Leveled 2

The city was much larger than the town Brutus lived in for a year. There were more people too and some of different races. Beast men. They had strange looking bodies and tales. Some of them had the faces of animals too. Brutus first went to the adventurer's guild and looked to see if a quest was placed for killing the kidnappers. And there was, a good reward was included too. Brutus told the clerk that he killed them but they didn't believe him. They check his level and he was a level 98 swordsman, that quickly made them change their minds. Brutus now had enough money to get a good room so next he went looking for an inn. Brutus found a middle class one and booked a room. After taking the room, Brutus went to the market to try and sell the items he got from the kidnappers. Those goods also were worth a good price. As Brutus was walking around he saw a begger, so he gave them 10 coins. Brutus noticed a new status effect, Blessing of Charity, on the top right. Brutus checked what it did. It gave him slightly improved luck. The Increase Heavy Weapon Damage bracers sold for a big amount of money. There were not many enchanted items in the city, and most of them were for inflicting extra damage. On the edge of the market there was a big building. Very tall and with the words on it Mage Guild. Brutus had to go in. Brutus tried to get membership, but he would first have to pass a stat check test. Brutus allowed it and the worker was very impressed. Even for a mage Brutus had high stats. Brutus was given a card like the Adventurer's Guild card. Name: Brutus, Age: 5, Job: Swordsman, Level: 98, Spells: 4 Rank: F. Brutus was adviced to change his job to a mage class, but was somewhat encouraged to finish his swordsman training. Even mage guild members understood how strong someone must have been to be a level 98 swordsman. Brutus went to the guild shop and looked at the items they had for sale. Staffs, robes, Soul Gems, scrolls, and spell books. Brutus asked what soul gems were for and the store owner informed him. Soul gems were for enchanting items with magical properties, but it required fighting large monsters and filling the soul gem with their soul. The resulting enchantment would be a combination of the users MAG stat and the strength of the soul. Brutus decided to buy a few of these soul gems and some spell books. New Spells: Fireball, Ice Shot, Explosive Fireball, and Greater Fireball. Brutus changed his job back to black mage went to another shop. The previous shop was for black mages, but this shop was for white mages. They had healing spells. Brutus bought one more spell book, Heal Light Wound, and was down to a few days left of money. Brutus got his card updated at the desk. Level 23 Black Mage. Still a beginner. Brutus looked at the quest for Mages, but most were for enchanting items. There was the occasion 'help me burn some stuff' or make me ice quest, but they did not pay well and being a mage cost a big amount of money. Brutus went to the adventurer's guild again but saw yet another guild. The Dungeon Drivers Guild. Brutus went in. This must be the main attraction of the city, and there were more people inside this guild than the last to. Brutus registered at this guild too. This time, instead of Rank it was Lowest Floor, and on the back was a list of completed dungeons. Dungeons were common in the world and existed mostly as caves. Brutus thought about the cave under James house. Mana is naturally pulled underground and absorbed by the earth, and when there is an opening in the earth it makes monsters spawn there. These monsters are stronger than the above ground variants and work together to protect the bottom of the dungeon, the boss. Dungeons can be anywhere from 5 floors to 500 floors, and sometimes they take days to pass through. The reason dungeons take the shape of a human made building though, is unknown. They were most likely left from an age of advanced civilization that moved to another continent. This city had a dungeon in it that was 103 floors deep. Brutus was told it was on the bigger side for a city dungeon, but in the wild it was a small one. Dungeons with over 100 floors would have a boss creature with a strong soul valuable for enchanting, not to mention the treasure at the bottom of the dungeon, the spoils from failed adventurers. Brutus asked were the entrance was and was pointed to the end of the hall were most people were gathered, but he was warned that mages abilities are reduced underground and he would most likely only be able to go a few floors down before he died. Brutus accepted the advice and went down. As he went down, Brutus heard a few people saying behind him something about another dead kid. The first floor was easy with the Frost spell. There were mostly just rats. The second floor had some bigger rats, but nothing too bad. The 3rd floor had some huge rats and large lizards. The 4th floor had less rats, but more large lizards. The lizards were stronger than the rats and faster too. Brutus was using a lot of his mana to cast spells so often. Brutus had at his point many rat hides and lizard hides, so he went back to the surface. Brutus got his card updated, Lowest Floor: 4. And his mage level had leveled up to 28. Brutus went to the inn to sleep to prepare for the next day. In the morning, Brutus sold the hides, though they were not worth much, and he bough some restore mana potions. With these, Brutus went back into the dungeon. This time, Brutus made it to level 13 before having to leave. Level 36 Black mage. When Brutus was hurt, he used his Heal Light Wound magic, but it was more effective to let his natural regeneration heal it. Brutus sold the monster drops and went back into the dungeon the next day. Brutus came out from the dungeon after going 21 floors in and it was light outside. It was hard to judge what time it was while inside the dungeon. Brutus kept going to the dungeon every day and eventually started spending more than one day inside it. It took about 8 hours to complete 20 levels. There were other dungeon divers