Chapter 05: Leveling up.

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*An hour later*

[You leveled up]

[You leveled up]

[You leveled up]

After familiarizing himself with the zombies, Morgan reached the outside and was continuing to kill zombies.

However something had changed, as if the game had been raised to another level, after having gone out of the house, it wasn't just zombies that came at him, but also some weird beast-type monster.

[Steel fang wolf] [Rocky muscles monkey] [Violet poison snake], etc…

He also noticed that every monster had different colors to their names indicating their dangerousness going from white and orange to red respectively.

This completely broke Morgan's momentum and he had to learn their fighting pattern too.

However, to defeat those monsters, learning their patterns was just the basic things to do, he couldn't continue to fight them backhand or with wooden stakes.

In a moment of panic, he checked his inventory and saw a worn-out spear that he apparently took on a monster at a certain moment.

After killing forty-something of zombies and other monsters he finally gained some peace and received a notification.

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[Title: Monster slayer] A title given to a hunter proficient in dealing with any kind of monsters. 40% of increased experience against monsters.

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Receiving a notification, he noticed a lot of things in his inventory.

Wolf fangs, monkey tooth, snake's skin, zombie's hair…

Hunter's clothes, a worn-out dagger, a lot of worn-out swords, a farmer's scythe, and a hearthstone.

The hearthstone was the return tone to leave the dungeon, but as he held the stone, Morgan just didn't want to return just yet.

He didn't have any indication but he knew or precisely sensed that the boss was in the field of crops.

However, before proceeding forward, Morgan took a break to breathe.

"Huff… Phew…"

"It's becoming more and more difficult…" After a while, he finally started to feel his stamina depleting.

He then checked his status.

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Name: Morgan Ashborn.     Level: 15

Job: S̶h̶a̶d̶o̶w̶ ̶M̶o̶n̶a̶r̶c̶h̶        Fatigue: 39

Title: Monster Slayer

HP: 1205

MP: 200

STR: 27

AGI: 27

SEN: 24

VIT: 24

INT: 24

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"Okay… let's go again!" 

With his spear in hand, he carefully proceeded toward the field and looked around.

?!! Rumble!!!

Somewhere in the field, several cracks appeared on the ground as the field cracked open, and a humongous creature emerged out from there.

"What?!" Morgan looked with open eyes at what appears to be an enormous lizard but only made out of bones with a ball of purple flames burning in its chest.

[Earth ruler, Undead Skeletal Dragon.]

"A dragon?! A baby dragon?!" Morgan exclaimed and looked at its name and saw that it was an orange name.

"Roar!!!" Without waiting for Morgan to think further, the skeletal dragon roared and rushed at Morgan, 

"...?!"

Raising its claws high in the air…

Slash!

Slash!

Slash!

"Argh!" Morgan avoided it again and again and again and looked at it with a disbelieving expression.

"How can it move so fast?!" The dragon them charged with its skull.

"Sh*t!" The attack was way too fast for him but he still jumped backward to lighten the impact.

Bam! Crack! 

Despite the dodge, the impact didn't lose much of its force as it crashed onto him like a violent Bull breaking two ribs at least.

*Spurt!* "Blurgh!"

Swish! Crash! The twelve years old was sent flying away like trash.

"Argh!"

Morgan immediately stood up on his feet while coughing blood.

"Cough! cough! Huff, It's- it's way fast…! My HP was reduced to more than half…?!"

He thought with fear creeping up in his heart as he saw the skeletal dragon charging again and yet...

Swish! [Skill Sprint: Activated]

Although he too didn't know why… 

He was dashing forward…

He didn't want to…

He was afraid… 

But his body just seemed to rush forward by instinct.

"Break his legs!" He slides and sliced his spear toward the dragon's bony legs.

Crack! However, his broken spear was the one to break after the clash.

But pushed by the adrenaline maybe, he didn't back out as his inventory opened up and his hand took out one of the swords he had in stock and, 

"Take this!"

Slash!

Crack!

The one to break this time was finally the dragon's leg who in response roared and opened his jaw to eat him up.

Crunch! Crunch! Crunch! The dragon repeatedly tried to eat him in vain as Morgan jumped to hold its bone ribs and kept hiding under its stomach while the dragon struggled in every direction like a riding cow while trying with all it could to crush Morgan with its teeth.

"I will fall if this continues…"

Meanwhile, Morgan was looking for an opportunity to strike and his eyes darted to the weird-looking flames burning in the dragon's chest.

The description appeared and Morgan's eyes brightened.

[Dragon's heart] 

As he held onto the bone's ribs, his grab tightened up and he gave a strong push as his body was propelled inside the skeletal dragon's chest.

