Chapter 5 – Tracy Loot

Alan was quite surprised to see this pretty girl beside him. She had very fair skin, with her rosy cheeks, and her mysterious-looking bob cut silver hair. Alan can smell a sweet fragrant scent from her that was beside him.

Tracy Loot was one of the main characters in the novel he had read in his previous life. The author never wrote that She was Alan's childhood friend. In the novel, Tracy was written by the author to fall in love with the main character, John Pride.

"She's so beautiful now." Alan smiled.

Tracy's appearance did not change that much so Alan can recognize her immediately. All the changes he could see from her was that she's become more feminine.

"So, let's team up?" Tracy looked at her right before she noticed that she talked with no one, the man was no longer there.

"Eh? Where did he go?" She looked around the guild but could not find the hooded man anymore.

Not long after that, she found a group of combatants that were going to the dungeon as well.

Alan was already out of the guild. "Now it not the time for a reunion yet. I'll catch up with her later. Now, I need to level up fast." That was why Alan wore his hooded jacket, so no one can recognize him easily.

There was a day left before the main quest ends. Alan went to the dungeon that he saw on the mission board.

The dungeon was on the outskirt of the Snow family's territory. The entrance of the dungeon was a cave. When people entered it, it will teleport them to a place where monsters lurking everywhere.

They can only leave if they completed the dungeon or use an escape device.

How they were teleported? That was always the mystery that people can't solve for thousands of years. Many combatants would go here to train themselves.

"Old Cave Dungeon, this is the place where the main character of the novel, John Pride, got his first inheritance of power. Although he got the power mostly because of luck." Alan thought to himself.

"I wonder did he got it yet?" Alan thought again.

When Alan arrived at the dungeon, he bought an escape device just in case. After he got his guild card, he can enter the dungeon without any problem.

"Ah! I forgot to allocate my attributes points." Alan said before he opened his stats. He leveled up five levels so his attributes points should increase.

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Host: Alan Snow

Title

1. Recovered Child

- Grants blessing (+500 HP)

2. Monster Slayer (Equipped)

- Grants 10% extra exp when killing monsters.

Level: 20 (Attribute points: 5)

EXP: 350/2000 (To Next Level)

HP: 15000

MP: 15000

Strength: 14 (+10, Star Sword Equipped)

Defense: 9

Agility: 16

Intelligent: 17

Magic Power: 14 (+15, Hell's Flame)

Skill (Can be obtained)

1. Sword-man (Elementary)

- Lotus Formation Sword Style.

2. Sorcerer (Beginner)

- Fire magic, Hell's Flame (Legendary)

Talent (Can be obtained)

1. Memories of the previous life.

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As always, he saved 5 attribute points. After he updated his stats, he went into the dungeon.

"The exp boost potion, I think it'll be handy here." Alan thought. He opened the inventory and used the potion.

"Ding! 30% Exp boost activated. Remaining time: 2 hours." the system announced.

"I think I will use solely on magic in this dungeon, I need to upgrade my sorcerer skill to elementary." Alan thought to himself.

After a little bit before 2 hours, with the exp boost, Alan managed to level up until level 25.

"Ding! Congrats to the host in completing the main quest! A reward has been awarded." The system announced.

"On time! I thought I'll waste the exp boost potion." Alan was excited. He needed 3 days to level up from level 15 to 20 but with the help of the potion, plus with his Monster Slayer title, he got a 40 percent exp boost and done leveling up 5 levels from 20 to 25 in 2 hours only.

"The monsters in this dungeon also gave a lot of experience than the ones in Hollow Forest." Alan thought.

While Alan lost in his thought, he heard a group of combatants coming towards him and without thinking much, Alan quickly hid between the mountain of big rocks in the dungeon.

"Hey pretty, what made you come to the dungeon?" one of the men in the group asked while looking at the girl perversely.

Not long after the question asked, a soft voice answered it, "None of your business."

The girl who answered it was Tracy. She entered the dungeon with the combatant group she found in the guild.

"Oh…I see…A feisty girl aren't you?" the man said while looking at Tracy's body.

"She seemed so uncomfortable. Why on earth she entered the dungeon with these bunch of trash?" Alan thought.

Not too long after that Alan realized it was his fault when he ignored her and vanished.

"I guess I could say that it was my fault." Alan smiled wryly.

Alan decided to follow the group of combatants for now. The terrain in the dungeon was quite vast and there are not enough places for Alan to hide, so he used his invisibility potion.

