Chapter 22

A glint of greed appeared in Harry's wide eyes as he turned to look at the hole in the wall where the first Inferius had come from. A horde-full of grey-skinned husks just like the one he'd slain earlier were pooling in through the gap.

He should've been afraid, but instead, the only thought in his head was how much money he could pull together if he managed to defeat this many Inferi.

He was standing in a money-printing machine, and all he needed to do to get rich was flame up and burn the horde down.

Ping!

Quest Alert!

Survive the horde of Inferi! And then defeat the boss!

Rewards,

+3 stat points

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Failure,

Death

YES/NO?

Confident in his abilities, Harry pressed yes.

As soon as the window in front of him disappeared, he grinned, and his hands burst into flames. Gamer's Mind activated and so did Shield of Lily, honing Harry's powers and mind down to razor sharp focus.

Digging his heel in, Harry jumped forwards, dashing between the ranks of the incoming horde and setting fire to as many Inferi as he could as fast as he could. He didn't have to do more than punch or push once to set them on fire since the dead, dried skin and muscles of the undead walkers were more than incredibly flammable. Emboldened by his success, he started playing around with his enemies, grabbing some of them from behind and knocking them off-balance or just pushing them into each other to create spectacular Domino chains of fire.

With his superior speed and fire, Harry managed to run through little more than a dozen Inferi in no time at all. However, things were about to get a whole lot difficult for him.

Finishing off his 14th kill of the battle, Harry paused to strain his ears. He'd been hearing a strange scuttling sound for a while now and had dismissed it for Inferi noises, but it was growing louder and louder by the second.

BOOM!

The wall on the other side of the cavern blasted outwards revealing, much to Harry's terror, a humongous swarm of giant 3 foot tall spiders.

Harry froze.

Up and until that point, Gamer's Mind had kept him in a state of perfect calm, but something about the spiders…Harry's vision blurred for a moment. The ground seemed to slip underneath him…the light in his vision started fading…his steps faltered.

'Not now!' Harry thought through his mental mess in a fleeting moment of clarity, and the clouds cleared a little. Instinctively, he let loose a blast of fire in-front of him. A shrill screech filled the cavern. When Harry's eyes refocused, one of the spiders lay a couple of feet in front of him, three of its legs burnt off into stubs, and the rest had stopped a safe distance away from him, clearly scared by the effectiveness of their target's attacks.

Harry was just as scared.

He didn't know what had caused him to falter like that. He'd never been scared of spiders as far as he remembered, but something had just made him break down in the middle of a life and death situation. Feeling a bit shaken, Harry tried using Gamer's Mind. A hazy sense of calm fell over him, but the effect was not as powerful as he would have hoped for.

Still, it was enough. The beginnings of a plan formed in his head.

Harry spun on his heels and dashed towards the entrance of the tunnel that he had entered from.

Behind him, he heard the scuttling start up again. Seeing their prey run had apparently restored the spiders' confidence, and the rest of the murderous abominations weren't far behind. Harry ran as far into the tunnel as he could, trying to make sure that all of the Inferi and spiders were in the tunnel.

As soon as he felt confident enough with his position, he turned around, putting his hand together and pooling in as much mana as he could to the point where he could feel his lungs struggling in his chest. With a single thought, he ignited it and tossed it into the swarm of creepy-crawlies scuttling towards him.

It was less like the flamethrower Harry had hoped for and more like a controlled bomb, but it did a trick. Harry's magic sang as an immense shockwave and a wall of fire overtook the entire tunnel in front of Harry, incinerating anything in its path.

When the light faded from Harry's eyes, all that remained of his army of enemies were a couple of stragglers with burnt legs near the back, ashes, and a large number of coins and bills that looked like they'd total up to a fair amount of moolah.

Harry collapsed to his knees panting from exhaustion.

After a moment to catch his breath, Harry noticed a box in front of him as the Shield of Lily faded.

You have leveled up!

+5 stat points!

+50HP

+25MP

The exp he had gotten from slaughtering the zombies and spiders must've pushed him over. Harry then quickly pulled up all his stats,

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Harry Potter

Health-250/250

Mana-125/125

The Gamer

Title-The Boy who Lived

(+20 Str,+20 Vit, +20 Dex, while in Home Turf)

Level-5 Exp-460/2400

Race-wizard

STR-8

VIT-4(+3)=7

DEX-4(+3)=7

INT-9

WIS-5

LUC-6

POINTS-5

MONEY- 75£/11G0S0K

Harry Potter is a wizard, the son of Lily Potter and James Potter. He has bad eyesight making it difficult for him to do well in class. His magic has gotten him trouble over the years in various schools. Strange things seem to happen around him. Harry is unaware of who he is, and wishes to find meaning in his life. Harry loves his mother, and hates the Dursleys.

Status- wizard, giving Harry - +3 VIT, +3 DEX and the ability to control magic, talk to snakes, control his appearance and look cool.

An important thing that Harry noticed was that his wizard status boost had also gone up, which must have had something to do with him leveling up. It hadn't done that when he had evolved from Lv-2 to Lv-4, which meant that it must've been only once per every 5 levels.

Ping!

For your logical thinking, you have gained +1 Wis!

'That's convenient,' Harry thought as he closed the open boxes and quickly gathered up all of his loot, which all totaled up to a fantastic amount.

100£ and 12 G

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