Walking towards the next closest Straw Dummy, Alan lifted the basic wooden bat up by his head, planted his feet onto the ground as well as he could and then rotated his hips, generating as much kinetic force as he could with his entire body before slamming the side of the bat directly onto the Straw Dummies, head.
[ Ding! ]
[ Critical Hit! ]
[ -14HP ]
[ Straw Dummy ] [ Level 0 ]
[ Health points: 86/100 ]
'Fourteen…. Fucking fourteen, hell fucking yes babeeey.' Alan thought as he practicaly jumped up in the air from the pure dopamine rushing through his body, his mind instantly whirling into action.
'Seven as a base attack, the thing gives me a plus four in attack, which means that my own base attack has reached three instead of two without it even raising an entire stat in special stats. So normal stats do matter, and they matter more the higher the bigger the special stat is.' Alan thought in pure excitement as he lifted the bat up high once more and swung down onto the head once more with all his force.
[ Ding! ]
[ Critical Hit! ]
[ -14HP ]
'Oh… I am so going to love this.' Alan thought to himself as he once more raised the bat up high in the air.
*Bang*
*Fshhh*
*Bang*
*Fshhh*
*Bang*
…
..
.
For the next two long hours, Alan kept on going, Straw Dummy after Straw Dummy, the excitement and dopamine keeping him going and even when he got absolutely tired, he could simply rest for a while and even buy a nutritional bar and water with the excess of bronze coins that he now had with him actually being able to defeat the Straw Dummies at a decent rate instead of struggling for entire minutes on just a single one of them.
[ Ding! ]
[ Level Up! ]
….
Half an hour later…
[ Ding! ]
[ Level up! ]
[ User has reached level five! ]
'Finally! Twenty four kills. That took a while but still, much faster than I expected, I thought I'd be stuck on this level for quite a few more days.' Alan thought as he wiped the sweat off his forehead.
His body had already been rejuvenated and his stamina had returned however the sweat wasn't removed, it was still there and now that he felt fresh on the inside, it was even more annoying than when his entire body had been heated up from the physical usage of his muscles.
It was as if hot oil was all over his body, completely and utterly disgusting.
'And im still god damned naked.' Alan thought to himself as he looked down to stare at little odysseus before lifting his gaze back up and staring at the holographic panels that had appeared before him after the level up.
He had ignored it, not thinking much about it, having somewhat grown used to the level up screens and thus he wasn't as excited to read them again and again. However he had missed something as his eyes widened with realisation.
Usually when he leveled up, four small holographic screams appeared, the level up, the user has defeated a straw dummy, the exp gained aswell as the bronze coin that was looted, however this time… there were more. More than he expected, as his eyes widened and pure excitement rushed through his veins for what felt like the hundredth time of the day.
[ Ding! ]
[ User has reached Level Five ]
[ User has unlocked the Slime Dungeon! ]
[ User has received one talent point! ]
[ User has received 20 Normal Stat Points! ]
[ User has unlocked the Talent system! ]
Looking over at the holographic screens and reading them quickly, his eyes seemed to widen somehow even more, almost impossible so as his entire body practically vibrated on the spot.
'Talent system, I have no fucking clue what talents it means, but god am i fucking excited.' Alan thought as he quickly uttered the words.
"Talent system open, open now." He spoke outloud even though he had no need to, for the last few hours he had started doing it, mostly as a way to make some sound in the otherwise completely silent dungeon. Alan was the type of person to be unable to do anything without something making noise in the background, usually it was music, or the sounds of cars on the street or the simple hustle and bustle of people going about their days.
Pure silence almost felt like a sort of torture on its own, and thus his mind had adapted without him even noticing, as he had started to talk his thoughts outloud.
As soon as he uttered the words talent system, a new system panel appeared before him, one that he had never seen before.
[ Talent System ]
[ Talent Points: 1 ]
[ Elf Perk detected ]
[ Warrior Talent Path Disabled. ]
[ Paladin Talent Path Disabled. ]
[ Tank Talent Path Disabled. ]
[ Berserker Talent Path Disabled. ]
…
…
…
One after another, tens of popups appeared before him, each one was some kind of talent being disabled for him.
"Hey, hey stop, fuck stop that shit, I wanna be a bersker, Fuck stop, I wanna be a damn dark edgy knight, I wanna be a god damn manly man. Stop! STOP!" Alan shouted as he tried to wave at the holographic screen however his hands simply passed through whilst the pop ups continued, paths continuously being disabled.
Almost an entire minute later, they finally stopped. By this time however, the excited expression on Alan's face had long since faded and turned into an expression that could only be a combination of Despair and pure rage at the situation happening before him.
'Finally… fucking finally. It stopped… okay, show me what I have, I must have some cool paths left still.' Alan thought as he waved the dozens of popups away and finally stared at the screen once more, for a moment he didnt react at all as he read his options.
There were only three options left.
Only three.
'This… this is what you get? You have got to be….'
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