After leaving their starting room, group realized they were in a narrow tunnel without any forks in sight, they kept moving forward with Max in the lead scouting areas ahead of them. After dozen minutes of walking they finally entered what seemed to be great stone hall, soon Max appeared before them and started talking.

“I saw something further inside, there are groups of monsters, I’ve inspected them as you said and all of them are kobolds with their levels ranging from 1 to 3, I didn’t see any higher than that.”

“Can you see if there is any exit out of here?”

“I saw some big stone doors at the end of the hall but it was guarded by some armored kobolds, I couldn’t go near them so I couldn’t inspect them.”

“Okay, so our mission should be passing those doors and reaching the other side of those doors for now, did you see any way to avoid kobolds until we reach the doors?”

“We can’t avoid them but we could find a path with least resistance, but before we do so I have a suggestion. We don’t know if other participants will enter same hall we are in and when we are going to run into someone, but don’t forget that most of people here are criminals, if we are going to run into them we should have some strength first, so I think we should wipe out as many kobolds as we can before we proceed, first if someone else comes here they will have lesser kobolds to kill and lesser experience, only downside of this is that we would slow down a bit and make it easier for others to reach us.”

“What you said makes sense, but let’s find smallest group of kobolds first, we don’t know how strong they are or how to fight them.”

“Okay then, stay here and prepare I’ll go find some small group near us.” Max disappeared right after he said that and rushed off to find kobolds.

“Okay guys, listen up, from what I know from some games I played, kobolds are mostly underground type of creatures that love gold and shiny jewels, most of them are miners so try looking out for valuable things, we might use them once we finish this dungeon.” Explained Nick slowly, rest of them nodded their heads and started preparing for a fight.

Soon Max returned with news of nearby kobold group of 4, their group soon approached those kobolds and started whispering.

“Okay everyone, you know the formation, let’s do it like what we talked about earlier, Mark you charge first and start smashing, Tragic and I will follow behind you and try and get whatever passes you, Einstein you look out for anything out of ordinary and tell us if there are more kobolds coming, May you just wait and watch, and Ted, please don’t shoot us… As a matter of fact, don’t shoot at all, loud noise might alarm nearby kobolds and we might be screwed then. Oh right Max you…” Nick suddenly stopped and looked around himself.

“Guys, where’s Max?”

“He was here a minute ago, he just disappeared then, I think he went toward kobolds.” Said Einstein quietly.

“Quickly, let’s see if he is there, he might need our help.”

Whole group rushed toward the direction Max told them about, but when they arrived there what they saw shocked them completely. Max was standing there, looting a corpse of a kobold with 3 more corpses not too far away from each other.

“Did you kill them all?” Said Nick quietly.

“Yeah, you were kind of taking your sweet time talking so I just went and killed them, they aren’t that big of a deal, only last one noticed me and when he did he was already on his way to underworld.” Max explained calmly without even stopping with his looting. “Come on guys check for goodies, Nick you said it yourself, they might have some precious things on them.”

“You really are more foolish than I thought.” A sudden soft voice was heard, Lulu appeared on Max’s shoulder while lightly tapping his head. “If they had anything valuable there would be something like illusory leather bag floating above them, if you just tap that bag you will open their inventory and loot them properly, the thing you are doing is just messing around.”

“What, oh come on, you could’ve said so earlier, you had to let me make a fool of myself.” Said Max grudgingly.

“You didn’t ask…” Replied Lulu innocently.

“Max you can’t do this.” Said Nick seriously.

“Oh come on, it’s not like I would steal from you guys, what problem is there even if I looted without you guys, I would’ve shared it anyway.”

“I’m not talking about that, I’m talking about you rushing of alone without us, we are god knows where, surrounded by god knows what or who, and you rushed out alone to fight, what if something happened to you.”

“Relax, I might have acted a bit rash here but I’m not stupid, there’s no way I would fight a losing fight, but if it makes you feel better I won’t do it again.”

“Good, until we are familiar with everything don’t do anything rash, now tell me did you get anything from this kobolds?”

“No items, just exp from killing them.”

“Oh really, how much?”

“I don’t know I didn’t check, hey Lulu where do I check my level and my experience bar?”

“Just summon your level panel, there you will see your current exp, required exp for level up and what you get on your next level up.”

Max listened to what she said and mentally commanded his level panel to appear.

“I got about 85 exp per kobold, I need total of 1000 to level up, and I’m third of the way until level up.”

“So it would take us about 12 kobolds per person to level up, which is total of 96 kobolds for all of us to level up, okay then let’s get started. Tragic how many ghosts can you summon to fight at the same time?”

“It just says it summons 1 ghost per enemy, doesn’t seem to have a limit.” Answered Tragic.

“Okay then, we will try a slightly bigger groups then, same plan as before.”