Louie looked out over the gathered people in front of the tower. He saw Sally talking to the Viljoen sisters and the captain was in a deep discussion with Kotce and Leon.

'Huh, when did Sally arrive back?'

Celia had just finalised the last couple of orders with the Major and Craig. The rest of the people were checking their armour and weapons and doing some last-minute adjustments while golem spiders were running all over the place.

He shook his head as he looked at the dog size spiders.

Everybody was wearing Dungeon bought armour till Louie could figure out how to fix the problem he had with his spell.

Sally hugged the Viljoen sisters.

"Remember, don't blame the children for the sins of the father." They nodded and said their Goodbyes.

Louie hugged Joe. "Keep well, Brother. I will be back as soon as I can."

Louie saw five guards walking towards them, wearing Dungeon bought backpacks.

"What's this?"

Joe turned around and saw where he was looking.

"Ow, we talked last night after you left and decided to send five Guards with you, caravan guards, this caravan benefits the town so why not, they volunteered, there were a lot of volunteers, we chose the five with the best stats."

Louie shook his head. "You sure?"

"Yip. Don't worry we will be ok, you just be careful out there Louie, there have been no sightings of the Terrorapes the last four days and that worries me."

"Yeah me too, that's why I placed those last ten ballistas on the walls, keep them manned."

Joe nodded as Louie turned around.

Let's get going!" They started walking towards the gate.

As they left the gate everybody seemed to tense up. They clutched their weapons and the spiders felt the tension as they ran around or jumped on a full-sized BOB's back for a lift. When there was no immediate attack everybody relaxed a bit.

Louie had made sure that everyone was issued with a mana crossbow and how to use it and he saw that nearly everybody had a couple of sheaths with lightning spikes or nozzles.

He fell back till he was walking next to Leon.

"You showed them how to use the spikes?"

"Yes, it was surprisingly simple, but some will still have to work on their aim a bit."

"Good, well this trip should give them plenty of time to get experience with them."

Soon after leaving Starter Town, they received the notice stating them leaving its territory.

Attention

You are now leaving the settlement area of Starter Town.

Be advised that the spawn rate of monsters will increase to normal and the monster's debuffs are removed

They left Starter Town following the road this morning and Louie had hoped that they would reach the turnoff where the road turn left to join the N1 to Paarl on the latest that evening, but something was wrong. They haven't run into any TerrorApes, they haven't even reached the old tunnel yet.

People were starting to get nervous. Louie could hear the people mutter.

"This is wrong." "We have been travelling for hours and haven't sighted anything." "Where is the tunnel?"

The further they moved away from Starter Town the more they saw strange flowers and trees, even some strange creatures that fled as soon as they noticed Louie and his group of people.

Louie noticed that now and then they would travel through a section where the surrounding rocks had a strange red colour and texture.

"The mountains looked strange. I'm no geologist but this doesn't look natural. It looks like somebody took two mountain ranges and mashed them together. The strata just gut off and then there are whole different layers going in a different direction." Louie pointed the anomalies out to his people who were as baffled as him.

Later that afternoon they took a break next to a small stream of water that ran down the cliff face alongside the road. The water ran over the road where the drain had collapsed and was hungrily absorbed into the red rock before it could tumble over the cliff.

"I don't like this." They were all sitting and having something to eat and some of the others were starting to voice the same concerns. "Stay calm, Chris we will get there."

"I know, but the old tunnel is only one and a half kilometres away from the Huguenot tunnel. We have been travelling for over six hours, we should have reached it already, and look at the mountains, these peaks are huge."

Louie sighed. "I know, I think it might have to do with Gaea. As you saw, I have been looking at the rock formation, and I think I know what's going on. Open your reports and re-read your message from Gaea, No 7."

They all searched for the original message from Gaea.

All planet's mass and size will be adjusted to fit what I think is suitable for living beings.

"I think that the earthquakes you guys experienced in those first 24hours, I think that was Gaea using the magic to change the landscape, I know she isn't vindictive, I think she might have placed that extra landmass on fault lines and mountains, under the sea and in desserts and stuff. Luckily she recreated the roads or we might have been lost."

Louie picked a flower and put the stem between his teeth to chew on something.

