Myles felt a prickling sensation on his back.“Mm?” he turned around, and a coral shell opened. “A C-rank dungeon? Wonderful,” he got up to his feet, quickly finished his meal, and then rushed into the dungeon.He ended up in a rugged scrubland with tall grass competing with taller shrubs. Right before him was a medium-sized lake. On the other side of the lake, a humanoid red-haired cat with a little bit of white hair mixed in was drinking from the lake.Myles took a step forward. The grass crunched underfoot.The cat’s ear immediately jerked; it looked in his direction straight away and hissed.Myles grabbed the bone staff that was on his back. “This fellow reminds me of a pet I used to own in my previous life.”The cat started running on all fours and came circling the lake. It was fast. From about fifty feet away, it leaped at him with a fully stretched body.Myles turned the bone staff into a sword and pierced at it. The cat tapped the blade down and clawed at him with another lim
The whistle wasn't loud because the cat couldn’t put enough strength into blowing the whistle.“Was it trying to send a warning signal?” Myles grew just a little anxious. He picked up the whistle which was made out of leaves. He crushed it in his hand and tossed it away.His shoulder wound was mostly healed by now.“This healing speed isn’t enough,” Myles stealthily walked by covering his feet with vaporous vera, so that even though he was stepping on the grass, it didn’t make any noise.“I’m getting more and more used to this thing they call ‘vera,’” he mumbled. “I could hear it exciting the cells in my body, making sounds that can be felt through the vibrations inside my body. Every breath is activating the life energy of the blood, so it can be used against all things, physical, mental, and spiritual. If I keep developing it, I’m sure I’ll be able to heal myself with vera instead of depending on the nano healing bots.“I don’t know how far this will take me, but if I want to defeat
The Boss Cat howled with vehemence.Naturally, Myles also heard the howl. “Dammit. Did they catch up on the scent already? I shouldn’t have cut them when I wasn’t far from the boss monster, but there was no other choice. I couldn’t have strangled all four of them. Perhaps, I could have avoided fighting them, but the star crystals didn’t let me walk away.”Suddenly, the top half of the hut was sliced away by the sword strike of the Boss Cat.“Human!” The Boss Cat landed on the wall and sprang at Myles with all the hatred in its eyes and voice. “Feline Fury… Scorching Sword!” It thrust a short sword at Myles with such speed, the sword screamed through the air and generated flames.Myles dodged initially, but the opponent kept thrusting the sword with increasing speed. At some point, it was too fast for Myles to continue to dodge, and so he had to block it with his sword. Flames erupted and blocked his view.The Boss Cat used the flames as cover to swing the second sword and thought it w
All the cat monsters heard the Boss Cat’s order and rushed forth.“Everything in creation vibrates at a certain frequency,” Myles said, “and so when you bring metal and blood into resonance, this happens.” His sword made a buzzing noise. “Harmonic Sword…” Myles gyrated on his foot and created a spinning force, releasing spinning top like energy utterly sliced through all the cat monsters along with their weapons. The only one that managed to withstand the attack was the Boss Cat, but its short swords also suffered cracks. And its arms were still trembling against its will.“You…” the Boss Cat was stepping forward, but then his internal organs had turned into a mess, and so he ended up collapsing to his knees. “What’s going on?” he bled from the eyes, nose, ears, and mouth. “I’m sure I blocked the attack…”“You didn’t block it the way you should,” Myles was also breathing hard because his stamina was still not good enough for him to effortlessly pull off such an attack. “The vibrations
The treasure room was behind the throne. The door didn’t open no matter how much Myles pushed it. He saw a hole in the dole. Instinctively, he placed the Boss Cat’s star crystal in that because it fit there.The rock door then opened by itself, he was shocked because it was an empty room.“The heck? Is there some sort of an illusion?” he hesitantly entered the room. Only after he took a few steps forward, he was able to see the two tiny translucent discs floating in the middle of the room. Because of the way light was arranged, he wasn’t able to see them before. “What are these?" he hesitantly touched them. They got sucked into his body and appeared as lenses covering his eyes, almost becoming one with the eyes.He didn’t feel like anything had changed.Not minding too much, he walked away. The remnant cat monsters, more than thirty of them, had gathered in the village by then and came rushing at him. They were fast, as usual, but to Myles’ great surprise, he saw them move in slow mot
A few minutes earlier.In the flower district’s dungeon bureau department building.“Sir, there’s a signal of a new dungeon,” one of the workers said. “It’s a C-rank dungeon, currently forming on building number 232, Block C of Sector 12.”“Sector 12?” the bureau’s manager slightly smiled. “That’s the public sector where no guild is located. This is great. Let’s put the dungeon to auction immediately.”“Yes, sir.”The bureau held an online auction for the newly formed c-rank dungeon’s rights, and many guilds from not just the flower district but other districts also competed.In the end, it was bought by the Greed guild for a whooping price of 2500 gold coins, which was worth more than 400 years salary of Sercy as her monthly salary was below 1 gold coin.The Greed guild dispatched a full-fledged C-rank team that was already in the flower district. This was a team of five members, all of whom were C-rank venerers.The leader of the team was Yamira, a Master C-ranker who used a sword a
“Who the hell are you?” Rodriguez’s expression quickly changed after seeing Myles. “I’m not obligated to tell you, am I?” Myles coolly responded. Now, Rodriguez was annoyed by his response, and when he saw the D* badge on Myles and also the bluebird badge of the Dawn guild, he didn’t think twice about anything else and just jumped at Myles. “A trash like you dares to enter the dungeon illegally?” he threw his gauntlet fist with strength. “Hill Blaster!” Myles cross-blocked the attack with his arms but got pushed back almost to the entrance of the portal. “Ngh!” he ground his teeth. It was a pretty powerful attack, and his arms trembled. “Why are you attacking me?” “Shut up,” Rodriguez started throwing punches left and right. “Hill Chain Blaster!” He pushed Myles back, forcing him to enter the dungeon. Rodriguez entered the dungeon as well, but the others didn’t. They just stood there and waited, expecting their teammate to defeat Myles and then bring him out. However, it was Rodr
The name Myles Mertzel became quite popular overnight in two districts. One was the Flower district where the D-rank goblin dungeon had broken out. The other was the Promise district where the Dawn guild was situated.Every guild in these two districts began looking for Myles Mertzel for many reasons. Some wanted to take him into their guild, but guilds like Whiteblade and Crescent Knight were looking to silence him secretly, so they could regain some of their lost face.The local bureau in the Promise district sent a letter of thanks as well as the reward for Myles’ contribution.The rewards included 50 gold coins, and some of the knives that the goblins were using.Sercy was over the moon after receiving the reward. This was a little lower than she expected, but this would help her start renovating the guild building, which was necessary if she wanted to attract attention from other venerers.Judas, the old guard of the guild, asked her for money, but she shook her head and told him