, You gain skill <Art Of War>]

Seeing the notification Arthur smile a little and cast <Haste>. Getting close to the group 5 more meters he cast frenzy to the 5 zombies stand in far-right and get ready fight one again.

Red ball of light hits a zombie on the chest and explodes. The red mist that appears after the explosion surrounds the rest of the zombies around it and enraged zombies attack the rest of the group together.

While the zombies trying bite and clawing each other, Arthur gets close them behind and starts swinging his sword towards their neck. Before the zombies notice him he took down half of the group and dash towards the enraged zombies he cast frenzy on.

When he gets close enough he cast <Flames> on all of them to set them ablaze and create another wave of confusion and chop them down swiftly.

After killing the zombies another set of notification hits off. İgroning them Arthur starts searching for another group of zombies in his mini-map.

"I need to take them down quickly before Ironflesh wears off," said Arthur and run towards the second largest group located on west.