Age of Gods - A VRMMO Story

After enjoying the skewers with Snowlily, Thomas opened up his character sheet to take a look at it. He'd avoided looking at it the entire time they were in the dungeon. He wanted his progress to come to him as a complete surprise. As he looked at his available experience his eyes widened in shock. He had over seventeen thousand experience saved up! He did some quick math in his mind and grinned when he got the answer. He had enough experience to crank his Power, Endurance, and Agility up to eighty to match his Magic and would still have some leftover!

He moved on from his experience and checked his other statistics. His Innate Abilities, especially 'Quick Learner' and 'All Seeing Eyes' had ranked up nicely inside of the dungeon. None of his skills had improved, but that was to be expected since they hadn't been used at all. However, the majority of both his Abilities and Magic had seen a large amount of growth.

Inside of the dungeon he'd used a large variety of tactics when fighting against the skeletons just to come up with various methods of fighting in the future. Using things like Wood magic to summon vines and restrain opponents. Using Lightning to try and tase them, although against skeletons that actually didn't do a damned thing. As well as any other tactics he could think of. He'd even gotten some exercise and used every weapon at his disposal as well as his bare hands to defeat skeletons. All of this culminated in a large growth in almost everything.

Looking back at the seventeen thousand experience he had he rubbed his chin while thinking. He had no use for all the mana crystals he'd collected so if he were to go to the guild, grab a quest for them, then turn it in a couple of times it just might be possible for him to get to twenty thousand or more experience. He quickly scooped up Snowlily and made his way toward the guild. Experience points were calling his name!

It didn't take long at all for them to arrive at the guild and find the quest he wanted. The quest was like the previous ones asking for a certain number of mana crystals from the monsters in the dungeons. He had more than enough to turn the quest in a few times. Unfortunately, he could only turn it in four times as the quest called for twenty mana crystals. He snagged the quest down and waited in line for a bit for a free receptionist.

Unfortunately, while he was waiting a figure he didn't want to ever see again entered the guild. Normally, he would pay very little attention to the other people coming and going. However, this particular woman was hard not to notice with her bright red hair and tail. Lexiana glanced at Thomas but immediately looked away and went to wait in a different line as far from him as she could. Since she seemed intent on ignoring him, he decided to return the favor and ignore her.

Once he got to the counter, he set down the request notice and his guild card with a smile, "I want to pick up this quest."

The receptionist picked up the request paper and looked a little confused. It was understandable though. Most people would pick up a dungeon request before going into the dungeon in the morning. Picking it up when it was evening time was rather odd. The receptionist didn't say anything though and processed the request.