Hours continued passing, in the real world, and just the same they similarly passed in the dungeon, inside of which, a certain young man could be seen currently sitting down at the edge of an alley, in the main tokyo road, crosslegged whilst he ate a small nutritional bar and drank from a half used water bottle.
He didn't know how much time exactly had passed, that had blurred after the first few hours, he knew however… that it had been quite a while since he had come inside this place.
'Do I try it?' Alan thought to himself as he looked in the distance, past the current alley that he was in front of and towards one that was further down the main dungeon road.
There it was, the unassuming alley that he had entered with so much confidence once and then proceeded to promptly run out of, terrified of his wits after having witnessed a special crimson slime devouring and digesting human body parts in the darkness of the alley.
'Damned… just thinking about it causes my hands to shake, how do those movie protagonists just jump into danger without a second thought… this shit is so fucking scary. Im afraid, im fucking terrified, I wanna go back home, I wanna lay down and cover myself in a damned blanket and just… just sleep.' Alan thought to himself as his mood slowly dropped further and further until he finally shook his head.
'Stop… I can't think like that, It's not like I have the option and neither do I have the time to be fantasising about what I want. Its time that I do what I need to do.' Alan thought before releasing a soft sigh, a sigh that showed his fear, his exhaustion and finally his determination that had led him to push forward until now, even when in moments, it all felt pointless, even in moments when it all felt like he was simply a rat running around in circles whilst the cat played with it.
'Even if it's the last thing that I do… I'm going to fucking make sure that bastard regrets it… for targeting me… aswell as for targeting them.' Alan thought to himself as his mind wandered towards his first three friends that he had made after the system, wandered to the parking lot, to the car drive, to the lunch period that he had shared with them.
There were so little moments that he had shared with them, and yet they had such a large effect on him.
'They do say that in times of need, people bond over more easily, and considering how my entire life turned around after that one morning… maybe thats why I got attached so… so quickly. I wonder, maybe the drug effects ran out by now? I wonder if they're okay… I have to find some way to get them saved, to remove those damned effects off of them. I… I wanna save them.' Alan thought to himself as he slowly fisted his hands at his sides and threw the nutritional bar wrapper away as he slowly stood up from the ground and onto his feet.
Dusting his backside and pants quickly with a few brushes of his hands, he turned his head towards the alley that he had been fearing so much and started walking towards it.
'It's fine… I trained for this.' Alan thought as he pulled up the status menu, the blue holographic panel appeared before him, floating in the air in an instant.
[ Name: Alan Walker ]
[ Age: 18 ]
[ Race: Human 88%, Elf 12% ]
[ Gender: Male ]
[ Level: 13 ] [ Xp: 0/20,480 XP ]
[ MP : 244/244 ]
[ S.P.E.C.I.A.L ]
[ S: 4 ]
[ P: 5* ] [ +2 Equipment Boost Active ]
[ E: 6 ]
[ C: 10 ]
[ I: 10 ]
[ A: 7 ]
[ L: 10 ]
[ Abilities: ]
[ Talents: Faint Nature Attunement ( Level 1 ) ]
[ Perks: Elf ]
[ Coins: 404 Silver Coins ]
[ Normal Stats ]
[ Strength: 60/200 ]
[ Perception: 10/150 ]
[ Endurance: 20/300 ]
[ Charisma: 15/500 ]
[ Intelligence: 10/500 ]
[ Agility: 20/350 ]
[ Luck: 0/500 ]
[ Normal Stat Points Left: 0 ]
[ Skills: Observation, Mana Perception. ]
Looking over at his status menu, he truly felt like he had no other choice but to go and try defeating the crimson slime and hoping that It would actually give more experience points, because at this point, he felt like he was making no progress, simply looking at the amount of silver coins that he had gathered, he felt a headache about to hit him.
He had killed over four hundred slimes, over one hundred encounters with three or more slimes at the same time, whilst sure, he had gotten used to it by now and the battles ended in a mere few seconds, they were still utterly exhausting mentally if not physically. Thankfully, every few hours, he would level up and thus would gain a refresh of his mind but even then it wasn't truly.
His body would restore itself, and the base capacities of his mind would too, in a way he would indeed be 'fresh' and ready to go another round, however the mind was an interesting part of a human, even if it felt like it could go on, sometimes It couldn't, the repetitive tasks would get too… boring, too long, too tiring to keep doing the same thing, over and over and over again.
'Damned it all… and mostly damned that handsome mother fucker.' Alan thought as his mind wandered to the face of what he had started to call the magician inside his own mind, he didn't exactly know if it was a magician or a wizard or what exactly it was, for all he knew, that thing could be a worm that got inside peoples brain or something, some kind of parasite, but that had been the name he had chosen for the moment.
Arriving before the alley, he closed his eyes for a brief moment, looking at the alley with dark eyes before slowing shaking his head, gripping his combat spear tighter and then slowly heading inside.
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