CHAPTER 11: FIELD BOSS

Jack had his feet planted in the wet grass. Ready for the next fight that would test his strength.

Each foot steps that echoed ik the hall made Jack’s heart skip a beat. He was tense, nervous, but also excited.

He found a large patch of grass that he could hide in while he waited for his pray.

’Analyze’

Jack started scanning everything in the dungeon to see if their was anything useful around.

Stomp! Crunch!

A dire wolf bigger than anything Jack had seen before stepped foward, crushing the dead bodies of the dead wolves.

A 3 meter tall dire wolf stepped into the little light that shone through the ceiling. It was burgundy red and had a large sharp spiral horn on its head.

[System Update!]

[WARNING!]

[You have encountered an Elite Pest.]

[Fire Wolf: Level 10]

[Rank: Elite Pest]

[Hp: 500]

[Mana: 300]

[Strength: 50]

[Agility: 20]

[Affinity: Fire]

’It’s going to get hot in here. Allocate all free stat points into strength.’

[8 stat points added into strength. Strength is now at 28.]

Jack decided that his best chance at survival was allocating all stat points into Strength. When looking at his skills, he realized that spear toss damage calculation had been upgraded.

Instead of it being strength × 2. It was now strength × 2.5. That meant if he could land 6 spear tosses at the Fire Wolf he could amass 570 damage. With the 5% increase he just earned, it would go up to 599 total points of damage.

Thundershock was too risky of a plan if he couldn’t get close enough.

Jack’s grip on his spear tightened as his palm got sweaty.

When the Fire Wolf turned its back Jack launched a javelin directly into its back left ankle.

"Grwahhhh!"

The Fire Wolf growled as it scrapped its claws against the stone floor.

[You made it angry congratulations.]

At that moment the Fire Wolf roared causing 5 mini fireballs to orbit its horn.

’That’s not good.’

Grrr!

The Fire Wolf charged at jack and swung its right claw at Jack’s torso. Jack ducked , but at this moment the Fire balls began shooting smaller Fire balls at a steady pace.

The huge Fire Wolf was furious at being harmed, but the javelin didn’t slow it down at all.

What a terrifying monster!

’Lightning Steps! Lightings Embrace!’

Jack teleported underneath the beast and managed to hit the large beast twice.

Jack smiled as he realized he might have a chance to take the beast. ’A few hours ago I wasn’t sure if I could kill a monster. Now here I am risking my life to prove myself.’

The moment was short lived as the beast turned around and the speed of the fireballs increased.

A fireball grazed Jack’s arm.

[Notice: -15 HP.]

’Ah, thats hot!’

Jack backed off and continued to run around the dungeon looking for an opening.

The Fire Wolf charged recklessly after Jack. Running into walls and causing debris to fall from the ceiling.

In that instant, Jack dove out of the way to avoid a falling pillar. Three falling pillars fell from the celling, but the beast was so concerned with Jack, it didn’t see the debris.

One after another, the pillars fell. Each pillar struck the beast from head to tail. One pillar that fell caused the beast horn to crack.

[-50 HP]

[-50 HP]

[-50 HP]

[Prepare yourself Jack.]

’What do you mean prepare yourself?!’

Roooaaarr!!

A large howl came from the beast. Fire erupted from its horn. Fireballs began to shooting sporadically as the beast turned a darker red. It clenched its jaw together and was visibly angry.

[WARNING!!]

[Fire Wolf has entered an enraged state. All stats +50%. Defense has increased.]

’Oh, you got to be kidding me. System why don’t you tell me these things.’

Jack hurled a spear and it stuck directly into the beasts chest.

[-49 HP]

[Enraged Fire Wolf]

[HP: 106/500]

[You never asked Jack.]

’From now on, tell me important things like this before its life threatening.’

Jack’s forehead and palms were getting sweaty. His boots were covered in water with all the running her was doing. Making it easier to slide and lose your balance.

’This beast is just flailing around with no sense.’

Jack decided to take advantage of the situation. He grabbed 2 javelins and threw them quickly.

The wolf was moving faster now. Jack aimed at its chest where their was more of a target to aim for.

But, one of the javelins missed the intended area.

[-49 HP]

’Damn it! I’m almost out of mana.’

The Fire Wolf locked eyes with Jack. Scraping its claws against the stone. In that moment, it charged trying to hit him with his massive paws.

Im a desperate attempt, Jack charged directly at it getting ready to throw another javelin. He lost his footing and slide toward the beast.

’Oh sh....’

Just as the beast was about to pin Jack. He used Lightning Steps to get onto the beasts arms and than again and landed on top of the beast.

Jack grabbed its horn fmso he wouldn’t be fall off.

Surprisingly, no fireballs were being hurled at Jack.

Jack gripped his spear harder than before and lunged his spear repeatedly into its head.

Blood spatered over Jack’s Armour and face.

Grrrr! Eeekk! Yelp!

The horn broke and Jack lost his balance, falling off the beast.

Thud!

Bang!

The beast fell to the ground.

[Congratulations you have slain a Elite Pest.]

[Congratulations on slaying your first Enraged Monster.]

[Congratulations on slaying your first Elite Pest.]

[Reward: 1000 EXP.]

[Reward: 500 EXP.]

[Reward: 500 EXP.]

[Conquer a Dungeon Floor. Complete.]

[Reward: 500 EXP.]

[Reward: 2 Reputation Points.]

[You have leveled up! You are now level 3 (300/400)]

[Reward: 5 Stat Points]

[Congratulations | Class: Lightning Mage has reached level 6 (0/10,000)]

’Why is the EXP gap so high after level 5?’

[Class Ranks caps at rank 10. More benefits come with increased Rank, so rhe difficulty to level up spikes in return.]

--

"Well done Jack you managed to complete the Dungeon Floor on your first try. Your father will never proud!"

’Let’s return, I need to relax.’

The Kaiser family loves Jack, but they have high standards on what they expect.

"Yes, let’s go young master."

--

’System status update.’

[Status Update.]

Jack Kaiser: Level 3 (380/400)

Class: Lightning Mage (Rank 6)

Strength: 28

Stamina: 20

Agility: 20

Vitality: 20

Endurance: 20

Magic: 20

Mana: 325

HP: 115

Skill Points: 60

Stat Points: 5

Reputation Points: 17

Magic Talent Rank: S

Martial Talent Rank: S

Affinity: Lightning

Blessings: Draven’s Pendant

Skills: Scan (level 5), Polearm Mastery (level 5: 44%), Thundershock (level 1: 10%), Spear Toss (level 4), Lightning Steps (level 1: 10%), Lightning’s Embrace (level 1)

’That was a fun day. Now to clean all the blood off of me.’

Jack washed his face off and took a bath to relax.

Jack realized that after relaxing and getting cleaned up that it wasn’t past dinner yet. Time moved different in a dungeon.

[Jack would you to see the rewards from clearing the dungeon?]

’What do you mean rewards? I already got my rewards from beating the first floor.’