Rebuilding Of Civilisation

After around two or three weeks since they left the desert dimension, most zombies and monsters on the streets had been cleared up and the majority of people who had awakened had upgraded their abilities to the second or third stage.

However, most of the abilities were very similar and not really that strong but they could still be used for combat efficiently. Leonidas and Iris' abilities were much better than others as Leonidas had four elemental abilities which were rare to see even one of and Iris had a rare healing ability.

Since coming back into the regular world, Leonidas had become stage six and Iris made it to stage five. This led to Leonidas being able to use all of his elemental abilities at once and the colour had once again become an incredibly deep black and grew in power. Iris' healing ability was stronger than before and she was now able to use her healing ability to strengthen herself and others.

Due to the fact that most monsters and zombies that were out in the open were killed and disposed of, there were a lot of small strong holds and villages set up around dungeons. They had been cleared through, but more seemed to be appearing by the day and they were getting more and more dangerous with more floors than all of the ones before it.

The current largest one that the pair new about was in the city centre and although they had not yet gone and seen it yet, they had heard from other people that it was currently known to have thirty floors but no one had gone any further than that yet. Although the desert dungeon had worked differently to the ones in the normal world as every single floor increased the rank of the monsters in the desert world dungeon. However, the monsters would become stronger after multiple levels depending on the dungeon in the normal dimension which meant they were easier. The dungeon in the city centre only had monsters going up to stage four even on floor thirty. To other people this was terrifying, but to Leonidas and Iris they were more scared of a thirty floor dungeon in the desert world and how strong those monsters would be.

They had spent their time going to places and clearing out dungeons with ease and had met a few people along the way who were good but also a small amount that were bad. Of course they had killed the bad people and helped out the good ones and this led to them having a good reputation among the strong holds.

Recently, when killing monsters and zombies, people had started noticing that along with evolutionary materials being gained when killing a monster, they also gave weapons and armour very rarely.

The equipment had ranks just like the monsters and when they did drop, it was always the same rank as the monster it came from. This meant that getting a high rank weapon or armour was harder as you would need to kill a lot of more dangerous monsters to get one as they dropped very infrequently and finding and killing high rank monsters was almost impossible at this time. Most people with weapons and armour got them from killing low rank monsters and therefore got low rank equipment.

The weapons were useful for people who had abilities that were not suited for combat and also those who were able to fight as it made them even stronger. They were useless for the people who had abilities to summon weapons though, as they would get stronger the more they evolved and were indestructible but the weapons that could be acquired from killing monsters would stay the same rank and could break. The higher the rank of the weapon, the more dangerous and durable it would be. The weapons that could be gained ranged from a knife to bow and arrow and there was no guarantee of what you would get. The weapons would be made of different materials and have different designs based off of the monsters that they came from.

The armour that could be gained was useful for everyone as the types it came in were adaptable for the users body and could be heavy armour or light armour. They all had different properties and different uses with some helping evasion, some ranged attacks, some close range and all of them were useful. Not only were there chest armours, but also equipment for the rest of the body as well.

Leonidas needed armour for every part that was not his chest, but he could also get stronger chest armour than the one from the Ant Queen that he was wearing right now. This would mean he would not need to take as much care protecting himself in fights and could be more aggressive in battle. If he got some for Iris as well then he would not have to protect her in battle and could be more efficient in farming evolutionary materials.

He also wanted to get a proper weapon instead of just making new ones out of his elemental abilities every time he had a fight as it was inefficient to make and use in a heated fight. He would need to go through multiple weapon drops to get a useful weapon that suited him, as although he was extremely proficient with every weapon imaginable, he had some that he preferred over others. He could also try and get a new staff for Iris or a weapon to make sure she could protect herself.

"The next place we are going to is the city centre. We are going to clear the dungeon and get the highest rank gear we can possibly get for the both of us."

"Sounds good to me, but how far is the city centre from here?"

"It is not very far, we can get there in about forty five minutes if we run quickly enough. Time to get some equipment and get stronger."