Mana Stone

During this thirty-day period Asherios continued on the first floor of the dungeon, killing several novice adventurers and becoming infamous as the "Messenger of Death" the mayor of the Iron City had not even a moment's rest. The increase in the deaths of adventurers on the first floor and the lack of items being collected from the dungeon for sale had seriously damaged the city's economy, so much so that some people were already blaming the mayor for not being able to set up a group strong enough to eliminate the monster.

The problem was that contrary to what the mayor wanted, he could not just get a strong member of the second floor or lower and have him enter the first floor to eliminate the monster, the dungeon itself would not allow such an act. In fact, once someone reached a certain level, that person would be forced to challenge the floormaster and go downstairs immediately, without the ability to hover on the first floor and massacre weak monsters.

This was a defense mechanism that the gods placed in all the dungeons, ensuring that there would be like no other race to intimidate a weaker one or stop the pursuit of any of the monsters in pursuit of their evolution. The only way to avoid this was if a low-level adventurer could pass the floors with the help of items or other people, having a low enough level to go back to the previous floor at the same time that he had obtained the right to go to a floor lower.

"And as you know Gabriel, besides you the only other adventurer who fit these requirements is missing, in fact, I suspect it was that idiot who died for the minotaur"

The mayor, a fat man with black hair and who would fit completely in the paper of noble donkey and corrupt in a novel looked closely at the adventurer in front of him, recognized like one of the most surprising beginners of the whole city.

Known for the title of "Swift Sword" Gabriel was a 22-year-old man who had red hair like fire and green eyes like grass, wearing gold armor and carrying a one-handed sword at his waist, he was the type of knight in shining armor that many girls would love to get married, in fact, he had already received proposals from several famous ladies in the Iron City, and had refused them all.

"I understand your problems, but there is nothing to gain in killing the Messenger of Death, at least not for me." After hearing the mayor's situation and how he would be idolized by all the adventurers if he killed the monster, the adventurer did not fall into the sweet words of the mayor. He was not a fool, no one in the world would do anything for free, let alone expend energy and take the risk of killing a monster. Not if it did not make him profit.

Realizing that he would not be able to fool the man in front of him to provide his services for free, a unsightly smile came over the mayor's lips before finally pulling a sack from one of the desk drawers and throwing it on the table, causing the content (several red blood-like stones) was spread over the wooden surface of the furniture.

Seeing those stones shining on the desk, a smile played on Gabriel's lips as he nodded to the city's mayor.

"Deal. These mana stones are enough for the problems. " Mana Stones were an item that only fell from monsters from the second floor and and were evaluated considering three different questions: Level, Purity and Element.

Level determined the level of the monster from which the stone had been acquired the stone, monsters from levels 11 to 20 were those who dropped Level 1 stones, while level 21 to level 30 monsters were those who dropped level 2 stones.

Already purity determined how pure the element within a mana stone and the amount of mana of that element the stone had, these factors together made the mana stone vary between six levels, from the bottom up: Low, Common, Superior , High, Rare and Unique

Meanwhile, the elements were as their name indicated the elements present in a stone, being they the four common elements like Fire, Earth, Water, Air, the rare elements like Light, Darkness and Space or unique elements like Lightning, Poison and etc. The fewer elements a single stone had and what those elements, the more expensive the stone became.

And despite the stones that the mayor gave to Gabriel were the easiest to findt in this city, the stones of the Fire element, the fact that they were of a single element increased their value of sale and its usefulness in several levels.

"Tomorrow the messenger of death will send his last message." With a satisfied, confident smile, the adventurer simply took the bag of mana stones and then stood up to walk toward the dungeon, now that he had received his payment it was time to party to the agreement. in this city, the stones of the Fire element, the fact that they were of a single element increased their value of sale and its usefulness in several levels.