Leon swore. "If you are right then this quick trip to Paarl has just turned into a long journey."

"I have never said that it would be a quick trip. But I had hoped so."

Sher took a seat next to him.

"I checked everybody out. There are no injuries, only minor bruises and a couple of scrapes."

"Thanks, Sher."

"Huh?"

Herb Lore (passive)

Stop and analyse the plants now and then. You might find useful plants to make potions, even poisons.

Level 0: gives a 2% chance to discover useful plants around you. A small idea on how to process them.

Give more information at higher levels

Leon looked up at him, "What's up Boss."

Louie removed the flower stem from his mouth. "I just unlocked Herb-Lore."

He looked at the flower. 'Why not?'

Golden Cleome (common)

Golden Cleome or Yellow Mouse-whispers. Cleome is a delicate, open-branched herb with thin compound leaves. The yellow flowers have purple bases and distinctive protruding stamens. Quite common along roadsides.

Can be eaten as a vegetable.

Can be used in potions for its healing qualities

"Well, I'll be damned." Louie held out the flower and shared the BB. "I would suggest that everybody plucks a flower here and gets the Herb-Lore skill; it might just save your life one day."

Ten minutes later all of them had unlocked the skill.

Most plants were analysed as earth variants but some were different.

Bluemana lichen (common)

A type of lichen that often grows abundantly during system introduction events, this type can be used in alchemy. It is a fast-growing resource that grows on rocks near waterfalls and has properties to enhance potions. Alchemists tend to keep a huge stock on hand.

They stopped and helped Sher gather all the lichen that they could find. According to Sher, her shows that it was one of the main ingredients for potion-making.

They set off again and Louie marvelled at the beauty around him. The semi-desert that the region was before the pulse has turned into a lush forest.

In some places the road was no more than two meters wide and where the road was badly damaged he took some time to fix the worst with since he hoped that the guys could travel the road regularly with the trade caravan. The lush forest came up the mountain and at some places, the trees overhang the road.

It was beautiful but such sites made Louie wary because, in nature, beauty usually meant there was danger ahead and the overhanging trees made it easy for creatures to drop on them from overhead.

There was some commotion to the right and the spiders brought the body of a strange six-legged red ape-like creature and dragged it up to the road for them to see. It was analysed as a Desert Apt

Desert Apt (rare) deceased

The Apt is a rare and fierce predator, able to go for a whole month without sleep.

They inhabit the central region of Backness, not much is known how they live but the infamous Boneridge Caves are rumoured to be their hunting grounds.

Sher squatted next to the body. Ansie prodded it before walking to the edge of the road.

"Six legs, this is not something that evolved from earth, if you are correct and this terrain is from the other planets, then these must be creatures that Gaea made or the system evolved to populate those worlds."

"There is no life on the other planets, how can mana evolve something that does not exist?"

Leon looked at the paws and retractable claws of the apelike creature. "We have only studied the other planets through telescopes, hell I think not even 1% of Mars has been studied by the Mars rovers. There might be living creatures deep in caves or even fossils that the mana could influence."

"Gaea told me that there used to be life on the other planets and that the merger of the planets had some unforeseen effects. I guess that she had to step in and use her judgement." Louie poked it and shook his head.

"Whose spider killed the creature?" Shadow appeared and stroked her strange spider, Selina.

"Can I take this body? I would like to study it a bit tonight." She said it was ok.

Nobody else objected so he had her first loot it before he immediately stored it in his bracelet.

He asked her for the BB of the loot and they moved out.

'Bloody hell, all we need are some 5metre tall White Ape to come strolling out of the trees.'

Desert Apt Loot

2 silver coins

Mana core

White Apt hide

12 x claws

4 x fangs

Cave Map. A map that marks the location of a nearby cave where the Apt had its nest.

'Nice, a map, well it's hers, so she can do with it what she wants. Wonder what is a mana core?'

The rest of the day was uneventful.

They had decided to camp right there next to the road. Louie had created a shallow cave in the cliff with 5 bunk beds against the back wall and an opening just big enough for the pitched tent. The group has been divided into two teams which will take turns each night sleeping in the tent.

The group outside will take turns standing guard while their spiders scour the mountainside and forest. The spiders spun silk between the trees and each one of them would take turns to monitor the tripwires.

