As soon as Williard landed before the party that was waiting for him, the leader of the party welcomed him with a smile after looking at Williard's name above his head, "Hello, I'm Seraphim." Williard replied, "Time Traveler," while everyone else was wondering why a low-level player with Bronze equipment is in the Party.
After joining the party, Williard asked, "since you gathered only angels, you are trying for that racial dungeon, aren't you? The ones only certain races can enter. I wonder why you put level 30 as a requirement. If I'm right, the starting dungeon itself a level 50 dungeon, and none of the team here is 50 yet."
Seraphim replied, "Nothing to worry about. We hired a level 60 helper to carry us around." Williard was taken aback in surprise and asked, "A level 60 player? That means a top 10 player. Who is it?" Metatron replied while giggling, "You have too many questions for a level 31. Just sit down and reap the benefits."
Williard frowned at first but then stood silent as he saw most of the members in the party are between level45 and 50, not to mention, the leader of the party seemed like a nice guy at first glance. He silently noted her name in his mind to judge her further before taking action as he is an extremely prideful and vengeful person in the inside. Not a one that can tolerate an insult.
But, he learned his lesson not to be rash and go for vengeance for every little thing he got offended, after being stepped down like a side character over and over again by Bran so much that he had to leave the game after three years of playing in his past life.
After a while, two more players landed before them. Everyone was shocked upon seeing the muscular bulky man with gold equipment from top to bottom with a large ax and a shield at his back, standing behind the teenage girl. Seraphim asked the girl with excitement, "This is your acquaintance? I never thought you would bring the best player in our city."
Just then, the shining large ax landed between the girl and Seraphim, making Seraphim shivered and take a step back in a surprise and that middle-aged man spoke, "stay a distance away from my daughter." Then, he turned towards Drake and asked coldly, "So, you are Drake, my daughter's friend?" Williard swore that he saw an illusion of him being a lot bigger like a Giant monster as he looking at Seraphim and Drake, the girl shouted, "dad, don't embarrass me. This is why I don't want you to come with me."
"Eh? You two are father and daughter?" as Seraphim asked in surprise, the father and daughter pair started to quarrel. Meanwhile, Williard who saw their names wondered where he heard. Suddenly something clicked in his mind and he opened the East Ocean City rankings.
1. Flame Emperor- Level 72
2. Snow Dew- Level 68
3. Unnamed- Level 66
4. Unnamed- Level 65
5. White Tiger- Level 65
6. Heavenly King- Level 62
2573. Time Traveler- Level 31
Williard thought, "So, these are the current number 1 and number two rankers of East Ocean city, Flame Emperor, and Snow Dew." Then, he passed the party leader to Flame Emperor which he passed it to his daughter and commented, "I'm not interested in helping you guys out. I'm only here to protect my daughter."
Ignoring him, Snow Dew said, "first of all, let me introduce myself, I'm Snow Dew. Nice to meet you guys. Now, Drake, where is the dungeon in the sky you talked about?" Seraphim replied instead of him, "The dungeon is right at the bottom of the cliff."
While Snow Dew innocently asked, "Eh? There's no dungeon in the sky?" Flame Emperor looked at Drake, "you dare lie to my daughter, you prick. I knew it was the right thing to tag along with her." He grabbed Drake's armor and shook him furiously while he started to panic in fear.
While Williard shook his head in annoyance seeing this overprotective father and everyone else was looking away as it wasn't their problem, Seraphim calmed him down and said, "Inside the dungeon is a sky battle. Not the location of the dungeon. I got the information about it from a Beta tester. Believe me." Hearing that, Snow Dew became excited, "really? That's cool. What are we waiting for, let's go."
The currently insignificant character among the group, Williard, sighed, and followed them as they dived to reach the bottom of the cliff. As they are reaching the bottom, Seraphim spoke, "Range attackers, throw whatever you want and clear the monsters and melee attackers, get ready to battle once we reached the bottom. Drake, Hell Flame, once we reach the bottom, both of you tank them while we attack."
Flame Emperor snorted, "no need to waste too much of our time." He used Dash skill and dived even faster and jumped down picking up his ax and the shield. After landing on the ground, the monster who sensed the smell of Angels roared and before they take their action, he started swinging his ax while running around and gathered all the monsters nearby the entrance quickly before they reached the bottom.
Then, he shouted, "Now, all of you attack." Everyone attacked listening to him after being amazed by how he was tanking nearly 30 monsters all alone. Williard thought, "That's an excellent guardian. I wonder why I didn't hear of his name before. Is it because I focused too much on Bran and only on the top players of the world? Or it might be because I chose a different kingdom back then. Who knows?"
Since they stayed in the party and wiping out the common monsters in the wilderness, the one who got the final hit got half of the Monster's EXP of around 2700 EXP and the remaining 2700 EXP got shared between the rest of the nine. Williard didn't attack at all and got his share 300 EXP for each monster28 times and with a 20% bonus, like the rest of them, he gained a little more than 10K EXP in total raising his EXP bar from 62% to 82% directly, nearing to level 32.
As soon as everyone neared the portal that is at the bottom of the cliff, they received a notification.
"Congratulations on discovering the Sky Castle dungeon. +50% EXP and +100% Drop rate for the first try"
Snow Dew then tried to enter the dungeon but stopped and asked Seraphim, "What difficulty should I choose?"
Seraphim then replied, "Originally, we planned to try a normal mode but seeing Flame Emperor's skills in action, I can't help but think of Elite mode."
Flame Emperor folded his hands and refused, "no way, as I've said, I'm only here to protect my daughter. I only helped you guys this time because it's a waste of time but Dungeon is different. If you still want to go ahead, try all for I care."
Snow Dew then said, "Ignore him. He'll take care of the tanking. I'm starting the Elite dungeon." As she activated the portal, everyone entered the dungeon.
Williard and everyone else found themselves on a large floating island with several small floating Islands everywhere around without any specific path.