First exit

It took him a lot of effort to retrieve the spear, which had been stuck in a crack in the cave wall. He dragged the goblin's body through the tunnel. He dragged it past the fork, towards the area of ​​light. He wanted to examine that body... It was indeed a goblin, or at least the image of that monster that had been described in so many fantasy games and books.

Its death had given him 5 experience points; it was much more experience than the rats gave...

He was surprised that he hadn't died after being skewered with the spear; it should have pierced his heart, that was strange; he had to understand that he had missed with his first blow.

Ikky took the crude knife that he had on his hip. It couldn't be considered a dagger; it was a single-edged knife made of malleable metal, probably copper.

After vomiting twice, he managed to cut the goblin's chest and put his hand in to search inside the body; As he suspected from the outcome of the fight, his heart was not on the left but on the right. This may seem like silly information, but if he wanted to play cat and mouse with the goblins in the dark, he'd better know something about their anatomy.

The shit-filled loincloth was no good for improvising shoes, so he dragged the corpse back and hid it in a hole in the tunnel he came through. He didn't worry about the traces of blood and shit. It was probably a mistake, but doing what his instinct told him, he proceeded to destroy the luminescent mushrooms. In the dark, it's harder to see a trace.

He entered the darkness again to explore the ascending tunnel on the left, the one he was missing. He would have liked to check the latrine a little more, but the nauseating smell put him off, and for now, encounters could be more frequent there. Given the amount of accumulated shit, it must be a busy place.

The tunnel slowly climbed, ascending, and soon narrowed until it reached what seemed like a dead end; however, something in the air was not normal; it was a current, although it was not coming from the front in the tunnel, the air was coming from above.

Without the selected ability to see a little in the dark, he would not have been able to detect that between the rocks and stalactites of the ceiling there was a gap that went up. To advance through it, he would have to climb the wall. He never liked climbing, but with the strength and agility of this body, it was not a difficult moment of climbing, but rather of tension to do something he was not used to in his other life. Moving his foot, looking for a place to hold on, pushing with his legs, pushing with his arm.

His hands hurt, but in the end he climbed up to what was a small ledge. To continue climbing, he had to discard both the spear and the shield. The climb itself was not vertical, but it was narrow, at a 70-degree angle, with some easier areas and others that were difficult. After an incalculable amount of time, light began to appear at the end, not a dim luminescence but natural light. When he was a meter from the exit, Data's voice echoed in his head.

"Congratulations on being the first player to reach the first exit of the dungeon; do you want to continue to the next stage?"

The easy thing would have been to end it like that, but Ikky was a cheater. What was going on with the hidden quests? Besides the experience points, he also had data to consider. The first was that the corpses did not disappear in a beam of light, so there was a good chance that the number of enemies would be stagnant, fixed, without respawn, unlike in the coliseum, where the rats returned again and again. The second was that this was not the exit, but one of them with which there was another possibility of escaping the area through a different place.

I slid down as best I could, falling, slipping and hitting myself. Ikky ended up deviating a little from his ascent route;

His hand landed on a ledge, but it was not rock he touched, it was bone and flesh. He stretched out his hand until he grabbed what looked like a foot (big for a goblin, small for a human). He didn't have much choice, so he dragged him towards him, but things don't happen like in the movies, so all he managed to do was tear off the corpse's leg.

It took him a full 5 minutes to retrieve the body and his belongings, and almost twice as long to get down the slope without him and the objects he was carrying falling and causing a scandal that would resonate throughout the cavern...

He was a humanoid about one meter and sixty tall, with broad shoulders, and a large head. The hands were wide, with bones more robust than those of a human anatomy.

The first thing was to retrieve my spear and shield that I had abandoned below and see if I could get some use out of this dead body.

Although my behavior was not logical, a cheater and an exploiter had a second basic rule: the first was to repeat until tired, the second was to leave nothing unexplored and the third was an exception to the first: only stop exploring if you run the risk of dying.

If he wanted to get the most out of the game, he had to start with the tutorial, as he had already explained to Mariela.

Would that work? Not that Ikky cared much or so he told himself; he had only gotten to know her a little the night before entering the game, but at the moment, it was his only contact with the outside world in this universe.

Many despised the tutorials; deep down, they were boring and one wished they would end so one could really discover the game. However, mathematics had certain rules that applied to games; bugs, exploits, and advantages tended to grow exponentially throughout the game, so the sooner you acquired those advantages, the more potential growth your character had.

Another rule for games with permanent death is that a poorly made character from the start would only end in a waste of time and unnecessary suffering.