Last Night it was his team that drew the short straw and had to stand guard and sleep outside and Louie wasn't a morning person but he forced himself out of his bedroll and towards the fire.

They finished up with breakfast and decided to leave the camps as an overnight spot for when the caravans were doing regular runs.

There was lots of movement in the trees and on the mountain slopes but with all the spiders out moving around the convoy, the possibility of them getting caught unawares was slim.

Just before noon, they were attacked by what looked like a pack of short ugly diseased werewolves. Louie snapped off an as he leapt at the leading monster.

Demodin Foxkin (common)

This mutated Foxkin is diseased. His fox has mutated into Demodin Foxkin, the Demodin has curved horns and sharply pointed ears. It also has red glowing eyes. A foul-smelling ink-like substance drips from its horns and teeth caused by an unknown disease. Its lower legs are also covered in an inky black substance, and its claws and paw pads are crusted with leaking boils.

Reaching the lead monster, Louie raised the blade of the naginata over his head and brought it down toward the hairy head of the monster. It raised its arms to block the blow, but the sharp edge of the blade cut right through them both. The momentum of the blade enabled Louie to split the creature's head in two.

Reversing his grip, he tugged and pulled downward at the same time, the blade tearing a wider, deeper cut on its way through its chest. Using the momentum Louie spun and twisted to his left and slashed the other creature along its side, severing its left lower leg.

Continuing the movement he rolled onto his right shoulder and jumped to his feet.

He was now behind the front rank of demodin, he swung around and brought the blade across the back of the creatures in the front and twisted and drove the blade of the naginata forward and leaned into it, driving the point of his naginata deep into another Demodin’s brain.

It swiped at Louie's arm, but there was no power behind it. Louie chose a new target, and cast through the naginata the moment the blade entered the creature. The creature began to thrash about, he ripped the spear outward slicing through one paw, a reverse swing took off yet another.

Louie spun around, trailing the spear behind him and using his body’s centerline as a lever. The force of the blow when the spear connected embedded the blade deep in the monster’s neck nearly severing it. Ripping it out he shoved it into the chest of a creature right behind the one he had just killed.

Louie pushed, shoving the weapon deeper, and at the same time pushing the creature back into another one. He released the airblade just as he saw another Foxkin leap at him and tried to stop and redirect the airflow. Something unexpected happened. The two Foxkin on his blade exploded.

He laid in shock at the carnage the blast had caused. BOB took out a Foxkin that tried to sneak up on Louie as he struggled to his feet.

He saw two of the creatures were stunned and grinned as he got an idea. The nearest one was badly injured with a missing arm. He grabbed his naginata and moved so that the badly wounded beast was between him and the other one.

He saw a flash out of the corner of his eye and before he could react he was sideswiped and smashed into the rocks. As he got to his feet he noticed his naginata was gone.

He did a front roll between two foxkin barely dodging a claw swipe and grabbed a discarded spear, kicking back he hit the foxkin that swiped at him sending it staggering into Leon's direction who promptly removed it head.

Pulling back his spear, he stepped forward and stabbed it into the chest of the nearest monster. It punctured deep but did not kill the mob. Louie put his back into the thrust and shoved forward, dismissing the claws trying to rip the arm apart, he used his body weight to push the spear through the monster, out its back, and into a second monster, using all his strength he move the struggling monsters and lined them up and forced the blade into another trapping three of the remaining mobs. By this time the first Foxkin had died from internal injuries. Kotche stepped past Louie to slash the second one, killing it.

The move caused all three monsters to fall, the still-living one in the back struggling to rid itself with the corpses pinned to it. It continued to lash out until he channelled through the spear and into the mobs, killing them immediately and setting the bodies alight.

He saw that the fight was over and his mobs were the last three.

Skewer

The skewer ability is used to place popular cubes of meat on a stick and grill it on an open fire. It is traditionally made of lamb but there are also versions with various kinds of monster meat, poultry, or fish. In some worlds, the vegetables served with it are grilled separately, normally not on the same skewer.

Skewered meat will taste 50% better.

"What the fuck, are you serious?"

Louie kicked the charred bodies over and noticed that the spear had gone through the monsters and skewered something that looked like a pumpkin underneath. He started laughing.