"Ding! Invisibility potion activated. Remaining time: 1 hour." The system announced.

Alan followed the group carefully. He found out that Tracy probably came to the dungeon to find something.

In the novel, Tracy Loot is someone who wants to be the wealthiest businesswoman in the world. She can find anything that her client wants easily.

After he followed them for a while, the group encountered a giant rock that was as big as a mountain.

"This rock is so big! I wonder why it is this big." One of the combatants commented.

Tracy's breathing suddenly fluctuated. Alan can sense the changes easily as his physical abilities were upgraded from the attributes points that were allocated.

"This is it! The appearance was like a rock from the outside but from the inside, it is the rainbow diamond! I can feel it." Tracy said quietly, she did not want the others to find out.

Sadly for Tracy, Alan heard what she said. "So this is the Rainbow diamond huh? So that's why people can't find it easily." Alan thought to himself.

The rainbow diamond is a material that cannot be detected even using the most modern equipment in Unity. One can only use their luck to find one.

Suddenly, there was a roaring sound coming towards the group.

"What was that?" one of the combatants shouted.

The ground was shaking as it was an earthquake.

"Boom!" something landed in front of them.

The shaking ground stopped. The group can't see what exactly happened as clouds of dust limit their vision after that thing landed.

"Help! HELP ME!!!!" somebody was screaming in fear.

"What happened, where are you?" one of the combatants tried to help. He can't see through the dust.

He walked into the dust slowly. After a while, he bumped into something big and hairy in front of him.

"What is this?" He asked himself while looking up.

"A...Kin-…" before he can warn the other combatants, he was lifted and eaten alive.

"NO! HELP ME!!" he shouted for help.

The other combatants can only hear the call for help. They do not know what to do.

Suddenly, one of the combatants swung his sword to the clouds of dust.

"Air Slash!" the man shouted. The slash cleared all of the dust that was limiting their vision to see.

They thought after they can see the creature that landed in front of them, they could kill it easily but luck was not on their side.

"Ape king! RUN!" Tracy shouted.

Ape king is a tier 4 monster. A tier 4 monster can only be compared to a class C middle-tier combatant. Most of them were class D combatants. They couldn't defeat it.

"Ape king huh?" Alan quietly observed the situation.

Tracy and the combatants tried to run away but the ape king used its Earth Barrier skill to trap the combatants.

"Oh no! we're trapped!" someone from the group shouted.

The combatants guarded themselves at one of the corners of the circular barrier that was made.

The ape king jumped towards the group and landed right in front of them. There were several of the men at the front of the group pointing their swords towards the ape king.

"ROAR!" the ape king roared in front of them and swung its long big arm to the men in front of it.

"Guard it!" one of the front men shouted.

The momentum of the ape king's arm was so big. All the men in the front flew backward after they were hit by it. Luckily, they were still alive.

"Ahh!" the men screamed together.

"We can't win this! I'm still young, I don't want to die!" One of the female combatants shrieked hysterically.

After hitting the men in front, the ape king continued itself running towards the group of combatants.

Tracy looked at the situation from behind, "I need to save them!" she thought.

She dashed forward to the front of the combatants and baited the ape king.

"Here! Here! Come here! You fat ape!" Tracy shouted at the ape king.

"What are you doing, Tracy?" Alan was stunned.

The ape king was baited by Tracy and followed her away from the group of combatants.

"Relying on a girl, these combatants were a bunch of trash." Alan was angry inwardly.

Tracy was very fast. She had her family movement technique, Swift Lightning Steps. In the novel Alan had read, she was from a merchant family, the Loot Family, but actually, being a merchant family was just a disguise. Her family was one of the infamous assassin families in Unity, codenamed, the Nightwalker.

Alan knew about this, that's why he still had not shown himself to save her. She can protect herself just fine. There's no way the ape king can chase her.

Suddenly, one of the combatants shouted, "Let's run or we will die!"

The ape king heard the shout and stopped chasing Tracy. It went back to the combatants.

"Not just a bunch of trash, but clowns." Alan shook his head and smiled wryly.

The ape king bellowed and took the boulders on the ground before threw it to the combatants.

The bellow was so loud that some of the combatants fainted. Most of them screamed with pain from their ears. The boulders were coming towards them but they can't block it because they were fighting with pain.

