Lich Mathias

I definitely think I'm richest person in game right now whooping 7 gold and 3 copper coins, although a month from now that won't be such a big sum of money currently it's not something other players can imagine having.

Back to the reality, I will just ignore everything for now because I have to focus on my second part of the starting goal. I summoned my black wolf cub and notification popped in front of me.

[Do you wish to name your pet?]

"System is it male or female?" I ask just to be sure.

[Male.]

"Okay then, I will name you Styx, you are so black you remind me of stygian river from mythology."

[Your pet will be names "Styx", do you wish to confirm?]

"Confirm." I crouched down and petted its head and it cutely licked my palm with its eyes closed, looks like this little guy is quite fond of me.

I continued searching around the forest while little guy followed clumsily behind me, although it didn't know what I was doing it seems that it noticed that I was sneaking so it did its best and kept quiet.

Finally after a long hour of searching I stumbled upon what seemed a small graveyard in the middle of clearing of a forest. I don't have a slightest clue where am I, luckily for me map function memorized and mapped out revealed parts which I already visited so I could somehow find my way back to the beginner village.

Once I stepped out of the shade of the forest atmosphere around me changed into something gloomy and quiet, I could hear clattering sound further in front of me while slow, quiet and somewhat depressing musing started in the background. Yea, this is definitely a graveyard. I can imagine my friends clapping slowly in my mind with their face showing "What a genius". I'm lucky no one can hear my thoughts because I would be so embarrassed right now, but I noticed my little puppy was watching me oddly, must be my imagination…

As I neared the graveyard I could see couple of skeletons roaming around, they don't seem to notice me yet so I picked up nearby pebble and threw it at one of them.

Bang

Bull's-eye, right in the center of that cracked skull of its, it turned its head and headed toward my direction. I waited for it crouching behind a gravestone that was big enough to hide me, once it approached me I made a sweep with my leg and knocked it down, I hurriedly jumped and stomped on it destroying its head.

"That seemed quite easy." But soon I came to regret my words as rest of the skeletons rushed at me suddenly.

"I have unlocked luck stat, but why do I seem so unlucky." I mumble to myself and run toward the crowd, I did the same motion of leg sweeping I did earlier and knock down two skeletons, I didn't stop there and I continued my spin and added a jump to it and did a spin kick and knocked a head of one skeleton like a football and shot it straight at the skeleton to its right cracking two heads at once.

"Is this what they call two birds one stone?" Okay my jokes suck, sue me if you can.

After my inner monologue I continued bashing and smashing skeletons until two minutes later I cleared up everything.

[+252 EXP]

[Level Up!]

[+1 Skill Point]

There was total of 12 skeletons if you add the first one I ambushed that gives me 21 EXP per skeleton, quite an easy farm I'd say. I'm level 3 right now but there is no change in my stats.

I stood in the middle of the pile of bones and commanded "Auto-loot" to the system and got quite a surprise.

[+2 Low grade Rubies, +1 Low grade Emerald, +22 Sharp Bones, +4 Leather armor scrap, + 24 Copper]

I didn't expect those gems at all; could this be considered grave robing? I chuckle to myself but I notice my puppy is still watching me oddly. How weird, now that I think of it my pet should have leveled up with me now, there was plenty of EXP just now and he gets a portion of it for just being nearby, I check its stats and what I see shocks me.

[Name: Styx]

[STR: 0.5 AGI 1 INT: 2 END: 5 DEFF: 2]

[EXP: 252/500 LVL: 1]

That right there is some hardcore stuff, leveling up this little guy will be quite a pain. But wait there's a bigger problem here, my pet seems more intelligent than me? What the actual fuck, hey system, admins, anyone, fix this shit this isn't right.

I feel so broken watching my pets' stats as he looked back at me; I swear I can see pity in his eyes. Does my own pet pity me? Nah must be my imagination again.

I clear my mind and continue toward the only crypt in this graveyard, once I entered it notification popped up.

[You entered area with spatial lockdown, spatial lockdown will be lifted once you defeat this areas guardian.]

Is what the system says but I say bullcrap! At least give me some heads-up damn it. Never mind it, I expected a fight with a monster anyway, it's just that this spatial lockdown thing surprised me, not like I have any way of leaving this area.

Once I went down the stairs the sight surprised me, there was an open coffin with a skeleton inside it lying peacefully, that sight wasn't that surprising, surprising part was that there was a skeleton draped in a mantle with scepter beside him kneeling beside the coffin.

"You disturb her rest living one, are you prepared to pay the price for your mistake?" The skeleton spoke to me, I've seen some weird stuff so this doesn't surprise me anymore.

"Hey Mathias, what's up?" I stood there with a smile on my face, skeleton stood up and looked at me, I say it would be quite surprised if it had any face to show it.

"Oh you know my name living one, speak then who are you and who sent you?"