Inside a throne room that exudes wealth and power sits a king with a few attendants at his side. The king is thinking with a slight frown on his face. In front of the king stands an old man, If Poko was here he would’ve recognized him as the old man he gave the core to. Beside the old man is a middle aged man in nobles clothing.King: “Are you sure this report is correct?”Old Man: “Yes your majesty, I did a preliminary investigation while it was still fresh in the villagers minds, however I didn’t have time to check out the corpse since we couldn’t risk losing the enhancer again.”Noble: “Sire allow me to investigate this more thoroughly, I’m sure there is an explanation.”King:”No, don’t bother. We have other things to worry about right now, if the problem is resolved then that’s one more thing we won’t need to waste resources on.”Noble: “Yes your majesty.”After the two left an attendant asks???:“Sire, do you think it’s one of those incidents the reports have talked about?”King
Back on the first floor:Eventually a group of people entered the camp with some wolf meat and edible herbs to eat. Gof the blacksmith was very short with rippling muscles, he seemed like the quiet type. Resama the tailor has blonde hair and perky… personalities, she seems very outgoing. Rosliny the potion maker is a beauty with red hair, she looks a bit more stern. Masu is a wider man who seems happy with their catch, he immediately gets to preparing the and cooking the food.After some introductions Masu started cooking and Poko watched intently trying to learn. It was clear Masu was already much better than him and even had multiple skills dealing with cooking. Which considering they were still on the first floor, that was very is impressive.‘These guys are already better than me, my crafting skills are pretty bad I’ll probably need some people to craft for me in the future. These guys are dedicated to their craft, I should try to befriend them.’Willow: “So Oko here wanted to jo
"Hahaha I gave that stupid man a funny name, looks like I get the last laugh! Serves him right for calling an angel weak!""Well you did lose to him, is that how you return his favor of not killing you? Not that either of you will remember anyway though. Whatever, go get ready, you'll be in the next batch."Everything is black'Where am I?''Who am I?''My name is poko…''what a dumb name, who the hell came up with that''Why can't I remember anything?'Suddenly everything turns white'Are these my hands? Guess so'As poko looks around he sees other people just like him, confused and looking around. Everyone is spread out seemingly randomly and they go as far as he could see in every direction. The closest person is probably 40 ft away. Someone in the distance yells"HELLO? WHATS GOING ON HERE"And as if to answer, a screen suddenly pops up in front of everyone that reads:[Welcome contestants! You are the first batch of challengers to the tower, your memories have been wiped to make
[Get ready to start the next floor in][5][4][3][2][1]A bright light hits Poko’s eyes and as he opens them he sees a meadow with a forest surrounding it, a small creek meanders through the meadow and into the forest. In the distance there are mountains and behind him is a closed door that seems to go nowhere. “CREEEEK”All of a sudden from the thick grasses pops up the ugliest green head poko has ever seen, the head starts to charge in Poko’s direction. As it parts the thick grasses poko sees a small glint of metal in its hand. It’s at this moment that poko realizes that his sword is still somehow shoved into the backpack, sticking out awkwardly, and he has no idea how to cast a spell…‘Fuck!’Poko jumps back and began trying to grab the sword but as he grabs it poko realizes, the backpack would not let go of it! The annoying creature is already upon him, it’s to late now. ‘Well I guess I’ve got 5 lives so…’As the ugly little creature lunges at poko with a crude dagger, there
Poko left in the direction that the Goblins came from, except he walked along the edge of the forest rather than risk an ambush in the weeds. After a couple minutes of walking he found another batch of 5 heading in the direction of the door. One of the green bastards actually had a sword and Shield.After a quick thought Poko decided to ambush them since they hadn’t noticed him yet. They were walking right towards him as he hid in some brush behind a tree. ‘As long as I can kill that sword guy and get some distance I should be fine. Although it might be better to deal with the easier guys first since he has a shield and could block the blow. I think I can kill two before they respond so let’s try that.’As poko waits and tenses up he regrets not trying to meditate for mana but it was to late for that now. As they walk up to the tree Poko is hiding behind he suddenly lunges out swinging his dagger using piercing stab on the closest creature and swinging his sword towards another. It
After a little while searching the forest, he made a fire using his spell and roasted some wolf meat. With the extra herbs and an edible root he found, it wasn’t great. The meat cooked unevenly and the herbs were far to hard and bitter but at least it filled him up.‘In the future, I’ll make some gourmet food!’The next problem was his health, although it had been a little over an hour poko had only gained 5 hp back. This was the same rate as mana and would take forever, poko didn’t want to waste his only potion. Given is own chef skills, it would probably be a while before good potions like these become available, unless monsters dropped it. ‘Still 7 health is not a lot… but 12 isn’t to bad, everyone starts at 10 so that’s higher than some people have, in the meantime I clearly need to practice my magic and figure out how I want to fight.’And that’s exactly what Poko did, he practiced with lesser fire, then meditation. After some practice Poko got the hang of it and figured out he
An hour later Poko was slowly, stealthily getting closer to the settlement. At this point Poko had 12 health again although his wounds were still sore and stiff. Dusk was going to set in in about an hour and poko was determined to not get caught today. Unfortunately hide wasn’t a very powerful skill, it only passively helped him hide, mostly when he was sitting still. But he still used this advantage to slowly get closer and closer to the settlement, keeping low and in the thicker grasses when he could. As another hour passed and dusk settled, Poko’s health reached 17 making him feel much more comfortable. The encroaching darkness also helped him blend in as most of the goblins returned to the small village. As poko got closer he heard all sorts of occasional fighting, even witnessing a small child goblin being killed and the two adults laughing. But that wasn’t it, in the center of town was a big fire with a pot which they threw the body into. The goblins later ate out of that pot
'Hmmm unfortunately my current mana didn’t go up when I upgraded it like my health did. I hope meditation won’t disturb the guy… it probably will I’ll just wait an hour, two spells should be good.’After an hour passed Poko tried meditation but as expected, as soon as he tried it the bear snorted and seemed disturbed. Before it could fully wake up Poko started casting lesser fire and finished as the bear opened its eyes.(SWOOSH)“RAAAAWWWRR”The fire lit up the bear as it roared in pain but soon it died to the fire. “Guess you couldn’t Bear the flames hahaha”‘Phew good thing my stats got a bump, now let’s see what it drops.’The bear dropped a chest piece of thin leather armor. “Of course I get chest armor after getting stabbed in the chest twice yesterday, speaking of which how is my body so sore? This HP bar is bull I don’t feel at 100%! I would take a day off but then all my first kills would be stolen. The question now is where should I go. There’s the mountains to the right,