Chapter 5

James left the teleporter with the two ladies and bid them goodnight and logged out of the game. When James opened his eyes, he could see that the pod’s door was already open. It took James a few seconds to get his bearings and got out of the pod.

As James walked into his house, he heard his sister on the phone. James made his way to the kitchen looking for something to eat. “James, your food is in the microwave.” He opened the microwave and found a hamburger and some fries.

While James was eating, his sister entered the room. “I made the call James.” “Thanks, it will make my life a whole lot easier.” After eating James went to bed and had a good night’s rest.

The next morning at 4am, he and his sister went for a run and did some martial arts sparring. James left for school at around 6am.

The pod opened and James entered. Logging on a few seconds later.

James went straight to the quest building, looked through the quests and found one that no other guild has touched.

The tomb of Ramies

Quest description. A client asks for the retrieval of Ramies Staff. Any guild that is interested, please inquire at the front desk of the quest building.

Level requirement: 1 to 3

Guild active: 0

Party number: 1 to 5

First clearance: Owns Dungeon (Guild that clears the dungeon first will have the right to charge other players a fee to enter the Dungeon)

James took the quest and inquired about the details at the front desk. It was your normal clear dungeon, “find a quest item and return for your rewards” type of quest. What was interesting about the quest was that the first clear has not been taken yet.

In the game as soon as a person dies, that person has to start over from level one again. So even a low-level dungeon owned by a guild would always be of use for players and Guilds.

James made his way to the teleporter and teleported himself to the underground. As he looked around, he saw that he was in a small village underneath the earth. Players were running around, restocking their potions and selling off their monster crystals for coin.

James headed out of the village, opened his map to see what direction he needed to go and started moving out. James followed the road and after a short walk, James left the road for a pathway that lead it to the depths of the underground. Following the pathway for about 500m when he came to a small clearing in the path. There where three giant rats moving about in the clearing. The clearance was about 4 meters wide and 5 meters long with some plants scattered around and vines growing on the face of the rock walls on the sides. James summoned the four beast souls. “Transform” The four beasts transformed in to their human forms.

“Yan take the one on the left, Ruo take the one on the right and I will take the one in the middle. Yin give us magic support when you can and Yue heal where is needed”

Yan was slowly moving forward when the rat noticed her and started charging straight for her. Yan moved her body into a sideways position, pushing her shoulder in to her shield. The moment the rat charged into the shield Yun leaned slightly forward, absorbing most of the force from the charge.

She quickly stabbed at the rat with her spear, hitting the rat in the abdomen. Just as she was about to attack again, a fireball hit the rat from the side, completely finishing it off. Ruo was kiting a rat around the clearance, shooting one arrow after another at the rat. After about four arrows the rat collapsed on the ground and died.

James withdrew his two-swords, charged over to the rat. As he got into range of the rat, he made a windmill action cutting the rat twice and proceeded to stab the rat with both swords. As James pulled the two swords from the body of the rat it collapsed and died. James picked up the three little crystals that the monsters dropped and proceeded to move forward.

[System notice: All party members earned 12 EXP from the battle.]

After following the path and killing rats for an hour James got a System notice.

[System notice: You have gained a level. All player stats have improved.]

James smiled and saw the three ladies in the party were also happy after gaining a level. They followed the path till they got to the entrance of the tomb. After entering the tomb, James noticed that they were in a room with hieroglyphs on the wall. The room had six pillars and a fountain on his right-hand side. On the left side was a door in the middle of the room. James saw 6 skeletons shambling around in the room. The skeletons did not have any armour, but had a sword in the right hand.

“Ruo, fire an arrow to one of the skeletons to get their attention on us. Yan be sure to protect Yin and Yue at all cost.” Ruo fired her arrow at a skeleton, killing it on the spot. James drew his swords, rushed over to the closest skeleton, striking the skeleton and killing it. The skeleton behind the fallen one slashed at James. James took a small bit of damage from the skeleton. After the skeleton slashed James, an arrow struck the skeleton through its left eye, killing it. One of the skeletons charged at Yin, she cast a Fireball just in time, blowing the skeleton to smithereens. Yan on the other hand was busy blocking and slashing at two skeletons, preventing them from attacking Yue. After a few slashes the two skeletons died. James picked up the small crystals dropped by the skeletons.

[System notice: All party members earned 30 exp from battle.]

The party followed the exit into a hallway. They followed the hallway until they entered another room. James saw 10 skeletons in the room. 6 melee skeletons and four archers. “Yan you take the archers, Ruo support Yan. Yin you’re with me. Yue heal when it’s necessary.” Yan moved to the archers blocking as many arrows as she could with her shield. Yue cast heal on Yan every time her health fell below 75%. Rue shot one of the skeletons through the skull, killing it then taking aim at the next.

James rushed towards the melee skeletons, stabbing the first skeleton that came into range with the sword in his right hand. He moved his body sideways after killing the skeleton and slashed at the next skeleton with his left hand. Yue was casting fireballs after every chant. It took the team just 10 seconds to clear out the room.

[System notice: All party members earned 50 Exp from the battle]

After clearing four more rooms and levelling up once, the party arrived at the room with the Final Boss of the dungeon.