[New Quest has arrived.]
Defeat all incoming beasts and grimlores.
"When did the game start adding penalties to quests. Moreover, I didn't even have a choice." Ethan lamented as he manifested his lexicon and readied his sheathed lightning sword as he heard the rumbling footsteps of approaching beasts.
"Stormsense"
[Stormsense has pinpointed twenty enemies.]
Immediately Ethan got ready and dashed towards the incoming beasts. In split seconds, he was already in the middle of the beasts and grimlores massacring them from inside out. A textman that had tried attacking Ethan from behind got it head chopped off in seconds. "Yes. This is how stronger I actually want to become even more than this." Ethan said more hyped up than up before. Ethan's speed in addition to that of the Phantom pace had made him invisible to the grimlores and in a few seconds he had finished off all twenty grimlores, textmen and goblins.
[You have defeated Grimlores.]
[You have gained 1500 experience points.]
[Five enemies pinpointed.]
It was Ethan's strongest enemies yet; the shadowmaws. And there were five of them staring angrily at him. "Come! Let me see how stronger I have I actually gotten!" Ethan bellowed as he got behind the five shadowmaws in microseconds. Before the shadowmaws could even react to Ethan's movement, a head had already been sent flying. "Good time to really practice." Ethan started moving in a disordered manner which confused the shadowmaws but they also had their ways to confuse Ethan also.
The shadowmaws started moving around using the small shadows of the dead beasts and grimlores which made Ethan sense them vaguely. "If so, sheath surge…" Ethan plunged the sheathed sword into the ground, releasing a huge amount of lightning into which made the shadowmaws unable to move through the shadows any longer. "That's more like it." Ethan said and as he stopped moving and attacked only one shadowmaw ripping it from its mouth to tail.
[You have defeated shadowmaw.]
[You have gained 1500 experience points.]
Ethan continued taking off the head of the shadowmaws one by one till it was left with only one. But when Ethan turned to look for the last one it was feeding on the body of the other dead grimlores as it started growing in size and strength. "Damn it!" Ethan used the Phantom pace to get behind it but before he could strike the shadowmaw disappeared. "What?" Ethan got confused as he looked around to find the shadowmaw. He then closed his eyes to make the Stormsense more effective but before the Stormsense could fully sense the grimlore. Ethan felt a sharp pain on his arm as he started feeling dizzy.
[Dragon's beastly recovery has removed all effects of invisible shadowmaw's lethal claw.]
The shadowmaw now approached Ethan from the back slowly still invisible but now Ethan could also fully sense the presence of it. Immediately, Ethan turned quickly and drew out his Eclipsing Fang which he threw at the shadowmaw's head. The movement Ethan used was to quick for the shadowmaw to react as the Eclipsing Fang pierced through it head killing it instantly.
[You have defeated shadowmaw.]
[You have gained 1500 experience points.]
[You have leveled up.]
[You have leveled up.]
"Well, that was a good training session." Ethan said as he drew out the Eclipsing Fang from the dead grimlores' head.
[A new quest has arrived.]
Defeat enemies trespassing the dungeon and send them back to the assassin's tower.
"How are people able to..." Ethan stopped before he could complete his sentence after remembering what Shawn had told him, "The game is linked with the real world."
It had been more than three days since Ethan entered this world and this was his first quest connected to outsiders. "Here we go again." Ethan said as he stood up from the ground to find the trespassers. For the days he'd been in the dungeon, he'd continuously fought and fought against beasts and Grimlores without rest and was also leveling up really well.
Ping!
[A-class Shadowspawn (Grim mice)]
[Category :Beast]
About a hundred mouse-looking beast stared at Ethan when he'd made a curve in the dungeon still in pursuit of the trespassers. He was left in daze after seeing their numbers. Just then all the grim mice started racing towards him with intent which he didn't know. He dashed forward and leaped over them. Whiles mid-air his lexicon manifested and he manifested both the sheathed lightning sword and the Eclipsing Fang.
With a slash from the sheathed lightning sword and arc of energy wih the essence of lightning in it was sent towards the grim mice dealing a great damage to them. The remaining got enraged and anything they walked over was reduced to dust.
"So this is what they can actually do."
Ethan started running backwards not wanting to be touched by the mice. While running he still reduced their numbers by slashing at them and sending arcs of energy into their mist. He'd tried slashing with the Eclipsing Fang only but failed as no energy arc came out of it. "Is there a problem with the energy absorber?" He'd questioned himself and continued his slashing with the sheathed lightning sword instead.
A few minutes later, Ethan was able to deal with all the grim mice but he was still concerned about the Eclipsing Fang. Deep down he felt something wanting to be released but didn't know the exact thing. Now, he could use the Eclipsing Fang for only physical attack without energy.
[You have defeated Grim mice.]
[You have gained 2500 experience points.]
[You have been rewarded + 2 points to dexterity.]
"I'll have to get to the swordsmith to checkup on the absorber." Ethan said as he contnued on his pursuit.
[ F-class Runeclaw (Fureas)]
[Category: Grimlore]
Fureas were very hairy humanoid beings with no specific powers. They were one of the mythical beings who'd been forgotten in stories of history and they hated it when they saw humans try to use their powers like super heroes. The fureas had eyes that looked like it was being pulled out of the it's socket and the tallest of them was atmost 4ft.
"Let's see what you've got." Ethan said using the phantom pace he got behind the fureas but when he attempted to take off it's head with a horizontal slash, it ducked quickly and kicked Ethan's left foot backwards. "Ah, shit!" Ethan yelled as he leaped back and checked his foot that got healed immediately.
"Good to go again." Ethan said and ran towards the fureas holding only the sheathed lightning sword.
"Sheath surge!"
Ethan thrust forward the sword but the fureas immediately leaped back and dashed forward almost immediately towards Ethan. It was so fast that Ethan had to vertically slash down to distract the fureas for a second.
[Lightning string is in use.]
The next second the Eclipsing Fang went right through the back of the fureas making it stop briefly and Ethan finished it off by decapitating instantly.
[You have defeated a Fureas]
[ You have gained 200 experience points.]
***
"Do they think training physically alone made he Great elder's daughter become that strong. We must find some treasures in this dungeon to help ourselves." Goldie, man in a some tattered cloak said to his companion, Regal. "They should continue thinking that way and hope to get stronger, dumbass!" Regal also said.
"Can you hear that? It seems someone got ahead of us." Regal uttered in a low tone as they turned at a corner to see Ethan done fighting with his fight against the fureas.
Immediately when Goldie and Regal saw Ethan and tried turning back Ethan was already behind them. "You're the trespassers, right?" Ethan asked in a cold tone.