Chapter 8: Chapter 8
Ruben continued the next two weeks hunting Giant Cave Spiders. He ended up encountering at least 7 spiders per day since he reached Level 10.
Although the number of spiders grouped together increased, he was able to make up for the slight increased in difficulties with his skills.
Cleaning his knife from the spider mucus, he checked his status window.
Name: Ruben Hilston
Level: 10 (0/ 2200 exp)
Title: -
Race: Human
Health: 1375/1600
Stream coins: 3,400
Exp stored: 29,350
Stats:-
Strength: 30
Agility: 31
Stamina: 30
Perception: 31
Mind: 28
Stat points: 0
Skills:
Active skills
• Dash (level 6)
- speed is increased 70% times for 5 minutes. Cooldown: 40 minutes
• Stealth (level 5)
- able to stay hide your presence completely for 5 minute, cooldown: 50 minutes
• Critical Hit (level 4)
- able to increase damage by 400%, cooldown: 1 hour
Passive skills
• Observing eyes (level 1)
- Able too see the stats of other mortals and identify objects along with its description.
• Minor Poison Immunity (level 2)
- immune to all non-lethal poison and a few basic lethal poison.
• Accurate Throwing (level 5)
- able to throw objects accurately 60% faster and 3 meters further.
• Lock Picking (level 1)
- increase the speed of picking locks by 20%, cooldown: 2 hours
• Disguise (level 1)
- able to slightly shift facial bones and change the colour tone of any body hair.
• Slash (level 4)
- damage increase by 40% for attacks caused by blade
• Sharpshooting (level 1)
- able to increase the shooting distance by 10% when using firearm related weapons
• Concealment: Hidden away from prying eyes
- able to hide from the eyes from consellations and other hidden entities upon user's wish
• ??? (Unlocked at Level 50)
- ?
Having used his revolver, Ruben was able to learn a new firearm related skill.
During the past weeks, he ended up facing 2 individual high level soldier spiders which gave him 600 exp each.
There was also a few more consellations that had joined his channels.
Excluding his first four viewers, the more prominent consellations that came in after were the consellations, Shapeshifter Who Loves Pranks, The Keeper Of The Realm, Lord Of The Desert and Reader Of The Moon.
The other consellations viewing the channel hasn't sponsored him coins or entered the chat thus he only noted the prominent few.
Opening the system, Ruben walked back to the gate in the direction provided by the system.
[Shapeshifter Who Loves Pranks says the Marked is walking in the wrong direction]
[Father Of The South nod his head]
[The Third Lotus Prince said the spiders are in the other direction]
[The Third Lotus Prince ask the Marked to turn around]
[The Mistress Of Animals asked why the Marked stopped the hunt]
Entertaining the consellations once in a while, he said to the empty space, "It would take me two week to walk back to the gate that connects the dungeon to my world. It closes in three weeks. I don't plan to stay in this dungeon forever."
[The Keeper Of The Realm nod his head]
[The Keeper Of The Realm says a wise man knows when to retreat]
[Shapeshifter Who Loves Pranks shook his head in disagreement]
[The Mistress Of Animals nod her head understanding the Marked's choice]
[The Third Lotus Prince sulks]
[The Third Lotus Prince says he wants to see the Marked in action more]
[The Third Lotus Prince says although he wants to see more, he understands the Marked choice]
[Father Of The South sponsored 100 Stream Coins]
[Father Of The South says he will sponsor the Marked more coins if the Marked continue hunting spiders a few more days]
Shaking his head, he replied, "Althought the journey should take two weeks, it might be delayed if I ended up encountering spiders on the way."
"I like to be safe than sorry later."
[Many consellations nod understanding the Marked's choice]
[Shapeshifter Who Loves Pranks say WAIT!]
[Shapeshifter Who Loves Pranks is digging through his skills storage]
[Shapeshifter Who Loves Pranks says he found it]
[Shapeshifter Who Loves Pranks says he has a skill that would solve the problem]
[Shapeshifter Who Loves Pranks has gifted the Marked a skill]
[A few consellations gasp looking at the skill given by Shapeshifter Who Loves Pranks]
{Host has aquired a new skill from a consellation}
{Skill: Teleportation, has been aquired}
• Teleportation
- teleport to the location of user's choice as long as the location is in the same world, cooldown: 30 days.
[The Third Lotus Prince look at Shapeshifter Who Loves Pranks with admiration]
Surprised by the huge gift, Ruben thanked the consellation, "Thank you Shapeshifter Who Loves Pranks. With this I'll continue hunting spiders and teleport to the gate on the last day before it closes then."
[Father Of The South say he will buy Shapeshifter Who Loves Pranks a drink when they meet]
[Shapeshifter Who Loves Pranks laughs with a smug]
[Shapeshifter Who Loves Pranks say that is just a small gift]
[Shapeshifter Who Loves Pranks say he likes to watch the way the Marked fights and hope to see more]
[Father Of The South nod in agreement]
[The Third Lotus Prince nod in agreement]
[The Mistress Of Animals nod in agree....]
[Reader Of The Moon nod in ...]
[Many consellations nod ...]
[The Keeper Of The Realm say The Marked fights elegantly, with precision and flair]
[All the consellations nod in agreement]
'Hmmm, looks like my days as an assassin paid off' Ruben thought with a smirk.