too, and they sometimes helped, but there was only one treasure room so they most of the time ran ahead of Brutus. Brutus would later find their corpse impaled by some monster. After a few weeks, Brutus was making it to level 70. On the 70th floor, it was very dark so project light was constantly being used, and the monsters had a large resistance to magic. Explosive fireball was hardly doing any damage. If not for his ability to use ground enhancing and block of the dungeon for him to rest, Brutus would not be able to go any further. Brutus was now using greater fireball to deal with the monsters, but it made the hides almost unusable. Brutus reached 6 years old in the dungeon. It was becoming well known that a 6 year old kid was making it past the half way mark on the dungeon by himself, something that usually required a party of a few people. Brutus did not care though, he was determined to make it to the boss floor. In addition to the high floor levels, it was also known that Brutus was using black magic to progress, something that was especially difficult to do. Brutus was a level 68 Black mage though, so everything was going well. Brutus had to go back to the guild to check what kind of spells they had, and to update his card. This time, Brutus bought a mana intensive spell, gravity. This spell would allow Brutus to increase gravity on a certain spot, but unfortunately not decrease it. The spell took a lot of mana so not many people used it, but as Brutus leveled up and aged his mana was growing very fast. Brutus was even known at the mage guild for his high stats. Brutus went back into the dungeon with his new spell and make it to floor 85. With the new spell, Brutus was able to reach level 75. A few more month later and Brutus was on the 102nd floor. The monsters were hard to kill even with gravity, and Brutus had reached level 88 Black Mage. Brutus checked out the boss monster and it was a huge Minotaur. Brutus chained his job to swordsman and hoped he could get his last levels with the boss. Brutus also took out a soul gem. Brutus went in to fight the boss and it immediately charged at him. Brutus had high speed and was able to dodge it, but the Minotaur did not look tired at all and kept charging. Brutus checked his stamina, but it was still almost full. Stamina was not listed on the stats menu, so it must be a constantly changing stat, and he had to have a lot of it. Brutus kept dodging and changed his sword into a much bigger one with the addition of three other swords he had in his items. With the bigger sword, Brutus used ground enhancing behind him to launch him at the Minotaur and cut it's back. The Minotaur was in pain and rammed Brutus again, but Brutus dodged and the Minotaur hit the wall of the dungeon. The wall shook and the Minotaur fell down. It must have hit the wall very hard. Brutus changed the sword to be very sharp and thing and plunged it into the boss. As he felt it dying, Brutus pulled the soul gem out of his pocket and held it to the Minotaur. The Minotaur died and the soul gem was filled. It was a great magical power inside it. Brutus looked around the room and saw a treasure chest appear that didn't look like it was there earllier. It must only appear after the boss has been defeated. Brutus also took the body of the Minotaur with him in his items, and now he was almost full. The treasure chest had many items in it, and was very much like the menu Brutus saw in his mind. As he was looking in it, Brutus looked up and saw his level, Level 100 Swordsman. Brutus took a good amount of equipment and traded some with the crap gear he already had and the hides, then he left. He would examine the gear later. Brutus made his way out of the dungeon. It took him almost a full day just to get back outside. One at the surface, people saw that he was a swordsman and asked him what happened. He told then that in addition to be a high level mage, he was also a master swordsman. The Minotaur on the last floor would have been too hard to kill as a black mage, so he switched to swordsman to take it out. Everyone was shocked, but when Brutus went to the counter, he got his card updated. Completed Dungeons, 103 Floor Minotaur Dungeon. Brutus went into the street and pulled the huge Minotaur from his items. Everyone was amazed that a 6 year old kid could kill such a beast. Brutus went back to the mage guild and got someone to show him how to enchant something. Using a scroll for the magic you want to enchant onto an item, you wrap it around the item and press the filled soul gem against the scroll and item. It will make the scroll disappear and the spell effects transfer into the item when it is used. Brutus bought a scroll for increase carry weight and took off his shirt. When Brutus did this get got some stares, but it might be because he was a ripped 6 year old. He then took out the Minotaur filled soul gem which got even more looks and applied it to the shirt. Brutus put the shirt back on and felt like a load of stress had been relieved. Brutus then changed his job back to Black mage and got his card updated and left. Brutus then went around selling the items he got from the dungeon, except a few of the useful potions and a couple of scrolls. There were a few enchanted items, but they were of low quality after having been eaten by monsters. Still better than nothing, but if Brutus was to kill the Minotaur again and enchant, he could get a much better level. As Brutus was selling the items, some dungeon divers would come to him asking if he found certain items in the bottom of the dungeon that came from friends of theirs that had died in the dungeon. Brutus just told them he had already sold eveything to varrious merchants, but left a lot of items in the dungeon. He would carry them through to the boss level if they wanted to though. When hearing this, many people started to gather. Being able to go to the bottom floor of the dungeon was very rare, and for a 6 year old to make it and offer to take other people was even rarer, absolutely unheard of. Brutus was a black mage as