Chapter 62
1st person Pov:
[You have slain a level 12 kobold]
[Monster level is below the user]
[Exp penalty will be applied]
[300 exp gained]
[10 gold gained]
It has been two months since I left the Revstein manor to explore the Kingdom. After traveling for a long time and visiting a few towns and villages, and before visiting the territory of my first target, I wanted to visit this place. A dungeon. A dungeon is a place where creatures called monsters usually reside. There are two types of dungeons. Permanent dungeons and gates. Dungeons are graded with the same ranks as the awakened. From E to SSS. There is no F-rank dungeon as the F-rank awakened are slightly stronger than unawakened people.
At first, I was elated to find so many monsters to kill but after this message showed up about four kills ago, I started cursing with each breadth. When I asked the system what this was happening, it said:
[The exp will be penalized when the level of the target is lower than the level of the user]
[Five levels lower will receive a 50 percent penalty]
[From six to ten levels lower will receive a 25 percent penalty]
[The user will not receive any exp for targets lower than ten levels from the user]
The explanation was logical. It is not much work to kill them either. But it is still frustrating. I am already being restricted by the laws of the universe and now this. The only reason I have not exited this dungeon is because of this:
[A Quest has been generated]
[First E-rank dungeon
Difficulty: E
Task: Clear the dungeon and slay the dungeon boss with a contribution of at least seventy percent or higher. The higher the contribution is, the higher the reward will be.
Reward: ?????
Punishment: Random reduction of stats by 10 points]
The contribution you ask? Well, it's because of my beautiful maid here. Carla did not let me leave the state alone and forcefully assigned some guards to me. No matter how hard I tried, I could not convince her otherwise of her decision. But an unexpected person helped me, and I was allowed to leave without the entourage of guards and only Cynthia accompanied me. I am reluctant to admit it, but Joseph helped me out big time. And since it was Cynthia whose strength with the help of runes was borderline S-class, Carla did not make much of a fuss.
"Cynthia, don't kill any monsters. I will handle this dungeon myself. Only interfere where necessary." I told Cynthia while impaling a kobold with my sword. Kobolds are like mice only bigger and filthier. It's not hard killing them. The only problem is that they are in large numbers which makes it harder to deal with them.
Cynthia looked like she wanted to protest my command but after some hesitation, she kept her words to herself and only nodded. It's good that she is willing to cooperate considering that she has strict orders from Carla regarding my safety. I don't have to worry about other people raking in any contribution since to hide the fact that I can use mana, I had Cynthia rent the whole dungeon for one turn. Until I come out, no one else will be allowed in.
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I killed 50 kobolds. Up to about 20 kobolds, my level was in range but then I reached level 22 and stopped receiving exp for the kobolds. Seldom some kobold was of level 13, and I received some meager exp, but other than that, I am still stuck at level 22. The only good point was that I still received gold for them and along with a few body parts that are automatically sent to my inventory. Monster parts depend on my luck stat and these parts are not from the kobolds that I kill but are given by the system.
Another good point that I discovered was that I could sell these parts to the system shop. All of these parts were of rank E, so they were not sold for much. According to their description, these parts could be used in Alchemy but since I don't know anything about it, I decided to sell all the parts that go to my inventory to the system and increase my gold. There is an item that I want, and it is very expensive. I doubt that I will be able to buy it this turn and might have to visit another dungeon.
No more Kobolds are appearing anymore, so I guess I have to face the Boss monster now. I started walking in the area from where I could sense strong mana waves. The energy coming from that area was the same as Kobolds but only higher than the ones before. After walking for some time, I reached a door that was big enough for ten to fifteen people to pass through.
The door opened by itself when I touched it, and a giant room came into my view. I entered the room and looked to my left where a large mouse-like creature was lying with its eyes closed. The creature was extremely filthy and I, who had seen many things in his life, was feeling chills down my spine. Even Cynthia was visibly disgusted by the filth that the monster was visibly secreting.
[Kobold King Level 18
A creature that likes living in filthy places specifically places where acidic waste is found.
Skills: None
Weakness: Fire, Holy magic
Strong against: Water, Lightning]
Ho…. That's pretty convenient. The system did not show the weaknesses of the earlier monsters. Nor does it show the weaknesses of people. It seems either it only shows the weaknesses of boss monsters or the difference in level is a reason. I will have to look into that.
I am pretty lucky as well. This monster has the weakness of fire. I also have a fire-related skill in my arsenal now.
[Skill: Fireball Level 3
Effect: Creates and shoots a ball of fire on the target of the user. The range and size of the ball are dependent on the mana that is supplied.
Cost: 10 Mp (Size can be increased with Mana)
Range: 5 meters (Range can be increased with Mana)]
This skill cost me two whole Skill points. I constantly kept conjuring it until my mana ran out and because of that, my skill level increased. Just so happened that I wanted to try it out on an enemy and this Kobold is not moving, unlike the other ones.
[Skill Fireball is being used]
This is not enough to hurt this guy. Let's add more mana.
[Additional mana is being supplied]
[Consumed 200 Mp]
[Giant fireball has been temporarily conjured]
The heat radiating from this fireball is massive that even the Kobold has started feeling it seeing that it has started waking up. I threw the ball at it before he completely woke up. He still woke up from the heat but until then it was already too late. It was engulfed by the fireball and started screaming. Its screams were something. But what was something even more else was the damage of the fireball. Even Cynthia is looking at me with astonished eyes. I guess it is not possible to alter the skill.
The Kobold eventually stopped screaming after a few seconds. I'm not expecting much Exp since its level was lower than mine. Fifty percent penalty if I remember correctly.
[Dungeon boss 'Kobold King' has been slain]
[Target level is lower than the user]
[Penalty will be applied]
[900 Exp gained]
[100 gold coins gained]
[Items gained:
Kobold bones: x2
Kobold acid: 1 vial]
[Quest complete]
[Reward: 1000 gold coins]
[User's Luck intervenes]
[Reward has been increased]
[Reward: 1500 gold coins]
[Level up]
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