The Fat Boar

The stagnant smell of cheap beer flooded the place, and of course, the floor was sticky with the remnants of wine. In a few words, it's a place where normal people won't even budget. The lack of illumination was ideal for shady deals and for people looking to lay low for some time, the best place for Raven. 

'30 copper coins' She thought closing her eyes while enjoying a cheap beer, she also had some hard bread from the morning 'It's enough to buy one cheap low-quality potion' 

She slammed the empty mug against the dirty table. She felt ready to start the second act. It has been a week since she came to this dungeon city, after being lucky enough to escape from that cold cell at Rootspour prison and evading a terrible life as a slave.

'Cursed summoned hero and his party of lackeys' She thought remembering the humiliation suffered at her defeat 'One strike' She sighted 'That blondie brute only had to strike me once with the back of his sword to put me out of combat'

The death of her comrades was in vain but expected; they weren't rivals for a hero. After all, those foolish kings broke the taboo of this world and started to summon people from beyond. Just being skilled wasn't relevant anymore. It was all about levels now, and that magic they called stats and class after all the world was broken beyond repair now, even the dungeon, which appeared as a curse upon this land didn't exist before this all started. 

'『Status Open』'

Name: Raven

Race: Beastman (Cat Clan)

Level: 1

Class: Clown

Strength: 3

Endurance: 6

Agility: 3

Dexterity: 4

Intellect: 7

Luck: 10

Skills

*Masquerade lvl 1

*Emergency Illusion (Passive)

*Fire Butterfly Swarm lvl 1

*Footwork lvl 2

*Daggers lvl 3

She held an uncommon class. According to those who understand, it was a mixture of a rogue and a mage. Even so, she didn't have spells like a mage, nor the agility and dexterity of a rogue. She also didn't have high offensive spells or subtlety skills, so, she would always be an unwanted piece of any competent party. Also, her name appeared in red letters because of her status as a criminal. 

"Tch!" She clicked her tongue in frustration 'Someday I will be stronger, stronger enough to take my revenge against that asshole and his whole party' 

Tomorrow will be the big day. She will challenge the dungeon to gain the power she lacked, it sounded so perfect, so easily, and she wondered why she hadn't done this before. But... she wouldn't rush, at least not without one healing potion. 

"Hey, Raven!" Screamed a drunkard "Looking good!" 

"Hmn"

The girl just looked away ignoring the guy who came to see her, as she just tried her best to not be bothered by him.

"C'mon don't be like that" Said the guy sitting in front of her as he was ogling her with his eyes. 

"What do you want Wormtongue?" She said in a harsh tone, she was growing annoyed with him.

Rewinding time, he was the lucky straw needed to escape the prison, a corrupted guard in charge of disposing of the bodies of the dead, who had a nasty tendency to get lost in the roads, or so he says, because he likes to come to this remote place like this to drink and waste the kingdom money on women. 

"It's Wormhonge, no Wormtongue!" He replied but then he cleared his throat "I come with news young cat chief, news about our common enemy"

This immediately captured her attention, and he laughed because she changed attitude, their common enemy, Takeshi, a hero from a distant place with cheat-like abilities that rendered common people like incompetent fools. Now, in the case of Wormhonge, he is ugly, his face looks almost like a rat, and he is getting bald and losing teeth, and of course got called grotesque by the hero when he brought Raven to the prison, that why he despises him too, something she abused to get on his good side to plan her escape. 

"Shut up Wormtongue and tell me the news!" 

"Okay!" He said as he saw the danger glinting in her eyes, the time for games was over "He is currently helping in a village near the Carcass Mountains with a monster causing a plague!" That place was on the way to the dungeon city "And he expressed his wishes to come here to gain greater power!"

'That's not fair!' She thought as the news sank in, she was expecting something like this to happen, but not this soon. 

Luck 10? That was the irony of her life. All her life was marked by misery, yet she always survived, but that could be considered good luck!? 

"Hey worry not, I am not a great person?" His smile became creepy as he slammed the table with his fist making the empty mug of Raven fall to one side "Today I met someone interesting who is willing to meet you, he will wait for you near the Dungeon's southern gate tomorrow morning at first light, but you must be fast before someone claims the price"

And so her debt to this disgusting human being kept getting bigger, if she just could get rid of him she would, but sadly she still needed him. 

"Then tomorrow I will meet this person".

The waitress brought two mugs of beer, one for Raven and the other for Wormhonge, as she looked at him annoyed for dropping the other mug. 

"That's the spirit chief, and then you will be grateful to me!" 

And of course, the cat pays and the hard work to buy the potion fades.