A Suspicious Earthquake
The system's words just silenced Aroon, in couple with many darts thrown fast at his face.
"I can't disagree with that," Aroon landed on the ground after a couple jumps, "it's time to kill those bastards."
Aroon didn't hesitate to put an arrow and look closely at the glasses in the midsection. The view became closer and the shot became clearer for him.
"And… die," he released the arrow before jumping again. "Did it hit?" he hurriedly asked instead of celebrating the cloud of dust left by his arrow.
"Then let's hit others."
"Rumble!"
Just as he was about to release the next arrow, unexplained trembling of the surface of the earth occurred. "Am I being attacked from the underground?" he didn't hesitate to jump the moment he felt the shaking.
"Now?!" Aroon was shocked but what happened next shocked him more. "What's happening to the dungeon? Why is it sinking to the ground?"
In front of him and at the place where the current cave lay, a gigantic cloud of dust appeared and started rising high in the air.
For him this was something unordinary, something he had never spotted before.
"What's happening out there?" he pressed over for more info, yet the system kept his silence for a long minute before the shaking vanished.
And with it there was no dungeon at all up front.
Or even the previous bunch of elite monsters and hunters.
"Talk to me," Aroon glanced all around. Things started to grow calm now and the distant town seemed not to be much affected by what happened here.
Aroon found the tone and words of the system quite exotic. Yet he moved.
The distance to the place where the dungeon was wasn't long. In a few minutes he reached there and found absolutely nothing.
The ground looked normal, there was no evidence of any monster whatsoever. "This is… weird," he stood there all alone while glancing all around.
"What happened here exactly?" he started to feel that the earthquake wasn't something normal.
Aroon felt more weird after hearing this. "They can… control natural disasters here? On planet Earth?"
"But… I never heard of something like that before."
"By attacking and abandoning dungeons?"
"That means…" Aroon wasn't stupid and got what the system meant by these words.
Aroon took a good look around. "So each week the people living here and other towns will have to face such attacks. It seems I'll be quite busy the next few weeks then."
"Why is that?" Aroon paused, "people around don't have anything to stop the monsters but me."
"…" Aroon remained silent while the system kept speaking:
Aroon's face turned gloomy while his mind agreed on this line of thoughts. "So I have to abandon them and run?"
"You gave me this chance to change things!"
"So I'll run like a coward and leave all the people here to be slaughtered!" Aroon shouted in faint anger. He knew he owed nothing to the people here, but he also knew the disastrous effects of such a move. Hundreds of thousands of people would die and he didn't want such blood to stain his hands.
"You want me to be the leader of the world?" Aroon was surprised to hear that.
Aroon didn't have any option but to turn his back to this place and move back to his town. "What about my reward?" he said before hurriedly adding, "It's not my fault that the dungeon was destroyed by their leader."
Aroon's mission granted him access to the leveling option. He gained a level and his grade was elevated from the lowest F-V into the slightly better F-IV.
"So I got two more points in each stat by leveling up… quite interesting," he muttered when he checked his stats. He now had fourteen points in each one, bringing him closer to grade three human in the eyes of the current ranking system.
But he knew he was far stronger than any normal grade three human.
"That's intriguing," Aroon smiled in excitement, "I can't wait for more missions."
He paused for a moment there before suddenly asking, "What about the other town you spoke about?"