Deflecting it's attack with my sword, and before it could recover it's stability, I stabbed my sword directly through it's forehead, killing it.
After picking up the earlier magic stone and the one dropped by the war shadow, I opened my system screen to check my status and the number of minsters defeated for my daily quest.
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[Status:
Name: Light
Level: 5 (200/1000)
Title: none...
Class: none...
Hp: 2000/2000
Mp: 3000/3000
Constitution: 20
Spirit: 30
Status points: 4
Skills: Acceleration, Trait Maker, Anomaly (True), Miracle Maker
Magic: Float Magic]
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[Quest,
Daily Quest : Defeat 500 monsters (305/500)]
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I had only 500 Exp and still needed another 500 Exp to Level Up, but nothing could be done, the monsters on Floor 1 and 2 provided 0.0 something Exp and monsters on the third floor provided only 1 exp now, but the Frog shooter I had killed just now provided 20 Exp and the War Shadow 40 Exp. It seems like I would be able to Level Up after hunting for sometime on the fifth floor.
And the number of monsters I had killed was 305, cool, but time to grind more.
I was about to close the system screen, when I felt something wrong, I immediately went back to my Status screen and looking at the skills section, the Anomaly which should have been False had become True, I immediately clicked on the skill, thinking it was changed due to me being in the dungeon,
[Anomaly (True): No rules/ laws of fate or destiny hold sway over you. / Not bound by any rules / fate / destiny, can do anything you want. You are free from fate, no thread of destiny can bind you.
Passive Skill]
It was not related to the dungeon, but my skill had somehow upgraded and become even more broken, should I celebrate or feel concerned? I was having a grave internal discussion on this matter, when I thought of checking the Notifications Tab and see if there were any notifications of the skill upgrade.
Upon opening the notifications screen, there were the notifications of me killing the monsters in the dungeon today at the start and after scrolling down for quite a while, I stumbled on something interesting,
"[Skill: Anomaly (False) has begun to passively influence the host's world at large. "
A notification saying that my Anomaly Passive skill had started to do some changes to the entire world, is it really such a powerful skill that it can influence the world? Anyway, at least I hope it is a positive one and not ramping up my current difficulty.
According to the next few notification, the skill was not successful and was repelled, so it tried to strike back and my other skill Miracle Maker did not activate the first or the second time.
Oh reading further, a total of three opposite forces were staked, maybe these forces are like the guardians of this world?
The next time Miracle Maker activated as Anomaly was almost defeated, upgrading it from False to True.
Seeing the next few notifications, I was once again shocked by the system and the skills it had given me, the upgraded Anomaly (True) Skill, to seek a way out way of the confrontation, had casually created a space and time distortion and a connection to another world.
'Hmm, but wait, I think I have heard the word "Root" somewhere before, but where is it? Ah, it's from the game Fate / Grand Order I had played for sometime on Earth, my friend had recommended it, but I had stopped playing it after sometime. And 'Root', if I remember it correctly, it is the World's power center or something similar to it.
Ok, it successfully extracted a drop of mana directly from the 'Root', but was forced out, and finally using it as a backup. No wait, not that, a variable also entered through the spatial distortion and was conveniently ignored? Don't ignore something like that, if some of the unsavory things from FGO come here, it'll be a disaster!
Also whether the variable, a living being or some artifact or anything else, any information on it would be useful. But the notification logs did not mention anything more about the variable as if it was not important.
And the actions were already done, I could do nothing to change it, only keep an eye open and see if I could find the variable.
...
While digesting the huge information and thinking about the effect of the backdoor left by my skill, I heard the sound of the wall breaking in multiple places near me.
Easily defeating the three frog shooters which had spawned, I made my way seeking out more monsters and to quickly level up.
Following along the passage I came across a group of five adventurers who were fighting against one war shadow and three frog shooters. They were two humans at the front fighting the war shadow and a boar-kin and a dwarf who were fighting the three frog shooters with the help of the last person, a pallum who had a short bow in his hand, sometimes giving instructions to his team members.
This reminded me that most people who come down to adventure after 5th floor would form a party and then come here, because the number of monsters spawning increases and it is difficult to face of against multiple was shadows for a single person.
I too had to think of a party, but was not too sure whether to join or not, after all, I still do not have Falna, and I grow stronger at an exaggerated rate, the final reason being I can still easily defeat the monsters here without any difficulty. And even if I wanted to join one, it had to be a party with high level adventurers or it wouldn't be meaningful for me, but a party with high level adventurers would not welcome me for the above reasons.
After standing still for a minute and sensing that the party were not in any danger I went back the hallway to the turning which I had come through and dove into the adjacent hallway next to it. I was greeted by a group of five frog shooters in the next room, swiftly grabbing the tongue of the first frog shooter which attacked me, thankfully I was wearing gloves, I pulled it towards me with while jumping towards my right to avoid attacks from the other four monsters. Using my sword to impale the monster being pulled towards me, and turning it into ash, I immediately used my acceleration skill to reach the nearest frog shooter directly in front of me, stabbing it through its eye and tried to dodge the attacks from the other monsters.
I was careless, I dodged the first two attacks, but the last attack hit me in my left forearm and gave me a stinging pain. I was not wearing an armor. It was very much painful but thankfully nothing else happened, like no broken bone or anything that would make me unable to use my arm, making me think my constitution stat is really overpowered.
Shaking my head to get rid of the distracting thoughts, I took out a spare sword from my inventory and threw it towards the frog shooter which had struck me and accelerated towards the other two frogs and cut them down. Turning to look at the frog which I had thrown a sword to look at, I could see the sword stuck in the ground and a magic stone near it.
After putting my sword back into its sheath, I picked up the magic stones, stored the spare sword back into my inventory thinking that I needed to stock up some daggers, which were more convenient for throwing in smaller places or using it as a surprise attack in close combat, especially with my inventory's help.
After checking my left hand once more and making sure there was no injury by moving it up and down a few times, the next thing I did was opening the status screen and adding all the stat points which I had gotten by levelling up into the constitution stat. After all, the constitution stat would increase my reaction time, as it would be a waste that I am not able an attack even after sensing it.
I had been able to sense all the three attacks but as they were coming from three different directions and at the same time, I was not able to deflect or dodge them even when I tired my best, hence I wanted to increase my reaction time, which would help me to more efficiently use the acceleration skill.
After adding the points to the constitution stat, I left the room through the hallway opposite to the one from which I came in.
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[Status:
Name: Light
Level: 5 (660/1000)
Title: none...
Class: none...
Hp: 2400/2400
Mp: 3000/3000
Constitution: 24
Spirit: 30
Status points: 0
Skills: Acceleration, Trait Maker, Anomaly (True), Miracle Maker
Magic: Float Magic]
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[A/N: Hello Everyone, LordIsland here!
My stockpile of chapters is over, so there may not be a regular update of chapters from now on, but I'll try my best to at least post 3- 4 chapters per week! ]