A Warlock's Ascent

The entrance of the dungeon was this arch door, he could see what was inside, but as all the people before him had stepped inside without making a fuss, he did that as well. Darkness covered his eyes, he could feel his body moving, air was ruffling his hair as he moved, but he could not see where he was going, suddenly his body came to an abrupt stop, it is then he could see again.

He was in a well-illuminated cave, there were spikes hanging from the ceiling, there was a lot of moisture in the air making him sweat. There was a dark passageway before him, the only route available to take. The most peculiar thing about the cave was a very small hole, just beside a dark passageway.

There was a skeleton sitting in the hole, wearing a cap, saying 'how may I help you' giving him creepy vibes. He remembered the female skeleton that he met when coming here, thus he knew that this skeleton could move and talk.

He approached the hole, and the skeleton became alive. "Hello, my name is Steve 1.0. How may I help you today?" hearing the robotic and inhumane voice of the skeleton made him realize that this one was not like the female that he encountered before.

"Hi, what... What are you? What am I doing here?"

The skeleton didn't speak for a moment or two, it is then its mouth started moving again. "I am Steve 1.0. You are in the Vecrus's dungeon of Midgard."

"What is your purpose, Steve?"

The skeleton took his sweet time, but it replied soon. "I am here to mend the shop of the dungeon. If you want to buy something from the dungeon, you can command me."

"Oh. So what you sell here?"

"The items that I sell are divided in four categories. Number-1 Skills, Number-2 Weapons, Number-3 Items, and lastly Number-4 Information."

"How can I buy things from you, like what kind of currency do you accept?"

"The souls of monsters that are killed inside a dungeon are the currency that I accept."

"Oh yeah, now I remember. There is supposed to be an orb, right? It is a thing that collects the souls of the monsters that I kill"

"That is correct. The Soul Orb is the item that you speak of."

"I dont have a soul orb, do I need to go back and come back after buying it?

"Not necessary. The Soul Orb is free for every Earthian that comes into the dungeon. While the Midgardians have to pay with gold coins to buy them.

"Give me my free soul orb then." He said. It is then several messages from his system appeared before his eyes.

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You have acquired the Soul Orb.

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The Soul Orb is integrated into your system.

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You will be given Soul points for every kill that you do in the Dungeon.

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The soul Orb will directly suck in the souls of your victim.

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You can see the Soul point or SP count in your status.

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Happy Hunting.

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He opened his status menu, and sure enough, a new tab had appeared in the menu.

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Status

Name- Dave Gonsalves

Class- Newbie Warrior

Level- 16

Soul Points- 0

Stats- <Think about it to expand>

Inventory- <Think about it to expand>

Quest- <Think about it to expand>

Skills- <Think to expand>

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He then turned towards the skeleton again, now that he had the soul orb, he needs to figure out what he wants to buy first.

"Show me all the skills that I can buy" Another window appeared before his eyes

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Skills

1>Exploding arrows-150 Sp

2>Piercing Arrows-200 SP

3>Fire Arrows-120 SP

4>Poison Arrows- 220 SP

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25>Trance Spell- 1000Sp

26>Silence Spell- 1300 SP

27>Elemental Buff- 900SP

28>Eagle Wave- 1800 SP

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50>Blood Resolve- 3000 SP

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The skills in the list were very versatile, as he skimmed through them, he saw that this list has skills for swords to spears, and it also contained magical skills as well. And when he wanted to know what a skill really does, Steve would give him the exact description of the skill.

Seeing the number of skills before him, he was really tempted to buy some of them, but alas he didn't have any SP currently. He then proceeded to check the items list, it was pretty much smaller than the skills list but it had a lot of amazing things.

He saw that lantern given to him by Jurgen in that list, there was a quiver that could hold up to 100 arrows, there was a spatial pouch, then there was a stone in the list which could get him out of the dungeon if he faces a tough situation and is pinned down.

The most interesting item that he saw was the thing called SP snatcher, as the name was very catchy, he asked the skeleton about it. It turns out that Players can exchange SP with one another, but if a player kills another player then this item comes into play, with it a player could snatch all the SP of the player that they killed.

It was a very dangerous item, thus he decided that he would never disclose his SP to another player or human, just to be safe.

He then went to the weapons list, the shop have every weapon that one might think of, and they were pretty expensive as well, according to Steve, the weapons inside the list were top-notch from the standards of this world. That is why they were so expensive.

He asked Steve about what kind of information he could buy from here, it is then he was greeted with a list before his eyes…

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1>The Identity of the Deity of your choice- 3000 SP

2>The Identity of All Deities in the game- 10,000 SP

3>Clue to the Second World- 12,000 SP

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His widened with shock as he read all the information that he could get from this one.  'Wait, what would we even do after knowing the identity of the Deity? Is that useful somehow?' giving him something to think about.