he went down and had a huge pool of mana which amazed people as he used fireball to destroy the monsters for the first 40 floors, then switched to greater fireball until 80 and then started using gravity. There was around 40 people with him when he first went in, but the group had gone down to about 10 at the 90 level. Brutus was breezing though the levels quickly and they only stopped after 40 levels to sleep. At the 102nd floor, there was 7 people left, all members of the same party. Brutus told them to wait at the door while he would try and kill the Minotaur with magic this time. They waited and Brutus went in. Brutus started with a emit light spell, but the effect was weakened because it is a gray mage spell, but it got the Minotaur's attention. Brutus was a level 96 black mage and might level up to 100 if he could kill the Minotaur with magic. The Minotaur charged and Brutus backed up to a wall and then jumped quickly out of the way. He then used a powerful gravity attack on the Minotaur to keep it in place while he case Ice Shot and greater Fireball at it with his other hand. The Minotaur did not stop though, and it stuggled to move. After a while though, Brutus had opened a small hole in it's back, and Brutus cast a powerful explosive fireball spell at the hole and made the Minotaur explode. More correctly, just the back of the Minotaur. Using this much magic was making Brutus tired, but the Minotaur was dead and Brutus checked his stats, Level 99 Black mage. He must have to create a new spell or something to get the last level. The dungeon divers that came with Brutus came into the boss room and looked in amazement. Using magic on the 103rd floor of a dungeon. It was difficult on the first few floors to maintain power equiivalent to the surface, but on the 103rd it was almost impossible. Brutus must be on a whole other level. Brutus used another soul gem to fill on the Minotaur and took a look at the treasure chest. Not much has changed, but Brutus took a few extra things and then let the dungeon divers take their fill. Brutus went back to the Minotaur and took the head with him, the most valuable part, and told the dungeon divers he was ready to leave when they were. They ascended the dungeon floors only a little bit quicker than when they had gone down, and as they went they saw bodies of the people that tried to follow them. Brutus must have missed quite a few monsters as he rushed the dungeon. When he got to the top, Brutus's father was there. Brutus and his father and his party celebrated for a little bit. His own little dungeon diver. They ate a huge meal and his father went to speak to him about how hard it was on his mother not knowing were he was and knowing that he could have been in danger. But it was all for nothing and Brutus would be a great adventurer. Brutus's father left the next day to find another dungeon, they had already beaten the Minotaur in this dungeon and told Brutus it was only the tip of the iceburg. There were many other dungeons with special monsters and traps even. Brutus checked his status and saw a new perk, Changing Blade. Brutus tried it out, and his sword could change shape just like the attack he used on the Minotaur. Brutus had a theory, that if something new or special was done with an attack, something that was normally impossible, that would allow a person's job to reach level 100 and give them a special perk. The next day, Brutus sold the filled soul gem for quite a bit of money and bought some more spells. Shock, Fire Storm, and Blizzard. Shock was an intermediate level spell and the other two were advanced. Brutus went to a field to test the spells and saw both Fire Storm and Blizzard were area of effect spells and caused a large area around him to burn to snow. It was most likely just the water in the air freezing though. Brutus thought of something he could do with Blizzard and tried it out. He felt something in his head and checked, Level 100 Black mage. What Brutus did was use Blizzard to create snow and then used Ice Shot to turn all the snow into ice and shoot it at a target. Brutus checked his Perks and saw the new one, Spell Changer. Brutus tested this ability out, and it let him change what a spell was after he was done casting it. Brutus used Ice shot to hit a tree, but as it was getting close, Brutus changed it to a fireball and it caught the tree on fire. Brutus quickly put it out. Now for his next job to master. Brutus looked at his current jobs, Swordsman, Black Mage, White Mage, Gray Mage, Paladin. Brutus changed to Paladin. He felt a little different and tried to use his magic. It was not as powerful as Black mage, but it was stronger than swordsman. He used his sword, and it was stronger than Black mage, but not as strong as swordsman. This would be a great job for someone with high stats in both those categories. Brutus went back to town and updated his cards. Level 1 Paladin. Paladin was for the solo adventurer, and being in a party made it less useful. Normally someone wants to be as powerful as they can, but Brutus was choosing to be a little weaker in both categories so he could use them both at the same time. Brutus spent the next week selling the rest of the stuff he got from the dungeon and looking at maps. He wanted to find another dungeon inside a city or somewhere with more magic. Brutus finally settled on a city a few weeks away that had a bigger dungeon in it, a 168 floor Snake dungeon. When people heard Brutus was leaving, they wanted him to stay longer, so Brutus decided to wait until he was 7 years old before leaving. Because Paladin was a sword using job, he was able to level it quickly, but he knew that he wouldn't be able to reach level 100 until he had a breakthrough in a new technique. Every few weeks Brutus would go to the bottom of the dungeon and kill the Minotaur and take it's soul. The monster spawns were very low with Brutus going through the dungeon every week, and when he reached 7 years old, some dungeon divers were glad he was leaving. Finally they would be able to tackle the dungeon again.