12. First Expension and The Ring

He woke up ready to grind some more skill levels, he realized that by now he probably could kill the monkey king however he didn't have to take chances, he could literally wait a few more months that he would have to wait eventually. After saying this he realized how even killing huge praying mantises could become monotone if done enough times, yet he wasn't bored to the point of doing something else, he was having fun fighting all these praying mantises that could deal about half his hp with every attack.

The praying mantis boss would be way more scary than the Monkey boss to beat, while on his way to the mantis room this was his only thought, how he could beat the praying mantis boss, one way was basically pushing reflexes and perception to as high as possible which would still be problematic considering every once in an hour or so he would take damage from normal mantises, this meant that if he wanted to beat the boss 0 damage that would take a long long time to get to that standard. Another more plausible way was to find some room where enemies attacked a lot with low damages and tank them to level up tough body and since he already had pretty fast reaction speed, he would doge most and the ones he couldn't dodge would have their damage decreased.

David had finally arrived at the mantises area, these monsters seemed to be on edge for some reason, even when he was about to wipe out the monkeys the monkeys weren't on edge or anything, and until today there was no indication that the mantises were getting frustrated either. David decided to watch from afar for today, and started sneaking around, granted he had to kill a few of them but not many.

After spending all day watching and not trying to kill many mantises David felt depressed nothing of value had happened. David was just starting to go back to the safe room when he heard what sounded like metal colliding with rock. He started sneaking immediately and turned around to see that a 2.5 meter person clad in full body black plate armour walking around, the mantises has gathered around making a road for the presumably humanoid monster David seeing this activated his identify.

Lvl 108 Gruutsh Low Bloodline Half-Ogre

Normal enesmies didn't get any kind of stat increase or multiplier but monsters with system names were different they would get the species specialties. Well presumably it was a low bloodline ogre human hybrid when one thought like this it was easy to beat but ogres str stat is multiplied by 10 if its a high bloodline, if its a mediocre it is multiplied by 7, a low bloodline 5. and the hybrid system worked something like this, if it is a human Ogre hybrid, you take humans str multiplier = 1 and low bloodline ogres str modifier = 5, add them up and divide by two. The monster in front of him had its strength stat multiplied by three and his constitution stat multiplied by 2.5 all other stats was 1 multiplier but it didn't matter as he could probably one shot just about everything around here.

Just as David saw the monsters name and level he didn't even look back as he ran for the safe room. The monster didn't see David running so it wasn't that bad, he just ran away to the safe room. He kept vigilant just in case the monster was different than the others and could enter but the monster never came anywhere near him. He saw it walking into the monkey room seeing there was no monkeys except the monkey king and going towards it talking ti the monkey king and then leaving furiously.

David rested for the night. Got ready to go kill mantises again ad luckily there was no ogre human hybrid today, granted the mantises were moving around in bigger groups up to 7-8, however they were not used to working together so the monsters didn't pose any more threat than they used to, if the same thing happened with the monkeys it would have been a problem but I guess I didn't give David luck for no reason.

David kept on killing these monsters and his killing speed for some reason actually shot up like crazy after a few more days. He probably had reached a point where he could see almost all the flaws of these monsters. About two weeks later he had killed every single mantis except for the boss. He still didn't believe his ability to kill the mantis boss.

David took the rest of the day off and the day after that he decided to fight the monkey boss.

He slept the night off and in the morning he was pumped to finally deal with the monkey king.

He went out of the safe room. Got ready to punch the monkey boss until it died. He wasn't going to rush in like a buffalo so he started sneaking around after getting himself pumped up about it which was really a mood dampener. He started focusing on his enemies movements in the hopes he wouldn't get caught if he stayed behind the monster. His idea was correct and his application was also on point.

He managed to sneak all the way to the monkey, jumped as high as he could and punched the monkeys head. Unlike the last time he had attacked the monkey boss, this time the monkeys body seemed more malleable and the boss seemed to take a lot of damage too. He also applied a lot of status effects that could deal damage over time(btw I decided to change from all status effects to only dot as all would be broken. He would be able to perma stun everyone he met). He couldn't see the enemies hp bar before becoming a hero so he could only guess what kind of damage he dealt but his guesses were about 6-7% damage and the dot would amount to about 5% more damage to it. David managed to get1 more hit before he was actually confronted by the beast itself.

After the initial outburst David had, things became way more dull as he was punching the monkey was blocking, the monkey was punching he was blocking. This kept on happening until David saw that the monkey was swinging its fist way more extended than it had been and instead if going backwards, David took a step forwards and landed a solid punch on the monsters body and managed to not get hit. Still the fight was taking long as both were not really able to land a lot of solid punches. David got hit once and realized that the monsters strength stat had increased by a lot since their last fight as he took more than 70% damage with his newly increased skill reduction and higher stats. Well the beast was about dead too, one or two more punches would do it so David decided to stick to the fight and not run away.

As they fight kept going on David got hit once more as he was starting to lose concentration and the beast didn't really have the same problem. By the time he got hit he was already at 100% hp for a while. He landed his last punch at the same time he gut punched for the second time. As he killed the Monkey King he felt a trembling behind him.

After turning around David saw the previously blackish purplish rocks becoming bluish and starting to form the same barrier the safe room had. At this point David heard a ding

"Easy room captured, +5 to all stats and skill levels, safe zone area increased"

After getting 5 stat points in all stats David wanted to know if that was enough to beat the Mantis boss. So he started moving towards the boss but as he took his first step he saw that the in the monkey boss' ashes laid a pitch black ring. He took the ring and identified it.

Ring of Power: increases strength by 20, applies mentally pressure (seems awfully similar, was gonna name it ring of strength then I was like naaah)

"So thats why it was able to deal so much damage. That makes sense now. I guess I'll wear this now"(David)

After donning his new low grade equipment he kept walking towards the mantis Boss wondering if the mantis boss also had an item on her body that increased some of its stats, the strange humanoid monster had visited the mantis boss too. He got to the mantis room and entered the room like it was his walking ground. He could run away way more easily than he used to be able to now since the safe room was closer.

The boss mantis didn't fall for Davids sneaking tactics as it had turned towards David pretty quickly and started running towards him. David realized the monster wasn't any faster then it used to be from what he saw while hunting the other mantises