"Oh no!" Tracy saw this and quickly ran towards the combatant to block the boulders. She was great in her movement but strength? No.

She stood bravely in front of the incoming boulders while holding her daggers in both her hands in crossed position in front of her chest to block it.

The boulders were so big. Tracy knew that she can't stop it but she still wanted to try to block it anyway. The lives of the combatants were in danger.

Before the boulders hit Tracy, she heard a voice above her, "Silly girl!" she looked up and saw the familiar hooded guy that she saw in the guild landed elegantly in front of her. His hoodie flipped open by the wind after his feet touched the ground.

The majestic silver hair was shown in front of Tracy's eyes. Alan was standing in front of her while showing his back, handsomely.

"A…Alan?" The beautiful silver hair, she could never forget that eye-catching hair color in her life. Only one person had that hair color and that was her childhood friend that she loves so much, Alan!

She had cried so much when she heard that Alan had an accident 10 years ago and never saw him again ever since.

Alan raised his right hand facing the incoming boulders. He cast his fire magic. Several mortar-like flames were thrown out to the boulders.

"Boom!" a thunderous sound resounded.

"Oh? This ape really is fat! I guess you like to eat huh? Too bad you met me, I'll punch out all the things you've eaten since you were born." Alan said while smirking.

Alan was not scared at all. He killed many of tier 3 monsters easily, one tier higher, it is worth trying to kill it.

Alan's fists were covered with black flames. He had used his Hell's Flame.

*Whoosh*

Alan blasted forward so fast, the ground cracked slightly from it.

"You bullied Tracy! You mother******!!!!" Alan shouted.

Alan punched toward the king ape's stomach, the punch was so powerful. The ape king flew backward and hit its earth barrier.

"BOOM!!"

The barrier was broken down by the impact.

Not long after that, the ape king got out from the broken earth barrier and beat its chest.

"ROAR!" the ape king was angry.

"Oh? You're angry? You had the guts to be angry in front of me, now it's time for your punishment." Alan said calmly while smirking.

Alan raised his right hand facing the sky. "I'll incinerate you to nothing." Alan smiled.

A big magic circle formed in the sky on the ape king. The ape king tried to escape from the magic circle area. Suddenly, several pillars of flame shot down to the ground trapping the ape king.

"ROAR!" the ape king beats its chest.

"What? You like to trap people in your earth barrier, now you can experience it for yourself. You should be happy!" Alan said to the ape king while smiling sinisterly.

Not long after that, a blame flame shot downward to the ape king, burning it to ashes.

Alan only needed to imagine in his head to cast all the attacks. All the attacks formed like what he had imagined and he was very pleased.

"Ding! Host's Sorcerer skill upgraded to elementary." The system announced.

"Finally! I leveled up 2 levels too!" Alan exclaimed his happiness.

Alan went back to Tracy and stood in front of her. His unique silver-red hair was fluttering in the wind.

"It's been a while, Tracy," Alan said while smiling happily.

The cheerful, innocent-looking face from Alan. That was what she misses so much. Before she knew it, Tracy was in tears. She ran towards Alan and hugged him.

Surprised, Alan hugged her back.

"Where did you disappeared these past ten years…I miss you all the time…" Tracy cried in Alan's embrace.

"I got into some troubles, but now everything is okay. I'm back." Alan looked at Tracy's face and wiped her tears.

They hugged for a while. Alan waited until Tracy calmed down. After that, they went to the combatants. They were very thankful to Alan and Tracy. They can't feel but to respect Alan. Some were very afraid including the man who harassed Tracy. Who knew the pretty girl knows someone so powerful.

Alan saw the man who harassed Tracy. He walked towards him and slapped him in the face. The man was thrown away for several meters.

"Argh!" the man grunted in pain.

"That is your punishment." Alan took a glance at the man and walked away with Tracy who was hugging his arm.

Tracy felt warm in her heart. Alan was protecting her all this time in the dungeon.

Alan walked to the Rainbow Diamond and took a little bit of its dust. He gave some to Tracy too. He knew Tracy was looking for it too.

"Ding! Side Quest no. 1 completed. Experience has been awarded." The system announced.

"I leveled up again!" Alan was happy.

Alan and Tracy wanted to use their escape device. There was no use for them to complete the dungeon. They had already achieved their goals.

Tracy used her escaped device and was teleport back.

When Alan wanted to use his escape device, suddenly the system announced,

"Ding! A secret was found in the dungeon!"