"Since I can't let you guys down, I'll fight as many spiders as possible before the gate closes then." He said to the consellation with a grin.
[Father Of The South sponsored 100 Stream Coins]
[The Third Lotus Prince sponsored 100 Stream Coins]
[The Mistress Of Animals sponsored 100 Stream Coins]
[Reader Of The Moon sponsored 100 Stream Coins]
[Lord Of The Desert sponsored 500 Stream Coins]
Ruben noticed that although Lord Of The Desert doesn't speaking, he is a huge Coin sponsor so he thanked the consellation inwardly in his mind.
Before continuing the hunting spree, he decided to rest for the day, replenishing his health while sorting out his weapons and switch out some of them.
It may be wiser to use a weapon with higher damage as he knew that more spiders would appear as he got deeper into the caves.
He finally decided on the weapon he is going to switch out with the curved dagger.
• Shortsword (×2)
- 140 damage
With the shortsword, two Slash will be enough to kill a low level soldier spiders, three Slash to kill a mid level soldier spider and four Slash to kill a high level soldier.
Ruben thought it might be a good idea to leave the assessories he found in the vault that would increase his stats in the ring.
He had a feeling that this way he could keep the consellations entertained and show more of his prowess which they like to see.
Since he had already used up all the bullets for the revolver his father gifted him, he decided to keep it in the space ring as well.
Plus the shortsword he armed himself has damage close to the revolver so he wasn't too worried.
As he got deeper into the cave, the number of spiders increased significantly, he was facing more mid level soldiers spiders and less low level soldier spiders.
He would run into groups on ten or more with almost more than half being mid level soldiers.
Although the fight was getting harder, Ruben was enjoying himself more and more.
Having retired as an assassin, he hasn't been close to death since he was reborn.
As he fought deeper into the cave, he realised that he missed fighting like he could lose his life the next second.
The thrill made him hunt the spiders at a faster pace than he noticed.
Five days before the gate closes according to the system, he found a hidden spot in the cave and decided to take a rest there for the day after killing a huge group of giant spiders.
Although he didn't remember the exact numbers, he felt like he fought 50 or more spiders per day with more than half of it being mid level soldier spiders and a quarter being high level soldier spiders for the past week.
He even earned the title after massacring a group of 15 or more spiders a few days ago, Spider Slayer which would increase the damage by 10% for all attacks on all types of spiders.
Name: Ruben Hilston
Level: 10 (0/ 2200 exp)
Title: Spider Slayer (equiped)
Race: Human
Health: 354/1600
Stream coins: 27,850
Exp stored: 474,600
Stats:-
Strength: 30
Agility: 31
Stamina: 30
Perception: 31
Mind: 28
Stat points: 0
Skills:
Active skills
• Dash (level 7)
- speed is increased 70% times for 7 minutes. Cooldown: 35 minutes
• Stealth (level 6)
- able to stay hide your presence completely for 6 minute, cooldown: 40 minutes
• Critical Hit (level 5)
- able to increase damage by 500%, cooldown: 1 hour
• Teleportation
- teleport to the location of user's choice as long as the location is in the same world, cooldown: 30 days.
Passive skills
• Observing eyes (level 1)
- Able too see the stats of other mortals and identify objects along with its description.
• Minor Poison Immunity (level 2)
- immune to all non-lethal poison and a few basic lethal poison.
• Accurate Throwing (level 7)
- able to throw objects accurately 80% faster and 4 meters further.
• Lock Picking (level 1)
- increase the speed of picking locks by 20%
• Disguise (level 1)
- able to slightly shift facial bones and change the colour tone of any body hair.
• Slash (level 6)
- damage increase by 60% for attacks caused by blade
• Sharpshooting (level 1)
- able to increase the shooting distance by 10% when using firearm related weapons
• Concealment: Hidden away from prying eyes
- able to hide from the eyes from consellations and other hidden entities upon user's wish
• ??? (Unlocked at Level 50)
- ?
Seeing the Stream Coins he had, Ruben smiled. He noticed that the more reckless he fought and the nearer he got to his limits the more the consellations sponsored him.
He now had more than 50 sponsors viewing his channel. Many of them would sponsor him Stream Coins but didn't join the chat.
His biggest Stream Coin sponsor was still the consellation Lord Of The Desert, followed by The Third Lotus Prince then Shapeshifter Who Loves Pranks.
Looking at the exp stored, he decided to use them to level up to Level 15.
'System, level up using the stored exp up to Level 15.'
{Host had level up!}
{Gained 1 stat point}
{Host had level up!}
{Gained 1 stat point}
{Host had level up!}
{Gained 1 stat point}
{Host had level up!}
{Gained 1 stat point}
{Host had level up!}
{Gained 1 stat point}
He then allocated 2 stat points in Mind and 1 each in Agility, Stamina, and Perception.
Name: Ruben Hilston
Level: 15 (0/ 3950 exp)
Title: Spider Slayer (equiped)
Race: Human
Health: 1700/1700
Stream coins: 27,850
Exp stored: 460,300
Stats:-
Strength: 30
Agility: 32
Stamina: 31
Perception: 32
Mind: 30
Stat points: 0
One of the reason he loved leveling up was, he is able to make an immediate recovery right after.
'I have to find a way to increase my health... it's not increasing as fast as I hoped. Only 20 HP is added everything I level up.'
'I'll think of a way later.'
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