Chapter 009: Carlos Underground Labyrinth.

After Prince Andrei drunk the potion given by Sien, a dark aura that he's emitting reduce slightly signifying that the potion took effect.

「It work but I have to keep drinking it for several times to completely remove the curse on me.」

The Prince comment as he felt that the heaviness of his body reduce slightly after drinking the potion.

Sien then took another six more potion from his bag and explained to the Prince that he have to drink one potion every 7 days from now on and make sure to not skip even one time as doing that might worsen his condition more.

「Don't worry Sin, I'll make sure to drink these potions you gave me properly. This several past days, I thought I would really just die here helplessly alone without anyone and it keeps breaking my will to fight this shitty curse on me.

Now, I'm thankful that I managed to hold on this long as you found me and even gave me what I need, there's now way I would waste any of it, after all I still need to pay them back a hundredfold for what they did to me!.」

The Prince voice started from gentle tone and finished to an icy tone enough to instill a fear to anyone, even though his strength were sealed because of the emeperor, Sien felt that if the Prince wants to kill him, the Prince can kill him with his barehand alone. How strong he would be after his sealed power had been released?, Sien can't help but being excited from that mere thought.

Sien then initiated a rather simple random talks to the Prince for a while before he bid farewell to him.

「I'll be going now Prince, I'll go back here after a month, I still need to strengthen myself for our plan in the future, the me right now wasn't even enough to help you heal your body after the curse was lifted let alone releasing your sealed power or opposing the empire, only by gaining more strength will I be able to do that and properly help you.」

With Sien being only a level 5, he wouldn't be able to find the ingredients to create the potion for fully healing the Prince corroded body as the potion that Sien gave him earlier can only remove the curse little by little not heal him. The Prince can only rely on his body's ability to heal right now as even for the current Sien doesn't have any solution for that.

As for the 'Heal' skill he bought and learned doesn't really have that much of effect against a body that's been corroded for more than a decade now. The only solution for that is to brew 'That' special potion.

As Sien was about to go outside of the house, the Prince called his name, he immediately halted his steps and turn to face the prince once again.

「Before you go out, take that robe hanging from the right wall, that's the only help I can give you right now. Make sure to use it well.」

Sien then obediently took the robe from the wall and appraise it while holding with his hands.

[Robe of the Stealthily Ghost - (Robe) - (Legendary Rank)]

Level Requirement: None

Level: N/A

Durability: N/A

Agility +200

When in battle there's a 20% chance to completely negate Magic Damage received by the player.

Robe Skill 01(Active): Stealthily Ghost - When active turn in to a complete ghost that were invisible from the eyes of anyone and would not receive any physical damage but the damage done by magic will multiple by 2 times.

Skill Duration: None

Skill Mana Consumption: 10 mana per second

Skill Use Interval: 1 Second

Robe Skill 02(Passive): Ghostly Move - When 'Stealthily Ghost' is active, movement speed increases by 200%, can walk pass through any wall or obstacles and fly in the air for limited time.

Fly Duration: 2 hours

Robe Skill 03(Passive): Hide Like a Ghost: When equipped the player can hide their own player stats and the player can't be appraise by anyone without having a 'Legendary Rank' appraisal skill or item or a higher rank. The chance of a 'Legendary Rank' skill or item successfully apprasing the player while using the robe reduced by 99%.

This robe was made by the Greatest Artisan Loren from Joaquin Empire for Prince Andrei to use for his battles, others can only use the robe after gaining the permission of Prince Andrei himself. This robe have the essence of the Ghost Emperor making it perfect for ambush and infiltration.

When Sien saw the robe's statistics, the only thought he have is 'It didn't change huh?' as he equipped it because he also received this robe from the Prince before, this robe became a really important thing for Sien in the past to complete the missions that the shitty gaming company keep tossing to him.

This robe is also the reason why he wants to do this quest other than seriously helping the Prince because the robe could let him do way more things than without it.

Sien then knelt once again in front of the Prince as he expresse his gratitude for him for giving him something valuable, after that he came out of the house.

