Chương 7: 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. Love what you're reading?

Discover and support the author on the platform they originally published on. 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. The Guide said that easy, normal, and hard difficulties were separated in a few manners. With the largest difference being the number of people in each group. Easy has ten people in a group. Normal has five.

And hard has no one else but yourself. Argent was confident in surviving on his own, even if the monsters levels were also a bit higher for the hard difficulty than the normal one. Especially with his knowledge of videogames pushing him forwards ahead of others. He is a Professional gamer, after all. He was even excited at getting a magic Class. A fire mage. Now he's down two fingers with severe burns and cursing his past self for his arrogance even as he jumps through the exit.

Leaving the floor entirely without finishing off either of the bosses or the other monsters. Only barely finishing his mission while at a measly level nine. Jessica feels absolutely nothing as she rips her knife out of the throat of another one of her former teammates. Only to wipe the man's blood on his jacket. Overall, she feels pretty satisfied with this System thing. And her Guide was helpful as well. The Guide told her to pick easy because it would have plenty of teammates to help her along.

And the Guide was right. It did have plenty of people. People who have now served their purpose to level her up further after helping her kill the monsters on the floor. Jessica feels grateful for that Guide now. Especially since the Guide went out of his way to help her as much as he could. Of course, she wouldn't hesitate to put a knife through said Guide's eye if need be. But that's a matter for another time. She yawns while putting her knife into her sheath.

Something she got from the strange goblin creatures filling this little goblin outpost in the middle of a forest. Then she walks over to the chest that appeared after slaying the goblin chieftain before kicking it open and smiling at the sight of an amulet that increases the strength stat of the wearer. Nice loot. After grabbing it, she looks over at her late teammates, a couple of whom weren't even human and were entirely different species. Probably from other worlds that happen to be in the same galaxy.

Or from other solar systems, since the Guide mentioned that their Tutorial is supposed to include Awakened users from every planet merging into Earth. One of the aliens was a strange humanoid ant, while the other was a woman with sharp blades stretching from her elbows and glowing blue eyes. They were helpful for her when killing the boss, but other than that, Jessica feels disappointed by how weak they were. All it took was stabbing them in the back of the neck and they plopped down dead after.

And now she's level thirteen. Jessica shakes her head before putting on the amulet, putting one hand in her pocket, and walking over to the exit. Maybe the next floor will be more interesting. The boss of the floor finally dies as the large snake drops with a thump to the ground. Leaving Martin breathing heavily with his arms covered in scratches mixed with the snake's blood. Meanwhile the four civilians in their group cheer now that the boss is dead.

But Martin – a military officer – just wipes off the blood from his arms before turning to the other four military personnel in their group of ten. Each of whom is studying the monster corpse or managing their different weapons. Fortunately for them, one of the civilians happened to have a blacksmithing Profession and created weapons for them out of some of the minerals they had found in the floor using a fire skill he had. Which proved very useful for them.

To the point that they only ended up losing a single life during their trip through the floor. A much better result than what he was expecting after interrogating the Guide creature that sent him here. Especially since this boss managed to level Martin up to level eight. After making sure no other monsters are in the area, Martin finally relaxes. Then he turns his focus towards the large chest that appeared after finishing off the level 10 boss.

And what he finds in the chest proves to be very useful for future battles. He waits for the others to finish getting their rewards before telling everyone to take a few minutes to rest before they exit the floor entirely.