They had agreed and worked out a routine where they would hold off looting the monsters till Micheal was near. They looted the monster and he would immediately store the body in his bracelet for skinning and harvesting later. All of them that went through the Dungeon had bought the stealth, tracking, camping and harvesting skills, which highlighted the organs that can be used by alchemists.

Sher being the only alchemist in the group was quick to make Micheal promise not to start harvesting till she was with him to gather the organs for later experiments. She had bought over twenty Cook's pantry Bracelets that she was going to swap out to store all her components.

6 X Demodin Foxkin Loot

12 x crystal horns

16 x poisoned claws

4 x Diseased meat

6 x Tattered hide

4 x veil of puss

1 x toothed trap

"Damn, diseased creatures, wonder where they picked it up?"

About two hours later they found out where the disease came from and why there were no TerrorApe attacks.

They smelled it before they saw it, it smelled like somebody dumped a lot of blood in an open sewer.

To Louie, it was a smell he had experienced before, the smell of a slaughter yard or the smell of a massacre.

The road made a sharp bend and as they cautiously rounded the corner they came upon the scene, it looked like a slaughter yard.

In the middle of the road was a creature that looked like a worm, if a worm were the size of a commuter train, 4meters in diameter and at least 20meters long with the face like an open blender lined with shark teeth.

It was laying on the road and more than half hanging down the side of the mountain rolled against the trees, totally blocking the road.

There were dead and dying TerrorApes and other creatures laying all over the place.

The air was thick with the stink of blood and ruptured organs and the sickly sweet smell of rot and disease. The rot and black pus were leaking from its open mouth and the spines that covered its body.

It was near death from its wounds and feebly struggling to reach an injured TerrorApe that was trying to crawl away.

"Fuck me." Louie wasn't the only person to step back in fear.

Leon drew his lightning wand and killed the Ape, not because he felt sorry for it but because it was crawling in their direction and the worm was following it.

Louie used on the worm

Juvenile Rockcrusher Wyrm Level ????

This extremely rare Juvenile rockworm was caught in an anomaly that transformed and mutated its Earth affinity SlimeGland, secreting a virulent disease and it has been slowly driving the worm mad, this normally gentle creatures' simple brain has been affected by the mutated slime that its own body creates to breakdown and devour rock and turned it into a pain-filled vicious killing machine that will try and destroy everything in its path.

Their skins are very tough and the teeth are made from diamond and are used to crush rock and then the extracted metals will dissolve and seep into the bones making them highly prized but very dangerous creatures. Mature wyrms have been known to attack and destroy underground cities and are nearly unkillable.

HP 250/?????

MP????

"Damn, where did this thing come from and are we going to try and kill it? It looks like it's on its last legs."

Louie looked around and noticed a lot of smashed trees and rocks around the giant worm. He looked up at the slope.

"I think it came from up there," he pointed at the fresh scars on the mountainside. "I think it's a subterranean beast and the disease drove it crazy. I think it didn't notice where it was and it broke through the rock wall and fell down the cliff, rolling into the Apes territory."

Leon, Christian and Sher moved closer since they will be the main fighters, shadow will be the sneaky assassin and Kotche will be in charge of the rest that will be watching the flanks and rear.

Celia will be sitting out as she will be watching over Naomi, even though she stood ready to fight with her daggers that looked more like short swords in her small hands.

Louie threw a quick at the dead TerrorApe.

Dinopithecus(TerrorApe) Deceased

Dinopithecus is also known as TerrorApes, was an extinct genus of very large primate closely related to the baboon that lived during the Pliocene to the Pleistocene epoch of South Africa. Due to the abundance of mana these baboons have devolved to the apex predator they once were. Dinopithecus alpha males weighed about 80 kg, these TerrorApes are twice that.

TerrorApes are territorial pack animals that have the ability

Troops usually consist of up to 50 mature Apes.

Clarion Call

This ability is a favourite among barbarians, Clarion Call will allow the barbarian to raise a call for assistance when he or she is attacked. The ability will drive all responders into a Bloodlust which will increase their damage output by 20%.

"Fuck me." Louie shared the BB with those around him and everybody that wasn't alert before now drew their wands and nervously started watching the surroundings.