He then go outside once again and this time, Sien's destination's were far from the town, he will be going to a nearest labyrinth that is one of the biggest labyrinth around the Terra Continent. The time needed for him to travel there was supposedly 7 to 8 hours in full sprint as it was quite far away from the town, and if he leisurely travel there, it would take him 12 to 14 hours, that way not only most of the leveling maniac player would have a level higher than him by 2, he would also be wasting a lot of time from traveling but with Raven on his side, that travel time would be shortened by almost 80% because of Raven's speed.

When Sien was already quite far away from the town and he saw that no other players nearby, he summoned his 4 demon servants and order the other 3 to go and clean the path for him as he would be going in a straight line to minimize their travel time again. Sien then jump at the back of Raven and gave it a go signal.

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Sien and co didn't encounter any kinds of major obstacle that would hinder their traveling phase as Raven can easily pass through different kinds of terrains. Only encountering some other players on the way but Sien didn't pay no heed on them, although Sien can kill any players he met on the road as much as he wants, he won't actually do that as other players do their own hardwork just to increase the strength of their own in game character, even if they still don't know that they can awaken themselves in reality after reaching a certain level in the game.

Sien wouldn't do something to indiscriminately killing other players right now, maybe when some players who like to pk others might he would step up to also increase his own 'Demon Power' but killing normal players was out of question, humans needs to grow stronger as much as they needs including Sien at this moment because when the other hostile species came to attack, things would be undoubtedly bad for all of peoples although that would still be far from the future, that's one of the reasons why for Sien also needs to grew much stronger and surpass his past self if he wants to survive from this harsh worlds.

Sien and co are now in front of the entrance that leads below the Carlos Underground Labyrinth after spending less than 3 hours thanks to non-stop running of Raven.

The labyrinth is hugh enough that even if 1,000 players entered inside, they would only be able to measure the 1st floor of the labyrinth after 3 to 4 weeks after wandering inside.

Of course that's only applies to the current level of the players right now, if a level 15 1,000 players tried to measure the 1st floor of the labyrinth, they would be able to do that for only 2 to 3 days as the monster's level on the 1st floor were only ranging from 5 - 10. If they properly worked together, they might finished measuring the whole 1st floor even shorter. Also finding the way to the 2nd underground floor was another challenge to tackle with, but Sien doesn't need to worry about it.

*Ding!*

〈You have entered the Carlos Underground Labyrinth.〉

This Carlos Underground Labyrinth have 8 underground floors exactly but Sien doesn't plan on hastening his action to immediately go to the 2nd floor as he wants to spend 2 or more weeks inside of this labyrinth.

This labyrinth has 2 things he needs but before having his way to those 2 things he would first need to increase his level as he would face too much burden if he tried grinding in place full of monsters double or triple the level he had.

The 1st floor of this underground dungeon was a giant forest that house different types of species of monsters that have a level ranging from 5 - 10. Sien then once again travel to another side of the first underground floor, he doesn't really care about the level 9 monsters and below, his target right now the Level 10 Ogre Warrior that spawn near the entrance that leads to the 2nd floor.

He would be spending a day or two here to grind and let his level hit 10, although with Sien's current combat power, he feels like a day would be enough for him to increase his level to 10.

When Sien reached the spot where the Level 10 Ogre Warrior spawn at, he didn't waste anymore time as he gave orders to his demon servants to kill the Ogre Warriors that moves in a team of 4 to 5 members.

The Ogre Warriors are known for their warfare personality who only wants to kill and hunt and nothing else, and even though they move in teams while they patrol their territory, this kind of muscle head creatures doesn't know how to coordinate with each other. With the power of Sien's demon servants even if their levels were much lower than the Ogre Warriors, they can still stand shoulder to shoulder with them with strategy and their unique way of fighting even if Sien didn't joined them to fight, if given enough time, the Demon Servants can kill the first team of Ogre Warriors in under only a few minutes.

When Sien who's watching from the safe distance saw that they can stand on their own, He gave them another order to find and kill more Ogre Warriors after they finished and then he moved independently from the group as Sien activates the [Stealthily Ghost] skill of the robe to search for another Ogre Warriors teams that's patrolling the outer part of their camp field.

