B1 | Chapter 7

All Across several other Tutorial First Floors

“We fucking did it, let’s goooo!” a first year at the university shouts while pumping his fists into the air, slightly getting on Ali’s nerves. But she just smiles anyway. Because she’s also pretty happy about it.

It’s been about a day since the Tutorial began and she chose the normal difficulty doorway. Only to be paired up with four other people in the Tutorial after being dumped in some dungeon cellar full of undead skeletons and zombies. And now she and the others find themselves feeling exhausted as ever, yet accomplished at the same time as they look at the corpse of the last skeleton guarding the exit to the floor.

This whole scenario about the System and its arrival has been a roller coaster of emotion and surprises for Ali and everyone else involved. But they’ve finally finished the first floor. She even feels her level rising to eleven after killing the large skeleton that’s now just a pile of bones on the floor.

Ali looks at the others in the group while feeling a little thankful that she didn’t get stuck with any dead weight in the group.

First there’s Jackson, who is currently jumping around on alternating feet while pumping his fists – one of which is wrapped around a bone sword crafted from a skeleton’s leg bone – into the air. He’s a year younger than Ali, but despite that, he did pretty well. His Class is apparently something related to using various different weapons of bone to fight, which fits their mission quite well.

Then there’s Rachel and Jamie, who are both healers capable of casting healing spells on the group. But unlike Jackson, the two girls, despite being older than Ali and Jackson, are a lot more introverted than they are. Even with that, they’ve done a really good job keeping up with everything.

And the silent final member of the group, Henry, just nods his head with a faint smile as he watches Jackson’s celebration. With a bow and quiver draped across his back.

Of course, his bow and quiver also came from the skeletons. Just like Jackson’s sword. And it also works well with his Class.

Even everyone’s Bloodlines help in the floor. With Ali’s Bloodline being an immunity to all types of infections, curses, and poisons, which worked great against the zombies on the floor. Jackson’s Bloodline being one for empowering weapons, which works well with his bone crafter Profession and the skeletons down here.

The two healers have Bloodlines specialized more for fighting undead, and Henry has a Bloodline for dealing mental damage with all of his attacks. Directly targeting the mind and the body. Which works great against skeletons and zombies when arrows don’t do as much against their bodies.

It almost makes Ali wonder if the mission for the first floor was tailor made for the people in it. But she doesn’t have enough information to jump to that conclusion just yet. So she just opens her mouth to speak, only to pause when a large chest appears at the center of the final room. Right in front of the portal.

After a brief pause, she and the others carefully walk over to the chest before it opens on its own. Showing off one item for each of them.

How she knows it’s one item for each of them is obvious just based on the words that appear above each item. With each being labeled as being made for one member of their group apiece.

Ali smiles as she reaches down and grabs the item meant for her.

A pair of metal and leather gauntlets that work great for her pugilist Class.

She puts the gauntlets on before taking a stance and punching the air in front of her a few times. Just to test them out.

Not half bad.

After that, she looks at the others in the group to find them all testing their own equipment. Giving her a moment to think on her own.

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She glances at the exit portal with a frown.

I hope Aidan’s doing alright…

His condition has always worried her. Ever since they were kids.

And while she knows that she has nothing to do with it, she still feels bad. Since they’re twins and all. So she feels it’s unfair for him to feel so tortured every day while she’s perfectly fine.

Right now, her greatest hope isn’t even for her own survival.

It’s that this System thing might have a cure of some kind for her brother.

Argent pants in exhaustion after barely killing the monster in front of him. The last one between him and the exit of the first floor.

He hurriedly looks back through the magma-coated tunnel to see several other monsters – all ones he managed to dodge to get over here – chasing after him. Each one either being different lizards or even strange kobold humanoid dog creatures.

But he doesn’t wait for them. He just rushes straight towards the portal.

Still deeply regretting choosing the hard difficulty, even if it managed to bump his level up quite a bit.

He really should’ve taken his Guide’s advice to stay the hell away from hard difficulty. But he just wasn’t expecting things to be this difficult.