Celia had a quick look before she pulled back behind the rocks and started retching. She wiped her mouth and took a sip of water for a rinse.

"That's nasty, there are 32 bodies that I can see."

"How can you be so sure?" Louie wanted to know.

"It's a merchant class skill. Just by looking, I can know how many items are in a pile without having to count them, handy for counting coins."

"Ok." He saw Naomi standing behind her mother with a rebellious look on her face

Louie was scared of leaving the impulsive youngster alone. She was arguing with her mother as she wanted to join the fighters.

He bent down to talk with her.

"You know this is a trading caravan, right?" She nodded. "Well that makes your mom the most important person here since she has the merchant class, so she can't fight now and we need somebody to guard and protect her, can you do that?"

The little girl stood up straight and nodded solemnly as she started searching the trees for possible attackers.

Louie stood up and winked at a relieved Celia as he turned back to the fighters.

"So how are we going to do this?"

They all took a quick peek at the weakly struggling worm.

"The skin looks more like armour plating, I doubt that our weapons would do much damage, have you seen the claws on those Apes? It doesn't look like it did much damage either. I also think we should keep the spiders and BOB away from that thing, the BB says that the slime dissolves metal." Leon studied the dead TerrorApe.

Christian spoke up. "Why don't we use the lightning wands?"

Louie shook his head, "I don't think it would do much damage, it is an earth affinity beast so think it would just ground the strikes. I would like to have this body, can we store it in a bracelet somehow?"

Sher shook her head. "It's too big. The bracelet only has 10sq, that thing would take hundreds of sq, you can try to cut it up while it's still alive and then store the pieces." She smirked.

"Yea. I thought of trapping sections in stone but this is a creature that eats and travels through rock the same as another person swims through water."

Cristian perked up. "Lightning!" "As I said, it won't work."

"Aah, I was thinking more from the inside." That got their attention.

"How?" Leon asked

"It's barely moving and it has that nice big opening for a mouth, so I could pour water down its throat and you guys light it up with the lightning wands."

They looked at each other, "that might work."

"Ok, we will try it your way, Christian." Louie slapped him on his shoulder.

"Just call me Chris, everybody at school did."

Everybody nodded.

"I'm going to see if I can get past and try to cut a piece of its tail off. I know worms don't have skeletons but the BB states that this one has bones and I think it broke its back that's why it got half its body laying down the slope."

They thought he was crazy but didn't try to stop him either.

Louie told BOB to stay and guard the sisters and look after Naomi, while he made his way up the side of the slope where it looked like the worm rolled down.

He reached the spot directly above the worm and saw that it had impacted a sharp rock edge and it had severed nearly three-quarters of its spine. The worm was actually laying on its side and only the first couple of sections showed any life. He sends them a message through his OCD.

'Leon, I was right, its spine is broken, before you do anything let me get down there and see what I can do, Louie'

Louie moved closer to the edge and saw a boulder that had split and left a sharp edge. 'Must have dropped down with its back on the edge.'

He leaned over the edge and saw the worm 4meters below blocking the road. He noticed that the broken-off piece of the boulder had cut nearly right through the worm and was still wedged inside its back; it didn't look like the slime had done any damage to the sharp rock. Also, the slime on the damaged part of the body was dry and flaking away.

'Damn only the front section is working and still, it took out a whole troop of TerrorApes.'

He took a big rock and dropped it on the worm and there was no response.

He dropped onto the worm's back and saw the big eyes of his people as they stared at him.

'Leon, I'm going to cut this section off so you guys can start, get everybody to hit it even Naomi, even if it's just with a rock, everybody should get participation reward, Louie'

'Louie, ok but you are one crazy fucker, Leon'

He equipped Drake and activated the blade, firing an elemental ice burst into the wound and jammed the vibrating blade between two armour sections and cut through the last meter wide selection of meat severing the dead section of the body. He quickly inventoried it knowing that it will still decay but much slower than out on the road. There was an earth-shattering roar and something hit him in the chest throwing him against the cliffside and everything faded to black.

Louie coughed as he opened his eyes and saw nothing but notifications, he weakly waved them all away and looked up into a worried Mainey's face.

