When Austin saw the treasure and it's description he blinked in disbelief. Because that treasure is a fruit, it's giving sweet aroma when near as you got near you can also smell blood. When he used the Eye of Wisdom on it, this is the result.
[ Blood Serpant Fruit ]
[ Rank : C ]
[ Effects :
• Gains Skill : Poison Resistance (C)
• Gains Skill : Miasma Infusion (C)
• +3 Stat Points ]
[ Description : This is a fruit condensed from the corpseof an elite monsters Blood Serpant. When a serpant eats this fruit it evolves into a true elite monster, when an elite monsters eats this fruit, it gains 20% more attributes, When a human eats this fruit, they will gain the Miasma Infusion magic and poison resistance skill. The miasma infusion skill only contains traces of true miasma poison. Miasma is a concentrated blood poison of Blood Serpant. ]
Austin didn't even hesitate, he devoured the fruit completely. Immediately he felt a pain in his chest and stomach, a pusling warm current spread through his body before it settled down. Austin blinked, when the notifications appeared.
[ Gained Skill : Poison Resistance (C) ]
[ Gained Skill : Miasma Infusion (C) ]
Austin now had three skills and all of them are related to poison. Should he take poisonmancer class or assassin class. But both of these classes have huge short comings. Austin just wanted to set these skills to support later. He wanted to get to other treasure chests and then focus on leveling to 10. The alpha wolf is level 10 afterall, it's better for him reach to level 10 as soon as possible.
Austin packed everything and started making his way to the next Treasure chest while hunting monsters. This region is filled with serpants, boars and goblins rather than other monsters. As he continued slaying monsters using the newly acquired Red Serpant Fang, he came across a player party hunting a boar.
The boat is level 3 and these players are already level 2. Austin took another way and followed his path to next treasure chest. Anyway, he don't want to involve himself with a group for now. As he is leaving, he saw a boy being chased by a level 3 boar, frowning, he observed for a few moments before taking action.
He took out his bow and aimed the arrow exactly at the forehead of the board and tried miasma infusion with it, then he released the arrow. The arrow flew past the bow and hit the boat exactly at the forehead. The boat squealed in horror for a few seconds before dying.
The boy breathed a sigh of relief and turned to Austin who is surprised. The boy said," thanks ", Austin knew who he is. An old friend of his, Victor Mart. Isn't invited to the tower with his friends, how come he is here? Austin wanted to ask but when he scanned, victor is now also level 2, he also saw the skill Victor awakened.
Speed amplification (E)
That explains everything. Victor's friends are practically what many call Gold Diggers and scum bags. For money they will do anything. Victor fell into their pursuasive words before and left his old friends, Austin was one of those old friends. Seems like they abandoned him, or maybe not. Austin turned to see those cousins. Each of them are also level 2 but their experience points is much more than victor.
" Tch, can't do a proper thing? You just need to lure the boat into our trap ".
" Damn you victor, and who are you? Are you the one who shot out prey? ".
" Then pay compensation to us ".
Austin said," I don't mind compensating you with your lives ", he took out the Red Serpant Fang. The team glanced at the dagger with a greedy eyes.They looked at Austin with a mocking expression and said," do you think we're afraid of you? You must have hunted too many things and exhausted already. Hand the dagger, the armour and the bow over, we will spare - ".
Before the boy can finish his words, he is met with a punch that sent him back rolling. Austin then turned to others and beat them up. Within a few moments they lie on the grass with bumps on their faces. Austin spoke," I'm giving you 5 seconds to leave. If you don't, I'll kill you all ".
The players panicked. If Austin killed them, they will revive back in the safe zone with the loss of a level and their equipment. Everything will start from the sractch once again. They hurriedly left the area while Austin asked," aren't you leaving too? ".
Victor hesitated for a while before saying," I'm not like them. Although we're from the same party, I'm just a scout and bait for them ", Austin said," then why did you even agree to be in their team? ", victor said," I have no choice. My innate skill is only E rank. Not many parties are willing to take me in ".
Austin asked," so? ", Victor hesitated before asking," can we join to form a party? ", Austin looked at him and then said," we can think about that later. For now, I just wants to go hunting solo. Leave your contact info. I'll meet you later if I wanted to form a party ".
Austin looked at Victor's innate skill evolution. It has the potential to evolve into A rank. Maybe he can do something about it. As for forming a party, for now he has no intention of that. Victor looked dejected and left. Austin meanwhile continued his hunting and opening treasure chests.
By the end of the day he gathered the wolf Assassin set. And also received a nice assassin robe. He can now use stealth, he is also very exhausted now. As he is thinking about where to take rest, a notification appeared.
[ 5 hours time is over ]
[ Returning players to outside world ]
Yep, newbies can't stay in the tower forever. They need to unlock at least 5th floor to stay in the tower without a time limit. 5 hours is the daily time limit. Well, today's harvest isn't bad. In these 5 hours, thanks to Eye of Wisdom, he is able to gather many treasure chests and kill many monsters in few moves. Austin put the equipment back into the inventory. That's how his first day in tower is over.