Necromancer's Hideout
Congrats to player "Freveodys" for becoming the first player to enter a hidden dungeon
+300 Reputation.
The system prompt confirmed his conjecture, he indeed entered the hidden dungeon. The Necromancer's hideout is one of the very few solo hidden dungeons.
The appearance of dungeons will only start after one reaches level 10 .... as there were none near the starter villages throughout the continent.
The actual method of locating the necromancer's hideout was to do a sidequest which required the taker of Westhall quest to ask the village mage to help him to find out the source of the pollution.
In exchange for his help, the player needed to do a quest for him first..... it was a vicious chain quest before coming to this location .... but his past life knowledge helped him skip that process completely.
The chances of someone stumbling here on accident were negligible and even if they did the one to do it had to be the bearer of Westhall quest to actually be rewarded for this dungeon exploration was even more abyssal.
He started exploring the dungeon and except for some low-level 6 skeletons .... there was no real threat yet.
+80 exp, +110 exp, + 60 exp
About 40 minutes into the game he suddenly levelled up
LEVEL UP!
Dalton smiled and distributed 15 points to agility .... currently agility was the most important thing he needed
He called the system panel
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Player Name: Freveodys
Title: none
Class: Knight
Subclass: none
LVL:9
Tier : 0
STATS
AGI : 55 ( +10% ) VIT : 40
INT: 40 STA: 40
PHY: 40 HP: 1000/1000
Status: Healthy
Equipment: common stone sword, leather boots
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His pace was much quicker now, he felt satisfied
Moving forward he saw a ghoul and paused.
[Ghoul Captain](level 9): can use darkness spells, weak against light and bashing attacks
A level 9 ghoul was an extremely formidable opponent
they were weak to bone-crushing attacks, but to slash and stab damage they were completely immune.
Dalton did not have any spell tomes yet and his only attacks were stab and slash
He absolutely could not deal with this ghoul, but in the narrow cave ..... bypassing him was impossible.
Dalton thought for a while then decided to engage in the fight the only way to win was to slice the ghoul's head off clean ... regardless of whether he would win or not would be left to fate.
He charged and the ghoul was alerted, The stab penetrated deep into the ghoul's abdomen.... but it did not affect him much at all.
Dalton deflected the ghoul's blows and was glad that at least he was evenly matched in strength.
The bout was long and Dalton kept running around deflecting blows and dealing no damage ..... it was extremely taxing for him but there was no other alternative.
The ghoul finally made a mistake when he went for Dalton's shoulder but he sidestepped to avoid the hit.
This was his chance as with a powerful slash he decapitated the ghoul.
-2550 Critical Strike!!!
+8 Silver coins, Chains of Darkness Skill Scroll
WHATTTTTTTTTTTTT .....
Chains of Darkness was one of the best skill tomes in the entire game... in his past life this skill was rarer than rare ..... one sold for 6000 gold... that's like 1M dollars. In his 'previous life' each and every one of his loot was taken away by his guild superiors never did he possess such a formidable skill.
If he sold this skill scroll.... it would clear his father's debt completely. Of course, he would need to wait for a long time, until people learned about the value of this skill ... in the current market, it would not even fetch 10 silvers.
Ah fuck it he said and learned the skill
[Chains of Darkness]: creates Chains made of shadow steel..... immobilizes troops ( max 5) for 15 seconds.
Cooldown time: 8 minutes
It was a near-cheat skill ..... to bind someone for 15 seconds would change entire outcomes of battles.
Dalton was originally 45% confident in clearing this dungeon but now he is 85% confident
This skill changes the game.
He went forward smoothly ..... no serious threat until he reached outside which definitely looked like a laboratory.
He entered the laboratory and the necromancer frowned.... he was busy conducting some sort of potion but never expected someone to enter his laboratory
What happened to the ghoul captain guard he stationed outside...
" BEGONE" he threatened spawning 12 skeletons
Dalton sprung into action taking on the skeletons, the skeletons though level 6 were no match for him as he cut through them like butter.
Soon all 12 skeletons were killed.
The necromancer gauged the strength of the adventurer who barged into his laboratory and found him weaker than himself
[ Necromancer Osha ] ( Level 15 ) ( Dungeon boss)
HP 5500/5500. :
Proficient in dark magic and the art of necromancy
do not engage one on one unless you are a paladin
Dalton knew he was outclassed but now he had the Chains of Darkness trump card
He decided to chip into the necromancer's health before using it.
As he engaged in combat he realized it was extremely difficult to get close to the necromancer
his attacks especially the darkness blast were annoying to deal with
Dalton knew he could at most be hit with 2 such blasts before he would die, hence his first priority was defense
He dodged and dodged but his stamina had not recovered completely hence each movement took more and more strain to execute ... if this continued he would enter the fatigued state losing half of his combat prowess... that would spell guaranteed death.
He had no more options he had to put it all into the Chains of Darkness and hope for critical hits
CHAINS OF DARKNESS... he used the spell and the necromancer was rendered motionless
This was his chance.... he straight went for the necromancer's throat .... slash
-2500 critical hit
and stabbed his heart
-3000 critical hit
The necromancer collapsed dead. He did it
'Hahahaha he actually did it ' .... this shows exactly how useful Chains of darkness is without it there was no way he could have fought and won against the necromancer
+ 100000 EXP
LEVEL UP!
LEVEL UP!
LEVEL UP!
LEVEL UP!
+25 gold, + shadow armor + litch ring + necromancer's diary
Player stamina is under 10% fatigued state
-50% of all stats.
congrats
player Freveodys for clearing the first hidden dungeon necromancer's hideout
+ 3500 reputation with the church of Light
Title: Baron of the Dragon Kingdom
// DRAGON KINGDOM ANNOUNCEMENT: Player Freveodys has cleared the first hidden dungeon necromancer's hideout
+ 3500 reputation with the church of Light
Title: Baron of the Dragon Kingdom
WHAT? NONONONONO
WHY IS THE SYSTEM ANNOUNCING MY NAME?
I DO NOT WANT UNNECESSARY TROUBLE