"Here drink this, I could only heal your crushed sternum, the potion will deal with the rest of the chest injuries."

Louie struggled to get the potion down but soon he felt the warm glow as the potion started working, he was just glad that Mainey could straighten his sternum before he woke, he didn't think he could have handled the pain of the bones realigning.

"What happened?" He asked between the choughs as he got rid of the old pieces of tissue and blood.

Mainey helped him to his feet, "I don't know, we all shot at it with our wands and it exploded." She got tears in her eyes, "one of the guards was killed and Francine is hurt badly. I think her spine is damaged, there was a big piece of worm armour sticking out between her shoulders.

Louie hobbled over, with Mainey's help, to where Sher was still working on Francine.

He looked away from the body draped under a blanket as he knelt next to her.

'Look to the living first, mourn the dead after.'

"Hi kiddo, how are you doing?"

She was crying as she laid on her stomach, he took her right hand as Deidre held her left while tears rolled down her cheeks.

"I can't feel my legs, Master." She had called him Master before when she thought she had done something wrong.

"Shh, I'm not your Master, kiddo. I'm your friend, and you did nothing wrong, accidents happen."

Louie looked enquiring over her shoulder at Sher, who sighed.

"Her spinal column was severed. I don't know why but I got a BB saying that my isn't high enough to fix the damage, and I don't know why the health potions aren't working?" Francine cried harder while she clung to Louie's hand, she squeezed so hard he felt her ring dig into his palm.

He looked down at her hand. . .

"Shit!" He leaned down to look her in the eye. "Did you use your ring?"

It took a moment for his words to penetrate her tears.

"My ring? What about my ring?"

He smiled as he used

Hygieia's Kiss

This ring was lovingly crafted for a Daughter's wedding and will restore the wearer to full health once a day, recharge by holding it up to kiss the first sunlight at dawn.

Charges: 1/1

Cooldown: 24hours

He shared the BB with her,

"You forgot? This is a magical ring." He releases her hand and asks everybody to take a step back.

Louie didn't want there to be any interference with the spell workings. He concentrated hard to see if he could see any changes as she brought her hands together as if in prayer and activated the spell in the ring.

For a second Louie thought he saw something like a heat ripple pass from the ring down her arms and into her back.

Francine screamed as her back spasmed from the spell taking effect.

Sher reached her first and touched her back while she cast .

"Wow, her back is healed, the ring healed her."

Deidre sobbed as she sat down next to her blood-covered little sister and gathered her in her arms.

Louie helped Sher to her feet. "How is she?"

"She is good, out for the moment, that spell took a lot out of her but she is healed."

Louie looked at the covered body next to the road. "I wish we could all be so lucky, what happened?"

Leon stepped up. "Everything went as planned, Christian firehosed water down the worm's throat and when he was done we all zapped it, then it exploded."

"Explode?"

"Yes, I think there might have been something inside the worm that reacted badly with the mixture of water and electricity."

Louie was still looking at the guard's body.

"He was hit on the head by a piece of worm and while he was dazed a rock fell from the cliff and crushed his skull."

Louie shook his head, "to survive the pulse and everything and then to die from a falling rock."

The other guards came forward and wrapped him in the blanket. "He always had poor luck, he joked about raising his luck stat now that we can, but he never did." One of his friends said.

Louie offered to place him in an empty spatial bracelet to be buried when they reach Starter Town again, or whenever his friends decide they want to bury him and they agreed.

Afterwards, Louie walked up to the leftover remains of the worm and saw that there wasn't much remaining so he took out another bracelet and started collecting all the loose pieces filling three bracelets up.

He reached out and looted the big piece and then stored it in his Cook's Pantry Bracelet, just that one piece filled the bracelet, luckily he had bought a box full of them, for himself and to trade in Paarl.

They quickly loot all the TerrorApe bodies and all the others that were mixed in, before they move out carrying Francine away from the massacre.

It was about an hour later that Louie decided they should make camp for the day and he quickly moulded another campsite in a cliff face.

They all sat around the campfire while the spiders crawled through the area around the camp.

Leon was first to speak up.

"That was messed up, what was that thing's level?"

Louie opened his notifications.

