Ch. 1: The Dungeons First Trial
Name: Hexomega-35 Height: 5,8
Age:17. Race: Human
Class:(none)
Bio
This “man” has played games for years, read manga for years, and worked out exclusively to protect a fictional character he fell in love with. In other words, he’s a weeb. With your limited knowledge of isekai stories, considering joining him he might have an idea of how to escape.
[you can’t access any more info
insufficient level]
What stood before Ether was a slender fellow, the only other human to his knowledge.
Moments ago Ether was sitting down ready to eat with his sister at the dinner table when he got a message.
Do you want to change your life buy xx to xx
He didn’t read the rest, it seemed like a scam but the next message related to his job…
Would you like to take this contract … 100k … 20 million
He didn’t bother to read anything but the numbers. He agreed to it in a flash right before his sister opened the door. The same thing that happened to Hex happened to him
`teleported to another world… isn't there a word for that?’
A variety of thoughts crept into his head.
`I’m no expert but I know how these stories begin… A slaughter.’
After reading about his potential ally, Ether went back to his stockpile of supplies although it wasn't a real pile. It looked like that because of who was lying under it—
*sniff sniff*
“You're back”
Name: Silvia Height: 6,10
Age: 25. Race: Vorstag
Class:(none)
Bio
This Vorstag despite being blind has monstrous strength but just as high of a temper. Don’t get on her bad side and she will be a great ally to you.
The one that greeted Ether was a blind, slender, werewolf-like creature named Silvia.
When he first arrived she was alone and whatever helped Ether see the status windows allowed him to befriend this shunned creature.
Even though she’s a werewolf, she’s more wolf than human. She walks on all fours with paws on her hindlegs but humanoid hands on the front with sharp claws that dig into the ground and a snout filled with sharp fangs that make it clear that she is a carnivore, with her body all covered in smooth black fur.
“Hey Silvia, I got something for ya—”
Ether threw her a cloak.
“Wear this.”
“Why do I have to wear this?”
Silvia responded while holding it up between two claws as if it were foreign to her.
‘To stay hidden, obviously.’
Of course, he didn't say that to her face. She is very delicate right now and their relationship is… rocky at best.
`I’ll wait a while before I speak my mind.’
“So people will underestimate you— They can't know your real strength.”
She seemed hesitant but reluctantly replied.
“…fine.”
Despite being blind she had abnormal senses so despite needing help for travel when fighting she's supposedly the same as anyone else. Her abnormal senses allowed her to wear the cloak with its hood going over her eyes leading to only her legs and snout showing.
“I also found a sword for you since you said you were good with those.”
Ether handed the blind vorstag a long sword. Silvia reached out and grabbed the long sword as if it were an old friend. Her lips parted to make what resembled a smile but it would be difficult to tell as it came from the snout of an animal that never smiles.
One thing I learned by talking to her is she isn't difficult to work with. Keep her happy and she’ll follow with little complaints.
Ether tried to check his status window— if he could see others then it stands to reason that he could see his own:
Name: Ether Height: 5,7
Age:22. Race: Human
Class:(none) [more]
*click*
Stolen novel; please report.
Intelligence Strength
37 8
Magic. Agility
32 12
Luck Endurance
100 7
[half of the stats are average]
Traits
Gift from chaos - [open]
Ability
(none yet but I believe in you)
*click*
Traits
Eye of Ra (unique trait)- (this effect is lessened due to level)
Allows the user to see others' status windows without permission.
(that's it… for now)
‘So that's why I can see their stats… seems pretty broken.’
After reviewing his status window he spoke with Silvia again, I needed to test this.
“Silvia, could you show me your status window?”
“Stavus vingow?”
She said in a muffled voice as she was eating a giant salted fish Ether got from the stockpile. When she spoke status the window appeared.
“Can I read what it says?”
She swallowed and said
“Sure, whatever, just let me finish eating.”
She said in a dismissing tone and waved her hands the same way.
“Thank you, Silvia.”
Starting to read it was vastly the same except for a portrait picture next to her name, but the second page was what was interesting.
Intelligence Strength
13 34
Magic. Agility
3 42
Luck Endurance
73 24
[MOST stats are above average for a Vorstag]
Traits
Gift from chaos - [open]
Ability
(none)
If Ether compared his stats to Silvias’ he would notice that the only thing going for him is intelligence and magic; she's better at everything else.
“Silvia, do you mind clicking the button here?”
Ether pointed to the gift from chaos.
“Yeah, okay.”
Traits
Unknown temptation (unknown rarity)-
(the main effect is sealed due to level)
The temptation to do… something?
Strength, agility, and endurance all increase dramatically as the temptation increases.
`That’s good because she definitely needs help in those areas.’
He took a deep breath before speaking
“Silvia, I think I may have found someone who could explain some things.”
Before he could continue chaos appeared—
Name: ???(chaos?)
