Chapter 149 Volume III - Chapter 70: Dungeon Rewards
The black sword in front of me was beautiful, really beautiful. It looked nice and it was really the perfect weapon for me.
In fact, it was one of the two reasons why I went into the dungeon. I really wanted a weapon that was suitable for me, that I could use other than the training weapons.
And now... now that I had such a weapon, I didn't need to keep buying myself new weapons all the time.
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Congratulations! You have cleared an E-D grade Recta-type dungeon!
Your achievements are being listed...
You killed two mini-bosses, one of which you killed without taking any damage!
You have killed a higher-ranked main boss than yourself!
You successfully completed the dungeon without meeting the main requirements!
You are the first person to complete this dungeon!
You skipped the treasure room and went straight to the heart of the dungeon, gaining access to special rewards!
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I couldn't help sighing as the number of creatures I had killed, one by one, and all the things I had accomplished were listed in front of me.
Truth be told, I am proud of myself.
When the system finished counting my achievements, a blue glow surrounded the sword and orb in front of me. Then, they disappeared into thin air. Instead, another notification appeared in front of me.
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Alexander Callidas has approved sending you the unallocated portion of the rewards.
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We had already talked about this before, so of course I was not surprised. Instead, I was curious about the rewards I had won.
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For your outstanding achievements in the dungeon, you have earned extraordinary rewards!
--Rewards--
Items: [Runic Obsidian Sword] -- [Skill Enhancer]x2 -- [Flame Elementalist(D-) Mastery Orb] -- [Phoenix's Soul Orb]
Stats: [Magic Power (+1)] -- [Luck (+1)]
Active Skills: [Ice Thorns(E+)]
You can summon your rewards at any time!
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Well... I expected this.
After all, we were the first to clear the dungeon, and we did it with two people below the recommended grade of the dungeon, and on top of that we did some things that a normal team wouldn't have done.
Still, I didn't expect to add a grade to the 'luck' statistic.
Charm and Luck are statistics that are highly genetic and extremely difficult to improve, apart from other statistics. So, to improve one of them as a reward is a really big thing.
On top of that, I got one of the main boss's skills and two skill enhancers.
The Phoenix's Soul Orb is the orb in the temple. I was expecting that, but still...
I hit the jackpot, just as I expected. I really did.
While I was thinking about this, a two-meter crack suddenly appeared in front of us. The crack appeared so suddenly that it scared us for a moment, but it was not difficult to understand what it was.
Immediately after its appearance, the crack widened and turned into a gate. The gate we needed to get home.
With a smile on my face, I turned off all the system notifications in front of me and looked at Alex. He had already transferred all of the Lheal plants to the dimensional buttons he had prepared, ready and waiting.
"We're going back."
Alex had a smile on his face too.
"Let's go, I can't wait."
"Heh, you really are much easier to deal with now."
With those words, I headed toward the gate and Alex followed behind me, unperturbed in any way, and we went through the gate.
I felt exactly the same as I did when I went through the gate during the preliminaries, much more comfortable than in that cave. I waited, feeling a slight warmth, and a slight dizziness.
After a while, a brilliant light suddenly filled my vision. I reflexively closed my eyes with my arms and opened my eyes again when I realized that the light had disappeared. I was in a green place, in a forest with sparse trees, and right behind me was a huge gate, almost four meters tall.
When I looked around for Alex, I saw that he was some distance away from me, dazzling me.
"Let's go, Alex. We need to get away from here. The mana will be too concentrated here because of the gate, and the kingdom will soon come to investigate. We need to leave before that happens. And don't turn on your watch. No one must know we're here, that we cleaned the dungeon."
Alex nodded with a serious expression.
"I understand, but how will we know where we are without opening our watch?"
"Don't worry, I know where this place is and I know exactly how to get back to the academy. We just need to get to the highway and the rest will fall into place."
"You know this place, huh..."
I know most of the details of Lunerra's map, and this is one of the places that has stuck in my mind, especially because it is the forest where this dungeon was formed. As long as I can find certain things, like a river or a cliff, I can find the way.
"Anyway, I won't question it, just... take me to the academy, I want to give my mom the good news."
I smiled and pointed my finger at my shirt. Alex looked at my finger for a moment as if he didn't understand what I was saying, but then he realized what I meant.
"We are standing with the undershirt..."
"Exactly! First, let's change into clean clothes. And before we enter the academy, we have to wash somewhere. Remember, it's important that we don't attract attention. Then we'll go home quickly."
Alex waited for a while without answering. His impatience, nervousness, and excitement were affecting him in such a way that he was like a completely different person. Still, he knew what I was saying was true, so he didn't question it.
In this way, we first changed our clothes, then tried to find the highway for a long time, and when we did, we asked for help from passers-by.
Interestingly, not many cars passed by on the road. On top of that, humanity has become such that only the eleventh car we hitchhiked with stopped at the side of the road and waited to pick us up. The driver of the car, which looked a bit outdated by this world's standards, was an old man.
Most of the helpful people are old people for some reason...
When we found out that the old man was going to a city where we could go to the academy, we gladly got into his car. He turned out to be a really nice guy. He had what I would call amusing conversations with me along the way.
He talked about how the recent state of the kingdom was bothering him, how much better the old king was than the current one, and how the golden age of the kingdom, which had not ended since its foundation, was coming to an end.
He is not right, but he is not wrong either. This period of the kingdom... is a very complicated one. The kingdom has had many troubled years with many problems, but at the same time, it is filled with people who are more powerful than ever before.
So it's hard to say whether this is the end of the kingdom's golden age or not.
Of course, this old man is in no position to know...
We continued chatting with the old man, or rather I did. Because Alex had fallen asleep as soon as he got into the car, saying he wanted to rest, leaving me alone with this man.
The journey lasted almost an hour and a half. We were back in the city, where we had bought all our supplies before going to the dungeon, and Efenyl City was ahead of us.
I woke Alex myself when we entered the city and we parted ways with the old man quite close to the magnetic train.
We washed and changed into new clothes. As we had discussed before going to the academy, we wasted no time and jumped on the train, which took only about ten to fifteen minutes, and finally, after a long and tiring adventure, we came back.
Back to our academy, back to our home. And with a lot of things that we had gained.
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