NOVEL NEXT B1 | Chapter 48 - A New Era
Tutorial Block #1
Moments ago
A loud explosion echoes out of the throne room as Lucas is sent back several meters, smoke rising from his destroyed inferior sword. But he just throws the sword away, the weapon clattering against the ground in the throne room now empty of hobgoblins with just himself and the goblin king remaining as he narrows his eyes on the king.
The king on the other hand repeatedly looks around at the dead hobgoblins scattered across the throne room with fear as he holds his chipped golden staff in his hands, both of his legs barely managing to hold his own weight thanks to the black burns with shadows dancing across the burns coating them.
Lucas grits his teeth before briefly checking his status, finding his health to be down to about twenty-five percent, with his mana almost empty.
But it’s enough to use another Shadowflame Incendiary on it, the ball of black shadowy flames appearing above his hand before he sprints towards the king, startling it into rushing to bring up its staff. And right when it does so, he throws the ball down towards its feet, making its eyes widen in fear, the ball completely enveloping its legs and burning them.
The goblin king lets out a pained scream, but Lucas simply ignores it as he slows down and begins moving rather sluggishly over towards the king, forcing his wounded leg to move while wincing a little at the pain it had undergone in his short sprint.
I hate goblins.
With that thought in mind, he reaches out and uses his Shadow Blade skill, creating a dagger out of shadows before crossing the last few steps to the goblin king and bringing the dagger straight down towards its chest. But the moment it’s about to hit, a bright golden light shines from the goblin’s staff, blinding him for a moment and pushing his attack off course to strike in between the goblin’s arm and chest instead.
I really hate goblins.
The goblin king panics, not really able to do anything to fight back beyond merely delaying its inevitable demise. But right when Lucas raises his dagger to attack again, a System Notification appears in his vision, giving him pause.
Legendary Feat – The First Clear
Alexia Knight has cleared the first dungeon in the System Reset and in the dimension!
He raises his head to look at the ceiling of the throne room before slowly swearing, “Are you fucking kidding me?”
Then after a few seconds pass he glares at the goblin king beneath him, steps on the creature’s stomach, and impales it through the heart like he was gonna do earlier before it interrupted.
The fucking bastard of a goblin made me lose out on the Legendary Feat with that lightshow.
Tutorial Block #2
Aurora briefly pauses in her shooting when she sees the Legendary Feat System Notification playing out before she grits her teeth for a moment and then continues shooting arrows at the kobolds on the platform. But now she is beginning to slow down, no longer rushing to finish quickly.
Kind of surprised it wasn’t the Hound to complete their dungeon first, but I guess she had to be strong to have more points than he has.
After that thought, Aurora returns all of her focus to the battle at hand.
All around the Tutorial in the various Dungeons
In an undead filled hall, Leif Eriksson, the former King of Arcadia and current number three user on the leaderboards, briefly pauses in his casual walk through the higher level undead in the hall at the sight of the notification. Then he continues walking again after that as if the notification hadn’t appeared, the man having already expected that he wouldn’t be the first to clear his dungeon.
Under the dark sky filled with thunder and lightning, a dragon shapeshifted into her humanoid form with two large red wings on her back and red eyes going by the name of Isabella d'Aragon, the current number five user on the leaderboards and former empress of the Scarlet Empire, briefly pauses in her run towards the massive palace sitting on a neighboring mountain. And after briefly blinking in surprise and confusion at the notification, she continues running, deciding that the affairs of non-dragons don’t matter to her.
Inside of a temple beneath the surface of a deep sea filled with aquatic monsters, a kraken shapeshifted into human form with glowing blue eyes and wavy blue hair often called by the name Alexander Frost, freezes in place, the water around him going turbulent with his unhidden emotions at the sight of the notification. But he manages to retain his emotions again a moment later, choosing to focus on his own dungeon rather than what could have been as he proceeds deeper into the boss area that is the Underwater Temple. Since if he can’t make it out of the dungeon, the current rank seventh on the leaderboards will never be able to rebuild his precious Atlantis.
With a full moon hanging in the sky far above a dark forest, Damien Black, the vampire with white hair and glowing red eyes leading the League of Ascendants and current rank number ten on the leaderboards, loses all control of his sanity out of anger for a period lasting ten entire minutes at the sight of the notification. An anger stemming from his insatiable desire for greater power. A desire that led him to leading his League of Ascendants in capturing the System’s Creator in the first place.
In a frozen wasteland filled with nothing but undead abominations and wendigos, a ghoul with pitch black orbs for eyes and pale skin just sighs at the sight of the notification before continuing to walk through the frozen wasteland. Because all the sixth ranked user on the leaderboards and emperor of the Fallen Empire desires is peace for both himself and his nation without any care for struggles beyond that.
Nathan Briar sits on top of his summoned granite lizard as the monster carries him across the stony plains, the Wandering Summoner not paying much if any attention to his surroundings and instead letting his other summons deal with the weaker threats and scouting around him. Meanwhile he just stares at the notification in a vague attempt at deciding whether it is good news or bad. But in the end, the ninth ranked user on the leaderboards decides that he can figure out how he feels about the news when he eventually meets with the mystery girl topping the leaderboards.
And at the darkest pits of a seemingly sunless dungeon, beneath the trees and surrounded by naught but darkness, Noah Kowalski, the only member of the top ten aside from Alexia Knight who was not an Ascendant prior to the Reset, holds his head high with pride. Pride at the knowledge that the new dimension won’t just be a repeat of the old. That the number one user at the top of it all is just like him.
Thus begins a new era. One filled with hope for the formerly weak. Fear for the formerly powerful. And opportunity for all.
An era of the System Reset.