Looking at the heart, Morgan took a sword and burst at it, and plunged the sword into it.

Swoosh!

"Growl!!!!!" The dragon howled out in pain and rage and struggled out even more than before and the sword was mysteriously melted away.

Seeing that it wasn't dead just yet, Morgan took the last weapon he had, 

He took a scythe and yelled as he gave a powerful slash at the heart!

"Die already!"

Booooom! The heart exploded and the dragon's body burst into myriads pieces of bones.

"Arggh!"

Swoosh! Morgan too was ejected like a doll, crashing on the soil.

[You leveled up]

[You leveled up]

[You leveled up]

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"Hah… hah…"

[You have slain the Earth ruler, Undead Skeletal Dragon]

"I did it… it hurt… but it feels good..." Morgan exclaimed and gasp for air.

"Hah… haha… hahaha…" He didn't even know why he was laughing right now as two screens opened before his eyes.

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Item: Dragon Berserk's essence 1/4

Item class:???

Type:???

A mysterious dragon's essence bursting with unusual magic power.

Effect-???

Debuff-???

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Item: Skeletal Dragon's Spear.

Item: B

Type: Spear

Attack: +45 attack

A thorny spear made out of the Skeletal Dragon's ribs. Able to pierce and inflict curse. Grant bleed effect. Can be equipped, stored, or sold.

Effect- Paralyze: Enemies attacked have a chance to become unable to move.

Effect- Bleed: Enemies lose 1% of health every 1 second.

Effect- Curse: Enemies hit have a chance to be greatly disturbed.

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"A spear? Nice…" The said spear then appeared in his hand as he stood up.

It was entirely white, with the end being filled with vicious thorns made to make the target bleed to death.

When he looked at his status again he had a small surprise.

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Name: Morgan Ashborn.     Level: 21

Job: Shadow Monarch     Fatigue: 56

Title: Monster Slayer

HP: 2245

MP: 1190

STR: 33

AGI: 33

SEN: 30

VIT: 30

INT: 30

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He first noticed that his level has been immensely raised during the battle and second… that strange job wasn't crossed out anymore.

Swoosh…

"Oh…"

All around him, everything changed, the landscaped completely returned to how it looked like before.

"Morgan! What are you doing here? We searched for you everywhere!" Adam exclaimed as he jogged at him.

"Dad…"

"Hey, you… you're hurt?! Why do you have that?" Adam crouched and held his shoulders as he asked while glancing at the spear in Morgan's hand.

"... That? it's... uh…" Morgan showed the spear as his mind raced to find a reasonable explanation.

"Well, it seems that I can summon weapons?" 

"What? That's amazing…"

"What really?"

"Of course, it's just like mine…" Adam said and pondered. "Umm, in fact, it's even perfect…"

"...? Perfect? For what?"

"To hide of course..."

"Hide what?"

"Your exis-... Uh I mean, nothing don't worry son…" Adam changed the subject immediately as he nearly spouts out something that he shouldn't yet.

Adam took him back home and both of them were scolded by Kaede before sending Morgan to the bathroom and bandaging him and throwing him back to his room to rest again.

Once again, Morgan was looking at the ceiling again as if nothing had happened hours ago, before opening his system.

[Message: You unlocked new functions of the System]

"...? Check."

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The Player has unlocked the following functions:

-Shop

-Shadow Army

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"Wow…" Morgan's eyes shone brightly and quickly checked the Shop and he saw various things.

A lot of weapons like Swords, Spears, Daggers, Bows, etc… that however didn't exceed more than C in rank.

Some potions to restore mana, fatigue, and HP.

All these things could be bought with Gold that he could earn by killing monsters and/or doing main and sub-quest or finishing a dungeon.

And lastly, there skills to buy too.

Skills like chop, pierce, throw, slash, etc…

Those skills can only be bought with Exp.

There were many more things too but Morgan didn't take much time on it for now.

"Okay...next!" Morgan exclaimed and checked this Shadow Army function or whatever it was...

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Shadow Army Function.

Description:

As the Ruler of Death, you have the power to call upon the souls of the deads to aid you in battle.

With each tier of level attain and passed, the player will unlock a unique shadow soldier.

The tiers are split as such: 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, etc...

Current tier: 20

You received your first shadow soldier.

To call it from the limbo, choose a vocal command…

Note: The previous player's command was "Arise"

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"Arise?" 

[Do you confirm the command?]

"Uh, well why not, yeah…"

[Command has been saved]

"...Okay, then…" Morgan tilted his head aside before exclaiming.

"...Arise…"

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