NOVEL NEXT Chapter 43: Trails of The Successor - Stage 1... (1)
Name of the dungeon startled me. Sensing my hesitation the dungeon exploration team of 9 skeletons stood just outside the dungeon waiting for my approval to enter.
Getting the ring of retribution was a big shock to me and now the dungeon that claimed itself to be the trail for the successor and it wanted Blane's successor to take on the trail. Something looked fishy here.
I didn't want my dungeon exploration team to go into some shady dungeon and loose their lives. Not that they really were alive but I was somewhat attached to my skeletons. They helped me get stronger in such short amount of time.
Loosing them now would a huge loss. Even though creating more skeletons was not a hard job it was time consuming and the dungeon exploration experience as well as the battle experiene of these skeletons would be impossible to replicate.
Contemplating all the possible outcomes, going into this dungeon seemed foolish. Ordering my subordinates to go into some shady place that may lead to their death was not something I would ever be willing to do.
I ordered the dungeon exploration team back to prepare them for next dungeon shown in the map. There were many dungeons appearing now. It felt like this world was sensing the wishes of its inhabitant to get stronger giving births to so many dungeon in this short amount of time.
Even completing one dungeon could give a huge power boost to someone. And these dungeons could be swiftly conquered if all of the skeletons I had could be utilized properly and it would provide me a lot of benefits. So not exploring and leaving this dungeon be would not affect my conquest of getting stronger.
DUNGEON - TRAIL OF THE SUCCESSOR WILL DISAPPEAR IN T - 10 SECONDS...
DO YOU WANT TO ENTER IT ?
Y / N
Suddenly the mechanical voice rang into my ears once again. The mechanical voice wanted me to choose between entering the dungeon and letting it diasappear.
This solidified my conviction and I even harshly rejected the idea of going into the dungeon. I remained silent as the countdown was still going on and the dungeon would naturally disappear in 5 seconds.
Suddenly an eerie red light started flashing from the ring of retribution. The light intensified and with its intensification my consciousness started to blurr. It felt like I was experiencing a blackout.
I resisted it with all of my might but was unsuccessful and finally lost my consciousness after a hard battle with the unknown force.
DING ... DING ... DING ...
ENTRY TO THE TRAIL - SUCCESSFUL ....
TIME TO EXPLORE - UNLIMITED ...
GROWTH POTENTIAL - SUPREME ....
As I regained my consciousness, I found myself in a damp cave with water dripping over my head surrounded by all of my 11 skeletons. All of my skeletons were looking at me with their hollow eyes but I could sense some confusion in those eyes even though the feeling might just be in my head. Annoyed by all this and still drizzy, I started scouting my surrounding. Above me stage 1 was written which felt like a natural formation rather than anything artificial.
The place I had teleported to was like a platform and below it a hollowing sound was constantly coming from below. I looked below and saw a dark abyss with countless red lights glowing fiercly. After carefully looking down, I was shocked to see an army of skeletons directly looking at my direction ready to pounce at me at anytime.
I had been unwilling teleported into the dungeon forcefully. I had a bad feeling about this dungeon from the begining and wanted to stay away from it but got dragged into it.
Even though I got dragged into the dungeon, I will never allow the ring to get what it wanted. It wanted me to fight but I will get a way to bypass these stages without fighting at all.
I started looking for ways to get out of the dungeon. I scrutinized every part of the dungeon but still could not find anything at all.
After sometime I sensed some type of low growl coming from the other side of the abyss. A spark of confidence and perseverance grew in my heart.
I tried mapping a path to get to the other side safely and enter the cave like entrance but my heart sank into the abyss of despair as there was no way of bypassing the army below and getting to the other side.
CLEAR STAGE ONE TO GET A ONE TIME PASS TO STAGE TWO ....
TIME LEFT TO BEAT THIS STAGE - 4 DAYS....
Adding salt to my injuries, mechanical voice resounded in my ears again and this time it felt like it was as unpleasant as the first time I heard it. All the familiarity I had with this mechanical voice went down the drain as soon as I heard it.
FASTEST TIME TO BEAT THIS STAGE - 1 DAY 17 HOURS 38 MINS.....
RECORD HOLDER - 1ST SUCCESSOR
5 ATTRIBUTE POINTS AND 5 SKILL POINTS WILL BE GIVEN TO PLAYER FOR COMPLETING THIS STAGE....
As I was contempleting about how my relation with the mechanical voice was over and I will never see it in a good light ever again, it rang in my head once more.
Viktor Blane had someone before me as a successor ?? I was puzzled but feeling of being puzzeled was overwhelmed by the information it gave me. 5 attribute points as well as 5 skill points. It would give me a astronomical power boost along with the experince I would gain from killing all these skeletons and leveling up.
THE PLAYER WILL BE REWARDED 10 EXTRA ATTRIBUTE POINTS AND SKILL POINTS INCASE OF BEATING THE SET RECORD....
I thought the mechanical voice was in love with me or what. Just as I was thinking about cutting all ties with it, it gave me surprises in installments.
It made me want to hug the mechanical voice with all my might and kiss its cheeks until only the bones were left. But I could only contain my happiness giving flying kisses in the air.
My skeleton mini army beside me puzzeled by sudden the mood swings of their master seemed baffled but I thought it was just in my imagination and ignored them.
I initiated a plan for conquering this stage before the set record and gain 15 attribute points and 15 skill points. This gain would amount to levelling up more than 7 times in a row.
As one said before " knowing our own strength comes before knowing our enemies strength " . Looking at the abyss below there certainly was more than 1000 skeletons.
Confidence in oneself is good but when over confidence hits you and bring you to ground we never know. The trust I had on my skeletons was my confidence but they are enough to conquer this stage would surely be my downfall.
I needed to get as much boost I could and swiftly clear this stage. I knew saving my skill points would bring me some return.
This is the time to shine my skill points.
" Skill points I choose you "
I shouted with all my might and opened skills slot....