Chapter 9:
TIMELINE- A day after defeating Cerberus!
Change of POV: Sung JIn-Woo
I'm currently in park after 'hard' daily quest, sitting on a chair far away from others so I could look at object in my hand.
"This!" I couldn't help exclaiming! I'm right now holding a key, key I got from Cursed Loot Box, today I finished daily quests and jokingly tried to again break the limits. "I didn't expect it to work so soon.. But yet.. What is this?"
[ [Key to Monster's lair]: Dungeon with 50 Floors! Each floor increases with difficulty and Monsters become stronger! Advised Level for [player] is 30 before entering the first floor! Can be activated at Anywhere!] [A-Rank Rarity]
"So this thing is something like [Demon Castle] but rarity is A-Rank, meaning it's weaker... " I twisted the key between my fingers. " It's perfect for leveling up, it's as if that Cosmic Being literally just gave me this key so I don't have to wait 1 month before leveling up with Yoo Jin-Hoo."
I smirked, good. I'll go home, bring a wallet with me, buy enough food a week or two. Then i'll say ' I'm going for a trip for week' And hopefully return with Level 50 at least..
'I'll go blind inside it, with zero information on what awaits..' I sent the key back into my {Inventory} 'But then after I finish with the Dungeon I'll go into Demon Castle immediately too. But Jin-Woo got job-change quest when he was level 40 right? I will need to also complete that quest to get my class.'
Several hours later.
4 PM
I have packed enough food and drinks.
From meat, bread, coke and fruit juices. Instant food or cooking too.
And I stored everything in my {Inventory}.
And of course, I took one bag with enough change of clothes for two weeks, since I will be in 'Dungeon' there won't be a washing machine, and I don't want to waste Gold Coins I hard earned on worthless clothes..
And now with everything prepared, time to say goodbye to Jin-Ah for a week or two.
~KNOCK!
~KNOCK!
~KNOCK!
I knocked three times at her room's door.
"You can come in !"
I opened door before entering.
And....
Her room is messy, it does need some cleaning..
"Jin-Ah, clean up your room."
"Eh! Is that the reason you entered, you could have said that without even entering!" She complained as she stood up from her body, she is wearing short sleeved white t shirt and black pants.
Her hair is styled in that usual high ponytail.
"I'm going for small trip, for one or two weeks. I may return even earlier." I said with that cheeky smile as I leaned on door's frame.
Her face gazed while her mouth opened and closed for a moment.
Deciding what to say.
"Brother.. Did you get some girl pregnant!"
I almost fell from the door's frame, barely catching myself on the door's handle. You know, the anime style fall?
Jin-Ah giggled.
A thick vein popped up on my forehead at that.
This lil devil!
"Bro, when are you planning to get a girlfriend?"
Ah!
Another bullet in my stomach!
"Bro, could it be..... You are gay?!"
That's too many bullets!
"Ah, soon, Jin-Ah. Soon, but don't you have any other questions beside my 'love life'?"
She took that thinking pose, appearing to be thinking.
"Where are you going for a trip?"
I blinked.
"It's a secret!" I positioned a finger in front of my face in that 'SHH!' pose. " And there is enough money for you to survive for a month in my 'black wallet',"
I outstretched my arms.
"Will you give your older brother a hug?"
She snickered for a moment before standing up from her bed and walking in front of me, then she gave me a hug after all.
"Take good care of yourself." She muttered under my ear. "I don't want my naive older brother to be taken by evil woman.."
I laughed with a heart at that.
In this time, I had truly started to think of Jin-Ah as a family. And since I almost 'stole' Jin-Woo's body, I have responsibility to take care of his sister and cure his mother too. That's the least I can do since this was all my doing..
" I will, don't worry Jin-Ah."
Hours later.
Daesung Tower.
Since I will be needing to complete [Demon Castle], this will be okay location to pick up, considering I will have to come here few times.
"After all, I don't have op Shadow Army to help me defeat every single living thin in [Demon Castle], it might as well take me a month to finish it." I muttered to myself before taking out [Key to Monster's Lair] from the {Inventory}
The moment I twisted it in front of me, a black-like door's appeared.
Door's themselves are two meters tall. Just simple black door's design, but with small twist.
A black like mist surrounding it.
I inserted the key into keyhole before twisting it.
And I pushed door's open.
And on the other side of the door's is a..
Hill,
Yes, a Hill with Monsters.
Green small like but weak monsters.
Yep Goblins.
"I fucking hate Goblins!" I screamed to heaven as I walked into the door before closing them, but unknown to me, my scream startled a cat, causing it to wake up.
Poor Cat, it just got scared.
Change of POV: No One.
As Sung Jin-Woo walked into the dungeon, he got notification from the system.
[ [Player] entered 1st Floor [Goblin's Hill]!]
"I will seriously eliminate whoever put all those Goblins for me! Couldn't you have been more creative than put some green humanoids?!" He screamed to Heavens before pulling out [Great-Sword of Goblin King] from the {Inventory}.
Before glancing at numerous Goblins scattered all around the Hill.
And in middle of the hill is another 'Goblin King' variant Magic Beast, and behind him is a door, probably leading to 2nd floor.
"One, two.. No four hundred Goblins and Goblin King. " Sung Jin-Woo muttered before glancing at nearest group of Goblins, numbering in 40-50 or so.
He immediately used [Active Skill: Dash LVL-1] and aimed at them.
His Great-Sword slashed through their ranks effortlessly.
He could now be considered Upper class in B-Rank. So killing E-Rank Magic Beast such as Goblins is not a challenge nor good enough for a warm up anymore.
In two minutes he obliterated entire group of them.
And killing each one, he earned not only EXP but also dropped Items. From [Iron-Dagger[ to several Gold Coins.
