'Haaahh…. Two attack… just slightly better than a random stick found in the road… and what even is the ATK? How do I find out what my current attack is with just my bare hands? How do I see my opponents' health pool for it to even matter, how does defense affect it? So many questions and yet so few answers.' Alan thought, his expression clearly showing his annoyance, before he dismissed the equipment status screen and opened up the screen that he had the most questions for and was at the same time most excited to find out about.
'System Dungeon, ' Alan thought, and instantly the system holographic blue screen appeared before him.
Before doing anything else, however, Alan took out his flip phone from his pocket and flipped it on, checking the time.
[ 6:16 AM ]
'Alright, I have some time before classes start.' Alan thought to himself before flipping the phone closed and pocketing it, before turning his gaze to the dungeon menu.
[ System Dungeons ]
[ Dummy Dungeon ] [ Level 1 ] [ Enter ]
[ ???? Dungeon ] [ Level 5 ]
[ ???? Dungeon ] [ Level 50 ]
[ ???? Dungeon ] [ Level 100 ]
...
Lifting his arm, he quickly moved his hand and pressed the Enter button with his index finger. At that moment, as soon as his finger touched it, a ding like a notification sound rang inside his mind, one he was at least somewhat expecting. What he didn't expect was for his vision to quickly start turning dark from the edges of it and towards the center.
The objects at the edges of his vision blurring further and further and then starting to darken and not long after, his entire vision had turned to pitch black, before his sense of smell seemed to vanish at the same time as his vision, his hearing, his touch, his smell, even gravity itself seemed to vanish, as he felt like he was in some kind of weightless expanse without any feeling, not even the feeling of his own body. Before anxiety and panic could hit him, however, it all changed.
In the very next moment, sight, smell, sound, touch, and weight returned to the world. And before him, it wasn't his room anymore, it wasn't his apartment.
Instead Alan found himself in a large or atleast what seemed endless hilly grass plain, the sky was a dark purple, clearly different from the usual sky he knew in the real world, meanwhile the grass itself thankfully was green, however it was so perfect that It couldn't have been natural, there was not a single weed, not a single patch of grass that was discoloured, it was utterly perfect.
And all around this endless grassy plain, stood countless, if not an infinite amount of wooden straw dummies, they were made simply, and contrasted a lot with the perfect grassy plain and the supernatural purple cloudless sky.
Another fact that he only realised a moment later was the fact that, despite being able to see everything, despite the lighting being perfect, there was no Sun in the sky, yet it was bright as day in the grassy plains.
'What... what the fuck is this place?' Alan thought to himself as he felt a shiver go through his entire body, the entire thing felt unnerving and utterly unnatural, there wasn't a single monster that was moving in sight, yet Alan almost felt stiff from fear.
The dummies were made simply: a simple, large wooden stick that was thrust into the ground, a chest plate made of straw, and a pair of hands on its sides that were similarly made of yellow straw and placed upon another stick that had been attached to the first one horizontally and then tied up with what looked like grassy yellow rope.
As for its head? It was similarly made of straw, with no facial features on it.
It was overall... normal, it looked completely normal.
However, what unnerved Alan wasn't that, It was the fact that somehow, every single one of the straw dummies looked exactly the same, every single last one of them looked exactly the same, not a single piece of straw was different.
This, combined with the overall environment of the dungeon, made it appear almost like a scene from a nightmare or some kind of low-budget horror film.
'Alright... Observe' Alan thought as his gaze focused on the closest straw dummy that was only a dozen meters away from his current position.
[ Observe Skill has been used successfully]
[ Basic Straw Dummy ] [ Level 0 ]
[ Base Health Points: 100 ]
[ Base Defense Points: 0 ]
[ Base Attack Points: 0 ]
Seeing the observe skill results, a soft sigh escaped Alan, at least until now, the straw dummies appeared to be just that, dummies, and utterly harmless.
Gathering his courage with a deep breath, Alan walked towards the dummy that he had observed and then moved his gaze to his hand. Thankfully, it seemed that the rusted bread knife that he had held in his hand had come over with him, as his gaze moved to his hand, he also noticed something else.
He was naked, completely and utterly naked.
His eyes widened as he looked at his body, and it was true, he didn't have a single piece of clothing on him.
The only things that had come over with him in the Dungeon had been the Perscription glasses and the Rusted Bread Knife.
'So I can only bring over system-accepted equipment to the dungeon. Damned.' Alan thought as he felt self-conscious about his own naked appearance as his head quickly swerved right and left, though he didn't find anything besides the grass and the dummies.
'Thank god that no one's around.' Alan thought with a shiver at the social fallout that would happen if anyone had seen him.
Turning his gaze back towards the Straw dummy, Alan raised his hand holding the rusted knife and slashed downwards.
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