Age of Gods - A VRMMO Story

Over the course of the next six hours, Thomas made his way through the third floor of the dungeon and slaughtered trolls left and right. During this time he did a little experimenting with the trolls and came to the conclusion that they had somewhere between 250 to 300 Endurance. He reached this conclusion by attempting to use his new greatsword without the flames activated. When he did his hits with the sword barely bruised the trolls and their regeneration immediately reversed any minimal damage he did manage to do. He even took out his Peace Maker and shot a troll with it. The results could be classified as a 'boo-boo' to the troll. The bullet had managed to barely pierce the troll's skin before it was pushed out by the regenerating wound. The bullet had completely flattened on impact with the troll's skin. Suffice to say, trolls were tough as nails and even tougher with their regeneration to heal their wounds. Without a specialized weapon or spells to kill them the trolls were extremely tough opponents.

The difference in fighting a troll with and without his greatsword was night and day. So he stuck to using the greatsword for the majority of his time hunting trolls. This just reaffirmed to Thomas that his decision earlier to have balanced stats and rely on his equipment was the right choice. Even if he wasn't strictly following that decision right this moment. He needed more mana to do his work and make stronger gear so he would focus on that for now and once the gear was made he would bring his other attributes up to par with his Magic. He also took this opportunity to work on his swordsmanship with a greatsword. Not that they were particularly elegant weapons but he still used rooms with single trolls on them to take some time to practice it and increase his skill with the sword.

During his time in the dungeon, he slaughtered nearly fifty trolls. It doesn't seem like much but with only between one to three trolls in each room, it was a lot of walking around and time resting after using the flaming greatsword for a bit. Even though the number of trolls slaughtered was relatively small compared to goblins or orcs, the amount of experience he gained was phenomenal. He currently had yet another 125,000 experience to spend on raising his attributes. Honestly, it was just insane. However, it did present his with a rather large issue. If he could gain so much experience all by himself then what about the pirates? Clearly they had been here for some time and had this dungeon all to themselves. How many times had they run it? Just how much experience did they have? He had to admit that he was worried.

Thomas stepped into the last room before the safe room with the teleportation circle and looked at the single troll within it. As usual, the troll let out a deafening roar but before ti could even finish, Thomas's flaming greatsword bisected it at the waist. As the troll fell to the ground, he had a nonchalant look on his face until...