Height: ???(not set)
Age: ???(time is weird for gods)
Race: lesser deity (less than me)
Class: god of chaos(never heard of him)
Bio
This god is newly appointed and is trying to prove himself to earn his name. He is scared of being stuck in here, with no hope (you can exploit this to teach the Newby a lesson)
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After Chaos finished explaining the basics of this “game” and disappeared, the mist walls that once surrounded Spawn dissipated revealing monsters of different origins.
One was heading straight for Ether’s stockpile:
Name: ??? Height: 9,3
Age: 207. Race: manticore
The creature had the head of a lion and a goat with a snake for a tail. It appeared out of nowhere and struck the small stack of supplies.
Silvia quickly dodged out of the way leaving most of what she was eating to be crushed by the manticore.
“How dare you interrupt my feast?!”
Silvia was visibly angry at the moment she got into a weird fighting stance. Her hind legs and one arm were placed on the ground while one hand held the long sword.
When she was fighting this beast.
Ether was mesmerizing; it was like seeing two wild animals fight, but he snapped out of it.
'I needed to secure an escape and recruit the weeb.’
Quickly looking around. There are many places to go but many people are also trying to escape from this hell zone leading to the nearest option. It was a small alley between two stone walls.
Eye of Ra
The labyrinth of…(level too low)
`A labyrinth is not ideal but it's better than this.’
Another thing that Ether found odd was how no other monsters got near it. A few people already entered while being chased by monsters and they just gave up on chasing them.
`That's the best we have’
Looking back at Silvia, Ether noticed she was on the back of the manticore stabbing it repeatedly while a smile-like expression started appearing on her face.
This would be surprising to most but Ether has a history of being surrounded by vicious people as such he moved on to the next objective the Weeb,
Looking in his direction Ether sees Hex in a daze, his brain still trying to process what’s happening.
Ether learned from his sister that such moments are a perfect opportunity to be their beacon of light. With chaos erupting throughout the entirety of spawn, he sprinted towards his target.
But in a moment a small monster jumped at him making an almost laughing noise. Ether noticed this and pointed his spear in its direction, causing the creature to impale itself on the spear. With adrenaline pumping Ether quickly slammed the creature down and pulled out his spear seeing its corpse he could see
Name: ??? Height: 1,8
Age: 1 year Race: Zombie imp
Knowing zombies he quickly slammed his spear into the imp’s head.
Looking at Hex Ether saw him being attacked by 2 zombie imps… and losing.
`it’s going to be hard to keep him alive’
Ether dashed towards Hex who by this point was forced to the ground by two imps with frail hands and legs, a nonexistent neck, and bodies of a cannonball truly a miracle of unlife.
`how is he losing to literal dead meat’
Ether has had many doubts in life yet none as strong as this, should he really save him. Is his knowledge valuable enough to try to keep him alive? All logic pointed to no, just escape. If it was his sister she would have left long ago. But Ether was no longer his sister’s lap dog or a killer, for the first time in a long time he had the freedom to choose, from this day onwards he would serve no one and only do what he believes is right.
Using the element of surprise he speared the first imp struck the second took a dagger from Hex stabbed the brain of both imps while dislodging one from his spear.
“Don’t just lay there”
Ether reaching his hand towards the still-prone Hex
“come with me if you want to live”
'I'm not as good at manipulation as my sister but I can still make people follow me at least.’
Hex clasped Ether's hand while getting on his feet
“Right”
He responded in a dazed tone, he was still processing. Almost immediately he was dragged toward the labyrinth by Ether.
“Silvia follow my voice where going into a labyrinth”
“Give me a minute I almost got him”
Moments after she said that the chimera was about to eat her.
Notice
Chaos has taken pity on all of you the monsters are immobilised for a minute
Moments before disaster all non-summoned creatures were frozen in time.
“Silvia stop you were about to die just come here and will deal with them later”
When Ether spoke these words, Silvia was visibly upset. With a pouting expression, she made her way to me likely via her sense of smell.
“Fine I’ll follow, looks like I can’t finish this today”
“We’ll finish this battle later, we are still too weak to kill these beasts. For now, we need to get out of here”
“Speak for yourself I could have killed it if you didn't distract me”
“Yes yes, I Ether am a fool for distracting you”
Of course, he didn't mean a word he said, rather it was a more complex way to say sorry.
With those words said he pulled both Silvia and Hex into the labyrinth one in a daze and the other wouldn’t move if he didn't prompt her to.
With that, all of them escaped the hell pit that was Spawn. No others followed them, being the last to enter the labyrinth. With time passing those monsters wouldn't stay still for long.
Eye of Ra
The user has entered the labyrinth (please don’t die yet)
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“Whew that was close”
Chaos had two options but if he wanted to get out there was really only one. Bringing up the pie chart to see the status of the wild cards. It was split into four 35% Elves 35% Dwarfs 20% Orcs 10% Other. Changing the view to living and dead a large number died but out of the total, it's 10%.
`That’s the average mortality after a dungeon is cleared. Of course, it happened to me on my first day’
After this realization, he sat on a highly advanced chair, one out of place in this world of fantasy.
“Whatever, I gave them a chance now I can only hope”
