Ruins(2)

Marco was laughing like he had finally lost his mind. This continued for 10 minutes. After laughing, he took his short sword out and stabbed all the Frenzied bats on the ground.

Even the Frenzied Bats deep inside smelled Marco's abundantly flowing blood and wanted a share. So the number of paralysed bats was nearly 15. Marco stabbed all of them and finally levelled up to level 8.

After that, Marco sat down cross-legged and took out the cactus fruit.

Cactus fruit- a fruit that takes 1 hour to fully absorb, and it gives resistance to any one poison at random. But that is the only information known to normal players.

There is a bug in Dungeons and Thrones!! If you get hit continuously by the same type of poison and use a cactus fruit after you cleanse it, you will always get resistance to the same type of poison you just got hit with.

Now, Marco was hesitant to absorb the fruit. This was a replica of the game Dungeons and Thrones but there are no NPCs like the game. Fear consumed him as he had a thought. What if the bug was not replicated?!

Marco, who was not scared of pain and death while running, now feared for the bug to not exist. This bug will not make a big impact on his gameplay, but throughout the game, there are a lot of bugs that the creators chose to ignore.

Dungeons and Thrones was definitely a dying game so the developers gave up on the game. This allowed Marco to find not 1 or 2 but several bugs. Among these bugs, some are insignificant in the long run, and some are crucial for clearing the dungeon bosses.

These bugs were also the reason Marco won against the Angel of Death on his first try!!

There was only one way to find out. Marco sat down and started absorbing the cactus fruit.

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A dark figure was standing in a room which was covered in blue. " Status report," said the dark figure. A tall, white-haired woman answered him. This woman had a blue ring above her and a cold gaze coming from her face. This woman was none other than Ganymede. Among the 8 billion humans, only 500 million are alive. Many teamed up with others, only to be killed by stronger monsters or their own kind. "

The dark figure raged, " THESE MONGRELS ONLY KNOW HOW TO WASTE LIFE AND RUN THEIR MOUTH BUT FAIL TO DEFEND THEMSELVES ". His anger started to cause mini-storms inside the room. He calmed down and said, "How did they survive until now?".

He raged at the fact that Earth has more life than him. He raged that Earth only has one life assistant while he has 95 life assistants. He attacked Ganymede to calm his anger.

Ganymede stood there silently, not a single sign of resistance or surprise, and was sent flying to the corner of the room with that attack.

He only saw Ganymede as a tool to achieve his goal. He never cared for his life assistants in any way. He would treat them as mere toys to calm himself down. " Get out!!!" Said the dark figure in rage.

After Ganymede left, the dark figure said silently,, " These humans have made no big contributions yet. It looks like things will go my way without contacting that woman ".

Outside the room, Ganymede was wondering what made her lord change so much. As she started walking, Callisto saw her. She saw the face of Ganymede, which was now bleeding with bluish grey liquid. Callisto shouted, " Mother! Did he do it again?!"

Ganymede shut Callisto's mouth before her voice could be heard by anyone. Callisto said, " Mother, our lord is not the same person anymore. Please, I think we need to reconsider our plan. We cannot put our hopes on mere humans who cannot even protect themselves ".

Ganymede replied, "We can only hope that they succeed. As there is trash in every environment, there are also gems hidden in this environment. Gems that shine brightly when their lives are at stake. We can only hope the time will come and trust them".

Callisto could not understand why her mother was giving so much importance to these beings, but she could not talk back and simply nodded her head.

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Marco absorbed the cactus fruit and swiftly checked his status window.

NAME: Marco ????

CLASS: Undying survivor

TRAITS: Undying Warrior

SUBCLASSES: Explorer, Dissecter, Medic

LEVEL: 8

SKILLS: Poison resistance(paralysis)[P,E,1] ; Emergency treatment[A,E,1]

STR: 28

DEX: 33

VIT: 18

DEF: 18

END: 33

PER: 18

INT: 18

WIS: 18

LUC: 28

CHA: 18

UNALLOCATED STATPOINTS: 30

The skill area which showed 'none' before now showed "poison resistance(paralysis)[P, E,1]"

The ' P ' meant it is a passive skill that remains activated at all times without consuming any mana or stamina. The ' E ' meant that this skill was an E rank skill.

All the skills from Dungeons and Thrones are ranked from F-rank to SSS-rank. The cactus fruit can help the user gain a random poison resistance passive skill ranging from F-rank to E-rank. The 1 denotes the level of the skill. This skill levels up every time it is used. So, to level this skill up,, he needs to be hit with more paralysis poison.

Marco, being the perfectionist he is, wanted to stab himself with the poison arrows to level up his skill, but he knew this was not the time for that.

He was in the middle of a dungeon, and his antidote ( emergency treatment ) was on cooldown, and more importantly, he was sitting on one health!!!

Marco chose to hold on to his stat points so that he could use them in case of emergencies later.

Marco stood up with both excitement and fear. He did not gain any health-restoring items from choosing the Medic subclass. He only gained the Emergency treatment skill. The only other way was to eat the raw meat and hope not to get the Sick status effect.

Sick status effect - all stats drop by 50%, and the player will randomly vomit every hour until his stomach is empty.

But the raw meat he had in his hand was limited, so he now has to make a CHOICE. A choice so big that it will influence his dungeon raid. Either eat now or hope to clear the 3rd area with one health!!!

The monsters in the second area were the Frenzied Bats that Marco killed. The second area was relatively small, only having a distance of about 200 meters.

Marco chose to leave it to god and opened the door at the end of the hallway. He wondered as he opened the door. He would have died miserably if the second area also had a door.

Marco made sure to note that he should add more points to luck. He entered the third area, hoping to be an easy one,, only to be treated with walls.

Yes, walls, a lot of them in fact, were arranged in a different order in front of him.

The pressure from clearing the other areas got to Marco. Marco took a deep breath and shouted, " YOU WANT ME TO CLEAR A F**KING MAZE WITH ONE HEALTH?????? "