[+ 445 EXP]
This was the total amount that you had gained in this slaughter. It was decent at best. It was because he was outside of the dungeon that each apprentice only gave him 8 XP.
And he killed 40 some of them managed to escape for real. This is because the black mages didn't care about letting them make a little bit of distance.
But because he had killed one of them and forced the other into a defensive position. They had a real chance to escape, perhaps.
Moreover, the black mage only gave him 125 EXP. This was the pain of forming XP outside of a dungeon, it was now very clear with the benefits of his title were.
I skipped over the bodies, left of the round and made a run for it to his tent, the soldiers were up and about as confused as everyone else was.
Esdras didn't bother to explain anything to them not that he had the time he jumped into his tent, and vanished, as if he had disappeared outright.
The dungeon, what's the best place for Him to hide in, as for the conflict? Obviously, only those who are qualified can join in.
Other than an exchange of benefits for loyalty he had no other ties to the Octarine tower. And he hasn't yet received many benefits for him to justify risking his life when he felt he wasn't ready to participate in this conflict.
As long as spell casters had enough distance than melee combatants were at an absolute disadvantage.
Not all rank 2 beings word of the same power obviously, in fact, he suspected that the differences were even a starker than rank 1.
Esdras teleported to the boss room in the second floor, immediately after he rushed down the downstairs, but didn't go completely down. Instead, he held his sword and destroyed the staircase as he went back up.
As for the trapped the staircase, he left it like that after all anyone who used it was very likely to die, or at the very least, be expelled back to the entrance of the pyramid.
Esdras couldn't completely relax and let down his guard just because he was inside the dungeon. There was a slight possibility that he might get followed.
It was the worst case scenario, but he had to be prepared either way.
Now, he was very well aware that destroying that staircase was not enough to stop his pursuers if they were really determined.
After all, they were spellcaster, they were bound to find a way given enough time.
He was very confident in the second floor, traps and monsters, especially inside the pyramid. The mazelike structure was a nightmare to navigate through.
And the trap rooms were nothing to scoff at either. All of these were only temporary measures.
His true plot was to defeat the boss of the third floor and successfully conquer the dungeon. At which point the monster is that he had previously killed we're going to respawn and create all sorts of chaos.
In the meantime, he was going to teleport out. Before any of that, he was going to advance to level 4 as an apprentice mage since he had enough EXP after the noble sacrifice of his fellow apprentices.
Sitting down cross legged in the empty boss room he focus to summon the system and consumed 460 EXP in one go. Leaving him with only 24 EXP.
He could feel and see a great amount of mana assimilating into each of the completed sigils in his sea of consciousness. From 20% to 50%.
Name: Esdras Varthos
Race: Human (world wyrm)
Title: Pioneer
Rank: 2
Classes: 1) Apprentice mage Lv.4 (0/1010 EXP)
2) Vigor core Lv.1 (0/720 EXP)
Physique: 5
Agility: 4
Intelligence: 4
Spirituality: 5
Mana: 4
Vigor: 6
Origin points: 5
EXP: 24
Mystical talent: 3 (0/8 OP)
Martial talent: 1 (0/2 OP)
Stat points: 10
Skill point: 7
His mana and intelligence stats increased by one each, his spirituality increased by two points.
With this change, he stood up and started training thanks to the high-level of his three skills, manipulation, manifestation, and control he could now imitate spells even if he didn't learn any.
At the end of the day, old spells relied on the three foundational skills however, a spell was like a formula. It already solve the problem, and he merely had to supply it with mana at the right nodes.
Conversely, what he was trying to do right now, with an extremely difficult process of manipulating and focusing on each aspect and process.
This was a counterproductive effort that regular True mages had no need to go through. Esdras wouldn't have done that either, but he had no other choice.
On the other hand, after practicing, he found that this method allowed him an incredible level of freedom. He needed a few hours before he was completely ready to face the final boss.
****
Outside of the London by the camp, which belong to Esdras's group, and five soldiers were already dead, and the rest were kneeling in a straight line in front of three black-robed figures.
"I will ask once again, did you say he disappeared into thin air?!"
The soldiers shivered at the gruesome death of their companions. They wailed.
" I swear sir, I swear on my mother soul is what I saw with my own eyes, sir!"
The black mages had incredibly ugly expressions, in fact, they believed the soldiers but didn't know how to come to terms with this bullshit.
A man vanished into thin air? That didn't make any sense at all.
And yet they already tortured enough, unless these soldiers were the loyal Dawnguard of legend then it could only be concluded that they were telling the truth.
"Wait a minute what is this?" One of them pointed at the collapsed in cave that the tent was built connected to.
" are you trying to say that he went in there? Do you see an opening or something?"
The only woman among them asked.
"It looks like it collapsed recently, do you know how it collapsed? In fact, doesn't it look really weird to be getting out of the ground in the middle of the forest like this?"
"Oh! I know! I know!" One the soldiers jump at the chance to save his life, "I didn't see it, but I heard the story of what happened. Actually, it might be related to the apprentice you're looking for."
"Go, on." The man in the middle with a stern expression urged the soldier to explain himself.
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