Congratulations

Your team has killed a Junior Regional Boss (Juvenile), for being the first to accomplish this feat, each team member receives the title: OFS (One Finger Salute).

The holders of this title declare that they don’t give a shit if you are a Boss, they will bring you down.

Title grants you:

+30% Damage dealt when fighting something higher level than you.

-30% Damage received when fighting something higher level than you.

“Fuck, it was a World Boss, well a regional Boss."

They were all shocked, well the gamers among them were shocked.

“What is a regional Boss?” Celia wanted to know

“In games, Bosses were the final creature that you have to kill, like the last big Golem in the Dungeon, that was a Boss, the Dungeon Boss,” Leon explained

Chris looked thoughtful, “how big is a region?”

Louie shook his head. “I don't know, but I think we were extremely lucky, we should not have been able to kill that worm. There were so many things against the worm that it did not stand a chance.”

He raised his fingers at every point he made. “First, It was still young, the BB said ‘Juvenile’, it was outside its domain, it was diseased, it fell down a mountain, it broke its back, it had a giant rock knife shoved through its body and lastly it seemed to have been fighting TerrorApes for about a week, steadily growing weaker before we showed up. Hell, it only had 250 Hit Points left out of how many thousands?”

Leon agreed. “we were very lucky, I don't think we were supposed to meet up with it now and not in that shape, World Bosses are usually Raid targets, in one game I played it took 12 clans to kill one raid boss, that's over a thousand players, we were very lucky here today, even if it was a Junior Boss.”

The next was also a title.

Congratulations

For killing a creature 20 Levels above your Level, you are granted the title: David.

You are David against his Goliath.

This title grant you:

+50% Gain in experience when fighting creatures 20 levels higher than you.

+50% Damage dealt when fighting creatures 20 levels higher than you.

-50% Damage received when fighting creatures 20 levels higher than you

‘Hopefully, I will never need this title.’

“It was higher than Level 30.”

They were all shocked. Kotche whistled, ”damn just think what level it would have been if it was mature.”

For killing a Junior Regional Boss (Juvenile) each team member receive:

50 000 exp

100 platinum coins

Class related item

“Damn that's 10 000 gold coins.”

“Yip, but we can only spend it at a vendor and that is only inside a Dungeon, but I would hang on to as much of that coin as possible, I think that sooner or later we will get the option to build system shops in system towns, places like Starter Town.”

Leon nodded before he asked, “Anybody levelled from the Boss?”

They shook their heads and all looked at Naomi.

She was asleep in her mothers' arms, this had raised her level to 8 a couple of hundred exp from lvl 9 but her status was still locked and will only unlock when she turns 16 or 17 they weren't sure about the precise time.

We have all gone through the Dungeon and are lvl 10 except Naomi

‘Back to the BBs.’

Juvenile Rockcrusher Wyrm Loot

Bag of diamonds

20 x Various metal ingots

1 x mutated slime gland

40 pieces Rockworm hide

1 x Rockworm mana core

1 x soulstone

1x spell cube (Soul Trap)

30 x various gems

He removed all the loot and placed it on a table that he raised. Everybody stepped up to the table to have a look at the loot, he moved the pieces of hide over to Michael, "I think you will have the most benefit from those."

Micheal laughed, "In five years perhaps, my leathersmith skill is too low to work with high-quality leather such as that, but I will hang on to it. I might learn something."

The metal ingots went to Derek, although he is only a Beginner Blacksmith, he is currently the highest with the skill, and some to Francine together with most of the gems to practice her jeweler skill.

Sher took the slime gland and some of the diseased meat for her alchemy.

Louie took the spell cube and divided the rest of the gems and diamonds between them all.

Louie looked at the glowing scroll that was in his inventory, he knew for a fact that there was no glowing scroll in his inventory when he dumped the worm carcass in there, and this system doesn't work with spell scrolls. He willed the scroll into his hand.

As he opened it he saw that it was a Deed for land.

He had received a Deed which included raising a Seeker’s academy and support buildings, he looked around and saw that each had received something related to their class. He found out the next morning that Naomi got a soulbound sealed chest that she can only open when her status unlocked, the chest didn't take up any sq in her inventory and once she had placed it inside it turned translucent and she couldn't remove it till she unlocked her status.

