Chapter 22

Magic elements were divided into 3 groups. Basic elements, Advance elements and Special elements. There were five basic elements which were null, water, fire, wind and earth. The basic elements were the common element ranker will get as their talents. Six advance elements which were plant, electric, ice, steel, poison and beast. The advance elements were uncommon but not rare. Special elements were the rarest element. There were five of them, light, dark, spirit, time and space. Light, dark and spirit were most common among the special elements but time and space were scarce.

Before Ethan and Lilia set off to the slime dungeon, they decided to learns many skills. Ethan learned three new skills. The first was Water: Water ball with ATK+20 and MP of 20 for each use. The truth was that all elemental ball magic use MP of 20 and ATK+20. The second skill was Dagger Arts: Triple slash which use 15 MP and ATK+5 for each of the 3 slash. Ethan actually wanted to learns passive dagger arts skill Dagger Arts: Mastery but there was no stock. His third skill was Cooking: Roast, a passive skill that increase the taste of food Ethan roast. Ethan remove his appraisal skills and bought appraisal orbs that can appraise skills and equipment.

Lilia also learned three new skills and all of them were elementals ball. She learned Wind: Wind ball, Electric: Elec ball and Poison: Poison ball. All three skills used 20 MP and have same damage. Elec ball and poison ball however have additional effects 5% stunned and 5% poisoned respectively. Since Lilia had not yet talents absorbs for her wind, electric and poison talents, she bought extra all the elemental ball skills and used talents absorbs. It increased all of their attacks to 25 and her wind talent increased to 10%, electric talent to 5% and poison talent also to 5%.

Wafu also learned new skill. He also learned water ball like Ethan. Ethan wanted Gooey to learns new skill too but Gooey refuse. Ethan also tried to appraise Gooey but refuse that too. Ethan didn't know why he refused.

After Ethan, Lilia and Mateo killed their first dungeon slime they tried to kill a few other slime and experiment the best way to kill the slime. After around 10 attempted in experimenting the best way to kill the slime, they found the best way was to use Wafu to distract the slime and Ethan, Lilia and Mateo will shoot their elemental ball. The method was simple because the slime from the first floor can't use any magic and they were weak against magic. They usually took around 6 hit to kill one slime.

"The sun has start to set. I think we should stop hunting here," said Ethan.

"I agree. Continue hunting when it is dark is too dangerous," added Mateo.

"Let's find an area a bit further than that group of slime, I'm afraid that they will become active at night since they seem to laze around in the day," said Lilia.

They all then moved further away from that group of slime and find an area with a single tree and decided to camp below the tree. Ethan, Mateo and Lilia set up their tent. Ethan took around 5 minutes to set up his tent but Mateo and Lilia had no clue how to set up their tent. Ethan then teach them how and Mateo took 15 minutes while Lilia took 20 minutes after Ethan saw that Mateo already finished but Lilia still not done and decided to help her.

That day they killed around 30 slimes and they divided the killed properly between each of them. Ethan manage to advance to level 5 and Lilia reached peak of level 3. Ethan mastery with his water ball increase to 1/10. Lilia fire ball mastery increase to 3/10, wind ball mastery to 1/10, Elec ball mastery to 1/10 and poison ball mastery to 1/10. Mateo however due to his 'The One' title managed to increase his ice ball mastery to 2/10.

"Should we eat the cooked food we pack before or we cook another and saved this for later," asked Ethan.

"I'm too tired to eat anything," said Lilia.

"Diet?" said Mateo while looking at Lilia.

"Is there a need to diet when we basically run around every day. I don't have any appetite to eat now. Using too much magic is much more tiring that usual too," said Lilia.

Ethan smile at Lilia. He looked at the tree and saw that the tree was an apple tree, "How about we have something simpler," Ethan pointed his finger towards the apple. "Let's just eat some fruits tonight," said Ethan.

"Oh, it is an apple tree. I got so tired that I didn't realize it was an apple tree," said Lilia.

"You guys didn't stock any fruits?" asked Mateo.

"Why waste our stock if we can get free fruits," said Ethan smiling and he stand up and plucked some apples.

That night they decided to only eat apples. They don't know how long it will take them to complete the dungeon and they don't want to waste their resources. Lilia, Mateo, Wafu and Gooey all already fallen asleep but Ethan was still widely awake. He stepped out of his tents and looked at the sky. The sky was clear from any clouds and he can see lots of stars. Ethan sat on the grass and lying on his back.

"The sky is so beautiful. I can't believe that right now the view in front of me is inside a dungeon," said Ethan while the night breeze blows.

"Goo- Goo- Goe-" a colorless slime came to his side. It was Gooey

"I thought you already fall asleep," said Ethan.

"Goo- <3" said Gooey. Ethan smile and both of them stayed watching the stars before they fell asleep.

The next morning, they eat the cooked food they packed from the city. Ethan didn't want to waste any food, fruits or herbs they found in the dungeon and he decide to get them all. He plucked all the apples from the tree that morning. They all then went back to the group of slime and start their hunting. Their routine for the next 3 days went on the same until they kill every slime on that group. After they have killed all that slime, they decided to leave the area and find a new group of slime. Along the way, they picked up herbs or fruits they found. At first they thought they will only find apples since the first tree they found was apple but they found orange, pear and peach. It seems that the dungeon was filled with many kinds of fruit.

A week later, outside of the Slime dungeon.

"Whoa, sis June, this place has so many people," said Luna.

"You are right, I thought people will be scared to be near a dungeon," said June.

"I read that this situation is normal around the dungeon gate area," said Luke.

Luke and June decided to find Ethan after June heard about Ethan's party. June wanted to see her childhood friend that she didn't have any memory of so she asked Luke to look for Ethan with her. She hoped to get back her memory and thought maybe she will remember something if she went to find Ethan. Luke also wanted to see Ethan so he agreed with June. Luna who heard them also followed them out of curiosity about Ethan. While they asked around about Ethan, they found out that Ethan's party had set out to the slime dungeon. They missed their chance to meet Ethan in the city but they decided to go into the slime dungeon to find him. Luke, June and Luna used an excuse that they went to the dungeon to train but in truth they wanted to find Ethan. They took 1 whole week to prepare everything to explore the slime dungeon.

"Sis, let's walk around a bit to see if there are anything interesting," said Luna.

"Sigh, Luna, let's just get inside," said Luke.

"That's right, let's get inside," said June. Luna pouted when she heard June.

"There is no need to rush. Let's walk around a bit, sis," Luna tried to persuade June.

June looked at Luke and they decided to walk around a bit. All three of them ended up buying something from the shop there.

"See, I told you there will be many interesting things here," said Luna. Luke and June didn't say anything and went towards the gate.

The three of them went inside and reached the first floor. After they get their missions notification suddenly, another notification appeared.

'Ting~ All five with 'The One' title from the same city and same generation is inside the dungeon. The dungeon difficulty will increase and the dungeon structure will change. Anyone who didn't want to stay during the change can tell the system and they will be teleport outside the dungeon. Change will start in 10 seconds. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Dungeon change start.'