Chapter 20: Ch. 19 – A Rising Star (1)
It's been a few weeks since Coal Ralso received his blessing from the System, sharing his experiences with his friend Joln Novln. Joln seeing how wonderful dungeons were now stopped heading to the Colosseum instead into the dungeon. Being a gladiator is the way Joln made a living, he had no skills aside from fighting others to the death.
For gladiators, they fight each combatant to their fullest skills, not holding anything back. They can become friend even despite their previous bouts of battle where they might've lost a finger or two. Those who sign in to fight in the Colosseum fights for glory and honor, not for monetary gain. You can of course receive money, but that is only enough to feed you with a good meal.
Many fighters gain the sponsorship of wealthy beings looking for guards or fighters here. If you are extremely lucky, you might get a blessing from a God. Those who gain those blessings were abnormal monsters who upturned the entire Colosseum on it's head. Joln was just a standard gladiator fighter, whenever those blessed fighters enter the arena he would be the one holding the monster back with the chains along with other gladiators like him.
Right now, they were inside the Caltovortta Dungeon, clearing the third floor after easily clearing the upper floor bosses. The Caltovortta Dungeon holds five floors and is one of the first discovered dungeon. For the Kingdom Everich it's one of it's staple money making machine. This is where all the new adventurers enter as their first dungeon.
With the low risks and low rewards, you will only find newbies or people knew to dungeon exploration. There have been expeditions from schools entering the dungeon as a class for learning experience.
"Ha!"
*Smash
The sound of a large axe whirling through the air smashed onto the brittle bones of the skeleton.
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Joln smashed his axe onto the skeleton in front of him, nearly killing it in one hit. It fell over to the floor from the impact before Joln smashed the skull with the axe, killing it. Three bronze coins dropped from the skeleton as it vanished, leaving that behind. Picking it up, he turned to his friend Coal.
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Slain ???? ⌈Skeleton⌋ {Lv. 1} gained 7 xp
Drops: ⌈Bronze Coin x3⌋
"The boss room is up next. You ready?"
"Yeah, I have the map for the third floor."
"Isn't that expensive?" Joln questioned Coal because picking up bronze coins from these monsters aren't enough to buy it.
"I used my savings that I was planning to get a better sword. Since I got one from my god, I have no need for that. I used that for this map." Coal held up an enchanted map. He talked about how he received the quest from his god. Each dungeon the layout on each floor changes, and it's different each dungeon. For the Caltovortta dungeon, it changes all five floors every two years.
The bigger the dungeon, the longer it will take for each floor to change. No one knows the duration of the larger dungeons, as they have yet to see a change. "It says here for the second floor, the boss room contains three skeletons, an archer, a swordsman, and a caster." Coal read the information provided by the second floor map he purchased a year ago.
"So you never beat the boss of this dungeon before?" Joln wondered what dungeon explorers do, after all as a gladiator it is simple. You just fight one another, no tricks, just brawn and strength. "Before I wouldn't but now that I am blessed with my god. I can fight them." Coal recalled last week when he solo'd the first dungeon boss, a giant slime.
Normally, cheap weapons would dissolve in its body, but this sword didn't. It instead started to freeze the giant slime, every slash he unleashed on the slime. Before, he wasn't willing to risk his life on the third floor until he defeated that slime boss and received a rare amulet. Coal, taking a second look at his status to make sure he had everything he needed.