In all, it took him a hour or two to eliminate every single Goblin on the first floor.
Not because they were strong, but because they scattered all around the Dungeon's floor and their numbers were slight nuisance and he had to take a rest to replenish his stamina after all.
And obviously, he no-diffed the Goblin King, and it appears that after defeating the Boss of the floor he would he would gain 'key' to open the doors leading to next floor.
Sadly, this wasn't enough for him to level up yet.
He want's to speed-run this whole Dungeon as fast as he can.
-2nd Floor [Raikan Caves]
It's a floor in mountainous range, covered with dozens of caves.
This time, it took him three hours to finish this floor instead of four.
The reasons were simple, Steel-Fanged Raikan's were numbered in three hundreds but were not running away from him, well they aren't because he didn't use [Activate Skill: Bloodlust LVL-1] at least he won't use that skill on the weaker floors anymore, otherwise he would waste time.
He learned that hard way when Goblins scattered all around the hill.
Steel-Fanged Raikan's boss was called Raikan King, it was same as Steel-Fanged Raikan in appearance but it was several times taller than regular.
Sung Jin-Woo Leveled up 2 times on this floor, a pleasant surprise for him.
As expected of D-Rank Boss, E-Rank Boss and couple hundreds of monsters.
LEVEL 32-LEVEL-34
- 3rd Floor
Floor populated with
Black-Shadow Razan, they are black panther like creatures but bigger. D-Rank Magic Beast.
Sung Jin-Woo easily cleared this floor under 3 hours.
4th Floor
A floor populated with Black-Shadow Razan and Steel-Fanged Raikans.
Boss was Werewolf C-Rank Boss.
Took Sung Jin-Woo another 3 hours to clear it.
LEVELED UP ONCE!
LEVEL 34- LEVEL-35
He took break and took good 10 hours of sleep on this floor.
Author: 1 day passed since entering the [Monster's Lair]
5th Floor
A floor where this becomes a challenge.
A floor populated with Werewolves. About 200 of them.
Werewolf is weak C-Rank monster generally, but this huge number of them is even a challenge to top tier B-Rank Hunters.
A Werewolf-Chief was Boss, a Werewolf two times the size of the average Werewolf.
Sung Jin-Woo leveled up here thrice!
It took him 5 hours to clear this floor.
LEVEL 35- LEVEL-38.
And Sung Jin-Woo gained two skills.
[Passive Skill: Basic Swordsmanship LVL-1]
[Passive Skill: Dagger Wielding LVL-1]
6th Floor the Graveyard.
This floor is different from others.
Compared to other floors, this one is weaker than even first floor, but it had numbers,
One thousand weak skeletons.
Just skeletons, Human skeletons.
They are strong as regular Human and therefore not a threat at all.
But their numbers were annoying.
It took our MC 2 hours to finish this floor.
7th Floor
A floor populated by D-Rank <
Golem Knights are weak humanoid figures, barely touching D-Rank but tougher in defence than Werewolves and slightly stronger.
Number in two hundred of them.
It took Sung Jin-Woo 4 hours to clear this dungeon.
He didn't have enough Gold Coins for [Knight Killer] or similar weapon from his {Store}
He also sleep on this floor.
Leveled up once.
LEVEL 38-LEVEL 39
Note: 2 days passed since he started his raiding of the Dungeon!
8th Floor
Hyenas.
Sung Jin-Woo decided he hates humanoid Hyenas!
Their laughter echoed through the damn jungle-like floor !
It took him surprising 5 hours to deal with them.
They were stronger, smarter and better than Werewolves in every damn way!
They all were C-Rank, and this time middl-C rank monsters.
He leveled up thrice here, but expected twice at max.
Four hundred Hyenas and their Boss.
LEVEL 39-LEVEL 41.
Change of POV: Sung Jin-Woo.
I looked at Quest I got from [System]
[ [Job-Change Quest]! [Player] can finally get his own Job-Class!]
"Wait! Sung Jin-Woo had greater {Stats} than me due to one month and weeks of daily points than me, would it be safe for me to enter Job-Change Quest with my meager amount of Stats despite my level?" I asked my [System], I hope I would be able to enter, otherwise this would have been pain in the ass to level.
I'm third day already and barely cleared 8 floors. And each floor is getting tougher and tougher, I'm also becoming stronger but... I don't have massive amount of daily points to help me out right now, but if I got Job-Change Quest and complete it, level up more that way. Then I surely would have been able to clear up several more floors before the end of the week.
And thankfully, [System] replied.
[ [Player] doesn't have to worry, due to players {Stats}, Job-Change Quest will be modified, so it doesn't matter if [Player] is level 70 or 41. If only, the lesser level [Player] is, the weaker challenges will be.
I though, unconsciously grasping my chin in though.
Let's see my {Stats} just in case.
{Stats}
[ Primary Character: [Sung Jin-Woo] [Equipped]
[Secondary Character: [Querehsha] [Expand]
[Level: 41]
[Titles: Goblin Slayer [Expand] ]
]Job Class: None]
[HP: 8,600]
[MP: 550]
[Strength: 94]
[Vitality: 55]
[Agility: 87]
[Intelligence: 65]
[Sense: 65]
[Un-Added Points: 0]
[Active Skills: [Bloodlust LVL- 1 ], [Dash LVL- 1]
[Passive Skills: [ Basic Swordsmanship LVL-1], [ Dagger Wielding LVL-1]
"Can I die in Job-Change Quest?"
A window appeared, confirming my fears.
[Yes[
I glanced at Job-Change Quest window, and just below it is written Accept/Reject]
"Accept." I clenched my fist in preparation.
A black hole formed in front of me, before sucking me inside.
[ [Job-Change Quest] Shall commence for [Primary Character: Sung Jin-Woo!]
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