This night it was Louie's team's turn to sleep in the tent, he was sitting on his bed and looking at the spell cube in one hand while holding the soulstone in his other.

'What the hell must I do with this? only states that it can be used for crafting, I think I must keep this till I can speak to Joe in person, he might know more about this from those games he played.'

Louie placed the cube and gem in his inventory, making a note in his Journal to seek more knowledge about souls, soul trap and soulstones.

Status

Name:

Lewis (Louie) Poren

Race:

Human (Male) Lvl 11 305 865 – 409 600=lvl 12

Class:

Seeker (5) (25%).

Sub-classes:

(exterminator) (2%)

Titles:

Jack Black Brodifacoum, Trailblazer, Liberator. OFS (One Finger Salute) Dungeon pioneer David

Affinity:

Darkness

Statistics

Health points (HP):

484

Mana Points (MP):

429

Stamina (SP):

583

Critical Hit Chance

4%

Attributes

Strength:

22

Agility:

17

Constitution:

21

Perception:

20

Intelligence:

24

Willpower:

15

Charisma:

7

Luck:

5

Free attribute points:

0

Skills

Skill

Level

Progression

Wu shu

4

80/100

Improvised weaponry:

T1: 1

51/100

Glacial Rage:

6

30/100

Meditation

4

30/100

Regeneration:

7

88/100

Mana Manipulation:

7

60/100

Survival:

9

20/100

Cooking:

0

10/100

Restoration

5

05/100

Harvesting:

0

00/100

Herb Lore:

0

00/100

Whittling:

0

00/100

Pain resistance:

8

65/100

Poison resistance:

3

37/100

Cat`s eye:

2

14/100

Senses:

4

25/100

Armourer

5

95/100

System Minimap:

3

10/100

Cartography:

1

50/100

Public speaking:

0

00/100

Spell Transformation: *

1

25/100

Backstab:

0

00/100

Skewer:

0

00/100

Class Skill Proficiencies

Skill

Level

Progression

Investigation:

6

35/100

Tracking:

4

40/100

Intuition:

T1: 1

85/100

Analyze:

T1: 1

26 posted /100

Lore:

1

00/100

Spells

Spell

Level

Progression

Activation

Improvise:

T1: 0

0/100

Touch

Earth Manipulation:

T1: 9

46/100

Cast

Liquefaction:

2

00/100

Cast

Earth Sense:

2

40/100

Touch

Weapon Schematics:

9

70/100

Touch

Syphon:

0

00/100

Cast

Electrocute:

0

05/100

Cast

Suffocate

0

00/100

Cast

Waterboard

0

00/100

Cast

Cauterise

0

05/100

Touch

Shadow Step

0

05/100

Cast

Fear:

0

00/100

Cast

Concussion Blast:

0

00/100

Cast

Caravan members

Lewis (Louie) Poren: (leader ) Leon Koen: (2IC) pet (Seera: Black Widow) Sheralee Van de Merve: (Healer) pet (Ansi: Queen spider) Mainey Fish: (Medic, indentured) pet (Stitch: Orb Weaver spider) Celia Malan: (Merchant) pet (Jon: Goliath birdeater) Naomi Malan: (underage) pet (Blue: small jumping spider) Diedre Viljoen: (tailor, indentured) pet (Sisy: Weaver spider) Francine Viljoen: (Jeweller, indentured) pet (Bling: fantasy Crystal spider) Micheal Nasser: (leathersmith)pet (Rover: Huntsman spider) Derek Samuels: (begginer blacksmith) pet (Ember: fantasy fire spider) Kotche: (soldier) pet (Stomp, brown widow spider) Counsellor: (Wedge, spear)pet (wolfie: wolf spider ) Christian Else: (water mage) pet (Rob: blue Tarantula) Shadow: (scout) pet (Selina: Assassin spider) Jackson Pollok: (warrior) pet (Zephyr: Wolf spider) Debbie Poerstamper: (warrior) pet (Bar: big Spiny Orb-weaver) Withey: (warrior, guard) Sean: (air mage, guard) Barry: (warrior, guard) Garth: (ranger, guard) Heuwy: (warrior, guard)

TerrorApe (got from the web)

TerrorApe (got from the web)