Alpha Wolf
With the defeat of the 5 wolves, the trio had successfully cleared out the area outside of the cave. Looking at the time, it had taken almost an hour to clear out the wolves from the river to their current location.
"We should clear out this den, if we are lucky enough we can get to level 9 or 10 before anyone else." Zero said as he looked towards the entrance of the cave. It was a giant opening that dug into the mountain.
"What if we don't end up getting too many levels from here?" Kenny asked.
"Then we just keep going deeper into the forest stupid. We should still be ahead of most players considering all the wolves we fought just now." Luna said.
"What about the groups of the high skill players that are apart of those big organizations? I'm sure they are already in the deepest parts of the forest fighting those animals."
"Then we will go and join them, We have fewer people than them so we should be able to catch up any experience gap, It's not like experience is based on contribution to battle just yet, remember this is still the tutorial zone."
"Ohhhhhhhh.... That's right..."
Watching the two talk for a while, Zero decided to look at the scenery around him. In this area of the forest, the trees seemed to start turning yellow, red, and orange. It gave him a sense of viewing the change of seasons in the real world.
He was pulled in by its calming beauty and for some reason, he even wanted to see the rainfall in this world. Hearing the sound of rainfall was also calming in a way for Zero. Even though he didn't know why he was always able to calm down listening to the sound of rainfall with some smooth-sounding lofi tunes.
After a minute of getting lost in the beauty of the world he was in, Zero was called back to his senses when Luna tapped his shoulder.
"Let's get going. We shouldn't waste any more time standing around like this."
With those words the group all shared a nod, for some reason, before walking together into the den of wolves. Feeling their vision blur for a second the group was greeted by a display notification.
[Attention]
Your party has discovered the beginner dungeon Wolves Den.
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"Of course it's a dungeon" Remarked Kenny before kicking a lone pebble into the distance.
Smiling at each other, Zero continued leading the group into the cave. With the number of wolves they fought earlier, it was clear to see that they didn't need to worry much about a dungeon as long as they did what they had done before.
With that being said, The inside of the cave entrance was just a giant hollowed out area with a smaller opening in the far end. After walking to the middle of the room the group finally heard some low howls. The sunlight gave the group enough light to fight without problems but what they didn't expect were six, level 6, wolves coming through the opening in the back of the cave.
Quickly deciding to split the enemies in half, Zero once again took to the right with Kenny taking the left. Luna once again watched both battles. Similar to the battle outside the cave, the boys ended up defeating the wolves.
This time, both of them ended up taking hits because of the number of enemies they each had to face but with only a little more than 100 damage being done it was negligible with Luna's healing.
The battles did take almost 15 minutes though but surprisingly Kenny finished his first, with his class he is able to dodge and punch extremely quickly he was able to deal damage faster than Zero. Zero has to swing his sword and measure his gains and losses with each attack because if he attacked at an inopportune time he would get hit by all 3 enemies.
After the battle, the party leveled up and Zero received a bandana while Kenny received the wolf shoes that had dropped. Their status was looking like this after distributing their stat points.
[Status]
Name: Zero
Class: Swordsman
Title: None
Level: 6
Exp Required: 378/1200
Health(HP): 600
Mana:100
Str: 20
End: 15
Dex: 10
Agi: 20
Int: 10
Combat Skills: Cleave
Non-Combat Skills: None
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[Status]
Name: Kenny
Class: Fighter
Title: None
Level: 6
Exp Required: 305/1200
Health(HP): 500
Mana:100
Str: 15
End: 15
Dex: 10
Agi: 25
Int: 10
Combat Skills: Empowered Fist
Non-Combat Skills: None
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Name: Luna
Class: Priest
Title: None
Level: 6
Exp Required: 305/1200
Health(HP): 580
Mana:500
Str: 10
End: 13
Dex: 10
Agi: 18
Int: 25
Combat Skills: Heal
Non-Combat Skills: None
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Surprisingly Luna has more hp than Kenny currently, but that is only due to the equipment they gain not being for fighters. Anyhow with their stats updated to their level the group continued into the opening in the back of the cave.
While walking into the corridors the group spotted some blue crystals giving light to the path they walked. They were small and large in shape, while being indestructible as well. The corridor's shape was about the size of 2 busses put side by side so with more than enough room for 3 people the group continue walking ahead, the only way they could go.
Facing multiple groups of wolves going up in level from 6 to 9 the group's experience number shot through the roof. Like shooting stars the trio jumped up to level 9. They had all also gotten full equipment sets so with their health almost reaching 1000 total, the group distributed their unused skill points in this order.
Zero , out his 15 stat points, used 5 on agility and 10 into strength. Luna put her stat points into intelligence boosting her healing and mana pool even more. and Kenny put his into strength and agility.
"Well then, we have been in here for the better part of an hour fighting waves of wolves. I assume over dungeon boss is there..." Zero said while pointing to the clear area ahead of them.
As they walked to the entrance of the presumed boss Room, they saw blue crystals lining the ceiling on the inside, giving them enough light to see the large circular area of the boss room.
In the center of the room sat a wolf that was at least 3 times bigger than the others. Taking some steps into the room the trio saw the wolf open its eyes to look in their direction. With a growl and howl the azure blue wolf stood on its feet as the group had finally been able to see the stats of the boss.
[Level 10 Alpha Wolf]
Hp: 3500
Mana: 400
Attack: 250
Skills: Ferocious Swipe, Natural Hunter, Call of the Alpha
[Natural Hunter]
Condense mana into an aura around the user, increasing agility by 20%.
Mana cost: 45
[Call of the Alpha]
Howl and call 2 wolves to assist in battle. Wolves will be 1 level lower than the user.
Mana cost: 100
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"Yep, that's most definitely the boss..."
"Clearly it's the boss idiot! It's clearly bigger than the wolves we have seen before!"
Observing the boss for a few seconds while looking around for other wolves Zero thought of something.
"It's not attacking us yet so I assume it's waiting for us to initiate the battle."
"Ahh! That makes sense! It's just a beginner dungeon still!" Luna said as she took a deep breath and regained her focus.
"With this boss we should be able to reach level 10 so we have to kill it quickly and reach the city first. Let's do this!" Rushing toward, Zero swung his circle in a horizontal arc, signifying the start of a legend.