After only a few minutes Sien found a new team patroling the place, he didn't hesitate to attack while the [Stealthily Ghost] is active as the Ogre Warriors wouldn't be able to see where he was and even if they tried attacking Sien, they would just be hitting an empty air as physical attacks would only pass through him.

Sien also activates his sword aura as he run closer to the Ogre Warriors, to his target who wasn't aware that an attack currently heading directly to his head was suddenly thrown 4 meters away as a deep cut appeared from the left part of his head above his neck and more than 1,000 damage appeared above his head.

Sien precisely aimed that spot to cause an injury to his target that walking at the back of the group, but Sien didn't expect that he would be able to send the Ogre Warrior flying a few meters away, although the damage the Ogre Warriors received isn't that high because of their 13 thousand HP, the injury inflicted to his head made him unable to fight for a few minutes while continuously decreasing his HP.

The monsters in Paradise Worlds are far too different from the other VR Games that came out previously, as the monsters here doesn't have a body of a virtual monsters that would regenerate after a few seconds if left out on their own for a few seconds, instead they have a body the same as how the player's body, the npc body made of, they have bones, flesh and blood on their body. So if you hit a monster at their head or heart or other part the you feels like a weak points for them, that would likely result in a fatal strike and the monster then would instantly enter a weakened state that will continuously lose their HP as the seconds pass by just like what happened on the Ogre Warrior that had been struck by Sien's sword on its head.

But the system would not left that kind of a big loophole in the game and of course will fix it by also giving monsters a different types of trait unique only to their own race, as for the Ogre Warriors trait are that their bodies were built entire for combat and pure strength with a little bit of self regeneration because of that the Ogre Warriors that laying on the ground might stand up again after a few minutes while Sien is fighting against the other Ogre Warriors for his teams.

When Sien saw that his attack was so effective against the Ogre Warriors, he stop holding back as he continue to slash his two swords while activating his sword skills to quickly kill the other three remaining Ogre Warriors who doesn't even have any idea who's attacking them until they dropped dead on the ground.

Sien who just finished killing a party of Ogre Warriors with a count member or 4 have a good feeling as he collect the drop items on the ground.

Normaly, only a team of level 9 - 10 players that have 10 members on it can hunt a patrol team of an Ogre Warriors without suffering casualties and relatively kill them with ease but for Sien who's only a single level 5 player easily killed one patrol team without even receiving any point of damage from the battle that took place a while ago.

Thanks to the robe that Prince Andrei gave him and the items that he got from the chest that's why he can perfrom such an impossible play for a normal level 5 player. If a normal player tried his play style without having an extraordinary items like what Sien have, they would instantly die without being able to attack.

Sien then continue to grind and kill Ogre Warriors for hours and hours and after a day passed, Sien now have reach level 10 by killing countless amount of Ogre Warriors for a whole day without rest plus the work of his demon servants that's why he manage to reach level 10 quickly in one day.

Sien and co also collected some treasures different from the drop items as they venture through the Ogre Clan's spawn place, as Sien and co were the first to set foot at this floor, a few common treasure chest and bronze treasure chest were laying around waiting for them to be collected, even thought the 1st floor were a massive place and house a lot of scattered treasures, Sien can only afford to waste his time collecting the treasures from this part of the floor as he can't stay too long from this place, and the items he really needs were far at the lower floor of the labyrinth.

Everytime his demon servants got items from the place or from a monster kill, they would immediately bring it back to Sien who would readily receive the precious items his demon servants brought to him.

Now that Sien reached his target level, it is now time to go down the 2nd floor, but doing that without preparation would doom his life, as the entirety of Ogre Warrior's Clan base are blacking the way, it wasn't just that, as the 2nd floor will only open when the Ogre Chief leading the whole Ogre Warriors were killed or dies. Without killing the Ogre Chief or wiping out their entire clan members, it would be impossible to break through without fighting them.

So Sien who even have the magnificent robe given by the Prince can't do anything but fight the whole clan head on.