[Title Acquired: Conditionally Invincible]
[Title Acquired: Immortality Before Potion]
[Status: Remaining HP 1]
Jerry dropped to his knee bleeding. A blue aura surrounded his body and the bleeding stopped.
"What?" Juan raised his sword and stabbed him; the sword didn't penetrate the blue aura. Seeing this he stepped back. "I see. You're a training dummy." Saying that he turned around and left.
As soon as he left Jerry let out a sigh of relief. Peace setting in—
[Congratulations! How did it feel standing beside the Grim Reaper? {You're requested to imagine a Grim Reaper emoji}]
"I… don't know."
[No worries. You'll get used to it. 🤭]
He closed his eyes, groaning, "What's that supposed to mean?"
[Ignore what I just said and let take a look at the stats]
[DUNGEON INFORMATION]
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NAME: Unnamed Dungeon #47
RANK: GATEWAY (Tutorial Level)
CURRENT LEVEL: 1
NEXT LEVEL: 2 (20/100)
MONSTER COUNT: 0
SPECIAL FEATURES: None
CURRENT BOSS: Jerry (Level 1)
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He examined the stats before asking, "What are the Special Features?" At the moment of the question, he didn't notice the blue aura fading away.
[EXCELLENT QUESTION! Special features refer to the speciality of the dungeon.]
"For example?"
[Swimming pool. Habitable for humans. Hospital. Library. Fertile soil.]
"What?"
[Forget about it for now. You'll understand them later yourself 😉👍 Any other questions?]
Jerry looked up at the wall scratching his chin as if his mind was racing with possible questions and doubts.
"Here's one. If I'm a boss, do I have any abilities?"
[Indeed!]
Jerry raised an eyebrow.
[It's puppetry. You can spawn puppet limbs. Can you either manually control them or let them be autonomous.]
"A-and how can I use this ability?"
[You can't. For now, that is. You must be level 2]
"And how do I level up?"
[I've already explained how.]
"Oh, right. But how do I kill them?"
[That's up to you. Now come on! Get up and let's explore the dungeon!]
"I'm Tired."
[Get The Fuck Up—]
Jerry pushed himself up, still shaky, and stumbled through the broken door into the next room.
[You found a mysterious crate!]
"Shut up. I can see it myself."
Jerry now stood in a different room. Just in front of the room he was previously in. This one also had one lantern above him and two doorways opposite to one another.
He crouched down to the level of the chest and opened it. Inside was a rusty worn-down sword.
[Congratulations🎉🥳👏 You found a sword!]
He lifted it and examined the blade. It bore chipped spots all over it alongside the corrosion. "It looks bad."
[Better than nothing. Ready to kill some mobs? 😁]
He looked up at the floating words, "Tch. No, I don't want to kill anyone."
[Then how would you level up?]
The question came in an instant and Jerry answered "By waiting. In fact, I don't want to be a boss. I don't want to fight or kill."
The system froze the moment he said that. A loading bar appears in place of the words. Then a circle.
[Then what? Is there any other purpose you have rather than killing?] Jerry opened his mouth but was cut off, [No, don't answer that. You'll fight!]
The system lets out a loud siren-type noise. The dungeon shook to its core as rats emerged from the cracks on the walls and started pooling all over the place.
[Good Luck]
The words disappeared leaving Jerry in the middle of chaos. The rats started climbing his body, those tiny feet were now all over his face and his ears were filled with their squeaking and hissing sounds.
Jerry closed his eyes and blindly swung the sword in his hand screaming, a rat bit his hand and he lost the grip of his sword. It fell to the floor but successfully sliced one rat. It was larger than the others.
[Dungeon Experience Gained: +10]
He screamed in pain. His body was engulfed by the disgusting creatures of the sewers.
He briefly opened his eyes and saw one of the doors he hadn't explored. Roughly brushing off the rats on his face he dashed forward stepping on some, maybe even killing them under his weight.
[Dungeon Experience Gained: +5]
[Dungeon Experience Gained: +5]
Without a proper sight of where he was going, he stumbled into the wall. Fell. Before he could stand, they were on him. In his ears. His nose. His mouth. He couldn't breathe. He couldn't think. Could only feel tiny teeth carving paths across his skin.
His maw opened screaming in agony but was shut off as soon as one entered through it. Minutes passed of him struggling to breathe and to get up.
Suddenly the pain stopped. A blue aura surrounded his body. The rats were still biting him, but he no longer reacted.
[Title Acquired: The Accidental Killer; Part 2]
[Congratulations 🎉🥳👏 You survived!]
Still lying on the ground he asked, "What the hell was that?"
[Training 🚂🚋🚃🚋🚃🚋🚃]
He sat up, the rats were knocked off his body but they again climbed onto him and bit him. He didn't show a bit of reaction and just brushed them off, only for them to climb him again and again.
"Why the hell did you do that?!"
[I wanted you to learn something. And you did. 👨🏫]
Jerry's eyes flared wide open and his jaw clenched tight, "By what! Trying to kill me?!"
[It was effective 🧠]
"I was in pain!"
[No pain no gain 💪]
"What is wrong with you—"
[I already told you that you cannot die.]
"That doesn't mean—"
[It means you were totally safe. Nothing to worry about.]
Jerry opened his mouth. Closed it. Opened it again.
[Now instead of arguing with this genius, try preparing for the moment you hit 2hp.]